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Identifying measures to improve the effectiveness of biodiversity corridors in the Central Annamite Landscape, Vietnam (Abstract and Citation only)
Creators: name: Nguyen, Van  Tri Tin
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity corridor
Central Annamite landscape
Connectivity
Resistance surface
Cost distance modeling
Biodiversity corridors governance
Livelihood and benefit of landowners

description: Biodiversity corridors are vital for preserving species in human-impacted landscapes, offering refuge during extreme events and supporting climate change adaptation by linking protected areas. Their effectiveness relies on local stakeholder engagement and support. The Central Annamite Landscape (CAL), Vietnam, is a biodiversity hotspot of international significance which is ranked as a ‘critically important’ landscape due to its unique assemblages of species. This landscape is under increasing anthropogenic pressures such as poaching, logging and land conversions, which has reduced the population sizes of many species in the region, a significant number of which are threatened and/or endemic to Vietnam. It is therefore critical to understand the roles of community engagement, the impacts of governance structures, monitoring and planning in safeguarding the biodiversity corridors, ecosystems, and species of the Central Annamite. To assess the effectiveness of biodiversity corridors, the Linkage Mapper toolset for ArcGIS and ‘expert opinion’ were used to estimate connectivity modeling parameters and resistance surfaces for several key taxa. The findings indicated a total of 152,200 ha as suitable biodiversity corridors in Quang Nam (QN) and Thua Thien Hue (TTH) provinces, including natural forests without roads that have significantly lower resistance values than other areas. Key informant interviews and focus group discussions were used to determine and compare the benefit patterns of landowners within and outside the biodiversity corridors. Results showed landowners’ benefits majority included the collection of timber and non-timber forest products (NTFPs), plantation and other incomes from payment for forest environmental services (PFES). The benefits of landholders belonging to, and those outside of, the biodiversity corridors were significantly different (412 USD/ha/year and 330 USA/ha/year, respectively; p< 0.001) as these landowners received support from government programs such as restoration and forest protection patrol incentives while outside corridor’s, landowners get benefits from cultivation, planation (acacia) and NTFPs. My results suggest that current government programs encourage landowners to manage corridors more effectively. The findings of this research are relevant to researchers, government agencies and NGOs seeking to improve the management of biodiversity corridors in general. This thesis contributes to the evidence base and knowledge for improvement of the legal and policy frameworks for enhancing the effectiveness of biodiversity corridors and protected area management in the Central Annamite Landscape.
Long-term field study of the behaviour of Xenopus laevis (Pipidae) in a small dam
Creators: name: Elepfandt, Andreas
name: Gutsche, Alexander
name: Fischer, Werner J
name: Leujak, Wera
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Populationsdynamik

description: A study of the behaviour of Xenopus laevis in a small dam in South Africa was continued annually from 1992 until 1999. All individuals were tagged. The annual number of frogs varied between 22 and 109 by migration. The sex ratio remained balanced. Most subadults stayed for just one season, whereas half of the adults remained longer. Some individuals reappeared after one or more years of absence. Within a season, male activity was concentrated in series of nights between quiet periods. Higher population density did not result in more territorial, stationary, or roaming males, or more fighting, but mainly in a higher number of inactive males. Fighting was intense, however, at extreme low water in 1995. Territorial males might maintain their territory in subsequent years. The size of individuals did not differ between behavioural types and males of any behaviour could mate successfully. The rare matings aggregated in adjacent nights at peak calling. Female approach to males was not seen, but playback in silent nights caused some females to linger near the loudspeaker. Females that experienced no amplexus during our observations were found significantly more in the shallow areas of the dam where sound did not enter. For mating, females accepted only males larger than 65 mm SVL and repelled all smaller ones. Mating was not size assortative. In both sexes, maturation took years of gradual development before successful mating. © 2021 Herpetological Association of Africa.
Assessing the energy requirement of local food systems : insights from Australia
Creators: name: Pelletier, Marie-Chantale
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Food systems
Local food
Energy analysis
Input Output Analysis
Pork

