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Book Review: "The Responsibility to Understand: Hermeneutical Contours of Ethical Life" by Professor Theodore George
Creators: name: McCaffrey, Graham
Publisher: name: Journal of Applied Hermeneutics
Year: 2020

description: This article is a review of Dr. Theodore George’s new book, The Responsibility to Understand: Hermeneutical Contours of Ethical Life (2020) from the viewpoint of applied hermeneutics and practice professions, especially nursing. I highlight aspects of the book that speak most directly to applied hermeneutics, including Figal’s version of objectivity, and the need to allow displacement to open space for new understanding. I discuss points that I think are open to continuing debate, including the question of whether hermeneutics is being presented as an ethics in itself, or as a gateway to ethical decision making that has to be determined by other values. For practice professions that are conspicuously bounded by regulations of various kinds, it is a feature of ethical life that has to be taken into account. Another question, is whether George’s analysis of solidarity, pushing back against impersonal, calculative values penetrating modern life, sufficiently captures the fervour of closed solidarities that have sprung up as reaction and adjunct to those same values. I suggest that George’s chapter on translation could provide a stimulating starting point for a hermeneutic analysis of “knowledge translation” in research. The conclusion is that George’s book is an excellent addition to the hermeneutic literature, post-Gadamer, that extends a welcome to those of us working in applied hermeneutics, inviting us into a thought provoking and creative conversation. Keywords Hermeneutics; ethics; practice professions; objectivity; solidarity
description: Journal of Applied Hermeneutics, 2020: 2020
An assessment of the benefit of Covid-19 movement datasets for edge computing
Creators: name: Müller, Kilian
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mobile Edge Computing
subject: Covid-19 Data Sets
subject: DDC 004 / Data processing & computer science
subject: Edge Computing
subject: COVID-19 (Disease); Data processing
subject: COVID-19
subject: Open Data
subject: Edge computing

description: Personal movement data, published by studies dealing with understanding Covid-19 spreading, can also be used in several other optimization tasks. Edge computing, as an upcoming decentralized computing trend faces several challenges about where and when to place/allocate services and infrastructure. The following paper discusses the benefits and potential of these personal movement data sets for edge computing services and infrastructure optimization. First we collect potential datasets and split them up in four groups, Contact datasets (CDSs), Metric datasets (MDSs) and Point of interest datasets (POIDs) & Human flow datasets (HFDs). Even if CDS are not publicly available, we discuss them here, because of the APIs and protocols which were created by tech companies to assist the fight against Covid-19. Cooperative load balancing in packed areas as well as mobile cluster computing would profit highly from contact tracing implementations on a system level like these. Furthermore, we discuss how infrastructure as well as network slicing would profit from publicly available HFDs and POIDs, published by Covid-19 studies. Last, we have a short look at optimizing service migration times in the domain of Follow-Me Cloud (FMC) by using HFDs and movement activity heat maps to determine where and to which extent people are moving. This way we can analyze where we have to optimize networks for frequent migration tasks and where not.
Supplementary document for A Two-step-training Deep Learning Framework for Computational Imaging without Physics Priors - 5206066.pdf
Creators: name: Shang, Ruibo
name: Hoffer-Hawlik, Kevin
name: Wang, Fei
name: Situ, Guohai
name: Luke, Geoffrey
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: the supplementary material for the revised manuscript
Role of ABO blood group in SARS-CoV-2 infection in households
Creators: name: Janda, Ales
name: Engel, Corinna
name: Remppis, Jonathan
name: Enkel, Sigrid
name: Peter, Andreas
name: Hörber, Sebastian
name: Ganzenmueller, Tina
name: Schober, Sarah
name: Weinstock, Christof
name: Jacobsen, Eva-Maria
name: Fabricius, Dorit
name: Zernickel, Maria
name: Stamminger, Thomas
name: Dietz, Andrea
name: Groß, Hans-Jürgen
name: Bode, Sebastian F. N.
name: Haddad, Anneke D. M.
name: Elling, Roland
name: Stich, Maximilian
name: Tönshoff, Burkhard
name: Henneke, Philipp
name: Debatin, Klaus-Michael
name: Franz, Axel R.
name: Renk, Hanna
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: ABO blood group
subject: children
subject: household transmission
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Child
subject: COVID-19
subject: SARS-CoV-2
subject: Disease susceptibility
subject: Kind
subject: COVID-19
subject: SARS-CoV-2
subject: Blutgruppe
subject: Disposition

