cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Development of Climate Change Scenarios for the South Nation Watershed
Creators: name: Abdullah, Alodah
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Climate change
Statistical downscaling
Quantile-Quantile transformation
Extreme events analysis

description: Climate change studies are crucial to assist decision-makers in understanding future risks and planning adequate adaptation measures. In general, Global/Regional Climate Models (GCMs/RCMs) achieve coarse resolutions, and are thus unable to provide sufficient information to conduct local climate assessments. Downscaling, defined as a method that derives local to regional-scale (10 to 100 km) information from larger-scale models or data analyses, is used to address this deficiency. In this thesis, a particular downscaling technique, known as the Quantile-Quantile transformation, was used to adjust the statistical distribution of RCM variables to match the statistical distribution of the observed variables generated by two RCMs: the Canadian Regional Climate Model version 3.7.1 and the ARPEGE model, on the historical period (1961-2001). The analyses presented in this study were applied to daily precipitation and maximum and minimum temperatures in the South Nation watershed in Eastern Ontario, Canada. The two-sample Kolmogorov–Smirnov test indicated that the Quantile-Quantile transformation improved the shape of the PDF of RCM-simulated climate variables. The results suggest that, under the A1B scenario, temperatures in the watershed would rise significantly and there would be an increment in precipitation occurrence and intensity. Trend analysis was performed on the 1961 to 2001 and 2041 to 2081 timeframes, using the Mann-Kendall test and the Sen's slope estimator. Discernible, often significant, increases of maximum and minimum temperatures were found for the 1961 to 2001 period, and stronger ascending slopes for the 2041 to 2081 period. However, there was marginal evidence of changes in the time series of maximum and accumulated annual precipitation for both periods. The study also outlined how the frequency and intensity of some extreme weather events will evolve in the 2041-2081 period in response to the rise in atmospheric GHG concentrations. Projected impacts were investigated by tracking future changes in four extreme temperature indices and three precipitation indices. It was predicted that heavy precipitation events and warm spells will occur more frequently and intensely, while extreme cold events will be weaker, and some will be hardly observed.
Appendix 2 Reason full text exclusion.docx
Creators: name: Risco Van Vliet
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110305 Emergency Medicine
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: reasons of exclusion 64 articles after full text review
Au lendemain de la gentrification : l'appartenance des francophones de la Basse-Ville d'Ottawa
Creators: name: Thibeault, Rosalie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Communauté
Sentiment d'appartenance
Gentrification
Basse-Ville
Ottawa
Francophones

description: Situé au cœur de la capitale fédérale, Ottawa, le quartier de la Basse-Ville était originellement un bastion francophone. Au cours des cinquante dernières années, ce quartier a subi plusieurs changements qui se rapportent à ceux d'une gentrification. Entre autres, une nouvelle population, plus anglicisée, éduquée, occupant des professions à meilleur revenu s'y est installée. Cette étude cherche à voir si les francophones de la Basse-Ville Ouest d'Ottawa forment toujours une communauté et si oui, sur quels fondements elle se repose. À partir des résultats obtenus des soixante-sept personnes qui ont participé à notre enquête par questionnaire, l'analyse révèle qu'une communauté existe toujours, bien que les bases sur lesquelles elle est construite ont évolué. L'étude révèle aussi que certaines caractéristiques telles que l'identification linguistique, le statut de propriété et la durée de résidence jouent un rôle dans le degré d'appartenance à la communauté. Le passage de cet ancien village francophone à un quartier urbain n'a tout de même pas fait oublier à ses habitants l'héritage de la Basse-Ville.
Dual-Inhibitors of N-Myc and AURKA as Potential Therapy for Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer
Creators: name: Ton, Anh-Tien
name: Singh, Kriti
name: Morin, Helene
name: Ban, Fuqiang
name: Leblanc, Eric
name: Lee, Joseph
name: Lallous, Nada
name: Cherkasov, Artem
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Resistance to androgen-receptor (AR) directed therapies is, among other factors, associated with Myc transcription factors that are involved in development and progression of many cancers. Overexpression of N-Myc protein in prostate cancer (PCa) leads to its transformation to advanced neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC) that currently has no approved treatments. N-Myc has a short half-life but acts as an NEPC stimulator when it is stabilized by forming a protective complex with Aurora A kinase (AURKA). Therefore, dual-inhibition of N-Myc and AURKA would be an attractive therapeutic avenue for NEPC. Following our computer-aided drug discovery approach, compounds exhibiting potent N-Myc specific inhibition and strong anti-proliferative activity against several N-Myc driven cell lines, were identified. Thereafter, we have developed dual inhibitors of N-Myc and AURKA through structure-based drug design approach by merging our novel N-Myc specific chemical scaffolds with fragments of known AURKA inhibitors. Favorable binding modes of the designed compounds to both N-Myc and AURKA target sites have been predicted by docking. A promising lead compound, 70812, demonstrated low-micromolar potency against both N-Myc and AURKA in vitro assays and effectively suppressed NEPC cell growth.
Appendix 1 search strategies.docx
Creators: name: Risco Van Vliet
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110305 Emergency Medicine
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: written search strategy for the different databases
Lactic Acid and an Acidic Tumor Microenvironment suppress Anticancer Immunity
Creators: name: Wang, Joy X.
name: Choi, Stephen Yiu Chuen
name: Niu, Xiaojia
name: Kang, Ning
name: Xue, Hui
name: Killam, James
name: Wang, Yuzhuo, Ph.D.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Immune evasion and altered metabolism, where glucose utilization is diverted to increased lactic acid production, are two fundamental hallmarks of cancer. Although lactic acid has long been considered a waste product of this alteration, it is now well accepted that increased lactic acid production and the resultant acidification of the tumor microenvironment (TME) promotes multiple critical oncogenic processes including angiogenesis, tissue invasion/metastasis, and drug resistance. We and others have hypothesized that excess lactic acid in the TME is responsible for suppressing anticancer immunity. Recent studies support this hypothesis and provide mechanistic evidence explaining how lactic acid and the acidic TME impede immune cell functions. In this review, we consider lactic acid’s role as a critical immunoregulatory molecule involved in suppressing immune effector cell proliferation and inducing immune cell de-differentiation. This results in the inhibition of antitumor immune responses and the activation of potent, negative regulators of innate and adaptive immune cells. We also consider the role of an acidic TME in suppressing anticancer immunity. Finally, we provide insights to help translate this new knowledge into impactful anticancer immune therapies.
Labour mobility in the Pacific: creating seasonal work programs in Australia
Creators: name: Maclellan, Nic
name: Mares, Peter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: As part of a wider research project conducted with the Institute for Social Research of Swinburne University, this chapter will briefly discuss the role of remittances in Pacific economies and development, before outlining a proposal for a pilot program of seasonal work for Islanders in Australia’s horticulture industry. It will discuss Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Workers’ Program (CSAWP) as a model for seasonal work programs, but will look at a range of issues — concerning regulation, labour rights and social impacts — that would need to be addressed if seasonal work schemes were to operate without evoking memories of blackbirding. [Introduction]
title: Solution concepts for the Fornberg-Whitham equation and continuous weak traveling waves
Creators: name: Stanko, Calvin
Year: 2024

