cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Influence of Body Shape Perception on Physical Activity, Screen Time, and Eating in Black School-Aged Immigrant Children
Creators: name: Gunter, Ashley
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Black children
Body shape perception
Physical activity
Screen time
Eating

description: Background: Previous studies revealed both parents and children tend to misperceive the child’s body shape. Body shape perception has been found to influence modifiable lifestyle habits; however, these relationships have been scarcely studied. Objective: To determine the influence of body shape perception on physical activity, screen time, and maternal feeding practices. Methods: A total of 259 mother-child dyads were interviewed. Data were collected during structured interviews and included questions regarding body shape perception, physical activity, screen time, and maternal feeding practices. Results: Roughly 50% of mothers and children misperceived the child’s body shape. Children’s physical activity and certain maternal feeding practices were found to be influenced by body shape perception; however, body shape perception did not significantly influence children’s screen time. Conclusion: Body shape misperception was frequent among this group of mothers and children. As well, body shape perception seemed to have influenced certain modifiable lifestyle habits.
The OpenAIRE COVID-19 Gateway
Creators: name: Bardi, Alessia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Presentation of the COVID-19 gateway of OpenAIRE at the COAR Forum on COVID-19 and Open Science (https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-updates/coar-forum-on-covid-19-and-open-science/) on 10 September 2020.
title: Prywatyzacja form wykonywania zadań publicznych w sferze pomocy społecznej. Uwagi na tle funkcjonowania niepublicznych domów pomocy społecznej
Creators: name: Cendrowicz, Dominika
Publisher: name: E-Wydawnictwo. Prawnicza i Ekonomiczna Biblioteka Cyfrowa. Wydział Prawa, Administracji i Ekonomii Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Year: 2020

description: Przedmiotem publikacji jest analiza wybranych aspektów prywatyzacji form wykonywania zadań publicznych w sferze pomocy społecznej na przykładzie funkcjonowania niepublicznych domów pomocy społecznej. W publikacji omówieniu podlegają kwestie, takie jak rodzaje domów pomocy społecznej funkcjonujących w sferze pomocy społecznej; warunki, jakie musi spełnić podmiot niepubliczny, aby móc prowadzić dom pomocy społecznej oraz zakres kontroli sprawowanej przez administrację publiczną nad niepublicznymi domami pomocy społecznej.
Visual arts and Numeracy: Patterns in our World
Creators: name: Burke, Geraldine
name: Nish Belford
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Art
Education

description: Numeracy and the visual arts: Time travelling with patternsThis resource explores how numeracy can be explored through the visual arts (years 7-8) with pattern as the focus. Throughout the resource Geraldine Burke and Nish Belford encourage students to become time travellers as they find and explore patterns across time, place and context. The focus is on developing numeracy and visual art skills as students become makers of, and responders to, patterns from different countries, eras, and social contexts. The sequence is part of a 'Numeracy in the Curriculum initiative by Department of Education and training, Victoria. https://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/teachers/teachingresources/discipline/maths/Pages/numeracy-for-all-learners.aspx
Program Synthesis From Partial Traces
Creators: name: Ferreira, Margarida
name: Nicolet, Victor
name: Dodds, Joey
name: Kroening, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present the first technique to synthesize programs that compose side-effecting functions, pure functions, and control flow, from partial traces containing records of only the side-effecting functions. This technique can be applied to synthesize API composing scripts from logs of calls made to those APIs, or a script from traces of system calls made by a workload, for example. All of the provided traces are positive examples, meaning that they describe desired behavior. Our approach does not require negative examples. Instead, it generalizes over the examples and uses cost metrics to prevent over-generalization. Because the problem is too complex for traditional monolithic program synthesis techniques, we propose a new combination of optimizing rewrites and syntax-guided program synthesis. The resulting program is correct by construction, so its output will always be able to reproduce the input traces. We evaluate the quality of the programs synthesized when considering various optimization metrics and the synthesizer's efficiency on real-world benchmarks. The results show that our approach can generate useful real-world programs.
description: To appear at PLDI 2025 (46th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation)
title: Prywatyzacja zadań administracji publicznej w zakresie pomocy osobom niesłyszącym
Creators: name: Kulińska, Karolina
Publisher: name: E-Wydawnictwo. Prawnicza i Ekonomiczna Biblioteka Cyfrowa. Wydział Prawa, Administracji i Ekonomii Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Year: 2020

