cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
FAIR-IMPACT EOSC Policy Brief for FAIR-IMPACT_V2.0
Creators: name: Kalaitzi, Vasso
name: Dillo, Ingrid
name: Ashley, Kevin
name: Davidson, Joy
name: Nordling, Josefine
name: Jonquet, Clement
name: Aubin, Sophie
name: Priddy, Mike
name: Verburg, Maaike
name: Fink, Anne Sofie
name: Rouchon, Olivier
name: Pittonet, Sara
name: Mari, Marialetizia
name: Meneses, Rita
name: de Leeuw, Lisa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: FAIR
EOSC
FAIR-IMPACT

description: FAIR-IMPACT has the ambitious goal of realising an EOSC of FAIR data and services by supporting the implementation of FAIR-enabling practices, tools and services across scientific communities and at national, European and institutional level. The project places its focus on persistent identifiers (WP3), metadata and ontologies (WP4) metrics, guidelines and certification (WP5) and interoperability (WP6) in line with the respective EOSC SRIA action areas. This process of identifying practices, policies, tools and technical specifications to guide a wide spectrum of stakeholders groups starts with real-life use cases integrated in the project’s structure across the social sciences and humanities, the photon and neutron sciences, life sciences, and agri-food and environmental sciences. These efforts are supported by wide synchronisation, engagement and communication activities, including open calls for cascading grants and in-kind support to specific stakeholders. The relation between FAIR-IMPACT’s contribution and the most relevant Operational Objectives and Action Areas of the EOSC SRIA are mapped.
uopStore: an E-commerce Platform with a Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure
Creators: name: Wang, Sen
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014

description: We propose to put forth a platform with a Peer-to-Peer infrastructure for e-commerce. The systems that host e-commerce applications are facing the challenge of withstanding the explosive growth experienced in the realm of e-commerce transactions. Bearing in mind the workload characteristics, the systems for e-commerce applications should be scalable and flexible. For instance, transactions in such systems often occur in dynamic environment, where users in different geographic areas communicate concerning their business activities. Also, a varying number of products are sold through purchasing transactions. Furthermore, the number of different transactions for the same product may vary frequently from time to time. However, currently, such systems are built on centralized architecture in general. Such architecture does not easily meet the demands of the workloads of e-commerce. In this thesis, we developed uopStore, a platform focus on a distributed Peer-to-Peer architecture for e-commerce applications. The architecture is inspired by BestPeer++ \cite{DBLP:dblp_conf/icde/ChenHJLTVW12}. BestPeer++, a large-scale data processing platform, enables data sharing between enterprise systems. The shared data is distributed over the computing nodes in a server farm. These computing nodes are organized with the BATON Peer-to-Peer overlay network, the shared resource is then located with BATON's query (or lookup) operation. We adopted the architecture of BestPeer++ for uopStore, modified its components, and added one more layer to the top, the client layer. The client layer provides the interfaces for the users to access the remote services in the server farm. This way, uopStore is able to support decentralized e-commerce activities as well as deliver elastic data sharing services. The system also has some basic social networking functions in order to benefit from social media trends: the ability to chat with friends, send recommendations to friends, etc. In this thesis, we present the architecture of the proposed system first. We then describe the components of different peer nodes in detail. We further present the distributed operations which are used to realize different e-commerce activities. Furthermore, we discuss the results from experiments. These experiments are used to verify that the distributed operations have been implemented correctly.
The rocks and hard places of MAiD: a qualitative study of nursing practice in the context of legislated assisted death
Creators: name: Pesut, Barbara
name: Thorne, Sally E. (Sally Elizabeth), 1951-
name: Schiller, Catharine J.
name: Greig, Madeleine
name: Roussel, Josette
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) was legalized in Canada in June, 2016. The Canadian government’s decision to legislate assisted dying, an approach that requires a high degree of obligation, precision, and delegation, has resulted in unique challenges for health care and for nursing practice. The purpose of this study was to better understand the implications of a legislated approach to assisted death for nurses’ experiences and nursing practice. Methods: The study used a qualitative approach guided by Interpretive Description. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 59 registered nurses and nurse practitioners. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed, and managed using qualitative analysis software. Analysis followed a procedure of data immersion, open coding, constant comparative analysis, and the construction of a thematic and interpretive account. Results: Nurses in this study described great variability in how MAiD had been enacted in their work context and the practice supports available to guide their practice. The development of systems to support MAiD, or lack thereof, was largely driven by persons in influential leadership positions. Workplaces that supported a range of nurses’ moral responses to MAiD were most effective in supporting nurses’ well-being during this impactful change in practice. Participants cited the importance of teamwork in providing high quality MAiD-related care; although, many worked without the benefit of a team. Nursing work related to MAiD was highly complex, largely because of the need for patient-centered care in systems that were not always organized to support such care. In the absence of adequate practice supports, some nurses were choosing to limit their involvement in MAiD. Conclusions: Data obtained in this study suggested that some workplace contexts still lack the necessary supports for nurses to confidently meet the precision required of a legislated approach to MAiD. Without accessible palliative care, sufficient providers, a supportive team, practice supports, and a context that allowed nurses to have a range of responses to MAiD, nurses felt they were legally and morally at risk. Nurses seeking to provide the compassionate care consistent with such a momentous moment in patients’ lives, without suitable supports, find themselves caught between the proverbial rock and hard place.
Oltre l’Oriente e l’Occidente. l’orientalismo di Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm
Creators: name: Pugliesi, Girolamo
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Terms like "East" and "West" are metaphors rather than categories in a technical sense. In particular, the metaphor of "East" has played a decisive role in the development of "orientalistic disciplines" and has also influenced the so-called Eastern populations. The analysis of the literary production of one of the greatest exponents of Egyptian culture in the Twentieth Century - Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898-1987) - will allows us to describe how he modified the vision of the East which was typical of the European Orientalism, beyond the alternative between East and West.
description: Altre Modernità, N° 8 (2012): Orientalismi
The unification of provinces in a religious institute with particular reference to the situation of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in the United States.
Creators: name: Brown, Warren A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: History, Church.

