cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Teacher's Perception towards the Effect of Cooperative Learning on Student's Academic Performance in Secondary Schools in Ethiopia: A Case of Guji Zone
Creators: name: Turi, Demboba Aman
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the teacher’s perception of the effect of cooperative learning on student's academic performance in secondary schools in Guji Zone. To achieve this purpose, an explanatory sequential mixed research design was employed. Questionnaires, interviews, and documents were used as instruments of data collection. Data was collected from seven secondary schools in the Guji Zone. A total of 200 teachers were involved in the study. Quantitative data were analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and Mann-Whitney test, while qualitative data were analyzed thematically. The findings of the study revealed that teachers’ have a positive perception towards the effects of cooperation, and give less attention to its implementation in the classroom, but a significant difference was found between natural science and social science teachers. On the other hand, there was a consensus among respondents that cooperative learning is poorly implemented. Unwillingness of teachers and students, poor coordination, and large class sizes highly influenced the effectiveness of the program, while lack of principal attention moderately affected it. Based on the findings, teachers’ poor implementation significantly affected the implementation of cooperative learning in secondary schools in the study area. Therefore, facilitating training, experience sharing, and continuous professional support programs were suggested to improve teachers’ attitudes towards cooperative learning, whereas mobilizing a budget to build additional classrooms was suggested to solve the problem of large class sizes. The overall recommendation of the study is that awareness training should be provided for teachers and students on the role of cooperative group learning, and the government should give high emphasis and use ultimate efforts to shape the attitude of stakeholders towards cooperative learning programs. It was also recommended that further investigations be conducted, including other issues or tasks directly related to the program, like teacher training on cooperative learning and access to essential resources.
Inspirational parables: ethnic minority Indian women entrepreneurs in New Zealand
Creators: name: Pio, Edwina
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This study focuses on inspirational parables as a pathway towards a communication theory of entrepreneurship, particularly for minority ethnic women. The focal point for this study is Indian women entrepreneurs, who form part of the 1.7% of Indians in the New Zealand population of approximately four million. The first Indian men who came to New Zealand in the late 19th century were eventually followed by Indian women. Hence today, Indian women from the early settler families who are second and third generation, as well as the new settlers who have come to New Zealand after changes in the immigration policy from 1987, form the source group for this study. The early settlers primarily came from rural areas of India (Gujarat and Punjab), due to famine and drought, whereas many of the recent migrants hail from the mega cities of Mumbai, Hyderabad and Delhi who come to New Zealand in search for a better quality of life for themselves and especially for their children. Indian women entrepreneurs in New Zealand have been an understudied group, and this study, which is part of a larger project on Indian women in work and enterprise in New Zealand, is a step towards bringing the experiences of these women into the domain of academic scholarship. New Zealand is a country built on immigration, and there is a rich storehouse of oral and written stories, myths, fables, tales and parables of the Maori, Anglo-Saxon, Pacific Islanders, African, Arab, Chinese and Indian peoples. This study seeks to foreground inspirational parables of Indian women entrepreneurs in New Zealand with the aim of sharing and transferring stories for current women entrepreneurs, other Indian women migrants who may be contemplating entrepreneurship, for use in mentoring ethnic minority women, as well as serving as role models for young Indian women in New Zealand. The theoretical perspective is that of mixed embeddedness where institutional structures and the entrepreneurs play out their parables in the complexity of the political, psychological, social and economic arenas.
Verzeichnisse [Bd. 32, H. 1-3 / 1988]
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Year: 2018

description: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Bd. 32, Nr. 1./2. (1988): Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
The diagnostic validity of the DSM-III/III-R criteria for post traumatic stress disorder: The case of the head-injured.
Creators: name: Gough, Doreen C.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Clinical.

