cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Adoption of Mobile eLearning (MEL): experience of polyethnic students in Singapore
Creators: name: Ho, Henry Wai Leong
name: Ali, Shameem
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The adoption of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Tertiary Institutions in Singapore is well advanced, and modern teaching and learning practices with a high level of ICT use are being successfully integrated with elements of the traditional on-campus lectures and tutorials. This study focuses on on-campus students enrolled in an undergraduate marketing subject in one of the largest Polytechnics in Singapore, where Mobile eLearning Technology (MeL) has been in operation for about seven years. The purpose of this study is to ascertain the value adding aspects of elearning technology and to understand if learning is facilitated or enhanced by the use of such technology. In the transition phases between the more traditional learning environments and the mobile learning environments, it is important to assess the views of students because they have experience of both environments. This study is an attempt to understand how the technology is being used and if there are difficulties with technology adaptation and its capacity for learning facilitation. The findings indicate that students were positive about the transition from traditional learning environments to Mobile e-Learning environments.
Διερεύνηση των δυνατοτήτων των μεθόδων Μηχανικής Μάθησης στην πρόβλεψη των πωλήσεων και των επιστροφών μιας ελληνικής βιομηχανίας τροφίμων
Creators: name: Τοκατλή, Κατερίνα Κυριάκου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2024
Subjects: Πρόβλεψη
Μηχανική μάθηση
Ελληνική βιομηχανία
Machine Learning
Demand Forecasting
Big Data

description: Το αντικείμενο αυτής της διατριβής είναι ο ρόλος των σύγχρονων αναλυτικών στοιχείων στην πρόβλεψη ζήτησης με τη διαχείριση της αλυσίδας εφοδιασμού και πώς μπορεί να εφαρμοστεί μέσω αλγορίθμων μηχανικής μάθησης. Η διατριβή χωρίζεται σε δύο φάσεις όπου η πρώτη είναι θεωρητική και η δεύτερη είναι εμπειρική με βάση την έρευνα και την εφαρμογή του εργαλείου Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis (WEKA). Στο θεωρητικό μέρος, περιγράφονται και εξηγούνται έννοιες όπως η ανάλυση μεγάλων δεδομένων, η μηχανική μάθηση, η ανάλυση εφοδιαστικής αλυσίδας και οι αλγόριθμοι και πώς όλα αυτά εφαρμόζονται σε εταιρείες μέσω πραγματικών περιπτωσιολογικών μελετών. Το εμπειρικό μέρος επικεντρώνεται στην πρόβλεψη ζήτησης και στην πρόβλεψη αποδόσεων των τεσσάρων ταχύτερα κινούμενων μονάδων διατήρησης αποθεμάτων (SKUs) από μια εταιρεία παραγωγής τροφίμων, με βάση δεδομένα που παρέχονται για τα έτη 2018 έως 2021. Η έρευνα χρησιμοποιεί διάφορους αλγόριθμους μηχανικής μάθησης στο WEKA να προβλέψει τις πωλήσεις και τις αποδόσεις, προσδιορίζοντας τις πιο αποτελεσματικές μεθόδους πρόβλεψης. Με αυτή την προσέγγιση, η διατριβή δείχνει τις δυνατότητες της μηχανικής μάθησης και της τεχνητής νοημοσύνης στην εφαρμογή της ακρίβειας πρόβλεψης ζήτησης, μειώνοντας με αυτόν τον τρόπο τη σπατάλη, βελτιώνοντας την κερδοφορία και ενισχύοντας την ικανοποίηση του πελάτη. Τέλος, όλα τα ευρήματα επεξηγούνται αναλυτικά και περιγράφονται με συμπεράσματα.
description: The scope of this dissertation is about the role of modern analytics in demand forecasting with Supply chain management and how it can be implemented through machine learning algorithms. The thesis is separated into two phases where the first is theoretical and the second part is empirical based on research and implementation of the Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis (WEKA), tool. In the theoretical part, there are described and explained meanings like big data analytics, machine learning, supply chain analytics, and algorithms and how all these are implemented in companies through real case studies. The empirical part is focused on demand forecasting and the returns forecasting of the four fastest-moving Stock keeping units (SKUs) from a food manufacturing company, based on data provided for the years 2018 to 2021. The research employs various machine learning algorithms in WEKA to predict sales and returns, identifying the most effective methods for forecasting. With this approach, the dissertation shows the capabilities of machine learning and artificial intelligence in the implementation of demand forecasting accuracy reducing in this manner waste, improving profitability, and enhancing the satisfaction of the customer. Finally, all the findings are explained in detail and described with conclusions.
