cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Enhanced surfactant template recycling for continuous production of mesoporous silica materials
Creators: name: Lai, Jia Yen
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Mobil Crystalline Material 41 (MCM-41) has been synthesized by silica condensation on a template micelles formed at critical micelle concentration (CMC) dependent on solvent used. The template in the filtrate remained after synthesis gel filtration and the extracted template were utilized for repeated synthesis cycles until no MCM-41 material was formed. The template was burn off completely under calcination and treated with solvent extraction using the filtrate composed mainly of ethanol. The template recycling study in continuous MCM-41 synthesis can be applied in MCM-41 industry for synthesizing MCM-41 material utilizing recycled template to achieve cheaper process with reduced filtrate disposal.
Multimedia fax-MIME interworking.
Creators: name: Patel, Sanjiv Purushottamdas.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: In this thesis, the architecture of an application-level Internet-fax gateway to facilitate multimedia messaging and to extend Internet services to the home or office is presented. We propose the use of the latest developments in the facsimile and Internet worlds, notably BFT support for Group3 protocols and MIME, for the exchange of multimedia messages (documents) between both environments as well as providing Internet e-mail, file transfer and Internet news services to fax users. Such services would be of most benefit to Internet novices and those users who do not have access to Internet via dialup/SLIP or Freenet facilities. The gateway services would allow a smooth transition into the widespread proliferation of multimedia communications. Implementation of such a gateway would make multimedia at home a very practical reality. A remote printer server, whose functionality is a subset of the proposed multimedia fax-Internet gateway was configured and setup at the MCRLab. This server became operational on February 3, 1994 and covers the local calling areas of the Ottawa/Hull region. This exercise gave us better insight into the practical aspects of the Internet Remote Printing Experiment. Further, a demo for inbound multimedia messaging was developed using the Binary File Transfer extensions to CCITT Group3 facsimile. This prototype serves as a proof of concept for the proposed gateway services.
title: "Listen Up!"
title: How Preschool-Aged Individuals’ Engagement in the Thinking in Music Curriculum Impacts Cognitive Development
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Grant, Fiona
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Executive functioning
Categorization
Memory
Preschool
Engagement
Thinking in Music
Cognitive Development or Processes
Human Learning and Memory
Music Education
Music

description: Previous research has shown that music performance training enhances cognitive abilities such as performance on spatial temporal reasoning tasks. Several curricula, such as Gardiner’s Thinking in Music curriculum, aim to support such cognitive enhancements through musical training. This study seeks to investigate the effects of preschoolers’ engagement during Thinking in Music lessons on their executive functioning gains in memory and categorization post participation in the Thinking in Music curriculum. The hypothesis was that increased levels of engagement would correlate with increased levels of executive functioning gains from the Thinking in Music curriculum in memory and categorization. Participants were thirty-three 3-5-year-olds enrolled in the Thinking in Music curriculum. Participants completed memory and categorization tasks prior to their participation in the curriculum as well as post-curriculum. Participants’ engagement in the Thinking in Music classes was measured using video and audio recordings of Thinking in Music lessons, coding for compliance at various time intervals throughout the recorded lesson. No significant effect was found between engagement and executive functioning in either memory or categorization. This study could be replicated with a larger and more diverse sample size, with an emphasis on attendance and a scripted Thinking in Music curriculum.
The relative effectiveness of marketing techniques on the attendance of minor professional hockey teams.
Creators: name: Vaughan, Anne.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Business Administration, Marketing.

description: The purpose of this study was to determine the relative effects of selected marketing techniques on the attendance of minor professional hockey teams during two stages of a playing season. Twenty-six marketing techniques comprised a questionnaire using a 5-point Likert scale to describe the degree of relative importance each marketing technique had on attendance from the view of the population of 28 marketing directors in the American (AHL) and International (IHL) Hockey Leagues. It was hypothesized that no differences would exist in marketing techniques between high and low attendance teams during two stages of the playing season, and that no differences would exist in marketing techniques between winning and losing teams during two stages of the season. Descriptive statistics were used to determine general trends in the data and independent samples t-tests were used to test for significant differences. The response rate was 93% and significant differences resulted. Marketing techniques generating differences for high and low attendance teams were media relations, and ticket options and incentives during the first half of the season. Winning and losing teams differed significantly for media sponsorships during the first half of the season, and for ticket options and incentives, and signage during the second half. This study provided information regarding the marketing environment and the marketing activities of minor professional hockey teams and indicated a further need to study marketing techniques used in different sports.
An Exploration of the Involvement of Genetic Counselors in the Delivery of Aneuploidy Screening and Testing
Creators: name: Lei, Qian (Lorraine)
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Genetic Counseling, prenatal, Noninvasive prenatal testing, cffDNA

