cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A framework for solving logical topology design problems within constrained computation time
Creators: name: Zalesky, Andrew L.
name: Vu, Hai
name: Zukerman, Moshe
name: Ouveysi, Iradj
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present a framework for solving logical topology design (LTD) problems in a constrained amount of computation time. Our framework uses a search space dimensionality (SSD) reduction technique that exploits a tradeoff between computation time and solution quality. We have demonstrated that our framework offers improved solution quality in comparison to an existing SSD reduction technique reported in the literature.
title: Пути совершенствования учета онкологических больных и оценка деятельности онкологической службы
Creators: name: Мерабишвили, В. М.
Publisher: name: Реноме
Year: 2018

description: Сопоставлены показатели деятельности онкологической службы на основе форм государственной отчетности № 7 и реальное их состояние по базам данных 12 раковых регистров. Система сбора и информации о состоянии онкологической службы требует пересмотра.
Physicochemical Characterization of Portuguese Clay and Nanocomposite Preparation with Polylactide
Creators: name: Huang, Chih-Te
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: University of Ottawa theses
2014
Nanocomposites
Smectite
Polylactide
clay

description: A Portuguese clay (BRN) from the North East city of Bragança was collected and characterized in terms of health treatment and applied towards the preparation of nanocomposites with Polylactide (PLA). The silt-clay fraction of BRN is mainly composed of smectite with less illite, kaolinite and other minerals. The physicochemical properties are applicable for the topical applications and are mainly influenced by smectite. With the hazardous elements present, further bioavailability tests should be conducted. PLA nanocomposites with BRN and Wyoming montmorillonite SWy-2 (MMT) were respectively prepared through the solution casting method with ultrasonic stirring and using cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) as the surfactant. The X-ray diffraction patterns show the exfoliated structures in most samples. Thermal gravimetric analysis reveals the increased thermal stability of the nanocomposites. The complexes were also characterized by nitrogen adsorption, infrared analysis and nuclear magnetic resonance for comparing the differences between BRN and MMT.
Wärmetransformation durch Adsorption: Entwicklung eines neuen Messverfahrens zur Untersuchung der Adsorptionskinetik und Weiterentwicklung der Potentialtheorie zur Berechnung von Adsorptionsgleichgewichten
Creators: name: Teicht, Christian
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2022
Subjects: Adsorptionskältemaschine

description: Gegenstand dieser Dissertation ist die Abwärmenutzung in Adsorptionskältemaschinen zur Verbesserung der Energieeffizienz bei der Kältebereitstellung. Als Anwendungsbeispiel wird die Abwärmenutzung aus Hochtemperatur-Polymerelektrolyt-Brennstoffzellen gewählt. In der Arbeit werden die notwendigen Methoden und Werkzeuge entwickelt, um Arbeitspaare für Adsorptionskältemaschinen systematisch auszuwählen und hinsichtlich ihrer Leistungsfähigkeit zu charakterisieren. Hierzu wird die Potentialtheorie nach Dubinin zur Berechnung von Adsorptionsgleichgewichten weiterentwickelt. Von dieser ausgehend wird eine Datenbank mit ca. 30 Adsorptionsmaterialien aufgebaut, die die Auswahl von für den jeweiligen Anwendungsfall passenden Adsorptionsmaterialien ermöglicht. Für die Bestimmung der erreichbaren Adsorptions- und somit Kälteleistung wird ein Adsorptionskinetikprüfstand entwickelt und aufgebaut. Dieser ermöglicht die Durchführung von isobaren Temperatursprung-Adsorptionsexperimenten in einem weiten Probengrößenbereich bei Temperaturen von bis zu 200 °C. Schließlich werden Adsorptionskinetikmodelle entwickelt, um die Adsorptionsleistung der untersuchten Materialien auch bei wechselnden Betriebsbedingungen berechnen zu können.
5-Punkte-Programm für einen nachhaltigen Pflanzenschutz
Creators: name: Egerer, Sina
name: Frische, Tobias
name: Matezki, Steffen
name: Pickl, Christina
name: Wogram, Jörn
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biologischer Pflanzenschutz
subject: nachhaltiger Pflanzenschutz
subject: Insektizid
subject: Herbizid
subject: Fungizid
subject: Gefährdungspotenzial
subject: Umweltrisiken von Pflanzenschutzmitteln
subject: Landwirtschaft
subject: Soil | Land

