cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Optimization methods in logic programming applied to expert systems for capital budgeting.
Creators: name: Muli, Hastings Kyale.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Engineering, System Science.

description: This thesis evaluates the benefit of meshing mathematical programming and expert systems for solving capital budgeting problems, using constraint logic programming methods. A review of modelling capabilities of mathematical programs for capital budgeting, and of financial expert systems leads to defining the respective role and potential of each method, and to the proposal of a two-tiered project selection approach: project evaluation and resource allocation. With emphasis placed on a tight coupling of the two tiers, logic programming is shown to be a language of choice to implement mathematical programming within an expert system shell. Prolog has the requisite properties to deal with both logical considerations and optimization problems. Although Prolog was not primarily designed to solve optimization problems, it is shown that the backtracking mechanism of the Prolog language is powerful enough for that purpose; it liberates the programmer from having to implement tree-search programs. A generate and test program is written in Turbo-Prolog, and compared to a more sophisticated test and generate implementation that uses methods of constraint satisfaction programming. Continuous capital budgeting problems are solved in CLP(${\cal R}$), an experimental extension of Prolog that enables the solution of simultaneous algebraic constraints, as required to solve linear programs.
Danegaptide Enhances Astrocyte Gap Junctional Coupling and Reduces Ischemic Reperfusion Brain Injury in Mice
Creators: name: Freitas-Andrade, Moises
name: Bechberger, John
name: Wang, Jasmine
name: Yeung, Ken K.C.
name: Whitehead, Shawn N.
name: Shultz Hansen, Rie
name: Naus, Christian C.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Ischemic stroke is a complex and devastating event characterized by cell death resulting from a transient or permanent arterial occlusion. Astrocytic connexin43 (Cx43) gap junction (GJ) proteins have been reported to impact neuronal survival in ischemic conditions. Consequently, Cx43 could be a potential target for therapeutic approaches to stroke. We examined the effect of danegaptide (ZP1609), an antiarrhythmic dipeptide that specifically enhances GJ conductance, in two different rodent stroke models. In this study, danegaptide increased astrocytic Cx43 coupling with no significant effects on Cx43 hemichannel activity, in vitro. Using matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization imaging mass spectrometry (MALDI IMS) the presence of danegaptide within brain tissue sections were detected one hour after reperfusion indicating successful transport of the dipeptide across the blood brain barrier. Furthermore, administration of danegaptide in a novel mouse brain ischemia/reperfusion model showed significant decrease in infarct volume. Taken together, this study provides evidence for the therapeutic potential of danegaptide in ischemia/reperfusion stroke.
Supplementary document for Non-propagation fast phase diverse phase retrieval for wavefront measurement with generalized FFT-based basis function - 5238765.pdf
Creators: name: Bai, Jian
name: Zhao, Lei
name: Hao, Yan
name: Jing, Hou
name: JU, Guohao
name: Wang, Kaiwei
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplemental document for time cost comparisons
The relationship between board structure and composition and corporate entrepreneurship: a UK study
Creators: name: Johl, Satirenjit
name: Bruce, Alistair
name: Binks, Martin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This study focuses on the relationship between corporate governance (board of structure and composition) and corporate entrepreneurship activities in firms. Existing research examines aspects of governance and entrepreneurship without any consideration of the links that may exist between these two drivers. This study seeks to address this gap.
Student Engagement in an Entry to Practice Nursing Degree: A Critical Realist Lens
Creators: name: Edwards, Sam
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2021
Subjects: Student engagement
entry to practice
critical realism

description: This study explored the empirical reality of students’ progress through an entry to practice nursing degree and the influences that shape the student learning experience in preparing to enter practice as a registered nurse (RN) in Australia. The complex, and at times competing, requirements and priorities of higher education providers, the health care industry and the nursing profession exist and converge in the curriculum as it is planned and implemented and as it is experienced by students. These intersections have implications for education providers, health services, the nursing profession and for individuals as they study and enter the profession.
description: Critical realism provided the methodological framework to explore the nursing student experience but also to consider the underlying mechanisms that shape and impact this. The research used a longitudinal, qualitative approach to gather rich detail of the empirical reality of 27 undergraduate nursing students at different points in their degree through one semester of study. Pre- and post-semester semi-structured interviews were conducted to explore their experience and the influences on their learning in preparing for registered nursing practice. In the second interview, participants also contributed an artefact that exemplified student engagement in learning. Additionally, 10 final-year students participated in a third interview between three and six months after completing their degree and commencing practice as a registered nurse. While the student experience was the central data source for this study, insights from 16 academic and professional staff in focus group interviews and information from curriculum documents also contributed to understanding the structures and mechanisms that influence student experience in entry to practice nursing degrees. Data was analysed using critical realist analysis processes.
Cassandra Austen - Jane's Muse?
Creators: name: Lee, Janet
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2016
Subjects: Jane Austen
Cassandra Austen
letters

