cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
La traduction de la poésie et le respect de ses aspects discursifs et phonétiques, illustrés par la traduction française du Raven d'Edgar Allan Poe
Creators: name: Paul, Esther
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: traduction poétique
Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven
Le Corbeau
Barbara Folkart
Henri Meschonnic
Charles Baudelaire
Stéphane Mallarmé
Maurice Rollinat
traduction littéraire

description: La présente thèse aborde les enjeux liés à la traduction de poèmes rédigés dans un style classique, tels que ceux rédigés au XIXe siècle par exemple. Le cadre de cette étude porte sur les langues française et anglaise, et l’argumentaire se fonde sur le Raven d’Edgar Allan Poe et cinq de ses traductions, produites par Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, Maurice Rollinat, Paul Laurendeau et moi-même. D’abord, j’aborde les liens existant entre ces cinq traductions et quatre théories prescriptives de la traduction qui décrivent précisément les principes qui régissent les manières de traduire auxquelles nous (les cinq traducteurs de l’œuvre à l’étude) avons eu recours. Je souligne l’importance d’une traduction le plus près possible du discours (tel que le conçoit Henri Meschonnic) et des effets phonétiques présents dans l’œuvre source. Ensuite, je retrace l’histoire du Raven et analyse 12 segments témoin qui serviront de points de repère pour l’analyse. Enfin, j’analyse les cinq traductions en confrontant les 12 segments témoin aux passages qui leur correspondent dans chacune des traductions. En traduction poétique, il importe de s’attacher au discours, au rythme, aux figures de style, à la sémantique et aux réseaux phonétiques contenus dans l’œuvre source, tout en modifiant sa structure de strophe le moins possible. Ce faisant, la tension interne du poème est conservée, car la très grande majorité des composantes de l’œuvre originale est rendue dans le poème cible. Poème cible constitue un aspect important de la présente thèse, puisqu’il est primordial de créer, dans la langue d’arrivée, un poème qui réponde aux mêmes critères, aux mêmes exigences de qualité que la poésie classique. Cette conception de la tâche d’un traducteur-poète se trouve cristallisée dans la traduction que j’ai faite du Raven. Enfin, dans l’annexe se trouvent le Raven de Poe et les cinq traductions que j’ai mentionnées au premier paragraphe du présent résumé.
Fabrication techniques and RF performances of transmission lines on polymer substrates
Creators: name: Wang, Jianqun
name: Cai, Ying
name: Ativanichayaphong, Thermpon
name: Chiao, Mu
name: Chiao, J.-C.
Publisher: name: Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
Year: 2011

description: The advantages of polymers have made them popular choices in many micro device applications. The benefits of low material and fabrication costs have been demonstrated in many micro-fluidic devices. The low conductivities and low dielectric constants of polymers provide potentials for high quality-factor RF MEMS applications. Nevertheless, the extension of using polymers for electronic components has not been well explored. In this work, we investigated the fabrication processes and RF performances of coplanar waveguide (CPW) transmission lines, with which many RF MEMS phase shifters, tuners, switches and interconnects are built, on polymer dielectric layers. In order to achieve optimum results, the CPW transmission lines were fabricated on benzocyclobutene (BCB), kapton and polyimide polymers. Our experimental results indicated very low insertion losses of CPW transmission lines with BCB as a dielectric layer and with kapton as substrate, and a moderate insertion loss with polyimide as a dielectric layer. Copyright 2005 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic reproduction and distribution, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of this paper are prohibited.
Discovering the Resource Mining Experience in your Library
Creators: name: Hazman Aziz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: Applied Computer Science

description: Today, with the advent of information technology integrated with each other, NTU Library’s has a vast field of information and resources across the access for patrons to discover. NTU Library has made progressive improvement on the library catalog, showcasing more than 775,000 books in the physical collection. And, this is growing at about 22,000 volumes per year. In addition, strategically align to the model the library’s technology and systems at NTU Library. They has built and maintaining seamless access to retrieve more than 110 databases and journals across her subscription. In addition, they have also created more than 30 subject guides to create viral knowledge awareness into the online community, showcasing, sharing and guides on the collection resources that they have. As each year, the resources in the library grows, discovery relevant desired resource would be a tough task for the patrons. Even though, the library catalog is still one of the key assets, today. On the other hand, patrons (students and scholars) begin routinely bypass library catalogs, in favor to other discovery tools to search, scan and retrieve their desire information needs. Thus, making catalog to be decline, with its processes and structures start to face unsustainable and change needs to be swift to bring back the traffic of usage. In addition, for the technology librarians the widespread expansion of digitization projects, ubiquitous e-journals and the raise of e-book added to the pressure. Thus, in this paper, the technology and system librarians shares their experience in implementing a web tool for discovering the resource mining in NTU Library – The Web Discovery Tool. Here, the team shares on the need of web discovery tool, the choice and administration of the tool, the strength and capability of the discovery tool the challenges of the discovery tool and the return of investment in implementation of the discover tool. Along side, sharing out in the attribute of new media built into the tools and helps the patrons’ learning and research in locating resource effectively and efficiently.
Franz Joseph Haydn’s Sturm und Drang Symphonic Minuets: Convention and Deformation in Form, Cadence, and Meter
Creators: name: Yount, Kathrine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Haydn
Symphony
Minuet
Sturm und Drang
Deformation
Convention

