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Computer simulations of personal robots.
Creators: name: Wang, Jun.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: It has been recognized for some time that persons with severe physical disabilities could benefit greatly if they had a personal robot under their control. Such kind of robots has been available for several years, but the acceptence by disabled persons has been very slow. One of the reasons is a concern for safety. If a robot arm is strong enough to bring food to a person's mouth, then it could do severe personal injury to the eyes or teeth in the event of an electronic or mechanical failure. In this thesis, a new approach of investigating a personal robot will be presented. A three-dimensional computer simulation of a personal robot will be described. It is completely under the control of the user. This simulation system has many advantages over testing an actual model, since it enables almost any type of personal robot and any type of control strategy to be investigated. This system can be used by researchers to investigate control algorithms for a personal robot. It can also be used by disabled persons so that they can get familiar with the robot as well as the control strategy before they use or purchase the actual model. Currently, this simulation is used to investigate a control strategy called "Modified Extended Physiological Proprioception".
I "buoni" giocattoli. Modelli e orientamenti educativi di un gruppo di genitori nella scelta dei giocattoli.
“Good “toys: How parents choose toys for their children.
Creators: name: Farnè, Roberto
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: Una delle differenze che marcano di più il gioco dei bambini di oggi da quelli del passato, è la forte presenza di giocattoli. Nel senso moderno del termine, i giocattoli sono oggetti e strumenti realizzati dagli adulti per il gioco infantile, e che oggi si identifica tout-court come un “mercato”. Assumiamo quindi che i giocattoli determinano un importante fattore di condizionamento del gioco dei bambini e che gli adulti, in particolare i genitori, attraverso i giocattoli hanno il potere di influenzare in maniera significativa il gioco dei bambini. Con un questionario che ha coinvolto circa 200 genitori di bambini che frequentano l’ultima classe di asilo nido (2-3 anni) e l’ultima classe di scuola dell’infanzia (5-6 anni), abbiamo cercato di evidenziare i criteri che orientano i genitori nella scelta dei giocattoli, i loro modelli educativi, il profilo di una “cura educativa” che si esprime attraverso i giocattoli. Le conclusioni mettono in evidenza da una parte l’identità complessa del giocattolo e il ruolo significativo che svolge la figura materna in questo campo; dall’altra l’individuazione di alcuni profili che caratterizzano i genitori nel loro modo di concepire e trattare i giocattoli.
description: In contrast with the past, today what most characterises the way children play is the enormous presence of toys. By today understanding, toys are objects and tools designed by adults for children play; they represent merchandise for a target “market”. Therefore, we can affirm that toys strongly condition the way children play, as well as that, through toys, parents themselves can condition the way children play in a considerable way. Moving from this assumption, we have carried out a survey involving about 200 parents of children aged 2-3 (attending the last grade of nursery school) and of children aged 5-6 (attending the last grade of kindergarten); the goal was to point out the criteria parents adopt when choosing toys for their children, their educational models, as well as the ‘educational care profile” which is designed around and through toys. The data coming from this survey underline, on the one hand, the complex identity of toys and the fundamental role toys play in this field; on the other hand, the survey helps to understand some possible profiles characterising the way parents manage and consider toys.
The problem of will in environmental education and its implications for curriculum.
Creators: name: Litzgus-Sianchuk, Jennifer J.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: This thesis explores the problem of will in environmental education through an examination of 11 key references, and it identifies some implications for curriculum by applying a framework of curriculum questions derived from Tyler and Kliebard. The research question is: "How is the will to act in environmentally responsible ways affected by the human relationship to nature?" The tendency in environmental education is to focus on how human beings can affect the human-nature relationship. This study explores the neglected area of how the human-nature relationship affects people, and, ultimately, their will to act in environmentally responsible ways. This research builds on earlier environmental education models of how to achieve responsible environmental behavior. The two earlier models which seem to represent the best of environmental education understanding of how to achieve responsible environmental behavior are the Behavior Flow Chart: Major and Minor Variables Involved in Environmental Citizenship Behavior, by Hungerford and Volk, and the Hines Model of Responsible Environmental Behavior, by Hines and colleagues. These two models are integrated into the Eco-Will Model, which summarizes the thesis argument, creating a Refined Eco-Will Model. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Probing the faintest stars in a globular star cluster
Creators: name: Richer, Harvey B.
name: Anderson, Jay
name: Brewer, James
name: Davis, Saul
name: Fahlman, Gregory G.
name: Hansen, Brad M.S.
name: Hurley, Jarrod
name: Kalirai, Jasonjot S.
name: King, Ivan R.
name: Reitzel, David
name: Rich, R. Michael
name: Shara, Michael M.
name: Stetson, Peter B.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: NGC 6397 is the second closest globular star cluster to the Sun. Using 5 days of time on the Hubble Space Telescope, we have constructed an ultradeep color-magnitude diagram for this cluster. We see a clear truncation in each of its two major stellar sequences. Faint red main-sequence stars run out well above our observational limit and near to the theoretical prediction for the lowest mass stars capable of stable hydrogen burning in their cores. We also see a truncation in the number counts of faint blue stars, namely white dwarfs. This reflects the limit to which the bulk of the white dwarfs can cool over the lifetime of the cluster. There is also a turn toward bluer colors in the least luminous of these objects. This was predicted for the very coolest white dwarfs with hydrogen-rich atmospheres as the formation of H2 and the resultant collision-induced absorption cause their atmospheres to become largely opaque to infrared radiation.
