cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A sex/gender perspective on interventions to promote children’s and adolescents’ overall physical activity: results from genEffects systematic review
Creators: name: Schulze, Carolin
name: Demetriou, Yolanda
name: Emmerling, Sandra
name: Schlund, Annegret
name: Phillips, Susan P
name: Puil, Lorri
name: Coen, Stephanie E
name: Reimers, Anne K
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: To evaluate the effects of interventions on children’s and adolescents’ overall physical activity (PA) for boys and girls separately and to appraise the extent to which the studies haven taken sex/gender into account. Methods: Systematic review and semi-quantitative analysis. Eleven electronic databases were searched to identify all relevant randomized and non-randomized controlled trials. Studies had to report overall PA as the main outcome to be eligible for inclusion in the review. The main outcomes of the studies is a quantified measure of overall PA. Additionally, all studies had to report sex/gender disaggregated overall PA at baseline and/or follow up and/or explain how they dealt with sex/gender during outcome analysis (i.e., sex/gender adjusted analyses) and/or report that there were no differences in the outcome when looking at sex/gender. PRISMA guidelines were followed. Two authors independently screened studies for eligibility and assessed the risk of bias. Semi-quantitative analyses were conducted to evaluate intervention effects, taking into account the extent to which studies have considered sex/gender aspects. To evaluate sex/gender considerations in primary studies, a newly developed sex/gender checklist was used. The study was registered previously (registration number CRD42018109528). Results: In total, 97 articles reporting 94 unique studies with 164 outcomes for overall PA were included in the present review. Average sample size was 829 participants, ranging from five to 9839. Participants’ ages ranged from three to 19 years. Our review shows that overall 35% of PA outcomes had significant effects in increasing overall PA of children and adolescents. Not including single sex/gender studies, 105 out of 120 PA outcomes resulted in same intervention effects for boys and girls. The interventions reported to have similar effects on PA outcomes for boys and girls showed higher quality of reporting sex/gender aspects of measurement instruments, participant flow and intervention content and materials than PA outcomes with effects only in boys or only in girls. Overall, consideration of sex/gender aspects in intervention studies is low. Conclusions: There is still a need to address sufficient consideration of sex/gender aspects in developing and implementing interventions in the context of PA.
Case Study of my.barackobama.com: Promoting Participatory Democracy?
Creators: name: Baarda, Rachel
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Barack Obama
digital media
political website
participatory democracy
qualitative
case study

description: An ongoing debate surrounds the question of whether digital media can promote participatory democracy. A qualitative case study was conducted on Barack Obama’s campaign social networking site, my.barackobama.com, in order to investigate the ways in which the website promotes or discourages participatory democracy. For a rich analysis, the case study drew on various relevant theoretical perspectives, including the concepts of participatory democracy and digital democracy. The case study included a content analysis of the website and interviews with members of groups on the site. The study found that my.barackobama.com promoted political knowledge and non-electoral participation, but failed to promote political discussion and community. Consequently, the recommendations highlighted the importance of an online public sphere. The findings of this case study add to the research literature about the political use of digital media, and they also add new information about Barack Obama’s digital media strategies.
Identification des facteurs qui influencent l’utilisation des services de santé sexuelle et reproductive chez les femmes immigrantes francophones d’Afrique Subsaharienne
Creators: name: Sawadogo, Martine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: santé sexuelle et reproductive
utilisation des services de santé
femmes immigrantes
Afrique subsaharienne

