cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
"Estimate Your Distance from the Belsen Heap": Acknowledging and Negotiating Distance in Selected Works of Canadian Holocaust Literature
Creators: name: Berard, Jordan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Canadian Holocaust literature
A.M. Klein
Irving Layton
Leonard Cohen
J.J. Steinfeld
Bernice Eisenstein
Timothy Findley
Yann Martel
Canadian Literature
Canadian poetry
Canadian fiction
Holocaust literature

description: In his 1987 essay "Canadian Poetry After Auschwitz," Michael Greenstein argues that A.M. Klein's mock-heroic poem, The Hitleriad (1944), ultimately fails to portray the severity and tragedy of the Holocaust because "it lacks the necessary historical distance for coping with the enormity" of the event (1). Greenstein's criticism is interesting because it suggests that in order for a writer to adequately represent the horrors of a traumatic event like the Holocaust it is "necessary" for him to be distanced from the event. While Greenstein specifically addresses historical (or temporal) distance, Canadian authors writing about the Holocaust have also, inevitably, had to negotiate their geographical and cultural distance from the historical event as well. Not surprisingly, their works tend to be immensely self-reflexive in nature, reflecting an awareness of the questions of authority and problems of representation that have shaped critical thinking about Holocaust literature for over half a century. This dissertation examines the role that distance has played in the creation and critical understanding of representative works of Canadian Holocaust literature. It begins with an extensive analysis of the poetry and prose of geographically-distanced poet A.M. Klein, whose work is unique in the Canadian literary canon in that it mirrors the shifting psychological state of members of the Canadian Jewish community as news of the Holocaust slowly trickled into Canada. This is followed by a discussion of the Holocaust texts of Irving Layton and Leonard Cohen, both of whom experimented with increasingly graphic Holocaust imagery in their works in response to the increasingly more horrifying information about the concentration camps that entered the Canadian public conscience in the 1960s. The dissertation then turns its attention to the uniquely post-memorial and semi-autobiographical works of two children of Holocaust survivors, Bernice Eisenstein and J.J. Steinfeld, before focusing on the Holocaust works of Timothy Findley and Yann Martel, both of whom produce highly metafictional novels in order to respond to the questions of appropriation and ethical representation that often surround works of Holocaust fiction created by non-Jewish writers. The dissertation concludes with an analysis of Anne Michaels' novel Fugitive Pieces—a text that addresses all three types of distance that stand at the center of this dissertation, and that illustrates many of the strategies of representation that Canadian writers have adopted in their attempts to negotiate, highlight, erase, and embrace the distance that separates them from the Holocaust.
title: Diclofenac: Kleine Wirkung für den Menschen - großer Schaden für die Umwelt
title: Diclofenac: small effect for humans - big damage for the environment
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Maack, Gerd
name: Hein, Arne
name: Schröder, Patrick
name: Debiak, Malgorzata
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2023

description: Arzneimittel sind unverzichtbar für die menschliche und tierische Gesundheitsversorgung, aber viele Wirkstoffe werden zu einem großen Prozentsatz unverändert wieder ausgeschieden und gelangen in die Umwelt. Dort können die Wirkstoffe die gleichen Wirkungen wie die beabsichtigten Wirkungen beim Menschen und Tieren haben, aber es können auch die gleichen Nebenwirkungen auftreten. Es müssen daher Möglichkeiten gefunden werden, die Einträge in die Umwelt zu begrenzen. Bei dem Wirkstoff Diclofenac, der hauptsächlich in rezeptfreien Cremes und Gels mit oft fragwürdiger medizinischer Wirkung angewendet wird, ist die gemessene Umweltkonzentration in Europa mit 4 (mikro)g/L in Oberflächengewässern 10fach höher als die für Tiere und Pflanzen potenziell schädliche Konzentration. Hier ist Aufklärung ein wichtiger Ansatzpunkt für einen umweltbewussteren Umgang. Die Schaffung eines Problembewusstseins bei Verbraucherinnen und Verbrauchern und allen Beteiligten in den verschiedenen medizinischen Bereichen ist essenziell. Quelle: UMID : Umwelt und Mensch - Informationsdienst ; Umwelt & Gesundheit, Umweltmedizin, Verbraucherschutz / Boden- und Lufthygiene (Berlin) Institut für Wasser- - (2023), Heft 1, Seite 5
description: Pharmaceuticals are indispensable for human and animal health care, but many active ingredients are excreted unchanged to a large percentage and end up in the environment. There, the active ingredients can have the same effects as the intended effects in humans, but also the same side effects can occur. Therefore, ways must be found to limit the entry into the environment. For the active ingredient diclofenac, which is mainly used in over-the-counter creams and gels, with often questionable medicinal effects, the environmental concentration measured in Europe at 4 (micro)g/L in surface water is 10 times higher than the concentration that is potentially harmful to animals and plants. In this case, education is an important starting point for a more environmentally friendly approach. Creating awareness of the problem among consumers and all those involved in the various medical fields is essential. Quelle: UMID : Umwelt und Mensch - Informationsdienst ; Umwelt & Gesundheit, Umweltmedizin, Verbraucherschutz / Boden- und Lufthygiene (Berlin) Institut für Wasser- - (2023), Heft 1, Seite 5
Microcavity designs for an indium arsenideindium phosphide quantum dot fibre-compatible single photon source
Creators: name: Frederick, Simon
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Physics, Condensed Matter.

