cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
OPTIMIZING THE EFFICACY OF CONCEPT MAP FEEDBACK ON LEARNERS’ COGNITIVE PROCESSES AND MOTIVATION
Creators: name: SUNDAY, OLUWAFEMI JOHNSON
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2025
Subjects: Concept Maps
Feedback Timing
Eye Tracking
Fixation Duration
Total Saccades
Cognitive Load

description: This study combines two well-researched instructional strategies: concept mapping and feedback. There is numerous research evidence showing that the combination of concept mapping with another evidence-based instructional strategy could yield synergistic effects, which are effective for facilitating the acquisition and retention of knowledge. Despite the comparative advantages of these two instructional strategies, research still lacks theoretical explanations underpinning the differential and interaction effects of feedback timing and concept mapping. Additionally, research investigating the role of feedback timing has primarily focused on how feedback engenders learning outcomes via retention scores. Hence, little is known about how feedback timing induces learners’ cognitive processes and motivation during learning with concept mapping. The limited understanding of how feedback timing and concept mapping intricately affect learning environments poses a significant challenge. Study 1 aimed to bridge the gap in existing research by exploring the nuanced roles of concept map feedback timing, motivation, and the quality of concept maps on learning outcomes, specifically focusing on retention and knowledge transfer. Results reveal that while feedback timing does not significantly affect retention, it plays a crucial role in knowledge transfer. This study contributes to feedback research and cognitive learning theories by emphasizing the nuanced role of feedback timing and motivational factors in learning processes. Study 2 examined how concept map feedback influences learners’ cognitive processes using objective and subjective measures. Specifically, study 2 investigates the effects of feedback timing (immediate versus delayed) and prior concept mapping experience (no versus yes) on eye-tracking metrics, including fixation duration and total saccades, and self-reported cognitive load rating scale. Eye-tracking data revealed a significant main effect of prior concept mapping experience on fixation duration and total saccades, suggesting that experienced mappers engaged more intensively with the material. However, no significant main effect was found for feedback timing, nor was there a significant interaction effect between feedback timing and prior concept mapping experience on either eye-tracking measures or self-reported cognitive load. Theoretical, empirical, and practical implications are discussed in each study.
The effect of success on elite athletes' performance: An exploratory study.
Creators: name: Kreiner-Phillips, Katharine.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Education, Physical.

description: The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of success on elite athletes who reached the top in their sport. Individual in-depth interviews were conducted with 17 world champion athletes, representing 7 different sports from 4 different countries. All athletes, 11 male and 6 female subjects had won major international competitions (i.e. World Cup, World Championships or Olympic Games) between the years 1964 and 1988. The number of individual wins ranged from 1 to 86. The results indicate that athletes who won at this level, subsequently experienced many additional demands. Most had little or no assistance in dealing with these demands. Approximately one third of these athletes handled the additional demands well and continued to win. Many of the remaining two thirds did not handle the additional demands well and either never repeated their winning performance or took a significant amount of time to do so. Strategies to help prepare future champions to handle these demands are suggested.
Sustainable use of Global Land and Biomass Resources
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: biomass
subject: globalization
subject: fossil fuel
subject: agricultural
subject: energy efficiency
subject: alternative energy
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales
subject: Sustainability | Strategies | International matters
subject: Boden | Fläche
subject: Soil | Land

description: Before humankind discovered oil, coal, natural gas and uranium and learnt how to put them to use, biomass covered all of the respective needs. Since time immemorial, it has provided food, feed and fodder, fuel, construction materials, and the raw materialsfor textiles as well as medicinal drugs. Until the mechanisation and motorisation of farming subsequent to the Industrial Revolution, agricultural biomass production was based on regional, largely closed, food and energy cycles. The energy needed for this production (fodder for working animals and food for the human workforce) came from within the agricultural sector itself. As technology progressed in the 20th century, it significantly changed the way in which biomass is produced and used (cue: specialisation, increasing global division of labour and trade). Fossil fuels made the motorisation of agriculture and the energy-intensive production of fertilisers and pesticides possible.
Choirs, HI galaxy groups: Catalogue and detection of star-forming dwarf group members
Creators: name: Sweet, Sarah
name: Meurer, Gerhardt
name: Drinkwater, Michael J.
name: Kilborn, Virginia
name: Dénes, Helga
name: Bekki, Kenji
name: Hanish, Dan
name: Ferguson, Henry
name: Knezek, Patricia
name: Bland-Hawthorn, Joss
name: Dopita, Michael
name: Doyle-Pegg, Marianne T.
name: Elson, Ed
name: Freeman, Ken
name: Heckman, Tim
name: Kennicutt, Robert
name: Kim, Ji Hoon
name: Koribalski, Bärbel
name: Martin, Meyer
name: Putman, Mary
name: Ryan-Weber, Emma
name: Smith, Chris
name: Staveley-Smith, Lister
name: Wong, O. Ivy
name: Webster, Rachel
name: Werk, Jessica
name: Zwaan, Martin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 510103
subject: Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy

