cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
La adquisicion de la negacion oracional en ingles por hablantes bilingues de euskeracastellano
Creators: name: Perales Haya, Susana
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Education, Language and Literature.
subject: Language, Linguistics.
subject: Language, Modern.

description: This thesis investigates the acquisition of sentential negation in English by three groups of bilingual Basque/Spanish speakers. All groups received instruction for a similar period of time, although they differ as to the age at which they began to learn English: four, eight and ten years respectively. The syntax of sentential negation concerns two main aspects: the nature of negative markers and the position of the negation phrase in the structure of the clause. Both Basque and Spanish have a negative marker that realizes the head of the negation phrase. The negation phrase in these languages dominates the tense phrase in the structure of the clause. On the contrary, in English the negative marker occupies the specifier position and the negation phrase appears lower than the tense phrase in the structure of the clause. The results of our analysis show a clear advantage in favor of the learners who began to learn English at eight and ten years old when compared to the younger ones. We have interpreted the differences between the groups as an attempt to adapt the lexical elements of English into the structures of their L1s. This interpretation is based on the learners' preferences with respect to the negative marker. Thus, younger learners show a clear preference for the marker of anaphoric negation no, whereas older learners prefer the morpheme n't, which appears together with auxiliary and modal verbs. In all cases, learners seem to be transferring the order of projections from their L1s and treating the lexical units isn't and don't as negative markers rather than as inflection markers followed by the negative morpheme n't, which leads us to conclude that there has not been a change in the order of projections but that these L2 learners are simply substituting one negative marker by another.
title: Negotiating Sovereignty Within the British Atlantic
title: Text Mining the Discourse of Colonial South Carolinian Elites 1769-1776
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Robinson, Cole S.
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Text data mining

description: Within this new age of digital everything, scholarly work has been greatly changed due to information access, new media, and computational abilities that far exceed that of the human mind. This change in research and dissemination practices has impacted every field of study, but true to our nature, history departments have been slow to innovate, especially in the ways we do research. However, this author desired to create a work of historic scholarship that embraced and experimented with digital tools, rather than continue in the tradition of archival trips and double-spaced Word Docs. The resulting thesis used publicly accessible digital text mining software, provided through the Hathi Trust Research Center, to analyze thousands of writings of Colonial South Carolinian elites created during the Eve of the American Revolution, 1769-1776. The results of this digital born research were then placed and analyzed within a web based Scalar Book environment where the digital nature of the work could be showcased and interacted with in new and interesting ways. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis is threefold: to explore the use of text mining tools to do historical research and create novel arguments, to demonstrate for the reader the ways in which this digital born and based history can be done, and to expose differences in the language used and motivations behind conservative and radical South Carolinian elites during the crucible that was the "imperial crisis." While the first two objectives are entirely subject to the individual reader the third can be summarized as radical South Carolinian elites invoked the rhetoric of the Enlightenment and "the rights of man" consistently throughout their writings when debating the sovereignty of the British Empire and their position within it, while their conservative counterparts did not. These differences in language and political favor for and against the Empire among these historical actors being based firmly on their level of material dependence on that imperial association. The actual thesis can be viewed here: https://cdsc.libraries.wsu.edu/scalar/robinsonmathesis.
Recognizing Meaning in the Crowd: Building Word Sense Inventories on Amazon Mechanical Turk
Creators: name: Botchan, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2012
Subjects: crowdsourcing
WSD
word sense
inventory

description: This thesis explores different strategies for constructing robust, inexpensive and empirically-derived word sense inventories and the corresponding sense-annotated\r corpus. All strategies explored rely on non-expert linguistic annotations collected\r through the use of the Amazon Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing marketplace. Experiments using implementation strategies with different quality control mechanisms are reported on in detail. Described herein are multiple best practices discovered through extensive system testing that are required to obtain high quality\r data given the challenge of using non-expert annotations. Results indicate that it is possible to obtain sense inventories that correlate with the gold standard,\r extending it in ways that may prove useful in a variety of other Natural Language\r Processing tasks.
Worldwide diversity in mammalian life histories: environmental realms and evolutionary adaptations
Creators: name: Beccari, Eleonora
name: Capdevila Lanzaco, Pol
name: Salguero‐Gómez, Roberto
name: Pérez Carmona, Carlos
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310399
subject: Ecology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 310302
subject: Community ecology (excl. invasive species ecology)

description: All data and scripts required to reproduce the analyses found in "Worldwide diversity in mammalian life histories: Environmental realms and evolutionary adaptations"E. Beccari, P. Capdevila, R. Salguero-Gómez, C. P. Carmona, Ecology LettersURL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.14445
title: ÐÑÐ°Ð²Ð¾Ð²Ð¾Ð¹ ÑÑÐ°ÑÑÑ Ð¡ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¾Ð¹ Ð¿Ð°Ð»Ð°ÑÑ Ð Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸Ð¹ÑÐºÐ¾Ð¹ Ð¤ÐµÐ´ÐµÑÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¸ ÐºÐ°Ðº Ð¾ÑÐ³Ð°Ð½Ð° ÑÐ¸Ð½Ð°Ð½ÑÐ¾Ð²Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ ÐºÐ¾Ð½ÑÑÐ¾Ð»Ñ
title: Ð²ÑÐ¿ÑÑÐºÐ½Ð°Ñ ÐºÐ²Ð°Ð»Ð¸ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð½Ð½Ð°Ñ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ° Ð±Ð°ÐºÐ°Ð»Ð°Ð²ÑÐ°
titleType: Subtitle
title: Legal status of the Russian accounts chamber federation as a financial control body
Creators: name: ÐÐ°ÑÐ³Ð°Ð»ÑÐ°Ð¹ÑÐ°Ð½, Ð­Ð½ÑÐ¶Ð¸Ð½
Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ð¿ÑÐ°Ð²Ð¾
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Ð¾ÑÐ³Ð°Ð½Ñ Ð³Ð¾ÑÑÐ´Ð°ÑÑÑÐ²ÐµÐ½Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ Ð²Ð»Ð°ÑÑÐ¸
law
status
legal status
finance
financial monitoring
Russian federation
accounts chamber
public authorities

