cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The cosmopolitan social agenda and the referendum on the republic
Creators: name: Betts, Katharine
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Should Australia become a republic with a head of state elected by a two-thirds majority of Parliament? In November 1999 this question was put to the people in a referendum and lost. The October 1998 Australian Election Study can help us understand this result. This survey shows that economic class and region were both associated with attitudes to the referendum; better-off, better-educated people in inner-city suburbs were more likely to vote yes and poorer, less well-educated people in the outer suburbs and rural areas were more likely to vote no. Trust in political institutions is also important; the more people trust government and political parties the more likely they were to vote yes. However, another factor has a stronger effect on the vote than either economic class, region or trust, and that is attitudes to the new cosmopolitan social agenda developed in the Hawke and Keating years. This agenda includes closer integration with Asia, support for minority rights, especially Aboriginal rights, and support for multiculturalism and immigration. People who approve of this agenda were more likely to have voted yes than people who do not. Economic and locational variables can be thought of as one major set of causes of the outcome of the referendum and attitudes to the cosmopolitan agenda as another. There is an overlap between the two sets but this overlap is only partial, and the effect of support for the cosmopolitan agenda is stronger than the effect of economic circumstances or region. The effect of trust is mid-way between the two major sets.
Supplementary document for Spectrally-tunable femtosecond single-molecule pump-probe spectroscopy - 5383803.pdf
Creators: name: Moya, Raymundo
name: Kondo, Toru
name: Norris, Audrey
name: Schlau-Cohen, Gabriela
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Derivation of fit function, additional data analysis and simulations
title: Nicht relevant? Abbauprodukte von Pflanzenschutzmitteln als Risiko für das Grundwasser
title: Not relevant? Degradation products of pesticides and their risk to groundwater
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Adlunger, Kirsten
name: Banning, Helena
name: Kuppe, Konstantin
name: Osterwald, Anne
name: Rauch, Mark
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022

description: Das Grundwasser in Deutschland genießt einen hohen gesetzlichen Schutz und hat überwiegend eine sehr gute Qualität. Signifikante Einträge von Pflanzenschutzmitteln ins Grundwasser werden nicht geduldet. Jedoch beobachtet das Umweltbundesamt (UBA) Lücken im Zulassungsverfahren und eine Verringerung des Schutzniveaus in der Praxis. Dies betrifft unter anderem bestimmte Abbauprodukte, sogenannte nicht relevante Metaboliten. Hinter dieser vermeintlich harmlosen und kaum beachteten Stoffgruppe verbergen sich oft umweltkritische Eigenschaften. Viele der Stoffe sind mobil und versickern leicht in das Grundwasser. Sie verbleiben teils lange in der Umwelt, können kaum aus dem Wasser entfernt werden und so auch ins Trinkwasser gelangen. Für den Naturhaushalt fehlt häufig das Wissen über langfristige Folgen. Um das Grundwasser dauerhaft zu schützen, braucht es Nach besserungen im Zulassungsverfahren, ambitionierte agrarpolitische Maßnahmen sowie einen Schulterschluss von Behörden, Politik und Zivilgesellschaft. Quelle: UMID : Umwelt und Mensch - Informationsdienst ; Umwelt & Gesundheit, Umweltmedizin, Verbraucherschutz / Boden- und Lufthygiene (Berlin) Institut für Wasser- - (2022), Heft 01, Seite 5
description: Groundwater in Germany is strictly protected by law and is mostly of very good quality. Significant entries of plant protection products into the groundwater are not tolerated. However, according to the German Environment Agency, there are gaps in the authorisation process and a decreasing level of protection. For Example, certain degradation products of pesticides, so-called non-relevant metabolites, often have environmentally critical prop erties. Many of these substances are highly mobile and easily leach into the groundwater. Some non-relevant metabolites remain in the environment for a very long time, can hardly be removed from the water and can thus also contaminate drinking water. There is often a lack of knowledge about long-term consequences for the natural environment. To contin uously protect our groundwater, improvements in the authorisation process, an ambitious agricultural policy and an alliance of authorities, politics and civil society are needed. Quelle: UMID : Umwelt und Mensch - Informationsdienst ; Umwelt & Gesundheit, Umweltmedizin, Verbraucherschutz / Boden- und Lufthygiene (Berlin) Institut für Wasser- - (2022), Heft 01, Seite 5
Reconstruction and Analysis of 3D Individualized Facial Expressions
Creators: name: Wang, Jing
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: facial expression
face modeling
expression analysis
face animation
computer graphics

