cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
High Quantile Estimation for some Stochastic Volatility Models
Creators: name: Luo, Ling
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: stochastic volatility
long memory

description: In this thesis we consider estimation of the tail index for heavy tailed stochastic volatility models with long memory. We prove a central limit theorem for a Hill estimator. In particular, it is shown that neither the rate of convergence nor the asymptotic variance is affected by long memory. The theoretical findings are verified by simulation studies.
Tracery Windows from the 14th Century in Silesia
Creators: name: Golasz-Szołomicka, Hanna
Publisher: name: Faculty of Architecture, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2012
Subjects: Silesian churches from the 14th century, layout of windows in elevations, tracery with central patterns, extended central patterns, patterns with several levels

description: ARCHITECTUS; 31; 21-34; ISSN 1429-7507
Modeling Community Care Services for Alternative level of Care (ALC) Patients: A Queuing Network Approach
Creators: name: Noghani Ardestani, Pedram
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: ALC Patients
Queuing Network Model

description: One of the impacts of the rising demand for community health services, primarily used by seniors, is that hospitals are often faced with the challenge of having patients finish the acute phase of their treatment and yet are unable to discharge them due to the lack of a bed in a more appropriate community care setting. The frequency of this challenge has led to the designation of “alternative level of care” (ALC) being ascribed to patients who remain in the hospitals due to insufficient capacity downstream. The thesis focuses on a model that seeks to address patient flow through the community care network (CCN) and finding capacity allocation policies for the different facilities that resolves the ALC challenge using scenario analysis. A queuing network model with general routings and nodes’ blocking has been developed and a heuristic approximation method has been employed for solving the model. Blocking probabilities and the number of blocked patients are derived as performance metrics of the CCN. We test the accuracy of the queuing model through a simulation model and the behaviours of the system in different scenarios are investigated in the simulation model and our policy insights and conclusions are provided.
Bone Marrow Stromal Cell Transdifferentiation into Oligodendrocyte-Like Cells Using Triiodothyronine as a Inducer with Expression of Platelet-Derived Growth Factor α as a Maturity Marker
Creators: name: Hojjat-Allah Abbaszadeh
name: Taki Tiraihi
name: Delshad, Ali Reza
name: Zadeh, Majid Saghedi
name: Taheri, Taher
Publisher: name: the Pasteur Institute of Iran
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Basic Sciences

description: Iranian Biomedical Journal (IBJ); ISSN 1028-852X
Potamethus filatovae Tovar-Hernandez & Jirkov 2024
Creators: name: Tovar-Hernandez, Maria Ana
name: Jirkov, Igor A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Sabellida
Sabellidae
Potamethus
Potamethus filatovae

description: Comparison of Potamethus filatovae and Jasmineira pacifica
 Although these two species belong to different genera, a comparison is needed since J. filatovae is being recognized within Potamethus in the present study. The original description of J. filatovae Levenstein, 1961 stated that this species differs from J. pacifica Annenkova, 1937 (pp. 195–196, Pl. V, figs 55–56), the only species known from the Russian Far Eastern seas and originally described from the Northern Sea of Japan to 2900 m depth, by having a smaller number of radioles and by the shape of the anal lobe. In the present study the presence of bayonet chaetae and vascular peristomial loops were not confirmed in J. pacifica; however, this species is distinct because it has acicular thoracic uncini (avicular in P. filitovae). Also, J. pacifica has a pygidial cirrus which is absent in P. filatovae (instead, P. filatovae having rounded papillae located on the sides of the anus). These features show that P. filatovae and J. pacifica are different species, which also differ bathymetrically: the former has been reported from 3812 to 9735 m depth, and the latter to 2900 m depth (Alalykina 2020).
description: Published as part of Tovar-Hernandez, Maria Ana & Jirkov, Igor A., 2024, Jasmineira filatovae Levenstein, 1961, the deepest known sabellid is a Potamethus Chamberlin, 1919: redescription, new combination and generic emendation, pp. 48-70 in Zootaxa 5486 (1) on page 61, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5486.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13209689
Potamethus Chamberlin 1919
Creators: name: Tovar-Hernandez, Maria Ana
name: Jirkov, Igor A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Sabellida
Sabellidae
Potamethus