description: There is a current shortage of certified clinical genetic counselors to keep up the publics’ growing demand for genetic counseling services. This is especially a concern for the field of prenatal genetic counseling because of the introduction of non-invasive prenatal testing via cell-free DNA analysis and a recent American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) practice guideline that suggests that this testing be available to all women. The purpose of this study is to assess prenatal genetic counselors’ involvement in offering aneuploidy screening and testing. An anonymous survey was distributed to the National Society of Genetic Counselors listserv and was completed by 193 prenatal genetic counselors. The demographics of the sample were reflective of the 2016 NSGC Professional Status survey. Only 29.7% of the respondents stated that they do follow the ACOG guideline. Barriers for implementing the ACOG guideline reported by all participants included: busy work schedule, adding additional time to counseling sessions, limited insurance coverage, and poor pre-test counseling by other health care providers. Participants reported seeing an average of 4.4 patients daily and a Quantitative Workload Inventory was an average of 16, indicating a reasonable workload. However, 14.7% participants mentioned their busy work schedule as a barrier for implementing the ACOG practice guideline. In general, participants indicated that genetic counselors are the most appropriate provider to consent patients for both screening and diagnostic aneuploidy tests regardless of indication. Participants who indicated that the non-genetics providers in their practice received education on aneuploidy screening and testing found it to be more appropriate for non-genetics providers to consent patients for cffDNA in two circumstances: AMA and isolated echogenic intracardiac foci (p<0.05). Although 43.3% of participants distributed educational pamphlets in their practice, other forms of alternative service delivery were much less frequently utilized. The majority of participants did not utilize genetic counselor assistants. This study suggests that prenatal genetic counselors are not yet offering cffDNA to all women and few are utilizing alternative service delivery to increase workplace efficiency. In order to accommodate the demand for prenatal genetic counseling services it is important for prenatal genetic counselors to focus on education for non-genetics providers and incorporate more alternative service delivery.
Du lecteur réel au lecteur fictif : essai de sociopoétique des quatre premiers romans de Gérard Bessette.
Creators: name: Richardson, Nicole L.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Literature, Modern.

description: A l'epoque de la Revolution tranquille, le Quebec assiste a l'emergence d'une nouvelle ecriture. Un aspect de la litterature de cette periode n'est toutefois pas suffisament pris en consideration: l'etude du lecteur devant et dans le texte litteraire. A travers un corpus restreint, les romans de Gerard Bessette publies entre 1958 et 1965, nous nous proposons d'etudier le lecteur de cette epoque. De La Bagarre, premiere tentative de roman realiste, a L'Incubation, veritable reprise de La Route des Flandres de Claude Simon, en passant par Le Libraire et Les Pedagogues, se manifeste une evolution tres nette du destinataire. Afin de rendre compte de cette evolution, l'etude s'appuie, en particulier, sur la sociopoetique d'Alain Viala. Cette sociopoetique vise a apporter une double contribution: d'une part, elle permet de lire la dimension sociale des romans de Bessette du point de vue de la reception; d'autre part, elle constitue une premiere tentative de reponse a la question suivante: a qui le roman de la Revolution tranquille s'adresse-t-il?
The Fight to Connect: Making Museums Accessible to Neurodiverse Communities
Creators: name: Sokoloff, Rebecka Lauren
name: Schattschneider, Ellen
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Neurodiverse people
Museums

description: This project aims to understand the necessary processes that would contribute to the reconceptualization and revitalization of contemporary museum practice for potentially vulnerable and neurodiverse populations. Due to their physical or mental state resulting from their disability, a museum’s accessibility, sensory, and educational components may be difficult for a vulnerable and neurodiverse individual to access, participate in, or comprehend. This is due to museums prioritizing their resources and materials towards mainstream participants. By dissecting the processes of museums and the necessary accommodations for participants of vulnerable and neurodiverse populations – specifically those with Down syndrome and autism – there will be fewer problems with representation, accessibility, and partnership between museums and these communities. Museums and special needs and disabled individuals will forge a deeper, meaningful connection, which will help facilitate opportunities for program and modification expansion.
Principles of Microeconomics Question Bank
Creators: name: Stong, Steven T
Publisher: name: University of Iowa
Year: 2021
Subjects: Principles of Microeconomics
question bank
assessment
openhawks
open educational resource
Microeconomics

description: The following question bank is written by Steven Stong. These questions have been using in a Principles of Microeconomics class that uses the OpenStax textbook Principles of Microeconomics 2e by Steven A. Greenlaw and David Shapiro.
Yeast ATM and ATR use different mechanisms to spread histone H2A phosphorylation around a DNA double-strand break
Creators: name: Li, Kevin
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2021
Subjects: S.cerevisiae
H2A
phosphorylation

