cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Development and initial psychometric evaluation of a scale measuring factors related to motivation for exercise.
Creators: name: Junnarkar, Gauri.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Recreation.

description: Background. This thesis was guided by a series of research objectives, which were to: examine the literature to identify motivational factors for regular vigorous physical activity; draft an instrument that measures these motivational factors and pre-test it; conduct additional testing into how the items and instruction sets of the instrument were being understood; conduct an initial evaluation of the content, criterion-related, and construct validity of the instrument; and to assess the internal consistency and test-retest reliability of the instrument. Methods. (1) Instrument: Following scale development work, the final scale comprised 82-items that were scored on a five-point type scale, measuring the following fifteen sub-scales: Affect, Attitude, Affiliation, Barriers, Goals, Outcome expectancy, personal Normative Beliefs (PNB), Rewards, Self-determination, Self-efficacy, Self-evaluation, Self-presentation, Social comparison, Social support, Time. (2) Procedure: This cross-sectional study was conducted using a non-probability sample recruited from several private and governmental worksites or organizations. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Post-conventional moral reasoning is associated with increased ventral striatal activity at rest and during task
Creators: name: Fang, Zhuo
name: Jung, Wi Hoon
name: Korczykowski, Marc
name: Luo, Lijuan
name: Prehn, Kristin
name: Xu, Sihua
name: Detre, John A.
name: Kable, Joseph W.
name: Robertson, Diana C.
name: Rao, Hengyi
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cognitive neuroscience
subject: Social neuroscience
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: People vary considerably in moral reasoning. According to Kohlberg’s theory, individuals who reach the highest level of post-conventional moral reasoning judge moral issues based on deeper principles and shared ideals rather than self-interest or adherence to laws and rules. Recent research has suggested the involvement of the brain’s frontostriatal reward system in moral judgments and prosocial behaviors. However, it remains unknown whether moral reasoning level is associated with differences in reward system function. Here, we combined arterial spin labeling perfusion and blood oxygen level-dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging and measured frontostriatal reward system activity both at rest and during a sequential risky decision making task in a sample of 64 participants at different levels of moral reasoning. Compared to individuals at the pre-conventional and conventional level of moral reasoning, post-conventional individuals showed increased resting cerebral blood flow in the ventral striatum and ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Cerebral blood flow in these brain regions correlated with the degree of post-conventional thinking across groups. Post-conventional individuals also showed greater task-induced activation in the ventral striatum during risky decision making. These findings suggest that high-level post- conventional moral reasoning is associated with increased activity in the brain’s frontostriatal system, regardless of task-dependent or task- independent states.
Phenotype variability of infantile-onset multisystem neurologic, endocrine, and pancreatic disease IMNEPD
Creators: name: Picker-Minh, Sylvie
name: Mignot, Cyril
name: Doummar, Diane
name: Hashem, Mais
name: Faqeih, Eissa
name: Josset, Patrice
name: Dubern, Beatrice
name: Alkuraya, Fowzan S.
name: Kraemer, Nadine
name: Kaindl, Angela M.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase 2
subject: PTRH2
subject: Intellectual deficit
subject: Motor delay
subject: Speech delay
subject: Sensorineural deafness
subject: Hepatosteatosis
subject: Pancreatic
subject: insufficiency
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Infantile-onset multisystem neurologic, endocrine, and pancreatic disease (IMNEPD) has been recently linked to biallelic mutation of the peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase 2 gene PTRH2. Two index patients with IMNEPD in the original report had multiple neurological symptoms such as postnatal microcephaly, intellectual disability, developmental delay, sensorineural deafness, cerebellar atrophy, ataxia, and peripheral neuropathy. In addition, distal muscle weakness and abnormalities of thyroid, pancreas, and liver were found. Here, we report five further IMNEPD patients with a different homozygous PTRH2 mutation, broaden the phenotypic spectrum of the disease and differentiate common symptoms and interindividual variability in IMNEPD associated with a unique mutation. We thereby hope to better define IMNEPD and promote recognition and diagnosis of this novel disease entity.
title: Analyse comparative des effets de l'introduction de listes de mots, avec des stratégies, sur la mémorisation de l'orthographe, en français, chez des élèves du primaire
title: Analyse comparative des effets de l'introduction de listes de mots, avec des stratégies, sur la mémorisation de l'orthographe, en français, chez des élèves du primaire
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Viatte, Emilie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: orthographe lexicale
subject: acquisition
subject: enseignement primaire
subject: stratégies de mémorisation
subject: liste de mots
subject: 8ème Harmos

