cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Role of the Brachyury T gene in P19 embryonal carcinoma cell differentiation.
Creators: name: Vidricaire, Gaël.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.

description: Brachyury T is a gene required for mesoderm formation and is expressed early during gastrulation in presumptive mesoderm. We found that this gene is expressed transiently in P19 cells destined to differentiate into cells of the mesodermal lineages. The expression of Brachyury in P19 cells peaks two days after initiation of differentiation and is induced by cell aggregation. The formation of compact cell aggregates and the expression of Brachyury are both dependent on extracellular calcium. Activin A, bone morphogenetic proteins and cAMP all induced Brachyury expression. By contrast, leukaemia inhibitory factor significantly reduced Brachyury expression in aggregated P19 cells and inhibited differentiation. Overexpression of Brachyury in P19 cells leads to their spontaneous differentiation with low levels of Brachyury resulting in the development of skeletal muscle while higher levels result in the formation of neurons.
Lower extremity muscle function during ergometer rowing.
Creators: name: Fortin, Yves D.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Biology, Animal Physiology.

description: The purpose of this study was to determine the functional role of six prominent leg muscles during knee extension. Changes in muscle-tendon length and EMG activity were looked at in conjunction with the results from an inverse dynamics analysis. The muscles investigated were the monoarticular vastus lateralis, soleus, gluteus maximus and the biarticular biceps femoris, rectus femoris and gastrocnemius. Four female and five male elite rowers performed on a Gjessing rowing ergometer while kinematic information was recorded on cinefilm. The force applied to the stretcher, the force applied to the oar handle and the EMG activity were sampled simultaneously. Through inverse dynamics, net moments of force at the ankle, knee and hip joints and powers from these moments were computed for one drive. The results showed a difference in the use of knee extensors by female and male rowers. For the females, the power produced originated exclusively from the hip extensors. This contrasts with the results obtained from the male subjects where power was produced by hip and knee extensors. Plausible explanations include differences in anatomical structures between both sexes (skeletal dimensions, tendon attachments location, muscle mass distribution), differences in rowing technique and deficiency in the knee extensor strength. Paradoxical activity appeared to take place in the recruitment of the biarticular gastrocnemius and biceps femoris during the extension of the knee. More intriguing was the detection of paradoxical activity from the action of m. rectus femoris at the hip which it seemed to extend.
An examination of intrusion-related shame in obsessive-compulsive disorder
Creators: name: Wallace, Andrea Nicole
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder characterised by unwanted intrusive thoughts (obsessions) and compulsions. The present thesis is that individuals may attempt to avoid, conceal, suppress, or neutralise intrusions not only to regulate aversive emotions such as anxiety and disgust, but to regulate shame. This dissertation addressed three primary questions. First, do individuals with OCD feel more shame than nonclinical populations when intrusions arise? Second, are individuals more likely to respond to frequent intrusions by performing compulsions if they feel shame? Third, is relief from shame associated with reduction in compulsions across the course of treatment?
Discourse Processing with Self-Paced Listening: A Pupillometric Analysis of Task Engagement
Creators: name: Hansen, Thomas Allen
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Discourse
Propositions
Pupillometry
Speech processing
Cochlear Implants
Cognitive Psychology
Human Learning and Memory

description: Adult users of cochlear implants (CIs) must perceive, understand, and recall speech from a sharply degraded acoustic input. These real-world demands of speech processing in CI users can be contrasted with current clinical outcome studies that focus almost entirely on intelligibility of phonemes, words, and short sentences. This thesis consists of two experiments. Experiment 1 tested the recall of discourse passages presented to normal (acoustic) hearing young adults, with noise-band vocoding used to simulate the sound of speech via a CI. Effects on recall accuracy when participants could control the rate of speech by self-pacing the input and when passages had higher, inter-word (cloze) predictability were also tested. Patterns of individuals’ self-pacing and a qualitative analysis of participants’ recall in terms of the proportion of main-level propositions versus minor-level propositions recalled were examined. Additionally, the type of passage—whether it was narrative or expository—was a variable of interest. All of this was done to explore potential effects of speech clarity on processing strategies and how they might interact with passage difficulty. A continuous measure of task-related changes in pupil size were obtained as a measure of processing effort and engagement. Experiment 2 was conducted using the same materials and procedures as Experiment 1, but with actual adult CI users rather than the simulation study in Experiment 1. Results show that CI users’ recall was influenced by the same stimulus features but were less likely to show an advantage for the self-pacing conditions. Results are discussed in terms of effort versus task engagement.
title: Reducing Heat Exposure in Phoenix
title: A Proposal for School-Based Cooling Centers
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Moss, Tamar Eliza
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Heat
Urban heat island
Heat Equity
Cooling Center
GIS Optimization
School-based Cooling Centers
Geographic Information Systems
High Temperature or Pressure Biology
Urban Planning