description: Among the consequences of globalisation and international trade, are lengthening food supply chains. Long supply chains that rely on fossil energy for food production and distribution threaten food security and contribute to climate change. The gains in economic efficiency achieved through trade liberalisation however are accompanied by increased health risks and deteriorating social and environmental conditions.
description: In contrast, “local food” is produced in close proximity to where it is consumed and producers are often in direct contact with consumers. Local food is often proposed as an alternative to the global distribution of food and a means to regain control over the economic, social and environmental conditions under which it is produced and distributed. There is an assumption amongst local food participants that local is more sustainable, and while this is well established socially and economically, environmental sustainability is less clear.
description: This study uses an ecological economics framework with fossil energy use as an indicator for the depletion of non-renewable resources of the source function, and as a factor limiting the capacity of the sink function to prevent climate change. Input output analysis in conjunction with energy accounting is used firstly to estimate the total quantity of energy required to satisfy Australian households final demand across broad consumption categories. Food was found to account for 13% of the total energy requirement of households in 2009-10. The most important food categories contributing to this energy footprint were “meat products” (19.3%) followed by “snacks, confectionary, prepared meals” (18.4%).
description: The research then proceeds to compare the environmental sustainability of two different food systems in Australia. Using a case study in the pork industry, the energy required to produce and deliver local products to final demand is compared to similar products available in the national-global food system. Local producers from three different farms realised energy savings of 9% - 65% across four different pork products, confirming they are delivering better environmental outcomes than the global-national system. This research points to the potential contribution of localised food to improving the sustainability of food systems, and the need for wider investigations into the environmental impacts of local food in Australia.
Cautious rebellion: A critical study of the Canadian historical play in English.
Creators: name: Hallett, David F.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Literature, Canadian (English).

description: The Canadian historical play in English has long been subject to cursory, pejorative evaluation. Though a tradition of common practice has existed, almost unaltered, but still dynamic, since the earliest examples of the genre, there exists no articulated account of that tradition. Indications are that playwrights and critics alike have been largely unaware of the extent to which English-Canadian historical drama evinces a progress within a virtually paradigmatic structure. New developments in English-Canadian historiography suggest that a similar reconsideration of basic critical assumptions would benefit both the practice and the criticism of the English-Canadian history play. Building from a theoretical understanding founded in sociological and interdisciplinary cultural studies of the role of perception in "history" past and present, this study works to articulate a progress within a tradition, to set out the enduringly common features of English-Canadian historical drama. Through analytical commentary on twenty-eight plays, divided into five of the most common topical and thematic foci of the genre, this study establishes the roots of contemporary common practice in the earliest examples of the genre published in the late nineteenth-century, and traces the evolution of that practice through its most significant point of change midway through the twentieth century. The study argues that criticism to date has not fully comprehended the parameters within which the English-Canadian historical play has usually been written. English-Canadian historical playwrights are, in fact, paralleling (sometimes even anticipating) developments in Canadian historiography. Criticism of revisionist elements in the drama generally mistakes a strength for a weakness. Similarly, the omission of the non-Canadian historical subject from virtually all previous studies of the genre is an unnecessary limitation. Finally, and most importantly, the contemporary English-Canadian history play is not about history. Rather, it uses elements of history to critique and reconceive the present. Ironically, the contemporary English-Canadian historical play tends, in its reclamation of figures marginalized in the past, to make heroes out of individuals who were profoundly mistrustful of conventional discourses of heroism. If criticism of the genre has been imperfectly conceived, so too has practice of the form sometimes revealed its own ideological blind spots.
Supplementary text, figures, and tables from Multi-system physiological dysregulation and ageing in a subsistence population
Creators: name: Kraft, Thomas S.
name: Stieglitz, Jonathan
name: Trumble, Benjamin C.
name: Garcia, Angela R.
name: Kaplan, Hillard
name: Gurven, Michael
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This file contains all supplementary materials (text, figures, and tables) referenced in the main text.
Temporalidad y ética en Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí, de Javier Marías.
Creators: name: Lemaître, Michèle.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Literature, Modern.

