cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Entwicklung und Charakterisierung neuartiger Biosensoren
Creators: name: Ahlbrecht, Christin
Publisher: name: Hannover : Institutionelles Repositorium der Leibniz Universität Hannover
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: biocompatibility
subject: Diabetes
subject: CGM
subject: polysaccharides
subject: hydrogel
subject: enzyme immobilization
subject: colorimetric assays
subject: cofactor
subject: biosensor
subject: implants
subject: insulin receptor
subject: contains research data
subject: Insulinrezeptor
subject: Polysaccharide
subject: Hydrogel
subject: Enzymimmobilisierung
subject: kolorimetrische Assays
subject: Cofaktor
subject: Biosensor
subject: Biokompatibilität
subject: Implantate
subject: enthält Forschungsdaten
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften

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We Hear the Whistle Call: The Second World War in Glace Bay, Cape Breton
Creators: name: MacGillivray, Shannon A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Glace Bay
Cape Breton
Coal mining
Second World War
Rural communities
Nova Scotia

description: Many historians have presented the narrative of Canada’s Second World War experience as a “good” war. Individuals and communities came together in patriotism and a common purpose to furnish the national war effort with military manpower, labour, financial contributions, and voluntary efforts. As the dark years of the Great Depression gave way to unprecedented levels of industrial and economic growth, falling unemployment rates, increased urbanization, and a wealth of social programs, Canada’s future was bright. However, this optimistic picture is not representative of Canada as a whole. Some regions fared better than others, and industrial Cape Breton was one of those that benefited the least from the opportunities presented by the war. Glace Bay, Cape Breton’s largest mining town and long-time hotbed of industrial strife and labour radicalism, serves as an ideal case study of the region’s largely unprofitable and unchanging wartime experience. Long plagued by poverty, poor living conditions, and underdeveloped industry, and desperately seeking to break free of its destitution, Glace Bay tried and failed to take advantage of wartime opportunities for industrial diversification and local improvement.
Three Essays on R&D Investment
Creators: name: Khazabi, Massoud
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Labour Productivity
Infrastructure
Economic Openness
R&D
Entry
Patent

description: The first essay titled “Fundamental Sources of Long-run Labour Productivity Improvements in Canada” examines the importance of Research and Development activities, as well as the stock of public infrastructure, and economic openness as sources of growth in labour productivity in the Canadian economy within the last four decades. The second paper titled “R&D Spillovers, Innovation, and Entry” extends a theoretical framework to analyze the impact of R&D spillovers on entry and the resulting equilibrium market structure. It is shown that the degree of spillovers plays a fundamental role on the number of firms entering the market, their R&D activities, and social welfare. The third paper titled “The Search for New Drugs: A Theory of R&D in the Pharmaceutical Industry” uses a dynamic model of optimal patent design and in the presence of information externalities studies the evolution of technological progress in the context of a pharmaceutical industry.
A Population Health Framework: Assessing Its Applicability for Primary Care Physicians
Creators: name: Adams, Owen
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: primary care physicians
population health approach
Primary Care Networks

description: Population health is concerned with analyzing the factors that determine the uneven distribution of health in a population and it also proposes interventions to narrow health inequalities. Kindig has proposed a population health management strategy that would engage the health and other sectors on population health improvement through a financial incentive linked to health outcomes. Proposed elements of a population health approach in health care at the patient encounter level include paying attention to health determinants for the patient and ensuring interprofessional collaboration; at the system level the approach includes developing and advocating for interventions that address health inequalities, such as delivering services to under-serviced areas and vulnerable populations. There has been virtually no research among frontline clinicians on the awareness and salience of a population health approach. In order to address this gap an exploratory study was conducted among family physicians in Primary Care Networks (PCNs) in Alberta, Canada. PCNs include capitation funding that is used to purchase services such as nursing, pharmacy and dietetics. The physicians were able to describe their patient populations in terms of a full range of social determinants and the health status inequalities they produce. They emphasized the importance of preventive screening and counseling in contributing to the health of their patients, and cited the key contributions of other team members to these activities, as well as the electronic medical record (EMR). They reported ambivalence toward the effectiveness of financial incentives for population health improvement, and while there was some collaboration with schools, inter-sectoral collaboration has yet to develop outside the health sector. This thesis has demonstrated the potential for primary care physicians to adopt a population health approach. However, there is a considerable distance to go in introducing an incentive approach for outcome-based population health management, as envisioned by Kindig.
title: 'On the internet nobody knows you're an expert' : Social influence in computer mediated communication
Creators: name: Ilsley, Caroline
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2005

