cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effet d'un exercice standardisé sur tapis roulant sur les niveaux d'ACTH et de cortisol sanguins chez des sujets entraînés et non-entraînés.
Creators: name: Charlebois, Josée.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Biology, Animal Physiology.

description: Le but de cette recherche etait de verifier si une intensite d'exercice equivalente a 70% du MVO2 des sujets stimulerait l'axe hypothalamique-pituitaire-corticosurrenal. Il s'agissait aussi de determiner si le niveau d'entrai nement des sujets influencerait cette reponse et enfin d'etablir la relation entre la corticotrophine et le cortisol. Pour ce faire, 12 sujets entrai nes et 9 sujets non-entrai nes se sont exerces sur un tapis roulant a 70% de leur MVO2 pendant 20 minutes. Des prelevements sanguins ont ete effectues avant l'exercice, immediatement apres, 30 et 60 minutes apres celui-ci. Les resultats ne demontrent aucune difference significative entre les groupes. Toutefois, l'ACTH augmenta de 97% apres l'exercice pour descendre sous les valeurs de repos 60 minutes apres celui-ci (p 0.05). Aucune augmentation significative concomittante (12%) dans les niveaux de cortisol n'a ete observee. Toutefois, la tendance indique que l'ACTH et le cortisol se sont accrus dans des proportions superieures chez les sujets non-entrai nes et que l'augmentation du taux catabolique chez le groupe entrai ne serait responsable de l'absence de cortisol dans le plasma. Enfin, des correlations positives ont ete etablies entre l'ACTH et le cortisol a tous les niveaux pour le groupe non-entrai ne mais seulement avant l'exercice pour le groupe entrai ne (p 0.05).
Scaling up, Scaling out, and scaling in: Facilitating effective Education for Sustainability through a Decentralized Global Network
Creators: name: Duggan, Michael S
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2015
Subjects: education for sustainability
education for sustainable development
community of practice
decentralized global network
facilitation
Environment and Schools Initiative (ENSI)

description: The facilitation of Education for Sustainability (EfS) by Decentralized Global Networks (DGNs) is consistent with the dynamic and increasingly complex nature of sustainability issues and is often motivated by inter-governmental policy objectives that link sustainability learning with sustainable development. Current approaches endorsed by DGNs support the implementation of EfS programs at multiply scales including local and global contexts, and engage teachers, teacher-educators, policy makers and the wider community in re-orienting education towards sustainability. The practice of using DGNs in the provision of EfS is now well established and supports the participation of a geographically dispersed and diverse body of participants. Notwithstanding, there is still limited understanding of the complex systems operating within DGNs and how these systems generate the conditions necessary to facilitate EfS at organizational and program levels. The aim of this research is to identify the inherent dimensions, along with challenges and opportunities seen as characteristic of the effective facilitation of EfS by DGNs. The author's investigation is centred on a qualitative case study of the Environment and School Initiatives (ENSI)-a DGN in operation for over 26 years with a membership that has spanned over 25 countries. The analysis is further extended through examination of four program-level case studies. The findings from this research identify organizational and program level approaches to EfS facilitation encompassing 11 dimensions considered to be conducive to a DGNs facilitation of effective EfS, for example; i) addressing the nexus created between policy, research and practice; ii) applying a structured approach to network decentralization; iii) monitoring and evaluating processes and outcomes; and, iv) developing an organization focused on learning and the advancement of networks more broadly. In addition, synthesis of these 11 dimensions resulted in the identification of four challenges and five opportunities that impact upon a DGNs facilitation of effective EfS across multiple scales. In conclusion, the research findings identify that DGNs approach is multi-scale, contextual and relevant to participants, and confronts the gap between the paradigms of policy, research and practice enabling these networks to more readily address the effective facilitation of EfS. Noticeably, these approaches increase the capacity of teachers and participants to deliver effective EfS and can be seen to address the more general role of education in embedding sustainability in our society.
Direct manufacture of wear resistant and corrosion resistant coatings for the paper, mining and materials industries
Creators: name: Giacomantonid, Mathew Gabriele
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: At the present time there are various thermal spray coatings in use for wear and corrosion protection, these coatings contain inherent porosity which could be detrimental to their performance. Plasma sprayed chromium oxide coatings are currently used within the paper, mining and materials industries; they provide good wear and corrosion resistance, although they are still susceptible to failure. This work focuses on thermal sprayed nickel based coatings deposited using flame spray and High Velocity Oxy-Fuel (HVOF) techniques. They were then processed with a flame or laser heat treatment process called fusing to create a dense, pore free and strongly bonded microstructure. This is to overcome the shortcomings present in the chromium oxide thermal spray coatings to provide a good wear and corrosion resistant coating. Laser cladding of the Ni-based coatings was also performed to observe the potential use in depositing these coatings. Dense, pore free microstructures were produced with laser cladding process. A coating adhesion testing method was developed to determine the bonding strength of these fused coatings (thermal sprayed followed by fusing process). The coatings were placed in a salt spray fog corrosion chamber to observe their corrosion resistance; to rank and compare them to coatings currently used in the paper and mining and materials industries. The same coatings were subjected to a pin-on-disk wear test to observe their wear resistance performance. Corrosion testing showed that flame and laser fused coatings had good corrosion resistance along with Cr2O3. The majority of coatings had performed well and the coatings that failed showed corrosion had occurred at the coating and substrate interface, where corrosion had initiated at the sample edges. Wear testing demonstrated the low wear of chromium oxide coatings, while it was possible to obtain comparable wear results with laser fused nickel based coatings. Some flame fused coatings demonstrated high wear due to pull out of tungsten carbide particles present in the coating. The study shows that nickel based fused coatings demonstrated very high bonding strength as well as showing good corrosion and wear resistance. These coatings can replace the currently used chromium oxide coatings. Laser fusing was able to provide coatings that could compare with the wear resistance of chromium oxide. Laser cladding coatings showed a favourable microstructure that could also be used to replace current coatings, however further testing is required before they can be utilised in industry.
'Ce coeur habitable' suivi de 'L'impossibilité de la relation chez Saint-Denys Garneau'
Creators: name: Gaulin, Anne-Marie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: impossibilité
relation
Saint-Denys Garneau
création
poésie
regard
cassure