description: One of the hallmarks of DNA damage is the rapid spreading of phosphorylated histone H2A (g-H2AX) around a DNA double-strand break (DSB). In the budding yeast S. cerevisiae, nearly all H2A isoforms can be phosphorylated, either by Mec1ATR or Tel1ATM checkpoint kinases. We induced a site-specific DSB with HO endonuclease at the MAT locus on chromosome III and monitored the formation of γ-H2AX by ChIP-qPCR in order to uncover the mechanisms by which Mec1ATR and Tel1ATM propagate histone modifications across chromatin. With either kinase, g-H2AX spreads as far as ~50 kb on both sides of the lesion within 1 h; but the kinetics and distribution of modification around the DSB are significantly different. The total accumulation of phosphorylation is reduced by about half when either of the two H2A genes is mutated to the nonphosphorylatable S129A allele. Mec1 activity is limited by the abundance of its partner, Ddc2. Moreover, Mec1 is more efficient than Tel1 at phosphorylating chromatin in trans – at distant undamaged sites that are brought into physical proximity to the DSB. We compared experimental data to mathematical models of spreading mechanisms to determine whether the kinases search for target nucleosomes by primarily moving in three dimensions through the nucleoplasm or in one dimension along the chromatin. Bayesian model selection indicates that Mec1 primarily uses a three-dimensional diffusive mechanism, whereas Tel1 undergoes one-dimensional directed motion along the chromatin.
The development and distribution of binucleation in cardiac myocytes of different species.
Creators: name: Sweet, Stanley.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Biology, Physiology.

description: It has been observed that up to 80% of the muscle cells in the adult rat heart are binucleated. This observation was extended using the technique of nuclear counting in enzymatically dispersed myocytes from different regions and at different ages in the rat. About 80% of the myocytes thus obtained from the right ventricle and from different regions of the left ventricle of the adult rat were found to be binucleated. This level was reached by the fourteenth day of post-natal life. When changes in the rate of body and heart growth were induced in litters of different size, it was evident that the attainment of the adult proportion of binucleated myocytes was more closely related to body and heart weight than to age. In the beef heart, the overall proportion of binucleated myocytes was found to be 48%, with a uniform distribution in different regions. In the rabbit, dog and cat hearts, far lower percentages of binucleated cardiac muscle cells were observed in newborn and young animals than in adults of the given species.
Investigating the Role of Internal States on Taste Processing in the Adult Rat
Creators: name: Stone, Bradly
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2021
Subjects: dynamic taste responses
estradiol
gustatory cortex
illness
in vivo electrophysiology
perception
taste preferences
Nicotine

description: Decision making utilizes preferences which are derived from objective and subjective conceptions of experiences. Although perception is often assumed to be a simple function of feedforward sensory processing, internal factors such as mood, metabolism, and motivation play a substantial role in determining how organisms experience the outside world. This interplay between internal and external variables drives decision making processes which in turn drive behavior, but we know little about how (nor to what degree) internal body states modulate perception of the outside world. The work in this thesis investigates the manner in which disparate internal states shape naïve taste preferences, and thereby impact consumption decision making. Starting with a general introduction to internal body states and a formulation of a brief scientific roadmap to my investigations, I go on to describe how pharmacologically and endogenously-induced internal states (nicotine, estradiol, and LiCl illness) impact naïve taste preferences and cortical taste coding. I end with a discussion of the commonalities among, and differences between, the distinct internal states.
Traitement pour la rééducation des hémiplégiques droits aphasiques par inhalation d'oxygène jumelée au "Block Design Cuing Procedure"
Creators: name: Cantin, René Guy
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Rehabilitation and Therapy.
subject: Psychology, Clinical.

description: Abstract not available.
Dynamics of customer loyalty within a highly regulated industry context: an exploratory empirical study of the triadic interplay among the Seller, the Buyer and the Regulator
Creators: name: Quach, Sara
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The thesis explores how customer loyalty changes in a highly regulated environment. The research provides a foundation for service providers to develop strategies specialised for customers in different transformative states, shifting the focus from loyalty development to loyalty sustainability. In addition, it reveals the importance of two-way communications and customer participation in regulatory framework, which can assist in designing an appropriate regulatory framework that could lead to industry growth and stability. Finally, the study highlights the importance of educating customers on regulatory framework in order for the customers to correctly evaluate service performance and respond to changes in the market.
Word power: Manifestations of power in the environmental discourse of the Canadian government
Creators: name: McHahen, Thea
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Political Science, General.
subject: Mass Communications.
subject: Environmental Sciences.

