cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An Ecosystem Health Assessment of Constructed Urban Lakes
Creators: name: Walker, Christopher
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2012
Subjects: ecosystem health
urban lakes
modelling
aquatic ecosystems

description: Many existing urban lakes are considered to be in a degraded state which impairs their ability to fulfil all but the most basic of functions (e.g. storage). The causes of urban lake degradation are well understood to be linked to poor design, poor quality of inflow, and the attributes of urbanised catchments (e.g. impervious area and directly connected drainage infrastructure). While the reasons for urban lake degradation are well understood, the approach to assessing and managing urban lakes has failed to adequately characterise them for what they are: dynamic, integrated ecosystems. Urban lake assessments are typically limited to measuring physicochemical indicators in a static state, which presents a fragmented, mono-disciplinary, incomplete measurement of lake health. This approach makes frequent use of short-term solutions (e.g. macrophyte harvesting) and is largely reactive. Management essentially requires a system to fail in the eyes of stakeholders before intervention occurs. This does not consider an urban lake holistically as an ecosystem, as the links between biotic and abiotic factors are not realised. This approach also ignores the local community as a component of the urban lake ecosystem, despite the inevitable interaction between the community and lake.
Investigating Transparency in Government of Canada Citizen-focused Communications
Creators: name: Ghergari, Kori
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: transparency
openness
public sector communications
two-way communications
Government of Canada
qualitative
semi-structured interviews

description: Government of Canada communications professionals work in an increasingly challenging environment, characterized by an intrusive 24/7 media cycle, a frenetic pace of evolving communication technologies, layered accountability requirements, political tension, and waning public trust. Scholars call on professional communicators to help rebuild public trust, which is intrinsic to a healthy democratic government. The Three-dimensional Model for Transparency in Government Communication developed by Fairbanks, Plowman and Rawlins (2007) serves as the theoretical framework for investigating the Government of Canada’s approach to transparent citizen-focused communications from the perspective of communications professionals. The model’s adaptability to the Government of Canada context is tested through 23 qualitative semi-structured interviews with Government of Canada senior communications advisors, managers and executives. The data is analysed using constant comparative thematic analysis. The findings demonstrate that Government of Canada communicators strongly value transparency. Furthermore, the key components of the transparency model – communications practices, organizational support and provision of resources – encapsulate the factors that influence the practice of transparent citizen-focused communications by the Government of Canada. The study concludes by offering recommendations for future research and practical applications.
Enclosure Settings and Interpretation at Aquaria to Influence Visitor Response
Creators: name: Marshall, Sonia
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2010
Subjects: enclosure design
interpretation
physical characteristics
perceptions
emotional responses
design guidelines

description: The aquaria industry is driven by international strategies and social pressure to communicate conservation and / or research messages via interpretation and entertainment. Mission statements, promotional tools and the experience aquaria deliver on-site through enclosures need to reflect these messages. If the aquarium industry is to achieve their aims, it is essential to understand how characteristics of enclosure settings influence visitor responses. This dissertation reports an exploratory study of how enclosure settings and environmental interpretation at aquaria influence visitor responses. A content analysis of the promotional tools and mission statements of five Australian aquaria, in 2003 and 2008, finds a mismatch between messages communicated about conservation, research, interpretation and entertainment. Aquaria have not responded to strategies and pressure by placing more emphasis on these attributes in 2008. This study provides a rationale for the need to assist the industry in moving towards achieving their organisational aims through improving the experience delivered via enclosures. Physical characteristics of enclosures and their relationship with visitor perceptions and emotional responses are investigated. A panel of three people visited five aquaria and measured their perceptions of twenty-one enclosures. Physical characteristics of each setting were also recorded. Analysis identified relationships between perceptions and physical characteristics.
Identity and violence in India's North East: towards a new paradigm
Creators: name: Goswami, Sanjib
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis analyses colonial constructions of identity in North East India. It traces how these constructions were later incorporated into the Constitution of India and gave rise to a differentiated citizenship, a dual administration, and an ossified triangular system of social relations comprising indigenous groups, non-indigenous Assamese, and migrant identities. The ongoing unrest in India's North East is thus contextualised in its historical dimension and presents an alternative interpretation of the violence in India's North East based on appraising a triangular system of settler colonial relationships.
javialonsaso/TFM2020: Master Thesis
Creators: name: Javialonsaso
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: clustering, time-series, distance measure, representations, anomaly detection, unsupervised learning

