cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Apyratuca apiculata Martins, 2006, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Martins, Maria Helena M. Galileo Ubirajara R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Apyratuca
Apyratuca apiculata

description: Apyratuca apiculata sp. nov.
 (Fig. 4)
Etimologia. Latim, apiculata = diminutivo de ápice; alusivo às extremidades elitrais.
Tegumento castanho revestido por pubescência amarelada, moderadamente esparsa, menos na fronte onde é bem evidente na metade superior. Vértice esparsamente pontuado. Escapo e flagelômeros basais com pêlos esparsos no lado interno. Pronoto fina e densamente pontuado. Base dos élitros densa e fortemente pontuada, essa pontuação cada vez mais superficial para a extremidade. Mesepimero e lados do metasterno pontuados.
Dimensões em mm, holótipo macho. Comprimento total, 7,1; comprimento do protórax, 1,2; maior largura do protórax, 1,4; comprimento do élitro, 5,1; largura umeral, 2,1; comprimento do antenômero III, 1,0; comprimento do antenômero IV, 1,1.
Material-tipo. Holótipo macho, BOLÍVIA, Santa Cruz: Buena Vista (arredores do hotel Flora & Fauna), 14-16.X.2000, R. Morris col. (RMLF).
description: Published as part of Martins, Maria Helena M. Galileo Ubirajara R., 2006, Novos Táxons De Apomecynini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae), pp. 11-19 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 46 (2) on page 16, DOI: 10.1590/s0031-10492006000200001, http://zenodo.org/record/13236089
Biodiesel production from waste frying oil: Conversion monitoring and modeling
Creators: name: Zheng, Sheng
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Chemical.
subject: Energy.

description: Biodiesel is a clean-burning substitute for petroleum-based diesel produced from virgin or waste vegetable oils and animal fats. One obstacle to the development of biodiesel is its high cost compared to petroleum diesel. Using waste frying oil instead of virgin oil can significantly reduce the high production cost. In our lab, promising preliminary results have indicated that transesterification of waste frying oil catalyzed by sulphuric acid has sufficient commercial feasibility to warrant further investigation. In order to better understand the acid-catalyzed transesterification process and to optimize the process yield, an empirical study of the reaction kinetics was carried out. A mixture design for feed compositions at various temperatures was used to determine their effects on conversion rates and yields. Empirical models were built to describe the relationships of interest. Rate of mixing, feed composition and temperature were chosen as independent factors in this study. Intensity of mixing was found to have no significant effect on the yield over 100 rpm. The methanol to oil ratio and temperature were the most significant factors affecting the yield. Finally, a region of optimum operating conditions was determined from the models. Analytical methods played an important role in our study. The extent of the reaction was followed off-line by gel permeation chromatography (GPC) and compared to results using an off-line infrared sensor based on attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy. The development, use and evaluation of the off-line method were discussed. The reproducibility of both methods was found to be excellent (≤1%); data obtained from both methods were found to be reliable. Finally, a comparison of the two methods showed good agreement (within 2%) in the monitoring of the transesterification reaction.
Modeling and derivation of scenarios for a mobile telephony system in LOTOS.
Creators: name: Tuok, Randall.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: Use cases are widely recognized as useful tools for describing user requirements. Because they are represented informally, use cases permit user participation in and are conducive to the creativity needed for requirements elicitation and analysis. However, the representation of a system by a collection of use cases has disadvantages. For instance, because system description is spread over many small models, changing one use case requires to visit all use cases to determine whether the change affects them. This problem is exacerbated by the difficulty of consistency check between use cases. Furthermore, such model does not show the starting and terminating contexts of the use cases, nor is it easy denote the relationships between them. LOTOS is a mathematically based specification language developed within the framework of ISO standardization for the specification of OSI services and protocols. This thesis presents a method for transforming system descriptions in the form of scenarios (defined as collections of causally-ordered internal and external events) into 'unified' LOTOS specifications. This transformation eliminates some of the undesirable properties associated with describing a system with scenarios, and bridges the gap between early informal requirements and formal LOTOS-based development processes. Moreover, it describes a system's structure in the same model as its behaviors. The crux of this method is the integration of scenarios. Our proposed method performs integration at the semi-formal and uses LOTOS operators for the integration. The method was derived by a posteriori rationalization of the process followed to specify the European standard for the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM). Thus, GSM itself and its specification in LOTOS are discussed. The thesis also reports results for automatic regeneration of scenarios from LOTOS specifications as well as a technique for determining whether or not a specification contains a given scenario.
Facial impact protection for cyclists
Creators: name: Monthatipkul, Sanga
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Dr Monthatipkul investigated protection materials for use as a wearable mask for cyclists. The mask aimed to reduce the risk of severe facial injury due to a fall while minimising risk of brain injury. The concept design of the mask has been proposed. The test procedure and equipment have been developed. The results imply that the risk of severe facial bone injury has been significantly reduced whereas the risk of irreversible brain injury is insignificant. The results contribute to the designing a better and safer mask and the benefits go to the cyclists and the bicycle and the mask industries.
Identifying deep-groundwater discharge in rivers of eastern Ontario
Creators: name: Bustros-Lussier, Elyse
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Geology.
subject: Hydrology.

