cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The effects of serotonin and catecholamine depletion on attentional control and response inhibition
Creators: name: Scholes, Kirsty
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The present study aimed to expand upon our knowledge of the role of brain monoamines on executive functioning by exploring the effects of serotonin depletion, dopamine depletion, and combined monoamine depletion, on attentional control and response inhibition. Ten healthy male participants completed the Stroop task under four treatment conditions; a) placebo control treatment, b) tryptophan depletion treatment, c) tyrosine/phenylalanine depletion treatment, and d) combined monoamine depletion treatment. The prediction that under tryptophan depletion there would be decreased Stroop interference and reaction times was not supported. However, the hypothesis that there would be no difference in the number of errors made under tryptophan depletion was supported. In addition, it was found that there was no difference in facilitation under tryptophan depletion. Concerning tyrosine/phenylalanine depletion, the predictions that there would be increased interference and reaction times, were not supported. However, the hypotheses that there would be no difference in facilitation or the number of errors made, were supported. Furthermore, under combined monoamine depletion, no difference in any of the Stroop task measures was observed. It was concluded that attentional control and response inhibition, as assessed by the Stroop task, are not affected by modulation of dopamine or serotonin with the use of amino acid depletion techniques.
Ward Melville's Office to Priscilla Smith, October 30, 1956
Creators: name: Melville, Ward
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1956
Subjects: Stony Brook
Correspondence
Meetings

description: This letter is written by Ward Melville's office to Priscilla Smith on October 30, 1956, in regards to notifying Dr. Sheas office of Mr. and Mrs. Ward Melville's attendance at the Music Committee Meeting on November 3.
Supplementary document for Three wavelengths broadband soot pyrometry technique for axisymmetric flames - 5215685.pdf
Creators: name: Cruz, Juan José
name: Escudero, Felipe
name: Hernando, Emilio Alvarez
name: DA SILVA, LUIS FIGUEIRA
name: Carvajal, Gonzalo
name: Thomsen, María
name: Fuentes, Andrés
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Extended explanation of experimental setup, sensitivity analysis and complementary data
Supplementary Material from Imminent risk of predation reduces the relative strength of postcopulatory sexual selection in the guppy
Creators: name: Glavaschi, Alexandra
name: Cattelan, Silvia
name: Grapputo, Alessandro
name: Pilastro, Andrea
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Supplementary methods and results
Reconsidering copyright protection for software and databases.
Creators: name: Koutouki, Dina.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Law.

description: Software and databases are tools utilized daily by a large variety of people. Copyright, in conjunction with other legal mechanisms and technological protection methods provides too much protection for these functional works. This is alarming since software and databases are generally the tools used to access and utilize information in today's society. Overprotection in these areas may lead to the creation of information monopolies, stifling innovation and putting at risk user rights. This is especially worrisome for information and information technology importing countries such as Canada. It is suggested that regardless of the type of protection afforded to software and databases the paramount interest needs to be society's ability to access information. This can be accomplished by limiting the scope of protection afforded to software and databases and expanding the fair dealing provisions in the Copyright Act. The end result being, increased rights for users, as well as, increased rights for inventors to built upon existing technology and knowledge.
Martinetti, Agostino e l'Abbé Coignard
Creators: name: Parodi, Massimo
name: Serio, Giulia
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2008

description: L'apertura alla dimensione religiosa nel "Kant" di Martinetti e il percorso teorico di Dal Pra fra trascendenza e immanenza. Un ipotetico punto di incontro sul terreno della prassi e della scelta etica.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 4 (2005): Dal Pra e il medioevo
Supplementary document for Dynamically reconfigurable topological states in photonic crystals with liquid crystals - 5216267.pdf
Creators: name: Hu, Weipeng
name: Hu, Jiali
name: Xiang, Yuanjiang
name: Wen, ShuangChun
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Voltage controlled topological router
Trascendente e trascendentale in Kant
Creators: name: Giordanetti, Piero
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2008

description: Dal Pra, il neokantismo e il problema della realtà in sé. Cassirer e il ruolo centrale della conoscenza.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 4 (2005): Dal Pra e il medioevo
Martinetti e la storia della filosofia
Creators: name: Vigorelli, Amedeo
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2008

