cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An educational video to promote multi-factorial approaches for fall and injury prevention in long-term care facilities
Creators: name: Dilley, Laura B.
name: Gray, Samantha M.
name: Zecevic, Aleksandra
name: Gaspard, Gina
name: Symes, Bobbi
name: Feldman, Fabio
name: Scott, Vicky
name: Woolrych, Ryan
name: Sixsmith, Andrew
name: McKay, Heather Anne, 1954-
name: Robinovitch, Stephen N.
name: Sims-Gould, Joanie
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Older adults living in long term care (LTC) settings are vulnerable to fall-related injuries. There is a need to develop and implement evidence-based approaches to address fall injury prevention in LTC. Knowledge translation (KT) interventions to support the uptake of evidence-based approaches to fall injury prevention in LTC need to be responsive to the learning needs of LTC staff and use mediums, such as videos, that are accessible and easy-to-use. This article describes the development of two unique educational videos to promote fall injury prevention in long-term care (LTC) settings. These videos are unique from other fall prevention videos in that they include video footage of real life falls captured in the LTC setting. Methods: Two educational videos were developed (2012–2013) to support the uptake of findings from a study exploring the causes of falls based on video footage captured in LTC facilities. The videos were developed by: (1) conducting learning needs assessment in LTC settings via six focus groups (2) liaising with LTC settings to identify learning priorities through unstructured conversations; and (3) aligning the content with principles of adult learning theory. Results: The videos included footage of falls, interviews with older adults and fall injury prevention experts. The videos present evidence-based fall injury prevention recommendations aligned to the needs of LTC staff and: (1) highlight recommendations deemed by LTC staff as most urgent (learner-centered learning); (2) highlight negative impacts of falls on older adults (encourage meaning-making); and, (3) prompt LTC staff to reflect on fall injury prevention practices (encourage critical reflection). Conclusions: Educational videos are an important tool available to researchers seeking to translate evidence-based recommendations into LTC settings. Additional research is needed to determine their impact on practice.
Development of an information retrieval and distillation agent
Creators: name: Liu, Yongsheng
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: Though a large number of search engines are commercially available today, the use of most of them often involves tedious human efforts. Also, a large amount of information obtained using the existing search engines may or may not be relevant to the intended query. Furthermore, there is a lack of systematic approach to quantify the value of the information for the user's needs. In this thesis, to free the user from the drudgery of the search and to provide a basis for building personalized database for a particular topic, we develop a web search and distillation agent. To retrieve the information with higher quality, we modified the existing Term frequency vs Inverse Document Frequency (TFIDF) term weighting scheme and combined it with the Hyperlink Induced Topic Search (HITS) method to create a solution measuring both importance and relevancy of a document. To construct a dynamic graph and ensure an affordable continuous search, we propose a Sliding Window Model (SWM) which is used to control the size of the node set of a graph. To improve the intelligence of the search agent, we employ the Exponential Smoothing (ES) approach to guide the search. Our experimental results show that the proposed web search and distillation approach with the above features is effective compared to other algorithms and models: the improved TFIDF algorithm improves the rationality of the search results; the proposed SWM can control the size of the node set as expected; the ES algorithm employed in SWM can further save computing time and help the search agent harvest the information with higher quality, and gains much more advantages compared to other methods implemented in the search agent.
Linking teachers' classroom assessment practices and students' achievement on the SAIP 2001 mathematics assessment
Creators: name: Meshref, Hossam
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education, Mathematics.
subject: Education, Curriculum and Instruction.

description: The current study answers the question: What are the relationships between teachers' assessment practices and students' mathematics achievement in large-scale assessment tests? The investigated teachers' assessment practices and students' achievement were defined according to the School Achievement Indicator Program (SAIP) 2001 mathematics achievement test and its accompanying teachers' questionnaire. The study focused on the problem solving component of that test. The assessment practices were investigated within three dimensions: assessment tools (e.g. teacher made multiple-choice tests, projects, and portfolios), assessment purpose (e.g. feedback, and diagnosis), and homework purpose (e.g. feedback and grading). Correlational analyses were employed to investigate whether there are relations between the assessment variables and students' mathematical achievements. Research findings proposed a few relations between students' achievement and the investigated assessment practices. The directions and the strengths of these relations varied based on a few factors such as the distribution of teachers' assessment practices, the amount of missing data, and the data deletions during analyses. The research findings could contribute to the literature on mathematical assessment, and also propose potential relations from which teachers, administrators, and policy makers may predict possible impacts of assessment practices on students' achievement.
Introducing GaitLib : a library for real-time gait analysis in smartphones
Creators: name: Wu, Michael Ming-An
name: Schneider, Oliver Stirling
name: Karuei, Idin
name: Leong, Larissa
name: MacLean, Karon
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Modern smartphones are pervasive, powerful, and richly endowed with sensors. These have recently enabled smartphone use for gait analysis, a powerful resource for many applications including biometric identification and context-aware apps that motivate exercises. However, there is little support for software R&D with mobile gait analysis beyond basic sensing. Through a participatory design process, we developed GaitLib, a library for real-time gait analysis in smart- phones. With on-board accelerometers and other sensors, GaitLib supports both cadence estimation and gait classification. The library is implemented on the Android platform, using Weka as the classification engine while supporting customizable gait analysis algorithms. An end user who participated in the design team used successive versions of the library in a series of studies, providing design input which was used to improve the library’s functionality and usability. This library can support and stimulate future research in gait analysis and the development of innovative applications.
Pediatric intensive care nurses and their grief experiences.
Creators: name: Rashotte, Judith Mary.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Nursing.

