cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Automatic extraction of a semantic representation of English sentences
Creators: name: Scaiano, Martin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: Many natural language processing tasks are implemented using methods which do not understand language but rather its statistical properties. This thesis presents a system for extracting a semantic frame representation from sentences with the intent of building document-understanding systems. Many frame extraction systems have been motivated by a competition, such as SemEval 2007 task 19, or as a proof of concept; these systems have not been applied to further work in other tasks. The system presented here is intended as a foundation for developing new algorithms that use a frame-based semantic representation. Frame extraction has two parts: frame identification and role labeling. Frame identification is a fairly simple task, while role labeling is a more difficult task that has received extensive attention in recent years. The system presented here uses two layers of semantic labeling in all tasks: first a general-purpose role labeling done in the initial parse tree and then, using that information as guidance, the roles are labeled with frame-specific information. Several machine learning frameworks are explored for both tasks, usually with varying features and with different divisions of the tasks per classifier. We experimented with three types of classifiers: Naive Bayes, Decision Trees, and Support Vector Machines. The system's performance is evaluated by cross-validation on the FrameNet data, and against the SemEval 2007: Frame extraction task data. The system presented here is comparable to other state-of-the-art systems. When considering the intended use of the system and the fact that no optimizations have been done for the SemEval 2007 task, the system's results are promising, especially from the point of view of its precision.
Modelling the effect of sowing date on the emergence, silking and yield of maize (Zea mays L.) in a moderately warm and dry production area
Creators: name: Széles, A.
name: Huzsvai, L.
Publisher: name: Agronomy Research
Year: 2020
Subjects: climate change
air temperature
CERES-Maize model
computer simulation
article

description: This research focused on accurately modelling emergence (VEEmergence) and silking (R1) dates using 5 cm deep soil temperature (ST) and how sowing date (SD) affects VEEmergence and R1 date of different maturity hybrids and which is the optimum sowing date in the changed climate. Three sowing dates were used between 4th April and 10th May. The same maize hybrids (FAO 290, FAO 350, FAO 420) were involved in the experiment between 2011–2013. The 5 cm deep soil temperature could be used for simulating the date of VEEmergence and R1 and the Percentage of Predicted Deviation (PD) was below 10%. When calculating the effective heat units (HU) at 5 cm depth, setting 6 °C as base temperature leads to better modelling. SD did not clearly affect yield since due to the influence of genotype and crop years. The FAO 290 hybrid had the lowest yield (11.534 t ha-1) and it responded sensitively to sowing date. Its highest yield (12.788 t ha-1; P < 0.05) could be obtained with SD3. FAO 350 and FAO 420 hybrids provided stable yields without any significant effect of SD. The highest yield was provided by the FAO 420 hybrid (13.494 t ha-1) with a wide SD interval (4th April – 10th May). The obtained findings help farmers in making grounded decisions to obtain high and stable yield under the changed climatic circumstances. The obtained findings help farmers in making grounded decisions to obtain high and stable yield under the changed climatic circumstances.
European economic integration and human development: The consequences of regional integration.
Creators: name: Orfao, Anita.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Economics, General.

description: This study examined the effects of European economic integration in Portugal. It put forth the hypothesis that Portugal's participation in the European economic integration process has played a major role in the maintenance of political stability and in the growth of the Portuguese economy. This in turn, has to an extent, been a causal factor in the improvement in the state of the human condition through financial aid in the form of Community Structural Funds. Specific socio-economic indicators were used as a means of evaluating the human development level before and after regional integration. Since EU accession, there is evidence of a high correlation between Portugal's participation in the regional integration process, and a rise in the economic and human development level of the population. Hence, it may be assumed that the policies utilized in fostering economic integration have had a positive effect on the rate of economic progression. It has also influenced to a significant degree, the rise in the level of human development.
The stability of item parameter estimates in the context of a second language competency test.
Creators: name: Ready, Doreen.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Education, Language and Literature.

