cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Les jeunes et l'itinérance à Ottawa-Gatineau: négociation quotidienne d'une géographie frontalière
Creators: name: Gaudet, Maxime
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Itinérance
Jeunes
Frontière
Ottawa-Gatineau
Identités
Langues
Géographie culturelle

description: Fondement de leur identité marginale, les jeunes itinérants développent fréquemment une relation forte avec l’espace de la rue en tant que lieu de socialisation et de survie. Si de nombreuses recherches s’intéressent à cette appropriation alternative de la géographie urbaine, le cadre unique d’Ottawa-Gatineau pose une question innovante : qu’advient-il lorsque l’espace investi par les jeunes de la rue est divisé par la présence d’une frontière provinciale riche de significations sociales et culturelles? La rivière des Outaouais sépare effectivement les centres-villes d’Ottawa et de Gatineau (lieux de concentration de l’itinérance dans la région) créant ainsi une géographie inégalitaire. Bien qu’elle n’implique pas de restrictions formelles de déplacements, cette limite reste tout à fait significative, car elle sépare deux systèmes de services sociaux, deux économies, mais aussi des populations aux identités, aux langues et aux normes sociales très différentes. Quotidiennement confrontés à la présence de cette frontière entre le Québec et l’Ontario, les jeunes de la rue adaptent leurs vies en fonction des opportunités, des limitations et des paradoxes qu’elle créée. À travers une série d’entrevues avec des jeunes des deux côtés de la rivière, cette recherche a pour objectif d’analyser l’impact de la frontière sur la vie quotidienne de cette population vulnérable. Une attention particulière sera accordée à la perspective des participants dont la vie est directement affectée par la frontière afin de comparer les différentes tactiques d’adaptation à cette géographie unique.
« Préférez-vous votre oeil droit ou votre oeil gauche? » : Langue et religion dans le débat sur la gestion scolaire en Ontario français (1969-1998)
Creators: name: Gourgon, Danika
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Canada français
Système scolaire
Franco-Ontariens
Religion

description: Cette étude fait l’examen de la place de la religion catholique dans le débat sur la création des conseils scolaires francophones et, plus largement, dans le débat public franco-ontarien entre 1969 et 1998. Elle tente d’apporter certaines nuances à la thèse de l’« éclatement » du Canada français et de l’écartement de la référence canadienne-française que la plupart des chercheurs ont soutenue jusqu’à présent. En analysant les discours formulés et les actions menées par les principales associations franco-ontariennes oeuvrant en éducation, l’Association française des conseils scolaires de l’Ontario (AFCSO), l’Association canadienne-française de l’Ontario (ACFO) et l’Association d’enseignement français en Ontario (AEFO), la thèse examine leurs prises de positions dans le débat sur la gestion scolaire. Elle fait ressortir le débat de société qui existe en Ontario français sur la question religieuse et sur la place qu'elle occupe dans le développement institutionnel et dans la construction identitaire des Franco-Ontariens.
La Chambre des cultures, déviance et survivance
Creators: name: Annie, Thibault
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: art vivant
art et champignons
bioart
art et écologie
art nature
art et biologie
art et science

description: Connue pour son travail avec les cultures fongiques, le plancton et les bactéries comme matériaux artistiques, Annie Thibault se penche au cours de sa maîtrise sur les méthodes de cultures de champignons domestiques importées d’Asie. Son projet de thèse et d’exposition La Chambre des cultures, déviance et survivance propose deux installations sculpturales et une projection vidéo image par image découlant de ses expérimentations amorcées à l’hiver 2015 dans une serre de culture de pleurotes aménagée dans un local désaffecté des sous-sols de l’Université d’Ottawa. L’exposition est présentée in situ à la galerie BLINK, dans la maison patrimoniale Header, qui pour l’occasion, reprend son ancienne vocation de Maison des serres autrefois liée au complexe serricole du parc Major’s Hill, démantelé en 1938.
Painter, Painter
Creators: name: Chae, Elle
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: home
domestic
space
reverie
oil paint
inhabitants
occupants,
interactions
shelter
creative deconstruction

description: In Painter, Painter, Elle Chae explores the home as an unstable, unpredictable environment that is highly sensitive to the traces emanating from the domestic space, including its inhabitants. This body of work examines how the occupant’s interactions can blur the notion of home as a shelter. Using the creative deconstruction as a mode of generating new meanings, Chae’s conceptual juxtaposition and wide range of techniques and surface create reverie scenes that are open to and encourage freedom of interpretations.
La prévention du génocide: un défi possible à relever
Creators: name: Iyakaremye, Jean-Bosco
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: droit international
prévention
génocide
crimes de masse
crimes contre l’humanité
crimes de guerre
protection des droits humains
Nations Unies
organisations internationales
relations multilatérales
démocratie
bonne gouvernance
état de droit
cour pénale internationale
armée permanente des Nations Unies
comité international
bilatérales
comités nationaux contre le génocide
régionales de protection
droits humains

