cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A nested PCR for the detection of CMV in blood mononuclear cells from HIV infected patients.
Creators: name: Rudnik, James.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.

description: The Human Cytomegalovirus, a member of the Herpesvirus family, is a relatively non-pathogenic virus except in those individuals whose immune systems have not fully developed (newborns) or are immunosuppressed (transplant patients) or immunodeficient (individuals with AIDS). A rapid test to detect the virus in clinical samples is needed in order to assess the status of an HCMV infection and to monitor the virus in an individual over time. Faced with the alternative detection systems such as viral culture, immunofluorescence assays and DNA probing the polymerase chain reaction is an attractive choice because of its rapidity and unrivalled sensitivity. Nested polymerase chain reaction for HCMV was used in the present work in order to determine how useful it is in the detection of the virus in peripheral blood samples. Two nested assays were evaluated and optimized using blood samples from HIV-1 seronegative blood donors, HIV-1 seropositive asymptomatic individuals and individuals with AIDS. The results show that the assay is rapid, sensitive and specific. Furthermore, the virus was readily detectable by PCR in individuals with AIDS while it is infrequently found in the other two groups. Finally, the PCR results were positive at 14 and 7 months, respectively, in two individuals with AIDS prior to the development of overt HCMV mediated disease suggesting that PCR is a useful monitoring tool in individuals at high risk for HCMV disease. PCR has many applications in basic and applied research and potentially in the detection of infectious diseases. The results here suggest that its use may help to predict who may and may not develop the potentially sight and life-threatening diseases caused by HCMV.
title: APPAREL SIZING AND FIT FOR GIRLS
title: VARIATION OF SELECT COMPANIES, AND PARENT OPINIONS
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Sowah, Peggy Ashia
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: FOS: Social sciences

description: The act of shopping for girl's clothes is a delight of most parents. It ignites the pleasure of being a parent. However, many parents and their girls have experienced the frustration of inconsistent sizing and fit of their girl's clothes across brands. The purpose of this study was to understand the sizing and fit problems of girls ages 7-12 and to evaluate how brands utilize the current sizing standards. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from a population of 150 (N=150) female parents. A survey was administered to help gain a better understanding and assess parent opinion of sizing and fitting problems for girls age 7-12 when shopping for jeans. Laboratory measurement was taken from 12 jeans samples brands category. This study compares and contrasts the sizing and fit of the four popular brands of girl's jeans boot cut groups: Children's Place, Gap, Levi's, and Old Navy. The study also evaluates the published ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) standard of the body dimensions of girls wearing the size 12 and compares the measurements to the online size chart. In addition, an examination and the evaluation of the study were to measure the physical jeans in various locations to assess if it conforms to the ASTM standard (ASTM chart) and to discover any variations of the same size 12 jeans to determine any fit and sizing issues.
description: ©  2020 Ashia Sowah
description: Funding Information:
John I. and Patricia J. Buster Fellowship Award for the 2019 fall semester
Immagini del libro tra tardo Medioevo e contemporaneità
Creators: name: Cadioli, Alberto
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2012

description: Il saggio si interroga sul rapporto tra immagine di libro e lettura, muovendo dalla constatazione che solo la trasformazione dei lettori in ambito umanistico (con il rifiuto della glossa) ha cambiato l’idea del libro diffusa nel Medioevo. Il nuovo disegno della pagina, di maggiore ordine e leggibilità, si è consolidato nei secoli, e la nuova immagine di libro è rimasta immutata, nonostante le innovazioni, nell’editoria moderna. Solo l’avvento delle nuove tecnologie digitali ha suggerito una nuova immagine, che, tuttavia, non è ancora né pienamente definita né ben consolidata; alle posizioni di chi ha individuato il libro nuovo nella forma dell’ipertesto (letto anche sui vecchi pc), il saggio affianca le riflessioni di chi cerca l’immagine nuova nell’e-book letto su un e-reader, sottolineando tuttavia che si è solo agli inizi di una lunga trasformazione.

 This essay concerns the relationship between the image of the book and how it reads. It begins from the observation that only the change of the readers during the humanistic age has transformed the widespread perception of the book in the Middle Ages. The new layout of the page, neater and more readable, became well established in the following centuries, and that image of the book in the modern publishing industry has remained unchanged, in spite of innovations. New digital technologies have proposed a new image, that however is neither clearly defined nor well established. The essay underlines the observations of those who believe that the hypertext form is the new book, even readable on the old pc, and the observations of those that think of e-book as a new image, that can be read only on the e-reader. The essay ends with the idea that we are at the beginning of a long change.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 11 (2012): Dopo la carta, dopo la pergamena
Perinatal anxiety as a factor in maternal bonding and postnatal depressive symptomatology among mothers of full-term and premature infants
Creators: name: Bell, Michele
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis investigated the theoretical evidence that maternal anxiety evident in mothers of premature and full-term infants postpartum may not be abnormal as implied in current research. Drawing on Winnicott's (1956) theoretical framework this thesis empirically tested data drawn from 260 participants and argued that the prevailing view that motherhood should be free of anxiety is likely to be misleading when investigating the mechanisms that lead to the onset of postpartum depression. It was concluded that following the birth of an infant, maternal wellbeing should be understood within an attachment framework that normalises maternal anxiety which will aid in a clearer understanding of not only the impact prematurity has on a mother's ability to bond to her infant but also the mechanisms that lead to depression.
Zinc/bromine battery electrolytes: Electrochemical, physicochemical and spectroscopic studies.
Creators: name: Pell, Wendy.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Chemical.

