cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
New educationists in Quebec Protestant model and intermediate schools, 1881-1926.
Creators: name: Drummond, Anne.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.

description: This study of Quebec Protestant superior and secondary education in the late-nineteenth, early-twentieth century focuses on the professsionalization of the principalship of model schools which were subsidized from the Protestant share of the Quebec Superior Education Fund. The dissertation tries to make a conceptual and historical link between a regulation which prohibited principals from providing the official academy grade curriculum to pupils enrolled in model schools and a series of school consolidation campaigns which the Protestant Committee of the Council of Public Instruction planned and implemented between 1906 and 1926. The dissertation proposes that the "educationists" of the Protestant Committee and the Provincial Association of Protestant Teachers of Quebec created the pre-conditions for the late nineteenth century Protestant rural school problem and subsequently conceptualized school consolidation and pupil transportation as solutions to this problem. The thesis argues that teacher professionalization regulations forced pupils at early ages out of one-room schools into graded, secondary, and graded, secondary, consolidated schools. Those school boards, principals, and pupils who were left out of the network of Protestant graded schools faced the loss of their Superior Education fund grants, their jobs, and their access to school leaving examinations respectively. The nineteenth century model school--a relatively inexpensive and flexible provider of secondary education--was transformed by Protestant Committee initiatives to classify pupils by age-grade, consolidate rural schools, and obtain enabling pupil transportation legislation for the boards of Protestant school municipalities. Professionally certified men teachers developed a graded elementary and secondary system in the context of Protestant minority education rights obtained in 1867 with the British North America Act and the British Canadian nationalism and domestic ideology of Montreal's elites. They used Protestant Committee regulation to reshape the right of the school commissioner to become a dissentient trustee into the right of the board of commissioners to create the separate Protestant school municipality. They did not believe that incumbent men and women principals of turn-of-the century model schools were qualified to defend a Protestant school system, and saw the depletion of Protestant school municipality tax revenues as a consequence of the growth of the Catholic school municipality tax base. However, with their devaluation of the model schools, they limited the possibilities of secondary school provision for principals, teachers, and pupils.
title: Management of patients on immunosuppressants during the COVID-19 pandemic
title: Gestion des patients sous immunosuppresseurs durant la pandémie COVID-19
Creators: name: Rostom, Samira
Publisher: name: Revue Marocaine de Rhumatologie (RMR)
Year: 2020
Subjects: Covid-19, Rhumatismes inflammatoires chroniques (RIC), traitements immunosuppresseurs.

description: Given the pandemic situation and the higher risk of contracting covid-19 for patients under immunosuppressive/biotherapy, physicians and researchers, have conducted register studies, in order to provide scientific data that may justify the incrimination or not of immunosuppressive therapy in the increase of the risk to contract covid 19. Following different international societies of rheumatology, the SMR (Société Marocaine de Rhumatologie) have suggested a list of recommendations regarding the management of patients with RIC on immunosuppressive therapy during the covid-19 pandemic.
description: Devant la propagation du covid 19 et le risque infectieux que courent les patients atteints de RIC (Rhumatisme inflammatoire chronique) sous immunosuppresseurs de contracter le covid-19, les cliniciens et chercheurs, se sont trouver dans l’obligation de mener des études de registre, afin de prodiguer des données scientifiques pouvant justifier l’incrimination ou non des immunosuppresseurs dans l’augmentation du risque d’infection par le COVID-19. A l’instar des différentes sociétés savantes rhumatologiques internationales, La SMR (Société Marocaine de Rhumatologie) a proposé à son tour des recommandations quant à la gestion des patients atteints de RIC sous immunosuppresseurs durant la pandémie covid-19.
title: Prophylactic treatment for covid-19
title: Traitement prophylactique contre le covid-19
Creators: name: Rostom, Samira
Publisher: name: Revue Marocaine de Rhumatologie (RMR)
Year: 2020
Subjects: Covid-19, prophylaxie, chloroquine ou l’hydroxychloroquine, immunodépression, rhumatisme inflammatoire chronique (RIC).

