cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Consideraciones en torno al status jurídico de los profesores de religión católica (comentario de la STC 38/2007)
Creators: name: Motilla, Agustín
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: La sentenza è riportata per esteso in calce al commento.SUMARIO: 1. Antecedentes: el largo y tortuoso camino hacia la delimitación del status profesional - 2. Planteamiento del recurso de inconstitucionalidad - 3. Algunas cuestiones previas a la resolución del fondo - 4. La compatibilidad del régimen del profesorado de religión católica con la aconfesionalidad del Estado. -5. La revisión judicial del procedimiento de designación de los profesores de religión católica - 6. Limitaciones al derecho de libertad religiosa de las personas que trabajan como profesores de religión - 7. Consideraciones finales.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 7 gennaio
Estimation of a Bivariate Distribution under Univariate Censoring
Creators: name: Mei, Jiang
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011

description: We compare four estimators of a bivariate distribution function H when both components of the data point (X; Y ) are subject to censoring by the same (univariate) random variable C with distribution G. We use the same simulated data to calculate each of the four estimators for 5 di erent FGM copulas. Finally we nd the best of the four estimators, that is the adapted path dependent estimator. We will show that it is not necessarily a good idea to use all the available information about C and that our estimator of H can be improved by using a worse estimator of G. ii
Fascist textbooks for Italian schools abroad
Creators: name: Pretelli, Matteo
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Fascist Regime in Rome conceived of millions of Italians residing abroad as part of the wider Italian nation. The Italianità---the Italian character---was considered an essential component of both Italians at home and abroad. Abroad, the new generations of children of Italian immigrants were the main target of Fascist propaganda, although the majority had never been to Italy and their links to the Italian culture were fading. Fascism tried to obtain their consent through the enrollment in paramilitary organizations---Balilla and Avanguardisti---as well as by the offer of free journeys to Italy to reside in Summer camps. Also, government, parochial, and lay ethnic schools abroad were considered instruments to indoctrinate young Italians. According to the Fascist mindset, these schools had to be aggressive in strategic locations such as Tunisia, Malta, and Egypt. Especially in Tunisia---a French protectorate---schools taught the youngsters about the 'inevitability' of the country's annexation to Italy. Generally speaking, the instructor was conceived as a 'pioneer', a 'soldier', a 'combatant', and a 'missionary'. The preservation of the Italian language was a priority and a major component of the Italian identity of Italian immigrants. The political use of history and the role of propaganda in Fascist textbooks and curricula in Italy have been extensively studied by scholars. This essay aims to analyze the contents, the political messages and values contained in Fascist textbooks published for Italian schools abroad.
Esercizi di laicità. Ovvero de-finire (giuridicamente) lo Stato laico
Creators: name: Alicino, Francesco
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Il perché dello Stato laico: la matrice liberal-democratica – 2. Le “definizioni” giuridiche – 2.1. È lingua artificiale il diritto – 3. Il mos italicus dello Stato laico – 3.1. Genesi della laicità all’italiana – 3.2. 1929: conciliati in nome della SS.MA Trinità ... – 3.3. ... ovvero il ritorno a “un’antica espressione medioevale” – 4. De-finire (giuridicamente) la laicità nell’ordinamento repubblicano – 5. Il ruolo della giurisprudenza costituzionale – 5.1 L’operazione definitoria della Corte – 5.2. Una lettura laica dell’art. 3 Cost. – 5.3. Laicità = aconfessionalità – 5.4. Il côté “neutrale” dello Stato laico – 6. Laicità fluida e modellabile ad oggetto disponibile –7. Le “autentiche” e “sane” laicità ... – 8. ... e l’idioma laico della Corteora nel volume collettaneo a cura di G. LEZIROLI, La Carta e la Corte. La tutela penale del fatto religioso fra normativa costituzionale e diritto vivente, Atti del Convegno di Ferrara (26-27 ottobre 2007), Pellegrini Editore, Cosenza, 2009,  p. 215 ss.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 14 gennaio
I diritti “contesi” fra laicità e fondamentalismi
Creators: name: D'Amico, Marilisa
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: Testo, corredato delle note, dell’intervento alle Giornate Italo-Spagnole di studi “Costituzionalismo e democrazia” (Milano, 22-23 giugno 2006), per la Tavola rotonda su “Laicità e democrazia” tenutasi in occasione del conferimento della laurea ad honorem al Prof. Elías Díaz, destinato alla pubblicazione negli Atti.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 14 gennaio
Verschleißuntersuchung an Schneckenelementen eines gleichläufigen, dichtkämmenden Doppelschneckenextruders
Creators: name: Brall, Felix
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2022
Subjects: Verschleiß
Abrasion
Extruderwerkzeug

