cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
'Ouvrir les yeux à la lumière', suivi de Réflexion sur un monologue intérieur inspiré du roman 'Le tour du monde en 80 jours' de Jules Verne
Creators: name: Plamondon, Marie-Christine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Jules Verne
roman d'aventures
roman initiatique
monologue intérieur
Le tour du monde en 80 jours

description: À première vue, le monologue intérieur et le roman d’aventures semblent antinomiques. Si le monologue intérieur explore l’intériorité d’un personnage, le roman d’aventures se présente plutôt comme le théâtre d’événements extérieurs procédant d’une confrontation, au moins implicite, avec la mort (Vladimir Jankélévitch). L’écriture d’un monologue intérieur donnant voix au personnage de Mrs. Aouda, héroïne silencieuse du roman Le tour du monde en 80 jours de Jules Verne, constituait une forme de pari : l’ajout d’un monologue intérieur à un roman d’aventures préexistant peut-il apporter un éclairage sur cette «entrée dans le domaine de la mort» (Simone Vierne) qui caractérise le parcours du personnage aventurier? Les objectifs de la recherche sont donc d’identifier les liens qui peuvent être tissés entre le monologue intérieur et l’aventure. Nous constaterons que la notion de roman initiatique permet de mettre en lumière le rôle essentiel de la mort dans le roman d’aventures, et ce même dans le cadre d’un récit fondé sur l’intériorité d’un personnage donné. La présente étude suggère que l’hybridation du roman d’aventures permettrait de révéler le processus de transformation du personnage en voie d’initiation, questionnant ainsi la pertinence des frontières implicites entre les notions d’aventure et d’«aventure intérieure».
“Am I gonna get in trouble for acknowledging my will to be safe?”: Identifying the experiences of young sexual minority men and substance use in the context of an opioid overdose crisis
Creators: name: Goodyear, Trevor
name: Mniszak, Caroline
name: Jenkins, Emily (Emily K.), 1981-
name: Fast, Danya
name: Knight, Rod E.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: North America and other parts of the globe are in the midst of a public health emergency related to opioid overdoses and a highly contaminated illicit drug supply. Unfortunately, there is a substantial gap in our understandings about how this crisis affects key populations not conventionally identified within overdose-related surveillance data. This gap is particularly pronounced for gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (sexual minority men)—a population that experiences substance use-related inequities across adolescence and young adulthood. Methods: We draw on in-depth semi-structured interviews conducted in 2018 with a diverse sample (N = 50) of sexual minority men ages 15–30 who use substances and live in Vancouver, Canada, to identify how patterns and contexts of substance use are occurring in the context of the opioid overdose crisis. Results: Our analysis revealed three themes: awareness, perceptions, and experiences of risk; strategies to mitigate risk; and barriers to safer substance use. First, participants described how they are deeply impacted by the contaminated illicit drug supply, and how there is growing apprehension that fatal and non-fatal overdose risk is high and rising. Second, participants described how procuring substances from “trustworthy” drug suppliers and other harm reduction strategies (e.g., drug checking technologies, Naloxone kits, not using alone) could reduce overdose risk. Third, participants described how interpersonal, service-related, and socio-structural barriers (e.g., drug criminalization and the lack of a regulated drug supply) limit opportunities for safer substance use. Conclusions: Equity-oriented policies and programming that can facilitate opportunities for safer substance use among young sexual minority men are critically needed, including community- and peer-led initiatives, access to low-barrier harm reduction services within commonly frequented social spaces (e.g., Pride, night clubs, bathhouses), nonjudgmental and inclusive substance use-related health services, the decriminalization of drug use, and the provision of a safe drug supply.
Alan Moore and the Migrating Art of Comics.  Nicoletta Vallorani interviews Annalisa Di Liddo
Creators: name: Vallorani, Nicoletta
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: Alan Moore and the Migrating Art of Comics.  Nicoletta Vallorani interviews Annalisa Di Liddo
description: Altre Modernità, N° 2 (2009): Letterature e migrazioni
Supplementary document for A study of some transform-based phase retrieval techniques from a single off-axis interferogram - 5268157.pdf
Creators: name: T, Bagath Chandraprasad
name: V, Pramitha
name: Bhattacharya, Shanti
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This document provides the details of the simulation steps presented in the main manuscript. Also, this document gives extra results obtained for added noise for the methods under study.
On Migritude Part 1; When Saris Speak – The Mother. A Conversation with Shailja Patel
Creators: name: Monegato, Emanuele
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: Emanuele Monegato, On Migritude Part 1; When Saris Speak - The Mother. A Conversation with Shailja Patel
description: Altre Modernità, N° 2 (2009): Letterature e migrazioni
Le contrôle de l'inconduite policière au Québec : le cas de la Commission de police du Québec : 1987-1989.
Creators: name: Sauvageau, Jean.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Sociology, Criminology and Penology.