description: Ma thèse entend considérer l’écriture poétique selon un procès de la relation, avec soi, avec l’autre et avec Dieu, tant dans la pratique que j’en propose dans mon recueil de poèmes, que dans l’étude que j’effectue des poèmes, des lettres et du journal de Saint-Denys Garneau. Le premier chapitre est constitué du recueil de poèmes, lui-même divisé en deux parties. La première, intitulée « Là où la cassure se produit» et séparée en cinq sections, est organisée autour de la thématique d’une cassure intérieure, d’une séparation de soi-même et de l’autre, et donc d’une impossibilité de la relation. La deuxième partie, « Là où va le coeur », elle aussi divisée en cinq sections, comprend des poèmes qui approfondissent cette idée d’un cheminement intérieur, d’un retour vers soi-même et vers l’autre, de la marche vers une unité possible, et ainsi vers la relation. Le second chapitre de ma thèse, « L’impossibilité de la relation chez Saint-Denys Garneau », est constitué d’une analyse divisée en deux parties. La première, « Du regard à la relation», se consacre au départ à une étude de la cassure intérieure chez ce poète, qui se manifeste d’abord à travers son regard, au niveau de l’opposition entre le regard extérieur et le regard intérieur. Par la suite, la relation chez Saint-Denys Garneau est analysée, à travers cette impossibilité qui la caractérise, conséquence de la cassure intérieure. La deuxième partie du chapitre, intitulée « La marche vers l’autre », constitue une réflexion sur l’écriture, faite à travers un retour sur ma création, en ce qui a trait à cette quête de la relation qui la traverse, et qui la rend de ce fait semblable à une quête d’absolu.
Vegetative and efflorescence characterization of carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua L.) from the Province of Sefrou, the Middle Atlas of Morocco
Creators: name: Seghir, Nadia
name: Elhoussaine Harki
name: Abdelkader Dahchour
name: Naoual Gharnit
name: Ennabili, Abdeslam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Botany
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60310 Plant Systematics and Taxonomy

description: The present study used vegetative and floral characteristics to investigate three Moroccan carob populations from different sites of Sefrou province (Middle Atlas, Morocco). The presence of basal rejections in the carob tree indicates that the tree is not regularly pruned by farmers. The average circumference of these rejections is greater at Sekoura M Daz where conditions are more beneficial as shown in leaf characteristics (14.5 cm long, 10.9 cm wide, 7 leaflets and 4.12 cm long petiole), by comparison to Kandar Sidi Khiar. The leaf length and width, and petiole length are most discriminatory. However, the variation of these parameters would then be largely genotypically explained and secondly would be in relation to the provenance. The sex ratio is greater than one, showing that grafting both male and female trees in male and low carob bean-yield is absent. The percentage of developed fruit varies from 17.1 to 21.8%. In addition, place conditions would not explain the highly significant differences in floral and fruiting quantitative parameters studied.
Exploring the Challenges and Stressors of Working as an Addictions Counsellor
Creators: name: Ho, Victoria
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Addiction
counsellor
counselor
therapist
substance use disorder
occupational stress
stress
burnout
counselor practice
addictions treatment
counsellor practice
addictions worker

description: This qualitative study explored the challenges and stressors that are experienced by addiction counsellors in providing substance abuse treatment. In order to tap into rich and descriptive information on occupational stress in the addictions field, a modified grounded theory focused on conceptual ordering (Corbin & Strauss, 1998) was used for the research design. Participant sample consisted of 10 addiction counsellors who were recruited using purposeful selection from addiction treatment centres in Ontario, Canada. Data collection was conducted through face-to-face interviews using semi-structured, open-ended questions. Four major categories emerged from the data analysis using systematic thematic analysis: 1) Sources of Stress, 2) Signs and Consequences of Stress, 3) Stress Management and Intervention, and 4) Resiliency Against Stress. Results from this study contribute to the understanding of occupational stress in addictions counsellors. Implications for addiction organizations, educators, and counsellors are discussed.
Factors contributing to successful export performance of regional and metropolitan SME exporters
Creators: name: Freeman, Joanne M
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2009
Subjects: export performance
SMEs