description: H{alpha} observations centred on galaxies selected from the HI Parkes All Sky Survey (HIPASS, Barnes et al. 2001) typically show one and sometimes two star-forming galaxies within the approximately 15-arcminute beam of the Parkes 64-m HI detections. In our Survey of Ionization in Neutral Gas Galaxies (SINGG, Meurer et al. 2006) we found fifteen cases of HIPASS sources containing four or more emission line galaxies (ELGs). We name these fields Choir groups. In the most extreme case we found a field with at least nine ELGs. In this paper we present a catalogue of Choir group members in the context of the wider SINGG sample. The dwarf galaxies in the Choir groups would not be individually detectable in HIPASS at the observed distances if they were isolated, but are detected in SINGG narrow-band imaging due to their membership of groups with sufficiently large total HI mass. The ELGs in these groups are similar to the wider SINGG sample in terms of size, H{alpha} equivalent width, and surface brightness. Eight of these groups have two large spiral galaxies with several dwarf galaxies and may be thought of as morphological analogues of the Local Group. However, on average our groups are not significantly HI-deficient, suggesting that they are at an early stage of assembly, and more like the M81 group. The Choir groups are very compact at typically only 190 kpc in projected distance between the two brightest members. They are very similar to SINGG fields in terms of star formation efficiency (the ratio of star formation rate to HI mass; SFE), showing an increasing trend in SFE with stellar mass.
The assignment of gas phase ion structures and fragmentation mechanisms by mass spectrometry.
Creators: name: Sirois, Martin.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Analytical.

description: The interpretation of mass spectra has made great progress over the past decade, as experimental methods have been developed for assigning structures to organic ions in the gas phase. This thesis describes the important experiments in gas phase ion chemistry whose correct interpretation can lead to the assignment of structures, and the elucidation of fragmentation mechanisms of organic positive ions. The low energy fragmentations of five isomeric [H3,C,N,O 2]+· ions. The low energy fragmentation characteristics of the [H3,C,N,O2]+· isomers, H3CNO2+·, 1, H2C=N(O)OH+·, 2, H3CONO +·, 3, HC(O)NHOH+·, 4, and HC(OH)=NOH+·, 5, were studied in detail by metastable ion mass spectrometry. Appearance energy measurements established the potential energy surface of the isomers 1, 2 and 3 showing the intricate interrelation between them. For isomers 4 and 5, it was concluded that they do not intercommunicate with ions 1, 2 and 3 prior to fragmentation. Neutralization-reionization mass spectrometry indicated that the enol form of formohydroxamic acid structures as well as the keto analogue are stable in the gas phase. The neutral counterparts of the C2H7O + isomers. The neutral counterparts of the C2H 7O+ isomers, CH3O+(H)CH 3, CH3CH2OH2+ and C 2H4···H-OH2+ have been studied by means of neutralization-reionization mass spectrometry. It was observed that the internal energy of protonated dimethyl ether ions is directly related to the stability of the neutrals generated by electron transfer, and on their dissociation. With regard to CH3CH 2OH2+ and C2H4···H-OH 2+, it was concluded that the former ion can be obtained as a neutral species in the gas phase, whereas the latter isomer could not be produced as a neutral species. Classical and non-classical forms of the ethyl cation and their participation in the ions RO+(C2H5)R'. Oxonium ions formed via ion/molecule reactions between several oxygen centered molecules and the ethyl cation were studied. Significant H/D mixing in these oxonium ions was observed only when a labeled ethyl cation was reacted with a non-labeled ROR' molecule. The degree of H/D mixing depends only on the size of R and R', being independent of the observational timeframe from 1-30 mus. When non-labeled ethyl cations were reacted with labeled ROR' molecules, H/D mixing was not observed. The results were interpreted as arising from the classical and non-classical forms of the ethyl cation having different reactivities with ethers of different sizes. Homologous hydrogen-bridged intermediates R1R 2O···H···C(O)R3 from ionized beta-hydroxyethers. The unimolecular dissociations of several beta-hydroxyethers and some of their isotopomers were studied by metastable ion and collision induced dissociation mass spectrometry. It was found that molecular ions of the form R1OCH(R2)CH(OH)R 3 yield protonated ethers, R1O+(H)R2 , via intermediates of the type R1R2O···H···C(O)R 3+·.
Liability of ISPs for end-user copyright infringements: The first instance decision in Roadshow Films Pty Ltd v iiNet Ltd (No 3)
Creators: name: Lindsay, David
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In Roadshow Films Pty Ltd v iiNet [2010] FCA 24, Cowdroy J held that the ISP, iiNet, was not liable for authorising infringements of copyright committed by its subscribers downloading films by means of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) system. This article critically analyses the decision of the trial judge, which is now on appeal to the full federal court, pointing out that key aspects of the reasoning are contrary to established law on authorisation liability, as well as to the text of the Copyright Act. As the article explains, while there are good grounds for an appeal, the outcome in the appeal court is far from certain. The article also examines the extent to which an ISP should be held liable for the infringing activities of its subscribers, concluding that this is a complex issue best dealt with by the legislature. If ISPs are to be given greater responsibility for the infringing activities of their subscribers, there may be a need for procedural safeguards to protect against unjust suspensions or terminations of subscriber accounts. In any case, the existing law on the indirect liability of Internet intermediaries, such as ISPs, is manifestly inadequate, and requires reform.
State of a network when one node overloads
Creators: name: Khanchi, Aziz
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mathematics.