description: The establishment of the religious province, originating in a time of flourishing development of the mendicant orders in the 13th century, allowed a decentralization of authority and facilitated the spread of religious institutes in their mission of service to the Gospel. The renewal called for by Vatican II, and the changing circumstances of diminishing vocations and the closing or restructuring of apostolic works, challenged contemporary religious institutes to examine their own operating structures to see whether they still met the needs of our time. Among the structures of religious life that the institutes have examined and adapted is the province. As an ecclesiastical juridic person by the law itself, the province possesses certain rights and obligations, including the acquisition, ownership, administration and alienation of temporal goods in pursuit of its mission. The competent authority of the religious institute can establish, reorganize and suppress provinces, according to its constitutions. When separate provinces are joined together to form a new one, besides the norms of proper law, certain canons on juridic persons apply, and, in particular, the intentions of donors and founders, as well as any acquired rights of the former provinces must be respected. There are also important civil law issues involved in the restructuring of provincial corporations. The rapid geographic expansion by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in North America led to the establishment of five provinces in the United States by the mid-20th century. The consolidation of the U.S. Oblate provinces in 1999 was the culmination of a gradual process of collaboration and restructuring over a period of more than 30 years. The decision by the Oblate superior general and council to consolidate provinces followed a period of spiritual, psychological and juridical preparation, and an official consultation of the membership. This thesis, using the experience of the U.S. Oblates as a case study, proposes to describe the procedure to be followed for successful consolidation of provinces from the canonical and civil law perspectives. What canonical structure might best be able to govern and animate the life of local apostolic communities in a unified missionary presence? What problems might be faced by those involved in the consolidation process? What are the pitfalls to be avoided? What were the civil legal, corporate and financial issues that had to be carefully addressed before the restructuring took place? We hope that this study would be of practical benefit to any religious institute contemplating a consolidation or reorganization or provinces.
High performance school-age athletes at Australian schools: A study of conflicting demands
Creators: name: O'Neill, Maureen
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2012
Subjects: high performance athlete
school-age student
school demands
conflicts

description: This qualitative research study explores the various demands of high performance athletes who are still at school. There is an increasing number of such children in Australia (Australian Bureau of Statistics [ABS], 2009), and this means that these young people, under the age of 18, are engaged in two demanding, full-time 'lives'; that of being a school student and that of being a high level athlete. Three phenomena have resulted in a growing number of high performance school-age athletes. One is the increasing range and number of international sports competitions. The second is the younger age of many competitors, and the third is the increasing requirement in Australian educational jurisdictions for young people to stay at school until they are 17 years old. These high performance school-age athletes have to meet the demands and commitments of being both a full-time high school student and a full-time athlete; in essence, these young high performance athletes at school are trying to fit two lives into one. Thus, the study focuses on two factors; first, how these young people cope with their dual lives, and second, what are the models of schooling that may best support them in their endeavours.
Using Novel Bowtiebased Plasmonic Metal Nanoparticle Complexes to Enhance the Opto-electronic Performance of Thin-Film Solar Cells: supplementary document - 5229074.pdf
Creators: name: Shaky, Mustafa
name: Chowdhury, Mustafa
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Orientalisms within: Encountering Indian Subaltern Experiences
Creators: name: Thomas, Tom
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: The paper looks at the Indian nation, which grows increasingly intolerant of heterogenity. The death of M.F. Husain, the Rushdie controversy and the censoring of A.K. Ramanujan’s essay attest this fact. The subaltern experience of two significant land struggles in the state of Kerala—the Muthanga agitation spearheaded by a tribal woman C.K. Janu and the Chengara land struggle under a dalit Laha Gopalan—testify to the presence of “orientalisms” within. Schisms within the subaltern movement, opposition from Marxist outfits and the geographical spaces of land “occupied”; autobiographies of Janu, Mukhtar Mai and Nalini Jameela, incidents of “honour killing,” slut walk, breast tax and “love jihad” are interrogated . The complexities of orientalisms, which work along the identities of religion, caste and gender are dealt with.
description: Altre Modernità, N° 8 (2012): Orientalismi
Halaesa honours Gaius Vergilius Balbus, proquaestor
Creators: name: Prag, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Sicily
subject: epigraphy
subject: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300138808
subject: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462492

