cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sans différends, point d'harmonie : les règlements de conflit à Montréal aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
Creators: name: Paul, Josianne
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: histoire de la Nouvelle-France
criminalité
Montréal XVIIe siècle
Montréal XVIIIe siècle
crime
criminologie
Louk Hulsman
pluridisciplinarité
Montréal
Histoire
situation-problème
Histoire du Canada

description: Situé à la croisée de l’histoire et de la criminologie, ce travail a voulu se mettre à hauteur d’homme afin de comprendre comment les habitants de Montréal aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles géraient les situations conflictuelles potentiellement criminalisables auxquelles ils devaient faire face. Pour ce faire, un cadre théorique original a été élaboré à partir de la notion de situation-problème proposée par le criminologue Louk Hulsman. Cette approche interdisciplinaire a permis de déterminer qu’en milieu colonial la notion de crime ne fut jamais clairement définie. Pour la population, l’identification d’actes criminels se faisait à partir des valeurs chrétiennes, de même que par les interdits identifiés par l’État. Le concept de crime et sa gestion étaient des construits sociaux qui s’adaptaient aux besoins des colons et de l’administration royale. De ce fait, deux types de situation-problème existaient. D’une part, il y avait celles opposant les habitants entre eux, qu’il est possible de nommer situations-problèmes d’origine privée, et d’autre part, il y avait celles confrontant l’État à la désobéissance de ces sujets, lesquelles peuvent être qualifiées de situations-problèmes d’origine étatique. Les situations-problèmes d’origine privée naissaient dans la vie quotidienne et tournaient autour des valeurs sociales fondamentales qu’étaient l’honneur, la famille, le travail, la subsistance et la propriété. Pour résoudre leurs querelles, les colons avaient recours à divers modes de règlement de conflit, tel que la conciliation, la compensation ou les sanctions pénales. Pour leur part, les situations-problèmes d’origine étatique se produisaient lorsque les colons ne respectaient pas les limites imposées par l’État, lequel utilisait exclusivement le mode pénal pour les sanctionner. Il ressort de cette étude qu’en Nouvelle-France la justice n’était pas un phénomène purement institutionnel et que les colons faisaient la distinction entre le sentiment de justice et les services que pouvaient leur offrir les institutions judicaires présentes sur le territoire de la juridiction royale de Montréal. À partir des différents modes de résolution de conflit disponibles, les habitants, de même que l’administration royale, cherchaient d’abord et avant tout à atteindre la satisfaction durable des parties impliquées afin de maintenir l’harmonie sociale.
Poéticas de la mirada en Frazadas del Estadio Nacional de Jorge Montealegre
Poéticas de la mirada en Frazadas del Estadio Nacional de Jorge Montealegre
Poéticas de la mirada en Frazadas del Estadio Nacional de Jorge Montealegre
Poéticas de la mirada en Frazadas del Estadio Nacional de Jorge Montealegre
Creators: name: Fischer, María Luisa; HUNTER COLLEGE OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Università di Bologna
Year: 2013
Subjects: Memoria; políticas de la mirada; testimonio; Chile golpe; elaboración del pasado
Memory; gaze; testimony; reworking of the past; Chile golpe

description: This study suggests a close reading of Jorge Montealegre's Frazadas del Estadio Nacional (2003), focusing on the poetics of gaze and visual metaphors. The dialectics of seeing and blindness is studied as the narrator's tool to overcome traumatic experiences of the past, connect it to the present, and rebuild his identity. Montealegre's literary testimony allows exploring a social experience recalled as an intimate and personal event. The text's poetic of gaze allows discerning the past in its complexities and silences.
description: El presente estudio propone una lectura detallada de Frazadas del Estadio Nacional (2003) de Jorge Montealegre, con especial atención a la poética de la mirada y las metáforas visuales. Se estudia la dialéctica de ver y estar cegado, la herramienta que moviliza el narrador para superar las experiencias traumáticas del pasado, conectarlo al presente y reconstruir la identidad. Este testimonio literario permite explorar una experiencia social evocada como un evento íntimo y personal. La poética de la mirada del texto permite discernir el pasado en sus complejidades y silencios.
description: El presente estudio propone una lectura detallada de Frazadas del Estadio Nacional (2003) de Jorge Montealegre, con especial atención a la poética de la mirada y las metáforas visuales. Se estudia la dialéctica de ver y estar cegado, la herramienta que moviliza el narrador para superar las experiencias traumáticas del pasado, conectarlo al presente y reconstruir la identidad. Este testimonio literario permite explorar una experiencia social evocada como un evento íntimo y personal. La poética de la mirada del texto permite discernir el pasado en sus complejidades y silencios.
description: El presente estudio propone una lectura detallada de Frazadas del Estadio Nacional (2003) de Jorge Montealegre, con especial atención a la poética de la mirada y las metáforas visuales. Se estudia la dialéctica de ver y estar cegado, la herramienta que moviliza el narrador para superar las experiencias traumáticas del pasado, conectarlo al presente y reconstruir la identidad. Este testimonio literario permite explorar una experiencia social evocada como un evento íntimo y personal. La poética de la mirada del texto permite discernir el pasado en sus complejidades y silencios.
description: Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani; Vol 4, No 2 (2012): Rethinking authoritarianism; 288-296
Supplementary document for Local Models for Scatter Estimation and Descattering in Polyenergetic X-Ray Tomography - 5399630.pdf
Creators: name: McCann, Michael
name: Klasky, Marc
name: Schei, Jennifer
name: Ravishankar, Saiprasad
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
title: American Idyll
title: Stories
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Olson, Neleigh
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Arts and Humanities
subject: Creative Writing
subject: English Language and Literature
subject: Fiction