An investigation of the experiences and views of crèche teachers. The presentation of the research
Indagini su vissuti e rappresentazioni delle educatrici dei Nidi. Presentazione della ricerca.
Creators: name: Manuzzi, Paola
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: La ricerca del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’educazione, avente come oggetto la cura educativa, parte nel 2005 dall’assunto che si sta diffondendo una cultura tendente a patologizzare il disagio dei bambini e che si può ipotizzare che da questa ten-denza non siano immuni nemmeno i servizi per la prima infanzia. Un obiettivo della ricerca, in particolare della sezione di Pedagogia Generale, è stato quello di appurare se nella percezione di educatori di Nidi e degli insegnanti di scuola dell’infanzia ci sono situazioni di bambini descrivibili come iperattivi o addirittura bulli.
description: La ricerca del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’educazione, avente come oggetto la cura educativa, parte nel 2005 dall’assunto che si sta diffondendo una cultura tendente a patologizzare il disagio dei bambini e che si può ipotizzare che da questa ten-denza non siano immuni nemmeno i servizi per la prima infanzia. Un obiettivo della ricerca, in particolare della sezione di Pedagogia Generale, è stato quello di appurare se nella percezione di educatori di Nidi e degli insegnanti di scuola dell’infanzia ci sono situazioni di bambini descrivibili come iperattivi o addirittura bulli.
Supplementary document for Ultrabroadband, compact, polarization independent and efficient Metasurface-based power splitter on Lithium Niobate waveguides - 5026508.pdf
Creators: name: Guo, Chunlei
name: Alquliah, Amged
name: ElKabbash, Mohamed
name: Zhang, Jihua
name: Cheng, Jin Luo
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document for Ultrabroadband, compact, polarization independent and efficient Metasurface-based power splitter on Lithium Niobate waveguides
Entrepreneurship and education in Singapore
Creators: name: Seet, Lip-Chai
name: Koh, Hock-Tee
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Singapore has consistently been rated as one of the world's most competitive economies but it lags behind in global comparisons of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial activities have been strongly recognized as 'the way' to higher growth and job creation. Being a small country rich in human capital, it is important for Singapore to build an entrepreneurial culture so as to optimize its human capital. The main objective of this project is to study whether higher education helps entrepreneurs to be more successful in their business and to provide a basis for future research on whether the current tertiary education system is conducive for producing entrepreneurs.
Lavoro di cura, famiglie e futuro: riflessioni per uno strumento di ricerca.
Care, Families and the Future: reflections for a research tool
Creators: name: Carugati, Felice
name: Selleri, Patrizia
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: Il presente contributo riguarda le riflessioni teoriche che hanno portato alla costruzione di uno strumento di ricerca sul tema delle cure educative che le madri pensano ed agiscono nella vita quotidiana nei confronti dei figli. Utilizzando una prospettiva che studia i contesti sociali come unità d’analisi a più livelli, dall’individuale al collettivo (Bronfenbrenner, 1979), dalle azioni alle rappresentazioni (Doise, 1982), integrando in questa prospettiva anche lo studio delle Rappresentazioni Sociali (Mugny, Carugati, 1985), vengono descritti i principali contenuti di un questionario somministrato ad un campione di madri con figli di età tra i 5 e gli 11 anni.
description: In the framework of multilevel analysis (Doise, 1982) of mothers’ and children’s everyday life (Bronfenbrenner 1979), of social representations approach to everyday cognition (Mugny, Carugati, 1985), mothers’ reports of their educational practices are carefully studied through a multiple choice questionnaire, whose content is presented in details.
Le cure educative nei contesti multiculturali. L’immagine sociale del genitore straniero.