description: Interactions between surface water systems and groundwater systems are poorly understood. This research focuses on the surface water/groundwater interactions that use an electric conductivity and temperature (EC&T) drag probe in the Raisin River and South Nation Watershed. To find groundwater seepages into rivers, a Reelogger Model 2001 probe (Solinst Canada Ltd) was dragged at the sediment-water interface to measure EC&T for several reaches of the Raisin River, the Castor River, the East Castor and the South Nation River. GPS position data was collected at the same time as the EC&T measurements which allows the data to be input into a GIS database for management decisions. During the summer, groundwater typically had higher EC and lower T values than the surface water, and so increases in EC occurring along with lower water temperatures were inferred to be deep-groundwater discharge locations. High EC values can be explained either by deep groundwater discharge (seeps) or by local anthropogenic loading of sediments into the river. In rivers with low permeability clay streambeds very few locations of significant discharge were detected using this method. The most significant discharge area, called the "Swimming Hole" by local residents, was surveyed at large and small scale and groundwater seepage was found to be present along the shore and in the middle. However, the EC&T probe appears to have identified relatively high flux discharge zones in the Castor and East Castor River at locations where highly permeable eskers cross the rivers. The survey identified approximately a 50 m area along the Castor river and a 100m area along the East Castor River where EC values were as high as 2000 muS/cm and temperature as low as 11°C. They were investigated and fluxes quantified by installing and testing piezometers and deploying seepage meters.
The syntax, semantics and argument structure of complex predicates in modern Farsi.
Creators: name: Vahedi-Langrudi, Mohammad-Mehdi.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Language, Linguistics.

description: This thesis studies the argument structure and formation of the very productive and frequent complex verbal structures in Modern Farsi (MF), i.e., Persian, known as compound verbs or Complex Predicates (CP). CPs are complex verbal structures made up of a preverbal element (PV) and a verb. The verbal element is normally a light, bleached, and/or backgrounded verb (LV). The PVs may belong to any of the lexical categories nouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, or to prepositional phrases (PP). The combinations of PVs and LVs form single semantic and syntactic verbal predicates that constitute the major body of verbal predicates in MF, i.e., CPs. However, there seems to exist a major dichotomy in the syntactic and lexical function of CPs in MF. CPs exhibit the sort of lexical information and co-occurrence conditions ordinarily associated with derived or compounded words, and participate in derivational morphology, yet their status as syntactically atomic morphological objects is questionable since their parts are separable in syntax where they behave as finite predicates. To resolve the dichotomy and account for the function and structure of CPs as X$\sp0$ and X$\sp{\max}$ items, I suggest two isomorphic levels of syntactic structure in the format of X-bar theory in the lexical and syntactic components. I argue that both full verbs and their equivalent LVs share the isomorphic syntactic structure. Both types of verbs belong to the universal category verbs which take a single complement in the lexical and syntactic domains. Word-formation, i.e., conflation/incorporation, takes place in the morphological and/or the lexical component but not in the syntactic one which accounts for the dual behaviour of the CPs at the two levels. I argue that LVs are bleached predicates of existence and account for their semantic and syntactic behaviour by recourse to Definiteness Effect (DE). On the other hand, we notice that NPs/XPs that occur as PVs within CPs are all weak and indefinite, and convey an existential reading. PVs are substantive and have non-logical content, but LVs are non-substantive. I argue that PVs substantiate the LVs by occurring within V-bar in the syntactic component. In the lexical domain, I adopt the theory of Lexical Relational Structure (LRS) of Hale & Keyser (1991, 1993) that is a syntactic, X-bar theory of argument structure. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
An investigation of defect evolution in foam core sandwich structures produced using vacuum assisted resin transfer moulding
Creators: name: Petrescue, Laura
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Mechanical.

