cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Canoe Tripping as a Context for Connecting with Nature: A Case Study
Creators: name: Freiman, Mira
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: outdoor education
environmental education
adventure education
experiential education
outdoor environmental education
connectedness with nature
learning in nature

description: Nine teenage participants and two adult guides were followed throughout a 10 day white water canoe trip to investigate the relationship between their impressions of connection with nature and the canoe trip experience, and their interactions with nature and the canoe trip experience. Themes providing a description of these relationships were identified and three major findings emerged. The first was that multiple themes mediating participants’ connectedness with nature did so both towards connection and disconnection. The second was that participants’ state of comfort was related to an impression of connection with nature while their state of discomfort was related to an impression of disconnection from nature. The third was that the relationship between participants’ connectedness and interactions with nature differed depending on the context (e.g., nature versus civilization). Possible directions for future research include investigating changes in participants’ conception of nature and the relationship between comfort and connection with nature.
Supplementary document for Demonstration of the DC-Kerr Effect in Silicon-Rich Nitride - 5344805.pdf
Creators: name: Friedman, Alex
name: Nejadriahi, Hani
name: Sharma, Rajat
name: Fainman, Yeshaiahu
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Material Document
An NMR study of human brain tumours: Phosphorus chemical shift imaging in vivo and high resolution proton spectroscopy of biopsy samples.
Creators: name: Rutter, Allison.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Pathology.

description: Human brain tumours have been investigated using proton and phosphorus nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). The localization technique, chemical shift imaging has been used to obtain phosphorus spectra of tumours in vivo. High resolution proton spectroscopy has been performed on biopsy samples and extracts of human brain tumours. To obtain the localized phosphorus spectra, one dimensional chemical shift imaging with a surface coil was adapted to a 1.5 T Siemens Magnetom imager. The ratios of areas, PDE/ATP and PME/ATP were found to be higher in glioblastomas and astrocytomas than in normal brain. Pi/ATP and PCr/ATP were also high in astrocytomas. The pH of brain tumours ranged from alkaline to neutral, with meningiomas consistently having alkaline pH. A three dimensional localization sequence was written and tested on the Magnetom and used to obtain phosphorus spectra from the brains of normal volunteers. One dimensional $\sp1$H spectra, COSY spectra and T$\sb2$ data were obtained from ex vivo biopsy samples. A parameter, P, was defined as the ratio of the area between 3.4 and 3.1. ppm over the area between 1.5 ppm and 1.1 ppm. The parameter distinguished glioblastomas from astrocytomas and normal brain. This area parameter, P, also appeared to be indicative of malignant potential or biological aggressiveness. Crosspeaks in the ex vivo proton COSY spectra of brain specimens could be used to classify glioblastomas, astrocytomas, metastases to the brain, meningiomas and normal brain in agreement with histopathological diagnosis. The T$\sb2$ values at 1.3 ppm were fitted to a two exponential equation. The longer component could be used to separate clearly glioblastomas from normal brain, normal brain having a much longer long T$\sb2$ component. Astrocytomas formed a continuum of values between glioblastomas and normal brain, with the grade of the astrocytoma roughly correlating with the value of the long T$\sb2$ component. High resolution $\sp1$H spectroscopy of perchloric acid extracts of biopsy samples was performed. The extracts confirmed that lactate, acetate, creatine and choline derivatives, NAA, glutamate, glutamine, alanine, valine and leucine were present in the samples. Comparisons of extract and ex vivo spectra indicated that the 1.3 ppm peak in the ex vivo spectra is predominantly due to the methylene moiety of lipids.
Supplementary document for Demonstration of the DC-Kerr Effect in Silicon-Rich Nitride - 5344805.pdf
Creators: name: Friedman, Alex
name: Nejadriahi, Hani
name: Sharma, Rajat
name: Fainman, Yeshaiahu
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Material Document
Semi-Markov modeling for bandwidth sharing of TCP connections with asymmetric AIMD congestion control
Creators: name: Fu, Cheng Peng
name: Foh, Chuan Heng
name: Lau, Chiew Tong
name: Man, Zhihong
name: Lee, Bu Sung
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper presents a semi-Markov model that evaluates the performance of TCP connections with asymmetric Additive Increase and Multiplicative Decrease (AIMD) congestion control settings involved in sharing of a common drop-tail router. We study the fairness of the connections and their individual bandwidth utilizations as well as packet loss rates. We confirm that certain asymmetric AIMD settings may achieve fairness in bandwidth sharing. We also found that while connections with asymmetric AIMD settings operate at different bandwidth utilizations, they generally experience similar packet loss rate.
Le phénomène du Prenez vos appareils personnels s'implante dans l'organisation
Creators: name: Proulx, Karine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: PAP
BYOD
Prenez vos appareils personnels
Bring your own device