Educational care in multicultitural contexts. The social image of the foreign parent
Creators: name: Genovese, Antonio
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: L’articolo propone alcune riflessioni sugli esiti di una ricerca condotta dal gruppo di Pedagogia Interculturale del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Educazione dell’Università di Bologna (Antonio Genovese, Stefania Lorenzini, Ivana Bologne-si). Tale ricerca fa parte di un progetto più ampio, coordinato da Maria Grazia Contini e da Milena Manini, sul tema “La cura educativa”, teso ad indagare i mo-delli educativi e le pratiche di cura nei servizi per la prima infanzia. Il gruppo di Pedagogia Interculturale ha esplorato, in particolare, il rapporto tra le famiglie straniere, i loro bisogni e i loro modelli di cura dell’infanzia, e i servizi. L’articolo di Genovese tratta dell’immagine diffusa fra le operatrici di nido del genitore stranie-ro e delle sue capacità di relazionarsi all’istituzione.
description: L’articolo propone alcune riflessioni sugli esiti di una ricerca condotta dal gruppo di Pedagogia Interculturale del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Educazione dell’Università di Bologna (Antonio Genovese, Stefania Lorenzini, Ivana Bologne-si). Tale ricerca fa parte di un progetto più ampio, coordinato da Maria Grazia Contini e da Milena Manini, sul tema “La cura educativa”, teso ad indagare i mo-delli educativi e le pratiche di cura nei servizi per la prima infanzia. Il gruppo di Pedagogia Interculturale ha esplorato, in particolare, il rapporto tra le famiglie straniere, i loro bisogni e i loro modelli di cura dell’infanzia, e i servizi. L’articolo di Genovese tratta dell’immagine diffusa fra le operatrici di nido del genitore stranie-ro e delle sue capacità di relazionarsi all’istituzione.
La cura della professionalità nei servizi per l’infanzia.
Professionalism in childcare services
Creators: name: Gherardi, Vanna
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: Il presente contributo riporta fasi e risultati di un’indagine empirica sulla percezione di cura di insegnanti di scuola dell’infanzia considerando il loro lavoro di cura, ossia in rapporto alla propria professionalità in istituzioni pubbliche rivolte alla cura
dell’infanzia. Il principio teorico di riferimento sta nella reciprocità della cura all’interno di una istituzione educativa in una società democratica. I teorici di riferimento sono: Dewey (1937); Lewin (1948); Bernstein (1975); Bronfenbrenner (1979); Bruner (2002).
description: This part reports phases and outcomes of an emperical research on the chilhood teachers care perception considering them care work, i.e. with reference to own professionalism in public institutions turned towards chilhood care. Theoretical principle is the care reciprocity in an educational institution in a democratic society. The theorists are: Dewey (1937); Lewin (1948); Bernstein (1975); Bronfenbrenner (1979); Bruner (2002).
Le cure educative nella scuola di Mompiano e nelle Case dei bambini di Roma e Milano in età giolittiana.
Educational care at Mompiano school and the Children’s Houses in Rome and Milan in the age of Giolitti
Creators: name: Pironi, Tiziana
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: Nell’importante fase di modernizzazione che investe la società italiana agli inizi del Novecento, il problema delle istituzioni infantili prescolastiche diventa centrale nel dibattito pedagogico del tempo. Rilevante appare il contributo offerto dall’emancipazionismo femminile per un superamento delle vecchie pratiche filantropiche in vista di un moderno concetto di assistenza: ciò implica il superamento della visione puramente custodialistica dell’ “asilo”, di cui si sottolinea l’importante
funzione educativa, con una conseguente riflessione sulle “cure” da destinare all’infanzia. E’ proprio in questo momento che si realizzano due esperienze educative, su cui converge subito l’attenzione del mondo politico e pedagogico, e che
diventeranno due punti di riferimento per l’educazione infantile. Si tratta di due “modelli” profondamente segnati dalla differenziata situazione socio-culturale in cui vengono inizialmente sperimentati: la Scuola materna di Rosa Agazzi, espressione di un’Italia ancora in prevalenza agricola e contadina; la Casa dei bambini di Maria Montessori, concepita in un progetto di riqualificazione urbanistica, nella realtà di degrado sociale delle grandi periferie di Roma e di Milano.
description: In the modernization era, at the beginning of the twentieth-century, the preschool institutions’question became the core of the padagogic debate in the Italian society. A relevant contribution was given by the women’s emancipation process that brouhgt towards a modern concept of assistance, such as the overcoming of the idea of nursery schools only as places for safekeeping. It was underlined, in fact, their important educational function to childhood care. Exactly in that period, two educational experiences occurred, attracting politicians’ and pedagogists’ attention: the birth of Rosa Agazzi’s pre-school, expression of a mostly agricultural and peasant Italy, and the Maria Montessori’s “Casa dei bambini” (Children’s house), designed into an upgrading town planning scheme, in the degraded districts of Rome and Milan.
La scuola che ha scelto di cambiare. L’esperienza delle Scuole di Seconda Opportunità in Italia.
Schools that have chosen change. The experience of second choice schools in Italy.
