cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Whole Language: An Integrated Approach to Reading and Writing
Creators: name: Dixon, Joan
name: Tuladhar, Sumon
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: International and Comparative Education

description: These manuals were made possible through support from the University Development Linkages Project, Global Bureau, Human Capacity Development Center, U.S. Agency for International Development under the terms of Cooperative Agreement No. DAN-5063-A-00-1108-00.
description: A manual which introduces the basic concepts for teaching reading and writing skills by creating literacy activities and learning materials in collaboration with learners. Portions of the manual were developed and tested with practitioners in Indonesia and Nepal. The series offers the practitioner a wide variety of activities to choose from to meet the diverse needs of community literacy groups. The manuals are designed to complement each other, but can also be used independently. Two of the manuals, Whole Language: An Integrated Approach to Reading and Writing, and Literacy and Learning in Families and Communities, provide the core concepts for literacy learning. The other five manuals provide creative ideas and techniques for implementing those concepts. It is not imperative that Whole Language and Family Literacy be read before a practitioner attempts to implement ideas found in the Role Play Manual, for example, but it might be helpful. The Whole Language manual introduces basic concepts and strategies for teaching reading and writing skills by involving learners in the creation of lesson activities and learning materials. The Literacy and Learning manual introduces basic concepts and strategies that develop locally relevant literacy activities and materials through researching issues and resources in the family and community. The other manuals in the series provide additional information and guidelines for implementing effective local literacy programs. This Action Learning Manual is designed for people who want to help or are already helping adults and out-of-school children learn how to use reading and writing skills in everyday life. Part of the information you will need is contained in this manual. The rest of the information you will have to discover by doing the activities and collecting information about your local situation. The manual provides background information and activities to guide you as you learn by doing. Section I introduces you to the underlying principles of three approaches to reading and writing. Section II provides information and step-by-step guidelines for implementing twelve whole language strategies. By completing the activities in the manual, you will develop the skill to organize a class and create materials that are based on the needs, interests and resources of learners in the community or program where you work.
How drawing is correlated with visuospatial ability: bridging cognitive research in the sciences and arts
Creators: name: Wyeld, Theodor G.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Accurate drawing requires both motor skill and visuospatial ability. The planning, design, and architecture industries rely on accurate drawing skills and visuospatial ability. Yet, there are few empirical studies. From the results of this study, a significant correlation between drawing accuracy and visuospatial ability, and motor skills and illusions was found. Also, that a source of inaccuracy in drawings may occur in the mental comparison phase between distal stimulus, its drawn form and stored canonical forms. This is supported by a review and synthesis of theories on drawing production, visual perception, and cognitive psychology.
Cliff Dwellings and Rock Art: The Battle Over the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah
Creators: name: Lipe, William D.
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Bears Ears National Monument
Archaeology

description: This presentation discusses the state of the Bears Ears National Monument after President Trump reduced its size in 2017. It also discuss the provisions of the 1906 Antiquities Act that allowed President Obama to designate the Bears Ears Monument in 2016 at the end of his last term as President. Also discussed is the emerging power of the tribal coalition that has now been successful in getting the size of the Monument restored by President Biden.
title: Failure and Temporality in the Work of Antoine Watteau
Creators: name: Whittaker, Paul
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2005

description: Antoine Watteau's paintings have long been the subject of textual commentary. This relationship to text is conventionally sustained by interpretations that engage with the devices of representation: the semiotic. The aim of this thesis is to promote an alternative, less semiotic way of understanding Watteau's drawings and paintings. For Walter Benjamin, the Trauerspiel or Baroque allegory is a completely temporal art form. It is not only ephemeral and transient but it constitutes a ruin because its relation with natural decay and the historical present is so close that it fails to establish itself resistant to change. Jules and Edmund de Goncourt, celebrated art critics of the eighteenth century, proffer a more conventional understanding of allegory when they determine that Watteau was a great poet and that his allegorical paintings convey messages concerned with ideals of love and beauty. Watteau's paintings can he considered more complex than the de Goncourt brothers would have us believe. For this reason, this thesis will work through the more sophisticated understanding of allegory and methodologies of allegory offered by Walter Benjamin so as to explore how failure and time recorded at a material level of Watteau's paintings might inform and affect a different awareness of Watteau's allegorical images. It will argue that temporality can be traced in Watteau's paintings. It will explore the possibility that Watteau's studio practice celebrates failure and that this practice of failure inscribes his images with time. It will also propose that the effect of Watteau's paintings is the result of the material and temporal condition of the sign and its failure to sustain eternal meaning.
Role of mitofusin2 in the regulation of mitochondrial dynamics
Creators: name: Gangaraju, Sandhya
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Biology, Cell.
subject: Chemistry, Biochemistry.

