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Pluralism, immanence, affect: William Connolly's political philosophy
Creators: name: Gallant, Suzanne
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.
subject: Political Science, General.

description: This thesis presents a synthetic and exegetical survey of William Connolly's writings over the past decade. The most important concepts in Connolly's political philosophy are explained in detail: identity formation through difference, resentment in late modernity, and the importance of affect for thought processes related to ethical and political judgment. Connolly's focus on the psychological and existential dimension of politics, and his serious engagement with the notion of difference, lead him to propose deep pluralism as a model for politics and ethics. This is based on his assessment of the positive dynamics at play in late modernity. Deep pluralism centres on the cultivation of an ethos of engagement, a distinctive sensibility which promotes the exercise of relational modesty, forbearance and generosity in our exchanges with others. Connolly's pioneering work on affect, immanence, culture, pluralism, fundamentalism and resentment show the value of his alternative framing of contemporary issues for political analysis.
“I often wonder who I am and where do I belong”: Naming, Social Power, and Crises of Identity in the Novels of Jean Rhys
Creators: name: Mandia, Paige Marie
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Identity Theory
Jean Rhys
20th Century Literature
English Literature
Literature and Identity
Caribbean Language or Literature
Postcolonial Theory

description: This thesis examines the impact of naming, nicknaming, and name-calling on identity construction by way of three Jean Rhys novels: Wide Sargasso Sea, Voyage in the Dark, and Good Morning, Midnight. Using various scholars of identity theory, I demonstrate how the act of naming is inherently connected to how we construct and verify numerous aspects of our identities––such as race, gender, and ethnicity. I argue that when used as a tool of oppressive social power, naming can inhibit an individual from categorizing themselves as a valid and working member of society, and also from internally self-verifying. This can often lead to a crisis of identity, loss of self, and severe psychological fragmentation. As Jean Rhys centers her novels on Creole women in settings of deep societal transition, I argue that the application of identity theory is an appropriate, and currently under-utilized, lens through which we can analyze the ostracization and marginalization of her protagonists. Using these concepts from identity theory, I establish two forms of identity-based naming within the novels of Rhys: cultural and gender-based. I demonstrate how social power-holders specifically target these facets of identity, by way of naming, to exclude and reject those they deem to be “other.” Ultimately, I conclude that by investigating Rhys’s use of naming via identity theory, we can better understand the internal and psychological mechanisms that drive the deep-rooted social exclusion and loss of selfhood present in her novels. 
Psychosocial Genetic Counseling: Techniques, Training, and Theory
Creators: name: Barron, Natasha
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2010
Subjects: psychosocial genetic counseling
client-centered theory
counseling techniques
psychosocial training

description: There are a wealth of resources to illustrate psychosocial counseling techniques that might be utilized by genetic counselors. However, it is unclear to what extent specific counseling techniques are actually used by genetic counselors in practice. The purpose of this study was to explore the current practice of genetic counselors with respect to specific counseling techniques, and to assess their comfort level in incorporating counseling elements into their patient interactions. We hypothesized that counselors would be mostly likely to endorse the techniques strongly associated with Rogerian theory (empathy, unconditional positive regard, and genuineness). We recruited genetic counselors currently practicing in a clinical setting through the NSGC listserv to participate in an online, anonymous survey. The survey consisted of twenty-four multiple choice, Likert scale and open-ended questions focused on the application of specific counseling techniques and counseling training that participants received. A total of 128 respondents counselors completed the survey. When asked to rank the usefulness of empathy, acknowledgement, validation, unconditional positive regard, promoting competence and autonomy, reframing, and genuineness as counseling techniques, respondents ranked acknowledgement, empathy, and validation as the most useful. Respondents reported that role playing and genograms were not used as often and were not as useful in a genetic counseling setting as the other techniques. Overall, respondents reported being comfortable incorporating psychosocial techniques into their practice. However, comfort level did not correlate with experience or coursework. Our findings suggest that in practice, Rogerian theory may not be the foundation upon which most counselors interact with patients. Future research should include study into the amount and type of psychosocial genetic counseling training in genetic counseling programs. Another area to be investigated is a possible underlying psychosocial theoretic base of genetic counseling which incorporates techniques being used by genetic counselors as well as counselors’ values and priorities.
Wikwemikong First Nation: Unceded Aboriginal title to Manitoulin Island?
Creators: name: Greene, Jo-Ann E. C
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Law.