description: Unterstützt durch die europäische und nationale Agrarförderung der letzten Jahrzehnte hat sich der konventionelle Anbau von Kulturpflanzen als Fundament einer in Deutschland heute zunehmend intensiven Landwirtschaft und Lebensmittelproduktion etabliert. Eine wesentliche Voraussetzung
für die Leistungsfähigkeit dieser Produktionsweise ist bei vielen Anbaukulturen der intensive Einsatz chemischer Pflanzenschutzmittel, was faktisch eine systembedingte Abhängigkeit bedeutet. Diese findet ihren Ausdruck in der Annahme, dass die derzeitigen Anwendungsmengen und Anwendungshäufigkeiten chemischer Pflanzenschutzmitteln das "notwendige Maß" darstellen. Was Kulturpflanzen schützt und damit dem Landwirt
nützt, stellt für Natur und Umwelt hingegen eine Belastung dar. Denn auch für die heute eingesetzten Insektizide, Herbizide und Fungizide gilt im
Allgemeinen: Keine (pflanzenschützende) Wirkung ohne Nebenwirkung (auf Natur und Umwelt). Wegen ihres hohen Umweltgefährdungspotenzials und weil sie in erheblichen Mengen großflächig in der Landschaft ausgebracht werden, ist die Anwendung von Pflanzenschutzmitteln daher nur nach erfolgreichem Bestehen eines strengen Prüf- und Zulassungsverfahrens gestattet. Zuständig für die Bewertung der Umweltrisiken ist dabei in Deutschland das Umweltbundesamt (UBA).
Quelle: Verlagsinformation
description: Unterstützt durch die europäische und nationale Agrarförderung der letzten Jahrzehnte hat sich der konventionelle Anbau von Kulturpflanzen als Fundament einer in Deutschland heute zunehmend intensiven Landwirtschaft und Lebensmittelproduktion etabliert. Eine wesentliche Voraussetzungfür die Leistungsfähigkeit dieser Produktionsweise ist bei vielen Anbaukulturen der intensive Einsatz chemischer Pflanzenschutzmittel, was faktisch eine systembedingte Abhängigkeit bedeutet. Diese findet ihren Ausdruck in der Annahme, dass die derzeitigen Anwendungsmengen und Anwendungshäufigkeiten chemischer Pflanzenschutzmitteln das „notwendige Maß“ darstellen. Was Kulturpflanzen schützt und damit dem Landwirtnützt, stellt für Natur und Umwelt hingegen eine Belastung dar. Denn auch für die heute eingesetzten Insektizide, ⁠Herbizide⁠ und Fungizide gilt imAllgemeinen: Keine (pflanzenschützende) Wirkung ohne Nebenwirkung (auf Natur und Umwelt). Wegen ihres hohen Umweltgefährdungspotenzials und weil sie in erheblichen Mengen großflächig in der Landschaft ausgebracht werden, ist die Anwendung von Pflanzenschutzmitteln daher nur nach erfolgreichem Bestehen eines strengen Prüf- und Zulassungsverfahrens gestattet. Zuständig für die Bewertung der Umweltrisiken ist dabei in Deutschland das Umweltbundesamt (⁠UBA⁠).
Factors Associated with Students Meeting Components of Canada’s New 24-Hour Movement Guidelines over Time in the COMPASS Study
Creators: name: Buchan, M. Claire
name: Carson, Valerie
name: Faulkner, Guy E. J., 1970-
name: Qian, Wei
name: Leatherdale, Scott T.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: This study aimed to determine if secondary school students are meeting the new Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines (24-MG), as well as each individual recommendation (physical activity; sleep; sedentary behavior) within the 24-MG, and which student-level characteristics predict meeting the 24-MG, both cross-sectionally and longitudinally. This study is the first to examine longitudinal changes in students meeting the 24-MG, as well as student-level characteristics that were predictive of favourable shifts in movement patterns. Cross-sectional data were obtained for 11,793 grade 9 students across Canada as part of the COMPASS study. Of this sample, 3713 students provided linked follow-up data from grade 9 to grade 12. The probability of meeting the guidelines was modeled using two-level logistic regression analyses, adjusting for student-level co-variates and school clustering. Only 1.28% (p < 0.0001) of the sample met the overall 24-MG. Among grade 9 students, 35.9% (p < 0.0001), 50.8% (p < 0.0001), and 6.4% (p < 0.0001) were meeting the individual recommendations for physical activity, sleep, and screen time, respectively. Of those students, less than half were still meeting them by grade 12. Community sport participation was the only predictor of all three individual recommendations within the 24-MG. Longitudinal analyses found that community sport participation and parental support and encouragement were significantly associated with Grade 12 students starting to meet the physical activity and screen time recommendations, respectively, after having not met them in grade 9. Findings can be used to inform policy and public health practice, as well as to inform future research examining causal relationships between the variables.
Entwicklung und Analyse integrierter harmonischer Radarsysteme mit aktiven Transpondern bei 61/122 GHz basierend auf SiGe-MMICs
Creators: name: Hansen, Steffen
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2025
Subjects: MMIC
Radar
Millimeterwellen
Störunterdrückte Radarmessung
Frequenzkonversion

