cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A categorical approach to linear logic, geometry of proofs and full completeness.
Creators: name: Haghverdi, Esfandiar.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Mathematics.

description: The major contributions of this thesis are in the areas of Geometry of Interaction (GoI) and full completeness for models of linear logic. Geometry of interaction was introduced by Girard in the late 80's. It provides a new semantics of computation that captures the dynamical aspects of computation; a feature which is missing in denotational semantics. Subsequently Abramsky and Jagadeesan introduced a categorical interpretation of this program using domain theoretical categories. Recently Abramsky introduced a general categorical GoI construction which leads to models of computation (combinatory algebras) based on GoI Situations that essentially consist of a traced symmetric monoidal category with additional structure. In this thesis we develop this general programme in all details. We also prove that this construction can be done in a more general framework, namely based on symmetric monoidal closed categories. We also introduce a class of categories, called unique decomposition categories (UDC), that axiomatise the so-called particle-style GoI along with providing a computational calculus. Unique decomposition categories are motivated by and generalise the partially additive categories of Manes and Arbib. These models are special cases of the general construction which capture an important class of examples. They provide us with dataflow-like computational analysis. We also establish connections with the work of Girard/Danos/Regnier on dynamic algebras. This formalises the path-based approach to GoI, the so-called path-semantics. The paths in proof-nets used in the work of Danos/Regnier correspond to morphisms in UDC-based models. Full completeness for models of linear logic was introduced and studied by Abramsky and Jagadeesan. Full completeness establishes the tightest connection between syntax and semantics: it is completeness with respect to proofs instead of the traditional completeness with respect to provability. Recently Hyland and his student Tan introduced the double glueing method in Tan's PhD thesis. Tan's work provides the first steps towards an axiomatic approach to full completeness problems for linear logic. In this thesis we construct a class of models for the multiplicative fragment of linear logic with the MIX rule, based on partially additive categories together with the Int construction of Joyal, Street and Verity and the double glueing construction. We also prove that such models are fully complete for the multiplicative fragment of linear logic with the MIX rule.
To enhance plastic pollution prevention (PPP), what methods have been implemented and which are most effective?
Creators: name: Bhatta, Priyata
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Land Pollution
Plastics

description: Plastic pollution is a major problem that has become a global crisis. The large accumulation of plastic and its resistance to decaying has negatively impacted the natural environment and has created severe problems. This research aims to investigate the various methods of plastic production prevention (PPP) to determine effectiveness. These methods include technological solutions, educational applications, and legal limitations on plastic bags and microbeads.
description: The traditional technological methods that were investigated were recycling, incineration, and landfilling. Private sector alternatives that utilize natural, plant based elements to make their products were also investigated. In terms of educational applications general environmental education was explored but the main focus was on campaigns. All of these campaigns aimed to educate the public regarding plastic pollution prevention and overall spread awareness to limit the production and use of plastic. Three different case studies regarding nationwide, state level, city level, and company level plastic bag and microbeads regulations were looked into.
description: These methods of plastic pollution prevention were compared to have a better understanding of the effectiveness of each approach. The results showed that these techniques made a difference in each sector to various degrees. In terms of microbeads, even though companies and nations banned them, they are still being used in products just with a different name. Similarly, in terms of plastic bag bans, even though regulations have been successful, there are disadvantages as well such as a booming blackmarket for plastic bags. Regarding technological solutions, there has been great scientific advancement regarding plastic pollution prevention, however, extensive further research is necessary before these approaches can play a significant role in helping to eliminate the plastic problem altogether. For educational applications, campaigns have shown a very high rate of success. However, further research is needed to truly understand the effect of these efforts to answer the question of effectiveness. The results based on the numerous case studies, sources and analysis, suggests that there are multiple ways of controlling plastic pollution. Even though all of these methods have their own strength, the consensus is that the most effective is when all of these are implemented simultaneously. With the help of strict laws, proper awareness, and technological advancements, long- term behavioral change is possible. It is, however, difficult to determine effectiveness of each approach due to the lack of quantitative data and analysis. There are many areas that need more research before we can fully assess the question of effectiveness.
Graphs: Isomorphism, Cycles, Reconstruction and Randomness
Creators: name: Ward, Grady
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2024

