cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Parkraummanagement für eine nachhaltige urbane Mobilität in der Stadt für Morgen
Creators: name: Rohs, Maximilian
name: Flore, Gabriel
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Nachhaltige Mobilität
subject: Stadtverkehr
subject: Stadtentwicklung
subject: Ökonomische Instrumente
subject: Parkraumbewirtschaftung
subject: Motorisierter Individualverkehr
subject: Maßnahmen
subject: Rechtliche Instrumente
subject: Parken
subject: Parkraummanagement
subject: Verkehr

description: Mobilität ist eine zentrale Voraussetzung, um am gesellschaftlichen Leben teilzunehmen und liefert einen wesentlichen Beitrag zu einer hohen Lebensqualität. Gleichzeitig ist der städtische Personen- und Güterverkehr ein Hauptverursacher von Luftverschmutzung, Lärm und Flächenverbrauch. Daher gilt es, den Verkehr nachhaltiger und umweltfreundlicher zu gestalten, ohne die Mobilität der Bevölkerung und den Transport von Gütern einzuschränken. Hierzu hat das UBA im März 2017 die Vision "Die Stadt für Morgen" veröffentlicht. Daran anknüpfend gibt die vorliegende Broschüre einen detaillierten Überblick über zentrale Instrumente des Parkraummanagements als ein zentrales Gestaltungswerkzeug für eine nachhaltige urbane Mobilität in der Stadt für Morgen. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Mobilität ist eine zentrale Voraussetzung, um am gesellschaftlichen Leben teilzunehmen und liefert einen wesentlichen Beitrag zu einer hohen Lebensqualität. Gleichzeitig ist der städtische Personen- und Güterverkehr ein Hauptverursacher von Luftverschmutzung, Lärm und Flächenverbrauch. Daher gilt es, den Verkehr nachhaltiger und umweltfreundlicher zu gestalten, ohne die Mobilität der Bevölkerung und den Transport von Gütern einzuschränken.Hierzu hat das ⁠UBA⁠ im März 2017 die Vision „Die Stadt für Morgen“ veröffentlicht. Daran anknüpfend gibt die vorliegende Broschüre einen detaillierten Überblick über zentrale Instrumente des Parkraummanagements als ein zentrales Gestaltungswerkzeug für eine nachhaltige urbane Mobilität in der Stadt für Morgen.
The name game: Is there a reputation bias in figure skating judging?
Creators: name: Findlay, Leanne C.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Cognitive.

description: Expectations for performance, such as an expectation set by within team order in gymnastics (Scheer & Ansorge, 1975; 1980), have been shown to create a non-performance bias in terms of sport performance evaluation. Plessner (1999) found such a bias to influence both the encoding and evaluation phases of gymnastics judgement. In the sport of figure skating, the encoding phase is considered the period during which a judge perceives elements and any errors that may occur. After the performance is complete, judges evaluate the merit of the performance by providing two marks that are combined to create an ordinal rank, which is considered the evaluation phase of judging. The current study investigated whether or not expectations created by the reputation, or name, of an athlete occurs in the sport of figure skating, and if so, in what phase of the process, encoding or evaluation. Fourteen female figure skaters' short programs were viewed by judges to whom the athletes were either known or unknown. Judges were asked to provide technical base marks, technical merit, and artistic impression marks (all indicative of the evaluation phase), as well as to identify the elements and associated deductions (the encoding phase variables). Post-experiment, the ordinal placements of the skaters were calculated and used to define whether biases do exist at a basic level. Indeed, the skaters' average ordinal placement was higher when they were known by the judge as compared to unknown (t = 2.43, p < .05). A more in-depth analysis revealed that skaters received higher technical merit and artistic impression marks, as well as technical base marks when known to the judges. No significant differences, however, were found for deductions allocated for errors or for the judges' percent correctness in perceiving the elements performed. Thus, the findings suggest that a reputation bias exists at the level of the evaluation phase, but not during the encoding phase, of figure skating judging.
Domestic Violence Coverage in the Australian Online News
Creators: name: Uibu, Katri
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2020
Subjects: domestic violence
family violence
intimate partner violence
media
news
online news

