cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
L'enseignement de Krishnamurti, le messie démissionnaire.
Creators: name: Marian, Romulus.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Religion, Philosophy of.

description: Contrairement a ce que Krishnamurti dit de soi-meme et a ce que croient et propagent ses disciples, le present texte soutient que l'enseignement de Krishnamurti est fidele, dans ses grandes lignes, a la tradition, qu'il y a moyen de lui decouvrir des apparentements et des affinites, que les apparentements et affinites les plus nets s'observent entre Krishnamurti et Bouddha, plus precisement avec le Bouddhisme Zen. Une comparaison de ses enseignements avec ceux de Bouddhisme Zen montre qu'un accord foncier regne entre les uns et les autres. Ceci etant acquis, il en resulte, sur le plan de l'histoire de la pensee et des rapports est-ouest, que la penetration en Occident du Bouddhisme Zen--penetration difficile et limitee--aura ete faite avec le succes le plus voyant par un Bouddhiste, pour ainsi dire, honteux: Krishnamurti. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
The COVID-19 Pandemic : Anticipating its Effects on Canada’s Agricultural Trade
Creators: name: Barichello, Richard
Publisher: name: Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics
Year: 2022

description: With the deep recession now forecast for the world economy, trade can be expected to fall even more steeply. Agricultural trade will be less significantly affected, being insulated by its relatively low income elasticities of demand. However, a drop in the range of 12 to 20 percent in real trade value should be expected. Canada can be expected to share in this, but, within agricultural exports, cereals will be least affected. This minimal expected impact to cereals stems from the risk of wheat export bans by Russia and Kazakhstan, due to the resulting increase in wheat prices. Livestock, pulses, and horticulture can be expected to face a larger decline in trade prospects and revenues. An equally large threat to falling incomes in our trade partners is their policy responses, particularly the potential increase in import restrictions. These may take the form of more costly inspections, tightened SPS and food safety regulations, and protectionist measures from competing domestic producers.
Youth "at risk" in Ottawa-Carleton: A needs assessment.
Creators: name: Ryan, Colleen.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Education, Guidance and Counseling.

description: The purpose of this thesis is to assess the service needs of area youth "at risk". The main findings of this research indicate that persistent and serious adolescent offenders were more likely to have more negative composite profiles. In particular, they were more likely to come from families with: a single parent; another member with a criminal history; a lower class background; alcoholism; and poor relationships within the family. Similarly, persistent and serious adolescent offenders were significantly more likely to: be unemployed and not in school; be truant; and have dropped out of school. It was also discovered that area persistent and serious adolescent offenders were more likely to: have negative motivation/response to present intervention; have rejected or expelled from another program/service; be more aggressive; abuse alcohol and drugs; and have negative attitudes toward both their delinquency and the criminal justice system. Area social service agencies must begin to make more creative and effective use of existing resources. The educational system must recognize and capitalize upon its role in identifying youth "at risk". Finally, agents of the criminal justice system, particularly the police, must begin to become more involved in community-based interagency initiatives which focus on the preventative or proactive role of their activities. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Supplementary document for Localized modes revealed in Random Lasers - 5299546.pdf
Creators: name: kumar, bhupesh
name: Homri, Ran
name: Priyanka, Priyanka
name: Maurya, Santosh
name: Lebental, Melanie
name: Sebbah, Patrick
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Revised supplementary
La marine royale canadienne, 1919-1936 : une progression relative envers et contre tout.
Creators: name: Tremblay, Sylvie C. R.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.

description: Cette these examine la Marine royale canadienne (M.R.C.) pour la periode 1919-1936. L'auteure etudie d'une facon approfondie les objectifs a long terme de l'etat-major de la Marine. Le probleme pose est le suivant: quels etaient ces buts et comment l'etat-major comptait-il les atteindre tout en respectant les orientations tres souvent contraires a sa volonte que lui dictaient les gouvernements federaux de l'epoque? L'auteure est d'avis que par le biais des exercises et des activites entrepris, la creation de forces de reserve et l'entrai nement dispense aux hommes, l'etat-major de la Marine cherchait quatre choses: interesser la population et les hommes politiques canadiens a son sort; posseder une force composee de marins competents et efficaces; disposer d'une flotte convenable pour assurer la defense des cotes canadiennes; enfin, canadianiser la M.R.C. afin de plaire aux desirs d'autonomie de la population canadienne. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Novel Treatments for Multi-phase Flow Prediction Inspired By Kinetic Theory
Creators: name: Ben Dhia, Zakaria
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Multi-phase Flow
Kinetic Theory

