cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Au fil des ans, l'Union catholique des fermières de la province d'Ontario, de 1936 à 1945.
Creators: name: Huneault, Estelle.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: History, Church.

description: L'Union Catholique des Fermieres de la province d'Ontario connue aujourd'hui sous le nom de l'Union Culturelle des Franco-Ontariennes, oeuvre depuis soixante ans dans les milieux francophones de la province de l'Ontario. Notre these etudie un domaine peu explore concernant les circonstances qui ont incite les femmes rurales franco-ontariennes des annees trente a se regrouper au sein de cette association autonome, francophone et catholique. Nous avons tente de demontrer que les luttes de pouvoir entre la hierarchie catholique et les dirigeants de l'Etat quebecois ont eu des repercussions sur l'organisation et l'orientation qui a ete prise par l'Union Catholique des Fermieres en Ontario. Adoptant une approche feministe materialiste denoncant l'appropriation des femmes par le patriarcat, notre analyse a en effet permis de confirmer que les pouvoirs etatiques et ecclesiastiques se sont appropries le mouvement des femmes rurales franco-ontariennes pour en faire une organisation selon leurs conceptions du role des femmes de l'epoque.
Almost an Englishman: Black and British Identities in Three Contemporary British Novels
Creators: name: Snider, Caleb
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Black Studies.
subject: Literature, English.

description: This project describes the work of three contemporary British novelists as they explore the possibility of self-identifying as black and British in contemporary Britain, despite the prevalence of racist attitudes that hold that these two identities are mutually exclusive. The three novels examined -- The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi, White Teeth by Zadie Smith, and Brick Lane by Monica Ali -- present black protagonists who self-identify as British. While other characters in the novels either conform to assimilationist or diasporic models of identity, where the subject seeks to expunge all "black" characteristics in favour of conforming to stereotypical "white" cultural norms, or retreat from "white" characteristics into an essentialized version of the values of their "home" countries, Karim, Irie, and Nazneen establish spaces for themselves within British society that allow them to try on different identities. By acknowledging the variability of identity, all three protagonists are able to self-identify as being both black and British.
LOFAR imaging of Cygnus A - direct detection of a turnover in the hotspot radio spectra
Creators: name: McKean, J. P.
name: Godfrey, L. E.H.
name: Vegetti, S.
name: Wise, M. W.
name: Morganti, R.
name: Hardcastle, M. J.
name: Rafferty, D.
name: Anderson, J.
name: Avruch, I. M.
name: Beck, R.
name: Bell, M. E.
name: van Bemmel, I.
name: Bentum, M. J.
name: Bernardi, G.
name: Best, P.
name: Blaauw, R.
name: Bonafede, A.
name: Breitling, F.
name: Broderick, J. W.
name: Brüggen, M.
name: Cerrigone, L.
name: Ciardi, B.
name: de Gasperin, F.
name: Deller, Adam
name: Duscha, S.
name: Engels, D.
name: Falcke, H.
name: Fallows, R. A.
name: Frieswijk, W.
name: Garrett, M. A.
name: Grießmeier, J. M.
name: van Haarlem, M. P.
name: Heald, G.
name: Hoeft, M.
name: van der, HorstA J.
name: Iacobelli, M.
name: Interna, H.
name: Juette, E.
name: Karastergiou, A.
name: Kondratiev, V. I.
name: Koopmans, L. V.E.
name: Kuniyoshi, M.
name: Kuper, G.
name: van Leeuwen, J.
name: Maat, P.
name: Mann, G.
name: Markoff, S.
name: McFadden, R.
name: McKay-Bukowski, D.
name: Mulcahy, D. D.
name: Munk, H.
name: Nelles, A.
name: Orru, E.
name: Paas, H.
name: Pandey-Pommier, M.
name: Pietka, M.
name: Pizzo, R.
name: Polatidis, A. G.
name: Reich, W.
name: Rottgering, H. J.A.
name: Rowlinson, A.
name: Scaife, A. M.M.
name: Serylak, M.
name: Shulevski, A.
name: Sluman, J.
name: Smirnov, O.
name: Steinmetz, M.
name: Stewart, A.
name: Swinbank, J.
name: Tagger, M.
name: Thoudam, S.
name: Toribio, M. C.
name: Vermeulen, R.
name: Vocks, C.
name: van Weeren, R. J.
name: Wucknitz, O.
name: Yatawatta, S.
name: Zarka, P.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The low-frequency radio spectra of the hotspots within powerful radio galaxies can provide valuable information about the physical processes operating at the site of the jet termination. These processes are responsible for the dissipation of jet kinetic energy, particle acceleration, and magnetic-field generation. Here, we report new observations of the powerful radio galaxy Cygnus A using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) between 109 and 183 MHz, at an angular resolution of ∼3.5 arcsec. The radio emission of the lobes is found to have a complex spectral index distribution, with a spectral steepening found towards the centre of the source. For the first time, a turnover in the radio spectrum of the two main hotspots of Cygnus A has been directly observed. By combining our LOFAR imaging with data from the Very Large Array at higher frequencies, we show that the very rapid turnover in the hotspot spectra cannot be explained by a low-energy cut-off in the electron energy distribution, as has been previously suggested. Thermal (free–free) absorption or synchrotron self-absorption models are able to describe the low-frequency spectral shape of the hotspots; however, as with previous studies, we find that the implied model parameters are unlikely, and interpreting the spectra of the hotspots remains problematic.
Fractured Consensus : Domestic Polarization and the Erosion of U.S. Global Leadership
Creators: name: Kanji, Kamil
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2025