description: An association between certain ABO/Rh blood groups and susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection has been proposed for adults, although this remains controversial. In children and adolescents, the relationship is unclear due to a lack of robust data. Here, we investigated the association of ABO/Rh blood groups and SARS-CoV-2 in a multi-center study comprising 163 households with 281 children and 355 adults and at least one SARS-CoV-2 seropositive individual as determined by three independent assays as a proxy for previous infection. In line with previous findings, we found a higher frequency of blood group A (+ 6%) and a lower frequency of blood group O (−6%) among the SARS-CoV-2 seropositive adults compared to the seronegative ones. This trend was not seen in children. In contrast, SARS-CoV-2 seropositive children had a significantly lower frequency of Rh-positive blood groups. ABO compatibility did not seem to play a role in SARS-CoV-2 transmission within the families. A correction for family clusters was performed and estimated fixed effects of the blood group on the risk of SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity and symptomatic infection were determined. Although we found a different distribution of blood groups in seropositive individuals compared to the reference population, the risk of SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity or symptomatic infection was not increased in children or in adults with blood group A or AB versus O or B. Increasing age was the only parameter positively correlating with the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection. In conclusion, specific ABO/Rh blood groups and ABO compatibility appear not to predispose for SARS-CoV-2 susceptibility in children.
Paracrine Engineering of Human Cardiac Stem Cells with Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1 Promotes Cell Survival to Enhance Myocardial Repair
Creators: name: Jackson, Robyn
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Stem cells
Cardiac repair
Cytokine
Apoptosis

description: Insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1) is a potent pro-survival cytokine that is not robustly expressed by human cardiac stem cells (CSCs). Here, we explore the mechanism underlying IGF-1 enhanced cardiac repair by CSCs. Human CSCs underwent lentiviral- mediated somatic gene transfer of IGF-1 to boost cytokine secretion without adversely blunting the overall cytokine signature of CSCs. In vitro studies demonstrated that IGF-1 provided paracrine and autocrine support that reduced apoptosis by CSCs and cardiomyoctes. In vivo experiments demonstrated that IGF-1 increased CSC-mediated cardiac repair by enhancing salvage of reversibly damaged myocardium and transplanted cell survival.
The meaning and value of vitalism in chiropractic
Creators: name: Richards, Dennis Milverton
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Vitalism
Health
Non-communicable disease
Non-communicable disorder

description: This study explored what vitalism means to chiropractors and what value it might offer in addressing current global prevalence of non-communicable lifestyle-related conditions.
description: A mixed methodology design of qualitative and quantitative research methods involved interviews of 18 international key informants followed by online surveying of chiropractors in Australia and New Zealand.
description: To a majority, vitalism meant innate intelligence, a traditional form of vitalism, a guide to a good life, and an essence of the identity of chiropractic. It offered great value in addressing non-communicable lifestyle related conditions. To a minority, vitalism meant an obsolete and unscientific doctrine of no value.
Abbiamo un problema. Discussione su digitale e carta.
Creators: name: Parodi, Massimo
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2009

description: Un grande aumento di contatti sulla rete ha fatto crollare le vendite della copia a stampa di Doctor Virtualis.Che fare?Ne parlano i membri della direzione / redazione e gli amici di DV.
description: Doctor Virtualis, 2009: TEMPUS
title: Compost Manual
title: Compost Manual
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Eigenkompostierung
subject: Garten
subject: Abfallbehandlung
subject: Kompost
subject: compost
subject: Waste | Resources
subject: Soil | Land

description: One of the environmental challenges we are facing today is the closing of materials loop in a resource-efficient and environmentally friendly way. This also applies to organic waste stream. Meanwhile, legislators are not just leaving it all up to the commitment of amateur gardeners to recycle organic waste. The great majority of organic waste from private households will be collected separately and treated in centralized anaerobic digestion or composting facilities. Subsequently the digestate and compost can be used in agriculture and horticulture as fertilizer and soil improver. The Circular Economy Act and the Organic Waste Ordinance as well as the Fertilizer and Fertilization Ordinances regulate the centralized treatment and utilization of organic waste. However, there are very few obligatory specifications for the recycling of organic waste in the home garden. This compost manual is intended to provide assistance and answer questions in this regard. Source: www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: One of the environmental challenges we are facing today is the closing of materials loop in a resource-efficient and environmentally friendly way. This also applies to organic waste stream. Meanwhile, legislators are not just leaving it all up to the commitment of amateur gardeners to recycle organic waste. The great majority of organic waste from private households will be collected separately and treated in centralized anaerobic digestion or composting facilities. Subsequently the digestate and compost can be used in agriculture and horticulture as fertilizer and soil improver. The Circular Economy Act and the Organic Waste Ordinance as well as the Fertilizer and Fertilization Ordinances regulate the centralized treatment and utilization of organic waste. However, there are very few obligatory specifications for the recycling of organic waste in the home garden. This compost manual is intended to provide assistance and answer questions in this regard.
Do short screencasts improve student learning of mathematics?
Creators: name: Jordan, Camilla
name: Loch, Birgit
name: Lowe, Tim
name: Mestel, Ben
name: Wilkins, Cath
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: 'I really like this form of support. I would be delighted to [...] see any and all topics covered by such screencasts.' The above comment was made by an MSc student after watching two screencasts on undergraduate calculus. They were produced as part of an MSOR Network funded mini-project to develop and evaluate screencasts on advanced calculus topics. The sentiment expressed was reflected in many other students' comments. This paper reports the outcomes of this project.
Techniques de soi et morale néolibérale : le cas du yoga
Creators: name: Métivier, Andrée-Ann
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Yoga
néolibéralisme
logique économique
technique de soi

