cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A journey around myself: an archaeological exploration of identity
Creators: name: Fonseca, Lariane
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A Journey Around Myself: an Archaeological Exploration of Identity is a study of self. It examines how a person with a fractured geography, dislocated and re-located in a foreign landscape, can structure a personal narrative and maintain an authentic voice. The thesis investigates the role of memory and narrative in unraveling a sense of identity and in doing so reveals how individuals bring a sense of linearity to the fragments of their existence by authoring a unifying narrative. In turn, this narrative (life-story) embodies a sense of identity that is actualised through narrative discourse (articulation of life-story). Commencing with a model for Constructing Personal Narratives (Flood 2003), A Journey Around Myself explores the complex and stratified fragments of memoried experience to extend the Flood model. Using the metaphor of archaeology, the thesis introduces a new approach to narrative inquiry. The model of ‘archaeological narrative inquiry’© uses the concepts, tools, and modes of archaeology to explore the building blocks in the authoring of self. This method embraces the creative potential of an individual and shows how creativity can be used as an essential element to investigate and interrogate the multifarious elements of personal narrative. The use of archaeological narrative inquiry reveals a unique way by which interrogation and reflection are used to tap into the creative self to generate data in the form of creative artefacts for examination and consideration. Through this process, data was generated and a number of artefacts were created. These include: (1) A Book of Photographic Collages: The Hall of Mirrors; (2) A Digital Story: Argumentum e Silencio; (3) A Digital Story: A Journey Through Lost Time… (4) A Digital Story: Lost in Translation (5) An Archive of Family Photographs: Happy Memories; (6) A Fable: Satatantra: The Elephant and the Mirror and (7) A Narrative Account of the Research Journey: Charting the Journey. These artefacts are an integral part of the thesis and can be read or viewed in any order. This method of archaeological narrative inquiry demonstrates the significance of, and the possibilities created by drawing on an individual’s creativity as part of an exploration of self. This distinctive data mechanism manifests in a PhD thesis that falls outside the traditional ‘research’ PhD or a ‘PhD by artefact and exegesis’. The thesis also demonstrates how various components interact to articulate a sense of self and preserve the authentic voice in a forum where the researcher and the researched are one and the same.
title: Bringing climate policy up to date decreasing cost projections for renewable energy and batteries and their implications
title: Bringing climate policy up to date decreasing cost projections for renewable energy and batteries and their implications
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Wachsmuth, Jakob
name: Anatolitis, Vasilios
name: Ancygier, Andrzej
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Klimaschutz
subject: Klimapolitik
subject: NDC
subject: Paris Agreement
subject: climate change mitigation
subject: CO2-mitigation cost
subject: renewable energies
subject: batteries
subject: climate policy
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Climate | Energy

description: A range of studies on nationally determined contributions (NDC) of parties to the Paris Agreement disclose, that temperature objectives of the Paris Agreement are not in reach if current NDCs are implemented. A new study, commissioned by German Environment Agency, compares pre2015 and latest levelized cost projections and shows, that certain key mitigation technologies, i.e. power generation from renewables and lithium batteries, will become substantially cheaper by 2025/2030 since the preparation of NDCs. Thus, parties to the Paris Agreement are now in the position to review and strengthen their NDCs by 2020 during the Talanoa Dialog. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: A range of studies on nationally determined contributions (NDC) of parties to the Paris Agreement disclose, that temperature objectives of the Paris Agreement are not in reach if current NDCs are implemented. A new study, commissioned by German Environment Agency, compares pre2015 and latest levelized cost projections and shows, that certain key mitigation technologies, i.e. power generation from renewables and lithium batteries, will become substantially cheaper by 2025/2030 since the preparation of NDCs. Thus, parties to the Paris Agreement are now in the position to review and strengthen their NDCs by 2020 during the Talanoa Dialog.
Productivity enhancement in optical semiconductor manufacturing: Early warning of failures in BHet laser fabrication
Creators: name: Pap, Ilona
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Chemical.
subject: Physics, Optics.
subject: Engineering, Materials Science.

