cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Androgens enhance adult hippocampal neurogenesis in males but not females in an age-dependent manner
Creators: name: Duarte-Guterman, Paula
name: Lieblich, Stephanie E.
name: Wainwright, Steven R.
name: Chow, Carmen
name: Chaiton, Jessica A.
name: Watson, Neil V. (Neil Verne), 1962-
name: Galea, Liisa A. M.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: Androgens (testosterone and dihydrotestosterone) increase adult hippocampal neurogenesis by increasing survival of new neurons in male rats and mice via an androgen receptor pathway, but it is not known whether androgens regulate neurogenesis in females and whether the effect is age-dependent. We investigated the effects of dihydrotestosterone (DHT), a potent androgen, on neurogenesis in young adult and middle-aged males and females. Rats were gonadectomized and injected with the DNA synthesis marker, bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU). The following day rats began receiving daily injections of oil or DHT for days. We evaluated cell proliferation (Ki67) and survival of new neurons (BrdU and BrdU/NeuN) in the hippocampus of male and female rats using immunohistochemistry. As expected, DHT increased the number of BrdU+ cells in young males but surprisingly not in middle-aged male rats or in young and middle-aged females. In middle age, DHT increased the proportion of BrdU/NeuN cells, an effect driven by females. AR expression also increased with aging in both female and male rats, which may contribute to a lack of DHT neurogenic effect in middle age. Our results indicate that DHT regulates adult hippocampal neurogenesis in a sex- and age-dependent manner.
Specifying roles within agent-oriented software engineering
Creators: name: Chan, Kevin
name: Sterling, Leon
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Roles are an essential concept within agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE). Role definitions in current AOSE methodologies are usually claimed to be for use at the requirements level. However, in most methodologies, they are too low level, specifying too much detail. In this paper, we present a 'higher level' role specification. The role specification method described in this paper works together with other agent specification/analysis methods that we and others have developed. However, we believe that role specification may also be used with non-agentbased systems, and provide a useful abstraction for specifying the requirements of any software system.
Tracking Visitors in Public Parks
Creators: name: Harder, Henrik
name: Bro, Peter
name: Tradisauskas, Nerius
name: Nielsen, Thomas Alexander Sick
Publisher: name: Research in Urbanism Series
Year: 2008

description: Very little scientific research based upon GPS tracking in a Danish context has been conducted and up until the present, no research at all has included comprehensive GPS tracking of human activity (cf. Jensen & Guldager, 2005; Jensen, 2003). There is therefore a need for explorative studies evaluating different tracking hardware and methodological set-ups and identifying various difficulties that may arise during data collection. From 2003 up to the present, the Diverse Urban Space (DUS) research project has conducted various experiments with the use of GPS tracking as a survey instrument relevant to urban planning. This work has involved cases including the simple testing of equipment and both small and large scale surveys. This chapter will first provide a concise overview of the different surveys and tests conducted within the DUS and briefly explain the main methodological experiences. Hereafter, a specific case in which GPS technology is applied to track the movements of park visitors will be dealt with in more detail with regards to the methodological set-up, results and applied hardware. in addition to the explanation of the general surveying technique and the results, one park in particular is used to illustrate a simple analysis of how Google Earth may be used in connection with real time visualisation undertaken on the basis of GPS tracking. Lastly, conclusions drawn from the park surveys and a number of more general conclusions on the basis of various other surveys are provided.
description: Research in Urbanism Series, Vol. 1 (2008): Urbanism on Track: Application of tracking technologies in urbanism
Supplementary document for Hyperbolic phonon polariton resonances in calcite nanopillars - 5107735.pdf
Creators: name: Breslin, Vanessa
name: Ratchford, Daniel
name: GILES3, ALEXANDER
name: Dunkelberger, Adam
name: Owrutsky, Jeff
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: revised supplemental information
Mobile Pedestrian Navigation Systems
Creators: name: Millonig, Alexandra
name: Schechtner, Katja
Publisher: name: Research in Urbanism Series
Year: 2008

description: The first part of this paper gives a survey of the state of the art of research on human spatio-temporal behaviour in connection with the development of pedestrian navigation systems. The second part of the paper deals with the problem of pedestrian route choice behaviour. It is in particular concerned with localisation technologies and their adaptation to location-based information systems. The third part of the paper outlines three projects performed at arsenal research and the Vienna University of Technology in these areas. Firstly, it describes a research project on the requirements with regard to the development of ubiquitous cartography for pedestrians in indoor and outdoor environments. secondly, it describes a self-learning travel guide for city tourists based on mobile phones and GPS. Lastly, it describes an audio-guide system which provides landmark-based navigation instruction.
description: Research in Urbanism Series, Vol. 1 (2008): Urbanism on Track: Application of tracking technologies in urbanism
UBA baut Antworten
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Plusenergiehaus
subject: Umweltgerechtes Bauen
subject: Plus-Energie-Haus
subject: Erweiterungsbau
subject: Bauprojekt
subject: Nachhaltiges Bauen
subject: Das UBA

