cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
VCIOM-SPUTNIK Poll: March 2020 Coronavirus Wave 1
Creators: name: VCIOM (Russian Public Opinion Research Center)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: President of Russia approval (1); Prime Minister approval (1); State Duma of Russia (1); political party preference (1); coronavirus (COVID-19) (20); concerns about coronavirus infection (3); reasons for coronavirus (3); spread of coronavirus (5); social distancing (5); work from home (1); temporarily moved to live in the countryside (1); the likelihood of contracting coronavirus (2); receive help from state and local governments (1); economic crisis (1); Internet usage (1); watch TV (1); personal financial situation (2); employment (2); sources of income (1); most important problems (5); cost of living (2); Russian ruble and US dollar exchange rate fluctuations (1); unemployment (1); loans (1); savings (1); economic policy (1); social policy (1); foreign policy (1); direction of country (1); life satisfaction (1).
การศึกษาความพึงพอใจที่มีต่อการใช้งานระบบงานสารบรรณอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ สำหรับบุคลากร มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏชัยภูมิ
Creators: name: อรุณี ปราบพยัคฆ์
Publisher: name: Department of Strategics for Improving Education Quality, Surindra Rajabhat University
Year: 2024
Subjects: ความพึงพอใจ
สารบรรณอิเล็กทรอนิกส์
บุคลากร

description: วารสารราชภัฏสุรินทร์วิชาการ, 2, 4, 71-90
title: Evaluation of Machine Learning Models for Propensity Score Matching in Clinical Real-World Data
Creators: name: Nguyen, Justin T.
name: Botnar, Kostiantyn
name: Farnsworth, Madison G.
name: Alnemrat, Sarah
name: Tat, Vivian
name: Khanipov, Kamil
name: Golovko, George
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biostatistics

description: Propensity score matching (PSM) is a prevalent method for cohort balancing in medical research. Typically, logistic regression is used to estimate the propensity score, followed by various matching approaches. Numerous studies have proposed alternative methods for PS estimation [1]-[4], employing different machine learning (ML) models to enhance balancing metrics. However, these studies often rely on synthetically generated data with predefined distribution characteristics, which may not accurately represent real-world data. Moreover, the common practice of balance assessment by comparing the distribution of each covariate separately may not ensure multivariate data harmonization. This study evaluates different ML models' effectiveness in achieving univariate and multivariate cohort balance metrics using healthcare real-world data. We utilized three real-world electronic medical records (EMR) datasets from prior research involving patients exposed to a treatment. Six different ML models were applied for PS calculation: Logistic Regression (LR), Bernoulli Naïve Bayes (BNB), Linear Support Vector Classifier (LSVC), Decision Tree (DT), Random Forest (RF), XGBoost (XGB). We built two balanced cohorts of treated and non-treated patients using a one-to-one greedy matching algorithm for each dataset. To assess the balance, we employed distribution comparison metrics for univariate analysis (including RMSE, ASMD, Variation Ratio, Wasserstein Distance, Cramer–von Mises Test, Chi-Square Test, and Fisher Test) and multivariate analysis (using Wasserstein Distance and Cramer–von Mises Test for Mahalanobis distance distribution). All statistical tests were conducted with a p-value threshold of 0.05. The multivariate cohort balance assessment showed that the BNB model achieved the best results in two datasets, while the XGB model performed best in the third dataset. BNB excelled for all categorical data except the smoking covariate in the univariate balance analysis. Conversely, DT-based models and LR provided a better balance for numerical data. The study indicates that BNB is the most effective model overall. However, additional research should be done regarding comparing matching approaches and model tuning for the different covariate distributions.
Optimal vector interpolation of asynoptic spatial survey of vector quantities for interpolating ADCP water velocity measurements
Creators: name: Khosravan Najafabadi, Shohreh
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: In fields of study such as geophysics and hydraulics, many random variables are vector quantities, not scalars. Vector quantities require statistical techniques that are independent of choice of coordinate system. In this research a new optimal vector interpolation method, suitable for interpolation of asynoptically measured spatial vector fields, was developed and tested. The new method was compared to scalar interpolation by kriging. The test data were spatial Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) surveys of depth average fluvial water velocity in reaches upstream and downstream of a bridge. The interpolation procedures were evaluated by interpolating the fields with various amounts of data removal, and comparing to the actual measured field using a vector correlation coefficient previously developed by Crosby et al. (1993). The new optimal vector interpolation method was superior to kriging when all data were utilized (upstream reach) and for data removal rates of up to 30% (downstream reach).
Ḥassāniyya Arabic
Creators: name: Taine-Cheikh, Catherine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: The area where Ḥassāniyya is spoken, located on the outskirts of the Arab world, is
 contiguous with those of several languages that do not belong to the Afro-Asiatic
 phylum. However, the greatest influence on the evolution of Ḥassāniyya has been
 its contact with Berber and Classical Arabic. Loanwords from those languages are
 distinguished by specific features that have enriched and developed the phonological
 and morphological system of Ḥassāniyya. In other respects, Ḥassāniyya and
 Zenaga are currently in a state of either parallel evolution or reciprocal exchanges.
การพัฒนาผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียนคณิตศาสตร์ เรื่องสมการเชิงเส้นตัวแปรเดียว โดยใช้รูปแบบการจัดการเรียนรู้ห้องเรียนกลับด้าน ของนักเรียนระดับชั้นมัธยมศึกษาปีที่ 1
Creators: name: ณัษภณฑ์ชลธี วีระภัทรธนพล
Publisher: name: Department of Strategics for Improving Education Quality, Surindra Rajabhat University
Year: 2024
Subjects: รูปแบบการจัดการเรียนรู้ห้องเรียน
ผลสัมฤทธิ์
สมการเชิงเส้นตัวแปรเดียว

