cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Kinetics of an anaerobic fluidized bed reactor using biolite inert carrier particles.
Creators: name: Prakash, Rajiv.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Chemical.

description: This work investigates the startup and steady state operation of anaerobic fluidized bed reactors (AFBRs) with "Biolite" as the inert carrier material. Startup of AFBRs was performed using the maximum efficiency profile (MEP) and the maximum load profile (MLP) using sucrose based wastewater as feed. Although both loading profiles led to equally fast startup times of about 2 months, MEP resulted in more stable reactor operation during the startup period and thus should be preferred over MLP. Steady state experiments were performed using three concentrations of sucrose substrate and five hydraulic retention times (HRT). Organic removal efficiencies over 80% were obtained for volumetric loadings as high as 20 g/l/d. Total yield was determined to be 0.1g VFS/g COD removed demonstrating that low net synthesis of solids in the AFBR which is highly desirable for wastewater treatment systems. Under the experimental conditions tested, the AFBRs had an average solids retention time (SRT) of 150 days and a washout factor (f) of 0.01. Municipal landfill leachate was treated at steady state conditions; at two influent concentrations and four different loading rates. During the course of treating leachate, the biomass gradually became "mineralized" due to the precipitation of metal sulphides and carbonates. This resulted in loss of sludge activity and the need for higher pumping rates to maintain the same degree of bed expansion. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Identification of Aspects of Genetic Counseling that Appeal to a More Diverse Student Population
Creators: name: Spinette, Sarah
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2019
Subjects: genetic counseling
gender
diversity
awareness
interest
undergraduate

description: The importance of diversity and inclusion within the genetic counseling profession has been widely recognized by the National Society of Genetic Counselors through new initiatives and task force development. However, the profession has remained predominantly comprised of white females. While a small number of studies have examined factors related to this phenomenon, the purpose of this study was to assess student awareness, interest level and attractors/deterrents within a more diverse undergraduate cohort using an anonymous online survey with an embedded informational video/transcript. Both psychology and biology undergraduate students were recruited from institutions of higher education where there is a dedication to supporting first-generation students and a low level of research activity. In total, 398 students from 21 institutions participated in the survey. Overall, a higher proportion of participants were African American (13%) or Hispanic (17.5%), first-generation (34%) and at or below lower middle-class socioeconomic status (41.6%) in comparison to previous studies. Less than 10% of respondents felt they had a good understanding of genetic counseling at the start of the survey. The percentage of students stating they had any interest in applying to GC programs increased from 21% to over 55% after receiving information about the profession. Importantly, of the 90 students who were initially unsure because they needed to know more about the career, 71% became interested. The increase in interest was significant between first-generation students compared to those students with college educated parents (p<0.01) but not between different racial, socio-economic or gender categories. However, the data did show that learning more about genetic counseling had a positive effect on interest level for all groups and supports the need for continued outreach. In addition, the study suggests factors that appeal to different subgroups that could be targeted to better attract diverse genetic counselors. For example, male students were deterred by their perceptions of the prestige and level of authority afforded to genetic counselors, while these same factors were among the factors that increased the interest of African American individuals. These results could be used to modify current outreach efforts in ways that highlight attractive features of the profession to students at institutions with a higher level of diversity. In addition, ensuring the inclusion of first-generation students who have yet to choose a career path may help to entice a wider demographic to enter genetic counseling.
From Silence to Visibility: UN Security Council Resolution 1820 & the Role of Transnational Advocacy
Creators: name: Begag, Lydia
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2022
Subjects: transnational advocacy, sexual violence, United Nations, UN Security Council, women, peace, security, networks, UNSCR 1820, inside advocacy, conflict-related sexual violence

