cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
ENHANCING RESOURCE UTILIZATION IN CLOUD-NATIVE CLUSTERS THROUGH CUSTOM SCHEDULING
Creators: name: Ragavan, Vivek Karunai Kiri
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 460601
subject: Cloud computing
classificationCode: 460609
subject: Networking and communications

description: Optimizing resource utilization and performance in cloud-native environments has become increasingly critical as applications grow in complexity and demand specialized resources such as graphics processing units (GPUs). This study explores how enhancements to Kubernetes control plane, specifically through advanced schedulers and autoscalers, can improve resource efficiency and application performance. Focusing on environments sensitive to network conditions and requiring GPU resources, the research investigates how these control plane components have been optimized to meet the growing demands of modern applications.The research focuses on two key areas: implementing network-aware scheduling and developing GPU autoscaling mechanisms based on real-time demand. Network-aware scheduling strategies have been proposed and tested to reduce communication overhead between microservices by considering factors such as latency and bandwidth. A comparative analysis between Kubernetes' default scheduler and custom extension plugins reveals the trade-offs between simplicity and efficiency in resource allocation decisions. In addition, custom autoscaling mechanisms have been developed to dynamically manage GPU resources, ensuring that workloads are handled with optimal performance under varying conditions. The findings demonstrate that extending the Kubernetes control plane with custom scheduling and autoscaling techniques can significantly enhance resource utilization and application performance.This study shows that such improvements reduce latency, boost workload performance, and enable better resource allocation in cloud-native environments, particularly those with stringent performance requirements and high demand for specialized resources. The proposed solution, network-aware scheduler (NAS), reduces average latency by 52.66% compared to the default Kubernetes scheduler and 2.68% compared to Diktyo while minimizing maximum latency spikes by 85.61% and 7.23%, respectively. Furthermore, NAS effectively distributes workloads and provides co-location benefits by considering microservice dependencies and network costs during pod placement. In parallel, the dynamic GPU pod autoscaling strategy, driven by real-time model server metrics such as token throughput and Key-Value (KV) cache utilization, successfully reduced the Time to First Token (TTFT) by approximately 70%, stabilizing performance even under high-load conditions (1,000 QPS) and maintaining GPU KV cache utilization below 45% after scaling.
An exploratory study of multiple stakeholder views on higher education entrepreneurial ecosystems in a resource-constrained environment
Creators: name: Gallage, Nilusha Gayani
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Given the importance of ecosystems in the higher education context, the purpose of this study is to investigate how higher education entrepreneurial ecosystems (HEEEs) can influence students’ entrepreneurial development in resource-constrained environments. Using exploratory qualitative research, four questions related to continued development, composition and social capital were investigated. An interpretative perspective of diverse views was drawn from 40 interviews among 6 stakeholder categories, representing multi-levels in a resource-constrained environment. Findings contribute to literature by extending four academic discussions: (1) HEEEs beyond start-ups to E&I capabilities of students; (2) Beyond the common HEEE factors to contextual factors; (3) Beyond the HEEE factors to actors; and (4) Beyond the composition of HEEEs to social capital and connections. This study introduced entrepreneurship and innovation capabilities to HEEE literature advocating for human capital development of entrepreneurs in resource-constrained environments.
Artificial intelligence-enabled livestock recognition in transport
Creators: name: Bakhshayeshi, Ivan
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 399999
subject: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Livestock is transported to various locations over their lifetime. While conventional identification methods such as hot iron branding are against animal welfare, the current systems based on electronic ear tags are susceptible to loss, failure, and guilty replacing over transport. An identification system is required to re-identify livestock in incidents when electronic ear tags are lost, removed, or destroyed. This study proposes an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled system to re-identify cattle’s Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) based on facial recognition. A dataset of 2500 cattle images was prepared and tested. It automatically detects cattle’s faces using the You Only Look Once (YOLO) algorithm in real-time with 92.87% mean Average Precision (mAP). It relies on Siamese Neural Network (SNN) architecture which has the advantage of transfer learning to recognise cattle faces. By comparing distance similarity, the system can identify the unseen cattle ID after training. It reaches 95.13% accuracy in identifying cattle by providing only one query image and having 20 image samples per cow on the test dataset. The proposed system can augment the current Australian National Livestock Identification System (NLIS) and streamline the livestock supply chain. It can also be easily deployed in transportation systems, tuned to identify other farm animals.
Shizuka formosana Matsumura 1914
Creators: name: Chen, Weiqiang
name: Wang, Yinglun
name: Zhang, Yalin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Derbidae
Shizuka
Shizuka formosana