description: The short stories in American Idyll: Stories experiment with the boundaries of traditional fiction by often drawing on nonfiction forms and styles to explore the roles that pop culture, locality, and cultural narratives play not only in individual lives, but also in broader terms by questioning how these elements contribute to American culture as a living, organic entity.

Often playful in tone and execution, the stories in this collection aim to inhabit a spectrum: from voice-led narratives to historical fiction to textured ethereal interactions with established cultural events and persons and wholly fictional accounts of American pop culture.
I have more than 5 files, see uploaded file "ESM file title and description" from Multi-decadal warming alters predator's effect on prey community composition
Creators: name: Niu, Jingyao
name: Huss, Magnus
name: Garnier, Aurélie
name: Vasemägi, Anti
name: Gårdmark, Anna
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310399
subject: Ecology not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary_materials.pdf
Temperament and characteristics of the mother-child relationship: Predictors of behavioural difficulties in children consequent to short-term hospitalization.
Creators: name: Larmour, Sandra.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Mental Health.

description: The purpose of the present study was to predict children's posthospitalization behavioural difficulties consequent to day surgery. Temperament characteristics and characteristics of the mother-child relationship were used to predict children's behavioural difficulties at three days, three weeks and two months posthospitalization. The mothers of the 57 subjects rated their child's pre- and posthospitalization behaviour on the Vernon Hospital Questionnaire. The Behavioural Style Questionnaire was used as the temperament measure and the Parenting Stress Index was used to assess the degree of stress within the mother-child relationship. Repeated measures analysis of variance on the Vernon Hospitalization Questionnaire indicated that there were significant differences among children's scores at the pre- and posthospitalization periods. Subsequent analyses indicated significant differences on four of the six subscales of this questionnaire. HMRs were conducted on children's behavioural difficulties with three temperament variables and the total stress variable entered as predictors. The results of these HMRs indicated that mood and total stress predicted behavioural difficulties at pre- and two month posthospitalization, whereas adapt and total stress predicted behavioural difficulties at three days and three weeks posthospitalization. Assessment of the predictive accuracy of the sample regression equations by the jackknife procedure indicated that the regression equations provide accurate predictors. Recommendations are proposed concerning how to identify children at risk for posthospitalization behavioural difficulties.
Supplementary Material from Multi-decadal warming alters predator's effect on prey community composition
Creators: name: Niu, Jingyao
name: Huss, Magnus
name: Garnier, Aurélie
name: Vasemägi, Anti
name: Gårdmark, Anna
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310399
subject: Ecology not elsewhere classified

description: ESM file title and description.docx
Osmoregulation in uncontrolled diabetes mellitus.
Creators: name: Paradis, Hilje K.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Biology, Animal Physiology.

description: In this thesis we studied the influence of osmotic loading on vasopressin secretion and water intake in experimentally-induced diabetes mellitus, in the insulin deprived state as well as when treated with insulin, in order to investigate whether the osmotic drive for vasopressin release and thirst is altered in the diabetic state. Four dogs were used for the experiments to be reported. They were infused with hypertonic sodium sulfate to investigate the influence of osmotic loading on water intake and vasopressin secretion in the control, insulin-treated diabetic and diabetic conditions. Forty-eight hours of insulin depletion did not produce a change in the basal plasma vasopressin levels, even though there was a significant increase in plasma osmolality. In addition, forty-eight hours of insulin depletion did not alter the sensitivity of the osmoreceptors controlling vasopressin release and thirst. The effect of the diabetic condition on the osmotic threshold is subject to interpretation of the data. If glucose is considered an osmotically effective solute in the diabetic state, there is an upward resetting of the osmostat for vasopressin release and thirst, and a downward or leftward shift of the osmostat when glucose is not considered to be effective osmotically. The results of the present study provide evidence that the osmotic sensitivity of vasopressin release and thirst is not affected by the presence or absence of insulin. However, whether there is a true resetting of the osmostat for vasopressin release and thirst in the diabetic state depends on the assumption mode concerning glucose permeability.
Efficient computation of a proximity matching in spatial databases
Creators: name: Lin, Xuemin
name: Zhou, Xiaomei
name: Liu, Chengfei
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Spatial data mining recently emerges from a number of real applications, such as real-estate marketing, urban planning, weather forecasting, medical image analysis, road traffic accident analysis, etc. It demands for efficient solutions for many new, expensive, and complicated problems. In this paper, we investigate a proximity matching problem among clusters and features. The investigation involves proximity relationship measurement between clusters and features. We measure proximity in an average fashion to address possible non-uniform data distribution in a cluster. An efficient algorithm is proposed and evaluated to solve the problem. The algorithm applies a standard multi-step paradigm in combining with novel lower and upper proximity bounds. The algorithm is implemented in several different modes. Our experiment results not only give a comparison among them but also illustrate the efficiency of the algorithm.
Numerical Simulations of Laminar and Turbulent Mixing Layers behind a Thin Airfoil
Creators: name: Rahbarimanesh, Saeed
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015

