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Cultural Resource Management Assignment (ANTH 535)
Creators: name: Tushingham, Shannon
name: Lipe, William D.
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Archaeology

description: This is the first course assignment associated Shannon Tushingham and William Lipe’s Pioneers Project. The assignment was a requirement of Tushingham’s 2021 graduate seminar in Cultural Resource Management (CRM) ANTH 535. As a public archaeology and science communication project, students were directed to research, write, and publish a Wikipedia biography about “Pioneers” in CRM archaeology. “Pioneers” are those people who have who have made substantial leadership contributions to CRM archaeology, but for various reasons remain largely unknown and their contributions underappreciated. This is an ongoing pedagogical experiment in engaged research methods that focuses on scientific dissemination in Wikipedia, which, love it or hate it, it is one of the most heavily used sources of information on the internet. Note: that this assignment was improved in later iterations, but this initial experiment is included for the historical record. Later versions of the assignment, for example, required students to complete Wikipedia training and publish their work on Wikipedia. For example, we do *not* recommend what we initially thought was a good idea: “this semester you are not required to post your biographies on Wikipedia” (as stated in this flyer). Tushingham and Lipe are currently working on a paper that discusses the development of the project and how to avoid some of these common problems.
Urban Land Tenure in the People's Republic of China
Creators: name: Liao, Anna K.
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2011

description: Despite an increase in the codification of Chinese property rights, more and more\r evictees are relying on other forms of protest, such as petitioning non-judicial\r offices, attracting media attention, and attempting suicide. In order to understand the prevalence of insecurity among the Chinese population towards property laws, this paper studies the current land-use rights system of the People’s Republic of China. Specifically, it seeks to answer the following questions: how has land ownership evolved? Why was a reform necessary and how did it parallel earlier concepts of land ownership?
"The Ars Moriendi": An examination, translation, and collation of the manuscripts of the shorter Latin version.
Creators: name: Campbell, Jeffrey.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Literature, Medieval.

description: The Ars Moriendi is a Mediaeval Christian death manual that appeared around the middle of the fifteenth century. Though no-one is certain who the author was, there is no doubt that Jean Gerson was the major inspiration through his Opusculum Tripartitum. The general consensus is that the text was written by a member of the mendicant orders, probably a Dominican, and it was through them that the text spread so rapidly across Europe. The text was originally written in Latin with translations into the various vernaculars coming later. The Ars Moriendi appears in almost every major European language. I choose to limit my study to those in Latin. Since there are two Latin traditions, the longer or CP, and the shorter or QS, I further narrowed the field of study and concentrated exclusively on the latter. The text seems to have been produced as a response to the devastation of the Black Death. With so many priests either dead or missing. The popularity of a manual that instructed how to die in a way that ensured one made it to heaven is easy to understand. Of the three hundred known manuscripts, only six are of the shorter version. Five of these I have studied. The sixth unhappily was destroyed in 1944 in Metz. This paucity is not surprising since the true appeal of this work is the woodcut. Of the five manuscripts, at least two were copied from printed editions. The text itself is not very impressive as it is comprised mostly of various quotations from the Church Fathers and the Vulgate. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Sesquiterpene Variation in West Australian Sandalwood (Santalum spicatum)
Creators: name: Moniodis, Jessie
name: Jones, Christopher G.
name: Renton, Michael
name: Plummer, Julie A.
name: Barbour, E. Liz
name: Ghisalberti, Emilio L.
name: Bohlmann, Jörg
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: West Australian sandalwood (Santalum spicatum) has long been exploited for its fragrant, sesquiterpene-rich heartwood; however sandalwood fragrance qualities vary substantially, which is of interest to the sandalwood industry. We investigated metabolite profiles of trees from the arid northern and southeastern and semi-arid southwestern regions of West Australia for patterns in composition and co-occurrence of sesquiterpenes. Total sesquiterpene content was similar across the entire sample collection; however sesquiterpene composition was highly variable. Northern populations contained the highest levels of desirable fragrance compounds, α- and β-santalol, as did individuals from the southwest. Southeastern populations were higher in E,E-farnesol, an undesired allergenic constituent, and low in santalols. These trees generally also contained higher levels of α-bisabolol. E,E-farnesol co-occurred with dendrolasin. Contrasting α-santalol and E,E-farnesol chemotypes revealed potential for future genetic tree improvement. Although chemical variation was evident both within and among regions, variation was generally lower within regions. Our results showed distinct patterns in chemical diversity of S. spicatum across its natural distribution, consistent with earlier investigations into sandalwood population genetics. These results are relevant for plantation tree improvement and conservation efforts.
title: Reliability of Two Diameters Method in Determining Acute Infarct Size
title: Validation as New Imaging Biomarker
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Fiebach, Jochen B.
name: Stief, Jonas D.
name: Ganeshan, Ramanan
name: Hotter, Benjamin
name: Ostwaldt, Ann-Christin
name: Nolte, Christian H.
name: Villringer, Kersten
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background In order to select patients most likely to benefit for thrombolysis and to predict patient outcome in acute ischemic stroke, the volumetric assessment of the infarcted tissue is used. However, infarct volume estimation on Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) has moderate interrater variability despite the excellent contrast between ischemic lesion and healthy tissue. In this study, we compared volumetric measurements of DWI hyperintensity to a simple maximum orthogonal diameter approach to identify thresholds indicating infarct size >70 ml and >100 ml. Methods Patients presenting with ischemic stroke with an NIHSS of ≥ 8 were examined with stroke MRI within 24 h after symptom onset. For assessment of the orthogonal DWI lesion diameters (od- values) the image with the largest lesion appearance was chosen. The maximal diameter of the lesion was determined and a second diameter was measured perpendicular. Both diameters were multiplied. Od-values were compared to volumetric measurement and od-value thresholds identifying a lesion size of > 70 ml and > 100 ml were determined. In a selected dataset with an even distribution of lesion sizes we compared the results of the od value thresholds with results of the ABC/2 and estimations of lesion volumes made by two resident physicians. Results For 108 included patients (53 female, mean age 71.36 years) with a median infarct volume of 13.4 ml we found an excellent correlation between volumetric measures and od-values (r2 = 0.951). Infarct volume >100 ml corresponds to an od-value cut off of 42; > 70 ml corresponds to an od-value of 32. In the compiled dataset (n = 50) od-value thresholds identified infarcts > 100 ml / > 70 ml with a sensitivity of 90%/ 93% and with a specificity of 98%/ 89%. The od-value offered a higher accuracy in identifying large infarctions compared to both visual estimations and the ABC/2 method. Conclusion The simple od-value enables identification of large DWI lesions in acute stroke. The cutoff of 42 is useful to identify large infarctions with volume larger than 100 ml. Further studies can analyze the therapeutic utility of this new method.
La démarche journalistique et l'image des minorités dans la presse populaire : le cas des chinois et du Toronto Star (1997-1998).
Creators: name: Soucy, Roch.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Journalism.