description: Wir betrachten die Fornberg-Whitham Gleichung, eine nichtlineare dispersive partielle Differentialgleichung, aufgestellt im Jahr 1967 von Gerald Whitham als Modell zur Untersuchung der Wellenbrechung von Wasserwellen. Nachdem wandernde Wellen sich als Werkzeug zur Konstruktion von Lösungen für partielle Differentialgleichungen bewährt haben, ist das Ziel dieser Arbeit die Beantwortung der Frage, ob Wellenbrechung durch Lösungen der Fornberg-Whitham Gleichung, in Form von wandernden Wellen, ausgedrückt werden kann. Nach einer kurzen Einführung zu dispersiven Wellen, werden unterschiedliche Lösungkonzepte der Fornberg-Whitham Gleichung definiert. Diese beinhalten schwache Lösungen, Entropielösungen und milde Lösungen. Parallel dazu stellen wir Bedingungen für die Lösung oder den Anfangswert auf um die Lösungskonzepte in Relation zu bringen. Anschliedßend führen wir zwei Arten von wanderenden Wellen ein. Einerseits die peaked solitary wave, welche eine schwache Lösung der Gleichung ist, aber die Definition der Wellenbrechung erfüllt. Andererseits, die cusped solitary wave, die durch das asymptotische Verhalten, erforderlich für die Wellenbrechung, charakterisiert ist, aber die Fornberg-Whitham Gleichung in keiner der präsentierten Lösungskonzepten erfüllt.
description: We consider the Fornberg-Whitham equation, a nonlinear dispersive partial differential equation introduced in 1967 by Gerald Whitham as a model to analyze the wave breaking phenomena of water waves. Since traveling waves are a common tool for constructing solutions of partial differential equations, our goal is to answer the question, if wave breaking can be expressed by traveling wave solutions for the Fonberg-Whitham equation. After giving a brief summary on dispersive waves, we proceed defining different notions of solution concepts for the Fornberg-Whitham equation. These include weak solutions, entropy solutions and mild solutions. Along the way, we state some additional conditions on either the solution or the initial data, in order to compare these solution concepts with each other. Next, we introduce two types of solitary traveling waves. First, peaked solitary waves, which solve the equation in a weak sense, but do not describe wave breaking. Secondly, cusped solitary waves, which are determined by the asymptotic behaviour required for wave breaking. However, the cusped solitary waves do not solve the equation described as in the presented notions.
A Geospatial Approach to Display the Hydrological Impacts of Permafrost Disturbances on the Geochemistry of Streams, Lower Peel River and Western Mackenzie Basin, Northwestern Canada
Creators: name: Paquette, Catherine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Hydrology
subject: Geochemistry
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Thermokarst
subject: Permafrost

