cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1 of Efficacy of Fludora® Fusion (a mixture of deltamethrin and clothianidin) for indoor residual spraying against pyrethroid-resistant malaria vectors: laboratory and experimental hut evaluation
Creators: name: Fongnikin, Augustin
name: Houeto, Nadia
name: Agbevo, Abel
name: Abibath Odjo
name: Syme, Thomas
name: N’Guessan, Raphael
name: Ngufor, Corine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Knockdown and mortality of pyrethroid-resistant An. gambiae (s.l.) Cové, Benin, in CDC bottle bioassays with clothianidin.
Binary output of cellular neural networks with smooth activation
Creators: name: Andrew, Lachlan L. H.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: An important property of cellular neural networks (CNNs) is the binary output property, that, when the self-feedback is greater than one, the final activations are ۫ 1. This brief considers the generalization of this property to networks with sigmoidal output functions. It is shown that in this case the property cannot be stated without reference to the cross feedback, and conditions are found under which the property remains valid.
Alcochera Forster 1869
Creators: name: Watanabe, Kyohei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Alcochera

description: Genus Alcochera Förster, 1869
 Alcochera Förster, 1869: 205. Type species: Mesoleius nikkoensis Uchida, 1930. Designated by Townes et al. (1965)
 Nemesoleius Heinrich, 1949: 87. Type species: Tryphon flavipes Gravenhorst, 1829. Original designation.
 A single species, Alcochera nikkoensis (Uchida, 1930), has been recorded from Japan. In this study, I describe one new species and record one species new to Japan, Al. flavoclypeata Sheng & Sun, 2021, below.
description: Published as part of Watanabe, Kyohei, 2024, Taxonomic Study of Japanese Ctenopelmatinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), with Descriptions of 22 New Species, pp. 39-102 in Bulletin of the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum (Natural Science) 53 on page 62, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13237363
title: Students’ Perceptions of Factors Influencing Choice of Science Streams in Tanzania Secondary Schools
Creators: name: Kinyota, Mjege
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: Science and Mathematics Education

description: This study explored students’ perceptions of the factors influencing their decision to choose between the Science and Arts streams for ordinary level secondary schools. The study also examined the kind and level of support, guidance and information students receive before making stream choices. Using both qualitative and quantitative approaches, data was gathered through questionnaires, document review, focus group discussions and semi-structured interviews from 101 students, 13 science teachers, 4 heads of schools and (1) District Educational Officer in Morogoro region. The literature review and research questions guided the analysis of data by organizing the analysis section into several themes. The findings of this study indicate that factors such as students’ examination scores, self-efficacy in science, knowledge of available careers, gender and school resource contexts affect students’ choice of science streams. The results also reveal that a majority of students had relatively little knowledge of available careers and how they are related to subject choices. This study recommends that efforts be made to improve secondary students’ performance in science and mathematics since a majority of students perceive performance as a main factor influencing their choice of science subjects. There is a need to review and improve subject streaming processes in schools by providing relevant career guidance and advisory services to enable students make informed stream choices. Finally, special attention should be paid to female performance and participation in science and mathematics because findings from this study have indicated this to be a serious problem.
War on the Air: CBC-TV and Canada’s Military, 1952-1992
Creators: name: Schwartz, Mallory
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
history of television in Canada
media-military relations
media representations of the Canadian military
Cold War
peacekeeping
commemorations and history on television in Canada
history of journalism
cultural nationalism
television news
public affairs
documentary
entertainment programming

description: From the earliest days of English-language Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television (CBC-TV), the military has been regularly featured on the news, public affairs, documentary, and drama programs. Little has been done to study these programs, despite calls for more research and many decades of work on the methods for the historical analysis of television. In addressing this gap, this thesis explores: how media representations of the military on CBC-TV (commemorative, history, public affairs and news programs) changed over time; what accounted for those changes; what they revealed about CBC-TV; and what they suggested about the way the military and its relationship with CBC-TV evolved. Through a material culture analysis of 245 programs/series about the Canadian military, veterans and defence issues that aired on CBC-TV over a 40-year period, beginning with its establishment in 1952, this thesis argues that the conditions surrounding each production were affected by a variety of factors, namely: (1) technology; (2) foreign broadcasters; (3) foreign sources of news; (4) the influence of the military and its veterans; (5) audience response; (6) the role played by personalities involved in the production of CBC-TV programs; (7) policies/objectives/regulations set by the CBC, the Board of Broadcast Governors and the Canadian Radio-Television Commission (later, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission); (8) ambitions for program development and the changing objectives of departments within the CBC; (9) economic constraints at the CBC; (10) CBC-TV’s relations with the other producers of Canadian television programming, like the NFB; and, (11) broader changes to the Canadian social, economic, political and cultural scenes, along with shifts in historiography. At different times, certain of these conditions were more important than others, the unique combination of which had unpredictable results for programming. The thesis traces these changes chronologically, explaining CBC-TV’s evolution from transmitting largely uncritical and often positive programming in the early 1950s, to obsession with the horrors of war and questioning of the military’s preparedness by decade’s end, to new debate about the future of the forces and the memory of war in the 1960s, to a complex mixture of activism, criticism and praise in the 1970s and 1980s, and, finally, to controversy and iconoclasm by the 1990s.
Klimafreundliche Gebäudeklimatisierung
Creators: name: Safarik, Mathias
name: Heinrich, Carsten
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Gebäudeklimatisierung
subject: Klimaanlage
subject: Klimaanlagen
subject: Kältetechnik
subject: Teilfluorierte Kohlenwasserstoffe
subject: Teilfluorierter Kohlenwasserstoff
subject: HFKW-Emissionen
subject: HFKW
subject: Kältemittel
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Climate | Energy

