cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
COVID-19 pandemic : Students’ perspectives on dental geriatric care and education
Creators: name: Brondani, Mario
name: Donnelly, Leeann
Publisher: name: American Dental Education Association
Year: 2021

description: Objectives: With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada and the curtailment of clinical and face-to-face university instruction in British Columbia on March 16, 2020, the opportunity arose to explore how third- and fourth-year undergraduate dental students critically considered the impact of the pandemic on education and the practice of dental geriatrics. Methods: All third- and fourth-year undergraduate dental students within a dental geriatric module were asked to provide a written guided reflection on the question: “In your opinion, what factors make outbreaks (or pandemics) like COVID-19 relevant to the practice of dental geriatrics?” Reflections were gathered from March 12 to May 8, 2020. Thematic analysis was conducted to identify and interpret patterns of meaning within the reflections by means of an interactive coding process. Results: A total of 115 reflections, between 291 and 710 words each, were received from 56 third-year (62.5% male) and 59 fourth-year (42.6% male) students. Five main themes emerged: experiencing uncertainties, frailty as a moderator, constraints in accessing care, preparedness protocol, and redefining care. The frequency in which the same codes, categories, and themes were assigned varied from 16 to 140 times. Conclusions: Students’ reflections highlighted the effects of the pandemic, not only on their education but also on frail older adults themselves and the profession of dentistry in general. Further studies are warranted to explore how this curtailment might impact educators’ approaches to geriatric education, as well as the way graduating students will set up their practices and approach geriatric care in the future.
USER AWARENESS MEASUREMENT THROUGH SOCIAL ENGINEERING
Creators: name: IJMVSC
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010

description: TUBITAK National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (UEKAE) Department of Information Systems Security makes social engineering attacks to Turkish public agencies within the frame of “Information Security Tests” [19]. This paper will make an analysis of the social engineering tests that have been carried out in several Turkish public agencies. The tests include phone calling to sample employees by the social engineer and trying to seize employees’ sensitive information by exploiting their good faith. The aim of this research is to figure that the employees in Turkish public agencies have a lack of information security awareness and they compromise the information security principles which should be necessarily applied for any public agencies. Social engineering, both with its low cost and ability to take advantage of low technology, has taken its place in the information security literature as a very effective form of attack [8].
Seven Criteria for the Assessment of the Ecclesial Identity and Vocation of a Particular Church: The Development of an Interpretative System Based on the Ecclesiology of Vatican II and Verified Against the Work of the Kyivan Church Study Group
Creators: name: Sakvuk, Yuriy
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Particular Church
Ecclesia Particularis
Ritus
Rite
Ecclesia localis
Ecclesia Sui Iuris
Autonomous Church
Self-Governing Church
Local Church
Ecclesial Identity
Kyivan Church
Kyivan Church Study Group
Ukrainian Catholic Church
Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church
Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church
Vatican II
Second Vatican Council
Unitatis Redintegratio
Lumen Gentium
Orientalium Ecclesiarum
Eastern Catholic Churches
Catholic Communion
criteria of ecclesial particularity

description: The dissertation aims to do three things: First, it provides a survey of the historical and theological background of the Council; the Council’s principal tasks and major ecclesiological documents concerned with the ecclesial identity and vocation of a Particular Church; and the general reshaping of Catholic ecclesiology in the light of documents of the Council. Second, using pertinent documents of the Council and the reflections of Catholic theologians, it presents an original interpretative system for evaluating the ecclesial identity and vocation of any given Particular Church of the Catholic communion Eastern or Western) through the use of seven interdependent criteria. These are 1. A return to the authentic traditional roots of a particular tradition and the need for proper and organic reform within a given Particular Church; 2. Restoration and development of a particular theology; 3. Restoration and development of particular ways of liturgical worship; 4. Restoration and development of particular ecclesiastical legislation; 5. Restoration and development of a particular spiritual patrimony; 6. Preservation of and contribution to the already existing communion of the Particular Churches; 7. Work towards inter-confessional rapprochement, inter-religious dialogue and universal integration. Third, it will demonstrate how the interpretative system composed of seven criteria delineated from the documents of Vatican II can be verified by its practical application to the assessment of the concrete vision of the ecclesial identity and vocation of the Kyivan Catholic Church as it was presented and explained by the Kyivan Catholic and Orthodox members of the ecumenical body known as the Kyivan Church Study Group.
'Not in Glorious Battle Slain’: Disease and Death in the Royal Navy’s Western Squadron during the Seven Years’ War
Creators: name: Wills, George
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Medicine
Navy
Canada
Britain