description: While the phenomenon of grief has received considerable attention and has been researched at length, there is a paucity of literature that has focused on health care professionals' experience of grief. The purpose of this study was to investigate the grief experience of pediatric intensive care nurses when their patients die. A phenomenological method was used in this study in order to obtain rich descriptions of nurses' experience of grief within their workplace. The purposive sample consisted of six registered nurses employed in an intensive care unit in a university-teaching pediatric hospital. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with the study participants in order to generate the data base. The audio-taped interviews were transcribed and analyzed for recurring themes emerging from the data according to the procedure outlined by Colaizzi. These nurses acknowledged they suffered multiple exposures to children's deaths and experienced grief. The interviews revealed eight themes that included one about their grief responses--hurting; two that described the influencing contextual factors--nurse-family unit relationship and dissonance, and five that related to coping strategies employed to manage their feelings of grief--self-expression, self-nurturance, termination of relationship activities, engaging in control taking activities and self-reflection. Further analysis revealed that managing grief effectively was an experiential learning process for the participants. The resultant themes were compared with the broader literature on grieving the loss of a significant other, grief and the health care professional, and the literature that addressed issues of occupational stress in the care of the critically ill, the dying, and the bereaved. The findings of this study could encourage further research that examines interventions designed to enhance the type of education and support needed in relation to the grief experience of nurses.
Least constraining time-slot allocation in GMPLS optical TDM networks and optimization of optical buffering
Creators: name: Zeineddine, Hassan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: Optical Time Division Multiplexing (OTDM) in optical networks is a bandwidth sharing technique that organizes access to a shared wavelength in equal time-slots organized in repeated frames. In this case, a transmission channel can be established at the time-slot level instead of using the full wavelength. The main advantage of this technique is to allow several low speed communication channels to coexist on the same high speed optical wavelength, and hence to make effective use of the enormous bandwidth available on a single wavelength. On the other hand, the major problem with OTDM is the time slot continuity constraint in an OTDM channel, which is similar to the wavelength continuity in a WDM channel. Due to this constraint, time slot contentions can exist in the network if proper scheduling and slot reservation techniques are not employed. Basically, the adopted time slots must be free on all links throughout the communication route in order to successfully reserve a communication channel. In addition, to mitigate the effect of slot continuity constraint on bandwidth utilization, appropriate time slot buffering (or interchanging) is often employed. Previous work assumed the deployment of Optical Time-Slot Interchangers (OTSI) to solve the contention problems regardless of their industrial feasibility. In addition, other work considered very basic reservation schemes to achieve proper scheduling, such as the First Fit (FF), Random Fit (RF), and Least Loaded (LL) schemes. In this thesis, we propose a new time-slot reservation scheme for OTDM networks without buffering to significantly improve the performance and eliminate the buffering overhead. It is the Least Constraining (LC) slot reservation scheme which allocates resources having the lowest possible constraints on other resources in the network. In addition, we define a distributed scheme to deploy the LC approach in GMPLS networks, and prove that the same performance level can be maintained by a distributed signaling protocol. Finally, we propose an optimized optical buffering technique to achieve close to optimum performance when the LC reservation approach is not used. It helps in building effective time slot synchronization devices uses between adjacent node pairs.
Using the genetic algorithm to optimize Web search: Lessons from biology
Creators: name: Nguyen, Quoc Tuan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Engineering, System Science.

description: Searching for information on the Web is a relatively inefficient process. My goal is to develop a method that optimizes web search queries without user intervention. Developing intelligent ways to automate this process includes the development of algorithms that automatically manipulate the use of keywords to produce the desired output. Genetic algorithms (GA) provide a potentially useful approach in this area. However, these approaches have not fully exploited the biological concepts associated with genetic reproduction and evolution. I hypothesize that an approach that uses GA but modifies it to include the biological concepts of structural and regulatory gene types and the use of a combination of deletion operator and silent genes will improve GA performance in optimizing Web search. In this paper, I describe this approach and its implementation in simulations of Web search tasks using three popular Web search engines (Google, Yahoo and Netscape). The results of this implementation are presented and are compared to the performance of a similar, but unmodified GA in the same tasks. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Molecular mechanisms underlying the valproic acid-induced degradation of transcriptional coactivators p300 and CBP
Creators: name: St-Germain, Jonathan R
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.

