cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Le parfum des mots : étude phénoménologique de la trame olfactive dans trois romans de Lise Tremblay
Creators: name: Vicuna, Emma
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: odeur
odeurs
olfaction
littérature
Lise Tremblay
taxinomie
smell
Québec
phénoménologie
trame narrative
trame olfactive
analyse thématique de l'olfaction
La danse juive
La pêche blanche
L'hiver de pluie
lexicologie olfactive
trame émotivo-décisionnelle
classification
catégories olfactives
classement olfactif
progression narrative
taxonomy
osmologie
osmology
imaginaire social
perception olfactive
sociologie de l'odeur
féminisme
feminism
Bachelard
polarisation des odeurs
odorant
odorité
odorescence

description: Cette thèse de maîtrise est une analyse thématique des odeurs telles qu’elles se présentent dans les trois premiers romans de l’écrivaine québécoise Lise Tremblay : L’hiver de pluie (1990), La pêche blanche (1994) et La danse juive (1997). Ses principaux objectifs sont d’abord l’analyse du thème de l’olfaction présent dans ces trois romans puis sa mise en relation subséquente avec la progression narrative du texte. Pour le cadre théorique, nous avons recours à l’approche phénoménologique de Gaston Bachelard. Ce travail veut démontrer de quelles manières les manifestations olfactives épousent la trajectoire intime des héros. À partir des résultats obtenus par l’étude des œuvres de Lise Tremblay, nous voulons jeter les bases d’un outil de classification des odeurs pouvant trouver sa mise en application à d’autres corpus littéraires.
The Role of Focus and Confidence in High-level Athletic Performances
Creators: name: Gagnon-Dolbec, Alexis
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Confidence
Focus
Sport
Performance

description: Despite the ability for past studies to link various psychological factors to optimal athletic performances, the roles of specific factors have yet to be fully discerned. Using a phenomenological-constructionist approach, the present study aims to gather a sharpened understanding of the roles that confidence and focus have on elite sport performances. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 Canadian and Norwegian high-level athletes originating from various sporting backgrounds. The athletes were interrogated about their general perspectives towards confidence and focus, inquired about the nature of their focus with regards to different game situations and asked to revisit their best and worst performances with the emphasis put on their confidence level and focus. The analysis of the interviews was inductive and followed Giorgi’s (1985) phenomenological methodology. Results suggested that an optimal focus is very often, if not always, present in best performances and largely absent during worst performances, thus suggesting that focus indeed plays a direct role on sporting exploits. Furthermore, confidence appears to serve as a powerful facilitator for the occurrence of optimal focus, leading to suggest that its relationship with performance might be more indirect. The increased understanding of the roles that both confidence and focus have on athletic performance that is enlightened by this study can serve as basis for practitioners in the development of performance enhancement programs in addition to stimulate future research on the possible relationship between confidence, focus and performance.
Outbreak of cryptosporidium hominis following river flooding in the city of Halle (Saale), Germany, August 2013
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Fallkontrollstudie

description: Background
During weeks 32-33, 2013, 24 cases of cryptosporidiosis were notified in the city of Halle (annual mean 2008-2012: 9 cases). We investigated the outbreak to identify the source and recommend control measures, considering that between weeks 23-25 the river Saale which flows through the city centre overflowed the floodplain, parts of the city centre and damaged sewage systems.
Methods
We defined a case as a resident of Halle with gastroenteritis, Cryptosporidium-positive stool and disease onset weeks 27 through 47. In a case-control study among kindergarten children, we compared cases and controls regarding environmental exposure, use of swimming pools, zoo visits and tap water consumption 14 days pre-onset or a corresponding 14-days-period (controls) and adjusted for residence. Stool specimens were tested by microscopy and PCR, and Cryptosporidium DNA was sequenced. Samples from public water system, swimming pools and river Saale were examined for Cryptosporidium oocysts (microscopy and PCR).
Results
Overall, 167 cases were detected, 40/167 (24%) were classified as secondary cases. First disease onsets occurred during week 29, numbers peaked in week 34 and started to decrease in week 36. Median age was 8 years (range: 0-77). Compared to controls (n = 61), cases (n = 20) were more likely to report visits to previously flooded areas (OR:?4.9; 95%-CI:?1.4-18) and the zoo (OR:?2.6; 95%-CI:?0.9-7.6). In multivariable analysis visits to the floodplain remained the sole risk factor (OR:?5.5; 95%-CI:?1.4-22). Only C.hominis of a single genotype (IbA9G2) was detected in stools. Oocysts were detected in samples from the river, two local lakes and three public swimming pools by microscopy, but not in the public water supply.
Conclusions
Evidence suggests that activities in the dried out floodplain led to infection among children. Secondary transmissions may be involved. Consequently, authorities recommended to avoid playing, swimming and having picnics in the flood-affected area. Health authorities should consider the potential health risks of long-term surviving parasites persisting on flooded grounds and in open waters even several weeks after the flooding and of bathing places close to sewage spill-overs. Preventive measures comprise water sampling (involving parasites), information of the public and prolonged closures of potentially contaminated sites.
Quelle: http://www.biomedcentral.com
Applications of Impulsive Differential Equations to the Control of Malaria Outbreaks and Introduction to Impulse Extension Equations: a General Framework to Study the Validity of Ordinary Differential Equation Models with Discontinuities in State
Creators: name: Church, Kevin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Impulsive differential equation
Model validation
Stability
Mathematical model
Vector control
Malaria