description: This thesis presents an analysis of the manner in which the current Canadian government, under Stephen Harper, has been using specific linguistic strategies in their environmental discourse in an effort to maintain their power. This research was undertaken utilizing a combination of content analysis and critical discourse, using Edelman's (1967) typology of language as a guiding framework. In total, nine speeches and 49 press releases were analyzed using this methodology. The findings indicate that government language influences government power insofar as government language functions as a type of strategic action that government can use to mobilize support amongst members of its target audiences.
Reducing the Participation Barrier to Insect Monitoring Through the Image Processing Program: Measuring Insect Board Coverage Using Adaptive Thresholding (MIBCAT)
Creators: name: Shimazu, Forrest Yoshinobu
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Lepidoptera
Animal Taxonomy
Biological Diversity
Computer Vision
Conservation Biology
Ecosystems
Entomology
Environmental Conservation
Environmental Monitoring
Wildlife

description: Monitoring insects poses challenges due to the need for prolonged efforts to understand trends effectively. These efforts are often time-consuming, labor-intensive, and costly, requiring taxonomists for species identification. These constraints limit research and monitoring, particularly given that insects are underfunded in the field of conservation. Despite these challenges, insect monitoring and conservation are vital for protecting habitats and irreplaceable ecosystem services they provide. To address these limitations and enhance monitoring practices, approaches that greatly reduce the reliance on taxonomists and involve participatory science are crucial. The program, Measuring Insect Board Coverage using Adaptive Thresholding (MIBCAT), aims to achieve this by shifting the focus to computer vision and examining the overall composition of insect diversity and abundance rather than species identification. While the use of computer vision in the field of entomology is not new, most focus on automatic species identifications via machine learning; MIBCAT takes on a new approach. MIBCAT employs adaptive thresholding to find insect contours on a moth sheet (board) image. Multiple characteristics of each contour can be measured, including color and size variables. Hierarchical clustering categorizes these measurements into similar and distinct size and color groups, offering potential species sorting capabilities. Furthermore, by assessing the size of insects on the board, the total surface area coverage of the board is measured. This approach is comparable to assessing biomass, and provides a time-efficient, cost-effective, and accessible method for monitoring insect abundance over time. Despite the hierarchical clustering method needing major improvements before reaching similar capabilities as a taxonomist, the assessment of total board coverage proved notably successful in gauging overall insect abundance. With further refinements, this metric holds promise as a valuable tool for future monitoring, providing crucial insights into the health of the entomofauna of a research site.
Beyond free speech: the thin layer of regulation on native advertising
Creators: name: Goldenfein, Jake
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Media outlets have free speech rights, but not when they’re trying to sell you something.
In the endless drive to get people’s attention, advertising is going ‘native’, creeping in to places formerly reserved for editorial content. In this Native Advertising series we find out what it looks like, if readers can tell the difference, and more importantly, whether they care.
Handel's Agrippina: A Critical Study of the Autograph and Early Sources
Creators: name: Vincent, Jessica
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Handel
Agrippina
opera
Music

description: This study examines Act Three of George Frideric Handel’s 1709 Italian opera, Agrippina, in an attempt to shed light on Handel’s autograph of the piece and three early copies. Specifically, this study focuses on the concordance between the autograph and the copies in an attempt to provide information for a much-needed critical score of this piece, as well as find connections between the sources that provide clues to the origins of each copy. In order to accomplish this, an in- depth, note-by-note analysis of the third act from each of these sources was executed and the findings were recorded in a concordance table, which is attached to this thesis.\r This thesis is structured in four parts: (1) Introduction, addressing aim, background information, and an overview of the sources; (2) Narration of Comparison, discussing in detail the specific findings of the study; (3) Conclusion, what can be drawn from this study, limitations, and further\r research opportunities; (4) Concordance Table, visual outline of this study.
Mechanism for the inhibition of angiogenesis by endostatin
Creators: name: Weagant, Brodie T
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Immunology.