description: TEI EpiDoc record
Refracted Gazes: A Woman Photographer during Mandate Lebanon
Creators: name: Nachabe, Yasmine
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: The fall of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of the French Mandate created many conflicts and much debate in the Middle East region. The paper will attempt to answer the following questions: How were these conflicts in the context of Lebanon represented through Marie al-Khazen’s (1899-1983) photographs? What does the change in pose and attire signify within an emerging culture caught between the two imperial powers of the Ottoman Empire and the French mandate? And where can ‘modernity’ be located between the rural subject and the urban subject?
Unlike the mainstream representational strategies of Middle Eastern women which were structured around white male European fantasies of the sort that circulated widely at the turn of the Twentieth-Century in images such as Marie Lydie Bonfils’s (1837-1919) bedouin woman, in Marie al-Khazen’s photographs, women projected a local female subjectivity.
This paper explores the relationship between modernity and femininity as manifest through the women’s activity, gaze and attire in Marie al-Khazen as well as other photographs taken in the Middle East region between the 1930s and the 1940s. Al-Khazen and the women represented in the photographs of this period were part of a cosmopolitan sensibility that reveals the Middle East region to be far more international than one might have imagined. Caught between projecting a self-image of the cosmopolitan woman and one of the traditional bedouin, these photographs provide a rich field for tracking the ambiguities of the modern.
description: Altre Modernità, N° 8 (2012): Orientalismi
Interactive multiple criteria optimization for capital budgeting.
Creators: name: Pissarides, Savvas.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Business Administration, Accounting.

description: This thesis presents a capital budgeting problem faced by a major telecommunications company. The purpose of this thesis is to address the capital budgeting problem in order to establish a framework for the measurement and evaluation of alternative capital allocation decisions which are compatible with the mission of the company. The solution method follows three major avenues of optimization: multiple criteria, multiple constraints and interactivity. The problem is solved using the Analytic Hierarchy Process to obtain an initial solution which is then improved by an interactive method allowing users to direct the search for an acceptable allocation. The method is implemented by a decision support system hinging on a graphic user interface. The support system has been used by practitioners to evaluate alternatives of a real problem. Results and enhancements are discussed.
Orientalizing Vietnam: The American Cold War, its “Problems” with Refugee Handicraft Artisans, and their Relationship to Barthes’s Mythology
Creators: name: Way, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: This paper examines discourses of orientalism narrating the political and cultural significance of representations of Vietnamese handicraft that the U.S. State Department’s International Cooperation Administration’s handicraft production and export program in Southeast Asia published in American craft, design and art journals and used in trade and department store exhibitions from 1955 to 1961. The American program to bring economic stability to the region developed in response to anxiety about the spread of communism in Southeast Asia, which intensified following the end of the first Indochina War, the French departing Vietnam in 1954 and Vietnam dividing at the 17th Parallel a year later.
At issue are the ways those who implemented the program narrated the Vietnamese handicraft artisans as problems by treating both their plight as political refugees fleeing from communist forces in the north and the vulnerability of their fledgling nation in the south to communism, as a Cold War American Orientalist tale of the U.S. salvaging Vietnam from political uncertainty including the destruction of its potential democracy and capitalism. To this point, the Orientalizing saturates Russel Wright’s article, “Gold Mine in Southeast Asia,” which overlays relationships of Western power and civilization as well as anthropological notions of salvage over references to the ways an ostensibly timeless albeit primitive culture of a non-western society (Vietnam) could maintain its essential identity by serving the needs of an overly industrialized one. Of particular interest are thematic correspondences between the Orientalist thrust of the American cultural diplomacy as evidenced in Wright’s article, and Roland Barthes’ early work, especially “Myth Today”.
description: Altre Modernità, N° 8 (2012): Orientalismi
Légitime défense et théorie.
Creators: name: Lareau, François.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Law.

