cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Analysis of Legal Institutions, Conflict and Trade
Creators: name: Oloufade, Djoulassi Kokou
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Institutions
Property Right Enforcement
Trade Openness
Conflict Risk
Income Inequality
Developing Countries
Developed Countries
State Capacity
Natural Resources
Threshold Effect
Dual Citizenship Legislation
Foreign Direct Investments
Workers' Remittances
Child Mortality and Poverty Alleviation
Household Consumption Expenditures
Migration and Brain Drain
Low and High Skilled Workers

description: In the first paper, the effects of trade openness and conflict risk on income inequality are investigated. I obtain that the effect of trade openness on inequality depends on the level of conflict risk. More precisely, there exists a threshold effect: trade openness worsens income inequality in countries where the risk of internal and external conflicts is high. Moreover, I find that countries with higher risk of conflicts are more unequal, and that more ethnically diverse countries increase income inequality. Finally, I obtain that democratic regimes decrease inequality. In the second paper, we analyze the general-equilibrium consequences of property right enforcement in the natural resource sector. Assuming that exclusion requires both private and public enforcement efforts, we compare states that differ by their ability to provide protection services. This ability is referred to as state capacity. We obtain that public protection services can effectively act as either substitutes or complements to private enforcement, and this strongly depends on state capacity. Under low state capacity, an increase in state protection services leads to a drop in national income as labor is drawn away from the directly productive activities. The opposite holds for high-capacity states. As a result, public protection services have an ambiguous effect on national income even though they can unambiguously increase resource rents. In the third paper, we argue that the right to hold dual citizenship can generate important social and economic benefits beyond its political dimension. We assemble a large panel dataset on dual citizenship. We find that in developing countries, dual citizenship recognition increases remittance inflows by US$1.19 billion, GDP and household consumption, and improves child survival. In developed countries, however, dual citizenship recognition decreases remittance inflows by US$1.44 billion, but increases FDI by US$828 billion, raises household consumption, gross capital formation and trade, and provides incentives for skilled workers to move to other countries.
Additional file 4 of Stagewise resolution of temperature-dependent embryonic and postembryonic development in the cowpea seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus (F.)
Creators: name: Kutcherov, Dmitry
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4. Logistic regression curves showing transition of C. maculatus embryos from one stage to the next (an extended version of Fig. 2, all designations as in Fig. 2).
Quality of Service for Wireless Sensor Networks in Smart Grid Applications
Creators: name: Al-Anbagi, Irfan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Wireless Sensor Networks
Smart Grid
QoS
IEEE 802.15.4 protocol
ZigBee
Delay
Reliability
Adaptive protocol
Cross Layer
Network Optimization
Condition Monitoring
MAC layer

description: Monitoring and controlling smart grid assets in a timely and reliable manner is highly desired for emerging smart grid applications. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are anticipated to be widely utilized in a broad range of smart grid applications due to their numerous advantages along with their successful adoption in various critical areas including military and health care. Despite these advantages, the use of WSNs in such critical applications has brought forward a new challenge of ful lling the Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of these applications. Providing QoS support is a challenging issue due to highly resource constrained nature of sensor nodes, unreliable wireless links and harsh operation environments. In this thesis we critically investigate the problem of QoS provisioning in WSNs. We identify challenges, limitations and requirements for applying QoS provisioning for WSNs in smart grid applications. We nd that the topic of data prioritization techniques at the MAC layer to provide delay bounds in condition monitoring applications is not well developed. We develop six novel QoS schemes that provide data di erentiation and reduce the latency of high priority tra c in a smart grid context. These schemes are namely; Delay-Responsive Cross layer (DRX), Fair and Delay-aware Cross layer (FDRX), Delay-Responsive Cross layer with Linear backo (LDRX), Adaptive Realistic and Stable Model (ARSM), Adaptive Inter-cluster head Delay Control (AIDC) and QoS-aware GTS Allocation (QGA). Furthermore, we propose a new Markov-based model for IEEE 802.15.4 MAC namely, Realistic and Stable Markovbased (RSM). RSM considers actual network conditions and enhances the stability of the WSNs. We show through analytical and simulation results that all of the presented schemes reduce the end-to-end delay while maintaining good energy consumption and data delivery values.
Additional file 5 of Stagewise resolution of temperature-dependent embryonic and postembryonic development in the cowpea seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus (F.)
Creators: name: Kutcherov, Dmitry
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5. Total (oviposition to adult emergence) developmental rates in C. maculatus at various constant temperatures, data from different studies.
Modeling Depression in the Rat: The Development and Usefulness of a Female-centric Approach
Creators: name: Baker, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Stress
Depression
Female
Rat
Chronic Mild Stress
Gestational Stress
Anxiety
Social Housing
Estrous Cycle
Weight
Maternal Behaviour
Anhedonia

