cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Replacement Matrices for Transmembrane Proteins
Creators: name: Kelly, Marcus
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Phylogenetics
subject: Evolution
subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent advances in the estimation of amino acid exchangeability matrices have greatly improved the estimation of phylogenies. Here, we present an exchangeability matrix that specifically improves phylogenetic analysis of transmembrane proteins. We first use Bayesian inference to estimate replacement matrices for single families of transmembrane proteins. From these, we constructed a general replacement matrix, representative of all α-helical transmembrane proteins, in which the entries are the weighted harmonic means of the corresponding entries in the single-family replacement matrices. The best matrix improves the log-likelihood of transmembrane protein phylogenies by 0.002 points per site over a phylogeny made using the LG replacement matrix. Phylogenetic analysis of soluble proteins greatly benefits from the use of multiple exchangeability matrices that correspond to different structural features. The software that performs this analysis depends upon annotated sequence alignment for input. Accordingly, we also present a means of automatically an- notating individual residues of transmembrane protein structures. Using our structurally annotated alignments will allow construction of structure-specific exchangeability matrices for TM proteins, providing a means to incorporate structural information into phylogenetic inference of transmembrane proteins.
Turbulent fluid flow and heat transfer in annular passages with rough surfaces and moving cores.
Creators: name: Keays, Steven J.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Mechanical.

description: This study investigates the behaviour of fully developed fluid flows in concentric annuli with rough surfaces and moving cores, by analytically predicting the effects of surface roughness, core velocity and turbulent motion on the momentum and heat transfer characteristics of the flow, such as friction forces, velocity profiles, temperature profiles and heat transfer. The analytical predictions are produced by a mathematical model based on an adaptation of Prandtl's mixing length theories and on the data of previous studies of turbulent flow in annuli and rectangular channels which were artificially roughened. The computer program developed for this study employs an iterative process to match velocity and temperature profiles with force and energy balances and calculates the desired momentum and thermal characteristics. The results indicate excellent correlation with previous experimental data on rough annuli with static cores and smooth annuli with moving cores. From these results, the combined effects of surface roughness and moving cores are inferred. New equations are proposed for predicting the radius of maximum fluid velocity and the effects of core velocity on roughness, in terms of annulus radius ratio, roughness geometry, flow's Reynolds number and core velocity. The study demonstrates the advantages, under certain conditions, of using roughness elements to increase heat transfer and enhance the overall efficiency in the energy transfer processes involved.
Self-Determination and Electoral Geography in New Caledonia: Political Stasis or Independence?
Creators: name: Pantz, Pierre-Christophe
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT: Dept. of Pacific Affairs, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University
Year: 2020

description: In June 2019 in Nouméa, the University of New Caledonia’s LARJE (Research Centre for Law and Economics) and the Australian National University’s Department of Pacific Affairs co-convened a PIPSA (Pacific Islands Political Studies Association) conference with the theme of ‘Democracy, Sovereignty and Self- Determination in the Pacific Islands’. This Working Paper is part of a PIPSA special series building on that theme.
A QoS capable architecture for IEEE 80211 wireless LAN and the prototype implementation on Linux
Creators: name: Liu, Dong
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.
subject: Computer Science.

description: The increasing popularity of wireless handheld devices with multimedia functionality and IEEE 802.11 based network connectivity generated the need for Quality of Service (QoS) support of real time applications deployed over the wireless LANs. However, the time varying nature of wireless link and network is a serious challenge when attempting to provide Quality of Service support. This thesis proposes a low cost/complexity QoS capable wireless LAN architecture. We designed a distributed network congestion control scheme based on current commercial available hardware. The proposed technique was implemented on a Linux based testbed. Its performance was assessed through extensive experiments. Our evaluation test work includes two parts. First an IEEE802.11b wireless LAN testbed is established and a thorough network capacity measurement test is performed. The actual performance of real wireless LAN products is evaluated in a typical indoor environment. Furthermore, the impacts of multiple competing stations and nearby radio noise are also evaluated in this testbed. In the second part, the QoS capable wireless architecture prototype is implemented using Linux operating system Redhat 7.3 and Orinoco Golden IEEE802.11b wireless network card. The performance evaluation is conducted using the prototype implemented on the IEEE802.11 b wireless LAN testbed.
Endogenous Growth in the Ancient Roman Economy
Creators: name: Garfinkel, Draken Matan
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ancient Rome
Growth Theory
Endogenous Growth
Economic Growth
Ancient History
Economics

