cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Comparing rates of introgression in parasitic feather lice with differing dispersal capabilities
Creators: name: Doña, Jorge
name: Sweet, Andrew D.
name: Johnson, Kevin P
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60409 Molecular Evolution
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60408 Genomics

description: Supplementary material of "Comparing rates of introgression in parasitic feather lice with differing dispersal capabilities". This file contains:
Table S1, Table S2, Figures S1-S14, and Columbicola and Physconelloides gene trees.
To visualize the Rmarkdown file, open the HTML file ("supplementary.html") with a web browser* within the uncompressed "supplementary_material.zip" folder (i.e., the supplementary.html file should be in the same folder than the .pdf files).
Alternatively, an online version can be found here: https://jorge-dona.github.io/Comparing-rates-of-introgression-in-parasitic-feather-lice-with-differing-dispersal-capabilities/supplementary.html
*Note that, for unknown reasons, web browsers (e.g., Google Chrome) don't open the .html file after clicking on it, and the .html should be loaded from within the web browser (e.g., in Google Chrome: File-> Open File-> then select the supplementary.html).
Rehabilitating Howard M. Parshley: A Socio-Historical Study of the English Translation of Beauvoir's Le deuxième sexe, with Latour and Bourdieu
Creators: name: Bogic, Anna D.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: letter correspondence
The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir
Howard M. Parshley
English translation
Sociology of translation
Pierre Bourdieu
habitus
Bruno Latour
Actor-Network Theory

description: This study documents the problematic translator-publisher relationship in the case of the English translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s Le deuxième sexe. The socio-historical investigation of the case study demonstrates that the 1953 translation was complicated by several factors: the translator’s lack of philosophical knowledge, the editor’s demands to cut and simplify the text, the publisher’s intention to emphasize the book’s scientific cachet, and Beauvoir’s lack of cooperation. The investigation focuses on two aspects: the translator’s subservience and the involvement of multiple actors. Primarily concerned with the interaction between the translator and other actors, this study seeks answers that require investigation into historical documents and the work of other scholars critical of The Second Sex. In this enquiry, more than one hundred letters between the translator, H. M. Parshley, and the publisher, Knopf, are thoroughly analyzed. The study combines Bruno Latour’s and Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological concepts in order to provide a more detailed and encompassing examination within the context of Translation Studies. The letter correspondence is the primary evidence on which the study’s conclusions are based.
description: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Supplementary document for A scanning planar Yagi-Uda antenna for fluorescence detection - 5338191.pdf
Creators: name: soltani, navid
name: Rabbany, Elham
name: Druzhinin, Sergey
name: Schulte, Gregor
name: Müller, Julian
name: Sledz, Florian
name: Flatae, Assegid
name: Butz, Benjamin
name: Schönherr, Holger
name: Markesevic, Nemanja
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary information
O Foundation’s Responses to Oriya Script Root Zone Label Generation Ruleset (LGR) proposal 2018
Creators: name: Panigrahi, Subhashish
name: Prateek Pattanaik
name: Ali, Nasim
name: Sailesh Patnaik
name: Jnanaranjan Sahu
name: Chinmayee Mishra
name: Mrutyunjaya Kar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Computer Science
subject: 200315 Indian Languages
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: This is a two-part white paper series that were published on October 22, 2018 and November 9, 2018 -- both the papers were a response to the Oriya Script Root Zone Label Generation Ruleset (LGR) proposal 2018 that was announced by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
Entwicklung der spezifischen Kohlendioxid-Emissionen des deutschen Strommix in den Jahren 1990 - 2016
Creators: name: Icha, Petra
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Erneuerbare Energie
subject: Anteil erneuerbarer Energien
subject: Energiebedingte CO2-Emissionen
subject: Emissionsfaktor
subject: Erneuerbare Energien-Statistik
subject: deutscher Strommix
subject: Anteil erneuerbarer Energien am Stromverbrauch
subject: Energiebedingte Kohlendioxid-Emissionen
subject: Strommix
subject: Klima | Energie