description: Le phénomène du Prenez vos appareils personnels (PAP) représente une tendance lourde sur le marché du travail. La pression vient plutôt du côté des employés, les employeurs étant la plupart du temps à la merci des choix de leurs employés en termes d’appareils et d’utilisation. Cette recherche étudie le PAP à travers la théorie institutionnelle pour mieux comprendre le PAP dans l’organisation en tenant compte du point de vue de l’employé et de l’employeur et en expliquant comment il est vécu. Neuf thèmes ont émergé de l’étude de cas à l’aide d’entrevues semi-dirigées : l’aspect pratique, la distinction entre la vie professionnelle et la vie personnelle qui s’effrite, la dépendance aux appareils, le stress, la liberté, la productivité, la sécurité de l’organisation, le besoin d’une politique pour encadrer le PAP dans l’organisation et le coût. Cette étude jette les assises d’une recherche sur une politique organisationnelle pour encadrer le PAP.
title: Исследование образцов бумаги, зараженных микромицетами, методом сканирующей электронной микроскопии
Creators: name: Власов, А. Д.
name: Сазанова, К. В.
name: Хосид, Е. Г.
name: Зеленская, М. С.
Publisher: name: Реноме
Year: 2018

description: Одним из методов исследования процессов биоповреждения бумаги является их моделирование в экспериментальных условиях. Цель модельных экспериментов заключается в исследовании особенностей пигментации и биоразрушения бумаги под воздействием микроорганизмов, встречающихся на бумаге и в воздухе архивохранилищ. Условия влажной камеры в эксперименте моделируют ситуацию, связанную с протечкой в архивохранилище и последующим намоканием бумаги. Данная ситуация является благоприятной для развития микроорганизмов. В качестве основного метода исследования зараженной бумаги используется сканирующая электронная микроскопия и наблюдения при помощи цифрового USB — микроскопа «МИКМЕД 5.0».

Ключевые слова: биоповреждение бумаги, Aspergillus spp., модельный эксперимент.
Automatic Supervised Thesauri Construction with Roget’s Thesaurus
Creators: name: Kennedy, Alistair H
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Roget's Thesaurus
Natural Language Processing
Distributional Semantics
Thesauri construction

description: Thesauri are important tools for many Natural Language Processing applications. Roget's Thesaurus is particularly useful. It is of high quality and has been in development for over a century and a half. Yet its applications have been limited, largely because the only publicly available edition dates from 1911. This thesis proposes and tests methods of automatically updating the vocabulary of the 1911 Roget’s Thesaurus. I use the Thesaurus as a source of training data in order to learn from Roget’s for the purpose of updating Roget’s. The lexicon is updated in two stages. First, I develop a measure of semantic relatedness that enhances existing distributional techniques. I improve existing methods by using known sets of synonyms from Roget’s to train a distributional measure to better identify near synonyms. Second, I use the new measure of semantic relatedness to find where in Roget’s to place a new word. Existing words from Roget’s are used as training data to tune the parameters of three methods of inserting words. Over 5000 new words and word-senses were added using this process. I conduct two kinds of evaluation on the updated Thesaurus. One is on the procedure for updating Roget’s. This is accomplished by removing some words from the Thesaurus and testing my system's ability to reinsert them in the correct location. Human evaluation of the newly added words is also performed. Annotators must determine whether a newly added word is in the correct location. They found that in most cases the new words were almost indistinguishable from those already existing in Roget's Thesaurus. The second kind of evaluation is to establish the usefulness of the updated Roget’s Thesaurus on actual Natural Language Processing applications. These applications include determining semantic relatedness between word pairs or sentence pairs, identifying the best synonym from a set of candidates, solving SAT-style analogy problems, pseudo-word-sense disambiguation, and sentence ranking for text summarization. The updated Thesaurus consistently performed at least as well or better the original Thesaurus on all these applications.
Optimized PAR-2 RING dimerization mediates cooperative and selective membrane binding for robust cell polarity.
Creators: name: Bland, Tom
name: Hirani, Nisha
name: Briggs, David C
name: Rossetto, Riccardo
name: Ng, KangBo
name: Taylor, Ian A
name: McDonald, Neil Q
name: Zwicker, David
name: Goehring, Nathan W
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: Signalling & Oncogenes
subject: Signalling & Oncogenes
classificationCode: Infectious Disease
subject: Infectious Disease
classificationCode: Developmental Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
classificationCode: Computational & Systems Biology
subject: Computational & Systems Biology
classificationCode: Model organisms
subject: Model organisms
classificationCode: Biochemistry & Proteomics
subject: Biochemistry & Proteomics
classificationCode: Structural Biology & Biophysics
subject: Structural Biology & Biophysics
classificationCode: Cell Biology
subject: Cell Biology
classificationCode: Imaging
subject: Imaging
classificationCode: Cell Cycle & Chromosomes
subject: Cell Cycle & Chromosomes

