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Aspectual datives (and instrumentals)
Creators: name: Franco, Ludovico
name: Lorusso, Paolo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Dative adpositions instantiate part-whole/inclusion (⊆) relations that hold between
 the goal and the direct object in the thematic grids of ditransitives. We assume that
 the same primitive part-whole relation is found: i) when the dative adposition is
 used in locative contexts; ii) with genitive adpositions, as shown by the widespread
 genitive/dative syncretism across natural languages. Instrumental inflections/ad-
 positions are also an instantiation of the same primitive part-whole relation, but
 they denote the reverse with respect to genitives/datives (⊇). We describe progres-
 sive aspectual constructions involving adpositions, crosslinguistically. We propose
 that the dative adpositions found in progressive periphrases are the lexicalization
 of the same basic ‘part-whole/inclusion’ content: the part-whole relation does not
 hold between argumental/thematic material but between two events, one event be-
 ing the time of reference which is ‘part of’ the time-frame of a second embedded
 event/set of events. The variation in the adpositions found with the Italian aspec-
 tual periphrases is accounted for in the terms of the ‘direction’ (⊆) vs. (⊇) of the
 inclusion primitive predicate that implies different interpretations: progressive vs.
 prospective aspect, respectively.
Therapist, client factors, and efficacy in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: A meta-analytic exploration of factors that contribute to positive outcome
Creators: name: Di Giulio, Gina
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Clinical.

description: A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for adult depression was conducted. Twenty-nine studies were identified from 1988 to 2004 that met selection criteria. Comparisons to no treatment, antidepressant medication, behaviour therapy, and other psychotherapies were made using Hedges' d corrected for sample size. Results indicated a clear superiority of cognitive therapy (CT) and CBT over wait-list or no treatment conditions, and slightly larger effect sizes for CT/CBT over pharmacological and other psychotherapeutic treatments for depression. As tests of homogeneity were not met for the pharmacotherapy and other psychotherapy conditions, the results should be interpreted with caution. About equal effect sizes were found between CT/CBT and Behavioural Therapy. Effect size was significantly related to format of treatment (with group therapy achieving a larger effect size than individual therapy format) and type of research trial (with larger effect sizes yielded for efficacy than effectiveness trials). Length of therapy, measured in weeks, was also significantly related to better outcome in CT/CBT. These results confirm that CT and CBT are excellent options for the treatment of adult depression.
Datives and stativity in psych predicates
Creators: name: Fábregas, Antonio
name: Marín, Rafael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This article discusses the question of how the meaning contribution of a dative is obtained. Despite the different formal instantiations that a dative can take, its semantics is typically very stable cross-linguistically. In particular, datives typically express goals of motion and experiencers; importantly, in experiencer contexts they are associated with a stative reading of the predicate, which in principle clashes with the goal semantics. In this chapter we argue that datives are semantically defined as initial boundaries, but specifically, when interpreted as experiencers, they are introduced by a prepositional layer that prevents the boundary semantics from extending to the whole predicate.
Channel-independent functions of connexin 32 are mediated by protein-protein interactions: Discovery of connexin 32 binding partners and implications of intracellular connexins
Creators: name: Fowler, Stephanie L
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Biology, Neuroscience.

description: Connexin proteins are the structural components of gap junctions and hemichannels, and are dynamically regulated in neural progenitor cells (NPCs) over the course of neurogenesis. While the classical role of connexins is to mediate juxtacrine and paracrine signalling through plasma membrane channels, new evidence suggests that a plethora of channel-independent signalling roles are initiated by protein-protein interactions. In this thesis, I provide evidence for a novel Connexin 32 (Cx32)-interactome (i.e., interacting proteins that may not be associated with plasma membrane channels) that can be subsequently tested for impact on NPC fate. Following rigorous testing of various Cx32 protein detection strategies designed to overcome a problem with brain-specific antibody cross-reactivity, I developed a new method to affinity-purify endogenous Cx32 combining sucrose gradient fractionation and immunoprecipitation (IP). Combined with high performance liquid chromatography and tandem mass spectrometry, nineteen Cx32 binding partners were identified. Surprisingly, many of these interacting proteins were predicted to localize to the mitochondrion. Interaction of Cx32 with slderoflexln-1 (SFXN-1), a putative mitochondrial protein, at both plasma and mitochondrial membranes was further verified by co-IP. Together these results suggest that a small pool of Cx32 localizes to the mitochondrion and provides the first proof of principle that Cx32 interacts with mitochondrial protein complexes at both plasma membrane and mitochondrial locations.
Experimental and numerical analysis of the sooting propensity of binary fuel mixtures
Creators: name: Trottier, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Mechanical.
subject: Environmental Sciences.