description: My project investigates the transnational advocacy network at the UN Security Council that worked hard to secure Security Council resolution 1820 (2008). UNSCR 1820 is a landmark resolution that condemns sexual violence in war-time as a crime against humanity. It was seen as a milestone for the newly emerging Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda in the international security world. Years prior to 1820’s passage, there was no indication that the Security Council would unanimously decide to condemn conflict-related sexual violence. How did it pass so successfully, then? My research answers how transnational advocacy effectively placed sexual violence on the Security Council’s agenda by analyzing how activists used different strategies to persuade the Council. My methodology involved both primary and secondary sources: conducting research interviews with a network of WPS groups and UN officials and analyzing archival materials from the UN Archives and Records Centre, as well as drawing upon secondary literature existing on this issue. My research findings support how insider advocacy strategies were more effective in persuading the Council to support 1820 as compared to outside advocacy strategies. This challenges the existing body of transnational advocacy literature. 1820’s advocacy process deviated from normative standards in how it used non-traditional forms of activism (such as employing unlikely allies in the movement, capitalizing upon personal relationships at the UN, and using powerful “positive persuasion” tools). My hope in carrying out this research project is that it will highlight the role of inside advocacy that altered UN silence into international visibility, providing the framework to combat wartime sexual violence that for so long had been overlooked.
ISCA 2017, Proceedings of the First MoHESR and HCED Iraqi Scholars Conference in Australasia 2017: Melbourne, Australia, 5-6 December 2017 / Riadh Al-Mahaidi, Alaa Al-Mosawe and Mohamed Al-Younis (eds.)
Creators: name: Al-Mahaidi, Riadh
name: Al-Mosawe, Alaa
name: Al-Younis, Mohamed
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Under the sponsorship of the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research ‘MoHESR’ and the Higher Committee for Education Development in Iraq ‘HCED’, a large number of postgraduate scholars are currently engaged in doctorate and masters degree programs in Australia and New Zealand. The scholars are from different fields of study including engineering, science, social science, law, agriculture and medicine. The First MoHESR and HCED Iraqi Scholars Conference in Australasia 2017 ‘ISCA-2017 was held at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia from 5 to 6 December 2017. The purpose of the conference was to celebrate the achievements of the Iraqi scholars and give them the opportunity to showcase their research outcomes to peers and the wider community of Iraqi scholars in Australia and New Zealand.
Nitrogen-Heterocyclic Carbene Coordination Chemistry of Rhodium and Silver
Creators: name: Liu, Pan
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Organometallic Chemistry

description: Group 9 transition metal complexes featuring a tridentate o-phenylene-bridged diphosphine N-heterocyclic carbene pincer ligand have been synthesized and investigated. [(PCNHCP)RhIII(H)(Cl)][X] [X = PF6 (1), Cl (2)] complexes have been synthesized. A RhIII complex in which a C-Cl bond in CH2Cl2 has been activated, [(PCNHCP)RhIII(CH2Cl)(Cl)2] (3), has been synthesized and isolated. Attempts to isolate the nucleophilic complexes [(PCNHCP)RhI(MeCN)][PF6] (4) and [(PCNHCP)RhI(PMe3)(Cl)] (5) were made. The resulting mixtures all undergo a thermal rearrangement decomposition process leading to mixtures containing [(PCNHCCaryl)Rh(R)(PPh2)] (R = MeCN, PMe3) (6) along with the desired product. Synthesis of NHC-Ag precursors has been investigated and discussed, and [(PCNHCP)Ag(Cl)] (7) was found to undergo a Ag-P association/dissociation process. By adding AgPF6 to the reaction mixture of NHC-Ag precursors, [(PCNHCP)2Ag2][PF6]2 (8) is also obtained by removal of a Cl- ion.
Creating the Future-Past: Understanding Steampunk as Triadic Movement
Creators: name: Burk, Kimberly
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2010
Subjects: retrofuturism
triadic movement
subculture
steampunk
counterculture
transcendent function
Burning Man
Cultural Anthropology

description: Steampunk is a cultural phenomenon which takes a different shape than many other subcultures and countercultures which have proceeded it. This new shape is a significant variation from the paradigm and can be interpreted as a model of socio-cultural progression. By blending opposites like future and past, humanism and technology, this subcultural phenomenon offers symbolic solution model by way of triadic movement and transcendent function. Steampunk seems to be created and defined from the bottom up in that it tries to collapse hierarchies, use creativity and innovative thinking to solve problems and to challenge limits, and uses anachronism, retrofuturism, speculative and alternate realms to inspire individuals and groups to re-imagine and redress the issues and paradigms which have limited them. Through research, interview, participant observation and analysis, this piece explores and explains how the productions and interactions of a small groups of people can offer alternative solutions to a perceived intractable binary towards in both symbolic and tangible ways.
Coming to terms with globalization: Hegemony and agency in British Columbia schools.
Creators: name: Topping, John F.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Education, Guidance and Counseling.

description: Numerous authors in the fields of International Relations (IR) and International Political Economy (IPE) have pointed out the limits of contemporary theories in explaining the complexities of the globalization phenomenon. Greater attention to the construction of identity and to agency, it is proposed here, could well provide a more complete set of knowledge with which to better assess globalization. This thesis considers the place of Robert Cox's theory in understanding identity and agency in globalization. It examines the high school curriculum of Career and Personal Planning (CAPP), a course introduced in British Columbia, Canada, in September 1995. Through its messages to students, teachers and administrators, CAPP carries claims and assumptions about how individuals and communities in the contemporary world order construct who they are, as well as how they come to take action in matters that affect them.
title: Ptéridophytes des gorges de la Diosaz, commune de Servoz en Haute-Savoie, le 10 septembre 2022
title: La Bressonne et la Mérine et leurs falaises de molasse, le 20 juin 2020
titleType: Subtitle
title: Ptéridophytes des gorges de la Diosaz, commune de Servoz en Haute-Savoie, le 10 septembre 2022
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Blanchon, Catherine
name: Magnouloux, Monique
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2023

