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Enhancing Digital Literacy Among Canadian Immigrant Older Adults: Insights from Community-Based Research and an Educational Program
Creators: Salma, Jordana
Kleib, Manal
Au, Alesia
Sayadi, Ghada
Siddiqi, Hesham
Zhao, Tianqi
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

Immigrant older adults face unique challenges when it comes to technology compared to other older adults. Although there are digital learning programs available for older adults, there is limited information available on the specific needs and strategies of older immigrants.

To address this gap, we conducted a community-based qualitative study using group-based digital learning sessions that were developed in collaboration with the immigrant older adults. We partnered with two organizations in Edmonton, Canada, that support local ethnocultural communities and recruited 31 older immigrants who spoke Arabic, Farsi, and Kurdish. Data was collected through interviews, focus groups, and by observing participant interactions during the digital learning sessions specifically how the program design met learning needs.

This report provides an overview of the findings on how older immigrants use information and communication technology (ICT) and aims to better understand their experiences in participating in group-based digital literacy sessions.
The Role of Independent Educational Consultants in the College Application Process
Creators: name: Smith, Jill M.
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2014
Subjects: college admissions
college advising
independent educational consultants

description: This dissertation focuses on the growing role of private, for-profit Independent Educational Consultants (IECs) in the college application process. Over the past two decades, an “admission industrial complex” of commercial enterprises designed to help students strategize about\r admissions and give them information about colleges has arisen. Some components of the complex, such as test preparation coaches and IECs, can also be categorized as forms of “shadow education,” or private educational opportunities that exist outside of schools and largely benefit\r economically advantaged students. Use of such services features prominently in the intensive parenting strategies of upper middle class parents. This dissertation answers questions about whether IECs contribute to social stratification or mobility. To look at the influence of IECs on a micro level, a close focus is trained on interactions, tensions, and expectations that exist within familial and IEC-client relationships. Particular attention is paid to how families make the decision to hire an IEC, how they go about the selection process, and the reasons for why they are satisfied IEC with services. Data were gleaned from interviews with IECs based in eastern Massachusetts, IEC clients (including parents and students), interviews at a privately-funded organization that provides college counseling and mentorship to disadvantaged students, and observations at a conference of the Independent Educational Consultants Association. Data analysis was informed by an inductive “grounded theory” approach. Results show that clients highlight IECs’ role as mediator, matchmaker, and personal assistant and downplay the role of IECs in using “connections” and “secret strategies” to facilitate admission as popularized in the mass media. While it does not seem like IECs play much of a role in the social mobility of the typical affluent IEC student, an examination of the IEC industry does highlight many of the ways in which socioeconomic advantage functions in the college admissions arena and may extend this privilege into adulthood and maybe even into the next generation. The IEC industry is only\r one contributing factor to the reproduction of privilege for affluent youths, but it appears that the impact on mobility could be more significant for disadvantaged students who receive pro bono\r IEC services.
title: Keystone of Revolution
title: Cuban Socialism and the Special Period
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Johnson, Isaiah D.
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Socialism
Communism
Imperialism
Fidel Castro
21st century Socialism
Colonialism
Cold War
Culture War
Cuba
Latin America
Racism or Race Relation

description: My research explores how Cuban Socialism managed to survive into the modern post-Cold War era, and how the Island of Cuba continues to remain a living example of socialism. My thesis seeks to center the transformative decade of the “Special Period” in order to articulate the human sacrifice of the Cuban people in their effort to realize the survival of Cuban sovereignty, and navigate the realities of a newly emerging hegemonic world system. By exploring the geo-political climate , imperial histories, and the vying cultural tides amongst the Cuban people, my project looks to center the Special Period not simply as a period of stagnation, but of grassroots rebellion against empire.
Mechanisms of action of antidepressant drugs: Presynaptic and postreceptor mechanisms.
Creators: name: Mann, Catherine.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Pharmacology.