description: The sooting behaviour of binary fuel mixtures was evaluated both experimentally and through computer simulations. The soot volume fraction of laminar diffusion flames of mixtures of ethylene/propane, methane/ethylene, methane/propane, methane/ethane, methane/butane, ethane/propane and ethane/ethylene fuels was measured using two-dimensional line of sight attenuation. It was found that a synergistic effect could be demonstrated for the ethylene/propane, methane/ethylene, methane/ethane and ethane/ethylene mixtures. The synergistic effect translated into a higher soot concentration for a mixture fraction than for either of the pure fuels. The methane/propane, methane/butane and ethane/propane mixtures were not seen to have such an effect. Through experiments where the flame temperature was kept constant, it was determined that the synergistic effect in the methane/ethylene mixture was very temperature-dependent whereas the synergistic effect in the ethylene/propane mixture was not. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
The effect of water intake on post-exercise hyperthermia: Investigating the implications for theories of thermoregulation.
Creators: name: Beraznik, Jeffrey.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Biology, Animal Physiology.

description: The purpose of this investigation was to examine the role of water intake on post-exercise hyperthermia. Ten active, non-competitive male volunteers performed twenty minute treadmill exercise at equal relative intensities during two separate trials where: (1) gradual hypohydration took place, and (2) euhydration was induced by water ingestion in order to compensate for the body water volume loss demonstrated in the hypohydrated condition. Core temperature, represented by both esophageal and rectal temperatures, was recorded, along with surface temperatures (forearm, finger, chest thigh, and calf) and heart rate during a twenty-one minute adaptation period, throughout exercise and for forty minutes of recovery. Hematocrit samples were taken immediately prior to and following the exercise protocol and subject weights were measured before and after the testing session. The interaction between trials and time for esophageal and rectal temperatures and the difference between the hypohydration and euhydration trials for esophageal and rectal temperatures were all non-significant, and demonstrated that core temperature values did not differ between the hypohydrated and euhydrated conditions. However, core temperature was significantly different across time for both esophageal and rectal temperatures, due to a post-exercise elevated plateau from pre-exercise values. This elevation corresponded to the core temperature at which skin vessel dilation occurred during e exercise for both trials. The correlation between the difference in the hypohydration and euhydration esophageal elevations and the absolute and relative percentage weight loss of each subject after hypohydration further demonstrated a weak role for water intake in post-exercise hyperthermia. Several hypotheses are proposed to explain the post-exercise core temperature elevations in both the hypohydrated and euhydrated trials and the lack of significant difference between the two trials. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Hydraulic overload of upflow anaerobic sludge bed reactor treating landfill leachate
Creators: name: Gabr, Tarek Zeiad
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Chemical.
subject: Engineering, Sanitary and Municipal.

description: The impact of hydraulic shockloads on UASB reactors operating at mesophilic conditions (T = 35°C) was studied. The wastewater, landfill leachate, was pretreated by filtering it through peat moss. The reactor was 1/2 filled with sludge previously acclimated from a pulp mill wastewater treatment facility. The shockloads imposed on the reactor were hydraulic where the flowrate of the influent wastewater was increased by 2--3 times the initial flow rate at quasi steady-state (corresponding to a change of HRT from 2.5--3 to 1--1.5 d) where the influent concentration was maintained around 10 g COD/L. Two modes of shock-loading were compared: continuous versus intermittent for a total duration of 3 hours, where the intermittent operation distributed the flowrate increase over 9 hours to make a total of 3 hours. The results showed that a UASB reactor can endure a single shockload of OLR close to 9.6 +/- 1.8 g COD/L.d and recover to pre-shock conditions in a period not exceeding 30 hours. Intermittent shock feeding resulted in better effluent quality; nonetheless, it took a longer time to recover, and was more prone to solids washout. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
The effect of marital therapy on inhibited sexual desire: An outcome study.
Creators: name: MacPhee, David C.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Clinical.

