cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Women's place in men's poetry: The creation of a beata femina in women's poetry of the eighteenth century
Creators: name: Daniels, Rosemary
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Women's Studies.
subject: Literature, English.

description: This dissertation examines a group of female writers in the eighteenth century, the Countess of Winchilsea, Sarah Fyge, Mary Chudleigh, Elizabeth Singer Rowe, Mary Collier, Mary Leapor, Ann Yearsley, and Anna Barbauld, who reconfigured elements of an authoritative generic mode, the georgic. In undertaking this reconfiguration these women developed their own distinctive tradition of verse which I describe as a portrayal of a beata femina . The poetry of the beata femina acknowledges the separate sphere to which eighteenth-century mores restricted women and privileges the life of that sphere. Thus the narrative of the beatus vir is not figured as an appeal to rural retirement so much as a gendered escape from a male dominated world into a female life of the mind. The traditional affirmation of the georgic labour of the estate is transformed into a testimony of domestic labour. The country-house poem is rewritten to celebrate the women who give it life, while the topographical survey is reordered as a means for women to survey their own narratives. However, the most significant way in which these women establish a sense of a beata femina within georgically inflected verse is through their employment of time. Women's poetry in this mode self-consciously rejects both the seasonal cycles and sense of historic progression associated with the georgic. Instead, women describe short periods of time within their quotidian lives in which they experience pleasure, connect to nature or other women, and, often, achieve transcendent experiences which seem to stand outside time.
Biomechanical analysis of ankle kinematics and ligament strain in snowboarding
Creators: name: Delorme, Sebastien
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Biomedical.
subject: Biophysics, Medical.

description: Because snowboarders are known to injure their ankles more often than alpine skiers, it has been postulated that stiffer snowboard boots would provide better protection to the ankle ligaments than current soft boots do. To test this hypothesis, we have measured the kinematics of the feet and lower legs of five snowboarders riding down a course of 10 gates on a ski hill using an electromagnetic motion tracking system. Results were obtained with each snowboarder wearing soft boots and stiffer step-in boots. The measurements were expressed in anatomically relevant rotations of the ankle joint complex. Two models were developed to predict ligament strains from rotations of the ankle joint complex: (1) a statistical model using published ligament strain measured on cadaver specimens at various combinations of ankle rotations as an interpolation and extrapolation table to predict strains in two ankle ligaments at the rotations measured during the snowboarding trials; (2) a personalized 2-degrees-of-freedom kinematic model of the ankle joint complex, based on the Denavit-Hartenberg formulation of serial-link manipulators, to predict strains in flue ankle ligaments from the relative position of the shank and foot. The experimental results showed that the left and right ankles are asymmetrically rotated, mostly in dorsiflexion, eversion and external rotation. Compared to step-in boots and bindings, soft boots and strap bindings allowed more rotation of the ankle joint complex and more strain in the anterior talofibular ligament, according to the statistical model. The kinematic model was not sensitive enough to detect differences in ligament strains between the 2 types of equipment. A functional determination of the axes of rotation of the talocrural and subtalar joints could further improve the predictions of this model. This is the first known study to document experimentally the kinematics of snowboarding. It generally confirms the expectation that softer boats allow significantly wider ranges of ankle rotation and ligament strain.
Prise en compte des représentations des étudiants mentors au regard de leur rôle, de leur pratique et de leurs besoins en matière de formation
Creators: name: Philion, Ruth
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Education, Higher.

description: Devant l'émergence de nouveaux profils d'étudiants, les universités des paye occidentaux doivent repenser leur pédagogie, notamment en ce qui concerne l'accompagnement des étudiants de première année qui sont nombreux à vivre des échecs et à abandonner leurs études. Cette pédagogie semble s'articuler autour d'une diversité de mesures d'encadrement, allant de l'accompagnement par un professionnel à celui que peut offrir un pair. Comme le soulignent de nombreux chercheurs, l'accompagnement par les pairs, appelés étudiants mentors dans ce projet de recherche, semble une voie des plus prometteuses, car elle démontre des effets positifs indéniables aussi bien au plan cognitif qu'affectif chez les étudiants en difficulté. Or, il appert que les caractéristiques d'une formation d'étudiants mentors restent à définir et a documenter étant donné la nouveauté de cette mesure. Dans ce contexte, cette étude examine les représentations de la première génération d'étudiants mentors sous deux angles, celui de leur rôle et de leur pratique et celui de la formation qu'ils jugent avoir besoin pour améliorer l'exécution de leur pratique; ces données étant recueillies pour construire un référentiel de formation. Dans cette optique, une collecte de données qualitatives multiples a été menée auprès de 14 étudiants mentors de l'Université d'Ottawa ayant accompagné des étudiants en difficulté lors de l'instauration des programmes de mentorat durant l'année universitaire 2002-2003. Les resultats démontrent qu'il existe des liens directs entre les représentations des étudiants mentors a l'égard de leur rôle et de l'accompagnement qu'ils offrent et les besoins de formation qu'ils repértorient. Parmi ces besoins, ressort plus spécifiquement l'importance de créer un espace réflexif ou les mentors accompagnes de personnes-ressources analysent, comparent, critiquent et révisent les modalités d'accompagnement qu'ils privilégient. Cette formation semble devoir s'inscrire dans la perspective socioconstructiviste de l'apprentissage avec en toile de fond une modélisation de l'accompagnement, lequel peut être fait par un accompagnement métacognitif Ces résultats soulèvent des lors toute la question de la formation des personnes-ressources aptes à accompagner les étudiants mentors dans une telle perspective de formation.
title: TCMD en la muñeca SNAC (“scaphoid non-union advanced collapse”). Lo que el traumatólogo quiere saber.
Creators: name: Hernández Gañán, Javier
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Athletic injuries
subject: Pathology
subject: Trauma
subject: CT
subject: Extremities
subject: Bones
subject: Musculoskeletal bone