description: p300 and CBP are closely related transcriptional coactivators involved in a wide range of cellular processes. They interact with a large array of transcription factors and possess intrinsic acetyltransferase activity which allows them to acetylate many nuclear proteins including nucleosomal histones. Although much is known about the functions of p300 and CBP, what in turn regulates these coactivators is less understood. The present study reveals that the stability of both proteins is affected by the histone deacetylase inhibitor valproic acid and elucidates the molecular mechanisms involved in this pathway. These results show that valproic acid induces degradation of p300 and CBP through the 26S proteasome, and suggest that this occurs in an ubiquitin-dependent manner and that this effect is mediated by the B56gamma3 regulatory subunit of protein phosphatase 2A. Considering the involvement of valproic acid, p300 and CBP in such processes as embryonic development and tumorigenicity, these findings potentially entail important biological significance.
Разработка белково-ферментной кормовой добавки для птицеводства
Creators: name: Лысенко Юрий Андреевич
name: Хусид Светлана Борисовна
name: Волкова Светлана Андреевна
name: Николаенко Самвел Николаевич
name: Лунева Альбина Владимировна
name: Петрова Виктория Вячеславовна
Publisher: name: Политематический сетевой электронный научный журнал Кубанского государственного аграрного университета
Year: 2015
Subjects: ПИТАТЕЛЬНАЯ СРЕДА
КОРМОВАЯ ДОБАВКА
ГРИБ РОДА TRICHODERMA
ФЕРМЕНТАТИВНАЯАКТИВНОСТЬ
СЫРОЙ ПРОТЕИН
КЛЕТЧАТКА
ЛИГНИН
ЛУЗГА
СОЕВАЯ ОКАРА
SUBSTRATUM
FEED ADDITIVE
FUNGUS OF TRICHODERMA
ENZYMATIC ACTIVITY
RAW PROTEINS
CELLULOSE
LIGNIN
HUSK
SOYBEAN OKARA

description: Работа проводилась в научно-исследовательской лаборатории кафедры биотехнологии, биохимии и биофизики ФГБОУ ВПО «Кубанский ГАУ», целью которой являлся подбор наиболее продуктивного вида гриба рода Trichoderma и оптимальнойпитательной среды на основе отходов переработки сои для получения белково-ферментной кормовой добавки. Для подбора гриба рода Trichodermaиспользовали 3 вида: Trichoderma viride, Trichoderma lignorum и Trichoderma harsianum. В качестве носителя для микромицета использовали 3 вида питательных сред, в основу которых входила соевая окара и дополнительные источникипереработки растительного сырья - лузгаподсолнечника, лузга пшеницы (отруби) и лузга риса. В результате проведенных исследований установлено, что гриб
description: Trichoderma lignorum напитательной среде, основу которой составляетсоевая окара и лузга подсолнечника показывает наилучшие результатыThe research work was conducted at the Research Laboratory of Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Biophysics Department of Kuban State Agrarian University. The main purpose of this study was to select the most productive type of fungus of a genus of Trichoderma and optimal nutrient medium on basis of a waste of reprocessing of soy for acquire of protein enzyme feed supplement. For selection of a fungus of a genus Trichoderma used 3 types: Trichoderma viride, Trichoderma lignorum, and Trichoderma harsianum. We used 3 types of nutrient media as a carrier for micromycete, which were based on soy okara and the additional sources of reprocessing of raw plant material - husk of a sunflower, husk of wheat (bran) and husk of rice. The results demonstrated the benefits of using the nutrient medium based on soy okara forms and husk of a sunflower fungus to enhance Trichoderma lignorum production
title: Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair Procedural Parameters Impact Valve Function and Mechanics
Creators: name: Haese, Collin E.
name: Dubey, Vijay
name: Rausch, Manuel K.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biomedical

