cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
EMPIRICAL EVALUATION OF OIL PRICE VOLATILITY AND STOCK MARKET RETURNS IN NIGERIA
Creators: name: Ikemenogo,, Eze Solomon
Publisher: name: CARSON JOURNAL
Year: 2024
Subjects: Oil, Prices, Volatility, Stock, Market, Returns

description: The study is on empirical evaluation of the impact of oil prices volatility on stock market returns in Nigeria. With the understanding that energy runs like a bloodstream of any business of which oil is a major source, it becomes imperative to examine the effects of incessant oil price fluctuations on critical indicators of the economy like stock market performance.  The objectives include to; determine effects of oil price fluctuations on economic growth, ascertain the nexus trend between oil price volatility and stock market in Nigeria, and determine the impact of oil price volatility on the stock market returns in Nigeria. The scope of this study covers the period from 1986 to 2021. The work is based on secondary data sourced from UNCTAD; World Development Indicator (2021) and analysed with the aid of the software EVIEWS version 12. The study used the unit root test to check the stationarity of the variables, the ARDL bound test to check for long-term relationships between the variables, and the ARDL model to estimate both short- and long-term relationships between the variables. A normality test revealed that the study's variables are all typical. Breuseeh-Gdfrey serial correlation revealed no association between the study's variables. The heteroscedasticity test showed there was no outlier’s effect on the output of the result. It was found that inflation and exchange rate volatility are positive and statistically significant; inflation and interest rate are equally positive related to private consumption during the period under investigation. It found out inflation, oil price, exchange rate, and real gross domestic product have positive effect on stock market performance in Nigeria. The work concludes oil price is a major determinant of economic growth in Nigeria. It was recommended that all brokerage firms and investment advisors need to conduct periodic research on macroeconomic environment and advise their clients accordingly on the best counters to invest in owing to the various influences by macroeconomic environment on the stock market performance
The Stone-von Neumann Construction in Branching Rules and Minimal Degree Problems
Creators: name: Karimianpour, Camelia
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Stone-von Neumann theorem
p-adic field
representation

description: In Part I, we investigate the principal series representations of the n-fold covering groups of the special linear group over a p-adic field. Such representations are constructed via the Stone-von Neumann theorem. We have three interrelated results. We first compute the K-types of these representations. We then give a complete set of reducibility points for the unramified principal series representations. Among these are the unitary unramified principal series representations, for which we further investigate the distribution of the K-types among its irreducible components. In Part II, we demonstrate another application of the Stone-von Neumann theorem. Namely, we present a lower bound for the minimal degree of a faithful representation of an adjoint Chevalley group over a quotient ring of a non-Archimedean local field.
La détermination d'un verdict en action et contexte
Creators: name: Saghbini, Charbel
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: verdict
vérité
justice
voie de fait
ethnométhodologie
crime
criminel
preuve
droit
droit criminel
droit pénal
sciences sociales
criminologie
sociologie juridique
constructivisme
sentencing
Québec
procès
rationalité pénale

