cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The transition to motherhood: A phenomenological study of women's experiences as first-time mothers.
Creators: name: Cudmore, Laurinda Gayle.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Women's Studies.

description: The transition to motherhood is a transformative experience in a woman's life that has generated increasing interest as a subject of research. The majority of studies that have investigated the phenomenon of first time motherhood employ traditional research methods which tend to fragment the woman's lived experience of becoming and being a mother. Consequently, they provide little in-depth understanding of the meaning of new motherhood as lived by the woman. The present study explored the phenomenon of first time motherhood using a discovery oriented, phenomenological approach, which seeks to gain an in-depth understanding of the nature and meaning of phenomena as lived and experienced by human beings. The phenomenological method systematized by Giorgi (1985), and based on the phenomenological methods of both Husserl and Merleau-Ponty was used. Written and oral descriptions of four new mothers were analyzed and situated meaning structures as well as a general meaning structure of the phenomenon of becoming and being a mother were articulated. The findings of this study revealed the general meaning structure of new motherhood to include the following interrelated dimensions: (1) The emergence of a profoundly close and loving relationship with one's baby which includes a shared emotional world between the new mother and her baby, a deep and primordial need to protect her baby from harm, a sense of responsibility and commitment to care for her baby now and in the future, and feeling captivated by the very presence of her newborn; (2) Living with one's child as an enduring presence which includes a sense of responsibility and caring in the baby's presence as well as in his absence, experiencing her "self" as second to her baby, and a loss freedom for herself; (3) Experiencing an expanding horizon of interrelatedness that involves a new feeling of closeness in the mother's relationships with others, in particular with her spouse but also with other family members and new mothers generally, grounded in shared experience and mutual understanding.
Deliverable D7.9_Report on Workshop program (SOIL O-LIVE_HORIZON EUROPE ID 101091255)
Creators: name: DEOLEO
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: soil o-live
D7.9
olive grove
workshop
program

description: D7.9. Report on the Workshop program, presentations and Photographic evidence of the sessions carried out with partners. T7.3
Methodology for the identification of the interhemispheric circulation
Creators: name: Watermann, Jurgen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Updated version of the Deliverable 3.4 of the project "Warning and Mitigation Technologies for Travelling Ionospheric Disturbances Effects - TechTIDE". The TechTIDE project has received funding from the European Commission Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (2017 – 2020) under the Grant agreement 776011. The analysis in this version is based on more data than used for version 1.0, delivered 31 October 2018 to the Project Officer. An Acknowledgements section was added which had been omitted from the previous version.
Deliverable D7.9_Report on Workshop program (SOIL O-LIVE_HORIZON EUROPE ID 101091255)
Creators: name: DEOLEO
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: soil o-live
D7.9
olive grove
workshop
program

description: D7.9. Report on the Workshop program, presentations and Photographic evidence of the sessions carried out with partners. T7.3
The impact of sibling death on adolescent psychosocial development and psychological wellbeing
Creators: name: Godfrey, Jan-Louise
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to explore the experience of adolescent sibling bereavement and its impact on adolescent development and psychological wellbeing in fifteen individuals (10 females and 5 males) who experienced the loss of a sibling when aged between 14 and 25 years. Analysis of data revealed themes such as: traumatic loss; disenfranchised grief; impact on identity development and developmental milestones; the family’s response to loss; and loss as a crisis and growth. The results of this study will assist the identification of supporting factors and resources for professionals, families and friends supporting sibling bereaved adolescents.
Présence de la philosophie bouddhique dans le roman Dévadé de Réjean Ducharme.
Creators: name: Lemay, Christian.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Religion, General.

description: Notre these analyse le roman Devade de Rejean Ducharme et releve certaines composantes mythologiques et philosophiques associees au bouddhisme afin d'expliquer comment celles-ci structurent le texte et en determinent l'espace semantique. Notre lecture de Devade s'interesse tout d'abord au mode d'apparition du bouddhisme dans le texte. Une etude du systeme des personnages montre ensuite comment des comparaisons apparemment insignifiantes permettent d'accoler a la majorite des personnages des doublets mythologiques qui inscrivent une structure mythique sous-jacente dans l'oeuvre. Finalement, l'analyse de certaines boutades incongrues trouvent a la lumiere des concepts fondamentaux du bouddhisme une valeur hautement philosophique. Bref, la these fait valoir comment la rencontre de deux epistemologies peut occasionner une veritable destabilisation langagiere ou les mots subissent une nouvelle polarisation d'ordre semantique. La force de Ducharme tient du fait qu'il parvient a creer ce lieu de rencontre et d'invention ou s'etablit une rupture du code et ou le langage retrouve sa fonciere duplicite.
title: In memoriam José María Blázquez Martínez (1926-2016)
Creators: name: Sanz Serrano, Rosa
Publisher: name: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
Year: 2016
Subjects: Prof. Dr. José Blázquez Martínez (1926–2016)

description: Madrider Mitteilungen, 57 (2016)
description: Nachruf für Prof. Dr. José Blázquez Martínez (1926–2016)
description: Obituary for Prof. Dr. José Blázquez Martínez (1926–2016).
Sonder la cybergéographie de la blogosphère politique canadienne: Analyse de "la place" des blogues citoyens au sein d'un réseau hyperlien
Creators: name: Bresee, Julia
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Political Science, General.
subject: Mass Communications.