description: Mitochondria in all cell types undergo frequent fission and fusion events, and these dynamics determine the overall morphology of the organelle in cells. Two important GTPases have been recently identified that regulate mitochondrial membrane activity, a dynamin related protein (DRP1) required for fission, and the novel fusion GTPase, Mitofusin2. Mitofusin2 is an outer mitochondrial membrane protein and, like other GTPases involved in membrane fusion events, the N-terminal GTPase domain is exposed to the cytosol, such that it could interact with and recruit potential cytosolic proteins. The work documented in this thesis aims towards understanding the specific role of this unique GTPase in regulating mitochondrial fusion events, and to identify potential interacting proteins that work together with Mfn2 to carry out this complex biochemical event. Two independent approaches were taken to identify interacting proteins, both a yeast two-hybrid screen and affinity chromatography using recombinant bacterial expressed Mfn2 protein as bait. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Automated kidney stone segmentation by seed pixel region growing approach: Initial implementation and results
Creators: name: Navaratnam, Sujata
name: Fazilah, Siti
name: Raman, Valliappan
name: Perumal, Sundresan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This research develop a computer aided diagnosis prototype for early detection of kidney stone. Once a kidney stone is diagnosed accurately, this will be useful for the patients to change their diet condition. The proposed approach is based on five stages which includes kidney image acquisition, preprocessing, segmentation, feature extraction and classification. The enhanced seed region growing segmentation depends on the extracted feature granularities. Noise may be visible and more prevalent in certain dimensions of an image, where this particular specific portion will be extracted. The segmentation process is based on the thresholds of the identified renal stone regions. The segmented stone size portion is classified based on rules; if the size is greater than 2mm, then the stone is at benign stage; if the size is greater than 5mm, then it is in malignant stage; if the size is lesser than 2mm, then this leads to absence of stone. The proposed work is implemented in MATLAB with the development of an initial prototype with the detection of stone accuracy of 92%. Based on the experimental analysis, texture feature, threshold intensity values and stone sizes are evaluated. This study will help the urologist to take decision whether there is a presence or absence of stone in early stage diagnosis and clinical decision-making.
A survey of family physicians' knowledge and beliefs about the prevention of tuberculosis.
Creators: name: Carew, Maureen T.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Education.

description: An important aspect of the prevention and possible elimination of tuberculosis (TB) in Canada relates to the screening practices of primary care physicians. There is good evidence that screening for TB is under-utilized by physicians in Canada and other industrialized countries. This thesis was conducted to determine: (1) family physicians' knowledge and beliefs about the prevention of tuberculosis, (2) their awareness and use of TB screening guidelines circulated by the Ottawa-Carleton Health Department, (3) the perceived barriers to screening and, (4) to identify factors associated with primary care physicians knowledge and beliefs about the prevention of tuberculosis. Predictor variables included gender, year of graduation, certification, practice setting, whether a physician lived in a developing country, whether a physician practiced medicine in a developing country and the percentage of persons from developing countries in physicians' practices. Family physicians had a moderate level of knowledge about the prevention of tuberculosis which varied according to the specific components of screening. Younger physicians and practitioners with a higher proportion of clients from developing countries were more knowledgeable about screening for tuberculosis. Only 13% of the total variability in physicians' knowledge however, was explained by the regression model containing these two explanatory variables. Physicians' self-efficacy beliefs also varied according to specific aspects of screening. Self-confidence about prescribing INH and managing INH therapy was low. Only 48% of the sample believed that patient compliance with INH therapy was good. With respect to barriers to screening, 60% of physicians felt that reimbursement for TB screening was inadequate, 30% cited language/cultural problems with clients, 90% felt that more continuing medical education (CME) programs were needed and 65% were in favor of a central TB screening clinic. Awareness of tuberculosis prevention and treatment guidelines circulated by the Ottawa-Carleton Health Department was low. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Report - Measurement error: two opposite definitions
Creators: name: Batista, Elsa
name: Metaxiotou, Zoe
name: Bissig, Hugo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Error, uncertainty, VIM, drug delivery devices, calibration

description: The determination of the measurement error in the procedure of the calibration of instruments and the application of the correction curve are crucial for traceable measurements.
 However, the definitions of the measurement error are opposite in the standards used in metrology and the medical standards (ex. IEC 60601-2-24:2012 used for medical electrical equipment).
Les représentations sociale et médiatique des "femmes maricides" en Ontario, 1871-1946.
Creators: name: Grisé, Joanne.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Women's Studies.