description: This thesis proposes a new way to analyze facial expressions through 3D scanned faces of real-life people. The expression analysis is based on learning the facial motion vectors that are the differences between a neutral face and a face with an expression. There are several expression analysis based on real-life face database such as 2D image-based Cohn-Kanade AU-Coded Facial Expression Database and Binghamton University 3D Facial Expression Database. To handle large pose variations and increase the general understanding of facial behavior, 2D image-based expression database is not enough. The Binghamton University 3D Facial Expression Database is mainly used for facial expression recognition and it is difficult to compare, resolve, and extend the problems related detailed 3D facial expression analysis. Our work aims to find a new and an intuitively way of visualizing the detailed point by point movements of 3D face model for a facial expression. In our work, we have created our own 3D facial expression database on a detailed level, which each expression model has been processed to have the same structure to compare differences between different people for a given expression. The first step is to obtain same structured but individually shaped face models. All the head models are recreated by deforming a generic model to adapt a laser-scanned individualized face shape in both coarse level and fine level. We repeat this recreation method on different human subjects to establish a database. The second step is expression cloning. The motion vectors are obtained by subtracting two head models with/without expression. The extracted facial motion vectors are applied onto a different human subject’s neutral face. Facial expression cloning is proved to be robust and fast as well as easy to use. The last step is about analyzing the facial motion vectors obtained from the second step. First we transferred several human subjects’ expressions on a single human neutral face. Then the analysis is done to compare different expression pairs in two main regions: the whole face surface analysis and facial muscle analysis. Through our work where smiling has been chosen for the experiment, we find our approach to analysis through face scanning a good way to visualize how differently people move their facial muscles for the same expression. People smile in a similar manner moving their mouths and cheeks in similar orientations, but each person shows her/his own unique way of moving. The difference between individual smiles is the differences of movements they make.
Deregulation and unbundling: the link: how deregulation and unbundling have made the electricity industry re-focus their thinking
Creators: name: Rex, Judy
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper examines recent literature to give a background perspective on the link between deregulation and unbundling, using the electricity industry in Victoria (Australia) as an example. Deregulation generally results in increased competition in an industry. and unbundling occurs when the components of a provider's products and services are separated (unbundled) and available to the user. As a result of deregulation and unbundling, businesses need to understand more about their customers in order to differentiate themselves from their competitors by offering unique products and services. The electricity industry is undergoing deregulatory reform, and it serves as an interesting example to illustrate the processes.
Autonomy and the Future
Creators: name: Salvatori, Paul
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Autonomy
subject: Future
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Ethics
subject: Moral Responsibility
subject: Narrative
subject: Progressive Autonomy
subject: Strategic Moral Responsibility

description: This thesis introduces the idea of progressive autonomy, namely future-oriented self-governance, based on the pursuit of desired goals that one has established for oneself. As the thesis shows, focus on this sort of activity, as well as its value and importance, has been largely left out of the existing literature on autonomy. In contrast, this activity is central to progressive autonomy, which, as this thesis puts forth, enables the individual to actively determine the course of his life. Throughout the process, the individual is author of his own narrative, which, as the ongoing fulfillment of desired goals, he experiences as both meaningful and worthwhile. The thesis does not frame the narrative of the progressively autonomous individual as merely a story or an account of events. Rather, it does so as a sequence events the progressively autonomous individual is directly responsible for bringing about, as well as concretely situated in. He is, in other words, part and parcel of his narrative, as opposed to, say, a novelist who physically stands apart from the events he imagines and writes. Finally, the thesis demonstrates that, though the progressively autonomous individual is motivated by his own desires, he is more than just a pleasure seeker; he is strategically morally responsible. Such responsibility involves and is characterized by rejecting certain motives that undermine the actual achievement of desired goals, while affirming other motives that facilitate this achievement. This, as the thesis shows, renders the progressively autonomous individual more responsible than one who partakes in this rejection or affirmation, without regard to how either will impact one’s future.
Homophobia among Australian heterosexuals: the role of sex, gender role ideology, and gender role traits
Creators: name: Polimeni, Anne-Maree
name: Hardie, Elizabeth A.
name: Buzwell, Simone
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This study examined homophobia and gender roles in heterosexual Australian men (n = 42) and women (n = 67). No sex difference in general homophobia was found, however the men were more homophobic toward gay men than lesbians, whereas the women were more homophobic toward lesbians. Sex by Homophobia analyses revealed that both men and women in the low homophobia group held feminist gender role beliefs. Women in the high homophobia group also held feminist beliefs, however high homophobic men reported more traditional gender role beliefs, suggesting that beliefs about sexuality and gender roles are more closely linked for men than women. High and low homophobia groups reported similar levels of self-ascribed masculine traits, but differed on positive feminine traits. Both men and women in the low homophobia group reported similarly high levels of interpersonal qualities such as sensitivity to others’ needs, patience, loyalty, gentleness, and emotionality. While the link between gender role beliefs and homophobia requires further clarification, the promotion of ‘feminine’ traits as gender-neutral, socially valued qualities may help to reduce homophobia and other forms of prejudice.
Semantic transformations of words in solid poetic form
Creators: name: Gik, Anna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The work examines the principles of poetic grammar of Mikhail Kuzmin’s poem “I don’t believe the sun that is going down…” (1909). The poem is written in solid form - sextina (Italian: sestina). The classical sextina consists of six stanzas of six verses, with an orderly way of arranging words and unrhymed lines. The work of the Silver Age poet combines the techniques of solid form, according to which the final words of the first stanza are repeated in subsequent ones (sunset, decline, valley, death, ebb, loves), anaphora (I don’t believe the sun... / I don’t believe the summer.... / I don’t believe cloud, ....). We will analyze the semantics, grammar and style of the poem. Particular attention will be paid to semantic transformations of words that are used in positive and negative constructions: I don’t believe - I believe; I know - I don’t know. The main idea of the poem develops in the form of grammatical and lexical oppositions. Contextual antonyms and synonyms appear. In this work, Kuzmin develops the thought of I. Turgenev: Love ... is stronger than death: - Passion is stronger than death.
The Effectiveness of Sexual Harassment Law in Chile: From Theory to Practice
Creators: name: Casas Becerra, Lidia
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: legal effectiveness
gender
law
Latin America

