cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The UNEP Regional Seas Programme: A critical analysis of programme evaluation capacity
Creators: name: Christie, Shannon M
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Geography.

description: The United Nations Environment Programme's Regional Seas Programme (RSP) is one of many international regimes for the protection and management of the marine and coastal environment. However, the literature suggests that this programme has, above others, attracted numerous accolades. Notably, the RSP has been referred to as "the jewel in UNEP's crown". Absent from this literature is evaluation based evidence to corroborate such declarations. The complexity of the evaluation science literature necessitates the creation of a three-part Model of Evaluation Science to capture recurring themes and concerns. The first part presents a typology of evaluation forms. The second part details the generic steps involved in the policy and programme evaluation process. The third part decants a set of key barriers and challenges to conducting evaluation. The Model is tested through a diagnostic field study in the case study of the Caribbean RSP. Evidence obtained from Content Analysis of the literature and Key Informant Interviews with strategically-placed personnel at the Caribbean Regional Co-ordinating Unit, indicates that capacity does not exist to evaluate the RSP's impacts on the state of the environment. As such, the Model is used to examine the state of programme evaluation capacity. Data obtained from the Interviews is presented as a set of "actual" capacity conditions, contrasted with the ideal or "expected" conditions provided by the tenets of the Model. Finally, the thesis concludes by passing judgment on the "jewel in the crown" declaration, and presents a set of recommendations to strengthen evaluation capacity in the Wider Caribbean Region.
Gammanema Cobb 1920
Creators: name: Leduc, Daniel
name: Zhao, Zeng Qi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Nematoda
Chromadorea
Chromadorida
Selachinematidae
Gammanema

description: Genus Gammanema Cobb, 1920
= Trogolaimus Cobb, 1920
Type species
Gammanema ferox Cobb, 1920.
Diagnosis (from Tchesunov et al. 2020)
Cuticle with homogenous annulations, without longitudinal ridges or lateral differentiation. Six inner and six outer labial sensilla, either setose or papillose; four cephalic setae, often slender and longer; outer labial and cephalic sensilla often combined in common circle of 10, with dorso- and ventrosublateral sensilla arranged in four pairs with cephalic sensilla. Amphidial fovea spiral or loop-shaped, usually noticeably larger in males than in females. Somatic setae in irregular longitudinal rows; anterior cervical setae may be as long as cephalic setae. Mouth opening surrounded by partly fused lips shaping a circumoral membrane with fine longitudinal striation. Twelve projections, from small and inconspicuous to prominent and elaborate, at rim of mouth opening. Buccal cavity (pharyngostome) with two chambers, anterior cup-shaped and posterior cylindrical; walls of each chamber strengthened with three cuticularized rhabdions; rhabdions of anterior chamber terminate posteriorly in minute denticles. Pharynx cylindroids, evenly muscular and devoid of terminal bulb.Alimentary tract terminates by rectum and anus. Precloacal midventral supplementary organs sucker-like, cup-shaped, tubular, or absent. Tail short, conical, cuticle of its terminal cone levigated or smooth.
Remarks
The genus was revised by Tchesunov et al. (2020), who also provided a pictorial key to valid species. Prior to this study, 14 species were considered valid, while three (G. ferox Cobb, 1920, G. menzelii (Ditlevsen, 1918) Gerlach, 1964 and G. rapax (Ssaweljev, 1912) Gerlach 1964) are considered species inquirendae (Tchesunov et al. 2020). Gammanema rapax was considered as dubious by Murphy (1965) because the original description lacks illustrations and type specimens are evidently lacking. This decision was ignored or overlooked in some subsequent taxonomic publications (e.g., Platt & Warwick 1988; Okhlopkov 2002; Ahmed et al. 2020) but was accepted in the recent review of Tchesunov et al. (2020).
description: Published as part of Leduc, Daniel & Zhao, Zeng Qi, 2025, Three new nematode species (Chromadorida: Selachinematidae) from the continental slope of New Zealand, pp. 119-143 in European Journal of Taxonomy 989 on page 133, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2889, http://zenodo.org/record/15316535
Clover Report, February 2023
Creators: name: Washington State University Skamania County Extension
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2023
Subjects: 4-H Club

description: Headlines include: Leader's Council, Volunteers Needed, 4honline enrollment, 2023 Skamania County Fair, Livestock Updates, Prairie Hatcher's Annual Poultry Show, ARBA Rabbit Show, FYS Club
Cardiac Migration of Endogenous Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in Patients with Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy
Creators: name: Schmidt-Lucke, Caroline
name: Escher, Felicitas
name: Linthout, Sophie Van
name: Kühl, Uwe
name: Miteva, Kapka
name: Ringe, Jochen
name: Zobel, Thomas
name: Schultheiss, Heinz-Peter
name: Tschöpe, Carsten
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften

description: Introduction. Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) have immunomodulatory features. The aim of this study was to investigate the migration and homing potential of endogenous circulating MSC in virus negative inflammatory cardiomyopathy (CMi). Methods. In 29 patients with or without CMi undergoing endomyocardial biopsies (EMB), transcardiac gradients (TCGs) of circulating MSC were measured by flow cytometry from blood simultaneously sampled from aorta and coronary sinus. The presence of MSC in EMB, cardiac inflammation, and SDF-1α mRNA expression were detected via immunohistochemistry and real-time PCR. Results. MSC defined as CD45−CD34−CD11b−CD73+CD90+ cells accounted for 0.010 [0.0025–0.048]%/peripheral mononuclear cell (PMNC) and as CD45−CD34−CD11b−CD73+CD105+ cells for 0.019 [0.0026–0.067]%/PMNC, both with similar counts in patients with or without cardiac inflammation. There was a 29.9% transcardiac reduction of circulating MSC in patients with CMi, correlating with the extent of cardiac inflammation (, multivariate analysis). A strong correlation was found between the TCG of circulating MSC and numbers of MSC (CD45−CD34−CD90+CD105+) in EMB (, ). SDF-1α was the strongest predictor for increased MSC in EMB (, multivariate analysis). Conclusions. Endogenous MSC continuously migrate to the heart in patients with CMi triggered by cardiac inflammation.
Global aggregate view selection in a peer warehousing system
Creators: name: Zou, Li
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: Selecting views to materialize is one of the most important decisions to make when designing a data warehouse. In a peer data warehouse design, this problem is more difficult than in a centralized data warehouse design since the costs of global communication, data transfer, and data transformation between peers need to be additionally considered for getting the final integrated global query answers. The objective of our work is to select optimal sets of materialized aggregate views on different peers in a peer data warehousing system such that the total cost of answering the global queries posted on the given peer and maintaining the materialized views is minimized. In this thesis, we develop a theoretical framework for analyzing and solving the P2P global materialized view (GMV) selection problem. We extend the concepts of Expression AND-DAG, query aggregation lattice, and cost model defined on centralized data warehouses to the peer data warehousing semantics. In our problem scope, P2P Expression AND-DAG and P2P query aggregation lattice are constructed dynamically. In our cost model, we take the data transfer costs between peers and global materialized view maintenance costs into consideration. Then we extend an existing centralized view selection greedy algorithm to solve our P2P view selection problem. We assume that peer data warehouse dimensions are consistent throughout the whole system. We also assume that there is only one instance of the P2P GMV selection algorithm executing in the P2P system. Finally, we simulate the P2P view selection algorithm. The simulation experiment results show that the query frequencies and the update frequencies of materialized views, as well as the data transfer rate have critical impacts on the final view selection results. Moreover, the longest path of the P2P network, the number of granularity levels in the global dimension lattice, and the number of data warehouse dimensions affect the P2P view selection algorithm processing time and the minimum combination cost of answering global queries and maintaining the materialized views.
Imagining the Infinite: The Evolution of Space in the American Visual Imagination
Creators: name: Mullen, Wyatt
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: College students' writings, space, technology, Space Race, science fiction, politics, rhetoric, visual imagination

description: This essay won or received an honorable mention for The Boothe Prize for excellence in first-year writing. The Boothe Prize recognizes and rewards outstanding expository and argumentative writing by undergraduate students in first-year classes that satisfy the WR 1 requirement. In each award-winning essay, student writers demonstrate clarity of argument, excellent integration of research-based evidence, and compelling prose style.
This essay reveals that for more than a century, the visual imagination of space in the United States has been entangled with the specific technologies through which we viewed and eventually traveled to it and with national political priorities. The author analyzes the rhetoric at play in a range of materials including the stories of Jules Verne, pulp fiction magazines of the late 1920s, Star Trek, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Star Wars, showing the specific fantasies and pragmatic goals at work within them.
Toward a world society?: An assessment of Barry Buzan's reconceptualization of the English School of International Relations
Creators: name: Villegas, Paul Norman Aragon
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Political Science, International Law and Relations.

description: The current international system has been in place since the Treaty of Westphalia. However, states are no longer the only actors in International Relations. Non-governmental organizations, multinational corporations and individuals also take the stage in international relations. This thesis will make use of the English School of International Relations and the reconceptualization of the School introduced by Barry Buzan in From International to World Society? because it offers richer explanatory possibilities for the interaction and role of both state and non-state actors. Using the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the United Nations HIV/AIDS Program (UNAIDS), this thesis will assess Buzan's new model and answer the question that the title of his book asks: Is International Society moving toward a World Society?
Wideband speech enhancement approaches using a Kalman filter and a perceptual post-filter
Creators: name: Delage, Frederic
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: This thesis discusses the issue of speech enhancement in the presence of white noise for wideband speech. Speech enhancement aims at improving one or more perceptual aspects of speech such as overall quality, intelligibility, or listener fatigue. For example, reducing the amount of background noise in an automatic recognition system might improve the speech recognition rate by a considerable amount improving the intelligibility for machine recognizers. Most speech enhancement algorithms have been developed and tested for conventional narrowband speech systems (sampling rate of 8 kHz). This thesis shows that some narrowband algorithms can be extended to be used for noise reduction in wideband speech applications (sampling rate of 16 kHz) by presenting a slightly modified Kalman filter based approach that uses a perceptual post-filter. The results are compared with the performance of other speech enhancement algorithms. The results show that the proposed method has a good potential for speech enhancement in wideband, especially in lower SNRs environments.
title: The Cost of Subway Delays
title: A Counterfactual Welfare Analysis of Boston’s T
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Dean, Adam
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2020