La communication joueur-entraineur au football scolaire
Creators: name: Lefebvre, Jean-François
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: communication
relation joueur-entraineur
développement
sport scolaire

description: Dans le sport, la communication, c’est-à-dire la transmission de messages, entre le joueur et l’entraineur 1 est primordiale. Encore très peu d’études portent sur le processus de communication entre le joueur et l’entraineur, processus pourtant essentiel à l’enseignementapprentissage, et très peu analysent l’incidence de cette communication sur les athlètes. La présente recherche a donc pour but de (a) comprendre ce qui fait qu’une communication est bonne aux yeux des entraineurs et des joueurs, (b) de comprendre le processus de communication lui-même et (c) de comprendre les répercussions de la communication sur le développement athlétique et personnel des joueurs. Une équipe de football scolaire composée de joueurs de 15 à 17 ans a été étudiée. Les données ont été recueillies au moyen d’observations sur le terrain et d’entrevues à des périodes déterminées avec quatre entraineurs et quatre joueurs. Une analyse thématique inductive révèle les perceptions d’une bonne communication selon les entraineurs et les joueurs. Les points similaires entre les points de vue des entraineurs et des athlètes sont la confiance, le respect, l’humour, et la connaissance de l’autre personne. Les différences sont que les entraineurs désirent une bonne relation basée sur la confiance sans être toutefois trop proche de l’athlète, tandis que les athlètes désirent une relation d’amitié et de support sans communication agressive. Les résultats font également ressortir les effets positifs qu’une bonne communication entre joueurs et entraineurs peut avoir sur les jeunes, dans le contexte du sport et dans la vie de tous les jours.
Additional file 1 of A new childhood ALL case with an extremely complex karyotype and acute spontaneous tumor lysis syndrome
Creators: name: Abdulsamad Wafa
name: Jarjour, Rami A.
name: Doaa Alolabi
name: Liehr, Thomas
name: Hamdan, Othman
name: Melo, Joana B.
name: Carreira, Isabel M.
name: Moneeb A. K. Othman
name: Al-Achkar, Walid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table 1. Clinical history of the patient together with diagnostic results and treatment.
Additional file 1 of (Dis)concordance of comorbidity data and cancer status across administrative datasets, medical charts, and self-reports
Creators: name: A. Sheriffdeen
name: J. L. Millar
name: C. Martin
name: M. Evans
name: G. Tikellis
name: Evans, S. M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1 Supplementary Table 1. Quality indicators reported by the PCOR- VIC registry (adapted from [5]). Supplementary Table 2. Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) [11]. Supplementary Table 3. Self-report comorbidity questionnaire [12].
Emotionally Focused Therapy for Japanese Couples: Development and Empirical Investigation of a Culturally-Sensitive EFT Model
Creators: name: Hattori, Kyoko
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Emotionally Focused Therapy
Japanese Couples
Attachment
Emotion

description: In this doctoral thesis, a culturally-sensitive couple therapy model was developed and empirically investigated. In particular, a Western-based couple therapy, Emotionally-Focused Couple Therapy (EFT), was modified to enhance the cultural relevancy of this model to the Japanese population. An extensive literature review was conducted to examine the status of psychotherapy and couple research in Japan, and cultural differences between Western and Japanese couples, with a particular emphasis on important couple variables, including emotional expression, communication, conflict resolution, and attachment. Study objectives included an empirical investigation into cultural differences on key relationship variables of trust, attachment, communication, and conflict resolution, and the use of these findings to guide adaptations of EFT to enhance cultural relevance, and an exploration of the adapted EFT model with three Japanese couples. This study is significant in that it is the first to empirically evaluate the cross-cultural validity of EFT. This dissertation consists of two studies that have been combined in one article for the purpose of publishing the document in a Japanese journal. Both studies were combined in one article for various reasons. First, study one findings are integral to the development of the culturally-sensitive EFT model that is empirically investigated in the second study. Second, the article included in this dissertation will be translated and prepared for publication in a Japanese journal. Including both studies in one article is important given the lack of familiarity in the Japanese research community about key relationship variables, and particularly their applicability to a couple therapy system (i.e., EFT), and their use to measure change in a couple therapy outcome study.
Oncology education for family medicine residents: a national needs assessment survey
Creators: name: Yip, Steven M
name: Meyers, Daniel E
name: Sisler, Jeff
name: Wycliffe-Jones, Keith
name: Kucharski, Edward
name: Elser, Christine
name: Temple-Oberle, Claire
name: Spadafora, Silvana
name: Ingledew, Paris-Ann
name: Giuliani, Meredith
name: Kuruvilla, Sara
name: Sumar, Nureen
name: Tam, Vincent C
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: This study aimed to determine the current state of oncology education in Canadian family medicine postgraduate medical education programs (FM PGME) and examine opinions regarding optimal oncology education in these programs. Methods: A survey was designed to evaluate ideal and current oncology teaching, educational topics, objectives, and competencies in FM PGMEs. The survey was sent to Canadian family medicine (FM) residents and program directors (PDs). Results: In total, 150 residents and 17 PDs affiliated with 16 of 17 Canadian medical schools completed the survey. The majority indicated their programs do not have a mandatory clinical rotation in oncology (79% residents, 88% PDs). Low rates of residents (7%) and PDs (13%) reported FM residents being adequately prepared for their role in caring for cancer patients (p = 0.03). Residents and PDs believed the most optimal method of teaching oncology is through clinical exposure (65% residents, 80% PDs). Residents and PDs agreed the most important topics to learn (rated ≥4.7 on 5-point Likert scale) were: performing pap smears, cancer screening/prevention, breaking bad news, and approach to patient with increased cancer risk. According to residents, other important topics such as appropriate cancer patient referrals, managing cancer complications and post-treatment surveillance were only taught at frequencies of 52, 40 and 36%, respectively. Conclusions: Current FM PGME oncology education is suboptimal, although the degree differs in the opinion of residents and PDs. This study identified topics and methods of education which could be focussed upon to improve FM oncology education.
