cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Impact Characteristics Describing Concussive Injury in Youth
Creators: name: Dawson, Lauren
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biomechanics
Concussion
mTBI
Youth Concussion
Head Impact
Hybrid III Headform

description: The incidence of concussive injury has continued to arise annually with up to 3.8 million concussions reported per year (Thurman 1999) and 15% of these injuries occurring with persistent symptoms (Kraus and Chu, 2005). Few studies have examined the differences between youth and adult concussion (Yeates et al, 2012; Gosselin et al, 2010) therefore it is unknown whether youth and adults pose a similar risk of sustaining a concussion following impact. For this reason, the purpose of this study is to determine if differences exist in the dynamic response of the head and brain tissue deformation characteristics between children and adolescents for falls in comparison to adult data which have resulted in concussive injuries. Patient data was collected from emergency room hospitals across Canada. After exclusion criterion was applied, 11 child and 10 adolescent falls were reconstructed using mathematical (MADYMO) model, physical model (Hybrid III Headforms) and finite element modelling. Both groups were compared to each other as well as an adult group collected by Post et al (2014b) using a one-way ANOVA and Welsh test. The results of this study show that the children produced the lowest values for all variables when compared to the adolescents and adults whereas the adolescents produced the largest (with the exception of MPS where the adolescent and adult MPS was the same). Although all results were above the suggested thresholds for risk of concussive injury, the youth produced the lowest brain tissue strain yet still suffered a concussion. This is important to note as it may suggest that children are at an increased risk of injury at a lower brain tissue strain level. Understanding the differences in parameters influencing concussive injury may aid researchers in comprehending the unique risk for youth at difference ages. This information would be useful in terms of protective equipment design, promoting safe play in games and management of patients following injury.
Philanthropy in Australia: it's what you do with it that counts
Creators: name: Fitzgerald, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The recent commitment by Fortescue Metals chief Andrew Forrest to contribute half of his private wealth to philanthropic causes, coming on top of investor Graham Tuckwell’s $50 million donation for equity scholarships at the Australian National University, draws attention to the role of private social investment in Australia as never before.
Supplementary document for Broadband sum frequency generation spectroscopy of dark exciton states in hBN-encapsulated monolayer WSe₂ - 5311898.pdf
Creators: name: Kusaba, Satoshi
name: Katagiri, Yoshiki
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Yanagi, K
name: Naka, Nobuko
name: Tanaka, Koichiro
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Experimental setups, additional data and discussions
Toolkit pentru furnizarea de servicii pentru sprijinirea refugiaților de război cu dizabilități
Creators: name: Nowicka, Monika
name: Voicu, Bogdan
name: Deliu, Alexandra
name: Szarota, Magda
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 420305
subject: Health and community services
classificationCode: 420306
subject: Health care administration
classificationCode: 420309
subject: Health management
classificationCode: 420313
subject: Mental health services
classificationCode: 420399
subject: Health services and systems not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 440902
subject: Counselling, wellbeing and community services
classificationCode: 440999
subject: Social work not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 441011
subject: Sociology of health
classificationCode: 441013
subject: Sociology of migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism

description: Acest toolkit (set de instrumente) însoțește raportul „Capacitatea stakeholderilor din Polonia și România de a oferi sprijin refugiaților ucraineni cu dizabilități în zonele metropolitane ale Varșoviei și Bucureștiului” (Nowicka et al., 2024), care își propune să ilustreze eforturile organizaționale de sprijin pentru refugiații cu dizabilități din Ucraina către Varșovia și București. Toolkit-ul colectează o ța afluxului brusc de refugiați din Ucraina în urma valurilor de agresiune ale Rusiei din 2022.serie de bune practici și le prezintă furnizorilor de servicii, ca un mijloc de a facilita intervenția rapidă în timpul evenimentelor nefericite de amploare care produc refugiați, cum ar fi invaziile repetate ale Rusiei în Ucraina. Publicul țintă pentru acest set de instrumente sunt organizațiile care au potențialul de a asista refugiații cu dizabilități în întreaga lume, iar intenția este de a le aduce mai aproape experiența Poloniei și României în fa
Competition Strategies of Metritic and Healthy Transition Cows
Creators: name: Foris, Borbala
name: Von Keyserlingk, Marina A. G.
name: Weary, Daniel M.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Our study aimed to characterize social competition strategies in transition cows, and determine how these varied with health status. We retrospectively followed 52 cows during 3 periods (PRE: d −6 to −1 prepartum, POST1: d 1 to 3 postpartum, POST2: d 4 to 6 postpartum). Cows diagnosed with metritis on d 6 postpartum (n = 26) were match paired with healthy cows (n = 26). Measures of agonistic behavior (i.e., replacements at the feeder) and feeding synchrony were determined by an algorithm based on electronic feed bin data, and used to calculate competition strategies via principal component analysis. We found consistent strategies, defined by two components (asynchrony and competitiveness; explaining 82% of the total variance). We observed no differences in strategies when comparing healthy and metritic cows, but metritic cows tended to change their strategies more between PRE and POST1, and between POST1 and POST2, indicating that strategies change in association with parturition and metritis. We conclude that cows show individual variation in competition strategies, and that automated measures of strategy change may help in detecting metritis.
Drugs in sport saga: do the fans really care?
Creators: name: McDonald, Heath
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: When the drugs in Australian sport investigation was announced in early February, much was made of the importance of protecting fans from the actions of wrongdoers. But here we are, three months into this investigation and attendance records are being set, membership sales are strong and public interest in sport seems solid. It raises the question - do sport fans really care?
title: Hoonah Marine Industrial Center cargo dock
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act (ESA) Section 7(a)(2) Biological and 7(a)(4) Conference Opinion Hoonah Marine Industrial Dock
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Alaska Regional Office
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Alaska Regional Office
Year: 2025