description: There are unique challenges in the fabrication and testing of optical semiconductor devices because, unlike typical silicon semiconductor devices, which can be tested cost-effectively on the wafer, many optical devices can only be 'fully' tested once the individual die is bonded to a heat sink. As a result, both the manufacturing process and test strategy need to be capable of predicting yields and product quality attributes based on limited sampling from a batch of the product. The large number of product quality and process variables that are measured for each device when it is manufactured makes it almost impractical to manually analyze them for valuable decision-making information. There is a need for understanding the complex, interactive effects of process variables on the product quality variables as well as automated analysis and discovery tools for extracting useful knowledge from the raw data. Such knowledge could have a significant impact on productivity and quality improvement. The objective of the present study is to identify useful correlations amongst the numerous process variables and to develop simple empirical models to predict important process quality indicators. Quality is assessed using statistical data analysis, focusing on the primary functions of major failures. Validation of the data set also demonstrated that linear models were accurate in predicting new data points for some of the output variables, whereas the variation of some output variables could not be explained using the available industrial data bank. Some models were powerful in making predictions and to provide a clearer insight in determining the key factors in manufacturing of BHet. BHet is a directly modulated laser operating at 2.5 Gb/s and reaches up to 360 km. Application of this research for failure prediction at an early stage of the manufacturing line could result in a dramatic reduction in the number of defective wafers that are completely processed and thereby lowering the overall manufacturing cost.
A continuous thermodynamics model for multicomponent droplet vaporization.
Creators: name: Tamim, Jihane.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Chemical.

description: For mixtures containing many components, as in the case of commercial fuels and polymer solutions for example, it is practically impossible to have a complete listing of all the components. A method known as continuous thermodynamics has recently been developed for use when dealing with such mixtures. Continuous thermodynamics describes the composition of the mixture by a probability density function with respect to one or more variable, such as molecular mass, boiling point or any other physical property. This method is used here to study the vaporization of multicomponent fuel droplets. Liquid droplet vaporization plays an important role in the formation of the fuel/air mixture necessary for combustion, and the fuel composition has an effect on the performance of combustion equipment such as Diesel engines. Transport equations are developed, which describe species diffusion in terms of the parameters of the distribution function. These equations are developed for "fuel" vapour as a whole and for the mean and second moment of the distribution. A continuous thermodynamics form of the energy equation is also developed. These general equations are then applied to the vaporizing droplet problem. A gamma distribution function, with molecular mass as the characterizing variable has been chosen. The transport equations in continuous form have been incorporated into a finite difference model of droplet vaporization. Physical property correlations have also been developed in terms of the characterizing variable chosen and integrated in the model. The numerical solution of these equations and the equations of conservation of mass and species at the droplet surface gives the droplet vaporization rate, the mixture composition field in the vapour phase surrounding the droplet and the change of the liquid composition with time.
Mercury in fish from the Upper St. Lawrence River: Temporal and spatial variability and safe consumption rate.
Creators: name: Lalonde, Janick D.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Biology, Biostatistics.

description: Mercury (Hg) levels in fish from the lower Thousand Islands to the Lake St. Francis region of the St. Lawrence River were analyzed over a 20 year period (from 1975 to 1995) by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ontario Ministry of the Environment as part of the Sport Fish Contaminant Monitoring Program. A general linear model was used to extract temporal trends and spatial variability while correcting the data for fish length. The analysis was done on four species of fish: white sucker (Catostomus commersoni (Lacepeede)) an obligate benthivore, yellow perch (Perca flavescens (Mitchill)) an omnivore, and two piscivores, northern pike (Esox lucius Linneaus) and walleye (Stizostedion vitreum (Mitchill)). Fish consumption is the major exposure pathway of Hg to humans. Using current Hg levels, I calculated the safe fish consumption rate. These calculations were based on three reference doses stating the maximum daily exposure of Hg per unit mass of individuals. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Autonomous_AI_Collaboration_Whitepaper (2).pdf
Creators: name: Wakid, Muhamad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 460299
subject: Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified

description: This paper presents a modular and scalable architecture for autonomous AIcollaboration systems capable of dynamically assigning tasks, coordinating diverseAI agents, and synthesizing high-quality solutions with minimal human interven-tion. The design integrates planning, semantic agent selection, shared memory, peerreview, and reasoning mechanisms into a uni?ed framework that extends beyondcurrent AI orchestration tools like LangChain or AutoGen. The proposed systemaddresses core limitations in task decomposition, agent interoperability, and self-organizing work
ows to advance the development of general-purpose multi-agentsystems
Sustainable design influences social change
Creators: name: Jackson, Simon
name: Strachan, Mark
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Sustainability---a popular term in design practice and design research that can be defined and discussed from many perspectives. This issue of 'Implications' focuses on ways in which issues relating to sustainability can be explored in the realms of education, social change, and the built environment. Three projects relating to sustainability in the realms of social change and the built environment will be reviewed. The Faculty of Design at Swinburne University of Technology (Swinburne Design) in Melbourne, Australia, have a commitment to sustainability as a field of research. Along with internationalization and research, Ken Friedman, Dean and Professor, sees sustainability as a key theme in the education of design students. Learning units on sustainability are continually being developed and embedded into the design curriculum.
title: Risikofaktoren für eine erhöhte periprothetische Infektionsrate nach Knie-Totalendoprothesen-Implantation
Creators: name: Willburger, Roland
name: Ulbrich, Leonhard
name: Krapp, Jan
name: Rösener, Stella
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Periprothetische Infektionen sind eine seltene aber erhebliche Komplikation. Die Infektionsate nach primärer Kniegelenkendoprothetik wird in der neueren Literatur mit 1-2 % angegeben [ref:1], [ref:2]. Neben dem Vorliegen von prädisponierenden Begleiterkrankungen[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: Deutscher Rheumatologiekongress 2020, 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh)
title: Gonarthrose – Erfolgreiche Behandlungsoption mit hochkonzentrierter und hochvisköser Hyaluronsäure
Creators: name: Steinhauser, Christine
name: Monfort, Jordi
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Gonarthrose wird in Deutschland primär mit NSAR zu Lasten der gesetzlichen Krankenkassen behandelt. Diese Substanzen sind aufgrund ihrer Nebenwirkungen, vor allem bei Patienten im höheren Lebensalter, mit besonderer Vorsicht einzusetzen [ref:1]. Methoden: In einem [zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: Deutscher Rheumatologiekongress 2020, 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh)
An upper Carboniferous shelf-to-basin transect: Nansen and Hare Fiord Formations, NW Ellesmere Island.
Creators: name: Sherry, Colleen Theresa.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Geology.

description: An ancient transition from shallow marine platform to deep basin is preserved in the Upper Carboniferous strata of the Sverdrup Basin on northwestern Ellesmere Island. The shelf break is delineated by an approximately 200 km long discontinuous reef tract extending from Audhild Bay to the head of Hare Fiord within the Nansen Formation. The reef tract is marked by a series of massive, coalesced shelf edge buildups which developed during a major second order regression within the Sverdrup Basin. The shelf edge buildups are largely composed of phylloid alga-rich boundstones with abundant early marine synsedimentary cement. Fenestellid bryozoans, however, dominate buildups that grew in deeper slope settings. Shoreward of the reef tract lie cyclic, shallowing-upward carbonate shelf deposits, also of the Nansen Formation. The outer shelf deposits include bedded oolitic and foraminiferal grainstones representing a shallow water sand apron located immediately behind the reef tract. Basinward of the shelf edge reef tract lie correlative slope-to-basin rhythmic mixed deposits of the Hare Fiord Formation. The upper slope deposits are dominated by fine grained calcisiltites while the lower slope/basin facies comprise calcisiltites, siltstones and shales interbedded with abundant turbidities and debrites. The massive prograding shelf edge buildups reach stratigraphic thicknesses up to 1 km. The Nansen reef tract appears to be a reef complex in which the reefal rim remained relatively deeply submerged, but still within the photic zone, through much of its growth. The carbonate buildups on the shelf, shelf edge and slope all represent potential petroleum-bearing stratigraphic traps within the Sverdrup Basin. If these occur in the subsurface they would be likely exploration targets but unfortunately within the study area little porosity remains. Where the buildups are extensively dolomitized, higher porosity and permeability create excellent potential hydrocarbon reservoirs. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
title: Wirksamkeit und Sicherheit von Tofacitinib unter klinischen Alltagsbedingungen sowie Patientenzufriedenheit mit der medikamentösen Behandlung bei erwachsenen Patienten mit Rheumatoider Arthritis (Interimsanalyse ESCALATE-RA)
Creators: name: Behrens, Frank
name: Prothmann, Ulrich
name: Klopsch, Thilo
name: Holst, Ann-Dörthe
name: Blindzellner, Lisa
name: Behmer, Olaf
name: Klaus, Pascal
name: Meng, Thomas
name: Löschmann, Peter-Andreas
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Tofacitinib ist ein oral zu applizierender Januskinase-Inhibitor, welcher in den USA seit 2012 zur Behandlung der rheumatoiden Arthritis (RA) zugelassen ist, sodass dort bereits über viele Jahre „Real-World“-Daten vorliegen. ESCALATE-RA ist die erste prospektive, nicht-interventionelle[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: Deutscher Rheumatologiekongress 2020, 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh)
Les enseignants acadiens et la "Révolution tranquille" au Nouveau-Brunswick, 1960-1970 : vers de nouveaux rapports avec les enseignants anglophones et l'état.
Creators: name: Lang, Stéphane Denis.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.