description: Cette thèse tire son originalité du fait qu’elle se situe à la croisée des chemins entre droit et sciences sociales. En mettant en œuvre une sociologie juridique de notre système accusatoire au Canada, nous cherchons à comprendre les manières par lesquelles se construit une vérité judiciaire dans les procès criminels. Dans le cadre d’une perspective ethnométhodologique, cette thèse a pour finalité de cerner les méthodes pratiques employées par les acteurs judiciaires dans leur quotidien afin de produire une vérité judiciaire en tant que fait social objectif. Nous nous sommes ainsi penchés sur l’ensemble des pratiques et des raisonnements qui s’inscrivent dans un contexte d’action où chaque acteur judiciaire est propulsé à rendre compte de sa version de la « vérité », et par voie de conséquence, chercher l’adhésion du juge. Les cas examinés concernent des voies de fait jugés au Québec. Dans un premier temps, cette thèse montre qu’une vérité judiciaire résulte d’un processus de construction, dans lequel la poursuite catégorise des faits en « crime » et l’image d’un individu en « criminel », pour établir la culpabilité de l’accusé hors de tout doute raisonnable. Dans un deuxième temps, une vérité judiciaire est le résultat d’un processus de déconstruction où la défense remet en question ces catégorisations par l’examen de la vraisemblance des faits et de la crédibilité d’un témoin. Dans un troisième temps, la vérité judiciaire est le résultat d’un processus de reconstruction où la défense présente une version alternative aux catégorisations initiales de la poursuite. Alors que le premier processus s’acharne sur l’activité pratique de la poursuite, les deux derniers nous ont permis de comprendre comment le jeu du doute s’opère dans l’activité pratique de la défense. Dans un dernier temps, la thèse montre qu’une vérité judiciaire est déterminée par le juge, ce dernier étant porté à se positionner sur des versions contradictoires par l’examen de la rigueur, de la consistance, de la vraisemblance et de la crédibilité des témoignages.
The promised land: costs and benefits of the NBN vision
Creators: name: Martin, Ian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The substance of the Government's NBN vision has settled on its importance as a productivity driver. Topdown productivity analysis of the NBN appear to be quite strongly positive while bottom-up cost benefit analyses (CBA) seem to be invariably negative. Proposals to build the FTTN version of the NBN were subject to evaluation, which found that none offered 'value for money'. The second iteration of NBN, the FTTP version, was not subject to such an evaluation. Instead an independent CBA by Henry Ergas and Alex Robson in August 2009 suggests that the incremental benefits of the FTTP NBN do not justify the incremental costs. Productivity gains from high speed broadband may have declining marginal benefit and possible gains from the next set of industry developments may be quite different and harder to achieve compared with those achieved on fixed networks over the past 20 years. The lack of CBA on the NBN means that there is an unquantified risk. We consider the Government's inherent desire to off-lay this risk from the federal budget undermines telecommunications policy development, legislation and regulation. We argue such a distortion has the potential to undermine industry development for more than a decade as Government tries to protect a poorly evaluated investment decision, a pattern that has long undermined industry development in Australia.
Benchmarking of Water, Energy, and Carbon Flows in Academic Buildings : A Fuzzy Clustering Approach
Creators: name: Alghamdi, Abdulaziz
name: Hu, Guangji
name: Haider, Husnain
name: Hewage, Kasun
name: Sadiq, Rehan
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: In Canada, higher educational institutions (HEIs) are responsible for a significant portion of energy consumption and anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Improving the environmental performance of HEIs is an important step to achieve nationwide impact reduction. Academic buildings are among the largest infrastructure units in HEIs. Therefore, it is crucial to improve the environmental performance of academic buildings during their operations. Identifying critical academic buildings posing high impacts calls for methodologies that can holistically assess the environmental performance of buildings with respect to water and energy consumption, and GHG emission. This study proposes a fuzzy clustering approach to classify academic buildings in an HEI and benchmark their environmental performance in terms of water, energy, and carbon flows. To account for the fuzzy uncertainties in partitioning, the fuzzy c-means algorithm is employed to classify the buildings based on water, energy, and carbon flow indicators. The application of the developed methodology is demonstrated by a case study of 71 academic buildings in the University of British Columbia, Canada. The assessed buildings are grouped into three clusters representing different levels of performances with different degrees of membership. The environmental performance of each cluster is then benchmarked. Based on the results, the environmental performances of academic buildings are holistically determined, and the building clusters associated with low environmental performances are identified for potential improvements. The subsequent benchmark will allow HEIs to compare the impacts of academic building operations and set realistic targets for impact reduction.
Gewässertyp des Jahres 2014
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Gewässertyp des Jahres
subject: See [Binnengewässer]
subject: Seen
subject: Wasser
subject: Water

description: Naturnahe Gewässer beherbergen eine Vielzahl von Arten und stellen damit äußerst wertvolle Lebensräume dar. Unsere Gewässer in Deutschland liegen in unterschiedlichen Ökoregionen, Höhenlagen, haben unterschiedliche Größen, Lebensräume und Lebensgemeinschaften. Daher lassen sie sich verschiedenen Typen zuordnen. Die »Tiefen, nährstoffarmen Seen Norddeutschlands« sind der Gewässertyp des Jahres 2014. Fachleute bezeichnen diese Seen als »Geschichtete Tieflandseen mit relativ kleinem Einzugsgebiet« (Typ 13).
Supplementary document for Super-Collimation by Axisymmetric Diffractive Metamirror - 5336833.pdf
Creators: name: Lymarenko, Ruslan
name: Gailevicius, Darius
name: Meskelaite, Indre
name: Grineviciute, Lina
name: Peckus, Martynas
name: Staliunas, Kestutis
name: Taranenko, Victor
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1,2
Improved Usage Model for Web Application Reliability Testing
Creators: name: Wan, Bo
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Web applications
Usage models
Reliability testing
Markov chains
Usage model evaluation