description: The premise of the paper is that Wikwemikong First Nation still retains Aboriginal title to their reserve land and the rest of Manitoulin Island, including the portion of the Island ceded by other First Nations. Two pre-Confederation treaties or agreements---Manitoulin Island Treaties of 1836 and 1862---and surrounding circumstances are analyzed to support the premise. The Doctrine of Discovery begins the discussion of Aboriginal title followed by an overview of contrasting land ownership concepts. Wiky's historical background and Colonial and Canadian government policies and legislation that affected the community's current unceded state are examined. Aboriginal title, its nature, scope and treatment in the courts, is outlined including the necessary criteria and tests the Canadian courts require to prove Aboriginal title. After analyzing all the findings, the criteria and tests for proving existing Aboriginal title are applied to establish the validity of the paper's premise.
Critiques of Ableism surrounding ABA Therapy
Creators: name: Clairveaux, Dinia
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2023
Subjects: ABA
Ableism
Autism Spectrum

description: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder (Shekarro et al., 2021) that usually surfaces early and creates lifelong difficulties in social relations and communications, and rigid and repetitive patterns of behaviors (Axelrod et al., 2012). Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) has long been considered the gold standard of treatment for those that meet the ASD criteria (McPhilemy & Dillenburger, 2013). However, a number of critiques of ABA have been raised by those claiming that ABA is ‘ableistic.’ These have included the idea that the use of ABA promotes dependence, erodes the sense of self and uniqueness by shaming participants for aspects of autism and forcing a need to be like neurotypical peers. In addition, critics claim that ABA creates emotional detachment, resentment, and a decrease in a sense of community, and increases the likelihood of mental health issues. Finally, ABA critics argue that ABA does not address helping the non-speaking individuals on the autism spectrum. In contrast, several meta-analytic reviews have debunked this notion (e.g., Wolff et al., 2022). These find strong evidence supporting the efficacy of ABA with non-speaking clients on the autism spectrum. In contrast, the ableism literature focuses primarily on case reports and qualitative analyses and does not include non-speaking individuals on the autism spectrum in their research. In response to the complaints about being ‘forced’ to be like neurotypical peers, I argue that those complaining fail to understand the connections between the impact of ABA on social behaviors and communication, and their very ability to speak out about what they do not like. It is illogical to ask children who are not fully cognitively developed to provide their input on treatment. I argue that autistic individuals are ultimately asking for social change. They are asking their neuro-typical peers to see outside of their autistic differences and be welcomed for who they are as an individual. Until that is achieved, the improvements made in ABA therapy will continue to be seen in a negative light.
Expression of interleukin-10 in vitro and in vivo.
Creators: name: Karimi, Sepideh.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Immunology.

description: Classification of cytokines into T helper type 1 (Th1) and T helper type 2 (Th2) has helped in the elucidation of the mechanisms of resistance or susceptibility to infections. HIV infection causes CD4$\sp+$ T cell dysfunction and depletion by indirect mechanisms; for example: inhibition of immunoregulatory cytokines. Interleukin (IL-10), the subject of this study, is secreted mostly by CD4$\sp+$ human Th2-like, but also by Th0,Th1-like, and by a proportion of CD8$\sp+$ T cell clones. HIV sero-positive patients exhibit depressed cell mediated immune responses, B cell hyperplasia, and hypergammaglobulinemia which may result from downregulation of Th1 and upregulation of Th2 class responses respectively. In this study, the expression of interferon$\gamma$ (IFN$\gamma$) and IL-10 which mediate Th1 and Th2 responses respectively, in unstimulated peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs) from HIV$\sp+$ patients were investigated. IL-10 expression as observed by semi-quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis was significantly upregulated in patients with less than 400 CD4$\sp+$ T cells in comparison with HIV$\sp+$ patients with more than 400 CD4$\sp+$ T cells and normal controls. A semi-quantitative RT-PCR analysis of unstimulated PBLs further demonstrated IL-10 upregulation was inversely associated with IFN$\gamma$ downregulation in the same individuals. Similar results were observed as determined by measuring IL-10 and IFN$\gamma$ production in the supernatants of unstimulated PBLs by employing enzyme immunoassay techniques. These results suggest that HIV infected individuals express predominately Th2 type cytokines in their PBLs.
Optimization of DNA sensor model based nanostructured graphene using particle swarm optimization technique
Creators: name: Karimi, Hediyeh
name: Yusof, Rubiyah
name: Rahmani, Rasoul
name: Ahmadi, Mohammad Taghi
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: It has been predicted that the nanomaterials of graphene will be among the candidate materials for postsilicon electronics due to their astonishing properties such as high carrier mobility, thermal conductivity, and biocompatibility. Graphene is a semimetal zero gap nanomaterial with demonstrated ability to be employed as an excellent candidate for DNA sensing. Graphene-based DNA sensors have been used to detect the DNA adsorption to examine a DNA concentration in an analyte solution. In particular, there is an essential need for developing the cost-effective DNA sensors holding the fact that it is suitable for the diagnosis of genetic or pathogenic diseases. In this paper, particle swarm optimization technique is employed to optimize the analytical model of a graphene-based DNA sensor which is used for electrical detection of DNA molecules. The results are reported for 5 different concentrations, covering a range from 0.01 nM to 500 nM. The comparison of the optimized model with the experimental data shows an accuracy of more than 95% which verifies that the optimized model is reliable for being used in any application of the graphene-based DNA sensor.
title: The Effects of Civil Conflict on Child Exploitation and the Role of the International Community
title: A comparative and legal analysis of Colombia (1960s – 2016) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1996 – 2020)
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Botteri, Tamara Valeria
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Civil conflict
Child exploitation
International community
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Child Abuse & Neglect
Colombia

