cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Motivations for pursuing genetic counseling to explore the availability of panel genetic testing: a pilot study
Creators: name: Gerber, Jessalyn
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: Little is known about the factors that motivate or deter patients from pursuing updated genetic testing after previously receiving negative or uncertain results. The purpose of this study was to investigate which factors influenced patients’ decisions to either accept or decline the invitation to return to the genetic counseling clinic to discuss updated genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer. Four hundred forty-six individuals who had previously tested negative or had a variant of uncertain significance in BRCA1 or BRCA2 were mailed a letter informing them of the availability of breast cancer gene panels and inviting them to schedule an appointment with a cancer genetic counselor to discuss updated testing options. Patients who returned were asked to complete a survey about what motivated them to return, and patients who declined were given the opportunity to complete a survey detailing their reasons for declining. The response rate to the letter was 7.83% when we include all patients who returned for testing as well as patients who responded to the survey for those not returning for updated testing. The surveys on motivations and deterrents required the patients to rate six different factors from 1 (not important) to 5 (very important) in their decision to return or not return for genetic counseling. In addition, patients were able to rank those factors from most important to least important in their decision. Patients were also given the opportunity to write-in other factors that may have influenced their decision. We discovered that the factors that most influenced patients to return were a desire to learn information for their family members and a desire to aid their own health. The main reasons patients declined the invitation were a perceived lack of benefit of updated testing and concerns about the cost of testing. This data provides valuable insight into the factors that motivate and deter patients to consider updated genetic testing and can shape how clinicians inform their patients about expanded genetic testing options.
Placeres, amores y viajes en Demasiado amor de Sara Sefchovich
Placeres, amores y viajes en Demasiado amor de Sara Sefchovich
Placeres, amores y viajes en Demasiado amor de Sara Sefchovich
Placeres, amores y viajes en Demasiado amor de Sara Sefchovich
Creators: name: Bianchi, Paula Daniela; UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: bodies; travel; prostitution; desire; pleasure
cuerpos; viaje; prostitución; deseo; placer

description: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the construction of the prostitute female body where we analyze some strands of the circulation of pleasure, bodies, money and sexual intercourse in Demasiado amor (1990, Agustín Yáñez) by Mexican writer Sara Sefchovich. Starting from a journey, of the protagonist of the novel, as nomadism and as a geographical corporal and internal displacement, the journey is seen as a deterritorialization of the body and the subjectivity.
description: La propuesta de este trabajo es indagar la construcción del cuerpo femenino de la prostituta donde se analizarán algunos ejes que articulan la circulación de placeres, cuerpos, dinero como intercambio sexual en la novela Demasiado amor (1990, premio Agustín Yáñez) de escritora mexicana Sara Sefchovich  en relación con el viaje. Parto de una concepción de viaje tomada como nomadismo, como un desplazamiento geográfico, corporal e interno que llevará a cabo la protagonista de la novela. El viaje pensado como una desterritorialización del cuerpo y de la propia subjetividad.
description: La propuesta de este trabajo es indagar la construcción del cuerpo femenino de la prostituta donde se analizarán algunos ejes que articulan la circulación de placeres, cuerpos, dinero como intercambio sexual en la novela Demasiado amor (1990, premio Agustín Yáñez) de escritora mexicana Sara Sefchovich en relación con el viaje. Parto de una concepción de viaje tomada como nomadismo, como un desplazamiento geográfico, corporal e interno que llevará a cabo la protagonista de la novela. El viaje pensado como una desterritorialización del cuerpo y de la propia subjetividad.
description: La propuesta de este trabajo es indagar la construcción del cuerpo femenino de la prostituta donde se analizarán algunos ejes que articulan la circulación de placeres, cuerpos, dinero como intercambio sexual en la novela Demasiado amor (1990, premio Agustín Yáñez) de escritora mexicana Sara Sefchovich en relación con el viaje. Parto de una concepción de viaje tomada como nomadismo, como un desplazamiento geográfico, corporal e interno que llevará a cabo la protagonista de la novela. El viaje pensado como una desterritorialización del cuerpo y de la propia subjetividad.
Pole and angle based analysis of RR linkages
Creators: name: Parikh, Yash Hemantkumar
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: An infinite number of planar linkage solutions exist for a prescribed rigid body positions. Given a set of precision points, determining fixed pivot and moving pivot curves, sorting through limitless number of possible solutions to find optimal link parameters that satisfies compactness criteria can be a daunting task. In this work, an algorithm is developed and presented by which user can select an optimal linkage from all the mechanism solutions by using Pole and Angle Based Design Method. The significance of poles for design of linkage and hence a mechanism is also determined. The numerical examples presented in this work for two position, three position and four position analysis of a linkage to develop a moving pivot curve using Pole and Angle Based Method have been presented to support analysis capabilities.
Bloody Oil: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Safety Crimes in the Alberta Oil and Gas Industry
Creators: name: Pitoulis, Terry
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Safety crimes
subject: Corporate crime
subject: Worker safety
subject: Occupational health and safety
subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Critical discourse analysis
subject: Alberta oil sands
subject: Corporate regulation
subject: Victim blaming