description: Given the spread of the pandemic (COVID-19), several clinical trials have been conducted to date to test the efficacy and tolerance of different treatments for Covid-19, but without reaching any conclusions therefore prevention remains the best approach to adopted. In order to estimate the prophylactic effect of chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine against COVID-19, clinical trials are in process around the word, the results will be communicated later.
description: Vu l’urgence et l’ampleur de cette pandémie (COVID-19), de nombreux essais cliniques ont été mené jusqu’à lors pour tester l’efficacité et la tolérance de plusieurs traitements pour le Covid-19, mais aucune conclusion n’a été déclarée, la prévention reste par conséquent, la meilleure piste à adopter. Dans le but d’étudier l’effet prophylactique de la chloroquine ou l’hydroxychloroquine contre COVID-19, des essais cliniques sont en cours à travers le monde, dont les résultats préliminaires seront communiqués prochainement.
Targeting Metabolic Syndrome in Hidradenitis Suppurativa by Phytochemicals as a Potential Complementary Therapeutic Strategy
Creators: name: Witte, Katrin
name: Wolk, Kerstin
name: Witte-Händel, Ellen
name: Krause, Torben
name: Kokolakis, Georgios
name: Sabat, Robert
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: acne inversa
subject: metabolic syndrome
subject: obesity
subject: hypertension
subject: dyslipidemia
subject: NAFLD
subject: hyperglycemia
subject: polyphenol
subject: Olea europea
subject: Withania somnifera
subject: Vitis vinifera
subject: Camellia sinensis
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by the appearance of painful inflamed nodules, abscesses, and pus-draining sinus tracts in the intertriginous skin of the groins, buttocks, and perianal and axillary regions. Despite its high prevalence of similar to 0.4-1%, therapeutic options for HS are still limited. Over the past 10 years, it has become clear that HS is a systemic disease, associated with various comorbidities, including metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its sequelae. Accordingly, the life expectancy of HS patients is significantly reduced. MetS, in particular, obesity, can support sustained inflammation and thereby exacerbate skin manifestations and the chronification of HS. However, MetS actually lacks necessary attention in HS therapy, underlining the high medical need for novel therapeutic options. This review directs attention towards the relevance of MetS in HS and evaluates the potential of phytomedical drug candidates to alleviate its components. It starts by describing key facts about HS, the specifics of metabolic alterations in HS patients, and mechanisms by which obesity may exacerbate HS skin alterations. Then, the results from the preclinical studies with phytochemicals on MetS parameters are evaluated and the outcomes of respective randomized controlled clinical trials in healthy people and patients without HS are presented.
Functional knee brace migration: Biomechanical and neuromuscular alterations
Creators: name: Singer, Jonathan C
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Recreation.

description: Functional knee bracing has been shown to alter lower limb joint mechanics, which may protect the anterior cruciate ligament. Many knee braces have been studied, however, the effects of brace alignment or brace type on lower limb joint mechanics are not known. This study was conducted to determine whether the use of a functional knee brace, the type of brace used or its alignment relative to the knee causes biomechanical or neuromuscular alterations to gait. Ten healthy participants took part in all conditions: walking with a shell and soft shell brace, each aligned according to the manufacturers' specifications; walking with each brace distally misaligned by 1 cm as well as walking without a brace. A motion analysis and force plate system was used to determine the three-dimensional angular impulse, peak joint moments and peak joint angles of the ankle, knee and hip. Electromyographic data were used to support the kinetic data. All data were time normalized to one stride. In addition, kinetic data were normalized to body mass and kinematic data were normalized to the standing position. In comparison to unbraced walking, the shell brace in its aligned position significantly reduced the peak ankle plantarflexor moment. Additionally, there was a decreased peak knee flexion angle with the aligned shell and soft shell braces as well as an increased peak knee adduction angle and a reduced peak knee internal rotation angle with the aligned shell brace. Although there were alterations in lower limb mechanics during walking, induced primarily by the shell type functional brace, these changes were not deemed to considerably alter joint loading at the knee.
title: Marfil para los muertos en la cultura de Las Motillas : los botones de Castillejo del Bonete (Terrinches, Ciudad Real).
Creators: name: Benítez De Lugo Enrich, Luis
name: Schuhmacher, Thomas X.
Publisher: name: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
Year: 2015
Subjects: Castillejo del Bonete (Terrinches, Ciudad Real)
Südmeseta
Megalithkultur
Chalkolithikum
Bronzezeit
Grabmonu­ment
Kollektivgrabritus
Southern Iberian Plateau
Megalithic Culture
Chalcolithic
Bronze Age
funeral monument
collective ritual

description: Madrider Mitteilungen, 56 (2015)
description: Die Fundstelle von Castillejo del Bonete befindet sich in den östlichen Ausläufern der Sierra Morena, innerhalb des Einzugsgebietes des Guadalquivir. Sie bezeichnet einen ausgedehnten architektonischen Komplex, welcher aus einer mittels verschiedener Stru
description: Castillejo del Bonete is a Bronze Age site situated on the eastern foothills of the Sierra Morena mountain range, within the hydrologic basin of the Guadalquivir River. This archaeological site is an extensive architectonic complex comprising a cave conta
description: Situado en las estribaciones orientales de Sierra Morena, dentro de la cuenca hidrológica del Guadalquivir, Castillejo del Bonete es un gran complejo arquitectónico que consta de una cueva monumentalizada mediante estructuras varias, entre las que destaca
Assessing the Experiences of Finding Out About Their Infertility and Disclosure in Future Relationships in Women with Turner Syndrome
Creators: name: Bistline, Emily
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Turner syndrome
Medical Counseling
Infertility

