cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Application of SimpleTreat 4.0 in European substance regulations
Creators: name: Struijs, Jaap
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: modelling
subject: sewage treatment
subject: pharmaceutical
subject: biocide
subject: REACH
subject: Wasser
subject: Water

description: SimpleTreat 4.0 is an exposure and emission model developed to estimate chemical emission from sewage treatment plants and exposure in surface water within the framework of risk assessment of chemicals. It is a revision of SimpleTreat 3.1 which supported the chemical act25 years ago in the Netherlands and later in the European Union (EU).
Quelle: http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/
description: SimpleTreat 4.0 is an exposure and emission model developed to estimate chemical emission from sewage treatment plants and exposure in surface water within the framework of risk assessment of chemicals. It is a revision of SimpleTreat 3.1 which supported the chemical act25 years ago in the Netherlands and later in the European Union (EU).
Supplementary document for Advanced and versatile interferometric technique for the characterization of photonic integrated devices - 5323775.pdf
Creators: name: Bru, Luis
name: Pastor, Daniel
name: Munoz, Pascual
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document: in section 1, the broadening of the contributions in the impulsive domain are derived. In section 2, the design rules of the 3-MZI proposed device are reasoned in detail and discussed the AWG case real design in the manuscript
Design without designers: thinking everyday design practice
Creators: name: Raff, Jan-Henning
name: Melles, Gavin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The study of users’ practices (User-centred Design) and the integration of potential users in the design process (Participatory Design) have become important ways of resourcing design. Still, from a designer’s viewpoint, the material practice of users by itself is not acknowledged as design. By catching up with current debates about everyday design we want to establish an understanding of everyday design as a mode of practice. This implies a stress on practice and a move away from false expectations of innovation in everyday design. This paper seeks to enrich the debate by presenting empirical material from studies of everyday design in students’ self-regulated learning activities. This focus extends the scope of everyday design from pragmatic action to cognitive activities.
Failed plots: Authority and the social circle in eighteenth-century fiction.
Creators: name: Schellenberg, Elizabeth A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Literature, English.

description: Theoreticians of the early novel have canonized as realistic those fictions that portray the desirous individual in sustained tension with his or her social environment. Such fictions bring irreconcilable and subversive voices into conflict, and privilege a strongly linear, teleological plot. This critical focus has contributed to the dismissal of a substantial body of eighteenth-century British fiction which adopts alternative structures in order to express different ideological alignments. In particular, a study of pairs of works by authors who may in the first case be relative unknowns, but in the second have become more established and authoritative writers seeking to meet audience expectations while balancing or competing an oeuvre, reveals divergent responses to a climate of philosophical uncertainty, social flux, and changing notions of authorship. The later work of each pair--Samuel Richardson's sequel to Pamela, his Sir Charles Grandison following upon Clarissa, Henry Fielding's Amelia after Tom Jones, and Sarah Fielding's sequel, Volume the Last, to her Adventures of David Simple--reflects its context of successful author, established audience, and preceding text by reinscribing the isolated protagonist within a stable social circle modelled on the intimate conversational group. Thus these works share a use of the circle as formal image at several levels of structure, ranging from metaphors of clockworks and gravitational systems, to "conversation-pieces" as the fundamental units of plot, to an overall impulse towards consensus and cyclical stasis that replaces the momentum supplied by conflict in their predecessor texts. Two examples taken from pre-novelistic genres--William Congreve's The Double-Dealer as a comedy self-consciously in search of a new form that will adequately embody the emerging ideal of conversational relations, and John Bunyan's sequel to The Pilgrim's Progress as a feminized, communal, and static rewriting of the individual's struggle to win salvation in a hostile world--suggest the preoccupations informing the conservative fictions studied in the thesis. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Semipolar polycyclic aromatic compounds
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014

description: Semipolar polycyclic aromatic compounds (sPACs) are frequently found in association with homocyclic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in substances of unknown or variable composition, complex reaction products, or biological materials (UVCBs) from coal or crude oil and products derived thereof. However, major information deficiencies exist with regard to their prevalence and their toxicological and ecotoxicological potential, persistency, and bioaccumulation characteristics. Therefore, in this work, the environmental concern and relevance of sPACs was addressed in a general, stepwise approach. First, a large list of sPACs was collected and subsequently refined by assessing their persistence, bioaccumulation, and toxicity (PBT) properties by quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) methods and their relevance by determining their respective frequency of occurrence. In this way, 15 priority sPACs were identified. These 15 priority sPACs were further characterized in detail with respect to their ecotoxicological properties, environmental behavior, carcinogenicity, and genotoxicity attributes. All of these 15 substances were quantified in distillate or product samples. In the next step, some principles for nomination of indicator substances, indicative for the overall content of sPACs, are derived. Data gaps on ecotoxicological endpoints preclude final conclusions, but the respective necessary supplemental tests were identified. Five of the 15 sPACs were tentatively characterized as potential substances of very high concern (SVHC) for the environment. The overall results of this study also clearly show that regulatory risk management of homocyclic PAHs within the European Regulation on Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) does not address the environmental concern created by sPACs within UVCBs from coal or crude oil. The study proves the need for additional regulatory steps under REACH and suggests indicator substances for their enforcement. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2014;9999:XX-XX. © 2014 SETAC.
Supplementary document for Advanced and versatile interferometric technique for the characterization of photonic integrated devices - 5323775.pdf
Creators: name: Bru, Luis
name: Pastor, Daniel
name: Munoz, Pascual
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document: in section 1, the broadening of the contributions in the impulsive domain are derived. In section 2, the design rules of the 3-MZI proposed device are reasoned in detail and discussed the AWG case real design in the manuscript
The Cirrus Guide II In-situ Aircraft Data Set
Creators: name: Krämer, Martina
name: Rolf, Christian
name: Spelten, Nicole
Publisher: name: FZ-Juelich B2SHARE
Year: 2020
Subjects: 3.3.14 → Earth sciences → Meteorology
Upper tropopshere / Lower stratosphere
Cirrus Clouds
Humidity