description: Shizuka formosana Matsumura, 1914
Shizuka formosana Matsumura, 1914: 297; Schumacher, 1915: 124; Esaki, 1932: (1792); Kato, 1933: 16, Fig. 6; Chou et al. 1985: 55; Yang & Wu, 1994: 16.
Material examined. 1♀ (NWAFU), Huangkeng Village, Shaowu, Fujian Province, China, 8 Jul. 1963, coll. Chou Io. 1♀ (NWAFU), Yaoqu, Yunnan Province, China, 800 m, 3 Jun. 2009, coll. Zhang lei.
description: Published as part of Chen, Weiqiang, Wang, Yinglun & Zhang, Yalin, 2025, Revision of the genus Shizuka Matsumura with description of five new species (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Derbidae), pp. 254-274 in Zootaxa 5627 (2) on page 256, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5627.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/15325862
Insomnia in chronic pain patients with and without major depressive disorder
Creators: name: Emery, Patricia C
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Clinical.
subject: Psychology, Physiological.

description: Insomnia and major depression are both common problems among people with chronic pain. Although each has been studied quite extensively in this population, they have seldom been considered together. Thus, the goal of the present research was to compare patients with chronic pain who either did or did not meet criteria for major depressive disorder, with a particular emphasis on measures of sleep and sleep disturbance. Thirty-three patients with chronic pain and comorbid major depression and 27 chronic pain patients without comorbid major depression completed structured diagnostic interviews on sleep and mood, and completed retrospective and 4-day diary measures of sleep, sleep-related behaviours, sleep-related cognitions, pain, and mood. The measures of sleep-related variables were selected because of their relevance to a cognitive-behavioural model of insomnia. A diagnosis of insomnia was highly prevalent in both groups, with fully 53 of 60 (88.3%) participants meeting DSM-IV criteria. Participants with major depression reported significantly higher levels of pain and more dysfunctional attitudes and behaviours related to sleep. They were also more likely to have sleep disorders other than insomnia. However, specific sleep parameters such as sleep onset latency, time awake after sleep onset, sleep efficiency, and total sleep time did not differ between the groups, whether they were assessed retrospectively or with daily diaries. Insomnia symptoms were highly associated with pain severity among participants with major depression; however, the majority of pain, sleep, and mood-related correlates of insomnia severity did not differ significantly between the groups. Partial correlation coefficients, controlling for pain severity, substantially decreased the associations between depression and cognitive-behavioural variables related to sleep, thus suggesting that pain may be more important than depression in the etiology of insomnia. That is, chronic pain itself may disturb sleep so extensively that comorbid depression has little incremental effect. The results are discussed in terms of the potential applicability of cognitive-behavioural interventions for insomnia in chronic pain patients with comorbid major depressive disorder.
The Detection of an Extremely Bright Fast Radio Burst in a Phased Array Feed Survey
Creators: name: Bannister, K. W.
name: Shannon, Ryan
name: Macquart, J. P.
name: Flynn, Christopher
name: Edwards, P. G.
name: O'Neill, M.
name: Oslowski, Stefan
name: Bailes, Matthew
name: Zackay, B.
name: Clarke, N.
name: D'Addario, L. R.
name: Dodson, R.
name: Hall, P. J.
name: Jameson, A.
name: Jones, D.
name: Navarro, R.
name: Trinh, J. T.
name: Allison, J.
name: Anderson, C. S.
name: Bell, M.
name: Chippendale, A. P.
name: Collier, J. D.
name: Heald, G.
name: Heywood, I.
name: Hotan, A. W.
name: Lee-Waddell, K.
name: Madrid, J. P.
name: Marvil, J.
name: McConnell, D.
name: Popping, A.
name: Voronkov, M. A.
name: Whiting, M. T.
name: Allen, G. R.
name: Bock, D. C.J.
name: Brodrick, D. P.
name: Cooray, F.
name: Deboer, D. R.
name: Diamond, P. J.
name: Ekers, R.
name: Gough, R. G.
name: Hampson, G. A.
name: Harvey-Smith, L.
name: Hay, S. G.
name: Hayman, D. B.
name: Jackson, C. A.
name: Johnston, S.
name: Koribalski, B. S.
name: McClure-Griffiths, N. M.
name: Mirtschin, P.
name: Ng, A.
name: Norris, R. P.
name: Pearce, S. E.
name: Phillips, C. J.
name: Roxby, D. N.
name: Troup, E. R.
name: Westmeier, T.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 5101
subject: Astronomical sciences
classificationCode: 5109
subject: Space sciences