description: In this study we sought to demonstrate the effect of endostatin on endothelial cell adhesion, proliferation, survival and migration in the presence of various ECM proteins. We found that endostatin was able to decrease VEGF-induced adhesion of endothelial cells to a variety of matrices including laminin, collagen IV, fibronectin, collagen I, tenascin-c and vitronectin. Endostatin was also able to inhibit the proliferation of endothelial cells however, this function was more dependent on the ECM proteins upon which the endothelial cells were cultured with the strongest inhibitory effects noted following growth on plastic and the weakest inhibitory effects observed following growth on collagen I or tenascin C which are both tumor associated ECM proteins. We also showed that endostatin did not induce apoptosis of VEGF-treated endothelial cells and in parallel showed that endostatin did not reduce the VEGF-induced activation of the survival protein Akt. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
title: L'architecture des pulmonaires
title: L'architecture des pulmonaires
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Keller, Roland
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2023

description: Pulmonaria L. (Boraginaceae) est un genre européen comportant, selon les références, 18 espèces (Bolliger 1982), 19 (Kirchner 2004) ou 20 espèces (Vejvodova et al. 2021) dont la distribution s’étend du Portugal à l’Asie orientale et de la Scandinavie à la Grèce. Les différentes espèces de pulmonaires ont connu de nombreuses introgressions en plus d’hybridations très anciennes (Meeus et al. 2016) et leur origine est à rechercher entre l’Asie et les Balkans (Kirchner 2004). Certains taxons ont une distribution très réduite, par exemple Pulmonaria helvetica est endémique de la Suisse (VD, FR) et aurait une origine hybride récente (P. officinalis × P. mollis s.l.), remontant à l’époque postglaciaire (Grünig et al. 2021). En fait, les différentes espèces s’hybrident aisément (Bolliger1982) mais semblent ne le faire que rarement dans la nature (Sauer 1975), ceci même pour des espèces très proches comme P. obscura et P. officinalis (Vejvodova 2021). Le genre Pulmonaria est, sans exagération, réputé difficile au niveau du traitement taxonomique.
Cleopatra Selene: The Iconography and Cultural Inheritance of Cleopatra's Daughter
Creators: name: DeRouen, Devon Ann
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Cleopatra
Cleopatra Selene
Iconography
Ptolemaic Dynasty
Art history
Africa
Egypt

description: This thesis provides a general study of the royal iconography of Cleopatra Selene II (40-5 BCE), the Queen of Mauretania who was born as an Egyptian princess to Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Roman triumvir Mark Antony. It explores the ways in which Cleopatra Selene’s multiplicity of identities, both racial and cultural, were presented in her adopted country of Mauretania, a Roman allied kingdom in modern-day northern Africa. The thesis considers Cleopatra Selene’s identities in the context of both racialized gender and cultural code-switching, as well as her role as the iconographic continuation of a long line of exemplary and innovative Ptolemaic Egyptian queens. Until quite recently in the modern historiography, Cleopatra Selene has existed on the margins of Ptolemaic history. Consequently, this thesis recontextualizes Cleopatra Selene as an important historical figure in her dynasty who stood at the intersection of African, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman cultures, rather than an outlier of these histories. This is particularly provided through an iconographic analysis of contemporary images of Cleopatra Selene as a queen of Mauretania, examined in comparison to the royal iconography of Cleopatra VII and other Ptolemaic Egyptian queens. Overall, the thesis hopes to provide a framework through which to confront cultural anxieties about racialized gender by demonstrating Cleopatra Selene’s steadfast commitment to presenting a multiracial and intercultural persona to her diverse population of subjects in Mauretania.
Multimedia workstation for cardiac image sequences.
Creators: name: Richens, Dominic.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Biomedical.

description: To diagnose patients with heart disease, cardiologists need to view the co-ordinated movements of various components of the heart, and check for narrowings and blockages in the coronary arteries. Echocardiography and Cardiac Angiography are two imaging modalities which permit visualization of these aspects of the heart. Currently, examinations performed with these modalities are stored on either 35mm cine film or VHS video cassette, making their review tedious and time consuming for the cardiologists. We propose a multimedia workstation to store the examinations and all related textual and graphical information in such a way as to permit convenient access. This information would be supported by a multimedia database which would allow for retrieval based on logical indices, such as patient name and examination date. This thesis details the design, construction and evaluation of such a workstation. To ensure that the workstation is easy to use and that an appropriate set of functions are available to the cardiologist, we employed a user centred design methodology. Our workstation digitized the examinations from S-VHS video tape for storage onto disk. The examinations are displayed at 320 by 240 at 20 frames per second, by selecting the patient and the examination date through a graphical user interface. Usability testing helped to fix both design and implementation errors, and revealed that our user interface was successfully designed. A one week trial in the Coronary Care Unit at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute proved that the workstation is useful for consultations and teaching between the cardiologists and residents on duty.
A second chandelier falls through clouded sulfur skies
Creators: name: Li, Frank
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Composition
Pierrot Ensemble
Contemporary Music
Music
New Music

description: This is a musical composition for flute, clarinet doubling bass clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano, and percussion (comprising one set of bongos, one set of temple blocks, one conga, one snare drum, two tom-toms, and one concert bass drum). A performance lasts approximately twelve minutes.
Hydrodynamic and surface chemistry effects in coal-oil agglomerate flotation.
Creators: name: Darcovich, Kenneth Peter.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Chemical.

