cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Inaudible Matters
Creators: name: Lechner, Marie
name: Zeitz, Anne
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sound Art
subject: Electrical Walks Paris
subject: Kubisch, Christina
subject: Lectures
subject: 700 Künste, Bildende und angewandte Kunst

description: Inaudible Matters, a project including Electrical Walks Paris by Christina Kubisch as well as a programme of lectures and performances, took place at the Gaîté Lyrique Paris from 12 September to 12 December 2019. Inaudible Matters was realized in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Paris and the exhibition Sound Unheard and organized by Marie Lechner and Anne Zeitz. The project questioned the inaudible as “matter” in both senses of the term: first, as “physical substance” related to materiality, and second as that which is signifying and significant. The lectures and performances were streamed by p-node.
Environmental education from a postcolonial perspective: Analyzing the influence of UNESCO's discourse on the Ontario elementary science curriculum
Creators: name: Galvin, Kathryn
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Education, Elementary.
subject: Education, Sciences.

description: Over the past three decades curriculum scholars have failed to address environmental education through joint local, national, and/or global research initiatives, leaving UNESCO as an underpinning force in legitimizing and institutionalizing environmental education globally. This critical discourse analysis examines the connection between UNESCO's historical discourse on environmental education and the Ontario elementary science and technology curriculum. As a study grounded in curriculum theory, it leads to a nuanced understanding of the extent to which the local discourse reinscribes and/or subverts the global discourse on environmental education. The study also engages a postcolonial deconstruction of the discourse, exploring how the global and local discursive trends work to colonize or decolonize our relationship with the environment. This study reveals that what is important is not whether or not UNESCO's dominant discourse on environmental education is reinscribed and/or subverted in the local curriculum. But, rather how both contribute to the complicated discussion on environmental education.
“Dissolving your Ear Plugs”: The Unheard in Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening Practice
Creators: name: Jacquin, Maud
name: Polverel, Elsa
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Pauline Oliveros
subject: Experimental music
subject: Sonic Meditations
subject: Deep Listening
subject: 700 Künste, Bildende und angewandte Kunst

description: This article explores Pauline Oliveros’ practice of Deep Listening and argues that it is inherently concerned with the experience of the “unheard”. Deep Listening involves “going below the surface of what is heard”, not to reach a form of truth or purity of sound but, on the contrary, to constantly reassert that we never hear the same thing twice, that the act of listening is inherently incomplete. In other words, “deeply listening” to sounds means being attuned to – being physically and subjectively in touch with – what we call the “as-yet-unheard”. Because, for Oliveros, Deep Listening has the power to heal – to lead to the psychological transformation of the listener – we attempt to make sense of her conception of listening by creating a dialogue with psychoanalytic theory and the practice of listening. In this context, the unheard is not merely tied to the limits of perception (what the ear is unable to hear), but far more so to the subjective limitations (what the individual refuses to hear). In the first section, we look at the resonances between the relational frameworks established by Oliveros’ Sonic Meditations and the psychoanalytic session to explore how the unheard in her practice might be close to a certain way of approaching the unconscious. The second section deals with the nature of sounds in Oliveros’ work and in psychoanalytic practice, an issue which leads us to bring this as-yet-unheard back to the body, a body made up of affects, but inseparable from language and socio-political dynamics.
Near-identical star formation rate densities from Hα and FUV at redshift zero
Creators: name: Audcent-Ross, Fiona M.
name: Meurer, Gerhardt R.
name: Wong, O. I.
name: Zheng, Z.
name: Hanish, D.
name: Zwaan, M. A.
name: Bland-Hawthorn, J.
name: Elagali, A.
name: Meyer, M.
name: Putman, M. E.
name: Ryan-Weber, Emma
name: Sweet, Sarah
name: Thilker, D. A.
name: Seibert, M.
name: Allen, Rebecca
name: Dopita, M. A.
name: Doyle-Pegg, M. T.
name: Drinkwater, M.
name: Ferguson, H. C.
name: Freeman, K. C.
name: Heckman, T. M.
name: Kennicutt, R. C.
name: Kilborn, Virginia
name: Kim, J. H.
name: Knezek, P. M.
name: Koribalski, B.
name: Smith, R. C.
name: Staveley-Smith, L.
name: Webster, R. L.
name: Werk, J. K.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: For the first time both Hα and far-ultraviolet (FUV) observations from an HI-selected sample are used to determine the dust-corrected star formation rate density (SFRD: ρ˙) in the local Universe. Applying the two star formation rate indicators on 294 local galaxies, we determine log(ρHα) = -1.68-0.05
 +0.13 [M⊙ yr-1 Mpc-3] and log(ρ˙FUV) = -1.71-0.13
 +0.12 [M⊙ yr-1 Mpc-3]. These values are derived from scaling Hα and FUV observations to the HI mass function. Galaxies were selected to uniformly sample the full HI mass (MHI) range of the HI Parkes All-Sky Survey (MHI ~ 107 to ~1010.7 M⊙). The approach leads to relatively larger sampling of dwarf galaxies compared to optically selected surveys. The low HI mass, low luminosity, and low surface brightness galaxy populations have, on average, lower Hα/FUV flux ratios than the remaining galaxy populations, consistent with the earlier results of Meurer. The nearidentical Hα- and FUV-derived SFRD values arise with the low Hα/FUV flux ratios of some galaxies being offset by enhanced Hα from the brightest and high mass galaxy populations. Our findings confirm the necessity to fully sample the HI mass range for a complete census of local star formation to include lower stellar mass galaxies which dominate the local Universe.