description: Ð Ð½Ð°ÑÑÐ¾ÑÑÐµÐ¹ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐµ Ð¸ÑÑÐ»ÐµÐ´Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½ Ð¿ÑÐ°Ð²Ð¾Ð²Ð¾Ð¹ ÑÑÐ°ÑÑÑ Ð¡ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¾Ð¹ Ð¿Ð°Ð»Ð°ÑÑ Ð Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸Ð¹ÑÐºÐ¾Ð¹ Ð¤ÐµÐ´ÐµÑÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¸, Ð¾Ð¿ÑÐµÐ´ÐµÐ»ÐµÐ½Ð¾ ÐµÐµ Ð¼ÐµÑÑÐ¾ Ð² ÑÐ¸ÑÑÐµÐ¼Ðµ Ð¾ÑÐ³Ð°Ð½Ð¾Ð² Ð³Ð¾ÑÑÐ´Ð°ÑÑÑÐ²ÐµÐ½Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ Ð²Ð»Ð°ÑÑÐ¸ Ð² ÑÑÑÐ°Ð½Ðµ. Ð ÐµÐ·ÑÐ»ÑÑÐ°ÑÐ¾Ð¼ Ð¸ÑÑÐ»ÐµÐ´Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ Ð²ÑÐ¿ÑÑÐºÐ½Ð¾Ð¹ ÐºÐ²Ð°Ð»Ð¸ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð½Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÑ ÑÐ²Ð»ÑÑÑÑÑ Ð¿ÑÐµÐ´Ð»Ð¾Ð¶ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¿Ð¾ ÑÐµÑÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¿ÑÐ°Ð²Ð¾Ð²ÑÑ Ð¿ÑÐ¾Ð±Ð»ÐµÐ¼, Ð²Ð¾Ð·Ð½Ð¸ÐºÐ°ÑÑÐ¸Ñ Ð² Ð¾Ð±Ð»Ð°ÑÑÐ¸ Ð¾Ð¿ÑÐµÐ´ÐµÐ»ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¿ÑÐ°Ð²Ð¾Ð²Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ ÑÑÐ°ÑÑÑÐ° Ð¡ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¾Ð¹ Ð¿Ð°Ð»Ð°ÑÑ Ð Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸Ð¹ÑÐºÐ¾Ð¹ Ð¤ÐµÐ´ÐµÑÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¸, ÐºÐ°Ðº Ð¾ÑÐ³Ð°Ð½Ð°, Ð¾ÑÑÑÐµÑÑÐ²Ð»ÑÑÑÐµÐ³Ð¾ Ð³Ð¾ÑÑÐ´Ð°ÑÑÑÐ²ÐµÐ½Ð½ÑÐ¹ ÑÐ¸Ð½Ð°Ð½ÑÐ¾Ð²ÑÐ¹ Ð¼Ð¾Ð½Ð¸ÑÐ¾ÑÐ¸Ð½Ð³.
description: In this paper, the legal status of the Accounting Chamber of the Russian Federation is investigated, its place in the system of state authorities in the country is determined. The result of the study of the final qualifying work are proposals for solving legal problems arising in the field of determining the legal status of the Accounting Chamber of the Russian Federation as a body carrying out state financial monitoring.
Optimizing printed circuit board assembly times on a high-speed pick-and-place machine.
Creators: name: Weedmark, Mark Archie.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Operations Research.

description: In this thesis, we investigate the problem of minimizing printed circuit board assembly time on high-speed pick-and-place machines. As it is considered unlikely that efficient methods will be found for this problem, heuristic methods which give near optimal solutions are sought. Several such methods currently exist, but there are no comparisons made between the different methods. One of the reasons for this is the differences in the models used. In the thesis, we develop a more general model for the problem which encompasses most other models, and is robust, i.e. it can easily be adapted to different situations. We adapt two of the heuristic methods from the literature to this model, implement and test them and report the resulting assembly times. We also provide improvements to these methods, and improved lower bounding techniques for the problem. Finally, we adapt the best method to a real-world situation, namely the environment at the Mitel Corporation in Ottawa, Canada. We test this method against the sophisticated software tool currently being used at Mitel, with good results.
title: ÐÐ¾Ð½ÑÑÐ¸Ðµ Ð¸ Ð²Ð¸Ð´Ñ Ð¾Ð³ÑÐ°Ð½Ð¸ÑÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¿ÑÐ°Ð²Ð° ÑÐ¾Ð±ÑÑÐ²ÐµÐ½Ð½Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸
title: Ð²ÑÐ¿ÑÑÐºÐ½Ð°Ñ ÐºÐ²Ð°Ð»Ð¸ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð½Ð½Ð°Ñ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ° Ð±Ð°ÐºÐ°Ð»Ð°Ð²ÑÐ°
titleType: Subtitle
title: Enforcement of an international treaty
Creators: name: ÐÐ±ÑÐ°Ð¸Ð¼Ð¾Ð²Ð°, ÐÐ¸Ð»Ð¾Ð»Ð°
Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ð¿ÑÐ°Ð²Ð¾
Ð´Ð¾Ð³Ð¾Ð²Ð¾Ñ
Ð´Ð¾Ð³Ð¾Ð²Ð¾ÑÐ½Ð¾Ðµ Ð¿ÑÐ°Ð²Ð¾
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law
Treaty
Treaty law
International treaty
International law
Russian Federation

