cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Ένα εκπαιδευτικό εγχειρίδιο για τη μελέτη του δράματος
Creators: name: Πατσαλίδης, Σάββας
Publisher: name: Σκηνή
Year: 2012

description: «Το ότι αποφάσισα να επικεντρωθώ πιο πολύ στη μελέτη του δραματικού έργου [work] παρά στη μελέτη του κειμένου της παράστασης [text], οφείλεται σε τρεις λόγους. Πρώτον, γιατί για το κείμενο της παράστασης υπάρχει ήδη ένα αρκετά πλήρες εργαλείο ανάλυσης από τον Patrice Pavis, δεύτερον, γιατί το κείμενο της παράστασης κυριαρχεί πλέον σε όλες σχεδόν τις μελέτες που κυκλοφορούν, άρα ποιος ο λόγος να προστεθεί άλλο ένα και, τρίτον, γιατί αισθάνομαι πως ο συνεχιζόμενος κερματισμός του δραματικού έργου από τους πρακτικούς του θεάτρου, έχει δυσκολέψει αφάνταστα την ανάλυση και την αξιολόγησή του. Ο κόσμος (και πιο πολύ αναφέρομαι στους νέους) έχει ξεχάσει τι σημαίνει δραματικό έργο. Και, το πιο σημαντικό, έχει ξεχάσει τι σημαίνει δραματικός συγγραφέας. Όλοι και όλα τείνουν να τον επισκιάσουν». Ο Σάββας Πατσαλίδης, ένας θεωρητικός γνωστός για τη συστηματική εστίασή του στην παραστασιακή διάσταση του θεατρικού φαινομένου, επιστρέφει εδώ στο βασίλειο του δράματος, διερευνώντας τα συστατικά του και αναλύοντας τις χρήσεις τους σε μια πλειάδα συγγραφέων και έργων από το παγκόσμιο και το ελληνικό θέατρο. Το αποτέλεσμα είναι ένας χειμαρρώδης και πληθωρικός οδηγός για το κυνήγι των θησαυρών που κρύβει το δραματικό έργο.
description: Σκηνή, No 4 (2012)
Impact of piscivorous fish introduction on fish communities of small temperate lakes in Gatineau Park, Quebec, Canada
Creators: name: Aiken, James
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Biology, Ecology.
subject: Biology, Limnology.

description: Small temperate lakes are under increasing pressure from a number of anthropogenic sources, including but not limited to: habitat alteration, invasive species, climate change, and pollution. In Gatineau Park, Quebec, Canada small temperate lakes have been demonstrated to be under threat from introduced piscivores, among other potential stressors. Here, I assessed the historical impact of four introduced piscivores on minnow, small fish and total fish species richness for a set of small Gatineau Park lakes. Fish community data were obtained from two previously published studies and a lake survey conducted in the summers of 2006 and 2007. I used a modified Control/Impact study design and repeated measures analysis of variance to test the hypothesis that introduced piscivores negatively affect species richness over time. My results strongly demonstrate that piscivores have had a negative effect on minnow and small fish species richness over time, whereas total fish species richness was unaffected. Assuming that these introduced piscivores pose a risk to the parks small temeprate lakes, I then assessed what lake characteristics best predict piscivore invasion risk. To do this, I estimated invasion risk employing two different analytical approaches for a total of 42 small lakes located in Gatineau Park using current and historical data collected in 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2006. Bootstrapped logistic regression was used to predict historical occurrence, and whether or not a lake was invaded/not invaded over time using predictor variables that included lake anthropogenic, spatial-isolation, and morphometric factors. For both logistic regression analyses, lake area and small fish species richness were found to be excellent predictors of piscivore invasion risk and historical occurrence, while lake spatial-isolation factors were also found to be excellent predictors of piscivore historical occurrence. The bootstrapped models with the most support based on Akaike's Information Criterion corrected for small sample size (AICc) were then used to identify lakes at greatest risk for future invasion. My results support the contention that introducing top predators into novel aquatic environments has detrimental impacts on native fish communities, and that these impacts are not always immediately obvious, but are indeed discernable over time. In conclusion, I make specific recommendations to guide the conservation and management of small temperate lake ecosystems.
Some Results concerning Random Lattices and Metric Number Theory
Creators: name: Skenderi, Mishel
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Random Lattices
Metric Number Theory
Number Theory

description: In the former part of this dissertation, we establish generalizations and analogues of some probabilistic results in the geometry of numbers. One of our results states the following: for any $n \in \Z_{\geq 3}$ and any Borel subset $A$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$ with finite and nonzero volume, the probability that the set of primitive points of a random unimodular full-rank lattice in $\mathbb{R}^n$ does not contain any $\mathbb{R}$-linearly independent subset of $A$ of cardinality $(n-2)$ is bounded from above by a constant multiple, which depends only on $n$, of $\left(\mathrm{vol}(A)\right)^{-1}.$ This generalizes a result that is jointly due to J.\,S.~Athreya and G.\,A.~Margulis. We also establish upper bounds for the variances of certain counting functions defined on the space of unimodular full-rank lattices in $\mathbb{R}^n$; we then use these bounds to obtain analogues of independent results of C.\,A.~Rogers and W.\,M.~Schmidt. In the latter part of this dissertation, we prove an analogue of Khintchine's Theorem in metric Diophantine approximation:~given any regular (a notion to be defined) and nonincreasing function $\psi: \R_{\geq 0} \to \R_{>0}$ and any subhomogeneous function (a notion to be defined) $f: \R^n \to \R$, we establish a necessary and sufficient condition for ensuring that a generic element $f\circ g$ in the $G$-orbit of $f$ is asymptotically $\psi$-approximable. We also obtain a sufficient condition for ensuring that a generic element $f\circ g$ in the $G$-orbit of $f$ is uniformly $\psi$-approximable. Here, $G$ can be any closed subgroup of $\ASL$ that satisfies certain axioms whose definitions are inspired by the works of C.\,L.~Siegel and C.\,A.~Rogers.
Οι τόποι ως δρώντα βίαιων εκδικητικών επιτελέσεων. Από το δράμα στον δρόμο
Creators: name: Τσατσούλης, Δημήτρης
Publisher: name: Σκηνή
Year: 2012