description: Millions of Americans suffer from regurgitant heart valves, which increases mortality and morbidity [1]. For these leaky valves, repair techniques can improve symptoms while aiming to address the underlying pathophysiology of regurgitation. Transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) is a percutaneous repair approach which clips and fuses two or more valve leaflets together, thereby promoting leaflet coaptation and reducing retrograde blood flow. Many questions remain regarding TEER, including optimal clip number, type, size, location, and subject selection [2]. Finite element simulations can overcome the limitations of answering these questions in a clinical setting. We used our subject-specific finite element model of human tricuspid valves, the Texas TriValves [3, 4], to conduct a virtual case study investigating the impact of TEER procedural parameters on valve mechanics and function. To this end, we varied the coaptation gap size and gap location in the regurgitant valves and also varied the clip location and number as shown in Figure 1. The finite element simulation was conducted in three steps as detailed in Figure 2. We conducted all valve simulations quasi-statically using Abaqus/Explicit on the Texas Advanced Computing Center’s Lonestar6 computing cluster. Our preliminary results showed the location and number of clips impacts valve mechanics and function. More clips increased the coaptation area following repair, but also increased leaflet stresses. Further, valves with smaller coaptation gaps, i.e. with smaller annular areas, led to a smaller increase in leaflet stresses following repair. Our case study demonstrated the importance of subject selection and procedural parameters on the predicted outcomes of TEER. In the future, such subject specific TEER simulations may be done in real-time and inform clinical and procedural decisions.
Women’s perception of pre-hospital labour duration and obstetrical outcomes; a prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Janssen, Patricia A.
name: Weissinger, Sandra
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Progress during early labour may impact subsequent labour trajectories. Women admitted to hospital in latent phase (<3 cm cervical dilation) labour have been shown to be at higher risk of obstetrical interventions. Methods: We conducted a secondary analysis of data from a randomized controlled trial of 1247 healthy nulliparous women in spontaneous labour at term with a singleton fetus in cephalic presentation at seven hospitals in Southwestern British Columbia. We computed relative risks and their 95% confidence intervals to examine our primary outcome of cesarean section and secondary outcomes including obstetrical interventions and maternal and newborn outcomes according to women’s perception of length of pre-hospital labour. Women were asked on admission to hospital how long they had been experiencing contractions prior to coming to hospital. Results: Women indicating that they had been in labour for 24 hours or longer at the time of hospital admission were at elevated risk for cesarean birth, relative risk (RR) 1.40, (95% Confidence Intervals 1.15-1.72), admission with a cervical dilation of 3 cm or less, RR 1.21 (1.07-1.36), more obstetrical interventions including continuous electronic fetal monitoring RR 1.11 (1.03-1.20), augmentation of labour RR 1.33 (1.23-1.44), use of narcotic RR 1.21 (1.06-1.37) and epidural analgesia RR 1.18 (1.09-1.28). Adverse neonatal outcomes did not differ apart from a significant increase in meconium-stained amniotic fluid RR 1.60 (1.09-2.35). Conclusions: A single question asked of women on presentation to hospital was an important predictor of cesarean birth and may have utility in identifying women who would benefit from close observation and more active management of labour.
Persistent organic pollutants in white-tailed deer ( Odocoileus virginianus) near a magnesium smelter: Spatial distribution and human health risk assessment
Creators: name: Tolley, Cecilia A
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Biology, Ecology.
subject: Biology, Zoology.
subject: Health Sciences, Public Health.
subject: Environmental Sciences.

description: A magnesium refining facility in Quebec was a known point source of persistent organic pollutants namely polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxins and furans, and hexachlorobenzene. Contaminants concentrations were measured in the fat tissue of local white-tailed deer with the assistance of the local community and hunters. Concentrations in the deer from 1999, one year before the smelter opened, were compared with deer from 2002. Results showed a significant increase in PCBs from 1999 to 2002, and total PCB concentrations showed significant decreases with distance from the smelter. Many of the mid-range PCB homologues that bioconcentrate sharply in deer showed similar relationships. Sigmacoplanar PCBs and Cytochrome P450 1A expression in liver also showed a significant inverse relationship with distance in 2002. Results of a human health risk assessment indicated that the number of deer meal portions required to exceed safe consumption levels for PCDD/Fs and coplanar PCBs increased with the distance from the smelter.
Datives as applicatives
Creators: name: Cuervo, María Cristina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This work investigates dative arguments within a theory of applicative arguments.
 The focus is on what dative arguments have in common as a class — well beyond
 the most typical datives in ditransitive constructions — and as subcases of applied
 arguments, as found in both languages with a rich case system, and languages
 without overt case marking.
 A typology of applicative constructions that directly associates with dative arguments is developed. The various subtypes of applicatives are derived from a re-
 stricted set of structural properties and syntactic-semantic features (the type of
 complement of the Appl head, the dynamic/stative nature of its complement, and
 the presence/absence of an external argument, and of a verbal head above the applicative). The various interpretations of applied arguments (e.g., possessors, bene/malefactives, recipients, experiencers, affected, causees) are configurationally derived, and
 do not require encoding as part of the denotation of the applicative head beyond the
 traditional, minimal notion of Appl as introducing an argument “oriented” towards
 its complement. This richness of interpretations sets applied arguments apart from
 the narrow range of interpretations for arguments of v/Voice, on the one hand, and
 the practically unconstrained interpretations of arguments of lexical verbs/roots,
 on the other.
title: Granular Analysis of Social Media Users’ Truthfulness Stances Toward Climate Change Factual Claims
Creators: name: Zhang, Haiqi
name: Zhu, Zhengyuan
name: Zhang, Zeyu
name: Devasier, Jacob
name: Li, Chengkai
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer science

description: Climate change poses an urgent global problem that requires efficient data analysis mechanisms to provide insights into climate-related discussions on social media platforms. This paper presents a framework aimed at understanding social media users' perceptions of various climate change topics and uncovering the insights behind these perceptions. Our framework employs large language model to develop a taxonomy of factual claims related to climate change and build a classification model that detects the truthfulness stance of tweets toward the factual claims. The findings reveal two key conclusions: (1) The public tends to believe the claims are true, regardless of the actual claim veracity; (2) The public shows a lack of discernment between facts and misinformation across different topics, particularly in areas related to politics, economy, and environment.
"Une permission!C'est bon pour une recrue": Discipline and illegal absences in the 22nd (French-Canadian) Battalion, 1915--1919
Creators: name: Dagenais, Maxime
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.