description: Praca ma na celu przedstawienie prawnych i społecznych uwarunkowań sposobu funkcjonowania osób niesłyszących w kontaktach z organami administracji publicznej. W pierwszej części pracy scharakteryzowano specyfikę niepełnosprawności słuchu i wynikające stąd potrzeby osób niesłyszących w dostępie do usług publicznych. Następnie dokonano krytycznej analizy przepisów ustawy z dnia 19 sierpnia 2011 r. o języku migowym i innych środkach komunikowania się oraz wskazano jej obszary krytyczne dla wdrażaniu zalecanych przez ustawodawcę rozwiązań. W dalszej części dokonano charakterystyki sposobu i rodzaju wykonywania zadań przewidzianych w ustawie przez podmioty prywatne. Wywiedzione wnioski posłużyły jako tło teoretyczne dla zobrazowania praktycznej doniosłości polityki językowej państwa względem osób niesłyszących dla bezpieczeństwa zbiorowego na przykładzie epidemii SARS-CoV-2.
Pharmacotherapies in Parkinson Disease: Investigating Trends and Adverse Health Outcomes
Creators: name: Crispo, James Alexander George
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Parkinson disease
drug utilization
drug safety
dopamine agonist
adverse health outcomes
adverse cardiovascular outcomes

description: Parkinson disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease worldwide, with estimates suggesting that PD prevalence and incidence will increase with aging populations. Therapeutic options and clinical guidelines for PD have significantly changed over the past 15 years; however, pharmacoepidemiology data in PD are lacking, especially regarding adverse effects of non-ergot dopamine agonists (DAs) and outcomes associated with anticholinergic burden. The objectives of this doctoral research are threefold: 1) examine patterns of antiparkinson drug use in relation to clinical guideline publication, drug availability, and emerging safety concerns; 2) determine whether PD patients treated with non-ergot DAs are at increased risk of adverse cardiovascular or cerebrovascular outcomes; and 3) determine whether anticholinergic burden is associated with adverse outcomes in PD. Specific research questions were investigated using epidemiological methods and electronic health data from Cerner Health Facts®, an electronic medical record database that stores time-stamped patient records for more than 300 Cerner subscribing facilities across the United States. Findings from this work are reported in a series of manuscripts, all of which have been published. Key findings include: 1) DA use began declining in 2007, from 34% to 27% in 2012. The decline followed publication of the American Academy of Neurology’s practice parameter refuting levodopa toxicity, pergolide withdrawal, and pramipexole label revisions; 2) heart failure was the only adverse cardiovascular or cerebrovascular outcome that demonstrated a significant association with non-ergot DA use, mainly pramipexole; and 3) anticholinergic burden in PD was associated with the diagnosis of fracture and delirium, and significantly increased the risk of emergency department visit and readmission post inpatient discharge. Reported antiparkinson prescribing trends suggest that safety and best practice information may be communicated effectively in PD. Although findings warrant replication, individuals with PD and independent risk factors for or a history of heart failure may benefit from limited use of pramipexole. Similarly, individuals with PD may benefit from substituting non-PD medications with anticholinergic effects for equally effective non-anticholinergic agents. Additional pharmacovigilance studies are needed to better understand health risks and the impact of population health interventions in PD.
Palynological variability within the Permian (Changhsingian) Umm Irna Formation (Jordan): implications for biostratigraphy and fluid-flow character in alluvial formations
Creators: name: Stephenson, M. H.
name: Bomfleur, B.
name: Jardine, P.
name: Kerp, H.
name: Blomenkemper, P.
name: Bäumer, R.
name: Abu Hamad, A.
name: Schneider, J.W.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The Permian (Changhsingian) Umm Irna Formation (Jordan) yields important plant-fossils that have influenced our understanding of the early evolution of plants that later dominated the vegetation of the Mesozoic. The formation was deposited in a fluvial regime characterized by the co-occurrence of stacked small-scale braided channels and of larger, higher-sinuosity channels with deposition on point bars, all intercalated into a heterogenous background sedimentation of finer-grained floodplain deposits, including stacked crevasse-splay deposits, interspersed abandoned-channel and oxbow-lake fills, and lenses of peaty back-swamp deposits. Here, we document the remarkable compositional variability expressed in 124 palynomorph assemblages that were recovered from different argillaceous deposits in the Umm Irna Formation within a ∼2-km2 outcrop area around a major meandering channel. Our results reveal lateral and vertical variation within individual argillaceous units, as well as lateral variation between different argillaceous units in the same sedimentary complex at similar stratigraphic levels. When combined with plant macrofossil data, the results show that variability in the palynological content may be influenced mainly by two factors. The first is connectedness to the major channel; the drainage system carried a mixture of palynomorphs from across the floodplain but also from a large hinterland of tributaries draining higher parts of the flood plain and uplands beyond to the south and east. The second is the influence of local vegetation communities on the floodplain which would likely be more marked in less connected parts of the floodplain. These findings have implications for the palynological study of alluvial sequences of the Mesozoic and Paleozoic, and for understanding the ability to identify mudstone units via palynological fingerprinting. Such individual units are of great importance as baffles to fluid flow in reservoirs that might be used for oil and gas, low temperature geothermal, carbon capture and storage, and hydrogen storage in alluvial successions.
Disentangling Linguistic Features with Dimension-Wise Analysis of Vector Embeddings
Creators: name: Karwa, Saniya
name: Singh, Navpreet
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Understanding the inner workings of neural embeddings, particularly in models such as BERT, remains a challenge because of their high-dimensional and opaque nature. This paper proposes a framework for uncovering the specific dimensions of vector embeddings that encode distinct linguistic properties (LPs). We introduce the Linguistically Distinct Sentence Pairs (LDSP-10) dataset, which isolates ten key linguistic features such as synonymy, negation, tense, and quantity. Using this dataset, we analyze BERT embeddings with various methods, including the Wilcoxon signed-rank test, mutual information, and recursive feature elimination, to identify the most influential dimensions for each LP. We introduce a new metric, the Embedding Dimension Impact (EDI) score, which quantifies the relevance of each embedding dimension to a LP. Our findings show that certain properties, such as negation and polarity, are robustly encoded in specific dimensions, while others, like synonymy, exhibit more complex patterns. This study provides insights into the interpretability of embeddings, which can guide the development of more transparent and optimized language models, with implications for model bias mitigation and the responsible deployment of AI systems.
title: Prawne aspekty prywatyzacji zadań publicznych w sferze administracji świadczącej
Creators: name: Mielczarek-Mikołajów, Justyna
Publisher: name: E-Wydawnictwo. Prawnicza i Ekonomiczna Biblioteka Cyfrowa. Wydział Prawa, Administracji i Ekonomii Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Year: 2020

