cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities
Creators: name: Chavez, Karma
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2013

description: Karma Chavez's forthcoming book, Queer Migration Politics, suggests that neither the inclusionary politics of the mainstream US LGBT rights movement nor the utopian turn in some queer theory sufficiently capture the possibilities for queer politics in this moment. Drawing on the rhetoric of activists working at the various intersections and convergences of queer and immigration rights and justice, Chávez advocates that coalition is a productive alternative to both inclusionary and utopian approaches, even as coalitional approaches sometimes draw upon them both. In this talk, Chavez sketches the main arguments in the book and discusses some of the key case studies from activist rhetoric in the contemporary United States. A podcast of the lecture can also be found on the Decolonizing Sexualitie Network website at http://www.decolonizingsexualities.org/karma-chavez-lecture/.
description: feminists@law, Vol 3 No 1 (2013)
Just War Theory: An analysis of its relevance for contemporary warfare and states
Creators: name: Gray, Susan L
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.
subject: Political Science, General.

description: Contemporary Just War Theory (JWT) is the philosophical theory used to determine the moral and ethical issues surrounding warfare and it is currently at a crossroads. Most applications of JWT (within the last century) presuppose at least the following: the conflict's participants are traditionally defined and known states; the world structure is state-based; most conflicts are divisible into stages (in simple terms: pre-conflict, conflict and post-conflict); and, finally, a clear outcome will mean victory for one side, be it one state or an allied group of states. In light of Philip Bobbitt's non-traditional global market state model, is conventional JWT still valid for determining the ethical scope of the types of conflicts emerging in the 21st century? This study explores some of these recent calls for the adaptation and revision of JWT and applies contemporary JWT to a phenomenon of the global market state: the rise of the private military industry. Based on this application, I found that JWT could not assess Private Military Contractor (PMC) activity on three counts. As PMCs operation within the limits of privacy, JWT cannot assess their actions and the behaviour and judgment of their members as JWT's ad bellum and in bello principles are designed to apply to public actors: namely legitimate states, their political leaders and militaries. Secondly, due to the private nature of PMC contracts and terms of service, the principle of proportionality cannot be applied to their activity. Finally, PMCs obscure the principles of proper authority and public declaration; a state that may not have the public support of its nation to actively influence a war or engage in it altogether can seek to a void any open declaration of war and employ a PMC instead of its own military. With regard to modern JWT itself, I concluded that three areas need revision: the decreasing difference between pre-emptive war and preventive strikes; the jus in bello issue of discrimination between legitimate and non-legitimate targets; and the responsibilities and principles that should govern the moral behaviour involved in restoring the pre-conflict status quo deserve substantial study.
Global Temperature Change in the 21st Century: An Introduction to Global Climate Models and Graphing in Excel (Adapted for Non-Majors)
Creators: name: Basham, Tamara
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2020

description: Students link human behavior in various climate change scenarios to predicted temperature outcomes at both local (their assigned Latitude) and global (Latitudinal trends) scales. This adaptation is intended to be more accessible to non-majors.
On the Generation of a Classification Algorithm from DNA Based Microarray Studies
Creators: name: Davies, Robert William
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Applied Mathematics.
subject: Mathematics.
subject: Biology, Bioinformatics.

description: The purpose of this thesis is to build a classification algorithm using a Genome Wide Association (GWA) study. Briefly, a GWA is a case-control study using genotypes derived from DNA microarrays for thousands of people. These microarrays are able to acquire the genotypes of hundreds of thousands of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) for a person at a time. In this thesis, we first describe the processes necessary to prepare the data for analysis. Next, we introduce the Naive Bayes classification algorithm and a modification so that effects of a SNP on the disease of interest are weighted by a Bayesian posterior probability of association. This thesis then uses the data from three coronary artery disease GWAs, one as a training set and two as test sets, to build and test the classifier. Finally, this thesis discusses the relevance of the results and the generalizability of this method to future studies.
3. Appendix A.pdf
Creators: name: Labanda-Jumbo, Cristhian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 390403
subject: Educational administration, management and leadership
classificationCode: 390401
subject: Comparative and cross-cultural education

description: Questionary: Perceived Impact of Education on Entrepreneurial Spirit
За акустичните характеристики на консонанта l в речта на билингвите от Видинско / ON THE ACOUSTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CONSONANT L IN THE BILINGUAL SPEECH FROM THE VIDIN AREA
Creators: name: Vladislav, Marinov
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: acoustic phonetics, realizations of l, bilinguals from the Vidin area

description: The existence of ℓ in the idiolects of the bilinguals of Vidin area is due to the Romanian foundation of the Vlach dialects. The topic of the present study is the acoustic characteristics of the consonant ℓ in different phonetic positions. The analysis performed on the acoustic characteristics of ℓ reveals that the alveolar lateral approximant ℓ in the idiolects of some bilinguals influences the spectral characteristics of both - the vocals and the consonants - that come in a contact position. The interaction between ℓ and the vocals leads to the extension of the vocal transition duration. A similar result is registered in the contact of ℓ with the consonants where the main articulation place of the contact consonant matters. The farther this place is from the the articulation point of ℓ, the longer the transitions to the neighboring vocals are.
CLEWS MODEL IN BOLIVIA: NDC Goals and Biodiesel Scenarios
Creators: name: Huallpara, Alizon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: CLEWs, OSeMOSYS, renewables share, Hydropower, Biodiesel

description: This study explores an integrated systems approach for Bolivia using the Climate, Land, Water, Energy nexus framework and the OSeMOSYS modelling tool. Three scenarios were analyzed—Business as Usual, NDC (Nationally Determined Contributions), and Biodiesel—to assess their impacts on the interaction of CLEWS.