description: Kältetechnik schlägt in Deutschland mit etwa 14 Prozent des Stromverbrauchs und 5 Prozent der ⁠Treibhausgas⁠-Emissionen zu Buche. Welche Kältesysteme unter anderem für Gebäude klimafreundlich sind, war Thema einer ⁠UBA⁠-Studie. Die Ergebnisse sind in diesen Ratgeber für Architekten, Bauherren und Planer eingeflossen. Der Energiebedarf  eines Gebäudes in der Nutzungsphase wird maßgeblich in der vorangehenden Planungsphase festgelegt. Eine nachträgliche Verbesserung der Bedarfswerte ist meist nur mit großem Aufwand möglich. Dies gilt  auch für den Energiebedarf und die Klimafreundlichkeit der Klimaanlage, weshalb ein entsprechendes Anlagenkonzept in die Gebäudeplanung integriert sein sollte. Der Ratgeber führt in die Materie der Gebäudeklimatisierung ein, beschreibt verschiedene Kälteerzeugungsverfahren und skizziert Lösungsansätze für klimaschonende Gebäudeklimatisierungskonzepte.
Additional file 1 of Genetic variants of the human host influencing the coronavirus-associated phenotypes (SARS, MERS and COVID-19): rapid systematic review and field synopsis
Creators: name: Maria, Emilio Di
name: Latini, Andrea
name: Borgiani, Paola
name: Novelli, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary table 1. Search strings used to interrogate publication databases. Supplementary figure 1. PRISMA workflow.
Artificial Intelligence for Video-based Learning at Scale
Creators: name: Seo, Kyoungwon
name: Fels, Sidney
name: Yoon, Dongwook
name: Roll, Ido
name: Dodson, Samuel
name: Fong, Matthew
Publisher: name: Association for Computing Machinery
Year: 2021

description: Video-based learning (VBL) is widespread; however, there are numerous challenges when teaching and learning with video. For instructors, creating effective instructional videos takes considerable time and effort. For students, watching videos can be a passive learning activity. Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to improve the VBL experience for students and teachers. This half-day workshop will bring together multi-disciplinary researchers and practitioners to collaboratively envision the future of VBL enhanced by AI. This workshop will be comprised of a group discussion followed by a presentation session. The goal of the workshop is to facilitate the cross-pollination of design ideas and critical assessments of AI approaches to VBL.
Investigating Host-Viral Interactions in Liver Lipid Homeostasis and HCV Pathology
Creators: name: Delcorde, Julie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Hepatitis C Virus
CIDEB
Lipids
Host-factor
Unnatural amino acid

description: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infects an estimated 170 million people worldwide and is a major cause of chronic hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma. As there are limited treatment options, the elucidation of novel host-viral interactions during HCV pathogenesis will be critical for the development of new therapeutics. My thesis work has identified cell death-inducing DFF45-like effector B (CIDEB) as a host factor that is disregulated during HCV infection, and has delineated the relevance of CIDEB’s dual roles in apoptosis and lipid metabolism in the context of the HCV lifecycle. Moreover, additional host factors necessary for the HCV lifecycle were investigated using unnatural amino acid (UAA) technology. With this technique, the photo-cross-linking UAA p-azido-phenlyalanine (AZF) and 3’-azibutyl-N-carbamoyl-lysine (Abk) were incorporated into viral proteins by expanding the genetic code of the host organism. This conferred diverse physicochemical and biological properties to these proteins that were exploited to investigate protein structure and function in vitro and in vivo. In summary, gaining insight into the numerous host-viral interactions that take place during HCV infection will both advance our understanding of HCV pathogenesis and uncover potential therapeutic targets.
Alcochera flavoclypeata Sheng & Sun 2021
Creators: name: Watanabe, Kyohei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Alcochera
Alcochera flavoclypeata