description: A source of on-demand single photons for fibre-based quantum information processing applications is highly desirable. To generate single photons at 1.55 mum we use an InAs/InP single quantum dot. Initial measurements to demonstrate the anti-bunched emission from the quantum dot are presented. In order to enhance the emission properties of the quantum dot, it is embedded in a microcavity. A broad variety of micropillar and photonic crystal microcavities are explored in order to find an optimized design to enhance the emission through the Purcell factor. Also, the microcavity output mode has to be suitable to funnel the emitted photons to a communication channel. The microcavity design properties are evaluated by measuring the escaping photons from the embedded high density layer of quantum dots or through complete three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain simulations. A "champion" design using a photonic crystal microcavity is shown to fulfill all the requirements. Record breaking microcavity quality factor (28 000) for an InP-based microcavity is demonstrated. A digital etching technique to tune the photonic crystal microcavity after fabrication is demonstrated. Repetitive removal of an oxide layer formed on the InP with wet chemistry enlarges the photonic crystal holes and reduces the InP layer thickness. Silica nanowire evanescent field coupling is used to probe the mode structure of a microcavity, allowing the extraction of single photons and tuning of the microcavity mode wavelength.
Positive initiatives, problematic implications
Creators: name: Gye, Lisa
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Any new funding or increased recognition for the arts and those who labour in their service is certainly to be encouraged and applauded. So arts practitioners and acdemics will welcome both the recently announced federal government initiative, Artstart, and the inclusion of creative works in the 2009 ERA (Excellence in Research for Australia) data collection trial currently underway in the Australian universities. Although they are targeted towards different cohorts of the creative arts community, both schemes will have an impact on the educational institutions that are often relied upon to provide a refuge for arts practice in this country.
Personal Branding of a Teacher - An Approach into E-Educational environment
Creators: name: Brandabur, Raluca-Ecaterina
Publisher: name: Editura Universitara
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 0 Social sciences
subject: 37 Education
subject: 371 Instructional design
subject: 004:37 Elearning

description: The subject discussed in this article is the way in which the teacher builds its awareness teacher, we basically talk about the personal career management.
Metabolic activity affects response of single cells to a nutrient switch in structured populations
Creators: name: Dal Co, Alma
name: Ackermann, Martin
name: Van Vliet, Simon
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Microbes live in ever-changing environments where they need to adapt their metabolism to different nutrient conditions. Many studies have characterized the response of genetically identical cells to nutrient switches in homogenous cultures, however in nature microbes often live in spatially structured groups such as biofilms where cells can create metabolic gradients by consuming and releasing nutrients. Consequently, cells experience different local microenvironments and vary in their phenotype. How does this phenotypic variation affect the ability of cells to cope with nutrient switches? Here we address this question by growing dense populations of Escherichia coli in microfluidic chambers and studying a switch from glucose to acetate at the single cell level. Before the switch, cells vary in their metabolic activity: some grow on glucose while others cross-feed on acetate. After the switch, only few cells can resume growth after a period of lag. The probability to resume growth depends on a cells’ phenotype prior to the switch: it is highest for cells cross-feeding on acetate, while it depends in a non-monotonic way on growth rate for cells growing on glucose. Our results suggest that the strong phenotypic variation in spatially structured populations might enhance their ability to cope with fluctuating environments.
Visual Literacy and Sufficient Contextualization Elements are Prerequisites for Effectiveness of Web-based Learning Objects as Cognitive Tools
Creators: name: Zinakov, Maksim; Sarapuu, Tago
Publisher: name: Editura Universitara
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 0 Social sciences
subject: 37 Education
subject: 371 Instructional design
subject: 004:37 Elearning

description: The current study investigated the development of students understanding of chemistry and their ability to translate visual information into verbal form and across representation due to application of two interactive web-based models and worksheets. 100 grade 8 students applied two web-based models during two lessons and filled in a pre-and a post-test.
The Role and Regulation of p53-associated, Parkin-like Cytoplasmic Protein (PARC) in p53 Subcellular Trafficking and Chemosensitivity in Human Ovarian Cancer Cells
Creators: name: Woo, Michael G.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: chemoresistance
chemosensitive
PARC
p53
subcellular trafficking
calpain
ovarian cancer
cisplatin
apoptosis
chemosensitivity
Akt
PI3K
p53-associated, parkin-like cytoplasmic protein