Finite element methods for a microstructure-based model of blood
Creators: name: Iolov, Alexandre
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mathematics.

description: The goal of this thesis is to solve numerically the equations for viscoelastic fluid flow that arise from a model of human blood. The model accounts for the elastic stress acting on the flow using a microstructure variable which itself depends on the flow. The resulting coupling offers a challenging numerical problem which however is capable of reproducing experimental results. This work implements a general Finite Element Code for solving the equations of motion, stress and microstructure state. Our work sought to validate the numerical scheme in two geometries, coaxial cylinders and a flat channel, and to further explore the model under a pulsatile flow regime in a non-trivial geometry -- a dilated channel.
Supplementary document for Stochastic dynamics of optically bound matter levitated in vacuum - 4918082.pdf
Creators: name: Svak, Vojtech
name: Flajsmanova, Jana
name: Chvatal, Lukas
name: Siler, Martin
name: Jonas, Alexandr
name: Jezek, Jan
name: Simpson, Stephen
name: Zemanek, Pavel
name: Brzobohaty, Oto
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplemental information
Humanity's knowledge of natures in Peter Abelard's solution to the problem of universals
Creators: name: Leroy, Warren
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: The purpose of this thesis is to identify and discuss a problem in Peter Abelard's solution to the problem of universals. In Chapter 1, I present a brief account of Abelard's account of universals geared towards familiarizing the reader with the basic concepts and terminology involved in his solution In Chapter 2, I identify the problem I perceive with this account; namely that Abelard seems to be committed to two, incompatible, positions as regards whether or not it is possible for human beings to acquire knowledge of natures. In Chapter 3, I will examine the passages where Abelard addresses this tension. As we will see, he provides no satisfactory solution to this problem. At the end of Chapter 3, I will also examine the work of Peter King who, in his highly influential Ph.D thesis, suggests a reading of certain passages in Abelard that he thinks solves our problem. I will argue, however, that King's solution cannot be accepted as it relies on a mistaken translation of Abelard's Latin such that it misconstrues the passages King cites as evidence for his view.
AAPPeC: Agent-based Architecture for Privacy Payoff in eCommerce
Creators: name: Yassine, Abdulsalam
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: With the rapid development of applications in open distributed environments such as eCommerce, privacy of information is becoming a critical issue. Today, many online companies are gathering information and have assembled sophisticated databases that know a great deal about many people, generally without the knowledge of those people. Such information changes hands or ownership as a normal part of eCommerce transactions, or through strategic decisions that often includes the sale of users' information to other firms. The key commercial value of users' personal information derives from the ability of firms to identify consumers and charge them personalized prices for goods and services they have previously used or may wish to use in the future. A look at present-day practices reveals that consumers' profile data is now considered as one of the most valuable assets owned by online businesses. In this thesis, we argue the following: if consumers' private data is such a valuable asset, should they not be entitled to commercially benefit from their asset as well? The scope of this thesis is on developing architecture for privacy payoff as a means of rewarding consumers for sharing their personal information with online businesses. The architecture is a multi-agent system in which several agents employ various requirements for personal information valuation and interaction capabilities that most users cannot do on their own. The agents in the system bear the responsibility of working on behalf of consumers to categorize their personal data objects, report to consumers on online businesses' trustworthiness and reputation, determine the value of their compensation using risk-based financial models, and, finally, negotiate for a payoff value in return for the dissemination of users' information.
Dark Energy Survey year 1 results: Galaxy clustering for combined probes
Creators: name: Elvin-Poole, J.
name: Crocce, M.
name: Ross, A. J.
name: Giannantonio, T.
name: Rozo, E.
name: Rykoff, E. S.
name: Avila, S.
name: Banik, N.
name: Blazek, J.
name: Bridle, S. L.
name: Cawthon, R.
name: Drlica-Wagner, A.
name: Friedrich, O.
name: Kokron, N.
name: Krause, E.
name: Maccrann, N.
name: Prat, J.
name: Sánchez, C.
name: Secco, L. F.
name: Sevilla-Noarbe, I.
name: Troxel, M. A.
name: Abbott, T. M.C.
name: Abdalla, F. B.
name: Allam, S.
name: Annis, J.
name: Asorey Barreiro, Jacobo
name: Bechtol, K.
name: Becker, M. R.
name: Benoit-Lévy, A.
name: Bernstein, G. M.
name: Bertin, E.
name: Brooks, D.
name: Buckley-Geer, E.
name: Burke, D. L.
name: Carnero Rosell, A.
name: Carollo, D.
name: Carrasco Kind, M.
name: Carretero, J.
name: Castander, F. J.
name: Cunha, C. E.
name: D'Andrea, C. B.
name: Da Costa, L. N.
name: Davis, T. M.
name: Davis, C.
name: Desai, S.
name: Diehl, H. T.
name: Dietrich, J. P.
name: Dodelson, S.
name: Doel, P.
name: Eifler, T. F.
name: Evrard, A. E.
name: Fernandez, E.
name: Flaugher, B.
name: Fosalba, P.
name: Frieman, J.
name: García-Bellido, J.
name: Gaztanaga, E.
name: Gerdes, D. W.