description: Quelle méthode favorise la mémorisation de l’orthographe lexicale par les élèves ? Voici la question centrale de ce travail. Le travail d’enseignante spécialisée permet d’observer les difficultés de nombreux élèves (suivis en enseignement spécialisé ou non) à mémoriser l’orthographe française, au travers de liste de mots à apprendre à la maison. Il semblait donc pertinent d’effectuer une recherche sur ce sujet. Dans cette recherche, l’efficacité d’une méthode d’introduction des listes de mots de vocabulaire, accompagnées de stratégies de mémorisation pour chaque mot, a été comparée à l’efficacité de la méthode habituelle d’introduction effectuée par deux enseignantes. Cette recherche a été menée dans deux classes de 8ème primaire Harmos (11-12 ans), auprès de 36 élèves de l’enseignement ordinaire. Au départ, l’objectif était de rendre les élèves du groupe expérimental plus autonomes dans leur apprentissage que ceux du groupe contrôle. L’idéal aurait été qu’ils puissent s’approprier les stratégies de mémorisation et les appliquer eux-mêmes sur leurs mots à apprendre. Cependant, afin de proposer une durée d’introduction des listes de mots équivalente à celle des enseignantes en classe, il a finalement été décidé de donner les stratégies déjà trouvées pour chaque mot. Une durée de passation similaire a été choisie au détriment de la mise en réflexion et de l’autonomisation des élèves. Les élèves des deux classes ont donc été séparés en deux groupes. Le groupe contrôle recevait l’introduction des listes de mots par leur enseignante, en classe, alors que le groupe expérimental recevait les listes de mots ainsi que les stratégies dans une classe à part. Les analyses ont montré que, quel que soit le groupe d’appartenance des élèves, ceux-ci ont appris en moyenne 6 nouveaux mots sur 45. En revanche, il n’y a pas eu de différence significative entre les résultats du groupe contrôle et ceux du groupe expérimental. Contre toute attente, une différence significative a été découverte entre les résultats des élèves des deux classes. Ces résultats ont été commentés dans la discussion et de nouvelles hypothèses ont été formulées.
Ryanodine Receptor Activation Induces Long-Term Plasticity of Spine Calcium Dynamics
Creators: name: Johenning, Friedrich W.
name: Theis, Anne-Kathrin
name: Pannasch, Ulrike
name: Rückl, Martin
name: Rüdiger, Sten
name: Schmitz, Dietmar
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: A key feature of signalling in dendritic spines is the synapse-specific transduction of short electrical signals into biochemical responses. Ca2+ is a major upstream effector in this transduction cascade, serving both as a depolarising electrical charge carrier at the membrane and an intracellular second messenger. Upon action potential firing, the majority of spines are subject to global back-propagating action potential (bAP) Ca2+ transients. These transients translate neuronal suprathreshold activation into intracellular biochemical events. Using a combination of electrophysiology, two-photon Ca2+ imaging, and modelling, we demonstrate that bAPs are electrochemically coupled to Ca2+ release from intracellular stores via ryanodine receptors (RyRs). We describe a new function mediated by spine RyRs: the activity-dependent long-term enhancement of the bAP-Ca2+ transient. Spines regulate bAP Ca2+ influx independent of each other, as bAP-Ca2+ transient enhancement is compartmentalized and independent of the dendritic Ca2+ transient. Furthermore, this functional state change depends exclusively on bAPs travelling antidromically into dendrites and spines. Induction, but not expression, of bAP-Ca2+ transient enhancement is a spine-specific function of the RyR. We demonstrate that RyRs can form specific Ca2+ signalling nanodomains within single spines. Functionally, RyR mediated Ca2+ release in these nanodomains induces a new form of Ca2+ transient plasticity that constitutes a spine specific storage mechanism of neuronal suprathreshold activity patterns.
title: Les effets d'un enseignement explicite et systématique du décodage sur les premiers apprentissages du langage écrit chez des élèves de 5 ans présentant une déficience intellectuelle
title: Les effets d'un enseignement explicite et systématique du décodage sur les premiers apprentissages du langage écrit chez des élèves de 5 ans présentant une déficience intellectuelle
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Hoyois, Noémie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: déficience intellectuelle
subject: apprentissage de la lecture
subject: conscience phonologique
subject: langage écrit
subject: enseignement explicite

