cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Petrogenesis of the late Archean Quetico alkaline suite intrusions, Western Superior Province, Canada
Creators: name: Lassen, Birgitte
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Geology.

description: A suite of 13 late Archean subalkaline to alkaline intrusions were studied by major and trace element geochemistry and neodymium, hafnium and lead isotopic methods. The intrusions (2683 - 2678 Ma) are located in the Quetico metasedimentary belt, western Superior Province, and include pyroxene hornblendite, diorite, monzonite, syenite and carbonatite. The samples display arc-like trace element patterns with high Cs, Ba, Sr and light rare earth element abundances and low Zr, Hf, Nb, Ta and Ti. Neodymium and hafnium isotope data reflect derivation from a depleted mantle source with minor contribution from an enriched source. Lead isotope ratios from K-feldspar separates are dominated by a slab fluid or crustal component. Quantitative modeling of trace element and isotope ratios illustrates that a metasomatic event shortly before melting produced the main geochemical signatures, but a contribution from an older crustal source is also required to explain the range in data. Melting models based on rare earth element variations suggest that melting occurred over a range of pressures or took place in the garnet spinel transition zone. The intrusive complexes can be subdivided into two groups on the basis of high field strength element distribution, which appears to reflect mantle heterogeneities resulting from differences in metasomatic processes. The most abundant group exhibits super-chondritic Nb/Ta and excess Nb relative to magmas produced by melting of a fluid metasomatized mantle. These characteristics are in accord with metasomatism by silicic melts that have left rutile in the residue and the metasomatic agent is thought to be a mixture of slab-derived fluids and melts. The trace element chemistry of the remaining intrusions reflects a source affected by fluid metasomatism. Carbonatite constitutes a minor part of the Beaverhouse Lake intrusion. Qualitative major and trace element modeling suggests that the carbonatite formed by carbonate-silicate liquid immiscibility. The carbonatite is characterized by highly depleted hafnium isotopic signatures, which are interpreted to result from a previous episode of carbonate metasomatism. Modeling of Lu-Hf partitioning during silicate-carbonate liquid immiscibility suggests that anomalously high hafnium isotopic ratios should develop with time in the carbonate phase, which has potentially important implications for carbonate metasomatism.
MPEC 2025-J46 : 2021 HV1
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Writing Religion: A Comparative Study of Ancient Israelite Scribes, their Writing Materials and their Methods Used in the Writing of the Hebrew Prophecies
Creators: name: Moore, James D.
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Ezekiel 18
Hosea 1-3
Scribal Culture
Literacy

description: In this thesis, Moore attempts to explain the development of Hebrew prophetic texts based on comparative evidence from other ancient Near Eastern (ANE) cultures. He investigates three different but connected topics followed by two case studies that apply the results of his investigations to Hos 1-3 and Ezek 18. The first study explores the social horizon of literacy in the ANE. Moore shows that knowing an ancient Hebrew writer's social context can aid in an interpretation of the text. He questions the long standing view that only elites were literate in the ANE. The second study focuses on different mediums on which ancient writers wrote. Circumstantial evidence leads to the conclusion that wax-boards were likely used in ancient Israel and Judah for various literary genres, including letters, and for drafting purposes. A final study examines various prophetic texts from the ANE to determine which literary genres were likely used in the textualization of the Hebrew prophecies. Moore opines that some, if not many, Hebrew prophecies were first written as letters. Applying these findings to Hos 1-3, he demonstrates that Hos 1-3 underwent a Judahite redaction after an original writer composed Hos 1-3 as a letter to a king. This historical reconstruction explains the enigmatic problem of shift in grammatical person between Hos 1-2 and Hos 3. A second case study on Ezek 18 claims that a writer composed Ezek 18 as a letter to the leaders of Jerusalem. Based on its distinct literary units, five prophetic utterances and two didactic expansions, Moore reconstructs how it was drafted and proposes that it may have been drafted on wax-boards. The study proposes new ways of thinking about redaction criticism, scribal activity, and the Hebrew prophets.
Physical and numerical modelling of wave interaction with a three-dimensional submerged structure
Creators: name: Baker, Scott
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.
subject: Engineering, Marine and Ocean.

