cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Changes in the coping strategies of extrafamilial child molesters following cognitive behavioural relapse prevention treatment
Creators: name: Serran, Geris A
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Clinical.

description: Despite the important role of effective coping in cognitive-behavioural treatment programs for sexual offenders to reduce sexual recidivism, research that explores changes in coping strategies is lacking. The purpose of this study was to examine the changes in coping strategies identified by child molesters following cognitive-behavioural relapse prevention treatment. Treated incarcerated child molesters were compared to a group of incarcerated child molesters on a waiting list. Groups completed various measures aimed at identifying coping strategies used in specific high-risk situations, general coping styles, and the use of sexual coping strategies. The results indicated that treated child molesters do show evidence of changes in their selected strategies. Compared to a waiting list group, treated child molesters are able to identify more effective coping strategies in specific high-risk situations. As well, changes are noted in their general coping styles, with an increase in the endorsement of task-focused and social diversion strategies. There were no changes in their endorsement of emotion-focused strategies, distraction strategies, or sexual coping strategies. The changes that occurred are encouraging and suggest that treatment has a positive impact on child molesters' choice of strategies. However, it appears that a more concentrated effort may be required to modify the use of emotion-focused strategies.
Drug eluting stents versus bare metal stents for the treatment of coronary artery disease: A review of the benefits and harms
Creators: name: Hessian, Renee
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery.
subject: Health Sciences, Epidemiology.

description: Drug eluting stents (DES) have been found to reduce restenosis and the rate of repeat angiographic procedures related to restenosis. However, an increase in harms with their use has been suspected. Therefore, there may be an important trade-off of efficacy for harms with the use of DES, especially over the long term. We conducted asystematic review and meta-analysis of RCT, examining the efficacy of DES versus bare metal stents (BMS). A separate review was then conducted which included non randomized studies, as well as RCT to evaluate long term harms of DES when compared to BMS. Analysis demonstrated that there was significant efficacy noted for DES over BMS, especially for the sirolimus coated stents. The long-term data demonstrated preserved efficacy of DES with no significant increase in the harms of death, myocardial infarction, stent thrombosis or revascularization for a follow-up extending out to four years.
Edmund HusserI's early writings on time-consciousness: Significance for the development of the phenomenological method
Creators: name: Mackie, Craig
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: This thesis is an exploration of Edmund Husserl's early writings on internal time-consciousness (Husserliana X, 1893-1917). Developments in Husserl's method of phenomenological exploration are presented. Changes in Husserl's models of internal time consciousness are also presented. In the concluding sections of this thesis, the developments in Husserl's early writings on time are examined in the context of Husserl's overall philosophical project. This thesis supports the secondary literature that argues that Husserl underwent significant developments in his phenomenological method because of his early exploration of time and time-consciousness.
Analysis of EST data of the marine protist Oxyrrhis marina, an emerging model for alveolate biology and evolution
Creators: name: Lee, Renny
name: Lai, Hugo
name: Malik, Shehre B.
name: Saldarriaga, Juan F.
name: Keeling, Patrick J. (Patrick John), 1969-
name: Slamovits, Claudio H.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: The alveolates include a large number of important lineages of protists and algae, among which are three major eukaryotic groups: ciliates, apicomplexans and dinoflagellates. Collectively alveolates are present in virtually every environment and include a vast diversity of cell shapes, molecular and cellular features and feeding modes including lifestyles such as phototrophy, phagotrophy/predation and intracellular parasitism, in addition to a variety of symbiotic associations. Oxyrrhis marina is a well-known model for heterotrophic protist biology, and is now emerging as a useful organism to explore the many changes that occurred during the origin and diversification of dinoflagellates by virtue of its phylogenetic position at the base of the dinoflagellate tree. Results: We have generated and analysed expressed sequence tag (EST) sequences from the alveolate Oxyrrhis marina in order to shed light on the evolution of a number of dinoflagellate characteristics, especially regarding the emergence of highly unusual genomic features. We found that O. marina harbours extensive gene redundancy, indicating high rates of gene duplication and transcription from multiple genomic loci. In addition, we observed a correlation between expression level and copy number in several genes, suggesting that copy number may contribute to determining transcript levels for some genes. Finally, we analyze the genes and predicted products of the recently discovered Dinoflagellate Viral Nuclear Protein, and several cases of horizontally acquired genes. Conclusion: The dataset presented here has proven very valuable for studying this important group of protists. Our analysis indicates that gene redundancy is a pervasive feature of dinoflagellate genomes, thus the mechanisms involved in its generation must have arisen early in the evolution of the group.
Novel iterative approach to joint sequence alignment and tree inference under maximum likelihood: A critical assessment
Creators: name: Mizdrak, Pedrag
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: Multiple sequence alignment (MBA) and phylogeny tree reconstruction are two imporant problems in bioinformatics. In some respect, they represent "two sides of the same coin", since solving either of the two problems would be easier if the solution to the other problem was given. However, most of the currently available algorithms present a solution to only one of these two problems, either completely ignoring the other problem or assuming that its solution is known in advance. Attempts have been made to solve these two problems simultaneously, but they are either too computationally intensive or inappropriate to analyze divergent sequences. Here we derive a new method that addresses these shortcomings by iteratively improving the starting alignment and its corresponding evolutionary tree based on maximum likelihood scores. We show that the method produces trees with significantly better likelihood scores for fairly to highly divergent sequences. Yet, this improvement does not translate directly into an improvement of the tree and alignment quality.
21 Briefe an [Johann Caspar] Lavater
Brief an Lavater ...
Creators: name: Nüscheler, Johann Conrad
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1791

