cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Self-management of pain among people who inject drugs in Vancouver
Creators: name: Voon, Pauline
name: Callon, Cody
name: Nguyen, Paul
name: Dobrer, Sabina
name: Montaner, Julio
name: Wood, Evan
name: Kerr, Thomas
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Aims—To evaluate factors and methods associated with self-management of pain among people who inject drugs (IDUs) in Vancouver (Canada). Patients & methods—This cross-sectional study used bivariate statistics and multivariate logistic regression to analyze self-reported responses among 483 IDUs reporting moderate-toextreme pain in two prospective cohort studies from 1 December 2012 to 31 May 2013. Results—Median age was 49.6 years (interquartile range: 43.9–54.6 years), 33.1% of IDUs were female and 97.5% reported self-management of pain. Variables independently and positively associated with self-managed pain included having been refused a prescription for pain medication (adjusted odds ratio: 7.83; 95% CI: 1.64–37.3) and having ever been homeless (adjusted odds ratio: 3.70; 95% CI: 1.00–13.7). Common methods of self-management of pain included injecting heroin (52.7%) and obtaining diverted prescription pain medication from the street (65.0%). Conclusion—Self-management of pain was common among IDUs who reported moderate-toextreme pain in this setting, particularly among those who had been refused a prescription for pain medication and those who had ever been homeless. These data highlight the challenges of adequate pain management among IDUs.
Policy recommendations for addressing privacy challenges associated with cell-based research and interventions
Creators: name: Ogbogu, Ubaka
name: Burningham, Sarah
name: Ollenberger, Adam
name: Calder, Kathryn
name: Du, Li
name: El Emam, Khaled
name: Hyde-Lay, Robyn
name: Isasi, Rosario
name: Joly, Yann
name: Kerr, Ian
name: Malin, Bradley
name: McDonald, Michael
name: Penney, Steven
name: Piat, Gayle
name: Roy, Denis-Claude
name: Sugarman, Jeremy
name: Vercauteren, Suzanne
name: Verhenneman, Griet
name: West, Lori
name: Caulfield, Timothy
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: The increased use of human biological material for cell-based research and clinical interventions poses risks to the privacy of patients and donors, including the possibility of re-identification of individuals from anonymized cell lines and associated genetic data. These risks will increase as technologies and databases used for re-identification become affordable and more sophisticated. Policies that require ongoing linkage of cell lines to donors’ clinical information for research and regulatory purposes, and existing practices that limit research participants’ ability to control what is done with their genetic data, amplify the privacy concerns. Discussion: To date, the privacy issues associated with cell-based research and interventions have not received much attention in the academic and policymaking contexts. This paper, arising out of a multi-disciplinary workshop, aims to rectify this by outlining the issues, proposing novel governance strategies and policy recommendations, and identifying areas where further evidence is required to make sound policy decisions. The authors of this paper take the position that existing rules and norms can be reasonably extended to address privacy risks in this context without compromising emerging developments in the research environment, and that exceptions from such rules should be justified using a case-by-case approach. In developing new policies, the broader framework of regulations governing cell-based research and related areas must be taken into account, as well as the views of impacted groups, including scientists, research participants and the general public. Summary: This paper outlines deliberations at a policy development workshop focusing on privacy challenges associated with cell-based research and interventions. The paper provides an overview of these challenges, followed by a discussion of key themes and recommendations that emerged from discussions at the workshop. The paper concludes that privacy risks associated with cell-based research and interventions should be addressed through evidence-based policy reforms that account for both well-established legal and ethical norms and current knowledge about actual or anticipated harms. The authors also call for research studies that identify and address gaps in understanding of privacy risks.
The Research and Development of Tie-dyed Handicraft Products From Krabi Province for the Designing of Ko Klang Community's Contemporary Souvenirs, Leading Krabi Province to Creative City
Creators: name: Khanin Phriwanrat
Publisher: name: Silpakorn University Research and Development Institute
Year: 2020
Subjects: Tie-dyed
Krabi Province
creative city

description: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Studies, 20, 1, 119-137
Casting shadows: A study of madness in Margaret Atwood's novels
Creators: name: Trigg, Tina
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Literature, Canadian (English).