description: Des participants venant des cantons de Genève, de Vaud, du Valais et de France se sont donné rendez-vous au parking du hameau des Moulins d’en- Haut (commune de Servoz, Haute-Savoie) pour cette sortie naturaliste sur le thème des Ptéridophytes, guidée par Denis Jordan (fig.1). Nous sommes en France, la nomenclature suivie est donc celle de Flora Gallica (Tison & de Foucault, 2014).
The Sodium and Potassium Content of the Most Commonly Available Street Foods in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan in the Context of the FEEDCities Project
Creators: name: De Morais, Ines Lanca
name: Lunet, Nuno
name: Albuquerque, Gabriela
name: Gelormini, Marcello
name: Casal, Susana
name: Damasceno, Albertino [U.A.]
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: sodium
subject: potassium
subject: sodium–potassium ratio
subject: ready-to-eat food
subject: street food
subject: Tajikistan
subject: Kyrgyzstan
subject: low- and middle-income countries
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: This cross-sectional study is aimed at assessing sodium (Na) and potassium (K) content and the molar Na:K ratios of the most commonly available ready-to-eat street foods in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Four different samples of each of these foods were collected and 62 food categories were evaluated through bromatological analysis. Flame photometry was used to quantify sodium and potassium concentrations. The results show that home-made foods can be important sources of sodium. In particular, main dishes and sandwiches, respectively, contain more than 1400 and nearly 1000 mg Na in an average serving and provide approximately 70% and 50% of the maximum daily recommended values. Wide ranges of sodium content were found between individual samples of the same home-made food collected from different vending sites from both countries. In industrial foods, sodium contents ranged from 1 to 1511 mg/serving in Tajikistan, and from 19 to 658 mg/serving in Kyrgyzstan. Most Na:K ratios exceeded the recommended level of 1.0 and the highest ratios were found in home-made snacks (21.2) from Tajikistan and industrial beverages (16.4) from Kyrgyzstan. These findings not only improve data on the nutritional composition of foods in these countries, but may also serve as baseline information for future policies and interventions. View Full-Text
Treatment of inpatient urinary tract infections and patterns of the pathogens that cause urinary tract infections
Creators: name: Foster, Kendra Yvette
Publisher: name: University of Iowa
Year: 2022
Subjects: Antibiotic Resistance
Antibiotic Use
Seasonality
Urban/Rural
Urinary Tract Infections
public abstract
Public Health