description: We report the detection of an ultra-bright fast radio burst (FRB) from a modest, 3.4-day pilot survey with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder. The survey was conducted in a wide-field fly's-eye configuration using the phased-array-feed technology deployed on the array to instantaneously observe an effective area of 160 deg2, and achieve an exposure totaling 13200 deg2 hr . We constrain the position of FRB 170107 to a region in size (90% containment) and its fluence to be 58 ±6 Jy ms. The spectrum of the burst shows a sharp cutoff above 1400 MHz, which could be due to either scintillation or an intrinsic feature of the burst. This confirms the existence of an ultra-bright (∼ Jy ms) population of FRBs.
Effect of Loan Moratoriums on Liquidity Risk, Financial Performance, and Stock Prices of Malaysian Banks
Creators: name: Thian, Yvonne Yee Woon
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The research investigates the effect of loan moratoriums based on the pre-event period, event period, and post event period, that includes 3 different event dates: 1) Implementation of Movement Control Order (MCO), 2) The announcement of six-month moratorium on repayment, and 3) Second phase of six-month moratorium on repayment. Event study methodology is employed to compare the effect of these 3 event dates on the liquidity risk, financial performance, and stock prices of Malaysian banks. The research reveals the behavior of Malaysian banking sector during the global pandemic and examines the governmental financial policy. It introduces loan moratorium and its effect to the public, enabling them to understand the current pandemic and the government's financial relief measures. It shows the public how the government managed to control the pandemic and provide financial assistance to reduce the public's financial burden.
Ribosome Rescue and Translation Termination at Non-Standard Stop Codons by ICT1 in Mammalian Mitochondria
Creators: name: Akabane, Shiori
name: Ueda, Takuya
name: Nierhaus, Knud H.
name: Takeuchi, Nono
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Release factors (RFs) govern the termination phase of protein synthesis. Human mitochondria harbor four different members of the class 1 RF family: RF1Lmt/mtRF1a, RF1mt, C12orf65 and ICT1. The homolog of the essential ICT1 factor is widely distributed in bacteria and organelles and has the peculiar feature in human mitochondria to be part of the ribosome as a ribosomal protein of the large subunit. The factor has been suggested to rescue stalled ribosomes in a codon-independent manner. The mechanism of action of this factor was obscure and is addressed here. Using a homologous mitochondria system of purified components, we demonstrate that the integrated ICT1 has no rescue activity. Rather, purified ICT1 binds stoichiometrically to mitochondrial ribosomes in addition to the integrated copy and functions as a general rescue factor, i.e. it releases the polypeptide from the peptidyl tRNA from ribosomes stalled at the end or in the middle of an mRNA or even from non-programmed ribosomes. The data suggest that the unusual termination at a sense codon (AGA/G) of the oxidative-phosphorylation enzymes CO1 and ND6 is also performed by ICT1 challenging a previous model, according to which RF1Lmt/mtRF1a is responsible for the translation termination at non-standard stop codons. We also demonstrate by mutational analyses that the unique insertion sequence present in the N-terminal domain of ICT1 is essential for peptide release rather than for ribosome binding. The function of RF1mt, another member of the class1 RFs in mammalian mitochondria, was also examined and is discussed.
title: Correlación radio-anatomopatológica de las principales LOEs hepáticas
Creators: name: Gregorio Hernández, Abel
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: MR
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Haemangioma
subject: Metastases
subject: Liver

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Presentar una revisión por imagen de las LOEs hepáticas más frecuentes encontradas en nuestra práctica diaria,
describiendo aspectos básicos en la técnica diagnóstica y detalles a tener en cuenta,
todo ello correlacionado con imágenes AP de...
QoS-based multicast routing for real-time communications
Creators: name: Zhu, Keqin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: This thesis studies the distributed multicast routing algorithms that provide quality of service (QoS) guarantees in networks. It focuses on the delay constrained minimum cost tree (or constrained Steiner tree) problem; that is, it constructs a multicast tree that not only meets the constrained end-to-end delay requirements but also is the minimum cost multicast tree. This problem is known to be NP-complete. The existing distributed multicast routing algorithms that are based on heuristics do not consider a network environment where node failures occur. As a result, these algorithms will fail to complete the construction of a multicast tree when node failures occur during the construction period. Moreover, they will fail to maintain the constructed multicast tree if node failures occur after the construction period and during the on-going multicast session. In both cases, these algorithms will have to be restarted. We propose two new distributed delay constrained multicast routing algorithms that provide QoS guarantees even in networks where node failures occur. One is shortest path (SP) based and the other is minimum spanning tree (MST) based. They are capable of constructing a delay constrained multicast tree when node failures occur during the tree construction period and recovering from any node failure in a multicast tree during the on-going multicast session without interrupting the running traffic on the unaffected portion of the tree. The proposed SP-based or MST-based algorithms perform the failure recovery efficiently, which give better performance in terms of the number of exchanged messages and the convergence time than the existing distributed SP-based or MST-based delay constrained multicast routing algorithms in a network where node failures occur, respectively. The existing distributed delay constrained multicast routing algorithms can be classified either as an MST-based heuristic or as a SP-based heuristic. Two representative algorithms i.e., DKPP and DSPH are MST and SP based heuristics, respectively. The MST based algorithms like DKPP run with a high message and time complexity of O(n3). (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Unhealthy, unfit, disabled: Constructions of health and fitness among adolescents with mobility impairments
Creators: name: Seeley, Morgan A
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Public Health.
subject: Health Sciences, Human Development.

