cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
L'analisi delle pasioni: note a «La Regenta» di Clarín
Creators: name: Rosso, Maria
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: «La Regenta» es el fruto de las reflexiones teóricas de Clarín sobre el naturalismo, en las que el escritor reconoce un único dogma: «copiar la vida» en sus complejas relaciones humanas y sociales. Movido por el propósito de presentar un «cuadro general» de la realidad, en su novela compone un amplio retablo y analiza las pasiones de los personajes en sus recíprocas presiones conflictivas, que llevan a una implacable lucha por la autoafirmación, siguiendo un instinto primordial de conquistar, dominar y devorar. Entre las estrategias compositivas del autor, adquiere una particular eficacia la focalización múltiple, que utiliza las miradas de los personajes como importante instrumento narrativo y, al mismo tiempo, las convierte en un motivo esencial de la acción. Destaca, además, el arte del retrato, que explota las convenciones codificadas de la fisiognómica, integrándolas con una gestualidad comunicativa, en la que puede vislumbrarse la influencia de «La expresión de las emociones» de Darwin.
description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, Vol 31 (2007)
3D Dense Separated Convolution Module for Volumetric Medical Image Analysis
Creators: name: Qu, Lei
name: Wu, Changfeng
name: Zou, Liang
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: With the thriving of deep learning, 3D convolutional neural networks have become a popular choice in volumetric image analysis due to their impressive 3D context mining ability. However, the 3D convolutional kernels will introduce a significant increase in the amount of trainable parameters. Considering the training data are often limited in biomedical tasks, a trade-off has to be made between model size and its representational power. To address this concern, in this paper, we propose a novel 3D Dense Separated Convolution (3D-DSC) module to replace the original 3D convolutional kernels. The 3D-DSC module is constructed by a series of densely connected 1D filters. The decomposition of 3D kernel into 1D filters reduces the risk of overfitting by removing the redundancy of 3D kernels in a topologically constrained manner, while providing the infrastructure for deepening the network. By further introducing nonlinear layers and dense connections between 1D filters, the network’s representational power can be significantly improved while maintaining a compact architecture. We demonstrate the superiority of 3D-DSC on volumetric medical image classification and segmentation, which are two challenging tasks often encountered in biomedical image computing.
Cañete e Campillo prologhisti (1850-1870)
Creators: name: Benvenuti, Anna
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: En la segunda mitad del siglo XIX la poesía española se encuentra en un momento de transición que se refleja en los prólogos de los volúmenes poéticos. Dos autores formados en el ambiente de la Escuela de Sevilla, Cañete y Campillo, expresan sus ideas sobre la poesía escribiendo prefacios para los jóvenes poetas, e intentan renovar la estética poética por medio de la asimilación de los ejemplos alemanes y la sugestión de la poesía popular. Por un lado, Cañete se da cuenta de la necesidad de una evolución de la poesía y alaba la brevedad y la sencillez de las composiciones modernas; Campillo, en cambio, sigue rechazando la evolución hacia el intimismo e intenta defender el patrimonio clásico de la escuela sevillana.
description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, Vol 31 (2007)
Visione spagnole delle filippine prima e dopo il 'desastre'
Creators: name: Minesso, Barbara
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: En tres siglos de colonización, las relaciones culturales entre España y Filipinas fueron escasas. Varios factores contribuyeron a popularizar lo filipino en la Península a partir de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. A esta época pertenecen los textos de Cañamaque y de Entrala, en abierta polémica el uno con el otro, que expresan posturas diferentes acerca del fenómeno colonial, así como percepciones opuestas con respecto a los filipinos y a la sociedad española de Manila. Después de 1898, los vínculos afectivos entre la ex madre patria y la antigua colonia no cesaron, como demuestra Julio Palacios, que vierte en su libro —también objeto de análisis— el orgullo de constatar la presencia de una importante y positiva herencia española en el archipiélago.
description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, Vol 31 (2007)
Aufkommen und Verwertung von Verpackungsabfällen in Deutschland im Jahr 2012
Creators: name: Schüler, Kurt
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Abfall
subject: Verpackungsabfall
subject: Verpackungsverbrauch
subject: Verpackungsabfallentsorgung
subject: Verwertungsquoten
subject: Abfallrecycling
subject: Abfallverbrennung
subject: Wertstofferfassung
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen
subject: Waste | Resources

description: Die Studie bestimmt die in Deutschland in Verkehr gebrachte Menge an Verpackungen (Verpackungsverbrauch) für die Materialgruppen Glas, Kunststoff, Papier, Aluminium, Weißblech, Verbunde, Sonstiger Stahl, Holz und Sonstige Packstoffe. Zur Verbrauchsberechnung wurden neben der in Deutschland eingesetzten Menge von Verpackungen auch die gefüllten Exporte und die gefüllten Importe ermittelt. Aus der in Verkehr gebrachten Menge von Verpackungen wurde die Menge der in Deutschland abfallrelevanten Verpackungsabfälle berechnet, da z.B. Mehrweg- und langlebige Verpackungen erst in Folgeperioden entsorgt werden. Zur Bestimmung der Verwertungsmengen und Verwertungswege wurden die vorliegenden Daten von Verbänden, der Entsorgungswirtschaft und der Umweltstatistik systematisch zusammengetragen und dokumentiert. Im Ergebnis wurden im Jahr 2012 16,59 Mio. t Verpackungen verbraucht und fielen als Abfall an. Gegenüber dem Bezugsjahr 2011 hat der Verpackungsverbrauch damit um 0,6 % zugenommen. Insgesamt wurden 15,98 Mio. t verwertet, davon 11,82 Mio. t stofflich und 4,16 Mio. t energetisch. Zusätzlich wurden 1,94 Mio. t aus dem Ausland importierte Verpackungsabfälle in Deutschland verwertet.
Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de

description: Die Studie bestimmt die in Deutschland in Verkehr gebrachte Menge an Verpackungen (Verpackungsverbrauch) für die Materialgruppen Glas, Kunststoff, Papier, Aluminium, Weißblech, Verbunde, Sonstiger Stahl, Holz und Sonstige Packstoffe. Zur Verbrauchsberechnung wurden neben der in Deutschland eingesetzten Menge von Verpackungen auch die gefüllten Exporte und die gefüllten Importe ermittelt. Aus der in Verkehr gebrachten Menge von Verpackungen wurde die Menge der in Deutschland abfallrelevanten Verpackungsabfälle berechnet, da z.B. Mehrweg- und langlebige Verpackungen erst in Folgeperioden entsorgt werden. Zur Bestimmung der Verwertungsmengen und Verwertungswege wurden die vorliegenden Daten von Verbänden, der Entsorgungswirtschaft und der Umweltstatistik systematisch zusammengetragen und dokumentiert. Im Ergebnis wurden im Jahr 2012 16,59 Mio. t Verpackungen verbraucht und fielen als Abfall an. Gegenüber dem Bezugsjahr 2011 hat der Verpackungsverbrauch damit um 0,6 % zugenommen. Insgesamt wurden 15,98 Mio. t verwertet, davon 11,82 Mio. t stofflich und 4,16 Mio. t energetisch. Zusätzlich wurden 1,94 Mio. t aus dem Ausland importierte Verpackungsabfälle in Deutschland verwertet.
«La peregrinación sabia» di Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo e «Il viaggio di saggezza» di Carlo Emilio Gadda: un dialogo a distanza
Creators: name: Cattaneo, Simone
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: El trabajo se propone analizar la traducción que Carlo Emilio Gadda hizo de la fábula «La peregrinación sabia» de Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo, sondeando cuáles pudieron ser las motivaciones que espolearon al escritor lombardo a asumir semejante tarea y cómo la llevó a cabo. «Il viaggio di saggezza» es un texto absolutamente barroco, fruto de un proceso traductivo extraordinario y muy personal, que destaca por su originalísimo y chispeante magma lingüístico no exento de algunos deslices interpretativos.
description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, Vol 31 (2007)
D4.3 - Interoperability of ITEEs in the context of eHealth systems
Creators: name: RISE Research Institutes Of Sweden AB
name: University Of Westminster
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This deliverable contains a framework of components and enablers to facilitate the development of applications that are portable across ITEEs from different vendors and effectively address the security needs specific to the context of eHealth systems. The framework is described through an open specification that facilitates further development of the framework.
Aproximación a Francisco de Avellaneda, dramaturgo olvidado del siglo XVII
Creators: name: Fausciana, Emily
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: L’articolo vuol richiamare attenzione su un drammaturgo minore del tardo barrocco, quasi completamente dimenticato. Francisco de Avellaneda fu un’importante personalità dell’epoca e un autor stimato tra i suoi contemporanei, sia a corte che nei 'corrales', soprattutto come 'ingenio' per il teatro breve, aspetto su cui, infatti, si è maggiormente concetrata la critica moderna. Continua ad esser limitato, invece, l’interesse suscitato dalle su 'comedias'; proprio a questa parte della produzione di Avellaneda si dedicherà particolare attenzione, nel tentativo di delinearne i contenuti e le caratteristiche principali.