description: Sixty head injured patients participated in this research, an evaluation of the validity of the DSM-III/III-R criteria to diagnose cases of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder among the head injured. Data were collected from a battery of tests, including a self-report checklist of symptoms, the Diagnostic Interview Schedule, Life Events Inventory, Novaco Anger Inventory, MMPI, WAIS-R, and the Halstead-Reitan Battery, at three times within the first year of recovery. Results indicated that concordance rates between DSM-III/III-R criteria and alternative criteria were low, while concordance rates between alternative sets of criteria were acceptable. Assessment of the convergent validity of PTSD criteria with external measures of distress and impairment indicated that the largest multivariate group separation and highest discrimination rates were achieved for alternative PTSD criteria. Individuals who met DSM-III criteria at the initial assessment appeared less distressed and more healthy than corresponding non-PTSD groups; this pattern was less obvious at follow-up. In contrast, those who met alternative criteria for PTSD at all assessments appeared more distressed and impaired than corresponding non-PTSD groups at all assessments. Of the external predictor variables, anger or irritability had the highest association with PTSD, regardless of how diagnosed. The PTSD and non-PTSD groups could not be discriminated on the basis of medical/neurological variables even though all subjects had some evidence of impairment; thus, all sets of PTSD criteria had discriminant validity when compared to brain damage. The PTSD groups formed on the basis of "post-concussional" symptoms were generally less seriously injured than either corresponding non-PTSD groups or PTSD groups formed from DSM-III/III-R criteria. This finding makes questionable DSM-III/III-R's dismissal of such symptoms as Organic Mental Disorder. The implications of this research for DSM-IV are that PTSD criteria may need to be less restrictive by (a) including somatic symptoms and those symptoms used in operational definitions of Post-Concussional Syndrome; (b) removing the requirement that both intrusion and avoidance-numbness must be present for a diagnosis; (c) recognizing that global symptoms of maladjustment that occur or re-occur after a trauma may indicate PTSD and not comorbidity; and (d) recognizing that the presence of intrusion and/or avoidance-numbness may indicate an adaptive response to the trauma and not a disorder, especially in the absence of associated distress or impairment. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Abkürzungsschlüssel [Bd. 32, H. 1-3 / 1988]
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Year: 2018

description: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Bd. 32, Nr. 1./2. (1988): Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Magmatic-hydrothermal systems and associated magnetite-apatite-actinolite deposits, Echo Bay, Northwest Territories.
Creators: name: Reardon, Nancy Catherine.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Geodesy.

description: Magnetite-apatite-actinolite deposits occur as pervasive replacement, veins, pods and breccias within wall rocks to the plutons of the Mystery Island intrusive suite at Echo Bay, Northwest Territories. The plutons and their altered wall rocks host previously-mined pitchblende, native Ag, Ni-Co arsenide veins. Although numerous studies were carried out on the pitchblende, native Ag, Ni-Co arsenide veins, the origin of the altered rocks which host them remains uncertain. Overall, this study reveals that the formation of magnetite-apatite-actinolite veins, pervasive replacement of rocks by albite and magnetite-apatite-actinolite, and hydrothermal brecciation by magmatic fluids is consistent with geologic and isotopic data. Thus, it is inferred that these deposits formed by replacement in a hydrothermal system dominated by magmatic fluids exsolved by cooling epizonal plutons of the Mystery Island intrusive suite. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Role of Somatostatin in the Regulation of Central and Peripheral Factors of Satiety and Obesity
Creators: name: Kumar, Ujendra
name: Singh, Sneha
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Obesity is one of the major social and health problems globally and often associated with various other pathological conditions. In addition to unregulated eating behaviour, circulating peptide-mediated hormonal secretion and signaling pathways play a critical role in food intake induced obesity. Amongst the many peptides involved in the regulation of food-seeking behaviour, somatostatin (SST) is the one which plays a determinant role in the complex process of appetite. SST is involved in the regulation of release and secretion of other peptides, neuronal integrity, and hormonal regulation. Based on past and recent studies, SST might serve as a bridge between central and peripheral tissues with a significant impact on obesity-associated with food intake behaviour and energy expenditure. Here, we present a comprehensive review describing the role of SST in the modulation of multiple central and peripheral signaling molecules. In addition, we highlight recent progress and contribution of SST and its receptors in food-seeking behaviour, obesity (orexigenic), and satiety (anorexigenic) associated pathways and mechanism.
Exploration of internal and external indicators of social change in sustainable communities: A futures perspective
Creators: name: Botta, Marta
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2017
Subjects: sustainable communities
macrohistory
heritage futures
neo-collectivism
futures studies

description: This thesis addresses some of the most pressing issues of contemporary society, such as widespread unsustainable practices, including armed conflict, and the worldviews underlying them, as well as the likely consequences of the current social change. Conflicts and rapid changes taking place in our postmodern society need to be evaluated and understood in a broader historical context, to enable progress towards sustainable futures. The wide historical perspective of this research is facilitated by macrohistory, and more specifically Sorokin Pitirim's theory of social change (the pendulum model). Macrohistory, as methodology, is embedded in the discipline of futures studies. This thesis by publication proceeds from analysis of external indicators of social change to ever deepening layers of internal indicators, as expressed in sustainable communities. Firstly, the thesis presents case studies of three sustainable communities as representatives of the three categories constituting the innovative taxonomy Models of Sustainable Communities, developed by the author of this thesis. These three sustainable communities: Damanhur (Italy), Toarps Ekoby (Sweden) and Masdar City (United Arab Emirates), offer diverse 'slow living' alternatives to the prevailing fast paced Western lifestyle. Further, analysis of external indicators of social change was completed through case studies of sustainable communities (Sippy Downs, Australia, and Masdar City, United Arab Emirates) by contrasting their external features and underlying worldviews, to elicit trends in the social change of the 21st century. The macrohistory analysis based on the above case studies found that Western society is currently in the late sensate phase of sociocultural development, based on Sorokin's pendulum theory, and is transitioning into the next idealistic epoch.
Applying Systems Thinking to Understand and Prevent the Risks Associated with Hazardous Manual Tasks
Creators: name: McCormack, Peter (1959-)
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2023
Subjects: systems thinking
risk assessment
hazardous manual tasks
emergent risk
Other psychology
Other law and legal studies

