cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A predictive coding account of bistable perception - a model-based fMRI study
Creators: name: Weilnhammer, Veith
name: Stuke, Heiner
name: Hesselmann, Guido
name: Sterzer, Philipp
name: Schmack, Katharina
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: In bistable vision, subjective perception wavers between two interpretations of a constant ambiguous stimulus. This dissociation between conscious perception and sensory stimulation has motivated various empirical studies on the neural correlates of bistable perception, but the neurocomputational mechanism behind endogenous perceptual transitions has remained elusive. Here, we recurred to a generic Bayesian framework of predictive coding and devised a model that casts endogenous perceptual transitions as a consequence of prediction errors emerging from residual evidence for the suppressed percept. Data simulations revealed close similarities between the model’s predictions and key temporal characteristics of perceptual bistability, indicating that the model was able to reproduce bistable perception. Fitting the predictive coding model to behavioural data from an fMRI-experiment on bistable perception, we found a correlation across participants between the model parameter encoding perceptual stabilization and the behaviourally measured frequency of perceptual transitions, corroborating that the model successfully accounted for participants’ perception. Formal model comparison with established models of bistable perception based on mutual inhibition and adaptation, noise or a combination of adaptation and noise was used for the validation of the predictive coding model against the established models. Most importantly, model-based analyses of the fMRI data revealed that prediction error time-courses derived from the predictive coding model correlated with neural signal time-courses in bilateral inferior frontal gyri and anterior insulae. Voxel-wise model selection indicated a superiority of the predictive coding model over conventional analysis approaches in explaining neural activity in these frontal areas, suggesting that frontal cortex encodes prediction errors that mediate endogenous perceptual transitions in bistable perception. Taken together, our current work provides a theoretical framework that allows for the analysis of behavioural and neural data using a predictive coding perspective on bistable perception. In this, our approach posits a crucial role of prediction error signalling for the resolution of perceptual ambiguities.
A comprehensive performance project in saxophone literature and an essay consisting of three trio sonatas by C.P.E. Bach, J.P. Schiffelholz, and G.P. Telemann transcribed, realized and edited for saxophones and piano
Creators: name: Konecne, Steven Craig
Publisher: name: University of Iowa
Year: 1984
Subjects: saxophone
sonatas
piano
trios

description: Includes arrangments for soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, and piano (1st work); for two tenor saxophones and piano (2nd work); for alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, and piano (3rd work).
Bitter harvest: A case study of allied operational intelligence for Operation Spring Normandy, July 25, 1944.
Creators: name: O'Keefe, David R.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.

description: Spring was designed by 2nd Canadian Corps commander Lt. Gen. Guy Simonds as a three-phase plan to capture the high ground south of the Verrieres Ridge and if the opportunity presented itself, to exploit towards Falaise. As darkness descended over Normandy on July 25, 1944, the uncomfortable results of operation "Spring" were revealed. Over 500 Canadian soldiers lay dead and 1000 had been wounded or captured in their attempt to wrestle Verrieres Ridge away from its German defenders. What remains as a common thread throughout the contemporary literature is Simonds' palatable concept that Spring was victimized by poor and incomplete operational intelligence. However, what Simonds failed to acknowledge, and historians have overlooked is the existence of evidence from intelligence sources which cast new light on Simonds' palatable concept. By tracing the development of intelligence in the Canadian army and its relationship to high command, a picture begins to emerge in the days leading up to Spring which indicates that not only was Simonds well aware of a significant enemy reinforcement, but that this intelligence impacted on his planning for the operations well before "the eleventh hour." (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Using spectral analysis in the flute studio to develop tone quality
Creators: name: Canelo Cohen, Laura Judith
Publisher: name: University of Iowa
Year: 2021
Subjects: Flute
Flute Pedagogy
Flute Tone
Harmonics
Sound Visualization
Spectrogram
Performing Arts