Abstract
Using language and culture to construct group work in higher education
Creators: name: Melles, Gavin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Second language students’ experiences of group work is not often transparent in evaluation studies although the multicultural nature of the student population in Australasia would suggest that culture and language should be on the research agenda. Culture and language is used in the higher education literature to mark out the Asian learner as different and problematic although such cultural models and stereotypes have been the subject of some criticism in recent years.Through semi-structured qualitative interviewing in focus group interviews with 19 South East Asian students I explore the ways language and culture intervene to structure these students’ experiences.
Application of GPS data in Geographic Information Systems
Creators: name: Nijhuis, Steffen
Publisher: name: Research in Urbanism Series
Year: 2008

description: Urban planners and designers depend on spatial-oriented information and knowledge to comprehend a situation and to find design opportunities and solutions for spatial problems. Geographic location, spatial patterns and the distribution of features or events across an urban landscape inform many people of the decisions that planners either make or help others to make. as we will see in this chapter, a Geographic information system (GIS) provides urban planners with a platform on which they can deal with these complex spatial environments and represent, analyse and model them. It also generates new insights through advanced spatial analysis and helps to increase efficiency and flexibility in the planning process. Parallel to GIS, handheld Global Positioning systems (GPS) are becoming increasingly available, opening the way for various applications in spatial research. The linking up of GPS and GIS in particular has proved to be a powerful instrument for urban analysis. This chapter is an introduction to the use of GPS tracking data in GIS for the descriptive and comparative analysis of pedestrian movement behaviour and the exploration of space-time activity patterns. The first part of the chapter addresses some key concepts of GIS into urban planning and design. It will address a number of fundamental GIS tools for delineation and the analysis of spatial patterns and relationships. The second part elaborates on the analysis of spatial patterns using GIS in combination with GPS. GPS tracking data will be explored by mapping movement and density in order to comprehend and monitor pedestrian behaviour in city centres, with rouen as a case-study.
description: Research in Urbanism Series, Vol. 1 (2008): Urbanism on Track: Application of tracking technologies in urbanism
Adaptive changes in the genomes of wild rabbits after 16 years of viral epidemics
Creators: name: Schwensow, Nina Isabell
name: Pederson, Stephen
name: Peacock, David
name: Cooke, Brian
name: Cassey, Phillip
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: host-pathogen co-evolution
subject: rabbit
subject: virus-driven selection
subject: HEMORRHAGIC-DISEASE VIRUS
subject: ORYCTOLAGUS-CUNICULUS
subject: HEPATOCELLULAR-CARCINOMA
subject: BIOLOGICAL-CONTROL
subject: HOST
subject: DDC 570 / Life sciences
subject: Adaptation (Biology)
subject: Natural selection
subject: Hemorrhagic diseases
subject: European rabbit
subject: Liver Cancer
subject: T cells
subject: Expression
subject: Genes
subject: Anpassung
subject: Natürliche Auslese
subject: Rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus
subject: Résistance
subject: Coevolution