description: Contro un preteso agostinismo di Martinetti e la proposta di un'ispirazione kantiano-spinoziana. Le riletture spinoziane nella filosofia italiana tra le due guerre mondiali.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 4 (2005): Dal Pra e il medioevo
Complex contexts, relations and practices: the space for research supervision
Creators: name: Green, Pamela
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The face of research supervision has shifted in ways largely anticipated but increasingly complex. With growing attention to quality assurance processes and national research training schemes that focus on successful but also timely completion of research degrees, research supervision has now come under the spotlight for closer examination. In a context of performativity where performance is linked to economic gain, we find ourselves supervising within a knowledge economy where knowledge is a central input but also a significant output. Hence, the context in which supervision occurs is under increased pressure---pressure to yield knowledge in forms that count and in timelines that fit with relatively newly created and tight boundaries. Always a complex task, even when viewed strictly from the traditional expert scholar/apprentice model, supervision is now situated within a pressured performance context in terms of research training, but also within a context incorporating broadening research degree frameworks and modes of presentation across global communication possibilities. Further, with growing attention on the demands of risk management in a litigious world, research supervision treads on ground less smooth than once known. However, despite the changing face of research supervision given the shifting pressures, degree types, modalities and so on, research supervision still remains one of the most rewarding (and always challenging) roles within the university (and now beyond with our industry partners and the professions).
La verità sta davanti a noi
Creators: name: Pettoello, Renato
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2008

description: La non esistenza di una tradizione storico-filosofica milanese. Una storia della filosofia senza convinzioni filosofiche finisce per divorare se stessa.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 4 (2005): Dal Pra e il medioevo
Theologia ancilla philosophiae
Una lettura dell'Itinerarium
Creators: name: Colli, Andrea
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2008

description: Pensare in termini nuovi il rapporto di subalternità tra teologia e filosofia. Il ruolo della riflessione teologica nella discussione del problema della conoscenza.A new way of thinking the subalternatio between theology and philosophy. The role of the theological thought in the discussion of the problem of knowledge.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 5 (2006): Bonaventura da Bagnoregio: Filosofia, teologia, relazione
Molecular simulation of dendrimers under shear
Creators: name: Bosko, Jaroslaw Tomasz
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this work flow properties of dendrimers are studied with the aid of molecular simulations. For the first time the results of the nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations of the dendrimers in the melt are reported. Molecules are modelled at the coarse-grained level using the bead-spring model. The objective of this research is to analyse the influence of the molecular topology in the macroscopic flow behaviour of the melts. Systems of dendrimers of generations 1 to 4 undergoing planar shear are compared to the melts composed of linear chain polymers. The internal structure and shape of dendrimers is extensively analysed. The response of the molecules to the shearing in the form of stretching and alignment is studied. The correlation between the onset of shear thinning and the onset of deformation of molecules is observed. The changes in the fractal dimensionality of dendrimers due to shearing are also analysed. Dendrimers, due to their highly branched structure and compact globular conformations in the melt, are found to behave differently when sheared, compared to traditional linear polymers. Unlike linear polymers, they do not undergo transition form the Rouse to the reptation regimes. This effect is explained in terms of the suppressed entanglement between molecules. Moreover, dendrimers when compared to linear chain systems exhibit lower Newtonian viscosity, onset of the shear thinning at higher strain rates, and less pronounced shear thinning in the non-Newtonian regime. They can be used as rheology modifiers, as it is shown in the preliminary results obtained from the simulations of the dendrimers-linear polymer blends. In agreement with other theoretical and experimental studies, dendrimers in the melt are found to have compact space-filling structure with terminal groups distributed throughout the interior of the molecule. Suggestions for the further study of dendrimers via molecular simulations are made.
Supplementary document for Narrowband diffuse reflectance spectroscopy in the 900-1000 nm wavelength region to quantify water and lipid content of turbid media - 5216581.pdf
Creators: name: Lam, Jesse
name: Tu, Kelsey
name: Kim, Sehwan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary document providing a graph and table not included in the main manuscript
SUN'IY INTELLEKT VA UNING INSONIYAT FAOLIYATIDA TUTGAN O'RNI
Creators: name: Ergashev, Shoxrux
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqola sun’iy intellekt tizimlarining tarixi, insoniyat faoliyatida tutgano’rni, sun’iy intellektning texnologiyasi va sun’iy intellekt tizimlarini hayotga tatbiq qilishning ahamiyati yoritilgan.
Das PCM-EM Schema in der Anwendung : Drehbuchschreiben für Serien (Theoretischer Teil und praktischer Ansatz)
Creators: name: Schneider, Rolf
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Motion picture plays
subject: Fernsehserien
subject: Web-Serien
subject: Showrunner
subject: Storyliner
subject: DDC 510 / Mathematics
subject: DDC 700 / Arts
subject: Bellman, Richard Ernest <1920 - 1984>
subject: Dynamic programming
subject: Motion picture plays
subject: Dramaturgie
subject: Drehbuch
subject: Kommunikationswissenschaft
subject: Medientheorie
subject: Medienwissenschaft
subject: Operations Research