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Gruen, D.
name: Gruendl, R. A.
name: Gschwend, J.
name: Gutierrez, G.
name: Hartley, W. G.
name: Hinton, S. R.
name: Honscheid, K.
name: Hoormann, J. K.
name: Jain, B.
name: James, D. J.
name: Jarvis, M.
name: Jeltema, T.
name: Johnson, M. W.G.
name: Johnson, M. D.
name: King, A.
name: Kuehn, K.
name: Kuhlmann, S.
name: Kuropatkin, N.
name: Lahav, O.
name: Lewis, G.
name: Li, T. S.
name: Lidman, C.
name: Lima, M.
name: Lin, H.
name: Macaulay, E.
name: March, M.
name: Marshall, J. L.
name: Martini, P.
name: Melchior, P.
name: Menanteau, F.
name: Miquel, R.
name: Mohr, J. J.
name: Moller, Anais
name: Nichol, R. C.
name: Nord, B.
name: O'Neill, C. R.
name: Percival, W. J.
name: Petravick, D.
name: Plazas, A. A.
name: Romer, A. K.
name: Sako, M.
name: Sanchez, E.
name: Scarpine, V.
name: Schindler, R.
name: Schubnell, M.
name: Sheldon, E.
name: Smith, M.
name: Smith, R. C.
name: Soares-Santos, M.
name: Sobreira, F.
name: Sommer, N. E.
name: Suchyta, E.
name: Swanson, M. E.C.
name: Tarle, G.
name: Thomas, D.
name: Tucker, B. E.
name: Tucker, D. L.
name: Uddin, S. A.
name: Vikram, V.
name: Walker, A. R.
name: Wechsler, R. H.
name: Weller, J.
name: Wester, W.
name: Wolf, R. C.
name: Yuan, F.
name: Zhang, B.
name: Zuntz, J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We measure the clustering of DES year 1 galaxies that are intended to be combined with weak lensing samples in order to produce precise cosmological constraints from the joint analysis of large-scale structure and lensing correlations. Two-point correlation functions are measured for a sample of 6.6×105 luminous red galaxies selected using the redMaGiC algorithm over an area of 1321 square degrees, in the redshift range 0.15
Supplementary document for Stochastic dynamics of optically bound matter levitated in vacuum - 4918082.pdf
Creators: name: Svak, Vojtech
name: Flajsmanova, Jana
name: Chvatal, Lukas
name: Siler, Martin
name: Jonas, Alexandr
name: Jezek, Jan
name: Simpson, Stephen
name: Zemanek, Pavel
name: Brzobohaty, Oto
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplemental information
Patterns of industrial structural change: Biobio region, Chile. 1974-1989.
Creators: name: Urrea, Jorge.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Business Administration, General.

description: Chile's recent experience with the liberalization of foreign trade provides a singular case study because of: the high level and many types of tariff protection before the reforms; the extraordinary effect of rapid trade policy liberalization; and the current structure that the country's economy has assumed. The protection of Chile's manufacturing began after the Great Depression and gradually increased after the second World War. However, from 1973 a profound economic reform radically changed the traditional protectionism shielding the Chilean economy. This paper analyzes the adjustment of industrial firms to both trade liberalization and policy reforms for stabilization, during the military regime. The study is conducted using two hypotheses that link manufacturing firms to their location in the region and to the final destination of their production. The main conclusions of the study suggest the advantages and disadvantages that the present industrial structure of the region might face as a consequence of its specialization. They summarize changes of both internal and external conditions that have been favourable to regional industrial growth. Internally there has been industrial specialization according to the comparative advantage of the Biobio region in natural resources. External influences have driven a shift to capital intensive sectors, which have grown rapidly relative to other manufacturing sectors, and have replaced labour-intensive sectors as the dominant component of the regional industrial base. The overall result is that the structure of manufacturing in the Biobio region has changed in a process of restructuring different from that anticipated and predicted by free trade theorists.