description: The Ancient Roman Economy’s persistence at a nonindustrialized, near-subsistence level despite its size and complexity, is explained by endogenous growth. Endogenous growth—economic growth through innovation rather than the simple growth of capital and labor stocks—is one of the defining features of an industrialized society and fundamentally requires legal/cultural frameworks able to protect individuals’ ability to make, replicate, and profit off of innovations. Due to a combination of economic and social factors, the Ancient Roman Economy lacked the combination of rule of law, intellectual property rights, and reception towards innovation required to promote endogenous growth or otherwise industrialize. The prevalence of slavery in the Ancient Roman Economy likewise limited growth by creating a systemic underemployment of human resources. Within the context of international development initiatives today, the Ancient Roman Economy teaches us the necessity of promoting these legal frameworks, civil liberties for individuals, high monetization, and ease of access to education and knowledge about new technologies.
DraftMay 5, 2025 (v1)Publication Open Modular Quantum Interaction via PBH-Inspired Structures: A Reinterpretation of Interference in Light-Matter Systems
Creators: name: BlackHills Quantum
name: Boredbrains Consortium
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This paper proposes a novel theoretical framework for interpreting quantum interference phenomena such as those observed in the double-slit experiment, without invoking wave-particle duality. Drawing upon the Mobius-Inspired Cyclical Transformation (MICT) architecture and the concept of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) as modular memory nodes in spacetime, we explore how interference patterns may arise from discrete, modular particle interactions mediated by hypothetical dark photons. This approach challenges classical quantum mechanical assumptions and suggests a path toward integrating cosmological structure with foundational quantum behavior.
Neural processes for learning and monitoring sequential regularities in changeable environments
Creators: name: Noyce, Abigail LaBombard
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: cognitive neuroscience
subject: EEG
subject: working memory
subject: attention
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The world is largely stable and predictable. Humans and other organisms are sensitive to that stability, and use it to support cognitive processes. This work consists of a series of studies that explore how humans learn about such stability, use that information to generate predictions about forthcoming sensory input, and detect when such predictions are inadequate. First, I present a modeling study that quantified the distributions of errors that people make on a complex, visuomotor sequence learning task, and examine the serial position dynamics of several parameters describing short-term visual memory. Both precision and capacity for these sequences increases with familiarity, and the worst-represented items show the largest increases. Next, I present an experiment that used the same task to understand the effects of deviant items within familiar sequences. By measuring ERPs to new, familiar, and deviant items, I dissociate the neural activity associated with detecting a deviant from that associated with encoding task-relevant stimulus characteristics. Finally, I present an experiment investigating the role of prediction in a task that is stochastic, rather than sequential, and in which deviant events occurred among the distractors rather than among the task-relevant stimuli. Unexpected events among the distractors seem to obligatorily attract attention, enhancing or impairing performance. Further, I show that the individual differences in the neural response to such unexpected events is predicted by temperament. Together, these studies illuminate how the brain learns about predictability in a range of settings, and leverages such predictability to facilitate cognition.
When the echoes are gone : a Yolngu musical anthropology
Creators: name: Toner, Peter Gerald
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: ML3770.T66 2001
subject: Yolngu (Australian people) Music
subject: Aboriginal Australians Music
subject: Music and anthropology

description: Music is ubiquitous in the social life of the Yolngu people of northeast Arnhem Land in northern Australia. Not only does it accompany virtually every phase of ritual, including dance, painting, and the production of sacred objects, but it is frequently performed in non-ritual contexts as well, purely for the enjoyment of performers and listeners alike. As such, an understanding of music provides a unique and privileged point of entry into the study of Yolngu culture as a whole. The ethnomusicologist Anthony Seeger has written that an anthropology of music examines the ways in which music is an integral part of culture, while in contrast a musical anthropology examines the ways in which culture is musical and aspects of culture are created and re-created through musical performance. This dissertation is a work of musical anthropology. I provide a detailed examination of the form, content, and meaning of the songs of one particular group of Yolngu, the Dhalwangu people of the community of Gapuwiyak, N.T. I then employ this understanding of Dhalwangu songs to examine three aspects of Yolngu culture which have been subject to intense scrutiny in the Arnhem Land ethnographic literature: sociality, connections to country, and social change. I will demonstrate that musical structures and musical performances contribute significantly to the production and reproduction of these and other aspects of Dhalwangu culture. Yolngu culture is indeed musical, and a Yolngu musical anthropology enables a greater understanding of Yolngu culture in all its beauty, variety, and complexity.
РАЗРАБОТКА АЛГОРИТМА РАСПОЗНАВАНИЯ ЭМОЦИОНАЛЬНЫХ РЕАКЦИЙ ПРИ ПРОСМОТРЕ РЕКЛАМНЫХ РОЛИКОВ ПО ДАННЫМ ЭЭГ
Creators: name: АДИАТУЛЛИН АДЕЛЬ ВЛАДИМИРОВИЧ
name: БАШКОВИЧ АЛЕКСАНДР БОРИСОВИЧ
name: ШМОНОВ МИХАИЛ МИХАЙЛОВИЧ
name: ГАЛКИНА НАТАЛИЯ ВАЛЕНТИНОВНА
Publisher: name: Практический маркетинг
Year: 2020
Subjects: РЕКЛАМНЫЙ РОЛИК
ЭМОЦИИ
ЭМОЦИОНАЛЬНЫЕ РЕАКЦИИ
ЭЛЕКТРОЭНЦЕФАЛОГРАФИЯ (ЭЭГ)
РЕКУРРЕНТНАЯ НЕЙРОННАЯ СЕТЬ
COMMERCIAL
EMOTIONS
EMOTIONAL REACTIONS
ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY (EEG)
RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORK

description: В данной работе описаны основные результаты многолетней работы по созданию алгоритма распознавания сложных эмоциональных реакций при просмотре видеоконтента на основе данных электроэнцефалографии. Разработанный на основе рекуррентной нейронной сети алгоритм позволяет, не прибегая к опросу, определять характер эмоциональных переживаний зрителя во время просмотра рекламных роликов на уровне комплексных эмоциональных переживаний, таких как: радость, грусть, скука, удивление, раздражение, страх, умиление, неловкость, эмоциональное напряжение, реакция на юмор, умиротворение, заинтересованность. Помимо собственно алгоритма определения эмоционального опыта зрителей, в рамках проведенного исследования были сформулированы операциональные определения и описаны некоторые качественные характеристики изучаемых эмоциональных реакций, такие как: сила переживания, уровень экспрессии, знак (модальность), возможность контроля, продолжительность. Также была собрана база эмоциогенных видеостимулов, которые могут быть использованы в исследованиях, посвященных эмоциям.The article describes the main results of many years of work dedicated to the creation of an EEG data based emotion recognition algorithm. Based on recurrent neural network algorithm classifies a TV commercial viewer’s emotional reactions without any subjective reports, determining the nature of emotional experience on the level of complex emotions such as joy, sadness, boredom, surprise, anger, fear, affection, embarrassment, emotional tense, reaction to humor, calmness, interest. In addition to the actual algorithm, the study results allowed to formulate operational definitions and describe some qualitative characteristics of the studied emotional reactions, such as: the level of emotional arousal, the level of expression, the emotional valence (modality), the ability to control, and the duration. We also collected a database of emotive video stimuli that can be used further research of emotions.
“It’s Easier to Serve Bagels than Baba Ganoush:” Iraqi Jewish Women Articulate an Arab Jewish Subjectivity
Creators: name: May, Chelsie
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2013

description: The term Arab Jew is not singularly defined in America’s discourse on Arab Jewish and Mizrahi studies. As a cursory summary, the Arab Jew is sometimes politically, culturally, or legally constituted depending on the predilections of academics who concern themselves with it. This inherent multiplicity in academic discussions of the term Arab Jew is not necessarily an impetus for critique. Rather, it can be an impetus for further inquiry. Those intrigued enough with the term to ask, “What is a possible Arab Jewish subjectivity?” must bear in mind the term’s multiplicity as well as its position within academia. Given these preliminaries and as a way to complicate the term further, the answer to the previously posed question might begin by locating primary source material outside of the academy. This thesis does just that, by delineating efforts to discuss the term Arab Jew with Middle Eastern or Southeast Asian born, Iraqi Jewish immigrants to America. For purposes of feasibility and precision the interviews that form the crux of this thesis take place at America’s largest Iraqi synagogue: The Sephardic Synagogue Kahal Joseph. Because a great deal of the primary source literature from Iraqi Jews is authored by those who perform male, these interviews seek to amplify the voices of those who perform as female. When the female performing subjects of these interviews answer the question, “Do you call yourself an Arab Jew?” a possible Arab Jewish subjectivity is discernible. Such a subjectivity is informed by Israel’s discourse of scholarship on Mizrahim, constituted through three facets of culture--education, material, and an ephemeral sense of history--and characterized by various types of cognitive dissonance. Once the Arab Jewish subjectivity discerned at Kahal Joseph is dialogued with conceptions of the term already proliferating in international academia, consciousness raising can occur and the term can be proven worthy of further study.
Sentiment analysis: Quantitative evaluation of subjective opinions using natural language processing
Creators: name: Li, Wenhui
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence.
subject: Computer Science.

description: Sentiment Analysis consists of recognizing sentiment orientation towards specific subjects within natural language texts. Most research in this area focuses on classifying documents as positive or negative. The purpose of this thesis is to quantitatively evaluate subjective opinions of customer reviews using a five star rating system, which is widely used on on-line review web sites, and to try to make the predicted score as accurate as possible. Firstly, this thesis presents two methods for rating reviews: classifying reviews by supervised learning methods as multi-class classification does, or rating reviews by using association scores of sentiment terms with a set of seed words extracted from the corpus, i.e. the unsupervised learning method. We extend the feature selection approach used in Turney's PMI-IR estimation by introducing semantic relatedness measures based up on the content of WordNet. This thesis reports on experiments using the two methods mentioned above for rating reviews using the combined feature set enriched with WordNet-selected sentiment terms. The results of these experiments suggest ways in which incorporating WordNet relatedness measures into feature selection may yield improvement over classification and unsupervised learning methods which do not use it. Furthermore, via ordinal meta-classifiers, we utilize the ordering information contained in the scores of bank reviews to improve the performance, we explore the effectiveness of re-sampling for reducing the problem of skewed data, and we check whether discretization benefits the ordinal meta-learning process. Finally, we combine the unsupervised and supervised meta-learning methods to optimize performance on our sentiment prediction task.
Discerning the regulation and evolution of Src and Abl kinases
Creators: name: Temesgen, Ayantu
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Kinases
Autophosphorylation
Auto-inhibition
Ancestral Sequence Resurrection