description: This study entails an investigation of a novel moment closure, originally constructed for rarefied-gas prediction, to the modelling of inert, dilute, disperse, particle flows. Such flows are important in many engineering situations. As one example, in internal-combustion engines, fuel is often injected as a spray of tiny droplets and, during combustion, a cloud of tiny soot particles can be formed. These particle phases are often difficult to model, especially when particles display a range of velocities at each location in space. Lagrangian methods are often too costly and many Eulerian field-based methods suffer from model deficiencies and mathematical artifacts. Often, Eulerian formulations assume that all particles at a location and time have the same velocity. This assumption leads to nonphysical results, including an inability to predict particle paths crossing and a limited number of boundary conditions that can be applied. The typical multi-phase situation of many particles is, in many ways, similar to that of a gas compressed of a huge number of atoms or molecules. It is therefore expected that powerful techniques from the kinetic theory of gases could be applied. This work explores the advantages of using a modern fourteen-moment model, originally derived for rarefied gases, to predict multi-phase flows. Details regarding the derivation, the mathematical structure, and physical behaviour of the resulting model are explained. Finally, a numerical implementation is presented and results for several flow problems that are designed to demonstrate the fundamental behaviour of the models are presented. Comparisons are made with other classical models.
A perpetual switching system in pulmonary capillaries
Creators: name: Wagner, W.W.
name: Peterson, A.J.
name: Glenny, R.W.
name: Tanner, J.A.
name: Jaryszak, E.M.
name: Doerschuk, C.M.
name: Bohlen, H.G.
name: King, J.A.C.
name: Presson, R.G.
name: Crockett, E.S.
Publisher: name: American Physiological Society
Year: 2019

description: Of the 300 billion capillaries in the human lung, a small fraction meet normal oxygen requirements at rest, with the remainder forming a large reserve. The maximum oxygen demands of the acute stress response require that the reserve capillaries are rapidly recruited. To remain primed for emergencies, the normal cardiac output must be parceled throughout the capillary bed to maintain low opening pressures. The flow-distributing system requires complex switching. Because the pulmonary microcirculation contains contractile machinery, one hypothesis posits an active switching system. The opposing hypothesis is based on passive switching that requires no regulation. Both hypotheses were tested ex vivo in canine lung lobes. The lobes were perfused first with autologous blood, and capillary switching patterns were recorded by videomicroscopy. Next, the vasculature of the lobes was saline flushed, fixed by glutaraldehyde perfusion, flushed again, and then reperfused with the original, unfixed blood. Flow patterns through the same capillaries were recorded again. The 16-min-long videos were divided into 4-s increments. Each capillary segment was recorded as being perfused if at least one red blood cell crossed the entire segment. Otherwise it was recorded as unperfused. These binary measurements were made manually for each segment during every 4 s throughout the 16-min recordings of the fresh and fixed capillaries (60,000 measurements). Unexpectedly, the switching patterns did not change after fixation. We conclude that the pulmonary capillaries can remain primed for emergencies without requiring regulation: no detectors, no feedback loops, and no effectors—a rare system in biology.
Exploring Concepts of Leadership and Leadership Development Within an International Development Through Sport Context
Creators: name: Olver, Denise
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Leadership
Leadership Development
Development of Sport
Development through Sport
International Development
Organizational Development

description: Today’s youth are tomorrow’s leaders’, and for that reason, it is considered important by researchers and practitioners alike to understand how to develop effective leadership skills and characteristics. The purpose of this research was to explore concepts of leadership including leadership development (LD) within an international development through sport context. The Commonwealth Games Association of Canada’s (CGC) International Development through Sport (IDS) administration team created a program called the Capacity Support Program (CSP). The CSP is an internship program offered to recent university graduates to assist in various initiatives intended on building sporting capacity within partnering Commonwealth countries. Participants also known as Capacity Support Officer’s (CSO’s) were immersed within an international environment with a host sport organization (e.g., Barbados National Olympic Committee) for approximately fourteen-months. In this study, interviews were conducted with IDS administrators to clarify and provide further detailed information about the program. In addition, archival material (e.g., pre-departure training manual, website articles, DVDs), interviews with CSO’s, and a debrief focus group session with the CSO’s which discussed their experiences and the various concepts of leadership and LD within an international development through sport context was conducted. Data was recorded and transcribed verbatim. A grounded theory approach, specifically the inductive coding technique was utilized throughout the content analysis procedure. Findings showed that concepts of leadership and LD were 1) a fundamental component of the program and 2) linked to various existing literature on leadership theories (e.g., authentic leadership). Further, findings demonstrated the program design and training were significant components of LD and that the cross-cultural context accelerated LD. These findings and others will culminate in a discussion regarding future studies of leadership and LD.
Understanding Australians' perceptions of controversial scientific research
Creators: name: Critchley, Christine
name: Turney, Lyn
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This research examines perceptions of stem cell research among a representative sample of 1013 Australians and five focus groups. The results suggest that the majority of Australians were comfortable with the research using adult cells, but were not comfortable with scientists using cells created by cloning. The sample was however divided in relation to the use of embryonic stem cells. The use of structural equation modelling found that this division was strongly associated with the level of social trust in the scientific organisations conducting the research via anti-intellectual beliefs and the perceived value of science. Higher comfort was demonstrated among those with higher levels of social trust because of a commitment to the intellectual freedom of science and a perception that the products of science are valuable. Religious individuals were less likely to support stem cell research due to stronger anti-intellectual beliefs, but demonstrated similar levels of social trust and beliefs in the value of science to the non-religious. Finally, among both religious and non-religious groups, support for stem cell research was found to be much less likely if conducted in private compared to publicly funded organisations. The implications of the results for the perception of science are discussed, as well as the consequences for social trust if the increasing move towards tying scientific enquiry to private rather than public interests continues.
An SDN-based Framework for QoSaware Mobile Cloud Computing
Creators: name: Ekanayake Mudiyanselage, Wijaya Dheeshakthi
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Software-Defined Networking
Mobile Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing
Infrastructure-as-a-Service