description: Dans le contexte d'une "crise" de la démocratie représentative, cette thèse s'interroge sur la relation potentielle entre la blogosphère politique et une démocratie plus participative. Or, quelle est "la place" des blogues citoyens au sein de la blogosphère politique canadienne? Les résultats obtenus en employant l'outil l' IssueCrawler et la méthode de l'Analyse des réseaux hyperliens suggèrent que la place des blogues citoyens serait largement variable et inégale Ainsi, même si les blogues gérés par des citoyens privés seraient majoritaires sur ce territoire, on y verrait la domination d'une élite politique en ligne, selon le critère des hyperliens reçus. Il semblerait, d'après les résultats issus de cette démarche exploratoire, que la blogosphère politique canadienne se verrait confrontée à plusieurs obstacles, dont ceux des inégalités d'accès, de participation et d'appropriation de cet espace public émergent.
The Impact of Self-Esteem and Ego Threat on Inhibition and Memory
Creators: name: Levin, Daniel
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2016
Subjects: self-esteem
ego threat
inhibition
attention
memory

description: The present study sought to assess the impact of self-esteem and ego threat on inhibition and, by extension, long-term memory. Two samples of undergraduate college students were placed into either an ego threat or control condition. We attempted to alter their state self-esteem level and then administered a Rejection Stroop task in order to assess their ability to inhibit non-target information. We looked at the interaction effect of trait self-esteem, ego threat and word valence (rejecting or accepting words) on the sample’s attentional and memory processes. No significant effects were found.
"Mattawa, where the waters meet": The question of identity in Metis culture.
Creators: name: Chrétien, Annette.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Anthropology, Cultural.

description: This thesis is about Metis music and the Metis people. Its purpose is to examine the intimate connections between the two and how music constitutes an inherent component of Metis identity(ies). The premise of this study is that Metis identity is fluid and flexible and that Metis musical traditions do not merely reflect these characteristics but are instrumental in its construction. In the same vein, I am arguing that multiple Metis identities have emerged from several specific factors, including individuality, regionalism, socio-economic conditions, historical events, political manipulations, various metissages, and spiritual beliefs and values. The goal of this study is to acknowledge the multiple Metis identities which are experienced and articulated among Metis through the examination of their musical practices. This study is based on an in-depth ethnography of the musical practices of the Metis community in Mattawa, Ontario. This community provides a case-in-point from which Metis identity can be studied. It features a wide and diverse range of musical practices typical of the Metis communities in Ontario, and it enacts the internal divisions which have undermined its official representation at the local as well as the regional and national levels.
КОРПОРАТИВ ЮРИДИК ШАХСЛАРНИНГ МОҲИЯТИ ВА ТУЗИЛИШИ
Creators: name: Ганиев, Ниҳолбек
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: «Корпорация» сўз лотинча «corporatio» сўзидан келиб чиққан бўлиб, жамият, иттифоқ, касбий ёки ижтимоий манфаатлар билан боғланган шахслар гуруҳини англатади. «Корпорация» атамаси шахслар ва мол-мулкни бирлаштирувчи иттифоқлар ҳақида қўлланади, улар ўз иштирокчиларининг аъзолиги асосида юридик шахс белгиларини акс эттиради. Бир таърифга кўра: «Корпорация (лотинча corporation – бирлашма) – умумий мақсадларга эришиш ва биргаликда фаолият олиб бориш учун бирлашган шахслар мажмуаси бўлиб, мустақил ҳуқуқ субъекти – юридик шахсни ташкил этади. Кўпинча корпорациялар акциядорлик жамияти шаклида ташкил этилади».
Exploring the non-death function of caspase activity during cardiac hypertrophy
Creators: name: Kalynych, Sergei
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.
subject: Biology, Cell.