description: Cette these constitue une etude et une reflexion sur la legitime defense et les principales questions theoriques qu'elle souleve. L'etude des dispositions du Code criminel se limitent aux art. 34 et 37. La these commente certaines recommandations du Rapport 31 de la Commission de reforme du droit du Canada (C.R.D.), Pour une nouvelle codification du droit penal (le projet de Code penal). Une place importante est accordee au droit compare. Discuter de la legitime defense en dehors d'un cadre theorique de l'infraction, c'est naviguer sans boussole. Nous avons choisi comme cadre theorique la notion tripartite de l'infraction. Dans notre introduction, nous avons donc expose cette theorie dans laquelle la distinction entre la justification et l'excuse joue un role primordial. Cette theorie, selon nous, est en voie d'etre progressivement adoptee par la droit canadien. Comme deuxieme point d'introduction, une breve etude historique de la legitime defense en droit anglais pour l'homicide et de nos propres dispositions legislatives, nous a semble essentielle a notre travail. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Weiterentwicklung des Blauen Engel zur Steigerung der Verbraucherwahrnehmung - eine Positionierungsstrategie
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Umweltzeichen
subject: Nachhaltiger Konsum
subject: Umweltbewusstes Konsumverhalten
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Blauer Engel
subject: Umweltbewusstsein
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum
subject: Economy | Consumption

description: Das Image des Blauen Engel gilt als wenig zeitgemäß und es hat an Alltagsrelevanz stark eingebüßt. Da der Modernisierungs- und Wandlungsprozess des Blauen Engel hochintegrativ und dynamisch ist, gilt es, den Blauen Engel auf Basis verfügbarer wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse strategisch und kommunikationspolitisch neu auszurichten und Handlungsempfehlungen zu entwickeln, die die Sichtbarkeit des Blauen Engel in Markt und Öffentlichkeit erhöhen, den Nutzen des Umweltzeichens herausstellen, Verbraucherinnen und Verbraucher motivieren, sich stärker am Umweltzeichen zu orientieren und die Wahrnehmung des Blauen Engels erhöhen.
Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de/
description: Das Image des Blauen Engel gilt als wenig zeitgemäß und es hat an Alltagsrelevanz stark eingebüßt. Da der Modernisierungs- und Wandlungsprozess des Blauen Engel hochintegrativ und dynamisch ist, gilt es, den Blauen Engel auf Basis verfügbarer wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse strategisch und kommunikationspolitisch neu auszurichten und Handlungsempfehlungen zu entwickeln, die die Sichtbarkeit des Blauen Engel in Markt und Öffentlichkeit erhöhen, den Nutzen des Umweltzeichens herausstellen, Verbraucherinnen und Verbraucher motivieren, sich stärker am Umweltzeichen zu orientieren und die Wahrnehmung des Blauen Engels erhöhen.
Big Butter Jesus
Creators: name: Tucker, Mary
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2011
Subjects: religion
spirituality
secularism
Australia
young adult literature

description: The subject index of the Austlit database reveals that between the years 1970 to 2007, less than one percent of Australian contemporary, realistic young adult novels have Christianity as a theme, despite over 60% of the population in the age group 15-24 identifying as Christians (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2006). This representation is compared to the representations of non-Christian religions and Aboriginal traditional religions, which are represented proportionally to the population. The exegesis explores reasons for this lack of representation of the religious and spiritual beliefs of mainstream adolescents. After establishing that religion and spiritual beliefs are relevant and of interest to modern-day mainstream teenagers, the research examines whether the origin of this absence is due to Australia's secularism, and if so, what is the nature and source of this secularism? Does it constitute a dominant or 'hegemonic' discourse in Australian culture? What is the relationship between the dominant secular discourse and multiculturalism? Does young adult fiction reflect this relationship? Are young adult novels as secular as they appear or do authorial and narrative voices contain, at times, covert messages of Christian morality? Has the dominant culture's secularism impacted upon the publishing industry to produce largely secular novels, especially through the pressure exerted by the buying power of public schools? What impact have the "gatekeepers" or the "guardians" - the librarians, book reviewers, judges on book award councils - had upon determining the content of young adult fiction? What are the implications for mainstream young adults of not having their beliefs represented in realistic, contemporary novels?
Physiological Markers of Training Responses in Elite Paralympic Swimmers
Creators: name: Edmonds, Rohan
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2017
Subjects: cardiac autonomic function
paralympian
performance
athlete
heart rate variability