description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, Vol 31 (2007)
Supplementary document for Gigahertz-Bandwidth Optical Memory in Pr$^{3+}$:Y$_2$SiO$_5$ - 5192458.pdf
Creators: name: Ledingham, Patrick
name: Nicolle, Martin
name: Becker, Jonas
name: Weinzetl, Christian
name: Walmsley, Ian
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Public reactions and perceptions associated with three neuro-degenerative diseases: Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and Multiple Sclerosis
Creators: name: Grouios, Angela
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Few studies to date have investigated how the public perceives neuro-degenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and Multiple Sclerosis. One example of a published study is by Moore (2006) who explored public beliefs of Parkinson’s disease and found stigma to be attached to people with this disease. Examples of other studies are by Werner and Davidson (2004), who examined the emotional reactions of the public toward a person with Alzheimer’s disease, and Werner (2005) who assessed social distance toward people with Alzheimer’s disease. The present study aimed to ascertain how emotional responses were associated with social distance toward people with Parkinson’s disease, and to compare the extent that emotional responses, social rejection and perceived stigma were associated with each of Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease and Multiple Sclerosis. A scale measuring perceived stigma based on the stigma theory by Jones and colleagues (1984) (cited in Joachim and Acorn, 2000) was developed for the purposes of the present study. The psychometric properties of this researcher-developed Perceived Stigma Scale were assessed. The role of personality in predicting the extent that individuals socially rejected and perceived stigma to be associated with people with the three diseases was also investigated. All data were collected via a questionnaire that assessed perceived stigma, emotional reactions, and social distance associated with the three diseases. Also included was a measure of the five-factor model of personality. Results of the responses of 165 participants indicated that in regards to people with Parkinson’s disease the Perceived Stigma Scale showed some limited evidence of factorial validity and substantial evidence of reliability and construct related validity. Both anxiety and anger emotional reactions were predictive of social distance toward people with Parkinson’s disease. Higher levels of negative emotions, social rejection and perceived stigma were associated with Alzheimer’s disease than with Parkinson’s disease or Multiple Sclerosis. Openness to Experience and Agreeableness were the most influential personality predictors of social distance and perceived stigma across the three diseases. It was concluded that the way people perceive and respond to persons with the three diseases, although more negative for Alzheimer’s, is influenced by personality, emotion and causal attributions.
Le Muse della rivolta: Arcadi e «Inconfidentes» nel Settecento brasiliano
Creators: name: Russo, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: O projecto poético da «Arcádia Ultramarina» é aquí lido através da metáfora da translatio studiorum que implica um deslocamento geo-simbólico das Musas dos lugares de origem (Grécia, Roma, Lisboa) para a região de Minas Gerais, nos finais do Século XVIII. A pesar de nascer como apêndice periférica das Académias arcádicas de Roma e de Lisboa, a «Arcádia Ultramarina» representa uma nova e original reconfiguração do codigo estético-literário arcádico europeu. Não é por acaso que o cânone da historiografia brasileira considerou que a produção poetíca de autores como Cláudio Manuel da Costa, Tomás Antônio Gonzaga e Inâcio José Alverenga Peixoto tem um estatuto fundador na formulação da literatura nacional enquanto construção identitária.
description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, Vol 31 (2007)
Equilibration of Minimum Viability and Innovation Culture in Information System Development Organisations
Creators: name: Kamburawala Kankanamge, Irani
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Minimum Viable Product
Minimum Viability
Innovation Culture
Paradox Theory
Information System Development

description: The proliferation of digital technologies provides extensive opportunities to introduce innovations in information system development (ISD) projects. Therein, ISD organisations gain a competitive advantage by attempting to introduce innovations to their software solutions continuously so that their clients can stay competitive. This is essential for the ISD organisation’s success in the current highly turbulent and competitive markets. Furthermore, ISD organisational culture is buoyant towards innovations, where there is a genuine interest within the ISD workforce, especially young and tech-savvy, to contribute to innovations. However, in the highly price-sensitive ISD context, ISD organisation must carefully manage their innovation ambitions with the cost of software development in mind. As such, in most ISD organisations, the foundations of the minimum viable product (MVP) are being employed in software development to minimise irrational cost expansion. The principles of minimum viable product run contradictory to the opportunities presented by digital technologies to foster innovations and the innate innovation culture purported at ISDs. This research draws upon paradox theory to explore the tensions between opposing priorities of the aforementioned concepts and provide a nuanced understanding of the complex dynamics between minimum viability and innovation culture. The study offers valuable insights to ISD organisations to drive continuous innovations in the face of tensions.
description: The study employs a qualitative research approach. The research design begins with a systematic literature review, which extracted the salient characteristics of the MVP and the innovation culture in ISD organisations. The outcomes of the literature review revealed a conceptual model to represent the relationship of MVP and innovation culture to the ISD project innovation. Focus group discussions with ISD industry experts were conducted to explore the tensions and tension origins in the ISD process. The results of the focus group discussions revealed a tentative tension origination process map, which presented nine tensions and four tension origins. Finally, an interpretive case study was conducted to examine the identified tensions further. The outcomes of the literature review, focus group discussions and the case study were combined to produce a detailed tension process map illustrating the tension type, occurrence, magnitude and timing of the tensions in the ISD process.
description: This study is the first attempt to investigate MVP and innovation culture tensions in the ISD process. The findings of this research have been acknowledged and accepted for presentation at international conferences.
