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An Intervention to Involve Family in Decisions about Life Support
Creators: name: Kryworuchko, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Shared Decision Making
Patient Involvement
Life Support
Intensive Care Unit
Family
Withholding Life Support
Systematic Review
Mixed method
Qualitative
Manuscript based thesis

description: Purpose. To systematically develop and field test an intervention to engage families and healthcare teams in the decision-making process about life support for critically ill patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Setting. Adult medical-surgical ICU at a Canadian academic teaching hospital. Methods. The International Patient Decision Aid Standards (IPDAS) criteria and the Interprofessional Shared Decision Making (SDM) model guided the study of families facing decisions about life support for their relative in ICU that involved:1) systematic review; 2) qualitative descriptive study; 3) mixed methods field test of a novel patient decision aid (DA). Systematic review findings. Of 3162 citations, four trials evaluated interventions to improve communication between health professionals and patients/families. One intervention met eight of nine criteria for SDM but did not evaluate its effect on the benefit to communication. Qualitative study findings. Six family members and nine health professionals identified two options (life support or comfort care) and values associated with these options. Values included maintaining quality of life, surviving critical illness, minimizing pain and suffering, not being attached to machines, giving the family enough time to adapt emotionally to the patient’s health situation, and the judicious use of healthcare resources. Families were unlikely to become engaged without healthcare professionals making the decision explicit and minimizing other barriers across the decision-making process. Field test findings. Family members and health professionals for eight patients indicated that the DA was feasible to use, acceptable to users, had the potential to do what was intended, and did not seem to present adverse consequences to users. An enhanced delivery strategy is needed for future evaluation of its effect on facilitating patient/family involvement in decisions. Conclusions. Limited involvement of families in the process of decision-making about life support in the ICU reinforced the need for effective interventions to facilitate SDM. These studies validated the operationalization of the IPDAS criteria, as part of a systematic process for developing and field testing DAs. However, IPDAS criteria stop short of elements necessary to consider when implementing the DA in the processes of care.
Projectionism in Hume's theoretical philosophy.
Creators: name: Zakatistovs, Atis.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: In this thesis I present a reading of Hume's projectionism. Hume took very seriously our predicament of being in a position of making judgments about the external world, and about other minds, solely on the basis of our own beliefs. By "Hume's projectionism" I mean his answer to this predicament, namely, that our minds construct beliefs unaided by mind-independent events; that these beliefs are then projected upon the world; and that for us the world literally becomes the bearer of our notions. "Hume's projectionism" thus is an examination of the external world, or rather what we believe it to be, through the analysis of conceptual constructs that for us constitute its very nature. In my interpretation I place considerable emphasis upon the fact that Hume identifies three essentially different sets of conceptual tools that result in three theoretical standpoints---that of common sense, the theory of the false philosophy, and that of the true philosophy. Human beings are capable of constructing three incompatible and independent sets of beliefs. Hume believes that we have no independent and objective grounds that would warrant the evaluation of our projections. Consequently, our only hope to establish a normative evaluation of our beliefs lies in the analysis of the conceptual tools by which each of these projections is constructed. I develop three separate arguments to support my reading. First, I argue that Hume's arguments implicitly rely on his theory of theories, which I set out in chapter 2. This chapter considers the conceptual tools that Hume can use in normative evaluations of our beliefs. Secondly, in chapter 3 I seek to show that Hume should best be seen as attempting to reconcile the dispute between Locke's scientific realism and Berkeley's instrumentalism. By showing the historical roots of Hume's projectionism I hope to undermine any charge that my reading of Hume is anachronistic. Thirdly, in chapter 4 I examine Hume's account of probability, where I seek to illustrate Hume's attempt to assess the changes in philosophical problems that result from his considered belief that absolute truth and certainty are unattainable. In my thesis I hope to establish that Hume's philosophy is projectionism through and through. This is a highly controversial interpretation. By definition, if Hume is a projectionist, then his philosophical position cannot be defined solely as empiricism, or skepticism, or common-sense realism. I believe that if we focus upon Hume's implicit philosophical methodology, then we have no choice but to consider seriously the issue about the variety of his arguments. We then have to come to understand how it is possible for Hume to be an empiricist, a sceptic, and a realist---all at the same time? I argue that we can best understand this only if we view Hume's system as projectionism.
Workplace neighbourhood built-environment attributes and sitting at work and for transport among Japanese desk-based workers
Creators: name: Lin, Chien-Yu
name: Koohsari, Mohammad Javad
name: Liao, Yung
name: Ishii, Kaori
name: Shibata, Ai
name: Nakaya, Tomoki
name: McCormack, Gavin R.
name: Hadgraft, Nyssa
name: Sugiyama, Takemi
name: Owen, Neville
name: Oka, Koichiro
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Workplace settings—both internal and external—can influence how workers are physically active or sedentary. Although research has identified some indoor environmental attributes associated with sitting at work, few studies have examined associations of workplace neighbourhood built-environment attributes with workplace sitting time. We examined the cross-sectional associations of perceived and objective workplace neighbourhood built-environment attributes with sitting time at work and for transport among desk-based workers in Japan. Data were collected from a nationwide online survey. The Abbreviated Neighborhood Environment Walkability Scale (n = 2137) and Walk Score® (for a subsample of participants; n = 1163) were used to assess perceived and objective built-environment attributes of workplace neighbourhoods. Self-reported daily average sitting time at work, in cars and in public transport was measured using a Japanese validated questionnaire. Linear regression models estimated the associations of workplace neighbourhood built-environment attributes with sitting time. All perceived workplace neighbourhood built-environment attributes were positively correlated with Walk Score®. However, statistically significant associations with Walk Score® were found for sitting for transport but not for sitting at work. Workers who perceived their workplace neighbourhoods to be more walkable reported a longer time sitting at work and in public transport but a shorter sitting time in cars. Our findings suggest that walkable workplace neighbourhoods may discourage longer car use but have workplaces where workers spend a long time sitting at work. The latter finding further suggests that there may be missed opportunities for desk-based workers to reduce sitting time. Future workplace interventions to reduce sitting time may be developed, taking advantage of the opportunities to take time away from work in workplace neighbourhoods.
Which religious knowledge in the public school? From the European horizon to the Italy case
Quale sapere religioso nella scuola pubblica? Dall’orizzonte europeo al caso Italia
Creators: name: Pajer, Flavio
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: The treatment of the religious subject in the curricula is different according to a vast range of variables. From a epistemological point of view, four models of religious knowledge can be inventoried: a teaching founding in church theology(ies), another founding in theological sciences and at the same time in religious secular studies, a third teaching founded in non-theological religious studies, and finally an approach to religious heritage done into the curricular secular teaching. This models are contextualised in sociological and religious conditions in evolution. The Italian educational system, dependent on a agreement law, is asked today to changing toward a religious instruction profile less dependent on a only confessional tradition and more attentive to the interaction with the religious diversity, with the “knowledge society”, with the appropriate methodologies of the intercultural didactics.
description: Il trattamento della materia religiosa nei curricoli scolastici si diversifica secondo una vasta gamma di variabili. Da un punto di vista epistemologico, si possono in-ventariare 4 modelli di sapere religioso: un insegnamento a base teologica, uno a base mista tra scienze teologiche e scienze della religione, un terzo a base di scien-ze religiose non teologiche, e infine un approccio al fatto religioso operato all’interno dei saperi profani. Questi modelli sono contestuali a situazioni socio-religiose in evoluzione. Il sistema educativo italiano, dipendente dal concordato, è sollecitato oggi da molti fattori extrascolastici a evolvere verso un profilo di istru-zione religiosa meno legato alla tradizione confessionale e più attento al confronto con diversità religiosa, con la società della conoscenza, con la metodologia della didattica interculturale.
Crystallographic, magnetic and optical properties of I2. Mn.IV.VI4. compounds with I = Cu, log., IV-Si, GE, Sn and VI =S, Se, Te.
Creators: name: Chen, Xuejun Luna.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Physics, Condensed Matter.