Calm in the midst of cytokine storm: a collaborative approach to the diagnosis and treatment of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis and macrophage activation syndrome
Creators: name: Halyabar, Olha
name: Chang, Margaret H.
name: Schoettler, Michelle L.
name: Schwartz, Marc A.
name: Baris, Ezgi H.
name: Benson, Leslie A.
name: Biggs, Catherine M.
name: Gorman, Mark
name: Lehmann, Leslie
name: Lo, Mindy S.
name: Nigrovic, Peter A.
name: Platt, Craig D.
name: Priebe, Gregory P.
name: Rowe, Jared
name: Sundel, Robert P.
name: Surana, Neeraj K.
name: Weinacht, Katja G.
name: Mann, Alison
name: Yuen, Jenny C.
name: Meleedy-Rey, Patricia
name: Starmer, Amy
name: Banerjee, Taruna
name: Dedeoglu, Fatma
name: Degar, Barbara A.
name: Hazen, Melissa M.
name: Henderson, Lauren A.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2019

description: Background: Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) and macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) were historically thought to be distinct entities, often managed in isolation. In fact, these conditions are closely related. A collaborative approach, which incorporates expertise from subspecialties that previously treated HLH/MAS independently, is needed. We leveraged quality improvement (QI) techniques in the form of an Evidence-Based Guideline (EBG) to build consensus across disciplines on the diagnosis and treatment of HLH/MAS. Methods: A multidisciplinary work group was convened that met monthly to develop the HLH/MAS EBG. Literature review and expert opinion were used to develop a management strategy for HLH/MAS. The EBG was implemented, and quality metrics were selected to monitor outcomes. Results: An HLH/MAS clinical team was formed with representatives from subspecialties involved in the care of patients with HLH/MAS. Broad entry criteria for the HLH/MAS EBG were established and included fever and ferritin ≥500 ng/mL. The rheumatology team was identified as the “gate-keeper,” charged with overseeing the diagnostic evaluation recommended in the EBG. First-line medications were recommended based on the acuity of illness and risk of concurrent infection. Quality metrics to be tracked prospectively based on time to initiation of treatment and clinical response were selected. Conclusion: HLH/MAS are increasingly considered to be a spectrum of related conditions, and joint management across subspecialties could improve patient outcomes. Our experience in creating a multidisciplinary approach to HLH/MAS management can serve as a model for care at other institutions.
On efficient learning algorithms for neural networks.
Creators: name: Golea, Mostefa.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: Inductive Inference Learning can be described in terms of finding a good approximation to some unknown classification rule f, based on a pre-classified set of training examples $\langle$x,f(x)$\rangle.$ One particular class of learning systems that has attracted much attention recently is the class of neural networks. But despite the excitement generated by neural networks, learning in these systems has proven to be a difficult task. In this thesis, we investigate different ways and means to overcome the difficulty of training feedforward neural networks. Our goal is to come up with efficient learning algorithms for new classes (or architectures) of neural nets. In the first approach, we relax the constraint of fixed architecture adopted by most neural learning algorithms. We describe two constructive learning algorithms for two-layer and tree-like networks. In the second approach, we adopt the "probably approximately correct" (PAC) learning model and we look for positive learnability results by restricting the distribution generating the training examples, the connectivity of the networks, and/or the weight values. This enables us to identify new classes of neural networks that are efficiently learnable in the chosen setting. In the third and final approach, we look at the problem of learning in neural networks from the average case point of view. In particular, we investigate the average case behavior of the well known clipped Hebb rule when learning different neural networks with binary weights. The arguments given for the "efficient learnability" range from extensive simulations to rigorous mathematical proofs.
Awareness and practice of patient's rights law in Lithuania
Creators: name: Ducinskiene, Danute
name: Vladickiene, Jurgita
name: Kalediene, Ramune
name: Haapala-Biggs, Irja
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Patient's rights law is intended to secure good medical practice, but it can also serve to improve understanding between patients and medical staff if both were aware of their rights. Awareness and practice of the new patient's rights law in Lithuanian health care institutions was explored through a survey of 255 medical staff and 451 patients in the four Kaunas city medical units in 2002. Participation rates were 74% and 66%, respectively. The majority of the medical staff (85%) and little over one half of the patients (56%) had heard or read about the Law on Patient's Rights (p < 0.001). Only 50% of professionals compared to 69% of patients thought information for patients about diagnosis, treatment results and alternative treatments is necessary (p < 0.001). A clear discrepancy was indicated between physicians informing the patients (80%-98% of physicians) and patients actually knowing (37%-54%) their treatment prognosis, disease complications or possible alternative treatment methods. These results suggest a need for awareness-raising among patients to improve the practical implementation of the Patient's Rights Law in Lithuania.
Non-random neutral evolution.
Creators: name: Singer, Gregory A. C.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.