description: Die Sub-Millimetergenauigkeit hochfrequenter Radarsensoren sinkt stark in unkontrollierten Umgebungen und bei der Anwesenheit von Störzielen. Ein vielversprechender Ansatz ist das harmonische Radar mit nichtlinearen Transpondern als Radarziel. Bisher konzentrierte sich diese Technologie jedoch auf Frequenzen unterhalb von 10 GHz, da dort eine hohe Ausgangsleistung großer Systeme und niedrige Freiraumdämpfung den Betrieb begünstigen. Erstmals wird die Umsetzung eines hochintegrierten Systems in einer modernen SiGe-Technologie bei Millimeterwellen erforscht. Die Grundlage für die Systemauslegung bildet die harmonische Radargleichung. Die Entwicklung aktiver Transponder mit hoher Konversionseffizienz zur Kompensation der Freiraumdämpfung und hochintegrierter Sendeempfänger wird beschrieben. Am Beispiel zweier Transponder-MMICs werden die Grenzen dieses Ansatzes diskutiert und die Genauigkeit und Störfestigkeit in Einziel- und Mehrzielszenarien untersucht. Die Ergebnisse zeigen das Potenzial einer kompakten Industrialisierung der Technologie auch über eindimensionale Entfernungsmessungen hinaus. Die 3D-Lokalisierung von Transpondern und die Kommunikation mit ihnen wird demonstriert.
La politisation comme composante active de l'évolution de la culture mouvementiste : étude du rapport à l'action politique de trois mouvements sociaux québécois, 1980-2009
Creators: name: Boudreau, Philippe
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: mouvements sociaux
Québec
action politique
culture
partis
gauche
question nationale
apprentissage
1980
1990
2000
syndical
communautaire
femmes
knowledge production
social movement learning

description: Quelle a été l’évolution ces dernières décennies du rapport des mouvements sociaux (MS) québecois aux catégories de l’action politique que sont la question nationale, la forme parti et les rapports entre mouvements? La plupart de ces dimensions de l’action politique mouvementiste ont suscité une importante attention de la part des sciences sociales, lorsqu’il s’est agi d’étudier les décennies 1960 et 1970. L’intérêt pour l’étude de ces catégories de l’action des MS des décennies suivantes s’est quelque peu tari, à la faveur d’un récit de la déploration regrettant l’époque glorieuse de la Révolution tranquille et les tumultueuses années 1970. Notre thèse propose de se réapproprier la trame historique d’un demi-siècle d’action politique des MS, en cherchant à repérer les modalités du cheminement de trois mouvements (syndical, féministe, communautaire) sur ce terrain, au travers de l’étude minutieuse des mutations de leur culture politique. Cette dernière a subi d’importantes interpellations et remises en question, sous l’influence de divers facteurs, au cours des dernières décennies. Un de nos arguments centraux est qu’il y a eu au sein des MS québécois un cheminement dans la façon d’aborder la sphère politique et la transformation sociale, cette évolution traduisant chez eux un processus d’apprentissage, à savoir une forme de développement du rapport à l’action politique. Celle-ci se voit conférer le statut de compétence développée dans le quotidien des mouvements, sur le tas, donc par essais et erreurs. Notre enquête sur le terrain a permis de dégager des résultats traités de façon à la fois chronologique et taxonomique, relatifs à nos trois dimensions de l’action politique. Successivement, chacune d’elles fait l’objet d’un chapitre : les rapports entre MS, la question nationale, la forme parti (incluant les élections). Dans chaque cas, l’examen de l’évolution se donne pour tâche de dégager les éléments de bilan faits par les militants et militantes, puis d’exhumer les acquis, souvent tacites, en termes de connaissances politiques. Cette recherche permet de dégager précisément en quoi il y a eu développement du rapport des MS à l’action politique, en outre à l’initiative du mouvement des femmes, dont l’influence a été déterminante.
Change Detection in Combination with Spatial Models and its Effectiveness on Underwater Scenarios
Creators: name: Radolko, Martin
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2018
Subjects: Video segmentation
Tracking
Object detection
Underwater imaging

description: In the last years, cheap off-the-shelf consumer cameras became more and more available while the imaging quality of these devices increased drastically. This is not only true for normal in-air cameras but also for underwater devices. In connection with a growing interest in the sea world by science and industry, this led to the need for advanced computer vision algorithms, especially for underwater scenarios, so that the vast amount of acquired data can be automatically processed and important information extracted. However, apart from the normal difficulties of computer vision – the creation of detections that are consistent and coherent in the spatial as well as temporal domain – new problems occur in the underwater world caused by the specialties of the medium water. These difficulties are, among others, blur, color cast, Marine Snow and refraction which all complicate any computer vision task. Therefore, this thesis proposes a novel change detection approach and combines it with different especially developed spatial models, this allows an accurate and spatially coherent detection of any moving objects with a static camera in arbitrary environments. The spatial models include a novel approach based on the idea behind Ncut but also a derivative of the Markov Random Field model. To deal with the special problems of underwater imaging, different enhancement algorithms were used in combination with the change detection approach to counter the negative effects, e.g. Marine Snow removal or a learning-based deblurring. Furthermore, pre-segmentations based on the optical flow and other special adaptions were added to the change detection algorithm so that it can better handle typical underwater scenarios like a scene crowded by a whole fish swarm. To use these detections and extract the most information out of them, a blob tracking method is introduced that keeps the generality of the change detection approach but can still deal with occlusions or detections errors. Overall, the here presented novel general detection and tracking approach can deliver accurate results in almost all scenarios while dealing especially well with underwater videos. The different steps of the pipeline were tested and compared on different datasets against many state of the art algorithms and showed competitive results. For the testing on underwater videos a new special dataset had to be created – since this area was grossly neglected so far – and there the proposed change detection could outperform any existing method thanks to the newly developed adaptions.
Raising interest in statistics through sporting predictions on the Internet
Creators: name: Clarke, Stephen
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Researchers and teachers should consider using the web to publicize the results of their statistical projects to a wide audience. Such sites can create interest in statistics, and be used by teachers as a source of motivation, data or practical problems. For several years, Swinburne Sports Statistics has published on our web site www.swin.edu.au/sport, predictions of sporting events based on statistical modelling and simulations. The growth of sports betting has seen commercial application for the predictions and methods, and has led to the development of a subject 'Chance and Gaming', where probability is taught through applications in the gaming industry. The site received over 4,000 visits per week in 2002 and has raised interest in statistical methods in the general public and students. Some of the projects highlighted on our site, and the resultant publicity, will be discussed.
Le chamanisme : une traduction socioanthropologique à travers l'art
Creators: name: El Sonbati, Karim Alexandre
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: chamanisme
art
socioanthropologie
intermédialité
phénoménologie constructiviste
réfléxivité
empiricisme post-positiviste