description: Το άρθρο έχει ως βάση εκκίνησης την κοινωνιολογική/ανθρωπολογική έννοια της κοινωνικής/πολιτισμικής επιτέλεσης [performance sociale ou culturelle], σύμφωνα με την οποία τα κοινωνικά φαινόμενα μπορούν να ερμηνεύονται με βάση την ανάλυση των θεαματικών πρακτικών (Turner, Schechner) ή, αλλιώς, τα εργαλεία του θεάτρου μπορούν να χρησιμεύσουν ως μέσον κοινωνιολογικής έρευνας (Gurvitch). Υπό αυτή την οπτική, επιλέγεται η έννοια του «τόπου» ως αναλαμβάνοντος ποικίλες θέσεις «δρώντος» σε ιστορίες εκδίκησης, σύμφωνα με το σημειολογικό μοντέλο δράσης της αφήγησης (Greimas, Ubersfeld): α. ως πηγής δράσης, αυτού δηλαδή που επιβάλλει τη δράση εκδίκησης εντός του χώρου του· β. ως υποκειμένου της δράσης, αυτού δηλαδή που δρα εκδικητικά με κυριολεκτική ή μεταφορική σημασία· γ. ως αντικειμένου της δράσης, δηλαδή ως αυτού που υφίσταται την εκδίκηση. Εντός των ανωτέρω κατηγοριοποιήσεων, μελετώνται παράλληλα εκδικητικές δράσεις όπου ο τόπος αναλαμβάνει μια τέτοια ενεργό θέση, είτε σε δραματικά κείμενα, είτε σε «κοινωνικές δραματουργίες/επιτελεστικές πράξεις». Με αυτό τον τρόπο, συνεξετάζονται κάτω από την τριπλή αυτή διάκριση περιπτώσεις αντεκδίκησης κρητικής βεντέτας εντός δικαστηρίων και έργα του Σαίξπηρ, η λειτουργία της Επιτροπής Αλήθειας και Συμφιλίωσης στη Νότιο Αφρική και η συναφής με το ζήτημα θεατρική παραγωγή, οι πυρπολήσεις της Αθήνας ή οι Αγανακτισμένοι στην Πλατεία Συντάγματος και θεατρικά έργα του Δημήτρη Δημητριάδη και του Χάινερ Μύλλερ, η εκδικητική στάση της Επιδαύρου κατά σκηνοθεσιών αρχαιοελληνικού δράματος από ξένους σκηνοθέτες και οι εθνικιστικοί αντίλαλοι που συνοδεύουν τέτοιες πρακτικές.
description: Σκηνή, No 4 (2012)
Entre réseaux sociaux et communauté L'expérience d'intégration des immigrants latino-américains de Québec
Creators: name: Jarotkova, Jolana
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies.
subject: Hispanic American Studies.

description: Le processus d'intégration est aujourd'hui pensé comme une interaction entre le migrant et la société d'accueil, omettant de cette façon de possibles intermédiaires entre les deux. Nous appuyant sur les travaux de l'École de Chicago et particulièrement sur ceux de Louis Wirth, nous avançons l'hypothèse que la communauté d'origine du migrant peut être un de ces intermédiaires. Nous avons donc tenté de saisir son eventuel rôle dans l'expérience d'intégration d'une quinzaine d'immigrants latino-américains vivant à Québec. Concevant l'intégration comme un processus multidimentionnel, nous avons constaté que ce sont les réseaux sociaux plutôt que la communauté d'origine qui tiennent le rôle d'intermédiaire dans l'expérience d'intégration des interviewes. Par ailleurs, les entretiens de recherche ont permis de souligner l'importance de la dimension professionnelle dans l'expérience d'intégration ainsi que l'interdépendance des dimensions de celle-ci.
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title: Criminological characteristics and prevention of crimes committed in the field of information technology
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information technology
cybercrime
crime prevention
criminological characteristics of cybercrime
latency

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description: In the course of this work, the meaning and concept of cybercrimes are studied, a complete analysis of the criminological characteristics of cybercrimes is carried out, based on the scientific data of other authors. The work is devoted to a comprehensive study of official statistics to determine the level of impact of cybercrimes on the population of the country. The main purpose of the work is to provide research results and analysis of an urgent problem in the field of modern information technology. In the course of the work, special attention is paid to the problems of investigation and disclosure of "cybercrimes", due to their characteristic latency.
Is a Low Intensity Walking Intervention Successful in Reducing Depression Symptoms in Middle to Older Age Women?
Creators: name: Wu, Jingchuan
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Depression
Middle age Women
Physical Activity
Time Structure
Walking
Mental Depression
Psychology of Women

description: Depression is a common syndrome that has a strong negative impact on people’s quality of life. Women, especially in middle age, are facing a greater risk for depressive disorders. Increasing one’s physical activity level has shown great effects on reducing depression symptoms. The study evaluated the effect of a 12-week goal-directed walking intervention on walking engagement and depression symptoms among middle-aged women. A total of 55 middle to older age female participants (age range: 50–74) were included in the analysis. The 12-week intervention instructed participants to increase 15% of baseline steps every other week. Depression levels were measured pre-and post-intervention by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Revised Scale (CESD-R). A baseline measure-time structure- was considered as a possible mediator of association between walking and depression. Although no intervention effects were found in steps promotion and depression reduction in this walking program, we found that more depressed or younger participants had lower walking consistency. It suggested that people with higher depression level or younger age require more instruction over time when engaging in physical activity interventions. Additionally, adherence of participants showed a over-time decreasing trend in this self-paced walking program. This inspired us to give more timely adjusts goals and exercise performance feedback to bolster participants' adherence in the future.
Ο Ιβάνοφ του Τσέχοφ σε σκηνοθεσία Ντίμιτερ Γκότσεφ: μια σύγχρονη επαναδιαπραγμάτευση ενός «έργου εν εξελίξει»
Creators: name: Κωνσταντινάκου, Κατερίνα
Publisher: name: Σκηνή
Year: 2012

