cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Strategic analysis of Somani Fabrics
Creators: name: Gupta, Sandeep
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: World business has transformed from sellers' market to buyers' market. This has led to an increase in competition within the domestic market. Domestic companies are now looking for overseas markets for their survival and growth. Information and technology have played a very vital role in bringing the world closer. Access to foreign markets is virtually at the fingertips of producers. Domestic companies are increasingly using this technology to seek their access. Australia is one of the biggest users of information technology. The Australian economy is fairly stable. The opening up of the Australian economy and its economic growth have attracted many foreign companies. There are enormous opportunities in Australia which are yet to be tapped by Indian companies. Hence, Somani Fabrics has a fair chance to take advantage of the growing Australian market. The clothing export industry in India has shown an inspired growth and performance in a short span of time, reaching an export figure of 4.5 billion US$ during 1995-96 leaving all the other products far behind and by contributing over 16% of the national foreign exchange earnings. It is also credible that phenomenal export growth in this sector has been possible despite quota restrictions. However, such restriction would no longer be there beyond 2005. A golden opportunity exists for Indian garment industry to penetrate new markets. The study begins with an introduction identifying the purpose, benefits and scope of study etc. In the subsequent chapters, the study reviews theories relating to strategic management, internal and external environment analysis and theories relating to various tools for development of different strategies. With the help of SWOT analysis many strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for Somani Fabrics are analysed. This information is used for the development of an appropriate strategy, which could eliminate these weaknesses and threats. TOWS matrix and SPACE Matrix generates several strategies for Somani Fabrics. Each of these strategies is evaluated for selection purposes. In conclusion, a strategy is recommended to Somani Fabrics. It is also recommended that Somani Fabrics should undertake future research before entering Australian market.
Synthesis and Study of a Persistent Selenenic Acid and Preliminary Studies of Thiol Oxidation
Creators: name: Presseau, Nathalie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: selenenic acid
sulfenic acid
organoselenium
antioxidant

description: Selenenic acids and other organoselenium compounds are important both in organic and biochemistry. In organic chemistry, syn-elemination of selenoxides is used to prepare alkenes, giving a selenenic acid by-product. In biochemistry, selenocysteine is catalytically active in a variety of selenoenzymes, which have antioxidant properties, and is oxidized to a selenenic acid intermediate. For example, glutathione peroxidase (GPx) plays a role in fighting oxidative damage by catalyzing the reduction of hydroperoxides. Previous studies have shown that the lighter chalcogen analogue of selenenic acid, sulfenic acid, is a powerful antioxidant and that the known antioxidant activity of garlic is attributable to the 2-propenesulfenic acid derived from the compound allicin. This has prompted questions concerning the role of selenenic acid in the antioxidant activity of organoselenium compounds. In order to study the physiochemical properties of selenenic acids –a functional group about which little is known—and to evaluate their potential as antioxidants, a persistent selenenic acid is needed. Herein, the model compound, 9-triptyceneselenenic acid, is prepared by a previously reported procedure and a new pathway is designed, such that its properties and reactivity can be studied. The oxidation of thiols is important in cell signalling, leading to the disulfide bonds implicated in post-translational modification, among other biological roles. While this reaction is presumed to occur through the reaction of thiol with an oxidant that forms sulfenic acid, and from a subsequent reaction of sulfenic acid with another thiol, sulfenic acids are so reactive that they are not usually seen as intermediates. Given the stability of the 9-triptycenesulfenic acid previously synthesized, preliminary kinetic study of the oxidation of 9-triptycenethiol to its corresponding sulfenic acid is made possible.
Supplementary document for Multi-exposure interferometric Diffusing Wave Spectroscopy - 5369348.pdf
Creators: name: Zhou, Wenjun
name: Zhao, Mingjun
name: Kholiqov, Oybek
name: Srinivasan, Vivek
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Multi-exposure interferometric Diffusing Wave Spectroscopy: supplemental document
La progression de l'analphabétisme fonctionnel chez les moins de vingt-quatre ans au Québec : un condition de la marginalisation de la jeunesse.
Creators: name: Guilbault-Laganière, Ginette.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Education, Language and Literature.

description: Abstract Not Available.
3D Sensing and Tracking of Human Gait
Creators: name: Yang, Lin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Motion capture
multi-Kinect trilateration
depth
accuracy
Kinect v2
gait tracking