description: Madness is a recurrent aspect of Margaret Atwood's novels to date and represents perhaps her most discomforting challenge to the reader who is implicated as co-creator, interpreter, and participant of the fiction. Her novels question the binary of normality and madness by situating madness both in the margins and foreground, thereby exposing "normality" as a tendentious construct designed to obscure contemporary Western society's psychic imbalance caused by fear of the unknown within the self. This dissertation employs a psycho-social method of investigating madness with a concurrent assessment of reader-involvement strategies, mediated through a theoretical framework based on C. G. Jung, R. D. Laing, and Wolfgang Iser. The particular areas of investigation include: Atwood's comical representation of psychology as a prominent undercurrent of popular culture in The Edible Woman, and her contrasting serious---even threatening---portrayal of normative limits as social constructs in Bodily Harm. With regard to the individual, Lady Oracle exhibits the role of fantasy in psychic balance and posits the protagonist as an unlikely manifestation of "normality." Although still focused on the individual, Life Before Man represents the converse: the capacity for fantasy is lost in the dissociated condition of "normalized" characters. The Jungian process of individuation is studied through the projection of one's shadow figure in The Robber Bride. Finally, Atwood's most direct and strategic implication of the reader in determining the variable boundaries of (in)sanity is examined in Alias Grace. Ultimately, Atwood's presentation of madness insists on the reader's involvement and situates her/him in a position of potential self-recognition.
Walking among birds of fire: Nehiyaw beliefs concerning death, mourning, and feasting with the dead
Creators: name: Baillargeon, Morgan G. F
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Religion, General.

description: Walking Among The Birds of Fire: Nehiyaw Beliefs Concerning Death, Mourning and Feasting with the Dead, investigates two primary questions among the Nehiyaw (Plains Cree) of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Montana with a particular focus on the Nehiyaw at Muskwachees (Hobbema, Alberta), an hour south of Edmonton: (1) In the Nehiyaw world-view, what understanding do people have about their relationship between the living and the dead? (2) To what extent are the Nehiyaw involved in feeding and feasting with the dead? This thesis examines the various feasts and celebrations, dances and memorial events that take place to feed, feast, and honour the community's deceased friends and family members. For the Nehiyaw, there is a recognition that although the souls of the deceased belong to another dimension they are still very much part of the living Nehiyaw community, and as a result the deceased are treated as community members. As souls, or spiritual beings, they are believed to be closer to the Creator, and in this state are in a better position to carry the prayers and petitions of the living to the Creator and to bring the Creator's blessings to the community or to family members. At the same time, the souls of the dead are feared for the malevolent activities they can cause. Consequently, to keep them at a distance, the souls of the dead are fed and feasted with, and invited to dance with the community on numerous celebrations through the year, in some cases on a weekly or daily basis. For all intents and purposes, the Nehiyaw as a whole are involved in feeding and feasting with the dead on a daily basis. Whether the true population of the Four Bands and Pigeon Lake is 10,000 thousand or 15,000 thousand, the odds alone would suggest that on practically every day of the year someone in the community is feeding the soul of a departed relative. Any given day of the year is likely to be the anniversary date of the relative of some community member. When a feast for the dead takes place it is not only the newly deceased who is fed but all of the community's dead. An interesting finding through this research has been the consistency between in belief and practice over the past hundred years, which makes a very interesting point about the accuracy and reliability of oral tradition.
Three essays on population health and public health policy
Creators: name: Wang, Xiaochuan (Sherry)
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Economics, General.
subject: Health Sciences, Public Health.
subject: Health Sciences, Health Care Management.

description: Empowered patient or empowered physician. An analysis of the importance of the gatekeeper in the health delivery system. This paper examines the important role of the gatekeeper in the health delivery system. A simple theoretical model is developed which compares the resource allocation when physicians act as gatekeepers with the decisions taken when patients are empowered. It is shown that even when there is no asymmetry of information---and so patients and doctors are equally able to identify the appropriate therapy---that the institutional arrangement matters. Patients demand more time with physicians when they are empowered whereas physicians want to spend more time developing their expertise when they are empowered. The reaction of physicians and patients to changes in policy instruments also differs across institutional arrangements. The analysis also draws attention to the design of the compensation scheme for physicians, and investigates the benefits of using a non-linear scheme. Wealth, health, and the pursuit of happiness. This paper provides a theoretical framework to illustrate the relationship between income, utility maximization, and healthy choices. The analysis indicates that the choices of individuals who maximize utility are not the same as those arising were the individual to maximize wellness. In fact, rational individuals will over-eat and under-exercise relative to health maximizing levels. Yet as individuals get wealthier, they have better health. The paper also compares different strategies for health promotion. Income redistribution may lead to a net increase in population health and in social welfare. By contrast, policies that specifically target lifestyle choices may succeed in persuading citizens to choose a health-maximizing lifestyle, but result in a net welfare loss to society. An empirical investigation of household income and income polices on obesity in Canada. Using the master files of the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS), this paper examines the effect of income on obesity and individuals' body-mass index. An instrumental variable technique is employed to derive consistent estimates of this effect and to take account of the possible endogeneity between income and body weight. It is found that higher income will lead to lower body weight for women, while its effect on the body-weight outcome of men is unclear. This chapter uses the estimates of the relationship between income and body weight to simulate the impact of government income policies---like social assistance and child support---on obesity. It is shown that incomes policies may not only decrease income inequality but may also contribute to a lower incidence of obesity amongst the poorer population thus decreasing overall health care costs.
Instability within stability: Conflicting trends beneath Canada's aggregate incarceration rate
Creators: name: Tucker, E. Shannon
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Canadian Studies.
subject: Sociology, Criminology and Penology.