description: This thesis explores three issues relating to the Canadian experience during the First World War, but more specifically, to that of the 22 nd (French-Canadian) Battalion (commonly referred to as the 'Van Doos'). It first considers the assumption that the 22nd Battalion suffered from a disciplinary problem, and determines whether this was the case in a meaningful comparative context. Several Canadian historians have examined the unit's discipline. While some have argued that its thousands of infractions and five executions demonstrate that it suffered from a disciplinary problem, others believe that without proper comparison with other units of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF), these figures are meaningless. By examining the disciplinary records of the other three battalions of the 5th Brigade (the brigade of which the 'Van Doos' were a part) and comparing them to that of the 22nd Battalion, this thesis conclusively demonstrates that the unit did suffer from a disciplinary problem, and confirms the assumptions of several historians. This thesis also examines in detail the unit's disciplinary problems, and attempts to explain why it suffered from such aberrant behaviour. Evidence suggests that poor morale was the likely cause. One of the most important elements in combat, morale can spell the difference between a disciplined and a disobedient unit. This thesis demonstrates that the arrival of hundreds of untried reinforcements after the Somme offensives of 1916, and the loss of the unit's commanding officer (Lieut.-Col. Thomas Tremblay) had a significant impact on the spirits of the men, which subsequently led to poor discipline. Finally, this thesis considers the issue of illegal absences. Not only were illegal absences the most common infractions in the 'Van Doos', they were also for the entire 5th Brigade. For so considerable a problem amongst the soldiers of the CEF, the subject surprisingly has yet to receive the full attention of Canadian historians. This thesis thus attempts to find factors that could explain why soldiers would risk courts-martial, and perhaps their lives, by leaving their units without permission. Several factors were discovered such as battle exhaustion, poor conduct, and neuropsychological issues.
การศึกษาความสามารถในการแก้ปัญหาทางคณิตศาสตร์ เรื่องโจทย์ปัญหาเศษส่วนของนักเรียนชั้นมัธยมศึกษาปีที่ 1 โดยเน้นยุทธวิธีวาดภาพร่วมกับกระบวนการแก้ปัญหาของโพลยา
Creators: name: จิรายุส เรืองศักดิ์
Publisher: name: Department of Strategics for Improving Education Quality, Surindra Rajabhat University
Year: 2024
Subjects: ความสามารถในการแก้ปัญหา
ยุทธวิธีในการแก้ปัญหา
กระบวนการแก้ปัญหาของโพลยา

description: วารสารราชภัฏสุรินทร์วิชาการ, 2, 4, 1-16
การศึกษาปัญหาการออกเสียงภาษาอังกฤษของนักศึกษาระดับปริญญาตรี คณะศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยนราธิวาสราชนครินทร์
Creators: name: นูรอา สะมะแอ
Publisher: name: Department of Strategics for Improving Education Quality, Surindra Rajabhat University
Year: 2024
Subjects: ปัญหาการออกเสียงภาษาอังกฤษ
นักศึกษาระดับปริญญาตรี
สัทศาสตร์
สรศาสตร์

description: วารสารราชภัฏสุรินทร์วิชาการ, 2, 4, 17-36
title: Computationally Predicting a Synaptic NF-kB Protein Interaction Network
Creators: name: Goodwin, Haley
name: Atkinson, Nigel
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computational biology
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Neuroscience