description: The present study explores the discursive constructions of health, fitness and disability among eight 14-17 year old youth with variety of mobility impairments living in the Ottawa area. Located within a framework informed by feminist poststructuralist and disability theories, the study is based on a content analysis of guided conversations and individual journals in which participants were involved. Results indicate that participants discursively construct health and fitness in corporeal terms such as being active, eating right, and having a good body. Within their constructions, participants both resist and rearticulate dominant health, fitness and disability discourses. Results also highlight a variety of discursive strategies used by participants to both defy oppressive stereotypes related to gender and disability and to construct themselves as healthy and fit individuals. Insights gained from this study begin to fill an important gap in North American literature on the experiences of youth with disabilities. Such insights may be used to inform the development of programs aimed at improving the health, fitness and well-being of Canadian adolescents.
title: “Racionalización Diagnóstica del Abdomen Agudo no Traumático:Actualización Bibliográfica"
Creators: name: Carrillo Colmenero, Ana
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Pathology
subject: Acute
subject: Efficacy studies
subject: Cost-effectiveness
subject: Socio-economic issues
subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT
subject: Emergency
subject: Education
subject: Abdomen

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
El abdomen agudo no traumático puede definirse como aquel cuadro caracterizado por la aparición brusca de dolor intenso,
localizado ó difuso en el abdomen de etiología diversa,
que corresponde a patología clínica ó quirúrgica. Constituye una...
Dispersion measure variations and their effect on precision pulsar timing
Creators: name: You, X. P.
name: Hobbs, G.
name: Coles, W. A.
name: Manchester, R. N.
name: Edwards, R.
name: Bailes, Matthew
name: Sarkissian, J.
name: Verbiest, J. P.W.
name: van Straten, Willem
name: Hotan, A.
name: Ord, S.
name: Jenet, F.
name: Bhat, N. D.R.
name: Teoh, A.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present an analysis of the variations seen in the dispersion measures (DMs) of 20-ms pulsars observed as part of the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array project. We carry out a statistically rigorous structure function analysis for each pulsar and show that the variations seen for most pulsars are consistent with those expected for an interstellar medium characterized by a Kolmogorov turbulence spectrum. The structure functions for PSRs J1045-4509 and J1909-3744 provide the first clear evidence for a large inner scale, possibly due to ion-neutral damping. We also show the effect of the solar wind on the DMs and show that the simple models presently implemented into pulsar timing packages cannot reliably correct for this effect. For the first time we clearly show how DM variations affect pulsar timing residuals and how they can be corrected in order to obtain the highest possible timing precision. Even with our presently limited data span, the residuals (and all parameters derived from the timing) for six of our pulsars have been significantly improved by correcting for the DM variations.
Undertanding the relationship between corporate brand personality and brand equity: Insights from employee and customer brand equity
Creators: name: Tsen, Dianne Shoon Cheen
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Brand equity is commonly known as the commercial value of the brand. There is limited empirical study on employees and customers as equity sources for a brand. Research mainly focused on customer or employee-based brand equity which are indications of brand equity from opinions. A key influencer of brand equity is corporate brand personality. There is however, limited research comparing how each corporate personality type influences brand equity. This study aimed to obtain insights into how brand equity is affected by each brand personality type, and if these effects differed between the two equity sources, namely, employees and customers. The quantitative methodology was adopted, and data collected from 400 respondents in Malaysia. The results indicate that both customers and employees are sources of brand equity and that all the corporate brand personality dimensions have a positive effect on all the variables of brand equity. The highest effect was shown by the active corporate brand personality dimension on the brand equity variable of brand endorsement. Employees were also observed to be a significantly higher source of brand equity when affected by the corporate brand personality dimensions of responsibility and activity. Findings provide positive contributions to theory with new understanding from the employee perspective, and of employees and customers being not only indicators, but also sources of brand equity. For management, this study helps the formulation of corporate brand strategy from the employee perspective, in terms of the hiring, training and management of human resources.
Loss of maternal EED results in postnatal overgrowth
Creators: name: Prokopuk, Lexie
name: Stringer, Jessica M.
name: White, Craig R.
name: Vossen, Rolf H. A. M.
name: White, Stefan J.
name: Cohen, Ana S. A.
name: Gibson, William T.
name: Western, Patrick S.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Background: Investigating how epigenetic information is transmitted through the mammalian germline is the key to understanding how this information impacts on health and disease susceptibility in offspring. EED is essential for regulating the repressive histone modification, histone 3 lysine 27 tri-methylation (H3K27me3) at many developmental genes. Results: In this study, we used oocyte-specific Zp3-Cre recombinase (Zp3Cre) to delete Eed specifically in mouse growing oocytes, permitting the study of EED function in oocytes and the impact of depleting EED in oocytes on outcomes in offspring. As EED deletion occurred only in growing oocytes and females were mated to normal wild type males, this model allowed the study of oocyte programming without confounding factors such as altered in utero environment. Loss of EED from growing oocytes resulted in a significant overgrowth phenotype that persisted into adult life. Significantly, this involved increased adiposity (total fat) and bone mineral density in offspring. Similar overgrowth occurs in humans with Cohen-Gibson (OMIM 617561) and Weaver (OMIM 277590) syndromes, that result from de novo germline mutations in EED or its co-factor EZH2, respectively. Consistent with a role for EZH2 in human oocytes, we demonstrate that de novo germline mutations in EZH2 occurred in the maternal germline in some cases of Weaver syndrome. However, deletion of Ezh2 in mouse oocytes resulted in a distinct phenotype compared to that resulting from oocyte-specific deletion of Eed. Conclusions: This study provides novel evidence that altering EED-dependent oocyte programming leads to compromised offspring growth and development in the next generation.
title: Patología discal lumbar. ¿Hablamos todos el mismo idioma?
Creators: name: Fernández Quintero, Rosa Mª
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: MR