description: Flute pedagogy has long been influenced by the principles of voice pedagogy. Yet one of the methods of voice teaching and practice that remains unexplored by flutists is spectral analysis. Nowadays, spectral analysis can be easily generated on a personal computer or phone, making it a viable and affordable tool to the twenty-first century flute teacher. The sound spectrogram, as presented in the available software programs, offers a graphical representation of frequency content over time that provides valuable and objective information about the flute sound. My DMA thesis examines how tone quality has been described by professional flutists and how current teachers explain the concepts of tone quality, investigates the use of technology in the flute studio, and explores whether the use of the spectrogram is a valid method for working on consistency and flexibility of tone.The methodology applied in this study includes interview and experimentation. First, I interview current teachers regarding their methods for teaching tone quality. In addition, I record nine excerpts that display a wide range of character, articulation, and dynamics. All the recorded samples are analyzed using Sonic Visualiser, as this software produces clear and easy-to-read spectrograms, and some are analyzed with Audacity, as this program offers a plot spectrum function that allows the user to access frequency analysis. Following my personal experimentation, I test the use of the spectrogram with a flute student in virtual lessons. After analyzing the resulting data, I present a summary of conclusions with the aim of guiding flute students in the use of the spectrogram. This method proposes the implementation of the spectrogram as a supplementary approach meant to be used in combination with the traditional flute pedagogy.
Exploring the Relationship between Higher Education Students’ Prior English Proficiency, Academic English Self-efficacy and Online Engagement
Creators: name: Yii, Karen Kei Lin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This study examined the relationship between Malaysian pre-university students’ Prior English Proficiency, Academic English Self-efficacy and their Online Engagement using a mixed-method approach. Quantitative results showed a moderate positive correlation among all variables, but no mediating effects of Prior English Proficiency and Academic English Self-efficacy were found. In addition, qualitative findings indicated that students from different English proficiency levels had similar interaction experiences with peers, instructors and content with minor differences. The results suggest that all students regardless of English proficiency, can benefit from high levels of interaction, providing valuable insights for students, higher education institutions, educators and course designers.
The absence of an environmental dependence in the mass-metallicity relation at z = 2
Creators: name: Kacprzak, Glenn
name: Yuan, Tiantian
name: Nanayakkara, Themiya
name: Kobayashi, Chiaki
name: Tran, Kim-Vy H.
name: Kewley, Lisa J.
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Spitler, Lee
name: Taylor, Philip
name: Cowley, Michael
name: Labbe, Ivo
name: Straatman, Caroline
name: Tomczak, Adam
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 510103
subject: Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy

description: We investigate the environmental dependence of the mass-metallicity relation at z = 2 with MOSFIRE/Keck as part of the ZFIRE survey. Here, we present the chemical abundance of a Virgo-like progenitor at z = 2.095 that has an established red sequence. We identified 43 cluster (〈z〉 = 2.095 ± 0.004 ) and 74 field galaxies (〈z〉 = 2.195 ± 0.083) for which we can measure metallicities. For the first time, we show that there is no discernible difference between the mass-metallicity relation of field and cluster galaxies to within 0.02 dex. Both our field and cluster galaxy mass-metallicity relations are consistent with recent field galaxy studies at z ∼ 2 . We present hydrodynamical simulations for which we derive mass-metallicity relations for field and cluster galaxies. We find at most a 0.1 dex offset toward more metal-rich simulated cluster galaxies. Our results from both simulations and observations suggest that environmental effects, if present, are small and are secondary to the ongoing inflow and outflow processes that are governed by galaxy halo mass.
Androgen independent epithelial cells of the rat ventral prostate.
Creators: name: Montpetit, Michael L.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery.

description: The human prostate is a secondary sexual organ that requires an uninterrupted supply of androgens to maintain structural and functional integrity of androgen dependent epithelial cells. Eventual failure of hormonal therapies for prostate cancer is often attributed to the presence of androgen independent epithelial cells in the tumor. Using the rat ventral prostate as a model of the human prostate, we have isolated and characterized an androgen independent epithelial cell population present in the normal rat ventral prostate. These cells grow very quickly and have been termed Rapidly-Dividing Epithelial (RDE) cells. The RDE cells are completely independent of androgens for cell survival and do not secrete the androgen dependent secretory proteins, secretory acid phosphatase and prostate steroid binding protein. The epithelial cell origin of RDE cells was confirmed by cytokeratin expression, testosterone metabolism patterns and by purification parameters. Culture with various differentiation-inducing agents resulted in major morphological changes and structures reminiscent of those in the mature prostate but not in the expression of androgen-dependent secretory products. RDE cells demonstrate a very high in-vitro propensity for transformation yet no tumor growth in-vivo. None of the ten common "immortalizing" proto-oncogenes tested were expressed. RDE cells appear to be the rat counterpart to androgen-independent epithelial cells which cause renewed tumor growth in prostate cancer patients treated by hormonal therapies.
Sustainable Management of Metasequoia glyptostroboides Plantation Forests in Shanghai
Creators: name: Zheng, Ji
name: Blanco, Juan A.
name: Wei, Xiaohua
name: Liu, Chunjiang
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Urban forestry is increasingly used as a tool for climate change mitigation and for providing environmental services to inhabitants of urban areas. However, tree species used in urban forestry are usually different from the ones used in commercial forestry. As a consequence, available data on growth and yield under alternative management scenarios are usually scarce. As forest models can be used to explore potential forest futures, they are of special interest as decision-support tools in urban forestry. In this research, we used the FORECAST ecosystem-level forest model to define the management prescriptions for Metasequoia glyptostroboides plantations in Shanghai that reach the highest net primary productivity (NPP). In a first step, a battery of different stand densities (from 500 to 4000 stems ha⁻¹) was used to identify those with the highest NPP at stand level. Then, different thinning regimes (with intensities ranging from 15% to 40% of trees removed and applied at stand age 5 to 20 years) were simulated on those initial densities with the highest NPP (3000 and 4000 stems ha⁻¹). Planting 4000 stems ha⁻¹ and not applying thinning achieved the highest annual NPP (14.39 ± 3.92 Mg ha⁻¹ yr⁻¹) during the first rotation, but it was not significantly different from the NPP achieved with the same initial density but thinning 40% of trees at year 10. NPP was estimated to decrease with consecutive rotations, and for the second rotation thinning was needed to significantly increase NPP (10.11 ± 2.59 Mg ha⁻¹ yr⁻¹ with 4000 stems ha⁻¹ and 25% thinning at year 10) above non-thinning management. For the third rotation, the highest NPP was reached with initial density 3000 stems ha⁻¹ and 25% thinning at year 10. Nitrogen flows were also estimated to decrease with consecutive rotations. These results indicate the potential of managing M. glyptostroboides urban plantations to reach their maximum productivity potential, but also that additional actions would be needed to ensure adequate nutrient levels over consecutive rotations. For a species such as M. glyptostroboides, which was discovered for science less than 70 years ago and for which no plantations over 50 years exist, the ecosystem-level FORECAST model has been shown as a suitable tool to support management decision when growth and yield data are not available.
Spin wave dynamics in non-trivial magnetic geometries
Creators: name: Hu, Kwangyul
Publisher: name: University of Iowa
Year: 2022
Subjects: LLG equation
Magnonics
Spin waves
Topological Insulators
public abstract