description: This study examines the theoretical framework underlying Chilean legislation on sexual harassment in the workplace, notably to determine if the legislation has succeeded in uncovering and addressing the gender injustice and inequality involved in sexual harassment. This study further reviews whether the legislation adopted in 2005 is meeting its intended goal of protecting targets from harm by providing effective relief, penalizing perpetrators, and promoting adequate labour relations and climate. A combination of research methods were employed, notably a review of the legal scholarship, of Chile’s regulatory framework for sexual harassment, and of administrative and court system jurisprudence involving targets and perpetrators from the period prior to the enactment of the legislation in March 2005 through to October 2014. Quantitative sexual harassment data were drawn from a nationwide household survey conducted in 2011 by Proyecto Araucaria (“Research, Policy and Practice With Regard to Work-Related Mental Health Problems in Chile: A Gender Perspective”) The study also included interviews with key informants and focus groups with female workers. This study concludes that the debate between the equality versus protection of personal dignity paradigms is an abstract discussion not reflected in the practices of justice system actors, and that for the law to be effective, a sociopolitical and legal context facilitating recourse to it is required. Rather than considering only the formal resort to the relief provided in the law, it is crucial to examine the actual practices of individuals seeking to advance the protection of their rights.
Epidemiology of drug driving: protocol from a national Canadian study measuring levels of cannabis, alcohol and other substances in injured drivers
Creators: name: Masud, Manal
name: Chan, Herbert
name: Erdelyi, Shannon
name: Yuan, Yue
name: Brubacher, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: Drug driving is an emerging global road safety problem. As the prevalence of alcohol-impaired driving decreases, and as more jurisdictions decriminalize or legalize cannabis, it is increasingly important for policy makers to have accurate information on the prevalence and pattern of drug driving. Unfortunately, this data is not widely available and the World Health Organization identifies lack of accurate data on the prevalence of drug driving as an important knowledge gap. Methods: In this paper, we discuss the limitations of current methods of monitoring drug use in drivers. We then present a novel methodology from a multi-centre study that monitors the prevalence and pattern of drug use in injured drivers across Canada. This study uses “left-over” blood taken as part of routine medical care to quantify cannabis and other drugs in non-fatally injured drivers who present to participating emergency departments after a collision. Toxicology testing is done with waiver of consent as we have procedures that prevent results from being linked to any individual. These methods minimize non-response bias and have the advantages of measuring drug concentrations in blood obtained shortly after a collision. Discussion: Our methods can be applied in other jurisdictions and provide a consistent approach to collect data on drug driving. Consistent methods allow comparison of drug driving prevalence from different regions. Data from this research can be used to inform policies designed to prevent driving under the influence of cannabis and other impairing drugs.
Isolation of pathogenic bacteria and opportunistic pathogens from public telephones
Creators: name: Ferdinandus, Johlizanti
name: Hensckhe, Kylie
name: Palombo, Enzo
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A survey of 20 randomly selected public telephones in the central business district of Melbourne, Australia, revealed the presence of contaminating pathogenic bacteria and opportunistic pathogens. Bacteria were recovered from all telephones sampled: 40% were contaminated with coagulase-positive Staphylococcus aureus and 80% with lactose-fermenting and non-fermenting bacteria, indicating possible faecal contamination. Further identification revealed the presence of the following enteric and non-enteric bacteria: Acinetobacter anitratus, Enterobacter cloacae, Escherichia coli and Pantoea agglomerans (formerly Enterobacter agglomerans). A viridans Streptococcus, most probably from the 'S. mitis' group, was recovered from one of the telephones. All these bacteria are pathogens or opportunistic pathogens. Inoculation of one of the S. aureus isolates onto an inert plastic surface and incubation at room temperature indicated that, although a significant reduction in the recovery of viable bacteria was observed after one day, over 10% of bacteria survived for up to seven days. This was reduced to less than 5% survival after 14 days. Our results suggest that telephone surfaces may serve as potential reservoirs for the transmission of disease-causing bacteria.
RF Front-End Design for X Band using 0.15µm GaN HEMT Technology
Creators: name: Saha, Sumit
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: RF
Front-End
X band
5G
10 GHz
MMIC
LNA
PA
X band PA
X band LNA
SPDT
RF Front-End
Transciever
X band frontend
frontend