description: Contrary to the significant increases of incarceration rates in the United States and England, Canada has maintained relatively stable incarceration rates for the years 1978 2004. However, this overall stability conceals not only bifurcated trends of increasing and decreasing incarceration rates but also significant variation within these trends at the federal, provincial, and territorial sub-levels. As such, this thesis reveals -- on a theoretical level -- that Canada has not entirely resisted the shift towards increasing punitiveness. From a policy perspective, it is suggested that the competing trends must be monitored to avoid exacerbation to the point in which justice is brought into disrepute. This work also raises a methodological question of whether punitiveness is best measured in terms of admissions or counts data.
การเปลี่ยนผลัดการเล่าเรื่องภาษาไทยในชุมชนการเล่นบทบาทสมมติบนเฟซบุ๊ก:ศึกษาตามแนวคิดกฎในการมอบผลัดของ แซกส์ และ คณะ
Creators: name: มิ่งขวัญ สังขะวัฒนะ
Publisher: name: School of Liberal Arts  Mae Fah Luang University
Year: 2563
Subjects: การเปลี่ยนผลัด
การจัดการผลัด
เฟซบุ๊ก
การเล่นบทบาทสมมติ

description: Vacana Journal of Language and Linguistics, 8, 1, 45-67
The many faces of Muslim women in Canada: A re-constructed image in CBC's "Little Mosque on the Prairie"
Creators: name: Khan, Sarah
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Canadian Studies.
subject: Middle Eastern Studies.
subject: Mass Communications.

description: This thesis examines the representation of Muslim women in Canadian media, specifically in CBC's Little Mosque on the Prairie ( LMOTP) which represents women in non-Orientalist, realistic portrayals. This thesis traces Luhmann's (1987) theory on representation of society, Millar's (1793) observations about women in society and Hall's (1997) "Other"; and combines them with Said's (1978) Orienralism, Kristeva's (1991) theories on foreigners and Bhabha's (1994) Third Space to study the representation of Muslim women in LMOTP. A qualitative and quantitative content analysis of the first eight episodes investigates how the image of the Muslim woman has been (re)constructed on CBC. This thesis finds that Muslim women in LMOTP are not oppressed or stereotyped; they participate in Canadian culture and the workplace; and they are not considered outsiders. These characters portray Muslim women in Canada who exist in Third Spaces which allow Canadian and Islamic practices to merge resulting in uniquely Canadian artifacts like LMOTP.
Entrer à l'université sans passer par le Cégep: Étude de la motivation d'étudiants québécois
Creators: name: Stitou, Mariam
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Education, Higher.