description: Magnonics is a sub-field of spintronics to study spin waves and their quanta magnons. It has been one of the fastest growing fields for data transport applications due to low loss of energy, broad range of frequency, small device size and realization of wave based computation system. To construct magnonic devices, it is essential to understand their behavior in various magnetic geometries. In this paper, we describe spin wave dynamics in non-trivial magnetic geometries by employing both analytical calculations and numerical simulations based on the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert(LLG) equation.
description: Using analytical calculations, we first calculate magnon dispersion relations and spin wave profiles of a fundamental magnonic structure, a 1D magnonic crystal. By solving the LLG equation with a linear approximation and with plane wave, we describe spin wave dynamics in heterostructures and surface modulated magnonic crystals. Furthermore, we display how the magnon band structures are affected by the orientation of the external static magnetic field.
description: Next, we numerically simulate spin wave excitations in finite magnetic structures. We obtain spin wave spectra and magnetization profiles of a rectangular bar and a disk by employing free micromagnetic simulation software. Furthermore, we analyze how surface defects affect localized spin wave excitations and explain the effects by examining the inhomogeneity of the demagnetization field. We also calculate the magnetic fringe fields generated by spin wave excitation in the magnetic disk.
description: We then describe the band topology of heterostructure 1D magnonic crystals polarized by an out-of-plane magnetic field. Using second quantization and the LLG equation, we show that the topological phase transitions can be realized by changing the material in two ways: changing the magnetic properties or changing the heterostructure lattice thickness. Numerical simulations show the existence of topologically protected edge states. We show the bulk-boundary correspondence in this system using the relations between the Zak phases, spin wave parities and edge state presence.
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Stellar mass functions by Hubble type
Creators: name: Kelvin, Lee S.
name: Driver, Simon P.
name: Robotham, Aaron S G
name: Taylor, Edward
name: Graham, Alister
name: Alpaslan, Mehmet
name: Baldry, Ivan
name: Bamford, Steven P.
name: Bauer, Amanda E.
name: Bland-Hawthorn, Joss
name: Brown, Michael J I
name: Colless, Matthew
name: Conselice, Christopher J.
name: Holwerda, Benne W.
name: Hopkins, Andrew M.
name: Lara-López, Maritza A.
name: Liske, Jochen
name: López-Sánchez, Ángel R.
name: Loveday, Jon
name: Norberg, Peder
name: Phillipps, Steven
name: Popescu, Cristina C.
name: Prescott, Matthew
name: Sansom, Anne E.
name: Tuffs, Richard J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present an estimate of the galaxy stellar mass function and its division by morphological type in the local (0.025 < z < 0.06) Universe. Adopting robust morphological classifications as previously presented (Kelvin et al.) for a sample of 3,727 galaxies taken from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey, we define a local volume and stellar mass limited sub-sample of 2,711 galaxies to a lower stellar mass limit of M = 10^9.0 M_sun. We confirm that the galaxy stellar mass function is well described by a double Schechter function given by M* = 10^10.64 M_sun, {alpha}1 = -0.43, {phi}*1 = 4.18 dex^-1 Mpc^-3, {alpha}2 = -1.50 and {phi}*2 = 0.74 dex^-1 Mpc^-3. The constituent morphological-type stellar mass functions are well sampled above our lower stellar mass limit, excepting the faint little blue spheroid population of galaxies. We find approximately 71+3-4% of the stellar mass in the local Universe is found within spheroid dominated galaxies; ellipticals and S0-Sas. The remaining 29+4-3% falls predominantly within late type disk dominated systems, Sab-Scds and Sd-Irrs. Adopting reasonable bulge-to-total ratios implies that approximately half the stellar mass today resides in spheroidal structures, and half in disk structures. Within this local sample, we find approximate stellar mass proportions for E: S0-Sa: Sab-Scd: Sd-Irr of 34: 37: 24: 5.
Canadian literary pilgrimage: From colony to post-nation
Creators: name: Ganz, Shoshannah
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Literature, Canadian (English).
subject: Canadian Studies.