description: AKRO-2024-01073
Supplementary document for Broadband sum frequency generation spectroscopy of dark exciton states in hBN-encapsulated monolayer WSe₂ - 5311898.pdf
Creators: name: Kusaba, Satoshi
name: Katagiri, Yoshiki
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Yanagi, K
name: Naka, Nobuko
name: Tanaka, Koichiro
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Experimental setups, additional data and discussions
An Analog of the Lindemann-Weierstrass Theorem for the Weierstrass p-Function
Creators: name: Rivard-Cooke, Martin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Lindemann-Weierstrass
Elliptic Functions
Elliptic Curves
Complex Multiplication

description: This thesis aims to prove the following statement, where the Weierstrass p-function has algebraic invariants and complex multiplication by Q(alpha): "If beta_1,..., beta_n are algebraic numbers which are linearly independent over Q(alpha), then p(beta_1),...,p(beta_n) are algebraically independent over Q." This was proven by Philippon in 1983, and the proof in this thesis follows his ideas. The difference lies in the strength of the tools used, allowing certain arguments to be simplified. This thesis shows that the above result is equivalent to imposing the restriction (beta_1,...,beta_n)=(1,beta,...,beta^{n-1}), where n=[Q(alpha,beta):Q(alpha)]. The core of the proof consists of developing height estimates, constructing representations for morphisms between products of elliptic curves, and finding height and degree estimates on large families of polynomials which are small at a point in Q(alpha,beta,g_2,g_3)(p(1),p'(1),...,p(beta^{n-1}),p'(beta^{n-1})). An application of Philippon's zero estimate (1986) and his criterion of algebraic independence (1984) is then used to obtain the main result.
Stadtgold - Metalllager mit Zukunft
Creators: name: Buchert, Matthias
name: Bulach, Winfried
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Recycling
subject: Urban Mining
subject: Stoffstrommanagement
subject: sekundärrohstoffe
subject: anthropogenes Lager
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen

description: Das im Auftrag des Umweltbundesamtes durchgeführte Vorhaben "KartAL III - Kartierung des Anthropogenen Lagers III" fokussiert die Verwertungswege und erwarteten Stoffströme von sieben Metallen und ihren Legierungen. Um die Kreislaufwirtschaft durch Urban Mining in Deutschland nennenswert zu verbessern, werden die im Projekt identifizierten Potenziale, Stellgrößen und Handlungsansätze in einem Leitfaden überblicksartig zusammengestellt. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Das im Auftrag des Umweltbundesamtes durchgeführte Vorhaben „KartAL III - Kartierung des Anthropogenen Lagers III“ fokussiert die Verwertungswege und erwarteten Stoffströme von sieben Metallen und ihren Legierungen. Um die Kreislaufwirtschaft durch Urban Mining in Deutschland nennenswert zu verbessern, werden die im Projekt identifizierten Potenziale, Stellgrößen und Handlungsansätze in einem Leitfaden überblicksartig zusammengestellt.
Blocking piracy websites is bad for Australia's digital future
Creators: name: Hunter, Dan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Swinburne Dean of Law Dan Hunter writes: ‘Rumours are flying that the government will introduce legislation before Christmas aimed at blocking certain websites, such as The Pirate Bay and Kickass Torrents, as part of a range of efforts to reduce copyright infringement in Australia.'
Modeling Behaviour of Damaged Turbine Blades for Engine Health Diagnostics and Prognostics
Creators: name: Van Dyke, Jason
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Numerical method
TBC
thermal barrier coating
turbine blade
damage turbine blades
damage
FEA
diagnostic system
prognostic system
structural health monitoring
damage modeling
damage indicators
finite element method
ABAQUS
vibration
deflection
elongation

description: The reliability of modern gas turbine engines is largely due to careful damage tolerant design a method of structural design based on the assumption that flaws (cracks) exist in any structure and will continue to grow with usage. With proper monitoring, largely in the form of periodic inspections at conservative intervals reliability and safety is maintained. These methods while reliable can lead to the early retirement of some components and unforeseen failure if design assumptions fail to reflect reality. With improvements to sensor and computing technology there is a growing interest in a system that could continuously monitor the health of structural aircraft as well as forecast future damage accumulation in real-time. Through the use of two-dimensional and three-dimensional numerical modeling the initial goals and findings for this continued work include: (a) establishing measurable parameters directly linked to the health of the blade and (b) the feasibility of detecting accumulated damage to the structural material and thermal barrier coating as well as the onset of damage causing structural failure.
L’appui du Canada au processus de gouvernance démocratique au Mali (2006 – 2012) - Motivations ambiguës et résultats mitigés
Creators: name: Touré, Fodé Saliou
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: gouvernance démocratique
aide au développement
politique étrangère
constructivisme
Agence canadienne de développement international
démocratisation
ACDI
Canada
Mali
Organisations de la société civile
État fragile
Déclaration de Paris
efficacité de l'aide
Harper
foreign aid
foreign policy
Africa
CIDA