description: วารสารราชภัฏสุรินทร์วิชาการ, 2, 4, 91-104
Metabolic Characterization of Human FOXC2 in Adipose Tissue
Creators: name: Gowing, Adrienne
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Biochemistry.

description: In mice, the overexpression of the nuclear transcription factor FOXC2 in adipose tissue counteracts obesity and diet-induced insulin resistance. Transgenic mice that overexpress FOXC2 in adipose tissue (FOXC2 tg mice) have the key feature of an apparent "conversion" of their intra-abdominal white adipose tissue (WAT) depot into brown adipose tissue (BAT). BAT is very different structurally and metabolically from WAT as it effectively "wastes" energy in the form of heat because of the expression of uncoupling protein-1 (UCP1). In brown adipocytes, thermogenesis is activated through sympathetic stimulation of beta3 adrenergic receptors (beta3ARs) and it is believed that FOXC2 increases the sensitivity of this pathway in adipocytes. FOXC2 tg mice show an increased energy expenditure at 24°C, and 30°C (thermoneutrality) when compared with wild type (wt) mice. However, the FOXC2 tg mice have a blunted response to the beta3AR agonist, CL-316,243 while wt mice show a normal increase in whole body O2 consumption. O2 consumption of isolated BAT and WAT from FOXC2 tg and wt mice was assessed and it was observed that "converted" FOXC2 tg WAT had a similar O2 consumption profile to that of wt BAT. Furthermore, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) of tissues demonstrated an increased multilocularity of cellular lipid droplets and increased mitochondrial content in FOXC2 tg WAT similar to that of FOXC2 tg and wt BAT. Moreover, the oxidative capacity of differentiated mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) from FOXC2 tg mice was increased compared with wt differentiated MEFs. Taken together, these findings clearly indicate important roles ofFOXC2 in adipocyte energy metabolism, affecting mitochondrial energetics, in particular.
Ditransitive constructions: What sets Brazilian Portuguese apart from other Romance languages?
Creators: name: Calindro, Ana Regina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: The aim of this paper is to discuss whether a particular diachronic change in the expression of indirect objects (IOs) in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) has set this language
 apart from other Romance languages. Since the 19th century, BP has been generalizing the use of the preposition para ‘to’ in ditransitive sentences with verbs of
 movement, transfer and creation. Moreover, the morphological counterpart of the
 dative argument in the 3rd person (the clitic lhe(s)) has been replaced by other strategies, while in European Portuguese (EP), IOs in the same contexts are introduced by
 the dummy preposition a and can always alternate with lhe(s). According to Torres
 Morais (2007), these IOs in EP are dative arguments introduced by an applicative
 head, as also argued by Cuervo (2003) for Spanish, and Diaconescu & Rivero (2007)
 for Romanian. In this paper, I will propose that ditransitive sentences in BP have
 a different structural representation from other Romance languages, given that it
 cannot express dative case in the 3rd person anymore, nor via functional prepositions, nor by the clitic lhe(s). Consequently, I propose that the IOs in BP should be
 introduced via a p head, based on the proposals of Svenonius (2003; 2004), Wood
 (2012) and the i* single argument introducer proposal by Wood & Marantz (2017).
การศึกษาบทบาทและวิธีการเผยแผ่พระพุทธศาสนาเพื่อสังคมของพระราชสังวรญาณ (พุธ ฐานิโย)
Creators: name: ยโสธารา ศิริภาประภากร
Publisher: name: Department of Strategics for Improving Education Quality, Surindra Rajabhat University
Year: 2024
Subjects: บทบาทการเผยแผ่
วิธีการเผยแผ่
พระพุทธศาสนา
การประยุกต์ใช้หลักพุทธธรรม
พระราชสังวรญาณ (พุธ ฐานิโย)