description: Das Umweltbundesamt veröffentlicht jährlich seine Berechnungsergebnisse zur Entwicklung des Kohlendioxid-Emissionsfaktors des deutschen Strommix in der Zeitreihe ab 1990, der als ⁠Indikator⁠ für die Klimaverträglichkeit der Stromerzeugung angesehen werden kann. Bei der Erzeugung einer Kilowattstunde Strom für den Endverbrauch ohne Berücksichtigung des Stromhandelssaldos wurden in Deutschland im Jahr 2014 durchschnittlich 564 Gramm Kohlendioxid als direkte ⁠Emission⁠ aus der Verbrennung fossiler Energieträger emittiert. Das sind ca. 197 Gramm pro Kilowattstunde oder 26 Prozent weniger als im Jahr 1990. Für das Jahr 2015 auf der Basis vorläufiger Daten sind dies 534 Gramm pro Kilowattstunde. Hochgerechnete Werte für das Jahr 2016 ergeben 527 Gramm pro Kilowattstunde und somit 234 Gramm und ca. 31 Prozent weniger als 1990.
Institution-wide focus for structured industry engaged learning
Creators: name: Clements, Mike
name: Hays, Jay
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper reports on the successful implementation of an institution-wide strategy for integrating and embedding Industry Engaged Learning into the curriculum. A case study on organisational change and curriculum enhancement, rationale and strategy for and components and assessment of the transformation are detailed. As such, the paper makes a general contribution to the literature on organisational change, and may be of particular value in the higher education context. Executives endeavouring to promote university renewal or encompassing curriculum change, and those concerned with enhancing learning outcomes from Industry Engaged Learning and similar models (cooperative education, Industry Placements, internships, Professional Practice) will find the paper relevant, fresh, thorough, and helpful. A major contribution of the paper is a model developed comprising an IEL Continuum and Depth of Learning Matrix that enables curriculum planners and course convenors to (a) assess, compare, and cost IEL programs and individual courses / units and placements and (b) enhance learning outcomes from programs and placements. This model is the centrepiece of the institutional change program described, forming the impetus for change and providing its conceptual framework and theoretical underpinnings. This model may be adapted for use in any institution or program and, if adopted / adapted, could substantially enhance the quality of the overall work experience for students and associated learning outcomes. The paper's practical contributions are complemented by strong theoretical grounding. Its authors are widely published in the areas of leadership, teaching and learning, and organisational change and development, features unified compellingly in this collaborative effort.
Supplementary document for A scanning planar Yagi-Uda antenna for fluorescence detection - 5338191.pdf
Creators: name: soltani, navid
name: Rabbany, Elham
name: Druzhinin, Sergey
name: Schulte, Gregor
name: Müller, Julian
name: Sledz, Florian
name: Flatae, Assegid
name: Butz, Benjamin
name: Schönherr, Holger
name: Markesevic, Nemanja
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary information
Perceptions of Peacebuilding in Solomon Islands Post-RAMSI
Creators: name: Sloan, Tom
name: Dinnen, Sinclair
name: Sweaney, Nicole
name: Chevalier, Chris
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT: Dept. of Pacific Affairs, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University
Year: 2019

description: This In Brief is based on the National Perceptions Survey on Peacebuilding for Solomon Islands commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme under a United Nations Peacebuilding Fund project implemented by UNDP and UN Women (UNDP 2018). The purpose of the study was to provide fresh insight into Solomon Islanders’ perceptions of peacebuilding immediately after RAMSI’s withdrawal. In July and August 2017, 2503 people were surveyed in 24 enumeration areas, which were mainly in and around centres across seven provinces, and included the national capital, Honiara. Limitations to the methodology used included the concentration of target samples in peri-urban and urban areas. While we attempted to mitigate clustering issues around the survey sites, the reported findings should be interpreted in this light. This In Brief summarises some of the survey’s key findings. In particular we highlight the perceived dissipation (but not disappearance) of inter-ethnic tensions and the renewed focus on core development issues among Solomon Islanders. Interested readers should consult the full report.
Clumpology of starbursts in the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey
Creators: name: Wisnioski, Emily
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Blake, Chris
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We have observed Hα emission from a sample of 13 star-forming galaxies from the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey in the redshift range z ∼ 1.2 − 1.5 and stellar mass range 9.8 < log(M∗/M⊙)< 11.6 with the integral ﬁeld spectrograph OSIRIS on Keck, taking advantage of Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics. We detect multiple emission, 1–2 kpc size sub-components, or ‘clumps’ within the Hα spatial emission in 4 galaxies, extended emission in 4 galaxies and compact spheroidal emission in 5 galaxies. Considering our results in the context of unstable disk formation and a merger sequence, we ﬁnd evidence of ordered orbital motion in the majority of galaxies as would be found in unstable gaseous disks.
Supplementary document for Ellipsometric and first-principles study on temperaturedependent UV-Vis dielectric functions of GaN - 5338615.pdf
Creators: name: Cheng, Tao
name: Fei, Tianhao
name: Zhang, Wenjie
name: Yang, Jia-Yue
name: LIU, LINHUA
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: See Supplement 1 for supporting content.
The Competing Perceptions of Jakarta and Papua1 towards the Special Autonomy Law
Creators: name: Farneubun, Petrus K.
name: Korwa, Johni R.V.
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT: Dept. of Pacific Affairs, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University
Year: 2020

description: The historical roots of special autonomy in Papua can be traced back to two major events. The first was a meeting of 100 Papuan representatives with President Habibie in Jakarta on 26 February 1999, and the second was the 2nd Papuan Congress held in Jayapura city from 29 May to 4 June 2000. In both events, Papuans expressed their demand for political independence. In response, the central government granted special autonomy through the enactment of Law No. 2½001 (Special Autonomy Law). Although special autonomy is valid for an unspecified period of time, Article 34(6) of the Law states that special autonomy funding shall be valid for 20 years; it will come to an end in 2021. While the central government has decided to extend the allocation of special autonomy funds, various Papuan groups recently voiced their opposition. This rejection arguably has roots in differing perceptions of special autonomy between Jakarta and Papua. This In Brief examines these differences and suggests a way forward.
CFL Touching Down Back in Ottawa: Exploring Corporate Image and Brand Equity Prior to Entry
Creators: name: Desjardins, Élise
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: CFL
CFL Ottawa
CFL Corporate Image
CFL Brand Equity