description: Potamethus Chamberlin, 1919, emended
 Diagnosis modified from Knight-Jones (1983), Fitzhugh (1989) and Capa et al. (2019).
 Radioles on semicircular lobes, each with at least four rows of vacuolated cells (one species with a single row). Inter-radiolar membrane present or absent, radiolar flanges and basal flanges both absent. Radiolar eyes absent. Dorsal lips with radiolar appendages, pinnular appendages absent; ventral radiolar appendages absent, ventral lips, parallel lamellae and ventral sacs all present, the latter inside radiolar crown. Anterior peristomial ring with narrow ventral lobe. Posterior peristomial ring distinctly elongated, of variable morphology. Moldures in each side of anterior peristomial ring in some species. Peristomial eyespots absent. Thorax usually with eight chaetigers (but some species with 9, 10 or 17 thoracic chaetigers), abdomen with variable number. Glandular ridge on chaetiger 2 present or absent. Ventral shields present. Interramal eyespots absent. Collar chaetae elongate, with narrow or broad hood; inferior thoracic notochaetae paleate. Thoracic uncini avicular, with several rows of progressively shorter teeth above main fang, breast developed or not, medium to long-sized handles, and a small hump on the angle between external margin of neck and handle can be present; neuropodial companion chaetae present, with long handle and distal asymmetrical tip. Abdominal uncini avicular, with several rows of short teeth above main fang, reduced breast, distinctly elongate neck between breast and main fang, elongate handle, and a small hump on the angle between external margin of neck and handle can be present. Abdominal neurochaetae as elongate, narrowly hooded chaetae, in anterior group, and modified, elongate, narrowly hooded chaetae, in posterior group. Pygidial eyespots absent. Pygidial cirrus absent.
description: Published as part of Tovar-Hernandez, Maria Ana & Jirkov, Igor A., 2024, Jasmineira filatovae Levenstein, 1961, the deepest known sabellid is a Potamethus Chamberlin, 1919: redescription, new combination and generic emendation, pp. 48-70 in Zootaxa 5486 (1) on page 67, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5486.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13209689
Handreichung zur Entwicklung von Methoden für die Evaluation von Anpassungsstrategien
Creators: name: Kaiser, Theresa
name: Kind, Christian
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Klimaänderung
subject: Folgen des Klimawandels
subject: Anpassung
subject: Bewertung
subject: Deutsche Anpassungsstrategie an den Klimawandel
subject: Anpassungsstrategie
subject: Anpassung an den Klimawandel
subject: Klima | Energie

description: Im Zuge der Weiterentwicklung der Deutschen Anpassungsstrategiean den Klimawandel(DAS ) hat die Interministerielle Arbeitsgruppe Anpassung (IMAA) die Durchführung einer regelmäßigen Evaluation der Strategie im Fortschrittsbericht 2015 verankert. Für die erste Evaluation der DAS haben adelphi und das Centrum für Evaluation (CEval) im Auftrag des Umweltbundesamtes ein Konzept entwickelt (2015â Ì2017). Aufgrund der unterschiedlichen Struktur der Anpassungsprozesse zum einen zwischen Bundes- und Länderebene, aber auch zwischen den Bundesländern selbst, lässt sich die für die Evaluation der DAS entwickelte Methodik nicht vorbehaltlos auf andere Ebenen übertragen. Diese Handreichung enthält deshalb zunächst einige allgemeine Hinweise zur Strategieevaluation (Kapitel 1), liefert darauf aufbauend einen Überblick über Aspekte, die beim Aufsetzen einer Evaluation berücksichtigt werden sollten (Kapitel 2) und geht abschließend auf zentrale Bestandteile einer Evaluation ein (Kapitel 3). Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: Im Zuge der Weiterentwicklung der Deutschen ⁠Anpassungsstrategie⁠ an den ⁠Klimawandel⁠ (⁠DAS⁠) hat die Interministerielle Arbeitsgruppe Anpassung (IMAA) die Durchführung einer regelmäßigen Evaluation der Strategie im Fortschrittsbericht 2015 verankert. Für die erste Evaluation der DAS haben adelphi und das Centrum für Evaluation (CEval) im Auftrag des Umweltbundesamtes ein Konzept entwickelt (2015−2017). Aufgrund der unterschiedlichen Struktur der Anpassungsprozesse zum einen zwischen Bundes- und Länderebene, aber auch zwischen den Bundesländern selbst, lässt sich die für die Evaluation der DAS entwickelte Methodik nicht vorbehaltlos auf andere Ebenen übertragen. Diese Handreichung enthält deshalb zunächst einige allgemeine Hinweise zur Strategieevaluation (Kapitel 1), liefert darauf aufbauend einen Überblick über Aspekte, die beim Aufsetzen einer Evaluation berücksichtigt werden sollten (Kapitel 2) und geht abschließend auf zentrale Bestandteile einer Evaluation ein (Kapitel 3).
Women’s Use of Sexually Explicit Materials: Making Meaning, Negotiating Contradictions and Framing Resistance
Creators: name: Marques, Olga
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: pornography
sexually explicit materials
women
sexual regulation