description: La santé sexuelle et reproductive (SSR) est un enjeu préoccupant pour les femmes d’Afrique subsaharienne (ASS). Ces femmes sont les plus confrontées au VIH/SIDA, au manque de connaissances sur la SSR, aux ressources et services limités en matière de SSR et aux contraintes socioculturelles en matière de sexualité. Les femmes devenues relativement nombreuses dans l’immigration canadienne, plusieurs études soutiennent que la majorité d’entre elles tout comme les nouveaux arrivants, éprouvent des difficultés de navigation dans le système canadien de santé dues aux difficultés linguistiques, culturelles et aux connaissances limitées. Jusqu’à présent, peu d’études ont été faites auprès des femmes immigrantes d’ASS en tant qu’utilisatrices de services de SSR au Canada. Cette recherche vise à identifier les facteurs socioculturels qui influencent l’utilisation des services de SSR chez des femmes immigrantes francophones d’ASS d’Ottawa. Une approche qualitative exploratoire selon une perspective féministe a permis de répondre aux questions de recherche. Des entrevues individuelles auprès de douze femmes provenant d’ASS montrent que la culture est la principale toile de fond des facteurs prédisposants, habilitants, déclenchants et migratoires dans l’utilisation des services de SSR. Ce marquage culturel ancré dans l’éducation sexuelle, les connaissances, les croyances, les pratiques sur la sexualité et la reproduction influence la SSR des femmes. De plus, la maternité, déterminante tant pour la santé que pour l’identité de femme, fait de toute condition d’infertilité, une fatalité à résoudre en ASS. Enfin, un réseau social sélectif, homogène et culturel constitue une barrière considérable dans l’utilisation des services de SSR. Cette étude renforce l’importance pour les soins infirmiers, de considérer l’aspect culturel dans la prise en charge et la promotion de la SSR auprès des femmes immigrantes d’ASS.
Variation in surgical demand and time to hip fracture repair: a Canadian database study
Creators: name: Sheehan, Katie J
name: Sobolev, Boris
name: Guy, Pierre
name: Kim, Jason D.
name: Kuramoto, Lisa
name: Beaupre, Lauren
name: Levy, Adrian R.
name: Morin, Suzanne N.
name: Sutherland, Jason M.
name: Harvey, Edward J.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: Competing demands for operative resources may affect time to hip fracture surgery. We sought to determine the time to hip fracture surgery by variation in demand in Canadian hospitals. Methods: We obtained discharge abstracts of 151,952 patients aged 65 years or older who underwent surgery for a hip fracture between January, 2004 and December, 2012 in nine Canadian provinces. We compared median time to surgery (in days) when demand could be met within a two-day benchmark and when demand required more days, i.e. clearance time, to provide surgery, overall and stratified by presence of medical reasons for delay. Results: For persons admitted when demand corresponded to a 2-day clearance time, 68% of patients underwent surgery within the 2-day benchmark. When demand corresponded to a clearance time of one week, 51% of patients underwent surgery within 2 days. Compared to demand that could be served within the two-day benchmark, adjusted median time to surgery was 5.1% (95% confidence interval [CI] 4.1–6.1), 12.2% (95% CI 10.3–14.2), and 22.0% (95% CI 17.7–26.2) longer, when demand required 4, 6, and 7 or more days to clear the backlog, respectively. After adjustment, delays in median time to surgery were similar for those with and without medical reasons for delay. Conclusion: Increases in demand for operative resources were associated with dose-response increases in the time needed for half of hip fracture patients to undergo surgery. Such delays may be mitigated through better anticipation of day-to-day supply and demand and increased response capability.
Vers une éducation à l'autonomie? La crise contemporaine de l'éducation vue par Cornelius Castoriadis
Creators: name: Gauvreau, Marilyne
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Éducation
Autonomie
Imaginaire
Paideia

description: Dans le cadre de cette recherche, l’approche théorique de Cornelius Castoriadis nous permettra de saisir, avec précision et cohérence, la crise sociétale globale du monde occidental et ses conséquences directes sur notre système d’enseignement depuis les années 1960. La dimension imaginaire que comporte la théorie de Castoriadis nous permettra également d’éclairer autant le processus de l’institution de la société que l’institution de l’autonomie par le biais de la paideia, la formation sociale des individus. En somme, notre cadre théorique nous donnera des outils analytiques pour comprendre la crise du système d’enseignement que doivent gérer les sociétés occidentales contemporaines à partir de la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle et des obstacles qu’elles doivent surmonter en vue de former des citoyen(ne)s autonomes. Pour appuyer ce propos, nous jetterons un regard attentif sur ce qui s’est passé au Québec au tournant des années 1960 avec le dépôt du Rapport Parent.
Effect of p300 HAT Activity on Myogenic Differentiation
Creators: name: Hamed, Munerah
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: p300
myod
histone acetylation

description: Skeletal muscle specification and differentiation programs are regulated by the myogenic regulatory factors which include Myf5, MyoD, myogenin and Mrf4. Upstream of the MRFs, the transcription co-activators and other intracellular and extracellular signals play crucial roles in regulating skeletal myogenesis. Histone acetyltransferase activity of p300 is required for Myf5 and MyoD expression. Furthermore, the MyoD core enhancer region is indispensable for MyoD expression. However, the mechanism by which p300 activates MyoD gene expression is to be determined. The histone acetyltransferase activity of p300 can be inhibited by small molecule inhibitors such as curcumin. Thus, using the inhibitor approach on stem cells is useful to investigate the role of p300 in activating MyoD expression during myogenesis. We here show that curcumin was able to inhibit stem cell determination and differentiation into skeletal myocytes. We also show that p300 is present, and histone acetylation is high at the core enhancer region. Therefore, we provide evidence that p300 is directly involved in MyoD gene expression during skeletal myogenesis.
DelphiNE: Ermittlung von Ressourcenschonungspotenzialen in der Nichteisenmetallindustrie durch eine Zukunftsanalyse nach der Delphi-Methode
Creators: name: Zimmermann, Till
name: Gößling-Reisemann, Stefan
name: Isenmann, Ralf
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Ressourcenschonung
subject: Delphi-Studie
subject: Delphi-Methode
subject: Nichteisenmetallindustrie
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen

description: Welchen Beitrag kann die energie- und rohstoffintensive deutsche NE-Metallindustrie zur Entwicklung einer „Green Economy“ leisten? Wie kann das Metallrecycling optimiert und Energie effizienter eingesetzt werden? Diesen und anderen Zukunftsfragen widmete sich das Projekt „DelphiNE“. Viele Akteure aus Industrie, Wissenschaft, Zivilgesellschaft sowie Politik und Behörden haben dazu ihr Expertenwissen in das Projekt eingebracht. Mit Hilfe der bewährten und handfesten Delphi-Methode wurden daraus zukünftige Maßnahmen zur Steigerung der Ressourcenschonung in der NE-Metallindustrie erarbeitet.Für die EU-Ebene wurden die wichtigsten Maßnahmen in einem Recommendation Paper zusammengefasst.
Solving symbolic equations with PRESS
Creators: name: Sterling, Leon
name: Bundy, Alan
name: Byrd, Lawrence
name: O'Keefe, Richard
name: Silver, Bernard
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We outline a program, PRESS (PRolog Equation Solving System) for solving symbolic, transcendental, non-differential equations. The methods used for solving equations are described, together with the service facilities. The principal technique, meta-level inference, appears to have applications in the broader field of symbolic and algebraic manipulation.
Cashless Economy and Profitability Drive of Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) in Nigeria
Creators: name: Seybold Report Journal
Publisher: name: Seybold Report Journal
Year: 2024

description: Abstract

 This study investigated the impact of cashless economy on profitability of Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) in Nigeria. The research adopted an ex-post facto design based on post-positivist ontology. The data for the study were sourced from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) annual report and statistical bulletin, annual and account reports of 13 listed banks for 11 years i.e. 2012 -2022. The main objective was to find out the effect of cashless economy on profitability of Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria. The specific objectives are to ascertain the effect of automated teller machine on profitability of Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria, to examine the effect of point of sale on profitability of Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria, to assess the effect of mobile banking on profitability of Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria and to examine the effect of internet banking on profitability of Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria. Descriptive and Inferential Statistics, Augmented Dickey Fuller Tests for Unit Roots and the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) were applied on profitability of the listed banks adopted as sample size. The result of the study indicates that Automated Teller Machine (ATM), Point of Sale (POS), Mobile Banking (MOB), and Internet Banking (ITB) have positive and significant effect on return on assets (ROA). The study concludes that cashless economy has positively affected the profitability of Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria. The study recommends that government should provide adequate digital infrastructures, stable and uninterrupted power supply and adequate communication link to aid cashless economy driving seamless profitability of the banks.

KEYWORDS: Cashless economy, Communication, Nigeria, Profitability of deposit money banks

 
description: Cashless economy, Communication, Nigeria, Profitability of deposit money banks
Supplementary document for Laser Induced Aerosol Formation Mediated by Resonant Excitation of Volatile Organic Compounds - 5411186.pdf
Creators: name: Shumakova, Valentina
name: Schubert, Elise
name: Balciunas, Tadas
name: Mattews, Mary
name: Alisauskas, Skirmantas
name: Mongin, Denis
name: Pugzlys, Audrius
name: Kasparian, Jerome
name: Baltuska, Andrius
name: Wolf, Jean Pierre
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Document
Molecular Mechanism Involved in HIV-Tat Mediated inhibition of LPS-Induced IL-23 and IL-27 Production in Human Macrophages
Creators: name: Gajanayaka, Niranjala
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: HIV
HIV-Tat
Macrophages
IL-23
IL-27