description: Temperatures vary across cities due to the urban heat island effect (UHI). Higher temperatures increase risks of heat-related illnesses and death, and disproportionately impact socioeconomically vulnerable populations. In my thesis, I explain what UHI is, how it is formed, who it most impacts, and how it can be mitigated. I focus on Maricopa County, Arizona, because of the area’s especially high temperatures and large vulnerable population. I describe the socio-spatial pattern of UHI, provide historic context for why vulnerable groups are disproportionately exposed to high temperatures there, and summarize existing heat mitigation initiatives in the county. One heat mitigation initiative is a network of public air-conditioned cooling centers. To increase accessibility of cooling centers to vulnerable populations, I examined the possibility of using local elementary schools as public cooling centers during summer months. Using a GIS-based optimization approach, I prioritized schools for cooling center establishment. I used Landsat satellite imagery to locate the hottest parts of Phoenix, and data from the U.S. Census Bureau to generate a socioeconomic vulnerability index. To create a heat risk index, I reclassified and combined temperature and vulnerability scores. I calculated the number of highly vulnerable people within a 15-minute walk of each school. I prioritized schools for cooling center establishment based on the number of highly vulnerable people each could serve. Results from this project could inform the siting of new cooling centers, so to best address heat injustices and provide a source of respite where it is needed most.
'Investigating entrepreneurial intentions of Gen Y' - A study of Australian vocational education students
Creators: name: Choudhary, Nitu
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Australia relies on small businesses for employment, income and economic growth. Generation Y is of particular interest due to its size and recent arrival to the labour market. This thesis investigates the capacity and intentions of Generation Y to become self-employed. An integrative model incorporating personal and contextual factors was statistically tested. Findings show that Generation Y vocational students are not driven by social norms, and there is little difference between men and women in most motives. The results provide a better understanding for stakeholders (parents, educationalists, policy makers, and investors) how to foster the prosperity of generation Y, through entrepreneurial start-ups.
Visualizing State and Society: The Political Films of France, Italy, and the United States: 1960-1976
Creators: name: Novick, Peter
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2010

description: While much study has been devoted to the respective revolutionary film movements of France, Italy, and the United State between the years 1960 and 1976, few have attempted a comparative analysis. Even fewer authors and critics have attempted to link each movement's omnipresent themes with their respective political and social superstructures. By looking at a select sample of films from several countries in the designated period, however, one ultimately find similar thematic approaches inextricably linked to those nations' social and political idiosyncrasies. The following essay, in turn, seeks to investigate the relationship between three national cinemas in a sixteen year period, with an eye towards two specific themes—images of corruption and bureaucracy and changing sexual and familial norms.
Methoden der Raumanalyse, sozialwissenschaftliche
Creators: name: Kramer, Caroline
name: Pfaffenbach, Carmella
Publisher: name: Akademie für Raumentwicklung in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (ARL)
Year: 2019

description: Wenn wir im Folgenden über Menschen und ihr Handeln „im Raum“ bzw. im räumlichen Kontext
sprechen, gehen wir von einer Wechselwirkung zwischen Raum und Gesellschaft aus. Die Be-
schaffenheit von Raum wird als Ergebnis früherer Handlungen gesehen, und aktuelle Handlungen
gestalten künftige Handlungskontexte. Somit können räumliche – wie auch soziale – Kontexte
durchaus Handlungen bestimmen (z. B. in Form von Möglichkeiten oder Einschränkungen). Dies
geschieht allerdings nicht in einem (geo-)deterministischen Sinne, sondern als „Möglichkeits-
raum“, in welchem Menschen ihr Handeln selbst wählen. Mit diesem Verständnis von Raum und
räumlichen Mustern ist Raumanalyse mit sozialwissenschaftlichen Methoden eine Analyse von
räumlichen Handlungsergebnissen von Menschen. Dies gilt für Räume unterschiedlichster Maß-
stabsebenen und damit sowohl für Stadtquartiere, Kommunen sowie Regionen und Nationalstaa-
ten gleichermaßen.
ENVRI-FAIR D1.2 Project Internal Communication Tool
Creators: name: Petzold, Andreas
name: Bundke, Ulrich
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: ENVRI-FAIR
deliverable
internal communication tools
coordination of project