Quo vadis soil protection in the Alps?
Creators: name: Badura, Marianne
name: Kuenzer, Nina
name: Sutor, Gertraud
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Alpenkonvention
subject: Boden
subject: Bodenschutz
subject: Alpen
subject: Alpine Convention
subject: Soil Conservation Protocol
subject: soil protection
subject: Boden | Fläche
subject: Soil | Land

description: In many countries, the Alpine Convention’s Soil Conservation Protocol is a requirement “neglected” by public administration and by society, as accountability is spread across many fields of legislation. Especially in the Alps, soil conservation is of great significance, as soil is a limited, non-renewable and endangered resource. During the German Presidency of the Alpine Convention (2015-2016), an assessment of the implementation status of the Soil Conservation Protocol was performed by the present study. Various substantive aspects of soil conservation were considered in the assessment. The following thematic areas were worked out in detail by an online expert survey, an international symposium and a literature review: risk assessment / erosion, qualitative soil protection and soil functions, mountain farming, forestry, wetlands, moors, qualitative soil protection / land take, as well as international / Alps-wide cooperation.
Supplementary document for Direct (3+1)D laser writing of graded-index optical elements - 5399746.pdf
Creators: name: Porte, Xavier
name: Dinc, Niyazi Ulas
name: Moughames, Johnny
name: Panusa, Giulia
name: Juliano, Caroline
name: kadic, muamer
name: Moser, Christophe
name: Brunner, Daniel
name: Psaltis, Demetri
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary material
D4.4 Implementation and development of systems; SSS, data processing and geo-tagged photos framework alpha versions (final version)
Creators: name: Georgios Galanis, Nikolaos Tsakiridis, Nikolaos Tziolas, Konstantinos Karyotis (I-BEC), Orestis Sampson, Nikos Iliakis, Valantis Tsiakos (ICCS)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The deliverable constitutes a report describing the technical details from the implementation and development of the final versions of the DIONE in-situ (WP4) components aiming to establish a complete ecosystem of low-cost and easy to use smart tools and techniques for the accumulation of the in-situ information. In particular the report focuses on (i) the microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) based sensor, the measurement protocol, the smartphone application, and the security protocols, (ii) the geo-tagged photos framework iii) the data pre-processing system, including the utilized DBMS, backend processes for data integration and validity, and techniques used for outlier detection iv) tools and methodologies for the production of spatially explicit maps of key indicators for land degradation by combining historical Earth Observation (EO) data with MEMS captures.
A New Multistep Induction Protocol for the Transdifferentiation of Bone marrow Stromal Stem Cells into GABAergic Neuron-Like Cells
Creators: name: Darabi, Shahram
name: Taki Tiraihi
name: Delshad, AliReza
name: Sadeghizadeh, Majid
Publisher: name: the Pasteur Institute of Iran
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Basic Sciences

description: Iranian Biomedical Journal (IBJ); ISSN 1028-852X
Wave breaking: do we know why the waves break?
Creators: name: Babanin, Alexander
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The breaking of deep-water surface water waves represents one of the most interesting and challenging problems of fluid mechanics. Breaking is a strongly nonlinear shocklike intermittent random process, the distribution of which on the water surface is not continuous. The role breaking plays in maintaining the energy balance in continuous air-sea interaction field is, however, critical.
Differentiation of Human Atrial Myocytes from Endothelial Progenitor Cell-Derived Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Creators: name: Jambi, Majed
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: inducible pluripotent stem cells
Late outgrowth endothelial progenitor cells
Atrial Cardiomyocytes

description: Recent advances in cellular reprogramming have enabled the generation of embryoniclike cells from virtually any cell of the body. These inducible pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are capable of indefinite self-renewal while maintaining the ability to differentiate into all cell types. Nowhere will this technology have a greater impact than in the ability to generate disease and patient-specific cell lines. Here we explore the capacity of human iPSCs reprogrammed from peripheral blood endothelial progenitor cells lines to differentiate into atrial myocytes for the study of patient specific atrial physiology. Methods and Results: Late outgrowth endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) cultured from clinical blood samples provided a robust cell source for genetic reprogramming. Transcriptome analysis hinted that EPCs would be comparatively more amenable to pluripotent reprogramming than the traditional dermal fibroblast. After 6 passages, EPCs were transduced with a doxycycline inducible lentivirus system encoding human transcription factors OCT4, SOX2, KLF4 and Nanog to permit differentiation after removal of doxycycline. The high endogenous expression of key pluripotency transcripts enhanced the ease of iPSC generation as demonstrated by the rapid emergence of typical iPSC colonies. Following removal of doxycycline, genetically reprogrammed EPC-iPSC colonies displayed phenotypic characteristics identical to human embryonic stem cells and expressed high levels of the pluripotent markers SSEA-4, TRA1-60 and TRA1-81. After exposure to conditions known to favor atrial identity, EPC- iPSC differentiating into sheets of beating cardiomyocytes that expressed high levels of several atrial-specific expressed genes (CACNA1H, KCNA5, and MYL4). Conclusions: EPCs provide a stable platform for genetic reprogramming into a pluripotent state using a doxycycline conditional expression system that avoids reexpression of oncogenic/pluripotent factors. Human EPC-derived iPSC can be differentiated into functional cardiomyocytes that express characteristic markers of atrial identity.