description: This mixed method research evaluates corporate image theory and its impact on assets of brand equity. It consists of a single case study of a CFL franchise coming back to a market that has experienced two failed franchises. The first phase involved the collection of archival material and the execution of semi-structured interviews. Through content analysis, four higher order themes emerged: the importance of Football Tradition, the need for a new Sport Facility, and the importance placed on both Identity and Brand Awareness. These themes denoted the importance of history and tradition for a franchise making its debut in a new, yet pre-existing market. The second phase involved survey research via an online method. Demographic data was compiled and analyzed to understand the various market segments that this franchise should be targeting as future fans. The findings suggest that this team should find a new name and a new logo.
Nesting aggregation as a Determinant of Brood Parasitism in Mason Bees (Osmia spp.)
Creators: name: Groulx, Adam
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Parasitism
subject: Mason Bees
subject: Interspecies Interactions
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pollinators

description: Identifying forces that affect population dynamics can allow us to better understand the distribution and abundance of animals. Both top-down and bottom-up factors can significantly influence animal populations. Mason bees (members of the genus Osmia; Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) are important pollinators for agricultural systems and are vulnerable to exploitation by brood parasites, such as kleptoparasitic wasps. High levels of nesting density have the potential to increase rates of brood parasitism by attracting larger numbers of parasites to areas with aggregations of nests. I conducted a field study in subalpine meadows at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado, USA, to assess whether mason bees suffer increased brood parasitism as the size of nesting aggregations increases. Mason bees were allowed to nest in artificial nest boxes and establish natural variations in numbers of nesting individuals within nest boxes. Nest cells constructed by bees were then checked for the presence of kleptoparasite larvae shortly after they were completed. Overall, nest cells constructed in blocks containing multiple active bees were significantly more likely to be oviposited in by brood parasites compared to cells constructed in blocks with fewer active nesting bees. This suggests that gathering in large aggregations for nesting can negatively affect populations of mason bees, given the high levels of brood parasitism observed in areas of high nesting density. In addition, the last nest cell in mason bee nests was significantly more likely to be parasitized than inner cells, suggesting bees may be abandoning nests that are parasitized, representing a potential defensive response of bees to brood parasitism. These results have implications for the management of mason bees as agricultural pollinators, as cultivating them in large groups could reduce their survival.
Population segments as a tool for health care performance reporting: an exploratory study in the Canadian province of British Columbia
Creators: name: Langton, Julia M.
name: Wong, Sabrina T.
name: Burge, Fred
name: Choi, Alexandra
name: Ghaseminejad-Tafreshi, Niloufar
name: Johnston, Sharon
name: Katz, Alan
name: Lavergne, Ruth
name: Mooney, Dawn
name: Peterson, Sandra
name: McGrail, Kimberlyn M.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: Primary care serves all age groups and individuals with health states ranging from those with no chronic conditions to those who are medically complex, or frail and approaching the end of life. For information to be actionable and guide planning, there must be some population disaggregation based on differences in expected needs for care. Promising approaches to segmentation in primary care reflect both the breadth and severity of health states, the types and amounts of health care utilization that are expected, and the roles of the primary care provider. The purpose of this study was to assess population segmentation as a tool to create distinct patient groups for use in primary care performance reporting. Methods: This cross-sectional study used administrative data (patient characteristics, physician and hospital billings, prescription medicines data, emergency department visits) to classify the population of British Columbia (BC), Canada into one of four population segments: low need, multiple morbidities, medically complex, and frail. Each segment was further classified using socioeconomic status (SES) as a proxy for patient vulnerability. Regression analyses were used to examine predictors of health care use, costs and selected measures of primary care attributes (access, continuity, coordination) by segment. Results: Average annual health care costs increased from the low need ($ 1460) to frail segment ($10,798). Differences in primary care cost by segment only emerged when attributes of primary care were included in regression models: accessing primary care outside business hours and discontinuous primary care (≥5 different GP’s in a given year) were associated with higher health care costs across all segments and higher continuity of care was associated with lower costs in the frail segment (cost ratio = 0.61). Additionally, low SES was associated with higher costs across all segments, but the difference was largest in the medically complex group (cost ratio = 1.11). Conclusions: Population segments based on expected need for care can support primary care measurement and reporting by identifying nuances which may be lost when all patients are grouped together. Our findings demonstrate that variables such as SES and use of regression analyses can further enhance the usefulness of segments for performance measurement and reporting.
Encounters with Westerners: Understanding the Chinese Construction of the Western Other
Creators: name: Birks, Ying
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Other
Othering
Otherness
Chinese Occidentalism
Westerners
ordinary Chinese people
intercultural contact
qualitative interviewing