description: The prevalence of male-centric pornography has been attributed to accepted (heteronormative) notions of gender specific sexual arousal, with men being characterized as visually stimulated and women naturally more aurally and emotionally receptive (cf. Christensen 1990, Faust 1980, Soble 2002). It has been argued that “if women reject the freedom to enjoy pornography and even male cheesecake, it must be because – no matter what permissions society gives us – women do not want it” (Abramson and Pinkerton 1995: 184). As women are not imagined as the intended recipients of these materials, this study was interested in how women connect their use of sexually explicit materials to their sexual biographies in the on-going process of (re)presenting their sexual identities. I wanted to not only explore what women conceptualize as sexually explicit materials and how they make sense of what they are seeing, but how and why these materials are used, the meanings attributed to these materials and the pleasures derived from them. To this end, 26 women between the ages of 25-35 were interviewed, either individually or as part of a focus group. A theoretical analytic, which bridged interactionist accounts of meaning-making and Foucauldian accounts of discourse, discipline and docile bodies, was articulated to account for how pornographic spectatorship is created, maintained and regulated. Regulation and resistance were situated within broader understandings of sexual scripts and governmentality, focusing on the construction (meaning-making) and deconstruction (resistance) of understandings of mainstream/malestream pornography. This research resulted in two interesting outcomes: (a) the redefinition of ‘gaze’ to account for active female spectatorship, as described by the women who participated in this study; and (b) discussion surrounding the ‘ethical use’ of pornographic materials, conceptualized via a governmentality lens. For the women who participated in this study, engaging with sexually explicit materials was not a passive experience. The narratives elicited demonstrate that these women did not merely absorb pornographic representations unquestioningly; they interrogated them, both subconsciously and consciously, brought new meanings to them and understood them through a decidedly female gaze – their own. These findings suggest a disruption to the assumption of female sexual passivity reverberated throughout patriarchal society.
Cortical activity associated with rhythmic grouping of pitch sequences
Creators: name: Harris, Philip G.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Segmentational grouping in music listening refers to the organisation of individual tones into tone groups that tend to be processed and subsequently recalled as perceptual units or chunks. Grouping of tones via this process tends to occur at natural breaks in structure of a tone sequence, so that relatively larger changes in pitch, amplitude or timing are perceived as boundaries which cue the segmentational grouping process. Segmentational grouping processes have been examined using behavioural research techniques; yet neurophysiological processes underlying the grouping process have received little attention, and are poorly understood. This study aimed to identify brain regions involved in the segmentational grouping process as cued by rhythmic information. Participants performed two auditory tasks while brain electrical activity responses were monitored using Steady-State Probe Topography (SSPT). Behavioural responses evoked in a task probing individuals' use of lengthened-duration tones to organise memory for pitch sequences indicated that longer-duration tones were used as cues to organise working memory representations of the musical patterns. Examination of dynamic SSPT responses during the encoding phase of a probe recognition task indicated that greater use of rhythmic cues to organise working memory representations was associated with activation of a network of left hemisphere frontal, temporal and parietal regions. During the lengthened tone, activation of left central and vertex regions and progressive activation of left temporal and temporoparietal regions were linked with use of the deviant status of the lengthened tone to update temporal expectations for the sequence. Excitatory responses observed in left posterior frontal and temporal regions to a tone following the lengthened tone were proposed to reflect temporal allocation of attention to this point in time, whereas sustained excitatory activation of left temporal, and temporoparietal regions reflected the role of these regions in supporting representations of the tone events in working memory. Finally, late inhibitory responses to the tone following the lengthened tone in left frontal, temporal, temporoparietal, and parietal regions were linked with the manipulation and closure of the working memory trace in association with the grouping process. Together, these findings support the activation of a network of left frontal, temporal and parietal regions underlying rhythmic grouping of pitch sequences.
System Dynamics and Statistical Modeling of Severe Storms: The Case of Charlottetown, P.E.I., Canada
Creators: name: Beigzadeh, Shima
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Maximum Observed Water Level
Sea level rise
System Dynamics using STELLA
Coastal community
Adaptive Capacity
Charlottetown

