cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Étude des perceptions des agriculteurs du bassin versant de la rivière aux Raisins concernant l'impact de l'agriculture sur la qualité de l'environnement de la région.
Creators: name: Richer, Nicole.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Canadian Studies.

description: The purpose of this study is to describe and analyze farmers' perceptions of the impact of agriculture on the state of the environment, and on soil and water quality in particular. The study area is the Raisin River Watershed of Eastern Ontario. Survey research, based on 80 "in-depth" on-farm interviews, represents the primary methodology employed. Fully 58.75% of the respondents believe that agricultural practices used in the watershed contribute to environmental changes, 31.25% consider that water quality changed in the past ten years, and 57.5% observed soil degradation on their farm. Gender, level of education, farming experience, full time versus part time farming, farm organisation membership, and gross farm sales appear to influence farmers' environmental perceptions. No correlation was found between respondents' perceptions and their age, ethnic origin, production type, land tenure, county of residence or farm proximity to the river. The results suggest to resource managers possible strategies for increasing farmers' participation in conservation programs, and promoting sustainable agricultural practices. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Chromodynamical analysis of lenticular galaxies using globular clusters and planetary nebulae
Creators: name: Zanatta, Emilio J. B.
name: Cortesi, Arianna
name: Chies-Santos, Ana L.
name: Forbes, Duncan
name: Romanowsky, Aaron J.
name: Alabi, Adebusola B.
name: Coccato, Lodovico
name: de Oliveira, Claudia Mendes
name: Brodie, Jean
name: Merrifield, Michael
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Recovering the origins of lenticular galaxies can shed light on the understanding of galaxy and compare them with the kinematics of planetary nebulae (PNe). The PNe and GC data come from the Planetary Nebulae Spectrograph and the SLUGGS Surveys. Through photometric spheroid-disc decomposition and PNe kinematics. we find the probability for a given GC to belong to either the spheroid or the disc of its host galaxy or be rejected from the model. We find that there is no correlation between the components that the GCs are likely to belong to and their colours. Particularly, for NGC2768, we find that its red GCs display rotation preferentially at inner radii (Re > 1). In the case of the GC system of NGC3115, we find a group of GCs with similar kinematics that are not likely to belong to either its spheroid or disc. For NGC7457, we find that 70 per cent of its GCs are likely to belong to the disc. Overall, our results suggest that these galaxies assembled into S0s through different evolutionary paths. Mergers seem to have been very important for NGC2768 and NGC3115 while NGC7457 is more likely to have experienced secular evolution.
Dynamic signature verification system design using stroke based feature extraction algorithm
Creators: name: Qu, Tong
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: Dynamic signature verification (DSV) uses the behavioral biometrics of a handwritten signature to confirm the identity of a computer user. This thesis presents a novel stroke-based algorithm for DSV. After individual strokes are identified, a significant stroke is discriminated by the maximum correlation with respect to the reference signatures. Between each pair of signatures, the local correlation comparisons are computed between portions of the pressure and velocity signals using segment alignment by elastic matching. Experimental results were obtained for signatures from 25 volunteers over a four-month period. The result shows that when adding stroke-based features into a non-stroke feature system, the accuracy of the signature verification has been greatly improved to False Reject Rate (FRR) of 6.67% and False Accept Rate (FAR) of 13.33%. The result shows that stroke based features are important features, contain robust dynamic information, and offer greater accuracy for dynamic signature verification, in comparison to results without using non-stroke based features.
Supplementary document for Hybrid Metasurfaces for Simultaneous Focusing and Filtering - 4899328.pdf
Creators: name: Sultan, Mansoor
name: Balli, Fatih
name: Lau, Daniel
name: Hastings, J.
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Optical Properties of Materials

description: Supplemental information for entire manuscript.
Financial fragility and corporate debt: An empirical investigation of Canada, United States and Japan.
Creators: name: Nagai, Trevor Paul.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Business Administration, General.

description: The paper will assess the relevance of a rising debt to equity ratio for the fragility of the Canadian, U.S., and Japanese economies. In addition, it will also attempt to ascertain the significance of the nonfinancial corporations' liquidity and profits, as well as, the effects of moral hazard, adverse selection, and investor's confidence to the fragility problem. A series of Granger causality tests are performed in addition to the general statistical analysis of each country. The basic finding is that, despite a somewhat different banking structure, a rising debt to equity seems to be an important factor for the long-run stability of both the Canadian and U.S. economies. Whereas, in Japan, this seems to be less of a factor due to the relatively close ties between the banking and nonfinancial corporate sectors. Moreover, the lack of the moral hazard and adverse selection problems, coupled with the relatively smaller use of the securities market, the higher liquidity ratio, and the cooperative attitude of the Japanese workers and consumers, constitutes additional reasons as to why rising debt to equity has played less of a significant role in Japan.
Diastatotropis rubra Frieser 1992
Creators: name: Trýzna, Miloš
name: Kment, Petr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Anthribidae
Diastatotropis
Diastatotropis rubra

