cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A critical approach to some new ideas about the Dutch flood risk system
Creators: name: Rijcken, Ties
Publisher: name: Research in Urbanism Series
Year: 2015

description: Decisions on measures to improve a flood risk system are in part supported by general ideas about how the system works and should work. After the completion of the Dutch Delta Works around 1990, such new ideas regarding flood risk emerged. Some of these may be appealing at first, but appear debatable after a closer look. In this paper, fourteen such debatable ideas, familiar to most Dutch water professionals, are formulated and criticised, in order to find out what can be learned from them. The most important Dutch national flood risk policy documents since 1990 are reviewed for quotes that illustrate these ideas, complemented by scientific papers and other documents. These quotes present different expressions of these ideas, and their number can suggest whether they are broadly shared or marginal. In twelve of the twenty most important government documents, 47 quotes were found; in 26 documents of other types, another 39. Eleven quotes describe the idea that ‘water should not be our enemy, but our friend’. Fifteen quotes were based on the idea that flood protection entraps us in a dangerous ‘spiral of risk’, which can be stopped, 44 quotes are related to the idea that flood risk reducing measures should be ‘natural’ or ‘move with nature’. The remaining quotes illustrate other debatable ideas, such as ‘water should lead spatial planning’ and ‘rivers should not be squeezed into a corset’. The frequency of such quotes suggests that ideas about ‘water as a friend’, the ‘spiral of risk’ and ‘moving with nature’ have not been marginal. It is however difficult to determine how influential they have been in decision-making, since general ideas are not the only factors leading to decisions. The general critique to the three ideas is that they present preferred measures as generally logical conclusions without a systematic comparison of alternatives for particular situations. Behind the new ideas lies increasing societal interest for objectives like an attractive water landscape (water as a friend), reducing our dependence on technology (spiral of risk) and nature conservation and development (moving with nature). This analysis further suggests a couple of final remarks, which are hard to prove and are open for discussion.
description: Research in Urbanism Series, Vol. 3 (2015): Flowscapes: Designing infrastructure as landscape
NASA: SMD Open Source Science Data Processing and Archives Workshop
Creators: name: Murphy, Kevin
name: Crawford, Steven
name: Robinson, Erin
name: Lowndes, Julia
name: Gentemann, Chelle
name: Accomazzi, Alberto
name: Baynes, Kathleen 'Katie'
name: Bugbee, Kaylin
name: Maskey, Manil
name: Kuchner, Marc
name: Ivey, Yvonne
name: Schurr, Andrew
name: Steponaitis, Elena
name: Reyes, Christian
name: Luna-Cruz, Yaitza
name: Adiele, Frances
name: Zurbuchen, Thomas
name: Ryan, Erin
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2021
Subjects: Open Science
NASA

description: Lecture at Seminar (), ; doi:10.5281/ZENODO.5575769
description: The objective of this meeting was to provide a forum for our science data providers, stewards, and partners to find out more details about the Open Source Science Initiative (OSSI),  ask questions about the number of initiatives that are currently underway related to Open Science, and participate in forum-style breakout sessions where attendees will have the opportunity to engage with SMD and the community on further developing these initiatives. Initiatives included projects involving machine learning and artificial intelligence, discoverability of SMD data and publications, and new policies to support open science.  In addition, we will also introduced Transform to Open Science (TOPS), our initiative to help jump start the adoption of open science across our communities.  Open Source Science Workshop Website:  https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/science-data/open-source-science-workshop
Engelbart's theory of technical evolution
Creators: name: Barnet, Belinda
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The article discusses the theory of technical evolution by Doug Engelbart in the US. It is not well known that Engelbart has his own theory of technical evolution, a theory which mobilizes technology as its own milieu that evolves in tandem with human socio-cultural and language practices. The aspect of his theory could be seen as a form of technological determinism. According to the beliefs of Engelbart, the tool system currently moves faster than the human system and it takes generations before one can develop the appropriate human infrastructure to deal with changes.
Learning through the arts: An investigation of the experiences of intermediate students as they explore and construct their understandings of language and literature through artistic activities.
Creators: name: Gamwell, Peter M.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Education, Art.