description: Ο Ιβάνοφ του Τσέχοφ (1887-1901), πρωτόλειο θεατρικό έργο του μεγάλου δραματουργού, γραμμένο την εποχή της «κρίσης του ‘δράματος’», τοποθετείται στο μεταίχμιο ανάμεσα στην κλασική δραματουργία του τέλους του 19ου αιώνα και στη μοντέρνα, «ανοιχτή» δραματουργία των αρχών του 20ού αιώνα. Η παράσταση που ανέβασε ο καταξιωμένος σκηνοθέτης Ντίμιτερ Γκότσεφ στη βερολινέζικη Volksbühne (2005) ανήκει στην παράδοση της μπρεχτικής ιστορικοποίησης, της επαναδιατύπωσης δηλαδή κλασικών έργων προκειμένου να έρθει στο προσκήνιο η σύγχρονη δυναμική τους. Προς το σκοπό αυτό, ο Γκότσεφ σε συνεργασία με τον δραματουργό Πέτερ Στάατσμαν επιλέγει να ενισχύσει δύο βασικές μη-δραματικές παραμέτρους του κειμένου, τη μονολογικότητα και τη χορικότητα, που λειτουργούν συμπληρωματικά εις βάρος του διαλόγου. Αυτό που οργανώνει τις επιμέρους σκηνές σε σημαίνον σύνολο είναι η φόρμα του μονοδράματος, που επιτρέπει τον συνδυασμό της μονολογικότητας μιας κεντρικής συνείδησης με τη χορικότητα του κοινωνικού αντικατοπτρισμού της. Αντικαθιστώντας την ενότητα της δράσης με την ενότητα του εγώ, ενός εγώ που πορεύεται προς την παραίτηση και το μοιραίο τέλος, ο Γκότσεφ αναπτύσσει με θεατρικά μέσα έναν κριτικό στοχασμό σχετικά με την αποτυχία του σύγχρονου ανθρώπου να γεμίσει το κενό που άφησε η κατάρρευση των ιδεολογιών και το συνακόλουθο τέλος των μεγάλων αφηγήσεων.
description: Σκηνή, No 4 (2012)
Glimpses of the World: The Vignette in 21st-Century American Fiction
Creators: name: Gáti, Daniella Anna
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2021
Subjects: book history
digital literature
media archeology
print history
social media
vignette
Multimedia communications

description: “Glimpses of the World: The Vignette in 21st-Century American Fiction” examines the relationship between contemporary digital and print fictions that center their critique in the short form of the vignette. Delineating a media archeology of short textual and visual forms in and around the book and in print culture, the project theorizes brief media as sites through which socially dominant ideologies may be contested and alternative—feminist and antiracist—epistemologies may be articulated. The historical print ephemera, digital social media fictions, short story cycles, and novels analyzed in this dissertation enable an understanding of our social world primarily through brief descriptive passages depicting the immediate lived experiences of marginalized groups. These texts, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Paul Beatty, Teju Cole, Jennifer Egan, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Elizabeth Strout, and others do not make grand pronouncements about the causes, structures, and cures of social ills; rather, they show human bodies as entangled in immediate material experiences and affects produced by these larger structures. Thus, the representational tactic of the vignette privileges immediate situatedness and allows writers to articulate experiences of marginalization as part of a common, shared experience or as different facets of a system of oppression whose entirety elides our grasp. Instead of focusing on potentially totalizing explanatory structures for racist, capitalist, imperialist and patriarchal domination, vignette aesthetics enables heterogenous strategies to describe and intervene in disparate forms of precarity and oppression. Ultimately, through its examination of the forms and platforms of resistance strategies rooted in brevity, “Glimpses of the World” offers a theory of contemporary short forms of political expression that takes into account literature’s imbrication in present and historical media, and which situates literary texts as objects articulated by digital technologies, internet culture, historical media practices, and historical book design.
What You Don’t See is What You Get: Lexical Factorization of Verbs of Seeing
Creators: name: Curcuru, Todd
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2015
Subjects: lexical semantics
lexical factorization

description: In 1972 Aravind Joshi created an unpublished manuscript titled “Factorization of Verbs: An Analysis of Verbs of Seeing” that examined decomposing the semantic meaning of around 60 verbs of seeing into distinct factors that represented basic units of meaning. These factors could then be composed together to build up a frame that represented the meaning of a verb. In 2015 James Pustejovsky and Joshi published a paper “Lexical Factorization and Syntactic Behavior” that examined Joshi’s factorization framework in light of more recent distributional semantics, using Pointwise Mutual Information (PMI) to establish and explore the notion of Factor Expression Likelihood (FEL) – how likely a specific factor in a verb’s frame is to be expressed syntactically in a sentence. This work uses a corpus tool, Sketch Engine, and a large web corpus of English, enTenTen 2012, to examine Joshi’s factorizations from a distributional standpoint. I seek to find if and how individual factors are expressed syntactically through the use of modifiers, and which patterns emerge that can be linked to the insertion or removal of certain factors. I then modify Joshi’s original factorizations in light of the data. This is done to motivate the creation of a metric for the FEL beyond just PMI – and since I have confirmed that specific factors do link to certain modifiers, it stands to reason that if one knows a verb’s factorization, one should be able to calculate how likely a modifier is to occur with that verb. This should also be extendable to calculate the likelihood of any syntactic realization of any factors of a verb’s factorization.
Θέλω να είμαι ρηχή
Creators: name: Jelinek, μετάφραση: Κ. Δεμίρη
Publisher: name: Σκηνή
Year: 2012