description: This paper shall be understood as an interdisciplinary attempt to combine mathematics, especially the field of Operations Research, with the dramatic theory and media science. The present document is a resumption and further stage of development of the model, published in a research paper with the german title: Das Drama in Analogie zu einem dynamischen Programm. Entwicklung eines Metamodells zur Strukturierung szenischer Handlung. (Doi: 10.18725/OPARU-2410, VTS-71501), deutschen Nationalbibliothek idn: 1016388918 unter http://d-nb.info/1016388918 in 12/16/2009 on the Open Access Repository (former VTS) of the University of Ulm. It makes the attempt to use the model, presented in this former paper to try to test the usability of the bellman model, exactly the bellman equation adapted to a specialized scorevalue-model, also described in this paper. The intention is to get an optimized storyline in screenplay- especially tv- and web-series development. It should help people involved in these kind of colaborative work, especially ”showrunner” and ”storyliner” to get their work better organized and make the right decisions about structure and content. This paper shows the development of these extension of the primary model and the basic work with it (shown by a simple example).
description: Diese Abhandlung versteht sich als interdisziplinär und schlägt eine Brücke zwischen dem mathematischen Feld des Operations Research und den Theater- Film- und Kommunikationswissenschaften. Die vorliegende Abhandlung ist die Wiederaufnahme und Fortführung der Arbeit, die unter obigem Titel (siehe Abstract in Englisch) am 16.12.2019 auf dem Open Access Repositorium der Universiät Ulm (damals VTS) veröffentlicht wurde. Es ist die Weiterentwicklung des Ansatzes, eine Dramenstruktur in Analogie zu einem dynamischen Programm zu betrachten und dabei den Versuch zu unternehmen, eine Optimierungsstrategie hinsichtlich der Beurteilung einer dramatischen Struktur, basierend auf einem, der Bellman'schen Wertiteration unterliegenden Kennzahlenmodell zu entwickeln. Damit soll es möglich sein, so komplexe Strukturen wie TV- und Web-Serien besser hinsichtlich ihres Aufbaus in einem kollaborativen Ansatz zu beurteilen und so Beteiligte wie ”Showrunner” und ”Storyliner” in diesem kreativen Entwicklungsprozess zu unterstützen. Die vorliegende Abhandlung beschreibt die theoretische Herleitung und die Verwendung dieses Ansatzes (exemplarisch an einem einfachen Beispiel).
Solution biases and pheromone representation selection in ant colony optimisation
Creators: name: Montgomery, Erin James
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Combinatorial optimisation problems (COPs) pervade human society: scheduling, design, layout, distribution, timetabling, resource allocation and project management all feature problems where the solution is some combination of elements, the overall value of which needs to be either maximised or minimised (i.e., optimised), typically subject to a number of constraints. Thus, techniques to efficiently solve such problems are an important area of research. A popular group of optimisation algorithms are the metaheuristics, approaches that specify how to search the space of solutions in a problem independent way so that high quality solutions are likely to result in a reasonable amount of computational time. Although metaheuristic algorithms are specified in a problem independent manner, they must be tailored to suit each particular problem to which they are applied. This thesis investigates a number of aspects of the application of the relatively new Ant Colony Optimisation (ACO) metaheuristic to different COPs. The standard ACO metaheuristic is a constructive algorithm loosely based on the foraging behaviour of ant colonies, which are able to find the shortest path to a food source by indirect communication through pheromones. ACO’s artificial pheromone represents a model of the solution components that its artificial ants use to construct solutions. Developing an appropriate pheromone representation is a key aspect of the application of ACO to a problem. An examination of existing ACO applications and the constructive approach more generally reveals how the metaheuristic can be applied more systematically across a range of COPs. The two main issues addressed in this thesis are biases inherent in the constructive process and the systematic selection of pheromone representations. The systematisation of ACO should lead to more consistently high performance of the algorithm across different problems. Additionally, it supports the creation of a generalised ACO system, capable of adapting itself to suit many different combinatorial problems without the need for manual intervention.
Assessing Differences in Competitive Effects Among Tree Species in Central British Columbia, Canada
Creators: name: Acquah, Stella Britwum
name: Marshall, Peter Lawrence, 1953-
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Research Highlights: We investigated the competitive interactions among three tree species (interior Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca (Beissn.) Franco), interior spruce (Picea glauca [Moench] Voss × Picea engelmannii Engelm.), and lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl. Ex Loud. var. latifolia Englem.)) in multi-aged stands in central British Columbia, Canada. Background and Objectives: Understanding competitive interactions among tree species in mixed-species stands is fundamental to supporting silvicultural decision-making in such stands. Using the periodic annual basal area increment for single trees as our dependent variable, we investigated whether neighboring trees competed with subject trees independently of species identity. We also examined the differences in single-tree basal area growth among the three conifer species over time under different levels of competition. Materials and Methods: We developed several spatially explicit, single-tree basal area growth models for interior Douglas-fir, interior spruce, and lodgepole pine using data from 16 plots in two blocks of a long-term study (five measurements over a 21-year period) on the response to pre-commercial thinning. We compared these equations to assess whether intraspecific or interspecific competition predominated. We also examined the differences in basal area growth among the three conifer species over time under different levels of competition. Results: We found asymmetrical relationships between the conifer trees and their neighbors for all species, indicating that the main driver limiting growth in these stands is aboveground competition for light. There was evidence of higher intraspecific competition for small (<10.0 cm DBH) interior Douglas-fir in one block. However, there was no general pattern among larger subject trees with respect to the identity of neighborhood competitive effects and the equivalence of neighbors. We observed a higher level of basal area growth over time for interior Douglas-fir than for lodgepole pine and interior spruce, irrespective of the competition intensity and, not surprisingly, the growth rate declined with increasing competition levels for the three species. Conclusions: Our results provide an understanding of how interior Douglas-fir stands will develop over time and information on species interactions that could help forest managers explore different silvicultural options and their effects on individual tree growth in these complex stands.
Organizational abstractions for adaptive systems
Creators: name: Colman, Alan
name: Han, Jun
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Computing environments are becoming more open, distributed and pervasive. The software we build for these dynamic environments will need to become more adaptable and adaptive. This paper introduces a methodology developing adaptive systems based on the concept of ontogenic adaptation - the ability of a system to alter its structure while maintaining its organizational viability. This approach extends existing work on the separation of roles from objects, by defining an organizational layer of abstraction based on the separation of operational-management roles from functional roles. Dynamic role-object bindings and role-role associations are created to form a flexible organization that can be adapted by an organizational management role. The methodology is illustrated with an example to contrast it with a traditional object-oriented approach.
Supplementary document for Narrowband diffuse reflectance spectroscopy in the 900-1000 nm wavelength region to quantify water and lipid content of turbid media - 5216581.pdf
Creators: name: Lam, Jesse
name: Tu, Kelsey
name: Kim, Sehwan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary document providing a graph and table not included in the main manuscript
What's it like on the inside? The impact of self-concept on the educational engagement and delinquency of young offenders in a custodial setting
Creators: name: Abou-Sinna, Rana
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Research suggests that educational engagement is important in reducing the likelihood of reoffending by young people. This study assessed the relationship that self-concept and self-concept related constructs, had with educational engagement and delinquency in a sample of incarcerated young offenders. The life stories of 15 young offenders were also examined. The findings indicated that young offenders’ self-concepts, temperament and character predicted both their educational engagement and delinquency, suggesting that self-concept may be particularly relevant to rehabilitative efforts with young offenders. The findings also provide insight into how young offenders’ life experiences contribute to the development of negative self-beliefs, which influence their engagement in education.
Supplementary document for Active tapered double-clad fiber with low birefringence - 5216847.pdf
Creators: name: Fedotov, Andrei
name: Ustimchik, Vasily
name: Rissanen, Joona
name: Kolosovskiy, Alexander
name: Voloshin, Victor
name: Vorob'ev, Igor
name: Gumenyuk, Regina
name: Chamorovsky, Yuri
name: Filippov, Valery
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Immune-checkpoint inhibitor-associated diabetes compared to other diabetes types - A prospective, matched control study
Creators: name: Tittel, Sascha R.
name: Laubner, Katharina
name: Schmid, Sebastian M.
name: Kress, Stefan
name: Merger, Sigrun
name: Karges, Wolfram
name: Wosch, Frank J.
name: Altmeier, Marcus
name: Pavel, Marianne
name: Holl, Reinhard W.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: adverse effects
subject: medication
subject: multicenter registry
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Cancer; Therapy
subject: Neoplasms; Drug therapy
subject: Drug-related side effects and adverse reactions
subject: Endocrinology
subject: Prevalence
subject: Chemotherapie
subject: Nebenwirkung