description: In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurden die Verschleißformen in einem gleichläufigen, dichtkämmenden Doppelschneckenextruder, welche bei der Extrusion mit Füllstoffanteilen, bis zu 80 Gewichtsprozent auftreten, untersucht und schriftlich festgehalten. Die zu untersuchenden Bauteile sind Förderelemente, Knetblöcke und Einschraubdüsen. Sie sind aus zwei verschiedenen Werkstoffen hergestellt, jedes Bauteil liegt in doppelter Ausführung vor, einmal aus jedem Werkstoff gefertigt. Pro Extrusion werden nur Bauteile des gleichen Werkstoffes eingesetzt. Die Extrusion verläuft bei beiden Werkstoffen immer unter den gleichen Parametern und Bedingungen ab. Die Werkstoffe sind Saramet10 und Sarameet26 aus der Gruppe der pulvermetallurgischen Stähle. Zur Bestimmung der Verschleißformen werden die Bauteile vor und nach den Versuchen an festgelegten Messpositionen vermessen. Bei den Förderelementen und Knetblöcken wird der radiale Abtrag in Form von Höhendifferenzen und breiter werdenden Stegen vermessen, bei den Einschraubdüsen wird der Einlauf- und Auslaufdurchmesser und das Gewicht vor und nach der Extrusion verglichen. Anschließend werden Aufnahmen von der Oberfläche der Bauteile gemacht und mit Oberflächenaufnahmen von nicht in der Extrusion eingesetzten Bauteilen, verglichen. Die Auswertung der Messungen und Aufnahmen zeigt, dass die hauptsächlich auftretende Verschleißform, der Abrasionsverschleiß ist. Der größte Materialabtrag findet dabei auf den Stegen der Förderelemente und der Knetblöcke statt. Bei den Einschraubdüsen vergrößert ich der Durchmesser auf der Eintrittsseite stärker als auf der Austrittsseite. Zusätzlich zum Abrasionsverschleiß kann ein Korrosionsverschleiß überlagern, welcher die Abrasion verstärkt. Diese Verschleißform ist nicht mit einer optischen Auswertung durch Aufnahmen nachzuweisen, jedoch deutet das Werkstoffverhalten der beiden Stähle darauf hin. In den Bereichen, wo Korrosion auftreten kann, schützt der Saramet26 besser vor Verschleiß, dieser hat einen besseren Korrosionsschutz auf Grund eines hohen Chromanteils. Den größeren Schutz vor reiner Abrasion bietet der Saramet10. Die Verschleißuntersuchungen zeigen, dass nur das Fertigen von Bauteilen aus verschleißschützenden Werkstoffen nicht ausreicht. Um einen besseren Verschleißschutz zu erhalten, müssen die betroffenen Bauteiloberflächen durch Beschichtungen so modifiziert werden, dass sie vor allem der Abrasion entgegenwirken.
Geomyidae INDET.
Creators: name: Maguire, Kaitlin Clare
name: Schmitz, Joshua X. Samuels and Mark D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Geomyidae

description: GEOMYIDAE INDET.
Referred specimen —Dentary fragment with p4 through m2, JODA 3770.
Occurrence —UCMP -3043.
Description —The m1 and m2 of this specimen are broken down the middle but remain largely intact. All three teeth are heavily worn. The metalophid on the p4 is wide, flattened anteriorly and has broad connection with the hypolophid. The hypolophid has three cusps. This specimen is placed in Geomyidae based on the premolar’s larger size than the molars.
Remarks —This specimen is similar to the entoptychine, Gregorymys Wood, 1936, by having p4 longer than the m1 and a hypolophid with three cusps (Flynn et al. 2008). It is unlike the geomyine, Parapliosaccomys Shotwell, 1967, because the metalophid is wide, and it is too small to be Geomys Rafinesque, 1817. JODA 3770 could be Gregorymys, but there is no anterior cingulum on the p4; however, that character is known to be variable in the genus (Flynn et al. 2008).
description: Published as part of Maguire, Kaitlin Clare & Schmitz, Joshua X. Samuels and Mark D., 2018, The fauna and chronostratigraphy of the middle Miocene Mascall type area, John Day Basin, Oregon, USA, pp. 1-51 in PaleoBios 35 on page 19, DOI: 10.5070/P9351037578, http://zenodo.org/record/13749829
Conducting evaluations of evidence that are transparent, timely and can lead to health-protective actions
Creators: name: Chartres, Nicholas
name: Sass, Jennifer B.
name: Kolossa-Gehring, Marike
name: Gee, David
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Chemikalien
Gesundheitliche Bewertung
Glyphosat
Umweltgefährdung
Umweltpolitik