description: Cette thèse porte sur les rapports qu’a la pratique du yoga contemporain avec le néolibéralisme. Celui-ci est présenté non pas tant comme une doctrine économique n’intervenant que dans la sphère dont elle ressortit, mais davantage comme une forme de discours moral qui s’articule à une vaste étendue de pratiques et de représentations sociales. L’enquête ethnographique qui a été menée sur le yoga nous conduit également à voir dans cette pratique la formation d’une morale mobilisant un ensemble de discours, de valeurs et de techniques afin de s’ériger en guide de conduite. La constitution d’une morale du yoga est alors mise en rapport avec ce que nous appelons la morale du néolibéralisme qui enjoint les individus à faire de leur autonomie, de leur réalisation personnelle ou encore de la gestion d’eux-mêmes des principes à la fois moraux et économiques. Celui qui s’engage dans la pratique du yoga peut ainsi, tout en poursuivant des objectifs de développement personnel ou spirituel, contribuer à son propre façonnement d’homo œconomicus.
Alkyne-Nitrone Cycloadditions for Functionalizing Cell Surface Proteins
Creators: name: McKay, Craig
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Kinetics
Imaging
Bioconjugation
Cycloadditions
Nitrones
Alkynes
Protein labelling
Bioorthogonal reactions

description: Over the past decade, bioorthogonal chemistry has emerged as powerful tools used for tracking biomolecules within living systems. Despite the vast number of organic transformations in the literature, only select few reactions meet the stringent requirements of bioorthogonality. There is increasing demands to develop biocompatible reactions that display high specificity and exquisitely fast kinetics under physiological conditions. With the goal of increasing reaction rates as a means for reducing the concentrations of labelling reagents used for bioconjugation, we have developed metal-catalyzed and metal-free alkyne-nitrone cycloadditions as alternatives to azide-alkyne cycloadditions and demonstrate their applications for imaging cell surface proteins. The copper(I)-catalyzed alkyne-nitrone cycloaddition, also known as the Kinugasa reaction, is typically conducted with a Cu(I) catalyst in the absence of air. We have developed highly efficient micelle promoted multicomponent Kinugasa reactions in aqueous media to make the reaction faster and more efficient. Despite good product yields, the slow kinetics, limited substrate scope and competing side-reaction pathways precludes its practical applicability for biological labelling. We have designed and synthesized β-lactam alkyne probes obtained from these reactions for activity-based protein profiling of the activities of membrane proteins. Additionally, we report that alkyne tethered β-lactams serve as surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) reporters bound to silver nanoparticles, and demonstrated that alkyne bound silver nanoparticles can be used for SERS imaging cell surface proteins. The strain-promoted alkyne-nitrone cycloaddition (SPANC) was also explored as a rapid alternative bioorthogonal reaction. We found that the reaction proceeded in high yield within aqueous media, and displayed rate enhancements that were 1-2 orders of magnitude faster than analogous reactions involving azides. The scope and kinetics of SPANC was evaluated in model reactions of various nitrones (acyclic and cyclic) with cyclooctynes, with the purpose of identifying stable nitrones that displayed intrinsically faster kinetics than azides in strain-promoted cycloadditions with cyclooctynes. Cyclic nitrones displayed good stability and exceptionally fast reactivity in these reactions. The SPANC reaction exhibited high selectivity in the presence of biological nucleophilic amino acid side chains and the presence of biological media did not adversely affect the reaction. We have utilized SPANC for highly specific labelling of proteins in vitro and for imaging ligand-receptor interactions on the surfaces of live cancer cells. The high selectivity, fast reaction rate, and aqueous compatibility of SPANC makes the reaction suitable for a variety of in vivo biological imaging applications.
Supplementary document for Separating and trapping of chiral nanoparticles with dielectric photonic crystal slabs - 5206764.pdf
Creators: name: Hou, Saisai
name: Liu, Ya
name: Zhang, Weixuan
name: Zhang, Xiangdong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Provide supplemental results
Identification and Characterization of an Arginine-methylated Survival of Motor Neuron (SMN) Interactor in Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)
Creators: name: Tadesse, Helina
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)
Survival Motor Neuron (SMN)
Neurodegenerative Disease
Arginine Methylation
KH-type Splicing Regulatory Protein (KSRP)