description: Women are twice as likely to suffer from depression as men, yet stress and depression research has relied primarily on the responses of males. Early life stress is hypothesized to influence the development of vulnerability to depression while adult stress exposure can act as a trigger in those predisposed. This relationship is mediated by other environmental factors. Maternal care and the social environment appear to be particularly important for mammals. The purpose of this thesis was twofold: to develop an animal model of depression for use in female rats based on the chronic mild stress (CMS) model previously validated for use in male rodents, and to apply this model in female offspring of mothers exposed to physical restraint in the second half of gestation representing an early life insult. Results indicate that a modified CMS model was able to alter hedonic and physiological responses not present in the original model. Housing condition interacted with CMS in that effects were evident only in singly housed rats. While gestational stress (GS) altered maternal weight and behavioural profiles related to offspring care and anxiety, little to no behavioural effects were noted in juvenile or adult offspring. Applying the modified CMS model to adult female offspring resulted in an anhedonic-like response that recovered rapidly prior to the third week of CMS. Weight in GS female rats was attenuated throughout life beginning post weaning. When taken together, these results demonstrate that stress-based models, previously established in males, must be altered to accommodate the hormonally intact female rat in two ways: first, to eliminate extraneous variables that may interfere with the estrous cycle and mask possible stress effects, and secondly, to consider the appropriateness of individual stressors to induce a stress response in females. While a general lack of effect was noted in response to CMS, this was interpreted as a strong influence of housing and supportive early life experiences in protecting the female rat from the establishment of stress effects related to depression and anxiety. The housing practices employed here may be considered a model of stress-resilience and represents an encouraging avenue of future research.
Gewässertyp des Jahres 2013
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Gewässertyp des Jahres
subject: Gebirgsbach
subject: Fließgewässer
subject: Grundwassergefälle
subject: Ökologischer Zustand
subject: Flussströmung
subject: Flusseinzugsgebiet
subject: südliches Alpenvorland
subject: Lebewesen
subject: Wasser
subject: Water

description: Die Bäche und Flüsse des südlichen Alpenvorlandes sind Gewässertyp des Jahres 2013. Fachleute bezeichnen diese Gewässer als Fließgewässer der Jungmoräne des Alpenvorlandes. Naturnahe Gewässer beherbergen eine Vielzahl von Arten und stellen damit äußerst wertvolle Lebensräume dar. Unsere Gewässer in Deutschland liegen in unterschiedlichen Ökoregionen, Höhenlagen, haben unterschiedliche Längen, Breiten, Tiefen, Lebensräume und Lebensgemeinschaften. Daher lassen sie sich verschiedenen Typen zuordnen.
Application-oriented flow control for wireless sensor networks
Creators: name: Jin, Jiong
name: Wang, Wei-Hua
name: Palaniswami, M.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper addresses flow control and resource allocation problem for heterogeneous wireless sensor networks which consist of diverse sensor types and applications. The performance of these applications, either elastic data collecting or real-time monitoring, is modelled as a utility function of the sensor source rate. The traditional optimal flow control approach, which requires the utility function to be strictly concave, is no longer applicable because of real-time applications involved. Therefore, we propose a new utility-based flow control framework that is able to allocate the resources (wireless channel usage and sensor node energy) efficiently and guarantee the application performance in a utility proportional or max-min fair manner. Furthermore, the optimization and convergence of the algorithm is examined in the paper as well.
Three-dimensional nonlinear optical endoscopy
Creators: name: Fu, Ling
name: Jain, Ankur
name: Cranfield, Charles G.
name: Xie, Huikai
name: Gu, Min
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The development of miniaturized nonlinear optical microscopy or endoscopy is essential to complement the current imaging modalities for diagnosis and monitoring of cancers. We report on a nonlinear optical endoscope based on a double-clad photonic crystal fiber and a two-dimensional (2-D) microelectromechanical system mirror, enabling the three-dimensional (3-D) nonlinear optical imaging through in vitro gastrointestinal tract tissue and human breast cancer tissue with a penetration depth of approximately 100 μm and axial resolution of 10 μm. The 3-D high-resolution and high-sensitive imaging ability of the nonlinear optical endoscope facilitates the visualization of 3-D morphologic and cell nuclei arrangement within tissue, and therefore will be important for histopathologic interpretation without the need of tissue excision.
En temps de guerre comme en temps de paix, gouvernement manquant, gouvernance manquée : la protection civile au Canada, 1938-1988
Creators: name: Lamalice, André
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: protection civile
défense civile
gouvernance
gestion des crises et des urgences
précautions contre les raids aériens
Organisation de défense civile (ODC)
organisation des mesures d'urgence (OMU)
Planification d'urgence Canada (PUC)
Protection civile Canada (PCC)
Défense nationale
Guerre froide
sécurité civile
Loi sur les mesures d'urgence
Loi sur la protection civile
catastrophes
désastres
sinistres
Collège canadien de la défense civile
planification d'urgence civile