description: Motion capture technology has been applied in many fields such as animation, medicine, military, etc. since it was first proposed in the 1970s. Based on the principles applied, motion capture technology is generally classified into six categories: 1) Optical; 2) Inertial; 3) Magnetic; 4) Mechanical; 5) Acoustic and 6) Markerless. Different from the other five kinds of motion capture technologies which try to track path of specific points with different equipment, markerless systems recognize human or non-human body's motion with vision-based technology which focuses on analyzing and processing the captured images for motion capture. The user doed not need to wear any equipment and is free to do any action in an extensible measurement area while a markerless motion capture system is working. Though this kind of system is considered as the preferred solution for motion capture, the difficulty for realizing an effective and high accuracy markerless system is much higher than the other technologies mentioned, which makes markerless motion capture development a popular research direction. Microsoft Kinect sensor has attracted lots of attention since the launch of its first version with its depth sensing feature which gives the sensor the ability to do motion capture without any extra devices. Recently, Microsoft released a new version of Kinect sensor with improved hardware and and targeted at the consumer market. However, to the best of our knowlege, the accuracy assessment of the sensor remains to be answered since it was released. In this thesis, we measure the depth accuracy of the newly released Kinect v2 depth sensor from different aspects and propose a trilateration method to improve the depth accuracy with multiple Kinects simultaneously. Based on the trilateration method, a low-cost, no wearable equipment requirement and easy setup human gait tracking system is realized.
Superparsing with Improved Segmentation Boundaries through Nonparametric Context
Creators: name: Pan, Hong
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Semantic Segmentation
Nonparametric scene parsing
Context
Random Fields

description: Scene parsing, or segmenting all the objects in an image and identifying their categories, is one of the core problems of computer vision. In order to achieve an object-level semantic segmentation, we build upon the recent superparsing approach by Tighe and Lazebnik, which is a nonparametric solution to the image labeling problem. Superparsing consists of four steps. For a new query image, the most similar images from the training dataset of labeled images is retrieved based on global features. In the second step, the query image is segmented into superpxiels and 20 di erent local features are computed for each superpixel. We propose to use the SLICO segmentation method to allow control of the size, shape and compactness of the superpixels because SLICO is able to produce accurate boundaries. After all superpixel features have been extracted, feature-based matching of superpixels is performed to nd the nearest-neighbour superpixels in the retrieval set for each query superpxiel. Based on the neighbouring superpixels a likelihood score for each class is calculated. Finally, we formulate a Conditional Random Field (CRF) using the likelihoods and a pairwise cost both computed from nonparametric estimation to optimize the labeling of the image. Speci cally, we de ne a novel pairwise cost to provide stronger semantic contextual constraints by incorporating the similarity of adjacent superpixels depending on local features. The optimized labeling obtained with the CRF results in superpixels with the same labels grouped together to generate segmentation results which also identify the categories of objects in an image. We evaluate our improvements to the superparsing approach using segmentation evaluation measures as well as the per-pixel rate and average per-class rate in a labeling evaluation. We demonstrate the success of our modi ed approach on the SIFT Flow dataset, and compare our results with the basic superparsing methods proposed by Tighe and Lazebnik.
La flore dans la science du géoaménagement: cas du bassin versant de l’oued Smir (Tétouan, Nord-ouest du Maroc)
Creators: name: Lahcen, Nabil
name: Ennabili, Abdeslam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Botany
subject: 60310 Plant Systematics and Taxonomy
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Geography

description: The Smir watershed flora has been studied as a subsystem according to an original taxochorological classification of the geoplanners method. With 370 floristic inventories corresponding to 375 species and 90 families, we have assessed the phytodiversity of Smirwatershed landscapes. The characteristics analysis of this flora as weil as its interaction with the hamessing units (map of hamessing system) would show their economical interests for native activities including pharmacopaeia, native craftsmen, breeding and tourism, sectors that must be restructed and valorized. The safeguarding option aims a more rational and sustainable exploitation of this heritage
Supplementation to Improve Anticoagulation Control with Low Dose Vitamin K as an Adjuvant to Warfarin Therapy: A Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Randomized Controlled Trial
Creators: name: Majeed, Habeeb
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Vitamin K1
Warfarin
Coumadin
VKORC1
CYP2C9
CYP4F2
Anticoagulation control