description: Submerged structures are frequently used in coastal engineering applications, such as tunnel and pipeline protection works, breakwaters, and artificial reefs. Although a significant number of research works have focused on low-crested structures, there is far less research into deeply submerged structures. In most research, lightly-sloped, uniform cross-sectioned submerged structures with specific crest elevations are considered. The present thesis deals with the three-dimensional physical and numerical modelling of the interaction of irregular waves with a large-scale three-dimensional submerged structure. It aims to advance the understanding of the structure's influence on the irregular wave field, the wave-induced velocities along the structure crest, and the wave-induced currents. The ability of a nonlinear Boussinesq wave model to simulate these processes is also investigated and assessed. Analysis was performed on a multitude of data, including---but not limited to---wave heights, wave periods, wave energy spectra, energy transfer functions, reflection analyses, and wave-induced velocities. In general, the analysis and comparison performed showed that the numerical model provided a modestly accurate representation of the physical modelling results.
Effet de la retraite sur le bien-être des résidents de l'Outaouais
Creators: name: Saint-Germain, Anouk
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Gerontology.
subject: Geography.
subject: Sociology, General.

description: This thesis, as part of the project Iniquites geographiques et bien-etre: la population agee de l'Outaouais, has two objectives: finding out if retirement influences the retired people's perceived well-being, and attempting to target characteristics that influence the 55--75-year-old retired people's well-being. The exhaustive literature review is followed with a description of the Outaouais region and its people, a conceptual frame, and research questions analyzing the impact of retirement on well-being, before identifying the effect of several characteristics (sex, social capital, human capital and some geographic characteristics) on the retired people's well-being. Following is the methodology describing our survey and the statistical methods used to analyze the data. Presented in two chapters, the first one descriptive and the second one analytical, the results between retirement and well-being are not conclusive. It is a different story for characteristics influencing the retired people's well-being, as some have a subtle influence on life conditions' satisfaction and others have a huge influence on the retired people's well-being. Sex and marital status have little influence on the retired people's life conditions, whereas human capital and mobility have a large, influence on both the retired people's well-being and their life conditions' satisfaction. In conclusion, we think that retirement is not a major event, but its effect, combined with other factors; would have an impact on the retired people's well-being in Outaouais.
MPEC 2025-J47 : 2023 HR6
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Localization of preschoolers' behavior on four playgrounds.
Creators: name: Rallis, Mary.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Clinical.

description: Naturalistic observations were made on 72 preschoolers in four daycare centres to determine whether preschoolers preferred certain areas of the playground and whether specific social and cognitive behaviors were localized in particular parts of the playground. Each playground area was classified in one of four ways (enclosed/private areas, play structures, pavement, and sand) to determine whether different areas elicit different behaviors. Whether individual differences in internalizing or externalizing behaviors or sex influenced amount of time spent in different types of areas or number of areas played in were also examined. Results indicated that preschoolers spent more time on pavement and sand than on play structures and private areas and that there was more unoccupied activity in the former two areas than in the latter. Sand appeared to promote fine motor play whereas play structures promoted gross motor play. Results did not support the hypothesis that externalizing or internalizing behaviors or sex influenced the use of space.
Formal specification and feature interaction detection in the intelligent network.
Creators: name: Kamoun, Jalel.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence.

description: Over the past few years, the subject of Intelligent Network (IN) has captured the interest of the telecommunications community. The objective of IN is to allow the introduction of new capabilities in the telecommunications network and to facilitate and accelerate in a cost-effective manner, service implementation and provisioning, in a multivendor environment. However, this objective confronts a major obstacle known as the feature interaction problem. The feature interaction problem occurs when a feature is prevented from performing its functionalities in the presence of other features. In the first part of the thesis, we describe a LOTOS model for structuring the Functional Entities (FEs) that are defined in the Distributed Functional Plane (DFP) of the CS1 IN Conceptual Model (INCM), and that are involved in the establishment of a call/connection and invocation and processing of services. The specification of IN services is achieved using Service Independent building Blocks (SIBs). It is designed in a way that independent specification and rapid introduction of services is provided. In the second part of the thesis, a method for detecting feature interactions between services is developed. The method is limited to the detection of interactions caused by violation of features properties. It is based on formalization of feature's properties, derivation of goals satisfying the negation of these properties and use of Goal Oriented Execution to detect traces satisfying these goals. A trace satisfying a goal shows that an interaction exists between the specified features by describing a scenario violating one of the properties of the introduced features. It is concluded that LOTOS is useful as a Formal Description Technique (FDT) in the Service Creation Environment (SCE). The developed specification can be used for adding specifications of new services, and for detecting interactions caused by violation of properties, if there are any.
Dynamic scheduling strategies for FMS hub networks with flow time consideration.
Creators: name: Mao, Yimin.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Industrial.

