cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Le leadership en milieu minoritaire franco-canadien: l’apport du dispositif VelTIC
Creators: name: Weatherall, Lisa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Leadership
Directions d'école
Administration éducationnelle
Construction identitaire
Vitalisation ethnolinguistique
Technologie
TIC
Technologies de l'information et des communications
Promotion du français
Éducation
Modèle du leadership en milieu minoritaire
Milieu minoritaire
Franco-canadien
Francophone
Bilinguisme
Balanciers compensateurs

description: Depuis les dernières années, la mission des écoles francophones canadiennes a été redéfinie afin de répondre aux besoins de notre société. Les écoles minoritaires franco-canadiennes sont isolées dans leur rôle de promotion du français et de construction identitaire. Il devient essentiel d’avoir des leaders efficaces dans nos écoles qui encouragent la promotion de la langue et de la culture. Certaines études exposent que les TIC peuvent contribuer à sauvegarder des langues et des cultures fragilisées. Parmi les rares dispositifs trouvés pour appuyer les directions d’école dans leurs tâches, nous avons trouvé la ressource hypermédia VelTIC. Or, aucune étude n’a été menée sur l’évaluation de ce dispositif quant à son potentiel pour aider les directions d’école. Le but de la présente recherche consiste donc à identifier la perception des leaders pédagogiques quant aux pratiques recensées dans la ressource VelTIC , à savoir si elles permettent d’aider ces derniers à assumer un leadership approprié quant à la promotion du français et la construction identitaire dans l’école. Les résultats indiquent que les leaders pédagogiques perçoivent les pratiques recensées dans la ressource VelTIC utiles pour les aider à assumer un leadership éducationnel en milieux linguistiques minoritaires (Lapointe, 2002) et un leadership lié au patrimoine (Godin, Lapointe, Langlois et St-Germain, 2004).
Scanning electron microscope appearances of fretting in the fixed orthodontic appliances
Creators: name: Klimek, L.
name: Palatyńska-Ulatowska, A.
Publisher: name: Institute of Machine Design and Operation, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2012
Subjects: fixed orthodontic appliances, fretting, scanning electron microscope

description: Acta of Bioengineering and Biomechanics; 03/2012; ISSN 1509-409X
A biomechanical model for a new incremental technique for tooth restoration
Creators: name: Sarcev, I.N.
name: Petronijevic, B.S.
name: Atanackovic, T.M.
Publisher: name: Institute of Machine Design and Operation, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2012
Subjects: composite resin, marginal adaptation, incremental technique

description: Acta of Bioengineering and Biomechanics; 03/2012; ISSN 1509-409X
Influence of hardening and surface modification of endourological wires on corrosion resistance
Creators: name: Walke, W.
name: Przondziono, J.
Publisher: name: Institute of Machine Design and Operation, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2012
Subjects: endourology, guidewires, stainless steels, flow stress and flow curve, corrosion resistance

description: Acta of Bioengineering and Biomechanics; 03/2012; ISSN 1509-409X
Spectroscopic techniques in the study of human tissues and their components. Part I: ir spectroscopy
Creators: name: Olsztyńska-Janus, S.
name: Szymborska-Małek, K.
name: Gąsior-Głogowska, M.
name: Walski, T.
name: Komorowska, M.
name: Witkiewicz, W.
name: Pezowicz, C.
name: Kobielarz, M.
name: Szotek, S.
Publisher: name: Institute of Machine Design and Operation, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2012
Subjects: vibrational spectroscopy, ftir-atr, raman, tissues

description: Acta of Bioengineering and Biomechanics; 03/2012; ISSN 1509-409X
The Importance of Risk Stratification and Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Pediatric Obesity
Creators: name: Belanger, Kevin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: obesity
children
fitness
Canada
exercise

description: Ninety-four children (age 8-17 yrs; BMI ≥ 95th percentile) were staged according to their risk profile in manuscript one by the Edmonton Obesity Staging System for Pediatrics (EOSS-P) based on metabolic, mechanical, mental and/or family risk factors. Children completed a maximal treadmill test yielding VO2peak data (mlO2/kg/min). Children were stratified into three groups: (Stage 1 n=28; Stage 2 n=47; Stage 3 n=19). VO2peak was significantly lower in Stage 3 (p = 0.02) compared to Stages 1 and 2. Children were re-stratified into three groups for manuscript two without the family category of the EOSS-P applied: Low Risk (LR) (n=40); Elevated Risk (ER) (n=45); and High Risk (HR) (n=9). VO2peak was significantly lower in the HR group (p = 0.04) compared to the LR group. Stage 3/HR children (highest risk category) in both manuscripts displayed the lowest levels of cardiorespiratory fitness, suggesting an increased risk for complications associated with pediatric obesity.
Supplementary document for Novel approaches to high-speed multi-view imaging approaching 4pi steradians using conic section mirrors: theoretical and practical considerations - 5412871.pdf
Creators: name: Zhou, Kevin
name: Dhalla, Al-Hafeez
name: McNabb, Ryan
name: Qian, Ruobing
name: Farsiu, Sina
name: Izatt, Joseph
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Optical Technology