description: Various pathological conditions that exert stress on cardiac muscle severely compromise the supply of oxygenated blood to peripheral tissues. To maintain steady cardiac output during adverse times, the myocardium is forced to undergo tissue remodeling in a process known as cardiac hypertrophy. The loss of cardiac myocytes during the transition to heart failure has been a subject of intense investigation, and this loss is hypothesized to originate from apoptosis/programmed cell death. In particular, caspase proteases have been implicated as primary components in this process. However, caspase activity has been linked to many cellular remodeling events independent of inducing cell death. Therefore, the possibility that alterations in caspase activity precipitate the cellular alterations that give rise to pathological cardiac hypertrophy was investigated in the current study: Using cultures of primary neonatal cardiomyocytes and a combination of pharmacological and biological inhibitors it is demonstrated that: (a) Physical growth of a myocyte is not dependant on activity of the apoptotic caspases; (b) Caspase activity is not necessary for the transcriptional control of natriuretic peptide production (ANF and BNP); (c) Transcriptional activity of a general stress-responsive transcription factor Nf-kB is dependent on caspase enzymatic activity in the neonatal cardiomyocyte.
"I Will be Thin at All Costs; Nothing Else Matters:" A Research Proposal Examining the Effects of Viewing Pro-Anorexia Websites
Creators: name: Beliveau, Leanne
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Pro-Anorexia
Pro-Ana
Anorexia Nervosa
Eating Disorders

description: “Pro-Anorexia” refers to the endorsement of anorexia nervosa; advocated as a lifestyle choice and not a disease, proponents create or visit websites that act as a resource for anorexic individuals who wish to decrease caloric intake, purge, conceal symptoms, be inspired by photo galleries and quotes, etc. The purpose of the proposed study is to assess the effects of viewing pro-anorexia websites on participant’s self-esteem, body image, weight perception, and perceived attractiveness. A content analysis of ten existing pro-anorexia websites was conducted in order to determine the most common components of these websites. Using that information a prototypical pro-anorexia website was created by the author, as was a control website on the topic of interior design. The study aims to compare the affect, self-esteem, perceived weight and perceived attractiveness of those who view the pro-anorexia website to those who view the control website; the ultimate goal of this proposed study is to examine whether viewing pro-anorexia websites is detrimental in any of those four measures.
Ronald Reagan, SDI, and the Nuclear Freeze: Reordering the Ethics of Mass Destruction
Creators: name: Brown, Joseph
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2008
Subjects: National Conference of Catholic Bishops
Nuclear Freeze
Star Wars
SDI
Strategic Defense Initiative
Ronald Reagan
Ethics

description: By proposing the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), Ronald Reagan co-opted the rhetoric of the nuclear freeze movement and reversed the relationship that had previously existed between himself and his anti-nuclear opponents. Prior to Reagan’s announcement of SDI, the nuclear freeze movement played the role of the ethically principled critic, denouncing Reagan for perpetuating the nuclear arms race and the policy of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD). By adopting a proposal for space-based missile defenses, Reagan took on the role of the peace-loving nuclear critic. \r \r The Strategic Defense Initiative eclipsed the ethical appeals of the nuclear freeze movement, promising the eventual abolition of nuclear weapons. Ironically, the nuclear freeze movement found itself promoting MAD, because its own proposal to halt the arms race would do nothing to change the dynamic of offensive nuclear deterrence between the United States and the Soviet Union. Although Reagan openly advocated the expansion of the U.S. nuclear arsenal, he was able to justify his strategic modernization plan as a temporary measure, necessary to preserve America’s security until his missile shield could be put in place. \r \r Reagan thus reordered the ethical terms of debate. He appealed to the public’s traditional moral sensibilities to win their support for a policy that, on its face, ran counter to those sensibilities – a policy that adhered to a Machiavellian ethics of necessity and served to ensure Reagan’s own political success.
Tool path generation for rough machining using STEP.
Creators: name: Ahamed, Shafee.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Industrial.

description: The production efficiency has been significantly improved over the years due to the rapid advancement in CAD and CAM. Very often, however, the production cycle is still unacceptably long. This has been frequently caused by the bottleneck link between CAD and CAM. The CAD design model cannot be directly machined by a CNC machine without an NC program, an NC program cannot be coded without a clearly defined tool path, and the CAD data are not readily useable for preparing tool path. A large amount of time is often spent on data exchange, NC tool path generation, and NC program preparation. To further reduce the production cycle, the CAD model has to be documented in a neutral format such that it can be readily used in CAM and the tool path should be automatically generated from the CAD model in a neutral format. The recently developed STEP data exchange standard provides such a neutral format that is independent of any software and hardware. However, none of the existing tool path generation systems is based on STEP. In view of the above facts, a STEP based tool path generation system is developed for rough machining of planar surfaces. This system comprises four modules. The first one is the data extraction module used to obtain geometric data from STEP. The second module is the slicing module which is designed to convert the three dimensional tool path generation problem into a series of two dimensional problems. The tool path will be generated by the third module. The tool path is then translated into NC program by an NC code generator--the last module. The proposed system has been implemented in a UNIGRAPHICS CAD/CAM environment. The application of the system is illustrated using an example part.
Gay rebels: why some older homosexual men don’t support same-sex marriage
Creators: name: Robinson, Peter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: I … don’t for the life of me understand why the gay community has decided to emulate an institution that doesn’t work for even straight people … It is laughable. This is what a 59-year-old black gay activist in Los Angeles told me of his views on same-sex marriage. He is typical of many older gay men who are bemused by the younger generation’s desire for marriage, reflecting the radically different experiences of those who grew up in far more restrictive and intolerant decades.
Re-thinking ethnic boundaries: The negotiation of German-Canadian ethnic identities in Ottawa, 1945-1975.
Creators: name: Walsh, John C.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.