description: The zinc/bromine battery is a flowing electrolyte battery operating at ambient temperatures, and having both stationary and mobile applications. It is characterized by a flat voltage discharge profile, can be deeply discharged without adverse effects, and is made from low cost materials which can be recycled at the end of the battery's life. The electrochemically active materials are stored externally to the electrode assembly in two reservoirs, and are pumped to the electrodes during operation. The electrolyte typically includes aqueous zinc bromide and quaternary ammonium salts, such as methyl ethyl pyrrolidinium bromide (MEPBr) and methyl ethyl morpholinium bromide (MEMBr) which complex bromine and reduce self-discharge losses. Modification of the low temperature behaviour of the usual electrolyte, which freezes between $-$5 and 5$\sp\circ$C, is required if the battery is to perform successfully at low temperatures. This project identified electrochemical and physical chemical techniques to study zinc deposition and bromine production at glassy carbon electrodes as a method to gain quantitative and qualitative information from the electrolyte system. Electrochemical response, chemical species distribution, conductivity and phase change data were obtained for battery electrolytes at low temperatures and used to identify candidate electrolytes for low temperature applications. The effect of the quaternary ammonium bromide salt on zinc species distribution and zinc deposition has not previously been studied. Spectroscopic and electrochemical studies indicated that the distribution of zinc/bromine complexes in solutions, and zinc deposition at glassy carbon were unaffected by the addition of quaternary ammonium bromides. The distribution of zinc/bromine complexes was significantly affected by temperature and state-of-charge or concentration of the electrolyte. Several organic compounds, including propan-2-ol, ethylene dichloride, propylene glycol and ethylene glycol, were evaluated as additives to the aqueous electrolyte for low temperature applications using techniques of cyclic voltammetry, chronoamperometry, conductivity, and freezing point determination. Ethylene glycol was also selected on the basis of electrochemical and physical chemical data, to be tested in the single cell battery. Due to reduced conductivity of the electrolyte (higher solution resistance in the battery), the voltaic and energy efficiencies were expected to be lower than those of a standard electrolyte battery. Electrochemical experiments showed that neither bromide oxidation nor zinc cation reduction reactions were significantly affected by the presence of ethylene glycol. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Daten zur Umwelt 2015
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Klima
subject: Boden
subject: Landwirtschaft
subject: Abfall
subject: Nachhaltigkeit
subject: Das UBA
subject: Daten
subject: Umweltstatistik
subject: Umweltzustand
subject: Umweltzustandsbericht
subject: Daten zur Umwelt
subject: Umweltdaten Deutschland
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales
subject: Climate | Energy
subject: Waste | Resources
subject: Sustainability | Strategies | International matters
subject: Boden | Fläche
subject: Soil | Land
subject: Landwirtschaft

description: Umweltpolitik braucht einen langen Atem, nicht nur beimKlimaschutz. Auch in der Luftreinhaltung oder beim Gewässerschutz zeigt sich: In vielen Bereichen sinken zwar die schädlichen Einträge in die Umwelt. Dies ist aber kein Grund zur Entwarnung. So sind beispielsweise nur zehn Prozent der Flüsse und Bäche und nur rund ein Prozent der untersuchten Abschnitte an Nord- und Ostseeküste in einem guten ökologischen Zustand. Grund ist vor allem die immer noch zu hohe Nährstoffbelastung.
Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de