description: Background: In February 2021, over one hundred scientists and policy experts participated in a web-based Workshop to discuss the ways that divergent evaluations of evidence and scientific uncertainties are used to delay timely protection of human health and the environment from exposures to hazardous agents. The Workshop arose from a previous workshop organized by the European Environment Agency (EEA) in 2008 and which also drew on case studies from the EEA reports on "Late Lessons from Early Warnings" (2001, 2013). These reports documented dozens of hazardous agents including many chemicals, for which risk reduction measures were delayed for decades after scientists and others had issued early and later warnings about the harm likely to be caused by those agents. Results: Workshop participants used recent case studies including Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), Extremely Low Frequency-Electrical Magnetic Fields (ELF-EMF fields), glyphosate, and Bisphenol A (BPA) to explore myriad reasons for divergent outcomes of evaluations, which has led to delayed and inadequate protection of the public's health. Strategies to overcome these barriers must, therefore, at a minimum include approaches that 1) Make better use of existing data and information, 2) Ensure timeliness, 3) Increase transparency, consistency and minimize bias in evidence evaluations, and 4) Minimize the influence of financial conflicts of interest. Conclusion: The recommendations should enhance the production of "actionable evidence," that is, reliable evaluations of the scientific evidence to support timely actions to protect health and environments from exposures to hazardous agents. The recommendations are applicable to policy and regulatory settings at the local, state, federal and international levels. © The Authors
Margins: the poetic text and its theoretical gesturing
Creators: name: Hecq, Dominique
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Say poem and I see margins emerging. Question. How marginal is poetry? To answer my question I must shift to the margins of poetics and you must be prepared to occupy the margins of poetry. Why? Because the discourse produced in that kind of 'in-between' space stakes out for itself and shows how poetry is a language mode that challenges speech and thought frames as it displaces them towards, or within, various margins. And why? Because poetry puts its finger on the disjunction between speech and writing. After all, Rilke says somewhere that poetry is the capacity to 'remain in the open', the ability to take risks. And so, any attempt to define a marginal space for poetry implies some desire to leave poetic texts open, mobile, and not to lock them forever in neat structures produced by criticism - interpretations that would exhaust them.
The Ship Crew Scheduling Problem with Rest Hours Constraints
Creators: name: Rizvanolli, Anisa
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2021
Subjects: Crew Scheduling
Decision Support
Ship Management
Mixed Integer Linear Programming
Problem Specific Heuristics
Optimization

description: Robust crew schedules are crucial for safety on board. This thesis proposes a structured mathematical approach to schedule the crew which considers legal requirements on hours of rest. This work comprises besides numerical experiments with real-world data also a heuristic methods, that delivers fast decision support for crew manangers and planners. Furthermore, the correlation between the structure of a typical real-world problem instance and the computation time required for its solution is investigated.
A Height Function Method for the Simulation of Capillary Driven Multiphase Flows in Complex Domains
Creators: name: Höcker, Stephan
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Surface Tension
Height Function Method
Capillarity
Industrial Application
Potting Simulation
Differential geometry

description: Multiphase flows play a considerable role in many physical phenomena as well as manufacturing processes, such as potting and lacquering. Particularly in small geometries, these flows are dominated by surface tension forces, which act singularly on the phase interface and are dependent on its geometry. Additionally, the dynamics at the triple line, thus at the intersection of the interface with a solid boundary are governed by complex, multiscale effects. In order to facilitate the simulation of industrial applications, this work introduces a novel curvature-estimation approach for the volume of fluid method, which incorporates the boundary geometry into the height function methodology. In combination with a well-balanced, cell-centered, finite volume solver, the novel curvature schemes yield new possibilities for industrial applications, as shown in numerous analytical and realistic test cases.
Tabular Representation of Schema Mappings: Semantics and Algorithms
Creators: name: Rahman, Md. Anisur
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Schema Mapping
Tableaux
Data Integration
Data Exchange
Optimization

description: Our thesis investigates a mechanism for representing schema mapping by tabular forms and checking utility of the new representation. Schema mapping is a high-level specification that describes the relationship between two database schemas. Schema mappings constitute essential building blocks of data integration, data exchange and peer-to-peer data sharing systems. Global-and-local-as-view (GLAV) is one of the approaches for specifying the schema mappings. Tableaux are used for expressing queries and functional dependencies on a single database in a tabular form. In our thesis, we first introduce a tabular representation of GLAV mappings. We find that this tabular representation helps to solve many mapping-related algorithmic and semantic problems. For example, a well-known problem is to find the minimal instance of the target schema for a given instance of the source schema and a set of mappings between the source and the target schema. Second, we show that our proposed tabular mapping can be used as an operator on an instance of the source schema to produce an instance of the target schema which is `minimal' and `most general' in nature. There exists a tableaux-based mechanism for finding equivalence of two queries. Third, we extend that mechanism for deducing equivalence between two schema mappings using their corresponding tabular representations. Sometimes, there exist redundant conjuncts in a schema mapping which causes data exchange, data integration and data sharing operations more time consuming. Fourth, we present an algorithm that utilizes the tabular representations for reducing number of constraints in the schema mappings. At present, either schema-level mappings or data-level mappings are used for data sharing purposes. Fifth, we introduce and give the semantics of bi-level mapping that combines the schema-level and data-level mappings. We also show that bi-level mappings are more effective for data sharing systems. Finally, we implemented our algorithms and developed a software prototype to evaluate our proposed strategies.
Le rôle des facteurs environnementaux dans la migration internationale : étude de cas des immigrants haïtiens au Canada
Creators: name: Mezdour, Amina
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: changement environnemental
migration
enjeux socio-économiques et politiques
classes sociales
stratégie d’immigration