description: A total of 49 couples, in which the women were experiencing inhibited sexual desire (ISD), were randomly assigned to Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT) or a wait-list control group condition. An additional 15 couples were recruited as a non-ISD comparison sample. The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of marital therapy (EFT) on ISD, and examine differences between ISD and non-ISD couples. At post-treatment, EFT couples' levels of marital and overall sexual adjustment were not significantly different from those of the control group following the wait-list period. On a measure of sexual desire, however, treatment group females had post-treatment levels of sexual desire that were significantly higher than those of control group females following the wait-list period. In most areas assessed, treatment group levels of clinically significant improvement were found to be superior to those of the control group. Treatment group within-group gains from pre-treatment to post-treatment were largely maintained at follow-up. For Treatment females, better pre-treatment marital adjustment predicted better post-treatment overall sexual adjustment. The main difference found between ISD couples and non-ISD couples was that ISD couples had significantly more sexual distress. Results are discussed in light of an interpersonal conceptualization of ISD.
Tertiary computing course selection: the impact of mathematics anxiety on female decision making
Creators: name: Lang, Catherine
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Is mathematics anxiety contributing to the declining numbers of females enrolling in tertiary computing courses? Initial observation of enrolments in tertiary computing courses at an Australian university suggests a direct correlation between the number of females in a course and the prerequisite level of mathematics required at entry. A study involving over 550 female students in Australia and Singapore was undertaken to determine student perceptions of the importance of mathematics to computing and information technology degrees. All of the students were either studying a computing subject at secondary school or university and some were already enrolled in a computing degree. Results indicate that students studying computing at tertiary level in both countries believe that computing courses require good mathematical ability, while secondary school students express high levels of uncertainty when asked the same question. The majority of students surveyed believe that females and males are equal in mathematical ability, while thirty percent of the cohort from Singapore believes that males are more able than females in mathematical ability. This paper uses these responses, combined with observation and statistical data, to posit that females perceive a strong link between mathematical ability and success in computing courses. Consequently mathematics anxiety in females could be a contributing factor to their under-representation in tertiary computing courses. Computing and mathematics educators need to combine their efforts to encourage females into computing courses and dispel this anxiety.
Efficient dynamic load balancing techniques for large scale distributed simulations on a grid infrastructure
Creators: name: El Ajaltouni, Elie Antoine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: Dynamic load balancing is a key factor in achieving high performance for large scale distributed simulations on grid infrastructures. In a grid environment, the available resources and the simulation's computation and communication behavior may experience run-time critical imbalances. Consequently, an initial static partitioning should be combined with a dynamic load balancing scheme to ensure the high performance of the distributed simulation. In this paper we propose a dynamic load balancing scheme for distributed simulations on a grid infrastructure. Our scheme is composed of an online network analyzing service coupled with monitoring agents and a run-time model repartitioning service. We present a hierarchical scalable adaptive JXTA service based scheme and demonstrate through simulation experiments that our proposed scheme exhibits better performance in terms of the simulation execution time. Furthermore, we extend our algorithm from a local intra-cluster algorithm to a global inter-cluster algorithm and we consider studying the proposed global design through a formalized Discrete Event System Specification (DEVS) model system.
Beethoven duet : a genius of our own: the GDR and DEFA’s Beethovens
Creators: name: Frackman, Kyle
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts at Amherst. DEFA Film Library
Year: 2014

description: From before its inception in 1949, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) pictured itself—in contrast to its West German neighbor—as the natural heir to the pantheon of German-speaking “humanistic artists.” This concept of its cultural inheritance (Erbebegriff) was rooted in conversations that had taken place during the war among Soviet and German exile “Marxists” in Moscow.1 Back in Germany, the concept was put into operation in July 1945 with the founding of the Kulturbund zur demokratischen Erneuerung Deutschlands,whose mission was to “rediscover” and promote the “liberal humanistic, true national tradition of our people.”2 Two films—Ludwig van Beethoven (1954, dir. Max Jaap, documentary) and Beethoven – Tage aus einem Leben (Beethoven – Days in a Life, 1976, dir. Horst Seemann, feature film)—illustrate this overarching cultural drive within the GDR; but they also served somewhat divergent purposes because of the different times at which they appeared. These works arise out of two distinct and consequential periods of GDR cultural and political history, and strive toward related yet different goals, which are indicative of how the GDR and East Germans understood themselves and their contemporaries. Each film delivers a Beethoven of its own, one that reflects the period in which it appeared, even as it served the historical and cultural goal of illuminating the GDR’s heritage.
Polynomial identities of Lie subalgebras of M(n).
Creators: name: Zhang, Yuexiu.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Mathematics.