description: Time series analysis is a fundamental field for information processing. In the real world, the context of the data is often unknown and the experimenter must make an effort to extract limited information. In this project, we study a set of unsupervised algorithms for the analysis of time series corresponding to the water consumption of a residential area. In particular, the algorithms focus on anomaly detection, dimensionality reduction and data clustering. In a series of experiments, the results obtained by the different algorithms in each category are compared.
Economic Oppurtunities of Climate Action
Creators: name: Kahlenborn, Walter
name: Oehlmann, Malte
name: Linsenmeier, Manuel
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Kohlendioxid
Volkswirtschaft
Klimaschutz
Klimaänderung

description: In 2015, the Paris Climate Agreement has created a new framework for fighting climate change. The world is set to become greenhouse gas-neutral by the middle of the 21st century. Global warming should be kept below two degrees Celsius or even limited to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. At the national level, all signatory countries are required to set binding goals and to take suitable action to reach them. In 2016 Germany adopted a long-term strategy in the form of the Climate Action Plan 2050. Against the backdrop of the Paris agreement Germany aims at greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050. The necessary international endeavours to reduce greenhouse gases lead to new export markets for climate-friendly goods and services. Climate change thus represents significant opportunities for the German economy. Along with additional export potentials, the German economy can profit from climate change in other ways: additional investments, extensive innovation effects, and lower costs through increasing efficiency. A comprehensive survey of the economic impacts of ambitious climate policy looks at these opportunities in detail. Three separate publications, summarized in this paper, intensively examine such important questions as: - What economic advantages has climate action already brought? - What future potentials result from the growing global market for goods for climate action? - What are the effects of an investment-oriented climate policy for the national economy? Quelle: Forschungsbericht
Sécurité de l'attachement chez l'adulte et décodage de l'expression non verbale des émotions.
Creators: name: Roy, Marie-Josée.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Social.

description: Cette thèse vise à examiner la relation entre la sécurité de l'attachement et le décodage de l'expression non verbale des émotions du partenaire et dune personne étrangère. L'attachement est un lien émotif qui nous relie à une autre personne dont l'accessibilité et la disponibilité réelles ou perçues, vont affecter notre sentiment de sécurité intérieure. Les recherches portant sur l'attachement à l'âge adulte suggèrent l'existence de liens entre la sécurité de l'attachement et différents aspects de la relation amoureuse dont la reconnaissance de l'expression des émotions du partenaire. Nous avons mis sur pied un contexte expérimental proche de la réalité quotidienne qui nous permettait de pousser plus avant l'examen de cette relation. À l'instar de l'importance accordée à la sensibilité maternelle dans la recherche sur l'attachement chez l'enfant, la sensibilité émotionnelle nous apparaissait être un élément crucial de la relation amoureuse. Nous croyions que l'insécurité de l'attachement rendrait compte d'un déficit dans la reconnaissance de l'expression émotionnelle, en raison de l'exclusion de certaines données dans le traitement de l'information. L'exclusion de certaines informations pertinentes à l'attachement serait une défense utilisée par les personnes de style non sécurisant afin de se prémunir contre la prise de conscience de certaines données affligeantes. Leurs représentations négatives de soi et de la figure d'attachement limitant les possibilités de transiger directement avec certaines informations qui pourraient susciter la peur de la dépendance ou l'anxiété d'abandon. Afin de vérifier l'hypothèse de recherche, nous avons demandé à 40 participants, dont 20 de style sécurisant et 20 de style non sécurisant, de tenter d'identifier les expressions émotionnelles de leur conjoint et d'une personne étrangère. Ensuite, des analyses de la variance sur schème complètement aléatoire ont été effectuées sur les cotes de reconnaissance émotionnelle obtenues par ces deux groupes de participants. Le facteur attachement était la variable indépendante et les cotes moyennes de reconnaissance des émotions étaient les variables dépendantes. Bien que nous nous soyons assurés de la valeur psychométrique de nos instruments de mesures ainsi que de la puissance de nos analyses, les résultats n'indiquent pas de relation entre l'insécurité de l'attachement et le décodage de l'expression non verbale des émotions de son partenaire et d'une personne étrangère. Par contre, l'analyse des biais de jugement indique que l'insécurité de l'attachement affecte l'utilisation de certaines catégories d'émotions. Nous discutons des implications de nos résultats sur la compréhension du fonctionnement des modèles internes d'attachement dans la relation amoureuse.
Molecular investigation of interactions between snail host and helminth parasite
Creators: name: Phan, Phong
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: moledular interplay
subject: Shisosoma
subject: GPCRs
subject: Austropeplea
subject: parasite
subject: Biomphalaria
subject: miRNA
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Other biological sciences