description: Scientific evidence points to a changing global climate. The most vital and visible impacts of this phenomenon for sea-level communities are sea-level rise, coastal erosion, and more frequent severe coastal storms. However, limited research has been conducted to date to project the damage from rising maximum water levels and corresponding storm surges, and their impacts on the sustainability of coastal communities. This research focuses on the urban coastal community of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.), Canada as part of the C-Change International Community University research Alliance (ICURA), “Managing Adaptation to Environmental Change in Coastal Communities: Canada and the Caribbean.” The stochastic process that underlies, maximum observed water levels in Charlottetown, is modeled using historical data. Maximum observed water levels and storm surges are represented by fitted conditional and marginal univariate probability density functions. The statistical package “Easy-Fit” is used as a tool for analyzing goodness of fit to the historical data for maximum observed water levels in Charlottetown. A System Dynamics (SD) model, using STELLA, is developed to simulate the projected impacts of maximum observed water levels on the City of Charlottetown. The SD model captures the dynamics of the four pillars of community sustainability, namely Environmental, Economic, Social-Cultural and Human sectors identified for the City of Charlottetown. The model defines and evaluates the robustness of alternative adaptation strategies for various model scenarios to projected storms over a long-term planning period. The results quantify the vulnerability of Charlottetown. The analysis of the results from implementing 3 main adaptation strategies for protection, accommodation, and retreat scenarios as well as the ones from the most common current response of “doing nothing”, provide information on the dynamic and pillar-related impacts of storms on Charlottetown. Analysis of these strategy options clearly indicates that doing nothing in the face of more frequent severe storms is an inefficient strategy. Model results show that the protect strategy is unlikely to deliver complete protection, and the retreat option is costly and not well received. The accommodation strategy including a combination of protection options and controlled retreat will provide the most robust option for the coastal City of Charlottetown. The SD model and analysis provides a framework for the evaluation of adaptation strategies for alternative coastal communities.
Le traitement lexicographique du français canadien dans Usito, dictionnaire québécois informatisé
Creators: name: Labelle, Hélène
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: lexicographie
métalexicographie
norme linguistique
dictionnaire
Dictionnaire québécois d'aujourd'hui
Dictionnaire du français plus
Dictionnaire québécois-français
Usito
Franqus
Nouveau Petit Robert
Anglicisme
Diastratisme
sociolinguistique
norme québécoise de langue française
dictionnaire normatif
langue française
Amérique du Nord
Québec
Canada
représentation épilinguistique

description: Cette thèse de maitrise vise une réflexion critique de la norme linguistique francophone nordaméricaine en proposant une étude métalexicographique du dictionnaire québécois de langue française Usito (2014), en comparaison avec quatre autres dictionnaires contemporains : Le Dictionnaire du Français Plus à l’usage des francophones d’Amérique (1988), Le Dictionnaire québécois d’aujourd’hui (1992), Le Dictionnaire québécois-français; Pour mieux se comprendre entre francophones (2003 [1999]) et le Nouveau Petit Robert 2014 en ligne. Elle a pour objectifs principaux le dépouillement de leur nomenclature respective et l’analyse de leurs choix lexicographiques pour une sélection d’anglicismes et de diastratismes. Cette thèse montre la manière dont les outils lexicographiques sont des révélateurs des tensions qui traversent une société quant à la légitimité des diverses variétés linguistiques.
Identité et mobilisation : l’expérience des Métis du Nouveau-Brunswick
Creators: name: Thériault, Marie-Andrée
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Métis
Nouveau-Brunswick
Droits autochtones
Identité

description: Cette thèse de maîtrise vise à mieux comprendre les stratégies et ressources des individus du Nouveau-Brunswick s’identifiant comme Métis et Indiens sans-statuts et qui tentent de faire valoir leurs droits ancestraux en vertu de la Loi constitutionnelle de 1982 devant les tribunaux. La recherche démontre que leur accès aux ressources et aux capitaux sociaux, culturels, économiques et juridiques est plutôt limité. Ceci peut expliquer, en partie, leur difficulté à se voir reconnaître des droits comme autochtones au sens de la Constitution. Les organisations qui les soutiennent représentent pourtant un capital social essentiel à la mobilisation des Métis et Indiens sans statuts. Elles fournissent des espaces de rencontre au sein desquels les membres peuvent partager et extérioriser leur « culture » en plus d’offrir un certain soutien à leurs membres lorsqu’ils font face aux tribunaux.
D5.2 - RightsApp - Conference papers
Creators: name: Gonzalez-Conejero, Jorge
name: Teodoro, Emma
name: Casanovas, Pompeu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: EU victims' rights, EU citizens empowerment, Mobile technologies, Dissemination

description: This document lists the conference papers resulting from the RightsApp project. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the postponement or even cancellation of some of the main criminology and crime victims support conferences. Therefore, besides the dissemination activities in conferences already held, the RightsApp research team has included in this document the conferences which the research team is currently working on in order to send a contribution with the project’s outcomes and results.
Does the shoe fit?
Creators: name: Burke, Roger
name: Dunn, Wendy J.
name: Gamsby, Perry
name: Jones, Nerina
name: Zalec, Daniel
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Postgraduate Writing Masters Programs promise to deliver opportunities for students to develop their writing knowledge. Do these programs deliver to student expectations? Are they a success or failure? Do academic programs offer a place to teach writing? This paper explores these questions through the experiences of Masters students past and present.
Zur rechtlichen Bewertung der situationsbedingten Knappheit von Betriebsmitteln für die Abwasserbehandlung
Creators: name: Reinhardt, Michael
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Phosphatelimination
subject: Wasserhaushaltsgesetz
subject: Abwasserabgabengesetz
subject: Abwasserverordnung
subject: Betriebsmittelknappheit
subject: Fällmittelknappheit
subject: Kläranlagen
subject: Phosphorelimination
subject: Wasser