description: Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is a neuronal degenerative disease caused by the mutation or loss of the Survival Motor Neuron (SMN) gene. The cause for the specific motor neuron susceptibility in SMA has not been identified. The high axonal transport/localization demand on motor neurons may be one potentially disrupted function, more specific to these cells. We therefore used a large-scale immunoprecipitation (IP) experiment, to identify potential interactors of SMN involved in neuronal transport and localization of mRNA targets. We identified KH-type splicing regulatory protein (KSRP), a multifunctional RNA-binding protein that has been implicated in transcriptional regulation, neuro-specific alternative splicing, and mRNA decay. KSRP is closely related to chick zipcode-binding protein 2 and rat MARTA1, proteins involved in neuronal transport/localization of beta-actin and microtubule-associated protein 2 mRNAs, respectively. We demonstrated that KSRP is arginine methylated, a novel SMN interactor (specifically with the SMN Tudor domain; and not with SMA causing mutants). We also found this protein to be misregulated in the absence of SMN, resulting in increased mRNA stability of KSRP mRNA target, p21cip/waf1. A role for SMN as an axonal chaperone of methylated RBPs could thus be key in SMA pathophysiology.
Attentional Demands in the Execution Phase of Curling
Creators: name: Shank, Veronique
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Cognitive processing
Motor movements in sport
attentional demands in sport
Reaction times
Curling
Curling performance

description: Numerous studies have looked at cognitive processing, more specifically attention, and its important role in various dynamic and static movements. Research on attentional demands in sport is an expanding area with studies now being done on athletes revealing the role of cognitive factors in the execution of motor movements in sports. Objective: the purpose of this study was to determine the attentional demands of a delivery in curling using a classic probe technique with a verbal response time and by measuring numerous performance variables. Subjects: ten healthy skilled curling players and nine healthy novice curling players undertook an auditory probe reaction time concurrently with a delivery in curling. Method: Sixty shots were executed with ten shots for each of the three phases of the shot, in all 30 take outs and 30 draws were done by each participant. The first phase when the player comes out of the “hack”, the second phase of the throw was when the player slid across the “t-line”. The third phase is when the player arrives near the line of Hog and releases the stone. Results: results revealed that reaction times were longer at phase 1 of the delivery for all subjects. The attentional demands for the draw and take out were highest at the phase one of the delivery, furthermore, compared to the draw, a significant rise of RT was seen in phase 3 of the take out shot. Significant differences were also found between the two experimental groups, with the most notable ones being that expert had a better shot success and a slower delivery time than the novice group. Conclusion: These results will lead to a better understanding of the attentional demands of two key shots in the sport of Curling and help curling coaches and teachers, as well as the players of the sport to know more about the attentional demands of the execution movement of the sport. This study also opens a new and interesting perspective on the importance of attention while performing motor tasks that are more complex and demanding.
Resolution-aware Slicing of CAD Data for 3D Printing
Creators: name: Onyeako, Isidore
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Additive manufacturing
Three dimensional
Two dimensional
Dots per inch
Computer Aided Design
Fused Filament Fabrication
Fused Deposition Model
Electrom Beam Freeform Fabrication
Electron Beam Melting
Magnetic Resonnance Imaging
Computed Tomography
Rapid Prototyping
Three dimensional printing
Layered Manufacturing
Stereolithography
Selective Laser Sintering
Direct Metal Laser Sintering
Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene
Standard Tessellation Language
Initial Graphics Exchange Specification
Wavefront's Object File
Polygon File
Standard Graphics Exchange Format
Scalable vector graphics

description: 3D printing applications have achieved increased success as an additive manufacturing (AM) process. Micro-structure of mechanical/biological materials present design challenges owing to the resolution of 3D printers and material properties/composition. Biological materials are complex in structure and composition. Efforts have been made by 3D printer manufacturers to provide materials with varying physical, mechanical and chemical properties, to handle simple to complex applications. As 3D printing is finding more medical applications, we expect future uses in areas such as hip replacement - where smoothness of the femoral head is important to reduce friction that can cause a lot of pain to a patient. The issue of print resolution plays a vital role due to staircase effect. In some practical applications where 3D printing is intended to produce replacement parts with joints with movable parts, low resolution printing results in fused joints when the joint clearance is intended to be very small. Various 3D printers are capable of print resolutions of up to 600dpi (dots per inch) as quoted in their datasheets. Although the above quoted level of detail can satisfy the micro-structure needs of a large set of biological/mechanical models under investigation, it is important to include the ability of a 3D slicing application to check that the printer can properly produce the feature with the smallest detail in a model. A way to perform this check would be the physical measurement of printed parts and comparison to expected results. Our work includes a method for using ray casting to detect features in the 3D CAD models whose sizes are below the minimum allowed by the printer resolution. The resolution validation method is tested using a few simple and complex 3D models. Our proposed method serves two purposes: (a) to assist CAD model designers in developing models whose printability is assured. This is achieved by warning or preventing the designer when they are about to perform shape operations that will lead to regions/features with sizes lower than that of the printer resolution; (b) to validate slicing outputs before generation of G-Codes to identify regions/features with sizes lower than the printer resolution.
Niente di nuovo sul fronte occidentale del libro?
Creators: name: Cesana, Roberta
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2012