description: The report describes briefly the project internal communication tools which are used for the management and coordination of the project and for the communication of the project partners.
Testing the cosmological model using galaxy voids
Creators: name: Torres Andrade, Luis Alberto
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis studies the accelerated expansion of the universe using regions where the number density of galaxies is smaller than the average cosmological density. These cosmic voids are used to test the expansion rate of the universe from a geometrical perspective, by considering them as idealised spheres, and from a dynamical perspective, where galaxy positions and velocities are coupled to generate growth of structure in the surroundings of the void. This work presents these analyses using data from one galaxy survey and computer simulations in addition to develop a forecast for applying this technique for future galaxy surveys.
À la recherche d'une "théorie" du développement global: Une approche contextuelle pour l'étude du développement des communautés francophones vivant en situation minoritaire
Creators: name: Normand, Martin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Canadian Studies.
subject: Political Science, General.
subject: Sociology, Social Structure and Development.

description: Dans les recherches portant sur le développement des communautés francophones vivant en situation minoritaire, les chercheurs considèrent que l'absence d'une théorie du développement constitue un problème. Toutefois ces travaux sont souvent caractérisés par une approche anhistorique et par leur manque de mise en contexte de la question du développement de ces communautés. Par le moyen d'une étude de l'action et des discours des acteurs impliqués dans le débat sur le développement, nous montrons dans cette thèse que toute théorisation du concept de développement doit au préalable mieux comprendre l'incidence du contexte sur celui-ci. Ainsi nous étudions les différentes conceptions du développement des communautés francophones vivant en situation minoritaire en lien avec les différents moments dans leur évolution. Nous constatons une tendance dans cette évolution: plus les droits linguistiques sont institutionnalisés, plus la notion de développement passé d'une acception politique à bureaucratique. En d'autres mots, nous observons une progressive dépolitisation des représentations du développement. Nous avons étudié les représentations de cinq acteurs dans le débat sur le développement communautaire: la Fédération des communautés francophones et acadiennes du Canada (FCFA), le Commissariat aux langues officielles, les tribunaux, les comités parlementaires et le gouvernement fédéral. Une analyse de leurs discours permet d'observer qu'il y a des jalons dans l'évolution des représentations des acteurs et que ceux-ci correspondent à des transformations importantes des contextes institutionnels et politiques. Il est ainsi possible de diviser le débat sur le développement communautaire depuis 1969 jusqu'à aujourd'hui en quatre périodes distinctes: une période de politisation, d'institutionnalisation, de rationalisation et de reconceptualisation. Chacune de ces périodes a eu un effet déterminant sur les représentations du développement des communautés francophones vivant en situation minoritaire.
Molecular analysis of grain hardness genes in wheat and barley
Creators: name: Kalra, Gurvinder
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Grain hardness or texture is a commercially important trait that governs the end use of wheat. The variability in grain texture enables the production of different food products and eating qualities. Similarly, grain texture affects malting and processing quality of barley with relevance to its end-use. This study investigated the grain hardness genes of Australian wheat and barley cultivars. Worldwide landraces were also investigated for gene diversity. Novel genetic variation was identified and several findings were made that might enhance our understanding of the relationship of these genes with grain texture.
Enriching Cultural Heritage with AI: the AI4Culture Hackathon journey
Creators: name: Pireddu, Roberta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The presentation offers insights into the AI4Culture project, with a particular focus on the planning and execution of the AI4Cultural Hackathon—a one-week event held at KU Leuven in February 2025. I will discuss how the event was developed within the framework of the project, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the preparations, challenges faced, and lessons learned. Additionally, I will highlight the CrowdHeritage platform, showcasing its successful implementation in various events organized as part of other projects and participatory activities.
Guerra Contra Las Pandillas: A Re-analysis of Salvadoran history to understand contemporary US. Media representations of MS-13
Creators: name: Romero, Catherine Gisele
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Media portrayal
El Salvador
Latin American Studies
Racism or Race Relation