description: Highlights This prospective study compares 15 patients with immune‐checkpoint induced diabetes mellitus (CPI‐DM) with a propensity score matched cohort of patients with other diabetes types. Diabetic ketoacidosis at onset and autoimmune comorbidity is more frequent in CPI‐DM patients. This can be avoided by regular glucose measurements and education on hyperglycemia. Background To describe checkpoint inhibitor‐induced diabetes mellitus (CPI‐DM) and to compare with regular type 1 (T1DM), type 2 (T2DM), and medication‐induced diabetes mellitus (MI‐DM). Methods We included 88 177 adult patients from the Diabetes Patient Follow‐Up (DPV) registry with diabetes manifestation between 2011 and 2020. Inclusion criteria were T1DM, T2DM, MI‐DM, or CPI‐DM. Because of the heterogeneity between the groups, we matched patients by age, sex, and diabetes duration using propensity scores. Patient data were aggregated in the respective first documented treatment year. Results The matched cohort consisted of 24 164 patients; T1DM: 29, T2DM: 24000, MI‐DM: 120, CPI‐DM: 15 patients. Median age at manifestation of CPI‐DM patients was 63.6 (57.2‐72.8) years (53.3% male). Body mass index in CPI‐DM patients was significantly lower (26.8 [23.9‐28.1] kg/m2) compared with T2DM patients (29.8 [26.2‐34.3] kg/m2, P = 0.02). At manifestation, HbA1c was significantly higher in CPI‐DM compared with MI‐DM, but there was no difference during follow‐up. Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) was documented in six CPI‐DM patients (T1DM: 0%, T2DM: 0.4%, MI‐DM: 0.0%). Fourteen CPI‐DM patients were treated with insulin, and three received additional oral antidiabetics. The most common therapy in T2DM was lifestyle modification (38.8%), insulin in MI‐DM (52.5%). Concomitant autoimmune thyroid disease was present in four CPI‐DM patients (T1DM: 0.0%, T2DM: 1.0%, MI‐DM: 0.8%). Conclusions The data from this controlled study show that CPI‐DM is characterized by a high prevalence of DKA, autoimmune comorbidity, and metabolic decompensation at onset. Structured diagnostic monitoring is warranted to prevent DKA and other acute endocrine complications in CPI‐treated patients.
La représentation médiatique des gangs dans le journal La Presse de 1980 à 2010 : la mise en discours d’une « problématique sociale »
Creators: name: Laramée, Geneviève
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: criminologie
gang
média
La Presse
gangs à Montréal