description: In mobile cloud computing (MCC), rich mobile application data is processed at the cloud infrastructure by reliving resource limited mobile devices from computationally complex tasks. However, due to the ubiquitous and mobility nature, providing time critical rich applications over remote cloud infrastructure is a challenging task for mobile application service providers. Therefore, according to the literature, close proximity placement of cloud services has been identified as a way to achieve lower end-to-end access delay and thereby provide a higher quality of experience (QoE) for rich mobile application users. However, providing a higher Quality of Service (QoS) with mobility is still a challenge within close proximity clouds. Access delay to a closely placed cloud tends to be increased over time when users move away from the cloud. However, reactive resource relocation mechanism proposed in literature does not provide a comprehensive mechanism to guarantee the QoS and as well as to minimize service provisioning cost for mobile cloud service providers. As a result, using the benefits of SDN and the data plane programmability with logically centralized controllers, a resource allocation framework was proposed for IaaS mobile clouds with regional datacenters. The user mobility problem was analyzed within SDN-enabled wireless networks and addressed the possible service level agreement violations that could occur with inter-regional mobility. The proposed framework is composed of an optimization algorithm to provide seamless cloud service during user mobility. Further a service provisioning cost minimization criteria was considered during an event of resource allocation and inter-regional user mobility.
Влияние кривизны кристаллической решетки на иерархию масштабов деформационных дефектов и характер пластического течения металлических материалов
Creators: name: Панин Виктор Евгеньевич
name: Панин Алексей Викторович
name: Перевалова Ольга Борисовна
name: Шулепов Иван Анисимович
name: Власов Илья Викторович
Publisher: name: Физическая мезомеханика
Year: 2020
Subjects: кривизна решетки
структурная трансформация
наномасштабные деформационные дефек- ты
смещение электронов в междоузлия
кулоновское отталкивание электронов

description: Показано, что кривизна кристаллической решетки является ответственной за иерархию масштабов деформа- ционных дефектов на нано-, микро-, мезо- и макроструктурных уровнях в деформируемом твердом теле. В осно- ве генерации всех типов деформационных дефектов лежит механизм структурных трансформаций. Кристалли- ческая решетка играет роль кристалла-поляризатора потоков деформационных дефектов. На начальной стадии пластической деформации кривизна возникает в междоузлиях решетки и она генерирует наномасштабные дефек- ты толщиной 1–2 нм. Увеличение кривизны выдавливает наномасштабные дефекты с образованием дислокаций. Самой простой схемой поляризации является мартенситная деформация. С увеличением деформирующего на- пряжения в поляризаторе открываются новые каналы. Возникают деформационные дефекты более крупных масштабов. Нарушение перекрытия электронных оболочек генерирует трещины. Развитие трещин обусловливает разрушение материала. Если созданы условия деформации только на наномасштабном уровне, когда функциони- рует только механизм структурной трансформации, пластическое течение осуществляется сверхпластически. Рассмотрена специфика деформации неравновесных - и -фаз в сплаве Ti–6Al–4V. Эта специфика связана с не- равновесным наличием ванадия в -фазе и наличием алюминия в -фазе.
Preference for SMS versus telephone calls in initiating romantic relationships
Creators: name: Byrne, Ruth
name: Findlay, Bruce M.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This study examined sex differences in the likelihood of initiating first moves (toward relationship establishment) or first dates via short message service (SMS) text messaging and telephone calls. The sample comprised 159 females and 107 males, mean age 28 years, who completed an on-line self-report questionnaire that assessed relationship initiating behaviours. Whereas females were more likely to initiate first moves using SMS than telephone calls, males had no preference for communication channel. In initiating first dates, males were more likely to telephone than SMS, whereas females were reluctant to initiate regardless of the communication channel. Although males were more likely than females to initiate first moves and first dates via telephone calls, there were no sex differences when initiating via SMS. It was concluded that while SMS appears to have somewhat influenced the manner in which romantic first moves are initiated, traditional gender role expectations and preference for telephone communication are still strong when initiating first dates.
Experimental and Finite Element Analysis of Wind Induced Displacement of a Dual Axis Photovoltaic Solar Trackers
Creators: name: Adeleke, Bukola
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Photovoltaic Solar trackers
Multiplexer
Data logger
Wind load
Displacement and Stress