description: Comment traduire le chamanisme en termes socioanthropologiques? Pour répondre à cette question cette étude du chamanisme s'articule autour de trois niveaux d'analyse. Une compréhension des dynamiques, sociohistoriques et ontologiques, ainsi qu'une focalisation sur les facultés de médiation de l'art et de la science, entourant et animant des pratiques chamaniques; offrent un tremplin réflexif engendrant des parallèles entre des collectifs issus des deux hémisphères. Une sociologie phénoménologique, combinée à un empirisme post-positiviste, esquissent des trames théoriques et méthodologiques, s'appuyant sur une réflexivité expériencielle et institutionnelle. Elles se résument en une tentative d'attiser la réflexivité des savoirs. Cette mise en forme de l'agencéité, immanente aux science sociales, veut inviter aux possibilités d'assouplissement de contours conceptuels; induites par le travail intellectuel. L'art, aussi bien visuel que sonore, se trouve employé à la fois comme support empirique, et comme toile heuristique; dévoilant des modes de compréhension transcendant les marges de la physicalité cartésienne. Cette traduction tisse donc une matrice épistémologique, aiguisant des optiques inédites, pour cerner ce qui semblerait se profiler hors des marges de la scientificité communément entendue. Les sphères étudiés affichent des similarités, par moments ontologiques et, par d'autres, d'ordre historiques enrichissantes du point de vue sociologique. Aussi, cette thèse explore, et devient en soi, une tentative d'application d'un potentiel, à la fois structurant et transformateur, qui semble octroyé à certains acteurs sociaux que sont les artistes et les chamanes et les intellectuels.
Family formation and women's roles
Creators: name: McNair, Ruth
name: Dempsey, Deborah
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The demographics of study participants will be presented, including comparisons with ABS data. Family formation methods will be discussed including a comparison between current and prospective parents in different states. Amongst prospective parents, self insemination was the most common choice of conception method, regardless of the legislative framework in the state. Analysis of the reasons underlying decisions regarding the three main methods, self insemination, clinic based insemination and sexual intercourse will follow. These include issues of the best interests of the child, parental autonomy, health and safety, and legislative and financial restrictions. Time of planning and legal arrangements will be presented, both of which demonstrate thoughtful planning processes. Cohabiting lesbian partners were the most common family type represented. The respective roles of biological and nonbiological mothers emphasised concepts of shared responsibilities and flexible negotiated parenting roles.
Protein–Protein Interactions Mediated by Intrinsically Disordered Protein Regions Are Enriched in Missense Mutations
Creators: name: Wong, Eric Tsz Chung
name: So, Victor
name: Guron, Mike
name: Kuechler, Erich R.
name: Malhis, Nawar
name: Bui, Jennifer M.
name: Gsponer, Jörg
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Because proteins are fundamental to most biological processes, many genetic diseases can be traced back to single nucleotide variants (SNVs) that cause changes in protein sequences. However, not all SNVs that result in amino acid substitutions cause disease as each residue is under different structural and functional constraints. Influential studies have shown that protein–protein interaction interfaces are enriched in disease-associated SNVs and depleted in SNVs that are common in the general population. These studies focus primarily on folded (globular) protein domains and overlook the prevalent class of protein interactions mediated by intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs). Therefore, we investigated the enrichment patterns of missense mutation-causing SNVs that are associated with disease and cancer, as well as those present in the healthy population, in structures of IDR-mediated interactions with comparisons to classical globular interactions. When comparing the different categories of interaction interfaces, division of the interface regions into solvent-exposed rim residues and buried core residues reveal distinctive enrichment patterns for the various types of missense mutations. Most notably, we demonstrate a strong enrichment at the interface core of interacting IDRs in disease mutations and its depletion in neutral ones, which supports the view that the disruption of IDR interactions is a mechanism underlying many diseases. Intriguingly, we also found an asymmetry across the IDR interaction interface in the enrichment of certain missense mutation types, which may hint at an increased variant tolerance and urges further investigations of IDR interactions.
File S1.xlsxSupplemental material for Nsibi et al., 2020
Creators: name: Mariem Nsibi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 70305 Crop and Pasture Improvement (Selection and Breeding)
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
subject: 70602 Horticultural Crop Improvement (Selection and Breeding)