description: This thesis addresses how a civil conflict impacts reported incidents of child exploitation. I hypothesize that civil conflict increases the incidents of child exploitation in the state of the conflict and speculate that increased incidents of child victimization occur when the following conditions are present: 1) an increase in the number of non-state armed groups present in the conflict; 2) the insurgents’ ability to gain power within the geography they hold; 3) weakened state institutions in the territories controlled by non-state armed groups, and 4) the use of illegal activities to finance and supply the ongoing conflict operations by non-state armed actors. Additionally, I surmise that the type of conflict, whether intrastate or interstate, impacts the international community’s power to intervene the conflict in general, its ability to report on incidents of child exploitation, and its ability to fight child exploitation more specifically. In order to evaluate my theory, I compare and contrast the conflict in Colombia (1960s – 2016) during the rise of guerrilla and paramilitary groups and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) (1996 – 2020) after the migration of refugees following the Rwanda Genocide. In addition, this thesis will examine the role of international law in combatting child exploitation and management of civil conflict. My research supports existing literature in demonstrating how civil conflicts increase the number of reported incidents of child exploitation and goes a few steps further by comparing how the nature of the conflict, whether intrastate or interstate, impacts the number of incidents reported. Furthermore, my research exhibits how international awareness and intervention in a civil conflict can impact the ability to gather accurate evidence and the capacity to better protect vulnerable populations in times of conflict.
ENVRI-FAIR D2.1 Dissemination strategy for ENVRI-FAIR project
Creators: name: Brus, Magdalena
name: Sahlman, Enni
name: Ahlgren, Katri
name: Asmi, Ari
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: ENVRI-FAIR
deliverable
Dissemination Strategy

description: This Dissemination Strategy gathers together all information regarding the dissemination of the ENVRIFAIR
 project. The Strategy helps to conduct the dissemination and communication activities throughout the
 project by acting as a practical and regularly updated guide for the project members. The document
 represents Deliverable 2.1 for the project.
 The objective of the Dissemination Strategy is to help ENVRI-FAIR to reach its goals. All dissemination
 and communication activities aim to raise awareness of the ENVRI-FAIR project, its results and the wider
 Environmental Research Infrastructures community among identified target groups, and to encourage them
 to use the products and solutions developed by the project while engaging them in discussions, to ensure
 that the products and solutions are relevant and suitable for their requirements.
 The overall purpose of this document is to specify the scope, vision and means of the project’s outreach and
 communication, including its target audiences, content of the information to be disseminated and communicated,
 the mechanisms to do this effectively within the constraints of the available budget, and the metrics
 for assessment of its impact.
The treatment of landfill leachate using an MFUF membrane system: Focusing on membrane fouling
Creators: name: Banks, Stacie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences.
subject: Engineering, Environmental.

description: Membrane systems are being used increasingly throughout the western world to treat landfill leachate as environmental regulations tighten. This work examined leachate filtration using a bench-scale MF/UF membrane system, focussing on surface fouling and constituent reductions at the Trail Road Landfill in Ottawa, Ontario. The study found that ultrafiltration membranes with a molecular weight cut-off of 10 KDa and below gave the best overall leachate treatment. A 1 KDa ultrafiltration membrane gave the highest percent removals overall of all the membranes tested, but had one of the lowest steady state fluxes ranging from 2 to 5 L/m2h. Carbonates such as calcite and dolomite were determined to be one of the main foulants/scalants. Iron sulphides or iron oxides tended to form a general coating over the membrane surface and may have been the base for a surface coating of mixed-element origins observed in spring 2003. The fouling type was generally thought to be cake filtration based on flux results and basic fouling determination equations. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
The role of Growth arrest-specific 6 in Notophthalmus viridescens forelimb regeneration
Creators: name: Beug, Shawn
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.