description: Monocyte-derived macrophages (MDMs) from HIV-infected patients and MDMs infected in vitro with HIV manifest inhibition of various cytokines including IL 12. Recently, IL-27 was shown to inhibit HIV replication in macrophages. Whether HIV infection or HIV regulatory proteins such as tat, impact IL-23 or IL-27 production in macrophages remains unknown. I have demonstrated that intracellular HIV-tat expression as well as HIV-tat basic domain peptides inhibited LPS-induced IL-23 and IL-27 proteins and their subunits in MDMs. First I investigated the signalling pathways involved in the regulation of LPS-induced IL-23 and IL-27 production in MDMs infected with control pLXIN retrovirus-infected MDMs. The p38 MAPK, SHP-1 and PI3K signalling molecules positively regulated LPS-induced IL-23 expression. In contrast, Src kinases and JNK MAPK negatively regulated LPS-induced IL-23 production. On the other hand, LPS-induced IL-27 production was positively regulated by the PI3K, p38 MAPKs and SHP-1 and Src kinases. Src kinases positively regulated LPS-induced IL-27 production whereas Src kinases and JNK negatively regulated LPS-induced IL-23 production. HIV-Tat significantly inhibited p38 MAPK and PI3K which were implicated in HIV-Tat-mediated inhibition of LPS-induced IL-23 and IL-27 production. Even though HIV-Tat inhibited ERK and JNK MAPK activation, these kinases were not involved in HIV-Tat-mediated inhibition of LPS-induced IL-23 and IL-27 production. While SHP-1 regulated LPS-induced IL-23 and IL-27 production, HIV-Tat did not inhibit SHP-1 and therefore were not involved in HIV-Tat-mediated inhibition of LPS-induced IL-23 and IL-27 production. HIV-Tat did not inhibit Src kinases and hence were not involved in HIV-Tat-mediated inhibition of LPS-induced IL-27 production. Furthermore, HIV-Tat did not inhibit the expression of upstream TLR4-activated signaling molecules including TRAF3, TRIF, MyD88, IRAK1, IRAK3, IRAK4, TRAF-1, TRAF-2, cIAP-1, cIAP-2 and, xIAP. These results suggest association of IL-23 and IL-27 inhibition by HIV with decreased HIV-specific immune responses, and increased viral replication. These results further suggest novel strategies to improve cellular immune responses and inhibition of HIV replication.
Spectral coding of speech LSF parameters using Karhunen-Loeve transform
Creators: name: Lois, Laszlo
name: Vu, Hai
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper, the use of optimal Karhunen-Loeve (KL) transform for quantization of speech line spectrum frequency (LSF) coefficients is studied. Both scalar quantizer (SQ) and vector quantizer (VQ) schemes are developed to encode efficiently the transform parameters after operating one or two-dimensional KL transform. Furthermore, the SQ schemes are also combined with entropy coding by using Huffman variable length coding (VLC). The basic idea in developing these schemes is utilizing the strong correlation of LSF parameters to reduce the bit rate for a given level of fidelity. Since the use of global statistics for generating the coding scheme may not be appropriate, we propose several adaptive KL transform systems (AKL) to encode the LSF parameters. The performance of all systems for different bit rates is investigated and adequate comparisons are made. It is shown that the proposed KL transform coding systems introduce as good as or better performance for both SQ and VQ in the examined bit rates compared to other methods in the field of LSF coding.
Sea salt emission, transport and influence on size-segregated nitrate simulation: a case study in northwestern Europe by WRF-Chem
Creators: name: Barthel, Stefan
name: Chen, Ying-Yuan
name: Birmili, Wolfram
name: Cheng, Yafang
name: Ma, Nan
name: Wolke, Ralf
name: Schüttauf, Stephanie
name: Ran, Liang
name: Wehner, Birgit
name: Nordmann, Stephan
name: Denier Van Der Gon, Hugo A.C.
name: Mu, Quing
name: Spindler, Gerald
name: Stieger, Bastian
name: Müller, Konrad
name: Zheng, Guang-Jie
name: Pöschl, Ulrich
name: Su, Hang
name: Wiedensohler, Alfred
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016

description: Sea salt aerosol (SSA) is one of the major components of primary aerosols and has significant impact on the formation of secondary inorganic particles mass on a global scale. In this study, the fully online coupled WRF-Chem model was utilized to evaluate the SSA emission scheme and its influence on the nitrate simulation in a case study in Europe during 10-20 September 2013. Meteorological conditions near the surface, wind pattern and thermal stratification structure were well reproduced by the model. Nonetheless, the coarse-mode (PM1?-?10) particle mass concentration was substantially overestimated due to the overestimation of SSA and nitrate. Compared to filter measurements at four EMEP stations (coastal stations: Bilthoven, Kollumerwaard and Vredepeel; inland station: Melpitz), the model overestimated SSA concentrations by a factor of 8-20. We found that this overestimation was mainly caused by overestimated SSA emissions over the North Sea during 16-20 September. Over the coastal regions, SSA was injected into the continental free troposphere through an "aloft bridgeŁ (about 500 to 1000?m above the ground), a result of the different thermodynamic properties and planetary boundary layer (PBL) structure between continental and marine regions. The injected SSA was further transported inland and mixed downward to the surface through downdraft and PBL turbulence. This process extended the influence of SSA to a larger downwind region, leading, for example, to an overestimation of SSA at Melpitz, Germany, by a factor of ?~??20. As a result, the nitrate partitioning fraction (ratio between particulate nitrate and the summation of particulate nitrate and gas-phase nitric acid) increased by about 20?% for the coarse-mode nitrate due to the overestimation of SSA at Melpitz. However, no significant difference in the partitioning fraction for the fine-mode nitrate was found. About 140?% overestimation of the coarse-mode nitrate resulted from the influence of SSA at Melpitz. In contrast, the overestimation of SSA inhibited the nitrate particle formation in the fine mode by about 20?% because of the increased consumption of precursor by coarse-mode nitrate formation.Quelle: http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net
Supporting update propagation in object-oriented databases
Creators: name: Liu, Chengfei
name: Li, Hui
name: Orlowska, Maria E.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Objects in a database are interrelated. When an update operation is applied to an object, it may also impact on its related objects, depending on the semantics of their relationships. Current OODBMSs provide no support for update propagation but hard-coding. In this paper, we study update propagation support for generic update operations in object-oriented databases. We take a declarative approach, specifying propagation policies for each identified reference attribute in classes of an object-oriented database schema. Propagation policies for generic update propagation are well defined. However, we also discover that potential conflicts among propagation policies may occur if the policies can be arbitrarily specified by a designer. Therefore, we promote the update propagation problem to a higher level, investigating possible dependencies between objects. As such, the designer only needs to specify the dependency property for each reference attribute. Propagation policies are predefined for each type of dependency. By introducing some restrictions on an object-oriented database schema, conflict-free propagation policies can be achieved. Implementation issues for update propagation support in object-oriented database systems are also addressed.
17-O NMR on Crystalline Hydrades Hydrates: Impact of Hydrogen Bonding
Creators: name: Nour, Sherif
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: NMR
hydrogen bonding
hydrate
solid-state
17O
Oxygen-17
MAS