description: A systematic study was performed on the structural, magnetic and optical properties of polycrystalline I$\sb2$.Mn.IV.VI$\sb4$ compounds with I = Ag or Cu, IV = Si, Ge, Sn, VI = S, Se and Te. In X-ray diffractometry, three different crystal structures were observed, two corresponding to the tetragonal stannite and orthorhombic wurtz-stannite structures reported previously, and thirdly a cubic rock salt-like structure. Magnetic susceptibility ($\chi$) measurements showed that most of the selenide phases were ferrimagnetic. Optical absorption measurements were made to determine values of optical energy gap E$\sb{\rm o}$ for a number of the single phase samples. When the values of these various parameters ($\rm a\sb{e}, T\sb{N}, \theta\sb{a}$ and E$\sb{\rm o}$) were compared for the various phases, it was found that the phases could be classified into five different sets. In each case investigated, the variation of E$\sb{\rm o}$ with temperature was found to agree well with the theoretical predictions of Alexander et al. (76A1). (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
title: Beteiligungsrechte im Umweltschutz
title: Beteiligungsrechte im Umweltschutz
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Beyer, Peter
name: Klasing, Anneke
name: Charlier, Isabelle
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Aarhus-Konvention
Beteiligungsrecht
Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung
Bürgerbeteiligung

description: Die Aarhus-Konvention hat das Ziel, die Beteiligung der Zivilgesellschaft im Umweltschutz zu erleichtern. Bürgerinnen und Bürger sollen sich einfacher für den Schutz der Umwelt engagieren können. Dazu spricht dieses internationale Umweltabkommen der Öffentlichkeit beim Zugang zu Umweltinformationen, bei der Beteiligung an umweltrelevanten Entscheidungsprozessen und bei der Überprüfung staatlichen Handelns durch Gerichte besondere Rechte zu. Die Broschüre erläutert, welche Rechte Bürgerinnen und Bürger konkret haben und wie sie diese wahrnehmen können. Sie ermuntert dazu, für den Schutz der Umwelt aktiv zu werden und sich in öffentliche Entscheidungen einzumischen. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
The protection of migrant workers and their families in international human rights law.
Creators: name: Cholewinski, Ryszard I.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Law.

