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Succour for a Fallen World: Magic and the Powers of Spirit in Johann Nikolaus Martius’s Unterricht von der Magia Naturali (1717)
Creators: name: Pickering, Michael
Publisher: name: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Year: 2020

description: This article considers the intellectual currents within an under-examined text by the Braunschweig physician, Johann Nikolaus Martius. Ostensibly a medical text about the ways in which sympathetic magic could be marshalled to provide remedies for common ailments, I suggest that we might read the document as a cosmological treatise that positions its author within a religiously heterodox milieu. Research to date has not yet considered the central importance of Christian Thomasius’s pneumatology for Martius’s theory of matter, his understanding of spirit and his anthropology. Indeed, when Martius’s text is considered in this context, what emerges is a worldview in which magia naturalis represents the outer layer of a deeper, spirit core of nature. While this inner divine light embedded within all things in nature is for Martius, I argue, vitally important for unlocking the spirit potential buried within the individual – to bring about spiritual rebirth, and through this, to develop a form of magia divina allowing one to control and manipulate nature through the will alone – it’s awakening does not represent the chief aim of the medicus. Indeed, for Martius, such an ideal is counter-balanced by a pragmatic awareness of the post-Lapsarian context in which people live and suffer. The chief aim of the physician should therefore be to manipulate, however manually and imperfectly, those hidden properties of nature, both studied and revealed, to provide succour to one’s fellow men and women.
description: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, Vol 22 (2019)
Francesco Adami, a Young Livornese Merchant in London, 1673–1674
Creators: name: Calcagni, Matteo
Publisher: name: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Year: 2020

description: The transmission of mercantile culture is certainly not an innovative topic in international historiographic debate, but the difficulties of obtaining information from the few available primary sources have left open a number of questions that deserve further investigation. These include the content of the schooling received and the methods of professional training, the working conditions and the duties carried out by young apprentices in everyday life. By comparing a preliminary analysis of previously unexplored archive sources with the ideal expectations set by seventeenth-century manuals for traineeships, the article reconstructs the period of training of the young and restless Francesco Adami (1654-1702) in London in 1673, during the troubled reign of King Charles II. After working alongside his father Antonio in the wine trade in Florence and Livorno, Adami became a merchant who led a short but picaresque life in the eastern Mediterranean on the fringes of the Levant Company, until he was appointed English vice-consul in Palestine in 1699. During his youthful sojourn in the home of Francesco Terriesi in London, Adami wrote letters to his father Antonio describing his traineeship and the progress he was making in business in a country whose language and political situation he did not know at all.
description: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, Vol 22 (2019)
title: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Bd. 62 Nr. 2/3 (2020): Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
title: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Mitteilungen Des Kunsthistorischen Institutes In Florenz
Publisher: name: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Year: 2021

description: Band LXII (2020), Heft 2/3
description: Monika Butzek (1944–2020)...310-311
Moretto’s Map...296-309
Weiblichkeit und Distinktion im Selbstporträt von Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun für die Galleria degli Autoritratti in Florenz...266-295
La carriera di uno scalpellino nel Settecento: Francesco Cerroti, da Settignano a Roma...236-265
Ciro Ferri delineavit, Cornelis Bloemaert sculpsit: una collaborazione artistica per due antiporte di committenza medicea...208-235
Negotiating the Numinous: Pordenone and the Miraculous Madonna di Campagna of Piacenza...180-207
Angelo Poliziano and Michelangelo’s Battle of the Centaurs...158-179
The Production of ex novo Spolia and the Creation of History in Thirteenth-Century Venice...126-157
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Supplementary document for Anisotropic light-matter coupling and below-threshold excitation dynamics in an organic crystal microcavity - 5306234.pdf
Creators: name: Tagami, Tomoya
name: Ueda, Yusuke
name: Imai, Keita
name: Takahashi, Shun
name: Mizuno, Hitoshi
name: Yanagi, Hisao
name: Obuchi, Takeshi
name: Nakayama, Masaaki
name: Yamashita, Kenichi
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Molecular investigations of the neural system in the Crown-of-Thorns Seastar, Acanthaster planci species-complex
Creators: name: Smith, Meaghan
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2019
Subjects: molecular biology
crown-of-thorns
seastar
neuropeptide
neural system