description: New understandings regarding the nature of intelligence, and recent research demonstrating the importance of the emotional and aesthetic context of learning, suggest that teachers reflect seriously upon the types of learning environments which will optimize the learning potential for their students (Caine & Caine; 1994, 1997; Csikszentmihalyi, 1997; Eisner, 1985/1998a; Gardner, 1993, 1999a, 1999b). My practical experience has led me to believe that the arts can provide an important vehicle through which students can explore their learning. The purpose of this investigation was to gain an understanding of the processes of meaning making in adolescent students as they learned language and literature through artistic activities. Furthermore, it identified changes in participant perceptions of their learning. The voices of the students were central to the findings of the investigation. The inquiry was qualitative in nature and underpinned by a constructivist perspective. The research findings drew on data from students in the teacher/researcher's grade eight language class. Four case studies, two girls and two boys, were also conducted. Information was gathered through interviews, audio and video taping, student journals and field notes. Data analysis utilized both within and cross-case analysis. Findings from this investigation support recent research which suggests that teachers should carefully consider the implications of MI theory, emotional intelligence, and aesthetics when designing classroom experiences for their students (Caine & Caine, 1994, 1997; Eisner, 1993; Gardner, 1999a, 1999b; Goleman, 1995; Langer, 1997; Perkins, 1992; Sylvester, 1994). Using the arts as a vehicle to give students control over the nature and direction of their learning provides a context in which more students will find success more of the time.
Design challenges of multifunctional flood defences
Creators: name: Van Veelen, Peter
name: Voorendt, Mark
name: Van Der Zwet, Chris
Publisher: name: Research in Urbanism Series
Year: 2015

description: Due to the changing climate and increasing urbanisation delta cities are faced with an increasing flood risk. In The Netherlands many of the flood defence infrastructures, such as dikes and flood walls, need to be adapted or improved in the near future, to comply to current or improved safety standards. These improvements directly affect landscape and urban development. In its 2008 report, the 2nd Delta Committee presented the idea of multifunctional flood defences, which are flood defence structures that deliberately provide opportunities for other functions. Since then, spatial designers and hydraulic engineers together delivered a wide palette of designs and concepts, resulting in a rather fluid and indefinable concept of multifunctional flood defences. This paper presents a method to describe the level of multifunctionality, based on two existing spatial and structural assessment methods from the fields of civil engineering and urban planning. The combined method distinguishes four ascending levels of integration, ranging from spatial optimisation to structural and functional integration. The combined classification method is tested on a selection of cases of multifunctional flood defences in the Netherlands. Based on this test, it is concluded that the classification method is a useful and generic method to describe the level of multifunctionality. Some of the selected examples look very innovative and multifunctional at first glance, while the level of spatial and structural integration is limited. Other examples might not be very spectacular from a spatial designers point of view, but show that true functional integration of flood protection with multiple other functions is already feasible, depending on the local context. The method helps to bridge the gap between the practices of civil engineering and urban and landscape design. Also, it makes clear that flood risk management is part of an overall process of integrated area development, anticipating on what could be described as a multifunctional flood defence zone.
description: Research in Urbanism Series, Vol. 3 (2015): Flowscapes: Designing infrastructure as landscape
Open Science: Epistemologies, science policy implementation and digitalisation
Creators: name: Stewart, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2021
Subjects: digitalisation
open science
open access
UNESCO
Mexico
science policy
European Commission
EU
development

description: Lecture at Seminar (), ; doi:10.5281/ZENODO.5783005
description: This workshop explores Open Science and the promises and challenges for science and society.  After briefly covering the definition, history and application of Open Science policies, we discuss why they are relevant and what barriers and concerns there are for implementation.  The workshop engages with the challenges of universalising access to knowledge in a world with a plurality of epistemic communities and developmental agendas.  Lastly, we discuss the role that digitalisation plays in implementing Open Science policies and what this means for sustainable development.
Formation and fate of point-source nonextractable DDT-related compounds on their environmental aquatic-terrestrial pathway
Creators: name: Zhu, Xiaojing
name: Dsikowitzky, Larissa
name: Ricking, Mathias
name: Kucher, Sebastian
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019

