cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Climate Risk Early Warning System for island nations: Tropical cyclones
Creators: name: Kuleshov, Yuriy
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Tropical cyclones (TCs) frequently affect coastal areas of Australia and islands in the tropical Indian and Pacific oceans. Multi-hazards associated with TCs (destructive winds, storm surges and torrential rain) have dramatic impact on population and infrastructure. Accurate forecasting of TC seasonal activity is an important part of a Climate Risk Early Warning System (CREWS) for improving resilience of the society to potentially destructive impacts of TCs. Currently, a statistical model-based prediction of TC activity in the coming season is used for operational seasonal forecasting in the Australian region and the South Pacific Ocean. In this chapter, a possibility of improving the accuracy of seasonal TC prediction using advanced statistical model-based approaches is demonstrated. It is also demonstrated that an alternative approach-dynamical (physics-based) climate modelling-is promising for skilful seasonal TC forecasting. Using improved statistical and dynamical model-based methodologies for TC seasonal prediction as an integral part of the CREWS will provide valuable information about TC seasonal variability and will assist with decision making, responses and adaptation in island countries.
Sleep is necessary for appetitive operant Y-Maze learning in Drosophila melanogaster
Creators: name: Hsiao, Michael
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2020
Subjects: operant learning
Drosophila
Y-Maze

description: Learning from experience takes place as a way for an organism to adapt to the environment\r around it. Operant learning is the association of a behavior with either an aversive or rewarding stimulus that naturally triggers an innate response in the organism. Learning is modulated by other behaviors such as sleep, where it has been shown that sleep loss can result in deficiencies in cognitive functions. In Drosophila, study of operant learning has been limited because existing paradigms either focus on aversive instead of appetitive operant learning, or have sensory stimuli that may interfere with operant learning. Here in a novel appetitive operant learning paradigm, we use a Y-Maze to teach flies to turn a certain direction by reinforcing their behavior with sugar as a reward. We found that sleep is necessary for learning in the Y-Maze, where only flies that sleep early on in training end up with a preference to turn towards the reward. As seen in previous paradigms, learning mutants with deficiencies in intracellular second messenger pathways also fail to learn in the Y-Maze. Although sleep is necessary for flies to learn in the Y-Maze, sleep induction through tryptone or optogenetic stimulation by itself is not sufficient in improving learning. Together we show in one of the first self-paced, reward-based operant learning paradigm in Drosophila, sleep is necessary but not sufficient for learning in the Y-Maze, where learning occurs through a cAMP-dependent pathway.
Канадский английский
Creators: name: Новоселова Марина Александровна
Publisher: name: Вестник Костромского государственного университета
Year: 2010
Subjects: КАНАДСКИЙ АНГЛИЙСКИЙ
ВАРИАНТЫ ЯЗЫКА
ФОНЕТИЧЕСКИЙ СТРОЙ
ЛЕКСИКА
КАНАДИЗМ
CANADIAN ENGLISH
LANGUAGE VARIANTS
PHONETIC ORDER
VOCABULARY
CANADISM

description: Интерес к вопросам вариативности английского языка объясняется неоднородностью и сложностью его состава, особенностями его функционирования в различных языковых ситуациях и территориальных ареалах. Вариативность языка связана с действием внешних факторов и проявляется в многообразии форм существования языка, его социальной и территориальной дифференциации. Целью данной статьи является рассмотрение территориального варьирования английского языка в Канаде с учетом социолингвистических и экстралингвистических факторов, а также указание особенности канадского варианта английского языка.
description: The interest to the questions of variability of the English language is explained by the discontinuity and the complicacy of its composition, by the peculiarities of its functioning in different linguistic situations and territorial distributions. The language variability is connected with the influence of outer factors and displays multiformity of language existing, its social and territorial differentiation. The aim of this article is the examining of territorial varying of the English language in Canada with taking into account sociolinguistic and extralinguistic factors; the showing peculiarity of the Canadian variant of English.
Honeycomb-like pattern emergence in response to phosphate deficiency in haloarchaea
Creators: name: Weber, Nathan Owen
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Prokaryotes
polyhydroxyalkanoates
Haloferax mediterranei
haloarchaea
prokaryotic organelles