description: Impulsive differential equations are often used in mathematical modelling to simplify complicated hybrid models. We propose an inverse framework inspired by impulsive differential equations, called impulse extension equations, which can be used as a tool to determine when these impulsive models are accurate. The linear theory is the primary focus, for which theorems analoguous to ordinary and impulsive differential equations are derived. Results explicitly connecting the stability of impulsive differential equations to related impulse extension equations are proven in what we call time scale consistency theorems. Opportunities for future research in this direction are discussed. Following the work of Smith? and Hove-Musekwa on malaria vector control by impulsive insecticide spraying, we propose a novel autonomous vector control scheme based on human disease incidence. Existence and stability of periodic orbits is established. We compare the implementation cost of the incidence-based control to a ﬁxed-time spraying schedule. Hybrid control strategies are discussed.
Supplementary document for Improvement in the signal amplitude and bandwidth of an optical atomic magnetometer via alignment-to-orientation conversion - 5398428.pdf
Creators: name: ZHU, Maohua
name: Wang, Li
name: Guo, Jun
name: Zhao, Xiuchao
name: SUN, Xianping
name: YE, Chaohui
name: ZHOU, Xin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The analytic calculations for the optical rotation of the F=1->F'=0 transition system.
Vector-valued Automorphic Forms and Vector Bundles
Creators: name: Saber, Hicham
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Automorphic Forms
Vector Bundles

description: In this thesis we prove the existence of vector-valued automorphic forms for an arbitrary Fuchsian group and an arbitrary finite dimensional complex representation of this group. For small enough values of the weight as well as for large enough values, we provide explicit formulas for the spaces of these vector-valued automorphic forms (holomorphic and cuspidal). To achieve these results, we realize vector-valued automorphic forms as global sections of a certain family of holomorphic vector bundles on a certain Riemann surface associated to the Fuchsian group. The dimension formulas are then provided by the Riemann-Roch theorem. In the cases of 1 and 2-dimensional representations, we give some applications to the theories of generalized automorphic forms and equivariant functions.
Modular consistency analysis of component-based designs
Creators: name: Esser, Robert
name: Jin, Yan
name: Lakos, Charles A.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this article, we present a practical analysis approach that makes use of the modular nature of component-based designs to alleviate the state space explosion problem, a well-known obstacle to system verification. The key is to specify interaction protocols for components using a lightweight formal language and then to utilise these protocols as contracts for independent analysis of the components and their interactions. These protocols are often missing or informally documented. It is demonstrated how consistency properties of closed and open component-based designs can be verified using this divide-and-conquer approach.
Women in Policing: Their Disillusion Phase at Work
Creators: name: Labaky, Elie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: policewomen
policewoman
women police
police woman
occupational career cycle
police
policing
women in policing
disillusion phase
occupational stress
police career path
disillusionment
police stress

description: Studies on the career paths of municipal police officers have revealed an emergence of four distinct phases which officers pass through during their professional careers, phases where the perception of their profession changes. These phases are more constant at the patrol officer level where most officers begin and finish their career. Among these four phases is the disillusion phase (between 6 and 13 years), where the expectations at work are not met. The perception of the police administration, the public and the criminal justice system, all become negative and the hope for promotions diminish. These studies were mainly conducted in a period where there were very few or no women in policing. Through a feminist perspective and a social constructionist theoretical framework, this thesis makes the hypothesis that because women have different expectations at work, a varying work/life balance and a contrasting aspiration to attain positions of power, women will live this second phase differently. To explore this hypothesis, data was collected from ten semi-structured interviews with female patrol officers having worked between 6 and 13 years in municipal police departments. A discourse analysis effectively shows significant differences for the reasons underlying our hypotheses. Even if they have some frustrations about certain aspects of their work, we did not see any disillusionment from any women in this phase.
Paleoflood History of an Oxbow Lake in the Désert River Catchment Area, Southwestern Québec, Canada
Creators: name: Oliva, François
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Hydrology
Oxbow lake
Paleofloods