description: This thesis examines how domestic political polarization in the United States may contribute to the erosion of U.S. global leadership. Using a longitudinal analysis of foreign policy actions from 1993 to 2023, it traces patterns of policy instability, declining international trust, and weakening global influence. Drawing from hegemonic stability theory, the study uses process tracing, institutional coding, and global opinion surveys to assess whether polarization aligns with observable shifts in U.S. credibility abroad. While not asserting causality, the analysis highlights how internal fragmentation correlates with foreign policy volatility and reputational uncertainty—raising questions about the long-term durability of American hegemony in a polarized era.
The Effects of Ethanol Extract from The Seeds, Leaves and Barks of Picralima Nitida On. Leucocytic Indices in Albino Rats
Creators: name: Stella N.K
name: Leticia I.O
name: Chidiebere I.I
name: Johnkennedy N
Publisher: name: gjrpublication
Year: 2024

description: Picralima nitida is widely used in West African traditional medicine for treating various blood related disorders including anaemia and diabetes. Despite substantial scientific evidence validating the ethno-medical use of different parts of this plant. This study was designed to investigate the haematinic values, and the safety profile of ethanol extracts of leaf, seed and bark of P. nitida in PHZ induced anaemic Wistar rats, by evaluating the effects on the leucocytic indices (total white blood cell (WBC) count, differential leucocyte count (lymphocyte, monocyte and granulocyte) A total of one hundred and ninety apparently healthy Wistar rats, weighing between 150-180 grams were used. The animals were randomly divided into 9 experimental groups: A-I, representing normal, negative and positive controls, as well as 200 and 400 mg/kg doses of leaf, seed and stem bark extracts of P. nitida respectively. Blood samples were evaluated at days 7, 14, and 21 following the oral administration of the different treatments post induction.The different extracts showed varied abilities in restoring the abnormal increases in WBC and demonstrated significant recovery from PHZ induced reductions in RBC, and PCV. All the extracts significantly ameliorated the negative impacts of PHZ on the leucocytic indices of the Wistar rats, albeit not at the same strength.
title: Variable selection for supervised and semi-supervised mixtures of contaminated Gaussian distributions
Creators: name: Sanchez Gomez, Jorge Alfredo
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2024

description: Finite mixture models have the advantage of being versatile modelling tools for grouped data (B¨ohning, 2000; Fraley and Raftery, 1998b; McLachlan and Basford, 1988). This has led them to be applied in a variety of settings such as classification and clustering problems. Like any model, they have assumptions and limitations. One of the assumptions that is common, is that there are no contaminated observations present in the data (or in the classes/clusters) (Barnett et al., 1994; Becker and Gather, 1999; Bock, 2002; Gallegos and Ritter, 2009).

A popular approach to deal with this is a finite mixture model with contaminated Gaussian component distributions (Punzo and McNicholas, 2016). Each contaminated Gaussian models the data with two components, one for non-contaminated and one for contaminated data. However, a limitation of the contaminated Gaussian mixture model is that, as a complex and usually highly-parameterised model, it is not very suitable for data with a very large number of variables. The purpose of the current thesis is to extend the applicability of this model to this type of data.

In order to preserve the original variables, rather than looking at projection methods, a greedy search (Meek, 1997) approach for variable selection is customized for a mixture of contaminated Gaussian distributions in the supervised and semi-supervised learning framework. The performance of this approach in both settings is explored in both simulated and plasmode data. The criterion used to choose variables is based on classification performance. The results show that incorporating these criterion in the tailored variable selection algorithm in most cases improved the classification performance in comparison with using all variables (and often over use of the set of variables in simulations known to be the true class separating variables). Nevertheless, the performance in identifying contaminated samples was more mixed. The proposed variable selection procedure removed some variables that do not contain class information but contain contamination information. As a result, hurting the ability of the model in identifying contaminated samples specially in cases where is highly likely the presence of contamination in all variables. To summarize, the proposed variable selection algorithm seemed to perform well in both supervised and semi-supervised settings in terms of classification. However, the performance in predicting contaminated samples depends on the type of contamination and its association with class separation. There is a slight decrease in predicting contaminated samples in cases where the contamination is present in all the variables.
Safeguarding of Fetal Growth by Mast Cells and Natural Killer Cells
Creators: name: Meyer, Nicole
name: Woidacki, Katja
name: Maurer, Marcus
name: Zenclussen, Ana Claudia
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: natural killer cells
subject: mast cells
subject: mast cell-specific proteases
subject: spiral arteries
subject: counter-regulation
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Uterine natural killer cells (uNKs) and mast cells (uMCs) are of crucial importance for spiral artery (SA) remodeling and placentation. Mice deficient for both NKs and MCs including uNKs and uMCs show markedly impaired SA remodeling and their fetuses are growth-retarded. In contrast, the absence of either NKs or MCs results in only minor impairment. This suggests that uNKs can compensate for the effects of uMCs on SA remodeling and vice versa. To test this hypothesis, we assessed uNK numbers in uMC-deficient mice as well as uMC numbers in uNK-depleted mice. Notably, uMC-deficient C57BL/6J-KitW-sh/W-sh (W-sh) mice showed markedly increased numbers of uNKs in contrast to wild type, and the transfer of bone marrow-derived MCs reverted this phenotype. Vice versa, uNK-deficient C57BL/6NTac-IL15tm1ImxN5 (IL-15−/−) mice had significantly increased numbers of uMCs and MC-specific proteases. Our results suggest that uNKs and uMCs can counterbalance their effects at the feto–maternal interface and jointly promote SA remodeling and placentation.
Implementation of service robots in Swiss hospitals and hotels : an investigation of the barriers to use
Creators: name: Merkle, Thorsten
name: Jeanfavre, Elsa
name: Gerber, Nicole
name: Braun, Lisa
name: Kornsteiner, Tania
name: Umbricht, Benedikt
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2023
Subjects: Service robot
Hospitality
Hotel
Hospital
Switzerland
362.11: Krankenhäuser und verwandte Einrichtungen
647: Grosshaushaltsführung