description: Problematyka prywatyzacji należy do najbardziej aktualnych problemów badawczych dla współczesnej administracji. Najczęściej proces ten polega na przekazaniu realizacji usług publicznych podmiotom prywatnym. Prywatyzacja występuje często w zadaniach publicznych, realizowanych w ramach administracji świadczącej. Do zakresu tej administracji można zaszeregować świadczenia i usługi realizowane w ramach transportu publicznego. Z uwagi na ograniczone ramy niniejszego opracowania autorka podejmie problematykę prywatyzacji usług publicznych dotyczących miejskiego transportu publicznego, analizując m.in. skalę i przyczyny tego zjawiska. Tematyka ta tworzy również element szerszej dyskusji dotyczącej tworzenia zrównoważonego transportu publicznego, w tym także transportu miejskiego.
E-Tourism: Context-Aware Points of Interest Finder and Trip Designer
Creators: name: Alghamdi, Hamzah
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: E-Tourism
Mobile Application
Tourism Recommender System;
Tour Planning

description: Many countries depend heavily on tourism for their economic growth. The invention of the web has opened new opportunities for tourists to discover new places and live new adventures. However, the number of possible destinations has become huge and even an entire lifespan would not be enough to visit all of these places. Even for one city, there are a significant number of possible places to visit. Nowadays, searching online to find an interesting place to visit is harder than ever, not because there is a lack of information but rather due to the vast amount of information that can be found. Trip planning is a tedious task, especially when the tourist does not want to pick a preplanned itinerary from a traveling agency. That being said, even these preplanned itineraries need a lot of time and effort to be customized. Moreover, the set of itineraries that a tourist can select from is usually limited. In addition, there may be many places that tourists would enjoy visiting but that are not included in the itineraries. Thus, static planners do not always choose the right place at the right time. This is why the planning process should take into consideration many factors in order to give the tourist the best possible suggestions. In this Thesis, we propose an algorithm called the Balanced Orienteering Problem to design trips for tourists. This algorithm, combined with a context-aware recommender system for tourism suggestions, create the infrastructure of the mobile application for the augmented reality tourism guide that we developed. We cover the background knowledge of tour planning problems and tourism recommender systems and describe the existing techniques. Furthermore, a comparison between the existing systems and our algorithm is completed to illustrate that our proposed algorithm yields better results. We also discuss the workflow of our system implementation and how our mobile application is designed. Lastly, we address suggestions for future works and end with a conclusion.
I bioblitz delle aree protette in Lombardia: analisi dei primi anni di attività
Creators: name: Cecere, Francesco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Citizen Science

description: Dal 2016 la Regione Lombardia con la collaborazione di AreaParchi, Parco regionale Oglio Sud e la riserva naturale Le Bine ha organizzato 8 Bioblitz nelle aree protette della della regione, 4 Bioblitz "da casa", 3 nelle aree montane e 2 nelle scuole. Le osservazioni sono state raccolte sulla piattaforma iNaturalist e, ad oggi, comprendono per le diverse iniziative quasi 50.000 dati relativi ad oltre 1.000 specie. In questo contributo intendiamo presentare e commentare i dati discutendo i punti di forza e di debolezza.
Identification of Non-histone Acetylation Targets in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Creators: name: Pourhanifeh-Lemeri, Roghayeh
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Lysine acetylation
KAT
Post-translational modification
NuA4
Eaf1
Epl1