description: This Doctorate of Creative Arts submission, 'Cassandra Austen - Jane's Muse?', will comprise a Creative Artefact, the novel 'Love Tokens', and an accompanying Exegesis. The submission will demonstrate the relationship between Jane Austen and her only sister Cassandra, exploring the possibility that Cassandra Austen contributed significantly to the writing of certain of Jane Austen's novels and juvenilia. The accompanying Exegesis will explain the process of creating 'Love Tokens' and detail the research undertaken. In 'Love Tokens' a researcher claims to have found documents pertaining to the Austen sisters. If genuine, these documents reveal the creative relationship between Jane and Cassandra Austen and propose what may have happened to Jane Austen's letters. The Exegesis engages with the Creative Artefact to demonstrate the process of creating 'Love Tokens' and to provide additional research and justification for the portrayal of Cassandra Austen as Jane Austen's muse.
Treasure: An examination of the bushman/Anzac narrative in the context of shifting attitudes to the land and natural environment in Australian fiction
Creators: name: Minke, Sandra
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2023
Subjects: Bushman
Anzac
landscape
agriculture
soil management
fabulation
gothic
Creative and professional writing

description: This project explores the bushman/Anzac trope and the place of this essentially colonial, hyper-masculine figure in the context of an Australia needing to move beyond a colonial, anthropocentric engagement with the natural environment and in particular, with soil.
“Bachelard, science, poésie, une nouvelle éthique?” Convegno di Cerisy-la-Salle
Creators: name: Alison, Aurosa
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: “Bachelard, science, poésie, une nouvelle éthique?” Convegno di Cerisy-la-Salle (Direzione e coordinamento di Jean-Jacques Wunenburger ; Centre Culturel International de Cerisy-la-Salle 25 giugno-1 agosto 2012) di  Aurosa Alison
description: Altre Modernità, 2012: Bachelard e la plasticità della materia
Beschreibung und Bewertung möglicher Auswirkungen einer unterirdischen Speicherung von Kohlendioxid auf ausgewählte Umweltschutzgüter
Creators: name: Schütte, Peter
name: Kohls, Malte
name: Kattau, Sandra
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Ökologischer Korridor
subject: Raumplanung
subject: Fachplanung
subject: Umweltqualität
subject: Unterirdische CO2-Speicherung
subject: CCS-Gesetz
subject: Kohlendioxid-Speicherungsgesetz
subject: CCS
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales

description: Im Forschungsbericht werden im Hinblick auf den umweltfachlichen Teil der Potenzialbewertung nach § 5 Absatz 3 Kohlendioxid-Speicherungsgesetz die möglichen Auswirkungen der unterirdischen Speicherung von Kohlendioxid (⁠CCS⁠) auf die Schutzgüter Mensch und menschliche Gesundheit, Tiere, Pflanzen, biologische Vielfalt, Landschaft, Kultur- und sonstige Sachgüter abstrakt beschrieben und bewertet. Dabei wird sowohl der bestimmungsgemäße als auch der nicht bestimmungsgemäße Betrieb unterirdischer ⁠CO2⁠-Speicher berücksichtigt.
The implications of outmigration on rural livelihoods and community forestry in the middle hills region of Nepal
Creators: name: K C, Bhawana
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2021
Subjects: outmigration
rural livelihoods
community forestry
feminization
agrarian change
land abandonment
land use
food security
gender norms
forest management

description: In recent decades, outmigration has become a key livelihood strategy for many rural households in the middle hills region of Nepal, which in turn has had a profound effect on rural communities, their livelihoods and how they manage their farms and forests. One outcome of this change is the feminization of rural communities, where women are increasingly responsible for households, farming and community institutions. The link between outmigration, socio-economic change, land management and institutions is not well understood. The profound change in rural communities over the past two decades has serious implications for family livelihoods, community institutions and regional food security. The change identified in Nepal, such as the prominence of ‘migrant’ households (i.e. where a family member is away for six months or longer), is also found in many other low-income countries. This research contributes to new knowledge by addressing four key questions:
Cheminer entre rationalité et imaginaire, une lecture de l’œuvre ouverte de Gaston Bachelard: Wunenburger
Creators: name: Lamy, Julien
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Cheminer entre rationalité et imaginaire, une lecture de l’oeuvre ouverte de Gaston Bachelard (  Jean-Jacques Wunenburger, Gaston Bachelard. Poétique des images, Milano, Mimesis, 2012 ISBN 978-88-575-097-85) par  Julien Lamy
description: Altre Modernità, 2012: Bachelard e la plasticità della materia
Indigenous entrepreneurs in Australia and New Zealand: a test of social marginality theory
Creators: name: Foley, Dennis
name: Frederick, Howard
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Focusing on the original indigenous inhabits of Australia and New Zealand, we examine the basic precept of social marginality theory, whether socially marginalised and disadvantaged entrepreneurs might actually be more likely to start a new venture. Using survey data and in-depth interviews, we find mixed results. For Maori, the original Polynesian inhabitants of Aotearoa New Zealand, their position of disadvantage coupled with a history and cultural attitudes favouring enterprise has led to one of the world's highest rates of entrepreneurial activity. However, for Indigenous Aboriginal Australians, their disadvantage and marginal status within Australian society, compounded by a continued legacy of inequity and by internal factors, has not encouraged an enterprising culture.
Baby boomers and beyond: Consumer evaluation of health and well being services
Creators: name: Spinks, Wendy
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2010
Subjects: customer satisfaction
service performance
situational variables
marketing strategy
mature age
behavioural intentions
loyalty
SERVQUAL
baby boomers