description: Photovoltaic (PV) solar panels and trackers represent one of the most common renewable energy technology which converts sunlight radiation into electrical energy. The solar trackers specifically are more complex structures because they involve mechanical devices, a supporting slender structure, and photovoltaic modules mounted and positioned on top of the supporting structure. Solar trackers are mounted on mobile supports or racks, in order to enable the rotation and tilt of the PV which thus maintains their optimum exposure to the incident sunlight. Solar trackers support structures should be designed for wind resistance during the operation and at stow position for its life span and this became a concern considering the new tendency of installing the solar trackers on the rooftop of low-rise or medium-rise buildings. The current research focused on performing site measurements of the wind-induced displacement for a dual-axis solar tracking system installed on the roof of the Mann Parking building of the University of Ottawa, for different azimuth, elevations. The supporting structure of the solar tracker was instrumented with 16 strain gauges and the strains developed in the metal truss members were measured during the months February 2015 and March 2015. The tracker was rotated and tilted at different angles through the duration of the experiment and the strains observed on each structural element were recorded. In order to estimate deflections of the supporting structure for wind speeds higher than the ones measured, a finite element (FE) model of the solar tracker was created and static analysis was performed for different inclinations using the SAP 2000 structural software. The experimental results were in agreement with the FE simulation results as the stresses obtained ranged between 1.02 × 107 Pa and 7.88 × 107 Pa. Lower attack angles between 45° and 60° were found to have significant effect on the elements of the solar tracker irrespective of the wind load magnitude. Operational attack angles between 65° and 75° were found to be safer positions as obtained displacements and stress analysis result showed that the supporting structure of the solar tracker was stable for wind speeds between 0 m/s and 33m/s in Ottawa region
Supplementary document for Terahertz time-domain derivative spectrometer using a large-aperture piezoelectric micromachined device - 5300609.pdf
Creators: name: Amirkhan, Fatemeh
name: Gratuze, Mathieu
name: ropagnol, xavier
name: Ozaki, Tsuneyuki
name: Nabki, Frédéric
name: Blanchard, Francois
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supp. Info
Transgressive construction of female identity in Indonesian literature
Creators: name: Haycock, Lachlan
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2016
Subjects: female identity
femininity
female sexuality
female role

description: This thesis examines the transgressive formation of identity in the literature of female writers in Indonesia who subvert conventional understandings of femininity, female sexuality and the female role. Extant cultural, political and religious forces demarcate an expected societal and familial function for women in relation to men, and the portrayal of women in the literary canon reinforces this gender disparity. Recently, a growing number of writers have published works that challenge normative ideals surrounding the social and literary representation of women, and undermine neo-colonial notions of male superiority and female acquiescence. The thesis uses this contextual frame of information as the basis of inquiry into the localised effect of national trends locally and the response of young writers who express their alternative notions of self and identity through their writing and personal values. Exploration of literary transgression in national and local dimensions ultimately reveals postcolonialist values within texts that constitute a response to the gendered colonialism of the establishment.
Модель тонких оболочек в моментной теории упругости с деформационной концепцией «сдвиг плюс поворот»
Creators: name: Саркисян Самвел Оганесович
Publisher: name: Физическая мезомеханика
Year: 2020
Subjects: моментная теория упругости
оболочка
модель
деформационная схема «сдвиг плюс пово- рот»
энергетические теоремы
вариационные принципы