description: Στο κείμενό της με τον τίτλο «Θέλω να είμαι ρηχή», η νομπελίστας δραματουργός Ελφρίντε Γέλινεκ αμφισβητεί ανοιχτά την παραδοσιακή θεατρική φόρμα που βασίζεται στο δίπολο ηθοποιός-θεατής και, χρησιμοποιώντας ρηξικέλευθη γλώσσα, προτείνει ο ηθοποιός να τεθεί στο περιθώριο της σκηνικής δράσης και να χρησιμοποιείται ως απλό εργαλείο, ως μια φιγούρα που εκφέρει επί σκηνής τις αναζητήσεις του συγγραφέα. Η μετατόπιση αυτή του κέντρου βάρους, από τον παραδοσιακά κυρίαρχο επί σκηνής ηθοποιό στο θεατρικό κείμενο, αφενός αντιμετωπίζει το δεύτερο ως αυτόνομο έργο τέχνης, αφετέρου καταργεί κάθε ψήγμα θεατρικής ψευδαίσθησης και έτσι διεκδικεί να δημιουργήσει σκεπτόμενους θεατές, που στέκονται κριτικά απέναντι στη σκηνική εμπειρία.
description: Σκηνή, No 4 (2012)
Therapist operations that facilitate very good moments in Gestalt therapy sessions.
Creators: name: White, Michael V.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Clinical.

description: Using a procedure that borrowed from both a quantitative and a qualitative research approach to psychotherapy, this study investigated audiotaped recordings of six sessions of Gestalt therapy conducted by five distinguished therapists. This in-depth, discovery-oriented research explored the interrelations between in-session client conditions, therapist operations and very good moments. In the first phase of the study, composite descriptions of six categories of very good moments were generated, based on the identification and the subsequent descriptions of 17 instances of very good moments made by a team of twelve judges. The six categories of very good moments were: From Neutral to Strong Feeling; Strong Expression Directly Toward Therapist; Extratherapy Behavior Change Intention; Acceptance of Problem-Self; State of General Well-Being; and New, Deeply Felt Personality Process-State. In the second phase of the investigation, judges identified explicit therapist operations and methods which, when carried out under identified client conditions or states, were judged as being instrumental in the subsequent occurrence of the given category of very good moments. The main finding was as follows: (a) The skilled and competent use of specific therapist operations, (b) with a client who is ready and willing to use the operations, and to move toward that very good moment, (c) appeared to result in the occurrence of that very good moment. For practitioners who value these categories of very good moments, the findings may be used as provisional suggestions for ways of facilitating the occurrence of these very good moments. For researchers, the findings are illustrative of continuing explorations into how psychotherapy works, into the relations between in-session client conditions or states, therapist operations, and consequent in-session very good moments. By means of careful, in-depth examination, researchers can learn what practitioners do to help bring about important and useful in-session client events.
Από τον Άμλετ του Σαίξπηρ στη Γερτρούδη (Η κραυγή) του Χάουαρντ Μπάρκερ: η περιπέτεια της σωματικότητας του δραματικού λόγου
Creators: name: Εξάρχου, Καλλιόπη
Publisher: name: Σκηνή
Year: 2012

description: Η παρούσα μελέτη παρακολουθεί την παραλληλία της περιπέτειας του δραματικού λόγου στον Άμλετ του Σαίξπηρ και στη Γερτρούδη (Η κραυγή) του Χάουαρντ Μπάρκερ, αίροντας τους δυο κεντρικούς ήρωες από το ιστορικό τους πλαίσιο. Αντιμέτωπη με δύο κείμενα, τα οποία συνδέονται με ένα αόρατο νήμα εκλεκτικής συγγένειας και συνέχειας, η εργασία αυτή στήνει ένα νέο σκηνικό για να φιλοξενήσει τη διασταύρωση της φαντασιακής διαλεκτικής των πράξεων των δυο προσώπων. Η παρούσα μελέτη επιδιώκει να αναδείξει τα κοινά στοιχεία ανάμεσα στην τραγωδία, τη σαιξπηρική τραγωδία και στο Θέατρο της Καταστροφής του Μπάρκερ, μέσα από την παραλληλία των ενεργειών και των συμπεριφορών του σαιξπηρικού Άμλετ και της μπαρκερικής Γερτρούδης. Διαπιστώνεται ότι και οι δυο ήρωες εκθέτουν την εσωτερική τους τρομερή κραυγή χωρίς καμία διάθεση ευφημισμού, αλλά αντίθετα κινούνται κάτω από την ακατανίκητη σαγήνη του θανάτου, στο πλαίσιο διαφορετικής τοπογραφίας κινήτρων. Όσον αφορά στην υφολογική όψη των θεατρικών λόγων που αναμετρούνται με το νόημα της ζωής, του θανάτου και του ερωτισμού, τόσο δια στόματος Άμλετ όσο και δια στόματος Γερτρούδης, διαπιστώνεται μια εξίσου παραληρηματική ποιητικότητα που συναντιέται με τη χώρα του φαντασιακού, όπως την αντιλαμβάνεται ο Σαίξπηρ, αλλά και ο Μπάρκερ («παγκοσμιότητα της φαντασίας»), διαπερνώντας κυριολεκτικά τον χρόνο και την ιστορικότητα της σκηνικής τους αναπαράστασης.
description: Σκηνή, No 4 (2012)
Development of and gas permeation study of homo and copolymers from the family of polyphenylene oxides
Creators: name: Tran, Anh
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Polymer.
subject: Engineering, Chemical.