description: Lysine acetylation is a conserved post-translational modification (PTM) which was traditionally believed to be limited to histones and the regulation of gene expression. However, recent proteomic studies have identified lysine acetylation on proteins implicated in virtually all cellular processes indicating that this PTM plays a global regulatory role. Indeed, in humans, aberrance of lysine acetyltransferase (KAT) activity is associated with various pathogenesis. To date, over 2500 human proteins are known to be acetylated in vivo, but very few acetylations have been linked to specific KATs. Hence, to understand the biological relevance of KATs and acetylation in human pathology, it is important to learn about the mechanism regulating KAT activity and the identity of their in vivo targets. This is a complex task and will require the use of model organisms and system biology approaches. The work presented here explores the significance of self-acetylation in regulating KAT function by focusing on the highly NuA4 lysine acetyltransferase in the model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae or budding yeast. Using genetics and biochemical assays I have identified NuA4 subunit Epl1 as a novel in vivo NuA4 substrate. I have also shown that Epl1 acetylation regulates NuA4 function at elevated temperatures. In an attempt to identify new biological processes regulated by yeast KATs and putative novel substrates, I have also performed a genome-wide synthetic dosage lethality screen with six non-essential yeast KATs; Hat1, Rtt109, Hpa2, Sas3, Sas2, and Elp3. My screen identified largely distinct sets of genetic interactions for each KAT suggesting that each KAT has specific cellular functions. Together, this study demonstrates the importance of auto-acetylation in regulating KAT function and the diversity of cellular processes impacted by KAT activity in vivo.
title: Umowa o świadczenie usług w zakresie publicznego transportu zbiorowego jako przejaw prywatyzacji wykonywania usług publicznych
Creators: name: Błażewski, Maciej
Publisher: name: E-Wydawnictwo. Prawnicza i Ekonomiczna Biblioteka Cyfrowa. Wydział Prawa, Administracji i Ekonomii Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Year: 2020

description: Umowa o świadczenie usług w zakresie publicznego transportu zbiorowego jest środkiem prawnym prywatyzacji zadania publicznego obejmującego zapewnienia publicznego transportu zbiorowego. Model tej prywatyzacji zakłada kooperację dwóch podmiotów: organizatora i operatora. Przepisy prawa regulują sposób zawarcia tej umowy i jej wykonania.
La réponse d'Adolphe Gesché aux défis contemporains à la crédibilité de l'idée de Dieu
Creators: name: Gosselin, Jean-François
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Adolphe Gesché
crédibilité
apologétique
apologétique du désir
désir
Dieu pour penser
idée de Dieu
idée de l'infini
raisons de croire
bonheur
épreuve
capax hominis

description: Cette recherche doctorale met à contribution la pensée et l’œuvre d’Adolphe Gesché (1928-2003) en réponse aux défis à la crédibilité de l’idée chrétienne de Dieu posés par le monde d’aujourd’hui. Né à Bruxelles, ce théologien catholique fut professeur à l’Université catholique de Louvain dans la foulée de Vatican II. Homme d’une remarquable érudition, ses écrits théologiques embrassent la culture contemporaine occidentale et tracent l’itinéraire d’un penseur à la frontière de la croyance et de l’incroyance. Cette thèse, enrichie de données biographiques inédites et d’une bibliographie exhaustive, constitue le premier ouvrage d’ensemble sur la pensée de Gesché. Elle comble à l’évidence une lacune et jette un éclairage nouveau sur un théologien parmi les plus importants et les plus originaux de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle. Elle met ses écrits en contexte et présente la synthèse d’une œuvre qui demeure, à ce jour, insuffisamment connue et appréciée dans le monde francophone. Mais plus encore, elle propose une interprétation originale de la pensée de l’auteur en tant qu’apologétique du désir. En outre, elle offre une appréciation des forces et des limites d’une œuvre qui se voulait ouverte aux préoccupations des incroyants comme des croyants, et ébauche quelques pistes de recherche. En cela, elle enrichit de manière significative notre intelligence de l’histoire de la théologie du siècle dernier. Cette première thèse doctorale consacrée à Gesché porte sur le thème de la crédibilité. La question sous-jacente se résume ainsi : croire en Dieu est-il un geste crédible pour les hommes et les femmes d’aujourd’hui ? Voilà une question urgente et essentielle dans le contexte culturel contemporain. Or, ce thème s’est montré très révélateur de la pensée du théologien de Louvain qui, selon nous, garde toute sa pertinence aujourd’hui. En effet, il renvoie aux racines mêmes de son opus magnum, Dieu pour penser (Cerf, 1993-2003), et fait ressortir avec clarté et vigueur ses motivations profondes, la structure de sa pensée et les principes qui la guident (présupposés, méthode et lieux de vérification). Bref, ce thème révèle le sens profond de son geste théologique et ouvre à l’intelligence de son œuvre.
What is the role of geography in sociopolitics?
Creators: name: Veracini, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: 'North' and 'South' are simultaneously geographical and sociopolitical categories. Colonialism---a hierarchical relationship that is premised on the superordination of a metropole that is premised on the subordination of a periphery---is fundamentally involved in both dialectics: in the first case, because it is premised on a distinction that only geographical displacement makes possible; in the second case, because it is a relationship---it defines self and other as it embeds them in an inherently unequal relationship. Settler colonialism---a particular form of colonialism where the colonisers 'come to stay' and are founders of political orders that are endowed with a specific self-constituent sovereign capacity---is a manipulation of both these categories and their ordering; this is why it should feature in any South-South dialogue. Geographically, settler colonialism is premised on a displacement that is ultimately a non-displacement. Settlers transform geography and a capacity to do so is a measure of their success. As well as founders of political orders, therefore, they are destroyers of ecological ones (and therefore builders of new landscapes). Indeed, it is exactly because they are able to destroy existing ecosystems that they are so effective at establishing durable political regimes. As they consume places at a fierce rate and routinely dissolve distance, they Europeanise space. No wonder that the old term for settler colonialism was 'planting'; their countries look like the ones they have left behind.
Building Peace that Lasts: A Study of State-Led Peacebuilding in Kenya
Creators: name: Githaiga, Nyambura
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: peacebuilding
peace
Kenya
violent conflict
infrastructure for peace