description: À travers l'étude des cinquante premières années de l'histoire de la protection civile au Canada, le présent travail discute de la capacité et de la volonté politique de gouvernements nationaux successifs d'assurer la sécurité de la population en temps de crises et d'urgences. Cette thèse soutient qu'à l'exclusion d'un bref intermède au plus fort de la Guerre froide, la fonction de protection civile ne parviendra pas à s'imposer au nombre des priorités de la gouvernance canadienne au cours de cette période. Entre la création administrative d'un sous-comité sur les précautions contre les raids aériens à la veille de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, qui marque les débuts de la fonction de protection civile au Canada, et l'adoption en 1988 de la Loi sur la protection civile, un demi-siècle s'écoule. L'histoire de cette fonction se développe en réaction à l'évolution du contexte international et au gré des impératifs politiques, économiques et sociaux nationaux qui marquent la seconde moitié du XXe siècle. Sa généalogie emprunte à la défense nationale à la fois le vocabulaire et la structure. Longtemps confondue dans la forme et dans le fond à la défense civile, la protection civile en arrive tard dans le siècle à se défaire de ses origines imposées et à se forger une personnalité propre orientée vers la gestion des urgences. Néanmoins, comme le démontre le présent travail, son évolution est marquée par d'importantes failles de gouvernance qui se traduisent inter alia par une mise en oeuvre aléatoire du système canadien de protection civile, l'absence continue d'un cadre législatif national, le développement de politiques fédérales inconsistantes, voire même à certaines périodes incohérentes, un financement trop souvent déficient et une direction indécise qu'exprime une série quasi ininterrompue de transferts administratifs et de réorganisations successives. Le présent travail en conclut que ces failles de gouvernance ont empêché l'atteinte d'un état de préparation national à la hauteur du mandat premier du gouvernement qui est d'assurer la sécurité de ses citoyens en temps de guerre comme en temps de paix.
Additional file 1 of Carbon nanomaterial-derived lung burden analysis using UV-Vis spectrophotometry and proteinase K digestion
Creators: name: Lee, Dong-Keun
name: Soyeon Jeon
name: Jiyoung Jeong
name: Song, Kyung Seuk
name: Cho, Wan-Seob
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Measurement of the concentration of CNMs using a UV-Vis spectrophotometer. CNMs were dispersed in distilled water with 3% FBS and tested up to 1000 μg/mL. The absorbance was measured at 750 nm wavelength. Note that the lower and upper detection limits for a linear dose-response were 0.39–50 μg/mL for CB, MWCNT, and CNF, and 1.56–200 μg/mL for ND and GNP. (A), carbon black; (B), nanodiamond; (C), multi-walled carbon nanotube; (D), carbon nanofiber; (E), graphene nanoplatelet. Figure S2. Evaluation of the dispersibility of CNMs. The time-course dispersibility of stock solution (A) and working solution (B) of CNMs. (A), To evaluate the dispersibility of the stock solution, 1 mg/mL stock solution was sonicated for 10 min – 100 min. Then, at each time-point, the stock solution was diluted in DW at 25 μg/mL with vigorous vortexing for 30 s and measured the optical density at 750 nm. (B), To evaluate the duration of sonication for working solution, the working solution (25 μg/mL) of each NM after an optimal sonication duration of stock solution (see Table 4) was sonicated further up to 30 min and optical density was measured at 750 nm. n = 4. Figure S3. Duration of the dispersion stability of CNMs. The working solution of CNMs at 25 μg/mL was sonicated for 10 min after an optimal sonication duration of stock solution (see Table 4). Then, the duration of the dispersion stability was measured at each time-point up to 24 h. n = 4. Table S1. The recovery rates of CB, MWCNT, and CNF from lung tissue homogenates following proteinase K digestion with quantification using the UV-Vis spectrophotometer technique. Table S2. The recovery rates of ND and GNP from lung tissue homogenates following proteinase K digestion with quantification using the UV-Vis spectrophotometer technique. Table S3. The screening result of NIR absorbance at 750 nm of various types of nanomaterials.
Additional file 1 of Amyloid-β1–43 cerebrospinal fluid levels and the interpretation of APP, PSEN1 and PSEN2 mutations
Creators: name: Perrone, Federica
name: Bjerke, Maria
name: Hens, Elisabeth
name: Sieben, Anne
name: Timmers, Maarten
name: Roeck, Arne De
name: Vandenberghe, Rik
name: Sleegers, Kristel
name: Jean-Jacques Martin
name: Deyn, Peter P. De
name: Engelborghs, Sebastiaan
name: Zee, Julie Van Der
name: Broeckhoven, Christine Van
name: Cacace, Rita
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. List of the identified APP, PSEN1 and PSEN2 mutations. Table S2. Diagnostic accuracy of the different markers and ratios to discriminate between controls and mutation carriers, measured by ROC curve analysis. Table S3. Descriptive features of PSEN1 p.E318G mutation carriers with CSF. Figure S1. Neuropathology of Patient 16. Right lateral (A) and right medial (B) hemispheres showing brain atrophy. Atrophy can be observed also at the ventricles and thalamus (C). The 4G8 staining shows amyloid plaques in the hippocampus CA4 (D). Classic neurofibrillary tangles are present in the hippocampal CA4 (AT8 stain) (E). Figure S2. Area under the curve (AUC) calculated for the three mutation carrier groups compared to controls of Aβ1-43, Aβ1-43/Aβ1-40, Aβ1-42, Aβ1-42/Aβ1-40, Aβ1-40 and Aβ1-43/Aβ1-42. AUC are calculated for the know pathogenic (red), VUS (orange) and PSEN1 p.E318G (green) mutation carrier groups compared to the control group. The AUC values and the ones for sensitivity and specificity are listed in Table S2. Figure S3. Area under the curve (AUC) calculated for the three mutation carrier groups compared to controls of sAPPα, sAPPβ, Aβ1-43/sAPPα and Aβ1-43/sAPPβ. AUC are calculated the know pathogenic (red), VUS (orange) and PSEN1 p.E318G (green) mutation carrier groups compared to the control group. The AUC values and the ones for sensitivity and specificity are listed in Table S2. Figure S4. Transcript analysis of PSEN1 in Patient 16. The bar graph shows the relative quantifications of exon 6-7 in the double carrier (Patient 16; PSEN1 p.G183V, PSEN1 p.P49L), the single carrier (sibling of Patient 16; PSEN1 p.G183V), and 4 non-carriers lymphoblast cells CHX treated (CHX) and untreated (UNT). Relative quantifications of splice junctions were calculated by dividing the number of junction-supporting reads by the total number of reads spanning the PSEN1 transcript. The quantifications for both CHX and UNT of the non-carriers are reported as averages (values of SD for CHX ± 0,001052869 and for UNT ± 0,000671837).
Health criteria for marketing of construction products in Europe are still missing
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Bauvorschrift
Gesundheit
Europa