description: Essential constituents of the mammalian toll-like receptor signaling pathway include NF-kB proteins, which are known to localize to the nucleus upon immunological stress to regulate innate immunity. In Drosophila, the NF-κB encoded by the Dif gene is the output of the Toll pathway, where it modulates immunity and sensitivity to ethanol intoxication. Unlike typical NF-kB proteins, the DifB variant of the Dif gene localizes to the neuronal synapse, where it modulates alcohol sensitivity (Wijesekera 2022). To unravel the mechanism through which DifB exacts neurological influence, we performed proximity labeling to identify a list of 281 possible candidates for DifB protein-protein interaction (PPI). We have been screening through this list using AlphaFold-Multimer, a novel deep-learning model for protein folding, to identify proteins that multimerize well with DifB. We have identified three promising DifB PPI candidates: a calcineurin phosphatase protein, CanA-14F, and protein kinases (PK) in both PKA and PKC families. Excitingly, CanA-14F has been demonstrated to influence the activity of the Dorsal/Dif family of NF-kB proteins (Li 2015). Furthermore, both PKC and PKA proteins are known to affect alcohol resistance (Park 2017). After conducting computations for all proteins on our candidate list, we will perform Drosophila genetic analysis and immunoprecipitation to confirm the interaction predicted by AlphaFold-Multimer modeling.
The puzzle of Russian ditransitives
Creators: name: Antonyuk, Svitlana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: In this paper I use the Scope Freezing Generalization (SFG), formulated on the basis
 of Russian quantifier scope freezing data in Antonyuk (2015) to gain insights into
 the structure of Russian ditransitives. The paper discusses the finding that Russian
 ditransitive predicates are not a homogeneous group, but instead subdivide into
 three distinct Groups, each with its distinct set of properties, with further syntactic evidence supporting the conclusion that these Groups have distinct underlying
 structures. One of the main findings, suggested by the (revised) SFG and supported
 by syntactic unaccusativity tests is that a group of Russian “direct objects” are not
 in fact what they seem, but are instead low Oblique arguments receiving Accusative case from a silent P head.
title: "Fabius6" : texte extrait de plaidoiries d'avocats au Procès de Paul Touvier
Creators: name: Leibowitch, Jacques
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Source: http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/Calames-20193111233429212
description: created: start=1975;end=2018
Les physiocrates et les gueux ou la position des premiers économistes sur la question de la pauvreté en France, (1756--1789)
Creators: name: Duchesne, Sébastien
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: History, European.
subject: Economics, History.

description: En dépit d'une sensible amélioration des conditions de vie économiques et matérielles et malgré l'optimisme véhicule par l'esprit des Lumières, la pauvreté demeurait, dans les dernières décennies de la France d'Ancien Régime, un problème endémique et préoccupant. Convaincus que la France était touchée par un processus d'appauvrissement général, les intellectuels des Lumières demeurerent, tout au cours de la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle, extrêmement préoccupés par les questions liées à la pauvreté. Parmi la multitude d'intellectuels et de philosophes qui allèrent se prononcer sur les origines et les remèdes à adopter face aux problèmes de la mendicité et du vagabondage, les Physiocrates, qu'on considère à juste titre comme étant les premiers économistes français, furent également les premiers à proposer un ensemble de programmes cohérents et structures visant à éradiquer l'extrême pauvreté du royaume de France. Bien que les traités sur la pauvreté rédigés par Guillaume-François Le Trosne, Nicolas Baudeau et Pierre-Samuel Du Pont de Nemours reprirent, dans l'ensemble, les idées et les solutions avancées par les philosophes des Lumières, l'originalité de leurs démarches reposait sur l'édification de programmes pouvant être directement utilisés par les administrateurs du royaume.
Naked Waneek Horn-Miller: Incredible performances call for reinterpretation
Creators: name: Henrie, Karine Jacynthe
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Women's Studies.
subject: Mass Communications.
subject: Recreation.

description: At the eve of the Summer Olympics in 2000, images of women athletes in the media were numerous. Where people might have expected action shots of these athletes, the burst of coverage was dedicated to women athletes who had decided to pose naked. In Canada, Waneek Horn-Miller, assistant captain of the Canadian women's water polo team, posed naked for the cover of Time magazine. Was the cover promoting Horn-Miller's sexuality, sensuality and femininity more than her athletic skills and abilities? How was the media constructing Horn-Miller's experience of posing naked? How was she, herself; constructing her experience? What identities was she performing on the cover? A semiotic analysis of the Time cover as well as a qualitative analysis of 10 newspaper articles and an interview conducted with Horn-Miller suggested that, rather than supporting and promoting dominant discourses of femininity, gender and race, the picture offered a challenge to those discourses and forced the viewers to think of the naked body of Horn-Miller in terms of new language and new vocabulary. Furthermore, my poststructural interpretation revealed that, while the media have strategically constructed their texts to assign Horn-Miller with a singular, fixed and unified "feminine-looking-woman-athlete" subjectivity mainly influenced by the dominant femininity discourse, Horn-Miller's speech highlighted how she performed fluid, fragmented and contradictory identities that were influenced by the adoption of various subject positions in different discourses, notably the femininity, sport and Native discourses.
The case of Karla Homolka: From the (re)construction of womanhood in danger to dangerous womanhood
Creators: name: Kilty, Jennifer M
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Biography.
subject: Sociology, Criminology and Penology.

