cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Strategic entrepreneurship in the public sector: fact or farce?
Creators: name: Luke, Belinda
name: Verreynne, Martie-Louise
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Much debate has centered on the existence, nature and application of entrepreneurship in the public sector (Bellone & Goerl, 1992; Borins, 2000; Terry, 1993). Those authors who argue that entrepreneurship has a place in the public sector, suggest that it may differ from entrepreneurship within private sector firms, explaining that its nature may be that of civic or social entrepreneurship (Bellone & Goerl, 1992), focusing on uplifting society; public entrepreneurship (Shockley, Frank & Stough, 2002), showing elements of democracy; or politic entrepreneurship suggesting a more deliberate approach to entrepreneurship (compare Mintzberg's, 1987 'ploy' strategy). Moon (1999) argues that political leaders are becoming more interested in fostering entrepreneurship in public sector firms in an attempt to improve government performance. Others such as Moe (1994) suggest the approach to improving government performance should be one of entrepreneurial policy rather than practice. A concept that has not been investigated in public sector firms is the combination of entrepreneurship and strategy, or strategic entrepreneurship. Hitt, Ireland, Camp, & Sexton (2001) are among the few who have considered this concept in detail, and refer to strategic entrepreneurship as 'entrepreneurship with a strategic perspective' (Hitt et al., 2001:480). Research in this area is in its early stages, and most researchers to date have either put forth conceptual papers (e.g. Hitt et al., 2001), or have examined the themes that represent strategic entrepreneurship in isolation (e.g. Amit & Zott, 2001). None of these authors have considered the scope of strategic entrepreneurship beyond private sector firms. This is perhaps due to its focus on growth and wealth creation; concepts or objectives not traditionally associated with public sector firms. Much of the research on entrepreneurship in the public sector focuses on academic institutions (e.g. Jones-Evans, Steward, Balazs & Todorov, 1998), or government organisations at the local or regional level (Teske & Schneider, 1994). One form of public sector firm that has received little attention, however, is state-owned enterprises (SOEs). While these public sector firms have traditionally provided core services on a national scale with an underlying profit motive, market forces and industry deregulation have increasingly exposed SOEs to competitive and commercial operations in both national and international markets. Hence the importance of entrepreneurial and strategic activity as a means of survival, sustainability, and growth emerges. This paper therefore investigates three SOEs for the existence of strategic entrepreneurship.
Real-time Embedded Age and Gender Classification in Unconstrained Video
Creators: name: Azarmehr, Ramin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Support Vector Machine
Linear Discriminant Analysis
Principal Component Analysis
Local Binary Patterns

description: Recently, automatic demographic classification has found its way into embedded applications such as targeted advertising in mobile devices, and in-car warning systems for elderly drivers. In this thesis, we present a complete framework for video-based gender classification and age estimation which can perform accurately on embedded systems in real-time and under unconstrained conditions. We propose a segmental dimensionality reduction technique utilizing Enhanced Discriminant Analysis (EDA) to minimize the memory and computational requirements, and enable the implementation of these classifiers for resource-limited embedded systems which otherwise is not achievable using existing resource-intensive approaches. On a multi-resolution feature vector we have achieved up to 99.5% compression ratio for training data storage, and a maximum performance of 20 frames per second on an embedded Android platform. Also, we introduce several novel improvements such as face alignment using the nose, and an illumination normalization method for unconstrained environments using bilateral filtering. These improvements could help to suppress the textural noise, normalize the skin color, and rectify the face localization errors. A non-linear Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier along with a discriminative demography-based classification strategy is exploited to improve both accuracy and performance of classification. We have performed several cross-database evaluations on different controlled and uncontrolled databases to assess the generalization capability of the classifiers. Our experiments demonstrated competitive accuracies compared to the resource-demanding state-of-the-art approaches.
EL MODELO DE GESTIÓN POR PROCESOS EN LA EVALUACIÓN DE RIESGO GEOLÓGICO EN LA PROVINCIA SANTIAGO DE CUBA. UN ENSAYO PRELIMINAR.
Creators: name: Liber Galbán Rodriguez
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 40104 Climate Change Processes
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 49999 Earth Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 50204 Environmental Impact Assessment
subject: 50205 Environmental Management
subject: 50206 Environmental Monitoring
subject: Environmental Science
subject: 40402 Geodynamics
subject: Geology
subject: 40399 Geology not elsewhere classified
subject: 40601 Geomorphology and Regolith and Landscape Evolution