description: The implementation of requirements to assess emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOC) from construction products into indoor air under the Construction Products Regulation (CPR) has been under discussion since 2010. The necessary tools are now ready for use: The test method EN 16516 and the EU-LCI list (LCI: lowest concentration of interest) with harmonized reference values for the health impacts of VOC. This paper presents results from a conference organized by UBA in April 2021 on a harmonized communication of VOC emissions from construction products. It includes a specific proposal for VOC classes to assess emissions and communicate the emission performance of construction products for implementation. © The Authors
A Methodology for Development of Clinical Performance Monitoring Applications
Creators: name: Mata, Pilar
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Performance Monitoring
Development Methodology
Healthcare

description: Clinical performance monitoring applications enable performance management of care processes in clinical settings. Although information technology has been advocated as a solution to support the provision of better care, the development of clinical performance monitoring applications is often a non-trivial task. A high rate of failure in IT healthcare project implementations has been reported in the literature due to the disconnect between clinicians and the development team. Furthermore, challenges inherent to the configuration of the healthcare system add to the complexity of developments. Often data sources are not adequately structured or cannot be accessed in a timely fashion; processes are uncoordinated or ill-defined; a plethora of information technologies across different healthcare organizations make interoperability problematic; and there are concerns related to privacy and security. Getting the right information to measure the achievement of the right goals at the right time for the right people is the main task to address when developing clinical performance monitoring applications. In this thesis we propose a development methodology that combines technical and managerial aspects of application development following a user-centered approach. It involves the engagement of stakeholders and users throughout in a three phase iterative process of modeling, implementation and evaluation to ensure user acceptance and adoption of applications when deployed. In particular, our focus is on the development of mobile clinical performance monitoring applications, where raw data about clinical problems are logged by healthcare providers and then transformed into meaningful reports that will support decision-making. The development methodology is evaluated using a case study of a Resident Practice Profile (RPP) application that was developed by a team lead by Dr. Gary Viner from the University of Ottawa medical school.
Supplementary document for Fast identification and size estimation of single-levitated nanoparticles for vacuum optomechanics - 5399845.pdf
Creators: name: HU, Huizhu
name: Li, Cuihong
name: Jing, Jiang
name: Zhou, Leiming
name: Fu, Zhenhai
name: Gao, Xiao-Wen
name: Li, Nan
name: Chen, Xingfan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Supplemental Materials from Polycomb group proteins confer robustness to aposematic coloration in the milkweed bug, Oncopeltus fasciatus
Creators: name: Tan, Marie
name: Park, Laura
name: Chou, Elizabeth
name: Hoesel, Madeline
name: Toh, Lyanna
name: Suzuki, Yuichiro
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310908
subject: Animal physiology - biophysics
classificationCode: 310909
subject: Animal physiology - cell
classificationCode: 310910
subject: Animal physiology - systems