description: Steady and unsteady simulations of two-stream incompressible mixing layers with a fixed velocity ratio of 2, generated at the trailing edge of a NACA0006 airfoil in 2D and 3D domains are investigated in laminar and turbulent flow regimes. Numerical simulations are first conducted to study the behavior of mixing layers in laminar flow regimes. Effects of high-speed side free-stream Reynolds number and temperature are investigated and considered in relation to prediction of the developing behavior of the 2D mixing layer. Unsteady behavior of the 3D case in a range of free-stream Reynolds numbers is also explored and visualized by using parallel computation. Having shown that shape factors in both streamwise and spanwise directions increase with increasing free-stream velocity, it is found that for the 2D case raising the high-speed side flow temperature reduces the stability of the velocity profiles. The rate of reduction is accelerated by employing higher Reynolds numbers. Turbulent mixing layers behind the airfoil are studied numerically by employing parallel computation for Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS)-based models for 2D and 3D grids. In addition, large eddy simulation (LES) is conducted to explore 3D behavior of the turbulent mixing layer. Effects of inflow turbulence intensity as well as Reynolds number are investigated by examining growth rate parameters. Although the applied turbulence models predict almost the same trends of spreading rate and velocity distribution, the SST model in 2D cases and the LES model in 3D cases gave the best results. It is also found that shape factor decreases with increasing turbulence intensity. Furthermore, increasing the Reynolds number did not show any significant influence on this trend. In the spanwise direction, the shape factor variation does not follow this trend.
Museo del Holocausto: estudo de uma expografia crítica dos reflexos do regime nazista  em Buenos Aires
Museo del Holocausto: estudo de uma expografia crítica dos reflexos do regime nazista  em Buenos Aires
Museo del Holocausto: estudo de uma expografia crítica dos reflexos do regime nazista  em Buenos Aires
Museo del Holocausto: estudo de uma expografia crítica dos reflexos do regime nazista  em Buenos Aires
Creators: name: Cardoso De Mello, Janaina; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SERGIPE
name: Santos Silva, Estefanni Patrícia
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Università di Bologna
Year: 2013
Subjects: Museu; Holocausto; Argentina; Expografia; Judeus
Museum; Holocaust; Argentina; Expography; Jews

description: The article presents a critical analysis of expography integrating the Holocaust Museum in Buenos Aires, this being divided into three parts: “Eichmann. Él vivió entre nosotros” ; “Imágenes de la Shoá, el Holocausto y sus resonancias en la argentina” and “Identidad: Retratos de testigos de la Shoá”. We discuss categories that comprise museography and historical context, during Nazism period in Germany, which promoted the exodus of Jews and Germans criminals to Argentina between 1933 and 1960.
description: O artigo traz uma análise crítica da expografia que integra o Museo del Holocausto em Buenos Aires, sendo essa dividida em três partes: “Eichmann. Él vivió entre nosotros” ; “Imágenes de la Shoá, el Holocausto y sus resonancias en la argentina” e “Identidad: Retratos de testigos de la Shoá”. São portanto, discutidas as categorias que compreendem a museografia e a contextualização histórica que aborda o período nazifacista na Alemanha que promoveu o êxodo de judeus e criminosos alemães para a Argentina entre 1933 e 1960.
description: O artigo traz uma análise crítica da expografia que integra o Museo del Holocausto em Buenos Aires, sendo essa dividida em três partes: “Eichmann. Él vivió entre nosotros” ; “Imágenes de la Shoá, el Holocausto y sus resonancias en la argentina” e “Identidad: Retratos de testigos de la Shoá”. São portanto, discutidas as categorias que compreendem a museografia e a contextualização histórica que aborda o período nazifacista na Alemanha que promoveu o êxodo de judeus e criminosos alemães para a Argentina entre 1933 e 1960.
description: O artigo traz uma análise crítica da expografia que integra o Museo del Holocausto em Buenos Aires, sendo essa dividida em três partes: “Eichmann. Él vivió entre nosotros” ; “Imágenes de la Shoá, el Holocausto y sus resonancias en la argentina” e “Identidad: Retratos de testigos de la Shoá”. São portanto, discutidas as categorias que compreendem a museografia e a contextualização histórica que aborda o período nazifacista na Alemanha que promoveu o êxodo de judeus e criminosos alemães para a Argentina entre 1933 e 1960.
description: Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani; Vol 4, No 2 (2012): Rethinking authoritarianism; 171-191
National nitrogen budget for Germany
Creators: name: Häußermann, Uwe
name: Bach, Martin
name: Geupel, Markus
name: Fuchs, Stephan
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Landwirtschaft
Energie
Industrie
Bundesrepublik Deutschland