description: This thesis critically examines dominant conceptualizations of safety crimes – offences by corporations that seriously injure and kill workers – within the Alberta oil and gas industry. Using critical discourse analysis, and relying on and Foucaultian and Marxist literatures, the thesis critically examines the extent to which government fatality reports, workplace safety education campaigns and court decisions characterize safety crimes primarily as ‘accidents’ caused by ‘careless’ workers. Two main discourses were found: first, workers were responsibilized, effectively blamed for their own injury and death in the workplace while employers were characterized as largely good and law-abiding; second, serious injury and death was (re)conventionalized as the regrettable but largely unintentional and unavoidable side effect of capitalist production. In the process, the underlying causes of safety crimes, including weak and under-enforced laws and a socio-economic context that prioritizes profits over worker safety, remain untouched.
Supplementary document for Simultaneous transmission, detection and energy harvesting - 5113596.pdf
Creators: name: Gao, Xumin
name: Jia, Bolun
name: Ye, Ziqi
name: Wang, Linning
name: Fu, Kang
name: Liu, Pengzhan
name: Hu, Fangren
name: Zhu, Hongbo
name: wang, yongjin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Photodetectors, Optical Sensors and Solar Cells
Wireless Communications

description: Device fabrication process and detailed description of experimental methods.
Learning to do phenomenography: a reflective discussion
Creators: name: Akerland, Gerlese
name: Bowden, John
name: Green, Pamela
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: What is it like to learn to do phenomenographic research? What helps and hinders? These are the questions addressed in the preceding stories, from the perspective of five individual researchers. In order to help readers integrate the individual stories and the range of response to these questions within them, all of the authors met to have a discussion of their reactions, as a team. Key highlights of that discussion are presented in this chapter, which also draws liberally on relevant sections of the individual stories.
A Location-Aware Social Media Monitoring System
Creators: name: Ji, Liu
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
Social Media

description: Social media users generate a large volume of data, which can contain meaningful and useful information. One such example is information about locations, which may be useful in applications such as marketing and security monitoring. There are two types of locations: location entities mentioned in the text of the messages and the physical locations of users. Extracting the first type of locations is not trivial because the location entities in the text are often ambiguous. In this thesis, we implement a sequential classification model with conditional random fields followed by a rule-based disambiguation model, we apply them to Twitter messages (tweets) and we show that they handle the ambiguous location entities in our dataset reasonably well. Only very few users disclose their physical locations; in order to automatically detect their locations, many approaches have been proposed using various types of information, including the tweets posted by the users. It is not easy to infer the original locations from text data, because text tends to be noisy, particularly in social media. Recently, deep learning techniques have been shown to reduce the error rate of many machine learning tasks, due to their ability to learn meaningful representations of input data. We investigate the potential of building a deep-learning architecture to infer the location of Twitter users based merely on their tweets. We find that stacked denoising auto-encoders are well suited for this task, with results comparable to state-of-the-art models. Finally, we combine the two models above with a third-party sentiment analysis tool and obtain a intelligent social media monitoring system. We show a demo of the system and that it is able to predict and visualize the locations and sentiments contained in a stream of tweets related to mobile phone brands - a typical real world e-business application.
Study of capillary absorption kinetics by X-ray CT imaging techniques: a survey on sedimentary rocks of Sicily
Creators: name: Schillaci, Tiziano
name: Brai, Maria
name: Cimino, Antonio
name: Lo Casto, Antonio
name: Sorrentino, Fortunato
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Storie e Metodi per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali (Di.S.Me.C.)
Year: 2008

description: Sedimentary rocks are natural porous materials with a great percent of microscopic interconnected
pores: they contain fluids, permitting their movement on macroscopic scale. Generally, these rocks
present porosity higher then metamorphic rocks. Under certain points of view, this feature represents
an advantage; on the other hand, this can constitute an obstacle for cultural heritage applications,
because the porosity grade can lead to a deterioration of the lapideous monument for water
capillary absorption.
In this paper, CT (Computerized Tomography) image techniques are applied to capillary absorption
kinetics in sedimentary rocks utilized for the Greek temples as well as baroc monuments, respectively
located in western and southeastern Sicily. Rocks were sampled near the archaeological
areas of Agrigento, Segesta, Selinunte and Val di Noto. CT images were acquired at different times,
before and after the water contact, using image elaboration techniques during the acquisition as well
as the post-processing phases. Water distribution into porous spaces has been evaluated on the
basis of the Hounsfield number, estimated for the 3-D voxel structure of samples. For most of the
considered samples, assumptions based on Handy model permit to correlate the average height of
the wetting front to the square root of time. Stochastic equations were introduced in order to
describe the percolative water behavior in heterogeneous samples, as the Agrigento one.
Before the CT acquisition, an estimate of the capillary absorption kinetics has been carried out by
the gravimetric method. A petrographical characterization of samples has been performed by stereomicroscope
observations, while porosity and morphology of porous have been surveyed by SEM
(Scanning Electron Microscope) images. Furthermore, the proposed methods have also permitted
to define penetration depth as well as distribution uniformity of materials used for restoration and
conservation of historical monuments.
Supplementary document for Simultaneous transmission, detection and energy harvesting - 5113596.pdf
Creators: name: Gao, Xumin
name: Jia, Bolun
name: Ye, Ziqi
name: Wang, Linning
name: Fu, Kang
name: Liu, Pengzhan
name: Hu, Fangren
name: Zhu, Hongbo
name: wang, yongjin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Photodetectors, Optical Sensors and Solar Cells
Wireless Communications