description: Cell polarity networks are defined by quantitative features of their constituent feedback circuits, which must be tuned to enable robust and stable polarization, while also ensuring that networks remain responsive to dynamically changing cellular states and/or spatial cues during development. Using the PAR polarity network as a model, we demonstrate that these features are enabled by the dimerization of the polarity protein PAR-2 via its N-terminal RING domain. Combining theory and experiment, we show that dimer affinity is optimized to achieve dynamic, selective, and cooperative binding of PAR-2 to the plasma membrane during polarization. Reducing dimerization compromises positive feedback and robustness of polarization. Conversely, enhanced dimerization renders the network less responsive due to kinetic trapping of PAR-2 on internal membranes and reduced sensitivity of PAR-2 to the anterior polarity kinase, aPKC/PKC-3. Thus, our data reveal a key role for a dynamically oligomeric RING domain in optimizing interaction affinities to support a robust and responsive cell polarity network, and highlight how optimization of oligomerization kinetics can serve as a strategy for dynamic and cooperative intracellular targeting.
Profcasting: a pilot study and guidelines for integrating podcasts in a blended learning environment
Creators: name: Edirisingha, Palitha
name: Salmon, Gilly
name: Fothergill, John C.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Podcasting is a new technology filtering into education from its original uses in entertainment, journalism and personal broadcasting. Students' learning supported by specially produced podcasts, which we call 'profcasts', differs from their learning through structured campus or other e-learning processes. This chapter describes a recent pilot study of integrating weekly profcasts in a blended learning environment at a UK University and suggests guidelines for profcasting in such a setting. Following a literature review on the use of audio technologies in education and, more recently mobile learning technologies, the chapter introduces the pilot study and its results. It discusses the findings in relation to two main questions: How does students' learning supported by podcasting differ from their learning through structured campus or e-learning processes? What are the issues in relation to switching from using MP3 players for entertainment to learning? The chapter proposes guidelines for integrating profcasts within a blended learning environment, for testing with larger numbers of staff, students and disciplines. Finally, it sketches further research on podcasts for learning being carried out under the IMPALA (Informal Mobile Podcasting And Learning Adaptation) project based at the University of Leicester.
Stress and Coping in Mothers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Creators: name: Mekki, Karim
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Autism
ASD
Stress
Coping
Mothers

description: Heightened levels of stress are observed in mothers of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), yet little is known about the relationship between stress and coping in mothers of children recently diagnosed with an ASD. The objectives of this study were to determine the levels of maternal stress, identify coping strategies used by mothers, examine the relationship between stress and coping, and ascertain whether coping mediated the relationship between ASD symptom severity and subsequent maternal stress. Data on 128 mothers of children who had received a diagnosis of ASD in the last four months were examined. Results indicated that mothers presented with elevated levels of stress. With regards to coping, escape-avoidance and confrontive coping were positively correlated with stress, while seeking social support was negatively correlated with stress. Confrontive coping did not mediate the relationship between ASD symptom severity and maternal stress. Results confirm previous findings, while underscoring the importance of helping mothers understand the relationship between the coping strategies they adopt and the subsequent stress they experience.
Passing the quadrat: inferring biodiversity change over time and across investigators
Creators: name: Elahi, Robin
name: Micheli, Fiorenza
name: Watanabe, James
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Ecological monitoring
subject: Biodiversity change
subject: Historical ecology
subject: Species richness
subject: Sampling effort
subject: Rocky intertidal

description: Long-term ecological monitoring inevitably requires a ‘passing of the quadrat’ from one investigator to another. Here we present the challenge and opportunity of inferring biodiversity change over time and across investigators using a rocky intertidal case study. The intertidal transect was surveyed initially by Willis Hewatt in 1931-1933, then resurveyed in detail by Rafe Sagarin, Sarah Gilman, and their mentors in 1993. In total, the transect has been resurveyed 17 times over the past three decades, with annual surveys nested within five distinct investigator eras. We addressed two goals with our dataset. First, we asked whether temporal change in several biodiversity metrics (species richness, Hill-Shannon and Hill-Simpson diversity, spatial beta diversity) was sensitive to investigator era. Second, we identified recent ecological ‘winners’ and ‘losers’, relative to the historical baseline, and asked whether such designations can change over time (1993-2023). We show that investigators contributed to variable trends in species richness over time, and we hypothesize that sampling effort contributed to this effect. In contrast, we highlight declines in the biodiversity of common species (Hill-Shannon) and dominant species (Hill-Simpson) over time, in the absence of investigator effects. These declines were associated with the rise of a few numerically dominant species and a trend of increasing spatial similarity. Relative to the historical baseline, ecological winners included certain barnacles, anemones, and turban snails, while losers included mussels, urchins, limpets and a host of more cryptic taxa. However, we show that such designations can be complicated by non-linear population trajectories and discuss mechanisms related to climate change versus potential artifacts related to investigator effort. We finish with recommendations and emphasize the value of marine stations in providing a venue for sustained periodic ecological monitoring at small spatial scales, long duration, and fine taxonomic resolution.
A Power-efficient Radio Frequency Energy-harvesting Circuit
Creators: name: Khoury, Philip
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Koch Fractal
RF Energy Harvesting