description: Franz Joseph Haydn’s (1732-1809) Sturm und Drang years (1768-1773) are described by Mark Evan Bonds as a period of exploration or experimentation of compositional techniques. Based on this premise, this thesis provides in-depth analyses of twenty symphonic minuet movements from the composer’s Sturm und Drang period with the goal of illuminating how Haydn treated the conventionally constrained minuet form. In particular, I discuss how Haydn thwarted formal and rhythmic generic expectations by drawing on James A. Hepokoski and Warren Darcy’s concept of formal deformation. Using William E. Calpin’s theory of formal functions to approach issues of form and cadences, the thesis explores formal and cadential deviations from the Classical norm in aspects of the minuets’ intra-thematic structures, coda/codetta treatment, motivic homogeneity, harmony, and melody. My study also discusses aspects of hypermeter and metrical dissonance through metrical groupings, melodic fragments and dynamics to demonstrate a variety of techniques employed by Haydn to subvert metrical expectations in this dance form through models offered by David W. Beach, Ryan McClelland, and Floyd K. Grave. Finally, a study of the trios of the symphonic movements illustrates how Haydn engaged the middle portion of the movement to highlight the minuets’ deformations, either by normalizing or enlarging formal or metrical deviations. In sum, this thesis argues that Haydn’s creative deviations in the Sturm und Drang Minuet movements exemplify his search to transcend the conventional boundaries of a form heavily saturated in formal, harmonic, cadential, and rhythmic expectations.
Accompagnement d’une formation asynchrone en groupe restreint : modalités d
Creators: name: Jean-Jacques Quintin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Applied Computer Science

description: This experimental research aims at studying the effects of different modalities of tutor’s online interventions (MiT) on the learning outcomes of one hundred students involved in a cooperative learning setting (in groups of three). These modalities were elaborated by considering the dimensions of intervention which participate in tutorial accompaniment i.e. on a pedagogical (P), socio-emotional (S) and organizational (O) level. In addition to these three MiT focusing in turn on the specific dimension, S, O or P, two further non-specific modes of intervention were inserted as reference modalities: one reactive MiT and one proactive MiT. Since the results have indicated a contrasting impact of the different modalities of interventions, we shall attempt to determine their specificity as well as to understand the idiosyncratic models of intervention of each tutor.
title: Biomes of South Africa: Educators' training manual
Creators: name: Moyo, Mthokosizi
name: Ransom, Caitlin
name: Govender, Kogieluxmie
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2020
Subjects: biomes of South Africa
marine protected areas

description: Educators' training manual for Life Science aligned with the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statements of the Department of Education.
Reliance, liance et alliance : Opérationnalité des concepts dans ldans l'analyse du climat sociorelationnel de groupes restreints d'apprentissage en ligne
Creators: name: Jean-Jacques Quintin
name: Masperi, Monica
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Applied Computer Science

description: The aim of the research we are presenting here is to measure the link between the "sociorelational
climate" of a small group in a collaborative work environment and the quality of the
collective work they provide. The methodological approach adopted, based on an analysis of
the asynchronous exchanges between members of a group, allows us to find a procedure that
takes stock of some components of "socio-relational climate" that could account for the results
in terms of learning. Two notions – derivatives of the sociological concept "reliance" – will be
called upon: "liance" and "alliance". The former accounts for the quality of the relation
(warmth, intimacy, emotions, etc.) the speakers create during their asynchronous exchanges.
The latter translates the way in which the participants comfort their association contract with
the goal of completing group work and in order to respond to the pedagogical requirements
previously set. The results of this research show that, in the condition our study was conducted, the model of
reliance accounts for a substantial part of the overall quality of the collective learning products and possesses an internal homogeneity that cannot be neglected. These elements concur in
supporting the conceptual basis and the operating characteristics of the model presented here.
Efficient Feature Extraction and Fusion for Lightweight Semantic Segmentation Networks
Creators: name: Linn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460207
subject: Modelling and simulation
classificationCode: 460299
subject: Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified

description: Here we propose a novel Feature Extraction and Fusion (FEF) module, integrating dilated convolution and depthwise separable convolution, to swiftly extract multi-scale features with enhanced accuracy and computational efficiency. Our lightweight network demonstrates a 72.6% Mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) on the Cityscapes dataset and achieves an impressive 93.7 FPS on a single GTX 1080Ti GPU, showcasing a competitive balance between speed and accuracy
Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam; Dietmar Rothermund (Hrsg.): Nationalstaat und Sprachkonflikte in Süd- und Südostasien
Creators: name: Aßmann, Kersti
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 52 (1994): ASIEN (Juli)
Robust curvelet-domain data continuation with sparseness constraints.
Creators: name: Herrmann, Felix J.
Publisher: name: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
Year: 2008

description: A robust data interpolation method using curvelets frames is presented. The advantage of this method is that curvelets arguably provide an optimal sparse representation for solutions of wave equations with smooth coefficients. As such curvelets frames circumvent - besides the assumption of caustic-free data - the necessity to make parametric assumptions (e.g. through linear/parabolic Radon or demigration) regarding the shape of events in seismic data. A brief sketch of the theory is provided as well as a number of examples on synthetic and real data.
Modeling, Optimization, and Characterization of High Concentration Photovoltaic Systems Using Multijunction Solar Cells
Creators: name: Sharma, Pratibha
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Solar
concentrated PV
multijunction
distributed model
optical model
spectral variations
spatial variations
spectral mismatch

description: Recent advancements in the development of high-efficiency multijunction solar cells have led to a renewed interest in the design and implementation of high concentration photovoltaic systems. With the emergence of novel materials and design structures, understanding the operation of multijunction solar cells has become a challenging task. Modeling and simulation hence play an important role in the analysis of such devices. In this dissertation, techniques for accurate optoelectrical modeling of concentrating photovoltaic systems, based on multijunction solar cells, are proposed. A 2-dimensional, distributed circuit model is proposed, parametrized to values obtained by numerical modeling of three multijunction cell designs, namely: a three-junction, lattice matched design, a three-junction lattice-mismatched, inverted metamorphic design, and a four-junction,lattice matched design. Cell performance for all the three designs is evaluated under both uniform and nonuniform illumination profiles at high concentrations and efficiency enhancement by optimizing finger spacing is proposed. The effect of luminescent coupling from higher bandgap subcells is also determined.Fresnel-lens based, refractive concentrating optical systems are modeled and optimized using an optical ray-tracing simulator at two different concentrations, with and without a secondary optical element. The corresponding optical efficiency, acceptance angle, and the degree of nonuniformity are determined for each optical system. An integrated approach,combining optical design with electrical modeling is proposed for optimizing the multijunction solar cell in tandem with the corresponding concentrating optics. The approach is validated by on-sun, acceptance angle measurements, using a three-junction,lattice-matched cell. Also, temperature effects are modeled and are experimentally validated for a three-junction, lattice-matched design. Experimental results with a single-junction, dilute-nitride cell, targeted for four-junction operation, are presented as well. A modified distributed circuit model is used for analysis of temperature effects in a four-junction solar cell, and the results under both uniform and nonuniform temperature profiles are presented. When implemented, the designs and their corresponding analyses, may result in new insights into the development of CPV systems, thereby enabling enhanced efficiencies at higher concentrations.
Jürgen Hartwig: Die Vermarktung der Taiga. Die Politische Ökologie der Nutzung von Nicht-Holz- Waldprodukten und Bodenschätzen in der Mongolei
Creators: name: Schmidt, Matthias
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 107 (2008): ASIEN (April)
Make Contact: Contributive Bookselling and the Small Press in Canada Following the Second World War
Creators: name: Anstee, Cameron Alistair Owen
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Canadian Literature
Bookselling
Small Press
Canadian Poetry
Raymond Souster
Nelson Ball
Nicky Drumbolis
jwcurry
Jay MillAr
Book History