description: This thesis establishes the presence of pilgrimage in Canadian literature as reflective of Canadian cultural and global changes. It shows the enduring archetypal characteristics of pilgrimage from the earliest pre-Confederation travel writing to contemporary and postmodern novels. The topic of Canadian literary pilgrimage allows for an eclectic and necessarily multi-disciplinary approach and also for the study of the earliest Canadian letters and contemporary novelists, as well as for a breadth of forms, including journals, letters, archival sermons, dramatic works, poetry, and contemporary Canadian novels. Chapter one begins with the cultural figure of Brebeuf as pilgrim first in The Jesuit Relations (1632-1673), proceeds to E. J. Pratt's long-poem Brebeuf and his Brethren (1940), on-site research at the memorial to Brebeuf in Midland, Ontario, and concludes with the post-colonial revisiting of this figure in James W. Nichol's dramatic work, Saint-Marie Among the Hurons (1980), and in Brian Moore's Black Robe (1985). Chapter two turns to Oliver Goldsmith's The Rising Village and explores Protestant pilgrimage, marking the material and spiritual progress of that pilgrimage. The thesis then looks at Goldsmith's work in conjunction with the influential sermons and journals of Bishop John Inglis of Nova Scotia. Chapter three follows pilgrimage into more contemporary works in Robertson Davies' Fifth Business and Jane Urquhart's The Stone Carvers, incorporating post-structuralist discussions of the nomad as pilgrim or anti-pilgrim figure and the implications of homelessness to the pilgrimage paradigm. Chapters four and five analyze Richard B. Wright's The Age of Longing and Clara Callan, and Timothy Findley's The Butterfly Plague and Headhunter, which are explored in light of some of Jacques Derrida's writing and the critical utopian studies of Ernst Bloch.
A mouse-attenuated, temperature-sensitive mutant of Pichinde virus: In vivo and in vitro characterization.
Creators: name: Gruber, Heidi.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Biology, Microbiology.

description: Pichinde virus belongs to the arenavirus family, which harbours several serious human pathogens. This work was performed in order to investigate the basis for the mouse-attenuated phenotype of a temperature sensitive mutant of Pichinde, and to identify potential genetic changes responsible. Since arenaviruses demonstrate a tropism for monocytes and macrophages, the ability of the mutant, ts13, to replicate in tissues enriched for these cells was assessed. Compared to the wild type (wt) parental virus, the mutant ts13 displayed markedly reduced replication in resident peritoneal cells (RPC) from infected mice, in both the macrophage-rich adherent population, and the non-adherent population, which is a mixture of monocytes and lymphocytes. This indicated that reduced growth in macrophages may be involved in the reduced growth of ts13 in vivo. This was further supported by the observation that the replication of ts13 was also limited in a macrophage cell line, and in RPC infected in vitro. Investigations such as those described here will provide valuable information regarding mechanisms of arenavirus attenuation, and the genetic changes required to limit growth and virulence. Ultimately, this will be of use in the design of effective arenaviral vaccines, which will become imperative in the midst of new and emerging arenaviral pathogens. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Le libéralisme et les courants idéologiques au Canada français : de la fin des rébellions des patriotes de 1837 à la période entourant l'avènement de la Confédération canadienne de 1867.
Creators: name: Ouellet, Bernard.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.