description: Resistance to cisplatin (CDDP)-based therapy is a major hurdle to the successful treatment of human ovarian cancer (OVCA) and the chemoresistant phenotype in OVCA cells is associated with Akt-attenuated, p53-mediated apoptosis. Pro-apoptotic functions of p53 involve both transcription-dependent and -independent signaling pathways and dysfunctional localization and/or inactivation of p53 contribute to the development of chemoresistance. PARC is a cytoplasmic protein regulating p53 subcellular localization and subsequent function. Little is known about the molecular mechanisms regulating PARC. Although PARC contains putative caspase-3 cleavage sites, and CDDP is known to induce the activation of caspases and calpains and induce proteasomal degradation of anti-apoptotic proteins, if and how PARC is regulated by CDDP in OVCA is unknown. Here we present evidence that CDDP promotes calpain-mediated PARC down-regulation, mitochondrial and nuclear p53 accumulation and apoptosis in chemosensitive but not resistant OVCA cells. Inhibition of Akt is required to sensitize chemoresistant cells to CDDP in a p53-dependent manner, an effect enhanced by PARC down-regulation. CDDP-induced PARC down-regulation is reversible by inhibitor of calpain but not of caspase-3 or the 26S proteasome. Furthermore, in vitro experiments confirm the ability of calpain in mediating Ca2+-dependent PARC down-regulation. The role of Ca2+ in PARC down-regulation was further confirmed as ionomycin induced PARC down-regulation in both chemosensitive and chemoresistant ovarian cancer cells. The data presented here implicates the regulation of p53 subcellular localization and apoptosis by PARC as a contributing factor in CDDP resistance in OVCA cells and Ca2+/calpain in PARC post-translational processing and chemosensitivity.
Design of Efficient MAC Protocols for IEEE 802.15.4-based Wireless Sensor Networks
Creators: name: Khanafer, Mounib
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: IEEE 802.15.4
Wireless Sensor Networks
MAC protocol
Binary Exponential Backoff
Backoff Algorithms
Power Conservation

description: Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have enticed a strong attention in the research community due to the broad range of applications and services they support. WSNs are composed of intelligent sensor nodes that have the capabilities to monitor different types of environmental phenomena or critical activities. Sensor nodes operate under stringent requirements of scarce power resources, limited storage capacities, limited processing capabilities, and hostile environmental surroundings. However, conserving sensor nodes’ power resources is the top priority requirement in the design of a WSN as it has a direct impact on its lifetime. The IEEE 802.15.4 standard defines a set of specifications for both the PHY layer and the MAC sub-layer that abide by the distinguished requirements of WSNs. The standard’s MAC protocol employs an intelligent backoff algorithm, called the Binary Exponent Backoff (BEB), that minimizes the drainage of power in these networks. In this thesis we present an in-depth study of the IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol to highlight both its strong and weak aspects. We show that we have enticing opportunities to improve the performance of this protocol in the context of WSNs. We propose three new backoff algorithms, namely, the Standby-BEB (SB-BEB), the Adaptive Backoff Algorithm (ABA), and the Priority-Based BEB (PB-BEB), to replace the standard BEB. The main contribution of the thesis is that it develops a new design concept that drives the design of efficient backoff algorithms for the IEEE 802.15.4-based WSNs. The concept dictates that controlling the algorithms parameters probabilistically has a direct impact on enhancing the backoff algorithm’s performance. We provide detailed discrete-time Markov-based models (for AB-BEB and ABA) and extensive simulation studies (for the three algorithms) to prove the superiority of our new algorithms over the standard BEB.
13 - ICT in the Language Class - The Student s Perspective
Creators: name: Catelly, Yolanda-Mirela
Publisher: name: Editura Universitara
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 0 Social sciences
subject: 37 Education
subject: 371 Instructional design
subject: 004:37 Elearning

description: The paper has stemmed from the need of the language teacher, who is also a materials/course designer, to study the engineering students viewpoints and perceptions of an ICT based foreign language class features
New Ways to Present the Information in the Teaching Activity
Creators: name: Chicioreanu, Teodora; Oproiu, Gabriela Carmen
Publisher: name: Editura Universitara
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 0 Social sciences
subject: 37 Education
subject: 371 Instructional design
subject: 004:37 Elearning

description: In this paper, a comparative study is performed regarding the new ways of delivering the information by using presentations such as PowerPoint, Prezi VoiceThread. Furthermore, the requirements that a presentation must meet in order for it to be successful and have a maximum impact on the audience are also shown.
Attenuation of Focal Cerebral Ischemic Injury Following Post-Ischemic Inhibition of Angiotensin Converting Enzyme (ACE) Activity in Normotensive Rat
Creators: name: Hamdollah Panahpour
name: Dehghani, Gholam Abbas
Publisher: name: the Pasteur Institute of Iran
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Basic Sciences

description: Iranian Biomedical Journal (IBJ); ISSN 1028-852X
Cinétique des transitions induites par un bruit dichotomique dans un système multivarié et multistable.
Creators: name: Guillouzic, Steve.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Physics, General.

