cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evaluating the impact on teaching practice of involving teachers in the collaborative design and implementation of an evidenced-based Health at Every Size focused curriculum unit of the Everybody in Schools (Pilot) Program
Creators: name: Shelley, Karen L
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2010
Subjects: Health at Every Size
paradigm dissonance
weight centred health paradigm
holistic health paradigm
health and physical education
teaching practice
pedagogy

description: There is emerging evidence of harms associated with school-based health education programs framed as â€žobesity preventionâ€Ÿ, and the benefits of programs based in the Health at Every Size paradigm. Many teachers may be unaware of this new evidence as they continue to devise teaching units for their students based on knowledge, attitudes and beliefs that are consistent with their own training and experiences. This problem is compounded by conflicting information from education authorities. Teachers are guided by the syllabus to design curricula utilising the holistic health paradigm (which forms part of the Health at Every Size paradigm), whilst many State and Federal Government programs operating in schools are based on the biomedical health paradigm (in which obesity-prevention programs are placed). This contradiction, coupled with lack of professional development directing teaching to the Health at Every Size paradigm, makes it very challenging for teachers to design effective curricula. This research project was focused on evaluating the impact on teaching practice of involving teachers in the collaborative design and implementation of the Health at Every Size-based curriculum unit of the Everybody in Schools (Pilot) Program. The epistemological position of the research was constructivism. The theoretical perspective was critical theory and the methodology was evaluation research. Two data collection methods were used to collect qualitative data from year 3 teachers involved in the project. Classroom observations of teachers implementing the curriculum unit were undertaken throughout one school term. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted at the end of the term. Data were analysed using a four-step process of familiarising and organising, coding and recoding, summarising, and interpreting the data.
«Un mulino che macina il testo». Parola e immagine nel teatro di Tadeusz Kantor
Creators: name: Conte, Pietro
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Alla poliedrica attività di regista, pittore e ideatore di performance, Kantor ha saputo accostare, lungo tutto l’arco della sua esistenza, una compatta – seppur non certo sistematica – teoria del teatro. Il saggio si concentra su uno dei maggiori leitmotiv della riflessione kantoriana, relativo al millenario problema del rapporto tra parola e immagine, tra testo e rappresentazione, tra dramma e messa in scena.
description: Itinera, N° 3 (2012)
Dataverse North Metadata Best Practices Guide : Version 2.0
Creators: name: Bascik, Teresa
name: Boisvert, Philippe
name: Cooper, Alexandra
name: Gagnon, Martine
name: Goodwin, Mark
name: Huck, John
name: Leahey, Amber
name: Steeleworthy, Michael
name: Taylor, Sally
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: This best practices guide is intended for anyone who is depositing data in a Dataverse repository and needs to create metadata. It provides official definitions of metadata fields; adds clarifications and tips where needed; distinguishes between required, recommended, and optional fields; and illustrates the use of each field with an example. Earlier versions of the guide covered the fields in the Citation Metadata block. This version adds coverage for fields in the Geospatial Metadata and Social Sciences and Humanities Metadata blocks. Future editions will add guidance for Life Sciences Metadata and Astronomy & Astrophysics Metadata. The guide was produced by the Metadata Subgroup of the Dataverse North Working Group on behalf of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) with permission from Harvard for the use of definitions and the Texas Digital Library for basic design. Ce guide est aussi disponible en français.
Aspetti del comico nel Corpus Lysiacum: il Witz
Creators: name: Colla, Elena
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Poiché, come già sottolineava Gorgia, il riso può essere un’utile arma nelle mani di un abile oratore, l’articolo indaga la presenza del Witz all’interno del Corpus Lysiacum e propone una rassegna di esempi, organizzati e analizzati sulla base dell’artificio retorico utilizzato nella costruzione del motto arguto (in particolare, antitesi, paradosso, iperbole, metafora). Anche in quest’àmbito, trovano conferma l’equilibrio e la misura attici, abitualmente riconosciuti a Lisia.
description: Itinera, N° 3 (2012)
Paul Ricoeur e il racconto Omnium Temporum in Unum Conlatio
Creators: name: Sarti, Samanta
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: L’inesplicabile funzione sintetica e transitiva dell’immaginazione sta alla base di quel principio di analogia senza il quale non germoglierebbe il fenomeno di innovazione semantica, che è ciò che metafora e racconto hanno in comune a “livello di senso”, ciò che costituisce lo scopo principale d’indagine della filosofia dentro l’enigma della creatività umana. Nel saggio L’immaginazione nel discorso e nell’azione. Per una teoria generale dell’immaginazione, Ricoeur recupera i passaggi aporetici kantiani nel tentativo di riaprire il dibattito sul misterioso, fondamentale intervento dell’immaginazione nell’ambiguo rapporto tra le due forme di conoscenza. Nell’unità linguistica del racconto sta il termine medio tra vissuto temporale e atto narrativo, ma il rapporto di dare e avere del testo, la possibilità di comprendere e far comprendere esperienze, la metamorfosi dal testo all’azione, non avrebbero vita senza quello che Kant chiama “libero gioco dell’immaginazione”. L’immaginazione, suggerisce Ricoeur, è il segreto di una competenza: la capacità di esporci agli effetti della storia liberi di cogliere l’infinità di nessi possibili della temporalità vissuta.
description: Itinera, N° 3 (2012)
Dante ad Auschwitz: la poetica di Dante nell’opera di Primo Levi
Creators: name: Peron, Sabrina
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Dei libri di Primo Levi (chimico, saggista, scrittore, testimone), colpisce il tono privo di retorica e di vittimismo che volutamente evita artifici diretti a suscitare nel lettore la commozione. Altresì colpisce la sua chiarezza, attuata con una ricerca di economia linguistica, che porta a una scrittura rapida, snella ed essenziale, affinché «tutti comprendano». Scrittura che ha a che fare con la forma mentis di Levi, scienziato e chimico attento al giusto dosaggio degli elementi e al rigore del trattamento senza fronzoli dei mezzi linguistici. Dietro tale solo apparente semplicità, il dramma personale e storico di Levi è però filtrato, ripensato e rielaborato attraverso grandi modelli culturali e, in particolare, l’opera di Dante. Due sono gli aspetti più generali della poetica dantesca che si ritrovano nell’opera di Primo Levi e in particolare in Se questo è un uomo e, ancora più specificatamente, nel capitolo Il canto di Ulisse. Anzitutto e principalmente il tema dell’inferno, vi è poi il tema del viaggio.
description: Itinera, N° 3 (2012)
A case study of teacher perceptions of collaborative teaching as a model for inclusion in a Queensland secondary school
Creators: name: Allett, Lucinda
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2021
Subjects: inclusion
collaborative teaching
students with disability
school community