description: Supplemental data: Files S1 - S6R scripts: File S7
Microwave and Millimeter-wave Radar Imaging Applications with Multiple-Input Multiple-output Arrays
Creators: name: Cetinkaya, Harun
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2024
Subjects: MIMO array
Concealed Object Detection
Security Screening
Millimeter-wave
Microwave
Radar imaging

description: Radar imaging applications such as observation of hazardous environments and concealed weapon detection require high-resolution, fast, and cost-efficient radar sensor systems. High-resolution radar imaging demands large aperture radar systems, thereby leading to the usage of a higher number of antennas. The utilization of MIMO array is of interest to overcome this difficulty. The combination of quasi-random distribution of antennas and MIMO array offers an innovative and practical solution for radar sensor systems. Novel array topologies providing non-uniform distribution of transmitter/receiver antennas have been suggested. Topologies do not only form sparse antenna distributions, but also significantly reduce design complexity on the front-end design of MIMO array. Aside from this, another novel approach for two-dimensional MIMO array design has been introduced for concealed object detection. The suggested design technique for MIMO arrays with large apertures enables to improve the lateral resolution while significantly reducing the number of antenna elements. Besides, the technique provides comparable beam pattern to those in the planar MIMO array.
title: Приоритетные направления организации онкологической службы в различных климатогеографических зонах: Сборник материалов межрегиональной научно-практической конференции с международным участием, посвященной 80-летию доктора медицинских наук, профессора Иванова Петра Михайловича. Сентябрь 2018 г., Якутск, Россия
Creators: name: Романова, А. Н.
Publisher: name: Реноме
Year: 2018

description: Сборник содержит тезисы материалов, представленные на межрегиональную конференцию практическими врачами онкологами, научными сотрудниками Республики Саха (Якутия), Республики Бурятия, Приморского края, Центральной России, Республики Казахстан, из ЯНЦ КМП, МИ СВФУ им. М. К. Аммосова, НИИО ТНИМЦ РАН, НМИЦ онкологии им. Н. Н. Петрова, МРНЦ-филиала НМИЦ радиологии, МОНИКИ
им. М. Ф. Владимирского и др. Материалы посвящены вопросам совершенствования организации онкологической помощи, изучению эпидемиологии, факторов риска, диагностики, лечения и профилактики злокачественных новообразований. Сборник будет полезен для практических врачей, научных работников и студентов медицинских вузов.
Entwicklung einer integrierten Methode zur Planung und Simulation wärmenetzbasierter, urbaner Energiesysteme im Kontext von Energiewende und Sektorenkopplung
Creators: name: Höffner, Dorian
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2021
Subjects: Wärmenetzplanung
Energiesystemplanung
Python
Modelica

description: In dieser Masterarbeit wurde die Möglichkeit erkundet, basierend auf Open-Source-Tools, eine Softwaretoolbox für die technische Wärmenetzplanung zu entwickeln. Dazu wurde aufgezeigt, wie Tools gesammelt, katalogisiert und mittels Schnittstellen in Kombination verwendet werden können. Gesammelt wurden die Tools über eine systematische Literaturrecherche. Insgesamt wurden 282 Tools für die urbane Energiesystemplanung gefunden, von denen 101 Tools als relevant für die Wärmenetzplanung eingestuft wurden. Basierend auf dem Wärmenetzplanungsprozess - bestehend aus Vorstudie, Systementwurf und Betriebsplanung - konnten die Tools systematisch katalogisiert und dokumentiert werden. Unter Berücksichtigung des gesamten Wärmenetzplanungsprozesses wurde der City Energy Analyst (CEA) als das Tool mit der größten praktischen Anwendbarkeit identifiziert. Zur Abdeckung des technischen Planungsprozesses wurde eine Methodik zur sinnvollen Verschaltung des CEA mit weiteren ausgewählten Open-Source-Tools erarbeitet. Die neben dem CEA wichtigsten der eingesetzten Tools waren die Geodatentools QGIS und GeoPandas, das Optimierungsframework oemof, der Python-basierten LastproĄlgenerator demandlib, die auf Modelica beruhenden Simulationsbibliotheken AixLib und TransiEnt, sowie das in Python implementierte Package pype-flow, welches zur hydraulischen Analyse von Rohrnetzen eingesetzt werden kann. Die Toolbox wurde anhand von Fallstudien entwickelt, um reale Planungssituationen abbilden zu können. Fokus der Fallstudienbearbeitung war es, geeignete Tools und benötigte Schnittstellen identifiziert sowie die Schnittstellenimplementierung zu konzipieren. Einige Schnittstellen konnten darauf aufbauend durch die Programmierung des Python-Packages CEA-io (City Energy Analyst - Input Output) prototypisch validiert werden, um auf diese Weise die grundsätzliche Anwendbarkeit des Toolboxkonzepts und seiner Entwicklungsmethodik zu demonstrieren. Insgesamt impliziert die aufgezeigte Toolvielfalt ein großes Potenzial, Toolentwickler*innen und Forscher*innen über existierende Frameworks aufzuklären. Eine bessere Informationslage über existierende Tools kann Doppelentwicklungen verhindern, das Kollaborationspotenzial erhöhen und folglich die Innovationskraft im Bereich der digitalen Wärmenetzplanung steigern. Vor allem jedoch profitieren Planer*innen von mehr Standardisierung und können durch die Verwendung einer integrierten Toolbox Wärmenetze zielgerichtet und barrierefrei planen.
title: Checklists for the investigation and risk assessment of contaminated sites in flood risk areas
title: Checklists Flood Risk Areas
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Winkelmann-Oei, Gerhard
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Wasserverunreinigung
subject: Wasserschadstoff
subject: Risikomanagement
subject: Wasserschutz
subject: Richtlinie
subject: water pollution
subject: flood areas
subject: flood risk areas
subject: water pollutants
subject: risk management
subject: water protection
subject: checklist
subject: guideline
subject: Chemikalien
subject: Chemicals