description: This thesis focuses on the protection in international human rights law of the economic, social, cultural, political and residence rights of migrant workers and their families, broadly defined as long- or short-term immigrants who are or have been employed in countries other than their own, included those who entered illegally. These are the rights of most concern to migrants in the country of employment. Economic and social rights comprise employment rights, trade union rights and rights to social security, health, housing, family reunification and education. Cultural rights of migrants embrace their right to retain and develop cultural identity, including the teaching to their children of the culture and language of the country of origin, and political rights encompass their right to political activity and to participate in the decision-making process concerning their interests, including the right to vote. Residence rights comprise their right to remain in the host country, while in work and immediately after the termination of employment, and their rights to permanent residence and naturalization and to protection against unfair expulsion. The thesis develops a theoretical framework that is justified in terms of both individualist and communitarian liberal principales. These principles provide for conceptions of citizenship which go beyond mere form and which justify the extension of membership of the state to alien migrant workers and their families. These normative models also support the provision of more extensive rights to both legal and illegal migrants. Limiting the rights of migrants already in the territory and controlling the entry of new immigrants is justified by the principle of sovereignty on the basis of socio-economic, cultural and physical state security. This principal, however, is being eroded by the development of international standards for the protection of vulnerable groups. A redefined conception of the liberal-democratic community, which recognizes the participation and contribution of migrant workers and their families, is more responsive to the interdependence of the international community of states and more closely conforms to its own individualist and communitarian precepts. This thesis concludes with the conviction that the adequate realization of the rights of alien migrant workers and their families can only serve to advance the rights of all human beings, including citizen-members of states. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
The Italian Muslim: these unknown? TV Coverage of Muslim immigration
I musulmani di Italia: questi sconosciuti? L’immigrazione musulmana raccontata in TV
Creators: name: Conte, Daniela
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: Immigration is becoming one of the main issues daily covered by television but, how do mass media tell us the story of the immigration phenomenon? And, particularly, are they able to hold their own role of spreading knowledge? Or are they rather supporting stereotypes and prejudices for winning the audience competition? The hypothesis of this research is that nowadays most of the Italian television programs are not able to give a complete and broad image of the Muslim world because they tend to highlight its most negative aspects, so reinforcing the idea of an existing and clashing dichotomy between the Italian culture and the Muslim one. According to this approach, Italian TV news is actually going far from its own original role of information and rather closer to become a mean for diffusing and reinforcing prejudices. Goals of this analysis are to look at how some popular Italian talk shows and news programs represent Islam and Muslim immigration, and to reply to the following questions: “Which are the programs that cover mostly the Muslim world and which themes do they address? Which is the Muslim imaginary created by these TV shows?”.
description: L’ immigrazione diviene protagonista dei racconti giornalieri della televisione, ma come raccontano i mass media il fenomeno dell’immigrazione? E, soprattutto, riescono a svolgere a pieno la loro funzione informativa o piuttosto finiscono per fomentare stereotipi e pregiudizi nella continua rincorsa all’audience? L’ipotesi di lavoro di questo studio è infatti che oggi i programmi televisivi italiani non siano in grado di fornire una visione completa della diversità musulmana e che anzi questi tendano a sottolinearne gli aspetti più negativi, rinforzando un’idea di dicotomia contrastante tra la cultura italiana e quella musulmana. L’informazione televisiva italiana sarebbe dunque vittima di un fenomeno che la allontana dal suo originale ruolo di strumento conoscitivo per spingerla piuttosto verso la diffusione e il rafforzamento di pregiudizi. Questo studio ha quindi come obiettivo conoscitivo quello di analizzare il modo in cui alcuni popolari talk-show e programmi di informazione italiani trattano il tema dell’ Islam e dell’immigrazione musulmana, rispondendo ai seguenti quesiti: “Quali programmi dedicano spazio alla realtà musulmana e quali temi affrontano? Che immagine danno questi programmi della comunità musulmana?”.
Idéologie et action : quatre groupes écologiques québécois : la Société pour vaincre la pollution, the Society to overcome Pollution, l'Union québécoise de conservation de la nature et la Fédération québécoise de la faune.
Creators: name: Lewis, Nathalie.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Political Science, General.