description: Retrogressive thaw slumps are one of the most dynamic geomorphic features in ice-rich permafrost environments. These features impact aquatic environments by releasing previously frozen organic and inorganic sediments into nearby waterbodies. The objective of this study is to quantify the effect of thaw slumps growth on the hydro-geochemical regime of streams in the Richardson Mountains–Peel Plateau region, northwestern Canada (Fig. 1), within a geospatial hydrological framework (sub-basin, watershed and sub-watershed units). The sub-basin level is determined as the most effective to represent the geochemical properties because of the higher number of sample points within each unit. Based on correlation values, the average surface area of slumps has the most impact on stream geochemistry (as opposed to the number of slumps). Larger single slumps (>5ha) contribute more to changes in geochemistry than clusters of smaller slumps. These slumps can alter the geochemistry of the water to such levels as to exceed limits for freshwater aquatic life.
Thermal Reduction of Common Food-Borne Pathogens During Composting
Creators: name: Cooper, Ashley
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Pathogen
Composting
Thermal reduction
E. coli
Listeria monocytogenes
Salmonella enterica
Giardia
Cryptosporidium
Flow cytometry
D-value
Manure
Campylobacter

description: Soil amended with manure has been implicated as a source of produce contamination leading to foodborne gastrointestinal-disease outbreaks. While current composting guidelines require temperatures ≥ 55°C for 3 days to destroy bacterial pathogens, these requirements have not been evaluated for all pathogens. Investigation of parasite survival in manure required development of a flow cytometry method integrating the cell-impermeant viability dye SytoX for simultaneous quantification and viability assessment of Cryptosporidium and Giardia oocysts/cysts. Further studies will be required to apply this method to investigate thermal reduction in parasites. Studies conducted with bacterial pathogens indicated that E. coli O157:H7 survived longer than other pathogens at 50°C to 55°C. Listeria monocytogenes survived significantly better in chicken manure compared to cow manure at 50°C to 55°C. Results suggest composting guidelines are adequate for bacterial pathogen reduction; however, testing for E. coli O157 along with Salmonella may increase confidence in compost safety.
Modulation of water vapor sorption by pore engineering in isostructural square lattice topology coordination networks
Creators: name: Li, Xia
name: Bezrukov, Andrey
name: Graham, Wells
name: Sensharma, Debobroto
name: Kong, Xiang-Jing
name: Thonhauser, Timo
name: Zaworotko, Michael
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: We report a crystal-engineering study conducted upon a platform of three mixed-linker square lattice (sql) coordination networks of general formula [Zn(Ria)(bphy)] [bphy = 1,2-bis(pyridin-4-yl)hydrazine, H2Ria = 5-position-substituted isophthalic acid, and R = −Br, −NO2, and −OH; compounds 1−3]. Analysis of single-crystal X-ray diffraction data of 1−2 and the simulated crystal structure of 3 revealed that 1−3 are isomorphous and sustained by bilayers of sql networks linked by hydrogen bonds. Although similar pore shapes and sizes exist in 1−3, distinct isotherm shapes (linear and S shape) and uptakes (2.4, 11.6, and 13.3 wt %, respectively) were observed. Ab initio calculations indicated that the distinct water sorption properties can be attributed to the R groups, which offer a range of hydrophilicity. Calculations indicated that the significantly lower experimental uptake in compound 1 can be attributed to a constricted channel. The calculated water-binding sites provide insights into how adsorbed water molecules bond to the pore walls, with the strongest interactions, water−hydroxyl hydrogen bonding, observed for 3. Overall, this study reveals how pore engineering can result in large variations in water sorption properties in an isomorphous family of rigid porous coordination networks.
SU(2)-Irreducibly Covariant Quantum Channels and Some Applications
Creators: name: AL Nuwairan, Muneerah
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: S(2)-covariant Channels
Extreme points of SU(2)- covariant channels
Additivity problem

description: In this thesis, we introduce EPOSIC channels, a class of SU(2) -covariant quantum channels. For each of them, we give a Stinespring representation, a Kraus representation, its Choi matrix, a complementary channel, and its dual map. We show that these channels are the extreme points of all SU(2) -irreducibly covariant channels. As an application of these channels to the theory of quantum information, we study the minimal output entropy of EPOSIC channels, and show that a large class of these channels is a potential example of violating the well-known problem, the additivity problem. We determine the cases where their minimal output entropy is not zero, and obtain some partial results on the fulfillment of their entanglement breaking property. We find a bound of the minimal output entropy of the tensor product of two SU(2) -irreducibly covariant channels. We also get an example of a positive map that is not completely positive.
Subjectivity and Music in Early Modern English Drama
Creators: name: Loeb, Andrew
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Music
Drama
Subjectivity
Self
England
Early Modern
Renaissance
Theatre
Gender
Noise
Performance
Song