description: Supplement 1
Transcriptome analysis of periodontitis-associated fibroblasts by CAGE sequencing identified DLX5 and RUNX2 long variant as novel regulators involved in periodontitis
Creators: name: Horie, Masafumi
name: Yamaguchi, Yoko
name: Saito, Akira
name: Nagase, Takahide
name: Lizio, Marina
name: Itoh, Masayoshi
name: Kawaji, Hideya
name: Lassmann, Timo
name: Carninci, Piero
name: Forrest, Alistair R. R.
name: Hayashizaki, Yoshihide
name: Suzutani, Tatsuo
name: Kappert, Kai
name: Micke, Patrick
name: Ohshima, Mitsu
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Data integration
subject: Gene expression
subject: Long non-coding RNAs
subject: Next-generation sequencing
subject: Transcriptomics
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::576 Genetik und Evolution

description: Periodontitis is affecting over half of the adult population, and represents a major public health problem. Previously, we isolated a subset of gingival fibroblasts (GFs) from periodontitis patients, designated as periodontitis- associated fibroblasts (PAFs), which were highly capable of collagen degradation. To elucidate their molecular profiles, GFs isolated form healthy and periodontitis-affected gingival tissues were analyzed by CAGE-seq and integrated with the FANTOM5 atlas. GFs from healthy gingival tissues displayed distinctive patterns of CAGE profiles as compared to fibroblasts from other organ sites and characterized by specific expression of developmentally important transcription factors such as BARX1, PAX9, LHX8, and DLX5. In addition, a novel long non-coding RNA associated with LHX8 was described. Furthermore, we identified DLX5 regulating expression of the long variant of RUNX2 transcript, which was specifically active in GFs but not in their periodontitis-affected counterparts. Knockdown of these factors in GFs resulted in altered expression of extracellular matrix (ECM) components. These results indicate activation of DLX5 and RUNX2 via its distal promoter represents a unique feature of GFs, and is important for ECM regulation. Down- regulation of these transcription factors in PAFs could be associated with their property to degrade collagen, which may impact on the process of periodontitis.
Development of a Dynamic Cell Patterning Strategy on a Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogel
Creators: name: Goubko, Catherine A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: cell patterning
hyaluronic acid
biomaterials
photocage
hydrogel
peptides

description: Cell behavior is influenced to a large extent by the surrounding microenvironment. Therefore, in the body, the cellular microenvironment is highly controlled with cells growing within well-defined tissue architectures. However, traditional culture techniques allow only for the random placement of cells onto culture dishes and biomaterials. Cell micropatterning strategies aim to control the spatial localization of cells on their underlying material and in relation to other cells. Developing such strategies provides us with tools necessary to eventually fabricate the highly-controlled microenvironments found in multicellular organisms. Employing natural extracellular matrix (ECM) materials in patterning techniques can increase biocompatibility. In the future, with such technologies, we can hope to conduct novel studies in cell biology or optimize cell behavior and function towards the development of new cell-based devices and tissue engineering constructs. Herein, a novel cell patterning platform was developed on a hydrogel base of crosslinked hyaluronic acid (HA). Hydrogels are often employed in tissue engineering due to their ability to mimic the physicochemical properties of natural tissues. HA is a polymer present in all connective tissues. Cell-adhesive regions on the hydrogel were created using the RGDS peptide sequence, found within the cell-adhesive ECM protein, fibronectin. The peptide was bound to a 2-nitrobenzyl “caging group” via a photolabile bond to render the peptide light-responsive. Finally, this “caged” peptide was covalently bound to the hydrogel to form a novel HA hydrogel with a cell non-adhesive surface which could be activated with near-UV light to become adhesive. In this way, we successfully formed chemically patterned cell-adhesive regions on a HA hydrogel using light as a stimulus to form controlled cell patterns. While the majority of cell patterning strategies to date are limited to patterning one cell population and cannot be changed with time, our strategy was novel in using small, adhesive, caged peptides combined with multiple, aligned light exposure steps to allow for dynamic chemical cell patterning on a hydrogel. Multiple cell populations, even held apart from one another, were successfully patterned on the same hydrogel. Furthermore, cell patterns were deliberately modified with time to direct cell growth and/or migration on the hydrogel base.
IPP-Info Ausgabe 02 "NutzerInnenorientierung im Gesundheitswesen"
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Bremen
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: IPP-Info
subject: Public Health
subject: Pflegeforschung
subject: 50

description: INHALT Schwerpunktthema | Seite 2 – 11 Neuerscheinungen | Seite 5, 9, 11, 15 Neues aus den Studiengängen | Seite 12 Projekte am IPP | Seite 13 Aktuelles | Seite 14 Buchbesprechung | Seite 15 Veranstaltungen | Seite 16
Perceived market orientation and church participation
Creators: name: Mulyanegara, Riza Casidy
name: Tsarenko, Yelena
name: Mavondo, Felix
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Over the recent years, the concept of market orientation has become an attractive avenue for research in marketing. However, despite an array of theories, a systematic framework investigating the role of market orientation in non-profit organizations remains limited. Through the integration of concepts from church participation and marketing literature, the study put forth a comprehensive model that describes the role of market orientation in church participation phenomenon. The study found support for the positive association between 'perceived market orientation' and respondents' extent of participation in church-related activities.
Assessing Early Child Development: Issues of Measurement Invariance and Psychometric Validity
Creators: name: Duku, Eric K.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: measurement invariance
measurement equivalence
early child development
autism spectrum disorder
executive function
rasch analysis
structural equation model
confirmatory factor analysis
social responsiveness scale
autism diagnostic interview-revised
Behavior Rating Inventory for Executive Function-Preschool
validity