description: The formation of cytoplasmic organelles within prokaryotes is a matter of controversy among cell biologists as it reveals layers of complexity in microorganisms that were not long ago believed to lack complex internal organization. This controversy was furthered by analyses showing that archaea are more genetically similar to eukaryotes than their prokaryotic companions bacteria, revealing a tree of life with one branch for bacteria and another for eukaryotes and archaea. In this study, we investigated the molecular origins of a previous observation of possible organelle-like structures- intracellular honeycomb patterns visible by staining nucleic acids in phosphate-deprived cells of the haloarchaea Haloferax mediterranei. By deleting the genes responsible for polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) synthesis, we discovered that these Zones of DNA Exclusion (ZDEs) were PHA granules, which “crowded out” DNA from certain areas of the cytoplasm due to their hydrophobicity. We then used a known PHA dye to label granules in living cells and track their localization, size, and number within living cells over time. In doing so, we found that PHA granule number and size both decreased by a factor of ~2.5 over a 20-hour period, while over that same period, PHA granule distance from the cell border remained relatively constant. We also recorded what we believe to be the first video of PHA formation within living haloarchaea. Altogether, our work establishes a new framework for future research into dynamics of PHA granules as a membraneless organelle and their associated proteins in living haloarchaea.
EVALUATING TREATMENT OF STORMWATER CONTAMINANTS BY GREEN STORMWATER INFRASTRUCTURE USING CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL TOOLS
Creators: name: Mitchell, Chelsea Jane
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2025
Subjects: biochar
bioretention
cyp1a
green stormwater infrastructure
permeable pavements
stormwater
Water resources management

description: Stormwater is a global issue occurring in developed landscapes where large areas of impervious surface disrupt key parts of the water cycle including infiltration, groundwater recharge, and evapotranspiration. Stormwater runoff is generated when rainfall falls onto impervious surfaces and is unable to infiltrate soils, leading to massive volumes of water to move across the landscape into local receiving waters. In addition to causing hydraulic issues like flooding, stormwater runoff is a major vector of pollutant transport into surface waters. Stormwater contaminants can be toxic to aquatic species, so am important goal of stormwater treatment is to protect aquatic organisms from this toxicity. Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) consists of a suite of stormwater control measures which aim to restore bits of the landscape to predevelopment hydrology by capturing, slowing, and infiltrating stormwater back into native soils. There are many types of GSI technologies, including bioretention, bioswales, green roofs, and permeable pavements, among others. GSI technologies were initially developed and adopted to manage stormwater quantity, but because of their widespread implementation, researchers started studying the potential for GSI to improve stormwater quality by removing contaminants. Various forms of GSI have since been demonstrated to provide treatment of suspended solids, metals, nutrients, and organic contaminants. However, the mechanisms and effectiveness of contaminant removal by GSI are still not well-understood, especially for contaminants of emerging contaminants. The degree to which GSI can protect aquatic organisms from stormwater contaminants is also poorly understood. This dissertation contains manuscripts which evaluate the ability of GSI to treat stormwater contaminants. The first chapter investigates biochar and fungi as bioretention amendments for bacteria and PAH treatment. The second chapter investigates whether permeable pavements are capable of mitigating pollution from tire wear particles and tire additive chemicals. Using the GSI systems from Chapters 1 and 2 as case studies, the third chapter compares chemical and biological tools for evaluating the ability of GSI to remove polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and related compounds from stormwater.
The Potentiality of Phytoliths in the Study of Roman Spices: An Investigation into the Nature of Phytoliths in Piper nigrum and Piper longum.
Creators: name: McDuff, Evan
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Phytoliths
paleoethnobotany
Piper nigrum
Piper longum
Roman
pepper
Archaeology

description: Written sources tell us the pepper species of Piper nigrum and Piper longum played a significant role in ancient Roman cuisine, however, physical evidence of their culinary use in the form of macrobotanical remains is rare. Phytoliths, due to their possible taxonomic significance and survivability, could be used to understand Roman culinary applications of pepper in contexts where the preservation of macrobotanical remains is poor. To gauge their usefulness in the study of pepper, phytoliths were isolated from modern botanical samples of white pepper (Piper nigrum), black pepper (Piper nigrum), and long pepper (Piper longum). Phytoliths were found to be absent in samples of white pepper, but keystone morphologies of the oblong psilate and polyhedral irregulate types were found in long and black pepper respectively. These keystone morphologies indicate that phytoliths could possibly be used to identify these forms of pepper in certain Roman archaeological contexts. In addition to morphological research an experiment was undertaken that found that ground forms of all varieties of pepper and all preparations of long pepper were susceptible to mold in a climate of varying temperature and humidity.
"Seminal women": Women in science in the Canadian federal Department of Agriculture, 1884 to 1921.
Creators: name: Lloydlangston, Amber.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.