Creators: name: Guarnieri, Maria Cristina
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: Dietro alla nascita e allo sviluppo delle Scuole di Seconda Opportunità si cela una domanda fondamentale a cui la stessa Istituzione Scolastica è chiamata a rispondere, e cioè in questi decenni la scuola è stata capace di formare le “persone” ed oggi
quali ostacoli incontra nel raggiungimento di questo obiettivo? Al centro dell’attenzione va posta la formazione dell’uomo prima ancora che del cittadino, come se la crescita dell’humanitas, che è propria di ogni individuo, avesse la priorità o, fosse elemento determinante, rispetto allo sviluppo della cittadinanza. In sostanza non può esistere cittadino, se prima non ha fatto la sua comparsa l’uomo. La scuola non può essere colpevolizzata per il processo di disumanizzazione in atto, o “secolarizzazione” o periodo “postmoderno” come è stato definito, ma ha l’obbligo istituzionale di lottare affinché le giovani generazioni prendano coscienza del valore della vita stessa e della centralità dello studio e della cultura non come mezzo di riscatto o ascesa sociale, ma come fonte primaria di humanitas, di senso e di orientamento per l’esistenza.
description: Behind the birth and development of Second Choice Schools lies a fundamental question which the institution itself must answer- Over this last ten years have these schools been able to educate the “person” and what obstacles have been encountered in trying to meet this objective? At the heart of the matter lies the question of whether the education of the “individual” or that of the citizen comes first. Should we give priority to the development of humanitas, which belongs to every person, as the overriding factor in respect to development of citizenship. In essence the citizen cannot exist if the individual has not emerged beforehand. Schools cannot be blamed for the process of dehumanisation or secularisation that is taking place in this so called “post-modern” age. There is an institutional duty to fight so that the younger generations become consciously aware of the value of life and the central role of study and culture, not as a means of liberation or social advancement but as the primary source of humanity, and giving meaning and direction to existence
Navigating Through Multiple Languages: A Study of Multilingual Students’ Use of their Language Repertoire Within a French Canadian Minority Education Context
Creators: name: Sweeney, Shannon D.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Linguistic Repertoire
Language Use
Minority Context
Language Policy
Multilingualism

description: The presence of Allophone students in French-language secondary schools in Ottawa is gradually increasing. While the politique d’aménagement linguistique (PAL) insists on the use of French within the school, one may begin to wonder which language Allophone students are speaking. French? English? Their native language(s)? This qualitative case study of four multilingual Allophone students explores their language repertoire use in relation to their desired linguistic representation, their linguistic proficiency in French, English, and their native language(s), and their perceptions of language prestige. The results indicate that students spoke a significant amount of English, some French (particularly with their teacher or Francophone classmates), and minimal amounts of their native language. Recommendations are suggested to increase the effectiveness of PAL within a Francophone minority context and to ensure that the policy’s objects are attained.
Synthesis and Characterization of Tissue-engineered Collagen Hydrogels for the Delivery of Therapeutic Cells
Creators: name: McEwan, Kimberly A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: biomaterials
collagen hydrogels
type-I diabetes
cardiovascular disease
islet cells
angiogenic cells

description: The expanding field of tissue engineering provides a new approach to regenerative medicine for common ailments such as cardiovascular disease and type-I diabetes. Biomaterials can be administered as a delivery vehicle to introduce therapeutic cells to sites of damaged or diseased tissue. A specific class of biomaterials, termed hydrogels, is suitable for this application as they can provide a biocompatible, biodegradable scaffold that mimics the physical properties of the native soft tissue. Injectable hydrogels are increasingly being developed for biomedical applications due to their ability to be delivered in a minimally invasive manner. One potential use for such materials is in the delivery of therapeutics such as cells or growth factor-releasing particles. In this study, the first aim was to determine the interactive effects between collagen-based hydrogels and additives (cells and microspheres) for cardiac regeneration. The results demonstrated that the addition of either cells or microspheres to a collagen-based hydrogel decreased its gelation time and increased its viscosity. Increased cross-linker concentrations resulted in lower cell viability. However, this cell loss could be minimized by delivering cells with the cross-linker neutralizing agent, glycine. As a potential application of these materials, the second aim of this study was to develop a hydrogel for use as an ectopic islet transplant site. Specifically, collagen-chitosan hydrogels were synthesized and characterized, with and without laminin, and tested for their ability to support angiogenic and islet cell survival and function. Matrices synthesized with lower chitosan content (20:1 collagen:chitosan) displayed greater cell compatibility for both angiogenic cells and for islets and weaker mechanical properties, while matrices with higher chitosan content (10:1 collagen:chitosan) had the opposite effect. Laminin did not affect the physical properties of the matrices, but did improve angiogenic cell and islet survival and function. Overall the proposed collagen-based hydrogels can be tailored to meet the physical property requirements for cardiac and islet tissue engineering applications and demonstrated promising cell support capabilities.
Supplementary document for Ultrabroadband, compact, polarization independent and efficient Metasurface-based power splitter on Lithium Niobate waveguides - 5026508.pdf
Creators: name: Guo, Chunlei
name: Alquliah, Amged
name: ElKabbash, Mohamed
name: Zhang, Jihua
name: Cheng, Jin Luo
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document for Ultrabroadband, compact, polarization independent and efficient Metasurface-based power splitter on Lithium Niobate waveguides
Edgar Morin. Leçon : “Sciences, Ethique et Citoyenneté”. Bologne, le 28 mai 2008. Aula Magna di S. Lucia.