description: This work aims to demonstrate the design and simulation of a Radio Frequency (RF) energy-harvesting circuit, from receiving antenna to the point of charge collection. The circuit employs a custom-designed antenna based around Koch fractal loops, selected for their small physical size, good multiband behaviour and ease of size scalability, as well as a power-efficient seven-element Greinacher rectification section designed to charge a super-capacitor or rechargeable battery for later use. Multiple frequency bands are tapped for energy and this aspect of the implementation was one on the main focus points. The bands targeted for harvesting in this thesis will be those that are the most readily available to the general Canadian population. These include Wi-Fi hotspots (and other 2.4GHz sources), as well as cellular (850MHz band), Personal Communications Services (1900MHz band) and WiMax (2.3GHz) network transmitters.
Organic chemicals jeopardize the health of freshwater ecosystems on the continental scale
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Toxizität

description: Organic chemicals can contribute to local and regional losses of freshwater biodiversity and ecosystem services. However, their overall relevance regarding larger spatial scales remains unknown. Here, we present, to our knowledge, the first risk assessment of organic chemicals on the continental scale comprising 4,000 European monitoring sites. Organic chemicals were likely to exert acute lethal and chronic long-term effects on sensitive fish, invertebrate, or algae species in 14% and 42% of the sites, respectively. Of the 223 chemicals monitored, pesticides, tributyltin, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and brominated flame retardants were the major contributors to the chemical risk. Their presence was related to agricultural and urban areas in the upstream catchment. The risk of potential acute lethal and chronic long-term effects increased with the number of ecotoxicologically relevant chemicals analyzed at each site. As most monitoring programs considered in this study only included a subset of these chemicals, our assessment likely underestimates the actual risk. Increasing chemical risk was associated with deterioration in the quality status of fish and invertebrate communities. Our results clearly indicate that chemical pollution is a large-scale environmental problem and requires far-reaching, holistic mitigation measures to preserve and restore ecosystem health. Quelle: www.pnas.org
Management of Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease During the COVID-19 Pandemic : Suggestions From the Canadian Society of Nephrology COVID-19 Rapid Response Team
Creators: name: White, Christine A.
name: Kappel, Joanne E.
name: Levin, A. (Adeera)
name: Moran, Sarah M.
name: Pandeya, Sanjay
name: Thanabalasingam, Susan J.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications
Year: 2021

description: Purpose of program: To provide guidance on the management of patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) not requiring kidney replacement therapy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sources of information: Program-specific documents, pre-existing, and related to COVID-19; documents from national and international kidney agencies; national and international webinars, including webinars that we hosted for input and feedback; with additional information from formal and informal review of published academic literature. Methods: Challenges in the care of patients with advanced CKD during the COVID-19 pandemic were highlighted within the Canadian Senior Renal Leaders Forum discussion group. The Canadian Society of Nephrology (CSN) developed the COVID-19 rapid response team (RRT) to address these challenges. They identified a lead with expertise in advanced CKD who identified further nephrologists and administrators to form the workgroup. A nation-wide survey of advanced CKD clinics was conducted. The initial guidance document was drafted and members of the workgroup reviewed and discussed all suggestions in detail via email and a virtual meeting. Disagreements were resolved by consensus. The document was reviewed by the CSN COVID-19 RRT, an ethicist and an infection control expert. The suggestions were presented at a CSN-sponsored interactive webinar, attended by 150 kidney health care professionals, for further peer input. The document was also sent for further feedback to experts who had participated in the initial survey. Final revisions were made based on feedback received until April 28, 2020. Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease (CJKHD) editors reviewed the parallel process peer review and edited the manuscript for clarity. Key findings: We identified 11 broad areas of advanced CKD care management that may be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic: (1) clinic visit scheduling, (2) clinic visit type, (3) provision of multidisciplinary care, (4) bloodwork, (5) patient education/support, (6) home-based monitoring essentials, (7) new referrals to multidisciplinary care clinic, (8) kidney replacement therapy, (9) medications, (10) personal protective equipment, and (11) COVID-19 risk in CKD. We make specific suggestions for each of these areas. Limitations: The suggestions in this paper are expert opinion, and subject to the biases associated with this level of evidence. To expedite the publication of this work, a parallel review process was created that may not be as robust as standard arms’ length peer-review processes. Implications: These suggestions are intended to provide guidance for advanced CKD directors, clinicians, and administrators on how to provide the best care possible during a time of altered priorities and reduced resources.
title: Коллекция эстампажей греческих надписей в фонде Русского археологического института в Константинополе
Creators: name: Павличенко, Н. А.
Publisher: name: Реноме
Year: 2018

description: В статье представляется хранящаяся в СПбФ АРАН коллекция эстампажей лапидарных надписей, по большей части на греческом языке, сделанных сотрудниками Русского археологического института в Константинополе в 1895–1914 гг. на Балканах и в странах Ближнего Востока.