description: Vitamin K Antagonists [VKA] are the most frequently used oral anticoagulants in clinical practice; however, many patients fail to achieve adequate anticoagulation control. We conducted a randomized, placebo controlled, double blind study of Vitamin K1 (200mcg per day, Swanson Vitamins) in a population with predominantly venous thromboembolism aimed at evaluating its effectiveness in improving anticoagulation control in unstable patients. This study also aimed to evaluate the impact that clinical variables, patient anticoagulation knowledge, and genetic polymorphisms in genes known to impact warfarin and Vitamin K metabolism [VKORC1, CYP4F2, CYP2C9] had on anticoagulation control and intervention effectiveness. A total of N=54 patients were enrolled in the study over 15 months [January 2009 to June 2010]. Change score analysis and multivariate linear regression modelling of anticoagulation control measures were performed. No statistically significant reduction was observed in the Vitamin K1 arm for percent time in therapeutic range; however, reduction was observed in standard deviation of INRs [Change Score Vitamin K = -0.259, p=0.0261; Regression Model 95% C.I Beta Vitamin K = 0.38 to -0.08] during the intervention period. Adjusting for treatment group allocation, independent predictors of increased INR standard deviation included: >5 alcoholic drinks per week [95% C.I Beta = 0.04 to 0.41], self-reported dosing errors [95% C.I Beta = 0.13 to 0.47], and missed INR appointments [95% C.I Beta = 0.002 to 0.05]
The Accumulated Experience Ant Colony for the travelling salesman problem
Creators: name: Randall, Marcus
name: Montgomery, James
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Ant colony optimisation techniques are usually guided by pheromone and heuristic cost information when choosing the next element to add to a solution. However, while an individual element may be attractive, usually its long term consequences are neither known nor considered. For instance, a short link in a TSP may be incorporated into an ant's solution, yet, as a consequence of this link, the rest of the path may be longer than if another link was chosen. The Accumulated Experience Ant Colony uses the previous experiences of the colony to guide in the choice of elements. This is in addition to the normal pheromone and heuristic costs. The results indicate that on some problems this helps to find improved solutions to the travelling salesman problem.
An approach to estimating the environmental burden of cancer from known and probable carcinogens: application to Ontario, Canada
Creators: name: Greco, Susan L
name: MacIntyre, Elaina
name: Young, Stephanie
name: Warden, Hunter
name: Drudge, Christopher
name: Kim, JinHee
name: Candido, Elisa
name: Demers, Paul
name: Copes, Ray
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: Quantifying the potential cancer cases associated with environmental carcinogen exposure can help inform efforts to improve population health. This study developed an approach to estimate the environmental burden of cancer and applied it to Ontario, Canada. The purpose was to identify environmental carcinogens with the greatest impact on cancer burden to support evidence-based decision making. Methods: We conducted a probabilistic assessment of the environmental burden of cancer in Ontario. We selected 23 carcinogens that we defined as “environmental” (e.g., pollutants) and were relevant to the province, based on select classifications provided by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. We evaluated population exposure to the carcinogens through inhalation of indoor/outdoor air; ingestion of food, water, and dust; and exposure to radiation. We obtained or calculated concentration-response functions relating carcinogen exposure and the risk of developing cancer. Using both human health risk assessment and population attributable fraction models in a Monte Carlo simulation, we estimated the annual cancer cases associated with each environmental carcinogen, reporting the simulation summary (e.g., mean and percentiles). Results: We estimated between 3540 and 6510 annual cancer cases attributable to exposure to 23 environmental carcinogens in Ontario. Three carcinogens were responsible for over 90% of the environmental burden of cancer: solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation, radon in homes, and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in outdoor air. Eight other carcinogens had an estimated mean burden of at least 10 annual cancer cases: acrylamide, arsenic, asbestos, chromium, diesel engine exhaust particulate matter, dioxins, formaldehyde, and second-hand smoke. The remaining 12 carcinogens had an estimated mean burden of less than 10 annual cancer cases in Ontario. Conclusions: We found the environmental burden of cancer in Ontario to fall between previously estimated burdens of alcohol and tobacco use. These results allow for a comparative assessment across carcinogens and offer insights into strategies to reduce the environmental burden of cancer. Our analysis could be adopted by other jurisdictions and repeated in the future for Ontario to track progress in reducing cancer burden, assess newly classified environmental carcinogens, and identify top burden contributors.
Supplementary document for Flat-plate perfect blackbody using micro-cavity composite with good heat transfer towards a reference radiation source for thermal imagers - 5369816.pdf
Creators: name: Shimizu, Yuhei
name: Koshikawa, Hiroshi
name: Imbe, Masatoshi
name: Yamaki, Tetsuya
name: godo, kenji
name: Sasajima, Naohiko
name: Amemiya, Kuniaki
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Supplementary document for Flat-plate perfect blackbody using micro-cavity composite with good heat transfer towards a reference radiation source for thermal imagers - 5369816.pdf
Creators: name: Shimizu, Yuhei
name: Koshikawa, Hiroshi
name: Imbe, Masatoshi
name: Yamaki, Tetsuya
name: godo, kenji
name: Sasajima, Naohiko
name: Amemiya, Kuniaki
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Compact two-photon fluorescence microscope based on a single-mode fibre coupler
Creators: name: Bird, Damian
name: Gu, Min
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present a two-photon f luorescence microscope based on a three-port single-mode optical fiber coupler. It is found that the coupler behaves as a low-pass filter that can deliver an ultrashort-pulsed laser beam of as much as 150 mW of power in the wavelength range from 770 to 870 nm as well as collect a two-photon f luorescence signal in the visible range. As a result of using the fiber coupler, the new two-photon imaging system exhibts a number of advantages, including a compact arrangement, freedom from vibration from lasers and electronic devices, self-alignment, reduction of multiple scattering, and an enhanced optical sectioning effect. The effectiveness of the new instrument is demonstrated with a set of three-dimensional images of biological samples. This instrument may make two-photon fluorescence endoscopy possible for in vivo medical applications.
Mitofusin 1 and Mitofusin 2 Function in the Context of Brain Development
Creators: name: Hamze, Carmen
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Mfn1
Mfn2
progenitor cells
post-mitotic cortical neurons
development
telencephalon