description: In this study we seek to understand how ordinary Chinese people perceive Westerners as the Other through examining their intercultural experiences. In contrast to the numerous studies of social elites’ Occidentalism, this study shifts the attention to ordinary people’s perceptions in a fast changing Chinese society. From an interpretive perspective, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 16 participants living in a coastal city in Mainland China. The key findings suggest that the Chinese public has its own way of perceiving and presenting the Western Other. Also, this Other, being defined in an on-going process of intercultural interaction, connotes a wider meaning – a unity of opposition and complementarity, exclusion and inclusion. Thus this study has deepened our understanding of the Chinese construction of the Western Other. The findings can be used in developing intercultural communication training programs to facilitate deeper contact and better dialogue between the Chinese and Westerners.
Modeling and Performance Analysis of Distributed Systems with Collaboration Behaviour Diagrams
Creators: name: Israr, Toqeer
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: performance
modeling
partial order
collaborations
UML
UML Activity Diagrams
UML Collaborations
Distributed Applications
Software Performance
Distributed Services
Web Services
Stochastic
Stochastic Performance
Normal Distributions
Petri Nets
PERT
Performance Modeling
Algorithms
Measurements
Verifications

description: The use of distributed systems, involving multiple components, has become a common industry practice. However, modeling the behaviour of such systems is a challenge, especially when the behavior consists of several collaborations of different parties, each involving possibly several starting (input) and ending (output) events of the involved components. Furthermore, the global behavior should be described as a composition of several sub-behaviours, in the following called collaborations, and each collaboration may be further decomposed into several sub-collaborations. We assume that the performance of the elementary sub-collaborations is known, and that the performance of the global behavior should be determined from the performance of the contained elementary collaborations and the form of the composition. A collaboration, in this thesis, is characterized by a partial order of input and output events, and the performance of the collaboration is defined by the minimum delays required for a given output event with respect to an input event. This is a generalization of the semantics of UML Activities, where all input events are assumed to occur at the same time, and all output events occur at the same time. We give a semantic definition of the dynamic behavior of composed collaborations using the composition operators for control flow from UML Activity diagrams, in terms of partial order relationships among the involved input and output events. Based on these semantics, we provide formulas for calculating the performance of composed collaborations in terms of the performance of the sub-collaborations, where each delay is characterized by (a) a fixed value, (b) a range of values, and (c) a distribution (in the case of stochastic behaviours). We also propose approximations for the case of stochastic behavior with Normal distributions, and discuss the expected errors that may be introduced due to ignoring of shared resources or possible dependencies in the case of stochastic behaviours. A tool has been developed for evaluating the performance of complex collaborations, and examples and case studies are discussed to illustrate the applicability of the performance analysis and the visual notation which we introduced for representing the partial-order relationships of the input and output events.
Oxidation of molten aluminium
Creators: name: Bonner, Stephen J.
name: Taylor, John A.
name: Yao, Ji-Yong
name: Rhamdhani, Akbar
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Oxidation is a significant source of material loss in the production of primary aluminium, with estimates ranging up to ~1% of metal loss due to oxidation. An understanding of the fundamental oxidation mechanisms is necessary to develop a kinetic model of oxidation behaviour. Studies of aluminium oxidation have traditionally been thermogravimetric and carried out in a controlled atmosphere furnace. However, it is known that this technique is sensitive to the initial condition of the oxide present on the feedstock. This has led to significant variations in data reported in the literature, making modelling problematic. An experimental technique has been developed to address this limitation, based on earlier work by Freti et al, in which the oxide is 'skimmed' off of the surface of an open melt to give an effectively pure aluminium surface. The melt surface was skimmed at regular intervals and the skimmed material was processed in a molten salt flux at 750 degrees Celsius to separate the metal from the oxide. The recovered aluminium metal was weighed and the amount of oxide was then calculated by difference. Experiments were carried out on a melt of commercial purity aluminium exposed to ambient air. The melt surface area was ~0.05 m^2 (approximately the size of an A4 piece of paper). Oxide samples were taken at melt temperatures of 750, 850, and 900 degrees Celsius after holding times ranging from 30 seconds to 8 hours. The amount of oxide formed increased with both time and temperature, and the oxidation rate at 850 degrees Celsius was greater than at 750 degrees Celsius. The data at 750 and 850 degrees Celsius can be described reasonably well by a power law relationship, within experimental error, indicating a continuous reduction in oxidation rate over time, although the 900 degrees Celsius data is currently too limited to make a similar observation. Overall, very little oxide formed on the aluminium melt, significantly less than what forms in an industrial setting. This suggests that there are other factors more significant than time and temperature that influence the oxidation behaviour under such conditions.
Severe rhabdomyolysis in homozygote carnitine palmitoyltransferase II deficiency
Creators: name: Schnedl, Wolfgang J.
name: Schenk, Michael
name: Enko, Dietmar
name: Mangge, Harald
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2020
Subjects: carnitine palmitoyltransferase II deficiency
myalgia
rhabdomyolysis
urosepsis