description: This thesis investigates the effects of dynamic rescheduling strategies of jobs at multiple revisited workstations called hubs on the performance of Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS). The objective of rescheduling jobs at workstations is to improve various aspects of the production flow and manufacturing productivity. Compared to fixed queue scheduling rules, dynamic changes in queue scheduling rules for hubs at certain intervention times, are shown in some cases to reduce total job flow time (maximum completion time of all jobs in a fixed total "Makespan") and average flow time (average completion time) simultaneously. The development of dynamic hub scheduling rules including intervention time specification to improve job flow measures establish the basis for an Expert System rules base for dynamic scheduling. The rationale for dynamic queue scheduling rules are developed from analysing the machine idle time structure for a simple single hub system operated under fixed queue scheduling rules. The intervention and rescheduling procedure is applied to increasingly complex and concrete FMS cases use a flexible simulation model including animation of the production facility. Specifically, this thesis provides a methodology for developing and evaluating the rescheduling rules with respect to the trade-off between Makespan and average completion time for a mixed number of jobs in an FMS defined by hub and non-hub workstations.
KTH Customizations of InvenioRDM
Creators: name: Lönneborg, Rosa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: InvenioRDM
Open Source
Software Customizations
User Requirements
Institutional Repositories
UX
OR2024

description: Presentation outlining the KTH Royal Institute of Technology's customizations of the institutional repository platform InvenioRDM.
On Dynamic Neural Responses and Neural Network Interactions during Taste Processing
Creators: name: Mahmood, Abuzar
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Coherence
Gustatory
Multiregion
Population Dynamics
Systems Neuroscience
Transitions

description: The computational capacity of the brain (and artificial neural networks, which draw inspiration from brain function) is derived from the nonlinear transformations carried out in neural circuits. Such non-linearity is instantiated in the brain, not only by nonlinear transformation of neural “codes” across brain regions (which could be taken to correspond to layers in an artificial neural network), but also by similar dynamic (i.e. changing) transformations within single brain regions over time. Such temporal transformation of encoding in brain regions is allowed by recurrency of neural connections (circuits providing inputs to themselves) and generates dynamic activity patterns during neural processing for many tasks. Furthermore, such dynamics allow the same neurons to essentially behave in different ways over time, and hence perform different functions over time. Consequently, this means that neural circuits interact with each other in different ways over time. However, brain function is further influenced by (long-lasting) body states (e.g. sickness), context (e.g. new vs. familiar environments), and behavioral modes as attention vs. disengagement or awake vs. sleep. Therefore, “intrinsic” dynamics in the brain are occurring with a backdrop of changing external input, hence, to advance our understanding of neural processing we need to account for the intra- and inter-circuit interactions and dynamics that are embedded in a hierarchy of timescales.
description: Although the dynamics of neural activity is a rapidly evolving topic of research, the contribution of this aspect of neural processing is still being understood. The work in this thesis investigates how neural processing and communication between neural populations change with brain/body states, and over shorter periods of time during stimulus-evoked responses in the context of taste processing. Starting with a general introduction into neural dynamics, and inter-region communication, I go on to discuss how the same neural population responds differently depending on body state (sickness). From there, I move on to discuss the dynamics of multi-region communication during taste processing, ending with an exploration of changing neural “encoding” over time, and discussing how any instance of neural responses can be considered as being generated from hierarchical processes at multiple timescales.
Supplementary Materials from Stress-coping styles are associated with energy budgets and variability in energy management strategies in a capital breeder
Creators: name: Shuert, Courtney
name: Pomeroy, Paddy
name: Twiss, Sean David
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 310901
subject: Animal behaviour

description: Shuertetal_PRSB-2024-1787_ESM.docx
Cypriot Continuation Through the Crisis Years: an Analysis on Late Bronze Age Cypriot Ceramics
Creators: name: Riggs, Katherine
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Late Bronze Age
Cypriot Ceramics
Enkomi
Kition
Idalion
Late Bronze Age Collapse
White Slip Ware
Base Ring Ware
Cyprus

description: The Late Bronze Age collapse was a defining event in our understanding of Bronze Age and Early Iron Age culture. Although research still leans to the idea of a Mediterranean-wide societal collapse, some Late Bronze Age sites show evidence of continuation through the Collapse and subsequent Crisis Years (1250-1050 BCE). One such site is the island of Cyprus. This thesis argues for a continuation of Cyprus’s culture, occupation of Late Bronze Age cities, and foreign trade connections by examining Cypriot ceramics, one of Cyprus's largest exports. The continuation of certain types of ceramics, their quality, and the production and distribution of Cypriot ceramics argue for the continuation of Cypriot culture, occupation, and trade throughout the Crisis Years, when other civilizations collapsed. The forms, quality of decoration, and production of ceramic assemblages from three sites—Enkomi, Kition, and Idalion—are used in this analysis. The ceramic assemblages of three comparative sites—Mycenae, Tel Dor, and Ayios Sozomenos—act as comparisons to Cypriot ceramics to reinforce this thesis’s argument for continuation.
Medication adherence in urban men's shelters: An ethnographic study
Creators: name: Binch, Joanna
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Nursing.
subject: Health Sciences, Public Health.
subject: Sociology, Public and Social Welfare.