description: Mitofusin 1 and 2 are outer-mitochondrial membrane proteins that have been shown to be involved in fusion. Mitofusin 2 has also been associated with apoptosis and development. When Mfn1 and Mfn2 were each conditionally knocked out from the cerebellum, Purkinje cells in Mfn2 deficient cerebellum during development had undergone neurodegeneration. Mutations in Mfn2 have also been associated with the Charcot Marie Tooth Type 2A (CMT2A). We want to asses the effect Mfn2 and Mfn1 might have on the development of other regions of the brain such as the telencephalon. We generated Mfn1 and Mfn2 conditional knockouts in the telencephalon by crossing them with Foxg1 Cre - a cre expressed in the telencephalon. We found that Mfn1 deficient mice have lost their corpus callosum at the midline, but survive over 6 months with a decrease in progenitor cells postnatally. Mfn2 deficient mice die between P9 and P12 with a decrease in progenitor cells postnatally and a decrease in number of neurons in the cortex. Therefore, our results suggest that Mfn1 and Mfn2 play a significant role in the development of the telencephalon.
The health of Canadians with diabetes
Creators: James, Robert
Young, T. Kue
Mustard, Cameron A.
Blanchard, Jamie
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 1997

"According to Statistics Canada's 1994/95 National Population Health Survey (NPHS), 3% of Canadians aged 12 and older - over 722,000 people - reported having diabetes that had been diagnosed by a health care professional. Less than one-quarter (23%) of them reported that they used insulin in the month before their interview. Just over half (51%) indicated that they took pills to control diabetes." (as cited in article)
D-modules on singular varieties and Hochschild homology of quantisations
Creators: name: Yang, Haiping
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2024

description: In the first part, we study the category of D-modules on singular varieties. For an affine variety X, we show that the derived category of quasi-coherent D-modules is equivalent to the category of DG modules over a DG algebra, with zeroth cohomology given by Grothendieck differential operators Diff(X). In the cuspidal case, we recover Diff(X), relating it to [BN04]. We also compute the cohomology algebra and natural modules for hypersurfaces, curves, and isolated quotient singularities. In the second part, we define an analogue of Hochschild homology based on [ES09], enhancing (zeroth) Poisson homology to a local version via a specific D-module M(X). Using another D-module Mℏ(X), we introduce Hochschild–de Rham homology, which generally coincides with Hochschild homology in degree 0 for affine X. We show that, for certain symplectic resolutions, Poisson-de Rham and Hochschild– de Rham homology align with de Rham cohomology. Additionally, for X with finitely many symplectic leaves, Mℏ(X) is holonomic, implying finite generation of Hochschild–de Rham homology. In the third part, we apply the second part’s results to the skein theory of tori. We identify an explicit symplectic resolution Hilb0(T2) of the SLN-character variety of the 2-torus T2, as a version of the Hilbert scheme of T2. We show that Hilb0(T2)×T2 is a CN×CN cover of Hilb(T2), compute its de Rham cohomology and Hochschild–de Rham homology under quantisation, and deduce dim SkSLN (T3) = P ⋆ J3(N).
Excess Sludge Reduction During Activated Sludge Municipal Wastewater Treatment by Integrating an Anoxic Holding Tank and Post-ultrasound Treatment to Enhance Biomass Maintenance Metabolism
Creators: name: Marin-Hernandez, Juan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: activated sludge process
biomass activity
SOUR
DHA
XTT
dewaterability
WAS

description: HT biomass sonicated at ES inputs < 56KJ/gTS decreased floc size by 41% and enhanced its metabolic activity by 50-250% compared to control. ES inputs >118 KJ/gTS caused HT biomass solubilization and irreversible loss of its metabolic activity and reflocculation ability. During continuous activated sludge processing (ASP) of real primary effluent the observed yield (Yobs) decreased by 20% compared to control ASP at SF (stress factor) of 1 (biomass exchanged without USPT). At SF of 0.5, 1 and 1.5 (biomass exchanged with USPT) the Yobs further decreased by 33, 25 and 44% respectively as compared to control. This indicated that combining biomass anoxic exposure with USPT enhanced sludge reduction by increasing microbial maintenance metabolism likely in combination with microbial flora shift in the ASP depending on SF.
Kurzfassung: Klimaschutzpotenziale in Kommunen
Creators: name: Paar, Angelika
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Klimaschutzpotenzial
subject: Minderungspotenzial
subject: Kommunen
subject: THG-Minderungspotenzial
subject: Klima | Energie