description: The water molecules in inorganic hydrate salts adopt different geometries and are involved in different hydrogen bond interactions. In this work, magic-angle spinning (MAS) and static 17O solid-state NMR experiments are performed to characterize the 17O electric field gradient (EFG) and chemical shift (CS) tensors of the water molecules in a series of inorganic salt hydrates which include: oxalic acid hydrate, barium chlorate hydrate, sodium perchlorate hydrate, lithium sulphate hydrate, and potassium oxalate hydrate, which were all enriched with 17O water. Data were acquired at magnetic field strengths of 9.4, 11.75, and 21.1 T. Gauge-including projector-augmented-wave density functional theory (GIPAW DFT) calculations are performed on barium chlorate hydrate and oxalic acid hydrate where structural changes including the Ow-H•••O distance, H-O-H angle, and O-H distance are employed to understand their impact on the NMR parameters. Furthermore, simplified molecular models consisting of a metal cation and a water molecule were built to establish the effect the M-Ow distance has on the parameters. The computational studies are then used to understand the experimental results. The 17O quadrupolar coupling constant ranged from 6.75 MHz in K2C2O4•H2O to 7.39 MHz in NaClO4•H2O while the asymmetry parameter ranged from 0.75 in NaClO4•H2O to 1.0 in K2C2O4•H2O and the isotropic chemical shift ranged from -15.0 ppm in NaClO4•H2O to 19.6 ppm in BaClO3•H2O. The computational results revealed the trends for each parameter, where there is an increasing trend for quadrupolar coupling constant and span as a function of increasing hydrogen bond distance, decreasing trend for the three chemical shift tensors as a function of increasing M-Ow distance and unclear trends for asymmetry parameter and skew due to competing electronic factors. Overall, this study provides benchmark 17O NMR data for water molecules in crystalline hydrates, including the first measurement of 17O chemical shift anisotropy for such materials.
N-Alkylated Iminosugar Based Ligands: Synthesis and Inhibition of Human Lysosomal β-Glucocerebrosidase
Creators: name: Wolfsgruber, Andreas
name: Thonhofer, Martin
name: Weber, Patrick
name: Nasseri, Seyed A.
name: Fischer, Roland
name: Schalli, Michael
name: Stütz, Arnold E.
name: Withers, Stephen G.
name: Wrodnigg, Tanja M.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: The scope of a series of N-alkylated iminosugar based inhibitors in the d-gluco as well as d-xylo configuration towards their interaction with human lysosomal β-glucocerebrosidase has been evaluated. A versatile synthetic toolbox has been developed for the synthesis of N-alkylated iminosugar scaffolds conjugated to a variety of terminal groups via a benzoic acid ester linker. The terminal groups such as nitrile, azide, alkyne, nonafluoro-tert-butyl and amino substituents enable follow-up chemistry as well as visualisation experiments. All compounds showed promising inhibitory properties as well as selectivities for β-glucosidases, some exhibiting activities in the low nanomolar range for β-glucocerebrosidase.
Online Child Pornography Offenders and Risk Assessment: How Online Offenders Compare to Contact Offenders Using Common Risk Assessment Variables
Creators: name: McWhaw, Andrew
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Online Child Pornography
Sex Offending
Risk Assessment
Static-2002

description: The aim of this study was to compare online child pornography offenders and contact offenders along the predictive items of the Static-2002 actuarial risk assessment tool, as well as, several other items and scales predictive of recidivism. In addition, the study wished to determine if the Static-2002 was a well-equipped to assess online offenders. 120 subjects were assessed in this study, 53 online child pornography offenders, 53 child molesters, and 7 offenders who committed both a contact and online offense. The research identified a number of similarities between the two groups of offenders, including a finding that the two groups did not significantly differ in age. The most pronounced differences were found on the several measures of criminality used in the study where contact offenders scored significantly higher. The Static-2002 was found to not be well suited for use with online offenders as the tool had difficulty assessing their sexual deviancy.
Evaluation of the Genetic Differences Between Two Subtypes of Campylobacter fetus (Fetus and Venerealis) in Canada
Creators: name: Mukhtar, Lenah
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Suppression Subtractive Hybridization
Campylobacter fetus subspecies
Whole Genome Sequencing
Optical Mapping
Pathogenicity Island