description: In this work, a resin infusion process used by Flight Dynamics Corp. was investigated for the fabrication of low-cost composite sandwich structures. Trials were performed to establish a complete set of potential defects that could develop during the manufacture of E-glass epoxy vinyl ester sandwich panels. A series of non-destructive evaluation techniques were examined for their potential to identify two representative defects. It was found that thermography and bondline analysis were effective at detecting defects such as dry spots and incomplete resin infiltration. However, due to technical limitations of these methods visual inspection of high quality digital images proved to be the most accurate method for evaluating the specimens. The effect of these defects was also evaluated through a selection of compression tests. These tests showed that the sensitivity of this test to the presence of defects is low. A parametric study of the infusion process was performed to evaluate the potential of defect evolution under controlled conditions. The evolution of defects was most affected by the vacuum pressure level and the method for distributing resin through the thickness of the sandwich panel. As part of this study, the resin flow front was evaluated to determine the effect on the evolution of defects. A series of defect metrics were developed for a variety of resin distribution methods. In general, it was found that defect evolution due to a single variable was limited and that further evaluation of the interaction of process parameters would be useful to optimize the process.
Qualité, valeur et expérience.
Creators: name: Bastien, Stéphane.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: Ce mémoire de maîtrise démontre l'importance de la qualité dans la philosophie de John Dewey. Nous ne pouvons, en effet, comprendre le rôle des termes comme "valeur" et "expérience", voire même des termes techniques comme "interaction" et "situation", sans d'abord saisir ce que l'on entend par qualité dans ce courant de pensée. C'est Robert Pirsig, auteur de Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance , qui nous lança sur la piste. Pour ce dernier, la qualité est une dimension de notre expérience. La pensée de Dewey témoigne d'une conception similaire, ainsi que d'une préoccupation parente avec le problème du rôle de la qualité dans le monde. C'est parce que nous participons à un monde où la qualité est présente dans l'expérience même que nos choix personnels et sociaux sont susceptibles d'avoir un impact sur notre environnement. Valeur et expérience sont compris alors en termes d'interactions qualitatives dans le monde.
Victorian emblematics: Structures of representation in Pre-Raphaelite literature
Creators: name: McAlpine, Heather
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Literature, English.

description: This project examines the influence of the emblem on the literature of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. My dissertation builds on the insights of such scholars as Lorraine Janzen Kooistra and D.M.R. Bentley, both of whom have noted the indebtedness of the Rossettis to the English emblem tradition, but I posit a more central role for emblem strategies in the Pre-Raphaelite movement by expanding the scope of emblem studies to include both normative emblems (visual-verbal tripartite constructions) and emblematic discourse that employs a strictly verbal strategy of representation. I mark the trajectory of the emblem through the Pre-Raphaelite movement by focusing on five key points: the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's short-lived illustrated magazine, The Germ; the poetry and devotional prose of Christina Rossetti ( Goblin Market and Other Poems, The Prince's Progress and Other Poems, Called to Be Saints, Time Flies); Gerard Manley Hopkins' onomatopoetic theory of language (as expressed in "The Wreck of the Deutschland" and elsewhere); Dante Gabriel Rossetti's movement from confident belief in the divine and the signifying power of the devotional emblem to religious and representational uncertainty (in works such as "My Sister's Sleep" and The House of Life); and Algernon Charles Swinburne's challenging of the emblem's representational limits (in Chastelard and "Laus Veneris," as well as in other works). Put simply, the Pre-Raphaelite movement's use of emblematic aesthetic strategies traces an arc from the orthodox and logocentric through the uncertain and eccentric to the unorthodox and subversive. The consistent incorporation of emblem structures into the very diverse literature of this group points to the movement's rootedness in older traditions, calling into question the critical tendency to view Pre-Raphaelite literature as anticipating the modern. The presence of emblems in this literature also testifies to the emblem's astonishing endurance, flexibility, and usefulness as a tool for both rhetorical and moral-aesthetic ends.
Stratigraphic and geochemical evolution of the Old Fort Point Formation, southern Canadian Cordillera: The deep-marine perspective of Ediacaran post-glacial environmental change
Creators: name: Smith, Mark David
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Geology.
subject: Sedimentary Geology.

description: The ∼608 Ma Old Fort Point Formation (OFP) is a unique, mixed siliciclastic and carbonate, stratigraphic marker that is exposed locally over an area of 35,000 km2 within the Neoproterozoic Windermere Supergroup (WSG) of the southern Canadian Cordillera. The OFP accumulated in bathyal to upper abyssal settings along the ancient western continental margin of Laurentia. It comprises three lithostratigraphic members that can easily be distinguished from the enveloping strata of the deep-marine WSG. The Temple Lake and Geikie Siding members are generally uniform in thickness and lithofacies and are interpreted to reflect basin-wide, synchronous deposition. These basal Ediacaran trangressive and highstand deposits, respectively, accumulated during a post-glacial eustatic rise that essentially shutdown the supply of coarse-graine siliciclastic sediment into the deep-marine part of the Windermere basin. Regionally widespread bottom-water anoxia developed during the post-glacial highstand and is indicated by prominent enrichments in organic carbon and seawater redox-proxies (e.g. Mo, V/Cr). Subsequent regional tectonic uplift and related relative sea-level fall is indicated by the diachronous deposition of the Whitehorn Mountain Member. Newly created sediment transport pathways such as submarine canyons, controlled the timing, location, and composition of Whitehorn Mountain Member strata which accumulated mostly during the ensuing relative sea-level rise. Limestone units of the OFP are characterized by negative delta 13C values that stratigraphically-upward exhibit a positive ∼12‰ shift, in addition to a 1 to 2‰ shift towards more negative values from shallow to deep water environments. These results are similar to other globally distributed, basal Ediacaran transgressive post-glacial carbonates related to melting of the ca. 635 Ma terminal Cryogenian glacial event, including correlative WSG strata exposed in the Mackenzie Mountains, northern Canadian Cordillera. The physical and isotopic characteristics of the OFP are interpreted to be most consistent with the hypothesis of post-glacial upwelling and oceanic stratification.
The presence and treatment of terms in general dictionaries.
Creators: name: Jessen, Annette.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Language, Linguistics.