description: Le génocide constitue incontestablement le crime le plus monstrueux, du fait que ses victimes sont un groupe de personnes innocentes et inoffensives, visées, non pas à cause de leurs actes ou du risque qu’elles représentent au regard de la sécurité de l’État criminel, mais uniquement pour ce qu’elles sont, comme telles. La Convention sur la prévention et la répression du crime de génocide, mise en place en réaction contre l’Holocauste en tant qu’instrument juridique à même de permettre au "plus jamais ça" de devenir une réalité, n’a pas contribué à la prévention de ce crime, dans la mesure où le génocide des Tutsis est venu rappeler que les plus belles promesses restent vaines, lorsque les instruments juridiques internationaux, régionaux et nationaux de protection des droits humains ne sont pas solides, et surtout lorsque ceux-ci ne sont pas "arrimés" à des outils structurels et opérationnels cohérents en mesure de faciliter la prise de décision rapide et efficace des plus importants décideurs politiques au sein de la "société internationale", en vue de la prévention du génocide et d’autres crimes de masse. La question à laquelle tente, dès lors, de répondre cette étude est celle de trouver les voies et moyens à utiliser pour permettre à la "société internationale" de prévenir le génocide et les autres crimes de masse. Cette étude suggère, entre autres, aux Nations Unies, aux organisations régionales, aux États ainsi qu’aux citoyens, des moyens susceptibles de relever ce défi. Figurent notamment parmi ces moyens, le renforcement des normes et institutions de protection des droits humains tant à l’échelle universelle que sur les plans régionaux. Elle propose également les moyens structurels et opérationnels utilisables dans la même perspective
Penal Spectatorship at Three Police Museums in Ontario
Creators: name: Ferguson, Matthew
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: police museum
penal history
punishment
penal spectatorship
penality
police

description: This thesis examines a widespread yet understudied tourism destination in Canada – the police museum. I visited and collected data at three police museums in the province of Ontario, Canada: the Toronto Police Museum and Discovery Centre in Toronto, the OPP Museum in Orillia, and the RCMP Musical Ride Centre in Ottawa. Engaging with Brown’s (2009) theory of “penal spectatorship”, I investigate how these sites (re)produce and circulate meanings about penality through their different representational practices. I identify three dominant themes and argue that the police museums foster social distance between visitors and those in conflict with the law. By sharing these findings, and along the way reconceptualizing the definition of police museum, identifying fifty-nine police museums in Canada, and presenting a Canadian police museum typology, this thesis lays some groundwork for expanding the horizons of penal spectatorship theory and penal tourism scholarship to the realm of policing.
Facing the Challenges of Female Obesity During Midlife: Social Inequality, Weight Control, and Stigma in Clinically Overweight and Obese Women
Creators: name: Binette, Rachelle
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Social Inequality
Women's Health
Obesity Stigma
Weight Control

description: The increasing burden of chronic disease in ageing populations has shifted focus towards illness prevention and the self-management of health. Middle-aged and menopausal women’s transitioning bodies, specifically with respect to weight gain and changes in body fat composition, have received much attention by public health officials during the alleged obesity epidemic. In addition to these transformations, socioeconomic status has been shown to interact with obesity by decreasing the psychosocial health of vulnerable women. Although public health actions have targeted the health practices of clinically obese women throughout the menopausal transition, their effectiveness is limited because of existing socioeconomic inequalities, narrow focus on body weight interventions, and the psychosocial impact of an obesity stigma. Drawing on Bourdieu’s sociocultural theory of practice, and namely his concepts of body habitus and symbolic violence, this study aims: (a) to identify the norms and values of clinically overweight and obese postmenopausal women from contrasting socioeconomic backgrounds with regard to the ways they treat and care for their body, and (b) to outline the socio-cultural processes which incline them (or not) to pursue weight-loss strategies. Forty semi-structured interviews were conducted with clinically overweight and obese postmenopausal women from underprivileged (n=20) and middle class (n=20) milieus in the city of Sherbrooke, Québec. An intersectional (gender, age, socioeconomic status) thematic analysis was employed in order to analyze the data and identify emergent themes within and between both socioeconomic groups. This thesis is composed of two distinct studies. The first identifies the diverse contexts of occurrence of obesity stigma and weight shaming, as well as the contrasting responses between the two socioeconomic groups. Although all participants experienced obesity stigma, participants from lower social positions were more vulnerable to the psychosocial impact of dominant obesity discourses. In contrast, a higher access to social, economic, and educational resources provided middle-class women with more protection from weight shaming and discrimination. In the second article, from a public health perspective, the analysis of hierarchies of priorities, perception of control, as well as barriers and facilitators show that weight management needs to be understood as the outcome of a social process in which living conditions, material and psychosocial, offer a number of conditions of possibilities. Globally speaking, middle-class conditions privileged the adherence to public health recommendations, while socially deprived conditions inclined women to adopt unsustainable and risk-oriented weight-loss practices.
International Trade and Investment Agreements and Health: The Role of Transnational Corporations and International Investment Law
Creators: name: Schram, Ashley
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: International Trade
International Investment Law
Population Health
Noncommunicable Disease
Transnational Corporations
Health Impact Assessment
Neoliberalism
New Constitutionalism
Investor-State
Health Policy
Social Determinants of Health
Health Harmful Commodities
Food Environments
Dispute Settlement