description: Umweltpolitik braucht einen langen Atem, nicht nur beim ⁠Klimaschutz⁠. Auch in der Luftreinhaltung oder beim Gewässerschutz zeigt sich: In vielen Bereichen sinken zwar die schädlichen Einträge in die Umwelt. Dies ist aber kein Grund zur Entwarnung. So sind beispielsweise nur zehn Prozent der Flüsse und Bäche und nur rund ein Prozent der untersuchten Abschnitte an Nord- und Ostseeküste in einem guten ökologischen Zustand. Grund ist vor allem die immer noch zu hohe Nährstoffbelastung.
Creativity and/as writing
Creators: name: Arnold, Josie
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper arises from supervising PhD candidates in creative writing. It refers to the PhD Training Hub constructed by myself and my colleague at Swinburne University of Technology. It aims to encourage creative PhDs, particularly by the artefact and exegesis model. It focuses on the research question of how to encourage and understand the creativity that underpins all forms of writing. It utilises postmodernist theories about textuality to advance thinking about how creative discourse adds to knowledge in the academy. It encourages the practise of linear analytico-referential knowledge being overtaken by lateral postmodernist discourse. The conceptual framework involves Gregory Ulmer's 'mystory' and the pastiche of the dispersal of certainties in considering the practice of writing. Even as we see the fragility of language, we also see its robustness as a tool for experiments, for communication, for disruption as it works towards a new definition that is always under erasure. Experimentation means pushing against the limits, extending the boundaries, seeing beyond what is and was to what might be. The paper encourages the questioning of metanarratives, showing how they both arise from and result in arid cultural conformity. It looks at some of the many elements to creative capacities being developed, nurtured and coming into their full potential. It opens up discourse about where a text comes from in the creative act of overcoming the blank page. In this postmodernist moment, we no longer interrogate those attributes of a text that were once dominant. We no longer have the expectations that history and cultural metanarratives laid so heavily upon us. Today, we have more open questions aimed at discovering how every text is a constructed terrain. This paper displays these areas of discussion that have strong implications for future research arising from applying critical theories to the relationship of practice and theory.
Dall’auctoritas all’autore e ritorno
Fonti e circolazione dei saperi tra storia delle idee e della lettura
Creators: name: Fedriga, Riccardo
name: Limonta, Roberto
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2012

description: Che cosa si intende, oggi, per fonte? La domanda non mira alla ricostruzione e definizione di una presunta entità sovrastorica. Essa è da intendere piuttosto come spia, nel variare delle forme storiche, di una persistenza delle questioni legate alla circolazione e al controllo dei saperi, anche in un epoca segnata da profondi mutamenti nei media della comunicazione intellettuale. L'articolo ha inteso indagarne alcuni aspetti, quali l''accesso all'informazione sul web, le nuove forme online dell'enciclopedia del sapere e i nuovi oggetti culturali (ebook), nel quadro di una storia delle idee e della lettura che mostrasse, attraverso alcuni casi emblematici, le dinamiche di azione e reazione tra rivendicazioni di una libera circolazione delle idee e istanze di controllo. Il filo della riflessione si muove quindi alla ricerca di analogie che aiutino a decifrare alcuni fenomeni contemporanei e le questioni epistemologiche che ne derivano, dalle auctoritates dei secoli medievali al problema dell'autorevolezza delle fonti online.

 What can we mean, talking about sources today? The question doesn't aim at the definition of a presumed overhistorical object. We must rather think of it as a sign, in the changing of historical forms, of the persistence of questions connected to circulation and control of knowledge, in an age of deep changes concerning media. The paper would investigate some aspects of the question, like access to the web information, online versions of classical encyclopedia and new supports for reading (like ebook), in a history of ideas context able to show, using some historical examples, the dynamics of acting and reacting between claimings of free circulation of opinions and the attempt to put them down. Definitively, these pages try to find analogies to understand some issues of our age and some epistemological problems, driving the reader from the auctoritas concept in the Middle Ages to the authority of online sources.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 11 (2012): Dopo la carta, dopo la pergamena
Una rete nell’Europa medievale
Creators: name: Brambilla Pisoni, Ester
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2012

description: La diffusione del libro nel Medioevo potrebbe essere riletta alla luce di una metafora attuale sebbene non scevra di aspetti dialettici: quella della “rete”. All’ubicazione spazio-temporale del libro nei monasteri medievali, contraddistinta da fisicità e permanenza, si sotituisce oggi un formato digitale e virtuale, che porta ad una sorta di decontestualizzazione e alla continuità del flusso di informazioni, contribuendo alla diffusione capillare del sapere. L’ottica di universalità e globalità accomuna tuttavia entrambe le epoche. Alcuni concetti-chiave dell’informatica potrebbero infatti declinarsi in ambito medievale: Server-Client per la raccolta, la conservazione e la trasmissione delle conoscenze da parte dei monasteri, quali centri del sapere in Europa, agli uomini di cultura; Firewall, per alludere alla necessità di tutelare i manoscritti, mediante la copiatura e la diffusione dei codici; Community, ad indicare non solo la comunità religiosa o monastica in senso stretto, bensì l’apertura ad una costruzione del sapere mediante un’azione partecipativa. I problemi dell’autenticità delle fonti, dell’acriticità delle informazioni e la pratica delle citazioni trovano un precedente significativo nelle Sententiae di Pietro Lombardo: una sorta di “biblioteca virtuale” grazie alla collezione di passi dalla Sacra Scrittura e da fonti latine e greche, paragonabile a un moderno modello enciclopedico di sapere.