description: Languages for special purposes are represented in general dictionaries through the terms that belong to each, along with the words that belong to language for general purposes. Terms are presented in general dictionaries as technical or specialized senses of lexical items. However, terms are not always easy to recognize in general dictionaries which present entries for lexical items and not terms, although subject field labels are often used to identify the technical senses corresponding to terms. This thesis examines the presence and treatment of terms in general dictionaries. It also analyzes the policies and guidelines on the inclusion of terms and indication of their field in selected unilingual and bilingual general dictionaries. Finally, it examines the Bilingual Canadian Dictionary's policies on the inclusion of terms and indication of their field and analyzes their application in examples taken from the Bilingual Canadian Dictionary lexicographic database.
A single fast radio burst localized to a massive galaxy at cosmological distance
Creators: name: Bannister, K. W.
name: Deller, Adam
name: Phillips, C.
name: Macquart, J. P.
name: Prochaska, J. X.
name: Tejos, N.
name: Ryder, S. D.
name: Sadler, E. M.
name: Shannon, Ryan
name: Simha, S.
name: Day, C. K.
name: McQuinn, M.
name: North-Hickey, F. O.
name: Bhandari, S.
name: Arcus, W. R.
name: Bennert, V. N.
name: Burchett, J.
name: Bouwhuis, M.
name: Dodson, R.
name: Ekers, R. D.
name: Farah, W.
name: Flynn, Christopher
name: James, C. W.
name: Kerr, M.
name: Lenc, E.
name: Mahony, E. K.
name: O'Meara, J.
name: Oslowski, Stefan
name: Qiu, H.
name: Treu, T.
name: U, V.
name: Bateman, T. J.
name: Bock, D. C.J.
name: Bolton, R. J.
name: Brown, A.
name: Bunton, J. D.
name: Chippendale, A. P.
name: Cooray, F. R.
name: Cornwell, T.
name: Gupta, N.
name: Hayman, D. B.
name: Kesteven, M.
name: Koribalski, B. S.
name: Macleod, A.
name: McClure-Griffiths, N. M.
name: Neuhold, S.
name: Norris, R. P.
name: Pilawa, M. A.
name: Qiao, R. Y.
name: Reynolds, J.
name: Roxby, D. N.
name: Shimwell, T. W.
name: Voronkov, M. A.
name: Wilson, C. D.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 5101
subject: Astronomical sciences
classificationCode: 5109
subject: Space sciences

description: Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are brief radio emissions from distant astronomical sources. Some are known to repeat, but most are single bursts. Non-repeating FRB observations have had insufficient positional accuracy to localize them to an individual host galaxy. We report the interferometric localization of the single pulse FRB 180924 to a position 4 kpc from the center of a luminous galaxy at redshift 0.3214. The burst has not been observed to repeat. The properties of the burst and its host are markedly different from the only other accurately localized FRB source. The integrated electron column density along the line of sight closely matches models of the intergalactic medium, indicating that some FRBs are clean probes of the baryonic component of the cosmic web.
A presentation agent for distributed multimedia information systems.
Creators: name: Rody, James.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: Distributed multimedia information systems aim to improve the way people exchange information by supporting a wider variety of media types. These media types include the traditional static media like text, graphics and images as well as the continuous media types like audio and video. Integrating these different types of media within computer based communication systems is no easy task. Indeed, the successful realization of multimedia information systems will depend on the ability of these systems to overcome the problems associated with information integration. There are two types of integration involved in multimedia information systems: spatial integration and temporal integration. This thesis addresses the problem of multimedia information integration; in particular temporal integration. Temporal integration deals with the inter-media and intra-media synchronization of multimedia information. In distributed multimedia information systems, synchronization is compounded by the presence of a computer communication network. Because most computer communication networks are asynchronous communication networks, these networks are not well suited for ensuring constant data delivery rates for continuous media. A remote multimedia presentation agent is designed to handle the synchronization of multimedia information from distributed sources. This remote multimedia presentation agent uses a multimedia document as the information interchange vehicle of the distributed multimedia information system. The remote multimedia presentation agent uses the progressive document retrieval strategy and dynamic quality of service management to help overcome the problems involved in the synchronized retrieval of multimedia information.
Bebelis tagua Martins, 2006, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Martins, Maria Helena M. Galileo Ubirajara R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Bebelis
Bebelis tagua