 The analysis highlights that achieving Bolivia's NDC goals is heavily reliant on hydropower expansion, requiring a 240% higher investment compared to the Business as Usual scenario to meet targets by 2030. Considering the extended timelines required for hydropower project development, early actions are essential. Regarding Biodiesel scenario, increased biodiesel production may result in higher CO2 emissions and reduced forest cover, potentially conflicting with national deforestation prevention goals. This aspect should be further explored in future studies.
Performance Evaluation of Optimized Resource Allocations in WDM Networks under Dynamic Traffic
Creators: name: Yu, Shen
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: Wavelength-routed Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (WDM) optical networks are developed to meet the increasing bandwidth demands of recent Internet applications. In the real world, the traffic demands are always dynamic. The question of how to optimally allocate the network resources in a wavelength-routed WDM optical network to satisfy dynamic demands is called the dynamic routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) problem. In the literature, many schemes are proposed to address this problem. In this thesis, we study how to improve the performance of certain dynamic RWA schemes by using the distribution of the dynamic demands, which is assumed to be known in advance. With the knowledge of the network topology and distribution of the dynamic traffic, we can use an existing mathematical approach to calculate, for each link, a cost value called Multiplier Guide. This link cost is obtained by considering a static RWA optimization problem having the average traffic demands of the dynamic RWA problem that we want to solve. When this link cost is used instead of the hop count to compute minimal cost paths, the performance of some dynamic RWA schemes can be improved, as shown by our simulation studies. In the thesis, we review and implement several existing dynamic RWA schemes; we also propose and implement some new dynamic RWA schemes. We apply the Multiplier Guide to all these schemes and run simulations to test whether their performance is improved. As a necessary part of these schemes, we implement many different network routing algorithms including single shortest path routing, link-disjoint paths routing and k-shortest paths algorithm. To simulate the schemes that search an RWA solution exhaustively with or without the wavelength conversion assumption, we implement two auxiliary graphs and two algorithms associated with the graphs, respectively. We also implement the schemes that use link utilization obtained from simulations or measurements to decide link cost; and we compare them with the schemes that use the Multiplier Guide as link cost. We find that, when the Multiplier Guide is applied to the dynamic RWA schemes that use pre-constructed paths, their performance is improved. However, when the Multiplier Guide is applied to the schemes that search an RWA solution exhaustively, their performance is not improved.
title: Références bibliographiques et résumés associés
Creators: name: Leibowitch, Jacques
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Source: http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/Calames-20193111231432411
description: created: start=1975;end=2018
Child-related disagreement, conflict resolution strategies and child adjustment among families with toddler and preschool-aged children
Creators: name: Beauregard, Christine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Social.
subject: Psychology, Clinical.

description: The present study was designed to examine relations among parent ratings of child-related disagreement frequency, parent ratings of verbal aggression and of positive problem-solving frequency and parent ratings of child adjustment. One hundred and twelve couples volunteered for the study in response to advertisements published in newspapers or in community organizations/agencies (e.g., daycare centres, community centres, pediatric offices, etc.). Mothers (n = 112) and fathers (n = 108) with an eldest child who was a toddler or preschool-aged child independently responded to questionnaires. Their ratings of child behaviour problems and their ratings of satisfaction with the couple relationship were similar to those found in previous research with community samples. Compared to published data, couples in the present study reported a lower frequency of child-related disagreement and of verbal aggression strategies, and a higher frequency of positive problem-solving. Overall, they were a well-functioning sample of families with children who were perceived by parents as well-adjusted. Mothers reported more frequent use of verbal aggression strategies than did fathers. Mothers of boys reported more frequent child-related disagreement and more frequent use of verbal aggression than did mothers of girls. Fathers perceived more externalizing problems among boys than among girls. Parent ratings of child-related disagreement were related to their ratings of child adjustment. Although parent ratings of conflict resolution strategies were less consistently associated with child behaviour problems, when examined in interaction with parent ratings of child-related disagreement, verbal aggression strategies moderated the relation between child-related disagreement and child adjustment among fathers of boys. Parent ratings of conflict resolution strategies did not mediate the relation. The findings of the present study emphasize the importance of examining relations separately for boys and girls as well as for mothers and fathers and indicate that patterns of relations found among families characterized by high disagreement, high intensity conflict may not generalize to samples of well-functioning, low disagreement families.
The physiology and biochemistry of the fertility enzyme Proprotein Convertase SubtilisinKexin type 4
Creators: name: Gyamera-Acheampong, Charles
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Biochemistry.