description: This dissertation examines booksellers in multiple roles as cultural agents in the small press field. It proposes various ways of understanding the work of booksellers as actively shaping the production, distribution, reception, and preservation of small press works, arguing that bookselling is a small press act unaccounted for in existing scholarship. It is structured around the idea of “contributive” bookselling from Nicky Drumbolis, wherein the bookseller “adds dimension to the cultural exchange […] participates as user, maker, transistor” (“this fiveyear list”). The questions at the heart of this dissertation are: How does the small press, in its material strategies of production and distribution, reshape the terms of reception for readers? How does the bookseller contribute to these processes? What does independent bookselling look like when it is committed to the cultural and aesthetic goals of the small press? And what is absent from literary and cultural records when the bookseller is not accounted for? This dissertation covers a period from 1952 to the present day. I begin by positing Raymond Souster’s “Contact” labour as an influential model for small press publishing in which the writer must adopt multiple roles in the communications circuit in order to construct and educate a community of readers. I then examine the bookseller catalogue as a bibliographic, critical, and pedagogical genre of publication that mediates productive encounters between readers and books. I next position the material, affective, and effective labour of the bookseller within the small press gift economy. Finally, I theorize the bookstore as a potential small press archive that functions as a viable counterweight to institutional collection and preservation. My reconsideration of the labour of the bookseller realigns relations between production, distribution, reception, documentation, and preservation of small press publications, making possible a more complete accounting of the histories of the book and of the small press in Canada.
Investigating IL-15 Metabolic Impact and Its Mechanism of Action in Skeletal Muscle Cells
Creators: name: Nadeau, Lucien
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Metabolism
Myokines
IL-15
Muscle

description: Skeletal muscle secretes many signalisation proteins named myokines. These myokines act as hormones and induce metabolic changes throughout the whole body to facilitate adaptation to physical exercise. Interleukin-15 (IL-15) is highly expressed in skeletal muscle and appears to influence many metabolic parameters that are defective in metabolic pathologies such as insulin resistance. For instance, IL-15 increases glucose uptake in muscle and whole-body fatty acid oxidation and its overexpression in skeletal muscle in mice generates a very lean and active phenotype. However, there are discordant reports throughout scientific literature. The aim of the current study was to 1) characterize the metabolic effects of IL-15 in L6 myotubes to determine whether L6 is a good model to study IL-15 and 2) to determine whether IL-15 activates the AMPK signaling. L6 myotubes were exposed to different concentrations of IL-15 and different metabolic parameters were assayed namely; oxygen consumption, glucose uptake, fatty acid oxidation, Glucose transporter 4 (GLUT4) translocation, oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) complexes protein expression, troponin T expression and Akt, AMPK and Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase (ACC) phosphorylation state. Acute IL-15 treatment increased glucose uptake without activating insulin signaling pathway or GLUT4 translocation. Furthermore, acute IL-15 treatment increased resting oxygen consumption rate (OCR) while chronic IL-15 treatment also increased mitochondrial spare capacity, suggesting an increased mitochondrial biogenesis. IL-15 induced ACC phosphorylation in a dose-dependent manner and tended to increase AMPK phosphorylation but it did not reach statistical significance. Lastly, IL-15 did not influence troponin T state. Altogether, the present study demonstrates that L6 myotubes do not express all the pro-oxidative qualities of IL-15 reported by scientific literature. Nonetheless, IL-15 induces certain pro-oxidative metabolic effect that could help people living with obesity and diabetes.
Robust curvelet-domain primary-multiple separation with sparseness constraints
Creators: name: Herrmann, Felix J.
name: Verschuur, Dirk J.
Publisher: name: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
Year: 2008

description: A non-linear primary-multiple separation method using curvelets frames is presented. The advantage of this method is that curvelets arguably provide an optimal sparse representation for both primaries and multiples. As such curvelets frames are ideal candidates to separate primaries from multiples given inaccurate predictions for these two data components. The method derives its robustness regarding the presence of noise; errors in the prediction and missing data from the curvelet frame's ability (i) to represent both signal components with a limited number of multi-scale and directional basis functions; (ii) to separate the components on the basis of differences in location, orientation and scales and (iii) to minimize correlations between the coefficients of the two components. A brief sketch of the theory is provided as well as a number of examples on synthetic and real data.
Harness Local LLMs and GitHub Copilot for Enhanced R Package Development
Creators: name: Athanasia Monika Mowinckel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: R
Ollama
API
LLM

description: Dr. Mowinckel's blog: 

In this post I explore local large language models (LLMs) with R for code assistance, using tools like chores, ensure, gander, and continue in Positron. The post explores R options and keybindings for various tools, adjusting settings to optimize performance. Lastly, I switch to GitHub Copilot for better results, encountering rate limits but finding workarounds to control autocomplete triggers.
Privacy-Preserving Location-Aware Data Availability and Access Authorization in Public Safety Broadband Networks
Creators: name: Ghafghazi, Hamidreza
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Actionable information availability
Public Safety Networks
Access Authorization
Privacy