description: The etiology of clinical depression is unknown, but thought to be related to an impairment in brain transmission of monoamines. Depression is treated with antidepressant drugs which, regardless of classification, ultimately result in increased efficacy of aminergic transmission. Tricyclic antidepressants are known to inhibit the presynaptic uptake of amines. [3H]Imipramine, the prototype tricyclic antidepressant and a potential biological marker in depression, binds to both high- and a low-affinity sites in the brain. The high-affinity binding of [3H]imipramine to its binding site on the serotonin (5-HT) neuronal transporter has been shown to be a sodium-dependent process. However, that of [3H]paroxetine, a novel and selective 5-HT uptake inhibitor, has not yet been investigated. Because of a discrepancy between the onset of uptake-blocking effect and alleviation of depressive symptoms, the blockage of uptake is probably not the only pharmacological action of antidepressants underlying their clinical effect. Recent studies have reported decreases in beta-adrenoceptor and 5-HT2 receptor numbers following long-term treatment with antidepressants, and suggested that an adaptive change in amine receptors may be more relevent for the clinical effect. However, not all 5-HT uptake inhibitors elicit this downregulation. Recent research has thus centred on elucidating changes in the signal transduction apparatus of aminergic neurons. The 5-HT2 receptor in the brain is coupled to the phosphoinositide turnover cascade and protein kinase C (PKC) activity. The subcellular distribution of PKC following chronic antidepressant treatment has not yet been investigated. This study was undertaken (1) To compare the sodium dependence of [3H]paroxetine binding and [3H]5-HT uptake in rat diencephalon in order to confirm whether paroxetine binds to the 5-HT recognition site on the transporter, and (2) to investigate the effects of both acute and chronic antidepressant treatment on PKC location and activity (both basal and 5-HT2 receptor agonist (DOI)-challenged) in rat cortex and hippocampus. Results indicate that, antidepressant drugs induce differing but significant effects on PKC activity in the subcellular fractions of neurons both after acute and chronic treatment. These changes in PKC activity may alter transduction of cellular signals evoked by the binding of 5-HT to receptors. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
CITIZEN SCIENCE FROM THE IBEROAMERICAN PERSPECTIVE: An overview and insights by the RICAP network
Creators: name: Piland, Natalia
name: Varese, Mariana
name: Soacha, Karen
name: Lesandro Ponciano
name: Castañeda, Alexandra
name: Alvarez, Hernán G.
name: Cueva, Rubén
name: Guillermina D'Onofrio
name: Espitia, José Edilson
name: Cynthya Jurado
name: Kovach, Alexis
name: Luís, Cristina
name: Maldonado, Willy
name: Callejas, Sindy Martinez
name: Piera, Jaume
name: Plos, Anabela
name: Restrepo, Juan Felipe
name: Sánchez, Mayumi
name: Sandoval, Mónica Johanna
name: Torres, Diego
name: Torrico, Omar
name: Wallace, Robert B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Citizen Science, argentina
Latin American
Ibero American
Review

description: CS study and practice in Iberoamerica and the Caribbean is widespread and diverse. We identified 30+ search terms that embody CS in the region. A search in SPA/POR/ENG bibliographical databases resulted in 200,000+ publications, mostly concentrated in 7 countries. Out of 685 documented CS experiences in 9 countries, 81% focus on biodiversity, ecology and environment, and natural resource management; 73% are local or subnational. Further research is urgent to include other countries and to understand diverse goals driving CS in the region: e.g., informing decisions to improve livelihoods and conserve; educating youth for social change; valuing different forms of knowledge.
Optimism, coping, and adaptation in older women.
Creators: name: Boland, Anne.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Women's Studies.

description: This study looked at the relations among optimism, perception of stress, coping, and adaptation in women over the age of 60. It was hypothesized that optimism in older women would be associated with lower levels of perceived stress, a greater propensity to appraise stressors as challenges rather than as threats or losses, more adaptive coping strategies, fewer symptoms of distress, and higher levels of life satisfaction. The study used a prospective correlational design. One hundred and thirteen women took part in two interviews, separated by a minimum interval of three months. Although optimism was found to be correlated with most of the dependent variables (DVs), hierarchical regression analyses revealed that it lost its predictive power when the effects of the covariates, particularly Time 1 measures of the DVs and neuroticism, were statistically removed. The most important predictors of coping, distress, and life satisfaction were initial measures of these variables, followed by neuroticism. The discussion of the findings revolved around the importance of clarifying the construct of optimism. It was concluded that more research is needed to determine whether it is best conceptualized as bipolar or two-dimensional; in the latter case, optimism and pessimism would be related but separate constructs. Furthermore, the relationship of these constructs with neuroticism and extraversion needs to be further clarified. The results raise the question of whether the constructs of optimism and pessimism are subsumable under one or more of the "Big Five" personality factors (i.e., neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness).
Football as an Arena of Arab Ethno-national Identities: The case of Modern Israel
Creators: name: Mayer, Tahl
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Football
Ethnonationalism
Sport
Identity
Israeli Arabs