description: Carnitine palmitoyltransferase II (CPT II) deficiency represents an inherited defect in mitochondrial long-chain fatty acid oxidation. Rhabdomyolysis with necrosis of muscle is caused by the destruction of skeletal muscle and leads to systemic, multiorgan complications due to the release of intracellular muscle components. Severe rhabdomyolysis may be triggered by combination of a genetic predisposition, including CPT II deficiency, with additionally acting causes. Generally, patients with CPT II deficiency are rarely clinical recognized and reported. We describe a patient presenting severe rhabdomyolysis due to urosepsis, who, in genetic testing, demonstrated the homozygous CPT II deficiency (c.338C>T, p.Ser113Leu) mutation. The diagnosis of CPT II deficiency helped this patient to put the symptoms into context, and this reduced myopathy and the risk of recurring rhabdomyolysis. We report on this patient to increase awareness of diagnostic and medical management in CPT II deficiency.
description: EXCLI Journal; 19:Doc1309; ISSN 1611-2156
The establishment of Canada's Tokyo Legation in 1928: Canada's relations with Japan, 1894-1933.
Creators: name: Lynhiavu, Tou Chu Dou.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.

description: Canada's decision to establish a Tokyo Legation in 1928 was a major foreign-policy initiative. The Tokyo Legation demonstrated a clear shift, slight as it may have been, in Canada's international outlook away from its traditional North Atlantic orientation. Japan had emerged from World War One a major power on the international scene and the key actor in the far east. The establishment of the diplomatic mission in Tokyo at such an early date clearly demonstrated that the Department of External Affairs recognized the importance of Canada's relations with Asia/Pacific in general and Japan in particular. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Dispersion Characteristics of One-dimensional Photonic Band Gap Structures Composed of Metallic Inclusions
Creators: name: Khodami, Maryam
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Photonic band gap materials
Subwavelength elements
Resonant elements
Polarization sensitive photonic bandgap structures
Interlaced polarization sensitive photonic bandgap structure
Controlling dispersion diagram via structural parameters
Projected band diagram

description: An innovative approach for characterization of one dimensional Photonic Band Gap structures comprised of metallic inclusions (i.e. subwavelength dipole elements or resonant ring elements) is presented. Through an efficient S- to T-parameters conversion technique, a detailed analysis has been performed to investigate the variation of the dispersion characteristics of 1-D PBG structures as a function of the cell element configuration. Also, for the first time, the angular sensitivity of the structure has been studied in order to obtain the projected band diagrams for both TE and TM polarizations. Polarization sensitivity of the subwavelength cell element is exploited to propose a novel combination of elements which allows achieving PBGs with simultaneous frequency and polarization selectivity. The proposed approach demonstrates that the dispersion characteristic of each orthogonal polarization can be independently adjusted with dipole elements parallel to that same polarization. Generally, the structure has potential applications in orthomode transducer, and generally whenever the polarization of the incoming signal is to be used as a means of separating it from another signal in the same frequency band that is of orthogonal polarization. The current distribution and the resonance behavior of the ring element is studied and the effect of resonance on dispersion characteristics of 1-D PBGs composed of rings is investigated for the first time, for both individual and coupled rings. Interestingly, it is observed that 1-D PBG composed of resonant elements consistently has a bandgap around the resonant frequency of the single layer structure.
Shape Correspondence by Aligning Scale-invariant LBO Eigenfunctions
Creators: name: Bracha, Amit
name: Halim, Oshri
name: Kimmel, Ron
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2020

description: When matching non-rigid shapes, the regular or scale-invariant Laplace-Beltrami Operator (LBO) eigenfunctions could potentially serve as intrinsic descriptors which are invariant to isometric transformations. However, the computed eigenfunctions of two quasi-isometric surfaces could be substantially different. Such discrepancies include sign ambiguities and possible rotations and reflections within subspaces spanned by eigenfunctions that correspond to similar eigenvalues. Thus, without aligning the corresponding eigenspaces it is difficult to use the eigenfunctions as descriptors. Here, we propose to model the relative transformation between the eigenspaces of two quasi-isometric shapes using a band orthogonal matrix, as well as present a framework that aims to estimate this matrix. Estimating this transformation allows us to align the eigenfunctions of one shape with those of the other, that could then be used as intrinsic, consistent, and robust descriptors. To estimate the transformation we use an unsupervised spectral-net framework that uses descriptors given by the eigenfunctions of the scale-invariant version of the LBO. Then, using a spectral training mechanism, we find a band limited orthogonal matrix that aligns the two sets of eigenfunctions.
description: Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval
description: 3DOR Short Papers
description: 1
description: 9
description: Amit Bracha, Oshri Halimi, and Ron Kimmel
Supplementary document for Detection of Magneto-optical Kerr signals via weak measurement with frequency pointer - 5338889.pdf
Creators: name: He, Yu
name: Luo, Lan
name: Xie, Linguo
name: Shao, Jingyi
name: Liu, Yurong
name: You, Jiacheng
name: Ye, Yucheng
name: Zhang, Zhiyou
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Photodetectors, Optical Sensors and Solar Cells

