cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title:  Violazione dei confini del postmodernismo: Capelvenere di Michail Šiškin
Creators: name: Novokhatskiy, Dmitry
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2017

description: L’articolo si propone di fare il punto sul romanzo russo contemporaneo Capelvenere (Venerin volos) di Michail Šiškin come esempio di varie opere letterarie russe recenti di collocazione incerta, se non problematica, rispetto al paradigma del postmodernismo. Partendo da una breve sintesi delle posizioni critiche esistenti sulla natura del romanzo, il saggio continua con l’analisi propria della composizione e dell’idea del romanzo, concentrandosi sull’immagine dell’autore e sulle sue relazioni con i vari narratori, nonché sul ruolo dei testi precedenti nel corpo del romanzo. Particolare attenzione è data al complesso sistema delle relazioni temporali e spaziali nel testo, tracciando il ruolo della lingua e della Parola come mezzo per creare e ricreare la vita umana. Capelvenere risulta quindi classificato come un romanzo che combina una tipica composizione postmoderna con una nuova idea, ormai oltre le frontiere del postmodernismo.
description: Violazioni: letteratura, cultura e società in Russia dal crollo dell’Urss ai nostri giorni
title: Standard Operating Procedures for Environmental Sample Processor Deployments
Creators: name: Moore, Stephanie K.
name: Adams, Nicolaus G.
name: Danyluk, Liesl
Publisher: name: NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Northwest Fisheries Science Center
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05r7z1k40
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: NOAA processed report NMFS-NWFSC ; PR-2025-01
description: This document details the standard operating procedures (SOP) for planning and conducting in-water ESP deployments on moored and bottom lander platforms. It is primarily based on the ESP operations that are routinely conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Northwest Fisheries Science Center (NWFSC) and Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL), but is widely applicable to other ESP users. The SOP provides an overview of the mooring platforms and subsystems required to support ESP operations during deployments, maintenance and calibrations, chemical reagent requirements, standard curve development and image processing, quality control testing, data reporting, and mooring deployment and recovery.
Re:design for Learning: A Study of the Co-construction of a Technological Tool for Mathematical Learning
Creators: name: Hillman, Thomas
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: Technology
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Design

description: This dissertation examines the development and use of an educational technology with the aim of enriching our understanding of the relationships among technology, teachers, students and mathematical activity. Drawing inspiration from the premise articulated in the genetic analysis research of Vygotsky (1978, 1986) that to understand a learning situation we must study it in situ and, in addition, investigate its history, I propose that examining the development of an educational technology can help us to better understand how and why it comes to be used the ways it does in classrooms. Starting with the development of a technology, I follow it into mathematics classrooms and examine the ways teachers and students work with it. For this investigation, I draw on a growing body of research in the field of Science and Technology Studies that examines the development and use of technology and the relationships between humans and their tools (Akrich, 1992; Bijker, 1997; Latour, 2007; Suchman, 2006). This research offers approaches to understanding the complex non-linear nature of the interactions between a technology’s development and the ways it is used. In addition, I draw on the sociocultural approach of Activity-Theory (Vygotsky, 1978; Leont’ev, 1978) to help me conceptualize learning as tool-mediated activity. I present the findings of this study in three journal articles that show that the development of educational technology is not necessarily a linear process, that teachers and students find innovative ways to shape the tools they use, and that their innovations may become formalized as part of new versions of a technology. The findings also illustrate that the introduction of new educational technology has wide-ranging meditational effects on the human and material relationships within classroom networks of activity and that the development and use of technologies designed for mathematical learning reflexively mediate and are mediated by mathematical activity.
Framing Policy Reform in Europe. A Comparative Study of Frame Variation Across Countries, Newspapers, and Time
Creators: name: van den Heijkant, Linda
name: Skovsgaard, Morten
name: Vliegenthart, Rens
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Politicians must navigate the complexities of social policy reform to ensure sustainable fiscal policies while considering their impact on citizens. News media play a crucial role as a source of political information, influencing public attitudes towards policy changes through selective framing of issues. This study focuses on how European news media frame the controversial policy reform of raising the retirement age, and explores factors that potentially explain variations in framing across contexts. Using a manual content analysis of newspapers in Denmark, Spain, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom over the period 2011–2020 (n = 1059 articles), we examine country-, newspaper-, and time-related factors to explain the relative presence of issue-specific diagnostic and prognostic frames in European news coverage of pension reform. While the results show that all three types of factors determine the coverage of the reform measure to some extent, in particular variations across newspapers and over time are prevalent. The most striking differences are that left-leaning newspapers emphasize frames related to inequality, and that over time, framing crystallizes into a more concentrated set of diagnostic and prognostic frames. This article sheds light on European news coverage of a much-debated policy issue and its contextual dependency.
Exploring the Value of Computational Methods for Metajournalistic Discourse: The Example of COVID-19 Reporting in Dutch Newspapers
Creators: name: Nguyen, Dennis
name: van Es, Karin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biophysics
Medicine
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: The COVID-19 pandemic raised questions about trust in journalism and the quality of news reporting during societal crises. While journalists and media professionals frequently offered critical reflections based on personal experiences and observations, computational methods are not widely used to support these evaluative processes. We aim to extend the conversation on metajournalistic discourse by considering the inclusion of empirical methods for monitoring journalistic practices. By disclosing our findings about Dutch news media’s corona reporting between 2019 and 2022, we demonstrate how computational methods for content analyses of news texts can yield empirically informed insights into different facets of journalistic performance. The corpus includes 106,616 corona-related articles from national and regional newspapers in the Netherlands. We deployed text analytical methods such as topic modelling and named entity recognition to explore Dutch corona reporting in respect to different normative criteria (informing, monitoring, offering platforms for discussion and opinion, interpretation, analysis, and setting public agendas). The study was requested by a large Dutch newspaper to receive a systematic-empirical analysis of journalistic practice for self-evaluation. We argue that computational methods combined with qualitative analyses can stimulate dialogue and critical reflection among news media professionals.
title:  Ceci c’est la pipe: come si racconta l’assedio di Leningrado
Creators: name: Colombo, Duccio
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2017