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Describir la etiopatogenia,
la clasificación y los hallazgos por TCMD de la muñeca SNAC,
hacienda hincapié en los puntos clave que modifican la planificación quirúrgica,
en el idioma utilizado por los traumatólogos.
Ilustrar los procedimientos...
Politique de l'entre-deux dans la philosophie de Gilles Deleuze
Creators: name: Valentin, Jérémie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.
subject: Political Science, General.

description: Notre thèse a pour objectif de cerner la dimension politique de l'oeuvre de Gilles Deleuze. La politique de ce dernier est une posture qui procède par métamorphose et développe une mécanique de résistance au présent. La posture a une double connotation: elle désigne le philosophe qui s'expose à des affects et la méthodologie iconoclaste de Deleuze. La posture, cet entre-deux , est un ensemble de signes que le philosophe tente de déchiffrer et la création simultanée qui en résulte. Deleuze est toujours d'un point de vue politique entre-deux. Ainsi, cette posture ne devient apparente que si l'on comprend ce qui se joue entre la philosophie et la philosophie politique, entre l'homme et l'animal, entre l'aristocratie et la démocratie, entre la philosophie et la non-philosophie. Afin d'y parvenir, il est nécessaire de saisir la méfiance qu'il cultive face à la politique en tant que telle et la prudente politique qu'il développe lui-même. Autrement dit, cette posture délimite une zone d'analyse privilégiée qui refuse tout compromis avec le présent et rejette tout fantasme révolutionnaire. Intenable, inclassable, cette posture a pour objectif la restauration du lien rompu entre l'homme et le monde. Accéder à cet interstice, c'est pénétrer un univers marque du sceau de l'indiscernable dont la fabulation est le vecteur de prédilection. C'est suivre Deleuze sur les chemins d'une douce folie.
title: Diagnóstico por imagen de la patología metastásica extraaxial intracraneal
Creators: name: Hernandez Rodriguez, Cristina
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Metastases

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
-Revisar laincidencia,
etiologia y distribución de la carcinomatosis meningea -Describir los métodos diagnósticos actuales,
haciendo especial énfasis en RM,lo cualimplicaun conocimiento anatómico yrepaso delos diferentes patrones de realce...
Also doch? Das öffentliche Energie-Effizienzregister für Rechenzentren wird kommen
Creators: name: Köhn, Marina
name: Radgen, Peter
name: Behrens, Felix
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2023

description: Das in 2021 gestartete Forschungsvorhaben "PeerDC" (Public Energy Efficiency Register of Data Centres), in dem ein Energie-Effizienzregister für Rechenzentren und ein System für die Bewertung der Energie-Effizienz entwickelt werden, befindet sich im Schlussspurt. Wir* haben viel erreicht und neue Erkenntnisse gewonnen, die wir mit diesem Artikel teilen. © 2023 Vogel Communications Group
Structure and dynamics of some anti-cancer drugs using spectroscopy and theoretical chemistry
Creators: name: Kabir, MD Lutful
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: To design an effective anti-cancer drug with reduced side-effects and disease resistance, a deep understanding of drug structure and drug interactions with target proteins is essential. In this thesis, optical spectroscopy was combined with computational theoretical chemistry to determine the structural states of an anti-cancer drug in solution and to determine the energetics associated with drug-protein binding intermediates. The results suggest that drug efficacy is determined by low population, highly transient intermediate states. These results may help in the future design of improved anti-cancer drugs.
The life cycle of evidence for novel chemotherapeutic agents in advanced non-small cell lung cancer
Creators: name: Reaume, Martin Neil
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery.
subject: Health Sciences, Public Health.
subject: Health Sciences, Oncology.