description: When the youngest Baby boomer turns 65 in 2031, the projected proportion of the Australian population, aged 65 and older, is expected to be between 21 and 22 percent. Over the next 40 years, the Australian population aged 65 and over is expected to increase from 2.9 million to 7.9 million, with a corresponding increased need for effective health and well-being services for the mature consumer. Due to the increased demand from the ageing population, health care and social assistance services are now the largest employer, when it surpassed the retail sector in August 2009. Seventy five percent (7.7 million people), of all employment in Australia is in the service industry, with health and well-being services showing the second highest growth in employment. Because the health and well-being service industry is such an important part of the fabric of life and the economy, it is important to understand how mature age customers (Baby boomers and those older) evaluate health and well-being services so that providers can best match and market their services to the mature market.
Evaluation of beneficial bacteria for improved growth and resistance against Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. zingiberi in ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe)
Creators: name: Rames, Emily
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2008
Subjects: ginger
plant growth promoting bacteria
Bacillus subtilis
Azospirillum
alginate
Fusarium oxysporum
biocontrol
biofertiliser

description: Severe losses in productivity in regional ginger cultivation have been caused by declining soil health and Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. zingiberi (Foz). Ongoing studies worldwide have demonstrated that plant growth promoting bacteria may increase yield, improve resistance to disease and reduce the requirement for fertilisers in a variety of crops of agronomic importance. Initially compost teas and commercial microbial inoculants were investigated as a source of microorganisms that may be beneficial to the growth of ginger. Quality control problems and associated safety issues precluded these inoculants from further study. Accordingly, reference strains of bacteria and strains isolated from the ginger rhizosphere were tested in glasshouse conditions for their plant growth promoting ability under reduced levels of fertiliser application. Bacillus F2 (field isolate), Azospirillum brasilense Sp7 and Azospirillum brasilense Sp7 combined with Bacillus coagulans NCTC 10334 significantly increased rhizome fresh weight of micropropagated ginger plants by 40.9%, 45.9% and 50% respectively. As the buffer used to apply the bacteria reduced plant growth, results indicated plant stress caused by salt in the buffer was overcome by the bacterial treatments. The aforementioned bacteria did not significantly improve the growth of ginger-plants grown from seed pieces and as such optimisation of application methods may be required. In a subsequent trial a dried alginate bead formulation of Azospirillum brasilense Sp7 significantly increased rhizome weight of ginger tissue cultured plants compared to application of a suspension of this bacterium. The alginate bead material also significantly improved the growth of micropropagated ginger plants. The importance of including appropriate controls, to identify effects of buffers and carrier materials on plant growth was repeatedly demonstrated. Antagonistic activity of bacterial isolates against Foz was also evaluated. Bacillus subtilis DAR26659 caused lysis of hyphae and also increased rhizome weight of micropropagated ginger plants by 60%, although evaluation of in planta biocontrol activity was limited by inconsistent infection of ginger plants by Foz. Improved productivity of micropropagated ginger plants might result in increased uptake of this source of disease-free planting material in the ginger industry.
Jean Libis, Fabio Ferreira,  Catherine Gublin, Sarah Mezaguer (eds.), Les Lectures de Gaston Bachelard. Index bibliographique
Creators: name: Alison, Aurosa
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Jean Libis, Fabio Ferreira, Catherine Gublin, Sarah Mezaguer (eds.), Les Lectures de Gaston Bachelard. Index bibliographique (Paris, Presse Universitaire de Franche-Comté, 2011 ISBN: 978-2-84867-392) di  Aurosa Alison
description: Altre Modernità, 2012: Bachelard e la plasticità della materia
Francesca Bonicalzi, Leggere Bachelard. Le ragioni del sapere
Creators: name: Maurizi, Marco
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Francesca Bonicalzi, Leggere Bachelard. Le ragioni del sapere (Milano, Jaca Book, 2007 ISBN 978-881-640-771-8) di  Marco Maurizi
description: Altre Modernità, 2012: Bachelard e la plasticità della materia
Physiological responses of elite cross-country skiers at selected exercise intensities under laboratory and field conditions.
Creators: name: Fitzgerald, Jeffrey H.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Biology, Animal Physiology.