description: This poster delves into the realm of service robots within the context of Swiss hospitality, focusing on both hospitals and hotels. The study uncovers potential applications for service robots, ranging from medical deliveries in hospitals to enhancing guest experiences in hotels. Furthermore, it identifies and examines the barriers of to the use of service robots into the hospitality landscape. The research not only sheds light on the dynamics between humans and robots but also delves into the technological concerns, the establishments' culture, economical barriers and architectural limitations. While the study offers valuable insights into the Swiss scenario, it acknowledges the limitations of a regional sample. Ultimately, this endeavor contributes to a deeper understanding of the opportunities and obstacles in harnessing service robots to augment hospitality services in Switzerland.
Anemia prevalence and incidence and red blood cell transfusion practices in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: results of a multicenter cohort study
Creators: name: English, Shane W
name: Chassé, Michaël
name: Turgeon, Alexis F
name: Lauzier, François
name: Griesdale, Donald
name: Garland, Allan
name: Fergusson, Dean
name: Zarychanski, Ryan
name: Van Walraven, Carl
name: Montroy, Kaitlyn
name: Ziegler, Jennifer
name: Dupont-Chouinard, Raphael
name: Carignan, Raphaëlle
name: Dhaliwal, Andy
name: Mallick, Ranjeeta
name: Sinclair, John
name: Boutin, Amélie
name: Pagliarello, Giuseppe
name: Tinmouth, Alan
name: McIntyre, Lauralyn
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Background: Whether a restrictive strategy for red blood cell (RBC) transfusion is applied to patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) is unclear. To inform the design and conduct of a future clinical trial, we sought to describe transfusion practices, hemoglobin (Hb) triggers, and predictors of RBC transfusion in patients with aSAH. Methods: This is a retrospective cohort study of all consecutively admitted adult patients with aSAH at four tertiary care centers from January 1, 2012, to December 31, 2013. Patients were identified from hospital administrative discharge records and existing local aSAH databases. Data collection by trained abstractors included demographic data, aSAH characteristics, Hb and transfusion data, other major aSAH cointerventions, and outcomes using a pretested case report form with standardized procedures. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize data, and regression models were used to identify associations between anemia, transfusion, and other relevant predictors and outcome. Results: A total of 527 patients met inclusion eligibility. Mean (±SD) age was 57 ± 13 years, and 357 patients (67.7%) were female. The median modified Fisher grade was 4 (IQR 3–4). Mean nadir Hb was 98 ± 20 g/L and occurred on median admission day 4 (IQR 2–11). RBC transfusion occurred in 100 patients (19.0%). Transfusion rates varied across centers (12.1–27.4%, p = 0.02). Patients received a median of 1 RBC unit (IQR 1–2) per transfusion episode and a median total of 2 units (IQR 1–4). Median pretransfusion Hb for first transfusion was 79 g/L (IQR 74–93) and did not vary substantially across centers (78–82 g/L, p = 0.37). Of patients with nadir Hb < 80 g/L, 66.3% received a transfusion compared with 2.0% with Hb nadir ≥ 100 g/L (p < 0.0001). Predictors of transfusion were history of oral anticoagulant use, anterior circulation aneurysm, neurosurgical clipping, and lower Hb. Controlling for numerous potential confounders, transfusion was not independently associated with poor outcome. Conclusions: We observed that moderate anemia remains very common early in admission following SAH. Only one-fifth of patients with SAH received RBC transfusions, mostly in cases of significant anemia (Hb < 80 g/L), and this did not appear to be associated with outcome.
Study of scattering material with radioastron-vlbi observations
Creators: name: Andrianov, Andrey
name: Smirnova, T. V.
name: Shishov, V. I.
name: Popov, M. V.
name: Kardashev, N. S.
name: Soglasnov, V. I.
name: Gwinn, C.
name: Johnson, M.
name: Bignall, H.
name: Deller, Adam
name: Kramer, M.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The RadioAstron spacecraft presents an unique opportunity to measure properties of interstellar scattering. Pulsars offer a variety of observables for study of interstellar scattering. Observations of scattering of nearby pulsars and intra-day variable quasars point to the existence of a component of the interstellar medium (ISM) which has properties quite different from the more distant, diffuse ISM. We observed several nearby pulsars as part of RadioAstron's Early Science Program (ESP). These included pulsars B0950+08, B1919+21 and B0329+54. We present here some results concerning the distribution and properties of scattering material in the direction to these pulsars obtained with cosmic interferometer.
title: Importancia del TCMD en el estudi preoperatorio de pacientes sometidos a cirugia hepática extrema.
Creators: name: Soriano Viladomiu, Jorge
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Metastases
subject: CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Abdomen
subject: Liver