description: Emissions of reactive nitrogen (Nr) give rise to a wide range of environmental problems. Nitrogen budgets for various systems and on different scales are an established tool to quantify the sources and fate of Nr. The national nitrogen budget (NNB) for Germany calculates the nitrogen flows for eight pools: Atmosphere, Energy and Fuels, Material and Products in Industry, Humans and Settlements, Agriculture, Forest and Semi-natural Vegetation, Waste, and Hydrosphere, as well as for the transboundary N-flows. In Germany, in total 6,275 kt Nr a-1 has been introduced into the nitrogen cycle annually (mean 2010 to 2014), of which 43% stem from ammonia synthesis. Domestic extraction and import of nitrogenous fossil fuels (lignite, coal, crude oil) releases another 2,335 kt Nr a-1. Import of food, feed and materials contributes 745 kt Nr a-1, while biological N fixation converts 308 kt Nr a-1 into organically bound nitrogen. In terms of Nr sinks, the combustion and denoxing of fuels and the refining of crude oil converts 2,594 kt Nr a-1 to N2. In waters, soils, and wastewater treatment plants, denitrification leads to the release of 1,107 kt Nr a-1 as N2. Via the atmosphere and hydrosphere, Germany exports 755 kt Nr a-1 to neighbouring countries and into coastal waters. On balance, Germany releases 1,627 kt Nr a-1 annually to the environment. However, the NNB as a whole and the individual pool balances involve substantial uncertainties, which have to be considered when interpreting the results. ©2021 The Author(s)
Evaluating the response styles theory of depression using descriptive experience sampling
Creators: name: Scott, Theresa A.
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2009

description: The Response Styles Theory of Depression states that there are two main responses to depression: distraction and rumination. Though it is believed distraction helps to alleviate feelings of dysphoria, the theory suggests rumination actually prolongs and intensifies episodes of depression (Nolen-Hoeksema, 1990, 1991). Rumination is also believed to play a role in the higher rates of depression seen in women (Nolen-Hoeksema, 1990, 1991). In 1987, Nolen-Hoeksema created the Response Styles Questionnaire (RSQ) as a measure to identify those who tend to use distraction or rumination as a psychological response to feelings of sadness or depression. The goal of this study was to examine the inner experience of participants who endorsed engaging in rumination as a response to dysphoric feelings to determine if the construct of rumination could be observed within their inner experiences. We recruited four participant who scored 2 standard deviations above the mean on the rumination subscale of the RSQ (High Rumination Group) and two participants who scored at or near the mean on the rumination subscale of the RSQ (Average Rumination Group; Nolen-Hoeksema, 1987). Using Descriptive Experience Sampling over a period of three to four days, we examined a total of 107 moments of inner experience from the six participants. Using three raters not otherwise involved in the study, the extent to which each moment contained rumination was rated. The overall valence of each moment of experience was also rated. We also examined the inner experience of each individual to determine the extent to which there were any salient characteristics. Rumination was rated as present to some extent in just under half of the samples. Rumination and valence were found to be highly correlated, which could indicate of lack of specificity in the two constructs. The two groups did differ in terms of the salient characteristics of their inner experiences: those in the High Rumination Group were found to have higher frequencies of feelings and unsymbolized thinking. Finally, there was a very strong correlation between the rumination subscale of the RSQ and a measure of global psychological distress, suggesting further investigation of the construct of rumination may be worthwhile. Overall, there appears to be some differences within the inner experiences of those who report ruminating when feeling dysphoric or depressed. Further investigation with a larger number of participants could enlighten psychological practices.
LAS Centre identities and practices within higher education: fragments for negotiation
Creators: name: Melles, Gavin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The teaching of language and academic skills is diffused across higher education insitutions and is not uniquely located in LAS. This means that a discussion about identities and futures of 'LAS' in times of change is in itself problematic. Likewise, the discourses around centre identities within faculties, the role of technology and the web, and responses to an increasingly diverse student body float across insitutions with no privileged convergence on LAS. So it is necessary first to acknowledge that 'our' identity is still very much open to negotiation and contestation and that the insitutional fragmentation of LAS practices has consequences for a workable identity and a coherent response to times of change. I use a recent shift from New Zealand to Australia across two language centres, some postructural 'scaffolding', and representations of current practices and discourses to try to locate some responses to these questions and their implications for LAS professional identity practice, and organisation within institutions.
Improved Membrane Pretreatment by Floatation
Creators: name: Xu, Bingjie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Hollow fiber ultrafiltration membrane
membrane fouling
coagulation/flocculation/floatation
resistance-in-series fouling index