description: Das Ziel der Treibhausgasneutralität erfordert enorme Anstrengungen und tiefgreifende Transformationen, auch auf der Ebene der Landkreise, Städte und Gemeinden. Bisher ist es weitgehend unklar, welchen Beitrag Kommunen durch ihre Aktivitäten zur Erreichung des Klimaschutzziels des Bundes leisten können. Im Rahmen dieser Teilveröffentlichung steht die quantitative Abschätzung des deutschlandweiten kommunalen Klimaschutzpotenzials, im Zentrum. Dazu wurden 38 THG-Minderungsoptionen bottom-up quantifiziert. Zudem erfolgt eine qualitative Einordnung der kommunalen Handlungsoptionen im aktuellen politischen Rahmen. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Das Ziel der Treibhausgasneutralität erfordert enorme Anstrengungen und tiefgreifende Transformationen, auch auf der Ebene der Landkreise, Städte und Gemeinden. Bisher ist es weitgehend unklar, welchen Beitrag Kommunen durch ihre Aktivitäten zur Erreichung des Klimaschutzziels des Bundes leisten können. Im Rahmen dieser Teilveröffentlichung steht die quantitative Abschätzung des deutschlandweiten kommunalen Klimaschutzpotenzials, im Zentrum. Dazu wurden 38 THG-Minderungsoptionen bottom-up quantifiziert. Zudem erfolgt eine qualitative Einordnung der kommunalen Handlungsoptionen im aktuellen politischen Rahmen.
Supplementary document for Achieving high-performance in situ fabricated FAPbBr3 nanocrystal film and electroluminescence - 5370093.pdf
Creators: name: Liu, Zhenjie
name: Xue, Xulan
name: Kang, zhihui
name: Wang, Rong
name: zhang, han
name: Ji, Wenyu
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplemental data to the main text
New algorithm to find a shape of a finite set of points
Creators: name: Soukhoroukova, N.
name: Ugon, J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Very often in data classification problems we have to determine a shape of a finite set of points within datasets. One of the most common approaches to represent such sets is to determine them as collections of several groups of points. The goal of this project is to develop some algorithms to find a shape for each group. Numerical experiments using the Discrete Gradient method have been done. The results are presented.
Performance of FRP Strengthened Concrete Columns Under Simulated Blast Loading
Creators: name: Hasak, Aws
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015

description: In this thesis the effectiveness of CFRP laminates as externally applied column jacketing material was investigated experimentally. The research project forms part of a comprehensive research program with a scope of developing FRP protection systems for reinforced concrete columns subjected to extreme loads. The research program is carried out by a multi-disciplinary team including various institutes of the National Research Council Canada and the University of Ottawa. The experimental program of the current project consists of nine half-scale seismically designed reinforced concrete (RC) columns, tested under combined axial compression and simulated lateral blast loading, applied statically. Seven columns were strengthened by four types of CFRP laminates. The columns were first subjected to service axial loads of 45% of the design axial load capacity, followed by uniformly distributed lateral load up to failure. The columns were analyzed under incrementally increasing static loads, well into the inelastic range of deformations. The FRP was modelled as a linear material up to rupturing in tension. The behaviour of CFRP in compression was modelled with reduced strength and modulus of elasticity. It is found that the use CFRP laminates as column jacketing improves strength and deformability of the columns significantly. The use of CFRP laminate with unidirectional fibers and woven ±45° laminas results in significantly lower lateral deformation than companion unretrofitted columns. The retrofitted columns also develop well distributed strains within the critical plastic region, promoting a better redistribution of stresses. Adding woven ±45° laminas resulted in higher deformability and slightly lower strength than the laminate with only unidirectional fibers. The overall conclusion of the project is that the CFRP jackets, when designed properly, especially with the addition of ± 45 degree fibres result in significantly improved strength and deformability of concrete columns.
Tasks as context for intelligent agents
Creators: name: Lister, Kendall
name: Sterling, Leon
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The context of a statement or assertion can be critical to a useful understanding of its meaning. In huge knowledge bases such as the CYC project, capturing context explicitly encounters significant problems. Research at the Intelligent Agent Lab at The University of Melbourne has been investigating lightweight approaches to incorporating context in the construction of knowledge-based information agents. The prototypical example of a successful agent built in the lab is SportsFinder. SportsFinder extracts sporting match results from a large variety of web sites without any formal knowledge representation. This is a task for which understanding the context of knowledge on the web pages is critical, as the individual elements that make up a page of sports results are very ambiguous without consideration of the surrounding information. This paper advocates incorporating context via a task specification, without resort to general purpose knowledge techniques.
The Effects of Ketamine on the Brain’s Spontaneous Activity as Measured by Temporal Variability and Scale-Free Properties. A Resting-State fMRI Study in Healthy Adults.
Creators: name: Ayad, Omar
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: fMRI
resting state
ketamine
temporal variability
scale-free properties
Hurst exponent
timeseries

description: Converging evidence from a variety of fields, including psychiatry, suggests that the temporal correlates of the brain’s resting state could serve as essential markers of a healthy and efficient brain. We use ketamine to induce schizophrenia-like states in 32 healthy individuals to examine the brain’s resting states using fMRI. We found a global reduction in temporal variability quantified by the time series’ standard deviation and an increase in scale-free properties quantified by the Hurst exponent representing the signal self-affinity over time. We also found network-specific and frequency-specific effects of ketamine on these temporal measures. Our results confirm prior studies in aging, sleep, anesthesia, and psychiatry suggesting that increased self-affinity and decreased temporal variability of the brain resting state could indicate a compromised and inefficient brain state. Our results expand our systemic view of the temporal structure of the brain and shed light on promising biomarkers in psychiatry
The Politics of Risk Management and the Culture of Risk Taking
Creators: name: Lamoureux, Patrick
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: risk society
risk management
risk-taking
edgework