Edgar Morin. Leçon : “Sciences, Ethique et Citoyenneté”. Bologne, le 28 mai 2008. Aula Magna di S. Lucia.
Creators: name: Bion, Laurence
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: Edgar Morin, directeur de recherche émérite au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) et président de l’Agence européenne pour la culture (UNES-CO), est l’un des plus grands intellectuels français de notre temps. Par un discours simple, il pose des questions fondamentales pour comprendre et peut-être modi-fier notre société. Lors de sa leçon à l’Université de Bologne, il a principalement évoqué la question du rapport entre sciences et éthique. Il a souligné les risques d’opacité et de fermeture de la recherche scientifique contemporaine et insisté sur l’importance d’une connaissance scientifique qui reste accessible à tous les ci-toyens.
Supplementary document for Constructing achromatic polarization-dependent bifocal metalens with height-gradient metastructures - 5026880.pdf
Creators: name: Xiong, Xiang
name: wang, xi
name: Wang, Zheng-Han
name: Gao, Yajun
name: Peng, Ruwen
name: Wang, Mu
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplemental materials
Automatic laser shutdown implications for all optical data networks
Creators: name: Hinton, Kerry
name: Farrell, Peter
name: Zalesky, Andrew
name: Andrew, Lachlan L. H.
name: Zukerman, Moshe
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Generalized multiprotocol label switching (GMPLS), optical packet, and burst-switched networks in which the synchronous digital hierarchy/synchronous optical network (SDH/SONET) layer is removed may be rendered nonfunctional because the current standard for triggering Automatic Power Reduction (APR) cannot distinguish between a fiber that has been de-energized and a fiber failure. If this standard is applied, without modification, the likelihood of unnecessary amplifier shutdown in optical networks is significant. These shutdown events may impact large regions of the network and render optical links inoperable. To avoid unnecessary amplifier shutdown, amendments to the current operation of APR are suggested.
The Development of the Clinical Supervisor: An Examination of Theories, Contributing Factors, and Measures
Creators: name: Barker, Keegan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Clinical supervision
Systematic review
Meta analysis

description: The development of competency in clinical supervision is becoming an increasingly important element of training and practice in professional psychology. To assist students in developing supervisory competencies, knowledge of relevant research and effective training methods is required. Three studies were designed to add to the field of supervisor development research. In the first study, I conducted a systematic review to examine the extent to which theoretical models of supervisor development have been used in empirical studies of supervisor development within professional psychology. This study revealed that studies rarely employ theory, and when they do, the Supervisor Complexity Model is the most often used theory, likely because it is the only one with an associated measure, the Psychotherapy Supervisor Development Scale (PSDS; Watkins, Schneider, Haynes, & Nieberding, 1995). Building on the findings of this systematic review, in the second study I conducted a reliability and validity generalization on the PSDS. Reliability and validity generalizations are meta-analytic methods that allow reliability and validity data from a measure to be summarized across studies. Results indicate the PSDS has a history of excellent reliability, and higher scores are found with increased supervisory training and experience, evidence of the scale’s validity. The third study is a meta-analysis of the supervisor development literature, in order to assess the effect sizes of training and experience on supervisory development and self-efficacy. Results indicate that training and experience have significant positive effect sizes, though they do not differ from one another. Based on results from these studies I provide recommendations about: the samples with which the PSDS tool is appropriately used, and how researchers might increase reliability within their own future studies, and evidence based recommendations for competency based education efforts.
Writing under the gaze: Plagiarism policies and international ESL students patchwriting in graduate school
Creators: name: Abasi, Ali Reza
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Education, Bilingual and Multicultural.
subject: Language, Rhetoric and Composition.
subject: Education, Higher.

description: In this study I investigated how seven English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) international students at two graduate programs at the University of Ottawa wrote course papers in light of the university's policies on plagiarism. Informed by the New Literacy Studies, Bourdieu's social theory, Bakhtin's theory of language, and Ivanic's analytical framework of writer identity, the inquiry drew upon multiple sources of data involving field observations, artifact analysis, and interviews with the students, their course professors, and other faculty members over two consecutive academic sessions. The results indicate that patchwriting, defined as one writer working closely with other writers' texts while leaving behind traces of those texts (Howard, 1999), is a major strategy through which students make other peoples' words and ideas their own. The study further differentiates between localized patchwriting and global patchwriting, and offers an account of the reasons that give rise to each. It also discusses how educational practice simultaneously calls upon students to write as professionals and students, and considers the role that university plagiarism policies play in students' decision as to which identity to take up and textually enact. The study discusses faculty's mediation of plagiarism policies, and identifies a dissonance between their pedagogic response and the university's legalistic treatment of student textual borrowing practices that violate common practice. The research also considers the impact of institutional plagiarism policies on students and professors, and makes suggestions for the re-consideration of university plagiarism policies and documents.
Giocare, tra violenza ed ecologia della mente.