description: Les études portant sur la criminalité des femmes se sont souvent attardées sur les causes de leur déviance. Nous avons voulu aller au-delà des explications de leur criminalité en axant notre recherche sur les représentations des femmes criminelles. Plus précisément, notre objectif de recherche est d'examiner le discours médiatique afin d'en ressortir les images populaires d'une femme "maricide", c'est-à-dire d'une femme qui tue son conjoint. Ce travail fera l'examen du traitement médiatique des femmes "maricides" dans une période historique donnée: soit la fin du XIXe siècle jusqu'au début du XXe siècle. Nous voulons retracer et reconstruire l'image médiatique des femmes qui ont tué leur conjoint à cette époque. Il s'agit d'une analyse journalistique des cas de sept femmes qui ont été condamnées à mort pour le meurtre de leur conjoint en Ontario de 1871 à 1946: l'objectif de recherche étant de dégager comment se construit l'image de la femme "maricide" à travers les médias. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Caffeine and Risky Decision-Making
Creators: name: Doherty, Nicole
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2023
Subjects: BART
decision-making
risk
withdrawal
Caffeine

description: This online study investigated the relationship between caffeine consumption and risky decision-making for two distinct types of reward: caffeine-related (coffee gift card) or a control (food gift card). A modified version of the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) featuring a dual-reward design was developed, which participants completed along with various surveys to assess their average and current caffeine intake, caffeine cravings, and risk-taking propensity. Our results show that those who had a lower current caffeine intake took more risks in the BART in all measures. However, we did not find any differences in risk-taking for caffeine-related rewards in the BART task compared to non-caffeine rewards. These findings suggest that daily caffeine consumers may have higher risk-taking propensity when consuming less caffeine.
Endocrine disrupting effects of environmental contaminants in herring gull embryos and cultured avian hepatocytes.
Creators: name: Lorenzen, Angela.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Biology, Ecology.

description: The effects of non-polar environmental contaminants on components of the hypothalamo-pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis and the hypothalamo-pituitary-ovary (HPO) axis were examined in herring gull (Larus argentatus) embryos and cultured avian hepatocytes. In the HPA axis studies, regression analysis of herring gull embryo yolk sac organochlorine residues against basal plasma corticosterone concentrations indicated statistically significant inverse relationships for polychlorinated dibenzodioxins/polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDDs/PCDFs), total polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), non-ortho PCBs, and 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) equivalents (TEQs). The activities of two intermediary metabolic enzymes were inversely correlated with PCDDs/PCDFs. In a second study, high incidences of early onset of hatching were observed for herring gull eggs collected from some Great Lakes sites. Embryos from Scotch Bonnet Island were observed to have higher than average renal PEPCK activities and lower than average corticosterone stress responses. Regression analysis of embryo yolk sac organochlorine residues from three Great Lakes sites indicated a statistically significant positive relationship for basal plasma corticosterone concentrations and chlorinated hydrocarbons (CHCs), including organochlorine pesticides. HPO axis studies involved development of a reverse-transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) bioassay to semi-quantitatively measure mRNA for the estrogen-inducible egg yolk precursor protein, vitellogenin (VTG), in avian embryo hepatocyte cultures. Short regions of VTG, beta-actin and albumin cDNAs were cloned and sequenced for several species of birds. Hepatocyte cultures were prepared from both chicken and herring gull embryos and treated with the estradiol analogue, moxestrol, or the organochlorine insecticide, o,p'-DDT. Herring gull embryo hepatocyte cultures responded with VTG mRNA induction at 1 nM moxestrol, compared with 10 nM for chicken embryo hepatocyte cultures. Both herring gull and chicken embryo hepatocyte cultures responded with significant VTG mRNA induction when treated with 10000 nM o,p'-DDT. In chicken embryo hepatocyte cultures, 4-tert-octylphenol (OP) was determined to be very weakly estrogenic, whereas TCDD, benzo[k]fluoranthene (B[k]F), three halogenated dimethyl bipyrroles (HDBPs) and an extract prepared from a common tern ( Sterna hirundo) egg were determined to be anti-estrogenic. These results indicate that the semi-quantitative avian RT-PCR VTG mRNA bioassay may be useful for predicting whether wild birds may be sensitive (or exposed) to estrogenic or anti-estrogenic environmental contaminants.
“Some Call Me Witch”: A Comparative Study of La Celestina and The Witch of Edmonton
Creators: name: Wigder, Makayla Lily
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Witchcraft
La Celestina
The Witch of Edmonton

