cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Managing the ‘Party’: Third Parties and the Organization of Labour in Ontario Strip Clubs
Creators: name: Law, Tuulia
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: erotic dance
third parties
management
regulation
occupational health and safety
sex industry
masculinity
performance

description: Amidst a considerable body of literature on erotic dance, the voices of third parties, that is, the people who organize, supervise, manage or coordinate the labour of dancers, seldom appear. Yet, these third parties provide a setting and services that are vital to dancers’ entrepreneurial success. Furthermore, perceptions of third parties as exploitative and coercive perpetuate framings of erotic dance – and sex work in general – as harmful, which in turn invisibilize dancers’ work, as well as their skills, labour rights and grievances. Drawing from qualitative interviews with 15 third parties and 15 dancers, as well as regional regulatory texts, this dissertation seeks to trouble these stigmatic assumptions by shedding light on the work of third parties and the organization of labour in Ontario’s erotic dance sector. Mapping the occupational roles and relationships amongst third parties (e.g., managers, bouncers, disc jockeys) reveals the organizational structure and peripheries of the strip club. Through this map, we see how third parties together form the organizational structure, which operates as a parallel entity to dancers who, as independent contractors, are for the most part responsible for their own work activities and income. At the same time, because dancers and third parties must equally provide quality service to their shared customers, they are both interdependent on, and independent of, each other. This relationship ‘plays out’ through occupational and situationally adaptive performances, which reiterate and resist normative gender, racial, and class scripts to produce the ‘party’ environment of the strip club. Simultaneously ambiance and organizational culture, the ‘party’ environment shapes third parties’ and dancers’ occupational performances for, and perceptions of, each other. The continuity of performance required to maintain this environment also results in third parties reproducing certain regulatory discourses and mechanisms in their surveillance and rule enforcement practices, and disregarding and subverting others, which in turn impacts upon dancers’ safety. Third parties’ relationships with each other and dancers are also permeated by stigma, stereotypes and perceptions of risk that echo regulatory and broader social discourses. These findings demonstrate that third parties’ engagement with regulation and normative discourses are deeply inter-related and impact the quality of the services they provide to dancers. On this basis it is argued that the context and conditions of dancers’ labour will be improved by rethinking narrow-minded regulatory frameworks and social norms.
Impact of Three Different Dehydration Methods on Nutritional Values and Sensory Quality of Dried Broccoli, Oranges, and Carrots
Creators: name: Mohammadi, Xanyar
name: Deng, Yuhao
name: Matinfar, Golshan
name: Singh, Anika
name: Mandal, Ronit
name: Pratap-Singh, Anubhav
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Radiant Energy Vacuum (REV)-dried broccoli, oranges, and carrots prepared by the optimal drying protocols determined in this study were compared to the freeze-dried and air-dried samples based on the nutritional values before and after drying. An accelerated shelf-life study for REV-dried broccoli, oranges, and carrots was also conducted. For all the samples, REV drying significantly shortened the processing time. The REV-dried samples had much higher retention of the nutritional values (vitamin C, β-carotene) compared to the conventional air-drying process, and the values were also competitive to those of the freeze-dried samples. Although freeze-drying resulted in the best rehydration property, the REV-dried samples still earned the highest scores in the sensory test. In the accelerated shelf-life study conducted on the REV-dried samples, the moisture content and water activity stayed at the same level, but the nutritional values showed a downward trend. The sensory properties fluctuated in the shelf-life but still gained positive feedback from the panelists. Moreover, the testing method for β-carotene content was uniquely designed in this project and could be a semi-quantitative method to refer to.
Testaufgaben zur Ermittlung der Schall-Emissionen von Straße, Schiene, Industrie und der Berechnung der Schall-Ausbreitung (BUB), der Berechnung des Fluglärms (BUF) und der Belastetenermittlung (BEB) gemäß Richtlinie (EU) 2015/996
Creators: name: Bartolomaeus, Wolfram
name: Möhler, Ulrich
name: Krapf, Klaus-Georg
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Straße
subject: Industrie
subject: Fluglärm
subject: Schall
subject: Schallemission
subject: Straßenlärm
subject: Schienenlärm
subject: Industrielärm
subject: Schallausbreitung
subject: Lärm