description: In this study, we investigate the causes and consequences of directional neutral evolution. We believe this is an evolutionary force that has not received the attention its importance to DNA and protein evolution warrants. Traditional sequence analyses rely upon models that assume homogeneity of nucleotide and amino acid compositions across different lineages, but our examinations of modern sequences show that this assumption is often violated. Our findings imply that periods of directional changes to the nucleotide or amino acid compositions of biological sequences have occurred in the past. Moreover, we demonstrate that these directional changes are very common and can be quite extreme. We show that modifications to the genetic code---a phenomenon that is common among mitochondrial genomes---can cause directional changes to the amino acid composition of proteins. Codon reassignments shift the relative number of codons assigned to each amino acid, and when coupled with neutral evolution over a period of time these changes will lead to a corresponding shift in the relative amino acid usages within the protein. More common causes of directional changes to the amino acid composition of proteins are mutation biases in the DNA. In particular, we show that biases to the relative proportions of A+T and G+C are capable of bringing about amino acid composition changes to the proteins the DNA encodes, with AT-rich DNA favouring the encoding of the FYMINK amino acids, and GC-rich DNA favouring the encoding of GARP amino acids. We show that this effect is both pervasive across all kingdoms of life, and that it also affects every protein within the genome---whether highly or loosely conserved. Finally, we show that directional neutral evolution in the DNA can operate in the presence of purifying selection in transmembrane domains. Since selection does not preclude neutral evolution if there are multiple favourable mutations possible, DNA mutation bias is able to influence the direction of evolution of the transmembrane domains without interfering with their fitness. We extend this same notion to include the possibility of mutation biases biasing the outcome of positive selection, as well.
Microchannel fabrication in PMMA based on localized heating by nanojoule high repetitions rate femtosecond pulses
Creators: name: Day, Daniel
name: Gu, Min
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Microchannels are fabricated in a poly(methyl methacrylate) substrate by high repetition rate, nanojoule femtosecond laser pulses. The mechanism for channel fabrication is based on the localized heating of the substrate due to the high repetition rate of the laser, resulting in smooth walled cylindrical channels. Microchannels with diameters of 8 – 20 µm can be fabricated at 800 µm/s using 80 fs pulses at a repetition rate of 80 MHz and energy of 0.9 nJ/pulse.
Tonsillectomy
Creators: name: Krishna, Bharat
Publisher: name: Bharat Krishna
Year: 2023

description: Traumatic diaphragmatic hernia (TDH) is a rare, life-threatening condition resulting from diaphragmatic disruption due to blunt or penetrating trauma. Emergency thoracotomy and hernia repair become imperative to address immediate complications. Anesthetic management demands a comprehensive understanding of the patient's physiology, trauma specifics, and planned surgical intervention. This case report outlines the successful anesthetic handling of a 52-year-old female with a TDH after a two-wheeler fall. With a fiveyear history of systemic hypertension, she presented to the emergency room with breathlessness. Imaging confirmed liver herniation into the right hemithorax via a rent in the right hemidiaphragm. The patient underwent emergency thoracotomy and hernia repair. This report highlights the perioperative considerations, challenges, and outcomes in managing TDH in this specific clinical context
Supplementary document for An Individual Transducer Impulse Response Characterization Method to Improve Image Quality of Array-based Handheld Optoacoustic Tomography - 4918437.pdf
Creators: name: Chowdhury, Kaushik
name: Bader, Maximilian
name: Dehner, Christoph
name: Jüstel, Dominik
name: Ntziachristos, Vasilis
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Dispersion, L-curve, Convergence, etc
Examining the Walking Accessibility, Willingness, and Travel Conditions of Residents in Saudi Cities
Creators: name: Rahman, Muhammad Tauhidur
name: Nahiduzzaman, Kh Md
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Rapid urban expansion and population growth in Saudi cities over the past four decades have increased vehicular accidents and traffic congestion and have impacted the daily walking conditions of the residents. Walking has various health and environmental benefits. In North American and European countries, three factors have been found to motivate a resident to walk within their community: their accessibility to community social and business facilities, their perception and willingness, and the safety conditions of the roads and sidewalks within their community for walking. This study examined these factors and their role in the walking habits of the residents in the neighborhoods of Doha and Dana districts in Saudi Arabia’s eastern city of Dhahran. Data were collected through field observations and by randomly sampling and interviewing 200 residents. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and SPSS statistical software were used for data analysis. The results show that most of the community facilities are randomly placed in the districts. Mosques are the closest facility to each resident with an average accessibility distance of 242m. Almost 43% of the respondents prefer daily walking while the rest are hesitant due to hot weather during summer and narrow and poorly designed sidewalks. The sidewalks were also found to be blocked by trees, street signals, and illegally parked vehicles. Future studies should explore the accessibility to facilities, willingness, climate, and health conditions of the residents, and the road and sidewalk conditions for walking in other cities of the Kingdom.