description: Turner syndrome (TS) is a chromosomal condition caused by a complete or partially missing second sex chromosome, with the typical karyotype for affected individuals being 45,X. Among the various clinical features associated with TS, such as short stature, cardiac and renal abnormalities and infertility, the latter has often been cited to be the hardest to deal with. Despite this, there has been a lack of research done on how infertility affects the lives of women with TS, especially exploring the circumstances surrounding learning about their infertility and conversations later on when they share the information with a romantic partner or friend. This study aimed to examine the experiences of women with TS and assess if there was any correlation between their initial conversation about infertility and those that came later with friends and romantic partners. Participants were recruited through social media to take an anonymous online survey asking about both their experiences being told about their diagnosis of TS and related infertility, and telling others about their condition. A total of 47 women with TS, whose ages ranged from 18-40 years, and all had a diagnosis of TS before adulthood, participated in the study. Nearly half of participants were diagnosed with TS by age 5, slightly over half learned of their infertility at the same time as their diagnosis and the average age at which they learned of their infertility was 12.5 years. Individuals were likely to be more satisfied with the discussion about their infertility if they were told by parents or endocrinologists than if they found out on their own. Factors that the largest proportion of participants deemed important to consider before discussing the infertility aspect of TS were the amount of information provided and comfort with the individual telling them. When disclosing to romantic partners and friends, many participants reported that both groups were accepting and supportive. The most common advice from participants on how to tell a young woman with TS about her infertility was telling them sooner rather than later. Participants also had the same advice for disclosing in romantic and platonic relationships as well as trusting your instincts with when and whom to tell. This study provides insight into the experiences women with TS have surrounding discussions of their infertility that will help both parents, health care professionals, and the women themselves be better prepared to have conversations about this sensitive subject.
La traduction naturelle chez les enfants fon de la République du Bénin.
Creators: name: Lozès-Lawani, Christiane.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Language, Linguistics.

description: This thesis reports an experiment based on the concept of the child as natural translator, chiefly developed by Harris (1976-1980) and Malakoff (1991). Natural translation means translation done by bilinguals who have had no training for it. The medium used is oral translation in the form of consecutive interpretation from Fon--one of the most important vernaculars spoken in Benin (West Africa)--into French. The study centres on the translation of a folk tale. This Beninese tale is popular, of average length for its type, and was tape-recorded from a traditional Fon woman story-teller. It was translated by fifty bilingual boys and girls aged from 8 to 12 years, in schools at Cotonou. The children were therefore all at about the same level of age, culture, language and education. Twenty out of the fifty translation were transcribed in order to constitute a corpus. The hypothesis was that the children would not all translate in the same way: some would stay close to the wording of the source text, whereas others would use paraphrasing or adaptation techniques. This hypothesis is confirmed by the corpus with regard to close (or "exact") translations and adaptations, but the number of paraphrases is too insignificant to be taken into account. Furthermore, unlike the work of predecessors who studied either everyday conversations (Harris et al.), or standard translation exercises (Malakoff and Hakuta: 1991), in this study the subjects' interest was aroused by the use of an element of their education, that is to say the story-telling, the ludic, educational and entertainment fonctions of which helped to produce a relaxed atmosphere for the recordings. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
A usability study of the "Tksee" software exploration tool.
Creators: name: Herrera, Francisco.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: This research project explores effects of not having considered usability when assessing the functionality of a software system. Also, it experiments with the introduction of usability into latter stages of software projects in which developers are new to usability. A particular software project confronting that scenario is used to explore these issues. The selected project had created a program comprehension tool that had been given to a group of users for some time. For that reason, this research also explores challenges posed to studying the usability of program comprehension tools. A usability study is designed in order to perform the research. Three techniques are applied in the study: (a) heuristic evaluation, (b) user and task analysis and (c) thinking aloud usability testing. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Transcriptional regulation of ion channel gene expression by Kruppel-like factors (KLFs)
Creators: name: Xiao, Ruixuan
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2022
Subjects: CRISPRi
ion channel gene
KLF
Transcription factor
Transcriptional regulation
Ion Channels