description: Zur Verbesserung der Lärmsituation in Europa hat die EU im Jahr 2002 die Umgebungslärmrichtlinie (2002/49/EG) erlassen. Sie wurde 2005 in deutsches Recht umgesetzt. Ziel ist es, den Umgebungslärm zu vermindern und in bisher ruhigen Gebieten einer Zunahme des Lärms vorzubeugen. Dazu soll die Belastung, durch in Europa einheitliche Bewertungsmethoden für Lärmindizes, in Lärmkarten erfasst und dann durch konkrete Maßnahmen gemindert werden. Diese Methoden hat die EU unter Beteiligung der Mitgliedstaaten in den vergangenen Jahren unter dem Akronym CNOSSOS-EU (Common Noise Assessment Methods in Europe) entwickelt. Diese Berechnungsmethoden sind durch eine Änderung des Annex II der EU-Umgebungslärmrichtlinie 2015 als Richtlinie (EU) 2015/996 [1] zur anschließenden nationalen Umsetzung ([2] bis [6]) eingeführt worden und sollen ab dem 01.01.2019 von allen Mitgliedstaaten verpflichtend angewendet werden. In dieser Dokumentation werden die Methoden zur Ermittlung der Schall-Emissionen, der Berechnung der Schall-Ausbreitung sowie der Belastetenermittlung auf beispielhafte Aufgabenstellungen angewendet. Dabei wird unterschieden nach bodennahen Schallquellen (Straße, Schiene, Industrie) und Quellen aus Flugverkehr (Fluglärm). Gemäß der Berechnungsvorschriften [2] bis [6] werden Modellrechnungen (Szenarienbildung und Testaufgaben) ausführlich dokumentiert. Auf diese Weise wird eine Qualitätssicherung von Lärmberechnungen im Sinne der DIN 45687 [11] ermöglicht und damit eine einheitliche und nachvollziehbare Anwendung der Methoden deutschlandweit gewährleistet. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Zur Verbesserung der Lärmsituation in Europa hat die EU im Jahr 2002 die Umgebungslärmrichtlinie (2002/49/EG) erlassen, wobei die Belastung durch einheitliche Bewertungsmethoden erfasst werden soll. Diese unter dem Akronym CNOSSOS-EU (Common Noise Assessment Methods in Europe) entwickelten Berechnungsmethoden (Richtlinie (EU) 2015/996) sind der Qualitätssicherung von Lärmberechnungen (DIN 45687) zu unterziehen. In dieser Dokumentation werden die Methoden zur Ermittlung der Schall-Emissionen, der Berechnung der Schall-Ausbreitung sowie der Belastetenermittlung auf beispielhafte Aufgabenstellungen angewendet, so dass eine einheitliche Anwendung der Methoden deutschlandweit gewährleistet ist.
A study on the detection of double faults
Creators: name: Liu, Ying
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Fault-based testing aims at selecting test cases to detect hypothesized faults in a program. Ideally, such selected test cases can guarantee to detect hypothesized faults if they do appear in the programs. Most fault-based testing strategies derive their test cases based on the assumption that at most one of the hypothesized faults is committed by the programmer. However, empirical studies show that multiple faults occur more often in programs and test case selection strategies developed for single faults cannot guarantee to detect multiple faults. In this thesis, double faults that might have occurred within Boolean expressions are studied. A double fault is defined as the occurrences of any two single faults. Since the different order of occurrences of two single faults in a double fault may result in different faulty expressions, double faults were classified into two categories, namely double fault with and without ordering. After modelling faulty expressions from these two categories, we compared these faulty expressions and enumerate all possible faulty expressions of double fault in Boolean expressions. The detection conditions of the considered faulty expression were studied from a theoretical perspective and are characterized based on certain properties of test cases. These conditions helped to identify and develop test case selection strategies to detect such double faults. After examining the fault detection capability of some existing test case selection strategies developed for single faults, six test case selection strategies were proposed to supplement an existing test case selection strategy to detect double faults. We proved that these strategies are guaranteed to detect double faults and investigate the cost of these strategies for double faults detection. This thesis helps us to better understand how different faults occur in a Boolean expression and how they interact with each other. This provides further insight for modelling and detecting multiple faults such as triple faults.
Growth and Biofilm Formation of Bacteria Isolated from Contaminated Platelet Units
Creators: name: Hamza, Ali
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Staphylococcus epidermidis
biofilm
platelets

description: Bacterial contamination of platelet concentrates (PCs) poses the major transfusion-associated infectious risk. Coagulase negative staphylococci (CoNS), the predominant platelet contaminants, are recognized as one of the leading causes of hospital-acquired infections due to their ability to form biofilms (surface-attached aggregates). In this study, 29 CoNS strains were characterized for their growth and biofilm formation abilities in media and PCs. Twenty-five strains were aerobic including Staphylococcus epidermidis, S. capitis, and S. chromogenes, while four were identified as the anaerobe S. saccharolyticus. Biofilm-associated icaA and icaD genes were amplified from eight strains. Interestingly, only six of those strains were biofilm-positive. Sequencing of S. capitis icaD revealed no mutations that could explain differences in biofilm phenotypes. Growth of CoNS in PCs varied significantly between strains. This study provides preliminary evidence that slow-growing biofilm-positive S. epidermidis are more likely to be missed during platelet culture, highlighting the need for improved screening methods.
Towards a Socio-Technical Theoretical Framework for Enterprise Gamification: A Research-in-Progress Paper
Creators: name: Ruhi, Umar
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Enterprise Gamification
Gamified Design
User Experience
Human-Computer Interaction
Persuasive Technology
Behavior Channge
Socio-Technical