description: The pathogen Campylobacter fetus (CF) is classified into two subspecies, Campylobacter fetus subspecies fetus (CFF) and Campylobacter fetus subspecies venerealis (CFV). Even though CFF and CFV are genetically closely related, they exhibit differences in their host adaptation; CFF inhabits the gastrointestinal tract of both humans and several animal species, while classical CFV is specific to the bovine genital tract and is of particular concern with respect to international bovine trade regulation. Traditionally, differentiation between the two subspecies has been achieved using a limited number of biochemical tests but more rapid and definitive genetic methods of discrimination are desired. A recent study suggested that the presence of a genomic island only in CFV could discriminate between the two sub- species but this hypothesis could not be confirmed on a collection of isolates originating in Canada. To identify alternative gene targets that would support accurate subspecies discrimination, this study has applied several approaches including suppression subtractive hybridization and whole genome sequencing supplemented with optical mapping. A subtractive hybridization screen, using a well-characterized CFV isolate recovered during routine screening of bulls in an Artificial Insemination center in western Canada and that lacked much of the genomic island and a typical Canadian CFF isolate, yielded 50 clones; characterization of these clones by hybridization screening against selected CF isolates and by nucleotide sequence BLAST analysis identified three potentially CFV-specific clones that contained inserts originating from a second genomic island. Further screening using a larger CF sample set found that only Clone #35 was truly CFV-specific. Optical maps (NcoI digest) of the Canadian CFF and CFV isolates used for the subtractive hybridization showed that certain regions of these genomes were quite distinct from those of two reference strains. Whole genome sequencing of these two isolates identified two target genes (PICFV5_ORF548 and CFF_Feature #3) that appear to be selectively retained in the two subspecies. Screening of a collection of CF isolates by PCRs targeting these three loci (SSH_Clone #35, PICFV5_ORF548 and CFF_Feature #3) supported their use for subspecies discrimination. This work demonstrates the complex genomic diversity associated with these CF subtypes and the challenge posed by their discrimination using limited genetic loci.
Fair measures of performance: the World Cup of Cricket
Creators: name: Clarke, Stephen
name: Allsopp, Paul
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Luck can play a big part in tournament success, and progress is not necessarily the best measure of performance. A linear model is used to fit least squares ratings to margins of victory in the cricket World Cupp The Duckworth/Lewis rain interruption rules are used to project a winning second innings score and create a margin of victory in runs, equivalent to that used when the team batting first wins. Results show that, while the better teams progressed through the first round of the competition, some injustices occurred in the Super-Six round. This appears to be due to the double counting of selected matches. Ordering teams by average margin of victory gives similar results to the more complicated linear model, and its use as a tie breaker is suggested. Publication of the margin of victory as estimated by the Duckworth/Lewis method for second innings victories in all one-day matches would provide a common margin of victory suitable for analysis.
Lifestyle Risk Factors Associated with Adult Primary Brain Tumours: Quality Assessment of Existing Systematic Reviews, Followed by Updated Analyses and De-Novo Syntheses
Creators: name: Quach, Pauline
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Brain Tumours
Glioma
Meningioma
Risk Factors
Lifestyle
Systematic Review
Meta-Analysis

description: Background: A compilation of high quality systematic reviews (SRs) on lifestyle factors associated with adult glioma and meningioma was developed. Methods and Materials: Phase 1 consisted of a systematic overview of existing SRs. For Phase 2, high quality SRs were incorporated in an update. Moderate or low quality SRs which had not been considered in a high quality review were eligible for a de-novo synthesis. Results: Phase 1 resulted in seven moderate to low quality reviews. From this, in Phase 2, smoking, mobile phone and hair dye use were subjected to de-novo reviews. For smoking, it was suggestive that past smokers had an increased risk. For mobile phone use, there was no overall association, however it was suggestive that ipsilateral and high cumulative call time were associated with slight increased risk. No association was observed for personal hair dye use. Conclusions: Despite these null associations, rigorous SR methods were used providing confidence in conveying these results.
title: Postpartale Lebensqualität beurteilen
Creators: name: Grylka-Baeschlin, Susanne
name: van Teijlingen, Edwin
name: Gross, Mechthild
Publisher: name: Medizinische Hochschule Hannover Bibliothek
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Hebamme.ch, vol. 17, no. 4, p. 20
La politique étrangère canadienne à l'égard de la décolonisation de l'Afrique de 1945 à 1960
Creators: name: Girard-Bourgoin, Thessa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: politique étrangère canadienne
décolonisation de l'Afrique
guerre froide
relation Canada-Afrique
Canada à l'ONU