description: The focus of this research is on the use of computers as a communication medium, specifically for social purposes, and considers how computer-mediated communication (CMC) might affect persuasion and attitude change processes. The studies are organised around the framework of the classical message learning approach to persuasion (the effects of the source, message, channel and recipient), and the process of persuasion is considered, as well as the final outcome (attitude change). In order to give a more complete view of the influence process, both quantitative and qualitative approaches were taken. Also, both laboratory-based and field-based studies were carried out, which gives greater ecological validity to the research. Five studies were carried out, considering different aspects of the influence process, ranging from examination of source characteristics to the effects of the computer based medium on discussions, and subsequent attitude change. Although some attitude change was found, the medium (computer-based or face-to-face) appeared to have no real effect. However, it was found that the different media had an effect on other aspects of the influence process, particularly on perceptions of the source, and the actual discussion content. An alternative theoretical approach is proposed, based on McGuire's reception yielding model, which provides an explanation of some inconsistencies in both the present and previous research. The reading of a CMC message follows a set sequence of stages, which allows it to be rejected without further processing at different points. Within this process, the information that is significant to the recipient changes, and acts as a weighting for following information. However, in a laboratory-based study this sequence is entered at different points, depending on the experimental focus, and so this process is altered or bypassed entirely, creating a bias towards different information. This would, therefore, need to be taken into account for the comparison of results.
Landscapes of affinity: movement, memory and practices of the imagination amongst resettled Karen refugees in Melbourne, Australia
Creators: name: Robertson, Zoe
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This anthropological research investigated the humanitarian resettlement of Karen refugees to Australia. The dissertation examines the Karen Burmese ethnic conflict, the forced displacement of ethnic Karens in Burma and people's experience of long term settlement in refugee camps along the Thailand Burma border. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork, this research provides insight into the settlement practices and place-making techniques employed by Karen refugees in the first five years of resettlement in Australia, with a particular focus upon the bodily sensorium and visual material culture. This research informs anthropological understandings of place, mobility, embodied memory and humanitarian refugee resettlement.
Supplementary document for Investigation of methods to extract confocal function parameters for depth resolved determination of attenuation coefficients using OCT in intralipid samples, titanium oxide phantoms, and in vivo human retinas - 5399486.pdf
Creators: name: Kuebler, Johannes
name: Zoutenbier, Vincent
name: Amelink, Arjen
name: Fischer, Joerg
name: de Boer, Johannes
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Spirit of Place and Nation Building: Kosovo and Bosnia from Imperial to Post-Communist Times
Creators: name: Zimmermann, Tanja
Publisher: name: Entangled Religions
Year: 2019

description: During the period of nation building, the spirit of place (genius loci), attributing uniqueness to specific locations and ascribing to them close attachment to the nation, became a central vehicle for defending and appropriating territories and even for establishing a diaspora in exile. It was evoked through discursive practices reminiscent of religious rhetoric and around monumental works of art, thereby staging history as mythical sacred theatre. The process of establishing imagined national geographies during the long period of nation building from the nineteenth century to the post-communist period is analysed in comparative perspective in two multi-religious and multi-ethnical regions in southeast Europe—Kosovo and Bosnia. The leading question I will try to answer is why the Field of Blackbirds in Kosovo was successfully established as a national holy place in the collective memory of the Serbs, whereas similar efforts in Bosnia did not result in inscribing mythic places into national memory.
description: Entangled Religions, Vol 9 (2019): The Changing Landscapes of Cross-Faith Places and Practices
A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm and Evolutionary Strategy to Automatically Generate Test Data for Dynamic, White-Box Testing
Creators: name: Panchapakesan, Ashwin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013

description: Software testing is an important and time consuming part of the software development cycle. While automated testing frameworks do help in reducing the amount of programmer time that testing requires, the onus is still upon the programmer to provide such a framework with the inputs upon which the software must be tested. This requires static analysis of the source code, which is more effective when performed as a peer review exercise and is highly dependent on the skills of the programmers performing the analysis. It also demands the allocation of precious time for those very highly skilled programmers. An algorithm that automatically generates inputs to satisfy test coverage criteria for the software being tested would therefore be quite valuable, as it would imply that the programmer no longer needs to analyze code to generate the relevant test cases. This thesis explores a hybrid evolutionary strategy with an evolutionary algorithm to discover such test cases , in an improvement over previous methods which overly focus their search without maintaining the diversity required to cover the entire search space efficiently.
The scars of grief
Creators: name: Hecq, Dominique
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: I eye my screen, read the critics' comments on an early draft of this story, one with endnotes, overstatements ... my novice shot at metafiction. Comment after comment opens my own questions. I ask myself about this form of postmodern writing, a form whose currency in fiction may already have shifted. Is it worth resurrecting?
title: Surface modification by polyzwitterions of the sulfabetaine-type, and their resistance to biofouling
Creators: name: Schönemann, Eric
name: Laschewsky, André
name: Wischerhoff, Erik
name: Koc, Julian
name: Rosenhahn, Axel
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2020