description: Population outbreaks of the Crown-of-Thorns Seastar (COTS), Acanthaster planci cf. solaris has caused irrefutable damage to coral reefs around the globe, particularly the Great Barrier Reef. As COTS preferentially feed on reef-building corals such as Scleractinia and Acropora, the capacity for COTS to consume >10 m2 of coral annually outstrips the corals growth rate. Aside from the damage caused by COTS, factors contributing to the accelerating loss of coral are the impacts of coral bleaching and the increased presence and severity of tropical cyclones. Of these variables, only COTS can be mitigated by immediate human intervention, so strategic and long-term solutions are desirable. Current COTS control methods are laborious and expensive with extrapolated estimates predicting a decline to less than 10 % coral cover remaining on the reef in coming decades, unless intervened. Knowledge gaps that exist on the molecular regulation of COTS biological processes (e.g. reproduction, feeding, growth) limit the development of effective control methods. As an echinoderm, COTS occupy a unique position as invertebrate deuterostomes and as such may hold critical information in both evolution and speciation of this coral predator. Of the Acanthaster genus there are two species, the A. planci and the Acanthaster brevispinus. Despite the ability to successfully produce hybrid offspring, the A brevispinus does not have an appetite for coral, nor undergo population outbreaks that are characteristic of A. planci. It is theorised that the speciation occurred from the A. brevispinus, yet to the extent of which these species differ is still unknown. Identifying species-specific attributes and unique biological traits will be most advantageous in the quest to better understand COTS and in the development toward biocontrol strategies. By targeting the system that coordinates the biological and physiological functioning of an animal, in this case the neural system, we can narrow down on candidate areas for investigative research. With advances in sequencing and mass spectral technologies it is now possible to study a species at multiple levels, from the gene to the protein. The purpose of this doctoral thesis was to investigate the radial nerve cord (RNC) of the COTS, its neural signalling components (neuropeptides and small molecule neurotransmitters) and candidate cognate receptors.
Tasting Clay, Testing Clay. Medicinal Earths, Bucarophagy and Experiential Knowledge in Lorenzo Legati’s Museo Cospiano (1677)
Creators: name: Domenici, Davide
Publisher: name: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Year: 2020

description: In the following, I identify a group of pottery vases in the Museo Civico Medievale of Bologna as samples of búcaros de Indias, the famous “scented clays” produced during the 17th century. Starting from this new identification, thispaper reconstructs their cultural biography, tracing it back to the famous museum assembled by the Bolognese Marquee Ferdinando Cospi. The description of the vases provided by Lorenzo Legati in his Museo Cospiano (1677) brings to light two different but related forms ofsensory engagementwith material culture: the curious practice of bucarophagy, that is, the literal consumption of goods circulating through global early modern trade networks, and tongue-testing, a method that Legati employs to ascertain the constituent materials of the vases. Even if this method was, ultimately, not effective, leading to wrong identifications, it is nonetheless a clear example of thevalue attributed to experiential knowledge, praised by Legati as a way to check the validity of textual sources and to dismiss fanciful beliefs. This valorization of evidential learning is interpreted as an expression of antiquarian sensibility, an intellectual disposition whose relevance has been strongly stressed by a flourishing historiography building on the seminal works of A. Momigliano, and which also played a key role in the early modern European reception of American artifacts.
description: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, Vol 22 (2019)
Host responses to Clostridium perfringens challenge in a chicken model of chronic stress
Creators: name: Zaytsoff, Sarah J. M.
name: Lyons, Sarah M.
name: Garner, Alexander M.
name: Uwiera, Richard R. E.
name: Zandberg, Wesley F.
name: Abbott, D. W.
name: Inglis, G. D.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: This study utilized a chicken model of chronic physiological stress mediated by corticosterone (CORT) administration to ascertain how various host metrics are altered upon challenge with Clostridium perfringens. Necrotic enteritis (NE) is a disease of the small intestine of chickens incited by C. perfringens, which can result in elevated morbidity and mortality. The objective of the current study was to investigate how physiological stress alters host responses and predisposes birds to subclinical NE. Results: Birds administered CORT exhibited higher densities of C. perfringens in their intestine, and this corresponded to altered production of intestinal mucus. Characterization of mucus showed that C. perfringens treatment altered the relative abundance of five glycans. Birds inoculated with C. perfringens did not exhibit evidence of acute morbidity. However, histopathologic changes were observed in the small intestine of infected birds. Birds administered CORT showed altered gene expression of tight junction proteins (i.e. CLDN3 and CLDN5) and toll-like receptors (i.e. TLR2 and TLR15) in the small intestine. Moreover, birds administered CORT exhibited increased expression of IL2 and G-CSF in the spleen, and IL1β, IL2, IL18, IFNγ, and IL6 in the thymus. Body weight gain was impaired only in birds that were administered CORT and challenged with C. perfringens. Conclusion: CORT administration modulated a number of host functions, which corresponded to increased densities of C. perfringens in the small intestine and weight gain impairment in chickens. Importantly, results implicate physiological stress as an important predisposing factor to NE, which emphasizes the importance of managing stress to optimize chicken health.
Riding the wave: improving climate change adaptation strategies, while supporting food and nutrition security in the Pacific
Creators: name: Medina Hidalgo, Daniela
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2022
Subjects: climate change
adaptation
SIDS
nutrition
food systems
policy
Agriculture, land and farm management
Climate change impacts and adaptation