description: The media have been both praised for their recent efforts to draw the public’s attention to domestic violence and criticised for their methods of doing it. Although researchers have previously investigated the media coverage of domestic violence, few have focused on how the issue is portrayed in Australia, and even fewer studies have examined how the online news report on the problem. With an ever-increasing amount of content being pro-duced online, researchers have called for an in-depth investigation into how sensitive is-sues, such as domestic violence, are presented on the platform. Further, the speed, com-mentary feature and user-generated content distribution of online news complicate the ethical production of content about domestic violence. This study aims to address this gap by investigating how the Australian online news cover domestic violence. It is one of the first researches to exclusively focus on the online production of domestic violence stories and to address how the features characteristic to online news complicate constructive re-porting of the problem. Moreover, it is one of the first studies in its research field to examine the rationale and decisions that have led the media to report on domestic violence in one way, and not the other. The long-term study examined the content of 2,324 domes-tic violence articles published online between 2014 and 2016 by the ABC News, The Sydney Morning Herald and news.com.au. Content analysis was used to assess how the volume of domestic violence reporting changed across years and the messages in the online articles about the issue. The quantitative research method enabled examination of the Australian online news coverage of domestic violence homicides, victims of the abuse and emergence of constructive messages about the problem. Through interviews with 12 editors and reporters, who all had experience in covering domestic violence for the online platform, the research revealed the decisions behind the coverage. The study found that the Australian online news coverage was predominantly murder-oriented. Concerningly, murder stories were most inclined to imply that victim had done something to aggravate the abuser or that perpetrator’s violence was somehow justifiable. Disturbingly, the re-search also found that despite the Australian reporters’ and editors’ efforts to convey con-structive coverage, much of the domestic violence media coverage lacks social context that could help the public understand and address the problem. The research not only highlighted the issues surrounding the online news coverage of domestic violence but suggested remedies for an improved coverage through eight specific guidelines.
Plasmon Polariton Bragg Gratings and IR-140 Doped PMMA for Active Bragg Structures
Creators: name: Amyot-Bourgeois, Maude
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: plasmonics
gain material
Bragg gratings

description: This thesis contributes to the realisation of plasmonic lasers based on plasmon polariton Bragg gratings. The scope of this thesis is twofold. In the first section, entitled Passive plasmonic Bragg grating characterization, the results of the testing and characterization of a new design of plasmonic Bragg gratings in the near-infrared are presented. The reflection and transmission responses expected from plasmon-polariton Bragg gratings (PPBGs) are treated theoretically using the transfer matrix method (TMM) and the numerical model is validated experimentally. The experimental setup and procedures are then described in detail. Results show that the near-infrared plasmon polariton Bragg gratings possess a Bragg reflection at a wavelength close to the Bragg wavelength predicted by TMM. In the second section, Gain optimisation and bleaching of IR-140 doped PMMA, an in-depth analysis of the gain medium (IR-140 dye doped poly(methyl methacrylate) better known as PMMA) is performed. This gain medium was selected as a gain layer for active plasmonic gratings and distributed feedback lasers designed by a colleague Ph.D. candidate. The optimized molecular weight of IR-140 in PMMA was found to be 0.9% to obtain a material gain of 81 cm-1.
Disentangling the mechanisms shaping the surface ocean microbiota
Creators: name: Logares, Ramiro
name: Deutschmann, Ina M
name: Junger, Pedro C
name: Giner, Caterina R
name: Krabberød, Anders K
name: Schmidt, Thomas S B
name: Rubinat-Ripoll, Laura
name: Mestre, Mireia
name: Salazar, Guillem
name: Ruiz-González, Clara
name: Sebastián, Marta
name: De Vargas, Colomban
name: Acinas, Silvia G
name: Duarte, Carlos M
name: Gasol, Josep M
name: Massana, Ramon
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: The ocean microbiota modulates global biogeochemical cycles and changes in its configuration may have large-scale consequences. Yet, the underlying ecological mechanisms structuring it are unclear. Here, we investigate how fundamental ecological mechanisms (selection, dispersal and ecological drift) shape the smallest members of the tropical and subtropical surface-ocean microbiota: prokaryotes and minute eukaryotes (picoeukaryotes). Furthermore, we investigate the agents exerting abiotic selection on this assemblage as well as the spatial patterns emerging from the action of ecological mechanisms. To explore this, we analysed the composition of surface-ocean prokaryotic and picoeukaryotic communities using DNA-sequence data (16S- and 18S-rRNA genes) collected during the circumglobal expeditions Malaspina-2010 and TARA-Oceans. Results: We found that the two main components of the tropical and subtropical surface-ocean microbiota, prokaryotes and picoeukaryotes, appear to be structured by different ecological mechanisms. Picoeukaryotic communities were predominantly structured by dispersal-limitation, while prokaryotic counterparts appeared to be shaped by the combined action of dispersal-limitation, selection and drift. Temperature-driven selection appeared as a major factor, out of a few selected factors, influencing species co-occurrence networks in prokaryotes but not in picoeukaryotes, indicating that association patterns may contribute to understand ocean microbiota structure and response to selection. Other measured abiotic variables seemed to have limited selective effects on community structure in the tropical and subtropical ocean. Picoeukaryotes displayed a higher spatial differentiation between communities and a higher distance decay when compared to prokaryotes, consistent with a scenario of higher dispersal limitation in the former after considering environmental heterogeneity. Lastly, random dynamics or drift seemed to have a more important role in structuring prokaryotic communities than picoeukaryotic counterparts. Conclusions: The differential action of ecological mechanisms seems to cause contrasting biogeography, in the tropical and subtropical ocean, among the smallest surface plankton, prokaryotes and picoeukaryotes. This suggests that the idiosyncrasy of the main constituents of the ocean microbiota should be considered in order to understand its current and future configuration, which is especially relevant in a context of global change, where the reaction of surface ocean plankton to temperature increase is still unclear.
Developing and applying a measure to explore social capital, resiliance, and psychological well-being in postgraduate students
Creators: name: Connolly, John
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: psychological well-being
subject: resilience
subject: social captial
subject: postgraduate students
subject: Public health
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Regardless of the efforts to promote well-being and make university spaces healthier, studies have shown that university students experience a higher rate of mental health problems in comparison to their non-student counterparts. As many as 50% of university students experience a range of mental ill-health issues. Despite awareness of suitable support services, many students choose to conceal their emotional and mental health issues.
description: Studies have shown the importance of resilience and social capital in health behaviour and overall well-being. However, there is limited research on how the elements of social capital, resilience, and well-being interact with each other. Consequently, understanding the inter-relationship between these elements is important in developing well-rounded health promotion strategies, and if measured could generate useful data for researchers.
description: The objective of the research was to explore the relationship between resilience, social capital, and psychological well-being among postgraduate students. Additionally, the study aimed to develop and validate a hybrid survey tool that encompasses these elements for effective measurement and assessment. The following research questions guided this research:
description: Research Question 1: What are the main items necessary to measure social capital, resilience, and well-being in postgraduate students?
description: Sub question: What are the correlations between gender, age, hours of paid work, voluntary work, or time you spend participating in social clubs, sports hobbies, or clubs weekly and social capital, resilience, and well-being in postgraduate students?
description: Research Question 2: What is the relationship between social capital, resilience, and well-being in postgraduate students?
description: Research Question 3: How do postgraduate students understand social capital and its relationship with resilience and well-being?
Parameter Tuning of the Firefly Algorithm by Three Tuning Methods: Standard Monte Carlo, Quasi-Monte Carlo and Latin Hypercube Sampling Methods
Creators: name: Joy, Geethu
name: Huyck, Christian
name: Yang, Xin-She
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68T05, 90C31