description: Alcochera flavoclypeata Sheng & Sun, 2021
(New SJN: Shiro-obi-maru-himebachi)
(Figs. 15A, B)
 Alcochera flavoclypeata Sheng & Sun, 2021 in Sun et al. (2021b): 275.
 Description. See Sun et al. (2021b).
 Materials examined. JAPAN: KPM-NK 84860, M, Kanagawa Pref., Fujisawa City, campus of Keio University, 27. IV. 2018, T. Amano leg.; KPM-NK 84861, M, Osaka Pref., Takatsuki City, Niryou, 9–26. V. 2013, S. Fujie leg. (MsT).
 Distribution. Japan (Honshu) and China.
 Bionomics. Unknown.
 Remarks. This is the first record of this species from Japan.
description: Published as part of Watanabe, Kyohei, 2024, Taxonomic Study of Japanese Ctenopelmatinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), with Descriptions of 22 New Species, pp. 39-102 in Bulletin of the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum (Natural Science) 53 on page 62, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13237363
A data storage for peer-to-peer based decentralised workflow systems
Creators: name: Yan, Jun
name: Yang, Yun
name: Raikundalia, Gitesh K.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper proposes an innovative data storage mechanism for decentralised workflow systems. The research is based on a peer-to-peer workflow architecture in which various nodes communicate with each other directly to carry out workflow functions. In this approach, a process is partitioned into separate tasks, and then individual tasks are passed to appropriate nodes. To realise this approach, a data repository independent process notation is provided. Moreover, this paper also designs communication protocols to maintain data in a dynamic environment. The key distinction of this approach is to propose a “know what you should know” policy to reflect the nature of applications.
Political Participation Contrasted in India: A Contextual Comparison Between Kerala and Biha
Creators: name: Brush, Shayla
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: political participation
participatory development
development
Kerala
India
Biha

description: State processes and programs are often constructed and implemented with the intention to ameliorate the lives of the inhabitants living within those borders. However, in order for citizens to benefit from these programs and processes, for example, anti-poverty programs and decentralization projects, their participation is a necessity. But societal contexts in which citizen participation occurs vary to great extents. It is important then to investigate these differences so as to further our understanding of the workings of participation. This research conducts a comparative analysis between two states in India, Kerala and Bihar, of contextual factors impacting participation. It shows that both trust in the state as well as formal education affect the level of participation of the population. This research engages with and attempts to add to the literature of participatory development by analyzing and explaining some of the impact that context has on participation of inhabitants.
Additional file 1 of Development and validation of an obstetric early warning system model for use in low resource settings
Creators: name: Aminu Umar
name: Manu, Alexander
name: Matthews Mathai
name: Ameh, Charles
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. CEMACH MEOWS.
Pulsed multichannel source generation for RZ based WDM application
Creators: name: Bao, H. C.
name: Wen, Yang Jing
name: Liu, Hai Feng
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This letter demonstrates a novel technique for the generation of pulsed multichannel source from a multiple mode laser diode (LD). Pulsed multiple channel source with 6.5 GHz repetition rate was generated from a subharmonically hybrid mode-locked monolithic laser with 32.5 GHz mode spacing. The obtained pulse source exhibits high extinction ratio (>10 dB) and low level of root-mean-square (RMS) phase noise (<0.11 rad) over all channels from 1556 to 1565 nm. The proposed scheme is cost-effective and a promising candidate for 10-GHz pulse source generation in 10-Gb/s based wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) systems with 50-GHz channel spacing using return-to-zero (RZ) data format.
Additional file 2 of Development and validation of an obstetric early warning system model for use in low resource settings
Creators: name: Aminu Umar
name: Manu, Alexander
name: Matthews Mathai
name: Ameh, Charles
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2. Obstetric early warning chart
Barytarbes Forster 1869
Creators: name: Watanabe, Kyohei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Barytarbes