description: Cette thèse est une contribution à la réflexion du rôle dynamique du Canada dans le soutien international au développement démocratique. Elle dresse un bilan des actions menées, entre 2006 et 2012, par l’Agence canadienne de développement international (ACDI), principal organe d’aide du Canada, en appui à la gouvernance démocratique au Mali, pays de concentration de l’aide canadienne. Elle soutient que les motivations de la coopération canadienne au Mali sont ambiguës et que les résultats sont mitigés. Les progrès accomplis ces dernières années ont été fragilisés par les conséquences de la crise sécuritaire et politique de 2012 et la suspension de l’aide bilatérale canadienne a compromis l’évolution dynamique de ses projets. La démarche analytique combine une approche constructiviste critique avec une analyse inductive pour l’interprétation des motivations ambiguës et des résultats mitigés obtenus. L’étude a été conduite au moyen d'analyses documentaires et d'entretiens semi-directifs approfondis auprès d’une dizaine de personnes ressources.
Supplementary document for Quantitative terahertz emission nanoscopy with multi-resonant near-field probes - 5312627.pdf
Creators: name: Mooshammer, Fabian
name: Plankl, Markus
name: Siday, Thomas
name: Zizlsperger, Martin
name: Sandner, Fabian
name: Vitalone, Rocco
name: Jing, Ran
name: Huber, Markus
name: Basov, Dimitri
name: Huber, Rupert
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Spectral Distortions & Enhancements In Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Hyperspectroscopy
Creators: name: Barlow, Aaron M.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Spectroscopy
Nonlinear optics
Microscopy
Ultrafast optics

description: Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy is a versatile technique for label-free imaging and spectroscopy of systems of biophysical interest. Due to the coherent nature of the generated signals, CARS images and spectra can often be difficult to interpret. In this thesis, we document how distortions and enhancements can be produced in CARS hyperspectroscopy as a result of the instrument, geometrical optical effects, or unique molecular states, and discuss how these effects may be suppressed or exploited in various CARS applications.
La transmission de la langue et de la culture en Ontario français: quel(s) rôle(s) pour le personnel enseignant?
Creators: name: Turner, Karine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Ontario français
éducation
milieu minoritaire
personnel enseignant
transmission linguistique et culturelle
identité professionnelle

description: La recherche entreprise se veut une réflexion quant au rôle du personnel enseignant dans la transmission linguistique et culturelle en contexte scolaire franco-ontarien. Par l’entremise d’entretiens semi-dirigés menés auprès de quinze enseignants oeuvrant au sein de deux écoles secondaires du Nord-Est ontarien, nous explorons les diverses facettes de l’identité professionnelle du personnel enseignant, afin de mieux cerner la façon dont celle-ci s’articule avec la transmission de la langue et de la culture. En exposant les représentations des enseignants à l’égard de ce rôle, nous tentons de mieux comprendre comment ces derniers vivent leur expérience de travail en milieu minoritaire.
La ville comme exclusion : le rôle de l'État local dans la gentrification du centre de Montréal
Creators: name: Kilfoil, Patrick
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Gentrification
Politique municipale
Urbanisme
Développement urbain
Politiques publiques
Exclusion sociale

description: Dans l’optique d’ajouter à la compréhension de la gentrification et en réponse aux développements récents au niveau de la théorisation, cette recherche analyse le rôle des gouvernements locaux dans la production du discours. Pour y arriver, nous utilisons une méthode tripartite qui situe la gentrification à Montréal, identifie et spatialise le discours de l’État local et analyse la perception sociale face à sa concrétisation. Nous expliquons que le lien de causalité entre la gentrification et l’exclusion doit être renversé lorsque le rôle de l’État local est considéré. Ainsi, le gouvernement local crée des catégories d’inclus et d’exclus en construisant un discours autour d’un idéal de développement urbain particulier et encourage par le fait même la gentrification. Ces résultats soulignent l’importance d’insérer la gentrification dans un processus de construction sociopolitique de l’espace urbain et non pas de la considérer simplement comme symptôme de la logique économique capitaliste contemporaine.
Vision-Based Localization Using Reliable Fiducial Markers
Creators: name: Stathakis, Alexandros
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Fiducial Marker
Indoor Localization
Machine Vision
Pseudo-Random Array