description: Problem. The failure of evidence to be translated in practice is sometimes referred to as the research-practice gap and can result in the inefficient use of limited health care resources. Methodology. The thesis investigated the role of evidence in determining clinical recommendations and practice in lung cancer care. This was accomplished by simultaneously comparing the results of a systematic review of evidence, cumulative meta-analysis, recommendations, key milestones, and physician prescription database. Results. There was limited evidence found in the literature for two novel chemotherapeutic agents (NCA) in combination with platinum chemotherapy for the treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Despite this, clinical recommendations for the use of these NCA were made within relatively short periods of time. There was rapid adoption of both NCA relative to recommendations by Ontario oncologists. Conclusion. Evidence-practice gaps in the treatment of advanced NSCLC are short and may even be premature or inappropriate.
Altering cortical input unmasks synaptic phenotypes in the YAC128 cortico-striatal co-culture model of Huntington disease
Creators: name: Schmidt, Mandi E.
name: Buren, Caodu
name: Mackay, James P.
name: Cheung, Daphne
name: Dal Cengio, Louisa
name: Raymond, Lynn A.
name: Hayden, Michael R.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Background: Huntington disease (HD) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG expansion in the huntingtin (HTT) gene, leading to selective and progressive neuronal death predominantly in the striatum. Mutant HTT expression causes dysfunctional cortico-striatal (CS) transmission, loss of CS synapses, and striatal medium spiny neuron (MSN) dendritic spine instability prior to neuronal death. Co-culturing cortical and striatal neurons in vitro promotes the formation of functional CS synapses and is a widely used approach to elucidate pathogenic mechanisms of HD and to validate potential synapto-protective therapies. A number of relevant in vivo synaptic phenotypes from the YAC128 HD mouse model, which expresses full-length transgenic human mutant HTT, are recapitulated in CS co-culture by 21 days in vitro (DIV). However, striatal spine loss, which occurs in HD patients and in vivo animal models, has been observed in YAC128 CS co-culture in some studies but not in others, leading to difficulties in reproducing and interpreting results. Here, we investigated whether differences in the relative proportion of cortical and striatal neurons alter YAC128 synaptic phenotypes in this model. Results: YAC128 MSNs in 1:1 CS co-culture exhibited impaired dendritic length and complexity compared to wild-type, whereas reducing cortical input using a 1:3 CS ratio revealed a dramatic loss of YAC128 MSN dendritic spines. Chimeric experiments determined that this spine instability was primarily cell autonomous, depending largely on mutant HTT expression in striatal neurons. Moreover, we found that spontaneous electrophysiological MSN activity correlated closely with overall dendritic length, with no differences observed between genotypes in 1:3 co-cultures despite significant YAC128 spine loss. Finally, limiting cortical input with a 1:3 CS ratio impaired the basal survival of YAC128 neurons at DIV21, and this was partially selective for dopamine- and cAMP-regulated phosphoprotein 32-positive MSNs. Conclusions: Our findings reconcile previous discordant reports of spine loss in this model, and improve the utility and reliability of the CS co-culture for the development of novel therapeutic strategies for HD.
Operationalising anticipatory systems: Navigating uncertainty and ambiguity to drive innovation at the fuzzy front end
Creators: name: Vettorello, Mattia
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis focuses on the reasoning frames applied during strategic decision making on novel ideas in innovation management. Based on literature, exploring the future potentials of novel ideas at their early stage is deemed beneficial to improve decision accuracy. A proprietary framework referred to as the Innovation System Roadmap is the main outcome of this research which embeds, stimulates and activates futures-oriented reasoning to support innovation managers making sound decision on novel ideas under extreme uncertainties and dynamic society and market.
title: Checklisten für die Untersuchung und Beurteilung des Zustandes von Anlagen mit wassergefährdenden Stoffen und Zubereitungen in der Zellulose- und Papierindustrie
title: Zellulose- und Papierindustrie: Checkliste Nr. ZT. 1: Wasseraufb.
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Winkelmann-Oei, Gerhard
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Papierindustrie
subject: Zellstoffindustrie
subject: Gewässerschutz
subject: Wasserverunreinigung
subject: Risikomanagement
subject: Leitfaden
subject: Zelluloseindustrie
subject: Zellstoffproduktion
subject: Wasserverschmutzung
subject: Wasserschadstoffe
subject: Checkliste
subject: Chemikalien
subject: Chemicals

description: Diese branchenspezifischen Checklisten bilden einen Leitfaden für die Untersuchung und Beurteilung des Zustandes von Anlagen mit wassergefährdenden Stoffen und Zubereitungen in der Zellulose- und Papierindustrie. Dabei bieten sie eine Übersicht über die verschiedenen Handlungsfelder sowie einen nach Produktionsbereichen aufgeteilten Bereich um potentielle Risikoquellen und Modernisierungsziele zu identifizieren. Quelle: Bericht
description: Diese branchenspezifischen Checklisten bilden einen Leitfaden für die Untersuchung und Beurteilung des Zustandes von Anlagen mit wassergefährdenden Stoffen und Zubereitungen in der Zellulose- und Papierindustrie. Dabei bieten sie eine Übersicht über die verschiedenen Handlungsfelder sowie einen nach Produktionsbereichen aufgeteilten Bereich um potentielle Risikoquellen und Modernisierungsziele zu identifizieren.
ATM RendezView: Enabling real-time multimedia delivery to-the-desktop.
Creators: name: Smith, Keith M.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: The advent of highly performant computer technology necessary to process real-time audio and video media streams has recently enabled video conferencing services to migrate to the desktop. Additionally, as networking technologies mature to the point of affording the real-time, high bandwidth transport of these streams, a new breed of distributed multipoint conferencing systems will become widely used. ATM RendezView is a prototype application which takes a radical shift in thinking to provide a high quality, distributed, multiparty video conferencing environment. No longer are media stream bridging, mixing and distribution functions resident in a centrally located Multipoint Control Unit (MCU), but distributed among end-systems. Real-time network services are provided through the use of native Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) connectivity to-the-desktop. Deployment of such a distributed service is consequently less costly than with MCU based systems. ATM is instrumental to the success of the prototype since it provides dynamic point-to-multipoint Switched Virtual Connections (SVC) for media stream distribution, each connection having a negotiable Quality of Service (QoS). Dynamic point-to-multipoint connections empower each conferee to independently choose particular media streams to be received from other conferees, thus affording the function of switched presence control. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Turdus undetermined
Creators: name: Horváth, Ida
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Turdidae
Turdus
Turdus undetermined