description: This three-manuscript thesis focuses on the physiology and biochemistry of the fertility enzyme, Proprotein Convertase Subtilisin-Kexin type 4 (PCSK4). Efforts to develop effective, safe, and reversible methods of non-hormonal contraception especially for men have focussed either on sperm surface proteins involved in the functional maturation of sperm or on those responsible for sperm-egg interactions. PCSK4 is one of such proteins. It is a member of a family of serine endoproteinases involved in the proteolytic maturation of a wide array of inactive precursor proteins to their bioactive forms. It is primarily expressed in the gonads, and inactivation of its gene in mice causes male infertility and female subfertility. The first paper dealt with the reproductive function of PCSK4 by studying its subcellular localisation in testicular epithelium and on intact sperm, as well as its relevance for sperm acquisition of fertilizing ability. PCSK4 was detected in the acrosomal granules of round spermatids, in the acrosomal ridges of elongated spermatids, and on the sperm plasma membrane overlying the acrosome. Sperm from PCSK4-null mice underwent capacitation at a faster rate, they were induced to acrosome-react by lower concentrations of zona pellucida, and possessed egg-binding ability which was only half that of wildtype sperm. The second paper explored the molecular oasis of the ability of PCSK4-null sperm to undergo capacitation at a much faster rate than WT sperm, as well as their reduced egg-binding ability. It focussed primarily on sperm protein tyrosine phosphorylation and the proteolytic processing of the sperm-egg ligands ADAM2 and ADAM3. During sperm capacitation, proteins undergo more tyrosine phosphorylation and more ADAM2 proteolytic processing in PCSK4-null sperm than in WT sperm. Thus, alterations in signal transduction and proteolytic processing during capacitation may underlie the fertilisation incompetence of PCSK4-null sperm. The third paper investigated the biosynthesis, maturation, and transport of PCSK4. Mouse PCSK4 was identified to be tightly bound through hydrophobic interactions to water-insoluble or detergent-soluble components of the plasma membrane overlying the acrosome. Also human proPCSK4, cloned from human embryonic kidney cells (HEK293), is slightly converted into its active mature form, and it is probably retained inside the ER where it associates with Glucose-regulated protein 78/Imrnunogen Binding Protein (GRP78/BiP).
L'Agentivité et la naissance de la femme-sujet dans la littérature algérienne contemporaine
Creators: name: Van Deventer, Rachel
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Literature, African.

description: Résumé Cette étude élargit le champ de la recherche sur l'écriture féminine algérienne contemporaine au moyen de la théorie de l'agentivité révisée au contact d'un corpus polymorphologique composé d'essais, de recueils de nouvelles et de romans. Si les études sur la francophonie et les littératures francophones ont suscité récemment un intérêt croissant, il n'existait guère jusqu'à aujourd'hui d'étude d'une ampleur significative sur les stratégies employées par les écrivaines algériennes depuis les premiers écrits d'Assia Djebar jusqu'aux récits récents de Nina Bouraoui. L'objectif principal de cette thèse est de mettre au grand jour les stratégies que Djebar, Sebbar, Bey et Bouraoui déploient pour positionner la femme comme agent et sujet de son discours. En outre, l'étude cherche à cerner la manière dont elles se démarquent à l'intérieur du champ littéraire algérien. Pour ce faire, l'approche agentiviste proposée par Havercroft a été revisitée. Alors que Havercroft propose une analyse à deux volets (l'agentivité extratextuelle et intratextuelle), cette étude s'appuie sur une approche quadryptique permettant de mieux examiner la relation étroite entre les écrivaines, le milieu socioculturel et le champ littéraire. Les quatre volets consistent en une étude de l'agentivité extratextuelle, transtextuelle, interdiscursive et intratextuelle . Le premier volet traite des conditions de publication, des effets de la publication, et du lien entre le vécu, l'autobiographie et le texte. Le deuxième volet, dans une optique genettienne, examine les occurrences textuelles telles que le paratexte, l'architexte et l'intertexte. Le role de l'Histoire/histoire et le reversement des discours dominants, notamment la subversion du discours colonial contemporain et la remise en question du discours patriarcal, font l'objet d'un troisième volet. Enfin, le dernier volet met en relief des choix thématiques, l'onomastique des personnages féminins, le choix de vocabulaire et la voix narrative. L'analyse textuelle renforce l'aspect théorique de la thèse en ce qui concerne la constitution d'un sous-champ littéraire algérien au féminin. En tenant compte des théories de Bourdieu quant à la capacité des agents sociaux à avoir un impact sur la production culturelle ainsi qu'à sa définition du concept de l'habitus, et de celles d'Isabelle Boisclair (2004) sur le processus constitutif d'un sous-champ au féminin, il est possible de proposer l'existence d'un sous-champ algérien au féminin. Cette thèse ouvre ainsi une nouvelle perspective sur l'histoire litteraire algérienne contemporaine. D'une part, elle montre que la naissance de la femme-sujet a eu lieu bien avant l'Indépendance algérienne et, d'autre part, elle définit les paramètres perméables et changeants dans lesquels s'épanouit la femme algérienne agente.
Safety and efficacy data from a phase 2 randomized trial of a miltefosine/thermotherapy combination in uncomplicated New World cutaneous leishmaniasis
Creators: name: Arana, Byron
name: Vélez, Iván
name: Lopez, Liliana
name: Quintero, Juliana
name: Llanos-Cuentas, Alejandro
name: Ramos, Ana Pilar
name: Boni, Marina
name: Rode, Joelle
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: Safety and efficacy data from a phase 2 randomized trial of a miltefosine/thermotherapy combination in uncomplicated New World cutaneous leishmaniasis presented at MSF Scientific Days International (London) Medical Research Day, May 13, 2020 by Byron Arana
Saturn Equation of center, Toledan tables (sexa) by Pedersen (Fritz S.) (2002) | Type-B (ID n° 946)
Creators: name: Pedersen, Fritz S.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2022
Subjects: Astronomy
History of astronomy
DISHAS
Astronomical table