description: In this project, I explore how the US media represents the situation regarding MS-13 in El Salvador and within its own borders. I give a broad overview of Salvadoran history to re-contextualize the narratives shared by Salvadoran media and its government. Through a historical context, I revisit the blame placed on Salvadoran youth for the country's destabilization. I then explore similarities between US media’s portrayal of MS-13 and Salvadoran life to define common patterns of language and opinion. Ultimately, I argue that a disregard of anti-blackness in El Salvador’s history continues in contemporary portrayals of MS-13, misidentifying the factors that have created the country’s current crisis. A war on gangs can be defined as a replication of conflicts between past capitalist regimes and the larger public. Past policies and the motives of oppositional groups are able to trace El Salvador blatant Anti-Black and Anti-indigenous history. There is a loss of history and identity that makes it far more difficult to develop an understanding of gangs and their opposition to the government.
Advanced control of longitudinal motions for underground mining electric vehicles
Creators: name: Ye, Wenjie
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis aims to develop advanced control algorithms for underground mining electric vehicles (UMEVs). The specifications of UMEVs and the environments for underground mines are first introduced and studied. A new sliding mode controller (SMC) is first proposed in the presence of the bounded information of system uncertainties and external disturbances. Then fuzzy tuning technique is used to adjust SMC parameters to further improve the tracking error convergence with unexpected out-of-bound uncertainties and disturbances. Finally, the state of energy (SOE) is introduced as input to handle the slope changing for the roads in different underground mines.
The Changing Role of Partisan Women in State Legislatures on Statewide Abortion Policy Outputs
Creators: name: Landis, Rachel Ariela
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Reproductive Justice
Politics
Partisanship
Gender Partisanship
Polarization
Gendered Polarization
US Politics
Republican
Republican Women
Democrat
Democratic Women
Women in Politics
Women in Legislature
Trigger Laws
State Legislature
Roe v. Wade
Dobbs v. Jackson
Planned Parenthood v. Casey
Abortion

description: Previous research has explored the changing role of Republican women in legislatures through the lens of abortion policy to understand the ideological shift of these legislators, but very little research has been done to explain the concrete policy effects of this change in the nature of Republican women on policy outputs. My research asks the question how does the presence of partisan women affect a state’s abortion regime over time? I hypothesized that a higher presence of Republican women would be correlated with more restrictive abortion policies, and a higher presence of Democratic women would be correlated with more expansive abortion policies. In order to better understand this effect, I employ quantitative and qualitative methods to explore the shifting role of Republican women. My research uses a calculated policy innovation score (tallying the amount of restrictive and expansive abortion policies passed in a state in a certain year) as a dependent variable and the percentage of partisan women in state legislatures as an independent variable. To test the correlation between these two variables, I ran several negative binomial regressions which revealed a few periods where the presence of partisan women was significantly correlated with policy innovation. While the presence of Democratic women was positively correlated with expansive bills, the presence of Republican women was negatively correlated with restrictive policies. Qualitatively, the exploration of two trigger bans passed in South Dakota and Tennessee reveal shifts in the role of Republican women in abortion policy outputs over time.
C Major and Musical Expressionism in Berg's Lulu
Creators: name: Dye, Aldona
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2014
Subjects: alban berg
lulu
Musicology

description: Although much of the music in Alban Berg’s 1935 opera Lulu is comprised of twelve-tone rows, the composer included elements of tonal harmony as musical signifiers, a common component in Berg’s serial works, which were described by René Leibovitz as, “the most radical way of creating a firm bond between Schönberg’s work and the past.” One such harmonic element is C, which appears in the opera as a sustained pedal, as the root of a major third or major triad, and as a diatonic key in Berg’s adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s lute song, Konfession, as a prostitution theme in Act III. C major follows Lulu from the household to the brothel; Berg uses the chord at moments when Lulu’s sexual promiscuity and impoverished upbringing lead to her characterization as basic, even primitive, playing on the historical perception of C major as a basic, fundamental chord in tonal music. Chiefly, Berg uses C major as a tool for social critique, as its associations with perceived primitivism ultimately highlight the hypocrisies of naturalist philosophy and the bourgeoisie in a similar manner as used by expressionist artists of the time, such as Ernst Kirchner and George Grosz. This paper examines Berg’s use of C major in Lulu and its implications, drawing meaning from Berg’s own conceptions of tonal and twelve-tone music, as well as from the philosophies of expressionist artists and writers in post-WWI northern Europe.
Expatriate voting: the shifting approach of Italian policy makers since 2001
Creators: name: De Lazzari, Chiara
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This study explored the motivations as drivers that encouraged Italian policy makers to introduce the expatriate voting policy in Italy in 2001. This research analyses the issues identified by policy makers in relation to this expatriate voting policy and its first real implementation in 2006 for Italian citizens residing abroad. This study also provides a new and original perspective in the analysis of political transnationalism and highlights the role and (self) interest of political parties in relation to the political engagement of expatriate communities with their home country.
The role of ultrafine particles in oil sands fine tailings reduction.
Creators: name: Muszalski, Piotr.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Chemical.