description: (16) D. rubra Frieser, 1992.
TL: Toamasina prov.: Ambodivoangy, E of Maroantsetra
description: Published as part of Trýzna, Miloš & Kment, Petr, 2025, Diastatotropis elegans (Coleoptera: Anthribidae) from Madagascar: nomenclatural status, redescription and ecological notes, pp. 360-372 in Zootaxa 5627 (2) on page 370, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5627.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/15326085
The kinetics of the decay of methyl radicals at high temperatures.
Creators: name: Su, Zhichun.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Physical.

description: Shock tube experiments were conducted to observe the primary reactions of methyl radicals. 0.7%-7% azomethane diluted in argon or nitrogen was used as a precursor for methyl radicals. The rate of disappearance of CH$\sb3$ radicals was measured behind incident shock waves in real time using a high resolution laser schlieren technique. The measurements covered the temperature range 1400-4000 K and the pressure range 0.1-1.1 atm. Selected experimental results were analyzed by an analytic point-by-point approach, which led to a self-consistent determination of the rate coefficient for methyl recombination, supported by the theory of unimolecular reactions. All of the experiments were then analyzed by computer simulation to evaluate the rate coefficients for the primary reactions of CH$\sb3.$ The rate coefficient for $\rm 2CH\sb3\to C\sb2H\sb4+H\sb2,$ which was basically unknown at high temperatures, was obtained by comparing experimental laser-schlieren signals with those from numerical integration of a postulated mechanism of 44 reactions coupled to the conservation equations of mass, energy, and momentum. The important reactions in the mechanism were identified by a sensitivity analysis. Experiments were also conducted at lower temperatures of 560-1300 K. Chemical chaos and oscillation were observed in the pyrolysis of azomethane at 900-1300 K for the first time. The fall-off effect in the decomposition of azomethane was studied theoretically on the basis of the modern theory of unimolecular reactions. The results of our calculation are in agreement with published experimental work. More exact calculations need to be done above 2000 K. Rate constants are calculated for CH$\sb3$ (+ Ar) $\not=$ CH$\sb2$ + H (+ Ar) at the limiting low pressure, the limiting high pressure, as well as the intermediate fall-off ranges. The results show that published experimental rate constants for methyl dissociation correspond to the fall-off region close to the low pressure limit. At the low pressure limit the activation energy is less than the bond dissociation energy, in agreement with experimental results. Forward and backward rate coefficients at the high pressure limit are compared with other theoretical calculations. More theoretical and experimental work is necessary to understand the reverse reaction and its competing reactions, as well as the decomposition channel leading to CH + H$\sb2.$
title: Pancreatitis aguda grave: complicaciones inusuales…
Creators: name: Shahin, Mahmoud
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Pancreas
subject: Abdomen

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
La pancreatitis aguda es una causa frecuente de dolor abdominal en urgencias.
Se trata de un proceso inflamatorio difuso que afecta a la glándula pancreática y está provocado por la fuga y extravasación de las secreciones pancreáticas...
title: Fractura-luxación de Lisfranc. Aportación del TCMD.
Creators: name: Pastor Ausin, Elixabete
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: CT

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
La luxación tarsometatarsiana (TMT),
denominada también fractura-luxación de Lisfranc, es una lesión relativamente rara que se asocia con frecuencia a diferentes tipos de fractura. Su incidencia es de 1 por cada 55.000 personas al año,
aunque...
Neighbouring double bond participation in exo 5-hydroxybicyclo[2.2.2]oct-2-ene tosylate.
Creators: name: O'Farrell, S.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1962
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Organic.

description: The synthesis of the previously unknown exo-5-hydroxybicyclo[2.2.2]oct-2-ene is described, and its behavior under solvolysis in acetic acid is reported. The end product of the acetolysis is unrearranged and the rate is the fastest yet measured in the bicyclo[2.2.2]octane series. This result supports the theory of homoallylic resonance in the intermediate transition state for the solvolysis reaction. The construction of a preparative-scale vapour-phase chromatograph is described.
Supplementary document for Hybrid Metasurfaces for Simultaneous Focusing and Filtering - 4899328.pdf
Creators: name: Sultan, Mansoor
name: Balli, Fatih
name: Lau, Daniel
name: Hastings, J.
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Optical Properties of Materials

description: Supplemental information for entire manuscript.
title: Estudio preoperatorio de masas renales. Importancia del estudio vascular para la cirugía laparoscópica renal.
Creators: name: Docal Cabrera, Ignacio
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Kidney
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
Revisar nuestra experiencia en el estudio prequirúrgico mediante TCDM de las masas renales candidatas a cirugía laparascópica,
haciendo especial hincapié en el estudio vascular arterial. En Noviembre del año 2009,
el Servicio de Urología de...
title: Lo que el radiólogo debe saber sobre... "DISPOSITIVOS MÉDICOS"
Creators: name: Mora Monago, Rocío
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT
subject: Thorax
subject: Abdomen