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the feasibility of using IRT models to equate test versions of an English second language (ESL) test through the use of subsets of linking items. The test was designed to measure global comprehension at the intermediate level, of listening and reading texts and general knowledge of vocabulary, grammar and structure as measured by a cloze text. The data were subsets of listening, reading and cloze items used on two or more occasions. The procedure used was to ascertain the stability of the item parameter estimates from correlations and other descriptive measures. The estimates were obtained using three estimation methods (LOGIST, BILOG, NoHarm) and three IRT models. In addition the unidimensionality of the data sets was examined using a method described by Gessaroli and De Champlain (1991). The results suggest that IRT models may not be suitable with test data such as those used in this study. Failure could not be consistently linked to too few candidates, issues of statistical dimensionality, too few items, or the difficulty of the material in which the target subsets were embedded. If an expanded study yields similar results, then the issue is one of validity, whether the definition of ESL global comprehension at the intermediate level is compatible with how an ability is defined under an IRT model.
La identificación de los sujetos nulos en el español no nativo.
Creators: name: Fernandez De Moya, Zara.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Language, Linguistics.

description: The research of this thesis was completed within the framework Chomskian's Principles and Parameters model of acquisition. A detailed analysis of individual production of null-subjects and pronouns in non-native Spanish speakers was carried out in order to determine its relationship with verbal morphology. The fact that the production data available to us for this thesis is part of the investigation project "Classroom Second Language Acquisition: Beyond Parameters," directed by the professor Juana Munoz Liceras, and that this study is a longitudinal analysis of the acquisition of Spanish by children, adolescents and adults, within an institutional context, has enabled us to observe, among other points of interest, variables such as L1 (English or French) and other L2 languages (Arabic, Greek, Portuguese and Italian) as well as taking into consideration the differences relative to age. Finally, and thanks to the empirical data--which the above mentioned study has provided--, a part of this thesis has been dedicated to the analysis of the variability of the IL with respect to the technique of procurement of data elicitation techniques used by the researchers. Hence, we have studied whether the identification procedure in our French, English and bilingual subjects, takes into account the Spanish morphology, or, on the contrary, whether the mother tongue mechanisms of recoverability are maintained.
Hidden Lives, Secret Wives: Secrecy, Policing, and the Unmaking of Mormon Polygamy, 1880s-1910s
Creators: name: Jung, Hannah Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2029
Subjects: Politics
Religion
Secrecy
State
Family

description: What makes polygamy visible as a family system? This is the question that many polygamous families asked themselves during the 1880s as the federal government began to enforce anti-Mormon laws in the 1880s. The intensity of federal enforcement meant that every polygamous family, both rank-and-file members of the Church and high-profile leaders alike, had to re-evaluate their visibility. This dissertation explores how polygamous families created strategies of secrecy during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It follows a transitional period from when the federal government began enforcing anti-polygamy laws in the 1880s to when the Mormon religious community policed and excised polygamists in their midst in the 1910s. This dissertation focuses on the experiences of the people policed by institutions to understand how communities navigate legal pressure and institutional change. It shows a textured view of a community in transition and a church hierarchy at odds with one another using personal records including diaries, memoirs, and oral histories. Instead of emphasizing the coerciveness of the state or church institutions, therefore, this dissertation centers the strategies that people use to navigate constraints. Practices of secrecy go beyond the binary of truth and deceit. Instead of focusing on the content of polygamists’ secrets, this dissertation examines their calculated use of suggestive language, coded words, and even silence. Secrecy was also embedded in polygamists’ patterns of evasion and the ways that they imagined geography. Some places were dangerous, and others were “refuges.” Polygamist strategies of secrecy are reminiscent of other communities, past and present, that live under legal and cultural constraints. Mormons, ever famous for their prolific record keeping, can help shed light on the secretive practices of constrained communities. The difference, I argue, is that Mormons could capitalize on their privilege in unique ways even as they kept secrets. Polygamous husbands and wives could evade notice while growing their families because their deviance was not imprinted on their bodies. Their deviance was a result of their religious and sexual choices. Their polygamy was only visible through their family performances and their community reputation. Mormon whiteness allowed polygamists to blend into new communities. Mormon polygamy and secret-keeping, therefore, is a way to understand both privilege and precarity in a community that was structured by legal and religious constraints.
Between Visualizability and Abstractness: Deploying Visual Text to Detect Non-literal Language
Creators: name: Kehat, Gitit
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2022

description: Many tasks can benefit from the use of multimodal resources, such as vision-languagedatasets, which include images along with textual pieces of information. A common practice is to combine both the visual and textual representations into multimodal models, yet this approach is expensive and not necessarily essential. This work examines the way in which the textual-only parts of visual datasets, which we call “visual corpora”, capture the visualizability of language components, and makes use of their unique properties to solve related NLP tasks. We demonstrate the power of visual corpora in solving tasks like determining the concreteness level of words and phrases and the task of metaphor detection. Relative to multimodal models, working with only textual data has the clear advantage of a lower time complexity, as well as a lower risk of introducing noise originated in visual data.
Analyse de sensibilité des indices de végétation au-dessus d'un couvert forestier de sapin: Étude comparative à partir des données de simulation entre MODIS-EOS, VEGETATION-SPOT and AVHRR-NOAA
Creators: name: Asalhi, Hayatte
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Physical Geography.
subject: Remote Sensing.