description: The measurement of reliable and valid indicators of early child development is necessary for assessing phenomena and is useful in the monitoring of ongoing efforts to eradicate inequalities in the social determinants of health. There is an increasing awareness of the contextual, cultural, and developmental influences on constructs used in early child development (ECD) research. Using a measurement perspective, this dissertation examined the issue of measurement invariance and psychometric validity in early child development research. A construct violates the principle of invariance when two persons from different populations who are theoretically identical on the construct being measured have different scores on it. This dissertation consists of three journal-style manuscripts (published or under review) that were used as examples to address the importance of the issue of measurement invariance and psychometric validity in ECD research using data from two unique areas: autism and executive functioning. The three data sets were collected on pre-school children with parents and or teachers as informants and were chosen to represent different levels of data collection – clinical, community, and population. These data sets allowed for the examination of measurement invariance by type of informant, sex, and age of child. The results from the three studies illustrate the importance of assessing measurement invariance in ECD and whether or not the instruments examined can be used to assess sub-group differences with confidence. A lack of measurement invariance found for two of the studies, suggests that observed group differences in latent constructs could be attributed, in part, to measurement bias. More importantly, bias in the measurement of the constructs of severity of social impairment symptoms in autism, and executive functioning across groups could have an impact on services such as patient treatment. These biases could also influence public policy development, particularly when there may be an underlying need for a cross-group approach where belief systems may affect the meaning and structure of constructs. In summary, measurement invariance should be a prerequisite for making any meaningful comparisons across groups. A requirement of establishing measurement invariance should be included in the guidelines for comparative research studies as a necessary first step before an instrument is adopted for use.
Einkaufswegweiser Biozidprodukte
Creators: name: Jahn, Barbara
name: Nöh, Ingrid
name: Schwarz-Schulz, Beatrice
name: Smolka, Susanne
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biozid
subject: Biozide
subject: Biozidprodukt
subject: Biozidprodukte
subject: Insektenbekämpfungsmittel
subject: Holzschutzmittel
subject: antibakter
subject: Chemikalien

description: Rund 40.000 verschiedene Biozidprodukte sind in Europa im Handel - von der antibakteriellen Seife über Holzschutzmittel bis zum Insektenspray. Viele sind Chemikaliengemische, die nicht nur für die Schadorganismen tödlich sind, sondern auch Mensch und Umwelt belasten können. Daher sollten sie nicht bedenkenlos eingesetzt werden. Dieser Ratgeber erklärt, was Sie beim Einkauf beachten sollten und welche biozidfreien Alternativen es gibt. Quelle: Umweltbundesamt
description: Rund 40.000 verschiedene Biozidprodukte sind in Europa im Handel – von der antibakteriellen Seife über Holzschutzmittel bis zum Insektenspray. Viele sind Chemikaliengemische, die nicht nur für die Schadorganismen tödlich sind, sondern auch Mensch und Umwelt belasten können. Daher sollten sie nicht bedenkenlos eingesetzt werden. Dieser Ratgeber erklärt, was Sie beim Einkauf beachten sollten und welche biozidfreien Alternativen es gibt.
An Examination of the Dual Role of Teacher-Coaches in Ontario and their Perceptions of Student-Athlete’s Life Skill Development Through High School Sport.
Creators: name: Williamson, Robert T.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Teacher-coach
Dual role
Student athlete development

description: Within Canada, high school sport is the most popular extracurricular activity (Statistics Canada, 2008). Previous research has found that teachers who take additional roles may increase their chances of role conflict and occupational dissatisfaction (Richards & Templin, 2012). Little research has examined the motivations teacher-coaches have for taking on a dual-role. Further, researchers assert that high school sport can facilitate positive youth development (Camiré, & Trudel, 2010). The purpose of this thesis was to gain a more in-depth understanding of this dual-role as well as perceptions related positive youth development. Results of the research are presented in two articles. The first article examines teacher-coaches motives for taking on a dual role position. The second article examines the perceptions teacher-coaches have related to the impact of participation in high school sport. Overall, the results produced rich insight into the world of volunteer teacher-coaches and student-athlete development in high school sport.
Development and Evaluation of an Aquifer Capability Screening Tool Pilot Study: Clarence-Rockland, Ontario
Creators: name: Morton, Samuel R.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Hydrogeology
subject: Groundwater
subject: Geochemistry
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Drinking water
subject: Aquifer Capability Screening Tool
subject: ACST
subject: Municipal planning
subject: Sampling
subject: Mapping
subject: ArcMap
subject: GIS
subject: Fluoride
subject: Colour
subject: Coliforms
subject: Health Standard
subject: Aesthetic Objective

description: Increased development pressure led the United Counties of Prescott and Russell to seek development of a GIS-based Aquifer Capability Screening Tool (ACST). A Pilot ACST, developed by a project partner within this study, was made for the City of Clarence-Rockland, Ontario, and consists of several maps showing delineated areas where there may be groundwater limitations in terms of quality or quantity. This study gathered the chemistry data needed for the Pilot ACST from 127 domestic dug and drilled wells. The results showed exceedances of provincial health and aesthetic standards, which were then used to delineate maps for the Pilot ACST. An evaluation of the necessary data source and sampling scale for ACST development revealed that data gathered from existing reports was inadequate for various reasons and sampling scale should be on a grid 2x2 km2 or smaller. Further recommendations were provided for future ACST development studies.
PROCEDURE GIUDIZIARIE E RICONCILIAZIONE SOCIALE NELL’ATENE DI SOLONE
Creators: name: CUNIBERTI, GIANLUCA
Publisher: name: Dike. Rivista di storia del diritto greco ed ellenistico
Year: 2013