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
Dar a conocer laclasificación,
nomenclatura,
definición del concepto y diferentes subtipos de la patología discal lumbarde acuerdo con el documento de consenso dela Sociedad Norteamericana de Columna,
la Sociedad Norteamericana de Radiología...
Apolipoprotein A-I lipidation in primary mouse hepatocytes: Separate controls for phospholipid and cholesterol transfers
Creators: name: Zheng, Hui
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Biochemistry.

description: The liver is the site for both apolipoprotein A-I (apoA-I) synthesis and ATP-binding cassette transporter A1 (ABCA1) expression. To investigate the function of hepatic lipidation of apoA-I by cholesterol and phospholipid, and delineate the role of hepatic ABCA1 in these lipidation pathways, I have expressed human apoA-I by adenovector-mediated gene transfer into primary mouse hepatocytes. Kinetic studies demonstrate that newly synthesized apoA-I acquires both cholesterol and phospholipid during secretion and at the cell surface. Approximately 80% of the phospholipidation, and only 40--60% of the cholesterol lipidation of apoA-I is ABCA1-dependent. Hepatic apoA-I cholesterol lipidation depends on the active transfer from intracellular compartments to the cell surface. Under ABCA1 deficiency, both apoA-I and cholesterol associated with apoA-I in high-density lipoprotein (HDL) fraction decrease, but the nature of the lipoprotein particles is not affected. Furthermore, this study demonstrates the different regulation and/or controls are required for apoA-I cholesterol lipidation and phospholipidation.
title: El miocardio hipertrófico: valoración con RM de las formas atípicas o seudotumorales de las miocardipatías hipertróficas.
Creators: name: Asensio Romero, Joaquín
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: MR
subject: Hyperplasia / Hypertrophy

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Revisar las características típicas de la miocardiopatía hipertrófica (MCH) por RM que nos permiten hacer un diagnóstico etiológico específico y destacamos las formas de miocardiopatía hipertrófica con morfología atípica por su especial...
title: Influence of essential amino acids on muscle mass and muscle strength in patients with cerebral stroke during early rehabilitation
title: protocol and rationale of a randomized clinical trial (AMINO-Stroke Study)
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Scherbakov, Nadja
name: Ebner, Nicole
name: Sandek, Anja
name: Meisel, Andreas
name: Haeusler, Karl Georg
name: Haehling, Stephan Von
name: Anker, Stefan D.
name: Dirnagl, Ulrich
name: Joebges, Michael
name: Doehner, Wolfram
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Double blinded randomized study
subject: Post-stroke rehabilitation
subject: Skeletal muscle wasting
subject: Physical performance
subject: Essential amino acids
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background Patients with stroke are at a high risk for long-term handicap and disability. In the first weeks after stroke muscle wasting is observed frequently. Early post-stroke rehabilitation programs are directed to improve functional independence and physical performance. Supplementation with essential amino acids (EAAs) might prevent muscle wasting and improve rehabilitation outcome by augmenting muscle mass and muscle strength. We aim to examine this in a double blinded, randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial. Methods Patients with ischemic or haemorrhagic stroke will be enrolled at begin of the early post-stroke rehabilitation in a parallel group interventional trial. Oral supplementation of EAAs or placebo will be given for 12 weeks in a double blinded manner. Physical and functional performance will be assessed by exercise testing before supplementation of EAAs as well as at discharge from the in-patient rehabilitation, at 12 weeks and 1 year afterwards. Discussion This is the first randomized double-blinded placebo- controlled clinical study aiming to assess the effect of the EAAs supplementation on muscle strength, muscle function and physical performance in stroke patients during early post-stroke rehabilitation. Supplementation of EAAs could prevent muscle mass wasting and improve functional independence after stroke.
title: Actualizacion en el diagnostico por imagen de la sacroileitis.
Creators: name: Sarmiento de la Iglesia, Mª Mar
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Pelvis
subject: Musculoskeletal system