description: This file contains primer sequences and additional analyses of morphological changes in Pc, E(z) and jing knockdown animals.
D3.6 Report on Drones/ multicopters platform implemented and deployed
Creators: name: Katerina Karagiannopoulou, Panagiotis Lioupis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The report contains details regarding the preparation of the drone flight campaigns in the selective areas in Cyprus and Lithuania and the generation of Very-High-Resolution (VHR) RGB images of the collected data. Details were given regarding the implementation of the automated processing flow receiving the aforementioned results, the prerequisite steps that were necessary and were scheduled before the initiation of the campaigns, and the output results, including the methods of the evaluation of image and georeferencing quality.
The Human Right to Food as a Socio-Discursive Practice
Creators: name: Sommerville, Kathryn R.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Human Right to Food
Human Rights
Critical Discourse Analysis
FIAN
La Via Campesina

description: In the past, human rights have often been studied as philosophical or legal concepts. In this thesis, Norman Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis is adopted to examine them as social practices, specifically focusing on the human right to food. This is done through a discursive analysis of a corpus of documents drawn from FIAN International, a human rights organization advocating for the human right to food, and La Via Campesina, an international peasant organization which also aims to realize the right to food but is not itself a human rights organization. Findings highlight how each of the organizations define the right to food, and show that these differences are tied to the structure of the organizations themselves. This suggests that human rights organizations such as FIAN are more constrained by their need to balance legitimacy and programmatic visions than are other types of organizations in the struggle for meaningful social change.
CEMA: Comfort Control and Energy Management Algorithms for Use in Residential Spaces Through Wireless Sensor Networks
Creators: name: Henry, Rami F.Z.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: Comfort Control
Energy Managment
HVAC optimization
Wireless Sensor Networks

description: In recent years, many strides have been achieved in the area of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), which is leading to constant innovations in the types of applications that WSNs can support. Much advancement has also been achieved in the area of smart homes, enabling its occupants to manually and easily control their utility expenses. In this thesis, both areas of research will be colluded for a simple, yet critical application: efficient and economical comfort control in smart residential spaces. The goal is to design a central, modular energy consumption control system for residential spaces, which manages energy consumption in all aspects of a typical residence. This thesis is concerned with two facets of energy consumption in residences. The first facet is concerned with controlling when the heating, ventilating, and air conditioning unit (HVAC) operates for each room separately. This is in contrast to a typical HVAC system where comfort is provided across the floor as a whole. The second facet is concerned with controlling the lighting in each room so as to not exceed a certain input value. The communication network that supports the realization of these coveted goals is based on Zigbee interconnected sensor nodes which pour data unto a smart thermostat which does all the required calculations and activates the modules required for comfort control and energy management, if needed. A Java-based discrete event simulator is then written up to simulate a floor of a typical Canadian single-family dwelling. The simulation assumes error-less communication and proceeds to record certain room variables and the ongoing cost of operation periodically. These results from the simulator are compared to the results of the well known simulator, created by DesignBuilder, which describes typical home conditions. The conclusion from this analysis is that the Comfort Control and Energy Management Algorithms (CEMA) are feasible, and that their implementation incurs significant monetary savings.
The practice and 'pathologies' of photocopying
Creators: name: Wilken, Rowan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Outside of contemporary art practice, the act of photocopying is by-and-large not given much consideration by general users and is only granted limited treatment within discussions of electronic media. This paper seeks to redress this, by speculating on the practice of photocopying and some of the less remarked on behaviours and 'drives' which motivate and structure this practice. It begins by sketching briefly the development of commercial photocopying technologies and some of their artistic uses. Then, drawing on various written accounts and observational research in a large public research library, it explores a number of 'pathologies' or curiosities of behaviour and motivation which attend and characterise the act of photocopying. The paper concludes by suggesting that gaining insight into these patterns and processes can contribute to a richer understanding of the practice of everyday photocopying, as well as human-machine interaction more generally.
Additional analysis from Social, not genetic, programming of development and stress physiology of a colonial seabird
Creators: name: Lemonnier, Camille
name: Schull, Quentin
name: Stier, Antoine
name: Boonstra, Rudy
name: Delahanty, Brendan
name: Lefol, Emilie
name: Durand, Laureline
name: Pardonnet, Sylvia
name: Robin, Jean-Patrice
name: Criscuolo, François
name: Bize, Pierre
name: Viblanc, Vincent Alexandre
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310908
subject: Animal physiology - biophysics
classificationCode: 310909
subject: Animal physiology - cell
classificationCode: 310910
subject: Animal physiology - systems