description: As historian Marianne Ainley maintains in the introduction to Despite the Odds: Essays on Canadian Women in Science, the way in which science is practised and institutionalized has an impact upon the careers of men and women. The purpose of this thesis then is to determine the type of science, and the ways of practising it, employed within the Canadian federal Department of Agriculture. What conscious and subconscious factors influenced the scientific and methodological choices of the leaders of the Department? How did this, in turn, influence the opportunities of women to become involved in science in the years 1884 to 1921? The thesis argues that the professionalization and bureaucratization of science in the Department of Agriculture created distinct opportunities for such involvement, but it also confined them to specific jobs deemed appropriate for their sex. Because the science that was first undertaken in the Department beginning in 1884 emerged from the natural history tradition, women first contributed as unpaid "amateur" observers, collectors, and correspondents. As science professionalized and bureaucratized in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, however, the contributions of unpaid "amateurs" were no longer desired or needed. At this juncture, women were employed as paid assistants and members of the support staff As civil servants, women entered an organization that was undergoing a process of reform and bureaucratizing. As a result, women were subjected to hierarchical and lateral segregation. Women's employment in science in the federal Department of Agriculture followed this pattern. Employed to undertake technical work in seed analysis and scientific work in botany, chemistry, and librarianship in the Department, women were confined to 'women's work' in science. They performed tasks which were undervalued, underpaid, and offered little or no opportunity for advancement, and were, therefore, rejected by men. Over the almost forty year period covered in this thesis, in both peace and war, the work of women followed this pattern. Satisfying the demands generated by the professionalization and bureaucratization of science as well as the reform and bureaucratization of the federal civil service, women were a pivotal part of the scientific workforce of the Canadian federal Department of Agriculture from 1884 to 1921.
Identification d'une interaction protéique spécifique à une séquence conservée dans la région 3' non-traduite de l'ARN messager de prostaglandine endoperoxide H synthase-1.
Creators: name: Duquette, Maryse.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Biochemistry.

description: L'enzyme prostaglandine endoperoxide H synthase-1 (PGHS-1) est très abondante dans les plaquettes où elle catalyse l'étape limitante dans la formation du thromboxane A 2 (TxA 2 ), une substance agrégatoire et vasoconstrictive. Cependant, dans les cellules desquelles dérivent les plaquettes, les mégacaryocytes, l'enzyme est quasi absente bien que son ARN messager (ARNm) soit présent. En effet, lorsque les cellules MEG-01 sont récoltées après 1 et 4 jours d'exposition au TPA pour stimuler leur différenciation en plaquettes, les niveaux d'ARNm de PGHS-1 sont élevés dans les deux extraits, tandis que l'enzyme n'est détectée qu'après 4 jours. Nous avons émis l'hypothèse qu'une interaction ARN-protéines) dans la région 3 ' non-traduite (R3 ' NT) de l'ARNm PGHS-1 , pourrait expliquer le délai observé entre les accumulations d'ARNm et de protéine PGHS-1. Les séquences de la R3 ' NT de l'ARNm PGHS-1 de quatre espèces mammifères ont été comparées, ce qui a permis l'identification d'un segment de 20 nucléotides (nts) parfaitement conservé. Cette séquence a été utilisée comme sonde d'ARN dans des études de retardement sur gels. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
CHARACTERIZATION OF ROLES OF THE LYSOPHOSPHATIDIC ACID-CCN1 SIGNALING AXIS IN HUMAN PROSTATE CANCER CELLS
Creators: name: Balijepalli, Pravita
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2025
Subjects: CCN proteins
G-protein Coupled receptors
Lysophosphatidic Acid
Untargeted proteomics
Extracellular Matrix
Molecular Biology
Prostate Cancer

description: Cysteine rich angiogenic factor (CCN1/Cyr61) and connective tissue growth factor (CCN2/CTGF) are members of the CCN family of matricellular proteins. These secreted proteins interact with extracellular matrix proteins and integrins to modulate cell signaling. CCN proteins have been implicated in survival and mitogenic responses in various cancers. CCN1 and CCN2 are the two early inducible genes in this family. Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) and sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) are lipid growth factors known to contribute to tumor progression in prostate cancer. In previous work, our group showed that LPA stimulates proliferation and migration in prostate cancer cells via the G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR), LPA receptor 1 (LPAR1). We also demonstrated that CCN1 expression is induced by LPA in human prostate cancer cells. However, the roles of CCN1 and CCN2 in LPA signaling were not elucidated. In this project, the involvement of CCNs were examined in more detail, using the PC-3 human prostate cancer cell line as a model system. The results show that both LPA and S1P up-regulate CCN1 and CCN2 between 2-4 hours. These inductions occur after the acute phase of LPA-stimulated extracellular signal-related kinase (Erk) activation, but before a later phase of Erk activation. Structure-activity studies of physiologic LPA species showed that, in PC-3 cells, only 18:1-LPA and not 18:0-LPA activates Erk and induces CCN1. LPA enhances cell-substrate adhesion after 2 hours, and this response (as well as basal adhesion) are reduced after siRNA-mediated knockdown of CCN1. A global proteomics analysis revealed that LPA increases the levels of additional proteins involved in extracellular matrix interactions after 2 hours, including metastasis-related in colon cancer-1 (MACC1). The effects of LPA on the levels of MACC1 and several other adhesion-related proteins were suppressed following CCN1 knockdown. Taken together, these data establish a role for CCN1 in LPA-induced cell-substrate adhesion, and in the effects of LPA on the expression levels of multiple adhesion-related proteins and pathways. Thus, CCN1 contributes to a later phase of signal transduction following the acute phase of LPAR1-mediated events. CCN1 and other matricellular proteins that are regulated by LPA represent potential therapeutic targets in prostate cancer.
Long Term Epigenetic Memory
Creators: name: Ghosh, Sagnik
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2024