description: Addressing complex global health challenges, including the burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), will require change in sectors outside of traditional public health. Contemporary regional trade and investment agreements (RTAs) like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) continue to move further ‘behind-the-border’ into domestic policy space introducing new challenges in the regulation of health risk factors. This dissertation aimed to clarify the pathways through which RTAs influence NCDs, and to explore points along those pathways with the intent of improving the existing evidence base and supporting policy development. This work develops a critical theoretical framework exploring the ideas, institutions, and interests behind trade and investment policy; it also develops a conceptual framework specifying how trade and investment treaty provisions influence NCD rates through the effects of trade and investment on tobacco, alcohol, and ultra-processed food and beverage products, as well as access to medicines and the social determinants of health. Using health impact assessment methodology, three analytical components were designed to examine pathways of influence from RTAs to health outcomes as mediated by the interests of transnational corporations (TNCs). The first component explored the influence of industry during the TPP negotiations and how its health-related interests were reflected in the final TPP text. The second component examined the role of trade and investment liberalisation in health-harmful commodity markets, finding a rise in TNC sales after a period of liberalisation. The third component demonstrated how investor rights and investor-state dispute can challenge the state’s right to regulate if it damages the profits of TNCs, which may threaten effective health regulation, and provides opportunities to strengthen the right to regulate. The work in this dissertation provides support for the thesis that trade and investment policies are a fundamental structural determinant of health and well-being, which are highly influenced by TNCs that guide such policies in the interest of maximising their profits and protections, often to the detriment of public policy and population health. This work identifies the need for more robust health impact assessments of RTAs before future agreements are ratified, as well as an imperative to challenge vested interests that entrench neoliberal policy preferences that have hindered sustainable and equitable development.
Topics in Many-valued and Quantum Algebraic Logic
Creators: name: Lu, Weiyun
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: mv algebra
effect algebra
many valued-logic
quantum logic
algebraic logic
mathematical logic
category theory
categorical logic

description: Introduced by C.C. Chang in the 1950s, MV algebras are to many-valued (Łukasiewicz) logics what boolean algebras are to two-valued logic. More recently, effect algebras were introduced by physicists to describe quantum logic. In this thesis, we begin by investigating how these two structures, introduced decades apart for wildly different reasons, are intimately related in a mathematically precise way. We survey some connections between MV/effect algebras and more traditional algebraic structures. Then, we look at the categorical structure of effect algebras in depth, and in particular see how the partiality of their operations cause things to be vastly more complicated than their totally defined classical analogues. In the final chapter, we discuss coordinatization of MV algebras and prove some new theorems and construct some new concrete examples, connecting these structures up (requiring a detour through effect algebras!) to boolean inverse semigroups.
TCP/AQM Congestion Control Based on the H2/H∞ Theory
Creators: name: Haghighizadeh, Navin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: TCP/AQM
H2/H∞ Theory
Congestion Control
TCP/IP
Stability Analysis
Real Time Controller
Window-Based Controller
Rate-Based Controller