description: Oggi il libro elettronico imita il libro a stampa come i primi incunaboli imitavano i manoscritti, l’esplosione delle modalità di comunicazione elettroniche è altrettanto rivoluzionaria di quello che fu l’invenzione della stampa a caratteri mobili centinaia di anni fa, e il lettore contemporaneo ha altrettante difficoltà ad assimilare gli e-book di quante ne ebbero i lettori del Quattrocento a familiarizzare con gli incunaboli. Siamo in un periodo nel quale testo a stampa e testo digitale coesistono e sicuramente continueranno a farlo per qualche altro tempo ancora. Non pretendiamo dunque a tutti i costi di analizzare in termini dualistici (o carta o digitale) un fenomeno che è ancora in corso e basandoci invece su quello che ci insegna la storia del libro proviamo piuttosto a riconoscere che oggi stiamo assistendo a un cambiamento che almeno per un verso è effettivamente inedito perché, per la prima volta nella storia, avviene simultaneamente su più piani, con la trasformazione contemporanea del supporto della scrittura, della tecnica della sua riproduzione, delle modalità della sua diffusione e infine dei modi di leggere. Tutto il circuito della comunicazione editoriale classicamente intesa è messo in discussione e con il digitale il mercato librario è destinato a crescere, ma attraverso una grande mutazione delle sue logiche di funzionamento.

 Today, the e-book imitate the printed book exactly as the first incunabula once imitated the manuscripts; the explosion of the electronic communication is just as revolutionary as it was the invention of the movable type printing hundreds of years ago; and the contemporary reader is facing, with the e-book, the same difficulty than the readers of the fifteenth century have had with the incunabula. We are in a period in which paper and digital definitely coexist and they surely will continue to do it for a few more years to come. So, rather than insisting on analyze in dualistic terms (or paper or digital) a phenomenon that is still in progress, and relying instead on what we learn from the history of the book, we should try to recognize that today we are witnessing a change that at least in one way is actually different because, for the first time in history, it takes place at the same time on several levels, with the simultaneously transformation of the writing's media, the technique of its reproduction, the way of its spread, and finally the practice of reading. The classic communication circuit is being revisited, and the editorial market is meant to grow in the digital era, but throughout a big change in its behavior.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 11 (2012): Dopo la carta, dopo la pergamena
A Woman's Territory: Female Protagonists in 21st Century Road Movie–Based Fairy Tale Films
Creators: name: Lackan, Ivana
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: road movies
female characters
journey
fairy tale films
Peter Pan (2003)
Tangled (2010)
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
film genre

description: This paper closely examines fairy tale films with road movie components, in particular those films featuring female protagonists. The study’s objective is twofold: first, to further develop existing research on the road movie by exploring one of the lesser known constituents of this broad genre and, second, to address gaps in scholarly literature on road movies when it comes to themes in female-led trips and the characterization of travelling females. Through a detailed analysis of the journeys of female characters in recent voyage-oriented fairy tale films—Peter Pan (P.J. Hogan, 2003), Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton, 2010) and Tangled (Byron Howard and Nathan Greno, 2010)—the investigation shows that these new heroines significantly differ from those of old. Their travels are portrayed as being less difficult, and the traits that they exhibit while on the road, namely fearlessness, rationality and an undying optimism, are rather favourable when compared to those exhibited by former road heroines. Although these protagonists still face characters who wish to impede their movement away from a domestic setting, it is demonstrated that the protagonists are ultimately successful in not only acquiring power in the surroundings that they find themselves in, but also in carrying over their goals and dreams to their own worlds upon their return, privileges that most former road heroines did not have. Ultimately, the study shows that females can be as efficient travellers as males, and in some cases are portrayed as even more competent than their male counterparts.
Australia-China Research Centre for Light Metals
Creators: name: Wu, Xinhua
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Australia-China Joint Research Centre for Light Metals is co-funded February 2013 by Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (DIISRTE), Australia and Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST), China, under the initiative of Australia-China Science and Research Fund (ACSRF). In Australia this Centre is led by Monash University on behalf of six University partners in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Design in Light Metals and 4 Australian companies and one European company, EADS. In China, this Centre is led by Central South University, including partners: Beijing University of Technology, Southeast University, Baosteel, COMAC, Chalco, Alnan and some other industrial partners. The joint research centre will bring together world experts from industry and academia in the fields of light alloy development and processing.
In Memoriam di Paolo Lucentini e Alfonso Maierù
Creators: name: Sannino, Antonella
name: Valente, Luisa
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2012

description: Nel 2011 sono mancati Paolo Lucentini e Alfonso Maierù. Nel ricordarne la vicenda umana e professionale come ricercatori e come docenti, questo articolo intende mettere in luce in particolare il contributo che essi hanno dato alla Storia del pensiero medievale accompagnando gli studi dottrinali con importanti edizioni di testi inediti.