description: วารสารราชภัฏสุรินทร์วิชาการ, 2, 4, 105-124
Putting objects in order: Asymmetrical relations in Spanish and Portuguese ditransitives
Creators: name: Cépeda, Paola
name: Cyrino, Sonia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Spanish, European Portuguese, and Brazilian Portuguese allow two possible linear orders for the direct object (DO) and indirect object (IO) in ditransitives: DO>IO and IO>DO. The goal of this paper is twofold. First, we show that the arguments supporting a Double Object Construction (DOC) in these languages are inconclusive on both semantic and structural grounds. Accordingly, we claim that there is no DOC in these three languages. Second, we provide evidence that DO>IO and IO>DO are derivationally related. We show that DO>IO is the base order and that IO>DO is the result of an information structure operation, the latter order being possible only when IO conveys given information in the discourse and occupies the specifier of a low-periphery TopP. We offer a unified analysis that contributes to a comparative understanding of ditransitives in Romance.
Progressive image mosaicking in wireless image sensor networks
Creators: name: Huang, Ying
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: Prevailing image mosaicking algorithms generate a complete image that incorporates a variety of different images. This variety is captured by different camera sensors. However, these traditional approaches cannot be directly applied to the emerging Wireless Image Sensor Networks (WISNs), because the slow image transmission over a wireless channel causes a noticeable delay before an entire image can be received by its receiver node in a WISN. In this thesis, we propose a Progressive Image Mosaicking Algorithm (PIMA) based on the multi-scan feature of Progressive JPEG (P-JPEG). PIMA's distinguishing characteristic is that it successfully performs mosaicking by using segmental data of images, as opposed to traditional methods, which require the complete data from all images. PIMA mosaics images that are decoded from P-JPEG scans at three levels of quality, and delivers an approximate view of the scene in a short time while the reception of further image data is in progress. Thereafter, it updates the image registration on two other refined levels to gradually enhance the display quality. We developed the concept of Richer Information and Likeliest (RIL) block pair, which is a variation of the Sum of Absolute Difference (SAD) and greatly improves the accuracy of image registration. Experimental results show that PIMA decreases the time delay before the first display of the scene, while preserving an equivalent performance of existing patch-based image mosaicking algorithms.
La construction de l'espace dans les romans concentrationnaires de Jorge Semprun, d'Elie Wiesel et de Primo Levi
Creators: name: Lamoureux, Désirée
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Literature, Modern.
subject: Literature, Romance.
subject: Literature, American.

description: La mise par écrit de " l'univers concentrationnaire " par des survivants des camps de concentration participé d'un devoir collectif de mémoire et d'un besoin de redonner la voix à ceux qu'on a fait taire. Nous proposons donc une analyse de trois livres, soit Si c'est un homme de Primo Levi, La nuit d'Elie Wiesel et Le mort qu'il faut de Jorge Semprun, qui saura mettre en lumière les façons dont ces auteurs représentent le camp de concentration. Ces auteurs arriveront-ils à transmettre leur expérience à travers les espaces romanesques qu'ils construisent? Ce n'est qu'en considérant les différents éléments pertinents à la spatialisation romanesque que nous pourrons évaluer la possibilité de représentation qu'offrent les espaces. En même temps, nous verrons que la représentation du camp est inextricablement liée à l'expérience individuelle du détenu, qu'il soit juif, comme Primo Levi et Elie Wiesel, ou prisonnier politique, comme Jorge Semprun.
Seismic risk assessment of reinforced concrete buildings using fuzzy based techniques
Creators: name: Tesfamariam, Solomon
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: Lessons learned from performance of reinforced concrete buildings during previous earthquakes and researches over the last three decades have led to the development of improved codes for the seismic design of buildings. However, the existing buildings are vulnerable because they were designed to the older codes and/or posses structural irregularities. Most of these buildings are still occupied which makes evaluation and retrofit necessary in order to minimize the damage induced by earthquakes. Because of large volume of vulnerable buildings, however, consideration of a risk-based seismic assessment and retrofit prioritization is plausible. Seismic (earthquake) risk is the probability (likelihood) that a specified loss will exceed some quantifiable value during a given exposure time. Seismic risk assessment is intricately dependent on site seismic hazard, building vulnerability, and importance/exposure factor. This intricate process is modelled through a two-tier heuristics-based approach. The two-tier models utilized a hierarchical structure by incorporating wisdom and intuitive knowledge obtained from practitioners and experts. The Tier 1 model considers building performance modifiers (factors) in congruence with the FEMA 154 rapid visual screening manual including: (i) building type, (ii) vertical irregularity, (iii) plan irregularity, (iv) year of construction, and (v) construction quality. These performance modifiers can readily be obtained from a walk down survey and engineering drawings. The Tier 2 model is an extension of the building vulnerability module of Tier 1 that incorporates detailed performance modifiers as specified in FEMA 310. In the present study seismic risk assessment is based on evaluating risk index of the RC building, which will be obtained following a seven-step aggregation scheme. Uncertainty due to subjectivity involved in the evaluation process is handled through the fuzzy set theory and fuzzy rule based modelling is utilized to inferences through the proposed hierarchical structure. The proposed methods are demonstrated and validated using the data from 1994 Northridge Earthquake (California) and the 2003 Bingol Earthquake (Turkey). The proposed methodology in modular form is implemented in a prototype MS Excel based software tool (CanRisk). The Canadian site seismic hazard is also incorporated into the CanRisk.
Three essays on international trade and technology spillovers
Creators: name: Nikzad, Rashid
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Economics, General.
subject: Political Science, International Law and Relations.