description: Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) resulting from the performance of hazardous manual tasks (HMTs) represent a considerable proportion of work-related injuries both in Australia and overseas. Within workplaces, efforts to reduce the incidence of MSDs are usually based on risk assessment methods that are applied to HMTs. Systems thinking is an approach that is being increasingly adopted within safety science for understanding and managing risk. To date, systems thinking has not been widely used in the HMT context, with no existing observation-based risk assessment methods adopting a systems thinking approach to identify and manage HMT risks. The
description: aims of this research were (1) to apply systems thinking to understand and manage the risks associated with HMTs and (2) to extend and test an existing systems thinking method for use in the assessment of HMT risks.
Supplementary document for Microscopic analysis of the energy, momentum and spin distributions in a surface plasmon-polariton wave - 5276428.pdf
Creators: name: Bekshaev, Aleksandr
name: Angelsky, Oleg
name: Zheng, Jun Zheng
name: Hanson, Steen
name: Zenkova, Claudia
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized
Quantum Optics

description: Phenomenological characterization of the SPP field and derivation of the material momentum contributions
title: Verlängerung der Produktnutzungsdauer
title: Verlängerung der Produktnutzungsdauer
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Krause, Susann
name: Fabian, Matthias
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Wiederverwendung
subject: Abfallvermeidung
subject: Öffentliche Beschaffung
subject: Elektrogerät/Elektronikgerät
subject: Nutzungsdauer
subject: Vorbereitung zur Wiederverwendung
subject: Reparatur
subject: Gebrauchtprodukt
subject: Elektrogerät
subject: Gebrauchtes Elektrogerät
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen

description: Die Verkürzung der Lebens- und Nutzungsdauer von verschiedenen Produktgruppen verbraucht enorme Mengen Energie und beansprucht natürliche Ressourcen. Infolge dessen fallen erhebliche Mengen von Abfällen an, von denen nur ein geringer Anteil für die Wiederverwendung vorbereitet und einer erneuten Nutzung als Gebrauchtprodukt zugeführt wird. Maßnahmen zur Verlängerung der Produktnutzungsdauer leisten maßgebliche Beiträge zur Reduzierung des Abfallanfalls und zur Ressourcenschonung. Dieses Hintergrundpapier fasst die Sachlage zusammen und stellt Ansätze zur Abfallvermeidung und Ressourcenschonung durch Wiederverwendung und Vorbereitung zur Wiederverwendung zur Diskussion. Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Die Verkürzung der Lebens- und Nutzungsdauer von verschiedenen Produktgruppen verbraucht enorme Mengen Energie und beansprucht natürliche Ressourcen. Infolge dessen fallen erhebliche Mengen von Abfällen an, von denen nur ein geringer Anteil für die Wiederverwendung vorbereitet und einer erneuten Nutzung als Gebrauchtprodukt zugeführt wird. Maßnahmen zur Verlängerung der Produktnutzungsdauer leisten maßgebliche Beiträge zur Reduzierung des Abfallanfalls und zur Ressourcenschonung. Dieses Hintergrundpapier fasst die Sachlage zusammen und stellt Ansätze zur Abfallvermeidung und Ressourcenschonung durch Wiederverwendung und Vorbereitung zur Wiederverwendung zur Diskussion.
A Phenomenological Exploration of Engineers’ Experiences Using Communication Technologies in Telework
Creators: name: MacFarlane, Gabrielle
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Telework
Virtual Office
Computer Mediated Communication
Information Communication Technology
Interpersonal Communication
Organizational Communication
Isolation
Engineers