description: L’assegnazione del premio Nobel a Svetlana Aleksievič è stata interpretata da più parti come un atto di canonizzazione della letteratura non-fiction, e spesso come una prova della caduta definitiva delle barriere tra letteratura e giornalismo. Aleksievič ha però alle spalle, nella letteratura sovietica, una tradizione che, se non è definitivamente codificata, risale però probabilmente fino agli anni Trenta e, soprattutto a partire dal dopoguerra, presenta una consistenza niente affatto trascurabile. L’analisi comparata di un testo del maestro dichiarato di Aleksievič, Ales’ Adamovič, la Blokadnaja kniga (scritta a quattro mani con Daniil Granin) e della più canonica delle opere letterarie sullo stesso tema, il romanzo-fiume Blokada di Aleksandr Čakovskij, offre abbondanti elementi di riflessione sul differente statuto dei due generi e sulle rispettive possibilità di restituire la realtà e tramandare la memoria storica.
La questione, destinata a rimanere aperta, è se Aleksievič sia quindi un frutto tardivo della civiltà letteraria sovietica o piuttosto l’esito di una corrente sotterranea che, nella situazione post-sovietica, si scopre la più adatta ad occupare il centro della scena.
description: Violazioni: letteratura, cultura e società in Russia dal crollo dell’Urss ai nostri giorni
Exploring Concepts of Contagion and the Authority of Medical Treatises in 14th-16th Century England
Creators: name: Jones, Lori K
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: plague tractates
plague
sweating sickness
England
late medieval
early modern
contagion
contagious disease
history of medicine
medical treatises
literacy/reading
codicology
John Caius
Thomas le Forestier
Thomas Moulton
Thomas Phayer
Canutus
BL Additional MS 27582
BL Sloane MS 3489
professional conflict
socio-political conflict
fifteenth century
sixteenth century

description: This thesis examines whether and how historians’ reliance on medical treatises has limited the historiography of contagion as it relates to fourteenth through sixteenth century England. It analyses the context, contents, audience, and codicology of six English tractates, four on the plague and two on the sweating sickness. Before the early seventeenth century, most English tractates were translations/adaptations of Continental works, with ‘uniquely English’ content added. Although the plague dominates studies of pre-modern disease, focusing on the plague hinders comparative analyses that can reveal much about contemporary understanding of contagion. The socio-political-professional contexts in which the tractates were written and disseminated affected their contents, circulation and, ultimately, audiences. Although largely ignored by historians, the tractates’ prefatory dedications, together with their codicology, reveals that the texts were likely accessible to non-elite audiences. Rather than being limited to its medical sense, contagion formed part of the larger discourse about the human condition.
User Perceptions of News Recommender Systems and Trust in Media Outlets: A Five-Country Study
Creators: name: Blassnig, Sina
name: Mitova, Eliza
name: Strikovic, Edina
name: Urman, Aleksandra
name: de Vreese, Claes
name: Hannák, Anikó
name: Esser, Frank
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: The study investigates user perceptions of news media’s employment of news recommender systems (NRS) and their relation to trust in media outlets. A cross-sectional survey (n = 5079) in the United Kingdom, United States, Poland, the Netherlands, and Switzerland shows that higher algorithmic knowledge, users’ perceived skills, and news aggregator use correspond to increased perceptions that news media use NRS. Moreover, higher perceived NRS use of specific news outlets is associated with lower trust in those outlets but perceived benefits and concerns related to NRS moderate this relationship. Our findings highlight the need for media organizations to ensure a responsible and transparent use of such systems, highlight benefits for users, and address concerns to avoid misperceptions of their NRS use and maintain user trust.
Investigation of the Polyprimidine Tract-Binding Protein-Associated Splicing Factor (PSF) Domains Required for the Hepatitis Delta Virus (HDV) Replication
Creators: name: Al-Ali, Youser
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Hepatitis delta virus
HDV replication
Polypyrimidine tract-binding protein
PSF