description: This study explored inclusive education and examined the use of subject-specific and special education collaborative approaches to teaching and learning in a secondary school in southeast Queensland. The study sought to identify the perspectives, practices and experiences of teachers who collaborated in cross-disciplinary teams as they attempted to address the requirements of their students with disability, and how they worked with specialist learning support teachers in their school. Using a revelatory case study methodology, this study aimed to better understand the perceived efficacy of collaborative team teaching for students with disability.
description: Four key themes emerged from the analysis. These were collaborative relationships, differentiation and adjustments for inclusion, engagement in learning and social cohesion. Within collaborative relationships, the importance of communication, attitudes and adaptability were found. Teachers shared that differentiation and inclusion for students directly, positively influenced engagement in learning with fewer behaviours. Collaborative teaching partnerships were perceived by teacher to lead to social acceptance and inclusion. The impact of this is that positive collaborative teaching partnerships can assist students with disability find their place within school. The building of capacity and skills through the opportunity to access support in classrooms provides for social cohesion.
Assessment of Mercury and Organic Matter in Thermokarst Affected Lakes of the Mackenzie Delta Uplands, NT, Canada
Creators: name: Deison, Ramin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: permafrost
thermokarst
Mackenzie Delta
Northwest Territories, Canada
Climate warming
Mercury in Thermokarst Affected Lakes
sedimentation
Organic Matter in Thermokarst Affected Lakes

description: The Mackenzie Delta region of the Northwest Territories, Canada, has experienced rapid climate warming in the past century resulting in rapidly thawing permafrost in this region. This thesis examines spatial and temporal changes to sediment organic carbon and mercury flux in lakes from thermokarst regions by comparing sediment cores from lakes with and without retrogressive thaw slumps on their shorelines. We show that sediments from lakes with permafrost thaw slump development on their shorelines (slump lakes) had higher sedimentation rates as well as lower total Hg, methyl mercury (MeHg), and labile OC fractions when compared to lakes where thaw slumps were absent. Total Hg and MeHg concentrations in sediments were correlated with total organic carbon (TOC), S2 (labile algal-derived OC), and inferred chlorophyll a content, indicating an association between autochthonous organic carbon and Hg in these sediments. Correlations between mercury and S2 in these study lakes generally support the hypothesis that algal-derived materials correlate with Hg concentration in sediments. We observed higher S2 concentrations in reference lakes than in slump lakes, likely due to uninterrupted algal production, lower dilution by flux of inorganic matter, and possibly better anoxic preservation in reference lakes compared to slump lakes. It is evident that thaw slump development in this thermokarst region increases inorganic sedimentation in lakes, while decreasing concentrations of organic carbon and associated Hg and MeHg in sediments.
“C’erano una volta una storia, un corpo, un Tutto”. Narrare al tempo di organi senza corpo
Creators: name: Bodini, Jacopo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Questo studio si propone di verificare le condizioni di possibilità di una lettura del cinema di Truffaut attraverso la nozione di desiderio elaborata da Deleuze e Guattari ne L’anti-Edipo, ovvero di esperire la pensabilità di un’immagine-desiderio emergente da questo rapporto. Si problematizzerà in questa sede lo statuto narrativo dell’opera di Truffaut, a fronte della critica che, a più riprese, Deleuze ha mosso nei confronti della narrazione stessa. Elaborarne un tentativo di superamento si rivelerà fondamentale nell’ottica di fondazione di un’immagine-desiderio.
description: Itinera, N° 3 (2012)
Assorbimento e teatralità in Brecht
Creators: name: Fortunato, Viviana
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Nel presente saggio si analizza il tema della fruizione nel teatro brechtiano applicando le teorie di Michael Fried sulla ricezione dell’opere d’arte, vale a dire, i concetti di assorbimento e teatralità. Tale applicazione teorica prenderà in considerazione alcune rappresentazioni del Berliner Ensemble, i testi brechtiani e le sue teorie teatrali.
description: Itinera, N° 3 (2012)
Taxonomic Revision of the Genus Bothus (Bothidae; Pleuronectiformes)
Creators: name: Emery, Matti Kuutan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Pleuronectiformes
Bothidae
Bothus
Bothus assimilis
Bothus constellatus
Bothus ellipticus
Bothus guibei
Bothus leopardinus
Bothus lunatus
Bothus maculiferus
Bothus mancus
Bothus mellissi
Bothus myriaster
Bothus ocellatus
Bothus pantherinus
Bothus podas
Bothus robinsi
Bothus swio
Bothus thompsoni
Bothus tricirrhitus
Bothus ypsigrammus