description: Pacific Island countries are faced with diverse challenges from risks posed by current climate variability and future climate change, and by the burden of increasingly unhealthy diets for their populations’ wellbeing and quality of life. Multiple efforts to support climate adaptation have been mobilized at all levels of governance. For decades there has been a consistent impetus from donors and international cooperation agencies to make these interventions effective and sustainable. In addition, adapting food systems to climate change and securing sustainable and healthy diets is key for the achievement of many Sustainable Development Goals.
description: The aim of this research was to explore opportunities to improve climate change adaptation planning in the context of rural communities in the Pacific Islands. The research focused on how climate adaptation is conceived and how integrative thinking about food systems, climate change and food security can be utilized to better target adaptation investments, while also improving the quality of life for people living in peripheral (non-core) areas of the Pacific.
Supplementary document for Anisotropic light-matter coupling and below-threshold excitation dynamics in an organic crystal microcavity - 5306234.pdf
Creators: name: Tagami, Tomoya
name: Ueda, Yusuke
name: Imai, Keita
name: Takahashi, Shun
name: Mizuno, Hitoshi
name: Yanagi, Hisao
name: Obuchi, Takeshi
name: Nakayama, Masaaki
name: Yamashita, Kenichi
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
CredProxy: A Password Manager for Online Authentication Environments
Creators: name: Golrang, Mohammad Saleh
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Dictionary Attacks
Password Managers
Password Security
Website User Authentication
Virtual Keyboards
MITB Attacks

description: Internet users are increasingly required to sign up for online services and establish accounts before receiving service from websites. On the one hand, generation of strong usernames and passwords is a difficult task for the user. On the other hand, memorization of strong passwords is by far more problematic for the average user. Thus, the average user has a tendency to use weak passwords, and also reuse his passwords for more than one website, which makes several attacks feasible. Under the aforementioned circumstances, the use of password managers is beneficial, since they unburden the user from the task of memorizing user credentials. However, password managers have a number of weaknesses. This thesis is mainly aimed at alleviating some of the intrinsic weaknesses of password managers. We propose three cryptographic protocols which can improve the security of password managers while enhancing user convenience. We also present the design of a phishing and Man-in-the-Browser resistant password manger which best fits into our scheme. Furthermore, we present our novel virtual on-screen keyboard and keypad which are designed to provide strong protection mechanisms against threats such as keylogging and shoulder surfing.
Assessing the potential of enrichment planting in logged tropical rainforest in north Queensland Australia, to increase timber production: Implications for forest management and restoration
Creators: name: Phan, Minh Quang
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2020
Subjects: Enrichment planting
underplanting
overwood competition
Flindersia brayleyana
Agathis robusta
Assisted natural regeneration

description: Tropical rainforest is one of the most important sources of timber for the world. However, tropical forests are being degraded and lost at a high rate. Globally over the last 25 years, the area of tropical forest has decreased substantially, by approximately 195 million ha. This has had negative effects on both timber production and the many environmen. Conversion of forests for agriculture and shifting cultivation are major causes of degradation and loss of tropical forest. There has also been an increased societal demand for a wide range of hardwood timber species. To meet this demand, there has been a corresponding desire to improve the productivity of tropical hardwood timber species from natural stands. Enrichment planting in logged rainforest with commercially desirable tree species has been proposed as a solution. However, there have been few attempts to systematically assess how successful enrichment planting will be in the long-term.
description: This study was is based on historical data from Queensland Department of Forestry (QDF) enrichment planting experiments, combined with new data in order to assess the performance of enrichment plantings over the period of a typical cutting cycle of 60 years. The QDF established a large number of enrichment planting experiments (termed ‘experiments’ or ‘Expts’) in logged tropical rainforest between 1952 and 1970. Although the experiments were measured annually until they were abandoned in 1987, the data from these enrichment planting experiments have never been systematically assessed and published.
Citizenship Beyond Liberal Neutrality
Creators: name: Curry, Paul F.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: liberalism
justice
neutrality
citizenship
virtue
autonomy
situationism
character education
immigration
culture
multiculturalism
Rawls
political liberalism
nationalism
patriotism
unity

description: The liberal tradition has borne great fruits since the dawn of the modern era by emphasizing the value of equality and personal liberty, and by developing a theory of rights. Despite its incredible success, many authors have been pointing to fissures in the liberal structure, including practical and theoretical problems with state neutrality, with the state’s stance vis-à-vis different cultures, and with liberalism’s purported radical individualism. It is my belief that the gains of liberalism can be reconciled within a new theory that better answers to such critiques. Citizenship Beyond Liberal Neutrality begins with an analysis of contemporary debate between liberalism and its critics. This leads to a discussion of the state’s relationship toward cultural identities, and to a discussion of the meaning of citizenship within a liberal-democratic state. What we need, I argue, is a civic identity that is both capable of judging cultural practices, and capacious enough for a citizenry characterized by reasonable pluralism. This common identity, moreover, provides a locus for attachment that is often found wanting in contemporary liberal theory. I draw on relevant insights from virtue theories, constitutional patriotism, and an ‘analogical’ understanding of public reason to inform a new, liberal-like conception of citizenship. In order to exemplify this conception, and to bolster the case for it, I consider how such a philosophy could play out with respect to two public policy areas that are central to citizenship, namely education and immigration. Distilled to its simplest, I argue for a theory of citizenship that admits a conception of the good, that can promote virtue while respecting autonomy, and that can provide a basis for civic unity.
An Image Processing and Pattern Analysis Approach for Food Recognition
Creators: name: Pouladzadeh, Parisa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Food recognition
Segmantation
Classification