description: The purposes of the study were to investigate homeless men's experiences of taking medications while living in a homeless shelter and the factors that affect medication adherence; and to describe medication adherence, as it pertains to homeless men residing in a shelter, from the perspective of the shelter staff. This is a manuscript-based thesis. The first manuscript provides a description of a proposed ecological model, based on clinical experience of the author and from the literature. The second paper is a summary of the findings of the qualitative research on medication adherence and homeless men's shelters. The third manuscript, directed at pharmacists, offers recommendations and strategies based on results of the qualitative study, to improve medication adherence. This thesis suggests that when health professionals view adherence to medications as an individual, cognitive choice, it does not take into account the challenges imposed by a homeless individual's environmental context.
Novel naphthalene-2,3-diol antioxidants: Design, synthesis and reactivity
Creators: name: Charron, Martin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Organic.

description: Antioxidants, which are molecules capable of inhibiting or quenching free radicals, are believed to be very important molecules for preventing and limiting ''oxidative stress'' in human cells. This oxidative stress is caused by unwanted reactions between free radicals and cell's vital constituents, such as DNA, proteins and lipids. These reactions are responsible for lipid peroxidation, DNA and proteins breakage and mutations that are today known to be associated with degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease as well as with aging. The design and development of new antioxidant molecules more effective than Vitamin E, a key antioxidant in human blood, may have value in the prevention of some diseases and slow down the aging process. Compounds 23 and 66, for example, were 2 and 84 times more effective than Vitamin E at quenching DPPH. These compounds were also shown to be considerably less toxic to Adrenal Pheochromocytoma cells than the catechols such as 3 and 6.* *Please refer to dissertation for diagrams.
Donor selection for patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: Assessment of the priorities of Canadian hematopoietic stem cell transplant physicians
Creators: name: Tay, Jason
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Surgery.
subject: Health Sciences, Health Care Management.

description: Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation is applied in the management of cancer. It involves myeloablative chemoradiotherapy followed by infusion of donor stem cells. The characteristics of the donor stern cells influences transplant outcomes which itself, is dependent on the donor characteristics. The purpose of this thesis was to explore preferences over donor characteristics. A systematic review was performed to identify all donor characteristics associated with outcome. Eight traditional and 5 non-traditional characteristics were identified. The results of the review were used to inform a survey of the Canadian Bone Marrow Transplant Group which primarily includes transplant physicians. An online survey and conjoint analysis of Canadian Bone Marrow Transplant Group members was performed to define relative importance of donor characteristics. Canadian Bone Marrow Transplant Group members, including transplant physicians caring for adults strongly indicate preference for donors related to recipients (HR 2.97) over the donor's age, gender and cytomegalovirus compatibility.
Jeunes femmes, infections transmises sexuellement (ITS) et stigmatisation: Vers une comprehension feministe
Creators: name: Normand, Fanie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Nursing.

description: Les infirmières qui travaillent avec des personnes atteintes de problématiques sexuelles, et plus particulièrement d'une ITS, sont souvent affligées d'un sentiment de malaise, manifestent de la désapprobation morale ou tout simplement démontrent un manque de sensibilité envers la situation de leurs clients, ce qui décourage plusieurs de ces derniers dans leur quête d'aide ou d'information (Kinghorn, 2001). La gêne, la honte, la peur du discours moralisateur ou le manque de discrétion de la part du professionnel infirmier expliquent souvent l'hésitation des personnes atteintes d'une ITS à consulter les services de soins appropriés (Germain et Langis, 1990; Holmes et O'Byrne, 2006). Bref, les infirmières jouent un rôle important dans la santé sexuelle de la personne et doivent être en mesure de prodiguer des soins adéquats et exempts de jugements moralisateurs. L'objectif de cette recherche est d'étudier le processus interactionnel, soit la nature de l'interaction, entre l'infirmière et la cliente consultant des services de santé sexuelle pour des tests de dépistage (ITS), et ce, lors de la rencontre initiale, c'est-à-dire à l'étape de la collecte de données. Plus précisement, la présente recherche cherche à comprendre comment les infirmières, exerçant en clinique de santé sexuelle, construisent l'identité de jeunes filles adolescentes qui consultent pour des tests de dépistage d'infections transmises sexuellement. Compte tenu de l'état des connaissances actuelles et de la question de recherche, la théorisation ancrée a été privilégiée pour orienter notre recherche au plan méthodologique alors que les travaux de Goffman (1998) ont été consultés pour assurer la sensibilité théorique de la chercheure. Les résultats de la présente étude, obtenus par l'entremise d'entrevues semi-structurées, sont très intéressants. La plupart des informants croient que le questionnaire est inapproprié pour amasser des données sur la santé sexuelle des clients et, tout particulièrement des clientes adolescentes, car les questions posées sont personnelles, intimes, privées et invasives, pour d'autres informants le questionnaire est complètement inutile; le questionnaire entrave le dialogue entre le client et l'infirmière; le questionnaire entrave l'établissement et le développement d'une relation thérapeutique entre le client et l'infirmière; le questionnaire décourage les clients à consulter des services de santé sexuelle offerts. De même, les informants attestent que les questions posées lors de la collecte des données suscitent des sentiments négatifs chez le client, sauf que la plupart d'entre eux reconnaissent également l'infirmière comme étant un outil de stigmatisation.
alpha-Actinin-4 and the podocyte: Implications for focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
Creators: name: Michaud, Jean-Louis R
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.
subject: Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery.