description: Testing the reliability of an application usually requires a good usage model that accurately captures the likely sequences of inputs that the application will receive from the environment. The models being used in the literature are mostly based on Markov chains. They are used to generate test cases that are statistically close to what the applica-tion is expected to receive when in production. In this thesis, we propose a model for reli-ability testing that is created directly from the log file of a web application. Our proposed model is also based on Markov chains and has two components: one component, based on a modified tree, captures the most frequent behaviors, while the other component is another Markov chain that captures infrequent behaviors. The result is a statistically cor-rect model that shows clearly what most users do on the site. The thesis also presents an evaluation method for estimating the accuracy of vari-ous reliability-testing usage models. The method is based on comparison between ob-served users’ traces and traces inferred from the usage model. Our method gauges the accuracy of the reliability-testing usage model by calculating the sum of goodness-of-fit values of each traces and scaling the result between 0 and 1. Finally, we present an experimental study on the log of a real web site and discuss the way to use proposed usage model to generate test sequences, as well as strength and weakness of the model for reliability testing.
The new geography of geothermal energy
Creators: name: Browne, Peter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: When the resources and industry minister, Martin Ferguson, announced $235 million in funding for renewable energy projects last month his remarks seemed to signal an important shift in the federal government's thinking. As the Sydney Morning Herald's Tom Arup reported, "Mr Ferguson said he placed the same level of importance on the commercial development of geothermal as carbon capture and storage technologies." This is a significant shift since the days, not long ago, when the federal government began promoting "clean coal"---a concept that has generated enormous scepticism---as the central element of its strategy for controlling emissions from electricity generation. Martin Ferguson's announcement included $152 million for two South Australian geothermal projects, a measure of the growing interest that this renewable source is attracting.
Supplementary document for Super-Collimation by Axisymmetric Diffractive Metamirror - 5336833.pdf
Creators: name: Lymarenko, Ruslan
name: Gailevicius, Darius
name: Meskelaite, Indre
name: Grineviciute, Lina
name: Peckus, Martynas
name: Staliunas, Kestutis
name: Taranenko, Victor
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1,2
Les situations de compromission. Regards professionnels sur les interventions auprès des Premières Nations
Creators: name: Robitaille, Martine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Centres Jeunsse
Premières Nations
Intervention
Protection de la Jeunesse
Culture
Culture Anishinaabeg

description: Parmi les minorités présentes au Canada, les communautés Premières Nations ont longtemps vécu et continuent à vivre des expériences qui les placent aux marges de la société canadienne. Récemment pourtant, une éclaircie est apparue, notamment en ce qui concerne les Centres Jeunesse au Québec. Des dispositifs ont ainsi été mis en place pour aider les intervenants à prendre des décisions qui prennent davantage en compte les réalités culturelles des communautés Premières Nations. Dans ce contexte, nous avons trouvé intéressant d’observer un de ces dispositifs pour comprendre où, quand et comment la culture Anishinaabeg des Premières Nations apparaît dans les décisions des intervenants quand ils sont confrontés à des situations de compromission et ce, aux stades de l’orientation et de l’application des mesures prises dans ce type de dossier. À partir d’une approche ethnométhodologique de notre matériau empirique (entretiens et observations participantes), nous avons ainsi pu tirer cinq grands enseignements au sujet du processus décisionnel qui est suivi en matière de compromission (par processus décisionnel, nous n’entendons pas les décisions liées à l’évaluation du dossier mais seulement celles qui touchent à l’orientation et à l’application des mesures prises dans ledit dossier) : 1) La culture Anishinaabeg des Premières Nations prend différents visages selon l’acteur professionnel qui la mobilise et le contexte dans lequel il la mobilise ; 2) La culture Anishinaabeg des Premières Nations joue différents rôles (secondaire ou absent) dans le processus décisionnel en matière de compromission ; 3) Quand la culture Anishinaabeg des Premières Nations joue un rôle informel dans le processus décisionnel en matière de compromission, elle se fait toujours dans une approche différencialiste; 4) Quand la culture « blanche » joue un rôle formel ou informel dans le processus décisionnel en matière de compromission, elle se fait toujours dans une approche normalisante; et 5) Qu’elles soient formelles ou informelles, les approches différencialiste et normalisante présentent des impasses comme des ouvertures.
title: Valutazione multidimensionale dell’introduzione del Sistema BD Vacutainer® Barricor™
Creators: name: Bellavia, Daniele
name: Ferrario, Lucrezia
name: Foglia, Emanuela
name: Tolla, Antonio
name: Pafundi, Vito
name: Motta, Andrea
name: Strollo, Marta
name: Locatelli, Massimo
name: Mancini, Rita
Publisher: name: Università Carlo Cattaneo - LIUC
Year: 2020