Paolo Lucentini and Alfonso Maierù passed away in 2011. This article, in remembrance of their personal and professional roles as researchers and teachers, will highlight the contributions that they made to the history of medieval thought, showing how they combined doctrinal studies with important editions of unedited texts.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 11 (2012): Dopo la carta, dopo la pergamena
Altri collegamenti a lavori del gruppo di DV
Creators: name: Redazione, Doctor Virtualis
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2008

description: Giovanni di Mirecourt, Commento alle Sentenze, libro I  Attualmente non raggiungibile perché il server del Dipartimento di filosofia è stato oggetto di un attacco da parte di un hacker Edizione provvisoria on-line  Il lavoro nasce dalla collaborazione tra Eugenio Randi e Massimo Parodi, e giunge alla pubblicazione on-line (provvisoria) grazie all'intervento di Lucia Caccia Dominioni, che ha ordinato e ripulito il materiale a disposizione.  Seminario su Tommaso  De ente et essentia - 1995/96  Il materiale prodotto dagli studenti che hanno partecipato al lavoro di discussione seminariale del De ente et essentia di Tommaso d'Aquino.
description: Doctor Virtualis, 2009: TEMPUS
Interviste per la settimana dell'Open Access
Creators: name: Parodi, Massimo
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2009

description: In occasione della settimana dell'Open Access sono stati intervistati Alfio e Chiara.Le registrazioni sono ancora visualizzabili onlineIntervista di Alfio FerraraIntervista di Chiara Selogna
description: Doctor Virtualis, 2009: TEMPUS
Pensare con il cuore
Creators: name: Boella, Laura
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2008

description: La filosofia contemporanea, in particolare la fenomenologia husserliana, e il tomismo ";possono intendersi"; secondo Edith Stein, che ripercorre la questione dell'essere, centrale nella dottrina tomista, facendo tuttavia ricorso all'immagine trinitaria proveniente dall'insegnamento di Agostino.
Si delinea così il rapporto fra l'io e il tu che, nella persona umana, costituisce l'essere come amore, in quanto la persona si viene costruendo a partire essenzialmente dall'incontro, secondo la logica della relazione che si rivela appunto come logica dell'amore.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 1 (2002): Il corpo e il testo
Exoskeleton for post-stroke recovery of ambulation (ExStRA): study protocol for a mixed-methods study investigating the efficacy and acceptance of an exoskeleton-based physical therapy program during stroke inpatient rehabilitation
Creators: name: Louie, Dennis R.
name: Mortenson, W. Ben
name: Durocher, Melanie
name: Teasell, Robert
name: Yao, Jennifer
name: Eng, Janice
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: The ability to walk is commonly reported as a top rehabilitation priority for individuals after a stroke. However, not all individuals with stroke are able to practice walking, especially those who require more assistance from their therapist to do so. Powered robotic exoskeletons are a new generation of robotic-assisted gait training devices, designed to assist lower extremity movement to allow repetitious overground walking practice. To date, minimal research has been conducted on the use of an exoskeleton for gait rehabilitation after stroke. The following research protocol aims to evaluate the efficacy and acceptability, and thus adoptability, of an exoskeleton-based gait rehabilitation program for individuals with stroke. Methods: This research protocol describes a prospective, multi-center, mixed-methods study comprised of a randomized controlled trial and a nested qualitative study. Forty adults with subacute stroke will be recruited from three inpatient rehabilitation hospitals and randomized to receive either the exoskeleton-based gait rehabilitation program or usual physical therapy care. The primary outcome measure is the Functional Ambulation Category at post-intervention, and secondary outcomes include motor recovery, functional mobility, cognitive, and quality-of-life measures. Outcome data will be collected at baseline, post-intervention, and at 6 months. The qualitative component will explore the experience and acceptability of using a powered robotic exoskeleton for stroke rehabilitation from the point of view of individuals with stroke and physical therapists. Semi-structured interviews will be conducted with participants who receive the exoskeleton intervention, and with the therapists who provide the intervention. Qualitative data will be analyzed using interpretive description. Discussion: This study will be the first mixed-methods study examining the adoptability of exoskeleton-based rehabilitation for individuals with stroke. It will provide valuable information regarding the efficacy of exoskeleton-based training for walking recovery and will shed light on how physical therapists and patients with stroke perceive the device. The findings will help guide the integration of robotic exoskeletons into clinical practice. Trial registration NCT02995265 (clinicaltrials.gov), Registered 16 December 2016.
Future ready Queensland : the role of the state : a philosophical position on public policy for the fourth industrial revolution
Creators: name: Mackie, Ellenah
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Fourth industrial revolution
Artificial intelligence
Employment policy
Training policy
Critical realism
Neoliberalism

description: The present disruptions and impending upheaval of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is an area of the utmost urgency for those responsible for public policy formation. The research employs critical ethnography to highlight the role of the enabled state, particularly for children and young people experiencing vulnerability, defined in this instance by socio-economic status. The research examines the emancipatory potential of the state to understand the impending reality of the 4IR for public education and argues for economic and social policy responses that build hope and shared optimism about the future.
Comparison of Blood Bacterial Communities in Periodontal Health and Severe Periodontitis
Creators: name: Emery, David C.
name: Cerajewska, Tanya L.
name: Seeing, Joon
name: Davies, Maria
name: Allen-Birt, Shelley J.
name: West, Nicola X.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Bacteraemia, Oral bacteria, Periodontitis, MolYsis, Inflammatory diseases.