description: Export can play a vital role in contributing to a nation's economic wealth. Therefore in order to develop and increase export performance the assessment of the determinants of export performance is an important step toward achieving sustainable economic growth of a nation. Moreover while the overall importance of exporting is acknowledged the differences between regional and metropolitan exporters have received little attention even though improving the export performance of SMEs in regional locations has become an area of emerging importance to governments and researchers alike. The contribution to knowledge of this thesis is the finding that regional exporters do have inherent challenges specific to their location however, location does not significantly impact on their export performance when compared with their metropolitan counterparts. Thus, this thesis answers the research question: What are the factors that contribute to successful export performance of regional and metropolitan SME exporters? Whilst reviewing the extant literature, several variables were identified that have a direct association with a firm's export performance such as firm location, firm resources, capability development and export market environment. It was proposed in this research that a firm's location influences a firm's resources and therefore their ability to develop capabilities which in affect will impact on export performance. Furthermore, the direct association of firm resources and capabilities on export performance was considered. Finally, this research also suggests that the export market environment has a direct association with the ability of the firm to develop resources and capabilities and also a direct relationship with a firm's export performance.
Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Lipid Lowering Agents for the Treatment of Dyslipidemia in HIV-Positive Individuals
Creators: name: Mesana, Laura
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Network meta-analysis
statins
dyslipidemia
HIV

description: As the HIV-positive population ages, managing non-AIDS-related comorbidities such as cardiovascular disease (CVD) complicates HIV care. Effectively treating risk factors for CVD will help reduce its burden in the HIV-infected population. However, the evidence base for the efficacy of statins as lipid-lowering therapies in HIV-infected patients has yet to be synthesized. Most trials do not compare statins directly to each other. In the absence of head-to-head evidence, the relative treatment effects of different statins can be indirectly obtained through a network meta-analysis (NMA). This NMA aims to evaluate the use of statins for treating dyslipidemia in HIV-infected individuals. Bayesian methods were used for obtaining treatment effect estimates and probabilistic rankings of treatments. Among lipid-lowering therapies, statins were most effective in treating dyslipidemia. All statins were found to offer the same treatment benefits. To our knowledge, this is the first NMA on this topic. It provides clinicians, health economists, and policy decision-makers with precise and reliable estimates for making definitive recommendations for the use of statins in dyslipidemic HIV-positive patients.
Prospettive di ricerca sulla Parte terza de L’intelligibilità della storia di J.-P. Sartre
Creators: name: Cambria, Florinda
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Una riflessione sulle pagine conclusive dell'incompiuto secondo tomo della Critica della ragione dialettica di Sartre (L'intelligibilità della storia): verso un nuovo materialismo, una nuova concezione della prassi e una nuova comprensione dell’intreccio pratico tra organico e inorganico.
description: Nóema, N° 2 (2011): Oggettività e realismo: l'ultima impresa della verità
Rückstände von als Rodentizid ausgebrachten Antikoagulanzien in wildlebenden Biota
Creators: name: Jacob, Jens
name: Broll, Anke
name: Esther, Alexandra
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Nagetier
subject: Biozid
subject: Rodentizid
subject: Landwirtschaft
subject: Tier
subject: Exposition
subject: Sekundärvergiftung
subject: Schleiereule
subject: Schadstoffimmission
subject: Vergiftung
subject: antikoagulante Rodentizide
subject: Biozidrückstände
subject: Vergiftungen
subject: Nichtzielarten
subject: Chemikalien

description: Antikoagulante Rodentizide (AR) sind häufig eingesetzte Wirkstoffe zur Schadnagerbekämpfung im Biozidbereich, die aber auch Nichtzielarten gefährden können. Im Projekt konnten Rückstände von AR in Kleinsäugern, die nicht Ziel der Anwendung sind (z.B. Spitzmäuse, Waldmäuse) und Prädatoren, die ⁠Kleinsäuger⁠ erbeuten, nachgewiesen werden. 61% der Leberproben von Füchsen und 32% von Eulen- und Greifvogelproben wiesen AR-Rückstände auf. Mit steigender Entfernung zum Anwendungsort sank der Anteil belasteter Kleinsäuger. Schleiereulen, die häufig auf landwirtschaftlichen Betrieben vorkommen, scheinen ARs auch über Nichtziel-Kleinsäuger (z.B. Apodemus-Arten) aufzunehmen. Die Untersuchungen belegen die verbreitete Umweltbelastung durch die weitläufige Anwendung von AR zur Nagetierbekämpfung.
The Role of Parkinson's Disease Gene PTEN-Induced Putative Kinase 1, PINK1 in Ischemia Induced Neuronal Injury
Creators: name: Safarpour, Farzaneh
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Parkinson's disease
PINK1
Ischemia
Stroke
Parkin