description: L'Université d'Ottawa est l'une des rares universités canadiennes qui admettent en première année de leurs programmes d'études de premier cycle les candidats québécois du secondaire V n'ayant poursuivi aucun programme d'études collégiales. La poursuite de ce dernier demeure une exigence d'admission obligatoire aux universités québécoises. Les élèves québécois du secondaire V sont plus enclins que leurs condisciples des autres provinces canadiennes à opter pour les études collégiales plutôt que pour les études universitaires comme finalité de leur parcours scolaire (Thiessen et Looker, 2004). Cette recherche qualitative vise à identifier et à décrire les motivations de six étudiants québécois âgés d'au moins 17 ans à poursuivre, directement du secondaire V, leurs études à l'Université d'Ottawa à la session d'hiver 2008. Les motivations évoquées par les participants sont d'ordres institutionnel, personnel et interpersonnel. Cette recherche fait également état de leur expérience de passage à l'université. Mots-clés: motivation scolaire, études postsecondaires, Université d'Ottawa, secondaire V, parcours atypique, développement vocationnel, persévérance scolaire.
Language as/of power: fate and free will in speculative fiction
Creators: name: Allan, Joanne Lindsay
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The creative component of my doctoral thesis, The Ghost Waves, is a story that centres on the power of words. Set in alternate version of contemporary Australia, a worldwide organisation, SACER, seeks to control language and, by extension, the actions and beliefs of the wider world. Over recent years, the headquarters of SACER in regions around the world have been falling one by one, until the small Australian branch is the last one remaining. Within the wider organisation, two departments fight over the consequences of the power of words, one blaming the other for failed death prophecies that trap people in a limbo between life and death. The Ghost Waves explores these boundaries of life/death, and real/unreal, through the presence of the resultant zombies, people who exist in two alternate realities at the same time. Questions of fate and free-will are central to the story, as within this world words can be used to write destinies and even end lives. Two of the main characters, Idris and Orlagh, are counterparts from the opposing SACER departments, both struggling to prepare for their futures as heads of their respective departments. Circumstances throw them together and, with each other's help, they set about unravelling the mysterious disappearance of Áine, Orlagh's sister and Idris's friend. Two overlapping mysteries thread through the novel: Áine's disappearance, and the murder of a SACER agent. This death is notable because of the method - one that suggests someone has discovered the power over life and is able to literally inscribe a person's death. The race to discover who has this power is carried out under the looming threats of fear and retaliation that begin to tear apart SACER, while Idris and Orlagh's investigation brings them closer to discovering the truth. The accompanying exegesis, Language as/of Power: Fate and free will in speculative fiction, examines the themes of the novel. It explores how words can affect free will and fate, blur and transgress of boundaries and hold power through names. These ideas are located within the wider sphere of speculative fiction, a generic designation which is also examined. There is an online element to the story, where two characters communicate through internet chat rooms. The inclusion of new media within the story offers a chance to explore constructions of identity within cyberspace, as well as the new language that is evolving alongside technology.
An Efficient Architecture and High-Throughput Implementation of CCSDS-123.0-B-2 Hybrid Entropy Coder Targeting Space-Grade SRAM FPGA Technology
Creators: name: Chatziantoniou, Panagiotis
name: Tsigkanos, Antonis
name: Theodoropoulos, Dimitris
name: Kranitis, Nektarios
name: Paschalis, Antonis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Nowadays, hyperspectral imaging is recognized as cornerstone remote sensing technology. The explosive growth in image data volume and instrument data rates, compete with limited on-board storage resources and downlink bandwidth, making hyperspectral image data compression a mission critical on-board processing task. The Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) extended the previous issue of the CCSDS-123.0 Recommended Standard for multi- and hyperspectral image compression to provide with Near-Lossless compression functionality. A key feature of the CCSDS-123.0-B-2 is the improved Hybrid Entropy Coder, which at low bit rates, provides substantially better compression performance than the Issue 1 entropy coders. In this paper, we introduce a high-throughput hardware implementation of the CCSDS-123.0-B-2 Hybrid Entropy Coder. The introduced architecture exploits the systolic design pattern to provide modularity and latency insensitivity in a deep and elastic pipeline achieving a constant throughput of 1 sample/cycle with a small FPGA resource footprint. This architecture is described in portable VHDL RTL and is implemented, validated and demonstrated on a commercially available Xilinx KCU105 development board hosting a Xilinx Kintex Ultrascale XCKU040 SRAM FPGA, and thus, is directly transferable to Xilinx Radiation Tolerant Kintex UltraScale XQRKU060 space-grade devices for space deployments. Moreover, state-of-the-art SpaceFibre (ECSS-E-ST-50-11C) serial link interface and test equipment were used in the validation platform to emulate an on-board deployment. The introduced CCSDS-123.0-B-2 Hybrid Entropy Encoder achieves a constant throughput performance of 305 MSamples/s. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first published fully-compliant architecture and high-throughput implementation of the CCSDS-123.0-B-2 Hybrid Entropy Coder, targeting space-grade FPGA technology.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, to be published in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (TAES)
Personal and social determinants sustaining smoking practices in rural China: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Mao, Aimei
name: Yang, Tingzhong
name: Bottorff, J. L. (Joan L.), 1950-
name: Sarbit, Gayl
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Introduction: Tobacco use in China is disproportionally distributed among rural and urban populations with rural people smoking more. While there is a wealth of evidence on the association between tobacco use among rural people and their lower socio-economic status (SES), how social structural factors contribute to rural smoking is not well understood. Guided by a socio-ecological model, the objective of this study was to explore the personal and social determinants that play a key role in sustaining smoking practices among Chinese rural people. Methods: An ethnographic study was conducted in a rural area of Central Jiangsu, China. Participants (n = 29) were recruited from families where there was at least one smoking resident and there were young children. In-depth interviews and unstructured observations were used to collect data, which were then analyzed with an interpretive lens. Results: Although individuals had limited knowledge about the risks of smoking and lack of motivation to quit, social factors were in effect the main barriers to quitting smoking. Cigarette exchange and cigarette gifting permeated every aspect of rural family life, from economic activities to leisure pastimes, in family and wider social interactions. Traditional familism and collectivism interplayed with the pro-smoking environment and supported rural people’s smoking practices at the community level. Living in the rural area was also a barrier to quitting smoking because of the lack of information on smoking cessation and the influence of courtyard-based leisure activities that facilitated smoking. Conclusion: Development of comprehensive smoking cessation interventions in rural China needs to extend beyond an individual level to take into account the social determinants influencing smoking practices.
Social Studies and the Development of Global Citizen in Educational System
Creators: name: Kumpol Vongsatan
name: Charin Mangkhang
name: Jarunee Dipyamandala
Publisher: name: Silpakorn University Research and Development Institute
Year: 2020
Subjects: Social studies
global citizens
education systems

