cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
ПРИНЦИПЫ СОЗДАНИЯ АВТОМАТИЗИРОВАННЫХ СИСТЕМ УПРАВЛЕНИЯ МЕЛИОРАТИВНЫМ РЕЖИМОМ АГРОЭКОСИСТЕМ
Creators: name: Юрченко Ирина Федоровна
Publisher: name: International   Agricultural   Journal
Year: 2020
Subjects: принципы
создание
автоматизированные системы управления
мелиоративный режим
агроэкосистема

description: В статье рассматриваются современные реалии и перспективы совершенствования автоматизированных систем управления комплексными мелиорациями. Цель работы заключается в исследовании принципов создания и требований к автоматизации управления мелиоративным режимом агроэкосистем, обеспечивающего поддержание оптимальной траектории изменения многофакторной среды роста и развития растений. Выполнен информационно – аналитический анализ перспективных технологий агропроизводства, на основе которого определены понятия и установлена сущность :мелиоративного режима и автоматизированных систем управления агроэкосистемами; определены ключевые принципы и требования к разработке последних. Охарактеризованы система регулирования режима комплексной мелиорации агроэкосистемы, как объекта управления и комплекс задач решаемых автоматизированной системой управления, обусловившие формирование принципов разработки последней. В составе принципиальных требований к формированию АСУ мелиоративным режимом агроэкосистем выделе-ны общие принципы автоматизации управления, которым должна соответствовать разрабатываемая АСУ и специализированные принципы, присущие указанному классу систем. Описаны подходы к выбору стратегии систематизированной автоматизации агротехнологий и ее возможные формы. Показана роль инфраструктуры объекта управления в разработке АСУ. Выявлена необходимость при создании последних учета предыдущего опыта по разра-ботке систем управления мелиорацией, таких как совершенные исполнитель-ные устройства, регулирующие водный, тепловой режимы и режим питания; локальные устройства и системы автоматизации; телеметрические системы централизованного мониторинга и управления и т.д., а также современные методы ведения сельского хозяйства, например, адаптивноландшафтного земледелия. Эффективности становления автоматизации и цифровизации управления мелиоративным режимом агроэкосистем в большой мере способствует разработка АСУ на основе теоретически обоснованных и практически проверенных опытом эксплуатации унифицированных и систематизированных принципов, основные положения которых представлены в настоя-щей статье.
Commercialization of new knowledge within universities: exploring performance disparities
Creators: name: Moroz, Peter
name: Hindle, Kevin
name: Anderson, Robert
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper presents an exploratory study of the knowledge transfer performance of public research universities. Data on commercialization outputs were obtained from a comprehensive survey of licensing activities (AUTM, 2003) and scrutinized via a series of non-inferential statistical techniques for patterns that might provide insight into a conceptual framework of innovation developed by the authors. The findings reveal a strong pattern. Close examination of three measures of commercialization performance – disclosures, licenses and startups - indicates that vast disparities exist between a small percentage of high performing universities, and the remaining bulk of under-performers. The gap detected between high performing and low performing universities becomes considerably wider when outcomes in the form of revenues generated from aggregate licensing agreements are calculated for the high-performance universities. These discoveries have significant consequences. First, high performing universities attract resources, both human and financial, with a much stronger pull than lower performing universities. Second, this study confronts a gap in the literature with regard to the prominence of entrepreneurship within the innovation process. The disruptive push/pull factors discovered in this study suggest that an important component of innovation – entrepreneurial capacity – is not given sufficient attention. Third, this study brings new light to bear on the reliability and validity of evaluative tools (variables) currently accepted as indicators of innovation in the university commercialization context. The findings combined with the author’s conceptual framework of innovation indicate that new pathways of research using better performance indicators can and should be found.
Ökologisch nachhaltige Nutzung mit hohen Umweltstandards in der Arktis - Umweltleitlinien deutscher Arktispolitik
Creators: name: Riedel, Arne
name: Bach, Inga
name: Abhold, Katrina
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2019
Subjects: Meereis
Marines Ökosystem
Lebensqualität
Fischerei
Rohstoffgewinnung