description: Balanced expression of ion channels in neurons is critical for maintaining healthy brain activity. Mutations in ion channel genes leading to neuropsychiatric diseases have been extensively studied.
description: However, little is known on how the expression of ion channel genes is transcriptionally regulated.
description: Previous bioinformatic screen using the assay for transposase-accessible chromatin with
description: sequencing(ATAC-seq) identified enriched binding motifs of the Kruppel-like factors (KLF) transcription
description: factor family within the promoters of certain ion channel genes. Furthermore, in an RNA-seq screen for
description: genes affected by activity deprivation in neurons, 2 KLF family members (6 and 9) were identified as
description: being 2-fold down-regulated by activity deprivation. The expression of two ion channels, Scn3a and
description: Cacna1e, are both potently upregulated during the same time. Mutations in those two ion channels are
description: known to play an important role in human epilepsy. Based on those observations, we hypothesized that
description: KLF6 and KLF9, are transcriptional repressors of ion channel genes, including Scn3a and Cacna1e. To
description: test this, we utilized CRISPR interference to knock down KLF6 and 9 in mouse cortical excitatory
description: neurons. The RT-qPCR data from the knockdown samples confirmed high knockdown efficiency (over
description: 90%) for both targets and RNA-seq revealed many differentially expressed genes due to the
description: knockdown(s). To further understand the potential role of KLFs regulating ion channel gene expression,
description: we knocked down KLF13 and a combination of KLF9 and 13. Notably, an off-target effect that was
description: dependent on the number of guide RNA delivered was also observed. Overall, our results confirmed the
description: effectiveness of the development of CRISPRi technology, especially its integration into transgenic mice
description: lines, and offers a novel way to investigate gene expression and regulation in a cell-type-specific manner.
description: We also report an off-target effect of the CRISPRi system that may require future investigation to better
description: understand.
THE USE OF DIALECTAL AND FOLK WORDS IN THE STORIES OF KHAYRIDDIN SULTANOV
Creators: name: Abdullaeva, Yulduz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This article deeply studies the specific linguistic features present in Sultanov's stories, examines the influence of regional dialects, the absorption of colloquial language, and the preservation of linguistic traditions. By studying the subtleties of Sultanov's storytelling style, we gain an understanding of how language shapes the content and essence of his storytelling and perpetuates the enduring heritage of Uzbek folklore.
title: Management of patients with chronic inflammatory rheumatism on biologics during the COVID-19 pandemic
title: Gestion des patients avec un rhumatisme inflammatoire chronique sous biothérapie durant la pandémie COVID-19
Creators: name: Rostom, Samira
Publisher: name: Revue Marocaine de Rhumatologie (RMR)
Year: 2020
Subjects: COVID-19, rhumatismes inflammatoires chroniques (RIC), traitements immunosuppresseurs/biologiques.

description: Until now, publications that are incriminating immunosuppressive or biotherapies, in increasing the risk of occurrence of covid-19 infection are rare. Several registers have been established word wild, in order to obtain international epidemiological data to elucidate the profile of COVID-19 infection in patients with chronic inflammatory disease. In order to obtain international epidemiological data to elucidate the profile of COVID-19 infections in chronic rheumatoid patients, several registers have been established around the world. Indeed, the first data communicated to date have been reassuring, with a beneficial effect of tocilizumab and a lower incidence of severe forms in immunocompromised patients. Taking into consideration national socio-economic conditions, the SMR (Moroccan Society of Rheumatology) has issued specific recommendations of covid-19 for better management of our patients with rheumatic inflammatory disease under biological treatments.
description: Jusqu’à présent, se trouvent rarissimes les preuves scientifiques pouvant incriminer les traitements immunosuppresseurs/biothérapies utilisés au cours des maladies inflammatoires chroniques dans l’augmentation du risque de survenue de l’infection par le covid-19. Afin d’obtenir des données épidémiologiques internationales permettant d’élucider le profil de l’infection COVID-19 chez les patients rhumatisants chroniques, plusieurs registres ont été mis en place à travers le monde. En effet, les premières données communiquées jusqu’à ce jour s’avèrent rassurantes, avec un effet plutôt bénéfique en faveur du tocilizumab et une incidence plus faible des formes graves chez les patients immunodéprimés. En tenant compte de certaines spécificités socio-économiques nationales, la SMR (Société Marocaine de Rhumatologie) a émis des recommandations spécifiques au covid-19 pour une meilleure gestion de nos patients atteint de RIC sous traitements biologiques.
“Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better”: Priestly Revision of the Yahwistic Plague Narrative
Creators: name: Prado, Lenin
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2025
Subjects: Documentary Hypothesis
Neo-Documentary Hypothesis
Pentateuch
Priestly Source
Redaction Criticism
Yahwist