description: Let $K\sb{n}(F)$ denote the Lie algebra of skew symmetric matrices with coefficients in a field F. For 1 $\le\ k \le\ m$ + 1, define $a\sb{m}(k)(x\sb1,\cdots,x\sb{m};y)\:=\ \sum\sb{\sigma\in{\cal S}\sb{m}} (-1)\sp{\sigma}x\sb{\sigma(1)}\cdots x\sb{\sigma(k-1)}yx\sb{\sigma(k)}\cdots x\sb{\sigma(m)},$ and let $a\sbsp{m}{+}$ (respectively $a\sbsp{m}{-}$) be the sum of all $a\sb{m}(k)$ with k even (respectively odd). This dissertation contains two parts. In the first part (Chapter 2), we prove that the almost standard polynomial $f(x\sb{1},\cdots, x\sb{m};y)\:=\ \alpha a\sbsp{m}{+} + \beta a\sbsp{m}{-} + \sum\sb{k\le m-2n+4\atop or k\ge 2n-1}$ $\gamma\sb{k} a\sb{m}(k)$ is a weak identity of $K\sb{n},$ for any $\alpha, \beta, \gamma \in\ F$ and any integer $n \ge 2$ if and only if $m \ge 2n - 2.$ As a consequence, the Lie standard polynomial identity of degree 4$n -\ 7$ on the Lie algebra $K\sb{n}$ is obtained. The sharpness of the results is also examined in this part, in the case n = 7, a positive answer is given. In the second part (Chapter 3), the similar problem on $sp\sb{2n}(F),$ the Lie subalgebra of all skew-symmetric matrices with respect to the symplectic involution, is discussed.
ToRR Use Case: The Eldritch Peltier Technology: "Spiralborn Entropy-Harp"
Creators: name: Schwemler, Shivero
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: pull useful current out of room-temperature heat while the stack cools itself— 1 How much power is even on the table? Source Ambient black-body IR (4–14 µm) Warm machinery surface (350 K) Spectral window mid / far IR Raw flux at 300 K ≈ 450 W m⁻² (total) 2–10 µm ≈ 700 W m⁻² Comment 93 % of it is below Si band-gap ⇒ useless for classical PV Plenty in data-centre aisles, EV inverters, etc. Even a 3 % harvest of that tail gives 15–20 W m⁻² — comparable to thin-film PV, but at night and indoors.

 

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La justice pénale et la définition du crime à Québec, 1830-1860.
Creators: name: Dufresne, Martin.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.