description: Les médias occupent une place importante au sein des sociétés occidentales, notamment en raison de l’accessibilité des « nouvelles technologies de l’information ». Le marché de la nouvelle en subit des conséquences en ce qui a trait à la création de la nouvelle entourant des phénomènes sociaux ou plutôt, aux yeux des médias, des problèmes sociaux. La présente thèse jette un regard sur le discours médiatique à l’égard de l’une de ces « problématiques sociales », celle des gangs à Montréal. En observant la sélection des faits qui sont rapportés, commentés et interprétés dans la presse, notre recherche montre comment le phénomène des gangs est représenté dans le journal La Presse entre 1980 et 2010. 348 articles ont été analysés durant ces trente années où les gangs sont évoqués. Nous avons pu en dégager trois grands axes. D’abord, la définition du concept de gang n’est pas plus claire dans les médias qu’elle ne l’est dans la littérature scientifique. D’ailleurs, la ligne entre les gangs et les groupes criminels traditionnels n’est pas toujours facile à tracer dans la représentation médiatique. Ensuite, les membres des gangs ne sont pas seulement présentés comme des Autres au sens criminologique, mais généralement comme des ‘Autres étrangers’, les minorités visibles étant implicitement ou explicitement associées à cette problématique sociale tout au long de notre période à l’étude. Finalement, les gangs sont dépeints comme étant plus présents et plus dangereux chaque jour, et ce, dès 1989. Cette dimension alarmiste du discours médiatique sur les gangs semble liée au fait que, très souvent, les journalistes relaient les dires des policiers sans leur ajouter des faits explicatifs, qui auraient favorisé une meilleure compréhension de ce phénomène complexe.
Öffentlicher Verkehr
Creators: name: Dziekan, Katrin
name: Zistel, Meinhard
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018

description: Der Beitrag definiert öffentliche Mobilitätsangebote im Personenverkehr und führt in die politischen, rechtlichen sowie organisatorischen Rahmenbedingungen auf verschiedenen föderalen Ebenen ein. Einen wesentlichen Aspekt bildet dabei der politische Einfluss auf die Planung und Finanzierung der Verkehrsangebote. Für einen zeitgemäßen öffentlichen Verkehr sind die dargestellten, vielfältigen Kooperationen und das bestmögliche Zusammenwirken der Verkehrsträger entscheidend. Der öffentliche Verkehr steht dabei im Spannungsfeld unterschiedlicher Interessen und Akteure. Die sich daraus ergebenden Herausforderungen sind abschließend skizziert. © Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, ein Teil von Springer Nature 2018
Aim2Be mHealth intervention for children with overweight and obesity: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Mâsse, Louise C.
name: Vlaar, Janae
name: Macdonald, Janice
name: Bradbury, Jennifer
name: Warshawski, Tom
name: Buckler, E. J.
name: Hamilton, Jill
name: Ho, Josephine
name: Buchholz, Annick
name: Morrison, Katherine M.
name: Ball, Geoff D. C.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: The prevalence of overweight and obesity remains high in Canada, and the current standard for the treatment of childhood obesity is in-person, family-based, multidisciplinary interventions that target lifestyle behaviors (e.g., diet, physical activity, and sedentary behaviors). These programs are costly to operate, have limited success, and report recruitment and retention challenges. With recent advances in technology, mobile health or mHealth has been presented as a viable alternative to in-person interventions for behavior change, especially with teens. Purpose: The primary aim of this study is to test the efficacy of Aim2Be, a gamified app based on behavior change theory with health coaching to improve weight outcomes (i.e., decrease in standardized body mass index (zBMI)) and lifestyle behaviors (i.e., improve dietary quality, increase fruit and vegetable intake, reduce sugar-sweetened beverage intake, increase physical activity, and reduce screen time) among children 10- to 17-years old with overweight or obesity versus their peers randomized into a waitlist control condition. The secondary aims of this study are to 1) test whether supplementing the Aim2Be program with health coaching increases adherence and 2) examine the mediators and moderators of adherence to the Aim2Be intervention. Methods: We will employ a randomized controlled trial design and recruit 200 child and parent dyads to participate in the study (2019–2020). Participants will be recruited from Canadian pediatric weight management clinics and through online advertisements. Child participants must be between the ages of 10 and 17 years, have overweight or obesity, be able to read English at least at a grade 5 level, and have a mobile phone or home computer with internet access. Following baseline data collection, participants will be randomized into intervention and waitlist control groups. Intervention participants will receive access to Aim2Be, with access to health coaching. After having their data collected for 3 months, the control group will gain access to Aim2Be, with no access to health coaching. Participants will control their frequency and duration of app usage to promote autonomy. Discussion: Findings from this study will determine the efficacy of using Aim2Be in improving child weight outcomes and lifestyle behaviors and guide future mHealth interventions for pediatric weight management. Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT03651284. Registered 29 August 2018.
Filling out the frame: character actors in recent Australian films
Creators: name: McFarlane, Brian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: One of the unfailing pleasures of going to the pictures in the studio heyday say, the 1930s to the 1960s was the way the edges of the films would be populated by faces whose names weren't always familiar but who brought a whiff of the real to the often-glossy goings-on.
Predictors of physical activity in residents of Ontario: An analysis of the 1990 Ontario Health Survey.
Creators: name: Mayhew, Alain Denis.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Public Health.