description: Membrane gas separation emerged as a commercial process on a large scale during the 1980s. When compared to other gas separation processes such as cryogenics, adsorption and absorption, membrane separation competes primarily on the basis of overall economics and convenience, but not on the basis of product purity. For example, membranes have been used for offshore natural gas processing because they reduce the size and the weight of the processing units, require less maintenance and less operator supervision. In order to improve product purity, development of new membrane materials, and modification of existing membrane material for better gas separation properties, is required. This research focused on preparation and characterization of new copolymers from the family of polyphenylene oxides. This family of polymers was chosen because of the properties of its best-known representative, poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene oxide), which shows one of the highest rates of permeability for gases among glassy polymers, exhibits excellent film-forming properties, and is resistant to a number of chemical agents. The study was divided into two parts: (1) homopolymers and both block and random copolymers of different composition were synthesized by oxidative coupling of 2,6-diphenylphenol and 2,6-dimethylphenol; (2) the physical and gas transport properties of the polymers were determined. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Juveniles who Commit Sexual Offenses: Similarities and Differences Between Inpatients and Outpatients in Key Risk Domains
Creators: name: Newman, Alex Tyler
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Inpatient
Juveniles
Risk
Sexual Offending
Aggression
Outpatient

description: Purpose: This study examined the differences between inpatient and outpatient treated juveniles who had committed sexual offenses (JSOs) on traits, behaviors, and attitudes that are critical for risk assessment and treatment. The study attempted (a) to provide information about decisions to send JSOs to inpatient detention centers, which carry serious consequences and possible risks, and (b) to contribute data about understudied outpatient JSOs.
description: Method: Multidimensional Inventory of Development, Sex, and Aggression (MIDSA) scales were analyzed for a sample of 297 inpatient JSOs, 246 clinical outpatient JSOs, and 30 experimentally tested JSOs. To identify critical group differences we calculated MANOVAs of important overarching risk domains and followed, when significant, with ANOVAs and post-hoc Scheffé’s multiple comparisons to specify important group differences.
description: Results: Inpatient JSOs scored significantly higher than outpatient JSOs on 31 scales, and no differences were evidenced among the JSO groups on 6 scales.
description: Conclusion: Inpatient JSOs overall scored higher than did outpatient JSOs in the risk domains assessed, with the exceptions of attitudes about masculinity and social relationships with women. One possible implication is that these scoring patterns identified the critical domains for clinicians making dispositional decisions about treatment requirements for JSOs. It is also possible that some these differences might result from the type of JSO treatment.
Περιπλανήσεις της Μήδειας στη σύγχρονη δραματουργία
Creators: name: Ρόζη, Λίνα
Publisher: name: Σκηνή
Year: 2012

description: Η μορφή της Μήδειας που ενσαρκώνει διαφορετικές όψεις της ετερότητας αποτέλεσε πηγή έμπνευσης για πολλούς συγγραφείς και σκηνοθέτες στο σύγχρονο θέατρο. Οι αναγνώσεις του μύθου της αναδεικνύουν τις όψεις αυτές, άλλοτε υπογραμμίζοντας τη διαδρομή της μυθικής ηρωίδας, όπως αυτή εικονογραφεί και υπονομεύει τις δομές της πατριαρχικής αντίληψης για τις έμφυλες ταυτότητες, και άλλοτε εμμένοντας στην ταυτότητά της ως ξένης. Τα θεατρικά έργα που εξετάζονται, η Δήμεια του νοτιοαφρικανού Guy Butler, το Στο βάλτο της γάτας... της ιρλανδής Marina Carr και η Μήδεια Κάλι του γάλλου Laurent Gaudé, παρουσιάζουν την πρωταγωνίστρια να διασχίζει γεωγραφικά, έμφυλα, φυλετικά, κοινωνικά ή πολιτισμικά όρια και να προβάλλεται ως το Άλλο ενός κυρίαρχου συστήματος σχέσεων και αξιών. Και στις τρεις περιπτώσεις εκείνο που αναδεικνύεται είναι η νομαδική ταυτότητα, η οποία της επιτρέπει να μας παρουσιάσει μια εναλλακτική αφήγηση, για τον τρόπο με τον οποίο η ετερότητα δεν οδηγεί απαραίτητα σε οριστικό αποκλεισμό, αλλά κατορθώνει να λειτουργήσει ως δύναμη δημιουργίας.
description: Σκηνή, No 4 (2012)
Wave-current interactions: experiment and modelling
Creators: name: Rapizo, Henrique
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This research is a thorough investigation of the interactions between wind-generated ocean waves with currents. The physical aspects are analysed and discussed in laboratory and field conditions. The performance of widely used wave forecast models are tested in various situations, from local scales of tidal inlets to the large ocean basin of the Southern Ocean. The wave models are validated and their limitations identified. The main limitation found is concerned with the dissipation of wave energy in strong opposing currents. A new term is proposed to improve the simulation of the wave characteristics, such as wave height and period.
«Μια ευκαιρία για την ποίηση...»
Creators: name: Garcia, μετάφραση: Δ. Κωνσταντινίδης
Publisher: name: Σκηνή
Year: 2012