Hurrah Revolutionaries and Polish Patriots: The Polish Communist Movement in Canada, 1918-1950
Creators: name: Polec, Patryk
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: labour radicalism
immigration
ethnic Polish
Polonia
Albert Morski
Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz
Polskie Towarzystwo Ludowe
Glos Pracy
Kronika Tygodniowa
Communist Party of Canada

description: This thesis constitutes the first full-length study of Polish Communists in Canada, a group that provided a substantial segment of the countries socialist left in the early 20th century. It traces the roots of socialist support in Poland, its transplantation to Canada, the challenges it faced within an ethnic community heavily influenced by Catholicism, the complications caused by its links to the Comintern, and its changing strength and decline. It offers a deeper understanding of the ways in which the Communist party was able to appeal to certain ethnic groups, such as through cultural outreach, as well as its complicated and often arguably counter-productive relationship with the Comintern. It also furnishes important information on the efforts of the RCMP and Polish consulates to maintain control over the communists, as well as how generally improved material conditions among Poles, especially following the Second World War, along with the influence of the Cold War, accounted for a rapid decline in support. The thesis is primarily based on sources generated by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs or, more precisely, by the Polish consulates in Winnipeg, Montreal and Ottawa. One the Canadian side, the thesis took advantage of RCMP records, Canadian security bulletins, immigration records and Polish-language newspapers printed in Canada. By utilizing these sources, this study not only analyses the interaction of the Polish Canadian communist movement with other segments of the Polish community in Canada, but it also moves beyond the introverted approach that has characterized most studies of ethnic organizations in Canada by placing the movement within a “Canadian” context to analyze its relations with the government, broader segments of Canadian society, and the Communist Party of Canada (CPC).
Juan Bautista Diamante, «Santa María Magdalena de Pazzi», edizione critica, studio introduttivo e commento di Paolo Pintacuda, Como-Pavia, Ibis, 2007, 248 pp.
Creators: name: Cassol, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, Vol 31 (2007)
Supplementary document for Gigahertz-Bandwidth Optical Memory in Pr$^{3+}$:Y$_2$SiO$_5$ - 5192458.pdf
Creators: name: Ledingham, Patrick
name: Nicolle, Martin
name: Becker, Jonas
name: Weinzetl, Christian
name: Walmsley, Ian
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Supplementary document for A Design Framework for Metasurface Optics-based Convolutional Neural Networks - 5192990.pdf
Creators: name: Vamivakas, Nickolas
name: Burgos, Carlos Mauricio Villegas
name: Zhu, Yuhao
name: Yang, Tianyi
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A Design Framework for Metasurface Optics-based Convolutional Neural Networks: Supplemental Document
Refractory Eating Disorders in Youth: An Examination of Predictors, Profiles and Growth Trajectories
Creators: name: Obeid, Nicole
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: eating disorders
refractory
youth

description: Eating disorders are known for their chronic and relapse-ridden course. The cyclical nature of these disorders poses not only grave physical and mental health risks for the sufferer; it also presents serious challenges for the treating professionals and places a high demand and cost on the health care system. In spite of extensive research, no reliable predictors of long-term EDs have been identified in either adult or adolescent populations, nor have treatments emerged that are specifically targeted towards treating those with a long-term ED. It is fundamental to understand who is at risk and what factors are involved in long-term EDs, as the clinical and treatment implications gleaned from this evidence could be quite impactful. The current project will include three studies that will explore long-term EDs in a large transdiagnostic sample of adolescents with an ED. It will also attempt to overcome methodological limitations associated with past studies of this type, and apply an operational definition of this course of illness that may provide a more reliable and valid method with which to identify these cases. As such, the use of the term refractory ED, defined as a return to same-type treatment, will be applied to best identify this group. The three studies proposed in this research project will provide long overdue information on predictors, profiles and growth trajectories of those adolescents who suffer from a refractory course of an ED. This research project attempts to answer the question of: who will be affected, and how will the individual be affected by a refractory ED. With the ability to identify these cases and how the course of illness is being affected, treatment approaches can better aim to provide the appropriate treatment to those individuals most at risk of suffering from a refractory course of illness.
Supplementary document for A Design Framework for Metasurface Optics-based Convolutional Neural Networks - 5192990.pdf
Creators: name: Vamivakas, Nickolas
name: Burgos, Carlos Mauricio Villegas
name: Zhu, Yuhao
name: Yang, Tianyi
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A Design Framework for Metasurface Optics-based Convolutional Neural Networks: Supplemental Document
Exploring healthcare professionals’ perceptions of artificial intelligence technology in the delivery of healthcare
Creators: name: Shinners, Lucy
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Health care
Healthcare education
Artificial intelligence

description: Artificial intelligence (AI) is perhaps the great generational promise for healthcare, given that it offers a means to improve and renew healthcare. The advantage of AI lies in its ability to distil the rich, inherent knowledge that is embedded in natural datasets into timely and practical outcomes. Although its influence on the healthcare industry is yet unknown, AI can redefine the role of the healthcare professional, change standards of practice and remodel frameworks of care. Despite the world’s exponential growth in data, information tooling and computing power, little is known about how healthcare professionals perceive and understand AI. However, these insights are critical because they will help organisations better understand the human–technology relationship and prepare the workforce for AI’s implementation into the delivery of healthcare.