description: von J[ohann] C[onrad] Nüscheler
description: Davon 1 Brief undatiert, nur Datum der Antwort enthaltend, wobei Monat unleserlich (Nr. 1); 3 Briefe undatiert (Nr. 2, 7 und 24)
description: Davon 12 Briefe an seine Braut Cleophea (Cleve) Ott (Nr. 1, 4, 7, 10 und 11, 16-19, 21, 23 und 24), wovon 1 mit Beischrift von Lavater (Nr. 17); 1 Brief an Cleophea (Cleve) Ott und deren Mutter Cleophea (Cleve) Ott-Hirzel (1738-1810) (Nr. 22)
description: Dabei mutmasslicher Entwurf von Nr. 11 (Nr. 12) und Abschrift von Nr. 19 (Nr. 20)
description: Dabei 1 Brief von Cleophea (Cleve) Ott-Hirzel an Lavater (Nr. 8); 11 Briefe von Cleophea (Cleve) Ott, wovon 8 an Nüscheler (Nr. 27 und 29-34) und 3 an Lavater (Nr. 25, 26 und 28); davon 1 Brief mit Beischrift der Mutter Cleophea (Cleve) Ott-Hirzel (Nr. 28)
Eine  ungehaltene Rede nach der Versammlung des V. C. G. am 22. Januar 1895 zur Besprechung der "Stellung des Christen zur Bibel"
Creators: name: Thiersch, Wilhelm
name: Geering-Thiersch, Heinrich
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1895

description: Vf. nach Aufdruck
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Deutsch
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description: Brief an F[ritz] Heusler von H[einrich] Geering. Basel, 1 Mai [19]13
Associations between socioeconomic, parental and home environment factors and fruit and vegetable consumption of children in grades five and six in British Columbia, Canada
Creators: name: Attorp, Adrienne
name: Scott, Jenny E.
name: Yew, Ann C.
name: Rhodes, Ryan E.
name: Barr, Susan I.
name: Naylor, Patti-Jean
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: Regular fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption has been associated with reduced chronic disease risk. Evidence from adults shows a social gradient in FV consumption. Evidence from pre-adolescent children varies and there is little Canadian data. This study assessed the FV intake of school children in British Columbia (BC), Canada to determine whether socio-economic status (SES), parental and the home environment factors were related to FV consumption. Methods As part of the BC School Fruit and Vegetable Nutrition Program, 773 British Columbia fifth-and sixth-grade school children (Mean age 11.3 years; range 10.3-12.5) and their parents were surveyed to determine FV consumption and overall dietary intake. Students completed a web-based 24-hour dietary food recall, and a student measure of socio-economic status (The Family Affluence Scale). Parents completed a self-administered survey about their education, income, home environment and perceptions of their neighbourhood and children’s eating habits. Correlations and multiple regression analyses were used to examine the association between SES, parental and home environment factors and FV consumption. Results Approximately 85.8% of children in this study failed to meet minimum Canadian guidelines for FV intake (6 servings). Parent income and education were not significantly associated with child FV consumption but were associated with each other, child-reported family affluence, neighbourhood environment, access to FV, and eating at the table or in front of the television. Significant positive associations were found between FV consumption and child-reported family affluence, meal-time habits, neighbourhood environment and parent perceptions of the healthiness of their child’s diet; however, these correlations were weak (ranging from .089-.115). Multiple regression analysis showed that only child-reported family affluence significantly predicted FV consumption (std-β = 0.096 95% CI = 0.01 to 0.27). Conclusions The majority of children in our study were not meeting guidelines for FV intake irrespective of SES, parent perceptions or home environment, making this a population wide concern. An almost trivial socio-economic gradient was observed for the child-reported SES measure only. These results are consistent with several other studies of children. Longitudinal research is needed to further explore individual and social factors associated with FV consumption in childhood and their development over time.
[5 Ansichten von Tebessa]
Creators: name: Neurdein, Étienne
name: Neurdein, Antonin L.
name: Neurdein Frères
Publisher: name: Neurdein Frères
Year: 1860
Subjects: Tempel
Ruine
Musée du Temple de Minerve