Ключевые слова: эстампаж, лапидарные надписи, Русский археологический институт в Константинополе.
Supplementary document for Effect of surface morphology on macro- and micro-scale optical properties of layered InSe grown by molecular beam epitaxy - 5345838.pdf
Creators: name: Avdienko, Pavel
name: Sedova, Irina
name: Firsov, Dmitrii
name: Komkov, Oleg
name: Rakhlin, Maxim
name: Galimov, Aydar
name: Davydov, Valery
name: Sorokin, Sergey
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Material File
Islamic Legislative Drafting Methodology for Women's Equality Rights in Palestine: Using Codification to Replace the Wife's Obedience Obligation by Full Equality in the Family Law
Creators: name: Abdel Hadi, Fouz
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: Shari’a
Islamic family law
Gender equality
Women’s rights
Marriage in Islam
Legislative drafting
Codification
Islamic law

description: The Islamic legislative drafting methodology is meant to bring the family law of Islamic countries into line with current conceptions of gender equality found not only in the West but in Islamic law (the shari’a) as well. The methodology involves identifying the fundamental principles of shari’a and recognizing that they must be adapted to the socio-economic conditions in which they are to be applied.
title: Гепатоцеллюлярная карцинома
Creators: name: Никифоров, П. В.
name: Жарникова, Т. Н.
Publisher: name: Реноме
Year: 2018

description: Диагностика и терапия ГЦР является сложной задачей, стадия заболевания и выбор оптимальной лечебной тактики часто определяет исход заболевания. Особенности течения ГЦР требуют мультидисциплинарного подхода как современного принципа организации онкологической помощи на всех этапах развития заболевания.
Normal Forms in Artin Groups for Cryptographic Purposes
Creators: name: Brien, Renaud
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Group Based Cryptography
Artin groups
Braid group
Artin groups of Finite Type
Artin Groups of Large Type
Coxeter systems
Normal Forms
Word Problem
Algorithms
Cryptography

description: With the advent of quantum computers, the security of number-theoretic cryptography has been compromised. Consequently, new cryptosystems have been suggested in the field of non-commutative group theory. In this thesis, we provide all the necessary background to understand and work with the Artin groups. We then show that Artin groups of finite type and Artin groups of large type possess an easily-computable normal form by explicitly writing the algorithms. This solution to the word problem makes these groups candidates to be cryptographic platforms. Finally, we present some combinatorial problems that can be used in group-based cryptography and we conjecture, through empirical evidence, that the conjugacy problem in Artin groups of large type is not a hard problem.
Supplementary material for the paper "Investigating 39 Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars with VLTI/GRAVITY: Uncovering a long period binary desert"
Creators: name: Deshmukh, Kunal
name: Sana, Hugues
name: Merand, Antoine
name: Bordier, Emma
name: Langer, Norbert
name: Bodensteiner, Julia
name: Dsilva, Karan
name: Frost, Abigail
name: Gosset, Eric
name: Le Bouquin, Jean-Baptiste
name: Lefever, Roel
name: Mahy, Laurent
name: Patrick, Lee
name: Reggiani, Maddalena
name: Sander, Andreas
name: Shenar, Tomer
name: Tramper, Frank
name: Villasenor, Jaime
name: Waisberg, Idel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Supplementary material for Appendix D of the paper “Investigating 39 Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars with VLTI/GRAVITY:Uncovering a long period binary desert”, accepted for publication in A&A.

Arxiv version of the full paper can be found at https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.15212.
Vacuum Desiccant Cooling for Personal Heat Stress Management
Creators: name: Yang, Yifan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: membrane distillation
heat and mass transfer
evaporative cooling
desiccant
micro-climate cooling

description: The objective of this PhD project is to develop novel membranes and desiccants that would help develop a second generation vacuum desiccant cooling (VDC) garment that is efficient, robust, durable and wearer-friendly. It was found that properly chosen support material could improve both mechanical strength and vapor flux for flat sheet polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), due to improved membrane structure and structure integrity that enhanced vapour mass transfer. Super solid desiccants were developed using a super absorbent polymer (SAP), which are sodium polyacrylate granules, as the host matrices to harbour LiCl. Furthermore, a novel desiccant based on loading LiCl in to hydrophobic hollow fibre membranes and therefore called membrane based desiccant fiber (MDF), was developed and demonstrated to be suitable for VDC. Heat and mass transfer for vapor absorption in MDF were analyzed. These membranes and desiccants, although developed for application in VDC, may also found applications in other fields such as water treatment, air conditioning, and natural gas dehumidification. Finally, based on the newly developed membranes and desiccants, three conceptual designs of second generation VDC garments are proposed.
DAVID OLIVE - Scientific Contributions from DAVID IAN OLIVE. 16 April 1937 — 7 November 2012
Creators: name: Corrigan, Edward
name: Goddard, Peter
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 20602 Field Theory and String Theory
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: David Olive, who died in Barton, Cambridgeshire, on 7 November 2012, aged 75, was a theoretical physicist who made seminal contributions to the development of string theory and to our understanding of the structure of quantum field theory. In early work onS
title: Основы цифровой обработки данных
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: EDP Hub (Идипи Хаб), Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2024