description: One of the shortcomings of Documentary and Neo-Documentary models of the Pentateuch has been a focus on identifying the different sources (J, E, D, P) without much discussion of their interrelationship. Although studies examining law codes in the Pentateuch have demonstrated that later Pentateuchal legal materials used and revised earlier law materials, very little work has been done to determine if the same phenomenon holds true for narratives. This dissertation contributes to the field of Pentateuchal scholarship by arguing that the Priestly narrative (P) of the Pentateuch, as a self-standing and independent narrative, knew and built on the Yahwist (J) Pentateuchal narratives. It accomplishes this by applying source critical and tradition historical methods to the narratives of the plagues of Egypt (Exod 7–11) and the surrounding episodes of Moses’ call (Exod 3–6). I chose the texts of the plagues of Egypt for this study because there is near consensus among scholars regarding source ascription for the core plague stories in Exod 7–10, which belong to either J or P. Furthermore, these passages show little intervention from the Redactor, which facilitates a comparison of the events to determine whether one of these sources, in this case P, utilized the other in formulating its own tradition.
description: In the process of demonstrating the different literary and rhetorical methods that P employed to revise J, it becomes clear that P is not a supplementary or redactional layer, but an independent source. The Priestly scribes produced a text that was designed to suppress its Yahwistic counterpart and not coexist with it. Thus, it becomes clear that J and P were in conversation with one another, and despite the presence of clear ideological differences, the similarities between the two traditions extend beyond the realm of coincidence or common oral traditions.
Demolition, documentary and the politics of Minjian on contemporary Chinese screens
Creators: name: Edwards, Dan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: China's transformation in the reform era has been most immediately experienced by many ordinary citizens in spatial terms, as existing urban communities have been dispersed and their environments levelled, to be replaced by 'spaces of flows' that prioritise speed, mobility and circulation. A wide range of Chinese films have represented this experience from the perspective of existing urban communities. This article argues that in certain 'unofficial' documentaries produced outside China's state-sanctioned channels of production and distribution, using small, highly mobile digital video cameras, an engagement with grassroots communities has opened up a new space on screen, in which a critical questioning of the developmental ethos driving contemporary China becomes evident. A close analysis of Ou Ning's Meishi Street (2006), Shu Haolun's Nostalgia (2006) and Du Haibin's A Young Patriot (2015) will illustrate how the unofficial spaces of localised, grassroots cultures (minjian) are represented in these works as sites of resistance to the coercive imposition of a globalised modernity on Chinese cities.
Étude des attentes des enseignants, du concept de soi scolaire et du rendement en mathématiques des élèves d'origine immigrante de 6e, 7e et 8e années.
Creators: name: Morin, Nicole.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Education, Mathematics.

description: Deux facteurs principaux ont ete retenus afin d'expliquer le rendement en mathematiques des eleves d'origine immigrante. Le premier est celui des attentes des enseignants. Le deuxieme facteur retenu est celui de concept de soi scolaire de l'eleve. Ce projet de recherche vise a clarifier la relation entre les attentes des enseignants, le concept de soi scolaire et le rendement en mathematiques des eleves d'origine immigrante qui frequentent les ecoles canadiennes. Trois questions de recherche ont ete verifiees aupres d'eleves de 6, 7 et 8$\sp\circ$ annees inscrits aux ecoles de langue francaise de la region d'Ottawa-Carleton. Aut total, 75 eleves, dont 40 d'origine immigrante, ont participe a l'etude. Les attentes cognitives et normatives, le concept de soi scolaire ainsi que le rendement en mathematiques ont ete mesures a l'aide d'instruments possedant une cetaine forme de validite. L'analyse des donnees demontre que la relation entre les deux types d'attentes et le rendement en mathematiques des eleves d'origine immigrante peut etre etablie. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
title: Diversity Forests: Using Split Sampling to Allow for Complex Split Procedures in Random Forest
Creators: name: Hornung, Roman
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2020

description: Diversity forests are a class of random forest type prediction methods that modifies the split selection procedure of conventional random forests to allow for complex split procedures. While random forests show strong prediction performance when using conventional univariate, binary splitting, the procedure still has disadvantages. For example, interactions between features are not exploited effectively. The split selection procedure of diversity forests consists of choosing the best splits from sets of 'nsplits' candidate splits obtained by random selection from repeatedly sampled, specifically structured collections of splits. This makes complex split procedures computationally tangible while avoiding overfitting. This paper focuses on introducing diversity forests and evaluating its performance for univariate, binary splitting. Specific, complex split procedures will be the focus of future work. Using a collection of 220 real data sets with binary target variables, diversity forests are compared with conventional random forests and random forests using extremely randomized trees. It is seen that randomizing the split selection, as performed by diversity forests, leads to slight improvements in prediction performance and that this performance is quite robust with regard to the specified 'nsplits' value. These results indicate that diversity forests are well suited for realizing complex split procedures in random forests.
Quantum Chaotic Dynamics and Effective Random State Generation
Creators: name: Nautiyal, Srishti
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Randomness
Quantum Information
Brownian Dynamics
Quantum Chaos