description: Most paleoflood reconstructions come from the arid dry climate of southwestern USA with very few studies being conducted in temperate climates. The study’s main objective is to determine if oxbow lakes can be used to reconstruct past flood events in temperate regions, such as the Désert River in southwestern Québec, Canada. Sediment cores were extracted and analyzed for magnetic susceptibility, loss-on-ignition and grain-size. These analyses are used to decipher evidence of flood signatures within the cores. Results show a strong relationship between past flood events and known climate variability on multi-decadal to centennial timescales. A higher frequency of floods was observed during the Little Ice Age (LIA; 1450-1850 AD) and the Dark Ages Cold Period (DACP; 300-800 AD) as compared to the Medieval Warm Period (MWP; 900-1200 AD). This study supports previous work on paleoflood hydrology using oxbow lakes as a proxy and its relationship to past hydroclimatic changes. These types of studies contribute to a better understanding of past hydroclimatic changes on regional scales that can be used to better predict future floods under a changing climate.
Reading errors made by children with low vision
Creators: name: Douglas, Graeme
name: Grimley, Michael
name: McLinden, Mike
name: Watson, Linda
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Previous research has shown that, on average, children with low vision lag their sighted peers in general reading development (in terms of speed, accuracy and comprehension). This study sought to examine this apparent lag by comparing the reading profiles of 25 normally sighted readers (mean age 8 years 8 months) with 25 low vision readers. The children were tested using a reading test (the Neale Analysis of Reading Ability, NARA) and were matched on the reading accuracy score produced by the test. Therefore in terms of the reading accuracy scores (and reading ages) derived from the NARA both groups were the same. The low vision readers were on average older than the normally sighted children (mean = 10 years, 5 months). When the reading profile (i.e. accuracy, comprehension and speed) was examined in the same analysis no significant effect was revealed [d.f. = 1, 48; F = 0.05; p > 0.1], but a general lag for these children is suggested (in keeping with previous research). However, a closer analysis of the reading error profile revealed the most common reading errors made by all readers in the analysis were either mispronunciations or substitutions. The low vision readers were more prone to making substitution errors than mispronunciations and the reverse was true for normally sighted readers [d.f. = 1, 48; F = 7.1; p < 0.05]. This indicates that the reading strategies adopted by low vision readers may differ from those of normally sighted readers of the same apparent reading ability.
La participation des députés à la fabrique de la décision politique : ethnographie d'une députée de l'opposition élue au Parlement du Canada
Creators: name: Forest, Mariève
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: politique
Canada
sociologie pragmatiste
députés
Parlement du Canada
ethnographie
décision politique
démocratique

description: Les écrits sur les élus politiques insistent trop souvent sur leur propension à suivre leur parti, à corrompre les institutions ou à simuler le conflit. On ne les présente que rarement comme des êtres volontaires, innovants et actifs. À contre courant, cette thèse fait le pari de laisser émerger la ténacité du député et son attachement à l’action, ce que l’on associe plus directement au politique. Plus précisément, on aura cherché à comprendre comment les députés élus au Parlement du Canada s’attèlent à « s’approcher de », « s’insérer dans » et « fabriquer » la décision politique démocratique. Pour ce faire, une observation de type ethnographique a été menée pendant dix semaines en 2011 auprès d’une députée d’opposition élue au Parlement fédéral depuis 1997. L’accès à 65 entretiens conduits avec d’anciens députés d’un bout à l’autre du pays a bonifié et complété ce terrain. Il s’en dégage un examen inédit des conditions – tantôt en tension, tantôt en conflit – de la fabrique de la décision au cœur de « l’être-député ». Ces conditions témoignent de ce que recouvre l’action des députés lorsque tournée vers le politique et la démocratie, par le biais d’un travail de montée en autorité des décisions politiques. Plus précisément, les conditions hiérarchique, volontariste, discursive et publique sont tour à tour explorées pour enrichir une compréhension des qualités et de la grandeur de la députation au moment de tendre vers la décision politique. Bien qu’au final ce portrait des députés ne permette guère de les constituer en « héros politique », il ouvre néanmoins une réflexion nuancée sur les possibilités et les limites que recèle ce rôle sur la scène politique canadienne.
title: Urbane Logistik - Herausforderungen für Kommunen
title: Urbane Logistik - Herausforderungen für Kommunen
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Douglas, Martyn
name: Schubert, Tim
name: Schuhmacher, Thomas
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: urbane Logistik
subject: städtischer Güterverkehr
subject: Wirtschaftsverkehr
subject: Mikrodepot
subject: Online-Handel
subject: Verkehrswende
subject: Lieferdienst
subject: Online-Befragung
subject: Verkehr