description: Vision-based positioning systems are founded primarily on a simple image processing technique of identifying various visually significant key-points in an image and relating them to a known coordinate system in a scene. Fiducial markers are used as a means of providing the scene with a number of specific key-points, or features, such that computer vision algorithms can quickly identify them within a captured image. This thesis proposes a reliable vision-based positioning system which utilizes a unique pseudo-random fiducial marker. The marker itself offers 49 distinct feature points to be used in position estimation. Detection of the designed marker occurs after an integrated process of adaptive thresholding, k-means clustering, color classification, and data verification. The ultimate goal behind such a system would be for indoor localization implementation in low cost autonomous mobile platforms.
Supplementary document for Quantitative terahertz emission nanoscopy with multi-resonant near-field probes - 5312627.pdf
Creators: name: Mooshammer, Fabian
name: Plankl, Markus
name: Siday, Thomas
name: Zizlsperger, Martin
name: Sandner, Fabian
name: Vitalone, Rocco
name: Jing, Ran
name: Huber, Markus
name: Basov, Dimitri
name: Huber, Rupert
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
User interest-based filtering and clustering for web information visualization
Creators: name: Saleheen, Shibli
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The World Wide Web has become the major source of information in the modern world. Users access information via browsers and search engines. Alternatively, they can view web pages as graphs which benefit end-users by enabling them to find related information and its inherent relationships quickly and effectively. Existing web-graphs are sometimes ineffective because the interests of the end-users, especially those who have different information needs, are not sufficiently considered. To address this, an architecture of user interest-based web-graph generation is presented which models user interests and incorporates them in information filtering, graph generation and clustering to produce personalized web-graphs.
M-crawler: Crawling Rich Internet Applications Using Menu Meta-model
Creators: name: Choudhary, Suryakant
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Web Crawling
Rich Internet Applications
Web Application Modelling

description: Web applications have come a long way both in terms of adoption to provide information and services and in terms of the technologies to develop them. With the emergence of richer and more advanced technologies such as Ajax, web applications have become more interactive, responsive and user friendly. These applications, often called Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) changed the traditional web applications in two primary ways: Dynamic manipulation of client side state and Asynchronous communication with the server. At the same time, such techniques also introduce new challenges. Among these challenges, an important one is the difficulty of automatically crawling these new applications. Crawling is not only important for indexing the contents but also critical to web application assessment such as testing for security vulnerabilities or accessibility. Traditional crawlers are no longer sufficient for these newer technologies and crawling in RIAs is either inexistent or far from perfect. There is a need for an efficient crawler for web applications developed using these new technologies. Further, as more and more enterprises use these new technologies to provide their services, the requirement for a better crawler becomes inevitable. This thesis studies the problems associated with crawling RIAs. Crawling RIAs is fundamentally more difficult than crawling traditional multi-page web applications. The thesis also presents an efficient RIA crawling strategy and compares it with existing methods.
title:  Vaghezza e approssimazione: corpus linguistics e discorso letterario
Creators: name: Benigni, Valentina
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2017

description: Nonostante le metodologie proprie della linguistica dei corpora trovino sempre maggiore applicazione in diversi ambiti della linguistica applicata, il loro utilizzo nell’analisi del discorso letterario rimane ancora piuttosto circoscritto. Basandosi su due case-study, il lavoro indaga pertanto l’uso della vaghezza linguistica nel discorso letterario russo contemporaneo: viene infatti tracciato secondo una prospettiva micro-diacronica il processo di grammaticalizzazione e pragmaticalizzazione degli approssimanti tipa e vrode ‘tipo, una specie’ all’interno di due corpora quantitativamente comparabili di testi letterari (periodo 1955-1992 e periodo 1995-2015) estratti dal Corpus Nazionale Russo. I risultati dell’indagine mostrano come un approccio corpus-based offra interessanti spunti per lo studio del linguaggio della letteratura, e applicare metodologie proprie della linguistica dei corpora all’analisi del discorso letterario.
description: Violazioni: letteratura, cultura e società in Russia dal crollo dell’Urss ai nostri giorni
Investigating the Genes and Pathways Involved in the Biosynthesis of Indole-3-acetic Acid in 'Fusarium Graminearum'
Creators: name: DesRoches, Caro-Lyne
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012

description: The hormone indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) is utilized by some microorganisms as part of their infection strategy. This study investigated the enzymatic pathways and genes involved in the biosynthesis of IAA by F. graminearum. In culture, F. graminearum was able to produce IAA when supplied with tryptophan or intermediates found in the enzymatic pathways for the biosynthesis of IAA with the exclusion of indole-3-acetamide (IAM). Predicted gene function, gene expression profiling and RT-qPCR validation of specific gene expression patterns, allowed us to establish a list of candidate genes for the biosynthesis of IAA. A probable aldehyde dehydrogenase (fg02296) was inactivated by replacement in the F. graminearum genome. Results suggested that this gene is not required for IAA production or fitness level in F. graminearum. The role of IAA produced by this pathogen remains elusive however this study has provided some pertinent information on the biosynthesis of IAA in culture.
Monocular Obstacle Detection for Moving Vehicles
Creators: name: Lalonde, Jeffrey R.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: obstacle detection
collision avoidance
3d reconstruction
triangulation
obstacle detection from moving vehicle

description: This thesis presents a 3D reconstruction approach to the detection of static obstacles from a single rear view parking camera. Corner features are tracked to estimate the vehicle’s motion and to perform multiview triangulation in order to reconstruct the scene. We model the camera motion as planar motion and use the knowledge of the camera pose to efficiently solve motion parameters. Based on the observed motion, we selected snapshots from which the scene is reconstructed. These snapshots guarantee a sufficient baseline between the images and result in more robust scene modeling. Multiview triangulation of a feature is performed only if the feature obeys the epipolar constraint. Triangulated features are semantically labelled according to their 3D location. Obstacle features are spatially clustered to reduce false detections. Finally, the distance to the nearest obstacle cluster is reported to the driver.
Les relations de l'Algérie avec les États-Unis : cohérence, logiques et ruptures.
Creators: name: Ait-Chaalal, Amine.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: History, Modern.