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Revisar el diagnostico radiológico de la sacroileitis en la espondilitis anquilosante (EA) con especial atención a la aportación de la resonancia magnética (RM) en el manejo de los...
Model predictive control of a manipulator arm with frictional/unilateral contact.
Creators: name: De Carufel, Jean.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: Controlling mechanisms whose equations of motion involve nonlinear discontinuous terms is difficult. A robot manipulator doing a task requiring intermittent contacts with the environment is such a system. Historically, the difficulty was avoided by splitting the global control problem into subproblems defined by the smooth structures of the piecewise discontinuous model. As a result, algorithms for controlling robot manipulators in free motion, transition to contact (impact control) and force/motion in contact were obtained separately and implementation was done using a switching law. In this thesis, nonlinear Model Predictive Control (MPC) is proposed as a unified solution for controlling robot manipulators with intermittent contacts. The use of a model-based prediction over a receding horizon allows MPC to foresee discontinuous changes in the dynamics and smoothly adjust the control command. Therefore, it was used extensively in the process industry where state and control command saturations are often present. The first contribution in this thesis lies in the use of MPC for controlling systems with discontinuities in the equations of motion. Through analysis and simulation, the ability of the nonlinear MPC approach to provide a unifying solution is demonstrated. The literature on nonlinear MPC being almost inexistent, the work presented herein also contributes to the understanding of how MPC can be applied to nonlinear systems. Because the complete analytical solution of the nonlinear MPC problem is not prone to real-time applications, two implementation alternatives are also proposed. Both use the operational space information about the task to perform to reduce considerably how much computation is necessary for a solution. The first approach is similar to the resolved-acceleration algorithm with the resolved acceleration being computed from a reduced MPC problem. The second is called the predictive impedance algorithm since its formulation is similar to impedance control with the impedance being replaced by the output of a reduced MPC problem. The applicability of both algorithms has been demonstrated through simulation. Experimental results were also obtained for the predictive impedance solution.
The Berlin mobility lab Flaniermeile Friedrichstrasse
Creators: name: Lehmkühler, Stefan
name: Büttner, Alena
name: Kiso, Claudia
name: Schäfer, Marco
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Radfahren
Bürgerbeteiligung

description: In Berlin, measures that promote cycling and walking have moved up the political agenda and gained momentum over the last couple of years. This is in parts due to the strong involvement of civil society actors in designing, planning and implementing said measures. This article will use one of the measures planned in Berlin, as an example to illustrate the benefits and potential of cooperative planning and civic involvement in the design and implementation of drastic sustainable transport measures in cities. Cycling and walking are vital to achieving â€ÌTomorrowâ€Ìs Citiesâ€Ì, a vision developed by the German Environment Agency. Tomorrowâ€Ìs City avoids unnecessary traffic. It is quiet, compact, green, climate-friendly and dominated by mixed-use developments. However, drastic measures changing the status quo are necessary to achieve this vision. This article argues that allowing for more civic participation and involvement and promoting experiments for sustainable mobility in public space help gain support for sustainable mobility in general, as well as the measures needed to achieve this goal. Flaniermeile Friedrichstraße, a mobility lab planned for 2020 at the heart of Berlin, serves as an interesting case of long- term civic involvement, cooperative public experiments translating an idea of sustainable mobility into temporary practice. Copyright (c) 2020 TeMA
title: Radioembolización: ¿Qué cambios celulares provoca?
Creators: name: Viteri, Guillermo
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Radioembolisation
subject: Liver

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Estudiar el efecto de la Radioembolización (RE) sobre el tejido hepático tumoral y no tumoral,
así como valorar los cambios celulares provocados por el...
title: Tumor carcinoide intestinal; utilidad de las diferentes técnicas de imagen en el algoritmo diagnóstico y seguimiento.
Creators: name: Esnaola Albizu, Maite
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: CT
subject: Nuclear medicine conventional
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Abdomen

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
-Revisar la epidemiología,
histopatología y presentación clínica de los tumores carcinoides intestinales(TCI). -Mostrar los patrones de presentación más frecuentes de los tumores carcinoides ileales en diferentes pruebas de imagen. -Conocer el...
Reform der Gemeinsamen Europäischen Agrarpolitik
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: EU-Agrarpolitik
subject: GAP 2020
subject: Gemeinsame Agrarpolitik der EU
subject: Landwirtschaft