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
En los últimos años la cirugía de las metástasis hepáticas a experimentado un aumento de sus indicaciones,
apareciendo técnicas quirúrgicas que permiten realizar resecciones en pacientes hasta hace poco considerados irresecables.
En este...
Arbeits‐ und Erwerbsunfähigkeit, Massstäbe und Werturteile : Gutachten zuhanden Coop Rechtsschutz AG
Creators: name: Egli, Philipp
name: Filippo, Martina
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2023
Subjects: Gutachten
Arbeitnehmer
Arbeitsunfähigkeit
344: Öffentliches Recht (CH), Arbeits-, Sozial-, Bildungs- und Kulturrecht

description: Die Coop Rechtsschutz AG (Auftraggeberin) ist im Alltag immer wieder mit Einschätzungen von IV‐Stellen, Regionalen Ärztlichen Diensten (RAD) und medizinischen Fachpersonen zur Arbeitsunfähigkeit konfrontiert, die für die Auftraggeberin, ihre Versicherten und deren Anwältinnen und Anwälte nicht nachvollziehbar erscheinen. [...]
Die Auftraggeberin hat uns beauftragt, die Massstäbe und Werturteile von Arbeitsunfähigkeitseinschätzungen im vorliegenden Gutachten zu untersuchen. Dazu sind zunächst die Begriffe der Arbeits‐ und der Erwerbsunfähigkeit zu klären (B.), anschliessend ist der Wandel dieser Begriffe im Lauf der Zeit aufzuzeigen (C.), bevor eine Standortbestimmung vorgenommen werden kann und Lösungsansätze entworfen werden können (D.). Diese Lösungsansätze sind darauf angelegt, in einem interdisziplinären Team diskutiert und vertieft zu werden. Abschliessend wird das soeben erwähnte Fallbeispiel gestützt auf die Erkenntnisse des Gutachtens kurz eingeordnet. Zudem werden die Ergebnisse des Gutachtens zusammengefasst (E.). Die Ausführungen beziehen sich – soweit nicht anders vermerkt – auf die Invalidenversicherung. Das vorliegende Gutachten schliesst an unser Gutachten am 1. Weissenstein Symposium an, das als Buchpublikation open access für die Öffentlichkeit verfügbar ist.
Für allgemeine Ausführungen zur Invaliditätsbemessung wird auf diese Publikation verwiesen. Sie werden nachfolgend vorausgesetzt.  
Stand der Ausführungen ist Mitte Oktober 2023.
title: COLEPERITONEO: Causa olvidada de abdomen agudo
Creators: name: Canales Lachén, Elena
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: CT
subject: Complications

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Mostrar los hallazgos de imagen por Tomografía Computarizada (TC) que pueden alertar del coleperitoneo ante un abdomen agudo y las claves para su diagnóstico...
title: Enfermedad hidatídica: No solo en hígado y en pulmón.
Creators: name: Gijón de la Santa, Luis
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Parasites
subject: CT
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Abdomen