description: Objectives. The primary objective of this study is to identify predictors of leisure time physical activity (defined as the reported level of energy expenditure in non-work activities) in the adult population of Ontario. The secondary objective of this study is to compare the predictors in different subgroups of the Ontario population. Subgroups divided by age group, gender and whether the subject lived in a rural or an urban area will be examined specifically. Methods. Two different software packages were used for this thesis. Statistical Analysis Software (SAS) was used for preliminary analyses. Final models were tested using Statistical Analysis for Correlated Data (SUDAAN) software which is designed to adjust for the multi-stage sampling design. Subjects were included in this study if they were over the age of 18. Energy expenditure (NEW), the outcome variable, was calculated by summing the 20 different activity specific scores. Twenty-nine independent variables were considered as potential predictors. Three variables were excluded because they were found to be collinear with other potential predictors. The main statistical method used was multiple linear regression. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Supplementary document for Active tapered double-clad fiber with low birefringence - 5216847.pdf
Creators: name: Fedotov, Andrei
name: Ustimchik, Vasily
name: Rissanen, Joona
name: Kolosovskiy, Alexander
name: Voloshin, Victor
name: Vorob'ev, Igor
name: Gumenyuk, Regina
name: Chamorovsky, Yuri
name: Filippov, Valery
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Effect of Predator Diet on Predator-induced Changes in Life History and Performance of Anuran Larvae
Creators: name: El Balaa, Rayan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Predator-induced
Phenotypic plasticity
Pursuing predator
Anti-predator
Angular performance

description: Phenotypic plasticity allows some animals to change their behavioural, morphological, performance, and life history traits in response to changes in environmental conditions such as the presence of predators. These changes can enhance survival, but come at a cost. Some of these phenotypic changes are predator and diet specific. I examined the effects of predator diet on the performance, life-history, and morphology of developing Northern Leopard Frog (Lithobates pipiens) tadpoles. Tadpoles were either exposed to cues from fish free water, cues from Brown Bullhead (Ameiurus nebulosus) fed a diet of trout pellets, or cues from A. nebulosus fed a L. pipiens tadpoles diet. Tadpoles exposed to predatory fish cues had smaller bodies, deeper tail fins, slower growth and development rates, and better rotational performance than tadpoles that were not exposed to predatory fish cues. Moreover, tadpoles appeared to differentiate between predatory fish diet and produced diet-specific responses in tail morphology and activity, although the latter effect was only marginally significant. Hatching, metamorphosis rates, and linear performance were not affected by the treatments. These results suggest that A. nebulosus can induce phenotypic changes in L. pipiens tadpoles, with some of these changes being diet specific.
Schizophrenia or atypical lupus erythematosus with predominant psychiatric manifestations over 25 years : case analysis and review
Creators: name: Mack, Axel
name: Pfeiffer, Christiane
name: Schneider, Marion
name: Bechter, Karl
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mild encephalitis
subject: Neuroinflammation
subject: Autoimmune encephalitis
subject: Neuropsychiatric lupus erythematosus
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Encephalitis
subject: Schizophrenia
subject: Chronic disease
subject: Autoimmune diseases
subject: Lupus vasculitis, Central nervous system
subject: Lupus erythematosus, Systemic
subject: Encephalitis
subject: Schizophrenie
subject: Chronische Krankheit
subject: Autoaggressionskrankheit
subject: Systemischer Lupus erythematodes