description: Genus Barytarbes Förster, 1869
 Barytarbes Förster, 1869: 212. Type species: Tryphon colon Gravenhorst, 1829. Designated by Viereck (1914).
 Hybristes Förster, 1869: 210. Type species: Tryphon adpropinquator Gravenhorst, 1829. Designated by Townes et al. (1965).
 Isodiaeta Förster, 1869: 204. Type species: Mesoleius flavicornis Thomson, 1892. Designated by Horstmann (2005).
 Polytrera Förster, 1869: 202. Type species: Mesoleius (Barytarbus) laeviusculus Thomson, 1883. Designated by Viereck (1914).
 Barytarbus Thomson, 1883: 931. Emendation.
 Polytreres Thomson, 1892: 1873. Emendation.
 Apholium Townes, 1970: 113. Type species: Apholium leptobasis Townes, 1970. Original designation.
 A single species, B. leptobasis (Townes, 1970), has been recorded from Japan. In this study, I record this species for the first time from Sado Island.
description: Published as part of Watanabe, Kyohei, 2024, Taxonomic Study of Japanese Ctenopelmatinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), with Descriptions of 22 New Species, pp. 39-102 in Bulletin of the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum (Natural Science) 53 on page 65, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13237363
Transcriptional and Post-translational Regulation of Cytosolic Carbonic Anhydrase in Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and Zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Creators: name: Carrie, Daniel
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Carbonic Anhydrase
Post-translation regulation
Transcriptional regulation
Phosphorylation

description: The enzyme carbonic anhydrase (CA) contributes to multiple physiological processes by catalysing the reversible hydration of carbon dioxide. However, regulation of CA activity in response to homeostatic challenges remains poorly understood. The objectives of this thesis were to investigate whether CA is transcriptionally regulated by cortisol in fish and whether post-translational modification (PTM) of CA occurs in fish. The results of an in vivo reporter assay used to investigate potential transcriptional regulation of zebrafish, Danio rerio, cytoplasmic CA (CAc) were inconsistent, and it remains unclear whether zebrafish CAc is regulated transcriptionally by cortisol. Phosphorylation of rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss, CAc was predicted from in silico analysis of the putative amino acid sequence and confirmed by Western analysis of phosphoprotein levels following in vitro incubation of CA, purified from trout gill, under conditions designed to potentiate endogenous kinases. Again using in vitro incubations designed to potentiate endogenous kinases and phosphatases, changes to the phosphorylation state of CAc were found to modulate its enzymatic properties. These findings suggest that CA activity may be regulated by signalling pathways that activate cellular protein kinases, and future work should focus on identifying these pathways.
Auditory and non-auditory effects of noise on health
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014

description: Noise is pervasive in everyday life and can cause both auditory and non-auditory health effects. Noise-induced hearing loss remains highly prevalent in occupational settings, and is increasingly caused by social noise exposure (eg, through personal music players). Our understanding of molecular mechanisms involved in noise-induced hair-cell and nerve damage has substantially increased, and preventive and therapeutic drugs will probably become available within 10 years. Evidence of the non-auditory effects of environmental noise exposure on public health is growing. Observational and experimental studies have shown that noise exposure leads to annoyance, disturbs sleep and causes daytime sleepiness, affects patient outcomes and staff performance in hospitals, increases the occurrence of hypertension and cardiovascular disease, and impairs cognitive performance in schoolchildren. In this Review, we stress the importance of adequate noise prevention and mitigation strategies for public health.
Quelle: http://www.thelancet.com/
On the Rational Retraction Index
Creators: name: Paradis, Philippe
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Rational homotopy theory
Lusternik–Schnirelmann category
LS category
Rational retraction index
Rationally elliptic spaces
Formal spaces

description: If X is a simply connected CW complex, then it has a unique (up to isomorphism) minimal Sullivan model. There is an important rational homotopy invariant, called the rational Lusternik–Schnirelmann of X, denoted cat0(X), which has an algebraic formulation in terms of the minimal Sullivan model of X. We study another such numerical invariant called the rational retraction index of X, denoted r0(X), which is defined in terms of the minimal Sullivan model of X and satisfies 0 ≤ r0(X) ≤ cat0(X). It was introduced by Cuvilliez et al. as a tool to estimate the rational Lusternik–Schnirelmann category of the total space of a fibration. In this thesis we compute the rational retraction index on a range of rationally elliptic spaces, including for example spheres, complex projective space, the biquotient Sp(1) \ Sp(3) / Sp(1) × Sp(1), the homogeneous space Sp(3)/U(3) and products of these. In particular, we focus on formal spaces and formulate a conjecture to answer a question posed in the original article of Cuvilliez et al., “If X is formal, what invariant of the algebra H∗(X;Q) is r0(X)?”
Combining qualitative and quantitative methods in environmental accounting research
Creators: name: Elijido-Ten, Evangeline
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The purpose of this paper is to explore how the combination of quantitative and qualitative methods can enhance a study on the environmental reporting decisions made by Malaysian companies using the emergent stakeholder theory. Methodology/approach: The paper provides an illustration of how the descriptive, exploratory and explanatory type of research is entrenched with the objectives of the research and how the combination of quantitative (statistical regression and weighting/mean ranking) and qualitative (archival analysis, qualitative interviews) methods may enhance accounting research not only from results that corroborate. Findings: The three-fold objective of this study, corresponding to its three phases, illustrates that combining qualitative and quantitative methods involves considerations at each phase of the investigation. The research design shows that when the researcher work with different types of data within the same project, the way data is used varies according to the objective and type of each phase (descriptive, explanatory and/or explanatory) of the research project. Each phase may have a particular aim and may address different concerns. However, taken together, the quantitative and qualitative findings may either corroborate, elaborate, complement or even contradict each other. The paper claims that the enhancement of accounting research is not only achieved when the findings from mixed methods corroborate. Rather, it is submitted that the value of combining methods arise from different research outcomes – be it corroborative, elaborative, complementary or even contradictory.
Barytarbes leptobasis
Creators: name: Watanabe, Kyohei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Barytarbes
Barytarbes leptobasis