description: The Seven Years’ War represented a period of great mobilization of British sailors and soldiers. Not only did men need to be found to man the ships and garrison the forts in the Western Squadron and North America, but they also needed to be fed and kept healthy during the conflict. Due to poor living conditions aboard Royal Navy ships, expeditions to North America were met with disease that would drastically reduce the numbers of able seamen. This was compounded by demobilization that followed the War of the Austrian Succession, forcing the British forces to rely on impressment to augment their troop numbers. Though there was a concerted effort to take healthy men with seafaring knowledge, local magistrates and constabularies saw this as an opportunity to rid their towns of the unwanted, and the demands of manning an ever growing Navy forced the Admiralty to take the sick and infirm. British prisons during this time were rife with typhus and smallpox, and the guardships that the impressed men would travel to were also areas of infections. The Royal Navy vessels were typically overfilled with men, and the tight living conditions encouraged the diseases to spread, creating ships that were not a wartime asset, but a liability to arrive in friendly ports in North America. There, the infection would spread to the local population, causing continued manning problems for the British during the conflict, and strained relations between the Admiralty and local governors. The infected troops limited British military effectiveness, and threatened the success of operations, as seen in the delay of the siege of Louisbourg in 1757, and the defeat of the British forces outside Quebec City in 1760. The experience with disease within a wartime context allowed Britain’s emerging medical class to publish important research, leading to positive changes to shipboard hygiene and medicine by the end of the eighteenth century.
Blast Performance of Reiforced Concrete Beams Constructed with High-Strength Concrete and High-Strength Reinforcement
Creators: name: Li, Yang
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: blast
shock tube
HSFRC
HSC
steel fibre
beam
MMFX
SDOF analysis

description: This thesis focuses on the dynamic and static behaviour of reinforced concrete beams built using high-strength concrete and high-strength steel reinforcement. As part of this study, a total of 8 high-strength concrete beams, built with and without steel fibres, and reinforced with high strength ASTM A1035 bars are tested under simulated blast loading using the University of Ottawa shock-tube, with an additional 3 companion beams tested under quasi-static loading. The variables considered in this study include: concrete type, fibre content, steel reinforcement ratio and steel reinforcement type. The behaviour of the beams with high-strength steel bars is compared to a companion set of beams reinforced with conventional steel reinforcement. The criteria used to evaluate the blast performance of the beams includes: overall blast capacity, maximum and residual displacements, secondary fragmentation and crack control. The dynamic results show that high strength concrete beams reinforced with high-strength steel are able to resist higher blast loads and reduce displacements when compared to companion beams with conventional steel reinforcement. The results also demonstrate that the addition of steel fibres is effective in controlling crack formation, minimizing secondary blast fragments, reducing displacements and further increasing overall blast capacity. However, the use of high-strength steel and high-strength concrete also shows potential for brittle failures under extreme blast pressures. The static results show that specimens with high-strength steel bars do not increase beam stiffness, but significantly increase peak load carrying capacity when compared to beams with the same ratio of conventional steel reinforcement. The analytical research program aims at predicting the response of the test beams using dynamic inelastic single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) analysis and includes a sensitivity analysis examining the effect of various modelling parameters on the response predictions. Overall the analytical results demonstrate that SDOF analysis can be used to predict the blast response of beams built with high-strength concrete and steel reinforcement with acceptable accuracy.
Nature et fonctions du pluralisme médiatique dans un État multiculturel fragile: le cas du Liban.
Creators: name: Korban, Aline
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Communautarisme
médias
informations télévisées
analyse de contenu
Liban
guerre civile
identité nationale

description: Notre recherche explore les effets de la religion et du communautarisme sur les institutions politiques et médiatiques de la société libanaise. Elle examine tout particulièrement les impacts de ces facteurs sur le contenu de l’information télévisée. Notre problématique s'inspire des travaux de Dominique Wolton qui définit la télévision comme étant « le seul lieu de l’être ensemble collectif » qui permette l'identification et la représentation. Les journaux télévisés produisent une représentation du monde et de la société. Ils sélectionnent ceux qui sont autorisés à s’exprimer ainsi que les enjeux qu’ils estiment être importants pour la société. Cette gestion de l’espace publique a pour effet de renforcer ou d’affaiblir les sentiments d’appartenance à la communauté politique. Nous avons vérifié le bien-fondé de cette logique par l’analyse des journaux télévisés libanais afin de décrire et de comparer les modalités de la représentation des diverses communautés qui composent la société libanaise. Cette problématique se justifie dans la mesure ou le religieux a fait un retour en force dans les conflits internationaux et pose la question de sa ré-insertion dans les sociétés occidentales qui se sont sécularisées depuis fort longtemps. Nos conclusions s'appuient sur une analyse de contenu à la fois quantitative et qualitative des journaux télévisés diffusés du 1er juin au 31 juillet 2013 par quatre chaînes libanaises : Al-Manar, MTV, LBC et Future. Nous avons constaté que ces médias ne favorisent pas une perception commune ou intercommunautaire des enjeux collectifs et ne contribuent pas à la construction de l’identité nationale. Ils favorisent plutôt le repli communautaire et accroissent le fossé entre les différentes communautés libanaises. Au lieu d'être une solution au problème de la cohésion nationale, ils font partie du problème.
Révéler le potentiel : favoriser le leadership transformationnel chez les jeunes grâce au soutien des besoins psychologiques fondamentaux
Creators: name: Perreault, Dominique
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Leadership transformationnel
Besoins psychologiques fondamentaux
Autodétermination