description: Bebelis tagua sp. nov.
 (Fig. 5)
Etimologia. Tupi, taguá= variedade de barro amarelo; alusivo à mancha apical dos élitros.
Tegumento corporal castanho ou preto, menos o quarto apical dos élitros com tegumento avermelhado; pernas com tegumento castanho-avermelhado. Cabeça revestida por pubescência amarelada, menos a fronte com pubescência branco-amarelada, densa e manifesta. Lobos oculares inferiores triangulares, tão longos quanto as genas; lobos oculares superiores tão distantes entre si quanto a largura de um lobo. Tubérculos anteníferos projetados. Antenas atingem o ápice elitral no meio do artículo XI. Antenômero III subigual, em comprimento, ao IV.
Protórax revestido por pubescência amarelada; meio do pronoto com áreas glabras.
Élitros com pubescência branca e amarelada na metade anterior, menos ao longo da sutura e numa faixa na declividade lateral; no quarto anteapical, pubescência mais esparsa; quarto apical revestido por pubescência amarelada compacta entremeada por pequenas máculas pretas. Élitros percorridos por carenas, dispostas longitudinalmente e mais visíveis perto da margem. Pontuação densa nas áreas de tegumento preto dos élitros. Extremidades elitrais arredondadas.
Urosternitos I-V com faixa longitudinal de pubescência branco-amarelada aos lados do meio; urosternitos I-III com mancha escura no lado interno da faixa.
Dimensões, em mm. Comprimento total, 7,5-7,7; comprimento do protórax,1,6-1,7;largura do protórax,1,5-1,5; comprimento do élitro, 5,2-5,4; largura umeral, 1,7-1,8.
Material-tipo. Holótipo fêmea, BRASIL, Amazonas: Tapuruquara (Rio Negro), 26-27.XI.1962, J. Bechyné col. (MZSP). Parátipo fêmea, BOLÍVIA, Santa Cruz: Buena Vista (arredores do Hotel Flora & Fauna), 14-16.X.2000, R. Morris col. (RMLF).
 Discussão. Bebelis tagua sp. nov. caracteriza-se pelo quarto apical dos élitros revestido por pubescência amarelada cujo limite anterior é aproximadamente transversal.
description: Published as part of Martins, Maria Helena M. Galileo Ubirajara R., 2006, Novos Táxons De Apomecynini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae), pp. 11-19 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 46 (2) on pages 16-17, DOI: 10.1590/s0031-10492006000200001, http://zenodo.org/record/13236089
Sediment and biological contamination in the Cornwall-Massena section of the St. Lawrence River.
Creators: name: Callaghan, Chris L.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Biology, Ecology.

description: The St Lawrence River, near Cornwall, Ontario and Massena, New York, was declared an Area of Concern (AOC) by the International Joint Commission in 1985 due to high levels of contaminants in physical and biological components of the environment. A Remedial Action Plan (RAP) was established to identify specific problems and implement remedial measures. As part of the RAP process, the public at large was consulted and one of the identified concerns was the extent of mercury and PCB contamination of bottom sediments. We assess the evidence for local origin of mercury and PCB sediment contamination by looking at the spatial relationships between suspected point sources and spatial gradients in sediment contaminant levels. The results strongly suggest that the Domtar and Courtauld's outfalls are (were) important local sources of mercury. Similarly, there is strong evidence that the Grass River (ALCOA), Reynold's and G.M. as a group comprise an important local source of PCBs. We examine spatial correlations between mercury and PCB concentrations in sediments and a small nearshore planktivore, the Spottail Shiner (Notropis hudsonius). (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Pulsar scintillation and the local interstellar medium
Creators: name: Bhat, N. D. Ramesh
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Ever since their discovery, pulsars have been proved to be excellent tools to study the Interstellar Medium. Results from new observations using the Ooty Radio Telescope at 327 MHz are used to investigate the properties of the Local Interstellar Medium; in particular, the distribution of radio wave scattering material and the spatial power spectrum of plasma density fluctuations. The morphology of the scattering structure inferred from the observations shows a striking similarity with that of the Local Bubble. The observations suggest that the overall nature of the spectrum is Kolmogorov-like in the spatial scale range ~ 106 m to 1011 m, with excess power at larger scales (~ 1012 - 1013 m). Data are also used to test the quantitative predictions from refractive scintillation theory.
title: LE COUTURIER DE CES DAMES
Creators: name: Misraki, Paul
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Musique de film