description: We observed a case over 25 years of relapsing–remitting schizophrenic spectrum disorder, varying regarding the main symptomatology between more depressive or more schizoaffective or rather typical schizophrenic syndrome. Diseased phases were repeatedly accompanied by minor skin lesions, which were initially classified as mixed tissue disorder. Psychotic phases were waxing–waning over years. During one later relapse, skin involvement was severe, classified to likely represent an allergic reaction to psychopharmaca; this generalized exanthema remitted rapidly with cortisone treatment and azathioprine. Under continued azathioprine and low dose neuroleptics, the patient remitted completely, appearing psychiatrically healthy for 16 years. When azathioprine was set off due to pregnancy, an extraordinary severe relapse of schizophrenia like psychosis accompanied by most severe skin lesions developed within a few weeks, then requiring 2 years of psychiatric inpatient treatment. Finally, a diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematodes plus neuropsychiatric lupus was made. A single CSF sample in 2013 showed suspicious biomarkers, matching with CSF cytokine profiling in schizophrenic and affective spectrum disorder patients and indicated mild neuroinflammation. Complex immune suppressive treatment was reinitiated short after relapse, but was only partially successful. However, surprisingly the psychosis and skin lesions remitted (in parallel) when belimumab was given (add-on). The very details of this complicated, long-term disease course are discussed also with regard to general ideas, in particular with respect to the question if this case of seemingly comorbid schizophrenia with minor autoimmunity signs represented a case of one emerging autoimmune disorder with variant manifestations systemically and within the CNS, though atypically with predominant appearance as a schizophrenia spectrum disorder.
Factorization with Gauss sums: scaling properties of ghost factors
Creators: name: Štefaňák, Martin
name: Merkel, Wolfgang
name: Schleich, Wolfgang P.
name: Haase, Daniel
name: Maier, Helmut
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: DDC 510 / Mathematics
subject: Gaussian sums
subject: Gauß-Summe
subject: Faktorisierung

description: Recent experiments have shown that truncated Gauss sums allow us to find the factors of an integer N. This method relies on the fact that for a factor the absolute value of the Gauss sum is unity. However, for every integer N there exist integers which are not factors, but where the Gauss sum reaches a value which is arbitrarily close to unity. In order to distinguish such ghost factors from real factors we need to amplify this difference. We show that a proper choice of the truncation parameter of the Gauss sum suppresses the ghost factors below a threshold value. We derive the scaling law of the truncation parameter on the number to be factored. Moreover, we show that this scaling law is also necessary for the success of our factorization scheme, even if we relax the threshold or allow limited error tolerance.
Germany 2050 - A Greenhouse Gas-Neutral Country
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: climate neutral
subject: energy scenario
subject: climate protection scenario
subject: climate projection
subject: renewable energies
subject: energy efficiency
subject: Power to Gas
subject: Climate | Energy

description: The background paper is a summary of a study which shows that future greenhouse gas neutrality in Germany is technically achievable. The scenariolooks at the issue merely from a national perspective and does not include interaction with other countries. The study focuses on the national GHG reduction target of 95 %. Taking into account the mentioned assumptions, this should be achievable in Germany by technical means. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: The background paper is a summary of a study which shows that future greenhouse gas neutrality in Germany is technically achievable. The scenariolooks at the issue merely from a national perspective and does not include interaction with other countries. The study focuses on the national GHG reduction target of 95 % in comparison with 1990. Taking into account the mentioned assumptions, this should be achievable in Germany by technical means.
Les effets de deux programmes sur le développement d'habiletés de lecture, de musique et de mémoire chez des élèves de 2e année du primaire au Québec
Creators: name: Lessard, Andrée
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Apprentissage et enseignement de la lecture
Apprentissage et enseignement de la musique
mémoire spatiale
mémoire verbale
habiletés musicales
perception mélodique
perception rythmique
début du primaire

