cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
SEAwise Report on effects of environmental and ecological factors on stock productivity for online tool
Creators: name: Savina-Rolland, Marie
name: Taylor, Marc
name: Kempf, Alexander
name: Kühn, Bernhard
name: Sánchez-Maroño, Sonia
name: Garcia, Dorleta
name: Altuna-Etxabe, Miren
name: Ibaibarriaga, Leire
name: Bitetto, Isabella
name: Teresa Spedicato, Maria
name: Sys, Klaas
name: Depestele, J. (Jochen)
name: Sgardeli, Vasiliki
name: Tsoukali, Stavroula
name: Rindorf, Anna
Publisher: name: Technical University of Denmark
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 410402
subject: Environmental assessment and monitoring
classificationCode: 410404
subject: Environmental management
classificationCode: 410406
subject: Natural resource management
classificationCode: 410102
subject: Ecological impacts of climate change and ecological adaptation

description: The SEAwise project works to deliver a fully operational tool that will allow fishers, managers, and policy makers to easily apply Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management. The ecosystem approach to fisheries management requires the consideration of commercial species as components of an ecosystem and the acknowledgement of the links between their productivity and the surrounding environment.This SEAwise report identifies how environmental drivers affect fish productivity through reproduction and recruitment, growth, maturity and natural mortality. On the basis of literature and previous knowledge, the productivity of 55 stocks was investigated using mainly statistical modelling approaches. New relationships describing the effect of environment on reproduction, growth or maturity was demonstrated for 46 stocks, and for 22 of them, environmentally mediated productivity processes were introduced in the SEAwise suite of Management Strategy Evaluation models used in WP6. The development of these stocks under climate change was predicted in single species models to demonstrate the effect of integrating the impact of environmental drivers on the predicted stock productivity, as well as the effect of different environmental scenarios, all other things being equal.Overall, stock productivity tended to decline under climate change: Stock projections under climate change scenarios show decreased biomasses and catch (when compared to a no climate change scenario) for 10 stocks, increased biomasses and catch for 5 stocks, and no or unclear signals for 4 stocks.Read more about the SEAwise project at https://seawiseproject.org/
The Emergence of Konfrontasi in Singapore’s National Narrative
Creators: name: Mahajan, Antariksh
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: College students' writings, Singapore, Konfrontasi, political history, narrative, rhetoric, collective memory