description: Die arktische Umwelt ist vielen Einflüssen ausgesetzt, die ihren Fortbestand bedrohen: Der Klimawandel und seine Folgen stellen bereits jetzt viele Ökosysteme vor große Herausforderungen. Wirtschaftliche Aktivitäten in der Region, wie Fischerei, Schifffahrt, Abbau und Transport von Rohstoffen sowie Tourismus, erhöhen den Druck auf die Umwelt zusätzlich. Die Anstrengungen für einen ambitionierten Umweltschutz in der Arktis müssen weltweit - und auch von nicht-arktischen Staaten - gesteigert werden, um sie zu erhalten. Dieser Forschungsbericht führt Ergebnisse des UBA-Vorhabens zu "Umweltleitlinien deutscher Arktispolitik" zusammen. Er zeigt mögliche Ansatzpunkte des deutschen Umweltressorts auf, den Umweltschutz in der Arktis auch aus der Position eines nicht-arktischen Staats zu fördern. Der Bericht beschreibt zudem die Aktivitäten des Vorhabens, die das Bewusstsein in der Öffentlichkeit dafür steigern sollten, dass wichtige Verbindungen zwischen Deutschland und der Arktis bestehen. Dazu zählen unter anderem ein Erklärfilm und eine öffentliche Veranstaltung. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: The Arctic environment faces many influences that threaten its very existence: climate change and its impacts already present challenges for many ecosystems. Economic activities within the region, as fisheries, shipping, mining and transport of resources as well as tourism, add to the pressures on the environment. All states - including non-Arctic states - need to raise their ambitions for environmental protection in the Arctic to maintain its current situation. This research report contains the results of the UBA-project "Environmental guidelines of a German Arctic policy". It highlights several starting points for the German environmental department to foster environmental protection in the Arctic, even from a non-Arctic state´s point of view. The report also describes the activities undertaken within the project to raise awareness with the general public on existing links between Germany and the Arctic. Those activities include inter alia an explanatory video and a public event. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
АНАЛИЗ ГИПЕРБОЛИЧЕСКИХ УРАВНЕНИЙ ДЛЯ ОЦЕНКИ ГИДРАВЛИЧЕСКИХ РИСКОВ
Creators: name: Александров Даниил Александрович
name: Вербицкий Артем Юрьевич
name: Владимиров Станислав Алексеевич
name: Приходько Игорь Александрович
Publisher: name: International   Agricultural   Journal
Year: 2020
Subjects: уравнение мелкой воды
моделирование
гипербо-лические уравнения
сохранение окружающей среды

description: Уравнения мелкой воды описывают тонкий слой жидкости постоянной плотности в гидростатическом равновесие, ограниченное снизу рельефом дна и сверху свободной поверхностью. Они обладают богатым разнообразием свойств, поскольку имеют бесконечно много законов сохранения. Распространение цунами можно точно описать уравнениями мелкой воды пока вол-на не приблизится к берегу. Уравнения мелкой воды часто используются для моделирования как океанографических, так и атмосферных потоков жидкости. Численное моделирование двухмерных мелких течений со сложной геометрией, включающей нестационарные потоки и подвижные границы, стало проблемой для исследователей в последние годы. Существует широкий спектр физических ситуаций, представляющих интерес для окружающей среды, таких как течение в открытых каналах и реках, моделирование цунами и наводнений, которые могут быть математически представлены нелинейными системами уравнений. Модели таких систем позволяют прогнозировать районы, которые в конечном итоге пострадают от загрязнения, береговой эрозии и таяния полярных ледников. Комплексное моделирование таких явлений с использованием физических описаний, таких как уравнения Навье-Стокса, часто может быть проблематичным из-за масштаба областей моделирования, а также выделения свободных поверхностей. Целью настоящей работы является выведение и анализ вычислительных гиперболических уравнений в частных производных, называемых уравнениями мелкой воды, которые описывают недисперсионные волны, часто применяемых для моделирования физических явлений в области гидродинамики, внедряемых в математические модели для последующей реализации возможностей компьютерного моделирования и прогнозирования. С помощью данных исследований решается задача по математическому моделированию Волны Кельвина и Россби не только озерах и реках, но и океанах. Также имеется возможность рассмотрения частных случаев данного явления для бассейнов, а также с помощью выведенных уравнений имеется возможность моделирования приливов. В статье выведены полностью нелинейные уравнения мелкой воды (и их линеаризованный аналог). Эти уравнения также поддаются дискретизации по вертикали.
Research Integrity in the UK: Annual Statement 2024
Creators: name: UK Committee on Research Integrity
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This is the second annual statement produced by the UK Committee on Research Integrity.Research carried out with integrity supports trust in research processes and outcomes. Everyone working in research has responsibility to uphold principles of integrity: rigour, transparency and open communication, honesty, care and respect, and accountability.

The Committee's 2024 statement describes the overall health of integrity in our UK research system. UK research integrity is strong, but there is no room for complacency. Therefore, every research-performing organisation should retain and enhance focus on integrity so that this strength continues. The statement recommends actions that organisations and individuals can take to do so.