description: As a many-body quantum system evolves in time, it explores an immense Hilbert space whose volume grows exponentially with the number of particles. In this study, we are interested in generating random quantum states that explore this gigantic space as efficiently as possible. Such random states have applications in modern quantum information processing, statistical sampling, and randomised benchmarking. One way to efficiently explore Hilbert space is to utilise scrambling dynamics, which randomises an initial state due to the buildup of global entanglement that delocalizes quantum information. Here we study this phenomenon in large SU(2) angular momentum spin models, where we scramble the information using different unitary models of quantum chaos including Brownian spin dynamics. To study how rapidly information spreads in these models, we calculate the Frame Potential to characterise the evolution of simple operators into complicated ones that span the entire Hilbert Space. This investigation has two possible applications: a. the Frame Potential can tell us how deep our circuit must be or the minimum number of gates required to generate a sufficiently random state, with direct applications to testing and benchmarking state of the art quantum simulators. b. As information gets delocalised over the Hilbert space, it becomes increasingly impervious to the destructive effects of local measurements. When non-unitary elements like measurements are added to the dynamics, we expect to encounter potential Quantum Error Correction Codes due to this competition between measurement and scrambling.
The mutagenic hazards of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in settled house dust
Creators: name: Maertens, Rebecca
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Biology, Microbiology.
subject: Health Sciences, Public Health.
subject: Environmental Sciences.

description: Settled house dust (SHD) may be a significant source of children's indoor exposure to hazardous substances including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). In this study, the extent to which mutagenic PAHs are present in SHD was examined, and the overall mutagenic hazards of SHD were evaluated using the Salmonella Mutagenicity Test. The results indicate a predominance of frameshift mutagens in the SHD, and a significant positive correlation was identified between mutagenicity and PAH concentration. Mutagenicity was empirically related to several household attributes including vacuuming habits and the number of inhabitants in the home. There is some indication that PAH concentration in SHD is related to an urban home location and the presence of smokers, but the effects are weak. A risk assessment to evaluate the excess lifetime cancer risks posed by preschoolers' non-dietary ingestion of PAHs in SHD revealed that such exposures may result in risks that exceed 1 x 10-5.
Media, mobilities and identity in East and Southeast Asia: Introduction
Creators: name: Edwards, Dan
name: Ho, Louis
name: Choi, Seokhun
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This collection for Cultural Studies Review aims to address gaps in existing mobilities scholarship from two perspectives. First, while several articles here discuss the physical movement of various groups, the overarching focus is the complex interplay of mobile technologies and information on the one hand, and rapidly evolving formations of culture and identity on the other. Geographically, our focus is outside the 'global north', on a region that has perhaps been more dramatically transformed by physical, cultural and informational mobility than any other: East and Southeast Asia. Rather than taking 'Asia' as a category of cultural identity, this collection conceptualises the geographic region as a zone of cultural and political plurality, in which a vast array of migrations, imaginings, representations and discourses are constantly bumping up against political and cultural borders, as well as various state-sponsored and state-sanctioned ideas and images, in fascinating and often highly volatile ways. Topic covered in this collection include Hong Kong working holidaymakers in Australia (Louis Ho), literary narratives of overseas adoptees who have returned to South Korea (Ethan Waddell), online debates and conflicts between Chinese migrants and local Chinese-Singaporeans (Sylvia Ang), the politics of representing urban demolition and relocation in independent Chinese documentaries (Dan Edwards), the 'glocalisation' of Japanese anime culture in the online space in China (Asako Saito) and the representation of migrant worker experience in South Korean cinema (Sina Kim).
CAN HTAP ELIMINATE ETL? AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF OLAP, OLTP, AND HTAP SYSTEMS
Creators: name: Kishore, Manvi
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 460611
subject: Performance evaluation
classificationCode: 460605
subject: Distributed systems and algorithms
classificationCode: 460501
subject: Data engineering and data science
classificationCode: 460503
subject: Data models, storage and indexing
classificationCode: 460505
subject: Database systems
classificationCode: 460509
subject: Query processing and optimisation