description: During the winter of 2015, large snowstorms in the northeast caused massive service delays on Boston’s subway, the T. The performance failure led to gubernatorial intervention that revealed that the subway’s parent organization, the MBTA, consistently skipped infrastructure maintenance and faced large organizational inefficiencies. The system’s infrastructure needs are in the context of bipartisan agreement that the nation’s infrastructure as a whole is deteriorating and needs large-scale capital upgrades. Despite near-universal agreement on the issue, remedies have not come as policymakers are largely unable to determine where funding will come from. As legislation is postponed and Bostonians continue to deal with service delays from inadequate infrastructure, they suffer economic losses. This paper quantifies these losses through a consumer logit model that calculates the difference in consumer surplus between the present MBTA reliability (88.47%) and a counterfactual reliability (95%). The estimation is the lower bound for true costs because it accounts only for the welfare of riders and not third parties (car drivers, employers, city planners, environmental effects, social equity effects). The results show that the short-term annual welfare difference is between $54 and $163 million.
China’s Selective Two-Child Policy Effects on Female Labor Market Outcomes
Creators: name: Yu, Ailu
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2023
Subjects: China
Cultural or Population Studies
Women or Minorities Labor Markets

description: Under the global concern of an aging population, policies aimed at increasing fertility rates in countries can potentially have negative impacts on female labor market outcomes. This study specifically examines the impact of China’s 2013 Selective Two-Child Policy on female labor force participation and income. Using the Difference-in-Difference (DID) method, both short-run analysis (2012 and 2014 dataset) and long-run analysis (2012, 2014, and 2016 datasets) consistently demonstrate that the policy had no significant effects on female labor participation and income. These results are robust under the restricted parallel trend assumption. My results are robust under the restricted parallel trend assumption. This finding suggests that China’s 2013 Selective Two-Child Policy may be ineffective in increasing fertility rate. Furthermore, the limited impact of childbearing on female income can be attributed to the substantial support provided by grandparents in childcare responsibilities.
Hemodynamic behavior of stentless aortic valves in long term follow-up
Creators: name: Christ, Torsten
name: Grubitzsch, Herko
name: Claus, Benjamin
name: Heinze, Georg
name: Dushe, Simon
name: Konertz, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Objectives Stentless aortic valve replacements show improved hemodynamics due to larger orifice area and lower transvalvular gradients in short and mid-term follow-up. Hemodynamic long-term behavior and the adaptation of the left ventricle as well as valve-durability in patients aged ≤60 years remains unclear. Methods 7 to 16 years after aortic valve replacement, 54 patients (mean age at operation 53.1 ± years) received echocardiography and clinical examination. Mean follow-up time was 10.8 ± 2.2 years. Evaluated were NYHA class, transvalvular gradients, estimated aortic valve orifice area, degree of aortic valve insufficiency, left ventricular mass and function. Results At follow-up only one patient presented with NYHA class III. All other patients were in NYHA class I or II. Maximum and mean pressure gradients of the prostheses were 16.3 ± 7.4 mmHg and 9.1 ± 4.2 mmHg, respectively. Compared to echocardiography at discharge the mean pressure gradients dropped 18.0% (2.0 ± 0.9 mmHg) and stayed stable until 14 years after the operation. Only 5 patients showed relevant regurgitation (at 13–16 years after valve replacement), 49 showed no or trivial regurgitation. Left ventricular mass had decreased 26.5% (107.9 ± 18.5 g). Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) had increased in most patients and decreased in only one. For patients with preoperatively impaired left ventricular function an increase of LVEF of 13.1 ± 3.1% was seen. Conclusion Porcine stentless aortic valves provide excellent hemodynamic long-term results without significant rise of transvalvular pressure gradients or relevant insufficiencies until 14 years after implantation, leading to sustained decrease of left ventricular mass and improvement of left ventricular function.
title: Quantitative motor assessment of muscular weakness in myasthenia gravis
title: a pilot study
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Sarah
name: Siedler, Jana
name: Brandt, Alexander U.
name: Piper, Sophie K.
name: Kohler, Siegfried
name: Sass, Christian
name: Paul, Friedemann
name: Reilmann, Ralf
name: Meisel, Andreas
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Myasthenia gravis
subject: Neurophysiology
subject: Case control studies
subject: Diagnostic tests
subject: Clinical trial