description: Turdus sp. indet.
Location and age: Beremend 26, Lower Pliocene (MN15); Beremend 38, Lower Pliocene (MN16).
Material: 1 distal left ulna (Figure 3 /2); 1 ungual phalanx (Figure 3 /3).
Dimensions (in mm): ulna: E—2.4, F—4.1, G—3.1; ungual phalanx: A—9.7, B—3.9, C—2.8.
Previous records of the taxon—sites and their age: The earliest known indication of the genus is from the Middle Miocene of Credinta, Romania (MN 8), under the name Turdus sp. (Gál & Kessler 2006), while from the Late Pliocene it is known from the sites Rebielice Królowskie I in Poland (Jánossy 1974), Văršec in Bulgaria (Boev 2000), Sandalja I in Croatia (Malez-Bačić 1979). From the Early Pleistocene onwards, the number of known sites multiplies throughout Europe (Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Romania, Spain, etc.) (Tyrberg 1998). Q1—Beremend 17 (Kessler 2010 a); Betfia 9 (Gál 2002); Németóvár 4B (Jánossy 1981; Döppes & Rabeder 1997; Mlíkovskỳ 1998a); Q2—Nagyharsányhegy 1–4 (Lambrecht 1916, 1933; Jánossy 1979a, b); Q3/I— Hundsheim (Mlíkovskỳ 2009); Q3/II—Süttő 1–4 (Kessler 2009c); Q4/I—Csobánka-Kiskevélyi cave (Lambrecht 1912, 1915, 1933; Jánossy 1979a,b); Felsőtárkány-Peskő cave (Lambrecht 1912, 1933; Jánossy 1979a,b, 1986); Hámor-Puskaporos stone cave (Lambrecht 1912, 1916, 1933; Jánossy 1979a,b, 1986); Kőrösmart (Jánossy in Hamar & Csák 1969; Kessler 1974; Gál 2002); Szárazgerence (Jánossy 1979a,b, 1986).
Comparative material: Turdus merula (2010.1830.1); Turdus pilaris (2010.1015.1); Turdus philomelos (2010.1834.1); Turdus torquatus (2010.1841.1); Turdus viscivorus (2010.1023.1).
description: Published as part of Horváth, Ida, 2025, New records of fossil bird bones from the Neogene in Hungary, pp. 327-342 in Zootaxa 5627 (2) on pages 335-336, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5627.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/15326047
The 2dF galaxy redshift survey: The clustering of galaxy groups
Creators: name: Padilla, Nelson D.
name: Baugh, Carlton M.
name: Eke, Vincent R.
name: Norberg, Peder
name: Cole, Shaun
name: Frenk, Carlos S.
name: Croton, Darren
name: Baldry, Ivan K.
name: Bland-Hawthorn, Joss
name: Bridges, Terry
name: Cannon, Russell
name: Colless, Matthew
name: Collins, Chris
name: Couch, Warrick
name: Dalton, Gavin
name: De Propris, Roberto
name: Driver, Simon P.
name: Efstathiou, George
name: Ellis, Richard S.
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Jackson, Carole
name: Lahav, Ofer
name: Lewis, Ian
name: Lumsden, Stuart
name: Maddox, Steve
name: Madgwick, Darren
name: Peacock, John A.
name: Peterson, Bruce A.
name: Sutherland, Will
name: Taylor, Keith
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We measure the clustering of galaxy groups in the 2dFGRS Percolation-Inferred Galaxy Group (2PIGG) catalogue. The 2PIGG sample has 28 877 groups with at least two members. The clustering amplitude of the full 2PIGG catalogue is weaker than that of 2dFGRS galaxies, in agreement with theoretical predictions. We have subdivided the 2PIGG catalogue into samples that span a factor of ≈ 25 in median total luminosity. Our correlation function measurements span an unprecedented range of clustering strengths, connecting the regimes probed by groups fainter than L galaxies and rich clusters. There is a steady increase in clustering strength with group luminosity; the most luminous groups are 10 times more strongly clustered than the full 2PIGG catalogue. We demonstrate that the 2PIGG results are in very good agreement with the clustering of groups expected in the CDM model.
A case-control study of risk factors for ectopic pregnancy using routinely collected administrative data.
Creators: name: Hockin, James Charles.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Public Health.