description: The increased demand for interoperability among Emergency Responders (ERs) and timely accessibility to a large amount of reliable, accurate, context and location aware, and privacy-preserved data (e.g., environmental data, health records, building plan, etc.), mandates the emergence of dedicated Public Safety Broadband Networks (PSBNs). However, realizing PSBNs and addressing such requirements encounters substantial challenges. For example, several security and privacy vulnerabilities have been detected in the Long Term Evolution (LTE) which is the leading enabler of PSBNs. Nonetheless, the more significant challenge lies under the corresponding data requirements. This is because data is unstructured, its volume is enormous, and it includes inaccurate, irrelevant, and context-free data. Moreover, the data sources are heterogeneous and may not be reachable in an emergency. Furthermore, the data contains personally identifiable information for which privacy and access authorization should be respected. In this thesis, we investigate and address the aforementioned challenges. Here, we propose an efficient and secure algorithm to mitigate the main security and privacy vulnerability of LTE. In addition, to provide context and location aware data availability during an emergency, we propose a secure data storage structure and privacy-preserving search scheme. Furthermore, we propose a location-aware data access model to filter irrelevant data with regards to an incident and prevent unauthorized data access. To envision our access model, we propose a location-aware fine grained access authorization scheme. Our security analysis shows that our search scheme is secure against a chosen keyword attack and the proposed authorization scheme is formally proven secure against a selective chosen ciphertext attack. Concerning performance efficiency, our search scheme requires minimal data search and retrieval delay and the proposed authorization scheme imposes constant communication and decryption computation overheads. Finally, we propose a context-aware framework, which fully complies with emergency response requirements, based on the concept of trust to filter-out inaccurate and irrelevant data. The integration of our contributions promises highly reliable, accurate, context and location aware, and privacy-preserved data availability and timely data accessibility.
Relationship between Spiritual Intelligence and Competenciesof Thai Professional Accountants.
Creators: name: Somsri Woenthong
Publisher: name: Faculty of Management Science Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Spiritual Intelligence
Competencies
Thai Professional Accountants

description: Journal of Management Science Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University, 6, 2, 310-323
Impact of the Maturation Status of Osteoblasts on Their Hematopoietic Regulatory Activity
Creators: name: Alsheikh, Manal
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells
Cord blood transplantation
Osteoblasts
Condition media
Ex vivo expansion
CD34+ cells
Growth Factors
Notch signalling

description: Osteoblasts (OST) provide strong intrinsic growth modulatory activities on hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells via different mechanisms that include secretion of growth factors, and cellular interaction. Previously we showed that medium conditioned by mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC)-derived osteoblasts (M-OST) improve the expansion of cord blood (CB) CD34+ cells. I hypothesize that the hematopoietic supporting activity of M-OST would vary as a function of their maturation. This was tested by producing osteoblast conditioned media (OCM) from M-OST at distinct stages of maturation, and testing their growth regulatory activities in CB CD34+ cell cultures. My results showed that some of the growth promoting activity of OCM on CB cells are not dependent on the maturation status, while others are and those are largely independent of Notch signalling. In conclusion, these results provide further evidence that osteoblasts release factors that can promote the growth of immature CB progenitors in a Notch-independent way.
Felix Wemheuer: Steinnudeln. Ländliche Erinnerungen und staatliche Vergangenheitsbewältigung der „GroBen Sprung“-Hungersnot in der chinesischen Proviz Henan
Creators: name: Gänßbauer, Monika
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 107 (2008): ASIEN (April)
Sparseness-constrained seismic deconvolution with curvelets
Creators: name: Hennenfent, Gilles
name: Herrmann, Felix J.
name: Neelamani, Ramesh
Publisher: name: Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Year: 2008

description: Continuity along reflectors in seismic images is used via Curvelet representation to stabilize the convolution operator inversion. The Curvelet transform is a new multiscale transform that provides sparse representations for images that comprise smooth objects separated by piece-wise smooth discontinuities (e.g. seismic images). Our iterative Curvelet-regularized deconvolution algorithm combines conjugate gradient-based inversion with noise regularization performed using non-linear Curvelet coefficient thresholding. The thresholding operation enhances the sparsity of Curvelet representations. We show on a synthetic example that our algorithm provides improved resolution and continuity along reflectors as well as reduced ringing effect compared to the iterative Wiener-based deconvolution approach.
Economic growth and the role of currency undervaluation
Creators: name: Zhicheng SONG
Publisher: name: SMU Research Data Repository (RDR)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 140212 Macroeconomics (incl. Monetary and Fiscal Theory)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 140202 Economic Development and Growth
subject: 140102 Macroeconomic Theory