description: Cette recherche a pour objet d'etude le fonctionnement, et plus particulierement, la teneur des allegations faites devant une instance disciplinaire quasi judiciaire, cree au Quebec en 1968 et active jusqu'en 1990, soit la Commission de police du Quebec (CPQ). En nous basant sur l'analyse de contenu des rapports d'enquete publique de la CPQ produits en 1987, 1988 et 1989, nous avons identifie l'eventail des gestes, comportements et attitudes qui sont consideres comme dommageables et offensants par le public lors d'interventions policieres. De meme, nous avons identifie la teneur de ce que la CPQ considere, a son tour, comme gestes, comportements et attitudes dommageables et offensants de la part de certains policiers dans le cadre de leurs fonctions. Cette recherche nous a permis de constater que la CPQ pense et agit en fonction du statu quo et ne cherche aucunement a suggerer, encore moins a rendre operationnel, des changements qui aboutiraient a un veritable controle de l'inconduite policiere, controle qui ne peut que passer par une reorientation du mandat policier. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Additional file 1 of Retained primary teeth in STAT3 hyper-IgE syndrome: early intervention in childhood is essential
Creators: name: Meixner, Iris
name: Hagl, Beate
name: Kröner, Carolin I.
name: Spielberger, Benedikt D.
name: Paschos, Ekaterini
name: Dückers, Gregor
name: Niehues, Tim
name: Hesse, Ronny
name: Renner, Ellen D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Clinical and molecular findings of the STAT3-HIES patients.
Ripensare l’immigrazione. Conversazioni con Griselda Gambaro, Mempo Giardinelli, Roberto Raschella, Alicia Steimberg, Héctor Tizón, Rubén Tizziani
Creators: name: Magnani, Ilaria
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: Ripensare l'immigrazione. Conversazioni con Griselda Gambaro, Mempo Giardinelli, Roberto Raschella, Alicia Steimberg, Héctor Tizón, Rubén Tizziani
description: Altre Modernità, N° 2 (2009): Letterature e migrazioni
Contested paternity: why, and to whom genetic paternity testing matters
Creators: name: Turney, Lyn
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper reports the preliminary findings of a qualitative investigation into the experience of genetic paternity testing. It provides a typology of the main situations where paternity is contested through the use of genetic testing; that is, why and to whom paternity testing matters. Paternity has generally been accepted as a taken for granted state that defined the relationship between a child born within an established partnership and the male partner. The development of a cheap, efficient and commercially available genetic test for accurately detirmining biological paternity changed this reliance on presumed paternity. Initially a tool of the State to enforce paternal responsibility, it has more recently become a faciliative mechanism for men to know with absolute certainty about their paternity or non-paternity. The main situations in which testing is used involve men and women caught up in relationship breakdown and contestation over paternity and Child Support. Paternity testing is sought either by the man to terminate parental responsibility or by the woman to ensure it. These complex situations are reported from the perspective of both men and women. The paper then discusses some of the key social issues regarding the use of this new technology and argues that its availability and use matters to all of us.
Yield study of gallium arsenide VLSI circuits.
Creators: name: Djadi, Younes.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: In this thesis a comparison of two gallium arsenide digital logic families, direct-coupled FET logic (DCFL), and source-coupled FET logic (SCFL) is presented. Then, a study of the electrical yield characteristics of gallium arsenide SCFL circuits is done according to the following parameters: The maximum frequency of operation, the compatibility with ECL in terms of logic levels, the circuit architecture, and the complexity. This study is carried out taking into account the presence of parametric variations as obtained from measurements from a typical wafer. The compatibility with ECL is found to be the determinant factor on the maximum achievable yield. The circuit architecture and complexity, on the other hand, are found to have a significant effect on the maximum circuit speed that can be achieved for the maximum yield.
Spunti sulla fotografia, lingua della modernità. Conversazione con Ferdinando Scianna (seconda parte)
Creators: name: Pitrolo, Daniele
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: Spunti sulla fotografia, lingua della modernità. Conversazione con Ferdinando Scianna (seconda parte)
description: Altre Modernità, N° 2 (2009): Letterature e migrazioni
Héctor Aguilar Camín, La invención de México. Historia y cultura política de México 1810-1910
Creators: name: González Luna, Anamaría
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: Héctor Aguilar Camín, La invención de México. Historia y cultura política de México 1810-1910
description: Altre Modernità, N° 2 (2009): Letterature e migrazioni
Assessing fine-scale genetic consequences of anthropogenic pressures to advance conservation management
Creators: name: Hohwieler, Katrin
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2021
Subjects: conservation genetics
koala
fragmentation
genetic erosion
anthropogenic threats