Additional file 1 of Factors associated with cervical cancer screening participation among migrant women in Europe: a scoping review
Creators: name: Marques, Patrícia
name: Nunes, Mariana
name: Antunes, Maria Da Luz
name: Heleno, Bruno
name: Dias, Sónia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Search strategy for each database (conducted in 11th November, 2019).
Concentrations of Acute-Phase Proteins in Milk from Cows with Clinical Mastitis Caused by Different Pathogens
Creators: name: Dalanezi, Felipe M.
name: Schmidt, Elizabeth M. S.
name: Joaquim, Sâmea F.
name: Guimarães, Felipe F.
name: Guerra, Simoni T.
name: Lopes, Bruna C.
name: Cerri, Ronaldo L. A.
name: Chadwick, Christopher
name: Langoni, Hélio
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Among the new diagnostic methods for mastitis detection under development, milk acute-phase proteins (APPs) are receiving special attention. The study aimed to compare the profile of milk APPs from cows with natural clinical mastitis caused by distinct pathogens. The concentrations of haptoglobin (Hp), serum amyloid A (SAA), alpha-1-acid glycoprotein (AGP), and C-reactive protein (CRP) were measured by Spatial Proximity Analyte Reagent Capture Luminescence (SPARCL). Each APP was compared across the pathogens causing mastitis. The APPs differed statistically (p < 0.05) among the pathogens causing udder infection. There were significant and positive correlations among the concentration profile, for each pathogen, in three of four APPs studied. It can be concluded that the pathogen causing mastitis could modify the profile of release of the APPs in milk. The profile of Hp, AGP, and CRP demonstrated significant correlation, indicating that the three APPs are suggested as biomarkers, in milk, for bovine mastitis.
Numerical Modelling of Liquid Containing Structure under Dynamic Loading
Creators: name: Barakati, Adel
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: numerical modelling
tank
liquid containing structure
dynamic loading

description: Abstract Liquid containing tanks (LCTs) are used in water distribution systems and in the industry for storing water, toxic and flammable liquids and are expected to be functional after severe earthquakes. The failure of a large tank during seismic excitation has implications far beyond the economic value of the tanks and their contents. Then seismic design becomes a high necessity for this type of structure. However, tanks differ from buildings in two ways: first, during seismic excitation, the liquid inside the tank exerts a hydrodynamic force on tank walls, base, and roof in addition to the hydrostatic forces. Second, LCTs are generally required to remain watertight. Many current standards and guidelines such as ACI 350.3-06, ACI 371R-08, ASCE7, API650, EUROCODE8 and NZSEE 1986 code, cover seismic designs which are based primarily on theoretical analysis. This analysis is still not enough to fully describe the behavior of this structure under seismic oscillation noting that the theoretical analysis is based on a linear model and two dimensional spaces. So the focus of this study is to measure two important dynamic parameters which are the natural period and the maximum sloshing height of the water under harmonic motion by conducting an experimental investigation and computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulation. Open-foam is the numerical tool chosen in this study. There is currently no study done with this tool to measure the behavior of the water inside a square tank neither under seismic motion nor harmonic oscillation.Finally, a comparison between the experimental, the analytical and the numerical results will be presented to confirm the level of validity of each method. Then a conclusion is made to summarize this research and to propose future works.
Additional file 2 of Factors associated with cervical cancer screening participation among migrant women in Europe: a scoping review
Creators: name: Marques, Patrícia
name: Nunes, Mariana
name: Antunes, Maria Da Luz
name: Heleno, Bruno
name: Dias, Sónia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Data extraction form.
Effects of Superhydrophobic SiO2 Nano-particles on the Performance of PVDF Flat Sheet Membranes for Membrane Distillation
Creators: name: Efome, Johnson Effoe
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: PVDF flat sheets
nano-fibre
Superhydrophobic SiO2
vacuum membrane distillation
direct contact membrane distillation
sponge-like layer

description: Poly(vinylidene) fluoride (PVDF) nano-composite membranes were prepared. The dope solution contained varied concentrations of superhydrophobic SiO2 nano-particles. The fabricated flat sheet membranes were characterized extensively by SEM, FTIR, water contact angle, LEPw, surface roughness, pore size diameter and pore size distribution. The effect of the nano-particles on the membrane performance was then analysed. The nano-composite membranes showed increased surface pore diameter, elevated water contact angle measurements with lower LEPw when compared to the neat membrane. The 7 wt. % nano-composite membrane showed the greatest flux in a VMD process with 2.9 kg/m2.h flux achieved accounting to a 4 fold increase when compared to the neat membrane. Desalination test were carried out using a 35 g/L synthetic salt water and rejection >99.98% was obtained. The best performing nano-composite dope solution (7 wt. %) was then further treated for performance enhancement by increasing the water content to increase pore size and pore size distribution followed by coating with nano-fibres. The uncoated and coated flat sheets, were characterized by SEM, surface roughness, LEPw and CAw. Flux analysis showed that the increase in water content had little effects on the VMD flux. It also suggests that; the nano-fibre layer posed very little resistance to mass transfer. A comparison of VMD and DCMD was also done experimentally.