description: Coagulation/flocculation/sedimentation is a common pretreatment process prior to microfiltration (MF) or ultrafiltration (UF) to alleviate membrane fouling, however there has been limited research on floatation as the pretreatment separation process. The main objective of this study is to compare sedimentation with floatation as part of the pretreatment for ultrafiltration of Ottawa River water (ORW) with relatively high natural organic matter (NOM) content. Water samples pretreated at two full-scale plants were subjected to multiple-day UF membrane fouling tests (constant flux with backwash and chemical cleaning) using an automated bench-scale UF hollow fiber membrane system. For all the experiments, the transmembrane pressure (TMP) increased sharply during the beginning of the operation (~10 h), which indicated the adsorption was significant. In the later cycles, the TMP showed a more linear constant increase, which indicated the built up of the cake layers. The total fouling index (TFI), hydraulically irreversible fouling index (HIFI) and chemical irreversible fouling index (CIFI) for floated water were much smaller than those of settled waters during both summer and winter testing. Thus, for this type of water coagulation/floatation pretreatment was superior process compared to coagulation/sedimentation, the decreased fouling appears to be linked to greater hydrophobic NOM removal by the coagulation/floatation. For all the tests, HIFI/TFIs were less than 0.1, which is to mean most of the fouling was reversible by hydraulic backwashing.Large fluctuation of backwash efficiencies with time were found for all the tested waters. Enhanced chemical backwash with 100 ppm chlorine and chemical clean with 0.1N NaOH & 200 ppm chlorine were found to be very effective at reducing fouling for pretreated ORW. As expected longer filtration cycles resulted in greater fouling but with a slightly greater degree of hydraulically reversible fouling.
Australians' attitudes to migration
Creators: name: Birrell, Bob
name: Betts, Katharine
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Since the early 1970s, a majority of Australians have favoured a reduction in Australia's immigration programme or no increase. Through most of this period the largest group was those who wanted to see a reduction. The latest opinion poll on the question (September 2001) shows that 41 per cent think that the we are bringing in too many immigrants, 44 per cent think that the current numbers are about right and 10 per cent think that the numbers are too low.
Mixed Finite Element Methods for Addressing Multi-Species Diffusion Using the Stefan-Maxwell Equations
Creators: name: McLeod, Michael
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Stefan-Maxwell
mixed finite element
multi-species diffusion

description: The Stefan-Maxwell equations are a system of nonlinear partial differential equations that describe the diffusion of multiple chemical species in a container. These equations are of particular interest for their applications to biology and chemical engineering. The nonlinearity and coupled nature of the equations involving many variables make finding solutions difficult, so numerical methods are often used. In the engineering literature the system is inverted to write fluxes as functions of the species gradient before any numerical method is applied. In this thesis it is shown that employing a mixed finite element method makes the inversion unnecessary, allowing the numerical solution of Stefan-Maxwell equations in their primitive form. The plan of the thesis is as follows, first a mixed variational formulation will be derived for the Stefan-Maxwell equations. The nonlinearity will be dealt with through a linearization. Conditions for well-posedness of the linearized formulation are then determined. Next, the linearized variational formulation is approximated using mixed finite element methods. The finite element methods will then be shown to converge to an approximate solution. A priori error estimates are obtained between the solution to the approximate problem and the exact solution. The convergence order is then verified through an analytic test case and compared to standard methods. Finally, the solution is computed for another test case involving the diffusion of three species and compared to other methods.
The Health Impact of Sedentary Behaviour In Children and Youth
Creators: name: Saunders, Travis J.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Sedentary behaviour
Physical Activity
Cardiometabolic Risk
Pediatric
Food Intake

description: Emerging evidence suggests that sedentary behaviour is independently associated with cardiometabolic disease risk in school-aged children and youth. This thesis includes 4 related studies in the pursuit of 2 objectives: 1) To determine the cross-sectional association of sedentary time, interruptions in sedentary time, sedentary bout length, and total movement variability with markers of cardiometabolic disease risk among children and youth, and 2) To examine the impact of 1-day of prolonged sedentary behaviour, with and without interruptions or structured physical activity, on markers of cardiometabolic disease risk, hunger, food intake and spontaneous physical activity levels in children and youth. In Study 1, we found that interruptions in sedentary time and short bouts of sedentary time were beneficially associated with clustered cardiometabolic disease risk in boys and girls aged 8-11 years, independent of total sedentary time, moderate-and-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), and other confounders (all p<0.05), while the opposite was true for screen based sedentary behaviours. In Study 2, we found that movement variability (minute-to-minute changes in movement intensity) was negatively associated with clustered cardiometabolic disease risk and systolic blood pressure independent of MVPA, sedentary time and other covariates in a representative sample of American children and youth aged 12-17 years (all p<0.05). In Studies 3 and 4, we found that prolonged sitting, with or without interruptions and structured MVPA did not result in acute changes in markers of cardiometabolic disease risk, nor subsequent ad libitum food intake or physical activity levels in healthy children aged 10-14 years (all p ≥0.05). Taken together, the studies that make up this thesis suggest that optimal levels of cardiometabolic disease risk are most likely to be seen in children who limit their time engaging in screen-based sedentary behaviours, who frequently interrupt their sedentary time, and who have high levels of variability in their movement behaviours.
Mercury Exposure in Ireland: Results of the DEMOCOPHES Human Biomonitoring Study
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Quecksilber
Human-Biomonitoring
Haar
Exposition