description: Cette thèse pose un regard environnemental sur la migration internationale des Haïtiens au Canada en relevant les types de changements environnementaux qui affectent les populations urbaines et rurales tout en analysant l’interaction de ces éléments avec des facteurs non-environnementaux (politiques, économiques et sociaux). Pour cela, nous avons procédé à une collecte de données de type qualitative, dont des entrevues semi-structurées avec des informateurs clés (huit personnes), des groupes de discussion (20 participants) et des entrevues individuelles (sept participants). Cette recherche met ainsi en évidence qu’aucun participant n’a immigré uniquement à cause d’enjeux environnementaux, soulignant de la sorte qu’une telle décision résulte de l’interaction entre divers facteurs environnementaux et non-environnementaux difficilement distinguable les uns des autres. Ainsi, nous favorisons une analyse inclusive lors de l’étude de la migration environnementale en proposant le concept de « migration environnementale inter-active ». En second lieu, cette thèse se penche sur le rôle des classes sociales et des réseaux sociaux dans les stratégies d’immigration et souligne que les choix de destinations ainsi que les stratégies d’immigration (étudiants, travailleurs qualifiés, réunification familiale, demandeurs d’asile et réfugié) varient selon ces deux facteurs, surtout lorsque la destination est le Canada.
Translating the True North: Exploring Representations of Canada Around the 2010 G8 and G20 Summits
Creators: name: Harms, Charissa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Translation Studies
Critical Discourse Analysis

description: A country’s international reputation has profound implications for its citizens; given that national image or reputation is built and circulated using language on a global scale, translation is necessarily involved. This project draws on bilingual corpora of government and media texts to examine how Canada was framed in the discourses and narratives in circulation in its two official languages at the time of the 2010 G8 and G20 Summits, using concepts and techniques from Critical Discourse Analysis, narrative theory, and corpus linguistics. Examining some aspects of language in use such as collocation, semantic relations, and metaphor, several of the ways in which Canada was framed in the two contexts and languages were compared. The project concludes that discourses and narratives may differ between sources and languages, thereby highlighting the importance of recognizing the impact of translation on the variety of national representations within discourses and narratives.
Reconciling Private Power and Public Interest in Resource Development Contexts: The Emergence of the Corporate Citizen in Mayan Guatemala
Creators: name: Mneina, Esma
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015

description: Mining conflicts in Guatemala “provide sites for exploring how things that used to be fused together [including] identity, entitlement, territoriality, and nationality are being taken apart and realigned in innovative relationships and spaces” within neoliberal contexts (Ong, 2006, p. 5). The municipality of San Miguel Ixtahuacán, in the Western Highlands of Guatemala, is currently home to a nearly decade-old mining conflict between Indigenous communities against mining development, and a Canadian-owned mining project, the Marlin mine. The primary objective of this thesis is to highlight the reasons why Indigenous people still resist mining development despite corporate efforts to engage with them through corporate social responsibility measures and corporate citizenship practices. The ethnographic fieldwork pursued in the Maya-Mam communities surrounding the Marlin mine revealed how Indigenous political actors imagine and navigate experiences with mining development. The resistance of Indigenous actors to mining in this study is strongly linked to a lack of consultation, environmental damage, and an increase in inter-community conflict. These issues have made the presence of the mining company to be seen by Indigenous actors as a barrier to the full realization of both their rights as political citizens and their own development interests. This thesis hopes to contribute to understandings of corporate power and corporate-Indigenous engagement by adding a new dimension to understandings of citizenship and political rights between corporations, communities and the state: the meaning that the emergence of the corporate citizen in Mayan Guatemala takes from the perspective of historically marginalized, yet politicized, Maya-Mam actors.
Mediating Social Media: Examining User Risk Perception on Facebook
Creators: name: Borbey, Daniel
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: Social Networking Sites
Surveillance
Friendship
Techoscience
Risk Perception
Facebook