description: The concept of peacebuilding evokes the image of international interventions in countries emerging from civil wars. Despite the visibility of this engagement, post-civil war peacebuilding is just one form of peacebuilding. As a response to smaller scale violent conflicts, ongoing peacebuilding interrupts cycles of violence and prevents the escalation of violent conflict. The 2007/8 post-election violence in Kenya captured international attention due to the scope and magnitude of the conflict. In 1992 and 1997, Kenya had experienced lower levels of electoral violence. The recurring and escalatory nature of violent conflict implies that peacebuilding should be a strategic response, earlier on, to prevent violence from reaching new levels. Since 2002, the Kenyan state has actively engaged in peacebuilding. This study on state-led peacebuilding in Kenya deviates from the typical post-war interventions to analyse peacebuilding as an ongoing preventative response by national actors to intermittent violence. This thesis seeks to explain the impact of this state-led peacebuilding approach on the practice and prospect of peace. To do so, I first explore the multiple conceptions of peace held by those engaged in this approach to understand what type of peace is being built. Second, I analyse the paradox of the state in peacebuilding and how the role of the state has influenced the nature of peacebuilding and consequently the prospects for peace. The state in peacebuilding presents a paradox because of the state’s direct and indirect involvement in violent conflict as well as the top-down nature of state engagement. Third, I interrogate the relationship between the institutionalisation of peacebuilding and the sustainability of peacebuilding and peace. I find that state-led peacebuilding in Kenya has raised the profile of peacebuilding, improved the synergy between peacebuilding actors and increased the inflow of resources available to build peace. This positive influence is countered by the negative implications of the state’s role in promoting a reductive conceptualisation of peace and unsustainably institutionalising peace building. I conclude that, though the state has a role to play in peacebuilding, the contradictory implications of state-led peacebuilding challenge the sustainability of peacebuilding and peace.
Finance Officer in the Syro-Malabar Major Archiepiscopal Church
Creators: name: Changankary, Matthew
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Syro-Malabar
Finance Officer

description: The promulgation of the CCEO and the elevation of the Syro-Malabar Church sui iuris to the status of a major archiepiscopal Church, on 16 December 1992, are important milestones in the recent history of the Church. The new status of the Syro-Malabar Church necessitated a revised system of administration of its temporal goods. Previously the administration of ecclesiastical goods of the Syro-Malabar Church was ruled predominantly by the motu proprios Postquam apostolicis litteris, Cleri sanctitati, and customary law both at the eparchial and parish levels. In the present situation a new ecclesiastical office, that of the finance officer of the major archiepiscopal Church, was created. The thesis presents the office of finance officer and examines critically the canonical aspects of his/her status and duties. It analyzes the canons contained in CCEO related to temporal goods, as well as other universal and particular ecclesiastical norms. In particular, the sources include various synodal decrees, eparchial/diocesan statutes of the Syro-Malabar Church, and relevant particular laws of the respective major archiepiscopal Churches. Pertinent Indian civil laws are also considered in the context of the functions of the finance officer. The thesis provides a historical perspective of the financial administration of the Syro-Malabar Church, and then continues to situate the office of the finance officer in the organizational structure of the financial administration of the Syro-Malabar Church. The principal functions and responsibilities of the finance officer of the Syro-Malabar Church are presented in the context of specific ecclesiastical and secular legal parameters.
Using AI for sentiment analysis?
Creators: name: Krušić, Lucija
name: Scholger, Martina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This study presents a comparative analysis of sentiment analysis (SA) methods applied to Spanish Enlightenment periodicals (Ertler et al. 2011-2021), focusing on a dictionary-based approach versus a BERT-based machine learning (ML) method, pysentimiento.
Erfolgreiche metropolenferne Regionen
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Evangelische Akademie Loccum
Year: 2019
Subjects: Agglomeration
Demographie
Einzugsgebiet
Großstadt
Ländlicher Raum
Metropolregion
Reflexion
Regionalentwicklung
Regionalpolitik
Wirtschaftlicher Verlust
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Niedersachsen