description: There are many different nature-inspired algorithms in the literature, and almost all such algorithms have algorithm-dependent parameters that need to be tuned. The proper setting and parameter tuning should be carried out to maximize the performance of the algorithm under consideration. This work is the extension of the recent work on parameter tuning by Joy et al. (2024) presented at the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2024), and the Firefly Algorithm (FA) is tuned using three different methods: the Monte Carlo method, the Quasi-Monte Carlo method and the Latin Hypercube Sampling. The FA with the tuned parameters is then used to solve a set of six different optimization problems, and the possible effect of parameter setting on the quality of the optimal solutions is analyzed. Rigorous statistical hypothesis tests have been carried out, including Student's t-tests, F-tests, non-parametric Friedman tests and ANOVA. Results show that the performance of the FA is not influenced by the tuning methods used. In addition, the tuned parameter values are largely independent of the tuning methods used. This indicates that the FA can be flexible and equally effective in solving optimization problems, and any of the three tuning methods can be used to tune its parameters effectively.
description: 21 pages
Impact of Plasma Dynamics On Femtosecond Filamentation
Creators: name: Emms, Rhys Mullin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: nonlinear optics
filamentation
ultrashort laser pulses
ionization
optical Kerr effect

description: In this thesis we ran a series of 2D simulations of femtosecond laser pulses filamenting in air using the FDTD method, a saturable Lorentz oscillator model of air [1], and two separate models of plasma: a Drude model where the plasma density is static in space, and a particle-in-cell model where plasma is free to migrate throughout the simulation space. By comparing matched pairs of simulations, which varied in pulse size, duration, and intensity, we can gauge the impact plasma dynamics has upon the evolution of a filamenting laser pulse. From these tests we determine that, while there are some visible differences between dynamic and static plasmas, plasma dynamics do not significantly alter the evolution of the pulse.
Writer's Work/place: The Non/fictional Pedagogical Possibilities of the Canadian Landscape
Creators: name: Land, Mary Sylvia
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Writing
Education
Literacy
Place