description: Football in Israel, as in the rest of the world, has been inseparable from ethno-national identity. This thesis looks at the different ways in which soccer has helped to shape Arab identity in Israel in the twentieth century. It pays a particular attention to the changing position of the Israeli Arab in the Jewish state and to how being an internal enemy has played out for Israel’s Arabs on the football field. The method used here is text analysis of previous research and of newspaper accounts. \r \r The thesis shows that soccer has been an important arena for the formation of Israeli Arab identity, and for the expression of its relationship to state institutions (Histadrut), existing Jewish sports clubs (Hapoel) and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This thesis makes two additional points: first that globalization and the accompanying media revolution, which have led to professionalization of the game and the construction of Arab role models, have also been influential in shaping Israeli Arabs’ ethno-national identity; and, second, that the stadium, where Jewish fans have othered Arab players---either those who play as individuals on mostly Jewish teams or those who play on all Arab teams---have pushed Israeli Arabs to identify as Palestinians rather than as ethno-nationally neutral sportsmen. Arab footballers in Israel, then, are faced with a dilemma, for they must choose between playing in the top league and serving as role models for Arab youth, while “buying” into Zionist ideology, and playing for an Arab team of inevitably lesser status. The thesis concludes that one possible way to overcome this conflicted identity and to bridge the Jewish-Arab ethno-national divide would be to engage Jewish and Arab youth in joint football programs from an early age. Organizations like Football For Peace, for example, could help build foundations for the two sides so they can plan even in the current stalemate for a shared future.
MAKTABGACHA YOSHDAGI NUTQI TO'LIQ RIVOJLANMAGAN BOLALAR  BOG'LANGAN  NUTQINI RIVOJLANTIRISHDA OLIB BORILADIGAN KORREKSION - LOGOPEDIK ISH TIZIMIDA ERTAKTERAPIYANING AHAMIYATI
Creators: name: Shakirova, Salima
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: В данной статье рассматриваются особенности речи детей с недоразвитием речи, связанная речь, развитие эстетического вкуса к психическому развитию детей с использованием сказкотерапии, виды сказкотерапии и их влияние на общее развитие детей.
Enhancement of transport properties of cement mortar and concrete by using graphene oxide
Creators: name: Mohammed, Alyaa Mrayeh Mohammed
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Transport phenomena in cementitious materials involve movement of mass and heat. Studying of these phenomena has been long ago representing a key solution to understand durability problems of cementitious composites. Most of transport phenomena take place in the pores of the microstructure of cementitious materials; hence modifying pores structure to control movement of any aspects is considerable goal to be achieved. In this study, the microstructure of the cementitious martials has been re-structured by adding nano material of graphene oxide. The test results showed considerable enhancement in transport properties of the cementitious matrix with graphene oxide.
Developing methods to detect nascent transcripts in single molecule fluorescence experiments
Creators: name: Wang, Ziwei
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Fluorescence models
Methods
Protein binding
Oligonucleotide probes
Microscopy
Transcription