description: Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are one of the most common bacterial infections, and they account for over $2.6 billion in annual costs in the United States. UTIs account for roughly 7 million office visits, 1 million emergency department visits, and over 100,000 hospitalizations each year. UTI are effectively treated with antibiotics. However, antibiotic resistance has affected the prescribing patterns of physicians. UTI-causing pathogens have mostly been studied in an outpatient setting. Yet the outpatient and inpatient setting may have different risk factors. For example, elderly patients are more likely to be hospitalized with a UTI than younger patients. Another unique factors about UTIs is that they are seasonal and are more common during the summer months. However, it is unknown if specific UTI-causing pathogens are driving the seasonal trend or if all UTI-causing pathogens follow this trend.
description: For this study, we selected UTI patients who were hospitalized and had a urine culture associated with that hospitalization. We looked at the antibiotics that they received during their hospitalization and described how treatment changed over the hospitalization. We examined different definitions of resistance and how resistance varied by hospital characteristics and across different geographic regions. We then described the seasonality of all UTIs and the three most common UTI-causing pathogens.
description: We observed that the most common antibiotics prescribed in the inpatient setting were ceftriaxone, levofloxacin, and ciprofloxacin. We found that it was common for patients that were started on these antibiotics to experience a switch to a different antibiotic during their stay. The most common type of UTI-causing organism in this sample was Escherichia coli, followed by Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Proteus mirabilis.
description: We found that urban areas did not have significantly higher rates of antibiotic resistance when compared to rural areas. However, we did find that antibiotic resistance was higher for mid-sized hospitals. We found that antibiotic resistance patterns varied by census region as well as by metropolitan statistical area.
description: Lastly, we found that UTIs are seasonal but it did not appear that any particular pathogen was driving the overall seasonal trend. We found that females were more affected by the seasonal trend than males overall. Being able to understand the seasonality of UTIs is important to learn how to dampen the seasonal increase. If we can reduce the seasonal increase, fewer patients will have a UTI and be exposed to antibiotics.
Einflussfaktoren auf das Outcome nach Nierentransplantation
Creators: name: Staeck, Oliver
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Kidney Donor Profile Index
subject: transplantion
subject: outcome
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Diese Habilitationsarbeit entwickelt Konzepte zur Erweiterung des Donor-Pools und zur Verbesserung des Langzeit-Transplantatüberlebens. Eine Kompensation der sinkenden Zahl von post mortem Spenden kann nicht nur durch eine Steigerung der Lebendspenden, sondern auch durch eine kluge Nutzung von marginalen Spendernieren, durch eine optimale Allokation mit dem besten immunologischen und funktionellem Match und durch eine individuelle Transplantationsnachsorge insbesondere der Risikopatienten erreicht werden.
Ability of endophytic fungi isolated from Nepenthes ampullaria to degrade polyurethane
Creators: name: Lii, Shirley Bong Wuan
name: Wong, Changi
name: Al-Obaidi, Jameel R.
name: Rahmad, Norasfaliza
name: Mujahid, Aazani
name: Mueller, Moritz
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Aims: Waste electric and electronic equipment (WEEE) are among the fastest growing waste products worldwide and solutions to their remediation are urgently needed. Bioremediation is a green approach that is helpful to minimize environmental pollution associated with Electronic waste (E-waste). The present study aimed at exploring the potential of endophytic fungi from Nepenthes ampullaria for bioremediation purposes of the plastic component in E-waste, polyurethane (PUR) polymers.
Methodology and results: Endophytic fungal isolates were assessed for their ability to degrade PUR as well as their ability to utilise PUR as sole carbon source. Nine (9) out of 150 isolates demonstrated the ability to efficiently degrade polyurethane in solid medium and the top three (3) isolates were able to grow on PUR as the only carbon source. These three isolates were identified using ITS1 and ITS4 and found to be closely related to the genus Pestalotiopsis. The top two of the three isolates were then assessed for their esterase enzyme activity as well as changes in their proteome when grown with and without PUR. The highest enzymatic activity was found to be 1850.4 U/mL when tested using pnitrophenol acetate as the substrate. Analyses of the 2-dimensional electrophoresis profile revealed changes in the abundance of proteins when treated with polyurethane.
Conclusion, significance and impact of study: This study is to our knowledge the first on endophytes isolated from N. ampullaria that can degrade PUR, and also their proteomes. Results obtained from this study can in the future help to reduce polyurethane wastes. Besides degrading PUR polymer, endophytic fungi produce potential valuable proteins that may find broad applications in bioremediation applications.
Comprehensive and Quantitative Composition Analysis of Complex Organic Materials by Advanced Solid-state NMR
Creators: name: Zheng, Zhaoxi
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2025
Subjects: Analytical method development
Complex organic materials
Composition Quantification
Pharmceutical solids
Solid-state NMR
Structural Elucidation

description: Establishing structure-property relationships is always an important goal of materials research, which requires the molecular-level understanding provided by characterization tools. Popular techniques such as Raman and infrared spectroscopy are widely used, but their measurements are not quantitative. Solid-state NMR (ssNMR) has the advantages of being element selective, inherently quantitative, and equally applicable to crystalline and amorphous materials. It is also a powerful tool in the structural analysis of local symmetry, bonding patterns, and functional groups. Due to these characteristics, solid-state NMR is finding increasing use in solid-state chemistry and materials science.Nevertheless, solid-state NMR typically suffers from poor spectral resolution compared to solution NMR and low sensitivity relative to vibrational spectroscopy. Yet these challenges have been addressed in recent days with advanced NMR hardware and techniques. Materials made from isotope-enriched precursors generally provide better resolution, for example, 90-fold enrichment over the natural 13C abundance of 1.1% provides a 90-fold signal enhancement. Corresponding two-dimensional NMR based on strong dipolar couplings between enriched isotopes can be measured to determine bond connections and probe structure dynamics. In addition, reliable peak deconvolution based on spectral editing techniques assists in peak assignments and building meaningful models of complex organic materials.
description: My dissertation research is mainly focused on component quantification and compositional analysis of complex organic materials to understand structure-property relationships by advanced ssNMR, including but not limited to the following three categories: novel synthetic functional materials, pharmaceutical solids, and materials derived from renewable sources. Specific results include the following:
description: 1. Novel one-dimensional sp3-hybridized nanothreads derived from modest pressure compression of 13C4-furan.
description: 2. Functional organic linkers in canonical metal-organic frameworks with accessible benzylic amines and azides handles from post-synthetic modification.
description: 3. Ortho-alkoxy-benzamide directed formation of a single-crystalline hydrogen-bonded crosslinked organic frameworks for boron trifluoride uptake
description: 4. Peak assignment and quantification in hydroxyl methylcellulose acetate succinate, a cellulose-based pharmaceutical excipient.
description: 5. Vinyl and methyl ester groups in the insoluble fluorinated polymer-drug patiromer identified and quantified by solid-state NMR
Analysis and construction of noun hypernym hierarchies to enhance Roget's Thesaurus
Creators: name: Kennedy, Alistair
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Language, General.
subject: Computer Science.