description: We delve into a couple of topics in the theory of Markov chains and stochastic networks. The properties of a stable Markov chain X = (X1, Xˆ) will be investigated when X1 tends to infinity. We derive the distribution of Xˆ when X 1 passes a threshold for the first time as the threshold tends to infinity. Moreover, the exact asymptotics of the mean time until X 1 reaches the threshold is given. In addition, we present a new approach to determine the exact asymptotics of the X's steady state. The results are applied to an open modified Jackson network with two partially coupled processors. Finally, a ratio limit property is established for a Markovian kernel which has unbounded jumps.
title: Scoping Review - The Association between Asthma and Environmental Chemicals
title: Scoping Review - The Association between Asthma and Environmental Chemicals
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Mattila, Tiina
name: Kolossa-Gehring, Marike
name: Santonen, Tiina
name: Lange, Rosa
name: Andersen, Helle Raun
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Asthma
Umweltchemikalien
Exposition

description: Asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases worldwide affecting all age groups from children to the elderly. In addition to other factors such as smoking, air pollution and atopy, some environmental chemicals are shown or suspected to increase the risk of asthma, exacerbate asthma symptoms and cause other respiratory symptoms. In this scoping review, we report environmental chemicals, prioritized for investigation in the European Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU), which are associated or possibly associated with asthma. The substance groups considered to cause asthma through specific sensitization include: diisocyanates, hexavalent chromium Cr(VI) and possibly p-phenylenediamine (p-PDA). In epidemiological studies, polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and organophosphate insecticides are associated with asthma, and phthalates, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs), pyrethroid insecticides, mercury, cadmium, arsenic and lead are only potentially associated with asthma. As a conclusion, exposure to PAHs and some pesticides are associated with increased risk of asthma. Diisocyanates and Cr(VI) cause asthma with specific sensitization. For many environmental chemicals, current studies have provided contradicting results in relation to increased risk of asthma. Therefore, more research about exposure to environmental chemicals and risk of asthma is needed. © 2021 by the authors
MPEC 2024-K119 : 2024 KU
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 KU

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
L'univers mythico-religieux du roman Soifs de Marie-Claire Blais.
Creators: name: Roy, Nathalie Jeanne.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Literature, Canadian (French).

description: Dans Soifs , la recontextualisation de thèmes et de récits mythico-religieux obéit à un double mouvement paradoxal. Tout en conférant à l'univers romanesque une dimension «extra-ordinaire» qui évoque le statut particulier des choses sacrées, les mécanismes qui gèrent les inscriptions mythico-religieuses incitent à une mise en cause des principes sur lesquels s'appuient ces éléments mythiques et religieux. Sont étudiés, dans cette perspective, le caractère mythique des représentations spatio-temporelles, les inscriptions romanesques de la figure et du mythe du labyrinthe et la recontextualisation de la figure christique. Le chapitre final est consacré à l'analyse des nombreux traits qui permettent de lire Soifs à la lumière de l'Apocalypse de Jean. En cours d'analyse, l'auteure de la thèse s'appuie sur les travaux de plusieurs chercheurs, et notamment sur ceux de Mircea Eliade, Gilbert Durand et Gaston Bachelard. Toutefois, elle ne partage pas avec ces chercheurs leur perspective anthropologique sur l'interprétation des mythes et symboles «littérarisés», et refuse l'idée selon laquelle leurs travaux puissent dévoiler des vérités immémoriales. Ceux-ci apparaissent davantage comme le produit d'un regard porté sur le monde dans un lieu et à une époque donnés. L'hypothèse de l'auteure est donc que ces travaux reflètent une sorte de «savoir» culturel, lequel est assimilable, à titre méthodologique, au bagage culturel d'où sont tirées les significations mythico-religieuses que Blais revisite.
Modeling the behavior of human induced pluripotent stem cells seeded on melt electrospun scaffolds
Creators: name: Hall, Meghan E
name: Mohtaram, Nima K
name: Willerth, Stephanie M
name: Edwards, Roderick
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Background: Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) can form any tissue found in the body, making them attractive for regenerative medicine applications. Seeding hiPSC aggregates into biomaterial scaffolds can control their differentiation into specific tissue types. Here we develop and analyze a mathematical model of hiPSC aggregate behavior when seeded on melt electrospun scaffolds with defined topography. Results: We used ordinary differential equations to model the different cellular populations (stem, progenitor, differentiated) present in our scaffolds based on experimental results and published literature. Our model successfully captures qualitative features of the cellular dynamics observed experimentally. We determined the optimal parameter sets to maximize specific cellular populations experimentally, showing that a physiologic oxygen level (∼ 5%) increases the number of neural progenitors and differentiated neurons compared to atmospheric oxygen levels (∼ 21%) and a scaffold porosity of ∼ 63% maximizes aggregate size. Conclusions: Our mathematical model determined the key factors controlling hiPSC behavior on melt electrospun scaffolds, enabling optimization of experimental parameters.
Conflicts in public procurement
Creators: name: LINDSKOG, Helena
name: BREGE, Staffan
name: BREHMER, Per-Olof
Publisher: name: Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław University of Economics, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society
Year: 2013
Subjects: public procurement, political goals, costs, public administration, European Union