description: The Cirrus Guide II in-situ data set (see Krämer et al., 2016, 2020) contains cloud and trace gas observations in the UTLS (Upper Troposphere / Lower Stratosphere) from research aircraft on a flight by flight basis. The major parameters contained in the data set are: Total water content (TWC = ice for temperatures T < -38C, liquid or ice or a mixture between -38C - 0C, liquid for T > 0C), cloud particle number concentration N_cloud (physical state as for TWC), mean mass radius R_cloud, in-cloud as well as the clear sky relative humidity with respect to ice (RH_ice) and clear sky water vapor volume mixing ratios of H2O and O_3. Further, meteorological variables are included in the data set: Time, Temperature, potential Temperature, Pressure, Altitude, Latitude, Longitude, Latitude, vertical velocity. The complete in situ data set comprises 24 field campaigns described by Krämer et al. (2016) and Krämer et al. (2020). Krämer, M., Rolf, C., Spelten, N., Afchine, A., Fahey, D., Jensen, E., Khaykin, S., Kuhn, T., Lawson, P., Lykov, A., Pan, L. L., Riese, M., Rollins, A., Stroh, F., Thornberry, T., Wolf, V., Woods, S., Spichtinger, P., Quaas, J., and Sourdeval, O.: A Microphysics Guide to Cirrus – Part II: Climatologies of Clouds and Humidity from Observations, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2020-40, in press, 2020. Krämer, M., Rolf, C., Luebke, A., Afchine, A., Spelten, N., Costa, A., Meyer, J., Zöger, M., Smith, J., Herman, R. L., Buchholz, B., Ebert, V., Baumgardner, D., Borrmann, S., Klingebiel, M., and Avallone, L.: A Microphysics Guide to Cirrus Clouds – Part 1: Cirrus types, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 3463–3483, 2016.
Supplementary document for Ability of gas modulation to reduce the pickup of drifts in refractometry - 5323977.pdf
Creators: name: Axner, Ove
name: Forssen, Clayton
name: Silander, Isak
name: Zakrisson, Johan
name: Zelan, Martin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary material
Producing elite indigenous masculinities
Creators: name: Hokowhitu, Brendan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This article asserts that elite indigenous tribal masculinity is a particular type of masculinity that has developed since colonisation, in part at least, mimicking dominant forms of invader/settler masculinity. While most commentators have outlined that the dominant forms of invader/settler masculinities were held to be inversely related to the mind of indigenous men, the productive nature of power imposed a different set of rules that challenged this dialectic so that aspects of invader/settler masculinity were necessarily imbibed into burgeoning post-contact indigenous masculine leaders. This masculinity has since been allocated disciplinary and authoritative power through notions of tradition and authenticity. Further, indigenous masculinity was often asserted as reflecting the collective will for liberation; in reality, elite indigenous masculinities have habitually served to exclude alternative forms of indigenous masculinity and indigenous women from leadership roles. Via a post-hegemonic analysis of indigenous masculinity, this article appraises the Janus-faced and ambivalent figure of the indigenous heterosexual patriarch; both oppressor and oppressed. The dialectics between hetero-patriarchal masculinity and feminism, and colonised/coloniser become complicated, as indigenous masculinities are both imbibed with privilege and denied it; both performing colonial hetero-patriarchy and resistant to it.
Supplementary document for Ability of gas modulation to reduce the pickup of drifts in refractometry - 5323977.pdf
Creators: name: Axner, Ove
name: Forssen, Clayton
name: Silander, Isak
name: Zakrisson, Johan
name: Zelan, Martin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary material
Le communisme, ou comment la production de la misère devient prolifération ontologique. Le devenir du travail dans les sociétés contemporaines
Creators: name: Bernier, Emilie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Communisme
Travail
Production
Valeur
Opéraïsme
Biopolitique
General Intellect
Marx
Heidegger
Spinoza
Negri
Bataille