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
El objetivo de este trabajo es aprender a identificar en las pruebas de imagen cuáles son los principales dispositivos médicos que portan los pacientes,
así como conocer cuál es su función,
su posición correcta y las posibles complicaciones...
Diastatotropis rubricollis
Creators: name: Trýzna, Miloš
name: Kment, Petr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Anthribidae
Diastatotropis
Diastatotropis rubricollis

description: (17) D. rubricollis (Fairmaire, 1893) (described in Vitalis).
TL: Antsiranana prov.: Diego Suarez
description: Published as part of Trýzna, Miloš & Kment, Petr, 2025, Diastatotropis elegans (Coleoptera: Anthribidae) from Madagascar: nomenclatural status, redescription and ecological notes, pp. 360-372 in Zootaxa 5627 (2) on page 370, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5627.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/15326085
Les réactions aux changements sociaux profonds, nombreux et rapides : de l'effet conjugué de l'identité sociale et de la privation relative.
Creators: name: De La Sablonnière, Roxane.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Social.

description: L'objectif global de cette thèse est de mieux comprendre comment les individus réagissent aux changements sociaux qui modifient les structures mêmes des sociétés ou des organisations. La première étude a été effectuée auprès de 423 étudiants russes de l'Université de Tyumen en Sibérie occidentale. Cette étude avait tout d'abord pour but de vérifier si les prédictions relatives aux réactions face au nombre et à l'augmentation rapide des personnes de groupes minoritaires dans un groupe majoritaire s'appliquent au contexte de changement social. Cette étude permet également d'approfondir les connaissances quant aux liens entre le sentiment de privation relative et l'identité sociale. Il est tout d'abord postulé que plus les russes perçoivent des changements nombreux et négatifs, plus ils éprouvent de la privation relative sociale. Selon le modèle, plus les Russes estiment que les changements s'effectuent rapidement, plus ils rapportent de la privation relative temporelle. Par ailleurs, plus les Russes éprouvent du mécontentement, moins ils sont fiers d'appartenir à leur groupe. Les hypothèses du modèle de prédiction ont toutes été confirmées. La seconde étude permet tout d'abord d'approfondir les connaissances concernant l'effet du nombre et de la rapidité des changements sur la privation relative par l'évaluation des réactions des individus aux modifications observées dans leur environnement. Le contexte d'étude est différent du premier et permet ainsi de généraliser les résultats obtenus à d'autres types de changement social. Finalement, cette étude a pour but de tester le lien identité sociale/privation relative par l'évaluation de toutes les dimensions de l'identité identifiées par Tajfel (1978). L'étude a été menée dans le milieu hospitalier québécois qui a été l'objet de nombreuses restructurations. En tout, 108 infirmières d'un hôpital régional y ont participé. Les résultats confirment en partie le modèle proposé. En fait, un seul lien va dans le sens contraire des hypothèses, soit celui entre la privation relative collective sociale et les composantes évaluative/affective de l'identité sociale. Selon les résultats, plus les infirmières évaluent comme désavantageuse leur situation par rapport à d'autres groupes de travailleurs, plus elles sont fières d'être infirmières. Plusieurs hypothèses explicatives ont été explorées de même que les implications théoriques et pratiques.
title: Afectación renal por el linfoma.
Creators: name: Ortega Herrera, Ricardo
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Kidney
subject: Oncology
subject: CT
subject: PET-CT
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Education
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Lymphoma
subject: Neoplasia