description: The goal of this thesis aims two fundamental points. The first consists in making the development on the optimal spectral index to characterize the dynamics of a forest cover of a fir tree independently of the internal (underlying soil, topography, saturation and linearity) and external disturbing factors (BRDF and atmosphere) to covers starting from the data of simulation. The second point makes it possible to compare for the first time the potential of three spectral resolutions different (fine, average and broad) from sensors MODIS-EOS, VEGETATION-SPOT and AVHRR-NOAA to minimize the disturbing effects on the indices of vegetation in forest medium. The results obtained show that in general, the influence of the disturbing effects on the indexes of vegetation are complex. There is not only one component which dominates the met variations, but rather, of the combined influences of several factors. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Probing P450cam Active Site for Novel Camphor Hydroxylation Regiospecificity
Creators: name: Le, Thu
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Cytochromes P450
NMR
P450cam engineering
Site-directed mutagenesis
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

description: The cytochrome P450 superfamily are heme-dependent monooxygenases that catalyze the chemically challenging activation of molecular oxygen following a common pathway with the formation of highly reactive iron(IV) oxo species. Cytochrome P450cam (CYP101A1), from the soil-bacterium Pseudomonas putida is one of the best characterized cytochromes P450, catalyzes the hydroxylation of d-camphor to 5-exo-hydroxycamphor. Wild type (WT) P450cam has a well-defined substrate selectivity and product specificity, which makes it an excellent probe of the role of enzyme structure in determining regioselectivity. This work focuses on multisite P450cam mutants at active site residues designed with the goal to promote changes in substrate orientation and/or location that might give rise to different hydroxylation products. Mutants were designed to maintain the same atom balance as WT, so as not to change the active site volume. In vitro site-directed mutations on CYP101A1 were done to examine enzyme activity and substrate turnover product. Structural perturbations in camphor-bound mutants were probed using 1H-15N TROSY-HSQC. Results show all mutant enzymes preserved the regio- and stereospecificity of camphor hydroxylation at 5-exo position with varying degrees of efficiency, suggesting the enzyme core residues are not the sole contributors to P450cam conservation of hydroxylation product.
Signalling pathways controlling the initiation of Xenopus oocyte maturation.
Creators: name: Booth, Ronald A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.

description: Xenopus laevis oocytes are physiologically arrested at the first meiotic prophase. Re-initiation of meiosis, or oocyte maturation, is triggered in vivo by progesterone, but can also be triggered by insulin and insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) in vitro. The mechanism by which these two very different hormones regulate the same physiological process is poorly understood. Chapter 2 describes my research that contributed to the characterization of the progesterone receptor responsible for inducing oocyte maturation. We demonstrated that the Xenopus progesterone receptor (xPR) is a dual functional protein. When expressed in the heterologous COS-7 cells, OR is imported into the nucleus and functions as a progesterone-regulated transcription factor. In contrast, the endogenous OR in Xenopus oocytes is restricted in the cytoplasm and appears to mediate cytoplasmic signalling. Chapter 3 describes a functional link between the IGF-1 receptor and G-protein signalling in the control of oocyte maturation. The Xenopus homologue of GIPC, a PDZ-domain-containing protein, was identified as a binding partner for the cytoplasmic domain of the IGF-1 receptor. GIPC is known to interact with the C-terminus of a Galphai-specific GAP, RGS-GAIP. Expression of two dominant negative forms of xGIPC blocked insulin-induced MAPK activation and oocyte maturation, while full-length xGIPC synergized with human RGS-GRIP to enhance insulin signalling. This is the first demonstration that the GIPC/RGS-GAIP complex acts positively in IGF-1 receptor signalling.
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title: Changing the composition of the polymer composite to increase the strength of the prosthetic leg
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composite material
polymer composite material
mechanics of layered materials
fibrous composite materials
composite prosthesis
finite element modeling
representative volume element