description: Focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) is a common glomerular lesion and a significant cause of end-stage renal disease (ESRD). FSGS lesions result from damage to glomerular epithelial cells called podocytes, a key cell type involved in glomerular filtration. Mutations in the ACTN4 gene, encoding an actin-crosslinking protein, are causative of late-onset familial FSGS in humans. We have developed a mouse model of FSGS by expressing a high-affinity variant of alpha-actinin-4 (K256E) in a podocyte-specific manner. Transgenic mice display podocyte damage, subsequent loss of serum proteins into the urine (proteinuria), and glomerular sclerosis, similar to that observed in human patients. In cultured podocytes, alpha-actinin-4 K256E is mislocalized to stable actin-rich structures, which impairs cytoskeletal-dependent processes such as cell spreading and migration. We have also demonstrated that binding of alpha-actinin-4 to filamentous actin is regulated by calcium and phosphoinositides. Binding of calcium decreases the association of alpha-actinin-4 with actin, while binding of PIP2 and PIP3 enhances this interaction. High-affinity variants of alpha-actinin-4 are very static compared to the wildtype protein, and are insensitive to regulation by calcium or phosphoinositides. Such cytoskeletal dysfunction severely impairs the podocyte's ability to withstand mechanical stretch, a mimic of the distensive forces exerted on the podocytes in vivo. Although much insight has recently been gained into the biology of the podocyte, treatments for FSGS and other glomerular disorders remain few and ineffective. Further studies into the mechanisms involved in regulating the podocyte cytoskeleton in healthy and diseased states will surely lead to novel therapeutic interventions.
À grandes gorgées de poussière, suivi d'une réflexion sur le métissage générique à partir de l'autobiographie et de la fiction
Creators: name: Legault, Myriam
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Literature, Canadian (French).

description: La présente thèse en création littéraire comporte deux parties. La première partie propose un roman qui met en scène une narratrice à un âge, l'adolescence, où la volonté de changement se fait de plus en plus pressante. Martine souhaite plus que tout quitter son village natal pour vivre en milieu urbain. Elle sent (elle sait!) que si elle ne s'évade pas de son lieu d'origine, elle sera happée par lui, contrainte d'accepter une vie désespérément previsible. Ce qu'elle refuse de tout son être. L'arrivée de Nadine, "l'étrangère", celle venue "d'ailleurs", lui permettra de réaliser son rêve, mais au prix fort d'une redéfinition de sa relation avec Antoine, le complice depuis l'enfance, l'ami qui soudainement fait naître en elle les signes confus du désir. La deuxième partie constitue une réflexion sur le métissage générique à partir de l'autobiographie et de la fiction. Dans le premier chapitre, j'examinerai la capacité du roman à accueillir d'autres genres, en particulier l'autobiographie. Le deuxième chapitre présentera deux genres de nature autobiographique: l'autobiographie et l'autofiction. Enfin, dans le dernier chapitre, je ferai un retour sur À grandes gorgées de poussière. Trois catégories d'éléments auto-biographiques seront à l'étude: les lieux, les personnages et le thème de l'écriture. Cette réflexion me permettra de mieux cerner les enjeux de mon roman et, par le fait même, "de comprendre comment la biographie a nourri l'oeuvre pour édifier un espace imaginaire irremplacable 1". 1Jean-Philippe Miraux, L'autobiographie. Écriture de soi et sincérité, Paris, Nathan, 1996, p. 118.
Photogrammetric calibration of mobile robot kinematics
Creators: name: McNamee, Louis P
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.
subject: Engineering, Mechanical.