description: Le monde d'aujourd'hui est en mutation comme il le fut d'ailleurs a diverses epoques de l'histoire. La pensee moderne est-elle en crise? D'aucuns le postulent. Pour le mouvement ecologique, la particularite de notre siecle se retrouve au niveau physique, dans la realisation du caractere fini de la biosphere. Le vaste monde, par le truchement de la science et des communications, est devenu accessible. Conceptualiser l'etendue de notre planete est maintenant chose courante. Dans cet elan, les humains, seduits par les bienfaits de la science, ont, du meme coup, les connaissances necessaires pour realiser la precarite de la planete. Globalement, le defi du mouvement environnemental est d'arreter la degradation de la biosphere. A cet egard, chaque groupe qui lutte a la defense de l'environnement a des buts et des moyens propres. Toutefois, pour chacun, c'est une course contre la montre, tres serree. Dans la recherche de solutions, on tente de redefinir un cadre d'action. Entre le global et le local, on tergiverse. L'enjeu est de taille. Ce mouvement environnemental, qui est de plus en plus visible, sera l'objet de cette these. Nous etudierons particulierement la nature de l'ideologie vehiculee par le mouvement ecologique quebecois. Quelle est cette ideologie? Sommes-nous face a une ideologie analogue partagee par tous les groupes environnementaux ou avons-nous plusieurs courants ideologiques au sein du mouvement? Assistons-nous a la naissance d'une ideologie se demarquant des courants ideologiques modernes--liberalisme, conservatisme, marxisme...--ou est-ce un continuum logique d'une de ces ideologies modernes? Toutefois, avant d'entrer au coeur de cette problematique, glissons un mot sur le contexte environnemental quebecois.
Tutorial on Open Science tools
Creators: name: Papadopoulou, Elli
name: Bardi, Alessia
name: Pla Karidi, Danae
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2021
Subjects: anonymization
data management
research data
data management plans
research communities
open science

description: doi:10.5281/ZENODO.5542003
description: OpenAIRE session at  MICCAI 2021 , the 24 th  International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention. Agenda: Welcome - Giulia Malaguarnera Menti questions - Elli Papadopoulou Introduction to Open Science and OpenAIRE - Elli Papadopoulou Amnesia tool for anonymization - Danae Plan Karidi CONNECT service to build research communities - Alessia Bardi Argos tool to write and publish Data Management Plans (DMPs) - Elli Papadopoulou
Open Science In Infant Neuroimaging
Creators: name: Moore, Lucille A
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2020
Subjects: open science
infant neuroimaging
cognitive development

description: doi:10.5281/ZENODO.3823850
description: Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has allowed scientists to investigate brain circuitry underlying healthy and maladaptive behavior. As such, it is an essential tool for advancing understanding of brain systems underlying psychiatric disorders. Because fMRI is costly and time-consuming, sharing data and tools in this space is critical for driving forward scientific discovery. However, the field is still developing rigorous standards for not only data sharing, but also quality control in image processing and analysis. Standardization issues are magnified in infant fMRI, which presents unique challenges for processing and analysis due to substantial differences in image properties compared to adults. Infant fMRI is vital for research aimed at supporting healthy brain development and preventing the onset of psychiatric disorders. My talk will highlight burgeoning open science fMRI initiatives that will be vital to drive the field forward, including my group’s pending release of an existing state of the art imaging pipeline modified for infant processing. We are employing this pipeline in a clinical trial aimed at reducing the effects of early adversity on developing brain systems implicated in psychiatric disorders. Such efforts are critical for expanding the impact of neuroimaging in clinical- and policy-level efforts to support healthy brain development.
An Australian rental housing conditions research infrastructure
Creators: name: Baker, Emma
name: Daniel, Lyrian
name: Beer, Andrew
name: Bentley, Rebecca
name: Rowley, Steven
name: Baddeley, Michelle
name: London, Kerry
name: Stone, Wendy
name: Nygaard, Christian
name: Hulse, Kathleen
name: Lockwood, Anthony
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 3304
subject: Urban and regional planning