description: OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND DECISIONS; ISSN 2081-8858
WARC Thunderbird, Volume 6
Creators: name: Croes, Dale R.
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 1985
Subjects: Washington Archeological Research Center
Archaeology

description: 1980's WARC (Washington Archeological Research Center) was an experiment in communitarianism for Northwest Archaeology--and it did WARC (Work). This is Volume 6 of our News Bulletin, the WARC Thunderbird, with Issues 1-9, 1985-1986. The WARC Thunderbird provided a platform for communications across the region and contains a wealth of information about this formative period of Archaeology in Washington State. The Washington Archaeological Research Center was established in 1972 at Washington State University as a contract clearinghouse, mainly for Federal and State funded archaeological field projects, with the goal of assigning field projects throughout the state through a Scientific Committee with archaeologists at the six four-year universities and colleges. The founder of this phase of WARC’s operations was Dr. Richard D. Daugherty, Director, and most field projects were coordinated by his Assistant Harvey Rice. In 1980 the WARC Administrative Board, the Graduate Deans at the six four-year Washington colleges, and the Scientific Committee, felt each institution should be allowed to take their own directions as archaeological field contract programs, and decided to keep the general framework of WARC intact, to coordinate and maintain, with the State Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation (OAHP), the State’s site records, contract/research reports library, and facilitate communications and coordination of general records-based research at the six WARC institution. Dr. Dale R. Croes was assigned Acting Director (a 1/2-time position) and he recruited Steven Hackenberger as his able Assistant Director. This revised structure continued to bring together the WARC Administrative Board, the Scientific Committee and the establishment of a broad Advisory Council representing private contract archaeologists; professional archaeologists from Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia, Canada; Native American Representatives; Federal/State agencies; and Archaeological/Historical Societies. In many ways it was an effort to work together, using our limited resources, to promote archaeological interests (especially digitizing, standardizing and updating our paper-based archaeological site forms)—a coordinating of our discipline, in a form of communitarianism, based on the idea that those involved in archaeology were essentially cooperative (“good”) people who wanted to work together for our common goals.
title: Die Nutzung natürlicher Ressourcen
title: Die Nutzung natürlicher Ressourcen. Bericht für Deutschland 2022.
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Lutter, Stephan
name: Kreimel, Julia
name: Giljum, Stefan
name: Manstein, Christopher
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Ressourcenverbrauch
subject: Ressourceneffizienz
subject: Rohstoffe
subject: Nachhaltigkeit
subject: transformation
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum
subject: Luft
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen
subject: Wasser
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales
subject: Digitalisierung

description: Deutschland hat sich mit dem Ressourceneffizienzprogramm (ProgRess) zum schonenden Umgang mit natürlichen Ressourcen bekannt. Das Umweltbundesamt unterstützt die Umsetzung von ProgRess unter anderem mit diesem Bericht zur Nutzung natürlicher Ressourcen in Deutschland, der nach 2016 und 2018 zum dritten Mal erscheint. Der Bericht analysiert neue Zahlen über die Zusammenhänge von Rohstoffentnahme, Rohstoffhandel, der Rolle der Wirtschaft und des Konsums. Außerdem werden Umweltauswirkungen der Rohstoffentnahme und andere natürliche Ressourcen behandelt. In einem "Spezial" wird abschließend die Rohstoffnutzung der Zukunft betrachtet. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Deutschland hat sich mit dem Ressourceneffizienzprogramm (ProgRess) zum schonenden Umgang mit natürlichen Ressourcen bekannt. Das Umweltbundesamt unterstützt die Umsetzung von ProgRess unter anderem mit diesem Bericht zur Nutzung natürlicher Ressourcen in Deutschland, der nach 2016 und 2018 zum dritten Mal erscheint. Der Bericht analysiert neue Zahlen über die Zusammenhänge von Rohstoffentnahme, Rohstoffhandel, der Rolle der Wirtschaft und des Konsums. Außerdem werden Umweltauswirkungen der Rohstoffentnahme und andere natürliche Ressourcen behandelt. In einem „Spezial“ wird abschließend die Rohstoffnutzung der Zukunft betrachtet.
Origins of negative auditory verbal hallucination (AVH) content: the role of childhood trauma, attachment, self and emotion
Creators: name: Scott, Monique
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Negative auditory verbal hallucination (AVH) content is a major cause of distress among voice hearers. Results from the current project (presented in three manuscripts) indicate that traumatic early life experiences, attachment style, experiences of self and emotional symptoms may shape the content of AVHs. These findings provide further insight into the phenomenon of hearing voices, and highlight the importance of recognising developmental experiences in constructions of self, which may in turn contribute to negative AVH content. Childhood trauma, attachment, schema and emotion should be considered in the formulation and treatment of negative and distressing AVHs.
Locally nilpotent derivations and their rings of constants.
Creators: name: Khoury, Joseph.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Mathematics.