description: This is a type B edition: A type-B edition corresponds to a critical edition of several table witnesses:
 it is based on several different editions, themselves based on tables from different primary sources.
 A type-B edition can be based on type-A, type-B or type-C editions.
You can find it on the DISHAS project website from this link: https://dishas.obspm.fr/table-edition/946
description: Source: The Toledan Tables, Pedersen (Fritz S.), 2002
Signal processing of heart signals for the quantification of non-deterministic events
Creators: name: Millette, Veronique
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Biomedical.

description: The issue of cavitation in mechanical heart valve (MHV) patients was first recognized when damaged mechanical heart valves were observed. Cavitation bubble implosion can cause mechanical damage to the valve structure and blood elements, when it occurs near the surface of the MHV. Some methods have been suggested to quantify the level of cavitation present in MHV patients. Two algorithms from the literature were selected for implementation and comparison. These algorithms were selected as they have been previously proposed and implemented for in vivo heart signals. In this thesis, a rigorous closed-form mathematical analysis of the algorithms is presented with the aim of improving robustness, reliability and accuracy. Improvements are made to the selected algorithms, including a new improved segmentation algorithm, alignment of the S1 and S2 peaks in the signal, and the implementation of the Short-Time Fourier Transform to study the time evolution of the energy in the signal. In vitro measurements were made using a left-heart simulator to test the new improved algorithm. The improvements result in better heart beat alignment and better detection and measurement of the random events in the heart signals, so that they may provide a method to analyze cavitation in MHV patients. The use of the Short-Time Fourier Transform allows the examination of the random events in both time and frequency allowing for further investigation and interpretation of the signal. Cavitation results from the physiologically realistic left-heart simulator indicate that cavitation may not occur under normal physiological heart conditions.
MicroRNA-132-Dependent Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Clock Entrainment Physiology Via Modulation of Chromatin Remodeling and Translational Control Gene Targets
Creators: name: Alvarez-Saavedra, Matias Alberto
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Biochemistry.

description: Mammalian circadian rhythms of behaviour are synchronized to external time by daily resetting of the master pacemaker, the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), in response to light, in a process known as light-induced clock entrainment. microRNA-132 (miR-132) is induced by light within the SCN via a MAPK-CREB-dependent mechanism and has the capacity to attenuate the entraining effects of light. However, the identity of the genes that miR-132 regulates and their roles in the light-entrainment process have not yet been characterized. This thesis describes that 2 gene clusters involved in chromatin remodeling (i.e. Mecp2, Ep300, Jarid1a) and translational control (i.e. Btg2, Paip2a) are under the regulation of miR-132 in the SCN and coordinated regulation of these genes underlies miR132-dependent modulation of mPeriod1 (mPer1) and mPeriod2 (mPer2) and the light-entrainment process. I find that the Period genes are bound and transcriptionally modulated by MeCP2. In addition, Paip2a acts as a repressor of Period translation. This work further proposes that miR-132 is enriched for chromatin and translation-associated target genes-and, thus, miR-132 is an important orchestrator of chromatin remodeling and protein translation within the SCN clock, thereby fine-tuning clock entrainment.
La figure transgressive du pli dans le corps-territoire
Creators: name: Guillotte, Blaise D
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Political Science, General.