description: Die EU-Kommission hat Vorschläge für die Gestaltung der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik (GAP) ab 2021 vorgelegt. Im vorliegenden Positionspapier bewertet die Kommission Landwirtschaft am Umweltbundesamt (KLU) die aktuelle GAP 2015-2020, sowie die Vorschläge der Kommission. Die KLU kritisiert den Versuch, das bestehende System der GAP unter Beibehaltung einer Flächenprämien nur symbolisch zu korrigieren. So lassen sich die seit vielen Jahren bekannten Probleme nicht lösen. Erforderlich ist eine wirkliche Neuausrichtung der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik. Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Die EU-Kommission hat Vorschläge für die Gestaltung der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik (GAP) ab 2021 vorgelegt. Im vorliegenden Positionspapier bewertet die Kommission Landwirtschaft am Umweltbundesamt (KLU) die aktuelle GAP  2015-2020, sowie die Vorschläge der Kommission. Die KLU kritisiert den Versuch, das bestehende System der GAP unter Beibehaltung einer  Flächenprämien nur symbolisch zu korrigieren. So lassen sich die seit vielen Jahren bekannten Probleme nicht lösen. Erforderlich ist eine wirkliche Neuausrichtung der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik.
title: Caracterización de los distintos subtipos de tumor renal mediante RM.
Creators: name: Garramone Ramirez, Javier Eduardo
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: MR
subject: Kidney
subject: Abdomen

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Caracterizar los distintos subtipos de tumores renales,
mediante resonancia magnética,
valorando sus características morfológicas y su comportamiento tras la administración de...
Upper bounds on the low-frequency stochastic gravitational wave background from pulsar timing observations: Current limits and future prospects
Creators: name: Jenet, F. A.
name: Hobbs, G. B.
name: van Straten, Willem
name: Manchester, R. N.
name: Bailes, Matthew
name: Verbiest, J. P W
name: Edwards, R. T.
name: Hotan, A. W.
name: Sarkissian, J. M.
name: Ord, S. M.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Abstract not available.
"With their feet on the ground": Women's lives and work in the Royal Canadian Air Force, 1951-1966.
Creators: name: Power, Patricia A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.

description: Interviews with former airwomen demonstrate that the great majority of them did not make a permanent career in the Service. The interviews also showed that women were not leaving for work reasons, but for social reasons, including marriage and children. In addition, many airwomen were engaging in behaviour that did not necessarily conform to the RCAF's ideal. Airwomen made lifestyle choices that included dating officers, consuming alcohol, engaging in extra-marital sex, and as well pursuing homosexual relationships. The RCAF attempted to control the women's behaviour through courses, lectures and recreational activities, in order to encourage traditional and "feminine" behaviour among women. Women either did not join the Air Force or left it because their choices in their lives outside of work were incompatible with the ideal that the RCAF wanted the women to portray. In conclusion, women's priorities in their lives are different from that of men, and their work patterns are often determined by their lifecycle and the choices they make in their personal lives. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
The Esterification of Naphthenic Acids for Methyl Ester Production
Creators: name: Dastjerdi, Zahra
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Chemical.

description: The remediation of tailings water, a by-product of bitumen extraction, is of utmost importance to the Athabasca oil sands industry due to its toxicity to aquatic environments. Naphthenic acids (NAs), natural components of bitumen, are the major contributor to the toxicity of tailings water. The use of algae for remediation of tailings water is a new approach to reduce the toxicity of tailings water. The combined extracted NAs and algal oils can potentially be used as a low cost feedstock for the production of biodiesel. In this study, the feasibility of using NAs for the production of biodiesel was investigated using mixtures of canola oil and commercial NAs as model compounds. Since NAs are a mixture of cyclic and acyclic carboxylic acids, the acid-catalyzed esterification of NAs without canola oil was investigated. The acid-catalyzed esterification reaction was carried out with methanol, and the influence of variables affecting the esterification process was examined. The experimental results showed that increasing temperature and catalyst concentration increased the reaction rate and final conversion of NAs to their corresponding methyl esters. The catalyst study showed that sulfuric acid had a more positive effect on the esterification reaction compared to p-toluene sulfonic acid. Additionally, an excess methanol:oil ratio had a negative effect on the esterification reaction due to the solubility of NAs in methanol. The acid-catalyzed transesterification/esterification of mixtures of NA and vegetable oil (canola oil along with 5% NAs) with methanol was investigated at different operating conditions. The outcomes of these experiments showed that increasing temperature, sulfuric acid concentration, and methanol content had positive effects on the rate of reaction and final ester products. The general conclusion of the thesis is that the conversion of NAs to useful products is indeed feasible and can be part of the solution to tar sands tailing pond remediation.
title: Fascitis Necrotizante en el Servicio de Urgencias.
Creators: name: Perez Bea, Marta
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Emergency
subject: Abdomen
subject: CT