description: The fragmentation and destruction of habitat has been identified as one of the most severe threats to biodiversity and has led to fragmented and isolated populations in many species. Such populations experience an increased risk of impaired dispersal opportunities, genetic drift, loss of genetic diversity, and inbreeding. These effects are particularly harmful for threatened species and identifying these, at times cryptic processes is crucial in order to make informed conservation management decisions.
description: An iconic flagship species that is heavily affected by anthropogenic landscape changes is the koala. Koala populations across the east coast of Australia have experienced severe declines since European settlement with multiple bottleneck events and it is likely that we will see local population extinctions if effective conservation of at-risk populations fails. It is key to identify the knowledge that can be derived from fine-scale genetic data and to understand genetic processes and drivers in such vulnerable populations. This will help to inform on and conserve genetic diversity, which determines a populations’ adaptive evolutionary potential and is therefore crucial for the future survival of these populations and the species as a whole. Here, I non-invasively collected genetic samples (scats) of koalas across Queensland and New South Wales, using specially trained detection dogs. From these scats, I extracted DNA for genotyping of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) which I analysed in my subsequent chapters to answer questions in relation to genetic conservation management.
Additional file 2 of Retained primary teeth in STAT3 hyper-IgE syndrome: early intervention in childhood is essential
Creators: name: Meixner, Iris
name: Hagl, Beate
name: Kröner, Carolin I.
name: Spielberger, Benedikt D.
name: Paschos, Ekaterini
name: Dückers, Gregor
name: Niehues, Tim
name: Hesse, Ronny
name: Renner, Ellen D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Table 2. Dental findings in panoramic radiographs.
Radical Islam and the Chechen War Spillover: A Political Ethnographic Reassessment of the Upsurge of Violence in the North Caucasus Since 2009
Creators: name: Ratelle, Jean-Francois
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: North Caucasus
Dagestan
Chechnya
Kabardino-Balkaria
Political ethnography
Insurgency
Civil war
micro-dynamics of violence

description: This dissertation seeks to analyse the upsurge of insurgent violence in the North Caucasus following the end of the counter-terrorist operation in Chechnya in 2009. By looking at the development of radical Islam and the impact of the Chechen spillover in the region, this research suggests that these factors should be analysed and contextualized in each republic. By comparing the cases of Kabardino-Balkaria, Ingushetia, and Dagestan, this dissertation seeks to demonstrate the importance of vendetta, criminal activity, religious repression and corruption as local factors that contribute to the increase of violence. By focusing on the case of Dagestan, the author proposes a political ethnographic approach to study the mechanisms and details of religious repression and corruption in everyday life. This analysis permits us to map out the different pathways towards the participation in insurgent groups in Dagestan. By doing so, it demonstrates that one can identify three different generations of insurgent fighters in Dagestan. This dissertation demonstrates that the role of Salafist ideology is often marginal in the early stages of the process of violent radicalisation, and slowly gains importance as the involvement in violence increases. The emphasis should be placed on vengeance and religious repression as crucial triggering factors as they provoke a cognitive opening for young people in Dagestan to engage in violence.
Sentencing Aboriginal Offenders: A Study of Court of Appeal Decisions in Light of Section 718.2 (e) of the Canadian Criminal Code
Creators: name: Dugas, Andrée
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Canadian Criminal Code, section 718.2(e)
Sentencing of Aboriginal Offenders

description: Section 718.2 (e)’s directive to canvass all available sanctions other than imprisonment that are reasonable in the circumstances, with particular attention to the circumstances of Aboriginal offenders was to be given real force. This study’s goal was therefore to identify what considerations may be impeding or encouraging the application of section 718.2 (e)’s directive through a constructivist discourse analysis of 33 court of appeal cases. The study has mapped trends and influences which weigh strongly on sentencing judges in the decision-making process and considerations that are affecting the application of this provision. Prohibitive and permissive dimensions of the Gladue case were identified related to the application of section 718.2 (e), creating competing ideals in the application of the provision. Modern Penal Rationality (MPR) underpinned many of the judges’ justifications. However, unforeseen considerations were also noted. Ultimately, MPR, dominates the sentencing calculus and diminishes section 718.2 (e)’s application and alternative/restorative potential.
Additional file 1 of Association between neural prosody discrimination and language abilities in toddlers: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study
Creators: name: Guo, YanRu
name: Li, YanWei
name: Liu, FuLin
name: Lin, HuanXi
name: Sun, YuYing
name: Zhang, JiaLin
name: Hong, Qin
name: Yao, MengMeng
name: Chi, Xia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Rosy Braidotti, Trasposizioni. Sull’etica nomade
Creators: name: Vallorani, Nicoletta
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: Rosy Braidotti, Trasposizioni. Sull'etica nomade
description: Altre Modernità, N° 2 (2009): Letterature e migrazioni
Genetic investigation and molecular identification of reproduction neuropeptides in sea cucumber
Creators: name: Hoang Dinh, Chieu
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2019
Subjects: artificial breeding
gene flow
H. leucospilota
neuropeptides
population genetics
radial nerve extract
reproduction
RGP
sea cucumbers