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Realizar una revisión por imagen con TCMD de la afectación hidatídica extrahepática y...
Potential cooling of an accretion-heated neutron star crust in the low-mass X-ray binary 1RXS J180408.9−342058
Creators: name: Parikh, A. S.
name: Wijnands, R.
name: Degenaar, N.
name: Ootes, L. S.
name: Page, D.
name: Altamirano, D.
name: Cackett, E. M.
name: Deller, Adam
name: Gusinskaia, N.
name: Hessels, J. W. T.
name: Homan, J.
name: Linares, M.
name: Miller, J. M.
name: Miller-Jones, J. C. A.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We have monitored the transient neutron star low-mass X-ray binary 1RXS J180408.9-342058 in quiescence after its ∼4.5 month outburst in 2015. The source has been observed using Swift and XMM–Newton. Its X-ray spectra were dominated by a thermal component. The thermal evolution showed a gradual X-ray luminosity decay from ∼18 × 1032 to ∼4 × 1032 (D/5.8 kpc)2 erg s-1 between ∼8 and ∼379 d in quiescence, and the inferred neutron star surface temperature (for an observer at infinity; using a neutron star atmosphere model) decreased from ∼100 to ∼71 eV. This can be interpreted as cooling of an accretion-heated neutron star crust. Modelling the observed temperature curve (using nscool) indicated that the source required ∼1.9 MeV per accreted nucleon of shallow heating in addition to the standard deep crustal heating to explain its thermal evolution. Alternatively, the decay could also be modelled without the presence of deep crustal heating, only having a shallow heat source (again ∼1.9 MeV per accreted nucleon was required). However, the XMM–Newton data statistically required an additional power-law component. This component contributed ∼30 per cent of the total unabsorbed flux in 0.5–10 keV energy range. The physical origin of this component is unknown. One possibility is that it arises from low-level accretion. The presence of this component in the spectrum complicates our cooling crust interpretation because it might indicate that the smooth luminosity and temperature decay curves we observed may not be due to crust cooling but due to some other process.
Self-similar traffic modeling and Clos-like packet switch architectures
Creators: name: Taebi Harandi, Sareh
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: Two methods of generating self-similar Internet traffic are reported in this document. The first method uses Heavy-tailed Pareto distribution and generates fixed length packets, while the second method focuses on Fractional Gaussian Noise as means of generating variable-length packets. Various testing have been performed on the traffic to corroborate its self-similarity and measure relevant statistics. Using the self-similar traffic environment, the performance of a sectored three-stage packet switch architecture is evaluated which benefits from both photonic and electronic technologies and provides variable bandwidth between sector pairs by changing the configuration of the photonic centre stage according to arriving traffic. This architecture reduces complexity, at the price of a modest spatial speed-up, which is easy to provide with photonic technology. As an alternative to reconfiguration, a novel load-balancing Clos-like architecture and method without miss-sequencing is proposed. The architecture involves no central schedulers and is implemented by distributing cross-point queues over all elements of the switch and deploying pollers to select the queues to be served. This method is simple and practical and shows delay performance that approaches that of an ideal output queued switch.
title: Resonancia Magnética Funcional como complemento en la planificación neuro-quirúrgica.
Creators: name: Aguilar García, Jesús José
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
El objetivo de nuestro trabajo es analizar y valorar la correlación entre la información anatómica de las áreas corticales motoras aportada por Resonancia Magnética Funcional (RM-f) y la existencia de déficits motores...
title: Complicaciones torácicas y abdominales extrahepáticas de la cirrosis: ¿qué tenemos que decir los radiólogos?
Creators: name: Canales Lachén, Elena
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: CT
subject: Complications
subject: Cirrhosis

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Describir e ilustrar los hallazgos de imagen asociados a las complicaciones torácicas y abdominales extrahepáticas de la cirrosis. Conocer cómo influyen las técnicas de imagen en el tratamiento y seguimiento de estos...
Empire, Exchange, and Court : Armenian Diaspora in the Persianate World, With a Specific Focus on Afghanistan
Creators: name: Durech, Adam I.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2025

description: From 1605 till 1896 there existed a public community of Armenians throughout the Persianate world, a broad region which includes Iran and Afghanistan. For its notably very small size, the Armenian community held important roles in both the governments and economies of the Persianate world. For example, in Kabul, Armenians made up less than one one-thousandth of the population for their documented history. Yet we see Armenians with important positions in court, serving as officers, acting as king’s guard, leading rebellions, and even being appointed provincial governors. While the history of this diaspora tells the story of a very unique community, in Afghanistan specifically, the intersection of their religious identity, trade network, and diaspora origins left Armenians in a special position among the many ethnicities which inhabited the region.
The place of ethical possibility: Language and the constitution of the world in Heidegger's existential analytic
Creators: name: Lauer, Dean W
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: This thesis attempts to show a relevant correlation between Heidegger's conception of language, as rooted in the logos, and the possibility for ethical action. That language is the primary mode of disclosure for Dasein suggests that the character of language will inflect the disclosure, and so the constitution of the world, according to the shape and way we use language. In short, the character of the world disclosed will be coloured by the language of disclosure. Thus, possibilities for ethical acting, insofar as we live in a world primordially constituted by language, arise in language and remain there with its users. As is well known, Heidegger does not address the issue of ethical possibilities directly. Therefore, this is an interpretive, though as I contend an entirely plausible, reading of Heidegger's works mainly before and around Sein und Zeit. The interpretation suggests that there are language-based ethical possibilities implicit in his philosophy.
The Operationalisation and Measurement of Aggressive Scripts in an Offender Population
Creators: name: Hosie, Julia
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis advances the conceptualisation of aggressive scripts and their rehearsal to (1) clarify and operationalise the content, processes, and purpose of aggressive scripts in relation to aggressive behaviour, (2) elucidate similarities and differences between aggressive script rehearsal and the theoretically similar cognitive constructs of fantasy and rumination, and (3) examine the link between aggressive script rehearsal and emotion dysregulation; using an offender population. Results enabled the development of a novel measure of aggressive scripts, and identified treatment needs of violent offenders in relation to aggressive script rehearsal.
ACTB, CDKN1B, GAPDH, GRB2, RHOA and SDCBP Were Identified as Reference Genes in Neuroendocrine Lung Cancer via the nCounter Technology
Creators: name: Walter, Robert Fred Henry; ; ; ; ; ;
name: Werner, Robert
name: Vollbrecht, Claudia
name: Hager, Thomas
name: Flom, Elena
name: Christoph, Daniel Christian
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background Neuroendocrine lung cancer (NELC) represents 25% of all lung cancer cases and large patient collectives exist as formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue only. FFPE is controversially discussed as source for molecular biological analyses and reference genes for NELC are poorly establishes. Material and methods Forty-three representative FFPE-specimens were used for mRNA expression analysis using the digital nCounter technology (NanoString). Based on recent literature, a total of 91 mRNA targets were investigated as potential tumor markers or reference genes. The geNorm, NormFinder algorithms and coefficient of correlation were used to identify the most stable reference genes. Statistical analysis was performed by using the R programming environment (version 3.1.1) Results RNA integrity (RIN) ranged from 1.8 to 2.6 and concentrations from 34 to 2,109 ng/μl. However, the nCounter technology gave evaluable results for all samples tested. ACTB, CDKN1B, GAPDH, GRB2, RHOA and SDCBP were identified as constantly expressed genes with high stability (M-)values according to geNorm, NormFinder and coefficients of correlation. Conclusion FFPE-derived mRNA is suitable for molecular biological investigations via the nCounter technology, although it is highly degraded. ACTB, CDKN1B, GAPDH, GRB2, RHOA and SDCBP are potent reference genes in neuroendocrine tumors of the lung.
title: El spot sign en el hematoma cerebral intraparenquimatoso espontáneo (HIE)
Creators: name: Aguirregoicoa Olabarrieta, Ivan
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
El crecimiento del hematoma intraparenquimatoso espontáneo (HIE) se relaciona con la presencia de spot sign,
el tratamiento anticoagulante y la presión arterial elevada. El propósito de este estudio demostrar si una intervención terapéutica...
Searching for intermediate-mass black holes in galaxies with low-luminosity AGN: A multiple-method approach
Creators: name: Koliopanos, Filippos
name: Ciambur, Bogdan C.
name: Graham, Alister
name: Webb, Natalie A.
name: Coriat, Mickael
name: Mutlu-Pakdil, Burçin
name: Davis, Benjamin
name: Godet, Olivier
name: Barret, Didier
name: Seigar, Marc S.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 510103
subject: Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy

description: Aims. This work is the first stage of a campaign to search for intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) in low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGN) and dwarf galaxies. An additional and equally important aim of this pilot study is to investigate the consistency between the predictions of several popular black hole scaling relations and the fundamental plane (FP) of black-hole activity (FP-BH). Methods. We used well established X-ray and radio luminosity relations in accreting black holes, along with the latest scaling relations between the mass of the central black hole (MBH) and the properties of its host spheroid, to predict MBH in seven LLAGN, that were previously reported to be in the IMBH regime. Namely, we used the recently re-evaluated MBH-Msph (Msph: spheroid absolute magnitude at 3.6 μm) scaling relation for spiral galaxies, the MBH-nsph (nsph: major axis Sérsic index of the spheroid component) relation, the MBH-PA (PA: spiral pitch angle) relation, and a recently re-calibrated version of the FP-BH for weakly accreting BHs, to independently estimate MBH in all seven galaxies. Results. We find that all LLAGN in our list have low-mass central black holes with log MBH/MâŠ™ â‰ 6.5 on average, but that they are, most likely, not IMBHs. All four methods used predicted consistent BH masses in the 1σ range. Furthermore, we report that, in contrast to previous classification, galaxy NGC 4470 is bulge-less, and we also cast doubts on the AGN classification of NGC 3507. Conclusions. We find that our latest, state-of-the-art techniques for bulge magnitude & Sérsic index computations and the most recent updates of the MBH-Lsph, MBH-nsph, and MBH-PA relations and the FP-BH produce consistent results in the low-mass regime. We thus establish a multiple-method approach for predicting BH masses in the regime where their spheres of gravitational influence cannot be spatially resolved. Our approach mitigates against outliers from any one relation and provides a more robust average prediction. We will use our new method to revisit more IMBH candidates in LLAGN.
title: Breakthrough attacks in patients with hereditary angioedema receiving long- term prophylaxis are responsive to icatibant
title: findings from the Icatibant Outcome Survey
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Aberer, Werner
name: Maurer, Marcus
name: Bouillet, Laurence
name: Zanichelli, Andrea
name: Caballero, Teresa
name: Longhurst, Hilary J.
name: Perrin, Amandine
name: Andresen, Irmgard
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Hereditary angioedema Icatibant Breakthrough attacks Prophylaxis Bradykinin
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background Patients with hereditary angioedema (HAE) due to C1-inhibitor deficiency (C1-INH-HAE) experience recurrent attacks of cutaneous or submucosal edema that may be frequent and severe; prophylactic treatments can be prescribed to prevent attacks. However, despite the use of long-term prophylaxis (LTP), breakthrough attacks are known to occur. We used data from the Icatibant Outcome Survey (IOS) to evaluate the characteristics of breakthrough attacks and the effectiveness of icatibant as a treatment option. Methods Data on LTP use, attacks, and treatments were recorded. Attack characteristics, treatment characteristics, and outcomes (time to treatment, time to resolution, and duration of attack) were compared for attacks that occurred with versus without LTP. Results Data on 3228 icatibant-treated attacks from 448 patients with C1-INH-HAE were analyzed; 30.1% of attacks occurred while patients were using LTP. Attack rate, attack severity, and the distribution of attack sites were similar across all types of LTP used, and were comparable to the results found in patients who did not receive LTP. Attacks were successfully treated with icatibant; 82.5% of all breakthrough attacks were treated with a single icatibant injection without C1-INH rescue medication. Treatment outcomes were comparable for breakthrough attacks across all LTP types, and for attacks without LTP. Conclusions Patients who use LTP should be aware that breakthrough attacks can occur, and such attacks can be severe. Thus, patients with C1-INH-HAE using LTP should have emergency treatment readily available. Data from IOS show that icatibant is effective for the treatment of breakthrough attacks. Trial Registration NCT01034969
The association between age and accelerometry-derived types of habitual daily activity: an observational study over the adult life span in the Netherlands
Creators: name: Van Schooten, Kimberley S
name: Van Dieen, Jaap H
name: Pijnappels, Mirjam
name: Maier, Andrea B
name: Van ‘T Hul, Alex J
name: Niessen, Martijn
name: Van Lummel, Rob C
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Background: Advances in sensor technology allow for objective and high-resolution monitoring of physical activity and sedentary behaviour. Novel epidemiological data is required to provide feedback on an individual’s habitual daily activity in comparison to peers and might eventually lead to refined physical activity guidelines. Methods: We merged data of 762 people between 18 and 99 years of age, who all wore a DynaPort MoveMonitor accelerometer on their lower back during 1 week in daily-life, to provide insight into habitual types and durations of daily activities, and examine the association between age and physical activity and sedentary behaviour. Results: We found associations between age and almost all activity outcomes. These associations suggested that physical activity declines and sedentary behaviour increases from the age of 50. We further describe an association with gender, with men walking more often in fewer but longer bouts and having fewer, longer bouts of sitting and standing. Conclusions: These data provide a valuable reference and may call for more age- and gender-specific activity interventions.
ATM RendezView: Decentralized architecture for multipoint conferencing.
Creators: name: Pretty, Russell Wayne.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: This thesis describes a novel architecture for a multipoint multimedia conferencing system and describes the operational prototype of such a system dubbed--"ATM RendezView". It eliminates service specific centralized Multipoint Control Units (MCU) by instead utilizing generic ATM network multipoint Switched Virtual Connection bearer services. This achieves functionality and performance improvements over MCU based conferencing systems, eases service deployment and reduces equipment costs. Today's commercially successful and emerging standard conferencing systems are built upon an architecture that was appropriate for Time Division Multiplexed networks. Emerging packet networks (Frame Relay, Asynchronous Transfer Mode and IP) can support higher quality, broader functionality video conferencing more simply, on less expensive and more easily deployable decentralized systems. An operational prototype of such a videoconferencing system was developed by Keith Smith and myself. ATM RendezView utilizes Point-to-Multipoint Switched Virtual Connections to achieve a hybrid switched presence & continuous presence conference system with more user control over presentation than is available with current MCU based systems. Furthermore, RendezView enables full-motion 24-bit colour video and lipsynched high fidelity audio with end-to-end delay on the order of 100 mS. This is significantly better than existing commercial conferencing systems.
La pensée nietzschéenne comme métabiologie: Influences et dépassement des darwinismes
Creators: name: Bolduc, Ghyslain
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Philosophy of Science.
subject: Philosophy.