description: En este artículo intentamos describir las manifestaciones actuales que caracterizan la amenaza, la vulnerabilidad y el riesgo geológico en la provincia Santiago de Cuba. Contextualizar de forma general la situación actual de la gestión de riesgo geológico en la provincia a partir de los modelos utilizados actualmente para su evaluación, hasta dónde llegan, quiénes lo rigen y lo lideran, cuáles son sus logros y deficiencias, cuáles son los instrumentos legales actuales que la abordan directa o indirectamente; y finalmente, explicar y aplicar los fundamentos teóricos del
modelo de gestión por procesos seleccionado para modelar la evaluación del riesgo geológico en Santiago de Cuba, como una nueva proposición para la gestión.
title: Checklists for surveying and assessing industrial plant handling materials and substances, which are hazardous to water
title: Installation-related water protection: Checklist 10: Alarm
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Winkelmann-Oei, Gerhard
name: Platkowski, Jörg
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Gewässerschutz
subject: Risikomanagement
subject: Leitfaden
subject: water protection
subject: installation-related
subject: water pollution
subject: water pollutants
subject: risk management
subject: checklist
subject: guideline
subject: Chemikalien
subject: Chemicals

description: Based on recommendations by international river basin and water body commissions, a checklist concept was developed as a tool to efficiently evaluate the condition of installations handling substances and preparations hazardous to water. It comprises an overview of potential fields of action as well as specific checklists subdivided by functional units, sectors and risk areas.
The Development of Photosensitive Surfaces to Control Cell Adhesion and Form Cell Patterns
Creators: name: Cheng, Nan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Chitosan
Cell adhesion
Self-assembled monolayer (SAM)
Nitrobenzyl
Poly(ethylene glycol)

description: Cell adhesion is the first step of cell response to materials and the extracellular matrix (ECM), and is essential to all cell behaviours such as cell proliferation, differentiation, migration and apoptosis for anchor-dependent cells. Therefore, studies of cell attachment have important implications to control and study cell behaviours. During many developed techniques for cell attachment, the manipulation of surface chemistry is a very important method to control initial cell attachment. To control cell adhesion on a two-dimensional surface is a simple model to study cell behaviours, and is a fundamental topic for cell biology, tissue engineering, and the development of biosensors. From the engineering point of view, the preparation of a material with controllable surface chemistry can help studies of cell behaviours and help scientists understand how surface features and chemistry influence cell behaviours. During the fabrication, the challenge is to create a surface with heterogeneous surface properties in the micro scale and subsequently to guide cell initial adhesion. In order to control cell adhesion in a spatial and temporal manner, a photochemical method to control surface chemistry was employed to control the surface property for cell adhesion in this project. Two photocleavable derivatives of the nitrobenzyl group were tried on two types of surfaces: a model self-assembled monolayer (SAM) with alkanethiol-gold surface and biodegradable chitosan. Reactive functional groups on two different surfaces can be inactivated by covalent binding with these photocleavable molecules, and light can be further introduced into the system as a stimulus to recover their reactivity. By simply applying a photomask with diffe
Supplementary document for A broadband 2×2 multimode interference coupler for mid-infrared wavelengths - 5397448.pdf
Creators: name: Stirling, Callum
name: Halir, Robert
name: Sánchez-Postigo, Alejandro
name: Qu, Zhibo
name: Reynolds, Jamie
name: Penades, Jordi Soler
name: Murugan, Ganapathy Senthil
name: Ortega-Moñux, Alejandro
name: Wangüemert-Pérez, J. Gonzalo
name: Molina-Fernández, I.
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Derivation of the analytical model for the MZI output power used for fitting of the experimental data.
Discovering consumer personality clusters in prestige sensitivity and fashion consciousness context
Creators: name: Casidy, Riza
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This article aims to discover the differences among consumer personality clusters in regard to their extent of fashion consciousness and prestige sensitivity. Data were collected from 251 undergraduate students using self-administered questionnaires. Cluster analysis and MANOVA were employed to assess whether significant differences exist among four personality clusters. The study used the Big Five scale items to measure consumer personality and found that respondents who score low on the 'openness to experience' dimension tend to be less prestige sensitive, and those who score high on 'extraversion', 'agreeableness', and 'conscientiousness' tend to be highly fashion conscious.
"Silent Citizens": Citizenship Education, Disability and d/Deafness at the Ontario Institution for the Education of the Deaf, 1870-1914
Creators: name: Iozzo, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Citizenship Education
Disability
Deaf Education
Ontario

description: This thesis focuses on citizenship education, disability and d/Deafness at the Ontario Institution for the Education of the Deaf (OIED), 1870-1914. It employs a critical reading of school related documents, including the school newspaper, The Canadian Mute, to examine how citizenship education evolved at the OIED and contributed to a (re)construction of the d/Deaf citizenship ideal. This (re)construction took place over two distinct periods: 1870 to1906, the “new” d/Deaf citizenship; and, 1907 to 1914, the “spoken” d/Deaf citizenship. During this timeframe, the OIED undertook a deliberate, structured program to rescue the educated d/Deaf student out from under an expansive disability label that characterized “disabled” persons as lazy, immoral, criminal, insane, unintelligent, and financial burdens. Through the OIED’s three pronged education program – d/Deaf pedagogy (teaching communication), academic and vocational curricula – the “good” d/Deaf citizen evolved as an intelligent, active, financially independent person who was cognisant of how her/his d/Deafness reflected on the broader d/Deaf community.
Chemogenetic Ablation of Dopaminergic Neurons in the Brain of Larval and Adult Zebrafish (Danio Rerio): Phenotypes and Regenerative Ability
Creators: name: Godoy, Rafael Soares
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Zebrafish
Dopaminergic neurons
Nitroreductase
Brain
Regeneration