description: The potential for using the case-control design with only hospital separation records was explored in a study of ectopic pregnancy. The Saskatchewan Hospital Services Commission hospital morbidity database was used. Cases were women hospitalized for ectopic pregnancy in the years 1984 through 1986. Controls were women hospitalized for any other pregnancy condition. In a case-control study using pregnant controls, the odds ratio is an appropriate estimator of relative risk, conditional on conception. Among the potential risk factors (exposures) represented in the data were tubal surgery, prior ectopic pregnancy, pelvic inflammatory disease, and infertility. Of these, the first two are completely ascertained during the time a woman was resident in Saskatchewan. Under representation of exposures should be non-differential, leading to odds ratios which are biased towards the null. Multiple logistic regression analysis yielded estimates of the odds ratios for acute PID, chronic PID or pelvic adhesions, prior ectopic pregnancy, tubal sterilization, and tubal repair. Of particular interest was the association between ectopic pregnancy and tubal surgery performed in the hope of maintaining or restoring normal tubal function. The attributable risk proportion of ectopic pregnancy due to such surgery was 8.1%. This study design can be used to follow trends in surgical causes of ectopic pregnancy in Canada. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Die Zukunft im Blick
Creators: name: Hirschnitz-Garbers, Martin
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Ressourcenpolitik
subject: Systemanalyse
subject: Futurologie
subject: Nachhaltige Ressourcenbewirtschaftung
subject: Zukunftsforschung
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen
subject: Waste | Resources

description: Die Welt ist in einem Prozess der ständigen Veränderung und Weiterentwicklung – dazu gehören nicht nur die technologischen Fortschritte, sondern auch gerade Veränderungen in der Umwelt, den politischen, sozialen und ökonomischen Systemen. Für eine vorausschauende und vorsorgende Ressourcen- und Umweltpolitik ist es wichtig, sowohl die großen, aber auch die emergenten Entwicklungen frühestmöglich zu erkennen, kritisch zu beobachten und rechtzeitig entsprechende Antworten auf diese Veränderungen zu erarbeiten. Der vorliegende Bericht aus dem Projekt „Modelle, Potenziale und Langfristszenarien für Ressourceneffizienz“ (SimRess) zeigt eben solche Entwicklungen und Trends auf, die einen Einfluss auf die Gestaltung einer nachhaltigen Ressourceneffizienzpolitik haben können. Die großen Megatrends, wie demographischer Wandel oder ⁠Klimawandel⁠ werden in diesem Zusammenhang nicht betrachtet. Der Fokus der Beschreibungen liegt bewusst auf kleineren und bisher weniger beachteten Entwicklungen. Ziel dieser Broschüre ist es, die Akteure der deutschen und europäischen Ressourcenpolitik für mögliche Chancen, aber auch Risiken zu sensibilisieren sowie neue Sichtweisen für die zukünftige Gestaltung darzustellen.
Let Vancouver’s Urban Forest be Fungal! : Celebrating the role of decomposition, soils, and fungi in urban streetscapes
Creators: name: Bellis, Elliot
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2025

description: Fungi play a critical role in the health of a forest ecosystem by maintaining soil health through successional decomposition. While the public has proven a curiosity about fungi, current municipal design and management of our urban forests neglect to celebrate their importance. This project proposes a neighbourhood-scale strategy, with Vancouver as a global leader, to design and manage streetscapes for fungi by updating operational practices in the boulevard, facilitating engagement with the public, and de-paving a street segment. The project aims to connect people with fungal processes and to improve conditions to sustain a healthy urban forest by celebrating ecological relationships of fungal decomposition.
A self-made, low-cost infrared system for evaluating the sciatic functional index in mice
Creators: name: Fricker, Lukas
name: Penna, Vincenzo
name: Lampert, Florian
name: Stark, G. Bjoern
name: Witzel, Christian
name: Koulaxouzidis, Georgios
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: nerve regeneration
subject: sciatic nerve
subject: crush
subject: frustrated total internal reflection
subject: infrared
subject: ladder beam walking test
subject: error rate
subject: mouse
subject: peripheral nerve injury
subject: neural regeneration
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::617 Chirurgie und verwandte medizinische Einrichtungen