description: En s’appuyant sur les prémisses de la théorie des besoins psychologiques de base (TBPB), l’objectif central de cette thèse a été d’étudier les qualités prometteuses des environnements sociaux favorisant le développement du leadership transformationnel chez les jeunes adultes. Il a été postulé que les climats sociaux soutenant les besoins d’autonomie, de compétence et d’appartenance des jeunes stimuleraient le leadership transformationnel. Inversement, que les climats sociaux contrecarrant ces mêmes besoins ralentiraient son développement. Les résultats de cinq études viennent appuyer ces relations. Les Études 1 (n=397) et 2 (n=392) examinent les relations entre le niveau de soutien des besoins psychologiques de base de l’environnement universitaire, le sentiment d’efficacité personnelle comme leader et le leadership transformationnel chez de jeunes adultes pré-diplômés. Les Études 3 (n=199) et 4 (n=172) s’appuient sur les résultats de recherche des premières études en testant à l’aide d’un devis expérimental les effets spécifiques des styles interpersonnels (a) soutenant les besoins, contraignants au niveau (b) comportemental et (c) psychologique sur le sentiment d’efficacité comme leader, et les manifestations de leadership transformationnel chez les participants. L’Étude 5 et dernière étude de cette thèse vise à poursuivre la démarche entamée dans les quatre premières études en mesurant dans un milieu naturel l’effet du niveau de soutien des besoins psychologiques fondamentaux sur le leadership d’adolescents en formation. De façon globale, les résultats présentés suggèrent, qu’il s’agisse de leurs propres évaluations (Études 1, 2 et 5) ou encore de celles de leurs pairs (Études 3 et 4), que le leadership transformationnel manifesté par les individus serait influencé par le climat social dans lequel ils évoluent. En établissant le pont entre TBPB et leadership transformationnel, cette thèse permet d’éclaircir le rôle des environnements sociaux dans le développement du leadership chez les jeunes.
Monmouth University Poll: October 2014 New Jersey 5th Congressional District Poll
Creators: name: Monmouth University Polling Institute
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2022

description: Registered to vote (1); voter likelihood (1); Representative Scott Garrett vs. Roy Cho for U.S. Congress (4); opinion of public figures (2); President Barack Obama job performance (1); U.S. House of Representatives job performance (1); Garrett vs. Cho concerns of congressional district (1); Garrett job performance helping recover from Superstorm Sandy (2); Garrett vs. Cho on taxes (1); Garrett vs. Cho on abortion (1); Garrett vs. Cho on healthcare (1); Republican/Democratic control of Congress (1).
Characterization of ureolytic bacteria isolated from limestone caves of Sarawak and evaluation of their efficiency in biocementation
Creators: name: Omoregie, Armstrong Ighodalo
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis presents data from my work exploring the biodiversity of Sarawak, Malaysia by screening for highly active urease-producing bacteria from limestone cave regions for Microbial induced calcite precipitation (MICP) applications. MICP, is a new innovative construction material technique used to bind soil particles together, which require lesser energy for production, low production cost and no contribution to the greenhouse gas emission, making it an environmentally friendly construction material. Prior to this study, there were no records of any urease-producing bacteria with high specific urease activity in Sarawak and having the potential to be used as alternative microbial MICP agents.
Efficacy and Safety of Pharmacological and Non-Pharmacological Interventions in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Series of Systematic Reviews and Network Meta-Analyses
Creators: name: Smith, Christine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: juvenile idiopathic arthritis
systematic review
network meta-analysis
biologic
disease-modifying antirheumatic drug
steroid
non-pharmacological

description: There is little head-to-head evidence comparing interventions available for juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). This review involved a series of systematic reviews and network meta-analyses (NMAs) to evaluate the comparative efficacy and safety of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions among patients with JIA. Outcomes were the American College of Rheumatology Pediatric 30 (ACR Pedi 30) (disease response), its six composite outcomes, pain relief, health-related quality of life, and physical and emotional functioning. There was some evidence that etanercept had greater reduction in the number of joints with active arthritis compared to abatacept for polyarticular-course JIA and that canakinumab had improved ACR Pedi 30 over rilonacept. Non-pharmacological interventions showed no significant results for efficacy but were safe overall. Most included studies were low-quality and many were excluded from analysis because of unclear reporting or no results for outcomes of interest. As more studies are conducted this will improve the estimates from the NMAs.
Gene expression network analysis provides potential targets against SARS‑CoV‑2
Creators: name: Hernández Cordero, Ana I.
name: Li, Xuan
name: Yang, Chen Xi
name: Milne, Stephen
name: Bossé, Yohan
name: Joubert, Philippe
name: Timens, Wim
name: Van Den Berge, Maarten
name: Nickle, David
name: Hao, Ke
name: Sin, Don
Publisher: name: Nature Research
Year: 2021