description: Background: Monitoring of human exposure to mercury is important due to its adverse health effects. This study aimed to determine the extent of mercury exposure among mothers and their children in Ireland, and to identify factors associated with elevated levels. It formed part of the Demonstration of a study to Coordinate and Perform Human Biomonitoring on a European Scale (DEMOCOPHES) pilot biomonitoring study. Methods: Hair mercury concentrations were determined from a convenience sample of 120 mother/child pairs. Mothers also completed a questionnaire. Rigorous quality assurance within DEMOCOPHES guaranteed the accuracy and international comparability of results. Results: Mercury was detected in 79.2% of the samples from mothers, and 62.5% of childrens samples. Arithmetic mean levels in mothers (0.262 Ţg/g hair) and children (0.149 Ţg /g hair) did not exceed the US EPA guidance value. Levels were significantly higher for those with higher education, and those who consumed more fish. Conclusions: The study demonstrates the benefit of human biomonitoring for assessing and comparing internal exposure levels, both on a population and an individual basis. It enables the potential harmful impact of mercury to be minimised in those highly exposed, and can therefore significantly contribute to population health. Quelle: http://www.mdpi.com
Design education in the university: a philosophical and socio-economic inquiry
Creators: name: Friedman, Ken
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Life and work in the global knowledge economy demands more of education than has ever been required in human history. At first, what is now called design education took place in the apprentice tradition of the artisan craft guilds. When formal and informal schools for craft or art developed, they took a central role in design education. Some of these became schools of art and design. In nations where design was taught outside the apprentice tradition, these were the primary centers of professional design and craft education until recently. Over the past five decades, however, design education moved into the university.
Social Tag-based Community Recommendation Using Latent Semantic Analysis
Creators: name: Akther, Aysha
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Community Recommendations
Latent Semantic Analysis
Recommender Systems
Social Community

description: Collaboration and sharing of information are the basis of modern social web system. Users in the social web systems are establishing and joining online communities, in order to collectively share their content with a group of people having common topic of interest. Group or community activities have increased exponentially in modern social Web systems. With the explosive growth of social communities, users of social Web systems have experienced considerable difficulty with discovering communities relevant to their interests. In this study, we address the problem of recommending communities to individual users. Recommender techniques that are based solely on community affiliation, may fail to find a wide range of proper communities for users when their available data are insufficient. We regard this problem as tag-based personalized searches. Based on social tags used by members of communities, we first represent communities in a low-dimensional space, the so-called latent semantic space, by using Latent Semantic Analysis. Then, for recommending communities to a given user, we capture how each community is relevant to both user’s personal tag usage and other community members’ tagging patterns in the latent space. We specially focus on the challenging problem of recommending communities to users who have joined very few communities or having no prior community membership. Our evaluation on two heterogeneous datasets shows that our approach can significantly improve the recommendation quality.
Eggshell Membrane Proteins provide Innate Immune Protection
Creators: name: Cordeiro, Cristianne
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Eggshell membranes, OCX-36, Proteomics

description: The microbiological safety of avian eggs is a major concern for the poultry industry and for consumers due to the potential for severe impacts on public health. Innate immune defense is formed by proteins with antimicrobial and immune-modulatory activities and ensures the protection of the chick embryo against pathogens. The objective of this project was to identify the chicken eggshell membrane (ESM) proteins that play a role in these innate immune defense mechanisms. We hypothesized that ESM Ovocalyxin-36 (OCX-36) is a pattern recognition protein, and characterized purified ESM OCX-36. OCX-36 has antimicrobial activity against S. aureus and binds E. coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and S. aureus lipoteichoic acid (LTA). We additionally investigated the OCX-36 nonsynonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at cDNA position 211. The corresponding isoforms (proline-71 or serine-71) were purified from eggs collected from genotyped homozygous hens. A significant difference between Pro-71 and Ser-71 OCX-36s for S. aureus LTA binding activity was observed. From these experiments, we confirmed the hypothesis that OCX-36 is a pattern recognition molecule. We also found that OCX-36 has anti-endotoxin properties and is a macrophage immunostimulator to produce NO and TNF-α. Digested OCX-36 down-regulated the expression of genes involved in LPS signaling and inflammatory responses. Moreover, OCX-36-derived peptides inhibited the production of LPS-induced pro-inflammatory mediators associated with endotoxemia in vivo. Quantitative proteomics analysis of ESMs was performed to evaluate changes in ESM protein abundance during chick embryonic development. Bioinformatics analysis revealed enrichment of proteins associated with antimicrobial and immune protection, vascularization, calcium mobilization and lipid transport, which are vital for chick embryonic development. In unfertilized eggs, protease inhibitors and antimicrobial proteins were enriched. In summary, the ESMs are enriched in proteins with antimicrobial, antioxidant and immune-modulatory properties, which aid in the development of the chick embryo and protect the embryo and unfertilized egg against pathogen invasion.
Time-Stepping Methods in Cardiac Electrophysiology
Creators: name: Roy, Thomas
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Cardiac Electrophysiology
Heart Simulation
Numerical Analysis
Stability Analysis
Semi-Implicit methods