description: Since its introduction to control overabundant invasive European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus), the highly virulent rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV) has caused regular annual disease outbreaks in Australian rabbit populations. Although initially reducing rabbit abundance by 60%, continent‐wide, experimental evidence has since indicated increased genetic resistance in wild rabbits that have experienced RHDV‐driven selection. To identify genetic adaptations, which explain the increased resistance to this biocontrol virus, we investigated genome‐wide SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) allele frequency changes in a South Australian rabbit population that was sampled in 1996 (pre‐RHD genomes) and after 16 years of RHDV outbreaks. We identified several SNPs with changed allele frequencies within or close to genes potentially important for increased RHD resistance. The identified genes are known to be involved in virus infections and immune reactions or had previously been identified as being differentially expressed in healthy versus acutely RHDV‐infected rabbits. Furthermore, we show in a simulation study that the allele/genotype frequency changes cannot be explained by drift alone and that several candidate genes had also been identified as being associated with surviving RHD in a different Australian rabbit population. Our unique data set allowed us to identify candidate genes for RHDV resistance that have evolved under natural conditions, and over a time span that would not have been feasible in an experimental setting. Moreover, it provides a rare example of host genetic adaptations to virus‐driven selection in response to a suddenly emerging infectious disease.
Deep learning for financial banking stress test analytics
Creators: name: Razzak, Farid
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: Since the recent financial crisis of late 2008, several global regulatory authorities have collaboratively mandated stress-testing exercises. These exercises evaluate the potential capital shortfalls & systemic impacts on large banks in hypothetical adverse economic scenarios, which try to simulate the macro-economic conditions similar to recent crisis'. The ability to relate dynamic economic conditions with banking performance profiles to identify meaningful relationships could provide significant insights for bank capital & loss projections.In this dissertation, the practical challenges that face bank stress-test analytics are examined and approached using advanced analytical techniques. Initially, (1) through a rigorous examination of an economic condition estimator (ECE), which learns joint approximation representations among exogenous factors by analyzing the complex non-linear relational combinations among the real-world economic indicators using a multi-modal conditioned variational auto-encoder (MCVAE). Experimentation on real-world economic conditions from the U.S. regulatory stress test exercise (CCAR) over the last three decades demonstrates the model's effectiveness.Additionally, (2) a focused study on bank capital & loss prediction (BCLP) methodology that can incorporate economic conditions as an estimated variable while also considering dynamic variability of potential crisis profiles that better provide a robust prediction of capital & loss. Demonstrations through experiments show that the BCLP model outperforms baseline & state-of-the-art methods from literature when evaluated on a sample of 1000 U.S. bank holding companies' historical consolidated financial statements (FR-9YC) from the past three decades. Both the ECE & BCLP model frameworks together form the Integrated Multi-modal Bank Stress Test Predictor (IMBSTP) framework to provide a data-driven end to end bank stress testing analytical tool.Lastly, (3) a preliminary overview of the Transferable Knowledge for the Bank Capital Components (TKBCC) model framework is discussed. The framework assumes that banks inherently share hidden intrinsic qualities and leverages inductive transfer learning techniques to improve bank capital-components predictions for domain tasks with limited training data. The performance of preliminary experiments on the proposed model framework through consolidated financial statements from the China Stock Market Accounting Research Database (CSMAR), and the Wharton Research and Data Service's (WRDS) repositories from the last two decades demonstrate the utility of the TKBCC model framework.
A “Última flor do Lácio” entre portugueses e brasileiros
Creators: name: Zilberman, Regina
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: Historians of Portuguese language and literature claimed the particularity of their idiom, distinguishing it from the Spanish, in order to assure the national literary identity. By their side, Brazilian poets and literary critics from the Romantism had to certify the identity of national literature despite the fact that they used the linguistic rules inherited from Portugal.

Historiadores da língua e da literatura portuguesa afirmaram a singularidade de seu idioma, diferenciando-o do castelhano, com o fito de garantir a identidade literária nacional. De sua parte, os poetas e críticos brasileiros do período romântico precisaram assegurar a identidade da literatura nacional, apesar de utilizarem a norma linguística herdada de Portugal.
Tracking Technologies
Creators: name: Van Der Spek, Stefan
Publisher: name: Research in Urbanism Series
Year: 2008

description: There is a growing demand for knowledge about processes in our cities, specifically the understanding of people's actual behaviour. Advanced Tracking Technologies offer the ability to give both actual and detailed insight into both people's individual and collective travel behaviour. The collected information can be used in urban analysis to map behaviour, feed prediction models, for simulation tools and for human behavioural sciences. The use of emerging technologies such as GPS tracking, mobile phone tracking and RFiD is replacing existing methods and adding features to traditional instruments in the field of urban design and planning. Advanced tracking technologies have already been used in other fields – those of sociology, geography, transport planning logistics, and biology have been using tracking technology in their research since the 1990s. This chapter gives an overview of tracking technologies relevant to urban design and planning. Firstly, the need for advanced technology is explained, followed by an explanation of available techniques. The chapter concludes with examples of the application of tracking technologies in practice.
description: Research in Urbanism Series, Vol. 1 (2008): Urbanism on Track: Application of tracking technologies in urbanism
The GPS Revolution in Spatial Research
Creators: name: Shoval, Noam
Publisher: name: Research in Urbanism Series
Year: 2008