description: La thèse interroge le sens du travail, des origines de son institution dans la pensée politique moderne aux plus récentes transformations qui marquent le passage aux économies post-fordistes. La principale caractéristique que présentent ces dernières tient à leur intégration, au sein de la sphère productive, de toutes les activités de nature informationnelle, communicationnelle et affective, qui, traditionnellement, lui étaient demeurées extérieure. Cette opération est analysée grâce aux concepts de travail immatériel et de production biopolitique développés par les penseurs associés au mouvement opéraïste. Afin de sonder les conséquences de cette fusion de la production matérielle, éthique et juridique, la thèse sollicite l’éclairage de l’analyse marxienne de la valeur, qu’elle fait ensuite résonner avec la pensée de la technique que propose Heidegger, dans l’optique d’un dépassement de la métaphysique moderne du sujet, où, selon un diagnostic commun aux auteurs, se situe l’origine d’un asservissement du tout de la vie à un régime de production dévastateur – le nihilisme, ou la ruine de toutes les valeurs. S’appuyant sur une lecture contemporaine de Spinoza, notamment par Negri, cette critique de la métaphysique se révèle le geste initiateur d’un procès constitutif proprement politique. Enracinant plutôt le fondement de l’activité dans une ontologie de la finitude essentielle élaborée à la faveur d’une phénoménologie de la praxis collective, la thèse parcourt le chemin qui mène de l’explicitation du sens du travail comme usure du monde dans son ensemble, à l’anamnèse d’un usage intégral de la puissance productive, qui permet, dans les conditions actuelles de la production biopolitique, de déployer une imagination constitutive pour laquelle la notion d’utilité, au sens métaphysique, fournit un principe d’évaluation. Il s’agit d’apprécier, parmi les dynamiques tendancielles inhérentes aux formes de vie et de subjectivité engendrées dans la mobilisation incessante et irréversible qui nous affecte, l’imminence d’une réalisation du communisme dans la transvaluation de l’industrie en désœuvrement.
Conséquences et résilience liées à l'apprentissage et à la recherche sur le génocide des Tutsis: Cas des étudiants et des professeurs
Creators: name: Kayitesi, Berthe
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Conséquences
Résilience
Génocide des Tutsis
Témoins tiers

description: Cette étude porte sur les conséquences du génocide des Tutsis sur ses héritiers tiers. À partir d’une enquête et l’analyse de données qualitatives, elle met en exergue les défis auxquels se sont heurtés les professeurs et les étudiants diplômés qui ont étudié ce crime, au nombre desquels, le plus important est le traumatisme secondaire né de la confrontation avec les écrits portant sur le génocide, et la visite des lieux de mémoire. Cette confrontation a engendré les sentiments de solitude, de désespoir, de perte de confiance en soi et en l’humanité, ainsi que de culpabilité au regard de l’abandon des victimes de ce génocide. D’un autre côté, cette recherche identifie les moyens mis en place par les participants pour surmonter ces difficultés. Pour ce faire, les liens qu’ils ont tissés avec les rescapés et les différents types d’engagements et d’actions qu’ils ont pris leur ont permis de donner sens à leur démarche, notamment le fait pour eux d’être à l’écoute de l’expérience des rescapés et d’en rendre compte auprès de la société, qui est un élément essentiel. La prise de parole par le survivant, son écoute et sa transmission participent à la reconnaissance des victimes et le rétablissement de leur appartenance à la communauté humaine et ainsi à leur résilience. En côtoyant les rescapés, les participants ont pris conscience de la résilience de ces derniers, et ce constat les a appuyés dans leur démarche. D’où une construction mutuelle de la résilience. Lorsque la violence du savoir génocidaire s’est avérée insupportable, les participants ont décidé de prendre du recul avec leurs travaux, afin de pouvoir prendre soin d’eux. En confiant leur expérience à un proche où a un professionnel de la santé mentale, les participants ont pu surmonter le poids émotionnel lié à leur objet de recherche. Cette recherche soutient aussi l’importance de concilier la théorie et la pratique lorsqu’on fait la recherche sur la violence extrême.
Consensus guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) deficiencies
Creators: name: Opladen, Thomas
name: López-Laso, Eduardo
name: Cortès-Saladelafont, Elisenda
name: Pearson, Toni S
name: Sivri, H. S
name: Yildiz, Yilmaz
name: Assmann, Birgit
name: Kurian, Manju A
name: Leuzzi, Vincenzo
name: Heales, Simon
name: Pope, Simon
name: Porta, Francesco
name: García-Cazorla, Angeles
name: Honzík, Tomáš
name: Pons, Roser
name: Regal, Luc
name: Goez, Helly
name: Artuch, Rafael
name: Hoffmann, Georg F
name: Horvath, Gabriella
name: Thöny, Beat
name: Scholl-Bürgi, Sabine
name: Burlina, Alberto
name: Verbeek, Marcel M
name: Mastrangelo, Mario
name: Friedman, Jennifer
name: Wassenberg, Tessa
name: Jeltsch, Kathrin
name: Kulhánek, Jan
name: Kuseyri Hübschmann, Oya
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: Tetrahydrobiopterin (BH₄) deficiencies comprise a group of six rare neurometabolic disorders characterized by insufficient synthesis of the monoamine neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin due to a disturbance of BH₄ biosynthesis or recycling. Hyperphenylalaninemia (HPA) is the first diagnostic hallmark for most BH₄ deficiencies, apart from autosomal dominant guanosine triphosphate cyclohydrolase I deficiency and sepiapterin reductase deficiency. Early supplementation of neurotransmitter precursors and where appropriate, treatment of HPA results in significant improvement of motor and cognitive function. Management approaches differ across the world and therefore these guidelines have been developed aiming to harmonize and optimize patient care. Representatives of the International Working Group on Neurotransmitter related Disorders (iNTD) developed the guidelines according to the SIGN (Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network) methodology by evaluating all available evidence for the diagnosis and treatment of BH₄ deficiencies. Conclusion: Although the total body of evidence in the literature was mainly rated as low or very low, these consensus guidelines will help to harmonize clinical practice and to standardize and improve care for BH₄ deficient patients.
Supplementary document for Multipolar scattering analysis of hybrid metal-dielectric nanostructures - 5325172.pdf
Creators: name: Ray, Debdatta
name: Kiselev, Andrei
name: Martin, Olivier
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: 1. VARIATION OF PEAKS OF ED AND MD RESONANCES FROM FIG. 1;2. ANAPOLE STATE OF SI R=235 NM H=220 NM FROM FIG. 1
Production et commercialisation des ressources végétales dans la province de Taza (Nord du Maroc)
Creators: name: Abdelmajid Khabbach
name: Libiad, Mohamed
name: Ennabili, Abdeslam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 70304 Crop and Pasture Biomass and Bioproducts
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
subject: 70307 Crop and Pasture Post Harvest Technologies (incl. Transportation and Storage)
subject: 70106 Farm Management, Rural Management and Agribusiness
subject: FOS: Other agricultural sciences