description: L'hypothèse principale de ce travail veut qu'il existe une symbiose entre les dynamiques propres aux pratiques la de différentiation raciale (la «racialisation») et de la démarche journalistique. Une exploration empirique/quantitative de la répartition thématique, formatrice, régionale et tonale de 704 articles du Toronto Star (datant du 1 er juillet 1997 au 31 janvier 1998) et un examen des particularités des 8186 participants/sources mentionnés dans ces nouvelles montrent qu'il existe une image généralisée de nature positive de la population d'origine chinoise du Canada tout comme une image généralisée de nature négative du Chinois au Canada. La thèse démontre que l'image négative dispose d'un statut (journalistique et symbolique) plus important que l'image positive et que ces deux images soulignent essentiellement la différence plutôt que la ressemblance entre Canadiens «blancs» et «chinois». Il existe donc une interprétation et une catégorisation cohérente, persistante et nuancée des Chinois dans les pages de ce journal, pages qui reflètent essentiellement la primauté de la citoyenneté et des coutumes «canadiennes», l'acceptation sélective et comparative de certaines «bonnes» coutumes chinoises, une insistance démesurée sur les «mauvaises» coutumes chinoises (considérées comme étant plus répandues), et finalement une myopie culturelle sélective (soit une absence de caractérisation autre que culturelle , caractérisation qui rapprocherait les Canadiens d'origine chinoise des canadiens «blancs».
Knitting in Australia: artefact & exegesis
Creators: name: Green, Sue
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This project draws together a book about knitting in Australia with a scholarly framework. Disruptive knitting: how knitters are changing the world, based on 87 interviews, examines knitting’s relevance to social issues such as gender, women’s role and social inequality. It analyses how knitting reflects the wider Australian society and influences it. The exegesis uses Feminist Standpoint Theory to illuminate the gendered practice of knitting, now being used by women to make statements about their place in the world and to influence society and by men to reject such gender stereotyping. The project casts new light on a neglected topic.
Efficacy and safety of argatroban in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome and extracorporeal lung support
Creators: name: Menk, Mario
name: Briem, Philipp
name: Weiss, Bjoern
name: Gassner, Martina
name: Schwaiberger, David
name: Goldmann, Anton
name: Pille, Christian
name: Weber-Carstens, Steffen
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: ARDS
subject: ECMO
subject: Argatroban
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) or pumpless extracorporeal lung assist (pECLA) requires effective anticoagulation. Knowledge on the use of argatroban in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) undergoing ECMO or pECLA is limited. Therefore, this study assessed the feasibility, efficacy and safety of argatroban in critically ill ARDS patients undergoing extracorporeal lung support. Methods This retrospective analysis included ARDS patients on extracorporeal lung support who received argatroban between 2007 and 2014 in a single ARDS referral center. As controls, patients who received heparin were matched for age, sex, body mass index and severity of illness scores. Major and minor bleeding complications, thromboembolic events, administered number of erythrocyte concentrates, thrombocytes and fresh-frozen plasmas were assessed. The number of extracorporeal circuit systems and extracorporeal lung support cannulas needed due to clotting was recorded. Also assessed was the efficacy to reach the targeted activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) in the first consecutive 14 days of therapy, and the controllability of aPTT values is within a therapeutic range of 50–75 s. Fisher’s exact test, Mann–Whitney U tests, Friedman tests and multivariate nonparametric analyses for longitudinal data (MANOVA; Brunner’s analysis) were applied where appropriate. Results Of the 535 patients who met the inclusion criteria, 39 receiving argatroban and 39 matched patients receiving heparin (controls) were included. Baseline characteristics were similar between the two groups, including severity of illness and organ failure scores. There were no significant differences in major and minor bleeding complications. Rates of thromboembolic events were generally low and were similar between the two groups, as were the rates of transfusions required and device-associated complications. The controllability of both argatroban and heparin improved over time, with a significantly increasing probability to reach the targeted aPTT corridor over the first days (p < 0.001). Over time, there were significantly fewer aPTT values below the targeted aPTT goal in the argatroban group than in the heparin group (p < 0.05). Both argatroban and heparin reached therapeutic aPTT values for adequate application of extracorporeal lung support. Conclusions Argatroban appears to be a feasible, effective and safe anticoagulant for critically ill ARDS patients undergoing extracorporeal lung support.
Target Identification in Mycobacterium
Creators: name: Wang, Jiahe
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Antibiotic Resistance
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
protein mass spectrometry
Antibiotics
Tuberculosis