description: Device fabrication process and detailed description of experimental methods.
Adio Kerida: l’identità sefardita  nel viaggio di Ruth Behar
Adio Kerida: l’identità sefardita  nel viaggio di Ruth Behar
Adio Kerida: l’identità sefardita  nel viaggio di Ruth Behar
Adio Kerida: l’identità sefardita  nel viaggio di Ruth Behar
Creators: name: Aliberti, Davide; UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI-L’ORIENTALE
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: Adio Kerida; Sephardic identity; diaspora space; Ruth Behar; travel
Adio Kerida; identità sefardita; spazio di diaspora; Ruth Behar; viaggio

description: The purpose of this paper is to examine the travel as a way of identity reconstruction and essential feature of Sephardic identity through the analysis of the documentary film by Ruth Behar, Adio Kerida (2002). The anthropologist reconstructs her own identity and of the whole Cuban Sephardic community through the testimonies collected in her travels. From Behar path emerges a new essential feature of the Sephardic identity: the need to travel through several homelands not recognizing any place as home.
description: Nel presente lavoro s’intende esaminare il viaggio come percorso di ricostruzione identitaria e caratteristica essenziale dell’identità sefardita attraverso l’analisi del documentario di Ruth Behar, Adio Kerida (2002). L’antropologa ricostruisce, tramite le testimonianze raccolte nei suoi viaggi, la propria identità e quella dell’intera comunità sefardita cubana. Dal percorso della Behar emerge un nuovo tratto essenziale dell’identità sefardita: il viaggiare, espresso dalla necessità di muoversi continuamente attraverso molteplici madri-patrie senza mai riconoscere un luogo come casa.
description: Nel presente lavoro s’intende esaminare il viaggio come percorso di ricostruzione identitaria e caratteristica essenziale dell’identità sefardita attraverso l’analisi del documentario di Ruth Behar, Adio Kerida (2002). L’antropologa ricostruisce, tramite le testimonianze raccolte nei suoi viaggi, la propria identità e quella dell’intera comunità sefardita cubana. Dal percorso della Behar emerge un nuovo tratto essenziale dell’identità sefardita: il viaggiare, espresso dalla necessità di muoversi continuamente attraverso molteplici madri-patrie senza mai riconoscere un luogo come casa.
description: Nel presente lavoro s’intende esaminare il viaggio come percorso di ricostruzione identitaria e caratteristica essenziale dell’identità sefardita attraverso l’analisi del documentario di Ruth Behar, Adio Kerida (2002). L’antropologa ricostruisce, tramite le testimonianze raccolte nei suoi viaggi, la propria identità e quella dell’intera comunità sefardita cubana. Dal percorso della Behar emerge un nuovo tratto essenziale dell’identità sefardita: il viaggiare, espresso dalla necessità di muoversi continuamente attraverso molteplici madri-patrie senza mai riconoscere un luogo come casa.
Flowing with the Beat: The Effects of Music on Flow-State in the Workplace
Creators: name: Montoya, Eva Vides
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: music
flow
flow-state
workplace
productivity

description: This literature review explores the potential of music to induce a flow state—an optimal experience marked by deep engagement, heightened focus, and enhanced performance—in work environments. Understanding this connection can aid in creating supportive and enjoyable atmospheres, benefiting individuals and organizations. This review investigates the profound relationship between music and the flow state, acknowledging music as a universal form of expression ingrained in the human experience. Findings emphasize how music’s effects are mediated by mood, emotion, preferences, personal characteristics, skills, and task difficulty rather than having a direct impact on an individual. Music was found to have a positive effect on work engagement and performance when task difficulty is offset by the individual’s skill. Additionally, music is generally perceived more positively than noise in the workplace, with some studies suggesting how it can counteract the negative effects of noise and contribute to improved efficiency, particularly in repetitive tasks. Finally, a positive correlation was discovered between the flow experiences of different groups in a shared setting, indicating a crossover effect and the potential for positive emotions to transfer. Thus, achieving a flow state promotes productivity, satisfaction, and a great working environment.
Exploring Gay Male Youths’ Perceptions of Stigma in the Therapeutic Relationship at a Gay Men’s Sexual Health Clinic
Creators: name: Watts, Jessica
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: gay men
HIV
youth
stigma
therapeutic relationship
nurse
pastoral power
sexual health
risk