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Revisión de los distintos patrones de presentación del linfoma renal y sus diagnósticos diferenciales mediante diferentes técnicas de imagen,
enfatizando en la tomografía computarizada multicorte...
Supplementary document for High throughput instrument to screen fluorescent proteins under two-photon excitation - 4899484.pdf
Creators: name: Molina, Rosana
name: King, Jonathan
name: Franklin, Jacob
name: Clack, Nathan
name: McRaven, Christopher
name: Goncharov, Vasily
name: Flickinger, Daniel
name: Svoboda, Karel
name: Drobizhev, Mikhail
name: Hughes, Thomas
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document containing Supplemental Methods, Tables S1-2, and Figures S1-7.
Treatment choices for depression: young people's responses to a traditional versus a health 2.0 website
Creators: name: Scanlan, Faye A.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This exploratory study compared young people's credibility appraisals of, and behavioural intentions following, depression treatment information provided on a Health 2.0 website compared to a traditional e-health website. On the traditional website, each depression treatment was assigned an efficacy rating based on its evidence base. In contrast, on the Health 2.0 website, each depression treatment was assigned an overall 'helpfulness' rating derived from the aggregated feedback of young people with lived experience of depression. This study was the first to explore credibility appraisals of evidence-based versus consumer-generated medical treatment ratings from the perspective of e-health consumers.
MPEC 2024-P75 : 2024 PE1
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 PE1

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
“I’m a Pacifist” : Peace in the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas
Creators: name: Lawrence, Sean
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: This paper develops and examines the idea and importance of peace in the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, starting from an anecdote regarding his parody of Ernst Cassirer during a student performance in Davos. It examines Levinas’s stated views on peace from across his career, arguing Levinas should be viewed as a pacifist, albeit a highly original one, who shows that political structures are characterized by violence but reveal their origins in the radical peace of the face-to-face encounter.
Experiencing and exercising power: A study of men and women middle managers in education and public administration.
Creators: name: Russell, Roberta J.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Education, Administration.

description: This study focused on the early career socialization experiences of men and women who currently hold middle management positions with the federal government or with school systems to determine how those experiences influence their use of power. The theoretical and conceptual framework for the study emerged from the sociology of Georg Simmel (Simmel, 1902, 1950, 1984; Levine, 1971) and the concepts of tokenism (Kanter, 1977a); organizational socialization (Ortiz, 1982; Pfeffer, 1982); and organizational and individual power (Kanter, 1977a). An underlying assumption of this study was that gender is less a predictor of style of power use, the exercise of power, than early career socialization experiences, the experiencing of organizational power. That is, those to whom the organization extends more opportunities to learn about and develop within the organization early in their careers will be better equipped to exercise power as managers than those who receive few such experiences. A second assumption was that gender will act as an intervening variable, influencing the organization's decision making as to who should receive these opportunities and who should be denied them. The methodology used involved semi-structured interviews with men and women middle managers. Focus groups and elite interviews were used before interviewing to validate the literature review and the interview guide, and focus groups were used again following the analysis of interview data to validate the interpretations made. A number of managers who had been interviewed participated in the final set of focus groups. The framework which guided this study incorporated related literature on gender, tokenism, organizational socialization, and power. The product of the literature review was a socialization-to-power framework. The following five research questions guided this study: (I) Do the early career patterns of female middle managers differ from those of male middle managers in terms of the range and number of organization initiated opportunities provided them for power-related socialization? (II) (a) Do female middle managers perceive more barriers to their advancement to senior levels of management than do their male peers? (b) Do female and male middle managers perceive different barriers to advancement? (III) Do female and male middle managers view power differently? (IV) Do female and male middle managers identify the same people in their organizations as being powerful? (V) Do female and male middle managers exercise power differently? (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Supplementary document for High throughput instrument to screen fluorescent proteins under two-photon excitation - 4899484.pdf
Creators: name: Molina, Rosana
name: King, Jonathan
name: Franklin, Jacob
name: Clack, Nathan
name: McRaven, Christopher
name: Goncharov, Vasily
name: Flickinger, Daniel
name: Svoboda, Karel
name: Drobizhev, Mikhail
name: Hughes, Thomas
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document containing Supplemental Methods, Tables S1-2, and Figures S1-7.
Diastatotropis striata Wolfrum 1961
Creators: name: Trýzna, Miloš
name: Kment, Petr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Anthribidae
Diastatotropis
Diastatotropis striata

description: (18) D. striata Wolfrum, 1961.
TL: Toamasina prov.: Fampanambo, district Maroantsetra
description: Published as part of Trýzna, Miloš & Kment, Petr, 2025, Diastatotropis elegans (Coleoptera: Anthribidae) from Madagascar: nomenclatural status, redescription and ecological notes, pp. 360-372 in Zootaxa 5627 (2) on page 370, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5627.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/15326085
title: Evaluación de las colangiografías a través de tubo en T de Kher  e indicaciones actuales.
Creators: name: Lombardo, Sagrario
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Cholangiography
subject: Transplantation
subject: Fistula
subject: Calcifications / Calculi