description: Nonextractable residues (NER) are pollutants incorporated into the matrix of natural solid matter via different binding mechanisms. They can become bioavailable or remobilize during physical-chemical changes of the surrounding conditions and should thus not be neglected in environmental risk assessment. Sediments, soils, and groundwater sludge contaminated with DDXs (DDT, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane; and its metabolites) were treated with solvent extraction, sequential chemical degradation, and thermochemolysis to study the fate of NER-DDX along different environmental aquatic-terrestrial pathways. The results showed that DDT and its first degradation products, DDD (dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane) and DDE (dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene), were dominant in the free extractable fraction, whereas DDM (dichlorodiphenylmethane), DBP (dichlorobenzophenone), and DDA (dichlorodiphenylacetic acid) were observed primarily after chemical degradation. The detection of DDA, DDMUBr (bis(p-chlorophenyl)-bromoethylene), DDPU (bis(p-chlorophenyl)-propene) and DDPS (bis(p-chlorophenyl)-propane) after chemical treatments evidenced the covalent bindings between these DDXs and the organic matrix. The identified NER-DDXs were categorized into three groups according to the three-step degradation process of DDT. Their distribution along the different pathways demonstrated significant specificity. Based on the obtained results, a conceptual model of the fate of NER-DDXs on their different environmental aquatic-terrestrial pathways is proposed. This model provides basic knowledge for risk assessment and remediation of both extractable and nonextractable DDT-related contaminations. © 2019 American Chemical Society
New Taxon-Specific Heterobasidion PCR Primers Detect and Differentiate North American Heterobasidion spp. in Various Substrates and Led to the Discovery of Heterobasidion irregulare in British Columbia, Canada
Creators: name: Shamoun, Simon Francis
name: Hammett, Craig
name: Sumampong, Grace
name: Li, Xiang
name: Garbelotto, Matteo
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Heterobasidion annosum sensu lato is a species complex of pathogenic white-rot wood decay fungi which cause root and butt rot in conifer and hardwood species across the Northern hemisphere. Annual losses to forest managers are valued in the billions of dollars, due to tree mortality, reduction in timber yield, and wood decay. In North America, H. irregulare and H. occidentale have a partially overlapping host and geographic range, cause similar disease symptoms and produce similar fruiting bodies, making discrimination between the two of them often difficult. We developed two sets of primers that bind specifically to conserved, but species-specific portions of glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase and elongation factor 1α alleles. The method is sensitive enough to detect either species from infected wood. Analysis of North American isolates has further clarified the distribution of both species on this continent, including the detection of H. irregulare for the first time on ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) and eastern white pine (Pinus strobus) in British Columbia. This method has the potential to be a valuable tool for the detection of the pathogen in exported/imported wood products, as well as for the further identification and assessment of the distribution of North American Heterobasidion species.
Floating gardening in Bangladesh: a sustainable income generating activity in wetland areas
Creators: name: Bala, H.
name: Ghosh, A.K.
name: Kazal, M.M.H.
name: Rahman, M.S.
name: Sultana, M.
name: Sujan, M.H.K.
name: Bala, H.
name: Ghosh, A.K.
name: Kazal, M.M.H.
name: Rahman, M.S.
name: Sultana, M.
name: Sujan, M.H.K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Adaptation strategy
subject: Climate change
subject: Cobb-Douglas production function
subject: Income
subject: Profitability

description: Floating gardening acts as a fruitful climate-change adaptation strategy in different wetland areas of Bangladesh. The study accomplished to examine the profitability of floating gardening in Gopalgonj district of Bangladesh in 2018. A total of 100 floating gardeners were interviewed to achieve the objectives. Descriptive statistics and Cobb-Douglas production function were used to investigate the factors influencing yield of floating gardening. The findings reveal that, small and marginal farmers were more involved in floating gardening. Around sixty-five percent of the production costs was contributed by human labour. Floating gardeners of the study area earned a net return of BDT 457,901 per hectare per year. Human labour, fertilizers and support materials significantly affected the yield. More training and improved marketing system could further enhance the profitability.
Supplementary document for Spectral causality and the scattering of waves - 5101799.pdf
Creators: name: Hayran, Zeki
name: Chen, Aobo
name: Monticone, Francesco
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Classical and Physical Optics

description: Supplemental document contains three chapters: details of the material models and the simulation technique, details of the derivation of the temporal scattering series, and the spectral profile of the susceptibility profile given in Eq. (9).
Une évaluation de diverses températures d'eau pour le refroidissement corporel lors d'une hyperthermie induite par l'exercice.
Creators: name: Proulx, Caroline.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Education, Physical.

description: L'effet de l'immersion corporelle dans l'eau sur la température centrale [oesophagienne (T ES ), rectale (T RE ) et du canal auditif (T CA )] a été évalué suite à un état d'hyperthermie induit par l'exercice. À quatre reprises, les sujets (n = 7) ont effectué une session d'exercice sur tapis roulant à une intensité relative d'environ 65% de leur VO 2 max (T AMB = 39°C) jusqu'à ce que leur T RE atteigne 40.0°C ou qu'ils ne soient plus capables de poursuivre l'exercice (∼45.6 min). Par la suite, les participants, habillés d'un shorts, ont été immergés dans un bain tourbillon à différentes températures (2, 8, 14 ou 20°C) jusqu'à ce que leur TRE s'abaisse à 37.5°C. Les températures moyennes à la fin des sessions d'exercice étaient 39.8, 40.2 et 40.1°C pour T RE , T ES et T CA , respectivement. Malgré la présence d'une différence au niveau du gradient de température entre l'eau et la surface corporelle, aucune différence par rapport au taux de refroidissement n'a été observée entre les immersions à 8, 14 et 20°C, probablement en raison de la présence de frissonnement lors de l'immersion dans l'eau à 8 et à 14°C. Par contre, l'immersion à 2°C a significativement augmenté les taux de refroidissement de l'ordre de 0.35, 0.75 et 0.55°C*min -1 pour T RE , T ES et T CA , respectivement. Ces taux de refroidissement étaient ∼2.0, 2.7 et 2.0 fois plus élevés que les autres conditions combinées (p < 0.05). Le recours à cette technique a toutefois provoqué un état d'hypothermie, tel qu'indiqué par T ES (34.5°C). Les résultats de cette étude suggèrent que le recours à la technique d'immersion à 2°C soit le traitement le plus efficace en présence d'une hyperthermie induite par l'exercice et que la température du canal auditif soit l'indice de la température centrale le plus approprié.
The synergy between flood risk protection and spatial quality in coastal cities
Creators: name: Nillesen, Anne Loes
Publisher: name: Research in Urbanism Series
Year: 2015