description: Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a bacterium that causes the disease tuberculosis with a high mortality rate. The standard treatment of tuberculosis involves the use of multiple antibiotics, however, extensive antibiotic resistance development by Mycobacterium tuberculosis posts a great threat to patients of tuberculosis. New drugs with novel targets are in high demand to combat antibiotic resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Q112, a D-phenylalanine-benzoxazole, demonstrated potent antibacterial activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis with unidentified targets and novel mechanism of action. Using Q112’s photoaffinity derivative Q203, whole cell labeling assay and affinity pulldown assay with mass spectrometry analysis were performed on alternative model Mycobacterium marinum. Whole cell labeling assay showed approximately 8 protein bands in SDS-PAGE gel, and protein mass spectrometry data analysis yielded 16 compelling protein candidates for the target of Q203.
Utilisation du degré de certitude dans un contexte d'évaluation diagnostique critériée
Creators: name: Boulé, Serge
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Education, Tests and Measurements.

description: À l'origine, la recherche sur le degré de certitude (DC) et son utilisation se sont développées dans le cadre d'évaluations certificatives normees. Dans un contexte d'évaluation pour l'apprentissage, des indicateurs et des profils de réalisme sont développés pour vérifier à quel point un étudiant peut tirer profit d'un tel feedback. Dans un contexte diagnostique le degré de certitude sert à identifier les items pour lesquels l'étudiant n'a pas répondu au hasard et a surestimé ses habiletés sans le savoir. Ces "évènements critiques" nécessitent une remédiation. Cette recherche étudie le degré de réalisme en tenant compte des différences individuelles, des caractéristiques métriques et des demandes cognitives provenant des items. Les questions de recherche se formulent ainsi: Comment et dans quelle mesure l'expression du degré de certitude en la réponse choisie, et par conséquent le réalisme des étudiants, varient-ils en fonction du niveau taxonomique des items et de leurs propriétes métriques? Comment et dans quelle mesure le sexe et le niveau de performance des étudiants sont-ils liés à l'expression du degré de certitude en la réponse choisie, et par conséquent au réalisme de l'étudiant? L'échantillon visé se compose de 152 participants âgés de 18 ans et plus. Le test est de type questionnaire à choix multiples et comprend 40 items avec 4 choix de réponses. En plus des réponses aux items, l'étudiant doit exprimer son DC par rapport à ses reponses. Notre analyse permet de conclure que plus les étudiants sont performants, plus ils sont réalistes par rapport à la qualité de leurs réponses. Il ne semble pas y avoir de différences marquées entre les hommes et les femmes. Nous avons néanmoins remarqué des inégalités dans la linéarité des distributions. Plus l'item est facile, plus les étudiants sont réalistes. Il existe une relation probable entre le coefficient de discrimination d'un item et le réalisme. Le lien entre les niveaux taxonomiques des items et le réalisme des étudiants n'est pas clair et mérite d'être étudié ultérieurement en utilisant un devis construit spécifiquement à cette fin. Mots clés. Degré de certitude, regulation des apprentissages, test critérié, test diagnostique, métacognition, connaissance partielle.
Institutions scolaires et vitalité francophone à Moncton, 1981--2001
Creators: name: Roy, Vincent
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Education, Sociology of.
subject: Geography.