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
El tubo en “T” de Kehr es un instrumento que se utiliza desde hace más de un siglo como sistema de drenaje biliar para el cierre de una coledocotomía supraduodenal..
La colangiografía a través del tubo en “T” de Kher (CTK) permite la...
title: Interfacial activity of patchy worm-like micelles
Creators: name: Schmelz, Joachim
name: Pirner, Daniela
name: Krekhova, Marina
name: Ruhland, Thomas M.
name: Schmalz, Holger
Publisher: name: University of Bayreuth
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: LIQUID-LIQUID INTERFACES
subject: CRYSTALLINE-CORE MICELLES
subject: OIL-WATER INTERFACE
subject: JANUS PARTICLES
subject: CYLINDRICAL MICELLES
subject: TRIBLOCK TERPOLYMER
subject: DIBLOCK COPOLYMERS
subject: CORONA
subject: ANISOTROPY
subject: CYLINDERS
subject: 540

description: The interfacial activity of self-assembled worm-like crystalline-core micelles (wCCMs) with a patchy polystyrene/poly(methyl methacrylate) (PS/PMMA) corona and a semi-crystalline polyethylene (PE) core is studied at the toluene-water interface. Strikingly, the interfacial activity is comparable to that of Janus cylinders with well-separated PS/PMMA hemishells and comparable length. From this finding an adaptation of the corona chains of the patchy wCCMs to the toluene-water interface is proposed.
A cross-sectional study of suckling calves’ passive immunity and associations with management routines to ensure colostrum intake on organic dairy farms
Creators: name: Johnsen, Julie F
name: Viljugrein, Hildegunn
name: Bøe, Knut E
name: Gulliksen, Stine M
name: Beaver, Annabelle
name: Grøndahl, Ann M
name: Sivertsen, Tore
name: Mejdell, Cecilie M
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2019

description: Background: For suckling dairy calves, different management routines to ensure sufficient colostrum intake are applied: visual assessment, hand feeding supplemental colostrum or assistance. However, knowledge on the efficacy of these methods to prevent failure of passive transfer [FPT: serum immunoglobulin (IgG) < 10 g/L] is lacking. Our objectives were to explore FPT prevalence in suckling dairy calves and associations with common management routines to ensure colostrum intake. From 20 organic herds, 156 calf blood samples (mean ± SD; 7.8 ± 1.24 per herd) and 141 colostrum samples from the dams were analysed. All calves suckled the dam. Factors known to affect serum and colostrum IgG were evaluated, including the method applied by the producer to ensure calf colostrum intake and whether it deviated from routine practice for any reason. Results: The prevalence of FPT was 31%. Mean serum and colostrum IgG (± SD) were 16.0 ± 10.0 g/L and 39.4 ± 26.4 g/L, respectively. Only colostrum IgG was found to have a statistically significant influence on the prevalence of FPT. Variation in serum IgG was also explained mainly by colostrum IgG. Of calves receiving colostrum according to farm routine, calves receiving supplemental colostrum with a bottle had lower serum IgG levels than did calves receiving no additional colostrum. However, no within-herd effect was found. With a high between-herd variation, colostrum IgG ranged from 2 to 135 g/L, and only 23% of the samples had a IgG content > 50 g/L. Colostrum IgG was significantly higher in samples collected during spring, compared to samples collected during winter, and lower in 2nd parity cows. Conclusions: The results indicate that for calves capable of finding the udder and suckling independently, there is no direct benefit of routinely hand feeding colostrum although herd level factors (e.g. feeding, management etc.) may play an important role. FPT prevalence in this study was high, and comparable to that of calves in conventional herds, separating cow and calf at birth. Still, the findings of a high FPT prevalence and inferior colostrum quality indicates a need for improved awareness among dairy producers practicing cow-calf suckling.
title: Coronoriografía por TC con sincronización ECG prospectiva sistólica para la valoración de las arterias coronarias en pacientes con trasplante cardíaco ortotópico
Creators: name: Simon Yarza, Isabel
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: CT
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Transplantation

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
La vasculopatía del injerto es una causa importante de morbi-mortalidad en la historia natural del transplante cardiaco. Actualmente existen múltiples técnicas para la valoración de esta enfermedad,
incluyendo las técnicas de medicina nuclear...
Diastatotropis strunci Tryzna, Raveloson & Rakotonirina 2025
Creators: name: Trýzna, Miloš
name: Kment, Petr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Anthribidae
Diastatotropis
Diastatotropis strunci

description: (19) D. strunci Trýzna, Raveloson & Rakotonirina, 2025.
TL: Toamasina prov.: Mantadia National Park
description: Published as part of Trýzna, Miloš & Kment, Petr, 2025, Diastatotropis elegans (Coleoptera: Anthribidae) from Madagascar: nomenclatural status, redescription and ecological notes, pp. 360-372 in Zootaxa 5627 (2) on page 370, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5627.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/15326085
Complaints as starting point for vicious cycles in customer–employee-interactions
Creators: name: Traut-Mattausch, Eva
name: Wagner, Sara
name: Pollatos, Olga
name: Jonas, Eva
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: self-esteem threat
subject: defense response
subject: customer complaint
subject: customer–employee-interaction
subject: motivated cognition
subject: motivated behavior
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: Self-esteem
subject: Self-control
subject: Consumer complaints
subject: Reklamation
subject: Selbstwertgefühl