description: L’obiettivo del presente elaborato risulta essere quello di indagare, in ottica multi-dimensionale, i vantaggi correlati all’introduzione della provetta innovativa per le analisi su plasma (BD Vacutainer® Barricor™, di seguito Barricor™), sia per i testin regime di urgenza, sia in regime di routine, in comparazione con la provetta per le analisi su siero con separatore gel, attualmente utilizzata.Per il raggiungimento dell’obiettivo di indagine è stata condotta una valutazione di HTA, volta non solo alla disamina delle nove dimensioni del Core Modeldi EUnetHTA, ma anche alla definizione dei principali indicatori della fase preanalitica del processo di analisi del sangue, assumendo il punto di vista della struttura ospedaliera che eroga queste prestazioni. Nello specifico, l’analisi ha previsto una comparazione tra uno scenario “AS IS” (utilizzo delle provette per siero con separatore gel) e uno scenario “TO BE” (introduzione del Barricor™), al fine di raccogliere dati real-life, riguardanti il livello di emolisi, il numero di campioni con problemi legati alla presenza di fibrina,il Turnaround Time(TAT) e il tempo dell’intero processo, sulla base di quanto avviene in pratica clinica all'interno di tre centri clinici.La provetta Barricor™ è in grado di ridurre significativamente la percentuale di campioni emolizzatie di quelli con problematiche legate alla presenza di fibrina, con un miglioramento del TAT sia per il regime di routinesia in emergenza/urgenza. Da un punto di vista economico, nonostante la provetta Barricor™ abbia un prezzo maggiore dell’1,80% rispetto alla provetta con separatore gel per siero, i suoi vantaggi permettono di ottenere un risparmio economico variabile dall’1,25% al 7,90%, sulla scorta del modello organizzativo del centro clinico di riferimento.I risultati hanno evidenziato la rilevanza clinica del Barricor™, la sua efficacia e la sostenibilità economica, comparata con la provetta per siero con separatore gel, con dei vantaggi significativi anche in termini organizzativi, che consentano una generale ottimizzazione del processo.
Enhancement of the Mesophilic Anaerobic Co-digestion of Municipal Sewage and Scum
Creators: name: Young, Bradley
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Scum
FOG
Fats
Oils
Greases
Anaerobic Digestion
BMP
Semi-Continuous
Live/Dead
WWTP

description: Scum is an integral component of solids management in MWWTP and is composed of fats, oils, grease and other entrained floatable materials that are collected during primary clarification. Lab scale BMP tests showed the addition of 14.5 g VS/L of scum exhibited the greatest increase in biogas production of 1.6 times per g VS added compared to the control, while a higher additional scum loading of 33.7 g VS/L reduced the biogas yield to 32% of the control reactor. Lab scale semi-continuous digestion measured the effects of scum loading and temperature of pretreatment in the scum concentrator. At 15 d and 20 d HRTs the greatest observed improvement in biogas was achieved by adding 3% scum by volume and pretreating the scum at 70°C in a scum concentrator with respective improvements of 24% and 16%.
Vorschlag für einen Policy Mix für den Aktionsplan Anpassung an den Klimawandel
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Anpassung an den Klimawandel
subject: Aktionsplan Anpassung der Deutschen Anpassungsstrategie an den Klimawandel
subject: Deutsche Anpassungsstrategie
subject: Aktionsplan Anpassung
subject: anpassungsmaßnahmen
subject: Instrumente und Maßnahmen
subject: politikinstrumente
subject: Multikriterienanalyse
subject: Priorisierung der Anpassungsmaßnahmen
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Climate | Energy

description: Ziel des Vorhabens war es, wissenschaftlich fundierte Empfehlungen für die Fortschreibung des Aktionsplans Anpassung (APA) der deutschen Bundesregierung zu erarbeiten. Dies wurde mit den folgenden wesentlichen Arbeitsschritten umgesetzt: Zusammenstellung von bereits umgesetzten oder in der Diskussion befindlichen Anpassungsmaßnahmen; Zusammenstellung geeigneter Politikinstrumente mit Schwerpunkt auf der Bundesebene, die zur Umsetzung dieser Maßnahmen beitragen können; Entwicklung einer multikriteriellen Bewertungs- und Priorisierungsmethodik für Anpassungsmaßnahmen und -instrumentenvorschläge einschließlich der Vertiefung und Operationalisierung einzelner Kriterien; insbesondere wurden die bestehenden Kostenabschätzungen für Anpassungsmaßnahmen durch eine Methodik zur Abschätzung der (administrativen) Umsetzungskosten für Politikinstrumente ergänzt.Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Ziel des Vorhabens war es, wissenschaftlich fundierte Empfehlungen für die Fortschreibung des Aktionsplans Anpassung (⁠APA⁠) der deutschen Bundesregierung zu erarbeiten. Dies wurde mit den folgenden wesentlichen Arbeitsschritten umgesetzt: ▸ Zusammenstellung von bereits umgesetzten oder in der Diskussion befindlichen Anpassungsmaßnahmen; ▸ Zusammenstellung geeigneter Politikinstrumente mit Schwerpunkt auf der Bundesebene, die zur Umsetzung dieser Maßnahmen beitragen können; ▸ Entwicklung einer multikriteriellen Bewertungs- und Priorisierungsmethodik für Anpassungsmaßnahmen und -instrumentenvorschläge einschließlich der Vertiefung und Operationalisierung einzelner Kriterien; insbesondere wurden die bestehenden Kostenabschätzungen für Anpassungsmaßnahmen durch eine Methodik zur Abschätzung der (administrativen) Umsetzungskosten für Politikinstrumente ergänzt.
Supplementary document for Reinforced Design Method for Moiré Metalens with Large Spacing - 5337034.pdf
Creators: name: Hu, Bin
name: Qian, Yongyue
name: Du, Zhiyuan
name: Liu, Juan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Methods for theoretical calculation and method, normalization of the field, efficiency calculation, MTF, etc.
A Journey through a Collective Environmental Conscience Metanarrative: The Case of Goletta Verde
Creators: name: Corriveau, Marianne
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: ENGO
environmental anthropology
Italy
environmental narratives
environmentalism
Goletta Verde