description: Music in the early modern world was an art form fraught with tensions. Writers from a wide variety of backgrounds and disciplines engaged in a vibrant debate about the value of hearing and playing music, which could be seen as a useful tool for the refinement of the individual or a dangerous liability, capable of compelling inappropriate thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. This study analyzes music on the early modern stage and its relation to emerging ideas about subjectivity. Early modern philosophies of music, I demonstrate, are concerned with the stability of the body, the soul, and the humours and spirits that unite them, along with the individual’s capacity for autonomy and agency. In the theatre, I argue, music is frequently deployed as a strategy for experimenting with ways of imagining and performing selfhood. On one hand, it can facilitate self-fashioning, acting as a marker for such characteristics as class and spiritual condition; on the other, it can be disruptive to identity and the capacity for agency and autonomy, since music was understood as both penetrative and transformative, facilitating the disruption of one self by an other. Chapter 1, “Meanings of Music in Early Modern England,” surveys a range of early modern texts on music to demonstrate their concerns with both the performance of the self and the threat of its dissolution. Chapter 2, “Many Sorts of Music in Twelfth Night and The Roaring Girl,” examines music’s role as an imaginative strategy for improvising an unstable, hybrid gender identity, an alternative subject-position from which to speak and act in ways ordinarily denied to women. Chapter 3, “Music, Magic, and Community in Early Modern Witchcraft Plays,” explores witches’ uses of music to establish a sense of communal identity and to magically disrupt the communities from which they have been excluded. Finally, Chapter 4, “Noise, the City, and the Subject in Epicoene” makes a case for understanding Morose’s fear of noise in terms of early modern ideas about music, reading noise as a radical instability representative of new ways of fashioning selves in a rapidly expanding urban environment.
Incorporating Acoustical Consistency in the Design for Manufacturing of Wooden Guitars
Creators: name: Dumond, Patrick
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Guitar
Wood
Acoustical Consistency
Inverse Eigenvalue Problems
Scalloped Brace
OrthOtropic Mechanical Properties
Assumed Shape Method
Brace-Plate System
Musical Acoustics

description: As a musical instrument construction material, wood is both musically and aesthetically pleasing. Easy to work and abundant, it has traditionally been the material of choice. Unfortunately, wood is also a very inconsistent material. Due to great environmental and climatic variations, wooden specimens present large variations in their mechanical properties, even within species of a similar region. Surprisingly, an industry based entirely on acoustics has done very little to account for these variations. For this reason, manufactured wooden guitars are acoustically inconsistent. Previous work has shown that varying the dimensions of a guitar soundboard brace is a good method for taking into account variations in the mechanical properties of the wooden soundboard plate. In this thesis, the effects of a scalloped-shaped brace on the natural frequencies of a brace-plate system have been studied and tools have been developed in order to calculate the dimensions of the brace required to account for variations in the mechanical properties of the plate. It has been shown that scalloped braces can be used to modify two natural frequencies of a brace-plate system simultaneously. Furthermore, the most important criteria in modifying any given frequency of a brace-plate system is the mass and stiffness properties of the brace at the antinode of the given frequency’s associated modeshape. Subsequently, designing a brace for desired system natural frequencies, by taking into account the mechanical properties of the wooden plate, is an inverse eigenvalue problem. Since few methods exist for solving the inverse eigenvalue problem of general matrices, a new method based on the generalized Cayley-Hamilton theorem was proposed in the thesis. A further method, based on the determinant of the generalized eigenvalue problem was also presented. Both methods work well, although the determinant method is shown to be more efficient for partially described systems. Finally, experimental results were obtained for the natural frequencies of simply supported wooden plates, with and without a brace, as well as the inverse eigenvalue determinant method. Good correlation was found between theoretical and experimental results.
Supplementary document for Self-Supervised Pretraining for Transferable Quantitative Phase Image Cell Segmentation - 5422408.pdf
Creators: name: Vicar, Tomas
name: Chmelik, Jiri
name: Jakubicek, Roman
name: Chmelikova, Larisa
name: Gumulec, Jaromir
name: Balvan, Jan
name: Provaznik, Ivo
name: Kolar, Radim
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supporting content with implementation details and tables with optimised parameters, experiment with reduced amount of pretraining data and example images of all cell lines
Exhibit A: An Application of Verbatim Theatre Dramaturgy
Creators: name: Moore, Melanie K.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: theatre
verbatim
dramaturgy
verbatim theatre subcategories
documentary theatre
verbatim theatre
psychopathy
playwriting
Peter Weiss
Bertolt Brecht
Erwin Piscator
Naturalism