description: Given a UFD R containing Q , we study R-elementary derivations of B = R[Y1,..., Ym], i.e., R-derivations satisfying D( Yi) ∈ R for all i; in the particular case of m = 3, we will show that if R is a polynomial ring in n variables over a field k (of characteristic zero), and a1, a3, a3 ∈ R are three monomials, then the kernel of the derivation i=13ai6 /6Yi of B is generated over R by at most three linear elements in the Yi's. This gives a partial answer to a question of A. van den Essen ([27]) about the existence of elementary derivations in dimension six whose kernels are not finitely generated. A set of generators is given for the kernel of R-elementary fixed point free derivations of B. Also, some interesting examples of elementary derivations in dimensions six and seven are provided as well as a criterion for a derivation of R[2] (i.e., a polynomial ring in two variables over R) to be R-elementary. Given a field k of characteristic zero, it is well-known that the kernel of any linear derivation of k[X 1,..., Xn] (that is, a k-derivation which maps each Xi to a linear form in X1,..., Xn) is a finitely generated k-algebra (see [28]). All known proofs of this result are non-constructive in the sense that we do not know a generating set for the kernel. Nowicki conjectured in [25] that the kernel of the derivation d = i=1nXi6 /6Yi of k[X1,..., Xn, Y1,..., Yn] is generated over k by the elements uij = XiYj - XjYi for 1 ≤ i ≤ j ≤ n. Using the theory of Groebner bases, we prove this conjecture in the more general case of the derivation D = i=1nXti i6/6Yi where each ti is a nonnegative integer. Note that in the case of the derivation D, the finite generation of the kernel is no longer evident. Note also that the generators of ker D are linear in the Yi's over k[X1,..., Xn]; we will show that this is not always the case for elementary derivations by giving an example of an elementary derivation in dimension seven whose kernel is finitely generated but cannot be generated by linear forms.
3321424.pdf
Creators: name: Ellis, Jennifer
name: Dorney, Kevin
name: Hickstein, Dan
name: Brooks, Nathan
name: Gentry, Christian
name: Hernandez-Garcia, Carlos
name: Zusin, Dmitriy
name: Shaw, Justin
name: Nguyen, Quynh
name: Mancuso, Christopher
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2018
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supporting information document with additional details
Deterministic properties of serially connected distributed lag models
Creators: name: NOWAK, Piotr
name: GADOMSKI, Jan
Publisher: name: Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław University of Economics, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society
Year: 2013
Subjects: distributed lags, limit properties, characteristics of distributed lags