description: This thesis presents some articulations of environmentalism in Italy. Using the Italian environmental association Legambiente as entry point, it explores how the vision of a collective environmental conscience is constructed, represented, claimed and contested in the 2013 edition of the association’s principal campaign, Goletta Verde. The integration of theoretical tools [narrative-networks (Lejano et al. 2013), matters of concern (Latour 2008), imagined audiences (Litt 2012) and performance and impression management (Goffman 1959)], and research methods [fieldwork, interviews, participant observation, and the use of extensive literature], reveals analytical findings divided in three parts - how the campaign narrative is constructed, what are some of the discontinuities encountered, and what are implications of the associative vision for environmentalism and its study by anthropologists.
DRAP: A Decentralized Public Resourced Cloudlet for Ad-Hoc Networks
Creators: name: Agarwal, Radhika
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Cloudlet
Ad-hoc networks
Surrogate Discovery
Mobile Cloud Computing

description: Handheld devices are becoming increasingly common, and they have varied range of resources. Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) allows resource constrained devices to offload computation and use storage capacities of more resourceful surrogate machines. This enables creation of new and interesting applications for all devices. We propose a scheme that constructs a high-performance de-centralized system by a group of volunteer mobile devices which come together to form a resourceful unit (cloudlet). The idea is to design a model to operate as a public-resource between mobile devices in close geographical proximity. This cloudlet can provide larger storage capability and can be used as a computational resource by other devices in the network. The system needs to watch the movement of the participating nodes and restructure the topology if some nodes that are providing support to the cloudlet fail or move out of the network. In this work, we discuss the need of the system, our goals and design issues in building a scalable and reconfigurable system. We achieve this by leveraging the concept of virtual dominating set to create an overlay in the broads of the network and distribute the responsibilities in hosting a cloudlet server. We propose an architecture for such a system and develop algorithms that are requited for its operation. We map the resources available in the network by first scoring each device individually, and then gathering these scores to determine suitable candidate cloudlet nodes. We have simulated cloudlet functionalities for several scenarios and show that our approach is viable alternative for many applications such as sharing GPS, crowd sourcing, natural language processing, etc.
Supplementary document for Modified phase-generated carrier demodulation of fiber-optic interferometric ultrasound sensors - 5337232.pdf
Creators: name: Karim, Farzia
name: Zhu, Yupeng
name: Han, Ming
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications

description: System output for operating points 5 to 8 depicted in Fig. 4(a).
Validation d'un modèle de ruissellement urbain et l'acheminement de l'eau dans les canaux.
Creators: name: Djebbar, Yassine.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: Cette etude comporte deux parties: La premiere traits le probleme du ruissellement dans les zones urbaines et la deuxieme est consacree a l'acheminement naturel de l'eau dans les canalisations. La premiere partie de cette these evalue les methodes et modeles les plus utilises au Canada dans le domaine du ruissellement urbain en comparant leurs aptitudes relatives a reproduire les mesures des evenements reels dans des bassins selectionnes a travers le monde. Cette analyse a revele que la nouvelle methode STANDHYD pour le calcul du ruissellement urbain arrive a mieux reproduire les ruissellements observes que les methodes precedentes, d'une maniere independante de la taille du bassin versant. Ceci constitue une amelioration majeure dans ce domaine. D'un autre cote, cette etude a montre qu'avec un minimum d'effort de calibrage, les evenements a faible volume de precipitation peuvent etre reproduits. Une methode simple pour l'evaluation des modeles, lorsqu'un bon nombre d'evenements observes est disponsible, est presentee. Dans cette meme partie l'effet de la variation de la distribution spatiale de la pluie est examinee. La deuxieme partie de la these explore la methode d'acheminement dans les canaux (la methode VSC; Variable Storage Coefficient) dans les modeles du type HYMO (HYMO, OTTHYMO, etc.). Cette etude a revele que la methode VSC surestime l'attenuation des ondes traversant un canal. Son remplacement par la methode VTT (Variable Travel Time) en utilisant une nouvelle formule pour la determination des dimensions des meches de simulation lui a permis de donner des resultats tres comparables a ceux donnes par les modeles dynamiques plus complexes.
ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTIONS AMONG CAMEROONIAN STUDENTS: THE ROLE OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS
Creators: name: Guy, Roland Noumigue
name: Françoise, Marie Ngo Biloa
Publisher: name: CARSON JOURNAL
Year: 2024
Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Intentions, Economic Development, Cameroon, Private Sector Expansion