description: This project considers the role of place in the writing process of Canadian author Monique Polak. Drawing from ideas of literary geography, place-based literacy, and an ecological framework for viewing writing as a social process, this research specifically considers how places are represented in three of her novels written for young adults. This work draws from a representative case study approach, which included conversations with Polak about place, writing, and the intersection of these ideas. By inquiring into the pedagogical possibilities of place as experienced and demonstrated by Polak, educators and researchers can reflect on the role of place in their own work, and consider how teachers and students may benefit from these ideas in their writing as well.
Supplementary document for Whispering-Gallery Mode InGaN Microdisks on GaN Substrates - 5281149.pdf
Creators: name: Zi, Hui
name: Fu, Wai Yuen
name: Choi, H.
name: Tabataba-Vakili, Farsane
name: Kim-Chauveau, Hyon-ju
name: Frayssinet, Eric
name: DeMierry, Philippe
name: Damilano, Benjamin
name: Duboz, Jean-Yves
name: Boucaud, Philippe
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Canadian Federalism Uncovered: The Assumed, the Forgotten and the Unexamined in Collaborative Federalism
Creators: name: Minaeva, Yulia
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: collaborative federalism
Agreement on Internal Trade
Social Union Framework Agreement
Council of the Federation
spending power

description: Canadian federalism has experienced pressure for change in recent years. By the end of the twentieth century, collaboration became the catch word and federations throughout the world, including Canada, witnessed an emergent movement toward collaborative governance, collaborative public service delivery, collaborative management and collaborative approaches to addressing social and economic issues. But even if the number of collaborative arrangements has grown since the 1990s, the understanding of the design, management and performance of collaborative arrangements in the Canadian federation remains weak. Accordingly, this dissertation argues that, in order to understand and open the black box of intergovernmental collaboration, it is necessary to put collaboration in a historical context and explore the roles of elites and political institutions in shaping intergovernmental collaborative practices. The role of the former provides the necessary complement of agency, while that of the latter represents a perspective that gives theoretical importance to political institutions. The integration of the two theoretical schools, elite theory and historical institutionalism, into one approach constitutes an attractive solution and offers the tools necessary to explore the complex processes of intergovernmental collaboration. The theoretical framework constructed in this dissertation is then applied to analyze whether the Agreement on Internal Trade, the Social Union Framework Agreement and the Council of the Federation can be considered in reality as examples of collaborative federalism.
TOWARDS EFFICIENT AND ROBUST DEEP LEARNING :HANDLING DATA NON-IDEALITY AND LEVERAGINGIN-MEMORY COMPUTING
Creators: name: Kodge, Sangamesh D
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 461103
subject: Deep learning
classificationCode: 461199
subject: Machine learning not elsewhere classified

description: Deep learning has achieved remarkable success across various domains, largely relyingon assumptions of ideal data conditions—such as balanced distributions, accurate labeling,and sufficient computational resources—that rarely hold in real-world applications. Thisthesis addresses the significant challenges posed by data non-idealities, including privacyconcerns, label noise, non-IID (Independent and Identically Distributed) data, and adversarial threats, which can compromise model performance and security. Additionally, weexplore the computational limitations inherent in traditional architectures by introducingin-memory computing techniques to mitigate the memory bottleneck in deep neural networkimplementations.We propose five novel contributions to tackle these challenges and enhance the efficiencyand robustness of deep learning models. First, we introduce a gradient-free machine unlearning algorithm to ensure data privacy by effectively forgetting specific classes withoutretraining. Second, we propose a corrective machine unlearning technique, SAP, that improves robustness against label noise using Scaled Activation Projections. Third, we presentthe Neighborhood Gradient Mean (NGM) method, a decentralized learning approach thatoptimizes performance on non-IID data with minimal computational overhead. Fourth, wedevelop TREND, an ensemble design strategy that leverages transferability metrics to enhance adversarial robustness. Finally, we explore an in-memory computing solution, IMAC,that enables energy-efficient and low-latency multiplication and accumulation operationsdirectly within 6T SRAM arrays.These contributions collectively advance the state-of-the-art in handling data non-idealitiesand computational efficiency in deep learning, providing robust, scalable, and privacypreserving solutions suitable for real-world deployment across diverse environments.
Diskussion mit B. Waldenfels, A. Kapust, G. Baptist und P. Stoellger über Sinne und Künste im Wechselspiel
Creators: name: Feloj, A Cura Di Serena
Publisher: name: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience.
Year: 2011

description: ...
description: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience., N° 1 (2011)
Supplementary document for Whispering-Gallery Mode InGaN Microdisks on GaN Substrates - 5281149.pdf
Creators: name: Zi, Hui
name: Fu, Wai Yuen
name: Choi, H.
name: Tabataba-Vakili, Farsane
name: Kim-Chauveau, Hyon-ju
name: Frayssinet, Eric
name: DeMierry, Philippe
name: Damilano, Benjamin
name: Duboz, Jean-Yves
name: Boucaud, Philippe
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Species Declines: Examining Patterns of Species Distribution, Abundance, Variability and Conservation Status in Relation to Anthropogenic Activities
Creators: name: Gibbs, Mary Katherine E.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: conservation
species declines
habitat loss
climate change
global amphibian declines
pesticides
Endangered Species Act