description: Fine tailings exhibit extremely poor dewatering characteristics. The research presented here deals with two closely related projects. The first project concentrated on finding an efficient treatment method for already existing fine tailings. The second project was to evaluate process modifications aimed at fine tailings reduction and to develop an understanding of the effect of electrolyte in the process water of the characteristics of fine tailings. The behavior of ultrafines separated from fine tailings was further investigated. A $\sp2$H NMR technique was applied to determine the gelation rates for ultrafines at different electrolyte concentrations. The gelation concentration was determined using ultrafines suspensions diluted with salt solutions. Results indicate, that while gelation time varies from minutes to weeks, the gelation concentration is always about 3-4 wt%, even at an extremely high salt concentrations further floc densification (dewatering) is impossible. Although adequate floc densification could not be achieved using chemical treatment, dewatering was increased markedly using freeze-thaw (a physical method). To evaluate process modifications, samples of different process streams produced during comparison pilot plant runs performed at Syncrude Canada Ltd. were investigated. The aggregation state and distribution of ultrafines were determined in all stream samples. In conjunction with the characteristics of parent oil sand ores, results prove that the settling rate was different only up to the point where the gelation onset concentration of the ultrafines fraction was reached, regardless of the ionic composition of water. Modifications to the extraction process resulted only in marginal differences in the characteristics of the discharge streams. The final volume of fine tailings depends on the ultrafine content in the oil sand ore, and not on the type and concentration of the electrolyte in th process water. Although modified extraction processes resulted in faster settling, the modification produced "dirtier" (containing more clay) secondary froths, thus bringing about other process problems.
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titleType: Subtitle
title: Research of hybrid modelling approaches in oil industry problems
Creators: name: ÐÑÑÑÐ½Ð¾Ð², ÐÐ¸ÐºÐ¸ÑÐ°
Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
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hybrid modelling
physical-informed machine learning
neural networks
neural operators
reservoir modelling

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description: This work discusses hybrid modelling approaches, namely physically-informed neural networks PINN and neural operators PINO to describe the processes occurring in the reservoir. The methodology of building such models is described. Examples of use and key advantages and disadvantages are given.
Partial Delaunay triangulations based routing, address configuration and date-centric storage in ad hock network
Creators: name: Deng, Yanli
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: The work of this thesis is based on a recently proposed memoryless Greedy-Face-Greedy (GFG) routing algorithm that guarantees delivery in connected unit disk graphs (where two nodes are connected if and only if their distance is no more than the transmission radius, which is equal for all nodes). The FACE mode is a recovery mode used when no neighbor closer to destination exists. FACE mode requires extracting a planar sub graph out of the unit disk graph. We propose to apply recently proposed Partial Delaunay triangulation (PDT) instead of Gabriel Graph (GG) used in the original GFG. PDT is locally defined without any message exchange in addition to those needed to learn the locations of neighbors. Routing is further enhanced by applying dominating set based routing. We consider two solutions for generating IP addresses: each node generates IP addresses following its own scheme, or all addresses are generated at a unique node in the network, called the Addressing Agent (AA). (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Transformation of a core scenario model and activity diagrams into Petri nets
Creators: name: Maqbool, Shahbaz
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: For any software development project it is important to capture the requirements in a clear and concise manner. Standardization efforts, such as the development of version 2 of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) by the Object Management Group, and the development of the User Requirements Notation (URN) by the International Telecommunication Union, propose visual languages for capturing requirements in terms of scenario notations. Activity Diagrams and Use Case Maps (UCM) are examples of such scenario languages in UML and in URN, respectively. The developers of these languages have concentrated on the visual notations and only a small amount of effort has been spent in defining precise and formal semantics for these languages. Core Scenario Model (CSM) is a step towards defining formal semantics to the scenario based languages like UCM, Activity Diagrams and Interaction Diagrams. It includes common scenario information found in the UCM notation and in UML 2.0 Activity Diagrams and Interaction Diagrams, and has been developed as an intermediate language before transformation into formal languages like Petri Nets, Layered Queuing Network etc. The thesis proposes a transformation method that takes UML Activity Diagrams as input and generates equivalent Petri Nets as output. The transformation approach takes into account the concurrency characteristics of Activity Diagrams. The thesis also proposes a method for transforming a Core Scenario Model (CSM) representation into equivalent Petri Nets. A Java tool was designed and built for realizing the proposed transformation from CSM to Petri Nets. The application takes as input XML files produced by an existing tool, which contain CSM in XML format. The Petri Nets produced by our transformation is in XML format. It can be used for validating the original models by simulation. The results from this analysis can be traced back to improve design decisions.
title: Research into the efficacy of Reiki
Creators: name: Bowden, Deborah E
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2010