description: Dopamine exerts an important role in the regulation of motor activity in humans. During the progression of Parkinson’s disease, patients are faced with the progressive neurodegeneration of nigro-striatal dopamine neurons resulting in an array of pathological symptoms characteristic of the disease. Current treatment relies on targeting symptomatic aspects of the disease but currently Parkinson’s disease is incurable. Targeting the regeneration of DA neurons in PD patients could offer an alternative therapeutic approach that could stall and perhaps even revert the progression of the disease and improve the quality of life for patients. Here, I describe the generation of a transgenic zebrafish line for the non-invasive, conditional and specific ablation of dopaminergic neurons in both larval and adult zebrafish. Understanding the endogenous regenerative ability of the zebrafish may in the future contribute to the development of novel therapeutic approaches targeting DA neuron regeneration in humans. The Tg(dat:CFP-NTR) line efficiently labels and ablates most clusters of DA neurons in both the larval and the adult zebrafish brain. Neuronal ablation is followed by a locomotor and tail bend phenotype as well as by an increase in exploratory behavior. Using double transgenic larvae, we showed through live imaging that loss of DA neurons induces an increase in nestin expression; in addition we show an increase in the number of proliferating cells and an up regulation of genes involved in neurogenesis and tissue repair. Adult zebrafish were able to fully recover their DA neuronal population in the olfactory bulb within 45 days post ablation. Overall the Tg(dat:CFP-NTR) zebrafish offers a novel tool for the study of the molecular and cellular mechanisms driving the regeneration of DA neurons in the zebrafish brain and will be a useful tool for the field of regenerative medicine.
Snf2l Regulates Foxg1 Expression to Control Cortical Progenitor Cell Proliferation and Differentiation
Creators: name: McGregor, Chelsea P.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Snf2l
Foxg1
Chromatin Remodeling
Cerebral Cortex
Development
Forebrain
Epigenetic

description: Over the past five years the role of epigenetic modifiers in brain development has become increasingly evident. In this regard, Snf2l, a homolog of the chromatin remodeling protein ISWI, was shown to have enriched expression in the brain and be important for neuronal differentiation. Mice lacking functional Snf2l have hypercellularity of the cerebral cortex due to increased cell cycle re-entry. In this thesis I demonstrate the effects of Snf2l-ablation on cortical progenitor cells including increased proliferation and cell cycle deregulation, the consequence of which is a delay in neuronal migration and altered numbers of mature cortical neurons. This phenotype arises from increased expression of Foxg1, a winged-helix repressor expressed in the forebrain and anterior optic vesicle. Moreover, genetically reducing its overexpression rescues the Snf2l-ablated phenotype. Snf2l is bound directly to a promoter region of Foxg1 suggesting that it acts as a repressive regulator in vivo and is an important factor in forebrain differentiation.
Editorial
Creators: name: Wende, Wolfgang
name: Nijhuis, Steffen
name: Mensing-De Jong, Angela
name: Humann, Melanie
Publisher: name: Research in Urbanism Series
Year: 2020

description: Currently the world is facing major challenges related to ongoing urbanization. More than half of the global population already lives in cities, and rapid urban growth – whether planned or spontaneous – seems set to continue. The associated large-scale transformation of urban and rural landscapes is turning the spotlight on environmental issues and questions of sustainability. The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the New Urban Agenda/Habitat III provide a framework for a fast urban development by encouraging the integration of social and ecological aspects into urbanism. One important task for urbanism is to “make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable”. But what does this mean for research, education and practice in spatial design and planning? Which emerging research topics can be identified? Do we need alternative formats for teaching and for knowledge transfer? This book focuses on inclusive urbanism as one factor of sustainable urban development.
description: Research in Urbanism Series, Vol. 6 (2020): Inclusive Urbanism: Advances in research, education and practice
Fabtrication of Surface Plasmon Biosensors in CYTOP
Creators: name: Asiri, Hamoudi
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: CYTOP
Surface Plasmons
Optical Biosensors