Chemical prioritisation strategy in the European Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU) - Development and results
Creators: name: David, Madlen
name: Ougier, Eva
name: Ganzleben, Catherine
name: Kolossa-Gehring, Marike
name: Lecoq, Pierre
name: Lange, Rosa
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Bedenklicher Stoff
Biomarker
Chemiepolitik
Chemikaliensicherheit
Epidemiologie
Exposition
Human-Biomonitoring
Schadstoff
Toxikologie
Europa

description: The European Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU1) has established a European Union-wide human biomonitoring (HBM) programme to generate knowledge on human internal exposure to chemical pollutants and their potential health impacts in Europe, in order to support policy makers' efforts to ensure chemical safety and improve health in Europe. A prioritisation strategy was necessary to determine and meet the most important needs of both policy makers and risk assessors, as well as common national needs of participating countries and a broad range of stakeholders. This strategy consisted of three mains steps: 1) mapping of knowledge gaps identified by policy makers, 2) prioritisation of substances using a scoring system, and 3) generation of a list of priority substances reflective of the scoring, as well as of public policy priorities and available resources. For the first step, relevant ministries and agencies at EU and national levels, as well as members of the Stakeholder Forum each nominated up to 5 substances/substance groups of concern for policy-makers. These nominations were collated into a preliminary list of 48 substances/substance groups, which was subsequently shortened to a list of 23 after considering the total number of nominations each substance/substance group received and the nature of the nominating entities. For the second step, a panel of 11 experts in epidemiology, toxicology, exposure sciences, and occupational and environmental health scored each of the substances/substance groups using prioritisation criteria including hazardous properties, exposure characteristics, and societal concern. The scores were used to rank the 23 substances/substance groups. In addition, substances were categorised according to the level of current knowledge about their hazards, extent of human exposure (through the availability of HBM data), regulatory status and availability of analytical methods for biomarker measurement. Finally, in addition to the ranking and categorisation of the substances, the resources available for the project and the alignment with the policy priorities at European level were considered to produce a final priority list of 9 substances/substance groups for research activities and surveys within the framework of the HBM4EU project. Quelle: © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier GmbH
Register and register labeling in dictionaries.
Creators: name: Crenn, Tiphaine.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Language, Linguistics.

description: Dictionaries employ usage labels to warn the user of restrictions on the use of a word. Register labels are just one of several types of usage labels. Differentiating between various usages has been a practice since the very beginnings of monolingual French and English lexicography in the seventeenth century. However, the advent of sociolinguistics in the latter half of this century, and the concept of language varieties, which has emerged from sociolinguistic studies, has had an impact on lexicography. In theory, dictionaries now generally recognize that register, or use-related varieties of language (i.e. tied to the situation in which the speaker uses language), is not a question of right and wrong, only one of appropriateness. In practice, however, there are discrepancies from dictionary to dictionary in the treatment of register and register labeling. An in-depth look at the front matter or a few dictionaries, monolingual and bilingual, reveals both the lack of a clear notion of register in lexicography and inadequate explanation of the basis on which words are labeled for register. An extensive examination of the actual entries found within these dictionaries, however, reveals a certain common thread in register labeling since some labels can be found in all dictionaries, and certain words are always labeled. Although some consistency in register labeling does exist, marking words for register is always problematic since it is subjective. An examination of a few entries prepared at the Bilingual Canadian Dictionary project shows the difficulty of labeling register consistently even when specific guidelines are proposed to lexicographers. The usefulness of consulting on-line corpora as a more objective basis for labeling is examined, and certain recommendations are made to improve the consistency of register labeling in bilingual lexicography in general, and especially in the Bilingual Canadian Dictionary. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Supplementary document for An Individual Transducer Impulse Response Characterization Method to Improve Image Quality of Array-based Handheld Optoacoustic Tomography - 4918437.pdf
Creators: name: Chowdhury, Kaushik
name: Bader, Maximilian
name: Dehner, Christoph
name: Jüstel, Dominik
name: Ntziachristos, Vasilis
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Dispersion, L-curve, Convergence, etc
Venture capitalist entrepreneurial orientations in developing environments
Creators: name: Lindsay, Noel J.
name: Lindsay, Wendy A.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This exploratory research examines the entrepreneurial orientation (EO)---firm performance relationship of venture capitalists (VCs) in a developing country. VCs are professional investors that raise money primarily from financial institutions such as pension funds and insurance companies. They pool the monies they raise to create their own VC funds. The monies in these funds are then used for investing in growth oriented entrepreneurial firms that are assessed as having the potential to provide significant returns. By raising money from others to invest in entrepreneurial opportunities, VCs can be considered to act entrepreneurially. EO has been the subject of a number of studies that have examined the underlying dimensions of the EO construct and its relationship with the performance of entrepreneurial firms. EO refers to the processes, practices, and decision-making activities employed by entrepreneurs that lead to new entry. EO is a determinant of performance contingent upon contextual variables such as environmental types (e.g. the volatility and dynamism of environments) and organizational types (e.g., organically versus simply structured firms). This research builds upon prior EO research and extends this to VCs in a developing country. Limited VC EO research in developed countries has been undertaken (e.g., in Australia and Japan) where business environments tend to be relatively stable (when compared to developing countries). No research of this nature, however, has been undertaken of VCs operating in a developing country. The results of studies in developed countries, however, may not be generalizable to developing countries. In developing countries, environmental forces tend to be dynamic and, at times, unstable where information availability may be asymmetric and change and uncertainty are the business norms. These environmental types require firms that are highly entrepreneurial in nature.
Logic and circuit design of high speed digital systems.