description: Two new methods of detecting nascent transcripts in vitro in single molecule fluorescence experiments were developed in this study. The first method is to utilize the PP7 protein-PP7 target hairpin system. Templates containing PP7 target hairpin encoding region were constructed for single molecule fluorescence experiments. When dye-labeled PP7 protein specifically binds to the PP7 target hairpin in RNA, we should be able to detect transcripts by the fluorescence of dye-labeled PP7. Experiments on the templates showed the insertion of PP7 target hairpin system had little influence on transcription. Nonspecific binding of PP7 protein to the templates was also observed, which could be a problem at low transcription efficiencies. The second method is to detect transcription by dissociation of a DNA triplex. The triplex assay has been designed and the necessary DNAs have been constructed. This work provides solid basis of needed materials and understanding for these two new methods. With future study based on this work, a powerful tool for single-molecule studies of initiation may be developed.
Hybrid frequency-phase modulation: Performance analysis and applications.
Creators: name: Ghareeb, Ibrahim.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: This thesis studies the performance of joint frequency-phase modulation (JFPM) communication systems, it considers its spread spectrum as well as narrow band applications. JFPM signal has been mathematically modeled. Its power spectral density and bandwidth efficiency have been analyzed. A bit error rate performance of JFPM signals in AWGN as well as in Rayleigh fading channels is obtained. Assuming statistical independence of the diversity channels, we have analyzed the diversity combining reception of JFPM over Rayleigh fading channels. These analytical results show that, JFPM signals are characterized by relative simplicity in obtaining large set of waveforms, and thus by varying its parameters it can be suitable for either bandwidth-limited or power-limited applications. Compared to M-ary FSK signals that use the same number of tones, the needed minimum frequency separation between two adjacent tones for JFPM signals to satisfy the orthogonality condition is reduced. A spread spectrum system referred to as frequency hopped/joint frequency-phase modulation (FH/JFPM) has also been presented. The system model is described for both slow frequency hopping (SFH/JFPM) and fast frequency hopping (FFH/JFPM). Bit error rate performance for SFH/JFPM in the presence of broadband and partial-band noise jamming is analyzed, and the worst case jamming performance of this system is evaluated. It is shown that SFH/JFPM is less sensitive to broadband and partial-band noise jamming than the conventional frequency hopped systems. The design and analysis of the FFH/JFPM system over Rayleigh fading channels is presented. An expression for the probability of a bit error is obtained. Results have shown that the FFH/JFPM outperforms the conventional frequency hopped systems. A detailed analysis for the probability density function of the received signal phase in the presence of multitone jamming is provided. The probability density function is derived for any arbitrary transmitted signal phase. Based on this analysis, the probability of error for the FH/M-ary DPSK system in the presence of multitone jamming is obtained. The performance of coherent frequency hopped M-ary PSK system in multitone jamming environments has also been presented. Bit error rate performance of this system is analyzed. A simple expression for the probability of a bit error is obtained. The performance of this system in worst case jamming is also given.
Turbulence in Quantum Fluids
Creators: name: Sarkar, Saptarshi Rajan
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Bose Einstein Condensate
Fermi superfluid
Linear response
Quantum Turbulence

description: This dissertation explores quantum turbulence in the context of both bosonic and fermionic superfluids. After developing the mathematical and theoretical frameworks, I present the results from three projects. The first shows that important features of 3D turbulence can be captured by a 2D axially symmetric model. By comparing superfluid dynamics with classical hydrodynamics, we calibrate a model for the effective viscosity that measures the underlying quantum turbulence. The second explores fermionic turbulence in one of the largest simulations performed to date. The third looks at the linear and non-linear response of fermionic superfluid in a box potential. This work combines all the aspects of turbulence in a superfluid: controlled generation, verification, measurement and prediction.
Le rôle de l'affectivité dans l'apprentissage de la lecture: Étude de cas d'un élève en difficulté de lecture de la quatrième année de l'élémentaire
Creators: name: Clément, Nathalie L
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Education, Special.

description: Malgré une panoplie de recherches exhaustives sur l'épineuse question des élèves en difficulté de lecture, le phénomène demeure omniprésent. Les modèles basés essentiellement sur la dimension cognitive ne se révèlent pas efficaces auprès de tous les élèves en difficulté. Le Modèle novateur propose dans cette étude met en exergue l'affectivité comme un facteur critique dans les stratégies d'intervention. Ce Modèle fait usage des principales composantes tirées de trois modèles de lecture existants, dont deux modèles canadiens, soit ceux de Giasson (1995) et Van Grunderbeeck (1997) et d'un modèle belge, celui de Chauveau & Rogovas-Chauveau (1994). Le Modèle experimenté allie donc un travail au plan de la médiation affective aux mécanismes de médiation des habiletés cognitives et méta-cognitives propres à l'apprentissage de la lecture. Le but de l'étude du "Modèle mixte, cognitif et affectif, dans l'enseignement de la lecture" sert a examiner la contribution de ce Modèle par une étude de cas unique auprès d'un élève de quatrième année de l'élémentaire qui éprouve des difficultés importantes en lecture. Suite à une analyse mixte qualitative et quantitative (SPSS), les résultats révèlent que l'élève (1) progresse dans son utilisation spontanée de stratégies cognitives pour lire, (2) ameliore sa compréhension du texte et (3) modifie positivement son concept de soi d'apprenti-lecteur. Il appert que le "Modèle mixte, cognitif et affectif, dans l'enseignement de la lecture" réussit à donner le goût de la lecture à un élève en difficulté de lecture !
Molecular and neuronal mechanisms underlying early experience-dependent chemosensory plasticity in C. elegans
Creators: name: Kyani-Rogers, Travis Sherfy
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Chemosensation
Dauer
FOXO
GPCR
odr-10
Post-dauer