description: This research-creation thesis describes and analyzes the dramaturgical methodologies of verbatim theatre – a form of documentary theatre that uses transcripts as the dominant source of its dialogue – through the practical exercise of play writing. This paper marks the theoretical component of my thesis, which analyzes both the dramaturgical process and the historical context of my play Exhibit A. Using verbatim transcripts from legal evidence for its dialogue, the play examines the psychology of two teenage boys responsible for the brutal rape and murder of an 18-year-old Canadian woman in 2010. As documentary theatre emphasizes socio-political themes, this thesis considers the dramaturgical, aesthetic, and ethical considerations of verbatim theatre through my experience as a playwright and researcher. Acknowledging both the historical antecedents of documentary theatre and its contemporary examples, this thesis will define an original typology of verbatim theatre entitled the “Subcategories of Verbatim Theatre”. These subcategories are identified as Tribunal, Literary, Historical Drama, Expository and Participatory. Each privileges different types and usages of documents, which are further defined as being primarily related to “text” or “aural” based testimony. The thesis relates the dramaturgical principles of each subcategory to artistic choices made in Exhibit A. A description of the various incarnations of verbatim and documentary theatre, as well as an analysis of my experience as a documentary playwright examines the dramatic representation of reality as highly constructed in this form of theatre where the selection and editing of a documentary play's archive is a creative process that is not dissimilar from the creation of fictional drama. In that sense, the documentary genre can be said to present a dramatic representation of the playwright's subjective version of the truth. Exhibit A thus stands as my creative reconstruction of the evidence presented in the Kimberly Proctor murder trial.
Trajectory Optimization of a Small Airship
Creators: name: Blouin, Charles
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Optimal Control
Dirigible
Path planning
Airship
Pseudo-Spectral
Blimp

description: Pseudo-spectral optimal solvers are used to optimize numerically a performance index of a dynamical system with differential constraints. Although these solvers are commonly used for space vehicles and space launchers for trajectory optimization, few experimental papers exist on optimal control of small airships. The objective of this thesis is to evaluate the use of a pseudo-spectral optimal control solver for generating dynamically constrained, minimal time trajectories. A dynamical model of a small airship is presented, with its experimental virtual mass, drag and motor experimentally modeled. The problems are solved in PSOPT, a pseudo-spectral optimal control code. Experimental tests with a small scale model are performed to evaluate the generated paths. Although drift occurs, as a consequence of an open loop control, the vehicle is capable of following the path. This results of this thesis may find uses in verifying how close to optimal discreet path planners are, to plan complex trajectories on short distances, or to generate dynamic maneuverer such as take-off or landing. Ultimately, improving path planning of small airships will improve their safety, maneuverability and flight-time, which makes them fit for scientific monitoring, for search and rescue, or as mobile telecommunications platforms.
Value Relevance of the Voluntary Disclosure of Advertising Expenditure: A Study of Canadian Listed Companies
Creators: name: Hu, Xuchen
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Value relevance
Voluntary disclosure
Advertising expenditure

description: Advertising expenditure is one of the most important budget items supporting marketing activities for most companies, and may be treated as an intangible asset. Through the impact on demand and costs, advertising activities affect the firm’s pricing and output decisions as well as the firm’s market value (Tannous, 1997; Chauvin & Hirschey, 1994). Despite the significant economic importance of advertising expenditure, not much attention has been given to the value relevance of advertising expenditure and the impact of advertising expenditure disclosure on firms’ market value. Most of the empirical studies for value relevance of advertising expenditure have been conducted using data from the US and UK Academic research on the value relevance of advertising expenditure in Canada is nonexistent. The accounting standard applied in Canada is different from that used in prior US and UK studies. . Canada adopts Canadian GAAP before 2011, and switches to IFRS from 2011onwards. Both regimes do not require firms in Canada to disclose advertising expenditure. However, most US studies use data before 1994 to analyze value relevance of advertising expenditure. Before 1994, disclosing advertising expenditure is mandatory for US firms under US GAAP. The UK evidence uses data before 2005, during which period UK firms still adopt UK GAAP. Although UK. GAAP does not require companies to disclose advertising expenditure, unlike IFRS, different accounting standards can lead to different financial data reporting and different results. In addition, studies on the impact of voluntary disclosure of advertising expenditure on market value are nonexistent. Furthermore, Canada has a more stable financial system than that of the US and UK In this context, the objective of this thesis is to initiate research on the important dimension of advertising expenditure among Canadian firms. The findings of this thesis will enhance understanding of the relationship between advertising expenditure and market value, and companies’ decisions to voluntarily disclose advertising expenditure on their market value.
Evaluation of a Rectal Cancer Patient Decision Aid and the Factors Influencing its Implementability in Clinical Practice
Creators: name: Wu, Robert
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Rectal Cancer
Decision Aid