description: This thesis explores how social networking sites are changing the way individuals socialize in everyday life, and how users mediate this social media. The hypothesis explored is that Facebook user’s perception of risk, when using the site, is related to how they frame the technology. Drawing on conceptual and theoretical tools from science studies and the sociologies of friendship, risk and surveillance, interview data is collected and analysed in order to identify the dynamics that structure Facebook use. It is concluded not only that, as hypothesized, participant’s awareness and perception of risk is based upon their framing of the social networking technology, but also that the framing processes arise from the technosocial hybrid nature of Facebook. That is to say, it is not exclusively based on technological possibility or on existing social practices but instead by a constant balance between the two.
Made in China: an alternative design strategy
Creators: name: Li, Fu-Yuan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Chinese manufactured products are operationally effective but have styling (materials and finishes) which is trend-following of the general world market rather than trend-leading. As such, the Chinese have carved out a space in the market place by emulating stylistic elements that are characteristic of established brands. The aim of this research is to develop a design strategy that can effectively create products that are unique and innovative, and will differentiate products from the general market trends by stylistically imbuing them with elements of traditional and contemporary culture. In the case of this research project, Chinese culture. Sony and Braun products were examined to better understand how these products are imbued with culture - based elements that are highly recognizable as originating from their respective countries. In particular, direct comparisons can be made between the early years of Sony and contemporary Chinese manufacturing companies such as Haier and Cacos. Project One focused on developing a design strategy based upon aspects of Chinese culture such as music, dance and the proportions of musical instruments. In contrast, the approach in Project Two was derived from experiential, spiritual and emotional sources of Chinese culture. In progressing from Project One to Project Two, the approach has moved away from the direct application of “form” to a more individualistic interpretation. The developed design strategy was tested through the design of a music electronic appliance called the Butterfly-E. The design strategy was validated when Sampo, a global manufacturer secured a copyright agreement of my design.
Efficient Feature Extraction for Shape Analysis, Object Detection and Tracking
Creators: name: Solis Montero, Andres
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Computer Vision
Image Processing
Skeleton pruning
Object Detection
Model-free Tracking
Long-Term Tracking
Planar Detection
Ferns
Classifiers
Naive Bayes
VOT Challenge
Medial Axis
3D Object
Binary Raster Shapes
Binary descriptors
fast HOG

description: During the course of this thesis, two scenarios are considered. In the first one, we contribute to feature extraction algorithms. In the second one, we use features to improve object detection solutions and localization. The two scenarios give rise to into four thesis sub-goals. First, we present a new shape skeleton pruning algorithm based on contour approximation and the integer medial axis. The algorithm effectively removes unwanted branches, conserves the connectivity of the skeleton and respects the topological properties of the shape. The algorithm is robust to significant boundary noise and to rigid shape transformations. It is fast and easy to implement. While shape-based solutions via boundary and skeleton analysis are viable solutions to object detection, keypoint features are important for textured object detection. Therefore, we present a keypoint featurebased planar object detection framework for vision-based localization. We demonstrate that our framework is robust against illumination changes, perspective distortion, motion blur, and occlusions. We increase robustness of the localization scheme in cluttered environments and decrease false detection of targets. We present an off-line target evaluation strategy and a scheme to improve pose. Third, we extend planar object detection to a real-time approach for 3D object detection using a mobile and uncalibrated camera. We develop our algorithm based on two novel naive Bayes classifiers for viewpoint and feature matching that improve performance and decrease memory usage. Our algorithm exploits the specific structure of various binary descriptors in order to boost feature matching by conserving descriptor properties. Our novel naive classifiers require a database with a small memory footprint because we only store efficiently encoded features. We improve the feature-indexing scheme to speed up the matching process creating a highly efficient database for objects. Finally, we present a model-free long-term tracking algorithm based on the Kernelized Correlation Filter. The proposed solution improves the correlation tracker based on precision, success, accuracy and robustness while increasing frame rates. We integrate adjustable Gaussian window and sparse features for robust scale estimation creating a better separation of the target and the background. Furthermore, we include fast descriptors and Fourier spectrum packed format to boost performance while decreasing the memory footprint. We compare our algorithm with state-of-the-art techniques to validate the results.
Applying equity-centered principles in an interprofessional global health course: a mixed methods study
Creators: name: Stallwood, Lisa
name: Adu, Prince A
name: Tairyan, Kate
name: Astle, Barbara
name: Yassi, Annalee
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: Medical students, practitioners and other health professionals are commonly unprepared to address the many complex issues that emerge while conducting research in the Global South. As a response to identified deficiencies in global health education, a hybrid online/face-to-face multi-institutional credit course was developed based on the equity-centered principles advanced by the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research (CCGHR), namely Authentic partnering, Inclusion, Shared benefits, Commitment to the future, Responsiveness to causes of inequities, and Humility. This study aimed to analyze the extent to which the course was effective in fortifying attitudes consistent with the CCGHR principles; identify successes and challenges; and assess how a course such as this can fill an identified gap. Methods: This interprofessional course was offered to 25 graduate and postgraduate students in various health professions and public health. Faculty were drawn from medicine, public health, nursing and social sciences from four universities in Western Canada. A pre-post retrospective survey, key informant interviews and participant observation were used to gather data for this study. Results: Findings showed that student attitudes regarding global health research and practice significantly evolved towards views consistent with the principles articulated. The multiple instructors and hybrid course format created both opportunities and challenges; the interprofessional nature of the cohort was considered a strong asset, as was the fact that many students came from the Global South. Some students suggested that the course could be further strengthened by concretely partnering with institutions in the Global South rather than offered solely to learners registered in universities in the Global North. Conclusions: While weaknesses were identified, results support the conclusion that a course focused on the CCGHR principles could be useful in preparing the next generation of global health researchers and practitioners to mitigate historical limitations in this field. Longitudinal follow-up is warranted to provide more definitive conclusions.
Mylagaulidae INDET.
Creators: name: Maguire, Kaitlin Clare
name: Schmitz, Joshua X. Samuels and Mark D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Mylagaulidae