description: Stroke results from disturbance in blood flow to an area of the brain, leading to neuronal dysfunction and loss. Mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress are critical factors in neuropathology of stroke. They have also been implicated in Parkinson's disease (PD). Select cases of PD are caused by homozygous mutations in the PINK1 gene. Critically, this gene works with another PD gene, Parkin, to regulate mitochondrial quality control (MQC) mechanisms. Additionally, initial studies of the PINK1 protein have suggested that it plays a critical role in cellular pro-survival responses to oxidative stress though the mechanism by which it does so is unclear. In this dissertation, I explored the potential mechanisms through which PINK1 confers neuroprotection, particularly in the case of ischemic insult. I found that PINK1 deficiency sensitizes neurons to glutamate-induced excitotoxicity. I also found that the PINK1 kinase domain, but not the mitochondrial targeting motif, is essential for its protective effect. Additionally, PINK1 or Parkin deficiency significantly increases the infarct volume after middle cerebral artery occlusion, in vivo. Importantly, expression of Parkin reduces the sensitivity of neurons to cytotoxicity induced by PINK1 deficiency indicating that Parkin functionally interacts with PINK1 either through the same or on parallel survival pathways. Moreover, I investigated if PINK1 and Parkin confer neuroprotection against ischemia through PINK1/Parkin MQC pathways. However, I did not find any evidence indicating Parkin mitochondrial translocation following stroke insult suggesting that PINK1/Parkin MQC pathways are not involved in the protective functions of PINK1/Parkin. Interestingly, I found that PINK1 or Parkin deficiency decreases the level of phosphorylation of pro-survival protein AKT (pAKT) whereas expression of these genes enhances pAKT following glutamate treatment. My data also indicate that the mTORC2/AKT pathway partially mediates the neuroprotective effect of PINK1. Taken together, my data indicate that both PINK1 and Parkin play a critical neuroprotective role against ischemia and Ca2+ dysregulation in a fashion independent of mitochondrial control but dependent on AKT function.
Selves and Spaces: Hacking Culture in Postnormal Times
Creators: name: Mayo, Liam
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2021
Subjects: Culture
Hacking
Postnormal Times
Futures Studies
Strategic Foresight
Storytelling
Leadership
Community Engagement
Community Development
Selves
Spaces
Planning
Governance

description: Postnormal times (Sardar, 2010) has provided a lens through which futures researchers may interpret and understand change in the present and a language to describe the contemporary epistemological rupturing occurring across disciplines and canons. This is an acknowledgment that reductionist views of foresight and strategic planning have become increasingly insufficient in understanding and interpreting the world around us. What is required, according to Sardar, is an overhaul in the way futurists think and do things (Sardar, 2015). Traditional approaches to the future deal with the plurality of alternative futures by distinguishing between plausible, probable, possible, and preferable. Proponents of postnormal times argue that approaches to the future must now incorporate postnormal landscapes as a means to navigate our transitional epoch (Sardar & Sweeney, 2016). However, as an emerging theory in the futurist’s toolkit, postnormal times theory requires acute academic interrogation.
Mental Health and Poverty in Binaus Village, West Timor, East Nusa Tenggara-Indonesia: An Indigenous Psychology Perspective
Creators: name: Ranimpi, Yulius Yusak
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2016
Subjects: mental health
poverty
culture
sumbur
naketi
phenomenology
Indigenous psychology

description: In Indonesia, mental health issues have received limited attention at the levels of policy and practice. Moreover, concepts of mental health are contextualised within broader cultural, spiritual, socio-economic and regional factors that may alter perceptions of mental health and poverty and any relationship between them. This study explored conceptions of mental health and poverty and the perceived relationships between them in a remote region of Indonesia. It was motivated by the lack of health and mental health services in the region and the lack of understanding of psychological factors involved in relation to conceptions of mental health and poverty in developing nations. To examine these issues, Indigenous Psychology was applied as a perspective and phenomenology as the associated research method.
Geometry effect on post-dryout heat transfer.
Creators: name: Zhang, Ji.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Mechanical.