description: A rectal cancer patient decision aid (PtDA) was developed to help patients consider the benefits and risks associated with two surgical treatment options. The current thesis evaluated the effect of the PtDA on patients and explored surgeons’ perceived factors influencing the implementation of the PtDA in clinical practice. Using a before and after study design, the PtDA was given to patients with rectal cancer at a cancer assessment center. Based on 28 patients recruited, the PtDA improved their knowledge, lowered decisional conflict, and patients rated it acceptable. A cross-sectional survey was mailed to 105 Canadian colorectal surgeons and 49 responded (46.7% response rate). Commonly perceived barriers were time constraint, need for multiple visits, and additional personnel and facilitators were simplifying the decision aid, adding to content, and translating to other languages. The PtDA improved patient decision making outcomes but requires interventions to overcome surgeon-identified barriers to use in clinical practice.
Olegas Truchanas's Lake Pedder
Creators: name: McShane, Ian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Ian McShane reviews Natasha Cica's account of the life of wilderness photographer Olegas Truchanas and his role in the campaign to save Lake Pedder, 'Pedder dreaming: Olegas Truchanas and a lost Tasmanian wilderness,' published by University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2011.
The Destructive Fungal Pathogen Botrytis cinerea—Insights from Genes Studied with Mutant Analysis
Creators: name: Cheung, Nicholas
name: Tian, Lei
name: Liu, Xueru
name: Li, Xin
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Botrytis cinerea is one of the most destructive fungal pathogens affecting numerous plant hosts, including many important crop species. As a molecularly under-studied organism, its genome was only sequenced at the beginning of this century and it was recently updated with improved gene annotation and completeness. In this review, we summarize key molecular studies on B. cinerea developmental and pathogenesis processes, specifically on genes studied comprehensively with mutant analysis. Analyses of these studies have unveiled key genes in the biological processes of this pathogen, including hyphal growth, sclerotial formation, conidiation, pathogenicity and melanization. In addition, our synthesis has uncovered gaps in the present knowledge regarding development and virulence mechanisms. We hope this review will serve to enhance the knowledge of the biological mechanisms behind this notorious fungal pathogen.
Supplementary document for Self-Supervised Pretraining for Transferable Quantitative Phase Image Cell Segmentation - 5422408.pdf
Creators: name: Vicar, Tomas
name: Chmelik, Jiri
name: Jakubicek, Roman
name: Chmelikova, Larisa
name: Gumulec, Jaromir
name: Balvan, Jan
name: Provaznik, Ivo
name: Kolar, Radim
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supporting content with implementation details and tables with optimised parameters, experiment with reduced amount of pretraining data and example images of all cell lines
title: A multi-environmental tracer study to determine groundwater residence times and recharge in a structurally complex multi-aquifer system
title: A multi-environmental tracer study to determine groundwater residence times and recharge in a structurally complex multi-aquifer system
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Wilske, Cornelia
name: Meier, Christiane
name: Suckow, Axel
name: Mallast, Ulf
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020

description: Despite being the main drinking water resource for over 5 million people, the water balance of the Eastern Mountain Aquifer system on the western side of the Dead Sea is poorly understood. The regional aquifer consists of fractured and karstified limestone - aquifers of Cretaceous age, and it can be separated into a Cenomanian aquifer (upper aquifer) and Albian aquifer (lower aquifer). Both aquifers are exposed along the mountain ridge around Jerusalem, which is the main recharge area. From here, the recharged groundwater flows in a highly karstified aquifer system towards the east and discharges in springs in the lower Jordan Valley and Dead Sea region. We investigated the Eastern Mountain Aquifer system for groundwater flow, groundwater age and potential mixtures, and groundwater recharge. We combined 36Clâ€ â Ìâ€ Cl, tritium, and the anthropogenic gases SF6, CFC-12 (chlorofluorocarbon) and CFC-11, while using CFC-113 as "dating" tracers to estimate the young water components inside the Eastern Mountain Aquifer system. By application of lumped parameter models, we verified young groundwater components from the last 10 to 30 years and an admixture of a groundwater component older than about 70 years. Concentrations of nitrate, simazine (pesticide), acesulfame K (ACE-K; artificial sweetener) and naproxen (NAP; drug) in the groundwater were further indications of infiltration during the last 30 years. The combination of multiple environmental tracers and lumped parameter modelling helped to understand the groundwater age distribution and to estimate recharge despite scarce data in this very complex hydrogeological setting. Our groundwater recharge rates support groundwater management of this politically difficult area and can be used to inform and calibrate ongoing groundwater flow models. © Author(s) 2020
Online dynamic capacity provisioning in data centers
Creators: name: Lin, Minghong
name: Wierman, Adam
name: Andrew, Lachlan L. H.
name: Thereska, Eno
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Power consumption imposes a significant cost for implementing cloud services, yet much of that power is used to maintain excess service capacity during periods of low load. In this work, we study how to avoid such waste via an online dynamic capacity provisioning. We overview recent results showing that the optimal offline algorithm for dynamic capacity provisioning has a simple structure when viewed in reverse time, and this structure can be exploited to develop a new 'lazy' online algorithm which is 3-competitive. Additionally, we analyze the performance of the more traditional approach of receding horizon control and introduce a new variant with a significantly improved worst-case performance guarantee.
The Role of Cell Cycle Machinery in Ischemic Neuronal Death
Creators: name: Iyirhiaro, Grace O.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Cell Cycle
Cell death
Neuronal death
Stroke
Cerebral Ischemia
Cdks
Cdc25
E2F4
p130
pRb
Neuroprotection
Inflammation
Flavopiridol
Minocycline
C-Myb
B-Myb
Excitotoxicity
Cdk4
Cyclin D1
Cdk5

