cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Practical Strategies and Perceptions from Community Pharmacists Following their Experiences with Conducting Pharmacy Practice Research : A Qualitative Content Analysis
Creators: name: De Vera, Mary
name: Campbell, Natasha K. J.
name: Chhina, Harpreet Kaur
name: Galo, Jessica
name: Marra, Carlo A.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Objectives: While prior research identified barriers to conducting research in community pharmacies, there remains a need to better understand facilitators to ensure successful collaborations between academic researchers and pharmacists. Our objective was to determine the experiences and perspectives of community pharmacists who have recently conducted a pharmacy practice-based research study to gain in-depth understanding of challenges as well as facilitators and identify strategies and solutions. Methods: We conducted a qualitative study involving one-on-one semi-structured telephone interviews with community pharmacists following the completion of a practice-based research study in their pharmacies. Interview transcripts were analysed using inductive content analysis involving open coding, creating categories, and abstraction into final themes. Key findings: Eleven pharmacists participated in the qualitative interviews. We identified six major themes including: 1) barriers (e.g. time constraints); 2) facilitators (e.g. ideal pharmacy layout); 3) support and resources from academic researchers (e.g. helpfulness of training, easy-to-use study materials); 4) pharmacist-initiated strategies for conducting research (beyond prior suggestions from researchers); 5) suggestions for future pharmacy practice research; and 6) motivation for conducting pharmacy practice research. These findings informed practical strategies targeted at academic researchers and pharmacists, respectively, to facilitate the conduct of research in community pharmacists across various stages of the research process. Conclusions: Our study adds to better understanding of community pharmacists’ perspectives on conducting research and identifies practical solutions that can be readily implemented by academic researchers and pharmacists participating in research.
Founding true north: Arctic landscape in the texts of the first Franklin expedition.
Creators: name: Krans, Michael.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: History, European.

description: This thesis focuses on the notes, journals, and final published Narrative of Sir John Franklin's troubled First Arctic Land Expedition (1819-1822). Working from a Heideggerian perspective, this study critiques new historicist approaches to the expedition and suggests new ways of interpreting the various expedition texts. In particular, this study concentrates on the issues of textuality and language which are highlighted by the explorers' meticulous records of the expedition's failure. Ultimately, it is proposed that this failure was due more to the wilfulness of the English explorers than it was to the virulent Eurocentrism of the era. The study then moves on to broader issues of land and landscape, working from both the expedition texts and various contemporary Arctic texts. The study concludes by emphasizing the essential connection between language and land in the landscape of a historical people.
AN EXPERIMENT ON SPEED BUMPS BUILT WITH USED PNEUMATIC RUBBER TIRES
Creators: name: Boonsap Witchayangkoon, Sayan Sirimontree
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Sustainability traffic engineering
Low-cost speed bump
Waste management
Tire recycling
Speed control
Traffic calming device
Vehicle maneuver
Tire reuse.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 14, 10A14D: 1-7
title: The plant leaf movement analyzer (PALMA)
title: a simple tool for the analysis of periodic cotyledon and leaf movement in Arabidopsis thaliana
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Wagner, Lucas
name: Schmal, Christoph
name: Staiger, Dorothee
name: Danisman, Selahattin
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Circadian clock
subject: Iron homeostasis
subject: Rhythmic leaf movement analysis
subject: Rhythmic cotyledon movement analysis
subject: PALMA
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background The analysis of circadian leaf movement rhythms is a simple yet effective method to study effects of treatments or gene mutations on the circadian clock of plants. Currently, leaf movements are analysed using time lapse photography and subsequent bioinformatics analyses of leaf movements. Programs that are used for this purpose either are able to perform one function (i.e. leaf tip detection or rhythm analysis) or their function is limited to specific computational environments. We developed a leaf movement analysis tool—PALMA—that works in command line and combines image extraction with rhythm analysis using Fast Fourier transformation and non-linear least squares fitting. Results We validated PALMA in both simulated time series and in experiments using the known short period mutant sensitivity to red light reduced 1 (srr1-1). We compared PALMA with two established leaf movement analysis tools and found it to perform equally well. Finally, we tested the effect of reduced iron conditions on the leaf movement rhythms of wild type plants. Here, we found that PALMA successfully detected period lengthening under reduced iron conditions. Conclusions PALMA correctly estimated the period of both simulated and real-life leaf movement experiments. As a platform-independent console-program that unites both functions needed for the analysis of circadian leaf movements it is a valid alternative to existing leaf movement analysis tools.
SIMULTANEOUS CONSTRUCTION OF PHASE DIAGRAM AND HYDRATE EQUILIBRIUM CURVE FOR AN IRANIAN GAS CONDENSATE RESERVOIR
Creators: name: Ali Asghar Gharesheikhlou, Ali Naseri
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Phase diagram
Quality line
Hydrate equilibrium Gas condensate fluid
Constant Composition Expansion.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 14, 10A14E: 1-11
High-order harmonic generation from a dual-gas, multi-jet array with individual gas jet control
Creators: name: Pullen, M. G.
name: Gaffney, N. S.
name: Hall, Christopher
name: Davis, Jeffrey
name: Dubrouil, A.
name: Le, H. V.
name: Buividas, Richard
name: Day, D.
name: Quiney, H. M.
name: Dao, Lap
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present a gas jet array for use in high-order harmonic generation experiments. Precise control of the pressure in each individual gas jet has allowed a thorough investigation into mechanisms contributing to the selective enhancement observed in the harmonic spectra produced by dual-gas, multi-jet arrays. Our results reveal that in our case, the dominant enhancement mechanism is the result of a compression of the harmonic-producing gas jet due to the presence of other gas jets in the array. The individual control of the gas jets in the array also provides a promising method for enhancing the harmonic yield by precise tailoring of the length and pressure gradient of the interaction region.
Moralité et acteurs sociaux : la construction de l'ordre pénal au Canada, 1892-1927.
Creators: name: Lavoie, Bianca.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.