description: Gene expression in eukaryotic cells can be turned off by chemical modification of the chromatin fiber on which the DNA sequence of the gene resides. These epigenetic changes to the chromatin can be retained despite DNA replication leading to loss of the modifications, and the epigenetic state can be transmitted to daughter cells. Experiments have probed the longevity of this epigenetic memory and have found that under certain conditions it can persist over many cell divisions. Here we address the question of the origins of this long-term memory using a simple, coarse-grained model of chromatin as a one-dimensional lattice of histones that can be in two states, modified or not. The state of individual histones can be modified by the action of enzymes that read and write chemical modifications and enzymes that remove the modification, as well as DNA replication which on average removes half of the modifications. We show that the time scales over which the epigenetic state of the chromatin decays due to the combined action of these enzymes, can be orders of magnitude longer than the time set by the enzymatic reactions and cell division. We link the emergence of this long-time scale to the presence of a long-lived metastable state in the system. Our results suggest how experiments that tune the enzyme abundance in cells, or the cell division time can affect the decay of epigenetic memory.
Educating An Orthodox Feminist: Male and Female
Creators: name: Zeliger, Shira
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Modern Orthodoxy
partnership minyanim
Jewish education
feminism
independent minyanim

description: Affiliated as a “partnership minyan” through the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA), Minyan Tehillah in Cambridge, MA is an independent minyan (prayer community) that is committed to maximizing women’s participation in ritual leadership roles within the boundaries of halakhic (Jewish legal) standards and practices and by partnering men and women in leading religious services using traditional liturgy. As an independent minyan founded in 2003, Tehillah attracts people from a variety of Jewish backgrounds, although it was founded by community members affiliated as Modern Orthodox. My research was therefore guided by my interest in how people raised Modern Orthodox become involved in a prayer community that pushes boundaries and promotes new ways of thinking about Jewish prayer and feminism.\r \r My research explored and analyzed the educational experiences of fifteen male and female participants of Minyan Tehillah in their twenties and thirties who self-identify as having been raised Modern Orthodox in North America. Their upbringing and background in the home, school and community as well as their attitudes toward Modern Orthodoxy, feminism and the type of prayer community in which they are involved have all been studied, as they are all indications of what constitutes one’s Jewish religious identity and preference for a prayer community.\r \r My research addresses the themes: relationships with mothers and fathers, transformational experiences such as the Bat Mitzvah, involvement in school and synagogue minyanim, influence of teachers and text study and educational experiences in Israel. Following a comparison of these themes, my paper addresses the attitudes of Minyan Tehillah’s members with regard to Modern Orthodoxy and partnership minyanim. To conclude, the paper highlights the complexities that Minyan Tehillah presents and the challenges that its members experience and see the minyan experiencing.
Variable-step variable-order 2-stage Hermite-Birkhoff-Obrechkoff ODE solver of order 3 to 14 with a C program
Creators: name: Zhuang, Yuchuan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Engineering, System Science.

description: Variable-step variable-order 2-stage Hermite-Birkhoff-Obrechkoff (HBO) methods, HBO(p)2, of order p = 3 to 14, named HBO(3-14)2, are constructed for solving nonstiff first-order differential equations. Forcing an expansion of the numerical solution to agree with a Taylor expansion of the true solution leads to multistep and Runge-Kutta type order conditions which are reorganized into linear Vandermonde-type systems of HBO type. Fast algorithms are developed for solving these systems in O( p2) operations to obtain Hermite-Birkhoff interpolation polynomials in terms of generalized Lagrange basis functions. The order and step size of these methods are controlled by four local error estimators. For numerical computation the lower order 3 is raised to 4 since HBO(4-14)2 produces better results. When programmed in Matlab, HBO (4-14) 2 is superior to Matlab's ode113 in solving several problems often used to test higher order ODE solvers on the basis of the number of steps, CPU time, and maximum global error. On the other hand, HBO (4-14)2 and the Dormand-Prince 13-stage nested Runge-Kutta pair DP(8,7)13M are programmed in C. In this case, DP(8,7) uses less CPU time, have smaller maximum global error but require a larger number of function evaluations than HBO(4-14)2 on nonexpensive problems. However, for expensive equations, such as the Cubicwave, HBO(4-14)2 is superior. Compared with previous results obtained by the 3-stage HBO(4-14)3 on Van der Pol equations with increasing value of epsilon, the new HBO(4-14)2 finally dominates.
Effects of Hearing Acuity on Recall of Expository Prose
Creators: name: Sarles-Whittlesey, Heidi
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2017
Subjects: memory
hearing acuity
free-recall
effortful listening
lag recency
linear congruency
Aging