description: Red-spotted newts are capable of regenerating diverse structures and organs, including limb, tail and retina. The epimorphic regenerative response is a complex process that involves dedifferentiation, cellular proliferation and transdifferentiation. Although receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) and their ligands are important for normal cellular physiology, no studies have as of yet attempted to isolate and characterize any of these receptors and their ligands during newt forelimb regeneration. I isolated a newt homologue of growth arrest-specific 6 (NvGas6), a RTK ligand involved in multiple functions during ontogeny and normal physiological processes, and its expression was characterized in a polyclonal blastema cell line (B1H1) and during limb regeneration. NvGas6 encodes for a 671 amino acid polypeptide that shares 64% identity (78% similarity) with mammalian Gas6. In B1H1 cells, NvGas6 is upregulated during myogenesis and is downregulated during cell cycle reentry. Upon amputation, NvGas6 expression increases, peaking during maximal blastemal cell proliferation and declines during redifferentiation. NvGas6 transcripts were colocalized to distal mesenchymal cells during dedifferentiation and proliferation, and were found in areas of redifferentiation. Although the in vitro and in vivo results seem paradoxical, studies by others have shown that Gas6 can have diverse roles in cell survival, proliferation and differentiation, it is possible that NvGas6 is involved in cell survival in vitro and cellular proliferation in vivo. However, taken together, these results suggest that NvGas6 may be primarily involved in mediating cell survival and migration during regeneration.
Patients with Intellectual Disabilities: The Genetic Counseling Perspective
Creators: name: Magner, Jacquelyn
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2010
Subjects: genetic counseling
Intellectual Disabilities

description: Genetic counselors are trained to adapt their counseling skills to meet the needs of their patients. However, counselors often lack specific training regarding how to counsel patients with intellectual disabilities (ID), and literature regarding the optimal methods for counseling these patients is sparse. The purpose of this study was to explore genetic counselors’ experiences when counseling patients with ID. We interviewed ten counselors who practice in the U.S. and represent prenatal, pediatric, cancer, adult, and research specialties. We used a qualitative, semi-structured interview guide to gather information about the nature of a genetic counseling session in which the patient had ID, the challenges and feelings that counselors experience, whether counselors are comfortable counseling patients with ID, the ways in which counselors are able to asses their patients’ level of understanding, and suggestions they have for others. The interviews were transcribed and coded using ATLAS.ti software. Overall, the counselors we interviewed reported being comfortable counseling patients with ID. However, they experienced a wide range of emotions including reward and frustration. They also \r \r \r identified several challenges, including concern that their word choice would lead patients to feel as though something was “wrong with them” and anxiety about communicating abnormal test results. Participants identified strategies for assessing their patients’ level of understanding, which included asking patients to repeat back information and recognizing when their patients were asking inappropriate questions. Finally, participants provided suggestions for working with patients with ID, including simplifying information and talking to patients alone. Our findings suggest that counselors might benefit from small group training to enhance their ability to work with this patient population. Future research should focus on examining the perspectives of counselors in different specialty areas and the experiences of patients with ID who have pursued genetic counseling.
Figure: The Message Interpretation Process Model
Creators: name: Austin, Erica W.
Publisher: name: Edward R. Murrow Center for Media & Health Promotion Research, Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, Washington State University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Communications

description: This figure portrays a commonly used theoretical model explaining how people apply emotion and logic to assess the meaning of media messages they encounter in order to make decisions about what is real, what is important and what behaviors to adopt.
Musculoskeletal safety of aging workforce engaged in manual handling jobs
Creators: name: Rahman, Azizur
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This research targeted to improve the health and safety of workforce engaged in manual handing tasks, in construction and manufacturing industries.
Mainly, we conducted a questionnaire survey on certain health and safety risks associated with lifting and lowering tasks. This survey aims to collect perceptions or experiences based responses of participants and then explore the relationships between physical abilities of workforce, manual handing task requirements, postures and associated health and safety risks.
Portraits of 'past actuality': The tragedy and triumph of Japanese-Canadians as portrayed in historically based Canadian literature.
Creators: name: Morrissey, Lynda.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Literature, Canadian (English).