description: Films of zwitterionic polymers are increasingly explored for conferring fouling resistance to materials. Yet, the structural diversity of polyzwitterions is rather limited so far, and clear structure-property relationships are missing. Therefore, we synthesized a series of new polyzwitterions combining ammonium and sulfate groups in their betaine moieties, so-called poly(sulfabetaine)s. Their chemical structures were varied systematically, the monomers carrying methacrylate, methacrylamide, or styrene moieties as polymerizable groups. High molar mass homopolymers were obtained by free radical polymerization. Although their solubilities in most solvents were very low, brine and lower fluorinated alcohols were effective solvents in most cases. A set of sulfabetaine copolymers containing about 1 mol % (based on the repeat units) of reactive benzophenone methacrylate was prepared, spin-coated onto solid substrates, and photo-cured. The resistance of these films against the nonspecific adsorption by two model proteins (bovine serum albumin—BSA, fibrinogen) was explored, and directly compared with a set of references. The various polyzwitterions reduced protein adsorption strongly compared to films of poly(n-butyl methacrylate) that were used as a negative control. The poly(sulfabetaine)s showed generally even somewhat higher anti-fouling activity than their poly(sulfobetaine) analogues, though detailed efficacies depended on the individual polymer–protein pairs. Best samples approach the excellent performance of a poly(oligo(ethylene oxide) methacrylate) reference.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe, 919
Synergistic effects of poultry and goat manures on the growth and yield of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea l.) in humid Ultisol.pdf
Creators: name: Elemi, Ekama Derrick
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 300399
subject: Animal production not elsewhere classified

description: A field experiment was conducted from June to October 2019 to examine the synergy between poultry and goat manure on the performance and yield of groundnut on humid Ultisol in South-Eastern rainforest of Nigeria. The study utilized a 3 x 3 factorial disposition, laid out in randomized complete block design (RCBD) and replicated three times. Treatments consisted of goat and poultry manure, applied at three levels of 0, 5 and 10 t/ha. Data were collected on plant height, number of leaves, number of days to 50 % flowering, number of pods/plant, number of filled pods/plant, number of empty pods/plant, shelling percentage, 100-seed weight (g), pod yield/ha, and seed yield/ha. Goat manure applied at 5 and 10 t ha1 significantly (p≤0.05) increased plant height, number of leaves, number of pods, shelling percentage, pod and seed yield. Poultry manure only significantly (p≤0.05) affected the number of pods and shelling percentage with increase in rates applied up to 10 t ha-1 , while significant interactions were only observed for plant height and number of leaves, number of pods and shelling percentage. At 10 t ha-1 , goat manure gave significantly (p≤0.05) higher number of leaves (50.70). The interaction of poultry manure and goat manure at 10 t ha-1 gave the tallest groundnut plants (25.33cm). Interaction of 10 t ha-1 of poultry and goat manure gave the tallest plants, highest number of pods (17.50) and shelling percentage (41.50 %) for groundnuts. The 10 t ha-1 goat manure in combination with zero poultry manure recorded the highest number of leaves in the study. The application of 5 t ha-1 of goat manure is hereby recommended for groundnut production in the study area. Keywords: Synergy, goat manure, poultry manure, organic manure
Kantian Ethics and the Formula of Humanity: Towards Virtues and Ends
Creators: name: Bachour, Omar
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Kantian Ethics
Kant
Formula of Humanity
Kingdom of Ends
Virtues
Ends
Virtue Ethics

description: The aim of this work is to show that criticisms of Kantian ethics from the field of virtue ethics misfire because they rely on a widespread reading of Kant which centers on the Groundwork and the Formula of Universal Law as the key elements in his moral philosophy. This reading, I argue, is susceptible both to charges of “empty formalism” and moral “rigorism” as well as the complaint voiced by virtue ethicists that Kantian ethics lacks a full-blooded account of the virtues, along with the attendant desiderata of sociality, character and the emotions. In response, I defend the proposal that the Formula of Humanity and the Doctrine of Virtue in the Metaphysics of Morals represent the final form of Kant’s ethical thought. If this is accurate, a rich and novel ethical theory emerges, and many of the criticisms from the field of virtue ethics are subsequently disarmed.
Formic Acid Decomposition on Cobalt Surfaces
Creators: name: Sims, Jeffrey J.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: XPS
Formic Acid
TPD
UHV
Cobalt