description: Humans are modifying the global landscape at an unprecedented scale and pace. As a result, species are declining and going extinct at an alarming rate. Here, I investigate two main aspects of species’ declines: what factors are contributing to their declines and how effective our conservation efforts have been. I assessed one of the main mechanisms for protecting species by looking at the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in the United States. I examined three separate indicators of species declines for different groups of species: range contractions in Canadian imperilled species, declines in abundance in global amphibian populations and increases in temporal variability in abundance in North American breeding birds. I found that change in recovery status of ESA listed species was only very weakly related to the number of years listed, number of years with a recovery plan, and funding. These tools combined explained very little of the variation in recovery status among species. Either these tools are not very effective in promoting species’ recovery, or species recovery data are so poor that it is impossible to tell whether the tools are effective or not. I examined patterns of species’ declines in three different groups in relation to a number of anthropogenic variables. I found high losses of Canadian imperiled bird, mammal, amphibian and reptile species in regions with high proportions of agricultural land cover. However, losses of imperiled species are significantly more strongly related to the proportion of the region treated with agricultural pesticides. This is consistent with the hypothesis that agricultural pesticide use, or something strongly collinear with it (perhaps intensive agriculture more generally), has contributed significantly to the decline of imperiled species in Canada. Global increases in UV radiation do not appear to be a major cause of amphibian population declines. At individual sites, temporal changes in amphibian abundance are not predictably related to changes in UV intensity. Variability in species’ abundance of North American breeding birds, after accounting for mean abundance, is not systematically higher in areas of high human-dominated land cover or climate change. Rather, it appears that areas with a high proportion of human-dominated cover come to have a higher proportion of highly abundant, and thus more variable, species.
Additional file 1 of Exoskeleton use in post-stroke gait rehabilitation: a qualitative study of the perspectives of persons post-stroke and physiotherapists
Creators: name: Vaughan-Graham, Julie
name: Brooks, Dina
name: Rose, Lowell
name: Nejat, Goldie
name: Pons, Jose
name: Patterson, Kara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Stroke Participant Interview Guide & Instructions.
Additional file 2 of Exoskeleton use in post-stroke gait rehabilitation: a qualitative study of the perspectives of persons post-stroke and physiotherapists
Creators: name: Vaughan-Graham, Julie
name: Brooks, Dina
name: Rose, Lowell
name: Nejat, Goldie
name: Pons, Jose
name: Patterson, Kara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Physiotherapist Interview Guide & Instructions.
Weyl Prior and Bayesian Statistics
Creators: name: Jiang, Ruichao
name: Tavakoli, Javad
name: Zhao, Yiqiang
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: When using Bayesian inference, one needs to choose a prior distribution for parameters. The well-known Jeffreys prior is based on the Riemann metric tensor on a statistical manifold. Takeuchi and Amari defined the α-parallel prior, which generalized the Jeffreys prior by exploiting a higher-order geometric object, known as a Chentsov–Amari tensor. In this paper, we propose a new prior based on the Weyl structure on a statistical manifold. It turns out that our prior is a special case of the α-parallel prior with the parameter α equaling −n, where n is the dimension of the underlying statistical manifold and the minus sign is a result of conventions used in the definition of α-connections. This makes the choice for the parameter α more canonical. We calculated the Weyl prior for univariate Gaussian and multivariate Gaussian distribution. The Weyl prior of the univariate Gaussian turns out to be the uniform prior.
Habitat Suitability Modeling for the Eastern Hog-nosed Snake, 'Heterodon platirhinos', in Ontario
Creators: name: Thomasson, Victor
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Heterodon
Conservation
Reptiles
Snake
Critical habitat
Boosted Regression Trees
Hognose
Maxent
Garp
Biotic
Species Distribution Model
Habitat Suitability Model