Creators: name: Elmasry, Mohamed I. Y.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1970
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: The speed of operation of digital systems can be increased by improving the logic or the circuit design. In this thesis, the logic and the integrated circuit design are considered using a unified procedure. The logic design is based upon partitioning the input variables according to their time sequence such that each logical operation is predetermined by intermediate outputs. This system is shown to be compatible with a two level current mode realization. The integration of this realization is economical of Silicon area and employs a novel non-linear collector-load structure.
Ökonomisierung der Umwelt und ihres Schutzes : Unterschiedliche Praktiken, ihre theoretische Bewertung und empirische Wirkungen
Creators: name: Wolff, Franziska
name: Gsell, Martin
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Umweltpolitik
subject: Monetäre Bewertung
subject: Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse
subject: governance
subject: Ökonomisierung
subject: Monetarisierung
subject: Marktschaffung
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales

description: Die Verwendung ökonomischer Ansätze ist ein bedeutender und zugleich umstrittener Trend in der jüngeren Umweltpolitik. Im vorliegenden Bericht wird erörtert, inwiefern die sogenannte „Ökonomisierung“ der Umwelt und ihres Schutzes nachhaltige Entwicklung hemmt oder fördert. Der Bericht grenzt unterschiedliche Praktiken einer Ökonomisierung voneinander ab und arbeitet ihre jeweiligen Chancen, Risiken und Gestaltungsoptionen in der Umweltpolitik heraus. So schafft er eine Grundlage für ihre differenzierte Bewertung.
Validating legal compliance: Governance analysis method
Creators: name: Hassan, Wael A
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: This dissertation introduces a logic-based, computer assisted framework for validating legal compliance of enterprise governance models. This framework is intended to help checking whether governance systems are consistent with the law. The framework proposes legal and enterprise models, a governance analysis method - called GAM -, in addition to a governance analysis language - called GAL -, and an implemented governance analysis tool - called GAT. The method consists in extracting requirements into GAL statements by using patterns and translating them into a logic model for consistency checking. The models, language, and tool proposed in this thesis evolved as a result of their application to governance laws (privacy and financial). The method's main processes were validated through application to Canadian and US laws (mainly PIPEDA and Sarbanes-Oxley) combined with various examples taken from enterprise systems. From these evaluations it was concluded that the method is formal, and repeatable for the purposes of partially extracting requirements from laws and enterprises, directly mapping these combined requirements into logic models, and checking results. The extraction process uses patterns to match legal and enterprise requirements. The representation process maps extracted requirements to GAL statements. The generation process takes as input GAL statements to generate a logic model. The Alloy logic analyser is then used to check legal consistency. Three legal-compliance validation techniques are proposed: model, ontology, and scenario checks. Model-checks validate the combined legal and enterprise requirements for logical consistency. Ontology-checks validate the enterprise structure and process. Scenario-checks validate enterprise scenarios. The techniques are shown to be useful for identifying conflicts and extracting counterexamples.
What makes an Olympic sport?
Creators: name: Farquharson, Karen
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Sociologist Kieran Healy posted this fun diagram on the Crooked Timber blog, a two dimensional model of Olympics sports by whether they are good (or bad) sports, and whether they belong in the Olympics (or not). Along with making me laugh, the diagram made me think of what makes a sport appropriate for the Olympics, and why we have these particular sports and not others.
Architecture for a hardware implementation of the OSPF protocol
Creators: name: Abou-Gabal, Mohamed
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: The shortest path problem is common in many different fields (transportation systems, mechanical systems, etc.). Most of the telecommunication industry protocols such as PNNI, OSPF and IS-IS use Dijkstra's algorithm or Bellman-Ford's algorithm to solve the shortest path problem. Today, the majority of the shortest path computations are performed in software, which is inefficient for real-time (voice and multimedia over IP) applications that are sensitive to delay. This research proposes a hardware architecture for the OSPF protocol. It also provides a hardware based shortest path processor architecture which is used by the OSPF system.
The Health and economic effects of light rail lines: design, methods, and protocol for a natural experiment
Creators: name: Frank, Lawrence D
name: Kuntz, Jennifer L
name: Chapman, James E
name: Fox, Eric H
name: Dickerson, John F
name: Meenan, Richard T
name: Saelens, Brian E
name: Young, Deborah R
name: Boone-Heinonen, Janne
name: Fortmann, Stephen P
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2019

description: Background: The health impacts of community design have been studied extensively over the past two decades. In particular, public transportation use is associated with more walking between transit stops and shops, work, home and other destinations. Change in transit access has been linked with physical activity and obesity but seldom to health outcomes and associated costs, especially within a causal framework. Health related fiscal impacts of transit investment should be a key consideration in major transit investment decisions. Methods: The Rails & Health study is a natural experiment evaluating changes in clinical measures, health care utilization and health care costs among Kaiser Permanente Northwest (KPNW) members following the opening of a new light rail transit (LRT) line in Portland, Oregon. The study is prospectively following 3036 adults exposed to the new LRT line and a similar cohort of 4386 adults who do not live close to the new line. Individual-level outcomes and covariates are extracted from the electronic medical record at KPNW, including member demographics and comorbidities, blood pressure, body mass index, lipids, glycosylated hemoglobin, and health care utilization and costs. In addition, participants are surveyed about additional demographics, travel patterns, physical activity (PA), and perceived neighborhood walkability. In a subsample of the study population, we are collecting direct measures of travel-related behavior—physical activity (accelerometry), global positioning system (GPS) tracking, and travel diaries—to document mechanisms responsible for observed changes in health outcomes and cost. Comprehensive measures of the built environment at baseline and after rail construction are also collected. Statistical analyses will (1) examine the effects of opening a new LRT line on chronic disease indicators, health care utilization, and health care costs and (2) evaluate the degree to which observed effects of the LRT line on health measures and costs are mediated by changes in total and transportation-associated PA. Discussion: The results of the Rails & Health study will provide urban planners, transportation engineers, health practitioners, developers, and decision makers with critical information needed to document how transit investments impact population health and related costs.