description: Telecommuting is becoming an increasingly popular trend in the modern workforce. Among the growing number of teleworkers are engineers, a profession where communication is a necessity. This study employs a phenomenological research approach to understand and describe the ways in which information communication technology (ICT) affects teleworking engineers’ interpersonal communication in the workplace and perceptions of isolation in social and organizational contexts. Uses and gratifications theory and media richness theory were used to better understand teleworkers’ selection and use of ICT. The findings revealed six themes: emotional impact, workplace relationships, information communication technology in the workplace, the nature of telework, telework and connectivity, and the organizational role in telework. This study contributes to communication research by adding to the growing body of knowledge about the influence of telework on workplace communication and relationships from the perspective of a niche population, engineers.
title: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Bd. 32 Nr. 1/2 (1988): Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
title: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Mitteilungen Des Kunsthistorischen Institutes In Florenz
Publisher: name: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Year: 2018

description: Band XXXII (1988), Heft 1/2
description: Un album inedito di metà ottocento: L' "illustrazione" di Palazzo Masetti sul Lungarno...294-322
L'Arco di Lorena: Habsburgische Propaganda in Florenz...253-292
Quadriga temporum. Zur Sol-Ikonographie in mittelalterlichen Handschriften und in der Architekturdekoration (mit einem Exkurs zum Codex 146 der Stiftsbibliothek in Göttweig)...1-76
Abkürzungsschlüssel [Bd. 32, H. 1-3 / 1988]...XLIX-LIV
Verzeichnisse [Bd. 32, H. 1-3 / 1988]...V-XLVII
Inhalt
Corrigenda
Titelei
Search Space Analysis and Efficient Channel Assignment Solutions for Multi-interface Multi-channel Wireless Networks
Creators: name: González Barrameda, José Andrés
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: network
wireless
mesh
channel
assignment
channel assigment
interference
algorithm

description: This thesis is concerned with the channel assignment (CA) problem in multi-channel multi-interface wireless mesh networks (M2WNs). First, for M2WNs with general topologies, we rigorously demonstrate using the combinatorial principle of inclusion/exclusion that the CA solution space can be quantified, indicating that its cardinality is greatly influenced by the number of radio interfaces installed on each router. Based on this analysis, a novel scheme is developed to construct a new reduced search space, represented by a lattice structure, that is searched more efficiently for a CA solution. The elements in the reduced lattice-based space, labeled Solution Structures (SS), represent groupings of feasible CA solutions satisfying the radio constraints at each node. Two algorithms are presented for searching the lattice structure. The first is a greedy algorithm that finds a good SS in polynomial time, while the second provides a user-controlled depthfirst search for the optimal SS. The obtained SS is used to construct an unconstrained weighted graph coloring problem which is then solved to satisfy the soft interference constraints. For the special class of full M2WNs (fM2WNs), we show that an optimal CA solution can only be achieved with a certain number of channels; we denote this number as the characteristic channel number and derive upper and lower bounds for that number as a function of the number of radios per router. Furthermore, exact values for the required channels for minimum interference are obtained when certain relations between the number of routers and the radio interfaces in a given fM2WN are satisfied. These bounds are then employed to develop closed-form expressions for the minimum channel interference that achieves the maximum throughput for uniform traffic on all communication links. Accordingly, a polynomial-time algorithm to find a near-optimal solution for the channel assignment problem in fM2WN is developed. Experimental results confirm the obtained theoretical results and demonstrate the performance of the proposed schemes.
Headland sediment bypassing mechanisms, pathways, and sensitivity to changes in driving forces
Creators: name: Wishaw, Daniel
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Headland bypassing
subject: embayed beach circulation
subject: coastal modelling
subject: wave climate variability
subject: Physical geography and environmental geoscience
subject: Oceanography
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Developing a robust understanding of the coastal processes that affect our inhabited beaches is critical for present management and for developing appropriate long-term plans in the face of global climate change. Headlands present a formidable challenge to coastal management, with complex adjacent coastal processes, that create an unpredictable and sporadic supply of sand to their sheltered beaches. Despite this, the shelter offered to these beaches make them amongst the most desirable in the world for tourism, recreation, events, and property. This study has investigated the coastal processes and sediment migration around a large, microtidal headland at Noosa, Queensland, Australia to develop a comprehensive understanding of sediment transport volumes, pathways and driving forces for headland sediment transport. The study has also developed a custom computational model that can review the impacts of changes in wave conditions, regional climate conditions and projected changes forced by global warming, an area lacking from previous studies of this kind.
description: The study used a variety of methods in investigating this phenomenon, progressively building a conceptual understanding of the process into a robust quantified framework of sediment migration around the headland. Initially, pre-, and post-cyclone topographical surveys of the northern beach compartments were completed using both pole-mounted RTK-GNSS and SfM-derived elevation models from survey-grade drone imagery, along with coastal imaging and wave modelling to assess beach response to large wave conditions. Following this, shoreline change assessments of ten headland embayed or headland adjacent beach compartments were undertaken using 60 years of historical imagery, to determine patterns of erosion and accretion with respect to wave and climate variability. Finally, a coupled wave and process-based coastal process model using SWAN and TUFLOWFV has been developed and rigorously calibrated, that is then used to build a headland bypassing approximation tool that can evaluate sediment transport over longer periods of time at each of the headland apexes and assess the sensitivity to changes in wave conditions and regional climate drivers.
Insights into the origin of metazoan multicellularity from predatory unicellular relatives of animals
Creators: name: Tikhonenkov, Denis V.
name: Hehenberger, Elisabeth
name: Esaulov, Anton S.
name: Belyakova, Olga I.
name: Mazei, Yuri A.
name: Mylnikov, Alexander P.
name: Keeling, Patrick J. (Patrick John), 1969-
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: The origin of animals from their unicellular ancestor was one of the most important events in evolutionary history, but the nature and the order of events leading up to the emergence of multicellular animals are still highly uncertain. The diversity and biology of unicellular relatives of animals have strongly informed our understanding of the transition from single-celled organisms to the multicellular Metazoa. Here, we analyze the cellular structures and complex life cycles of the novel unicellular holozoans Pigoraptor and Syssomonas (Opisthokonta), and their implications for the origin of animals. Results: Syssomonas and Pigoraptor are characterized by complex life cycles with a variety of cell types including flagellates, amoeboflagellates, amoeboid non-flagellar cells, and spherical cysts. The life cycles also include the formation of multicellular aggregations and syncytium-like structures, and an unusual diet for single-celled opisthokonts (partial cell fusion and joint sucking of a large eukaryotic prey), all of which provide new insights into the origin of multicellularity in Metazoa. Several existing models explaining the origin of multicellular animals have been put forward, but these data are interestingly consistent with one, the “synzoospore hypothesis.” Conclusions: The feeding modes of the ancestral metazoan may have been more complex than previously thought, including not only bacterial prey, but also larger eukaryotic cells and organic structures. The ability to feed on large eukaryotic prey could have been a powerful trigger in the formation and development of both aggregative (e.g., joint feeding, which also implies signaling) and clonal (e.g., hypertrophic growth followed by palintomy) multicellular stages that played important roles in the emergence of multicellular animals.
Simulation and Optimization of Mechanical Alloying Using the Event-Driven Method
Creators: name: Barahona, Javier
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Mechanical Alloying
Event Driven Method
SPEX
Simulation
Optimization
Ball Milling