description: Esquisses, relevés, manuscrits des partitions musicales du film réalisé par Jean Boyer : LE COUTURIER DE CES DAMES
description: Temporal: XXème siècle
Quantifying Anti-HIV Envelope-Specific Antibodies in Plasma from HIV Infected Individuals
Creators: name: Kant, Sanket
name: Zhang, Ningyu
name: Routy, Jean-Pierre
name: Tremblay, Cécile
name: Thomas, Réjean
name: Szabo, Jason
name: Côté, Pierre
name: Trottier, Benoit
name: LeBlanc, Roger
name: Rouleau, Danielle
name: Harris, Marianne
name: Dupuy, Franck P.
name: Bernard, Nicole F.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Quantifying HIV Envelope (Env)-specific antibodies in HIV+ plasma is useful for interpreting antibody dependent cellular cytotoxicity assay results. HIV Env, the only viral protein expressed on the surface of infected cells, has a native trimeric closed conformation on cells infected with wild-type HIV. However, CD4⁺ uninfected bystander cells in HIV⁺ cell cultures bind gp120 shed from HIV⁺ cells exposing CD4-induced epitopes normally hidden in native Env. We used flow-cytometry based assays to quantify antibodies in HIV⁺ plasma specific for native trimeric Env or gp120/CD4 conjugates using CEM.NKr.CCR5 (CEM) cells infected with HIV (iCEM) or coated with recombinant gp120 (cCEM), as a surrogate for gp120⁺ HIV- bystander cells. Results from both assays were compared to those of a plate-based ELISA to monomeric gp120. The levels of Env-specific antibodies to cCEM and iCEM, measured by flow cytometry, and to gp120 by ELISA were positively correlated. More antibodies in HIV⁺ plasma recognized the gp120 conformation exposed on cCEM than on iCEM. Comparisons of plasma from untreated progressors, treated progressors, and elite controllers revealed that antibodies to Env epitopes were the lowest in treated progressors. Plasma from elite controllers and untreated progressors had similarly high levels of Env-specific antibodies, despite elite controllers having undetectable HIV viral loads, while untreated progressors maintained high viral loads.
Uni Ulm intern - das Ulmer Universitätsmagazin, Nr. 214 (27. Jg.), Juni 1997
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Uni Ulm intern
subject: Universities; Germany; Ulm
subject: Ulm / Universität

description: N/A
Stoffstromorientierte Ermittlung des Beitrags der Sekundärrohstoffwirtschaft zur Schonung von Primärrohstoffen und Steigerung der Ressourcenproduktivität
Creators: name: Steger, Sören
name: Ritthoff, Michael
name: Bulach, Winfried
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Rohstoffwirtschaft
subject: Baustoffrecycling
subject: Primärrohstoff
subject: Sekundärrohstoff
subject: Sekundärrohstoffwirtschaft
subject: Stoffstrombilanzierung
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum

description: Die Sekundärrohstoffwirtschaft liefert wichtige Beiträge zum Ressourcenschutz. Um diese zu bemessen ist eine verlässliche Datenbasis mit aussagekräftigen Indikatoren erforderlich, welche bislang nicht existierte. In diesem Vorhaben wurde nun eine neue Methodik entwickelt und angewendet, um material- und stoffspezifische Verwertungswege zu Sekundärrohstoffen in Stoffstromgliederungen und Zeitreihen aufzuzeigen. Untersucht wurden im Detail 30 Materialien, für die das Aufkommen an Sekundärrohstoffen ermittelt und die daraus erzeugten Sekundärprodukte sowie die erzielten Ressourcenschonungseffekte analysiert wurden.Die rohstofflichen und energetischen Effekte der Verwertung werden anhand der Indikatoren DIERec (Direct and Indirect Effects of Recovery), DERec (Direct Effect of Recovery) und des Saldos des ⁠KEA⁠ (Kumulierter Energieaufwand) dargestellt. Diese Kenngrößen dienen dem Berichtswesen zur Kreislaufwirtschaft und als Gestaltungsgrundlage eines Stoffstrommanagements. Sie sind Bestandteil des Indikatoren- und Zielesystems des Deutschen Ressourceneffizienzprogramms.
Recovery of the threatened economic plant goldenseal (Hydrastis canadensis).
Creators: name: Sinclair, Adrianne.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Biology, Botany.