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
Describir los hallazgos de laTC que permiten el diagnóstico precoz de la fascitis necrotizante.
Presentación de nuestra...
Base band data for testing interference mitigation algorithms
Creators: name: Bell, Jon F.
name: Hall, Peter J.
name: Wilson, Warwick E.
name: Sault, Robert J.
name: Smegal, Rick J.
name: Smith, Malcolm R.
name: van Straten, Willem
name: Kesteven, Michael J.
name: Ferris, Richard H.
name: Briggs, Frank H.
name: Carrad, Graham J.
name: Sinclair, Malcom W.
name: Gough, Russell G.
name: Sarkissian, John M.
name: Bunton, John D.
name: Bailes, Matthew
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Digital signal processing is one of many valuable tools for suppressing unwanted signals or interference. Building hardware processing engines seems to be the way to best implement some classes of interference suppression but is, unfortunately, expensive and time consuming, especially if several mitigation techniques need to be compared. Simulations can be useful, but are not a substitute for real data. The CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility has recently commenced a 'software radio telescope' project designed to fill the gap between dedicated hardware processors and pure simulation. In this approach, real telescope data are recorded coherently, then processed off-line. This paper summarises the current contents of a freely available database of base band recorded data that can be used to experiment with signal processing solutions. It includes data from the following systems: single dish, multi-feed receiver; single dish with reference antenna; and an array of six 22-meter antennas with and without a reference antenna. Astronomical sources such as OH masers, pulsars and continuum sources subject to interfering signals were recorded. The interfering signals include signal from the US Global Positioning System (GPS) and the Russian equivalent (GLONASS), television, microwave links, a low Earth orbit satellite, various other transmitters, and signals leaking from local telescope systems with fast clocks. Data are available on compact disk allowing use in general purpose computers or as input to laboratory hardware prototypes.
Brand nostalgia: the emotional responses of Thai students studying in Australia to Thai condiment packaging
Creators: name: Suchat, Ratanapat
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This research examines the nostalgic values associated with Thai condiment packaging within the Thai expatriate student community in Australia, and the method of transferring sociological research into a graphic novel. The findings were used to construct a narrative that explores Thai expatriates’ relationships to and experiences of Thai condiments. This research demonstrates alternative ways of using communication design and illustration as a research analysis method. A significant original contribution to knowledge of this research is a framework that synthesises emotions, contexts and products in a visual representation, making the interview data analysis more accessible.
Petrogenesis and tectonic evolution of the Lake of the Woods greenstone belt, western Wabigoon Subprovince, Ontario, Canada.
Creators: name: Ayer, John Albert.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Geology.

description: The Neoarchean Lake of the Woods greenstone belt is located immediately south of Kenora, Ontario within the western part of the Wabigoon Subprovince of the Superior Province. The supracrustal rocks have been subdivided into 3 major lithostratigraphic assemblages. The Lower Keewatin is the oldest assemblage with a zircon U-Pb age of 2738 +/- 2.0 Ma. It consists of Mg and Fe tholeiitic metabasalts. The Upper Keewatin Assemblage disconformably overlies the Lower Keewatin Assemblage. Two geochemically distinct volcanic suites are recognised. The dominant suite consists of compositionally diverse calc-alkaline metabasalt to metarhyolite. Felsic volcanic rocks from this suite yield U-Pb zircon ages ranging from 2712--2723 Ma. A coeval suite of mafic to ultramafic volcanic rocks consists of tholeiitic metabasalt, komatiitic metabasalt and metakomatiite. The Electrum assemblage unconformably overlies the Upper Keewatin Assemblage in the northern part of the belt. It consists of metaconglomerates, metasandstones and minor metavolcanic rocks having detrital ages indicating deposition after 2699 Ma. The volcanic rocks consist of shoshonitic meta-andesite and calc-alkaline metarhyolite. The Electrum shoshonites are part of a chemically diverse suite of potassic igneous rocks emplaced at a late stage in the tectonic evolution of the western Wabigoon Subprovince. The suite is also comprised of silica undersaturated ultrapotassic rocks of the Falcon Island pluton (2695 Ma) and silica saturated monzodiotitic intrusions such as the Don Lake stock. The Falcon Island pluton consists of nepheline-bearing, alkali feldspar syenite and alkali feldspar melasyenite with lessor amounts of clinopyroxenite, monzodiorite, and peraluminous alkali feldspar syenite. A genetic linkage of gold mineralization to oxidized alkaline intrusions has been proposed on the basis of mineral chemical studies from the Abitibi Subprovince. Nd isotopic data from a compositional spectrum of representative rocks from the major stratigraphic units of the belt indicates a major change in the isotopic signature of mantle sources at about 2.7 Ga. Comparison of Nd, Pb and Sr isotope data from a number of well documented potassic suites across the southern Superior Province indicates heterogeneity was widespread in the post 2.7 Ga mantle. The correlation of this isotopic data suggests mixing between a juvenile depleted mantle component and an enriched end-member with isotopic characteristics approaching those of the ancient granitic terrain of Winnipeg River Subprovince and the Opatica and Pontiac metasedimentary subprovinces. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)