description: The decomposition of formic acid proceeds via two principal reaction pathways: dehydration and dehydrogenation. Mechanisms and reaction ratios depend on the nature of the catalysts used. This work provides mechanistic insight into the decomposition of formic acid on Co(0001) and a highly stepped cobalt surface. The catalytic systems were studied in ultra-high vacuum by XPS and temperature programmed desorption. On both surfaces, an overall reaction (1) was observed: 2 HCOOH→H_2 O+CO+H_2+CO_2 (1) The surfaces had differing reaction intermediates, reaction temperatures, and activation energies. On Co(0001), formate, carbon, and hydroxyl are intermediates and the reaction has an activation energy of 44.3 ± 0.6 kJ/mol, pre-exponential factor of 0.7 ± 0.05 mbar/s. On highly stepped cobalt, formate and formyl are intermediates and the reaction has an activation energy of 147.2 ± 2.0 kJ/mol and pre-exponential factor of 1011.3 ± 0.2 mbar/s. Desorption energies of observed species and mechanisms of observed reactions are reported. A detailed description and proof of concept of a PM-IRRAS reactor designed for this thesis is also presented.
UPPS and the “Criminalization” of Favelas A Challenge to the Comprehension of the Notion of “Public Space” in Brazil
Creators: name: Rebel Barros, Francisco
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Military Police
Rio de Janeiro
UPPs
Public Space

description: Because of the high levels of violence practiced by the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State (Brazil), especially if its lethality is taken into consideration, the Pacifying Police Units - Unidades de Polícia Pacificadora (UPPs) in Portuguese - were created in 2008 to work in some favelas (slums or shanty towns) of the state’s capital, the city of Rio de Janeiro. This form of policing became the object of attention of several social scientists due to its apparently less violent action in these specific urban spaces, which are historically marked by a social stigma and constitute a special target for police action. In this thesis, we analyze some of the research work that emphasized the UPPs’ characteristics as possibilities for a new and less violent police. It is argued that, despite the features that make the UPPs to be apparently less violent, it is necessary to take into account several other aspects that sociologically explain the police action in Rio de Janeiro and the UPPs. The social construction of Brazilian citizenship and public space affects the way Brazilians build the notion of equality between individuals and social groups, relating it to similarity between themselves and accepting as natural the unequal treatment given by the state’s institutions. This legal and juridical culture, associated to the new economic and financial context that the city of Rio de Janeiro has been going through in the last years, refers to the necessity of state control over some favelas to be able to increase the value of such urban spaces, through land speculation, in order to achieve a surplus-value by implementing new economic and lucrative activities. This state policy is heavily based on “pacifying” the favelas through the politics of security, in which police play a major and important role. Therefore, the thesis begins by offering an explanation of the Brazilian views of public space and citizenship, resorting to some social scientists studies that dealt with the specifics of those notions in Brazil. Then we elucidate how a documentary analysis was made explaining how the UPPs are understood in Brazil. Later, dissertating about the historical development of favelas and police in Rio de Janeiro, explaining the conjuncture in which the UPPs were implemented and how they are understood. Yet, in our research, we consider that the UPPs are not breaking away from the paradigm of the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State, but using a different practice to give continuity to a traditional function of policing (repression) and a process that one could call of “criminalization” of favelas.
La prostitution féminine à Montréal, 1945-1970.
Creators: name: Lacasse, Danielle.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.

description: A la lumiere d'un eventail de sources, dont un echantillon de 550 proces de la Cour municipale de Montreal, cette these analyse l'evolution de la pratique prostitutionelle, du discours et des mecanismes de controle s'y rattachant. Plus precisement, elle insiste sur les trois aspects suivants: d'abord, elle demontre que la prostitution feminine met directement en cause les rapports d'appropriation qui marquent les relations hommes/femmes. En effet, la majorite des detenteurs de pouvoir dans la prostitution montrealaise sont des hommes: clients, proxenetes, policiers et juges dominent la scene prostitutionnelle et controlent les prostituees. Deuxiemement, cette these montre que la phenomene prostitutionnel evolue avec le temps et s'inscrit dans le contexte ideologique et socio-economique de la societe montrealaise entre 1945 et 1970. L'impact qu'ont les campagnes de moralite publique de l'immediat apres-guerre sur la redefinition des structures prostitutionnelles illustrent bien ce phenomene. Enfin, cette these permet de detruire certains mythes tenaces relatifs a la prostitution feminine. Ainsi, le profil varie des prostituees montrealaises, la precarite de leur condition economique, l'exploitation et l'etouffement dont elles sont victimes ebranlent serieusement les croyances que la prostitution est un metier payant, dans lequel les prostituees, generalement depeintes comme etant jeunes et celibataires, sont des travailleuses autonomes, mai tres de leur destin.
Formules de type Runge-Kutta-Nystrom.
Creators: name: Malek, Fadi.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Mathematics.