description: This dissertation studies technology spillovers between countries. The dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter is a theoretical model that studies the impact of tarifs in the presence of R&D spillovers. The second chapter is an empirical model on the impact of spillovers through trade on productivity. The third chapter is also an empirical model on the determinants of foreign patents in a country. In the first chapter, we study the impact of tarifs on R&D expenditures when there are R&D spillovers between firms. The firms are located in the home and foreign countries and compete in the home country's market. We consider a three-stage game, where the government determines the amount of the tariff in the first stage, firms choose their R&D expenditures in the second stage, and outputs are determined in the third stage based on Cournot competition. We show that if the foreign government gives an R&D subsidy to the foreign firm, foreign R&D will increase and the domestic firm's profit and domestic welfare will decrease. However, domestic consumer surplus will increase. The home country can recover this profit and welfare loss, partially or totally, if it uses two policy instruments simultaneously: a tariff and an R&D subsidy. The second chapter studies the impacts of domestic and international technology spillovers on the growth rate of Canadian manufacturing industries. In this chapter, we examine whether different types of industries have different technology spillover rates. To test these hypotheses, Canadian industries are categorized into three groups based on their characteristics as low-tech, medium-tech, and high-tech. According to the empirical results, only foreign R&D has a positive and significant impact on productivity. Domestic R&D is not significant under any of the specifications; however, it helps industries absorb foreign R&D. The third chapter estimates the diffusion rate of foreign technology into Canadian industries at the industry level by using patent data. The results of this chapter suggest that the patent activity of foreign countries is the most important factor for receiving foreign patents in Canada. Moreover, imports and foreign direct investments are important vehicles for technology transfer. The distance between countries has a negative impact on receiving foreign patents. The impacts of R&D intensity and human capital on receiving foreign patents are mixed and insignificant, but industries with a higher R&D intensity may be better recipients of foreign patents.
Ditransitive constructions with differentially marked direct objects in Romanian
Creators: name: Cornilescu, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: The paper discusses Romanian data that had gone unnoticed so far and investigates the differences of grammaticality triggered by differentially marked direct objects in ditransitive constructions, in binding configurations. Specifically, while a bare direct object (DO) may bind a possessor contained in the indirect object (IO), whether or not the IO is clitic doubled, a differentially marked DO may bind into an undoubled IO, but cannot bind into an IO if the latter is clitic doubled. Grammaticality is restored if the DO is clitic doubled in its turn. The focus of the paper is to offer a derivational account of ditransitive constructions, which accounts for these differences. The claim is that the grammaticality contrasts mentioned above result from the different feature structures of bare DOs compared with differentially marked ones, as well as from the fact that differentially marked DOs and IO have common features. Differentially marked DOs interfere with IOs since both are sensitive to the animacy hierarchy, and include a syntactic [Person] feature in their featural make-up. The derivational valuation of this feature by both objects may create locality problems.
Effects of a plant extract from Ruptiliocarpon caracolito on the growth and differentiation of P19 mouse embryonal carcinoma cells
Creators: name: Aghsani, Parisa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.

description: Present data indicate that the Ruptiliocarpon caracolito extract exerted significant anti-proliferative activity against P19 EC cells, in the absence of toxicity and significant alterations in the differentiation status of the cells. The focus of this study was to determine whether the proliferation of P19 EC cells would decrease in response to Ruptiliocarpon caracolito extract and whether the anti-proliferative activity, if observed, would be accompanied by alterations in the cell differentiation status. According to the data obtained in the present study, the plant extract exerted a significant anti-proliferative activity against the P19 EC cell line. This activity was exhibited in a dose-related fashion. Amongst the doses tested (5--70mug/ml), concentrations ranging from 30--70mug/ml showed a significant anti-proliferative activity (P < 0.001). The highest growth reduction activity of the extract was noticed at a concentration of 50mug/ml of culture medium. Viability studies indicated that the decrease in cell proliferation was not secondary to the toxicity of the extract. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
The appreciation of political works of art: The example of "Triumph of the Will"
Creators: name: Bannister, Randee
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: The question that we are considering is how to appreciate artworks that have not only an aesthetic presence but a political side as well. We feel that this question is necessary to consider because in order to have a full appreciation of an artwork it is important to consider all facets of the work, but also refrain from including considerations that are not necessary to include. In order to explain why this question is important and also to show a potential response, we use the example of Leni Riefenstahl's film Triumph of the Will. This film is a perfect example of how the aesthetic and political can combine in art. Other suggestions of how to have a complete appreciation of this film, as we try to show, are insufficient as an answer to our question and so we propose our own theory of the appreciation of not just political artworks but all artworks, that being partial autonomy.
Boris Vian à la scene: Au théâtre comme au cabaret
Creators: name: Moquin, Luc
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Literature, Modern.
subject: Literature, Romance.
subject: Theater.