description: In den letzten Jahren erhielten Metropolregionen in der regionalwirtschaftlichen Debatte über zukünftige, regionale Entwicklungsperspektiven besondere Aufmerksamkeit. Ländliche Räume fernab von Metropolen wurden dagegen nicht nur weniger wahrgenommen, sondern auch oft pauschal als benachteiligt und abgehängt dargestellt. Nach dieser Wahrnehmung scheint die Zukunft in erster Linie den Agglomerationen und wirtschaftlichen Verdichtungsräumen zu gehören, während den Regionen, die nicht zum erweiterten Einzugsbereich einer Metropole gerechnet werden können, wohl unwiderruflich der Verlust ihrer wirtschaftlichen wie demographischen Bedeutung droht. Die Realität in den Regionen, die ohne eine Metropole als Zugpferd vor allem auf ihre eigene Entwicklungsfähigkeit angewiesen sind, ist jedoch wesentlich differenzierter. Zur Erörterung dieses Themas führten die Evangelische Akademie Loccum und die Wüstenrot Stiftung im Januar 2018 eine gemeinsame Tagung durch. Einen Input dafür lieferte der Zwischenbericht aus einem Forschungsprojekt, mit dem die Wüstenrot Stiftung das Niedersächsische Institut für Historische Regionalforschung e.V. beauftragt hatte. In dessen Fokus standen ausgewählte Regionen, die nach einer Reihe von Kriterien eine erfolgreiche Entwicklung aufweisen können. Die Zwischenergebnisse wurden auf der Tagung in Loccum der Fachöffentlichkeit präsentiert, um sie kritisch zu diskutieren und auf ihre Lehren für die Regionalpolitik hin zu befragen. Wichtige Impulse zu dieser Debatte lieferten die Beiträge namhafter Experten aus Wissenschaft und Praxis, die den Stand der aktuellen Diskussion über die verschiedenen Bestimmungsfaktoren regionalwirtschaftlicher Entwicklung reflektierten. Die Beiträge der Veranstaltung dokumentiert der vorliegende Band. Quelle: Verlags-HP
Sustainable Groundwater Management in Lagos, Nigeria: The Regulatory Framework"
Creators: name: Ogunba, Adebola
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Groundwater
sustainable
solid waste
wastewater
degradation
urbanization
sociological
scientific
governance
recommendations
holistic
legislation

description: This doctoral research focuses on groundwater degradation in Lagos, Nigeria. Groundwater is a critically important natural resource in Lagos that is presently troubled by pollution that emanates from solid waste and wastewater. The city generates 10,000 metric tons of waste and 350 million gallons of wastewater daily, all of which are improperly managed and are heavily polluting its groundwater. This direct environmental pollution is aggravated by indirect problems of over-urbanization, and legal and institutional shortcomings. Over-urbanization in Lagos has resulted into a monumental population of 21 million people in the tiny city, which generates the enormous quantities of solid waste and wastewater. The population places a tremendous burden on the city’s water resources, forcing residents to revert to groundwater which is suffering the plight of pollution, and hence the concern of this research. The pollution problem is worsened by civic apathy to environmental matters, and unresolved by a nascent water sector whose evolving governance structures do not adequately address the multi-dimensional pollution problem. In the final analysis, the absence of holistic and comprehensive groundwater legislation that addresses all these problems challenges the sustainability of this vital resource. The research adopts a cross-disciplinary approach by combining several methodologies: historical legal analysis, important insights from scientific studies and from sociological studies that rationalize the demographical movement to Lagos which is at the root of the pollution problem; field work investigation to confirm the fact, source, and extent of polluted groundwater; and a comparative approach by examining the European Union’s legal framework for managing groundwater and waste in order to extract sustainable practices for adoption in Lagos. It concludes with a range of recommendations for incorporation into a legal framework that will help to improve the sustainability of the groundwater resource. The study contributes to knowledge by attempting to close a vacuum, which is the paucity of studies that investigate underlying social factors that trigger groundwater pollution, and also by providing broad and holistic recommendations for law reform. It addresses the role of law in remediating the pollution, managing the effects of over-urbanization and overpopulation on groundwater, strengthening institutions, and eliminating legal inadequacies.
Lightweight and Self-Evolving Channel Twinning: An Ensemble DMD-Assisted Approach
Creators: name: Cao, Yashuai
name: Wang, Jintao
name: Shi, Xu
name: Ni, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Traditional channel acquisition faces significant limitations due to ideal model assumptions and scalability challenges. A novel environment-aware paradigm, known as channel twinning, tackles these issues by constructing radio propagation environment semantics using a data-driven approach. In the spotlight of channel twinning technology, a radio map is recognized as an effective region-specific model for learning the spatial distribution of channel information. However, most studies focus on static channel map construction, with only a few collecting numerous channel samples and using deep learning for radio map prediction. In this paper, we develop a novel dynamic radio map twinning framework with a substantially small dataset. Specifically, we present an innovative approach that employs dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) to model the evolution of the dynamic channel gain map as a dynamical system. We first interpret dynamic channel gain maps as spatio-temporal video stream data. The coarse-grained and fine-grained evolving modes are extracted from the stream data using a new ensemble DMD (Ens-DMD) algorithm. To mitigate the impact of noisy data, we design a median-based threshold mask technique to filter the noise artifacts of the twin maps. With the proposed DMD-based radio map twinning framework, numerical results are provided to demonstrate the low-complexity reproduction and evolution of the channel gain maps. Furthermore, we consider four radio map twin performance metrics to confirm the superiority of our framework compared to the baselines.
description: Accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
The Effect of Menopausal Transition on Body Composition, Cardiometabolic Risk Factors, Physical Activity and Cardiorespiratory Fitness
Creators: name: Abdulnour, Joseph
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Menopause
Cardiometabolic risk factors
body composition
visceral fat
vasomotor symptoms
Cardiorespiratory fitness
Physical activity
Blood pressure