description: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Studies, 20, 1, 138-162
Orbital characterization of superbolides observed from space: dynamical association with near-Earth objects, meteoroid streams and identification of hyperbolic meteoroids
Creators: name: Peña-Asensio, E.
name: Trigo-Rodríguez, J. M.
name: Rimola, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is an unceasing incoming flux of extraterrestrial materials reaching the Earth's atmosphere. Some of these objects produce luminous columns when they ablate during the hypersonic encounter with air molecules. A few fireballs occur each year bright enough to be detected from space. The source of these events is still a matter of debate, but it is generally accepted that they are of sporadic origin. We studied the NASA-JPL Center for NEOs Studies (CNEOS) fireball database to infer the dynamic origin of large bolides produced by meter-sized projectiles that impacted our planet. These likely meteorite-dropping events were recorded by the US Government satellite sensors. We estimated the false-positive rate and analyzed the time evolution of multiple orbit dissimilarity criteria concerning potential associations with near-Earth objects and meteoroid streams. We found that at least 16% of the large bolides could be associated with meteoroid streams, about 4% are likely associated with near-Earth asteroids, and 4% may be linked to near-Earth comets. This implies that a significant fraction of meter-sized impactors producing large bolides may have an asteroidal or cometary origin. In addition, we found at least three bolides having hyperbolic orbits with high tensile strength values. Meter-sized meteoroids of interstellar origin could be more common than previously thought, representing about 1% of the flux of large bolides. The inferred bulk physical properties suggest that the interstellar medium could bias these projectiles towards high strength rocks with the ability to survive prolonged exposure to the harsh interstellar space conditions.
description: Accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal (AAS38905R1)
The effects of hormone replacement therapy on coronary heart disease in postmenopausal women: Systematic review and assessment of methods
Creators: name: Goyal, Supriya Mayank
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Women's Studies.
subject: Health Sciences, Public Health.

description: Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was commonly prescribed to postmenopausal women to decrease the risk of coronary artery disease. Non-randomized studies have demonstrated up to 40% reduction in women using HRT. The first randomized trial to study this association failed to find the anticipated cardiac benefit. Since then, several trials addressing primary or secondary prevention of heart disease with HRT have failed to find any association. This thesis analyzed all available data on HRT and heart disease to identify factors contributing to the divergent results. We found that in non-randomized studies, current users of HRT had a decreased risk of heart disease while the summary statistic for RCTs failed to show any association. Measurement of exposure and socioeconomic status were important confounding variables. The strengths and limitations of study designs were discussed. A second component of the thesis was the modification of Newcastle Ottawa scale, a quality assessment tool for non-randomized studies.
A feature selection and evaluation scheme for computer virus detection
Creators: name: Henchiri, Olivier
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: Computer viruses have existed since the early days of personal computers, and have since become a ubiquitous problem in the world of computing. The rate at which new viruses are created today and the age of networking have contributed to making anti-virus software a crucial aspect of just about every computer system. But while current virus detection methods provide good protection against known viruses, they remain primarily reactive to outbreaks, always one step behind the latest virus. In our work, we implement a virus detection scheme that addresses this issue and focuses on improving the predictive power of a virus classifier on new viruses. We propose a hierarchical process for feature extraction that allows for an exhaustive feature search and, in contrast with current signature detection methods, obviates over-fitting. We also introduce an evaluation scheme that relies on sub-classes, using our understanding of virus taxonomies and a priori knowledge of our dataset. This more rigorous evaluation ensures that the classifier does not rely on a collection of over-fitted features and measures the predictive power of the classifier more accurately and in a way that is relevant to the domain of computer viruses. We show that our model performs better than the traditional approach on a test set containing viruses unrelated to any training example, and that it can be expected to perform as well in the real world.
Hyperspectral imaging: An early systematic review of emerging applications for rapid microplastic analysis
Creators: name: Faltynkova, Andrea
name: Johnsen, Geir
name: Wagner, Martin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: hyperspectral imaging
microplastics
microplastic methods