description: Sous le regime liberal de Louis-J. Robichaud de 1960 a 1970, la communaute acadienne du Nouveau-Brunswick, representant environ le tiers de la population de cette province, vit sa propre "Revolution tranquille". La reforme du systeme d'education constitue un volet dominant du vaste programme de reformes, connu sous le nom de "Chances egales pour tous", mis en oeuvre par le Gouvernement Robichaud. L'ensemble de ces reformes affecte les enseignants acadiens. Dans cette these, nous proposons d'examiner leur impact sur les rapports qu'entretiennent les enseignants acadiens avec leurs homologues anglophones et avec l'Etat. A cette fin, nous etudierons le discours et l'action des associations professionnelles d'enseignants au Nouveau-Brunswick pour la periode 1960-1970, soit la N.B.T.A., qui represente legalement tous les enseignants qualifies de la province, et l'A.I.A., une association facultative a caractere professionnel et culturel. Nous constatons alors qu'un fosse se creuse entre les enseignants acadiens et le leadership de la N.B.T.A. qui defend les interets de la majorite anglophone, en particulier ceux des enseignants des villes, qui jouissent des conditions de travail les plus avantageuses. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
"To the very limits of our strength?": International interests and domestic concerns in Canadian immigration policy, 1945-1948.
Creators: name: Hartman, David B.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.

description: This thesis is structured around international interests and domestic concerns as two central issues in the making of Canadian postwar immigration policy from 1945-1948. During the early post World War II period, the Department of External Affairs sought to strike a balance between these issues by integrating a greater consideration of international events into the formulation of Canadian immigration policy. The significant influence that the department had with the government helped to introduce a new dimension of active liberal internationalism and a keener sense of global responsibility and commitment into the national debate on immigration. Nevertheless, despite these efforts, the formulation and administration of Canada's immigration policy in the immediate postwar years was dominated by considerations of national self-interest, domestic politics and the national economy.
L'enjeu spirituel des enfants non baptisés: La protection des enfants à naître et des nouveau-nés dans le gouvernement de Montréal entre 1693 et 1760
Creators: name: Poirier, Nathalie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.

description: Cet ouvrage s'intéresse à la protection des enfants à naiîre et des nouveau-nés en raison de l'enjeu spirituel particulier auquel étaient confrontés ces derniers. Entre 1693 et 1760, le tribunal royal de Montréal eut ainsi à traiter diverses causes impliquant directement (grossesse cachée, avortement, infanticide et abandon) ou indirectement (violence sur femme enceinte, séduction, viol et paternité) des enfants à naître et des nouveau-nés. En fait, les crimes perpétrés contre des enfants non baptisés étaient perçus aux yeux de la société traditionnelle comme étant très graves non-seulement parce qu'ils étaient susceptibles de priver un être de la vie, mais surtout parce qu'ils risquaient ainsi d'empêcher l'âme de ce dernier d'entrer au paradis, la condamnant à errer dans les limbes pour l'éternité. Pour cette raison, l'Église, secondée par l'État, entendait réprimer sévèrement les crimes commis envers cette catégorie d'individus. Cependant, les délits tels l'avortement et l'infanticide étant généralement commis en toute clandestinité, peu de ces cas se retrouvèrent devant les tribunaux de la Nouvelle-France. En contrepartie, de nombreuses causes de violence sur des femmes enceintes, de séduction, de viol et de paternité furent intentées devant le tribunal royal de Montréal, les plaignants pouvant dans ces cas espérer un dédommagement favorable. Le système judiciaire de la colonie, ne pouvant compter uniquement sur ses effectifs insuffisants pour retracer les criminels, dépendait grandement de l'aide de la population à cet effet. Or, même dans les cas de crimes graves, impliquant notamment des enfants à naître ou des nouveau-nés, lorsque les membres de la communauté n'avaient rien à gagner dans la dénonciation, ceux-ci préféraient souvent s'abstenir de livrer le coupable aux autorités ou encore régler l'affaire par le biais d'une transaction infrajudiciaire. Si les lois et ordonnances relatives à la protection des enfants à naître et des nouveau-nés implantées dans la colonie démontrent une volonté des législateur de châtier sévèrement tout coupable, l'étude des dossiers judiciaires révèle plutôt que les magistrats avaient tendances à prononcer des jugements moins durs que ceux prescrits par la loi. Le fréquent manque de preuves, le climat de tolérance commençant à s'installer dans la société occidentale de même que la volonté d'émettre des jugements avantageux pour la partie lésée jouèrent un rôle en ce sens. Ainsi, bien qu'en théorie tout menait à une répression rigoureuse des crimes commis à l'égard des enfants non baptisés, leur répression réelle s'avéra dans les faits plutôt limitée.
title: Use of a self-injection assessment questionnaire to assess patient satisfaction with a self-injection device in rheumatoid arthritis patients receiving SDZ-ETN (GP2015) in Germany: An interim analysis of the real-world COMPACT study
Creators: name: Schmalzing, Marc
name: Zinke, Silke
name: Schnorfeil, Michael
name: Hachaichi, Sohaib
name: Gerencser, Vivien
name: Kellner, Herbert
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Introduction: The interim analysis of the COMPACT study assessed patient usage behaviour and feelings of self-administered injection with a self-injection device (SD) using the validated Self-Injection Assessment Questionnaire1 (SIAQ) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) receiving the approved[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Deutscher Rheumatologiekongress 2020, 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh)
Self-schemas and behavioural adjustment of socially withdrawn children.
Creators: name: Burgess, Kim B.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Social.