description: Using "ethnic identity" and "community" as socially constructed elements of historical experience, this thesis looks at how these concepts evolved among German immigrants in post-World War II Ottawa. This study adopts a different approach to immigrant communities by examining three immigrant socio-cultural institutions as sites of negotiation rather than as boundaries between immigrants and the host society. As such, these institutions are treated as areas of public/social space and themselves historical agents, which existed not in isolation from Canadian society but at its centre. This approach employs sources produced within the community's institutions and by institutions external to the community. Census records and English-language newspapers are used along with institutional financial and membership records, their founding charters, German-language newspapers, and first-person narratives. The end result is a history which shows "community" and "ethnic identities" as having consistently evolved while engaging social, economic, political, and cultural landscapes which confronted them. The most significant conclusion of this thesis, however, is that everyday immigrant experiences in the post-1945 era have been central to the larger Canadian historical movement, and not simply the product of "limited identities." (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Tropical Stalinism: Caribbean Anti-Communism and the war against the Black State
Creators: name: Johnson, Isaiah D.
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Colonialism
Communism
Imperialism
African American Studies
Caribbean Islands
Cuba
Grenada
Racism or Race Relation

description: My research explores how Anti-Black racism synthesized with the anti-communism of the Cold War era, and formed a unique strain of ideological outlook which informs U.S. imperial policy in the Caribbean. My thesis seeks to center the Cuban and Grenadian Revolutions in order to articulate this racialized politique in practice. By exploring the history of slavery, the emergence of the U.S. as an imperial power, and Caribbean communism, my project looks to explicitly name and qualify racism and anti-communism's fusion, and articulate how imperialism in the Caribbean holds a uniquely intimate dynamic for the U.S.
The religious significance of the medieval body and Flannery O'Connor's fiction.
Creators: name: Novak, Kenneth Paul.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Literature, Modern.

description: Flannery O'Connor based what she called her "anagogic vision" on the medieval way of seeing the world that allowed the reader of a text to discern "different levels of reality in one image or one situation." In my thesis I focus on the ways in which O'Connor revives this literary strategy and adapts it to address the modern cultural context. Accordingly, I examine in particular how her fiction engages Descartes' worship of consciousness and Nietzsche's supposition that "God is dead" by anagogically endowing her characters' bodies with two layers of signification. The first signified body is the spiritually-dead body, which belongs to the character who believes he is a god unto himself by virtue of his intellect. Since the character accepts his mind as his essence of being, his body appears in O'Connor's stories as the image of a soulless identity, a corpse. When the character recognizes the rightful place of the soul, the whole person emerges from the second signified body.
NIPT - Emerging Issues: Genetic Counselors' Experiences & Perspectives with Incidental Findings
Creators: name: Orta, Alicia
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2016
Subjects: non-invasive prenatal screening
cell-free DNA screening
genetic counseling
pre-test counseling
post-test counseling
prenatal testing
informed consent
incidental finding

description: Since companies began marketing the analysis of cell-free DNA in the maternal plasma as non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) to screen for fetal aneuploidy and other conditions, healthcare providers and patients alike have encountered discordant invasive and non-invasive testing results, with unexpected incidental findings as a rare cause. The purpose of this study was to investigate prenatal genetic counselors’ practices and perspectives regarding counseling patients for the possibility of incidental findings identified through NIPT. We emailed a 58-question anonymous survey to the NSGC membership to recruit clinical prenatal genetic counselors that offer NIPT. Of the 147 survey respondents, 74% obtain informed consent for NIPT verbally and over half (54%) do not involve the patient in the documentation of informed consent, as the provider is responsible for documenting the patient’s consent. More than half (57%) do not always include the possibility of incidental findings in their pre-test counseling discussions. Yet, 47% of the genetic counselor respondents have had a suspected or confirmed incidental finding identified through NIPT. Almost all respondents indicated that post-test counseling a patient with an incidental finding is challenging, citing a lack of information and variation among NIPT laboratories with how they communicate incidental findings and a lack of clinical guidelines from professional societies as the most important factors. From counselors’ responses, unknown maternal conditions account for a large proportion of the incidental findings identified by NIPT. Given these findings we recommend that pre-test counseling for NIPT include a discussion of possible unexpected findings and to establish clear expectations for the categories of results that may be returned, the creation of professional guidelines outlining how incidental findings should be discussed in both pre- and post-test counseling discussions, and the creation of a centralized database for the collection of findings, outcomes, and clinical follow-up to facilitate appropriate care for patients.
Abiotic treatment of PCP-contaminated water with metallic iron.
Creators: name: Beaudet, France.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Chemical.