Kohlenstoffzentrierte Reaktivität von Carbodiphosphoran Liganden ermöglicht nicht-unschuldige Redoxaktivität, Ligand-Ligand-Kooperation und Duale-Bindungsaktivierungen
Creators: name: Schatz, Philipp
name: Xu, Weiqing
name: Rynek, Sebastian
name: Maser, Leon
name: Heise, Niels Valentin
name: Fuhr, Olaf
name: Fenske, Dieter
name: Hashemi Haeri, Haleh
name: Hinderberger, Dariush
name: Vogt, Matthias
name: Langer, Robert
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 540

description: Koordinierte Liganden sind in der Regel nicht mehr nukleophil und nicht in die Redox-Prozesse von Metallkomplexen involviert. In diesem Manuskript berichten wir über das Vorliegen beider Eigenschaften in koordinierten Carbodiphosphoranen (CDP), was zu bisher unbekannten, kohlenstoffzentrierten Reaktivitätsmustern führt: Ein CDP-basierender Rhodium-Pinzetten-Komplex ermöglicht dabei die Spaltung von zwei C−Cl-Bindungen in geminalen Dichloriden durch zwei aufeinanderfolgende, SN2-artige oxidative Additionsschritte, was zur Bildung eines stabilisierten Carben-Fragments führt. In Anwesenheit eines geeigneten Reduktionsmittels kann das Carben-Fragment in einer katalytischen Reaktion in Olefine oder Hydrodehalogenierungsprodukte überführt werden. Die entwickelte Methode kann auch zur Umwandlung von Fluorchlorkohlenwasserstoffen (FCKW) wie CH2ClF in Fluormethan und Methan verwendet werden. Der stark nucleophile Charakter der koordinierten CDPs spiegelt sich auch in dem geringen Oxidationspotenzial wider, was die Bildung von Radikalen begünstigt und zu einem einzigartigen kationischen Kohlenstoff-zentrierten radikalischen CDP-Liganden führt. Dieses kohlenstoffzentrierte Radikal ist in der Lage Wasserstoff durch das kooperative Zusammenspiel mit einem weiteren Liganden zu aktivieren.
Design and characterization of the Large-aperture Experiment to Detect the Dark Age (LEDA) radiometer systems
Creators: name: Price, Daniel
name: Greenhill, L. J.
name: Fialkov, A.
name: Bernardi, G
name: Garsden, H.
name: Barsdell, B. R.
name: Kocz, J.
name: Anderson, M. M.
name: Bourke, S. A.
name: Craig, J.
name: Dexter, M. R.
name: Dowell, J.
name: Eastwood, M. W.
name: Eftekhari, T.
name: Ellingson, S. W.
name: Hallinan, G.
name: Hartman, J. M.
name: Kimberk, R.
name: Lazio, T.Joseph W.
name: Leiker, S.
name: MacMahon, D.
name: Monroe, R.
name: Schinzel, F.
name: Tong, E.
name: Werthimer, D.
name: Taylor, G. B.
name: Woody, D. P.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Large-aperture Experiment to Detect the Dark Age (LEDA) was designed to detect the predicted O(100) mK sky-averaged absorption of the cosmic microwave background by hydrogen in the neutral pre-and intergalactic medium just after the cosmological Dark Age. The spectral signature would be associated with emergence of a diffuse Lya background from starlight during 'Cosmic Dawn'. Recently, Bowman et al. have reported detection of this predicted absorption feature, with an unexpectedly large amplitude of 530 mK, centred at 78 MHz. Verification of this result by an independent experiment, such as LEDA, is pressing. In this paper, we detail design and characterization of the LEDA radiometer systems, and a first-generation pipeline that instantiates a signal path model. Sited at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory Long Wavelength Array, LEDA systems include the station correlator, five well-separated redundant dual polarization radiometers and back-end electronics. The radiometers deliver a 30-85MHz band (16 < z < 34) and operate as part of the larger interferometric array, for purposes ultimately of in situ calibration. Here, we report on the LEDA system design, calibration approach, and progress in characterization as of 2016 January. The LEDA systems are currently being modified to improve performance near 78 MHz in order to verify the purported absorption feature.