description: Given a graph, count the number of closed walks (called cycles) of every length that pass through each vertex in the graph. Counting the number of cycles gives us a vector which describes a kind of local resonance, a description of the localized area around each vertex within the graph. This idea is a numerical property, called an invariant, which is highly information dense–able to detect differences between graphs (or vertices) with high probability, but not sufficient to verify that two graphs (or vertices in a single graph) are the same. It turns out that we can calculate the number of Cycles very quickly, relative to how much information it gives us. The number of graphs you can create, even over a small number of vertices, is very large. However, the number is much larger if you consider different labelings of the same graph to be distinct. This difference matters in many contexts, but is made clear through examining standard random graph generators, which treat different labelings of the same graph as if they are different graphs. This is not a problem in and of itself (it makes sense in many practical contexts), but it warps theoretic arguments about the runtime of algorithms over ‘random’ graphs, in ways that we can describe through probability, algebraic proof and experimental results. It turns out that making up our own random graph generators can actually improve upon this state of affairs in a quantifiable way.
Impact of the Skyscraper Ban on China’s Economic Growth — A Difference-in-Difference Approach
Creators: name: Qi, Puyan
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2022
Subjects: China
Urban Planning

description: Since 1978, when China enacted economic reforms, cities all around China have encouraged the construction of skyscrapers. China has witnessed significant urbanization, as evidenced by the rise in the percentage of residents living in cities from 41% in 2004 to just over 60% in 2019 (Lu, 2022). It is believed that building high-rise structures is a common method to effectively develop urban land, which is becoming scarce over time since more people are choosing to relocate from rural areas to cities, and this has raised the demand for offices and residential spaces. However, up until now, there is little doubt that the growth of Chinese metropolitan skylines has exceeded the speed of urbanization. China has dominated the skyscraper market for the past 20 years. Having around 40 of the top 100 tallest buildings in the world and more than 2,500 constructions taller than 100 meters, it has outnumbered all the countries throughout the world. As per Li and Wang (2020), the increasing heights of the new buildings—at least six of which have broken records since the late 1980s—also demonstrated the country's extraordinary skyscraper growth. Since this enormous passion for skyscrapers cannot possibly be explained by urbanization, the question of whether China has constructed too many skyscrapers naturally arises.
Exploring the social anxiety spectrum using qualitative analyses of early memories
Creators: name: Howell, Davina
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Difficulties arise when diagnosing Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) as a separate entity from subclinical social anxiety, which is characterised by similar yet less frequent and intense underlying core issues and fears. Therefore, this study explored symptom profiles of SAD and sub-clinical social anxiety, by identifying diagnostic boundaries that demarcate clinical thresholds from sub-clinical presentations, relative to non-psychiatric controls. This information can assist accurate diagnosis of SAD and inform future nosologies regarding diagnostic thresholds from less severe presentations. Additional implications involve treatment of socially anxious individuals in the general community who would benefit from therapeutic intervention, due to increased avoidance, distress, impairments, and/or comorbid disorders.
La représentation de l'immigration et des minorités culturelles dans des manuels en français au Québec entre 1976 et 1999.
Creators: name: Racine, Isabelle.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Education, Bilingual and Multicultural.

description: Au moyen d'une recherche à la fois qualitative et quantitative, la question de la représentation des groupes ethnocultures et de l'immigration dans les manuels scolaires francophones du Québec est abordée dans cette thèse. Plus précisément, on y présente les résultats d'une analyse de contenu d'un corpus de manuels de l'élève pour les aces scolaires 1976-1977 et 1998-1999 et on coffre les résultats de cette analyse pour les deux années scolaires retenues. L'analyse quantitative et qualitative des images dans les manuels de français et de mathématiques révèle une diminution des préjugés et une augmentation de la représentativité des groupes ethnoculturels depuis les vingt dernières années. D'autre part, l'analyse qualitative des textes dans les manuels d'histoire et d'économie permet de constater une légère amélioration du de l'immigration et de la réalité multiethnique au Québec pour l'année scolaire 1998-1999. Cependant, un biais ethnocentrique demeure évident lors de l'analyse des ces manuels.
Development of new "Detectsound": A computerized model for adjusting the level of acoustic warning signalization in the workplace
Creators: name: Zheng, Yun
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Audiology.
subject: Health Sciences, Occupational Health and Safety.

description: Noise is a major aggressor in the workplace. It is widely acknowledged that noise may be hazardous to health and may interfere with speech communication. Researchers have found that noise and noise-induced hearing loss can also compromise the audibility of warning signals. A computerized tool called "Detectsound" has been developed for predicting the capability of workers to detect auditory warning signals in noise and for providing an optimal adjustment of signal levels according to the functional limits of the target worker(s). This work represents a comprehensive revision and improvement over an earlier version of the "Detectsound" model [Laroche et al. (1991), Applied Acoustics, 32, 193--214]. The main enhanced features are: (1) taking into account the hearing status for individuals, (2) incorporating the normative data describing the effect of noise exposure and age on hearing thresholds (ISO 1999, ISO 7029), (3) integrating more recent and accurate data on frequency selectivity, and (4) improving the user interface for the implemented software program. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Isolation and characterization of molecular markers for Brassica napus microspore embryogenesis.
Creators: name: Boutilier, Kim.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.