description: В учебном пособии рассматриваются арифметические и логические основы микропроцессорных систем (комбинационные, последовательностные и т.д.), цифровые фильтры (сглаживания, случайных сигналов, рекурсивные и т.д.) и цифровая фильтрация сигналов, основы разработки шрифтовых элементов. Даны практические работы для закрепления изученных тем. Предназначено для студентов высшего образования области образования «Информационно-коммуникационные технологии», изучающих дисциплины «Цифровые методы обработки информации», «Теория цифровой обработки сигналов».
Will to Power: The Philosophical Expression of Nietzsche's Love of Life
Creators: name: Cassidy, Pierre
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: The Will to Power
subject: Truth
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Friedrich Nietzsche

description: Any adequate interpretation of the concept of the will to power, given the radical break with the history of philosophy it presupposes, requires a preceding analysis of Nietzsche’s critique of the history of philosophy as a critique of metaphysics. Only once Nietzsche’s critique of metaphysics is properly understood as a critique of, in the broadest sense, any correspondence conception of truth, can the philosophical concept of the will to power, as a product of that critique, be understood as well. Each of the three typical types of interpretative approaches to the will to power (i.e. as a metaphysical concept, as an empirical concept, as an object of interpretive play) will provide a critically constructive opportunity to narrow an acceptable definition of Nietzsche’s positive conception of philosophy as a distinctive and unorthodox type of history, according to which any interpretation rests, not on truths, but on its author’s prejudices or fundamental values. Moreover, using Gilles Deleuze’s largely ignored or otherwise grossly misunderstood Nietzsche et la philosophie, a non-normative, post-metaphysical justification consistent with that critique can then be provided for Nietzsche’s radical reform to the philosophical method. According to Nietzsche, philosophy as a will to power is preferable to philosophy as a will to truth because it is consistent with his profound and unjustified love of life. In fact, the will to power it is the philosophical expression of that love.
Supplementary document for Effect of surface morphology on macro- and micro-scale optical properties of layered InSe grown by molecular beam epitaxy - 5345838.pdf
Creators: name: Avdienko, Pavel
name: Sedova, Irina
name: Firsov, Dmitrii
name: Komkov, Oleg
name: Rakhlin, Maxim
name: Galimov, Aydar
name: Davydov, Valery
name: Sorokin, Sergey
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Material File
Supp 14: Conjugate extrusion with dextral oblique-slip faulting in SE Tibet: new insights into Oligo–Miocene deformation
Creators: name: Li, Hailong
name: Zhang, Yueqiao
name: Zhang, Guihong
name: Yin, Qihang
name: Tian, Yuntao
name: Wang, Qiangmao
name: Ren, Tianxiang
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 3705
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Dating methods
Characteristics of particles contributing to turbidity in potable water distribution networks
Creators: name: Ekanayake, Sarath
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Melbourne (Australia) is one of the few major metropolitan cities which have a water catchment area sufficiently pristine that it does not require filtration, and is only treated with minimal chemical disinfection, before supply to consumers. The absence of filtration provides an obvious source of turbidity in the system through particulates in the source water, however the quantitative extent and health risk of such turbidity is not well understood. The present work addresses the characterisation of turbidity causing particulate material found within the Wantirna Water Quality Zone (WWAZ) as a typical example of a reticulated water distribution system in Melbourne. Several origins of turbidity were investigated within this system including: Natural turbid spikes - events of high turbidity sometimes found to occur within the system and the subject of continued investigation to determine their origin; Artificial turbid spikes - events of high turbidity deliberately brought about by opening a hydrant valve; Particulate material found to occur naturally throughout the distribution system; Particulate material found to occur naturally within the source material. The particle size distribution and particle composition was found to be similar for all samples, including those sampled as a function of distance from the source. The possible exception to this was the measurement of zeta potential where particles found close to the source had a pH independent negative zeta potential whilst those found further downstream had a pH dependent zeta potential which exhibited an isoelectric point of approx pH 8. This is consistent with a humic acid covering (which is removed with time spent in the distribution system) over otherwise identical particles. All results are consistent with a common, external (source) origin for particles found within the distribution system.
Characterization of PCSK9-mediated LDLR Degradation in Hepatic and Fibroblast Cells
Creators: name: Nguyen, My-Anh
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Wild-type PCSK9
PCSK9-D374Y
LDL receptor degradation
hepatic cells
fibroblast cells