description: Witchcraft literature is ubiquitous across time and cultures, present in almost every literary tradition. Over the centuries, the treatment and perception of witches changed drastically, especially on the European continent and British Isles. In 1492, Spain underwent the Inquisition where anyone deemed unclean—anyone not Catholic, specifically Jews and Muslims—were persecuted, converted, or executed. Though there were comparatively few witchcraft cases in Spain compared to the rest of Europe, this time period begot Fernando de Rojas’ La Celestina, or La tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea, which hinges on the lovers Calisto and Melibea as well as their dealings with local witch, vendor, and elder Celestina. Celestina is not treated as a monster or a caricature; rather, she is the only character in the entire work that successfully navigates her world and is the only character that seems real and recognizable. The British also underwent witch trials and persecution of “others,” and in 1621, the play The Witch of Edmonton appeared on stage. The witch of Edmonton (Mother Sawyer), like Celestina, is a real human who grapples with societal abuse, her own morality, and the Devil—in this case, the Devil appears in the form of dog Tom. The significance of Celestina’s and Mother Sawyer’s humanity is that these works become satirical and didactic, holding a mirror to the faults of society in different ways. La Celestina tells the reader of the inherent hypocrisy of a community and scoffs at the aristocracy who are afforded their luxuries by their birth rather than talent. Mother Sawyer teaches us more than she shows; she demonstrates the dangers of opening oneself to the Devil and shows how the Devil can infiltrate any community. Ultimately, these two tragicomedic plays serve to illustrate how the women persecuted and ostracized in Spanish and English societies were simply women rather than the monsters they were made out to be.
Characterising HIV acquisition risk, treatment gaps and populations reached through venue-based outreach and clinical services in Blantyre, Malawi: findings from a district-wide CLOVE Study.
Creators: name: Rice, Brian
name: Hargreaves, James R
name: Chapola, John
name: Singogo, Emmanuel
name: Kudowa, Evaristar
name: Chagomerana, Maganizo
name: Hartney, Thomas
name: Hosseinipour, Mina C
name: Bourdin, Sarah
name: Kamgwira, Yohane
name: Weir, Sharon S
name: Jahn, Andreas
name: Edwards, Jessie K
name: Kawalazira, Gift
name: Banda, Confidence
name: Platt, Lucy
Publisher: name: Wolters Kluwer
Year: 2024

description: BACKGROUND: In 2017, Blantyre district had the highest adult HIV prevalence in Malawi (17.7%) and lowest viral suppression (60%). In response, the Ministry of Health expanded prevention and treatment services. We assessed whether outreach to social venues could identify individuals with increased HIV acquisition risk or with unsuppressed HIV not currently reached by clinic-based services.
METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional bio-behavioral survey in Blantyre, Malawi, from January to March 2022. We visited social venues where people meet new sexual partners and government clinics providing HIV testing or STI screening. Participants aged > 15 years were interviewed, and tested for HIV infection if not on ART. HIV recency tests were performed on those testing positive, and dried blood spots (DBS) was collected to quantify viral load and also to identify acute infection in those with HIV- results.
RESULTS: HIV prevalence (18.5% vs 8.3%) and unsuppressed HIV infection (3.9% vs 1.7%) were higher among venue-recruited (n=1802) compared with clinic-recruited participants(n=2313). Among PLHIV at both clinics (n=199) and venues (n=289), 79% were virally suppressed. Few had acute(n=1) or recent infection(n=8). Among women, HIV prevalence was four times higher (38.9% venue vs 8.9% clinic). At clinics, PLHIV reporting visiting venues were less likely to be suppressed (54.6 vs 82.6%). More men at venues than at clinics reported paying for sex (49% vs 30%) or having multiple sex partners in the past 4 weeks (32% vs 16%).
CONCLUSIONS: Enhanced venue-based prevention and testing for men and women could reduce treatment lapses, HIV treatment outcomes and reduce onward transmission.
Second language retention: Language use as a contributing factor.
Creators: name: Ducharme, Daphne Ann.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Education, Language and Literature.