description: Javier Marias' work, which belongs to the so-called "Nueva Narrativa espanola", has rapidly gained the attention of the critics and scholars alike. Nevertheless, the studies relating specifically to Manana en la batalla piensa en mi remain so far fragmentary and often limited to the thematic aspects of the novel. The objective of this thesis is to conduct an in-depth analysis of one of the themes underscored by the critics---time---in its three semiotic aspects (syntactic, semantic and pragmatic), in an attempt to bring into light the relationship between the temporal and ethical dimensions of the novel. Thus, after chapter one, which establishes the theoretical framework of the study, chapter II is devoted to the presentation of the history and its narrator. This preparatory work allows then a detailed analysis of the syntactic aspect of time, consistent with the structural approach of Gerard Genette (chap. III) and Paul Ricoeur's definition of the "fictive experience of time", which is then confronted to the ethical stand of our contemporary world (semantic and pragmatic aspects, chap. IV). The study reveals how the constant ambivalence inherent in time reflects itself in the deep structure of the novel and in its principal character. The main conclusion of the study corroborates the theoretical assumption of Paul Ricoeur concerning the function of the structural configuration of time in the novel, which is to articulate a temporal experience in the fictive world projected by the text which in this case entails ethical relativity. Also, its confrontation with our real world suggests the postmodern nature of the novel.
You have to be Anglo and not look like me': identity constructions of second generation migrant-Australian women
Creators: name: Zevallos, Zuleyka
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: My thesis explores the social construction of identity of 50 second generation migrant-Australian women aged 17 to 28 years using a qualitative methodology. I conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with 25 women from Latin American backgrounds and 25 women from Turkish backgrounds. My study investigated the intersections of ethnicity, gender, sexuality and nationality. I found that the Latin women constructed their ethnic culture in reference to their country-of-origin traditions, and that they also identified with a pan-ethnic Latin culture that included migrants from other South and Central America countries. I found that the Turkish women constructed Turkish culture in reference to their religious practices, and they saw themselves as 'Muslim-Turks' who identified with an Islamic pan-ethnic culture that included Muslim migrants from different national backgrounds. The women in both groups drew upon Anglo-Australian culture when it came to their gender and sexuality constructions. The Latin and Turkish women did not see themselves as 'typical' women from their migrant communities. Instead, their sense of femininity was informed by what they saw as Australian egalitarianism. The women in both groups saw Anglo-Australians' gender relationships as an ideal, and as one woman said of Anglo-Australians, 'how much more equal can you can get?' The women's social construction of the nation was equally influenced by multiculturalism and an Anglo-Australian identity. They highly valued their Australian citizenship and felt positive about their lives in Australia. At the same time, they had faced ongoing racism and they reported that other people judged their Australian identities through racial characteristics. One woman said that in order for people to be accepted as Australian, 'you have to be Anglo and not look like me'. Despite this sense of social exclusion, the majority of my sample held hybrid migrant-Australian identities. I develop a threefold typology of the women's identities, and I found that 13 women did not see themselves as Australian, 36 women saw themselves as partly-Australian, and one woman held an exclusively Australian identity. I argue that narratives of multiculturalism and Anglo-Australian identity influenced the women's social construction of identity. Their belief that Australian identity was multicultural was at odds with their experiences of racism and their own self identities, and so I examine the women's beliefs in reference to an 'ideology of multiculturalism'. This ideology supported the women's contribution to the nation as second generation migrants, and ultimately, they expressed an unwavering support for Australian multiculturalism.
The ethics of indigenous storytelling: using the Torque game engine to support Australian Aboriginal cultural heritage
Creators: name: Wyeld, Theodor G.
name: Leavy, Brett
name: Carroll, Joti
name: Gibbons, Craig
name: Ledwich, Brendan
name: Hills, James
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Digital Songlines (DSL) is an Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID) project that is developing protocols, methodologies and toolkits to facilitate the collection, education and sharing of indigenous cultural heritage knowledge. This paper outlines the goals achieved over the last three years in the ethics of developing the Digital Songlines game engine (DSE) toolkit that is used for Australian Indigenous storytelling. The project explores the sharing of indigenous Australian Aboriginal storytelling in a sensitive manner using a game engine. The use of game engine in the field of Cultural Heritage is expanding. They are an important tool for the recording and re-presentation of historically, culturally, and sociologically significant places, infrastructure, and artefacts, as well as the stories that are associated with them in a highly situated context. The DSL implementation of a game engine to share storytelling provides an educational interface. Where the DSL implementation of a game engine in a CH application differs from others is in the nature of the game environment itself. It is modelled on the 'country' (the 'place' of their heritage which is so important to the clients' collective identity) and authentic fauna and flora that provides a highly contextualised setting for the stories to be told. This paper provides an overview of the ethics behind and the development of the DSL game engine.
The influence of motivation and barriers on stages of exercise behavior change.
Creators: name: LeBlanc, Lynne.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Behavioral.

description: The present study attempted to understand exercise behavior change by applying a solid theoretical motivational framework, namely, self-determination theory (SDT; Deci and Ryan, 1985) with stages of exercise behavior change. This study also examined the relationship between exercise barriers and stages of change. A questionnaire, composed of several validated scales that assessed exercise behavior, exercise intentions, different forms of exercise motivation, and exercise barriers was administered to 74 employees of an electric power commission. Based on their exercise behavior during the past three months and their exercise intentions during the next three months, participants were placed in one of the following 6 stages: Stage 1 - sedentary individuals who want to maintain their sedentary behavior (n = 11; 15%); Stage 2 - sedentary individuals who want to increase their exercise behavior (n = 14; 19%); Stage 3 - moderately active individuals who want to maintain their exercise behavior (n = 8; 11%); Stage 4 - moderately active individuals who want to increase their exercise behavior (n = 17; 23%); Stage 5 - active individuals who want to maintain their exercise behavior (n = 11; 15%); or Stage 6 - active individuals who want to increase their exercise behavior (n = 13; 17%). (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Structural and magnetic fabric study of the late Archean Sparrow and Prosperous plutons, Prosperous suite, Slave Province, Canada.
Creators: name: Ham, Natalie M.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Geology.