description: The hepatitis delta virus (HDV), composed of ~1,700nt, is the smallest circular RNA pathogen known to infect humans. Understanding the mode of replication of HDV implies on investigating the host proteins that bind to its genome. The polypyrimidine tract-binding protein-associated splicing factor (PSF), an HDV interacting protein, was found to interact with the carboxy terminal domain (CTD) of RNA polymerase II (RNAPII), and to facilitate the interaction of RNA transcripts with the CTD of RNAPII. Both PSF and RNAPII were found to interact with both polarities of the terminal stem loop domains of HDV RNA, which possess RNA promoter activity in vitro. Furthermore, PSF and RNAPII were found to simultaneously interact with HDV RNA in vitro. Together, the above experiments suggest that PSF acts as a transcription factor during HDV RNA replication by interacting with both the CTD of RNAPII and HDV RNA simultaneously. PSF knockdown experiments were performed to indicate that PSF is required for HDV RNA accumulation. Mutagenesis experiments of PSF revealed that HDV RNA accumulation might require the N terminal domain, and the RNA recognition motifs RRM1 and RRM2. I propose that the RRM1 and RRM2 domains might interact with HDV RNA, while the N-terminal domain might interact with the CTD of RNAPII for HDV RNA accumulation. Together, the above experiments provide a better understanding of how an RNA promoter might be recognized by RNAPII.
Purchase behaviour of microcredit in bottom of pyramid markets: the case of war-affected youth in Sri Lanka
Creators: name: Jebarajakirthy, Charles Dickens Pirithiviraj
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The main aim of this research is to investigate the purchase behaviour of microcredit amongst war-affected youth who are an integral part of the bottom of pyramid (BOP) market. This study was carried out amongst youth selected from the war-affected Northern and Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka. This research proposes a unique and integrated conceptual model to enhance war-affected youth's purchase intentions of microcredit. Also, the findings of this study can be utilised by microcredit marketers and other relevant stakeholders in war-affected areas, such as public policy makers, to enhance youth's purchase intentions of microcredit. Consequently, youth's entrepreneurial activities can be increased in post-war era, which can address their unemployment and benefit the society at large.
Designing a Macroscopic Singlet-Triplet Qubit In a Linear Array of Quantum Dots Embedded In Nanowires
Creators: name: Rogers, Nick
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Condensed Matter
Qubit

description: In this thesis I present a theory of a macroscopic singlet-triplet qubit in quantum dots embedded in nanowires, each containing 4 electrons and together simulating an artficial Haldane gap material. A Haldane gap material exhibits a 4-fold degenerate ground state separated by an energy gap from excitations. The ground state is equivalent to a degenerate spin-singlet and -triplet state. The 4 degenerate states exhibit the characteristics of spins-1/2 localized on either end of the chain. These states may be used as a coded qubit for quantum information processing. Using the effective mass approximation, I calculate single-particle energy levels of one and two quantum dots in a quantum wire. Using these energy levels I compute the Coulomb matrix elements of the interacting Hamiltonian. Using configuration interaction I demonstrate that the ground state of a quantum dot with 4 electrons is a spin-1 state. I then show that the two dot system behaves approximately like two spin-1 objects interacting via an antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Hamiltonian. While the Heisenberg model is approximate, the two dots have a spin-0 ground-state, indicating antiferromagnetic coupling. I then present a simpler spin model to illustrate the physical parameters which control this interaction. Finally, I present a brief solution to the Heisenberg Hamiltonian for finite spin-chains, and show how one can manipulate the singlet-triplet combined ground state of the spin-chain via localized magnetic field, realizing a singlet-triplet qubit in a macroscopic semiconductor device.
Supplementary document for Distributed Feedback Bragg Lasers - 5312769.pdf
Creators: name: Janjua, Bilal
name: Iu, Meng Lon
name: Yan, Zhizhong
name: Charles, Paul
name: Chen, Eric
name: Helmy, Amr
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document
Intramolecular Cope-Type Hydroamination of Alkenes in the Synthesis of Alkaloids: Total Synthesis of (±)-Coniine and (±)-Desbromoarborescidine A and Studies on a Novel Amination Strategy Towards Manzamine A
Creators: name: Dion, Isabelle
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: hydroamination
Cope-type hydroamination
alkaloids
total synthesis
coniine
desbromoarborescidine A
manzamine A
Diels-Alder
aminodiene
hydroxylamine