description: As people across the globe are becoming more interested in watching their weight, eating more healthily, and avoiding obesity, a system that can measure calories and nutrition in everyday meals can be very useful. Recently, there has been an increase in the usage of personal mobile technology such as smartphones or tablets, which users carry with them practically all the time. In this paper, we proposed a food calorie and nutrition measurement system that can help patients and dieticians to measure and manage daily food intake. Our system is built on food image processing and uses nutritional fact tables. Via a special calibration technique, our system uses the built-in camera of such mobile devices and records a photo of the food before and after eating it in order to measure the consumption of calorie and nutrient components. The proposed algorithm used color, texture and contour segmentation and extracted important features such as shape, color, size and texture. Using various combinations of these features and applying a support vector machine as a classifier, a good classification was achieved and simulation results show that the algorithm recognizes food categories with an accuracy rate of 92.2%, on average.
Perceptual and cognitive issues of age-related impairment in complex control environments
Creators: name: Glasgow, Adam D.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Rapid world population aging is increasing incidence of varying forms of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and more severe conditions such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). Labour market downturns are increasingly affecting support for this shift in population demographics. Unfortunately, technology based support solutions are not well adopted by older adults and are often perceived as complex, unfamiliar, distracting and requiring higher levels of perceptual and cognitive effort. In many scenarios, these issues contribute to information overload, errors, poor productivity, frustration, and accidents. Technology Design for Ageing Populations (Transgenerational Gerontechnology) is a growing field with fragmented underpinnings in the literature. This review investigates important issues of age-related cognitive impairment and adoption of technology for interaction in complex control environments through a cognitive ergonomics and interaction design perspective. Hermeneutics, narrative analysis, and analogical reasoning structured the research path. The study was conducted in two main phases consisting of Visual and Cognitive theory & Human Factors of Interaction, followed by Visual and Cognitive Ageing and impact on complex controlled interaction. Current research and theory is related to cognitive engineering and contextual control during different forms of impairment; revealing a gap between what we know about age-affected perception and cognition and what we implement in terms of Interaction design applications. Design training, policy development, legislation and regulatory issues are immediate areas to be addressed in a rapidly changing landscape.
How the three little pigs came to star in Independence Day
Creators: name: Williams, Roz
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis examines how early human stories were about disasters and how they ultimately evolved into today's disaster movie through the influence of European fairy tales. These films are today's fairy tales and are a reflection of how we, as a society, react to the world around us and they show us how to respond in dire circumstances. The research has added to the knowledge about genre and filled a gap in the literature, utilising a jigsaw methodology approach that can help other researchers when faced with scant research material in an area.
Role of Ly49 Receptors on Natural Killer Cells During Influenza Virus Infection
Creators: name: Mahmoud, Ahmad
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Influenza Virus
MHC-I
Natural Killer cells
NK cells

description: Natural killer (NK) cells are lymphocytes of the innate immune system that play a major role in the destruction of both tumours and virally-infected cells. The cytotoxicity of NK cells is tightly controlled by signals received through activating and inhibitory receptors. NK cells express a variety of inhibitory receptors such as Ly49 receptors. Ly49 receptors bind to class I MHC molecules that expressed on normal cells. Using Ly49-deficient (NKCKD) mice we show that Ly49-KD NK cells successfully recognize and kill influenza virus-infected cells and that NKCKD mice exhibit better survival than wild-type mice. Moreover, influenza virus infection has a propensity to upregulate cell surface expression of MHC-I on murine lung epithelial cells in vivo. Significantly, we demonstrate increased lung damage of WT-mice versus NKCKD mice after influenza virus infection as determined by histological analyses. This data indicated that absence of Ly49 inhibitory NK receptors greatly enhances survival of infected mice.
Thucydides and the Plague of Athens (430-426 B.C.)
Creators: name: Rangos, Spyridon
Publisher: name: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Year: 2020