description: 237 Tebessa. Vue Générale prise de la Route d Zouira
description: 247 Tebessa. Remperts de la Citadelle Byzantine, vue extérieur
description: 205 Tebessa. Arc de Triomphe Quadrifrons de Caracalla, IIIe Sciècle
description: 206 Tebessa. Runine du Temple de Minerve
description: 213 Tebessa. Rue Byzantine
description: N.D. Phot
description: Es handelt sich bei den Fotografien um einen Albuminabzüge
description: Der Abzug snd auf Karton montiert
Entrepreneurial philanthropy: theoretical antecedents and empirial analysis of economic, social, human,cultural and symbolic capitals
Creators: name: Shaw, Eleanor
name: Gordon, Jillian
name: Harvey, Charles
name: Henderson, Kay
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Philanthropy is emerging as a key activity of wealthy entrepreneurs. Motivated by the opportunity and capacity to support economic and social regeneration, anecdotal evidence and emerging research suggests that successful, high net worth entrepreneur s are becoming significant players in the global arena of philanthropy (Bishop and Green, 2008; Schervish, 2008). Considerations of entrepreneurial philanthropy are however largely absent from the entrepreneurial discourse. The objectives of this paper are to consider the antecedents of contemporary UK entrepreneurial philanthropy and propose theoretical perspectives relevant to developing an informed understanding of contemporary entrepreneurial philanthropy. A final objective is to present an analysis of the entrepreneurial capital of wealthy entrepreneurs involved in philanthropy and to consider the role of such capital in entrepreneurial philanthropy.
[8 Porträtaufnahmen von Ureinwohnern aus Totonicapán und 1 Stadtansicht]
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1870
Subjects: Vedute
Mann
Frau
Indigenes Volk
Bildnis

description: [Totonicapán]
description: Es handelt sich bei den Fotografien um Albuminabzüge
description: Unbekannte/r Fotograf/in
description: Es ist unklar, ob Franz Eduard La Roche die Ansichten von Guatemala selbst anlegte, oder ob diese später in die Sammlung integriert wurden
Brief an Prof. [Curt] Hallauer
Creators: name: Doerr, Robert
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1951

description: von Prof.Dr. R[obert] Doerr
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Deutsch
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description: Digitalisierung=Digitization=Numérisation August 2024 TIFF
Factors that influence heart failure self-management of community dwelling individuals
Creators: name: Earle, Wendy
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Nursing.

description: Heart failure (HF) affects 350,000 Canadians, and is the third most common primary diagnosis for a hospitalization in Canada. People with HF experience periods of stability interspersed with exacerbations requiring hospitalization. During the fiscal year 2000-01, 85,679 patients were admitted to hospitals in Canada accruing a cost of over $1 billion per year for inpatient hospital services alone. These statistics indicate that in addition to the considerable influence on the lives of many Canadians, the burden of the problem is significant on the current and future health care system. This thesis examines factors that influence HF self-management as well as the profile characteristics of community dwelling individuals. The results of a systematic review and findings of a study that combines a mixed method approach including a quantitative secondary analysis, and a set of qualitative telephone interviews are presented. The qualitative data focuses on one factor, perception of social support, and how it relates to HF self-management. Finally, an integration of the information is presented. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Bericht Waradin vande Munte, op de Memorie van Raden Generaal Meesters vande Munten, concerneerende den Muntslag
Creators: name: Helm Boddaert, Kornelis van den
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1769

description: Zusammengebunden mit weiteren Werken
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Niederländisch
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Efficient Ensemble for Multimodal Punctuation Restoration using Time-Delay Neural Network
Creators: name: Liu, Xing Yi
name: Beigi, Homayoon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Punctuation restoration plays an essential role in the post-processing procedure of automatic speech recognition, but model efficiency is a key requirement for this task. To that end, we present EfficientPunct, an ensemble method with a multimodal time-delay neural network that outperforms the current best model by 1.0 F1 points, using less than a tenth of its inference network parameters. We streamline a speech recognizer to efficiently output hidden layer acoustic embeddings for punctuation restoration, as well as BERT to extract meaningful text embeddings. By using forced alignment and temporal convolutions, we eliminate the need for attention-based fusion, greatly increasing computational efficiency and raising performance. EfficientPunct sets a new state of the art with an ensemble that weights BERT's purely language-based predictions slightly more than the multimodal network's predictions. Our code is available at https://github.com/lxy-peter/EfficientPunct.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure, 5 tables, paper at IMCOM 2024, technical report at Recognition Technologies, Inc
Curtis & Porter
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1830

description: Ort: Paris
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Optical properties of single quantum dots in high magnetic field
Creators: name: Vachon, Martin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Physics, Condensed Matter.