description: Entrepreneurship, a pivotal concept in contemporary discourse, plays a crucial role in addressing the challenges posed by globalization. It serves as a catalyst for both micro and macroeconomic advancements, contributing significantly to a nation's development. This paper focuses on entrepreneurial intentions (EI) and their pivotal role as precursors to new business ventures. Individual intentions wield substantial influence over subsequent behaviors, making them a vital component in understanding and fostering entrepreneurship. In the context of Cameroon, a nation rich in natural, human, and mining resources, the effective utilization of these assets is imperative for growth and development. Leveraging communication and information technology to harness these resources could unlock opportunities for millions of Cameroonians, addressing the issue of unemployment. Many countries worldwide have experienced economic development through the expansion of the private sector. In Cameroon, the government has initiated programs aimed at achieving emergence by 2035, with quantified objectives defining the path forward. As we delve into this research, we explore the critical link between entrepreneurial intentions and the socio-economic development of Cameroon
Re-visiting budget and trade deficit in Lebanon: a critique
Creators: name: Marashdeh, Hazem
name: Saleh, Ali Salman
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This study re-examines the reletionship between the budget deficit and the trade deficit in Lebanon during 1970-2004. In contrast to earlier studies, we test for a unit root in the presence of structural change using the innovational outlier (IO) model. We also utilize the newly proposed autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach to examine this relationship. The endogenously determined break times coincide with observed real events which occurred during the Lebanon Civil War and after the Israeli invasion of Beirut in 1982. The results show that the trade deficit in Lebanon has a long-run impact on the budget deficit.
Guide on Green Public Procurement of Software
Creators: name: Gröger, Jens
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software
subject: Ressourceneffizienz
subject: Öffentliche Beschaffung
subject: resource efficiency
subject: public procurement
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum
subject: Economy | Consumption

description: Software plays an important role in determining the environmental impact of ICT products. It has a measurable impact on computer-hardware energy consumption and increasing requirements can make it necessary to replace computer hardware prematurely a phenomenon known as software obsolescence. This Guide on Green Public Procurement of Software presents a set of criteria and proposes methods for implementation of these criteria for public tenders. The criteria can be applied to both commercially available standard software and to commissioning the development of software. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: Software plays an important role in determining the environmental impact of ICT products. It has a measurable impact on computer-hardware energy consumption and increasing requirements can make it necessary to replace computer hardware prematurely – a phenomenon known as software obsolescence. This Guide on Green Public Procurement of Software presents a set of criteria and proposes methods for implementation of these criteria for public tenders. The criteria can be applied to both commercially available standard software and to commissioning the development of software. This document is the translation of the 2019 German version, that has been revised in 2023.
Digital Self-publishing as Planned Behaviour: Authors' Views on E-book Adoption
Creators: name: Thomlison, Adam
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: e-books
Self-publishing
Technology adoption
Theory of planned behaviour
Qualitative interviews
Authors

description: A popular school of thought in the study of publishing, exemplified by the influential Long Tail theory, suggests that the economic advantages of e-books will lead to a boom in self-publishing. However, this position focuses on economic factors at the expense of other potential influences. This thesis applied Azjen's (1991) Theory of Planned Behaviour to explore which factors have the most influence on authors' decision to self-publish e-books, and, conversely, which factors influence others' decision not to. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 11 authors in the Ottawa area who have self-published or who are considering doing so in the near future. We discovered that there is significant resistance to e-books as a format for self-publishing, and that normative factors such as a lack of prestige and different promotional requirements were particularly influential. While e-books were seen to reduce economic risk, they were believed to be a less prestigious format, and so to represent an elevated risk to what Bourdieu called symbolic-capital. Some authors were also resistant because they felt unable to promote e-books in the way they are expected to. However, most said they would be willing to abandon their resistance if they perceived sufficient demand from their audience. These results open up paths for future study, including more focused examinations of the resistance factors that emerged; more longitudinal studies to see how authors' opinions change over time, particularly those of the non-adopters; and a further examination of the digital skills developed by adopters.
Development of a Human Activity Recognition System Using Inertial Measurement Unit Sensors on a Smartphone
Creators: name: Tundo, Marco D.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: human
activity
recognition
biomechanics
biomedical
mechanical
engineering
quaternion
smartphone
rehabilitation