description: This thesis discusses the role of academic institutions in the vitality of the French-speaking community, in the metropolis of Moncton, over the past 20 years. Moncton is located in the Southeast of the province of New Brunswick in Canada. The three cities (Moncton, Dieppe and Riverview), which form this urban centre of Moncton, have a particular function in the linguistic balance of the area. The urbanization process has largely changed the social space in Moncton, which leads us to ask the following question: "Do French institutions play an important role on the geographical distribution of the French-speaking people in Moncton over the past 20 years?" By using the Census Data of the Statistic Canada of 1981 to 2001, we study the historical development of the principal French-speaking institutions compared to the significant transformation of the social space of Moncton, in particular the increased presence of the Acadians.
Règles générales de rédaction d'un manuel d'initiation à la traduction.
Creators: name: Tshibemba, Lila.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Education, Language and Literature.

description: This thesis proposes a series of general rules for writing a textbook for an introductory course in translation. The list of rules is certainly not exhaustive, but it uses a number of phenomena observed in various textbooks as its starting point. This list has thus been created from real facts. The first part of the thesis presents the rules that are accompanied by explanations and examples taken from various textbooks. They are outlined according to sixteen evaluation criteria. The second part applies the rules to the review of four textbooks. We evaluated these textbooks according to the various criteria by underlining their positive and negative aspects and concluded this evaluation with overall comments on the textbooks. This paper ends with observations that link the evaluation criteria according to which the rules were presented, to the four assessed textbooks. These observations serve to prove the relevance of the present paper.
Investigating the role of histone deacetylase inhibitors in enhancing the anti-tumor activity of oncolytic vesicular stomatitis virus
Creators: name: Abdelbary, Hesham
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Oncology.

description: Oncolytic virotherapy (OV) is an innovative alternative to conventional cancer therapies based on the concept of selecting or engineering viruses to preferentially replicate in and kill tumor cells by exploiting their genetic defects. Intra-tumoural innate immunity plays a significant role in blocking the effective therapeutic spread of OV. Histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDIs) are known to blunt cellular anti-viral response. This research demonstrates that HDIs enhance the sensitivity of various cancer cell lines to the replication and spread of three different OV platforms---vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), semliki forest virus (SFV) and vaccinia. The increased oncolytic activity of VSV correlated with a dampening of cellular interferon responses and augmentation of virus replication. Enhancement of virus replication post HDI treatment was also observed in multiple primary human tumor explants as well as in tumor bearing in vivo models. These results illustrate the general utility of HDIs as chemical switches to regulate cellular innate antiviral responses and to provide controlled growth of therapeutic viruses within malignancies.
Hardware-in-the-loop simulation of mechanical loads for mechatronics system design
Creators: name: Basic, Goran
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Mechanical.

description: Current research efforts in Hardware-In-The-Loop (HIL) simulations are directed toward testing Electronic Control Units, simulated digitally, in a physical experimental setup. This thesis presents different approach of using HIL simulations. Active and passive mechanical loads can be simulated physically on direct drive motors, under computer control. The work in thesis is based on effort-flow concept, which allows components of the experimental setup to be replaced as needed by physical or digital model. The only requirement that has to be satisfied is that elements of the setup retain their inputs and outputs, in the form of effort and flow pairs. Based on this theory, the new experimental setup was built, a generic HIL setup containing two DC motors, which are connected by shaft. One of the motors is used to actuate the system, while another motor represents the physical simulator. Based on the sets of derived formulas, physical simulator is able to simulate active and passive loads. Three different experimental levels are presented in the thesis. The open loop, current control and torque control experiments. The experimental results prove the concept in whole and show that theory can be applied in real world applications. The focus in this research is on simulation of nonlinear loads, whose models are presented by sets of nonlinear differential equations. Digital simulations require solutions of those equations and it is demanding job. The method of physical simulations presented in this thesis shows simpler way of simulating complex loads.
The limits of responsibility in liberal egalitarian theory.
Creators: name: Blahuta, Jason P.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: The critical object of this dissertation is to show that major liberal (and libertarian) theories of distributive justice are unsatisfactory because they rely on highly problematic conceptions of the self. What is problematic is that, in one way or another, they cannot support a proper conception of individual autonomy and personal responsibility. Constructively, the project therefore seeks to sketch a conception of the self that will reconcile as far as possible individual autonomy, and personal responsibility, with egalitarian concerns in distribution. The practical outcome is a revised version of the starting-gate theory, that is, the theory holding that a just distribution of wealth can only be achieved through restricting inequalities in earnings and wealth by the need to preserve ongoing conditions of equality of opportunity, but by no more than that. Thus, the most general theme of the dissertation is the foundational role of theories of the self for conceptions of economic distribution; the connecting element and argumentative strategy centers, both critically and constructively, on notions of individual autonomy and personal responsibility; and the specific positive result is advocacy of a version of the starting-gate theory because of its suitable underlying or implied conception of the self as regards individual autonomy and responsibility.
Identification of Bin1 Involvement in Tau Pathology Using a Yeast Model for Tauopathies
Creators: name: Liu, Bangyan
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Alzheimer's Disease
Yeast Model
Tau Pathology
Genetic Screen
Bin1