description: Dans sa globalite, notre recherche constitue une analyse de l'evolution des normes penales dans le domaine de la moralite durant les 35 premieres annees d'existence du Code criminel canadien. Nous avons priorise une periode d'etude courte qui d'un point de vue socio-criminologique est tres interessante: c'est-adire de 1892 a 1927. Specifiquement, nous etudions l'evolution des normes penales en matieres de moralite (les articles 174 a 190 de la section IV du Code criminel canadien) a travers analyse des acteurs sociaux et du contexte dans lequdel ils se situent. Notre travail se presente comme suit: le premier chapitre fait etat des travaux de recherches qui ont ete ecrits jusqu'a maintenant sur le droit penal canadien. Il y est question de la recension des ecrits et nous y exposons le cadre theorique de notre analyse. Le chapitre deux traite de l'approche methodologique. Dans le chapitre trois, nous operons une reconstruction historique du contexte social de l'epoque. Dans le quatre, nouse presentons nos resultats quantitatifs et qualitatifs. Nous y discutons de l'evolution qu'a pris le droit penal entre 1892 et 1927, des acteurs sociaux qui ont participe a la reecriture du Code tout en tenant compte du contexte social dans lequel le droit penal a evolue. Finalement nous presentons nos conclusions generales. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
3356827.pdf
Creators: name: Münzberg, Julian
name: Vetter, Andreas
name: Beutel, Fabian
name: Hartmann, Wladislaw
name: Ferrari, Simone
name: Pernice, Wolfram
name: Rockstuhl, Carsten
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Material
Neustart der EU-Nachhaltigkeitspolitik
Creators: name: Abeling, Thomas
name: Blum, Christopher
name: Brandt, Marc
name: Bünger, Björn
name: Burger, Andreas
name: Daschkeit, Achim
name: Ginzky, Harald
name: Ehlers, Knut
name: Kabel, Claudia
name: Günther, Jens
name: Knoche, Guido
name: Koch-Jugl, Juliane
name: Kosmol, Jan
name: Lambrecht, Martin
name: Langner, Marcel
name: Löwe, Christian
name: Matezki, Steffen
name: Matthey, Astrid
name: Mohaupt, Volker
name: Mönch, Lars
name: Mutert, Tina
name: Nöh, Ingrid
name: Oehme, Ines
name: Penn-Bressel, Gertrude
name: Richter, Marianne
name: Richter, Nadja
name: Richter, Simone
name: Rose, Johanna
name: Stolzenberg, Hans-Christian
name: Thierbach, Claudia
name: Wolke, Frank
name: Wuttke, Joachim
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nachhaltigkeitspolitik
subject: Sustainable Development Goals
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales

description: Aus Sicht des Umweltbundesamts (UBA) muss die EU-Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie novelliert werden, um die globalen Nachhaltigkeitsziele (Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs) auf EU-Ebene umzusetzen. Das Positionspapier benennt Zielsetzungen und Maßnahmen für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung in der EU. Quelle: Umweltbundesamt
description: Aus Sicht des Umweltbundesamts (⁠UBA⁠) muss die EU-Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie novelliert werden, um die globalen Nachhaltigkeitsziele (Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs) auf EU-Ebene umzusetzen. Das Positionspapier benennt Zielsetzungen und Maßnahmen für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung in der EU.
The effects of multivitamin supplementation on diurnal cortisol secretion and perceived stress
Creators: name: Camfield, David
name: Wetherell, Mark
name: Scholey, Andrew
name: Cox, Katherine
name: Fogg, Erin
name: White, David
name: Sarris, Jerome
name: Kras, Marni
name: Stough, Con
name: Sali, Avni
name: Pipingas, Andrew
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 520201
subject: Behavioural genetics
classificationCode: 520202
subject: Behavioural neuroscience
classificationCode: 520203
subject: Cognitive neuroscience
classificationCode: 520205
subject: Psychopharmacology
classificationCode: 520206
subject: Psychophysiology
classificationCode: 520207
subject: Social and affective neuroscience
classificationCode: 520301
subject: Clinical neuropsychology
classificationCode: 520401
subject: Cognition
classificationCode: 520403
subject: Learning, motivation and emotion