description: Supplemental document
Fast Feature Curve Extraction for Similarity Estimation of 3D Meshes
Creators: name: Romanelis, Ioannis
name: Arvanitis, Gerasimos
name: Moustakas, Konstantinos
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2020
Subjects: Computing methodologies
Parametric curve and surface models

description: Feature extraction from 3D triangle meshes is a very popular and important task that could contribute to many scientific fields such as computer vision, pattern recognition, medical 3D modeling, etc. However, the main challenge is not just finding corners and edges of 3D models but to automatically extract connected clusters of vertices that jointly represent a feature curve. This paper presents an approach for feature curve extraction and similarity evaluation among feature curves of the same or other models robust to differences in scale, resolution quality, pose, or partial observation. The proposed approach could be used, as a pre-processing step, in many other applications like registration, partial matching, tracking, object recognition, etc. Extensive evaluation studies and experiments carried out using a variety of different models and use cases, verify that the proposed approach achieves accurate feature curve extraction and categorization, robust to several constraints like scale or resolution.
description: Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval
description: 3DOR Short Papers
description: 11
description: 18
description: Ioannis Romanelis, Gerasimos Arvanitis, and Konstantinos Moustakas
description: CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies --> Parametric curve and surface models
SHREC 2020 Track: Non-rigid Shape Correspondence of Physically-Based Deformations
Creators: name: Dyke, Roberto M.
name: Zhou, Feng
name: Lai, Yu-Kun
name: Rosin, Paul L.
name: Guo, Daoliang
name: Li, Kun
name: Marin, Riccardo
name: Yang, Jingyu
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2020
Subjects: Computing methodologies
Shape analysis
Mesh models

description: Commonly, novel non-rigid shape correspondence techniques focus on particular matching challenges. This can lead to the potential trade-off of poorer performance in other scenarios. An ideal dataset would provide a granular means for degrees of evaluation. In this paper, we propose a novel dataset of real scans that contain challenging non-isometric deformations to evaluate non-rigid point-to-point correspondence and registration algorithms. The deformations included in our dataset cover extreme types of physically-based contortions of a toy rabbit. Furthermore, shape pairs contain incrementally different types and amounts of deformation, this enables performance to be systematically evaluated with respect to the nature of the deformation. A brief investigation into different methods for initialising correspondence was undertaken, and a series of experiments were subsequently conducted to investigate the performance of state-of-the-art methods on the proposed dataset. We find that methods that rely on initial correspondences and local descriptors that are sensitive to local surface changes perform poorly in comparison to other strategies, and that a template-based approach performs the best.
description: Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval
description: SHREC Short Papers
description: 19
description: 26
description: Roberto M. Dyke, Feng Zhou, Yu-Kun Lai, Paul L. Rosin, Daoliang Guo, Kun Li, Riccardo Marin, and Jingyu Yang
description: CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies --> Shape analysis; Mesh models
Quantifying corrosion caused by extreme weathering between carbon fibre reinforced polymers (CFRP) and steel
Creators: name: Borrie, Daniel
name: Adnan, Nawshad
name: Raman, R. K. Singh
name: Zhao, Xiao-Ling
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Research into carbon fibre reinforced polymers (CFRP)'s application to steel as a retrofitting technique has shown very positive results for increasing mechanical properties. However, the limitation of these materials in a corrosion inducing environment has been widely overlooked. In this study, the possible interaction of CFRP and steel in extreme weather conditions in causing localized corrosion (e.g., pitting) was investigated, with the primary aim of quantifying the pit depth and density caused by the galvanic corrosion process between the two materials. Steel tiles patched in direct contact with different varieties of CFRP were exposed to 5% NaCl solutions at two temperatures for different durations. After removal, the pit depth and pit density were analysed to determine whether galvanic conditions could indeed generate pits, which are known to initiate fatigue cracks in steels. It was observed, in this initial work, that after 4 weeks of exposure to NaCl, the pits formed from the CFRP patched specimens were not exceedingly different or critical compared to that of the control steel tiles.
SHREC 2020 Track: Extended Monocular Image Based 3D Model Retrieval
Creators: name: Li, Wenhui
name: Song, Dan
name: Liu, Anan
name: Nie, Weizhi
name: Zhang, Ting
name: Zhao, Xiaoqian
name: Ma, Mingsheng
name: Li, Yuqian
name: Zhou, Heyu
name: Zhang, Beibei
name: Le, Shengjie
name: Wang, Dandan
name: Ren, Tongwei
name: Wu, Gangshan
name: Vu-Le, The-Anh
name: Hoang, Xuan-Nhat
name: Nguyen, E-Ro
name: Nguyen-Ho, Thang-Long
name: Nguyen, Hai-Dang
name: Do, Trong-Le
name: Tran, Minh-Triet
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: H.3.3 [Computer Graphics]
subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Information Search and Retrieval