description: The photoluminescence of quantum dots is studied in a high magnetic field regime where the cyclotron frequency is comparable to the confinement energy. Applying a magnetic field perpendicular to the lateral potential plane lifts the shell degeneracy and magneto-photoluminescence spectroscopy therefore provides a probe to investigate the energy shell structure of quantum dots. By isolating a single quantum dot, the inhomogeneous broadening from a distribution of dot sizes and compositions is eliminated and the fine structure of the spectrum is revealed. The orbital splitting of angular momentum states is shown to follow the Fock-Darwin scheme. However, it is also apparent that each angular momentum branch consists of two distinct lines whose magnetic field evolution cannot be explained by a simple Zeeman spin splitting. The dependence of line splitting on orbital state can be described by the addition of spin-orbit coupling to the Fock-Darwin model. Accordingly, a quantitative measurement of the spin-orbit coupling strength in self-assembled quantum dots is obtained for the first time.
Expansion of HAART Coverage Is Associated with Sustained Decreases in HIV/AIDS Morbidity, Mortality and HIV Transmission : The “HIV Treatment as Prevention” Experience in a Canadian Setting
Creators: name: Montaner, Julio
name: Das Lima, Viviane
name: Harrigan, Paul Richard
name: Lourenco, Lillian
name: Yip, Benita
name: Nosyk, Bohdan
name: Wood, Evan
name: Kerr, Thomas
name: Shannon, K.
name: Moore, David M.
name: Hogg, Robert S.
name: Barrios, Rolando
name: Gilbert, M.
name: Krajden, Mel
name: Gustafson, Reka
name: Daly, Patricia
name: Kendall, Perry R. W. (Perry Robert William), 1943-
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Background There has been renewed call for the global expansion of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) under the framework of HIV treatment as prevention (TasP). However, population-level sustainability of this strategy has not been characterized. Methods We used population-level longitudinal data from province-wide registries including plasma viral load, CD4 count, drug resistance, HAART use, HIV diagnoses, AIDS incidence, and HIV-related mortality. We fitted two Poisson regression models over the study period, to relate estimated HIV incidence and the number of individuals on HAART and the percentage of virologically suppressed individuals. Results HAART coverage, median pre-HAART CD4 count, and HAART adherence increased over time and were associated with increasing virological suppression and decreasing drug resistance. AIDS incidence decreased from 6.9 to 1.4 per 100,000 population (80% decrease, p = 0.0330) and HIV-related mortality decreased from 6.5 to 1.3 per 100,000 population (80% decrease, p = 0.0115). New HIV diagnoses declined from 702 to 238 cases (66% decrease; p = 0.0004) with a consequent estimated decline in HIV incident cases from 632 to 368 cases per year (42% decrease; p = 0.0003). Finally, our models suggested that for each increase of 100 individuals on HAART, the estimated HIV incidence decreased 1.2% and for every 1% increase in the number of individuals suppressed on HAART, the estimated HIV incidence also decreased by 1%. Conclusions Our results show that HAART expansion between 1996 and 2012 in BC was associated with a sustained and profound population-level decrease in morbidity, mortality and HIV transmission. Our findings support the long-term effectiveness and sustainability of HIV treatment as prevention within an adequately resourced environment with no financial barriers to diagnosis, medical care or antiretroviral drugs. The 2013 Consolidated World Health Organization Antiretroviral Therapy Guidelines offer a unique opportunity to further evaluate TasP in other settings, particularly within generalized epidemics, and resource-limited setting, as advocated by UNAIDS.
Trautmann, Casimir
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1829