description: MYLAGAULIDAE INDET.
Referred specimens —From JDNM-4*: Partial left dentary with dp4 through m2 and erupting p4, JODA 2329. From UCMP -3059: right partial dentary with m1, m2, and erupting m3, UCMP 39292.
Occurrence —JDNM-4*, UCMP -3059*.
Description —JODA 2329 is described in Calede and Hopkins (2012). UCMP 39292 has quadrate m1 with 5 fossettes and two roots, more ovoid m2 with 5 fossettes and an unworn m3 with pronounced metaconid.
Remarks —Because JODA 2329 is a juvenile specimen, Calede and Hopkins (2012) did not assign it to a species but suggested it is either Alphalaugus vetus Matthew, 1924 or Hesperogaulus gazini. Alphalaugus vetus has been recovered from Mascall age-equivalent deposits in the Crooked River region to the south, but has not been identified from the type Mascall area to date. It was found by the Weatherfords and therefore the exact locality is unknown. UCMP 39292 may also belong to A. vetus or H. gazini based on size, but without the p4 it is impossible to identify further.
description: Published as part of Maguire, Kaitlin Clare & Schmitz, Joshua X. Samuels and Mark D., 2018, The fauna and chronostratigraphy of the middle Miocene Mascall type area, John Day Basin, Oregon, USA, pp. 1-51 in PaleoBios 35 on page 20, DOI: 10.5070/P9351037578, http://zenodo.org/record/13749829
Characterization of Brillouin Scattering Spectrum in LEAF Fiber
Creators: name: Liu, Xuan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Fiber optics
Distributed Brillouin Sensor
LEAF fiber
Temperature
Strain

description: Fiber optic sensors are designed to measure various parameters. The distributed fiber optics sensor has been a very promising candidate for the structural health monitoring. In this thesis, we characterized LEAF (Large Effective Area Fiber) fiber’s Brillouin scattering spectrum and investigated its potentiality for the distributed Brillouin temperature and strain sensor. Optical fibers with complex refractive index profiles are applied to improve the Brillouin threshold by varying the Brillouin linewidth. As LEAF fiber has a modified refractive index profile, we investigated its Brillouin linewidth’s dependence on the square of the pump light’s frequency. We verified the Brillouin frequency’s variation with input SOP experimentally for LEAF fiber in the spontaneous regime. This sets a limitation for the frequency resolution of distributed Brillouin sensors. We also realized a simultaneous temperature and strain sensor with LEAF fiber applying the Brillouin optical time domain analysis. Based on the direct detection of LEAF beat frequencies, a simultaneous strain and temperature sensor was demonstrated.
Gendered entrepreneurship in the Finnish students' narratives: a social semiotics approach
Creators: name: Luoto, Seppo
name: Ristimaki, Kari
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This study focuses on how the meanings linked to the concept of entrepreneurship are 'gendered' in our culture. According to Gherardi and Poggio (2002), gender may be viewed as a social practice, or rather as a set of practices which jointly help define to the relations between men and women. Here the meanings related to gender are analysed by using the social semiot - ics and narrativity approach and employing the theoretical concepts ' interpretative repertoire ' (Potter & Wetherell 1987) and the foucauldian concept of ' subject position ' (Willig 2001). In this study these 'gendered' meanings are collected from the Finnish students from local high schools, polytechnics and the University of Vaasa. The research question is: How female and male students construct the gender in their narratives related to entrepreneurship? In this study the theoretical construct ' interpretative repertoire ' is defined as a system of terms used for characterizing and evaluating actions, events, and other phenomena (Potter & Wetherell 1987). The main interest here is how gender is constructed with words out of various, possible resources (some are included, some omitted) related to entrepreneurship and how these constructs might have practical consequences in our daily lives, for instance, in the orientation towards entrepreneurship as a possible career option. The concept of subject position means that every discourse offers a subject a limited amount of positions of which he/she has to take his/her position. Positioning is not a matter of subject choosing his/her position but a way of 'seeing the world' or 'at beeing in the world' what the discourse offers as reality' (Willig 2001: 107).
Characterization of [11C]Methyl-Losartan as a Novel Radiotracer for PET Imaging of the AT1 Receptor
Creators: name: Antoun, Rawad
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Renin-angiotensin System
Losartan
[11C]Methyl-Losartan
Renal PET Imaging
Angiotensin II Type 1 (AT1) Receptor