description: Helminth (worm) parasitic infections pose a significant global health burden, particularly in tropical and subtropical regions, incurring billions of dollars (USD) annually for treatment, prevention, and control measures. Two of the most devastating trematode helminth-derived diseases are caused by Schistosoma and Fasciola, the aetiological agents of human schistosomiasis and fascioliasis, respectively. Schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease, is considered endemic worldwide, afflicting over 200 million individuals and resulting in up to 200,000 fatalities each year. Fascioliasis, on the other hand, is an emerging zoonotic disease with a widespread distribution across all continents except Antarctica, spanning over 70 countries, predominantly in regions with abundant sheep or cattle populations. The annual losses to the livestock industry due to fascioliasis are estimated to exceed US$3.2 billion. Despite the substantial impact of these helminth diseases (and others), our understanding of the molecular interplay between parasites and their intermediate snail hosts remains limited, primarily due to the paucity of genomic resources for both the snail vectors and the miracidia larval stages of the parasites. In this PhD Thesis research, the aim was to address this knowledge gap by investigating potential key components, namely receptors, microRNAs (miRNAs) and semiochemicals involved in host-host/host-parasite detection and infection.
Are biodiversity provisions outlined in the Forest and Landscape Restoration approach being attained? Case studies from the Philippines and beyond
Creators: name: Von Kleist, Kurt
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2020
Subjects: forest and landscape restoration
biodiversity
reforestation
National Greening Program
high-diversity tree nursery

description: Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) has emerged as one of the most important international policy topics in reforestation. It seeks to apply a variety of strategies capable of delivering both societal and environmental benefits and therefore has been identified as the preferred approach in attaining substantial international reforestation commitments. Tailoring strategies to local contexts that meet multiple-stakeholder needs, which also have landscape-scale impacts, makes FLR challenging to implement. Biodiversity conservation is integral to FLR, but it is a component that can be overlooked in an ardent focus on obtaining economic and livelihood objectives. This thesis uses a mixed-methods approach to explore biodiversity restoration within the context of FLR and similar large-scale reforestation initiatives. It relies heavily on the Philippine National Greening Program (NGP), to generate theory on how a national level FLR program is attending to biodiversity conservation, one of its explicit goals. By examining high-diversity nurseries in several other countries, this thesis also takes a broader look at the capabilities of the nursery infrastructure to support biodiversity recovery.
River size as a determinant of lotic ecosystem structure: The case for suspended algae.
Creators: name: Chetelat, John.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Biology, Ecology.

description: Rivers have long been considered physically driven ecosystems, and the physical environment varies between streams and large rivers. The objective of this thesis was to investigate the importance of river size for suspended algal development. In the first chapter, I examine the seasonal variability of discharge, water chemistry, and suspended algal abundance to evaluate the accepted (but rarely tested) assumption that streams are more temporally variable than large rivers. Temporal variance of discharge and water quality parameters was determined for 114 stations on 104 rivers in eastern United States with data measured between May to October of 1978 by the U.S. National Stream Water Quality Accounting Network (NASQAN). In the second chapter, I examine suspended algal communities in 46 rivers in Ontario and Quebec to determine the influence of river size and nutrient status on algal biomass and size structure. Chlorophyll a estimates of size structure were compared with greatest axial linear dimension estimates (GALD) determined by microscope enumeration of suspended algal samples collected in 31 Ontario and Quebec rivers. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
High-performance sport in regional Queensland, 1970 – 2019: a prosopographical analysis of drivers
Creators: name: Kirby, Kate
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2024
Subjects: high-performance
sport
history
heritage
prosopography
legacy
policy
Queensland
Australia
Commercial services
Historical studies
Policy and administration