description: Coastal regions throughout the world are subject to flood risk challenges. This paper concentrates on the Netherlands; its coastline fulfils an important role in the protection of the Dutch delta. Due to the expected sea level rise, part of the Dutch coastline will have to be reinforced. Along most of the sparsely occupied coastline, the space needed for the reinforcement of the flood risk protection infrastructure can be found easily, either on the seaside or inland. However, some segments of the coastline have been built upon and are difficult to reinforce; buildings have limited the adaptability of the originally flexible coast. One of these locations is Scheveningen, a borough of the city The Hague and a seaside mass-tourism resort operating on a national scale. It is difficult to reinforce the borough’s flood risk infrastructure without significant restructuring. In addition to water-safety issues, Scheveningen faces social-economic challenges and needs a qualitative programmatic and spatial impulse. An integrated approach to spatial and flood risk design is essential to come to a qualitatively as well as functionally acceptable solution for multifunctional flood defences. This paper describes and demonstrates the approach and application of an integral ‘research by design’ study for flood risk management and spatial quality in Scheveningen. It is the result of a collaborative effort between spatial designers and flood risk engineers, who worked together in so-called ‘Delta ateliers’. Three different flood risk strategies (‘a sandy shore’, ‘a hard protection body’ and ‘a perpendicular dam’) are used as leading principles for integral designs in which both the spatial assignment as well as the long term flood risk protection assignment are addressed. This results in three different designs that are discussed in relation to their spatial potential and hydraulic efficiency. This applied research by design approach was considered very valuable–even essential–to feed the debate regarding the choice of a flood risk intervention. As a result, this approach will be continued throughout the Dutch National ‘Delta Programme’ that focusses on long term flood risk protection.
description: Research in Urbanism Series, Vol. 3 (2015): Flowscapes: Designing infrastructure as landscape
Infrastructure as landscape as architecture
Creators: name: Jauslin, Daniel
Publisher: name: Research in Urbanism Series
Year: 2015

description: In a critical review this chapter shows how the Yokohama Ferry Terminal by Foreign Office Architects crossed the three distinct realms of ‘infrastructure’, ‘architecture’ and ‘landscape’. This key individual project dissolved disciplinary borders between the three disciplines and achieved new methodical grounds for design. It is a precedent in a general shift in the development of the design disciplines of the built environment. The single project shows how deep conceptual shifts affect the disciplinary assumptions that initially limited this task for architects–and how versatile the strategies of infrastructure and landscape are in architecture. While the Yokohama Ferry Terminal is at first sight simply a passenger terminal, it is also an infrastructural transport-related building, used most of the time as a garden-like public space. At first elaborating on definitions of the three terms ‘infrastructure’, ‘landscape’, and ‘architecture’, the article will question how plausible and useful these divisions between the categories are for designers, or if we should rather focus on the crossings of these divisions. A discipline that wants to be dynamic is to be explored at its edges as well as preserved in its core. Such crossings become especially relevant in ambitious projects. With this example at hand, this chapter explores the disciplinary framework and will touch upon design methodological definitions. The case study is valuable to show the full depth of field that architecture with landscape methods can have within contemporary architectural production and how landscape and infrastructure can merge in new kinds of public artifacts beyond object centered design. The themes that make the Yokohama Ferry Terminal’s form or ‘scape’ can be summarised under the term ‘flow’.
description: Research in Urbanism Series, Vol. 3 (2015): Flowscapes: Designing infrastructure as landscape
Representing nature
Creators: name: Van Der Velde, Rene
name: De Wit, Saskia
Publisher: name: Research in Urbanism Series
Year: 2015