description: LemonnierCamille_AdditionAlanalysis_ESM.docx
Right to Education - From Policy to Practice: Social Exclusion and Gender in Delhi's Primary Education System
Creators: name: Sutherland, Laura A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Education
India
Meaningful Access
Social Exclusion
Silent Exclusion
Gender

description: This thesis explores patterns of access and experiences of meaningful access under India’s Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (RTE Act) from a critical gender perspective (Fraser, 1997; Jackson, 1999). Within the RTE Act, special attention is given to Section 12(1)(c), the free private school seats provision. The argument is that in order to fully analyze education progress, research must advance beyond focusing on physical access to exploring indicators of meaningful access. This thesis discusses the construction of a quantitative variable, ‘silent exclusion’, as a composite drawn from wider qualitative research. The first available data from the Insights into Education household survey in Delhi are analyzed using statistical and econometric techniques. It was found that private unaided recognized schools remain inaccessible for the most marginalized households. Child’s sex was not found to have a significant effect on school management choice, and both boys and girls attended privately and publically managed elementary schools in the sample. Four access issues pertaining to the free seat provision were identified: public awareness; reaching intended beneficiaries; low success rates for applicants; and continuing financial challenges for households accessing a free seat. In terms of children’s schooling experiences, low levels of silent exclusion were reported overall. Explicit displays of discrimination and exclusion were not found in the sample; however, less visible displays of exclusion were noted, such as a lack of leadership opportunities for children from lower income households, scheduled castes/tribes, and children attending government-managed schools. A lack of political and social pressure to fully implement the RTE Act at the local level is evident, which raises the question of how much a law in itself can bring about social change in the education sector.
Effects of Selected Natural Health Products on Drug Metabolism: Implications for Pharmacovigilance
Creators: name: Liu, Rui
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Cree Traditional Medicine
Cytochrome P450
Enzyme Inhibition
FMO
Human Carboxylesterase 1
Mechanism Based Inactivation
Metabolic drug interaction
Natural Health Products
Oseltamivir
Traditional Chinese Medicine
Type 2 Diabetes

description: Seventeen Cree anti-diabetic herbal medicines and eight Traditional Chinese Medicines have been examined for their potential to cause interactions with drugs, which is considered as a major reason for adverse drug effects. Specifically, the effect of these natural health products was examined on major Phase I drug metabolism enzymes including cytochrome P450, human carboxylesterase-1 and flavin-containing monooxygenases. Several of these natural health products have the potential to cause adverse drug effect through the inhibition of major drug metabolism enzymes. The results indicated that 7 Cree medicines plant extracts inhibited CYP3A4 activity, and 3 of them have been proven to cause potent mechanism-based inactivation of CYP3A4. Seven of eight Traditional Chinese Medicines have been identified as strong CYP3A4 inhibitors; the ethanol extract of Goji has identified as a potent inhibitor for CYP2C9 and 2C19. Goji juice showed universal inhibitory effects on most of the tested enzymes except flavin-containing monooxygenases 3.
CNT Parameterization Based on the Observed INP Concentration during Arctic Summer Campaigns in a Marine Environment
Creators: name: Cirisan, Ana
name: Girard, Eric
name: Blanchet, Jean-Pierre
name: Keita, Setigui Aboubacar
name: Gong, Wanmin
name: Irish, Vickie
name: Bertram, Allan K.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Aerosol–cloud interactions present a large source of uncertainties in atmospheric and climate models. One of the main challenges to simulate ice clouds is to reproduce the right ice nucleating particle concentration. In this study, we derive a parameterization for immersion freezing according to the classical nucleation theory. Our objective was to constrain this parameterization with observations taken over the Canadian Arctic during the Amundsen summer 2014 and 2016 campaigns. We found a linear dependence of contact angle and temperature. Using this approach, we were able to reproduce the scatter in ice nucleated particle concentrations within a factor 5 of observed values with a small negative bias. This parameterization would be easy to implement in climate and atmospheric models, but its representativeness has to first be validated against other datasets.
Additional file 3 of Effects of disease activity on lipoprotein levels in patients with early arthritis: can oxidized LDL cholesterol explain the lipid paradox theory?
Creators: name: Fernández-Ortiz, Ana M.
name: Ortiz, Ana M.
name: Pérez, Silvia
name: Toledano, Esther
name: Abásolo, Lydia
name: González-Gay, Miguel A.
name: Castañeda, Santos
name: González-Álvaro, Isidoro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Table 1. Treatment prescribed to PEARL patients along the follow-up. Supplementary Table 2. Sensitivity analysis of variables that have influence on lipid profile only including patients that did not take statins. Supplementary Table 3. Variables that have influence on lipid profile, including disease activity estimated by CRP-DAS28. Supplementary Table 4. Variables that have influence on lipid profile, including disease activity, estimated with ESR-DAS28. Supplementary Table 5. Variables that have influence on lipid profile, including disease activity, estimated with SDAI. Supplementary Table 6. Variables that have influence on lipid profile, including disease activity, estimated with CDAI. Supplementary Table 7. Variables that have influence on VLDL Cholesterol levels. Supplementary Table 8. Variables that have influence on triglyceride levels.
Additional file 1 of Saline versus 5% dextrose in water as a drug diluent for critically ill patients: a retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Aoyagi, Yukari
name: Yoshida, Takuo
name: Shigehiko Uchino
name: Takinami, Masanori
name: Uezono, Shoichi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Table 1. Sensitivity analyses for multivariable logistic regression. Supplemental Table 2. Sensitivity analyses for multivariable linear regression.
The Kodály Method and Tonal Harmony: An Issue of Post-secondary Pedagogical Compatibility
Creators: name: Penny, Lori Lynn
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: music theory pedagogy
the Kodály Method
Zoltán Kodály
Lois Choksy
Edward Aldwell
Carl Schachter
Harmony and Voice Leading (2003)
Jane Piper Clendinning
Elizabeth West Marvin
The Musician’s Guide to Theory and Analysis (2005)
Robert Gauldin
Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music (2004)
Stefan Kostka
Dorothy Payne
Tonal Harmony (2004)
Miguel Roig-Francolí
Harmony in Context (2003)