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Muscular weakness in myasthenia gravis (MG) is commonly assessed using Quantitative Myasthenia Gravis Score (QMG). More objective and quantitative measures may complement the use of clinical scales and might detect subclinical affection of muscles. We hypothesized that muscular weakness in patients with MG can be quantified with the non-invasive Quantitative Motor (Q-Motor) test for Grip Force Assessment (QGFA) and Involuntary Movement Assessment (QIMA) and that pathological findings correlate with disease severity as measured by QMG. Methods This was a cross-sectional pilot study investigating patients with confirmed diagnosis of MG. Data was compared to healthy controls (HC). Subjects were asked to lift a device (250 and 500 g) equipped with electromagnetic sensors that measured grip force (GF) and three- dimensional changes in position and orientation. These were used to calculate the position index (PI) and orientation index (OI) as measures for involuntary movements due to muscular weakness. Results Overall, 40 MG patients and 23 HC were included. PI and OI were significantly higher in MG patients for both weights in the dominant and non-dominant hand. Subgroup analysis revealed that patients with clinically ocular myasthenia gravis (OMG) also showed significantly higher values for PI and OI in both hands and for both weights. Disease severity correlates with QIMA performance in the non-dominant hand. Conclusion Q-Motor tests and particularly QIMA may be useful objective tools for measuring motor impairment in MG and seem to detect subclinical generalized motor signs in patients with OMG. Q-Motor parameters might serve as sensitive endpoints for clinical trials in MG.
Development of novel antimicrobial peptides
Creators: name: Shagaghi, Nadin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are evolutionarily conserved main effector molecules of the innate immune system of many organisms. Due to their wide-range of activities and low potential to develop resistance against them, AMPs offer ideal templates to design novel peptide-based antimicrobial agents that can effectively control drug-resistance pathogens. In this study, novel AMPs were designed based on the unique Trp-rich domain (TRD) of a wheat endosperm protein, puroindoline A (PINA) with improved activity and biocompatibility properties. The potency, efficacy and specificity of the designed peptides to microbial cells, including persistent pathogens such as bacterial biofilms and endospores, as well as their lack of haemolytic and toxicity activities toward mammalian cells indicates these peptides, which originate from a most common edible source (wheat), could be highly valuable in pharmaceutical, food and/or agriculture industries. Another dimension of this study was to investigate the mechanism of action of these PIN-based peptides at cellular and intracellular levels to properly exploit their use as novel and efficient antimicrobial agents.
Reliability of Single-Use PEEP-Valves Attached to Self-Inflating Bags during Manual Ventilation of Neonates – An In Vitro Study
Creators: name: Hartung, Julia C.
name: Wilitzki, Silke
name: Thio-Lluch, Marta
name: Pas, Arjan B. Te
name: Schmalisch, Gerd
name: Roehr, Charles C.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Introduction International resuscitation guidelines suggest to use positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) during manual ventilation of neonates. Aim of our study was to test the reliability of self-inflating bags (SIB) with single-use PEEP valves regarding PEEP delivery and the effect of different peak inflation pressures (PIP) and ventilation rates (VR) on the delivered PEEP. Methods Ten new single-use PEEP valves from 5 manufacturers were tested by ventilating an intubated 1kg neonatal manikin containing a lung model with a SIB that was actuated by an electromechanical plunger device. Standard settings: PIP 20cmH2O, VR 60/min, flow 8L/min. PEEP settings of 5 and 10cmH2O were studied. A second test was conducted with settings of PIP 40cmH2O and VR 40/min. The delivered PEEP was measured by a respiratory function monitor (CO2SMO+). Results Valves from one manufacturer delivered no relevant PEEP and were excluded. The remaining valves showed a continuous decay of the delivered pressure during expiration. The median (25th and 75th percentile) delivered PEEP with standard settings was 3.4(2.7–3.8)cmH2O when set to 5cmH2O and 6.1(4.9–7.1)cmH2O when set to 10cmH2O. Increasing the PIP from 20 to 40 cmH2O led to a median (25th and 75th percentile) decrease in PEEP to 2.3(1.8–2.7)cmH2O and 4.3(3.2–4.8)cmH2O; changing VR from 60 to 40/min led to a PEEP decrease to 2.8(2.1–3.3)cmH2O and 5.0(3.5–6.2)cmH2O for both PEEP settings. Conclusion Single-use PEEP valves do not reliably deliver the set PEEP. PIP and VR have an effect on the delivered PEEP. Operators should be aware of these limitations when manually ventilating neonates.
Understanding The Mass Shooter: A Data-Driven Analysis Into The United States Mass Shooting Epidemic
Creators: name: Stone, Lorrin
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Mass Shooter
Gun Violence