description: Dans le cadre de cette these, les relations entre l'Algerie et les Etats-Unis seront vues comme s'articulant autour de 4 logiques/axes principaux qui s'entrecoupent: (1) commercial, (2) technico-developpementiste, (3) politico-ideologique, et (4) strategique. Les deux premiers axes (1 & 2) pourront etre qualifies d'axes a predominance convergente/cooperative, renforcant les tendances a une cooperation entre les deux Etats. Les deux autres (3 & 4) seront quant a eux qualifies d'axes a predominance divergente/conflictuelle, induisant des facteurs de tension (et meme de rupture). Les sources utilisees furent nombreuses. En plus du traitement d'un certain nombre de publications et sources documentaires "classiques" maghrebines, americaines et europeennes consacrees, directement ou indirectement, a ce sujet (livres, revues, journaux), nous avons egalement recouru a des documents parfois inedits ou peu exploites (certaines remises par les personnes interviewees). Et, de facon encore plus sensible, ont ete menees des entrevues avec des responsables politiques et diplomatiques. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Tensions Along the Path Towards Mental Health Literacy for New Immigrant Mothers: Perspectives on Mental Health and Mental Illness
Creators: name: Montgomery, Natalie D.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: mental health literacy
communication
barriers
parent empowerment
new immigrants
secondary audience
vulnerable populations
focus groups

description: New immigrants to Canada are identified as a vulnerable population in mental health and, as a result, organizations are signaling the need to enhance their mental health supports. The research uses focus groups and questions based on the messaging of a Canadian school mental health program to understand how new immigrant mothers interpret and develop key aspects of their mental health literacy and how they attain parent empowerment. A thematic assessment of the knowledge, interpretation, action and decision-making of the study participants (n=7), all recent immigrants to Canada and mothers of high school students, shows that new immigrant mothers are prepared to follow a path towards mental health literacy. At the same time, however, there are barriers that can block progression towards mental health literacy for this audience. These findings are supported by three umbrella themes: the first main theme “home as haven” espouses maternal roles in mental health maintenance such as protector and communicator, the second main theme “knowledge versus suspicions of mental health and mental illness” represents informed views and support of mental illness and myths and illusions of mental illness, and the third main theme, “additional barriers to mental health literacy” includes the hardships of immigration and fear of knowledge. The study concludes that new immigrant mothers appreciate the importance of fostering mental health understanding and discussion with their children at the same time that they encounter obstacles to the advancement of their mental health literacy. This study is relevant to the field of communication in that it demonstrates the experience of new immigrant mothers as a secondary audience in mental health programming. As the caregivers of their children, they are in position to enforce the messages and health maintenance behaviours of a school-based mental health program aimed at adolescents.
Socrate : Autoportrait cubiste d'Erik Satie
Creators: name: Bourgault, Mélissa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Erik Satie
Socrate
Cubisme
Victor Cousin
Les Dialogues de Platon
Musique française
Pablo Picasso
Georges Braque
drame symphonique

description: Erik Satie fut toujours considéré comme un personnage énigmatique dans le monde musical français au tournant du siècle dernier. Sa personnalité marginale et ses œuvres dépouillées aux titres étranges ont maintes fois suscité questionnements et polémique. En 1917, Erik Satie écrivit une œuvre qui ne ressembla aucunement au répertoire antérieur du compositeur. Socrate, qui fut représenté publiquement pour la première fois en janvier 1920 à la Société Nationale de Paris, laissa le public et la critique perplexe et mitigé. Qu’avait donc de si particulier cette œuvre qui, d’un côté, passa pour une blague mais qui, pour certains dont le compositeur lui-même, fut considérée comme une manifestation pure de sagesse et de sincérité ? Socrate fut conçu au même moment où Satie entretenait des liens étroits avec le monde cubiste. Pablo Picasso et Georges Braque furent désormais les maîtres d’un courant artistique qui allait révolutionner le monde artistique. De concert avec les valeurs avant-gardistes prônées par Erik Satie, les cubistes cherchèrent à bousculer les attentes du public en modifiant l’approche visuelle de manière à stimuler les différentes perceptions sensorielles. Avec le ballet Parade, représenté en mai 1917, le compositeur collabora avec Picasso et ceci eût grandement influencé son style musical puisqu’il employa des techniques se rapprochant grandement du cubisme. Comme le soutient Daniel Albright, Satie trouva dans le cubisme son analogue artistique. Selon moi, outre Parade, Erik Satie bénéficiera de l’esthétique cubiste pour développer son œuvre Socrate. Cette thèse se concentre sur la signification de l’œuvre Socrate, plus particulièrement comment celle-ci pourrait représenter un autoportrait d’Erik Satie. De surcroît, elle examine comment cette représentation est camouflée derrière des méthodes cubistes traduites musicalement. La thèse s’appuie sur une littérature variée portant sur divers sujets relatant Socrate, dont la biographie du compositeur et sa relation avec des réseaux artistiques, intellectuels et sociaux. Cette thèse est la première étude d’envergure à suggérer une possibilité d’autoportrait cubiste musical puisque peu d’auteurs se sont attardés à résoudre cette problématique. Cette thèse décrit comment Socrate est une manifestation personnelle de sincérité et d’humilité d’un compositeur qui, persécuté tout au long de sa vie, se dévoila aux yeux de tous par le recours à cette figure emblématique de l’histoire : Socrate.
Interferon-α2b Treatment for COVID-19
Creators: name: Zhou, Qiong
name: Chen, Virginia
name: Shannon, Casey P.
name: Wei, Xiao-Shan
name: Xiang, Xuan
name: Wang, Xu
name: Wang, Zi-Hao
name: Tebbutt, Scott J.
name: Kollmann, Tobias
name: Fish, Eleanor N.
Publisher: name: Frontiers in Immunology
Year: 2021