description: Ð Ð½Ð°ÑÑÐ¾ÑÑÐµÐ¹ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐµ Ð¿ÑÐ¾Ð²ÐµÐ´ÐµÐ½ Ð°Ð½Ð°Ð»Ð¸Ð· Ð¾Ð±ÐµÑÐ¿ÐµÑÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¸ÑÐ¿Ð¾Ð»Ð½ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¼ÐµÐ¶Ð´ÑÐ½Ð°ÑÐ¾Ð´Ð½ÑÑ Ð´Ð¾Ð³Ð¾Ð²Ð¾ÑÐ¾Ð². Ð ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐµ Ð²ÑÐ´ÐµÐ»ÐµÐ½Ð° ÑÐ¿ÐµÑÐ¸ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ° ÑÐ¸ÑÑÐµÐ¼Ñ Ð¾Ð±ÐµÑÐ¿ÐµÑÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¸ÑÐ¿Ð¾Ð»Ð½ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¾Ð¶ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ð¹ Ð¼ÐµÐ¶Ð´ÑÐ½Ð°ÑÐ¾Ð´Ð½ÑÑ Ð´Ð¾Ð³Ð¾Ð²Ð¾ÑÐ¾Ð², Ð·Ð°ÐºÐ»ÑÑÐ°ÐµÐ¼ÑÑ Ñ ÑÑÐ°ÑÑÐ¸ÐµÐ¼ Ð Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸Ð¹ÑÐºÐ¾Ð¹ Ð¤ÐµÐ´ÐµÑÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¸. Ð ÐµÐ·ÑÐ»ÑÑÐ°ÑÐ¾Ð¼ Ð¸ÑÑÐ»ÐµÐ´Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ Ð²ÑÐ¿ÑÑÐºÐ½Ð¾Ð¹ ÐºÐ²Ð°Ð»Ð¸ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð½Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÑ ÑÑÐ°Ð»Ð¸ Ð¿ÑÐµÐ´Ð»Ð¾Ð¶ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¿Ð¾ ÑÐ¾Ð²ÐµÑÑÐµÐ½ÑÑÐ²Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ ÑÐ¸ÑÑÐµÐ¼Ñ Ð¾Ð±ÐµÑÐ¿ÐµÑÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¸ÑÐ¿Ð¾Ð»Ð½ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¼ÐµÐ¶Ð´ÑÐ½Ð°ÑÐ¾Ð´Ð½ÑÑ Ð´Ð¾Ð³Ð¾Ð²Ð¾ÑÐ¾Ð² Ð² ÑÐ¾ÑÑÐ¸Ð¹ÑÐºÐ¾Ð¹ Ð¿ÑÐ°Ð²Ð¾Ð²Ð¾Ð¹ ÑÐ¸ÑÑÐµÐ¼Ðµ.
description: This paper analyzes the enforcement of international treaties. The work highlights the specifics of the system for ensuring the implementation of the provisions of international treaties concluded with the participation of the Russian Federation. The result of the study of the final qualifying work was proposals for improving the system for ensuring the implementation of international treaties in the Russian legal system.
The Effects of Linguistic Context, Speech Rate, and Cognitive Effort on Sentence Recall by Young and Older Adults: A Pupillometry Study
Creators: name: Glass, Shari Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Psycholinguistics
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Successful word recall and memory encoding are complex processes which rely on a variety of factors such as contextual and syntactic cues. However, what happens if all or some of these cues are unavailable? In this thesis young and older adults were presented with three types of spoken materials (meaningful sentences, syntactic strings, and unstructured word lists). Young and older adults were asked to recall each sentence/word list as perfectly as possible. A moderate degree of time compression was also employed although there was no significant effect. In addition, this study examined participants’ pupil dilation while completing the study, as pupil dilation has been found to be an effective measure of cognitive effort. The study found that both young and older adults recalled meaningful sentences with the greatest accuracy, syntactic strings with the next best accuracy and unstructured word lists with the least accuracy. Young adults also recalled sentences/word lists differentially better than older adults. Young adults were also found to exert differentially less cognitive effort, as measured by pupillometry, on sentence/word list recall. The findings of this study have applications to the ways in which older and young adults process and remember speech, how they differ from one another, and the cognitive effort required to achieve this recall.
title: ÐÐµÐ½ÑÐºÐ°Ñ Ð¿ÑÐµÑÑÑÐ¿Ð½Ð¾ÑÑÑ: ÐºÑÐ¸Ð¼Ð¸Ð½Ð¾Ð»Ð¾Ð³Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ°Ñ Ñ Ð°ÑÐ°ÐºÑÐµÑÐ¸ÑÑÐ¸ÐºÐ° Ð¸ Ð¾ÑÐ¾Ð±ÐµÐ½Ð½Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸ Ð´ÐµÑÐµÑÐ¼Ð¸Ð½Ð°ÑÐ¸Ð¸
title: Ð²ÑÐ¿ÑÑÐºÐ½Ð°Ñ ÐºÐ²Ð°Ð»Ð¸ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð½Ð½Ð°Ñ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ° Ð±Ð°ÐºÐ°Ð»Ð°Ð²ÑÐ°
titleType: Subtitle
title: Female crime: criminological characteristics and features of determination
Creators: name: ÐÐ°Ð´Ð°Ð¼Ð¾Ð²Ð°, ÐÐ°Ð»Ð¸ÐºÐ°
Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ð¿ÑÐ°Ð²Ð¾
Ð³Ð¾ÑÑÐ´Ð°ÑÑÑÐ²Ð¾
Ð¿ÑÐµÑÑÑÐ¿Ð»ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ
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Ð¿ÑÐ¾ÑÐ¸Ð²Ð¾Ð´ÐµÐ¹ÑÑÐ²Ð¸Ðµ
law
state
crimes
criminal law
womens crime
peculiarities of determination
legal regulation
counteraction