description: La présente thèse vise à démontrer que la pensée de Friedrich Nietzsche peut légitimement être interprétée comme une réflexion philosophique et critique de la biologie de la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle et de ses courants darwinistes émergents. Dans le premier chapitre, il est question de présenter comment les darwinismes anglo-saxon et allemand ont constitué les conditions de possibilité de la pensée nietzschéenne. Il s'agit de démontrer comment, d'un côté, les théories de Charles Darwin, de Friedrich Lange et de Herbert Spencer formèrent sa pensée des années 1870, et de l'autre, comment ses lectures intensives des darwinistes allemands tels Wilhelm Roux, William Rolph et Karl von Nageli (sans négliger l'influence du notoire Ernst Haeckel), effectuées entre 1881 et 1886, ont profondément marqué ses conceptions du corps, de la santé, de l'hérédité, de l'évolution, de l'être humain, de la vie et de la subjectivité. Le deuxième chapitre est pour sa part consacré à la démonstration de la genèse biologique et critique de la théorie de la volonté de puissance. Il s'agit de mettre en évidence la nécessité pour Nietzsche de développer une critique néo-kantienne du matérialisme et de la conception mécaniste afin de réinterpréter de façon crédible les descriptions des biologistes au sein d'une ontologie de la volonté de puissance. C'est à partir de ces démonstrations que la " grande politique " de Nietzsche et ses propositions eugénistes sont finalement interprétées et critiquées.
title: Estudio descriptivo de los resultados de la SPECT con 201-Talio realizada a pacientes tratados con radioterapia y sospecha diagnóstica de radionecrosis en Resonancia Magnética.
Creators: name: Santiago Chinchilla, Alicia
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Biological effects
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Treatment effects
subject: SPECT
subject: MR
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Nuclear medicine
subject: Head and neck