description: The Angiotensin II Type 1 (AT1) receptor is the main receptor responsible for the effects of the renin-angiotensin system, and its expression pattern is altered in several diseases. [11C]Methyl-Losartan has been developed based on the clinically used AT1 receptor antagonist Losartan. The aim of this work is to characterize the pharmacokinetics, repeatability and reliability of measurements, binding specificity and selectivity of [11C]Methyl-Losartan in rats using in vivo small animal positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, ex vivo biodistribution and in vitro autoradiography methods. Also, we aim to measure the presence of metabolites in the kidney and plasma using high-performance liquid chromatography. We have demonstrated in vivo that [11C]Methyl-Losartan is taken up in the AT1 receptor-rich kidneys and that it is displaceable by selective AT1 receptor antagonists. Using ex vivo biodistribution, we have confirmed these results and demonstrated that [11C]Methyl-Losartan binds selectively to the AT1 receptor over the AT2, Mas and β-adrenergic receptors. In vitro autoradiography results confirmed these renal binding selectivity studies. [11C]Methyl-Losartan was also shown to have one and two C-11 labeled metabolites in the plasma and kidneys, respectively. In conclusion, [11C]Methyl-Losartan is a promising agent for studying the AT1 receptor in rat models with normal and altered AT1 receptor expression using small animal PET imaging.
Hidden Symmetries in Markov Decision Processes
Creators: name: Joosten, Tobias
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2022
Subjects: Markov decision process
model reduction
symmetries
hidden symmetries
supply chain optimization

description: A Markov decision process (MDP) is a stochastic framework used to model decision making problems. Some problems and their MDPs are too large to be solved by algorithms in a reasonable time. One common approach for reducing MDPs is symmetry breaking. Here, only directly accessible symmetries are currently considered. However, there are problems with symmetries that are not captured by this type of symmetries. This thesis introduces the new concept of hidden symmetries and the induced model reduction framework. Hidden symmetries of an MDP are essentially directly accessible symmetries of equivalent MDPs. In this, two MDPs are equivalent if their state transition structure and optimal policies are the same up to labeling. Thus, hidden symmetries extend the concept of directly accessible symmetries and therefore provide greater potential for reducing MDPs. Furthermore, this thesis presents an approach to reveal hidden symmetries for multi-period problems that operate deterministically and are perturbed stochastically from the outside. This approach is then applied to the stonevendor problem, which is a variant of the newsvendor problem, and a more sophisticated supply chain problem.
Reproduction of Power: A Critical Discourse Analysis on Female Circumcision
Creators: name: Frissa, Merertu Mogga
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: discourse on female circumcision
female circumcision
Western discourses on female circumcision

description: There is an adverse reaction to the practice of female circumcision in the West. This study investigates the adverse reaction to reveal the public discourse on female circumcision as one that is gendered. Using a critical discourse analysis, the study examines the body of Western discourses to explore the reproduction of system of gender hierarchy in the discourse. Guided by a theoretical analysis of the ‘private’/’public' divide through which feminine and masculine power is enforced, the study exposes ways in which similar power relation is sustained in the body of Western discourses on female circumcision. The study applies a textual analysis inquiring the language use of the Fran Hosken report and policy statements originating from the United States, United Kingdome, and international organizations. Using various themes that emerged during the textual analysis, the study deconstructs the body of Western discourses on female circumcision and presents the construction of femininity and masculinity. The findings suggest the discursive application of control and power grounded in rationality, science, knowledge and ways of being.
Chronic disease self-management and the liberation inherent in understanding the social construction of chronic disease
Creators: name: Fisher, Frank
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In 1979 I was handed a life sentence; the task of setting up a course within the Monash University Master of Environmental Science Degree in Systems Thinking and the Social Construction of Reality. Once I'd understood the terms of that sentence (it took some five years), my new understanding facilitated a new life within my immediate reality as a chronically ill person and of course in the wider dimensions of my life in general. And so began a radically different and much healthier relationship to my condition.
Supplementary document for Shockley-Queisser analysis of the temperature-efficiency correlation of solar cells in the presence of non-radiative heat transfer - 5386395.pdf
Creators: name: Zhang, Zheng
name: Chen, Kaifeng
name: Fan, Shanhui
name: Chen, Zhen
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document 1
Considerazioni critiche sulla competenza del Tribunale ecclesiastico  diocesano in tema di titoli nobiliari e di adozione
Creators: name: Ferrante, Mario
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. Sulla competenza giudiziale del Tribunale diocesano  perugino a decidere dell’acquisizione legittima di un titolo comitale - 2.1. Sulla pretesa origine di subcollazione pontificia del titolo - 3. Sugli effetti dell’adozione in diritto canonico - 4. Conclusioni.

description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2007: 5 novembre
Quine versus Kripke on the Metaphysics of Modality: An Examination and Defence of Quine's Position
Creators: name: Geelen, Jeremy N.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Quine, W.V.
Kripke, Saul
modality