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description: In the given work, we consider the creation of parts of a composite prosthetic foot made of a polymer composite material. Calculations of the strength properties of a composite made of a polymer matrix with 3 types of filler, a comparative analysis of the properties of the obtained materials and the selection of the most suitable of them were carried out. 20 different designs of the insert geometry and 5 ways of laying laminate from the obtained materials have been developed. Load modeling was performed for each geometry and the most appropriate one was selected. A comparative analysis of models with an insert made of composite and polymer material is carried out.
Investigating ocean waves by means of seismic noise
Creators: name: Mason, James D.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This study investigates wave parameters and climatology through means of seismic noise in the Indian Ocean/North West Coast of Australia. Within this region, as parameters of the wind-generated waves are predominantly determined by tropical cyclones, the study predominantly focuses on extreme waves, though is also an investigation of the statistical and physical features of cyclones.
Seismic data is new means in analysing cyclone waves, which enables a study of more diverse assessments and a better understanding of the tropical cyclone wave characteristics and as well their morphing with a changing climate. Characteristics such as wave fields and wave heights are observed and interpreted, defining the tropical cyclone mechanisms and further teleconnections influencing them.
Minorities, Minority Identity and Violence:The comparison in Contemporary Hebrew and Japanese Minor Literature
Creators: name: Ichikawa, Kimiko
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Minority Minorities Minority identity Hebrew literature Japanese literature Comparative literature Violence Sayed Kashua Yi Yang-ji Kazuki Kaneshiro

description: This thesis examines how minority identities are depicted in contemporary \r autobiographical literature from the 1990’s to present. In this thesis, I focus my analysis on \r minority literatures from Israel and Japan. In spite of the extreme rarity of the literary \r comparison, I examine minorities of Israeli Arab and the second generation Japanese \r Koreans. I explore how these minorities with different histories are represented, with shared \r experience of oppression and violence, and analyze the phenomena or ramifications in \r minority identity. By analyzing famous novelists of minority literature— Israeli Arab author, \r Sayed Kashua and two Japanese Korean authors, Yi Yang-ji and Kazuki Kaneshiro—I \r concentrate on pointing out the influences and outcomes of psychological and political \r violence (Chapter I and II) to their minority identities. This comparison will enable a wider \r perspectives regarding minorities in various societies, and an analysis of issues of relating to \r minority as well as race identity in modern life. \r This unique literary comparison attempts to examine cultural and political \r similarities as well as differences in order to explore the phenomena of two countries with \r different cultures but that share certain similarities, particularly in the articulation of their \r minority literature. Although Israel and Japan differ very much in term of culture and history, \r I still find significant similarities in the minority literature. The minorities I examined in \r Hebrew and Japanese minor literature interact with violence in various ways each society. I \r focused my examination especially on psychological and political violence in addition to \r physical violence. My questions in researching this minority literature revolve around how \r these minorities relate to these kinds of violence. \r This thesis concentrates on presenting the ways that these the minority authors \r address their own political identities, and the ways that social violence and oppression \r influence their minority identities.
Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of electron beam treated inter-specific (Triticum dicoccum Schrank X Triticum carthlicum Nevski) lines of emmer wheat for leaf rust and stem rust resistance
Creators: name: Murugan, Geetha
name: Das, Bikram Kishore
name: Murugasamy, Sivasamy
name: Paramasivan, Jayaprakash
name: Vishwakarma, Gautam
name: Shitre, Abhijit Shaligram
name: Prasad, Pramod
name: Kumar, Subodh
name: Chinnaswamy, Appunu
name: Jagadeesha, Yashavathakumar Kakanur
name: Navathe, Sudhir
name: Biradar, Suma
name: Peter, John
name: Chinnaswamy, Suganya
name: Gopu, Vaishali
name: Rajendran, Harish Chandar Subbiah Gounder
name: Gundeappa, Lalitha
name: Kanchana, Marimuthu
name: Kumaran, Vikas Venu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Cultivated emmer wheat (Triticum dicoccum), a hulled tetraploid species (2n = 4x = 28, AABB) is a minor crop grown in India for its low glycaemic index and high protein (16%) content. However, its genetic variability is limited. This study aims to enhance the variability of cultivated emmer wheat using mutation approach. A tall better yielding, leaf and stem rust resistant inter-specific line (BC2F2 line derived from Triticum dicoccum cv. NP200 X Triticum carthlicum) was subjected to physical mutagens (gamma rays and electron beam), with the objective to develop a semi-dwarf, high-yielding, leaf rust and stem rust resistant lines. Mutant and parental lines were evaluated for resistance to leaf rust and stem rust at seedling and adult plant stages and also validated the presence of rust resistance genes through linked molecular markers. Three stable semi-dwarf inter-specific mutant lines with high yield and resistance to leaf rust and stem rust were selected from the electron beam (250 Gy) treated mutagenized population. Seedling and adult plant evaluations displayed resistance to leaf rust and stem rust and molecular marker analyses confirmed the presence of linked marker to stem rust resistance genes (Sr2/Lr27/Yr30, Sr17/Lr14a/Pm5 and Sr40) and leaf rust resistance genes (Lr18, Lr50 and Lr61) in mutant and parental lines. In addition, plant stature, culm strength and yield improvement was observed as compared to parental lines. The resistance present in the parent lines remained intact in the selected mutant lines even after exposure to electron beam. Mutants thus obtained could be released as cultivars or utilized as a potential source for high yielding, rust resistance for the improvement of emmer wheat. This is the first report of beneficial mutants in emmer wheat using electron beam.
La búsqueda de la verdad conduce al fracaso : análisis social y narratológico de ₃Quién mató a Palomino Molero? de Mario Vargas Llosa.
Creators: name: Abanto Rojas, Luis A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Literature, Modern.