description: On etudie l'evolution stochastique d'un systeme multivarie et deterministiquement multistable soumis a un bruit dichotomique markovien additif. A cette fin, on definit un support, duquel le systeme ne peut s'echapper, pour la densite de probabilite stationnaire. Une condition frontiere est alors imposee afin d'evaluer numeriquement cette distribution sur le support. Lorsque l'amplitude du bruit est suffisamment grande, le systeme peut evoluer dun attracteur stochastique a un autre. Un critere de definition permettant de separer le support en especes disjointes est ici suggere. Il est alors possible d'etudier la cinetique des transitions se produisant entre ces especes et menant vers l'etat stationnaire. La methode des projecteurs permet d'obtenir une loi phenomenologique qui est valide lorsque l'echelle de temps sur laquelle se deroulent les transitions inter-especes est beaucoup plus longue que toutes les autres echelles de temps caracterisant le systeme. On obtient egalement une equation permettant d'evaluer a l'aide d'une simulation directe les taux de transition de la loi phenomenologique. Comme cas particulier, on considere un systeme bivarie possedant de facon deterministe deux points fixes stables et un point de selle. Les resultats confirment la validite de l'expression obtenue pour les taux de transition dans la mesure ou le temps de correlation du bruit est suffisamment petit.
Prison violence in Canada: A female inmate's perspective.
Creators: name: Croteau, Cathy.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Women's Studies.

description: This study examines the issue of female prison violence in provincial correctional facilities in Canada. By examining this social issue through the inmate's perspective, this study attempts to identify what types of prison violence exist, explore possible explanations, examine the consequences, and formulate suggestions on how to reduce its occurrence. In conjunction with past results on prison violence, we selected the open ended interview as the form of research methodology. Fourteen women were interviewed for the purpose of this study, and for the scope of this Master's thesis we chose to explore the issue of violence between female inmates. Therefore, collective acts of violence and violence against correctional staff at the hands of the inmates were not the focus of this study. Instead, we chose to concentrate specifically on violence exclusively experienced between the female inmates. Seven women from two different correctional facilities in two provinces participated in this study. Although several women had served both federal and provincial sentences in their appropriate facilities, only the violence witnessed or participated within provincial facilities was considered. The study reveals that regardless of the limited amount of research, media recognition, and attention about female prison violence within provincial correctional facilities, it does exist. It also reveals that these women qualified violence using different criteria. Consequently, what some women may consider as milder forms of violence, others interpret the same acts of violence as more serious. Despite the women's interpretation of seriousness, the interviews in this study reveal that there are daily acts of violence amongst the women, and the intensity of that experience is individually defined. This research also concludes by recommending that more research is required in this area.
title: Multivariate statistical air mass discrimination for the high-alpine observatory at the Zugspitze mountain, Germany
title: Multivariate statistical air mass discrimination for the high-alpine observatory at the Zugspitze mountain, Germany
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Sigmund, Armin
name: Freier, Korbinian
name: Ries, Ludwig
name: Rehm, Till
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019

description: To assist atmospheric monitoring at high-alpine sites, a statistical approach for distinguishing between the dominant air masses was developed. This approach was based on a principal component analysis using five gas-phase and two meteorological variables. The analysis focused on the site Schneefernerhaus at Mt. Zugspitze, Germany. The investigated year was divided into 2-month periods, for which the analysis was repeated. Using the 33.3 % and 66.6 % percentiles of the first two 5 principal components, nine air mass regimes were defined. These regimes were interpreted with respect to vertical transport and assigned to the air mass classes ML (recent contact with the mixing layer), UFT/SIN (undisturbed free troposphere or stratospheric intrusion), and HYBRID (influences of both the mixing layer and the free troposphere or ambiguous). 78 % of the investigated year were classifiable. ML accounted for 31 % of the cases with similar frequencies in all seasons. UFT/SIN comprised 14 % of the cases but were not found from April to July. HYBRID (55 %) mostly exhibited intermediate charac10 teristics, whereby 17 % of HYBRID suggested an influence of the marine boundary layer or the lower free troposphere. The statistical approach was compared to a mechanistic approach using the ceilometer-based mixing layer height from a nearby valley site and a detection scheme for thermally induced mountain winds. Only 25 % of the cases were classifiable with the mechanistic approach. Both approaches agreed well, except in the rare cases of thermally induced uplift. The statistical approach is a promising step towards a real-time discrimination of air masses. Future work is necessary to assess the uncertainty 15 arising from the standardization of real-time data.Copyright: Author(s) 2019. CC BY 4.0 License
title: Boosting the Oxygen Evolution Reaction Performance of Ni‐Fe‐Electrodes by Tailored Conditioning
Creators: name: Gohlke, Clara
name: Gallenberger, Julia
name: Niederprüm, Nico
name: Ingendae, Hannah
name: Kautz, Johann
name: Hofmann, Jan P.
name: Mechler, Anna K.
Publisher: name: Wiley-VCH
Year: 2024