description: Menopause transition is a natural process in a woman’s life associated with altered body fat distribution, increased cardiometabolic risk, and the presentation of vasomotor symptoms including hot flashes and night sweats. A 5-year observational, longitudinal study (MONET: Montreal Ottawa New Emerging Team), was performed to document the effect of menopause transition on body composition and cardiometabolic risk factors. Initially, the study included 102 healthy non-obese premenopausal women between the age of 47 and 55 years. By the end of year 5, 91 women completed the study, 4% were still premenopausal, 29% were perimenopausal and 67% became postmenopausal. The major finding of the first study was that the increases in body fat mass and visceral fat in our cohort of non-obese women followed through the menopause transition were independent of the increase in body weight. Furthermore, these changes in body composition and body fat distribution were not associated with cardiometabolic deteriorations. We further examined whether specific factors such as reporting vasomotor symptoms (hot flashes and/or night sweats), exaggerated exercise systolic blood pressure, physical activity levels and cardiorespiratory fitness, may be associated with adiposity, body fat distribution and cardiometabolic profile. Overall, women that experienced vasomotor symptoms (paper 2) or presented an exaggerated exercise systolic blood pressure (paper 3), did not present any alterations in their body composition, body fat distribution and cardiometabolic profile compared to asymptomatic women and participants with normal blood pressure response to exercise, respectively. Furthermore, exaggerated exercise systolic blood pressure was not predictive of future hypertension after a 5-year follow-up throughout menopause transition. On the other hand, total volume of physical activity was not linked with measures of a cardiometabolic profile, cardiorespiratory fitness appeared to have the greatest cardioprotective effect (paper 4). Therefore, in generally healthy physically active non-obese premenopausal women, the menopause transition does not generally alter cardiometabolic risk factors, and suggests that cardiorespiratory fitness may have greater cardiometabolic protective effects in this cohort.
Manufactured Veils: A Study of Two Canadian Feminist Novels in Persian Translation after the 1979 Iranian Revolution
Creators: name: Sharifi, Sima
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Feminist novels in IRI Theocracy
Comparative text analysis

description: The patriarchal legal system and the socio-cultural institutions of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) relegate Iranian women to second-class citizens. Yet, Canadian feminist texts such as Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1985) and Carol Shields's Unless (2002) have been translated into Persian, in 2003 and 2005 respectively. Moreover, they circulate freely and are found in Iran’s National Library. This seeming discrepancy needs a systemic and contextually-based explanation. Four questions guide my dissertation: What happens to the texts as they cross the cultural boundaries into the receiving society? Specifically, which features of feminist texts are most vulnerable to censorial interventions and what does that reveal about the interplay of the hegemonic theocratic-patriarchy and translation? Finally, how is the Persian translation of feminist texts even possible, given Iran’s legal, political and socio-cultural antagonism toward women’s autonomy? In other words, what factors mitigate such translations? To answer these questions, I outline the legal representation of women in the legal discourse and the socio-cultural attitudes towards women’s rights in Iran subsequent to the (1906-1911) Constitutional Revolution and the 1979 Revolution, which led to an Islamist government. I examine the impacts of the IRI’s androcentric legislations on women’s rights, and the censorship mechanisms on Persian and imported feminist literature. I explore the types and extent of resistance to censorship, and I study the representation of women in school textbooks, cinema and Persian literature to analyze the impact that the interaction between the legal discourse, censorship and resistance has on cultural products. I conduct a comparative text analysis using theories of feminist linguistics and descriptive translation studies (Toury 1995; Cameron 1985, 1995) to investigate the extent to which patriarchal mechanisms influence the translation of the two novels. The goal is to determine how the legal and socio-cultural discourses of the target society affect the form and meaning of the translation, and to identify translation strategies that undermine the very features that make a novel female-centric. I demonstrate how these translation strategies consistently produce target texts that conform to the state-sponsored patriarchal agenda, and synchronize with the gender values and norms of the IRI.
Reevaluating Patient Eligibility for Inotuzumab Ozogamicin Based on CD22 Expression: Is Dim Expression Sufficient?
Creators: name: Fingrut, Warren
name: Davis, Wendy
name: McGinnis, Eric
name: Dallas, Karen
name: Ramadan, Khaled
name: Merkeley, Hayley
name: Leitch, Heather
name: Abou Mourad, Yasser
name: Cassaday, Ryan D.
name: Ross, Camilla
name: Léger, Chantal
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Salvage options for patients with relapsed B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) include inotuzumab ozogamicin (InO), a recombinant, humanized anti-CD22 monoclonal antibody conjugated to the cytotoxic antibiotic calicheamicin. However, the benefit of InO in patients with dim CD22 expression remains unclear. We present a case of a patient with B-ALL who responded to InO despite only dim surface expression of CD22 by flow cytometry, achieving a survival benefit concordant with that reported in the literature and maintaining a good quality of life as a transfusion-independent outpatient. Our observation has broad relevance to clinicians who manage patients with B-ALL who are candidates for InO.
Identification of Genetic Determinants Associated with Biofilm Formation Capacity of Listeria Monocytogenes
Creators: name: Soosai, Diana Margaret
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biofilm
Listeria monocytogenes
food processing