description: Lexical resources are machine-readable dictionaries or lists of words, where semantic relationships between the terms are somehow expressed. These lexical resources have been used for many tasks such as word sense disambiguation and determining semantic similarity between terms. In recent years some research has been put into automatically building lexical resources from large corpora. In this thesis I examine methods of constructing a lexical resource, not from scratch, but rather expanding existing ores. Roget's Thesaurus is a lexical resource that groups terms together based on degrees of semantic relatedness. One of Rogets Thesaurus' weaknesses is that it does not specify the nature of the relationships between terms, it only indicates that there is a relationship. I attempt to label the relationships between terms in the thesaurus. These relationships could include: synonymy, hyponymy/hypernymy and meronymy/holonymy. I examine the Thesaurus for all of these relationships. Sources of these relationships include other lexical resources such as WordNet, and also large corpora and specialized texts such as dictionaries. Roget's Thesaurus has other weaknesses including a somewhat outdated lexicon. Our version of Roget's Thesaurus was created in 1987 and so does not contain words/phrases related to the Internet and other advances since 1987. I examine methods of creating a hypernym hierarchy of nouns. A hierarchy is constructed automatically and evaluated manually by several annotators who are fluent in English. These hypernyms are intended to be used in a system where a human annotator is given a set of hypernyms and indicates which are correct and which are incorrect. This is done to facilitate the process of constructing a lexical resource, a process which was previously done manually. I import over 50,000 hypernym relationships to Roget's Thesaurus. An estimated overall accuracy of 73% is achieved across the entire hypernym set. As a final test the new relationships imported to the Thesaurus are used to improve Roget's Thesaurus capacity of calculating semantic similarity between terms/phrases. The improved similarity function is tested on several applications that make use of semantic similarity. The relationships are also used to improve Roget's Thesaurus' capacity for solving SAT style analogy questions.
IP/O-chains coverage criterion.
Creators: name: Ma, Wenxin.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: In this thesis, three versions of the IP/$O\sb2$-chains coverage criterion, namely the original IP/$O\sb2$-chains coverage criterion, applicable IP/$O\sb2$-chains coverage criterion and subdomain-based IP/$O\sb2$-chains coverage criterion, are compared to the other control and data-flow-oriented software testing criteria under "strictly includes" and "properly covers" relations. The precise positions of these three versions of the IP/$O\sb2$-chains coverage criterion in three hierarchies are given. Then, a new version of IP/$O\sb{n}$-chains coverage is defined. It is proved that: (i) Applicable new IP/$O\sb2$-chains coverage criterion strictly includes applicable all-uses criterion; (ii) For any given program P, there exists a number n such that subdomain-based new IP/$O\sb{n}$-chains coverage criterion covers subdomain-based all-uses criterion; (iii) For any given program P, there exists a numbern such that for each IP/$O\sb{j}$-chain c, if one duplicates the subdomain of c l(c) times, where $j\leq n$ and l(c) is the length of c, then subdomain-based new IP/$O\sb{n}$-chains coverage criterion is better than subdomain all-uses criterion under measure M; (iv) Subdomain-based new IP/$O\sb{n}$-chains coverage criterion and subdomain-based required k-tuples$\sp+$ criterion are incomparable in "universally properly covers" relation; (v) For any given program P, there exists a number n such that for each IP/$O\sb{j}$-chain c, if one duplicates the subdomain of c m(c) times, where $j\leq n$ and m(c) is the total number of df-chains on c, then subdomain-based new IP/$O\sb{n}$-chains coverage criterion properly covers the subdomain-based required k-tuples$\sp+$ criterion.
Impairment of Bone Health in Pediatric Patients with Hemolytic Anemia
Creators: name: Schündeln, Michael M.
name: Goretzki, Sarah C.
name: Hauffa, Pia K.
name: Wieland, Regina
name: Bauer, Jens
name: Baeder, Lena
name: Eggert, Angelika
name: Hauffa, Berthold P.
name: Grasemann, Corinna
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Introduction Sickle cell anemia and thalassemia result in impaired bone health in both adults and youths. Children with other types of chronic hemolytic anemia may also display impaired bone health. Study Design To assess bone health in pediatric patients with chronic hemolytic anemia, a cross-sectional study was conducted involving 45 patients with different forms of hemolytic anemia (i.e., 17 homozygous sickle cell disease and 14 hereditary spherocytosis patients). Biochemical, radiographic and anamnestic parameters of bone health were assessed. Results Vitamin D deficiency with 25 OH-vitamin D serum levels below 20 ng/ml was a common finding (80.5%) in this cohort. Bone pain was present in 31% of patients. Analysis of RANKL, osteoprotegerin (OPG) and osteocalcin levels indicated an alteration in bone modeling with significantly elevated RANKL/OPG ratios (control: 0.08+0.07; patients: 0.26+0.2, P = 0.0007). Osteocalcin levels were found to be lower in patients compared with healthy controls (68.5+39.0 ng/ml vs. 118.0+36.6 ng/ml, P = 0.0001). Multiple stepwise regression analysis revealed a significant (P<0.025) influence of LDH (partial r2 = 0.29), diagnosis of hemolytic anemia (partial r2 = 0.05) and age (partial r2 = 0.03) on osteocalcin levels. Patients with homozygous sickle cell anemia were more frequently and more severely affected by impaired bone health than patients with hereditary spherocytosis. Conclusion Bone health is impaired in pediatric patients with hemolytic anemia. In addition to endocrine alterations, an imbalance in the RANKL/OPG system and low levels of osteocalcin may contribute to this impairment.
Long-term sensorimotor adaptation in the ocular following system of primates
Creators: name: Hietanen, Markus A.
name: Price, Nicholas S. C.
name: Cloherty, Shaun L.
name: Hadjidimitrakis, Kostas
name: Ibbotson, Michael R.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The sudden movement of a wide-field image leads to a reflexive eye tracking response referred to as short-latency ocular following. If the image motion occurs soon after a saccade the initial speed of the ocular following is enhanced, a phenomenon known as post-saccadic enhancement. We show in macaque monkeys that repeated exposure to the same stimulus regime over a period of months leads to progressive increases in the initial speeds of ocular following. The improvement in tracking speed occurs for ocular following with and without a prior saccade. As a result of the improvement in ocular following speeds, the influence of post-saccadic enhancement wanes with increasing levels of training. The improvement in ocular following speed following repeated exposure to the same oculomotor task represents a novel form of sensori-motor learning in the context of a reflexive movement.
The Phantom of the Author: Literary Analysis Reconsidered
Creators: name: Rourke, Lisa
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2014
Subjects: authors
implied author
narrative theory
Literary Theory