description: La littérature sur l’apprentissage de la lecture dans le développement typique souligne l’importance d’enseigner la conscience phonologique et les correspondances graphèmesphonèmes. Par ailleurs, un enseignement explicite et systématique est aussi à privilégier. Plusieurs données mettent en évidence que c’est aussi valable pour les élèves avec déficience intellectuelle, bien que ces élèves voient souvent leur potentiel d’apprentissage sous-estimé et que l’enseignement qu’ils reçoivent en reste souvent à une lecture très « globale » (Sermier- Dessemontet & Martinet, 2016). Dans le cadre de ce travail de mémoire, j’ai testé en classe un matériel adapté pour enseigner la lecture de manière optimale aux élèves avec une déficience intellectuelle (matériel ELODI). Des tests standardisés ont été réalisés avant et après l’intervention, de même qu’une analyse plus qualitative des compétences des élèves et sur le déroulement des séquences. Deux élèves ont participé à ces séquences d’enseignement sur une durée d’environ 5 mois. Les résultats obtenus permettent de montrer les progrès que ces élèves ont pu faire au niveau de la conscience phonologique, de l’apprentissage des correspondances graphèmes-phonèmes, du rapport à l’écrit et pour l’un d’eux du décodage grâce à cet enseignement. Les bénéfices et les adaptations à penser du point de vue de l’enseignante spécialisée sont également décrits.
Neural and behavioral correlates of rapid familiarization to novel taste
Creators: name: Svedberg, Daniel
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: chemosensation
subject: learning
subject: perception
subject: taste
subject: Electrophysiology
subject: Signal Processing
subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Laboratory rodents are typically raised in highly taste-impoverished environments,which means that these rodents enter into experiments remarkably “taste naïve.” Under the standard assumption that fundamental taste perception is innate and stable, this fact should be of little import–the first exposure to a taste should be processed “normally.” Recent behavioral and electrophysiological evidence, however, suggest that taste perception changes as animals grow familiar to taste stimuli, at least on the time scale of hours to days. Here, we leveraged our deep
description: understanding of gustatory cortical (GC) taste responses—not just which neurons respond, but the precise dynamics of ensemble responses in single trials—to investigate whether taste processing changes with exposure to novel tastes on an even shorter time scale, and whether any such changes depend on familiarization at longer time scales. We observed that these responses are in fact not innate: across initial exposures to novel battery of 4 (sweet, salty, sour, and bitter) tastes, they became more stereotyped and taste-specific. Lastly, we examine changes in taste-licking behavior across familiarization to the same battery of tastants and demonstrate that taste-familiarization impacts consumption behavior on a similar timescale as seen in electrophysiology. These experiments add to a growing literature indicating that exposure to even simple sensory stimuli is a “learning” experience and demonstrate that this learning process occurs across multiple time scales. As such, they reveal the danger of starting an experiment with a truly ‘taste-naïve’ subject.
Interaction of nanowire based surface-plasmons with nanodiamonds for nano-circuitry
Creators: name: Al-Baiaty, Zahraa
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Realization of a functional and reliable quantum-controlled device based surface plasmons polaritons (SPPs) depends on addressing and resolving a number of problems, such as plasmonic losses and the efficient coupling between nanoscale elements. One area that depends on a solution to these challenges is the coupling of single quantum emitters to plasmonic devices. Such systems can be used for the optical initialization and readout of the electronic spins, and can be leveraged for solid-state quantum communication and computing schemes, in addition to metrology, high-resolution magnetometry and sensing applications. In this context, the research presented in this thesis theoretically and experimentally investigates the perfonnance of nanoplasmonic waveguides under different fabrication and excitation conditions. Our work offers a promising route towards integrated quantum infonnation processing and nanoscale magnetometry systems based on nitrogen vacancy (NV) centres by demonstrating the viability and conservation of the NV centre spin systems after coupling to propagating SPPs.
Equipping children for targeted marketing: The development and assessment of a preschool media literacy curriculum
Creators: name: Drell, Marissa
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2010

description: Marketing to young children has become an increasingly controversial issue because children younger than eight-years-old have a limited understanding of persuasive intent. Critics of children's advertising argue that children's inability to understand the motivation behind advertising makes it impossible for them to cognitively resist persuasive advertising appeals. While framing young children as victims is beneficial in the fight for more rigorous advertising regulation, it has dampened discourse and research on children's agency and curtailed efforts to create early childhood curricula that might foster media literacy skills. The present proposal includes a review of the literature on advertising to children, the research on children's comprehension of commercials, and current media literacy pedagogy. It describes a media literacy curriculum developed and implemented by the author as part of her undergraduate senior thesis project and puts forth a new procedure for assessing the curriculum's effectiveness.
title: Sélectionner et inclure: échanger sur son métier pour dépasser les contradictions
title: Sélectionner et inclure: échanger sur son métier pour dépasser les contradictions
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Rothen Froidevaux, Stéphanie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: inclusion
subject: orientation
subject: dilemmes et tensions
subject: postures de l’enseignant spécialisé
subject: relations de collaboration
subject: mesures ordinaires