Play: between Violence and Ecology of the Mind
Creators: name: Euli, Enrico
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: L'articolo riflette sulle relazioni tra comunicazione, violenza e gioco, nel tentativo di rintracciare tra loro convergenze, affinità e contrasti. Le nostre relazioni, infatti, ci immettono inerzialmente in dilemmi e paradossi di così alta complessità da rendere spesso inadeguati gli strumenti 'logici' ed 'analitici': dal che può derivare un senso di impotenza, rabbia, paralisi, ma anche un desiderio potente di controllo e di soluzione degli eventi. Entrambe queste strade ci conducono dentro le false alternative della violenza. La cultura del gioco, invece, ci propone (attraverso le sue pratiche, ma anche negli scritti teorici di Freud, Winnicott, Bateson, qui riassunti e rivisitati) una modalità più creativa e nonviolenta, più prossima ad un' ecologia della mente e ad un'estetica delle emozioni.
description: The article reflects on the relations between communication, violence and play in the tentative to find their convergences, affinities and contrasts. Our relations, in fact, initially are put in dilemmas and paradoxes of such a high complexity that it often makes the ‘logical’ and ‘analytical’ instruments inadequate: and from here may arise a sense of impotence, anger, paralysis, but even a potent desire to control and find solutions to the events. Both of these roads are followed under the false alternative of violence. The culture of play instead propose (through its practices, but also in the theoretical works of Freud, Winnicott, Bateson, here summarized and revisited) a more creative and non-violent modality, closer to an ecology of mind and an aesthetics of emotions.
Just Transformations to Sustainability
Creators: name: Bennett, Nathan J.
name: Blythe, Jessica
name: Cisneros-Montemayor, Andrés M.
name: Singh, Gerald G.
name: Sumaila, Ussif Rashid
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Transformations towards sustainability are needed to address many of the earth’s profound environmental and social challenges. Yet, actions taken to deliberately shift social–ecological systems towards more sustainable trajectories can have substantial social impacts and exclude people from decision-making processes. The concept of just transformations makes explicit a need to consider social justice in the process of shifting towards sustainability. In this paper, we draw on the transformations, just transitions, and social justice literature to advance a pragmatic framing of just transformations that includes recognitional, procedural and distributional considerations. Decision-making processes to guide just transformations need to consider these three factors before, during and after the transformation period. We offer practical and methodological guidance to help navigate just transformations in environmental management and sustainability policies and practice. The framing of just transformations put forward here might be used to inform decision making in numerous marine and terrestrial ecosystems, in rural and urban environments, and at various scales from local to global. We argue that sustainability transformations cannot be considered a success unless social justice is a central concern.
The effects of ultraviolet-B radiation on antioxidant status and survival in the zebrafish.
Creators: name: Charron, Richard Adrian.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Biology, Animal Physiology.

description: Increased exposure to solar radiation in the UV-B range (280-320 nm) is occurring globally at least partly due to anthropogenic degradation of stratospheric ozone. The direct impact of present ambient (1.95 W/m$\sp2$) and sub-ambient doses of UV-B radiation on muscle and skin tissue antioxidants in mature zebrafish (Brachydanio rerio) and on their hatching success and survival in early life stages was measured. Exposure of mature fish to sub-ambient doses of UV-B radiation both in the presence (1.28 W/m$\sp2$) and absence (1.72 W/m$\sp2$) of a cellulose acetate filter (blocks all wavelengths below 290 nm) resulted in a significant depression in muscle/skin total glutathione (TGSH) levels compared with controls and low UV-B treated fish. Exposure to an ambient intensity of UV-B resulted in a significant decrease in muscle/skin glutathione peroxidase (GPx) activity compared with controls and low treated fish. A coincident significant increase in catalase activity compared with controls and low UV-B treated fish was also observed. Changes in SOD, catalase, GPx and GSH status suggests a UV-B-mediated increase in cytosolic superoxide anion radicals (O$\sb2\sp-$) and hydrogen peroxide. Newly fertilized eggs exposed to ambient UV-B for the duration of the hatching period exhibited 1.68% hatching success. Newly hatched larvae were observed to be more sensitive to UV-B than the adults. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
12 notwendige Schritte auf dem Weg zum Schutz fruchtbarer Böden und zur Reduzierung des Flächenverbrauchs
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Flächenverbrauchsreduzierung
subject: Bodenschutzmaßnahme
subject: Boden | Fläche
subject: Soil | Land

description: Im Mittelpunkt der Veranstaltung stand die Frage „Wie viel Boden brauchen wir?“ In diesem Kontext wurden folgende Aspekte behandelt: Wie viel Boden brauchen wir wofür? Risiken für Böden in Deutschland. Welche Steuerungsmöglichkeiten bestehen? – Verantwortung in einer begrenzten Welt. Ansätze und Lösungsmöglichkeiten: Der Blicküber den Tellerrand.