description: J'ai entrepris d'etudier l'institution de justice penale du Bas-Canada et son evolution au cours de la periode 1830-1860 dans l'espace de la ville de Quebec. A cette epoque, les luttes politiques, le contexte economique et social de la colonie, enfin la place grandissante que se taille un discours sur la condition sociale, provoquent une reforme du droit penal. Un, ou plutot, des discours reclament une application serree du droit penal, sonnent l'alarme a propos du dereglement des populations flottantes, condamnent le milieu urbain propice au vice et a la maladie. Le processus judiciaire, largement ouvert aux negociations ou aux accommodements entre les parties, qui ne s'active promptement que lorsqu'il s'agit de conduire les matelots et les "personnes dereglees, debauchees et desoeuvrees" a la prison, subit des pressions de reforme qui visent chacune de ses composantes. Pour cerner le mode d'administration de la justice penale et ses transformations, j'ai mise essentiellement sur les archives judiciaires qu'ont laissees les juges et greffiers de la paix de Quebec. J'ai porte toute mon attention sur la Cour des sessions trimestrielles de la paix et sur les juridications inferieures que president les juges de paix de la ville. Puis, je me suis penche sur les textes de loi, certaines lettres contenues dans les archives, enfin des manifestations des dicours du droit et hygieniste. De cet ensemble d'archives, il apparai t qu'a partir de la fin des annees 1830, une serie d'amendements legislatifs et des mesures administratives vont rapidement permettre de faire fonctionner le judiciaire dans un cadre plus serre, en diluant du meme coup le pouvoir des particuliers d'utiliser la mecanique judiciaire a leurs propres fins. La logique du projet de reforme du droit penal repose sur le principe d'une repression exhaustive de toutes les infractions, sur la diffusion d'un modele du droit penal qui precederait les rapports sociaux. Le mode de justice penale des annees 1830 se prete peu a une repression exhaustive: une police plus ou moins active selon des types d'infractions, un processus judiciaire centralise en ville, couteux, long, enfin un tribunal des Sessions de la paix ou deux jurys composes de citoyens se prononcent sur les dossiers judiciaires. La reforme va faire passer la majorite des demarches judiciaires qu'entreprennent des particuliers par une procedure sommaire et expeditive sous la coupe d'un officier du gouvernement, l'inspecteur et surintendant de police, alors que les juges de paix voient leur role en matiere de justice penale se reduire. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Laboratory studies on the bearing capacity of unsaturated sands
Creators: name: Li, Xudong
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: In this thesis, extensive experimental studies were undertaken by conducting more than 250 bearing capacity tests on model footings to investigate the bearing capacity of three compacted (coarse-grained, sub-coarse-grained, and fine-grained) sands under both saturated and unsaturated conditions. These tests were conducted in specially designed equipment which includes two test systems for conducting bearing capacity tests using model footings. The designed equipment system had provisions for soil drainage, soil suction profile set for measuring the variation of matric suction with depth of water table, tensiometer holders, vacuum water pumps and other accessories. Two different soil containers (short container with 300 mm in diameter and 300 mm in height and the tall container with 300 mm in diameter and 700 mm in height) were used in the study. The bearing capacity was determined using four different sizes of square model footings (i.e. 20 mm x 20 mm, 25 mm x 25 mm, 37.5 mm x 37.5 mm, and 50 mm x 50 mm). All the equipment was designed by the author and fabricated in the student workshop at University of Ottawa. The experimental results demonstrated that the bearing capacity of unsaturated fine-grained sand increases as the matric suction increases. However, experimental studies on coarse-grained sand show that bearing capacity appears to decrease as the matric suction increases. Some practical reasons for such a behavior are explained in the thesis. Experimental studies have also demonstrated that footing sizes in the range of 20 mm x 20 mm to 150 mm x 150 mm had no significant influence on the bearing capacity of sandy soils. The boundary conditions (i.e., ratio of soil container size to footing size) have some effect on the bearing capacity of sands. A separate experimental program Saturated compacted silt after settlement offers significant resistance to the applied static loads without undergoing creep, however; bearing capacity reduces significantly when it is subjected to dynamic or cyclic loading conditions.
Occupational risk factors for lung cancer: A population-based case-control study in British Columbia
Creators: name: Yenugadhati, Nagarajkumar
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Occupational Health and Safety.
subject: Health Sciences, Public Health.
subject: Health Sciences, Oncology.

description: Occupational carcinogens have been linked to lung cancer: among 74 known occupational carcinogens and carcinogenic circumstances, 37 have been associated with lung cancer. We report on a large population-based case-control study in British Columbia (2998 lung cancer cases). In the absence of a non-cancer control group, patients with cancers other than lung cancer (11,737) served as controls. Logistic regression, adjusted for smoking history, was used to examine occupationally related lung cancer risk with histological subtypes. Elevated risk was found in several occupational circumstances: metal working, mining, deck crew of ship, bakers, workers in electric power systems, construction workers (all histological types), chefs and cooks (large cell carcinoma only), and medical workers (large cell carcinoma only). Odd ratios varied from 1.6 to 4.6, with most being around 2.0. Potential exposures found in these high risk occupational groups which warrant further evaluation include: formaldehyde, radiation, electromagnetic fields, wood dust, and cooking fumes.
Fusion, confusion, or illusion: Discursive constructions of health and fitness among second-generation South Asian Canadian women
Creators: name: George, Tammy
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Women's Studies.
subject: Health Sciences, Public Health.
subject: Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies.

description: Stereotypes emphasizing passivity, docility, and uncleanliness all contribute to cultural (mis)understandings of Canadian women of South Asian background. Such understandings feed dominant racist discourses, including "bodily" discourses related to fitness and health. In turn, such discourses have "effects" in terms of how women approach bodily practices. This study focuses on the constructions of health and fitness among ten 20--25 year old second generation South-Asian Canadian women who now reside in Ottawa or Toronto. Based on conversations with these women, the study focuses on how they construct health and fitness as well as the types of institutional and cultural discourses they draw from. Results show how these women struggle to construct an identity that speaks to their experience of being South Asian Canadian in that they often unsettle, contest, negotiate and resist normative constructions of both "South Asian" and "Canadian" identities. Results also highlight the impact of these negotiations on the young women's constructions of health, and on their position as un/fit and un/healthy subjects within cultural discourses. Insights from this study fill an important gap in the Canadian literature on health and fitness as well as inform contemporary debates regarding health policy and health education programs for South-Asian Canadian women.
Charles-Joseph de Pollinchove de Saint-Python
Creators: name: Plouvain, Pierre-Antoine-Samuel-Joseph (1754-1832)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2017
Subjects: Officier de justice d'Ancien Régime

description: Source: http://www.sudoc.fr/080675700
description: Coverage: Parlement de Flandre
Analysis and computation of fluid dynamics in a coupled free air porous domain
Creators: name: Zelo, D
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mathematics.