description: Devant l’importance de la lecture dans notre société actuelle, il importe de se questionner sur les façons qui peuvent être mises en œuvre, dès le début du primaire, afin d’aider les élèves à apprendre à lire et à surmonter leurs difficultés en lecture. Lorsque l’on considère les effets bénéfiques que peut avoir l’apprentissage musical sur un ensemble d’habiletés non musicales, dont la mémoire, il devient pertinent de se questionner sur les effets possibles de la musique sur les habiletés en lecture. Alors qu’un lien semble présent dans l’ensemble des études consultées, la nature de ce lien, à savoir s’il s’agit d’une relation causale, reste indéterminée. Devant les résultats parfois contradictoires observés dans la littérature scientifique et considérant l’absence de recherches menées en contexte majoritairement francophone, le but de notre étude était d’évaluer les effets de deux programmes d’entraînement (lecture seulement et lecture-musique) sur le développement des habiletés de lecture, de musique et de mémoire d’élèves de 2e année du primaire au Québec. Un design quasi expérimental avec prétest et post-test a été employé. Les sujets (n=94) ont été divisés en trois groupes : lecture seulement (LS, n=44), lecture-musique (LM, n=34) et contrôle (n=16). Les programmes expérimentaux ont pris place pendant quatre mois à raison de trois périodes par cycle de dix jours. Selon l’analyse des résultats, il semblerait que les programme LS et LM aient pu avoir un effet favorable sur la précision en lecture, le vocabulaire réceptif, la morphosyntaxe et la mémoire spatiale. Toutefois, cet effet n’est pas significatif sur le plan statistique puisque tous les groupes étaient considérés comme équivalents non seulement au prétest, mais également au post-test, pour l’ensemble des variables. Par ailleurs, les trois groupes se sont significativement améliorés en compréhension, en déchiffrement et en vitesse de lecture. L’ensemble des résultats a été mis en relation avec les études antérieures menées sur le sujet et le contexte précis de l’étude afin de dégager des pistes pertinentes de recherches ultérieures.
Digital practice: PictureNSW and the development of guidelines for local digitising programs
Creators: name: Atkinson, Laurie
name: Dale, Vincent
name: Forsyth, Ellen
name: Peppard, Judy
name: Whitehead, Derek
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The paper arises from the PictureNSW project undertaken in 2004 and 2005 by the State Library of New South Wales in cooperation with New South Wales public libraries. The paper sets out the goals of the project, the processes followed, and the rationale and nature of the Guidelines produced by the project. It sets out some lessons of the project, and some suggestions for the future.
Carnap and Quine on Analyticity
Creators: name: Moosavi Karimi, Seyed Masoud
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Carnap
Quine
Analyticity
Analytic
Synthetic

description: This dissertation examines the Carnap-Quine debate on analyticity with the objective of identifying exactly what is at stake. Close scrutiny of Quine’s criticism of the definitions of analyticity reveals that most of his objections are convincing only if they are considered in relation to the definitions of analyticity in natural language. Carnap, however, defines analyticity in artificial languages. The dissertation also shows that Carnap can meet the objections to his definitions by using a perspective based within his own philosophy. After examining the presumptions of each party to the debate, the dissertation concludes that the disagreement between Carnap and Quine on the notion of analyticity is rooted in their different approaches to empiricism and that there is nothing said by either philosopher which proves that one approach has ultimate advantages over the other. It is thus impossible to identify a winner in the Carnap-Quine debate on analyticity. The process of arriving at this conclusion starts with a discussion in the first three chapters of Carnap’s philosophy followed by a critical and detailed discussion of his syntactical and semantical definitions of analyticity and the advantages and disadvantages of each. Chapter Four examines Quine’s objections to Carnap’s definitions of essential predication and shows that his objections do not undermine Carnap’s definitions of this notion in artificial languages. It also shows how vital providing a proper definition of essential predication in natural language is for Carnap’s philosophy and examines whether or not he is able to do so. Chapter Five analyzes Quine’s objections to Carnap’s definitions of logical truth and demonstrates that Carnap is able to respond to all of them when the discussion is situated within his philosophical system. Again, Quine’s objections to definitions of logical truth are meaningful only if they are considered in relation to natural language, which is not Carnap’s concern. The dissertation concludes by showing that both Carnap and Quine arrived at their conclusions with respect to the nature of logical sentences, based not on the arguments in their debate on analyticity, but on their philosophical considerations regarding the principle of empiricism: for Carnap, logical sentences are out of the realm of knowledge and independent of matters of fact whereas, for Quine, these are as empirical as other sentences. Nothing either says in their debate can convince the other to accept a different viewpoint.
Public Health Genomics: Exploiting SNP-NSAID interactions to prevent colorectal cancer
Creators: name: Demarsh, Peter Alexander
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011

description: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a common disease with a high mortality rate. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as aspirin and ibuprofen have shown considerable promise as preventive agents for CRC. However, due to concerns over the balance between benefits and harms NSAIDs are not recommended as a means of preventing CRC in average risk groups. Investigation into genetic modifiers of NSAIDs' chemopreventive action may help to identify those for whom such drugs are beneficial or ineffective. This thesis explored genetic mediation of the effectiveness of NSAID prophylaxis for CRC. A review of basic CRC biology and methods for investigating interactions, a systematic review of the literature to identify candidate interactions, and a secondary analysis of a GWA case-control study were performed. Candidate SNPs were screened for potential interactions, and several possible interactions were identified. The joint effects were similar for aspirin and ibuprofen, but not acetaminophen, implying true biological effects. Potential interactions were investigated further using a stepwise model building procedure. This resulted in a model containing three SNPs, aspirin and/or Ibuprofen use, their interactions, sex and age. This model was better able to discriminate cases and controls, demonstrated better calibration, and had greater information content (by AIC) than models without the interaction terms. Finally, recommendations for further research were given.