Chiamati a costruire una nuova società di relazioni. Incontro con don Luigi Ciotti, Nonantola, venerdì 3 ottobre 2008.
Chiamati a costruire una nuova società di relazioni. Incontro con don Luigi Ciotti, Nonantola, venerdì 3 ottobre 2008.
Creators: name: Rampioni, Aldo
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: There are two key words to understand the type of society that Don Luigi Ciotti has in mind: “truth” and “together”
description: Ci sono due parole chiave per capire che tipo di società abbia in mente don Luigi Ciotti: “verità” e “insieme”.
Hospital in the home: nurse safety: exposure to risk and evaluation of organisational policy
Creators: name: Grindlay, A.
name: Santamaria, N.
name: Kitt, S.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This pilot study describes the findings of a survey of the perception of threat versus the actual threat reported by 35 Victorian Hospital In The Home (HITH) nurses. The provision of HITH care has increased significantly in Victoria during the past five years with 42 programs in operation. To explore the effects of this increase in HITH care provision on nurse safety, we investigated how nurses perceive the level of threat in their practice and how they describe potential versus actual threats that they have encountered. The study also examined the level of support and training concerning safety provided to HITH nurses by conducting a review of the relevant educational, policy and procedure documentation of HITH programs. The results show considerable variation between what nurses considered as being a potentially threatening situation versus an actual incident. No significant relationships were detected between the level of threat reported by the nurses and their age or professional experience. We also found that there were important staff safety policy and procedural omissions in some HITH programs. In some cases these omissions were of a degree that may expose the employer to claims of negligence should a serious incident occur.
Description des comportements juges perturbateurs par le personnel soignant en CHSLD: Étude pilote
Creators: name: Séguin, Chantal
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Nursing.

description: Cette étude descriptive transversale, visait à verifier les connaissances relatives à trois types d'aphasie (Broca, Wernicke et globale) et l'expression des comportements jugés perturbateurs par le personnel soignant en CHSLD auprès de résidents ayant des troubles de communication de type aphasique suite à un AVC selon la fréquence, le moment du jour et l'élément déclencheur. L'échantillon (N = 58) était subdivisé en professionnels et non professionnels. Les résultats fournissent des profils selon les données socio-démographiques, les connaissances et l'expression des comportements rapportés par les soignants en termes d'agressivité physique, verbale, cris, demandés et mouvements répétitifs. Les connaissances et des comportements perturbateurs rapportés ne diffèrent pas significativement selon les catégories de personnels soignant et les correlations entre l'expérience et les connaissances sont quasi nulle. L'implication de cette étude pour la pratique démontre l'importance de la formation du personnel afin de gérer et de prévenir l'expression des besoins des résidents par des comportements jugés perturbateurs.
Supplementary document for High-quality quadrupolar plasmonic lattice resonances in horizontal metal-insulator-metal gratings - 5027562.pdf
Creators: name: Fang, Xinyu
name: Xiong, Lei
name: Shi, Jian-ping
name: Li, Guangyuan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Methane oxidation in landfill cover soil
Creators: name: AlBanna, Muna
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.
subject: Environmental Sciences.
subject: Engineering, Environmental.

description: Methane, one of the primary greenhouse gases, negatively affects climate change. Its atmospheric concentration has increased dramatically over the last century and is expected to continue rising due to human activities. Oxidation of methane by methanotrophic bacteria provides a sink for methane. The rate at which methane is biologically oxidized depends on different parameters. This study aims to better understand methane oxidation in landfill cover soils. This was done through laboratory batch reactor experiments, under two levels of moisture content, two soil layer thicknesses and with and without nutrient additions. Adding nutrients to the 200 mm layer of landfill cover soil that contained 30% moisture content (by weight), increased the CH4 oxidation efficiency from 38% to 81% and the CH4 substrate utilization from 2750 mumoles/L to 5540 mumoles/L. The kinetic constants were studied in the landfill cover soil. The maximum CH4 utilization rate for different experimental runs and under different levels of the three specified parameters were between 31 and 699 mumoles/dayxkg of dry soil weight. A statistical design model was developed to describe the expected methane oxidation efficiencies under different levels of moisture content and nutrient addition that can occur in a typical landfill cover soil.
Santi G., Semplici A. (2007), La ruta del café, Milano, Terre di mezzo Editore.
Santi G., Semplici A. (2007), La ruta del café, Milano, Terre di mezzo Editore.