description: In this paper, we demonstrate that currency undervaluation benefits national economic growth based on cross-national and sectoral evidences. Weak currency effectively stimulates a country’s participation in the international trade market, and facilitates national economic component transformation, both in its value creation process and output allocation phase. We study three manifestations of exchange rate undervaluation as an accelerator to economic development. The currency depreciation effect is both significant and economically sizeable. We first show the positive relationship between the national and sectoral economic growth rates and the extent of real exchange rate undervaluation. This level-based effect implies that a 50 percent undervaluation, approximately a standard deviation of our depreciation measure, is associated with a contemporaneous growth boost ranging from 0.7 percentage points to 7.5 percentage points per annum for various sectors. We then show that exchange rate depreciation stimulates national growth through economic component change: we establish that currency undervaluation tends to facilitate the development of tradable-intensive economic activities at the expense of squeezing some other non-tradable-intensive economic activities and exchange rate depreciation encourages savings, contributing to capital accumulation, which may further counteracts the negative impact of a weak currency on consumption and service sectors through a spillover effect. Finally, we construct a tradability index for 21 out of 23 manufactures. According to this measure, we actually demonstrate that the undervaluation effect is stronger in sub-sectors in which goods are more tradable in the international market. Our results are robust to controlling for a variety of alternative explanations and to instrumenting exchange rate undervaluation to alleviate concerns of reverse causality.
Pellucistoma Coryell & Fields 1937
Creators: name: Gross, Martin
name: Ramos, Maria Ines F.
name: Piller, Werner E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Cytheromatidae
Pellucistoma

description: Genus Pellucistoma Coryell & Fields, 1937
 Type species. Pellucistoma howei Coryell & Fields, 1937.
description: Published as part of Gross, Martin, Ramos, Maria Ines F. & Piller, Werner E., 2016, A minute ostracod (Crustacea: Cytheromatidae) from the Miocene Solim oes Formation (western Amazonia, Brazil): evidence for marine incursions?, pp. 581-602 in Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 14 (7) on page 583, DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2015.1078850, http://zenodo.org/record/10883038
Policy briefing - Diversifying Professional Roles in Data Science
Creators: name: Karoune, Emma
name: Sharan, Malvika
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Data science
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Research Infrastructure roles
subject: Personas

description: The interdisciplinary nature of the data science workforce extends beyond the traditional notion of a "data scientist." A successful data science team requires a wide range of technical expertise, domain knowledge and leadership capabilities. To strengthen such a team-based approach, this note recommends that institutions, funders and policymakers invest in developing and professionalising diverse roles, fostering a resilient data science ecosystem for the future. 

By recognising the diverse specialist roles that collaborate within interdisciplinary teams, organisations can leverage deep expertise across multiple skill sets, enhancing responsible decision-making and fostering innovation at all levels. Ultimately, this note seeks to shift the perception of data science professionals from the conventional view of individual data scientists to a competency-based model of specialist roles within a team, each essential to the success of data science initiatives.

This work was funded through The Alan Turing Institute's Skills Policy Awards 2023-24, which is supported by the Ecosystem Leadership Award under the EPSRC Grant EP/X03870X/1 and The Alan Turing Institute.
Person Re-identification Based on Kernel Local Fisher Discriminant Analysis and Mahalanobis Distance Learning
Creators: name: He, Qiangsen
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Re-ID
Mahalanobis distance metric
KLFDA dimension reduction

description: Person re-identification (Re-ID) has become an intense research area in recent years. The main goal of this topic is to recognize and match individuals over time at the same or different locations. This task is challenging due to the variation of illumination, viewpoints, pedestrians’ appearance and partial occlusion. Previous works mainly focus on finding robust features and metric learning. Many metric learning methods convert the Re-ID problem to a matrix decomposition problem by Fisher discriminant analysis (FDA). Mahalanobis distance metric learning is a popular method to measure similarity; however, since directly extracted descriptors usually have high dimensionality, it’s intractable to learn a high-dimensional semi-positive definite (SPD) matrix. Dimensionality reduction is used to project high-dimensional descriptors to a lower-dimensional space while preserving those discriminative information. In this paper, the kernel Fisher discriminant analysis (KLFDA) [38] is used to reduce dimensionality given that kernelization method can greatly improve Re-ID performance for nonlinearity. Inspired by [47], an SPD matrix is then learned on lower-dimensional descriptors based on the limitation that the maximum intraclass distance is at least one unit smaller than the minimum interclass distance. This method is proved to have excellent performance compared with other advanced metric learning.
Personalized and context-aware music retrieval and recommendation
Creators: name: Zhiyong CHENG
Publisher: name: SMU Research Data Repository (RDR)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 80704 Information Retrieval and Web Search
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 80605 Decision Support and Group Support Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Rapid advances in mobile devices and cloud-based music services have brought about a fundamental change in the way people consume music. Cloud-based music streaming platforms like Pandora and Last.fm host an increasing huge volume of music contents. Meanwhile, the ubiquity of wireless infrastructure and advanced mobile devices enable users to access such abundant music content anytime and anywhere. Consequently, there has been an increasing demand for the development of intelligent techniques to facilitate personalized and context-aware music retrieval and recommendation. Most of existing music retrieval systems have not considered users' music preferences, and traditional music recommender systems have not considered the influence of local contexts. As a result, search and recommendation results may not best suit users' music preference influenced by the dynamically changed contexts, when users listen to music using mobile devices on the move. Current mobile devices are equipped with various sensors and typically for personal use. Thus, rich user information (e.g., age, gender, listening logs) and various types of contexts (e.g., time. location) can be obtained and detected with the mobile devices, which provide an opportunity to develop personalized and context-aware music retrieval and recommender systems.
Additional file 1 of NXPH4 mediated by m5C contributes to the malignant characteristics of colorectal cancer via inhibiting HIF1A degradation
Creators: name: Yang, Lei
name: Shi, Jiawen
name: Zhong, Mingyang
name: Sun, Pingping
name: Zhang, Xiaojing
name: Lian, Zhengyi
name: Yin, Hang
name: Xu, Lijun
name: He, Guyin
name: Xu, Haiyan
name: Wu, Han
name: Wang, Ziheng
name: Miao, Kai
name: Huang, Jianfei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Study on the Transport Phenomena in Complex Micro-Reactors
Creators: name: Mielke, Eric
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Micro-reactor
Liquid-liquid reaction
Mass transfer
Overall Heat Transfer
Mixing
Slug, Parallel, Drop, and Dispersed-flow
Localized Heat Transfer
Transitional Flow