Hatene kona ba/Compreender/Understanding/Mengerti Timor-Leste: proceedings of the Understanding Timor-Leste Conference, Universidade Nasional Timor-Lorosa‘e, Dili, Timor-Leste, 02-03 July 2009
Creators: name: Leach, Michael
name: Canas Mendes, Nuno
name: da Silva, Antero B.
name: da Costa Ximenes, Alarico
name: Boughton, Bob
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The papers included in this volume were first presented at the Timor-Leste Studies Association's Understanding Timor-Leste: A Research Conference, held at the National University of Timor Lorosa'e (UNTL) in Dili, Timor-Leste, 2-3 July 2009. More than 100 East Timorese and international delegates presented papers over two days. One distinctive feature of the conference was its organisation into four language streams; with papers presented in Tetum-Dili, Portuguese, Bahasa Indonesia and English. This approach reflected the linguistic diversity of Timor-Leste, and proved a great success. This volume of edited papers reflects this approach. The editors would like to thank the East Timorese Ministry of Education, UNTL, Swinburne University of Technology, the Technical University of Lisbon and Victoria University for making the conference possible. Thanks also to Susana Barnes for assistance in the production of this collection. We particularly thank the authors of these papers, and hope that this volume will assist students and academics in Timor-Leste, and also those outside the country who wish to better understand the challenges facing this young nation, and its people's hopes for the future.
The PULSE Program: A Life Skills Based Physical Activity Program for At-Risk Adolescents
Creators: name: Barker, Bryce
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Adolescent
Physical Activity
Positive Youth Development
Community
Program Evaluation

description: The purpose of this doctoral thesis was to develop, implement and evaluate the PULSE program, a community-based physical activity and life skills program for at-risk youth. The thesis is composed of four articles. The first paper describes the rationale and development of the PULSE program which was designed to help youth develop the skills to self-regulate and successfully perform physical activity. The second article presents a process evaluation of the PULSE program. This article examines how the youth progressed through the program with regards to the five levels of the Teaching and Social Responsibility (TPSR) model, one of the frameworks on which the PULSE program is based. A second purpose of this study was to understand the youths’ perceptions of the impact of the program on these five levels. The results indicated that the program led to slight increases in the five levels of the TPSR model and the youth reported transferring the skills they learned related to the levels in their lives outside of the program. The third paper represents an outcome evaluation of the PULSE program. Results showed that youth who participated in PULSE increased their fitness, physical activity levels as well as a number of positive youth development outcomes. Finally, the fourth paper examined how the PULSE program helps support the tenets of Basic Needs Theory. The results indicated that the program successfully nurtured the three basic needs of autonomy, competence and relatedness. The overall findings suggest that the PULSE program is a practical, evidence-informed program that may help youth understand and apply life skills to be physically active as they approach adulthood, and also more generally in their lives. The current findings show promise for both Physical Activity (PA) and Positive Youth Development (PYD) outcomes but further research is needed to make causal links.
Analysis of box-girder bridges by macro-element substructural method.
Creators: name: Li, Mingyu.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: An efficient macro-element substructure method for static analysis of straight box-girder bridge structures is successfully developed. The structure is considered as an assemblage of macro-element substrates. All of these macro-element substructures are identical in geometry. Each substructure is derived by applying the principle of static condensation in solving its equilibrium equations. Stiffness and load matrices of each substructure are assembled by rectangular flat shell elements which are composed of 8 degrees of freedom membrane stress and 12 degrees of freedom plate bending elements. This special purpose macro-element substructure method provides considerable efficiency in practical designs of straight box-girder bridges. A computer program is developed in which the proposed procedures are implemented, and several numerical examples are presented which compare the proposed method with other numerical methods. Good agreement is found in all these examples.
Stress coping congruence: a tripartite conceptual framework for exploring the health consequences of effective and ineffective coping
Creators: name: Hardie, Elizabeth A.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A tripartite model of relational (R), individual (I) and collective(C) self-aspects was applied to the process of coping with stress. Self-aspects, current sources of stress, preferred coping styles and two health outcomes, well-being and ill-being, were examined in a sample of 237 Australians. As predicted, self-aspects were found to guide preferences for particular styles of coping, but not sources of current stress. The match or mismatch between type of current stress and type of preferred coping differentially predicted health outcomes. When self-guided R, I and C coping styles were applied to corresponding R, I and C sources of stress, the congruence between stress source and coping style was associated with greater well-being. In contrast, the use of coping styles which were incongruent with sources of current stress appeared to be less effective. Mismatched stress and coping (e.g., the use of individual coping to deal with relational stress) was associated with greater ill-being. Separating sources of stress and styles of coping into individual, relational and collective domains appears to provide a promising new framework for exploring the health consequences of effective and ineffective coping.