description: Ð Ð´Ð°Ð½Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐµ Ð¸Ð·Ð»Ð¾Ð¶ÐµÐ½Ð¾ Ð¾Ð¿ÑÐµÐ´ÐµÐ»ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ðµ Ð¶ÐµÐ½ÑÐºÐ¾Ð¹ Ð¿ÑÐµÑÑÑÐ¿Ð½Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸, Ð° ÑÐ°ÐºÐ¶Ðµ Ð²ÑÐ´ÐµÐ»ÐµÐ½Ñ Ð¾ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð²Ð½ÑÐµ Ð¾ÑÐ»Ð¸ÑÐ¸ÑÐµÐ»ÑÐ½ÑÐµ Ð¾ÑÐ¾Ð±ÐµÐ½Ð½Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸ Ð´Ð°Ð½Ð½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ Ð½ÐµÐ³Ð°ÑÐ¸Ð²Ð½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ ÑÐ²Ð»ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ. ÐÑÐ¾Ð°Ð½Ð°Ð»Ð¸Ð·Ð¸ÑÐ¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð° ÑÐ¸ÑÑÐµÐ¼Ð° Ð¿ÑÐ¾ÑÐ¸Ð²Ð¾Ð´ÐµÐ¹ÑÑÐ²Ð¸Ñ Ð¶ÐµÐ½ÑÐºÐ¾Ð¹ Ð¿ÑÐµÑÑÑÐ¿Ð½Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸ Ð² ÑÐ°Ð¼ÐºÐ°Ñ Ð´ÐµÐ¹ÑÑÐ²ÑÑÑÐµÐ³Ð¾ ÑÐ³Ð¾Ð»Ð¾Ð²Ð½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ Ð·Ð°ÐºÐ¾Ð½Ð¾Ð´Ð°ÑÐµÐ»ÑÑÑÐ²Ð° Ð Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸Ð¹ÑÐºÐ¾Ð¹ Ð¤ÐµÐ´ÐµÑÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¸. Ð ÐµÐ·ÑÐ»ÑÑÐ°ÑÐ¾Ð¼ Ð¸ÑÑÐ»ÐµÐ´Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ Ð²ÑÐ¿ÑÑÐºÐ½Ð¾Ð¹ ÐºÐ²Ð°Ð»Ð¸ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð½Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÑÂ  ÑÐ²Ð»ÑÑÑÑÑ Ð¿ÑÐµÐ´Ð»Ð¾Ð¶ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¿Ð¾ ÑÐ¾Ð²ÐµÑÑÐµÐ½ÑÑÐ²Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ ÑÐ¸ÑÑÐµÐ¼Ñ Ð¿ÑÐ¾ÑÐ¸Ð²Ð¾Ð´ÐµÐ¹ÑÑÐ²Ð¸Ñ ÑÐ¾Ð²ÐµÑÑÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¿ÑÐµÑÑÑÐ¿Ð»ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ð¹ ÑÑÐµÐ´Ð¸ Ð¶ÐµÐ½ÑÐ¸Ð½.
description: This paper outlines the definition of female criminality, as well as highlights the main distinctive features of this negative phenomenon. The system of countering womens crime within the framework of the current criminal legislation of the Russian Federation is analyzed. The result of the study of the final qualifying work are proposals for improving the system of countering the commission of crimes among women.
Prosodic Perception and Production in Autism: A Scoping Review
Creators: name: Bonanno, Martina
name: Fabiani, Matilde
name: Cavallini, Francesca
name: Iacomini, Silvia
Publisher: name: Journal of Clinical & Developmental Psychology
Year: 2025

description: Background: Prosody is the set of suprasegmental elements of language, such as intonation, rhythm, and accent, which play a crucial role in emotional and pragmatic communication.
Methods: We conducted a scoping review to explore prosodic perception and production in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This review followed the PRISMA guidelines and selected articles published between 2014 and 2024 through academic databases such as PsycINFO, Scopus, and the Psychology and Behavioural Sciences Collection. We included 14 studies with 440 participants with ASD and 399 neurotypical participants.
Results: The results show considerable heterogeneity: some studies suggest that autistic individuals have difficulty recognizing emotions from prosody, while others show no significant differences compared to neurotypicals. There are also differences in prosodic production, with ASD individuals tending to modulate their voice in atypical ways. The variability of the results could be due to methodological differences, the age of the participants, and the type of stimuli used.
Conclusions: This variability highlights the need for future studies using more standardized protocols to clarify the role of prosody in ASD and its impact on social communication. Clinical implications suggest that professionals should consider prosodic difficulties in assessment and intervention planning, with targeted support to improve social communicative outcomes in individuals with autism.


Keywords: ASD; Prosody; Emotional Communication; Voice modulation; Speech Perception
description: Journal of Clinical & Developmental Psychology, Vol 7, No 1 (2025)
The Brazilian Political Economy of Health: Implications for Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Rights
Creators: name: Fernandes, Jessica
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2011

description: Citizenship in Brazil guarantees the right to the highest attainable standard of health. The shared commitment of government and civil society to human rights has mobilized coordination between policy development and implementation, resulting in the progressive improvement of national health outcomes. Despite the success of health programs in strengthening prevention and treatment services, the political economy of Brazil has compromised public health performance. The existing structural and ideological forces have intensified social inequalities and lessened opportunities for individual and collective advancement. This paper explores the formation of a unified public health system based on human rights principles and the ability of national health policies to address women’s health issues. It further examines the influence of social and cultural perceptions of gender norms on women’s ability to exercise sexual and reproductive health rights. The recommendations are aimed at the government to encourage it to address its responsibility to increase the availability, accessibility and quality of health care provisions. I propose a gender-based perspective in reducing health inequity for women in relation to the economic and social disparities in Brazil. By increasing participatory processes and creating effective mechanisms to evaluate, assess, and monitor policy, improvements will be made in standards of living and the well being of individuals. If these changes are implemented, Brazilian women can benefit from their citizenship and fully realize sexual and reproductive health rights.
Inducible immunity to Trichomonas vaginalis in a mouse model of vaginal infection.
Creators: name: Abraham, Mary Cherian.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Obstetrics and Gynecology.