description: The taxonomic status of its 59 nominal species of the genus Bothus (Pleuronectiformes: Bothidae) has been revised, based on a morphological study of 320 type and non-type specimens. Of the 59 nominal species examined in the study, 18 have found to be valid and are re-described. The genus Bothus (pro parte) is considered natural on the basis of two characters previously identified by Hoshino and Amaoka (2006): a ventral expansion of the haemapophyses of the precaudal vertebrae and the bony expansion of the haemal spine of the first caudal vertebrae. These characters were observed in all accepted species of Bothus, excluding B. swio. The morphology of B. swio overlaps with other bothid genera, but its generic placement was not analysed. Engyrprosopon and Crossorhombus are hypothesized as outgroups of Bothus based on the character state identified by Hoshino and Amaoka (2006), an anterior extension of the sciatic part of the urohyal past the main part of the urohyal. A phylogenetic analysis of the Bothidae is needed to substantiate this hypothesis of relationship, to validate the monophyly of Bothus and to resolve the generic position of B. swio. The geographic distribution of each species is mapped and an up-to-date species identification key has been created. The 18 valid species are as follows, with their synonym species in parenthesis: Bothus assimilis, Bothus constellatus, Bothus ellipticus, Bothus guibei (Rhombus heterophthalmus), Bothus leopardinus, Bothus lunatus, Bothus maculiferus, Bothus mancus (Pleuronectes barfi, Rhombus macropterus), Bothus mellissi, Bothus myriaster (Citharicthys aureus), Bothus ocellatus (Platophrys nebularis, Rhomboidichtys spinosus, Rhombus bahianus), Bothus pantherinus, Bothus podas (Bothus rumolo, Bothus tappa, Rhombus gesneri), Bothus robinsi, Bothus swio, Bothus thompsoni, Bothus tricirrhitus, and Bothus ypsigrammus.
"My role has drastically changed because our world's changed": A grounded theory study on how early childhood teachers understand and manage their changing roles regarding information communication technologies in kindergarten
Creators: name: Schriever, Vicki
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2018
Subjects: digital technologies
early childhood teachers
kindergarten

description: This thesis examines how practising early childhood teachers employed in kindergarten settings understand and manage their changing roles regarding information communication technologies in the context of their kindergarten. Nineteen participants (eighteen females and one male), with between three and forty years of experience working in early childhood education and care settings, were involved in the study, permitting the generation of substantive theory. Participants in this study were employed to fulfil the role of the early childhood teacher and were working in a kindergarten setting. This qualitative study focused on gaining an understanding of the early childhood teachers' lived experiences, ascribed meanings, perspectives, actions and interactions regarding how they understood and managed their changing roles with information communication technologies in the context of their kindergarten. The research frameworks of Crotty (1998) and O'Donoghue (2007) were used to structure the research design. Symbolic interactionism provided the theoretical lens through which to investigate the participant's social realities and grounded theory, in particular, a Strauss and Corbin (1990, 1998) and Corbin and Strauss (2008, 2015) approach to grounded theory provided the methodological theory and methods. Data were collected using semi-structured, in-depth interviews and analysed using the systematic approach proposed by Strauss and Corbin (1990, 1998), Corbin and Strauss (2008, 2015) which were inclusive of open, axial and selective coding with constant interrogation, constant comparison of the data occurring as data collection was interspersed with data analysis.
Exploring the relationship between excellence in job performance and excellence in quality of life.
Creators: name: Towajj, Nadia Shelagh.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Business Administration, Management.