description: Cell entry of SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19, is facilitated by host cell angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) and transmembrane serine protease 2 (TMPRSS2). We aimed to identify and characterize genes that are co-expressed with ACE2 and TMPRSS2, and to further explore their biological functions and potential as druggable targets. Using the gene expression profles of 1,038 lung tissue samples, we performed a weighted gene correlation network analysis (WGCNA) to identify modules of co-expressed genes. We explored the biology of co-expressed genes using bioinformatics databases, and identifed known drug-gene interactions. ACE2 was in a module of 681 co-expressed genes; 10 genes with moderate-high correlation with ACE2 (r > 0.3, FDR< 0.05) had known interactions with existing drug compounds. TMPRSS2 was in a module of 1,086 co-expressed genes; 31 of these genes were enriched in the gene ontology biologic process ‘receptor-mediated endocytosis’, and 52 TMPRSS2-correlated genes had known interactions with drug compounds. Dozens of genes are co-expressed with ACE2 and TMPRSS2, many of which have plausible links to COVID-19 pathophysiology. Many of the co-expressed genes are potentially targetable with existing drugs, which may accelerate the development of COVID-19 therapeutics.
L-Valinate hydrates of nickel, copper and zinc - a structural study
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015

description: The l-valinates M(Val)2 of M = Ni (1), M = Cu (2) and M = Zn (3) are easily obtained as crystalline hydrates. Their structural reinvestigation resulted in a general enhancement of precision for 1 ı 2 H2O and 2 ı H2O, in case of the copper complex in the correction of the previously reported space group and in case of the zinc complex 3 in the determination of the structure of a new hydrate 3 ı 2 H2O.Quelle: http://www.degruyter.com
Stereo panoramic vision for obstacle detection
Creators: name: Matuszyk, Leanne
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2006

description: Statistics show that automotive accidents occur regularly as a result of blind-spots and driver inattentiveness. Such incidents can have a large financial cost associated with them, as well as injury and loss of life. There are several methods currently available to assist drivers in avoiding such collisions. The simplest method is the installation of devices to increase the driver's field of view, such as extra mirrors and wide angle lenses. However, these still rely on an alert human observer and do not completely eliminate blind-spots. Another approach is to use an automated system which utilises sensors such as sonar or radar to gather range information. The range data is processed, and the driver is warned if a collision is immiment. Unfortunately, these systems have low angular resolution and limited sensing volumes. This was the motivation for developing a new method of obstacle detection. In this project, we have designed, built and evaluated a new type of sensor for blind spot monitoring. The stereo panoramic sensor consists of a video camera which views a convex mirrored surface. With the camera and mirror axes aligned, a full 360 degrees can be viewed perpendicular to the sensor axis. Two different mirror profiles were evaluatedthe constant gain, and resolution invariant surfaces. It was found that the constant gain mirror was the most effective for this application. It was shown that the sensor can be used to generate disparity maps from which obstacles can be segmented. This was done by applying the v-disparity algorithm, which has previously not been utilised in panoramic image processing. We found that this method was very powerful for segmenting objects, even the case of extremely noisy data. The average successful obstacle detection rate was found to be around 90%, with a false detecion rate of 8%. Our results indicate that range can be estimated reliably using a stereo panoramic sensor, with excellent angular accuracy in the azimuth direction. In ground truth experiments it was found that the sensor was able to estimate range to within 20cm of the true value, and a maximum angular error of 3°. Through experimentation, we determined that the physical system was approximately half as accurate in comparison to the simulations. However, it should be noted that the system is a prototype which could be developed futher. Nevertheless, this sensor still has the advantage of a much higher angular resolution and larger sensing volume than the driver assistance systems reported to date.
Utility of Toxicogenomics Tools for the Toxicological Assessment of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Complex Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Mixtures
Creators: name: Labib, Sarah
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
Mixtures
Toxicology
Toxicogenomics
Risk assessment
DNA damage