description: В работе построена модель оболочек в моментной теории упругости с независимыми полями перемещений и вращений, в основу которой положены гипотезы о тонкостенности оболочек и о постоянстве по их толщине всех компонент векторов перемещения и поворота. Для построенной модели оболочек основные компоненты тензо- ров напряжений и моментных напряжений оказываются равномерно распределенными по их толщине, определяя естественные (мембранные) внутренние усилия и моменты. Построенная моментная модель оболочек также от- личается тем, что деформация оболочки происходит по деформационной схеме «сдвиг плюс поворот». Предло- женная модель тонких оболочек не имеет аналогии в классической теории упругости и может быть применена как в задачах мезомеханики деформируемого твердого тела, так и в задачах наномеханики. Для построенной мо- ментной модели оболочек доказываются основные энергетические теоремы и устанавливаются соответствующие вариационные принципы.
title: Verlorene Lebensjahre durch Tod
title: Verlorene Lebensjahre durch Tod
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Years of life lost to death - a comprehensive analysis of mortality in Germany conducted as part of the BURDEN 2020 project
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Gruhl, Heike
name: Wengler, Annelene
name: Plaß, Dietrich
name: Rommel, Alexander
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021

description: Hintergrund: Die Kenntnis darüber, welche Erkrankungen und Todesursachen erheblich zu den durch Sterblichkeit verlorenen Lebensjahren ("years of life lost", YLL) beitragen, kann zur besseren Fokussierung entsprechender Präventions- und Versorgungsprogramme beitragen. Im Rahmen des Projekts BURDEN 2020 am Robert Koch-Institut wurden die YLL deutschlandweit für spezifische Todesursachen ermittelt. Methode: Für die Analyse wurden die Daten der Todesursachenstatistik genutzt. ICD-10-Codes wurden auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen zu Todesursachen gruppiert und Sterbefälle todesursachenspezifisch über die Restlebenserwartung im Alter des Todes in YLL transformiert. Sterbefälle und YLL wurden differenziert nach Alter, Geschlecht und regionaler Verteilung miteinander verglichen. Ergebnisse: Im Jahr 2017 gab es in Deutschland rund 11,6 Millionen YLL, 42,8 % entfielen auf Frauen, 57,2 % auf Männer. Die größten Anteile wiesen (bösartige) Neubildungen (35,2 %), kardiovaskuläre Erkrankungen (27,6 %), Verdauungserkrankungen (5,8 %) und neurologische Störungen (5,7 %) auf. Sterbefälle in jüngerem Alter wirken sich auf die Bevölkerungsgesundheit, gemessen in YLL, verhältnismäßig stärker aus: Nur 14,7 % der Sterbefälle entfielen auf die unter 65-Jährigen, dies entspricht aber 38,3 % der verlorenen Lebensjahre. Häufige Sterbeursachen waren in dieser Gruppe unter anderem Unfälle, Selbstschädigung und Gewalt, bösartige Neubildungen sowie alkoholassoziierte Erkrankungen. Schlussfolgerung: Ein bedeutender Teil der YLL entfiel auf jüngere und mittlere Altersgruppen. Die Ergebnisse unterstreichen daher die Notwendigkeit, früh im Lebensverlauf mit Präventionsangeboten anzusetzen, um verlorene Lebenszeit in jüngeren Jahren wie auch Risikofaktoren altersassoziierter Erkrankungen zu reduzieren. Quelle: www.aerzteblatt.de
Part-time work: policy, practice and resistance in a manufacturing organisation
Creators: name: Charlesworth, Sara
name: Cartwright, Sheree
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In Australia, part-time work is seen as the key strategy for enabling employees, primarily women, to better balance work and care responsibilities. However, while almost half of all employed women work on a part-time basis, the take up of part-time work varies considerably across industries and organisations. In retail and hospitality, for example, a significant proportion of jobs are organised on a part-time (and casual) basis. In contrast, in industries like manufacturing, part-time work remains relatively rare even for female employees, with those seeking to reduce their hours of work often having to negotiate on an individual basis with their line supervisor. This article examines the issue of part-time work in a maledominated manufacturing organisation, ManuCo, where relatively few female employees work on a part-time basis. While blue collar employees have an award 'right' to part-time work after return from parental leave, uptake is highest among white collar workers who are dependent on managerial discretion to access part-time work. This article explores the reasons for this apparent paradox and reports on the development of a formal company-wide 'right-to request' part-time work policy. We explore the resistance, both overt and covert, to this initiative and the deeply embedded and gendered organisation of work and working-time that underpins it.
Short-time Multichannel Noise Power Spectral Density Estimators for Acoustic Signals
Creators: name: Blanchette, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Noise power spectra estimation
diffuse noise field
multichannel acoustic system
speech enhancement
subspace decomposition