description: This thesis uses a modern control approach to address the Internet traffic control issues in the Transport Layer. Through literature review, we are interested in using the H2/H∞ formulation to obtain the good transient performance of an H2 controller and the good robust property from an H∞ controller while avoiding their deficiencies. The H2/H∞ controller is designed by formulating an optimization problem using the H2-norm and the H∞-norm of the system, which can be solved by an LMI approach using MATLAB. Our design starts with the modeling of a router and the control system by augmenting the network plant function with the Sensitivity function S, the Complementary Sensitivity function T and the Input Sensitivity function U. These sensitivity functions along with their weight functions are used to monitor the closed-loop dynamics of the traffic control. By choosing different combinations of the sensitivity functions, we can obtain the SU, the ST and the STU controllers. Both the window-based and rate-based version of these different types of H2/H∞ controllers have been designed and investigated. We have also proved that these controllers are stable using Lyapunov’s First Method. Next, we verify the performance of the controllers by OPNET simulation using different performance measures of queue length, throughput, queueing delay, packet loss rate and goodput. Our performance evaluation via simulation has demonstrated the robustness and the better transient response such as the rise/fall time and the peak queue value. We have also investigated the controller performances subject to network dynamics as well as through comparison with other controllers. Finally, we have improved these controllers for real-time application. They are capable to update/renew the controller in a short time whenever new network parameter values are detected so that the optimum performance can be maintained.
Translating Italian-Canadian Migrant Writing to Italian: a Discourse Around the Return to the Motherland/Tongue
Creators: name: Nannavecchia, Tiziana
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Translation Studies
Literary Translation
Migrant Studies
Migrant Literature
Italian-Canadian Literature
Migration to Canada
Nostalgia
Homecoming

description: A two-way bond between translation and migration has appeared in the most recent texts in the social sciences and humanities: this connection between the two is exemplified by the mobility metaphor, which considers both practices as journeys across cultural, linguistic and geographical borders. Among the different ways this mobility metaphor can be studied, two particular areas of investigation are of interest for this research: firstly, migrant writing, a literary genre shaped from the increasing migratory movements worldwide; the second area of interest is literary translation, the activity that shapes the way these narratives are disseminated beyond the linguistic borders they were produced in. My investigation into the role of literary translation in the construction and circulation of a migrant discourse starts with the claim that writing and translation in itinerant contexts are driven by, and participate in, the idea of the journey: an interlingual and intercultural flow regulated by social/economic/artistic constraints, a movement in which the migrant experience is ‘translated’ in writing and then ‘migrated’ across languages and spaces. The present analysis focuses on the representative case study of migrant narratives by Canadian writers of Italian descent: their shared reflections on the themes of nostalgia and the mythical search for roots, together with a set of specific linguistic devices – hybridity, juxtaposition of languages, idiolects and registers – create a distinctive literary migrant discourse, that of the return to the land of origin. Guided primarily by the theoretical framework of Cultural Studies, the first part of this work seeks to illustrate how thematic and linguistic elements contribute to the construction of a homecoming discourse in original migrant narratives, and how this relates to the translation practice. Subsequently, the analysis moves to the examination of how these motives are reproduced in the translated texts, and what is/are the key rationale/s behind the translation of this type of works. Ultimately, my research takes a sociologically informed interest in the influence of translation and its agents in endorsing and/or manipulating this rationale in the receiving culture. In fact, this research aims to represent equally the human and cultural-linguistic aspects that affect these translational journeys, concentrating, firstly, on the actors (authors and literary translators) and the social and artistic environments that surround the production of both the source and target texts and, subsequently, on the texts themselves.
Additional file 1 of Experiences of participating in a preoperative comprehensive geriatric assessment and care intervention among frail older adults before colorectal cancer resection surgery
Creators: name: Åhlund, Kristina
name: Larsson, Lena G.
name: Ekerstad, Niklas
name: Normann, Maria
name: Prytz, Mattias
name: Johnsson, Anette
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1: Interview guide.
Friedrich-Albert Lange (1828-1875) : les apories de la naturalisation de l'épistémologie kantienne et ses implications pratiques.
Creators: name: Descarreaux, Samuel
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Néo-kantisme
Friedrich-Albert Lange
Naturalisme
Idéalisme esthétique
Épistémologie
Morale
Transcendantal
Idéaux symboliques

description: Dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle, la philosophie est confrontée à une crise identitaire. On se détourne de l'idéalisme spéculatif pour privilégier un mode de pensée articulé autour de la rationalité scientifique. C'est dans cet horizon en transformation que naît l'impératif d'un retour à la philosophie d'Emmanuel Kant. Au sein du courant de pensée néo-kantien on trouve la thèse aujourd'hui méconnue de Friedrich-Albert Lange exposée dans « l'Histoire du matérialisme et critique de son importance à notre époque ». Lange poursuit dans cette œuvre deux objectifs : (a) il limite la portée explicative des sciences de la nature pour dégager une sphère propre à la philosophie pratique et (b) il se réapproprie l'épistémologie de Kant à l'aune des thèses évolutionnistes de Charles Darwin. Nous avons donc cherché dans ce mémoire à évaluer la portée de la naturalisation de l'épistémologie kantienne et ses implications pratiques.
Additional file 2 of Experiences of participating in a preoperative comprehensive geriatric assessment and care intervention among frail older adults before colorectal cancer resection surgery
Creators: name: Åhlund, Kristina
name: Larsson, Lena G.
name: Ekerstad, Niklas
name: Normann, Maria
name: Prytz, Mattias
name: Johnsson, Anette
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2: Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative studies (COREQ): 32-item checklist.
"Utterly Unknowable": Challenges to Overcoming Madness in Sarah Kane's Blasted, Crave, and 4.48 Psychosis
Creators: name: Peters, Margaret
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Sarah Kane
madness
disability
narratives
Blasted
Crave
4.48 Psychosis
gender
race
feminis*