description: In der Folge des Angriffskriegs der Russischen Föderation auf die Ukraine und der darauf zurückzuführenden Verwerfungen an den internationalen Energiemärkten zeichnet sich eine massive Verknappung von Betriebsmitteln für die Abwasserbehandlung (insbes. Eisensalze als Fällmittel für die Phosphor-Elimination in Kläranlagen) ab. Es ist zu erwarten, daß die Fällmittel bereits alsbald nur noch zu einem sehr hohen Preis oder auch überhaupt nicht mehr zu Verfügung stehen. Infolgedessen kann nicht ausgeschlossen werden, daß insbesondere die in der Abwas-serverordnung festgelegten Grenzwerte für Phosphor und die Überwachungswerte nach dem Abwasserabgabengesetz teilweise erheblich überschritten werden. Das Gutachten untersucht, wie diese Situation unter ordnungs- und abgabenrechtlichen Gesichtspunkten einzuschätzen ist und welche Handlungsoptionen die Regelungen den Behörden und den Betreibern eröffnen. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: As a consequence of the Russian Federation's war on Ukraine and the resulting distortions on the international energy markets, a massive shortage of operating resources for wastewater treatment (especially iron salts as precipitants for phosphorus elimination in wastewater treatment plants) is becoming apparent. It is to be expected that precipitants will soon only be available at a very high price or not at all. As a result, it cannot be ruled out that the limit values for phosphorus laid down in the Waste Water Ordinance and the monitoring values according to the Waste Water Charges Act will be exceeded, in some cases considerably. The legal opinion exam-ines how this situation is to be assessed from the point of view of regulatory and waste water charges law and what options for action the regulations open up for the authorities and the waste water treatment plant operators. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: In der Folge des Angriffskriegs der Russischen Föderation auf die Ukraine zeichnet sich eine massive Verknappung von Betriebsmitteln für die Abwasserbehandlung (insbes. Eisensalze als Fällmittel für die Phosphor-Elimination in Kläranlagen) ab. Infolgedessen kann nicht ausgeschlossen werden, dass insbesondere die in der Abwasserverordnung festgelegten Grenzwerte für Phosphor und die Überwachungswerte nach dem Abwasserabgabengesetz teilweise erheblich überschritten werden. Das Gutachten untersucht, wie dies unter ordnungs- und abgabenrechtlichen Gesichtspunkten einzuschätzen ist und welche Handlungsoptionen die Regelungen den Behörden und den Betreibern eröffnen.
The Potential Power of Dynamics in Epistasis Analysis
Creators: name: Awdeh, Aseel
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: epistasis
gene regulatory network
phenotype
dynamics

description: Inferring regulatory relationships between genes, including the direction and the nature of influence between them, is the foremost problem in the field of genetics. One classical approach to this problem is epistasis analysis. Broadly speaking, epistasis analysis infers the regulatory relationships between a pair of genes in a genetic pathway by considering the patterns of change in an observable trait resulting from single and double deletion of genes. More specifically, a “surprising” situation occurs when the phenotype of a double mutant has a similar, aggravating or alleviating effect compared to the phenotype resulting from the single deletion of either one of the genes. As useful as this broad approach has been, there are limits to its ability to discriminate alternative pathway structures, meaning it is not always possible to infer the relationship between the genes. Here, we explore the possibility of dynamic epistasis analysis. In addition to performing genetic perturbations, we drive a genetic pathway with a dynamic, time-varying upstream signal, where the phenotypic consequence is measured at each time step. We explore the theoretical power of dynamic epistasis analysis by conducting an identifiability analysis of Boolean models of genetic pathways, comparing static and dynamic approaches. We also explore the identifiability of individual links in the pathway. Through these evaluations, we quantify how helpful the addition of dynamics is. We believe that a dynamic input in addition to epistasis analysis is a powerful tool to discriminate between different networks. Our primary findings show that the use of a dynamic input signal alone, without genetic perturbations, appears to be very weak in comparison with the more traditional genetic approaches based on the deletion of genes. However, the combination of dynamical input with genetic perturbations is far more powerful than the classical epistasis analysis approach. In all cases, we find that even relatively simple input dynamics with gene deletions greatly increases the power of epistasis analysis to discriminate alternative network structures and to confidently identify individual links in a network. Our positive results show the potential value of dynamics in epistasis analysis.
Modelling pedestrian behaviour using the BDI architecture
Creators: name: Ronald, Nicole
name: Sterling, Leon
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The modelling of pedestrian behaviour in a real-world environment is a complex problem, mainly due to the unpredictable nature of human decision making. Agent-oriented simulation moves away from the traditional all-knowing and 'controlling' simulations and towards reality, where pedestrians exhibit different behaviours depending on their knowledge of the environment and other personal characteristics. We explore whether the belief-desire-intention (BDI) architecture is appropriate for this domain using the design methodology Prometheus and programming language JACK Intelligent Agents. Although the BDI architecture is useful for high-level decision making, further work is required in representing and updating the environment.
Supplementary Figure 1, 2; Supplementary Table S1-S4 from Olfactory learning in Pieris brassicae butterflies is dependent on the intensity of a plant-derived oviposition cue
Creators: name: Peftuloglu, Dimitri
name: Bonestroo, Stefan
name: Lenders, Roos
name: Smid, Hans
name: Dicke, Marcel
name: van Loon, Joop J.A.
name: Haverkamp, Alexander
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310901
subject: Animal behaviour