description: This essay won or received an honorable mention for The Boothe Prize for excellence in first-year writing. The Boothe Prize recognizes and rewards outstanding expository and argumentative writing by undergraduate students in first-year classes that satisfy the WR 1 requirement. In each award-winning essay, student writers demonstrate clarity of argument, excellent integration of research-based evidence, and compelling prose style.
Antariksh Mahajan‘s essay analyzes how historical narrative has been used and abused in the political and public sphere to persuade contemporary Singaporeans that their story of the Konfrontasi—an undeclared war that occurred in the 1960s—is just, heroic, and uncomplicated. Writing at a time when the canon of accepted knowledge about the nation’s traumatic past was and is rapidly changing, the essay aims to theorize and unearth connections between cultural curriculum, collective memory, and the uses of political history.
Creativity and Dreams: An investigation into the genesis of images, and altered conscious states
Creators: name: Gott, Jarrod A.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Dreams, imagination and hallucination constitute examples of conscious states where the veridical contents of the retina are overridden by `synthetic' content of internal generation. How the brain is able to do this is not comprehensively understood; with phenomenal investigation still comprising the most practical way apprehend such states, for scientific researchers and clinicians both. The development of empirical models will therefore necessitates interdisciplinary methods, to generate hypothesis and contextualise research findings. This thesis comprises an interdisciplinary attempt to understand internally generated content, and establish construct validity between neurophysiological and neuro-philosophical accounts of mental imagery and its genesis.
Perceptions of the critical cultural competence of registered nurses in Canada
Creators: name: Almutairi, Adel F
name: Adlan, Abdallah A
name: Nasim, Maliha
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Background: Cultural diversity often leads to misunderstandings, clashes, conflicts, ethnocentrism, discrimination, and stereotyping due to the frequent intersection of many variables, such as differences in traditions, behaviours, ethical and moral perspectives, conceptions of health and illness, and language barriers. The root of the issue is related to the way people conceptualise differences and the unique cultural and historical circumstances that have shaped different groups’ heritages. In this study, therefore, we aimed to investigate the perceptions of critical cultural competence (CCC) of registered nurses working in various hospitals across the province of British Columbia, Canada. Method: Data were collected using Almutairi’s Critical Cultural Competence Scale (CCC Scale) with a random sample of 170 registered nurses. This scale measures four essential multidimensional components of the CCC model: critical awareness, critical knowledge, critical skills, and critical empowerment. Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics (Kruskal-Wallis test). Results: The data revealed that participants’ perceptions of CCC were positive with a mean score of 5.22 out of 7.00 for the total number of items (n = 43) and a standard deviation of 0.54. The mean scores for the CCC subscales ranged from 4.76 (for critical skills) to 5.42 (for critical empowerment). The results indicated a statistical difference in CCC perceptions based on participants’ age and country of birth with p = 0.05 < 0.05 and 0.029 < 0.05, respectively. Conclusion: Nurses’ age (experience) and country of birth may influence their perceptions of CCC as gaining cultural competence requires exposure to caring for patients from various cultures and countries, and is associated with cultural knowledge and awareness. Therefore, this finding reveals that healthcare organizations must provide ongoing cultural education programs to increase their nursing staff’s level of cultural competence so they are better able to deal with the difficulties that might arise during cross-cultural interactions.
A Score for Risk of Thrombolysis-Associated Hemorrhage Including Pretreatment with Statins
Creators: name: Erdur, Hebun
name: Polymeris, Alexandros
name: Grittner, Ulrike
name: Scheitz, Jan F.
name: Tütüncü, Serdar
name: Seiffge, David J.
name: Audebert, Heinrich J.
name: Nolte, Christian H.
name: Engelter, Stefan T.
name: Rocco, Andrea
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: ischemic stroke
subject: thrombolysis
subject: hemorrhage
subject: stroke outcome
subject: predictive models
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage (sICH) after intravenous thrombolysis with recombinant tissue-plasminogen activator (rt-PA) for acute ischemic stroke is associated with a poor functional outcome. We aimed to develop a score assessing risk of sICH including novel putative predictors—namely, pretreatment with statins and severe renal impairment. Methods: We analyzed our local cohort (Berlin) of patients receiving rt-PA for acute ischemic stroke between 2006 and 2016. Outcome was sICH according to ECASS-III criteria. A multiple regression model identified variables associated with sICH and receiver operating characteristics were calculated for the best discriminatory model for sICH. The model was validated in an independent thrombolysis cohort (Basel). Results: sICH occurred in 53 (4.0%) of 1,336 patients in the derivation cohort. Age, baseline National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale, systolic blood pressure on admission, blood glucose on admission, and prior medication with medium- or high-dose statins were associated with sICH and included into the risk of intracranial hemorrhage score. The validation cohort included 983 patients of whom 33 (3.4%) had a sICH. c-Statistics for sICH was 0.72 (95% CI 0.66–0.79) in the derivation cohort and 0.69 (95% CI 0.60–0.77) in the independent validation cohort. Inclusion of severe renal impairment did not improve the score. Conclusion: We developed a simple score with fair discriminating capability to predict rt-PA- related sICH by adding prior statin use to known prognostic factors of sICH. This score may help clinicians to identify patients with higher risk of sICH requiring intensive monitoring.
Combined boundary element and finite element analysis of composite bridges.
Creators: name: Galuta, Ezeedin M.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: In this thesis, the coupling of boundary element and finite element methods and its application to analyze bridges are studied for the first time. The coupling technique is implemented to analyze slab on girders and box girder bridges. The boundary element method is employed to model the bridge deck while the finite element method is used to model the girders. The finite elements and boundary elements are connected at a number of interface nodes in the longitudinal direction. For the finite element region, a static condensation technique is applied to condense the non-interface degrees of freedom. Then the finite element equations are transformed into boundary element equations and the compatibility interface mechanism required to combine the two methods is developed. A computer program which combines boundary element and finite element methods in one solution is developed in this thesis. Different types of bridges with different load cases are considered in the study in order to test the performance of the combined method. It has been shown that the results obtained by the combined method (BEM-FEM) are in good agreement with the finite strip solution. The numerical examples, considered in this thesis, demonstrated the accuracy of the results and the simplicity and reduction of the input data.
A comparison of the effects of three selected exercise intensities on the lactate recovery ability of elite distance runners.
Creators: name: Séguin, Robert A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Biology, Animal Physiology.