description: Risk has become a key concept in social theory and has had a significant impact across academic disciplines including criminology. On the one hand, several criminologists argue that the rise of risk has fundamentally reconfigured the operations of courts, corrections, and policing. Many claim that, over the last few decades, crime control has moved away from the old rehabilitative and retributive approaches of the past and towards more actuarial approaches based on risk management – crime has become a risk to be managed in aggregate terms rather than a moral transgression in need of rectification. On the other hand, while risk-based approaches to governing crime have grown significantly, cultural criminologists and sociologists of sport have noted a heightened emphasis on risk-taking by urban graffiti writers, illegal street racers, extreme sports enthusiasts, and illicit drug users. For these people, the risk-averse logic of actuarial governance – risk as potential harm to be avoided – is inverted such that risk is positively embraced for the excitement it affords. What is particularly characteristic about the present, then, is that a politics of risk management is colliding with a culture of risk-taking. In attempts to make sense of this puzzling paradox, in this thesis I offer a primarily theoretical investigation of the dominant approaches used in the study of risk management (chp. I) and risk taking (chp. II & III) in sociology and criminology. After exploring how the rise of risk has reconfigured crime control over the last quarter century in Chapter one, in Chapter two I develop the argument that orthodox criminology provides two dominant images of criminal risk-taking. While dispositional theories explain criminal risk-taking as the pathological behaviour of individuals with particular body types, low-self control, or of lower-class origin, situational theories conceive of criminal risk-taking as the (ir)rational decisions of necessarily risk-averse actors. Despite differences between dispositional and situational theories, both leave no room for risk-taking that is controlled and intentional. In Chapter three I enlist the work of Jack Katz on the seductions of crime and of Stephen Lyng on the sociology of risk-taking to develop a third, cultural approach to risk-taking that is voluntary and cross-class. I illustrate how, for Katz’s and Lyng’s actors, risk is approached as a challenge rather than seen as a deterrent. Lastly, I add to the historicity of the cultural approach to risk-taking by tracing its roots in a romantic worldview that arose out of 19th century disenchantment with the bureaucratic rationalism and alienation of capitalist modernity. In conclusion, I summarize the main argument of the thesis and outline some potential avenues for future research.
title: Оценка состояния коллекции западно-европейских гравированных атласов XVI-XVIII вв. Электронный паспорт состояния «Атлас»
Creators: name: Добрусина, С. А.
name: Подгорная, Н. И.
name: Волгушкина, Н. С.
name: Цитович, В. М.
Publisher: name: Реноме
Year: 2018

description: Оценка состояния коллекции западно-европейских гравированных атласов с заполнением паспорта сохранности и создание базы данных сохранности показали, что выполненный ранее комплекс консервационных мероприятий обеспечивает хорошую сохранность документов, позволяет прогнозировать состояние отдельных единиц коллекции и коллекции в целом, организовывать научную и выставочную деятельность с минимальным риском повреждения документа.

Ключевые слова: сохранность, консервация, гравированные атласы, ярь-медянка.
Supplementary document for Tunable Graphene-based Metasurface for Ultra-low Sidelobe Terahertz Phased Array Antenna - 5370242.pdf
Creators: name: Wang, Yu
name: Wang, Yue
name: Li, Qingyan
name: Zhang, Yu
name: yan, shiyu
name: Wang, Chunhui
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1 for supporting content.
Cultural Competency in the Primary Health Care Relationship
Creators: name: Ferreyra Galliani, Mariella
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Cultural competency
Immigrant health
Patient-centredness
Cross-cultural communication
Qualitative methods

description: Cultural competency is theorized as the sensitivity of practitioners from the dominant culture towards the diverse cultural backgrounds of their patients. Less attention is placed on how communication between providers and patients can enable patients to share their health care beliefs. An evidence review of the literature around the conceptualization of cultural competency in health care was performed, and interviews were conducted aiming to understand what immigrant patients perceive as culturally competent care and its effect on the relationship between them and their providers. Definitions of cultural competence varied, and no conclusive studies linking cultural competence to improved health outcomes were found. Findings from the participant interviews helped to address gaps in the literature by confirming a preference for a patient-centred approach to culturally competent care, in addition to identifying pre-existing expectations for the health care encounter and patient-dependent factors as additional elements influencing the physician-patient relationship.
Ressourcenleicht leben und wirtschaften
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Ressourcenschutz
subject: Nachhaltige Ressourcenpolitik
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen
subject: Waste | Resources