description: The aim of this research project was to examine the effectiveness of heart rate variability (HRV), salivary immunoglobulin A (sIgA) and salivary alpha amylase (sAA) as practical markers to measure training responses in elite athletes. The chronic and acute training responses of Paralympic swimmers were analysed during their various training phases and at international competition including the Paralympic Games. Daily and weekly HRV analysis was assessed, with weekly measures of sIgA and sAA incorporated to examine training responses during periodised training. To classify the training responses in elite athletes, minimal fluctuations in HRV were identified during periodised training, with the weekly average for HRV similar to daily values during a normal training week. This result clarified that daily analysis of HRV was not required during seasonal training (i.e. non-taper). However, the analysis of HRV during a taper training phase established significant trends in cardiac autonomic activity, indicative of a readiness to perform. By monitoring the weekly responses of HRV, sIgA and sAA over a typical training cycle, it was observed that well periodised training maintained these indices within normal baseline values. The impact of high level competition, however, created significant depressions in HRV coupled with an increase in sAA. These results indicated that elite level competition impacts autonomic balance for at least two days. As such, implementation of appropriate recovery methods and rest periods is advised to alleviate the accumulated stress following competition. Examining the acute stress responses of HRV, sIgA and sAA, it was identified that these physiological markers respond consistently to a high intensity training session, likely an effect of well managed training and recovery prescription during seasonal training.
Segnalazioni (31/10/2012)
Creators: name: Redazione, A Cura Della
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Titoli e abstracts di testi recentemente pubblicati, segnalati dalla Redazione di Nóema per il loro rilievo scientifico e l'originalità della loro proposta tematica.

description: Nóema, N° 3 (2012): Ricerche
Using Novel Bowtiebased Plasmonic Metal Nanoparticle Complexes to Enhance the Opto-electronic Performance of Thin-Film Solar Cells: supplementary document - 5229074.pdf
Creators: name: Shaky, Mustafa
name: Chowdhury, Mustafa
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Central Mechanisms Mediating Ang II-Salt Hypertension
Creators: name: Lu, Jiao
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: angiotensin II
salt
hypertension
aldosterone
CNS
AT1R
PVN

description: Abstract Statement of problem Plasma angiotensin II (Ang II) increases blood pressure (BP) through the activation of brain angiotensinergic pathways and the aldosterone-mineralocorticoid receptors (MR)- epithelial Na+ channel (ENaC)-endogenous ouabain (EO) pathway. The response of BP to circulating Ang II is enhanced by high salt intake, but the central mechanisms mediating this elevated response are not known. Methods of investigation Study 1) Male Wistar rats were divided into 4 groups and treated with regular salt diet (0.4% NaCl), high salt diet (2% NaCl), sc Ang II infusion (150 ng/kg/min), or sc Ang II infusion together with 2% salt diet for 14 days; plasma aldosterone and corticosterone levels, CYP11B2 mRNA in adrenal cortex and the mRNA levels of Ang II type 1 receptors (AT1R), CYP11B1 (11-β hydroxylase), CYP11B2 (aldosterone synthase), MR, 11βHSD2, ENaC α, ENaC β and ENaC γ in the subfornical organ (SFO), paraventricular nucleus (PVN), supraoptic nucleus (SON) and rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) were measured. Study 2) MR blockers (eplerenone, spironolactone), ENaC blocker (benzamil), AT1R blocker (losartan) or vehicles were centrally infused in rats treated with Ang II plus high salt, and BP and heart rate (HR) were recorded by telemetry; plasma aldosterone and corticosterone levels and CYP11B2 mRNA expression in adrenal cortex were measured. Major findings Ang II alone caused a small increase in BP. Ang II together with 2% salt diet markedly increased the BP and plasma aldosterone level. Sc Ang II decreased 11βHSD2 and MR mRNA expression in the PVN, increased AT1R and ENaC γ expression in the PVN, and increased AT1R mRNA expression in the RVLM. Other genes tested in the four brain nuclei were not affected by sc Ang II or high salt diet. BP and plasma aldosterone increases in response to Ang II and salt, as well as CYP11B2 mRNA expression in adrenal cortex, were largely prevented by central infusion of eplerenone, spironolactone, benzamil or losartan. Main conclusion BP and plasma aldosterone responses to Ang II-salt are under the control of central mechanisms, and MR-AT1R activation in the brain plays a critical role in Ang II-salt induced hypertension.
Life in the city – adaptive evolution of urban eastern water dragons
Creators: name: Jackson, Nicola
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: local adaptation
subject: urban evolution
subject: cities
subject: archipelagos
subject: urban evolutionary ecology
subject: Evolutionary biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics

description: As we enter the Anthropocene, city growth is unprecedented in its magnitude and rate, therefore it is imperative that we understand the consequences of, and mechanisms by which, animals can respond to a life within the city. Using the eastern water dragon as a study species I explore the process of selection and diversification in the city.
description: Here, I investigate the genomic basis for urban adaptation by identifying putatively adaptative loci between eastern water dragon in city park and native riparian habitats. Further, I demonstrate that city parks exhibit a small, but unique number of loci that are likely candidates for localised selection within the city. These findings suggest that adaptive divergence between city park and native riparian habitats may occur over a finer scale matrix of environmental differences driving localised selection between city park populations.
description: To build on this first chapter, I demonstrate that selection is acting to drive divergence of snout-vent length and jaw width across native riparian populations that are geographically isolated and across city park populations that are geographically close yet isolated by an urban matrix. These findings suggest that local adaptation may be occurring over exceptionally small geographic and temporal scales within a single metropolis, demonstrating that city parks can act as archipelagos for the study of rapid evolution.
description: In the final research chapter, Chapter four, I investigate deviations from Mendelian inheritance in an urban free-living population of eastern water dragons. This refers to the preferential transmission of one allele over another at a particular locus from parents to their offspring, a process that can drive the frequency of alleles in a population. Here, I demonstrate the differential success of genotypes acting in opposing directions across three life history stages. This work suggests there is a balance of conflicting fitness advantages and opposing selection pressures across life history stages. These findings pose a potential mechanism for the maintenance of diversity within city populations, which are frequently affected by drift and small effective population sizes.
description: Together this work is a major step forward in understanding how city life impacts wild native vertebrate species and highlights the potential cities present for the study of fundamental questions in evolutionary biology.
Velocity Variations of the Kaskawulsh Glacier, Yukon Territory, 2009-2011
Creators: name: Darling, Samantha
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Kluane
ice dynamics
speckle tracking
precise point positioning method
St Elias
remote sensing

description: Laser altimetry and satellite gravity surveys indicate that the St Elias Icefields are currently losing mass and are among the largest non-polar sea level contributors in the world. However, a poor understanding of glacier dynamics in the region is a major hurdle in evaluating regional variations in ice motion and the relationship between changing surface conditions and ice flux. This study combines in-situ dGPS measurements and advanced Radarsat-2 (RS-2) processing techniques to determine daily and seasonal ice velocities for the Kaskawulsh Glacier from summer 2009 to summer 2011. Three permanent dGPS stations were installed along the centreline of the glacier in 2009, with an additional permanent station on the South Arm in 2010. The Precise Point Positioning (PPP) method is used to process the dGPS data using high accuracy orbital reconstruction. RS-2 imagery was acquired on a 24-day cycle from January to March 2010, and from October to March 2010-2011 in a combination of ultra-fine and fine beam modes. Seasonal velocity regimes are readily identifiable in the dGPS results, with distinct variations in both horizontal velocity and vertical motion. The Spring Regime consists of an annual peak in horizontal velocity that corresponds closely with the onset of the melt season and progresses up-glacier, following the onset of melt at each station. The Summer Regime sees variable horizontal velocity and vertical uplift, superimposed on a long-term decline in motion. The Fall Regime sees a gradual slowing at all stations with little variation in horizontal velocity or vertical position. Rapid but short accelerations lasting up to 10 days were seen in the Winter regimes in both 2010 and 2011, occurring at various times throughout each regime. These events initiated at the Upper Station and progress down-glacier at propagation speeds up to 16,380 m day-1 and were accompanied by vertical uplift lasting for similar periods. Three velocity maps, one from the winter of 2010 and two from the fall/winter of 2011, produced from speckle tracking were validated by comparison with dGPS velocity, surface flow direction, and bedrock areas of zero motion, with an average velocity error of 2.0% and average difference in orientation of 4.3º.
Greek Tragedy and the Poetics of the Hearth
Creators: name: Brock, Ginna
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2014
Subjects: hearth
Hestia
ontology
Greek tragedy
belonging
textual analysis