description: Ort: Berlin
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Spectral clustering: An explorative study of proximity measures
Creators: name: Azam, Nadia Farhanaz
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: In cluster analysis, data are clustered into meaningful groups so that the objects in the same group are very similar, and the objects residing in two different groups are different from one another. One such cluster analysis algorithm is called the spectral clustering algorithm, which originated from the area of graph partitioning. The input, in this case, is a similarity matrix, constructed from the pair-wise similarity between data objects. The algorithm uses the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a normalized similarity matrix to partition the data. The pair-wise similarity between the objects is calculated from the proximity (e.g. similarity or distance) measures. In any clustering task, the proximity measures often play a crucial role. In fact, one of the early and fundamental steps in a clustering process is the selection of a suitable proximity measure. A number of such measures may be used for this task. However, the success of a clustering algorithm partially depends on the selection of the proximity measure. While, the majority of prior research on the spectral clustering algorithm emphasizes on the algorithm-specific issues, little research has been performed on the evaluation of the performance of the proximity measures. To this end, we perform a comparative and exploratory analysis on several existing proximity measures to evaluate their performance when applying the spectral clustering algorithm to a number of diverse data sets. To accomplish this task, we use a ten-fold cross validation technique, and assess the clustering results using several external cluster evaluation measures. The performances of the proximity measures are then compared using the quantitative results from the external evaluation measures and analyzed further to determine the probable causes that may have led to such results. In essence, our experimental evaluation indicates that the proximity measures, in general, yield comparable results. That is, no measure is clearly superior, or inferior, to the others in its group. However, among the six similarity measures considered for the binary data, one measure (Russell and Roo similarity coefficient) frequently performed poorer than the others. For numeric data, our study shows that the distance measures based on the relative distances (i.e. the Pearson correlation coefficient and the Angular distance) generally performed better than the distance measures based on the absolute distances (e.g. the Euclidean or Manhattan distance). When considering the proximity measures for mixed data, our results indicate that the choice of distance measure for the numeric data has the highest impact on the final outcome.
Producing the Whitestream: Micropolitics and the Persistence of Colonialism in Canada
Creators: name: Krebs, Andreas
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Political Science, General.

description: This thesis examines how colonialism shapes the contemporary political landscape in Canada, particularly the daily life of mainstream citizens. I hold that colonialism lies at the root of contemporary issues of identity, diversity, pluralism, multiculturalism, citizenship and belonging in Canada. Canadian scholarly work has examined the problem of colonialism in relation to history, theory, and in terms of justice and the law. However, most of these perspectives disregard the importance of colonialism as a lived experience, and have difficulty explaining its persistence after having been abandoned as official state ideology, following the advent of modern treaties and land claims, the entrenchment of Aboriginal Rights in the Constitution, and the official policy of multiculturalism. Contrary to the dominant trend in this scholarship, colonialism persists in Canadian political life and manifests itself in a variety of ways. To this end, this thesis explores both the reproduction and transformation of colonialism in Canada, arguing that micropolitical processes of subject formation embed colonialism within the Canadian social and political fabric, reproducing the mainstream as a whitestream. I examine these processes through three sites: talk radio, humour, and sport, focusing particularly on how these sites maintain the dominance of the white, male, anglophone subject position. First, I analyze how two nationally broadcast programs with opposing political perspectives -- Sounds Like Canada and Adler Online -- mobilize sympathy and outrage, and how the production of these affective states reinforces a colonial perspective. Next I examine both popular and academic literature and media relating to hockey in Canada. Discourse on hockey in Canada embodies the nation as white and male, positioning history in terms of nostalgia, and space in terms of recreation. Finally, I analyze a series of in-depth interviews with white, male anglophones focusing on how they practice and experience "disparagement humour" in their daily lives. I examine the form that disparagement humour takes in an era marked by official multiculturalism, and how such humour may both reinforce and undermine the persistence of colonialism. I conclude with a discussion linking James Tully's democratic constitutionalism to the Deleuzian concept of the encounter, arguing that micropolitical techniques of the self enable an unsettling of the violence of colonialism.
Direction du Dépot Général des Manufactures
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1830

description: Ort: Amsterdam
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Near-ideal predictors and causal filters for discrete time signals
Creators: name: Dokuchaev, Nikolai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The paper presents linear predictors and causal filters for discrete time signals featuring some different kinds of spectrum degeneracy. These predictors and filters are based on approximation of ideal non-causal transfer functions by causal transfer functions represented by polynomials of Z-transform of the unit step signal.
Ullmicher, Hofadvocat
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1829