description: Continuous processing in the pharmaceutical and fine chemical industries, particularly in micro/milli-scale reactors, has been a topic of interest in literature in recent years due to the advantages offered over batch reactions. One such advantage is the enhanced transport properties of operating at smaller scales, although the quantification of the transport phenomena is not straightforward when wall and entrance effects cannot be neglected. In the first study presented, various micro-mixer geometries and scales were considered to increase the mixing efficiency in liquid-liquid systems of diverse interfacial tensions for fast reactions. The conditions were varied over different flow regimes; including slug flow, parallel flow, and drop flow. A mass-transfer-limited test reaction was used to evaluate the overall volumetric mass transfer coefficients (Korga) as a function of the average rate of energy dissipation (ε) for each mixer design. The onset of drop flow occurred at a lower ε for the LL-Triangle mixer when compared with the Sickle or LL-Rhombus mixers for low interfacial-tension systems (i.e., n-butanol-water). In the drop flow regime for energy dissipation rates of around 20 to 500 W/kg, Korga values ranged from approximatively 0.14 to 0.35 s-1 and 0.004 to 0.015 s-1 for the relatively low and high interfacial-tension (i.e., toluene-water) systems, respectively. The second investigation explored the heat transfer properties of a FlowPlate® system by Ehrfeld Mikrotechnik BTS. First, in a non-reactive system with rectangular serpentine channels (d_h<1mm, 400
Sparseness-constrained data continuation with frames: Applications to missing traces and aliased signals in 2/3-D
Creators: name: Hennenfent, Gilles
name: Herrmann, Felix J.
Publisher: name: Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Year: 2008

description: We present a robust iterative sparseness-constrained interpolation algorithm using 2/3D curvelet frames and Fourier-like transforms that exploits continuity along reflectors in seismic data. By choosing generic transforms, we circumvent the necessity to make parametric assumptions (e.g. through linear/parabolic Radon or demigration) regarding the shape of events in seismic data. Simulation and real data examples for data with moderately sized gaps demonstrate that our algorithm provides interpolated traces that accurately reproduce the wavelet shape as well as the AVO behavior. Our method also shows good results for de-aliasing judged by the behavior of the (f-k)-spectrum before and after regularization.
Modelling of Pervaporation Separation of Butanol from Aqueous Solutions Using Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) Mixed Matrix Membranes
Creators: name: Ebneyamini, Arian
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Pervaporation
Butanol
PDMS
Mixed Matrix Membranes
Modelling of Mass Transport