description: The aim was to contribute to an evidence base for the efficacy of Reiki. Initially in three cases studies chronic fatigue syndrome patients received seven Reiki treatments over eight weeks. All three showed overall health improvements following treatment, although one relapsed at eight-week follow-up. Without a control group the improvements may have been due to expectation, relaxation and practitioner effects. A randomised controlled trial was next conducted where 35 undergraduates over two­and-a-half to twelve weeks received ten 20-minute Reiki or No-Reiki sessions while their attention was absorbed in self-hypnosis or guided relaxation. The Reiki group showed comparatively greater improvements in illness symptoms and stress, although they had higher baseline scores. A constructive replication was conducted where 40 students - half with high depression and/or anxiety and half with low depression and/or anxiety - were randomised to receive Reiki or a non-Reiki-control. Participants experienced six 25-minute sessions over two to eight weeks, where they underwent a guided-relaxation to facilitate Reiki-blinding. Those with high anxiety and/or depression who received Reiki had significantly better overall mood at five-week follow-up, whereas there was no change in the other controls. Three double-blind experiments followed involving a total of eight Reiki Masters. In each experiment different Reiki Masters each treated four dishes of gamma-irradiated canary seeds. Germination was monitored daily for 12 days and compared with control dishes. Overall analysis of the three studies found no statistical germination differences between the groups, although the dishes treated third and fourth had higher germination than their controls. However, the controls of the dishes treated first had higher germination than their Reiki dishes, and higher germination than other control dishes, presumably by chance. In conclusion, while benefits occurred following Reiki in each study, due to limitations of the studies nothing can be concluded with regards to a Reiki effect.
La théorie de la communication comme assise normative d'une nouvelle théorie critique de la société chez Jürgen Habermas.
Creators: name: Bilodeau, Victor.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: Cette thèse retrace les pas de la quête habermassienne de nouveaux fondements normatifs pour la théorie critique à partir dés découvertes de la pragmatique formelle. Ainsi, après avoir identifié des lacunes se trouvant chez ses précurseurs sur ce point, nous en arriverons à la présentation d'un nouveau paradigme pour la philosophie. Habermas la fait passer d'une approche monologique basée sur la conscience à une autre, dialogique, basée sur le langage. Il s'agit, pour lui, de retracer l'existence d'une raison non corrompue pouvant servir d'instrument crédible à la critique. Nous étudierons le rôle des systèmes et du monde vécu en ce qui a trait à l'intégration des individus et ensuite ce qu'il est convenu d'appeler l'éthique du discours. Nous étudierons deux critiques, soit celle de l'herméneutique et celle de Karl-Otto Apel. Contre la première, Habermas tente de démontrer que la philosophie de la conscience est épuisée, tout en admettant de facto que l'on ne peut que faire reculer les horizons avec sa méthode. Ce qui nous conduit au débat avec Apel sur la nécessité d'un fondement ultime. Habermas en reconnaissant l'impossibilité de la situation idéale de discours admet une réserve faillibiliste et la conséquence de ceci est qu'un fond de décisionnisme perdure dans sa pensée. La philosophie du droit de Habermas vise à retracer l'expression du pouvoir communicationnel. L'éthique de la discussion fournit une indication de la marche à suivre, mais le fondement provient de la procédure discursive et démocratique.
An analysis of Serbian policy responses to the 1999 bombing of the Radio Television of Serbia building
Creators: name: Kijevcanin, Jasmina
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis argues that Serbian public policy does not adequately acknowledge the victims of the NATO bombing of Serbia. This is despite broad agreement amongst scholars that the NATO bombing was an event of pivotal importance to Serbia and one that Serbs want to remember. While some gestures of redress were made to victims of the RTS building, these are recognised as inadequate by this research. This lack of adequate acknowledgement of victims extends beyond the bombing of the RTS building and is characteristic of the Serbian public policy response to other victims of recent wars in the Balkans.
Detection of avian leukosis virus in the laboratory and in naturally infected poultry flocks using the polymerase chain reaction.
Creators: name: Gagnon, Carole Chantalle.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Biology, Microbiology.