description: This project argues that authorial knowledge matters a great deal to literary critics. Such a claim contradicts conventional thinking about the role of the historical author in literary analysis: As Hans Harold-Muller and Tom Kindt observe in The Implied Author: Concept and Controversy, from the late nineteenth century and through much of the twentieth century, “Interest in the author, his biography, and what he intended to express was dismissed as biographism or psychologism and banished from literary theory.” To compare such dictums to critical practice, this project undertook a close study of over 200 critical essays and ten prominent scholarly books about novels by Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy. Chapters 1-3 explore the ways that critics “access” the historical author. The first chapter analyzes how critics use biographies and the author’s private writings in their readings of novels by Austen and Hardy. The second chapter examines the manner and extent to which critics make assertions of authorial intention in interpretation. And the third chapter explores the ways in which critics infer authors’ values and beliefs from their novels. Through close analysis of my findings, the dissertation makes three key claims: 1) critics often rely on biographical sources to support their readings, especially when those sources are authoritative, substantive and plentiful; 2) when biographical sources are relatively scarce, critics tend to make central to their readings both claims of authorial intention and recourse to authorial beliefs inferred from the novels themselves; and, 3) distinctions between different author forms, such as implied and historical authors, may not be important for interpretive purposes because it does not seem to matter to interpretive outcomes whether one or several novels are used or whether biographical sources are added. The fourth chapter synthesizes the data from the first three chapters as the basis for exploring why critics might be so invested in knowledge of authors despite past dictums against relying on such knowledge in textual analysis. Using concepts from bio-cultural approaches and theories of value, the dissertation concludes that authorial knowledge—even when it is tangential or trivial—adds to the perceived value of literary analysis.
Public Outreach in Archaeology “Unessay” Final Project Guidelines
Creators: name: Tushingham, Shannon
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2021
Subjects: public archaeology
Archaeology