description: These checklists provide a tool to efficiently assess the potential risk of contamination by water pollutants in flood risk areas. They also include guidelines for initial investigations at contaminated sites to generate the data needed to decide on the next steps.Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/
description: These checklists provide a tool to efficiently assess the potential risk of contamination by water pollutants in flood risk areas. They also include guidelines for initial investigations at contaminated sites to generate the data needed to decide on the next steps.
Development of a Stair-Climbing Robot and a Hybrid Stabilization System for Self-Balancing Robots
Creators: name: Robillard, Dominic
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Robot
Stair-Climbing
Balancing
Inverted Pendulum
Gyroscope
LQR

description: Self-balancing robots are unique mobile platforms that stay upright on two wheels using a closed-loop control system. They can turn on the spot using differential steering and have compact form factors that limit their required floor space. However they have major limitations keeping them from being used in real world applications: they cannot stand-up on their own, climb stairs, or overcome obstacles. They can fall easily if hit or going onto a slippery surface because they rely on friction for balancing. The first part of this research proposes a novel design to address the above mentioned issues related to stair-climbing, standing-up, and obstacles. A single revolute joint is added to the centre of a four-wheel drive robot onto which an arm is attached, allowing the robot to successfully climb stairs and stand-up on its own from a single motion. A model and simulation of the balancing and stair-climbing process are derived, and compared against experimental results with a custom robot prototype. The second part, a control system for an inverted pendulum equipped with a gyroscopic mechanism, was investigated for integration into self-balancing robots. It improves disturbance rejection during balance, and keeps equilibrium on slippery surfaces. The model of a gyroscope mounted onto an actuated gimbal was derived and simulated. To prove the concept worked, a custom-built platform showed it is possible for a balancing robot to stay upright with zero traction under the wheels.
Studies of some effects of cold exposure on the function and structure of mitochondria of rats.
Creators: name: Kim, Yoon Tuk.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1967
Subjects: subject: Biology, Animal Physiology.

description: The structure and function of mitochondria of cold-acclimated rats (+2°C) in comparison with those of control rats (+23°C) have been studied in relation to (A) uncoupling of oxidative phosphorylation, (B) protein synthesis, and (C) mitochondrial ultra structure, in an attempt to find the cause of extra heat production (non-shivering thermogenesis) which occurs during cold exposure. The dry mass, number and total protein content of mitochondria per gram of original fresh liver tissue was found to be reduced in cold-acclimated rats. Cold exposure also resulted in a decrease of the protein contents of the soluble and insoluble fractions of mitochondria. The reduction of dry mass per gram of original fresh liver tissue and the reduction of soluble and insoluble protein contents per gram of original fresh liver tissue seems to be due to the reduction of number of mitochondria since the dry mass per unit number of mitochondria was found to be more or less the same. Cold treatment also resulted in a decrease of the P:O ratio, owing to a higher uptake of oxygen and lower uptake of inorganic phosphate. Study on incorporation of uniformly labeled C14-amino acids into mitochondria) protein indicated that cold exposure induced a reduced accumulation of radioactivity in mitochondria) protein both in vitro and in vivo, this effect being more pronounced in the soluble protein fraction. Studies with the electron microscope revealed that a great number of mitochondria of cold-acclimated rats were larger than those of control rats, with more ruffled outer membrane and pale matrix. This enlargement of mitochondria of cold-acclimated rats could be due to swelling in vivo. The glycogen content of the liver cells was found to be higher in cold-acclimated rats than in control rats. It is concluded that cold exposure exerts its effect on mitochondrial protein synthesis, particularly the soluble fraction. This impaired protein synthesis with enlargement of mitochondria of cold-acclimated rats could be the reason for the swelling and the changes in the properties of the membrane, leading to the uncoupling of oxidative phosphorylation.
The Reception of Moderate Male Stereotypes in Androcentric Advertising: A Study on the Decoding of Subtle Representations of Masculinity
Creators: name: Dawe, Melissa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Masculinity
Reception study
Commercials
Advertising
Male crisis
Misandry
Stereotypes
Decoding