description: In order to quantify values of the plant diversity in the province of Taza (N of Morocco), as approach of the environmental economy, an investigation and land prospecting raised real direct values of the local flora. The flora identified in the study area counts 140 species, corresponding to 55 botanical families and represent 3.11% of the national specific richness. The spontaneous species such Capparis spinosa, Muscaria comosum, Ziziphus spp. and Origanum spp. constitute a source of particular income for rural women and children. They occupy the local population for varying periods of the annual growing season: 17.3±7.76 days/year (Origanum compactum), 17.5±5.00 d/year (Muscari comosum) and 54.0±18.1 d/year (Macrochloa tenacissima). For the cultivated species, the plots are small and located in mountainous areas, and the arboreal species, Prunus dulcis and Olea europaea, provide more incomes, with respectively 1,825 ±2,142 and 3,788 ±2,602 dirham (MAD)/fellah (farmer). In addition to local uses of the species inventoried, we recorded important national and international traffics of the plant biomass harvested. The direct services provided by these resources, besides their indirect functional values, argue for the local flora conservation.
Photochemical Synthesis of Niobium Nanoparticles
Creators: name: Malyshev, Dimitriy
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: nanochemistry
nanoparticles
photochemistry
niobium
dimitriy malyshev
Scaiano

description: This thesis focuses on the development of method to the photochemical synthesis of niobium nanoparticles (NbNP) using Irgacure 907 (I-907) photoinitiator. This investigation is composed of two parts; whereas the mechanistic study of formation of particles was investigated first, and then followed by particles property characterization. By studying the mechanism of formation we were able to obtain knowledge on how to control the size of NbNP. This knowledge provided us with ability to generate a library of nanoparticles with the varying sizes. Furthermore, the study of I-907 photoproducts has given insight for an alternative method for the synthesis of NbNP using a milder reducing agent, 4-(methylthio)benzaldehyde (MSBA). Exposure of NbNP to air causes their oxidation leading to the formation of niobium oxide nanoparticles (NbONP). The oxidation of NbONP was characterized with variety of techniques (XPS, EDS and HRTEM) that demonstrated the core-shell structure of the nanoparticles. These methods indicated that the core is metallic Nb0 and the shell is the niobium oxide, Nb2O5. Since Nb2O5 is known be a strong Brønsted acid, we tested the Brønsted activity of NbONP with pH sensitive dye coumarin-6 (C6) (monitored using fluorescence and UV-vis). The results of these spectroscopic experiments indicated that NbONP can protonate C6, thus serving as confirmation for the acidity of NbONP. Furthermore, particles with varying sizes were tested with C6 to check if the difference in size affects the acidity. It was observed that the particles with the larger sizes have the strongest acidity and the particles of smaller sizes are less acidic.
Micro cap mergers & acquisitions/takeover integrations: success or failure?
Creators: name: Ng, G. Wan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This study investigates mergers and acquisitions (M&A) or takeover integrations of private unlisted companies with value less than AUD$50 million, of which we define as micro cap. We acknowledge that micro cap generally refers to listed companies, but in this study, the term micro cap is adopted for easy reference. In particular, this study examines the determinants of successful micro cap integrations. It also contributes to the understanding of micro cap M&A by applying an integration perspective. This perspective in the context of micro cap has been neglected in past research on M&A, but is imperative to understand the pitfalls and problems that hinder successful micro cap integrations. Semi‐structured interviews with five Australian micro cap acquirers who have done multiple transactions in the past seven years were conducted. The general results obtained shows significant similarity to the literature which is mainly focused on large corporation M&A. It does, however, highlight some interesting insights and problems encountered during micro cap integration that are not common for the M&A of larger firms. This study would be beneficial especially to micro cap acquirers, as well as future researchers of this context.
Supplementary document for Multipolar scattering analysis of hybrid metal-dielectric nanostructures - 5325172.pdf
Creators: name: Ray, Debdatta
name: Kiselev, Andrei
name: Martin, Olivier
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: 1. VARIATION OF PEAKS OF ED AND MD RESONANCES FROM FIG. 1;2. ANAPOLE STATE OF SI R=235 NM H=220 NM FROM FIG. 1
Operationalisierung von in Umweltstrategien der Bundesregierung festgelegten Umweltzielen als Bewertungsmaßstab für SUP und UVP (Machbarkeitsstudie)
Creators: name: Hartlik, Joachim
name: Balla, Stefan
name: Thimm, Insa
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Umweltprüfung
subject: Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfung
subject: Strategische Umweltprüfung
subject: Ökologische Bewertung
subject: Treibhausgasemission
subject: Umweltstrategie
subject: Reduktion der Flächeninanspruchnahme
subject: Reduktion der Treibhausgasemission
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales

description: Der Forschungsbericht geht der Frage nach, ob quantifizierte Umweltziele aus Programmen der Bundesebene Ausgangspunkt für die Ableitung von Bewertungsmaßstäben für die Umweltprüfungen (SUP und ⁠UVP⁠) sein können. Die Autorinnen und Autoren prüfen beispielhaft für die Reduktion der Treibhausgasemissionen und die Reduktion der Flächeninanspruchnahme die Umsetzungsmöglichkeit und Handhabbarmachung dieses Ansatzes. Für den Belang Flächenverbrauch ist eine Operationalisierung mit dem vorhandenen Instrumentarium bereits heute für Planerinnen und Planer möglich. Bei dem ausgewählten Beispiel zum Emissionsreduktionsziel im Verkehrssektor war dieser Ansatz noch nicht in vergleichbarer Weise umsetzbar.
Use of internet website to benefit potential customers: an exploratory study of tertiary institutions in Malaysia
Creators: name: Ho, Henry
name: Ooi, Teik Chooi
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This study investigates all possible areas on how private tertiary institution in Malaysia could fully use their websites to benefit their potential customers. This study focuses on three selected private tertiary education institutions' (INTI, KDU and Olympia College) websites; identifying their strengths and weaknesses, followed by recommendation on how institutions can improve their websites to gain good impression or perception from potential customers, such that they will re-visit the websites to get more information. A list of criteria like source, layout, accessibility, speed, navigability, content, accuracy, appropriate level of details, current information and appearance are called out. Based on the study done, the KDU College website is the best website compared to the other two institutions. Nevertheless, further improvement can be made in terms of displaying all course fees, FAQs for international and local student admission, and contact information for faculty, staff and students.
Fractionation Statistics
Creators: name: Wang, Baoyong
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: mathematical model
evolution
whole genome doubling
gene loss
theory of runs

description: Paralog reduction, the loss of duplicate genes after whole genome duplication (WGD) is a pervasive process. Whether this loss proceeds gene by gene or through deletion of multi-gene DNA segments is controversial, as is the question of fractionation bias, namely whether one homeologous chromosome is more vulnerable to gene deletion than the other. As a null hypothesis, we first assume deletion events, on one homeolog only, excise a geometrically distributed number of genes with unknown mean mu, and these events combine to produce deleted runs of length l, distributed approximately as a negative binomial with unknown parameter r; itself a random variable with distribution pi(.). A biologically more realistic model requires deletion events on both homeologs distributed as a truncated geometric. We simulate the distribution of run lengths l in both models, as well as the underlying pi(r), as a function of mu, and show how sampling l allows us to estimate mu. We apply this to data on a total of 15 genomes descended from 6 distinct WGD events and show how to correct the bias towards shorter runs caused by genome rearrangements. Because of the difficulty in deriving pi(.) analytically, we develop a deterministic recurrence to calculate each pi(r) as a function of mu and the proportion of unreduced paralog pairs. This is based on a computing formula containing nested sums. The parameter mu can be estimated based on run lengths of single-copy regions. We then reduce the computing formulae, at least in the one-sided case, to closed form. This virtually eliminates computing time due to highly nested summations. We formulate a continuous version of the fractionation process, deleting line segments of exponentially distributed lengths in analogy to geometric distributed numbers of genes. We derive nested integrals and discover that the number of previously deleted regions to be skipped by a new deletion event is exactly geometrically distributed. We undertook a large simulation experiment to show how to discriminate between the gene-by-gene duplicate deletion model and the deletion of a geometrically distributed number of genes. This revealed the importance of the effects of genome size N, the mean of the geometric distribution, the progress towards completion of the fractionation process, and whether the data are based on runs of deleted genes or undeleted genes.
Effets d'un déficit calorique sur la compensation énergétique en période post-exercice chez la femme
Creators: name: Boilard, Heïdi
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Caloric restriction
exercise
energy intake
energy expenditure
compensation