description: Evidence from research and clinical work supports the notion that social relationships play a crucial role in many areas of psychological development. Social withdrawal constitutes a form of social maladjustment in childhood, and consequently, may have important implications for short-term and long-term prognoses. A recent longitudinal study points to the possibility that these children are at risk for internalizing disorders, such as anxiety and depression. Yet it is unclear which psychological variables account for the possible relationship between social withdrawal and internalizing disorders. Numerous theorists and investigators have shown that cognitive factors may be central to the development of psychopathology. The present study hypothesizes that maladaptive information processing and internalizing problems may be associated with social withdrawal. A multi-group comparison therefore examined children's self-schemas, as measured by self-perceptions and recall of positive and negative descriptors, and evaluated their behavioural/emotional functioning. The complete sample consisted of 132 sixth and seventh grade children recruited from five elementary schools in the Ottawa-Carleton region. After being identified by peer nominations in Phase 1, a between-group design was utilized in Phase 2 to compare 40 withdrawn children, 51 average children, and 41 aggressive children. Multivariate analysis of variance was conducted to assess group differences in current status with regard to self-perceptions, recall memory of descriptors, and behavioural adjustment. As predicted, socially withdrawn children had less positive self-perceptions, more negative self-perceptions, and significantly higher internalizing scores than did average and aggressive children. No significant differences emerged, however, with respect to the recall of positive and negative descriptors. Implications of the present findings and directions for future research are discussed.
title: Longitudinale Veränderungen der ZNS-Schmerzantwort unter Therapie mit Certolizumab-Pegol (CZP) bei rheumatoider Arthritis. Eine post-hoc Analyse der PreCePRA Studie
Creators: name: Rech, Jürgen
name: Tascilar, Koray
name: Schenker, Hannah
name: Hagen, Melanie
name: Sergeeva, Marina
name: Selvakumar, Mageshwar
name: Konerth, Laura
name: Prade, Jutta
name: Strobelt, Sandra
name: Schönau, Verena
name: Valor Mendez, Larissa
name: Hueber, Axel
name: Simon, David
name: Kleyer, Arnd
name: Behrens, Frank
name: Baerwald, Christoph
name: Finzel, Stephanie
name: Voll, Reinhard
name: Feist, Eugen
name: Da Silva, José Antonio P.
name: Dörfler, Arnd
name: Damjanov, Nemanja
name: Hess, Andreas
name: Schett, Georg
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Die Tumor Nekrose Faktor alpha Inhibitoren haben die Behandlung der rheumatoiden Arthritis (RA) revolutioniert. Dennoch sprechen nur 50% der Patienten sehr gut auf die Behandlung mit Ihnen an. Biomarker die das Ansprechen vorhersagen können, werden weiterhin gesucht. In einer früheren[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: Deutscher Rheumatologiekongress 2020, 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh)
Adherence to Cancer Prevention Guidelines among Older White and Black Adults in the Health ABC Study
Creators: name: Jung, Audrey Y.
name: Miljkovic, Iva
name: Rubin, Susan
name: Kritchevsky, Stephen B.
name: Klepin, Heidi D.
name: Newman, Anne B.
name: Cauley, Jane
name: Ayonayon, Hilsa
name: Harris, Tamara B.
name: Murphy, Rachel Anne
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: One-third of cancers can be prevented through healthy lifestyles. This study investigates the prevalence of and factors associated with engagement in cancer prevention guidelines in a population-based cohort of 2124 older white and black men and women. We used Health ABC data to construct a score from 0 (lowest adherence) to 7 (greatest adherence) based on the sum of seven recommendations for cancer prevention from the World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research; body fatness (maintenance of healthy body weight), physical activity (at least moderately physically active), diet (fruit, vegetables, fiber, and red and processed meat), and alcohol. Mean (SD) scores in men and women were 3.24 (1.09) and 3.17 (1.10). Lower scores were associated with younger age (women only), black race, current smoking, and prevalent cardiovascular disease. Less than 1% of men and women adhered to all recommendations. Of the individual guidelines, adherence was lowest for fiber (9% of men; 6% of women) followed by physical activity (26% of men; 18% of women), and body weight (21% of men; 26% of women). These results suggest a critical public health need, especially given the growing older population. Black older adults, smokers, and those with prevalent disease may be at higher risk and thus warrant additional focus.
Modeling information quality in agent-based e-commerce systems
Creators: name: Chen, Hong
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Engineering, System Science.