description: La critique s'est peu intéressée à l'oeuvre dramaturgique de Vian, sans doute en raison de son insuccès. Si notre analyse a privilégié la dimension comique de cette production, c'est qu'elle permettait de comparer les sketchs que Vian écrivit pour le cabaret aux pièces plus élaborées et ainsi de mesurer les conditions de réception de l'oeuvre. Il nous est apparu que le comique scénique reposait sur une série de clichés et de jeux de langage qui, plus que la fable ou la structure scénique, constituent la manière d'un auteur dont la matière première est l'actualité. Ayant mis au jour le rapport qui lie étroitement l'oeuvre à son contexte, nous avons voulu montrer comment, dans cette dramaturgie, l'action cède le pas au commentaire implicite d'un auteur, qui s'érige ainsi lui-même en personnage pour occuper une position discursive qui favorise l'adresse directe au spectateur. Des sketchs aux pièces, une même facture s'impose mais impose aussi à l'oeuvre les limites d'une existence.
Supporting instances in use cases
Creators: name: Samarasinghe, Nayanamana
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: Requirements Engineering includes elicitation and analysis of system requirements. There are many techniques used for requirement elicitation. The use case approach is one such technique. This technique uses textual use cases written in a natural language for gathering requirements. Textual use cases are simple and easy to understand because they are written using free form text. But in order to automate requirements analysis, use cases need to be expressed using a restricted form of language according to a set of guidelines. An advantage of a restricted form of natural language is that it can be used to mechanically process use cases while still being understandable to end users. A use case specifies interactions between a system and its environment. Sometimes interactions need to be expressed between instances. In the existing restricted natural language syntaxes there is usually no distinction between entities and instances of entities. Another issue is that use cases are expressed in term of domain elements. In most of the cases, a domain model is created and updated manually in an ad hoc manner. One of the contributions of this thesis is a restricted natural language syntax for use cases, where instances are explicitly expressed. Another contribution is an approach to automate domain element extraction from use cases. Finally, we implemented our results as part of UCEd (Use Case Editor): a tool that supports use cases based requirements engineering.
Implementation of micro-cell mobile MPLS based test networks
Creators: name: Zhang, Wenjing
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Engineering, System Science.

description: The increasing presence of ubiquitous mobile computing devices requiring uninterrupted Internet access has prompted a higher need to support efficient and seamless roaming. The introduction of micro mobility is an approach towards a more flexible, customizable and scalable mobility architecture that also reduces signaling load and handover latency. Micro-cell Mobile MPLS (MM-MPLS) is such a protocol. It extends MPLS, a successful routing/forwarding technology of the core of the Internet, to the micro-mobility environment. MM-MPLS reduces the delay and delay jitter of a roaming mobile host. This thesis describes the implementation of experimental MM-MPLS based network. The developed testbed is composed of seven desktop-PC running on the Linux operation system. Performance comparisons of MM-MPLS and the hierarchical mobile IP have confirmed the proper operation of the testbed and the superiority of the protocol.
L'effet de l'entraînement de l'équilibre par biofeedback visuel et par réalité virtuelle sur la demande attentionnelle et l'équilibre des personnes âgées
Creators: name: Bisson, Étienne
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Gerontology.
subject: Health Sciences, Recreation.

description: Différents types d'entraînement sont disponibles pour améliorer la qualité de vie des personnes âgées. Cependant, l'entraînement le plus efficace pour améliorer l'équilibre et diminuer le risque de chuter demeure une question actuelle. Il a été démontre qu'un entraînement par biofeedback visuel peut améliorer l'équilibre et la demande attentionnelle des personnes âgées. Et d'après les études avec les patients cardiaques et ceux souffrant d'un traumatisme crânien, un entraînement par réalité virtuelle pourrait être bénéfique pour l'entraînement de l'équilibre chez les personnes âgées. Le but de cette étude était de comparer l'efficacité d'un entraînement d'équilibre dynamique par réalite virtuelle et par biofeedback visuel pour améliorer l'équilibre et la demande attentionnelle des personnes âgées. Au total, 24 personnes âgées en bonne santé ont participé à un programme d'entraînement de 10 semaines à une fréquence de 2 fois par semaine. Les participants s'entraînant par réalité virtuelle (n = 12) devaient jongler avec un ballon virtuel alternant de gauche à droite de façon imprévisible. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
A conceptual semantics account of negative polarity licensing: A study of the any expression.
Creators: name: Ramachandran, Subhadra.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Language, Linguistics.