description: Neurodegenerative diseases are devastating and incurable diseases that show a strong correlation to aging, posing great threats to both the population and the economy of the countries with a rapidly aging population such as the U.S. The human tau gene has been linked to a variety of neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s disease, whose role in the pathology still remains unclear. Although tau has been known as a microtubule binding protein, previous studies suggested that tau pathology may be attributed to other unknown cellular pathways. A yeast model for tauopathies established in this lab showed that expression of wild-type human tau in yeast can rescue the growth defect phenotype induced by tunicamycin, an ER stressor, and that disease related tau mutations impede such function in a severity correlated manner. Using this yeast model for tauopathies, I investigated the potential pathway involved in human tau pathology in Alzheimer’s disease utilizing complementation gene screening. Four genes that are either known tau interacting proteins or microtubule interacting proteins (BIM1, BIN1, RVS164, and STU2) were co-expressed with tau. Furthermore, fluorescence microscopy was utilized to test whether tau pathology was associated with changes in cellular localization and aggregation. Fluorescence microscopy was also used to test if Bin1 facilitates tau function through a direct physical interaction in yeast. Bin1 expression was observed to be beneficial for the rescue ability of tau and tau mutants, indicating the involvement of Bin1 in a tau pathological pathway and confirming the involvement of the unfolded protein response in tau pathology. Fluorescence microscopy studies showed no obvious change in localization and aggregation of Tau but revealed that Bin1 might enhance the function of tau variants by direct physical interactions under the ER stress induced by tunicamycin.
The function of multi-national characters, alien settings and diverse mores in EM Forster's three international novels: "Where Angels Fear to Tread", 1905, "A Room with a View", 1908, and "A Passage to India", 1924
Creators: name: Sehgal, Rajinder Paul
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1973
Subjects: subject: Literature, English.

description: Abstract not available.
Development and Testing of an LED-Based Near-Infrared Sensor for Human Kidney Tumor Diagnostics
Creators: name: Bogomolov, Andrey
name: Zabarylo, Urszula
name: Kirsanov, Dmitry
name: Belikova, Valeria
name: Ageev, Vladimir
name: Usenov, Iskander
name: Minet, Olaf [U.A.]
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: tumor detection
subject: kidney
subject: fiber spectroscopy
subject: optical sensor
subject: near infrared
subject: LED
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Optical spectroscopy is increasingly used for cancer diagnostics. Tumor detection feasibility in human kidney samples using mid- and near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy, and Raman spectroscopy has been reported (Artyushenko et al., Spectral fiber sensors for cancer diagnostics in vitro. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Biomedical Optics, Munich, Germany, 21–25 June 2015). In the present work, a simplification of the NIR spectroscopic analysis for cancer diagnostics was studied. The conventional high-resolution NIR spectroscopic method of kidney tumor diagnostics was replaced by a compact optical sensing device constructively represented by a set of four light-emitting diodes (LEDs) at selected wavelengths and one detecting photodiode. Two sensor prototypes were tested using 14 in vitro clinical samples of 7 different patients. Statistical data evaluation using principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least-squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) confirmed the general applicability of the LED-based sensing approach to kidney tumor detection. An additional validation of the results was performed by means of sample permutation. View Full-Text
The Construct of Orientalism in Third Republic France Opera, Politics and Personal Experience in Indochina
Creators: name: Waxman, Victoria
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2009
Subjects: French Indochina
French opera
French Third Republic
orientalism