description: Ischemic stroke occurs as a result of a lack or severe reduction of blood supply to the brain. Presently therapeutic interventions are limited and there is a need to develop new and efficacious stroke treatments. To this end, a great deal of research effort has been devoted to studying the potential molecular mechanisms involved in ischemic neuronal death. Correlative evidence demonstrated a paradoxical activation of the cell cycle machinery in ischemic neurons. The levels and activity of key cell cycle regulators including cyclin D1, Cdk2 and Cdk4 are upregulated following ischemic insults. However, the functional relevance of these various signals following ischemic injury was unclear. Accordingly, the research described in this thesis address the functional relevance of the activation of the cell cycle machinery in ischemic neuronal death. The data indicate that the inhibition of Cdk4 protects neurons from ischemia-induced delayed death, whereas abrogation of Cdk5 activity prevents excitotoxicity-induced damage in vitro and in vivo. Examination of upstream activators of mitotic-Cdks showed that Cdc25A is a critical mediator of delayed ischemic neuronal death. Investigation of the potential molecular mechanism by which cell cycle regulators induced neuronal death revealed perturbations in the levels and activity of key downstream targets of Cdk4. The retinoblastoma protein family members, pRb and p130 are increasingly phosphorylated following ischemic stresses. Importantly, p130 and E2F4 proteins are drastically reduced following ischemic insults. Additionally, E2F1 association with promoters of pro-apoptotic genes are induced while that of E2F4 is reduced. These changes appear to be important determinants in ischemic neuronal death. Cumulatively, the data supports the activation of the cell cycle machinery as a pathogenic signal contributing to ischemic neuronal death. The development of neuroprotectant strategies for stroke has been hampered in part by its complex pathophysiology. Previous research indicated that flavopiridol, a general CDK-inhibitor, is unable to provide sustained neuroprotection beyond one week following cerebral ischemia. The potential benefit of combining flavopiridol with another neuroprotectant, minocycline, was explored. The data indicate that while this approach provided histological protection 10 weeks after insult, the protected neurons are not functional due to progressive dendritic degeneration. This evidence indicates that targeting cell cycle pathways in stroke while important must be combined with other therapeutic modalities to fully treat stroke-induced damage.
Être Inuit, jeunes et vivre en ville: le cas ottavien
Creators: name: Vaudry Gauthier, Stéphanie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Inuit
Jeunesse
Youth
Leadership
Ethnic authenticity
Authenticité ethnique
Agency
Agencéité
Milieu urbain
Urban
Indigenous
Autochtone

description: Cette thèse vise à démystifier comment de jeunes Inuit font l’expérience de la vie à Ottawa. Les résultats révèlent que les participants à cette étude se positionnent et négocient leurs interactions d’après les relations qu’ils entretiennent avec les différents acteurs de leur environnement. En vue de leur maintien et équilibre, ces relations sont en constante négociation. Afin de se sentir mieux en ville, ils y aménagent des zones de confort mobiles, se créent de « miniunivers » inuit et s’ouvrent aux mondes urbains. Les jeunes Inuit profitent aussi de leur présence à Ottawa pour mieux se positionner par rapport au monde inuit, en (re)trouvant un bien-être personnel et en acquérant les outils et connaissances nécessaires pour contribuer à leur collectivité. Ils y développent notamment leur leadership par l’entremise de rencontres avec d’autres jeunes Inuit et autochtones et s’activent au sein même de la ville d’Ottawa à la transformation des réalités inuit. / This research seeks to demystify how Inuit youth experience living in Ottawa. Results reveal that, throughout their urban experiences, youth position themselves and negotiate their interactions according to their coexistence with the different elements of their environment. This relationship is constantly adjusting; it pushes them to alter their life in order to feel more comfortable in the city, develop their inner strengths and contribute to the collective effort in Ottawa. By creating comfort zones, finding Inuit spaces and exploring urban resources, the burden of balancing such different lifestyles is greatly mitigated. Inuit youth use their presence in the city to reorient their position within the Inuit world. By building self-confidence and developing skills which permit them to contribute to their community, they also develop leadership. These skills allow them to actively participate in the transformation of Inuit realities while living in Ottawa.
21st century skills = 3Rs + 4Cs
Creators: name: Keane, Therese
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: There is widespread agreement amongst educators and the general public about the importance of the traditional fundamental building blocks that underpin learning. These skills are often referred to as the 3Rs - reading, writing and arithmetic. However, for success in the 21st century, mastery of the 3Rs is not sufficient in itself.
NOTA METODOLÓGICA Índice de Transparência da Covid-19
Creators: name: Open Knowledge Brasil (OKBR)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Covid-9
Coronavírus
Open Knowledge Brasil
Transparência
Índice
Brasil
Dados Abertos
Pandemia