description: Commercial advertising often employs stereotyping in order to connect with the intended audience and appeal to the widest possible demographic. The gender binary of male and female is one of the most popular audience segmentations, therefore gender provides an excellent example for the study of stereotypes. This study focuses on the portrayal of male stereotypes in advertising, and seeks to explore how stereotypes of masculinity are represented in androcentric advertising, and understand how these stereotypes are perceived by men. It uses a reception study and Stuart Hall’s (1996) theory of encoding/decoding to discuss the use of stereotypes with male University of Ottawa students, aged 18-25. Participants in the study suggest that the stereotypes portrayed in commercial advertising influence their masculinity in numerous ways, including, but not limited to, the way they dress and the way they act.
Managing Clinical Handover Processes for Cardiology Patients Using BPM
Creators: name: Alghamdi, Amal
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: clinical handover
health-care system
collaboration
long-term care
communication
business process management
BPMN
choreography

description: Health-care delivery involves clinical handover processes that occur at many levels of inpatient care. These processes are essential to an effective health-care system due to their role in achieving efficient communication, reducing transmission time, and lowering costs. Ensuring safe and effective handover requires the coordination of multiple care providers that work together to deliver patient care efficiently. Poor coordination during handover can have major effects on patient care, leading to loss of information and contributing to adverse events. As health-care delivery evolves to become more patient-centered, handovers from short- to long-term care need to maintain a strong communication, which in turn will depend on the evolution of support systems for that communication. Due to the wide range of care providers and patient needs, there has so far been a lack of research work on handover processes. This study aims to explore the clinical handover process for patients moving from a cardiology unit to home and community care settings, and how they are affected by varying degrees of communication. It relies on literature review and a case study conducted at Montfort Hospital, Ontario, to identify and analyze the major factors involved in this type of handover, and to form suggestions about how this process could be improved. This thesis analyzes process scenarios arising in the case study, modeling them using business process management (BPM) tools and techniques to identify problems and formulate solutions. A model of the existing process is created and analyzed using business process management notation (BPMN), and is then subjected to analysis, the results of which identify several communication issues with a potential to cause delays and information loss. The findings highlight the importance of collaboration among care providers, and indicate the potential uses of BPM methodology to choreograph that collaboration. The study ultimately shows how improvements to collaboration and information exchange can increase the communication effectiveness in handover processes and reduce the probability of adverse patient events.
Chactinae Pocock 1893
Creators: name: Soleglad, Michael E.
name: Fet, Victor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Scorpiones
Vaejovidae

description: Subfamily Chactinae Pocock, 1893   Type Genus. Chactas Gervais, 1844.
 Composition. This subfamily includes two tribes: Chactini (Central and South America; three genera) and Nullibrotheini (Mexico, one genus). This taxonomic arrangement of four chactid genera, as opposed to subfamily Brotheinae, is proposed here for the first time.
 Distribution. North America (Mexico), Central America (Panama, Costa Rica), South America.
 Biogeographic history. Chactini are found only in the tropical Central and South America (Table 10), while the tribe Nullibrotheini includes a monotypic desert genus. It is unlikely that Nullibrotheini has a recent South American origin, and therefore it could be a relict of much earlier (Pangean?) distribution of Chactinae. Disjunct distribution of some South American genera of Chactini can be attributed to the recent (Pleistocene) fluctuations of tropical rainforest (Lourenço, 1988, 1994, 1996b).
 Diagnosis. Synapomorphies. Chelal trichobothria Db basal, Dt situated at palm midpoint; patellar trichobothria series  em 1 –em 2  and  esb 1  proximal of segment midpoint; neobothriotaxy Ch1 present on patellar ventral surface; neobothriotaxy Ch1 present on patellar external surface. Important Symplesiomorphies. Hemispermatophore truncal flexure absent; hemispermatophore lamina terminus tenuous, thin, highly tapered; stigma shape small and circular.
description: Published as part of Soleglad, Michael E. & Fet, Victor, 2003, High-level systematics and phylogeny of the extant scorpions (Scorpiones: Orthosterni), pp. 1-175 in Euscorpius 2003 (11) on pages 95-96, DOI: 10.18590/euscorpius.2003.vol2003.iss11.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13237351
Temporary protection of refugees: Australian policy and international comparisons
Creators: name: Mansouri, Fethi
name: Leach, Michael
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The introduction of the TPV in October 1999 created a situation of open discrimination against TPV holders who were specifically excluded from a range of key settlement services. These exclusions have resulted in considerable levels of anguish and hardship for already traumatised asylum seekers, and placed considerable strain on state-funded agencies and community-run services. Separate studies by Mann (2001), and Mansouri & Bagdas (2002) found that the TPV policy has effectively created two classes of refugees; those who were assessed off-shore and granted full settlement services and permanent protection visas (PPV), and those assessed on-shore and granted temporary protection visa with no family reunion and a punitively reduced access to settlement services. As a result, the TPV policy created uncertainty, insecurity, isolation, confusion, a sense of powerlessness and health problems among this class of asylum seekers. In 2001, the Federal Government proceeded to further erode the rights of refugees in Australia by introducing a host of new legislative amendments aimed at making Australia 'less attractive' to potential asylum seekers.
The Political Theory of Aboriginal Rights Law in Canada: Prospects for Reconciliation
Creators: name: Stevenson, S. Ronald
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015