description: Sarah Kane has often been categorized as an “In-Yer-Face” playwright, part of a group of contemporary British playwrights interested in making audiences feel the outcome of violence. However, Kane’s plays have also arguably challenged many existing theatrical forms, including the late twentieth century resurgence of “Angry Young Men” plays. While critics have been quick to identify madness as a main theme of her work, few have connected each play’s complex construction of madness with a struggle to complicate existing theatrical form. Through an intersectionally feminist reading of three of her plays—Blasted, Crave, and 4.48 Psychosis—this thesis examines the connection between the rejection of normative disability tropes (or madness, more specifically) and the challenging construction of theatrical form that takes place within each of these Kane plays.
Bacterial Contamination of Platelet Concentrates: Role of Biofilm Formation and Manufacturing Process
Creators: name: Taha, Mariam
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Platelets
Blood product saftey
Staphylococcus epidermidis
Platelet concentrates
Pathogen inactivation technology

description: Bacterial contamination of platelet concentrates (PCs) poses the highest transfusion-associated infectious risk with skin flora, such as Staphylococcus epidermidis and Staphylococcus capitis, being the predominant contaminants. These bacteria are able to form surface-attached aggregates or biofilms, which are present in the skin of healthy blood donors and can subsequently be isolated from contaminated PCs. Disinfection of the venipuncture area before donation with a combination of 2% chlorhexidine-gluconate and 70% isopropanol is used at Canadian Blood Services. However, not all bacteria are eliminated during skin disinfection since contaminated PCs are still captured during routine PC screening. In this thesis, the ability of biofilm-forming S. epidermidis and S. capitis to resist the currently used disinfectants was explored. It was demonstrated that although a combination of chlorhexidine and isopropanol has a bactericidal effect, it is unable to completely eradicate skin flora biofilms. Several countries have implemented Pathogen Inactivation Technologies (PITs) as a measure to help control transfusing bacterially-contaminated PCs by exposing PC units to ultra violet light. However, no investigations have been done to evaluate the ability of PITs against bacterial biofilms, which was one of the objectives of this thesis. Data revealed that the efficacy of a currently used PIT, the Mirasol® system, is similar for S. epidermidis present in PCs produced from whole blood inoculated with biofilm or non-biofilm cells. However, treatment effectiveness was strain dependent. In conclusion, further investigation to improve donor skin disinfection and PITs should be considered. Surveillance at Canadian Blood Services shows that contamination rates in single-donor apheresis PCs (Aph-PCs) is generally higher than in four-donor buffy coat platelet pools (BC-PCs). This study investigated whether the BC-PC production method contributes to this observation as BC-PCs are derived from WB that is left to rest overnight while Aph-PCs are collected directly from the donor. Data showed that WB hold during BC-PC production does not have a broad-spectrum bactericidal effect and therefore other factors contribute to low rates of contamination in BC-PCs. The work presented in this thesis provides an insight to bacterial residence and persistence during blood product manufacturing and makes suggestions for PC safety improvements.
Automated Monitoring of River Ice Processes from Shore-based Imagery
Creators: name: Ansari, Saber
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: river ice
terrestrial photogrammetry
shore-based

description: Ice plays an important role in hydraulic processes of rivers in cold regions such as Canada. The formation, progression, recession and breakup of river ice cover known as river ice processes affect river hydraulics, sediment transport characteristics as well as river morphology. Ice jamming and break up are responsible of winter flash floods, river bed modification and bank scour. River ice cover monitoring using terrestrial images from cameras installed on the shores can help monitor and understand river ice processes. In this study, the benefits of terrestrial monitoring of river ice using a camera installed on the shore are evaluated. A time-lapse camera system was installed during three consecutive winters at two locations on the shores of the Lower Nelson River, in Northern Manitoba and programmed to take an image of the river ice cover approximatively every hour. An image analysis algorithm was then developed to automatically extract quantitative characteristics of the river ice cover from the captured images. The developed algorithm consists of four main steps: preprocessing, image registration, georectification and river ice detection. The contributions of this thesis include the development of a novel approach for performing georectification while accounting for a fluctuating water surface elevation, and the use of categorization approach and a locally adaptive image thresholding technique for target detection. The developed algorithm was able to detect and quantify important river ice cover characteristics such as the area covered by ice, border ice progression and ablation rate, and river ice break up processes with an acceptable accuracy.
Neural Substrates for Pattern Separation and Completion in the Dorsal Pallium of a Weakly Electric Fish
Creators: name: Elliott, Stephen Benjamin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Electrophysiology
up states
memory networks
Weakly Electric Fish