description: In 431 B.C. a war exploded in Greece between the two major political, economic and military powers of the time, Athens and Sparta, and their allies. Generally known as the Peloponnesian War, this great war spanned an entire period of 27 years and led to the total defeat of Athens (404 B.C.). In the summer of 430 B.C., a deadly epidemic broke out in Athens. The first phase of the disease lasted two whole years. In 427 B.C. the epidemic struck back in a somewhat weakened form for about a year. The Athenians lost 5,450 heavy-armed warriors, 300 equestrians of noble birth, a high number of auxiliary soldiers and a still higher of civilians (citizens, resident aliens and slaves). It is estimated that one quarter to almost one third of the entire population passed away (c. 60,000-80,000 people). Our main evidence for the plague of Athens is the work of Thucydides, an Athenian historian and general. For him, it was the greatest epidemic recorded in history. His eye-witness account of the physical symptoms, the psychological impact and the ethical consequences of the plague was much admired in antiquity. What strikes the reader is the lucidity and detached manner of exposition and the historian’s programmatic resistance to enter the field of groundless guesswork about the causes (religious, scientific, or political) of the plague’s spread. Thucydides refrained from all kinds of speculation. His work stands as a paradigm of impassive objectivity, a “possession for all time”, as he wrote. Image Caption: Kerameikos Cemetery, Athens. Photo by Spyridon Rangos
description: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, Contagion - A Podcast Series on Circulation and Pandemic Threats Throughout History
A Data-Driven Framework for Digital Twin Creation in Industrial Environments
Creators: name: Dietz, Marietheres
name: Reichvilser, Thomas
name: Pernul, Günther
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Creation, digital twin, simulation, smart manufacturing
subject: 004 Informatik
subject: 330 Wirtschaft
subject: 670 Industrielle Fertigung

description: Smart manufacturing uses data generated within manufacturing systems to provide intelligent and flexible control of production processes. To realize the vision of smart manufacturing, digital twins play a key role. As a virtual representation of any real-world counterpart, the digital twin enhances various use cases by providing analytical, simulation and replication capabilities. Most research works focus on potential application scenarios for digital twins within manufacturing. Despite its great potential, few works address the generic creation of digital twins within an industrial environment. To fill this gap, we introduce a data-driven framework for digital twin creation in industrial environments. The core creation process of our framework consists of four vital parts, and the respective data required, to build a digital twin. Before data is even acquired, we argue that individual conditions must be set to determine the overall scope. We further address existing interactions and dependencies between components. To validate the framework, several semi-structured expert interviews are carried out. Furthermore, related works are identified using a systematic literature review - followed by a comparison to our proposed framework.
Investigating the Response of Light-Frame Wood Stud Walls with and Without Boundary Connections to Blast Loads
Creators: name: Viau, Christian
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: wood
blast
light-frame
single degree-of-freedom
shock tube
high strain rates
connections
retrofits
sequence of failure
debris

description: Most of the research on high strain rate effects on wood since the 1950s has been on impact loading. Very limited work has been conducted on full-scale wood specimens under blast loading. In North America, the prevalence of these structures makes them susceptible to unintended blast effects. The question on how to retrofit and protect these structures against blast loads has still not been addressed adequately, and design provisions for new wood structures against blast are not comprehensive. Far-field explosion effects were simulated using the University of Ottawa shock tube. Twenty-five light-frame wood stud walls were tested dynamically. The research program aimed to determine the response of light-frame wood stud walls to blast loads that correspond to the heavy to blow-out damage levels. The results showed that, under idealized simply supported end conditions, the stud walls failed in flexure. Under heavier loads, ripping of sheathing commonly used in light-frame wood structures was observed, which caused premature failure of the assembly because the load was not fully distributed to the studs. The use of stiffer sheathing or reinforcing the sheathing provided a better load path and the wall was capable of reaching its full capacity. The effect of using realistic boundary connection details was investigated, and the results showed that typical connection detailing performed poorly under blast loads. Designed steel brackets connecting the studs to the rim-joist allowed for the studs to reach their full capacity. An analytical single degree-of-freedom model was generated using material properties obtained from static testing. The model was validated using the experimental results from the shock tube testing. Also, a catcher system consisting of welded-wire-mesh was incorporated into the wall system in order to diminish debris throw.
Disposing of corpses during World War I
Creators: name: Fathi, Romain
Publisher: name: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Year: 2020

description: Belligerents that took part in the First World War could not have anticipated the lethality of the conflict. Within a few weeks of the war’s outbreak, armies were overwhelmed with corpses. Their existing policies and logistics to dispose of dead bodies were insufficient. As corpses piled up, they became a real epidemiological threat. Armies were relatively mobile, and it was feared that contagion from corpses to soldiers could also spread to civilian populations. When corpses putrefy, bacteria multiply and corpses become agents for the propagation of pathogens, particularly if the bodies were infected with typhoid, cholera or dysentery prior to their death. As a result of the threat posed by unprecedented number of corpses, First World War armies set up what I refer to as ‘body disposal policies and practices’. Those were created and trialled to dispose of corpses as efficiently and safely as possible through mass graves and cremation for instance, mobilising many soldiers, gravediggers and complex logistics. Image Caption: The Western Front, 1914–1918. German and British dead being buried by British prisoners and German soldiers. Soldiers on the left (and one British prisoner) probably collecting dog tags from the British dead. Credits: IWM non-commercial licence (https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205082933)
description: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, Contagion - A Podcast Series on Circulation and Pandemic Threats Throughout History
Das Batteriegesetz-Melderegister des Umweltbundesamtes
Creators: name: Leibner, Florian
name: Stückroth, Peter
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Batteriegesetz
subject: Altbatterie
subject: Batteriegesetz-Melderegister
subject: BattG
subject: BattG-Melderegister
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen

description: Nach dem Batteriegesetz (BattG) sind alle Hersteller von Batterien unter anderem verpflichtet, ihre Marktteilnahme gegenüber dem Umweltbundesamt (⁠UBA⁠) elektronisch anzuzeigen. Um dieser Pflicht möglichst unkompliziert und effizient nachkommen zu können, stellt das UBA seit dem Jahr 2009 das BattG-Melderegister zur Verfügung. Dieser Flyer beschreibt in kurzer und prägnanter Form die Verfahrensweise und benennt einige interessante Daten zum BattG-Melderegister.
Supplementary document for Probing neuronal functions with precise and targeted laser ablation in the living cortex - 5307641.pdf
Creators: name: Cheng, Zongyue
name: Han, Yiyong
name: Wei, Bowen
name: Cui, Meng
name: gan, wenbiao
name: Lai, Baoling
name: Li, Baoming
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental information
Lesbians and Space: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis
Creators: name: Prest, Dayna
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: lesbian studies
lesbian-feminism
heteronormativity
heterosexism
queer theories
white privilege studies
Ontario

description: In a moment when visibility and representations of LGBTTQAI+ people are proliferating in North American society, it is important to think critically about how visibility and representations function and to interrogate their meanings and a/effects. This thesis uses data produced from five semi-structured interviews conducted with lesbian identified participants living in non-urban spaces in Ontario to demonstrate the importance of a continued lesbian specificity, to draw attention to heteronormativity and heterosexism in Ontarian society, to challenge femme invisibility and complicate the notion of femme privilege, and to move beyond the urban/rural binary as a way of making sense of sexuality. The methodological framework guiding this thesis draws on interpretive phenomenological analysis as well as feminist and queer methodologies, which facilitated a responsive and reflexive research process. This thesis is grounded in ongoing debates around identity politics and representation, drawing on literature from lesbian theories, lesbian-feminist histories, queer theories, heterosexism, heteronormativity and homonormativity, lesbian-feminist histories, white privilege studies, queer and feminist geography, and LGBTTQAI+ rural studies.
Alcoholism treatment digest (Release No. 91, October 15, 1968)
Creators: name: Keller, Mark
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1968

description: The Alcoholism Treatment Digest was a subscription-based publication prepared for special clients by the editorial department of the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol / Journal of Studies on Alcohol from 1950 to 1973 with Mark Keller as editor. It was published in February, April, June, October, and December, summarizing scholarly content on four topics, available to republish with attribution. Some of the reviews were simultaneously published in the "Connecticut Review on Alcoholism" under the identical subtitle "Alcoholism Treatment Digest" every other month. The authors of the reviews were first noted in 1964, in the June issue.Contents, Release No. 911.The Alcoholic in Industry: Recognition and Treatment on the Job 2.Inpatient Versus Outpatient Treatment for Alcoholics3.The Alcoholic in the Day Hospital4.Use of Nonprofessionals in Alcoholism Therapy 5.Treating Alcoholics in General Hospitals
Supplementary document for Probing neuronal functions with precise and targeted laser ablation in the living cortex - 5307641.pdf
Creators: name: Cheng, Zongyue
name: Han, Yiyong
name: Wei, Bowen
name: Cui, Meng
name: gan, wenbiao
name: Lai, Baoling
name: Li, Baoming
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental information
The Turks and the Plague in the 18th Century
Creators: name: Thomson, Ann
Publisher: name: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Year: 2020