description: Shoval introduces us to the world of GPS tracking and presents two cases in which he used GPS-obtained data for his research on the outdoor mobility of elderly people with cognitive disorders and research on the user-density of an Israeli heritage site. The first case relates to the sophistication of a location kit that is used to collect data for research focusing on the outdoor mobility of elderly people with cognitive disorders. This kit enables the researchers to measure not just the time-space activity of the research subjects, but also the level of their participation in the study. The second case relates to the ability to 'pixelating' environments using the high-resolution nature of the GPS-obtained data.
description: Research in Urbanism Series, Vol. 1 (2008): Urbanism on Track: Application of tracking technologies in urbanism
Lengua, cultura, identidad
Creators: name: Marchetti, Giovanni Gentile G.
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: Uno de los elementos estructurales que distinguen a las llamadas sociedades ‘postcoloniales’ es, sin duda, la multietnicidad. En la mayoría de ellas, tal multietnicidad se instituye por la presencia de culturas autóctonas que han sufrido, a lo largo del tiempo, profundas transformaciones, a causa de los procesos de aculturación que las diferencian, a menudo impuestos con violencia (en otros casos, la multietnicidad se da por la presencia de culturas inmigrantes).
La existencia, casi siempre conflictiva, de etnias diversas alimenta y vuelve atormentado el proceso de definición de nuevas ‘identidades’: identidades culturales que se proponen, a veces, como unificantes, construidas en torno a los eventos de la nueva historia de la comunidad, míticamente transfigurados y conciliados con los de una historia antigua; o que en cambio se inclinan por la apertura y la recuperación, a veces anacrónica y falsa, de las tradiciones ‘nativas’. En uno u otro caso, estos ideologemas se fundamentan lingüísticamente y eso vuelve particularmente relevante la cuestión de la lengua y de su poder definitorio, en relación a las culturas, entendidas antropológicamente.
The HI content of star-forming galaxies at z = 0.24
Creators: name: Lah, Philip
name: Chengalur, Jayaram N.
name: Briggs, Frank H.
name: Colless, Matthew
name: De Propris, Roberto
name: Pracy, Michael B.
name: de Blok, W. J. G.
name: Fujita, Shinobu S.
name: Ajiki, Masaru
name: Shioya, Yasuhiro
name: Nagao, Tohru
name: Murayama, Takashi
name: Taniguchi, Yoshiaki
name: Yagi, Masafumi
name: Okamura, Sadanori
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We use observations from the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) to measure the atomic hydrogen gas content of star-forming galaxies at z = 0.24 (i.e. a look-back time of ~3 Gyr). The sample of galaxies studied were selected from Hα-emitting fieldgalaxies detected in a narrow-band imaging survey with the Subaru Telescope. The Anglo-Australian Telescope was used to obtain precise optical redshifts for these galaxies. We then co-added the H I 21-cm emission signal for all the galaxies within the GMRT spectral line data cube. From the co-added signal of 121 galaxies, we measure an average atomic hydrogen gas mass of (2.26 ± 0.90) x 10^9 M⊙. We translate this H i signal into a cosmic density of neutral gas at z = 0.24 of Ωgas = (0.91 ± 0.42) x 10^-3. This is the current highest redshift at which Ωgas has been constrained from 21-cm emission and our value is consistent with that estimated from damped Lγα systems around this redshift. We also find that the correlations between the Hα luminosity and the radio continuum luminosity and between the star formation rate (SFR) and the H I gas content in star-forming galaxies at z = 0.24 are consistent with the correlations found at z = 0. These two results suggest that the star formation mechanisms in field galaxies ~3 Gyr ago were not substantially different from the present, even though the SFR is three times higher.
Introduction
Creators: name: Van Der Hoeven, Frank
name: Van Schaick, Jeroen
Publisher: name: Research in Urbanism Series
Year: 2008

description: While the application of tracking technologies has developed substantially in social sciences and transportation sciences in the last decade, it has failed to make a significant impression in the scientific field of urbanism and spatial planning. The chair of Urban Design and the chair of spatial Planning at the Delft University of Technology noted this shortcoming while working within the framework of the EU-sponsored spatial metro project and the network cities research programme. In a joint effort, on 18 January 2007, they held an international expert meeting on the application of tracking technologies in urbanism. The Delft school of Design sponsored and facilitated the expert meeting. The starting point of Urbanism on track was the exploration of the current and future possibilities and the limitations in the application of tracking technologies in urban design and spatial planning processes. The expert meeting Urbanism on track aimed to address the subject from the viewpoint of multiple disciplines. The book Urbanism on Track shows a preliminary crystallisation of the ideas presented at that meeting. as such, Urbanism on track documents the early stages of the application of tracking technologies. Practices or applications are as yet far from mature, but the documentation of this relatively early stage of technological development is what makes the book particularly relevant.
description: Research in Urbanism Series, Vol. 1 (2008): Urbanism on Track: Application of tracking technologies in urbanism
Evaluierung der Möglichkeiten für eine stärkere Einbindung des Chemiesektors in die Green Economy
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nachhaltige Chemie
subject: Chemikaliensicherheit
subject: Grüne Wirtschaft
subject: Green Economy
subject: Nachhaltigkeitskriterien
subject: Indikatoren
subject: handlungsoptionen
subject: Chemikalien
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum
subject: Chemicals
subject: Economy | Consumption