description: This thesis is a qualitative discourse analysis of the case of Karla Homolka. The purpose of this thesis has been to examine how Karla Homolka was socially constructed within the three data sources: (1) the trial transcripts from R. v. K. Bernardo, 1993; (2) her testimony In Chief, cross-examination, re-dress, and re-cross-examination from R. v. P. Bernardo, 1995; and (3) The Report to the Attorney General on Certain Matters Relating to Karla Homolka, 1997. A critical examination of how Homolka was constructed as being representative of both the two sides of three dichotomies was conducted. The three dichotomies are: (1) angelic/demonic; (2) Madonna/whore; and (3) woman in danger/dangerous woman. Evidence supporting Homolka's construction as being simultaneously the two sides of each dichotomy was found. The motives behind the varying claims purported by the different claims-makers were examined. It was concluded that Homolka's characterization as being simultaneously in danger and dangerous led to the clouding of the comprehension of her character and her role in the crimes she committed. This confusion regarding her persona has demonstrated that there is a newly emerging category of offender, that of the sexually violent female predator. It was proposed that this confusion might lead correctional officials to be more oppressive and possibly more punitive with respect to other violent women.
ความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างประสิทธิภาพการใช้งานระบบกับความพึงพอใจต่อการใช้ระบบงานสารบรรณอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ของบุคลากร มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏชัยภูมิ
Creators: name: สาวิตรี ถมทอง
Publisher: name: Department of Strategics for Improving Education Quality, Surindra Rajabhat University
Year: 2024
Subjects: ความสัมพันธ์
ประสิทธิภาพ
ความพึงพอใจ
สารบรรณอิเล็กทรอนิกส์

description: วารสารราชภัฏสุรินทร์วิชาการ, 2, 4, 37-56
Rachid Boudjedra autotraducteur
Creators: name: Ghadie, Heba Alah
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Literature, Modern.
subject: Literature, African.

description: La carrière littéraire de Rachid Boudjedra a débuté en français dans la deuxième moitié des années 1960. Lorsqu'il décide de s'exprimer directement en arabe, au début des années 1980, il avait déja à son actif plusieurs romans publiés à Paris. Depuis, non seulement il traduit ces romans en arabe, mais il prépare également une version de ses romans arabes pour le public francophone, seul ou avec l'aide d'un traducteur. Nous examinons dans cette thèse le phénomène de l'autotraduction chez Boudjedra à travers deux romans, L'Insolation, paru en français en 1972 et traduit en arabe en 1984 sous le titre Al-Raane, et Timimoun, paru en arabe en 1994 et traduit en français la meme année et sous le même titre. Nous situons dans un premier temps la pratique de l'autotraduction dans l'histoire et la distinguons de la traduction dite "allographe". Nous faisons un survol des principaux travaux qui ont été faits à ce sujet, tout en distinguant les différents types d'autotraduction. Dans un deuxième temps, nous présentons le contexte maghrebin dans lequel s'inscrit l'écriture politisée de Boudjedra. Nous exposons la complexité de la situation linguistique en Algérie et au Maghreb de manière générale, et nous étudions le statut des langues et les choix linguistiques de l'écrivain maghrebin. Nous donnons également un aperçu biographique et bibliographique de Boudjedra, tout en essayant de justifier son recours à l'autotraduction. Dans un troisième temps, nous confrontons les versions arabe et française de L'Insolation et de Timimoun et évaluons l'importance des écarts et des rapprochements entre l'original et sa traduction. Nous comparons aussi les deux autotraductions, différée dans un cas et simultanée dans l'autre, afin de voir si la pratique de Boudjedra a évolue au fil du temps, surtout qu'un écart de vingt-deux ans sépare les deux romans. L'objectif de cette étude est donc de parvenir à une caractérisation de l'autotraduction chez Rachid Boudjedra en établissant, d'une part, son profil d'autotraducteur et en identifiant, d'autre part, le(s) mode(s) et la (les) stratégie(s) d'autotraduction qu'il adopte.
title: GPU-Accelerated Simulation of Deformable Capsules Flowing Through a Pipe
Creators: name: Bagge, Joar
name: Biros, George
name: Agarwal, Dhwanit
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Fluid mechanics