description: Der städtische Güterverkehr stellt Kommunen vor zahlreiche Herausforderungen. Das Umweltbundesamt hat untersucht, wie diese Herausforderungen aussehen, mit welchen kommunalen Strategien und Konzepten ihnen begegnet wird und welche Ressourcen Kommunen zur Bewältigung der urbanen Logistik brauchen, denn eine finanzielle Unterstützung allein schafft noch keine nachhaltige urbane Logistik. Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Der städtische Güterverkehr stellt Kommunen vor zahlreiche Herausforderungen. Das Umweltbundesamt hat untersucht, wie diese Herausforderungen aussehen, mit welchen kommunalen Strategien und Konzepten ihnen begegnet wird und welche Ressourcen Kommunen zur Bewältigung der urbanen Logistik brauchen, denn eine finanzielle Unterstützung allein schafft noch keine nachhaltige urbane Logistik.
Decoherence rates in large scale quantum computers
Creators: name: Dalton, Bryan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Markovian regime decoherence effects in quantum computers are studied in terms of the fidelity for the situation where the number of qubits N becomes large. A standard model involving three-state lambda system ionic qubits is considered, with qubits localised around well-separated positions via trapping potentials. The centre of mass vibrations of the qubits act as a reservoir. Coherent one and two qubit gating processes are controlled by time dependent localised classical EM fields that address specific qubits, the two qubit gating processes being facilitated by a cavity mode ancilla, which permits state interchange between qubits. With suitably chosen parameters, the decoherence time can be made essentially independent of N.
Combined Chemical Looping Combustion and Calcium Looping for Enhanced Hydrogen Production from Biomass Gasification
Creators: name: Abdul Rahman, Ryad
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Calcium Looping
Chemical Looping Combustion
Biomass Gasification
Hydrogen Production

description: Production of hydrogen from biomass steam gasification can be enhanced by using calcium oxide sorbents for CO2 capture in the gasifier. Calcium looping suffers from two main drawbacks: the need for high-purity oxygen in order to regenerate the sorbent under oxy-fuel combustion conditions and the loss of sorbent reactivity over several cycles due to sintering of pores upon calcination at high temperatures. One method of addressing the issue of oxygen supply for calcination in calcium looping is to combine the calcium looping and chemical looping processes, where the heat produced by the reduction of an oxygen-carrier by a fuel such as natural gas or gasification syngas, drives the calcination reaction. The technologies can be integrated by combining an oxygen carrier such as CuO with limestone within a composite pellet, or by cycling CuO and limestone within distinct particles. The goal of this project is thus to investigate the different sequences of solids circulation and the cyclic performance of composite limestone-CuO sorbents under varied operating conditions for this novel process configuration. Using a thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA), it was found that using composite CaO/CuO/alumina-containing cement pellets for gasification purposes required oxidation of Cu to be preceded by carbonation (Sequence 2) as opposed to the post-combustion case where the pellets are oxidized prior to carbonation (Sequence 1). Composite pellets were tested using Sequence 2 using varying carbonation conditions over multiple cycles. While the pellets exhibited relatively high carbonation conversion, the oxidation conversion underwent a decrease for all tested conditions, with the reduction in oxygen uptake particularly drastic when the pellets were pre-carbonated in the presence of steam. It appears that the production of a layer of CaCO3 fills up the pellets pores, obstructing the passage of O2 molecules to the more remote Cu sites. Limestone-based pellets and Cu-based pellets were subsequently tested in separate CaL and CLC loops respectively to assess their performance in a dual-loop process (Sequence 3). A maximum Cu content of 50% could be accommodated in a pellet with calcium aluminate cement as support with no loss in oxidation conversion and no observable agglomeration.
The Role of Colony Size in the Resistance and Tolerance of Scleractinian Corals to Bleaching Caused by Thermal Stress
Creators: name: Charpentier, Bernadette
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: coral bleaching
colony size
mixed effects models
Discovery Bay
Jamaica

description: In 2005 and 2010, high sea surface temperatures caused widespread coral bleaching on Jamaica’s north coast reefs. Three shallow (9m) reef sites were surveyed during each event to quantify the prevalence and intensity of coral bleaching. In October 2005, 29-57% of the colonies surveyed were bleached. By April 2006, 10% of the corals remained pale/partially bleached. Similarly, in October 2010, 23-51% of corals surveyed at the same sites were bleached. By April 2011, 12% of the colonies remained pale/partially bleached. Follow-up surveys revealed low coral mortality following both events, with an overall mean of 4% partial colony mortality across all species and sites observed in April 2006, and 2% in April 2011. Mixed effects models were used to quantify the relationship between colony size and (a) bleaching intensity, and (b) bleaching related mortality among coral species. The bleaching intensity model explained 51% of the variance in the bleaching response observed during the two events. Of this 51%, fixed effects accounted for ~26% of the variance, 17% of which was attributed to species-specific susceptibility to bleaching , 5% to colony size, <1% colony morphology and 4% to the difference in bleaching intensity between the two events. The random factor (site) accounted for the remaining ~25% of the variance. The mortality model explained 16% of the variance in post bleaching mortality with fixed effects, including colony size, morphology and species explaining ~11% of the variance, and the random effect (site) explaining 5%. On average, there was a twofold difference in bleaching intensity between the smallest and the largest size classes. Modelling the relationship between colony level characteristics and site-specific environmental factors on coral species’ susceptibility to thermal stress can shed light on community level responses to future disturbances.
On α-synuclein in the Human Enteric Nervous System
Creators: name: Gray, Madison T.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: α-synuclein
alpha-synuclein
Parkinson's disease
Enteric nervous system
vermiform appendix
Lewy bodies
gastrointestinal