description: A thorough literature review of the effects of channel shape and spacing devices on post-dryout heat transfer has been performed. Overall, very little information is available for these effects, several experiments were carried out covering only limited flow conditions and geometries. To extend the present review, studies with air flow through heated channels have also been included. The effect of channel shape is small for channels with rounded corners, but is rather significant for those with sharp corners (especially those of small apex angle). As a result, the heat transfer rate is much lower in a triangular than a rectangular channel at the same flow conditions (the heat transfer rate in tubes is often the highest). In addition, the circumferential heat flux distribution affects the overall heat transfer rate considerably (e.g., comparing triangular channels with either one-side or all-side heated). A strong effect of spacing devices on heat transfer has been observed in both single-phase and post-dryout studies. It enhances significantly the heat transfer rate at locations downstream of the spacer. Most studies showed an exponentially decaying trend of heat transfer enhancement with increasing distance away from the spacer. Correlations have been proposed to represent this trend; they can only be applied to specific range of flow conditions due to the limited database. In view of the deficiency among existing prediction methods, correlations for the effects of channel shape and spacing devices on post-dryout heat transfer have been developed to improve the prediction accuracy and range of applications. These correlations provide good agreement with experimental data obtained in other studies. Furthermore, they exhibit correct asymptotic and parametric trends and hence can be extrapolated to conditions beyond the present database. However, it is difficult to quantify the uncertainty of the extrapolation due to a lack of data.
What bereaved parents want health care providers to know when their babies are stillborn: a community-based participatory study
Creators: name: Farrales, Lynn L.
name: Cacciatore, Joanne
name: Jonas-Simpson, Christine
name: Dharamsi, Shafik
name: Ascher, Jaime
name: Klein, Michael C.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background Bereaved parents experience higher rates of depressive and post-traumatic stress symptoms after the stillbirth of a baby than after live-birth. Yet, these effects remain underreported in the literature and, consequently, insufficiently addressed in health provider education and practice. We conducted a participatory based study to explore the experiences of grieving parents during their interaction with health care providers during and after the stillbirth of a baby. Methods This community-based participatory study utilized four focus groups comprised of twenty-seven bereaved parents (44% fathers). Bereaved parents conceptualized the study, participating at all stages of research, analyses, and drafting. Data were reduced into a main theme and subthemes, then broad-based member checked to ensure fidelity and nuances within themes. Results The major theme that emerged centered on provider acknowledgement of the baby as an irreplaceable individual. Subthemes reflected 1) acknowledgement of parenthood and grief, 2) recognition of the traumatic nature of stillbirth, and 3) acknowledgement of enduring grief coupled with access to support. It was important that providers realized how grief was experienced within health care and social support systems, concretized by their desire for long-term, specialized support. Conclusions Both mothers and fathers feel that acknowledgement of their baby as an individual, their parenthood, and their enduring traumatic grief by healthcare providers are key elements required in the process of initiating immediate and ongoing care after the stillbirth of a baby.
Crossing Borders
Creators: name: Chapman, Amanda
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2008
Subjects: Crossing Borders

description: This submission for consideration is comprised of an original Young Adult novel entitled Crossing Borders. The project encompassed research into both Balinese culture and the depiction of attitudes of young adult males in contemporary Young Adult fiction. The male protagonist in my novel is not a "splendid, clear-thinking young" (man.) (Salinger 1958. p. 2) He is a 'lost' and depressed Western adolescent 'in crisis' and 'at risk' of self-harm. The writer utilised alchemical philosophy to create a completed novel based on lived experience. Crossing Borders employs Magical Realism to draw the reader from the reality of the visible external world into the dream-like psyche of Marcas Oswald, a young man with schizophrenia. Crossing Borders blends Balinese and Australian cultures to create a new 'seeing place' for Marcas and the reader. The plot-line crosses backwards and forwards between Marcas's childhood memories and his current life on the Island of the Gods providing contrasts between climate, landscape and the customs of modern day people in popular culture, with the gods, goddesses, demons and witches of ancient mythological worlds. Bali, the Island of the Gods, was chosen because the Balinese believe life is a continuous cycle of birth, death and re-birth. Marcas Oswald, therefore, crosses geographical and psychological borders until he is ready to be re-born into a 'positive state of completeness' and 'cosmic consciousness'. Crossing Borders was created to provide a voice for young adult males 'in crisis' and 'at risk' of self-harm. It supports a strong belief in the re-creative force of art because art is the "greatest defence and protection against solitude, loneliness and isolation from our fellows." (Aldama 2003. p. 109) The theme of Crossing Borders is that an appreciation of the arts for youth is vital because the writer believes the making of art is healing and a life-enhancing form of occupational therapy.
The waz-zān and ġzāwa resistance : model of ‘Abdū ’as-salām ben ‘abdū ’as-salām ’āl ‘amrānī (about 1909-1985)
Creators: name: Ennabili, Abdeslam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 210304 Biography
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: History