description: Mechanical Alloying is a manufacturing process that produces alloys by cold welding of powders. Usually, a vial containing both the powder and steel balls is agitated. Due to impact between the balls and balls and the vial, the powder is mechanically deformed, crushed, and mixed at nano-scales. In this thesis, a numerical model is developed to simulate the dynamics of the vial and the grinding balls of the SPEX 8000 ball milling device, a standardized equipment in both industrial and academic investigations of ball milling. The numerical model is based on the Event Driven Method, typically used to model granular flows. The method implemented is more efficient than the discrete element method used previously to study ball milling dynamics. The numerical tool obtained is useful for scale-up and optimization of mechanical alloying of various materials. An optimization study is presented for the SPEX 8000.
Coaches of Athletes with a Physical Disability: A Look at their Learning Experiences
Creators: name: McMaster, Sarah
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Coach learning
Coach development
Coach-athlete interactions
disability sport coaches
athletes with a physical disability

description: Although coaching has become a popular area for research, little is known about coaches of athletes with a disability (Cregan et al., 2007; DePauw & Gavron, 1991, 2005). The purpose of this study was to explore how disability sport coaches learnt to coach and, more specifically, how they learnt through interactions. Recent disability sport research has revealed that coaches work with their athletes to enhance their learning (Cregan et al., 2007; O’Neill & Richardson, 2008); as such, athletes also participated in this study. Data collection included 20 semi-structured interviews and 14 non-participant observation sessions with five coach-athlete dyads. A thematic analysis was conducted (Braun & Clarke, 2006), which revealed that coaches from various backgrounds commonly learnt through informal learning situations, most frequently through interactions with others. It is suggested that organizations nurture these informal situations and offer more disability-specific nonformal and formal situations to enhance coaches’ learning opportunities.
Supplementary document for Microscopic analysis of the energy, momentum and spin distributions in a surface plasmon-polariton wave - 5276428.pdf
Creators: name: Bekshaev, Aleksandr
name: Angelsky, Oleg
name: Zheng, Jun Zheng
name: Hanson, Steen
name: Zenkova, Claudia
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized
Quantum Optics