description: The present study explored the relationship between excellence in job performance and excellence in quality of life. Twelve interviews were conducted to explore perceptions of quality of life and the relationship to job performance. Seven men and five women participated in the study. Participants ranged in band levels from level 3 to members of the executive group (vice-presidents). Inductive analysis of transcripts revealed that all participants used the term 'balance' in their definition of quality of life. When asked to define 'balance', the following domains were included in the comments of all participant (1) family; (2) work; (3) physical fitness. Factors contributing to quality of life were listed as (1) family/relationships; (2) physical activity and leisure; (3) making valuable contributions at work. Interestingly, all participants listed a variety of factors that were important to their achievement of quality of life. Prerequisites for achieving quality of life and job performance excellence included: (1) having a commitment to a balanced lifestyle; (2) having supportive relationships; (3) participating in physical activity; (4) being highly effective in their work roles. Individuals differences were identified in this research. Recommendations were made by participants to improve the quality of life of employees. The major theme dealt with the need for training of managers such that they value the importance of quality of life. It was stated by participants that they felt that increasing the quality of life of employees would increase the productivity and performance levels. Results from this study can have practical application in the workplace by providing recommendations to the lifestyle balance department of the organization. This research can be further explored in subsequent studies focussed on understanding this relationship.
Supplementary document for Polarization-conversion microscopy for mapping the vectorial polarization distribution in focused light - 5243375.pdf
Creators: name: Chen, Gang
name: Gao, Jian
name: Yan, Shaokui
name: Zhou, Yi
name: Liang, Gaofeng
name: Zhang, Zhihai
name: Wen, Zhongquan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Immagini al limite: itinerari del disgusto nell’arte cinematografica
Creators: name: Pedrazzi, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Fin dal gesto scandaloso e osceno dell’occhio tagliato che apre Un chien andalou di Bunuel, il cinema si è proposto come un medium espressivo e artistico capace di veicolare nuove strategie di fruizione, arrivando, attraverso alcuni generi cinematografici come l’horror o il cinema splatter, a suggerire la possibilità di un’educazione dello spettatore al disgusto, sia esso fisiologico o mentale e psicologico. L’esperienza dei limiti della fruizione risulta quindi rinnovata dalla pratica cinematografica, così come rovesciate e riformulate molte delle categorie estetiche della modernità.
description: Itinera, N° 3 (2012)
Les politiques culturelles au Canada, entre une conception "anthropo-politique" et une conception économiste : le cas de la télédiffusion.
Creators: name: Nour, Dagmo.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Canadian Studies.

description: Cette thèse a pour objet les politiques culturelles du Canada à l'ère de la globalisation. La nouvelle tendance, dans cette ère, est le retrait de l'État de la sphère culturelle. La globalisation génère deux mouvements apparemment contradictoires: l'aspiration à l'universel et la tendance vers le localisme. Ceci est également apparent au sein des politiques culturelles du Canada. L'hypothèse avancée dans cette thèse est la suivante: les politiques culturelles du Canada concilient, tant bien que mal, deux conceptions contradictoires de la culture: la première est la vision "anthropo-politique" de la culture comme porteuse de l'identité nationale, la seconde est la vision économiste de la culture. La culture étant perçue comme un produit comme les autres. Avec les bouleversements technologiques et économiques accompagnant la globalisation, la seconde conception s'impose. Cette thèse consistera principalement à examiner les discours reflétant la position du Canada vis-à-vis l'orientation des politiques culturelles. Les discours analysés sont de sources diverses et variées: rapport de Commissions Royales, rapport de Groupes de travail mandatés par le gouvernement, rapport de Comités parlementaires, sorties publiques d'officiels impliqués dans le domaine. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Empirical modeling of end-to-end jitter.
Creators: name: Lazar, Mihai.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: This thesis presents an empirical study of the end-to-end jitter in a multi-node network. Extensive simulations for a basic twelve node network have been conducted. An empirical relation between the accumulated node delay variance and the end-to-end node delay variation is obtained for various simulation scenarios. This study has a direct practical purpose: the knowledge of end-to-end jitter allows network planners to design and dimension integrated data, voice and video networks.
A Study of the 'lived experience' of Citizenship amongst Exempted Aboriginal People in regional Queensland, with a focus on the South Burnett region
Creators: name: Wickes, Judith
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2010
Subjects: Certificate of Exemption
Aboriginal people
citizenship
Queensland