description: As Colin Howell and Daryl Leeworthy explain, “like sport itself, sports history is routinely placed in service of the nation and the metropolis.”1 In the documented history of Australia, the metropole has been central to the narrative of the nation’s sporting past. The 1970s heralded a new federal and state government interest in sport in Australia. Across the next five decades, support shifted from an approach characterised as non-involvement to one that overtly utilised high-performance sport as a tool for international diplomacy. A metropolitan base of decision-making for sport is evident in policies and reports, capital cities hosting international Games and world championships, and the location of national and state institutes and academies of sport. With such a focus, sport in regional areas of the nation was and is often overlooked, imagined, or viewed only as a place for grassroots development.
description: This research focuses on the history of high-performance sport in regional Queensland between 1970 and 2019. The Queensland government established its first ministry with a remit for sport in the capital city of Brisbane in 1972, followed almost two decades later by the launch of the Queensland Academy of Sport (QAS). At the federal level, the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) was formed in 1981, but is based in Canberra. This thesis examines the impact of related policies and actions on regional high-performance sport and details the history of such sporting activity across fifty years. Utilising a mixed-methods approach of prosopography combined with other approaches, the thesis identifies the experiences of high-performance super-elite athletes, coaches and referees in six regional and rural areas of Queensland: Charters Towers, Gladstone, Mount Isa, Rockhampton, Roma, and Townsville.
description: Noting a history of support for high-performance sport written by and for the nation's metropolitan areas, this research reflects on how historical high-performance sport policies have not suitably accounted for regional and rural drivers of success. Instead, the research observes how a narrative of regional and rural sporting experiences is often adopted as a singular ‘other’. This research deliberately centres regional and rural Queensland sporting activity and experiences and maps identified drivers for high-performance sporting success to De Bosscher et al. Sports Policy Factors Leading to International Sporting Success (SPLISS) model across macro-, meso-, and micro-level levels. In addition, the research observes tangible legacy markers of regional and rural high-performance success and demonstrates how prosopography is an ideal choice for researching histories previously regarded as subaltern in priority.
A Design and Fabrication Method for Wood-Inspired Composites by Micro X-Ray Computed Tomography and 3D Printing
Creators: name: Tao, Yubo
name: Li, Zelong
name: Li, Peng
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Developments in 3D printing and CT scanning technologies have facilitated the imitation of natural wood structures. However, creating composites from the elementary features of anisotropic wood structures remains a new frontier. This paper aims to investigate the potential of constructing and 3D printing mechanically customizable composites by combining anisotropic elementary models reconstructed from the micro X-ray computed tomography (μ-CT) scanning of wood. In this study, an arbitrary region of interest selected from the μ-CT scanning of a sample of Manchurian walnut (Juglans mandshurica) was reconstructed into isosurfaces that constituted the 3D model of an elementary model. Elementary models were combined to form the wood-inspired composites in various arrangements. The surface and interior structures of the elementary model were found to be customizable through adjusting the image Threshold and Surface Quality Factors during 3D volume reconstruction. Compressional simulations and experiments performed on the elementary model (digital and 3D printed) revealed that its compressive behavior was wood-like and anisotropic. Numerical analysis established a preliminary link between the arrangements of elementary models and the compressive stiffness of respective composites, showing that it is possible to control the compressive behaviors of the composites through the design of specific elementary model arrangements.
Assessing the performance of the approximate chi-square and Stout's T statistics with different test structures.
Creators: name: Pang, Xiao L.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Education, Tests and Measurements.

description: The assessment of dimensionality underlying the responses to a set of test items is a fundamental issue in applying correct IRT models to examinee ability estimation and test result interpretation. Currently, three assessment methods have been shown to be particularly promising: the original Stout's T (Stout's T1), the refined Stout's T (Stout's T2) (Nandakumar, 1987, 1993) based on Stout's essential unidimensional assumption (Stout, 1987), and the Approximate chi2 (De Champlain & Gessaroli, 1992) derived from McDonald's nonlinear factor analysis based on the weak principle of local independence (McDonald, 1981). However, the three indices have only been tested under limited research conditions. The purpose of this study was to assess and compare the Type I error rates and power of the Approximate chi2, Stout's T1, and Stouts T2 in assessing dimensionality of a set of item responses. The variables used in the Type I error study were test length (L) (40 and 80 items), sample size (N) (500, 1,000, and 2,000), and item discrimination (a) (.7, 1.0, and .14). A 2 x 3 x 3 design was created. For each cell of the design, 100 replications were carried out. In the power study, in addition to the three variables used in the Type I error study, different test structure (two dimensional simple test structure and two dimensional complex test structure) and dimension correlation (r = .0, .4, .57, and .7) were used. For both simple and complex test structure, a dimension ratio of 3:1 was set. Similarly, 100 replications were carried out for each combination of the conditions. A total of 14,400 data sets were generated. A according to the results obtained in this study, each index possesses certain advantages and drawbacks. The Approximate chi2 had good Type I error of zero over all conditions and excellent power with two dimensional simple test structure. Stout's T1 and Stout's T2, on the other hand, had higher Type I error rates than the Approximate chi 2, ranging from zero to 12, excellent power with two dimensional simple test structure, and better power than the Approximate chi2 with two dimensional complex test structure. However, Stouts T1 and Stouts T2 have to be used with great caution given the unsatisfactory power shown with two dimensional complex test structure in many cases. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
A mass balance approach to the fate of viruses in a municipal wastewater treatment plant during summer and winter seasons
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014