description: The native woodland herb, goldenseal (Hydrastis canadensis), is threatened in Canada. Recovery to a non-risk category is particularly desirable given its medicinal and potential crop value. Woodland herbs probably evolved in an environment with severe and frequent disturbances, including massive floods and impacts of extinct and extirpated fauna. Lack of specific disturbance may limit growth and spread. Ecological observations and analysis (Part I) refined this hypothesis. Comparison of recent and 10 year old surveys, and stem numbers over two years, indicated lack of growth and spread. Pollination and dispersal appeared nonlimiting based on observation of abundant polylectic bees and syrphid flies and rapid removal of fruit. Chi-square tests, comparing frequencies of goldenseal and random points along transects throughout woodlands, revealed a significant association with paths and edges. This suggested a positive disturbance effect and justified an extensive random block field experiment (Part II). Each block contained four one metre square treatment plots: substrate turned, fertilized, both, and control. Transplants in 100 blocks and seeds in 40 blocks were evaluated over two years. Multi-factor analysis of variance, through an extension of the Kruskal-Wallis test, followed by multiple comparisons using modified Tukey tests, was used to analyse the highly variable and discontinuous data. Significantly greater growth occurred in substrate turnover plots after one year. Each year soil turnover plots had significantly more fruit, and after two years, soil turnover + fertilization plots had significantly more fruit and seeds per fruit. Lack of significant increase in germination was attributed to dry conditions. Results represent the first experimental evidence for a positive effect of substrate disturbance on growth and reproduction of a woodland herb exclusive of canopy gap effects. Management involving transplanting with substrate turnover may be essential for recovery according to projection matrix analysis (Part III) of two sets of transition years for 14 populations. The overall growth rate was 0.986 +/- 0.133 (SD) per year. Survival of established stems and vegetative propagation were critical for spread given lack of seedling development. The hypothesis that some woodland herbs are rare due to lack of certain disturbances that were more prevalent in the past was supported.
Revising Anne Boleyn: Why does the story of Anne Boleyn draw so many women writers across the threshold into the realm of imagination?
Creators: name: Dunn, Wendy J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: For decades, the story of Anne Boleyn has inspired the novels of many women writers, including myself. Anne Boleyn's story has been described as 'a void' - the gap acting as the space to engage imagination. Whether she is cast in a negative or positive light, fictional works represent Anne Boleyn as a determined and intelligent woman, a woman who seized her voice in a time when women were expected to be silent. By seizing her voice, she also seized her tragic, yet - as a woman not erased by history - still triumphal destiny. Why does the story of Anne Boleyn continue to ignite the imagination of women writers? How does revising Anne Boleyn's story offer a feminist standpoint relevant to women today? What does the story of Anne Boleyn tell us about our patriarchal world - past and present - and the master narratives in place controlling and destroying the lives of women?
Characterization and application of optical fibers: 1. Application of optical fibers in gas concentration and radiation dose measurements. 2. Polarization effects in fiber communication systems.
Creators: name: Lu, Ping.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Physics, Optics.

description: The thesis consists of two research directions: Optical fiber applications in gas concentration and radiation dose measurements; and polarization effects in fiber optic communication systems. Part I of the thesis presents two optical fiber applications. (1) An infrared (IR) fiber bundle has been designed and fabricated to measure gas concentrations in a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) chamber using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. This fiber bundle covers the IR range from 0.5 to 20 mum and reduces the light beam divergence in the CVD chamber, which makes it possible to measure gas concentrations in a region near the substrate surface. Semi-ellipsoid mirrors have been designed and used to increase the collection efficiency of infrared radiation and to compensate the loss introduced by the fiber bundle. (2) A fiber optic radiation sensor based on radiation-induced fiber loss is reported. The gamma radiation-induced loss spectra in various fibers have been studied. Among all the fibers tested, 5% P-doped fiber shows the highest sensitivity to gamma radiation. The wavelength and dose rate dependence of radiation-induced loss in 5% P-doped fiber are investigated and the possibility of using this fiber as a radiation sensor for radiation therapy is discussed. Part II of the thesis examines two polarization effects, polarization mode dispersion (PMD) and polarization dependent loss (PDL), in fiber optic communication systems based on the waveplate models. A new waveplate model, capable of generating any PMD and PDL values, is proposed to overcome the limitations of the conventional waveplate model. Using both models the statistical distributions of PDL and differential group delay (DGD) have been studied considering the presence of biased elliptical birefringence. The principal state of polarization (PSP) of an optical pulse is proposed for a fiber having both PMD and PDL. PMD and PDL of a pulse for a fiber consisting of two polarization maintaining fiber segments are calculated, and the pulse distortions due to PMD and PDL are analyzed. PMD and PDL impact on digital communication systems have been studied in terms of system Q factor, bit error rate (BER) and system outage probability. The acceptable PMD values in a system with PDL are discussed for various power margins. The Q factor distributions due to PDL and its combination with PMD have been measured experimentally and compared to numerical simulations.
SMALL AREA ESTIMATION OF POVERTY IN RURAL BANGLADESH
Creators: name: Imam, M. F.
name: Islam, Mohammad Amirul
name: Alam, M. A.
name: Hossain, M. Jamal.
name: Das, Sumonkanti
name: Imam, M. F.
name: Islam, Mohammad Amirul
name: Alam, M. A.
name: Hossain, M. Jamal.
name: Das, Sumonkanti
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Small area
subject: poverty
subject: ELL
subject: M-Quantile methods

description: Poverty is a complex phenomenon and most of the developing countries are struggling to overcome the problem. Small area estimation offers help to allocate resources efficiently to address poverty at lower administrative level. This study used data from Census 2011 and Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES)-2010. Using ELL and M-Quantile methods, this study identified Rangpur division as the poorest one where Kurigram is the poorest district. Finally, considering both upper and lower poverty lines this study identified the poverty estimates at upazila level of Rangpur division using ELL and M-Quantile methods. The analyses found that 32% of the households were absolute poor and 19% were extremely poor in rural Bangladesh. Among the upazilas under Rangpur division Rajarhat, Ulipur, Char Rajibpur, Phulbari, Chilmari, Kurigram Sadar, Nageshwari, and Fulchhari Upazilas have been identified as the poorest upazilas.
title: Linguistic Borrowing and Cultural Significance : Analysing the Impact of Dholuo Figures of Speech on Olusuba Folksongs and Abasuba Cultural Identity
Creators: name: Otundo, Billian K.
name: Sande, Walter
name: Institute Of African Studies
Publisher: name: University of Bayreuth
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: figures of speech
subject: folksongs
subject: language contact
subject: linguistic dynamics
subject: Olusuba-Dholuo
subject: cultural exchange
subject: cultural identity
subject: Kenia, Luo
subject: Abasuba
subject: semiotic theory
subject: theory of meaning
subject: Ecolinguistics
subject: 300
subject: 390
subject: 400
subject: 410
subject: 490