description: Trichomonas vaginalis is a protozoan parasite that causes a common sexually transmitted disease, trichomoniasis. Despite its high prevalance, the pathogenesis and immunogenicity of T. vaginalis are not well understood. Because currently available therapies are not always effective in treatment or in disease control and because of the impact of T. vaginalis on the health of women, a vaccination strategy could be an effective method of prevention. We studied the protective effects of subcutaneous immunization with T. vaginalis using a mouse model of vaginal infection. Balb/c mice were either immunized with T. vaginalis suspended in Freund's complete adjuvant (FCA) at day $-$56 and boosted with Freund's incomplete adjuvant (FIA) at day $-$28, or immunized only at day $-$28 with either Tv/FCA or Tv/FIA. Control mice were sham immunized and boosted with phosphate-buffered saline suspended in FCA and FIA respectively. At day 0 all mice were intravaginally inoculated with T. vaginalis. Mice immunized and boosted had significantly less intravaginal infection and had an elevated serum and vaginal antibody response compared to single immunization or control mice. Immunization with whole T.vaginalis appears to confer protection against intravaginal challenge with T. vaginalis in this animal model of infection.
title:  Per un prototipo sperimentale di certificazione di arabo L2: i livelli A1 e A2
Creators: name: Nasimi, Aisha
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2018

description: Il contributo si propone di verificare le condizioni di possibilità per una certificazione della lingua araba, come lingua straniera in Italia sul piano della teoria della valutazione della competenza linguistica e su quello dei tratti di riferimento di un modello di competenza in lingua araba come L2/LS. Tale obiettivo è stato perseguito con lo sviluppo di due test pilota sperimentali basati sul profilo dell’apprendente nel proprio contesto di acquisizione della lingua, verificando l’applicabilità degli standard e dei principi del Quadro Comune Europeo di Riferimento alla lingua araba, a partire da un’analisi di tipo storico linguistico e sociolinguistico.
description: Didattica dell’arabo e certificazione linguistica: riflessioni e iniziative
СПОСОБЫ ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ ФРАЗЕОЛОГИЧЕСКИХ ПРОИЗВОДНЫХ ВО ФРАНЦУЗСКОМ ЯЗЫКЕ
Creators: name: Ражабова, Фаризод
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Фразеология является одной из современных отраслей языкознания и представляет собой очень важное направление в изучении иностранного языка, поскольку раскрывает богатство и своеобразие языка.
Languages of the World: An open, multimodal educational resource designed for inclusivity, accessibility, and curiosity
Creators: name: Hallett, Jill
Publisher: name: University of Illinois Chicago
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture

description: Languages of the World: An open, multimodal educational resource designed for inclusivity, accessibility, and curiosity guides the user on a tour of many of the world's languages through lenses often omitted from introductory undergraduate linguistics courses, such as historical relationships, writing systems, typology, and naming. This resource attends to signed and other non-spoken language modalities throughout the text and decenters English and other European languages to the extent feasible.Featuring conversational text, video, audio, and images, this multimodal educational resource prepares users toEngage in informed discussion about a variety of languages and language featuresAccurately articulate personal language positionality and shared features of all human languages, compare linguistic structures across a variety of human languages, and describe naming practices across languages and timeReflect on modalities (eg., speech, sign, text) and writing systems, pragmatic knowledge of language use, and implications of linguistic diversity on current social and educational issuesRespectfully inquire about language usePresent their understanding of one language in a novel wayTeaching with Languages of the World: An open, multimodal educational resource designed for inclusivity is facilitated with a sample course syllabus, suggested formative and summative assessments, and an authentic final project.
IL-23 and IL-27 expression in dendritic cells and the effects of HIV-1
Creators: name: Chenier, Andreane
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Immunology.

description: Dendritic cells (DCs) are potent antigen presenting cells whose role in eliciting immune responses in the context of human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) infection remains unclear. The objective of this project was to determine if HIV-1 modulates DC function by downregulating the production of IL-23 and IL-27, cytokines important in the generation of cellular immune responses. Dendritic cells were isolated from the epidermal and dermal skin layers resulting from elective abdominoplasties by CD1a and CD1c microbeads. Circulating DCs were isolated from peripheral blood by CD1c microbeads. As an experimental model, monocyte-derived DCs (MDDCs) were generated from freshly isolated monocytes which were cultured for 6 days with IL-4 and GM-CSF. The phenotypes of these 4 DC populations were compared. To determine the effects of an endogenous source of HIV-1 Tat on cytokine expression, MDDCs were infected with a pLXIN (ptat) construct containing the HIV-1 tat wt gene or the empty vector for 24h, before a 4h LPS (1mug/mL) stimulation. To determine the effects of an exogenous source of Tat, which is known to be secreted by infected cells, DCs were pre-treated with recombinant Tat protein (rTat) for 1h before LPS stimulation. Alternatively, DCs were cultured in the presence of HIV-1 dual-tropic strain 92HT593 for 24h before LPS stimulation. IL-23p19 and IL-27EBI3 and p28 mRNA expression were evaluated by quantitative real-time RT-PCR (qRT-PCR) and reported as relative expression levels. DCs are readily infected with the ptat, as shown by RT-PCR. The presence of endogenous Tat resulted in a decrease in IL-23p19, IL-27EBI3 and p28 mRNA expression. Incubation of DCs with rTat similarly decreased IL-23p19, IL-27EBI3 and p28 mRNA expression. When cultured in the presence of HIV-192HT593, a similar downregulation in IL-23p19 and IL-27EBI3 was observed, with no significant effect on p28 expression. In conclusion, the presence of HIV-1 Tat protein whether from an endogenous or exogenous source significantly downregulated the expression of IL-23p19 and IL-27EBI3 and p28 mRNAs. HIV-1 similarly downregulated the gene expression of IL-23p19 and IL-27EBI3, but appeared to have no effect on IL-27p28 gene expression. HIV-1 disregulation of IL-27 subunits EBI3 and p28 and IL-23p19 may be a mechanism by which HIV-1 evades the infection-clearing immune response. Understanding the function of cytokines expressed and secreted by DCs to initiate T cell polarization may lead to better understanding of HIV-1 pathogenesis and the development of novel therapies for HIV infection.
The physical context of hands-on interactive museum exhibits: Identification and categorization of pedagogically relevant concepts
Creators: name: Hillman, Thomas
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Education, Sciences.
subject: Museology.