description: Phenomenological characterization of the SPP field and derivation of the material momentum contributions
Neighbours: making bilateral worker schemes a win-win
Creators: name: Mares, Peter
name: Maclellan, Nic
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Previous chapters in this report have pointed to the urgency of expanding job opportunities for the increasing numbers of youth in the Pacific, as well as the benefits of financial and 'social' remittances to the households of migrants. Previous discussion has also made the case for enhanced mobility of the non-elite sections of Pacific populations where permanent settlement using existing migration schemes in industrialised countries is largely irrelevant. For these reasons a study of the design of temporary seasonal worker arrangements has become important and timely.
Political Monopoly: A Study of the Progressive Conservative Association in Rural Alberta 1971-1996
Creators: name: Neitsch, Alfred Thomas
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Alberta Politics
Canadian Politics
Comparative Politics

description: This dissertation argues that the Alberta Progressive Conservative organization constructed a rural political monopoly that facilitated a general provincial political monopoly. It will argue that rural Alberta was vital for the rise of the Progressive Conservatives and accounted for much of its success over the subsequent twenty-five years. The argument also challenges the theories of ‘responsible party government’ that have traditionally explained the perpetuation of the quasi-party system and tradition of one-party dominance in Alberta. It argues that a more comparative approach, specifically the thesis of democratic quality, be integrated into this field of study. The employment of democratic quality biases and the consolidation of economic power in rural Alberta contributed heavily to Conservative political success between 1971 and 1996. Over this period, the Conservatives perpetuated a system of electoral malapportionment that overrepresented rural constituencies and underrepresented urban ridings. At the same time the Conservatives actively challenged independent rural/agrarian civil society organizations and any policy contrary to the party’s political interests. Alberta’s once considerable independent rural and agrarian lobby is today predominantly mediated by their position within or in relation to the Progressive Conservative Association. The decline of general farm organizations (GFOs) and agrarian civil society organizations, facilitated in part by government complicity and a changing agricultural economy, resulted in a ‘political monopoly’ in rural areas. During this period malapportionment underpinned a general political monopoly with rural overrepresentation shoring up collapses of urban support (i.e. Edmonton) in the 1980s and 1990s. This work will provide evidence of participation, competition and other democratic quality biases through a construction of this theoretical framework in terms of a broader comparative perspective based on the evaluation of ‘democratic quality’.
Leo Strauss's Critique of Martin Heidegger
Creators: name: Tkach, David W.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Strauss
Heidegger
nature
ontology

description: While remaining rooted in a comparison of some of the primary texts of the thinkers under scrutiny, my thesis also discusses several issues which arise in the mutual consideration of Heidegger and Strauss, specifically the questions of the ontological and political status of nature, the problem of ‘first philosophy,’ and the method by which to interpret philosophical texts, as well as a continuous analysis of Strauss’s appellation of ‘modern,’ as opposed to ‘ancient,’ and ‘religious,’ as opposed to ‘philosophical,’ to Heidegger’s thought. I first consider every moment in Strauss’s corpus where he discusses Heidegger’s thought. From this discussion, I identify four main lines of critique which may be extracted from Strauss’s writings on Heidegger. Then, I turn to Heidegger’s texts themselves in order to determine if Strauss’s critique indeed finds purchase there, addressing each of the lines of critique in turn. Finally, I consider Strauss and Heidegger in tandem, in light of the three questions identified above. I show that many of what Strauss determines to be Heidegger’s errors arose as a result of the way that Heidegger read ancient philosophical texts, and I suggest that Strauss’s approach, i.e., to consider the possible esoteric meaning of a text, in fact permits the reader to access an interpretation that is truer to the textual phenomena. This claim, however, is not intended to obscure the remarkable similarities between each thinker’s respective interpretive methods. I conclude that Strauss’s critique of Heidegger, vehement as it is, also indicates Strauss’s dependence on Heidegger’s thought for the inspiration of Strauss’s own philosophical project. The relation between Strauss and Heidegger, then, remains profoundly ambiguous.
The Implementation of the new Australian Curriculum: Science A study of the experiences of a range of Queensland schools and teachers
Creators: name: Dann, Beverly
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2016
Subjects: curriculum implementation
professional development
primary science
curriculum reform
teaching primary science

description: In 2011 the national Australian Curriculum was launched. This included a complete reformation of the entire set of curriculum documents and processes from Foundation (Kindergarten) to Year (Grade) 10. This study investigated school and teacher responses to the implementation of the new Science Curriculum and subsequently, influences on teachers' classroom planning and practice. Teachers from three primary schools participated in the study, one State (government) School, one Independent School, and one Catholic School. The male and female participants had a range of teaching experience, from one year to 36 years. Teachers' Science backgrounds varied from no previous coursework, to four university-level courses and a range of previous Science professional development.
Exercise, Inflammation and Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Creators: name: Windsor, Mark
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2018
Subjects: exercise
inflammation
abdominal aortic aneurysm