description: Cette thèse porte sur l’évolution de la politique étrangère canadienne à l’égard de la décolonisation de l’Afrique entre 1945 et 1960. Ce sujet est quasi-ignoré dans la littérature savante, mais est tout de même important puisqu’il pose les bases des relations entre le Canada et les pays africains qui émergent de la décolonisation. Au lendemain de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, les relations diplomatiques entre le Canada et le continent africain sont inexistantes. Ne détenant aucune colonie, le Canada laisse l’entière responsabilité aux empires coloniaux présents sur le territoire. À contre courant, peu à peu au cours des années 1950, le continent oublié devient un acteur important sur la scène internationale que le Canada ne peut plus négliger. En 1960, l’Assemblée générale de l’ONU adopte la Déclaration sur l’octroi de l’indépendance aux pays et peuples coloniaux, résolution entérinée par le Canada. D’une absence de politique en 1945 à une adhésion complète au principe de décolonisation en 1960, le Canada se façonne une politique coloniale dans le nouvel ordre mondial. Qu’est ce qui arrive durant ces quinze années d’effervescence en politique étrangère canadienne pour expliquer cet intérêt croissant envers le phénomène de décolonisation africaine? Durant cette période, l’approche canadienne quant à la décolonisation de l’Afrique est influencée par quatre éléments (les États-Unis, le Commonwealth, l’ONU et l’OTAN) qui, d’une manière indirecte, interagissent avec les intérêts du Canada. Finalement, cette thèse permet de démentir le mythe à l’effet que la politique étrangère canadienne, par rapport à l’enjeu colonial, est menée par des valeurs altruistes. Au contraire, nous affirmons que ce sont les circonstances résultant de la guerre froide qui expliquent les raisons pour lesquelles le Canada se dote d’une politique pour répondre à la décolonisation africaine et non pas la conséquence d’une volonté politique d’appliquer le concept d’auto-détermination des peuples.
Supplementary document for Laser Induced Aerosol Formation Mediated by Resonant Excitation of Volatile Organic Compounds - 5411186.pdf
Creators: name: Shumakova, Valentina
name: Schubert, Elise
name: Balciunas, Tadas
name: Mattews, Mary
name: Alisauskas, Skirmantas
name: Mongin, Denis
name: Pugzlys, Audrius
name: Kasparian, Jerome
name: Baltuska, Andrius
name: Wolf, Jean Pierre
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Document
Control of Self-Organizing and Geometric Formations
Creators: name: Pruner, Elisha
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: formation control
autonomous mobile robots
control of robot teams
leader-follower formation
self-organizing formations
decentralized control
artificial potential field formation
velocity potential
multi-agent systems
reconfiguring geometric formation

description: Multi-vehicle systems offer many advantages in engineering applications such as increased efficiency and robustness. However, the disadvantage of multi-vehicle systems is that they require a high level of organization and coordination in order to successfully complete a task. Formation control is a field of engineering that addresses this issue, and provides coordination schemes to successfully implement multi-vehicle systems. Two approaches to group coordination were proposed in this work: geometric and self-organizing formations. A geometric reconfiguring formation was developed using the leader-follower method, and the self-organizing formation was developed using the velocity potential equations from fluid flow theory. Both formation controllers were first tested in simulation in MATLAB, and then implemented on the X80 mobile robot units. Various experiments were conducted to test the formations under difficult obstacle scenarios. The robots successfully navigated through the obstacles as a coordinated as a team using the self-organizing and geometric formation control approaches.
Raising public awareness of statistics through increased exposure in the mass media: an illustration with the case of sports statistics
Creators: name: Clarke, Stephen
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Although mathematics and statistics are playing an increasingly important role in many areas of study, there has been a steady decline in enrolments in mathematics based courses in both secondary and tertiary education. In Australia during the nineties there has been a decline from about 50000 to 30000 in the number of year 12 secondary students studying advanced mathematics subjects. At my university Swinburne, our statistics major has been discontinued due to failure to attract sufficient high quality students, in favour of the currently more glamorous areas such as business studies, information technology, psychology and multi-media studies. With this declining interest from students, it is important that researchers and teachers take every opportunity to promote the applications of statistics to the wider community. For some reason I have been very successful in achieving publicity for the results of my research. A rough count reveals I have been involved in about eight television appearances, over 30 radio interviews and countless articles in the print media. I believe such publicity is good for the university, the subject and the profession, and is possible in many other application areas. This paper explores some of the ways in which I have brought the results of statistical modelling to the attention of the general public. [Introduction]
The Role of GLP Domains in Spreading of the G9a/GLP Complex and Regulation of the β-globin Gene Expression
Creators: name: Thieba, Camilia Annik
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: GLP
G9a
chromatin
globin

description: Marked by a defect in the production of the Beta (β)-globin chain that make-up hemoglobin, Beta (β)-thalassemia is the most prevalent form of inherited single-gene disorders in the world. To understand the molecular mechanisms that govern the expression of the β-globin polypeptide encoded by the β-globin locus, we examined closely the enzymes involved in the epigenetic regulation of gene expression through histone 3 lysine 9 mono and di-methylation (H3K9 me1/2). G9a-like protein (GLP), a mammalian methyltransferase involved in the establishment and maintenance of H3K9 me1/2 mark at euchromatin, regions was found to be critical for the full activation of the adult β-globin genes in vivo during Murine erythroleukemia cell line (MEL) differentiation. Though it was initially hypothesized that GLP binding to H3K9 me1/2 mark through its Ankyrin domain was key to its activating function, we found that Flag- GLP ankyrin mutants E817R and W791A unable to bind to the methyl mark, are able to activate β-globin genes as well as their wild-type counterpart. Additionally, this study found that the embryonic gene εγ, known to be re-activated after G9a KD at the mRNA level, was effectively transcribed at the protein level using Triton Urea Acetic acid (TAU) western blots, thereby identifying potential therapeutic applications for treatment for β-thalassemia patients.
Stabilization of T-S fuzzy systems using LTV system theory
Creators: name: Gao, Shiyu
name: Man, Zhihong
name: Yu, Xinghuo
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Takage-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy systems are equivalent to linear time-varying (LTV) systems, the theory of LTV systems can therefore be used to design global feedback controllers to stabilize T-S fuzzy systems. It is seen that the closed-loop T-S fuzzy system is first transformed into the canonical form by using a Lyapunov transform, a global feedback controller is then designed to assign all Parallel D-spectrum eigenvalues (PD-eigenvalues) of the closed-loop T-S fuzzy system to the desired locations whose real parts have negative extended means. The proposed control scheme not only guarantees asymptotic stability of the closed-loop T-S fuzzy systems, but also allows the designers to directly design a simple global controller instead of deriving a complex global controller by aggregating all local controllers using fuzzy membership functions. A simulation example is given in support of the proposed scheme.
Seeking Alternatives for Criminology: The Immigration and Refugee Board Practices on the Regulation of Immigration in Canada
Creators: name: Vieira Velloso, Joao Gustavo
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Immigration and Refugee Board
Punishment
Legal Pluralism
Criminalization
Immigration Control
Penal Complex
Selectivity of Justice