description: Eighteenth-century European views of the Ottomans reveal a complex set of politico-religious interests, as the Ottoman Empire declined militarily and gradually became less an object of fear. It was associated with certain clichéd images, in particular of despotism and fanaticism. Among these associations was the prevalence of the plague, which was endemic in many parts of the Ottoman empire, while after 1720 it no longer ravaged Europe. While this situation was often explained by the climate, many authors associated the prevalence of the plague with what they called Turkish “fatalism”, claiming that the Muslim belief in predestination prevented governments and individuals from taking any of the precautions against the disease used by Europeans. Thus the plague became part of the stock of anti-Turkish arguments, used in the justifications for political alignments in the Mediterranean. In the 1780s, an anti-Turkish author like the Frenchman Volney opposed those who supported the Ottomans as a bulwark against Russian expansionism, and argued for their expulsion from Europe and the Mediterranean; he went as far as identifying the Turks with the contagion, claiming that it was brought from Istanbul and had never been known in the Mediterranean before the arrival of the Turks. Image caption: Byzantium, nunc Constantinopolis, Georg Braun, Franz Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Köln, ca. 1572), Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum [VD16 B 7169] (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
description: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, Contagion - A Podcast Series on Circulation and Pandemic Threats Throughout History
Correction to: The International/Canadian Hereditary Angioedema Guideline
Creators: name: Betschel, Stephen
name: Badiou, Jacquie
name: Binkley, Karen
name: Borici-Mazi, Rozita
name: Hébert, Jacques
name: Kanani, Amin
name: Keith, Paul
name: Lacuesta, Gina
name: Waserman, Susan
name: Yang, Bill
name: Aygören-Pürsün, Emel
name: Bernstein, Jonathan
name: Bork, Konrad
name: Caballero, Teresa
name: Cicardi, Marco
name: Craig, Timothy
name: Farkas, Henriette
name: Grumach, Anete
name: Katelaris, Connie
name: Longhurst, Hilary
name: Riedl, Marc
name: Zuraw, Bruce
name: Berger, Magdelena
name: Boursiquot, Jean-Nicolas
name: Boysen, Henrik
name: Castaldo, Anthony
name: Chapdelaine, Hugo
name: Connors, Lori
name: Fu, Lisa
name: Goodyear, Dawn
name: Haynes, Alison
name: Kamra, Palinder
name: Kim, Harold
name: Lang-Robertson, Kelly
name: Leith, Eric
name: McCusker, Christine
name: Moote, Bill
name: O’Keefe, Andrew
name: Othman, Ibraheem
name: Poon, Man-Chiu
name: Ritchie, Bruce
name: St-Pierre, Charles
name: Stark, Donald
name: Tsai, Ellie
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.
Supplementary document for SERS Fluctuations Of NAD Molecule Adsorbed On Arrays Of Au Nanocylinders - 5307671.pdf
Creators: name: Magalhaes, Filipe
name: Jaimes, Ruth
name: Corio, Paola
name: Salcedo, Walter Jaimes
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: 43489_Suppl_FBM
Fertility preservation strategy in advanced ovarian cancer: A case report
Creators: name: Ozdemir Tas, Derya
name: Yuksel, Yasemin
name: Kurdoglu, Zehra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ovarian germ cell tumors arise from the primary germ cells located within the ovary. These tumors may manifest as either non-malignant, exemplified by mature teratomas, or malignant, dysgerminomas, yolk sac tumors, and mixed germ cell neoplasms. In this case presentation, we describe a patient who, at the age of 24, underwent a fertility-preserving approach (egg and embryo freezing) due to the suspicion of malignancy in the remaining ovary during routine check-ups, while in remission from an immature teratoma (grade 2). The patient received in vitro fertilization treatment, and a random-start ovarian stimulation protocol was applied with GnRH antagonist and aromatase inhibitor. Subsequently, egg retrieval and embryo freezing procedures were performed. After the removal of the suspected cyst and left salpingectomy operation six months later, the patient underwent a frozen embryo transfer. Pregnancy and live birth occurred for a woman who had been in ovarian cancer remission for ten years. This case report demonstrates that patients with malignant ovarian germ cell tumors can become pregnant and give birth if they wish.
Microwave-assisted production of solid lipid nanoparticles
Creators: name: Shah, Rohan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Rohan’s thesis focussed on the development of a novel microwave-assisted procedure to prepare lipid-based colloidal drug carriers called solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs). SLNs are an attractive alternative to traditional drug carriers due to the use of biocompatible lipid materials, their solid nature, nanometre size and drug release properties. An array of drugs was encapsulated using this innovative technique and their characterization, cellular uptake, drug release behaviour and stability were investigated. Upon development this method would facilitate fabrication of SLNs for use as potential drug carriers.
Analysis of bluetooth and zigbee signal penetration and interference in foliage
Creators: name: Mathew, Kuruvilla
name: Tabassum, Mujahid
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Signal penetration in the 2.4 GHz band, in terrains with thick foliage Is known to be an Issue. However, It is necessary to establish efficient wireless communication in this type of regions as well, both for the improved ernciency of sensor networks deployed for research and monitoring and also for the advancement In connectivity for suclo-economic data networks.. A study Is initiated and presented in this paper to analyse the actual effect of foliage on the 2.4GHz band, which is currently the most common signal frequency used for wireless connectivity. The study revealed a signal drop of more than 83% from the best case scenario, without obstacles or interference, to the worst case scenario in a jungle terrain with thick foliagc and interference, as chosen for this study.
Supplementary document for SERS Fluctuations Of NAD Molecule Adsorbed On Arrays Of Au Nanocylinders - 5307671.pdf
Creators: name: Magalhaes, Filipe
name: Jaimes, Ruth
name: Corio, Paola
name: Salcedo, Walter Jaimes
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: 43489_Suppl_FBM
Towards Sustainable Cloud Computing: Reducing Electricity Cost and Carbon Footprint for Cloud Data Centers through Geographical and Temporal Shifting of Workloads
Creators: name: Le, Trung
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Green IT
Sustainability
Cloud Computing
Energy Tradeoff
Energy-aware Scheduling
Geographical Workload Distribution
Temporal Workload Distribution
Time-varying Emission Intensity