description: Ort: Mannheim
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Suboptimal plasma HIV-1 RNA suppression and adherence among sex workers who use illicit drugs in a Canadian setting : an observational cohort study
Creators: name: Ti, Lianping
name: Milloy, M-J
name: Shannon, K.
name: Simo, Annick
name: Hogg, Robert S.
name: Guillemi, Sylvia
name: Montaner, Julio
name: Kerr, Thomas
name: Wood, Evan
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Objective—Studies have demonstrated the central function of plasma HIV-1 RNA viral load (pVL) levels on determining the risk of HIV disease progression and transmission. However, there is limited empirical research on virologic outcomes among sex workers who use illicit drugs (SWDU). Methods—Data were derived from the AIDS Care Cohort to evaluate Exposure to Survival Services, a cohort of HIV-positive illicit drug users. Using generalised estimating equations, we studied the longitudinal relationship between sex work and pVL suppression. We also tested whether adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) mediated the relationship between sex work and pVL suppression. Results—Between May 1996 and May 2012, 587 ART-exposed participants (2224 person-years of observation) were included in the study, among whom 127 (21.6%) reported sex work. In a time-updated multivariate model adjusted for various demographic, socioeconomic and clinical confounders (eg, gender, incarceration, CD4 cell count), SW-DU had an independently reduced odds of pVL suppression compared to non-SW-DU (adjusted OR (AOR)=0.66; 95% CI 0.45 to 0.96). However, adding ART adherence to the multivariate model eliminated this association (p>0.05), suggesting adherence mediated the relationship between sex work and pVL suppression. Conclusions—Evidence-based interventions to improve adherence to ART among SW-DU are urgently needed to help produce the maximum HIV treatment and prevention benefit of ART among this highly vulnerable population.
First results of axion dark matter search with DANCE
Creators: name: Oshima, Yuka
name: Fujimoto, Hiroki
name: Kume, Jun'ya
name: Morisaki, Soichiro
name: Nagano, Koji
name: Fujita, Tomohiro
name: Obata, Ippei
name: Nishizawa, Atsushi
name: Michimura, Yuta
name: Ando, Masaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Axions are one of the well-motivated candidates for dark matter, originally proposed to solve the strong CP problem in particle physics. Dark matter Axion search with riNg Cavity Experiment (DANCE) is a new experimental project to broadly search for axion dark matter in the mass range of $10^{-17}~\mathrm{eV} < m_a < 10^{-11}~\mathrm{eV}$. We aim to detect the rotational oscillation of linearly polarized light caused by the axion-photon coupling with a bow-tie cavity. The first results of the prototype experiment, DANCE Act-1, are reported from a 24-hour observation. We found no evidence for axions and set 95% confidence level upper limit on the axion-photon coupling $g_{a γ} \lesssim 8 \times 10^{-4}~\mathrm{GeV^{-1}}$ in $10^{-14}~\mathrm{eV} < m_a < 10^{-13}~\mathrm{eV}$. Although the bound did not exceed the current best limits, this optical cavity experiment is the first demonstration of polarization-based axion dark matter search without any external magnetic field.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures
Vest, J. J., I.U.D., Notar, Appellationsrat
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1829

description: Ort: Basel
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Stakeholder and community relations: Innovation, relationships, brokers
Creators: name: Morsillo, Robert
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The theme of this presentation is '(Social) Innovation and Stakeholder Engagement'. It deals with (i) The meaning of dialogue; (ii) The importance of relationships; (iii) The need for brokers or connectors; and (iv) Embedding these within the organisation. It is based on my 15 years working as a consumer affairs professional.
Steinbrenner, F. W
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1829

description: Ort: New York
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Le secret du pouvoir, suivi de, Pour en finir avec les héros: à la conquête du mythe moderne
Creators: name: Brulé, Mélanie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Literature, Canadian (French).

description: La première partie de ma thèse présente Akizorak dans Le secret du pouvoir, personnage par lequel j'ai tenté de dépasser les limites dressées par l'archétype du héros pour me concentrer sur une manifestation de son alter ego, le tyran. La seconde partie de ma thèse développera un point de vue plus théorique s'orientant autour du mythe, ou plutôt du mythe moderne, qui puise ses sources dans la " paralittérature ". Dracula, Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes, le Fantôme de l'Opéra, etc. : tant d'exemples de personnages nés entre les pages d'un roman qui se sont vus propulsés au rang de figures mythiques par le cinéma. Devant une telle popularité, une question s'impose : que trouve, mais surtout recherche, le public entre les pages de ces livres? Afin de mieux comprendre ce phénomène, ma thèse se penchera sur le lien existant entre la survie d'une littérature consacrée à l'aventure extérieure et la manière dont le public puise dans la littérature populaire pour se constituer un panthéon personnel. C'est par l'exploration du mythe, de sa définition, de ses fonctions ainsi que l'évolution de sa place dans la société que j'explorerai la question avant de me pencher sur la place du roman d'aventures et la façon dont il renoue avec la tradition mythologique. Enfin, j'aborderai la question des mythes modernes, leurs manifestations et la place qu'ils occupent dans la société. Le dernier volet de ma thèse se penchera sur l'analyse de mon texte, du personnage d'Akizorak et de son potentiel mythique. Comment celui-ci s'illustre-t-il en tant que tyran par rapport au héros? De plus, je me pencherai sur une importante question narrative, soit l'apport d'un tel personnage d'abord à son auteur, puis aux lecteurs. Enfin, j'analyserai comment Akizorak se définit en tant que tyran et la symbolique qu'il incarne dans ce récit.
Fresh evidence in Canadian criminal law: 1910--2010
Creators: name: Pollard, Dorette
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.
subject: Law.