description: The present study examined how memory processes may be impacted by uncorrected hearing loss and increased expenditure of cognitive resources during encoding of spoken prose in older adults (OAs). The effect of self-paced listening on the accuracy of recall was investigated, as well as the relationship between the order of propositions in a passage and the order in which they are recalled. 24 OAs were matched for cognitive ability, but differed in hearing acuity (12 had good hearing acuity (GH); 12 had mild to moderate poor hearing acuity (PH)). Expository passages were presented in a self-paced or continuous listening condition; as well as at +10 dB above each listener’s speech reception threshold (SRT) or at +25 dB above SRT. Results indicated a significant main effect of levels of detail on recall accuracy. Only the PH group’s recall accuracy was significantly impacted by pacing and presentation level. Self-pacing facilitated linear congruency of recall for the GH group only. Lag recency analysis suggested that the GH group formed stronger between-proposition associations than the PH group.
L'espace mondial en renfort Transnationalisation des luttes autochtones: Les Cris du Québec et les Lubicons de l'Alberta
Creators: name: Martel, Érik
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Political Science, General.
subject: Native American Studies.

description: Cette étude traite du phénomène de la transnationalisation des luttes autochtones et tout particulièrement des relations créées entre peuples autochtones et diverses organisations dans un contexte de lutte menée contre un État. L'intérêt central de cette recherche vise à participer aux réflexions concernant la création de relations transnationales et l'utilisation d'outils transnationaux permettant une modification des rapports de force entre peuples autochtones et États. L'étude expose principalement les récits analytiques de deux luttes autochtones, soit celles menées par les Cris du Québec contre l'érection d'un barrage hydroélectrique sur la rivière Grande-Baleine et par les Lubicons de l'Alberta pour obtenir la reconnaissance et le respect de leur territoire. Dans les deux cas, ces peuples autochtones ont su transposer leur lutte du territoire national à l'espace transnational, dans l'intention d'exercer une pression sur les gouvernements pour les contraindre à modifier leurs positions.
Constructing Karla: Exploring the media's representation of Karla Homolka when she was released from prison
Creators: name: Parsons, Peter
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Biography.
subject: Journalism.
subject: Sociology, Criminology and Penology.

description: Borrowing from standpoint and postmodern feminist epistemologies, this thesis proposes to deconstruct the concept "violent women" and challenge the traditional 'bad'/'mad'/'other' framework of understanding women who engage in violent behaviour. The concept decontextualizes differences between women who commit violence and the stereotypical framework hinders any alternative understanding of their individual cases. Using contextual constructionism and Best's (2001) criteria for identifying claims as a theoretical framework, a qualitative content analysis of Canadian newspaper articles between July 2004 and July 2006 explored the news media's representation of Karla Homolka when she was released from prison in July 2005. While the stereotypical concepts that this study sought to transcend (i.e. discussing Karla through the 'bad'/'mad'/'other' framework) emerged throughout the coverage, insights into how the media constructs "identities" that people come to "know"' also emerged. The media's representation of Homolka at the time of her release was concluded to be hyppereal; a simulated character named "Karla" that must Canadians are familiar with. Yet this character may or may not resemble the actual Karla who currently resides somewhere in Montreal.
title: “Not Your Superwoman”
title: Implications of the Superwoman Trope on Black Women’s Birth Outcomes in the U.S.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Fort, Zoe Ariana
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Superwoman
Black motherhood
Reproductive justice
Racism or Race Relation
Reproductive Health Services