description: The appreciation of green infrastructures as ‘nature’ by urban communities presents a critical challenge for the green infrastructure concept. While many green infrastructures focus on functional considerations, their refinement as places where concepts of nature are represented and where nature can be experienced and understood, has received little attention in research and praxis. Contemporary urban societies entertain varied and distinctive ideas on nature and their relationship to it, themes explored in contemporary urban park and garden design. These projects can provide insights into the representation, comprehension and experience of nature in green infrastructures. This article expands on contemporary conceptions of nature in urban parks and urban gardens such as those realised in Paris between 1980 and 2000. The projects all display articulated expressions of conceptions of nature, reflecting both a return to the classical garden tradition, as well as elaborations of nature via the sensorial, ‘abundant nature’ and nature as process. These conceptions can be positioned within the theoretical framework of three forms of nature – first nature (wilderness), second nature (cultural landscape) and third nature (garden). In Paris, contemporary parks and gardens not only express new forms of nature, they also form part of a green infrastructure network in their own right. As a series of precise moments connected by rivers and canals, this network differs markedly from prevailing green infrastructure models. The network of parks and gardens in Paris represents a green infrastructural network made up of a layering of historical and contemporary elements connected in compound ways. The completeness of representations and elaborations of nature – gathered in the three natures – can be dissected and spread out over different constructed landscapes in the city, and it is up to the green infrastructure to unite them.
description: Research in Urbanism Series, Vol. 3 (2015): Flowscapes: Designing infrastructure as landscape
Supplementary document for Spectral causality and the scattering of waves - 5101799.pdf
Creators: name: Hayran, Zeki
name: Chen, Aobo
name: Monticone, Francesco
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Classical and Physical Optics

description: Supplemental document contains three chapters: details of the material models and the simulation technique, details of the derivation of the temporal scattering series, and the spectral profile of the susceptibility profile given in Eq. (9).
City pig farm
Creators: name: Hackauf, Ulf
Publisher: name: Research in Urbanism Series
Year: 2015

description: Over the last centuries, the global food system has managed to provide a growing global population with more and better food. Yet, the system is criticised for its negative effects, like increasing food miles, monocultures, a lack of transparency and poor animal welfare. The recent trend to farm more food in an around cities (urban and peri-urban farming) seems to provide an alternative to the existing system. Urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) comes with many potential benefits, from reducing food miles and improving local urban climate to supporting social coherence in local neighbourhoods and improving personal health. At the same time, the field of UPA is very diverse and not each project addresses each of the potential benefits. This paper addresses urban livestock farming as a specific form of UPA. “Livestock farming” is hereby defined as raising domesticated animals, such as cattle, pork, poultry or fish for the production of food. Each of these types of farming has different needs and implications when included in the city. This study specifically looks into pig farming in an urban setting. It states that design-based-research is a useful research strategy to explore the possibilities and probabilities of this type of UPA. It draws on the design-based study ‘City Pig’, conducted at The Why Factory (2009), Delft University of Technology. The results of this study can be evaluated in order to get a grip on the possible benefits of this specific type of urban livestock farming. An important limitation is that it concerns virtual, un-built design proposals. As built, productive examples of UPA are still scarce in the Netherlands and beyond this design-based-research method could fill a gap and help gathering knowledge for future project. Therefore, this paper not only evaluates of a specific type of UPA, but also tests on whether research-by-design studies, can form a useful tool to further develop UPA in general. The aim of this paper is therefore two-fold: What are the potential benefits of urban pig farming and how can un-built design projects help to answer that question for future ‘real’ projects.
description: Research in Urbanism Series, Vol. 3 (2015): Flowscapes: Designing infrastructure as landscape
'Look Both Ways': seeing is not becessarily believing
Creators: name: McFarlane, Brian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: If the arbitrariness that is lying in wait for so much human experience is at the heart of Look Both Ways (Sarah Watt, 2005) (and it is interesting to compare Woody Allen's new film, Match Point, in this matter), there is nothing schematic or purely coincidental about the way its narrative is developed.
Landwirtschaft Tierarzneimittel Umwelt
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Tierarzneimittel
subject: Chemikalien