description: Résumé de la thèse L'objectif de ce mémoire est de répondre, à la suite de Spinoza et Deleuze, à la question " qu'est-ce que peut un corps? ". Il s'agit dans un premier temps d'explorer les liens entre le corps, le pouvoir et le politique. Tenter de comprendre comment le corps est formalisé par le social, comment le pouvoir s'immisce et s'incruste dans le corps. À l'aide de Nietzsche, Foucault et Butler, le corps comme artéfact et sa mise en forme par le biais de procédés discursifs, énonciatifs et images sera à l'étude dans le premier chapitre. Les chapitres suivants seront consacrés à une interrogation d'une possible émancipation du corps politique. À travers les concepts de corps sans organe (Antonin Artaud) et de pli (LeibnizlDeleuze), il sera question de proposer une conception de l'émancipation qui prendra ses distances d'avec une conception romantique de la liberté. En postulant que le corps est puissanceipouvoir, il convient donc de chercher l'émancipation non pas hors du pouvoir, mais bien à travers et entre les rapports de force qui circulent entre le corps et son dehors.
Droplet generation in oxygen steelmaking
Creators: name: Dogan, Neslihan
name: Brooks, Geoffrey
name: Rhamdhani, Akbar
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Droplet generation is a crucial part of the process kinetics of oxygen steelmaking because it contributes to large interfacial area during the blow which in turn affects the mass transfer between metal and slag. Accordingly, the blowing number, NB, has been used to quantify the influence of the generation of droplets on the kinetics of oxygen steelmaking.
Supporting automated system-level test scenario generation
Creators: name: Cheng, Xu
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: Software plays a significant role in society. It penetrates every field such as telecommunications, public administration, cooperation management, etc. In a software development life cycle (abbr., SDLC), software testing is a key phase. It accounts for a large part of software development costs. This is a consequence of testing being performed late in an improvised and impromptu way under the discretion of project managers. Continual testing as proposed by the extreme programming approach advocates that automated testing be performed in the early phases of the SDLC. Automation helps avoid disorderly and unsystematic progress of testing tasks and assignments. This thesis presents an approach for the generation of test cases from use cases---a form of requirements used in the early phases of the SDLC. We first needed a way to combine related use cases in order to infer system-level test cases spawning over several use cases. We developed an approach to infer use case sequential relations based on a comparison of pre-conditions and post-conditions. This approach offers the benefit of obtaining use case sequential relations without solely relying on the traditional UML use case relationships (i.e., include, extend and generalization). It helps to avoid the functional decomposition of use cases. We then propose an automated approach for die generation of test scenarios, a step toward complete and concrete test cases. Test scenarios are generated using depth-first traversal of control flow-based state machines obtained from use cases. The construction of these control flow-based state machines considers traditional UML use case relationships as well as inferred sequential relations. Depth-first traversal of control flow-based state machines is controlled by a coverage criterion inspired from traditional white-box code coverage.
Lived experiences and perceptions of palliative care among advanced HIV patients: qualitative study, Bihar, India
Creators: name: Mohit Nair
name: Kumar, Pragya
name: Mahajan, Raman
name: Harshana, Amit
name: Richardson, Kathryn
name: Moreto-Planas, Laura
name: Burza, Sakib
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: Lived experiences and perceptions of palliative care among advanced HIV patients: qualitative study, Bihar, India presented at MSF Scientific Days International (London) Medical Research Day, May 13, 2020 by Mohit Nair
Posttranscriptional regulation of the inhibitor of apoptosis protein HIAP2 during cellular stress
Creators: name: Zhao, Tong T
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Biochemistry.

description: Apoptosis is a physiological process characteristic of pluricellular organisms leading to self-destruction of the cell. One of the hallmarks of apoptosis is the activation of caspases that in turn cleave cellular substrates, leading to an orderly disassembly of the cell. A family of intrinsic cellular inhibitor of Apoptosis (IAP) proteins mediates competitive inhibition of caspase activity. I have discovered that UVC stress in HEK293 cells leads to downregulation of HIAP2 expression that is due to mRNA destabilization. I have identified that there are four putative AU-rich (ARE) elements located within the 3'untranslated region of HIAP2 mRNA that are sufficient to mediate HIAP2 mRNA instability during UVC stress. I hypothesized that specific ARE-binding protein (AUBP) could interact with the HIAP2 AREs which results in the modulation of HIAP2 expression. To this end, I have identified hnRNPA1 as one of the HIAP2 3'UTR ARE binding proteins. HnRNP A1 is primarily nuclear but becomes localized into cytoplasm after exposure of cells to UVC. In addition, hnRNP A1 destabilizes HIAP2 mRNA under normal growth conditions and during UVC stress. Furthermore, more than one ARE may contribute to the binding of hnRNP A1 to the HIAP2 3'UTR. Lastly, knockdown of hnRNP A1 attenuates the UVC -- induced apoptosis suggesting that hnRNP A1 is an essential post-transcriptional modulator of HIAP2 expression.
Barriers and facilitators for implementation of electronic consultations (eConsult) to enhance access to specialist care: a scoping review.
Creators: name: Osman, Mohamed A.; Schick-Makaroff, Kara; Thomas, Stephanie; Bialy, Liza; Featherstone, Robin; Kurzawa, Julia; Zaidi, Deenaz; Okpechi, Ikechi; Habib, Syed; Shojai, Soroush; Jindal, Kailash; Braam, Branko; Keely, Erin; Liddy, Clare; Manns, Braden; Tonelli, Macello; Hemmelgarn, Brenda; Klarenbach, Scott; Bello, Aminu K.
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Libraries
Year: 2019