description: I propose to examine the construction of orientalism in the Third Republic France before 1914 by exploring three of its points of contact: with the reality of French military members’ experience in Indochina, with its counterpart in fiction (namely operas) and with official government policy in Indochina. I will do this by looking at the orientalist/exotic elements in contemporary operas including Bizet’s Carmen (1875), Saint-Saëns’s Samson et Dalila (1877), d’Indy’s Fervaal (1889-1895) and Léo Delibes’s Lakmé (1883). These operas will be analyzed to see any linkages with what soldiers who served in Indochina related upon their return to France or with what the government felt about Indochina. In order to determine how particular this construction of orientalism was, there will be a comparison with Russian orientalism through Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel (1907) and Russia’s experience in the Russo-Japanese War. Images from the musical score are included in JPEG format while musical excerpts are available as audio files.
Politiciennes et réseaux de femmes dans la région d'Ottawa : conjuration, connivence ou représentation politique.
Creators: name: Garneau, Édith.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Canadian Studies.

description: On compte ces temps-ci au Canada un nombre appreciable de femmes (20%) parmi nos representantes et representants politiques a tous les niveau de gouvernement: municipal, regional, provincial et federal. On constate alors que ces politiciennes sont susceptibles d'influencer les decisions politiques. L'augmentation du nombre d'elues dans toutes les spheres de prise decision nous rappelle que le mouvement des femmes a su abattre des barrieres afin que des femmes puissent aujourd'hui parcourir le monde politique sans avoir a trebucher sans cesse dans taute une serie d'obstacles institutionnels, partisans, economiques etc. Il nons semble donc important d'observer les impacts qu'ont certaines elues dans les institutions politiques traditionnelles. A cette fin, ce travail veut identifier et etudier les mecanismes de prise de decision lies aux reseaux de femmes. Nous cherchons a etablir si ces reseaux de femmes peuvent servir a creer des espaces feministes susceptibles de repondre aux interets des femmes et ainsi representer celles-ci. Non seulement les reseaux formels et informels sont de bons indices de l'etat du mouvements des femmes, mais nous croyons aussi que l'existence de reseaux de femmes est un bon indice de l'etat de la representation politique des interets des femmes. En consequence, nous proposons d'analyser ce phenomene qu'est le "reseautage" par l'entremise de deux series d'entrevues qui ont ete realisees en 1992 et 1994. Nous avons choisi d'effectuer des entrevfues en profondeur avec cinq politiciennes oeuvrant a divers paliers gouvemementaux dans le region d'Ottawa. Nous analysons les differents sens, ainsi que l'importance pratique qu'elles accordent aux reseaux. D'abord, nous abordons la perception des elues concernant les differentes formes de reseaux en general dans la region; ensuite, nous nous attardons a leur perception des reseaux de femmes; enfin, nous proposons des liens entre leur conception et utilisation des reseaux et les courants theoriques de la representation des femmes en politique.
Roger L'Estrange and the print culture of the Restoration.
Creators: name: Turner, Dorothy.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Biography.

description: Roger L'Estrange (1616-1704) is usually characterized either as censor or propagandist, as Surveyor of the Press or as factional polemicist, as discourager or participant in the Restoration booktrades. In fact L'Estrange's career manifests a tension between the desire to control the proliferation of printed texts in public life and the urge to partake in the expanding print culture of the Restoration. L'Estrange's engagement with the booktrades ranged from his early work as anti-parliamentary propagandist (1659-1660) through his career as state-sanctioned Surveyor (1663-1679) to his passionate defences of Stuart absolutism during the Popish Plot and his late work as translator after the Revolution of 1688-89. The seventeenth century witnessed the rising influence of print media in many aspects of political and social life. This dissertation traces L'Estrange's contribution to contemporary political discourse, as well as his engagements with a variety of Restoration booksellers and writers, and his place within a larger rhetorical tradition. In each of these areas, L'Estrange's contributions were shaped by the tensions between his private interests and larger issues of allegiance and duty. Changing subject-sovereign relations, expanding professional opportunities for writers, and increasing public access to printed texts all encouraged and guided L'Estrange's career. As L'Estrange's career was influenced by the cultural forces that surrounded him, so it played an important role in the formation of the complex code of literary-social relations which characterized the turn of the eighteenth century.
Isolation of bacteriophages obtained from limestones cave soils and evaluation of their potential application as biocontrol agents of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Creators: name: Mkwata, Hasina Mohammed
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis presents data from my work exploring the biodiversity of Sarawak, Malaysia by screening for lytic bacteriophages from limestone cave regions with potentials to be utilized as biological disinfectants to control infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Bacteriophages (phages) and their derivatives have long been exploited as powerful and promising alternative antibacterial agents in phage therapy and biocontrol applications. Most of the studies on phage isolation have utilized sewage and other environmental samples as optimal sources. Limestone caves remain relatively unexplored as a source of novel lytic phages, despite being one of the most propitious sources for novel drug discovery.
L'Acadie littéraire d'Antonine Maillet : représentation permanente de l'Acadie imaginaire et populaire.
Creators: name: Arseneau, Thierry.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Literature, Canadian (French).