description: The estimation of power spectral densities is a critical step in many speech enhancement algorithms. The demand for multi-channel speech enhancement systems is high with applications in teleconferencing, cellular phones, and hearing aids. The first objective of the thesis is to develop a general multi-channel framework to solve for the diffuse noise power spectral densities whenever the spatial correlation or coherence matrix is pre-estimated and the number of speakers is less than the number of microphones. The second objective is to develop closed-form analytical solutions. The performance of the developed algorithms is evaluated with pre-existing algorithms using prescribed performance measures.
Supplementary document for Terahertz time-domain derivative spectrometer using a large-aperture piezoelectric micromachined device - 5300609.pdf
Creators: name: Amirkhan, Fatemeh
name: Gratuze, Mathieu
name: ropagnol, xavier
name: Ozaki, Tsuneyuki
name: Nabki, Frédéric
name: Blanchard, Francois
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supp. Info
Darling Adopted Daughter: A memoir investigating adoption wounds
Creators: name: Sparrow, Jo-Ann
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2014
Subjects: memoir
adoption
magical realism
trauma
catharsis
second voice

description: In The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child, Nancy Verrier (1993) argues that when the natural evolution and bond of mother and baby is interrupted by a postnatal separation from the biological mother, the resultant experience of abandonment and loss is indelibly imprinted upon the unconscious minds of children, causing a â€—primal wound'. Verrier describes the wound as â€—physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual...and causing pain so profound as to have been described as cellular' (xvi). Dr Betty Jean Lifton (1994, p. 51) further argues in Journey Of The Adopted Self: A Quest For Wholeness, that when a baby is separated from its mother at birth or soon after and adopted, when the â€—self' is still entwined with that of the mother, they experience a psyche â€—split' and become a Divided Self. She claims adopted children split into the Forbidden Self and the Artificial Self, neither of which is completely true or completely false.
Examining the Efficacy of Mindfulness Training to Enhance Attention in Normal Aging
Creators: name: Isbel, Benjamin
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2019
Subjects: mindfulness
aging
attention
EEG
affect

description: The ability to sustain attention by inhibiting competing distracting processes represents a core attentional function that underpins complex cognitive operations which are known to slow and become increasingly susceptible to interference with age. Mindfulness has emerged as a training technique purportedly capable of enhancing attentional control and may provide protective benefits for older adults against agerelated cognitive decline (ARCD). Although evidence of the attentional benefits arising from mindfulness practice continues to grow, studies examining aging cohorts are lacking. This thesis examines the efficacy of mindfulness to enhance attention and affect in healthy older adults, as indexed by both behavioural and electrophysiological measures of performance. In order to accurately assess mindfulness by means of testable hypotheses, a comprehensive theoretical model of mindfulness capable of describing the attentional processes activated by this practice together with the pathways through which attentional and affective outcomes are achieved is required. In addition, a standardised set of instructions translated from this model is required to assess outcomes arising from this practice. Chapter 2 of this thesis presents a detailed cognitive model of mindfulness along with a standardised technique capable of activating the core processes of mindfulness in isolation from additional factors. Mindfulness-based interventions commonly used to date combine mindfulness with ancillary techniques such as psychoeducation or relaxation techniques, limiting their ability to draw causal inferences regarding observed outcomes. Here a standardised technique translated from a theoretical model is presented for use in longitudinal RCTs.
Large-scale Internet of Things and Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks for Deployment in Smart Cities
Creators: name: Ijemaru, Gerald
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2024
Subjects: Internet of Things (IoT)
wireless rechargeable sensor networks
smart cities
energy efficiency
big data analytics
wireless power transfer
energy harvesting
waste management
Internet of Vehicles
wireless sensor networks
swarm intelligence
Communications engineering

description: The advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) has propelled urban landscapes towards the vision of smart cities. These urban ecosystems rely heavily on the seamless integration of countless sensors and devices, collectively forming a network capable of monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing city functions. The integration of the IoT in urban infrastructure has played a pivotal role in enhancing resource management, improving citizen services, and promoting sustainability. However, as IoT deployments scale up to meet the demands of densely populated cities, various challenges related to energy efficiency, connectivity, data management, and sustainability have become increasingly apparent. Yet, the energy constraints inherent in battery-powered sensors pose significant challenges to the realization of sustainable and scalable smart city deployments.
description: This thesis explores the critical nexus between Large-Scale IoT (LS-IoT) and Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks (WRSNs) to address the burgeoning demands of smart cities. With a keen focus on energy efficiency, scalability, and real-world deployment, this research seeks to bridge the gap between theoretical potential and practical implementation.
Молекулярно-динамическое исследование влияния границы раздела на разрушение гетероструктуры при одноосном растяжении
Creators: name: Головнев Игорь Федорович
name: Головнева Елена Игоревна
name: Фомин Василий Михайлович
Publisher: name: Физическая мезомеханика
Year: 2020
Subjects: метод молекулярной динамики
металлическая гетероструктура
наноразмерный образец
граница раздела
растяжение с постоянной скоростью
деформация
разрушение
полосы Людерса–Чернова