description: The removal of PCP from aqueous solution in contact with metallic iron was investigated by laboratory batch experiments. The decline in PCP concentration as well as inorganic parameters were monitored over time. Removal of up to 90% of the initial PCP was observed within 24 hours. The initial geochemical conditions of the PCP solution changed rapidly to basic and reductive conditions when in contact with metallic iron. Organic degradation by-products were not found during the removal of PCP using two distinct analytical procedures. Chloride ions analyzed in the solution after PCP removal were relatively low and showed high variability between experiments. The extraction of iron with solvents showed that a maximum of 37% PCP was sorbed. The effectiveness of iron on PCP removal appeared to be limited by the number of contacts with a fresh PCP solution. The rate constant in PCP removal appeared to be directly proportional to the iron to solution ratio. The PCP removal behaviour fitted well two sorption models (Freunlich, Langmuir). The results indicate that the process involved in the removal of PCP does not seem to be dechlorination because of the lack of by-products and low level in chloride ion, and is not completely sorption because of the lack of reversibility.
title: Elfenbeinwerkstätten in Huelva und La Rebanadilla (Málaga), den ältesten phönizischen Niederlassungen auf der Iberischen Halbinsel
Creators: name: Marzoli, Dirce
name: Banerjee, Arun
Publisher: name: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
Year: 2016
Subjects: Huelva
La Rebanadilla
cortijo, Málaga (Málaga)
Phönizier
Elfenbein
Ressourcen
Handel
Innovation
Orientalisie­rung
Netzwerke
Phoenicians
ivory
resources
trade
innovation
orientalization
net­works

description: Madrider Mitteilungen, 57 (2016)
description: Der vorliegende Beitrag – das Ergebnis interdisziplinärer Zusammenarbeit – dient als Pilotstudie eines Projektes, in dem aufgrund ihrer datierten Kontexte beispielhaft ausgewählte phönizische Elfenbeinfunde des 9. bis 6. Jhs. v. Chr. geographisch übergrei
description: The present article – the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration – serves as the pilot study of a project that investigates specifically selected, datable Phoenician ivory finds of the 9th to 6th centuries BC in their geographical context, which spa
description: El presente artículo, resultado de un trabajo interdisciplinar, sirve como estudio piloto de un futuro proyecto en el que se analizará una selección de piezas de marfil fenicias de los siglos IX al VI a. C. procedentes de toda la Oikumene, incluyendo las
Modelling heterogeneous nonlinear subwavelength systems with the finite difference time domain method
Creators: name: Pegoraro, Adrian
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mathematics.

description: Predicting the response of heterogeneous nonlinear microscopic systems to laser excitation is very difficult using analytical techniques and is only feasible under simplifying assumptions. However, using numerical methods, it is possible to analyze arbitrary systems and make predictions about their behaviour. This information may be used to develop new techniques and a better understanding of measurements. One area which stands to benefit from such methods is nonlinear microscopy. We use finite difference time domain methods to explain experimental measurements and also develop a new nonlinear microscopy technique which shows a significant improvement in axial resolution over traditional techniques. We then explore the behaviour of Maxwell Garnett nanocomposites and illustrate the limitations of the current theoretical models for these systems.
Seismic resistance of concrete-filled square steel hollow structuralsection beam-columns.
Creators: name: Hardika, Made S.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: This thesis describes a research program designed to investigate the seismic performance of square concrete-filled tubular (CFT) columns subjected to a combination of axial load and biaxial bending moment. The square CFT columns included normal strength and high-strength concrete-filled square steel hollow structural section columns with two ratios of tube wall thickness to tube dimension. An extensive experimental program included testing twenty-four, concrete filled, square steel hollow structural section column specimens under constant axial compressive load and cyclic horizontal load with horizontal displacement control. This experimental investigation included strength capacity, ductility and flexural stiffness of CFT beam-columns for 203 x 203 x 9.5 HSS (Class 1, compact sections) and 203 x 203 x 4.8 (Class 4, slender sections) hollow structural section (HSS) filled with either normal strength or high strength concrete. Class 1 (compact) and Class 4 (slender) HSS CFT columns subjected to constant axial load and cyclic shear displacements exhibited excellent hysteresis behavior using either normal strength concrete or high strength concrete. No premature failure, local buckling before yielding, was observed for either Class 1 or Class 4 HSS CFT columns. The drift ratios exceeded 7%. The moment capacities of HSS CFT columns loaded with the plane of bending across the diagonal were only slightly less than those loaded with the plane of bending parallel to the square side. This reduces the need for elaborate procedures to calculate the biaxial moment capacities at orientations between 0 and 45°. The strength capacity of square HSS CFT columns subjected to constant axial compressive load and biaxial cyclic bending moment can be conservatively calculated by column section analysis using fully plastic behavior for both concrete and steel. Strength modification factors alpha1 and alpha 2 accommodate confinement and seismic loading, fast concrete strain rates, effects on the CFT column sections and softening of the columns caused by large axial load. Flexural stiffness of square HSS CFT columns can be calculated using the ACI 318-99 flexural stiffness formula with modification to the coefficient of the flexural stiffness contributed by the concrete.
Table S1. Differential gene expression analysis of mRNA-sequence data from paediatric/adolescent and adult acute myeloid leukaemia patient risk subgroups using (A) TARGET and (B) TCGA databases
Creators: name: Davis, Lindsay
name: Mills, Ken
name: Orchard, Kim
name: Guinn, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: mRNA-sequencing
differential gene expression
acute myeloid leukaemia
paediatric/adolescent and adult