description: Sea cucumbers are important species both ecologically and economically throughout much of the world and have become a favorite food in Asian countries since they are a major source of many healthy natural products. Unfortunately, wild sea cucumbers are being overfished, leading to their rapid decline. Thus, stock enhancement and aquaculture breeding has been being implemented in some countries to produce high quality juveniles for their growth and eventual harvest to keep up with demand. However, the stock enhancement and breeding of sea cucumbers in aquaculture faces enormous challenges, such as lack of genetic information and reproductive dysfunction. My PhD research addressed these problems using genetic investigation and application of reproductive neuropeptides in sea cucumbers, in particular the black sea cucumber Holothuria leucospilota. This is the first comprehensive investigation into the population genetics of H. leucospilota using single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). The results indicated that there was high gene flow and genetic similarities among Vietnamese populations, which inferred a high panmictic stock structure in Vietnam. Also, there exists significant genetic differentiation between Darwin (Northern Australia) and other sea cucumber populations studied (Vietnam and Eastern Australia). Based on these findings, a captive stock enhancement program could use local broodstock from coastal areas of Vietnam, but with an effective population size of 50 to 150 individuals to ensure long-term genetic diversity. The Darwin sea cucumber stock should not be included in captive breeding programs to reduce genetic risks.
Supplementary document for Smart strategy of butterfly wing scales to control the light diffusion and absorption - 5268327.pdf
Creators: name: Priyanka, Priyanka
name: Sharma, Sachin
name: SAINI, SUDHIR KUMAR
name: SINGH, NITESH
name: KHOKHAR, MEGHA
name: Nair, Rajesh
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications

description: supporting information
Development of a Haptic Video Chat System
Creators: name: Zhang, Longyu
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: touchscreen
haptic video chat

description: Since conventional audio-video teleconferencing systems have reached their limits, the needs of integrating new sensations to improve users' telecommunication experience are growing. Haptics, the sense of touch, which includes handshake, comforting hug, encouraging pat, and other physical contacts, is of great importance for interpersonal communication, since it allows people to express and receive intimate affection, intention or emotion efficiently. Motivated by a few haptic telecommunication softwares, this thesis presents an innovative webcam-based touchscreen to replace the haptic device, which is used in HugMe system as human hand, to further increase people's degree of immersion with the audio-video-haptic teleconferencing system at a more reasonable price. With our webcam-based touchscreen, the user could directly use his/her bare hand to touch the image of the person who he/she is chatting with, instead of controlling a haptic device as the medium to realize indirect touch. This thesis also gives details of the touchscreen method and our proposed mathematical models for touch position calculation. Experimental results show that our system is accurate and robust, while maintaining high compatibility with conventional audio-video teleconferencing systems for combination. With our haptic jacket, the passive user can feel the touch of the active user at the right position. Also, additional applications with the touchscreen, such as writing and drawing, are developed and tested. Finally, we draw the conclusions and talk about future work.
François Bruzzo, Letture avverse. Nomadismi di arte e letterature
Creators: name: Morgante, Jole
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: François Bruzzo, Letture avverse. Nomadismi di arte e letterature
description: Altre Modernità, N° 2 (2009): Letterature e migrazioni
GLI APPRENDENTI FRANCESI E LA LINGUA ITALIANA: VICINI MA NON TROPPO
Creators: name: Matthiae, Claudia
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2011

description: Nelle  classi multilingue il docente d’italiano L2  riscontra inevitabili diversità riguardo alla progressione dell’apprendimento. Aldilà della motivazione, fattore certo determinante,  i discenti francesi sembrano agevolati, almeno nella comprensione scritta e orale. Ma le comuni radici romanze si traducono unicamente in un vantaggio? La vicinanza linguistica comporta infatti inevitabili interferenze su più piani, principalmente lessicali (faux-amis) e morfosintattici. In questo articolo vengono elencati i transfer più ricorrenti in una cinquantina di apprendenti francesi di livello A1/A2/B1 e si suggeriscono strategie didattiche per contrastarli.     French learners and italian language: close but not enough   In multilingual classes Italian L2 teachers face inevitable diversities regarding the pace of learning.  Aside from motivation, definitely a motivating factor, French students are advantaged, at least in oral and written comprehension.  But are the common romance roots necessarily an advantage?  The linguistic proximity causes inevitable interference on many levels, especially in terms of lexis (faux.amis) and morfosyntax. The most common transferences are listed in the article, based on 50 French learners at the A1/A2/B1 level and didactic strategies to deal with these problems are suggested.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 3, N° 1 (2011)
Akustik & Lärm
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Lärm
subject: Akustik
subject: Umwelterziehung
subject: Gehörschädigung
subject: Lärmwirkung
subject: Umweltbildung
subject: Hörschaden
subject: Lärm
subject: Transport