description: In agent-based e-commerce systems, most buying agents rely primarily on ranking algorithms to make purchase decisions. These algorithms are based on one or a combination of several features of goods information, such as price, seller's reputation, etc.; however, information quality is usually ignored. This leads to the problem that product information is retrieved without proper regard to their quality. Realizing the importance and necessity of information quality for buying agents, this thesis introduces an Information Quality (IQ)-based ranking approach. A model which combines information quality assessment with user expectation is proposed. An approach on representation and interpretation of information quality is also developed. Two sets of experiments are conducted to verify the applicability of the proposed model and explore the effectiveness of individual information quality dimensions. The experimental results show that information quality based ranking does lead to better user satisfaction. Keywords: Information quality, agent system, e-commerce
title: How can the new climate agreement support robust national mitigation targets? - Opportunities up to Paris and beyond
title: How can the new climate agreement support robust national mitigation targets?
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Fekete, Hanna
name: Hagemann, Markus
name: Obergassel, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Klimaänderung
subject: Klimaschutz
subject: Vertrag
subject: climate change
subject: climate change mitigation
subject: agreement
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Climate | Energy

description: This report is a synthesis of the research and re-evaluates the options previously considered in this project (Vieweg et al (2014)) in the light of the negotiation process up to today. The mitigation-related design elements considered are:Participation and differentiation of countries;Types of commitments, including also the compulsory character of the commitments and time aspects;Guidance on ambition of the commitments to assure adequacy of global and individual coun-tries’ efforts;Transparency of commitments
Three Ango-Saxon prose passages: A translation and commentary.
Creators: name: Davidson, Donald D.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1966
Subjects: subject: Literature, Medieval.

description: Our thesis set out to translate, with relevant commentary, the three prose passages found in the MS. Cotton Vitellius A. xv. The contribution we are convinced this translation makes to Old English studies, along with the importance attached to the manuscript containing Beowulf, is the justification for our thesis. After commenting on the contents of the manuscript in general, our study turns to the matter of the three prose passages. Here we discover remarkable correspondence in material and in the approach of the Anglo-Saxon redactor to that material. Monster and marvel are combined in the texts in such a way as to provide us with the conclusion that the passages were gathered under one cover to preserve a literary motif. Beginning with the Life of St. Christopher, the texts are introduced individually. We infer an Eastern origin for the Life of St. Christopher, but is immediate predecessor was Latin. Similar treatment of the Wonders of the East and the Letter of Alexander the Great to Aristotle indicate a tradition in the pattern of their transmission. Each reveals an Eastern origin, a preoccupation with the monstrous and the marvellous, and an immediate Latin predecessor. A brief review of the problems connected with working with a manuscript of irregular punctuation (and no physical structure) introduces the three prose passages in translation. We have endeavoured to produce a text that is both readable and as close as possible to the original in structure. The translations are annotated throughout to provide the reader with both a knowledge of textual problems and an awareness of similarities of content among the three passages and Beowulf. While we worked with published editions of these works in Anglo-Saxon, we very carefully checked these against the recently published facsimile of the manuscript; in some instances, this double-checking enabled us to discover meanings that did not seem clear in the printed editions.
Evaluation of a decision aid for transfusion alternatives for patients before open heart surgery: Assessment of the perceptions of small risks
Creators: name: Grant, F. Curry
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Surgery.