description: The United States is experiencing an infant and maternal mortality crisis across racial stratifications at more alarming rates than in the antebellum era and Jim Crow. Over the past fifteen years, these disparities have accrued significant media, scholarly, and medical attention. Scientific evidence has proven that racism and the physiological stress it causes are contributing factors to these birth outcome disparities. Even so, there has been a dearth of information on how harmful tropes have amplified the adverse birth outcomes for Black mothers and infants in the U.S. For this thesis, I have conducted extensive research on how the Superwoman trope impacts U.S. Black women’s health generally and gestational health specifically. This research is grounded in evidence-based findings and Black feminist scholarship and thinking including lived experience and privileging the truths of Black American women. Labor, childbirth, and the prenatal and postpartum periods are critical temporal sites which I consider using the Superwoman lens to better understand Superwoman’s impacts. Importantly, I revisit history regarding the genealogy of the term Superwoman, other harmful tropes assigned to Black women, the inherently racist nature of American gynecology, and how healthcare providers have interacted with expecting and birthing Black women historically and contemporarily. Lastly, I explore imaginings for eradicating these birth outcome disparities and underscore how much Black women have done for the future of Black birthing outcomes in harmony with today’s birthing justice movement.
PRAGMALINGUISTIC FEATURES OF PASSIVE CONSTRACTIONS IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK
Creators: name: Inomjonova, Nargiza
name: Minnikulov, Islom
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This Article Examines The Pragmalinguistic Features Of Passive Constructions In English And Uzbek, Analyzing How Each Language Utilizes Passive Voice To Reflect Social, Cultural, And Communicative Norms. While Both Languages Employ Passive Forms For Emphasis, Formality, And Subject Omission, The Frequency And Context Of Usage Differ Significantly. By Comparing Structural And Functional Aspects, The Study Highlights How Passive Constructions Are Shaped Not Only By Grammar But Also By Pragmatic Needs Such As Politeness, Indirectness, And Topicalization. The Findings Are Based On Contrastive Analysis Using Authentic Textual Sources From Media, Literature, And Formal Discourse.
New post-construction site characterisation models for low-rise buildings founded on highly expansive clays
Creators: name: Lopes, Dominic
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In the past three decades many thousand houses built in the Western and Northern suburbs of Melbourne have experienced extensive damage due to chaotic climate and inadequate design and construction. The clayey soils upon which these houses were built are derived from the decomposition of volcanic soils which have high shrink and swelling properties. These soils are common throughout the world and are a particular problem as the climate becomes more active. The research for this thesis includes investigation data from-2005 to 2015 which recorded some of these problems and also led to the development of a more accurate calculation method of foundation movement.
An ontology-based negotiation protocol and context-level agreements
Creators: name: Al Ridhawi, Yousif
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: Services and applications in pervasive environments must adapt to changes occurring in the surrounding environment and meet the needs of mobile users according to the users' changing situations. Existing context-aware architectures and middleware are faced with two problems. First, is their weakness in expressing complex inter-context relationships, stemming from use of less capable approaches to modeling contextual knowledge. Secondly, context dissemination methods used by these systems result in network flooding, unrestricted access to private context information, and the inability of consumers to limit or personalize received context. This thesis provides an ontology-based context-level negotiation protocol along with a context-aware system architecture. The protocol permits context consumers to personalize their received context information through negotiations with context providers. The thesis illustrates the use of this negotiation protocol through the design and implementation of a context-aware system architecture capable of acquiring, modeling, reasoning and disseminating context information through ontologies.
Design of a modular battery pack for electric vehicles
Creators: name: Arora, Shashank
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Large-scale electrification of road transportation sector is essential for containing damage caused to our environment. However, high manufacturing cost and thermal stability of battery packs have been identified as major issues. Aggressive solutions to address them include developing new battery chemistries and replacing components of Li-ion battery cells with cheaper materials. In addition, mass-production of battery cells and battery packs is expected to provide further cost reduction. Therefore, design of such mass-producible battery packs is the main goal of investigation of this doctoral work.
Corrigendum: Human Demographic History Impacts Genetic Risk Prediction across Diverse Populations
Creators: name: Martin, Alicia R.
name: Gignoux, Christopher R.
name: Walters, Raymond K.
name: Wojcik, Genevieve L.
name: Neale, Benjamin M.
name: Gravel, Simon
name: Daly, Mark J.
name: Bustamante, Carlos D.
name: Kenny, Eimear E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: We thank Aaron Ragsdale, Dominic Nelson, and Simon Gravel for identifying a coding error in the setup of the demographic simulations shown in Figure 5 that changed the magnitude of simulation results regarding population differences. The interpretation of Figure 5 that polygenic risk scores do not generalize well across populations remains the same, although the magnitude of differences shown in Figure 5C are considerably diminished (see Ragsdale et al Figure 2 for an update).
Roger Crab and the rhetoric of reclusion
Creators: name: Tanner, Rory
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Biography.
subject: Religion, History of.
subject: Literature, English.

description: Prophet, pamphleteer, and hermit, Roger Crab (c.1616-1680) stands out from the sectarian tumult of mid-seventeenth century London as a zealous religious independent and a noteworthy oppositional figure. This study describes Crab's brief publication career as shaping a "rhetoric of reclusion," identifying in his work the distinct patterns of self-representation intended to free a purportedly divine message from the damaging influences of printers and booksellers, hireling ministers, and even the authorial self. Crab writes against the untoward mediation of his own text, but also against such interference with other sacred text. Beyond reclusion, the hermit's task proves one of reclamation. He seeks through publication and public attestation to reclaim the word of God from wayward church interpretation and from sectarian misappropriation.
Lifetime quality management for multi-tenant service-based systems
Creators: name: Wang, Yanchun
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this research, a systematic solution is proposed for the quality management for multi-tenant service-based systems (SBSs) in the cloud environment, which serve multiple tenants simultaneously. First, an SBS needs to be formed by composing existing services at build time stage. At runtime stage, the SBS needs to be monitored for any anomaly which once occurring, service adaptation needs to be facilitated to ensure the successful completion of SBS. By addressing the major challenges of quality management that arise at different stages of the lifetime of multi-tenant service-based systems, the quality of such systems can be guaranteed effectively and efficiently.
title: Resilience of Ecuadorian foreign trade inthe face of conflicts and internal crime: analysis of impact and adaptation strategies
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Year: 2024
Subjects: international trade
Ñrime
organized Ñrime
Ecuador
Latin America
resilience
internal instability
political instability
violence
competitiveness
Ecuadorian exports
Ecuadorian imports
disruptive technologies
technology
innovation in trade