description: A ring-model of vicious cycles in customer–employee-interaction is proposed: service employees perceive complaints as a threat to their self-esteem resulting in defense responses such as an increased need for cognitive closure, a devaluation of the customer and their information and degrading service behavior. Confronted with such degrading service behavior, customers react defensively as well, by devaluing the employee for example with regard to his/her competence and by reducing repurchase and positive word-of-mouth (WOM). Three studies investigated each link in this ring-model. In study 1, participants were confronted with an aggressive or neutral customer complaint. Results show that motivated closed-mindedness (one aspect of the need for cognitive closure) increases after an aggressive complaint leading to a devaluation of the customer and their information, and in turn to a degrading service reaction. In study 2, participants were confronted with a degrading or favorable service reaction. Results show that they devaluate the employees’ competence after receiving a degrading service reaction and thus reduce their intention to repurchase. In study 3, we finally examined our predictions investigating real customer–employee-interactions: we analyzed data from an evaluation study in which mystery callers tested the service hotline of an airline. Results show that the employees’ competence is devaluated after degrading behavior and thus reduces positive WOM.
Factors characterizing stages of change for smoking during pregnancy: General risk knowledge, personal risk perceptions, motives, reasons and decisional balance.
Creators: name: Allston, Julie.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Obstetrics and Gynecology.

description: A secondary analysis of data from a sample of pregnant smokers is described, which focuses on examining knowledge, attitudes and beliefs related to women's decision to continue smoking during pregnancy. Pregnant women are examined at each of the first three stages of change: women not considering quitting in the next six months (Precontemplation), women considering cessation in this time frame (Contemplation), and women planning on stopping smoking in the next 30 days (Preparation). Pregnant women (n = 2461) were surveyed in a cross-sectional convenience sample of prenatal clinic attendees in a city of approximately 350,000 people, over a one-year period. 32% of pregnant smokers were in the Precontemplation stage, 35% in Contemplation, and 33% in Preparation. In general, participants' level of knowledge was high about maternal and fetal risks of smoking during pregnancy. However, similar items assessing personal perceptions of risk showed that many women thought their personal risk was lower than pregnant smokers in general. Negative affect was the dominant motive, and Level 1 reasons (doubting the evidence of harm) were cited as being most important factors related to continued smoking. Overall, participants gave higher ratings to the cons of smoking than to the pros. Women in Preparation had significantly higher knowledge of risks from smoking during pregnancy than Contemplators, but did not differ significantly from Precontemplators, while Precontemplators did not differ significantly from Contemplators on this variable. Women in Preparation had a significantly higher personal perception of risk for the fetus of smoking during pregnancy than women in the other two stages. As expected, Precontemplators perceived significantly lower Cons of smoking than women in the other two stages, who did not differ significantly from each other. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Comparison of the environmental properties of parasiticides and harmonisation of the basis for environmental assessment at the EU level
Creators: name: Römbke, Jörg
name: Duis, Karen
name: Egeler, Philipp
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biokonzentration
subject: Tierarzneimittel
subject: avermectins
subject: milbemycins
subject: parasiticides
subject: veterinary pharmaceutical
subject: log POW
subject: bioconcentration
subject: excretion
subject: dung organism
subject: Chemicals

description: Parasiticides are veterinary pharmaceuticals very frequently used in pasture animals. Particularly substances of the classes of avermectins and milbemycins are very common. These substances are highly toxic to non-target organisms, often stable in the environment (persistent) and may potentially accumulative in organisms. The present project contributes to filling environmental data gaps for avermectins and milbemycins. In addition, risk management strategies for parasiticides used in pasture animals were evaluated with regard to their efficacy and practicability reducing the risk to dung or soil organisms.
Diastatotropis tessellata Fairmaire 1897
Creators: name: Trýzna, Miloš
name: Kment, Petr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Anthribidae
Diastatotropis
Diastatotropis tessellata