description: The primary reason for the wireless technology evolution is towards building capacity and obtaining higher data rates. Enclosed locations, densely populated campus, indoor offices, and device-to-device communication will require radios that need to operate at data rates up to 10 Gbps. In the next few years, a new generation of communication systems would emerge to better handle the ever-increasing demand for much wider bandwidth requirements. Simultaneously, key factors such as size, cost, and energy consumption play a distinctive role towards shaping the success of future wireless technologies. In the perspective of 3GPP 5G next generation wireless communication systems, the X band was explicitly targeted with a vast range of applications in point to point radio, point to multi point radio, test equipment, sensors and future wireless communication. An X-band RF front-end circuit for next generation wireless network applications is presented in this work. It details the design of a low noise amplifier and a power amplifier for X band operation. The designed amplifiers were integrated with a wideband single-pole-double-throw switch to achieve an overall front-end structure for 10 GHz. The design was carried out and sent for fabrication using a GaN 0.15µm process provided by NRC, a novel design kit. Due to higher breakdown voltage, high power density, high efficiency, high linearity and better noise performance, GaN HEMTs are a suitable choice for future wireless communication. Thus, the assumption is to further explore capabilities of this process in front-end design for future wireless communications.
Le confessioni religiose a Trieste: un confronto tra esperienze diverse
Creators: name: Frezza, Valentina
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: Il contributo è stato segnalato dalla Prof.ssa Maria Fausta  Maternini.SOMMARIO: 1. Osservazioni in merito ad un recente convegno - 2. Il contesto culturale e religioso nella città di Trieste - 3. La testimonianza della Chiesa Cristiana Avventista del Settimo Giorno - 4. La Comunità Evangelica Luterana triestina - 5. La Comunità Ebraica nell’esperienza delle città di Trieste e Lubiana - 6. Il Centro Buddhista tibetano “Sakya” - 7. L’Islam a Trieste – 8. La realtà cattolica - 9. Le Chiese ortodosse nella realtà locale.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 7 aprile
L’affaire di Scientology. La qualificazione in via giudiziaria di una confessione nel contesto ‘europeo’ della libertà di religione
Creators: name: Carobene, Germana
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Il caso della Chiesa di Scientology davanti alla Corte Europea dei diritti dell’uomo - 2. La particolare evoluzione dei rapporti potere politico - fenomeno religioso nella storia russa - 3. Scientology e le problematiche di identificazione di una ‘confessione religiosa’ - 4. I rilievi dei giudici europei: violazione della libertà religiosa e necessità di intervento nella domestic
jurisdiction.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 14 aprile
Ekosistem Keilmuan: Pandangan untuk Kota Makassar
Creators: name: Wekke, Ismail Suardi
name: Karim, Abdul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: kota Makassar
Makassar
ekosistem
keilmuan

description: Diskusi Terarah Kota Makassar, Rabu 9 September 2020.
Do Peripheral Thermoreceptors in the Abdomen Modify Human Sudomotor Responses?
Creators: name: Morris, Nathan B.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Thermoregulation
Abdominal thermoreceptors
Drink temperature
Sudomotor activity
Sudomotor control