description: This thesis, in the spirit of work done in generative grammar, focuses its attention on the crucial link between a theory of meaning and a theory of understanding and how this link may be expressed in the form of a linguistic theory for it to enjoy psychological plausibility. The current approach adopts Jackendoff's (1983; 1990) model of grammar which primarily conflates "semantics" and "pragmatics" into an autonomous level called Conceptual Structure (CS). Another aspect of the CS model which will be emphasized in this thesis is the correspondence between phonological structure and conceptual structure and its effect on syntactic structure. In essence. the model underscores the creative capacity of all three levels while de-emphasizing the "syntactocentrism" (Jackendoff 1990) of previous models of grammar. This thesis uses the CS model to account for the phenomenon of negative polarity licensing in general and to provide an explanation, in particular, for examples such as the following: (1) (a) $\sp*$John didn't see anyone. He saw Bill. (b) John didn't see ANYONE. He saw Bill. (2) (a) $\sp*$Anyone cannot enter. (b) (Just) ANYONE cannot enter. The fact that metalinguistic negation is significantly different from truth-conditional negation and that it is, in many cases, coerced by contrastive stress which, in turn, affects grammaticality reflects the "correspondence" between the various levels of grammar. Besides linking various levels of grammar by correspondence rules rather than hierarchically arranged derivational rules, this model allows us to propose a conceptual notion of negativity in order to unify the class of negative polarity licensers. The advantage of using such an approach rests on the fact that the level of conceptual structure, and the process of conceptualization in itself, is not completely language-dependent. Hence, this means that some of the hypotheses proposed in the thesis are universally applicable. Overall, this thesis suggests that conceptually relevant semantic theories can indeed give us what we need from a theory of interpretation--which is, general rules of interpretation that are able to go beyond the "formal pyrotechnics" (Hornstein 1984; p.149) of "semantic and pragmatic approaches to meaning".
Pulse Asia Research Poll: May 2011 Ulat ng Bayan Survey
Creators: name: Pulse Asia Research
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: Poverty and living standards (5); commonly eaten foods (1); food consumption adequacy (4); money for medicine (1); personal quality of life (2); national quality of life (2); urgent personal concerns (3); urgent national concerns (3); reason for price increases (2); ratings of officials and government agencies (53); ratings of national administration on select issues (11); trust ratings of government officials and agencies (36); media credibility (3); Pantawid Pasada Program (3); national hero of the Philippines (2); Former President Ferdinand E. Marcos burial (2); interest in 2013 elections (1); reproductive health bill (2); martial law (1); hopelessness (1); moving to another country (1).
L'intratextualité dans "Les yeux bleus de Mistassini" de Jacques Poulin
Creators: name: Martel, Kareen
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Literature, Modern.
subject: Literature, Canadian (French).

description: Le narrateur du roman Les Yeux bleus de Mistassini, écrit par le romancier québécois Jacques Poulin, incite le lecteur à adopter un mode de lecture particulier: "La fille avait une longue expérience en tant que lectrice de romans et elle possédait une qualité rare: elle pouvait établir une multitude de rapports non seulement entre les livres d'un même auteur, mais aussi entre ceux d'auteurs différents" (Lemeac, 2002, p. 40). C'est précisement cette lecture qui établit des ponts entre les romans de Jacques Poulin qu'analyse la présente thèse. Je désigne par le terme intratextextualité cette intertextualité particulière qui se produit entre les oeuvres d'un même auteur. L'objectif de la présente étude est donc, dans un premier temps, de combler certaines lacunes dans la théorie de l'intratextualité et ensuite, d'analyser l'intratextualité telle qu'elle se manifeste dans les romans pouliniens. L'approche critique adoptée dans cette thèse relève des théories de la réception. Ainsi, j'aborde à la fois les signes textuels sur lesquels prend appui la lecture intratextuelle chez Poulin et ses effets de lecture, que ce soit sur le plan intellectuel ou sur le plan affectif. Puisque l'auteur compte dix romans à son actif, l'étude du dernier d'entre eux à ce jour, Les yeux bleus de Mistassini (2002), est privilégiée puisque c'est celui qui offre la dimension intratextuelle la plus significative.
Development of an in vitro model of neuronal differentiation and nerve-target interaction
Creators: name: Ferguson, Charmaine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.
subject: Biology, Neuroscience.
subject: Biology, Cell.

description: My objective was to develop a nerve source for use in a 3-dimensional in vitro model to study neurite extension and target innervation. A hybrid neuroblastoma-DRG cell line (ND-C) with properties of neuronal precursors was examined for its ability to effectively differentiate into neurons, produce extensive neurites, and interact with target cells. Neuronal differentiation of ND-Cs was optimized through a combinatorial approach that involved culturing the cells in the presence of various types of culture media, ECM, and soluble factors in a dose dependent fashion. The proportion of neurons and the length of neurites generated following culture in the differentiation promoting conditions were assessed. Immunostaining and RT-PCR analysis of differentiated ND-Cs revealed the expression of markers specific for terminally differentiated neurons. ND-Cs were able to extend neurties within a 3D collagen matrix. In co-culture, neurites from ND-Cs formed contacts with muscle and epithelial targets, indicating the plasticity of the cell line.
Valorising the resistance: national identity and collective memory in East Timor's constitution
Creators: name: Leach, Michael
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In moments of national liberation or state transitions, new narratives and symbols national identity will be negotiated and articulated. In both a formal legal, and broader symbolic sense, a national constitution provides an opportunity to enshrine rights, values and identities that were abused or suppressed in the past. In this sense, the founding document of a new state may represent an important 'official' contribution to the development of an independent political culture. Like its South African counterpart, the new East Timorese constitution enshrines a range of substantive values that move beyond a narrow, formalist focus on governmental powers and limits. Some of these sections deal explicitly with issues of national 'personality' and cultural heritage. This article examines these founding conceptions of national identity, memory and history embedded in the new East Timorese constitution.
Repenser l'État : les implications de l'Acte unique européen.
Creators: name: David, Daniel L.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Political Science, General.