description: This thesis describes work carried out on the research, development and implementation of new processes for the fabrication of surface plasmon waveguide biosensors. Fabrication of surface plasmon resonance (SPR) based waveguides embedded in a thick CYTOP cladding with the incorporation of fluidic channels was achieved with improved quality and operability compared to previous attempts. The fabrication flow was modified in key areas including lithography for feature definition, gold evaporation and the upper cladding deposition procedure. The combined result yielded devices with sharper resolution of waveguides, gold surfaces with minimal aberrations, reduced surface roughness and minimization of waveguide deformation due to reduction of solvent diffusion into the lower cladding. The fabricated waveguides consisted of a thin, 35 nm, patterned gold film, embedded in a thick, 18 µm, CYTOP fluoroploymer cladding. The gold devices were exposed by O2 plasma etching through the upper cladding to form fluidic channels for the facilitation of flow of an index matched sensing medium. Optical and physical characterization of devices revealed structures of significantly improved quality over previous attempts, rendering the platform competitive for biosensing applications.
Incorporating spontaneity in urban disciplines
Creators: name: Noev, Igor
Publisher: name: Research in Urbanism Series
Year: 2020

description: Spontaneity is a term with a wide range of meanings in the architectural and urban context. In principal, two predominant stereotypes of spontaneity have emerged, one related to “informal” architecture, recognized as a condition of material scarcity, and the other to urban actions performed without premeditation, which have been commonly identified as “unplanned”. In many disciplines such as sociology, art, music, literature and natural sciences, spontaneous behaviour is largely viewed as a positive quality, identified as a natural process or act. In an architectural context, however, spontaneity is often associated with poor, deprived and dilapidated urban environments. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to determine the significance of spontaneity in the architectural and urban realm as well as its incorporation in the development of the urban landscape. The first part of this paper will focus on the definition of the term and its recognition in architecture, whereby spontaneity is portrayed as a dynamic, open and unmediated concept. Additionally, taking into account the stereotypical interpretations of spontaneous architecture as informal or unplanned, an epistemological paradox will be revealed in the interaction between the architectural project and its realization. By considering the practical example of Skopje, spontaneity is interpreted as the carrier of the city’s genetic material and hence incorporated in the methodology for the urban development of Skopje city.
description: Research in Urbanism Series, Vol. 6 (2020): Inclusive Urbanism: Advances in research, education and practice
Timing of Motor Preparation for Indirectly Cued vs. Directly Cued Movements During a Visuomotor Mental Rotation Task
Creators: name: Drummond, Neil M.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Visuomotor mental rotation
Motor preparation
Response preparation
Startle
Anticipation-timing

description: Previous investigations comparing direct versus indirectly cued movements have consistently shown that indirectly cued movements take longer to prepare (Neely and Heath, 2010) and involve the recruitment of additional brain areas (Connolly et al., 2000). This increase in processing time has been associated with the additional cognitive transformations required of the task (Neely and Heath, 2010). In the present study we investigated whether differences between direct versus indirectly cued movements are also reflected in the time course of motor preparation. Participants performed a targeting task, moving directly to the location of a visual cue (i.e., directly cued movement) or to a location that differed by 60˚, 90˚, or 120˚ with respect to the visual cue provided (i.e., indirectly cued movements). Participants were instructed to initiate their movements concurrently with an anticipated go-signal. To examine the time course of motor preparation, a startling acoustic stimulus (SAS, 124dB) was randomly presented 150 ms, 500 ms, or 1000 ms prior to the go-signal. Results from the startle trials revealed that the time course of motor preparation was similar regardless of the angle of rotation required and hence whether it was a direct or indirectly cued trial. Specifically, motor preparation was delayed until less than 500 ms prior to movement initiation for both direct and indirectly cued movements. These findings indicate that similar motor preparation strategies are engaged for both types of cued movements, suggesting that the time to prepare a motor response may be similar regardless of whether a cognitive transformation is required.
Mechanisms associated with cognitive impairment and mood in elderly heart failure patients
Creators: name: Kure, Christina Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Cognitive impairment is a prevalent comorbidity seen in elderly heart failure (HF) patients and is linked to poor quality of life, reduced self-care abilities and increased hospital readmissions, possibly due to a reduced capacity to understand and follow complex treatment protocols. In addition to cognitive impairments, HF patients also endure depressed mood and increased anxiety. In order to establish the most effective treatment for improving or ameliorating cognitive impairment and mood in older HF patients, a better understanding of the basic physiological mechanisms is necessary. Previous research suggests that mechanisms underlying cognitive impairments in these patients include reduced cerebral blood flow but little is known about the influence of other processes on their cognitive impairments. The aim of the present thesis was to examine whether inflammatory, antioxidant, oxidative stress and arterial stiffness explain cognitive deficits and depressed mood and anxiety in elderly HF. A further aim was to explore additional cognitive domains that may be impaired in HF using a well-validated computerised neuropsychological assessment battery. In this thesis, 36 patients with HF (NYHA class II, III or IV) aged 60 years and above were compared to 40 age- and sex- matched controls on tests of cognitive function, mood and several biological mechanisms including cerebral blood flow, arterial stiffness, inflammation, oxidative stress and antioxidant markers. The results indicated that Power of Attention is an additional cognitive domain impaired in elderly HF patients. Determinable reactive oxygen metabolites (DROMs) are significantly elevated in HF compared to controls. Furthermore, the results indicated that reduced common carotid arterial blood flow velocity, arterial stiffness and reduced coenzyme Q10 levels were related to poor attention and psychomotor abilities in elderly HF patients. Common carotid arterial blood flow velocity and reduced circulating coenzyme Q10 were associated with reduced executive function in HF. Although inflammation and oxidative stress were significantly elevated in the HF group, there was no indication these biomarkers were related to cognitive function. Finally, the results indicated that cerebral blood flow, arterial stiffness, antioxidants and inflammatory makers did not relate to depression or anxiety levels in HF. In conclusion, this thesis confirmed the existence of cognitive impairments in HF, and suggested that Power of Attention may be a further, previously undescribed impairment. These findings also indicate that DROMs are a useful measure of oxidative stress in older HF patients, and those interventions that reduce central pulse pressure, increase cerebral blood flow and elevate coenzyme Q10 levels may improve attention and executive function in elderly HF patients.
Collective City Making
Creators: name: Köpper, Julia
name: Müller, Agnes Katharina
Publisher: name: Research in Urbanism Series
Year: 2020