description: Recent evidence suggests that dietary intake of vitamins, in particular the B-vitamins including B6, B9 and B12 may have a number of positive effects on mood and stress. Given the effects of stress on a range of biological mechanisms including the endocrine system, it could be reasonably expected that multivitamin supplementation may also affect markers of these mechanisms such as diurnal cortisol secretion. In the current double-blind placebo-controlled study 138 adults (aged 20 to 50 years) were administered a multivitamin containing B-vitamins versus placebo over a 16-week period. Salivary cortisol measurements were taken at waking, 15-min, 30-min and at bedtime, at baseline, 8-weeks and 16-weeks. Perceived Stress (PSS) was measured at baseline, 8-weeks and 16-weeks, while blood serum measures of B6, B12 and homocysteine (HCy) as well as red cell folate (B9) were also collected at these time points. A significant interaction was found between treatment group and study visit for the Cortisol Awakening Response (CAR). Compared to placebo, at 16-weeks multivitamin supplementation was found to be associated with a near-significant trend towards an increased CAR. No significant differences in PSS were found between groups, with PSS increasing in both groups across the course of the study. Red cell folate was found to be significantly correlated with the CAR response at 16-weeks while HCy levels were not found to be associated with the CAR response, although HCy significantly correlated with waking cortisol levels at 8-weeks. A possible interpretation of the elevation in CAR associated with multivitamin supplementation is that this represents an adaptive response to everyday demands in healthy participants.
Prediction of critical heat flux in bundles using tube look-up table.
Creators: name: Cui, Xingdong.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Mechanical.

description: An extensive and systematic literature review on the effect of parameters and geometry on the Critical Heat Flux (CHF) is performed. This review covers most of the flow geometries that have been previously investigated such as tubes, concentric annuli and bundles. Each of the above geometries is studied individually. The following parameters are found to have a strong effect on CHF in bundles: (1) exit quality, (2) pressure, (3) hydraulic-equivalent diameter, (4) heated-equivalent diameter, (5) cold wall, (6) element spacing (spacers), (7) enthalpy or quality imbalance, (8) axial heat flux distribution, (9) radial heat flux distribution. It is found that some of the geometric effects on CHF depend on the flow conditions and the CHF type (six types of CHF have been identified for convective boiling). For each geometry the parametric trends are discussed, a review of the available prediction methods, including CHF correlations and models, is conducted, and the mechanism of CHF in each geometry is described. The following trends of CHF in bundles are identified in this study: (i) in general the CHF in bundles is lower than that in tubes, especially for high quality; (ii) the geometry effect is the most important factor in bundles. Based on the observed trends, CHF correction factors are derived for bundles. Finally, a CHF prediction method for bundles based on the correction factors with the AECL-UO lookup table as a reference is proposed.
title: The Global and the Vernacular: The Appropriation of Transnational Cultural Imagery and the Reconstruction of Cultural Identities in the Realm of Contemporary Korean Popular Music
Creators: name: Park, Hyunju
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2003

description: This thesis examines theoretical debates about cultural appropriation and postmodern plurality and hybridity in the formation of cultural identities. This is approached here through a case study of how the multiplicity of national and cultural identities are constructed in the processes of appropriating transnational popular musics, within the Korean context. On the basis of data obtained by interviewing contemporary musicians and young music enthusiasts, the thesis investigates the appropriation of global pop, mainly western pop music, within the non-Western context. In Part One, which encompasses theoretical and methodological frameworks, Chapters 2 and 3 explore the recent discourse on cultural hybridity in post-colonial studies, and wider theories of popular music, identity and locality, from a global/transnational perspective. Methodological questions are discussed in Chapter 4. Part Two contains a case study: Chapters 5,6, and 7 present an interview-based study of the contemporary Korean popular music scene, where various musicians and young music enthusiasts consume and rework imported musics from a variety of positions. Some musicians are concerned with national cultural identity and attempt to incorporate traditional Korean elements into Western musical genres; other musicians show a large degree of cosmopolitanism; and young hip hop music fans articulate their identities, through the contrasting and differentiated consumption of transnational musical products. The main themes here are the formation and transformation of Korean identities in popular music in contemporary Korea. Lastly, Chapter 8 contextualises the argument of the whole thesis and reviews its limitations within the context of recent debates on consumption and new citizenship.
The Empowered Patient: Bridging the online world and outpatient services with digital technology by understanding co-experience
Creators: name: Giang, Colin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis investigated outpatient service experience at a public hospital in Melbourne Australia. The investigation included the use of Design Theories and Activity Theory to investigate how digital technologies could be introduced into the outpatience service space to agument the servce experience of the group (co-experiece).
title: The Moral Order of Suicide: Family Talk about Bereavement
Creators: name: Pietilä, Minna Taija Maaria
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2001