description: Morocco has suffered since the early twentieth century of a terrible foreign occupation and subjected to protection treaty by France and Spain for about 44 years. Based on oral and written testimonies about armed resistance in the rural areas of Morocco (the outskirts of waz-zān, ġzāwa, jbāla), we tried through this paper show what did ‘abdu ’as-salām ben ‘abdu ’as-salām ben moḥam-mad ben ’āl hašmī ben leḥsen ’āl ‘amrānī (about 1909-1985) to the homeland of resistance against colonization, and how much of the time has spent in detention under torture without knowing the perpetrators. He took up arms in the prime of his youth and contributed to the armed confrontation against the French colonization since 1926 and had interact with the Liberation Army, and participated in the Clandestine Resistance in waz-zān and its surroundings, especially after isolating the Sultan Mohammed Ben Youssef in 1953. Also he joined the Nationalist Movement, which transformed into "Shura and Independence" party in 1946, in turn converted to the "Democratic Constitution" Party in 1960.
Oriente within, Nord without: il meridionismo e i romantici inglesi
Creators: name: Cazzato, Luigi
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Per Voltaire (1773) prima ed Hegel (2010) poi, la storia del progresso del mondo ha viaggiato seguendo il percorso geo-politico e climatico aristotelico 1: dal dispotico Oriente verso il libero Occidente; mentre per Montesquieu (1994) essa ha viaggiato anche dai paesi caldi del Sud, timorosi come i vecchi, verso i paesi freddi del Nord, coraggiosi come i giovani. L’Europa non si è vista solo come l’altro rispetto all’Oriente, ma anche come l’altro rispetto al suo Meridione: il presente moderno del Nord di contro al passato antico del Sud. Nella seconda metà del Settecento, il secolo della nascita dell’orientalismo come sapere organico all’impresa coloniale dell’Occidente, vennero gettati anche i semi della pianta del meridionismo, sapere organico all’impresa della costruzione della moderna identità europea. I romantici inglesi coltivarono questa pianta.
description: Altre Modernità, N° 8 (2012): Orientalismi
La retraite anticipée : facteurs décisionnels et perceptions des enseignants francophones de l'Ontario face à l'offre de retraite anticipée printemps - 1998.
Creators: name: Racine, Ilafond.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Education, Administration.

description: Parmi les moyens privilégiée pour résoudre le mal de l'État, on retrouve la mise à la retraite des salariés plus âgés: ceux ayant 50 ans et plus. La retraite anticipée devient un enjeux. Suivant l'exemple du gouvernement fédéral et celui du Québec, le gouvernement de l'Ontario, dans le cadre de sa politique du «gros bon sens» (Common sens), s'est entendu, au printemps 1998, avec la Fédération des enseignants pour offrir à ces derniers la possibilité d'une retraite anticipée. Pour la première fois, dans l'histoire de la province, un nombre important d'enseignants contemple la possibilité de quitter la profession. Le principal critère d'admissilité est le «facteur 85» (âge + années de services = 85). Devant ce constat, nous avons jugé bon de proposer cette recherche dont l'objectif est d'identifier et de dyne les facteurs qui portent les enseignants franco-ontariens admissibles au « facteur 85 » à opter pour une retraite anticipée plutôt qu'une retrace normale à l'âge dé 65 ans. L'étude nous permet également de décrire les perceptions des enseignants de leur emploi, de la retraite, de l'entente et de la vie de retraité. L'étude est une enquête de type exploratoire. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Occidentalism at War: Al-Qaida’s Resistance Rhetoric
Creators: name: Sims, Christopher
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Analysis of resistance groups active in the War on Terror provides case-studies for an examination of Occidentalism. Al-Qaida constructs a West both homogeneously and pejoratively in order to represent the self as a single Islamic nation under attack from a barbarian other. Concerned with propagating their narrative, al-Qaida considers the media battle to be at the forefront of their efforts. Yet global dissemination of their message is double-edged: positively, it can inspire disparate would-be jihadists; negatively, it opens up the discourse to examination in West. The discourse is studied, dissected and ultimately incorporated into the Western knowledge structure.

description: Altre Modernità, N° 8 (2012): Orientalismi
The valuation of assets and its impact on water utility pricing in Australia
Creators: name: Tan-Kantor, Angela
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis investigates the two main asset valuation techniques are used for price-setting purposes; that is, the depreciated optimised replacement cost (DORC) and economic value (EV) valuation models, in context of water utility pricing in major Australian jurisdictions. In doing so, some practical issues that arise in the implementation of asset valuation techniques can be resolved on a basis consistent with its underlying objectives. In making these objectives apparent, academics and practitioners will be able to judge whether deprival value principles are well suited to tariff regulation, and whether the financial models can be usefully transferred to other price-setting and financial modelling applications, in the public and private sectors.
Scrivere al tornio, modellare il testo:  Edmund de Waal tra istallazione e memoir
Creators: name: Cuojati, Francesca
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: The Hare with Amber Eyes (2010) by Edmund de Waal is a memoir written by “a very textual potter”. Thanks to the inheritance of a collection of tiny Japanese carvings, de Waal leaves on a journey to Paris, Vienna, Odessa, back to his Jewish roots in nineteenth century aesthtecisism and in the tragedy of the Shoah. Drawing parallels between his writing, collecting and the plastic arts of pottery, the author explores the affinities between artefact and word, installation and proposition, collection and archive. The Hare can be read in the context of what R. Wendorf has defined a “literature of collecting,” including critical theory as well as narratives dealing with its practices. Rich in intertextual excursions, de Waal’s autobiographical writing develops a fruitful conversation with W. Benjamin’s 1931 paradigmatic text “Unpacking my Library”. Also P. Levi’s La chiave a stella riverberates in the writer’s awareness of the importance of precision in practices like creating an installation and writing about the past, involving both aesthetic and moral responsabilities. De Waal’s stance about the transitivity between art and writing finally emerges from the very rhetorics of his work which abounds in circular structures like the red alluminium ring which sustains his installation at the V&A Ceramics Galleries and the figure of the chiasmus which organizes his prose writing, linking him yet again to his Jewish cultural origins.
description: Altre Modernità, N° 8 (2012): Orientalismi
Mostre virtuali per il Centro Apice –  Una proposta culturale e didattica
Creators: name: Tissoni, Francesco
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Intendo presentare in questa sede i primi risultati di un progetto avviato nell’anno accademico 2008-2009 presso l’Università degli Studi di Milano, consistente nella realizzazione, nella forma di tesi di laurea magistrali, di una serie di mostre virtuali dedicate ad alcuni fondi archivistico-librari custoditi presso il Centro Apice – Archivi della Parola, dell’Immagine e della Comunicazione editoriale.
description: Altre Modernità, N° 8 (2012): Orientalismi
Advanced Practice Nurses’ Perceptions of the Lived Experience of Power
Creators: name: Schoales, Catherine A
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: advanced practice nurse
knowledge
expertise
relationships
power