description: Administrative justice is traditionally considered as the main alternative to the criminal justice system when a certain illegality is decriminalized or not enforced by criminal justice institutions (e.g. the regulation of elite deviance, urban disorder, mental health, etc.). This doctoral thesis studies how the conflicts related to immigration are being managed in the largest administrative tribunal in Canada: the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB). It asks how exactly does immigration justice, and administrative law more broadly, constitute an alternative to criminal justice in terms of social reaction, and what kinds of challenges does this alternative present for the study of social control. This research takes a qualitative approach based on documentary analysis and long-term ethnographic fieldwork conducted at the IRB between 2007 and 2009. It uses its own theoretical framework building on post-structural perspectives, including Bourdieu’s constructivist structuralism, governmentality and nodal governance studies, left realism and political economy of punishment. In the empirical part of the thesis, I present some of the characteristics of the legal translation of conflicts in immigration law, including the forms and logics of punishment involved and how immigration law is practiced at the tribunal. I argue that administrative adjudication and punishment differ substantially from criminal law regimes and I question the idea of criminalization (of immigration) as a category capable of nuancing the complexity of administrative forms of social reaction. Instead, I suggest that we should take these forms of punitive social reaction as they are, and study how they operate along, beyond and in addition to criminal law. I propose an integrated conception of the penal complex which works as a mobile (kinetic sculpture) and includes the criminal law realm, but also other normative systems that configure ‘less’ prominent locations of punishment playing an increasing role in social reaction. I conclude by proposing a new reading of selectivity of justice and penal policies, and consequently, a new agenda for criminology and criminologists. In this new agenda, the penal complex should be taken as a totality in order to promote broader and combined propositions for law reform and resistance to punitiveness.
An Analysis of Sexual Assault Support Services for Women who have a Developmental Disability
Creators: name: Martin, Heather M.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Developmental disabilities
Feminist disability studies
Intellectual disabilities
Sexual assault

description: Guided by feminist social constructionism, intersectionality and the social construction of disability, this thesis investigates the ways that sexual assault support workers and disability support workers in a medium-sized Ontario city construct women survivors of sexual assault who have a developmental disability, and how their service delivery reflects these constructions. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews with sexual assault support workers and disability support workers. Results suggest that these workers construct their service users in multiple, sometimes conflicting, ways, resisting and reproducing several ableist and sexist social constructions. Furthermore, sexual assault support workers and disability support workers often construct their service users in opposing ways. This reveals a divide between the two types of organizations. Bridging this gap may have the potential to improve services for women survivors of sexual assault who have developmental disabilities.
Anglers, Warriors, and Acrobats: The Journey of Learning in Cooperative Education
Creators: name: Jones, Jeela
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: cooperative education
work-integrated learning
experiential learning
community of practice
legitimate peripheral participation
reflection
school-to-work transition
identity
imaged-based research
narrative
reader’s theatre
qualitative

description: Each year, students who are newly enrolled in the University of Ottawa Cooperative Education Programs prepare for their first co-op work terms. In this period of pre-employment, students ask themselves important questions like, “What do I have to do to get a job?” and “What do I want to be?” As a co-op practitioner I am exposed to students’ experiences and the dilemmas they face but I still wondered what was hidden from my view and outside of my understanding. Thus, during one-on-one interviews that occurred prior to their first co-op work terms, six co-op students shared the photographs and stories of their co-op experiences with me and I shared my photographs and stories with them. Goffman’s (1959) theory of dramaturgy provided the theoretical framework to present, interpret, and understand the words and pictures that emerged from these interviews. What resulted were dramas, narratives, and allegories: six participant descriptions written as mini-biographies, verbatim transcripts prepared as a reader’s theatre script, and a set of five themes composed with vivid symbolism. The five metaphoric themes of co-op student experience are (a) journey, (b) circus, (c) metamorphosing, (d) anglers at sea, and (e) warriors. Taken together, what emerged was a deeper seeing and a richer understanding of what’s “really going on” in the time prior to students’ first co-op work terms (Goffman, 1974, p. 8) particularly with regards to legitimate peripheral participation, reflection, and experiential learning.