Abstract
(Un)silencing the voices of the country girls: A journey into twentieth-century Irish girlhood through the fiction of Edna O'Brien
Creators: name: Dunbar, Siobhan Mary
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Women's Studies.
subject: Literature, English.

description: Edna O'Brien is a prolific and highly successful contemporary Irish novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Her first six novels were banned in 1960s Ireland and since then, her subversive writing about Irish women's lives has often sparked controversy and debate in and even beyond her Irish homeland. This thesis explores O'Brien's portrayal of rural Irish girlhood in post-Independence, twentieth-century Ireland in the novels The Country Girls (1960), A Pagan Place (1970), the short story collection Returning (1982), as well as the later novel Down by the River (1997). Chapter One delves into the mother-daughter bond in O'Brien's fiction. Chapter Two, in turn, examines the often painful father-daughter relationship Finally, Chapter Three discusses O'Brien's complex portrayal of female sexuality. This study argues that O'Brien constructs powerful and haunting fictional voices of "Irish girlhood" and through them, makes a unique contribution to the Irish Bildungsroman tradition. Her fiction points to some of the immense challenges confronted by young adolescent girls in mid-to-late twentieth-century Ireland, not only in their homes but also within their relationships, schools, and rural communities.
Success elements of elite big-mountain freeskiers
Creators: name: Coleman, John
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Biology, Animal Physiology.
subject: Health Sciences, Recreation.
subject: Recreation.

description: The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of the success elements of elite big mountain (BM) freeskiers to perform their best while immersed in their challenging sport. Big Mountain freeskiing is a high risk alternative sport that takes place in an unpredictable mountain environment. Nine of the best BM freeskiers in the world participated in the study, seven men, and two women. A qualitative research design was used with a post-positivist paradigm. Face-to-face interviews were used to gather the data. The success elements that emerged from the interviews were categorized within three temporal categories; pre-performance preparation (line selection, visualization, and calmness), performance execution (confidence and focus), and post-performance evaluation (reflection, lessons learned, mindset). Two additional success elements were evident for all athletes interviewed; love for their sport and what they were doing, and a fully focused connection to that in which they were engaged. These latter two success elements were not confined by temporal boundaries and were presented separately due to their uniqueness and importance. These athletes carried an intensely focused connection to what they were doing, and had the ability to remain calm while facing challenging situations. The ability of these athletes to transfer certain success elements they employed in BM freeskiing to the rest of their lives was interesting and one that warrants further research.
Regulation of angiotensin converting enzyme and angiotensin II type 1 receptor by 17beta-estradiol in female rats: Implications following experimental myocardial infarction
Creators: name: Dean, Stephanie A
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Pharmacology.

description: The present studies tested the hypothesis that 17beta-estradiol (E2) downregulates ACE and AT1R in several tissues important to cardiovascular regulation, including the brain and heart, and that this downregulation attenuates the progression of LV dysfunction following myocardial infarction (MI). In Experiment 1, female Wistar rats were randomized into one of four groups: (1) sham-ovariectomized (OVX); (2) OVX+vehicle (veh); (3) OVX+E2 replacement at physiological levels and (4) OVX+high E2. Five weeks following OVX, ACE and ATIR were increased 15-90% in the heart, several cardiovascular nuclei of the brain, kidney, abdominal aorta, adrenal and lung. These increases were prevented in all cases by E2 replacement at physiological levels and in most cases reversed to decreases by high E2. In Experiment 2, age-matched female Wistar rats underwent 1 of 3 treatments: no surgery (ovary-intact), OVX+veh treatment for two weeks, or OVX+high E2 treatment for two weeks. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
title: Soutien financier à la traduction 2016
Creators: name: LabexMed
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2017

description: Soutien financier à la traduction de la production scientifique de LabexMed en langue étrangère 2016.
description: Relation: https://labexmed.hypotheses.org/1726
A selection algorithm for composing Web services in sensor network
Creators: name: Liu, Deyang
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: Web services and sensor networks have been undergoing tremendous growth during the past few years. Integrating web services technology to sensor networks domain offers many advantages. For example, the existing Internet protocols can be used instead of designing proprietary ones, 3rd party can deliver value-added web services to end users easily, etc. However, wireless sensor networks are constrained by limited system resources, such as memory, power, and computation capacity. In this thesis, we propose a web service selection algorithm by introducing QoS-based cost function concept. The mechanism we used is choosing only a few web services from each service community according to their cost function. Then we compose them together to find the optimal composite service. The proposed selection algorithm consumes only limited system resources and has the characteristics of efficiency, dynamics, and fault tolerance. It guarantees the composed web service has the optimal performance in terms of cost function.
Differences in the postexercise threshold for cutaneous vasodilation between men and women
Creators: name: Murrin, Jane E
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Biology, Animal Physiology.
subject: Health Sciences, Recreation.