description: Commercial poultry operations continuously test for the presence of avian leukosis virus (ALV) in their flocks. Tests currently in use for detecting ALV are ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay)-based and detect either specific viral proteins or antibodies that are raised against ALV upon infection. Regions of the ALV genome have been identified which differentiate endogenous from exogenous ALV and these areas have been targeted with PCR primers. Using semi-nested PCR amplification of the LTR (long terminal repeats), we were able to detect all four subgroups of exogenous viruses affecting chickens (A, B, C and D). Two other sets of semi-nested primers targeted within the variable regions of the env (envelope) gene are able to determine the subgroup, A or B (the predominant subgroups infecting North American flocks), of the infecting virus. These sets of primers were first tested on chick embryo fibroblasts (CEF) not carrying any ev genes. The cells were infected with viral isolates of subgroups A (RAV-1), B (RAV-2), C (RAV-49) and D (RAV-50). The LTR primers detected all four subgroups, while the env primers detected only the virus of the subgroup for which they were designed. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
ENVRI-FAIR D1.4 1st Updated Data Management Plan
Creators: name: Petzold, Andreas
name: Bundke, Ulrich
name: Franz, Daniela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: ENVRI-FAIR
deliverable
Data Management Plan
DMP
software solutions
FAIR Policies
data standards
software standards

description: The Data Management Plan (DMP) contains information on the suggested policies, standards, and sustainability activities related to the created data services, including software solutions for the services. This is done in close collaboration with the work packages on FAIR Policies and common technical solutions, to ensure the management of knowledge in the project is maintained following the FAIR principles.
 The DMP covers the data, documents and solutions created within the project (i.e. not the data provided by the RIs in their services, which is part of their service policies). It describes the data (including metadata) and software standards, availability, curation and preservation methods, and is based on the Digital Curation Centre model for DMPs.
 The first update of the DMP details the tools and systems which are used to maintain personal data and digital assets generated in the project.
Kinetics and adsorption in the electrochemical reduction of aromatic ketones .
Creators: name: Rudd, Eric James.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1969
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Organic.