description: This thesis addresses the concerns of both historiographic theorists who are skeptical of the power of narrative to present historical information reliably, and of literary critics who are suspicious of any text that lays claim to factual or truthful representation. Through the analysis of texts that blend the self-referential uncertainty of modern (or postmodern) literature with the utilitarian objectives of historiography---works of literature that strive to represent, faithfully, events from history---the thesis assesses the relative truth value of the historical project and evaluates the role of narrative in effectively imparting historical information. I begin with an overview of the theoretical debate over the form of historical writing and the source of historical knowledge, since classical times, followed by an analysis of primary texts in the context of current trends in literary and historiographic theory. These texts, which pertain to the history of Japanese-Canadians since the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, include Joy Kogawa's novels Obasan and Itsuka, and Dorothy Livesay's documentary poem for radio entitled Call My People Home. In addition I provide an analysis of a historiographic text, Mutual Hostages, that contradicts the prevailing perception of this historical event. As revisionary history, this text provides the opportunity to examine a competing narrative and its mechanism for establishing and communicating historical information. Through the analysis of these works, this thesis demonstrates that narrative is appropriate to historiography, and that figurative speech---as in poetic and rhetorical devices---can be more effective than literalist speech in representing historical events.
Russia: A Nation in Progress
Creators: name: Sarkisian, Ellen
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Vladimir Putin
centralization
Checnya
Russian nationalism
Russian empire
Soviet Union
Gorbachev
Boris Yeltsin
Glasnost
Perestroika
Russia
Nationalism
Ukraine
Russian History

description: The Russian state has shifted from monarchy to totalitarianism and now, in theory, a democracy. Liah Greenfeld argues that Russian national identity first emerged in the 18th century as a result of shifts in the Empire. During the Soviet period, this identity was repressed in favor of Soviet nationalism, which was unable to withstand glasnost and perestroika. Yeltsin was unable to lead Russia into a true democracy, and the state was weakened. Putin’s main objective has been to restrengthen the state. His administrative and electoral reforms, as well as his restrictions on media and civil society, reflect the centrality of the state and continuity with Soviet structures. He prioritizes history as means of strengthening the state by creating a cohesive narrative juxtaposed with Western ideals. Ukraine and Chechnya are case studies of narrative history and state centrality. I draw upon Putin’s transcribed speeches and meetings, articles from Russian and English newspapers around the world, reports from Human Rights Watch, first-person accounts from journalists, and historical accounts of Russia, Ukraine and Chechnya.
The large-scale structure of uniformly sheared turbulence and its distortion by a solid wall at rest or in motion.
Creators: name: Kislich-Lemyre, Benoit C.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Mechanical.

description: The large-scale structure of sheared turbulence has been documented with the use of flow visualization and laser-Doppler velocimetry. The study includes nominally unbounded uniformly sheared flow (USF), turbulent boundary layers, used as reference, and the effects of stationary and moving walls on USF. USF with statistical properties comparable to those in earlier wind-tunnel studies was successfully generated in a water tunnel. Horseshoe-type structures, generally considered as one of many typical eddies in turbulent boundary layers and also observed in jets, wakes and mixing layers, have been observed in USF, for the first time experimentally. This indicates that the presence of a wall is not required for such structures to develop. These structures evolved by being stretched and rotated by the velocity gradient. The dominant large-scale structures in USF were observed to be similar to those found in the outer layer of a turbulent boundary layer, albeit much less organized. No evidence of streaks was found in the core USF, while streaks were clearly visible near the wall in the reference turbulent boundary layer study. The energetic bursting of horseshoe structures that has been observed in boundary layers was not observed in USF, however the heads of the horseshoe structures were often noticed to travel in the transverse direction. The study of USF in the vicinity of a wall moving at the local mean speed has been the first of its kind, as previous studies with a moving wall were conducted in uniform flow. The present research has demonstrated that shear associated with friction with the wall (no-slip condition) is the major factor in the production of turbulence, and that the physical barrier (no-penetration condition) of the wall acts as a suppressant to oncoming turbulence structures and provides organization to their development. The moving wall studies were extended to cases with the wall moving faster than the local mean velocity and the wall moving in a direction opposite to that of the local mean velocity. These studies provided interesting information on the interaction of turbulence with the mean shear and the effects of the wall.
A development framework for efficient uniform control of heterogeneous communication networks.
Creators: name: Zine El-Abidine, Khaldoune.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: As new Internet networking technologies appear, there is a growing need for efficient control of Network Elements (NE) (i.e. routers, switches, etc.). However, today's NE control is largely a manual activity, therefore inefficient and unscalable, and the inherent heterogeneous nature of complex networks---that is, the fact that NEs are of different technologies and have different functionality and configuration-management interfaces---makes NE control even more difficult and challenging. This thesis presents a solution that allows the development of automated, distributed web-based control of heterogeneous NEs through a common interface that hides the underlying NE-specific differences, allowing control of heterogeneous NEs in a transparent way. This solution consists in a software development framework oriented towards reliability---thus service availability---performance---hence scalability---and fast extensibility---hence easy integration and rapid adaptability to the ever-changing networking technologies---without neglecting security. General design requirements are first discussed. Next, particular attention is given to CLI (Command Line Interface) protocols, where issues related to the automation of CLI interaction are extensively discussed. A real-time approach, using extended finite state machines, is proposed as a key element in this framework. Finally, a working and efficient implementation that supports CLI automation is presented, where emphasis is laid upon the short delays---typically a day---required to augment the application with a new set of NE control operations---Traffic Conditioning operation set for example.
Applications of Convex Optimization to Multipartite Entanglement in Holography
Creators: name: Harper, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2022
Subjects: AdS/CFT
bit threads
entanglement entropy
multipartite entanglement
Holography