description: With exploding human populations and landscapes that are changing, an increasing number of wildlife species are brought to the brink of extinction. In Canada, the eastern hog-nosed snake, 'Heterodon platirhinos', is found in a limited portion of southern Ontario. Designated as threatened by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC), this reptile has been losing its habitat at an alarming rate. Due to the increase in development of southern Ontario, it is crucial to document what limits the snake’s habitat to direct conservation efforts better, for the long-term survival of this species. The goals of this study are: 1) to examine what environmental parameters are linked to the presence of the species at a landscape scale; 2) to predict where the snakes can be found in Ontario through GIS-based habitat suitability models (HSMs); and 3) to assess the role of biotic interactions in HSMs. Three models with high predictive power were employed: Maxent, Boosted Regression Trees (BRTs), and the Genetic Algorithm for Rule-set Production (GARP). Habitat suitability maps were constructed for the eastern hog-nosed snake for its entire Canadian distribution and models were validated with both threshold dependent and independent metrics. Maxent and BRT performed better than GARP and all models predict fewer areas of high suitability when landscape variables are used with current occurrences. Forest density and maximum temperature during the active season were the two variables that contributed the most to models predicting the current distribution of the species. Biotic variables increased the performance of models not by representing a limiting resource, but by representing the inequality of sampling and areas where forest remains. Although habitat suitability models rely on many assumptions, they remain useful in the fields of conservation and landscape management. In addition to help identify critical habitat, HSMs may be used as a tool to better manage land to allow for the survival of species at risk.
Metaphor and boundary
Creators: name: Feloj, Serena
Publisher: name: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience.
Year: 2011

description: The use of metaphors play in Kantian thought a fundamental role. In my paper I argue that Reimarus’ Logic could be considered as a source for Kant's use of some metaphors. In his Logic, in fact, Reimarus anticipates the geographical metaphor by which it is possible to distinguish between limits and boundary, to draw the map of reason and to put her in front of a court. The aim of my analysis is to show that Reimarus’ Logic could be considered as a turning point in Wolffian philosophy on the topic of the definition of experience in relation to unity of the system.
description: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience., N° 1 (2011)
Identifying Communication Precursors to Medical Error in an In-patient Clinical Environment: A Palliative Sedation Therapy Case Study
Creators: name: Cornett, Janet Alexandra
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: communication
common ground
palliative sedation therapy
palliative care
interdisciplinary communication
awareness

description: Objectives: The objective of this thesis is to identify and understand communication and information exchange events and their influencing factors that are precursors to medical errors. Methods: Palliative Sedation Therapy is used as a case study to understand how communication and information sharing occur on an in-patient palliative care unit. Data sources were non-participant observation and interviews. Directed content analysis was used to analyze the data, with previously published conceptual models of communication acting as the guides for this analysis. Results/Discussion: Results identified several communication issues that have the potential to act as precursors to medical error at different points in the communication act. A model identifying the points where these precursors can impact communication was created. Conclusion: These results can be used to identify how improvements to communication and information exchange can increase the effectiveness of communication and reduce the likelihood of medical errors occurring.
Explainer: what is exposure therapy and how can it treat social anxiety
Creators: name: Lim, Michelle
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Most of us experience a level of social anxiety at some point in our lives. We worry about what people think of us, about being excluded, about being judged or humiliated. Social anxiety is characterised by an excessive fear of negative evaluation or judgement, triggered by social or performance situations. For social anxiety to be considered a disorder, the person must also be distressed by their social concerns or report a disruption in their life. They may find it difficult to interact with work colleagues, to make friends, or even to have brief conversations with others. Excessive social anxiety makes us feel lonely and reduces our quality of life. Social anxiety disorder is the most common anxiety disorder and begins as early as 11 years of age. Exposure therapy where people face their feared social situations, with the guidance of a therapist is one form of treatment that can be used to reduce excessive social anxiety symptoms. So how does it work?
Supplementary document for Deep-learning-assisted microscopy with ultraviolet surface excitation for rapid slide-free histological imaging - 5281521.pdf
Creators: name: Chen, Zhenghui
name: YU, WENTAO
name: Wong, Hei Man
name: Wong, Terence T. W.
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: supplemental document
Additional file 1 of De novo sequencing, assembly and functional annotation of Armillaria borealis genome
Creators: name: Akulova, Vasilina S.
name: Sharov, Vadim V.
name: Aksyonova, Anastasiya I.
name: Putintseva, Yuliya A.
name: Oreshkova, Natalya V.
name: Feranchuk, Sergey I.
name: Kuzmin, Dmitry A.
name: Pavlov, Igor N.
name: Litovka, Yulia A.
name: Krutovsky, Konstantin V.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. GO distribution of coding sequences found in the Armillaria borealis genome assembly at the biological processes (BP) level based on the GO functional annotation.
The Cognitive-affective and Behavioural Impact of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy
Creators: name: Burgess Moser, Melissa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy
Attachment Theory
Hierarchical Linear Modelling
Change in Attachment
Blamer-Softening