description: The late Archean (∼2595 Ma) Sparrow and Prosperous granite plutons near Yellowknife, NWT, intrude cordierite and andalusite bearing metagreywacke typical of the Slave Province. The objective of this thesis is to determine the structure of the plutons, mode of emplacement and timing in relation to regional deformation. Field and microstructural studies of the plutonic and host rocks are complemented by an analysis of the anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) of the granites. Minor recrystallization of quartz within the plutons, with most grains showing subgrain development, suggests that the fabrics in the granites formed before the granites had completely cooled, probably during emplacement. Paramagnetic Fe-phyllosilicates (biotite and chlorite) and very fine-grained magnetite contribute to the magnetic susceptibility and its anisotropy. Magmatic mica-rich and mica-poor layers lie parallel to a shallow-dipping basal contact of the Prosperous pluton. The plutons are inferred to have been emplaced during a second phase of regional deformation (D2). It is proposed that the Sparrow and Prosperous plutons are laccoliths that were emplaced horizontally during D2 deformation, and subsequently were deformed as they crystallized during later stages of D2. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
From naturalism to mechanism: Ambiguities and contradictions in Descartes' mechanistic physiology.
Creators: name: Collier, Carol.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: The thesis provides an analysis of the metaphysical and epistemological shift from naturalism to mechanism in the seventeenth century, specifically in relation to the human body, and the evolution of the notion of the body-machine in Cartesian philosophy. The thesis starts from the position that Descartes' metaphysical dualism is a fundamental presupposition of both his method and his physics, including his physiology. It supports Jean-Luc Marion's thesis of the 'grey ontology' of the Regulae and argues against the position of Alquie, Gaukroger and others that Descartes' science and metaphysics are distinct aspects of his work, with the latter arriving only after the former had been fully formulated. Then, using Lenoble's thesis that the development of mechanism in the seventeenth century was more a reaction to the naturalism of the Renaissance than to Scholasticism, it traces the rejection of certain 'occult' notions of the Renaissance conception of nature and body, in particular, the notions of world-soul and final causes. It then analyses the application of the principles of mechanism to the human body as elaborated by Descartes in his principal work on the body, L'Homme, and shows how his mechanistic physiology created a rupture not only between mind and body but also between body and nature, resulting in a changed anthropology. At the same time it brings out ambiguities and contradictions inherent in Descartes' mechanistic, explanation of body, particularly in relation to animal perception and sensation; and it shows, further, that his mechanistic explanation relies, in its turn, on 'occult' concepts, in the form of animal spirits and continuous creation, metaphysical supports that weaken the effectiveness of the mechanistic explanation. Finally, the thesis looks at Descartes' notion of mind-body union and, analysing Gueroult's interpretation of the Cartesian position, demonstrates that this notion does not result in a modification of his mechanism of the body. The thesis concludes that Descartes' application of a unified method of science to the human body suffered from an inherent and irreconcilable ambiguity: his mechanistic physiology could not yield an anthropology while, at the same time, his emphasis on mind-body union in his later writings could not yield a science. It proposes a re-examination of mechanistic physiology in the light of other models of mechanism in the seventeenth century (e.g. Leibniz, Hobbes) and a re-assessment of the anthropology displaced by the rupture between body and nature, body and mind.
Perspectives of adolescent athletes and musicians: Exploring the meaning and value attached to the performance
Creators: name: MacDonald, Matthew H
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Music.
subject: Health Sciences, Recreation.
subject: Recreation.