description: Gamification initiatives are currently top-of-mind for many organizations seeking to engage their employees in creative ways, improve their productivity, and drive positive behavioral outcomes in their workforce – ultimately leading to positive business outcomes on the whole. Despite its touted benefits, little empirical research has been done to date to investigate sociological and technological factors that affect the acceptance and success of gamification technologies in an organizational context. This article proposes a theoretical framework for investigating key individual, organizational and technological factors that are posited to be important determinants of effectiveness of gamification initiative. At the technology level, game mechanics and user experience are posited to be essential elements that drive end-user attitude towards gamification technologies. At the individual level, employee engagement is positioned to be the central construct that mediates the relationship between technological and organizational factors, and impacts organizational commitment. Finally, at the organizational level, psychological climate is proposed as an important antecedent of employee engagement and organizational commitment at the individual level, as well as a determinant of end-user acceptance of enterprise gamification technologies. This article outlines the conceptual underpinnings of the proposed theoretical framework, and provides a summary of the planned research methodology that will be used to empirically validate the framework. The expected contributions of this research are highlighted at the end of the paper.
Who prefers what? The effectiveness of Blackboard for on-campus marketing students in Singapore
Creators: name: Ho, Henry Wai Leong
name: Madden-Hallett, Helen
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Tertiary institutions in Singapore are increasingly replacing elements of their traditional on-campus lectures and tutorials with more advanced technological approaches. These technologies provide tertiary institutions with an ideal opportunity for on-campus students to access learning resources and provide them with more control over their learning. The current study focuses on on-campus students enrolled in an undergraduate marketing subject that have used Blackboard to facilitate students' learning. The sample consisted of 390 undergraduate business students. The findings indicated that most respondents would like Blackboard to be more fully utilised offering results calculators, and additional learning resources to facilitate their learning.
Land Use and Land Cover Change Detection in Isfahan, Iran Using Remote Sensing Techniques
Creators: name: Alavi Shoushtari, Niloofar
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: land use and land cover change detection
urban growth
remote sensing
satelite images

description: Rapid urban growth and unprecedented rural to urban transition, along with a huge population growth are new phenomena for both high and low income countries, which started in the mid-20th century. However, urban growth rates and patterns are different in developed countries and developing ones. In less developed countries, urbanization and rural to urban transition usually takes place in an unmanaged way and they are associated with a series of socioeconomical and environmental issues and problems. Identification of the city growth trends in past decades can help urban planners and managers to minimize these negative impacts. In this research, urban growth in the city of Isfahan, Iran, is the subject of study. Isfahan the third largest city in Iran has experienced a huge urban growth and population boom during the last three decades. This transition led to the destruction of natural and agricultural lands and environmental pollutions. Historical and recent remotely sensed data, along with different remote sensing techniques and methods have been used by researchers for urban land use and land cover change detection. In this study three Landsat TM and ETM+ images of the study site, acquired in 1985, 2000 and 2009 are used. Before starting processing, radiometric normalization is done to minimize the atmospheric effects. Then, processing methods including principal component analysis (PCA), vegetation indices and supervised classification are implemented on the images. Accuracy assessment of the PCA method showed that the first PC was responsible for more than 81% of the total variance, and therefore used for analysis of PCA differencing. ΔPC1t1-t2 shows the amount of changes in land use and land cover during the period of study. In this study ten vegetation indices were selected to be applied to the 1985 image. Accuracy assessments showed that Transformed Differencing Vegetation Index (TDVI) is the most sensitive and accurate index for mapping vegetation in arid and semi-arid urban areas. Hence, TDVI was applied to the 2000 and 2009 images. ΔTDVIt1-t2 showed the changes in land use and land cover especially the land use transformation from vegetation cover into the urban class. Supervised classification is the last method applied to the images. Training sites were assigned for the selected classes and accuracy was monitored during the process of training site selection. The results of classification show the expansion of urban class and diminishment in natural and agricultural lands.
Barefoot Running: Feeling the World Through Your Feet
Creators: name: Warnock, Carly
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Running
Barefoot
Culture
Feet
Sensory Perception
Thematic analysis
Minimalist running
Barefoot running
Ingold
Nature
The Body
Ottawa
Boulder