description: This study explores the topic of music theory pedagogy in conjunction with the Kodály concept of music education and its North-American adaptation by Lois Choksy. It investigates the compatibility of the Kodály Method with post-secondary instruction in tonal harmony, using a theoretical framework derived from Kodály’s methodology and implemented as a teaching strategy for the dominant-seventh chord. The customary presentation of this concept is authenticated with an empirical case study involving four university professors. Subsequently, Kodály’s four-step instructional process informs a comparative analysis of five university-level textbooks that evaluates the sequential placement of V7, examines the procedure by which it is presented, and considers the inclusion of correlated musical excerpts. Although divergent from traditional approaches to tonal harmony, Kodály’s principles and practices are pedagogically effective. By progressing from concrete to abstract, preceding symbolization with extensive musical experience, conceptual understandings are not only intellectualized, but are developed and internalized.
Effects of LTD-blocking Tat-GluR2 Peptide on Contextual Fear Memory Impairments Induced by Cannabinoids
Creators: name: Kamino, Daphne
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: contextual fear conditioning
cannabinoid
HU210
LTD
Tat-GluR2
memory
fear
anxiety
CFC
extinction

description: The mechanisms underlying cannabinoid impairment of fear memory is not clear. This study investigated the effects of the synthetic cannabinoid HU210 and the endocannabinoid hydrolysis inhibitor JZL 195 on fear memory following contextual fear conditioning (CFC; an animal model of fear). The long-term depression (LTD)-blocking peptide Tat-GluR2 was utilized to investigate whether the expression of cannabinoid-induced LTD (CB-LTD) is required for the cannabinoid impairment of acquisition and consolidation of contextual fear memory. HU210 reduced freezing throughout the test phase of the acquisition protocol, which was not affected by pre-administration of Tat-GluR2. High and moderate doses of HU210 reduced freezing during the first and last half, respectively, of the test phase of the consolidation protocol, which was prevented by pre-treatment with Tat-GluR2. HU210 did not affect freezing during the test phase of the retrieval protocol. Thus, these results suggest that HU210 impairs acquisition and consolidation, but not retrieval of contextual fear memory, and that in vivo CB-LTD expression is required for HU210 impairment of the consolidation, but not acquisition, of contextual fear memory. We also observed that HU210 and JZL 195 do not facilitate the acquisition of contextual fear memory extinction.
Confabulation, Collaboration, and Chromolithography: Memory as Construct in the Works of Felipe Alfau
Creators: name: Villeneuve, Philippe
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Felipe Alfau
American 20th century

description: This dissertation examines the work of Felipe Alfau, a Spanish-American writer who wrote two novels and a collection of children’s stories in the first half of the twentieth century which were the focus of a short-lived critical enthusiasm in the early 1990s. It recognizes the important contribution made by those early critics, but also tries to make a case for a reading of Alfau at variance with the kinds of readings his work has previously received. Specifically, it points at structural and thematic complexities in Alfau’s narratives that have been attributed to his experimentation with self-reflexivity and metafiction, experimentation which many have claimed anticipates the work of writers of the second half of the century. My dissertation shows how other unrelated concerns may have led him to boldly reconsider the parameters of narrative form. I contend that for Alfau confabulation, collaboration, and art are generators of narratives that present the self as an insoluble mystery. What I intend to demonstrate is that Alfau views these sources as problematic repositories that fail to capture and preserve human experience, yet simultaneously believes that they are the only means at our disposal for doing so. His narratives communicate the frustrations such a paradox entails, but also celebrate human faith in those means in spite of such frustrations.
Human biomonitoring in health risk assessment in Europe: Current practices and recommendations for the future
Creators: name: Louro, Henriqueta
name: Heinälä, Milla
name: Kolossa-Gehring, Marike
name: Bessems, Jos
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Risikoanalyse
Human-Biomonitoring
Chemikalien