 The diffusion of the book in the Middle Ages could be critically read through a modern metaphor: the “net”. The space-temporal coordinates of the book shift from being physical and permanent in the Medieval monasteries, to being de-contextualized and continue in the flow of information of digital and virtual format. However the universal and global perspective is common to the contemporary and the Medieval periods. In fact some key-words of computer science could be applied to the Medieval context: Server-Client, for the collection, the preservation and the transmission of knowledge from monasteries, as cultural centers in Medieval Europe, to men of culture; Firewall, for the necessary protection of manuscripts, through copying and diffusing codes; Community, referred not only to the monastic and religious groups, but also to an open sharing of the building of knowledge. Problems like the authenticity of the sources, the lack of criticality in the reception of data, and the practice of quotations are well represented in Peter Lombard’s Sententiae: this work can be compared to a modern encyclopedia thanks to the collection of passages from the Holy Scripture and from Latin and Greek sources, as well as a “virtual library”.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 11 (2012): Dopo la carta, dopo la pergamena
Bessere Gesetze durch mehr Transparenz der Gesetzesfolgen
Creators: name: Matthey, Astrid
name: Mutert, Tina
name: Richter, Marianne
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Gesetzesfolgenabschätzung
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales

description: Für eine zukunftsorientierte Umweltpolitik ist eine ausgewogene und wissenschaftlich fundierte Information zu den Folgen eines Gesetzes erforderlich, bevor der Gesetzgeber darüber entscheidet. In Deutschland stehen bei der Folgenabschätzung aber die wirtschaftlichen Folgen von Gesetzen und die entstehenden Kosten im Vordergrund. Die gesamtgesellschaftlichen Folgen und die Nutzen der Gesetze treten in den Hintergrund. Das UBA empfiehlt daher die Umweltfolgen umfassender darzustellen, die ćOne in one out̮ Ń Regel abzuschaffen und die wissenschaftliche Basis für die Folgenabschätzung zu verbessern. Wissenschaftliche Folgenabschätzung und politische Schwerpunktsetzung sollten klar getrennt sein. Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/
description: Für eine zukunftsorientierte Umweltpolitik ist eine ausgewogene und wissenschaftlich fundierte Information zu den Folgen eines Gesetzes erforderlich, bevor der Gesetzgeber darüber entscheidet. In Deutschland stehen bei der Folgenabschätzung aber die wirtschaftlichen Folgen von Gesetzen und die entstehenden Kosten im Vordergrund. Die gesamtgesellschaftlichen Folgen und die Nutzen der Gesetze treten in den Hintergrund. Das ⁠UBA⁠ empfiehlt daher die Umweltfolgen umfassender darzustellen, die „One in one out“ – Regel abzuschaffen und die wissenschaftliche Basis für die Folgenabschätzung zu verbessern. Wissenschaftliche Folgenabschätzung und politische Schwerpunktsetzung sollten klar getrennt sein.
Evaluating Interventions to Support Child-Parent Involvement in Health Decisions
Creators: name: Feenstra, Bryan G.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Decision
Parent
Child
Coaching
Intervention

description: Objective: To explore interventions that support children and parents making health decisions. Systematic Review: A systematic review was conducted to synthesize evidence on interventions that support children’s health decision making. Five studies of variable quality were included. Interventions that improved decision making were decision coaching with or without an educational resource, or education alone. Pre-/post-test pilot: A pre-/post-test study evaluated the feasibility and acceptability of decision coaching guided by the Ottawa Family Decision Guide for children with type 1 diabetes and their parents. Of 16 families invited, 7 participated. Compared to children/parents who preferred one option at baseline, participants who were unsure of the best option rated decision coaching as more acceptable and had larger decreases in decisional conflict. Conclusions: Few studies have evaluated interventions supporting children’s decision making. The piloted decision support intervention was feasible and acceptable, particularly with children and parents who were unsure of the best option.
Narrative and narrative strategies to explore trauma: 'Up close from afar' - an African migrant's story
Creators: name: Hecq, Dominique
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this essay I discuss the process of writing autobiographical creative fiction, and how a narrative on trauma can offer the potential for catharsis to both the writer and reader. I give a self-reflective autoethnographic account that draws from my own personal feeling of discontinuity and an awareness of being between worlds as an African Australian migrant. I focus on the self-knowledge that emerged from the act of writing a short story in the wake of grief. I use narration-the act or process of storytelling-to understand my own narrative strategies, how I tell a story. The essay is interspersed with excerpts from my short story Up close from afar-a story that follows the emotional journey of protagonist Sienna, an African migrant in Australia, who loses her sister to HIV. In mirroring into the creative fiction aspects of my own experience (loss), my relationship with Sienna was symbiotic. I needed her as much as she needed me. As I developed her character and transferred to her my direct experiences, she responded. Without answering all my questions, Sienna came along with new meaning that helped me understand and process my grief. I divide my essay into background, the power of narrative, autoethnographic research, narrative devices and cathartic autobiography. My overall intention is to expose a written artefact (the short story) on death, an artefact that is, to me, also a metaphor for life.
Dynamics and Historical Changes of the Petersen Ice Shelf and Epishelf Lake, Nunavut, Canada, since 1959
Creators: name: White, Adrienne
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Ice shelf
Epishelf lake
Ellesmere Island
Ground penetrating radar
Remote sensing