description: Diese Broschüre wendet sich an Landwirtinnen und -wirte. Sie informiert darüber, wie Tierarzneimittel in die Umwelt gelangen und erläutert deren Umweltauswirkungen. Zudem werden Möglichkeiten aufgezeigt, wie Umweltaspekte bei der Anwendung von Tierarzneimitteln und der Verwendung von tierarzneimittelhaltigen Düngemitteln berücksichtigt werden können. Besondere Bedeutung haben vorsorgende Gesundheitsmaßnahmen. Denn Tierarzneimittel, die gar nicht erst verabreicht werden müssen, können auch nicht die Umwelt belasten. Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Diese Broschüre wendet sich an Landwirtinnen und -wirte. Sie informiert darüber, wie Tierarzneimittel in die Umwelt gelangen und erläutert deren Umweltauswirkungen. Zudem werden Möglichkeiten aufgezeigt, wie Umweltaspekte bei der Anwendung von Tierarzneimitteln und der Verwendung von tierarzneimittelhaltigen Düngemitteln berücksichtigt werden können. Besondere Bedeutung haben vorsorgende Gesundheitsmaßnahmen. Denn Tierarzneimittel, die gar nicht erst verabreicht werden müssen, können auch nicht die Umwelt belasten.
Measuring the brightness temperature distribution of extragalactic radio sources with space VLBI
Creators: name: Tingay, Steven J.
name: Preston, Robert A.
name: Lister, Matthew L.
name: Piner, B. Glenn
name: Jones, D. L.
name: Murphy, David W.
name: Meier, D. L.
name: Pearson, T. J.
name: Readhead, A. C.
name: Hirabayashi, Hisashi
name: Murata, Yasuhiro
name: Kobayashi, H.
name: Inoue, M.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Abstract not available.
A road trip on European highways. Considering the spatial qualities of E75 and E50
Creators: name: Heesen, Michel
Publisher: name: Research in Urbanism Series
Year: 2015

description: This paper takes the reader on a road trip, travelling the longest highway routes of the European continent and drawing conclusions based on a methodology of practical observation. The paper introduces a phenomenalist approach to highway design research, based on using photos and observations as a source of evidence in its own. The research is based on twelve weeks of driving, shooting photos, sleeping along the road, eating only in road-side restaurants and interviews with waitresses and shopkeepers. There used to be a lot of attention for the scenic experience and spatial quality of highways. In contemporary designs, however, highways are regarded more and more as sewage systems: something not to be seen, heard or smelled. Functional aspects such as noise reduction and traffic capacity prevail above spatial design. This paper shows how different countries are coping with these conflicting issues. It shows best practices and how these relate to the contemporary practice of highway design in the Netherlands.The paper argues that a technocratic and economically driven approach to highway design is a poor and vulnerable strategy. The paper further demonstrates that contemporary design policy in the Netherlands, with a strong focus on the aesthetics of built structures, neglects aspects that have much more impact on the spatial experience. The paper zooms in on five aspects that heavily affect the spatial experience of a highway: the sense of travelling on one continuous route, the sense of surveillance and state control, the sense of being part of a high quality public space, the existence of educating elements along the road and the level of technology. The paper draws conclusions based on methodologically collected observations and translates these into recommendations for designers.
description: Research in Urbanism Series, Vol. 3 (2015): Flowscapes: Designing infrastructure as landscape
The Mormon drawl: Religious ethnicity and phonological variation in southern Alberta.
Creators: name: Meechan, Marjory Ellen.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Language, Linguistics.

description: This thesis investigates the effect of ethnicity on phonological variation with a comparison of the speech of Mormons and non-Mormons in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. On non-linguistic grounds, Mormons are shown to be an ethnic group in southern Alberta. Using variationist methodology, the social and linguistic conditioning of' five variables; front lax vowel lowering, (aw) fronting and the height alternation in the low diphthongs (i.e. Canadian raising), is compared. In particular, possible effects of Mormon ethnicity are explored. The results show that Mormon religious affiliation is a primary factor in height variation of the low diphthongs and only indirectly involved with other variables. The conclusion is that the use of low variants of the low diphthongs before voiceless consonants is a marker of Mormon ethnicity in this community although it is mediated by contact between groups. All other variation shows no direct evidence of ethnic significance and any differences can be attributed to the social isolation of the Mormons rather than their ethnic identity. Ethnicity is shown to be a factor in the potential for change across the community as a result or "linguistic pursuit" in the maintenance of the ethnic boundary between Mormons and non-Mormons in southern Alberta.
Finite wordlength effects in discrete time wavelet transform.
Creators: name: Chan, Kenny Lee-Lung.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: This thesis investigates the finite wordlength effects in one-dimensional discrete-time wavelet transform (DTWT). A MATLAB DTWT model is written based on an efficient algorithm suggested by the Multiresolution Analysis (MRA). This model allows users to investigate the overall non-ideal effects of a MRA-based DTWT system by specifying round-off method for computation, the number of quantization bits employed in representing filter coefficient and internal computational results. Further, the possibility of discarding the high frequency portion of a signal in DTWT signal reconstruction phase (Selective Subband Reconstruction) is shown practical with the presence of finite wordlength effects. The feasibility of using either direct structure filter or lattice structure filter to realize a MRA-based DTWT system is also considered in this thesis. Simulation results show that the lattice structure filters have superior magnitude and phase responses in most scenarios under investigation to its direct structure-based counterparts. Moreover, lattice structure filter demands relatively less computation than direct structure filter in the same filter length and DTWT configuration. In conclusion, the lattice structure filter is a better alternative than the direct structure filter for MRA-based DTWT system implementation.
Recording of workshop: Open Synthesis: Open Science in Evidence Synthesis
Creators: name: Toomey, Elaine
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2020
Subjects: open science
open synthesis
systematic reviews