description: La necessità urgente di azioni e procedure per la risoluzione dei conflitti è originaria della società greca arcaica. In questa prospettiva il presente contributo indaga la trasformazione sociale e politica che avviene ad Atene ad opera di Solone. Due principi regolano la sua azione: l’applicazione del criterio del to ison e l’armonizzazione della società attraverso lo strumento dei thesmoi che possono rendere artios la situazione. Ma quali sono questi provvedimenti legislativi? Anzitutto l’estensione del diritto di ricorrere all’azione giudiziaria e la definizione di regole, scritte e uguali per tutti, in grado di realizzare un’efficace gestione della lite privata e, con essa, del conflitto sociale. Infatti, nei suoi versi, Solone mostra di non avere proposto una soluzione della stasis in termini socio-economici: introduce invece nella polis ateniese una vera e propria cultura della giustizia, fondata su regole scritte e istituzioni pubbliche, che superano il personalismo dell’arbitro/mediatore nel quale la tradizione ha al contrario rinchiuso Solone stesso: la riforma soloniana, così interpretata, mostra infine di essere ispirata da un profonda revisione dell’idea di giustizia e del rapporto uomini-dei che in essa si realizza. The urgent need of actions and procedures for the resolution of conflicts is
characteristic of ancient Greek society. In this perspective, the paper investigates the social and political transformation that takes place in Athens by Solon. Two principles govern his action: the application of the criterion to ison and the harmonization of the society through the instrument of thesmoi that can make the situation artios. But which are these legislative measures? First of all, the extension of the right to take legal proceedings and the definition of written and equal laws to realize an effective judicial management of the private dispute and, in the same time, of the social conflict. In fact, in his verses Solon proves not to have proposed a solution of stasis in socio-economic terms: instead, he introduces into the Athenian polis a real culture of justice, based on written laws and public institutions that exceed the personalism of the arbitrator/mediator in which Solon himself has been locked by tradition: the solonian reform finally shows to be inspired by a thorough revision of the idea of justice and the connected relation between men and gods.
description: Dike. Rivista di storia del diritto greco ed ellenistico, Vol 14 (2011)
title: Συγκριτική αξιολόγηση μεθόδων ανίχνευσης του σημείου μέγιστης ισχύος φωτοβολταϊκών στοιχείων
title: Comparative evaluation of maximum power point tracking techniques for photovoltaic cells
Creators: name: Δημητριου Γεωργιος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2019

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία πραγματεύεται τη σύγκριση αλγορίθμων εντοπισμού του σημείου μέγιστης ισχύος (Maximum Power Point Tracking, MPPT) λειτουργίας ενός φωτοβολταϊκού συστήματος. Ο κύριος στόχος όλων αυτών των τεχνικών είναι να υποχρεώνουν το φωτοβολταϊκό σύστημα να παράγει μονίμως τη μέγιστη ισχύ σε συνθήκες είτε ομοιόμορφης πρόσπτωσης ηλιακής ακτινοβολίας, είτε μερικής σκίασης. Αρχικά, παρουσιάζεται μια ολοκληρωμένη φωτοβολταϊκή μονάδα, βασισμένη στο μοντέλο μιας διόδου με τη χρήση του
εργαλείου Matlab/ Simulink. Αναλύονται και ελέγχονται τέσσερις αλγόριθμοι σε συνθήκες ομοιόμορφης πρόσπτωσης ηλιακής ακτινοβολίας. Στη συνέχεια εισάγεται η έννοια του φαινομένου μερικής σκίασης και αποδεικνύεται η ανικανότητα των συμβατικών αλγορίθμων για σωστό εντοπισμό του σημείου μεγίστης ισχύος κάτω από αυτές τις συνθήκες. Για το λόγο αυτό, παρουσιάζονται πέντε μέθοδοι MPPT, οι οποίες είναι αποδοτικές στον εντοπισμό του σημείου μέγιστης ισχύος σε συνθήκες μερικής σκίασης. Τέλος, τα αποτελέσματα των προσομοιώσεων καταγράφονται λεπτομερώς, συγκρίνονται αρχικά με τις αντίστοιχες θεωρητικές τιμές και μετέπειτα μεταξύ τους.
Pancreatic Panniculitis: A Rare Manifestation of Acute Pancreatitis
Creators: name: Patel, Ronak
name: Khan, Ali Safdar
name: Naveed, Sami
name: Brazleton, Jason
name: Wilcox, Mel
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2015
Subjects: Panniculitis, Nodular Nonsuppurative; Pancreatic Pseudocyst; Pancreatitis

description: Context Pancreatic panniculitis is a very rare complication associated with pancreatic disease and perhaps even a presage to pancreatic pathology. Case report We present a case of pancreatic panniculitis in a 61 year old patient who was treated for sudden onset of abdominal pain associated with nausea and vomiting secondary to acute pancreatitis of unknown etiology. He subsequently developed skin lesions consistent with pancreatic panniculitis which gradually improved after resolution of his acute condition and treatment with topical steroid cream. Conclusion We discuss and review the literature along with highlighting for the readers the important clinical and histopathologic features of acute pancreatitis associated pancreatic panniculitis.