description: (20) D. tessellata Fairmaire, 1897.
TL: Madagascar
description: Published as part of Trýzna, Miloš & Kment, Petr, 2025, Diastatotropis elegans (Coleoptera: Anthribidae) from Madagascar: nomenclatural status, redescription and ecological notes, pp. 360-372 in Zootaxa 5627 (2) on page 370, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5627.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/15326085
From jails to healing lodges: evaluating the impact of correctional environments on offender adaptation
Creators: name: Hart-Mitchell, Regan D.
name: Pfeifer, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The purpose of the present study is to compare three types of correctional facilities within the province of Saskatchewan (i.e., Provincial Jails, Community Training Residences, and the Aboriginal Spiritual Healing Lodge) in terms of their specific impact on offender's perceptions and level of adaptation. Specifically, offenders residing in the three types of facilities were asked to participate in a structured interview that addressed six basic factors related to positive adaptation: environment, sense of community, cultural awareness, educational/vocational training, spirituality, and psychological impact. It was hypothesized that offenders housed in the Healing Lodge, where the focus is on traditional Aboriginal cultural and spiritual teachings, should report the most positive experiences. In addition, it was hypothesized that both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal offenders would perceive the Provincial Jail to be the least positive with regard to aiding in successful adaptation. As hypothesized, results indicate that the Healing Lodge and the Community Training Residences are perceived as being significantly more positive than Provincial Jail on a number of dimensions related to positive environmental adaptation. The implications of these findings are discussed with regard to their relationship to the development of more effective correctional environments.
Novel architectures and multiplexing strategies for optical CDMA.
Creators: name: Zaccarin, Denis.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: The work presented in this thesis explores avenues to efficiently use code-division as the multiple-access technique in optical communication systems. Coding in the time domain is first considered. Novel architectures that allow the use of bipolar codes with simple direct detection receivers are first presented, for the case of coherent optical sources. We show that a proper combination of electro-optic elements and all optical processing elements leads to encoder and decoder complexities much reduced compared to the all optical solutions, without sacrificing the chip rate. This is further enhanced when we propose the use of Kronecker sequences whose inner sequences are chosen to be perfect autocorrelation sequences. In that case, even programmability of the delay lines is not required. We then modify the proposed architecture so that they can be used with incoherent optical sources. Although the sources can only be modulated in power, we show that still bipolar codes can be used and maintain their properties. A detailed performance analysis of the proposed architectures is made, including multiple-access interference, shot noise and thermal noise. Two types of modulation: amplitude-shift-keying (ASK) and orthogonal coding (OC) are considered. Results presented give the probability of bit error as a function of the number of simultaneous users, for many code lengths values. Performances obtained using different combinations of inner and outer sequences are compared, and requirements in terms of number of delay lines and bandwidth of electro-optic elements are identified. The effect of partial cross-correlation due to non optimized optical filtering is studied by means of an upper bound on the probability of bit error. A new analytical technique is derived to analyze optical CDMA systems using coherent optical sources with direct detection. A new and highly efficient coding technique based on amplitude spectral encoding of incoherent optical sources such as light-emitting diodes is then proposed. This is one of the major contributions of this thesis. Architectures for the encoder and decoder are given, and suitable codes are identified. The proposed system is insensitive to near-far effects and has a spreading gain independent of the bit rate. This property makes this coding technique a suitable one for networks serving users with different bit rates requirements. Detailed evaluation of the probability of error is done, and practical considerations such as the spectral shape of the sources, finite extinction ratio of the amplitude mask as well as its programmability speed are quantified. We show that more than 100 simultaneous users can be accommodated with a probability of error of 10$\sp{-9}$, for a code length as small as 127. Finally, the use of this coding strategy as the routing technique for Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) switches is discussed.
Diastatotropis tigrina Lacordaire 1865
Creators: name: Trýzna, Miloš
name: Kment, Petr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Anthribidae
Diastatotropis
Diastatotropis tigrina

description: (21) D. tigrina Lacordaire, 1865.
TL: Madagascar
description: Published as part of Trýzna, Miloš & Kment, Petr, 2025, Diastatotropis elegans (Coleoptera: Anthribidae) from Madagascar: nomenclatural status, redescription and ecological notes, pp. 360-372 in Zootaxa 5627 (2) on page 370, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5627.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/15326085
Diastatotropis viridans
Creators: name: Trýzna, Miloš
name: Kment, Petr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Anthribidae
Diastatotropis
Diastatotropis viridans