description: Intramolecular hydroamination represents a potentially general, simple strategy to access various nitrogen heterocycles. While important progress has been accomplished in recent years, six-membered ring formation via alkene hydroamination is typically difficult and limited to terminal alkenes, suggesting that only 2-methylpiperidines can be accessed reliably with current methods. As part of the Beauchemin group efforts on metal-free concerted hydroamination methods, the first part of this thesis describes the development of a Cope-type hydroamination-Meisenheimer rearrangement (CHMR) sequence that is applicable in inter- and intramolecular reactions. Data acquired from optimization on a difficult substrate (coniine) and the successful application of the CHMR sequence to the syntheses of N-norreticuline and 10-desbromoarborescidine are reported. The amination of alkenes is surprisingly scarcely used in the synthesis of complex alkaloids despite its potential for the construction of structurally challenging molecules while avoiding functional group interconversions. Hence, the second part of this thesis describes the studies on a novel amination sequence, consisting of an intermolecular Diels-Alder followed by an intramolecular hydroamination reaction, in the efforts towards the synthesis of biologically active and structurally complex Manzamine A. As such, the synthesis of the model substrates, including the development of a novel family of aminodienes, as well as the assessment of their reactivity towards [4+2] cycloadditions is reported.
title:  Il romanzo russo della contemporaneità: per una ridefinizione morfologica (e non solo)
Creators: name: Possamai, Donatella
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2017

description: Nell’articolo Il romanzo russo della contemporaneità: per una ridefinizione morfologica (e non solo) l’autrice cerca di mettere a fuoco le dinamiche che hanno contraddistinto il campo letterario russo nel nuovo millennio e in particolare le trasformazioni subite da un genere sommamente metamorfico come quello del romanzo. Prendendo le mosse dalla teoria del Global Novel di S. Calabrese, l’autrice individua nelle ucronie, analizzate attraverso il prisma del Magical Historicism ‒ nella formulazione di A. Etkind ‒ uno dei tratti salienti della produzione letteraria russa contemporanea. A questo fine vengono prese in esame alcune opere recenti, tra cui Telluria di V. Sorokin e Aviator di E. Vodolazkin.
description: Violazioni: letteratura, cultura e società in Russia dal crollo dell’Urss ai nostri giorni
Our Perception Of Time Is Learned. It Is Determined By Our Cultures.
Creators: name: Doble, Rick
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 440199
subject: Anthropology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 440101
subject: Anthropology of development
classificationCode: 440104
subject: Environmental anthropology
classificationCode: 440105
subject: Linguistic anthropology
classificationCode: 440107
subject: Social and cultural anthropology
classificationCode: 379999
subject: Other earth sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Our Perception Of Time Is Learned. It Is Determined By Our Cultures. By Rick Doble While time is absolute and unchangeable, our human perception of time and management of time can be quite different. This article explores examples of differences.
STRIKE-HBV: establishing an HBV screening programme in Kilifi, Kenya-challenges, successes and lessons learnt.
Creators: name: Downs, Louise O
name: Chirro, Oscar
name: Zaharani, Mwanakombo
name: Safari, Benson
name: Okanda, Dorcas
name: Githinji, George
name: Andersson, Monique I
name: Newton, Rob
name: Etyang, Anthony
name: Aliyan, Nadia
name: Matthews, Philippa Clare
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: Infectious Disease
subject: Infectious Disease
classificationCode: Immunology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: Genetics & Genomics
subject: Genetics & Genomics

description: OBJECTIVES: Chronic hepatitis B infection affects 65 million people in the WHO African Region, but only 4.2% of these are diagnosed and 0.2% on treatment. Here, we present a short report describing establishment of a hepatitis B virus (HBV) programme in Kenya. We share experiences, successes and challenges to support development of future programmes. METHODS: From March 2023, we began the 'STRIKE-HBV' Study to identify people living with HBV (PLWHB) in Kilifi, Kenya. We employed local staff and provided education and training. Individuals were identified through three routes: (1) we offered free-of-charge HBV testing for all non-pregnant adults attending Kilifi Country Hospital (KCH) outpatient department; (2) we invited PLWHB to reattend for review; and (3) we invited close contacts of PLWHB for screening and vaccination if HBV was negative. All those seropositive for HBV were offered a comprehensive liver health assessment. RESULTS: We have established a framework for HBV screening, assessment and linkage to care in Kilifi. Between March 2023 and March 2024, we collected data for 80 PLWHB, comprising (1) screening of 1862 people of whom 30 were seropositive, (2) enrolment of 38 people known to be living with HBV and (3) testing of 97 close contacts of PLWHB, of whom 12 were positive. Among a limited subset with elastography data, we identified 9 of 59 as having significant fibrosis, and a further 6 people had laboratory aspartate transaminase (AST) to platelet ratio index (APRI) scores in keeping with fibrosis. We encountered challenges including procurement delays for hepatitis B surface antigen testing kits and HBV vaccinations, and issues accessing liver elastography. CONCLUSIONS: HBV screening was well received by the Kilifi population, has identified people at risk of liver disease progression and is improving linkage to care and vaccination at KCH. Future HBV programmes in WHO Africa can build on this experience as we work to develop accessible, affordable and acceptable care pathways.
Passive and Thermo-Optic Characterization of Long-Range Surface Plasmon-Polariton Structures in CYTOP
Creators: name: Fan, Hui
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011