description: Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT; Johnson, 2004) addresses relationship distress by facilitating the development of new patterns of interaction between partners. These new patterns of interaction are based on partners' vulnerable acknowledgement and expression of attachment needs. Partners' engagement in these new patterns of interaction is thought to improve their relationship-specific attachment bond. Although previous studies have shown EFT to result in excellent relationship satisfaction outcomes (Johnson, Hunsley, Greenberg & Schindler, 1999), research had yet clearly to demonstrate if and how EFT facilitates increases in partners' relationship-specific models attachment security over the course of therapy. To address this research gap, the current study employed Hierarchical Linear Modelling (HLM; Singer & Willet, 2003) to investigate the pattern of change in couples' (n=32) self-reported relationship satisfaction and relationship-specific attachment over the course of EFT. Couples reported significant linear increases in their relationship satisfaction and significant linear decreases in their relationship-specific attachment avoidance over the course of therapy. Couples who completed the blamer-softening therapeutic change event (n=16) demonstrated significant linear decreases in their relationship-specific attachment anxiety after completing this event. Decreases in relationship-specific attachment anxiety predicted increases in couples' relationship satisfaction over the course of therapy. Couples also demonstrated significant increases in the security of their pre-post-therapy relationship-specific attachment behaviour, as coded Secure Base Scoring System (Crowell, Treboux, Gao, Fyffe, Pan & Waters, 2002). The current study also used HLM (Singer & Willet, 2003) to examine how the completion of blamer-softening impacted softened couples' relationship-specific attachment anxiety, and whether the completion of blamer-softening had a similar impact on softened couples' relationship-specific attachment avoidance and relationship satisfaction. Softened couples reported an immediate increase in relationship satisfaction and immediate decrease relationship-specific attachment avoidance at the softening session. Further, softened couples' post-softening decreases in relationship-specific attachment anxiety were initially preceded by an increase at the softening session. These results provided an understanding of how EFT leads to increases in couples' relationship-specific attachment security. These results provide support for the use of attachment theory in the treatment of relationship distress, and also provide an illustration of how attachment can shift over the course of a therapeutic intervention.
Einleitung. An den Grenzen des Bildes
Creators: name: Stoellger, Philipp
Publisher: name: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience.
Year: 2011

description: In this paper I take into account the idea of reflective pictorial difference. The question is: is a pre-reflective difference a fundamental difference, to which we can answer by means of a reflective difference? I try to explain this problem with reference to Bernard Waldenfels' responsive philosophy.
description: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience., N° 1 (2011)
Recognising the Sociolinguistic Reality of Spoken Indonesian: A Corpus and Usage Analysis of A Middle Diglossic Variant
Creators: name: Nataprawira, Halim
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2018
Subjects: spoken Indonesian
sociolinguistics
diglossia
pedagogy

description: The purpose of this research was to contribute to the learning and teaching of Indonesian as a foreign language by defining Spoken Indonesian (SI), and incorporating it in a pedagogic design in order to increase Australian students' proficiency in Indonesian as the target language. Indonesian language is one of the Asian languages taught in Australian schools and universities. The Australian Government's 2012 White Paper, Australia in the Asian Century, identifies the learning of Asian languages as a key strategic component in aligning Australia's economic and security interests with the countries of the Asian region.
Supplementary document for Deep-learning-assisted microscopy with ultraviolet surface excitation for rapid slide-free histological imaging - 5281521.pdf
Creators: name: Chen, Zhenghui
name: YU, WENTAO
name: Wong, Hei Man
name: Wong, Terence T. W.
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: supplemental document
The Transcriptional Regulation of Stem Cell Differentiation Programs by Hedgehog Signalling
Creators: name: Voronova, Anastassia
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: embryonic stem cells
satellite cells
hedgehog
gli
Mash
MEF2
MyoD
cardiomyogenesis
skeletal myogenesis
neurogenesis