description: Les études à long-terme confirment que la combinaison d’un déficit calorique et d’un programme d’exercice est une intervention plus profitable quant à la perte de poids qu’un régime hypocalorique ou un programme d’exercice seul. Toutefois, la perte de poids moyenne de l’approche combinée est en générale inférieure à celle estimée sur la base du déficit calorique et de la dépense énergétique du programme d’exercice. L’objectif principal de cette étude portait sur l’investigation des effets d’un déficit calorique et de l’exercice sur l’apport calorique, la dépense énergétique totale, la thermogenèse d’origine autre que l’exercice et la compensation alimentaire post-exercice chez les jeunes femmes. Huit jeunes femmes de poids normal et inactives ont participé à quatre conditions expérimentales : contrôle; exercice, où une séance d’exercice à intensité modérée a été réalisée; déficit calorique, où un déficit calorique de 25% pour une période de 3 jours consécutifs a été respecté; et exercice/déficit calorique. À la suite de chaque session, un repas ad libitum à l’heure du dîner a été offert aux participantes et des boîtes à lunch contenant des aliments à volonté choisis par l’entremise de menu ont été remises à ces dernières pour couvrir l’apport calorique pour la journée (jour 1) ainsi que la journée subséquente (jour 2). De plus, un accéléromètre a été remis à chaque participante après chaque séance expérimentale pour être en mesure d’estimer la dépense énergétique liée à l’activité physique pour le jour 1 et jour 2. Aucune différence significative n’a été observée entre les différentes conditions expérimentales pour l’apport calorique au repas ad libitum post-exercice, au jour 1 ainsi qu’au jour 2. De plus, aucune différence significative n’a été notée pour la dépense énergétique totale ainsi que la thermogenèse d’origine autre que l’exercice et aucune compensation alimentaire post-exercice n’a été observée en fonction des conditions expérimentales. Ces résultats suggèrent que la combinaison d’un déficit calorique de 3 journées consécutives avant une séance d’exercice d’intensité modérée n’influence pas l’apport calorique post-exercice, la dépense énergétique totale, la thermogenèse d’origine autre que l’exercice et n’engendre pas de compensation alimentaire post-exercice. Un déficit calorique combiné à l’exercice d’une période plus prolongée pourrait être nécessaire afin d’observer une augmentation de la compensation alimentaire post-exercice pendant une intervention qui vise à induire une perte de poids.
Supplementary document for Learning-based robust control algorithms for coherent pulse stacking - 5326713.pdf
Creators: name: Abuduweili, Abulikemu
name: Wang, Jie
name: Yang, Bowei
name: Wang, Aimin
name: Zhang, Zhigang
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Lasers and Quantum Electronics
Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy

description: A detailed description of the SAC training and additional experiment.
La cosmologie de l'Antre des Nymphes. Ses sources et ses traditions.
Creators: name: St-Amour, Patrick
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Pythagore
Zodiaque
Porphyre
Homère
Nymphes
Cosmologie
Mithra

description: L'Antre des Nymphes, un texte datant de la fin du troisième siècle de notre ère écrit par Porphyre de Tyr, nous transmet une exégèse à propos d'un passage de l'Odyssée (XIII, 102-112) d'Homère. Cette thèse couvre spécifiquement la cosmologie du texte de Porphyre et discute de ses sources pythagoriciennes, néo-platoniciennes, et mithriaques. En première partie, cette thèse aborde l’arrière-plan philosophique de l’auteur de l’Antre des Nymphes et discute de la cosmologie pythagoricienne de ses origines jusqu’aux néo-platonicien. Au deuxième chapitre, le texte de Porphyre fait l’objet d’une étude directe et approfondie. Les différentes notions cosmologiques sont analysées afin d’établir l’imaginaire cosmogonique et cosmologique du texte. En tierce partie, les notions mithriaques sont mises en relation, autant avec la tradition philosophique gréco- romaine qu’avec les apports du chercheur Roger Beck.
Know thy frenemy? Thank Google for repositories
Creators: name: Parker, Rebecca
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This issue of Incite is about the changing expectations of library users. Walls are disappearing, print books are gathering dust ... But is the perception that libraries struggle to keep up with the world around us accurate? Is Google really out to get us? Or do we as librarians have changing expectations too? Slowly, our expectations are changing alongside those of our customers. Google is becoming our friend.
Le « problème » de la cyberintimidation dans la presse écrite québécoise de 1998 à 2014 : une analyse de la rhétorique médiatique
Creators: name: Laurin, Jessica
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Cyberintimidation
Problème social
Analyse rhétorique
Presse écrite
Québec