description: Since 1999, youth have experienced an increase in HIV incidence. Gay male youth, in particular, are a priority sub-population because they accounted for the highest exposure category in 2008 among youth. Due to the lack of studies on gay male youth who are susceptible to HIV, and the reality that most previous research on stigma may no longer reflect the contemporary context, nursing based research was undertaken. Utilizing critical theory, stigma within the therapeutic relationship was investigated through eight semi-structured interviews with gay male youth who were recruited through a gay men’s sexual health clinic in Ottawa, Canada. The results of this research showed that while stigma, whether perceived stigma or the fear of stigmatization, was still felt by these participants in some interactions, overall, these youth had positive experiences with the health care system, particularly within the context of the gay men’s sexual health clinic.
Developmental changes in the word co-occurrences of Spanish–English bilingual children with and without developmental language disorder
Creators: name: Shivabasappa, Prarthana
name: Peña, Elizabeth D.
name: Bedore, Lisa M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Molecular Biology
Neuroscience
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Science Policy

description: The study aimed to understand how bilingual children with typical language development (TLD) and those with developmental language disorder (DLD) use frequent word co-occurrences in their narratives. We studied the change over time in the word co-occurrences used by 30 Spanish-English bilingual children with and without DLD (experimental group). An additional normative group consisted of 98 TLD Spanish-English bilingual first graders. Children narrated two Spanish and two English stories in kindergarten and first grade. Employing a Python program on the transcribed narratives, we extracted all adjacent two-word and three-word co-occurrences. From the normative group, the 90 most frequently occurring two-word and 90 most frequently occurring three-word co-occurrences were extracted. The type and tokens of word co-occurrences each child in the experimental group produced out of the 180 identified word co-occurrences were analysed. Overall, children at first grade produced more word co-occurrences types than in kindergarten. Children with DLD used fewer types of word co-occurrences but produced them as often as than their TLD peers. Children with DLD increased their word co-occurrences from kindergarten to first grade at the same rate although at a lower frequency. Children in both groups produced similar types and tokens of word co-occurrences in both Spanish and English, except tokens of two word co-occurrences. Children produced two word co-occurrences more often in English than in their Spanish narratives. The results shed light on children with DLD’s deficits in production of word co-occurrences, indirectly reflecting possible deficits in statistical pattern detection.
A Systematic Review of Common Drug Review Pharmacoeconomic Submissions and an Analysis of Emerging Trends
Creators: name: Sabarre, Kelley-Anne
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: pharmacoeconomic evaluation
Common Drug Review
trends

description: Given financial constraints, drug manufacturers are required to provide pharmacoeconomic evaluations to demonstrate the value for money of their drug compared to current treatment when requesting reimbursement by publicly funded health care systems. This thesis is a retrospective examination of pharmacoeconomic evaluations submitted for review to the Common Drug Review process. Its purpose was to determine the pattern of adherence to guidelines, trends in methodological quality, and transparency, changes in the adoption and practice of sensitivity analysis and probabilistic methods, use of indirect treatment comparison, and identify methodological factors−determinants of recommendations. Using an instrument that was developed and tested, information from 201 pharmacoeconomic evaluations was collected and analysed. Pharmacoeconomic evaluations may have improved over time in terms of adherence, methodological quality, transparency, use of probabilistic sensitivity analysis and indirect treatment comparison. However, such improvements have been minimal and further efforts are needed to better improve pharmacoeconomic evaluations in the future.
Supplementary document for High-quality quadrupolar plasmonic lattice resonances in horizontal metal-insulator-metal gratings - 5114416.pdf
Creators: name: Fang, Xinyu
name: Xiong, Lei
name: Shi, Jian-ping
name: Li, Guangyuan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Supplementary document for High-quality quadrupolar plasmonic lattice resonances in horizontal metal-insulator-metal gratings - 5114416.pdf
Creators: name: Fang, Xinyu
name: Xiong, Lei
name: Shi, Jian-ping
name: Li, Guangyuan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Uni Ulm intern - das Ulmer Universitätsmagazin, Nr. 305 (40. Jg.), August 2010
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Uni Ulm intern
subject: DDC 050 / General serial publications
subject: Universities; Germany; Ulm
subject: Ulm / Universität

description: N/A
Low concentrations of fine particle air pollution and mortality in the Canadian Community Health Survey cohort
Creators: name: Christidis, Tanya
name: Erickson, Anders C.
name: Pappin, Amanda J.
name: Crouse, Daniel L.
name: Pinault, Lauren L.
name: Weichenthal, Scott A.
name: Brook, Jeffrey R.
name: Van Donkelaar, Aaron
name: Hystad, Perry
name: Martin, Randall V.
name: Tjepkema, Michael
name: Burnett, Richard T.
name: Brauer, Michael (Of University Of British Columbia)
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2019