description: Background. Patients facing open-heart surgery have the choice of donating their own blood prior to surgery for their later use (pre-operative autologous donation), or accepting volunteer-donated (allogeneic) blood. A decision aid, consisting of an audiotape and a booklet, was developed to assist patients to make this decision. It defined "blood transfusion", and clarified its role in heart surgery. Non-transfusion alternatives were listed. It described the two transfusion options, their risks and benefits and gave probabilities of complications. A summary chart allowed the patients to compare the pros and cons of each method. Objectives. (1) To evaluate the decision aid's effect on specific outcomes. (2) To evaluate the decision aid's acceptability to heart surgery patients. (3) To assess the importance of others' opinions in making the decision to pre-donate blood before heart surgery. Design. Before-after trial. Setting. Outpatient surgery clinics, Ottawa Heart Institute, University of Ottawa. Participants. A consecutive series of 70 patients who were to have open-heart surgery in the future. Patents were English-speaking and were potential candidates for autologous blood donation. Measurements. Knowledge, values (importance ratings), preference for transfusion method, decisional conflict and risk perception were measured before and after the decision aid was used. Decision aid acceptability and importance of opinions of others were measured after the decision aid.
title: Vorhersage des Ansprechens der RA auf die Behandlung mit Certolizumab-Pegol (CZP) mittels funktionellen MRT (fMRT) des ZNS. Eine international, randomisierte, doppelt-blinde Phase III Studie (PreCePRA)
Creators: name: Rech, Jürgen
name: Tascilar, Koray
name: Schenker, Hannah
name: Sergeeva, Marina
name: Selvakumar, Mageshwar
name: Konerth, Laura
name: Prade, Jutta
name: Strobelt, Sandra
name: Hagen, Melanie
name: Schönau, Verena
name: Valor Mendez, Larissa
name: Hueber, Axel
name: Simon, David
name: Kleyer, Arnd
name: Behrens, Frank
name: Da Silva, José Antonio P.
name: Baerwald, Christoph
name: Finzel, Stephanie
name: Voll, Reinhard
name: Feist, Eugen
name: Dörfler, Arnd
name: Damjanov, Nemanja
name: Hess, Andreas
name: Schett, Georg
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Eine personalisierte Behandlung der RA ist bisher aufgrund fehlender Prädiktoren nicht möglich. In einer früheren Arbeit, konnten wir bei RA Patienten ein Ansprechen der Schmerzaktivität im ZNS, gemessen mittels funktionellen MRT (fMRT), innerhalb von 24 Stunden nach [zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: Deutscher Rheumatologiekongress 2020, 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh)
The share of cooling electricity in global warming : Estimation of the loop gain for the positive feedback
Creators: name: Shakouri G., H.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: The world’s future is strongly connected to energy consumption trends. There are bi-directional relations between energy consumption and the average temperature of Earth, leading to positive causal loops. Increasing temperatures cause activity of more cooling systems most of which are electrified by burning hydrocarbons that consequently yield more carbon dioxide concentration and warmer climates. This paper is a trial to estimate the loop-gain by employing a bottom-up regional model. The model is a spreadsheet containing a sort of parameters and variables to estimate the amount of electricity used for cooling buildings in the residential and commercial sectors of 12 regions around the world. The share of fossilfuel based power plants determines the share of contribution of each region in CO2 emissions. Then by processing data on the global emission trend and land temperature anomaly, a linear ARMAX relationship is estimated to compute the loop-gain. The results show that, even in the optimistic scenario of IPCC (A1B), emission from cooling electricity will double up by the end of the century. With the estimated 1+1.4×10-⁶ loop-gain, even if fossil-fuel electricity generation is gradually reduced to 40%, it will decrease first but will start growing again in the century mid.
Computational aspects of order-preserving maps (fixed point property)
Creators: name: Chibbani, Nazih
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: The ordered sets field is an important part of the ongoing mathematical, algorithmic and combinatorics research. This young field identifies and addresses many unsolved problems, a considerable group of which were proven (NP). " Characterizing the finite ordered sets with fixed point property" is among those open unsolved problems. It was originally introduced and described by Rival (1984); and was later demonstrated to be NP-complete by Williamson. Since then, several researchers worked and published on the subject, describing a variety of algorithms and techniques to address and solve aspects of the problem. This thesis introduces a computational technique for identifying ordered sets with the fixed point property (FPP). The technique consists of generating all possible ordered sets of a given size up to isomorphism and duality, followed by a testing of each ordered set for the FPP. Algorithms for the generation of ordered sets, for isomorphic elimination, and for the FPP testing are presented. The results obtained from the research were summarized as a list of incidence matrices of all ordered sets with the FPP; irreducible elements free; and retractable elements free up to duality and isomorphism for set sizes ≤13 elements. This research expands on the results published by Rutkowski (1989) and Schroder (1993) for set sizes of 10 and 11, respectively, by identifying the set of complying ordered sets of sizes 12 and 13. The results can contribute to future research in the topic, particularly in the area of non-computational techniques, as a comparative data set for validation purposes.
title: Zusammenhang der körperlichen Aktivität mit Fatigue und Funktionskapazität bei Patienten mit rheumatoider Arthritis
Creators: name: Beider, Sonja
name: Flohr, Stefan
name: Gehlert, Sebastian
name: Witte, Torsten
name: Ernst, Diana
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Eine der schwerwiegenden Folgen der rheumatoiden Arthritis (RA) ist die soziale und emotionale Deprivation infolge von Schmerzen und Gelenkdestruktion [ref:1]. Die Patienten neigen dazu, weniger aktiv zu sein [ref:2]. Die körperliche Aktivität wirkt sich positiv[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: Deutscher Rheumatologiekongress 2020, 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh)
Figures of merit and modelling of metallo-dielectric waveguides
Creators: name: Buckley, Robin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: The thesis is divided into two topics. The first is a figure of merit study on 2D surface plasmon waveguides, assessing the trade-off between attenuation and confinement. Three figures of merit are used since there are three separate, but equally effective, ways of measuring confinement. Different stripe geometries are considered in this analysis as well as a comparison between Au, Ag and Al (as the stripe metal) over the wavelength range from 200 to 2000 nm. The figures of merit are generally applicable and should be useful to help compare, assess and optimize designs in other 2D absorbing waveguides. The second topic introduces a new waveguide structure, the metallo-dielectric waveguide, capable of aggressive bends and long-range propagation at optical wavelengths. Its design was inspired by the non-radiative dielectric waveguide which is effective at microwave frequencies but has been shown to have high loss at optical wavelengths. Since both waveguides use parallel plates as confinement mechanisms, one dimensional analysis is first performed to gain insight into their operation followed by full-wave 2D simulations of the two waveguides in their straight and curved form. Analysis of the parallel plates revealed the relation between the modes supported by the real metal and perfect electric conductors (PECs). The non-radiative dielectric waveguide is found to effectively suppress radiation; however, its propagation loss is high and the mode becomes deformed along radial bends, as r0 → 0, due to excitation of surface plasmon-polaritons. The newly introduced metallo-dielectric waveguide performs significantly better in that it is capable of long-range propagation while also supporting its fundamental TE mode along aggressive radial bends. This waveguide also has potential use in optoelectronic/electro-optic components due to the presence of the metal plates which could be used to apply electric fields or inject currents.
Justice for Women Who Experience Intimate Partner Violence: Reflections on Restorative Justice Ideals and Making Social Meaning
Creators: name: Ehret, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Intimate Partner Violence
Restorative Justice
Justice