description: La collaborations entre enseignants réguliers et enseignants spécialisés dans un contexte d’orientation des élèves en 7-8P et d’inclusion d’élèves bénéficiant de mesures ordinaires d’enseignement spécialisé nous amène à négocier de nouveaux gestes notamment en ce qui concerne la certification. Interpellée par les questions surgissant dans ce processus d’orientation quant aux aides accordées ou non aux élèves ordinaires et à besoins particuliers, il m’a paru intéressant d’explorer les moments de discussion partagés avec mes collègues ordinaires. Ce travail commence par définir les mesures ordinaires d’enseignement spécialisé et le contexte légal autour de l’orientation. Il définit également le co-enseignement. Puis, il présente les concepts théoriques liés à la posture de praticienne-chercheuse. Il décrit ensuite les différentes mises en tension, identifiées par plusieurs auteurs. Enfin, il expose des pistes pour les dépasser ou les ajuster. Dans la deuxième partie de ce mémoire, les mises en tension relevées dans les données sont présentées. Les postures adoptées durant ces échanges par chacune des enseignantes sont décrites et une typologie de postures en est dégagée. Des éléments favorisant une cristallisation des questionnements et tensions autour de la certification sont également relevés. D’autre part, les processus menant à des ajustements, dépassements ou solutions créatives sont présentés. Finalement, l’évolution après deux ans de collaboration des pratiques et représentations des enseignantes concernées par cette recherche est approfondie. Les conclusions de ce travail suggèrent que les échanges informels entre enseignants réguliers et spécialisés permettent de fonctionner comme un système de communauté de pratiques. Par un jeu d’oscillation des postures les enseignants partagent, ajustent ou dépassent les situations contradictoires d’un système qui se veut inclusif tout en continuant à sélectionner les élèves. Ces échanges autorisent aussi les enseignants à se donner la liberté d’aménager les conditions d’octroi d’aides aux élèves ordinaires.
A comparative study using polymerase chain reaction, cultivation and immuno-magnetic separation for detection, isolation, and identification of Legionella spp. in water and biofilm samples from groundwaters.
Creators: name: Brooks, Teresa Jane.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Biology, Microbiology.

description: This study was carried out to determine the frequency and levels of occurrence of legionellae in groundwaters from a variety of sources in U.S. and Canada. A limited number of water samples from cooling towers were also tested because municipally treated waters are considered to be the main sources of Legionella in artificial habitats such as cooling towers, air conditioners, whirlpools, hot tubs and plumbing systems (Krammer and Ford, 1994). Conventional procedures, including cultivation and polymerase chain reaction (PCR), were used to determine the presence of Legionella spp. in the water and biofilm samples during this study. A novel approach, using immuno-magnetic separation (IMS) in combination with cultivation or PCR, was also explored as an improved and rapid detection method for Legionella over conventional procedures. Because the IMS technique was continually being improved over the course of this study, all the samples received did not undergo the same procedure. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Prevalence and Risk Factors of Hookworm-Related Cutaneous Larva Migrans (HrCLM) in a Resource-Poor Community in Manaus, Brazil
Creators: name: Reichert, Felix
name: Pilger, Daniel
name: Schuster, Angela
name: Lesshafft, Hannah
name: Oliveira, Silas Guedes De
name: Ignatius, Ralf
name: Feldmeier, Hermann
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background Hookworm-related cutaneous larva migrans (HrCLM) is a neglected tropical skin disease associated with significant clinical pathology. Little knowledge exists about prevalence and risk factors of HrCLM in endemic regions. Methodology/ Principal Findings To understand the epidemiology of HrCLM in Amazonia, we conducted a cross-sectional study in a resource-poor township in Manaus, Brazil. HrCLM was diagnosed in 8.2% (95% CI, 6.3–10.1%) of the study population (N = 806) with a peak prevalence of 18.2% (95% CI, 9.3–27.1%) in children aged 10–14. Most of the tracks (62.4%) were located on the feet, and 10.6% were superinfected. HrCLM was associated independently with age under 15, male sex, presence of animal faeces on the compound, walking barefoot on sandy ground and poverty. Conclusions/ Significance HrCLM is common in resource-poor communities in Amazonia and is related to poverty. To reduce the disease burden caused by HrCLM, living conditions have to be improved.
The 21st Century Cures Act Final Rule: Impacts on Practice and Reactions from Clinical and Laboratory Genetic Counselors
Creators: name: Morris, Victoria
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2022
Subjects: 21st Century Cures Act
Genetic counselors
Medical records
Health Care Planning or Policy
Medical Counseling