Image: Initial dermatologic manifestation on lower extremities.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 16, No 3 (2015): May - p. 218-323
L’initiation à l’œuvre dans Les enfants du capitaine Grant et Un capitaine de quinze ans de Jules Verne
Creators: name: Labelle, Valérie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Initiation
Jules Verne
Simone Vierne
XIXe siècle
Roman d'aventures
Les enfants du capitaine Grant
Un capitaine de quinze ans
Littérature jeunesse
Initiation littéraire
Violence

description: Cette thèse a pour objectif d’analyser Les enfants du capitaine Grant (1868) et Un capitaine de quinze ans (1878) de Jules Verne à l’aide de la théorie de l’initiation littéraire proposée par Simone Vierne, afin de comprendre les rouages du processus initiatique en fonction du lectorat ciblé. Un chapitre théorique, intitulé Théorie de l’initiation littéraire, propose une définition détaillée du concept d’initiation, autant dans son sens anthropologique que littéraire. Ce chapitre offre aussi une réflexion sur les effets de la violence dans la littérature pour la jeunesse – violence que Jules Verne, comme plusieurs autres auteurs et chercheurs – juge salutaire. Les deux chapitres suivants sont consacrés à l’analyse du contenu initiatique des Enfants du capitaine Grant et d’Un capitaine de quinze ans. Ces romans font pour la première fois l’objet d’une étude comparative approfondie qui s’attache à l’initiation sous ses trois principaux aspects : 1) les personnages, 2) les épreuves initiatiques, 3) la violence et la peur. En effet, ces deux romans à portée initiatique présentent plusieurs ressemblances au niveau des personnages, des univers diégétiques et de l’intrigue, mais on remarque néanmoins qu’Un capitaine de quinze ans, qui présente un novice adolescent, comporte des scènes beaucoup plus effrayantes et violentes que Les enfants du capitaine Grant, roman qui met en scène un héros enfant. Par la violence des épreuves et la variation de certaines données initiatiques, les deux romans s’adressent vraisemblablement à deux publics qui se distingueraient nettement dans l’esprit de Jules Verne : les enfants et les adolescents.
Supplementary document for Novel approaches to high-speed multi-view imaging approaching 4pi steradians using conic section mirrors: theoretical and practical considerations - 5412871.pdf
Creators: name: Zhou, Kevin
name: Dhalla, Al-Hafeez
name: McNabb, Ryan
name: Qian, Ruobing
name: Farsiu, Sina
name: Izatt, Joseph
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Optical Technology

description: Supplement 1
Preventing Occupational Tuberculosis in Health Workers: An Analysis of State Responsibilities and Worker Rights in Mozambique
Creators: name: Garcia, Regiane
name: Spiegel, Jerry M.
name: Yassi, Annalee
name: Ehrlich, Rodney
name: Romão, Paulo
name: Nunes, Elizabete A.
name: Zungu, Muzimkhulu
name: Mabhele, Simphiwe
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Given the very high incidence of tuberculosis (TB) among health workers in Mozambique, a low-income country in Southern Africa, implementation of measures to protect health workers from occupational TB remains a major challenge. This study explores how Mozambique’s legal framework and health system governance facilitate—or hinder—implementation of protective measures in its public (state-provided) healthcare sector. Using a mixed-methods approach, we examined international, constitutional, regulatory, and policy frameworks. We also recorded and analysed the content of a workshop and policy discussion group on the topic to elicit the perspectives of health workers and of officials responsible for implementing workplace TB policies. We found that despite a well-developed legal framework and national infection prevention and control policy, a number of implementation barrier persisted: lack of legal codification of TB as an occupational disease; absence of regulations assigning specific responsibilities to employers; failure to deal with privacy and stigma fears among health workers; and limited awareness among health workers of their legal rights, including that of collective action. While all these elements require attention to protect health workers from occupational TB, a stronger emphasis on their human and labour rights is needed alongside their perceived responsibilities as caregivers.
Chemistry of hot springs along the Eastern Lau Spreading Center
Creators: name: Mottl, Michael J.
name: Seewald, Jeffrey S.
name: Wheat, C.Geoffrey
name: Tivey, Margaret K.
name: Michael, Peter J.
name: Proskurowski, Giora
name: McCollom, Thomas M.
name: Reeves, Eoghan
name: Sharkey, Jessica
name: You, C.-F.
name: Chan, L.-H.
name: Pichler, Thomas
Publisher: name: Elsevier Science
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: hot springs
subject: Eastern Lau Spreading Center (ELSC)
subject: Lau Basin
subject: 550