description: This thesis paper explores barefoot and minimalist running in Ottawa, Ontario and Boulder, Colorado. The objective has been to answer the following questions: how can we understand barefoot and minimalist style running as cultures, how are barefoot and minimalist style running being done in different ways, how do the senses play out and create nuances between barefoot and minimalist style runners. I argue barefoot and minimalist running are distinct cultural forms. I applied an Ingoldian notion of culture that contends cultures are generative, relational, temporal and improvisational. I conducted a multi-site study and I interviewed participants, as well as conducted participant observation. My findings reveal that the different sensations experienced by the two styles of running make them meaningful in different ways. These different sensations and ways of meaning create nuances between barefoot and minimalist running and differentiate them and as a result, there are found to become different cultural forms.
Role of SLMAP in Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Unfolded Protein Response
Creators: name: Mahmood, Ahsan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Protein
SLMAP
Unfolded Protein Response
BiP
ER stress
ER
SR
Transgenic
mouse
cardiac function
heart
EC coupling

description: Cardiac function is regulated by the molecular components of the sarco/endoplasmic reticulum (ER/SR). Disruptions in homeostatic balance of these proteins and calcium regulation results in activation of ER stress response. Sarcolemmal membrane-associated proteins (SLMAPs) are found in cell membrane, SR/ER, and mitochondria. Overexpression of SLMAP in the myocardium has shown to impair excitation-contraction (E-C) coupling in the transgenic (Tg) mice. ER stress response was examined in Tg mice overexpressing SLMAP in the myocardium. In Tg hearts, changes observed in the expression of proteins involved in ER stress were dependent on the age and sex. SLMAP overexpression results in maladaptive ER stress response, as the mice age. Neonatal cardiomyocytes isolated from the Tg hearts showed decreased viability, upregulation of ER stress response proteins, which were sensitized to thapsigargin-induced stress, and desensitized to palmitate-induced oxidative stress. These findings suggest that normal SLMAP levels are important for proper cardiac function, and cell viability.
Effect of Leachate Blending on Anaerobic Digestion of Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste
Creators: name: Nair, Arjun
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Leachate
leachate recirculation
leachate blending
leachate treatment
bioreactor landfill
municipal solid waste
mature leachate
anaerobic biodegradation
solid waste

description: Anaerobic digestion of the Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste (OFMSW) generates a mixture of methane (CH4), carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O). Beyond the field capacity the water generated is collected and recirculated as leachate in Bioreactor Landfills (BLs.) Leachate recirculation has a profound advantage on biodegradation of the Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste (OFMSW) in the landfills. Mature leachate from older sections of landfills (>20 years) and young leachate were blended prior to recirculation in the ratios 3/3 mature, 3/3 young, 1/3 mature-2/3 young and 2/3 old-1/3 young and their effect on biodegradation and biogas production monitored. In addition to analysis of the effect of blending old and new leachates, the study also analyses the effect of an open vs. a closed recirculation loop and the effect of organic loading rates of OFMSW in landfills. Data collected from initial batch tests supplement column bioreactors simulating bioreactor landfills with real world OFMSW from operational landfill facilities in Ontario, Canada. The results are conclusive that the biogas generation can be improved by up to 92% by blending the leachate in an open loop recirculation system as compared to a conventional closed loop system employed in landfills today.
On Reputation and Data-centric Misbehavior Detection Mechanisms for VANET
Creators: name: Huang, Zhen
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: VANET
Information Cascading
Misbehavior Detection

description: Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET) is a class of ad hoc networks build to ensure the safety of traffic. This is important because accidents claim many lives. Trust and security remain a major concern in VANET since a simple mistake can have catastrophic consequence. A crucial point in VANET is how to trust the information transmitted when the neighboring vehicles are rapidly changing and moving in and out of range. Current reputation systems for VANET try to establish trust between entities, which might not be required for practical scenarios. Due to the ephemeral nature of VANET, reputation schemes for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) cannot be applied to VANET. In this thesis, we point out several limitations of reputation trust management schemes for VANET. In particular, we identify the problem of information cascading and oversampling, which commonly arise in social networks. Oversampling is a situation in which a node observing two or more nodes, takes into consideration both their opinions equally without knowing that they might have influenced each other in decision making. We show that simple voting for decision making, leads to oversampling. We propose a solution to overcome this problem in VANET. We also suggest new ways to merge reputation schemes with misbehavior detection schemes to establish a trustworthy VANET.
An Analysis of Healthcare Worker Attitudes & Barriers to Influenza Vaccination
Creators: name: Prematunge, Chatura
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Influenza
H1N1
Pandemic Influenza
Healthcare Workers
Health Belief Model
Vaccination
Vaccine attitudes
Vaccine barriers
Vaccine motivators