description: Monitoring an individual’s mobility with a modern smartphone can have a profound impact on rehabilitation in the community. The thesis objective was to develop and evaluate a third-generation Wearable Mobility Monitoring System (WMMS) that uses features from inertial measurement units to categorize activities and determine user changes-of-state in daily living environments. A custom suite of MATLAB® software tools were developed to assess the previous WMMS iteration and aid in third-generation WMMS algorithm construction and evaluation. A rotation matrix was developed to orient smartphone accelerometer components to any three-dimensional reference, to improve accelerometer-based activity identification. A quaternion-based rotation matrix was constructed from an axis-angle pair, produced via algebraic manipulations of acceleration components in the device’s body-fixed reference frame. The third-generation WMMS (WMMS3) evaluation was performed on fifteen able-bodied participants. A BlackBerry Z10 smartphone was placed at a participant’s pelvis, and the device was corrected in orientation. Acceleration due to gravity and applied linear acceleration signals on a BlackBerry Z10 were then used to calculate features that classify activity states through a decision tree classifier. The software tools were then used for offline data manipulation, feature generation, and activity state prediction. Three prediction sets were conducted. The first set considered a “phone orientation independent” mobility assessment of a person’s mobile state. The second set differentiated immobility as sit, stand, or lie. The third prediction set added walking, climbing stairs, and small standing movements classification. Sensitivities, specificities and -Scores for activity categorization and changes-of-state were calculated. The mobile versus immobile prediction set had a sensitivity of 93% and specificity of 97%, while the second prediction set had a sensitivity of 86% and specificity of 97%. For the third prediction set, the sensitivity and specificity decreased to 84% and 95% respectively, which still represented an increase from 56% and 88% found in the previous WMMS. The third-generation WMMS algorithm was shown to perform better than the previous version in both categorization and change-of-state determination, and can be used for rehabilitation purposes where mobility monitoring is required.
Functional Characterization of the Parl Mitochondrial Proteins in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Creators: name: Noble, Sandra A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Parl
Presenilin-Associated Rhomboid-Like
Parkinson's disease
mitochondria
dopamine
dopaminergic neurons
dopamine transporter
zebrafish

description: The aim of this thesis was the functional characterization of the zebrafish parl (Presenilin-Associated Rhomboid-Like) genes which code for mitochondrial proteins involved in cell survival. A mutation in PARL has been described in Parkinson’s disease patients. I investigated the role of mitochondrial PD-related proteins using a zebrafish parla and parlb deficiency model. I found that the knockdown of both parl genes is lethal. Parla plays a larger role in patterning of the DA neurons in the ventral diencephalon than Parlb. The human PARL rescued the double morphant phenotype, suggesting function conservation between zebrafish and humans. I was able to rescue the mortality and DA neuron mispatterning observed in double morphants with synthetic pink1 mRNA. This suggests that parl genes are epistatic to pink1 in zebrafish. To visualize mitochondria specifically in dopaminergic neurons of live zebrafish, I established a transgenic line Tg(dat:tom20 MLS-mCherry) where regulatory elements of the dopamine transporter (dat) were used to drive expression of a Tom20-mCherry fusion protein that is targeted to the mitochondria. I characterised the expression of Tom20-mCherry to the mitochondria of the majority of DA neuron groups. In addition, I observed a decrease in mCherry fluorescence following MPTP exposure of live fish. The PD-related mutation in PARL is located in a cleavage site of the mammalian protein, which is necessary for the production of the beta peptide; however, this site is predicted to be absent in the zebrafish Parls. To establish the cleavage patterns of the zebrafish Parls and compare them to those of human PARL, I examined the cleavage of Parl-Flag constructs in cultured cells. I detected one band for Parla-Flag and two bands representing Parlb-Flag. The parla and parlb deficiency model along with the characterization of the cleavage patterns of Parl and the Tg(dat:tom20 MLS-mCherry) transgenic line are tools which will help elucidate the role of mitochondrial proteins in PD research.
Supplementary document for Modified phase-generated carrier demodulation of fiber-optic interferometric ultrasound sensors - 5337232.pdf
Creators: name: Karim, Farzia
name: Zhu, Yupeng
name: Han, Ming
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications

description: System output for operating points 5 to 8 depicted in Fig. 4(a).
A Self-determination Theory Perspective of Women's Body Image and Eating-related Concerns in Response to Media Portrayals of the Female Body
Creators: name: Mask, Lisa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: motivation
"thin ideal" media
body image
eating behaviors