description: Each year the proportion of Australians who rent their home increases and, for the first time in generations, there are now as many renters as outright homeowners. Researchers and policy makers, however, know very little about housing conditions within Australia’s rental housing sector due to a lack of systematic, reliable data. In 2020, a collaboration of Australian universities commissioned a survey of tenant households to build a data infrastructure on the household and demographic characteristics, housing quality and conditions in the Australian rental sector. This data infrastructure was designed to be national (representative across all Australian States and Territories), and balanced across key population characteristics. The resultant Australian Rental Housing Conditions Dataset (ARHCD) is a publicly available data infrastructure for researchers and policy makers, providing a basis for national and international research.
Organizational learning, knowledge management and institutional theory
Creators: name: Kloot, Louise
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Organisational learning and knowledge management are claimed to represent the major competitive advantage of many organisations. This paper examines the links between the two concepts to explain the knowledge management process in terms of institutional theory. Knowledge management suggests change will be the result of rational choice: institutional theory suggests that change may be irrational. The paper suggests that coercive and voluntary isomorphism can interact with both explicit and tacit knowledge to affect change.
Peso o risorsa? I saperi della/sulla religione nella scuola e nell’Università
Creators: name: Franchella, Stella
name: Martelli, Stefano
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: L’articolo introduce gli interventi presentati al 1° workshop del Convegno di So-ciologia della Religione organizzato a Bologna dall'omonima sezione dell'AIS e dal Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Educazione il 28-29 novembre 2008, presso la Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione dell'Alma Mater, sul tema «La religione come fattore di dis/integrazione sociale». Si è trattato di un avvenimento che ha visto, come protagonisti, studiosi di differenti discipline (psicologia, pedagogia, antropologia culturale, sociologia), invitati a riflettere e a proporre nuovi percorsi sperimentali riguardo ad un tema, rilevante oggi come cinque decenni fa. Nel 1959, infatti, Bologna ospitò la 6a conferenza internazionale di Sociologia della Religione (ISSR/SISR), e il tema fu proprio l'integrazione degli immigrati dal Sud e dalle zone rurali nelle città in via di modernizzazione. L’articolo presenta le relazioni di sei studiosi: Flavio Pajer, Alessandro Castegnaro, Cristiana Ottaviano, Mariachiara Giorda, Renzo Guolo, Daniela Conte, che sviluppano il tema del workshop, dal titolo: "Peso o risorsa? I saperi pubblici della/sulla religione".
Digital Lab: new works in development
Creators: name: Gye, Lisa
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The fixity of the photo album and the diary or chronicle, both print-based memory machines, have obscured just how fragile and momentary our family histories really are. When you start to explore a family’s history you find that there are moments of clarity brought about by recollection which are always temporary and are constantly displaced by new pieces of data.
The Transition to Open Science
Creators: name: Miedema, Frank
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2019
Subjects: Open Science
Research assessment

description: doi:10.5281/ZENODO.3448674
description: Presentation from Frank Miedema in the Research Assessment panel at the Open Science FAIR 2019 (Porto, 16-17 September 2019).
University teaching in the prospective of Web 2.0. The Forum as a training environment
Insegnare all’Università nella prospettiva del Web 2.0. Il Forum come ambiente di formazione
Creators: name: Fabbri, Manuela
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: This article documents and discusses the use of the telematic “Forum” in the teaching  of Educational Technology  to third year students in the degree course for Social Educators, at the Rimini branch of the  Education Faculty  of Bologna University. The experience also involved students on a similar course at the University of Caceres in Spain. Beginning with a brief analysis of the overall context of the forum, the author presents a description of the principal quantitative data alongside reflections of a qualitative nature before concluding with  some final considerations regarding the limits and positive aspects of the use of telematics in the training of adults.
description: L’articolo documenta e discute sul piano pedagogico un’esperienza di utilizzazione della modalità telematica del “Forum” all’interno dell’insegnamento di Tecnologie dell’educazione rivolto agli studenti del terzo anno del Corso di Laurea in Educa-tore sociale della Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione, Università di Bologna, sede di Rimini. L’esperienza ha previsto la partecipazione di studenti di un analogo Corso di Studio dell’Università spagnola di Caceres. A partire da una breve analisi del contesto complessivo in cui si colloca il Forum, l’autrice presenta una descri-zione dei principali dati quantitativi dell’esperienza, ne fa emergere alcune rifles-sioni di natura qualitativa e giunge ad alcune considerazioni finali relative agli a-spetti positivi e ai limiti dell’utilizzazione di strumenti di natura telematica nella formazione degli adulti.
Religious controversy and historical methodology in Pierre Bayle's Critique générale.
Creators: name: Robin, Jeffrey Bruce.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Religion, General.

description: Famous for his Dictionnaire historique et critique, Pierre Bayle (1547-1706) is best known as the sceptical father of Enlightenment thought. Although considered to be an atheist since the time of Voltaire, his biography reveals the likelihood of his having had a Christian outlook, at least until the last years of his life. Since about 1960 scholars have shown his Calvinist ideology to exist in his writings, particularly those predating the Dictionnaire historique et critique. An early, lessor known work, the Critique generale de l'Histoire du calvinisme reflects his Calvinist outlook. Composed to refute the Histoire du calvinisme written by the Jesuit Louis Maimbourg (1610-1686), who denounced the Protestant Reformation and justified the coercive measures of Louis XIV against the Huguenots, it contains the one of the first Protestant compositions of the Reformation as an historical phenomenon. More importantly, it contains the first mention and elucidation of historical pyrrhonism, an historiographic concept that Bayle derived from his readings of the Libertines, especially Francois de La Mothe le Vayer (1588-1672). Bayle's historical pyrrhonism is considered to be the foundation of modern historical criticism. Armed with historical pyrrhonism and an exacting dialectic, Bayle refuted Maimbourg so successfully that the name Maimbourg became synonymous with bad history, in the process helping to define the essential qualities of the historian for the eighteenth century.
Bark Beetles Increase Biodiversity While Maintaining Drinking Water Quality
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015