description: Influenza is a major concern across healthcare environments. Annual vaccination of healthcare workers (HCWs) remains essential for maintaining the health and availability of HCWs, as well as influenza prevention in healthcare environments. Yet, annual vaccination coverage among HCWs continues to be below recommended standards during pandemic (pH1N1) and non-pandemic (sINFLU) influenza seasons. The primary aim of this research is to inform the design and implementation of effective HCW targeted influenza vaccination campaigns via a 1) systematic review of the existing literature on HCW pH1N1 vaccination, 2) qualitative content analysis of motivators and barriers to HCW pH1N1 and sINFLU vaccination, as well as 3) quantitative regression analysis of modifiable factors predicting pH1N1 and sINFLU vaccination. The qualitative and quantitative analysis processes were applied to data collected from a large-scale multi-professional sample of HCWs. Findings from all analysis sections were found to be consistent. Most attitudes, beliefs, motivators, and barriers influencing HCW influenza vaccination were similar for pH1N1 and sINFLU vaccinations. Yet, a number of notable differences were also identified. HCWs were likely to accept vaccination if they perceived, 1) vaccination to be safe, 2) vaccination to be protective against influenza for self, loved ones, patients or communities, and 3) influenza to be a serious and severe infection to self and others. Additionally, encouragement from supervisors and colleagues, physicians, and loves ones also enhanced vaccine uptake. Most HCWs avoided vaccination because of 1) limited knowledge or misinformation about vaccination, 2) concern for vaccine induced side-effects and 3) assuming vaccination was not a requirement for healthy adults. With respect to pH1N1 vaccination, mass media communications, perceptions of novel vaccinations, and rapid vaccine development processes especially deterred HCW pH1N1 vaccination. Future vaccination programs targeting HCWs should look towards influencing HCWs’ vaccination attitudes and promoting pro-vaccination cultures in healthcare workplaces.
The Growth of Small Firms: An Alternative Look Through The Lens of Effectuation
Creators: name: Afolayan, Oluwaseun Babatope
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Effectuation
Growth
Small firm growth
Small firms

description: The importance of small firms in a country’s development cannot be over-emphasized. In particular, it is important for them to grow in order to sustain their contributions to a country’s economy. Studies have shown how firms achieve growth using the traditional model of decision making (causation) in which planning, market research and forecasting are used to gain relevant information about the firm’s market/industry. This planning enables the firms to compete favourably with other existing firms in the market. Effectuation as an alternative theory involves decision-making processes under conditions of uncertainty where there is no adequate knowledge of the market due to its latent and emerging nature. Effectuation has been used to examine various concepts in entrepreneurship, but there has been no real effort to apply it to the growth of small knowledge-intensive firms (SKIFs). This study, based on in-depth interviews with six SKIFs, highlights how effectuation can be applied to the growth of SKIFs and it examines how the four underlying principles of contingencies, affordable loss, strategic relationships and adaptation contribute to SKIF growth. In addition, elements of causation are also shown to be relevant, leading to the conclusion that the two models can be used jointly to achieve growth of SKIFs.
A Cross-Sectional Study of Chronic Impairments and Activity Limitations in Women at Least Six Months Post-Operative for Breast Cancer: An Exploratory Study.
Creators: name: Wong, Vicki
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Breast Cancer
Chronic Activity Limitations
Disability
Fear of activity

description: Objective: The increased survival rate amongst female breast cancer survivors creates a need for an understanding of chronic disability after surgery. The objective of this study is to explore the association between impairments (e.g., pain, mobility, strength) and the personality trait, fear of physical activity, and chronic daily activity limitations for women who had their surgery at least six months prior to the study. Hypothesis: The study hypothesis is that women with high levels of physical impairments and the personality trait of fear of physical activity will also have higher levels of daily activity limitations six months or more after their breast cancer surgery. Design: A cross-sectional design. Outcome Measures: Disabilities of Shoulder, Arm, and Hand (DASH), Visual Analog Scale for Pain (VAS-Pain), Fear Avoidance Belief Questionnaire – Physical Activity (FABQ-PA), and objective measures of shoulder mobility and strength. Participants: Women who had been diagnosed and undergone surgery for breast cancer, stage 1-3. They must have had their surgery at least six months previously and have completed chemotherapy or radiation therapy. Both English- and French-speaking women from the Ottawa-Gatineau region were eligible. Results: Data from twelve women were analysed with a mean age of 58.0±8.9 years and post-operative time of 4.0± 2.8 years. DASH scores mean was 12.2 ± 11.38. VAS-Pain (rs=0.819; p
An Urban Rainfall Storm Flood Severity Index
Creators: name: Jobin, Erik
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: extreme
extreme rainfall
extreme rainfall storm
rainfall storm
extreme rainfall statistics
flooding
IDF
intensity-duration-frequency
storm severity
rainfall severity
rainfall storm severity
storm severity index
extreme rainfall event
rainfall event
severity assessment
spatial rainfall
weather radar
radar
precipitation
rainfall
City of Edmonton
Edmonton
Canada
extreme event
extreme storm
runoff
basement flooding
basement flood
flood
urban rainfall storm severity
urban rainfall storm flood severity index
flood potential
stepwise regression
rainfall storm characteristics