description: Ancillary files associated with the Blood metagenomic study: Comparison of Blood Bacterial Communities in Periodontal Health and Severe Periodontitis
Motivational interviewing as a tool to enhance access to mental health treatment in adolescents with chronic medical conditions and need for psychological support (COACH-MI): study protocol for a clusterrandomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Reinauer, Christina
name: Viermann, Rabea
name: Förtsch, Katharina
name: Linderskamp, Hannah
name: Warschburger, Petra
name: Holl, Reinhard
name: Staab, Doris
name: Minden, Kirsten
name: Muche, Rainer
name: Domhardt, Matthias
name: Baumeister, Harald
name: Meissner, Thomas
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Adherence to medical treatment
subject: Chronic condition
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Depression
subject: Anxiety
subject: Adolescent
subject: Chronic disease
subject: Mental health
subject: Mental health services
subject: Motivational interviewing
subject: Depression
subject: Angststörung
subject: Jugend
subject: Problemzentriertes Interview

description: BACKGROUND: This cluster-randomised monocentric controlled trial focuses on improving the uptake symptoms of mental health care in adolescents with chronic medical conditions who have been identified by screening to have depression or anxiety. The study aims to determine the efficacy of motivational interviewing (MI) delivered by trained physicians to increase 12- to 20-year-old adolescents' utilisation of psychological health care for symptoms of anxiety or depression. METHODS/DESIGN: In this single-centre approach, n = 1,000 adolescents will be screened (using PHQ-9 and GAD-7), and adolescents with results indicative of anxiety or depressive symptoms (n = 162) will be advised to seek psychological health care in clusters from treating physicians in specialised outpatient departments. Participants who screen positive will receive either two sessions of MI or treatment as usual (TAU; regarded as the typical daily clinical practice), which is focused on recommending them to seek psychological health care for further evaluation. MI efficacy will be compared to the current TAU as the control condition. The primary outcome is the utilisation rate of psychological health care after counselling by an MI-trained physician vs. an untrained physician. Additionally, reasons for not claiming psychological support and changes in disease-related parameters will be evaluated in a 6-month follow-up session. DISCUSSION: This trial will evaluate the feasibility of MI as a way to improve the utilisation of mental health-care services by adolescents who need further support other than that provided by standard care for chronic diseases. Physicians offering MI to adolescents may serve as a model for optimising health-care management in daily clinical practice, which may improve adolescents' long-term well-being by improving adherence to medical treatment and preventing negative lifelong consequences into adulthood.
Workplace relationships, psychological capital, employees' performance, accreditation and safety culture : the case of healthcare professionals in Italian acute care settings
Creators: name: Trinchero, Elisabetta Flora Olga
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Safety culture
Accreditation culture
Healthcare organisation
Social Exchange Theory
SET
Positive Organisational Behaviour
POB

description: Patient safety is a crucial issue in healthcare organisations all over the world. The Italian healthcare system is not an exception, and there is a growing agenda to increase safety processes of care. The ability to influence safety culture among clinical staff has been widely recognised as one of the main mechanisms that can be used to affect patients’ outcomes. The thesis identifies the lack of viable safety framework models to assess safety culture within the Italian healthcare sector. Hence, it uses three theoretical frameworks – Blau’s (1964) Social Exchange Theory (SET), Positive Organisational Behaviour (POB) (Luthans, Youssef & Avolio 2007) and Cooper’s (2000) framework of safety culture – to operationalise a new comprehensive model of patient safety culture, and to test whether SET factors (supervisor-employee relationships, supervisor-employee relationships safety-related, and engagement) predict accreditation and safety culture in a causal chain. The main theoretical contribution of the research project is that it uses for the first time SET and POB to conceptualise the impact of workplace relationships on accreditation and safety culture in the healthcare sector. Moreover, it delivers a new structured definition of accreditation culture, and it develops new knowledge about the impact of workplace relationships on psychological, behavioural and situational aspects of accreditation and safety culture in the healthcare sector. Finally, the findings provide healthcare managers with an empirically robust model for examining accreditation and safety culture within Italian hospitals. The research results emphasise the role and responsibilities of hospitals’ top and middle management to guide staff involved in the processes of care in the right direction. The research acknowledges limitations regarding the use of self-report surveys to collect data among professionals in the Italian acute care settings. The choice of this research method relies on the willingness to deliver a model that allows hospitals to run internal, functional, and competitive benchmarking of their results, and the feasibility of the approach was paramount in developing the research design. Since the reliability of this model has been proven using Italian hospitals’ data, further research is needed to re-test it to confirm the generalisability of the model. Finally, future research should also address and improve the ability of the model to fully capture the psychological component of safety culture, that in the proposed model has been assessed using the Katz-Navon, Naveh and Stern (2005) priority of safety construct, adopted from Zohar (2000) (Trinchero, Farr-Wharton & Brunetto 2017)
Richtwerte für Glykolether und Glykolester in der Innenraumluft
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013