description: Increasing natural disturbances in conifer forests worldwide complicate political decisions about appropriate land management. In particular, allowing insects to kill trees without intervention has intensified public debate over the dual roles of strictly protected areas to sustain ecosystem services and to conserve biodiversity. Here we show that after large scale bark beetle Ips typographusinfestation in spruce Picea abiesforests in southeastern Germany, maximum nitrate concentrations in runoff used for drinking water increased significantly but only temporarily at the headwater scale. Moreover, this major criterion of water quality remained consistently far below the limit recommended by the World Health Organization. At the same time, biodiversity, including numbers of Red-listed species, increased for most taxa across a broad range of lineages. Our study provides strong support for a policy to allow natural disturbance-recovery processes to operate unimpeded in conifer-dominated mountain forests, especially within protected areas. Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com
The factors controlling heterotrophic flagellate abundance in temperate lakes.
Creators: name: Tzaras, Aspasia.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Biology, Ecology.

description: The "microbial loop" of aquatic systems consists of picoplankton (heterotrophic and photosynthetic), nanoflagellates (heterotrophic and mixotrophic forms), and ciliates. Heterotrophic flagellates (HNAN) are considered to be the principal grazers of both photosynthetic picoplankton (PICO) and heterotrophic bacteria (HBAC). The factors controlling PICO and HBAC abundances have been studied extensively. However, the factors which regulate HNAN remain less clear. An experimental study was conducted to examine the effects of nutrients and planktivorous fish additions on HNAN in freshwater systems using large enclosures (8m in diameter) installed at both 4 m and 11 m depths in a small oligotrophic lake. In addition to obligate heterotrophs, mixotrophic flagellates (MIXO) were also examined as were their prey, HBAC and PICO. Experimental results did not demonstrate that increases in nutrient levels would lead to increases in HNAN as current empirical models imply. The relationship between HBAC and HNAN was therefore examined within the range of trophy manipulated in the enclosures. A lake survey was conducted in dimictic lakes in Ontario and Western Quebec. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Novel Boundary Lubrication Mechanisms from Molecular Pillows of Lubricin Brush-Coated Graphene Oxide Nanosheets
Creators: name: Russo, Matthew J.
name: Han, Mingyu
name: Menon, Nikhil G.
name: Quigley, Anita F.
name: Kapsa, Robert M.I.
name: Moulton, Simon
name: Guijt, Rosanne M.
name: Moraes Silva, Saimon
name: Schmidt, Tannin A.
name: Greene, George W.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: There are numerous biomedical applications where the interfacial shearing of surfaces can cause wear and friction, which can lead to a variety of medical complications such as inflammation, irritation, and even bacterial infection. We introduce a novel nanomaterial additive comprised of two-dimensional graphene oxide nanosheets (2D-NSCs) coated with lubricin (LUB) to reduce the amount of tribological stress in biomedical settings, particularly at low shear rates where boundary lubrication dominates. LUB is a glycoprotein found in the articular joints of mammals and has recently been discovered as an ocular surface boundary lubricant. The ability of LUB to self-assemble into a "telechelic"brush layer on a variety of surfaces was exploited here to coat the top and bottom surfaces of the ultrathin 2D-NSCs in solution, effectively creating a biopolymer-coated nanosheet. A reduction in friction of almost an order of magnitude was measured at a bioinspired interface. This reduction was maintained after repeated washing (5×), suggesting that the large aspect ratio of the 2D-NSCs facilitates effective lubrication even at diluted concentrations. Importantly, and unlike LUB-only treatment, the lubrication effect can be eliminated over 15 rinsing cycles, suggesting that the LUB-coated 2D-NSCs do not exhibit any binding interactions with the shearing surfaces. The effective lubricating properties of the 2D-NSCs combined with full reversibility through rinsing make the LUB-coated 2D-NSCs an intriguing candidate as a lubricant for biomedical applications.
Supplementary document for Malignant and benign thyroid nodules differentiation through the analysis of blood plasma with a terahertz spectroscopy - 5035628.pdf
Creators: name: KONNIKOVA, MARIA
name: Cherkasova, Olga
name: Nazarov, Maxim
name: Vrazhnov, Denis
name: Kistenev, Yury
name: TITOV, SERGEI
name: KOPEIKINA, ELENA
name: SHEVCHENKO, SERGEI
name: Shkurinov, Alexander
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Demographic, clinical, and pathological characteristics of patients
Energy-Efficient Battery-Aware MAC protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
Creators: name: Nasrallah, Yamen
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Wireless Sensor Networks
MAC protocol
Power conservation
Charge recovery mechanism