description: The purpose of this study was to compare the heart rate (HR) and blood lactate (BLa) responses of elite male and female cross-country skiers. The testing consisted of a progressive incremental test on a sport-specific ski treadmill (ST) on Day 1 followed by dryland field tests using 2 training techniques, running with cross-country ski poles (RP) and freestyle rollerskiing (FR), on Days 2 and 3. The dryland field tests consisted of discontinuous bouts of exercise using 3 selected exercise intensities called Zone 1, Zone 2 and Zone 3. The Zones were intended to elicit steady-state responses corresponding to the dryland training intensities of the cross-country skiers. The immediate post-exercise HRs and the one minute post-exercise BLas from the 3 Zones and the 2 training techniques were compared with the HRs and BLas on the ST. The results suggest that there were no significant physiological differences between the dryland training techniques across the three Zones but that there were significant physiological differences when the laboratory responses were compared with the field responses. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Promoting sport participation during early parenthood: a randomized controlled trial protocol
Creators: name: Grant, Stina J.
name: Beauchamp, Mark R. (Mark Robert), 1972-
name: Blanchard, Chris M.
name: Carson, Valerie
name: Rhodes, Ryan E.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: Adult participation in sport is associated with important positive psychosocial outcomes. Despite the multitude of benefits that have been linked to sport participation, adult participation rates in Canada remain low. Parents with young children represent a demographic that may benefit considerably from sport participation, given the prevalence of inactivity coupled with increased levels of psychosocial distress among this group. This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of two types of sport participation (individual sport and team sport) on key psychosocial outcomes compared with a “personal time” control condition among parents with young children. Methods/design: The three-arm, parallel design, single-blind, randomized controlled trial will compare a team sport condition, an individual sport condition, and a “personal time” control condition over 3 months. Parents are eligible if they have a child under 13 years of age, are not participating in a sport at baseline, and are not meeting Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines. Psychosocial variables (quality of life, relationship satisfaction, social functioning, parental stress, and enjoyment) will be assessed at baseline, 6 weeks, and 3 months. A total of 161 parents have been recruited thus far from the Greater Victoria region in British Columbia, Canada. The study is ongoing with a target goal of 240 participants and an anticipated completion date of December 2021. Discussion: This protocol describes the implementation of a randomized controlled trial that evaluates the effectiveness of sport participation for increasing positive psychosocial outcomes. This information could prove useful for future adult sport participation and potentially inform public health initiatives involving parents and families. Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT02898285. Registered 13 September 2016.
A pilot implementation of a teaching model for independent learning
Creators: name: Zutshi, Samar
name: Mitchell, Matthew
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This research grew out of the authors' experience suggesting that the traditional lecture model suffers from two primary drawbacks. Firstly, it encourages passive reception of knowledge; and secondly, it is drawn from a model of teaching that disempowers students from developing their own critical thinking skills. In this paper we discuss these drawbacks and relate them to the literature on the traditional teaching model. We then argue for new a model that addresses these two drawbacks by supporting student-centred learning and student autonomy and encourages students to take responsibility for their own learning. The model eschews traditional lectures and tutorials; instead students are supported through mentoring in teams. Assessment is through project-based group work and requires a significant degree of student autonomy. Continuous feedback is provided on assessable work. We describe the pilot run implementation of this model. The implementation of the model illustrates that it can be used within typical university workload allocations formulated in terms of the traditional lecture and tutorial model. Reflections on our experiences during this implementation are presented along with a discussion of the further work necessary to evaluate the model and its subsequent implementation.
Marie-Pierre Lassus, Gaston Bachelard musicien. Une philosophie des silences et des timbres
Creators: name: Rizzuti, Marida
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Marie-Pierre Lassus, Gaston Bachelard musicien. Une philosophie des silences et des timbres (Villeneuve d’Ascq, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2010, 268 pp. ISBN: 978-275-740-1613) di  Marida Rizzuti
description: Altre Modernità, 2012: Bachelard e la plasticità della materia
Robert Desoille, Il Rêve Eveillé Dirigé in psicoterapia, via règia dell’immaginario
Creators: name: Chiore, Valeria
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Robert Desoille, Il Rêve Eveillé Dirigé in psicoterapia, via règia dell’immaginario (I edizione italiana ampliata con scritti inediti dell’Autore, a cura di N. Fabre e A. Passerini, Alpes Italia, Roma, 2010, 196 pp. ISBN 978-88-653-102-50) di  Valeria Chiore
description: Altre Modernità, 2012: Bachelard e la plasticità della materia
IQTISODIY JARAYONLARNI O'RGANISHDA KRAMER USULIDAN FOYDALANISH
Creators: name: Kadirova, Gulchexra
name: Sirojidinova, Iroda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ko‘plab iqtisodiy masalalrni yechishning asosiy usullaridan biri matritsalar algebrasining elementlarini qo'llanilishidir. Matritsalar algebrasi iqtisodchilar uchun nihoyatda muhim ahamiyat kasb etadi. Buning sababi shundaki, iqtisodiy ob'ektlar va jarayonlarning ko'pgina matematik modellari juda oddiy va ixcham holda matritsa shaklida qayd qilinadi.
Bachelard, un ricordo. In dialogo con Nicole Fabre.
Creators: name: Boccali, Renato
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Bachelard, un ricordo. In dialogo con Nicole Fabre di  Renato Boccali
description: Altre Modernità, 2012: Bachelard e la plasticità della materia
Gaining Insight: A Community-Based Approach to Understanding Physical Activity and Weight Gain in Pregnancy with First Nations and Métis Women
Creators: name: Darroch, Francine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Aboriginal
pregnancy
physical activity
feminist
community-based participatory research