description: I examined here how parents and children (N=16) constructed moral order from their family member's suicide and their own bereavement in their interview talk. I employed a version of membership categorisation device (MCD) analysis to analyse qualitative data in which the interviewees interpreted notions of 'the family', 'suicide' and 'bereavement' by categorising their rights and obligations in the situation. Phenomena and talk always occur in a historical and cultural context, and people use socially sensible explanatory frameworks also to deal with their own life events. The method of MCD examines the way in which people make sense of phenomena by attaching to categories assumptions about their characteristics. This produces descriptions of things that 'go together well', as well as of those which do not. When combined into larger collections (MCDs), these categorisations become such culturally and historically comprehensible social constructions as 'the Western nuclear family'. In my data, parents and children analysed their (respective) family member's suicide and their own bereavement by talking about, for example, their feelings of 'guilt' and 'abandonment'. In doing this, besides referring to their psychological 'inner emotional experiences', they created moral orders by allocating responsibilities and rights to the different parties involved. The interviewees constructed concepts of 'the family', 'suicide' and 'bereavement' which implied a contradiction between the highly idealised Western image of a 'caring and sharing' family unit and the separate, self-sufficient individual, describing their own family's efforts and inability to understand and help each other. From this tension between ideals and reality in the dominant moral Western family discourse emerged the interviewees' production of moral adequacy in their suicide bereavement talk. The study offers useful insights to sociological research concerning people's 'lived experience', as well as to bereavement study and work where their experiences are often understood exclusively as individuals' inner sensations.
Survey of e-learning implementation and faculty support strategies in a cluster of mid-European medical schools
Creators: name: Back, David Alexander
name: Behringer, Florian
name: Harms, Tina
name: Plener, Joachim
name: Sostmann, Kai
name: Peters, Harm
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background The use of electronic learning formats (e-learning) in medical education is reported mainly from individual specialty perspectives. In this study, we analyzed the implementation level of e-learning formats and the institutional support structures and strategies at an institutional level in a cluster of mid-European medical schools. Methods A 49-item online questionnaire was send to 48 medical schools in Austria, Germany and Switzerland using SurveyMonkey®. Data were collected between February and September of 2013 and analyzed using quantities, statistical and qualitative means. Results The response rate was 71 %. All schools had implemented e-learning, but mainly as an optional supplement to the curriculum. E-learning involved a wide range of formats across all disciplines. Online learning platforms were used by 97 % of the schools. Full-time e-learning staff was employed by 50 %, and these had a positive and significant effect on the presence of e-learning in the corresponding medical schools. In addition, 81 % offered training programs and qualifications for their teachers and 76 % awarded performance-oriented benefits, with 17 % giving these for e-learning tasks. Realization of e-learning offers was rewarded by 33 %, with 27 % recognizing this as part of the teaching load. 97 % would use curriculum- compatible e-learning tools produced by other faculties. Conclusions While all participating medical schools used e-learning concepts, this survey revealed also a reasonable support by institutional infrastructure and the importance of staff for the implementation level of e-learning offerings. However, data showed some potential for increasing tangible incentives to motivate teachers to engage in further use of e-learning. Furthermore, the use of individual tools and the distribution of e-learning presentations in various disciplines were quite inhomogeneous. The willingness of the medical schools to cooperate should be capitalized for the future, especially concerning the provision of e-learning tools and concepts.
Semiempirical dissipation source functions for ocean waves. Part I: Definition, calibration, and validation
Creators: name: Ardhuin, Fabrice
name: Rogers, Erick
name: Babanin, Alexander
name: Filipot, Jean-François
name: Magne, Rudy
name: Roland, Aaron
name: van der Westhuysen, Andre
name: Queffeulou, Pierre
name: Lefevre, Jean-Michel
name: Aouf, Lotfi
name: Collard, Fabrice
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: New parameterizations for the spectral dissipation of wind-generated waves are proposed. The rates of dissipation have no predetermined spectral shapes and are functions of the wave spectrum and wind speed and direction, in a way consistent with observations of wave breaking and swell dissipation properties. Namely, the swell dissipation is nonlinear and proportional to the swell steepness, and dissipation due to wave breaking is nonzero only when a nondimensional spectrum exceeds the threshold at which waves are observed to start breaking. An additional source of short-wave dissipation is introduced to represent the dissipation of short waves due to longer breaking waves. A reduction of the wind-wave generation of short waves is meant to account for the momentum flux absorbed by longer waves. These parameterizations are combined and calibrated with the discrete interaction approximation for the nonlinear interactions. Parameters are adjusted to reproduce observed shapes of directional wave spectra, and the variability of spectral moments with wind speed and wave height. The wave energy balance is verified in a wide range of conditions and scales, from the global ocean to coastal settings. Wave height, peak and mean periods, and spectral data are validated using in situ and remote sensing data. Some systematic defects are still present, but, overall, the parameterizations probably yield the most accurate estimates of wave parameters to date. Perspectives for further improvement are also given.
The storyteller's voice: The dialogic art of Elizabeth Gaskell.
Creators: name: Hauch, Linda A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Literature, English.