description: Across the tree of life, an organism’s survival and reproduction is dependent on the ability to sense, respond, and in some instances predict their environment. Organisms that can properly integrate environmental and internal cues to form adaptive behaviors can increase their fitness. One critically important sensory modality in animals is olfaction, which enables animals to locate sources of food and mates, as well as pathogens or predators. Responses of animals to food or chemical stimuli can vary based on their internal state and experience. How experience, particularly experiences during development, modulates behavioral differences in adult animals and how these experiences are encoded in the nervous system remains to be fully explained. Using the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans, our lab and others previously showed that adult animals which transiently experienced stress-induced dauer arrest, an evolutionarily conserved developmental diapause, (post-dauer) exhibit distinct gene expression profiles and behavioral responses compared to control adults which bypassed the dauer stage. Here I show that post-dauer adults also exhibit significantly enhanced responses to volatile attractive odors, including odors sensed by the AWA and AWC olfactory neurons, as compared to control adults that bypassed the dauer stage. In contrast, responses of post-dauer adults to repellents remain intact. We find that dauer larvae and post-dauer adults upregulate the diacetyl olfactory receptor ODR-10 in the AWA chemosensory neuron pair. Expression of this receptor in AWA neurons is known to drive food searching behavior in adult worms and is regulated in a sexual dimorphic manner. The dauer-induced upregulation of this receptor in AWA neurons requires the stress response transcription factor DAF-16/FOXO. Via spatiotemporally regulated depletion of DAF-16 in AWA, I have established that DAF-16 acts early in development prior to dauer entry to transcriptionally upregulate odr-10 expression, and that it is dispensable for the maintenance of higher expression levels in post-dauer adults. My data suggest a model in which early developmental stress is encoded at the level of regulation of olfactory receptor gene expression, and may modulate behavioral differences between adult animals based on their respective developmental experiences. In support of this model, I have also characterized additional genes of sensory molecules that are also subject to similar experience-dependent regulation.
How We Reconcile with the Past: National Narrative and Individual Consciousness
Creators: name: Zhang, Jiayi
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2024
Subjects: International and Global Studies

description: This thesis explores how the Chinese population came to make sense of the collective traumas associated with the struggle for the new China. Amidst the search for new national meaning in post-Mao China, the “fifth generation” of filmmakers were eager to capture the emotional impact and reconstruct the historical past. The stories they told helped the people to reflect upon their common history. These films allowed ordinary people to discuss the past without official guidance. By employing a semi-supervised seeded Latent Dirichlet Allocation (seeded LDA) on film reviews of Chen Kaige’s Farewell My Concubine on the Chinese online database Douban, this study presents a balanced map of four clusters of mentalities as distinct ways ordinary Chinese understand their historical past. Additionally, I examined the effectiveness of a top-down approach to culture through the study of contemporary presentations and reception of Chinese intellectual Lu Xun’s work. Analysis of popular expressions from online reviews of his short story collection Nahan and interviews conducted at the Shanghai Lu Xun Museum reveals a disparity between the official rhetoric and public perception of Lu Xun, along with generational conflicts in interpreting his legacy. Ultimately, this thesis seeks to deepen our understanding of how cultural and national narratives influence individual and collective consciousness within two dynamic systems: grassroots cultural interpretations through mass media and a top-down approach through education and institutions. The findings suggest that resilient and authentic thoughts fostered by grassroots interpretations may prove to be more sustainable than affected thoughts shaped by authoritative forces. This project thus contributes both empirically and methodologically to cognitive sociology and cognitively oriented social research.
The life-cycle of nearby galaxies: secular and external processes regulating the atomic gas content
Creators: name: Brown, Toby
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis investigates how the processes of galaxy evolution combine to regulate gas content and drive the life cycle of nearby galaxies. We use a sample of 30,000 galaxies that is representative of gas content, star formation and environment in the local Universe and take advantage of the HI spectral stacking technique. Our findings demonstrate the importance of fast-acting gas stripping due to environment and gas supply fluctuations in regulating the star formation cycle. This thesis provides new insights into the relationships between galaxy properties and environment in the local Universe, providing strong constraints for galaxy formation and evolution models.
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titleType: Subtitle
title: Intertextuality in the novel âA Little Lifeâ by Hanya Yanagihara
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Year: 2024
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english language
intertextuality
functions of intertextuality
types of intertextuality
modern fiction
use of intertext
concept