description: Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease resulting primarily from loss of dopaminergic innervation in the striatum subsequent to cell loss in the substantia nigra pars compacta. The abnormal accumulation of the normal pre-synaptic protein α-synuclein (αsyn) forms intraneuronal inclusions known as Lewy neurites and Lewy bodies. The origins of central Lewy pathology have been suggested to lie in the enteric nervous system, ascending through the vagus nerve to the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus. To ascertain gastrointestinal regions most likely to be the source of central Lewy pathology, αsyn expression was evaluated in the neural elements of gastrointestinal regions receiving the densest vagal innervation. The vermiform appendix was found to have the densest αsyn-immunoreactive innervation in all layers of the gut wall. In addition, macrophages in the appendiceal mucosa were laden with αsyn within lysosomes, consistent with attempts to prevent the spread of disease or to correct synaptic dysfunction.
Lärm und Klimaschutz durch Tempo 30: Stärkung der Entscheidungskompetenzen der Kommunen
Creators: name: Sommer, Karsten
name: Heinrichs, Eckhart
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Aktiver Schallschutz
subject: Klimaschutz
subject: Gesetzesänderung
subject: Aktiver Lärmschutz
subject: Kommunen befähigen
subject: Anpassung in Kommunen
subject: Lärm
subject: Transport

description: Ziel des Gutachtens „Lärm- und ⁠Klimaschutz⁠ durch Tempo 30: Stärkung der Entscheidungskompetenzen der Kommunen“ ist das Entwickeln von Empfehlungen für geeignete Änderungen von Gesetzen, Verordnungen, Verwaltungsvorschriften, Erlassen und Richtlinien, um Hindernisse zu beseitigen, denen sich Kommunen bei der Durchsetzung von Tempo 30 derzeit gegenübergestellt sehen. Dazu waren die im Forschungsprojekt „TUNE ULR –Technisch wissenschaftliche Unterstützung bei der Novellierung der EU-Umgebungslärmrichtlinie“ ermittelten fachlichen und rechtlichen Hindernisse auszuwerten und weitere Hindernisse in einem Workshop zu ermitteln. Die Hindernisse waren daraufhin zu untersuchen, ob sie durch Änderungen von Gesetzen, Verordnungen, Verwaltungsvorschriften, Erlassen oder Richtlinien zu beseitigen sind. Entsprechende Änderungsempfehlungen werden in diesem Gutachten entwickelt.
title: Med pasienten i førersetet
title: Recovery-perspektivets implikasjoner for musikkterapi i psykisk helsearbeid
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Solli, Hans Petter
Publisher: name: Musikterapi i Psykiatrien Online, Aalborg Universitet, Aalborg
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 615 Pharmacology and therapeutics

description: Artikkelen introduserer recovery-perspektivet i forhold til psykiske lidelser og psykisk helse, og ser på dets mulige implikasjoner for musikkterapien. Det gjøres greie for historiske utviklingstrekk og rasjonale bak den medisinske modellen i behandling og psykoterapi, og for recovery-perspektivets historiske utvikling og konseptualisering. En case-vignett danner bakgrunn for en diskusjon av bedringsperspektivets implikasjoner for meta-perspektiv, praksis og forskning. Humanistiske -, ressursorienterte - og samfunnsorienterte tilnærminger til musikkterapi foreslås som konstruktive veier mot en mer recovery-orientert musikkterapi.
description: MIPO Musikterapi I Psykiatrien Online, yr. 2012, vol. 7, iss. 2, pg. 23-44; ISSN 2245-3342
Web Page Classification Using Features from Titles and Snippets
Creators: name: Lu, Zhengyang
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Web Page Classification
Feature Selection

description: Nowadays, when a keyword is provided, a search engine can return a large number of web pages, which makes it difficult for people to find the right information. Web page classification is a technology that can help us to make a relevant and quick selection of information that we are looking for. Moreover, web page classification is important for companies that provide marketing and analytics platforms, because it can help them to build a healthy mix of listings on search engines and large directories. This will provide more insight into the distribution of the types of web pages their local business listings are found on, and finally will help marketers to make better-informed decisions about marketing campaigns and strategies. In this thesis we perform a literature review that introduces web page classification, feature selection and feature extraction. The literature review also includes a comparison of three commonly used classification algorithms and a description of metrics for performance evaluation. The findings in the literature enable us to extend existing classification techniques, methods and algorithms to address a new web page classification problem faced by our industrial partner SweetIQ (a company that provides location-based marketing services and an analytics platform). We develop a classification method based on SweetIQ's data and business needs. Our method includes typical feature selection and feature extraction methods, but the features we use in this thesis are largely different from traditional ones used in the literature. We test selected features and find that the text extracted from the title and snippet of a web page can help a classifier to achieve good performance. Our classification method does not require the full content of a web page. Thus, it is fast and saves a lot of space.
The arithmetic of independence
Creators: name: Browne, Peter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Midway through the third week of the election campaign the main street of Orange, in mid-western New South Wales, is quiet, untouched by any sign of election fever. Peter Andren, the federal member for Calare, is walking along Summer Street, the main shopping strip, and there’s not much in his demeanour to suggest that he has much to worry about on 9 October. People nod as he walks past, some of them approaching him for a short, friendly chat.
Rhizomic Rap: Representation, Identity and Hip-Hop on Moccasin Flats
Creators: name: Burrows, Brendan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Authenticty
Aboriginal Representation
Hip-hop
Rhizome