description: Using data collected by Wesche (1992), this study examines the effect of the use of French as a second language on the performance of subjects in receptive skills (listening and reading comprehension) and productive skills (speaking and writing). Language use is presented as one of three major factors (together with the initial level of proficiency, and the role of motivation) reported from earlier research (Harley, 1994) as relevant to the maintenance of language skills. Results of earlier investigations (Bahrick, 1984; Clark & Jorden, 1984) have already shown that the level of proficiency may influence long-term retention of knowledge. Similarly, the role of motivation has been studied extensively by a number of researchers (Gardner, 1982; Gardner, Lalonde and MacPherson, 1985; Gardner, Lalonde, Moorcroft and Evers, 1985; Gardner, Moorcroft and Metford, 1989; Gardner and Lysynchuk, 1990) and it is now generally accepted that attitudes affect motivation which in turn influences the long-term retention of learned material (Moorcroft and Gardner, 1987). Just as motivation is seen as a crucial component in language learning, it stands to reason that to maintain a level of performance, it is important to benefit from a supportive external environment (Edwards, 1977). The more practice is available to subjects who wish to maintain their skills, it seems, the more likely they are to be successful in doing so. This research attempts to establish a relationship between the use of the language after learning has occurred and the difference between pre and post test measures using the data collected by Wesche (1992). A number of specific independent variables will be examined, specifically the number of university courses taken in French, the number of books read in French, the number of movies seen in French, the number of hours of television watched in French, and the number of other activities in French.
Windthrow Dynamics in Boreal Ontario: A Simulation of the Vulnerability of Several Stand Types across a Range of Wind Speeds
Creators: name: Anyomi, Kenneth A.
name: Mitchell, Stephen J.
name: Perera, Ajith H.
name: Ruel, Jean-Claude
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: In Boreal North America, management approaches inspired by the variability in natural disturbances are expected to produce more resilient forests. Wind storms are recurrent within Boreal Ontario. The objective of this study was to simulate wind damage for common Boreal forest types for regular as well as extreme wind speeds. The ForestGALES_BC windthrow prediction model was used for these simulations. Input tree-level data were derived from permanent sample plot (PSP) data provided by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. PSPs were assigned to one of nine stand types: Balsam fir-, Jack pine-, Black spruce-, and hardwood-dominated stands, and, Jack pine-, spruce-, conifer-, hardwood-, and Red and White pine-mixed species stands. Morphological and biomechanical parameters for the major tree species were obtained from the literature. At 5 m/s, predicted windthrow ranged from 0 to 20%, with damage increasing to 2 to 90% for winds of 20 m/s and to 10 to 100% for winds of 40 m/s. Windthrow varied by forest stand type, with lower vulnerability within hardwoods. This is the first study to provide such broad simulations of windthrow vulnerability data for Boreal North America, and we believe this will benefit policy decisions regarding risk management and forest planning.
Regulation of MyoD-induced myogenesis in P19 cells.
Creators: name: Armour, Christine.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.

description: MyoD is a member of the myogenic regulatory family of transcription factors which play a pivotal role in the formation of skeletal muscle. Stable expression of MyoD in the P19 embryonal carcinoma cell line leads to enhanced muscle formation only after aggregation of these cells. To study how MyoD and cell aggregation cooperate to affect muscle differentiation, a myc epitope tagged version of the protein was generated which functioned like the native MyoD protein. The production of an expression construct containing an internal ribosome entry site (IRES) was required to achieve efficient expression of mycMyoD using a drug resistance gene. With this expression construct it was determined that the level of mycMyoD protein did not increase after aggregation. Similarly no changes in cellular localization were observed as MycMyoD was located in the nucleus both before and after aggregation. There was no apparent change in dimerization partners upon aggregation as mycMyoD was found bound to E2A proteins in both the non-aggregated and aggregated cells. In a DNA binding assay mycMyoD from both cell types was able to bind to an E-box containing oligonucleotide. Thus, the effect of cell aggregation is not upon mycMyoD but rather is believed to be either at the point of DNA accessibility by mycMyoD:E2A protein heterodimers or at the stage of transcriptional activation. In vivo, these means of regulation are likely to ensure that myogenesis occurs only when proper cell contacts are achieved.
Cyclic testing of concrete-filled circular steel tube bridge columns having encased fixed-based detail.
Creators: name: Marson, Julia Elizabeth.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: Concrete-filled steel tube columns have been recognized to have many desirable characteristics that can lead to stable hysteretic energy dissipation during earthquakes. They also have many other properties that make them advantageous for bridge applications (i.e. steel tube provides confinement to the concrete and acts as formwork during construction; concrete enhances the local buckling resistance of the steel tube; construction can be accelerated when the tube alone can carry the dead-loads; no need for stain protection on piers when superstructure is of weathering steel; final aesthetic of the product compatible with current practice, etc.). A literature review was performed to collect data on the behaviour of concrete-filled steel tubes under axial load, combined axial and bending forces, and cyclic forces. Analytical work was performed to ensure that the test columns chosen would be representative of full-scale bridge piers found in North America. The foundation detail was designed to ensure that the full moment capacity of the composite column could be developed at its base without failure of the foundation. This study involved testing four concrete-filled steel tubes under a constant axial load and subjected to an increasing cyclic horizontal force applied at the top of the column. All four columns sustained drifts of 7% before failure occurred by the steel tube fracturing at the location of the local buckles. Subsequent analytical work lead to two new proposed design equations. These produce axial-flexure interaction equations in much better agreement with the existing data than the equations for circular concrete-filled steel tubes currently used by the Canadian CAN/CSA-S16.1-M94 standard, or American AISC LRFD 1994 Specifications.
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Creators: name: Laude, Vincent
name: Belkhir, Abderrahmane
name: Alabiad, Abdullah
name: Addouche, Mahmoud
name: Benchabane, Sarah
name: Khelif, Abdelkrim
name: BAIDA, Fadi
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document
Search for Supersymmetric Pseudo-Goldstini at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector
Creators: name: Dodsworth, David Michael
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2021
Subjects: 139 femtobarns
Gauge-Mediated Supersymmetry-Breaking
Pseudo-goldstini
Pseudo-goldstino
Run-II ATLAS
Slepton pair-production