description: Brassica napus microspores can be diverted from pollen development toward haploid embryo formation in culture by subjecting them to a heat stress treatment. This switch in developmental pathways has been shown to be accompanied by the induction of high levels of napin seed storage protein gene expression (DeMoor, 1992). Specific members of the napin multigene family that were expressed at this time were cloned from a cDNA library prepared from microspores that had been induced to undergo embryogenesis. The majority of napin clones represented three members (BnmNAP2, BnmNAP3 and BnmNAP4) that, along with a previously isolated napin genomic clone (BngNAP1), are members of the highly conserved BnmNAP subfamily of napin genes. DNA gel blot analysis, using a subfamily-specific probe, suggested that this subfamily may consist of up to 5 members. RNA gel blot analysis, also using the subfamily-specific probe, indicated that the BnmNAP subfamily was also expressed during embryo development. BnmNAP mRNA was detected as early as the globular stage of development in microsporic embryos, but not until the late torpedo/early cotyledon stage of development in zygotic embryos. A BngNAP1 promoter-$\beta$-glucuronidase (GUS) gene fusion was introduced into B. napus and Nicotiana tabacum (tobacco) plants in order to examine the spatial and temporal pattern of expression of one member of the BnmNAP subfamily. The BngNAP1-GUS construct was shown to be highly expressed in microspores that had been induced to undergo embryogenesis, but was not expressed in microspores continuing pollen development in culture. Furthermore, BngNAP1-directed GUS activity appeared to be predominantly localized in those microspores that have been shown to have the greatest potential to form embryos in culture. Fluorogenic and histochemical analysis of developing microsporic and zygotic embryos of B. napus indicated that the BngNAP1-GUS fusion was expressed as early as the globular stage of development. GUS activity was first detected in the micropylar region of the future embryonic axis and continued to spread upward during subsequent stages of development. In tobacco, GUS activity was first detected in the endosperm of seeds containing globular stage embryos. GUS activity did not begin to accumulate in tobacco embryos until the early heart stage of development, where it appeared as a band in the middle of the embryo, just under the lobes of the emerging cotyledons. This activity continued to spread outward in both directions as development proceeded. Thus the timing, but not the spatial localization, of BngNAP1-directed GUS expression was maintained in transgenic tobacco.
Interchromosomal segmental duplication drives translocation and loss of P. falciparum histidine-rich protein 3
Creators: name: Hathaway N.J
name: Giesbrecht D
name: Crudale R
name: Bailey J.A
name: Kim I.E
name: Nixon C.P
name: Hui S.T
name: WernsmanYoung N
name: Liang E.Y
name: Parr J.B
name: Juliano J.J
Publisher: name: eLife
Year: 2024

description: Most malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) detect Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein 2 (PfHRP2) and PfHRP3, but deletions of pfhrp2 and phfrp3 genes make parasites undetectable by RDTs. We analyzed 19,313 public whole-genome-sequenced P. falciparum field samples to understand these deletions better. Pfhrp2 deletion only occurred by chromosomal breakage with subsequent telomere healing. Pfhrp3 deletions involved loss from pfhrp3 to the telomere and showed three patterns: no other associated rearrangement with evidence of telomere healing at breakpoint (Asia; Pattern 13-TARE1); associated with duplication of a chromosome 5 segment containing multidrug-resistant-1 gene (Asia; Pattern 13-5++); and most commonly, associated with duplication of a chromosome 11 segment (Americas/Africa; Pattern 13-11++). We confirmed a 13-11 hybrid chromosome with long-read sequencing, consistent with a translocation product arising from recombination between large interchromosomal ribosome-containing segmental duplications. Within most 13-11++ parasites, the duplicated chromosome 11 segments were identical. Across parasites, multiple distinct haplotype groupings were consistent with emergence due to clonal expansion of progeny from intrastrain meiotic recombination. Together, these observations suggest negative selection normally removes 13-11++pfhrp3 deletions, and specific conditions are needed for their emergence and spread including low transmission, findings that can help refine surveillance strategies.
title: Primary liver transplantation and liver retransplantation
title: comparison of health-related quality of life and mental status – a cross- sectional study
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Broschewitz, Johannes
name: Wiltberger, Georg
name: Krezdorn, Nicco
name: Krenzien, Felix
name: Foerster, Julia
name: Atanasov, Georgi
name: Schmelzle, Moritz
name: Benzing, Christian
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Health-related quality of life
subject: Liver retransplantation
subject: SF-36
subject: Hads
subject: Depression
subject: Anxiety
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften

description: Background Liver Retransplantation (Re-LT) procedures are associated with an increased risk of morbidity and mortality. Up to date, there is no knowledge on the health-related quality of life and the mental status of these patients. Methods Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) was assessed by using the Short Form 36 (SF-36) Health Survey and Mental Status was assessed by using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). The patients were examined in different assessments: During regular check-up examinations in the LT outpatient department in 2011 (Survey 1) and in a postal survey in 2013 (Survey 2). Their medical data was collected by using an established database. Results We received eligible surveys of 383 patients (55.6%) with a history of LT, of which 15 (3.9%) had undergone Re-LT (Re-LT group). These patients were compared to a group of 60 patients who had undergone only one LT. With regard to their HRQoL, the Re-LT group had significantly lower scores on the scales of physical function (PF, p = 0.026), their role-physical (RP, p = 0.008), their vitality (VIT, p = 0.040), and their role-emotional (RE, p = 0.005). The scores for anxiety and depression did not differ significantly between the groups. In a multiple regression analysis, chronic kidney disease was found to be an independent risk factor for decreased scores of PF (p = 0.023). Conclusions Patients who have to undergo Re-LT procedures are faceing impairments in physical aspects of a HRQoL. Together with clinical results from other studies, the findings of the present examination underline the need for an optimized organ distribution strategy since not all patients listed for Re-LT appear to benefit from it.
Volumetric constitutive behaviour of an unsaturated basaltic expansive clay stabilised using lime
Creators: name: Al-Taie, Asmaa Younus
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This research project extended the understanding and developed a new model in relation to volumetric behaviour of a lime-stabilised unsaturated expansive clay by using net stress, void ratio, and moisture ratio, where suction was the dependent variable. The clay selected was a residual soil derived from a weathered quaternary basalt deposit located in Victoria, Australia. The new model has extended the current Monash Peradeniya Kodikara framework proposed by Kodikara (2012).
Alterity, social order, and the meaning(s) to security.
Creators: name: De Larrinaga, Miguel.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Political Science, International Law and Relations.

description: This thesis provides a genealogy of security. The first two chapters situate it in relation to the discipline of International Relations and present the approach to develop the genealogy. It is argued that what has enabled the lack of problematization of the concept of security within the discipline is precisely the security project of the discipline itself: the securing of an ontological ground through the deployment of epistemological precepts that pervade the way the discipline is predominantly understood and its evolution is retroactively (re)written. I argue that the discipline itself is enabled by, and is a manifestation of, "sovereign thought"---i.e. a form of knowledge inextricably related to the articulation of the sovereign State as the predominant form of social order in modernity. What is revealed is how the structure of sovereign thought occults its generative principles and enables a framing of issues and problems via objective knowledge while simultaneously masking its role as a frame. It is this deployment of knowledge that enables the naturalization of "security." These first two chapters provide the groundwork and the rationale for the genealogical investigation found in the second part of the thesis. The three following chapters apply this approach to the relationship between the meaning(s) to security and the production of social order. This genealogy is developed by tracing the intimate complicity between the meaning to security and the articulation of social order via alterity. These chapters are constructed around three interregna : the shift from Roman Republic to Empire and the advent of Christianity; the shift from Christendom to sovereign State in the classical age; and the advent of the modern sovereign State and the present mutations of sovereign order. Through this genealogy it is argued that our present articulation of "security" serves as a mechanism of depoliticization in the service of sovereign order increasingly deployed throughout the social above and below statal space. Finally, I argue that it is within the context of modernity and its intimate relation with the advent of democracy that a new horizon of possibility to articulate a counter-discourse to security is opened up.
title: Sleep‐Disordered Breathing in Acute Ischemic Stroke
title: A Mechanistic Link to Peripheral Endothelial Dysfunction
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Scherbakov, Nadja
name: Sandek, Anja
name: Ebner, Nicole
name: Valentova, Miroslava
name: Nave, Alexander Heinrich
name: Jankowska, Ewa A.
name: Schefold, Jörg C.
name: Haehling, Stephan Von
name: Anker, Stefan D.
name: Fietze, Ingo
name: Fiebach, Jochen B.
name: Häusler, Karl Georg
name: Doehner, Wolfram
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: clinical trial
subject: endothelial dysfunction
subject: sleep disorders
subject: sympathetic nervous system
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::616 Krankheiten