description: The global pandemic of COVID-19 cases caused by infection with SARS-CoV-2 is ongoing, with no approved antiviral intervention. We describe here the effects of treatment with interferon (IFN)-α2b in a cohort of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Wuhan, China. In this uncontrolled, exploratory study, 77 adults hospitalized with confirmed COVID-19 were treated with either nebulized IFN-α2b (5 mU b.i.d.), arbidol (200 mg t.i.d.) or a combination of IFN-α2b plus arbidol. Serial SARS-CoV-2 testing along with hematological measurements, including cell counts, blood biochemistry and serum cytokine levels, and temperature and blood oxygen saturation levels, were recorded for each patient during their hospital stay. Treatment with IFN-α2b with or without arbidol significantly reduced the duration of detectable virus in the upper respiratory tract and in parallel reduced duration of elevated blood levels for the inflammatory markers IL-6 and CRP. These findings suggest that IFN-α2b should be further investigated as a therapy in COVID-19 cases.
Beyond ellipse(s): accurately modeling the isophotal structure of galaxies with ISOFIT and CMODEL
Creators: name: Ciambur, B. C.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This work introduces a new fitting formalism for isophotes that enables more accurate modeling of galaxies with non-elliptical shapes, such as disk galaxies viewed edge-on or galaxies with X-shaped/peanut bulges. Within this scheme, the angular parameter that defines quasi-elliptical isophotes is transformed from the commonly used, but inappropriate, polar coordinate to the 'eccentric anomaly.' This provides a superior description of deviations from ellipticity, better capturing the true isophotal shape. Furthermore, this makes it possible to accurately recover both the surface brightness profile, using the correct azimuthally averaged isophote, and the two-dimensional model of any galaxy: the hitherto ubiquitous, but artificial, cross-like features in residual images are completely removed. The formalism has been implemented into the Image Reduction and Analysis Facility tasks Ellipse and Bmodel to create the new tasks 'Isofit,' and 'Cmodel.' The new tools are demonstrated here with application to five galaxies, chosen to be representative case-studies for several areas where this technique makes it possible to gain new scientific insight. Specifically: properly quantifying boxy/disky isophotes via the fourth harmonic order in edge-on galaxies, quantifying X-shaped/peanut bulges, higher-order Fourier moments for modeling bars in disks, and complex isophote shapes. Higher order (n > 4) harmonics now become meaningful and may correlate with structural properties, as boxyness/diskyness is known to do. This work also illustrates how the accurate construction, and subtraction, of a model from a galaxy image facilitates the identification and recovery of over-lapping sources such as globular clusters and the optical counterparts of X-ray sources.
Supplementary document for Vibrant Reflective Sensors with Percolation Film Fabry–Pérot Nanocavities - 5312742.pdf
Creators: name: Palinski, Timothy
name: Tadimety, Amogha
name: Trase, Ian
name: Vyhnalek, Brian
name: Hunter, Gary
name: Garmire, Elsa
name: Zhang, John
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Photonics and Electro-Optical Engineering (excl. Communications)

description: Revised supplemental document
Supplementary document for Vibrant Reflective Sensors with Percolation Film Fabry–Pérot Nanocavities - 5312742.pdf
Creators: name: Palinski, Timothy
name: Tadimety, Amogha
name: Trase, Ian
name: Vyhnalek, Brian
name: Hunter, Gary
name: Garmire, Elsa
name: Zhang, John
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Photonics and Electro-Optical Engineering (excl. Communications)

description: Revised supplemental document
REACH
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: REACH System
subject: Europäische Chemikalienverordnung
subject: Gesundheitsrelevante Umweltbelastung
subject: Chemikalien
subject: Chemicals