description: Lärm ist heutzutage praktisch überall vorhanden. Da er nicht nur stört, sondern auch krank machen kann, sollten Kinder für dieses Thema frühzeitig sensibilisiert werden. Mit der Mitmach-Broschüre des ⁠UBA⁠ können Kinder viel über das Hören und den Lärm erfahren. Die Broschüre ist für den Grundschul-Unterricht gedacht. Viele kleine Experimente, Aufgaben, Rätsel und Spiele machen das Lernen über Hören und Lärm spannend. Eine Handreichung für Lehrerinnen und Lehrer enthält die Lösungen der einzelnen Aufgaben sowie Hinweise dazu.
LA LINGUA ITALIANA PARLATA E SCRITTA DAGLI STUDENTI USBECHI: ANALISI DI POSSIBILI INTERFERENZE DELLA LORO LINGUA MADRE.
Creators: name: Gobbis, Antonietta
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2011

description: In questo breve saggio ci proponiamo di illustrare le peculiarità dell’italiano parlato in Uzbekistan dagli studenti dell’Università delle Lingue Mondiali di Tashkent, dove chi scrive presta servizio come Lettore ministeriale dal gennaio del 2008. Dalle nostre osservazioni si evince come  la L1 e la prima lingua straniera studiata a scuola, l’inglese, possono interferire durante il processo di apprendimento della lingua italiana. I due gruppi linguistici più consistenti all’interno dei corsi di italiano della scrivente sono rappresentati dagli usbechi e dai russi e per questo motivo l’analisi sarà limitata ad essi. Il nostro non vuole essere un mero studio comparativo delle lingue usbeca, russa e italiana ma intende evidenziare le maggiori difficoltà linguistiche che incontrano gli studenti di italiano in Uzbekistan, in particolare nelle prime fasi dell’interlingua, e suggerire alcune strategie per superarle.     Spoken and written italian by uzbek students: an analysis of possible interferences from their native language   The following brief essay discusses Italian usage by students of the Uzbek State University of World Languages, where the author has been working as Lecturer for the Italian Foreign Office since January 2008. The thesis of this article is that the students’ native language and the first foreign language studied at school, English, interfere with the process of learning Italian. The two largest language groups in the author’s classes are Uzbek und Russian and the analysis is restricted to interference problems from them. It is not an exhaustive comparative study of Uzbek, Russian and Italian, but investigates the main difficulties that Italian learners in Uzbekistan have and suggests some ways to overcome them.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 3, N° 1 (2011)
Work, rest and perceived fatigue in swimming officials: Physical activity and competition stressors experienced by officials at major swimming competitions
Creators: name: Yardy-Phelan, Samantha
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2022
Subjects: sport officiating
swimming
workloads
Sports science and exercise

description: Swimming officials play a critical role at any swimming competition as without their assistance competitions could not take place. The role of an official encompasses the entire competition from start to finish, yet the factors of work required, rest availability and perceived fatigue when officiating within the sport is unclear. The latter is particularly pertinent as nearly all swimming officiating roles in Australia are held by volunteers, people who dedicate themselves to sport without monetary reward. Despite their importance to swimming organisations, to the author’s knowledge, no research has been conducted to investigate who these volunteers are and what is expected of them at swimming competitions. Of key interest are the demographic characteristics of these volunteers including their ages, gender and officiating experiences. Similarly, what are the physical workload demands expected of the various officiating roles that are required during a swimming competition. The purpose of this research was to quantify the competition demands and workload of the swimming official’s role. These data were stratified by officiating type for the common short course and a long course competition and this provided insight about additional management strategies for competition staff and volunteers within the sport.
Neoliberalism, Postfeminism, and Ideal Girls: A Semiotic Discourse Analysis of Successful Girlhood in Seventeen Magazine
Creators: name: Sands, Victoria
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: feminism
neoliberalism
Girls' Studies
Women's Studies
Semiotics
Discourse Analysis
postfeminism
Seventeen magazine
media studies
feminist cultural studies
girls