description: The article addresses the concept of urban commons, specifically the ways in which it can contribute to inclusive urbanism. We consider how communities appropriate urban spaces, how commons mediate participation in urban development as well as the role of the physical configuration in fostering inclusiveness. The “PLATZprojekt” in Hanover, Germany, is taken as a case study. A container village of about 3,000 m2, the PLATZprojekt is understood as an experiment in offering people a self-organized space, one they can actively shape, a space to implement their ideas and to provoke discussion about their city. Initiated by a group of young skateboarders, it was funded by the BBSR[1]. Situated on a vacant lot in an industrial zone relatively close to the inner city, the PLATZprojekt seeks to provide space for projects and ideas that cannot be realised within the gentrified neighbourhoods of dense and commodified European metropolises. We analyse the PLATZprojekt as a permanent “commoning process” that encompasses different levels of accessibility and represents a positive example of inclusive urbanism while at the same time revealing various limitations. [1] Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development
description: Research in Urbanism Series, Vol. 6 (2020): Inclusive Urbanism: Advances in research, education and practice
Type a botulinum toxin in the management of spontaneous salivary otorrhea: a case report
Creators: name: Chan, Teffran J
name: Lewis, Trevor A
name: Sommer, Doron D
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: Spontaneous salivary otorrhea is a rare presentation only previously documented twice in literature where parotid salivary secretions are found in the external auditory canal. Conventional treatment of spontaneous parotid salivary fistulas includes surgical management with interposed grafts, fistula tract ablation, and possible superficial parotidectomy. Associated risks include facial nerve injury, Frey syndrome and facial scarring. Here we report the first case of spontaneous salivary otorrhea conservatively managed with a type A botulinum toxin (BTA) injection. Case presentation: A 17-year-old female presented with a 5-month history of left sided otorrhea and transient left facial swelling associated with gustatory stimulation. The otorrhea fluid tested positive for salivary amylase and negative for beta 2 transferrin. Fifty units of BTA were injected into the left parotid gland under ultrasound guidance. Cessation of symptoms was achieved 3 weeks after intervention. The patient remains symptom-free at the 2 year follow up. Conclusion: BTA injection was well tolerated under ultrasound guidance and has led to long-term resolution of the patient’s symptoms. BTA injection appears to be a safe and effective way to conservatively manage this rare presentation of spontaneous salivary otorrhea.
Participatory Workshops as a Tool for Building Inclusivity in New Towns in Africa
Creators: name: Keeton, Rachel
name: Mota, Nelson
name: Tan, Ekim
Publisher: name: Research in Urbanism Series
Year: 2020

description: Africa is currently the fastest-urbanizing continent in the world. As part of this rapid growth, New Towns are increasingly employed by private developers as a means of providing well-serviced urban environments to middle- and upper-income groups. These comprehensively-planned New Towns are often seen in contrast to the perceived ‘chaos’ and ‘congestion’ of large African cities. As a result, two urban forms, the highly controlled New Towns and the unregulated settlements at their edges, engage in complex social and economic exchanges, but remain spatially segregated and socially exclusive. Current research points to the need for an alternative approach to top-down New Town planning in Africa. Participatory workshops are one alternative that can offer planners access to local knowledge that is otherwise difficult to access. This paper explores the potential of short-term reflective, design, and serious gaming workshops by reflecting on the experiences of the authors in four recent workshops. The paper evaluates the effectiveness of these workshops as useful tools to increase inclusivity in African New Towns by bringing together stakeholders with competing agendas and supporting open discussion, negotiation, and informed decision-making. The paper concludes that participation from stakeholder groups that would normally be marginalized from the planning process (such as current residents, temporary users, and residents of adjacent unregulated communities), can offer new insights to planning bodies and inform more inclusive New Towns across the continent.
description: Research in Urbanism Series, Vol. 6 (2020): Inclusive Urbanism: Advances in research, education and practice
Unnatural and Unequal: Social Determinants of Gender Inequality and Health and Their Impact on Disaster Management Interventions in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Page, Ashley
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Disaster Management
Gender Equality
Social Determinants of Health
Intersectionality
Capability Approach
Practical and Strategic Gender Needs
Bangladesh