description: Some performers become so consumed by the demands and pressures of performing that they neglect other priorities in their life. However, some individuals succeed in their performance domain and still have their lives together---they approach their performance with a sense of perspective (Brown, Cairns, & Botterill, 2001). Though the perspectives of adult performers have been outlined in the literature, it is unclear what perspective adolescent participants bring to their performance. The participants were ten young performers (seven athletes and three musicians) selected from a private school in central Canada. They were identified both as top performers and as individuals who had their lives together. In depth interviews revealed the elements that characterize the perspective these participants bring to their performance. Results indicate these adolescents strive to maintain balance in their lives, build relationships with others that assist them in their performance pursuits, approach obstacles with a positive perspective, grow through learning and improving, use a complete focus to absorb themselves in performing, and find passion in their performance pursuits and live this passion everyday.
Supplementary Figures on Reproduction & Aging in Wild Chimpanzees from Faecal parasites increase with age but not reproductive effort in wild female chimpanzees
Creators: name: Phillips, Sarah Renee
name: T. L. Goldberg
name: M. N. Muller
name: Z. P. Machanda
name: E. Otali
name: S. Friant
name: J. Carag
name: K. E. Langergraber
name: J. C. Mitani
name: E. E. Wroblewski
name: R. W. Wrangham
name: M. Emery Thompson
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Energy investment in reproduction is predicted to trade-off against other necessary physiological functions like immunity, but it is unclear to what extent this impacts fitness in long-lived species. Among mammals, female primates, and especially apes, exhibit extensive periods of investment in each offspring. During this time, energy diverted to gestation and lactation is hypothesized to incur short and long-term deficits in maternal immunity and lead to accelerated ageing. We examined the relationship between reproduction and immunity, as measured by faecal parasite counts, in wild female chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) of Kibale National Park, Uganda. While we observed higher parasite shedding (counts of eggs, cysts and larvae) in pregnant chimpanzees relative to cycling females, parasites rapidly decreased during early lactation, the most energetically taxing phase of the reproductive cycle. Additionally, while our results indicate that parasite shedding increases with age, females with higher fertility for their age had lower faecal parasite counts. Such findings support the hypothesis that the relatively conservative rate of female reproduction in chimpanzees may be protective against the negative effects of reproductive effort on health.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Evolution of the primate ageing process’.
Informing Teaching Practice Through Students’ Perspectives of Their Most Memorable Learning Experiences
Creators: name: Andrade, Anne-Louise
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: constructivism
learning
narrative
student voice
teaching practice

description: This qualitative study answers the call to include students’ voices in research on learning by listening to students’ perspectives about their learning experiences. Student voice inquiries into learning typically explore students’ perspectives of their learning experiences in school for enhancing teaching practice. The present study explores students’ perspectives of their learning experiences both in and out of school and elicits students’ voices through written narrative, in combination with more common approaches to student voice inquiry. The purpose of which is to inform teaching practice that better supports and facilitates students’ learning. The two research questions that guide this inquiry are: What do senior high school students’ written narratives, focus group discussion, and related written comments about their most memorable learning experiences reveal about their learning? And what do these students’ voices reveal about what they have in common in their learning? The common themes across the 24 student participants are presented as a supportive framework for classroom discussion about most memorable learning experiences. Practical implications are discussed for teaching practice and research with participant co-researchers.
The Role of MicroRNAs in Endothelial Progenitor Cell Function
Creators: name: Behbahani, John
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Endothelial Progenitor Cells
MicroRNA
Angiogenesis
Stem Cell

description: Cultures of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (MNCs) give rise to at least two different variants of endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs), early and late outgrowth EPCs. We investigated whether microRNAs in early and late EPCs could serve as markers of internal processes that can be exploited to distinguish cell identity and functional capacity. We hypothesized that as MNCs give rise to early and late EPCs, there is a gradual change in total microRNA profile, reflecting a total change in processes within the predominant cell population. Using a candidate microRNA array, early and late EPCs showed vastly different microRNA expression profiles. MiR-146a expression increased progressively as early EPCs emerged around 5-7 days (p<0.05). Through targeting TRAF6 and IRAK1, miR-146a conferred inflammatory tolerance in early EPCs, likely contributing to their purported ability to suppress inflammation. MiR-146a knock down (KD) in endotoxin-stimulated early EPCs reduced anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-1RA (p<0.001), and increased expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-1 (p<0.001) and IL-8 (p<0.01). Interestingly, the microRNA expression profile of late EPCs was highly congruent to mature endothelial cells, with 100-fold greater miR-126 expression than monocytes and early EPCs (p<0.01). MiR-126KD in late EPCs abolished matrigel-network formation (p<0.05); while overexpression (OE) in early EPC augmented network formation (p<0.05) and chemotactic migration (p<0.001). We also found that the melanoma cell adhesion molecule or MCAM (CD146) identified late EPC precursors. Only MCAM+MNCs from adult blood (<5% of total MNCs) yielded late EPC-like colonies. Robust miR-126 expression in these cells predicted the generation of late EPCs. Overall, our results suggest that miR-146a in early EPCs likely contributes to repair by suppressing inflammation during cardiovascular injury; while in late EPCs, miR-126 directly promotes angiogenesis and vascular repair. Finally, we highlight a unique method for the efficient generation of late EPCs by using MCAM selection and screening for miR-126.
L'orthodoxie juive à la rencontre de la modernité : le groupe hassidique des Tasher face au Québec de la Révolution tranquille (1951-1967)
Creators: name: Lacasse, Simon-Pierre
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: hassidique
minorité religieuse
judaisme
révolution tranquille
québec