description: Monocular image based 3D object retrieval has attracted more and more attentions in the field of 3D object retrieval. However, the research of 3D object retrieval based on 2D image is still challenging, mainly because of the gap between data from different modalities. To further support this research, we extend the previous track SHREC19'MI3DOR to organize this track, and we construct the expanded monocular image based 3D object retrieval benchmark. Compared with SHREC19'MI3DOR, this benchmark adds 19 categories for both 2D images and 3D models to the original 21 categories, taking into account the lack of categories for practical applications. Two groups participated, proposed three kinds of supervised methods and submitted 20 runs in total, and 7 commonly-used criteria are used to evaluate the retrieval performance. The results show that supervised methods still achieve satisfying retrieval results (Best NN is 96.7% for 40 categories), which are comparable to the results of SHREC19'MI3DOR. In the future, unsupervised methods are encouraged to discover in monocular image based 3D model retrieval.
description: Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval
description: SHREC Short Papers
description: 37
description: 44
description: Wenhui Li, Dan Song, Anan Liu, Weizhi Nie, Ting Zhang, Xiaoqian Zhao, Mingsheng Ma, Yuqian Li, Heyu Zhou, Beibei Zhang, Shengjie Le, Dandan Wang, Tongwei Ren, Gangshan Wu, The-Anh Vu-Le, Xuan-Nhat Hoang, E-Ro Nguyen, Thang-Long Nguyen-Ho, Hai-Dang Nguyen, Trong-Le Do, and Minh-Triet Tran
description: Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS): H.3.3 [Computer Graphics]: Information Systems-Information Search and Retrieval
From 'Deviant Girl' to 'Unempowerable Woman': Reconstructing Resistance in the Case of Ashley Smith
Creators: name: LeBlanc, Nicole
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012

description: This research explores the traditional and contemporary construction of undesirable female behaviour as both ‘risky’ and ‘abnormal’, and the implication this had on the Correctional Service of Canada’s response to Ashley Smith’s self-injurious behaviour. Smith was kept in segregation for 11.5 months of federal custody until she ultimately ended her own life while correctional staff watched without intervening. In order to capture the evolution of Smith’s undesirable behaviour and the institutional responses leading up to her death, this thesis begins with an examination of her experiences prior to her confinement in federal prison. This research offers a feminist reading of self-injury and the use of segregation and an in-depth critical examination of the systemic factors that influenced Smith’s self-injury. In order to gain a thorough understanding of Smith’s experiences and how they are systematically situated, a qualitative content analysis was conducted of all public documentation of her case released by the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC), the Office of the Correctional Investigator (OCI), and the Office of the Ombudsman and Child Youth Advocate, as well as federal correctional policies related to segregation, self-injury, institutional transfers, use of force, and use of restraints. Findings suggest that the therapeutic-risk logic adopted by the CSC and OCI to ‘make sense’ of Smith’s undesirable behaviour, led to the reconstruction of Smith’s self-injurious behaviour as both ‘abnormal’ and ‘risky’, rather than as a response to her oppressive correctional environment. This reconstruction ultimately legitimized the perpetual disciplinary and governmental responses Smith endured (e.g. segregation, use of restraints and force, involuntary transfers, involuntary therapeutic injections), which then worsened her behaviour in a cyclical pattern. Reliance on therapeutic-risk logic in different social institutions (the school, hospital and prison) trapped Smith in a carceral network that ultimately responsibilized her for her own victimization and punishment. While it was arguably the collective carceral response that exacerbated Smith’s undesirable behaviour, findings suggest that it was ultimately the extreme disciplinary and governmental forces exerted in the federal prison system that led to her ultimate death. While this research provides ample evidence to support this conclusion, the CSC ultimately silences the gendered injustice in which Smith endured by denying responsibility for her experiences, while disciplacing it onto frontline staff, the medical system, the lack of institutional resources and Smith herself by normalizing her death as merely one of many that remain ‘unpreventable’ within the Canadian prison system.
Organic food in China: Comparing the purchase behaviour of consumers in coastal and inland cities
Creators: name: Chen, Jue
name: Lobo, Antonio
name: Leckie, Civilai
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Thi s study aims to investigate whether there are differences between groups of Chinese organic food consumers, and in particular between the inland and coastal regions. Data were collected from respondents in Shanghai (representative of coastal regions) and Chengdu (representative of inland regions). The findings revealed that China is not a homogenous country. Essentially, consumers from t he coastal and inland cities differ significantly in terms of their beliefs and attitudes, lifestyles and consumption patterns relating to organic food. The beliefs and attitudes tend to be influenced more by product - related attributes in Shanghai, where c onsumers place greater emphasis on organic food texture, fragrance and nutritional value. These consumers also differ in their lifestyles which influence their beliefs and attitudes as compared to consumers in Chengdu. These findings have important implica tions to all stakeholders of the organic food industry, in particular to foreign firms which intend to export organic food to China.
SHREC 2020 Track: 6D Object Pose Estimation
Creators: name: Yuan, Honglin
name: Veltkamp, Remco C.
name: Albanis, Georgios
name: Zioulis, Nikolaos
name: Zarpalas, Dimitrios
name: Daras, Petros
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2020
Subjects: Information systems
Multimedia and multimodal retrieval
Evaluation of retrieval results
Specialized information retrieval