description: Oil agglomeration combined with bubble flotation has proven to be an effective means of upgrading and recovering waste fine coal when low-oil floc-type agglomerates are formed. Low-oil recovery is desirable, since less ash is incorporated into the agglomerates and the expense of using oil is reduced. In this state, the flocs are too small and weak for screen separation but can be successfully recovered by flotation as even a small amount of oil imparts a much improved surface character, and agglomerate strength is less important. Reduction of the amount of wetting phase used in the oil agglomeration process for advance coal cleaning and utilization technologies is important to the economics of the process. An analysis was made of the agglomerate surface properties and on the size enlargement characteristics and possible mechanisms of the process taking place when floc-type coal-oil agglomerates are formed at oil levels less than about 2% oil by weight. Since this product exists not as dense agglomerates but only as small aggregates of a few particles, the adhesion technique was used to determine the surface properties of agglomerates made from a high purity coal. The surface properties closely matched those of the oil at agglomerate oil-levels above 2% by weight. Particle-size measurements by laser diffraction were then correlated to the surface properties as a function of the oil-level and of agglomerate particle packing. Subsequently, the surface free energies of agglomerates made from coals of several different ranks were measured by the adhesion technique. Oil levels from 0 to 10% by weight were used. As was expected, it was found that higher-rank coals are more easily oil-wetted and that the surface properties of the agglomerates correlate with agglomeration recovery and ash removal data. It has been illustrated in pilot studies that oil-agglomeration together with flotation gives an enhanced combustibles recovery and ash separation. To corroborate successful flotation results for such agglomerates, a computational fluid dynamics simulation was formulated to model their recovery. This simulation employed the finite volume method, and featured three-phase flow as well as the collection of particles by bubbles. Additionally, a novel formulation of a boundary element method for unsteady full Navier-Stokes flow was undertaken to model the collisional aspects of micro-flotation. This method was successfully implemented, but problems with numerical instability in the required flow regimes prevented a more detailed micro-flotation study in the present work. The surface properties of coal-oil agglomerates were incorporated into a model based on the resolved hydrodynamics of the flotation process. The overall result was an integrated model where individual local mechanisms could be summed to determine recovery values which compared very well to a wide range of data. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Get off my cloud: when privacy laws meet cloud computing
Creators: name: Goldenfein, Jake
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Data is the new oil for many emerging companies.
What does privacy mean in an age of ongoing privacy breaches? With new privacy law coming online in Australia on March 12, our Privacy in Practice series explores the practical challenges facing Australian business and consumers in a world rethinking privacy.
Video Games after Acute Stress: How does Honor of Kings Affect Players’ Physiological Reactivity and Emotion Outcomes?
Creators: name: Teng, Yu
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2022

description: The gaming industry is rapidly developing and dominating people’s daily entertainment. However, there are mixed findings about the effects of playing video games on stress. The effects of video game related activities, such as watching others playing, is also under-explored. This thesis proposes a study to fill in the gap to examine the physiological and psychological reactivities of playing video games and watching video games after acute stress among the players of Honor of Kings. The Trier social stress test (TSST) will be applied to all participants to induce acute stress. Then participants will be randomly divided into five groups: Bot Match (offline), Valley of Kings (classical mode), Ranked Matchmaking, Infinite Brawl, and watching play, with the first four groups as game playing (with four different game modes) and the last group as game watching. Physiological and emotional data for the participants will be collected at six time points. This research hypothesizes that video game activities (actual playing vs. watching playing) and game modes will play a role in physiological and emotional responses after acute stress, and that there may be gender differences. The relationship between physiological reactivity and emotion outcomes is expected to vary by different activity groups.
Le sens et la portée de la formule "Décision ou ordonnance administrative qui n'est pas légalement soumise à un processus judiciaire ou quasi judiciaire" de l'Article 28 (1) de la Loi sur la Cour fédérale
Creators: name: Roy, Roger
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Law.

description: Abstract not available.
Intelligent search techniques for large software systems.
Creators: name: Liu, Huixiang.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence.