description: OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND DECISIONS; ISSN 2081-8858
3343287.pdf
Creators: name: Buades, Barbara
name: Moonshiram, Dooshaye
name: Sidiropoulos, Themistoklis
name: Leon, Iker
name: Schmidt, Peter
name: Pi, Irina
name: Di Palo, Nicola
name: Cousin, Seth
name: Picón, Antonio
name: Koppens, Frank
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Information
title: Preserved Autonomic Cardiovascular Regulation With Cardiac Pacemaker Inhibition
title: A Crossover Trial Using High‐Fidelity Cardiovascular Phenotyping
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Heusser, Karsten
name: Tank, Jens
name: Brinkmann, Julia
name: Schroeder, Christoph
name: May, Marcus
name: Großhennig, Anika
name: Wenzel, Daniela
name: Diedrich, Andre
name: Sweep, Fred C. G. J.
name: Mehling, Heidrun
name: Luft, Friedrich C.
name: Jordan, Jens
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: autonomic nervous system
subject: baroreflex control
subject: funny channel
subject: eart rate
subject: hemodynamics
subject: inhibitor
subject: microneurography
subject: pharmacology
subject: physiology
subject: sinoatrial node
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background Sympathetic and parasympathetic influences on heart rate (HR), which are governed by baroreflex mechanisms, are integrated at the cardiac sinus node through hyperpolarization‐activated cyclic nucleotide–gated channels (HCN4). We hypothesized that HCN4 blockade with ivabradine selectively attenuates HR and baroreflex HR regulation, leaving baroreflex control of muscle sympathetic nerve activity intact. Methods and Results We treated 21 healthy men with 2×7.5 mg ivabradine or placebo in a randomized crossover fashion. We recorded electrocardiogram, blood pressure, and muscle sympathetic nerve activity at rest and during pharmacological baroreflex testing. Ivabradine reduced normalized HR from 65.9±8.1 to 58.4±6.2 beats per minute (P<0.001) with unaffected blood pressure and muscle sympathetic nerve activity. On ivabradine, cardiac and sympathetic baroreflex gains and blood pressure responses to vasoactive drugs were unchanged. Ivabradine aggravated bradycardia during baroreflex loading. Conclusions HCN4 blockade with ivabradine reduced HR, leaving physiological regulation of HR and muscle sympathetic nerve activity as well as baroreflex blood pressure buffering intact. Ivabradine could aggravate bradycardia during parasympathetic activation.
HEart and BRain interfaces in Acute ischemic Stroke (HEBRAS) – rationale and design of a prospective oberservational cohort study
Creators: name: Haeusler, Karl Georg
name: Grittner, Ulrike
name: Fiebach, Jochen B.
name: Endres, Matthias
name: Krause, Thomas
name: Nolte, Christian H.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atrial fibrillation
subject: Cardiac MRI
subject: ECG monitoring
subject: Ischemic stroke
subject: Heart rate variability
subject: Autonomic dysfunction
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background An effective diagnostic work-up in hospitalized patients with acute ischemic stroke is vital to optimize secondary stroke prevention. The HEart and BRain interfaces in Acute ischemic Stroke (HEBRAS) study aims to assess whether an enhanced MRI set-up and a prolonged Holter-ECG monitoring yields a higher rate of pathologic findings as compared to diagnostic procedures recommended by guidelines (including stroke unit monitoring for at least 24 h, echocardiography and ultrasound of brain-supplying arteries). Methods/Design Prospective observational single-center study in 475 patients with acute ischemic stroke and without known atrial fibrillation. Patients will receive routine diagnostic care in hospital as wells as brain MRI, cardiac MRI, MR angiography of the brain-supplying arteries and Holter-monitoring for up to 10 days. Study patients will be followed up for cardiovascular outcomes at 3 and 12 months after enrolment. Discussion By comparing the results of routine diagnostic care to the study-specific MRI/ECG approach, the primary outcome of HEBRAS is the proportion of stroke patients with pathologic diagnostic findings. Predefined secondary outcomes are the association of stroke localization, autonomic dysbalance and cardiac dysfunction as well as the effect of impaired heart-rate-variability on long-term clinical outcome. The investigator-initiated HEBRAS study will assess whether an enhanced MRI approach and a prolonged ECG monitoring yield a higher rate of pathological findings than current standard diagnostic care to determine stroke etiology. These findings might influence current diagnostic recommendations after acute ischemic stroke. Moreover, HEBRAS will determine the extent and clinical impact of stroke-induced cardiac damage.
title: Kontrol`nye cpiski dlja izucenija i ocenki sostojanija promyslennych ob'jektov, imejuscich vescestva, pregstavljajuscie opacnost' dlja vodnych resurcov
title: Контрольный список № 1: Вещества
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Winkelmann-Oei, Gerhard
name: Platkowski, Jörg
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Gewässerschutz
subject: Risikomanagement
subject: Leitfaden
subject: water protection
subject: installation-related
subject: water pollution
subject: water pollutants
subject: risk management
subject: checklist
subject: guideline
subject: Chemikalien
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum
subject: Chemicals

description: Опираясь на рекомендации международных комиссий по речным бассейнам и водным ресурсам, была разработана концепция контрольных листов, позволяющая эффективно оценить состояние промышленных установок, содержащих вредные для водных ресурсов материалы и растворы. Она включает в себя обзор потенциальных сфер деятельности, а также специальные контрольные листы, распределенные по функциональным единицам, отраслям и областям риска.
"Honoured in her time": Queen Shelamzion and the Book of Judith.
Creators: name: Patterson, Dilys Naomi.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Religion, Biblical Studies.

description: The Book of Judith is a tale about a time in Jewish history when the Jews were threatened with annihilation and saved by a pious widow. It is also an example of the early Hellenistic novel and evinces many hitherto unexplored ties to Hellenistic literature; however, even when these similarities are accounted for, the characterization of Judith, the book's main character, stands out in marked contrast to other Hellenistic female heros. Although the date of composition of the work is still disputed, there is strong evidence that links the work to the Hasmonean period. It was during this period that a woman ruled Judea; this woman was Shelamzion, whom Josephus refers to as Salome Alexandra. Charles Ball, Solomon Zeitlin, and the contemporary feminist scholar Tal Ilan postulate that the Book of Judith was written as a means of promoting the popularity of this Hasmonean queen; however, the idea has not been thoroughly examined by scholars. This dissertation explores the possibility that the Book of Judith was written as political propaganda for the only Hasmonean queen, Shelamzion. The first part of the dissertation explores literary patronage and propaganda in the Hellenistic period. Part Two examines the literary world of Shelamzion, the world which gave birth to the Hellenistic novel. The third part offers a fresh evaluation of Josephus' accounts of Shelamzion's reign; these accounts are found in The Jewish War and Jewish Antiquities . Her reign is examined against the backdrop of the politically powerful female descendants of Ptolemy Soter I, the various Cleopatras of the second and first centuries B.C.E. The final section assesses the Book of Judith as political propaganda for Shelamzion, revisiting anthropological studies of honour and shame and discussing the similarities between Shelamzion and Judith.
3343287.pdf
Creators: name: Buades, Barbara
name: Moonshiram, Dooshaye
name: Sidiropoulos, Themistoklis
name: Leon, Iker
name: Schmidt, Peter
name: Pi, Irina
name: Di Palo, Nicola
name: Cousin, Seth
name: Picón, Antonio
name: Koppens, Frank
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2018
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Information
title: Detection and characterization of hepatitis E virus genotype 3 in wastewater and urban surface waters in Germany
title: Detection and characterization of hepatitis E virus genotype 3 in wastewater and urban surface waters in Germany
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Beyer, Sophia
name: Selinka, Hans-Christoph
name: Gnirrs, Regina
name: Szewzyk, Regine
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Monitoring
Abwasser
Oberflächengewässer