description: The Eastern Lau Spreading Center (ELSC) is the southernmost part of the back-arc spreading axis in the Lau Basin, west of the Tonga trench and the active Tofua volcanic arc. Over its 397-km length it exhibits large and systematic changes in spreading rate, magmatic/tectonic processes, and proximity to the volcanic arc. In 2005, we collected 81 samples of vent water from six hydrothermal fields along the ELSC. The chemistry of these waters varies both within and between vent fields, in response to changes in substrate composition, temperature and pressure, pH, water/rock ratio, and input from magmatic gases and subducted sediment. Hot-spring temperatures range from 229° to 363 °C at the five northernmost fields, with a general decrease to the south that is reversed at the Mariner field. The southernmost field, Vai Lili, emitted water at up to 334 °C in 1989 but had a maximum venting temperature of only 121 °C in 2005, due to waning activity and admixture of bottom seawater into the subseafloor plumbing system. Chloride varies both within fields and from one field to another, from a low of 528 mmol/kg to a high of 656 mmol/kg, and may be enriched by phase separation and/or leaching of Cl from the rock. Concentrations of the soluble elements K, Rb, Cs, and B likewise increase southward as the volcanic substrate becomes more silica-rich, especially on the Valu Fa Ridge. Iodine and δ7Li increase southward, and δ11B decreases as B increases, apparently in response to increased input from subducted sediment as the arc is approached. Species that decrease southward as temperature falls are Si, H2S, Li, Na/Cl, Fe, Mn, and 87Sr/86Sr, whereas pH, alkalinity, Ca, and Sr increase. Oxygen isotopes indicate a higher water/rock ratio in the three systems on Valu Fa Ridge, consistent with higher porosity in more felsic volcanic rocks. Vent waters at the Mariner vent field on the Valu Fa Ridge are significantly hotter, more acid and metal-rich, less saline, and richer in dissolved gases and other volatiles, including H2S, CO2, and F, than the other vent fields, consistent with input of magmatic gases. The large variations in geologic and geophysical parameters produced by back-arc spreading along the ELSC, which exceed those along mid-ocean ridge spreading axes, produce similar large variations in the composition of vent waters, and thus provide new insights into the processes that control the chemistry of submarine hot springs.
Client Perspectives of Psychotherapy for Eating Disorders in Community Practice Settings
Creators: name: Lefebvre, Diana Barbara
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Psychotherapy
Eating Disorder

description: This qualitative study explores client experiences to further understand psychotherapy for the treatment of eating disorders in community practice settings. Eight participants shared their experiences of individual psychotherapy, where eating disorders were the primary focus, during minimally-structured and open-ended interviews. Data were analyzed using interpretive phenomenological analysis. Analysis resulted in 20 themes representing what participants described as meaningful in their experience of therapy. These themes are organized in five broader thematic categories: Goals and Expectations of Therapy, Therapist Way of Being, Session Process, Eating Disorder Specific Interventions, and Non-Eating Disorder Specific Interventions. Each thematic category and theme is described in detail, including verbatim quotes from participant accounts, and depicting points of agreement or divergence among participant experiences. The constructivist orientation, principles of hermeneutic phenomenology, and helpful factors design forefront participant perspectives and allow for elucidation of nuances in which therapy and therapeutic interventions unfold. The findings reinforce and expand upon scholarly literature, including ways that participants find it helpful when therapists consider the client’s context, but also value direction provided by therapists who have eating disorder expertise. Implications of the study for research, practice, and training are discussed.
Submarine venting of magmatic volatiles in the Eastern Manus Basin, Papua New Guinea
Creators: name: Seewald, Jeffrey S.
name: Reeves, Eoghan P.
name: Bach, Wolfgang
name: Saccocia, Peter J.
name: Craddock, Paul R.
name: Shanks III, Wayne C.
name: Sylva, Sean P.
name: Pichler, Thomas
name: Rosner, Martin
name: Walsh, Emily
Publisher: name: Elsevier Science
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Magmatic volatiles
subject: Submarine venting
subject: Eastern Manus Basin
subject: Papua New Guinea
subject: SuSu Knolls
subject: DESMOS
subject: hydrothermal fields
subject: 550

description: The SuSu Knolls and DESMOS hydrothermal fields are located in the back-arc extensional transform zone of the Eastern Manus Basin. In 2006, highly acidic and ΣSO4-rich vent fluids were collected at both sites and analyzed for the chemical and isotopic composition of major and trace species. Fluids exiting the seafloor have measured temperatures from 48 to 215 °C and are milky white in appearance due to precipitation of elemental S0. Vent fluid concentrations of Na, K, and Mg are depleted by as much as 30% relative to seawater, but have the same relative abundance. In contrast, the fluids are highly enriched in dissolved ΣCO2, Cl, SiO2(aq), Fe, and Al relative to seawater. Measured pH (25 °C) ranged from 0.95 to 1.87 and aqueous ΣSO4 ranged from 35 to 135 mmol/kg. The chemical and isotopic composition points to formation via subsurface mixing of seawater with a Na-, K-, Mg-, and Ca-free, volatile-rich magmatic fluid exsolved from subsurface magma bodies during a process analogous to subaerial fumarole discharge. Estimates of the magmatic end-member composition indicate a fluid phase where H2O > SO2 > CO2 ≈ Cl > F. The hydrogen and oxygen isotopic composition of H2O and carbon isotopic composition of ΣCO2 in the vent fluids strongly suggest a contribution of slab-derived H2O and CO2 to melts generated in the mantle beneath the Eastern Manus volcanic zone. Abundant magmatically-derived SO2 undergoes disproportionation during cooling in upflow zones and contributes abundant acidity, SO42−, and S0 to the venting fluids. Interaction of these highly acidic fluids with highly altered mineral assemblages in the upflow zone are responsible for extensive aqueous mobilization of SiO2(aq), Fe, and Al. Temporal variability in the speciation and abundance of aqueous S species between 1995 and 2006 at the DESMOS vent field suggests an increase in the relative abundance of SO2 in the magmatic end-member that has mixed with seawater in the subsurface. Results of this study constrain processes responsible for the formation of hot-spring fluids in magmatically active back-arc environments and the resulting chemical exchange between the lithosphere and water column.
title: In patients with alcoholic liver disease, what is the utility of Transient Elastography (T.E) in the diagnosis of hepatic fibrosis?
Creators: name: Cahill, Donal
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Staging
subject: Screening
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Elastography
subject: Ultrasound physics
subject: Liver
subject: Cirrhosis