description: The sciatic functional index (SFI) is a popular parameter for peripheral nerve evaluation that relies on footprints obtained with ink and paper. Drawbacks include smearing artefacts and a lack of dynamic information during measurement. Modern applications use digitized systems that can deliver results with less analytical effort and fewer mice. However, the systems are expensive (€40,000). This study aimed to evaluate the applicability and precision of a self-made, low-cost infrared system for evaluating SFI in mice. Mice were subjected to unilateral sciatic nerve crush injury (crush group; n = 7) and sham operation (sham group; n = 4). They were evaluated on the day before surgery, the 2 nd , 4 th and 6 th days after injury, and then every day up to the 23 rd day after injury. We compared two SFI evaluation methods, i.e., conventional ink-and-paper SFI (C-SFI) and our infrared system (I-SFI). Our apparatus visualized footprints with totally internally reflected infrared light (950 nm) and a camera that can only detect this wavelength. Additionally we performed an analysis with the ladder beam walking test (LBWT) as a reference test. I-SFI assessment reduced the standard deviation by about 33 percent, from 11.6 to 7.8, and cut the variance around the baseline to 21 percent. The system thus requires fewer measurement repetitions and fewer animals, and cuts the cost of keeping the animals. The apparatus cost €321 to build. Our results show that the process of obtaining the SFI can be made more precise via digitization with a self-made, low-cost infrared system.
Development of Aggregate-bed 3D Concrete Printing for Construction
Creators: name: Yu, Shiwei
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Particle-bed 3D Concrete Printing (3DCP) is one of the commonly adopted 3DCP techniques, which is based on spraying or deposition of water-based ‘ink’ into particle bed to selectively bind the granular material. This research developed a viable particle-bed 3DCP scheme, using locally available coarse aggregate as the particle bed to expand the adoption of 3DCP in construction. The utilization of coarse aggregates reduces the material costs and carbon footprint, making the particle-bed 3DCP more suitable for the construction industry. In this research, different characterizing techniques, materials composition design, and factors influencing the quality of printed products were systematically investigated.
title: March 2025 BCaT Lab Newsletter
Creators: name: Walcott, Rianna
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2025

description: This newsletter includes information on the BCaT Lab's March events calendar, the Automating Black Joy DISCO CO(LAB) project, Black Soundscapes workshop, BCaT Applies: Social Media Scraping for the Tech-Hesitant workshop, and the Black Homeplaces DISCO CO(LAB) microgrant awardees. All communications were sent to the BCaT Lab's mailing list.
Chemoresistance in human cancer cell lines: An investigation of active and passive resistance mechanisms and their effect on the dose-response curve of cisplatin.
Creators: name: Nassim, Mark Adel.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Pharmacology.

description: The shape of the dose-response curve (DRC) has been hypothesized to reflect mechanisms of resistance (Stewart et al. Invest. New Drugs 14:115, 1996). Active resistance (AR) would give rise to a shoulder on a DRC, while passive resistance (PR) would result in a reduced slope or terminal plateau. We obtained DRCs for human small cell lung cancer cells (SBC-3), and for human osteosarcoma cells (Saos-2) exposed to cisplatin (1 hour CP [0.02--40 mug/ml]). We then fit the data to curve models using non-linear regression techniques. We repeated this technique with SBC-3 cells transfected with a gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase (gamma-GCS) gene, and with Saos-2 cells transfected with a wild-type p53 gene in order to observe their effects on cisplatin resistance. We also repeated these experiments in Saos-2/p53 transfectants whose wild-type p53 production was effectively eliminated, and in SBC-3 and SBC-3/GCS transfectants whose glutathione production was inhibited. Results. Curve modeling of the transfected and parent SBC-3 cell lines suggest that there is a significant difference when the gamma-GCS gene is transfected into this cell line, with changes occurring in the LD50 and the slope after 1 hour exposure (p < 0.001 in both cases). A statistically significant difference is also detected between the transfected and parent Saos-2 cells, where the wild-type p53 gene results in a decrease in the terminal plateau, and a subsequent decrease in PR (p < 0.001). Reversal of the effects of transfection results in an approximate return of the response curve shape to that of the parent cell lines. Conclusions. Our results suggest that drug resistance mechanisms exert an effect on the shape of the dose-response curve.
CCHSA accreditation An instigator for change and a motivator for health human resources: A case study of a health region in Alberta
Creators: name: Tosh, Amy Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Business Administration, Management.
subject: Health Sciences, Health Care Management.