description: Background: Approximately 2.9 million deaths are attributed to ambient fine particle air pollution around the world each year (PM₂.₅). In general, cohort studies of mortality and outdoor PM₂.₅ concentrations have limited information on individuals exposed to low levels of PM₂.₅ as well as covariates such as smoking behaviours, alcohol consumption, and diet which may confound relationships with mortality. This study provides an updated and extended analysis of the Canadian Community Health Survey-Mortality cohort: a population-based cohort with detailed PM₂.₅ exposure data and information on a number of important individual-level behavioural risk factors. We also used this rich dataset to provide insight into the shape of the concentration-response curve for mortality at low levels of PM₂.₅. Methods: Respondents to the Canadian Community Health Survey from 2000 to 2012 were linked by postal code history from 1981 to 2016 to high resolution PM₂.₅ exposure estimates, and mortality incidence to 2016. Cox proportional hazard models were used to estimate the relationship between non-accidental mortality and ambient PM₂.₅ concentrations (measured as a three-year average with a one-year lag) adjusted for socio-economic, behavioural, and time-varying contextual covariates. Results: In total, 50,700 deaths from non-accidental causes occurred in the cohort over the follow-up period. Annual average ambient PM2.5 concentrations were low (i.e. 5.9 μg/m³, s.d. 2.0) and each 10 μg/m³ increase in exposure was associated with an increase in non-accidental mortality (HR = 1.11; 95% CI 1.04–1.18). Adjustment for behavioural covariates did not materially change this relationship. We estimated a supra-linear concentration-response curve extending to concentrations below 2 μg/m³ using a shape constrained health impact function. Mortality risks associated with exposure to PM₂.₅ were increased for males, those under age 65, and non-immigrants. Hazard ratios for PM₂.₅ and mortality were attenuated when gaseous pollutants were included in models. Conclusions: Outdoor PM₂.₅ concentrations were associated with non-accidental mortality and adjusting for individual-level behavioural covariates did not materially change this relationship. The concentration-response curve was supra-linear with increased mortality risks extending to low outdoor PM₂.₅ concentrations.
A SCIENCE MANIFESTO: Why Is There No University Department for The Study of Time?
Creators: name: Doble, Rick
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 440199
subject: Anthropology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 440101
subject: Anthropology of development
classificationCode: 440105
subject: Linguistic anthropology
classificationCode: 440104
subject: Environmental anthropology
classificationCode: 440107
subject: Social and cultural anthropology