description: Disaster vulnerability and health status are determined by the intersecting social identities individuals possess in a given context. Based on two months fieldwork in Bangladesh, this study employs a comparative exploratory case study methodology to understand the way in which the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Oxfam and Gonoshasthaya Kendra construct and deploy the concepts of gender, empowerment and women’s health within their disaster management policies and programs. It finds that disaster management interventions that fail to understand the intersectional nature of women’s vulnerability risk entrenching or creating forms of both privilege and oppression. Combining intersectionality, Moser’s Practical and Strategic Gender Needs and Sen’s Capability Approach, this study aims to deconstruct the embedded view of women in disaster management by suggesting that a social determinants of health approach, paired with intersectionality, could provide important insights into disaster management interventions and their effectiveness in addressing the gendered realities of women facing disasters.
Characterisation of products from the pyrolysis of South Australian Radiata Pine
Creators: name: Somerville, Michael A.
name: Bremmell, Justen J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Radiata pine grown in sustainably harvested forests in the mid north of South Australia is a potential source of renewable carbon for local smelting operations. The wood must first be converted into charcoal through pyrolysis. By-products from pyrolysis, including condensate, have value which can be used to offset the cost of producing charcoal and improve the economics of charcoal supply. Pine wood logs were collected from the Wirrabara forest which is near Port Pirie in South Australia. Samples of this wood were pyrolysed at 350, 550 and 750 °C using a kg scale rotary furnace. Pyrolysis products including charcoal and condensate were collected and analysed. The condensate was further treated in a centrifuge to separate the organic ‘bio-oil' fraction from the aqueous pyroligneous acid fraction. The effect of pyrolysis temperature on the properties of the resulting charcoal was in accord with similar work on other wood types. The carbon content and calorific value of the charcoal increased with temperature while the charcoal volatile content decreased. The organic ‘bio-oil' fraction of the condensate increased slightly with temperature but was quite low at between 5 and 8 %. The carbon content and calorific value of the bio-oil increased with temperature from 57 to 60 % and from 25.7 to 26.1 MJ/kg respectively. The potential value of the bio-oil, based on the measured properties is discussed.
Strasbourg’s inclusive policies for migrants and the IBA urban developmental paradigm
Creators: name: Siebert, Tristan
Publisher: name: Research in Urbanism Series
Year: 2020

description: The issue of limiting motorized traffic can sometimes generate unexpected problems. For example, the city centre of Strasbourg is crossed by a major motorway, which is constantly congested and polluted. This source of irritation is now at the heart of debates on urban planning. The public authorities wish to transform the route into a boulevard as well as to develop surrounding areas. Currently, the numerous vacant spaces around the transport infrastructure are used by various associations, whose right of residency is relatively unsettled. An increasing number of small illegal settlements can also be found here as well as in adjacent neighbourhoods. While the city council is implementing inclusive policies towards migrants, how can these issues be translated locally into urban planning tools? Strasbourg is an important transit point for migrants between France and Germany. Further, due to its border location, the city has always been an important hub for the exchange of ideas; in particular, new concepts of urban planning find fertile ground here. In order to transform the motorway, the public authorities intend to implement the German urban development tool known as the International Building Exhibition (German: Internationale Bauausstellung or IBA). In the following, we examine the IBAs of Hamburg and Berlin in order to try to identify good practices which could inspire French town planners and elected officials. This study is conducted through the prism of Henri Lefebvre’s book The Right to the City (1968).
description: Research in Urbanism Series, Vol. 6 (2020): Inclusive Urbanism: Advances in research, education and practice
Le dessein littéraire de Juvencus : Étude de la nature paraphrastique et épique des Euangeliorum libri quattuor
Creators: name: Alrifaee, Amélie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Juvencus
Euangeliorum libri quattuor

description: Notre thèse étudie la nature paraphrastique et épique des Euangeliorum libri quattuor, un poème épique composé par Juvencus au quatrième siècle de notre ère, dans le but de comprendre la relation de l’œuvre aux modèles littéraires que sont la paraphrase rhétorique et l’épopée classique. L’étude de la nature paraphrastique rend apparente la liberté créatrice dont fait montre le poète dans la composition de son œuvre et suggère que le procédé rédactionnel à la base de son écriture est plus complexe que celui exigé par la paraphrase antique. La relation du poème à l’épopée classique est plus clairement définissable, car nous pouvons observer toutes les caractéristiques du genre dans les Euangeliorum libri quattuor. Somme toute, notre étude de l’œuvre démontre que Juvencus avait comme dessein littéraire de créer une épopée foncièrement classique qui s’inspire de la narration des évangiles sans toutefois les paraphraser.
Towards the co-production of urban space for increased inclusiveness
Creators: name: Humann, Melanie
Publisher: name: Research in Urbanism Series
Year: 2020