The statement also describes current UK practice through attention to the principles of research integrity, followed by a spotlight section sets out our current work on indicators of research integrity, research misconduct processes, and AI. These are complemented by new analysis of international data on retraction of scientific publications, and analysis of material from the UK’s Culture, Employment and Development of Academic Researchers Survey. 

Committee membership at time of publication: Andrew George (co-chair), Chris Graf, Ian Gilmore, Jane Alfred, Jeremy Watson, Jil Matheson, Louise Dunlop, Maria Delgado, Miles Padgett, Nandini Das, Rachael Gooberman-Hill (co-chair), Ralitsa Madsen.
Applications of Pulsed Light Decontamination Technology in Food Processing: An Overview
Creators: name: Mandal, Ronit
name: Mohammadi, Xanyar
name: Wiktor, Artur
name: Singh, Anika
name: Pratap-Singh, Anubhav
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Consumers of the 21st century tend to be more aware and demand safe as well as nutritionally balanced food. Unfortunately, conventional thermal processing makes food safe at the cost of hampering nutritional value. The food industry is trying to develop non-thermal processes for food preservation. Pulsed light (PL) is one such emerging non-thermal food processing method that can decontaminate food products or food contact surfaces using white light. Exposure to intense light pulses (in infrared, visible, and ultraviolet (UV) regions) causes the death of microbial cells, rendering the food safe at room temperature. PL technology is an excellent and rapid method of disinfection of product surfaces and is increasingly being used for food surfaces and packaging decontamination, enabling the minimal processing of food. This paper aims to give an overview of the latest trends in pulsed light research, discuss principles of pulse generation, and review applications of various PL systems for the inactivation of microorganisms in vitro, in various food products, and on food contact surfaces. Effects of PL on food quality, challenges of the process, and its prospects are presented.
Golden Dawn and Front National: A Comparison of Ideological Discourse
Creators: name: Triantafillou, George
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Radical Right
Extreme Right
Politics
Front National
Golden Dawn
Far Right
Nationalism
Europe
European
Ideology
Discourse
Greece
France
Fascism
Comparative
Immigration
Authoritarianism
Democracy

description: The literature has lacked a comparative analysis into Greece's Far Right party, Golden Dawn's, (GD) ideological discourse. The Far Right party is the most extreme in the Greek Parliament, promoting an ultra-nationalist agenda and being accused of operating as a terrorist organisation by the state. Looking at characteristics such as nationalism, euroscepticism and authoritarianism, this thesis compares GD to the prototypical radical right party, Front National (FN), and predicts that they will be more radical in every aspect of their discourse. In addition, it seeks to fit them within a party classification.
Design between, across and beyond disciplines
Creators: name: Tunstall, Dori
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Cross-cultural design, design for development, social design, and design and politics are areas into which design is expanding its reach. Anthropological and design thinking are converging as design expands its intentional impact on the world. Buckminster Fuller once said that the best way to predict the future is to design it. Tunstall believes that anthropology provides the social and cultural understanding to ensure that designing the future has more positive outcomes than negative ones for the people affected. Tunstall will present an engaging insight into how design and anthropology operates between, across and beyond disciplines in order to create a unity of knowledge about the present world. At Cumulus she will work with contemporary circus arts group, A4 Circus Ensemble, to perform the trans-disciplinary benefits of design and anthropology's interactions.
Milligan's Accordion: The Distortion of Time and Space in 'The Goon Show'
Creators: name: Cousins, Richard J.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Milligan, Spike
comedy
radio