description: En 1963, une communauté juive hassidique, les Tasher, quitte Montréal pour s’établir en milieu rural. C’est près d’une décennie après avoir rassemblé dans la ville une poignée de ses membres qui avaient échappé au génocide nazi. Menées par leur rebbe Meshulem Feisch Lowy, chef spirituel et temporel du groupe, treize familles déménagent sur un lopin de terre dans la municipalité de Ste-Thérèse, située à vingt-cinq kilomètres au nord de la métropole québécoise. Ils mettent en place les infrastructures communautaires nécessaires à l’émergence d’une communauté ultra-orthodoxe, qui a connu depuis une croissance impressionnante suite à une forte natalité. Cette thèse retrace les premiers pas des adeptes de cette communauté et vise à observer leurs rapports avec la plus grande communauté juive — de pratique non hassidique et implantée à Montréal surtout depuis le tournant du siècle, entre 1880 et les années 1920 — et la population québécoise francophone et catholique. L’auteur avance que pendant l'après-guerre, des contextes distincts convergent pour favoriser la reconstruction de la communauté des Tasher et de l’hassidisme en général. Le premier concerne la communauté juive montréalaise dans son ensemble, à ce moment en pleine ascension dans l’échelle socioéconomique de la province. Ce processus implique l’assimilation à la sphère anglophone montréalaise, ce qui contribue à un sentiment de nostalgie face à l’usage de la langue yiddish et la pratique religieuse orthodoxe intégrale - ce que les hassidim visent entre autres à maintenir. Ensuite, l’auteur se penche sur les premiers contacts entre les Tasher et la population de Ste-Thérèse, une municipalité rurale en pleine expansion industrielle, d’ascendance catholique et francophone. Il propose que le contexte de la Révolution tranquille, caractérisé par une diminution drastique de la pratique religieuse catholique et par un mouvement d’affirmation nationale dont le vecteur principal est la langue française, favorise une ouverture nouvelle sur le judaïsme. Il s’agit de comprendre comment l’orthodoxie juive trouve un espace d’affirmation dans la modernité émergente du Québec, et de constater comment les Tasher composent avec les mécanismes de l’époque moderne pour mieux se prémunir contre ses périls.
title: Biomonitoring data on young adults from the Environmental Specimen Bank suggest a decrease in the exposure to the fragrance chemical 7-hydroxycitronellal in Germany from 2000 to 2018
title: Biomonitoring data on young adults from the Environmental Specimen Bank suggest a decrease in the exposure to the fragrance chemical 7-hydroxycitronellal in Germany from 2000 to 2018
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Kolossa-Gehring, Marike
name: Pluym, Nikola
name: Petreanu, Wolf
name: Weber, Till
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020

description: 7-Hydroxy-3,7-dimethyl-1-octanal, also known as 7-hydroxycitronellal (7-HC, CAS No. 107-75-5) is a synthetic fragrance widely used in cosmetic and hygiene products. Because of its wide spread use and its known sensitizing properties, 7-HC was selected as one of 50 chemicals within the frame of the cooperation project between the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) and the German Chemical Industry Association (VCI) to develop a suitable human biomonitoring (HBM) method in order to assess the exposure of the general population in Germany. Within this scope, the recently published analytical method for urinary 7-hydroxycitronellylic acid (7-HCA), the major metabolite of 7-HC, was applied to 329 24h-urine samples of young adults (20 to 29 years) collected between 2000 and 2018 and stored in the Environmental Specimen Bank (ESB). The widespread exposure to 7-HC as already observed in a pilot study with 40 volunteers could be confirmed with quantifiable concentrations of 7-HCA in all 329 study samples (mean: 14.9 ng/mL; median: 8.1 ng/mL). A significant, chronological decrease in 7-HCA levels was found for the monitored years (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2015, 2018). The most pronounced decline occurred between 2000 and 2004 (means: 34.37 versus 23.31, medians: 20.97 versus 12.49 ÎÌg/24h; p < 0.01). On average, females exhibited higher levels of urinary 7-HCA compared to males (29.34 versus 17.21 ÎÌg/24h, p < 0.05). Based on the urinary 7-HCA excretion, the daily intake (DI) of 7-HC normalized for body weight (bw) was estimated. Over all sampling years, average DI in females was significantly higher compared to males (0.99 versus 0.46 My g/kg bw/d). Assuming dermal exposure as the main route of 7-HC intake, the mean DIs correspond to <0.1% of the derived no effect level (DNEL) of 1,100 My g/kg bw/d defined by the European Chemical Agency (ECHA). The presented results for the exposure to the widely used fragrance 7-HC in Germany can be substantiated by applying the described methodology to the representative cohort of the launched German Environmental Survey in adults (GerES VI). © 2020 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
Examining MicroRNAs as Regulators of Hepatic Lipid Homeostasis and Hepatitis C Virus Replication
Creators: name: Singaravelu, Ragunath
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: MicroRNA
Lipid
Hepatitis C Virus
Metabolism
25-hydroxycholesterol
Innate immunity