description: To meet the rising demand for green hydrogen, efficient alkaline water electrolysis demands highly active and low‐cost electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). We address this issue by focusing our work on optimizing the conditioning of promising Ni‐(Fe)‐based electrodes to improve their electrocatalytic performances. Systematic parameter variation for cyclic voltammetry conditioning revealed that a large potential window, low scan rate, and a high number of cycles result in improved activation. If the conditioning time is fixed, a high scan rate was found beneficial. A remarkable 47±6 mV potential drop at 10 mA cm⁻² was achieved for Ni₇₀Fe₃₀ when conditioning between −0.35–1.6 V at 100 mV s⁻¹ for just 30 min. We could demonstrate that this activation persisted over 100 h at 100 mA cm⁻², underscoring its enduring efficacy. We suggest that this activation effect results from the growth of a hydrous hydroxide layer, which is supported by energy dispersive X‐ray spectroscopy and X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Fe incorporation or dissolution played only a minor role in the differences in electrode activation, as demonstrated by variation of the Fe content in the electrolyte. Our work stresses the importance of conditioning in enhancing OER performance and explores how to improve the catalysts′ effectiveness by tailoring oxides.
Supplementary document for Comparison of the impact of nonlinearity in a p-i-n and MUTC photodetector on electro-optic frequency combs - 5017560.pdf
Creators: name: Mahabadi, Seyed Ehsan Jamali
name: Carruthers, Thomas
name: Menyuk, Curtis
name: McKinney, Jason
name: Williams, Keith
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
The mass-metallicity relation at z ∼ 0.7
Creators: name: Savaglio, S.
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Le Borgne, D.
name: Juneau, S.
name: Abraham, R. G.
name: Crampton, D.
name: McCarthy, P. J.P.
name: Chen, H. W.
name: Marzke, R.
name: Carlberg, R. G.
name: Jøgensen, I.
name: Roth, K.
name: Hook, I.
name: Murowinski, R.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The ISM metallicity and the stellar mass are examined in a sample of 66 galaxies at 0.4 < z < 1, selected from the Gemini Deep Deep Survey (GDDS) and the Canada-France Redshift Survey (CFRS). We observe a mass-metallicity relation similar to that seen in z ~ 0.1 SDSS galaxies, but displaced towards higher masses and/or lower metallicities. Using this sample, and a small sample of z ~ 2.3 LBGs, a redshift dependent mass-metallicity relation is proposed which describes the observed results.
Marital distress and depressive symptoms in women: The effects of self-silencing and self-complexity.
Creators: name: MacDonald, Brian J.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Social.

description: Marital distress and depression are strongly related, making the study of depression within a marital context particularly interesting. Causal models suggest that men's depressive symptoms precede marital dissatisfaction, whereas women's depressive symptomatology follows marital dissatisfaction. Few such models have integrated husbands' and wives' variables in a single model. The present study tested a model that predicted depressive symptoms in married women using marital dissatisfaction, self-silencing, and husbands' depressive symptoms. Jack's (1991) theory predicted that self-silencing would be more likely to occur in women for whom the marital role was central to the self-concept. A community sample of eighty-five couples completed the Beck Depression Inventory, and the Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale. A measure self-image complexity was included to determine the extent to which subjects defined themselves in terms of their marital relationships. A "domino effect" was supported in predicting women's, but not men's, depressive symptoms: depressed husbands tended to be dissatisfied with their marriages, which increased the likelihood that their wives would also be dissatisfied, which was related to the women's vulnerability to depressive symptoms. Silencing one's needs and feelings within relationships was also associated with an increase in women's depressive symptoms, and was particularly likely to occur when the husbands reported depressive symptoms. Contrary to Jack's (1991) self-silencing theory, silencing was less likely to occur in women who defined themselves in terms of their marital relationships. This finding is in agreement with research examining relationships between conflict management techniques and particular attachment styles. Individuals who are preoccupied with their relationships, who are likely to define themselves in terms of those relationships, tend not to silence their needs and feelings. In contrast, individuals who avoid closeness in relationships, who are unlikely to define themselves in relationship terms, tend to withdraw from conflict and censor their feelings in interactions with their partners. Further research is needed in order to clarify the association between the centrality of relationships to one's sense of self and the silencing of needs and feelings within those relationships.
Coach-athlete communication within a national Alpine ski team.
Creators: name: Culver, Diane Mary.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Education, Sociology of.