description: Persistence of Listeria monocytogenes in food processing plants is a huge health and economic burden. Biofilms are considered to be one of the major mechanisms by which this pathogen persists within these environments. Studies so far have mostly used optimal growth conditions in their investigations which may not provide a realistic understanding of the biofilm forming abilities of L. monocytogenes in food processing plants. Therefore the aim of this study was to 1) establish a model (12 ºC, Beef Broth) that closely relates to the food processing environment 2) screen 66 isolates of L. monocytogenes from food and clinical sources and determine their biofilm forming phenotypes (non-, weak, moderate and strong formers) and 3) analyze the correlation between biofilm formation phenotypes and biofilm associated genes detected using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) for whole genome sequences. Biofilm formation established at 12 ºC in Beef Broth was the most consistent and quantifiable at day 9 of incubation. Subsequently, 66 isolates were screened using this model, resulting in 60 isolates being identified as strong biofilm formers, 5 isolates as moderate biofilm formers and 1 isolate as a weak biofilm former. Twenty biofilm associated genes were analyzed using PCR in 27 representative isolates. Out of the 20 genes, at least 17 of them were detected in all the tested isolates. Out of the 106 biofilm associated genes analyzed using BLAST, all the isolates were found to show the presence of at least 92 genes. In conclusion, there was no obvious correlation between the presence/absence of the genes selected for analysis and the ability to form biofilms using approaches performed in this study. However, the model established in the study will be useful in further analysis (transcription and translation studies) of genetic markers responsible for biofilm formation of L. monocytogenes under food processing conditions.
Instrumented Compliant Wrist System for Enhanced Robotic Interaction
Creators: name: Laferrière, Pascal
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Compliant Wrist
Proximity Sensing
Touch Feedback
Robot Navigation
Dexterous Robotics
Contact Feedback

description: This thesis presents the development of an instrumented compliant wrist mechanism which serves as an interface between robotic platforms and their environments in order to detect surface positions and orientations. Although inspired by similar existing devices, additional features such as noncontact distance estimations, a simplified physical structure, and wireless operation were incorporated into the design. The primary role envisioned for this mechanism was for enabling robotic manipulators to perform surface following tasks prior to contact as this was one requirement of a larger project involving inspection of surfaces. The information produced by the compliant wrist system can be used to guide robotic devices in their workspace by providing real-time proximity detection and collision detection of objects. Compliance in robotic devices has attracted the attention of many researchers due to the multitude of benefits it offers. In the scope of this work, the main advantage of compliance is that it allows rigid structures to come into contact with possibly fragile objects. Combined with instrumentation for detecting the deflections produced by this compliance, closed-loop control can be achieved, increasing the number of viable applications for an initially open-loop system. Custom fabrication of a prototype device was completed to physically test operation of the designed system. The prototype incorporates a microcontroller to govern the internal operations of the device such as sensor data collection and processing. By performing many computation tasks directly on the device, robotic controllers are able to dedicate more of their time to more important tasks such as path planning and object avoidance by using the pre-conditioned compliant device data. Extensive work has also gone into the refinement of sensor signals coming from the key infrared distance measurement sensors used in the device. A calibration procedure was developed to decrease inter-sensor variability due to the method of manufacturing of these sensors. Noise reduction in the signals is achieved via a digital filtering process. The evaluation of the performance of the device is achieved through the collection of a large amount of sensor data for use in characterisation of the sensor and overall system behavior. This comes in the form of a statistical analysis of the sensor outputs to determine signal stability and accuracy. Additionally, the operation of the device is validated by its integration onto a manipulator robot and incorporating the data generated into the robot’s control loop.