description: The dorsodorsal division (DD) of the teleost telencephalon has been implicated in memory processes similar to those associated with the mammalian hippocampus. The network connectivity and neural activity underlying this involvement have remained unclear. This thesis attempts to elucidate both. Attempts have been made to record the neural activity of DD neurons, but none have succeeded in correlating the recorded firing with any meaningful stimuli. In this thesis, I present single-unit electrophysiological recordings of DD neurons that reveal persistent activity in the form of up-states which are evoked by two modalities of naturalistic sensory stimuli – visual and electrosensory. The anatomy of DD was a little better understood than the neural activity. Recent anatomical work has shown that DD is strongly inter-connected with the cortical-like dorsolateral division (DL) of the pallium, re-inforcing its similarity to mammalian hippocampal structures. This same work has also revealed much of DD’s extrinsic connectivity. It was not, however, of a resolution fine enough to disambiguate the connections of the various DD subregions, nor to clarify the existence and structure of intrinsic DD connectivity. In this thesis, I further elucidate the connectivity of DD, by isolating its subregions. This was done by means of very small and precise neurotracer injections. These injections revealed strong recurrent connectivity within individual DD subregions, multiple pathways between DD and DL, and striking similarities between the connectivities of DL and DD and those of the mammalian dentate gyrus and CA3 respectively. From the results of these investigations I propose a model of homology between the teleost DD-DL loop and the putative pattern separation and completion networks contained in the mammalian cortico-hippocampal circuitry, as well as a role for the observed persistent activity in DD within this model. I further propose the dorsal teleost telencephalon as an excellent model system for the further study of the network mechanisms of pattern separation and completion.
Theorizing Legal Needs: Towards a Caring Legal System
Creators: name: Miller, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Care ethics
Legal Theory
legal needs
legal aid
legal services

description: Care ethics is primarily about responding to needs. Yet, surprisingly, attempts to apply the ethics of care in the domain of law have paid almost no attention to the concept of legal needs. This study fills that gap by systematically defining legal needs. It does this by revising current understandings of legal need through a unified conceptual framework for the philosophy of needs and a comparative analysis of legal action, and its major alternatives in dispute resolution and prevention. The conception of legal need that results is both more sensitive to preventative functions of the law and opens the door to a much wider range of policy options beyond legal aid. Legal needs are found to be a special case of institutional needs, i.e. needs that cannot be satisfied without an institution. I argue that the existence of institutional needs means institutions, rather than any particular actor within them, can be caregivers, but not all conceptions of the ethics of care are compatible with this kind of need. Joan Tronto’s conception of care is found to be the most accommodating and is used as a framework for a series of policy recommendations to move us towards a caring legal system.
The Big Five and brand personality: investigating the impact of consumer personality on preferences towards particular brand personality
Creators: name: Mulyanegara, Riza Casidy
name: Tsarenko, Yelena
name: Anderson, Alastair
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between consumer personality and brand personality as measured by constructs reflecting The Big Five dimensions in the context of fashion products. The findings of the study show that some dimensions of The Big Five constructs are significantly related to preferences on particular dimensions of brand personality. It was found that consumers who exhibit a Conscientious personality demonstrate preferences towards Trusted brands. In contrast, those who are Extrovert in nature are motivated by Sociable brands. Findings related to gender reveal that male and female consumers differ in how they express their personality when it comes to brand personality. Male respondents who are dominant on the Neuroticism dimension prefer Trusted brand while Trusted brand is preferred by females who are dominant on the Conscientiousness dimension. The results of this study will inform brand managers about how to tailor specific marketing strategies such that brand personalities communicated to consumers are congruent with their personalities.
Additional file 1 of Community-based organization perspectives on participating in state-wide community canvassing program aimed to reduce COVID-19 vaccine disparities in California
Creators: name: Mansfield, Lisa N.
name: Carson, Savanna L.
name: Sunku, Nisha
name: Troutt, Alana
name: Jackson, Shelli
name: Santillan, David
name: Vassar, Stefanie D.
name: Slaughter, Dale
name: Kim, Gloria
name: Norris, Keith C.
name: Brown, Arleen F.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Équations aux dérivées partielles stochastiques avec bruit de Lévy
Creators: name: Ndongo, Cheikh Bécaye
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Équations aux dérivées
bruit de Lévy
partielles stochastiques