description: In highly populated areas, environmental surveillance of wastewater and surface waters is a key factor to control the circulation of viruses and risks for public health. Hepatitis E virus (HEV) genotype 3 is considered as an emerging pathogen in industrialized countries. Therefore, this study was carried out to determine the prevalence of HEV in environmental waters in urban and suburban regions in Germany. HEV was monitored in water samples using quantitative RT-PCR (RT-qPCR) and nested RT-PCR without or with virus concentration via polyethylene glycol precipitation or ultracentrifugation. By RT-qPCR, 84-100% of influent samples of wastewater treatment plants were positive for HEV RNA. Genotypes HEV-3c and 3f were identified in wastewater, with HEV-3c being the most prevalent genotype. These data correlate with subtypes identified earlier in patients from the same area. Comparison of wastewater influent and effluent samples revealed a reduction of HEV RNA of about 1 log10 during passage through wastewater treatment plants. In addition, combined sewer overflows (CSOs) after heavy rainfalls were shown to release HEV RNA into surface waters. About 75% of urban river samples taken during these CSO events were positive for HEV RNA by RT-qPCR. In contrast, under normal weather conditions, only around 30% of river samples and 15% of samples from a bathing water located at an urban river were positive for HEV. Median concentrations of HEV RNA of all tested samples at this bathing water were below the limit of detection. Source: https://link.springer.com
title: E. coli bacteremia in comparison to K. pneumoniae bacteremia
title: influence of pathogen species and ESBL production on 7-day mortality
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Leistner, R.
name: Bloch, A.
name: Gastmeier, P.
name: Schwab, F.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: ESBL
subject: Bacteremia
subject: Sepsis
subject: K. pneumoniae
subject: E. coli
subject: Enterobacteriaceae
subject: Mortality
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: In a previous study, we demonstrated prolonged length of hospital stay in cases of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-positive K. pneumoniae bacteremia compared to bacteremia cases due to E. coli (ESBL-positive and –negative) and ESBL-negative K. pneumoniae. The overall mortality was significantly higher in bacteremia cases resulting from ESBL-positive pathogens but also in K. pneumoniae cases disregarding ESBL-production. In order to examine whether pathogen species rather than multidrug resistance might affect mortality risk, we reanalyzed our dataset that includes 1.851 cases of bacteremia.
3346137.pdf
Creators: name: Piccardo, Marco
name: Kazakov, Dmitry
name: Rubin, Noah
name: Chevalier, Paul
name: Wang, Yongrui
name: Xie, Feng
name: Lascola, Kevin
name: Belyanin, Alexey
name: Capasso, Federico
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental
Measuring human capital in education
Creators: name: WALUKIEWICZ, Stanisław
name: WIKTORZAK, Aneta Anna
Publisher: name: Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław University of Economics, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society
Year: 2013
Subjects: Human capital, Virtual Production Line (VPL), Classical Production Line (CPL), efficiency of education

description: OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND DECISIONS; ISSN 2081-8858
Pacifc Northwest Archaeological Society (PNWAS): Reaching the Northwest Advocational Public for 36 Years
Creators: name: Croes, Dale R.
name: Stapp, Darby C
name: Longenecker, Julia G.
Publisher: name: Northwest Anthropology
Year: 2021
Subjects: Archaeology