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description: The paper investigates the phenomenon of intertext in modern English-language fiction prose, its use and functioning. Different approaches to the understanding of intertext and intertextuality are considered, a review of existing classifications of intertext is given. Then the intertextual units in Hanya Yanagiharas novel âA Little Lifeâ are analyzed. During the analysis, six subconcepts revealed in the novel through intertextual units were identified. According to the results of the quantitative analysis, it was found that the subconcept âIdentityâ was revealed the most in the intertextual layer of the novel.
A GIS-based fuzzy logic method for mineral potential mapping: An experiment with a geological map of the Parry Islands, Northwest Territories, Canada.
Creators: name: Eddy, Brian G.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Physical Geography.

description: The application of fuzzy logic in a GIS framework is a valuable method to assist in mineral resource assessments (MRA) in areas where data are sparse. This study uses a digital geological map, backed by a digital geological data model, derived from published legends and reports. Together they function as a 'spatial-attribute relational data model' that provides evidence, in the form of derivative maps, to support mineral potential according to deposit model criteria. A knowledge-base is created with fuzzy membership functions linked to the classes of each derivative map that indicate favourability between geological features present in the database with those required by model criteria. A fuzzy-logic-based 'inference net', as implemented in the GIS modelling language, is used to combine spatial evidence to determine mineral resource potential for three mineral deposit sub-types: (1) MVT Pb-Zn, (2) Sedimentary Cu and (3) Sediment-Hosted Sulphides. This method is shown to be valuable for providing an 'audit trial' for the complex decision-making process associated with resource assessment; it provides a means for experimenting and testing various hypotheses and viewpoints associated with mineral deposit models, and mimics some aspect of how geologists determine mineral potential for a region using information provided in geological maps and mineral deposit model literature.
Spending Patronage: MaILHoC address by Dinah Casson
Creators: name: Casson, Dinah
Publisher: name: Science Museum Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: museum studies
curatorial
design
galleries

description: Dinah Casson CBE RDI is a British museum designer who has worked on several Science Museum projects including the Wellcome Wing and The Garden. After being introduced by Dr Alice Byrne, Co-I of the MaILHoC project, Casson looks back at 30 years of working in museum and exhibition design, a profession which she describes as a ‘bridge’ between curators and visitors. Casson gives an overview of her diverse portfolio of designing museums and exhibitions in the UK and internationally. From the seminal British Galleries at the V&A Museum, to projects such as Cité du Vin Bordeaux and the Benjamin Franklin Museum in Philadelphia, the designer describes how they approached the dynamics created by tensions between message, purpose and aesthetics. She also discusses the pragmatic challenges faced in projects funded by the Heritage Lottery, such as budget constraints and long planning processes. She talks about her experience of managing propaganda, sponsorship, and private patronage. She shares experiences of creating exhibitions with political undertones, such as for British Nuclear Fuels, which aimed to reframe the public perception of nuclear power. She illustrates how private sponsorship can shape not only exhibition politics, e.g. Lord Ashcroft’s donation of a large collection of military medals to a museum in exchange for naming rights, but also cultural production at large, e.g. the private purchase and transformation of Bishop Auckland, which effectively, reshaped the town and its cultural offerings. The keynote is followed by a Q&A with the audience, where Casson elaborates on relationships within exhibition teams, the use of text in galleries, and ‘matchmaking’ between museums and designers.
Human cognition, behaviour, and performance in an on-going dynamic task
Creators: name: Crameri, Luke
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis’ experiment directed participants to drive a simulator while having their vision obstructed for various time intervals. The aim was to evaluate the effects that visual obstructions have on participants’ driving performance, subjective workload, and biological responses. Interviews were conducted to identify what strategies participants used to cope with the visual obstructions. This thesis has implications for defence domains, proposing that when multitasking within a vehicle, individuals will experience task performance decrements if they disengage from one task for 3 seconds or longer. Lastly, merging different types of data can develop better predictors of performance.
Comprehensive Dental Care in Canada: The Choice Between Denticaid and Denticare
Creators: name: Lange, Thomas
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2020