description: Experimental set-ups, pairwise comparisons of time spent on scented vs. unscented discs. Statistical results
Role of Snx9 in the Regulation of Mitochondrial Morphology
Creators: name: Magosi, Lerato E.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Mitochondria
Snx9
Whorls
Parkin
VPS35
Mitochondrial dynamics
Quality control
fusion
vesicles
Sorting nexin 9

description: Mitochondria are dynamic; they alter their shape through fission, fusion and budding of vesicles. Mitochondrial vesicles serve as a quality control mechanism enabling these organelles to rid themselves of damaged lipids and proteins. Dysregulation in mitochondrial dynamics and quality control have been linked to Parkinson’s Disease, making the identification of molecules requisite for these processes a priority. We identified the endocytic protein, Sorting nexin 9 (Snx9) through a genome wide siRNA screen for genes which substantially alter mitochondrial morphology and therefore are important for its maintenance. In this work, the role of Snx9 in mitochondrial morphology is examined. Ultrastructural imaging of mitochondria within cells silenced for Snx9 revealed unbudded vesicles along a hyperfused mitochondrial reticulum suggesting a role for Snx9 in the release of these vesicles. The vesicular profiles contained concentric membranous whorls enriched for neutral lipids. Localization studies suggest the Parkinson’s disease genes, Parkin and Vps35 localize to the unbudded profiles.
Seismic Evaluation of a Building Representative of Mass Housing Development Projects in Caracas, Venezuela
Creators: name: Otero, A.
name: Molina Hutt, Carlos
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: In an effort to mitigate a considerable housing deficit, the Venezuelan government has constructed many housing development projects using mass production techniques. Most of the developments are in cities with high seismic hazard. The structural system in these buildings consists of reinforced concrete shear walls. They are designed using a linear elastic analysis approach in compliance with the Venezuelan seismic code Covenin 1756, which allows a maximum response modification coefficient (R) as high as 4.5, reducing seismic design forces according to the anticipated ductility of the structural system. The lack of consistency between design assumptions and detailing practices calls the expected performance of these buildings into question. In this study, a 6-story reinforced concrete shear wall building constructed in 2015 is selected to conduct a detailed seismic evaluation in accordance with ASCE 41-13. A numerical 3D model is developed in OpenSees to characterize the nonlinear behavior of the as-built structure. Nonlinear dynamic analyses are carried out to evaluate seismic performance under a suite of ground motions representative of a 475-year return period event. The results suggest the case-study building does not meet the life-safety performance objective inherent in modern building codes. Two major deficiencies are identified: (1) large concentrations of demands in few elements at the base of the structure induce torsional instability; and (2) detailing practices result in limited ductility, suggesting that the design approach should assume considerably lower R values. These preliminary findings highlight the need for further research and a program to review and improve local seismic codes and construction practices in Venezuela.
The Quantitative Genetics of Good Genes: Fitness, Male Display, and Female Preference
Creators: name: Delcourt, Matthieu
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: evolution
sexual selection
good genes
quantitative genetics
G matrix
pleiotropy
Drosophila serrata
female preference
male display
condition-dependence
evolutionary limit
sexual conflict