description: The traditional architectural divide between Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) systems has historically led organizations to rely heavily on Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) pipelines to bridge transactional databases with analytical data warehouses. While effective for batch analytics, this decoupled architecture introduces latency, reduces data freshness, and increases operational complexity, especially for modern applications that demand real-time insights.Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) database systems aim to unify OLTP and OLAP capabilities within a single platform, potentially eliminating the need for dedicated ETL pipelines. This study presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of OLTP (MySQL with row-based storage), OLAP (Amazon Redshift with column-based storage), and HTAP (TiDB with hybrid storage) systems. Industry-standard benchmarks, including TPC-H for mixed workloads and the Star Schema Benchmark (SSB) for analytical workloads, are used to evaluate performance across various schema designs (star vs. flat), scale factors (SF=5, SF=10, SF=20), and cluster sizes. Key evaluation metrics include query execution time, mean latency, throughput, data freshness rate, and scalability.The findings reveal that HTAP systems such as TiDB not only match or exceed the analytical performance of dedicated OLAP systems but also provide real-time data availability by eliminating traditional ETL delays. Moreover, TiDB's hybrid storage model and distributed architecture enable efficient handling of complex workloads, offering dynamic query optimization and strong consistency guarantees.Based on these insights, this study argues that HTAP systems represent a viable, unified alternative to ETL-dependent architectures. It offers recommendations for their adoption in enterprise environments seeking to simplify infrastructure, reduce latency, and improve responsiveness to real-time data.
Conceptually Defining "Global  Strategic Partner(ship)"
Creators: name: muftuler-bac, meltem
name: AYDIN-DUZGIT, SENEM
name: Uzun, Ezgi
name: Martill, Benjamin
name: Mesarovich, Alexander
name: Schnitzler, Gaspard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This working paper provides an assessment of the European Union’s (EU’s) global strategic partners by putting forward a theoretical and conceptual definition of strategic partnership. The paper identifies the EU’s global strategic partners both in terms of those which are defined within a legal framework and those that are selected on a more ad-hoc basis. The paper’s conceptual examination of the term “strategic partner(ship)” and identification of the EU’s global strategic partners aligns with the main objectives of the ENGAGE project: assisting the EU’s foreign policy by allowing a more structured engagement with other countries, thereby enhancing the EU’s ability to play a more assertive role in effectively and sustainably meeting strategic challenges in global politics. This paper’s focus on the differences across multiple strategic partners, both formally identified and informally treated, with respect to their engagement with the EU highlights the challenges the EU faces in its foreign policy and global standing. Those challenges are explored in the paper in terms of the relevant forms of cooperation and conflict between the EU, its Member States and their respective global strategic partners.
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title: Legal protection of tenants in cases of termination of a lease agreement in civil law
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lease agreement
tenant
tenants rights
termination of the lease agreement
protection mechanisms upon termination of the lease agreement

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description: This study examines the basics of the legal status of tenants in civil law, as well as existing mechanisms for their legal protection upon termination of the lease agreement, in addition, both the rights and obligations of the tenant, as well as the conditions and grounds for termination of the lease agreement itself, are considered. In addition, based on the analysis of existing legal mechanisms, possible legislative changes were proposed that would stabilize and improve the situation of tenants precisely upon termination of the lease agreement.
Construction and Optimization of CRISPR Cas 9 mediated KCNV1 Knock-out models to Study Its Effects in Post Mitotic Neurons
Creators: name: Das, Maitreya
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2017
Subjects: CRISPR Cas 9
Knock-out
KCNV1
Potassium Ion Channel Sub-unit
Gene Expression
Neurons

description: According to K Brodmann, the cerebral cortex was derived from a six layered structure and continues to illustrate these distinct regions. In layer V of the neocortex, it has been observed that sub-types of pyramidal neurons show a variance in cell morphology, projections and physiology (Hattox and Nelson, 2007). One such property is cell adaptation. Adapting neurons decrease their firing rate during constant current injection while non-adapting neurons do not. This property may be a result of potassium ion currents that build up during continuous firing by the neurons. KCNV1 is an auxiliary potassium channel sub-unit expressed in adapting sub-types, but not in the non-adapting sub-types and so is hypothesized to play a role in determining cell adaptation. This study involves the use of the CRISPR Cas 9 gene editing system to construct knock-out models for KCNV1 in post mitotic neurons of the mouse neocortex to enable investigation of KCNV1 and its importance in determining firing properties.
Graph Convolutional Encoders for Syntax-aware AMR Parsing
Creators: name: Rozonoyer, Benjamin Vladimir
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2021
Subjects: AMR
GAT
GCN
NLP
semantic parsing
Graph Convolutional Networks
Natural Language Programming
Syntax