description: We have developed code for the three-dimensional simulation of deformable capsules flowing either in an unconfined or pipe-confined fluid. The code can be used to study e.g. suspensions of biological cells flowing through microfluidic devices, where an application of interest is the separation of cancer cells or infected cells from red blood cells based on differences in deformability (a technique called deterministic lateral displacement). Due to the small length scales involved, the flow is described by the Stokes equations, and boundary integral methods are used to solve the flow equations. Our code runs on NVIDIA GPUs using CUDA kernels. An important part of the algorithm is the FFT-based fast Ewald summation method, which computes interactions in O(N log N) time for N grid points. This implementation includes periodic boundary conditions in the pipe direction. Numerical methods for integration (trapezoidal rule with regularization of singular functions), differentiation (finite differences), interpolation (cubic splines), and time-stepping (adaptive Runge–Kutta) are also included. We observe a speedup of around 10.5 when running on a single NVIDIA A100 GPU on Lonestar6, compared to running the code on a 128-core CPU node on the same machine. A single ODE right-hand side evaluation on the GPU takes 110 ms for m=16, or 450 ms for m=32, where m is a measure of the resolution on the capsule and pipe surfaces. We are interested in studying the lateral migration and general dynamics of capsules under a wide range of parameters, which requires a large number of runs that can be made in parallel.
Evaluation and alternative regularization of audio equalization techniques
Creators: name: Norcross, Scott G
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: Inverse-filtering techniques are used in audio equalization of rooms and loudspeakers to correct or enhance the listening environment and to create virtual reality audio systems. The inverse-filtering concept is based on the concept that one can undo a system (loudspeaker, room, or some audio/acoustic path) completely or modify it to some desired/target response. Regularization is commonly used in the calculation of inverse filters to reduce the effort done by the inverse filter. The regularization is needed when the system is ill-conditioned and/or when zeros are present in the transfer function. Current regularization methods applied can create an audible pre-response to the corrected time-domain impulse responses, thus are not always suitable to high-quality audio systems. This thesis reviews some known FIR single and multichannel inverse filtering methods, and evaluates them objectively and subjectively, highlighting problems with relating to audible artifacts. New attempts are investigated for reducing the pre-response caused by regularization in single and multichannel inverse filtering systems, by adjusting the phase of the regularization terms to be minimum or partially minimum phase. The minimum-phase regularization method is shown to reduce the pre-response and therefore improve the audio quality of the inverse filters.
การศึกษาผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียน เรื่องการแก้โจทย์ปัญหาการคูณการหารทศนิยม โดยใช้เทคนิคการสอนแบบ KWDL ร่วมกับแบบฝึกทักษะคณิตศาสตร์ ของนักเรียนชั้นประถมศึกษาปีที่ 5
Creators: name: สุนิตตา ทองจันทร์
Publisher: name: Department of Strategics for Improving Education Quality, Surindra Rajabhat University
Year: 2024
Subjects: ผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียนคณิตศาสตร์
การแก้โจทย์ปัญหา
เทคนิคการสอนแบบ KWDL

description: วารสารราชภัฏสุรินทร์วิชาการ, 2, 4, 57-70
Using mobile agents and maximum path flow algorithms to maximize network utilization
Creators: name: Pirbhai, Shafiq
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: The purpose of this thesis is to show how the use of one or more of the shortest augmenting path (polynomial time) algorithms are used to maximize the bandwidth usage and minimize the cost and latency in Multiprotocol Label Switched (MPLS) networks. The thesis will also show how providers that offer services such as Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) based on Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and MPLS, or Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS) can use such an algorithm to offer premium services to higher paying customers. This thesis extends the problem of adaptive routing in communications networks: It focuses on maximizing the bandwidth usage in a MPLS network by using a modified augmenting path algorithm. The algorithm is influenced by Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) to reserve traffic flows on routers. The algorithm proposed is inspired by previous research in the area of indirect communication among agents through modifications induced in their environment or simply known as stigmergy. The agents implement the Edmonds Karp Algorithm rather than the pheromone tables in stigmergy. By using a mobile agents approach, the Augmenting Path Algorithm is adapted to find the maximum flow through a network.
All-optical microwave filters based on optical phase modulation
Creators: name: Wang, Jun
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: In this thesis three different microwave filter architectures based on optical phase modulation are proposed and demonstrated. The first photonic microwave filter consists of an electro-optic phase modulator (EOPM), a length of high birefringence (Hi-Bi) fiber, a 25-km single-mode fiber and a narrow linewidth laser source. In the second and the third photonic microwave filters, we focus on the technique to obtain bipolar coefficients based on phase modulation to intensity modulation (PM-IM) conversion. In the second filter, chirped fiber Bragg gratings (CFBGs) are used as PM-IM conversion devices. In the third filter, the negative coefficients are obtained by locating the optical carriers at the opposite slopes of the transfer function of an optical filter, to convert the phase-modulated signals to intensity-modulated signals, with phase inversion of the RF modulating signals. Based on this scheme, a two-tap microwave bandpass filter with one negative coefficient is demonstrated. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
International collaboration in a postgraduate certificate in teaching and learning
Creators: name: Arger, Geoff
name: Earl, Shirley
name: Ling, Peter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper describes and critiques collaboration between Napier University, Edinburgh and Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne in the development of a dual-badged Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education for offer at the two universities and at other locations. Napier University developed and accredited the Postgraduate Certificate program, which was designed as a component of academic staff development, and has offered it across Scotland for a number of years. The course is accredited and is recognized in the UK by the Staff and Educational Development Association, the Institute for Learning and Teaching and the National Board for Nursing, Midwifery & Health Visiting for Scotland. The program has been modified for online delivery by Swinburne University of Technology. The program as originally developed was in flexible form having online and print components and allowing participants to enroll and finish at times which suit them. While no fixed time attendance is required apart from two two-day sessions, the program does involve individual face-to-face sessions with a tutor and tutor observation of teaching. The online version allows the program to be offered remote from the awarding institution. The modified program will be trialed by Swinburne in the second semester of 2002. For Napier University the collaborative project provides the opportunity to market the program online remotely. For Swinburne University it provides the opportunity to adopt a program accredited and recognized outside of Australia. The paper identifies some challenges in reaching a common understanding of the roles and responsibilities of the partners.