description: Das Forschungsvorhaben untersucht die Beiträge des Chemiesektors zu einer Green Economy (GE). Es analysiert dazu die Beiträge der bestehenden nationalen, europäischen und internationalen Gesetzgebungen, Programme und freiwilligen Initiativen in den Themenfeldern Umwelt und Gesundheit (U&G), Chemikaliensicherheit (CS) und Nachhaltiger Chemie (NC) zu einer GE. Als Ergebnis dieser Analyse präsentiert es Empfehlungen und Handlungsoptionen an die politischen Entscheidungsträger für den Diskussionsprozess zur Green Economy.Quelle: http://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Das Forschungsvorhaben untersucht die Beiträge des Chemiesektors zu einer Green Economy (GE). Es analysiert dazu die Beiträge der bestehenden nationalen, europäischen und internationalen Gesetzgebungen, Programme und freiwilligen Initiativen in den Themenfeldern Umwelt und Gesundheit (U&G), Chemikaliensicherheit (CS) und Nachhaltiger Chemie (NC) zu einer GE. Als Ergebnis dieser Analyse präsentiert es Empfehlungen und Handlungsoptionen an die politischen Entscheidungsträger für den Diskussionsprozess zur Green Economy.
Supplementary document for Error Analysis and Optimization for Risley-prism imaging distortion correction - 5108835.pdf
Creators: name: huang, feng
name: Ren, He
name: Shen, Ying
name: Wang, Pengfei
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The supplementary description of the details of our work.
Becoming Taiwanese Muslims: Ethnic, National, and Religious Identity Transformations in a Muslim Minority
Creators: name: Pelletier, Robert
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Muslim
Taiwan
Islam
Identity

description: This research project is focused on contemporary identity issues facing Muslim Mainlanders in Taiwan. Muslim Mainlanders are an ethnic subgroup of the Mainlanders who fled to Taiwan after the communist take-over of China. This project argues that multiple communal identities interact and are pragmatically used by Muslim Mainlanders depending on social context. Specifically, ethnicity, nationality and religion are identities which individuals understand according to unique social experiences. This research provides an opportunity to update the literature on the Islamic community in Taipei. The thesis argues that global processes are causing an Islamic revival. This transformation is occurring alongside the movement of Mainlanders to identify as Taiwanese. Both movements are nationalistic because they provide opportunities to move beyond a heritage which originates in China. Ce projet de recherche se concentre sur les questions d'identité auxquels est confrontée la Continentaux musulmans à Taiwan. Continentaux musulmans sont un sous-groupe ethnique des Continentaux qui ont fui à Taiwan après la prise de contrôle communiste de la Chine. Ce projet fait valoir que plusieurs identités communautaires interagissent et sont utilisés de façon pragmatique par Continentaux musulmans selon le contexte social. Plus précisément, l'origine ethnique, la nationalité et la religion sont des identités dont les individus comprennent selon les expériences sociales uniques. Cette recherche offre la possibilité de mettre à jour la documentation sur la communauté islamique à Taipei. La thèse soutient que les processus mondiaux sont à l'origine d'un renouveau islamique. Cette transformation se produit aux côtés du mouvement des Continentaux à s'identifier comme taiwanais. Les deux mouvements sont nationalistes, car ils offrent des possibilités d'aller au-delà d'un patrimoine qui est originaire de Chine.
Implicit actions and explicit outcomes: cultural-academic interactions in writing journal research articles
Creators: name: Prince, A.
name: Blicblau, A.
name: Soesatyo, B.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Students undertaking research degrees, particularly PhD degrees, are expected to write and publish refereed journal articles. Students from non English-speaking backgrounds and cultures (NESBC) can find this process particularly difficult. Students become familiar with the genre of the research article through reading the journals. However, as novice research writers, they need mentoring through the process of writing a journal article in their specialised area by supervisors who are familiar with the rhetorical conventions of the genre in the particular field. Experienced supervisors, who have published, have an intuitive grasp of the structure of the research article, and are able to suggest restructure of unsuccessful drafts. The process by which the supervisor's implicit knowledge is made explicit, i.e., how an academic supervisor analyses and revises the structure of a student's draft article, has not been widely studied. Second language research, most notably Swales, has analysed the explicit product of this implicit understanding, i.e. published articles. A think-aloud protocol was used to record the supervisor's revision of an NESBC student's draft journal article. The revised paper was analysed to see whether Swales' 'moves' were present and the recorded text was analysed to see how and why the supervisor rearranged the draft. This paper is collaboration between an engineer and an applied linguist. It describes the process of re-organisation process of a professional journal article which an NESBC postgraduate student and his supervisor went through to arrive at format suitable for publication.
Analyzing abstraction and hierarchical decision-making in absolute identification by information-theoretic bounded rationality
Creators: name: Lindig-León, Cecilia
name: Gottwald, Sebastian
name: Braun, Daniel A.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Bounded rationality
subject: Absolute identification
subject: Information
subject: DDC 000 / Computer science, information & general works
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: Abstraction
subject: Information processing, Human
subject: Decision making
subject: Eingeschränkte Rationalität
subject: Entscheidungsfindung