description: Kinases are responsible for protein phosphorylation, which regulates a myriad of cellular activities pertaining to cell proliferation, growth, and communication. The unregulated activity of kinases leads to uncontrolled cell growth and, ultimately, cancer; therefore, This has caused kinases to be critical drug targets and has elicited extensive research aimed at elucidating the details of their regulation. Src and Abl are two non–receptor tyrosine kinases that share structural similarities in their auto-inhibited states, but have distinct mechanisms by which they achieve those states. Published crystal structures have revealed essential phosphorylation sites and allosteric players that regulate activity of these enzymes. However, specifics on the quantitative effects of these regulators remain elusive. \r Here, we set out to provide detailed kinetic schemes for the regulation of Src and Abl and provide insight into the evolution of their regulation. As a starting point, we determined the quantitative effect of modifying the essential tyrosine residues and later proceeded to investigate the effects of the allosteric regulators on kinase activity. Our results demonstrate that Src and Abl are not regulated by simple ‘on’ and ‘off’ switches where they exist only in two states; instead, they exist in equilibria between various states with different activities. \r In order to gain a better understanding of the evolution of Src and Abl regulation, we evaluated the effects of various regulatory players on the activity of common ancestors of Src and Abl. Interestingly, we observed a clear pattern: the effect of phosphorylation and other regulatory elements was greater in modern enzymes and gradually decreased for older ancestors. \r Our kinetic experiments provided detailed quantitative information about the effect of different players on Src and Abl activity. With this information in hand, we are now proceeding to developing a single-molecule FRET assay. The main objective of this experiment is to couple the observed kinetic effects with structural information. This will shed light on the interplay between different conformational ensembles of Src and Abl, affording us a better understanding of their regulation.
Geographic multicast and multiratecast for wireless sensor and actuator networks
Creators: name: Liu, Xue Hong
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: We introduce fully localized protocols Geographic multicast routing (GMR) and Multiratecast routing (MRC) for wireless sensor networks. Geographic multicast routing (GMR) efficiently delivers multicast messages to multiple destinations. Each forwarding node selects a subset of its neighbours as relay nodes towards destinations. GMR optimizes the cost over progress ratio where the cost is equal to the number of relaying neighbours and the progress is the overall reduction of the remaining distances to destinations. GMR's cost-aware greedy neighbour selection achieves a good tradeoff between the bandwidth of the multicast tree and the effectiveness of the data distribution. It also achieves O(Dn min(D, n) 3) computation time, where n is the number of neighbours of current node and D is the number of destinations. Simulation results show that GMR outperforms position based multicast in terms of cost of the trees and computation time over a variety of networking scenarios. Multiratecast routing protocols (MRC) are first fully localized multicast algorithms to solve the multiratecast problem in wireless sensor networks, where source node sends reports to a fixed number of sink nodes at different frequencies (rates). We propose two multiratecast algorithms. The first is Rate Cost Multicast routing (RCM) that applies destination set partition, and calculates best relay neighbour sets with minimum rate cost. Three different rate cost calculation methods are studied to get the best choice of the overall rate cost metrics. The second is Maximum Rate Multicast (MRM) protocol that simplifies the forwarding decision. It selects next forwarding neighbour that provides maximum progress for destinations with the highest rate. Simulation results show that RCM provides best performance in network with small destination number while MRM has comparable performance for network with large number of destinations. As in traditional geographic routing algorithms, deliveries to all destinations in both GMR and MRC are guaranteed by applying face routing when necessary.
ПРАЗДНИЧНЫЙ МАРКЕТИНГ КАК СПОСОБ СОЗДАНИЯ ЭМОЦИОНАЛЬНОЙ СВЯЗИ ПОТРЕБИТЕЛЕЙ С БРЕНДОМ
Creators: name: СОЛОВЬЕВА ДИНА ВИТАЛЬЕВНА
name: БУЛЫГИНА АНАСТАСИЯ НИКОЛАЕВНА
name: ШАТОХИНА ДАРЬЯ ДМИТРИЕВНА
name: ВОРОБЬЕВА АЛЕНА АЛЕКСАНДРОВНА
Publisher: name: Практический маркетинг
Year: 2020
Subjects: ПРАЗДНИЧНЫЙ МАРКЕТИНГ
СПЕЦИАЛЬНЫЕ КОММУНИКАЦИИ
BTL
СТИМУЛИРОВАНИЕ СПРОСА
ЭМОЦИОНАЛЬНАЯ СВЯЗЬ БРЕНДА С ПОТРЕБИТЕЛЕМ
ЛОЯЛЬНОСТЬ
HOLIDAY MARKETING
SPECIAL COMMUNICATIONS
DEMAND STIMULATION
BRAND’S EMOTIONAL CONNECTION WITH THE CONSUMER
LOYALTY