description: This study presents the first comprehensive assessment of the Petersen Ice Shelf and the Petersen Bay epishelf lake, and examines their current characteristics and changes to their structure between 1959 and 2012. The surface of the Petersen Ice Shelf is characterized by a rolling topography of ridges and troughs, which is balanced by a rolling basal topography, with thicker ice under the surface ridges and thinner ice under the surface troughs. Based on thickness measurements collected in 2011 and area measurements from August 2012, the Petersen Ice Shelf has a surface area of 19.32 km2 and a mean thickness of 29 m, with the greatest thicknesses (>100 m) occurring at the fronts of tributary glaciers feeding into the ice shelf. The tributary glaciers along the northern coast of Petersen Bay contributed an estimated area-averaged 7.89 to 13.55 cm yr-1 of ice to the ice shelf between 2011 and 2012. This input is counteracted by a mean surface ablation of 1.30 m yr-1 between 2011 and 2012, suggesting strongly negative current mass balance conditions on the ice shelf. The Petersen Ice Shelf remained relatively stable until 2005 when the first break-up in recent history occurred, removing >8 km2 of ice shelf surface area. This break-up led to the drainage of the epishelf lake once the ice shelf separated from the southern coast, providing a conduit through which the freshwater from the lake escaped. More break-ups occurred in summers 2008, 2011 and 2012, which resulted in a >31.2 km2 loss in surface area (~63% of June 2005 area). While ephemeral regions of freshwater have occurred along the southern coast of Petersen Bay since 2005 (with areas ranging from 0.32-0.53 km2), open water events and a channel along the southern coast have prevented the epishelf lake from reforming. Based on these past and present observations it is unlikely that Petersen Ice Shelf will continue to persist long into the future.
Supplementary document for Low-power swept-source Raman spectroscopy - 5207444.pdf
Creators: name: Atabaki, Amir
name: Herrington, William
name: Burgner, Christopher
name: Jayaraman, Vijaysekhar
name: Ram, Rajeev Jagga
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Methods and Theoretical Models
L’inscrutabile voce della triade. I tintinnabuli di Arvo Pärt tra filosofia e liturgia
Creators: name: La Matina, Marcello
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2011

description: Può il brusio di una voce essere anche il luogo di una lingua? E vale questa topica anche nel caso in cui la voce sia quella di uno strumento musicale? Queste domande sono alla base della indagine sulla tecnica compositiva della tintinnabulatio, inventata e sperimentata dal musicista estone Arvo Pärt (Paide, 1935). I tintinnabuli consistono di due elementi apparentemente contraddittori: la sonorità pastosa dello zvod (le campane della liturgia ortodossa russa) e l’armonia della triade perfetta. Muovendo da un disco ricevuto in dono e dalla interpretazione in parte inedita di un passo di san Paolo, l’autore cerca di individuare il punto di articolazione dei tintinnabuli,  quella “grana” dove – come disse una volta Roland Barthes – una lingua incontra una voce. Il problema musicale sottende le interminabili discussioni trinitarie dell’Oriente cristiano  – qui per sfortuna solo accennate – e si manifesta nella figura dell’iconografo medievale Andrej Rublëv, cui il regista russo Tarkovskij ha dedicato, nel 1966, un denso e ispiratissimo film. Could the rustling of a voice be also the place of a language?  And does it happen all the same, when the voice at issue is that of an instrumental body? Such questions are the basic ones for any inquiry into Arvo Pärt’s tintinnabuli—the technique invented and experienced by the famous Esthonian composer ( born in Paide, the 1935). It consists of  two seemingly conflicting elements: the doughy resonance of the zvot (i.e. the Russian liturgical set of bells); and the harmony of the perfect triad. The present paper moves from the personal memory of listening Pärt’s elegy Silouans Song. The delicate instrumental piece is said to conceal a prosodical calque of the voice of the famous staretz Silouan the Athonite (1866-1938). Silouan’s song —to use Barthes’ words—is the very place where “a language does meet a voice”.  Some interpretive consequences lead off such a meeting: from a misunderstanding of a Pauline passage  (Rom 14:5-10) to the art of sacred Icons; and from the Trinitarian controversies of Byzantine church fathers to the medieval painter St.Andrej Rublëv and his most famous icon: “The Holy Trinity”. A work where—as Andrej Tarkovski has shewed in his celebrated movie of 1966—Abraham’s oak is a like a bell concealing the threefold person of God.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 10 (2010): Musica medievale e musica contemporanea
Multi-modal learning: a case study
Creators: name: Pilgrim, Chris
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Swinburne University of Technology has committed itself to a planned and structured approach to the utilisation of technology through its 'multi-modal learning' program. Multi-modal learning simply means using many ways to learn. Multi-modal learning promotes the use of new media and methods designed to capitalise on the benefits offered by communication and computer technology. These benefit are added to traditional lectures, tutorials and textbooks to offer a variety of learning methods to achieve different types of learning objectives. This paper presents the outcomes of implementing a multi-modal data communications course including the use of multimedia and the Internet. The paper examines the difficulties with traditional data communications courses and then describes the MML approach to addressing a number of these problems in order to improve student learning.
Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanotube/Polypropylene Composites with Negative Seebeck Coefficient
Creators: name: Krause, Beate
name: Konidakis, Ioannis
name: Arjmand, Mohammad
name: Sundararaj, Uttandaraman
name: Fuge, Robert
name: Liebscher, Marco
name: Hampel, Silke
name: Klaus, Maxim
name: Serpetzoglou, Efthymis
name: Stratakis, Emmanuel
name: Pötschke, Petra
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: This study describes the application of multi-walled carbon nanotubes that were nitrogen-doped during their synthesis (N-MWCNTs) in melt-mixed polypropylene (PP) composites. Different types of N-MWCNTs, synthesized using different methods, were used and compared. Four of the five MWCNT grades showed negative Seebeck coefficients (S), indicating n-type charge carrier behavior. All prepared composites (with a concentration between 2 and 7.5 wt% N-MWCNTs) also showed negative S values, which in most cases had a higher negative value than the corresponding nanotubes. The S values achieved were between 1.0 μV/K and −13.8 μV/K for the N-MWCNT buckypapers or powders and between −4.7 μV/K and −22.8 μV/K for the corresponding composites. With a higher content of N-MWCNTs, the increase in electrical conductivity led to increasing values of the power factor (PF) despite the unstable behavior of the Seebeck coefficient. The highest power factor was achieved with 4 wt% N-MWCNT, where a suitable combination of high electrical conductivity and acceptable Seebeck coefficient led to a PF value of 6.1 × 10−3 µW/(m·K2). First experiments have shown that transient absorption spectroscopy (TAS) is a useful tool to study the carrier transfer process in CNTs in composites and to correlate it with the Seebeck coefficient.
In difesa dello studio critico: l’eredità intellettuale di Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (1943-2010)
Creators: name: Baracchi, Benedetta
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2011