description: Human exposures to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) occur as components of complex mixtures. Evaluations of health risks posed by complex mixtures containing PAHs rely on the toxicological knowledge of prioritized PAH mixture components, assuming that these PAHs share a common mode of action and that the sum of the contributions of these PAHs equals the toxic potency of the mixture (i.e., additivity). Traditional toxicity testing methods emphasizing apical endpoints have had limited success at evaluating the validity of these assumptions. Toxicogenomic tools that are able to rapidly generate toxicologically-relevant and mechanistic information have gained acceptance in the regulatory arena for individual chemicals; however, the applicability of these tools for chemical mixtures has been inadequately addressed. This thesis used toxicogenomic tools to (1) improve the understanding of mechanisms underlying the adverse, toxicological responses induced by individual PAHs and (2) evaluate the contention that transcriptional profiles and pathway information can be used to critically examine interactions between individual PAHs in PAH-containing mixtures, and the assumption of additivity. Microarrays were used to profile gene expression changes (transcriptomes) in forestomach, liver, and lung tissues (targets of PAH exposure) from mice orally exposed to three doses of eight individual PAHs, two defined PAH mixtures, and one complex PAH-containing mixture (coal tar). The results revealed that each PAH induced transcriptional changes that were significantly associated with several pathways implicated in carcinogenesis. However, despite a uniform ability to induce DNA damage (i.e., DNA adducts), mutations, and increases in enzyme activity, the pathways differ across PAHs and tissues. A novel strategy that employs single-PAH transcriptome data to models of additivity revealed that the assumption of additivity in PAH mixtures is valid at the pathway level; however, the independent action model of additivity yielded better estimates compared to concentration addition (used in human health risk assessment of PAH mixtures) or generalized concentration addition. Additionally, predicted and observed coal tar-induced transcriptional benchmark doses were comparable to those derived from previously published coal tar-induced murine lung tumour incidence data. Overall, this thesis demonstrates the utility of toxicogenomic data to expand the current understanding regarding the toxic potential of individual PAHs and PAH-containing complex mixtures.
Role of the 131I whole body scan for initial follow-up in patients with intermediate-risk differentiated thyroid cancer
Creators: name: Tatiya Emasuwan
Publisher: name: Faculty of Associated Medical Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Thailand
Year: 2024
Subjects: Thyroid cancer
Intermediate risk
Radioactive iodine
Whole body scan
Neck Ultrasound

description: Archives of Allied Health Sciences, 36, 2, 30-43
Cytogenetic Abnormalities in Hematolymphoid Tumors: Insight from Karyotyping of Bone Marrow Specimens in Northeast Thailand
Creators: name: Sastrawut Zatun
Publisher: name: Faculty of Associated Medical Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Thailand
Year: 2024
Subjects: Cytogenetic abnormalities
Hematolymphoid tumors
Karyotyping
Bone marrow specimens

description: Archives of Allied Health Sciences, 36, 2, 44-58
Ermittlung der Emissionssituation bei der Verwertung von Bioabfällen
Creators: name: Cuhls, Carsten
name: Mähl, Birte
name: Clemens, Joachim
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Bioabfall
subject: Kompostierung
subject: Gärung
subject: Recycling
subject: Treibhausgas
subject: Methan
subject: Bioabfallkompostierung
subject: Vergärung
subject: Rotteprozess
subject: Abfallbehandlungsanlage
subject: Müllvergärung
subject: Emissionen
subject: Methanemission
subject: Lachgasemission
subject: Ammoniak-Emissionen
subject: Emissionsfaktor
subject: Luft
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen
subject: Air
subject: Waste | Resources

description: Derzeit werden in Deutschland etwa 8,6 Mio. Tonnen an Bio- und Grünabfällen aus Haushalten und der Garten- und Parkpflege getrennt gesammelt und verwertet. Die Behandlung erfolgt vorwiegend in reinen Kompostierungsanlagen, zunehmend aber auch anaerob in Vergärungsanlagen. Zum Teil werden bestehende Kompostierungsanlagen mit einer Vergärungsstufe nachgerüstet, zum Teil werden neue Vergärungsanlagen für Bioabfälle geplant, bei denen meist eine Nachrotte der Gärreste vorgesehen ist. Die Emissionen der Anlagen sind sehr unterschiedlich und hängen stark von der Betriebsweise der Anlagen und weniger als erwartet von ihrer technischen Ausstattung ab. Dies ist Ergebnis des Forschungsprojektes "Ermittlung der Emissionssituation bei der Verwertung von Bioabfällen". Neben den Ergebnissen von Emissionsmessungen an verschiedenen Anlagen enthält der Abschlussbericht daher auch Empfehlungen zum emissionsarmen Betrieb von Kompostierungs- und Vergärungsanlagen.
Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de/
description: Derzeit werden in Deutschland etwa 8,6 Mio. Tonnen an Bio- und Grünabfällen aus Haushalten und der Garten- und Parkpflege getrennt gesammelt und verwertet. Die Behandlung erfolgt vorwiegend in reinen Kompostierungsanlagen, zunehmend aber auch anaerob in Vergärungsanlagen. Zum Teil werden bestehende Kompostierungsanlagen mit einer Vergärungsstufe nachgerüstet, zum Teil werden neue Vergärungsanlagen für Bioabfälle geplant, bei denen meist eine Nachrotte der Gärreste vorgesehen ist. Die Emissionen der Anlagen sind sehr unterschiedlich und hängen stark von der Betriebsweise der Anlagen und weniger als erwartet von ihrer technischen Ausstattung ab. Dies ist Ergebnis des Forschungsprojektes „Ermittlung der Emissionssituation bei der Verwertung von Bioabfällen“. Neben den Ergebnissen von Emissionsmessungen an verschiedenen Anlagen enthält der Abschlussbericht daher auch Empfehlungen zum emissionsarmen Betrieb von Kompostierungs- und Vergärungsanlagen.
Pseudamnicola limnosensis Glöer, Stefanov & Georgiev, 2018, n. sp.
Creators: name: Glöer, Peter
name: Stefanov, Tihomir
name: Georgiev, Dilian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Littorinimorpha
Hydrobiidae
Pseudamnicola
Pseudamnicola limnosensis