description: Six elite, male, cross-country runners were assessed on a motorized treadmill for aerobic endurance capacity using blood lactate (HLa) recovery ability ($\Delta$La) in three square-wave endurance exercise tests (SWEET) with repeat intervals below (S1), at (S2), and above (S3) threshold (OBLA). Each SWEET was composed of 6 possible repeat intervals (OVERs) followed by active rest intervals (UNDERs) of the same distance where $\Delta$La = (HLa) $\sb{\rm OVER}$- (HLa) $\sb{\rm UNDER}$. S1 and S2 interval (HLa) values where stable whereas S3 interval (HLa) values drifted upwards over the 6 repeats. Interval HR values were rising slightly over the SWEET durations. Interval VO$\sb2$s were similar in value over the SWEET durations. $\Delta$La (mM) values were significantly increased (p 0.05) from 0.66 $\pm$ 0.06 for $\Delta$La$\sb{\rm S1}$, to 1.31 $\pm$ 0.45 for $\Delta$La$\sb{\rm S2}$, to a nearly significant increase (p = 0.06 for N = 6) to 1.58 $\pm$ 0.79 for $\Delta$La$\sb{\rm S3}$, $\Delta$La$\sb{\rm S1}$ and $\Delta$La$\sb{\rm S2}$ were 40% and 80% of $\Delta$La$\sb{\rm S3}$ values. Post hoc analysis revealed the source of statistical significance as all SWEET repeats except 1 and 6. Within SWEET repeat $\Delta$Las were not significantly different. Lactate recovery ability increases were attributed to either the increased utilization of La as a fuel during periods of increased metabolic rate or the augmented flow of La down concentration gradients from lactate producing space to lactate usage and storage space. Implications for runners were that excursions at or above threshold levels were compensated for by increased $\Delta$La, but that the number of repeat intervals possible during racing and or training may vary for individuals and should be considered.
Strategic Merger Approvals Under Incomplete Information
Creators: name: Munoz-Garcia, Felix
name: Kanjilal, Kiriti
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Mergers
Cost-reduction e¤ects
Signaling
Submission costs JEL classification: D82
G34
L13

description: We examine a signaling game where the merging entity privately observes the cost-reduction e¤ect from the merger, but the competition authority does not. The latter, however, observes the …rm's submission costs in the merger request, using them to infer its type. We identify pooling equilibria where all …rm types, even those with small e¢ ciencies, submit a merger request, which is approved by the regulator. This merger pro…le cannot be supported under complete information, thus leading to ine¢ ciencies. We investigate under which parameter conditions ine¢ cient mergers are less likely to arise in equilibrium, and which policies hinder them, ultimately improving information transmission from …rms to the competition authority.
Imaging Collagen in Scar Tissue: Developments in Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy for Biomedical Applications
Creators: name: Mostaço-Guidolin, Leila
name: Rosin, Nicole L.
name: Hackett, Tillie-Louise
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: The ability to respond to injury with tissue repair is a fundamental property of all multicellular organisms. The extracellular matrix (ECM), composed of fibrillar collagens as well as a number of other components is dis-regulated during repair in many organs. In many tissues, scaring results when the balance is lost between ECM synthesis and degradation. Investigating what disrupts this balance and what effect this can have on tissue function remains an active area of research. Recent advances in the imaging of fibrillar collagen using second harmonic generation (SHG) imaging have proven useful in enhancing our understanding of the supramolecular changes that occur during scar formation and disease progression. Here, we review the physical properties of SHG, and the current nonlinear optical microscopy imaging (NLOM) systems that are used for SHG imaging. We provide an extensive review of studies that have used SHG in skin, lung, cardiovascular, tendon and ligaments, and eye tissue to understand alterations in fibrillar collagens in scar tissue. Lastly, we review the current methods of image analysis that are used to extract important information about the role of fibrillar collagens in scar formation.
Effect of laser phase noise on multi-channel photonic networks.
Creators: name: Aissaoui, Mustapha.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: This thesis presents an investigation of the issues related to the phenomenon of laser phase noise in multi-channel coherent photonic networks. A theoretical analysis is carried out to predict the performance of two kinds of photonic networks, the distribution network and the multiple-access network, in the presence of laser phase noise. Two optical modulation schemes have been compared and the limitations set on laser linewidths are derived. The potential number of network users in each case has been discussed. It has been shown that on the average optical intensity modulation performs better than optical phase modulation. It has also been shown that the SCM/CD networks, using semiconductor lasers, are competitive with other multi-channel approaches above a certain range of the bit-rate per channel. Finally, a discussion on the diverse techniques to reduce the impact of phase noise on coherent photonic networks is provided.
Buen Vivir as an alternative to sustainable development: the case of Cotacachi, Ecuador
Creators: name: Chassagne, Natasha
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Buen Vivir (Good Life) is a Latin American worldview that values the wellbeing of the environment as equally as human wellbeing. This research was looking at whether Buen Vivir could become a practical alternative to the current human-centred model of sustainable development. It looked at the Cotacachi county in Ecuador as a case study because of its geographical, social and environmental situation and the people's pursuit of Buen Vivir. The study examined its principles and what it looks like in practice, and found that it could be a viable tool for community-led social and environmental wellbeing, in any context.
The brain antigen-specific B cell response correlates with glatiramer acetate responsiveness in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis patients
Creators: name: Rovituso, Damiano M.
name: Duffy, Cathrina E.
name: Schroeter, Michael
name: Kaiser, Claudia C.
name: Kleinschnitz, Christoph
name: Bayas, Antonios
name: Elsner, Rebecca
name: Kuerten, Stefanie
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::616 Krankheiten