description: Modelling in cardiac electrophysiology results in a complex system of partial differential equations (PDE) describing the propagation of the electrical wave in the heart muscle coupled with a highly nonlinear system of ordinary differential equations (ODE) describing the ionic activity in the cardiac cells. This system forms the widely accepted bidomain model or its slightly simpler version, the monodomain model. To a large extent, the stiffness of the whole model depends on the choice of the ionic model, which varies in terms of complexity and realism. These simulations require accurate and, depending on the ionic model used, possibly very stable numerical methods. At this time, solving these models numerically requires CPU time of around one day per heartbeat. Therefore, it is necessary to use the most efficient method for these simulations. This research focuses on the comparison and analysis of several time-stepping methods: explicit or semi-implicit, operator splitting, deferred correction and Rush-Larsen methods. The goal is to find the optimal method for the ionic model used. For our analysis, we used the monodomain model but our results apply to the bidomain model as well. We compare the methods for three ionic models of varying complexity and stiffness: the Mitchell-Schaeffer models with only 2 variables, the more realistic Beeler-Reuter model with 8 variables, and the stiff and very complex ten Tuscher-Noble-Noble-Panfilov (TNNP) models with 17 variables. For each method, we derived absolute stability criteria of the spatially discretized monodomain model and verified that the theoretical critical time steps obtained closely match the ones in numerical experiments. Convergence tests were also conducted to verify that the numerical methods achieve an optimal order of convergence on the model variables and derived quantities (such as speed of the wave, depolarization time), and this in spite of the local non-differentiability of some of the ionic models. We looked at the efficiency of the different methods by comparing computational times for similar accuracy. Conclusions are drawn on the methods to be used to solve the monodomain model based on the model stiffness and complexity, measured respectively by the most negative eigenvalue of the model's Jacobian and the number of variables, and based on strict stability and accuracy criteria.
Quête de sens de l’expérience de loisir par le participant : le loisir en cycle de fin de vie
Creators: name: Harrison, Natalie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: bien être subjectif
cycle de fin de vie
loisir
temps

description: Lorsque la personne se retrouve en cycle de fin de vie, elle se retrouve avec beaucoup de temps résiduel, soit le temps qui reste après que tous les soins de base et médicaux soient comblés, le temps de se nourrir et de se laver, de s’habiller, de dormir et de recevoir les soins personnels. Peu d’attention est portée sur la dimension des expériences de loisirs et de leurs significations aux yeux des participants en cycle de fin de vie, vivant soit à domicile ou dans un hospice. L’objet de cette thèse est en premier lieu d’explorer comment les patients en cycle de fin de vie bénéficiaires des programmes de loisirs offerts dans un hospice comblent leur temps résiduel et en second lieu d’examiner comment ces derniers perçoivent leur expérience de loisir. À partir d’une approche qualitative inductive, une entrevue, portant sur l’interprétation de leur expérience de loisir, a été administrée auprès de dix-neuf participants, dont trois résidents de l’hospice, onze participants au programme de jour et cinq proches aidants. Parmi les proches aidants, deux sont des membres de familles d’un résident, deux sont bénévoles et un est employé de l’hospice. Tous les participants comblent leur temps résiduel avec des expériences de loisirs qu’ils identifient comme étant significatives pour eux. Ces expériences de loisirs sont perçues comme importantes pour le participant et leur procurent plusieurs bienfaits. L’étude fait de nombreuses recommandations pour recherches futures.
First Nations Women's Evacuation During Pregnancy from Rural and Remote Reserves
Creators: name: Lawford, Karen
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: First Nations
Policy
Health
Evacuation Policy
Archival research

description: Pregnant First Nations women who live on reserves in rural and remote regions of Canada are routinely evacuated to urban cities to await labour and birth; this is commonly referred to as Health Canada’s evacuation policy. I produced two stand alone papers to investigate this policy. In the first, I investigated the development and implementation of the Canadian government’s evacuation policy. Archival research showed that the evacuation policy began to take shape in 1892 and was founded on Canada’s goals to assimilate and civilize First Nations. My second paper employed First Nations feminist theory to understand why the evacuation policy does not result in good health, especially for First Nations women. Because the evacuation policy is incongruent with First Nations’ epistemologies, it compromises First Nations’ health. I offer policy recommendations to promote First Nations health in a way that is consistent with First Nations’ epistemologies and goals towards self-determination and self-governance.
ANÁLISIS DE LOS DESEOS DE LOS CLIENTES DE SERVICIOS INMOBILIARIOS MEDIANTE EL MODELO KANO
Creators: name: Adams, Juan Ariel
name: Benítez, Marcos Daniel
name: Guidek, Roberto Cesar
name: Domínguez, Guillermo Alfonso
name: Flores, Verónica Alejandra
name: Kluge, Alicia Gabriela
Publisher: name: Revista UIIPS
Year: 2016
Subjects: Inmobiliarias. Satisfacción. Modelo Kano. Imóveis. Satisfação. Modelo de Kano.