description: Previous research has demonstrated that ingesting fluid of different temperatures results in different whole-body sweat losses (WBSL) and transient changes in local sweat rate (LSR) without any parallel differences in core or skin temperatures. The purpose of this thesis was to determine the potential location and relative contribution of gastrointestinal thermoreceptors that modify sudomotor activity. Eight participants cycled for 75 min while cold (1.5°C) and warm (50°C) water was either swilled in the mouth, or delivered directly to the stomach bypassing the mouth using a nasogastric tube, after 15, 30 and 45-min of exercise. Mouth-swilling warm or cold water did not alter sudomotor output, however delivering warm or cold water directly into the stomach led to a temperature-dependent change in sudomotor output, despite similar core and skin temperatures. These data indicate that thermoreceptors independently modulating sudomotor output probably reside within the abdominal area, but not the mouth.
Contracting for globalisation
Creators: name: Hayward, David
name: Aspin, Ron
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Demonstrating the failure of contracting out by looking at case studies involving large-scale programs: the contracting out of corrections and detention facilities and the privatisation of public transport systems - the effectiveness of the Victorian prison system has declined since the introduction of private operators - efficiency and cost-saving claims exaggerated - accountability has lessened - argument that contracting out has been necessary to make the public sector more efficient is not supported by evidence.
Motion Sensing Behaviour in Weakly Electric Fish
Creators: name: Young, Colleen
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: weakly electric fish
electrolocation
tracking
motion parallax

description: Weakly electric fish use of a self-generated electric field to probe their environment, this behaviour is known as electrolocation. This study investigated two aspects of electrolocation in two species of knifefish (Apteronotus leptorhynchus and Eigenmannia virescens). First, we characterized the ability to track moving objects and found that tracking performance did not differ among speeds tested in either species. Second, we characterized a motion-related cue for distance perception, similar to visual parallax, for which rapidly moving objects would be perceived as closer than slowly moving objects. During tracking experiments, the fish remained centered between the moving objects. We hypothesized that the fish use electrosensory parallax to perform this centering behaviour. Thus, we predicted that if one object moved slightly slower than the other, the fish would perceive the slower-moving object as farther away, and would move towards the slower object to remain “centered.” Indeed, our results supported our hypothesis with E. virescens moving towards the slower object to an extent that increased with the relative decrease in speed.
Plantes médicinales et aromatiques marocaines : opportunités et défis
Creators: name: َAbdelmalek El Meskaoui
name: Bousta, Dalila
name: Abdelkader Dahchour
name: Hassane Greche
name: Elhoussaine Harki
name: Farah, Abdellah
name: Ennabili, Abdeslam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 70304 Crop and Pasture Biomass and Bioproducts
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
subject: 70307 Crop and Pasture Post Harvest Technologies (incl. Transportation and Storage)
subject: 70502 Forestry Biomass and Bioproducts
subject: 70506 Forestry Product Quality Assessment

description: Dans ce papier nous relatons les principales conclusions retenues des visites d'un nombre d'unités de recherche sur les substances naturelles d'une part et de discussions menées avec des chercheurs éminents sur les PAM à J'échelle nationale d'autre part. Confrontées aux résultats du Premier Carrefour Recherche/Industrie, tenu à l'Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdel!ah (USMBA), Fès (EL MESKAOUI ET AL. 2005), ces conclusions nous permettent de découler sur des orientations stratégiques relatives à ce secteur.
A Study of the Perceived Outcomes of Participation in a Gatineau Park Interpretive Program
Creators: name: Padbury, Sarah A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Nature
Interpretation
Outcomes of Interpretation
Influence Behaviour
Environmental Literacy
Recreation Satisfaction
Interpretive Techniques

description: This study, patterned on Benton’s (2009) model of the four conceptions of interpretation which includes connecting visitors to resources through use of interpretive techniques, conveying mission and influencing behaviour, encouraging environmental literacy, and promoting recreational outcomes (modified from Benton’s use of tourism outcomes), took a comprehensive approach to examine the recreational and environmental outcomes of participation in interpretive programs at Gatineau Park (N = 78). The findings included significant correlations between the interpretive techniques and environmental literacy (n = 73, r = .711, p = .000), pro-environmental behavioural intentions (n = 70, r = .267, p = .025), and recreation satisfaction (n = 67, r = .419, p = .000) outcomes. There was also a significant correlation between recreation satisfaction and environmental literacy (n = 66, r = .518, p = .000). Path analysis indicated the direction of these relationships with environmental literacy directly influencing recreation satisfaction and interpretive techniques indirectly influencing recreation satisfaction through environmental literacy, revealing that environmental literacy mediated the relationship between the interpretive techniques used and recreation satisfaction.
Functional and Neurophysiological Correlates of Corticospinal Function in Human Aging
Creators: name: Davidson, Travis
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Corticospinal tract
Aging
Hand function
Neurophysiology