description: Explicit Runge-Kutta-Nystrom pairs, which solve directly second order initial value problems of the form $y\sp{\prime\prime}$ = $f(x,y)$ with the first derivative $y\sp\prime$ absent, are considered. Pairs consisting of formulae of order $p-1$ and p, respectively, can be designed to control the local error in y, in $y\sp\prime$ or in y and $y\sp\prime$. They may also advance the numerical approximations using the lower order formulae or the higher order formulae. These two sets of choices lead to five types of pairs. We establish the minimum number of stages required to form the five types of pairs for p = 2, ...,6, by producing an existing pair and disproving the existence of a similar pair with fewer stages. Notions of Nystrom methods and Nystrom trees are recalled along with the order conditions for these methods.
title: Text/Conference Paper
Creators: name: Thielscher, Christian
name: Krol, Bianca
name: Heinemann, Stefan
name: Schlander, Michael
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Self-Driving Cars
subject: Moral Dilemmata
subject: Kantian Ethics
subject: Utilitarian Ethics
subject: Experimental Ethical Research

description: Introduction: Since P. Foot studied the trolley problem in 1967, it has been extensively discussed in ethics, decision theory, medicine, and other disciplines. With the invention of autonomous vehicles, it has become an important and urgent practical question. Methods: Three well-known, one new and one slightly changed versions of the trolley problem are arranged in a specific order. Kantian and utilitarian solutions to the problems are discussed. Respondents’ decisions were empirically tested and aligned with ethical theories. Results: Both Kantian and utilitarian ethics provide rules for decision. However, both are incomplete and differ from each other sometimes. In one case, both recommend to “act”, in another, “not to act”. In these two cases, almost all respondents follow the mutual advice. In other cases, ethical theories as well as responses differ. Discussion: Respondents did not behave irrationally; rather, they considered ethical theories in a sensible way. Disaggregating Kantian and utilitarian decisions helps to identify situations in which autonomous vehicles can be programmed for better adaption to user preferences.
Assessing spatial associations between thermal stress and mortality in Hong Kong: A small-area ecological study
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Sterblichkeit
Wärmebelastung
Hong Kong

description: Aims
Physiological equivalent temperature (PET) is a widely used index to assess thermal comfort of the human body. Evidence on how thermal stress-related health effects vary with small geographical areas is limited. The objectives of this study are (i) to explore whether there were significant patterns of geographical clustering of thermal stress as measured by PET and mortality and (ii) to assess the association between PET and mortality in small geographical areas.
Methods
A small area ecological cross-sectional study was conducted at tertiary planning units (TPUs) level. Age-standardized mortality rates (ASMR) and monthly deaths at TPUs level for 2006 were calculated for cause-specific diseases. A PET map with 100 m Ž 100 m resolution for the same period was derived from Hong Kong Urban Climatic Analysis Map data and the annual and monthly averages of PET for each TPU were computed. Global Moran's I and local indicator of spatial association (LISA) analyses were performed. A generalized linear mixed model was used to model monthly deaths against PET adjusted for socio-economic deprivation.
Results
We found positive spatial autocorrelation between PET and ASMR. There were spatial correlations between PET and ASMR, particularly in the north of Hong Kong Island, most parts of Kowloon, and across New Territories. A 1 ˚C change in PET was associated with an excess risk (%) of 2.99 (95% CI: 0.50-5.48) for all natural causes, 4.75 (1.14-8.36) for cardiovascular, 7.39 (4.64-10.10) for respiratory diseases in the cool season, and 4.31 (0.12 to 8.50) for cardiovascular diseases in the warm season.
Conclusions
Variations between TPUs in PET had an important influence on cause-specific mortality, especially in the cool season. PET may have an impact on the health of socio-economically deprived population groups. Our results suggest that targeting policy interventions at high-risk areas may be a feasible option for reducing PET-related mortality.
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Leisure Lifestyle and Casual Leisure’s Influence on Athletic Identity, Performance and Perception of Hockey in Dropout Amateur Junior Hockey Players
Creators: name: MacCosham, Bradley
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: dropout
leisure lifestyle
serious leisure
casual leisure
identity
performance

description: Athletes involved in competitive sport are often required to neglect certain aspects of their life to pursue their sport. One of these aspects is participating in valued activities outside of sport. However, an imbalance between sports, in this case hockey, and other valued activities can lead to living a less than optimal leisure lifestyle with a negative impact on well-being. The purpose of this study is to explore how amateur Junior hockey players leisure lifestyle and casual leisure participation influence athletic identity, performance and perception of hockey. Results indicate that most participants perceived over-identified to hockey, which led to living a less than optimal leisure lifestyle and a negative impact on perception of hockey, identity and performance. However, after dropping out participants perceived their leisure lifestyle as optimal and returned to playing recreational hockey with renewed joy for hockey and a multi-dimensional identity.
Book launch presentation for 'Gay men's relationships across the life course' by Peter Robinson
Creators: name: Robinson, Peter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Peter Robinson used this presentation to lauch his new book, 'Gay men's relationships across the life course', Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Michael Kirby presented the event and the presentation by Peter Robinson says something about the book and the four years of research it represented.
Knowledge Translation Tools for Cancer Symptom Management by Home Care Nurses
Creators: name: Nichol, Kathryn
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: cancer symptom management
nursing
home care
knowledge translation
Practice guideline