description: Background: Mass shootings in the US are on the rise, and they have become increasingly deadlier as well. Despite this, US federal law is frozen in time, and research is still needed to be done in order to better understand what turns someone into a mass shooter.Objectives: After observing a trend of deadlier mass shootings in the United States, we sought to understand what risk factors may be associated with the perpetrators of deadlier shootings.Methods: The Violence Project’s (VPMSD) Mass Shooter Database includes over 160 characteristics from all public mass shooters from 1966 to 2022.  A public mass shooting is defined as an event in which four or more victims are killed, excluding the shooter, that did not occur in a private setting (i.e. private household). A logistic regression model was used to identify predictors of mass shooters with a high victim count (defined as seven or more victims killed). Results: Of 160 variables included in the analysis tied to the 189 shooters, we found seven predictors associated with a higher victim count. Of them, the shooter having a history of animal abuse (OR = 6.87, p = 0.04) and the shooter having suicidality (OR = 6.05, p = 0.03) were notably predictive for increasing the odds of a deadlier mass shooter. Conclusions: We believe our findings suggest a common pathway in which deadly mass shooters embody: a repressed childhood that aggregates into anger (from denial of a parent or aggrieved entitlement), as witnessed by acts of animal abuse and sexual offenses (sexual assault offenses committed). This anger moves into a state of depression and suicidality, and consequently in an act to finally be heard by the world that has been hurting them, shooters seek to plan their event to have the loudest impact by making their mass shooting events more fatal. Ultimately, our findings suggest that well-designed red flag laws should be considered as they may have the potential to reduce gun deaths and reduce the number of fatalities from mass shootings. 
Supplementary document for High-speed 4D fluorescence light field tomography of whole freely moving organisms - 7440413.pdf
Creators: name: Zhou, Kevin
name: Cook, Clare
name: Chakraborty, Archan
name: Bagwell, Jennifer
name: Jönsson, Joakim
name: Lee, Kyung Chul
name: Yang, Xi
name: Xu, Shiqi
name: Balla, Ramana
name: Kolar, Kushal
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Optical Technology

description: Supplement 1
Emulating Language Acquisition with Stochastic Gradient Descent: A New Approach to Modeling Phonotactics
Creators: name: Freyer, Frederic Jason
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2017
Subjects: linguistics
phonotactics
gradient descent
Machine Learning
Phonology
Computational Linguistics

description: We present a phonotactic learning system that achieves strong performance in modeling gradience in phonotactic judgments by combining a natural class-based approach (following Albright 2009) with a learning algorithm that focuses more strongly than past models on emulating human acquisition.\r \r It has long been recognized (e.g. Scholes 1956) that phonotactic restrictions in languages are not binary, but rather represent a full spectrum between complete acceptability and unacceptability. Several experiments have verified that English speakers prefer, for example, /pɹ/ to /ʃɹ/ in syllable onsets, though both are legal; and /mɹ/ to /vm/, though both are illegal.\r \r Previous approaches to the computational modeling of phonotactics have been notably successful at learning hard constraints, but less so at learning gradient judgments (Coleman and Pierrehumbert 1997, Hayes and Wilson 2008, Albright 2009).\r \r Learning in the present model is done by stochastic gradient descent (Bottou 2010), in which every word to which the model is exposed (representing a word that a learner hears) very slightly nudges upward acceptability values for features extracted from the word.\r \r This kind of model represents a much more restricted learning environment than past models have used: the model only has access to one word at a time, and does only basic arithmetic calculations. We show that it is possible to substantially replicate phonotactic acceptability judgments---crucially including gradience---despite these restrictions, and using only about 1 million words of training data. \r \r 1 million words represent only a month or two of infant speech exposure (Hart and Risley 2003), further suggesting that it is conceivable for babies to effectively learn phonotactics at a younger age than has been established in existing literature (Mehler et al. 2009, Jusczyk et al. 1994, among others).\r \r Finally, we illustrate how the feature values learned by such a model can be used to compute phonotactic similarity between languages, a useful typological measure.
The Rose of Reason: The Dynamics of Alienation in Hegel's Project of Reconciliation
Creators: name: Lee, Kurtis
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2022
Subjects: G. W. F. Hegel
Karl Marx
Element of the Philosophy of Right
Alienation
History of Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Political Theory

description: Alienation, characterized by the spiritual estrangement between individuals and their social communities, is regarded by political philosophers as one of the most pertinent illnesses of modern society. Common interpretations of alienation, heavily influenced by Marx, define the problem as a symptom of external oppressions within society; the solution to alienation is grounded in the practices of social criticism and transformation. This thesis project explores the alternative, Hegelian theory of alienation through an examination of its historical and philosophical foundations, as well as an in-depth analysis of his seminal Element of the Philosophy of Right. Hegel’s influential work of political philosophy is a project aiming to reconcile individuals with modern society by highlighting the rational essence, or the ‘rose of reason,’ within social-political institutions to achieve self-realization of belonging. This thesis project endeavors to clarify Hegel’s theory of alienation by reconstructing its logical dynamics within the Philosophy of Right and outlining a brief response against the Marxist reaction. Ultimately, this thesis hopes to challenge our sense of self-understanding by demonstrating how social identities are embodied by our practices and participation within the social world.
Supplementary document for Two photoacoustic spectral coloring compensation techniques adapted to the context of human in-vivo oxygenation measurements - 7350928.pdf
Creators: name: Khodaverdi, Azin
name: Jayet, Baptiste
name: Erlöv, Tobias
name: Albinsson, John
name: Merdasa, Aboma
name: Gustafsson, Nils
name: Sheikh, Rafi
name: Malmsjö, Malin
name: Engels, Stefan Andersson
name: Cinthio, Magnus
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications

description: Supplementary document
title: The Communication Of Controversy
title: An Examination of How College Students Engage with Political Debates on Social Media
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Goldfarb, Rebecca Emily
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Social media
Young adults
Communication
Controversial issues

description: This thesis explores social media behaviors of young adults when it comes to engaging with controversial issues on social media. Through my investigation of college students and recent college graduates between the ages of 18-25, I set out to answer the following questions: What motivates users to engage, or not engage, in controversial issues on social media? What makes some topical issues more likely to be debated on social media? Do people feel pressure to engage with controversial issues because they are trending topics, or are people genuinely passionate about the topic? Do they believe that posting about controversial issues is effective in solving the problem? Survey data was gathered from 23 individuals through interviews, who spoke more in depth about their social media experiences with controversy. Respondents explained factors that drove them to follow, like, and comment on posts about controversial topics, as well as aspects that encouraged them to get involved with heated discussions online. The responses brought up an interesting contradiction between how people post on social media and how they view the effectiveness of social media. Overall, a majority of respondents found social media to be ineffective in solving controversial issues Most respondents have similar motivations for engaging with controversy on social media, yet they remain critical of their fellow peers who post about contentious topics, calling their actions performative. Ultimately, it is concluded that all kinds of engagement on social media can be seen as performative, as one’s image is an unconscious guide to decisions to post or not post. Additionally, the study finds that while most respondents recognize that posting on social media is not going to automatically fix societal problems, raising awareness on social media can still be beneficial in pursuing long term solutions.
Supplementary document for Exploring MPM-FLIM for diagnostics of porokeratosis – A pilot study ex vivo - 7443836.pdf
Creators: name: JAMES, JEEMOL
name: Inci, Rahime
name: Neittaanmäki, Noora
name: Kantere, Despoina
name: Peltonen, Sirkku
name: Ericson, Marica
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplementary document contains all the supplemental figures and tables mentioned in the manuscript
Performance d'un démodulateur matériel pour les télécommunications mobile/satellite dans la bande de fréquences de 20 à 30 GHz.
Creators: name: Landry, Nathaly.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: Le present memoire de these porte sur la conception et la realisation en materiel d'un modulateur et d'un demodulateur utilisant la modulation par deplacement de phase codee et non codee en treillis, ayant un taux de signalisation de 9.6 kbits/s, ou 4.8 kbauds/s, et une frequence de porteuse de 70 MHz. Les modulateur et demodulateur concus sont utilises afin de simuler le processus de transmission de donnees a travers un simulateur materiel de canal avec affaiblissements. Ce dernier peut simuler trois types de canaux, soit: un canal de Rayleigh, un canal de Rice ou un canal avec masquage lognormal et affaiblissements de Rayleigh (i.e., canal de Loo). Les techniques de modulation employees pour la transmission de l'information sont la modulation par deplacement de phase et codee en treillis. Ces deux types de signaux sont transmis a travers les divers canaux, enumeres ci-haut, et leurs performances sont evaluees.
Bijection and Enumeration of Regions in Certain Coxeter Arrangements
Creators: name: Cao, Te
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2023