description: Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive technique that can be used to assess the integrity neuronal circuits in the motor cortex, both at the intrahemispheric and interhemispheric level. In the present study, TMS was used to examine age-related modulation of corticospinal function. Participants underwent hand function testing to examine possible links between TMS measures and manual ability. Participants consisted of healthy young (n=13) and senior (n=17) right-handed individuals. Hand function testing consisted of a battery of tests administered bilaterally to assess each participant’s dexterity, strength, movement speed and reaction time. The following TMS measures were assessed bilaterally: resting motor threshold, recruitment curve and silent periods of the contralateral and ipsilateral hand. Both young and senior subjects showed significant intermanual differences in most behavioral measures, favoring their dominant right hand. There was an age-related difference in TMS measures indicating a decline in intrahemispheric excitability and interhemispheric inhibition. A general trend linking specific TMS measures in the active state with age-related changes in hand function on the dominant hand was found. Our results suggest that TMS markers of corticospinal excitability can be used to predict declining hand function with age and thus could provide an early diagnosis of pathological aging.
Enhancement of LTE Radio Access Protocols for Efficient Video Streaming
Creators: name: Tirouvengadam, Balaaji
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: LTE
4G
Content Aware
Video streaming over LTE
H.264
AVC
HARQ
RLC
Radio access protocols
Wireless MAC
Radio Link Control
Hybrid ARQ

description: A drastic increase in traffic of mobile broadband is seen in the past few years, which is further accelerated by the increase in usage of smart phones and its applications. The availability of good smart phones and better data connectivity are encouraging mobile users to use video services. This huge increase in usage will pose a lot of challenges to the wireless networks. The wireless network has to become content aware in order to offer enhanced quality of video service through efficient utilization of the wireless spectrum. This thesis focuses on improving the Quality of Experience (QoE) for video transmission over Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks by imparting the content awareness to the system and providing unequal error protection for critical video packets. Two different schemes for the improvement of video quality delivery over LTE networks are presented in this thesis. Using content awareness, the retransmission count of Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) are changed dynamically such that the most important video frame gets more number of retransmission attempts, which increases its success for delivery in-turn increasing the received video quality. Since Radio Link Control (RLC) is the link layer for radio interface, the second approach focuses on optimizing this layer for efficient video transmission. As part of this scheme, a new operation mode called Hybrid Mode (HM) for RLC is defined. This mode performs retransmission only for the critical video frames, leaving other frames to unacknowledged transmission. The simulation results of both proposed schemes provide significant improvement in achieving good video quality without affecting the system performance.
MPEC 2025-J14 : 2025 HF23
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2025 HF23

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
The Downfall of The Ryerson Press
Creators: name: Bradley-St-Cyr, Ruth
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Canadian literature
Ryerson Press
United Church of Canada
Canadian publishing
McGraw-Hill
Curriculum
Observer
management