description: This thesis looks at how a contemporary notion of successful girlhood is negotiated in the social text of Seventeen magazine. Moreover, it demonstrates the ways in which Seventeen’s representations of successful and ideal girls reflect and mediate timely values of postfeminism and neoliberalism. This thesis will also make visible how race, class, ability, and sexuality are negotiated within Seventeen’s “success” framework, in order to illuminate intersectional issues implicit in conceptualizing ideal girlhood. The method for this research is a semiotic discourse analysis, looking at the visual and linguistic signs within the text in order to connect them with broader ideologies and themes surrounding contemporary ideal girlhood. Drawing on girls’ studies and feminist cultural studies literature, the discourse of ideal girlhood is situated in a so-called “postfeminist” moment, in which girls, as popular, highly visible subjects in contemporary society, are perceived to be poised for achievement and social ascension, all while being closely surveilled. These expectations of postfeminism intersect with current neoliberal principles of individualized success; analysis is therefore connected with and contextualized by discussion of late modern principles of neoliberalism and its economic, social, and political logic.
Undressing Cherubino: Reassessing Gender and Sexuality in Mozart's 'Le nozze di Figaro'
Creators: name: Puttee, Erin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Le nozze di Figaro
Mozart
Cherubino
Gender
Sexuality

description: Undressing Cherubino: Reassessing Gender and Sexuality in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro Although Le nozze di Figaro is one of Mozart’s most celebrated operas, we have not yet understood one crucial element. On the surface of the drama, the opera seems to be about class disruption: the Count is the head of the household, but it is his servants who run it. This plot is made evident to the audience, and it is the message that most critics draw from the work. However, there may be a second meaning below the surface that is, in fact, more subversive than the overt one. While class structures are questioned in the foreground, another more hidden narrative explores alternate depictions of femininity and sexuality. This covert meaning is arguably embodied in Cherubino. This character is portrayed as an adolescent boy despite the fact that the role calls for a female singer. Cherubino is understood to be male, and functions as one in the drama, but, as I will suggest, may in fact be conceived as female. As a pagegirl raging with sexual love for all the women in the palace, Cherubino may be seen embodying a prototype of femininity that is contrary to the heterosexual norms of the overt narrative. The first chapter of this thesis examines how both Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais’ play Le mariage de Figaro and Mozart and Da Ponte’s operatic adaptation could point towards alternate depictions of women. The following two chapters survey the various ways an alternate gender identity for Cherubino can be expressed through features of the libretto (chapter 2) and the score (chapter 3). Drawing from my experience of performing Cherubino, the fourth and final chapter assesses the findings of the previous two and shows that while elements of the text and music may have characteristics that can be assigned gender attributes, neither can intrinsically embody masculinity or femininity. With this finding comes the understanding that who and what a character is is marked not by the outlines of libretto and score but by acts of musical performance.
Cover Crop Diversity as a Tool to Mitigate Vine Decline and Reduce Pathogens in Vineyard Soils
Creators: name: Richards, Andrew
name: Estaki, Mehrbod
name: Úrbez-Torres, José Ramón
name: Bowen, Pat
name: Lowery, Tom
name: Hart, Miranda
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Wine grape production is an important economic asset in many nations; however, a significant proportion of vines succumb to grapevine trunk pathogens, reducing yields and causing economic losses. Cover crops, plants that are grown in addition to main crops in order to maintain and enhance soil composition, may also serve as a line of defense against these fungal pathogens by producing volatile root exudates and/or harboring suppressive microbes. We tested whether cover crop diversity reduced disease symptoms and pathogen abundance. In two greenhouse experiments, we inoculated soil with a 10⁶ conidia suspension of Ilyonectria liriodendri, a pathogenic fungus, then conditioned soil with cover crops for several months to investigate changes in pathogen abundance and fungal communities. After removal of cover crops, Chardonnay cuttings were grown in the same soil to assess disease symptoms. When grown alone, white mustard was the only cover crop associated with reductions in necrotic root damage and abundance of Ilyonectria. The suppressive effects of white mustard largely disappeared when paired with other cover crops. In this study, plant identity was more important than diversity when controlling for fungal pathogens in vineyards. This research aligns with other literature describing the suppressive potential of white mustard in vineyards.
INSEGNAMENTO E APPRENDIMENTO DELLA STORIA IN UNA CLASSE PLURILINGUE E MULTICULTURALE
Creators: name: Coluccio, Marialaura
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2011