description: Human biomonitoring (HBM) is an important tool to survey the internal exposure of humans which represents the real life chemical body burden to chemicals and/or their metabolites. It results from total exposure to chemical substances from different sources and via different routes. These substances may be regulated under different legislative frameworks on chemicals (e.g., environmental, occupational, food safety etc). In occupational health, HBM has long traditions to control the exposures at workplaces. By providing accurate data on internal exposure, HBM data can improve human health risk assessment (RA) for both the general population and workers. Although the past few years have shown good examples on the use of HBM in the RA of chemicals, there is still quite some work to be done to improve its use in a regulatory RA. Under the scope of the European Human Biomonitoring Initiative (project HBM4EU, 2017-2021), the current study reviews the state-of-the-art of HBM use in chemicals RA with a special focus in Europe, and attempts to identify hurdles and challenges faced by regulators. To gather information on the use of HBM, including the availability of guidance on how to use it in RA, the RA schemes applied by different European or international organizations were analysed. Examples of such use were identified for a few selected groups of chemicals of concern for human health. In addition, we present the results of a survey, aimed at collecting information from national regulatory risk assessors on their day-to-day RA practices, the use of HBM data, and the obstacles and challenges related to their use. The results evidenced and explained some of the current obstacles of using HBM data in RA. These included the lack of HBM guidance values or biomonitoring equivalents (BEs), limited toxicokinetic information to support the interpretation of HBM data and, in the occupational health and safety (OSH) field, the lack of legal enforcement. Therefore, to support the integration of HBM in regulatory RA, we recommend, on one hand, the elaboration of a EU level guidance on the use of HBM in RA and, on the other hand, the continuation of research efforts to integrate HBM with new RA approaches using in vitro/in silico data and Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOPs). © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier GmbH.
Global Health Competencies for Family Physician Residents, Nursing, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy Students: A Province-Wide Study
Creators: name: Mirella, Veras
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Population Health
Global health
health equity
interprofessional education
competency

description: Introduction: In the new century, worldwide health professionals face new pressures for changes towards more cost-effective and sustainable health care for all populations. Globalization creates daunting challenges as well as new opportunities for institutions and health professionals being more connected and rethink their strategies toward an interprofessional practice. Although Health professionals are paying increased attention to issues of global health, there are no current competency assessment tools appropriate for evaluating their competency in global health. This study aims to assess global health competencies of family medicine residents, nursing, physiotherapy and occupational therapy students in five universities across Ontario, Canada Methods: A total of 429 students participated in the Global Health Competency Survey, drawn from family medicine residency, nursing, physiotherapy and occupational therapy programs of five universities in Ontario, Canada. The surveys were evaluated for face and content validity and reliability. Results: Factor analysis was used to identify the main factors to be included in the reliability analysis. Content validity was supported with one floor effect in the “racial/ethnic disparities” variable (36.1%), and few ceiling effects. Seven of the twenty-two variables performed the best (between 34% and 59.6%). For the overall rating score, no participants had floor or ceiling effects. Five factors were identified which accounted for 95% of the variance. Cronbach’s alpha was >0.8 indicating that the survey items had good internal consistency and represent a homogeneous construct. The results of the survey demonstrated that self-reported knowledge confidence in global health issues and global health skills were low for family medicine residents, nursing, physiotherapy and occupational therapy’ students. The percentage of residents and students who self-reported themselves confident was less than 60% for all global health issues. Conclusion: The Global Health Competency Survey demonstrated good internal consistency and face and content validity. The new century requires professionals competent in global health. Improvements in the core competencies in global health can be a bridge to a more equal world. Institutions must offer interprofessional approaches and a curriculum that exposes them to a varied learning methods and opportunities to improve their knowledge and skills in global health.
Electoral mendacity
Creators: name: Costar, Brian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: On 1 November 2006 I stated on ABC Radio National that, unlike the United States, Australian elections are not characterised 'by allegations of mismanagement, partiality and all kinds of chicanery'. What a silly old duffer am I. Since Prime Minister Howard announced the election date, we have witnessed an avalanche of commentary about citizens being excluded from the electoral roll, uncertainty about when the roll closed for different classes of people and concern at what effects this might have in the polling booths on 24 November 2007. Welcome back to Florida 2000.
Effects of maternal social environment on offspring health and development from Effects of the maternal social environment on the mating signals and mate preferences of adult offspring in Enchenopa treehoppers
Creators: name: Little, Drew W
name: Lindemann, Kirsten
name: Rodríguez, Rafael Lucas
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310901
subject: Animal behaviour

description: Supplementary information and analyses of offspring health, survivorship, and development