description: There are many unanswered questions regarding the influence and effectiveness of accreditation programs on healthcare services. Many participants advocate the value of the process and site reform and success experienced as a result of sharing in a program. However, there are many health service providers who have not chosen to participate. This single case study has been initiated as an opportunity to investigate the impact of an accreditation program on a health region and examine the consequences and results of the process on that organization. This study specifically focuses on the impact the process has on teams within the health organization. This report will be used in a broader multi-case study comparison to view similarities and differences in the results of accreditation. The site of this specific case study was an Alberta Health Region. The accreditation process was undertaken in this region for the first time in the history of the organization under the regional model. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Towards the use of mobile agents for privacy negotiation
Creators: name: Kalyani, Yogesh
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: With the increase in popularity of e-Commerce, concern for privacy has also increased. Users are becoming increasingly concerned about what personal information they could reveal when they go online. Currently, an e-Commerce Website does not provide full support to conduct negotiations concerning personal information between a user and a Web site. A user has to comply with the privacy policy specified on the Web site and has two choices: either they abandon the transaction or accept the privacy practices of the host. The Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) [16] specification, a W3C standard, enables Web sites to specify their privacy practices in a standardized manner. The presence of P3P policies enables users to configure their Web browsers to constrain what they can and cannot do when visiting sites. However, one major limitation of P3P is that no support is given within the specification for negotiation of privacy preferences between a user and a Web site. As e-Commerce is growing, a proper negotiation mechanism should be in place to enhance user control over personal information, so users can decide what personal information they wish to release to the Web site. This thesis proposes a novel mechanism to address this limitation, focusing on the use of mobile agents with a web ontology language (OWL) for privacy negotiation. Thus far in the literature there appears to be no working mobile agent mechanism that does privacy policy negotiation, particularly in the context of P3P. The architecture proposed here explicitly incorporates the concept of variable end-user requirements with respect to privacy. It is designed keeping in mind a negotiation scenario where the user device has limited resources (i.e., poor connectivity) and cannot negotiate directly with desired Web sites, but, obviously, less constrained user devices may also benefit from this work. Despite the advantages of a mobile-agent-based architecture, there are several issues which hinder the deployment of mobile agents in real life scenarios. Two major security concerns associated with a mobile agent paradigm are malicious agents and malicious hosts. In this thesis, malicious host concerns have been addressed by proposing a Trace Based protocol. This protocol is designed keeping in mind the desired security properties required, and also considering other factors like resource constrained devices and bandwidth preservation.
A model to mitigate the bullwhip effect by ordering policies and forecasting methods
Creators: name: Yuan, Xin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Engineering, System Science.

description: This thesis considers an important phenomenon: the bullwhip effect - the amplification of variability of demand as one moves up a supply chain. We apply Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) at the macro level of our system to build relationships among the trading partners; and then we utilize system dynamics to model rules like ordering policy or inventory management at the micro level. We define these rules according to Sterman's generic stock acquisition and ordering heuristic in his Beer Distribution Game Model (Sterman 1989, 321-339). By including additional forecasting methods like moving average, Holts, and double exponential smoothing (DES) method, we extend the model to investigate how different ordering policies and forecasting methods affect the bullwhip effect. Through simulations in the ordering policy space, we demonstrate that fed with a local trend customer order pattern, the bullwhip effect can be mitigated significantly if the suitable forecasting method like Holts or DES is applied under the right ordering policy that has a slow adjustment to the discrepancy of the stock. Comparing with previous research, we extend Sterman's model to investigate what other managerial behaviours, like the aggregation effect, the varied ordering policy and additional forecasting methods would bring to the bullwhip effect. In the "smoothing" method, we extend the moving average and exponential average, which appeared in Forrester's study (Forrester 1961), to Holts and DES method. In modeling, we differ from CDRS (Chen, Drezener, Ryan, and Simchi-Levi 2000, 436-443) and CRS (Chen, Ryan, and Simchi-Levi 2000, 269-286) and Yao (2001) by replacing order-up-to policy with the heuristic ordering policy. Our research has another important managerial insight: through the right ordering policy and forecasting method, trading partners can alleviate the bullwhip effect without adopting information sharing, which may lead to other problems, like mutual trust or additional cost. Key words. Supply chain management; Bullwhip Effect; System dynamics; Agent-Based Modeling; Forecasting.
Weaving Worlds : Centering Reciprocal Relationality in the shift away from the ‘Ex-Con’ Economy and Cristina Spirulina and the Circular Schema
Creators: name: Acevedo Planter, Maya Casilda
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2025

description: This paper critically examines the role of human exceptionalism in perpetuating the exploitative dominant linear economic system, or “ex-con” economics, and its detrimental impact on relationality. It explores some of the deeply entrenched self-replicating dynamics of coloniality within the Euro-USian Western worldview, particularly focusing on the dynamics of knowledge creation, narratives, and education. It argues that cultivating reciprocal relationality—an understanding of our interconnectedness and responsibilities towards the Earth, each other, non-human beings, and the spiritual realm—is essential to shift towards more sustainable economic practices. Focusing on North America, and grounded in decolonial theory, queer eco- feminist theory, and critical creative pedagogy, this paper critiques the Euro-USian Western paradigm and centers Indigenous voices to advocate for a radical shift towards respectful ways of relating to the Earth. Through the creative writing of a children's book titled Cristina Spirulina and the Circular Schema (included at the end of this submission), I highlight the potential of storytelling to ground children in reciprocal relationality and introduce them to circular economy principles as a viable possible alternative. This paper posits that fostering reciprocal relationality, particularly in children, is crucial for creating the conditions necessary for a successful transition of economic systems and addressing the urgent environmental crises we face.
title: NEUMONÍA ORGANIZADA CRIPTOGÉNICA: Lo que los radiólogos debemos conocer
Creators: name: Canales Lachén, Elena
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: CT
subject: Thorax

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Mostrar el amplio espectro de presentación de la NEUMONÍA ORGANIZATIVA (NO),
sus manifestaciones típicas y atípicas ,
tanto en la Radiografía de Tórax como en la Tomografía Computarizada (TC),
y su correlación con los hallazgos de Anatomía...
title: Técnica de adquisición e inyección para un correcto estudio angiográfico con CT multidetector de la circulación hepática y pancreática.
Creators: name: Gomez Molinero, Maria
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Vascular
subject: CT