description: RESUMEN
Este trabajo analiza los deseos de los clientes de servicios inmobiliarios mediante el Modelo KANO. Tal abordaje es debido a que se evidencia que las inmobiliarias no logran direccionar sus esfuerzos y recursos en las características o servicios que aumentan la satisfacción de los clientes.El mismo se desarrolló mediante la investigación de la oferta y la demanda de servicios inmobiliarios en la ciudad de Posadas provincia de Misiones. El propósito es investigar los factores de satisfacción y no satisfacción de los demandantes de servicios inmobiliarios, evaluar el grado de satisfacción de los clientes respecto a los servicios brindados por las inmobiliarias componentes del sector y proponer mejoras al servicio ofrecido por las empresas inmobiliarias. El análisis demostró en cuanto a las necesidades de los clientes de servicios inmobiliarios, que su satisfacción aumentaría con la inclusión en el servicio de las siguientes actividades: práctica a conciencia de  valores de honestidad, confianza y respeto, chequeo registral de inmuebles, entrega de presupuesto al inicio de la prestación del servicio, extensión del horario de atención, contacto post-operación como servicio de post-venta, servicio de mantenimiento y remodelación y financiación para la adquisición de inmuebles.
 SUMÁRIO
Este trabalho analisa os desejos dos clientes de serviços imobiliários por Modelo Kano. Tal abordagem é devido evidenciado que o imobiliário não atingir os seus esforços e recursos na abordagem de recursos ou serviços que aumentam a satisfação do cliente. O mesmo desenvolvimento por meio de pesquisa a oferta e demanda de serviços imobiliários na cidade da província de Posadas de Misiones. O objetivo é investigar os fatores de satisfação e nenhuma satisfação para os requerentes de serviços imobiliários, avaliar o grau satisfação de clientes relativas a os serviços prestados pelos imobiliários componentes do sector e propor melhorias para o serviço oferecido pelas empresas imobiliárias. A análise mostrou como às necessidades de clientes de serviços imobiliários, que fazer satisfação iria aumentar com a inclusão no serviço das seguintes atividades: consciência prática dos valores de honestidade, confiança e respeito, propriedade de verificação de registo, o orçamento de entrega no início do serviço, a extensão de horas de serviço, entre em contato após a operação como serviço, manutenção e remodelação e financiamento para aquisição de imóveis pós-venda.
description: Revista UIIPS, Número Especial - II Congreso de Red de Cooperación entre Instituciones de Enseñanza Superior ACINNET
Additional file 1 of Hippocampal interleukin-33 mediates neuroinflammation-induced cognitive impairments
Creators: name: Reverchon, Flora
name: Vidian De Concini
name: Larrigaldie, Vanessa
name: Benmerzoug, Sulayman
name: Briault, Sylvain
name: Dieudonnée Togbé
name: Ryffel, Bernhard
name: Quesniaux, Valérie F. J.
name: Menuet, Arnaud
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1. The emotional state of mice was tested 24H after the intrahippocampal microinjection. Anxiety-like behavior, representing by the time spent in center of the open field, was not different between: (a) mice intrahippocampal injected with vehicle solution (Veh) versus rmIL-33, (b) mice intrahippocampal injected with vehicle solution versus rmIL-33 treated with minocycline, (c) IL-1αβ KO mice intrahippocampal injected with vehicle solution versus rmIL-33. Values are mean ± SEM, n = 8-15 per group, Mann-Whitney test was used to compare the time spent in the center between 2 groups.
Expression Levels of E-cadherin in Breast Cancer Cells Alter Apoptotic Susceptibility and Facilitate Cancer Stem Cell Phenotypes in Response to Wnt Signalling
Creators: name: Ooi, Sarah
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: breast cancer
E-cadherin
cancer stem cells
Wnt
Akt

description: It is well established that the Wnt pathway is associated with tumorigenesis in a wide range of human cancers, including a majority of breast cancers. However, due to diverse roles of Wnt signalling, therapeutic targeting has not yielded consistent results and underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Here, I show that breast cancer cell lines with high E-cadherin expression are resistant to TCF4 inhibitors and develop cancer stem cell characteristics. Conversely, cells with low levels of E-cadherin are very susceptible to cell death with the same treatment. My results suggest that breast cancer cells in an epithelial-like state, but not mesenchymal-like state, will be more responsive to therapeutic targeting of the Wnt/TCF pathway. Importantly, E-cadherin high cells show robust Akt activation, whereas E-cadherin low cells do not. Thus, combinational inhibition of both Wnt and Akt signalling is needed to effectively target breast cancer cells in both the epithelial and mesenchymal states.