description: Проведено исследование влияния границы раздела на разрушение металлических гетероструктур при одно- осном растяжении с постоянной скоростью деформации с помощью молекулярно-динамического моделирова- ния. Выявлено, что наличие границы раздела, ориентированной по оси направления действия силы, приводит к упрочнению образца. Одним из объяснений причин возникающего упрочнения является эффект затекания ато- мов одного металла в поры, образовавшиеся в подсистеме другого металла в процессе растяжения. Кроме того, в гетероструктуре распространение полос Людерса–Чернова в области шейки в медной и серебряной подсистемах направлено таким образом, что на границе раздела происходит излом направления полос Людерса–Чернова, что приводит к уменьшению смещения плоскостей атомов в каждом из металлов.
Making Things That Look Like Other Things
Creators: name: Kaarsemaker, David
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014

description: My work explores and questions the relationship between the practice of painting, the physical world, and memory. My paintings are made through a layered process that constructs and mediates my approach to a subject. I think through and about the levels and methods of mediation between the world of experience and the act of painting, examining the complex and interconnected realities of things and making images of things. I begin with the rooms or houses that I remember most vividly from my life. I build maquettes of these spaces, combining them with photographs, projected images, maps, grids, shadows, reflections, and views of my studio space and exterior landscapes. In my paintings, walls unfold or merge into other spaces, doors and windows open into other realities, rooms are half buried, light and images are projected onto walls, and objects appear or disappear with varying degrees of resolution. I foreground the tape, gaps, and crookedness of the maquettes in my paintings as a means of reflecting on the ways that memories are inherently malleable and always incomplete. Memories are warped by the stories we construct to fit our evolving identities. These stories, in the telling, are like architecture. We move through them, they fall apart and are repaired, and they give shape to our experience. Memories, like the mind and like time, are unimaginable without their physical manifestations. The foundation of my practice is the concept of “pictures residing in pictures,” which sets individual levels of visual experience at a remove. Each painting presents a record of my effort to make these variously represented realities cohere into a convincing and engaging entity. In my paintings, the image and the materiality of paint dovetail and mutually transform each other: raw canvas gradually becomes recognizable image, paint thins into atmosphere, becomes more suggestive of things, builds up, and congeals into a tangible mass before gradually “dissolving” back into the canvas surface. The act of painting itself possesses narrative possibilities that give physical form to memory and perception.
Random Matrix Theory with Applications in Statistics and Finance
Creators: name: Saad, Nadia Abdel Samie Basyouni Kotb
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: random matrices
Markowitz optimization problem
unitary (orthogonally) invariance
optimal portfolio
risk underestimation
inverse of compound Wishart matrices
Weingarten Calculus

description: This thesis investigates a technique to estimate the risk of the mean-variance (MV) portfolio optimization problem. We call this technique the Scaling technique. It provides a better estimator of the risk of the MV optimal portfolio. We obtain this result for a general estimator of the covariance matrix of the returns which includes the correlated sampling case as well as the independent sampling case and the exponentially weighted moving average case. This gave rise to the paper, [CMcS]. Our result concerning the Scaling technique relies on the moments of the inverse of compound Wishart matrices. This is an open problem in the theory of random matrices. We actually tackle a much more general setup, where we consider any random matrix provided that its distribution has an appropriate invariance property (orthogonal or unitary) under an appropriate action (by conjugation, or by a left-right action). Our approach is based on Weingarten calculus. As an interesting byproduct of our study - and as a preliminary to the solution of our problem of computing the moments of the inverse of a compound Wishart random matrix, we obtain explicit moment formulas for the pseudo-inverse of Ginibre random matrices. These results are also given in the paper, [CMS]. Using the moments of the inverse of compound Wishart matrices, we obtain asymptotically unbiased estimators of the risk and the weights of the MV portfolio. Finally, we have some numerical results which are part of our future work.
Clarification of methodical questions regarding the investigation of nanomaterials in the environment
Creators: name: Kozin, Philipp
name: Kammer, Frank Von Der
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Nanotechnik
subject: Nanomaterialien
subject: Nanopartikel
subject: nanotechnology
subject: nanomaterials
subject: nanoparticle
subject: Agglomeration
subject: Sedimentation
subject: dispersion stability
subject: dispersibility
subject: environmental behavior
subject: Chemicals