description: Spike Milligan has had an undisputable influence on English-language comedy in the past half-century. Monty Python’s Terry Jones cites the “free-wheeling fantasy world” Milligan created for the surreal radio series The Goon Show as the chief inspiration for his own group’s more internationally-famous work. However, Milligan’s writing for The Goon Show, which first aired between 1951 and 1960 displays a depth beyond “the confidence to be silly” noted by Python’s Michael Palin. Milligan’s scripts reveal a deliberate, if not wholly conscious, rejection of the laws of causality and probability, through frequent and systematic distortions of time and space. The fictional world revealed in The Goon Show’s corpus of half-hour stories is one in which concepts relating to time and space lack the fixed meanings that we attach to them in everyday life. Temporal and spatial relationships are fluid and indeterminate: boundaries between different times and different spaces can dissolve, allowing mutually inconsistent chronologies and scales of size and distance to coexist. The world-view underlying this is governed by an inversion of the generally-agreed-upon relationship between observable phenomena and individual perception. Rather than using the outside world as a source of data from which to construct models of ‘objective’ reality, Milligan allows his characters’ own words to modify the given conditions of any situation. This quasi-magical principle of storytelling mirrors cognitive strategies used by children in their primary-school years to grasp and describe the complexities of time and space. Childlike and lighthearted as it often is, The Goon Show’s twisting of time and space has a parallel to some highly complex ‘grown-up’ thinking. Its implicit rejection of the self-evidence of the fundamental laws of Newtonian physics recalls more than just the challenge to these laws provided by relativity and quantum mechanics. It also anticipates, by a full generation, the skeptical stance towards the self-evidence of immutable laws which forms the cornerstone of postmodern critiques of all fields of endeavour. The Goon Show reveals Spike Milligan to be an unsung visionary: always striding into unknown conceptual territory, he let his scripts, rather than a body of theoretical work, articulate his vision. Milligan’s comedic touch and his inimitable strangeness have led him to be appreciated, rather than studied. The ways in which The Goon Show turns time and space inward on themselves demonstrate, however, that the First Mover Unmoved in the mad universe of Goonery was an artistic and intellectual force to be reckoned with. Further study of Spike Milligan can only to lead to a greater appreciation of how far ahead of his time he truly was.
Difference in Regeneration Conditions in Pinus ponderosa Dominated Forests in Northern California, USA, over an 83 Year Period
Creators: name: Nepal, Sushil
name: Eskelson, Bianca N. I.
name: Ritchie, Martin W.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Forest inventories based on field surveys can provide quantitative measures of regeneration such as density and stocking proportion. Understanding regeneration dynamics is a key element that supports silvicultural decision-making processes in sustainable forest management. The objectives of this study were to: (1) describe historical regeneration in ponderosa pine dominated forests by species and height class, (2) find associations of regeneration with overstory, soil, and topography variables, (3) describe contemporary regeneration across various management treatments, and (4) compare differences in regeneration between historical and contemporary forests. The study area, a ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosae Dougl. ex P. and C. Law) dominated forest, is located within the Blacks Mountain Experimental Forest (BMEF) in northeastern California, United States, which was designated as an experimental forest in 1934. We used 1935 and 2018 field surveyed regeneration data containing information about three species—ponderosa pine, incense-cedar (Calocedrus decurrens (Torr.) Florin) and white fir (Abies concolor (Grod. and Glend)—and four height classes: class 1: 0–0.31 m, class 2: 0.31–0.91 m, class 3: 0.91–1.83 m, and class 4: >1.83 m and <8.9 cm diameter at breast height. We used stocking as proxy for regeneration density in this study. We found that historically, stocking in the BMEF was dominated by shade-intolerant ponderosa pine in height classes 2 and 3. Two variables—overstory basal area per hectare (m² ha⁻¹ ) and available water capacity at 150 cm, which is the amount of water that is available for plants up to a depth of 150 cm from the soil surface—were significantly associated with stocking, and a beta regression model fit was found to have a pseudo-R² of 0.49. We identified significant differences in contemporary stocking among six management scenarios using a Kruskal–Wallis non-parametric one-way ANOVA. Control compartments had the highest stocking followed by burned compartments. In contemporary forest stands, recent treatments involving a combination of burning and thinning resulted in high stocking in height classes 2 and 3. Overall, the stocking in historical BMEF stands was higher than in contemporary stands and was dominated by ponderosa pine.
A consensus based vulnerability assessment to climate change in Germany
Creators: name: Greiving, Stefan
name: Schauser, Inke
name: Zebisch, Marc
name: Schneiderbauer, Stefan
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Resilienz
Verkehr
Anpassungsfähigkeit
Vulnerabilitätsanalyse

description: Purpose This paper aims to propose a collaborative approach toward an integrated vulnerability assessment to climate change in Germany that attempts to bridge the gap between scientific output and policy demand. Design/methodology/approach Conceptually, the approach follows the definition of vulnerability as used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, but it has modified this basic concept. It clearly distinguishes between three time slices (presence, near and remote future) not only regarding the change in the climatic conditions but also socio-economic development trends. Findings The paper concentrates on the selected methodological framework, the collaborative research design and those preliminary results of the nationwide vulnerability assessment that are transferable to other settings. Practical implications A Vulnerability Network (̮Netzwerk VulnerabilitaetŁ) emerged from an applied research project commissioned under the Adaptation Action Plan of the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety and the Federal Environment Agency. The assessment serves as evidence basis for the implementation of the German Adaptation Strategy. Thus, all relevant federal authorities and agencies are represented in the Vulnerability Network. Originality/value The approach is the first really integrative vulnerability assessment for the whole Germany, as it considers not only 16 sectors but also interconnections between these sectors and cumulative effects for three different time slices. Moreover, the normative component of the assessment was clearly separated from the analytic one. The Vulnerability Network as a whole has been responsible for all normative decisions to be taken during the assessment procedure thus ensuring a wide understanding and acceptance of commonly achieved results. Quelle: http://www.emeraldinsight.com
Israeli-Palestinian Spiral: Compliance and Silence of Political Opinions in the Canadian Print Media
Creators: name: Jennings, Michelle
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Spiral of Silence
Critical Discourse Analysis
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Canadian Print Media
Right to Communicate
Orientalism