description: This is a deductive study testing Hudson’s (2006; 2003) theory of social justice and, specifically, her delineation of three restorative justice principles (discursiveness, reflectiveness and relationalism) in order to explore how the principles might respond to the justice needs of women who have experienced abuse and violence by male intimate partners. Through in-depth and critically informed one-on-one interviews with twelve women who have experienced intimate partner violence in former relationships, it asks how abused women conceptualize justice and how justice might be done through restorative justice principles. The women offer social conceptualizations of justice and of doing justice that reconfigure the principles of restorative justice to prioritize protective solutions, and they locate them in domains outside of criminal justice where the complexities and dynamics of intimate partner violence are well understood and they demonstrate openness to support abused women. Their feedback about restorative justice principles suggests configurations in social service domains such as help lines, crisis centres, and shelters and, more broadly through policies enabling social responsibility in domains such as workplaces, media, and social media where there is the potential to create collaborations and protective solutions. Despite frustrations with the criminal justice system for its inability to provide long term protective solutions, given its ability to help some women in the short term, the women were not willing to jettison it.
title: Medikamentenadhärenz bei Patienten mit rheumatoider Arthritis: Untersuchung zu Einflussfaktoren
Creators: name: Eidner, Corinna
name: Baerwald, Christoph G. O.
name: Seifert, Olga
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Eine konsequente immunsuppressive Behandlung der rheumatoiden Arthritis (RA) mit Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs (DMARDs) ist entscheidend für eine verminderte Progression und ein verbessertes Langzeit-Outcome der Erkrankung. Voraussetzung hierfür ist eine gute Medikamentenadhärenz,[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: Deutscher Rheumatologiekongress 2020, 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh)
Nitrogen removal from steel by DRI fines injection
Creators: name: Anghelina, Dorel
name: Irons, Gordon A.
name: Brooks, Geoffrey
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Nitrogen even in small quantities is detrimental to the quality of steel, and it is difficult to remove from steel. The goal of this work was to develop a technique for nitrogen removal from liquid steel by injection of DRI fines. DRI fines, generated either directly from a DRI process or by attrition in transport or handling, contain significant quantities of carbon and oxygen. Studies have shown that upon heating these elements react rapidly inside DRI particles to form fine CO bubbles. The present study examines the generation of CO by the injection of DRI fines; these fines are generated inevitably from the handling and transportation of DRI pellets and briquettes, but such fines could be specifically prepared by crushing DRI pellets. It should be noted that some EAF shops already inject DRI fines to gain some value from this degraded product. To our knowledge there have been no studies to isolate the effect of fines injection, and to optimize this process for nitrogen removal.