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: 1. Togain an understanding of the general principles underlying transient elastography. 2. To understand the application of functional transient elastography as a radiological imaging modality. 3. The use of transient elastography in diagnosis...
Furious Females: Women's Writing as an Archive of Anger
Creators: name: Hillsburg, Heather
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: anger
women
literature
discourse
affect

description: Longstanding political, social, and academic debates surrounding women’s anger have followed a distinct pattern. On one hand, critics disparage women for writing and speaking in an angry voice, casting them as bitter, irrational, or they assign them the pejorative “angry feminist”. Women often respond to these critiques by defending their anger, and reframe this emotional response as a legitimate response to oppression. Despite the utility of this intervention, this debate has given rise to a binary structure where a woman’s anger is either a legitimate response to oppression, or an irrational emotional response. As a result, the alternative functions to women’s anger remain largely unexplored. Working against binary logic, this dissertation aims to reframe this debate, and answer the following questions: what are the alternative functions for women’s anger outside of the binary terms of this debate? How can literary representations of anger complicate this conversation? Drawing from affect theory, intersectional feminist theory, discourse analysis, feminist discourse analysis, philosophical discussions about emotion, feminist literary theory, and ongoing debates surrounding nostalgia, this dissertation explores the function of anger within contemporary Canadian and American women’s literature. Before undertaking literary analysis in subsequent chapters, this dissertation first develops a methodology of “imperfect alignment” to account for the tensions between affect theory and discourse analysis, the theories and methods that guide this research project. The second chapter explores the ways anger allows liminal subjects to come into view in Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues and Morris’s A Dangerous Woman. Chapter three explores the ways anger can interrupt and complicate compassionate reader responses to gender based abuse in Sapphire’s Push and Mosionier’s In Search of April Raintree. Chapter four explores the ways anger and nostalgia allow subjugated groups to link anger to domestic violence in Joyce Carol Oates’s Foxfire and We Were the Mulvaneys. Finally, this dissertation concludes with a brief analysis of feminist critiques of reason, and locates the findings of this project in relation to this scholarship. Ultimately, this research project nuances debates surrounding anger, and poses alternative readings of this emotional response.
Coping with Stress in Undergraduate University Students: Development and Validation of the Coping Inventory for Academic Striving (CIAS) to Examine Key Educational Outcomes in Correlational and Experimental Studies
Creators: name: Thompson, Amanda
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Coping
Stress
Educational performance
Questionnaire development

description: This doctoral thesis aimed to better understand the relationship between coping and achievement in the post-secondary academic setting within the classic transactional model of stress and coping (Lazarus, 1991, 1999). Article 1 included the development of the Coping Inventory for Academic Striving (CIAS). The CIAS was developped to address limitations in the measurement of coping in the post-secondary setting. The results of two studies supported a psychometrically sound questionnaire measuring 11 coping strategies organized within task-oriented and disengagement-oriented coping dimensions. Tests of the concurrent, predictive, and incremental validity examining the relationships between the antecedents and outcomes of coping supported the conceptual independence of the task- and disengagement-oriented coping dimensions. Using this conceptual framework in Article 2 and 3, two daily diary studies were conducted in university students to examine the relationship between coping and goal progress. Individual differences in coping exist because not all students are coping the same way (i.e., between-person level). However, coping behaviours are also likely to vary from one day to the other during a typical week of the academic year (i.e., within-person level). Therefore in Article 2, new research questions pertaining to appraisal, coping, and goal progress were examined at both the between-person and within-person levels of analysis. While most effects were homologous, different within-person and between-person associations were found. Importantly, individual tendencies toward threat appraisal related to goal disengagement, but the momentary appraisal of threat can bring awareness to goal interferences redirecting goal directed behaviour. Finally, Article 3 tested an experimental coping skills training program whereby students in the experimental condition set if-then coping plans to manage negative emotions detrimental to the pursuit of daily studying goals. Daily over the course of a week, students in the experimental group reported lower levels of stress and negative emotions and higher levels of studying time in comparison to students in the control group. However, the effect of the intervention on some indicators of performance and emotions were only applicable to students with a limited coping repertoire. The development of this coping training skills program aimed to create bridges between coping theory and preventive coping interventions.
Geothermal systems on the island of Java, Indonesia
Creators: name: Purnomo, Budi Joko
name: Pichler, Thomas
Publisher: name: Elsevier Science
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Java
subject: Volcano-hosted and fault-hosted geothermal systems
subject: Geochemistry
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 2H and 18O isotope
subject: 550