description: An n-dimensional real hyperplane arrangement is a finite collection of affine hyperplanesin R^n. A given arrangement separates R^n into disjoint regions and it is an important problem
description: in combinatorics to understand these regions combinatorially, in particular to enumerate the
description: number of regions associated to an arrangement.
description: We present here bijections between the regions of certain Type B, C, D Coxeter arrangements and certain configurations of trees. These bijections further allow us to obtain generating functions for the number of regions.
description: The present work originates from an effort to generalise previously known methods andresults in Type A arrangements due to my advisor Olivier Bernardi in his previous work.
description: It should also serve as a starting point in developing a systematic bijective framework for
description: studying the combinatorics of general Coxeter arrangements.
Two Antagonistic MALT1 Auto-Cleavage Mechanisms Reveal a Role for TRAF6 to Unleash MALT1 Activation
Creators: name: Ginster, Stefanie
name: Bardet, Maureen
name: Unterreiner, Adeline
name: Malinverni, Claire
name: Renner, Florian
name: Lam, Stephen
name: Freuler, Felix
name: Gerrits, Bertran
name: Voshol, Johannes
name: Calzascia, Thomas
name: Regnier, Catherine H.
name: Renatus, Martin
name: Nikolay, Rainer
name: Israel, Laura
name: Bornancin, Frederic
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: The paracaspase MALT1 has arginine-directed proteolytic activity triggered by engagement of immune receptors. Recruitment of MALT1 into activation complexes is required for MALT1 proteolytic function. Here, co-expression of MALT1 in HEK293 cells, either with activated CARD11 and BCL10 or with TRAF6, was used to explore the mechanism of MALT1 activation at the molecular level. This work identified a prominent self-cleavage site of MALT1 isoform A (MALT1A) at R781 (R770 in MALT1B) and revealed that TRAF6 can activate MALT1 independently of the CBM. Intramolecular cleavage at R781/R770 removes a C-terminal TRAF6-binding site in both MALT1 isoforms, leaving MALT1B devoid of the two key interaction sites with TRAF6. A previously identified auto-proteolysis site of MALT1 at R149 leads to deletion of the death-domain, thereby abolishing interaction with BCL10. By using MALT1 isoforms and cleaved fragments thereof, as well as TRAF6 WT and mutant forms, this work shows that TRAF6 induces N-terminal auto-proteolytic cleavage of MALT1 at R149 and accelerates MALT1 protein turnover. The MALT1 fragment generated by N-terminal self-cleavage at R149 was labile and displayed enhanced signaling properties that required an intact K644 residue, previously shown to be a site for mono- ubiquitination of MALT1. Conversely, C-terminal self-cleavage at R781/R770 hampered the ability for self-cleavage at R149 and stabilized MALT1 by hindering interaction with TRAF6. C-terminal self-cleavage had limited impact on MALT1A but severely reduced MALT1B proteolytic and signaling functions. It also abrogated NF-κB activation by N-terminally cleaved MALT1A. Altogether, this study provides further insights into mechanisms that regulate the scaffolding and activation cycle of MALT1. It also emphasizes the reduced functional capacity of MALT1B as compared to MALT1A.
Anorexia nervosa: A phenomenological exploration of family life.
Creators: name: Emmrys, Charles.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Developmental.

description: The current study consists of a phenomenological exploration of the family life of an adolescent diagnosed as suffering from anorexia nervosa. A review of the literature addressing the anorectic's family life revealed that the various theoretical formulations offered were not well validated by experiential data collected from those living in the family. The theoretical orientations of the various authors also appeared to prestructure the accounts. Questions were thus raised regarding the inherent validity of these formulations which lead to more general questions concerning the epistemological and philosophical grounding on which a study of family life should be based. In a second section, the issue of the most appropriate philosophical grounding for a study of family life was addressed. Of the epistemological philosophical positions reviewed, the one which revealed itself to present the most primary and irrefutable grounding for a pursuit of psychological research in general and family research in particular was the existential phenomenological ontological approach. A methodology consistent with the Duquesne School's approach to psychological research was adapted for the study. The results of the study revealed that family life prior to the onset of anorectic symptoms was well structured in terms of division of authority and responsibilities. The approach to family living, however was very much centered in the home with the most important relationships in each member's life being usually contained within the family. Particularly important were the cross-generational relationships which, for the children, were important forums for addressing developmental and autonomy issues. The anorectic was the child most involved in these relationships. The onset of symptoms coincided with a crisis of authenticity experienced by the anorectic which led to an attempt at self-isolation and reduced investment in the family. The anorectic dieting behavior was described as being part of a project of self-definition and renewal. The impact of the withdrawal on the family was to transform it into a conflicted environment which corresponded to many of the descriptions provided by previous authors. The hospitalization helped defuse the intrafamilial conflict but failed to address the core issue of the anorectic's quest for authenticity.
Investigating typicality and novelty through visual and tactile stimuli
Creators: name: Yahaya, Mohd
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Consumer products are purchased not only because of their utility, but also because of their visual appearance and their feel (touch). Historically, research has focused mainly on the visual and neglected feel. This research focused on both. A series of products were designed that varied systematically in both appearance and feel. Using measures from cognitive psychology we found that the more typical-familiar the design of the product the more preferred it was. This effect was stronger for the feel of the product than for the visual, indicating that we are more tolerant of novel visual features than novel feel features.
Stochastic analysis of robot-safety systems with common-cause failures
Creators: name: Li, Zhijian
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Mechanical.