description: Wireless sensor networks suffer from limited power resources. Therefore, managing the energy constraints and exploring new ways to minimize the power consumption during the operation of the nodes are critical issues. Conventional MAC protocols deal with this problem without considering the internal properties of the sensor nodes’ batteries. However, recent studies about battery modeling and behaviour showed that the pulsed discharge mechanism and the charge recovery effect may have a significant impact on wireless communication in terms of power saving. In this thesis we propose two battery-aware MAC protocols that take benefit of these factors to save more energy and to prolong the lifetime of the nodes/network without affecting the throughput. In both protocols we measure the remaining battery capacity of the node and use that measurement in the back-off scheme. The first protocol gives the nodes with higher remaining battery capacity more priority to access the medium, while the other one provides more medium access priority to the nodes with lower remaining battery capacity. The objective is to investigate, through simulations, which protocol reduces the power consumption of the nodes, improve the lifetime of the network, and compare the results with the CSMA-CA protocol.
ODISSEI FAIR @Open Science Festival
Creators: name: Meer, Lucas van der
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2022
Subjects: Data infrastructure
open science
FAIR

description: doi:10.5281/ZENODO.7062500
description: At the Open Science Festival 2022, ODISSEI's CTO Lucas van der Meer presented his vision on FAIR to answer the big scientific question of these times, such as fighting polarisation.How does one find or link datasets? Turn a thousand datasets into a network of the Netherlands? Link the constructs and measurements of survey questions to one another? Determine access conditions for sensitive datasets? Stimulate machine-readability of code?The answer: a FAIR, automated, scalable infrastructure. FAIR doesn't just apply to data, but also to metadata, measurements, researcher properties, dataset licenses, and code.   ODISSEI is the Dutch national infrastructure for the social sciences
Alfabetizzazione religiosa dei giovani e insegnamento della religione cattolica
Youth religious education and catholic religion teaching
Creators: name: Castegnaro, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: Il saggio presenta i risultati di una ricerca sui livelli di alfabetizzazione religiosa degli studenti che frequentano l’insegnamento di religione cattolica nelle scuole, in Italia la grande maggioranza. Scopo primario dell’indagine è stato verificare l’ipotesi della crescente ignoranza religiosa delle nuove generazioni. Se questa ipotesi trovasse conferma tra chi studia religione tanto più essa dovrebbe valere per gli altri. L’indagine è stata condotta mediante test di apprendimento e di atteggiamento tra gli studenti che frequentano l’ultimo anno della scuola secondaria di primo e di secondo grado. I risultati conseguiti nei test nella maggioranza dei casi sono risultati soddisfacenti. I fattori che influenzano di più i livelli di conoscenza sono il rendimento scolastico e la frequenza dichiarata alla messa. Un altro fattore è il livello di coinvolgimento nelle attività in classe. Risultati migliori si ottengono dove l’offerta formativa realizza un equilibrio tra istruzione religiosa e formazione umana. Risultati peggiori si hanno dove prevale l’istruzione religiosa. L’ipotesi di partenza, in definitiva, è risultata almeno parzialmente invalidata; non sembra vero che i giovani attuali non sappiano niente di religione.
description: The essay focuses on results of a survey aimed at determining religious knowledge levels among Italian sudents. In particular, interviewed were students who attend religion teaching classes, who are in Italy the majority. The leading research goal was to verify the theoretical hypothesis of an increasing religious illiteracy in young generations. If this is observed among religion class students, it can be deemed to be so for the rest of the population. Reseach data were gathered through a brief religious learnig test on secondary school studens, both 13 and 18 years old classes. Overall test appreciated fulfilling outcomes on religion learning skills. Knowledge strength depends mainly on both students school performance and mass participation. Class activities students involvement seems to be correlated as well. In particular, high test results occur where religion teaching is mixed with human and social class training, whereas low test performances occur where learning is focused only on strict religion mnemonic knowledge. Thus, illiteracy hypotesis seems to be partially avoid by the evidence of a generally diffused religion knowledge among italian teenagers.
Three Golden Rules of Open Science Training
Creators: name: Harris, Emma
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2020
Subjects: open science
training
RRI
pedagogy
training methods
teaching methods

description: doi:10.5281/ZENODO.3707232
description: Presentation and talk recorded for the Open Science Conference 2020 by Dr Emma A Harris about the lessons learned from Open Science training undertaken as part of the H2020 ORION Open Science Project.
Supplementary document for Malignant and benign thyroid nodules differentiation through the analysis of blood plasma with a terahertz spectroscopy - 5035628.pdf
Creators: name: KONNIKOVA, MARIA
name: Cherkasova, Olga
name: Nazarov, Maxim
name: Vrazhnov, Denis
name: Kistenev, Yury
name: TITOV, SERGEI
name: KOPEIKINA, ELENA
name: SHEVCHENKO, SERGEI
name: Shkurinov, Alexander
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Demographic, clinical, and pathological characteristics of patients
An integrated readout for current sensing based on a delta sigma modulator with switched capacitor feedback
Creators: name: Rajabzadeh, Mahdi
name: Häberle, Matthias
name: Jain, Ankesh
name: Ortmanns, Maurits
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Current readout
subject: Direct digitization
subject: Current-input CTSDM
subject: SCR-DAC
subject: Sigma delta modulator
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Modulators (Electronics)
subject: Biomedical engineering
subject: Electrodes
subject: Impedance spectroscopy
subject: Electric impedance
subject: Lung
subject: Spectrum analysis
subject: Sigma-Delta-Wandler
subject: Biomedizinische Technik
subject: Lunge
subject: Spektroskopie