description: The given research is devoted to study the effects of crime in the International Trade of Ecuador, and to develop strategies to attenuate its impact. The main objectives of this investigation are: -To analyze Ecuadors international trade and its resilience in times of crisis. -To investigate how crime affects internal logistics processes in the Ecuadorian foreign trade supply chain. -To offer crime mitigation and prevention strategies to reduce the costs generated by criminal activities that consequently make Ecuadorian products uncompetitive in the world market. The work focused its efforts on the analysis of Ecuadorian foreign trade to identify the effects of crime on it, analyzing criminal trends and the main delinquencies that affect the national supply chain, where the great impact on crime was clarified, not only in terms of security, but also in terms of economic losses. The study approach was analytical-synthetic and graphical, and the results yielded credible evidence of the advantages and effectiveness of innovation and the use of disruptive technologies in fighting crime.
Contemporary music in Canada: Alexina Louie.
Creators: name: Begay, Diane.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Biography.

description: Alexina Louie (1949-) is one of Canada's foremost composers of contemporary classical music. She was named "Composer of the Year 1986" by the Canada Music Council in the International Year of Canadian music. Her compositions have been commissioned and performed by Canada's major orchestras, ensembles, and soloists and have been played extensively throughout Canada and abroad. Due to the incessant demand for her music, Louie is among the numbered few in Canada who are able to make a living solely by composing. The first chapter of this study outlines Louie's life from childhood until 1993. The second looks at the media's portrayal of Louie, from 1980 until 1992. The ways in which Louie composes are discussed in the third chapter, and the fourth analyses three contrasting pieces: (1) Music for a Thousand Autumns (1983), (2) The Eternal Earth (1986), and (3) The Ringing Earth (1985). A list of works, recordings, and published compositions follow an extensive bibliography. A cassette containing excerpts of Louie's work accompanies the thesis. This study reveals Louie to be an outstanding Canadian musician. She is greatly respected and admired for her compositions as well as for her promotion of contemporary music. Through her expertise, her art, her culture, and her philosophy, Louie has helped put a new face on Canadian contemporary music.
Optimum mounting of electronic circuit boards for components and circuits survivability.
Creators: name: Ghazizadeh, Ali.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: Electronic circuit boards are employed in demanding environments (e.g. satellite, aerospace, marine, automobile, etc.) where the board and mounted components are exposed to vibration of varying amplitude and frequencies. Optimum mounting and component placement to reduce the effect of vibration on the equipment may prolong the service life of the system and reduce costly down time. Electronic boards are often mounted on four rigid support legs. Their vibration is a function of the location of the support legs, and board physical specifications such as length, width, weight, and placement of the components mounted on them. In this study, plate vibration analysis is employed to find the board's free vibration. With the help of nonlinear optimization methods, optimum mounting of circuit boards are investigated. Square board has a better performance than any other board shape. A table of suitable support points will be introduced outlining optimum support points for eight rectangular shapes. For each of these shapes a graph of unsuitable regions is provided to help the designer to avoid placing delicate components over those regions of the plate. Furthermore, the tabulated results can eliminate the need for optimization in non-critical circuit boards or determine a good starting point for optimization. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
title: Dies botanicae, les 17 et 18 juin 2023
title: Dies botanicae, les 17 et 18 juin 2023
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Blanchon, Catherine
name: Bonnet, François
name: Guenat, Jérémie
name: Dutoit, Annelise
name: Vittoz, Pascal
name: Magnin-Gonze, Joëlle
name: Hoffer-Massard, Françoise
name: Clot, François
name: Descombes, Patrice
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2024

description: A l’occasion de la parution de l’ouvrage Flore vaudoise – Atlas illustré des plantes vasculaires du canton de Vaud, le Cercle vaudois de botanique (CVB) s’est chargé de l’organisation des Dies Botanicae, 3e rencontre des sociétés de botanique de Suisse. Le choix des lieux d’excursions s’est concentré sur la région de Bex, haut-lieu de la botanique vaudoise. Six excursions ont été proposées (trois à choix chaque jour) afin de présenter les régions de Pont de Nant, de Roche, du Montet (sur Bex) et de Solalex à Anzeinde, sous la conduite de plusieurs membres du CVB. Les feuillets descriptifs de cinq de ces excursions et un compte-rendu de la sixième suivent cette introduction.
Criminal Justice News, 2020-2021
Creators: name: Washington State University Department Of Criminal Justice And Criminology
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2021
Subjects: newsletters