description: Notre thèse propose une analyse du discours de la presse écrite du Québec sur la question de la cyberintimidation à travers trois journaux : Le Journal de Montréal, La Presse et Le Devoir au cours de la période de 1998 à 2014. Il est rapidement apparu que ce phénomène a été compris, ou en tout cas présenté, comme un (nouveau) problème social justifiant une intervention d'une certaine ampleur. Plus précisément, cinq grandes rhétoriques médiatiques (celles du danger, de l'épidémie, de la calamité, de la perte et de la guerre) ont pu être relevées. Toutes s'appuyaient principalement sur deux stratégies : des définitions et des illustrations. On notera enfin que très vite les questions posées se sont attardées sur deux thèmes récurrents : les jeunes et la sexualité.
Fatigue testing of defected steel beams repaired using medium and high modulus CFRP strand sheets
Creators: name: Jiao, H.
name: Zhao, X. L.
name: Kobayashi, A.
name: Wood, D.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: CFRP sheets are extensively used to strengthen defected steel members through a wet layup process. Different techniques were used to control the quality of bonding, such as vacuum bags and rollers. However, air bubbles and excessive epoxy resin might still exist between CFRP layers, causing the reduction in bonding strength. To address this issue, strand CFRP sheets were recently applied in the strengthening of steel elements by some researchers. The advantage of strand CFRP sheets is that CFRP fibre was impregnated with resin to form hardened strands at factory conditions. As a result, the bonding quality during the wet layup can be improved. In this study, two types of strand CFRP sheets, with Young's moduli of 430GPa and 690GPa, were applied on defected steel beams. Eight specimens were tested under four point bending. The failure modes and fatigue life of the specimens were compared with those of specimens strengthened with normal CFRP sheets and CFRP plates. Results showed that the fatigue life of defected steel beams strengthened with high and medium strand CFRP sheets is comparable to that of beams strengthened with CFRP plates and other high modulus CFRP sheets.
Voix et échos des romancières aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles
Creators: name: Côté, Julie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Hélisenne de Crenne
Marie de Gournay
Madeleine de Scudéry
Écriture féminine
genre romanesque
Accès à la culture
Dialectique amoureuse
Mariage
doxa
Instances narratives
Renaissance
XVIIe siècle
Éducation des femmes

description: Hélisenne de Crenne, Marie de Gournay et Madeleine de Scudéry : trois voix de femmes qui, en prenant la plume, ont transgressé les règles établies par des sociétés patriarcales, pour qui l’idéal féminin doit être gouverné par la modestie, la pudeur et la discrétion. Notre thèse examine l’instrumentalisation du genre romanesque qui est effectué par ces auteures pour faire entendre un discours revendicateur, réclamant un accès à l’éducation et à la culture, ainsi que le droit au bonheur et à l’amour dans les questions d’ordre matrimonial. En étudiant Les angoysses douloureuses qui procèdent d’amours, le Promenoir de Monsieur de Montaigne et Mathilde, cette thèse fait état de la continuité et de l’écho d’un discours propre à une posture féminine, porteur à la fois de la doxa défavorable aux dames et de propositions visant à faire advenir le « féminin », qui prend en compte l’aspiration au bonheur.
Zestaw narzędzi do świadczenia usług wspierających uchodźców wojennych z niepełnosprawnościami
Creators: name: Nowicka, Monika
name: Deliu, Alexandra
name: Voicu, Bogdan
name: Szarota, Magda
name: Tędziagolska, Magdalena
name: Trifan, Elena
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 420305
subject: Health and community services
classificationCode: 420306
subject: Health care administration
classificationCode: 420313
subject: Mental health services
classificationCode: 420318
subject: People with disability
classificationCode: 440303
subject: Migration

description: Niniejszy zestaw narzędzi jest dodatkiem do raportu „Zwiększenie zdolności polskich i rumuńskich interesariuszy do zapewnienia wsparcia ukraińskim uchodźcom z niepełnosprawnościami w obszarach metropolitalnych Warszawy i Bukaresztu” (Nowicka i in., 2024), którego celem jest przedstawienie wysiłków organizacyjnych na rzecz wsparcia uchodźców z niepełnosprawnościami z Ukrainy w Warszawie i Bukareszcie. Zestaw narzędzi gromadzi szereg dobrych praktyk i przedstawia je jako sposób na zwiększenie wydajności i poprawienie jakości szybkiej interwencji podczas tragicznych wydarzeń na dużą skalę, które powodują napływ uchodźców, takich jak inwazja Rosji na Ukrainę. Odbiorcami tego zestawu narzędzi są organizacje, które mają potencjał, aby pomagać uchodźcom z niepełnosprawnościami na całym świecie, a jego intencją jest przybliżenie im doświadczeń Polski i Rumunii w obliczu nagłego dużego napływu uchodźców z Ukrainy po kolejnej fali rosyjskiej agresji w 2022 r.
Are one-year changes in adherence to the 24-hour movement guidelines associated with depressive symptoms among youth?
Creators: name: Patte, Karen A.
name: Faulkner, Guy E. J., 1970-
name: Qian, Wei
name: Duncan, Markus
name: Leatherdale, Scott T.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: There remains a need for prospective research examining movement behaviours in the prevention and management of mental illness. This study examined whether changes in adherence to the 24-h Movement Guidelines (moderate-to-vigorous physical activity [MVPA], sleep duration, screen time) were associated with depression symptoms among youth. Methods: Conditional change models were used to analyze two waves of longitudinal questionnaire data (2016/17, 2017/18) from students in grades 9–12 (N = 2292) attending 12 schools in Ontario and British Columbia, Canada, as part of the COMPASS study. One-year change in adherence to the MVPA, screen time, and sleep duration guidelines were modeled as predictors of depressive symptoms, adjusting for covariates and prior year depressive symptoms. Models were stratified by sex. Results: Continued adherence to sleep guidelines and transitioning from inadequate to sufficient sleep were associated with lower depressive symptoms than continued nonadherence, and continued adherence was associated with lower depression than transitioning from sufficient to short sleep. For screen time, transitioning from exceeding guidelines to guideline adherence was associated with lower depressive symptoms than continued nonadherence. MVPA guideline adherence was not associated with depression scores, when controlling for sleep and screen time guideline adherence change and covariates. When combined, meeting additional guidelines than the year prior was associated with lower depressive symptoms among females only. Conclusions: Adherence to the sleep guidelines emerged as the most consistent predictor of depression symptoms. Promoting adherence to the Movement Guidelines, particularly sleep, should be considered priorities for youth mental health at a population level.
Graph Theory for the Discovery of Non-Parametric Audio Objects
Creators: name: Srinivasa, Christopher
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: graph theory
audio objects
compression
sparse representations
signal processing