description: Ποια κοινά σημεία μπορεί να έχουν μεταξύ τους το θέατρο και η πολιτική; Αν και οι καλλιτέχνες και οι πολιτικοί ψεύδονται, τι διαφοροποιεί τα ψέματα των μεν από τα ψέματα των δε; Με αφετηρία αυτές τις ερωτήσεις, ο Γκαρσία αναπτύσσει την χωρίς ψευδαισθήσεις, την «απο-γοητευμένη» οπτική του για τον σύγχρονο κόσμο και τη θέση του καλλιτέχνη μέσα σ’ αυτόν, για τις κατ’ επίφαση σημερινές δημοκρατίες και τους αναισθητοποιημένους «πολίτες» τους, για τον δυτικό πολιτισμό που αποθεώνει το ψεύτικο και το πλαστικό, έχοντας πια χάσει κάθε επαφή με τη φύση αλλά και με την έννοια του μυστηρίου και του ιερού, καθώς και για τις δυνατότητες, για την υποχρέωση αντίστασης που έχει ο καλλιτέχνης, αλλά και κάθε άνθρωπος, απέναντι στην εσκεμμένη αποβλάκωση, σ’ αυτή τη γενικευμένη απαξίωση, την ολοσχερή αποκλήρωση του ανθρώπου, που επιχειρείται από τους συναλλασσόμενους με τις διάφορες κυβερνήσεις οργανισμούς, πολυεθνικές, κ.λπ. Μπορεί η ποίηση, δηλαδή μια αντικομφορμιστική αντιμετώπιση του κόσμου, όχι απαραίτητα εκείνη που κατασκευάζεται προς ευρεία κατανάλωση πάνω σε μια σκηνή θεάτρου και που απλά ξεπλένει συνειδήσεις δημιουργού και θεατών, αλλά εκείνη που δημιουργεί το κάθε άτομο στην καθημερινή ζωή του, να είναι μια ευκαιρία σωτηρίας και ανάτασης; Μια πραγματική αντίσταση σε ό,τι απειλεί να καταστήσει τον άνθρωπο «ζώο που πατάει τη γη χωρίς να αφήνει ίχνη»;
description: Σκηνή, No 4 (2012)
title: Ð­ÑÐºÐ¸Ð·Ð½ÑÐ¹ Ð¿ÑÐ¾ÐµÐºÑ ÐºÐ¸ÑÐ»Ð¾ÑÐ¾Ð´Ð½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ Ð¿Ð¾ÑÑÐ½ÐµÐ²Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ ÐºÐ¾Ð¼Ð¿ÑÐµÑÑÐ¾ÑÐ° Ð¿ÑÐ¾Ð¸Ð·Ð²Ð¾Ð´Ð¸ÑÐµÐ»ÑÐ½Ð¾ÑÑÑÑ 1,5 ÐºÑÐ±.Ð¼/Ð¼Ð¸Ð½ Ð¸ ÐºÐ¾Ð½ÐµÑÐ½ÑÐ¼ Ð´Ð°Ð²Ð»ÐµÐ½Ð¸ÐµÐ¼ 220 Ð°ÑÐ¼.
title: Ð²ÑÐ¿ÑÑÐºÐ½Ð°Ñ ÐºÐ²Ð°Ð»Ð¸ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð½Ð½Ð°Ñ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ° Ð±Ð°ÐºÐ°Ð»Ð°Ð²ÑÐ°
titleType: Subtitle
title: Preliminary design of an oxygen reciprocating compressor with a capacity of 1.5 cubic meters /min and a final pressure of 220 atm
Creators: name: Ð¡Ð¼ÑÐºÐ¾Ð², Ð®ÑÐ¸Ð¹
Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ð¿Ð¾ÑÑÐ½ÐµÐ²Ð¾Ð¹ ÐºÐ¾Ð¼Ð¿ÑÐµÑÑÐ¾Ñ
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piston compressor
oxygen compressor
draft design
drawings
compass â 3D

description: Ð¦ÐµÐ»ÑÑ Ð´Ð°Ð½Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÑ ÑÐ²Ð»ÑÐµÑÑÑ ÑÑÐºÐ¸Ð·Ð½ÑÐ¹ Ð¿ÑÐ¾ÐµÐºÑ ÐºÐ¸ÑÐ»Ð¾ÑÐ¾Ð´Ð½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ ÐºÐ¾Ð¼Ð¿ÑÐµÑÑÐ¾ÑÐ°, Ð¿Ð¾ÑÑÑÐ¾ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ðµ ÐµÐ³Ð¾ Ð¾Ð±ÑÐµÐ³Ð¾ Ð²Ð¸Ð´Ð°, Ð¿ÑÐµÐ´Ð¾ÑÑÐ°Ð²Ð»ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ðµ ÑÐµÑÑÐµÐ¶ÐµÐ¹ Ð¾ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð²Ð½ÑÑ ÑÐ·Ð»Ð¾Ð² Ð¼Ð°ÑÐ¸Ð½Ñ. Ð¢ÐµÑÐ¼Ð¾Ð´Ð¸Ð½Ð°Ð¼Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¸ Ð´Ð¸Ð½Ð°Ð¼Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ°ÑÑÐµÑ ÐºÐ¸ÑÐ»Ð¾ÑÐ¾Ð´Ð½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ ÐºÐ¾Ð¼Ð¿ÑÐµÑÑÐ¾ÑÐ°. Ð ÑÐµÐ·ÑÐ»ÑÑÐ°ÑÐµ Ð²ÑÐ¿Ð¾Ð»Ð½ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÑ Ð±ÑÐ»Ð¸ ÑÐ¾Ð·Ð´Ð°Ð½Ñ ÑÐµÑÑÐµÐ¶Ð¸ ÐºÑÐµÐ¹ÑÐºÐ¾Ð¿ÑÐ°, ÑÑÐ¾ÐºÐ¾Ð², Ð´Ð¸ÑÑÐµÑÐµÐ½ÑÐ¸Ð°Ð»ÑÐ½ÑÑ Ð¿Ð¾ÑÑÐ½ÐµÐ¹, Ð²Ð¸Ð»ÑÑÐ°ÑÐ¾Ð³Ð¾ ÑÐ°ÑÑÐ½Ð° Ð¸ ÐºÐ¾Ð»ÐµÐ½Ð²Ð°Ð»Ð°. ÐÑÑÐ¾Ð´Ñ Ð¸Ð· ÑÑÐ¸Ñ Ð´ÐµÑÐ°Ð»ÐµÐ¹ Ð±ÑÐ» Ð¿Ð¾ÑÑÑÐ¾ÐµÐ½ Ð¾ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð²Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ Ð²Ð¸Ð´ ÐºÐ¾Ð¼Ð¿ÑÐµÑÑÐ¾ÑÐ°.
description: The purpose of this work is a preliminary design of an oxygen compressor, the construction of its general appearance, and the provision of drawings of the main components of the machine. Thermodynamic and dynamic calculation of an oxygen compressor. As a result of the work, drawings of the crosshead, rods, differential pistons, connecting rod and crankshaft were created. Based on these details, the main type of compressor was built.
Kινηματογραφική προβολή και θεατρική σκηνή: η περίπτωση της Κέιτι Μίτσελ
Creators: name: Λεοντάρης, Γιάννης
Publisher: name: Σκηνή
Year: 2012