description: This work presents a current input continuous-time sigma-delta modulator (C-CTSDM) for biomedical application such as electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. Low noise and low area current input digitizers are required to implement high spatial resolution multi electrode arrays. In this work, the use of a switched capacitor with resistor D/A converter (SCR-DAC) for the C-CTSDM is proposed for this purpose. SCR-DACs offer the realization of large resistances on small area, which leads to a very small area consumption combined with good noise performance. A C-CTSDM with an SCR-DAC prototype is fabricated in a 180-nm CMOS process. The implemented ADC occupies an area of only 120 micro 200 micro m2. In order to increase the dynamic range (DR) of the C-CTSDM, two modes have been implemented. In the low noise configuration an integrated in band noise of 157- pArms in the signal band width of 100 kHz with a peak SNDR of 62 dB is achieved. In the high DR configuration a peak SNDR of 72 dB with an MSA of -4.1 dB corresponding to 9.1 microA is measured. The complete C-CTSDM consumes 2 mW from a 3- V supply and achieves a total DR of 95 dB.
OHBM Open Science Special Interest Group Symposium - Towards Global Inclusivity in Open Science
Creators: name: Praag, Cassandra Gould van
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2020
Subjects: open science
global north
global south
diversity
inclusion

description: doi:10.5281/ZENODO.3906784
description: Talk presented as part of the Organisation of Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) Open Science Special Interest Group Symposium on  Collaborative Science. Features interviews with Researchers connected to the Global South, describing some of the challenges they face around interacting with open science coming from the Global North.   Features excerpts from interviews with: Sudarshan GC; Link: https://medialabnepal.com; Twitter: @Sudarsh07847591 Lilian Juma; Link: https://www.kijijieco.org/; Link: https://github.com/Lilian9/Open_Connect_Kenya; Twitter: @TheOnlyJuma Stephan Heunis; Link: https://jsheunis.github.io; Twitter: @fmrwhy Allan Ochola; Twitter: @allanochola Festus Nyasimi; Link: https://bioinformaticshubofkenya.wordpress.com/; Twitter: @Festus_nyasimi Julieta Arancio; Link: https://blog.aranc.io/; Twitter: @Cassandreces Malvika Sharan; Link: https://the-turing-way.netlify.com; Twitter: @malvikasharan
Evaluating the tension with a not-for-profit organization, when developing a business model for the maintenance of a sustainable profitable business venture
Creators: name: Mosek, Linda
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The third sector in Israel faces a competitive war of survival, to mobilize resources to generate social value. Poverty is on the rise. The disparity between the rich and poor continues to widen. Social welfare, education and health have suffered from enormous budget reductions, creating an ominous burden for the third sector. Not-for-profits consequently need to be innovative to find new methods for sustainability and growth. The enticing challenge of the business world, offers promising hope to initiate resources as a new income generating avenue. A window of opportunity opened for CLICK, a not-for-profit located in Israel, to test its skill in the business sector. The idealistic cause driven goals of the organization were researched in the following three year longitudinal single case study, where the entrepreneurial tensions between achieving sustainability and growth, while maintaining a profitable business undertaking were assessed. Drawing on network literature, this thesis examined how different sources of social capital affected venture performance, in specific stages of the business development process. A critical challenge for the developing third sector is to understand the influence of these links on information and resource acquisition and recognizing opportunities. Using case study methodology (Yin 2003), triangulation was achieved through analyzing data from historical documentation, social capital measures and financial indicators. Results showed that 'bonding' social capital from family and friends influenced day to day survival, from early start-up until the establishment stage. 'Linking' social capital, from people in control of resources and authority, and 'bridging' social capital, from ties with other individuals and societies, were particularly influential on sustainability and growth, according to a time line. This study therefore contributes to current network literature, by assessing the various phases of business creation, focusing on the strengths and weaknesses of social capital gauges, such as volunteering, social trust, network frequency and size, as prospective sources of competitive advantage. Social capital theory also formed direct input to the framework model for the 'opportunity creation process' (Guclu, Dees, and Anderson 2002), which demonstrated a means for social entrepreneurs to create an opportunity worthy to pursue. Building on this method, the concept of social capital was integrated as the social impact theory, when recommending a social entrepreneurial business model for the third sector. This provided a managerial and structural tool, to guide future not-for-profits to adapt to other situations, in balancing the conflicts between mission related social service provisions and developing a business model.