description: This document is a protocol for a systematic review on the subject of hyperspectral imaging applied to microplastics analysis.
On the semiclassical regularity of thermal equilibria
Creators: name: Chong, Jacky J.
name: Lafleche, Laurent
name: Saffirio, Chiara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 82C10, 35Q41, 35Q55 (Primary) 82C05, 35Q83 (Secondary)

description: We study the regularity properties of fermionic equilibrium states at finite positive temperature and show that they satisfy certain semiclassical bounds. As a corollary, we identify explicitly a class of positive temperature states satisfying the regularity assumptions of [J.J. Chong, L. Lafleche, C. Saffirio: arXiv:2103.10946 (2021)].
description: 14 pages
Application of martingale methods to a change set problem
Creators: name: Collingwood, Jesse
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mathematics.

description: A collection of random points in a bounded rectangle [0, R] 2 of the positive quadrant changes its intensity on an unobservable random set xi. The goal is to detect the random change set in an optimal way, according to some reward function. Given the change set, the random points are assumed to be distributed according to a Poisson process N with intensities mu0 on xic and mu1 on xi. Optimal solutions are found for various reward functions and applied to some examples.
Compact features for sentiment analysis
Creators: name: Gaudette, Lisa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: This work examines a novel method of developing features to use for machine learning of sentiment analysis and related tasks. This task is frequently approached using a Bag of Words representation -- one feature for each word encountered in the training data -- which can easily number in the thousands or tens of thousands. This thesis develops a set of "numeric" features, by learning scores for words, dividing the range of possible scores into a number of bins, and then generating features based on counting how many words in each document have scores in each bin. This allows for effective learning of sentiment and related tasks with 25 features; in fact, performance was very often slightly better with these features. This reduction in the number of features allows for the processing of much larger collections of texts than previously attempted. In addition, we carefully consider the problem of evaluating ordinal problems.
Practices of the Stakeholders' Involvement in the Formulation of School Improvement Plan
Creators: name: Maricar Flores Nicdao
name: Inero Valbuena Ancho
Publisher: name: Silpakorn University Research and Development Institute
Year: 2020
Subjects: Stakeholders' involvement
School Improvement Plan
School Improvement Plan Cycle
practices, principles and guidelines

description: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Studies, 20, 1, 219-246
The Dynamic Impact Response of a Hybrid III Head- and Neckform under Four Neck Orientations and Three Impact Locations
Creators: name: Foreman, Scott G
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Recreation.

description: Head injuries are sensitive to impact direction and are relative to the magnitude of linear (g) and rotational (rad/s2) accelerations (Holbourn, 1943; Kleiven, 2003). This study documented the influence of the Hybrid III headform's geometry and neckform's physical characteristics on the dynamic impact response of the Hybrid III headform at different impact locations. A Hybrid III head- and neckform was impacted by a linear impactor at 4.2m/s to the front, side and rear locations through the center of gravity. To isolate physical characteristic of the neck on the headform's dynamic impact response, the neck's orientation was positioned about the z (vertical) axis. Impact location was found to be significantly different across all neck orientations for peak resultant linear (F(2,107)=65.295, p<0.001) and rotational (F(2,107)=202.822, p<0.001) acceleration. Neck orientation was found to not be significant for peak resultant linear (F(3,107)=0.560, p=0.642) and rotational (F(3,107)=0.169, p=0.917) accelerations. Understanding the interaction of impact location and neckform characteristics is important for interpreting direct head impact reconstructions using the Hybrid III head- and neckform.
The Knowledge Graph that Listens
Creators: name: Aasman, Jans
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Enterprises that are building Knowledge Graphs are rapidly getting a grip on unstructured data with current advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. But there is still a large mass of unstructured data that is untapped and that is spoken conversations with customers. Speech to text for general-purpose conversations (e.g. Google, Alexa, Siri) have proven themselves in the market to be highly accurate. However, speech recognition technology for domain-specific industries with lots of product names, industry lingo, and acronyms often creates a challenge for accuracy and usefulness of the content. In this presentation, we will demonstrate how taxonomy-driven speech recognition helps solve these industry-specific terminology challenges for real-time voice capture and how this process augments an Enterprise Knowledge Graph for customer insights enabling real-time decision support.
Mouse retinal histogenesis in the context of cell autonomous Hedgehog signalling pathway activation
Creators: name: Yu, Chuan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Biology, Neuroscience.
subject: Biology, Cell.