description: Extreme rainfall statistics are important for the design and management of the water resource infrastructure. The standard approach for extreme rainfall event severity assessment is the Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) method. However, this approach does not consider the spatial context of rainfall and consequently does not properly describe rainfall storm severity, nor rarity. This study provides a critical account of the current standard practice and presents an approach that takes into consideration both the spatial context of rainfall storms, and indirectly incorporates runoff to produce a representative approach to assessing urban rainfall storm severity in terms of flood potential. A stepwise regression analysis was performed on a dataset of individual rainfall storm characteristics to best represent documented basement floodings in the City of Edmonton. Finally, the urban rainfall storm flood severity index was shown to be most representative of the documented basement floodings' severity when compared to that of the IDF method.
The Contribution of Child Behaviour Problems to the Health of Caregivers
Creators: name: Chalifoux, Mathieu
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Caregiver Health
Child Behaviour Problems

description: Caregivers of children with health problems have been demonstrated to show poorer physical and psychological health than caregivers of healthy children. It has been suggested that child behavioural problems are key and account for a large proportion of the variance in caregiver health. Currently, the relation between behaviour problems and caregiver health remains unclear. We conducted a meta-analysis and a secondary data analysis using national data to describe and compare the associations between internalizing and externalizing behaviour problems and caregiver health. Meta-analytical results suggest an association between child behaviour problems and parental stress, depression, and presence of psychiatric symptoms. National data analyses suggested an important association between child behaviour problems, particularly externalizing behaviour problems, and caregiver physical and psychological health when accounting for socioeconomic variables. Results suggest mothers may be more impacted than fathers, and that externalizing behaviour problems may contribute to bigger caregiver health effects than internalizing behaviour problems.
Additional file 2 of Contraception and post abortion services: qualitative analysis of users’ perspectives and experiences following Zika epidemic in Honduras
Creators: name: Belizan, Maria
name: Maradiaga, Edna
name: Roberti, Javier
name: Casco-Aguilar, Maricela
name: Ortez, Alison F.
name: Avila-Flores, Juan C.
name: González, Gloria
name: Bustillo, Carolina
name: Calderón, Alejandra
name: Bock, Harry
name: Cafferata, María L.
name: Tavares, Adriano B.
name: Alger, Jackeline
name: Ali, Moazzam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2.
Financing Public Goods and Services through Taxation or User Fees: A Matter of Public Choice?
Creators: name: Hache, Connie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: User fees
Taxation
Public finance
Decision making
Public choice theory
Federal government

description: Through a case study methodology this research explores the decision-making process regarding financing services provided by the Canadian federal government to individual citizens. From a transparency and accountability perspective, for those services that benefit individuals versus society as whole, it is important to understand why some services are provided through general taxation while others are financed through user fees. The study utilizes public choice theory as developed in The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy which is the initial attempt to illustrate how the tools of economics may be applied to political institutions using a rational choice approach with an emphasis on rules about how choices are made. Rather than focusing on ‘what’ government spends funds on, the study focuses on ‘how’ government generates funds by examining three major actors: government, citizen-voters and pressure groups. This study furthers scientific knowledge as there has been prior research on distinguishing between public versus private goods, and deciding on how to publicly fund such goods, but there has been limited research undertaken on the actual decision-making process in financing public goods and services. From an academic perspective, this study is the first time that The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy model has been adapted and applied to the Canadian federal government. The study concludes that it depends on what elected officials decide to do to appeal to citizen-voters in order to win votes: appear fiscally prudent thus charge user fees; advance its political agenda with decisions to sometimes charge user fees or other times not; or limit costs to private sector organizations by deciding to not charge user fees. While elected officials make the decisions whether or not to charge user fees, it is the bureaucracy that implements these decisions.
Concurrent Interprocedural Dataflow Analysis
Creators: name: Zou, Di
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Taint analysis
Static analysis
Interprocedural anlaysis

description: Detecting bugs plays a significant role in software development. Bugs may lead to unexpected behaviors. An attacker can gain control over a system by exploiting its bugs. Usually, an attack can be triggered by user's input. Unchecked user input can cause serious problems in a program. In order to prevent this situation, user's input must be checked carefully before it can be used. To provide the information of where user's input can affect a program, the taint dataflow analysis is being considered. In this thesis, we introduce a concurrent solution to perform static taint dataflow analysis. The goal is to find the statements of the program dependent on user input and inform the developers to validate those. We provides a method for the static concurrent taint dataflow analysis based on sequential static taint dataflow analysis. Static dataflow analysis is time consuming. This research addresses the challenge of efficiently analyzing the dataflow. Our experimental shows that our concurrent taint dataflow analysis improves the speed of analyzing complex programs.
Longitudinal Data Analysis Using Generalized Linear Model with Missing Responses
Creators: name: Park, Jeanseong
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Longitudinal study
GEE
GLM
missing data