description: This manifesto goes into detail about why the 'Study of Time' has been ignored and what we should do to change that. Time is not just a fact of life; our understanding of time is shaped by our cultures and there are many different ways of thinking about and dealing with time. Time is a key element with climate change. If change happens slowly we can plan for it. If it happens quickly we will need to make rapid changes. Time is the most used noun in the English language, for example. Our lives from birth to death are ruled by time.
Flexible schemes and beyond: experimental enumeration of pattern avoidance classes
Creators: name: Biers-Ariel, Yonah
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: This thesis demonstrates several applications of experimental methods to the enumeration of pattern-avoiding permutations. First, we introduce flexible schemes -- a new extension of enumeration schemes. We show how a computer can find flexible schemes and use them to count permutations. We establish sufficient conditions for the existence of finite flexible schemes, and in particular show that they exist whenever finite enumeration schemes or regular insertion encodings do. Next, we combine enumeration schemes with structural arguments to give a new algorithm for counting 1342-avoiding permutations. We find a recurrence for the number of permutations avoiding four dashed patterns, and finally generalize Claude Lenormand's "raboter" sequence. We have implemented all the algorithms described here in Maple and provide links to the Maple code in each section.
Fast and slow rotators in the densest environments: a SWIFT IFS study of the Coma cluster
Creators: name: Houghton, R. C. W.
name: Davies, Roger L.
name: D'Eugenio, F.
name: Scott, N.
name: Thatte, N.
name: Clarke, F.
name: Tecza, M.
name: Salter, G. S.
name: Fogarty, L. M. R.
name: Goodsall, T.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present integral field spectroscopy of 27 galaxies in the Coma cluster observed with the Oxford Short Wavelength Integral Field specTrograph (SWIFT), exploring the kinematic morphology-density relationship in a cluster environment richer and denser than any in the ATLAS3D survey. Our new data enables comparison of the kinematic morphology relation in three very different clusters (Virgo, Coma and Abell 1689) as well as to the field/group environment. The Coma sample was selected to match the parent luminosity and ellipticity distributions of the early-type population within a radius 15 arcmin (0.43 Mpc) of the cluster centre, and is limited to r' = 16 mag (equivalent to MK = -21.5mag), sampling one third of that population. From analysis of the λ-ε diagram, we find 15 ± 6 per cent of early-type galaxies are slow rotators; this is identical to the fraction found in the field and the average fraction in the Virgo cluster, based on the ATLAS3D data. It is also identical to the average fraction found recently in Abell 1689 by D'Eugenio et al. Thus, it appears that the average slow rotator fraction of early-type galaxies remains remarkably constant across many different environments, spanning five orders of magnitude in galaxy number density. However, within each cluster the slow rotators are generally found in regions of higher projected density, possibly as a result of mass segregation by dynamical friction. These results provide firm constraints on the mechanisms that produce early-type galaxies: they must maintain a fixed ratio between the number of fast rotators and slow rotators while also allowing the total early-type fraction to increase in clusters relative to the field. A complete survey of Coma, sampling hundreds rather than tens of galaxies, could probe a more representative volume and provide significantly stronger constraints, particularly on how the slow rotator fraction varies at larger radii.
Enhancement of the photostability of blue phosphorescence using plasmonic surfaces
Creators: name: Gwynne, Kelsey
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: Organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) are used in flat panel displays such as televisions and cell phones. OLEDs have superior color purity, image quality, and flexibility, and less pixelation than traditional LCDs. OLEDs use fluorescent and/or phosphorescent materials in their emissive layer. Fluorescence emits from the singlet state, and can only emit up to 25% of the excitons. Phosphorescence can emit three times the amount of excitons as fluorescence due to its ability to emit from the singlet and triplet state, and therefore can emit 100% of the excitons, in theory. Although phosphorescence has greater efficiency than fluorescence, blue phosphorescent material is currently replaced in OLEDs with fluorescent material due to the instability of blue phosphorescent materials caused by triplet exciton quenching processes and chemicals. Various approaches have been developed to improve the stability of such phosphors including passivation, development of new organometallic molecules, and control of host-dopant composition in thin films. Here, we demonstrate an extrinsic approach to improving the photostability of blue organometallic phosphors that employs photoluminescence lifetime reductions caused by the local electric fields of plasmonic surfaces. We show that the decay rate of phosphorescence is increased on certain plasmonic surfaces, which improves the stability of a common blue organometallic phosphor. This approach is distinctive because it involves modification to the local electromagnetic environment of the phosphor rather than modifications to the phosphor molecular structure or to the emitting material composition. Future studies will further examine the Purcell Effect’s impact on blue phosphorescent materials using silver and gold discrete nanoparticles. More work should be done to confirm the mechanism increasing stability, and testing the blue organic phosphorescent material coated nanostructures in devices. For increased commercial and financial production feasibility, a large scale solution processing method should be created.
Chromatic alteration on marble surfaces analysed by molecular biology tools
Creators: name: Palla, Franco
name: Tartamella, Elena
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Storie e Metodi per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali (Di.S.Me.C.)
Year: 2007

description: The patina represents a superficial natural alteration of the constituting matter of the work of art. It emerges from the natural and usual stabilization process that the materials of the surface undergo because of the interaction with outdoor agents characterizing the surrounding environment. Besides, it is not linked to an obvious phenomenon of degradation that can be noticed through the change in the original colour of the matter. This is what we intend when we talk about biological patina usually generated by macro and/or micro-organic colonization (fungi, bacteria, alga) which contributes to surface bio-deterioration and thus lead to the formation of orange, red or even brown and dark pigmented areas. The presence of chromatic alterations (rose-coloured areas), as a consequence of bacterial colonization, was most particularly pointed out in different sites, such as in the marble slabs on the facades of both the Cathedral of Siena (Duomo di Siena) and the Certosa of Pavia. The present study shows an example of chromatic alteration of the surface of marble works due to bacterial colonization.
Setting up of a protocol of environmental research for the preservation and right exploitation of the cultural heritage
Creators: name: Barbaro, Salvatore
name: Caracausi, Rosario
name: Chaix, Bénédicte
name: Chisesi, Rosa Maria
name: Cognata, Gaetano
name: Lorusso, Lucia Cecilia
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Storie e Metodi per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali (Di.S.Me.C.)
Year: 2007