description: In contrast to previous discussion on general virus removal efficiency and identifying surrogates for human pathogenic viruses, this study focuses on virus retention within each step of a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). Additionally, the influence of weather conditions on virus removal was addressed. To account for the virus retention, this study describes a mass balance of somatic coliphages (bacterial viruses) in a municipal WWTP, performed in the winter and summer seasons of 2011. In the winter season, the concentration of coliphages entering the WWTP was about 1 log lower than in summer. The mass balance in winter revealed a virus inactivation of 85.12Âş 13.97%. During the summer season, virus inactivation was significantly higher (95.25Âş3.69%, p-value <0.05), most likely due to additional virus removal in the secondary clarifier by insolation. Thus, a total removal of coliphages of about 2.78 log units was obtained in summer compared to 1.95 log units in winter. Rainfall events did not statistically correlate with the concentrations of coliphages entering the WWTP in summer. Quelle: http://connection.ebscohost.com
An examination of homelessness from a stress perspective.
Creators: name: Farrell, Susan Jane
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Clinical.

description: Previously, models of homelessness have not described how persons dealt with the stressful experience of being homeless. This study examined the adequacy of a transient stress model, developed by the integration of Moos and Schaefer's (1993) Integrated Framework of Stress and Coping and Dohrenwend's (1978) Social Stress Model, to understand the experiences of persons who are homeless. The model illustrates what factors contribute to a person's well-being in the context of experiencing the crisis of being homeless. Specifically, personal factors (personality characteristics, sex, past experiences of homelessness, personal empowerment and approach-style and avoidance-style coping responses) and environmental factors (perceived social support and social network size) were examined in terms of their association with the occurrence of stressful life events and the appraisal of, and response to, the stress associated with being homeless. Stress appraisal and stress response were then used to predict levels of psychopathology and subjective well-being. Interviews were conducted with a sample of 200 persons who used emergency shelters and with a convenience sample of 30 persons who used community services but slept elsewhere. The final model demonstrated that personal and environmental factors played a role in the occurrence of stressful life events and stress response, but that only personal empowerment and stress response were directly associated with levels of well-being and psychopathology. The addition of qualitative responses provided more information about individuals' processes of coping with being homeless, as explained in their own words. Moreover, it allowed for the examination of differences between groups, defined by sex and age in their reporting of stressful life events, coping responses, social support, personal empowerment and stress appraisal. Unlike previous models of homelessness, this model demonstrated the importance of personal and environmental factors in the occurrence of stressful life events and the subsequent stress reaction and reports of well-being and psychopathology.
Dynamique d’un glissement de terrain et la reconstruction de sa chronologie près de la ville de Fort McPherson, Territoires du Nord-Ouest
Creators: name: Côté, Mélanie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Glissement de terrain
pergélisol
Territoires du Nord-Ouest

description: L'analyse des cernes de croissance des arbres peut être un outil utile pour dater les événements géomorphologiques dans les régions où les données historiques sont rares ou manquantes. Dans cette étude, deux glissements de terrain rétrogressifs de la région de Fort McPherson, T.N.O, ont été étudiés par l’analyse dendrochronologique des épinettes noires (Picea mariana (Mill) BSP)) endommagées par l’évènement. Le mouvement a incliné de nombreux arbres, a endommagé leurs systèmes racinaires et les a déplacé de leur position initiale. Une trentaine d’épinettes perturbées, sur deux sites (Mélanie et Charas), ont été échantillonnées le long de la coulée de boue ainsi qu’aux limites de cette même coulée, certaines retrouvées à la verticale dans le plancher du glissement, et d’autres dans un ancien chenal abandonné. En outre, 35 épinettes bien droites, debout, intactes et non perturbées ont également été échantillonnées sur les sites afin d'établir une série de référence maitresse. Dans le premier cas, au site Mélanie, une analyse des cernes des arbres perturbés a révélé des anomalies dans la croissance des arbres. Plus précisément, une réduction des cernes de croissance a été remarquée dans les dernières années de la vie des arbres. Par ailleurs, une augmentation brutale de la largeur des cernes au même endroit a été retrouvée sur des arbres inclinés (bois de réaction). D’après des résultats, le glissement de terrain à ce site est considéré avoir eu lieu en 2002. Au deuxième site (site des Charas), en raison du nombre limité d’arbres laissés sur le terrain en plus d’une répartition spatiale assez grande, la dendrochronologie ne peut pas identifier avec précision l’année initiale du glissement de terrain du site des Charas. Les arbres se trouvant dans le sens de l'écoulement n’ont pas toujours représenté des signes de perturbation au cours d'une année en particulier, même si nous sommes convaincus qu'ils doivent avoir été localisés dans la zone touchée par l'événement. Bref, les données montrent que les perturbations à ce site se sont étalées sur plusieurs années -ce n'est donc pas un événement unique- et que tous les arbres n'ont pas tous été impactés au même degré et dans la même année.
Transforming Global Governance: Contesting Images of the Future from People on the Edge of the Periphery
Creators: name: Kelleher, Anita
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2012
Subjects: biogregionalism
critical futures studies
decision-making
feminism
global governance
globalisation
image
metaphor
myth
planetary civilisation
UN reform
worldviews
world order
UNPO