description: With the rise of First Nations owned and created television content at the turn of the century, came a demand to see an accurate representation of Aboriginality that could look at Aboriginals as both here and modern. From 2003-2006, the first Aboriginal made and produced television series entitled Moccasin Flats, I argue, used modern day hip-hop discourse to both engage and dissect a host of complex issues facing modern day urban Aboriginal society. This research project mobilizes multiple methodologies; including: 1.) Eco’s code and sign function semiotic analysis, which operates to identify various hip-hop codes in the text; 2.)Hall’s method of articulation to look at how meaning is fixed in the discourse surrounding the show; and finally 3) Deleuze’s rhizomic approach to identity to see how the shows main characters are constructed in a way to highlight the paradoxical and undercut certain flirtations with essentialization. This three-tiered methodological process paints a picture of a new complex use of discourse to accentuate different facets of aboriginality that had previously been the sole product of dominant hegemonic institutions which relied on racist stereotypes. By dissecting how identity is formed on Moccasin Flats, I will show how aboriginal filmmakers construct a self-reflexive space where the character is perpetually in the process of ‘becoming’ and identity is always a site of negotiation.
SANTUÁRIO RESTAURADO: UMA ANALISE HERMENÊUTICA DA PURIFICAÇÃO DO SANTUÁRIO EM DANIEL
Creators: name: Rodrigues Roza, Alexandre Magnos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Este artigo investiga a doutrina do juízo investigativo a partir de uma análise hermenêutica dos capítulos 8 e 9 do livro de Daniel, com ênfase na narrativa e nos elementos semióticos do texto bíblico. A pesquisa baseia-se na perspectiva adventista do santuário celestial e propõe uma leitura teológico-exegética que articula a restauração do santuário com o início do juízo escatológico. Utilizando a obra Estudos Selecionados sobre Interpretação Profética, de William H. Shea (2011), como referência central, o artigo dialoga com abordagens críticas contemporâneas e busca oferecer uma defesa coerente e contextualizada da doutrina. O trabalho é voltado tanto a estudiosos da profecia bíblica quanto a leitores interessados na interface entre exegese, escatologia e teologia adventista.
Manual for procesorienteret musikterapi med personer med BPD
Creators: name: Hannibal, Niels
name: Pedersen, Inge Nygaard
name: Bonde, Lars Ole
name: Bertelsen, Lars Rye
name: Dammeyer, Charlotte
name: Lund, Helle Nystrup
Publisher: name: Musikterapi i Psykiatrien Online, Aalborg Universitet, Aalborg
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 615 Pharmacology and therapeutics

description: Denne artikel introducerer et musikterapeutisk behandlingskoncept kaldet: Procesorienteret Musikterapi (PROM). PROM er et forsøg på at formulere en principiel ramme for musikterapi i psykiatrien, som dels tager udgangspunkt i 17 års klinisk erfaring, dels stiler mod at være ”best practice”. PROM indeholder beskrivelser af manualens unikke, essentielle men ikke unikke, acceptable og ikke acceptable dele. Den unikke del af PROM skal kunne implementeres til alle målgrupper, mens de øvrige dele af manualen rettes til i forhold til en specifik målgruppe. Denne udgave af PROM er specifikt rettet i mod musikterapi for patienter med personlighedsforstyrrelser. Manualen indgår også som en del af et pilotprojekt, der har til formål at udvikle en protokol for et internationalt RCT projekt med samme målgruppe.
description: MIPO Musikterapi I Psykiatrien Online, yr. 2012, vol. 7, iss. 2, pg. 64-80; ISSN 2245-3342
title: ”My battle of life”
title: Musikterapi med brug af sangskrivning, rap-performance og kognitive metoder
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Lund, Helle Nystrup
Publisher: name: Musikterapi i Psykiatrien Online, Aalborg Universitet, Aalborg
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 615 Pharmacology and therapeutics

description: Artiklen er et case-studie fra voksenpsykiatrien med fokus på metodebeskrivelse. Med afsæt i et individuelt behandlingsforløb med en ung mand med en skizo-affektiv diagnose, gøres der rede for de anvendte musikterapeutiske og kognitive metoder. Sangskrivning i form af rap som specifik anvendt teknik belyses, og to udvalgte kognitive metoder præsenteres: hjemmeopgaver tilpasset musikterapien og arbejdet med livsværdier. Endelig diskuteres fordele og implikationer i integrationen af kognitive metoder i musikterapi.
description: MIPO Musikterapi I Psykiatrien Online, yr. 2012, vol. 7, iss. 2, pg. 81-92; ISSN 2245-3342
A Comparison of Preoperative and Postoperative Lower-extremity Joint Biomechanics of Patients with Cam Femoroacetabular Impingement
Creators: name: Brisson, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biomechanics
Kinematics
Kinetics
Femoroacetabular Impingement

description: Surgery to correct cam femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) is increasingly popular. Despite this, no known study has used motion analysis and ground reaction forces to quantify the outcome of surgery for FAI. The goal of this study was to compare the preoperative and postoperative lower-extremity joint kinematic and kinetic measurements of cam FAI patients during activities of daily living with use of a high-speed motion capture system and force platforms. We hypothesized that the lower-extremity joint mechanics of FAI patients during level walking and maximal squatting would resemble more those of healthy control subjects, after surgery. Ten patients with unilateral symptomatic cam FAI, who underwent corrective surgery using an open or combined technique, performed walking and maximal depth squatting trials preoperatively and postoperatively. Thirteen healthy control subjects, matched for age, sex and body mass index, provided normative data. Results showed that postoperatively, FAI patients had reduced hip ROM in the frontal and sagittal planes, produced smaller peak hip abduction and external rotation moments, and generated less peak hip power compared to the control group during level walking. During maximal squatting, postoperative FAI patients squatted to a greater depth, and had larger knee flexion and ankle dorsiflexion angles, as well as the sum of all joint angles of the affected limb at maximal depth compared to the preoperative values. The lower-extremity joint and pelvic mechanics of FAI patients did not fully return to normal after surgery. Although surgery seemed to reduce hip pain and restore a normal femoral head-neck offset, it further impaired muscle function as a result of muscle incisions. More research is needed to determine the effects of muscle incisions, which could help improve surgical techniques and develop better rehabilitation programs for FAI patients.
A Review of Current Challenges and Case Study toward Optimizing Micro-Computed X-Ray Tomography of Carbon Fabric Composites
Creators: name: Rashidi, Armin
name: Olfatbakhsh, Tina
name: Crawford, Bryn
name: Milani, Abbas S.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: X-ray computed tomography provides qualitative and quantitative structural and compositional information for a broad range of materials. Yet, its contribution to the field of advanced composites such as carbon fiber reinforced polymers is still limited by factors such as low imaging contrast, due to scarce X-ray attenuation features. This article, through a review of the state of the art, followed by an example case study on Micro-computed tomography (CT) analysis of low X-ray absorptive dry and prepreg carbon woven fabric composites, aims to highlight and address some challenges as well as best practices on performing scans that can capture key features of the material. In the case study, utilizing an Xradia Micro-CT-400, important aspects such as obtaining sufficient contrast, an examination of thin samples, sample size/resolution issues, and image-based modeling are discussed. The outcome of an optimized workflow in Micro-CT of composite fabrics can assist in further research efforts such as the generation of surface or volume meshes for the numerical modeling of underlying deformation mechanisms during their manufacturing processes.
title: Sewage sludge disposal in the Federal Republic of Germany
title: Klärschlammentsorgung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Heidecke, Patric
name: Roskosch, Andrea
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2018
Subjects: Kläranlage
Klärschlamm
Klärschlammbeseitigung
Klärschlammverwertung
Klärschlammverordnung

description: The novel sewage sludge ordinance entered into force on 03/10/2017. Therefore for wastewater treatment plants with more than 100,000 respectively 50,000 populations equivalents the utilization of sewage sludge on soil is only possible until 2029 respectively 2032. Afterwards phosphorus recovery is mandatory for sludge with minimum 20 g phosphorus/ kg as well as for sewage sludge ashes. Even now most of the approximately 1.8 mil. tons of municipal sewage sludge is not used for agricultural purposes but is treated thermal in mono- and co-incineration plants. The present report is summarizing the current state of sewage sludge disposal in Germany and presents the possibilities for its sustainable utilization. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
title: Musiklytning og indre billeder
title: Receptiv gruppemusikterapi med ambulante psykiatriske patienter
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Bonde, Lars Ole
name: Pedersen, Inge Nygaard
Publisher: name: Musikterapi i Psykiatrien Online, Aalborg Universitet, Aalborg
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 615 Pharmacology and therapeutics

description: Kan lytning og indre billeddannelse til udvalgt klassisk musik være en effektiv gruppeterapiform for ambulante psykiatriske patienter? Med henblik på at besvare dette spørgsmål deltog 12 ambulante patienter i årene 2008-10 i et pilotprojekt med i alt 8 gruppeforløb (2-4 deltagere per gruppe; enkeltpersoner kunne deltage i flere grupper), og i denne artikel gøres der status over forløbet og resultaterne. Først præsenteres baggrunden for og tilrettelæggelsen af det receptive musikterapiforløb, og den særligt udvalgte musik karakteriseres og begrundes. Derefter fokuseres der på en enkelt gruppe til illustration af fremgangsmåder og resultater. Endelige diskuteres resultaterne af pilotprojektet i et bredere perspektiv. - Denne artikel er anden del af rapporteringen fra det kliniske pilotprojekt ”Musiklytning og indre billeder”. Første del stod i Musikterapi i psykiatrien.
description: MIPO Musikterapi I Psykiatrien Online, yr. 2012, vol. 7, iss. 2, pg. 45-63; ISSN 2245-3342
PNG-1, A Peptide: N-Glycanase Limits Axon Outgrowth and Branching in Caenorhabditis elegans
Creators: name: Habibi-Babadi, Nasrin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Axon branching
PNGase