description: Barytarbes leptobasis (Townes, 1970)   (SJN: Nagano-maru-himebachi)
(Figs. 17A, B)
 Apholium leptobasis Townes, 1970: 114.
 Description. See Townes (1970).
 Materials examined. JAPAN: AEI, F (holotype), M, Nagano Pref., Kamikochi, 23. VII. 1954, Townes family leg.; KPM-NK 84786, 84817, 2 F, Sado Is., Niigata Pref., Hakuundai to Mt. Myokenzan, 10. IX. 2010, K.
Watanabe leg.
 Distribution. Japan (Honshu and Sado Island).
description: Published as part of Watanabe, Kyohei, 2024, Taxonomic Study of Japanese Ctenopelmatinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), with Descriptions of 22 New Species, pp. 39-102 in Bulletin of the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum (Natural Science) 53 on page 65, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13237363
Additional file 3 of Development and validation of an obstetric early warning system model for use in low resource settings
Creators: name: Aminu Umar
name: Manu, Alexander
name: Matthews Mathai
name: Ameh, Charles
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 3. Receiver-operating curve for the prediction of severe maternal outcome in the developmental model (n = 600)
To Tweet or Not to Tweet: An Investigative Analysis of the Government of Canada's Social Media Practices
Creators: name: David, Renée S.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Government of Canada
Journalists
Twitter
Social media
Conversation
Public sector communications

description: The concept of social media is top of mind for Canadians today. Decision makers, such as the Canadian government, try to identify ways in which they can benefit from tools such as Twitter. This thesis is an investigative analysis that studies how the Canadian government currently uses social media networks. Based on the conceptual framework of Rogers’ diffusion of innovations (2003) and Qualman’s socialnomics theory (2013), the study aims to define how members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery use the Government of Canada tweets. Through a series of interviews with members of the press and government communications executives, a themed analysis was conducted to demonstrate how Twitter is being used and if a dialogue exists between federal institutions and reporters. The research unveiled that the Government of Canada uses social media as a one-to-many broadcasting channel, not actively engaging in online dialogue with members of the press. Conversely, journalists use Twitter as a wire service to obtain instant information, and to gain insight from the consumers. However, they are not interested in conversing with the public service on social media as they want to protect the exclusivity of their story, and they criticize the anonymity of the government corporate accounts as having an impact on its credibility.
Additional file 4 of Development and validation of an obstetric early warning system model for use in low resource settings
Creators: name: Aminu Umar
name: Manu, Alexander
name: Matthews Mathai
name: Ameh, Charles
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 4. Receiver-operating curve for the prediction of severe maternal outcome in the validation model (n = 900)
Schwerpunkte 2014 - Jahrespublikation des Umweltbundesamtes
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Umweltbundesamt
subject: Umweltforschung
subject: Das UBA
subject: The UBA

description: 2014 wurde das ⁠UBA⁠ 40 Jahre alt. Aus diesem Anlass blicken wir in unserer Jahrespublikation „Schwerpunkte“ ausnahmsweise zurück: auf die wichtigsten Meilensteine der deutschen Umweltpolitik, die eng mit dem UBA verbunden sind. Aber auch den aktuellen Themen des Umweltschutzes widmet sich die Broschüre. Die internationale Klimaschutzpolitik muss ambitionierter werden, die Belastung der Luft mit Schadstoffen verringert und unsere Böden besser geschützt werden. Ein weiteres Kapitel behandelt die Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie, in der Ressourcen dringend effizienter eingesetzt werden müssen.
La coopération Venezuela-Haïti : Une alternative à la coopération Nord-Sud?
Creators: name: Bernier, Lydia
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: coopération Sud-Sud
Venezuela
Haïti
coopération vénézuélienne
Petrocaribe
ALBA