description: Для повышения лояльности потребителей к бренду и увеличения спроса важно создавать тесную эмоциональную связь целевой аудитории с брендом и дополнительное ценностное предложение. Сделать это через брендинг и коммуникации помогает использование праздничного маркетинга. Праздничный маркетинг как концепция обладает новизной, и специалисты, которые его используют, сосредоточены преимущественно на инструментальной составляющей. Поэтому необходима теоретическая проработка метода праздничного маркетинга, его обоснование и апробация на практических кейсах. Предлагаемый авторами метод комплексный, включает в себя три этапа: аналитический, стратегический и тактический. Это помогает целостно планировать и реализовывать специальные маркетинговые кампании, приуроченные к праздникам, для того, чтобы воздействовать на эмоции потребителя и стимулировать спрос. Применение метода описано на примере разработки новогодней праздничной кампании для ювелирного бренда в сегменте мидл+, для которого нерелевантно использование стандартных способов активации продаж, применяемых в масс-маркете.It is important to create a close emotional connection between the target audience and the brand and an additional value proposition to increase demand and consumer loyalty to the brand. Using holiday marketing helps to do this through branding and communication. Holiday marketing as a concept has a novelty, and the specialists who use it focus mainly on the instrumental component. Therefore, it is necessary to theoretically study the method of holiday marketing, its approbation and testing on practical cases. The method proposed by the authors is complex and includes 3 stages: analytical, strategic and tactical. This helps to plan and implement special marketing campaigns dedicated to the holidays in a holistic way in order to influence the consumer’s emotions and stimulate demand. The method is described based on the creation of a new year’s holiday campaign for a jewelry brand in the middle+ segment, for which the use of standard sales activation methods used in mass market is not relevant.
Morphological and Transcriptomic Variation between Parvalbumin Neurons of the Primary Motor and Primary Visual Cortex
Creators: name: Khurana, Ishaan
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Python
Gene Expression
Morphology
Neuroscience

description: Parvalbumin neurons are a set of GABA-ergic inhibitory interneurons that arise from the medial ganglionic eminence and migrate towards various areas of the brain. Our project explores if parvalbumin neurons from class differences that can be detected by differential morphological and transcriptomic profiles when they migrate to these cortexes. The cortexes that were compared were the primary visual and primary motor cortex. The visual cortex suggested a bottom-up analysis and the motor cortex showed a top-down relationship. This project’s data was obtained from the Allen Institute of Brain Science (Seattle, WA) and analyzed using various python libraries for principal component analyses, heatmaps and regressions. The data had single cell morphological and transcriptomic data- they were from Scala et al. 2021 for the motor cortex and Gouwens et al. 2020 for the visual cortex. After analyzing this data, we were able to find that there were specific morphological differences in the motor and visual cortex- particularly in the size of the dendrites in the the motor cortex. We also found differential gene expression patterns in the motor and visual cortex visible by principal component analysis and heatmap. From this, we extrapolated clusters using both the morphologic and transcriptomic profiles and we noted some single gene variance in alongside morphologic variance. These results indicate that class differences may form between paravalbumin neurons located in individual circuits but further experimental analysis will need to confirm these differences.
Femmes immigrantes d'origine burundaise et accès au marché du travail salarié à Ottawa
Creators: name: Sibomana, Tharcisse
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Women's Studies.
subject: Sociology, General.