description: The discovery that proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) mediates degradation of low-density lipoprotein receptors (LDLR) indicates a critical role in LDL metabolism. PCSK9 is a secreted protein that binds to the epidermal growth factor-like (EGF)-A domain of LDLR and directs the receptor for degradation in lysosomes by an unknown mechanism. A gain-of-function mutation, D374Y, increases binding to LDLR EGF-A >10-fold and is associated with a severe form of hypercholesterolemia in humans. Similar to previous studies, data obtained in my project has established that PCSK9 was capable of promoting robust LDLR degradation in liver-derived cell lines; however, minimal effects on LDLR levels were detected in several lines of fibroblast cells despite normal LDLR-dependent cellular uptake of PCSK9. Importantly, a PCSK9 degradation assay showed that 125I-labeled wild-type PCSK9 was internalized and degraded equally in both hepatic and fibroblast cells, indicating dissociation of wild-type PCSK9 from recycling LDLRs in fibroblasts. Moreover, PCSK9 recycling assays confirmed that no recycling of wild-type PCSK9 to the cell surface could be detected in fibroblast cells. In contrast, more than 60% of internalized PCSK9-D374Y recycled to the cell surface in these cells, and thus had reduced ability to direct the LDLR for lysosomal degradation despite persistent binding. Co-localization studies indicated that PCSK9-D374Y trafficked to both lysosomes and recycling compartments in fibroblast cells, whereas wild-type PCSK9 exclusively trafficked to lysosomes. We conclude that two factors diminish PCSK9 activity in fibroblast cells: i) an increased dissociation from the LDLR in early endosomal compartments, and ii) a decreased ability of bound PCSK9 to direct the LDLR to lysosomes for degradation. Finally, an LDLR variant that binds to PCSK9 in a Ca2+-independent manner could partially restore wild-type PCSK9 activity, but not PCSK9-D374Y activity, in fibroblast cells.
Supplementary document for Spin-decoupled metasurface for broadband and pixel-saving polarization rotation and wavefront control - 5345989.pdf
Creators: name: Ji, Ruonan
name: Song, Kun
name: guo, xuyue
name: Xie, Xin
name: Zhao, Yang
name: Jin, Chuan
name: Wang, Shao-Wei
name: jiang, chengming
name: Yin, Jianbo
name: Liu, Yahong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS OF S. LEACH from SYDNEY LEACH. 11 April 1924 — 24 December 2019
Creators: name: D. Field
name: J. P. Simons
name: Cockell, Charles
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 30699 Physical Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Sydney Leach will be remembered as an outstanding and inspirational scientist, an irreplaceable friend to many—artists and musicians as well as academic colleagues. He encouraged and influenced numerous scientists as a mentor. After graduating from King's College London and carrying out war work at Farnborough, he spent all his scientific life based in Paris, working principally at Orsay and, in his later years, at the Observatoire de Paris–Meudon. Sydney was a major influence in establishing chemical physics in France after World War II, founding the highly influential Laboratoire de Photophysique Moléculaire (LPPM) at Orsay, where much of his pioneering work was performed. The ‘Sydney lab’ lives on in the newly created Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay. Early experiments often took place at the synchrotron source (ACO, Super-ACO), just a few hundred yards from LPPM. He was a pioneering advocate of synchrotron radiation, and a driving force for its use in spectroscopy and photodynamics, along with free-electron lasers, supersonic jets, coincidence spectroscopy and matrix isolation—techniques that were applied and refined over decades and used to explore fundamental processes such as photoionization, vibronic coupling and radiationless transitions. Sydney's seminal studies of polyatomic molecular ions led him towards fresh horizons in planetary atmospheric and space science. His work opened new vistas in cometary spectroscopy, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, fullerenes and their possible roles in the chemistry of the interstellar medium and, finally, biologically relevant species, helping to instigate the newly developing subject of astrobiology—a perfect example of his sustained prescience in the world of science.
Learning using an enterprise design conceptual framework
Creators: name: Petherbridge, Peter
name: Calway, Bruce A.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Providing a learning environment to achieve an operation transition for an enterprise architecture requires tools and techniques to provide the: design analysis; development analysis; implementation analysis; change management analysis; and fitness-for-purpose analysis. The Enterprise Design Conceptual Framework (EDCF) has proven to be a useful tool both for consulting and for learning pedagogy. Using this framework we can conceptualise an enterprise, build a model and differentiate it from its competitors or from other enterprise of the same or similar type. Because it is dynamic we can examine it at ‘points-in-time’ over time and note the changes. EDCF enables us to take and to teach a holistic view of an enterprise and to examine the contribution of each element to its performance both dependently and independently as to its 'fitness for purpose'.
Désir et vulnérabilité. Études sur le problème politique de Hobbes et le façonnement social-historique de la subjectivité
Creators: name: Bissonnette, Jean François
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Affects et politique
Capitalisme
Désir
Libéralisme
Max Weber
Michel Foucault
Norbert Elias
Possessivité
Rationalité politique moderne
Sigmund Freud
Subjectivité
Thomas Hobbes
Vulnérabilité
Insécurité