description: Background: Sleep‐disordered breathing (SDB) after acute ischemic stroke is frequent and may be linked to stroke‐induced autonomic imbalance. In the present study, the interaction between SDB and peripheral endothelial dysfunction (ED) was investigated in patients with acute ischemic stroke and at 1‐year follow‐up. Methods and Results: SDB was assessed by transthoracic impedance records in 101 patients with acute ischemic stroke (mean age, 69 years; 61% men; median National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale, 4) while being on the stroke unit. SDB was defined by apnea‐hypopnea index ≥5 episodes per hour. Peripheral endothelial function was assessed using peripheral arterial tonometry (EndoPAT‐2000). ED was defined by reactive hyperemia index ≤1.8. Forty‐one stroke patients underwent 1‐year follow‐up (390±24 days) after stroke. SDB was observed in 57% patients with acute ischemic stroke. Compared with patients without SDB, ED was more prevalent in patients with SDB (32% versus 64%; P<0.01). After adjustment for multiple confounders, presence of SDB remained independently associated with ED (odds ratio, 3.1; [95% confidence interval, 1.2–7.9]; P<0.05). After 1 year, the prevalence of SDB decreased from 59% to 15% (P<0.001). Interestingly, peripheral endothelial function improved in stroke patients with normalized SDB, compared with patients with persisting SDB (P<0.05). Conclusions: SDB was present in more than half of all patients with acute ischemic stroke and was independently associated with peripheral ED. Normalized ED in patients with normalized breathing pattern 1 year after stroke suggests a mechanistic link between SDB and ED.
Modelling a real-time multi-sensor fusion-based navigation system for indoor human-following companion robots
Creators: name: Tee Kit Tsun, Mark
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Mark Tee presented the research titled “Modelling a Real-Time Multi-Sensor Fusion-Based Navigation System for Indoor Human-Following Companion Robots”. His work aimed to help solve a fundamental problem in ensuring that robots are able to reliably follow and accompany cognitively disabled children safely. The solution mimics how we humans visually perceive our surroundings in an unfamiliar place and approximate a path of least obstacles towards our destination. The novelty of this work is that the model is designed to accommodate existing navigation methods and commercially available components, bringing us closer to a future with a companion robot in every home.
Evaluating occlusal phenotypes in non-syndromic orofacial clefting
Creators: name: Torres, Regine Victoria
Publisher: name: University of Iowa
Year: 2022
Subjects: public abstract

description: ABSTRACT Introduction: Individuals with orofacial clefts may present with various occlusal anomalies such as maxillary transverse and anteroposterior hypoplasia, often thought to result from either a lack of embryonic tissue resulting in the cleft itself or the scar tissue from early surgical repair of the lip and palate. To determine whether these occlusal anomalies are due to iatrogenic, environmental, or genetic factors, one can compare the prevalence of these anomalies among cleft-affected individuals, their unaffected relatives, with whom they may share genetic cleft risk, and the general population. The purpose of this study was to evaluate occlusal anomalies among individuals with non-syndromic clefts, their relatives, and controls using the most extensive international photographic record collection to date. Methods: 3,959 subjects were rated: 400 cleft case probands, 2,293 unaffected relatives, and 1,266 controls. Occlusal anomalies were identified from sets of intraoral photographs, and comparisons between case probands or unaffected relatives to controls were tested using Chi-square (χ2) test with the Yates continuity correction or Fisher's exact test when appropriate and with a logistic regression model adjusted by ancestry and gender. Results: The occlusal characteristics of the control sample reflected what the literature typically has reported for the different ethnic backgrounds. Compared to controls, cases with clefts had significantly more discrepancies in overjet, overbite, Angle classification bilaterally, anterior open bite, posterior open bite bilaterally, all-around open bite, anterior and posterior crossbite, upper arch crowding and spacing, and lower arch spacing compared to controls, all indicating a greater need for orthodontic intervention. Unaffected relatives had significant differences in overjet, overbite, Angle classification on the left side, right posterior open bite, posterior crossbite, upper arch crowding, and lower arch spacing compared to controls, indicating a greater need for orthodontic intervention as well. Conclusions: Occlusal differences between case probands and controls were similarly found in unaffected relatives compared to controls. This finding may suggest a genetic component to the occlusal anomalies found in affected individuals with clefts and inherent phenotypic differences in cleft families compared to the general population.
A study of the effects of a congregated program on the self concepts of gifted adolescents.
Creators: name: Wright, Paul.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Education, Educational Psychology.

description: In an effort to more fully understand the gifted adolescents' self concept and any changes that occur due to the transition to a congregated classroom setting, this study employed a combination of a quantitative instrument, the Harter Self Perception Profile for Adolescents (SPPA), used over time, and a qualitative interview technique. The sample was composed of 25 gifted adolescent students from a grade nine congregated program offered by College catholique Samuel Genest. The students showed significant changes in their Harter SPPA subscales over time. The self image of the students increased significantly in their SPPA subscales of romantic appeal and close friendship. There was also an interaction of time by gender on behavioral conduct with an increase for females, but a significantly larger decrease for males in the posttest. Significant changes in importance ratings also occurred over time. There were significant interactions of time by gender on scholastic competence, behavioral conduct, and close friendship. When comparing subscale scores and importance ratings, a drop in discrepancy scores from the pre to posttest was consistent for both genders. These findings suggest that various domains of the students' self concept were affected differently during the program. The interview and its assessment of the social, psychological, and coping selves highlighted the role the social environment played in the gifted adolescent's developing self concept. Gifted students enjoyed being with their gifted peers, establishing new social skills and opportunities while meeting their academic needs. They were, however, conscious of being labelled and didn't like to be singled out or treated differently. A fact reinforced by the correlation analysis which revealed that scholastic competence was strongly related to behavioral conduct and global self worth, but remained poorly related to social acceptance. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
title: Producing Newsletters for New Literates
Creators: name: Sultan, Mainus
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Educational Methods
subject: International and Comparative Education