description: Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a chronic inflammatory disease characterised by extracellular matrix degeneration and aortic expansion. AAA related deaths account for approximately 2% of all deaths worldwide, and aneurysm repair is the only current treatment option. However, aneurysm repair is only available for patients with a large AAA (≥55mm), and patients with small AAA are left with no current treatment options, despite being at increased risk of mortality due to aortic rupture and other cardiovascular events. In both healthy individuals and clinical populations, exercise has been shown to exert anti-inflammatory effects (Gleeson, Bishop et al. 2011), which may assist in supressing AAA development. Exercise may induce a number of anti-inflammatory actions including the suppression of tumour necrosis factor (TNF-α) (Starkie, Ostrowski et al. 2003) and the matrix degrading enzyme matrix-metalloproteinase (MMP-9) (Kadoglou, Vrabas et al. 2010), and the up-regulation of anti-inflammatory interleukin-6 (IL-6), IL-10 (Steensberg, Fischer et al. 2003, Lira, Rosa et al. 2009) and tumour growth factor-beta (TGF-β1) (Czarkowska-Paczek, Bartlomiejczyk et al. 2006, Perry, Pick et al. 2013). However, responses of these biomarkers to individual bouts of exercise are not known in patients with AAA. The aim of this thesis was to establish whether the circulating inflammatory response to individual bouts of exercise differs in patients with AAA compared to healthy older adults, and if individual bouts of exercise exert anti-inflammatory effects in patients with AAA. As patients with AAA are older and often have low levels of cardiorespiratory fitness, this thesis first examined the effect of exercise intensity and cardiorespiratory fitness in healthy older adults.
Supplementary document for Efficient magnetic-coupling excitation of LSSPs on high-Q multilayer planar-circular-grating resonators - 5276535.pdf
Creators: name: Siqi, Li
name: Chao-Hai, Du
name: Han, Feng-Yuan
name: Li, Fan-Hong
name: Zhang, Zi-Wen
name: Gao, Zi-Chao
name: Liu, Pu-Kun
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Simulated S11 spectra
Assessing the Mechanism of Reovirus Oncolysis
Creators: name: Majithia, Jay D.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Reovirus
Oncolysis
Cancer
Virology

description: Cancer remains to be one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Current treatment methods are not effective, and so newer therapies are needed, particularly in applied virology, where aspects of viral growth and replication are targeted to tumour lysis (termed viral oncolysis). Reoviruses are naturally occurring oncolytic viruses. Since most cancers are epithelial in origin, but also include fibroblastic properties due to the epithelial-mesenchymal transitions within tumours, my investigations mainly focused on the biology of Reoviruses in both fibroblast and epithelial cells. We studied the genetic basis for Protein Kinase R sensitivity and its role in lung tropism, as well as the study of tumour oncolysis by Reoviruses and their reassortants. We also investigated the growth and protein production of Reovirus and four oncolytic reassortants and their interferon susceptibilities in L929 fibroblast cells, CT26 mouse colon tumour cells, interferon-deficient Vero cells and interferon producing CV-1 cells. We found that PKR protected the bronchiolar epithelium from infection from Reovirus. In PKR knockout mice lungs, the ability to infect the bronchial epithelium was attributed to the T3D σ1s non-structural protein, encoded by the S1 gene segment. T1L infection of PKR+/+ Balb-c mice enhanced disease, whereas T3D growth and replication was limited by PKR. Studies in viral oncolysis showed that treatments of CT26 tumour-bearing mice with high viral doses of Reovirus or oncolytic reassortants resulted in death from enhanced virus toxicity. However, treatments at lower and multiple doses significantly increased survival rates of mice. Growth of parental Reoviruses in mouse colon tumour CT26 cells showed that there is an enhanced effect of the virus infection leading to the 18 hour time point, where the virus induced the breakdown of host factors. There was also a major increase in T3D viral proteins at this time point, where we also observed the decrease in host proteins such as actin, eIF2α, interferon regulatory factors and PKR. We proposed that the Reovirus μ2 protein may be involved in this process, which induces the degradation of host inhibitors to result in enhanced viral gene and protein expression. Our results also showed that parental and oncolytic reassortant viruses behaved differently with respect to growth and IFN response in different cell lines. We demonstrated a complicated interplay between Reovirus gene products, resulting in a unique interaction involving other viral and cell proteins to achieve a certain trait, in the context of the cell type.
Additional file 1 of Association between fetal sex and maternal plasma microRNA responses to prenatal alcohol exposure: evidence from a birth outcome-stratified cohort
Creators: name: Salem, Nihal A.
name: Mahnke, Amanda H.
name: Wells, Alan B.
name: Tseng, Alexander M.
name: Yevtushok, Lyubov
name: Zymak-Zakutnya, Natalya
name: Wertlecki, Wladimir
name: Chambers, Christina D.
name: Miranda, Rajesh C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Selection of the number of bootstrap resampling iterations using second trimester UE group. (a) The frequency distributions of the number of significant miRNA cross-correlations in each of the shown number of iterations. (b) Mean of the number of significant miRNA cross-correlations in each of the shown number of iterations. (c) Mean of the number of significant correlations in each run of 20 simulations using the shown number of resampling iterations.
Let the oceans speak: The interactive effect between the intensity of wild dolphin-based tourism experiences and high quality education/interpretation commentaries and the impacts on participants
Creators: name: Mayes, Gayle J
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2009
Subjects: interpretation
sustainable marine wildlife-based tourism
dolphin-based tourism
intensity of the experience
education
pro-environmental attitudes
beliefs
behaviours and actions