description: Die KRU hat das Ziel, das Umweltbundesamt hinsichtlich seiner zukünftigen Strategie zur Ressourcenpolitik zu beraten. Die Arbeit der Ressourcenkommission startet im Übergang zu einer neuen Legislaturperiode zu einem guten Zeitpunkt, um bei der Weiterentwicklung der ressourcenbezogenen Politikfragen bestmöglich zu unterstützen. Übergeordnetes Ziel der Arbeit muss die absolute Reduktion des Ressourcenverbrauchs sein. Das bedeutet für Deutschland eine überproportionale Reduktion im Verhältnis zum Ressourcenverbrauch von Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländern. Diskutiert werden derzeit Reduktionsziele von Faktor 4 bis Faktor 20 bis 2030 bzw. bis 2050. Die Herausforderung besteht darin, Wohlstand zu sichern und gleichzeitig den Ressourcenverbrauch zu verringern. Dies erfordert Veränderungen sowohl in Produktion und Konsum, als auch der politischer Rahmenbedingungen. Es erfordert ressourcenleichte Lebensstile ebenso wie neue ökonomische Modelle und radikale technologische und soziale Innovationen für mehr Ressourceneffizienz und Kreislaufwirtschaft.
Quelle: Verlagsinformation
description: Die KRU hat das Ziel, das Umweltbundesamt hinsichtlich seiner zukünftigen Strategie zur Ressourcenpolitik zu beraten. Die Arbeit der Ressourcenkommission startet im Übergang zu einer neuen Legislaturperiode zu einem guten Zeitpunkt, um bei der Weiterentwicklung der ressourcenbezogenen Politikfragen bestmöglich zu unterstützen. Übergeordnetes Ziel der Arbeit muss die absolute Reduktion des Ressourcenverbrauchs sein. Das bedeutet für Deutschland eine überproportionale Reduktion im Verhältnis zum Ressourcenverbrauch von Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländern. Diskutiert werden derzeit Reduktionsziele von Faktor 4 bis Faktor 20 bis 2030 bzw. bis 2050. Die Herausforderung besteht darin, Wohlstand zu sichern und gleichzeitig den Ressourcenverbrauch zu verringern. Dies erfordert Veränderungen sowohl in Produktion und Konsum, als auch der politischer Rahmenbedingungen. Es erfordert ressourcenleichte Lebensstile ebenso wie neue ökonomische Modelle und radikale technologische und soziale Innovationen für mehr Ressourceneffizienz und Kreislaufwirtschaft.
Poly(Sodium Acrylate)-Based Antibacterial Nanocomposite Materials
Creators: name: Khanlari, Samaneh
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Polymer
Nanocomposite
Bioadhesive
Sutureless surgery
Biomaterials
Antibacterial

description: At the author’s request, the abstract has been removed due to the confidential nature of the thesis. It will be added once the embargo period has passed.
Body-Image-Text: Exploring Female Adolescents on Facebook and Concurrent Identity Formation (CIF)
Creators: name: Yazdanian, Shenin Nadia
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: the body
youth
identity
identity formation
concurrent identity formation
feminist research practices
female adolescents
Facebook
social media
education
ethnography
feminist ethnography
social fiction

description: Using a uniquely developed research methodology called ‘feminist virtual ethnography’ this thesis explores female adolescent subculture on the social network site Facebook, looking specifically at a group of four girls who are ‘Facebook friends’ with each other as well as friends at the same high school in a large metropolitan city in south-western Ontario in Canada. The thesis is guided by research questions that focus on how these girls virtually-represent their bodies on Facebook, and develops a theory of concurrent identity formation (CIF) as a way to understand the translatability and conversion between the ‘real’ and the ‘virtual.’ Built as a collaborative inquiry between the researcher and research participants, I invited the girls to analyze screenshots of their own (and each other’s) virtual self-representations during a series of virtual conversations and to express their understandings of femininity and beauty as they problematize their identities on Facebook and in ‘real’ contexts such as at school and at home. Overall, findings reveal an interplay of body, image, and text within the girls’ systems of imagery and language. I suggest that the female adolescent body is virtually self-represented in negotiated as well as discursive ways, and that the girls’ identities are always in flux. While CIF provides a good basis for understanding these girls’ identities as ‘in flux,’ further investigation into virtual representation and CIF is needed to understand how and why adolescents display their bodies and articulate their identities in certain ways. Pedagogical implications are also discussed in my concluding chapter, where I call for a reconceptualization of literacies and methodologies, especially when dealing with girls on/and Facebook.
title: Академия наук и Санкт-Петербургский университет на рубеже XIX–XX вв.: проблемы корпоративных взаимоотношений
Creators: name: Ростовцев, Е. А.
Publisher: name: Реноме
Year: 2018

description: В статье рассматриваются различные аспекты взаимоотношений между двумя ведущими научными учреждениями России рубежа ХIX – ХХ вв. — Императорской Академией наук и столичным университетом. Автор анализирует вопросы, связанные с корпоративной культурой двух учреждений, их контактов между собой, с государственными и общественными институтами; большое внимание уделяется социально-политическому контексту, в котором развивались эти отношения.