description: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a leading cause of liver transplantation and hepatocellular carcinoma worldwide. HCV, like all obligate parasites, relies on host pathways to facilitate its pathogenesis. In particular, the virus possesses an intimate link with hepatic lipid metabolism, promoting a lipid-rich cellular environment conducive to HCV propagation. Clinically, these metabolic perturbations manifest as steatosis in over 50% of patients. The majority of research to-date examining how the virus co-opts hepatic lipid pathways has been focused on coding genes and their protein products. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression, which have been implicated in virtually every cellular process. Through interactions with partially complementary mRNAs, each individual miRNA has the capacity to repress the expression of hundreds of genes and induce significant regulatory effects. Herein, we demonstrate that hepatic miRNAs, including miR-7, miR-27a/b, miR-130b, and miR-185, act as crucial regulatory molecules to the maintenance of hepatic lipid homeostasis. These miRNAs cooperate to regulate fatty acid and cholesterol metabolism. HCV modulates the expression of a subset of these miRNAs (miR-27a/b, miR-130b, and miR-185) to promote hepatocellular lipid accumulation and the HCV life cycle. There appears to be a broad viral requirement for lipids, and the mammalian innate immune response strategically targets host metabolic pathways to restrict virus’ access to key lipid species. We demonstrate that 25-hydroxycholesterol, a broadly anti-viral oxysterol produced as part of the innate anti-viral response, activates miR-185 expression in the liver to deplete virus infected cells of lipids. HCV appears to actively counteract this anti-viral response by suppressing miR-185 expression. Collectively, our results highlight the role of microRNAs in hepatic lipid metabolism and the immunometabolic response to viral infection.
Innovation and reform in Queensland Indigenous educational policy : a critical analysis
Creators: name: Mackie, Ian Fraser
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Bhaskar
Critical Realism
Indigenous
Aboriginal
Torres Strait Islands
Education
Reform
Innovation
History
Pillars
Work Guarantee
Case Study
School Attendance
Truancy
Embeddedness
High Expectations
Identity
Jobs
Persuasion

description: In this thesis, I essay a critical and analytical reflection on my time as Assistant Director General responsible for the Indigenous Education and Training Futures Division of Department of Education and Training Qld, Australia, from 2010-2012. In methodological terms the thesis takes the form of a post hoc case study. The significance of the study lies in the fact that this is one of the few academic studies of policy in the domain of Indigenous education that has been undertaken by an insider.
description: My work as an ADG was influenced by many contextual factors. Of these, I have chosen to highlight the demography that was driving policy concerns, the national debates about the direction Indigenous education should take and the international debates that were impacting on thinking around education in Australia. The work is explicitly grounded in a historical context for two specific reasons. We literally live in the past, and yet the past is unknown to us. My argument is that only when the past is known can a strong and alternative present be possible. The thesis also covers methodological questions in some depth. Here, I endeavour to both explicate and justify my choice of Bhaskarian critical realism as an underpinning conceptual framework. The thesis then moves to a consideration of an alternative approach to Indigenous education called the “Five Pillars”. The pillars of High Expectations (Chapter Five), Recognition and Identity (Chapter Six), Persuasion (Chapter Six), Connectedness (Chapter Seven) and a Service (Job) Guarantee (Chapter Eight) are foundational to emancipatory education for Indigenous students. The original contribution of the thesis consists of the application of critical realist theory to Indigenous policy; the setting of the discussion within a geo-historical framework; the provision of an academic critique of the international and national discourses that impacted on policy formation, and the outlining of 5 pillars of innovation.
Submission under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol 2023
Creators: name: Bernicke, Maja
name: Günther, Dirk
name: Bertram, Andreas
name: Bolland, Til
name: Schiller, Stephan
name: Kludt, Robert
name: Dreher, Marion
name: Kuntze, David
name: Drosihn, Detlef
name: Hausmann, Kevin
name: Elsner, Cornelia
name: Fiedler, Traute
name: Langenfeld, Jens
name: Gohlisch, Gunnar
name: Kotzulla, Michael
name: Icha, Petra
name: Juhrich, Kristina
name: Koppe, Katharina
name: Koska, Anna
name: Böttcher, Christian
name: Leuthold, Sandra
name: Liesegang, Christian
name: Pannier, Karen
name: Plickert, Sebastian
name: Proske, Christopher
name: Reichart, Almut
name: Reichel, Jens
name: Voigt, Thomas
name: Wetzel, Frank
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Klimarahmenkonvention
subject: Treibhausgasinventar
subject: Treibhausgasemission
subject: UNFCCC
subject: emissions inventory
subject: greenhouse gas emission
subject: Climate | Energy