description: In the last four decades, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of fresh evidence cases before Canadian criminal law appellate courts. Yet when it was first introduced at the turn of the last century, this rule of evidence was meant to be an exception to the principle of the finality of judgments, to be used only on those rare occasions when a miscarriage of justice had occurred. It was intended to prevent the innocent from going to jailor worse, from perishing on the gallows. Historically, fresh evidence was used but rarely prior to 1970. However, starting in the mid 1970s these applications have grown significantly, exploding after the early 1980s. Based on an analysis of an initial database of 2116 fresh evidence matters, the thesis examines the possible reasons for this phenomenon and concludes that there is a direct correlation between the rise in the number of fresh evidence cases after 1970 and the advances in science, including the use of new evidence, such as DNA and expert forensic evidence in criminal law cases. But if the advances in science have made a significant contribution to the growth of fresh evidence applications, it was the advent of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms that brought a sea change to Canadian criminal law fresh evidence jurisprudence. Through a theoretical framework constructed around the search for truth, rights and theories of fairness, the thesis traces the evolution of appellate adjudication in this area of law that from its origins was meant to be used but rarely in the interests of the administration of justice to prevent miscarriages of justice.
The King Family, Tenth Annual Stony Brook Music Festival, 1965
Creators: name: Stony Brook Community Fund
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1965
Subjects: Stony Brook
Programs
Concert halls
Amphitheaters
Music festivals

description: This is the Tenth Annual Stony Brook Music Festival program, 1965. Fourth act is The King Family. The King Sisters were an American big band-era vocal group consisting of six sisters: Alyce, Donna, Luise, Marilyn, Maxine, and Yvonne King. They were known for their technical virtuosity and their wholesome family style entertainment.
The effect of introduced Sitka black-tailed deer, Odocoileus hemionus sitkensis Merriam, on the forest understorey plant communities of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia: Pattern, process, and recovery
Creators: name: Stockton, Stephen A
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Biology, Ecology.
subject: Agriculture, Forestry and Wildlife.

description: The introduction of Sitka black-tailed deer, Odocoileus hemionus sitkensis Merriam, to Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C., Canada) in the late 19th century provides a valuable opportunity to understand the long-term effects of deer populations on the vegetation of the North American temperate rain forest. We conducted two island-based experiments to investigate the effect of Sitka black-tailed deer on the forest understorey vegetation of this archipelago. In the first experiment we used a set of seven small islands (<15 ha) with different browsing histories (more than 50 years of deer presence, less than 20 years of deer presence, and no evidence of any deer presence) to test the effects of deer on plant cover, species richness and community composition. Browsing history was inversely proportional to both vegetation cover and plant species richness. Modification of the forest understorey plant communities followed a series of steps towards a greatly simplified community of plants possessing mechanisms to keep developing plant tissue inaccessible to deer. In the second experiment we utilized the cull of Sitka black-tailed deer from two large islands (295 ha and 170 ha) to investigate the release of forest plant communities from deer browsing. Using a paired-island approach, deer were culled on two experimental islands but remained on three adjacent control islands. Clear increases in species richness and cover as well as changes in the community composition of the forest understorey of experimental islands in the five years following the initiation of culls suggested a quick return to the forest understorey communities thought to exist before deer modification. However, failure of key shrub species to establish, coupled with the development of closed canopy stands of Sitka spruce, Picea sitchensis, suggests possible alternate stable-states for some communities.
Effect of UVB radiation on ecosystems of selected lakes in the Canadian High Arctic
Creators: name: Perin, Sofia Lucille
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Biology, Limnology.