description: In the face of limited computational resources, bounded rational decision theory predicts that information-processing should be concentrated on actions that make a significant contribution in terms of the utility achieved. Accordingly, information-processing can be simplified by choosing stereotypic actions that lead to satisfactory performance over a range of different inputs rather than choosing a specific action for each input. Such a set of similar inputs with similar action responses would then correspond to an abstraction that can be harnessed with possibly negligible loss in utility, but with potentially considerable savings in information-processing effort. Here we test this prediction in an identification task, where human subjects were asked to estimate the roundness of ellipses varying from a straight line to a perfect circle. Crucially, when reporting their estimates, subjects could choose between three different levels of precision corresponding to three levels of abstraction in a decision-making hierarchy. To induce changes in level selection, we manipulated the information-processing resources available at the perceptual and action stages by varying the difficulty of identifying the stimulus and by enforcing different response times in the action stage. In line with theoretical predictions, we find that subjects adapt their abstraction level depending on the available resources. We compare subjects’ behavior to the maximum efficiency predicated by the bounded rational decision-making model and investigate possible sources of inefficiency.
Talent recruitment analytics in the era of big data
Creators: name: Meng, Qingxin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: This dissertation aims at developing effective and efficient data mining techniques to solve varied talent recruitment issues, reforming the overall process with respect to talent sourcing, screening, matching, and assessment. Intelligent talent recruitment has gained increasing attention due to the critical talent competitions and intensive talent mobilities over the years. Previous studies mainly focus on discovering conceptual and theoretical topics, while applications for supporting organizational decision making are still under-explored.To this end, we propose several approaches purposed to not only help the people to make intelligent talent-related decisions but also obtain domain understandings through a multifaceted data-driven perspective. In particular, we first present a hierarchical career-path-aware neural network to study individuals’ job mobilities. In this work, two problems are predicted all together on the basis of one’s historical career paths: 1) who will the individual’s next employer? 2) How long will the individual stay with his/her next employer? Several job mobility patterns regarding working duration, firm types, and etc. are discovered simultaneously. Also, we propose an intelligent matrix factorization based framework to address job salary benchmarking tasks. In this work, we consider multiple contextual factors to improve the prediction accuracy, such as job responsibility, company features, work location, and the time the job wanted. Furthermore, we put forward a Non-parametric Dirichlet Process-based graphical model to address the “cold-start” problem for salary benchmarking, which also has superior interpretability associated with job responsibility and company.
The role of multilevel selection in host microbiome evolution
Creators: name: Van Vliet, Simon
name: Doebeli, Michael, 1961-
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Animals are associated with a microbiome that can affect their reproductive success. It is therefore important to understand how a host and its microbiome coevolve. According to the hologenome concept, hosts and their microbiome form an integrated evolutionary entity, a holobiont, on which selection can potentially act directly. However, this view is controversial and there is an active debate on whether the association between hosts and their microbiomes is strong enough to allow for selection at the holobiont level. Much of this debate is based on verbal arguments, but a quantitative framework is needed to investigate the conditions under which selection can act at the holobiont level. Here we use multilevel selection theory to develop such a framework. We found that selection at the holobiont level can in principle favor a trait that is costly to the microbes but that provides a benefit to the host. However, such scenarios require rather stringent conditions. The degree to which microbiome composition is heritable decays with time, and selection can only act at the holobiont level when this decay is slow enough, which occurs when vertical transmission is stronger than horizontal transmission. Moreover, the host generation time has to be short enough compared to the timescale of the evolutionary dynamics at the microbe level. Our framework thus allows us to quantitatively predict for what kind of systems selection could act at the holobiont level.
The effects of methylmercury on the reproductive axis of goldfish (Carassius auratus)
Creators: name: Crump, Kate
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.
subject: Health Sciences, Toxicology.

description: Methylmercury is both a potent neurotoxin and putative non-steroidal endocrine disruptor. Laboratory studies have provided evidence of reproductive impairment in many fish species after mercury exposure. Effects have been observed at every level of the reproductive axis including degeneration of neurons in the hypothalamus, decreased activity of gonadotrophs in the pituitary, and reduced steroidogenesis in the gonads. Despite the growing amount of research linking methylmercury exposure to reproductive impairment, the target tissues and mechanisms of action involved are still largely unknown. This thesis extends the body of evidence supporting the hypothesis that methylmercury is an endocrine disruptor in fish. To my knowledge, this is the first study to compare the effects of sub-chronic methylmercury exposure on adult goldfish at two different periods within the annual spawning cycle. The effects of endocrine disrupting toxins may differ depending on the season of exposure as goldfish exhibit seasonal fluctuations in gonad size, circulating sex steroids, and luteinizing hormone (LH). The present study demonstrates that ovarian steroidogenesis is impaired by methylmercury in both pre- and post-spawning fish. Analyses of pituitary and serum LH levels suggest that reductions in sex steroid levels are independent of alterations in LH. The possibility that reduced sex steroid levels in fish exposed to dietary methylmercury may be secondary to hypothalamic dysfunction remains to be addressed. Microarray analysis identified 59 genes differentially expressed in the hypothalamus after methylmercury accumulation. These candidate genes were categorized into discrete functional groups including apoptosis and stress response, calcium binding and transport, and protein synthesis, degradation, and transport. In addition, several neuroendocrine-related genes were differentially regulated including transcripts encoding peptides involved in stimulating the production and release of gonadotropin releasing hormone, secretion of LH, and gonadal steroidogenesis. This thesis demonstrates changes in the endocrine system linked to methylmercury exposure and provides the first step towards identifying the mechanistic relationship between changes in reproductive biomarkers and gene expression.
Attitude change in correctional groups.
Creators: name: Fortin, Sylvie.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Social.