description: For an adequate and valid interpretation of data regarding the environmental fate and behavior of nanomaterials it is essential to describe parameters like dissolution (rate), dispersibility and dispersion stability. Aim of the project was the development of a standardized test method to determine dispersibility and dispersion stability of nanomaterials in simulated environmental media as new ⁠OECD⁠ Test Guideline. For this objective, both conceptual and experimental work was conducted and an international round robin was initiated and executed to validate the proposed test setup regarding reliability and reproducibility. Two comprehensive expert commenting rounds of the OECD Test Guideline program supported the refinement of the draft within this project. The test method developed in this project was submitted to the OECD Test Guideline program by ⁠UBA⁠ and published by OECD in October 2017 as new “Test Guideline on dispersion stability of nanomaterials in simulated environmental media (OECD No. 318)”. The presented final report summarizes the experimental work performed to develop the OECD Test Guideline.
Embracing the Context of Pediatric Rehabilitation Programs: Investigating the Role of Family-centred Service Philosophy in Program Evaluation
Creators: name: Moreau, Katherine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: program evaluation
participatory program evaluation
family-centred service
Canadian rehabilitation centres

description: Program evaluation is becoming increasingly important in pediatric rehabilitation settings that adhere to FCS philosophy. This philosophy recognizes that each family is unique, that parents know their children best, and that optimal child functioning occurs within a family context. However, researchers know little about the specific evaluation activities occurring in these settings or the extent to which evaluators uphold FCS philosophy in their activities. The primary goal of this study is to examine the strengths, limitations, and consequences of current evaluation practice, including its compatibility with FCS philosophy. As a secondary goal, the study aims to understand the promise and prospects of alternative evaluation approaches that, in theory, are compatible with FCS philosophy. To address these goals, this study uses a mixed-methods approach and includes three phases. Phase 1 involves a survey of staff members involved with program evaluation at 15 Canadian pediatric rehabilitation centres. It determines the level of program evaluation occurring in these settings, verifies on the motivation for evaluation, and describes the degree to which evaluation activities are consistent with the FCS philosophy. Phase 2 involves interviews with staff members and explores the values, factors, and conditions that support and inhibit the evaluation of family-centred programs in pediatric rehabilitation settings as well as the benefits and limitations of using mainstream practices for evaluating these programs. Phase 3 then uses focus groups with staff members and interviews with parents to explore how the evaluation of family-centred programs can be improved as well as to identify the compatibility and practicality of using alternative evaluation approaches within these settings. Overall, the findings show that the amount of evaluation activities occurring within these centres is variable; that the majority of individuals working in program evaluation do not have formal training in it; and that the centres have limited resources for evaluation. The findings also demonstrate that participatory evaluation approaches are more compatible with FCS philosophy but that it might be difficult to implement such approaches given the limited resources and diverse characteristics of rehabilitation settings. In light of these circumstances, the study notes ways for improving program evaluation activities.
The Effects of a Novel Approach to Priming on the Measurement and Modification of Appearance-Related Attentional Biases in Men and Women in the General Population
Creators: name: Lane, Ben R
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2017
Subjects: appearance
attentional biases
body image
dot-probe task
priming

description: Cognitive-behavioural theories propose that appearance-related attentional biases contribute to the aetiology and maintenance of body image disturbances and eating disorders. Attentional biases refer to the preferential processing of certain types of stimuli. A recent review concluded that the evidence robustly supports the presence of these biases in women with high body image disturbance (Rodgers & DuBois, 2016). However, the biases have not been found consistently across all measurement paradigms. Furthermore, the conditions and information for which the biases operate has only been generally specified in theory. Cognitive-behavioural theories recognise that activating events are important in triggering the schemas that are considered to drive attentional biases. Across three studies, this dissertation investigated the influence of such events on the measurement and modification of appearance-related attentional biases.
Device fabrication scheme for evaporated SPC poly-Si thin-film solar cells on glass (EVA)
Creators: name: Kunz, Oliver
name: Ouyang, Zi
name: Wong, Johnson
name: Aberle, Armin G.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Polycrystalline silicon thin-film solar cells on glass obtained by solid phase crystallisation (SPC) of PECVD-deposited a-Si have good photovoltaic efficiency. In this paper we present a functioning device fabrication scheme for equivalent solar cells made from evaporated SPC poly-Si films (EVA). Respectable efficiencies of above 4% are achieved for both p-type and n-type EVA solar cells on planar glass superstrates. The various hurdles that had to be passed to achieve these results are described.