description: We present analysis and computations of a 2D steady-state fluid dynamics in a coupled free air and porous domain. The 2D model is a simplification of the Hydrogen Fuel Cell (HFC) fluid dynamics for the case of one gas component and constant temperature. The problem involves the Stokes equation and the mass conservation equation in the cathode channel and the Darcy equation with the mass conservation equation in the porous gas diffusive layer (GDL). On the interface are imposed the Saffman's condition, continuity of the pressure and the normal velocity. Our main concern here is to find and implement an efficient computational method for solving the problem with a real data and a coupled domain with large aspect ratio. For this purpose we implement the finite element method with the classical MINI finite element space for the velocity in the channel and the P1 finite element space for the pressure in the channel and GDL. The resulting linear system is solved by using the iterative Gauss-Seidel overlapping block method and alternatively with the direct Gaussian Elimination method. Existence and uniqueness of the weak solution is proved only for the problem with the reduced Saffman's condition on the interface.
title: Women, Television, and Everyday Life: Korean Women's Reflexive Experience of Television Mediated by Generation and Class
Creators: name: Kim, Youna
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2002

description: This thesis is about how television intersects with the everyday lives of women in transitional Korea, and how the experience of television is further implicated in the formation and transformation of identities. Within the larger socio-historical context of Korean modernity, it explores how_women deal with social change and make sense of their lives and identities with the cultural experience of television in everyday life, mediated by generation and class. This empirical work overall demonstrates the reflexive workings of popular television culture in its multifold manifestations. It reveals how critical ordinary women are in their engagement with television and how reflexivity actually operates in the variegated settings of their everyday lives. The thesis therefore argues for reflexivity at work: Reflexivity is constitutive of the experience of modem television. The practice of reflexivity is a defining characteristic of the experience of television, and television culture today has become a critical condition for reflexivity. Specifically, the thesis emphasizes the social dynamics of different forms of reflexivity with which to organize the project of self-identity, and the significant role of television as a resource for reflexivity. Reflexivity is organized around the axis of generation oriented toward different directions, which are the tradition-directed, the inner-directed, and the other-directed. The dialectical nature of the reflexivities of each generation is a push-and-pull of different tendencies towards modernity. Tradition in everyday life is now under threat, beginning to dissolve by the experience of modernity. As a consequence, the reflexive organization of the self becomes an inevitable unfinishable project to be worked at, and television, as historically-situated cultural experience, is integrated into the project of the self Television is an important resource for reflexivity in modem everyday life, which stimulates ordinary women to research their own lives and identities for a journey of hope.
Reliability and availability analysis of three-state device systems.
Creators: name: Pu, Jun.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Mechanical.

description: This study presents the reliability and availability analysis of three-state device systems with common-cause failures. The effect of common-cause failures on different systems is discussed. Different configurations are compared in order to obtain higher standby system reliability. Mathematical expressions are developed for the system reliability, the mean time to failure, the steady state availability and the time dependent availability of cold standby system, warm standby system, series system and parallel system. For system with constant common-cause failure rates, the Markov State Space approach is used to perform reliability analysis. The Method of Stages approach is used to investigate systems with non-constant common cause failure rates. Selected plots demonstrate the effect of the varying common cause failure rate on system reliability mean time to failure, steady state availability and time dependent availability. This study clearly shows that the occurrence of common-cause failure has a negative effect on standby system reliability parameters. However the system reliability, the mean time to failure, the steady state availability and the time dependent availability increase as the number of standby devices in the three-state device standby system increases.
Probing protein secondary structure and conformational heterogeneity.
Creators: name: Dahms, Tanya E. S.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Biochemistry.