description: In this thesis, we develop a stochastic calculus for the space-time Lévy white noise introduced in [1] as an alternative for the Gaussian white noise perturbing an stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE). We give a new proof for the Itô formula for some integral processes related to this Lévy white noise. Then, we consider a general non-linear SPDE on R_+* R driven by this Lévy white noise and we show that this equation has a unique random-field solution. Using Rosenthal's inequality, we develop a maximal inequality for the moments of order p≥2 of the stochastic integral with respect to this noise. Based on this inequality, we show that the stochastic wave equation equation has a unique solution, which is weakly intermittent in the sense of [2, 3]. Finally, we develop a Malliavin calculus with respect to the compensated Poisson random measure associated to the Lévy white noise. Under certain conditions, we show that the solution is Malliavin differentiable and its Malliavin derivative satisfies an integral equation. [1] Integration with respect to Lévy colored noise, with application to SPDEs: Stochastics An International Journal of Probability and Stochastic Processes , 87, 363-381. [2] Intermittence and nonlinear parabolic stochastic partial differential equations. Electronic Journal of Probability. Vol 21, 548-568. [3] Analysis of stochastic partial differential equations. CBMS Regional Conference Series in Mathematics, Vol 119. American Mathematical Society.
Exploring New Applications of Group 7 Complexes for Catalytic and CO2 Reduction Using Photons or Electrochemistry
Creators: name: Alghamdi, Ahlam
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Catalyst
CO2 Reduction
Transition metal
rhenium

description: This thesis focuses on the synthesis, characterization and reactivity of group VII transition metal complexes. It begins with exploring a new pincer geometry of Re(I) compounds and then examining both Re(I) and Mn(I) compound as homogenous catalysts for photocatalytic and electrocatalytic reduction of CO2. In the first chapter, I focus on some recently reported approaches to photocatalytic and electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 using homogenous catalysts of transition metal. The second chapter presents efforts to capture Re(I) in a neutral N,N,N pincer scaffold and the resulting enhanced absorption of visible light. Most of these results have appeared in a publication. In this thesis, I only present my work on rhenium compounds that are supported by the bis(imino)pyridine ligand and an examination of the differences in properties between the bidentate and tridentate ligand geometries. Later I examine both tridentate and bidentate complexes for the photocatalytic and electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 to CO. The failure of tridentate Re1 bis(imino)pyridine compounds to reduce CO2 to CO prompted a change in direction to rhenium compounds that are supported with diimine ligands. Thus, I choose 4,5-diazafluoren-9-one as supporting ligand for rhenium and manganese. This chapter explained the reasons behind choosing these particular ligand and metal combinations. ReI and Mn1 compounds of 4,5-diazafluoren-9-one have shown activity for the photocatalytic and electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 to CO. In the fourth chapter, as rhenium and manganese compounds of 4,5-diazafluoren-9-one have shown the great ability of CO2 reduction to CO, the focus here was to modify the ligand by attaching a photosensitizer to the ligand in order to prepare supramolecular complexes that may increase the efficiency and yield of reduction products. In this chapter, I examined two types of the photosensitizer; tris(bipyridine)ruthenium(II)chloride and osmium dichloro bis(4,​4'-​dimethyl-​2,​2'-​bipyridine).
Molecular Regulation of Muscle Stem Cell Self-Renewal
Creators: name: Wang, Yu Xin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Muscle Regeneration
Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Satellite Cell
Muscle Stem Cell
EGFR
Dystrophin
Aurora kinase A
Wnt7a
Cell Polarity
Asymmetric Cell Division