description: This study presents reliability and availability analyses of four different types of robot-safety systems with common-cause failures. The system failure rates and the partially failed system repair rates are assumed constant, and the failed system repair time is assumed arbitrarily distributed. Markov and the supplementary variable methods were used to perform mathematical analysis of these models. Generalized expressions for state probabilities, system availabilities, reliability, mean time to failure, and variance of time to failure are developed. The models developed in this study can be applied to their corresponding robot-safety systems to predict robot-safety system reliability and availability, and to prepare appropriate maintenance scheduling policies.
The Influence of the Dark Triad and Gender on Sexual Coercion Strategies of a Subclinical Sample
Creators: name: Finkelstein, Katherine R.
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Dark Triad
sexual coercion
sexual aggression
psychopathy
narcissism
Machiavelliansim
college men
college women
Gender Differences

description: The Dark Triad of Personality is composed of three higher-order personality constructs: subclinical narcissism, Machiavellianism, and subclinical psychopathy. Recent research indicates that the Dark Triad covaries with sexually coercive behavior, which is generally defined as a spectrum of tactics used by both men and women to obtain sexual activity and/or intercourse with an unwilling partner. The present study examines whether the use of specific sexual coercion strategies (i.e., seduction, manipulation, intoxication, and physical force) and the frequency with which sexual coercion is attempted and/or completed (i.e., rape) are influenced by the severity of Dark Triad trait expression and the gender of the perpetrator. Factor analysis of selected items from the Multidimensional Inventory of Development, Sex, and Aggression yielded factors comparable to the Dark Triad subcomponents. The predictive validity of these factors for sexually coercive tactics was, however, suboptimal. Results indicated that gender and overall lack of empathy were unique and independent predictors of seduction and overall sexual coercion. As such, gender and overall lack of empathy should be considered as separate constructs from the Dark Triad, particularly when analyzing the sexual behaviors of subclinical samples.
How Emotion Regulation and Motivation Affect Positive and Negative Social Media Experiences
Creators: name: Wang, Grace Yuanjiao
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social Media
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Social media use has been rapidly increasing for the past decade, especially among adolescents and young adults (Kemp, 2021; Marengo et al., 2022; Pew Research Center, 2021). TikTok has become one of the most popular social media platforms in the past few years (DataReportal, 2022). Previous research shows that emotion regulation strategies and motivation can influence mood after using social media (Drach et al., 2021; Karimi et al., 2014). Additionally, culture has shown to act as a moderating factor for both social media use habits and preferred emotion regulation strategies. This study examined the effects of TikTok on young adults’ well-being by looking at the relationship between social media content, emotion regulation, motivation, culture, and mood outcome. We recruited 77 Brandeis undergraduate students who were aged 18 years or older (M=19.53, SD=0.83), predominantly female (67.5%), and the majority of which identified as white (49.4%) or Asian (41.6%), to participate in the online Qualtrics survey. Participants were asked to rate their preferred emotion regulation strategy and motivations. They were also asked to watch TikToks with both positive and negative content and rate their mood and the actions they took while watching each TikTok. Before the remaining TikToks, participants were given instructions to either enhance or suppress their emotions. We found that the valence of the TikTok content had the biggest effect on mood outcome. We also found that hedonic emotion regulation and motivation for positive emotions were associated with more positive mood. Controlling for preferred ER strategy increased the effect of valence on positive TikToks. Culture also had a moderating effect when interacting with induced emotion regulation strategies, but not preferred emotion regulation strategies. However, neither preferred emotion regulation strategy nor induced emotion regulation strategies had a mediating effect on the relationship between TikTok valence and mood outcome. Although conditions were not met to assess mediation, controlling for positive motivation and the avoidance of negative emotions eliminated the significant effect of TikTok valence. More research with larger sample sizes and samples of international East Asian students are necessary to assess the moderating effects of culture as well as the nature of the mediators. This research is important in informing internet use policies and social media education in order to find healthier ways of engaging with content online.
A Qualitative Study of LGBTQIA+ Genetic Counselors' Experiences While Applying to Graduate School
Creators: name: O'Sullivan, Lauren
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2022
Subjects: diversity
Genetic Counseling
inclusion
intersectionality
Higher Education
LGBTQ Studies

description: Research has shown that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual and other sexual and gender minority (LGBTQIA+) healthcare students experience discrimination during admissions and training. While several studies have examined the experiences of racial and ethnic minorities within the genetic counseling field, the admissions experiences of LGBTQIA+ individuals has not been explored. Through semi-structured interviews, this qualitative study investigated the experiences of ten LGBTQIA+ genetic counselors and genetic counseling students during graduate school admissions. Interview questions focused on participants’ perceptions of the genetic counseling field prior to applying, important factors in choosing and ranking programs, decisions surrounding disclosure of LGBTQIA+ identities, interview experiences related to their identities, and the impacts, if any, of their identities on their overall admissions journey. Transcripts were coded and analyzed utilizing a constructivist grounded theory approach, resulting in the emergence of themes regarding factors that influenced participants' decisions to disclose their identity, how their LGBTQIA+ identity factored into their selection of a training program, and participant reflections and recommendations for creating a more inclusive admissions process. This study adds new perspectives to the conversations around diversity, equity, and inclusion within the genetic counseling field. Further, it provides genetic counselors and genetic counseling programs insight into inclusive admissions processes and suggests ways to improve inclusivity in graduate admissions.