description: Time-resolved and steady-state fluorescence spectroscopy in conjunction with circular dichroism were employed to investigate secondary and tertiary structural features of proteins. Several single tryptophan (Trp) proteins with known crystal structures were examined both in solution and in the crystalline state. The three neurotoxins, $\alpha$-bungarotoxin, $\alpha$-cobratoxin and erabutoxin b, consist primarily of antiparallel $\beta$-sheet and contain a number of structurally important disulphide bridges. In each case, the Trp residue is situated approximately in the centre of a $\beta$-sheet. Complete random coil secondary structure for these proteins could be facilitated via the reduction and carboxymethylation or amidocarboxymethylation of the disulphide residues. Concurrent studies, by time-resolved fluorescence and circular dichroism, of these proteins at varied denaturant concentrations showed time-resolved fluorescence provides a highly sensitive probe of local secondary structure. Time-resolved fluorescence measurements for erabutoxin b single crystals exhibited multiexponential decay kinetics (single Trp residue). The relative proportion of each decay time component was found to be dependent upon the angular orientation of the protein crystal, with respect to the vertical polarization of the incident laser beam. These experimental data provide evidence for Trp side chain rotamers in the protein crystal. Model functions, which simulated the orientational dependence of the decay component relative proportions, were consistent with this rationalization. These results are the first direct experimental evidence obtained by fluorescence, to confirm the "rotamer" model for the interpretation of Trp fluorescence decay in solution. The measurement of crotonase, apoazurin and holoazurin crystals which display a range of exponential decay kinetics, provide further evidence for Trp rotamers in single protein crystals.
Sports spectatorship theories and spectator views of the LPGA golf product.
Creators: name: Lagacé, Debbie.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Social.

description: The focus of this study was on determining which reasons for attending a golf event influenced spectator's decisions to attend the LPGA DuMaurier Classic 'major' golf event as well as to determine what, if any, sport spectatorship theories could be used to explain golf spectatorship. A questionnaire comprised of a demographic section and 27 attendance reasons was completed by 957 spectators using the spectator intercept method. It was predicted that Entertainment theories would best explain golf spectatorship. It was hypothesized that to see the finesse of shotmaking, to see live action and to see the best perform would be in the top ten reasons of the total sample, as it was in previous studies; and that male and female spectators, the four categories of golf playing frequency spectators, and weekday and weekend spectators would focus on different aspects of the golf spectating experience. All four hypotheses were supported by the results of the analyses. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Experimental investigation and finite element nonlinear analysis of continuous composite curved multi-cell box-girder bridges.
Creators: name: Xi, GuoQiang.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: Studies on ultimate limit states and nonlinear behaviors of bridges will greatly enhance the understanding of bridge engineers on the moment and shear distribution and the general performance of bridges under load. Described herein is an experimental and theoretical investigation of ultimate loads and nonlinear behaviors of two-span continuous composite curved multi-cell box-girder bridges with a single column as middle support and subjected to OHBDC design truck loadings. The curved bridges are modeled by using the finite element methods. The deck slab, webs, the bottom plate and diaphragms are modeled by 4-node shell elements while the shear connectors and the single middle column are modeled by 3-D beam elements. The existing software COSMOS/M is used for the analysis. A model test of a two-span continuous composite curved multi-cell box-girder bridge with a single column at the middle support is conducted to verify the finite element method. Idealized bridges with different parameters are also studied. Consideration is given to many of the variables that significantly influence ultimate loads and nonlinear behaviors of such bridges. Several rational suggestions are made to enhance the design of two-span continuous composite curved four-cell box-girder bridges.
The modal side of the dative: From predicative possession to possessive modality
Creators: name: Tsedryk, Egor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This chapter examines predicative possession (e.g., I have a book) in relation to possessive modality (e.g., I have to buy a book) (Bhatt 1997; Bjorkman & Cowper 2016).
 Bjorkman & Cowper (2016) report that in Hindi-Urdu and Bengali (BE-languages),
 possessive modality consistently correlates with the dative case, whereas predicative possession allows other obliques, namely genitive. They propose that both
 predicative possession and possessive modality are reducible to an interpretable
 feature encoding inclusion, [INCL], and suggest that the dative case is a morphosyntactic realization of [INCL] combined with a modal operator within a single syntactic head via featural composition. Focusing on Russian – another BE-language – I show that there are problems with this analysis. Russian data indicates that possessive modality in this language is to be derived from directional (vector-like)
 semantics of the head that introduces the dative. I offer a unified account of the
 dative used with an NP and the one used with a TP, assuming a single argument-introducing head, i* (Wood & Marantz 2017).
Effects of nicotine on brain event-related potential and behavioural performance indices of auditory distraction in schizophrenia
Creators: name: Dulude, Louise
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Experimental.