description: Weight-gain and physical inactivity in pregnancy have important implications for First Nations and Métis women, populations that experience a disproportionate burden of poor health outcomes in pregnancy. Utilizing a postcolonial feminist theoretical lens in conjunction with a social determinants of health framework and tenets of cultural safety, the purpose of my doctoral research, which was written in the publishable paper format, was to address four questions: a) Are First Nations women marginalized through current physical activity pregnancy guidelines?; b) How do pregnant First Nations and Métis women understand weight-gain and physical activity during pregnancy?; c) What are the factors that influence excessive weight-gain during pregnancy in urban First Nations and Métis women?; and d) How can obesity prevention programs with pregnant First Nations and Métis women who live in urban centres be reflective of and sensitive to their cultural practices? To answer these questions, I conducted community-based qualitative research, which included 15 semi-structured interviews with key informants who are health/service providers for Aboriginal women in Ottawa and focus groups and semi-structured interviews with 25 pregnant/postpartum First Nations and Métis women. I also conducted two focus groups with both health/service providers and pregnant/postpartum women to determine what type of resource would benefit pregnant, urban First Nations and Métis women. Ultimately, I used this information to develop this resource. My research results revealed a complex interaction between the social determinants of health underlined by current manifestations of colonialism, which impact urban First Nations and Métis women’s physical activity and weight-gain during pregnancy. These findings emphasize the need for culturally safe physical activity and weight-gain resources for First Nations and Métis women during pregnancy. Ultimately, this study identified the importance of community consultation to develop culturally safe, community-driven, and useful health interventions for urban, pregnant First Nations and Métis women.
Critical External Inputs: off-farm compost, off-farm manure and biochar
Creators: name: Gattinger, Andreas
name: Niether, Wiebke
name: Frelih-Larsen, Ana
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2022
Subjects: Flächennutzungswandel
Landwirtschaft

description: Soils play a central role in climate mitigation. They are both as a carbon sink and a source of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). This report outlines the mitigation potential for GHG emissions of climate friendly soil management options at global, EU and German level. It also discusses different types of climate-friendly soil management measures and key considerations for their implementation. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
Conflicting modal assignments of office antiphons: A comparative study of seven Germanic sources.
Creators: name: Mori, Hiroko.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Music.

description: In the musical repertory of the medieval Gregorian liturgy, office chants have more diversity among sources than mass chants. The diversity sometimes results in the conflicting modal assignments of given chants which have been one of the chief concerns of the theorists throughout medieval centuries. By finding the conflicting modal assignments in the office antiphons from Ash Wednesday to Pentecost through a comparison of seven German antiphoners, and also by consulting with contemporary theoretical treatises about the antiphons of problematic modal assignments, this study inspects the real circumstances of modal problems in the medieval practice. One of the causes of the conflicting modal assignment of antiphons is the change of criterion of modal decision. In the early middle ages, singers selected the psalm tone according to the melodic incipit of an antiphon, while later they decided the mode of every chant based on the finalis. The other cause of conflict is that medieval singers often transposed a melody either entirely or in part, in order to avoid a certain interval or a chromatic tone, or in order to ease excessively high or law notes for certain singers. These modal conflicts, even among the sources produced in rather closely located geographical places, along with the theoretical discussions on modal problems of such antiphons, can be regarded as evidence of the struggles of medieval musicians to systematize the vast repertory they inherited.
Vulnerability and Power to Shape the Future
Creators: name: Rose, Valmae
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2017
Subjects: Causal Layered Analysis
futures studies
people with disability
personal agency
power