description: Lecture at Seminar (), ; doi:10.5281/ZENODO.3832425
description: Recording of the session  'Open Synthesis: Open Science in Evidence Synthesis' chaired by Dr Elaine Toomey. Further details of the workshop can be found here: https://evidencesynthesisireland.ie/opensynthesis Dr Elaine Toomey is Associate Director of Cochrane Ireland within Evidence Synthesis Ireland based in the National University of Ireland Galway. Her research primarily focuses on methods used in the development, evaluation and implementation of health behaviour change interventions, particularly in relation to the treatment and prevention of chronic disease. She has specific expertise in implementation science, evidence synthesis, process evaluation and exploring the fidelity and adaptation of behaviour change interventions. Elaine is a member of the Health Research Board (HRB) Open Research National Steering Committee , Co-Chair of the European Health Psychology Society Open Science Special Interest Group and a Catalyst for the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences ( BITSS ). In 2016 Elaine was awarded a Leamer-Rosenthal Prize for Open Social Science for Emerging Researchers from the University of California Berkeley for her work in fidelity and transparency of behaviour change interventions, and has been shortlisted for a European Young Researcher Award 2020 . The presentation was part of the Open Scholarship Week 2020 . It can also be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fANpI4xX-lk  or  https://nuigalway.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/Open+SynthesisA+Open+Science+in+Evidence+Synthesis/1_rdli41as/121659351
Feature point correspondences: A matching constraints survey.
Creators: name: Arbouche, Samir.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: The correspondence problem remains of central interest in image analysis. Matching images is a fundamental step in computer vision applications like the recovery of 3D scene structures, the detection of moving objects, the synthesis of new camera views and many others. Several algorithms are proposed in the literature to solve the difficult problem of feature correspondences between image pairs. They use different approaches and constraints to improve the quality of the resulting matching set. Although several solutions have been proposed in the past, finding good point correspondences between stereo pairs or in image sequences is still a very challenging task. In this work, we present a survey of different types of matching constraints and propose an empirical evaluation of their performance. Experiments on several pairs of images were conducted where we show in graph forms the behavior of each one of the constraints in terms of elimination of false matches. The validation process of a good match is based on the epipolar geometry associated with the image pairs. This geometrical information is obtained by calibrating the image pairs using an existing calibration software.
A bridge with a view a view with a bridge
Creators: name: Smits, Joris
name: Van Der Hoeven, Frank
Publisher: name: Research in Urbanism Series
Year: 2015

description: This paper discusses design considerations for creating high quality infrastructural artefacts with an emphasis on bridges. The authors pursue a design study and analysis approach to highlight the specifics of infrastructure design for regional identity, based on their own work on a bridge ensemble in the Dutch Zaanstreek region. Two highlights of this work, the award winning Juliana Bridge and the wildlife crossing in Rijssen, are used to illustrate how to create good infrastructure design in sensitive contexts, without making use of neo-vernacular methods.
description: Research in Urbanism Series, Vol. 3 (2015): Flowscapes: Designing infrastructure as landscape
Supplementary document for Voltage tunable mid-wave infrared reflective varifocal metalens via an optomechanic cavity - 5102742.pdf
Creators: name: Chen, Yikun
name: Pu, Shiliang
name: Wang, Chongzhi
name: Yi, Fei
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

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Landscape policy and visual landscape assessment
Creators: name: Nijhuis, Steffen
name: Reitsma, Miranda
Publisher: name: Research in Urbanism Series
Year: 2011

description: Spatial quality is a key element in landscape policy of the province of Noord-Holland in the Netherlands. Visual attributes such as spaciousness, openness, and landscape enclosure are considered as constituent elements of spatial quality and play a crucial role in comprehending and defining landscape identity. This article introduces a landscape planning and design oriented approach towards landscape physiognomic issues in order to describe, protect and develop the visual landscape. Expert knowledge and advanced spatial research methods and techniques are combined in a landscape physiognomic framework for landscape policy, planning and design. This framework is recently employed by the provincial authority and is adopted in the Structural Concept of Noord-Holland 2040. In the presented approach the application of the visual attributes through GIS resulted in an integral landscape physiognomic framework for spatial planning and design. This framework addresses three different scales of physiognomic research: scale of the province, scale of the landscape unit, and scale of the observer. Grid-based and viewshed-based methods are employed in order to comprehend and connect these conceptual and perceptual spaces. This planning and design oriented approach offered the provincial authority a framework for managing and monitoring the visual landscape and is recently adopted in the structural concept of Noord-Holland. The article addresses the theoretical, methodological and technical foundations, as well as its implication for landscape policy of the provincial authority.
description: Research in Urbanism Series, Vol. 2 (2011): Exploring the Visual Landscape: Advances in physiognomic landscape research in the Netherlands
Investigating the fish community of the Rideau River, Ontario, with respect to historical changes and current land-use practices.
Creators: name: Phelps, Anne Marie.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Biology, Ecology.