Stoffmonographie für 2-Mercaptobenzothiazol (2-MBT) und HBM-Werte für 2-MBT im Urin von Erwachsenen und Kindern
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015

description: 2-Mercaptobenzothiazol (2-MBT, CAS-Nr. 149-30-4) wird hauptsächlich als Vulkanisationsbeschleuniger in der Gummiherstellung eingesetzt. Darüber hinaus wird diese Substanz auch als Fungizid in Farben, Fasern oder zur äußeren Anwendung bei Tieren verwendet. Aufgrund des vielfältigen Einsatzes von 2-MBT in Verbraucherprodukten, darunter auch Babyschnuller, kommt es zur Exposition der Allgemeinbevölkerung. Zur toxikologischen Einschätzung einer möglichen körperlichen Belastung hat die HBM-Kommission HBM-Werte für 2-MBT im Urin von Kindern und Erwachsenen abgeleitet. Als Ausgangspunkt (point of departure, POD) für die HBM-Wert-Ableitung wurde der No Observed Adverse Effect Level (NOAEL) von 94 mg/kg KG/Tag aus einer subchronischen Studie an Mäusen nach oraler Gabe von 2-MBT herangezogen. Unter Berücksichtigung eines Gesamt-Assessmentfaktors von 350 ergibt sich für den Menschen ein Wert von 0,3 mg/kg Kg/Tag für die täglich tolerierbare Aufnahme. Unter der aus Tierversuchen hergeleiteten Annahme, dass neben 2-MBT ein erheblicher Anteil des aufgenommenen 2-MBT als Glucuronid im Urin ausgeschieden wird, sowie der Berücksichtigung der körpergewichtsproportionalen Urinmenge ergibt sich ein HBM-I-Wert für 2-MBT im Urin von Kindern von 4,5 mg/L und ein HBM-I-Wert für 2-MBT im Urin von Erwachsenen von 7 mg/L.Quelle: http://link.springer.com
D4.3 Implementation and development of systems; SSS, data processing and geo-tagged photos framework alpha versions (alpha version)
Creators: name: Orestis Sampson, Nikos Iliakis, Valantis Tsiakos (ICCS), Nikolaos Tsakiridis, Konstantinos Karyotis (I-BEC)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The deliverable constitutes a report describing the technical details from the implementation and development of the alpha versions of the DIONE in-situ (WP4) components aiming to establish a complete ecosystem of low-cost and easy to use smart tools and techniques for the accumulation of the in-situ information. In particular the report focuses on (i) the microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) based sensor, the measurement protocol, the smartphone application, and the security protocols, (ii) the geo-tagged photos framework iii) the data pre-processing system, including the utilized DBMS, backend processes for data integration and validity, and techniques used for outlier detection.
Climate change impacts assessment on snow hydrology and irrigation in Turkey
Creators: name: Yilmaz, Abdullah Gokhan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Climate is changing in a way that can not be explained by natural variability. One of the most affected areas by global warming is hydrology and water resources. Regions where majority of runoff consists of snow melt, which is an important water resource to many aspects of hydrology including water supply, flood control and erosion, are more sensitive to climate change, particularly temperature increases. Euphrates River located in the mountainous Eastern Anatolia in Turkey, is one of the major rivers within Middle Eastern countries. Euphrates Basin is the largest basin of Turkey and it has 17% of entire country’s water potential. Snow is the main water source of Euphrates Basin, particularly for headwater of Euphrates Basin, which is also called Karasu Basin. Despite the significance of Euphrates Basin, there are very limited hydrological modelling studies for this basin. Moreover, impacts of climate change on hydrology of Euphrates Basin have not received sufficient attention. One of the most snow dominated subbasin of Euphrates Basin, Karasu Basin, was selected as study area and climate change effects were investigated for this subbasin in this study. Firstly trend analysis of hydro-meteorological data was performed based on non-parametric trend tests for better understanding of historical trends and investigating climate change finger prints in Karasu Basin. Statistically significant warming trends were detected in particular since 1992. Then, historical flows were simulated by using two conventional hydrological models. In addition, Artificial Neural Networks based hydrological model was developed to simulate runoffs in Karasu Basin. Then, future climate data over period of 2070-2100 was preceded for Karasu Basin and projected outcomes of climate models were used in calibrated hydrological models to predict future streamflows of Karasu Basin for the purpose of having an idea on future water availability in the basin. Largest decreases in streamflows were detected for summer season due to larger temperature increases and precipitation decreases. Runoff decreases were modelled for all seasons except autumn season. Based on available data, impacts of climate change on water sectors in Karasu and Euphrates basin were discussed. Agriculture sector is the largest water consumer with 70% over the world and it has a direct relation with climate. Thus, it is among the most sensitive sectors to climate change. Although this study does not include any modelling study on agriculture and climate change relation, climate change impacts on agriculture and irrigation were explained in detail based on studies in the literature for different parts of the world and Turkey.