description: The ultimate goal of my thesis is to develop a better understanding of the contribution of indirect benefits (i.e. good genes) to the evolution of female mate preferences. It is genetic variance in, and genetic correlations (covariances) among, male sexual displays, female preferences for them, and fitness that in part determine the degree to which females preferring certain male displays over others will gain an indirect benefit by having higher fitness offspring. Recent advances in quantitative genetic theory provide the mathematical means for quantifying the strength of indirect selection for female mate preferences (Kirkpatrick and Hall 2004), at least under certain conditions, but there are few empirical systems for which such data exist (Brooks and Endler 2001; Qvarnström et al. 2006). I have undertaken a classic half-sibling breeding design with the ultimate goal of estimating the specific parameters of this model in a population of the Australian fruit fly Drosophila serrata. The breeding design was performed across two environments - one to which the population was well adapted and a novel environment to which it was not - thereby also providing insight into genotype-by-environment interactions for this suite of traits and their effects on good genes indirect benefits in a novel environment. General insight is also gained into the genetic covariance of male and female fitness and the prevalence of intralocus sexual conflict, the quantitative genetic basis of female mate preferences for multiple male traits, the condition-dependence of these traits, and the genetic association between sexual displays and fitness when mutation-selection balance is inferred. My results advocate caution in the application of existing theory to quantify the strength of indirect selection, suggesting that a good genes process may be fundamentally different when the exaggeration of sexual displays is eventually halted and an equilibrium is reached between opposing selection.
Opportunity, necessity and entrepreneurial success: a farming perspective
Creators: name: Rosa, Peter
name: Kodithuwakku, Sarath. S.
name: Young, James A.
name: Little, David C.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Although there is a diversity of motivations associated with the start-up of new businesses, there has been a trend recently to reduce them to two types, 'necessity' and 'opportunity'. Necessity entrepreneurship is particularly associated with developing countries, where poverty is prevalent whilst opportunity is more associated with developed countries, where basic needs are met and more choice is available (Acs et al. 2005). Such reduction, however, can be criticised. It overlooks the complexity of 'push' and 'pull' factors in business start-ups; in particular many entrepreneurs may be motivated by both necessity and opportunity, and both may be relevant if a successful new business is to emerge. There is also a temporal dimension whereby the business environment, and perceived solutions to its challenges may change over time. Hitherto there has been little research, either on developing or developed countries, on how necessity and opportunity combine during the entrepreneurial process to achieve a successful start-up. To explore this issue research was conducted in both a developed and developing country context. Firstly, 26 case studies were conducted among Scottish farmers in order to gain insights into to the entrepreneurial processes adopted by them and the motivation behind such processes. Secondly, findings were compared and contrasted with those of case studies which had been already carried out in Sri Lanka on rural villagers, all of whom were poor and in an apparent state of poverty and necessity. These studies, though located in countries so different in terms of economic development, were set in more or less similar contexts. Both being rural environments which are highly constrained and the units of analysis being the farmer/farming households. The findings revealed that, though necessity and opportunity can both trigger the start-up of businesses, it is the opportunity driven nature of the farmers which enabled them to grow and sustain their businesses. The Sri Lankan farmers could be categorised into a majority of mono-active (the most necessitous) and a minority of pluriactive farmers who were portfolio entrepreneurs. Income generation resulted from numerous activities including the diversification of their own family labour.
Phylogenetic Analysis of Subtribe Alopecurinae (Poaceae)
Creators: name: Boudko, Ekaterina
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Poaceae
subject: Alopecurinae
subject: Poinae
subject: Poeae
subject: Phleinae
subject: Pooideae
subject: Phylogenetics
subject: Phylogeny
subject: Polyphyly
subject: Molecular
subject: Botany
subject: Taxonomy
subject: Systematics
subject: Alopecurus
subject: Phleum
subject: Beckmannia
subject: Limnas
subject: Cornucopiae
subject: Rhizocephalus
subject: Pseudophleum
subject: Plant
subject: Grass
subject: DNA sequencing
subject: trnT-trnL-trnF
subject: rpoB-trnC
subject: matK
subject: ITS
subject: ETS
subject: Convergent Evolution
subject: Hybridization
subject: Morphology
subject: Evolution
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Flora
subject: Subtribe

description: Subtribe Alopecurinae (Poeae, Poaceae) sensu lato‘s seven genera share interesting morphological similarities (dense spicate panicles and one-flowered spikelets) that were widely thought to have a common origin. However, recent molecular evidence for three of the genera has suggested that the subtribe may be polyphyletic. To test this, five DNA regions were sequenced and analyzed using phylogenetic methods. Results confirm that Alopecurinae s.l. as presently treated is polyphyletic and should be dissolved. Additionally, the genus Cornucopiae may be just another Alopecurus. Limnas and Pseudophleum are not closely allied to Alopecurus or each other, and are even further from Phleum. Phleum is a distinct lineage that is not closely allied to any other included Alopecurinae genus. Evidence for revising infrageneric classifications of Alopecurus and Phleum is presented, as is evidence for separating A. magellanicus into two or more subspecies.
MPEG-V Based Web Haptic Authoring Tool
Creators: name: Gao, Yu
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Haptic authoring tool
web haptic application
HTML5
3D graphics
MPEG-V