description: Cette thèse aborde le problème d'accès à l'emploi des immigrantes d'origine burundaise résidant à Ottawa ainsi que les stratégies adoptées pour y faire face. Le premier chapitre présente le contexte général d'immigration, dresse les portraits des femmes du Canada et des immigrantes d'origine burundaise et définit le cadre théorique qui s'inscrit dans une perspective féministe matérialiste articulant l'intersection du genre avec "la race" et l'ethnicité (Juteau, 1999: 21-23) en faisant appel aux différentes relations de pouvoir qui affectent les femmes noires et leurs emplois. Le deuxième chapitre traite de la méthodologie utilisée qui est basée sur des entrevues semi-structurées réalisées auprès de quatorze femmes. Les chapitres trois à cinq donnent les résultats des entrevues et font une discussion de ceux-ci. La conclusion qui se dégage est que les immigrantes d'origine burundaise ont des caractéristiques qui leur permettraient d'avoir de bons emplois, mais, comme les autres immigrantes issues des minorités visibles, elles sont discriminées pour leur sexe, leur couleur et leur origine d'une part, et elles le sont d'autre part pour leurs valeurs et leurs comportements culturels. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Guided search technique for LOTOS.
Creators: name: Haj-Hussein, Mazen.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: The dynamic behaviour of a LOTOS specification can be described as a tree, called behaviour tree, where the nodes represent the states of the behaviour, and the branches represent the possible next actions. Unfortunately, the behaviour tree for a realistic size LOTOS specification can be very large and often has no finite representation. This is the major limitation for the existing LOTOS verification techniques. The main goal of this thesis is to provide a new behaviour tree exploration technique, called Goal-Oriented Execution, that can be used to check properties of LOTOS specifications by narrowing exploration to a meaningfully selected subset of the tree. In this execution technique, the system derives traces (i.e paths in the behaviour tree) satisfying certain assertions that express temporal ordering of actions and data values properties. Goal-Oriented Execution is a combination of three techniques. The first technique is an automatically generated ADT evaluator/narrower engine. It is capable of evaluating an expression based on a rewriting rule approach, borrowed from functional programming, and deriving solutions to a set of constraints using a narrowing technique, borrowed from logic programming. The second technique is a static analyzer that determines where the given assertions are likely to hold, producing static information called static derivation paths. The third technique, called guided-inference system, involves a new type of inference rules that derive traces using static derivation paths to resolve most non-determinism. Implementation issues of this technique are also discussed, and examples of its usage are provided. The technique is now included in ELUDO, the University of Ottawa LOTOS interpreter.
The Catholic Press in France on the Eve of the Dreyfus Affair, 1895-1897
Creators: name: Pieragastini, Steven
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2009
Subjects: French Catholicism
La Croix
Catholic Press
Assumptionists
Third Republic
Dreyfus Affair
France

description: The Assumptionist Order, founded in 1845-46 by Emmanuel d’Alzon, and its publishing house La Maison de la Bonne Presse, effectively spread an idiosyncratic gospel of traditionalism in the first decades of the French Third Republic. This was accomplished primarily through its national daily newspaper La Croix, which became a leading voice in the anti-Dreyfusard campaign during the Dreyfus Affair. This investigation raises questions about the nature of French Catholicism as a whole at the end of the nineteenth century and its relationship to antisemitism. A number of excellent studies have looked at the Catholic press’s role at the height of the Affair. Few have looked closely at the “lull” period between Dreyfus’s public degradation and the trials of Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy and Émile Zola. The central focus of my research has been on the nature of the Catholic press during these years of relative silence. This paper will show that while events and predispositions fed off of each other, the ground had already been prepared at La Bonne Presse for a rancorous assertion of Catholic nationalism and antisemitism before 1898. Insofar as possible, this study will use the press as one perspective on French popular Catholicism. Too many histories of the Dreyfus Affair track only the political or legal-procedural course of events. Even those that do look at social and cultural aspects of the Dreyfus Affair tend to treat French Catholics as a fairly homogenous and static group. However, this paper will examine the gradations and range of opinions within this group.
АНАЛИЗ СОСТОЯНИЯ И ПЕРСПЕКТИВ РЫНКА ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНЫХ ТЕХНОЛОГИЙ В РОССИИ
Creators: name: ТОКАРЕВ БОРИС ЕВГЕНЬЕВИЧ
name: ТОКАРЕВ РОМАН БОРИСОВИЧ
Publisher: name: Практический маркетинг
Year: 2020
Subjects: ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНЫЕ ТЕХНОЛОГИИ
РЫНОК
СЕГМЕНТ
ПАТЕНТ
ТОВАРНЫЙ ЗНАК
EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
MARKET
SEGMENT
PATENT
TRADEMARK

description: Материал посвящен анализу состояния рынка образовательных технологий, широко применяемых в процессах обучения. Проведенный авторами обзор показал, что в России прикладываются определенные усилия в области разработок с применением технологических решений в обучении. Мировая пандемия нарушила привычный процесс внедрения новых технологий, обозначив необходимость организации обучения дистанционно. Мировой и отечественный рынки образовательных технологий растут высокими темпами, вовлекая значительное количество компаний и потребителей. Однако рост наблюдается в различных сегментах неодинаковый. Предложена расширенная сегментация потребителей, включившая дополнительное к высшему, тренинги и корпоративное обучение. Даны оценки сегментов. Проведен анализ патентования образовательных технологий. Он показал, что количество таких патентов небольшое, но новые разработки в области искусственного интеллекта, машинного обучения, BigData, AR/VR, геймификации и персонализации обучения позволяют надеяться на развитие их применения в образовательных целях. Отмечено, что в отсутствии значительных инноваций в этой области, компании направляют усилия на маркетинговые инструменты брендинга, в частности, фокусируясь на товарных знаках.The research is devoted to the analysis of the state of the market of educational technologies widely used in educational processes. A review by the authors showed that certain efforts are being made in Russia in the field of development of solutions based on application ща technologies in education. The global pandemic has violated the usual process of implementation of new technologies, indicating the need for distance learning. The global and domestic markets for educational technology are growing rapidly, involving a significant number of companies and consumers. However, growth is observed in different segments unequal. Extended consumer segmentation is proposed, which includes additional higher education, trainings and corporate trainings. Market segment ratings are shown. An analysis of patenting of educational technologies has been made. The analysis shows that the number of patents is comparatively small, while the new developments in the field of artificial intelligence, machine learning, BigData, AR / VR, gamification and personalization of education allows us to hope for the development of their application for educational purposes. It is noted that in view of absence of significant innovations in this area, companies direct their efforts to marketing tools of branding, therefore the intellectual property management of companies in the field of educational technologies is more focused on trademarks.
The experience of couples in intimate relationships when the woman is a survivor of child sexual abuse: A phenomenological study.
Creators: name: Champion De Crespigny, Janet Sandra.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Social.