description: Elizabeth Gaskell was a gifted storyteller. Her letters and her fiction attest to an imagination rooted in oral narrative, marked by the digressiveness and dispersiveness of living speech. She wrote her first novel, she said, as if she were "speaking to a friend over the fire on a winter's night," and the dynamic of telling and listening, the model of the oral narrative act, is paradigmatic of her own narrative. The incorporation of a listener's response into the telling of her story has both formal and semantic implications in Gaskell's fiction. It leads to what one critic has called that "congenial shapelessness of a voice expecting at any moment to be interrupted," and as such it can account, in part, for the shapelessness that has traditionally been deemed a formal weakness in Gaskell's art. As she tells her stories in anticipation of the active, often resistant, response of her listener, the stories take shape accordingly, and traditional norms of narrative with their notions of unity, shapeliness and authorial control must be reconsidered. Gaskell's approach stresses the dynamic of varying, often conflicting, voices in relationship with one another, suggesting her view of language and narrative as active agents in a process of exchange and contestation which calls for a redefinition of the nature of meaning in narrative. The shaping activity that occurs as voices come in contact with and question one another shows meaning to be produced through an open movement of relationship and response, not predetermined by finalized definitions; it is constituted through the transforming act of telling and listening. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Analysis of Human TAAR8 and Murine Taar8b Mediated Signaling Pathways and Expression Profile
Creators: name: Mühlhaus, Jessica
name: Dinter, Juliane
name: Nürnberg, Daniela
name: Rehders, Maren
name: Depke, Maren
name: Golchert, Janine
name: Homuth, Georg
name: Yi, Chun-Xia
name: Morin, Silke
name: Köhrle, Josef
name: Brix, Klaudia
name: Tschöp, Matthias
name: Kleinau, Gunnar
name: Biebermann, Heike
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: The thyroid hormone derivative 3-iodothyronamine (3-T1AM) exerts metabolic effects in vivo that contradict known effects of thyroid hormones. 3-T1AM acts as a trace amine-associated receptor 1 (TAAR1) agonist and activates Gs signaling in vitro. Interestingly, 3-T1AM-meditated in vivo effects persist in Taar1 knockout-mice indicating that further targets of 3-T1AM might exist. Here, we investigated another member of the TAAR family, the only scarcely studied mouse and human trace-amine-associated receptor 8 (Taar8b, TAAR8). By RT-qPCR and locked-nucleic-acid (LNA) in situ hybridization, Taar8b expression in different mouse tissues was analyzed. Functionally, we characterized TAAR8 and Taar8b with regard to cell surface expression and signaling via different G-protein-mediated pathways. Cell surface expression was verified by ELISA, and cAMP accumulation was quantified by AlphaScreen for detection of Gs and/or Gi/o signaling. Activation of G-proteins Gq/11 and G12/13 was analyzed by reporter gene assays. Expression analyses revealed at most marginal Taar8b expression and no gender differences for almost all analyzed tissues. In heart, LNA-in situ hybridization demonstrated the absence of Taar8b expression. We could not identify 3-T1AM as a ligand for TAAR8 and Taar8b, but both receptors were characterized by a basal Gi/o signaling activity, a so far unknown signaling pathway for TAARs.
Navigating Access: Managing the ambiguity of "special admissions".
Creators: name: Mahrouse, Gada.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Education, Bilingual and Multicultural.