description: Agricultural and urban development incites change in aquatic ecosystems. It is generally hypothesized that change due to agricultural and urban development modifies the aquatic habitat characteristics, which ultimately affect the fish communities. The first objective of this study was to describe the appearance and disappearance of fish species within the Rideau River. Scientific literature, museum archives, newspaper articles, historical atlases, municipal reports, and anecdotal reports were consulted to reconstruct the past 120 years of the fish community. The results indicated that the diversity of fish species increased as a result of fish introductions, through increased boat tragic, fish stocking, transient species, baitfish introductions, live-well dumping and the introduction of exotics. The second objective of this study was to determine whether diversity and abundance of fish in the Rideau River could be attributed to agricultural, urban, or forested land-use type. In order to determine this, the fish community was intensively sampled in each of the three habitat types utilizing various sampling gear (trapnets, seines, backpack electrofisher). Over 9000 fish belonging to 33 species were captured between mid-July through mid-September 1998 and 1999. It was found that fewer species were captured in urban areas as compared to agricultural or forested areas and that the abundance of fish was higher in agricultural areas. Also, land-use was correlated with habitat characteristics and habitat characteristics were correlated with fish community diversity and abundance.
Mapping landscape openness with isovists
Creators: name: Weitkamp, Gerd
Publisher: name: Research in Urbanism Series
Year: 2011

description: People identify with landscapes and landscapes contribute to a sense of place and wellbeing. The landscape is therefore an important contributor to quality of life. New developments, such as urban and infrastructure projects and the expansion of large-scale agriculture, introduce many new elements into traditional landscapes, altering their visual appearance and perceived quality. These changes may have significant influences on people’s quality of life. In order to protect or enhance the visual landscape, changes in the visual landscape should be given explicit attention in landscape planning and policy making. Current improvements of measurement techniques enabled by GIS, and of highly detailed topographic data covering large areas make it feasible to describe the visual landscape with a high degree of realism without making many concessions to generality and objectivity. The article proposes a procedure that describes the visual landscape, which takes advantage of improvements in measurement techniques, developments in GIS and availability of high-resolution topographic data. The procedure is developed for policy making and spatial planning purposes, and provides information about one specific aspect of the visual landscape, landscape openness. In the remainder of the article, first the concept of landscape openness is explained, then a method to model landscape openness is proposed. Subsequently, a procedure to use this model for policy making purposes is demonstrated. Finally the results of an evaluation of the procedure with policy makers are discussed.
description: Research in Urbanism Series, Vol. 2 (2011): Exploring the Visual Landscape: Advances in physiognomic landscape research in the Netherlands
Virtual historical landscapes
Creators: name: De Boer, Arnoud
name: Breure, Leen
name: Spruit, Sandor
name: Voorbij, Hans
Publisher: name: Research in Urbanism Series
Year: 2011

description: Using 3D computer graphics technology, we are able to create virtual reconstructions of (almost completely) disappeared landscapes. The applications of these virtual historic landscapes range from landscape archaeology, edutainment to landscape planning. Although computer graphics technology matured and photo-realistic representations are achieved, the creation of realistic virtual reconstructions remains problematic. For a realistic user experience, we need to know which cues influence the user perception. However, poor-defined visualization requirements for 3D virtual historic landscapes leave us with the question ‘How good is good enough?’ This article discusses the search for a decisive variable to let users perceive the virtual historic landscape, focusing on image quality and contents of the virtual historic landscape. The virtual reconstruction of Palace Honselaarsdijck, a 17th century real-estate of stadtholder Frederick Henry (1584-1647), and its surrounding landscape is used as a case study. Using old maps, image processing and GIS software the historic terrain model was generated. By application of a 3D historic object library, the virtual landscape was decorated with wind mills, houses, churches and so forth. Finally, the virtual historic landscape was completed with atmospheres, water and vegetation. The result is a full-decorated and rendered virtual historic landscape. From a preliminary user test, the researchers learned that the contents of the virtual historic landscape are more important than the image quality. Future work will focus on what the identifying landscape features for a realistic user experience are, and how to communicate uncertainty inside the virtual landscape. The expectation is that the work contributes to the realization of virtual historic landscape on a large-scale to communicate landscape information to the broad public.
description: Research in Urbanism Series, Vol. 2 (2011): Exploring the Visual Landscape: Advances in physiognomic landscape research in the Netherlands