description: Mainstream psychological research has paid insufficient attention to how women sexually abused in childhood live their intimate adult relationships, and even less to the mutual experience of both partners and the potential for healing within relationship. This empirical-phenomenological study is based upon the written and oral accounts of two couples, who had been in committed relationships for at least five years and where the women had been abused by their fathers in childhood. Following the rigorous and systematic phenomenological method devised by Giorgi (1985), the study explicates and articulates the subjective and intersubjective meaning-structures of how these two couples live relationally with the aftermath of child sexual abuse. The phenomenological analysis resulted in six situated structures for the four individuals and two couples. Further reflection upon these situated structures revealed a matrix of four major interrelated themes common to the experience of both women in our study. These themes were: living a life-world pervaded by embodied vulnerability, insecurity and fear; tenuous-being-in-control and being-all-responsible; embodied suffering; and, existential aloneness--the last three were also found to be dialectically related. These themes were interrelated in a compellingly repetitive pattern which further elaborated the temporal dimension of how the women's abusive pasts continue to re-invade their present existences. Three dialectically related themes emerged for the two men in the study: Caring, feeling-controlled, and putting-aside of self and restriction-of-life-world. When woven together, the themes for the women and the men formed a matrix of dialectically and/or responsively related themes for the couples. Despite serious difficulties, these couples were managing to preserve the resilient structures of their relationships. Our analysis showed that they were struggling toward subjective and intersubjective transformation. Furthermore, the analysis suggested that the theme of transformation was being manifested through the communication of shared understanding, and through seeking mutuality in caring for the being and becoming of both self and other. The unique findings of this phenomenological study fundamentally extend beyond previous understandings of how the aftermath of child sexual abuse is lived in adult intimate relationships.
Optically functional metallic micro/nanostructure fabrication via a highly photosensitive direct laser reduction method
Creators: name: Tabrizi, Sahar
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The uniqueness of the research presented in this thesis is to propose a new technique for fabrication of functional metallic micro/nano structures with an especial version of photoreduction solution, that could solve the poor electrical conductivity of the structure, low surface smoothness, and the low feature resolution; hence, we could demonstrate that key challenges in the fabrication of functional metallic micro/nano structures are solvable and also we provide our advice and suggestions for future development in this field. In this case, the application range for this fabrication can be extended broadly to metamaterials, plasmonics, SERS, lab-on-a-chip (LoC).
A Suburb Unlike Any Other: A History of Early Jewish Life in Los Alamos, New Mexico
Creators: name: Weinstein, Gabriel
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2018
Subjects: New Mexico
American Jewish History
American History
Jewish History
Jewish Studies

description: This thesis examines the development of the Jewish community in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the 1940s and 1950s and compares its development with Jewish communities located near federally funded scientific research centers. The Jewish community of Los Alamos formed during World War II as over one hundred scientists from around the world arrived to work on the development of the atomic bomb for the Manhattan Project. When the war ended, dozens of Jewish scientists remained at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and established a permanent Jewish community. As the federal government transformed Los Alamos into a suburb in the 1950s, its Jewish community adapted many elements of suburban Jewish life. This thesis examines how Los Alamos Jews integrated socially and culturally into Los Alamos’ diverse cultural milieu and how Jewish scientists balanced their professional commitments as scientists with their religious and ethnic identities.
Treatment of 2,4-dichlorophenol using soybean peroxidase.
Creators: name: Alemany, Kevin Michael.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Environmental.

description: In the presence of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), soybean peroxidase (SBP) extracted from the soybean seed coat catalyzes the polymerization of various chlorinated phenols from wastewater. The resulting polymer precipitates from solution and can be removed through a simple sedimentation or filtration process. To date, the majority of the research has focused on horseradish peroxidase (HRP) as the enzyme source. Recently, researchers have discovered that SBP is thermally more stable and can work in a different pH range than HRP. Since the soybean seedcoat is a waste product of the soybean industry, developing a value-added process to utilize the waste would be economical. Several limitations need to be resolved prior to this enzymatic process becoming a legitimate treatment. For instance, peroxidase enzyme (PE) inactivation is a primary concern in trying to make the process more viable. Researchers have postulated that the PE is inactivated by entrapment into the forming polymers. To prevent such occurrences, high molecular weight substance such as gelatin and polyethylene glycol (PEG) have been added to solution. PEG 8000 provides a significant increase in protection compared to PEG 3350, a standard additive used for HRP. To date, researchers studying SBP as an alternative to HRP have focused mostly on the treatment of phenol. The effectiveness of SBP to treat chlorinated phenols is presented in this research. Some of the parameters studied include the effects and interactions of temperature, reaction time, pH, SBP concentration, PEG molecular weight, PEG concentration, type of substrate, substrate concentration, mode of substrate addition, mode of SBP addition and mode of H2O 2 addition. SBP was found to be a suitable alternative to HRP offer similar results and in some cases, improved the results.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Bill C-150: A rational approach to homosexual acts, 1967--1969
Creators: name: Chambers, Stuart
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.
subject: Law.