description: This thesis aimed to explore how healthcare professionals perceive AI in the delivery of healthcare. A pragmatic approach supported by socio-technical systems theory guided its process of inquiry. An integrative review further revealed that scant research has explored this topic, and that no existing tools can reliably measure healthcare professionals’ perception of AI. Therefore, the e-Delphi technique was implemented to develop a tool and psychometrically test it with 252 healthcare professionals. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the 10-item tool was valid and reliable, and that it measured two perceptions: AI’s influence on the professional role, and preparedness for AI. A final cross-sectional multi-site study was conducted to identify how healthcare professionals perceive AI in healthcare. The study found that professional discipline, age, desire for education and AI use significantly affected AI perceptions; however, it also found that healthcare professionals overall believed that AI would affect their role and that they did not feel prepared for its use. This study demonstrated that understandings of AI are diverse and that workforce knowledge is considered the greatest barrier to implementation. Finally, it was found that healthcare professionals seek education about AI, including its application and ethical implications in the delivery of care.
description: The findings of this thesis ultimately highlight the urgent need to educate and prepare the workforce in regard to AI, or the value of AI technology will be undermined, its implementation will be difficult and a crucial opportunity to engage healthcare professionals in its development and implementation will be lost.
The Green Bank Northern Celestial Cap Pulsar Survey. II. the discovery and timing of 10 pulsars
Creators: name: Kawash, A. M.
name: McLaughlin, M. A.
name: Dobie, Dougal
name: Decesar, M. E.
name: Levin, L.
name: Lorimer, D. R.
name: Lynch, R. S.
name: Stovall, K.
name: Swiggum, J. K.
name: Fonseca, E.
name: Archibald, A. M.
name: Banaszak, S.
name: Biwer, C. M.
name: Boyles, J.
name: Cui, B.
name: Dartez, L. P.
name: Day, D.
name: Ernst, S.
name: Ford, A. J.
name: Flanigan, J.
name: Heatherly, S. A.
name: Hessels, J. W. T.
name: Hinojosa, J.
name: Jenet, F. A.
name: Karako-Argaman, C.
name: Kaspi, V. M.
name: Kondratiev, V. I.
name: Leake, S.
name: Lunsford, G.
name: Martinez, J. G.
name: Mata, A.
name: Matheny, T. D.
name: McEwen, A. E.
name: Mingyar, M. G.
name: Orsini, A. L.
name: Ransom, S. M.
name: Roberts, M. S. E.
name: Rohr, M. D.
name: Siemens, X.
name: Spiewak, R.
name: Stairs, I. H.
name: Leeuwen, J. Van
name: Walker, A. N.
name: Wells, B. L.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present timing solutions for 10 pulsars discovered in 350 MHz searches with the Green Bank Telescope. Nine of these were discovered in the Green Bank Northern Celestial Cap survey and one was discovered by students in the Pulsar Search Collaboratory program during an analysis of drift-scan data. Following the discovery and confirmation with the Green Bank Telescope, timing has yielded phase-connected solutions with high-precision measurements of rotational and astrometric parameters. Eight of the pulsars are slow and isolated, including PSR J0930-2301, a pulsar with a nulling fraction lower limit of ∼30% and a nulling timescale of seconds to minutes. This pulsar also shows evidence of mode changing. The remaining two pulsars have undergone recycling, accreting material from binary companions, resulting in higher spin frequencies. PSR J0557-2948 is an isolated, 44 ms pulsar that has been partially recycled and is likely a former member of a binary system that was disrupted by a second supernova. The paucity of such so-called "disrupted binary pulsars" (DRPs) compared to double neutron star (DNS) binaries can be used to test current evolutionary scenarios, especially the kicks imparted on the neutron stars in the second supernova. There is some evidence that DRPs have larger space velocities, which could explain their small numbers. PSR J1806+2819 is a 15 ms pulsar in a 44-day orbit with a low-mass white dwarf companion. We did not detect the companion in archival optical data, indicating that it must be older than 1200 Myr.
Preventable Deaths at Acute Care Hospitals
Creators: name: Kobewka, Daniel
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Patient safety
Adverse events
mortality rates

description: Background Previous measurements of preventable death in hospital do not account for the uncertainty of preventability ratings. Objective To determine the proportion of deaths in hospital that a have high probability of being prevented with high quality care. Methods We created summaries for every death at a tertiary care hospital over 4-months. Four reviewers assigned preventability ratings to each death and latent class analysis was used to classify deaths into high and low preventability categories. Results There were 480 decedents with mean age of 73.9. Inter-rater reliability was poor with an intra-class correlation of 0.14. The best latent class model found that 6.2% (95% CI 0.00 – 15.2%) of deaths had a 31.0% probability of being rated more likely preventable than not by each reviewer. In contrast, 93.8% (95% CI 84.8 - 100.0%) of deaths had a 0.8% probability of being rated more likely preventable than not by each reviewer. The incidence of truly preventable deaths is less than the 6.2% that are deemed possibly preventable. xi Conclusion Very few deaths in hospital are preventable. The low incidence of preventable deaths and low inter-rater reliability means that peer review methodology is only sensitive to large differences in preventable death rate.