description: A healthy mouth is an essential ingredient for overall good health, but a Canadian’s access to comprehensive dental care is dependent on their ability to attain private insurance. This paper seeks to estimate the gross and net total cost of two policy options for introducing comprehensive dental care into Canadian Medicare. Using a micro-costing approach for estimating the annual clinical costs, and an average-costing approach for annual administrative expenses, this paper estimated the total cost of universal first dollar dental coverage (denticare) and public dental insurance for children and uninsured adults in Canada (denticade). If the denticare option was implemented in the year 2019, the gross total public-sector cost would to be roughly $15.68 billion. This would replace the current $1.02 billion spent on existing public health dentistry programs and $6.27 billion spend on public employee’s dental plans. The total cost could be further offset by the inclusion of income-tiered premiums set at a maximum rate below private insurance provider prices. The net total cost of denticare would then be an aggregate decrease in public spending by $127.08 million. If the denticade option was implemented in the year 2019, the gross total public-sector cost would to be roughly $8.43 billion. This would replace the current $1.02 billion spent on existing public health dentistry programs but would not replace spending on public employee’s dental plans. The total cost could be further offset by the inclusion of income-tiered premiums and copayments. The net total cost of denticade would an aggregate increase in public spending by $1.41 billion. The results of this costing analysis demonstrate that by pursuing the universal first-dollar coverage option, Canadians taxpayers could see a reduction in tax-based spending and a considerable decrease in dental premiums changed than if the denticade approach was pursued.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol. 13 (2020)
Energy efficient dominating set based topology maintenance in ad hoc wireless networks
Creators: name: Shaikh, Jamil
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: In a multi-hop wireless network, each node is able to send a message to all of its neighbors that are located within its transmission radius. In a broadcasting task, a source sends the same message to the entire network. The routing problem deals with finding a route between a source and a destination. In the activity-scheduling problem, each node decides between active or passive state. We present a scheme whose goal is to prolong network life while preserving connectivity. Each node is either active or has an active neighbor node. Routing and broadcasting are restricted to active nodes that create such dominating set. Activity status is periodically updated during a short transition period. The main contribution of this thesis is to propose new metrics for previously studied source independent localized dominating sets, based on combinations of node degrees and remaining energy levels, for deciding activity status. Furthermore, our implementation of new metrics enhanced the life span of each node and whole network for 12% to 29%. We argue that our new approach can outperform conventional 802.11, conventional dominating set based ad hoc networks and span in terms of capacity, latency, and power savings.
Starting from Scratch: A Micro-Costing Analysis for Public Dental Care in Canada
Creators: name: Lange, Thomas
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2020

description: This paper presents a formulaic approach to micro-costing the expected direct clinical cost of a given public dental program in Canada. A micro-costing approach enables policy leaders to create or radically redesign existing public-sector dental programs by projecting the total cost generated by expected clinical demand. Current public dental plans employ heavy restrictions around the types of dental treatments offered, and the frequency by which a patient may seek treatment. These restrictions result in minimal allocations of public funds, and often result in patients being under-served and dental professionals being under-funded. Using the model described in the paper governments can project the costs of future dental care programming. The two novel programs costed in this paper were a universal dental care program for all Canadian residents (referred to as denticare), and a public dental insurance plan for all Canadian children and uninsured adults (denitcade). Details in the paper are laid out such that if a government was curious about the cost of programs other than the ones described in this study, such as funding preventative services for low-income seniors, then using this micro-costing model could generate a high- low- and baseline estimate for such a program’s annual clinical expenses.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol. 13 (2020)
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intellectual lability
reflexivity
autoreflexion
socioreflexion
students

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description: This work is devoted to the study of emotional self-disclosure of undergraduate students of higher educational institutions of St. Petersburg. In the course of the research, an analysis of the motives and components of students emotional self-disclosure in the process of communication was carried out using a set of diagnostic techniques. The data obtained were processed using mathematical statistics methods. The prevailing motives of students in the process of emotional self-disclosure are revealed. Significant differences in the components of emotional self-disclosure of men and women were found. The profile of respondents is described in the context of the intensity of emotional self-disclosure with different communication partners. Statistically significant relationships between motives, components of emotional self-disclosure and communication partners have been established. Intellectual lability and reflexivity of university studen.
Understanding the effect of nanostructured additives on hydride systems by means of electron transmission microscopy
Creators: name: Puszkiel, Julián
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: hydrogen storage
Catalyst
TEM