description: For 141 years, The Ryerson Press was both a cultural engine for and a reflection of Canadian society. Founded in 1829 as the Methodist Book Room, it was Canada’s first English-language book publisher and became the largest textbook publisher in Canada. Its contributions to Canadian literature, particularly under long-time editor Lorne Pierce, were considerable. In 1970, however, the press was sold to American branch plant McGraw-Hill, causing a cultural and nationalist crisis in the publishing community. The purpose of this thesis is to explanation many of the factors causing the United Church to sell the House. The purchase of an expensive and outdated printing press in 1962 has been blamed for the sale, as has the general state of Canadian publishing at the time. However, the whole story is much more complex and includes publication choices, personnel shifts, management failures, financial ruin, organizational politics, inflation, and the massive cultural shift of the late 1960s. Specifically, the thesis looks at the succession crisis that followed Lorne Pierce’s retirement, the Woods, Gordon Management Report, the New Curriculum, The United Church Observer, the practice of hiring ministers as managers, the formation of the Division of Communication, the proposed merger of the United Church of Canada with the Anglican Church of Canada, and falling church membership.
Supplementary document for Spectrally-tunable femtosecond single-molecule pump-probe spectroscopy - 5383803.pdf
Creators: name: Moya, Raymundo
name: Kondo, Toru
name: Norris, Audrey
name: Schlau-Cohen, Gabriela
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Derivation of fit function, additional data analysis and simulations
Real time edge detection implementation
Creators: name: Atashbar, Massood Zandi
name: Abdel-Qader, Ikhlas
name: Bab-Hadiashar, Alireza
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Edges are important features used in image processing in a wide range of applications. This paper will focus on segmentation operations for edge detection purposes. Java programming language has been employed and the results have been compared with the other available platforms. The results have demonstrated an easier and more efficient way compared to that of the conventional programming languages. Moreover, it is evident from our preliminary results that the performance of presented algorithms for image detection does not degrade when they are implemented in Java.
Street masking: a network-based geographic mask for easily protecting geoprivacy
Creators: name: Swanlund, David
name: Schuurman, Nadine
name: Zandbergen, Paul
name: Brussoni, Mariana
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: Geographic masks are techniques used to protect individual privacy in published maps but are highly under-utilized in research. This leads to continual violations of individual privacy, as sensitive health records are put at risk in unmasked maps. New approaches to geographic masking are required that foster accessibility and ease of use, such that they become more widely adopted. This article describes a new geographic masking method, called street masking, that reduces the burden on users of finding supplemental population data by instead automatically retrieving OpenStreetMap data and using the road network as a basis for masking. We compare it to donut geomasking, both with and without population density taken into account, to evaluate its efficacy against geographic masks that require slightly less and slightly more supplemental data. Our analysis is performed on synthetic data in three different Canadian cities. Results: Street masking performs similarly to population-based donut geomasking with regard to privacy protection, achieving comparable k-anonymity values at similar median displacement distances. As expected, distance-based donut geomasking performs worst at privacy protection. Street masking also performs very well regarding information loss, achieving far better cluster preservation and landcover agreement than population-based donut geomasking. Distance-based donut geomasking performs similarly to street masking, though at the cost of reduced privacy protection. Conclusion: Street masking competes with, if not out-performs population-based donut geomasking and does so without requiring any supplemental data from users. Moreover, unlike most other geographic masks, it significantly minimizes the risk of false attribution and inherently takes many geographic barriers into account. It is easily accessible for Python users and provides the foundation for interfaces to be built for non-coding users, such that privacy can be better protected in sensitive geospatial research.
Sospensione di potestà
Creators: name: Maternini, Maria Fausta
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: La voce è destinata alla pubblicazione, in lingua spagnola, nel Diccionario general de Derecho canónico edito dall’Instituto Martìn de Azpilcueta, Universidad de Navarra.SOMMARIO: 1. Il concetto di potestà nella Chiesa – 2. La sospensione di potestà quale atto amministrativo - 3. … in relazione al munus santificandi - 4. … in relazione alla potestà di magistero - 5 … in relazione alla potestà di governo.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 17 marzo
L’attualità dell’opera di Gaetano Catalano
Creators: name: Berlingò, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: Intervento al Convegno di studi “La dimensione giuridica della libertà religiosa” (Palermo, 11 marzo 2008).
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 25 marzo
Atti insanabili
Creators: name: Maternini, Maria Fausta
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: La voce è destinata alla pubblicazione, in lingua spagnola, nel Diccionario general de Derecho canónico edito dall’Instituto Martìn de Azpilcueta, Universidad de Navarra.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 25 marzo
Abrasive wear of railway track by solid contaminants
Creators: name: Grieve, D. G.
name: Dwyer-Joyce, R. S.
name: Beynon, John H.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The operation of railway track is likely to involve the presence of solid contaminants on the line at some stage. This may be from the dispersion of freight goods such as coal or minerals, or the presence of ballast stone thrown on to the track either by the passage of the train or during ballast cleaning operations. In addition, where a driver experiences low traction (particularly on steep or liquid-contaminated track), sand may be deliberately placed on the track surface to improve traction. Railway track in dessert areas is also known to suffer from severe wear induced by wind-borne sand particles. The effect of these contaminants is of concern since they may cause damage and accelerated wear of both track and wheel. This paper attempts to examine the effect of brittle contaminant materials on the wear of railway track. A series of small-scale laboratory experiments has been carried out in which crushed granite ballast is fed into a rolling-sliding contact. The level of surface damage is shown to be slight and generally insignificant when compared to normal rail roughness. However, the repeated entrainment of solid particles can lead to excessive wear. An attempt has been made to quantify this wear process and to develop a simple empirical model.
Religiosità umana, fenomeno religioso collettivo e Costituzione italiana
Creators: name: Tozzi, Valerio
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione – 2. Il fenomeno religioso nella Assemblea costituente e nella applicazione pratica dei principi costituzionali – 3. I rapporti Stato-confessioni religiose come sotto-sistema normativo nel più vasto ambito delle libertà delle formazioni sociali a carattere religioso – 4. Politicità  dell’attribuzione della qualifica di confessione religiosa – 5. Le … associazioni o istituzioni, a carattere ecclesiastico o con fine di religione e di culto … - 6. La categoria delle … formazioni sociali … a carattere religioso – 7. Erroneità del richiamo indifferenziato
alla categoria delle confessioni religiose per riferirsi a generi diversi e più vasti di soggetti collettivi a carattere religioso – 8. La legge quadro sulle libertà religiose.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 25 marzo
La libertà religiosa “organizzata” nella giurisprudenza della Corte europea dei diritti dell’uomo: prime linee di lettura.
Creators: name: Toscano, Marcello
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. Le decisioni della Commissione - 3. L’approccio sostanzialistico della Corte - 4. Qualche osservazione conclusiva.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 31 marzo
Il diritto di libertà religiosa nella cultura giuridica degli anni cinquanta. Riflessioni a proposito della ristampa della monografia del 1957 di Gaetano Catalano
Creators: name: Varnier, Giovanni B.
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Elementi di validità e cambiamenti dell’ultimo mezzo secolo - 2. Il diritto ecclesiastico in tema di libertà religiosa – 3. La dottrina – 4. Considerazioni attuali.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 21 aprile
Multi-factor Authentication Techniques for Video Applications over the Untrusted Internet
Creators: name: Abbadi, Laith
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: multimodal
biometric
security