Robin test for the implementation of odour measurements according to DIN ISO 16000-28 into the assessment of emissions from building products
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013

description: Odour measurements become increasingly important in view of the assessment of indoor air quality and the emissions of building products. Hence they need to be implemented into evaluation schemes such as the AgBB scheme. While there are already standards like DIN ISO 16000-28 and VDI 4302 Part 1 specifying the procedure of odour measurements using a comparison scale, no final validation of the method has been carried out so far. Therefore, a round robin test was conducted in 2012 with 12 participating laboratories that mainly consisted of the following two parts: 1) testing of the available comparison scales with respect to their operational performance and 2) execution of an odour assessment of an acrylic sealant using emission test chambers. Part one included the measurement of the air flow rates and the provided concentrations of the reference substance (acetone). Part two was conducted to test the performance of the laboratories and the applicability of DIN ISO 16000-28 and supplementary VDI 4302 Part 1 by assessing the perceived intensity and the hedonic tone of the air samples. Moreover, samples for VOC analysis were taken from the air in the emission test chamber on the 7th day of testing to allow for quality control. Resulting from this round robin test main deficits were detected and suggestions for the improvement of the odour measurement procedure were made.Quelle: Gefahrstoffe - Reinhaltung der Luft, 73(2013)10, S. 441-445
Stimulant safe supply: a potential opportunity to respond to the overdose epidemic
Creators: name: Fleming, Taylor
name: Barker, Allison
name: Ivsins, Andrew
name: Vakharia, Sheila
name: McNeil, Ryan, 1982-
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: Occurring against the backdrop of an overdose crisis, stimulant use and stimulant-involved deaths in North America are increasing at an alarming rate. Many of these deaths are being attributed to fentanyl and related analogs, which have been increasingly found within street-level stimulant supplies. Within this, people experiencing socio-economic marginalization are at the greatest risk of overdose and other harms from adulterated stimulants. Current treatments for stimulant use disorder have limited effectiveness, and even less applicability to the lived realities of marginalized stimulant users. Emerging technologies, such as drug checking, are being implemented to support safer stimulant use, but the accessibility and utility of these technologies to stimulant users are framed by experiences of vulnerability that render them largely ineffective. Stimulant safe supply: Solutions that provide a legal and safe supply of non-adulterated stimulants of known quality, and within a health care framework, are needed to directly address the risk of an increasingly adulterated stimulant supply. Similar innovative opioid-focused interventions are being piloted with medications that have a similar pharmacological effect as their illicit counterparts. While there are currently no approved pharmacotherapies for stimulant use, research has demonstrated a number of stimulant medications that are promising substitutes for cocaine and methamphetamine use. Much like with opioid-focused pharmacotherapies, having a consistent and safe supply of stimulants can lead to improved health outcomes and will drastically reduce overdose risk. However, for a stimulant safe supply intervention to be a success, it must provide the high and performance-enhancing effects that people seek from the illicit market, which requires doses and user agency that trials to date have not provided. Conclusion: Efforts are needed to investigate the feasibility of pharmacological stimulant-based interventions that address safe supply needs. The promise of similar opioid-focused approaches in addressing both overdose-related risks and experiences related to vulnerability underscores the need to advance safe supply approaches targeted towards people who use stimulants. Given the current overdose crisis and rising stimulant use across North America, the implementation and evaluation of such novel stimulant-focused interventions should be a public health priority.
The Role of Formins in Endothelial Adherens Junction Regulation
Creators: name: Mumal, Iqra
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: formins
endothelium
VE-cadherin
permeability
adherens junctions
FHOD3
FMNL2

description: Adherens junctions are cadherin-dependent structures that mediate intercellular signaling and structural integrity of the endothelial barrier. Formins are a highly conserved family of cytoskeletal remodeling proteins whose activity has been implicated in regulating adherens junction formation in other cell-types. Therefore, we tested the hypothesis that formin activity is essential for adherens junction assembly in endothelial cells. A small-molecule formin inhibitor (smiFH2) was used to determine the effect of formin inhibition on junction formation using an in vitro vascular permeability assay. We determined that smiFH2 treatment caused a dose-dependent inhibition of junction formation. We used siRNAs to knockdown expression of the seven formins shown to be expressed in TIME cells and determined that individual knockdown of FHOD1, FHOD3 and Dia1 significantly increased the permeability of the endothelial monolayer. Interestingly, FMNL2 knockdown actually potentiated barrier function. Knockdown of the remaining formins had little or no effect on junction formation. Knockdown of FHOD3 had the greatest inhibitory effect on junction assembly; VE-cadherin protein levels were decreased in FHOD3-depleted cells. The FHOD3 knockdown cells were also elongated in comparison to controls and formed thin linear adherens junctions and few focal adherens junctions. In contrast, the morphology of FMNL2-depleted cells did not appear obviously different from controls. In conclusion, our results suggest that multiple formins play diverse roles in adherens junction formation and maintenance in endothelial cells.