description: Objetivos
Material y método
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description: Objetivos:
Describir los resultados de la SPECT cerebral con 201-Talio realizada a pacientes que en su seguimiento presentan sospecha de radionecrosis en Resonancia Magnética cerebral tras el tratamiento con...
ZFIRE: The Evolution of the Stellar Mass Tully-Fisher Relation to Redshift ∼2.2
Creators: name: Straatman, Caroline M. S.
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Kacprzak, Glenn
name: Labbe, Ivo
name: Nanayakkara, Themiya
name: Alcorn, Leo
name: Cowley, Michael
name: Kewley, Lisa J.
name: Spitler, Lee R.
name: Tran, Kim-Vy H.
name: Yuan, Tiantian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 510103
subject: Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy

description: Using observations made with MOSFIRE on Keck I as part of the ZFIRE survey, we present the stellar mass TullyFisher relation at 2.0 < z < 2.5. The sample was drawn from a stellar-mass-limited, Ks-band-selected catalog from ZFOURGE over the CANDELS area in the COSMOS field. We model the shear of the Hα emission line to derive rotational velocities at 2.2 the scale radius of an exponential disk (V2.2). We correct for the blurring effect of a 2D point-spread function (PSF) and the fact that the MOSFIRE PSF is better approximated by a Moffat than a Gaussian, which is more typically assumed for natural seeing. We find for the Tully-Fisher relation at 2.0 < z < 2.5 that log V2.2 = (2.18 ± 0.051)+(0.193 ± 0.108)(logM/M -10) and infer an evolution of the zero-point of DM/M = -0.25 ± 0.16 dex or DM M = -0.39 ± 0.21 dex compared to z = 0 when adopting a fixed slope of 0.29 or 1/4.5, respectively. We also derive the alternative kinematic estimator S0.5, with a best-fit relation log S0.5 = (2.06 ± 0.032) + (0.211 ± 0.086) (logM M - 10), and infer an evolution of DM M = -0.45 ± 0.13 dex compared to z < 1.2 if we adopt a fixed slope. We investigate and review various systematics, such as PSF effects, projection effects, systematics related to stellar mass derivation, selection biases, and slope. We find that discrepancies between the various literature values are reduced when taking these into account. Our observations correspond well with the gradual evolution predicted by semianalytic models.
title: Síndrome de la vena cava superior: causas, fisiopatología y hallazgos radiológicos.
Creators: name: Alfonso Cerdan, Sheila
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Veins / Vena cava
subject: Vascular
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: CT
subject: Catheter venography
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Obstruction / Occlusion
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis
subject: Haemodynamics / Flow dynamics

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
- Revisar las causas del síndrome de la vena cava superior (SVCS). - Estudiar la relación entre los cambios hemodinámicos y los hallazgos...
Mexican Bilingual Education, Assimilation, and Indigenous Literacy : Tracing Indigenous Participation in Bilingual Primers between 1940–1964
Creators: name: Sanchez-Cheecham, Stefanie Margarita
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2025

description: Between the 1940s and 1960s, the Mexican government sought to assimilate monolingual Indigenous communities through literacy campaigns. Facilitated by Spanish-based orthographies and bilingual primers, these campaigns inadvertently created an opening for Indigenous political participation through employing Indigenous teachers. This thesis examines the dual role of bilingual primers as tools for assimilation and platforms for Indigenous teachers (and promoters) to assert themselves as educational authorities, tracing the evolution of their contributions. Using bilingual primers, contemporary scholarship, and accounts from Indigenous teachers and state officials, this project cross-examines the authorship, content, and historical context of these primers while highlighting the tensions between state objectives and Indigenous agency. While primers initially prioritized developing Spanish fluency, the involvement of Indigenous teachers created pathways for their integration into leadership positions in state education. These contributions laid the groundwork for the eventual shift toward a pluricultural framework in Indigenous education in Mexico.
title: Estudio de la morbi-mortalidad de la esofaguectomía mínimamente invasiva tras embolización prequirúrgica de las arterias gástricas y esplénica. 2 años de experiencia.
Creators: name: Rodríguez Rodríguez, Daniel
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Fistula
subject: Balloon occlusion
subject: Embolisation
subject: Catheters
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Mediastinum
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Stomach (incl. Oesophagus)

description: Objetivos
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description: Objetivos:
Describir la experiencia en estos dos últimos años en elestudio de la morbi-mortalidad post-esofaguectomía mínimamente invasiva tras condicionamiento gástrico isquémico con coils intra-arteriales y dispositivo...
Negativity in Tamil: Untying the undefinable not.
Creators: name: Ramachandran, Subhadra.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Language, Linguistics.

description: This thesis considers topics in the area of negation-NPI-licensing and the scope interaction of quantifiers with negation. No prior approaches have been able to answer questions that might lead to a standard and uniform analysis of negative polarity items across languages. We explain NPI-licensing by means of a semantico-pragmatic outlook. We consider non-truthfunctional aspects of meaning which imply that certain pragmatic conditions are necessary for a sentence to be fully understood in the context of discourse. It becomes easier to argue that negation, be it overt or covert, is the only licenser for NPIs; and chances of major cross-linguistic variation are nullified in this generalization and subsuming all categories of licensers under the nomenclature of Negative Implicature Terms. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)