description: This thesis aims to bring unconventional perspectives to the global governance debates by developing multiple images of futures from contesting worldviews. Informed by futures research and the perspectives and stories of nations and peoples currently unrepresented in global decision-making forums such as the United Nations General Assembly, the thesis maps global governance philosophies, systems and structures, agencies, and their underlying worldviews and myths to produce possible futures for each of six actor groups contesting the current global governance system. The criteria used to construct these possible futures are then used to construct a model and story for the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (U.N.P.O.) using their materials, collected at their 2010 General Assembly, as content. The model and story represent the preferred global governance future for U.N.P.O. evoking an image of 'One World'. The thesis in its entirety provides U.N.P.O. with the means to develop a positioning statement on global governance futures and to join the growing international conversation on this topic.
Modeling Dissolved and Particulate 230Th in the Canada Basin: Implications for Recent Changes in Particle Flux and Intermediate Circulation
Creators: name: Yu, Xiaoxin
name: Allen, Susan
name: François, Roger
name: Grenier, Mélanie
name: Myers, Paul G.
name: Hu, Xianmin
Publisher: name: American Geophysical Union
Year: 2022

description: Global climate change has had large impacts on the Arctic region including rapid reductions in sea ice and rapid increases in surface air temperatures. Documenting the consequences of these changes in the Arctic Ocean is difficult, however, because accessibility limits observations in space and time and aliases measurements. This problem can be alleviated by using geochemical tracers, which can act as natural integrators, allowing us to determine net changes over regions and years. One such tracer is 230Th. We use measurements and an off-line scavenging model forced by ANHA4, a regional configuration of the NEMO general circulation model, to investigate changes in the Canada Basin in the years 2002–2015. Observations show a clear decrease in 230Th in intermediate layers, particularly in the internal Canada Basin. The model reproduces the observed changes in 230Th concentration profiles. Using the model to determine the origin of the reduction shows that the decrease is due to both higher particle fluxes from increased productivity resulting from the reduction in sea ice cover and increased circulation and stirring by mesoscale eddies increasing lateral exchange between the productive coastal regions and less productive internal Canada Basin. The circulation model clearly shows increased velocities as the ice cover has decreased and storms have increased.
The application of lean production to project management
Creators: name: Horman, Michael
name: Kenley, Russell
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Project management that solely focuses on the management of time, cost and quality cannot comprehensively ensure the satisfactory meeting of a customer'™s needs. Project management performance with regard to this issue can be improved by enhancing project management'™s ability to meet a customer'™s needs. This paper introduces lean project management to address this concern. Lean project management forms a complementary approach to current project management practice and has been constructed by drawing together two approaches: management of projects and lean production. The management of project'™s emphasis on meeting customer needs effectively and lean production'™s emphasis on meeting customer needs efficiently are utilised in lean project management to improve project management performance. The amalgamation of lean production with management of projects to form lean project management is examined and justified at the methodological level.
Applications of Biotechnology to Support Giant Grouper Aquaculture
Creators: name: Dennis, Lachlan
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2021
Subjects: Grouper
Economics
Vietnam
Philippines
Larvae
Diet
ELISA
Hormones
LH
Sexual development
Spawning

description: Aquaculture of giant grouper (Epinephelus lanceolatus) is difficult and rarely profitable. There is a paucity of knowledge on optimal spawning and rearing procedures. This PhD focused on four aspects of grouper aquaculture: Economics of grouper aquaculture in Vietnam, development of tools for LH assays and assessment of hormone levels in wild grouper, molecular barcoding of prey for larval grouper, and investigations into breeding and sterility of potential surrogate grouper species for germ cell technology. The overarching objective of this study was to develop tools that would assist support the aquaculture of giant grouper.
description: Investigation into the economics of grouper in Vietnam found that the industry is expanding rapidly as an outcome of the introduction of a new variety of grouper to the region. This variety, the hybrid grouper, utilises milt from giant grouper and eggs from tiger grouper (E. fuscoguttatus) and has advantages over either parent. Significant constraints to the growth and diversification of the grouper aquaculture industry in Vietnam were identified. These constraints are the limited availability of hybrid fingerlings due to difficulties in larval rearing, difficulty in spawning grouper, broodstock management, and increases in feed costs due to a lack of domestic feed suppliers. Data showed that despite these constraints hybrid grouper aquaculture would continue to contribute to growth of grouper aquaculture in Vietnam.
'Factum ex scientia': I Canadian Corps Intelligence during the Liri Valley Campaign, May – June 1944
Creators: name: Seefeldt, Connor
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Intelligence
Military Intelligence
Liri Valley
Second World War
ELM Burns
Burt Hoffmeister
Darcy Kingsmill
Eighth Army
Italian Campaign
1st Canadian Infantry Division
5th Canadian Armoured Division
Canadian Intelligence Corps
British Intelligence Corps
I Canadian Corps
Gustav Line
Hitler Line
Edgar Bill Williams
Chris Vokes
North African Campaign
Ultra
Prisoner of War
Interrogation
SIGINT
Signals Intelligence
Counter Mortar
Counter Battery
Corps of Guides
War Intelligence Course
Intelligence Doctrine
Intelligence Training
Air Photo Intelligence
Special Wireless Service
Intelligence Planning
Operation DIADEM
Operation HONKER
First Canadian Interrogation Team