description: quesQuien mato a Palomino Molero? (1986) has received little attention by critics and scholars. What criticism does exist contributes to a panoramic, and in certain cases, fragmentary view of the novel, but little to an understanding of its deep structure, narrative functioning and content. This thesis attempts to fill the gap in existing critical approaches by proposing a new reading based on a reassessment of the author's conception of literary creativity (chapter I), an analysis of the detective genre and its use by the author to illustrate the socio-political condition of Peruvian reality (chapters II and III), and an examination of the novel's narrative functioning from a narratological perspective (chapter IV). The main conclusions of my study are as follows: First, Vargas Llosa, in this work, takes his personal experiences as the stimulus and substance (he calls them "the demons") for the novel's story and problematics. Second, both partially in adopting and transgressing the detective story structure, the author efficiently projects that story and the economic realities of the 1950s. Third, the world-vision that thus emerges is one of a society deeply fractured and divided. Fourth, in the case of quesQuien mato a Palomino Molero?, this world-vision is mainly conveyed through the focalization of the character-focalizer Lituma, and the appropriate use of a privileged, heterodiegetic narrator, mimetic discourse, and indirect free discourse. Fifth, both the adoption and the transgressions of the detective story structure, as well as the narratological components efficiently articulate the expression of the aforementioned world-vision by the implied author. quesQuien mato a Palomino Molero? thus constitutes a meaningful quest novel that convincingly shows that, in the world presented, all quest for truth by the underprivileged sectors of society, whenever it jeopardizes the interest of the privileged ones, inevitably ends in failure. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Minecraft and the Digital Robinsonade
Creators: name: LaFauci, Aaron J
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Minecraft
Robinson Crusoe
Robinsonade
Colonialism
Survival
Empire
Video games

description: This essay traces the didactic history of the genre of survival stories known as robinsonades and analyses the genre's evolution through the lens of play. From early adaptations to Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" to Paulsen's "Hatchet" and beyond, the child-oriented robinsonade is implicated in a century spanning pedagogical process that attempts to use the island setting as a kind of playground or classroom for independent learning. The subjects taught, however, have changed with time. I explore the robinsonade in tandem with Minecraft, a highly popular survival video game that allows children and adults alike to play out the processes modeled in the literature.
description: Starting with the domesticating impulse of the late 18th century robinsonades, I explore how these homemaking robinsonades eventually transform into colonial handbooks and boy's adventure stories by the height of the 19th century with works like "Masterman Ready" and "The Coral Island" representing extremes of domestication and adventure. The essay makes the case that Minecraft has come to embody many of the tropes and ideas of the imperial robinsonade.
description: In the second part of the thesis, the analysis move on to the 20th century with "Lord of the Flies," a novel that criticizes the imperial robinsonade and lays the groundwork for a more environmentally oriented survival narrative. I conclude with more contemporary works, including a 2017 robinsonade by Max Brooks set in Minecraft itself that prizes individual development and environmental stewardship in its didacticism. The essay culminates in a break down of a community version of Minecraft known as Better Than Wolves by Flowerchild in order to provide a model for gameplay that at once provides an escape from tropes of colonial domination and a sweeping vision of the perils of an indulgent imperial mindset. It creates a game space in which the player's decisions create significant, lasting change in the environment that surrounds them.
Physical Education and sport in independent schools: a sociological perspective
Creators: name: Morton, Adam
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 119999 Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other medical sciences