description: The Hedgehog (Hh) signalling pathway is one of the key signalling pathways orchestrating intricate organogenesis, including the development of neural tube, heart and skeletal muscle. Yet, insufficient mechanistic understanding of its diverse roles is available. Here, we show the molecular mechanisms regulating the neurogenic, cardiogenic and myogenic properties of Hh signalling, via effector protein Gli2, in embryonic and adult stem cells. In Chapter 2, we show that Gli2 induces neurogenesis, whereas a dominant-negative form of Gli2 delays neurogenesis in P19 embryonal carcinoma (EC) cells, a mouse embryonic stem (ES) cell model. Furthermore, we demonstrate that Gli2 associates with Ascl1/Mash1 gene elements in differentiating P19 cells and activates the Ascl1/Mash1 promoter in vitro. Thus, Gli2 mediates neurogenesis in P19 cells at least in part by directly regulating Ascl1/Mash1 expression. In Chapter 3, we demonstrate that Gli2 and MEF2C bind each other’s regulatory elements and regulate each other’s expression while enhancing cardiomyogenesis in P19 cells. Furthermore, dominant-negative Gli2 and MEF2C proteins downregulate each other’s expression while imparing cardiomyogenesis. Lastly, we show that Gli2 and MEF2C form a protein complex, which synergistically activates cardiac muscle related promoters. In Chapter 4, we illustrate that Gli2 associates with MyoD gene elements while enhancing skeletal myogenesis in P19 cells and activates the MyoD promoter in vitro. Furthermore, inhibition of Hh signalling in muscle satellite cells and in proliferating myoblasts leads to reduction in MyoD and MEF2C expression. Finally, we demonstrate that endogenous Hh signalling is important for MyoD transcriptional activity and that Gli2, MEF2C and MyoD form a protein complex capable of inducing skeletal muscle-specific gene expression. Thus, Gli2, MEF2C and MyoD participate in a regulatory loop and form a protein complex capable of inducing skeletal muscle-specific gene expression. Our results provide a link between the regulation of tissue-restricted factors like Mash1, MEF2C and MyoD, and a general signal-regulated Gli2 transcription factor. We therefore provide novel mechanistic insights into the neurogenic, cardiogenic and myogenic properties of Gli2 in vitro, and offer novel plausible explanations for its in vivo functions. These results may also be important for the development of stem cell therapy strategies.
Physical and Performance Characteristics of Successful Paralympic Swimmers
Creators: name: Dingley, Andrew A
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2014
Subjects: paralympic
swimming
force
velocity
asymmetry
resistance training

description: This thesis examined the importance and interaction between physical characteristics and performance measures in competitive Paralympic swimming. The series of experimental studies addressed the following research topics: (i) relationships between anthropometric profiles and the propulsion-resistance dynamics in Paralympic swimmers, (ii) the effects of asymmetry and fatigue on mean force generation of the upper body, and (iii) quantifying key phases of the dive start, and (iv) the influence of a dry-land training program on swimming performance. Study one used a descriptive cross-sectional approach to investigate the relationship between anthropometric profiles and the propulsion-resistance dynamics. The correlation betweenmean power generated on a swim-bench ergometer and 100-m time trial performance increased with level of physical disability (high-range disability, male r= 0.65, ±0.56 (r-value, ±90% confidence limits) and female r= 0.68, ±0.64; mid-range, r= 0.87, ±0.41 and r= 0.79, ±0.75). Swimming time trial performance appeared to be dependent on high power generation rather than anthropometry, especially for those with a more severe disability.
Bet Hedging in Pdr5-mediated Drug Resistance and a Mechanism for its Regulation
Creators: name: Azizi, Afnan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Pleiotropic drug resistance
Bet hedging
Bimodal expression
Genetic network architecture

description: Human health is increasingly threatened by the emergence of multiply drug resistant malignant organisms. Yet, our understanding of the numerous ways by which such resistance arises is modest. Here, we present evidence of a bet hedging strategy in the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, to counter the effects of cytotoxic drugs through the action of Pdr5, an ATP-binding cassette transporter. We have employed flow cytometry and fluorescent activated cell sorting to probe the expression levels of a GFP-tagged version of PDR5 in individual cells. The results obtained from these experiments demonstrate that each yeast population is variable in the levels of Pdr5 production, and a small subpopulation of cells produces this efflux pump at much higher quantities than the population average. Consequently, cells with high and low levels of Pdr5 grow differentially in presence and absence of cycloheximide, a cytotoxic drug. These properties are highly suggestive of a bet hedging strategy mediated by Pdr5 levels. We further link this bet hedging strategy to the transcriptional regulatory network of PDR5 consisting of two major transcription factors, Pdr1 and Pdr3. Our analysis suggests that a self-activating feedback loop acting on Pdr3 plays an important role in generation of the aforementioned subpopulation. Furthermore, our results point to a large difference in the activity of these two regulators wherein Pdr3 is notably stronger than Pdr1. The disparity in their activity could indicate a mechanism for generation of the observed proportions of subpopulations with regards to the level of Pdr5.
Wind induced natural ventilation of low-rise buildings for livestock housing by the pressure difference method and concentration decay method.
Creators: name: Choinière, Yves.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Agricultural.

description: Measurements of the external pressure coefficients around open and sealed 1:20 scale models of a low-rise, naturally ventilated building with a gable roof for livestock housing were made in the NRCC wind tunnel. In addition, the internal pressure coefficients were recorded within the open models. All structural configuration changes of the building had an effect on: the external pressure coefficient distributions, calculated and measured internal pressure coefficients, air inlet and outlet zones, magnitude of the local airflows through individual openings, and on the calculated ventilation rate coefficients. As well, there were considerable differences between results for the sealed and open models especially at the ridge level. Generally, the comparisons between the ventilation rate coefficients of the open and sealed model suggest that the larger the total sidewall, end wall and ridge opening areas were, the greater the discrepancies were between open and sealed models' predictions. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)