description: This thesis is the beginning of an investigation into the multipartite entanglement of holographic systems. To accomplish this we make use of tools from convex optimization which allow for a recasting of the well known Ryu-Takayangi (RT) formula for holographic entanglement entropy. In this alternate formulation the entanglement can be thought of as a maximal configuration of bit threads which should be thought of as a distillation of the holographic state to Bell pairs. This technology can be applied to other aspects of holography beyond the calculation of simple RT surfaces. We consider two such applications:
description: In the first we examine the dual programs of another surface of interest: the entanglement wedge cross section. It is found that these dual programs introduce constraints on threads which isolate them to certain regions of the geometry. In the case of three or more boundary regions the multipartite entanglement wedge cross section, which is potentially related to multipartite entanglement, can be considered. This introduces non-trivial constraints between different “species” of threads. It is also shown that these programs can be uplifted to a manifold of nontrivial topology. The multipartite entanglement wedge cross section can be mapped to a minimal surface of a particular nontrivial homology class which is dual to a configuration of threads which cross different copies of the original geometry. This demonstrates a possible connection between topology and multipartite entanglement in holographic systems.
description: In the second we generalize bit threads to “k-hyperthreads” or just “k-threads” which connect to k distinct boundary regions. The idea being that these objects should in analogy with the usual 2-threads be identified with distillable units of entanglement. After developing the necessary technology by making use of convex duality we show that in particular hyperthreads modeled after perfect tensor states seem particularly well adapted to applications of holography. This leads to a conjecture that maximal configurations of these perfect tensor hyperthreads are capable of locking, or reproducing, the full entropy vector: the var- ious possible entanglement entropies one can consider for a particular choice of boundary regions. If so this leads to a natural conjecture about the distillation of holographic states to specific combinations of perfect tensor states which preserve the entropy vector.
title: Before Things Get Rough
Creators: name: Williams Jr., John T.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2004

description: Imagery is often defined as language that appeals to the senses. Imagery, however, is the meat of any poem, and going beyond this simplistic definition. One of the most important functions of imagery is to help establish tone, and relationship between imagery and tone enables a poem to describe, declare, assert, or imagine-to use voices that are objective, personal, opinionated, or wildly speculative.

Tonally, the poems were aggressive, and something had to temper their edge. I went to the other extreme, looking to the most basic function of imagery-description. Obviously, all poems are, on some level, descriptive. Descriptive imagery is a foundation. It's the act of moving outside the self to make a physical thing present to one's consciousness.

But images and poems rarely function in a single way. Few if any good poems are only descriptive, declarative, assertive, or imaginative. Most poems incorporate or at least gesture toward more than one tone. Many poems move among all four and/or weave them together. This is what Before Things Get Rough originally lacked. If there was any common thread, it was skepticism. Additional poems attempted to branch out from the strictly religious. On one hand, such poems moved from taking on the religious to satirizing the mythic-not much of a risk, and not much of a change in scope or tone. However, I found that the more poems I assembled, the more they began to wander away from, and then back to, the church, a reflection of my own relationship with Catholicism.

A poem's tone, then, its description, declaration, assertion, or speculation, varies the intensity of the poem's heat. Variations in tum help create tension-the tension of the loud and assertive against the self-contained and quiet, the broad and external to the intensely personal, the accusatory against the wildly imaginative.
Sur l'intégration du correcticiel à la didactique du thème français.
Creators: name: Morin, René.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Language, General.