description: As a Party to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC), since 1994 Germany has been obliged to prepare, publish and regularly update national emission inventories of greenhouse gases. Pursuant to Decision 24/CP.19, all Parties listed in ANNEX I of the UNFCCC are required to prepare and submit annual National Inventory Reports (NIRs) containing detailed and complete information on the entire process of preparation of such greenhouse-gas inventories. The purpose of such reports is to ensure the transparency, consistency and comparability of inventories and support the independent review process. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: As a Party to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (⁠UNFCCC⁠), since 1994 Germany has been obliged to prepare, publish and regularly update national emission inventories of greenhouse gases. Pursuant to Decision 24/CP.19, all Parties listed in ANNEX I of the ⁠UNFCCC⁠ are required to prepare and submit annual National Inventory Reports (NIRs) containing detailed and complete information on the entire process of preparation of such greenhouse-gas inventories. The purpose of such reports is to ensure the transparency, consistency and comparability of inventories and support the independent review process.
Towards the ‘Federated States of North America’: The Advocacy for Political Union between Canada and the United States, 1885-1896
Creators: name: Boyes, Aaron
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Canadian-American Relations
Intellectual History

description: This dissertation examines the movement for political union that existed in Canada and the United States between 1885 and 1896. During this period the Dominion was plagued by economic malaise, “racial” tension, and regionalism, all of which hindered national growth and the creation of a distinct Canadian nationality. The Republic, meanwhile, experienced substantial economic growth thanks to increasing industrialization, and many Americans sought to expand the territory of their nation. It was in this atmosphere of Canadian political and economic uncertainty and American expansionism that the idea of forming one grand continental republic re-emerged. To provide a more complete understanding of the movement for political union this study examines its emergence, development, and ultimate failure. Although at no time did it become a mass or popular movement, political unionism became an important element in the public discourse in both Canada and the United States. Furthermore, this dissertation shows that political unionism was not only an English-speaking phenomenon, as several of the core group of advocates identified herein were French Canadian, and there was a serious debate about French Canada’s future in North America. Many previous studies that have explored this era in Canadian-American relations have overlooked the significance of the movement for political union, largely by focusing on the tense economic relationship and the debate over free trade. However, as this dissertation argues, economic considerations for political union were secondary amongst its proponents. They did not support political union for personal gain. Rather, supporters of the movement shared a conviction in the need to unite the continent due to a sense of shared racialism and the belief in the superiority of republicanism. This dissertation also offers a new perspective on the core group of advocates of political union. They were not “traitors” who had turned their back on Canada and wished to “sell out” the Dominion to the United States. These figures did not want “annexation”; they desired a true political union.
Deathbeds and destruction: Representation of female intimacy in western religion and film.
Creators: name: Schmeiser, Peggy.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Religion, General.

description: This thesis argues that popular films convey religious ideology about female gender and therefore warrant consideration within the field of women and religion. Feminist theory in religion examines how western religious texts reflect anxiety about female relationships between mothers and daughters, friends, and lovers. Drawing on current scholarship in the areas of religion, gender, popular culture, and film, I demonstrate that ancient correlations between female bonding and tragedy or danger are perpetuated in the present through two movie genres, "chickflicks" and lesbian thrillers. In Chapter One, I examine the representation of female intimacy in ancient religious texts to demonstrate the following: (1) intimate female relationships are seen as disruptive to male hegemony; (2) Relationships between mothers and daughters end in tragedy and are subsequently forgotten; (3) Women's friendships occur under dire circumstances that often leave at least one woman abused, dead, or forgotten; and (4) Female sexual intimacy is typically associated with ill or violent women. In Chapter Two I explore the importance of film for the study of religion in Canada. Challenging distinctions between so-called "sacred" and "profane" cultures, several theorists argue that popular culture produces and conveys religious ideology within contemporary society. In particular, I emphasize the importance of examining cinematic representations of gender and sexuality within a religious context. Chapter Three analyzes two recent film genres that present women's relationships as key narrative features. Although chickflicks depict seemingly empowered heroines who bond to combat exploitation and abuse, the victories are ultimately short-lived. The typical death and debilitation of female characters in films such as Terms of Endearment (1983), Steel Magnolias (1989), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), Thelma and Louise (1991), and Boys on the Side (1995) reaffirm religious views of female intimacy as a personal and social hazard. In lesbian thrillers, female sexual intimacy is further associated with evil, murderous characters. In films such as Basic Instinct (1992), Diabolique (1996), and Bound (1996), "psychodykes" perpetuate religious anxieties about the supposed social dangers of women's sexual liaisons. In the concluding chapter, I integrate psychoanalytic and film theories to analyze the popularity of chickflicks and lesbian thrillers amongst female audiences.