description: “Power” is a concept that has been discussed by nurse scholars and leaders within the nursing literature. The literature surrounding power concurs that power is necessary within the practice of nursing so that nurses are able to support patients and move the profession of nursing forward. There is a scarcity of research, however, regarding nurses’ perception of power within their own practices. Advanced practice nurses (APNs) are in positions in which they apply graduate education, specialized knowledge, and expertise to improve health care outcomes. Therefore, a qualitative study using an interpretive hermeneutic phenomenological approach was undertaken to discover APNs’ lived experience of power within their practices. In-depth, tape-recorded interviews were conducted with eight APNs from a large tertiary care facility. All of the participants agreed to a follow-up interview to review the summary of the study results. van Manen’s (1990) approach was used to analyze the data by subjecting the transcripts to a thematic analysis and reflective process. The overarching theme of the interviews is “building to make a difference” and the APNs’ perceived that this happened by “building on,” building with,” and “building for.” The APNs built on their knowledge and expertise, built with others in relationships and built for the capacity to make a difference. Power was a part of the everyday practices of these APNs and was described as “soft power,” a power that they shared to bring about change for the better. This shared power was reflected back on them resulting in increased power within their practices, a process described by the APNs as power creep.
Development and application of sensitive methods for detection of pathogens in surface waters
Creators: name: Masters, Nicole
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2014
Subjects: water microbiology
microbial source tracking
MST methods
waterborne pathogen detection

description: Water pollution is an inevitable consequence of urbanisation and industrialisation. Population increases and the development of associated infrastructure are inadvertently overburdening water resources. Predominate factors in the degradation of general water quality include sewage overflow, industrial waste, agricultural run-off and climate change. As a result polluted water ways can harbour an array of pathogenic organisms and present a serious public health risk. Historically water quality was analysed using culture based methods targeting faecal indicator bacteria such as Escherichia coli; since almost all disease outbreaks have been the consequence of faecally derived pathogens. However numerous limitations exist with traditional techniques, including the inability to identify the faecal sources and where they are entering the effected water system. Recent advances in molecular technologies coupled with the lack of information provided by the enumeration of indicator organisms only, has seen a shift in research and industry interest in the pursuit of better characterising the true microbial loading of a water body. However to date there is no 'gold standard' method(s). In view of this; the overall objective of this thesis was to investigate the characteristics of commonly utilised indicator organisms with the idea of pursuing novel approaches and methods for evaluating the microbial loading of various water bodies and types, and discriminating between animal and human sources.
The impact of an emotional fitness and resilience building intervention – Mytern - on the psychological wellbeing, life satisfaction, resilience and distress levels of first year university students
Creators: name: Foster, Jane
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2014
Subjects: emotional fitness
resilience building
mental health