description: The aim of this thesis is to examine the theoretical commitments informing W.V. Quine’s rejection of alethic modality and to advance a Quinean response to Saul Kripke’s arguments in support of modal metaphysics. The novelty of this thesis consists in it being the first detailed explanation of how Quine’s arguments against modality are situated within his system and informed by his epistemological and ontological views and the first adequate study of the epistemological and metaphysical criticisms Quine would advance against Kripke’s defence of modality. The Quinean response to Kripke presented here is guided by four tenets that Quine takes to be central to the current scientific worldview and which he consequently adopts as the guiding methodological constraints of his own project: empiricism, regimentation, physicalism and simplicity. I explain how Quine’s referential opacity and mathematician-cyclist arguments against modality hang together with the rest of his philosophical project; and I show that while these arguments may seem unpersuasive and easily refuted by Kripke when taken in isolation, they are quite powerful when understood within the context of Quine’s entire system and seen in light of his guiding methodological constraints. By the end of this thesis, it will be clear why Quine remains unconvinced by Kripke’s arguments in support of modal metaphysics and how his response to Kripke is grounded in his deepest methodological constraints. He ultimately rejects Kripke’s arguments because they conflict with the tenets he takes to be the deepest commitments of the scientific worldview. Quine’s arguments against modality must be understood within the context of his philosophical system as a whole and are best seen not as arguments to be met by Kripke on Kripke’s terms but as illustrations of why, from the standpoint of Quine’s project and the standards it adheres to (the standards of science, as Quine understands it), modality is a flawed and unnecessary addition to reconstructed scientific theory. While there may well be reasons for rejecting Quine’s views about modality – and even reasons that would compel Quine, on his own terms, to reject his views – I argue that Kripke does not provide them.
Perché temere una disciplina della libertà religiosa conforme a Costituzione?
Creators: name: Casuscelli, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa: l’utilità di due riletture – 2. Le proposte di legge del 2006 (On. Boato e On. Spini) ed il testo unificato (On. Zaccaria) – 3. I rilievi del Segretario generale della Conferenza Episcopale Italiana – 4. Lo “status paritario” delle confessioni e la loro diversità secondo “natura” – 5. L’uguale godimento dei diritti di libertà – 6. Il principio di laicità ed il diritto di libertà religiosa – 7. La disciplina del matrimonio religioso e la specificità del riconoscimento – 8. Il luogo comune della laicità “francese” – 9. Il sistema pubblico radiotelevisivo e l’edilizia di culto – 10. Per una laicità e una libertà religiosa “conformi a Costituzione”: libertà dalla intransigenza, non libertà della intransigenza.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2007: 12 novembre
Improved approximation of the interfacial tension for the flow simulation of suspensions of bubbles and droplets
Creators: name: Elsayed, Omar
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2021
Subjects: Fluid mechanics
Multiphase flow
Level set
Liquid-liquid separation
Volume of fluid

description: This work considers the description and simulation of two-phase flows. For the description of two immiscible fluids, the volume of fluid method is used. In the first part, an improved computational scheme for the curvature field is developed. It is based on the signed distance field. The scheme is implemented within Open FOAM and is coupled with an already existing two-phase solver. The results show a significant reduction of the numerical error. The scheme is validated for free-surface flows and moving contact lines. Moreover, experiments of the bubble-point test are performed and used as a reference to validate the computations. The results show that the simulations can reproduce the experiments better than before. In the second part, the developed method is applied to a liquid-liquid separation process. The separation of water droplets from diesel is investigated. For this case, the interaction of a single water droplet with a hydrophobic wire-mesh screen is studied. Through a series of simulations, insights on droplet deformation, retention or drainage velocities could be obtained. The models correspond approximately to the numerical simulations with deviation less than 10%.
L’avvocato nell’ordinamento canonico: un caso concreto
Creators: name: Strada, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: Contributo segnalato dal Prof. Andrea Zanotti, ordinario di Diritto canonico nella Facoltà di Giurisprudenza dell’Università di Bologna.SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa metodologica - 2. Esame di un caso concreto: il Decreto di ammonizione di un avvocato del 29/06/2006 - 3. Brevi considerazioni sulla figura dell’Avvocato Rotale - 4. La ricerca della verità nella funzione dife
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2007: 12 novembre
Évaluation du processus utilisé pour recruter les infirmières autorisées à l’Hôpital Montfort : une étude de cas
Creators: name: Sabourin, Vicki
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: recrutement
rétention
infirmière autorisée
santé
système de santé
francophonie

description: Les infirmières et infirmiers autorisés (IA) sont des professionnels de la santé indispensables au système de santé. Plusieurs nouveaux postes d’IA ont été créés à l’Hôpital Montfort, un établissement de santé francophone offrant des soins de santé bilingues à Ottawa, à la suite d’un projet d'expansion majeur de l’Hôpital qui s’est terminé en 2010. Le but de cette thèse de maîtrise est d’identifier les facilitateurs et les barrières aux activités de recrutement utilisées par l’Hôpital Montfort pour attirer les IA bilingues vers leur établissement de santé et ensuite de formuler des recommandations ciblant les intervenants clés en recrutement. Dans cette étude de cas, basée sur une méthodologie de recherche qualitative, des entrevues semi-structurées ont eu lieu avec quatre groupes de participants ayant récemment participé au processus de recrutement de l’Hôpital Montfort (n=19). De plus, des observations non participantes ont été effectuées à différents salons de l’emploi ainsi qu’une vérification des documents pertinents pour le recrutement. Cette thèse de maîtrise contribue à approfondir les connaissances du recrutement et du maintien en poste des IA aptes à prodiguer des soins compétents à une population minoritaire francophone dans un système de santé bilingue.