description: Un saggio in memoria  di Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (1943-2010), filosofo e teologo egiziano che ha  contribuito in modo fondamentale alla diffusione dell’approccio letterario  applicato al testo sacro dell’islam e al successivo sviluppo di un’ermeneutica  di tipo umanistico in grado di affermare la portata rivoluzionaria e  antidogmatica del concetto di Corano come insieme di discorsi. Nominato  professore onorario all’Università di Leida, dove insegna a partire dal 2000, il  professor Abu Zayd è costretto all’esilio nel 1995, dopo la condanna per  apostasia che gli viene mossa in ambito giudiziario proprio a causa del suo  interesse per un terreno di studio così delicato.
An essay written in memory of Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (1943-2010),  Egyptian philosopher and theologian who substantially contributed to the spread  of the literary approach to the sacred text of Islam and to the subsequent  development of a humanistic hermeneutics being able to affirm the revolutionary  and anti-dogmatic significance of the concept of the Qur’an asset of discourses. Appointed honorary professor  at Leiden University, where he began teaching in 2000, the professor Abu Zayd is  obliged to go into exile in 1995, after his judicial conviction for apostasy due  to his interest in such a delicate field of study.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 10 (2010): Musica medievale e musica contemporanea
Supplementary document for Relationships of particulate backscattering with particulate organic carbon and phytoplankton carbon in the oligotrophic South China Sea basin - 5208035.pdf
Creators: name: Qiu, Guoqiang
name: Xing, Xiaogang
name: Boss, Emmanuel
name: Yan, Xiao-Hai
name: Ren, Rui
name: Xiao, Wupeng
name: Wang, Haili
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplemental document for the main body of manuscript
SHANK2 mutations result in dysregulation of the ERK1/2 pathway in human induced pluripotent stem cells-derived neurons and Shank2(- /- ) Mice
Creators: name: Lutz, Anne-Kathrin
name: Pérez Arévalo, Andrea
name: Ioannidis, Valentin
name: Stirmlinger, Nadine
name: Demestre, Maria
name: Delorme, Richard
name: Bourgeron, Thomas
name: Böckers, Tobias M.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: SHANK2
subject: hiPSCs
subject: ERK1/2
subject: Neurodevelopment
subject: ASD
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: MAP Kinase Signaling System
subject: Induzierte pluripotente Stammzelle

description: SHANK2 (ProSAP1) is a postsynaptic scaffolding protein of excitatory synapses in the central nervous system and implicated in the development of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Patients with mutations in SHANK2 show autism-like behaviors, developmental delay, and intellectual disability. We generated human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC) from a patient carrying a heterozygous deletion of SHANK2 and from the unaffected parents. In patient hiPSCs and derived neurons SHANK2 mRNA and protein expression was reduced. During neuronal maturation, a reduction in growth cone size and a transient increase in neuronal soma size were observed. Neuronal proliferation was increased, and apoptosis was decreased in young and mature neurons. Additionally, mature patient hiPSC-derived neurons showed dysregulated excitatory signaling and a decrease of a broad range of signaling molecules of the ERK-MAP kinase pathway. These findings could be confirmed in brain samples from Shank2(-/-) mice, which also showed decreased mGluR5 and phospho-ERK1/2 expression. Our study broadens the current knowledge of SHANK2-related ASD. We highlight the importance of excitatory-inhibitory balance and mGluR5 dysregulation with disturbed downstream ERK1/2 signaling in ASD, which provides possible future therapeutic strategies for SHANK2-related ASD.
Neoliberal Climate Policy in the United States: From Market Fetishism to the Developmental State
Creators: name: MacNeil, Robert
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Climate policy
Innovation policy
United States
Political Economy
Energy Policy