description: One of the main limitations for the implementation of hydrogen as energy carrier is the lack of an efficient and safe hydrogen storage system. Hydrogen storage in solid state through the formation of hydride compounds is a potential alternative to address this problem. In recent years, much effort has been devoted to improve the kinetic behavior of promising Li-Mg-B-H and Li-Mg-B-N-H destabilized hydride systems. In this work, nanosized additives added to 2LiBH4+MgH2 and 6Mg(NH2)2+9LiH+LiBH4 are characterized via transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The aim is to understand the role of in situ formed nanostructured additives on the kinetic behavior of the investigated hydride systems. The information gained by TEM is helpful to optimize solid state hydrogen storage system for practical applications.
Towards a Renewed Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Creators: name: Loconto, Allison Marie
name: Psarikidou, Katerina
name: Marris, Claire
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 2022
Subjects: societal challenges
science technology and society
food studies
food system transitions
sociology
food systems

description: “The Sociology of Agriculture and Food” (SAF) is a polysemic phrase. It represents a sub-discipline within the field of sociology, an epistemic community and a network of colleagues. This, the first editorial introduction of the new IJSAF editorial team, initiates what will be a four-year journey on the path of renewing the sociology of agriculture and food. This short essay provides the backstory for the team’s mandate, it introduces the research themes and enigmas that interest the editorial team and it positions the articles in this first issue as a first engagement with the renewed scientific program. It also introduces the new approach to better integrating the activities of the scholarly society (RC40) with the journal, in an attempt to increase the geographic and epistemic inclusivity of both.
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 28 No. 1 (2022): Regular Issue
Satellite Glial Cells and their Impact on the Development of Sympathetic Neurons in Wildtype and Hypertensive Animals
Creators: name: Kalpakian, Aaron Cohen
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Peripheral nervous system
Sympathetic nervous system
Hypertension
Nervous System

description: The superior cervical ganglia (SCG) contains satellite glia (SG) and postganglionic neurons, which innervate the heart. These cell types contribute to sympathetic drive, integrating neuronal activity from the CNS to drive peripheral function. There is evidence that these neurons contribute to neurogenic hypertension development, however, the contributions of satellite glia are not understood. By studying the relationship of the satellite glia on postnatal neuron development, our understanding of the sympathetic circuit can improve along with how it malfunctions in neurogenic hypertension. This project investigated the impact that SGs have on cultured postganglionic sympathetic neurons by quantifying their cholinergic synaptogenesis and activity using both Wistar Kyoto (WKY) and Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat (SHR) strains. My results show that cultured SHR neurons have increased cholinergic synapses compared to WKY; also, SGs have different effects on synaptogenesis between strains. I then increased SG activity using a DREADDs system to determine if it would impact neuronal development. My results show a trend towards increased synaptogenesis; however, further research is needed due to low sample size. Lastly, I tested if this chronic SG activation would impact spontaneous and nicotine-evoked neuronal activity by recording calcium fluorescence with the protein GCaMP6. Despite obtaining results, the sample size is too small to make conclusions. Overall, this project indicates that there are differences in neuron development in hypertensive models, with or without SGs. Further research is needed to determine if chronic activation of these SGs impacts synaptogenesis and neuronal activity and their contribution to the development of neurogenic hypertension.
Comparing clock gene cycling in the neocortex and SCN via RNAscope
Creators: name: Horsfall, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Neocortex
RNAscope
suprachiasmatic nucleus
Circadian Rhythms

description: Homeostatic plasticity consists of mechanisms that regulate the neuronal activity of neural networks. Many forms of homeostatic plasticity are under transcriptional control. Previous work in the Nelson lab has implicated canonical circadian genes play a role in regulating changes in activity in a bidirectional manner. Many of these genes have solely been studied as regulators of the circadian system and very little is known about their roles in the regulation of activity. Within the circadian literature, there is conflicting evidence of the cycling behavior of these genes in the neocortex. Here, we attempt to clear up questions of circadian cycling in the neocortex by using RNAscope, a type of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), to use a technique that allows us to look at cell-type-specific cycling. Overall, we find strong cycling in the brain’s master cycler the suprachiasmatic nucleus, but weaker cycling in the neocortex.