description: The Cetacean watching industry is symbolic of the global conservation movement and also generates more than $US1billion in 87 nations around the world (Hoyt 2001). The Australian whale and dolphin-based tourism industries have experienced an unprecedented 15% growth rate per annum since the late 1990s, and brings over $29 million to the nation's economy per annum (Hoyt 2001, IFAW 2004). However, dolphin-based tourism encounters remained a minor component of the rapidly growing Cetacean watching industry until 2000, when the emphasis and attention had previously been on regulating and promoting whales. Sustainable tourism practices are essential in the growing global conservation ethic and a priority for minimising and managing negative impacts of marine wildlife-based tourism on the fauna and the marine environment while maximising the positive impacts on the human participants. Education combined with interpretation is seen as a key sustainable wildlife tourism management strategy. However, compared to the other 87 nations in the world conducting Cetacean encounters, Australia was considered to be significantly lacking in the aspect of quality education and/or interpretation (Hoyt 2001).Management and regulation of dolphin-based tourism by Australian protection and conservation bodies has been patchy and inconsistent across all states. In most cases the businesses developed and self-regulated their own codes of conduct for the marine wildlife encounters (Papin 2002). Although rapid growth has occurred in the number and variety of opportunities for dolphin-based encounters, dolphins were recognised as a marine mammal species worthy of its own set of regulations and monitoring as late as 2005 (ANZECC 2005). Additionally, little research has focussed on the effects of education/interpretation in a wildlife tourism context in Australia and/or internationally (Higginbottom 2004a).
Generalized Survey Propagation
Creators: name: Tu, Ronghui
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: k-SAT
q-COL
belief propagation
constraint satisfaction
factor graph
Markov random field
message-passing algorithm
survey propagation

description: Survey propagation (SP) has recently been discovered as an efficient algorithm in solving classes of hard constraint-satisfaction problems (CSP). Powerful as it is, SP is still a heuristic algorithm, and further understanding its algorithmic nature, improving its effectiveness and extending its applicability are highly desirable. Prior to the work in this thesis, Maneva et al. introduced a Markov Random Field (MRF) formalism for k-SAT problems, on which SP may be viewed as a special case of the well-known belief propagation (BP) algorithm. This result had sometimes been interpreted to an understanding that “SP is BP” and allows a rigorous extension of SP to a “weighted” version, or a family of algorithms, for k-SAT problems. SP has also been generalized, in a non-weighted fashion, for solving non-binary CSPs. Such generalization is however presented using statistical physics language and somewhat difficult to access by more general audience. This thesis generalizes SP both in terms of its applicability to non-binary problems and in terms of introducing “weights” and extending SP to a family of algorithms. Under a generic formulation of CSPs, we first present an understanding of non-weighted SP for arbitrary CSPs in terms of “probabilistic token passing” (PTP). We then show that this probabilistic interpretation of non-weighted SP makes it naturally generalizable to a weighted version, which we call weighted PTP. Another main contribution of this thesis is a disproof of the folk belief that “SP is BP”. We show that the fact that SP is a special case of BP for k-SAT problems is rather incidental. For more general CSPs, SP and generalized SP do not reduce from BP. We also established the conditions under which generalized SP may reduce as special cases of BP. To explore the benefit of generalizing SP to a wide family and for arbitrary, particularly non-binary, problems, we devised a simple weighted PTP based algorithm for solving 3-COL problems. Experimental results, compared against an existing non-weighted SP based algorithm, reveal the potential performance gain that generalized SP may bring.