description: Longitudinal studies rely on data collected at several occasions from a set of selected individuals. The purpose of these studies is to use a regression-type model to express a response variable as a function of explanatory variables, or covariates. In this thesis, we use marginal models for the analysis of such data, which, coupled with the method of estimating equations, provide estimators of the main regression parameter. When some of the responses are missing or there is error in the recorded covariates, the original estimating equation may be biased. We use techniques available in the literature to modify it and regain the unbiasedness property. We prove the asymptotic normality of the regression estimator obtained under these more realistic circumstances, and provide theoretical and numerical examples to illustrate this approach.
title: Arbeitsbericht zur Gleichstellung 2015/2016
Creators: name: Miemietz, Bärbel
Publisher: name: Medizinische Hochschule Hannover Bibliothek
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Arbeitsbericht zur Gleichstellung / Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, vol. 2015/16
Additional file 5 of Retention of metals in periprosthetic tissues of patients with metal-on-metal total hip arthroplasty is reflected in the synovial fluid to blood cobalt transfer ratio in the presence of a pseudotumour
Creators: name: Nousiainen, Tomi
name: Palosaari, Sanna
name: Peräniemi, Sirpa
name: Tervahauta, Arja
name: Niinimäki, Jaakko
name: Leppilahti, Juhana
name: Lehenkari, Petri
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 5. Metal concentrations in synovial fluid (SF), soft tissue (ST) and whole blood (WB) in relation to presence or absence of a pseudotumour.
Examining the Impact of Canadian Political Satire Shows on Generation Y: A Qualitative Investigation of This Hour Has 22 Minutes
Creators: name: Attalla, Jessica
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Political Satire
Canada
Generation Y
This Hour Has 22 Minutes
Uses and Gratifications Theory

description: In contemporary society, political satire shows are prominent programs that seem to resonate with the viewing public. This thesis seeks to observe the meanings that generation Y attach to the Canadian political satire show, This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Focusing on the Canadian context, this research examines how members of generation Y view political satire shows, specifically This Hour Has 22 Minutes and if this show caters to their attitudes, concerns and interests more so than traditional news media. The theoretical framework guiding this study is the uses and gratifications theory. This research implements a qualitative phenomenological research approach in the form of focus groups. This study concludes that this generation still maintains, however, that when looking to be informed, they connect more with traditional news media given that these programs provide them with all the facts and stories in a more reliable manner. This study contributes to the field of communication because it demonstrates the rationale and experiences of generation Y in relation to political news.
Neurophysiological Evidence of a Second Language Influencing Lexical Ambiguity Resolution in the First Language.
Creators: name: Brien, Christie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Psycholinguistics
bilingualism
L2 effects on the L1
lexical ambiguity resolution
event-related brain potentials

description: The main objective of this dissertation is to investigate the effects of acquiring a second language (L2) at later periods of language development and native-like homonym processing in the first language (L1) from the perspective of Event-Related brain Potentials (ERP) using a cross-modal lexical decision task. To date, there is a lack of neurophysiological investigations into the effect that acquiring an L2 can have on processing strategies in the L1, and whether or not there is a precise age at which L2 exposure no longer affects native-like language processing. As such, my goal is to pinpoint this sensitive period specifically for homonym processing. To achieve this, I will present and discuss the results of two studies. The first study employs behavioural response measures using a cross-modal lexical decision task where participants simultaneously heard a sentence and made a decision to a visually-presented pseudoword or real word. The second study employs ERP measures using a novel ERP paradigm which investigates not only the main objective of this dissertation, but the second objective as well. This second objective is for this dissertation to become the first to evaluate the outcome of combining the cross-modal lexical decision task with ERPs. The behavioural and neurophysiological results for the monolingual group support the Reordered Access Model (Duffy, Morris, & Rayner, 1988) while the results for the bilingual groups do not. The results of the current studies indicate that those bilinguals who acquired French as an L2 rather than as a second native L1 show increasing divergence from monolingual native speakers in L1 homonym processing, with later acquirers exhibiting an exponentially marked divergence. This was found even though the task was carried out in English, the L1 (or one of the L1s) of all participants. The diverging performances of the bilinguals from the monolinguals were apparent in behavioural responses as well as in the amplitude, scalp distribution, and latency of ERP components, These differences were unique to each group, which supports the hypothesis that the acquisition of an L2 influences processing in the L1 (Dussias & Sagarra, 2007). Specifically, the early and late bilingual groups exhibited a marked divergence from the monolingual group as they revealed syntactic priming effects (p
title: Everything's Relative: The Theory of Relativity's Influence on Early Twentieth-Century Thought
Creators: name: Randall, Shawna Jo
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1998