description: Cette thèse vise à cerner les raisons historiques, intellectuelles et affectives de l’importance que reçoit le problème de la vulnérabilité individuelle dans la culture politique des sociétés modernes. Il s’agit de tenter de comprendre pourquoi et par le concours de quelles transformations normatives et structurelles nous en sommes venus, comme citoyens, à attendre de l’État qu’il nous protège des affres de l’existence. L’oeuvre philosophique de Thomas Hobbes, fondée sur une anthropologie individualiste où l’homme apparaît mû par deux affects, le désir et la crainte, nous paraît être la première formulation théorique de ce problème de la vulnérabilité, et à ce titre, nous posons qu’elle a été déterminante pour l’institutionnalisation d’une rationalité politique proprement moderne. De manière à saisir quelles ont pu être les conditions de possibilité de la philosophie de Hobbes, de même que son influence sur l’imaginaire politique occidental, il nous faut tenter de comprendre non seulement pourquoi l’affectivité humaine a pu se trouver ainsi posée comme enjeu du gouvernement, mais comment elle est aussi liée, de manière générale, au fonctionnement des institutions sociales, lequel est historiquement contingent. Il en va ainsi d’une interrogation, que nous poursuivrons dans un relevé des principaux concepts à l’aide desquels Sigmund Freud, Norbert Elias, Max Weber et Michel Foucault ont pensé les modalités du façonnement social et historique de la subjectivité, et par le biais de laquelle nous espérons expliquer pourquoi le « type d’homme » sur lequel s’appuie le régime libéral moderne implique le vécu d’une expérience affective marquée par un rapport tendu entre le désir et le sentiment de la vulnérabilité.
EuGH stärkt Informationsrechte zu kritischen Stoffen in Erzeugnissen
Creators: name: Beer, Inga
name: Tietjen, Lars
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016

description: Die Vorabentscheidung des EuGH vom 10.9.2015 (EUGH Aktenzeichen C10614 C-106/14) klärt die lange umstrittene Frage, welche Pflichten unter der REACH-VO für komplexe Produkte mit besonders besorgniserregenden Stoffen bestehen. Der EuGH betont hier erneut den hohen Stellenwert des Gesundheits- und Umweltschutzes bei der Auslegung der Verordnung.Im Rahmen des Beitrages werden die zentralen Punkte der Entscheidung vorgestellt und in die allgemeine Diskussion zu Erzeugnissen im Chemikalienrecht eingeordnet.Quelle: https://beck-online.beck.de
The State of European Defence Policy and the Value(s) of Intervention
Creators: name: Rice, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: European Union
EU
European Integration
Realism
Democratic Deficit
War
Morality
Ethics
Common Security and Defence Policy
CSDP
European Security and Defence Policy
ESDP
Soft-Power
Hard-Power
NATO

description: European security and defence policy has developed at a significant rate since the late 1990s. As a growing field of analysis, there have been few studies to date that have explored the foreign and domestic implications of the European Union's emerging security and defence policies. This thesis seeks to assess the quality and effectiveness of the present day defence policies of the European Union through an examination of its commitment to civilian and military missions abroad. In so doing, this thesis suggests that these missions stem from a misguided belief that the promotion of human rights, democracy, and the rule of law beyond its border is the most effective means by which to achieve security within Europe. This thesis concludes that the economic and political tools available to the European Union provide a better means by which to ensure security in Europe and around the world.
Positive psychology and the internet: a mental health opportunity
Creators: name: Mitchell, Joanna
name: Vella-Brodrick, Dianne
name: Klein, Britt
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper reviews two relatively young fields of research - positive psychology and internet interventions – and discusses the combined potential of online positive psychology interventions (OPPIs) as an effective and sustainable health promotion tool. Five randomised controlled trials were identified testing the efficacy of OPPIs as a means of enhancing well-being, with three studies demonstrating increased well-being compared to a control group. Three studies also demonstrated depression symptom reduction, suggesting that well-being interventions may also have an illness treatment and prevention function. While this review is limited by the small number of studies currently available, researchers and practitioners are asked to consider the mental health promotion opportunities and benefits of delivering well-being interventions online.
THE ROLE OF POETIC GRAMMAR IN THE STYLE OF V. KHLEBNIKOV'S POEM "I DON'T KNOW WHETHER THE EARTH IS SPINNING OR NOT…"
Creators: name: Gik, Anna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The article analyzes the poetics of Velimir Khlebnikov's poem "I don't know if the earth is spinning or not...". It is proved that this poetic text uses elements of various types of discourse: mathematical, philosophical and poetic, which deepen and at the same time complicate the perception of the work. The grammatical features of the text are noted in particular the use of the genitive form in the meaning of the accusative case. The semantic structure of the poem is analyzed, stylistic devices are described.

Thanks to the conjugation of mathematical and poetic laws, Khlebnikov's poems rise to universal generalizations, which, in turn, are described as individual experiences.