description: B cells have only recently begun to attract attention in the immunopathology of multiple sclerosis (MS). Suitable markers for the prediction of treatment success with immunomodulatory drugs are still missing. Here we evaluated the B cell response to brain antigens in n = 34 relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS) patients treated with glatiramer acetate (GA) using the enzyme-linked immunospot technique (ELISPOT). Our data demonstrate that patients can be subdivided into responders that show brain-specific B cell reactivity in the blood and patients without this reactivity. Only in patients that classified as B cell responders, there was a significant positive correlation between treatment duration and the time since last relapse in our study. This correlation was GA-specific because it was absent in a control group that consisted of interferon-ß (IFN-β)-treated RRMS patients (n = 23). These data suggest that GA has an effect on brain-reactive B cells in a subset of patients and that only this subset benefits from treatment. The detection of brain-reactive B cells is likely to be a suitable tool to identify drug responders.
Evaluation of the mobile forensic mental health service
Creators: name: Horvath, Zsuzsanna
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Although mental illness is considerably more prevalent in prisoner populations as compared with general community samples, few mental health services are available in prisons. The Mobile Forensic Mental Health Service is a novel service providing psychiatric and psychological assessment, intervention, and clinical management to prisoners as they transition through the various custodial environments within Victoria, Australia. There is a strong focus on clients experiencing depression, anxiety, and PTSD. This thesis comprises two studies, an evaluation of the group treatment program, and a data linkage study that further explores the efficacy of group and individual psychological treatments.
Differences between NMRI and DBA/2J mice in the development of somites and susceptibility to methylnitrosourea-induced skeleton anomalies
Creators: name: Chahoud, Ibrahim
name: Paumgarttem, Francisco J. R.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: alkylating agents
subject: embryo development
subject: phase specificity
subject: mouse strains
subject: skeleton anomalies
subject: teratogenicity
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: The development of DBA/2J mouse strain embryos is nearly 12 h - or 6 somite pairs - delayed as compared to the outbred NMRI mouse embryos of the same age on gestation days (GD) 8-12. To evaluate inter-strain differences in susceptibility to teratogens, dams were treated with methylnitrosourea (MNU, 5 mg/kg body weight i.p.) on defined gestation days (NMRI: GD 9, 91/2 or 10; DBA/2J: GD 10 or 101/2). Skeletal anomalies produced by MNU on both mouse strains varied with the GD of treatment. The pattern of anomalies produced by MNU on a given GD markedly differed between the two mouse strains, yet they were similar -with a few exceptions- when exposures at equivalent embryonic stages are compared. Findings from this study indicated that strain-dependent differences in the developmental stage of mouse embryos of the same gestational age occur, a possibility that has been often neglected when inter- strain differences in susceptibility to developmental toxicants are interpreted.
Lactobacillus bulgaricus
Creators: name: Naseer, Q. A.
name: Xue, X.
name: Wang, X.
name: Dang, S.
name: Din, S. U.
name: Jamil, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Firmicutes
Bacilli
Lactobacillales
Lactobacillaceae
Lactobacillus
Lactobacillus bulgaricus

description: 2.1. Lactobacillus bulgaricus: isolation and identification
 The Lactobacillus bulgaricus was isolated from raw milk, sample was 10 fold diluted ranging from 10 -1 to10 -10. At the end of dilution, 100 µL of sample was shifted aseptically with the help of micropipette to the Rogasa, and Sharpe (MRS) agar plates by using sterile glass spreader. Afterward, plates were stored at static incubator for 24 hrs at 37 °C. After incubation, the types and number of colonies were counted and examined. The isolated colonies were subcultured in triplicate on freshly prepared MRS plates for purpose to obtain pure culture. The pure strain keep at 4 °C for further analysis. Lactobacillus bulgaricus was identified by mean of biochemical and morphological characteristics.
 2.2. Synthesis of AgNPs using Lactobacillus bulgaricus
 A loop full pure culture of Lactobacillus bulgaricus was inoculated in MRS broth and incubated overnight at 37 °C. After incubation the biomass was centrifuged at 5000 rpm for 10 minutes and transfers to sterile bottle and preserved at 4 °C for further use in silver nanoparticle synthesis. The synthesis of AgNPs needs precursor, for which silver nitrate (AgNO 3) was used. 10 mL of 1 mMAgNO 3 solution was prepared in 1 mL of cell free supernatant. To obtained reaction the solution was incubated overnight at room temperature. Control solutions were also prepared for comparison, i.e., 10 mL of AgNO 3 and 10 mL of distal water separately. The synthesis of AgNPs was determined by color changes of solution.
description: Published as part of Naseer, Q. A., Xue, X., Wang, X., Dang, S., Din, S. U. & Jamil, J., 2022, Synthesis of silver nanoparticles using Lactobacillus bulgaricus and assessment of their antibacterial potential, pp. 1-8 in Brazilian Journal of Biology (e 232434) (e 232434) 82 on page 2, DOI: 10.1590/1519-6984.232434, http://zenodo.org/record/11494228
Optimal control of infinite dimensional stochastic systems.
Creators: name: Zhu, Qingxin.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Mathematics.