description: This thesis takes as its starting point what has been described as ‘one of the worst statistics in British Sport’: that independently educated athletes (those educated in UK fee-paying schools) were significantly overrepresented in Team GB at the 2012 Olympics. Beginning by demonstrating the heterogeneity of the independent sector, it seeks an empirically based, sociological understanding of how and why a small number of schools consistently see their pupils compete at senior international level. The central contention being that sporting success cannot be reduced solely to social class. Drawing on literature from the sociologies of Physical Education (PE), sport and education, the thesis interrogates the assumption that privilege leads to sporting advantage for pupils across the independent sector.
Methodologically, a critical, appreciative approach is taken. In a multiple-case study, six independent schools (given the pseudonyms Lyttelton, Cambourne, Northcote, Liffield, Gregham and Colbeck) provided a purposive, opportunistic and stratified sample which facilitated comparison between three highly successful, one moderately and two less successful schools, in terms of developing young athletes. Semi-structured interviews with key staff and pupils involved in international representative sport provided data pertaining to the support and development of young athletes. The subsequent analysis illuminates the field of PE and sport in independent schools and, for the first time, reveals how these schools, through a range of intra and inter institutional practices, support the development of young athletes.
In seeking a better sociological understanding of PE and sport in independent schools, this thesis employs a dual theory approach based on aspects of the work of Elias and Bourdieu and provides a sustained analysis of why some independent schools consistently develop successful athletes. In concluding, it argues that ‘one of the worst statistics in British sport’ reflects an ongoing process in which the distinctive function of sport serves a purpose in status rivalries both within the independent sector and the wider figuration. Whilst implicated in the reproduction of social and economic advantage in the UK, a more nuanced view exists in which a small number of independent schools are choosing to do something different and do so particularly successfully. Nevertheless, sport is not a fair and level playing field in which merit always rises above privilege - class still matters here. Furthermore, in updating Bourdieu’s notion of ‘distinction’ within this context, and describing the privileging of sport over PE, it makes an original, empirical contribution to knowledge.
Les états d'identité et les stratégies utilisées par les élèves du secondaire pour résoudre un problème lié à l'identité.
Creators: name: Boyer, Jean-Claude.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Education, Educational Psychology.

description: La these a pour but de preciser la strategie de resolution d'un probleme lie a l'identite chez des adolescents de la diffusion, de la forclusion, du moratoire et de l'identite realisee. Elle tente de decrire cette strategie a partir de l'analyse de prolocoles verbaux recueillis lors de la resolution d'un probleme de classement contenant des themes identitaires. Un nombre de 80 sujets, des adolescents de 11$\rm\sp{e}$ a la 13$\rm\sp{e}$ annee du secondaire, ont participe a l'etude. Chaque sujet a rempli un questionnaire portant sur son identite, la Version revue et corrigee de la mesure objective etendue de l'etat d'identite de l'Ego. Les sujets ont de plus resolu un probleme de classement qui consiste a classer six personnages en fonction de leur niveau de ressemblance avec le sujet. L'examen des 80 protocoles, tous divises en sequences d'episodes de traitement d'information met en relief le cheminement des sujets d'un bloc d'activites mentales a un autre. Chaque episode comprend des composantes (verbalisations) qui peuvent variees d'un sujet a l'autre en fonction de leur utilisation ou non-utilisation et de leur frequence d'utilisation. Les resultats indiquent des differences entre les sujets des quatre etats d'identite. Il existe une relation entre l'etat identitaire du sujet et sa tendance a utiliser certaines composantes et la frequence d'utilisation des composantes. L'eleve du moratoire se livre a une recherche tres active d'informations jumelee a des comparaisons entre ces dernieres et ses propres caracteristiques personnelles. L'adolescent de la forclusion effectue un survol des informations afin de se former une opinion et prendre une decision basee sur une analyse globale mais succincte des donnees du probleme. Les jeunes ayant atteint l'identite realisee ou vivant une diffusion de l'identite semblent utiliser une combinaison des strategies propres aux deux autres etats identitaires. Les adolescents de la diffusion sont les seuls a indiquer qu'ils eprouvent des doutes lorsqu'ils rencontrent des obstacles lors de la resolution de problemes.
The Impact of Early Visual Experience on Temporal Frequency Processing Properties of LGN Receptive Fields
Creators: name: Gilman, Noah Kane
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2023
Subjects: LGN cells
Visual cortex
Visual Perception