description: In the study of organic electrode processes it is desirable to complement kinetic and polarographic information by direct adsorption studies in relation to data on reaction orders and Tafel slopes. The electro-reduction of acetophenone in acidic media (pH < 3) has been shown to yield only 2,3-diphenylbutane-2,3-diol (acetophenone pinacol) with a high coulombic efficiency. Furthermore, the electrode reaction occurs at cathodic potentials sufficiently removed from those at which currents attributed to the evolution of hydrogen are significant, so that in the potential range studied, only a single Faradaic process occurred. This electrochemical reaction has therefore been studied in relation to (a) the adsorption and orientation of the ketone at the mercury electrode surface, (b) the kinetic behaviour of the electrode reaction, and (c) the adsorption of the pinacol and its effect, if any, upon the kinetics of the electrode process. Studies of the electrode kinetics comprised both potentiostatic steady-state and potentiodynamic non-steady state measurements employing a "triangular" potential sweep and a potential step procedure. Limiting current behaviour was consistently observed in the steady-state measurements and was attributed to the overall rate of reaction being determined ultimately by the rate of diffusion of the ketone to the electrode surface. This conclusion was supported by the results of the analysis of current-potential curves obtained from potentiodynamic studies. A potentiostatic "potential step" technique was introduced as a complementary method of study in an effort to obtain current-potential relations at very short time intervals after the electrode potential had been established. However, oscillatory behaviour of the current was observed for a few milliseconds after the application of the potential step and this effect limited the value of this method in the study of the electrode process. The electrochemical reaction was shown to be sensitive to the composition of the aqueous-organic solvent (experiments were conducted in methanol-sulphuric acid and in methanol-water-sulphuric acid mixtures) and to the concentration of hydrogen ions in the solution. However, the absence of a significant H/D primary isotope effect indicated that the proton was not critically involved in the rate-determining step. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Three Essays on The Gravity Model of International Trade
Creators: name: Kondaridze, Magdana
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Gravity Model
subject: International Trade
subject: Agricultural Economics
subject: Econometrics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This dissertation focuses on improving the gravity model and applied agricultural trade literature. To do so, I employ different methods used in applied econometrics. The objective is to provide a more robust analytical framework to achieve insightful findings that can help
description: future researchers or policymakers.
description: Given the recent changes in the supply and demand of dairy products, many opportunities arise for exporting and importing countries. The first chapter focuses on estimating the effects of domestic subsidies on bilateral trade using interval data and dynamic data
description: approaches.
description: Given the complex nature of international trade, the second chapter uses mean and distributional methods to look into the differential effects of trade policies, i.e., non-tariff measures, and frictions, i.e., distance, in agricultural trade.
description: Given the recent issues related to the subsidies, the third chapter estimates aggregate producer support estimates on aggregate agricultural trade. This study also offers counterfactual simulations to observe how potential policy changes, i.e., reduction in domestic
description: subsidies, can affect international trade.
Extending the utility of the General Aggression Model
Creators: name: Dunne, Ashley
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis examined whether the addition of person-specific, clinically relevant models of maladaptive personality and cognitive, emotional and coping states (schema modes) improved the utility of the General Aggression Model in sample of male offenders. The results showed that the addition of novel, clinically meaningful maladaptive personality and schema concepts improves our understandings of aggression in offender populations. Specifically, the results indicated that broader inclusion of maladaptive risk taking tendencies and schema modes characterised by destructive coping behaviours within the General Aggression Model framework is likely to assist in both characterising and differentiating among violent offenders and provides a more comprehensive conceptual framework by which to target and ameliorate aggression risk.
The Prevalence of Avoidable Visits by Medicaid Beneficiaries to Hospital Emergency Departments
Creators: name: Kulkarni, Neeti S
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicaid
Emergency room visits
Data Analysis
Health Care Planning or Policy

description: voidable visits to hospital emergency departments (EDs) have long been a significant contributing factor to steadily rising U.S. healthcare costs. Low-income Medicaid beneficiaries are particularly likely to visit EDs to treat minor conditions, since primary and outpatient care are often inaccessible to them. My thesis uses a clinical algorithm and regression analysis to study exactly how prevalent Medicaid patients have been in EDs for avoidable visits on a national-level over a 17-year period from 2002 to 2018. The results indicate that a significant proportion of Medicaid ED visits can be classified as “nonemergent” or “avoidable” and that Medicaid status significantly increases the likelihood of avoidable visits to EDs, with stronger effects during periods of increased Medicaid enrollment.
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geophysics
logging
Fourier transform
spatial interpolation
neural networks

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description: This work is devoted to the development of a neural network model for predicting geophysical attribute cubes data. In the course of the work was studied the literature intended for use in this topic, considered the implementation of the existing approach of building cubes of geophysical attributes, developed in the programming language Python method of building cubes of gamma - logging prediction by neural network with further spatial interpolation of the obtained weight coefficients.
Enhanced use case map analysis and transformation tooling
Creators: name: Kealey, Jason
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: The Use Case Map (UCM) notation enables the use of graphical scenarios to model greybox views of a system's operational requirements and behaviour. The scenario traversal mechanism is the most popular UCM analysis technique as it allows modellers to test, explain, and transform UCM models. However, its implementation in the existing UCM-Nav tool is limited and hard to use, and its high feature coupling makes it difficult to maintain and evolve. This thesis introduces major analysis and transformation enhancements to the recent jUCMNav Eclipse plug-in by providing an extensible scenario traversal semantics accompanied by improved model transformations to Message Sequence Charts. Furthermore, this thesis identifies a set of semantic variation points for which the behaviour is unclear in UCMs, laying the groundwork for notational clarifications and user-defined semantic profiles. Finally, the transformation from textual use cases to UCMs is presented as a demonstration of the extensibility of jUCMNav's transformation framework.