description: In this thesis we study a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation arising from the stochastic optimal control problem. More precisely, we study the following second order parabolic partial differential equation$$(P)\left\{\eqalign{&\phi\sb{t}(t,x)={1\over 2}Tr(S\phi\sb{xx}(t,x))+(Bx + \int(x),\phi\sb{x}(t,x))\cr&\qquad\qquad + F(t,x,\phi(t,x),\phi\sb{x}(t,x))\cr&\phi(0,x)=\phi\sb0(x)\right. \cr}$$Where $\phi\sb0,F$ are given functions, B is the infinitesimal generator of a strongly continuous semigroup, and S is a positive, self-adjoint nuclear operator in a Banach space X (Chapter 3) or an identity operator in ${\cal L}(X\sp\*,X)$ (Chapter 4). The main contributions of this thesis include: (1) A direct method suggested recently by Da Prato (26, 28) has been further developed. This method, which is different from ordinary perturbation theorem in semigroup theory, is more constructive, and can be applied to general non-linear parabolic partial differential equations. (2) Many authors have studied semilinear HJB equations (P), with non-linear term of the form$$F(x,\phi\sb{x})={1\over 2}\vert\phi\sb{x}\vert\sp2 + g(x).$$Da Prato (31) has also studied a HJB equation with nonlinear term $F(S\phi\sb{x}).$ In this thesis we will study the more general nonlinear term $F(t,x,\phi,\phi\sb{x}),$ and without coercivity or convexity assumptions. (3) Most of the results about HJB equations obtained before were in $R\sp{n},$ or in a separable Hilbert space. In this thesis we study HJB equations in a separable reflexive Banach space, hence our results are more general.
Examining the Role of Fire Prevention on Hoarding Response Teams : Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services as a Case Study
Creators: name: Kwok, Navio
name: Bratiotis, Christiana
name: Luu, May
name: Lauster, Nathanael Thomas, 1972-
name: Kysow, Kate
name: Woody, Sheila R.
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2023

description: Hoarded homes present a significant threat to the safety of occupants of the home and adjacent homes as well as emergency responders. Extreme accumulation of combustible materials raises the fuel load and prevents egress. Despite having regulatory tools related to fire prevention, fire departments generally lack the necessary background to address the many challenges related to the complex mental health problem of hoarding. Using Vancouver as a case study, this paper highlights the role of Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services in the City’s coordinated hoarding response and outlines their fire code inspections protocol developed for use in hoarding cases. On the basis of fire inspection reports, we compare the processes and outcomes of complaintdriven hoarding inspections with standard annual fire inspections of restaurants. Hoarding cases take longer to resolve and are more challenging, but inspectors achieved satisfactory status in 94% of cases without prosecution. About 20% of hoarding complaints do not involve fire code violations. Although this approach requires an investment and engagement with other community agencies, it represents a useful model for other jurisdictions.
The structure of chloride-based high-temperature molten salts and their mixtures
Creators: name: Emerson, Matthew Sterling
Publisher: name: University of Iowa
Year: 2026
Subjects: Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Molten Salt
Polarizable Ion Model
Raman Spectroscopy
SEM-Drude
X-Ray Scattering
Nuclear Chemistry