description: Many options are available to designers when creating museum exhibitions. One particular option that can be chosen is the inclusion of exhibits that can be touched and manipulated, a style of exhibit often referred to as hands-on or interactive (Adams and Moussouri, 2002). Within this subset of exhibits, designers also have a multitude of choices to make that can affect the experiences visitors will have. The goal of this study is to help the transfer of research findings about learning and hands-on interactive exhibits to designers so that more-informed choices may be made. With this goal in mind, the exhibits within three exhibitions at the Montreal Science Centre are examined from a pedagogical perspective. Falk and Dierking's Contextual Model of Learning (2000) is employed as a conceptual framework, and one of its contexts is specifically addressed. Since exhibition designers act upon the objects that form exhibits, and only have direct influence on their physical nature, the physical context of Falk and Dierking's model is chosen as a lens through which to investigate the exhibits. Emergent concepts from the physical context of those exhibits are collected and then categorized. To relate the emergent concepts to a pedagogical perspective, the categories are then associated to the pedagogical triangle (Houssaye, 1988; Moore, 1989), which allows them to be organised following the roles and interactions present in that model. This study, therefore, presents a structure and common language through which the physical context of hands-on interactive museum exhibits can be understood from a pedagogical perspective.
Relationship cognition in intimate partner violence and post-relationship stalking
Creators: name: Senkans, Svenja
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Intimate Partner Violence and Post-Relationship Stalking are public health concerns that affect millions of people worldwide. This thesis first presents a theory on how perpetrators think about relationships (relationship cognition). Then, a number of gender-inclusive, empirical studies regarding the associations between the behaviours and their respective cognitive correlates are presented. The main results suggest that while both men and women perpetrate Intimate Partner Violence and Post-Relationship Stalking, many cognitive correlates differed between genders. Further, the studies provide novel empirical evidence that aggression and violence during a relationship and post-relationship aggression and violence are related, but not identical phenomena.
The design and implementation of a real-time multimedia synchronization control system over high-speed communications networks.
Creators: name: Li, Lian.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: Sychronization is considered as a key issue in distributed multimedia systems. In a real-time multimedia presentation, data objects of different media types or coding formats are delivered from distributed media-storing servers to the remote client simultaneously over high-speed networks. The multiple streams need to be synchronized so that the multimedia document can be presented in the way specified by its creator. The synchronization research involves issues such as temporal relationship modeling, extending network protocols and supporting the implementation of applications where the synchronization control mechanisms integrate with other system functionality, such as the ATM network transmissions. The video coding/decoding and the distributed database management. In this thesis, we investigate a software synchronization control system for a target presentational application, i.e., a Multimedia News-on-demand service. Relying on the Quality of Services (QoS) supported by the ATM-based virtual connections, the system prevents major multi-stream mismatches through a delivery scheduling operation. Moreover, the synchronization errors brought by the inevitable network delay variations are recovered through a Stream Synchronization Protocol (SSP) in order to preserve the presentation quality. We apply the Time Flow Graph (TFG) to model the temporal relationships among the media components so that the scheduling and recovering operations can be efficient. Synchronization QoS parameters are employed in the SSP control. In addition, the differences between the characterization of coded and uncoded data streams are taken into account. We present a priority-based synchronization control for coded data, e.g., the MPEG-2 video stream. For the implementation of such a control system, we elaborate a set of data structure specifications and algorithms. As well, we develop the software modules to implement the synchronization control prototype.
title: Are All Plastids Created Equal?
title: Diversity, Function, and Evolution of Plastid-targeted Genes and Chloroplast Transit Peptides in Plants
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Christian, Ryan Wayne
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Plastids

description: Plastids are morphologically and biochemically diverse organelles which not only perform photosynthesis but are also responsible for a wide range of metabolic, storage, regulatory, and aesthetic functions. The majority of plastid proteins are encoded by the nucleus and imported post-translationally, which allows for much greater spatiotemporal control of plastid function. Most of what is known about plastids has been studied in a relatively small group of model organisms, yet the myriad functions of plastids and significant microscopy evidence suggest that plastid function may be relatively unique in each plant species. Research in this dissertation aims to expand the field of plastid biology to non-model systems by (1) Reviewing the current state of literature to explore how the plastid proteome is shaped and how this process is regulated. How nuclear-encoded plastid-targeted proteins are imported has been enigmatic since the discovery of the main import channel, but recent evidence has helped to resolve the molecular mechanism and regulatory aspects of this process; (2) Establishing bioinformatics methods to characterize the plastid proteome quickly and efficiently in a range of plant species. A novel application of existing subcellular prediction techniques revealed that only 628-828 proteins are shared between the plastids of all assessed Angiosperms, but between 6- to 25-fold more proteins were specific to single species or taxonomic groups; (3) Analyzing mutational patterns leading to the evolution of novel chloroplast transit peptides. Insertions and deletions, particularly those that caused a shift of the transcriptional or translational start site, were responsible for the majority of novel transit peptides, implicating either exon shuffling as the dominant means of subcellular relocalization to the plastid; and, (4) Characterization of the N-terminal soluble domain of the conserved protein ALB3 when expressed from the chloroplast genome. Perturbations to chlorophyll fluorescence and ion homeostasis suggest that constitutive activation of the ALB3/SecY heterodimeric channel by substrate proteins induces permeability of the thylakoid membrane to leakage of protons and disruption of ion gradients. An overabundance of ALB3 in certain tissues may cause ion dysregulation, particularly for calcium, magnesium, and potassium.
The development of federal crime prevention policy initiatives in Canada, 1992-1993.
Creators: name: Gervais, Christine L. M.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Political Science, Public Administration.