description: To facilitate the entry of members of "visible minority" and Aboriginal groups into the teaching profession, the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa implemented an "Access" admissions policy in 1994. This study examines how people of colour admitted through this preferential admissions policy are affected by the discursive formations of merit, deficit, and multiculturalism. Furthermore, this study explores the political and pedagogical practices utilized by Access -admitted student teachers of colour to manage their presence in the educational system. Interviews conducted with six people show that being admitted through "special measures" makes it difficult for them to establish their presence as legitimate participants. Their "questionable" presence is further exacerbated by the everyday reality of racism they feel they experience as members of "visible" minority groups. Their ambiguous positioning is negotiated through a number of strategies including challenging, resisting, and/or assimilating into the structures that marginalize them.
Archaeological/Anthropological-Native American Coordination, An Example of Sharing the Research on the Northwest Coast of North America
Creators: name: Foster, Rhonda
name: Ross, Larry
name: Croes, Dale R.
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Archaeology

description: The conflict, almost a panic for some archaeologists, over who "owns" the past--scientists or tribes--does not need to exist. Both groups have equal validity (legal or otherwise) in being involved. With shared scientific technical and tribal cultural expertise, an equal partnership produces results not possible otherwise. Here is one example of a formalized 50/50 sharing of the research that expands scientific and cultural understanding n the Pacific Northwest of North America. In this case, the Squaxin Island Tribe and a College signed a formal cooperative agreement that helped set the stage for developing (1) a tribal cultural resource management office, (2) the first full-scale investigation of a site in this region (which contains a wet component, (3) outreach cultural resource Management training through online classes, and (4) public interpretation in a new tribal museum. Working together, equally respecting each other's needs, archaeologists and tribes can create the scientific/cultural results they both require.
Canadian Men’s perspectives about active surveillance in prostate cancer: need for guidance and resources
Creators: name: Fitch, Margaret
name: Pang, Kittie
name: Ouellet, Veronique
name: Loiselle, Carmen
name: Alibhai, Shabbir
name: Chevalier, Simone
name: Drachenberg, Darrel E
name: Finelli, Antonio
name: Lattouf, Jean-Baptiste
name: Sutcliffe, Simon
name: So, Alan
name: Tanguay, Simon
name: Saad, Fred
name: Mes-Masson, Anne-Marie
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Background: In prostate cancer, men diagnosed with low risk disease may be monitored through an active surveillance. This research explored the perspectives of men with prostate cancer regarding their decision-making process for active surveillance to identify factors that influence their decision and assist health professionals in having conversations about this option. Methods: Focus group interviews (n = 7) were held in several Canadian cities with men (N = 52) diagnosed with prostate cancer and eligible for active surveillance. The men’s viewpoints were captured regarding their understanding of active surveillance, the factors that influenced their decision, and their experience with the approach. A content and theme analysis was performed on the verbatim transcripts from the sessions. Results: Patients described their concerns of living with their disease without intervention, but were reassured by the close monitoring under AS while avoiding harmful side effects associated with treatments. Conversations with their doctor and how AS was described were cited as key influences in their decision, in addition to availability of information on treatment options, distrust in the health system, personality, experiences and opinions of others, and personal perspectives on quality of life. Conclusions: Men require a thorough explanation on AS as a safe and valid option, as well as guidance towards supportive resources in their decision-making.
Occurrence, Distribution and Toxins of Benthic Cyanobacteria in German Lakes
Creators: name: Bauer, Franziska
name: Fastner, Jutta
name: Wolfschläger, Immanuel
name: Geist, Jürgen
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Blaualgen
See [Binnengewässer]
Volksgesundheit

description: Cyanobacteria are favored by climate change and global warming; however, to date, mostresearch and monitoring programs have focused on planktic cyanobacteria. Benthic cyanobacte-ria blooms also increase and pose a risk to animal and human health; however, there is limitedknowledge of their occurrence, distribution and the toxins involved, especially in relation to theirplanktic conspeciï Ącs. Therefore, we analyzed the benthic and planktic life forms of cyanobacterialcommunities in 34 lakes in Germany, including a monitoring of cyanotoxins. Community analyseswere based on microscopic examination and Illumina sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene. The analysesof cyanotoxins were carried out using LC-MS/MS and ELISA. Observed benthic mats containingcyanobacteria consisted mainly of Nostocales and Oscillatoriales, being present in 35% of the lakes. Ana-toxin was the most abundant cyanotoxin in the benthic samples, reaching maximum concentrationsof 45,000Ìg/L, whereas microcystin was the predominate cyanotoxin in the open-water samples,reaching concentrations of up to 18,000Ìg/L. Based on the results, speciï Ąc lakes at risk of toxiccyanobacteria could be identiï Ąed. Our ï Ąndings suggest that monitoring of benthic cyanobacteria andtheir toxins should receive greater attention, ideally complementing existing open-water samplingprograms with little additional effort. © 2023 by the authors.
The mismatch negativity evoked by changes in the frequency of an auditory stimulus.
Creators: name: Vajsar, Jiri.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Biology, Animal Physiology.