description: The research aims at collecting information on the state of preservation of the cultural heritage in Palermo, and deals more precisely with Vittorio Emanuele avenue, itself bounded by two city gates called Porta Felice (northern gate facing the Mediterranean sea) and Porta Nuova (southern gate) that both give access to the historic centre of the city. Another important purpose is the assessment of livability level, be it for workers, residents, cultural operators, or else visitors, with a particular interest in traffic noise. The research has been conducted by means of miscellaneous scientific duties; however we shall only refer here to two types of practice : the monitoring of environmental noise and the monitoring of the level of air aggressiveness through the study of thermo-hygrometric and chemical aspects. Whereas the Corrosion Classification Coupon was useful for the measurement of corrosive agents in outdoor locations, outdoor HOBO Pro sensors were used to report temperature and relative humidity. Hence it was possible to define the acoustic climate on the avenue surveying both geometrical data as well as traffic flow and characteristics.
Supplementary document for Simultaneous improvement of field-of-view and resolution in imaging optical system - 5115604.pdf
Creators: name: Zhu, Jun
name: Zhang, Benqi
name: Hou, Wei
name: Jin, Guofan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Detailed definition and description of field focal length (FFL) is provided.
A comparison of computer and human predictions of AFL
Creators: name: Clarke, Stephen
name: Clarke, R. C.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Swinburne Computer has been predicting match winners, margins, odds, and final ladder order since 1981. Although its predictions are published early in the week, before team selections are made, this paper shows the computer’s performance compares favourably with that of media experts and the public. This suggests that far from making predictive use of extra information, humans do not individually process correctly the publicly available information. Combining their forecasts may produce better predictions. Evidence suggests the computer’s predictions can be used to exploit market inefficiencies, not only early in the week when prices are first set, but also late in the week when prices have adjusted following team selections.
Technical and diagnostic investigation on some metallic objects coming from the Isiao Excavations at the site of Barikot (Swat, Pakistan)
Creators: name: Callieri, Pierfrancesco
name: Lorusso, Salvatore
name: Colliva, Lucio
name: Matteucci, Chiara
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Storie e Metodi per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali (Di.S.Me.C.)
Year: 2008

description: The authors introduce new studies on the metallurgic activity carried out in the archaeological site of
Barikot (Swat, Pakistan).
The collaboration between the IsIAO Italian Archaeological Mission in Pakistan and the Diagnostic
Laboratory of the Department of Storie e Metodi per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali of the Alma
Mater Studiorum University of Bologna allowed the achievement of new useful data that are quite
interesting even if the research is still at the beginning and needs further checks.
In particular some samples show traces of niobium. This element is fairly rare but, in some cases, is
present into the crystal net of cassiterite. In the samples, the traces of niobium are always correlated
with the presence of tin in the alloy. If these data will be confirmed, it’s going to be possible to
hypothesise that tin minerals used for the alloy of the object found at Barikot may come from mining
sites characterized by the presence of niobium.
Co(II) Based Magnetic Systems. Part I Spin Crossover Systems and Dendritic Frameworks. Part II Co(II) Single Molecule Magnets.
Creators: name: Farghal, Ahmed M. S.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Cobalt
Co(II)
Magnetism
single molecule magnet
spin crossover
magnetic anisotropy
dendrimers
click
bis(imino)pyridine
Farghal
Ahmed
spin orbit coupling
mononuclear
richeson
darrin
CCRI
University of Ottawa

description: This work comprises two main parts. The first part outlines our efforts to expand on the recent work of Gütlich et.al. by synthesizing Co(II) based spin crossover systems within a dendritic framework. We wanted to investigate the possibility of synthesizing different first generation, triazole containing dendrimers using “click” type reactions and their coordination ability with Co(II) ions. To this end we have had limited success mainly due to the numerous challenges in synthesizing a pure dendrimer product. The second part details our efforts in the synthesis of a mononuclear Co(II) based single molecule magnet. This comes as an extension to recent reports by Chang and Long where they have successfully obtained mononuclear Fe(II) single molecule magnets by inducing structural distortions within the complexes to amplify the spin-orbit coupling. We postulated that the use of Co(II) in conjunction with a bulky ligand framework would lead to desirable magnetic properties. We chose the known bis(imino)pyridine ligand scaffold due to its rich chemistry and its interesting and unexpected coordination behaviour, as we have seen in previous research efforts by our lab. To this end we were successful in isolating and characterizing 4 compounds, and we have carried out detailed magnetic measurements on the two most magnetically interesting species.
Rapidity and kT dependence of HBT correlations in Au+Au collisions at 200 GeV with PHOBOS
Creators: name: Holzman, B.
name: Back, B. B.
name: Baker, M. D.
name: Ballintijn, M.
name: Barton, D. S.
name: Betts, R. R.
name: Bickley, A. A.
name: Bindel, R.
name: Budzanowski, A.
name: Busza, W.
name: Carroll, A.
name: Decowski, M. P.
name: Garcia, E.
name: George, N.
name: Gulbrandsen, K.
name: Gushue, S.
name: Halliwell, C.
name: Hamblen, J.
name: Heintzelman, G. A.
name: Henderson, C.
name: Hofman, D. J.
name: Hollis, R. S.
name: Holynski, R.
name: Iordanova, A.
name: Johnson, E.
name: Kane, J. L.
name: Katzy, J.
name: Khan, N.
name: Kucewicz, W.
name: Kulinich, P.
name: Kuo, C. M.
name: Lin, W. T.
name: Manly, S.
name: McLeod, D.
name: Mignerey, A. C.
name: Nouicer, R.
name: Olszewski, A.
name: Pak, R.
name: Park, I. C.
name: Pernegger, H.
name: Reed, C.
name: Remsberg, L. P.
name: Reuter, M.
name: Roland, C.
name: Roland, G.
name: Rosenberg, L.
name: Sagerer, J.
name: Sarin, P.
name: Sawicki, P.
name: Skulski, W.
name: Steinberg, P.
name: Stephans, G. S. F.
name: Sukhanov, A.
name: Tang, J. L.
name: Tonjes, M. B.
name: Trzupek, A.
name: Vale, C.
name: Van Nieuwenhuizen, G. J.
name: Verdier, R.
name: Wolfs, F. L. H.
name: Wosiek, B.
name: Wozniak, K.
name: Wuosmaa, A. H.
name: Wyslouch, B.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Two-particle correlations of identical charged pion pairs from Au+Au collisions at sqrt[SNN]=200 GeV were measured by the PHOBOS experiment at RHIC. Data for the most central (0–15%) events were analysed with Bertsch–Pratt (BP) and Yano–Koonin–Podgoretskii (YKP) parametrizations using pairs with rapidities of 0.4 < y < 1.3 and transverse momenta 0.1 < kT < 1.4 GeV/c. The Bertsch–Pratt radii decrease as a function of pair transverse momentum. The pair rapidity Yππ roughly scales with the source rapidity YYKP, indicating strong dynamical correlations.
Phénoménologie sociologique du pouvoir interactionnel de l'apparence.
Creators: name: Rochefort, Luc.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Sociology, Theory and Methods.