description: The news media serve as the Canadian public’s main source of information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This thesis examines the ways in which the Canadian media portray the conflict, through a lens of Habermas’ (1962) public sphere theory, Foucault’s (1926 – 1984) ideas on discourse, and Rawls’ (1921 – 2002) conceptions of equality and justice. Building on these theories, Noelle-Neumann’s Spiral of Silence theory (1974), Said’s Orientalism (1978), and d’Arcy’s (1913 – 1983) conception of the right to communicate are examined to arrive at a framework for analyzing Canadian news. Looking at ideological representations, power manifestations, issue framing, and social responsibility within the media, this thesis explores whether the Canadian media portray the conflict in such a way that fosters a downward spiral of opinions within the Canadian public. A Critical Discourse Analysis of coverage in two national English Canadian newspapers, The Globe and Mail and the National Post, during three separate timeframes of increased violence in Israel and Palestine between 2000 and 2009 reveals that newspaper representations of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are often entrenched in predefined ways of portraying the Other, fostering an Israeli-Palestinian spiral of silence in Canadian media.
Examining Perceived Barriers to Physical Activity for Middle-Aged and Older Adults Using an Ecological Framework
Creators: name: Carey, Stacie C.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: social ecological theory
middle-aged and older adults
barriers
physical activity

description: This investigation, comprising two studies, examined the number of barriers to physical activity (Study 1) and barrier strength (Study 2) reported by middle-aged and older adults using a social ecological framework (McLeroy et al., 1988). Researchers were interested in assessing age group (45-54; 55-64; 65-74 yrs) by physical activity group (active, less active) effects for barrier responses using analyses of variance. In Study 1, 180 participants completed a physical activity level survey (Godin & Shephard, 1985) and answered open-ended questions about barriers. Results indicated that 45-54 yr-olds reported more barriers overall, and more intrapersonal barriers than older groups. Less active 45-54 yr-olds reported more organizational-interpersonal barriers than the other groups. Descriptive analyses of coded themes demonstrated that common intrapersonal barrier sub-themes cited by younger adults related to family commitments, while sub-themes reported by middle-aged and older adults related to having a health problem or an injury. In the organizational-interpersonal category, the most common barrier sub-theme related to the workplace. In Study 2, 116 participants completed a survey assessing weekly physical activity and barrier strength for items pertaining to ecological categories and barrier sub-factors. Results showed that less active adults reported each of intrapersonal, interpersonal, and physical environment barriers more strongly than active adults, irrespective of age; the intrapersonal category was relatively the most constraining for our participants. In terms of barrier sub-factors, results showed that significantly higher barrier strength scores are most often associated with physical activity level (i.e., less active), and only occasionally associated with age group. The overall investigation can provide valuable information for improving physical activity interventions for middle-aged and older adults.
Treatment of printing ink wastewater using high liquid carryover mode function
Creators: name: Ang, Choon Jek
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The aim of this project is to investigate the feasibility of the use of a novel process of high liquid carryover (HLC) mode flotation to treat wastewater from a cardboard printing and coating plant. This is conducted by characterising the process conditions with the purpose of achieving a set condition that have a low susceptibility to variability in the wastewater composition. Information pertaining to the surface and physical characteristics of the solid contained in the wastewater sample were used to explain the flotation outcomes. Fe(II) was found to be more suited for industrial use as coagulant over the more commonly known coagulants, Al(III) and Fe(III), as it has the advantages of having a constant optimum flotation pH (6.5) regardless of wastewater characteristics, as well as having a much lower detrimental effect on the flotation outcome when present in excess of the minimum requirement for flocculation of wastewater solids. This allows the setting of a coagulant dose (5 mM) that will treat both high and low solids content wastewater samples. The use of cationic surfactant (CTAB) was found to require lower coagulant dosages compared to those required for anionic (SDS) or non-ionic (TericG12A8) surfactants in order to achieve good flotation outcomes. A CTAB concentration of 300 ppm was required to achieve a stable foam that can sustain for a prolonged period to allow solid (in foam)/liquid separation. The optimum batch mode conditions for HLC flotation were found to be pH 6.5, 5 mM Fe(II) and 300 ppm CTAB. This was found to correspond to a small and negative electrophoretic mobility at the wastewater solid surface and large floc size. Batch mode flotation of individual ink components under the optimum conditions for industrial wastewater treatment revealed that the presence of large quantities of either blue or yellow inks in the wastewater can lead to poor removal. Their combined presence, however, did not have detrimental effects. Continuous mode flotation at 5 mM Fe(II), 300 ppm CTAB and pH 6.5 was found to remove above 96% of contaminants at cell residence times of 6 minutes and 88% of contaminants at cell residence times of 1.5 minute. Greater than 87% of the initial wastewater volumes were recovered as treated effluent (i.e. < 13% disposed as waste foam sludge), yielding a waste foam sludge containing between 12 and 17% solids. The best flotation outcomes were achieved when all the wastewater volume entering the flotation cell leaves the cell with the foam.
title: Responsible mining? Challenges, perspectives and approaches
title: Responsible mining? Challenges, perspectives and approaches
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Rüttinger, Lukas
name: Scholl, Christine
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Bergbau
subject: Sorgfaltspflicht
subject: Responsible mining
subject: Environmental and social standards
subject: due diligence
subject: conflict minerals
subject: policy recommendations
subject: raw materials
subject: Waste | Resources