description: Long-range surface plasmon-polariton waveguides fabricated of gold, cladded with CYTOP, designed to be 5μm wide and 35nm thick, were modelled and fabricated by other researchers and tested by the author. In passive measurements, cutback curves were drawn and S-bends, Y-junctions, Mach-Zehnder interferometers, and couplers were tested. Results show that the fabricated waveguide thicknesses are inconsistent and thinner than designed, and improvement of their fabrication quality is necessary. In thermo-optic measurements, electric currents were injected heating the waveguides and changing the refractive index of the claddings. Electromigration were characterized and the conclusion was that the waveguides can work under the current density 70GA/m2. Mode extinction experiments were made and as one waveguide was repeatedly tested its mode extinction threshold gradually decreased due to heat accumulation and CYTOP glass-transition. 2.5mA was safe to prevent mode extinction in the first 12 experiments. The optical response time was also measured and discussed.
Supplementary document for Thermocapillary Dewetting-Based Dynamic Spatial Light Modulator - 5312937.pdf
Creators: name: Kovacevich, Dylan
name: Ma, Tianxing
name: Nitzsche, Michael
name: Saro-Cortes, Valeria
name: Gamboa, Arielle
name: Davis, Emily
name: Singer, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Reflectance and transmittance spectrum of the SLM.
The Effect of Muscle Fatigue of the Non-Paretic Limb on Postural Control of Stroke Patients
Creators: name: McEwen, Daniel W. D.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Stroke
Posture
Muscle Fatigue

description: Since a significantly greater percentage of body weight is supported by the non-paretic limb following stroke, a greater amount of fatigue may be present during daily activities. This may affect the ability of these individuals to maintain a stable upright posture. The presence of falls following a stroke has been attributed in part to this asymmetrical stance post-stroke. Therefore the purpose of this study was to assess the effect of quadriceps muscle fatigue on bi-pedal posture in individuals who had a stroke and an age-matched control group. Although individuals after stroke displayed greater postural sway under the paretic limb than the non-paretic limb or control subjects, results of this study show that sustaining an isometric knee extension of the non-paretic limb induces changes in postural control for individuals after stroke, but that these changes do not markedly differ from those of healthy age-matched controls.
Optimising radiation therapy delivery for cancer patients using daily image guidance to maximise cure and reduce normal tissue side effects
Creators: name: Herschtal, Alan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Cancer patients treated with radiotherapy are generally treated with a large number of small daily doses of radiation to the tumour region. The displacement of the tumour relative to its expected position each day prior to treatment can be modelled mathematically to determine the required width of the safety margin required such that tumours receive high enough radiation dose to kill the tumour, without overdosing surrounding healthy tissue. In this PhD a new, more sophisticated method of calculating radiotherapy margins is developed, which considers more realistic displacement patterns than has been the case previously.
title:  «Gumanitarnyj Fond» e la poesia di Bonifacij (G. Lukomnikov): innovazione (anti) estetica tra URSS e Russia
Creators: name: Maurizio, Massimo
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2017

description: Nel contesto della cultura tardo-sovietica la rivista «Gumanitarnyj Fond» – accanto alla lettone «Rodnik/Avots» – gioca un ruolo di primo piano per la definizione di un’estetica inedita, figlia ed espressione della disillusione portata dal processo di deideologizzazione in atto nel Paese e alla distruzione generalizzata di quei simulacri che tanta parte ebbero nel pathos protestatario delle correnti precedenti, prima di tutto del concretismo e del concettualismo moscovita. A un’opposizione intellettuale e ragionata, allo status quo viene si sostituisce ora un atteggiamento di aprioristica negazione di qualunque istanza, ivi comprese quelle rinnovatrici. Questo approccio sarà fondamentale per la nascita di visioni estetiche importantissime per il periodo, come quella di G. Lukomnikov (Bonifacij), che rielabora la tradizione underground del periodo precedente alla luce del massimalismo (anti)estetico proprio della fine degli anni Ottanta e dei primi anni Novanta.
description: Violazioni: letteratura, cultura e società in Russia dal crollo dell’Urss ai nostri giorni
Supplementary document for Thermocapillary Dewetting-Based Dynamic Spatial Light Modulator - 5312937.pdf
Creators: name: Kovacevich, Dylan
name: Ma, Tianxing
name: Nitzsche, Michael
name: Saro-Cortes, Valeria
name: Gamboa, Arielle
name: Davis, Emily
name: Singer, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Reflectance and transmittance spectrum of the SLM.
Response of Reinforced Concrete Columns Subjected to Impact Loading
Creators: name: Imbeau, Paul
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Reinforced concrete
Impact loading
FRP retrofit
Axial Load
SDOF analysis