description: Apprendere una disciplina non significa esclusivamente assimilarne i contenuti, ma anche parlarne la lingua specifica: si tratta di una questione che la presenza sempre maggiore di studenti non madrelingua nella scuola italiana ha reso solo più evidente e riproposto in tutta la sua urgenza. Da recenti indagini, tra i linguaggi disciplinari, quello della storia è risultato essere uno dei più complessi; a partire quindi da un’analisi delle caratteristiche specifiche della lingua della storia (dal lessico alla morfo-sintassi, dall’organizzazione testuale alla tipologia dei concetti della disciplina), il presente intervento si propone di individuare le possibili strategie di semplificazione e di facilitazione didattica, evidenziandone anche gli eventuali limiti o risvolti negativi. L’articolo si propone quindi di riflettere sulla necessità di rinnovare l’insegnamento disciplinare, rivedendo programmi e metodologie didattiche, anche al fine di un’educazione linguistica globale per l’apprendimento delle lingue a scuola.     Teaching and learning history in a multilingual, multicultural class   Studying a subject does not mean merely assimilating the content, but also using  specific language: the ever-increasing presence of non-mothertongue students in Italian schools makes this appear more and more evident and urgent.  Recent surveys regarding different disciplines showed that history was among the most complex areas.  Starting from an analysis of the specific characteristics of the language of history (from the lexis to the morphosyntax, the organization of the texts to the types of disciplinary concepts), this article singles out the possible ways to simplify and facilitate didactics, also highlighting the limits or negative aspects. The article is a reflection on the necessity to renew the teaching of disciplines, up-dating didactic programs and methods, with the aim of arriving at a global linguistic education for learning languages at school.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 3, N° 1 (2011)
Supplementary document for Smart strategy of butterfly wing scales to control the light diffusion and absorption - 5268327.pdf
Creators: name: Priyanka, Priyanka
name: Sharma, Sachin
name: SAINI, SUDHIR KUMAR
name: SINGH, NITESH
name: KHOKHAR, MEGHA
name: Nair, Rajesh
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications

description: supporting information
LEGGERE PER APPRENDERE: IL DIFFICILE CASO DEL TESTO DI STORIA
Creators: name: Ciaccio, Simonetta
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2011

description: La comprensione del manuale di storia da parte dello studente straniero che apprende l’italiano come lingua di scolarizzazione è il problema che viene affrontato in questo articolo. Nella prima parte, introduttiva, dell’articolo si richiamano alcuni aspetti relativi all’apprendimento dell’italiano come lingua di scolarizzazione e alla comprensione dei testi per lo studio e si evidenziano in particolare, le caratteristiche linguistico-testuali dei manuali scolastici di storia e le aree di difficoltà che gli apprendenti possono incontrare. Nella seconda parte viene esaminato, facendo riferimento anche agli indici di difficoltà gulpease, un capitolo tratto da un manuale di scuola media di cui vengono messi in evidenza i tratti lessicali, morfo-sintattici, testuali e di contenuto che possono risultare di difficile comprensione per l’apprendente. L’articolo si conclude con una serie di proposte di semplificazione e/o di facilitazione del testo preso in esame che lo rendano accessibile allo studente e che possano essergli di aiuto nell’apprendere i contenuti disciplinari proposti.     Reading for learning: The difficult case of history textbooks   Understanding history textbooks for foreign students learning Italian at school is the problem addressed in this article.  The first part discusses a few aspects of learning Italian at school and understanding texts and focuses on the textual-linguistic aspects of school history textbooks and the difficulties students may have with them.  The second part investigates a chapter from a middle-school history textbook, highlighting the lexical, morpho-syntactic, textual and content traits that may cause learners difficulty in comprehension, referring to the GULPEASE difficulty index levels.  The article concludes with a series of proposals for simplifying and/or facilitating the text examined in order to make it accessible to the student and offer help in learning the content.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 3, N° 1 (2011)
Novel inorganic membranes.
Creators: name: Brinza, Daniel L.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Chemical.

description: Membrane forming properties of two natural, microporous clay minerals, montmorillonite and sepiolite, were investigated. The research presented in this work was exploratory in nature and had two distinct parts: montmorillonite as a gas separation membrane material and sepiolite as an ultrafiltration membrane material. The pore size of montmorillonite was modified by pillaring with an aluminum hydroxy cation; sepiolite was only purified from its natural state. By employing the sol-gel method, with various amounts of the inorganic polymer boehmite as a binder, unsupported membranes were cast, calcined and tested under different configurations and permeating species. The membranes made of 60% pillared montmorillonite and 40% boehmite showed permeability ratios higher than 200 between gases with small molecular size (helium, hydrogen) and gases with bulkier molecules (propane, nitrogen). Preparation of composite membranes consisting of a thin layer of pillared clay/boehmite mixture on inorganic supports with different pore sizes was also attempted. The sepiolite membranes displayed a sharp pore size distribution centered around 9.3 nm radius and good results in ultrafiltration experiments using dilute aqueous solutions of macromolecules of various molecular weights. A mathematical model was attempted for the sepiolite membrane, linking pore size distribution with the experimental permeation data.
The Application of Partial Crediting Policies to Carbon Offset Projects under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism
Creators: name: Ashford, Graham
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2014
Subjects: clean development mechanism
Kyoto protocol
carbon offset
discounting
partial crediting
trading ratios
credit multiplier
supplementarity
sustainable development
atmospheric benefit
certified emission reduction
CDM
CER