description: The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of process of communication between coaches and athletes. Considered a critical element of the coaching-learning process, communication has rarely been studied as it occurs in the field and has nearly always been examined from the point of view of the coach. Yet in every model of communication the sender and the receiver are considered equally important thus this study investigated both the coaches' and the athletes' perceptions of the communication process using a qualitative approach. The participants were six female members of a junior national ski team, aged 17 to 19 years old, and their two male coaches. Semi-structured interviews, non-participant observation, and journals were used to collect information, both in action and retrospectively. The first interviews, conducted just before the beginning of the competitive season, established that both coaches and athletes believed in open, two-way communication. Subsequent observation revealed that despite their philosophy, once the competitive season began, the coaches and athlete had trouble at times interacting according to this philosophy. In an effort to deepen understanding concerning the process of communication it was decided to analyze some of these problem interactions, with the use of a model of communication proposed for coaching. Issues that emerged from the data included; how coaches and athletes in this transitional period between youth sport and mature elite athletics share the roles of initiator and receiver, injury recovery, pressure to perform, power differentials, and the participants views of the importance of a positive atmosphere, hard work, and fun. Practical suggestions for the education of coaches and implications for sport psychology consultants are presented.
An analysis of residential water demand for Ontario and the Prairie Provinces from 1989 to 1999
Creators: name: Boisvert, Andreanne
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Geography.
subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: The research centred on the factors accounting for variations within residential water demand. To accomplish this task, the statistical technique of regression analysis was used to analyze water demand data compiled by Environment Canada, for five different years, within two Canadian regions: Ontario and the Prairie Provinces. Two dependent variables were analyzed: total residential water demand (TRWD) and residential water demand per capita (RWD/cap). Within the TRWD model, population served by water services was found to be the only statistically significant variable, with coefficients of determination around 0.9. It was therefore found, that for forecasting of regional water demands, multiplying a predicted population level with a per capita coefficient might be a sufficient technique at the regional level. Other variables tested included price structure, price of water services, household income and rainfall. With respect to the RWD/cap model, marginal prices were found to be statistically significant within the Prairie region, as well as for the combination of both regions. The multiple linear regression model produced R2 values that were very low (varying from 0.030 to 0.130). (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Hayek’s Political Philosophy and Its Philosophical Sources
Creators: name: Filip, Birsen
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Hayek
Humboldt
Mill
Popper
Hegel
Leibniz
freedom
spontaneous order
the rule of law
the role of the state
German Historical School of Economics
Austrian School of Economics
historicism
negative freedom

description: This thesis aims to broaden the discussion about the origins of some of the fundamental theoretical sources for Hayek’s ideas regarding freedom and the state. It focuses on the debates between the Austrian School of Economics and the German Historical School of Economics, as well as the works of Popper, Mill, Humboldt and Hegel in order to identify their positive and negative influences on Hayek’s views of freedom and the state. The originality of the thesis relates to the examination of Humboldt’s political philosophy in terms of its influence over the formation of the components of Hayek’s account of freedom, such as spontaneous order, the rule of law, the role of the state, and the nature of human knowledge. These components have assisted in Hayek’s efforts to prove the superiority of open societies over totalitarian regimes. The thesis explains that Hayek’s intellectual collaboration with Popper played a significant role in identifying many enemies of open societies. Both theorists agreed that historicism was a method commonly used and promoted by the enemies of open society; specifically, they accused Hegel of promoting historicism and, as a result, of being an enemy of open societies. However, this thesis disputes these accusations and argues that Popper and Hayek did not possess adequate knowledge of Hegel’s theoretical work to make such claims. In actuality, Hegel was not an enemy of open societies, he recognized the potential devastating outcomes associated with them and sought solutions. The thesis also explores the idea that Mill was also worried about the detrimental features of industrial capitalism and, as a result, attributed a prominent role to “state activity” in securing the conditions of positive freedom. Hayek, meanwhile, viewed such forms of state interference as obstacles to attaining freedom. This thesis examines the topic whether or not Hayek actually sought to formulate a genuine form of freedom or if he merely valued freedom as a tool for the promotion of open societies over centrally planned economies.
Supplementary document for Comparison of the impact of nonlinearity in a p-i-n and MUTC photodetector on electro-optic frequency combs - 5017560.pdf
Creators: name: Mahabadi, Seyed Ehsan Jamali
name: Carruthers, Thomas
name: Menyuk, Curtis
name: McKinney, Jason
name: Williams, Keith
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Visual Spatial Learning and Memory in Fragile X Syndrome and fmr1 Knockout Mice
Creators: name: MacLeod, Lindsey
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Fragile X Syndrome
spatial learning and memory
fmr1 KO
hippocampus
Hebb-Williams Mazes
behavioural testing