Ключевые слова: Академия наук, Санкт-Петербургский университет, история науки, история высшей школы, научные корпорации, антропология науки.
Applying an intersectionality lens to the theoretical domains framework: a tool for thinking about how intersecting social identities and structures of power influence behaviour
Creators: name: Etherington, Nicole
name: Rodrigues, Isabel B.
name: Giangregorio, Lora
name: Graham, Ian D.
name: Hoens, Alison
name: Kasperavicius, Danielle
name: Kelly, Christine
name: Moore, Julia E.
name: Ponzano, Matteo
name: Presseau, Justin
name: Sibley, Kathryn M.
name: Straus, Sharon
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: A key component of the implementation process is identifying potential barriers and facilitators that need to be addressed. The Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) is one of the most commonly used frameworks for this purpose. When applying the TDF, it is critical to understand the context in which behaviours occur. Intersectionality, which accounts for the interface between social identity factors (e.g. age, gender) and structures of power (e.g. ageism, sexism), offers a novel approach to understanding how context shapes individual decision-making and behaviour. We aimed to develop a tool to be used alongside applications of the TDF to incorporate an intersectionality lens when identifying implementation barriers and enablers. Methods: An interdisciplinary Framework Committee (n = 17) prioritized the TDF as one of three models, theories, and frameworks (MTFs) to enhance with an intersectional lens through a modified Delphi approach. In collaboration with the wider Framework Committee, a subgroup considered all 14 TDF domains and iteratively developed recommendations for incorporating intersectionality considerations within the TDF and its domains. An iterative approach aimed at building consensus was used to finalize recommendations. Results: Consensus on how to apply an intersectionality lens to the TDF was achieved after 12 rounds of revision. Two overarching considerations for using the intersectionality alongside the TDF were developed by the group as well as two to four prompts for each TDF domain to guide interview topic guides. Considerations and prompts were designed to assist users to reflect on how individual identities and structures of power may play a role in barriers and facilitators to behaviour change and subsequent intervention implementation. Conclusions: Through an expert-consensus approach, we developed a tool for applying an intersectionality lens alongside the TDF. Considering the role of intersecting social factors when identifying barriers and facilitators to implementing research evidence may result in more targeted and effective interventions that better reflect the realities of those involved.
Work disincentives and housing assistance
Creators: name: Hulse, Kathleen
name: Randolph, Bill
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In recent years there has been increasing recognition that housing policies and programs can also affect other aspects of individual and community wellbeing, so called ‘non-shelter outcomes’, such as participation in paid employment, health status, education levels and community cohesion. There has been most interest at a policy level in the linkages between housing assistance and participation in paid employment, driven largely by the Commonwealth’s ‘welfare reform’ strategy. But despite the flurry of activity by housing policy makers in trying to come up with measures to improve employment participation by unemployed renters, for example, as part of urban renewal projects, the interrelationship between housing, housing assistance and work disincentives is not well understood in the Australian context. Moreover, the impacts of this interrelationship are tenure specific. The disincentives faced by unemployed public housing renters are different from that faced by unemployed private renters. For the former, taking a job usually means an increase in rent. For the latter, it usually means the loss of Commonwealth Rent Assistance (RA). This report aims to fill a gap in our knowledge about the role of housing and housing assistance in contributing to disincentives to taking up paid work or working more hours. Based on a survey of 400 renters in both the public and private sectors in Sydney and Melbourne who were actively seeking work, it confirms that there are significant barriers and disincentives stemming from the housing position of these renters.
Multi-Laboratory Comparison of Next-Generation to Sanger-Based Sequencing for HIV-1 Drug Resistance Genotyping
Creators: name: Parkin, Neil T.
name: Avila-Rios, Santiago
name: Bibby, David F.
name: Brumme, Chanson J.
name: Eshleman, Susan H.
name: Harrigan, Paul Richard
name: Howison, Mark
name: Hunt, Gillian
name: Ji, Hezhao
name: Kantor, Rami
name: Ledwaba, Johanna
name: Lee, Emma R.
name: Matías-Florentino, Margarita
name: Mbisa, Jean L.
name: Noguera-Julian, Marc
name: Paredes, Roger
name: Rivera-Amill, Vanessa
name: Swanstrom, Ronald
name: Zaccaro, Daniel J.
name: Zhang, Yinfeng
name: Zhou, Shuntai
name: Jennings, Cheryl
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is increasingly used for HIV-1 drug resistance genotyping. NGS methods have the potential for a more sensitive detection of low-abundance variants (LAV) compared to standard Sanger sequencing (SS) methods. A standardized threshold for reporting LAV that generates data comparable to those derived from SS is needed to allow for the comparability of data from laboratories using NGS and SS. Ten HIV-1 specimens were tested in ten laboratories using Illumina MiSeq-based methods. The consensus sequences for each specimen using LAV thresholds of 5%, 10%, 15%, and 20% were compared to each other and to the consensus of the SS sequences (protease 4–99; reverse transcriptase 38–247). The concordance among laboratories’ sequences at different thresholds was evaluated by pairwise sequence comparisons. NGS sequences generated using the 20% threshold were the most similar to the SS consensus (average 99.6% identity, range 96.1–100%), compared to 15% (99.4%, 88.5–100%), 10% (99.2%, 87.4–100%), or 5% (98.5%, 86.4–100%). The average sequence identity between laboratories using thresholds of 20%, 15%, 10%, and 5% was 99.1%, 98.7%, 98.3%, and 97.3%, respectively. Using the 20% threshold, we observed an excellent agreement between NGS and SS, but significant differences at lower thresholds. Understanding how variation in NGS methods influences sequence quality is essential for NGS-based HIV-1 drug resistance genotyping.