description: Shaping ones own future is a powerful, life-affirming act. For people with disability, their families, friends and allies, shaping the future has historically been a difficult, often adversarial process which has relied on negative images and stereotypes of vulnerability, abuse and neglect at the hands of an unresponsive "system". Current reforms, the National Disability Insurance Scheme in particular, offer an opportunity for a more collaborative, positive and citizen-led approach to creating a good life. This project has used Causal Layered Analysis and Sense-Making processes to explore the ways in which we define and respond to our own vulnerability, the mental images we generate as part of that response, and what that means in terms of power to influence the future. Findings suggest that while vulnerability and power to shape the future can and do co-exist, there are significant tensions between the community being both answer to inclusion and a dangerous place. There are invisible assumptions of poverty and low expectations for the future that will need to be examined and re-constructed if the National Disability Insurance Scheme is to be all it promises.
Evening Twilight of Art: An Examination of Nietzsche's Critique of Art and Aesthetic Tradition
Creators: name: Aleksandra, Subic
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Nietzsche
Art

description: Since the earliest reception of his thought Nietzsche’s name has been consistently associated with a certain valorization of art that is taken to be central to his work and his overall concerns. Even a brief overview of Nietzsche literature will speak to the fact that Nietzsche is held in general to be the quintessential philosopher of art, the thinker who holds art to be a central aspect of life lived well and of culture ‘well turned out’. The broad aim of this study is to offer an alternative reading of Nietzsche’s thought on art that will suggest a need to re-examine this generally accepted consensus concerning Nietzsche’s philosophy; it is to recognize the deep suspicion and at times hostility that Nietzsche displays towards art and artists, to uncover philosophical argument and assumptions underlying this suspicion, to bring to surface his thoroughgoing and consistent attempt to uncover the power configurations and presupposition which, Nietzsche believed, underpinned not just a particular kind of art or work of art, but art in general, and finally to view this tendency as something deeply connected to other areas of his thought. While bringing to surface this much neglected aspect of Nietzsche’s treatment of art, I show that his critique may turn out to be quite radical and far reaching, inasmuch as Nietzsche goes perhaps further than Hegel in diagnosing the death of art, and because he systematically attempts to undermine, negate, and expose as self-defeating or life-denying not only the conception of art conceived by the aesthetic tradition, but also modern artistic practices and the consumption of art as a cultural good. Thus legitimate question that this thesis raises and attempts to answer is whether or not we could indeed attribute to Nietzsche a death of art thesis – a position which may seem unthinkable given the importance of art in his thought.
Supplement Practices of Elite Swimmers: The implications of a global education and provision program on dietary supplement practices
Creators: name: Shaw, Gregory
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2013
Subjects: sport supplement
dietary supplement
supplement epidemiology
supplement program
supplement questionnaire
swimming

description: Dietary supplement practices of athletes have been well documented. Swimmers are a group of elite athletes regularly reported as being high users of dietary supplements. The last major investigation into supplementation practices of elite Australian swimmers was undertaken in 1999 by researchers at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS). Since then there have been major changes to the supplement landscape underpinning supplement practices of athletes. Internationally there has been a significant increase in the size and scope of the supplement industry resulting in an increased risk of positive doping outcomes through the consumption of contaminated dietary supplements. Domestically in 2000 the AIS introduced a Sport Supplement Program in Australia (AIS Program), with two main focuses are, the education of athletes, coaches, sports medicine and sports science professionals, and the provision of approved products to AIS scholarship holders. The education and provision of dietary supplements in this program is formalised around a categorisation scheme based on the evidence that the products can enhance performance (Group A supplements - sufficient evidence, Group B supplements - emerging evidence, Group C supplements -no current evidence, Group D - risk of triggering a positive doping test). We investigated the beliefs and practices of elite Australian swimmers regarding supplement use since they represented a unique opportunity to measure the impact of changes in the supplement landscape over the past decade. They also provided a novel opportunity to measure the impact of the AIS Program since they included individuals holding AIS scholarships who were exposed to both arms of the program as well as individuals from other centres who had access to the education resources but were outside the full scope of the supplement provision.
Supplementary document for Visible Upconversion Luminescence of Doped Bulk Silicon for a Multimodal Wafer Metrology - 5238912.pdf
Creators: name: Afinogenov, Boris
name: Sofronov, Anton
name: Antropov, Ilya
name: Filatov, Nikita
name: Medvedev, Anton
name: Shorokhov, Alexander
name: Mantsevich, Vladimir
name: Maslova, Natalia
name: Kim, Taehyun
name: jeang, eunhee
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy

description: Supplemental document
Bachelard e la fenomenologia delle immagini. Una conversazione con Elio Franzini.
Creators: name: Boccali, Renato
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Bachelard e la fenomenologia delle immagini Una conversazione con Elio Franzini di  Renato Boccali
description: Altre Modernità, 2012: Bachelard e la plasticità della materia
Material Culture and Technological Determinism
Creators: name: MacIntyre, Hector
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Technology
Material culture