description: 6D pose estimation is crucial for augmented reality, virtual reality, robotic manipulation and visual navigation. However, the problem is challenging due to the variety of objects in the real world. They have varying 3D shape and their appearances in captured images are affected by sensor noise, changing lighting conditions and occlusions between objects. Different pose estimation methods have different strengths and weaknesses, depending on feature representations and scene contents. At the same time, existing 3D datasets that are used for data-driven methods to estimate 6D poses have limited view angles and low resolution. To address these issues, we organize the Shape Retrieval Challenge benchmark on 6D pose estimation and create a physically accurate simulator that is able to generate photo-realistic color-and-depth image pairs with corresponding ground truth 6D poses. From captured color and depth images, we use this simulator to generate a 3D dataset which has 400 photo-realistic synthesized color-and-depth image pairs with various view angles for training, and another 100 captured and synthetic images for testing. Five research groups register in this track and two of them submitted their results. Data-driven methods are the current trend in 6D object pose estimation and our evaluation results show that approaches which fully exploit the color and geometric features are more robust for 6D pose estimation of reflective and texture-less objects and occlusion. This benchmark and comparative evaluation results have the potential to further enrich and boost the research of 6D object pose estimation and its applications.
description: Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval
description: SHREC Short Papers
description: 45
description: 52
description: Honglin Yuan, Remco C. Veltkamp, Georgios Albanis, Nikolaos Zioulis, Dimitrios Zarpalas, and Petros Daras
description: CCS Concepts: Information systems --> Multimedia and multimodal retrieval; Evaluation of retrieval results; Specialized information retrieval
Topics in Random Matrices: Theory and Applications to Probability and Statistics
Creators: name: Kousha, Termeh
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Random matrices
Dyck path
MCMC
Slice sampling
Gibbs sampler
Brownian excursion

description: In this thesis, we discuss some topics in random matrix theory which have applications to probability, statistics and quantum information theory. In Chapter 2, by relying on the spectral properties of an associated adjacency matrix, we find the distribution of the maximum of a Dyck path and show that it has the same distribution function as the unsigned Brownian excursion which was first derived in 1976 by Kennedy. We obtain a large and moderate deviation principle for the law of the maximum of a random Dyck path. Our result extends the results of Chung, Kennedy and Khorunzhiy and Marckert. In Chapter 3, we discuss a method of sampling called the Gibbs-slice sampler. This method is based on Neal's slice sampling combined with Gibbs sampling. In Chapter 4, we discuss several examples which have applications in physics and quantum information theory.
Population Dynamics in Random Environment, Random Walks on Symmetric Group, and Phylogeny Reconstruction
Creators: name: Jamshidpey, Arash
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Probability
Martingale Problem
Random Walk
Population Genetics
Genome Rearrangement

description: This thesis concerns applications of some probabilistic tools to phylogeny reconstruction and population genetics. Modelling the evolution of species by continuous-time random walks on the signed permutation groups, we study the asymptotic medians of a set of random permutations sampled from simple random walks at time 0.25cn, for c> 0. Running k independent random walks all starting at identity, we prove that the medians approximate the ancestor (identity permutation) up to time 0.25n, while there exists a constant c>1 after which the medians loose credibility as an estimator. We study the median of a set of random permutations on the symmetric group endowed with different metrics. In particular, for a special metric of dissimilarity, called breakpoint, where the space is not geodesic, we find a large group of medians of random permutations using the concept of partial geodesics (or geodesic patches). Also, we study the Fleming-Viot process in random environment (FVRE) via martingale and duality methods. We develop the duality method to the case of time-dependent and quenched martingale problems. Using a family of dual processes we prove the convergence of the Moran processes in random environments to FVRE in Skorokhod topology. We also study the long-time behaviour of FVRE and prove the existence of equilibrium for the joint annealed-environment process and prove an ergodic theorem for the latter.
Supplementary document for Student becomes teacher: Training faster deep learning lightweight networks for automated identification of optical coherence tomography B-scans of interest using student-teacher framework - 5340365.pdf
Creators: name: Owen, Julia
name: Blazes, Marian
name: Manivannan, Niranchana
name: Lee, Gary
name: Yu, Sophia
name: Durbin, Mary
name: Nair, Aditya
name: Singh, Rishi
name: Talcott, Katherine
name: Mello, Alline
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

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