description: This thesis deals with some of the unknown issues in slow auditory evoked potentials (AEPs). Slow AEPs were recorded in 10 healthy reading subjects. A change in the frequency of the tonebursts elicited an additional negativity--the mismatch negativity (MMN). The amplitude and latency of MMN changed with the magnitude of frequency deviance between stimuli which was varied between 50 and 2000 Hz. The voltage distributions of the MMN and N1 were significantly different from that of the SP. The MMN and N1 had their maximal amplitudes in the fronto-central areas, whereas the maximal amplitude of the SP was recorded frontally. The topographic mapping and statistical analysis of voltage distribution of individual waves enabled us to recognize and differentiate between the possible generators of the MMN, N1 and SP. Both the MMN and N1 are generated in the auditory cortices. The SP is more complexed and may consist of more than one component. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
DOCK8 deficiency impairs CD8 T cell survival and function in humans and mice
Creators: name: Randall, Katrina L.
name: Chan, Stephanie S.-Y.
name: Ma, Cindy S.
name: Fung, Ivan
name: Mei, Yan
name: Yabas, Mehmet
name: Tan, Andy
name: Arkwright, Peter D.
name: Al Suwairi, Wafaa
name: Lugo Reyes, Saul Oswaldo
name: Yamazaki-Nakashimada, Marco A.
name: de la Luz Garcia-Cruz, Maria
name: Smart, Joanne M.
name: Picard, Capucine
name: Okada, Satoshi
name: Jouanguy, Emmanuelle
name: Casanova, Jean-Laurent
name: Lambe, Teresa
name: Cornall, Richard J.
name: Russell, Sarah
name: Oliaro, Jane
name: Tangye, Stuart G.
name: Bertram, Edward M.
name: Goodnow, Christopher C.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310102
subject: Cell development, proliferation and death
classificationCode: 510302
subject: Classical and physical optics

description: In humans, DOCK8 immunodeficiency syndrome is characterized by severe cutaneous viral infections. Thus, CD8 T cell function may be compromised in the absence of DOCK8. In this study, by analyzing mutant mice and humans, we demonstrate a critical, intrinsic role for DOCK8 in peripheral CD8 T cell survival and function. DOCK8 mutation selectively diminished the abundance of circulating naive CD8 T cells in both species, and in DOCK8-deficient humans, most CD8 T cells displayed an exhausted CD45RA+CCR7? phenotype. Analyses in mice revealed the CD8 T cell abnormalities to be cell autonomous and primarily postthymic. DOCK8 mutant naive CD8 T cells had a shorter lifespan and, upon encounter with antigen on dendritic cells, exhibited poor LFA-1 synaptic polarization and a delay in the first cell division. Although DOCK8 mutant T cells underwent near-normal primary clonal expansion after primary infection with recombinant influenza virus in vivo, they showed greatly reduced memory cell persistence and recall. These findings highlight a key role for DOCK8 in the survival and function of human and mouse CD8 T cells.
title: Successful treatment of periprosthetic joint infection caused by Granulicatella para-adiacens with prosthesis retention
title: a case report
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Renz, Nora
name: Chevaux, Fabienne
name: Borens, Olivier
name: Trampuz, Andrej
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Granulicatella
subject: Nutritionally variant streptococci
subject: Prosthetic joint infection
subject: Rifampin
subject: Endocarditis
subject: Prosthesis retention
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background Granulicatella and Abiotrophia spp. are difficult to detect due to their complex nutritional requirements. Infections with these organisms are associated with high treatment failure rates. We report the first implant- associated infection caused by Granulicatella para-adiacens, which was cured with anti-microbial treatment consisting of anti-biofilm-active rifampin and debridement, exchange of mobile parts and retention of the prosthesis. Case presentation Patient with a history of left hip arthroplasty presented with acute onset of fever, pain and limited range of motion of the left hip. Arthrocentesis of the affected joint yielded purulent fluid and exchange of mobile parts of the prosthesis, but retention of fixed components was performed. Granulicatella para-adiacens grew from preoperative and intraoperative cultures, including sonication fluid of the removed implant. The transesophageal echocardiography showed a vegetation on the mitral valve; the orthopantogram demonstrated a periapical dental abscess. The patient was treated with intravenous penicillin G and gentamicin for 4 weeks, followed by levofloxacin and rifampin for additional 2 months. At discharge and at follow- up 1, 2 and 5 years later, the patient was noted to have a functional, pain- free, and radiologically stable hip prosthesis and the serum C-reactive protein was normal. Conclusions Although considered a difficult-to-treat organism, we report a successful treatment of the Granulicatella hip prosthesis infection with prosthesis retention and a prolonged antibiofilm therapy including rifampin. The periapical dental abscess is considered the primary focus of hematogenously infected hip prosthesis, underlining the importance treatment of periodontitis prior to arthroplasty and of proper oral hygiene for prevention of hematogenous infection after arthroplasty.
Artificial impedance approach to the collision avoidance of robots with obstacles.
Creators: name: Jassemi-Zargani, Rahim.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Mechanical.