description: Neurons in the ferret primary visual cortex (V1) exhibit direction selectivity when they respond to properly oriented black and white gratings moving in a preferred direction. Visual experience is required for the emergence of direction selectivity, but it can also be induced with 6 hours of early visual training (Li et al., 2006). Since V1 cells receive input from LGN cells, it is possible that LGN cells undergo some sort of change that allows V1 cells to be direction- selective. The purpose of current study is to examine the impact of short-term, early visual experience on the development of LGN receptive field properties, and how they might contribute to the rapid emergence of experience-dependent direction selectivity in V1. There are 3 hypotheses as to how this might work. LGN cells may become selective to direction themselves, such that they directly increase selectivity in V1. Or LGN cells may experience some other receptive field changes that permit direction selectivity in V1. Finally, the changes that permit direction selectivity may occur only in V1. Our experiments did not find evidence for direct increases in direction selectivity of LGN cells with experience, but our results indicated a shift in temporal frequency preference towards faster stimuli. We discuss how this may be indicative of faster processing speeds that permit the emergence of direction selectivity.
MOSFIRE spectroscopy of galaxies in cosmic noon
Creators: name: Nanayakkara, Themiya
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis make use of a recently commissioned spectrograph in one of the largest optical telescopes in the world to study galaxies that existed 10 billion years ago. The universe was only 3 billion years old at that time, and galaxies in that epoch were undergoing rapid evolution forming stars with high efficiency to form most of the present day observed matter. Using this data, we try to understand how galaxies like ours evolve from our old ancestors and how properties such as the mass of a galaxy and the environment in which it resides can affect the evolution.
Luminoso for Vibraphone and Marimba
Creators: name: Redmond, Jared
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Percussion
Duos

description: Luminoso is a multi-movement work for two percussionists focused on the exploration of limited timbral resources and the development of percussion textures based not on timbre but on harmony and motivic connection. Its motivation was to create a work for percussionists which may be interpreted and prepared with the utilization of traditional techniques for performing common-practice art music rather than a host of new and experimental resources, the common modus operandi for modern percussion pieces.
Dimensions of coping in entrepreneurs: Functional and temporal perspectives and implications for burnout
Creators: name: Eager, Bronwyn
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The research comprised a two-phased mixed-methods investigation of functional and temporal dimensions of coping in entrepreneurs and implications for burnout.
The research advances understanding of the stress-coping-strain relationship in entrepreneurs by establishing that temporal-dimensions of coping, and entrepreneurial traits have implications for burnout. Specifically, that entrepreneurs may benefit from reducing internal-focused coping in favour of external-focused coping, and from relinquishing negative views of the present, and focusing on achieving future goals.
Young adults' perceptions and interactions with creativity-enhancing environments.
Creators: name: Spooner, Marc Thomas.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Education, Adult and Continuing.

description: The purpose of this study was to gain insight into the environments young adults find conducive to creative endeavours. Adolescents, parents, teachers, educational systems, and society as a whole would benefit from a deeper understanding of how creative individuals interact with, shape and seek out environments to fulfil their various creative needs. The present project was guided by an interactionist model of creative behaviour (Woodman & Schoenfeldt, 1989) which takes into account the four major strands of inquiry involved in creativity research and provides a conceptual framework for their holistic study. The focus of the present study was primarily on environmental determinants of creativity as perceived by the participants; however, some consideration was given to the remaining three areas of creative research, namely, person, process, and product. To this end, a qualitative study employing grounded theory methods was adopted. The research design adheres most closely to the social constructionist interpretation and application of the grounded theory method as outlined by Charmaz (1990). Thirteen creative seniors selected from a local city high school were interviewed. Insights from these interviews are divided into three sections. First, in section I, a method for identifying creative individuals within a high school is developed and discussed. In section II, an environmental process model of creativity is illustrated. Last, in section III, implications for educational systems as well as creativity research in general, are examined and practical avenues of action are suggested.
Nitric oxide and the control of catecholamine secretion in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
Creators: name: McNeill, Brian
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Biology, Animal Physiology.

description: The aim of this thesis was to investigate the effects of nitric oxide (NO) on both basal and stimulus-evoked catecholamine secretion in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Experiments were performed in vivo and in situ using an electrical field stimulation technique. Catecholamine secretion rates in situ were markedly reduced in response to electrical stimulation in the presence of the NO donor sodium nitroprusside (SNP; 5 X 10-3 M). This reduction was through the activation of soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC) rather than via an acceleration of catecholamine degradation. Pre-treatment with the NO inhibitors 7-nitroindazole (10-4 M) and L-NAME (5 X 10-3 M) decreased NO production in response to electrical stimulation while increasing catecholamine secretion rates approximately 2-fold. Experimental evidence suggests that nNOS is the main isoform involved in the inhibition of catecholamine secretion. Following the repeated exposure of rainbow trout to hypoxia over 4 days in vivo, in situ preparations derived from these fish showed an approximately 2- and 1.8-fold increase in basal and stimulated NO levels, respectively, while catecholamine secretion rates were reduced by approximately 50%. Expression levels for the nNOS isoform in the head kidney and anterior posterior cardinal vein (PCV) suggests that this isoform is involved in the catecholamine response. In summary, nNOS appears to be the main isoform in producing NO under neuronal stimulation and that this NO decreases stimulus-evoked catecholamine secretion through the activation of sGC.
title: Käse, Licht oder Rauch? Zur Funktion der siebartig durchköcherten Keramikgefäße ohne Boden der Kupfer- bis Eisenzeit auf der Iberischen Halbinsel aus komparativer, archäometrischer und experimentalarchäologischer Sicht
Creators: name: Tews, Thomas
Publisher: name: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
Year: 2016
Subjects: Kupferzeit
Bronzezeit
Eisenzeit
Iberische Halbinsel
Keramik
bo­denlose Siebgefäße
Ethnographie
Archäometrie
Experimentelle Archäologie
Copper Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Iberian Peninsula
ceramics
multi-perforated bottomless vessels
ethnography
archaeometry
experimental archaeology