description: This thesis investigates the structural behavior of pure and mixed molten chloride salts at high temperatures, with implications for advanced energy technologies such as concentrated solar power and molten salt nuclear reactors. Creating a fundamental understanding of the relationships between the underlying atomic structure of molten salts and their thermodynamic properties is of critical importance for applications such as these. Recent developments presented herein help explain details about the atomic-level structure of melt mixtures including interesting phenomena such as structural heterogeneity.
description: Because structure is related to thermodynamics and thermodynamics is related to the phase behavior of these mixtures, these developments are highly relevant to practical applications. X-ray scattering measurements, which are the most common experimental tool to get at melt structure, cannot provide ion-specific information and instead are a property of the whole melt. Computer simulations help bridge the gap between experiments and the actual atomistic correlations between specific pairs of ion types. This thesis covers studies from the simple monovalent salts such as NaCl and KCl all the way to mixtures of salts including lanthanides and actinides.
AN INVESTIGATION ON THE MALFUNCTIONING OF FUEL INJECTORS DUE TO CONTAMINATION OF WATER IN DIESEL FUEL
Creators: name: Muhammad Ali Kaleem, Muhammad Zubair Alam
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Diesel fuel injectors
Fuel feedback volume
Diesel engines
Compression ignition engine
Injector feedback volume
Fuel injector malfunction.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 14, 10A14M: 1-6
An AC impedance spectroscopy study of the freezing-thawing durability of Wollastonite micro-fibre reinforced cement paste.
Creators: name: Sato, Taijiro.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: The AC impedance spectroscopy (ACIS) is an electrochemical technique used to characterize materials in various research fields owing to its non-destructive nature. The ACIS, accordingly, appears to have a potential as a non-destructive technique to investigate the durability of cement paste. An understanding of the mechanism of frost action occurring within cement paste, a key binding component of concrete, is necessary to improve the durability of concrete with respect to freezing and thawing, particularly where the winter is severe. In addition, the research on the effectiveness of the wollastonite micro-fibres, a cost-effective naturally occurring calcium silicate, as a reinforcing material to improve the durability of cement paste is demanded due to worldwide concerns of material shortages. Three primary objectives in this study are to further the understanding of the mechanism of frost action within cement paste subjected to freezing and thawing, to investigate the potential of the ACIS as a new technique to determine the durability of cement paste with respect to freezing and thawing and to investigate the durability of the wollastonite micro-fibre reinforced cement paste to freezing and thawing. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
AN INVESTIGATION ON THE MEDITATING ROLE OF MOTIVATION IN CONNECTING TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND EMPLOYEES COMMITMENT
Creators: name: Muhammad Saqib Khan, Siraj Ud Din
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Transformational Leaderships
Employees' motivation
Employees' commitment
HEIs.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 14, 10A14N: 1-9
MUNICIPAL SERVICES AND LAND RELATIONS: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS FOR IMPROVEMENT IN RURAL AREAS OF SVERDLOVSK REGION, RUSSIA
Creators: name: Alena S. Nikitina, Aleksey V. Ruchkin
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Service assessment
Service monitoring
Citizen's satisfaction
Service infrastructure
Satisfaction survey
Service quality.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 14, 10A14O: 1-14
Building an Agile Data Warehouse: Strategies for Flexibility and Scalability
Creators: name: Blessing, Elisha
name: Stephen, Mike
name: Mohamed, Saleh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 460501
subject: Data engineering and data science
classificationCode: 400602
subject: Data communications
classificationCode: 461302
subject: Computational complexity and computability

description: In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, organizations face the challenge of efficiently managing and leveraging vast amounts of data to drive informed decision-making. Traditional data warehousing models often struggle to keep up with the increasing demands for flexibility, scalability, and responsiveness to changing business needs. This abstract explores the concept of building an agile data warehouse and presents strategies to achieve flexibility and scalability in data warehousing architectures. The agile data warehouse approach emphasizes iterative development, adaptability, and the ability to quickly respond to evolving business requirements. This abstract discusses several key strategies for building an agile data warehouse, starting with the design phase. It highlights the importance of adopting a data-driven design approach, including data modeling techniques that enable flexibility and accommodate changes in data structures over time.
POLICY SOLUTIONS FOR INTEGRATION OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE OF MOBILE TELECOM OPERATORS' SITES
Creators: name: Reza Talebi, Abbas Khamseh
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Infrastructure
Integration model
Technological model
Urban Landscape
Green energy
Policymaking
Save energy.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 14, 10A14P: 1-11
Assessing the differential treatment of males and females in the criminal justice process: A critical analysis.
Creators: name: Massicotte, Jodi-Anne.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Law.

description: This study focuses on the assessment of differential treatment within the criminal justice system and begins with an examination of the law. Although law has a specific claim to neutrality and objectivity, it was created by males in the interests of males. The laws enacted by legislators set the tone for the inferior regard of women and essentialized and sexualized typifications of women were thus reflected in law. The 1960's saw feminists beginning to challenge and critique the law. Feminist legal theorists found that stereotypes about the roles of women resulted in their differential treatment within the legal system in a number of ways. The next section of the thesis undertakes a review of the empirical studies of the administration of differential justice for males and females. The next section of the thesis explores the idea that laws and penal practices have been constructed in a biased fashion. It examines the concepts of sexism, bias and sexist ideology to understand the idea of the deep seated assumptions about the roles of men and women. The thesis concludes with some feminist theories and their studies of differential treatment as well as the assertion that feminism is incongruent with the strict confines of the law. It also reviews the various definitions and interpretations of equality. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Derivations, invariant forms and the second homology group of orthosymplectic Lie superalgebras.
Creators: name: Duff, Ana.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mathematics.