description: The adult mouse retina is a laminated assemblage of specialized neurons and glia, which serves as a model system for cell type specification in the CNS (central nervous system). The multiple cell types in the retina are derived from a retinal neuroepithelium, which contains multipotent retinal precursor cells (RPCs) that differentiate into specific retinal cell types. The morphogen Shh is expressed in the retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), and signals to the RPCs located in the overlying neuroblast layer of the developing retina. To distinguish between cell- and non-cell autonomous effects of the Hh signalling pathway activation in the RPCs, I have examined the effects of constitutive cell-autonomous activation of the Hh signalling pathway in the RPCs. The results showed that it promoted proliferation of RPCs and differentiation of the INL (inner nuclear layer) cells in a cell-autonomous way, and also affected the rod photoreceptor differentiation in a non-cell autonomous way.
Evaluation of Fast ReRoute Mechanisms in Broadband Networks
Creators: name: Hassan, Abdulbaset Taher
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: Link failures are a common cause of service disruptions in computer networks. When a network link fails, all communications using that link are interrupted. Techniques have been deployed to improve the consequences of hardware failure networks by rerouting traffic from the failed link to other working links. The main theme of this thesis is to develop methods and tools that study and evaluate Fast ReRoute (FRR) schemes. These schemes offer fast recovery around failed components in packet networks. First, we investigate and evaluate several network protection techniques by carrying out tests in a research testbed environment. We show the effect of link failures for several recovery scenarios, including: IGP recovery, global or end-to-end recovery, and local or segment recovery. We also study, implement and evaluate the performance of two FRR mechanisms in IP/MPLS core networks. Such mechanisms enable, in the case of a network fault, the fast switchover of protected traffic onto pre-established backup paths within 50 ms to minimize traffic loss. In our tests, we consider single link failures protected with pre-provisioned backup paths using Traffic Engineering (TE)-FRR tunnels, or IP Fast ReRoute (IP-FRR) alternate paths. We evaluate the two techniques through experimentation. For this purpose a testbed, consisting of Juniper and Nortel equipments, is established.
Derivation of component designs from global specifications
Creators: name: Laamarti, Fedwa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: The use of distributed systems is growing more and more, given the advantages that they present, particularly the powerful computational capabilities that they provide. However, one challenge of distributed computing is ensuring that once the different system components are collaborating, their combined behavior will result in the behavior that was originally intended for the global system, without coordination conflicts. This thesis deals with automating the process of deriving the components behaviors of distributed systems, starting from the description of that global system, defined as a UML Activity Diagram. The derived component specifications are produced as Activity Diagrams, and provided to the user in a graphical form. The generated components diagrams include the exchange of the necessary coordination messages. We also explain through many test cases the importance and purpose of these coordination messages. Besides, tests were conducted to verify that the obtained components designs correspond to the intended results.
Operational Interpretation of the Sandwiched Rényi Divergence of Order 1/2 to 1 as Strong Converse Exponents
Creators: name: Li, Ke
name: Yao, Yongsheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We provide the sandwiched Rényi divergence of order $α\in(\frac{1}{2},1)$, as well as its induced quantum information quantities, with an operational interpretation in the characterization of the exact strong converse exponents of quantum tasks. Specifically, we consider (a) smoothing of the max-relative entropy, (b) quantum privacy amplification, and (c) quantum information decoupling. We solve the problem of determining the exact strong converse exponents for these three tasks, with the performance being measured by the fidelity or purified distance. The results are given in terms of the sandwiched Rényi divergence of order $α\in(\frac{1}{2},1)$, and its induced quantum Rényi conditional entropy and quantum Rényi mutual information. This is the first time to find the precise operational meaning for the sandwiched Rényi divergence with Rényi parameter in the interval $α\in(\frac{1}{2},1)$.
description: V2: minor changes. V3: more discussions and clarifications added, small errors and incompleteness in proof fixed
The effects of stage-matched, stage-mismatched, and standard care interventions on physical activity behavior, stage transition, and hypothesized mediators of change: Test of a stage model
Creators: name: Laplante, Marie-Claude
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Behavioral.
subject: Psychology, Clinical.