description: Η συνύπαρξη θεατρικής πράξης και κινηματογραφικής προβολής αποτελεί εδώ και αρκετές δεκαετίες μια συνήθη σκηνοθετική πρακτική. Η σχέση ισορροπίας ανάμεσα στους δύο εκφραστικούς κώδικες αποδεικνύεται, ωστόσο, εξαιρετικά εύθραυστη. Στο κείμενο αυτό εξετάζεται η λειτουργία της κινηματογραφικής εικόνας σε δύο παραστάσεις που σκηνοθέτησε και παρουσίασε το 2008 και το 2011 η Katie MItchell. Στην παράσταση Waves (2008), η επί σκηνής δράση και το φιλμικό κείμενο παράγονται ταυτοχρόνως και συνθέτουν δύο παράλληλες δραματουργίες. Δεν συμβαίνει, ωστόσο, το ίδιο και στην παράσταση Christine (2011), όπου η ταυτόχρονη παραγωγή θεατρικής πράξης και κινηματογραφικού υλικού οδηγεί τελικά στην ακύρωση της αισθητικής αυτονομίας των δύο μέσων. Κατά πόσο το ίδιο το γεγονός της συνύπαρξης θεάτρου και κινηματογράφου μπορεί να νοηματοδοτήσει μια παράσταση και να διατυπώσει μια στέρεη αισθητική πρόταση; Αυτό είναι το κεντρικό ερώτημα του παρόντος κειμένου.
description: Σκηνή, No 4 (2012)
Erika Fischer-Lichte, Ιστορία Ευρωπαϊκού Δράματος και Θεάτρου, 2 τμ., μτφ. Γιάννης Καλιφατίδης (τμ. Α΄) και Γιώργος Σαγκριώτης (τμ. Β΄), Πλέθρον, Αθήνα 2012, σ. 426+302
Creators: name: Πιπινιά, Ιουλία
Publisher: name: Σκηνή
Year: 2012

description: Βιβλιοκρισία
description: Σκηνή, No 4 (2012)
48α Δημήτρια: μια δραματουργία αλληλεγγύης
Creators: name: Ευτυχιάδου, Σοφία
Publisher: name: Σκηνή
Year: 2014

description: Τα 48α Δημήτρια, με τη ματιά του διοργανωτή.
description: Σκηνή, No 5 (2013)
A tunable optical add-drop multiplexer
Creators: name: Craciun, Viorel
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: Tunable add-drop multiplexer systems that are feasible and exhibit good performance characteristics are highly desirable for building all-optical transmission systems. A novel sparse tunable optical add/drop multiplexer subsystem consisting of eight tunable single-ring resonator based optical filters, and two eight-channel phase array devices, is proposed to allow sparse optical channels add and/or drop. The design takes advantage of the main limitation of single ring resonator-based optical filters, namely the rather limited free spectral range and in effect the limited number of communication channels that can be processed. The tunable filters provide add and drop functions of the selected channels whereas the phase array devices provide demultiplexing and multiplexing functions for the inbound and the outbound channels respectively. The coupled mode theory, its transfer matrix formalism, and the theory of spectral analysis of signals are used to carry out preliminary performance analysis of the single-ring resonator based tunable add-drop filter, to optimize, and finally to characterize its performance. This approach allows an accurate evaluation of filter characteristics, namely the transfer functions between any ports of the device. A wavelength-domain simulation method, coupled with a time/frequency-domain simulation method, is used to analyse the performance of the tunable OADM in linear, ring, and mesh all-optical wavelength-division multiplexing networks/transmission systems. Our performance evaluation demonstrates that the tunable OADM could be successfully employed in linear, ring, and mesh all-optical dense-division multiplexing networks/transmission systems with bit rates up to 10 Gbit/s.
Joint restoration and compression of document images with bleed-through distortion
Creators: name: Dano, Patrick
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: This thesis presents research on the restoration of documents suffering bleed-through and the joint compression of the original document and its bleed-through corrected version. This topic as presented in this thesis requires four steps: (i) registration, (ii) segmentation, (iii) inpainting and (iv) compression. First, a review of existing methods for registration and segmentation are presented, followed by a review of some existing image compression formats for the purpose of compressing the images. Then, the development of efficient registration and segmentation algorithms that are based on previous research are presented, along with a new method for joint document compression. The methods presented in this thesis are compared with previous methods and are shown to have improvements over them. In terms of registration, the method presented here is faster in reaching a more accurate final solution than previous registration methods presented for this problem. The segmentation algorithm presented here is shown to accurately segment portions of bleed-through away from the rest of the document. On the topic of joint compression, it is shown in this thesis that jointly compressing a document with its bleed-through corrected version will reduce the bandwidth required to transmit those document images, when compared to simply compressing the two images individually.
The regulation of alpha-actinin-4 in podocytes and its role in focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
Creators: name: Hosseini-Abardeh, Mona
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Biology, Cell.

description: alpha-Actinin-4 is an actin crosslinking protein that supports the foot process architecture of the podocytes. Mutations in the ACTN4 gene underlie an autosomal dominant form of the glomerular lesion - Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS). Affected individuals have a defective filtration barrier causing protein to leak into the urine. The K256E mutation dramatically increases alpha-actinin-4/actin affinity, alters alpha-actinin-4's intracellular localization in podocytes, and impairs cytoskeletal-dependent cell spreading and migration. Due to its mislocalization and enhanced affinity for F-actin, we hypothesized that the phosphorylation and interaction of K256E alpha-actinin-4 with its known binding partners would be disrupted. Furthermore, K256E alpha-actinin-4 would diminish the dynamic nature of the podocyte actin cytoskeleton upon exposure to mechanical stretch---a mimic of the in vivo intraglomerular capillary pressure. Tyrosine phosphorylation of alpha-actinin-4 could not be detected in cells overexpressing focal adhesion kinase (FAK) or in response to sodium orthovanadate---a tyrosine phosphatase inhibitor. Immunofluorescence, immunoprecipitation, and immunoblot approaches revealed that K256E alpha-actinin-4 exhibits reduced interaction with the adherens junction protein, beta-catenin, and affects distribution of the actin binding protein, synaptopodin, along stress fibers. Finally expression of K256E alpha-actinin-4 dramatically alters the morphology of podocytes, reducing the cytoplasmic surface area, in response to mechanical stretch. These findings demonstrate that the K256E alpha-actinin-4 is sequestered away from specific subcellular domains such that it cannot interact with some of its endogenous binding partners, while severely impacting the dynamic nature of the actin cytoskeleton. These perturbations may therefore underlie podocyte dysfunction in actinin-associated FSGS.
Mulching Systems for Weed Control, Water Conservation, and Nitrogen Management in Organic Apple Orchards
Creators: name: Granatstein, David
name: Mullinix, Kent
name: Hogue, Eugene
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2002
Subjects: mulch
orchard floor management
weed control
organic farming