description: This dissertation has two results. First, I argue that each of the two basic components of technological determinism (TD)—what I call the inexorability thesis and the autonomy thesis—are plausible claims on a naturalistic stance. Second, I argue that a normative model for the design of cognitive systems can guide the practice of cognitive engineering, e.g. the task of building cognitive aids and enhancements. TD conjoins two logically independent but empirically related claims. The inexorability thesis is the claim that technology change is an evolutionary process. I defend this claim against considerations raised by Lewens, most notably the lack of a robust account of artifact reproduction that would underwrite genuine transmission. I consider (but reject) the solution of memeticists to this problem. I find that theorists of cultural evolution, e.g. Boyd and Richerson (among others), do present a plausible response. Technologies can be said to evolve via the cumulative selective process of cultural retention. The autonomy thesis is the claim that features of human cognitive agency arise from material culture. I argue for this thesis through a consideration of the merits of Preston’s theory of material culture. Her sociogeneric approach attributes human cognitive agency to a material cultural genesis, and this approach is backed by strong anthropological evidence. Preston would not accept the thesis but she does not manage to exclude it, despite an admirable attempt to develop an account of innovation. I also consider the design of technologies in the practice of cognitive engineering and propose adopting a normative theory of factitious intellectual virtue as a model to guide design in this arena.
The Rosetta Wheel: Towards a Shared Language and Framework for Game Design for Health Behaviour Change
Creators: name: Cocks, Jane
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2020
Subjects: health psychology
game design
behaviour change

description: Games designed for a purpose in addition to entertainment serious games is a relatively new and rapidly growing field (Laamarti, Eid, & Saddik, 2014). Industries including education, training, and health are all adopting new and novel approaches with video games in order to engage, teach, train, and positively change their target population through playing entertaining games with a purpose (Brand, Todhunter, & Jervis, Games for health is a subset of this larger serious games field. Utilising video games in health contexts has been successful in a number of promising ways, from improving cancer treatment (Kato, Cole, Bradlyn, & Pollock, 2008), increasing exercise motivation (Cowdery, Majeske, Frank, & Brown, 2015), and as an effective adjunct to psychotherapy (Eichenberg & Schott, 2017).
description: However, the field is young, and as yet there have been no comprehensive foundational frameworks to guide design teams in both the development and design processes of creating these games , and importantly the specific strategies of how to link psychological change principles with game design elements . Each game design team, often comprised of a broad range of skillsets and working languages , needs to reinvent the wheel with each game. Scholars in this area have recommended further foundational multidisciplinary research be undertaken (T. Baranowski, Buday, Thompson, & Baranowski, 2008; Dickey, 2005; Lu, Baranowski, Thompson, & Buday, 2012).
description: This body of research utilises a practice led research, research led practice methodological approach (Smith & Dean, to develop a comprehensive framework to design games for health behaviour change. The framework is grounded in evidence based research of the psychology of behaviour change utilising the Transtheoretical Model of Behaviour Change (James O Prochaska & DiClemente, 1982)1982). It is further informed by an analysis of two existing games in Study 1: Deconstructing Design , in order to understand how psychological processes map with game design patterns . The framework is then further informed through a collective case study of expert game designers in Study 2: Designing for change, to understand how game designers approach the design of games for behaviour change.
description: The Rosetta Wheel Framework was developed through a practice led research and research led practice iterative approach. It has 10 Change Keys, assisting design teams to create game mechanics which foster the psychological processes of change. It has 19 Key Considerations which support the overall development process. The Rosetta Wheel Framework is not a finite or singular framework. It has been developed with the intention that it will continue to evolve. Change is an ongoing process, and so too is the process of research, practice, and growth.
Il riso di Molière. Teatro e impersonalità
Creators: name: Rozzoni, Claudio
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: In un breve e intenso lavoro del 1900 – che raccoglie tre saggi scritti l’anno precedente – Henri Bergson si cimenta nel difficile compito di definire l’essenza «volatile» del riso, arrivando a concepirlo alla stregua d’un rilevatore sociale di forze impersonali. Strumento d’indagine privilegiato di conoscenza diviene per il filosofo francese la commedia di Molière, già oggetto d’indagine delle riflessioni di Du Bos e Diderot, che richiameremo in questo saggio nel tentativo di guadagnare a nostra volta un primo passo verso la definizione della peculiare impersonalità che anima la commedia; fra le arti, come scrive Bergson, quella che maggiormente «oscilla fra l’arte e la vita».
description: Itinera, N° 2 (2011)
Évaluation d'un support d'aide à la décision en regard de l'hormonothérapie substitutive.
Creators: name: Watters, Ann.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Obstetrics and Gynecology.