description: Reinforced Concrete (RC) bridge piers, RC columns along exterior of buildings or those located in parking garages are designed to support large compressive axial loads but are vulnerable to transverse out-of-plane loadings, such as those arising from impacts or explosions. To address a lack of understanding regarding blast and impact response of RC members and the need for retrofit techniques to address deficiencies in existing structures, a multi-disciplinary team including various institutes of the National Research Council and the University of Ottawa has initiated work towards developing a fibre reinforced polymer composite protection system for RC columns subjected to extreme shocks. This thesis will focus on the impact program of the aforementioned project. An extensive literature review was conducted to gain a better understanding of: impact loading and associated dynamic effects; experimental testing of RC members subjected to impact; experimental testing of axially loaded members; and retrofit methods for the protection of RC under impact loading. Five half-scale RC columns were constructed and tested using a drop-weight impact machine and two additional specimens were tested under static loading. Deflections, strain distributions within the columns, impact loads and reaction loads were measured during the testing of the built RC members. Comparisons of experimental datum were established between members with differing levels of axial load and between a retrofitted and a non-retrofitted member. Single-degree-of-freedom analysis was used to obtain the predicted response of certain columns under impact loading allowing for comparisons with experimental data.
Interactions of Dietary Antioxidants and Methylmercury on Health Outcomes and Toxicodynamics: Evidence from Developmental Rat Model Studies and Human Epidemiology
Creators: name: Black, Paleah
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Methyl mercury
Antioxidants
Rhododendron tomentosum ssp subarcticum
Nutrient contaminant interactions
Inuit
Traditional food
NMDA receptors
Rat
Epidemiology
Costa Rica
Nr4a2
Nurr1

description: The contamination of seafood with methylmercury (MeHg) is a global health issue, as MeHg is a well known neurotoxin. Since dietary nutrients may interact with MeHg toxicity, and oxidative stress is one of the primary mechanisms underlying MeHg neurotoxicity, we characterized dietary antioxidant-MeHg interactions. Firstly, we used an ethnobotanical study to confirm the antioxidant activity of Northern Labrador Tea, Rhododendron tomentosum ssp. subarcticum (Tea), for the Canadian Inuit, a population with elevated MeHg exposure. Secondly, we determined the ability of Tea to ameliorate MeHg-induced toxicity in a rat perinatal exposure study. MeHg exposure (2 mg/KgBW/d) was associated with perturbed development and behaviour, elevated brain N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors, and serum lipid peroxidation. Surprisingly, Tea co-exposure (100 mg/KgBW/d) modulated MeHg’s effects on brain NMDA-R levels and lipid peroxidation, but also increased mercury serum concentrations. Thirdly, using a toxicogenomics approach we determined that MeHg exposure caused the down-regulation of Nr4a2 and its protein product Nurr1. These novel MeHg targets are implicated in developmental learning functions and were corrected with MeHg + Tea co-exposure. Lastly, we conducted a risk assessment survey and cross-sectional dietary epidemiology study in Costa Rica to further investigate dietary nutrient-MeHg interactions. Costa Rica is a Central American country with multiple sources of Hg and a high per capital fish consumption. Here, 5 of the 14 populations we studied exceeded the recommended MeHg provisional tolerable daily intake (pTDI) of 0.2 µg/KgBW/d. In Heredia the pTDI was exceeded by 34% of woman participants, primarily associated with canned tuna consumption. Interestingly, we detected that Hg body burden was significantly reduced by the consumption of antioxidant-rich dietary items. Considering our collective results, we hypothesized that MeHg toxicokinetics may be altered by dietary nutrients at the site of intestinal absorption from the disruption of gut flora, or at the site of cellular demethylation in tissues from the improvement of cellular redox state. The interaction of dietary nutrients on MeHg outcomes has a large impact on risk assessment and may provide a public health approach for managing the risk associated with MeHg exposure without reducing local fish consumption.
title:  A teatro è diverso. La violazione della norma e della normalità sulle scene russe contemporanee
Creators: name: Olivieri, Claudia
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2017

description: Sulle scene russe di oggi sono molti i progetti di teatro ‘sociale’ e ‘inclusivo’; ne sono un esempio gli spettacoli Notte di maggio del Teatr kukol di Mosca e Toccabili del Teatr Nacii. In essi la diversità non è solo contenuto, ma diventa strumento, per ampliare i confini ‘fisici’, ricettivi, drammaturgici. Nel contempo, l’attenzione alla diversità è una delle novità dell’intera dimensione sociopolitica russa odierna. L’investimento nel sociale delinea uno spazio di confronto (anche) artistico e spesso alternativo ai canali ufficiali e va pertanto approfondito, per illuminare non tanto la ‘diversità’, quanto la ‘normalità’ e per meglio comprendere la Russia e la sua attuale Cultura.
description: Violazioni: letteratura, cultura e società in Russia dal crollo dell’Urss ai nostri giorni
Schaffung einer Datenbasis zur Ermittlung ökologischer Wirkungen der Produkte der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik (IKT)
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Akkumulator
subject: Energieverbrauch
subject: Kommunikationstechnik
subject: Informationstechnik
subject: Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik
subject: Ökologische Wirksamkeit
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum
subject: Economy | Consumption