description: Objective: To explore adult cancer symptom management by home care nurses. Scoping review: A scoping review was conducted to describe interventions used by nurses for cancer symptom management in the home care setting. Five included studies revealed that home care nursing contributed to positive client- and system-level outcomes. Study: A mixed-methods descriptive study explored usability of a set of 13 cancer treatment-related symptom management protocols for nurses in the home care setting. Thirty-eight nurses in home care participated. Qualitative and quantitative data indicated the protocols were highly usable. Several barriers suggested they would be better used as resources to support and train nurses rather than documentation tools. Conclusions: Few studies have evaluated interventions for cancer symptom management by home care nurses. This set of protocols was well-received, but further research is required to determine their effectiveness and interventions for implementing with home care nurses providing cancer symptom management.
Integration and Simulation of a Bitumen Upgrading Facility and an IGCC Process with Carbon Capture
Creators: name: El Gemayel, Gemayel
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Aspen HYSYS
Athabasca bitumen
Bitumen upgrading process
Canmet slurry hydrocracking
Carbon capture
Hydroconversion
Hydrogen demand
Hydrocracking
Hydrogen power energy self-sufficient process
Hydrogen production
Hydrotreating
IGCC
Integrated gasification combined cycle
MEA amine CO2 and H2S capture process
Oil and Gas
Petroleum engineering
Petroleum atmospheric and vacuum distillation
Power generation
Process integration
Simulation

description: Hydrocracking and hydrotreating are bitumen upgrading technologies designed to enhance fuel quality by decreasing its density, viscosity, boiling point and heteroatom content via hydrogen addition. The aim of this thesis is to model and simulate an upgrading and integrated gasification combined cycle then to evaluate the feasibility of integrating slurry hydrocracking, trickle-bed hydrotreating and residue gasification using the Aspen HYSYS® simulation software. The close-coupling of the bitumen upgrading facilities with gasification should lead to a hydrogen, steam and power self-sufficient upgrading facility with CO2 capture. Hydrocracker residue is first withdrawn from a 100,000 BPD Athabasca bitumen upgrading facility, characterized via ultimate analysis and then fed to a gasification unit where it produces hydrogen that is partially recycled to the hydrocracker and hydrotreaters and partially burned for power production in a high hydrogen combined cycle unit. The integrated design is simulated for a base case of 90% carbon capture utilizing a monoethanolamine (MEA) solvent, and compared to 65% and no carbon capture scenarios. The hydrogen production of the gasification process is evaluated in terms of hydrocracker residue and auxiliary petroleum coke feeds. The power production is determined for various carbon capture cases and for an optimal hydrocracking operation. Hence, the feasibility of the integration of the upgrading process and the IGCC resides in meeting the hydrogen demand of the upgrading facility while producing enough steam and electricity for a power and energy self-sufficient operation, regardless of the extent of carbon capture.
NTRU over the Eisenstein Integers
Creators: name: Jarvis, Katherine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: NTRU
Eisenstein Integers
Public Key Cryptography
Lattice Based Cryptography

description: NTRU is a fast public-key cryptosystem that is constructed using polynomial rings with integer coefficients. We present ETRU, an NTRU-like cryptosystem based on the Eisenstein integers. We discuss parameter selection and develop a model for the probabilty of decryption failure. We also provide an implementation of ETRU. We use theoretical and experimental data to compare the security and efficiency of ETRU to NTRU with comparable parameter sets and show that ETRU is an improvement over NTRU in terms of security.
La huella de Escalígero en las figuras literarias empleadas por Garcilaso y comentadas por Fernando de Herrera
Creators: name: Correa, Pedro
Publisher: name: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate
Year: 2007

description: Uno de los grandes hallazgos de las Anotaciones herrerianas es el extenso análisis que hace el sevillano de todas las figuras retóricas encontradas en su obra poética. No sólo vemos la definición, sino fuentes literarias latinas, sobre todo Virgilio, en las que se encuentran las mismas figuras y autoridades que completan su comentario: Quintiliano, Hermógenes, Rhetorica ad Herennio, e incluso otros preceptistas menores que le ayudaron a su comprensión y estudio. No podía faltar Escalígero, que lo tuvo presente para más de treinta figuras. Unas veces lo cita, pero en numerosas ocasiones no lo hace y es indudable la huella de su lectura y consulta. Termina el presente artículo con una bibliografía imprescindible para completar este interesante capítulo de la Retórica.
description: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate, n.º 9.1 (2007)
Supplementary document for Investigation of methods to extract confocal function parameters for depth resolved determination of attenuation coefficients using OCT in intralipid samples, titanium oxide phantoms, and in vivo human retinas - 5399486.pdf
Creators: name: Kuebler, Johannes
name: Zoutenbier, Vincent
name: Amelink, Arjen
name: Fischer, Joerg
name: de Boer, Johannes
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Teaching for Engagement: Innovative Perspectives to Get Your Students More Involved
Creators: name: Rogat Loeb, Paul
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2011
Subjects: student engagement; student motivation; pedagogy