Creators: name: Filippini, Federica
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: Giovanni Santi, fotografo toscano, e Andrea Semplici, giornalista e scrittore nato a Firenze, raccontano attraverso immagini e parole al Ruta del cafè. È una storia con radici lontane e profonde, radicate nella terra e annaffiate dal sudore; è una storia di contadini, di fede, di amore, di speranza; è la storia di una scommessa vinta, di
un progetto di cooperazione, sviluppo economico e sociale che ha costruito un legame fra la Toscana e la Ioma di Salcedo, Repubblica Domenicana; è una storia affascinante e vincente.
description: Giovanni Santi a Tuscan photographer and Andrea Semplici, a writer and journalist, born in Florence, tell the story of the Ruta del cafè (the Coffee Route) through images and words. It is a story with profound, distant roots, ‘ingrained in the soil and watered by sweat’. It is the story of agricultural workers, faith, love and hope. The tale of a winning gamble, a project in cooperation, and economic and social development that has built links between Tuscanny and Ioma di Salcedo in the Domenican Republic. A story of how workers took destiny into their own hands and marketed their coffee to the world in a way that reflected its true value. A fascinating and captivating story.
Poaching in the landwash: An interrogation of cultural meaning in a reading group from St John's, Newfoundland
Creators: name: Lewkowich, David
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Education, Sociology of.
subject: Geography.
subject: Education, Reading.

description: Involved as it is with language, reading is an always-ambiguous endeavour. In this qualitative foray into the otherness of textual desire, I examine the human geography of reading through the articulations of a reading group in St. John's, Newfoundland. I also dwell in the collective dynamics of a pedagogy of place---moving through the landspaces of Newfoundland, poeticizing the relation between reading and subjectivity. As a borderline work, this study illustrates that reading in the meeting place of dialogic engagement creates a text of infinite possibility, through which readers write on and write from their social constructions of cultural meaning.
The attraction of the dung beetle anoplotrupes stercorosus (coleoptera: geotrupidae) to volatiles from vertebrate cadavers
Creators: name: Weithmann, Sandra
name: Hoermann, Christian Von
name: Schmitt, Thomas
name: Steiger, Sandra
name: Ayasse, Manfred
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: carrion decomposition
subject: piglet cadaver
subject: insect attraction
subject: GC-EAD
subject: synthetic cadaver volatiles
subject: DDC 570 / Life sciences
subject: Volatile organic compounds
subject: Organische Verbindungen

description: During decomposition, vertebrate carrion emits volatile organic compounds to which insects and other scavengers are attracted. We have previously found that the dung beetle, Anoplotrupes stercorosus, is the most common dung beetle found on vertebrate cadavers. Our aim in this study was to identify volatile key compounds emitted from carrion and used by A. stercorosus to locate this nutritive resource. By collecting cadaveric volatiles and performing electroantennographic detection, we tested which compounds A. stercorosus perceived in the post-bloating decomposition stage. Receptors in the antennae of A. stercorosus responded to 24 volatiles in odor bouquets from post-bloating decay. Subsequently, we produced a synthetic cadaver odor bouquet consisting of six compounds (benzaldehyde, DMTS, 3-octanone, 6-methyl-5-hepten-2-ol, nonanal, dodecane) perceived by the beetles and used various blends to attract A. stercorosus in German forests. In field assays, these beetles were attracted to a blend of DMTS, 3-octanone, and benzaldehyde. Generalist feeding behavior might lead to the super-dominant occurrence of A. stercorosus in temperate European forests and have a potentially large impact on the exploitation and rapid turnover of temporally limited resources such as vertebrate cadavers.
Defining the tropism of Listeria monocytogenes using a comparative genomics approach
Creators: name: McIlwham, Sarah C
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Biology, Microbiology.

description: Listeria monocytogenes is a human foodborne pathogen capable of causing invasive and non-invasive infections. Ubiquitous in the environment, strains are often classified into lineages I (serovars 1/2a, 1/2c, 3a; food); II (containing serovars 1/2b, 4b, 3b; human illness); and III (4a, 4c; food-production). It is not clearly understood how serovars become tropic to a particular niche. The objective of this project was to investigate strain differences in clinical, environmental and food isolates, with the aim of identifying genomic features responsible for the tropism of the microorganism for clinical, food and environmental niches. Comparative genomic techniques, namely mixed-genome microarrays, dot-blot hybridization and suppressive subtractive hybridization were used to compare the genomes of L. monocytogenes isolates of different serotypes from a variety of different sources. Over 30 genome sequences, potentially involved in the tropism of the microorganism, were identified using Versions 2 and 3 of a Listeria mixed-genome array. These included genes with similarities to cystathionine beta-lyase and homoserine O-acetyltransferase, a putative outer-membrane lipoprotein, conserved hypothetical proteins, a peptidoglycan lytic protein and a glycosyltransferase family 65 enzyme. The glycosyltransferase family 65 gene was found to be present in isolates belonging to lineage II but was absent in lineage I isolates. By creating an isogenic deletion mutant of this gene, it was found that this enzyme is involved in cell wall biosynthesis and could be responsible for increased survival of lineage II strains in the host environment, thus rendering these isolates more prevalent in cases of human listeriosis.
Supplementary document for High-quality quadrupolar plasmonic lattice resonances in horizontal metal-insulator-metal gratings - 5027562.pdf
Creators: name: Fang, Xinyu
name: Xiong, Lei
name: Shi, Jian-ping
name: Li, Guangyuan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1