description: Recent studies, primarily in males, have shown that postexercise cutaneous vasodilation is attenuated by baroreceptor unloading subsequent to lower body venous pooling. However, gender differences in the control of cutaneous circulation may exist given that females appear to show a reduced tolerance to orthostatic challenge and, an attenuated responsiveness in mechanisms that regulate arterial pressure. We evaluated the hypothesis that females would demonstrate a greater reduction in postexercise mean arterial pressure (MAP) and concurrently a greater increase in the postexercise core temperature at which onset of cutaneous vasodilation occurred as compared to males. Fourteen subjects (7 males and 7 females) of similar age and fitness status remained seated resting for 15 min or cycled for 15 min at 70% of peak oxygen consumption followed by 15 min of seated recovery. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Measurements of absorption line frequency shifts and line broadening effects using frequency stabilized 15 micron lasers
Creators: name: Corrigan, Michael A
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Physics, Optics.

description: This work deals primarily with measurements of molecular line's frequency shifts induced by pressure, laser power and applied frequency modulation. The subjects of the study were infrared transitions in acetylene (C2 H2) and ammonia (NH3) molecules, which are important from the point of view of telecommunications and metrology researchers. In addition, the measurements of saturated line power broadening were carried out for selected lines of 12C2H2 and 13C2H2 as well as for the recently discovered saturated absorption line in 14NH3. This study led to experimentally establishing the molecular dipole moments for a given transition even without proper ro-vibrational assignment.
Émergence d'un nouveau paradigme éducationnel: Le mobile-learning
Creators: name: Milot, Véronique
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Mass Communications.
subject: Education, Technology of.

description: Au sein des institutions d'enseignement, l'avènement des dispositifs techniques mobiles a donné naissance à un tout nouveau phénomène connu sous le néologisme mobile-learning. Bien que cette toute dernière itération du e-learning demeure une pratique encore peu répandue, elle se doit d'être examinée vu l'important potentiel qu'elle représente dans le contexte numérique actuel qui justifie un examen approfondi des tenants et aboutissants qui la sous-tendent. Considérant l'importance des transformations susceptibles d'affecter la pratique pédagogique dans les années à venir, cette thèse a pour objectif d'évaluer le potentiel réel de la mobilité en éducation par rapport aux dispositifs technologiques actuellement en présence dans les institutions scolaires canadiennes. L'analyse critique des recherches effectuées auprès des argumentaires présents dans la littérature et sur le terrain de 2002 à aujourd'hui, démontre que la réussite de cette promesse d'apprentissage connecte 24/7, bien que hautement probable, demeure néanmoins embryonnaire en raison de la fragilité de nombreux facteurs associés aux dimensions techniques, sociales et économiques.
Garsauriella haglundi
Creators: name: Lis, Jerzy A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2001
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cydnidae
Garsauriella
Garsauriella haglundi

description: Garsauriella haglundi (BERGROTH, 1903)
MATERIAL EXAMINED
ZAIRE: Bangala, Congo Belge, 1 female, Coll. SKULINA (UODZ).
NOTE
New to Zaire. Hitherto recorded from Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Sudan and Togo (LIS 1999a).
description: Published as part of Lis, Jerzy A., 2001, Byrsinus setosus n. sp. from Flores and new records of some other Old World Cydnidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 13-22 in Genus 12 on page 14
Human-like Category Learning by Injecting Ecological Priors from Large Language Models into Neural Networks
Creators: name: Jagadish, Akshay K.
name: Coda-Forno, Julian
name: Thalmann, Mirko
name: Schulz, Eric
name: Binz, Marcel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Ecological rationality refers to the notion that humans are rational agents adapted to their environment. However, testing this theory remains challenging due to two reasons: the difficulty in defining what tasks are ecologically valid and building rational models for these tasks. In this work, we demonstrate that large language models can generate cognitive tasks, specifically category learning tasks, that match the statistics of real-world tasks, thereby addressing the first challenge. We tackle the second challenge by deriving rational agents adapted to these tasks using the framework of meta-learning, leading to a class of models called ecologically rational meta-learned inference (ERMI). ERMI quantitatively explains human data better than seven other cognitive models in two different experiments. It additionally matches human behavior on a qualitative level: (1) it finds the same tasks difficult that humans find difficult, (2) it becomes more reliant on an exemplar-based strategy for assigning categories with learning, and (3) it generalizes to unseen stimuli in a human-like way. Furthermore, we show that ERMI's ecologically valid priors allow it to achieve state-of-the-art performance on the OpenML-CC18 classification benchmark.
description: 27 pages (9 pages of main text, 4 pages of references, and 14 pages of appendix), 13 figures, and 7 Tables
Scaptocoris australis J. A. LIS 1999
Creators: name: Lis, Jerzy A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2001
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cydnidae
Scaptocoris
Scaptocoris australis