description: Zum Schutz der Gesundheit der Bevölkerung setzt die Ad-hoc-Arbeitsgruppe Innenraumrichtwerte der Kommission Innenraumlufthygiene und der Obersten Landesgesundheitsbehörden Richtwerte für die Innenraumluft fest. Für eine gesundheitliche Bewertung von Glykolethern und Glykolestern in der Innenraumluft wurde mit dem Ziel einer einheitlichen Bewertung die gesamte Stoffgruppe mit Daten zu 47 Verbindungen analysiert. Für einige Glykolether stehen Effekte auf das Reproduktionssystem und hämatologische Effekte im Vordergrund, während andere zu Effekten in Leber und Niere führen. Darüber hinaus wurden bei einigen Glykolethern auch Reizwirkungen im Atemtrakt nachgewiesen. Für 14 Verbindungen lagen aussagefähige Inhalationsstudien vor oder es konnten Analogien zu eng verwandten Verbindungen hergestellt werden. Für diese Stoffe wurden individuelle Richtwerte abgeleitet, die für den Richtwert I der jeweiligen Verbindung zwischen 0,02 und 2 mg/m3 liegen (Tab. 1). Bei der Ableitung der Richtwerte wurde die zeitliche Exposition der Bevölkerung im Vergleich zu Beschäftigten oder Tierversuchen berücksichtigt, die Dauer der jeweiligen Studie, die interindividuelle Variabilität mit einem Faktor von 10 und die bei Kindern im Vergleich zu Erwachsenen höhere Atemrate mit einem Faktor von 2. Zur Extrapolation vom Versuchstier auf den Menschen wurden toxikodynamische Unterschiede in der Regel mit einem Faktor von 2,5 berücksichtigt. Für Verbindungen mit unzureichender Datenlage wurden auf Basis statistischer Auswertungen der Daten zu allen Glykolethern ein Default-Richtwert II von 0,05 ml/m3 und ein Default-Richtwert I von 0,005 ml/m3 vorgeschlagen. Zur Gesamtbewertung aller gefundenen Glykolether und Glykolester in der Innenraumluft wird das Verhältnis aus der Konzentration jeder Verbindung, geteilt durch ihren Richtwert, gebildet und zu einem Summenrichtwert addiert. Die Summenrichtwerte gelten als eingehalten, wenn ihr Wert jeweils 1 unterschreitet.Quelle: http://link.springer.com[14.02.2013]
La figura di Maria Maddalena nella tradizione agostiniana del XII secolo e l'allegoria nuziale in Bernardo di Clairvaux
Un'ipotesi di interpretazione alla luce di categorie di ordine psicoanalitico
Creators: name: Cartotto, Elena
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2008

description: Nella tradizione agostiniana del XII secolo compaiono temi e linguaggi che suggeriscono la presenza, accanto al discorso teologico, di un discorso dell'uomo sull'uomo.
Si analizza la figura di Maria Maddalena in alcuni autori del XII secolo e l'allegoria nuziale nei Sermones super Cantica di Bernardo di Clairvaux.
La lettura viene condotta sulla base di categorie concettuali di carattere psicoanalitico, in quanto tali categorie trovano la propria origine, prima ancora che nel pensiero, nella più concreta e profonda esperienza umana. Ed è proprio il collocarsi all'interno di questa viva esperienza umana che consente di cogliere in modo più diretto la dimensione antropologica che pare emergere dagli scrittori monastici di questo periodo.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 1 (2002): Il corpo e il testo
Incomplete Neutralization and Task Effects in Experimentally-elicited Speech: Evidence from the Production and Perception of Word-final Devoicing in Russian
Creators: name: Kharlamov, Viktor
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: devoicing
word-final obstruents
laboratory speech
task effects
incomplete neutralization
laryngeal contrast
production
perception
phonology
Russian

description: This dissertation investigates the role of grammatical versus methodological influences in the production and perception of final devoicing in experimentally-elicited speech from Russian. It addresses the question of how the partial preservation of the phonological voicing contrast in word-final obstruents is affected by (i) task-independent factors that reflect phonological and lexical properties of stimuli words (underlying voicing, word length, lexical competition) and (ii) task-dependent biases that arise due to the nature of the experimental task performed by the speaker (availability of orthographic inputs, presence of minimal pairs among the stimuli). Results of a series of acoustic production and perceptual identification tasks reveal that task-dependent factors account for the presence of robust and perceptually salient differences in the parameter of phonetic voicing. Several types of stimuli items also show limited but statistically significant differences in closure/frication duration and release duration that are independent of the presence of orthography or inclusion of full minimal pairs among test items. Taken together, these findings indicate that non-grammatical factors can play a prominent biasing role in both production and perception of the voicing contrast in experimentally-elicited speech, such that certain voicing-dependent cues are maintained only in the presence of task-dependent pressures. However, not all incompletely neutralized differences between phonologically voiced versus voiceless final obstruents can be attributed to the effects of orthography or inclusion of minimal pairs among the stimuli. In the theoretical domain, these results are argued to favour a less restrictive definition of neutralization and a model of phonology that views devoicing as a loss of the primary acoustic cue to the underlying voicing contrast rather than complete identity of the [voiced] feature.