Supplementary document for Optomechanical engineering of quasi-continuous-wave background in mode-locked fiber laser - 5193129.pdf
Creators: name: Lee, Kisang
name: Han, Dae Seok
name: Ha, Chang Kyun
name: Moon, Kyoung Jun
name: Kang, Myeongsoo
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: More transparent versions of Figs. 4(i)-4(l) and Figs. 5(i)-5(l)
Antonio Buero Vallejo, «Il sonno della ragione», traduzione di M. L. Aguirre d'Amico, introduzion di M. Cattaneo, Milano, Mimesis, 2007, 134 pp.; «Las meninas», traduzione e introduzione di M. Pannarale, Milano, Mimesis, 2007, 176 pp.
Creators: name: Profeti, Maria Grazia
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, Vol 31 (2007)
Regelwerke made in Brüssel
Creators: name: Schuberth, Jens
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014

description: Ende September letzten Jahres sind vier EU-Verordnungen in Kraft getreten, die Raumheizgeräte, Warmwasserbereiter, Speicher und solarthermische Anlagen sowie deren Kombinationen betreffen. Zwei Jahre später, am 26.September 2015, werden die ersten Anforderungen wirksam: Ökodesign-Anforderungen regeln das Inverkehrbringen. Effizienzklassen und Energieverbrauchskennzeichnungen sollen Kunden informieren. Die Zeit, um sich auf diese Änderungen vorzubereiten, läuft. Zumal weitere Regelungen in Arbeit sind. Quelle: http://www.ikz.de
De reescrituras y obsesiones. «La cicatriz» y «La voz de Mallick» (1981), de Pedro Casariego Córdoba
Creators: name: Díaz Rosales, Raúl
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: En este trabajo se presenta una breve introducción a la recepción de la obra de Pedro Casariego Córdoba, así como a sus coordenadas estéticas, donde se establece su legado literario como una obsesión de ciertos elementos que vertebran su escritura. En el análisis del libro de poemas «La voz de Mallick» y la obra de teatro «La cicatriz» (de 1981 ambas), se constatará este hecho, al ser ambas creaciones dos visiones de un mismo tema: la liberación del condenado a través del amor.

This paper focuses on the reception of Pedro Casariego Córdoba’s work, including his aesthetic coordinates, where he establishes his literary legacy as well as the obsession about some elements that build his writings. In the analysis of the poem 'La voz de Mallick' and the play 'La cicatriz' (both written in 1981), this fact will be proved, being these two creations visions of the same theme: the convicted’s liberation with the help of love.
description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, Vol 1 (2011)
La coopération policière aux frontières canado-américaines: les enjeux démocratiques
Creators: name: Aubé-Vaillant, Marilène
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Police
Sécurité nationale
coopération policière
principes de bonne gouvernance
frontières
imputabilité policière

description: La présente thèse étudie la capacité du Parlement à garantir les principes de la bonne gouvernance à travers l’adoption de lois augmentant les contrôles sécuritaires et les pouvoirs policiers. Pour ce faire, l’analyse des débats parlementaires lors de l’adoption de la loi Shiprider, insérée dans le projet de loi S-13 et ensuite incluse dans le projet de loi C-38, est utilisée. Le but est d’analyser les interventions des parlementaires canadiens en ce qui a trait aux protections des droits et libertés des citoyens à travers des mécanismes adéquats d’imputabilité policière, en lien avec les nouveaux pouvoirs policiers octroyés par cette loi, qui porte sur la coopération policière aux frontières maritimes canado-américaines. Ce projet de recherche examine également les enjeux politiques et pratiques liés à la coopération policière interinstitutionnelle entre le Canada et les États-Unis en tenant compte de la réciprocité d’opération entre les deux pays.
Machine Learning and Applications: An International Journal (MLAIJ)
Creators: name: MLAIJ
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: INVITE TO SUBMIT YOUR ARTICLES...!!! MACHINE LEARNING AND APPLICATIONS: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL (MLAIJ)
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Supplementary document for Optomechanical engineering of quasi-continuous-wave background in mode-locked fiber laser - 5193129.pdf
Creators: name: Lee, Kisang
name: Han, Dae Seok
name: Ha, Chang Kyun
name: Moon, Kyoung Jun
name: Kang, Myeongsoo
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: More transparent versions of Figs. 4(i)-4(l) and Figs. 5(i)-5(l)
Data requirements and available data sources
Creators: name: Comerio, Marco
name: Azzini, Antonia
name: Scrocca, Mario
name: Fiano, Andrea
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Data requirements
data sources
data interoperability
metadata
data harmonization

description: The gathering of data sources is a fundamental activity to enable the development and testing of the TANGENT services for multimodal transport network management in the Athens, Lisbon, Manchester, and Rennes case studies.This deliverable provides a list of data requirements for the TANGENT services extracted from the specification of the TANGENT services and case studies reported in D1.2 “NTM needs assessment and system requirements”, and from the specification of the components that are under development by the WP3-6 of the project.Moreover, this deliverable provides the current list of available data sources to fulfil the identified data requirements. The list has been defined through (i) the creation of data catalogues for the case studies with the involvement of the TANGENT case study leaders, (ii) the usage of the catalogues to identify the data sources that fulfil the data requirements, and (iii) refinement and validation of the mappings between data requirements and the data sources with the project partners.Finally, this deliverable describes the analysis of the selected data sources with a particular focus on the following aspects to be managed in the next steps of the project:- current gaps in fulfilling the data requirements;- accessibility of data and licensing issues;- data interoperability issues to be addressed by the TANGENT project through developing the WP2 solution for data harmonization and fusion.