description: The present study tested (1) the validity of the transtheoretical model [TTM] and its prediction that stage-matched interventions are more effective than stage-mismatched interventions at promoting stage transition, and (2) the hypothesized theoretical mediators of regular physical activity and adjacent stage progression. Sedentary or insufficiently active adults (N = 190) recruited through corporate email newsletters were randomized to receive either a stage-matched, stage-mismatched, or standard care intervention. Stage-matched interventions were designed to alter hypothesized theoretical mediators of adjacent stage progression for regular moderate-intensity physical activity through print-based materials. This experimental study focused on two stage transitions, from contemplation to preparation and from preparation to action. Physical activity behavior, stage transition, and hypothesized theoretical mediators of physical activity participation and forward transition between adjacent stages were assessed at baseline and 8-week follow-up (83% retention rate). Based on results from a preliminary cross-sectional study (N = 1,172) that examined patterns of differences between adjacent stages (discontinuity patterns) on theoretical constructs hypothesized by the TTM to differ across stages, it was hypothesized that an increase in the perceived benefits and a decrease in the perceived costs of regular physical activity mediated progression from contemplation to preparation whereas an increase in self-efficacy and behavioral processes of change were hypothesized to mediate progression from preparation to action. Results revealed significant increase in physical activity behavior and stage progression across all conditions. Stage-matched, stage-mismatched, and standard care interventions produced equivalent results in terms of adjacent stage progression, physical activity participation, and proportion of individuals meeting CDC/ACSM guidelines at post-intervention follow-up. Behavioral processes of change were the only theoretical constructs to consistently predict progression to the next stage in the sequence for individuals in the preparation stage and increase in physical activity behavior for individuals in the contemplation and preparation stage. None of the theoretical constructs predicted adjacent stage progression for individuals in the contemplation stage. Preliminary evidence does not support the matching of interventions to stage in the context of regular physical activity and challenges the notion that stages of change, or at least a subset of them, are qualitatively distinct.
Finiteness of analytic cohomology of Lubin-Tate $(φ_L,Γ_L)$-modules
Creators: name: Steingart, Rustam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove finiteness and base change properties for analytic cohomology of families of $L$-analytic $(φ_L,Γ_L)$-modules parametrised by affinoid algebras in the sense of Tate. For technical reasons we work over a field $K$ containing a period of the Lubin-Tate group, which allows us to describe analytic cohomology in terms of an explicit generalized Herr complex.
description: Updated numbering and added DOI of the published version
Capacity development in health systems and policy research: a survey of the Canadian context
Creators: name: Grudniewicz, Agnes
name: Hedden, Lindsay
name: Kromm, Seija
name: Lavergne, Ruth
name: Menear, Matthew
name: Sivananthan, Saskia
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Over the past decade, substantial global investment has been made to support health systems and policy research (HSPR), with considerable resources allocated to training. In Canada, signs point to a larger and more highly skilled HSPR workforce, but little is known about whether growth in HSPR human resource capacity is aligned with investments in other research infrastructure, or what happens to HSPR graduates following training. Methods: We collected data from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Canada’s national health research funding agency, and the Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research on recent graduates in the HSPR workforce. We also surveyed 45 Canadian HSPR training programs to determine what information they collect on the career experiences of graduates. Results: No university programs are currently engaged in systematic follow-up. Collaborative training programs funded by the national health research funding agency report performing short-term mandated tracking activities, but whether and how data are used is unclear. No programs collected information about whether graduates were using skills obtained in training, though information collected by the national funding agency suggests a minority (<30%) of doctoral-level trainees moving on to academic careers. Conclusions: Significant investments have been made to increase HSPR capacity in Canada and around the world but no systematic attempts to evaluate the impact of these investments have been made. As a research community, we have the expertise and responsibility to evaluate our health research human resources and should strive to build a stronger knowledge base to inform future investment in HSPR research capacity.
Suction and compressibility characteristics of an unsaturated till
Creators: name: Power, Kenton C
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: Most geotechnical projects involving compacted soils are typically in a state of unsaturated condition. However, compressibility characteristics of such soils are typically estimated extending the principles that are commonly used for saturated soils. The compressibility and settlement characteristics of compacted soils are influenced by several parameters such as the applied loading, water content, compaction energy and soil structure. All the above parameters are in turn influenced by matric suction, which is one of the stress state variables for interpreting the engineering behavior of unsaturated soils. The focus of the research presented in this thesis is to understand the role of matric suction on the compressibility characteristics of a typical glacial till from Indian Head till, Saskatchewan. As a part of this thesis, the current techniques available in the literature for estimating matric suction were reviewed and implemented with varying degrees of success. New and improved techniques are presented for determining the matric suction using both axis-translation and the contact filter paper techniques. Based on the experimental studies undertaken in this research program, an equation is presented for Indian Head till that relates compaction water content to matric suction.