description: Cette these propose une redefinition du role de l'Etat contemporain comme stratege et incitateur. Pour demontrer la possibilite d'une telle proposition nous nous servons comme modele de l'Acte unique europeen. L'Acte unique europeen cree un marche unique entre douze des pays les plus industrialises de l'Europe de l'Ouest par l'abolition des barrieres tarifaires et l'elaboration de strategies economiques, commerciales, environnementales et sociales communes acceptees sur une base consensuelle. Cette loi europeenne a pour effet d'ecrire de nouvelles regles pour le commerce international. Il nous semble que la meilleure facon pour l'Etat contemporain, de faire face a ces nouvelles regles, est d'agir comme stratege et incitateur. La force economique et commerciale des Communautes europeennes (C.E.) a pour effet de rendre celles-ci responsables d'une nouvelle redaction des regles economiques et commerciales mondiales en y incorporant les notions environnementales et sociales. Nous etudions donc les implications des strategies europeennes sur le commerce international et l'economie mondiale et donc sur le Canada. L'examen des relations entre le Canada et les Communautes europeennes nous permet de constater que l'Etat canadien peut formuler des reponses a ces nouveaux defis. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Maltese
Creators: name: Lucas, Christopher
name: Čéplö, Slavomír
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This chapter presents an overview of the most prominent contact-induced developments in the history of Maltese, a language which is genetically a variety of Arabic, but which has undergone significant changes, largely as a result of lengthy contact with Sicilian, Italian, and English. We first address the precise affiliation of Maltese and the nature of the historical and ongoing contact situations, before detailing relevant developments in the realms of phonology, inflectional and derivational morphology, syntax and lexicon.
Mailer again: Studies in the late fiction
Creators: name: Howley, Ashton
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Literature, Modern.
subject: Literature, English.

description: This PhD thesis, participating in the burgeoning interest in Mailer's prolific achievement in his mature years, examines three ironies attending his career: that his leftist, antiwar writer has recently been described as a literary imperialist and as a proponent of a fascistic aesthetic, that he has been the target of feminists and gender theorists despite the fact that his writings reveal his longstanding engagement with the psychology of gender, and that he is commonly regarded as a Manichean writer, even though some defining components of this near-ancient recasting of Zoroastrianism hardly apply to his religious/existential ideas. Chapter One, a study of Mailer's neglected Egypt novel, offers a Jungian-archetypal reading of Ancient Evenings (1983) while examining allegations that Mailer's brand of masculinity, labeled "rogue" (Faludi, 1999) and "imperialist (Savran 1998), evinces the "frontier psychology" (Olster 1989) that is synonymous with the fascistic attitudes attributed to him by feminists in the 1970s (Millet, 1971; Fetterley, 1978). Chapter Two, arguing that Tough Guys Don't Dance (1984) represents Mailer's subtle response to these allegations, claims that the novel gestures exoterically to the hard-boiled tradition---its title and main characters invoke David Madden's Tough Guys Writers of the Thirties (1968)---and esoterically to Reich's and Adorno's ideas about socio-biological constructions of gender. Mailer's achievement in Tough Guys resides in the ways in which he restores to the genre of mystery fiction the psychological elements that are usually lacking in its subgenre, the hard-boiled tradition of detective writing. Chapter Three treats The Gospel According to the Son (1997) as a "gnostic" narrative in which the narrator, in reconciling his Judaic and pagan inheritances, achieves a synthesis between Platonic and Aristotelian principles, embodies the reasons that Mailer referred to himself as a "left-medievalist." This synthesis, implicit in the novel's many dualisms, in Satan's dramatic role and in the fact that Mailer incorporates an esoteric passage deriving from The Gospel of Mary, qualifies the critic's tendency to label the prodigal and iconoclastic Mailer as Manichean---a commonplace in Mailer studies since the 1950s. As I argue in this chapter, Mailer's Gospel , if only because it participates in current debates about the meaning of the term "Gnosticism," warrants greater critical attention.
Arabic in the diaspora
Creators: name: D'Anna, Luca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This paper offers an overview of contact-induced change in diasporic Arabic. It provides a socio-historical description of the Arab diaspora, followed by a sociolinguistic profile of Arabic-speaking diasporic communities. Language change is analyzed at the phonological, morphological, syntactic and lexical level, distinguishing between contact-induced change and internal developments caused by reduced input and weakened monitoring. In the course of the description, parallels are drawn between diasporic Arabic and other contemporary or extinct contact varieties, such as Arabic-based pidgins and Andalusi Arabic.
Criticism by genre: The Menippean tradition in British dystopian fiction ("Erewhon" and "Brave New World")
Creators: name: Ilina, Elena
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Literature, Modern.
subject: Literature, English.