description: These manuals were made possible through support from the University Development Linkages Project, Global Bureau, Human Capacity Development Center, U.S. Agency for International Development under the terms of Cooperative Agreement No. DAN-5063-A-00-1108-00.
description: This manual provides detailed information on one method for creating local literacy materials. It is based on the author's experience producing newsletters and learner-generated materials in Bangladesh. This manual is designed to help you create a newsletter with and for the new literates served by your literacy program. Step-by-step guidelines explain the process of publishing a newsletter including how to organize facilitators, learners and new literates to collect local news stories, how to edit, do a layout, and publish a local newsletter. The manual is designed for literacy and nonformal education practitioners who want to provide graduates of their literacy classes with interesting and relevant reading materials. Newsletter production requires creative planning. This manual is meant to be a framework to guide you through process of creating a newsletter. Begin by reading through the manual and think about how you can apply the to your work situation. The activities will make more sense after you have tried them out. The manual is divided into five activities, each of which provides you with guidelines for developing your newsletter. The five activities are: planning assessment, writing, putting it together, and distribution and feedback.
Understanding Pure Blood: Logics of Violence in French Revolutionary Historiography
Creators: name: Issokson, Eli Yale
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2024
Subjects: French Revolution
Francois Furet
Alphonse Aulard
Simon Schama
French History
European History
France
History

description: A thesis examining structural, ideological, and circumstantial historiographical views of the French Revolution. This paper advances three primary arguments. First, the most defining rift between historians over their understanding of violence during the Revolution is a disagreement whether the counterrevolution truly posed a threat to the legacy of the Revolution after 1789. Second, attempts to explain the violence of the Revolution on rhetorical and ideological grounds have fallen victim to retrospectively creating a Terror that was not present in 1789. Third, that ideologically minded historians, despite their opposition to Marxist thinking, functionally substituted ideology for the Marxist use of class, thus falling prey to a determinist way of thinking from which a small group of historians only broke away in recent years.
Novel topologies of power converters for renewable energy systems
Creators: name: Asghari Gorji, Saman
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The renewable energy systems, same as other electrical systems require power converters to convert the input power to an appropriate output power for either AC or DC loads. The existing power converters may have some limitations that necessitate further study in the field to improve new power converters with customized features. This research proposes four new topological structures of power converters along with their theoretical analysis, simulation, and laboratory implementation. The proposed converters own some great features such as high efficiency and lower cost and size that make them suitable for renewable energy systems such as wind turbines, fuel cells, and photovoltaic arrays.
Digital computer process control.
Creators: name: Ching, Alan Kwok-Keung.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Chemical.