description: This thesis presents a search for events in a final state containing two opposite-sign, same-flavor leptons, two isolated photons, and significant missing transverse momentum. The final state signature is motivated by slepton pair-production in models describing extensions to the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, with sleptons decaying to a neutralino and lepton, and neutralinos decaying to a photon and one of two supersymmetric particles---the massless, true goldstino and the massive pseudo-goldstino. This work is a novel analysis and is performed with the full Run-II ATLAS dataset, consisting of 139 inverse femtobarns of proton-proton collision data, at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. No significant excess is observed, and results are presented as exclusion limits at the 95% confidence level as a function of the neutralino-to-pseudo-goldstino branching ratio for each signal sample.
Neuro-fuzzy based system for mobile robot navigation.
Creators: name: Rusu, Petru.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: The main topic of this thesis is the neuro-fuzzy control approach for mobile robot navigation in indoor environments. A system for directing the robot towards any target, point has been developed and tested in simulated environments. The autonomous mobile robot uses only information obtained from its infrared and contact sensors in order to reach the target point and to avoid collisions. The control system is organized in a top-bottom hierarchy of various tasks to be executed by the robot, tasks which correspond to specific robot behaviors during his navigation. The task to be executed at every control cycle is determined according to the robot behavior required to be performed at that time. Each task is implemented through fuzzy (or neuro-fuzzy) techniques. When multiple low-level behaviors are required, a command fusion method is used to combine the output of several fuzzy sub-systems. A switching coordination method is used to select a behavior among higher level behaviors.
Nanotextured surfaces: platform for tailored light-matter interaction and optical sensing
Creators: name: Balcytis, Armandas
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Texturation of material interfaces provides a purely topological mechanism for altering the way a given object interacts with a range of physical phenomena, defined by the relative length-scales of surface features to those of the relevant effects. To this end, propagation control over the nanoscale wavelengths of visible light requires similarly small structural features. This work describes development of methods and techniques for the creation of effective and affordable nanotextured surfaces exhibiting a range of optical functionalities, including anti-reflectance of black silicon semiconductors, bio-compatible silk natural polymer photonic structures, as well as rough noble metal surface-enhanced optical sensing.
Alpha-Synuclein transgenic mice, h-α-SynL62, display α-Syn aggregation and a dopaminergic phenotype reminiscent of Parkinson’s disease
Creators: name: Frahm, Silke
name: Melis, Valeria
name: Horsley, David
name: Rickard, Janet E.
name: Riedel, Gernot
name: Fadda, Paula
name: Scherma, Maria
name: Harrington, Charles R.
name: Wischik, Claude M.
name: Theuring, Franz
name: Schwab, Karima
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: α-Synuclein
subject: Protein aggregation
subject: Parkinson’s disease
subject: Motor dysfunction
subject: Glutamate
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Alpha-Synuclein (α-Syn) accumulation is considered a major risk factor for the development of synucleinopathies such as Parkinson’s disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies. We have generated mice overexpressing full-length human α-Syn fused to a membrane-targeting signal sequence under the control of the mouse Thy1-promotor. Three separate lines (L56, L58 and L62) with similar gene expression levels, but considerably heightened protein accumulation in L58 and L62, were established. In L62, there was widespread labelling of α-Syn immunoreactivity in brain including spinal cord, basal forebrain, cortex and striatum. Interestingly, there was no detectable α-Syn expression in dopaminergic neurones of the substantia nigra, but strong human α-Syn reactivity in glutamatergic synapses. The human α-Syn accumulated during aging and formed PK-resistant, thioflavin-binding aggregates. Mice displayed early onset bradykinesia and age progressive motor deficits. Functional alterations within the striatum were confirmed: L62 showed normal basal dopamine levels, but impaired dopamine release (upon amphetamine challenge) in the dorsal striatum measured by in vivo brain dialysis at 9 months of age. This impairment was coincident with a reduced response to amphetamine in the activity test. L62 further displayed greater sensitivity to low doses of the dopamine receptor 1 (D1) agonist SKF81297 but reacted normally to the D2 agonist quinpirole in the open field. Since accumulation of α-Syn aggregates in neurones and synapses and alterations in the dopaminergic tone are characteristics of PD, phenotypes reported for L62 present a good opportunity to further our understanding of motor dysfunction in PD and Lewy body dementia.
“Good for Whom?” : Unsettling Research Practice
Creators: name: Nathan, Lisa P.
name: Kaczmarek, Michelle
name: Castor, Maggie
name: Cheng, Shannon
name: Mann, Raquel
Publisher: name: Association for Computing Machinery
Year: 2021