description: This paper is Chapter 3, pp. 35-45, of a 275+ page volume on How do we Reach More?; a free source book on trying to reach the public in the Pacific Northwest of North America: https://www.northwestanthropology.com/how-do-we-reach-more This book is freely available for those that want to see what tended to work or not work in this effort. Since PNWAS has been around for 36 years, a certain amount of success is demonstrated, including activism possible through a non-profit for education program. Abstract for Pacific Northwest Archaeological Society (PNWAS) chapter 3: As originally stated in our founding in 1985, PNWAS is a membership organization that “offers a means for individuals and organizations to declare their support for the preservation of the rich archaeological resources in our region and help to bring public archaeology programs to people of the Pacific Northwest. Benefits of membership include timely information on Northwest archaeological research, a bi-monthly lecture series, and opportunity to participate in professionally supervised research in the Northwest.” PNWAS was incorporated at that time as a non-profit organization in the State of Washington and has remained true to these original objectives. I have been the Executive Director throughout these 36 years, with a President, Vice-President, and other Officers on our Board.
Examining engagement with online interventions for psychosis: A mixed-methods investigation
Creators: name: Arnold, Chelsea
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Individuals with psychosis may have ongoing mental health treatment needs. Providing psychosocial treatments over the Internet can improve access to evidence-based treatments and improve clinical outcomes. Despite this potential, online interventions for mental health typically have low levels of uptake and ongoing engagement. This thesis aimed to investigate factors associated with engagement with online interventions for psychosis. In addition to a review and synthesis of the relevant literature, a mixed-methods approach was utilised to identify relevant factors. Findings of this thesis may inform more effective design and implementation of future online interventions for this group of individuals.
3331111.pdf
Creators: name: Ozturk, Hande
name: Yan, Hanfei
name: He, Yan
name: Ge, Mingyuan
name: Dong, Zhihua
name: Lin, Meifeng
name: Nazaretski, Evgeny
name: Robinson, Ian
name: Chu, Yong
name: Huang, Xiaojing
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2018
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Material
Serum bilirubin and the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations
Creators: name: Brown, Kirstin E
name: Sin, Don D
name: Voelker, Helen
name: Connett, John E
name: Niewoehner, Dennis E
name: Kunisaki, Ken M
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Background: Bilirubin is a potent anti-oxidant and higher serum concentrations of bilirubin have been associated with better lung function, slower lung function decline, and lower incidence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We sought to determine whether elevated bilirubin blood concentrations are associated with lower risk for acute exacerbations of COPD (AECOPD). Methods: We performed a secondary analyses of data in the Simvastatin for Prevention of Exacerbations in Moderate-to-Severe COPD (STATCOPE) and the Azithromycin for Prevention of Exacerbations of COPD (MACRO) studies. We used time-dependent multivariable Cox proportional hazards analyses, using bilirubin concentrations prior to first AECOPD as the exposure variable and time to first AECOPD as the outcome variable. STATCOPE was used for model development, with validation in MACRO. Results: In STATCOPE (n = 853), higher bilirubin was associated with a lower but statistically insignificant hazard for AECOPD, (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR] 0.89 per log10 increase [95%CI: 0.74 to 1.09; p = 0.26]). In the validation MACRO study (n = 1018), higher bilirubin was associated with a significantly lower hazard for AECOPD (aHR 0.80 per log10 increase [95%CI: 0.67 to 0.94; p = 0.008]). Conclusions: Bilirubin may be a biomarker of AECOPD risk and may be a novel therapeutic target to reduce AECOPD risk. Trial registrations ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01061671 (registered 02 February 2010) and ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00325897 (registered 12 May 2006).
Water materialities and citizen engagement : testing the implications of water access and quality for community engagement in Ghana and South Africa
Creators: name: Harris, Leila
name: Kleiber, Danika
name: Rodina, Lucy
name: Yaylaci, Sule
name: Goldin, Jacqueline
name: Owen, Germaine
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: We analyze the relationship between perceptions of domestic water access, and quality, in relation community engagement. While others have suggested linkages between material conditions of water access and engagement (e.g., that poor water access might spur engagement), to date there have been no studies those test these relationships using statistical methods. Based on a quantitative analysis of survey data from underserved sites in Accra, Ghana, and Cape Town, South Africa, our results show that water access and quality are both predictive of community engagement. The analysis also makes a strong case that there are different dimensions when considering the material conditions of water—in this case, water access and quality each condition engagement in opposite directions. Furthermore, consistent with other studies, our study also shows different demographics (notably gender) mediate these relationships in important ways.
Ductility in FRP rods for concrete reinforcement by interfacial shearing.
Creators: name: Ewen, Kristian A. J.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: Non-corrosive reinforcement of concrete provides great potential for reducing life cycle costs (LCC) of highway infrastructure (bridge decks and columns, light-standards, dividers) and concrete structures near water (piers, retaining walls, platforms). This is especially important in areas where salts are common (cold weather road salting, coastal regions) and is achieved by extending the life of structures and the period between major repairs. Costs of infrastructure rehabilitation due to corrosion of reinforcement are estimated to be $1.2 billion dollars in Ontario in the next few years, and up to 40% of all annual infrastructure costs in the province of Quebec. Efforts to reduce the frequency of repair and replacement of ageing structures include using epoxy coating of the reinforcing bar (rebar), cathodic protection, alternate types of steel and fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) rebar. Of these, FRP rebar appears to be the most promising. The limitation of FRP rebar is the low maximum strain and linear behaviour up to failure. Prior attempts at increasing the ductility and producing non-linear behaviour have had limited success. Maximum strain remains limited to that of the highest strain fibres available. Pseudo-ductility has been achieved by combining multiple fibre types having different material properties. The work described in this thesis focussed on non-traditional methods for achieving ductility in FRP rebars by taking advantage of the frictional interface of two materials. Two methods were tested. The first employed a solid inner-core with an over-wrap cut at regular intervals and relied on the rebar pulling out of the concrete at sustained load. Rods were tested in concrete beams under bending loads. Sustained load was achieved for significant pull-out. The second method combined continuous fibres with discontinuous meso-rods wherein the continuous fibres provide initial stiffness and maximum strength and the discontinuous meso-rods provide high-ductility via fibre pull-out. A concept model using aligned short steel fibres was manufactured and tested. Load-displacement behaviour showed substantial local elongation. Prototype models using carbon fibres were manufactured and tested. Specimens showed evidence of fibre pull-out. Future specimens should employ an intermediate material with a controlled and repeatable shear strength for the interface.