description: Two studies on the effects of enhanced ultraviolet-B radiation (UVB; 280--320 nm) on planktonic organisms of Canadian High Arctic lakes are presented. In the first study, the long-term effects of a moderate increase in UVB levels on the planktonic community of a lake were evaluated using in situ mesocoms. Four mesocosms (3 m square and 3 m deep) were placed in Two Basin Lake, a small lake (14.2 ha) located on Ellesmere Island (79°55.5'N, 84°40'W; Nunavut, Canada). For 27 days, two mesocosms were exposed to full sunlight (including ambient UVB) while two others were exposed to sunlight plus artificially enhanced UVB. Chlorophyll a, zooplankton mean length and carbon allocation into macromolecular constituents were not affected by enhanced UVB. Phytoplankton productivity displayed diverse and inconsistent responses to enhanced UVB. Picocyanobacteria abundance decreased in the enhanced UVB mesocosms, but only at the surface. Enhanced UVB generally increased heterotrophic bacterial abundance and activity. Heterotrophic nanoflagellates and zooplankton abundances increased in the enhanced UVB treatment after 14 days. The cladocerans and rotifers were positively affected by UVB, while the copepods were negatively affected. The high levels (≥ 5 mg L -1) of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in this lake combined with vertical mixing generally protected the planktonic community from direct damage by enhanced UVB. It is hypothesized that UVB may have indirectly stimulated the microbial food web and the rest of the food chain through increased photodegradation of high molecular weight refractory dissolved organic matter into more bioavailable nutrients. In the second study, the short-term (2 to 24 h) effects of enhanced UVB on carbon uptake rates, photosynthetic fractionation into three size classes (picoplankton [0.2-2 mum], nanoplankton [2-20 [mum] and netplankton [> 20 mum]) and carbon assimilation into the four main end-products (low molecular weight metabolites [LMW], lipid, polysaccharide and protein) were assessed for nine lakes located near Resolute (74°15'N, 94°50'W) on Cornwallis Island (Nunavut, Canada). These lakes have low DOC levels (≤ 2 mg L-1). For each lake, 14C-inoculated water samples were exposed to 6, 25, 50 and/or 100% surface irradiance levels (E o) under natural solar radiation (including ambient UVB) or solar radiation plus artificially enhanced UVB. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Thuret & Co
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1829

description: Ort: Paris
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire 05.07.2020 Automatisiert nach HAN-Import
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire ISAD(G) / HAN Katalogisierungsregeln für Archivbestände Detailliert
Understanding European Union Normative Power: Assessing the Construction of the Norms of Human Rights and Market Liberalization in the EU's relationship with Russia
Creators: name: Ahonen, Staci
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Political Science, International Relations.

description: The European Union's (EU) identity as a nonnative power rests in its ability to construct norms within itself and in third countries. Russia has proven challenging for the EU's norm construction. Through constructivist analysis this thesis attempts to understand the EU's process of norm construction with Russia and domestically and consequently its construction of a nonnative identity. Looking at the period between 2000 and 2008, this thesis presents two main arguments. First, in the EU's attempt to construct its norms of human rights and market liberalization it faced difficulties because as the context shifted, other norms, deemed more important, triumphed over the norms of human rights and market liberalization. This resulted in three identifiable nonnative shifts. Secondly, it focuses on the domestic formation of norms and argues that member states playa significant role in the EU's difficulty to construct norms, in that they have been unable to speak with one voice on human rights and market liberalization.
Access to Complex Abortion Care Service and Planning Improved through a Toll-Free Telephone Resource Line
Creators: name: Norman, Wendy V.
name: Hestrin, Barbara
name: Dueck, Royce
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Background. Providing equitable access to the full range of reproductive health services over wide geographic areas presents significant challenges to any health system.We present a review of a service provision model which has provided improved access to abortion care; support for complex issues experienced by women seeking nonjudgmental family planning health services; and a mechanism to collect information on access barriers. The toll-free pregnancy options service (POS) of British ColumbiaWomen’s Hospital and Health Centre sought to improve access to services and overcome barriers experienced by women seeking abortion. Methods.We describe the development and implementation of a province-wide toll-free telephone counseling and access facilitation service, including establishment of a provincial network of local abortion service providers in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1998 to 2010. Results. Over 2000 women annually access service via the POS line, networks of care providers are established and linked to central support, and central program planners receive timely information on new service gaps and access barriers. Conclusion.This novel service has been successful in addressing inequities and access barriers identified as priorities before service establishment.The service provided unanticipated benefits to health care planning and monitoring of provincial health care related service delivery and gaps. This model for low cost health service delivery may realize similar benefits when applied to other health care systems where access and referral barriers exist.
Stieglitz & Co
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1829

description: Ort: St. Petersburg
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire 05.07.2020 Automatisiert nach HAN-Import
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire ISAD(G) / HAN Katalogisierungsregeln für Archivbestände Detailliert
Naive Bayes Classifiers over Missing Data: Decision and Poisoning
Creators: name: Bian, Song
name: Ouyang, Xiating
name: Fan, Zhiwei
name: Koutris, Paraschos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study the certifiable robustness of ML classifiers on dirty datasets that could contain missing values. A test point is certifiably robust for an ML classifier if the classifier returns the same prediction for that test point, regardless of which cleaned version (among exponentially many) of the dirty dataset the classifier is trained on. In this paper, we show theoretically that for Naive Bayes Classifiers (NBC) over dirty datasets with missing values: (i) there exists an efficient polynomial time algorithm to decide whether multiple input test points are all certifiably robust over a dirty dataset; and (ii) the data poisoning attack, which aims to make all input test points certifiably non-robust by inserting missing cells to the clean dataset, is in polynomial time for single test points but NP-complete for multiple test points. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our algorithms are efficient and outperform existing baselines.
description: 22 pages, 10 figures