description: We develop the description of the derivation algebras of orthosymplectic Lie super-algebras over supercommutative, associative superrings containing ½ and determine conditions under which the derivation algebra can be written as a semidirect product of the inner and the outer derivations. We then describe the supersymmetric invariant forms of the elementary orthosymplectic Lie superalgebra and determine the outer derivations which are skew with respect to a given supersymmetric invariant form. Finally, we describe the universal central extension and its centre, the second homology group, of the elementary orthosymplectic Lie superalgebra. The original motivation for this comes from the theory of extended affine Lie algebras. Specialized to the orthosymplectic Lie superalgebras representing the centreless cores of extended affine Lie algebras of type B and D, the above descriptions are the necessary and sufficient building blocks for the construction of an extended affine Lie algebra of type B and D from its centreless core.
IO and data management for infrastructure as a service FPGA accelerators
Creators: name: Moorthy, Theepan
name: Gopalakrishnan, Sathish
Publisher: name: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2017

description: We describe the design of a non-operating-system based embedded system to automate the management, reordering, and movement of data produced by FPGA accelerators within data centre environments. In upcoming cloud computing environments, where FPGA acceleration may be leveraged via Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), end users will no longer have full access to the underlying hardware resources. We envision a partially reconfigurable FPGA region that end-users can access for their custom acceleration needs, and a static “template” region offered by the data centre to manage all Input/Output (IO) data requirements to the FPGA. Thus our low-level software controlled system allows for standard DDR access to off-chip memory, as well as DMA movement of data to and from SATA based SSDs, and access to Ethernet stream links. Two use cases of FPGA accelerators are presented as experimental examples to demonstrate the area and performance costs of integrating our data-management system alongside such accelerators. Comparisons are also made to fully custom data management solutions implemented solely in RTL Verilog to determine the tradeoffs in using our system in regards to development time, area, and performance. We find that for a class of accelerators in which the physical data rate of an IO channel is the limiting bottleneck to accelerator throughput, our solution offers drastically reduced logic development time spent on data management without any associated performance losses in doing so. However, for a class of applications where the IO channel is not the bottle-neck, our solution trades off increased area usage to save on design times and to maintain acceptable system throughput in the face of degraded IO throughput.
Linking large-scale structure and peculiar velocities in the low-redshift universe
Creators: name: Adams, Caitlin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: To understand the Universe as a whole, it is important to understand how gravity behaves between galaxies. This behaviour is closely related to the rate at which galaxies and galaxy clusters grow. In this thesis, we developed a new way to measure this growth rate from the positions and motions of galaxies. We modelled the correlation between the density of galaxies and the movement of galaxies at many different points in the local universe. This relationship revealed new information about the behaviour of gravity, leading to a better measurement of the growth rate of galaxies and galaxy clusters.
The effects of an aerial application of the organophosphate insecticide fenitrothion on the ecology of native fish species in a small Quebec lake.
Creators: name: Kingsbury, Peter Douglas.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Biology, Ecology.

description: Fenitrothion was applied as an emulsion in water to a small lake at the rate of 420 g active ingredient per hectare. Peak residues of 21.6 ug/ℓ were present in surface waters one hour after treatment, but rapidly dispersed throughout the lake, with complete mixing within the epilinnion after 12 hours and maximum penetration into the hypolimnion (2.14 ug/ℓ) after 24 hours. All fish species in the lake rapidly accumulated fenitrothion residues with each species accumulating distinctly different residue levels. The highest residue found in each species was 1.01 mug/g in white suckers, Catastomus commersoni (Lacepede), 0.76 mug/g in fallfish, Semotilus corporalis (Mitchill), 0.44 mug/g in brown bullheads, Ictalurus nebulosus (Lesueur), and 0.34 mug/g in smallmouth bass, Micropterus dolomieu Lacepede. Rapid loss of accumulated residues was seen in all species except white suckers. The fenitrothion application had little effect on populations of fish food organisms or on the diet of native fish species, with the possible exception of cladoceran populations and their contribution to the diets of planktivorous fish species. Static bioassays in the laboratory gave 24 to 96 hour LC50 values between 1.2 and 5.4 mg/ℓ fenitrothion for seven species representing five families. Sensitivity to fenitrothion followed family lines with Salmonidae (trout) the most susceptible family and Ictaluridae (catfish) and Cyprinidae (minnows) the least sensitive. The results of the field and laboratory studies carried out indicate that fenitrothion applied at dosages registered for forest insect control does not appear to present a serious hazard to native fish populations in lakes exposed to aerial applications.
Verified Construction of Fair Voting Rules
Creators: name: Diekhoff, Karsten
name: Kirsten, Michael
name: Krämer, Jonas
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2020
Subjects: Social choice
Higher-order logic
Modular verification