description: Attention dysfunction is a hallmark of schizophrenia, a disorder in which smoking prevalence is double that of the general population. The main interest of this dissertation was in using behavioural performance (accuracy, reaction time or RT) and brain event-related potential (ERP) measures to examine the processing of distracting events in schizophrenic patients and control subjects, and to assess the effects of acute nicotine on this processing. This was accomplished in three experiments by comparing 12 minimally-tobacco-deprived control smokers with 12 outpatient smokers, the latter being assessed under double-blind, placebo-controlled (vs. nicotine) conditions. Experiment 1 used a passive, non-task paradigm to examine the mismatch negativity (MMN) ERP component, an index of early auditory deviance detection. Patients exhibited reduced MMNs to frequency and duration deviants compared to controls, and nicotine increased patients' duration MMN to a level comparable to that seen in controls. Experiment 2 used a novel auditory-auditory distraction paradigm that embeds task-irrelevant deviant features within task-related stimuli requiring location discrimination. Deviants caused RTs to be prolonged in patients and controls. Patients' MMN did not differ from controls' but attentional switching, reflected in the P3a ERP, was attenuated in patients. Nicotine increased patients' MMN to small deviants such that it was no longer smaller than the MMN to large deviants. Experiment 3 used an auditory-visual distractor paradigm requiring participants to discriminate visual letters vs. numbers preceded by task-irrelevant auditory stimuli of standard and deviant frequencies. Reaction times were prolonged by deviants in patients and controls and the MMN of patients to small deviants was diminished. Nicotine increased the MMN to small deviants and reduced RT prolongation and the involuntary attentional switching indexed by the P3a ERP associated with large deviants. Overall, these experiments demonstrated that nicotine can reduce distractibility and can normalize aberrant neural processing of distracting events in schizophrenic patients.
Cross-language communication in West Africa: An overview
Creators: name: Aye, Bernice Kwakyewa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Language, General.

description: Socio-economic development of Africa's human resources is tied to language policies that are undergoing global pressures. Though the languages of colonization are the official and dominant languages of education and communication, African countries recognize the importance of promoting their indigenous languages. This descriptive study is an overview of cross-language communication as it relates first to the colonial heritage and then to changes brought about by globalization. Themes explored include literacy, democratization, evangelization, judicial processes and media. Information was compiled from literature on translation and multilingualism in Africa, recent conferences and personal experiences. The focus is on Cote d'lvoire, Ghana and Nigeria, which are representative of the language situation in West Africa. A few references are also made to other sub-Saharan African countries so as to show the intertwined regional phenomena of translation and interpretation. Currently, technology is being applied to linguistics, translation and terminology of indigenous languages to build knowledge societies. Translation and terminology development are empowering speakers of African languages to participate fully in the development of their communities.
Bibliometrische Visualisierungen auf dem Prüfstein – Versuch einer bibliothekarischen Perspektive
Creators: name: Lilienthal, Svantje
name: Fraumann, Grischa
name: Hauschke, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Scientometrics
Bibliometrics
Altmetrics
Visualisation
Open Science
Software Development

description: https://events.tib.eu/vbib20/programm/detail/bibliometrische-visualisierungen-auf-dem-pruefstein-versuch-einer-bibliothekarischen-perspektive/ Gemeinsam mit den Teilnehmer*innen wird der im Projekt ROSI entwickelte Prototyp getestet. Dieser Prototyp ermöglicht die Visualisierung von offenen szientometrischen Indikatoren.
Mineral magnetism of synthetic microcrystalline and nanophase iron oxides and iron oxyhydroxides
Creators: name: Gonzalez Lucena, Fedora
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Geology.

description: A suite of well-characterized synthetic microcrystalline hematite samples, 2-line and 6-line ferrihydrite samples and nanohematite samples are studied through magnetization-field curves measured at room temperature. The single-domain microcrystalline hematite samples are analyzed through basic hysteresis parameters providing sample characteristics such as magnetic anisotropy information, the effect of annealing on the origin of the magnetization and the relatively constant intrinsic high field susceptibility. The application of a magnetic granulometry method on the magnetic data of the superparamagnetic nanohematite and ferrihydrite samples provides fundamental information such as the intrinsic mass magnetization and estimated particle size. Additionally, it gives insight into possible moment formation mechanisms within the superparamagnetic particles. The observed differences between the magnetic properties of the magnetically blocked and the superparamagnetic samples considered are also discussed.