description: This dissertation describes separate but related studies that explore visual spatial learning and memory in Fragile X Syndrome. Across all studies, either the performance of individuals affected by FXS and/or fmr1 KO mice was compared to comparison controls on seven H-W mazes of increasing difficulty levels. Study one employed the traditional configuration of the H-W mazes to evaluate performance variables that include latency to complete the maze and number of the errors. The results of study 1 revealed significant differences in performance for both FXS groups as compared to mental age-matched comparison individuals and wild type mice, respectively. In contrast to the FXS group, performance of the comparison group improved as indicated by significantly fewer errors across trials. A similar pattern of results was observed when latency across trials was analyzed. Taken together, the results of study one support the hypothesis that a selective deficit in spatial learning and memory characteristic of the FXS phenotype can be observed in the murine model of FXS, if equivalent tasks are employed in testing humans and mice. Study two expanded on these findings by adding landmarks to the maze environment to evaluate how these may impact spatial learning and memory in fmr1 KO mice. Contrary to our hypotheses, landmarks significantly impaired wild type control performance. In addition, results revealed that the performance of the fmr1 KO mice generally did not differ between landmark and non-landmark tasks, indicating that the presence of landmarks neither enhanced nor hindered mouse performance. Lastly, study three entailed a more in-depth behavior analysis of maze navigation performance for FXS individuals from study 1. Consistent with the hypotheses and findings from study 1, results revealed significant differences in performance variables between individuals, with FXS participants generally performing worse than the comparison group participants. Taken together, the results of study 3 generally supported the hypothesis that there was greater impairment in performance for individuals affected by FXS as compared to controls. This impairment was evident in the pattern of pathways taken to solve H-W mazes, consistent with the notion that affected individuals employed different behavioral strategies.
Neurorestorative interventions involving bioelectronic implants after spinal cord injury
Creators: name: Cho, Newton
name: Squair, Jordan W
name: Bloch, Jocelyne
name: Courtine, Grégoire
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2019

description: In the absence of approved treatments to repair damage to the central nervous system, the role of neurosurgeons after spinal cord injury (SCI) often remains confined to spinal cord decompression and vertebral fracture stabilization. However, recent advances in bioelectronic medicine are changing this landscape. Multiple neuromodulation therapies that target circuits located in the brain, midbrain, or spinal cord have been able to improve motor and autonomic functions. The spectrum of implantable brain-computer interface technologies is also expanding at a fast pace, and all these neurotechnologies are being progressively embedded within rehabilitation programs in order to augment plasticity of spared circuits and residual projections with training. Here, we summarize the impending arrival of bioelectronic medicine in the field of SCI. We also discuss the new role of functional neurosurgeons in neurorestorative interventional medicine, a new discipline at the intersection of neurosurgery, neuro-engineering, and neurorehabilitation.
Service quality as the basis for customer segmentation in the international airline industry
Creators: name: Lobo, Antonio
name: Mehta, Subhash
name: Ngansathil, Wichiyra
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The services marketing literature focuses on the measurement of service quality and its impact and consequences on businesses. This is important as service quality affects behavioural outcomes such as repeat purchases and loyalty. Research in this respect has been concentrated in the banking, financial, insurance and health care sectors. We examine how service quality can be effectively used as a basis for customer segmentation in the international airline industry, which is facing huge competition. Customers of a large international airline were segmented based on their travel behaviour, i.e. frequency, class, loyalty status and purpose of travel. Results of the segmentation analysis revealed that different groups of respondents perceived the service quality of the same airline differently. These results would allow international airlines to identify and have better access to its customers through the use of target marketing. The differences in perceptions of service quality between segments indicate that airlines today cannot apply a single service strategy to its entire customer base. To stay competitive they would need to consider more specific customer-focused strategies to meet the needs of the different identified market segments.
The Integration of Concept Maps in the Teaching Activity. SWOT Analysis of the Applications Existing Online Dedicated to the Elaboration of Concept Maps
Creators: name: Chicioreanu, Teodora; Litoiu, Nicoleta
Publisher: name: Editura Universitara
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 0 Social sciences
subject: 37 Education
subject: 371 Instructional design
subject: 004:37 Elearning

description: The concept maps (cognitive maps; mind mapping) can be defined as mirrors of the thinking, feeling and understanding manner of the one(s) approaching them. They can therefore be used in learning concepts (leading to facilitating the representation of the learning process) and in assessing the knowledge. Their current use in the teaching activity opens new perspectives to an active and conscious learning process to the detriment of the one based exclusively on memorisation and reproduction.
E-Learning as the Key Tool in Today s Romanian Higher Education
Creators: name: Chirimbu, Sebastian; Barbu, Adrian
Publisher: name: Editura Universitara
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 0 Social sciences
subject: 37 Education
subject: 371 Instructional design
subject: 004:37 Elearning

description: The present paper attempts to present the situation of today s Romanian higher education seen in an on going process of modernization due to the massive introduction of e learning technologies, generating quality e learning content, due to the involvement and commitment of an increasing number of e learning specialized trainers.
Teaching E-Commerce Terminology by Creating Electronic Corpora
Creators: name: Coanca, Mariana
Publisher: name: Editura Universitara
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 0 Social sciences
subject: 37 Education
subject: 371 Instructional design
subject: 004:37 Elearning