description: This paper presents an overview of all known geothermal systems on the island of Java by presenting physicochemical data for associated hot springs, cold springs and acid crater lakes. A total of 69 locations were sampled and classified based on their position in either a volcanic complex (volcano-hosted) or a fault zone (fault-hosted). In particular the potential of a magmatic heat source for fault-hosted geothermal systems was investigated. Volcano-hosted geothermal systems had higher HCO3− concentrations and higher Mg/Na ratios than fault-hosted geothermal systems. This geochemical difference is likely due to degassing and subsequent CO2-water reaction in the volcano-hosted systems, which is absent in the fault-hosted geothermal systems. The HCO3 vs. Cl and Mg/Na vs. SO4/Cl systematics indicated that fault-hosted geothermal systems located in the active Quaternary volcanic belt received shallow magmatic fluids, hence should be classified as volcano-hosted geothermal systems. The heat source of fault-hosted geothermal systems located in the old (Tertiary) volcanic belt was investigated by a combination of Li enrichment and calculated reservoir temperatures. There a shallow magmatic heat source was indicated only for the Cilayu and Cisolok geothermal systems. Thus, a deep seated magma was considered to be the heat source for the fault-hosted geothermal systems of Cikundul, Pakenjeng, Parangtritis and Pacitan. In ten of the volcano-hosted geothermal systems, 2H and 18O isotope enrichments were found, but not in any of the fault-hosted geothermal systems. Stable isotope enrichment due to evaporation was recognized in the Kawah Candradimuka and Kawah Sileri, Kawah Hujan and Candi Gedong Songo geothermal systems. A combination of intensive evaporation and magmatic gases input produced very heavy stable isotopes in the hot acid crater lakes of the Kawah Kamojang, Kawah Sikidang and Kawah Putih geothermal systems. The addition of substantial amounts of andesitic water to the geothermal fluid was observed in the Candi Songgoriti, Banyuasin and Pablengan geothermal systems. Contrary to established belief fault-hosted geothermal systems on Java could be considered a potential source for geothermal energy.
A Role for the Planar Cell Polarity Pathway in Neuronal Positioning Along the AP Axis of C. elegans.
Creators: name: Tanner, Raymond
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: C. elegans
PCP
prkl-1
vang-1
Planar Cell Polarity
intercalation
van gogh
prickle
neuronal
non-canonical

description: We sought to investigate the role of the Planar Cell Polarity (PCP) pathway in neuronal positioning along the Anterior-Posterior (AP) axis of C. elegans, and chose the worm’s DD-type motor neurons as a model. The six DD neurons (DD1-DD6) are evenly spaced in the ventral nerve cord of wild type animals. Here we showed that mutations in core PCP genes caused DD neuron spacing and positioning defects. prkl-1 double mutant combinations with vang-1 and fmi-1 showed a suppression of the more severe prkl-1 single mutant defects, which was evidence of genetic interactions between these PCP components. We also conducted a candidate screen of Frizzled, Dishevelled, Wnt, and ROCK genes, and found that dsh-1/Dishevelled, mom-2/Wnt and let-502/ROCK also played roles in DD neuronal positioning. Both vang-1 and prkl-1 were found to function within the nervous system to guide DD neuronal positioning, and prkl-1 was further identified as playing a cell autonomous role. The origins of observed DD neuron anterior positioning defects were investigated during embryogenesis, in which 1.5 fold stage prkl-1(ok3182) embryos displayed delayed intercalation of the DD neurons. This represents a novel role for the PCP pathway in mediating DD neuronal intercalation.
RECONSIDERING THE STATUS OF KH ÔRIS OIKOUNTES
Creators: name: KAMEN, DEBORAH
Publisher: name: Dike. Rivista di storia del diritto greco ed ellenistico
Year: 2013

description: In describing the Athenians’ preparations for war, Demosthenes states: “We resolve that the fleet shall be manned by metics (metoikous) and khôris oikountes, then again by ourselves [i.e., citizens], then by substitutes” (Dem. 4.36-37). Debate on the meaning of the phrase khôris oikountes began at least as early as the second century CE, when
the lexicographer Harpocration identified the group as freedmen, since “freedmen lived by themselves, apart from their manumittors.” A Byzantine lexicographer concurred with Harpocration but added a secondary definition: “Or slaves living apart from their masters.” Since then, scholars have tended to adopt one or the other of these definitions, generally without any explanation for their choice. In this article, I make the case that khôris oikountes must refer to freed slaves, thereby broadening our understanding of the range of status groups recognized in classical Athens. Descrivendo i preparativi bellici ateniesi, Demostene afferma: “Decidiamo che per gli equipaggi della flotta dobbiamo reclutare meteci (metoikous) e choris oikountes, poi decidiamo che noi stessi dobbiamo imbarcarci, poi di nuovo quelli precedentemente nominati” (Dem. 4. 36-37). Il dibattito sul significato della locuzione choris oikountes è iniziato almeno a partire dal II sec. d.C., quando il lessicografo Arpocrazione identificò il gruppo con i manomessi, in quanto “i manomessi vivevano per conto loro, separati dai loro manomissori”. Un lessicografo bizantino concorda con Arpocrazione ma aggiunge una seconda definizione: “Oppure schiavi che vivono separati dai loro padroni”. Da allora gli studiosi hanno adottato l’una o l’altra di queste definizioni, generalmente senza fornire spiegazioni della loro scelta. In questo articolo avanzo l’ipotesi che con choris oikountes ci si riferisca agli schiavi liberati, ampliando così i criteri di classificazione degli status personali riconosciuti nell’Atene classica.

description: Dike. Rivista di storia del diritto greco ed ellenistico, Vol 14 (2011)