description: Numerous simulation and control applications of mobile robotics require accurate kinematic models. A kinematic model relates the position and orientation of a robot to control inputs. This thesis proposes a non-intrusive methodology to calibrate kinematic models for wheeled mobile robots. Model calibration requires accurate measurement of kinematic state and robust estimation techniques to account for process and measurement uncertainty. A photogrammetric camera system is used to measure the kinematic trajectory of wheeled mobile robot. A fully projective formulation of Lowe's pose recovery algorithm is used to estimate robot pose from monocular images. A derivative free form of the extended Kalman filter is applied to the time series pose data to estimate robot model parameters. Experimental results are presented for a differential wheeled mobile robot. Calibration by photogrammetry is shown to be viable for typical mobile robot applications.
Design and implementation of InterNeg support system in the Invite software platform
Creators: name: Wu, Shikui
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Engineering, System Science.

description: As part of the InterNeg project, Inspire, which is an e-negotiation system to conduct bilateral negotiations, has been developed and deployed. INSS (InterNeg Support System) is an e-negotiation system that allows to use different negotiation strategies and tactics, and to negotiate over open and dynamically modifiable problems. It is based on Inspire but enhanced and expanded with some new features for more practical negotiations. The focus of this paper is on the design and implementation of INSS and its key features, including: (1) the construction of a negotiation protocol which allows negotiators to formulate their own negotiation case online, to specify the process and the permissible activities of its participants; (2) the introduction of the problem specification and modification components to construct INSS in the Invite platform; (3) the specification of different types of issues and options which can be introduced by the users and interpolated (or extrapolated) by the system; and (4) the establishment of a negotiation case library. To implement the system, we apply Fusebox technology prototyping and rapid application development (RAD). The INSS negotiation protocol and all its components are implemented in Invite system with database-driven approach. The system's usability will be tested with a small group of participants in different contexts defined by problem complexity and users' characteristics. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
title: Πραγματικά και διανυσματικά Martingales
title: Real and vector valued Martingales
Creators: name: Κυριακου Χαραλαμπος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2025

description: Στην εργασία αυτή μελετούμε (διακριτά) martingales με τιμές σε ένα χώρο με νόρμα
Δίνουμε διαφορετική απόδειξη ειδικής περίπτωσης Θεωρήματος στο M. Girardi and W.Johnson Universal non Completely Continuous Operators,Israel Journal of Mathematics99, (1997), 207-219
Αποδεικνύουμε το εξής θεώρημα: Αν   είναι ένα martingale που δεν είναι Cauchy στην νόρμα του Pettis τότε υπάρχει τελεστής   έτσι ώστε το martingale   να μην είναι Cauchy στην νόρμα του Pettis.
Στη γλώσσα των τελεστών το παραπάνω θεώρημα διατυπώνεται ως εξής:
Αν   είναι ένας τελεστής που δεν είναι Dunford-Pettis τότε   τελεστής   έτσι ώστε ο τελεστής   να μην είναι D-P.
Επομένως παραθέτουμε γνωστά θεωρήματα από την θεωρία χώρων με νόρμα σχετικά με την ιδιότητα Radon – Nikodym (RNP).

description: In this work, we study (discrete) martingales with values in a normed space
We provide a different proof for a special case of a Theorem from M. Girardi and W. Johnson, Universal non Completely Continuous Operators, Israel Journal of Mathematics 99, (1997), 207-219.
We prove the following theorem: If   a martingale is not Cauchy in the Pettis norm, then there exists an operator   such that the martingale   is not Cauchy in the Pettis norm.
 In the language of operators, the above theorem is formulated as follows:
 If an operator   is not Dunford-Pettis (D-P), then there exists an operator   such that the operator    is not D-P.
Following this, we present known theorems from the theory of normed spaces concerning the Radon–Nikodym property (RNP).
Glycosidase inhibitory isoflavones from the seeds of Cullen corylifolium and their structure–activity relationship study
Creators: name: Xiao, Ying-Xiao
name: Jiang, Yi-Ran
name: Xu, Wen-Hui
name: Gao, Yuan
name: Bei, Tian-Tian
name: Xu, Hao
name: Wu, Xue-Feng
name: Lee, Hyun-Sun
name: Cui, Long
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biochemistry
Space Science
Pharmacology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: A novel isoflavone, designated as 2″R,3″S-dihydroxycorylifol A (1), along with ten previously identified isoflavones (2 - 11), was obtained from the seeds of Cullen corylifolium (L.). Through a combination of analytical methods, such as spectroscopy, and physical-chemical analyses, these compounds’ structural configurations were determined. The isolates were subsequently assessed for their in vitro α-glucosidase inhibitory potential. Notably, compounds 1, 2, and 5 demonstrated significant inhibitory effects on α-glucosidase, with IC50 values of 12.7 ± 1.2, 10.8 ± 1.1, and 14.1 ± 1.1 μM, respectively. Additionally, molecular docking simulations were conducted to predict the binding interactions of compounds 1 and 2 with the target enzyme.
Rhétorique des passions et romans d'enfance : l'exemple de Réjean Ducharme.
Creators: name: Seyfrid, Brigitte.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Literature, Canadian (French).