description: Among the desired features for robot manipulation in future applications are autonomous trajectory generation and automatic collision avoidance. In this thesis, the Impedance control method is used for the trajectory generation of a revolute manipulator in free motion, and for obstacle avoidance. In the Impedance control method, a desired mechanical impedance between the robot end-effector and the target is generated by modulating the force or torque output of the robot actuators. An approach using Impedance control, in conjunction with 'Coastal and Surface Navigation' concept, is developed for generating trajectories in non-convex spaces utilizing proximity-sensor data.
An investigation of the application of self-determination theory to potentially problematic behaviours. Test of an illustrative model: Gambling behaviour.
Creators: name: Keyes, Marilyn T.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Behavioral.

description: The purpose of this research was to first, investigate the application of Deci and Ryan's (1990) Self-Determination Theory (SDT) to a potentially problematic behaviour, and second, to investigate the relationship between gambling motivation and consequences. The SDT framework has been used to investigate the relationship between motivation and consequences in domains considered to be functional activities and to have positive consequences. It is unknown whether postulates of the SDT can be extended to activities that are potentially problematic and therefore may be associated negative consequences. The domain of gambling was chosen for this research because of its growing popularity and awareness of the negative consequences that can be associated with this behaviour. Vallerand's (1997) hierarchical model of self-determination and the previously investigated domain of leisure were incorporated into a gambling model to allow comparison of the results of this study with results previously found in other populations. A pilot study explored the relationships between gambling motivation and gambling consequences. The Gambling Motivation Scale (GAMS; Chantal, Vallerand, & Vallieres, 1995), the South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS; Lesieur & Blume, 1987), the Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale (RSE; Rosenberg, 1979) and the Self-Rating Depression Scale, (Zung, 1965) were completed by 237 men and women from the general and university populations. Results did not completely support or refute the tenets of Self-Determination Theory. Study 1 tested a hierarchical model of leisure and gambling activities, headed by global self-determination, in a sample of men and women (N = 215) who had gambled in the last year. Respondents completed the Global Self-Determination Scale (Quay, et al., 1996), the Leisure Motivation Scale (Pelletier, Green-Demers & Dion, 1998), the GAMS, a measure of leisure activity consequences, the SOGS, the RSE, the Centre for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (Radloff, 1977) and the Satisfaction with Life Scale (Diener, Emmons, Larson, & Griffin, 1985). Based on SOGS scores, 16.6% of the sample met criteria for possible problem gambling. Results from structural equation modelling analysis (with LISREL) support the use of Vallerand's (1997) hierarchical domain specific theory and SDT in research with adaptive behaviours. Results of the gambling side of the model provide limited support for the use of these theories in research with potentially problematic activities. There is some evidence that motivation plays a role in the development of problem gambling and that global self-determination moderates the relationship between gambling involvement and problem gambling.
A study of high-density clathrate hydrates in the carbon dioxide-water system
Creators: name: Pohl, Daniel M
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Physics, Molecular.

description: Gas clathrate hydrates are inclusion compounds in which a guest gas molecule is trapped within a host cage made up of hydrogen-bonded water molecules 1. Sequestration of CO2 in dense hydrate form has been proposed as one solution for rising levels of CO 2 in Earth's atmosphere2. Recent research has predicted the existence of a high-density clathrate structure capable of realizing this goal3. In this thesis, powder x-ray diffraction of the CO 2-H2O system as a function of increasing pressure (0 to 2.5 GPa) at sub-ambient temperatures (250 to 260 K) was performed in pursuit of discovering novel high-density hydrates of CO2. In addition to previously reported clathrate structures4, CO2 FIS Ih, a non-clathrate structure previously unobserved in the CO 2-H2O system but reported in other systems5, was identified and characterized. Using similar experimental techniques, unrelated work on the structural stability of dickite, a layered silicate mineral, is also presented. *Please refer to dissertation for footnotes.
The Amazon rainforest ecotourism industry of Napo, Ecuador.
Creators: name: Lemky, Kim M. K.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Geography.

description: The two types of ecotourists have different impacts on both the local economy and the environment. The resort ecotourists are isolated to resorts. Each night is spent in the same place and tours consist of day hikes to local Indian villages and to the primary rainforest. These tourists aid the economy less than budget ecotourists because the employees that serve them are hired from outside the region and food goods for the tourists are imported into the region. In contrast, the budget ecotourists are spatially dispersed and travel each night to a new tourist camp. The budget ecotourists are essential to the economy of Pto. Misahualli. Only inhabitants of Pto. Misahualli are employed in the ecotourism industry, and all food for jungle trips is bought at local stores. Although the budget ecotourists are much more important for the local economy than resort tourists, the infrastructure of the resort ecotourists has a place in promoting the rainforest at the international level. The current ecotourism industry in Napo is sustainable within its own parameters, but the infringement of the oil industry and the small farm colonization on the primary rainforest will ultimately lead to its downfall. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)