description: The Cures Act Final Rule, enacted in response to the passing of the 21st Century Cures Act, focuses on granting immediate patient access to their personal medical record, including test results and clinical documentation. The immediate release of results to patients electronically may result in a significant shift in the role of genetic counselors in the communication of genetic information. This project sought to understand changes in practice experienced by clinical and laboratory genetic counselors as a result of the recent implementation of the 21st Century Cures Act Final Rule and their initial reactions to its impact. An anonymous online survey was distributed via e-blast to the National Society of Genetic Counselors’ listserv to recruit individuals who were working as clinical or laboratory genetic counselors in the United States. From this, 117 complete surveys were returned and analyzed. It was noted that more clinical genetic counselors indicated they were comfortable with patients having direct access to clinical documentation (82%) than genetic testing results (25%) on average. Most genetic counselors surveyed (67%) expressed concern at being unprepared for encounters with patients, and open- ended responses revealed a theme of perceived negative psychosocial impacts on patients. Additionally, only 43% of genetic counselors felt their institution effectively communicated changes in policy to them. Only some changes in workflow were reported. Our results show that steps need to be taken to explore the impact of this rule on patients and how best to support them, as well as the long-term effect of the Cures Act Final Rule on genetic counselors as more institutions enact appropriate changes in policy.
Speckle reduction for the reconstruction of synthetic aperture radar imagery.
Creators: name: Fung, Ko Bong.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: This thesis is aimed towards a deep analysis and synthesis of Kalman filters for reducing the speckle noise in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. The motivation stems from an increased number of applications of radar imagery in civilian related projects. For example, in 1996, SAR images acquired from the Canadian RADARSAT satellite were used for environmental monitoring, oil spill detection off the Japanese coast, and floods in northwest United States. Many other useful applications can be mentioned in agriculture, hydrology, geology, forestry, oceanography, etc. Despite its wide usage in the above domains the radar imagery encounters a major drawback due to the quantity of a large speckle component. The purpose of the filters developed in this thesis is the reduction of this component using a Kalman filter in combination with model identification techniques. A justification for using Kalman filters is given. This justification is based, besides a theoretical analysis of the speckle reduction problem, on a set of experiments and tests which are applied to almost all the known filters used in this problem. Special Kalman filters are developed theoretically and applied on practical test and real life images. Special attention is given to the noise component. In the Kalman filtering technique it is well known that small variations in the values of the noise covariances affect the performance. A special chapter is dedicated to the development of an optimal technique for determining the appropriate covariance matrices. Many results and illustrations shown in chapter 7 demonstrate practically the validity of the approach.
Through a lens of difference or when worlds collide: A poststructural study on error correction and focus-on-form in language and second language learning.
Creators: name: Dufresne, Thérèse.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Education, Language and Literature.

description: The purpose of the inquiry is to further understanding with respect to error and its correction in learning a second language. This dissertation deals with the question of how a learner puts one response into the foreground and eclipses or sets another previous understanding aside on the way to attempting to learn the invariable constant correct response offered through forms of representation arising from the aural, oral, visual, and/or written and other forms of sensual stimuli or input. The proposal is that the traditional positivist/postpositivist paradigms usually used in second language research are inadequate to look at knowledge and learning as a nonlinear dynamic process. A poststructural worldview is retained to look at this process. At issue is the reconceptualisation of error correction and focus-on-form in a French immersion setting. A conceptual framework adapted from a triad linked to Derridean, Deleuzean and Guattarian thought helps develop a theory of learning and knowledge for second language learning. At the methodological level, the study looks at different knowledge and produces knowledge differently in that it removes itself from looking at information transmission as being synonymous to learning and knowledge. Methodologically, this dissertation performs its hypothesis by using empirical data to provoke thought thereby transcending the empirical. What is posited in this dissertation is that through error correction, experience has the possibility of intruding upon a student, interacting and connecting with the student and possibly mediating with the knowledge of that student. It suggests that focus-on-form (1) opens up the aporia or closed spaces by creating doubt and (2) works in tandem with affect and perceptions. In this way, there is a possibility that new links and connections can be made in learning. Knowledge and learning are viewed as linked to an iterative process that folds, enfolds and refolds onto itself. The study offers a reconceptualisation of error and correction and provokes thought and reflection about their use in a classroom situation through the lenses of six Grade 4 French Immersion students. It suggests practical applications to teaching and learning. Moreover it opens up possibilities on how to conduct studies on focus-on-form in second language learning within a non-traditional research paradigm.
Conceptualizing Dimensions and Characteristics of Urban Resilience: Insights from a Co-Design Process
Creators: name: Sharifi, Ayyoob
name: Chelleri, Lorenzo
name: Fox-Lent, Cate
name: Grafakos, Stelios
name: Pathak, Minal
name: Olazabal, Marta
name: Moloney, Susie
name: Yumagulova, Lily
name: Yamagata, Yoshiki
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Resilience is a multi-faceted concept frequently used across a wide range of disciplines, practices, and sectors. There is a growing recognition of the utility of resilience as a bridging concept that can facilitate inter-and transdisciplinary approaches to tackle complexities inherent in decision making under conditions of risk and uncertainty. Such conditions are common in urban planning, infrastructure planning, asset management, emergency planning, crisis management, and development processes where systemic interdependencies and interests at stake influence decisions and outcomes. A major challenge that can undermine the use of resilience for guiding planning activities is the value-laden and contested nature of the concept that can be interpreted in a variety of ways. Because resilience is context-specific and generally depends on local aspirations, this issue can be partially tackled by adopting participatory approaches for the conceptualization of resilience. This paper provides an example of how co-design methods can be employed for conceptualizing resilience. The Structured Interview Matrix was used as a technique to facilitate discussions among a diverse group of researchers and practitioners attending the International Workshop on Tools and Indicators for Assessing Urban Resilience. Participants deliberated on issues related to constituent elements of urban resilience, including its position vis-à-vis concepts such as adaptation and sustainability, institutional factors that can enable/constrain resilience building, and the challenges of conducting and operationalizing urban resilience assessment. This paper can be considered as an initial step towards further exploration of participatory approaches for clarifying the underlying dimensions of complex concepts such as resilience.
title: It Takes a Nation
title: Telescopic Temporality and Childhood in Israel
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Dworsky-Rocha, Maya Josepha
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2023
Subjects: children
militarism
Palestine
teachers
whiteness
Israel
Education