description: On entend par "correcticiel" tout logiciel de correction de la langue ecrite capable d'intervenir non seulement sur l'orthographe des mots, mais aussi sur d'autres elements comme la syntaxe, la ponctuation, voire meme le sens. Comme aide a la redaction, le correcticiel suscite depuis peu un interet croissant chez les pedagogues. C'est d'ailleurs ce qui m'a amene a en evaluer le potentiel dans le contexte particulier de la didactique du theme francais. Pour les besoins de la cause, j'ai eu recours au Correcteur 101, un correcticiel reconnu pour sa capacite d'analyse et son approche pedagogique. Dans un premier temps, j'examine les lacunes linguistiques des etudiants en theme francais a partir des fautes relevees dans un corpus de traductions faites par un groupe de ces etudiants. Puis, au terme d'un essai sur un echantillon representatif du meme corpus, j'evalue la performance du Correcteur 101 par rapport aux faiblesses constatees chez les etudiants. On verra que 101 a pu reperer pres du quart des fautes de langue laissees par les etudiants, mais qu'il s'est avere inefficace la ou ceux-ci en auraient eu le plus besoin, c'est-a-dire en syntaxe. Quoi qu'il en soit, ce resultat non negligeable montre bien la capacitie du logiciel a detecter les erreurs; reste a savoir si, dans la pratique, les etudiants seront capables de les corriger. Pour eclairoir cette question, j'ai fait un essai avec des sujets anglophones et observe les reactions de ceux-ci aux diverses interventions du correcticiel. Appeles a corriger un texte francais sans aide exterieure, puis a le recorriger avec l'aide du Correteur 101, des sujets anglophones ont pu ameliorer leur performance de 29% dans le second cas. A la lumiere des resultats obtenus, je conclus que le correcticiel peut rendre de grands services aux etudiants en theme francais. S'ils savent bien s'en servir, ils pourront non seulement ameliorer la qualite de leurs textes, mais aussi parfaire leur connaissance le la langue francaise.
History Not Yet Written: Writing the First World War in Britain, 1914-1935
Creators: name: Silver, Stephen
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Britain
First World War
inter-war history
historiography
historiography of the first world war
History

description: Despite the level of interest in the First World War, little writing exits about the early histories of the war published in Britain during the inter-war period. The historians who do discuss this literature propose either a divide between the histories of the 1920s and 1930s, representing a shift to a tragic narrative influenced by fiction about the war, or lump together all of the inter-war histories as sharing similar characteristics. This study expands on the debate by exploring twenty-eight general, non-fiction historical texts about the war aimed at popular consumption published in Britain between 1914 and 1935, and analyzes four elements of their depictions of the war: the origins, casualties, outcome, and any over-arching meaning that they present. It argues that there are three distinct inter-war periods of writing on the war: 1914 to 1920, 1922 to 1927, and 1928 to 1935, with each period characterized by changes in these four elements. The most profound change is between the First Period (1914 to 1920) and the Second Period (1920 to 1927) during which we see a dramatic rise to prominence of impersonal, structural causes for the war, over-arching meanings of the war as a tragedy, and a heightened iv emphasis on the horrors of the war. Over the entire inter-war period, we see the narrowing of authors’ over-arching meanings of the war down to two: the war as a tragedy, or the war as a costly national victory. This study is an addition to the historiography of the First World War, and will contribute to future research on the topic.
Structure and scaling relations in disc galaxies: bars, peanuts and black holes
Creators: name: Ciambur, Constantin Bogdan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis has developed quantitative methods to study stellar structures in galaxies, as seen in astronomical imaging at optical and infra-red wavelengths. These novel algorithms and techniques were used to gain new insight into evolutionary processes occurring in spiral galaxies, including our own Milky Way, with a focus on their stellar discs, bars and their dynamical (“buckling”) instabilities, their central bulges, and galaxy–(black hole) co-evolution in the previously unexplored regime of “intermediate-mass” black holes. The methods developed throughout are expected to be useful for a plethora of issues in extragalactic astrophysics, helping to further our understanding of galaxy evolution.
Correspondences of von Neumann algebras.
Creators: name: Rochon, Céline.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Mathematics.

description: In the early 1980's, Alain Connes introduced a morphism between von Neumann algebras in order to define a property formerly defined only for groups and extending Kazhdan's property T. This morphism is called a correspondence. Let ${\cal M}$ and ${\cal N}$ be von Neumann algebras. A correspondence from ${\cal M}$ to ${\cal N}$ is a Hilbert space ${\cal H}$ which is an ${\cal N} - {\cal M}$ bimodule. Equivalently, a correspondence from ${\cal M}$ to ${\cal N}$ is a unital $\sp*$-representation of the algebraic tensor product ${\cal N} \odot\ {\cal M}\sp{o}$ which is normal when restricted to ${\cal N} \odot$ 1 and 1 $\odot\ {\cal M}\sp{o}$. In this thesis, we show that a correspondence is indeed a morphism between von Neumann algebras and we show its link to two other morphisms between von Neumann algebras: normal involutive algebra homomorphisms and completely positive normal linear maps. To achieve this objective, we study some important examples of von Neumann algebras and the Tomita-Takesaki theory.
Claudin tight junctionwhat's your function? The role of Claudin 6 in epidermal and hair follicle differentiation
Creators: name: Rahbar, Ramtin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Biology, Cell.