description: This sample course assignment was developed by Dr. Shannon Tushingham for her WSU undergraduate class in Archaeological Methods and Interpretation (ANTH 230). This is one of several graded assignments that are explicitly incorporated to develop graduate student mastery in public archaeology education and dissemination skills by exposing them to creative public communication projects, activities, and discussions. For this project, students create their public archaeology product in an “unessay” format. As an “unessay” assignment, students may select whatever topic or project they like, so long as the project is designed to reach some public audience. This assignment is cited in the paper, Public Archaeology Education “Of the People, For the People, By the People”: Democratized Science Communication in Theory and Practice”, 2021 paper in press by Shannon Tushingham and Tiffany Fulkerson, in a special issue of the Journal of Northwest Anthropology entitled Do We Reach More? Essays on Sharing Cultural and Archaeological Research.
Women's domination as reification: A socialist feminist critique of Habermas's theory of communicative action.
Creators: name: Palamarek, Michael.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: This thesis endeavours to articulate a socialist feminist critique of Jurgen Habermas's theory of communicative action through an examination of the conception of domination and the possibilities of emancipation elaborated in this theory. It argues that the example of women's domination in late modern societies reveals shortcomings that significantly challenge Habermas's conception of domination as the systemic and cultural reification of communicatively-structured contexts of everyday life. The thesis locates these lacunae in Habermas's reading of the concept of labour in Hegel and Marx, conducted within the terms of a distinction between labour and interaction. Utilizing the socialist feminist categories of the gender division of labour and of patriarchy, the theory of communicative action is demonstrated to be markedly ambivalent with respect to its capacity to systematically identify forms of women's oppression. Consequently the notion of emancipatory practice as the communicative rationalization of everyday life is likewise constrained.
Provisional liberations, fragments of salvation: The practical-critical Soteriology of Edward Schillebeeckx.
Creators: name: Simon, Derek.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Theology.

description: This dissertation examines how the practical-critical soteriology of Edward Schillebeeckx constructs its interpretation of the connection between emancipation and salvation. I elaborate the extent and manner in which sociopolitical emancipation is intrinsic to and constitutive for salvation in Schillebeeckx' practical-critical soteriology. I then pursue the different mediations Schillebeeckx assigns to practical-critical soteriology in sustaining a progressive political praxis. How are emancipation and salvation related to each other, and how is their interaction constructed by the practical-critical soteriology of Schillebeeckx? In the introduction, I delineate the body of primary literature which forms the basis for this study of Schillebeeckx' practical-critical soteriology. I also indicate why this study is pertinent in relation to existing commentary on Schillebeeckx' soteriology. In chapter one, I establish the practical-critical definition of Schillebeeckx' soteriology. Practical-critical soteriology identifies the kind of discourse Schillebeeckx endorses in drawing out the repercussions of the connection between salvation and emancipation. Schillebeeckx differentiates between soteriology and christology in order to accentuate the distinctness of practical-critical soteriology. In chapter two, I examine the intrinsic and constitutive connection between emancipation and salvation in Schillebeeckx' practical-critical soteriology. Schillebeeckx establishes the basis for their constitutive interdependence based on an extensive consideration of biblical resources. The most significant resource, in this regard, is his reading of the lifepraxis, death and resurrection of Jesus. It is the interdependence between the lifepraxis and the resurrection of Jesus that animates the dialectic between emancipation and salvation. In chapter three, I explore the role of social theory as a mediation which is central to practical-critical soteriology in its effort to orient the communication of love through a liberating political praxis. In chapter four, I examine the mediation of the sociopolitical imagination in assisting practical-critical soteriology to articulate the repercussions of eschatological faith for a liberating political praxis. In chapter five, I examine the account of sociopolitical institutions at work in Schillebeeckx' practical-critical soteriology. This chapter on sociopolitical agencies attempts to delineate two independent yet complementary lines of institutional agency capable of sustaining a progressive political praxis. In the conclusion, I advance some elements towards a critique of Schillebeeckx' practical-critical soteriology. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Étude des commentaires rétroactifs par les pairs dans le contexte de l'évaluation formative.
Creators: name: Malara, Eric.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Education, Tests and Measurements.

description: Les courants de l'heure en éducation misent de plus en plus sur des modalités pédagogiques qui responsabilisent davantage les étudiants dans la prise en charge de leurs apprentissages. L'évaluation par les pairs constitue une de ces modalités pédagogiques car, parmi ses nombreux avantages, elle encourage un véritable échange d'idées. De nombreuses recherches ont validé l'approche de l'évaluation par les pairs avec des notes chiffrées ou des lettres. Les étudiants-maîtres pourtant dans leur carrière d'enseignant ne donneront pas uniquement des notes mais aussi des commentaires. Les mécanismes d'application et la nature de cette forme d'évaluation sont encore à explorer. Cette recherche vise à examiner de manière plus approfondie les caractéristiques spécifiques des commentaires rétroactifs fournis par les pairs dans le contexte d'une évaluation formative de l'enseignement d'une leçon simulée. Plus spécifiquement, la question de recherche retenue dans cette étude est la suivante: dans un contexte d'évaluation formative pratiquée par les pairs, quelle sera la nature des commentaires des étudiants-maîtres en termes de pertinence, de précision, de direction et de nombre? (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Salt-induced hypertension: Central regulation by ouabain-like compounds and angiotensin II.
Creators: name: Veerasingham, Shereeni J.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Pharmacology.