description: Muscle stem cells self-renew to maintain the long-term capacity for skeletal muscles to regenerate. However, the homeostatic regulation of muscle stem cell self-renewal is poorly understood. By utilizing high-throughput screening and transcriptomic approaches, we identify the critical function of dystrophin, the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), and fibronectin in the establishment of cell polarity and in determining symmetric and asymmetric modes of muscle stem cell self-renewal. These findings reveal an orchestrated network of paracrine signaling that regulate muscle stem cell homeostasis during regeneration and have profound implications for the pathogenesis and development of therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Additional file 1 of Development and evaluation of the COntextualised and Personalised Physical activity and Exercise Recommendations (COPPER) Ontology
Creators: name: Braun, M.
name: Carlier, S.
name: De Paepe, A.
name: De Backere, F.
name: De Turck, F.
name: Crombez, G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Does the Type of Exposure to Workplace Violence Matter to Nurses’ Mental Health?
Creators: name: Havaei, Farinaz
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Workplace violence is a prevalent phenomenon in healthcare, particularly among nursing professionals. Exposure to workplace violence may be direct through firsthand involvement, indirect through secondhand witnessing, or both. Even though implications for victims of workplace violence have been well-studied, less is known about the various types of exposure and their effects on nurse mental health. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of workplace-violence exposure types on the mental health of nurses, while accounting for the intensity of the incident/s. This study employs an exploratory correlational design with survey methods. Nurses from British Columbia (BC), Canada, were invited by the provincial nurses’ union to complete an electronic survey in Fall 2019. A total of 2958 responses from direct-care nurses in acute-care settings were analyzed using logistic regression. The results showed that mental-health problems increased with cumulative exposure; even though nurses with solely indirect exposure to workplace violence did not report greater mental-health problems, those experiencing solely direct exposure, or both direct and indirect exposure, were two to four times more likely to report high levels of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, depression and burnout compared to their counterparts with no exposure. There is an urgent need for better mental-health support, prevention policies and practices that take into account the type of workplace-violence exposure.
Radar Echo Signals for Reconstruction
Creators: name: Loudon, Isha
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Cosmic neutrinos provide insight into the highest energy sources in the astrophysical environment. The Radar Echo Telescope is an experiment which aims to search for these neutrinos in the PeV-EeV energy range, bridging the neutrino flux gap between the upper end of optical Cherenkov experiments and the lower end of Askaryan radio detectors. The telescope plans to utilise radar techniques to detect ionisation trails left in ice. These trails originate from in-ice particle cascades produced in high energy neutrino interactions; therefore, their detection provides information on the progenitor neutrino. In this work, properties of the signal generated by radar detections have been investigated with the semi-analytic code MARES. An amplitude boosting effect has been identified and linked to coherence of the ionisation trail, for favourable geometries within the detector. A wide range of Doppler frequency shifts are also found, as well as Cherenkov effects that cause time-compression of the signal and strong frequency shifts. The signal properties exhibit good potential for use in methods to reconstruct the energy, arrival direction and interaction vertex of the progenitor particle, which has been explored in application for the Radar Echo Telescope for Cosmic Rays. Successful detection and reconstruction with radar signals in this experiment will pave the way for future use of radar techniques to help explore the high energy neutrino view of the sky.
Military Humanitarian Civic Assistance Programs: Can the provision of care ever be wrong?
Creators: name: Sibbald, Joanne
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biomedical Ethics
Military
Medical
Deployed Operations

description: Military humanitarian civic assistance programs are short-duration medical missions during which military healthcare providers provide medical treatment and assistance to a civilian population. Created to provide medical care to populations in need, these programs have also been utilized as a tool to support broader geopolitical and military aims. The inherent structure of these programs can exacerbate or create situational vulnerabilities in the patient population. Further, this structure may challenge the ability of military healthcare to adhere to the four guiding principles of biomedical ethics: respect for autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, and justice. In examining these programs through a biomedical ethical lens, it is believed that many of the challenges present in these programs can be mitigated through enhancements to pre-deployment training and education for healthcare providers in vulnerability and biomedical ethics, greater partnerships with local healthcare providers, and a re-examination of program-specific policies and doctrine within senior government and the military.
La thérapie auprès d’une clientèle résistante d’hommes ayant commis des actes de violence conjugale et sous contrainte de consultation : rationalisations et stratégies d’intervention d’une ressource d’aide
Creators: name: Fortin, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016

description: La violence conjugale a été, depuis quelques décennies, définie comme une problématique sur laquelle notre société a voulu se pencher. Peu à peu, l’idée d’intervenir auprès de celui qui était auteur de ces actes de violence fit son chemin et des ressources d’aide aux conjoints violents firent ainsi leur apparition. Désormais, des conjoints violents se voient être l’objet de références judiciaires dans le but d’entamer une démarche thérapeutique. La présente thèse consiste en une analyse, par théorisation ancrée, de propos recueillis par le biais d’entretiens semi-directifs auprès d’intervenants œuvrant au sein d’une telle ressource d’aide. Elle vise à mettre en lumière les rationalisations, conceptions et interprétations derrière le travail des intervenants. De plus, elle propose de poser un regard critique sur l’impact de ces rationalisations qui guident les stratégies d’intervention d’un organisme afin de faire face aux résistances qu’il décèle chez sa clientèle faisant l’objet d’une contrainte de consultation.
Additional file 2 of Development and evaluation of the COntextualised and Personalised Physical activity and Exercise Recommendations (COPPER) Ontology
Creators: name: Braun, M.
name: Carlier, S.
name: De Paepe, A.
name: De Backere, F.
name: De Turck, F.
name: Crombez, G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2.