description: To elucidate the role of Claudin 6, a member of a new super family of TJ molecules, in the skin, we overexpressed it using the promoter for the differentiation marker, involucrin (Carrot et. al. 1993). Homozygous INV-Claudin 6 animals exhibit epidermal differentiation aberrations that result in incomplete formation of EPB and neonatal death (Turksen and Troy 2002). Heterozygote animals have milder EPB defects and survive to adulthood. All heterozygotes have pronounced abnormalities in their coat characterized by fuzzy hairs and a matte texture. In agreement with our hypothesis, the anagen phase of the hair cycle (starting at P14) was shortened, and the catagen-telogen transition was prolonged. Expression of epidermal differentiation markers K14 K5, K15, K1, Loricrine, involucrin, Filaggrin and transglutaminase3 were perturbed in the transgenic epidermis. The expression of hair keratins was downregulated in Inv-Claudin 6 hair follicles while the expression of K5, K6, K15 and K17 was maintained. Overall, changes in the differentiation program, abnormalities in hair fibers and hair cycling support the notion that Claudins are crucial members of signaling pathways) which modulate cell physiology and epidermal and hair follicle differentiation. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Noble gases of the Canadian Shield from the Lupin and Con Mines, Canada, as indicators of deep groundwater flow dynamics and residence time
Creators: name: Greene, Shane
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Geology.

description: Dissolved noble gas geochemistry provides insight on origin of saline groundwaters in two Canadian Shield mines, the Lupin and Con mines in Northern Canada. Within the Con major ion and isotope geochemistry indicate groundwaters from the deepest levels sampled remain relatively undisturbed by mining. Estimates of residence time for the Con mine brines, based on radiogenically produced helium and argon, indicate a Paleozoic age, consistent with recharge during the presence of Devonian seawater in this region. This is largely corroborated by krypton and xenon concentrations which reflect concentrated brine that has equilibrated with air before infiltration. Saline waters in the Lupin mine have an age of at least 130 Ma. At the Lupin mine, neon, krypton and xenon concentrations indicate degassing has occurred, likely caused by depressurization during mining along the V1 fault/fracture zone.
J-domain Region of ERdj3 Stabilizes a Conformational Intermediate of BiP
Creators: name: Luo, Zhilin
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biochemistry, Proteins

description: Protein folding is critical to cellular homeostasis, and molecular chaperones such as BiP, the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) specific Hsp70, are critical to protein folding. BiP works in coordination with ERdj3, an ER-specific Hsp40 chaperone containing a conserved J-domain (JD). The JD stimulates BiP ATP hydrolysis and the other part of ERdj3 can bind unfolded proteins, but a more detailed mechanistic understanding is needed to understand the functional benefit of the joint action of ERdj3 and BiP. In this study, we use biochemical and biophysical assays to investigate JD’s influence on the structure and activity of BiP. Our major finding is identifying a conformational intermediate of BiP during its ATPase cycle and determining that this intermediate is likely in the ADP-bound state. Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) measurements with client peptides show that the client-bound state of BiP has a similar FRET efficiency to the proposed intermediate. Combining our data with structures of other Hsp70 chaperones, we propose that the BiP intermediate has a closed lid similar to existing structures of ADP-bound Hsp70s, and the intermediate is stabilized by both client peptides and the JD. Our data also indicates that another ADP-bound state of BiP with an open-lid conformation is in equilibrium with the BiP intermediate, and the lid-open state is minimally influenced by both client peptides and the JD. These findings allow us to construct a structural and mechanistic framework for the ATP-driven conformational cycle of BiP that integrates the influence of the JD and client peptides
The role of ObgE in E.coli cell replication and division
Creators: name: Zhou, Shen
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2015
Subjects: ObgE
cell division
localization
checkpoint

description: Z-ring is a ring-shaped machinery which consists of FtsZ. The E.coli cell replication and division would occur after the Z-ring formation. Deficient Z-ring formation can block the cell division. FtsA and ZipA are the two proteins that attach the Z-ring to the cell membrane, make the Z-ring stable and recruit the downstream proteins to the Z-ring. FtsA can also strongly self–interact with each other. It has been proposed that the FtsA self-interaction regulates late division steps. The ObgE is a conserved GTPase critical for the survival and the growth of E.coli cells. With the depletion of ObgE, cells will filament and have more or none Z-rings, suggesting that ObgE can affect the Z-ring assembly. ObgE also shows the functions that are similar to the replication checkpoint in Eukaryotes. We hypothesize that ObgE is responsible for the conversion between the FtsA monomers and FtsA oligomers. We used the yeast two hybrid system, the split-GFP technique and the cell length measurement to confirm the prediction of this hypothesis. Consequently we believe that ObgE does influence the FtsA and regulate the FtsA monomer oligomer conversion. ObgE may have other important roles in addition to this function of the cell division checkpoint.