description: Through this paper, we join others concerned by the rhetoric that research and technology design contribute to a common good. We argue that framings of commonality obfuscate the detrimental effects of accepted research practice, particularly for disenfranchised communities. Claims of a common good are in alignment with a colonial perspective—a single all knowing entity, in this case personified by the researcher, who has the expertise and experience necessary to identify what is of benefit to all. Our argument is informed by our engagement with four Indigenous community|academic partnerships. We describe our efforts to avoid perpetuating problematic (yet common) research dynamics through questioning, critiquing and adjusting our practices as a research team. We offer understandings gained through attempts to unsettle our approach to research, grounded by the diverse experience and envisioned futures of our partners. We argue for the continued need for spaces where the short and longer-term implications of research practice can be articulated, discussed and acted upon.
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Creators: name: Laude, Vincent
name: Belkhir, Abderrahmane
name: Alabiad, Abdullah
name: Addouche, Mahmoud
name: Benchabane, Sarah
name: Khelif, Abdelkrim
name: BAIDA, Fadi
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document
The influence of disease categories on gene candidate predictions from model organism phenotypes
Creators: name: Oellrich, Anika
name: Koehler, Sebastian
name: Washington, Nicole
name: Mungall, Chris
name: Lewis, Suzanna
name: Haendel, Melissa
name: Robinson, Peter N.
name: Smedley, Damian
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::572 Biochemie

description: Background The molecular etiology is still to be identified for about half of the currently described Mendelian diseases in humans, thereby hindering efforts to find treatments or preventive measures. Advances, such as new sequencing technologies, have led to increasing amounts of data becoming available with which to address the problem of identifying disease genes. Therefore, automated methods are needed that reliably predict disease gene candidates based on available data. We have recently developed Exomiser as a tool for identifying causative variants from exome analysis results by filtering and prioritising using a number of criteria including the phenotype similarity between the disease and mouse mutants involving the gene candidates. Initial investigations revealed a variation in performance for different medical categories of disease, due in part to a varying contribution of the phenotype scoring component. Results In this study, we further analyse the performance of our cross-species phenotype matching algorithm, and examine in more detail the reasons why disease gene filtering based on phenotype data works better for certain disease categories than others. We found that in addition to misleading phenotype alignments between species, some disease categories are still more amenable to automated predictions than others, and that this often ties in with community perceptions on how well the organism works as model. Conclusions In conclusion, our automated disease gene candidate predictions are highly dependent on the organism used for the predictions and the disease category being studied. Future work on computational disease gene prediction using phenotype data would benefit from methods that take into account the disease category and the source of model organism data.
Le bestiaire marial tiré du Rosarius : Paris, ms. B.N. f. fr. 12483.
Creators: name: Mattiacci, Angela Marie.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Literature, Medieval.

description: Au Moyen Age, le bestiaire jouait un role fondamental en tant que cle interpretative du monde parallele des animaux. En France, ce genre a connu un succes enorme au Moyen Age. De tous les bestiaires, c'est le Bestiaire marial qui se distingue par son sujet et par son choix d'animaux. Ce bestiaire francais, le dernier du Moyen Age et qui nous reste dans un manuscrit unique, se singularise pour plusieurs raisons. D'abord l'auteur anonyme l'ecrit pour un auditoire specifique. Ensuite il y fait la comparaison avec Notre-Dame (non pas le Christ). Et enfin, il traite des animaux qui ne sont pas presents dans les autres bestiaires francais. Ainsi il s'agit d'une oeuvre unique de plusieurs points de vue. Dans cette these, nous donnons la premiere edition critique de cette oeuvre importante.
An investigation and enhancement of thermal performance in a heat pipe and its thermal modeling application
Creators: name: Yeu, Yee Lee
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The fundamentals of evaporation and condensation in porous media as they happen in heat pipes were studied. Extensive experimental investigations and physical modelling of evaporation from porous media were carried out. An analytical solution for film condensation was developed by taking into consideration the two-phase zone at the border between the liquid and gaseous zones. Methods were presented for determinations of the effective thermal conductivities and the film thickness during film condensation from experimental data. The findings can be used in areas with the phase transition in porous media, such as geothermal energy, drying technology, and nuclear energy.
ACTIV trials: Lessons learned in trial design in the setting of an emergent pandemic
Creators: name: Hughes, Michael D.
name: Parmar, Mahesh
name: Paredes, Roger
name: Anstrom, Kevin J.
name: Adam, Stacey J.
name: Nayak, Seema U.
name: Shotwell, Matthew S.
name: Gibbs, Kevin W.
name: Higgs, Elizabeth S.
name: Keshtkar-Jahromi, Maryam
name: Yokum, Tammy
name: Brown, Samuel M.
name: Vock, David M.
name: Proschan, Michael
name: Daar, Eric S.
name: Lindsell, Christopher J.
name: Barkauskas, Christina
name: Jagannathan, Prasanna
name: Fischer, William
name: LaVange, Lisa
name: Peltan, Ithan D.
Publisher: name: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2024