description: Le but de l'étude consiste à évaluer auprès de femmes francophones l'efficacité d'un support d'aide à la décision sur la qualité de la prise de décision en regard de l'hormonothérapie substitutive. Une expérimentation avec un devis avant-après avec groupe unique a été menée auprès de 40 femmes âgées de 47 à 64 ans. Les variables à l'étude ont été mesurées à l'aide des questionnaires et des échelles de mesures portant sur: (1) les connaissances; (2) les attentes; (3) les valeurs; et (4) le niveau de conflit décisionnel en regard des bénéfices et des risques de l'hormonothérapie substitutive. Les résultats de cette étude révèlent une amélioration significative ( p < 0,05) des connaissances et une amélioration des attentes réalistes de la femme par rapport aux risques et aux bénéfices de l'hormonothérapie, après l'utilisation du support d'aide à la décision. Quant aux valeurs, les résultats révèlent une meilleure cohérence des valeurs de la femme par rapport à l'hormonothérapie après l'intervention. Enfin, les résultats démontrent, en général, une diminution significative du niveau de conflit décisionnel. Les femmes se sentent plus informées, supportées et ont la perception qu'elles ont pris une décision efficace. Les résultats de cette étude suggèrent que l'utilisation d'un support d'aide à la décision chez les femmes ménopausées contribue à l'amélioration de la qualité de la prise de décision par rapport à l'hormonothérapie substitutive. Cette étude doit être considérée comme un projet pilote, lequel devra être suivi d'une étude auprès d'un plus grand échantillon afin d'examiner la généralisation possible des résultats à l'ensemble de la population féminine francophone.
Deletions from the Œuvre of Pietro Lorenzetti and Related Works by the Master of the Beata Umiltà, Mino Parcis da Siena, and Jacopo di Mino del Pellicciaio
Creators: name: Frinta, Mojmír S.
Publisher: name: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Year: 2018

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Sade peintre de caractères ou la destitution des volontés d'absolu. Étude d'inspiration lefortienne
Creators: name: Paquette, Julie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Sade
pensée/philosophie politique
Claude Lefort
République
Révolution française
libertinage
Athéisme
matérialisme
vertu
Institution

description: Dans cette thèse de pensée politique, nous examinerons certains des effets engendrés par l’œuvre du marquis de Sade. Nous chercherons à démontrer que le principal de ces effets est la destitution de toutes les tentatives d’ériger des « idoles ». Par « idoles » nous entendons tout ce qui est susceptible de se poser comme un « absolu » – qu’il s’agisse des idoles que l’on peut associer à l’Ancien régime (la monarchie de droit divin par exemple) ou celles, nouvelles, que la révolution pourrait être tentée de leur substituer (la vertu républicaine par exemple). Notre travail s’inspire d’un article de Claude Lefort, « Sade : le Boudoir et la Cité », selon lequel Sade ne peut être ramené à un promoteur du vice ou de la corruption – ce qui ne veut aucunement dire que son œuvre devrait être lue, à l’inverse, comme une défense de la vertu ou de l’incorruptibilité (révolutionnaires ou républicaines). Nous chercherons dans un premier temps à démontrer de quelle manière la destitution des idoles s’applique à des postures littéraires et philosophiques dont Sade a lui-même participé : libertinage, matérialisme et athéisme. Dans un second temps, nous nous concentrerons sur les opuscules politiques de Sade et sur ses engagements politiques. Aux termes de notre travail, apparaîtra alors un Sade, penseur d’une République fondée sur un mouvement d’ « institution/destitution », qui, à la lumière de ce qu’a théorisé Lefort, permet d’intégrer le doute et l’indétermination au sein d’une réflexion sur le politique.
A Novel Approach to Guide Health Promotion Planning for Preventive Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination Among Adolescent Girls in an Ontario Public Health Unit
Creators: name: Rambout, Lisa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: HPV
health promotion
GIS
human papillomavirus
HPV vaccine
vaccination
uptake
barriers and facilitators to vaccination
adolescent health
preventive medicine
HPV vaccine acceptability
HPV vaccine implementation

description: Human papillomavirus (HPV) is widespread in the population and an important concern for public health. HPV-associated benign and cancerous disease is vaccine preventable yet vaccine uptake has been suboptimal. Adolescents are the primary target for vaccination yet their perspective has been inadequately examined. Ontario provides population-based preventive HPV vaccination to adolescent girls yet in the program’s first 2 years only approximately half of eligible girls received it. Effective strategies to improve vaccine uptake are needed. This thesis proposes a theory and ethics-based model to guide health promotion planning for HPV vaccination. Adopting an adolescent perspective, the model is applied and comprises: 1) a systematic review to identify barriers and facilitators to HPV vaccination from the viewpoint of young females; 2) GIS uses for communicating geospatial health information regarding vaccination; and 3) a roadmap for the future including recommendations for guiding principles, research, intervention development, and health policy.
Die Salvatorkirche des Hochmeisters Hermann von Salza in Andria
Creators: name: Holst, Niels Von
Publisher: name: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Year: 2018

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Die trecenteske Dekoration der Stirnwand im Oratorio del Bigallo
Creators: name: Kreytenberg, Gert
Publisher: name: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Year: 2018

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