description: There are many tools available today to help software engineers search in source code systems. It is often the case, however, that there is a gap between what people really want to find and the actual query strings they specify. This is because a concept in a software system may be represented by many different terms, while the same term may have different meanings in different places. Therefore, software engineers often have to guess as they specify a search, and often have to repeatedly search before finding what they want. To alleviate the search problem, this thesis describes a study of what we call intelligent search techniques as implemented in a software exploration environment, whose purpose is to facilitate software maintenance. We propose to utilize some information retrieval techniques to automatically apply transformations to the query strings. The thesis first introduces the intelligent search techniques used in our study, including abbreviation concatenation and abbreviation expansion. Then it describes in detail the rating algorithms used to evaluate the query results' similarity to the original query strings. Next, we describe a series of experiments we conducted to assess the effectiveness of both the intelligent search methods and our rating algorithms. Finally, we describe how we use the analysis of the experimental results to recommend an effective combination of searching techniques for software maintenance, as well as to guide our future research.
Natriuretic peptide secretion and gene expression in isolated rat atria following mechanical or neuroendocrine stimulation.
Creators: name: Bruneau, Benoit Gaëtan.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Biology, Animal Physiology.

description: The natriuretic, diuretic, and vasorelaxant hormones atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) are synthesized and secreted mainly from the mammalian atria of the heart, and are crucial for the maintenance of cardiovascular homeostasis. Direct stimulation of isolated adult rat atrial tissue by stretch, endothelin-1, and phenylephrine was conducted to attempt to define the mechanisms invoked in controlling the secretion and gene expression of ANF and BNP in adult atrial cardiocytes. These stimuli represent models for mechanical, autocrine/paracine, and neuroendocrine stimulation of the endocrine heart. The expression of the early response genes c-fos, c-jun, Egr-1, and c-myc were also studied, since they may regulate ANF or BNP gene expression. Isolated rat atria were stimulated by stretch, endothelin-1, or phenylephrine. Radioimmunoassay was used to measure levels of ANF and BNP, and Northern blotting was employed to measure changes in mRNA levels. Stretch resulted in a rapid and short-lived increase in the secretion of ANF and BNP. Calculation of the ratio of ANF to BNP suggested that this may be due to exocytosis of granules that contain both peptides, as well as granules that contain ANF only. Stretch selectively stimulated the expression of the BNP, c-fos, Egr-1, and c-myc genes. Endothelin-1 stimulated the secretion of ANF and BNP, following a time course that is distinct from that elicited by stretch: the increase in secretion was gradual, reached a plateau, and after a few hours returns towards basal levels. The patterns was similar for ANF and BNP, which suggests that they are co-secreted in response to this stimulus. Phenylephrine stimulated ANF and BNP secretion, but their stimulated secretion was not co-regulated. Endothelin-1 and phenylephrine stimulated BNP, Egr-1, and c-myc gene expression. Phenylephrine also modestly stimulated ANF gene expression. Changes in ANF and BNP mRNA levels were not coordinated with increased BNP secretion. The results show that ANF and BNP secretion and gene expression are distinctly regulated; this may be due to the relative abundance of each hormone and to partially different mechanisms of secretion for each. Therefore, mechanical and neuroendocrine stimuli contribute in different and specific manners to the modulation of the endocrine heart and hence to the maintenance of cardiovascular homeostasis.
International trade policy: A game-theoretic approach with special-interest groups and optimizing politicians.
Creators: name: Acharya, Ram Chandra.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Economics, Commerce-Business.

description: With industry lobby groups and optimizing politicians, I have derived trade policies endogenously for a small open economy using game-theoretic approach. I have extensively studied the effects of linkages among industries on their structure of endogenous protection for vertically related industries, horizontally related industries, and for industries which have multiple linkages both through production and consumption. In vertically related industries, I have found that the structure of protection of a downstream (upstream) industry depends on the nature of backward (forward) linkages. Among other results, I have shown that in Nash equilibrium, a downstream industry may support the protection of an upstream industry (a case so far considered a puzzle). In the second model, I have incorporated a non-traded good which is horizontally linked with the traded good and have shown that a non-traded industry can derive protection by lobbying in trade policy formulation. Even if only the non-traded good industry is organized, it distorts what otherwise would have been the free trade situation. It is shown that if the traded and the non-traded good industries are producing gross substitutes (complements) the lobby groups representing these two industries reinforce (cancel) each others' efforts to obtain higher profit. In the third model, I have studied the effects of multiple linkages among industries on the structure of protection. It is shown that there is no one-to-one correspondence between the representation of an industry by a lobby group and its protection through an import tariff or export tax. The net effect of lobbying of an industry depends on how its lobbying activity is neutralized or reinforced by other lobby groups. This model could explain the protection episodes of sugar, sugar user, textile, apparel and wheat industries in the United States. Besides deriving various theoretical results, given taste and technology parameters. I have solved the three-stage game of endogenous trade policy numerically and computed the Pareto efficient frontier. The frontier may be a single point or a line segment. If the frontier is a single point, the game has a unique truthful Nash equilibrium, whereas if it is a line segment, it has a continuum of truthful Nash equilibria.
Analyzing post-wildfire regeneration via satellite remote sensing in the Umatilla National Forest
Creators: name: Woltering, Ivy
name: Meddens, Arjan J.H.
name: Franz, Madeline
name: Andrus, Robert Anton
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2022

description: This study examined the efficacy of using satellite remote sensing to monitor forest regeneration following the 2005 School Fire in the Umatilla National Forest in southeastern Washington, by comparing satellite data to field-collected data.
Exchange rate pass-through: A case of Canadian imports of foreign automobiles.
Creators: name: Sabiston, David R.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Economics, General.