description: (22) D. viridans (Fairmaire, 1897) (described in Amecus).
TL: Antsiranana prov.: Diego-Suarez
description: Published as part of Trýzna, Miloš & Kment, Petr, 2025, Diastatotropis elegans (Coleoptera: Anthribidae) from Madagascar: nomenclatural status, redescription and ecological notes, pp. 360-372 in Zootaxa 5627 (2) on page 370, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5627.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/15326085
The Best Interests and Human Rights of Children: An Ethical-Philosophical Framework Based on Martha Nussbaum's Capabilities Framework and Alan Gewirth's Community of Rights
Creators: name: Vandergrift, Katherine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: Canada signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child twenty years ago, but a recent Senate study concludes that children's rights are not embedded in Canadian law, public policy, or the national psyche. This thesis identifies three ethical tensions about children's rights that hinder implementation of the Convention, and it asks if it is possible to develop a more robust ethical foundation to resolve them. Do children's rights protect their interests, their freedom, or some combination of both? What is the balance between the role of parents, the state, and young people themselves in realizing their rights? Can the tension between universal rights and respect for cultural and religious diversity in raising children be resolved? The study focuses on a core principle of the Convention, the Best Interests of the Child, which is identified as a primary consideration for all policies and decisions relating to children. It examines four approaches to application of this principle that try to resolve the basic tensions about children's rights but fall short. These are family autonomy, liberal paternalism, dynamic self-determination, and utilitarianism. Looking beyond theories of children's rights, this thesis argues that the capabilities framework articulated by Martha Nussbaum in Women and Development and the mutuality of rights theory articulated by Alan Gewirth in The Community of Rights can provide a stronger ethical foundation for children's rights. Gewirth's focus on prospective productive agency and Nussbaum's holistic approach to developing core capabilities provide greater ethical specification for the meaning of the best interests of children. Gewirth's Principle of Generic Consistency and articulation of the mutuality of rights and responsibilities provide a sound basis for a policy framework on children's rights. A clear focus on developing capabilities and what is most needful for human action can ethically ground guidelines for determining best interests and less adversarial processes to resolve conflicts between different interests.
Aboriginal women claiming rights through writing: A comparative analysis of selected texts
Creators: name: Baillargeon, Christine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Women's Studies.
subject: Political Science, General.
subject: Native American Studies.

description: Aboriginal women and their concerns are largely underrepresented in most political arenas in Canada. In order for their preoccupations to be adequately addressed by governing bodies, these must first be identified and better understood. An exploration of how Aboriginal women resist and challenge oppression is thus needed. In this thesis, I examine a selection of academic works, authored by three prominent Aboriginal women activists in Canada: Sharon Donna McIvor, Patricia A. Monture and Kim Anderson. Their writings address the multiple injustices faced by Aboriginal women. The authors' methods for claiming individual and collective rights range widely, from awareness spreading, to reviving traditional ways, to taking legal action. They all express the difficulties and contradictions they face as indigenous women, though they diverge in their opinions concerning possible solutions. This, as well as their decisions to label themselves feminists or not, is perhaps due to their personal backgrounds and histories.
Confluence d'influences chez Dowland: Musique mesurée, danse, rhétorique et ballade populaire anglaise au sein de ses airs pour luth
Creators: name: O'Bomsawin-Bégin, Maxime
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Music.

description: Afin de déceler et d'apprécier une confluence d'influences diverses et clairement définies au sein de l'air pour luth chez Dowland, cette étude veille au premier chapitre à établir le contexte théorique qui lui servira d'assise sous-jacente par la suite: elle parvient à se justifier la pertinence et le potentiel d'un recours à deux sources, soit le Musice Active Micrologus (1517) d'Andreas Ornithoparchus et Le Droict Chemin de Musique (1550) de Louis Bourgeois. Par analyse réticulaire, les chapitres subséquents certifient cette confluence, et précise notamment que si l'influence de la musique mesurée n'est pas concluante, l'influence de la danse est, quant à elle, centrale. En tant qu'influences complémentaires, la rhétorique et la ballade populaire anglaise -- entre autres -- seront également traitées au sein de cet enchevêtrement dynamique évoluant au fil du discours musical. Croisements, fusions, unions et oppositions; notamment, seront expliqués en termes de concomitances, mutualités et symbioses.
XIAP-mediated rescue of ischemic neural rat retina from death
Creators: name: Renwick, Joanna
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery.

description: XIAP-mediated gene therapy has been shown to protect brain neurons from ischemic cell death. However, it has not been shown whether XIAP can protect retinal neurons as well. To determine this, an acute retinal ischemia rat model was utilized. Eyes were injected with AAV-XIAP or AAV-GFP and, six weeks later, rendered ischemic by raising intraocular pressure to 110 mmHg and maintaining the pressure for one hour. Retinas were analyzed both functionally and structurally at various time points following ischemia. Functional analysis shows that XIAP, when overexpressed, rescues retinal neurons up to 4 weeks post-ischemia (wpi). Structural rescue is also evident from cell counts of H+E stained retinas. There are also significantly less TUNEL positive cells in the inner nuclear layer of the XIAP-treated retinas at 24 hpi. Therefore, XIAP-mediated gene therapy appears to functionally and structurally rescue retinal neurons from death following a transient ischemic episode.