description: Commentant le Livre II de la Rhetorique d'Aristote, Michel Meyer affirme que la passion est moment rhetorique par excellence, debat toujours ouvert, sans solution ultime, a travers lequel s'affirment a la fois l'identite et la difference du sujet. Cette rhetorique des passions, nous avons choisi d'observer son fonctionnement dans le roman contemporain et, plus particulierement, dans le roman d'enfance, qui est tres permeable l'expression des passions. La trilogie ducharmienne de l'enfance (L'Avalee des avales, L'Oceantume, Le Nez qui voque) sert d'exemple pour montrer comment le pathos, se soumettant le logos, travaille le texte romanesque de part en part--sur le plan de la diegese, du commentaire metadiscursif, de la reception et des strategies discursives--le dotant ainsi de toute la complexite et de toute la diversite humaines. En matiere de critique et de theorie litteraires, la reprise en compte de la notion de pathos nous parai t essentielle car la representation des passions ainsi que les appels pathiques diriges vers le recepteur constituent, depuis toujours, l'un des principaux enjeux de la litterature (et de l'esthetique en general). Apres une periode de critique formaliste tres poussee, le recours a la theorie des passions permet d'unir a nouveau la phusis (la nature) a la techne (l'art) et de deboucher ainsi sur une approche renouvelee et feconde du texte litteraire. Notre premier objectif a donc consiste a rehabiliter le role, crucial, que joue le pathos au sein des arts et de la litterature en revenant aux vues stimulantes des rhetoriciens et des poeticiens classiques et en faisant dialoguer la conception des Anciens avec celle des Modernes. Notre second souci consistait a ne pas privilegier la theorie au detriment de la pratique du texte litteraire. Par le biais de l'analyse detaillee de nombreux fragments, episodes ou scenes de la trilogie, nous avons graduellement fait apparai tre comment les romans de l'enfance ducharmiens rompent avec la tradition litteraire du Quebec, qui pratique le refoulement des passions, pour se rapprocher davantage de l'esthetique surrealiste, qui privilegie un defoulement des passions. Une telle mise en evidence systematique de toutes les composantes pathiques des romans ducharmiens n'a pas encore ete tentee par les critiques. Elle s'impose pourtant si l'on veut saisir la dynamique du texte ducharmien, qui consiste a dejouer l'intellect, figeant l'etre et le monde dans l'unicite, l'identite, la repetition du meme, pour produire une explosion de la subjectivite et des affects, un univers mouvant et des heros eclates, polymorphes, tres fortement marques par le multiple et l'instable, le jeu des contraires, du paradoxe et des renversements de valeurs dont se nourrissent precisement les passions.
Changing face of Canadian foreign direct investment policy.
Creators: name: Cheema, Jatinder.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Canadian Studies.

description: Successive Canadian governments have been criticised on the ground that they pursue investment policy that advances the interests of the United States of America and its transnational corporations. Recently the focus of such criticism has been the investment provisions of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement ("FTA") and the North American Free Trade Agreement ("NAFTA"). This dissertation attempts to rationalize the investment provisions of the above mentioned agreements. While undertaking such an analysis, this dissertation reviews the origins and evolution of the debate on foreign direct investment policy of Canada. A preview on the historical perspective of this policy in this dissertation identifies the traditional concerns vis-a-vis foreign direct investments in Canada, especially in the U.S. context and contrasts these against the investment provisions of the FTA and the NAFTA. There has, over the last forty years, clearly been some changes in the foreign investment policy of Canada. What this policy was and how it has undergone a change is the subject matter of this dissertation. Why were the policies adopted by Canada aimed at curtailing foreign control and ownership of Canadian business enterprises? How does Canadian policy fair vis-a-vis those of other industrialised countries? What does liberalization of foreign investment mean for Canada in economic and legal terms? These are some of the other questions that this dissertation attempts to answer.
Bibliothèques et transition climatique : Enjeux, actions et exemples
Creators: name: Bats, Raphaëlle, Cécile
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Bibliothèques
Transition climatique
Information scientifique
Changement climatique
Savoirs

description: Conférence pour les médiathèques de Besançon, septembre 2024.