description: While the thesis will proceed with a step by step development of the core arguments from the political theory literature, followed by a detailed analysis of corresponding issues in the jurisprudence, it may help the reader to have a summary statement of the thesis argument from the very start. The core argument is that the Canadian approach to constitutionalism reflected in the model centered on Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982, provides a framework, a methodology and a model for practice that could lead the Crown and aboriginal peoples within Canada towards the elusive goal of reconciliation. This framework, rooted firmly in the obligations of the nation-state, is materially different from most normative and legal literature that tends to gravitate to positions that emphasize either the lack of legitimacy of the nation-state or the lack of legitimacy of efforts to recognize aboriginal claims. In other words, this thesis develops an argument for the practical utility of a “middle-ground” approach. This middle-ground approach will depend on a novel interpretation of the foundational methodology adopted by the Supreme Court of Canada to animate Section 35, a particular interpretation of the “nested” relationship between Canadian domestic law, international law and indigenous legal systems and a development of the embryonic emphasis placed on dialogical processes to resolve deep disagreement about fundamentally disparate ontological and epistemological assumptions about attachments to land. In other words, the thesis attempts to develop a constitutional framework to support a practical blueprint to achieve a morally and politically defensible conception of aboriginal rights. Rather than simply defending the constitutional status quo, the thesis will develop what is intended to be a unified approach to Section 35 that will point the way towards several crucial additions to the jurisprudential framework so it can enable the deep deliberation that lies at the very heart of the best aspirations of Canadian constitutionalism.
title: Основы промышленных швейных технологий
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Профобразование
Year: 2024

description: В учебном пособии рассмотрены тенденции развития швейного производства, ниточные способы соединения швейных изделий и способы оценки их свойств, швейное оборудование и приспособления для их выполнения. Описаны виды нормативно-технической документации, отражены вопросы обеспечения качества выпускаемой продукции и особенности обработки изделий из различных материалов. Приведены принципы оптимизации технологических процессов и нормирования трудовых операций. Подготовлено с учетом требований Федерального государственного образовательного стандарта среднего профессионального образования. Учебное пособие предназначено для студентов, обучающихся по профессиям и специальностям среднего профессионального образования укрупненной группы «Технологии легкой промышленности», изучающих дисциплину «Технология пошива швейных изделий».
La webtélé au Québec : le point de vue des télédiffuseurs
Creators: name: Baillargeon Madé, Gabrielle
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Webséries
Webtélé
méthodes qualitatives
Télévision
Plateformes numériques
entrevues semi-dirigées

description: Cette étude vise à circonscrire le contexte médiatique duquel émerge la webtélé et, plus particulièrement, à mettre en lumière les raisons pour lesquelles les télédiffuseurs québécois proposent des contenus de webtélé sur leurs plateformes numériques. Après des entrevues individuelles semi-dirigées menées auprès des représentants de cinq télédiffuseurs et deux producteurs de websérie, divers éléments de réponse à ce questionnement émergent; les télédiffuseurs s'intéressent à la webtélé pour réaliser des profits ou pour remplir leur mandat, dans une optique d'adaptation aux nouvelles plateformes, pour des raisons de branding et de positionnement, pour développer leurs relations avec l'auditoire ou encore se servent de la webtélé comme laboratoire créatif.
Reflection, insight, and empathy: uncommon outcomes in management education
Creators: name: Hays, J. Martin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper provides solid research support for the use of learning journal writing in undergraduate and graduate management education. Journal writing promotes deep learning, problem-solving skills, and insight through the reflective process, itself a crucial management skill. Guided and structured journal writing leads to greater integration of material, better ability to apply theory and methods to real world problems, and increased understanding of self and situations. Improvements have been seen in student empathy, confidence, and self-awareness. The journal writing / reflection and the review and feedback process create a powerful dialogue between learner and facilitator of learning, not often otherwise possible. A major contribution of this paper is its clear guidance to students and instructors on journal writing and journal assessment.
Design and Implementation of a Framework for Performance Measurement in Service Oriented Virtual Organizations
Creators: name: Kamali, Seyed Mohammad Amin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Virtual Organization
B2B
Performance Management
Service Oriented Architecture
Value Network
Service Level Management
Collaborative Networked Organization

description: Management of Virtual Organizations faces new challenges that traditional approaches cannot address. This research proposes a performance measurement framework for service oriented virtual organizations including a structural and a procedural component. The structural framework aligns the activities of partners in a virtual organization at three different layers. The first layer is designed for partners’ strategic alignment through coordination of the value creation network. In the second layer, performance dimensions of partners’ collaboration are defined and mapped to the service choreography model. The third layer focuses on assessing effectiveness and efficiency of partners’ domain specific services, which is designed based on ITIL V3 service level management guidelines. In order to consolidate the structural framework, these three layers are integrated using a method for extracting service choreography model and SLA aggregation patterns from the value network. The procedural framework, on the other side, defines the processes required to design the KPI structure, implement the solution, communicate the results, and derive improvements. We propose an implementation architecture that enables inter-organizational performance management in collaborative environments. Then, the IBM products for business process and performance management (IBM BPM, Business Monitor, and Cognos BI) are employed to implement the proposed architecture. The conceptual framework along with the implementation architecture provides an integrated solution for decentralized performance measurement without the need for a central authority. We demonstrate that the proposed solution enhances flexibility, scalability, and interoperability, and supports transparency of partners’ performance information at an agreed-upon level as a basis for mutual trust.