description: In this thesis, a theoretical description of mass transport through membranes used in pervaporation separation processes has been investigated for both dense polymeric membranes and mixed matrix membranes (MMMs). Regarding the dense polymeric membranes, the Maxwell-Stefan model was extended to consider the effect of the operating temperature and membrane swelling on the mass transport of species within the membrane. The model was applied semi-empirically to predict the membrane properties and separation performance of a commercial Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) membrane used in the pervaporation separation of butanol from binary aqueous solutions. It was observed that the extended Maxwell-Stefan model has an average error of 10.5 % for the prediction of partial permeate fluxes of species compared to roughly 22% for the average prediction error of the Maxwell-Stefan model. Moreover, the parameters of the model were used to estimate the sorption properties and diffusion coefficients of components through the PDMS membrane at different butanol feed concentrations and operating temperatures. The estimated values of the sorption properties were observed to be in agreement with the literature experimental data for transport properties of butanol and water in silicone membranes while an exact comparison for the diffusion coefficient was not possible due to large fluctuations in literature values. With respect to the MMMs, a new model was developed by combining a one-directional transport Resistance-Based (RB) model with the Finite Difference (FD) method to derive an analytical model for the prediction of three-directional (3D) effective permeability of species within ideal mixed matrix membranes. The main novelty of the proposed model is to avoid the long convergence time of the FD method while the three-directional (3D) mass transport is still considered for the simulation. The model was validated using experimental pervaporation data for the separation of butanol from aqueous solutions using Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)/activated carbon nanoparticles membranes and using data from the literature for gas separation application with MMMs. Accurate predictions were obtained with high coefficient of regression (R2) between the calculated and experimental values for both applications.
Plasmon-Mediated Photothermal Phenomena and Nanofabrication of Applicable Devices
Creators: name: Marquez Soto, Daniela Trinidad
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Plasmon
Drug Delivery
Photopatterning
Catalysis
Gold Nanorods
Gold Nanoparticles
Nanofabrication
Cucurbituril
Mesoporous

description: This thesis studies the different ways in which the localized plasmon heating effect of gold nanostructures -activated by plasmon excitation via visible and/or NIR irradiation- can be used to obtain different outcomes following the nanofabrication of applicable devices. Both spatial and temporal control were obtained for each one of the systems developed upon the incorporation of plasmonic gold nanostructures. Spatial control was enabled in hybrid mesoporous drug delivery systems fabricated in this thesis through the localized surface plasmon heating effect that allowed the modification of the dynamics of diffusion of the cargo being delivered, thus giving rise to different rates of release that can be controlled by plasmon excitation. At the same time, the plasmon heating effect proved to be capable of controlling the start of the release by dismantling thermo-responsive gates previously incorporated, thus enabling also a wavelength-controlled feature that enhances the versatility of these systems. Spatial control was also conferred to the photo-patterning applications presented in this dissertation by influencing the degree of motility of gold nanorods (AuNRs) embedded in polymer matrices allowing them to self-assemble when the longitudinal plasmon of the incorporated nanostructures was excited; the patterns generated were quite robust and persisted for extended periods of time. Finally, the feature of spatial heating control was also conferred to catalysis. The Friedel-Crafts alkylation of anisole by benzyl chloride using spherical gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) supported on Nb2O5-based catalysts was performed at bulk temperatures below those necessary for the reaction to occur when using bare or modified Nb2O5; this was the result of the combination of bulk and localized plasmon heating produced -both- via plasmon excitation. This also demonstrates the possibility of using plasmon excitation as an alternative heat source in this type of reactions. By combining the plasmonic properties of metallic nanostructures with those granted by mesoporous materials, polymer matrices and Nb2O5-based materials it was possible to obtain light-activated systems endowed also with temporal control and wavelength control while preserving the original properties of each systems' components. Overall, the content of this thesis describes in detail the practical aspects of combining gold nanostructures with different materials and the rationale behind the development of systems with customized and controllable properties.
Non-linear data continuation with redundant frames
Creators: name: Herrmann, Felix J.
name: Hennenfent, Gilles
Publisher: name: Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Year: 2008

description: We propose an efficient iterative data interpolation method using continuity along reflectors in seismic images via curvelet and discrete cosine transforms. The curvelet transform is a new multiscale transform that provides sparse representations for images that comprise smooth objects separated by piece-wise smooth discontinuities (e.g. seismic images). The advantage of using curvelets is that these frames are sparse for high-frequency caustic-free solutions of the wave-equation. Since we are dealing with less than ideal data (e.g. bandwidth-limited), we compliment the curvelet frames with the discrete cosine transform. The latter is motivated by the successful data continuation with the discrete Fourier transform. By choosing generic basis functions we circumvent the necessity to make parametric assumptions (e.g. through linear/parabolic Radon or demigration) regarding the shape of events in seismic data. Synthetic and real data examples demonstrate that our algorithm provides interpolated traces that accurately reproduce the wavelet shape as well as the AVO behavior along events in shot gathers.
Additional file 1 of Threats of nursing productivity in the digital era: investigating the interplay between smartphones addiction and procrastination behavior among nurses
Creators: name: El-Sayed, Ahmed Abdelwahab Ibrahim
name: Goda, Shimaa Fathy Daif Allah
name: Elbialy, Gehan Galal
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary Material 1