description: Crime prevention has recently become a significant part of the rhetoric in the apparent transformation of criminal justice policy and practice. This thesis explores the implications of the Canadian federal crime prevention policy initiatives developed between 1992 and 1993. As a descriptive analysis, this thesis identifies the nature, the direction and the practical implications of the pending prevention policy initiatives aimed at reducing crime and victimization, and achieving community safety in Canada. A particular emphasis is placed on whether or not the proposed policy initiatives constitute a shift away from traditional reactive criminal justice responses, and towards a focus on proactive approaches. The analytical framework used derives from Stanley Cohen's (1985) views of social control and Ross Hastings' (1993a) Crime Prevention Typology. The author argues that the proposed "comprehensive" crime prevention strategy is limited in its capacity to significantly reduce crime and victimization because it emphasizes both inclusionary and exclusionary, as well as, both proactive and reactive measures of deviancy control. The author concludes that the federal crime prevention initiatives developed between 1992 and 1993 are not likely to result in significant changes in the delivery of social control. They may be considered, at best, a mere extension of the historical patterns of uneven progress in transformations of social control.
Socio-demographic, attitudinal and behavioural determinants of risk for sexually transmitted diseases in sixteen-year-old high school students.
Creators: name: Doherty, Jo-Anne Audrey.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Public Health.

description: Two models of risk for sexual behaviour were developed using stepwise discriminant analysis. The first model assessed the predictive strength of demographic, knowledge, attitudinal, and behavioural variables in determining which adolescents "ever had sexual intercourse" compared to adolescents who "never had sexual intercourse". The second model assessed the same variables to determine which adolescents were more likely to have had an increased number of partners. For males, the model of risk for "ever had sexual intercourse" yielded nine variables which accounted for 27.6% of the discriminatory power of the model. The nine determinants in order of entry to the model were: alcohol use, cigarette use, cannabis use, positive attitude towards casual sex, high self-esteem/self-image, average mark last term less than 60%, weekly church attendance, poor relationship with parents. and do not know mother's birthplace. For females, the model of risk for "ever had sexual intercourse" yielded fourteen variables which accounted for 27.5% of the discriminatory power of the model. The fourteen determinants in order of entry to the model were: cigarette use, positive attitude towards casual sex, cannabis use, alcohol use, subjects in high school were preparing the student for work, urban/rural, live with "other/mom only/dad only", finish education at high school, do not know mother's birthplace, father's occupation was unemployed, poor relationship with parents, average mark last term less than 60%, low knowledge score, and low sexual worry. Predictive models of health, notably the Health Belief Model, The Theory of Reasoned Action and the Social Learning Theory, have been developed within specific theoretical frameworks and have shown promise in delineating the determinants of behaviour. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Les perspectives nihilistes de l'altérite chez André Langevin
Creators: name: Lacombe-Cliche, Jacinthe
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: Cette these s'interesse aux enjeux discursifs du probleme de l'alterite dans Evade de la nuit, Poussiere sur la ville et Le Temps des hommes d'Andre Langevin. La logique du stereotype inherente au discours des personnages instaure des rapports bases sur la transformation d'autrui en copie. Cette negation de l'autre provoquee par le stereotype rappelle le processus de chosification d'autrui etudie par Sartre dans L'Etre et le Neant. Langevin et le philosophe francais semblent partager une vision negative de l'alterite ou autrui se voit souvent reduit a un objet. Le concept de discours de Foucault nous permet, quant a lui, de voir l'exclusion des Dubois dans Poussiere sur la ville comme la consequence de leur opposition aux regles des bourgeois de Macklin. Enfin, a la lumiere de la definition du jeu de Huizinga, nous posons l'hypothese que la decheance d'Alain et de Madeleine va dans le sens d'une remise en question de la parole tribale.
Dynamical Behaviors of Coupled Self-Oscillating Gels
Creators: name: Kim, Yongwoon
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2017
Subjects: BZ reaction
Polymer gels
Self-oscillation