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Los CT multidetectores han hecho cambiar la técnica de estudio de la vascularizacíón hepática y pancreática,
modificando así sus indicaciones,
que son actualmente más amplias,
ya que un estudio adecuadamente realizado puede ayudar a una...
Care to Custody: Exploring Factors Associated with Crossover Youth in an Australian Youth Justice Cohort
Creators: name: Moriarty, Anna
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Youth who experience maltreatment and also engage in criminal behaviours commence offending at a younger age, commit a higher volume of crimes, and commit more serious crimes, than youth who do not experience maltreatment. The potential moderating factors behind this care-to-custody phenomenon are unclear. This thesis therefore explored the association between child protection history and a number of psychological phenomena and demographic variables in a sample of justice-involved youth. It further explored whether these variables are associated with violent or chronic offending histories, and whether having a child protection history moderates any relationship between the examined variables and offending behaviours.
title: Utilidad de la RM en el fracaso de la prótesis de cadera de superficie metal-metal
Creators: name: Campos Álvarez, Carmen
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Prostheses
subject: Complications
subject: MR
subject: Musculoskeletal bone

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
- Conocer las causas de la retirada del mercado de las prótesis de cadera de superficie metal-metal DePuy ASR™ y ASR XL™ (DePuy International TD,
Reino Unido). - Describir los hallazgos de resonancia magnética (RM) en pacientes portadores de...
title: Ecografía de alta resolución en la valoración de tumores de partes blandas.
Creators: name: Martínez Hervás, Mateo
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: Soft tissues / Skin
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
-Revisión de la clasificación actual de los tumores de partes blandas,
así como de múltiples condiciones que se pueden presentar en la práctica clínica como lesiones palpables de partes blandas pseudotumorales ( tumor-like ). -Mostrar los...
Utjecaj epidemije Covid-19 na ljudska prava u Hrvatskoj
Creators: name: Buljan, Ivan
name: Dabić, Tea
name: Đaković, Tina
name: Horvat, Klara
Publisher: name: Kuća ljudskih prava Zagreb
Year: 2020
Subjects: Covid-19
ljudska prava

description: Ostvarivanje ljudskih prava u RH tijekom 2020. godine bilo je obilježeno mjerama usvojenim kao odgovor na pojavu i širenje epidemije koronavirusa čiji utjecaj ima brojne posljedice na ostvarivanje političkih, socijalnih, ekonomskih i kulturnih prava u Hrvatskoj i u svijetu. Uslijed epidemije došlo je do stagnacije u područjima ljudskih prava gdje je prethodnih godina zabilježen pomak, kao i do nazadovanja u ostvarivanju ljudskih prava pojedinih društvenih skupina. Ovaj tematski izvještaj osvrće se na pravno-institucionalni kontekst u kojemu su usvajane protuepidemijske mjere te izdvaja probleme specifične u područjima zaštite najranjivijih i marginaliziranih skupina i pojedinaca.
Identification of Novel HIV-1 Latency-Reversing Agents from a Library of Marine Natural Products
Creators: name: Richard, Khumoekae
name: Williams, David E.
name: De Silva, E. Dilip
name: Brockman, Mark A.
name: Brumme, Zabrina L.
name: Andersen, Raymond J.
name: Tietjen, Ian
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Natural products originating from marine and plant materials are a rich source of chemical diversity and unique antimicrobials. Using an established in vitro model of HIV-1 latency, we screened 257 pure compounds from a marine natural product library and identified 4 (psammaplin A, aplysiatoxin, debromoaplysiatoxin, and previously-described alotaketal C) that induced expression of latent HIV-1 provirus in both cell line and primary cell models. Notably, aplysiatoxin induced similar levels of HIV-1 expression as prostratin but at up to 900-fold lower concentrations and without substantial effects on cell viability. Psammaplin A enhanced HIV-1 expression synergistically when treated in combination with the protein kinase C (PKC) activator prostratin, but not the histone deacetylase inhibitor (HDACi) panobinostat, suggesting that psammaplin A functions as a latency-reversing agent (LRA) of the HDACi class. Conversely, aplysiatoxin and debromoaplysiatoxin synergized with panobinostat but not prostratin, suggesting that they function as PKC activators. Our study identifies new compounds from previously untested marine natural products and adds to the repertoire of LRAs that can inform therapeutic “shock-and-kill”-based strategies to eliminate latent HIV-infected reservoirs.
Decolonizing My Mind, Indigenizing My Practice : A Self-Study
Creators: name: Blackstock Pedroso, Estrella
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2025

description: Canada is opening its eyes and mind to its colonial past and with that, Canadian Home Economists are working towards decolonizing the field. This paper examines both decolonization and Indigenization through the lens of a Canadian Food Studies teacher. It explores the theoretical and practical methods to decolonize and Indigenize the classroom using Indigenous pedagogies. Using qualitative methods such as narrative inquiry and action research, the author examines her current practices to reveal methods already in use that align with Indigenous principles, and then conducts two action research cycles to determine how these strategies improve her practice.