description: Group polarization is a phenomenon in which moderate attitudes or opinions espoused by a social group tend to become more extreme in the course of interactions and discussions within the group. Using a modified form of the group polarization paradigm, the present study examined the conditions under which group polarization or related phenomena may operate within correctional treatment or discussion groups to inadvertently foster the amplification of procriminal attitudes or beliefs. Inmates at a correctional treatment facility were assigned to small discussion groups on the basis of their pre-experimental scores on psychometric tests measuring either identification with the inmate code (High vs. Low Inmate Solidarity) or antisocial/prosocial personality traits (High vs. Low Criminality). Each group then engaged in brief discussions of (a) topics preselected to elicit or trigger categorizations along a prosocial-procriminal dimension ("prototypical" topics), and (b) neutral topics. Group-mediated attitudinal shifts were affected by both the type of group composition and by the discussion topic. Only homogeneous groups of High Inmate Solidarity subjects showed significant strengthening of procriminal attitudes and this was the case only for discussions of prototypical topics, not for neutral topics. All other group compositions tended to exhibit shifts toward the mid-point of the rating (i.e., more neutral or ambivalent post-discussion attitudes), regardless of the type of topic discussed. The results are interpreted as providing evidence for Self-Categorization Theory, which posits that group-mediated attitude change is a phenomenon of conformity to local ingroup norms--representing what group members perceive to be the group consensus--and factors influencing the salience of ingroup-outgroup categorizations or group identity. The clinical implications of these findings for correctional treatment groups and implications for future research are discussed.
L’impossibile fuga. Soggetto migrante e dinamiche identitarie in The Peruvian notebooks di Braulio Muñoz
L’impossibile fuga. Soggetto migrante e dinamiche identitarie in The Peruvian notebooks di Braulio Muñoz
Creators: name: Bernardoni, Rodja
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Università di Bologna
Year: 2011

description: The article aims to examine the novel The peruvian notebooks, by the peruvian writer Braulio Muñoz. We will proceed by analyzing it through the ideas of migrant subject and migrant discourse developed by the critic Antonio Cornejo Polar. Starting from the instability and the fragmentation of these symbolic and discursive realities, we will try to point out how the text intends to investigate and to represent the alienating dynamics that, in the migration experience, mark the process of social and identitarian redefinition.
Keywords: migrant subject, identity, alienation, colonial condition, self- representation
In questo articolo ci occuperemo del romanzo The peruvian notebooks dello scrittore peruviano Braulio Muñoz. Lo faremo analizzandolo alla luce dei concetti di soggetto e discorso migrante elaborati dal critico Antonio Cornejo Polar. A partire dall’affermazione dell’instabilità e della frammentarietà di queste realtà simboliche e discorsive, si cercherà di mettere in evidenza come il testo romanzesco si proponga di investigare e rappresentare le dinamiche alienanti che, nell’esperienza della migrazione, caratterizzano il processo di ridefinizione identitaria e sociale.
Palabras clave: soggetto migrante, identità, alienazione, condizione coloniale, auto-rappresentazione.
description: The article aims to examine the novel The peruvian notebooks, by the peruvian writer Braulio Muñoz. We will proceed by analyzing it through the ideas of migrant subject and migrant discourse developed by the critic Antonio Cornejo Polar. Starting from the instability and the fragmentation of these symbolic and discursive realities, we will try to point out how the text intends to investigate and to represent the alienating dynamics that, in the migration experience, mark the process of social and identitarian redefinition.
Keywords: migrant subject, identity, alienation, colonial condition, self- representation
In questo articolo ci occuperemo del romanzo The peruvian notebooks dello scrittore peruviano Braulio Muñoz. Lo faremo analizzandolo alla luce dei concetti di soggetto e discorso migrante elaborati dal critico Antonio Cornejo Polar. A partire dall’affermazione dell’instabilità e della frammentarietà di queste realtà simboliche e discorsive, si cercherà di mettere in evidenza come il testo romanzesco si proponga di investigare e rappresentare le dinamiche alienanti che, nell’esperienza della migrazione, caratterizzano il processo di ridefinizione identitaria e sociale.
Palabras clave: soggetto migrante, identità, alienazione, condizione coloniale, auto-rappresentazione.
Funerary inscription for Marcus Limbricius and his wife Helvia Arura
Creators: name: Prag, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Sicily
subject: epigraphy
subject: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300138808
subject: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462492

description: TEI EpiDoc record
Cryptographic Credentials with Privacy-preserving Biometric Bindings
Creators: name: Bissessar, David
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Cryptography
Privacy Enhancing Techniques
Biometrics
Fuzzy Extractors