description: Synchronization is the process when two interacting periodic rhythms adopt the same\r frequency. This can be determined by the strength of the interactions between the rhythms in\r what is known as coupling. The type of coupling and its strength can determine the ratio of\r frequencies between the two interacting rhythms or oscillators, which can be a ratio of\r integers. Synchronization is widely found in nature. For instance, it can be found in neural net\r communication and in the generation of heart beats. These natural systems can be mimicked\r by synthetic systems. One example is self-oscillating gels, which are polymer networks with a\r metal catalyst covalently bonded into the polymer chain. This catalyst can participate in a\r chemical reaction. In doing so, these gels, arranged spatially nearby one another, can have the\r capability of communicating with each other through the diffusion of chemical species. Thus,\r these gels can synchronize their oscillations and produce different oscillating patterns\r depending on the coupling strength. In groups of self-oscillating gels participating in the\r v\r Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction, it has been found that the gel volume, inter-gel distance,\r and the concentration of the metal catalyst dictate which gel acts as the pacemaker or leading\r gel of an oscillatory cycle. This work seeks to understand which of these factors prevail in\r leading the oscillatory cycle when all factors are present simultaneously and if perturbations\r using light can cause changes in the synchronization of these gels. For this purpose, we\r synthesized and prepared cubic self-oscillating BZ gels with a ruthenium (II/III) complex catalyst,\r and immersed them into a solution of BZ reactants. Here, four gels were arranged spatially at\r the corners of a square and oscillation patterns were observed. In some experiments, the\r perturbation of the four gel synchronization was induced by irradiating the gels with high\r intensity light. Our results show that in conditions of strong coupling, the group of gels\r oscillates almost simultaneously. We also found that the inter-gel distance factor prevails over\r the tendency of the smallest gel to behave as the leading oscillator. In symmetric\r configurations, where volumes and inter-gel distances are equal to one another, anti-clockwise\r oscillation patterns can be observed. When light is used to perturb the system, we find that it\r induces a change in the frequency ratio of the oscillators and can ‘reset’ oscillation patterns. In\r short, it can change the preexisting oscillation patterns.
Bench-scale treatability study of a dilute synthetic dairy wastewater, by combined anaerobic-aerobic systems, at ambient temperature conditions
Creators: name: Duguay, Louise S
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Sanitary and Municipal.

description: This research project consisted of studying the feasibility of a combined UASB-activated sludge process configuration for treating a dilute synthetic substrate, simulating a dairy wastewater, at a laboratory temperature averaging 23.5 +/- 0.8°C. The bench-scale experimental work was carried-out in two parallel biotreatment systems fed in series. They consisted of relatively small-scale Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) reactors of 3.85 and 3.75 L, respectively, followed by 2 L-activated sludge polishing processes. The feed concentration applied to one of the systems consisted of the minimum influent strength recommended for successful anaerobic treatment (∼1 000 mg CODt/L) while the second system was of the domestic sewage-strength range (∼500 mg CODt/L), achieved by dilution. The mainly soluble complex feedstock used consisted of tap water and Iron Fortified Enfalac(TM) Infant Formula. It was supplemented chemically to ensure that proper (N and P) nutrient requirements were met as well as to increase its buffering capacity and to adjust pH. Three experimental runs were carried out by applying increasing UASB influent flow rates of 2, 4 and 8 L/d, in both systems. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Translating nature: A corpus-based study
Creators: name: Huyssen, Carmen
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Literature, Comparative.
subject: Literature, Romance.
subject: Literature, Canadian (English).
subject: Language, General.

description: In contemporary nature writing, beauty can indeed be said to be "in the eye of the beholder". English-Canadian and French authors of such texts often perceive and describe their natural surroundings in very individual, though culturally shared, ways. English-Canadian and French authors have developed quite different approaches to nature writing, and this difference becomes clearly apparent through a contrastive analysis of two corpora: nature writing intended for English-Canadian readers and similar texts addressed to French readers. Through the juxtaposition of these texts, the cultural topoi of each linguistic set are drawn out. In an environment where forces of globalization are bringing more languages and cultures into contact, an analysis of this type sets forth the "culturemes" that practising translators need to be aware of and respond to. A sample text that takes the findings into account illustrates this.
A grounded theory of food security in Nepal: Surviving market fundamentalism
Creators: name: Rimal, Naresh N.
Publisher: name: Central Queensland University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Food security
Grounded theory
Systems thinking
International aid
Agriculture
Environmental and social transformation

description: This research addresses lived experience of participants, recounted as story-webs about food security issues, in rural areas of Nepal. Story-web issues are contextualised within changing agricultural practices, aid intervention and systems change, and the future of agriculture. The meta-disciplinary approach integrates Grounded Theory (GT), Ethnography, and Systems Thinking (ST) for gathering, analysing, and presenting the data. Rural development intervention seldom considers antecedent knowledge in decision strategies regarding rural communities. The resulting discontinuities feed confusion regarding science and agricultural outreach in rural Nepal. Participants’ story-webs reveal biodiversity, agricultural industrialisation and social and cultural transformation as primary issues. For the participants, biodiversity reflects intergenerational socio-ecological experience. Exogenous understanding clashes with reflexive and experiential knowledge. Climate change provides an iconic example. Participants appear to have received this concept from outside their lived experience and thus lack functional comprehension which is revealed by their references to climate change in a deus ex machine1 manner. Similarly, participants experience market-based agriculture as ignoring their experience of socio-ecological resilience-grounded sustenance. Monoculture feeds chaotic descent into cultural and natural resource degradation and crop diseases, uncertainty, high cost and ecological crisis. Social and cultural transformation encourages reliance on external factors that ignore social capital’s foundational role in sustaining these communities for millennia. Participant communities’ nearly lost history of survival and hardship is replaced by questions like, ‘Can you help us?’, or ‘What can we do differently?’ and, ‘What would be our future?’ This reflects hopelessness and helplessness in the fog of development intervention. The intervention instigated to address poverty, instead created poverty through increased social change for ‘development.’ It replaced small scale agriculture by a ‘global’ sense of economy influenced by structural adjustment that influenced bureaucracy and politics. The significance of this inquiry offers substantive theories that can be contextualised at local, regional and international levels and contributes to debates on development and sustainability. Recommendation for the current situation in planning and policy-making is to avoid industrial agro-chemicals while embracing the use heirloom seeds. Refocussing towards mutually reinforcing ecological approaches such as multi-tiered agriculture can contribute positively to address biodiversity, alternative livelihood strategy and cultural growth from communities' long standing experience.