description: The following thesis outlines the historical significance of Bill C-150, the Omnibus Criminal Code Reform Bill. From 1967--69, Canadian law was forever changed when the "omnibus bill," formerly known as Bill C-195, was introduced in December of 1967. The Justice Minister at the time, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was attempting to modernize the Criminal Code of Canada, but his first attempt---Bill C-195---died on the Order Paper during the 1967--68 Session (the 2nd Session of the 27th Parliament). Reintroduced in December of 1968 (the 1st session of the 28th Parliament), the newly revamped Bill C-150 contained many of the same traits as its predecessor. This time, however, Trudeau had taken over as Prime Minister from Lester B. Pearson and was confident in the new mandate given to him by the Canadian electorate. As a result, he appointed John Napier Turner as his new Justice Minister. Therefore, what Trudeau and the Liberals were proposing was the modernization of the country's family law. For the purposes of this thesis, the focus will deal strictly with the controversy surrounding the Canadian Criminal Code's liberalization of homosexual acts between consenting adults in private. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Seiberg-Witten Floer K-Theory and Cyclic Group Actions
Creators: name: Montague, Ian Alexander
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2023

description: Given a spin rational homology sphere $Y$ equipped with a $\ZZ/m$-action preserving the spin structure, we use the Seiberg--Witten equations to define equivariant refinements of the invariant $\kappa(Y)$ from \cite{Man14}, which take the form of a finite subset of elements in a lattice constructed from the representation ring of a twisted product of $\Pin(2)$ and $\ZZ/m$. The main theorems consist of equivariant relative 10/8-ths type inequalities for spin equivariant cobordisms between rational homology spheres. We provide applications to knot concordance, give obstructions to extending cyclic group actions over spin fillings, and via taking branched covers we obtain genus bounds for knots in punctured 4-manifolds. In some cases, these bounds are strong enough to determine the relative genus for a large class of knots within certain homology classes in $\CC P^{2}\#\CC P^{2}$, $S^{2}\times S^{2}\# S^{2}\times S^{2}$, $\CC P^{2}\# S^{2}\times S^{2}$, and homotopy $K3$ surfaces.
Supplementary Material from Sumatran orangutan mothers differ in the extent and trajectory of their expression of maternal behaviour
Creators: name: T, Revathe
name: Mundry, Roger
name: Utami-Atmoko, Sri Suci
name: Umaira Aprilla, Tazkia
name: A. van Noordwijk, Maria
name: Fröhlich, Marlen
name: Bürkner, Paul-Christian
name: Schuppli, Caroline
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 310901
subject: Animal behaviour

description: Supplementary figures and tables from Sumatran orangutan mothers differ in the extent and trajectory of their expression of maternal behaviour
NIZOLARNI MUQOBIL HAL QILISHNING MEDIATSIYA HAMDA ARBITRAJ USULLARI
Creators: name: Xoliqov Abdulfayz Tolib o'g'li
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Annotatsiya: mazkur maqolada nizolarni hal qilishda mediatsiya va arbitraj institutining o‘rni yoritiladi. Rivojlangan mamlakatlarda mediatsiya va arbitraj institutini qo‘llashning o‘ziga xos jihatlari tahlil qilinadi. O‘zbekiston Respublikasida mediatsiya hamda arbitraj institutini tartibga soluvchi qonunchilik va mazkur sohada mavjud muammolar o‘rganiladi. Mavjud muammolarga rivojlangan mamlakatlar tajribasiga asoslanib yеchimlar taklif qilinadi. Xulosa qilinadiki, bugungi kunda nizolarni mediatsiya hamda arbitraj institutidan foydalangan holda hal qilish keng tarqalmoqda. Respublikamizda ushbu institutlarni joriy qilinishiga qaramasdan ko‘plab muammolar mavjud. Kelgusida ushbu muammolarni hal qilish orqali mediatsiya va arbitraj institutini yanada rivojlantirish mumkin.

Kalit so‘zlar: nizolarni muqobil hal qilish, mediatsiya, onlayn mediatsiya, mediatsiya kelishuvi, mediator, mediatsiya prinsiplari, mediatsiya kelishuvini rasmiylashtirish, arbitraj, arbitr, arbitraj kelishuvi.