description: This thesis explores the question of the territoriality of Acadie and tries to put forward its imaginary and popular character and representation, through the work of the Acadian author Antonine Maillet, as a symbol of recuperation of the lost territory of the Acadians. ince the Deportation of 1755, the Acadians have been deprived of a territory and they had to recreate an imaginary Acadie from the familiar images contained in their collective memories and their culture, and by using the images and the landscapes of the places they now occupy. Since the turn of the century, this imaginary and popular image of Acadie acquired a permanent status through the emerging Acadian literature. Antonine Maillet, a major figure of that literature, recreated, in her work, that image of Acadie. Her literary Acadie is now the permanent expression of the imaginary and popular Acadie of the Maritimes. She brought an end to the quest for the lost territory of the Acadians. The literary analysis and interview presented here seems to confirm that the literary Acadie of Antonine Maillet: (1) is shown to us as the permanent expression of the imaginary and popular representation of Acadie; (2) contributes to the revival and the recreation of that Acadie by bringing to it new images; (3) symbolises the territorial reappropriation of the lost Acadie.
Re-viewing the cultural landscape: Representations of land in Ralph Connor, Tom Thompson, the Group of Seven, and Emily Carr.
Creators: name: Morra, Linda.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Literature, Canadian (English).

description: The elaboration in recent cultural and art historical texts of Northrop Frye's assessment of Canadian literature (as articulated in his "Conclusion" to A Literary History of Canada and elsewhere) demonstrates that such concepts as "garrison mentality" and "where is here?" persist in the discourse of English-Canadian cultural studies. One result is the insistence upon regarding representations of land in early twentieth-century artistic endeavours as the manifestation of a colonial response and refusal to accommodate place. Another result is the perception that artists of the early twentieth century were attached to the imperial centre, situated outside the borders of the country, "over there." The work of Ralph Connor, Tom Thomson, the Group of Seven, and Emily Carr demonstrates that Frye's and other critical assessments have been too prescriptive: even if these artists employed some European or Old World conventions, they insisted upon Canada's difference from the imperial centre and were proud of that difference. A re-examination of their work demonstrates how they employed land in the construction of national-identity and believed it to be a benevolent rather than hostile force, a source of a spiritual and transcendent experience that resulted in the conversion to Canadian-ness.
Naloxone and the Inner City Youth Experience (NICYE): a community-based participatory research study examining young people’s perceptions of the BC take home naloxone program
Creators: name: Mitchell, Keren
name: Durante, S. E.
name: Pellatt, Katrina
name: Richardson, Christopher G.
name: Mathias, Steve
name: Buxton, Jane A.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Background: Take home naloxone (THN) programs reduce mortality by training bystanders to respond to opioid overdoses. Clinical observation by the health care team at the Inner City Youth (ICY) program indicated that young adults appeared to enthusiastically participate in the THN program and developed improved relationships with staff after THN training. However, we found a dearth of literature exploring the experiences of young adults with THN programs. This study set out to address this gap and identify suggestions from the young adults for program improvement. The primary research question was “How do street-involved young people experience the THN Program in Vancouver, BC?” Methods: The study was undertaken at the ICY Program. Two peer researchers with lived experience of THN were recruited from ICY and were involved in all phases of the study. The peer researchers and a graduate student facilitated two focus groups and five individual interviews with ICY program participants using a semi-structured interview guide. Audio recordings were transcribed verbatim. The cut-up-and-put-in-folders approach was used to identify emerging themes. Results: The themes that emerged were perceptions of risk, altruism, strengthening relationship with staff, access to training, empowerment, and confidence in ability to respond, and suggestions for youth-friendly training. These themes were then situated within the framework of the health belief model to provide additional context. Participants viewed themselves as vulnerable to overdose and spoke of the importance of expanding access to THN training. Following training, participants reported an increase in internal locus of control, an improved sense of safety among the community of people who use drugs, improved self-esteem, and strengthened relationships with ICY staff. Overall, participants found THN training engaging, which appeared to enhance participation in other ICY programming. Conclusions: Young people perceived THN training as a positive experience that improved relationships with staff. Participant recommendations for quality improvement were implemented within the provincial program.
Dynamic quality of service support in virtual private networks
Creators: name: Jia, Yuxiao