description: Loeb is author of Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in Challenging Times, The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizenâ€™s Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear (named the #3 political book of 2004 by the History Channel and the American Book Association), Generation at the Crossroads: Apathy and Action on the American Campus, Nuclear Culture, and Hope in Hard Times. Both The Impossible and Soul won the Nautilus Award for best social change books of their respective publication years. Loeb has written on social involvement for The New York Times,Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, AARP Bulletin, Boston Globe, Psychology Today, Utne Reader, Redbook, Parents magazine, Christian Science Monitor, Mother Jones, Salon, The Village Voice, National Catholic Reporter, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and International Herald Tribune. He has been interviewed on CNN, NPR, PBS, C-SPAN, NBC TV, the BBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, American Urban Radio, Voice of America, and national German and Australian radio. He has lectured on 400 college campuses and at numerous national conferences. His January 2002 talk at the annual provostâ€™s conference of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities helped inspire what is now a 200-campus American Democracy Project. In 2008, Loeb worked with Campus Compact to create and coordinate the Campus Election Engagement Project, helping colleges and universities in 15 states engage their students in the election. He participated in the Department of Educationâ€™s 2011 roundtable on higher education and civic engagement and blogs regularly at Huffington Post.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 3 (2011): Building Bridges Through Innovative Teaching
Skeletal Muscle Specific IRES Activity of Utrophin A Is Enhanced by Eef1a2
Creators: name: Coriati, Adèle
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: skeletal muscle
utrophin

description: Understanding the regulatory mechanisms controlling utrophin A expression at the sarcolemma of dystrophic muscles will facilitate the development of therapeutic strategies to ameliorate the pathophysiological features of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). The main goal of this study was to characterize the regulation of utrophin A IRES activity using a transgenic mouse model expressing the utrophin A 5’UTR bicistronic reporter and to identify trans-acting factors that could mediate IRES activity and endogenous expression of utrophin A. We found that utrophin A IRES activity is specifically expressed in skeletal muscles. Moreover, we identified eEF1A2 as a muscle-specific trans-acting factor that can interact with utrophin A and mediate IRES-dependent translation of utrophin A. Finally, we showed that eEF1A2 mediates endogenous utrophin A expression and localization in skeletal muscle. Identifying pharmacological compounds that would specifically target eEF1A2 and increase endogenous levels of utrophin A expression could serve as a drug-based therapy to treat DMD.
La pérdida de la democracia en discusión: definiciones para un debate
La pérdida de la democracia en discusión: definiciones para un debate
La pérdida de la democracia en discusión: definiciones para un debate
La pérdida de la democracia en discusión: definiciones para un debate
Creators: name: Albistur, Gerardo; UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Università di Bologna
Year: 2013
Subjects: Democracia; Definiciones; Dictadura; Ruptura Democrática; Uruguay
Democracy; Definitions; Dictatorship; Democratic break-up; Uruguay

description: The article discusses aspects of the public debate and the controversy of the political groups identified with different positions concerning loss of democracy during the period 1968-1973 in Uruguay. Through the ideas of polyarchy, closed hegemony, competitive oligarchy, and inclusive hegemony, as well as the prescriptive definitions of democracy, the article proposes to analyze the progress of the dictatorship. Also, to determine the contribution to knowledge the democratic break-up process in the country and to attract attention into the development achieved.
description: El artículo discute aspectos del debate y la controversia de sectores identificados con distintas posiciones respecto a la pérdida de la democracia en el período 1968-1973 en Uruguay. A través de las nociones de poliarquía, hegemonía cerrada, oligarquía competitiva y hegemonía representativa, así como las definiciones prescriptivas de democracia, se propone analizar el avance de la dictadura. Además, se intenta determinar el aporte al conocimiento del proceso de ruptura democrática del país y llamar la atención sobre el desarrollo alcanzado.
description: El artículo discute aspectos del debate y la controversia de sectores identificados con distintas posiciones respecto a la pérdida de la democracia en el período 1968-1973 en Uruguay. A través de las nociones de poliarquía, hegemonía cerrada, oligarquía competitiva y hegemonía representativa, así como las definiciones prescriptivas de democracia, se propone analizar el avance de la dictadura. Además, se intenta determinar el aporte al conocimiento del proceso de ruptura democrática del país y llamar la atención sobre el desarrollo alcanzado.
description: El artículo discute aspectos del debate y la controversia de sectores identificados con distintas posiciones respecto a la pérdida de la democracia en el período 1968-1973 en Uruguay. A través de las nociones de poliarquía, hegemonía cerrada, oligarquía competitiva y hegemonía representativa, así como las definiciones prescriptivas de democracia, se propone analizar el avance de la dictadura. Además, se intenta determinar el aporte al conocimiento del proceso de ruptura democrática del país y llamar la atención sobre el desarrollo alcanzado.
description: Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani; Vol 4, No 2 (2012): Rethinking authoritarianism; 1-16
Optimisation of expression of recombinant puroindolines and analysis of protein-protein interactions in planta
Creators: name: Niknejad, Azadeh
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Wheat is the staple food of 35 per cent of the world's population and the third largest cereal crop after maize and rice. The two puroindoline proteins of wheat, PINA and PINB are largely responsible for grain texture, a property important in food technology and the wheat trade. Furthermore, it has been suggested that PINs may have an in vivo role in seed pathogen defence and antimicrobial properties, which make them very attractive as antimicrobial agents for novel medical, pharmaceutical and food-industry applications. This PhD has led to successful methods for obtaining PINs of appropriate quality essential for potential infection control in diverse areas.
Culturally Safe Epidemiology: Methodology at the Interface of Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge
Creators: name: Cameron, Mary
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Epidemiology
Cognitive Mapping
Cultural Safety
Inuit
Aboriginal
Sexual Health