description: A shell and tube heat exchanger was interfaced with a NOVA digital computer to allow automatic data logging and direct digital computer control. A real time computer operating system was developed for this special application. The Characteristics of a non-linear Multiplicative control algorithm were studied using this system. As a result of the study, a feed back loop was added to the Multiplicative control algorithm to compensate the offset caused by the non-linear characteristics of the heat exchanger. The stability region of the Multiplicative control algorithm was mapped and showed high and low stability limits for Multiplicative gain settings.
Randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of oral budesonide for prophylaxis of acute intestinal graft-versus-host disease after allogeneic stem cell transplantation (PROGAST)
Creators: name: Schmelz, Renate
name: Bornhäuser, Martin
name: Schetelig, Johannes
name: Kiani, Alexander
name: Platzbecker, Uwe
name: Schwanebeck, Uta
name: Grählert, Xina
name: Uharek, Lutz
name: Aust, Daniela
name: Baretton, Gustavo
name: Schwerdtfeger, Rainer
name: Hampe, Jochen
name: Greinwald, Roland
name: Mueller, Ralph
name: Ehninger, Gerhard
name: Miehlke, Stephan
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background Gastrointestinal graft–versus-host disease (GvHD) is a potentially life-threatening complication after allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT). Since therapeutic options are still limited, a prophylactic approach seems to be warranted. Methods In this randomised, double-blind-phase III trial, we evaluated the efficacy of budesonide in the prophylaxis of acute intestinal GvHD after SCT. The trial was registered at https://clinicaltrials.gov webcite, number NCT00180089. Patients were randomly assigned to receive either 3 mg capsule three times daily oral budesonide or placebo. Budesonide was applied as a capsule with pH-modified release in the terminal ileum. Study medication was administered through day 56, follow-up continued until 12 months after transplantation. If any clinical signs of acute intestinal GvHD appeared, an ileocolonoscopy with biopsy specimens was performed. Results The crude incidence of histological or clinical stage 3–4 acute intestinal GvHD until day 100 observed in 91 (n =48 budesonide, n =43 placebo) evaluable patients was 12.5% (95% CI 3-22%) under treatment with budesonide and 14% (95% CI 4-25%) under placebo (p = 0.888). Histologic and clinical stage 3–4 intestinal GvHD after 12 months occurred in 17% (95% CI 6-28%) of patients in the budesonide group and 19% (CI 7-32%) in the placebo group (p = 0.853). Although budesonide was tolerated well, we observed a trend towards a higher rate of infectious complications in the study group (47.9% versus 30.2%, p = 0.085). The cumulative incidences at 12 months of intestinal GvHD stage >2 with death as a competing event (budesonide 20.8% vs. placebo 32.6%, p = 0.250) and the cumulative incidence of relapse (budesonide 20.8% vs. placebo 16.3%, p = 0.547) and non-relapse mortality (budesonide 28% (95% CI 15-41%) vs. placebo 30% (95% CI 15-44%), showed no significant difference within the two groups (p = 0.911). The trial closed after 94 patients were enrolled because of slow accrual. Within the limits of the final sample size, we were unable to show any benefit for the addition of budesonide to standard GvHD prophylaxis. Conclusions Budesonide did not decrease the occurrence of intestinal GvHD in this trial. These results imply most likely that prophylactic administration of budenoside with pH-modified release in the terminal ileum is not effective.
High density lipoprotein (HDL) particles from end-stage renal disease patients are defective in promoting reverse cholesterol transport
Creators: name: Anderson, Josephine L. C.
name: Gautier, Thomas
name: Nijstad, Niels
name: Toelle, Markus
name: Schuchardt, Mirjam
name: Van Der Giet, Markus
name: Tietge, Uwe J. F.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: End-stage renal disease
subject: Preclinical research
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD) represents the largest cause of mortality in end-stage renal disease (ESRD). CVD in ESRD is not explained by classical CVD risk factors such as HDL cholesterol mass levels making functional alterations of lipoproteins conceivable. HDL functions in atheroprotection by promoting reverse cholesterol transport (RCT), comprising cholesterol efflux from macrophage foam cells, uptake into hepatocytes and final excretion into the feces. ESRD-HDL (n = 15) were compared to healthy control HDL (n = 15) for their capacity to promote in vitro (i) cholesterol efflux from THP-1 macrophage foam cells and (ii) SR-BI-mediated selective uptake into ldla[SR-BI] cells as well as (iii) in vivo RCT. Compared with HDL from controls, ESRD-HDL displayed a significant reduction in mediating cholesterol efflux (p
title: PATHWAYS TO COOPERATION
title: A RELATIONAL THEORY OF REBEL ALLIANCE FORMATION
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Topal, Sedef  Asli
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2024
Subjects: alliance
civil war
conflict
cooperation
insurgency
rebel groups

description: Why do some rebel organizations initiate a united front while others confine themselves to a loose partnership? Existing research on armed movements suggests that insurgents should quickly leave cooperative agreements when doing so will provide particular advantages in a post-conflict setting. Still, rebels often build diverse alliances, ranging from joint attacks to shared command structures. If rebel groups are indeed purely pragmatic entities, why would they tie themselves to a partnership that hinders their ability to defect quickly? In this dissertation, I argue that three relational factors shape how insurgents cooperate: a) rebel-civilian relations (overlapping civilian support), b) inter-rebel relations (shared allies), and c) rebel-sponsor relations (common external patrons). Militant groups connected through these social networks will more likely facilitate united armed opposition thanks to shared channels of trust and reciprocity. Developing a new dyadic dataset, I find support that sharing allies or civilian support is positively correlated with forming a united front. Yet, state sponsorship does not produce similar results.
title: The missing foundation in beginning reading instruction
title: The case of Ghana
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Hammond, Daniel Armah
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2026
Subjects: Content Analysis
Curriculum Evaluation
Evidence-based Reading Instruction
Foundational Reading Skills
Language and Literacy
Reading Instruction
Curriculum Development