description: This dissertation considers the interplay between childhood, militarism, and whiteness in Israeli culture. Based on a year and a half of fieldwork in Israeli teachers’ colleges, schools, and activist circles, as well as over fifty interviews with parents, activists, and educators, I construct a working definition of telescopic temporality; a concept working off of Mikhail Bahktain’s chronotope, which describes the collapse of narrative spacetime between child and soldier. The blurring of the semantic shadows of children and soldiers is an important aspect of Israel’s bid for admission to Paulain whiteness, a racialized extension of Boyarin & Boyarin’s term for the innovation of inclusivity proposed to Christianity by St. Paul. Childhood in Israel stands in for the Hegelian concept of bildung which describes a capacity for progress and development. Israeli teachers, parents, and activists participate in telescopic temporality as part of maintaining Israel’s Pauline whiteness — our bid for admission to personhood.
Analysis of the Ku antigen-dependent activation of reporter genes in yeast and characterization of the nuclear import signals of Ku antigen.
Creators: name: Bertinato, Jesse.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Biology, Cell.

description: Ku antigen (Ku70/Ku80) is a heteromeric, DNA binding protein that has been implicated in DNA repair, V(D)J recombination, tumour suppression, growth, cell cycle control, telomere maintenance and the regulation of gene transcription. Ku is a DNA binding subunit of the DNA-dependent protein kinase and functions to recruit and stimulate the catalytic subunit at appropriate DNA target sites. I present the unexpected finding that expression of human Ku fused to an ectopic activation domain broadly activated reporter genes integrated into the yeast genome independent of the reporter gene, yeast minimal promoter and reporter gene integration site. Interestingly, expression of various Ku70 deletion mutants alone or in combination with Ku80 revealed that the regions of Ku identified to be required for activation share a striking resemblance to portions of Ku needed to bind DNA. Furthermore, a mutation in Ku70 that negates the Ku70-dependent activation property in yeast also disrupts the ability of Ku70 monomers to associate tightly with the nucleus in mammalian cells. Moreover, I demonstrate that human Ku80 cannot substitute for the yeast homologue (HDF2) to rescue the temperature sensitive phenotype of a yeast strain deficient in Ku80 but expression of a variant human Ku heterodimer partially rescues the phenotype. By contrast, the characteristic slow growth displayed by HDF2 deficient yeast at 30°C could not be rescued by expression of the same human Ku heterodimer. Also, I determined that Ku70 contains a bipartite nuclear localization signal between amino acids 539--556, while the core of the nuclear localization signal of Ku80 is a basic motif from 565--569. Each nuclear localization signal mediated the nuclear transfer of the individual Ku subunits and Ku heterodimer, while site directed mutagenesis of both nuclear localization signals resulted in a Ku heterodimer that was localized to the cytoplasm. Lastly, I show that mutations in Ku previously proposed to abrogate Ku70/Ku80 heterodimerization reduce the accumulation of Ku70 without affecting heterodimer formation in mammalian cells.
The role of verbal prefixes in Slavic: Evidence from Slovenian locative denominal verbs.
Creators: name: Zaucer, Rok.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Language, Linguistics.

description: The role of Slavic verbal prefixes is discussed in the context of Slovenian Location/Locatum denominal verbs and against the distinction between semantic aspect (situation type, a-/telicity) and morphological aspect (viewpoint, im-/perfectivity). Some recent literature serves as the basis for adopting the claim that Slavic prefixes do not directly code perfectivity but rather a resultative change of state; minimal-pair evidence is provided, based on locative denominal verbs. The standard claim that prefixes on directed-motion verbs contribute directional semantics is challenged; minimal-pair evidence is provided to show that they contribute a state/location. Resultativity and directed motion of prefixed verbs are derived compositionally. Prefixes introduce a state, and are thus eventualities rather than eventuality type modifiers; again, minimal-pair evidence from locative denominals is provided. Finally, it is argued that in directed-motion constructions, prefixes are different from Goal/Source-PPs; the prefix introduces the State/Location, the PP introduces the Path.
The mechanism of mitochondrial fission: Dynamin-related protein 1 and its effectors
Creators: name: Harder, Zdena
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Biology, Cell.