description: Increasingly, civil society is demanding greater participation and involvement in urban development. For this reason, planning processes have become more openly structured in recent years, offering a wider range of opportunities for participation. In order to enable such participation not only in planning but also in producing the city itself, structures for the co-production of urban space have now established themselves. The co-productive city is being made reality by civil society and local actors, whose goal is to create a long-term and sustainable value creation chain. As a counter-model to the neoliberal city, co-productive urban development requires alternative financial and organizational structures. Here our primary focus is the community-based and inclusive production of space that also redefines the role of the planner.
description: Research in Urbanism Series, Vol. 6 (2020): Inclusive Urbanism: Advances in research, education and practice
"More than fruits and vegetables "
Creators: name: Pedro, Alexandra Aguiar
name: Görner, Anna
name: Lindner, André
name: Wende, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Research in Urbanism Series
Year: 2020

description: Urban gardening contributes to society in various ways such as by enhancing communities, ensuring food security, improving health, providing places for recreation as well as by raising environmental awareness. Although urban gardening initiatives have been spreading, the challenge remains to include vulnerable communities, especially in developing countries, which face manifold infrastructural, environmental and social pressures, thereby helping achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11 (Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable) and foster urban inclusiveness. The study evaluated the performance of urban community gardens in order to verify their potential for implementation in the slums of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Significant assets and drawbacks were analyzed from existing studies and categorized into social, spatial, economic and environmental factors. Additionally, qualitative interviews on societal and motivational issues were conducted with contributors to a community garden in Dresden, Germany. The results highlight the potential of urban gardening to counteract spatial pressures in informal areas by creating green spaces, improving food quality, raising environmental awareness and, in general, ensuring a higher quality of life. On the other hand, some obstacles remain to be overcome, such as soil pollution, the high probability of further contamination as well as a lack of basic infrastructure. A top-down implementation of urban gardens within slums is considered feasible if the projects are designed in partnership with the community, and a long-term adaptive management model is applied. Under these conditions, urban gardening will make a significant contribution to ‘inclusive urbanism'.
description: Research in Urbanism Series, Vol. 6 (2020): Inclusive Urbanism: Advances in research, education and practice
title: Einsatz von Post-Consumer-Recycling-Kunststoffen in energieverbrauchsrelevanten Geräten
title: Einsatz von Post-Consumer-Recycling-Kunststoffen in energieverbrauchsrelevanten Geräten
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schischke, Karsten
name: Berwald, Anton
name: Dimitrova, Gergana
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Kunststoff
subject: Kunststoffrezyklate
subject: Ökodesign-Richtlinie
subject: Kreislaufführung von Kunststoffen
subject: Rezyklateinsatzquote
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen

description: Die Ökodesign-Richtlinie 2009/125/EG bietet den geeigneten rechtlichen Rahmen, um mithilfe von rechtlichen Instrumenten den Einsatz von Kunststoffrezyklaten in energieverbrauchsrelevanten Produkten zu erhöhen und hierdurch zu einer verbesserten Kreislaufführung von Kunststoffen beizutragen. Ein mögliches Instrument ist eine verbindliche Rezyklateinsatzquote. Im Rahmen der Kurzexpertise wurde die Machbarkeit einer solchen Rezyklateinsatzquote untersucht. Hierzu wurde der gegenwärtige Stand des Einsatzes von Post-Consumer-Recycling-Kunststoffen (PCR-Kunststoffen) in Elektro- und Elektronikgeräten, die damit verbundenen Herausforderungen und Potenziale sowie die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen aktuell verfügbarer Nachweissysteme recherchiert und analysiert. Auf Basis der Ergebnisse wurden Empfehlungen für die Stärkung des Einsatzes von Kunststoffrezyklaten unter der Ökodesign-Richtlinie abgeleitet. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: The Ecodesign Directive 2009/125/EC provides the appropriate legal framework for increasing the use of plastic recyclates in energy-related products via regulatory instruments and thus improving the closing of material cycles. One possible instrument is a binding quota for the use of recycled plastics. In this expert report, the feasibility of such a quote was examined. To this end, the current status of the use of post-consumer recycled plastics (PCR plastics) in electrical and electronic equipment, associated challenges and potentials as well as the possibilities and limits of currently available verification systems were researched and analysed. On the basis of the results, recommendations were derived for strengthening the use of recycled plastics under the Ecodesign Directive. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: Das Schließen von Materialkreisläufen ist ein wichtiger Schritt in Richtung einer Kreislaufwirtschaft. Die Kurzexpertise setzt sich mit der Fragestellung auseinander, wie der Einsatz von Post-Consumer-Recycling-Kunststoffen in energieverbrauchsrelevanten Geräten gestärkt werden kann. Dabei wird vor allem die technische und regulatorische Machbarkeit einer Rezyklateinsatzquote untersucht. Basierend auf einer Analyse des Stands des Einsatzes von Recycling-Kunststoffen in Geräten sowie der aktuell verfügbarer Nachweissysteme wurden Politikempfehlungen erarbeitet, wie der Einsatz von Kunststoffrezyklaten gesteigert werden kann und diese in einem Fachgespräch mit relevanten Akteuren diskutiert.
Dynamic free lance for slagmaking and steelmaking desulphurization
Creators: name: Fan, Quanrong
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The dynamic free lance, discovered accidentally in 2005, is a new type of injection lance with its top-end connected with a flexible joint so that the lance tip could move during the gas injection. Without mechanical driving apparatus, the free lance is capable of injection of reagent into wide space of the bath. The investigation of the free lance indicated that the lance movement caused forceful interaction of the injection gas with the liquid phase, and jet trajectory was changed due to the drag force from the liquid phase. A lance with weight of 15 kg and length of 2 m has been used as the free lance for modeling study, indicating that the heavy free lance for the industry could achieve certain extent of movement for dispersion injection, and this prediction has been proved in 2012 by industrial application of the 9 meters free lance used for the injection modification of end-slag from BOF converter. In 2013, a stationary refractory lance with weight of 2 t for 120 t ladle of steelmaking desulphurization has also been redesigned and converted into the dynamic free lance with initial tests exhibiting the lance movement.
Stroll’n’Draw, All Inclusive
Creators: name: Fritsche, Niels-Christian
Publisher: name: Research in Urbanism Series
Year: 2020