description: This study presents a content analysis of Ghana's current standards-based curriculum, with a specific focus on its alignment with evidence-based reading instruction, against the backdrop of low reading achievement and learning outcomes of learners. The research uses content analysis methodology to examine the representation and emphasis of reading instruction elements within the kindergarten and primary 1-3 curricula. Drawing on the Cognitive Foundation Framework and a socio-cultural perspective of reading as an analytical framework, the study spotlights the alignment between language and literacy curriculum and essential elements of effective reading instruction. Findings indicate that while the kindergarten curriculum's preamble more fully reflects current research on effective reading instruction compared to the primary 1-3 curriculum, both show varying degrees of alignment. The analysis underscores a stronger emphasis on the meaning-emphasis cluster of skills over the alphabetic coding cluster in both curricula, with the kindergarten curriculum exhibiting a more pronounced focus. Additionally, the study highlights disparities in the representation and frequency of standards across skill clusters, emphasizing the need for targeted interventions. This study contributes to ongoing efforts to enhance literacy outcomes in Ghana's public schools by providing insights into the alignment between curriculum standards and evidence-based reading practices, emphasizing the importance of curriculum reform and targeted interventions to address persistent challenges in Ghana's education system.
Feasibility of the trial procedures for a randomized controlled trial of a community-based peer-led wheelchair training program for older adults
Creators: name: Best, Krista L.
name: Miller, William C.
name: Routhier, François
name: Eng, Janice
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Background: A novel peer-led manual wheelchair (MWC) training program may support the training needs of older adults, but establishing program feasibility is a pragmatic first step. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of a peer-led Wheelchair training Self-Efficacy Enhanced for Use (WheelSeeU) program. Methods: Forty MWC users (mean age 65 years) were randomly assigned to the experimental (WheelSeeU) or control group. Feasibility indicators of process, resources, management, and safety were collected throughout the study. Results: The consent rate was 49%. Participant retention rate was 90% post-intervention and 87.5% at follow-up (6 months). All participants reported perceived benefits from WheelSeeU. Participants and trainers adhered to the study protocol (>90%), and fidelity of the WheelSeeU intervention was attained (>90%). There were no adverse events. Conclusions: WheelSeeU is an innovative and feasible approach for providing MWC training to older adults that is accessible beyond initial rehabilitation without increased clinician burden. With minor modifications, it is feasible that WheelSeeU can be administered to older adults living in the community. Trial registration NCT01838135 .
Longitudinal analysis of culture of patient safety survey results in surgical departments
Creators: name: Ra JH
name: Lashani S
name: Butler LR
name: Greenberg C
name: Ivester T
name: Mitchell C
name: Mazur L
name: Marks LB
Publisher: name: Frontiers Media SA
Year: 2024

description: Background: There is a need for improved methodologies on how to longitudinally analyze, interpret and learn from the Surveys on Patient Safety CultureTM (SOPS), developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Typically, SOPS quantify results by the percentage of positive responses, but this approach may miss insights from neutral or negative feedback. Study design: The SOPS were distributed every two years from 2011 to 2022 to all hospital staff at one academic institution from perioperative services. Differences between rates of “positive” and “negative” scores (“Delta”), and “neutral” responses over time were calculated. The coefficient of determination (R2) was used to assess the correlation strength of the positive scores as the primary outcomes provided by the SOPS and Delta values over time. Finally, we evaluated patterns (crossing and converging [indicating “worrisome” patterns] vs. diverging [suggesting “desirable” pattern] vs. stable [suggesting “neutral” pattern]) of the longitudinal scores. Results: A total of 1,035 responses were analyzed [51 and 40 survey items for SOPS v1 and v2 (2022 only), respectively]. Comparing the R2 values of the positive only scores to the Delta scores demonstrated a change in effect size for “Nonpunitive Response to Error” (R2 = 0.290 vs. 0.420). Of the 13 specific categories measured through SOPS, plotting negative vs. positive values elucidated 2 crossing, 2 converging and 2 diverging patterns indicating both a decrease in positive responses and an increase in negative responses rather than neutral. Conclusion: Longitudinal analysis of the SOPS using the directional measures, Delta and pattern trends can provide organizations with additional key insights regarding culture of patient safety.
Ultracold atoms with synthetic gauge field
Creators: name: Chen, Xi
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In recent decades, ultra-cold atomic gases (temperature scale of nano-Kelvin) have become versatile platforms to study many fascinating phenomena in various fields of physics, owing to their unprecedented purity and controllability of interactions and geometries. In this thesis, we aim to investigate a synthetic Raman-type spin-orbit coupling in a three-dimensional Bose gas. The spin-orbit coupling arising from the interaction of a particle’s spin with its motion plays a crucial role in physics. Our studies of the static and dynamic properties including the ground-state phases, collective oscillations, sound velocity and superfluidity, may help us better understand this exotic effect in nature.