description: This thesis proposes that instead of a 'tragic hero', tragedies portray a 'tragic hearth', exposing the collective suffering of everyone associated with the portrayed hearth. Significant to this argument is the Ancient Greek's deification of the hearth represented by the goddess Hestia. The re-centring of the hearth reveals the self as permanently connected to familial others, challenging notions of individualism and autonomy. The implication of this finding reverberates through the Western tragictradition, where analysis of the autonomous 'tragic hero' fails to fully capture the tragic depth of the disruption to the collective identity. Through close textual analysis this dissertation argues that the deification of the hearth carries ontological notions of belonging and connectedness. I do not argue that a character is born with a predetermined sense of being, instead a character is born into a particular hestian identity, from which being emerges. In order to discern the preoccupations associated with the goddess Hestia, this thesis first proposes a poetics of the hearth, where relational, spatial, and temporal notions of the self merge. The relational aspect attached to the hearth is evident in the sacred laws regarding incest, kin-killing, proper burial, and the treatment of guests. These laws regulate behaviour toward 'one's own', both kin and non-kin members connected to the hearth. To this end, a hestian reading of Greek tragedy positions the displaced individual-separated, isolated and without a earth-as the condition that unequivocally elicits the Aristotelian notion of 'pity and fear'.
Simulation of the Solar System Using Leapfrog Integration Method
Creators: name: Yıldırım, Cengiz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Celestial mechanics
subject: Classical mechanics
subject: Symplectic topology
subject: Numerical analysis
subject: Planetary dynamics

description: This study used the leapfrog method to produce ephemerides for the solar system. The position data produced by the leapfrog method was compared to JPL's published ephemerides. Additionally, the properties of the leapfrog method were investigated. The study found that while the leapfrog method conserved energy and angular momentum of the whole system, the average positional difference with JPL increased over time. These findings contribute to the understanding of the method's strengths and limitations for celestial mechanics simulations.
“They Talk the Talk but They Don’t Walk the Walk”: A Qualitative Inquiry into Police Officers’ Perceptions of Stress and Stress Management
Creators: name: Musca, Kristina Alessandra
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: stress
stress management
policing
impression management
symbolic interactionism
role-taking
significant symbols
stigma

description: Police officers have one of the most stressful jobs in existence. However, information pertaining to stress management programs is limited, especially within a Canadian context. Furthermore, little is known about the processes through which officers construct their perceptions of stress and stress management since the literature has mainly focused on enumerating the frequency of existing stressors. The present study addresses these limitations by conducting a content analysis of 24 in-depth interviews with officers from a law enforcement agency in Ontario. By drawing on symbolic interactionism, the present study concludes that police officers gravitate toward the “me” or the socialized aspect of the self (Goffman, 1969) when constructing their perceptions of stress and stress management in order to protect their image and avoid stigmatization. Policy implications based on these findings are presented at the end of the study, along with directions for future research.
Group 2 Innate Lymphoid Cells: Central Players in a Recurring Theme of Repair and Regeneration
Creators: name: Messing, Melina
name: Jan-Abu, Sia Cecilia
name: McNagny, Kelly
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) are recently discovered innate counterparts to the well-established T helper cell subsets and are most abundant at barrier surfaces, where they participate in tissue homeostasis and inflammatory responses against invading pathogens. Group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s) share cytokine and transcription factor expression profiles with type-2 helper T cells and are primarily associated with immune responses against allergens and helminth infections. Emerging data, however, suggests that ILC2s are also key regulators in other inflammatory settings; both in a beneficial context, such as the establishment of neonatal immunity, tissue repair, and homeostasis, and in the context of pathological tissue damage and disease, such as fibrosis development. This review focuses on the interactions of ILC2s with stromal cells, eosinophils, macrophages, and T regulatory cells that are common to the different settings in which type-2 immunity has been explored. We further discuss how an understanding of these interactions can reveal new avenues of therapeutic tissue regeneration, where the role of ILC2s is yet to be fully established.
Monitoring the Performance of the Earnshaw Street Infiltration Basin at Golden Beach
Creators: name: Lee, Madeline
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2016

description: Best management practices such as infiltration basins are commonly becoming accepted practices for removing pollutants from stormwater runoff. An infiltration basin has recently been installed at Earnshaw Street in Golden Beach. Experienced environmental engineers as well as landscape architects designed the basin and immediate landscape to ensure that it would be seamlessly integrated into the existing park and environment. Installation of the infiltration basin at Golden Beach is anticipated to treat diverted storm water from the existing Earnshaw Street catchment before it is discharged into the Passage. This action will provide an opportunity to significantly reduce waterway pollution that is being created in this area and currently making its way, untreated into the ocean.
Becoming the library? Research librarians and the future of academic libraries
Creators: name: Parker, Rebecca
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Academic libraries are changing. They are moving away from the 'cosy library' - the home of traditional library roles, collections and spaces - towards the 'scary library', where projects such as repositories are mainstreamed into the library, where both the library's collection and users are increasingly offsite, and where the role of the librarian is less and less familiar. At the heart of this revolution is a dramatic change in the needs, wants, and expectations of academic library users€”and perhaps also in librarians' understanding of them. In 2013, Samantha Schmehl Hines challenged librarians to consider what libraries might be when they grow up. She came to the conclusion that perhaps 'the librarian becomes the library'. Nowhere is this more evident than in research librarianship. Several studies show academics no longer enter the physical library space as often as they used to when we housed primarily print collections. Yet they still really value the role of the librarian, especially in managing information and facilitating access to collections. Are librarians ready for this change? Has the role of the librarian evolved? And if so, what has it become? This chapter looks at the rising field of research librarianship, and how it has allowed librarians to use their skills to reach a new group of academic library users.
'The World is Not a Safe Place for Men': The Representational Politics of the Manosphere
Creators: name: Lilly, Mary
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: discourse
manosphere
men's rights
pickup artist
pick-up artist
antifeminism
anti-feminism