description: Initial trials on in-row mulching and cover crops in organic apple orchards, Wenatchee, WA.
Integrated Pest Management, 2022 Quarter 1 Newsletter
Creators: name: Washington State University Extension
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2022

description: Highlights include:
description: New videos for urban applicators and citizen scientists
description: Plastic mulches may improve raspberry success
description: Conference presentations in hop, mint, alfalfa seed
description: Codling moth summit held in February
description: Wheat and barley grower blog posts and podcasts
description: More resources for wine grape growers
description: New tools for small farms in western Washington
description: Potato, onion, pea, and seed crop outreach
Sexual networks of individuals infected with sexually transmitted infections: Structure and disease transmission
Creators: name: Meadows, Emily Christine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Epidemiology.

description: Increases in the rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) suggest that control programs may not be targeting the population responsible for the spread of STIs - core groups. The objective was to examine STI transmission within these groups using both traditional epidemiology and social network analysis. Routine partner notification data, supplemented with more detailed voluntary information, was collected from individuals diagnosed with, or exposed to a STI in Manitoba. Groups of individuals were identified (n=2,508), and their profiles described. Larger groups (size > 15) had more repeat cases, and contacts that were repeatedly named. Three different groups were identified, containing individuals which differed demographically and clinically. This study uniquely identified same-sex partnerships within larger groups. A greater understanding of disease transmission patterns within these groups will clearly aid in the development of targeted education and prevention programs for all STIs.
On Mysticism and Ecumenism: Inroads in Jewish-Muslim Dialogue
Creators: name: Khaykin, Vlad Judah
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Mysticism
kabbalah
ecumenism
Sufism
interfaith
Islam
Judaism

description: The history of Jewish-Muslim relations is one fraught with episodes of terrible enmity, conflict and bloodshed. Yet it is also a history marked by periods of peaceful coexistence, cultural exchange, cooperation, and profound mutual respect. This work is dedicated to multiplying the latter, and decreasing the former.\r To do so, it promotes what the author believes is an effect inroad to improved interreligious relations, namely, the mystical traditions that exist at the core of religion. Mysticism, man's pursuit of direct experience of the divine, has been with us from the beginning, arising from man's primordial yearnings, and giving rise to some of the earliest foundations of the Jewish religion. It is this yearning that unites all mankind. In the words of Edward Kaplan, "people of different faiths are joined…by their yearning for God's presence, their quest for certainty about God."\r Yet it is much more than a yearning. Jewish mysticism and Sufism, its Islamic counterpart, share a complex cosmology, teleology, and hermeneutics, a way of looking at the world, one that is ideally inclined toward ecumenism and what Kaplan calls a "sacred humanism," that fosters profound respect for the other. Moreover, this ecumenism is not rooted simply in sentimental tolerance or superficial exigencies, but rather is grounded in a divinely sanctioned pluralism, one that appreciates the other in their particularity while nonetheless recognizing the Oneness that unites all being.\r Moving from mystical doctrine, we find precedence for the efficacy of mysticism as a vehicle for ecumenism in the remarkable history of religious exchange in the esoteric domain. The figures who participated in dialogue and exchange were amongst the most respected and influential Jewish leaders of their time, including several generations of the progeny of Moses Maimonides. The fruits of this exchange have had tremendous impact on Judaism as we know it.
Mental skills of National Hockey League players.
Creators: name: Barbour, Stuart A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Industrial.

description: The purpose of this study was to explore the mental skills used by professional ice hockey players and determine if Orlick's (1992) "Model of Human Excellence" could be applied to these athletes. In-depth interviews were conducted with 10 National Hockey League players who had collectively played over 4500 NHL games, and scored 1025 goals. The results indicated that Orlick's elements of commitment, belief, full focus, positive images, mental readiness, distraction control and, constructive evaluation were common to all subjects. The element of fun and enjoyment was also found to be significant for NHL players. The preservation of rich quotes and experiences offer valuable insights and strategies for aspiring hockey players. A survey of the mental aspects of professional hockey was also completed by 27 NHLers to corroborate the relative importance of each of the mental skills identified in Orlick's model. Overall the results were consistent with other research into the mental aspects of elite athletes.
HOW POLITICAL ORIENTATION SHAPES SUGAR CONSUMPTION AND RESISTANCE TO SUGAR-REDUCING NUDGES
Creators: name: Phifer, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Nudge
Political Orientation
Political Pyschology
Sugar Consumption

description: Three in five Americans consume more than the daily recommended value of sugar, which has been linked to several negative health effects (CDC, 2023a). Due to this, reducing sugar consumption has been a goal of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for several years (CDC, 2022b), to little effect. One reason for this could be that sugar consumption has become politicized. Drawing from political psychology literature (Jost 2017a; 2017b), Essay 1 proposes that more conservative individuals have a higher sugar intake compared to more liberal individuals. Five studies test this hypothesis and find no evidence for a difference in individual sugar consumption as a factor of political orientation. Despite this, it is possible that liberals and conservatives react differently to legislative efforts to reduce sugar consumption. Essay 2 examines how individuals of different political orientations vary in their support of sugar-reducing nudges due to the perceived level of decision-making autonomy allowed by the nudge. Three studies test and provide mixed evidence for this hypothesis.