description: Voting rules aggregate multiple individual preferences in order to make collective decisions. Commonly, these mechanisms are expected to respect a multitude of different fairness and reliability properties, e.g., to ensure that each voter's ballot accounts for the same proportion of the elected alternatives, or that a voter cannot change the election outcome in her favor by insincerely filling out her ballot. However, no voting rule is fair in all respects, and trade-off attempts between such properties often bring out inconsistencies, which makes the construction of arguably practical and fair voting rules non-trivial and error-prone. In this paper, we present a formal and systematic approach for the flexible and verified construction of voting rules from composable core modules to respect such properties by construction. Formal composition rules guarantee resulting properties from properties of the individual components, which are of generic nature to be reused for various voting rules. We provide a prototypical logic-based implementation with proofs for a selected set of structures and composition rules within the theorem prover Isabelle/HOL. The approach can be readily extended in order to support many voting rules from the literature by extending the set of basic modules and composition rules. We exemplarily construct the well-known voting rule sequential majority comparison (SMC) from simple generic modules, and automatically produce a formal proof that SMC satisfies the fairness property monotonicity. Monotonicity is a well-known social-choice property that is easily violated by voting rules in practice.
HIV-1 Quantification in Wastewater: The SWAN Study
Creators: name: Jong, Sehee
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Wastewater Quantification
subject: Wastewater
subject: HIV
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Surveillance

description: Background: The HIV epidemic continues to threaten the public health of the United States with an estimated 1.2 million people living with HIV despite the development of antiretroviral therapy (ART). Wastewater-based Epidemiology (WBE) offers a novel method to build a population-wide surveillance system for infectious diseases without relying on individual data. We were interested in using WBE to help end the HIV epidemic by using wastewater to figure out where public health authorities should target screening efforts. We preliminarily detected HIV virus in two sewersheds in Santa Clara County and San Francisco County, and are now conducting further studies regarding how to interpret those results. We are conducting a study to measure how community HIV levels are portrayed in wastewater quantification. The aims of the SWAN (Stanford Waste Analysis Network) study are (1) to develop and test the WBE quantification methods on artificially infected samples and (2) to apply these methods in samples from viremic participants with HIV to quantify how much viremic participants shed into wastewater.
Methods: For Aim 1, stool and urine samples from healthy subjects alongside wastewater samples from local wastewater facilities were inoculated with HIV-1. The HIV-1 RNA levels were measured using ddPCR and RT-ddPCR. For Aim 2, stool, urine, and blood samples were collected from participants with HIV recruited from clinics in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. The HIV-1 RNA levels in urine and stool were measured in these samples using similar extraction and quantification techniques as used in Aim 1.
Results: Aim 1 identified the limit of detection for our wastewater quantification method to be approximately at 60,000 copies/mL of HIV-1. The HIV-1 RNA was detected with this technique in all inoculated samples with the wastewater types showing the highest recovery rates. In Aim
2, we found that HIV-1 RNA was detected in the stool and concentrated urine but not unconcentrated urine of participants with HIV.
Conclusion: Our study develops wastewater surveillance for HIV by verifying the method’s performance in standards, inoculated samples, and by quantifying how much viremic participants shed into urine and stool. Future work and completion of the SWAN study will provide a robust foundation to develop a wastewater surveillance system for HIV.
Domination and disintegration: Adorno and critical social theory.
Creators: name: Foster, Roger Stephen.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: The central claim of my thesis is that Theodor Adorno's social theory harbours important insights which can bring to light significant deficiencies and weaknesses in the works of contemporary critical theorists. In order to substantiate this claim, I argue that Adorno's philosophical and sociological writings embody a coherent and systematic version of critical social theory. I then attempt to place Adorno's version of critical social theory in critical and constructive dialogue with the successors to the tradition of Frankfurt School critical theory (Jurgen Habermas and Axel Honneth). This is achieved by reconstructing and reinterpreting Adorno's key theses through insights developed in contemporary social theory. Part One demonstrates, firstly, how Adorno's critical social theory developed from out of the problems of the earlier social-theoretic 'paradigms'. In chapter two, I argue that Adorno, in Negative Dialectics, develops a conception of critical theory as a 'critical dialectic of concepts', derived from a synthesis of the Durkheimian sociology of knowledge, and Hegelian dialectic. Chapter three attempts to substantiate and develop this thesis, and also shows how Adorno develops a theory of linguistic reification. In chapter four, I attempt to expound the social theory underlying the philosophical arguments of Negative Dialectics. In Part Two, I deploy the insights derived from the analysis of Adorno's work in order to furnish a critique of Habermas's critical theory, concerned with its failure to develop an adequate critique of class- and group-specific domination (chapter five) and problems stemming from its formal/abstract conception of moral-practical reason (chapter six). I then turn, in Part Three, to the critical theory of recognition. It is argued that, by returning the concept of social struggle to the centre of the analysis, the theory of recognition is able to theorize structures of domination and oppositional praxis far more adequately than the Habermasian account. However, I argue that this theory needs to integrate insights deriving from Adorno's thesis of integration through domination. I argue that the concept of symbolic power provides for a plausible reconstruction of Adorno's integration thesis, by interpreting integration through domination as occurring at the symbolic rather than the psychic level. In the final chapter, I draw upon contemporary social theory in order to furnish an interpretation of Adorno's social theory as articulating a twofold distortion of instrumental reason, which I characterize as a dialectic of increasing integration through domination, and intensifying lifeworld disintegration.