description: The first stage of the project involved analysing and documenting the impacts of raw material production on the environment, society and the economy, using 13 case studies on the metals gold, copper, aluminium, rare earth elements and tin. The goal of the case studies was to gain a better understanding of the connections between the environmental and social impacts of producing different metals in the context of various countries with various problems. Particularly relevant and representative cases (mines, countries) were selected according to a set of criteria in order to cover the broadest and most balanced spectrum possible of potential negative environmental and social impacts as well as a range of governance contexts. This provided a basis for analysing 42 standards and approaches - either existing or under development - which aim to improve the environmental and social conditions in the mining sector. The goal of this analysis was to assess the impact of standards, to pinpoint specific strengths and weaknesses and to identify lessons learned and best practices. These findings were used to develop specific policy recommendations to improve environmental and social standards. Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: The first stage of the project involved analysing and documenting the impacts of raw material production on the environment, society and the economy, using 13 case studies on the metals gold, copper, aluminium, rare earth elements and tin. The goal of the case studies was to gain a better understanding of the connections between the environmental and social impacts of producing different metals in the context of various countries with various problems. Particularly relevant and representative cases (mines, countries) were selected according to a set of criteria in order to cover the broadest and most balanced spectrum possible of potential negative environmental and social impacts as well as a range of governance contexts. This provided a basis for analysing 42 standards and approaches – either existing or under development – which aim to improve the environmental and social conditions in the mining sector. The goal of this analysis was to assess the impact of standards, to pinpoint specific strengths and weaknesses and to identify lessons learned and best practices. These findings were used to develop specific policy recommendations to improve environmental and social standards.
Assessing the Healthcare and Harm Reduction Needs Among Women and Men Who Smoke Crack Cocaine
Creators: name: Smith, Kathryn
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Crack cocaine
Health service access
HIV transmission prevention
HCV transmission prevention
Harm reduction

description: This thesis was undertaken to assess the characteristics of individuals who smoke crack cocaine and to examine the health-related risks and healthcare needs of this population. A literature review of 147 published articles was conducted to synthesize evidence regarding behaviours associated with crack use and to assess the risks of disease transmission through crack smoking behaviours. Qualitative interviews were subsequently conducted with thirty Ottawa residents who smoke crack to learn about their experiences with healthcare and harm reduction services. Results identified barriers related to accessing primary healthcare and drug treatment programming among people who smoke crack and gaps within existing harm reduction services. Individuals who smoke crack represent a marginalized population who are often missed through traditional health promotion and harm reduction programming. There is a need for increased coverage of current programming and a reduction of factors which currently hinder the delivery and effectiveness of crack-specific harm reduction programs.
Generating futures
Creators: name: Hayward, Peter
name: Voros, Joseph
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This session will demonstrate a 'new' futures methodology through experiential learning for all attendees and participants. This methodology was developed through the teaching program at the Australian Foresight Institute. Based upon the theory of P.R. Sarkar and the writing of Sohail Inayatullah, the Sarkar Game allows the existing cultural scripts of all individuals to be 'played' out in a present-based social drama. The game also demonstrates a meta-perspectival role that attempts to generate the futures that transcend the present-based drama. The Sarkar Game is also an article-in-press for a special issue of the journal, Futures.
Translators in the Loop: Observing and Analyzing the Translator Experience with Multimodal Interfaces for Interactive Translation Dictation Environment Design
Creators: name: Zapata Rojas, Julian
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: translation technology
multimodal interaction
human-computer interaction
human-information interaction
user experience
voice recognition