description: Grounded in Self-Determination Theory (Deci & Ryan, 1985, 2000), the purpose of this thesis was to investigate the protective role of self-determined (i.e., autonomous motivation) relative to non self-determined motivation (i.e., controlled motivation) in response to various media portrayals of the female body. Findings from three laboratory experiments support these hypotheses. Women who felt less self-determined in their daily activities (Study 1 and Study 3) and in the regulation of their eating behaviors (Study 2), perceived more pressure from the media to be thin (Study 1), experienced more body dissatisfaction (Study 1 and Study 2), expressed greater concerns over the quantity of food in their diets (Study 1), and reported more negative affect (Study 2) following exposure to a video which exemplified the societal ―thin ideal‖ compared to a video which did not. They also generated more negative self-appraisals of their body‘s appearance and competence (Study 3), experienced more body shame (Study 3), and reported more introjected reasons for restricting their actual intake of chocolate (Study 3) following exposure to video which depicted the female body as an instrument of women‘s actions compared to one which depicted the female body as object (Study 3). Conversely, women who felt more self-determined in their daily activities (Study 1 and Study 3) expressed greater concerns over the quality of food in their diet (Study 1) and reported less vitality (Study 3) in response to media portrayals of women engaged in self-care (Study 1) and physical activities (Study 3). However, body dissatisfied women who felt more self-determined in the regulation of their eating behaviors (Study 2) formulated more intentions to monitor their food intake and eat fewer unhealthy foods (Study 2) after viewing a video of thin female models compared to no models. Together, these findings support a protective function for self-determined motivation and a potentiating function for non self-determined motivation.
Symbolic self-curation: a reflexive activity for practice, life and scholarship
Creators: name: Cherry, Nita
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This article explores symbolic self-curation as reflection, and its application in professional practice and research into professional practice. Symbolic self-curation is framed as a way of developing praxis fit for complexity, inspired by Schön's (1987) rendering of practice as artistry; Bleakley's (1999) holistic reflexivity; Higgs and Tichen's (2001) exploration of professional practice development as knowing, doing, being and becoming; and van Schaik's (2005) development of self-curation as pedagogy and research. Despite the announcement of Denzin and Lincoln's (2000) 'seventh moment' in research, the status of research that investigates issues of professional practice in situ remains ambivalent in universities (McWilliam 2004). Candidates who bring significant practice issues into the research space are often asked to simplify their research questions and create texts that are verbal, linear and limited in their capacity to represent and explore their lived experience of complex practice. Many researchers are taking up the challenge, however, of developing new texts that can hold the complexity of professional and life practice (O'Neill 2002). Symbolic self-curation is a form of reflexive practice intended to add to those efforts. Its key elements are the gathering and arrangement of 'apt', often non-verbal symbols to represent our 'not-knowing' as well as our 'knowing'; creating for those involved new experiences of respectful and robust dialogue with others (in person and through literature); testing of the insights gained by immersion in action of some kind; and construction of an exegesis. Self-curation not only involves the self-curating practice but eventually the curation of the self as practitioner, encouraging a 'gathering' of the self and meta-reflection on that self in ways that are reflexive. This article also offers a theoretical analysis of the elements of self-curation, which might have the further value of explaining what is going on more generally when alternative texts and sites are employed in research. It is hoped that it will be useful to other scholars who are seeking to describe, explain, and 'justify' their use of alternative texts.
An exploration of psychological characteristics of people seeking relationship counselling in an Australian clinical setting
Creators: name: Carmady, Adele
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Couple counselling has been offered in Australia for over 60 years and while professionalism and training standards have increased in that time very little research has been conducted that has investigated the reasons people seek relationship counselling and the benefits they receive from professional assistance. The current research aimed to narrow the gap between theory and practice in an Australian clinical setting. Empirical research conducted globally into relationship counselling shows that marital therapy is at least as efficacious as other forms of psychotherapy yet few evaluation studies have been conducted in clinical settings. Client satisfaction with the outcome of relationship counselling from the client’s perspective includes whether the goals of counselling were met, an increase in relationship satisfaction and a decrease in personal and/or relationship distress. Research has also shown that clients and counsellors often differ in their perceptions of what occurred in counselling. The current study explored pre and post counselling variables for couples attending for relationship counselling in a clinical setting and also explored counsellor perceptions of satisfaction with counselling outcome. Participants were clients who contacted a branch of a national provider of relationship services in Australia. Seventy six people completed pre counselling questionnaires and of these 20 people completed a post counselling questionnaire. Fifteen different counsellors also completed questionnaires about these participants. Results showed a significant gender difference with women overall being less satisfied with their relationship prior to counselling than men. Men and women were significantly more depressed, stressed and anxious and there was also a higher proportion of insecurely attached people than is found in the general population. While conducting research in real-life settings can be problematic due to the high levels of distress people are experiencing at the time such research is crucial in order to improve clinical practice. Recommendations for future research in clinical settings include further exploration of the relationship between insecure attachment, depression and relationship problems in adult life.
An investigation of goodwill impairment testing practices in Australia public companies
Creators: name: Farida, Merina
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In 2005, Australian Accounting Standard Board (AASB) adopted International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) to apply impairment testing on acquired goodwill, instead of amortising it on straight line basis. The Australian companies can choose either fair value less cost to sell (FVLCS) method and value in use (VIU) method. All companies under this study (consisted of 18 companies) choose to use VIU method to test whether their goodwill is impaired. The 18 companies were divided into three industries, i.e. capital goods industry, commercial services and supplies industry and information technology (IT) industry. In order to investigate whether the companies’ impairment testing practices are consistent with the standard and with each other, comparison between the companies (using pretax discount rates) and in the company itself (using growth rate) were undertaken. For consistency, only companies in same industry were compared with each others. Overall, based on information provided in the companies’ annual reports, impairment testing practice (VIU method) in Australian companies is consistent with the standard guidelines. Furthermore, the companies’ practices in capital goods industry and commercial services and supplies industry are consistent with each other. However, companies’ practices in IT industry are not consistent with each other. This may due to the fact that companies in IT industry have their own competitive advantage which differ them from each other.