description: Cloud Computing presents a novel way for businesses to procure their IT needs. Its elasticity and on-demand provisioning enables a shift from capital expenditures to operating expenses, giving businesses the technological agility they need to respond to an ever-changing marketplace. The rapid adoption of Cloud Computing, however, poses a unique challenge to Cloud providers—their already very large electricity bill and carbon footprint will get larger as they expand; managing both costs is therefore essential to their growth. This thesis squarely addresses the above challenge. Recognizing the presence of Cloud data centers in multiple locations and the differences in electricity price and emission intensity among these locations and over time, we develop an optimization framework that couples workload distribution with time-varying signals on electricity price and emission intensity for financial and environmental benefits. The framework is comprised of an optimization model, an aggregate cost function, and 6 scheduling heuristics. To evaluate cost savings, we run simulations with 5 data centers located across North America over a period of 81 days. We use historical data on electricity price, emission intensity, and workload collected from market operators and research data archives. We find that our framework can produce substantial cost savings, especially when workloads are distributed both geographically and temporally—up to 53.35% on electricity cost, or 29.13% on carbon cost, or 51.44% on electricity cost and 13.14% on carbon cost simultaneously.
Die Berechnung umweltbedingter Krankheitslasten auf dem Prüfstand Ergebnisse des Forschungsprojektes EBD-review
Creators: name: Kallweit, Dagmar
name: Srebotnjak, Tanja
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015

description: Das vorgestellte Forschungsprojekt EBDreview hatte zum Ziel, die methodischen Stärken und Grenzen des EBD-Konzepts herauszuarbeiten,kritisch zu analysieren und dem Umweltbundesamt (UBA) notwendige Informationen für zukünftige Berechnungen umweltbedingterKrankheitslasten für Deutschland bereitzustellen. Methodische Änderungen am EBD-Konzept, die im Rahmen der GBD2010 veröffentlichtworden sind, wurden berücksichtigt. Zu den Stärken und Grenzen der Methode wurden tabellarische Auswertungen erarbeitet. Dabei wurdenfolgende Aspekte berücksichtigt: die Verwendung einer Standard-Lebenserwartung, Altersverteilung und -gewichtung, Diskontierungkünftiger Lebensjahre, Ableitung von Gewichtungsfaktoren für den Schweregrad einer gesundheitlichen Einschränkung (Disability Weights)sowie die Spezifizierung von attributablen Risiken und Expositions-Wirkungs-Funktionen (EWFs). Zusätzlich wurde ein methodischerAnsatz für die Auswahl aktuell und zukünftig wichtiger Umweltstressoren für Deutschland vorgestellt und eine Liste der vorhandenen undnoch fehlenden Gewichtungsfaktoren für die mit ihnen assoziierten Gesundheitsendpunkte erstellt.
In: Kallweit, Dagmar [Deutschland. Umweltbundesamt]; Srebotnjak, Tanja: Die Berechnung umweltbedingter Krankheitslasten auf dem Prüfstand Ergebnisse des Forschungsprojektes EBD-review [Elektronische Ressource] / Dagmar Kallweit ; Tanja Srebotnjak. - In: UMID.- (2015), H.12, S. 46
description: The EBDreview research project was conducted with the aim to better understand the strengths and limitations of the WHO method forestimating the environmental burden of disease (EBD). It critically analysed them from the German perspective and provided necessaryinformation to the German Federal Environment Agency for future quantifications of disease burden attributable to important environmentalstressors. In doing so, the project also considered methodological changes introduced by the recently published 2010 Global Burdenof Disease study (GBD2010). The project produced tabular evaluations of the strengths and limitations of the method, including the use ofstandard life expectancies, ageweighting, discounting future life years, the derivation of disability weights (DWs), and the specification ofattributable risks and exposure-effect functions (EWFs). A methodological approach was tested for selecting important current and futureenvironmental stressors for Germany and a list of existing and still lacking disability weights was developed for the health endpoints associatedwith these stressors.In: Kallweit, Dagmar [Deutschland. Umweltbundesamt]; Srebotnjak, Tanja: Die Berechnung umweltbedingter Krankheitslasten auf dem Prüfstand Ergebnisse des Forschungsprojektes EBD-review [Elektronische Ressource] / Dagmar Kallweit ; Tanja Srebotnjak. - In: UMID. - (2015), H.12, S. 46