description: Designing a completely secure and trusted system is a challenge that still needs to be addressed. Currently, there is no online system that is: (i) easy to use, (ii) easy to deploy, (iii) inexpensive, and (iv) completely secure and trusted. The proposed authentication techniques aim to enhance security and trust for video applications in the untrustworthy online environments. We propose a transparent multimodal biometric authentication (TMBA) for video conferencing applications. The user is identified based on his/her physiological and behavioral biometrics. The technique is based on a ‘Steps-Free’ method, where the user does not have to perform any specific steps during authentication. The system will authenticate the user in a transparent way. We propose authentication techniques as an additional security layer for various ‘user-to-user’ and ‘user-to-service’ systems. For ‘user-to-user’ video conferencing systems, we propose an authentication and trust establishment procedure to identify users during a video conference. This technique enables users that have never met before to verify the identity of each other, and aims at enhancing the user’s trust in each other. For ‘user-to-service’ video conferencing systems, we propose a transparent multimodal biometric authentication technique for video banking. The technique can be added to online transaction systems as an additional security layer to enhance the security of online transactions, and to resist against web attacks, malware, and Man-In-The-Browser (MITB) attacks. In order to have a video banking conference between a user and a bank employee, the user has to be logged in to an online banking session. This requires a knowledge-based authentication. Knowledge-based authentication includes a text-based password, the ‘Challenge Questions’ method, and graphical passwords. We analyzed several graphical password schemes in terms of usability and security factors. A graphical password scheme can be an additional security layer add-on to the proposed multimodal biometric video banking system. The combined techniques provide a multimodal biometric multi-factor continuous authentication system.
Diritto & Religione vs. "nuovi" paradigmi. Sondaggi per una teoria postclassica del Diritto Ecclesiastico civile.
Creators: name: Dieni, Edoardo
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: Pubblicato nella collana della Facoltà di Giurisprudenza dell'Università degli studi Milano-Bicocca, Milano Giuffrè, 2008.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 28 aprile
I contratti a contenuto patrimoniale nel diritto canonico
Creators: name: Nicolini, Emiliano
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: Il contributo è stato segnalato dal Prof. Vittorio Parlato, già ordinario di Diritto ecclesiastico nella Facoltà di Scienze politiche dell’Università degli Studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo”.SOMMARIO: 1. Il tema - 2. Il contratto di alienazione e la canonizzazione del diritto civile territoriale – 2.1. Gli atti di alienazione come atti di straordinaria amministrazione – 2.2. Tipi di rinvio al diritto civile territoriale, in specie italiano, e limiti - 2.3. I contratti in genere - 2.3.1. Criteri di collegamento con il diritto civile territoriale - 2.4. – I criteri di collegamento con il diritto civile territoriale nei contratti ‘in specie’ - 3. Le condizioni di validità e liceità della fattispecie alienatoria – 3.1. L’alienazione  canonicamente invalida - 3.2. L’applicazione del limite del diritto divino - 4. La prescrizione.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2011: 2 maggio
Building multi-device, component-based, thin-client groupware: issues and experiences
Creators: name: Grundy, John
name: Wang, Xing
name: Hosking, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The use of groupware, or collaborative work-supporting technologies, has become wide-spread, but many existing groupware systems are too difficult to integrate with domain-specific software applications, only work for specific user interface hardware, or provide inappropriate, thick-client architectural solutions. We describe a set of server-side software components we have developed providing a variety of thin-client groupware solutions (chat, email, annotation, to-do lists, notification etc). These components provide HTML and WML-based thinclient user interfaces and can be readily 'plugged into' the server-side architectures of domain-specific applications. We focus on the key issues of designing and realising the user interfaces for such groupware solutions and report on our experiences to date.
“Prolungata convivenza” oltre le nozze e mancata “delibazione” della sentenza ecclesiastica di nullità matrimoniale (brevi note a Cass. civ., sez. I, sent. 20 gennaio 2011, n. 1343)
Creators: name: Pasquali Cerioli, Jlia
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: SOMMARIO: 1. I fatti e il processo – 2. La sentenza – 3. Una decisa svolta giurisprudenziale – 4. Difficoltà applicative – 5. (segue…) incerti futuri scenari - 6. Brevi conclusioni: la rinnovata vitalità del limite di ordine pubblico.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2011: 2 maggio