description: Prognostic subgroup pairs were compared for differential gene expression using publicly available mRNA-sequencing datasets. Row 1: Poor prognostic subgroup patients are highlighted by a reddish colour and the good prognostic subgroup patients as a green colour for each comparison.
description: This work was funded in part by Leukaemia and Lymphoma N.I., grant code R2536CNR.
title: Miszelle zu ausgewählten Metallbarren aus unterwasserarchäologischen Kontexten entlang der Ostküste der Iberischen Halbinsel
Creators: name: Hermanns, Marcus Heinrich
name: Julià, Ramon.
Publisher: name: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
Year: 2016
Subjects: Alicante
Murcia
Barren
Blei
Kupfer
Zinn
LIA
chemische Analyse
ingots
lead
copper
tin
chemical analysis

description: Madrider Mitteilungen, 57 (2016)
description: In diesem Beitrag werden hauptsächlich sieben Bleibarren unregelmäßiger Ausformung vorgestellt. Sie stammen aus der Bucht Playa del Saladaret, nördlich von Torrevieja (Prov. Alicante). Es handelt sich hierbei um eine Ankerbucht, die, zumindest in moderner
description: In this paper seven lead ingots of irregular shape are presented. They come from the Bay Playa del Saladaret, north of Torrevieja (Prov. Alicante); an anchorage, which had, at least in modern, the possibility of fresh water supply by a well located near t
description: En este trabajo se presentan siete lingotes de plomo de forma irregular procedentes de la bahía de la Playa del Saladaret, al norte de Torrevieja (Prov. de Alicante). Se trata de un fondeadero provisto, al menos en época moderna, de un pozo de agua dulce
The influence of individual elements on the aesthetic pleasure of furniture designs
Creators: name: Tyagi, Shivani
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis investigated the influence of individual product elements, namely shape and colour, on the perceived typicality, novelty, and functionality of furniture product designs. The thesis tested carefully designed stimuli, and adopted a systematic approach to test the predictions of existing aesthetics models. In doing so, the thesis supported the preference-for-prototypes theory, which holds that typical products designs are more aesthetically pleasing than novel product designs. Furthermore, consistent with previous research, it showed that perceived product functionality is a determinant of aesthetic pleasure. As such, this thesis contributes to current aesthetics and design theory.
Personal Autonomy: Moving Beyond the Masculine
Creators: name: Miller, Ella Marin
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Autonomy
Domination
Oppression
Agency
Personal Autonomy
Relational Autonomy
Oppressive Structures
Violence Against Women
Sexual Violence
Agential Skills
Group Identity
Self Autonomy
Personal Identity
Choice Making
Feminist Theory
Self Government

description: This project explores what it means to have personal autonomy that is of value in a relational world. I describe and depict what a 'life that is one's own' may look like, realistically, through describing the experience of personal autonomy. This project demonstrates the necessity of including the psychological element of agency and interpersonal relationships (including group identity) in an account of autonomy. Here, I explore autonomy as an experience which is supported by agential skills and interconnectedness that allow one to self-direct and self-develop. This project focuses on autonomy as experienced under conditions of oppression, and explores the ways in which domination may work as a threshold to autonomy. In this project, I critique traditional accounts of autonomy based in independence or control, and explore the masculinization of these accounts. I then argue for a reworking of autonomy based in a need for the element of agency and inclusion of relational aspects, such as group identity. This project explores the barriers to autonomy and provides paradigm examples focused on oppression and then, sexual violence. This project demonstrates the necessity for agency and interdependence in supporting personal autonomy. This project asserts that autonomy exists even under repressive structures and conditions, yet argues that autonomy is compatible with an ideal of non-domination that we must work towards.
Social physique anxiety and Q-EDD based disordered eating in female aesthetic athletes
Creators: name: Cooper, Andrea K
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Nutrition.
subject: Health Sciences, Public Health.
subject: Psychology, Clinical.