description: The research question animating this project is ‘what is the nature of neoliberalism’s influence on recent and contemporary US climate change policy?’ Situating itself against several growing bodies of literature which have sought to underscore the fetishism of markets in recent environmental and climate policy agendas under neoliberalism – e.g., the work of Heynen et al (2007) on ‘neoliberal environments’; Paterson and Newell’s (2010) work on neoliberalism and carbon markets; and the work of Dryzek et al (2003) on state forms and ecological modernization – this project argues that any such analysis must be predicated on a considerably more nuanced conception of (a) ‘neoliberalism’, (b) the historic role of states in fostering accumulation, and (c) the nature of policy development within any specific neoliberal context. Applying these theoretical re-conceptualizations to the American context, the project argues that a central tension informing contemporary US climate policy under neoliberalism can be understood a stand-off between two prevailing logics in the federal policy process: on the one hand, Washington’s attempt to build on its tradition of using state power to foster high-tech market development by cultivating the alternative energy realm as a developmental state project, and on the other, the anti-regulationist bent of neoliberalism which seeks to delegitimize the ‘pull’ policies required to ‘creatively destroy’ conventional energy and animate domestic alternative energy markets. Against the general conception of the US as a ‘climate laggard’ whose policy options are restricted market mechanisms and generally anathema to progressive ecological modernization, this body of work shows how the US has managed to develop a robust set of interventionist ‘push’ and ‘pull’ climate policies along ‘alternative policy pathways’, despite the prevailing anti-state rhetoric of neoliberalism.
Supplementary document for Low-power swept-source Raman spectroscopy - 5207444.pdf
Creators: name: Atabaki, Amir
name: Herrington, William
name: Burgner, Christopher
name: Jayaraman, Vijaysekhar
name: Ram, Rajeev Jagga
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Methods and Theoretical Models
Nonparametric Bayesian Modelling in Machine Learning
Creators: name: Habli, Nada
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Nonparametric Bayesian
Dirichlet process
Gamma process
Beta process
Machine Learning
Beta Bernoulli process

description: Nonparametric Bayesian inference has widespread applications in statistics and machine learning. In this thesis, we examine the most popular priors used in Bayesian non-parametric inference. The Dirichlet process and its extensions are priors on an infinite-dimensional space. Originally introduced by Ferguson (1983), its conjugacy property allows a tractable posterior inference which has lately given rise to a significant developments in applications related to machine learning. Another yet widespread prior used in nonparametric Bayesian inference is the Beta process and its extensions. It has originally been introduced by Hjort (1990) for applications in survival analysis. It is a prior on the space of cumulative hazard functions and it has recently been widely used as a prior on an infinite dimensional space for latent feature models. Our contribution in this thesis is to collect many diverse groups of nonparametric Bayesian tools and explore algorithms to sample from them. We also explore machinery behind the theory to apply and expose some distinguished features of these procedures. These tools can be used by practitioners in many applications.
title: THE DIFFERENTIAL EFECTS OF HAND-RAISING AND DIGITAL RESPONSE CARDS ON ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WITH MILD TO MODERATE DISABILITIES DURING LITERACY ACTIVITIES
Creators: name: Davis, Meredith
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: The purpose of the study was to investigate how both hand-raising and digital response cards effect student engagement, on-task behavior, and off-task behavior. Academic achievement was also assessed using a high-tech student responses system. An ABAB withdrawal design was used to evaluate the effects among high school students with mild to moderate disabilities during reading lessons. The results showed digital response cards increased active engagement for all participants, but digital response card conditions did not show increased levels of on-task behavior.
description:  © 2020 Meredith Davis
Interoceptive sensitivity, body weight and eating behavior in children: a prospective study
Creators: name: Koch, Anne
name: Pollatos, Olga
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: body weight
subject: children
subject: eating behavior
subject: heartbeat perception
subject: interoceptive sensitivity
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: Feeding behavior
subject: Child
subject: Body weight
subject: Overweight
subject: Essgewohnheit
subject: Kind
subject: Körpergewicht
subject: Übergewicht