description: Open Knowledge Brasil (OKBR), também chamada de Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre, é o capítulo da Open Knowledge Internacional no Brasil. Ela é uma Organização da Sociedade Civil (OSC) sem fins lucrativos e apartidária, regida por um estatuto, decidido em assembleia realizada no dia 4 de setembro de 2013, sendo reconhecida em cartório no dia 3 de outubro de 2013. O Índice de Transparência da Covid-19 é uma iniciativa da Open Knowledge Brasil (OKBR) para avaliar a qualidade dos dados e informações relativos à pandemia do novo coronavírus que têm sido publicados pela União e pelos estados brasileiros em seus portais oficiais. Para superarmos este momento tão desafiador para gestores públicos e população, acreditamos que nenhuma ferramenta é mais poderosa que a colaboração, e a informação é parte fundamental desse processo. Visite o site https://www.ok.org.br.
description: Mais detalhes sobre o assunto veja em https://transparenciacovid19.ok.org.br/sobre.html Todo o conteúdo do site Transparência Covid-19 está disponível sob a licença Creative Commons Atribuição 4.0 Internacional, o que significa que pode ser compartilhado e reutilizado para trabalhos derivados, desde que citada a fonte.
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Government Size, Civic Capital and Economic Performance: An O-ring approach
Creators: name: Mauro, Luciano
name: Pigliaru, Francesco
name: Carmeci, Gaetano
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Political Economy
subject: Public Economics
subject: Social capital
subject: Government size
subject: O-ring theory
subject: Economic growth

description: This paper explores how civic capital shapes the relationship between government size and economic performance. Building on an exogenous-growth version of Barro (1990), we incorporate O-ring technology to capture task complementarity in the public sector, highlighting the role of civic capital in reducing errors and malfeasance. Our model shows that greater civicness not only raises the inverted U-shaped relationship between government size and output but also shifts it rightward, increasing both economic performance and the optimal government size. We test these implications using a dynamic panel data model for 23 OECD countries from 1975 to 2010, estimated via system GMM. Our results support the hypothesized inverted-U relationship and demonstrate that civic capital significantly raises the threshold at which the marginal returns to government size approach zero. Thus, countries with higher civicness can sustain larger public sectors without compromising growth. This finding provides fresh insights into how deeply institutional quality, rooted in social trust, shapes the government-size–growth nexus.
Henry Roe Cloud to Henry Cloud: Ho-Chunk strategies and colonialism
Creators: name: Ramirez, Renya K.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This essay examines the gendered settler colonial aspects of Henry Roe Cloud's relationship with his informally adoptive 'mother,' Mary Roe. It argues that Cloud, my Ho-Chunk grandfather, an intellectual, activist, and policy-maker, defied colonial reality by appropriating the white notion of the self-made man, and by relying upon his Ho-Chunk masculinity, his partnership with his wife, Elizabeth, his Christian identity, and Ho-Chunk-centric hubs. It also argues that Cloud's Ho- Chunk warrior training contributed to his intellectual abilities. Finally, it critiques Joel Pfister's The Yale Indian, arguing that his 'colonial' claim to Cloud's letters prevents an adequate discussion of Indian-white settler colonial relations. Pfister's focus on Cloud's 'individuality', dismissing Cloud's Ho-Chunk-ness, resembles the settler colonial policies of removal.
Performance of Superelastic Shape Memory Alloy Reinforced Concrete Elements Subjected to Monotonic and Cyclic Loading
Creators: name: Abdulridha, Alaa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Shape Memory Alloy
Superelastic SMA
Reinforced concrete beams
Shear Walls
Strain recovery
Cyclic loading
Energy dissipation
Hysteretic response
Constitutive modeling
Finite element analysis

description: The ability to adjust structural response to external loading and ensure structural safety and serviceability is a characteristic of Smart Systems. The key to achieving this is through the development and implementation of smart materials. An example of a smart material is a Shape Memory Alloy (SMA). Reinforced concrete structures are designed to sustain severe damage and permanent displacement during strong earthquakes, while maintaining their integrity, and safeguarding against loss of life. The design philosophy of dissipating the energy of major earthquakes leads to significant strains in the steel reinforcement and, consequently, damage in the plastic hinge zones. Most of the steel strain is permanent, thus leading to large residual deformations that can render the structure unserviceable after the earthquake. Alternative reinforcing materials such as superelastic SMAs offer strain recovery upon unloading, which may result in improved post-earthquake recovery. Shape Memory Alloys have the ability to dissipate energy through repeated cycling without significant degradation or permanent deformation. Superelastic SMAs possess stable hysteretic behavior over a certain range of temperature, where its shape is recoverable upon removal of load. Alternatively, Martensite SMAs also possess the ability to recover its shape through heating. Both types of SMA demonstrate promise in civil infrastructure applications, specifically in seismic-resistant design and retrofit of structures. The primary objective of this research is to investigate experimentally the performance of concrete beams and shear walls reinforced with superelastic SMAs in plastic hinge regions. Furthermore, this research program involves complementary numerical studies and the development of a proposed hysteretic constitutive model for superelastic SMAs applicable for nonlinear finite element analysis. The model considers the unique characteristics of the cyclic response of superelastic materials.