description: This thesis examines the role of exchange rate fluctuations on prices of automobiles imported into Canada over the period 1980(0)-1990(4). The theoretical model is motivated by the desire to synthesize existing models which only identify portions of incomplete exchange rate pass-through. The model captures general demand and supply influences by defining a rational expectations, dynamic optimization problem, with firms maximizing profits with respect to prices, subject to linear demand curves and quadratic adjustment costs. An extension to the model accounts for the possibility of strategic price interaction between competitors and, equally important, nests the original model. The model also strengthens the link between theoretical foundations and empirical estimation by providing a natural framework for recent econometric developments. In particular, favourable unit root and cointegration tests permit the theoretical model to be respecified as an error correction model (ECM) such that long-run equilibrium relationships can be separated from the short-run dynamics of a system. Following the theoretical foundations, each of the three separate automobile classifications (subcompact, compact/midsize, and large) is estimated using a traditional econometric approach, the Engle-Granger two-step procedure, and a Johansen (1991) /vector autoregressive (VAR) approach. Overall, results indicate that, regardless of the econometric methodology, U.S. automobile exporters pass through the largest amount of a change in exchange rates, followed in order by Germany and Japan. Knetter (1993) presents evidence to suggest little difference in pricing behaviour within common industries. Gross and Schmitt (1993) argue that the degree of pricing-to-market (PTM) varies across automobile sectors but remains similar within a given category. This thesis goes one step further and argues that pricing behaviour is different even within categories. Finally, in ranking the econometric techniques in terms of "best fit", under the assumption that the Johansen procedure identifies cointegrating vectors, the Johansen/VAR methodology produces ECMs with greater parameter stability, lower probability of model misspecification and better forecasting ability.
Deliverable 6.1 of the UNTWIST project: Survey questionnaire
Creators: name: Ruiz Jiménez, Antonia María
name: Bartolomé Peral, Edurne
name: Jiménez-Sánchez, Manuel
name: Sendra, Mariana
name: Ortiz Barquero, Pablo
name: Romero-Portillo, Daniel
name: Lara Merchán, Ana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Social sciences
subject: FOS: Social sciences
subject: Gender studies
subject: Women's studies
subject: Gender equality
subject: Social issues
subject: Human rights
subject: Ideologies
subject: Elections
subject: Political sciences
subject: Political communication
subject: Public policies
subject: Civil society
subject: Democracy

description: This document contains the UNTWIST questionnaire, which guides the survey developed in this project. The main aim of this questionnaire is to provide an instrument to test the so-called 'gendered positional deprivation theory'.
Serum vitamin A and prostate cancer.
Creators: name: Ellison, Lawrence Fredric.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Biology, Biostatistics.

description: Prostate cancer is a leading cancer in terms of both incidence and mortality in Canada and promises to become an increasing concern in the future. Despite its relative importance, few risk factors for prostate cancer have been identified. While a large number of dietary studies have examined the relationship between vitamin A and prostate cancer, studies using serum vitamin A levels are rare. A population-based retrospective cohort study was conducted. Serum vitamin A levels were measured as part of the Nutrition Canada Survey (1970-1972). Study participants (3,014) were men 35 years of age or older at time of interview for whom a serum vitamin A level was recorded. Prostate cancer cases were identified through record linkage of the survey cohort to the Canadian Cancer Registry (1971-1986). An age-adjusted Poisson regression analysis was then conducted. One hundred cases of prostate cancer were analyzed. Men with serum vitamin A levels in the highest quartile were found to be at twice the risk of developing prostate cancer as those whose levels were in the lowest quartile. For men 80 years or older, the observed relative risk exceeded three. This study suggests that serum vitamin A levels in men are positively associated with their risk of developing prostate cancer. This effect appears to be greatest among men 80 or more years of age. These findings should be interpreted with caution as this is the first study of appreciable size to report such an association and it remains possible that the results reflect, at least partially, the confounding effect of some unknown risk factor(s). Further research is needed to clarify the role of serum vitamin A in prostate cancer etiology. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)