description: The purpose of this study was to examine social physique anxiety (SPA) and disordered eating in female aesthetic athletes. Participants included 144 female competitive athletes (M = 19.0 years, SD = 2.08) from the four aesthetic sports of synchronized swimming, figure skating, jazz dance, and gymnastics. The participants completed the SPA scale (SPAS) and the Questionnaire for Eating Disorder Diagnoses (Q-EDD) (which is a new more accurate measure to assess disordered eating) that has not previously been used with female aesthetic athletes. Results revealed that 59.7% of the participants were classified in the asymptomatic category, 29.9% in the symptomatic category, and 10.4% in the eating disordered category. For the two Q-EDD subcategories, there were no participants classified in the chew/spitting category, and three participants classified in the exercise bulimia nervosa category. Also, it was shown that the eating disordered group and the symptomatic group had significantly higher SPA than the asymptomatic group. Thus, these results indicate that in this subpopulation of athletes, there are many who display eating disorder symptomatology, and suggest that interventions that target SPA and disordered eating in these athletes are needed.
Perinatal Loss Manifested Through the Lens of the Extended Family Unit
Creators: name: Steeves, Marcie
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Perinatal loss
narrative analysis
genetic counseling
spinal muscular atrophy

description: Perinatal loss secondary to a genetic disorder is a complex and multidimensional experience, often felt across the extended family unit, including parents, relatives, friends, and clinicians. Most literature on perinatal loss centers on parents, relying on quantitative methods for analysis. This highly structured perspective is limited, often leaving many questions unanswered. In contrast, this study used the qualitative methodology of narrative analysis to explore how perinatal loss and the grieving process are manifested and reported by different members of one extended family unit. It explored if and how grieving of the extended family unit impacted the narrative, future experiences, and decisions of one set of parents. This approach facilitated expansion upon the personal experiences that drive the narrative course. The goal of this endeavor was to better understand and highlight the complexities of grief following perinatal loss such that future genetic counselors and clinicians can more fully appreciate the scope of extended family grief and provide optimal care. This study addressed the grief process of three cohorts – parents, friends, and clinicians – surrounding the death of twin infants to Spinal Muscular Atrophy, SMA. Audiotaped interview transcripts were coded for recurring themes, four of which emerged across all cohorts: reacting to diagnosis, coping with loss, finding community, and preparing for future pregnancy. While all parties expressed shock at the diagnosis, each group displayed a unique evolution of the shock response. Seeking information was reported across all groups while displaying cohort-specific patterns and all cohorts reported behavioral changes in response to the grieving process. The results of this narrative analysis suggest that greater cross-disciplinary communication is warranted. By appreciating the ways in which perinatal loss can affect the extended family unit, clinicians may provide a greater level of empathy and compassion as well as more comprehensive clinical care to families facing perinatal loss.
Model weights for the DISCO experiments
Creators: name: Furnon, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Pytorch, models, neural networks

description: Weights of all the neural networks that are used in the paper "DNN-based mask estimation for distributed speech enhancement in spatially unconstrained microphone arrays".
description: The script to use these weights will be available on https://github.com/nfurnon/disco
Video++: An object-oriented approach to video algebra.
Creators: name: Hammouri, Ghassan.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: Video has become an important medium in the field of multimedia communications. An increasing amount of video processing software is being developed to manipulate video (and audio) in an efficient and easy-to-use manner. Great advances have been made in the fields of video compression, video indexing, and content-based retrieval but, in spite of its growing importance, video has still not been endorsed as a data type in the software development community. The main reason is that video, unlike other data types such as integers and strings, is complex and difficult to manipulate. Its size prohibits it from being loaded into the random access memory of most computers, its spatial structure is complex, and the temporal order of its frames must be preserved at all times. This thesis proposes a new concept, video algebra, which allows developers to manipulate video as basic data types. This thesis also presents a new method for structuring video which is used by video algebra. A prototype has been developed in the form of an object-oriented framework called Video++. Video++ introduces two new concepts; the video markup language (VML) and the video description header. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Ideologia y narración en Heredarás un mar que no conoces y lenguas que no sabes de Alfonso Barrera Valverde.
Creators: name: Hartley, Jennifer.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Literature, Latin American.

description: Heredaras un mar que no conoces y lenguas que no sabes (Mama Zoila), the Latin American bestseller by Alfonso Barrera Valverde, has been the subject of many newspaper and critical reviews but rarely has consideration of the novel gone beyond this medium. This thesis attempts to do this by studying the fact that, while Heredaras is a novel entrenched in the realities of Ecuadorian society, it adopts a critical view of the foundations upon which this society was built. Heredaras is highly critical of the social, political, economic and ecclesiastic realities of Ecuadorian life. The critical perspective permeates the ideological stance of the novel, that is, of the narrator/implied author. Two main components inform this ideological stance: socialism and liberation theology. Thus the first chapter of the thesis is divided into two sections. The first describes the socio-political and economic realities in Ecuador from a socialist perspective. This is followed by a discussion of how these realities are incorporated or represented in the novel--in the characters. their relationships and the situations in which they find themselves. The second section does the same for liberation theology, by underlining its main features and by discussing how they are represented novelistically. The second chapter of the thesis offers a study of the narratological elements which contribute to the ideological stance of the novel: the status of the narrator and the narrator's phraseological and perceptual stances. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Denis Vanier à l'aune de la contre-culture
Creators: name: Fortin, Steve
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Literature, Canadian (French).