description: Cette these se veut une analyse du portrait ideologique de la societe canadienne-francaise, de l'epoque 1837-1867, souvent qualifiee de traditionnelle et principalement dominee par un esprit clerical conservateur. Ce travail remet en cause cette approche et presente plutot un Canada francais impregne d'un courant liberal rattache a un contexte national tres particulier. Suivant une presentation du liberalisme au Canada francais a cette epoque sous deux angles particuliers, soit celui de Etienne Parent et celui des Rouges, l'auteur se rapporte aux ecrits de trois personnages dominants au cours de la meme periode, soit Francois-Xavier Garneau, Francois-Edme Rameau de Saint-Pere et Monseigneur Ignace Bourget. A partir de l'oeuvre, des ecrits ou de certaines critiques faites sur ces personnages, l'auteur presente une interpretation ideologique originale s'inspirant d'un courant revisionniste contemporain, qui met en relief une presence liberale trop souvent negligee.
title: Different Teams, Same Conclusions?
title: A Systematic Review of Existing Clinical Guidelines for the Assessment and Treatment of Tinnitus in Adults
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Fuller, Thomas E.
name: Haider, Haula F.
name: Kikidis, Dimitris
name: Lapira, Alec
name: Mazurek, Birgit
name: Norena, Arnaud
name: Rabau, Sarah
name: Brueggemann, Petra G. [U.V.A.]
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: tinnitus
subject: clinical guidelines
subject: assessment
subject: treatment
subject: systematic review
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Though clinical guidelines for assessment and treatment of chronic subjective tinnitus do exist, a comprehensive review of those guidelines has not been performed. The objective of this review was to identify current clinical guidelines, and compare their recommendations for the assessment and treatment of subjective tinnitus in adults. Method: We systematically searched a range of sources for clinical guidelines (as defined by the Institute of Medicine, United States) for the assessment and/or treatment of subjective tinnitus in adults. No restrictions on language or year of publication were applied to guidelines. Results: Clinical guidelines from Denmark, Germany, Sweden, The Netherlands, and the United States were included in the review. There was a high level of consistency across the guidelines with regard to recommendations for audiometric assessment, physical examination, use of a validated questionnaire(s) to assess tinnitus related distress, and referral to a psychologist when required. Cognitive behavioral treatment for tinnitus related distress, use of hearing aids in instances of hearing loss and recommendations against the use of medicines were consistent across the included guidelines. Differences between the guidelines centered on the use of imaging in assessment procedures and sound therapy as a form of treatment for tinnitus distress respectively. Conclusion: Given the level of commonality across tinnitus guidelines from different countries the development of a European guideline for the assessment and treatment of subjective tinnitus in adults seems feasible. This guideline would have the potential to benefit the large number of clinicians in countries where clinical guidelines do not yet exist, and would support standardization of treatment for patients across Europe.
Investigating alternative methods to recover level-2 covariates in multilevel models
Creators: name: Dilek, Ismail
Publisher: name: University of Iowa
Year: 2022
Subjects: Multilevel Modeling
reliability correction
sampling error correction
public abstract

description: Hierarchical data is often observed in education data. Analyzing such data with Multilevel Modeling becomes crucial to understanding the relationship at the individual and group levels. However, one of the most significant problems with this kind of data is small sample sizes and very low Intraclass Correlations. The multivariate Latent Covariate Model is often accepted as the gold standard for analyzing hierarchically structured data. However, previous studies showed that this model did not work very well under the abovementioned conditions. This dissertation aimed to address two research questions around this situation.
description: The first research question intended to show how the Multilevel Latent Covariate Model worked under these conditions via a simulation study and a real data application. The second research question suggested six new candidate models as an alternative to the Multilevel Latent Covariate Model. The performances of all candidate models were assessed using the same simulation study and the real data application.
description: Raw bias, Root Mean Squared Error, Standard Error Ratio, Type 1 error rate, and Power were used to compare the feasibility of the candidate models while analyzing the multilevel data with low intraclass correlation and very small level-1 sample sizes. The results showed that the alternative candidate models outperformed the gold standard.
Use of satellite imagery to estimate global mortality attributable to fine particulate air pollution
Creators: name: Evans, Jessica
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Epidemiology.

description: Background: Studies assessing the effects of air pollution on health have traditionally relied upon ground-monitoring stations to measure ambient concentrations. Use of satellite derived air pollution measures poses the advantage of providing global coverage. Objective: To undertake a global assessment of mortality associated with chronic exposure to fine particulate air pollution using remote sensory data. Methods: Global PM2.5 exposure levels were derived from MODIS and MISR satellite instruments. Relative risks and attributable fractions of mortality were modelled using previously developed concentration-response functions for the association between PM2.5 and mortality. Results: The global fraction of adult mortality attributable to the anthropogenic component of PM2.5 was 4.5% (95% confidence interval: 2.9-6.0) for cardiopulmonary disease, 5.6% (2.5-8.3) for lung cancer, and 8.2% (5.6-10.4) for ischemic heart disease. Conclusion: This study demonstrated that it is feasible to use satellite derived pollution concentrations in a global assessment of mortality and air pollution.
Hospitalizations due to unintentional transport injuries among Aboriginal population of British Columbia, Canada : Incidence, changes over time and ecological analysis of risk markers
Creators: name: Brussoni, Mariana
name: George, M. Anne
name: Jin, Andrew
name: Amram, Ofer
name: McCormick, Rod
name: Lalonde, Christopher E.
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science
Year: 2021