description: "Criticism by Genre: The Menippean Tradition in British Dystopian Fiction" investigates the origins of distinctive features of the English dystopian novel in the ancient and longstanding tradition of Menippean satire. The study traces this influence in the two novels that are must influential on the twentieth-century dystopian tradition in England: Butler's Erewhon and Huxley's Brave New World. Starting with a critical survey of the main concepts and terms that animate contemporary approaches to dystopian fiction, the study identifies a lacuna in the present understanding of the nature and function of this genre: no one has yet appreciated its descent from Menippean satire. Recognizing the debt Erewhon and Brave New World owe to the tradition of Menippean satire and to the work of its famous practitioners--Lucian, Thomas More, Voltaire, Diderot, and Swift--the study reassesses the attitudes toward human nature and the human condition that are developed in these novels, especially as these attitudes emerge through the voice of a fallible narrator. Identifying an ironic structure within these novels that prevents identification of the narrator's point of view with that of the author--an ironic structure almost universally ignored in the critical literature on these novels--the study modifies prevailing definitions of the dystopian genre as a whole and corrects prevailing misunderstandings of Butler and Huxley, providing new interpretations of their structural use of irony on the one hand, and of their attitudes toward human nature and the human condition on the other. The study also explores the critically neglected affinities between Erewhon and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Diderot's Supplement to Bougainville's "Voyage" and Brave New World, arguing that the polemics that Butler and Huxley maintain with the work of their famous predecessors allows us to recognize some distinctly dystopian aspects of their novels.
The Romance Person Case Constraint is not about clitic clusters
Creators: name: Sheehan, Michelle
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This chapter provides further evidence that the Person Case Constraint (PCC) in
 Romance is not limited to clitic clusters. Previously, this has been shown for Spanish (Ormazabal & Romero 2013), but I show that, in Italian, French, and Catalan
 causatives, a 1st /2nd person direct object is incompatible not only with dative clitics but also with full dative arguments (see also Postal 1989; Bonet 1991). This is
 different from the manifestation of the PCC in ditransitive contexts where only
 dative clitics are ruled out. The difference follows, I argue, if ditransitives in these
 languages have two underlying structures so that a DP introduced by a/à can be
 either dative or locative, in line with broader cross-linguistic patterns (see Harley
 2002; Demonte 1995; Cuervo 2003 on Spanish; Anagnostopoulou 2003; Fournier
 2010 on French; Holmberg et al. 2019 on Italian, and the discussion in the introduction to this volume). For this reason, indirect object DPs marked with a/à must
 trigger PCC effects in causatives but not in ditransitives, as only in the former are
 they unambiguously dative. Further support for this claim comes from Spanish,
 a language which morphologically distinguishes locative vs. dative phrases in ditransitives via clitic doubling (Cuervo 2003) and which shows PCC effects with all
 animate direct objects (Ormazabal & Romero 2007, 2013). I show that these facts are
 compatible with approaches to the PCC based on intervention (Anagnostopoulou
 2003, 2005 amongst others), but raise challenges for those which rely crucially on
 the weak/clitic status of datives (Bianchi 2006; Stegovec 2017).
title: Preschoolers' and Third Graders' Sorting Preferences and Strategic Knowledge of Taxonomic Associative and Perceptual Organizational Strategies
Creators: name: Hembrooke, Helene Ann
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1988

description: This study investigated strategic use and metamemory concerning taxonomic, associative, and perceptual organizational strategies. Preschool and third grade children were asked to sort stimuli which varied orthogonally along three dimensions; taxonomically, associatively, and perceptually. Free recall was assessed. Each child also completed one of two metamemory tasks; a paired comparison or a peer teaching task. The order of the memory/metamemory tasks was counterbalanced within age groups. The results showed that older children sorted by taxonomic and associative attributes while younger children exhibited no sorting preference. Older children recalled significantly more pictures, although no significant age differences in recall clustering were found. Third graders judged the associative strategy as more effective than sorting taxonomically, whereas younger children did not discriminate among any of the organizational strategies. In the peer teaching conditions, third graders provided significantly more taxonomic and assoc1ative examples than preschoolers. The two metamemory tasks affected subsequent sorting preferences differently with those performing the pa1red comparison task sorting significantly more by color, while subjects who did the peer teaching task sorted by associative criteria. Finally, encoding by taxonomic and associat1ve criteria was found to be related to taxonomic and associat1ve recall clustering scores. Sorting by association, and associative clustering scores were related to the number of associative examples provided during peer teaching. The implicat1ons of the peer teaching task as a relatively new method of metamemory assessment are discussed.