description: Scaptocoris australis J.A. LIS, 1999
MATERIAL EXAMINED
AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Newcastle, 3 males 3 females, C.B. JACKSON, 16.3.30 (ASCT, UODZ); New South Wales, Hamilton, 9 males 9 females, 28.3.1960 (ASCT, UODZ); New South Wales, Fennell’s Bay, in garden, 1 male 1 female, 17.3.1960 (ASCT); New South Wales, Singleton, couch grass, 1 male, 7.11.1980, K. MOORE, Stibaropus molginus SCHIODTE, det. G.R. BROWN 1980 (ASCT); New South Wales, Cessnock, 3 males 5 females, 26.2.1962, town clerk (ASCT, UODZ); New South Wales, Maitland, in the soil in cabbage crop, 1 male 3 females 4 larvae, 14 May 1987, G.A. BROWN, Stibaropus molginus SCHIODTE, det. A.E. WESTCOTT (ASCT, UODZ).
NOTE
The species was described on the basis of a single specimen from Broken Bay in New South Wales, Australia (LIS 1999b). In the paper (LIS 1999b) I regarded the specimens recorded from Australia (MUSGRAVE 1946, CHADWICK 1966) and identified as Stibaropus molginus (SCHIØDTE) as belonging to the new species (based only on their descriptions given in the mentioned papers). Thanks to the kindness of the curator of Heteroptera at ASCT I have had a possibility to examine those specimens personally (along with other unidentified material), and herein I confirm my previous decision.
description: Published as part of Lis, Jerzy A., 2001, Byrsinus setosus n. sp. from Flores and new records of some other Old World Cydnidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 13-22 in Genus 12 on pages 14-15
Cydnotomus secundus J. A. LIS 2000
Creators: name: Lis, Jerzy A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2001
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cydnidae
Cydnotomus
Cydnotomus secundus

description: Cydnotomus secundus J.A. LIS, 2000
MATERIAL EXAMINED
AUSTRALIA: Western Australia, 7­8 km WNW Point Salvation, W. Aust., 28°12’S, 123°36’E, 5­12 Nov. 1989, E.R. PIANKA, red sands (“R” area), pitfall traps, ex alcohol (WAM); New South Wales, Merindee, NSW, 1 female, 8­XI­1971 (UODZ).
NOTE
The species has been described recently from Western Australia (LIS 2000); new to New South Wales.
description: Published as part of Lis, Jerzy A., 2001, Byrsinus setosus n. sp. from Flores and new records of some other Old World Cydnidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 13-22 in Genus 12 on page 15
Selecting Large Language Model to Fine-tune via Rectified Scaling Law
Creators: name: Lin, Haowei
name: Huang, Baizhou
name: Ye, Haotian
name: Chen, Qinyu
name: Wang, Zihao
name: Li, Sujian
name: Ma, Jianzhu
name: Wan, Xiaojun
name: Zou, James
name: Liang, Yitao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The ever-growing ecosystem of LLMs has posed a challenge in selecting the most appropriate pre-trained model to fine-tune amidst a sea of options. Given constrained resources, fine-tuning all models and making selections afterward is unrealistic. In this work, we formulate this resource-constrained selection task into predicting fine-tuning performance and illustrate its natural connection with Scaling Law. Unlike pre-training, we find that the fine-tuning scaling curve includes not just the well-known "power phase" but also the previously unobserved "pre-power phase". We also explain why existing Scaling Law fails to capture this phase transition phenomenon both theoretically and empirically. To address this, we introduce the concept of "pre-learned data size" into our Rectified Scaling Law, which overcomes theoretical limitations and fits experimental results much better. By leveraging our law, we propose a novel LLM selection algorithm that selects the near-optimal model with hundreds of times less resource consumption, while other methods may provide negatively correlated selection. The project page is available at rectified-scaling-law.github.io.
Cydnus aterrimus
Creators: name: Lis, Jerzy A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2001
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cydnidae
Cydnus
Cydnus aterrimus

description: Cydnus aterrimus (FORSTER, 1771)
MATERIAL EXAMINED JORDAN: Amman (Abdoun), 1 male, 31 May 1991, R.D. WARD (CMNH).
NOTE
New to Jordan.
description: Published as part of Lis, Jerzy A., 2001, Byrsinus setosus n. sp. from Flores and new records of some other Old World Cydnidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 13-22 in Genus 12 on page 15
Nishocoris bicolor J. A. LIS 1997
Creators: name: Lis, Jerzy A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2001
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cydnidae
Nishocoris
Nishocoris bicolor

description: Nishocoris bicolor J.A. LIS, 1997
MATERIAL EXAMINED
AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Fowlers Gap, 1 male, 22 XII 1980, Hongay VOJNITS (UODZ); New South Wales, Jerildarie, 1 female, 14 Nov. 1979, ex rotating trap, ex alcohol (UODZ).
NOTE
New to New South Wales; previously known only from the Northern Territory (LIS 1997).
description: Published as part of Lis, Jerzy A., 2001, Byrsinus setosus n. sp. from Flores and new records of some other Old World Cydnidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 13-22 in Genus 12 on pages 16-17