description: Background Worldwide, Indigenous people have disproportionately higher rates of transport injuries. We examined disparities in injury-related hospitalizations resulting from transport incidents for three population groups in British Columbia (BC): total population, Aboriginal off-reserve, and Aboriginal on-reserve populations. We also examined sociodemographic, geographic and ethnic risk markers for disparities. Methods We identified Aboriginal people through BC’s universal health care insurance plan insurance premium group and birth and death record notations. We calculated crude incidence rate and Standardized Relative Risk (SRR) of hospitalization for unintentional transport injury, standardized for age, gender and Health Service Delivery Area (HSDA), relative to the total population of BC. We tested hypothesized associations of geographic, socio-economic, and employment-related characteristics of Aboriginal communities with SRR of transport injury by multivariable linear regression.
The Criminological Imagination: Mills, Reflexive Analysis, & Richard Wright's "Native Son"
Creators: name: Piamonte, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Literature, American.
subject: Sociology, Criminology and Penology.

description: The promise of Mills's (1959) classic sociological imagination for criminology is revisited and assumptions about the adequacy and usefulness of fiction in terms of its analytical and explanatory potential are challenged. The criminological imagination, as a quality of mind, analytic framework and method of knowledge production, provides an ideal meta-framework with which to consider fiction. The theories of Jack Katz (1988) and the symbolic interactionists further develop Mills's concept of biography, while the Birmingham School (Clarke, Hall, Jefferson, & Roberts, 2006) expands on Mills's concept of society; integrating these within the meta-framework of the criminological imagination produces a reflexive analysis of Native Son, a classic novel by Richard Wright (2005). In so doing, fiction is demonstrated to be a legitimate object of criminological inquiry that challenges criminological conventions, clarifies and critiques criminological concepts, and creates and communicates criminological knowledge.
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Creators: name: Har-Gil, Hagai
name: Golgher, Lior
name: Israel, Shai
name: Kain, David
name: Cheshnovsky, Ori
name: Parnas, Moshe
name: Blinder, Pablo
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document
title: Manufacturing the mill girl
title: working-class white women’s bodies in New England factory literature, 1830-1860
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Baron, Kassie Jo
Publisher: name: University of Iowa
Year: 2026
Subjects: Labor History
Nineteenth-Century Literature
Women's Writing
Working-class Literature
Working-class Women
American Literature
Women's Studies

description: The figure of the New England mill girl loomed large in American literary imagination during the first industrial revolution. Between 1830 and 1860, social reformers, literary and medical professionals, as well as politicians and journalists positioned the bodies of white, working-class, female operatives in New England’s textile mills as vehicles for social, political, and economic anxieties produced by industrialization. Proceeding from the work of Judith Ranta, Thomas Dublin, and Lori Merish, I examine a rhetorical field of print narratives and images that reveal prevailing social anxieties that emerge in carefully crafted life-narratives and recurring female characters. In conjunction with U.S. national and regional social change, during a period of rapid industrialization, the mill girl was mythologized in 19th-century print media. Factory owners and investors, who supported young women’s employment in New England manufactories, framed the life-narrative of the mill girl as one of healthful progress to assure readers that a factory town would refine farmers’ daughters into mature, genteel ladies. By contrast, opponents of female factory employment narrated factory life as a story of bodily damage, degeneration, and death as drinking, dancing, fashion, and sex destroyed the bodies of naïve young women. Within this narrative and rhetorical field, however, female operatives themselves became writers. This dissertation deploys a newly interpreted archive of illustrated periodicals, novels, and scientific writings to reveal how female operatives found ways to navigate between extremes in their own writings, articulating their own stories and forms of embodied selfhood, within and against the surrounding ideological field.
Maniuplated Eight Scenarios-Based Stimuli (The Gluckschmerz Effect of Ad Sponsorship in Displeasing Sports Replays: IJA Review) - Anonymized Version
Creators: name: Kim, Jaemin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 350604
subject: Marketing communications

description: This document includes scenario-based stimuli used in 'The Gluckschmerz Effect of Ad Sponsorship in Displeasing Sports Replays'
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Creators: name: Bauer, Uta
name: Hertel, Martina
name: Buchmann, Lisa
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Fußgängerverkehr
subject: Stadtplanung
subject: Stadtverkehr
subject: Fußverkehr
subject: Fußverkehrsstrategie
subject: aktive Mobilität
subject: Stadtverkehrsplanung
subject: Verkehr

description: Wer zu Fuß geht, tut Gutes für seine Gesundheit, spart Geld und schont die Umwelt. Überdies ist die Stärkung der aktiven Mobilität ein wichtiger Baustein für eine erfolgreiche Verkehrswende und nachhaltige Mobilität in der Stadt. Trotzdem wird der Fußverkehr in Deutschland bisher stiefmütterlich behandelt. Städte und Gemeinden, in deren Zuständigkeit sich der Fußverkehr grundlegend befindet, wünschen sich ein klares Bekenntnis des Bundes zur Förderung des Fußverkehrs. Der ⁠UBA⁠-TEXTE Band zeigt auf, wie eine Bundesweite Fußverkehrsstrategie zur Stärkung des Fußverkehrs beitragen könnte. Sie führt aus welche Defizite es auszuräumen gilt, zeigt auf welche Zielstellungen angestrebt werden sollten und wo die entsprechenden Handlungsfelder liegen.
Blast loading of a cylindrical shell panel.
Creators: name: Ketabi, Mohammad.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Mechanical.