description: The study provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of the hypothetical application of partial crediting multipliers (discounting) to carbon offset projects under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism. The study comprises nine chapters: 1) an introduction, 2) an overview of the research design, 3) the rationale for emissions trading as an environmental management policy instrument, 4) the evolution and modalities of the Kyoto Protocol and the Clean Development Mechanism, 5) the experience to date with the operation of the Clean Development Mechanism, 6) a theoretical analysis of the application of partial crediting policies employing neo-classical economic theory, 7) an empirical investigation of global carbon abatement potential and costs in developing countries, 8) a multi-criteria analysis of 19 partial crediting formulas using disaggregated data and non-linear optimisation techniques, and 9) discussion and conclusions.
LA LINGUA SPECIALE DELLA STORIA DELL'ARTE NELLA DIVULGAZIONE PER LA DIDATTICA ACCADEMICA
Creators: name: Boglioni, Eleonora
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2011

description: L’articolo verte sulla lingua speciale della storia dell’arte, indagata in base ai livelli caratterizzanti di lessico, morfosintassi e testualità, con quello aggiuntivo del parallelismo con la critica letteraria. Dal lavoro emerge che per ciascun livello le caratteristiche salienti sono: la maggior rilevanza dei tecnicismi collaterali rispetto alla più comune preponderanza di segni aggiuntivi (nei linguaggi scientifici, in maggior  misura); la morfologia derivativa –  aggettivi da nomi di scuole/movimenti artistici e aggettivi da eponimi – e la prevalenza dell’ipotassi sulla paratassi, resa ancor più articolata dalla presenza di incisi e citazioni; l’importanza della testualità, specialmente per l’apparato paratestuale (immagine e didascalia), che risulta porsi come quello più distintivo tra i vari livelli. L’analisi si sviluppa secondo la dimensione verticale delle lingue speciali. individuando un campo ristretto gravitante attorno ai testi (manuali,saggi) secondo la dimensione diafasica della formalità e diamesica della lingua scritta. Si suggeriscono accorgimenti didattici per uno studente che abbia la storia dell’arte come obiettivo formativo accademico.     The popularization of the language of Art History in academic didactics    The article deals with the special linguistic area of Art History.  The study is based on its characteristic lexis, morpho-syntax and textuality, as well as comparison with literary criticism. The distinctive features are the importance of technical language which is more significant than specific terms (more common among scientific languages); the derivational morphology – adjectives from artistic movements/groups names and from eponymouses – and the predominance of hypotaxis on parataxis, characterized by parentheses, dashes and quotations, which makes comprehension harder; the importance of textuality, particularly in its paratextual element (image and caption), crucial for the comprehension of the subject itself. Selected samples of written texts are analyzed according to didactic academic aspects, based on a vertical approach in the study of special languages. There are also suggestions on how to simplify university texts (books and essays).
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 3, N° 1 (2011)
The implementation of transition planning and service coordination for special education students leaving high school in Ontario.
Creators: name: Petruka, Dale R.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Education, Administration.

description: Research has shown that developing a transition plan with students with disabilities while they are in high school helps to make the transition into adult life less stressful and more successful. This research examines the state of transition planning in Ontario in 1997/98 using Bronfenbrenner's (1972) ecological framework. A four phased, mixed methods design was employed. In phase 1, policies and documents pertaining to transition planning were requested from all English school boards in Ontario. Only 8 boards provided documentation suggesting that not many school boards had published documentation about transition planning in 1997. If transition planning was occurring, it was mostly in place for students with developmental disabilities. In phase 2, a questionnaire was mailed to 536 high schools across Ontario. The resulting data revealed that the majority of respondents believe they are doing most of the best practices for transition but many do not have a formal transition program in place for identified students. This part of the study showed that schools were not utilizing the services of community agencies to facilitate the process to the level of its potential. Furthermore, respondents indicated that the key to a successful program was the people in the school that managed it. The top barriers to transition programs were lack of money, personnel, resources, and time. The questionnaire was followed-up by 36 telephone interviews: phase 3. The interviews provided detailed information about the barriers that transition programs face, like transportation, community size, parental involvement, teacher training, levels of collaboration, money, time, and difficulties finding work placements. In phase 4, a week long case study of a highly collaborative transition program provided an example of how one region coped and overcame some of the barriers to implementing transition planning. This research provides a snapshot of transition planning in the province of Ontario in 1997/98 and suggests that the implementation process by the Ministry of Education needs to be improved if transition planning is going to be as effective as possible. Many issues were revealed that have potential implications for ongoing research and theory beyond the boundaries of Ontario.