description: We hypothesized that the ventral anteroventral third ventricle region (vAV3V), which mainly comprises the organum vasculosum laminae terminalis (OVLT) and extends ∼100 mum into the median preoptic nucleus, mediates salt-induced sympathoexcitation and hypertension via AT1 receptor activation. We utilized ibotenic acid lesions of the vAV3V to determine a role of neurons in this area in pressor responses to intracerebroventricular (icv) administration of hypertonic saline (0.3M NaCl, 2 mul/min for 10 min), ouabain (0.3 and 0.6 mug) and angiotensin II (Ang II; 10 and 30 ng), and in two rat models of hypertension in which mechanisms of salt-sensitive hypertension are mimicked: chronic icv hypertonic, saline (0.8 M NaC1, 5 mul/h icv for 2 weeks) to increase CSF [Na+] and chronic subcutaneous (sc) ouabain (50 mug/d sc for 3 weeks) to mimick increases in central ouabain-like compound content. 125I-Sar1Ile8-Ang II binding to AT1 receptors was determined by in vitro receptor autoradiography to determine if changes in AT1 receptor density accompany the development of salt-induced hypertension in Dahl salt-sensitive (S) rats. In conscious vAV3V lesioned Wistar rats with systemic vasopressin receptor blockade, pressor and tachycardic responses to 0.3 M NaCl and ouabain, were significantly attenuated by 26--32% whereas responses to Ang II were unaffected. Resting mean arterial pressure (MAP) in sham-operated rats that received chronic hypertonic saline infusions or ouabain treatment was significantly higher (17--19%) than in aCSF or placebo treated controls. vAV3V lesions abolished the chronic hypertonic saline or ouabain induced increases in MAP and the enhanced depressor responses to ganglionic blockade with hexamethonium. AT1 binding in the OVLT, the suprachaismatic nucleus and the paraventricular nucleus did not differ between Dahl S and R rats on regular salt diet, and was decreased similarly on high salt diet. Within the subfornical organ AT1 receptor binding did not differ between Dahl S and R rats on regular salt diet and decreased in both strains on the high salt diet, but decreased more in hypertensive Dahl S versus the normotensive Dahl R rats (50% versus 23%). In conclusion, the vAV3V area appears to play a crucial role in mediating salt-induced hypertension, possibly via sympathetic activation, but autoradiography did not provide evidence for differential AT1 stimulation in the vAV3V.
The Flight From Dependence
Creators: name: Cynamon, Jeremy Kingston
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2022
Subjects: autonomy
freedom
Hegel
Marx
Mill
Nietzsche

description: The Flight From Dependence (TFD) examines the relationship between autonomy theories of freedomand the idea of social dependence. Using three case studies, in the form of three different theories of freedom (Ch. 1 John Stuart Mill, Ch. 2 Friedrich Nietzsche, and Ch. 3 Karl Marx) TFD shows that despite acknowledging the profound ways that human beings are socially dependent animals, each of these thinkers flees from the implications of that fact when it comes to thinking about freedom. TFD
description: argues that this move is characteristic of modern political thought. Although almost everyone wants to acknowledge the fact that we are profoundly dependent beings whose identities are shaped by our social relations, by different means and methods that insight has been kept asunder from our thinking about the nature of freedom. Ultimately, TFD uses a Hegelian framework to show that the modern tendency to think about freedom purely in terms of autonomy is in tension with the reality of humanity’s social dependencies.
Sedimentology and stratigraphic evolution of a tidally influenced marginal-marine complex: The Lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation, Athabasca oil sands deposit, northeastern Alberta
Creators: name: Crerar, Erin Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Geology.

description: Within the Lewis study area, McMurray Formation strata comprise 4 facies associations that form a depositional continuum of braided-fluvial (FA1), tidally-influenced braided- to low-accommodation meandering-fluvial and meandering-tidal channel-fills (FA2), associated overbank (FA3), and open-estuarine tidal flat deposits (FA4). The primary reservoir occurs in transgressive FA2 deposits. Lower-FA2 channels incise older water-wet FA1sand and consist of medium to locally-coarse, bitumen-saturated sand with rare to locally common pin-stripe laminated and/or 1--5 cm thick mud beds. Channels were initially confined by steep valley walls formed along the sub-Cretaceous unconformity. As a consequence, coeval interchannel sediment (FA3) was cannibalized by lateral channel migration and occurs only as common mud-clasts. The net result was the accumulation of a sand-rich, sheet-like deposit with locally-preserved fine-grained interchannel deposits, suggesting a high rate of lateral versus vertical accretion. With the filling and elimination of the irregular paleotopography along the unconformity, upper-FA2 channels became unconfined and formed thick, areally extensive inclined heterolithic stratification (IHS) deposits. Similarly, coeval interchannel deposits are more widely-distributed and thickly preserved compared to underlying strata. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)