KLENOS - Einfluss einer Änderung der Energiepolitik und des Klimas auf die Luftqualität sowie Konsequenzen für die Einhaltung von Immissionsgrenzwerten und Prüfung weitergehender emissionsmindernder Maßnahmen
Creators: name: Pavlik, Dirk
name: Heidenreich, Majana
name: Wolke, Ralf
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Luftgüte
subject: Klimaänderung
subject: Ozon
subject: Feinstaub
subject: Luftqualität
subject: Klimawandel
subject: Chemie-Transport-Modellierung
subject: Regionale Klimamodellierung
subject: Wetterlagen
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Climate | Energy

description: High concentrations of air pollutants, especially particulate Matter (PM10) and ground-level ozone, are known for their negative impacts on human health and in the case of ozone even on vegetation. As a member of the European Union, the Federal Republic of Germany is responsible for ensuring the compliance of immission limits according to the Directive on Ambient Air Quality and Clean Air for Europe (2008/50/EG) and the 39th Ordinance for Implementing the Federal Immission Control Act. To intervene at an early stage with emission-reducing measures an estimation of future air quality is required. Changes of meteorological parameters associated with climate change and political decisions that affect the emissions of conventional pollutants have a considerable impact on future air quality. Thus, both factors directly affect the compliance of applicable immission limit values in future. The importance of these factors on the development of air pollution, as well as their coupled impacts, can only be investigated with an analysis of appropriate climate change and emission scenarios. The aim of this research and development project KLENOS is to quantify the impacts of climate change and energy policy change on air quality with a scenario approach. It involves the implementation of regional climate and subsequent chemical transport simulations. A further objective is the identification of typical weather types, which are related to the exceedance of limit values for PM10 and ozone. Based on long climate simulations future frequency of these typical weather types and therefore future tendencies of the exceedance of limit values for PM10 and ozone can be estimated.
Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: Die anhaltende Temperaturzunahme lässt das Risiko hoher Ozonkonzentrationen steigen, falls es zu keiner Reduktion der Emissionen der Ozonvorläuferstoffe kommt. Der Sommer 2015 war ein Beispiel und steht stellvertretend dafür, welche Temperaturen in Zukunft immer häufiger zu erwarten sein werden. Die Änderung meteorologischer Größen durch den ⁠Klimawandel⁠ hat neben energiepolitischen Entscheidungen einen wesentlichen Einfluss auf die zukünftige Luftbelastung durch Feinstaub (⁠PM10⁠) und Ozon in Deutschland. Die Bedeutung beider Einflussgrößen wird mit Hilfe einer Kopplung aus Klimamodellierung und Chemie-Transport-Modellierung analysiert.
Intelligent Adaptation of Ensemble Size in Data Streams Using Online Bagging
Creators: name: Olorunnimbe, Muhammed
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Data stream
Concept drift
Metalearning
Cost sensitive adaptation
ROI
Utility
Adaptive ensemble size
Online bagging

description: In this era of the Internet of Things and Big Data, a proliferation of connected devices continuously produce massive amounts of fast evolving streaming data. There is a need to study the relationships in such streams for analytic applications, such as network intrusion detection, fraud detection and financial forecasting, amongst other. In this setting, it is crucial to create data mining algorithms that are able to seamlessly adapt to temporal changes in data characteristics that occur in data streams. These changes are called concept drifts. The resultant models produced by such algorithms should not only be highly accurate and be able to swiftly adapt to changes. Rather, the data mining techniques should also be fast, scalable, and efficient in terms of resource allocation. It then becomes important to consider issues such as storage space needs and memory utilization. This is especially relevant when we aim to build personalized, near-instant models in a Big Data setting. This research work focuses on mining in a data stream with concept drift, using an online bagging method, with consideration to the memory utilization. Our aim is to take an adaptive approach to resource allocation during the mining process. Specifically, we consider metalearning, where the models of multiple classifiers are combined into an ensemble, has been very successful when building accurate models against data streams. However, little work has been done to explore the interplay between accuracy, efficiency and utility. This research focuses on this issue. We introduce an adaptive metalearning algorithm that takes advantage of the memory utilization cost of concept drift, in order to vary the ensemble size during the data mining process. We aim to minimize the memory usage, while maintaining highly accurate models with a high utility. We evaluated our method against a number of benchmarking datasets and compare our results against the state-of-the art. Return on Investment (ROI) was used to evaluate the gain in performance in terms of accuracy, in contrast to the time and memory invested. We aimed to achieve high ROI without compromising on the accuracy of the result. Our experimental results indicate that we achieved this goal.