description: Much has been written about the protectionist laws that regulated and controlled the lives of Indigenous Queenslanders during the twentieth century. However, much less is known of the estimated 4,092 certificates granted to some 5,257 people between 1897 and 1967 who sought exemption from these laws on the grounds that they were capable of managing their own affairs in a 'civilised manner'. This research has sought to address this through a historical case study of the lived experiences of exempted Aboriginal people who had resided in the South Burnett region in Queensland through researching archival records, gathering oral history and an analysis of the personal diaries of an Aboriginal woman.
title: Handlungsansätze kleinerer und/oder finanzschwacher Kommunen zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel und den gesellschaftlichen Wandel
title: Handlungsansätze kleinerer und/oder finanzschwacher Kommunen zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel und den gesellschaftlichen Wandel
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schanze, Jochen
name: Korzhenevych, Artem
name: Bartel, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Klimaänderung
subject: Folgen des Klimawandels
subject: Anpassung
subject: Bewertung
subject: Klimawandel
subject: Klimafolgen
subject: kommunale Aufgaben
subject: Instrumente und Maßnahmen
subject: kleinere und finanzschwache Kommunen
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales

description: Die Studie befasst sich mit den praktischen Aspekten der ⁠Anpassung an den Klimawandel⁠ und die gleichzeitigen demografischen und wirtschaftsstrukturellen Veränderungsprozesse in kleineren und/ oder finanzschwachen Kommunen.Im Fokus stehen die Handlungsansätze, die in erster Linie die kommunalen Akteure aus Politik, Verwaltung und Beratung bei der Vorbereitung von Entscheidungen unterstützen sollen. Dies umfasst sowohl die Identifizierung der möglichen Folgen des Klimawandels und des gesellschaftlichen Wandels als auch die Bewertung und Auswahl von Anpassungsmaßnahmen mit Instrumenten zu ihrer Umsetzung. Die Entscheidungsunterstützung soll je nach Fragestellung und Kontext eine effektive, effiziente und multifunktionale Anpassung ermöglichen sowie unmittelbar praktisch einsetzbar sein.
Evaluation of Undescended Testes in Newborns: It Is Really Simple, Just Not Easy
Creators: name: Promm, Martin
name: Dittrich, Annika
name: Brandstetter, Susanne
name: Fill Malfertheiner, Sara
name: Melter, Michael
name: Seelbach-Göbel, Birgit
name: Apfelbacher, Christian J.
name: Kabesch, Michael
name: Rösch, Wolfgang H.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Examination; Cryptorchidism; Hormone therapy; Orchidopexy; Retractile testis; Screening
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Introduction: The evaluation of the testicular position in newborns is important to ensure timely initiation of therapy. The aim of our study was to assess the reliability of a routinely performed screening examination. Patients and Methods: Newborns were examined by a pediatrician between 48 and 72 h after birth. Boys with suspected cryptorchidism were double-checked by a pediatric urologist within 24 h. Results: 1,181/2,353 children included in the study between June 2015 and December 2017 were male. Eight hundred sixty-one boys could be included in this analysis; 5.8% (n = 50) were diagnosed with undescended testis (UDT) by the pediatrician. 30/50 boys were double-checked at the Department of Pediatric Urology. Forty percent (20/50) were lost to follow-up. In 43% (13/30), the diagnosis could be confirmed. Three former studies had shown a relevant discrepancy in the results of the diagnosis of UDT made by health care providers and urologists/pediatric surgeons. To our knowledge, this is the first study evaluating the testicular position in male newborns in such a large prospective birth cohort study by physicians with ranging expertise within 1 day. Conclusion: Further treatment for UDT is based on clinical examination. Ours and previous studies can clearly show the various findings in boys suspected having UDT. Therefore, it is essential that the diagnosis is confirmed by a specialist before a therapy is initiated.
Austramerica: The absurdism of clashing cultures
Creators: name: Shapter, Michael
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2018
Subjects: absurdist novels
absurdism in literature
Australian fiction