description: Mitochondrial fission requires the evolutionarily conserved dynamin related GTPase (DRP1), which is recruited from the cytosol to the mitochondrial outer membrane (1--3) to co-ordinate membrane scission (see (4) for review). Currently, the mechanism of recruitment and assembly of DRP1 on the mitochondria is unclear. Here, using yeast two-hybrid, we identify Ubc9 and SUMO1 as novel DRP1 interacting proteins. We have determined that the interaction between DRP1 and SUMO1 requires SUMO1 conjugation and is nucleotide dependent. Pull-down experiments reveal that DRP1 is an authentic SUMO1 substrate and is likely modified by more than one SUMO1 molecule. Biochemical fractionation indicates that purified mitochondrial fractions contain a NEM-sensitive, SDS-resistant high molecular weight form of DRP1, consistent with the size of SUMOylated DRP1. Importantly, fluorescence microscopy reveals that a significant portion of cytosolic YFP:SUMO1 colocalizes with mitochondria. Video analysis further demonstrates that YFP:SUMO1 is often found at the site of mitochondrial fission and remains tightly associated to the tips of fragmented mitochondria. Surprisingly, immunofluorescence studies show that endogenous DR-P1 only partially colocalizes with the many YFP: SUMO1 puncta seen on the mitochondria, suggesting that mitochondria contain other SUMOylated substrates. This is consistent with the presence of numerous unique SUMOylated products in the mitochondrial fraction. Finally, transient transfection of SUMO1 into cultured cells dramatically increases the level of mitochondrial fragmentation and protects DRP1 from protein degradation. Together, these data are the first to identify a function for SUMO1 on the mitochondria and suggest a novel role for the participation of SUMO1 in mitochondrial fission.
ENVRI-FAIR D8.1 Atmospheric subdomain FAIRness assessment
Creators: name: Rivier, Leonard
name: Lund Myhre, Cathrine
name: Boulanger, Damien
name: Fiebig, Markus
name: Ferrighi, Lara
name: Tarniewicz, Jerome
name: Tjulin, Anders
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: ENVRI-FAIR
deliverable
atmospheric RI
ACTRIS
IAGOS
ICOS-Atmosphere
EISCAT-3D
EISCAT

description: This document is the Deliverable 8.1 of the ENVRI-FAIR EU project conducted by the ESFRI Cluster of Environmental Research Infrastructures (ENVRI). Here, a first self-FAIRness assessment was done by the five Atmospheric RIs of the ENVRI-FAIR subdomain work package (WP) 8, comprising ACTRIS, IAGOS, ICOS-Atmosphere, EISCAT-3D and EISCAT. It used a questionnaire based on the 15 concepts of FAIRness described in Wilkinson et al. (2016). The assessment shows that all of these RIs find room for improvement in all four of the FAIR domains: Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, Reusability.
 After a thorough gap analysis, the WP8 as a whole could identify a common plan for a number of concrete developments where action could start immediately. These actions are further detailed in ENVRI-FAIR MS35 and an actual implementation plan is currently being drafted under task Task 8.3 of the project (Define atmospheric RI technological implementation plan and common procedures).
 Furthermore, two topics that were found to be especially challenging are introduced in the last section of the document. These deal with: the use of semantic web, ontology and vocabularies and exhaustive provenance.
Scientometric Analysis and Combined Density-Equalizing Mapping of Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) Research
Creators: name: Vitzthum, Karin
name: Scutaru, Cristian
name: Musial-Bright, Lindy
name: Quarcoo, David
name: Welte, Tobias
name: Spallek, Michael
name: Groneberg-Kloft, Beatrix
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background Passive exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is estimated to exert a major burden of disease. Currently, numerous countries have taken legal actions to protect the population against ETS. Numerous studies have been conducted in this field. Therefore, scientometric methods should be used to analyze the accumulated data since there is no such approach available so far. Methods and Results A combination of scientometric methods and novel visualizing procedures were used, including density-equalizing mapping and radar charting techniques. 6,580 ETS-related studies published between 1900 and 2008 were identified in the ISI database. Using different scientometric approaches, a continuous increase of both quantitative and qualitative parameters was found. The combination with density-equalizing calculations demonstrated a leading position of the United States (2,959 items published) in terms of quantitative research activities. Charting techniques demonstrated that there are numerous bi- and multilateral networks between different countries and institutions in this field. Again, a leading position of American institutions was found. Conclusions This is the first comprehensive scientometric analysis of data on global scientific activities in the field of environmental tobacco smoke research. The present findings can be used as a benchmark for funding allocation processes.
ENVRI-FAIR D11.1 Biodiversity and Ecosystem subdomain implementation short term plan
Creators: name: Papale, Dario
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: ENVRI-FAIR
deliverable
Biodiversity and Ecosystem RIs
cross-RIs collaborations
core competences