description: Pseudamnicola limnosensis n. sp.
 Type materials: Holotype: shell height 3.0 mm, width 2.1 mm, spire height 0.6 mm (ZMH 87634); paratypes: 2 adult specimens, 1 juv., 1 embryonic shell, 2 empty shells (ZMH 87635), and 2 specimens in coll. Glöer.
 Type locality: Limnos island, Greece, small well near Katalakko village, N39.962662 E25.139903, 89 m a.s.l. 01.- 10.09.2017, T. Stefanov leg.
 Etymology: Named after the name of the island where the species was found.
 Description: The corneous shell is silky, ovate conical to globular, with a prominent body whorl and a pointed apex. The 4 whorls are slightly convex with a deep suture. The lateral line is slightly convex. The aperture is ovate, the peristome is thickened, the umbilicus is slit-like. The shell is 2.5-3.0 mm high and 1.9- 2.2 mm broad, the spire height is 0.5-0.6 mm.
 Differentiating characters: The only difference to the other Pseudamnicola spp. of the region lies in shell proportions: P. limnosensis n. sp. is broader than the other species and the spire compared to most of the other species is higher.
 Anatomy: Penis broad and triangular, female sex tract unknown.
 Habitat and Ecology: The specimens have been collected from a small well with flowing water in the NW part of the island, W of Katalakko village. The water was flowing first to a concrete hod and then to the ground. The snails were collected from the small waterbody formed around the well. This was the only flowing fresh water in this part of Limnos Island. The well was situated in sandy, dry, barren landscape with grass vegetation on a NW slope of a small hill (340 m a. s. l.). Valley of a small river was crossing the landscape in the area, which was dry in the time of sampling.
 Distribution: Only known from type locality.
description: Published as part of Glöer, Peter, Stefanov, Tihomir & Georgiev, Dilian, 2018, A new Pseudamnicola (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) from the Island of Limnos (Greece), pp. 159-162 in Ecologica Montenegrina 19 on pages 160-161, DOI: 10.37828/em.2018.19.16, http://zenodo.org/record/13360054
Byron's Shakespearean Imitations
Creators: name: Barber, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Byron
Shakespeare
Desire
Imitation
Mimetic Desire
Don Juan
Childe Harold
Deformed Transformed
Marino Faliero
René Girard
Eric Gans

description: Though Byron is known for his provocative denials of the importance of Shakespeare, his public derogations of the early modern playwright are in fact a pose that hides the respect he had for the playwright’s powerful poetic vision, a regard which is recorded most comprehensively in the Shakespearean references of Don Juan. Byron imitated Shakespeare by repeating and adapting the older poet’s observations on the imitative nature of desire and the structure of emulous ambition as a source of violence. His appropriations make his work part of the modern shift away from earlier European societies, wherein ritual means of mitigating desire’s potentially inimical impact on human communities were supplemented with an increased reliance on market mechanisms to defer the effects of emulation and resentment. Finding himself among the first modern celebrities, Byron deploys Shakespeare’s representations of desire to trace the processes that produced the arc of his own fame and notoriety. Drawing on his deep knowledge of Shakespeare, Byron’s poetic vision—in its observations on the contagious nature of desire—exhibits elements of Shakespeare’s own vivid depictions of imitation as a key conduit for his characters’ cupidity, ambitions, and violence. Exploring how he plays with and integrates these representations into his letters, journals, poetry, and plays, my dissertation investigates Byron’s intuitions on the nature of human desire by focusing on his engagement with one of literature’s greatest observers of human behaviour, Shakespeare.
Experience with designing a requirements and architecture management tool
Creators: name: Han, Jun
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Effective tool support is much needed for the tedious and error-prone task of managing system requirements and system architectures. With the primary objective of providing practical support for software engineers, we have developed a tool for managing system requirements, system architectures and their traceability, which is being used in real-world industrial projects. The tool is based on a well considered information model of system requirements and architectures, and embodies a set of document templates providing guidance for software engineers. In this paper, we report on our experience in designing and improving the tool. In particular, we highlight a number of case studies that played a significant role in formulating the information model and document templates, and provide an assessment of the tool relative to existing practice.
Harnessing Power: Exploring Citizen's Use of Networked Technologies to Promote Police Accountability
Creators: name: Schwartz, David
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Surveillance
Sousveillance
Citizen Surveillance
Web 2.0
Citizen Activism
Surveillant Assemblage
Participatory Culture
Police Accountability
Participatory Video
Policing