description: Die Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien (IKT) können in vielen wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Bereichen einen wichtigen Beitrag zumKlimaschutzleisten. Beispielsweise durch intelligente Steuerung von Stromnetzen und Gebäuden, Vermeidung von Verkehr durch Telefon- und Videokonferenzsysteme, Substitution physischer durch digitale Güter usw. Auf der anderen Seite ist aber die Produktion, Nutzung und Entsorgung der IKTGeräte und Infrastruktur mit erheblichen Umweltauswirkungen verbunden. Die aktuellen Trends zur Konvergenz und Digitalisierung gekoppelt mit einer Erhöhung der Nutzungsintensität, die durch die Veränderungen in den Lebensstilen ausgelöst werden, und einer Steigerung in den Verkaufs- sowie Gerätezahlen, könnten zu höheren Umweltauswirkungen der IKT führen als bisher vermutet.
Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.
description: Die Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien (IKT) können in vielen wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Bereichen einen wichtigen Beitrag zum ⁠Klimaschutz⁠ leisten. Beispielsweise durch intelligente Steuerung von Stromnetzen und Gebäuden, Vermeidung von Verkehr durch Telefon- und Videokonferenzsysteme, Substitution physischer durch digitale Güter usw. Auf der anderen Seite ist aber die Produktion, Nutzung und Entsorgung der IKTGeräte und Infrastruktur mit erheblichen Umweltauswirkungen verbunden. Die aktuellen Trends zur Konvergenz und Digitalisierung gekoppelt mit einer Erhöhung der Nutzungsintensität, die durch die Veränderungen in den Lebensstilen ausgelöst werden, und einer Steigerung in den Verkaufs- sowie Gerätezahlen, könnten zu höheren Umweltauswirkungen der IKT führen als bisher vermutet.
Synthetic B-Cell epitopes eliciting cross-neutralizing antibodies: Strategies for future dengue vaccine
Creators: name: Ramanathan, Babu
name: Poh, Chit Laa
name: Kirk, Kristin
name: McBride, William John Hannan
name: Aaskov, John
name: Grollo, Lara
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Dengue virus (DENV) is a major public health threat worldwide. A key element in protection from dengue fever is the neutralising antibody response. Anti-dengue IgG purified from DENV-2 infected human sera showed reactivity against several peptides when evaluated by ELISA and epitope extraction techniques. A multi-step computational approach predicted six antigenic regions within the E protein of DENV-2 that concur with the 6 epitopes identified by the combined ELISA and epitope extraction approach. The selected peptides representing B-cell epitopes were attached to a known dengue T-helper epitope and evaluated for their vaccine potency. Immunization of mice revealed two novel synthetic vaccine constructs that elicited good humoral immune responses and produced cross-reactive neutralising antibodies against DENV-1, 2 and 3. The findings indicate new directions for epitope mapping and contribute towards the future development of multi-epitope based synthetic peptide vaccine.
Evaluation of Cathodic Disbondment Resistance of Pipeline Coatings : a Review
Creators: name: Xu, Min
name: Lam, Catherine
name: Wong, Dennis
name: Asselin, Edouard
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2022

description: For coated pipelines with cathodic protection, cathodic disbondment has been recognized as the main cause of coating degradation. A thorough understanding of the cathodic disbondment mechanism, a proper evaluation on the coating resistance to disbondment as well as a precise monitoring of the cathodic protection level would minimize the occurrence of cathodic disbondment and help to maintain a pipeline’s long-term integrity. This paper first reviews the various mechanisms proposed in the literature for cathodic disbondment. To provide useful guidance for selecting pipeline coating systems, cathodic disbondment test methods (categorized as standard test methods or modified test methods) that have been developed over the past two decades are then critically reviewed. In-situ techniques for assessing cathodic disbondment of coatings, especially those having promise for field applications are also discussed. Finally, a brief discussion on the mitigation of cathodic disbondment and the associated corrosion is presented.
Supplementary document for Seasonal bias in global ocean color observations - 5313166.pdf
Creators: name: Bisson, Kelsey
name: Boss, Emmanuel
name: Werdell, Paul Jeremy
name: Ibrahim, Amir
name: Frouin, Robert
name: Behrenfeld, Michael
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biological Oceanography

description: Supplementary Doc
TLM analysis of microwave and millimeter wave structures with embedded nonlinear devices.
Creators: name: Nielsen, Jorgen Staal.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: A methodology has been developed such that electromagnetic structures with embedded non-linear devices can be accurately analyzed by the three-dimensional (3D) condensed node TLM algorithm. The method is based on incorporating a variable time step differential equation integration scheme, simulating the electrical behaviour of the devices, into the 3D TLM electromagnetic field simulation algorithm. The scheme can accommodate existing piece-wise linear SPICE device models of arbitrary complexity without non-physical instabilities or other spurious behaviour. A set of new 3D TLM node structures have been developed to complement the condensed node to better model the field at sharp conductor strip edges. These node structures provide substantial improvement in the accuracy of modelling strip-like transmission-line structures with a coarse mesh. They also provide a direct interface to the device model resulting in a more accurate simulation of the driving point impedance as seen by the device. A propagation analysis of the TLM condensed node was performed resulting in a derivation of the general dispersion relation. The superior dispersion characteristics of the condensed node relative to other TLM and FD-TD formulations was demonstrated based on the dispersion equation. Further exploration of the dispersion equation led to the discovery and characterization of spurious modes supported by the condensed node mesh. A derivation of the recursion equations of the equivalent FD-TD scheme representing the condensed node was then performed to establish the origin of the spurious modes and methods of suppressing them.
A dual systems motivational approach to investigating psychological distress among university students
Creators: name: Sharp, Jessica
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Psychological distress is a serious issue among university students worldwide; a problem linked to poorer academic outcomes and problematic health behaviours. In this research, distinctive profiles detailing the goal appraisals and implicit motives associated with 367 Australian university students' symptoms were developed for five different dimensions of psychological distress. Importantly, these profiles provide insight into the motivational associates of particular distress symptoms prominent among university students. It is anticipated that these findings will better inform interventions targeting both implicit and explicit motivational factors to minimise university students' psychological distress, which will benefit students, their families and their institutions.
A Practical Approach to Semicarbazone and Hydrazone Derivatives via Imino-isocyanates
Creators: name: Garland, Keira
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: imino-isocyanate
hydrazone
semicarbazone