description: Newsletter includes: Message from the Chair; Congratulations to the Class of 2020-2021; 2021 Departmental Awards; Faculty and Staff Highlights; Focus on Criminal Justice Reform; Undergraduate Profile; Alumni News; Invited Speakers and Events; Diego Moreno Memorial Scholarship; Recent and Pending Publications; Student Club News.
Influence of word sense disambiguation on text classification
Creators: name: Widlak, Magdalena
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: Word sense ambiguity is a pervasive characteristic of natural language. The discrimination of word senses, word sense disambiguation, is considered to be of prime importance for many areas involving computerized language analysis, from machine translation to information retrieval. Text classification, as a growing subfield of information retrieval, is also believed to suffer from the effects of word sense ambiguity. The purpose of this thesis was to evaluate how word sense disambiguation affects text classification. The intuitive hypothesis is that word sense disambiguation aids the task of text classification. In order to evaluate the influence of word sense disambiguation on text classification three different corpora of text documents were disambiguated manually. Classification of both original and corresponding disambiguated data was performed using four different classification systems employing four different learning approaches: decision trees (C5.0), decision rules induction (Ripper), Naive Bayes (Rainbow) and support vector machines (LibSVM). Results obtained from the classification were compared using various evaluation methods. The results do not support the stated hypothesis very strongly. In some cases word sense disambiguation improved the results of text classification, in other cases there was no improvement or the results were worse. The difference in classification results obtained on original and disambiguated data are in most cases insignificant, that is, even though there is a slight difference in average errors, we cannot conclude that this difference is statistically significant. Some general tendencies can be observed when it comes to performance of specific classification systems. We can also infer which of the corpora were "easier" to classify than other.
Power of Migration Rhetoric: A Comparative Study of Migration Rhetoric in the United States and Senegal
Creators: name: Bair, Hannah Katarina
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Trump
Refugee
Power
Migration
Rhetoric
Senegal

description: This work aims to analyze the rhetoric used by those in power in the US and Senegal to discuss the issue of migration. It analyzes the policies enacted during the years 2018-2022, and the statements made by influential policymakers and migrants. Ultimately, it aims to highlight the larger implications of global power dynamics through the lens of this issue.
M.A.P. | Mastery Assessment Pedagogy for Learning Computer Science
Creators: name: Tuson, Ella
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Mastery Learning
Computer Science

description: In this dissertation we propose the Mastery Assessment Pedagogy for Learning Computer Science, or M.A.P. Learning, an approach to assessment inspired by the original Mastery Learning approach which takes into account more recent developments in the learning sciences as well as issues specifically related to the field of CS. We provide an overview of the design of the approach and data from three studies in which the approach was used. M.A.P consists of four core principles intended to fulfill the spirit of Mastery Learning while taking advantage of research on the practice which has been published in the past few decades. The principles are as follows: Individual Assessment on a Discrete Set of Skills, High-Frequency/Low-Stakes Assessment, Secure and Robust Assessment, and Pass/Fail Grading. In practice, these principles are implemented as weekly mastery assessments on a set of core skills which are graded pass/fail. A new assessment is provided each week for every skill which has been introduced in the course so far, and students are given the choice of which and how many skill assessments they would like to attempt that week. Once a student has demonstrated mastery over a skill, they are no longer required to attempt assessments for it, and their final grade is calculated based on the number of skills they mastered during the semester. Variations of M.A.P. were used in a Discrete Math course, a Software Engineering course, and two semesters of CS1. This dissertation demonstrates that M.A.P. successfully supports the goals and spirit of Mastery Learning, while adjusting features which made the original approach difficult to implement.
High throughput methods in the development of new asymmetric reactions: Fluorescence resonance energy transfer technology for screening potential catalysts
Creators: name: Cloutier, Josee
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, General.

description: High throughput methods are valuable for decreasing the time needed for the development of new asymmetric reactions. Catalyst discovery may be accelerated by the rapid screening of reactions for enantioselectivity. Chiral substrates are used in a novel fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) assay. A fluorophore (donor), a fluorescence quencher (acceptor) and a recognition element are part of the assay substrates. The latter are prepared using different fluorescent donor/acceptor pairs for each enantiomer of the recognition element. Screening is performed using equimolar mixture of the two substrates. Weak fluorescence indicates no reaction. Strong fluorescence at both wavelengths indicates a non-selective reaction while an enantioselective coupling would display strong fluorescence at only one wavelength.* *Please refer to dissertation for diagrams.