description: Absurdism is a term with no enduring place in the general consciousness of the population like, say, Surrealism holds. However, both a philosophical and literary aspect to Absurdism exist that are worth considering in the academic arena. Yet, in many quarters there is a lack of recognition of Absurdism as either, or both, a philosophical classification and as a literary genre. Indeed, whether there exists a so-named literary genre is still a contentious issue. To achieve clarification, this doctoral project aims to originate a creative artefact in the form of a novel with an accompanying exegesis that clearly outlines the nature of Absurdism in both forms, without precisely defining Absurdism in literature so as not to hamper its growth as a genre. The artefact aims to adhere to the established nature of an Absurdist novel, stated as: the conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent value and meaning in life and the individual's inability to find any. The innovation in this project is the metaphorical use of societal change brought about by an inculcating foreign culture and associated paradoxes. The research question at the foundation of the project is: How does a philosophical and literary understanding of Absurdism enable a creative exploration of the phenomenon of the Coca-Colanisation of Australia? The exegesis explains how a philosophical and literary understanding is arrived at and outlines how these features may apply in a particular Absurdist novel. The adult fiction novel (creative artefact) takes the features outlined in the exegesis that the study shows distinguish an Absurdist novel from other genres and uses them in a narrative that follows the themes and characteristics that such a genre might contain.
Guide des pratiques exemplaires sur les métadonnées de Dataverse Nord : Version 2.0
Creators: name: Bascik, Teresa
name: Boisvert, Philippe
name: Cooper, Alexandra
name: Gagnon, Martine
name: Goodwin, Mark
name: Huck, John
name: Leahey, Amber
name: Steeleworthy, Michael
name: Taylor, Sally
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: This best practices guide is intended for anyone who is depositing data in a Dataverse repository and needs to create metadata. It provides official definitions of metadata fields; adds clarifications and tips where needed; distinguishes between required, recommended and optional fields; and illustrates the use of each field with an example. Earlier versions of the guide covered the fields in the Citation Metadata block. This version adds coverage for the Geospatial Metadata and Social Sciences and Humanities Metadata blocks. Future editions will add guidance for the Life Sciences Metadata and Astronomy & Astrophysics Metadata blocks. Ce guide est produit par le sous groupe sur les métadonnées du groupe de travail Dataverse Nord avec la permission de Harvard University pour l’utilisation des définitions et de la Texas Digital Library pour le graphisme. The guide is also available in English.
Exploring Strategy and Strategic Planning within Australian Commercial Fisher Micro-Businesses
Creators: name: Perez, Eric
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2014
Subjects: Australian seafood market
commercial fishing
family business
fisheries management
gender
NVivo 10
marine protected areas
micro-business
planning
seafood
small business
strategic analysis tools
strategic planning
strategy
SWOT analysis

description: The small business sector is a fundamental element of national economic performance and provides employment to millions of workers globally. Micro-businesses, a sub-set of the small business sector, are a key contributor to that economic performance. This study examines the Australian micro-business sector. The growth and profitability of Australian micro-businesses can be impacted by a myriad of internal and external business factors which can be viewed through the prisms of strategy and strategic planning. Strategy is developed to achieve a vision, goal or what could be described as a better future for the business. Achieving the business goal is met through the process of strategic planning which may involve the use of methodologies, analytical tools and processes. There is considerable research literature regarding strategy and strategic planning in the context of large, small and micro-businesses. However, there is a paucity of research relating to Australian commercial fishing micro-businesses. This study is focussed on exploring the use of strategy and strategic planning at the micro-business level within the Australian commercial fishing industry.
Identifying Genetic Factors and Processes Involved in the Cardiac Perinatal Transitional Program
Creators: name: Kouri, Lara
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Perinatal Heart
Microarray
Hyperplasia
Hypertrophy
Prc1
Cardiac Perinatal Transitional Program
Mouse

description: Cardiomyocyte perinatal development is characterized by the transition from a hyperplastic to a hypertrophic growth. We hypothesize that genetic factors and processes in the cardiac perinatal transitional program can be identified by a systematic analysis of different stages in heart development. Microarray expression patterning of mRNAs and microRNAs uncovered a perinatal cardiogenomic switch between 5 and 7 days post-birth. Gene ontology analysis revealed cellular and metabolic processes as highly representative Biological Processes. Moreover, approximately 40% of known mice transcription factors are significantly (p<0.05) fluctuating between embryonic day 19 and 10 days post-birth. As the heart matures, cardiomyocytes progressively exit cell cycle with day 5 as a pivotal point. Hypertrophy entails cardiomyocyte binucleation which may be promoted by Protein Regulator of Cytokinesis (Prc1) and its interactors. Temporal cardiac transcription expression analysis provides insight into underlining effectors within the cardiac perinatal transitional program as well as cardiac pathology.
Predicting High-cost Patients in General Population Using Data Mining Techniques
Creators: name: Izad Shenas, Seyed Abdolmotalleb
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Cost prediction
Data mining
Decision Trees
Neural networks
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
Predictive modelling

description: In this research, we apply data mining techniques to a nationally-representative expenditure data from the US to predict very high-cost patients in the top 5 cost percentiles, among the general population. Samples are derived from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey’s Household Component data for 2006-2008 including 98,175 records. After pre-processing, partitioning and balancing the data, the final MEPS dataset with 31,704 records is modeled by Decision Trees (including C5.0 and CHAID), Neural Networks. Multiple predictive models are built and their performances are analyzed using various measures including correctness accuracy, G-mean, and Area under ROC Curve. We conclude that the CHAID tree returns the best G-mean and AUC measures for top performing predictive models ranging from 76% to 85%, and 0.812 to 0.942 units, respectively. Among a primary set of 66 attributes, the best predictors to estimate the top 5% high-cost population include individual’s overall health perception, history of blood cholesterol check, history of physical/sensory/mental limitations, age, and history of colonic prevention measures. It is worthy to note that we do not consider number of visits to care providers as a predictor since it has a high correlation with the expenditure, and does not offer a new insight to the data (i.e. it is a trivial predictor). We predict high-cost patients without knowing how many times the patient was visited by doctors or hospitalized. Consequently, the results from this study can be used by policy makers, health planners, and insurers to plan and improve delivery of health services.
The pathogenesis of biting attacks observed in experimentally infected rabid skunks during early stage rabies.
Creators: name: Smart, Nora (Nonie) Louise.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Agriculture, Animal Pathology.