description: The present study is concerned with the dynamic behaviour of a shallow steel cylindrical shell subjected to an explosive blast. Although powerful numerical methods, such as the finite element method exist for the investigation of a multitude of problems in structural mechanics, a closed-form analytical method provides the researcher with a faster, cheaper, versatile and more practical tool of analysis. An analytical solution based on the Galerkin-Vlasov variational principle applied to the Donnell-Mushtari equations of motion is developed, with trial functions taken as the products of beam functions. This work represents the first use of this approach to time response problems in shell analysis for a wide variety of boundary conditions. Independent confirmation of the analytical method is provided by the finite element program ADINA. The effects of curvatures upon the linear dynamic response of sixteen types of support conditions are determined. A comparative study is carried out on the effect of removal of support conditions on the curved boundaries, in the linear and nonlinear domains, with numerical data provided by the ADINA program.
Galaxy cluster mass reconstruction project-I. methods and first results on galaxy-based techniques
Creators: name: Old, L.
name: Skibba, R. A.
name: Pearce, F. R.
name: Croton, Darren
name: Muldrew, S. I.
name: Muñoz-Cuartas, J. C.
name: Gifford, D.
name: Gray, M. E.
name: von der Linden, A.
name: Mamon, G. A.
name: Merrifield, M. R.
name: Müller, V.
name: Pearson, R. J.
name: Ponman, T. J.
name: Saro, A.
name: Sepp, T.
name: Sifón, C.
name: Tempel, E.
name: Tundo, E.
name: Wang, Y. O.
name: Wojtak, R.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper is the first in a series in which we perform an extensive comparison of various galaxy-based cluster mass estimation techniques that utilize the positions, velocities and colours of galaxies. Our primary aim is to test the performance of these cluster mass estimation techniques on a diverse set of models that will increase in complexity. We begin by providing participating methods with data from a simple model that delivers idealized clusters, enabling us to quantify the underlying scatter intrinsic to these mass estimation techniques. The mock catalogue is based on a Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) model that assumes spherical Navarro, Frenk and White (NFW) haloes truncated at R200, with no substructure nor colour segregation, and with isotropic, isothermal Maxwellian velocities. We find that, above 10(14)M⊙, recovered cluster masses are correlated with the true underlying cluster mass with an intrinsic scatter of typically a factor of 2. Below 10(14)M⊙, the scatter rises as the number of member galaxies drops and rapidly approaches an order of magnitude. We find that richness-based methods deliver the lowest scatter, but it is not clear whether such accuracy may simply be the result of using an over-simplistic model to populate the galaxies in their haloes. Even when given the true cluster membership, large scatter is observed for the majority non-richness-based approaches, suggesting that mass reconstruction with a low number of dynamical tracers is inherently problematic.
I am your jar
Creators: name: Dean, Dorian
Publisher: name: University of Iowa
Year: 2022
Subjects: public abstract