description: This thesis explores interactive translation dictation (ITD), a translation technique that involves interaction with multimodal interfaces equipped with voice recognition (VR) technology throughout the entire translation process. Its main objective is to provide a solid theoretical background and an analysis of empirical qualitative and quantitative data that demonstrate ITD’s advantages and challenges, with a view to integrating this technique into the translation profession. Many empirical studies in human-computer interaction have strived to demonstrate the efficiency of voice input versus keyboard input. Although it was implicit in the earliest works that voice input was expected to completely replace—rather than complement—text-input devices, it was soon proposed that VR often performed better in combination with other input modes. This study introduces multimodal interaction to translation, taking advantage of the unparallelled robustness of commercially available voice-and-touch-enabled multimodal interfaces such as touch-screen computers and tablets. To that end, an experiment was carried out with 14 professional English-to-French translators, who performed a translation task either with the physical prototype of an ITD environment, or with a traditional keyboard-and-mouse environment. The hypothesis was that the prototypical environment would consistently provide translators with a better translator experience (TX) than the traditional environment, considering the translation process as a whole. The notion of TX as introduced in this work is defined as a translator’s perceptions of and responses to the use or anticipated use of a product, system or service. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected using different methods, such as video and screen recording, input logging and semi-structured interviews. The combined analysis of objective and subjective usability measures suggests a better TX with the experimental environment versus the keyboard-and-mouse workstation, but significant challenges still need to be overcome for ITD to be fully integrated into the profession. Thus, this doctoral study provides a basis for better-grounded research in translator-computer interaction and translator-information interaction and, more specifically, for the design and development of an ITD environment, which is expected to support professional translators’ cognitive functions, performance and well-being. Lastly, this research aims to demonstrate that translation studies research, and translation technology in particular, needs to be more considerate of the translator, the TX, and the changing realities of the interaction between humans, computers and information in the twenty-first century.
Supplementary document for Designing robust diffractive neural networks with improved transverse shift tolerance - 7464681.pdf
Creators: name: Soshnikov, Daniil
name: Doskolovich, Leonid
name: Motz, Georgy
name: Byzov, Egor
name: Bezus, Evgeni
name: Bykov, Dmitry
name: Kazanskiy, Nikolay
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document.
The Experiences of Professional Moroccan Women in the Canadian Job Market
Creators: name: Kaddouri, Kaoutar
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Non-recognition of Foreign Credentials
Brain Drain
Quebec
Moroccan Women
Skilled Immigration
Labour Market

description: In Canada, the non-recognition of foreign credentials remains a considerable policy issue as well as a challenge for skilled immigrants. Many studies have shed light on the difficulties that foreign professionals face when seeking a placement in the Canadian job market. This thesis focused on the experiences of professional women from Morocco on the basis of the premise that every racialized group’s immigration experience deserves a space in the literature to voice their realities and inspire policy considerations. As a result, this study focused on examining the experiences of Moroccan women in the Canadian job market and the impact thereof, on their socio-economic status, and as such, health and well-being. In order to effectively capture the experiences of this particular community, a fieldwork study was conducted in the form of semi-structured individual interviews with twelve women who immigrated to Canada from Morocco with professional qualifications. Based on the participants’ accounts, I described that systemic discrimination as manifested in Othering and racialization remain major obstacles to the realization of equal access in the Canadian labour market. All in all, this research provides valuable insight into the plight of skilled immigrants in Canada and thus, offers strong policy recommendations to facilitate a more effective integration process for this group into the Canadian Job market.
Some reflections on archives, bureaucracy, digital technology and plumbing
Creators: name: Wilken, Rowan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: There will be no theses, antitheses, syntheses, here. Rather, this text is constructed from and held together as a series of 'non-totalizable fragments'. For Roland Barthes, a master fragmentist, fragmentary writing is 'a method of abrupt, separated, broken openings', a collection of interrelated but not necessarily connected lexias. Moreover, as Nietzsche (another master fragmentist) has revealed, fragmentary writing shifts registers, accommodating the poetical, the polemical, the philosophical, the autobiographical, the inventorial ... These fragments---or, given the theme of 'waste', these 'scraps' are six in number: bureaucratese, human remains, retrieval and loss, leaks, insurgent action, and economic rationalism. They are intended as provocations, 'pressure points' or 'sites' around which to reflect on the convergence of library archives (and in particular a key State repository), bureaucracy and digital technology. Barthes's fragmentary method seems fitting here, for these three---like the fragment itself---are 'non-totalizable', they add together but do not necessarily add up.
Supplementary document for Terahertz transmissive half-wave metasurface with enhanced bandwidth - 5321532.pdf
Creators: name: You, Xiaolong
name: Ako, Rajour
name: Lee, Wendy
name: Bhaskaran, Madhu
name: Sriram, Sharath
name: Fumeaux, Christophe
name: Withayachumnankul, Withawat
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Characterization of Mineralogy in the Highland Valley Porphyry Cu District Using Hyperspectral Imaging, and Potential Applications
Creators: name: Lypaczewski, Philip
name: Rivard, Benoit
name: Lesage, Guillaume
name: Byrne, Kevin
name: D’Angelo, Michael
name: Lee, Robert G.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: The Highland Valley Copper (HVC) district in British Columbia, Canada, is host to at least four major porphyry Cu systems: Bethlehem (~209 Ma), and Valley, Lornex, and Highmont (~208 to 207 Ma). High spatial resolution (0.2–1.0 mm/pixel) hyperspectral imagery in the shortwave infrared (SWIR) were acquired on 755 rock samples and 400 m of continuous drill core. Spectral metrics are used to measure the relative abundance of 12 minerals and an additional metric is derived to estimate white mica grain size. In the Valley and Lornex deposits, coarse-grained white mica is associated with mineralization and is detectable up to 4 km away from the deposits. Kaolinite is present within 2 km of the mineralized centers but does not necessarily occur within strongly mineralized intervals. Prehnite is ubiquitous from 4 to 8 km from the deposits. In the Bethlehem deposit, tourmaline and epidote are associated with mineralization. We propose a spectral alteration score based on these proximal hyperspectral SWIR mineralogical patterns to assist explorers in targeting porphyry Cu systems when using drill core, surface rock samples and potentially remote sensing imagery. In a production environment, this metric could serve to facilitate ore-sorting.
Direct Structured Finite Element Mesh Generation from Three-dimensional Medical Images of the Aorta
Creators: name: Bayat, Sharareh
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Patient-specific modeling
Gradient vector flow (GVF)
Structured mesh
Finite element analysis
3-D medical imaging