description: Cryptographic credentials allow user authorizations to be granted and verified. and have such applications as e-Passports, e-Commerce, and electronic cash. This thesis proposes a privacy protecting approach of binding biometrically derived keys to cryptographic credentials to prevent unauthorized lending. Our approach builds on the 2011 work of Adams, offering additional benefits of privacy protection of biometric information, generality on biometric modalities, and performance. Our protocol integrates into Brands’ Digital Credential scheme, and the Anonymous Credentials scheme of Camenisch and Lysyanskaya. We describe a detailed integration with the Digital Credential Scheme and sketch the integration into the Anonymous Credentials scheme. Security proofs for non-transferability, correctness of ownership, and unlinkability are provided for the protocol’s instantiation into Digital Credentials. Our approach uses specialized biometric devices in both the issue and show protocols. These devices are configured with our proposed primitive, the fuzzy ex-tractor indistinguishability adaptor which uses a traditional fuzzy extractor to create and regenerate cryptographic keys from biometric data and IND-CCA2 secure en-cryption protect the generated public data against multiplicity attacks. Pedersen commitments are used to hold the key at issue and show time, and A zero-knowledge proof of knowledge is used to ensure correspondence of key created at issue-time and regenerated at show-time. The above is done in a manner which preserves biometric privacy, as and delivers non-transferability of digital credentials. The biometric itself is not stored or divulged to any of the parties involved in the protocol. Privacy protection in multiple enrollments scenarios is achieved by the fuzzy extractor indistinguishability adapter. The zero knowledge proof of knowledge is used in the showing protocol to prove knowledge of values without divulging them.
Discourse and translation: Comparative descriptive analysis of William Goldman's "The Princess Bride" and its French translation.
Creators: name: Hug, Christine.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Literature, Comparative.

description: Translators often focus only on linguistic equivalence to the detriment of textuality, in translation and in the evaluation of translations. Looking for certain elements of discourse allows an analysis of meaning at other levels than term- or sentence-level. In this thesis, discourse analysis is applied to an entire text, William Goldman's The Princess Bride (New York: 1987). This postmodern novel draws on several different genres, but parodies them, and turns readers' expectations on their heads. The goal of this thesis is to see what happens to the elements of discourse in the French translation of this novel. The analysis deals first with macrotextual aspects including the paratext and the metatext. Examining the narrative framework highlights the play of the characters' and narrators voices' in the text. Comparing the original to the translation brings to light the translator's voice, one that reveals a tendency to normalization.
L'identité morale des gestionnaires : une analyse socio-historique, pragmatique et théologique.
Creators: name: Lecours, Pierre.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Theology.

description: Dans la première partie de notre thèse, nous analyserons l'évolution des discours sur l'identité morale des gestionnaires dans le champ des théories de la gestion. Au terme de ce parcours, nous laisserons le lecteur avec une meilleur idée de l'héritage moral des theories de la gestion (d'où venons-nous?), de l'avenir qu'elles annoncent (que voulons-nous?) et des forces en présence qui expliquent les mutations actuelles (qu'est-ce qui explique que l'on veuille prendre ce tournant?). Dans la deuxième partie de notre thèse, nous actualiserons la pensée de Jean-Marc Ferry. Notre objectif sera de prendre le chemin tracé par ce spécialiste européen de la question de l'identité morale en vue de développer une pédagogie qui permettra aux gestionnaires d'honorer à fond les exigences éthiques contemporaines. Dans la troisième partie de notre thèse, nous verrons comment les ressources de la théologie peuvent appuyer les efforts qui sont déployés pour construire l'identité morale des gestionnaires. Notre souci est de dégager une voie ou un cadre de dialogue qui permettra aux ressources de la foi chrétienne d'appuyer les efforts humains qui cherchent à orienter la gestion vers plus de respect de l'humain, de la société et de l'environnement. En écrivant cette thèse, nous faisons trois paris. Le premier est celui du dialogue . À ce chapitre, l'idée que nous voulons communiquer est qu'il y a quelque chose d'immensément riche à gagner en favorisant une rencontre entre le meilleur de ce que la gestion, la philosophie et la théologie peuvent offrir aux discussions sur l'identité morale des gestionnaires. Notre deuxième pari est celui de la lucidité . À ce niveau, notre premier espoir est que notre travail fera apparaître que le devenir des personnes (et par elles celui des sociétés) est l'enjeu fondamental qui se cache en-dessous du questionnement de l'éthique sectorielle centré sur la résolution de problèmes pratiques. Notre troisième pari est celui de la confiance . Sans absoudre les gestionnaires de leur part de responsabilité pour les problèmes du monde, nous avons pris l'option de croire que l'évolution du travail et de l'économie nous offre aujourd'hui autant de chances d'humanisation que d'occasions de dérives plus poussées vers une exploitation des personnes et une dégradation de la nature. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)