Supplementary document for Direct (3+1)D laser writing of graded-index optical elements - 5399746.pdf
Creators: name: Porte, Xavier
name: Dinc, Niyazi Ulas
name: Moughames, Johnny
name: Panusa, Giulia
name: Juliano, Caroline
name: kadic, muamer
name: Moser, Christophe
name: Brunner, Daniel
name: Psaltis, Demetri
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary material
Towards Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting via Small Organic Shuttles
Creators: name: Sommers, Jacob
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: hydrogen evolution
hydrogen storage
bismuth vanadate
co2 reduction
photochemistry
ferrocyanide
formaldehyde

description: This thesis studies the development of a new method for photochemical overall water splitting using a small organic shuttle. In Section 2, BiVO4, was studied to determine the CO2 reduction mechanism and how catalytic activity decays. BiVO4 catalysts were capable of producing a maximum of 200 μmol of methanol per gram of catalyst from CO2 in basic media, and later decomposed by BiVO4. The decay of BiVO4¬ was studied by x-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy, demonstrating reversible decomposition of BiVO4. BiVO4 is etched, leeching vanadium into solution, while nanoparticles of bismuth oxide are deposited on the surface of BiVO4. In Section 3, ferrocyanide salts, an aqueous, cheap, and abundant photocatalyst was used for the first time to dehydrogenate aqueous formaldehyde selectively into formate and hydrogen. The catalyst is capable of record turnovers and turnover frequencies for formaldehyde dehydrogenation catalysts. A preliminary mechanism was proposed from experimental and computational data.
Reorganizing a technical services division using collaborative evidence based information practice at Auraria Library
Creators: name: Pan, Denise
name: Howard, Zaana
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The article focuses on the evidence-based information practice (EBIP) applied at the Auraria Library in Denver, Colorado during the reorganization of its technical services division. Collaboration processes were established for the technical services division through the reorganization and redefinition of workflows. There are several factors that form part of the redefinition of roles including personal interests, department needs, and library needs. A collaborative EBIP environment was created in the division by addressing issues of workplace hierarchies, by the distribution of problem solving, and by the encouragement of reflective dialogue.
Sortir l'enfant de la rue n'est pas sortir la rue de l'enfant : analyse de l'itinérance juvénile à Dakar, Sénégal
Creators: name: Gilbert, Véronique
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Enfants de la rue
Itinérance
Sénégal
Islam
Insertion
Enfance
Samusocial Sénégal

description: Au Sénégal, des milliers d’enfants, victimes de maltraitance de leur tuteur ou au sein leur famille, s’enfuient et se retrouvent à vivre en petits groupes de jeunes, de manière autonome, dans les rues de Dakar et sa banlieue. Certains de ces enfants en situation de rue grandissent dans les rues, tandis que pour d’autres, la vie de rue représente une transition, une étape de vie. Comment et pourquoi certains enfants de la rue réussissent-ils à sortir de ce milieu, tandis que d’autres y grandissent et deviennent des adultes de la rue? Peut-on penser à des facteurs qui favoriseraient la sortie de rue? Comment se déroule la sortie de rue? Pour les enfants hébergés au Samusocial Sénégal, organisme au sein duquel la recherche terrain a été effectuée, le processus de sortie de rue commence par une demande d’appui de l’enfant lui-même. Ce désir peut avoir été engendré par des facteurs à la fois push out et pull out : du côté des facteurs qui poussent l’enfant hors de la rue, on retrouve la violence continuelle, les agressions sexuelles, et les ennuis de santé, tandis que les facteurs qui tirent l’enfant hors de la rue semblent être la présence active et le travail de terrain des institutions de prise en charge, les relations familiales, et des événements ponctuels inopinés. Accueilli au centre d’hébergement du Samusocial Sénégal, dont le fonctionnement rappelle la structure familiale, l’enfant réapprend graduellement à manger, dormir, jouer, apprendre, faire confiance et se comporter selon les normes sociales sénégalaises, et non selon la culture de la rue, dans le but d’être réunifié avec sa famille (nucléaire ou élargie) ou d’entreprendre une formation professionnelle. Or, ce processus ne se fait pas sans heurts, et toutes les sorties de rue ne suivent pas une trajectoire linéaire : en fait, la plupart des enfants éprouvent une grande difficulté à se réadapter à un milieu de vie structuré et encadré par des règles de vie. Toutefois, une prise en charge holistique et une intervention culturellement adaptée à l’enfant et à sa famille favorisent la résilience de la cellule familiale et la pérennité de la sortie de rue.
Additional file 1 of Establishment of a pediatric COVID-19 biorepository: unique considerations and opportunities for studying the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children
Creators: name: Lima, Rosiane
name: Gootkind, Elizabeth F.
name: Flor, Denis De La
name: Yockey, Laura J.
name: Bordt, Evan A.
name: D’Avino, Paolo
name: Ning, Shen
name: Heath, Katerina
name: Harding, Katherine
name: Zois, Jaclyn
name: Park, Grace
name: Hardcastle, Margot
name: Grinke, Kathleen A.
name: Grimmel, Sheila
name: Davidson, Susan P.
name: Forde, Pamela J.
name: Hall, Kathryn E.
name: Neilan, Anne M.
name: Matute, Juan D.
name: Lerou, Paul H.
name: Fasano, Alessio
name: Shui, Jessica E.
name: Edlow, Andrea G.
name: Yonker, Lael M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1 Supplemental Table 1. List of supplies required for specimen collection, processing, and storage in the Pediatric COVID-19 Biorepository