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: This thesis presents a framework for the provision of dynamic Quality of Service (QoS) support in Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). Specifically, we focus on MPLS based VPN, with the QoS components including use of MPLS Diffserv, MPLS Traffic Engineering, RSVP-TE signaling protocol etc. The framework consists of a Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation model that includes traffic estimators and the development of a resource reservation technique. The Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation (DBA) uses traffic estimators whose outputs are used for the reservation of resource within some time duration in the future. Three traffic estimation algorithms are implemented and tested. The Dynamic Classed Based Queuing (CBQ) technique is applied in our systems to allocate resources. This model can automatically adjust to the bandwidth size of a VPN tunnel based on how much traffic is flowing through the tunnel. An Internet Service Provider (ISP) can simplify the task of managing its network and reduce costs by using our DBA mechanism, taking advantage of the available tunnel bandwidth while still providing guarantees for high-priority traffic. We implemented and evaluated this model on our MPLS Diffserv enabled Linux test-bed. Performance evaluation shows a higher resource utilization can be achieved by using our model.
title: Pattern II and pattern III MS are entities distinct from pattern I MS
title: evidence from cerebrospinal fluid analysis
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Jarius, S.
name: König, F. B.
name: Metz, I.
name: Ruprecht, K.
name: Paul, F.
name: Brück, W.
name: Wildemann, B.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Multiple sclerosis
subject: Histopathology
subject: Pattern I lesions
subject: Pattern II lesions
subject: Pattern III lesions
subject: Cerebrospinal fluid
subject: Oligoclonal bands
subject: Intrathecal IgG synthesis
subject: Blood-CSF barrier dysfunction
subject: Total protein
subject: QIgG
subject: QAlb
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background The diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) is currently based solely on clinical and magnetic resonance imaging features. However, histopathological studies have revealed four different patterns of lesion pathology in patients diagnosed with MS, suggesting that MS may be a pathologically heterogeneous syndrome rather than a single disease entity. Objective The aim of this study was to investigate whether patients with pattern I MS differ from patients with pattern II or III MS with regard to cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) findings, especially with reference to intrathecal IgG synthesis, which is found in most patients with MS but is frequently missing in MS mimics such as aquaporin-4-IgG-positive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders and myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein-IgG-positive encephalomyelitis. Methods Findings from 68 lumbar punctures in patients who underwent brain biopsy as part of their diagnostic work-up and who could be unequivocally classified as having pattern I, pattern II or pattern III MS were analysed retrospectively. Results Oligoclonal bands (OCBs) were present in 88.2% of samples from pattern I MS patients but in only 27% of samples from patients with pattern II or pattern III MS (P < 0.00004); moreover, OCBs were present only transiently in some of the latter patients. A polyspecific intrathecal IgG response to measles, rubella and/or varicella zoster virus (so-called MRZ reaction) was previously reported in 60–80% of MS patients, but was absent in all pattern II or III MS patients tested (P < 0.00001 vs. previous cohorts). In contrast, the albumin CSF/serum ratio (QAlb), a marker of blood–CSF barrier function, was more frequently elevated in samples from pattern II and III MS patients (P < 0.002). Accordingly, QAlb values and albumin and total protein levels were higher in pattern II and III MS samples than in pattern I MS samples (P < 0.005, P < 0.009 and P < 0.006, respectively). Conclusions Patients with pattern II or pattern III MS differ significantly from patients with pattern I MS as well as from previous, histologically non-classified MS cohorts with regard to both intrathecal IgG synthesis and blood–CSF barrier function. Our findings strongly corroborate the notion that pattern II and pattern III MS are entities distinct from pattern I MS.
Mechanistic Study of a Bicyclic Acetal in Pursuit of an Improved Iron(II)-Catalyzed 1,2-cis-α-Amidoglycosylation Method
Creators: name: Cohen, Adam Matthew
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Natural Products

description: A novel iron-catalyzed 1,2-cis-α-amidoglycosylation method to selectively join glycals through α-glycosylation has been developed by the Hao Xu Group, and has proven useful in a synthetic pathway for heparin. To help further optimize the glycosylation reaction, mechanistic studies were conducted on a variety of glycosidic acceptors to better understand why a self cyclized bicyclic acetal side product forms from a secondary glycosidic acceptor, rather than the expected dimerization side product. Mechanistic studies of this bicyclic acetal gave further insight into which glycosidic acceptors may be optimal for the iron-catalyzed glycosylation reaction to produce a greater yield of the desired disaccharide with a 1,2-cis-α-amidoglycosyl linkage. The disaccharide unit is an essential segment involved in forming a heparin chain, so producing the disaccharide in greater yield can translate into a significantly more efficient route for synthesizing the desired heparin product. 