Priority queuing of network game traffic over a DOCSIS Cable Modem link
Creators: name: But, Jason
name: Burriss, Shaun
name: Armitage, Grenville
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Despite the greater bandwidth available for home Internet users, network problems continue to surface with regard to the mix of network applications being run. The ease in which Internet sharing can be configured, coupled with the increase in the number of computers present in consumer residences, increase the likelihood that concurrent network applications will have to compete for access to a limited bandwidth resource. The performance of applications such as network games and VoIP is heavily dependent on transmission delays and packet loss rates, which can be improved through priority queuing at the Internet Access device to minimise the impact of queuing delay. In this paper we compare the performance of both regular TCP traffic and network game traffic competing for Internet bandwidth on a DOCSIS Cable Modem link to quantify the performance gain and loss of both applications in an environment where priority queuing is enabled for game traffic. Our results show that the decrease in queuing delay and packet loss rate experienced by game flows is significant in the case of prioritised queuing while the un-prioritised TCP flows experience a slight drop in network performance.
Supplementary document for Parametrically resonant surface plasmon polaritons - 5193158.pdf
Creators: name: Fardad, Shima
name: Lialys, Justinas
name: Lialys, Laurynas
name: Salandrino, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Il metodo orlandiano come strumento per interpretare controversie comparativiste: il caso di Griboedov e Molière
Creators: name: Cioni, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: L’articolo, nato nel 2009 sotto la supervisione del prof. Francesco Orlando, ha come scopo di mostrare come il metodo orlandiano, o meglio alcune sue parti (soprattutto il concetto di ritorno del represso nella sfera dei contenuti) possano nella pratica dell’analisi letteraria essere strumento prezioso per risolvere complesse diatribe interpretative, anche non immediatamente legate a letture di tipo freudiano dei testi. Nella fattispecie, l’articolo mostra come il lungo dibattito attorno al legame tra la commedia di Griboedov L’ingegno che guaio e la sua lontana antenata francese, il celeberrimo Misantropo di Molière, possa essere visto in una nuova luce analizzando il rapporto repressione sociale-represso che vigeva nelle società che partorirono questi testi, e prescindendo dunque dal corto circuito causato dall’eccessiva insistenza sulla parallelenjägerei testuale a favore di una visione più globale (e, soprattutto, sociale) delle due pièce.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 4 (2011)
Narrative closure and the functionalist approach to narrative. Dialogue with Eyal Segal
Creators: name: Passalacqua, Franco
name: Pianzola, Federico
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Eyal Segal argues for a functionalist approach to narrative studies. Commenting on his work on «narrative closure», he provides examples that show that the comprehension of texts’ endings is enriched by rhetorical analysis and inevitably misguided by mimetic approaches.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 4 (2011)
Supplementary document for Parametrically resonant surface plasmon polaritons - 5193158.pdf
Creators: name: Fardad, Shima
name: Lialys, Justinas
name: Lialys, Laurynas
name: Salandrino, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Multicultural citizenship or citizenship in a multicultural polity .
Creators: name: Bennett, Fred.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: Citizenship in liberal democracies has, until recently, been theorized as conferring equal legal status on all citizens irrespective of their race, religion, ethnicity, culture or language. While much discrimination and unequal treatment existed in practice, the theory was that all citizens should be treated equally, exactly the same, regardless of their individual characteristics; the state should be neutral in dealing with its citizens. In recent years, political theorists such as Charles Taylor, Will Kymlicka, Yael Tamir, J. Raz, Iris Marion Young, and Anne Phillips have challenged both the practice and theory of the traditional view of citizenship. They argue that state neutrality has not been the case in actual practice; states discriminate in favour of dominant cultures. Furthermore the say such neutrality is, for a variety of reasons, impossible They also argue that it is not desirable even in theory. An individual's culture is essential to their being and deserves to be positively recognized by the state. This thesis argues that, while there are problems with the traditional view of a difference-blind citizenship and the idea of the neutral state, the philosophical arguments put forward by the critics are untenable. These arguments, and the political policies their implementation would entail, pose insurmountable problems for democratic deliberation and fail to take account of possible empirical results. The traditional view of citizenship and state neutrality can be rethought and implemented in what is called "the indifferent state"---a state which, while indifferent to its citizens' culture, religion etc., is not indifferent to the impact that these may have on the instantiation of such traditional liberal political values as equality and autonomy. The thesis concludes with three case studies which illustrate the differences in approach between the traditional view of citizenship, the view of the critics, and that of the indifferent state.