description: This deliverable is the first analysis of the FAIRness of the Biodiversity and Ecosystem RIs that serves as guideline for the activities in the project. At the end of ENVRI-FAIR a new analysis will be done in order to evaluate the improvements and results and define the development strategy after the project.
 The document is also a short guideline for all the RIs in which the main characteristics of the different RIs are summarized and where strengths, weaknesses, difficulties, synergies, overlaps and available resources are reported. We prepared the document with the aim to facilitate cross-RIs collaborations and exchanges in order to invest resources to develop as much as possible tools and procedures that can be used by multiple RIs.
 In addition, two key sections have been developed in order to facilitate the analysis of the Biodiversity and Ecosystems RIs and to propose practical examples of collaboration and synergies:
 - a description of the core competences of the different RIs that is useful to clearly identify the main expertise and competencies that other RIs can use and consult,
 - the definition of common parameters, quantities or properties that the different RIs collect/measure/manage and that can be used as example of a practical collaboration.
Morse_Spark_implementation
Creators: name: Qian, Yuehui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460605
subject: Distributed systems and algorithms
classificationCode: 490412
subject: Topology
classificationCode: 401302
subject: Geospatial information systems and geospatial data modelling

description: # Morse_Spark framework
## IntroductionTerrain topology plays an important role in simulations and segmentation. A widely used terrain representation is the Triangulated Irregular Network (TIN). However, topological analysis on TINs is challenging due to high time and memory requirements, which limit the size of the terrain that can be analyzed.
We address this problem by introducing a novel framework for efficient and scalable analysis of large TINs based on Morse theory using Apache Spark. The proposed framework, named Morse-Spark, is based on a novel data structure for encoding the minimal information of a TIN, and integrates efficient algorithms for computing terrain morphology. To evaluate the effectiveness and scalability of such a framework, we compare Morse-Spark against a vanilla Spark implementation and three well-established software libraries for the topological analysis of TINs through a comprehensive set of experiments. Our experimental evaluation with real-world TINs shows that Morse-Spark can effectively handle datasets at least 20 times larger than existing approaches.
## Mesh encodingMorse-Spark encodes two DataFrames, called $DF_V$ and $DF_T$.## Connectivity relations extractionMorse-Spark supports two strategies for extracting connectivity relations: *global* methods and *local* methods. Global methods work on an entire DataFrame by using native operations provided in Spark. *Local methods* offer a more efficient approach by applying *user-defined functions (UDFs)* to a DataFrame.
+ Boundary relation * TV relation * TE relation * EV relation+ Coboundary relation * VT relation * VE relation * ET relation+ Adjacent relation * VV relation * EE relation * TT relation ## Topological features computationMorse-Spark supports the computation of Forman gradient and Morse manifolds:+ Forman gradient+ descending 2-manifolds (influence regions of maxima)+ ascending 2-manifolds (influence regions of minima)+ descending 1-manifolds (Separatrix $V_1$-paths)+ ascending 1-manifolds (Separatrix $V_2$-paths)
### Supported File Formats ###
Morse-Spark supports files in `.off` format, which are simple ASCII files containing the explicit representation of vertices and triangles```nV mT 0 - number of vertices (nV) and triangles (mT)x1 y1 f1 - x y z coordinates for each vertex and its field valuex2 y2 f2. . .xn yn fn
v11 v21 v31 - vertices (v11 v21 v31) of the first trianglev12 v22 v32. . . v1m v2m v3m
WARC Thunderbird, Volume 1
Creators: name: Croes, Dale R.
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 1980
Subjects: Washington Archeological Research Center
Archaeology

description: 1980's WARC (Washington Archeological Research Center) was an experiment in communitarianism for Northwest Archaeology--and it did WARC (Work). This is Volume 1 of our News Bulletin, the WARC Thunderbird, with Issues 1-12, 1980-1981. The WARC Thunderbird provided a platform for communications across the region and contains a wealth of information about this formative period of Archaeology in Washington State. The Washington Archaeological Research Center was established in 1972 at Washington State University as a contract clearinghouse, mainly for Federal and State funded archaeological field projects, with the goal of assigning field projects throughout the state through a Scientific Committee with archaeologists at the six four-year universities and colleges. The founder of this phase of WARC’s operations was Dr. Richard D. Daugherty, Director, and most field projects were coordinated by his Assistant Harvey Rice. In 1980 the WARC Administrative Board, the Graduate Deans at the six four-year Washington colleges, and the Scientific Committee, felt each institution should be allowed to take their own directions as archaeological field contract programs, and decided to keep the general framework of WARC intact, to coordinate and maintain, with the State Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation (OAHP), the State’s site records, contract/research reports library, and facilitate communications and coordination of general records-based research at the six WARC institution. Dr. Dale R. Croes was assigned Acting Director (a 1/2-time position) and he recruited Steven Hackenberger as his able Assistant Director. This revised structure continued to bring together the WARC Administrative Board, the Scientific Committee and the establishment of a broad Advisory Council representing private contract archaeologists; professional archaeologists from Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia, Canada; Native American Representatives; Federal/State agencies; and Archaeological/Historical Societies. In many ways it was an effort to work together, using our limited resources, to promote archaeological interests (especially digitizing, standardizing and updating our paper-based archaeological site forms)—a coordinating of our discipline, in a form of communitarianism, based on the idea that those involved in archaeology were essentially cooperative (“good”) people who wanted to work together.