description: Three-dimensional (3-D) medical imaging creates notable opportunities as input toward engineering analyses, whether for basic understanding of the normal function or patho-physiology of an organ, or for the simulation of virtual surgical procedures. These analyses most often require finite element (FE) models to be constructed from patient-specific 3-D medical images. However, creation of such models can be extremely labor-intensive; in addition, image processing and mesh generation are often operator-dependent, lack robustness and may be of suboptimal quality. Focusing on the human aorta, the goal of the present work is to create a fast and robust methodology for quadrilateral surface and hexahedral volume meshing from 3-D medical images with minimal user input. By making use of the segmentation capabilities of the 3-D gradient vector flow field combined with original ray-tracing and orientation control algorithms, we will demonstrate that it is possible to incrementally grow a structured quadrilateral surface mesh of the inner wall of the aorta. The process does not only require minimal input from the user, it is also robust and very fast compared to existing methods; it effectively combines segmentation and meshing into one single effort. After successfully testing the methodology and measuring the quality of the meshes produced by it from synthetic as well as real medical image datasets, we will make use of the surface mesh of the inner aortic wall to derive hexahedral meshes of the aortic wall thickness and of the fluid domain inside the aorta. We will finally outline a tentative approach to merge several structured meshes to process the main branches of the aorta.
Medical Image Segmentation by Transferring Ground Truth Segmentation
Creators: name: Vyas, Aseem
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Medical image segmentation
Shape matching
Affine Transformation

description: The segmentation of medical images is a difficult task due to the inhomogeneous intensity variations that occurs during digital image acquisition, the complicated shape of the object, and the medical expert’s lack of semantic knowledge. Automated segmentation algorithms work well for some medical images, but no algorithm has been general enough to work for all medical images. In practice, most of the time the segmentation results are corrected by the experts before the actual use. In this work, we are motivated to determine how to make use of manually segmented data in automatic segmentation. The key idea is to transfer the ground truth segmentation from the database of train images to a given test image. The ground truth segmentation of MR images is done by experts. The process includes a hierarchical image decomposition approach that performs the shape matching of test images at several levels, starting with the image as a whole (i.e. level 0) and then going through a pyramid decomposition (i.e. level 1, level 2, etc.) with the database of the train images and the given test image. The goal of pyramid decomposition is to find the section of the training image that best matches a section of the test image of a different level. After that, a re-composition approach is taken to place the best matched sections of the training image to the original test image space. Finally, the ground truth segmentation is transferred from the best training images to their corresponding location in the test image. We have tested our method on a hip joint MR image database and the experiment shows successful results on level 0, level 1 and level 2 re-compositions. Results improve with deeper level decompositions, which supports our hypotheses.