description: Studies on Canadian Army military intelligence remain sparse in Canadian military historiography. This study is unique in that it focuses on the development, doctrine, and influence of intelligence within the I Canadian Corps throughout the Liri Valley battles during the Italian Campaign. It will be argued that I Canadian Corps intelligence achieved notable overall success in helping to break the Hitler Line by providing comprehensive and relatively up-to-date information on enemy dispositions and strengths which helped commanders and staff planners properly prepare for the operation. This success was attributable to three main factors: excellent intelligence personnel selection and training; the successful mentorship of I Canadian Corps intelligence by Eighth Army's intelligence cadre; and the overall effectiveness of 1st Canadian Infantry Division's intelligence organization which had been in the Mediterranean theatre since July 1943. Notwithstanding these successes, a number of faults within the Canadian Corps intelligence system must also be explained, including the poor performance of 5th Canadian Armoured Division's intelligence organization during the pursuit up the Liri–Sacco Valleys, and the mediocre execution of Corps counter-battery and counter-mortar operations. This study will demonstrate how an effective intelligence organization must augment existing army doctrine and how it can mitigate, though not completely eliminate, battlefield uncertainty. Further, it will also demonstrate that a comprehensive lessons-learned process must be undertaken to continually refine existing intelligence doctrine and procedures, with frequent training programs inculcating personnel in this doctrine. Taken as a whole, this study is unique as it is one of only several studies devoted solely to developing a greater understanding of a little-understood, and often forgotten, staff function within the Canadian Army during the Second World War.
Traduction de At a Loss for Words de Diane Schoemperlen suivie d’une analyse de l’intertextualité en traduction dans le roman
Creators: name: Miglionico, Florence
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: traduction littéraire
intertextualité

description: La traduction de la littérature n'est pas chose aisée. Malgré toutes les possibilités de créativité qui s'offrent au traducteur, la traduction littéraire présente aussi le plus de contraintes. Cette thèse se focalisera sur un problème important auquel fait face le traducteur lors de la traduction de textes littéraires dits postmodernes : l'intertextualité, qui n'est pas toujours traduisible de façon directe. Il est donc important que le traducteur se pose les bonnes questions lorsqu'il traduit un intertexte : la référence à un texte antérieur parlera-t-elle au lecteur de la culture de réception? L'intertexte existe-t-il dans la culture cible? Ne serait-il pas mieux d'avoir recours à une adaptation ou à d'autres procédés dans certains cas? Pour illustrer l'enjeu de l'intertextualité en traduction, on trouvera d’abord la traduction du roman At a Loss for Words de l’auteure canadienne Diane Schoemperlen, qui sera suivie d’une étude du roman dans lequel on retrouve un haut niveau d'intertextualité. Cette analyse se composera en trois parties : un aperçu historique et théorique de l'intertextualité; une section sur la question de l'intertextualité en traduction où on reprendra les théories de Geneviève Roux-Faucard, Lawrence Venuti, Delphine Chartier, Peter Bush et Eleonora Frederici; l'analyse de la notion d'intertextualité dans le roman de Schoemperlen presque entièrement constitué d'intertextes et une explication des choix de traduction.
Tourism impacts on an Australian Indigenous community: a Djabugay case study
Creators: name: Schuler, Sigrid B
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 1999
Subjects: Aboriginal Australian's