description: In this paper, I discuss the education of inclusive urbanism as the inclusion of the environmental awareness genesis, attitudes toward urban design, cognitive biases and the acceptance of contingency. How do places ‘happen’ to become what they are? What characterises their potentially unreducible singularity in light of general planning laws? I suggest educating along a didactic triangle of rules, novelty and singularity in a spatialisable tabular fashion. In addition to using the methods presented here in teaching, these approaches can also be used to create more inclusion in urban development processes as a whole. With a 3D visualisation matrix of analogue, hybrid and digital methods, I proceed to four exemplary multi-methodological teaching modes to tackle the ever-bygone status quo, to introduce research methodology and, thereby, the defeasibility of both the premises and the conclusions in all-too traditional urban design. I focus on abductive reasoning between the unique locality and the general space of possibility as trial acting and “plan-b thinking” to dialectically shuttle within didactic triangle and visualisation matrix. The curriculum allows for principal and exemplary multi-methodological cross-linkage. Open projects serve as stepping stones into the broad variety of non-algorithmic human occupations in 21st century urban planning. Let us understand our own multiple personal urbanites way beyond professional applicability.
description: Research in Urbanism Series, Vol. 6 (2020): Inclusive Urbanism: Advances in research, education and practice
Managing Terminology for Translation Using Translation Environment Tools: Towards a Definition of Best Practices
Creators: name: Gómez Palou Allard, Marta
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: translation environment tools
TEnTs
CAT Tools
translation memory
terminology databases
termbases
integrated termbases
terminology management systems
terminology management
termbase optimization
best practices
guidelines
termbase design

description: Translation Environment Tools (TEnTs) became popular in the early 1990s as a partial solution for coping with ever-increasing translation demands and the decreasing number of translators available. TEnTs allow the creation of repositories of legacy translations (translation memories) and terminology (integrated termbases) used to identify repetition in new source texts and provide alternate translations, thereby reducing the need to translate the same information twice. While awareness of the important role of terminology in translation and documentation management has been on the rise, little research is available on best practices for building and using integrated termbases. The present research is a first step toward filling this gap and provides a set of guidelines on how best to optimize the design and use of integrated termbases. Based on existing translation technology and terminology management literature, as well as our own experience, we propose that traditional terminology and terminography principles designed for stand-alone termbases should be adapted when an integrated termbase is created in order to take into account its unique characteristics: active term recognition, d one-click insertion of equivalents into the target text and document pretranslation. The proposed modifications to traditional principles cover a wide range of issues, including using record structures with fewer fields, adopting the TBX-Basic’s record structure, classifying records by project or client, creating records based on equivalent pairs rather concepts in cases where synonyms exist, recording non-term units and multiple forms of a unit, and using translated documents as sources. The overarching hypothesis and its associated concrete strategies were evaluated first against a survey of current practices in terminology management within TEnTs and later through a second survey that tested user acceptance of the strategies. The result is a set of guidelines that describe best practices relating to design, content selection and information recording within integrated termbases that will be used for translation purposes. These guidelines will serve as a point of reference for new users of TEnTs, as an academic resource for translation technology educators, as a map of challenges in terminology management within TEnTs that translation software developers seek to resolve and, finally, as a springboard for further research on the optimization of integrated termbases for translation.