description: Assembly of neuronal networks with distinct patterns of connectivity during nervous system development involves the growth, extension and branching of axons and dendrites. Over the years genetic and biochemical studies in model organisms have contributed significantly in identifying mechanisms regulating axon growth and extension. However the molecular mechanisms underlying axon branching remain unclear. The egg-laying neuronal circuitry in C. elegans has proven to be a robust system for identifying and characterizing novel genes involved in neuronal morphology. This circuitry which mediates egg-laying behavior in nematodes is composed of two families of motorneurons, HSNs and VCs, which are among the most branched neurons in C. elegans. A genetic screen for axon branch defects in the egg-laying neurons identified png-1 to disrupt neuronal morphology including axon branching. png-1 encodes a Peptide: N-glycanase (PNGase), a conserved cytosolic enzyme that removes N-linked sugar moieties from glycoproteins. In this thesis I present my work characterizing and examining png-1 and its role in mediating axon branching. Mutations in png-1 resulted in excessive ectopic axon branching in the VC4 and VC5 egg-laying neurons as well as branching in the normally unbranched AVL and DVB neurons. Behavioral analysis in these mutants revealed defects in egg-laying behavior and mild in-utero egg retention phenotypes. Cellular characterization shows ubiquitous expression of png-1 in many tissues including vulva cells, muscles, gonads, and neurons. My analysis also shows that png-1 acts both cell-autonomously and cell non-autonomously from neurons and epithelial cells to restrict axon branching around the vulva. Using a candidate gene approach I identified a deletion allele of the DNA repair gene, rad-23, to display axon branching defects and interact with png-1 within a common pathway to regulate axon branching. Additionally, through a genetic modifier screen for enhancers and suppressors of VC4-5 branching defects in png-1, I identified a new allele of sax-2 as an enhancer mutation. sax-2 encodes a scaffolding protein that regulates the activity and localization of sax-1, an NDR kinase. Examination of neuronal phenotypes in sax-1 and sax-2 mutants revealed similar png-1 like defects in VC4-5. Genetic analysis of the double mutants png-1;sax-1 and png-1;sax-2 revealed strong synergistic phenotypes suggesting that png-1 and sax-1/sax-2 function in parallel pathways to regulate axon branching. In summary, this thesis reveals novel components and pathways in the regulation of neuronal branching.
Multipath Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks: A Hybrid Between Source Routing and Diffusion Techniques
Creators: name: Ebada, Mohamed
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Multipath Routing
Wireless Sensor Networks
WSN
Source Routing
Diffusion Routing
Hybrid Routing

description: In this thesis, an investigation of the performance of multipath routing in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is performed. The communication in the network under study is to take place from individual nodes to the sink node. The investigation involved multipath finding methods in WSN. Also, it involves investigating the weight assignment, traffic splitting and route selection methods for the different paths discovered by each node in the WSN. Also, a comparison between Hybrid Routing Protocol, Source Routing Protocol and Diffusion Routing Protocol is performed. A simple traffic routing algorithm for each routing protocol has been developed to conceptualize how the network traffic is routed on a set of active paths. The investigation of the Hybrid, Source and Diffusion Routing Protocol involved using multiple paths simultaneously to transmit messages that belong to the same flow by using a weight assigned to each path and transmit each message as a whole. Finally, the power consumption and the QoS in terms of message delays for a WSN were investigated and compared between different protocols.
A Social-Developmental Model of Radicalization: A Systematic Integration of Existing Theories and Empirical Research
Creators: name: Beelmann, Andreas
Publisher: name: International Journal of Conflict and Violence (IJCV)
Year: 2020

description: Radicalization and violent extremism are pressing problems across the world. After initially addressing problems in defining radicalization and extremism, this article sketches a new social-developmental model based on a systematic integration of theories and empirical findings. We propose a three-step model of radicalization starting with ontogenetic social-developmental processes during the most dynamic period for social development, from early childhood to late adolescence. These processes include the interaction of societal, social, and individual risk and protective factors. In adverse cases this interplay encourages the establishment of proximal radicalization processes between early adolescence and middle adulthood. We assume that four interrelated but distinct social-developmental processes are central conditions for radicalization and extremism: identity problems, prejudice, political or religious ideologies, and antisocial attitudes and behavior. These proximal processes are triggered by actual societal, social, or individual conflicts (such as economic crisis, victimization) and marked by continuous intergroup processes. The more intense the proximal processes, the greater the likelihood of extremist attitudes and behavior. The article closes by discussing implications for early prevention and an outlook for further research.
description: International Journal of Conflict and Violence (IJCV), Vol 14 No 1 (2020)