description: Since the early 20th Century, epidemiological research has brought benefits and burdens to Aboriginal communities in Canada. Many First Nations, Métis, and Inuit continue to view Western research with distrust; quantitative study methods are perceived as especially inconsistent with indigenous ways of knowing. There is increasing recognition, however, that rigorous epidemiological research can produce evidence that draws attention, and potentially resources, to pressing health issues in Aboriginal communities. The thesis begins by introducing a framework for culturally safe epidemiology, from the identification of research priorities, through fieldwork and analysis, to communication and use of evidence. Drawing on a sexual health research initiative with Inuit in Ottawa as a case study, the thesis examines cognitive mapping as a promising culturally safe method to reviewing indigenous knowledge. Juxtaposing this approach with a systematic review of the literature, the standard protocol to reviewing Western scientific knowledge, the thesis demonstrates the potential for cognitive mapping to identify culturally safe spaces in epidemiological research where neither scientific validity nor cultural integrity is compromised. Modern epidemiology and indigenous knowledge are not inherently discordant; many public health opportunities arise at this interface and good science must begin here too.
SM from An effective criterion for a stable factorisation of strictly nonsingular 2х2 matrix functions. Utilisation of the ExactMPF package.
Creators: name: Adukova, Natalia
name: Adukov, Victor
name: Mishuris, Gennady
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 490302
subject: Numerical analysis

description: Full set of the data in form of tables for Example 6.1, Example 6.2, Example 6.3
Le mentorat : les perceptions des enseignants débutants dans un contexte scolaire francophone minoritaire
Creators: name: Gauthier, Manon Madeleine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: enseignants débutants
insertion professionnelle
perfectionnement professionnel
mentorat
milieu minoritaire
francophonie
franco-ontarien
rétention
attrition
stress
motivation
satisfaction au travail
ethnoculturalisme
théorie de l'apprentissage transformatif
constructivisme
pratique réflexive
autoefficacité
méthodologie mixte
andragogie
pénurie des enseignants

description: Dans les dernières années, une pénurie d’enseignants s’est fait sentir en Ontario. Bien qu’elle ne soit pas aussi omniprésente que par le passé, les conseils scolaires éprouvent toujours de la difficulté à recruter et à retenir des enseignants qualifiés. L’attrition des enseignants débutants mérite également une attention particulière étant donné que de 30 à 50 % d’entre eux laissent l’enseignement avant cinq années d’expérience. Ces faits portent à réfléchir sur le mentorat des enseignants qui ressort des écrits recensés comme la clé de la rétention. La présente recherche descriptive et exploratoire a été effectuée selon l’approche mixte avec le questionnaire, l’entrevue semi-structurée et l’analyse documentaire comme techniques de collecte de données. Elle s’est inspirée des fondements conceptuels de la théorie de l’apprentissage transformatif de Mezirow (1991, 2000), dont le constructivisme, la pratique réflexive et l’autoefficacité. Le questionnaire a fait émerger la nécessité du temps adéquat dans une relation mentorale ainsi que le bien-fondé de la théorie de l’apprentissage transformatif comme choix d’assise théorique. L’échantillon des entrevues a consisté en cinq enseignants débutants provenant d’un milieu minoritaire francophone du nord de l’Ontario. Les résultats ont signalé l’importance du mentorat comme activité professionnelle essentielle au succès du système d’éducation dans son ensemble et ont permis de mieux comprendre l’expérience des enseignants débutants en milieu scolaire francophone minoritaire et isolés des grands centres. Adhérant fortement aux principes sous-jacents des concepts théoriques de cette étude, les participants ont précisé que 13 facteurs sont particulièrement significatifs pour la réussite mentorale. Entre autres, la relation mentorale doit être une activité de transformation perpétuelle tant pour les enseignants débutants que pour les enseignants chevronnés. L’analyse documentaire a rapporté que le conseil scolaire tient compte du constructivisme dans ses documents qui portent sur le mentorat; la pratique réflexive et l’autoefficacité, bien que présents, l’y sont moins.