description: Nowadays the World Wide Web increasingly provides rich multimedia contents to its users.In order to further enhance the experience of web-users, researchers have sought solutions to integrate yet another modality into the web experience by augmenting web content with haptic properties. In those applications, users are able to interact with web virtual environments (such as games and e-learning systems) enriched with haptic contents. However, it is not easy for designers without pro cient web programming background and basic knowledge regarding haptics, to develop a web application with haptic content enabled. Additionally, there is currently no standard to describe and reuse a well-described haptic application which can be played in web browsers. In this thesis, I present an MPEG-V based authoring tool for facilitating the development procedure of haptics-enabled web applications. The system provides an interface for users to create their own application, add custom 3D models, and modify their graphic and haptic properties. Haptic properties include the speci cation of collision detection mechanism and object surface properties which in turn directly a ect the force simulations. Finally, the user is able to export a haptic-enabled 3D scene in a standard MPEG-V format which can be reconstructed in a web haptic player. A detailed experiment is conducted to evaluate the force simulations, application development process and design of user interface. The results not only verify my proposed methodology, but also show the high acceptance level by users with all levels of programming knowledge of the system.
Safety of Tall Pre-Northridge Steel Frame Buildings and Implications on Cordoning and Recovery
Creators: name: Deierlein, G. G.
name: Yen, W. Y.
name: Hulsey, A. M.
name: Galvis, F.
name: Baker, J. W.
name: Molina Hutt, Carlos
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: The downtown business districts of San Francisco, Los Angeles and other cities in the western United States have significant inventories of older (pre-2000) tall steel buildings that have elevated risk, compared to new code-conforming buildings, of damage and collapse from strong earthquakes. Many of these buildings have welded connections of the type that experienced sudden brittle fractures during the 1994 Northridge earthquake, and they were designed under building codes with less stringent requirements on seismic drifts, minimum column strengths, and seismic base shears. Compounding these deficiencies are new seismic hazard models which indicate that long-period spectral accelerations and durations of earthquake ground motions are larger than considered in older design codes. This study applies newly developed models to assess the response of older steel buildings from the onset of damage up to collapse. The analysis results are used to examine issues associated with post-earthquake inspection and safety, which have implications on building reoccupancy and recovery. The study considers the implication of structural damage on recovery of both the tall building itself, as well as implications of safety cordons around the tall building on the re-occupancy and recovery of neighboring buildings. A method is proposed for quantifying the post-earthquake safety of damaged tall buildings to inform criteria for establishing safety cordons. The building-specific performance-based assessment method of FEMA P58 is extended and applied to quantify the post-earthquake recovery time for neighboring buildings. In addition to providing more comprehensive estimates of community downtime, this framework can include metrics for whether certain buildings are likely to induce inordinately long downtimes in surrounding buildings or how a cordoning strategy will affect a community. This type of downtime assessment can inform a range of policy and planning decisions, such as requiring seismic retrofit of vulnerable tall buildings, evaluating emergency response strategies, and developing postearthquake recovery plans.
'Dulcius ex asperis' – how cash pooling works in the Czech Republic
Creators: name: Polak, Petr
name: Kocurek, Kamil
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper outlines the changing financial scene in The Czech Republic, which is following the global pattern of institutional investors taking over the role of commercial banks as relationship banking is gradually giving way to transaction-driven banking. Investment-grade companies have become more reliant on direct financing and less reliant on intermediated financing. This is due both to reluctance by banks to extend credit facilities to high-grade corporate clients, as they search for more lucrative returns on capital, and by the growth in the supply of capital by institutional and other non-bank investors. This growth in direct financing has been predominately in the form of unsecured and unregistered commercial paper issues. The relatively high Czech reference interest rates in the late 1990’s influenced the development of company debt financing, forcing companies to become more sophisticated and dynamic in their use of debt instruments and hedging tools as they attempt to manage the subsequent interest rate risk. The objectives of cash management are straightforward – maximise liquidity and control cash flows and maximise the value of funds while minimising the cost of funds. The strategies for meeting such objectives include varying degrees of long-term planning requirements. Also, like everywhere in the world, much treasury activity in the Czech Republic is concentrated on cash management. This includes financing the corporation, administration of debts (loans, bonds, commercial papers, etc.), good relationships with the banks, payments to suppliers and collections from customers, control of foreign currency and interest positions according to the company’s needs for finance, and finally the reporting and technical support of all these functions. In this context, the use of cash pooling as a global standard for concentrating cash into the main bank account of the firm, has very quickly found favour in Czech corporations.
Supplementary Materials from Epidemiological inference at the threshold of data availability: an influenza A(H1N2)v spillover event in the United Kingdom
Creators: name: Fozard, John A.
name: Thomson, Emma C.
name: Illingworth, Chris
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310299
subject: Bioinformatics and computational biology not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary Figures accompanying our analysis
Gender Dimensions of Community-managed Water Systems: Gender-water Realities in Peri-urban Cochabamba, Bolivia
Creators: name: Salimi, Kate
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Women
Water
Gender interests
Community participation

description: This thesis examines women’s participation in community-managed water systems in peri-urban Cochabamba, Bolivia based on fieldwork conducted from June-August 2013. Informed by a Feminist political ecology framework, this thesis demonstrates that there are key gendered differences in experiences with water because women are the primary managers of water in the home, and their labour, time and livelihoods are significantly impacted by the lack of safe water. By unearthing women’s experiences and opinions from a number of water committees, networked systems of water should be considered part of a ‘feminist agenda’ as having access to networked water systems decreases women’s physical workloads and the costs of household water. However, while networked water systems are not perfect from a gendered perspective as male community members hold most of the decision-making positions, alliances with progressive NGOs play an important role within Cochabamba’s waterscape as they promote a politics of equity and encourage women to see themselves as vocal subjects, able to define and defend their gender interests.