description: Previous research indicates that interindividual differences in the ability to perceive one's own bodily signals (interoceptive sensitivity, IS) are associated with disordered eating behavior and weight problems. But representative and prospective data in children are lacking and therefore, the exact nature of these observed associations remains unclear. Data on IS measured by heartbeat perception ability in 1657 children between 6 and 11 years of age were collected on the basis of two measurement points with a year distance in time. Stability of the construct and its prospective association with different food approach behaviors [assessed via parent questionnaires (Children's Eating Behavior Questionnaire and Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire)] as well as with weight status were analyzed via structural equation modeling. Main results were that only in overweight children external and emotional eating behavior were predictive for later IS, whereas no such relation was found in normal weight children. There was no direct relation between IS and body mass index. For the first time, we could show that eating behavior and IS in middle childhood are prospectively related to each other. But surprisingly, our data indicate that altered interoceptive processes rather follow than precede non-adaptive eating behavior patterns in overweight children. This suggests a possible crucial role of faulty learning mechanisms in eating behavior early in life, undermining the later confidence in one's body.
Agents in logistics planning: experiences with the coalition agents experiment project
Creators: name: Perugini, Don
name: Wark, Steven
name: Zschorn, Andrew
name: Lambert, Dale
name: Sterling, Leon
name: Pearce, Adrian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Military logistics planning is a complex process, involving many calculations, satisfaction of constraints, and cooperation amongst many organisational entities that provide services in order to achieve military logistics goals. Multi-Agent Logistics Tool (MALT) is a project aimed at supporting military logistics planning. MALT is being developed using agent technology, where agents represent the organisations within the logistics domain, and model their logistics functions, processes, expertise, and interactions with other organisations. Agents are a suitable technology for modelling organisations within MALT, due to the similarity in characteristics between organisations and agents. A component of MALT was implemented within DARPA's Coalition Agent Experiment (CoAX) project. We discuss the CoAX implementation of MALT, and lessons learnt. We discovered that implementing a centralised agent planning approach within MALT, and hence the decentralised military (operational) logistics planning domain, may not always be appropriate, and that a decentralised agent planning approach may be more suitable. Some of our observations regarding the future of agents for military logistics planning are discussed.
Progression of fibrosing interstitial lung disease
Creators: name: Wong, Alyson
name: Ryerson, Christopher J.
name: Guler, Sabina A.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Fibrotic interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) are often challenging to diagnose and classify, but an accurate diagnosis has significant implications for both treatment and prognosis. A subset of patients with fibrotic ILD experience progressive deterioration in lung function, physical performance, and quality of life. Several risk factors for ILD progression have been reported, such as male sex, older age, lower baseline pulmonary function, and a radiological or pathological pattern of usual interstitial pneumonia. Morphological similarities, common underlying pathobiologic mechanisms, and the consistently progressive worsening of these patients support the concept of a progressive fibrosing (PF)-ILD phenotype that can be applied to a variety of ILD subtypes. The conventional approach has been to use antifibrotic medications in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and immunosuppressive medications in patients with other fibrotic ILD subtypes; however, recent clinical trials have suggested a favourable treatment response to antifibrotic therapy in a wider variety of fibrotic ILDs. This review summarizes the literature on the evaluation and management of patients with PF-ILD, and discusses questions relevant to applying recent clinicial trial findings to real-world practice.
Supplementary document for Relationships of particulate backscattering with particulate organic carbon and phytoplankton carbon in the oligotrophic South China Sea basin - 5208035.pdf
Creators: name: Qiu, Guoqiang
name: Xing, Xiaogang
name: Boss, Emmanuel
name: Yan, Xiao-Hai
name: Ren, Rui
name: Xiao, Wupeng
name: Wang, Haili
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplemental document for the main body of manuscript
Experimental Study of the Growth and Stable Water Isotopes of Ice Formed by Vapour Deposition in Cold Environments
Creators: name: Brasseur, Philippe
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Vapour deposition
Stable water isotopes
Permafrost
Experimental
Ground ice
Diffusion

description: Ice formed by water vapour deposition has been identified in different terrestrial environments: 1) in the atmosphere; 2) at the ground’s surface; 3) in caves; 4) in seasonally frozen ground; and 5) in perennially frozen ground (permafrost). Thus far, ground ice formed by diffusion and deposition of vapour in soils (types 4 and 5) has rarely been studied in a natural setting and remains one of the most poorly described ice types on Earth. This thesis focuses on the dynamics of deposition and sublimation of atmospheric water vapour into permafrost and the isotopic signature (D/H and 18O/16O) of the emplaced ground ice under different experimental conditions. Ground ice was produced in sediments with different thermo-physical characteristics (glass beads, JSC Mars-1 simulant). After a two-month growth period, the higher porosity sediments (JSC) had more than 7x the gravimetric water content than the lower porosity soil. Ground ice profiles had a distinct concave downwards shape due to the decrease in saturation vapour pressure with depth. Results also indicate that vapour deposited ground ice has a distinct δD-δ18O composition that plots near regression slope value of 8. Pore water isotopes plot below the global meteoric water line (GMWL) when the source of moisture is directly on top of the sediments. If an air gap is introduced between the source of moisture and the sediments, the pore water isotopes shift above the GMWL due to re-sublimation at the ground surface. Overall, this thesis addressed some fundamental knowledge gaps required to better understand the growth and isotopic evolution of ground ice emplaced by vapour deposition.