description: In this examination of citizen surveillance, I engage with Foucaultian and Deleuzian conceptualizations of surveillance, power, resistance, control, and desire, to explore the motivation(s) of community members who film and disseminate footage of the police. Methodologically, I conducted semi-structured interviews with community stakeholders to study the latent thematic ideas embedded in their responses. These themes represent the underlying motivational factors a citizen surveiller may have when filming the police. In my analysis of these themes, I explore: citizen surveillers’ logic for resisting power; citizen surveillers’ understandings of power; and, citizen surveillers’ reported approaches to both passive and active forms of resistance. Subsequently, there appears to be an underlying desire for power and a resistance to power when filming the police. However, given the exploratory nature of this study, there is a need to continue investigating the theoretical and under substantiated claims about citizen surveillance and its association with race, gender and socio-economic status.
MPEC 2024-Q31 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2024 August 22)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Developments in the integration and application of terahertz spectroscopy with microfluidics
Creators: name: Alfihed, Salman
name: Holzman, Jonathan
name: Foulds, Ian G.
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2022

description: This work presents an overview of terahertz (THz) spectroscopy with a focus on its implementation within microfluidic platforms. Such platforms are of great interest because they can enable label-free and reagent-free sensing. However, they must be implemented with thought towards the incorporated materials and structures as they can greatly impact the bandwidth, frequency resolution, signal-to-noise ratio, and dynamic range of the measurements. This review explores such relationships with insight given on the design and material considerations for the effective integration of THz spectroscopy in microfluidic platforms. The review also describes recent work on the application of THz spectroscopy to biomaterial analyses on increasing scales, targeting DNA, proteins, cells, and tissues.
L’idée des biens fondamentaux chez Finnis : une évaluation philosophique et théologique critiques
Creators: name: Mboua, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: valeurs fondamentales
fondement des valeurs africaines
biens fondamentaux
formalisme et relativisme en éthique
loi naturelle scolastique

description: Après un long processus de recherche, je voudrais vous présenter quels en ont été les fruits. J’ai inscrit ma recherche dans le domaine de l’éthique théologique. Et je l’ai circonscrite dans le contexte bien déterminé, celui de l’Afrique subsaharienne. Le cadre de réflexion dans lequel le travail était la recherche des valeurs philosophique et théologique pouvant trouver une résonnance avec le travail de certains auteurs africains. Donc, ma recherche s’intéresse au fondement de l’éthique, aux repères et aux critères du discernement du bien et du mal, autrement dit, quelles sont des valeurs susceptibles de rendre le vivre ensemble possible? La question du vivre ensemble dans une société pluraliste fait partie de ma préoccupation en tant que chercheur en éthique et membre d’une congrégation internationale, appelé à vivre et à travailler avec des gens venant d’horizons différents. En Afrique aujourd’hui, le vivre ensemble est devenu une problématique à cause des différents facteurs. Je cite: l’égoïsme, la recherche d’intérêts personnels, le matérialisme, la corruption, l’enrichissement illicite, sans oublier d’autres facteurs tels que la fuite de responsabilité : la paresse, le vol, la prostitution. A tous ceux-ci il faut ajouter les problèmes identitaires engendrant des conflits ou le rejet de l’autre. Conscient de ces réalités, j’ai cherché ce sur quoi fonder l’éthique du vivre ensemble, c’est-à-dire, l’éthique sociale. Pour y parvenir, j’ai inscrit ma recherche à la suite de John Finnis qui a tenté de renouveler la théorie traditionnelle de la loi naturelle qui servait de repère et de guide pour la vie sociale et de critère d’évaluation des pratiques culturelles. En reprenant la théorie de Finnis qui est l’un des courants de pensée de l’ouest, je me suis demandé quelles sont les valeurs fondamentales des cultures et traditions africaines qui peuvent contribuer à l’épanouissement humain, favoriser le vivre ensemble et servir de repères à tous? Ces questions m’ont amené, d’une part à effectuer une descente sur le terrain pour rencontrer quelques éthiciens, sociologues, anthropologues et théologiens africains pour voir s’il est possible de parler des valeurs fondamentales en Afrique, si oui, dans le vécu quotidien, à quel défi éthique représentent-t-elles aujourd’hui? D’autre part, j’ai fait des recherches documentaires à partir des travaux d’Engenbert Mveng et de Kä Mana. Tous deux sont des théologiens africains mais de tendances différentes. Mveng utilise l’approche de libération et fonde sa théologie sur les valeurs ancestrales, tandis que Kä Mana part de la reconstruction et fonde la sienne sur les défis contemporains.
Design of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle with Vision Capabilities
Creators: name: Jebelli, Ali
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Fuzzy Logic Controller
Proportional Integral Differential
Virtual Reality
Local Binary Pattern
Graphical User Interface
Polytetrafluoroethylene
Remotely Operated Vehicle
Printed Circuit Board
Proportional Integral
Mass Shifter