description: Les rapports de pouvoir s'établissent-ils seulement au niveau du langage verbal? Cette recherche démontre que l'apparence corporelle peut dégager ell-aussi une quête de manipulation. Le cheminement de cet enjeu individuel et social au niveau de la sociologie du corps suit la relation savoir et pouvoir. D'Habermas à Sartre, de Lipovetsky à Pagès-Delon et ce jusqu'à Foucault, cette recherche définit un cadre phénoménologique et sociologique qui en permettra l'application à des niveaux du corps plus spécifiques. Le regard, le corps, l'apparence, le référent idéal social sont les concepts-clés menant au jeu des apparences, au capital-apparence et au pouvoir. La logique est simple: le regard permet un jugement de ce qui est visible, du corps d'autrui et de son apparence, entraînant ainsi l'entrée d'un capital-apparence portant au pouvoir et permettant la manipulation lors des interactions sociales.
The mean pulse profile of PSR J0737-3039A
Creators: name: Manchester, Richard N.
name: Kramer, Michael
name: Possenti, A.
name: Lyne, A. G.
name: Burgay, M.
name: Stairs, I. H.
name: Hotan, Aidan W.
name: McLaughlin, M. A.
name: Lorimer, D. R.
name: Hobbs, G. B.
name: Sarkissian, John M.
name: D'Amico, N.
name: Camilo, F.
name: Joshi, B. C.
name: Freire, P. C. C.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Abstract not available.
Bolaño en el camino: El viaje como búsqueda de identidad en Los detectives salvajes
Bolaño en el camino: El viaje como búsqueda de identidad en Los detectives salvajes
Bolaño en el camino: El viaje como búsqueda de identidad en Los detectives salvajes
Bolaño en el camino: El viaje como búsqueda de identidad en Los detectives salvajes
Creators: name: Herrera López, Gustavo Pierre; BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: Roberto Bolaño; journey; identity; Los detectives salvajes; posmodernism
Roberto Bolaño; viaje; identidad; Los detectives salvajes; posmodernismo

description: What are looking for the main characters of Los detectives salvajes by Roberto Bolaño in the desert? The following essay proposes a reading of travels in Bolaño’s work, as journeys on which there are a research of identity denied by the ruling culture; the journey to the desert are presented as the transition moment between the modern condition of the characters and the postmodern condition, and the traveler like the person who reads his life like a fiction.
description: ¿Qué buscan los personajes principales de Los detectives salvajes de Roberto Bolaño en el desierto? El presente ensayo propone una lectura de los viajes en la obra de Bolaño, en especial de la obra referida, como periplos en los que se busca una identidad negada por la cultura regente; presentando el viaje al desierto como el momento de transición entre la condición moderna de los personajes y la posmoderna, y al viajero como el lector que lee su vida como una ficción.
description: ¿Qué buscan los personajes principales de Los detectives salvajes de Roberto Bolaño en el desierto? El presente ensayo propone una lectura de los viajes en la obra de Bolaño, en especial de la obra referida, como periplos en los que se busca una identidad negada por la cultura regente; presentando el viaje al desierto como el momento de transición entre la condición moderna de los personajes y la posmoderna, y al viajero como el lector que lee su vida como una ficción.
description: ¿Qué buscan los personajes principales de Los detectives salvajes de Roberto Bolaño en el desierto? El presente ensayo propone una lectura de los viajes en la obra de Bolaño, en especial de la obra referida, como periplos en los que se busca una identidad negada por la cultura regente; presentando el viaje al desierto como el momento de transición entre la condición moderna de los personajes y la posmoderna, y al viajero como el lector que lee su vida como una ficción.