description: Madrider Mitteilungen, 57 (2016)
description: An kupfer- bis eisenzeitlichen Fundplätzen auf der Iberischen Halbinsel kommen immer wieder siebartig durchlöcherte Keramikgefäße ohne Boden zu Tage, die traditionell als Utensilien zur Käseherstellung interpretiert und deshalb in der spanischen Forschung
description: Sieve-like multi-perforated bottomless ceramic vessels are found in Copper to Iron Age contexts in the Iberian Peninsula, which are traditionally interpreted as utensils for cheese production, and therefore in the Spanish archaeology mostly called ›queser
description: En diversos yacimientos de la Edad de Cobre hasta la Edad del Hierro en la Península Ibérica se hallaron un grupo de vasijas de cerámica multiperforadas sin fondo, que tradicionalmente se interpretan como utensilios para la producción de queso, por lo que
Investigations of the longer term memory, relaxation and restructure in the tabu search heuristic optimization of examination timetables.
Creators: name: Xie, Siqun.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: The examination scheduling problem is a difficult problem with NP-hard complexity and several methods for heuristically solving it have been developed over the past decades. This thesis investigates the casting of examination timetables with tabu search techniques, the combination of the move or transition recency based short-term memory and move frequency based longer-term memory and several tabu search variations such as solution restructuring, tabu relaxation, and alternating neighborhoods. By integrating the tabu techniques mentioned above, a multi-phase system OTTASYS has been implemented and tested on several sets of real data. It is shown here that the quality of the solutions obtained compare favourably with other published algorithms when presented with the same data. As the engine of the system, the algorithm OTTABU is proven powerful and productive and also can be used as a platform for further research.
The human investor: The profile of retail and institutional investors, and a structural equation model of investor behavior in the share market
Creators: name: Abramson, Rachel
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis modelled retail investor behavior in the share market. The model showed a relationship between overconfidence and preferred types of share investments. Investors who allocated more of their portfolio to cyclical shares or asset/turnarounds were more likely to sell down shares each June and buy up more shares in July. This trading activity was associated with anxiety.
Barber and Odean (1999, 2001) had previously shown overconfidence led to excess trading and ultimately poorer share portfolio returns. It would thus appear that it pays to be underconfident in the share market and to invest in defensive or growth shares.
Just One More: Wind Creek Chicago Southland and the Expansion of Legal Gaming in Illinois
Creators: name: Bass, Khristian
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Wind Creek Chicago Southland
subject: Chicago Southland Casino
subject: Illinois Gaming Industry
subject: Economic Impact of Casinos
subject: South Suburban Development
subject: Casino Revenue Projections
subject: Tourism & Economic Growth
subject: Job Creation in Gaming Industry
subject: Tax Revenue from Casinos
subject: Gaming Market Competition
subject: Hospitality and Entertainment Industry
subject: Illinois Gaming Laws
subject: Casino Licensing Process
subject: Urban Development & Casinos
subject: Southland Regional Growth
subject: Equity in Economic Development

description: The seductive pull of gambling lingers in the mind, a promise of fortune wrapped in the thrill of risk. Casinos have long served as carefully regulated arenas for this pursuit, yet Illinois’ Rebuild Illinois initiative, passed in 2019, ushered in a new era of unrestricted casino expansion, including Wind Creek Chicago Southland. Through a combination of ethnographic research and interviews, this paper examines the intersection of policy, addiction, and personal experience at Wind Creek. I found that the casino’s reward structures and incentive systems encourage repeated play, drawing both casual visitors and seasoned gamblers into cycles of loss and pursuit. While some patrons praised the casino as a social hub, the shadow of addiction loomed larger, reinforced by the psychological mechanisms of slot machines and tiered reward programs. These findings suggest that Illinois’s new gambling infrastructure may inadvertently serve as a structure for addiction. If left unchecked, this structure may continue, if not expand, how people can engage in casinos that fuel addictive behaviors.