description: Wir kommen täglich mit Chemikalien in Berührung: Lösungsmittel, Farben, Plastik-Badeschuhe, etc. Die von Chemikalien ausgehenden Gefahren gehen uns alle etwas an. Im Jahr 2007 trat die europäische Chemikalienverordnung ⁠REACH⁠ in Kraft, um die menschliche Gesundheit und die Umwelt vor chemischen Substanzen besser zu schützen. Zwar müssen Chemikalien in der Regel nicht zugelassen werden, aber nun werden erstmals Daten im Rahmen einer Registrierung gefordert.
Design and Development of an Intelligent Energy Controller for Home Energy Saving in Heating/Cooling System
Creators: name: Abaalkhail, Rana
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: home energy control
energy saving
multi agent system
energy use simulator
CANMET
energy control algorithm

description: Energy is consumed every day at home as we perform simple tasks, such as watching television, washing dishes and heating/cooling home spaces during season of extreme weather conditions, using appliances, or turning on lights. Most often, the energy resources used in residential systems are obtained from natural gas, coal and oil. Moreover, climate change has increased awareness of a need for expendable, energy resources. As a result, carbon dioxide emissions are increasing and creating a negative effect on our environment and on our health. In fact, growing energy demands and limited natural resource might have negative impacts on our future. Therefore, saving energy is becoming an important issue in our society and it is receiving more attention from the research community. This thesis introduces a intelligent energy controller algorithm based on software agent approach that reduce the energy consumption at home for both heating and cooling spaces by considering the user’s occupancy, outdoor temperature and user’s preferences as input to the system. Thus the proposed approach takes into consideration the occupant’s preferred temperature, the occupied and unoccupied spaces, as well as the time spent in each area of the home. A Java based simulator has been implemented to simulate the algorithm for saving energy in heating and cooling systems. The results from the simulator are compared to the results of using HOT2000, which is Canada’s leading residential energy analysis and rating software developed by CanmetENERGY’s Housing, Buildings, Communities and Simulation (HBCS) group. We have calculated how much energy a home modelled will use under emulated conditions. The results showed that the implementation of the proposed energy controller algorithm can save up to 50% in energy consumption in homes dedicated to heating and cooling systems compared to the results obtained by using HOT2000.
Divorce and the experience of Australian men
Creators: name: Delaney, Shaun
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Each year, almost 50,000 divorces are finalised in Australia with thousands of other long-term relationships also ending in separation. Although both men and women undergoing divorce can experience severe distress, women are more likely to seek and receive help from others. In contrast, the unique experience and emotional trauma felt by men is often unrecognised and unsupported, sometimes with tragic consequences. This study provided an important insight into both the general factors associated with male adaptation to divorce and the individual experiences of divorced Australian men. Results will be used to help Australian men more positively adapt to post-divorce life and parenting.
title:  La violazione della norma nella struttura sintattico-interpuntiva di Asan di Vladimir Makanin
Creators: name: Bocale, Paola
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2017

description: Questo lavoro esplora la violazione della norma linguistico-letteraria nella prosa di Asan di Vladimir Makanin. L’assegnazione del primo premio del concorso letterario Bol’šaja Kniga 2008 al romanzo ha suscitato giudizi controversi e perfino opposti. Se alcuni critici hanno apprezzato lo stile scarsamente elaborato, franto e scarno dell’opera, altri, pur lodando la scelta dell’autore di affrontare un tema difficile e delicato come la guerra in Cecenia, hanno peraltro negato che il romanzo avesse un significativo valore letterario. L’obiettivo di questo studio è quello di descrivere e discutere alcune delle principali caratteristiche dello stile e dell’architettura del testo di Asan. Vengono presi in considerazione tre tratti che ricorrono con particolare frequenza: la frammentarietà testuale, l’utilizzo di frasi nominali isolate e l’uso di congiunzioni coordinanti come mezzi di strutturazione del discorso.
description: Violazioni: letteratura, cultura e società in Russia dal crollo dell’Urss ai nostri giorni
Inactivation of Lgl1 in Glioblastoma
Creators: name: Gont, Alexander
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: cancer
glioblastoma
Lgl