description: L'objet de cette thèse est d'analyser la place qu'occupe la poésie de Denis Vanier à l'époque de l'émergence et du rayonnement de la contre-culture au Québec. Pour ce faire, nous nous sommes intéressé à ses trois premiers recueils parus entre 1965 et 1973, période qui coincide de manière générale avec l'essor du mouvement de la contre-culture. Comme le mouvement contre-culturel dénonçait un certain nombre de valeurs sociales, nous nous arrêterons, dans un premier temps, à ces aspects, pour mieux mesurer dans un second temps, son influence sur la littérature québécoise. Nous étudierons ensuite Je, Pornographic delicatessen et Lesbiennes d'acid de Denis Vanier, à l'aune de la contre-culture. Nous serons ainsi en mesure de comprendre pourquoi ce poète est associé d'emblée à ce mouvement et comment il en critique certains de ses idéaux fondamentaux jusqu'à mettre en doute la pertinence du mouvement lui-même. La nouveauté relative de notre thèse est manifeste compte tenu qu'aucune étude approfondie n'a encore été réalisée, sauf erreur, sur le poète Denis Vanier.
title: Are You Ready For The Summer?
title: Outbreak Prevention and Response Methods at Overnight Summer Camps in the Wake of the COVID-19 Era
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Burkholz, Gabi Julia
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Summer camps
Health policy
Outbreak prevention
Outbreak response
Community
Children & Youth
Public Health
Mental Health

description: Outbreak readiness is an important aspect of summer camp operations, especially for residential summer camps where everyone is living together in a confined area. If a camp is not prepared for an outbreak of any kind, it can be incredibly dangerous for campers and staff alike. Many camps across the United States have plans in place to combat illnesses such as widespread fever, influenza, and the common cold. In the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic, many camps closed their doors for summer 2020 in the interest of public health, and attempted to recreate the essence of camp in a virtual setting, as well as gauge the future operations and sustainability of their businesses with the long term outcomes of the pandemic still unknown. This study examines the role of public health policy in decision making processes for community based organizations, utilizing overnight summer camps as an example of how these processes occur. This study compares the prevention and management of illness outbreaks at 115 residential summer camps in the United States via quantitative data before and after the onset of the pandemic, as well as interviewing 13 camp and medical professionals across the United States. The study delves into the factors surrounding decision making processes for overnight summer camps during the COVID-19 era, networking with other community based organizations and governments, hurdles for operation during the summer of 2020, and how COVID-19 will affect the overnight summer camp industry moving forward. This study also looks at the mental, emotional, and social benefits of overnight summer camps, considers updates for policy development and research for overnight summer camps, and looks ahead to a historic summer 2021.
L'universite virtuelle comme antidote a la fracture Nord-Sud
Creators: name: Abidaoui, Hicham
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mass Communications.
subject: Education, Technology of.
subject: Education, Higher.

description: A l'ère de la société du savoir, l'éducation est un vecteur de la croissance économique. Or, les systèmes éducatifs des pays du sud sont caducs et participent à la consécration de la fracture Nord-Sud (UNESCO, 2005). Leur vetuste ne permet pas à l'Afrique de faire face aux défis contemporains. Le présent travail se propose d'étudier les apports de l'université virtuelle au dépassement des écarts Nord-Sud en matière d'enseignement. Notre recherche s'inscrit ainsi dans une logique ou le savoir se constitue en un nouveau capital pour accéder à la modernité. Celle-ci, dans sa forme contemporaine, basée sur l'économie du savoir, permet d'assurer le développement (Ascher, 2000). Pour mener notre étude, nous avons choisi l'université virtuelle africaine (UVA) comme un cas représentatif des efforts déployés pour contrer les effets de la fracture Nord-Sud. La démarche, s'appuyant sur les fondements de l'économie du savoir, permettra d'analyser les retombées des nouvelles applications technologiques dans une zone géographique dépendante de l'aide internationale et incapable de s'arrimer à la modernité et d'assurer son propre développement.
First-principles quantum simulations of nonclassical systems
Creators: name: Kiesewetter, Simon
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Various nonclassical systems, that is, systems which exhibit strong quantum behaviour, are analysed particularly by means of computer simulations. Special emphasis is placed on the prospect of observing nonlocal effects such as entanglement. Furthermore, a novel method for the integration of stochastic differential equations is presented and its performance is analysed.