description: Cette thèse ambitionne de mieux comprendre l’approche de coopération Sud-Sud développée par le Venezuela, plus spécifiquement par le régime d’Hugo Chávez, et de la situer par rapport aux pratiques Nord-Sud dans le cadre de la reconstruction de l’État haïtien. Fondée sur un cadre théorique constructiviste critique, notre analyse met l’accent sur les facteurs non systémiques (histoire, politique, idéologie nationale, cadre discursif, etc.) dans la formation de l’identité et des intérêts derrière les politiques de coopération vénézuéliennes et leur mise en œuvre. En s’appuyant sur une étude de cas impliquant le Canada, l’OÉA et le Venezuela, il ressort que malgré l’établissement d’un modèle alternatif de développement qui pourrait s’avérer un apport complémentaire considérable à la coopération Nord-Sud, la place qu’y occupe l’idéologie bolivarienne anti-hégémonique l’inscrit plutôt dans une dynamique de concurrence qui limite la coordination de l’aide sur le terrain. Par ailleurs, cette recherche démontre que l’originalité du modèle de coopération vénézuélien réside dans la force de son pouvoir discursif, et par conséquent dans sa capacité à influencer la perception qu’ont les acteurs de ses pratiques d’aide.
Blogs versus discussion forums in postgraduate online continuing medical education
Creators: name: Wise, Lisa
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The so-called 'net generation', those people who do not remember a time before the World Wide Web (e.g. Oblinger and Oblinger, 2005), are now beginning to enter tertiary institutions. In order to accommodate the perceived expectations of these students, there is strong institutional pressure to ensure that information and communication technology (ICT) is a standard component of tertiary teaching programs. Although some form of online delivery has become part of the mainstream teaching model, a major barrier to effective use of online tools is the need for academics to acquire the technical competence to author basic web content and use ICT (such as email, discussion forums, chat, instant messaging) within their comfort zone. In this paper, I explore the reluctance of academics and institutions to embrace the use of blogs even when they understand the appropriateness of the tool to the communication model desired. I base my broader argument around data from the continuing medical education (CME) context in which I provide online learning support. As background to my thesis, I examine the rationale for embracing ICT in CME. I then propose that use of LMS to support online learning in fact is responsible for a subtle deskilling and disempowerment of academics in terms of ICT literacy which reinforces the inertia inherent in adopting new tools when existing ones can be made to serve the purpose, albeit in a clumsy or non-optimal manner. I argue, on the basis of data from 6 post-graduate CME courses, that much of the content of discussion forums would be better supported by blogging software than by forum software. Based on ideas derived from Downes (2004), Watson (2003), Williams and Jacobs (2004) and various online commentators, I put forward the proposition that in addition to the overhead of learning to use a new piece of software, reluctance to use blogging software is evidence of a deeper issue in terms of the task of writing itself. Despite the pivotal role of writing as the core communication mode of academic discourse, many participants in CME (both educators and students) have little intrinsic interest in the act of writing and are not driven to write beyond the need to fulfil course or specific professional requirements.
Performance Improvement for Wireless Mesh Networks with Renewable Energy Source
Creators: name: Sun, Peng
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Wireless Mesh Networks
Survivability
Energy efficiency
Renewable Energy
Backup scheme
Green communication

description: Multi-radio multi-channel wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have been the focus of numerous research efforts during the past few years. These efforts aimed at extending the utilization of technologies based on the IEEE 802.11 standard in large-scale communities and even for city wide networking. However, mesh nodes in these networks are typically limited in their resources (e.g., bandwidth, power and radio interfaces). Such a limitation has led to an unsatisfactory network performance as well as users dissatisfaction. This dissertation addresses three important performance issues related to WMNs, namely, network performance enhancement, network survivability and green communications. To address the first issue, a novel quality of service (QoS) aware joint channel assignment (CA) and routing algorithm is developed. The proposed algorithm employs both dynamic and static CA techniques and corresponding link schedules that maximize the network throughput and minimize the delay and packet loss ratio. Next, the thesis addresses the problem of network survivability and theoretically analyzes the effects of node failure probabilities on the ability of the remaining network nodes to maintain their connectivity. A tight upper bound on the node failure probabilities needed to maintain full network connectivity on the one hand is first developed. On the other hand, a lower bound, at which the system loses connectivity, is also derived. We show that these bounds are dependent only on the nodes' geometric distribution and density. Based on the premise that failure of nodes in a small area may lead to failure of dependent nodes in other areas due to the quick divergence of traffic in these areas, an efficient node failure backup scheme is presented. The scheme relies on the capacity of the surviving network components in order to find new paths that do not overload the neighbours of the failed node which reduces the probability of generating congestion. Finally, the thesis addresses the problem of realizing energy-efficient WMNs that can operate using renewable energy sources. In these systems, batteries are often used to store and regulate the use of the supplied green energy to transmit the received data at each network router in order to overcome the problem of supply fluctuating of various energy sources. To realize these networks, the behaviour of the residual energy of the battery at a heavily loaded green wireless mesh node with a general traffic arrival and energy charging functions is first analyzed. Based on obtained theoretical results, both an online and an offline QoS aware packet scheduling schemes are proposed to minimize the probability of depleting the battery. Each of the aforementioned contributions is supported with various experimental evaluations to demonstrate the achieved performance enhancements.
The role of physical attractiveness in marketing education: an exploratory study
Creators: name: Ho, Henry W. L.
name: Mulyanegara, Riza Casidy
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Recent work on the relationship between class attendance and student performance found that student absenteeism impacted negatively on students' grade or scores performance (Stanca, 2006). This research aims to examine the relationship between students' perceived physical attractiveness and lecture attendance. The findings indicated that most students agreed that they will attend the face-to-face lecture more often if the lecturer is 'funny'. In particular, the male respondents of the study claimed that they would be more likely to attend lecture if the lecturer is 'attractive' and 'good-looking'. Such results may be an indicator that physical attractiveness of the instructor can be one of the motivating factors for students to attend face-to-face lecture sessions.
Baccalaureate Nursing Students’ Perceptions of Community Health Nursing as a Career
Creators: name: Duah, Maame Akyaa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: community health nursing, career choice, undergraduate nursing, students, decision making