Illustration des enjeux liés aux transitions climatiques pour les bibliothèques, avec le projet ECODOC.
Rôle du milieu et vie associative locale francophone dans l'est ontarien.
Creators: name: Gigon, Nathalie.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Geography.

description: Quel role jouent les associations locales dans la vie communautaire francophone de l'Est ontarien? Comment la vie associative "en francais" a-t-elle evolue au cours des dernieres decennies? Quel est l'impact du milieu sur la dynamique communautaire de la minorite francophone? Tenter de repondre a ces questions, c'est ouvrir une piste dans l'exploration du fait francophone en Ontario, sans pretendre pour autant saisir toute la complexite des relations sociales et spatiales qui lui sont propres. Deux approches guident la conception de cette recherche. Une premiere partie est fondee sur des donnees objectives, a savoir le niveau de participation a la vie associative locale et son evolution. Elle est basee sur un choix d'associations francophones traditionnelles actives en Ontario, et permet une vision dynamique de l'implication individuelle des Franco-Ontariens a l'echelle des communautes locales. La seconde partie, subjective, rapporte les resultats d'entrevues menees aupres des dirigeants des dites associations. Cette aspect du travail est destine a rendre compte des opinions et de la perception qu'ont les "leaders" de la vie communautaire. La dynamique communautaire, examinee a la fois en tant qu'espace participatif et espace vecu, varie selon le milieu dans lequel elle evolue. En distinguant differents milieux en fonction de leur concentration linguistique (milieu majoritaire, paritaire, minoritaire) et de leur position dans la hierarchie urbaine regionale (municipalite centrale d'une grande ville, banlieue, petite ville en milieu rural), on peut degager certains effets de milieu et certaines convergences qui caracterisent la vie associative de cette partie de l'Ontario.
Potential Recruitment of YoaA in DNA Damage Response Pathways in Escherichia coli
Creators: name: Zur, Yonatan Moshe
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2021
Subjects: DNA Damage
DNA
DNA Repair
E Coli

description: DNA damage is ubiquitous to all cells. When left unrepaired, it can impede polymerization during the DNA replication process. This causes the formation of single-strand DNA (ssDNA) gaps, which, if left unrepaired, can lead to double-stranded breaks. Repair mechanisms are essential to maintaining the genomic integrity of the cell. Helicases have an essential role in the repair process and are responsible for unwinding the nascent DNA strand to open up the damaged DNA to repair proteins. In Escherichia coli (E. coli), YoaA is a putative 5′-3′ helicase believed to have a role in DNA repair. Expression of YoaA protein has been shown to promote resistance to DNA damage by 3azidothymidine (AZT), a chain terminator that causes the formation of single strand DNA gaps. My objective was to identify whether YoaA is recruited in several DNA response pathways, specifically looking at potential transcriptional involvement of YoaA in R-loop degradation, activation of YoaA under acidic conditions, and the involvement of YoaA in DNA repair by homologous recombination. YoaA was not found to be involved in any of these processes and further research is required to elucidate the function of the protein in DNA repair.
A comparative study of the acquisition of French verb tense and aspect in early, middle, and late French immersion.
Creators: name: Dicks, Joseph.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Education, Language and Literature.

description: In the present thesis, the interlanguage development of second language acquisition (SLA) was examined as it relates to students' French verb tense use in three program variants of French immersion: early French immersion (EFI), middle French immersion (MFI) and late French immersion (LFI). Verb tense is a crucial element of the French language and an area of considerable difficulty for students in French immersion (FI). The age at which the learners were first exposed to intensive amounts of French varied in each of these programs--5 years of age (Kindergarten) in the earliest starting program, EFI, 9 years (grade 4) in MFI, and 11 years (grade 6) in the latest starting program, LFI. Fourteen separate FI classes were studied: eight at grade 6 and six at grade 8. There were two classes per program at each grade level with the exception of grade 6 MFI where all four classes were involved. A major goal of this thesis was to study the issue of 'starting age' in SLA as it applies to intensive exposure to the second language (L2) in a school setting. Those who favour an early start argue that the larger number of cumulative hours of exposure to the L2 coupled with a 'natural process' of language acquisition produce better results. Those who prefer a later start claim that a 'natural process' of SLA need not be limited to younger learners, and that the older learner's advanced cognitive ability and first language literacy skills result in more rapid and efficient language learning. In general, the results of this research indicated that, regarding students use of basic French verb tenses, all three French immersion (FI) programs were working effectively as reflected in the superior performance by grade 8 students in all three programs on both tests. On the more analytic, written task two groups of later-starting students appeared to make fairly quick progress in some casesby the end of grade 6), and performed at a level which was closer to their earlier starting peers. Learner factors such as starting age (i.e., cognitive maturity and first language literacy), and second language fluency seem to interact with different pedagogical techniques to produce results which advantage late starting learners on more analytic tasks. Finally, the interlanguage analyses provided evidence that the passe compose and imparfait aspects of the written French past tense are extremely difficult for students in French immersion. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)