description: The topic of my thesis is the exploration of record and its role in documenting temporary arrangements. With an emphasis on process, the act of recording is essential to capturing the ephemeral nature of the work. Record in this context means: photography, video, drawing, and writing as it preserves and contributes to the making of the work.
description: The term “arrangement” comes from the tradition of arranging flowers through touch, feel, a kind of intuition that is a form of mark-making through the arrangement of things that were once living in the world. Always in response to the specific space, the arrangements are an improvisation within the tight restraints of the borrowed space and time. The event of the installation creates the opportunity for intense production and focus as it happens all at once, the simultaneous and ongoing making and recording.
TARMOQ XAVFSIZLIGIGA BO'LADIGAN TAHDIDLAR TAHLILI
Creators: name: Tursunov, Bekzod
name: Abdusalomov, Abdulkhay
name: Xayrillaxo'jayev, Ismoilxo'ja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqolada tarmoqda buladigan xujumlar va kompyuter һujumlarining bosһqa turlari ta’siridagi zararli viruslar va taһdidlarning manbalarini aniqlasһ ma’lumotlarni yo‘qotilisһi yoki o‘zgartirilisһi oldini olish chora tadbirlari tahlil qilndi.
MESH TOPOLOGIYASI ASOSIDA QURILGAN TARMOQLARDA AXBOROT XAVFSIZLIGINI TA'MINLASHNING TAKOMILLASHTIRILGAN MODELI
Creators: name: Tursunov, Bekzod
name: Abdusalomov, Abdulkhay
name: Xayrillaxo'jayev, Ismoilxo'ja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqolada tarmoqda buladigan xujumlar va kompyuter һujumlarining bosһqa turlari ta’siridagi zararli viruslar va taһdidlarning manbalarini aniqlasһ ma’lumotlarni yo‘qotilisһi yoki o‘zgartirilisһi oldini olish chora tadbirlari tahlil qilndi.
3500894.pdf
Creators: name: Lu, Hsuan-Hao
name: Lukens, Joseph
name: Peters, Nicholas
name: Williams, Brian
name: Weiner, Andrew
name: Lougovski, Pavel
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1: Details on the experimental setup, theoretical predictions, and calculations of the visibility, entanglement witness, and density matrix
Transfers from intensive care unit to hospital ward: a multicentre textual analysis of physician progress notes
Creators: name: Brown, Kyla N.
name: Leigh, Jeanna P.
name: Kamran, Hasham
name: Bagshaw, Sean M.
name: Fowler, Rob A.
name: Dodek, Peter M.
name: Turgeon, Alexis F.
name: Forster, Alan J.
name: Lamontagne, Francois
name: Soo, Andrea
name: Stelfox, Henry T.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Background: Little is known about documentation during transitions of patient care between clinical specialties. Therefore, we examined the focus, structure and purpose of physician progress notes for patients transferred from the intensive care unit (ICU) to hospital ward to identify opportunities to improve communication breaks. Methods: This was a prospective cohort study in ten Canadian hospitals. We analyzed physician progress notes for consenting adult patients transferred from a medical-surgical ICU to hospital ward. The number, length, legibility and content of notes was counted and compared across care settings using mixed-effects linear regression models accounting for clustering within hospitals. Qualitative content analyses were conducted on a stratified random sample of 32 patients. Results: A total of 447 patient medical records that included 7052 progress notes (mean 2.1 notes/patient/day 95% CI 1.9–2.3) were analyzed. Notes written by the ICU team were significantly longer than notes written by the ward team (mean lines of text 21 vs. 15, p < 0.001). There was a discrepancy between documentation of patient issues in the last ICU and first ward notes; mean agreement of patient issues was 42% [95% CI 31–53%]. Qualitative analyses identified eight themes related to focus (central point – e.g., problem list), structure (organization, – e.g., note-taking style), and purpose (intention – e.g., documentation of patient course) of the notes that varied across clinical specialties and physician seniority. Conclusions: Important gaps and variations in written documentation during transitions of patient care between ICU and hospital ward physicians are common, and include discrepancies in documentation of patient information.
Broadcast regulation in the broadband era: licensing and content regulation
Creators: name: Lindsay, David
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The final report of the Convergence Review, which was released in April 2012, makes radical recommendations for reforming existing broadcasting regulation, essentially by proposing a convergent regulatory regime, that regulates communications content regardless of the platform by which that content is delivered. This article explains and analyses the recommendations of the Convergence Review - and of the associated reviews of the classification system by the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) and of the regulation of news and commentary by the Independent Media Inquiry (IMI) - as they relate to broadcast licensing and content regulation. In doing so, the article claims that the recommendations made by the Convergence Review are seriously compromised by the inadequate analytical framework applied by the Review. In particular, the article argues that the claimed benefits of a platform-neutral approach to regulating communications content are belied by the detail of the proposed regulatory regime, which necessarily means that difficult regulatory distinctions must be drawn between different content. In any event, the most important consideration to be applied in developing a new regulatory regime is to ensure that regulation appropriately and effectively deals with the regulatory objectives sought to be achieved. This does not mean automatically applying a form of convergent regulation, especially when differences between different kinds of content or services mandate different regulatory treatment. As the Convergence Review has neither paid sufficient attention to these potential differences, nor engaged in sufficient analysis of the objectives of regulating communications services, the article concludes that the recommendations of the Review should not be implemented without further independent analysis.
La representación de la soldadera en el arte y la literatura de México : el caso de Como agua para chocolate.
Creators: name: Collins, Stacey Ann.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Literature, Latin American.

description: The following study deals with the soldaderas of the Mexican Revolution (1910--1917). Chapter one examines the relationship between the feminine discourse and the masculine discourse with regards to the participation of the soldaderas in the Revolution and how the latter, the dominant discourse, has served to marginalize the former. In chapter two, we analyze the influence of patriarchal discourse in the representation of the soldadera in artistic forms such as the corrido , painting, film and literature. Chapter three focuses on the representation of the soldadera in Como agua para chocolate (1989) by Mexican author Laura Esquivel. The focus here is on the author's use of sub-literary forms intended for mass consumption and her construction of images that challenge the stereotypical images of the soldadera discussed in the previous chapters.