description: Isocyanates have a broad spectrum of uses and they are used in the production of many products including polyurethane polymers, coatings, adhesives, paints and foams. While isocyanates are widely studied and well represented in the literature, nitrogen substituted isocyanates are quite rare. Amino and imino-isocyanates are examples of nitrogen substituted isocyanates. Previous work within the group studied the reactivity of these intermediates in the alkene aminocarbonylation reaction, and used hydrazones and hydrazides as precursors of nitrogen substituted isocyanates. From there, a second reaction pathway was studied. This involved the reactivity of hydrazones with nucleophiles to develop a simple exchange reaction. In this work, the substitution reactivity involving imino-isocyanates will be presented. This will include the scope of nucleophiles and hydrazones as well as a discussion on the formation of the imino-isocyanates. This reactivity allows for the facile formation of a variety of hydrazones with the flexibility to start from common hydrazone precursors.
Majority-Preferential Two-Round Electoral Formula: A Balanced Value-Driven Model for Canada
Creators: name: Esmaeilpour Fadakar, Shahin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Electoral Systems
Electoral Reform
Electoral Law
Elections
Constitutional Law
Constitutional Law of Canada
Comparative Law
Comparative Politics
Democracy
Diversity
Efficiency
Equality
Multiculturalism
Fundamental Rights
Rights
Accountability
Geographical Diversity
Political Diversity
Social Diversity
Moderation
Stability
Strategic Voting
Turnout
House of Commons
Senate
The Right to Vote
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Proportional Representation
Preferential Voting
Preferential Ballot
Political Parties
Political Expression
Plurality
Majority
Majoritarianism
Judicial Review

description: This research is an enquiry to find an electoral formula that conforms to Canadian constitutional values. Three core values that are pertinent to the issue of electoral systems are identified: democracy, diversity, and efficiency. Each of these core values is divided into different aspects. These aspects will form the backbone of the evaluation of different electoral systems in this work. I will begin with an evaluation of the plurality model of elections, which is currently used in Canada. I will demonstrate that many of the attributes of the current system are not in tune with Canadian constitutional values, in particular with the progressive interpretation that the Supreme Court of Canada has given to the right to vote as enshrined in Section 3 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Although the interpretation of the right to vote will be the main thrust of the constitutional scrutiny in this work, attention will also be given to other pertinent rights such as equality rights, minority rights, and the freedom of expression. Next, I will examine provincial electoral reform initiatives that were initiated in five Canadian provinces. All of these initiatives - three of which were put to referenda and eventually defeated - proposed adopting a variant of proportional representation. Accordingly, I will evaluate proportional systems according to the intended values. I will conclude that these systems have problems of their own and they also cannot strike a fine balance between competing values. In the final stage, I will make a new proposal for elections to the Canadian Parliament. First, I will demonstrate that majority systems are better candidates to attain the envisioned values. Then I will introduce a new variant of the majority model, which I call a majority-preferential two-round variant. I will demonstrate that this new variant will outperform the other variants in the attainment of values if adopted for elections to the House of Commons. Finally, I will argue that the combination of a House of Commons elected through the majority-preferential formula and a proportionally elected Senate will result in a more balanced approach to the relevant constitutional values.
The Canadian Memory Fund: Digital Archives, Historical Consciousness and the CBC/Radio-Canada
Creators: name: Trehearne, Lara
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Digital Archives
Historical Consciousness
history education
CBC
Radio-Canada
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
history

description: This study examines the efficacy of the Canadian Memory Fund to advantage the use of digital archives for the purposes of developing historical consciousness in Canadian students and life-long learners. The perceived significance of digital archives to this end is reflected in the launch of the Department of Canadian Heritage’s (PCH) Canadian Culture Online Program (CCOP) in 2000. Employing a qualitative research design, this study examines how PCH defined the challenges to Canadians’ historical memory, and conceived of a technological solution to this inherently cultural and educational challenge. Using a case study, the strategies deployed by the CBC and Radio-Canada digital archives units, funded recipients of the CMF, to achieve the intended goals of the CCOP, and whether the resulting websites meet the technical criteria for the study of historical consciousness, are examined.