description: Background: There has been an increasing shift in patient care from the acute hospital setting to the community. Nurses play an essential role as part of the community health care workforce; however, only a limited number of baccalaureate nursing students tend to choose a career in community health nursing after graduation. There is currently a gap in knowledge surrounding nursing students’ perception of a career in Community Health Nursing and the issues influencing their career choice upon graduation. Purpose: To explore issues that influence career choice in community health nursing from the perspective of baccalaureate nursing students. Research Methodology: The study was guided by a descriptive qualitative research approach. Individual semi-guided interviews and focus groups were conducted with 11 nursing students and a group of key stakeholders to share their thoughts on pursuing a career in community health nursing and the factors that enabled or hindered their decision making. Thematic analysis of the interview and focus group data generated relevant themes. Findings: Five major themes were revealed from study. These are 1) defining community health nursing, 2) the clinical practicum experience, 3) stereotypes of community health nursing, 4) societal trends and expectations, and 5) issues influencing career choice in community health nursing. Discussion and Implications: The personal and contextual factors influencing the perceptions and attitudes of students towards pursuing community health nursing were discussed. Existing literature was integrated into the discussion of the many factors that both motivated and hindered baccalaureate nursing students from pursuing community health nursing. The underrepresentation of new graduates in community health nursing calls for directed efforts by community health nursing organizations and the university to improve the situation. Conscientious efforts need to be made to provide students with knowledge and information surrounding the roles of community health nurses and the opportunities for nursing students and nurses in community health nursing settings. Conclusion: There is a need to increase awareness about community health nursing in order for nursing students to understand the importance and impact it has on the health status of communities and healthcare delivery infrastructure. Nursing education programs would be an ideal platform for this awareness-raising and facilitate student nurses decision to pursue community health nursing as a career.
Additional file 5 of Development and validation of an obstetric early warning system model for use in low resource settings
Creators: name: Aminu Umar
name: Manu, Alexander
name: Matthews Mathai
name: Ameh, Charles
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 5. Receiver-operating curve for the prediction of severe maternal outcome in the sensitivity model with total dataset (n = 5243)
Writing: a question of doubling the absent
Creators: name: Hecq, Dominique
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Writing is bound by two silences: the one from which it emerges, and the one towards which it tends. Thus the writing process entails a dialectic between the absent and the double: the love object and its imaginative recuperation, the absent bearer of the law and its imaginative creation, the ego and its alter ego, or indeed the defective ego and its symbolic avatar. But what is writing? This paper seeks answers to this Mallarmean question in the teachings of psychoanalysis. It focuses on Lacan's seminar on Joyce (2005 [1975-76]) to show that although writing may be an uninterrupted work of mourning, it may also be a structural necessity. Lacan indeed suggests that Joyce avoided psychosis by deploying his art.
The Legitimacy of the World Trade Organization Rulemaking Processes: A Case Studies Analysis
Creators: name: Fraser, Véronique
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: legitimacy
World Trade Organization
decision-making
rule-making
reform
Agreement on Trade Facilitation
TRIPS and public health
Basic Telecoms Agreement