description: The rising prevalence of mental health problems within the university student population has been well documented, yet few resilience-building interventions embedded within the first year curriculum have been empirically tested. This thesis evaluates the impact of a time and cost effective intervention (Mytern) which was embedded into a first year compulsory course in one Australian university, and delivered via a brief movie on DVD, a mini manual and a daily SMS. By adopting a salutogenic perspective and employing a mixed method approach, the study gathered data from surveys of wellbeing, semi-structured interviews and SMS feedback. Participants were divided into 3 groups: control (C), intervention involving DVD and mini manual (IA), and intervention involving DVD, mini manual and daily Mytern SMS (ISMS). One way ANOVA involving planned contrasts were used to investigate differences between the groups from baseline to the end of intervention, with results indicating that the intervention SMS group (ISMS) experienced significant positive changes in all 3 surveys of wellbeing (FS Diff = 5.74±5.86, p=.000; SWLS Diff = 5.53±5.16, p=.000; CD-RISC Diff = 3.84±3.77, p=.000) and a decreased score in psychological distress (K-10 = -6.47±7.18, p=.000). The results for the ISMS group supported the hypotheses that the intervention (Mytern) would increase students' psychological wellbeing, life satisfaction and resilience, and decrease levels of psychological distress. Thematic analysis of the qualitative data added depth to the quantitative results by revealing how the resilience-building intervention developed a feeling of connection and a sense of control within a large number of students; enabling them to feel better mentally and physically; perform better academically; whilst encouraging them to continue at university.
EOSC Policy Brief for FAIR-IMPACT
Creators: name: Kalaitzi, Vasso
name: Dillo, Ingrid
name: Turner, Daniel
name: Ashley, Kevin
name: Davidson, Joy
name: Nordling, Josefine
name: Parland-von Essen, Jessica
name: Jonquet, Clement
name: Aubin, Sophie
name: Priddy, Mike
name: Verburg, Maaike
name: Fink, Anne Sofie
name: Rouchon, Olivier
name: Pittonet, Sara
name: Mari, Marialetizia
name: Meneses, Rita
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: FAIR
EOSC
FAIR-IMPACT

description: FAIR-IMPACT has the ambitious goal of realising an EOSC of FAIR data and services by supporting the implementation of FAIR-enabling practices, tools and services across scientific communities and at national, European and institutional level. The project places its focus on persistent identifiers (WP3), metadata and ontologies (WP4) metrics, guidelines and certification (WP5) and interoperability (WP6) in line with the respective EOSC SRIA action areas. This process of identifying practices, policies, tools and technical specifications to guide a wide spectrum of stakeholders groups starts with real-life use cases integrated in the project’s structure across the social sciences and humanities, the photon and neutron sciences, life sciences, and agri-food and environmental sciences. These efforts are supported by wide synchronisation, engagement and communication activities, including open calls for cascading grants and in-kind support to specific stakeholders. The relation between FAIR-IMPACT’s contribution and the most relevant Operational Objectives and Action Areas of the EOSC SRIA are mapped.
Data Security in Unattended Wireless Sensor Networks
Creators: name: Vepanjeri Lokanadha Reddy, Sasi Kiran
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Unattended wireless sensor network
Security
Proactive adversary
Reactive Adversary
Data Authentication
Data survivability
Cryptography

description: In traditional Wireless Sensor network's (WSN's), the sink is the only unconditionally trusted authority. If the sink is not connected to the nodes for a period of time then the network is considered as unattended. In Unattended Wireless Sensor Network (UWSN), a trusted mobile sink visits each node periodically to collect data. This network differs from the traditional multi hop wireless sensor networks where the nodes close to the sink deplete their power earlier than the other nodes. An UWSN can prolong the life time of the network by saving the battery of the nodes and also it can be deployed in environments where it is not practical for the sink to be online all the time. Saving data in the memory of the nodes for a long time causes security problems due to the lack of tamper-resistant hardware. Data collected by the nodes has to be secured until the next visit of the sink. Securing the data from an adversary in UWSN is a challenging task. We present two non-cryptographic algorithms (DS-PADV and DS-RADV) to ensure data survivability in mobile UWSN. The DS-PADV protects against proactive adversary which compromises nodes before identifying its target. DS-RADV makes the network secure against reactive adversary which compromises nodes after identifying the target. We also propose a data authentication scheme against a mobile adversary trying to modify the data. The proposed data authentication scheme uses inexpensive cryptographic primitives and few message exchanges. The proposed solutions are analyzed both mathematically and using simulations proving that the proposed solutions are better than the previous ones in terms of security and communication overhead.
The Combination of Carboxylesterase-Expressing Oncolytic Vaccinia Virus and Irinotecan
Creators: name: Becker, Michelle Caitlin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Cancer
Oncolytic virus
Vaccinia virus
Carboxylesterase
Irinotecan
CPT-11
Gene-directed enzyme prodrug therapy
Vascular endothelial growth factor
Angiogenesis
Virus delivery
Virus spread
Plaque purification
Virus aggregation
Virus filtration

description: This project combines oncolytic Vaccinia virus (VV) with irinotecan (CPT-11) for the treatment of cancer. VV can infect, replicate in and destroy cancer cells, yet leave healthy cells relatively unaffected. CPT-11 is a chemotherapeutic of which ~5% is converted to the more active chemotherapeutic SN-38 by endogenous carboxylesterase (CE) enzymes. SN-38 is a topoisomerase I inhibitor that induces DNA double strand breaks, leading to growth arrest and apoptosis. Consequently, VV has been engineered to express a more effective isoform of the CE enzyme. The virus’ tumour tropism should restrict enhanced conversion of CPT-11 to the tumour. Neither CPT-11 nor SN-38 interfered with VV replication or spread. Engineered recombinants expressed CE enzyme which, when combined with CPT-11, produced DNA double strand breaks and cancer cell death. In vitro, the combination of CE-virus and CPT-11 killed more K-562 cancer cells than its non-CE counterpart and CPT-11.