description: A novel framework based on cluster co-occurrence and graph theory for structure discovery is applied to audio to find new types of audio objects which enable the compression of an input signal. These new objects differ from those found in current object coding schemes as their shape is not restricted by any a priori psychoacoustic knowledge. The framework is novel from an application perspective, as it marks the first time that graph theory is applied to audio, and with regards to theoretical developments, as it involves new extensions to the areas of unsupervised learning algorithms and frequent subgraph mining methods. Tests are performed using a corpus of audio files spanning a wide range of sounds. Results show that the framework discovers new types of audio objects which yield average respective overall and relative compression gains of 15.90% and 23.53% while maintaining a very good average audio quality with imperceptible changes.
Integrated marketing communications and their influences on brand loyalty: A Thai perspective
Creators: name: Thaichon, Paramaporn
name: Quach, Thu Nguyen
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This research aims to investigate the relationship between two elements of marketing communications - advertising and sales promotion, in relation to customer loyalty towards service providers in Thailand. This study also looks into addressing other factors that influence behavioural and attitudinal loyalty of Thai customers. This research is based on the premise that brand personality, brand image and brand awareness created by company advertising and sales promotions can shape consumer expectations, which in turn determine customer satisfaction. Secondary research finds that consumers are satisfied with a company which can fulfil its promises and meet their expectations towards provided services, eventually customer trust. Customers' value and trust then lead to attitudinal and behavioural loyalty.
Design, Synthesis and Magnetism of Single-molecule Magnets with Large Anisotropic Barriers
Creators: name: Lin, Po-Heng
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Single-Molecule Magnets
Anisotropic Barrier
Lanthanide

description: This thesis will present the synthesis, characterization and magnetic measurements of lanthanide complexes with varying nuclearities (Ln, Ln2, Ln3 and Ln4). EuIII, GdIII, TbIII, DyIII, HoIII and YbIII have been selected as the metal centers. Eight polydentate Schiff-base ligands have been synthesized with N- and mostly O-based coordination environments which chelate 7-, 8- or 9-coordinate lanthanide ions. The molecular structures were characterized by single crystal X-ray crystallography and the magnetic properties were measured using a SQUID magnetometer. Each chapter consists of crystal structures and magnetic measurements for complexes with the same nuclearity. There are eight DyIII SMMs in this thesis which are discrete molecules that act as magnets below a certain temperature called their blocking temperature. This phenomenon results from an appreciable spin ground state (S) as well as negative uni-axial anisotropy (D), both present in lanthanide ions owing to their f electron shell, generating an effective energy barrier for the reversal of the magnetization (Ueff). The ab initio calculations are also included for the SMMs with high anisotropic energy barriers to understand the mechanisms of slow magnetic relaxation in these systems.
Du renoncement pulsionnel à l'idéal du moi : le père et la cohésion sociale chez Freud
Creators: name: Richard, René
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Freud
psychanalyse
cohésion sociale
Roazen
Marcuse
Bergen
politique

description: Cette thèse vise à explorer l’apport de la psychanalyse freudienne à la pensée politique. En abordant la réalité sociale et politique selon cette perspective psychologique, on peut concevoir qu’il y a des facteurs inconscients ainsi que conscients à la base du lien social. Il s’agit notamment du renoncement pulsionnel qui perpétue un conflit psychique inconscient et rend possible la cohésion sociale d’une part, et de l’identification ou renforcement du moi conscient afin de surmonter et dédommager ce conflit psychique tout en renforçant cette cohésion d’autre part. Après avoir mis en rapport les perspectives de P. Roazen, H. Marcuse et B. Bergen sur le lien social à partir des notions freudiennes, cette thèse défend une conception du moi comme finalité du lien social, et ce, sans pour autant aller à l’encontre de l’attitude introspective initiée par Freud.
Supplementary document for High-performance surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy chip integrated with micro-optical system for rapid detection of creatinine in serum - 5328055.pdf
Creators: name: yang, feng
name: wen, ping
name: Li, Gang
name: Zhang, Zhisen
name: Ge, Chuang
name: Chen, Li
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: 1 Synthesis of silver nanoparticles. 2 Preparation of single-layer silver nanoparticle film by liquid-liquid interface method. 3 Hydrophilic treatment of Si wafer and Au film surface. 4 The photographic picture of the SERS chip. 5 SERS enhancement fa