description: In the early twentieth century Albert Einstein revolutionized humankind's understanding of the universe. Few scientific innovations have had as pervasive an impact as Einstein's Theory of Relativity. His conjectures accounted for scientific phenomena which were otherwise unexplained. With a set of abstract equations, he created unity and consistency among otherwise disconnected entities. He redefined the universe and transformed previous notions about space and time. For the scientific community the Theory of Relativity established a foundation for subsequent developments in physics. It is important to note, however, that the nonscientific community was also profoundly affected by Einstein's theory. Lay people did not comprehend the true scientific importance of the Theory of Relativity. Nevertheless, the popular conception of relativity reintroduced subjectivism and uncertainty into the world of philosophy. Religion, art, and other creative fields were likewise transformed by relativity. The impacts of Einstein's theory are not limited to the early twentieth century nor to the scientific community. Rather, the effects of this breakthrough in science are ubiquitous.
Cloud Computing Frameworks for Food Recognition from Images
Creators: name: Peddi, Sri Vijay Bharat
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Cloud Computing
Distributed Cloud Computing
e-health Application
Food Recognition
Cloud Virtualization
MapReduce

description: Distributed cloud computing, when integrated with smartphone capabilities, contribute to building an efficient multimedia e-health application for mobile devices. Unfortunately, mobile devices alone do not possess the ability to run complex machine learning algorithms, which require large amounts of graphic processing and computational power. Therefore, offloading the computationally intensive part to the cloud, reduces the overhead on the mobile device. In this thesis, we introduce two such distributed cloud computing models, which implement machine learning algorithms in the cloud in parallel, thereby achieving higher accuracy. The first model is based on MapReduce SVM, wherein, through the use of Hadoop, the system distributes the data and processes it across resizable Amazon EC2 instances. Hadoop uses a distributed processing architecture called MapReduce, in which a task is mapped to a set of servers for processing and the results are then reduced back to a single set. In the second method, we implement cloud virtualization, wherein we are able to run our mobile application in the cloud using an Android x86 image. We describe a cloud-based virtualization mechanism for multimedia-assisted mobile food recognition, which allow users to control their virtual smartphone operations through a dedicated client application installed on their smartphone. The application continues to be processed on the virtual mobile image even if the user is disconnected for some reason. Using these two distributed cloud computing models, we were able to achieve higher accuracy and reduced timings for the overall execution of machine learning algorithms and calorie measurement methodologies, when implemented on the mobile device.
Lewis Acid-Facilitated Radiofluorination of MN3PU: A LRRK2 Radiotracer
Creators: name: Malik, Noeen
name: Bendre, Shreya
name: Schirrmacher, Ralf
name: Schaffer, Paul
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Background: Temperature-sensitive radiopharmaceutical precursors require lower reaction temperatures (<100 ◦C) during nucleophilic radiofluorination in order to avoid compound thermolysis, often resulting in sub-optimal radiochemical yields (RCYs). To facilitate nucleophilic aromatic substitution (SNAr) of nucleofuges commonly used in radiofluorination (e.g., nitro group), we explored the use of Lewis acids as nucleophilic activators to accelerate [¹⁸F]fluoride incorporation at lower temperatures, and thereby increasing RCYs for thermolabile activated precursors. Lewis acid-assisted radiofluorination was exemplified on the temperature-sensitive compound 1-(4-(4-morpholino-7-neopentyl-7H-pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidin-2-yl)phenyl)-3-(6-nitropyridin-3-yl)urea (MN3PU, compound 3) targeting leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2), an important target in the study of Parkinson’s disease and various cancers. Methods: To a vessel containing dried K[¹⁸F]F-K222 complex, a solution of precursor MN3PU ((3), 1 mg; 1.8 µmol) and Lewis acid (6 µL of 0.2 µmol: chromium II chloride (A), ferric nitrite (B) or titanocene dichloride (C)) in 500 µL of N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF) (with 10% t-BuOH for B) were added. Reactions were stirred for 25 min at 90 ◦C. In parallel, reactions were conducted without the addition of Lewis acids for baseline comparison. After purification via preconditioned Sep-Pak C¹⁸ plus cartridges, aliquots were analyzed by analytical radio-HPLC. Results: Non-decay corrected radiochemical yields (ndc RCYs) for [¹⁸F]FMN3PU (7) were improved from 1.7 ± 0.7% (no addition of Lewis acids) to 41 ± 1% using Cr(II) and 37 ± 0.7% using Ti(II)-based Lewis acids, with radiochemical purities of ≥96% and molar activities (Am) of up to 3.23 ± 1.7 Ci/µmol (120 ± 1.7 GBq/µmol). Conclusion: RCYs of [¹⁸F]FMN3PU (7) improved from ~5% using conventional nucleophilic radiofluorination, up to 41 ± 1% using Lewis-acid supported SNAr.
Additional file 1 of Intrapartum uterine activity and neonatal outcomes: a systematic review
Creators: name: Reynolds, Adam J.
name: Geary, Michael P.
name: Hayes, Breda C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: PRISMA Checklist.