description: Glioblastoma is the most aggressive and invasive adult brain cancer. In glioblastoma, the loss of the tumour suppressor PTEN is the most common genetic alteration resulting in aberrant activation of the PI3-kinase pathway. In Drosophila, the loss of tumour suppressor Lgl results in massive overgrowth of brain tissue that is highly invasive when transplanted into wildtype hosts. Subsequent study of Lgl protein function revealed that it is important for maintenance of cell polarity and neuroblast differentiation through asymmetric cell divisions. It is unclear if inactivation of Lgl occurs in human brain cancers and what role it plays in glioblastoma malignancy. Firstly, this study demonstrated that the loss of PTEN leads to inactivation of Lgl1 via phosphorylation by atypical protein kinase C iota (PKCι). In primary glioblastoma cultures, preventing Lgl1 inactivation by either PTEN expression, PKCι knockdown or expression of non-phosphorylatable Lgl (Lgl3SA) promoted differentiation. In a follow-up study, the effect of active Lgl1 in glioblastoma invasion was investigated. Lgl3SA expression inhibited invasion in vitro through decreased motility. In an orthotopic xenograft mouse model using primary glioblastoma cells, Lgl3SA expression promoted differentiation and decreased invasion. Therefore, PTEN loss, acting via PKCι and Lgl1, has a key role in maintaining glioblastoma in an undifferentiated, highly invasive state similar to what is observed following Lgl loss in Drosophila. PREX1 was investigated as a potential link between PTEN loss and activation of PKCι. PREX1, a Rac activator, is synergistically activated by the PI3-kinase product PIP3 and G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) βγ subunits. PREX1 expression was detected in primary glioblastoma cell cultures as well as the majority of patient tumour samples. Both PI3-kinase and GPCR βγ subunit activity is required for PREX1 to promote invasion in glioblastoma. In primary glioblastoma cells, Rac1 preferentially associated with Par6a leading to activation of PKCι. Knockdown of PREX1 decreased activation of PKCι. Thus, PREX1 stimulates PKCι activity in glioblastoma likely by modulating the Rac1/Par6a/PKCι complex. The PI3-kinase pathway is activated by mutation in most glioblastomas and these results show this requires a context of GPCR signalling to promote invasion.
title:  L’uomo sovietico sbarcò davvero sulla luna? Le trasgressioni di Viktor Pelevin e Aleksej Fedorčenko
Creators: name: Peruško, Ivana
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2017

description: Il tema dello spazio sconosciuto e di mondi diversi al nostro è stato da sempre importante per la cultura e la filosofia russa, e non solo nel periodo sovietico. Basti ricordare il cosmismo russo, un interessante movimento che si afferma alla fine dell’Ottocento e che, per molti versi, anticipa le successive ricerche e conquiste della cosmonautica sovietica. Il romanzo di Viktor Pelevin Omon Ra (1991-1992) e il falso documentario di Aleksej Fedorčenko Pervye na lune (I primi sulla luna, 2005) sul presunto allunaggio sovietico già negli anni Trenta, sono opere scelte per una riflessione sull’ultimo grande mito sovietico – il mito del Cosmo (ovvero la conquista della Luna).
description: Violazioni: letteratura, cultura e società in Russia dal crollo dell’Urss ai nostri giorni
Global Access to Handwashing : Implications for COVID-19 Control in Low-Income Countries
Creators: name: Brauer, Michael (Of University Of British Columbia)
name: Zhao, Jeff T.
name: Bennitt, Fiona B.
name: Stanaway, Jeffrey D.
Publisher: name: Environmental Health Perspectives
Year: 2021

description: BACKGROUND: Low-income countries have reduced health care system capacity and are therefore at risk of substantially higher COVID-19 case fatality rates than those currently seen in high-income countries. Handwashing is a key component of guidance to reduce transmission of the SARS-CoV2 virus, responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior systematic reviews have indicated the effectiveness of handwashing to reduce transmission of respiratory viruses. In low-income countries, reduction of transmission is of paramount importance, but social distancing is challenged by high population densities and access to handwashing facilities with soap and water is limited. OBJECTIVES: Our objective was to estimate global access to handwashing with soap and water to inform use of handwashing in the prevention of COVID-19 transmission. METHODS: We utilized observational surveys and spatiotemporal Gaussian process regression modeling in the context of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study to estimate access to a handwashing station with available soap and water for 1,062 locations from 1990 to 2019. RESULTS: Despite overall improvements from 1990 {33.6% [95% uncertainty interval (UI): 31.5, 35.6] without access} to 2019, globally in 2019, 2.02 (95% UI: 1.91, 2.14) billion people, 26.1% (95% UI: 24.7, 27.7) of the global population, lacked access to handwashing with available soap and water. More than 50% of the population in sub-Saharan Africa and Oceania were without access to handwashing in 2019, and in eight countries, 50 million or more persons lacked access. DISCUSSION: For populations without handwashing access, immediate improvements in access or alternative strategies are urgently needed, and disparities in handwashing access should be incorporated into COVID-19 forecasting models when applied to low-income countries. Reproduced with permission from Environmental Health Perspectives.
Solutions for Bullying: A Workshop for Pre-service Teachers
Creators: name: Ihnat, Elisabet
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: bullying
victimization
teacher education

description: Studies show that teachers lack training and confidence when it comes to intervening effectively in bullying situations. The goal of this study is to respond to the appeals of pre-service teachers for more formal training on bullying, including prevention and intervention strategies. A two-hour PREVNet workshop that provides information on bullying, bullying prevention and bullying intervention is offered in four Canadian Teacher Education classes. Two unique questionnaires, each consisting of simulated bullying incidents in a school context and a set of teacher interventions, were developed, piloted with a group of experienced teachers, and used to assess the effect of the workshop on teachers’ reported interventions in bullying situations. The results of a series of repeated measures ANOVAs reveal a marginally significant effect of the workshop on pre-service teachers’ reported interventions (N = 66), with the greatest improvements revealed in participants’ responses to children who bully.
Supplementary document for Distributed Feedback Bragg Lasers - 5312769.pdf
Creators: name: Janjua, Bilal
name: Iu, Meng Lon
name: Yan, Zhizhong
name: Charles, Paul
name: Chen, Eric
name: Helmy, Amr
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document