description: Accelerating COVID-19 Treatment Interventions and Vaccines (ACTIV) was initiated by the US government to rapidly develop and test vaccines and therapeutics against COVID-19 in 2020. The ACTIV Therapeutics-Clinical Working Group selected ACTIV trial teams and clinical networks to expeditiously develop and launch master protocols based on therapeutic targets and patient populations. The suite of clinical trials was designed to collectively inform therapeutic care for COVID-19 outpatient, inpatient, and intensive care populations globally. In this report, we highlight challenges, strategies, and solutions around clinical protocol development and regulatory approval to document our experience and propose plans for future similar healthcare emergencies.
Sexual (Mis)Education: Exploring the Reproduction of Inequity in the Sex Ed Classroom
Creators: name: Vermilya, Alaina Isabelle
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2024

description: Research indicates that American sex education is largely unhelpful, limiting, and stigmatizing. A smaller body of research reveals how sex education reproduces intersecting systems of inequity. This thesis uses data from twenty in-depth, semi-structured interviews to examine the ways that sex education reproduces racialized, classed, heterosexualized, and gendered narratives, stereotypes, and norms around sex and reproduction in both explicit and hidden ways. Findings suggest that students overwhelmingly report observing and experiencing the impacts of the reproduction of racialized, classed, heterosexualized, and gendered narratives, stereotypes, and norms in the sex education classroom. To interrupt this, sex education should be taught by trained experts who are equipped to create a race-conscious curriculum: one that educates students about the history of racialized, classed reproductive surveillance. Sex education reform advocates should also push for a future of sex education beyond the binary of abstinence and comprehensive curricula, as both types have been shown to reproduce inequity. This will help create space for a more expansive, limitless future of improved sexual health education.
STUDENT TASK ENGAGEMENT IN SYNCHRONOUS AND ASYNCHRONOUS ONLINE WRITING TASKS
Creators: name: He, Haixia
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2026
Subjects: English as a second language

description: The importance of student engagement lies in its correlation with student academic success, perseverance in learning, and overall achievement. However, many students, especially non-native English-speaking students, may not be engaged in writing classes because writing can be more challenging to master than other language skills. This lack of engagement may result in low interest, low academic achievement, and a high dropout rate. Guided by a task engagement framework, the current study explores how students studying in their second language engage in a blended writing class that employs both synchronous and asynchronous learning formats that incorporate task engagement facilitators. This descriptive case study uses a qualitative methodology integrated with a numeric rating scale. The participants were an American instructor and 30 non-native English-speaking undergraduate students in two sections of an English writing course. Data sources included ten surveys of online task engagement and follow-up email-based interview responses. The descriptive data (open-ended questions and interviews) were coded according to the theoretical framework and the closed-ended questions were analyzed with descriptive statistics. The results indicate that of the six task engagement facilitators, on average, most students perceived Authenticity, Learning Support, and Autonomy frequently, while Interest and Challenge were perceived at a moderate frequency level, and Social Interaction was perceived at a low frequency level in all 10 synchronous and asynchronous writing tasks. The findings also show that Authenticity was the most frequently mentioned task engagement facilitator and received the highest average score of responses, whereas Social Interaction received the lowest average score of responses among the six facilitators across the 10 online writing tasks. Furthermore, most of the students reported that they felt engaged when the writing tasks they were doing were useful and valuable to them and were applicable to their future, and when they received support from peers and teachers, had enough time to complete the task, and had more control over their writing. This study concludes that, in general, most students perceived that they were moderately engaged in all 10 synchronous and asynchronous writing tasks; however, there were always some students who were not engaged. The current study provides information about both task engagement and online learning that combines synchronous and asynchronous formats, thus enhancing the understanding of student engagement during online writing tasks. The results of this study also offer educators both a wider and deeper view of student perceptions of task engagement facilitators, particularly in online learning. Additionally, this study includes implications for teaching practices and future research on task engagement.
Analysis and design of in-ear devices
Creators: name: Kinsella, Philip
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The human ear is unique to each individual. However, the majority of in-ear devices only provide a small range of standardized inserts for fitting. This can lead to discomfort, poor sound quality, and in the context of hearing aids, underuse of the technology. Custom-fit in-ear devices aim to address these issues, but are currently limited by cost and time considerations. This research has developed automated algorithms to process state-of-the-art 3D scan data into fully functional inserts that can then be directly 3D printed. This has resulted in a substantial reduction in the processing time and cost of customised in-ear devices.