description: At the author’s request, the abstract has been removed due to the confidential nature of the thesis. It will be added once the embargo period has passed.
How Close is God? How is God Close? Methodology in Liturgical Theology
Creators: name: O'Regan, James
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Liturgy
methodology
live event
paradigm shift
sound-value
optimal timing
orthologia
correct speech
non-verbal analysis
dynamics analysis

description: This dissertation proposes a direct access, omnidimensional methodology to account for all sensible data sets found in a liturgical event. With the reintroduction of the vernacular to Roman Catholic liturgy in 1968, liturgical theology has attempted to establish a methodology to analyze nonverbal/dynamic data as well as texts. While limited advances were made, there was difficulty in abandoning text-based analyses. In this research, we propose an event-based methodology that can directly account for all physical data sets, based on the five senses. It uses a single language to discuss all kinds of liturgical data and sources of liturgical data. It also allows the liturgical event and its data to remain intact as dynamic phenomena. The methodology, which is called proximity analysis, asks two questions of any aspect of a live-liturgy: how close is X to Y, and how is X close to Y? In this way, anything that can be seen, heard, felt, smelt or tasted can be discussed as close, using a single language to cover multiple data sets. We establish that the theory of proximity was implicit in the literature and successfully apply it in six ways: description, interpretation, criticism, prediction, prescription and management. In the applications, we discover three working theories about speech. Proximity is demonstrated as a useful methodology for examining the literature and live liturgy. We predict that proximity will be a robust and useful tool for determining and executing research projects, for historical or live event endeavours. Further, we predict that proximity will provide best practice for liturgical formation that answers the call for an event-based solution to doing liturgy.
ADAPTIVE GAUSSIAN MIXTURE FILTERING FOR AUTONOMOUS CISLUNAR NAVIGATION
Creators: name: Khilnani, Aneesh Vinod
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 400703
subject: Autonomous vehicle systems
classificationCode: 400199
subject: Aerospace engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis aims to assess the efficacy of adaptive Gaussian mixture filtering for an inertial navigation-based cislunar application. The thesis focuses on a fully autonomous system, where the navigation system is solely reliant on onboard sensors and receives no navigation information from external tracking systems. The proposed adaptive filter is tested under non-ideal conditions. Specifically, this thesis considers the challenging case where range information is unavailable, and instead, only bearings angles with respect to illuminated celestial bodies are measured. The performance of the adaptive filter is compared to the unscented Kalman filter (UKF), and the filter consistency and errors are compared. The proposed filter addresses challenges in linearization errors that accrue in the UKF measurement update equations. The adaptive filter is shown to be a consistent estimator, significantly outperforming the UKF. Considering design requirements for similar navigation missions, recommendations and practical considerations are suggested for future cislunar autonomous navigation applications
Experimental Testing and Reliability Analysis of Repaired SMA and Steel Reinforced Shear Walls
Creators: name: Zaidi, Mohammed
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Shape Memory Alloys
Reinforced Concrete
Shear Walls
Self-Consolidating Concrete
Mechanical coupler
Reliability Analysis
First Order Reliability Method

description: Superelastic Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) are being explored as alternative reinforcing materials to traditional deformed steel reinforcement for seismic applications. The main advantage is the ability of the SMA to recover large nonlinear strains, which promotes the self-centering phenomenon. The primary objective of this research is to present the performance, before and after repair, of slender reinforced concrete shear walls, one reinforced internally with SMAs in the boundary zones within the plastic hinge region and other control wall reinforced with conventional steel only. The repair procedure included removal of damaged concrete within the plastic hinge region, replacing fractured and buckled reinforcement, followed by shortening of the SMA reinforcement in the boundary zones of SMA wall. The removed concrete was replaced with self-consolidating concrete, while the concrete above the plastic hinge region remained intact. The SMA reinforced concrete shear wall (before and after repair) exhibited stable hysteretic response with significant strength, and displacement and energy dissipation capacities. In addition, the walls exhibited pinching in the hysteretic response as a result of minimizing the residual displacements due to the restoring capacity of the SMA reinforcement. The results demonstrate that SMA reinforced components are self-centering, permitting repairing of damaged areas. Furthermore, the SMA reinforcement is re-usable given its capacity to reset to its original state. The length of the SMA bars in the original and repaired wall, in addition to the presence of starter bars in the original wall, were significant factors in the location of failure of the walls. The conventional steel wall prior to repair was unstable due to large residual displacements experienced during the original test. After repair the wall exhibited ratcheting in hysteretic response but with significant strength. The conventional wall, before and after repair, dissipated more energy than the SMA wall. This was the result of the wider hysteretic loops with reduced punching, but at the cost of large residual displacements. The starter bars in the conventional wall before repair controlled the location of failure, while the presence of couplers in the plastic hinge region was the main factor in determining the failure location in the repaired conventional wall.