description: This thesis offers an overview of the representational politics of the online antifeminist community known as the ‘manosphere’. It analyzes how gender and gender politics are represented in the discourse, with an eye to how traditional gender constructs, and traditional gendered norms and inequalities, are reproduced. This project—the first study to focus exclusively on the manosphere—contributes to our understanding of the community in two ways; it addresses a significant gap in the literature on the topic, and it tests the accuracy of the ‘conventional wisdom’ on the manosphere. Using mixed-methods critical discourse analysis, the study analyzed the discourse of the two primary subcultures of the community, and found that traditional gender norms and relations are reproduced therein, and that for the most part the conventional wisdom is accurate: femininity and women are disparaged, masculinity is imagined to be ‘in crisis’ (constantly under siege by feminizing forces), and feminism is represented as hypocritical and oppressive.
Molecular analysis of the effect of stressors on oysters
Creators: name: Ertl, Nicole G
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2015
Subjects: oyster
Saccostrea glomerata
Sydney rock oyster
RNA-Seq
transcriptome
molecular
stress
immunity

description: Oysters are an ecologically and economically important marine species that contributed over AU$94 million (edible oysters only) directly to the Australian economy in 2012-13. During their life-time, cultivated and wild oysters are exposed to a variety of environmental stressors, including salinity and temperature fluctuations, pollution and pathogens in their natural habitat. These stressors are quite likely to act synergistically and can be exacerbated by anthropogenic and climate influences (e.g. CO2, extreme weather events). They also have the potential to weaken the oysters, causing them to succumb to disease or predation pressures. In an aquaculture environment, this could impact on the productivity and profitability of the industry. To maintain and potentially improve the health and resilience of oysters, knowledge needs to be gained regarding not only the physiological but also molecular responses to stress. Therefore, this study was carried out on Sydney rock oysters (Saccostrea glomerata) to examine the genes actively expressed in stressed and non-stressed oysters and to determine the molecular response of S. glomerata to a range of environmental stressors. S. glomerata were chosen as they are commercially grown in estuaries throughout New South Wales (NSW) to as far up as Harvey Bay in Queensland, as well as in Western Australia's Albany, with an economic value of over AU$31 million in 2013-14 in NSW alone. For this study, wild S. glomerata were challenged with sub-optimal levels of a) CO2 and temperature, b) copper, c) salinity and temperature and d) polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) to mimic oil contamination. Collected tissues (haemolymph, gill, mantle, adductor muscle, digestive system and gonad) of all experimental animals were used to generate a S. glomerata transcriptome. Close examination of the transcriptome revealed a wide range of transcripts putatively involved in innate immunity, with some of them (e.g. Toll-like receptor signalling pathways, apoptosis) appearing to be largely conserved between mammals and invertebrates (e.g. oysters). Furthermore, a few selected transcripts were observed to be expressed in specific tissues (e.g. only in the haemolymph).
Design and implementation of a SMIL-based TeleLearning system.
Creators: name: Huang, Beilei.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: One of the most obvious and important facts for TeleLearning is that it depends on telecommunication and information processing technologies to exist as a means for education. Since the learning and teaching take place at a distance, there must be some medium of communication to bridge the distance. The explosive Internet provides such a channel to convey the information nationally and internationally. Multimedia capabilities in instruction significantly enhance and expand the learning opportunities and quality for the students. Integrated video, audio, image, and text create a rich new learning environment awash with possibility and a clear potential to increase student involvement in the learning process. For many years, various multimedia document models have been proposed and constructed by many researchers. In 1998, SMIL came out as a web-based international standard for synchronized multimedia document, recommended by W3C. We found it a very suitable model to fit in our Internet-based TeleLearning system. In this thesis, SMIL is employed as a format to structurally store an author-scheduled synchronized multimedia presentation for an information-rich course section. An algorithm to detect the temporal inconsistency within a SMIL document was proposed. A SMIL validation tool was developed, and the design and implementation of a SMIL player was discussed.