description: Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs), a natural architecture for modeling graph-structured data, have recently entered the playing field of NLP as sentence encoders over dependency structure. Contemporary setups of semantic role labeling (SRL), neural machine translation (NMT), and event extraction have demonstrated the superiority of GCNs to CNN and RNN encoders, which expect inherently grid-like or sequential inputs. In this thesis, we explore GCN encoders in a fully neural paradigm of AMR parsing, taking Cai and Lam's (2020) state-of-the-art parser as the framework. We hypothesize that GCN encoders are especially well suited for this problem, following the intuition that syntactic structure strongly informs graph-based semantic structure and can be viewed as an intermediate step towards obtaining it from sequential input. Unlike in previous setups, our GCN encoder has to compete with the extremely successful Transformer baseline (the parser's default encoder), and performs only modestly worse while 1) having an order of magnitude fewer parameters, 2) incorporating explicit syntactic information, and 3) not relying on positional encoding. Our extensive experiments around GCN and Transformer (as well as BiLSTM and GAT) encoder configurations shed light on some of the settings that contribute to the successes of the respective architectures. We confirm that the "syntactic GCN" is the best-performing GCN layer, make empirical observations about Transformers and GCNs based on comparative results and dependency tree statistics, and draw parallels between the Transformer and GCN models in terms of their ability to learn relational structure.
Technologies to improve medication safety in hospitals: A study of their effectiveness and use in Canada
Creators: name: Saginur, Michael David
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Pharmacy.
subject: Health Sciences, Public Health.
subject: Health Sciences, Health Care Management.

description: Introduction. Adverse drug events (ADEs) caused by medication errors occur regularly in hospitals. Research questions. (1) How effective are in-hospital drug-distribution technologies at improving medication safety? (2) How prevalent are such technologies in Canada's acute-care hospitals? Methods. A systematic review synthesized publications from 1985 to 2002 about the effectiveness of inpatient drug-distribution technologies. A cross-sectional survey of pharmacy directors at Canada's 100 largest acute-care hospitals described technology use, plans for change, and pharmacy-directors' attitudes to technology use and medication error. Results. The systematic review categorized 154 technology comparisons into 23 technology groupings. The evidence consistently favoured the new technologies but its strength was limited. The survey response rate was 78%. Clinical pharmacy services, computerized decision support for pharmacists, and unit-dose system were common; bar-coding and computerized physician order entry were not. Conclusion. This thesis offers a unique compilation of evidence to guide decision-makers in their uptake of technologies intended to improve medication safety.
The Compost Connection for Washington Agriculture, August 1996
Creators: name: Granatstein, David
Publisher: name: Washington State University Cooperative Extension
Year: 1996
Subjects: composting
Agriculture

description: Initial Compost Testing Completed / Urban Yard Waste Benefits Orchard / Organic Waste Contaminant Study / Composting Manure and Leaves / Crop Farmers Increase Demand for Compost
Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics Of Three Coupled Chemical Oscillators
Creators: name: Moustaka, Maria Eleni
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Belousov- Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction
chemical oscillators
PDMS
Nonlinear Dynamics

description: This dissertation experimentally examines the dynamics of a synthetic network comprised of a ring of three coupled chemical oscillators. The network is created by confining the auto-catalytic, light-sensitive BZ reaction to micro-fabricated wells constructed from the elastomer PDMS. Each well can be regarded as a single network node that sends and receives chemical signals with the neighboring oscillators. In this work, we devised a series of combined experiments and models to determine the partition, reversible and irreversible reaction, and diffusion constants of aqueous bromine with the PDMS used for separating the oscillators. These coefficients are important parameters for modeling networks of BZ oscillators by accounting for bromine transport through PDMS. The network of three BZ oscillators in a ring has two stable attractors with large basins of attraction: clockwise and counter-clockwise waves of excitation. Our experimental findings are compared with two theoretical models: the chemical Vanag-Epstein model and the Kuramoto phase model. This dissertation explores a large set of experimental parameters and evaluates their role on the network's dynamics. Such parameters are the oscillators' size, distances, type of the ruthenium catalyst, boundary conditions, and bromine passivation.
Logical relation categories and lambda calculi.
Creators: name: Yang, Liqun.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Mathematics.

description: An aspect of programming languages is the study of the operational semantics, which, in the case of a lambda calculus, is based on a directed form of equational reasoning called reduction. In computer science terminology, reduction may be regarded as a form of symbolic evaluation. It models a sequential computation process step by step. The crucial properties for a rewriting system are confluence, also called the Church-Rosser property and termination, the (Strong) normalization property, respectively. These are studied in depth in Chapter 2 and 6. The problem whether all $\lambda$-terms satisfy termination corresponds to the halting problem. From a different point of view, studying the problem of both Church-Rosser and strong normalization corresponds to, in a particular field, studying the word problem. The notion of categories is familiar to mathematicians as a branch of algebra. It has been developed quite rapidly in less than 40 years. In particular, recently more and more computer scientists are using categories for their own purposes. It is the connection between categories and $\lambda$-calculi that interests computer scientists. This connection is a thread that goes through the whole thesis. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)