description: The study aimed to increase the body of knowledge regarding the impacts of tourism on Australia's Indigenous people and to make recommendations that would minimise negative impacts and maximise economic and socio-cultural benefits for the Djabugay community. The Djabugay community of Far North Queensland was chosen, as it is impacted by tourism in three distinct ways. First, by living on traditional land in a tourist destination; secondly, by being an equity partner in the Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park, which features its culture; and thirdly by its members working as employees in the Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park. The impacts of tourism were found to be both positive and negative. The positive impacts are the revival of Djabugay culture; employment opportunities; working together; a decrease of stereotypical images and increased cross-cultural understanding and an improvement in material welfare. The negative impacts of tourism include the degradation of Djabugay culture; exploitation of the Djabugay community; lack of tourist interaction and a lack of improvement in material welfare. Whilst the Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park is owned and controlled by predominantly non-Indigenous, non-Djabugay people, the Djabugay community continue to have very little power and control over the decision making and operations of the Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park. Therefore, the needs and aspirations of the Djabugay community is largely ignored, even though it is their culture that is featured there. Although the Djabugay people have perceived positive as well as negative impacts of tourism, as a community it is not experiencing enhanced economic or socio-cultural benefits from its involvement with tourism. As such, the legacy of disadvantage from colonialism is not reversed from its engagement with tourism. Recommendations have been suggested for the Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park and the Djabugay community.
Ecological interface design for anaesthesia monitoring
Creators: name: Watson, Marcus
name: Russell, W. J.
name: Sanderson, Penelope M.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The operating theatre is a noisy place with many uninformative and redundant alarms. Using data from a recent observational study, we demonstrate that anaesthetists actively respond to only 3.4% of all audible alarms. We outline a range of possible solutions to the alarm problem. Ecological Interface Design (EID) helps to outline the requirements for an information environment for anaesthetists and to indicate the possible benefits of continuous auditory signals. Our observational data are then 'reworked' to give an indication of possible benefits of a continuous auditory display. Finally we indicate steps we are taking to test these ideas empirically
Supplementary document for The LUCA device: a multi-modal platform combining diffuse optics and ultrasound imaging for thyroid cancer screening - 5232608.pdf
Creators: name: Cortese, Lorenzo
name: Presti, Giuseppe Lo
name: Zanoletti, Marta
name: Aranda, Gloria
name: Buttafava, Mauro
name: Contini, Davide
name: Mora, Alberto Dalla
name: Dehghani, Hamid
name: Di Sieno, Laura
name: de Fraguier, Sixte
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary information
Assessing the impacts of climate variability and change on rain-fed dependent community agriculture projects in Tanzania
Creators: name: Levira, Pamela
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2011
Subjects: Africa
agriculture projects
community
Climate Tanzania
impacts assessment
vulnerability

description: This research focused on rain-fed dependent, community agriculture projects in Tanzania with respect to the needs of assessing current and potential climate risks and impacts associated with climate variability and change. The aim was to assist small-scale farmers in Tanzania to identify local climate risks and impacts and to combine this information with historical climate data to assess the future risks. The success of farmers to understand climatic change at early stages of farming and to select appropriate adaptation options could help them to reach the full potential of using seasonal rainfall to increase crop productivity at the local level. However, the limited ability and knowledge to identify and understand the impacts of climate variability and change on rain-fed dependent, community agriculture is a major challenge. This challenge could prevent farmers from reaching the full potential of utilising a scarce resource (seasonal rainfall) for crop production and thus ultimately increase poverty levels. The research assessed the current climate risks and potential/future risks of climate variability and change on the community agriculture projects. This was achieved by examining the literature, conducting case studies, and utilising statistical climate data and tools.
Mobility-based Candidate Selection and Coordination in Opportunistic Routing for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
Creators: name: Tahooni, Mohammad
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Opportunistic routing
Mobile ad hoc networks
Candidate selection
Candidate coordination

description: Opportunistic Routing (OR) is an effective and enhanced routing scheme for wireless multihop environment. OR is an approach that selects a certain number of best forwarders (candidates) at each hop by taking the advantage of the broadcast nature of the wireless medium to reach the destination. When a set of candidates receive the packet, they coordinate with each other to figure out which one has to forward the packet toward the destination. Most of the research in this area has been done in mesh networks where nodes do not have mobility. In this survey, we propose a new OR protocol for mobile ad hoc scenarios called as Enhanced Mobility-based Opportunistic Routing (EMOR) protocol. To deal with the node mobility, we have proposed a new metric which considers the following: geographical position of the candidates; the link delivery probability to reach them; the number of neighboring nodes of candidates; and the predicted position of nodes using the motion vector of the nodes. We have compared EMOR with five other well-known routing protocols in terms of delivery ratio, end-to-end delay, and expected number of transmissions from source to the destination. Our simulation results show that proposed protocol improves delivery ratio and number of expected transmission in terms of different type of mobility models.