description: In this paper we emphasize the fact that teaching e-commerce terminology is not an easydoing task, taking into account that terminology is an interdisciplinary science that deals with the classification and standardisation of the specialised vocabulary, by giving relevant information in a technical-scientific framework.
title: Dual Function pH Responsive Bispecific Antibodies for Tumor Targeting and Antigen Depletion in Plasma
Creators: name: Bogen, Jan P.
name: Hinz, Steffen C.
name: Grzeschik, Julius
name: Ebenig, Aileen
name: Krah, Simon
name: Zielonka, Stefan
name: Kolmar, Harald
Publisher: name: Frontiers Media S.A.
Year: 2024

description: Shedding of membrane-bound cell surface proteins, where the extracellular domain is released and found in the circulation is a common phenomenon. A prominent example is CEACAM5 (CEA, CD66e), where the shed domain plays a pivotal role in tumor progression and metastasis. For treatment of solid tumors, the presence of the tumor-specific antigen in the plasma can be problematic since tumor-specific antibodies might be intercepted by the soluble antigen before invading their desired tumor target area. To overcome this problem, we developed a generic procedure to generate bispecific antibodies, where one arm binds the antigen in a pH-dependent manner thereby enhancing antigen clearance upon endosomal uptake, while the other arm is able to target tumor cells pH-independently. This was achieved by incorporating pH-sensitive binding modalities in the common light chain IGKV3-15*01 of a CEACAM5 binding heavy chain only antibody. Screening of a histidine-doped light chain library using yeast surface display enabled the isolation of pH-dependent binders. When such a light chain was utilized as a common light chain in a bispecific antibody format, only the respective heavy/light chain combination, identified during selections, displayed pH-responsive binding. In addition, we found that the altered common light chain does not negatively impact the affinity of other heavy chain only binders toward their respective antigen. Our strategy may open new avenues for the generation of bispecifics, where one arm efficiently removes a shed antigen from the circulation while the other arm targets a tumor marker in a pH-independent manner.
title: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in the German environment - Levels and patterns in different matrices
title: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in the German environment - Levels and patterns in different matrices
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Biegel-Engler, Annegret
name: Kotthoff, Matthias
name: Fliedner, Annette
name: Koschorreck, Jan
name: Rüdel, Heinz
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Boden

description: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the environment mostly originate from emissions of previously unregulated PFAS. However, there are also many documented incidents of accidental releases. To track such releases, it is essential to distinguish between typical background contamination and legally relevant incidents. This requires a comprehensive overview of all PFAS present in the environment, which is currently only possible to a limited extent due to the large variety of individual compounds. In the present study, a multimethod for capturing 41 PFAS including perfluoroalkyl acid (PFAA) precursors is introduced. The applicability of the method was tested on terrestrial, freshwater and marine samples from the German Environmental Specimen Bank (ESB), thereby providing a rough overview of PFAS contamination in German environment. Special focus was put on soil samples from ESB sites across Germany in comparison to soil samples from a polluted site in south-west Germany. The method was successfully applied to environmental samples. In total, 31 PFAS were detected, among them PFAA precursors and fluorinated ethers. Substance patterns differed between sites and matrices. In ESB soil samples from 2014 (n = 11), the sum of all captured PFAS ranged between 0.75 and 19.5 (my)g kg-1 dry weight (dw), while concentrations between 416 (my)g kg-1 and 3530 (my)g kg-1 were detected in samples from the incident site (n = 10). In other matrices, total PFAS concentrations were magnitudes lower. Highest concentrations were observed for PFOS in bream livers from the Saale (226 (my)g kg-1). Given the heterogeneous patterns, it will require further broadly-based monitoring data to allow for a solid estimation of relevant background levels. The data provided here may support the differentiation between background levels and hotspot contaminations. ©2020 The Authors
What would Durkheim say? Altruistic suicide in analyses of suicide terrorism
Creators: name: Zevallos, Zuleyka
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: To highlight some of the methodological limitations, this paper presents a critical analysis of empirical studies on suicide terrorism which apply Durkheim's typology of altruistic suicide. The paper will then sketch an ongoing study of suicide terrorism that aims to go beyond the current 'Western' frameworks of understanding. The paper will show how, in trying to understand suicide terrorism, the complications associated with finding reliable and valid data on the subject are compounded by the way in which researchers and intelligence analysts fail to address the limitations of their methodology. The paper argues that data about suicide terrorism must be analysed within an explicit epistemological framework. It further argues that suicide terrorism must be understood in terms of social context, and in context of the researcher/analyst as a situated being, whose social location and culture affect the way in which they interpret data. The paper suggests that sociological studies in the areas of altruism, community identities, and the sociology of suicide may provide insight into understanding suicide terrorism as a social process. This framework represents an attempt to break down the process of 'otherness' that currently limits our understanding of terrorism.
Freerice.com - Free Education Based on Appealing Level-Based English Tests
Creators: name: Coanca, Mariana
Publisher: name: Editura Universitara
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 0 Social sciences
subject: 37 Education
subject: 371 Instructional design
subject: 004:37 Elearning

description: Our paper deals with the presentation of Freerice.com and its custom database. We also show the impact of the level-based English tests - Freerice.com upon our students during classes.