description: This article discusses the dynamic interplay between language contact, cultural exchange, and expressive forms of communication within the multicultural societies of Abasuba and Luo living in Kenya. From a socio-pragmatic perspective of signification of figures of speech in Olusuba traditional folksongs, we elaborate on a social context that manifests and inducts the socio-pragmatics of linguistic borrowing, particularly figures of speech (FOS), from Dholuo into Olusuba traditional folksongs. Unique to this study is that in the Olusuba speech communities, speakers are found to communicate non-literally to convey ideas and/or knowledge borrowed from the Luo community. The analysis was grounded in the Semiotic Theory (Barthes 1983) and constructed around de Saussure’s Theory of Meaning (1916) which proposes that language is a union of signs whose relation between their physical and symbolic distinction is arbitrary and thus attains its meaningfulness through the rules of convention. An ethnographic research design was adopted and a qualitative analysis of linguistic features and thematic content in Olusuba folksongs was employed to examine how borrowed FOS contribute to the expressive power and cultural significance of these songs, particularly in conveying themes related to nature and socio-economic activities shared by the Abasuba and Luo communities. Additionally, the study investigates the broader implications of integrating borrowed FOS into Olusuba folksongs on the preservation and evolution of cultural identity among the Abasuba people. In this endeavour, intact cultural groups of Abasuba people in natural settings were interviewed on Dholuo-oriented Olusuba folksongs alongside non-participatory observation during the performance of the folksongs. The results, for example, revealed the use of linguistic symbols whose semantics have been induced by Olusuba-Dholuo contact. This research sheds light on the intricate relationship between language contact, cultural exchange, and identity formation in multicultural societies, offering insights into the complexities of linguistic and cultural dynamics in diverse communities.
LIVELIHOOD AND FOOD SECURITY STATUS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE IN SAFARI PARKS OF BANGLADESH: A MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION ANALYSIS
Creators: name: Sarker, M Sazzadur Rahman
name: Sayem, Sheikh Mohammad
name: Alam, M Akhtarul
name: Rahman, Khandaker M Mostafizur
name: Sarker, M Sazzadur Rahman
name: Sayem, Sheikh Mohammad
name: Alam, M Akhtarul
name: Rahman, Khandaker M Mostafizur
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Food security
subject: Index, Livelihood
subject: Multivariate analysis
subject: Safari parks

description: This study was designed to assess the role of Safari parks on livelihood pattern and food security status of the people linked with parks. A survey was conducted among the employees in two safari parks. Different descriptive and inferential statistics were applied to evaluate the socioeconomic characteristics of the respondents. Economic Security Index (ESI), Health Security Index (HSI), Food Security Index (FSI), Educational Security Index (EDUSI) and Livelihood Security Index (LSI) were constructed. Simultaneous equation system and Three Stage Least Square regression were used to detect the influential factors that affect livelihood and food security status of the people. The result shows that educational status and mode of employment were significantly associated (p<0.01). The body mass indexes about 78% employees were normal. The findings of 3SLS are that the livelihood of the households was positively changed by their food security status where food security was significantly influenced by the mode of employment. For sustainable employment opportunities, the authorities should have to give priority on training and sufficient education to the employees. Different stakeholders can take initiatives to create a number of local jobs, namely shop keeping, hotel and restaurants, transportations, guides, daily laborers through Safari parks.
LIVESTOCK MARKET INTEGRATION AND PRICE DYNAMICS IN THE UNITED STATES
Creators: name: Rahman, Kazi Tamim
name: Akter, Morsalina
name: Miah, M.A. Monayem
name: Palash, M. Salauddin
name: Rahman, Kazi Tamim
name: Akter, Morsalina
name: Miah, M.A. Monayem
name: Palash, M. Salauddin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Market Integration
subject: livestock market
subject: price dynamics
subject: United State

description: This study examines livestock market integration and price dynamics in the United States using weekly price series of five major livestock market from October 2005 to March 2015. Engle-Granger and Gregory-Hansen bivariate co-integration tests and Johansen multivariate co-integration test were employed to measure integration among spatially separated markets. Price dynamics among livestock markets were investigated by the Vector Error Correction model. The result indicates that all markets are co-integrated with sharing a common stochastic trend suggesting the ‘Law of One Price’. The long-run and short-run dynamics of price suggest that the transmission of price changes from one market to another market during the same week is very fast. Livestock markets in the United States are well integrated reflecting satisfactory level of price discovery and market efficiency.