description: The proposal that the biting attacks which occur during furious rabies infection are due to selective infection of CNS neurons was studied in skunks (a species important in naturally occurring disease). In this model, skunk street rabies virus infection generally produces furious rabies (characterized by increased activity and biting attacks) while Challenge virus standard (CVS) infection results in dumb rabies (absence of biting and marked depression). A detailed immunohistochemical study of brains of skunks experimentally infected with either CVS or skunk street rabies virus revealed only trace amounts of viral antigen in limbic system neurons and marked differences in viral distribution between skunk street rabies and CVS rabies viruses. These data were collected during early stage rabies when behavioral changes occur. Areas which contained heavy accumulation of street virus but low amounts of CVS rabies virus were the neuronal perikarya and processes of the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus, dorsal raphe nucleus of the midbrain, hypoglossal and red nuclei. In contrast, large accumulations of CVS rabies virus were found in the Purkinje cells of the cerebellum, the habenular nuclei, and in the pyramidal cells throughout the cerebral cortex, while corresponding areas in all street virus-infected skunks contained minimal antigen. These findings were very consistent for animals of the same experimental group and between skunks inoculated both intramuscularly and intranasally with skunk street rabies virus. Skunks inoculated intramuscularly with CVS rabies virus failed to develop rabies. The correlation between virus infection of neurons and a possible pathogenesis of neural dysfunction was further studied using immunoperoxidase staining for the evaluation of CNS serotonin and met-enkephalin in skunks infected with either CVS rabies virus or skunk street rabies virus. There was no difference in the intensity of serotonin immunoperoxidase staining between uninfected control skunks or those infected with CVS or street rabies viruses. However, there was a reduction in the intensity of immuno-peroxidase staining for the neurotransmitter met-enkephalin, for rabid (both CVS and street rabies viruses) as compared to uninfected control skunks. These data showed that differences in the distribution of CVS rabies virus as compared to skunk street rabies virus in the CNS of experimentally infected rabid skunks, may account for the different clinical syndromes associated with these two viruses. The correlation of rabies virus accumulation within neurons to neurotransmitter imbalances during rabies disease requires further investigation to determine the mechanism by which this may occur.
Répartition des bénéfices et d'industrualisation dans les regroupements économiques africains : le cas de la CEAO (1974-1984).
Creators: name: Wabafiyebazu, Ngoma G.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Political Science, International Law and Relations.