description: In the last decade, World Trade Organization (WTO) Members have paid little attention to the WTO rulemaking processes and their functioning. Two high-levels commissions, as well as some scholars, have identified several areas of concerns with respect to the WTO rulemaking processes. Some of them have put forth proposals for their reform. However, the WTO has not proceeded with or even reflected upon any major reforms affecting the functioning of its rulemaking processes. The lack of attention by the Members regarding these issues motivated the focus of this thesis on the legitimacy of the WTO rulemaking processes. The principal research question of this thesis is: Are the WTO rulemaking processes legitimate? To what degree? Answering this first research question necessarily leads to a secondary one: How can the WTO rulemaking processes be assessed? This thesis recognizes that there is no uniform way for assessing legitimacy both at the national and international levels. It borrows from David Beetham's legitimacy conception and assesses the legitimacy of the WTO rulemaking processes from the standpoint of WTO Members. It builds a theoretical framework for assessing the legitimacy of the rulemaking processes on the basis of Members' conception of the WTO and the concepts of input and output legitimacy that have been frequently applied to the WTO and from which are derived four legitimacy criteria: legality, effectiveness, representativeness and openness. This thesis furthermore advances that legitimacy can only be effectively assessed as a matter of degree and, therefore, develops a multidimensional interval scale to allow a precise measurement of the four criteria of legitimacy as applied to the WTO rulemaking processes. In order to assess the rulemaking processes, it uses three cases that have led to the adoption of new rules or agreements. In fact, legitimacy matters even more for the processes that led to actual rules due to the fact that they generate binding outcomes. Such a methodology based on case studies arguably provides a more accurate representation of the WTO rulemaking processes than the general processes that have been described in the secondary literature.
Hand to Ground
Creators: name: Tooth, Constance
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: painting
landscape
becoming
origin
morphogenesis
figuration
materiality
gesture

description: (Constance) Stanzie Tooth’s thesis exhibition titled, Hand to Ground, explores ideas of origin; both the mythology of a personal origin as well as the origins of painting and representation. Interrogating the history of landscape painting, the exhibition skews notions of identity by reconsidering representations of the landscape. Inspired by Margaret Atwood’s novel Surfacing, and paired with reminiscences of her childhood in rural Ontario, Tooth’s paintings unfold oblique narratives of a communion with land. These questions of personal ecology are filtered through an intense material expression, reinforcing the idea of coming into being. The exhibition was on view at the Karsh Masson Gallery in Ottawa from August 1st to September 10th, 2015.
The Challenge of Selectivity in Ethylene Oligomerization: Ligand Design and Metal Valence States
Creators: name: Thapa, Indira
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: selective
trimerization
tetramerization
ethylene oligomerization
polymerization
dimerization
chromium catalysts
Nickel catalysts

description: Catalytic ethylene oligomerization is a well understood industrially viable process. The large majority of scientific literature and patents concerning this process has been developed with the use of chromium catalysts. Commercial systems producing selective tri/tetramerization, non-selective oligomerization and polymerization are all based on this metal with the exception of a few systems based on other transition metals (Zr, Ti, Ni etc.). This versatility raises interesting questions about chromium’s unique behaviour. Essentially, selective or non-selective oligomerization and polymerization processes could be regarded as belonging to the same category of C-C bond forming reactions, though different mechanisms are involved. The first part of this thesis explores a variety of chromium complexes for ethylene oligomerization purposes. In order to gather further information about the unique behaviour of chromium, we have explored a variety of nitrogen and phosphorus containing ligands. We started with a simple bi-dentate anionic amidophosphine (NP) ligand and assessed the role of the ligand’s negative charge and number of donor atoms in determining the type of catalytic behaviour in relation to the metal oxidation state. This ligand proved capable of generating a series of chromium dimeric, tetrameric or polymeric and even heterobimetallic chromium-aluminate complexes in different valence states. This allowed us to isolate a “single component” self activating Cr(II) complex as well as a rare example of mixed valence Cr(I)/Cr(II) species. Additionally, each of these species acted as switchable catalyst depending on the type of co-catalyst
Hyperbatus Forster 1869
Creators: name: Watanabe, Kyohei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Hyperbatus

description: Genus Hyperbatus Förster, 1869
 Hyperbatus Förster, 1869: 210. Type species: Mesoleius segmentator Holmgren, 1857. Designated by Townes et al. (1965).
 A single species, H. segmentator (Gravenhorst, 1829), has been recorded from Kunashiri Island, Japan. In this study, I describe three new species from Japan below.
description: Published as part of Watanabe, Kyohei, 2024, Taxonomic Study of Japanese Ctenopelmatinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), with Descriptions of 22 New Species, pp. 39-102 in Bulletin of the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum (Natural Science) 53 on page 71, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13237363