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El dinamismo de la imaginación y la pulsión de volar: una revisitación de Bachelard
Creators: name: Burgos, Fernando
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Among the most provocative propositions inaugurated by Bachelard’s work one cannot miss his reflection on the question of imagination as “a major force of human nature” (The Poetics of Space), anticipating thus the premise that the productivity of imagination does not reside—as was usually thought—in its capacity for creating images derived from reality but in “the faculty of forming images which would surpass reality” (Water and Dreams). In pursuing these ideas, Bachelard—apart from enriching the hermeneutical apparatus around the elucidation of literary works—was able to take his writing at the center of the becoming of the imagination as well as into the transcendental phenomena of the poetic vision. His understanding of the experience of imagination as a becoming would make possible the internalization of the flow of the imagining as an organic entity which could not possibly be ascribed to pragmatic fields of representation nor to chronological or linear dimensions. My essay reflects on the above referred principles which are essential to Bachelard’s construction of his poetics of imagination. Additionally, I contextualize these ideas with an analyses of the imaginative processes found in Pedro Prado’s work Alsino, a poetic novel that can be situated in the antipodes of rationality since its drive for the construct of the ascensional pertain to both the realm of the oneiric, and the plane of an enduring psychical energy.
description: Altre Modernità, 2012: Bachelard e la plasticità della materia
The ethical image in a topological perspective: the poetics of Gaston Bachelard
Creators: name: Huang, Kuan-Min
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: In the poetics of Gaston Bachelard, the natural images, especially the four elements (fire, water, air, earth), occupy the eminent place for literary imagination. Under this main frame, this paper tries to present the relation of ethics and aesthetics in focusing on the ethical image as a synthetic concept. It also argues that the poetic imagination in Bachelard presupposes a metaphysical base managing the being, the force, the will, and the action. There is a dynamic structure in this metaphysics of imagination. Notwithstanding the usual separation of different spheres in philosophy, Bachelard urges a primary fusion in the cosmic scale, i.e. the world and the human are communicative and correspondent. Taking these principles into consideration, this paper explores the topological dimension in those poetic images of elements and space. The ontological sense of being-there is evaluated by the dynamic function of “there” in restoring its ethical meaning. Likewise, the terms “in front of the fire”, “before the water”, “in the water” are given the topological accents. The verticality indicating the dynamic function of the flight, of the falling, and of standing upright is topologically effective. In accordance to the verticality, the concept of survival contains an effect of surpassing the existential conditions, the prefix “sur-“ means that tentative of the higher degree. In sum, the cosmicity as the very place of ethical and ontological unification reveals Bachelard’s concern on the imaginative transformation of the personality, the appropriation in the cosmos.
description: Altre Modernità, 2012: Bachelard e la plasticità della materia
title: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Bd. 21 Nr. 2 (1977): 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 XXI (1977), Heft 2
description: Das Datum des Nekrologs für Kardinal Jacopo Stefaneschi im Martyrologium der Vatikanischen Basilika...219-220
Marmi e bronzi di Simone Bianco...199-210
The Rucellai Loggia...183-198
Die Skulpturen am Laufgang des Florentiner Domes...111-182
“Dérives du poème”. La poétique dans l’oeuvre de Gaston Bachelard et le travail critique de Claude Esteban
Creators: name: Bagdasarova, Satenik
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Drawing on Claude Esteban’s essay “Dérives du poème”, this article offers a critical analysis of the conception of language underpinning the investment of the poetic act according to Bachelard. Published in Critique de la raison poétique in 1978 and typifying a 1980s critical approach, Esteban’s essay shows how Bachelard maintains and upholds the primacy of philosophy over poetics while at the same time claiming to surmount it. Through the prelinguistic union of words and things, and his investment of discourse in the word, Bachelard effectively reinforced the involvement of poetics in metaphysics, whereas his aim had been to disassociate the one from the other. In demonstrating the invalidity of conceiving the word as a category and model of speech – a move which leads, in Bachelard’s conception, to the annihilation of the subject’s empirical activity in language, to the advantage of Being – Claude Esteban highlights the necessity of interaction between poetics and linguistics. His questioning of those linguistic categories taken for granted by Bachelard aims in particular at the disassociation of poetics from myth, and at a corresponding move towards anthropology. This in turn allows us to reflect on the historic continuity of literary works and their capacity to shift social values.
description: Altre Modernità, 2012: Bachelard e la plasticità della materia
Critical validation of behavioural finance, findings in the Bitcoin Market development
Creators: name: Schatzmann, Juergen
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2022
Subjects: behavioural finance
prospect theory
disposition effect
cryptocurrencies
Banking, finance and investment

description: Investors tend to sell their winning investments and hold onto their losers. This phenomenon, known as the disposition effect in the field of behavioural finance, is well known and has been shown to be prevalent in many existing markets. But what about new atypical markets like cryptocurrencies? Do investors act as irrationally as in traditional markets? One might suspect as much and hypothesise that cryptocurrency sells occur more frequently in positive market conditions and less frequently in negative market conditions. However, so far there has been no empirical evidence of this.
description: This thesis expands the existing research and empirically investigates the prevalence of the disposition effect in Bitcoin by testing this hypothesis. The impact of market sentiment on investors’ selling behaviour is also investigated. The research results show that investors are indeed subject to the disposition effect, tending to sell their winning positions too soon and holding on to losing positions for too long. This effect is quite evident from the boom and bust year 2017 onwards, as confirmed by most of the applied technical indicators. The empirical results also identify significant predictors for the investors’ selling behaviour, based on selected indicators out of technical market analysis for all four sentiment categories: market trend, momentum, volatility and volume.
description: This study shows that Bitcoin traders act just as irrationally as traders in other, more established markets, and that the identified technical indicators are able to provide some, if limited predictive power in forecasting the selling behaviour of cryptocurrency investors.
Going to the movies, writing about the movies
Creators: name: McFarlane, Brian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Review of the book 'Pauline Kael: a life in the dark' , by Brian Kellow, published by Penguin Group, New York, 2011. Brian McFarlane on the life and work of the formidable American critic, Pauline Kael.
Improving customer service : linking customer contact management with marketing databases
Creators: name: Spencer-Matthews, Sarah A
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2003
Subjects: contact management
marketing database
customer service

description: The strategic importance of customer service hasresulted in companies striving to enhance customer experience and satisfaction in attempts to deliver quality in a competitive marketplace. This quality is being achieved through organisations using interactions at customer service points to communicate their understanding of, and ability to meet, individual customer needs - in other words, to provide customised contact service. At the core of customised customer contact service is information that may be collected, maintained and retrieved through a marketing database. The combination of customer service strategy with information technology culminates in the concept of customer contact management (CCM) and is a new strategic device for business that requires further research. Thus, this research addresses the research problem of: How and why can customer contact services use information from database marketing to provide customised customer service.
Die Skulpturen am Laufgang des Florentiner Domes
Creators: name: Lisner, Margrit
Publisher: name: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Year: 2018

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description: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Bd. 21, Nr. 2 (1977): Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz