cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Investigating Gene-Gene and Gene-Environment Interactions in the Association Between Overnutrition and Obesity-Related Phenotypes
Creators: name: Tessier, François
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Epidemiology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Obesity
subject: Nutrition
subject: Interaction
subject: Overnutrition
subject: Multifactor dimensionality reduction
subject: Penalized logistic regression
subject: Gene-gene interaction
subject: Gene-environment interaction
subject: Genetic epidemiology

description: Introduction – Animal studies suggested that NFKB1, SOCS3 and IKBKB genes could be involved in the association between overnutrition and obesity. This study aims to investigate interactions involving these genes and nutrition affecting obesity-related phenotypes. Methods – We used multifactor dimensionality reduction (MDR) and penalized logistic regression (PLR) to better detect gene/environment interactions in data from the Toronto Nutrigenomics and Health Study (n=1639) using dichotomized body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) as obesity-related phenotypes. Exposure variables included genotypes on 54 single nucleotide polymorphisms, dietary factors and ethnicity. Results – MDR identified interactions between SOCS3 rs6501199 and rs4969172, and IKBKB rs3747811 affecting BMI in whites; SOCS3 rs6501199 and NFKB1 rs1609798 affecting WC in whites; and SOCS3 rs4436839 and IKBKB rs3747811 affecting WC in South Asians. PLR found a main effect of SOCS3 rs12944581 on BMI among South Asians. Conclusion – MDR and PLR gave different results, but support some results from previous studies.
Relating ion channel expression, bifurcation structure, and diverse firing patterns in a model of an identified motor neuron
Creators: name: Valdez, Marco A. Herrera
name: McKiernan, Erin
name: Berger, Sandra D.
name: Ryglewski, Stefanie
name: Duch, Carsten
name: Crook, Sharon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biophysics

description: Neurons show diverse firing patterns. Even neurons belonging to a single chemical or morphological class, or the same identified neuron, can display different types of electrical activity. For example, motor neuron MN5, which innervates a flight muscle of adult Drosophila, can show distinct firing patterns under the same recording conditions. We developed a two-dimensional biophysical model and show that a core complement of just two voltage-gated channels is sufficient to generate firing pattern diversity. We propose Shab and DmNav to be two candidate genes that could encode these core currents, and find that changes in Shab channel expression in the model can reproduce activity resembling the main firing patterns observed in MN5 recordings. We use bifurcation analysis to describe the different transitions between rest and spiking states that result from variations in Shab channel expression, exposing a connection between ion channel expression, bifurcation structure, and firing patterns in models of membrane potential dynamics. This is an author version of a published article. Please cite: Herrera-Valdez, M.A., McKiernan, E.C., Berger, S.D., Ryglewski, S., Duch, C., and Crook, S. (2012). Relating ion channel expression, bifurcation structure, and diverse ﬁring patterns in a model of an identiﬁed motor neuron. Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 34(2): 211-229.
Refocusing Family History Software and Capturing Research Intent
Creators: name: Chapman, Chris
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The coming forth of distributed computing and modern genealogical research methods, such as the Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS), have caused us to rethink some basic assumptions about the design of traditional family history software. Most current family history software focuses on saving and retrieving the \emph{current state} of the genealogical research. The research process is something that the researcher must keep track of separately, in research logs and other notes. However, moving the research process into center focus in family history software will result in better collaboration among researchers and more efficient use of research time. What needs to be modeled in family history software is not merely the vital facts, but the research process and intent. This paper is not intended to be a rant about the current state of family history software, but to outline how family history research software could help the researcher by acting as a natural part of the research process. Many of the problems of database-driven family history software exist because of the focus on data management rather than process management. Software that is driven by the research domain instead of data management will simplify the tasks of the researcher and move the emphasis from bookkeeping to quality genealogical progress.
Additional file 1 of Exposure-associated DNA methylation among people exposed to multiple industrial pollutants
Creators: name: Chen, Chi-Hsin Sally
name: Yuan, Tzu-Hsuen
name: Lu, Tzu-Pin
name: Lee, Hsin-Ying
name: Chen, Yi-Hsuen
name: Lai, Liang-Chuan
name: Tsai, Mong-Hsun
name: Chuang, Eric Y.
name: Chan, Chang-Chuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file1.
A Brunswikian evolutionary developmental theory of preparedness and plasticity
Creators: name: Figueredo, Aurelio Jose
name: Hammond, Kenneth R.
name: McKiernan, Erin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: Behavioral Neuroscience

description: The domain-independent and domain-dependent approach to the evolution of cognition have been taken by separate groups of researchers who have focused exclusively on either the formal properties or the distinct cognitive demands of tasks. We express the view that synthesizing the two approaches could lead to a more complete understanding, and propose such a comprehensive model of cognitive evolution and development. First, we discuss how Egon Brunswik demonstrated the importance of the relationship between the organism and the environment, and how his research and that of others has led to the domain-independent and domain-dependent views. Second, we use Brunswikian concepts to propose a two-parameter evolutionary model of cognitive development that specifies how particular behaviors come to be characterized by independent levels of biological preparedness and developmental plasticity. Our theory incorporates both a domain-independent organizing principle and the importance of domain-dependent processes. Third, we briefly discuss one unique prediction arising from the Brunswikian Evolutionary Developmental theory and describe preliminary supporting evidence. This is the author version of a published manuscript. Please cite: Figueredo, A. J., Hammond, K. R. and McKiernan, E. C. (2006). A Brunswikian evolutionary developmental theory of preparedness and plasticity. Intelligence 34(2), 211-227.
Characterizing Performance of the Radar System for Breathing and Heart Rate Estimation in Real-Life Conditions
Creators: name: Zhang, Xinyang
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Breathing Rate Estimation
Heart Rate Estimation
Modified FFT
EMD
Radar System

description: Contact-less human detection and monitoring using radar technology has been recently applied in many areas including search-and-rescue for earthquake victims, fall detection, gait analysis and detection of other human activities. Radars can also provide important information about a persons state of health by monitoring the level of activities, heart and breathing rate. Also it can be used to generate warnings if some of the monitored parameters are outside of predeﬁned limits. The major application of this work is for monitoring in-mates and their activities. This thesis deals with characterizing the performance of the radar system used for monitoring a single person in a contained environment. This thesis is experimentally based and during the thesis a large number of experiments were performed in order to monitor subjects in realistic conditions. The thesis explores feasibility of using the radar with a single radio-frequency channel input and two algorithms for breathing and heart rate estimation when the subject is at diﬀerent relative orientation towards the radar as well as in diﬀerent postures. Algorithm one is using Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT) and algorithm two is using Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) with Minkowski distance. We also detect the zones where the subject is when the subject is moving. Since this exploratory analysis provides initial features for classiﬁcations and algorithms for breathing and heart beat estimation, it can represent a foundation for future works on designing systems that track subjects and their breathing in real-time.
Etiological Beliefs about Illness in Panic Disorder: Relationship with Baseline Demographic and Clinical Characteristics and Impact on Treatment Response
Creators: name: El Amiri, Sawsane
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Etiological beliefs
Panic disorder
Self-administered CBT
Sertraline
Clinical characteristics
Treatment outcome

description: Purpose: The relation between the causal attributions of individuals with panic disorder (PD) and their health outcomes remains relatively unexplored. Therefore we examined 1) the relationship between participants’ etiological beliefs about PD and baseline demographic and clinical characteristics and 2) whether participants’ etiological beliefs about PD predicted compliance, clinical response, and side effect profiles with the treatments they were assigned. Method: The study included 251 participants. A series of multiple linear regressions were used to evaluate the relationship between participants’ causal attributions, measured by the Etiological Model Questionnaire, and their baseline characteristics. To determine whether these beliefs predicted treatment outcome, logistic and linear regressions were conducted. Results: Our results revealed that participants with a family history of psychiatric illnesses were more likely to endorse biological etiological beliefs whereas those with a younger age, comorbid psychiatric disorders, and a history of suicide attempts were more likely to attribute their illness to psychological causes. Participants experiencing impairment in family life endorsed both psychological and environmental causal beliefs, while those reporting higher fear of body sensations and agoraphobic cognitions were more likely to attribute their illness to biological and psychological causes. With regards to treatment outcome, results indicated that participants who endorsed psychological and environmental etiological beliefs experienced more severe symptoms 12 weeks following treatment; irrespective of the type of treatment they received. Implications: The consideration of individuals’ causal attributions might help health-care professionals better assist clients by communicating a more balanced perspective of the causes of PD and deliver interventions that are in line with clients’ individual beliefs.
Computation of time-lapse differences with 3D directional frames
Creators: name: Bayreuther, Moritz
name: Cristall, Jamin
name: Herrmann, Felix J.
Publisher: name: Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Year: 2008

description: We present an alternative method of extracting production related differences from time-lapse seismic data sets. Our method is not based on the actual subtraction of the two data sets, risking the enhancement of noise and introduction of artifacts due to local phase rotation and slightly misaligned events. Rather, it mutes events of the monitor survey with respect to the baseline survey based on the magnitudes of coefficients in a sparse and local atomic decomposition. Our technique is demonstrated to be an effective tool for enhancing the time-lapse signal from surveys which have been cross-equalized
Additional file 1 of Dietary diversity and its association with changes in anthropometric indices of community-dwelling older adults in Tehran, Iran: a longitudinal study (2017–2021)
Creators: name: Rezaei, Mahshid
name: Forouzan, Kimia
name: Eini-Zinab, Hassan
name: Omidvar, Nasrin
name: Jafaripour, Samaneh
name: Rezazadeh, Arezoo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
THREE TANK MODEL: A Top down or bottom up dominance analysis
Creators: name: Devaraj, Maurice
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: (An old paper published in the Journal of Theoretics) The author proposes a simple mechanical model of biomass flow in an ecosystem using a hydrological model. Three tanks representing three trophic levels to determine which form of control is predominantly effective and under what conditions. The model shows that in the question of which is the dominant control, the cascade processes of control from top (predator control) or from bottom (Prey control), Top down control is predominant when the system is predator efficient, where mortality due to intraspecific competition is steady and bottom up control is predominant in systems where the predators are inefficient and mortality due to intraspecific competition is varying dependent on resource levels. The behavior of trophic levels under each type of control is also discussed.
UK LLC Guidebook: data documentation and user guide
Creators: name: UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: UK LLC Guidebook is the home of UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration’s (UK LLC's) data documentation and user guide.

UK LLC brings together de-identified data from Longitudinal Population Studies (LPS) and systematically links these data to participants’ health, non-health administrative (e.g. education, employment, tax and benefits) and place-based records in the UK LLC TRE.

Please visit UK LLC Explore, UK LLC’s metadata catalogue, to discover the breadth of data held in the UK LLC TRE.

UK-based researchers can request access to data via UK LLC Apply.
SMADL - The Social Machines Architecture Description Language
Creators: name: Nascimento, Leandro
name: Almeida, Eduardo
name: Meira, Silvio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We are experiencing a high growth in the number of web applicationsbeing developed. This is happening mainly because the web is going intoa new phase, called programmable web, where several web-based systemsmake their APIs publicly available. In order to deal with the complexity of thisemerging web, we define a notion of social machine and envisage a languagethat can describe networks of such. To start with, social machines are defined astuples of input, output, processes, constraints, states, requests and responses;apart from defining the machines themselves, the language defines a set of connectorsandconditionals that can be used to describe the interactions betweenany number of machines in a multitude of ways, as a means to represent realmachinesinteracting in the real web. This work presents a preliminary versionof the Social Machine Architecture Description Language (SMADL).
Uwe Makino: Nanking-Massaker 1937/38 - Japanische Kriegsverbrechen zwischen Leugnung und Überzeichnung. Mit einer Einführung von Gebhard Hielscher
Creators: name: Schütte, Hans-Wilm
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 107 (2008): ASIEN (April)
Le progrès est-il de gauche ou d’ailleurs?
Creators: name: Vibert, Stéphane
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017

description: Retour sur l’idée de progrès. Est-elle essentiellement de gauche ou strictement moderne ? L’Histoire contemporaine n’a-t-elle pas montré que le progrès peut se retourner contre lui même? Comment le définir aujourd’hui ? Voit-on se confronter au Québec diverses versions du progrès ? Faut-il alors distinguer progrès et progressisme ? Le progressisme est-il un moralisme? La critique du capitalisme estelle nécessairement progressiste ?
GANGRENE OF THE SCROTUM IN CHILDREN: A REPORT OF TWO CASES AT KLOUÉKANMÈ DISTRICT HOSPITAL IN BENIN
Creators: name: YEVIDE AB
name: MADJID A
name: TAMOU FZ
name: VALIMUNGIGHE MM
name: NLEND N Y
name: MUSIMWA GT
name: AGBOTON S G
name: HATANGIMANA E
name: HODONOU DF
name: GBESSI DG
name: AVAKOUDJO DGJ
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Gangrene, scrotum, children.

description: Abstract: -

Introduction: Gangrene of the external genitalia is a rare form of necrotizing fasciitis affecting the external genitalia, perineum, and perianal region. It results from thrombosis of small subcutaneous vessels leading to skin gangrene. Due to its rarity and sometimes atypical presentation, diagnosis and treatment can be delayed.

Case Reports: We present two cases of scrotal gangrene in children, aged 6 and 12 years, treated at a rural hospital in Southwestern Benin. Case 1 involved a 6-year-old boy with a 15-day history of scrotal wound from a domestic accident, fever, and significant scrotal swelling with ulceration and foul odor. Case 2 involved a 12-year-old boy with 3 months of scrotal swelling without trauma, showing erythematous-purulent swelling and pus at the perineal base.

Both patients received emergency scrotal debridement and necrotizing fasciitis excision, along with a triple antibiotic regimen (Ceftriaxone, Gentamicin, and Metronidazole). They also received tetanus antitoxin and daily wound care. The first case had a favorable outcome, whereas the second required additional debridement and local ciprofloxacin treatment due to persistent necrosis, with eventual favorable recovery after three months.

Discussion: Fournier's gangrene is a rapidly progressive necrotizing fasciitis that requires early diagnosis and a multidisciplinary approach, including intensive care, broad-spectrum antibiotics, and comprehensive surgical debridement. Imaging can assist in early diagnosis, though it was not initially required in our cases. Prompt and complete debridement is critical for improving prognosis.

Conclusion: Fournier's gangrene is rare in children with high morbidity and mortality. Early clinical diagnosis and prompt, effective surgical and antibiotic management are crucial for a favorable outcome.
Non-blocking supervisory control for initilased rectagular automata
Creators: name: Spathopoulos, Michael Pantelis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: Computer Engineering
Applied Computer Science

description: ‘Non-blocking supervisory control for initialised rectangular automata’ Asian Journal of Control, Special Issue on Discrete-event systems, vol 6, No 2, pp 293-301, June 2004
Effect of Pharmaceutical Care with Empowerment in Type 2 Diabetic Patients at Mettapracharak (Watraikhing) Hospital
Creators: name: Sommanat Manatphaiboon
Publisher: name: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences KKU MSU UBU
Year: 2017
Subjects: Pharmaceutical care, Empowerment, Type 2 diabetic patient, Drug therapy problem, Medication adherence

description: Isan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 13, 1, 37-51
Sepp Linhart, Susanne Weigelin- Schwiedrzik (Hg.): Ostasien im 20. Jahrhundert - Geschichte und Gesellschaft
Creators: name: Feldhoff, Thomas
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 107 (2008): ASIEN (April)
Optimization strategies for sparseness- and continuity- enhanced imaging : Theory
Creators: name: Herrmann, Felix J.
name: Moghaddam, Peyman P.
name: Kirlin, Rodney L.
Publisher: name: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
Year: 2008

description: Two complementary solution strategies to the least-squares migration problem with sparseness- & continuity constraints are proposed. The applied formalism explores the sparseness of curvelets on the reflectivity and their invariance under the demigration migration operator. Sparseness is enhanced by (approximately) minimizing a (weighted) l1-norm on the curvelet coefficients. Continuity along imaged reflectors is brought out by minimizing the anisotropic difussion or total variation norm which penalizes variations along and in between reflectors. A brief sketch of the theory is provided as well as a number of synthetic examples. Technical details on the implementation of the optimization strategies are deferred to an accompanying paper: implementation.
Supervisory control using control objectives
Creators: name: Spathopoulos, Michael Pantelis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: Computer Engineering
Applied Computer Science

description: ’Supervisory control using control objectives’ Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on discrete-event systems WODES 98, pp.219-224, Cagliari, August 1998. ISBN: 0852967101
Standard Anti-Tuberculosis Regimen Induced Hepatotoxicity by Suppression of Hepatic Catalase and Superoxide Dismutase in Mice
Creators: name: Nathaphon Kuncharoenwirat
Publisher: name: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences KKU MSU UBU
Year: 2017
Subjects: anti-tuberculosis drugs, catalase, superoxide dismutase, mice.

description: Isan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 13, 1, 52-62
On a simplified untiming procedure for supervisory control of timed automata when the time increases strictly monotonically
Creators: name: Spathopoulos, Michael Pantelis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: Computer Engineering
Applied Computer Science

description: Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics, Miedzyzdroje, Poland, pp. 863-869, August 2003. Invited session. ISBN: 83-88764-82-9.
Comprendre le Québec d’hier et d’aujourd’hui…aujourd’hui comme demain? Quelques réflexions sur le mythe du « printemps érable » et sa portée historique tirées de la lecture de l’ouvrage collectif « Le Québec et ses mutations culturelles. »
Creators: name: Turgeon, Alexandre
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017

description: C’est avec grand plaisir que j’ai reçu l’invitation d’É.-Martin Meunier pour participer à cette table ronde autour du lancement de cet ouvrage collectif2, et je tiens à l’en remercier. L’invitation est belle, mais le défi n’en est pas moins de taille! C’est un ouvrage collectif dense que celui-ci, aux contributions riches, variées, convaincantes ou du moins efficaces si ce n’est par leur propos, du moins le sont-elles clairement par leur forme. Je pense en particulier aux contributions de Guillaume Marois3 et du regretté Jean-Claude Racine4 qui se démarquent, parmi d’autres. Dans un tel contexte, comment rendre justice en effet aux 17 chapitres qui composent cet ouvrage collectif, eux-mêmes regroupés en six sections distinctes, et ce, en l’espace de seulement 15 minutes? Défi pour le moins intéressant, sinon impossible à accomplir!
On supervisory control for timed automata using urgency
Creators: name: Spathopoulos, Michael Pantelis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: Computer Engineering
Applied Computer Science

description: Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics, Miedzyzdroje, Poland, pp. 863-869, August 2003. Invited session. ISBN: 83-88764-82-9.
Seismic deconvolution revisited with curvelet frames
Creators: name: Hennenfent, Gilles
name: Herrmann, Felix J.
name: Neelamani, Ramesh
Publisher: name: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
Year: 2008

description: We propose an efficient iterative curvelet-regularized deconvolution algorithm that exploits continuity along reflectors in seismic images. Curvelets are a new multiscale transform that provides sparse representations for images (such as seismic images) that comprise smooth objects separated by piece-wise smooth discontinuities. Our technique combines conjugate gradient-based convolution operator inversion with noise regularization that is performed using non-linear curvelet coefficient shrinkage (thresholding). The shrinkage operation leverages the sparsity of curvelets representations. Simulations demonstrate that our algorithm provides improved resolution compared to the traditional Wiener-based deconvolution approach.
Simulation-based estimation methods for cross-sectional financial asset pricing
Creators: name: Chenyan LU
Publisher: name: SMU Research Data Repository (RDR)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150202 Financial Econometrics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This paper extends the simulation-based estimation method proposed by Phillips and Yu (2009) to the cross-sectional case. We examine their finite-sample performance by conducting Monte-Carlo simulations of this simulation-based method to both the time-series model and the cross-sectional model. The simulation results show that the proposed simulation based estimator can always reduce the percentage bias over the respective MLE and OLS estimator. Meanwhile, they do not significantly increase the variance or RMSE over their correspondent MLE and OLS estimator.
Accounting Models for Cloud Computing A Systematic Mapping Study
Creators: name: Francisco-Airton Silva
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: Applied Computer Science

description: Cloud services change the economics of computing by enabling users to pay only for the capacity that they actually use. In this context, cloud providers have their own accounting models including their billing mechanisms and pricing schemes to achieve this efficient pay-as-you-go model. Thus it is important to study this heterogeneity aiming to map out the existing accounting models to become possible new proposals or future standardizations. Therefore, this paper focuses on mapping accounting models for cloud computing, where a mapping study process was undertaken, and a total of 23 primary studies were considered, which evidenced 5 accounting models, 31 different pricing scheme types and 4 primary studies related to SLA (Service-Level Agreement) composition. Although the significant number of studies found address grid computing it was possible to identify one accounting model which was very complete from different points of view for cloud environments.
Parametric estimation of monthly volatility using autoregressive conditional duration models
Creators: name: Shouwei LIU
Publisher: name: SMU Research Data Repository (RDR)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 140212 Macroeconomics (incl. Monetary and Fiscal Theory)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150202 Financial Econometrics

description: This paper employs a method to estimate monthly volatility by integrating the conditional return variance over a month using the autoregressive conditional duration (ACD) models. The ACD models fit the daily data surprisingly well. Maximum likelihood Estimation (MLE) method is used to estimate the conditional expected duration equation, which is assumed to follow the augmented ACD models. The estimated monthly stock volatility are adopted to investigate, if any, the link between macroeconomic variability and the stock market volatility. We find that, for the period 1944/01-1975/06, PPI inflation, monetary base growth and industrial production predict stock market volatility very well, which are estimated by ACD methods; the monthly stock volatility, estimated from ACD models, also helps predict the macroeconomic volatility in the period 1975/07-2008/12.
FERNANDO D, 2012 -Civil Society Leadership Development.pdf
Creators: name: D. Fernando
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Anthropology

description: Through the course of life all the individuals in this world are touched by organizations in one way or another. Specifically, the number of donors engaged in international development policy, community development environmental policy and humanitarian aid has significantly increased over the last two decades; however, the significance of civil society leadership role to civic engagement in community development is less agreed. Initially the study looks at the various theoretical frameworks that are used to describe the roles and skills of a managerial leader—the competing values framework developed by Quinn et al. 2003 and Bennis, W 2000, the six stages in leadership development process whilst attempts to analyze and critically describe the managerial leadership development in Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). This study gives an in-depth view with respect to the leader role and the leadership development of a managerial leader in a typical CSO as the one who is able to transfer the vision into a reality and the analysis reveals that the leader development can be seen as involving the enhancement of human capital, while leadership development is about the creation of social capital. As managerial leadership is an integration of leadership and management roles, this study provides an in-depth analysis of how management roles and leadership roles can be developed in the context within CSOs. Finally this report draws conclusions from the analysis and identifies CSO specific managerial leadership competencies with changes needed in respect of external and internal strategic recommendations; the future seems optimistic for CSOs with the introduction new managerial leadership development strategic plan of actions.
Effects of immigration in a Blanchardian model
Creators: name: Weng Sam MOK
Publisher: name: SMU Research Data Repository (RDR)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 140211 Labour Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 160512 Social Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: In this thesis, the focus is on immigration as a tool to sustain fiscal debt in government policies. We used a model that captures demographic parameters like birth rate and death rates to model households in addition to the government’s use of tax receipts from immigrants to finance government consumption and transfers to the households. We put the model in the context of a small open economy with one homogenous good and a small open economy with a tradable and a non-tradable sector. We further endogenized labour supply and studied the effect of tax transfers as well as obtained the equilibria under immigration. We found that tax transfers do not affect the supply of labour. For the last section, we studied the effectiveness of foreign worker levies as a tool to control the influx of foreign workers and increase the employment of the native workers. We found that the effectiveness of the foreign worker levies depends on whether the wage cost impact on firm entries and exits dominates over the substitution effect as firms use more of one type of labour over the other.
Uma proposta arquitetural para serviços escaláveis de dados em nuvens
Creators: name: Silva, Anderson
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: Applied Computer Science

description: O aumento da popularidade de redes peer-to-peer, está relacionado com o compartilhamento de recursos descentralizado, onde os pares podem trocar mensagens entre si. Através de técnicas de agregacão e de replicacão, este modelo oferece mais robustez e desempenho quando comparado ao modelo cliente-servidor. Neste contexto, onde o paradigma peer-to-peer (p2p) foi selecionado para o desenvolvimento do U-Store, uma solução de dados em nuvem, este artigo apresenta uma proposta de arquitetura para a criação de serviços distribuídos e escaláveis, com o objetivo de solucionar questões relativas à latência, desempenho, balanceamento de carga dentre outros.
Translating the Environment: A Comparative Analysis of Monolingual Corpora and Corpus-Based Resources, their Usability and their Effectiveness in Improving Translation Students’ Comprehension and Usage of Specialized Terminology in the Field of the Environment
Creators: name: Stentaford, Allison
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: translator training
specialized translation
corpora
corpus-based resources
DiCoEnviro
terminology
usability
translation pedagogy

description: Corpora and corpus-based resources have received much attention with regard to translator training, terminology, and specialized resource development. With a specialized monolingual corpus and a specialized online dictionary, the DiCoEnviro, we sought to provide insight into the usability and effectiveness of both types of resources in improving translation students’ comprehension and usage of specialized terminology in the field of the environment. We assessed a specialized corpus and the DiCoEnviro through three lenses adapted from the usability framework proposed by Nielsen (2001): effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction. We used data ( screen recordings, questionnaires, translation exercises) collected from six translation students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs at the University of Ottawa School of Translation and Interpretation (UO-STI). Through quantitative and qualitative data analysis, we provide insight into the usability of both types of resources and into the prospective application of these findings in translator training programs and the development of specialized resources.
Basic kinematics descriptions of shock actions in taekwondo
Creators: name: Iermakov, Sergii
name: Adashevskiy, V.M.
name: Gritsyuk, S.A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: BASIC KINEMATICS DESCRIPTIONS OF SHOCK ACTIONS IN TAEKWONDO Authors  Adashevskiy V.M.
 adashevsky@ukr.net
 National Technical University of Ukraine "KhPI"
 Frunze str., 21, 61002, Kharkiv, Ukraine

  Iermakov S.S.
 sportart@gmail.com
 Kharkov State Academy of Physical Culture
 Klochkovskaya str. 99, Kharkov, 61022, Ukraine

  Gritsyuk S.A.
 adashevsky@ukr.net
 National Technical University of Ukraine "KhPI"
 Frunze str., 21, 61002, Kharkiv, Ukraine Abstract Kinematics descriptions of shock actions of sportsman are certain in taekwondo. The biomechanics analysis of technique of motions is conducted. Calculation charts and mathematical model of shock action of sportsman are made. Kinematics descriptions of shock action are experimentally certain. It is set that duration of kick makes 0,07с, calculation maximal value of acceleration of foot - 25м/c2. The maximal acceleration of foot on a sagittal ax made 17.5 м/с2, on a longitudinal ax - 15 м/с2. The ways of increase of force of blow are rotined by the indexes of speed and acceleration of links. Directions of perfection of technical trade of highly skilled sportsmen are presented. Key words taekwondo; kick; kinematics; biomechanics; motion; References  Aleksander R. Biomekhanika: Per. s angl. R. Aleksander.- M.: Mir, 1970. - 339 p.

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Manfred Speidel (Hg.): Bruno Taut. EX ORIENTE LUX. Die Wirklichkeit einer Idee. Eine Sammlung von Schriften 1904-1938
Creators: name: Schied, Michael
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 107 (2008): ASIEN (April)
Web-based actuator selection tool
Creators: name: Filipozzi, Luca
name: Madden, John D. W.
Publisher: name: Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
Year: 2011

description: Device designers are continually confronted with the challenge of selecting the best actuator for a task and developers of new actuators are seeking applications for which their technologies are suitable. A web-based interface is presented that enables designers to input basic needs (force, displacement, frequency, cycle life, dimensions, voltage and power available) and retrieve an initial evaluation of the suitability of the various actuator technologies in the database. The prototype contains data for a number of emerging technologies including conducting polymers, dielectric elastomers, ferroelectric polymers, thermal and magnetic shape memory alloys, carbon nanotube actuators, liquid crystal elastomers, ionic polymer metal composites and mammalian skeletal muscle. The system is very early in the development process, and it is hoped that feedback from the EAP community will help guide the growth of and establish the need for this tool. Copyright 2005 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic reproduction and distribution, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper are prohibited.
The Emerging Web of Social Machines
Creators: name: Meira, Silvio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Applied Computer Science

description: We define a notion of social machine and envisage an algebra that can describe networks of such. To start with, social machines are defined as tuples of input, output, processes, constraints, state, requests and responses; apart from defining the machines themselves, the algebra defines a set of connectors and conditionals that can be used to describe the interactions between any number of machines in a multitude of ways, as a means to represent real machines interacting in the real web, such as Twitter, Twitter running on top of Amazon AWS, mashups built using Twitter and, obviously, other social machines. This work is not a theoretical paper as yet; but, in more than one sense, we think we have found a way to describe web based information systems and are starting to work on what could be a practical way of dealing with the complexity of this emerging web of social machines that is all around us. This version should be read as work in progress and comments, observations, bugs... are most welcome and should be sent to the email of the first, corresponding author.
Spur-free dynamic range of photonic links using polarization modulation.
Creators: name: Darcie, Thomas E.
name: Moye, Amol
name: Bull, Jeffrey D.
name: Kato, Hiroshi
name: Jaeger, Nicolas A. F.
Publisher: name: Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
Year: 2011

description: The spur-free dynamic range (SFDR) of a novel microwave-photonic link, using a polarization mode-converter electro-optic modulator in a balanced output configuration, is characterized in this work. Common-mode intensity noise and optical-amplifier-induced beat noise are suppressed using a polarization-selective balanced optical receiver. In addition, third-order predistortion is used to reduce 2-tone intermodulation distortion by up to 20 dB, further increasing the SFDR. Unlike the conventional approach using a dual-output Mach-Zehnder modulator, the complementary output signals are combined naturally as orthogonal polarizations into one transmission fiber. Copyright 2005 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic reproduction and distribution, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper are prohibited.
La culture comme dimension universelle. De la totalité sociale à l’instrumentalisation politique.
Creators: name: Vibert, Stéphane
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017

description: Cette contribution vise à cerner l’évolution des significations du concept de « culture » afin de mieux comprendre l’emprise majeure qu’il exerce désormais dans la plupart des conflits identitaires contemporains, que ce soit à l’intérieur ou à l’extérieur des frontières définissant les communautés politiques : multiculturalisme, autochtonie, nationalisme, ethnicisme, sécessionnisme, etc. Dans le cours du développement moderne, la « culture » – par opposition à la « civilisation » unilinéaire et évolutionniste – en est venue à signifier la totalité de sens qui articule une multiplicité de dimensions (politique, morale, économie, religion, droit, langue, etc.) afin de caractériser une manière singulière d’être-ensemble et d’incarnation de l’humanité commune. Pourtant, depuis les années 1970 et la remise en cause du paradigme objectiviste dans les sciences sociales, la notion de « culture » s’est progressivement muée en instrument politique visant la reconnaissance des paroles minoritaires, la récusation d’un universalisme abstrait assimilé à l’entreprise coloniale, un positionnement éthique du chercheur en faveur d’une subjectivité plus réflexive et dialogique, etc. Que reste-t-il donc de la culture au terme de ce mouvement, et existe-t-il encore un lieu pour penser une « réalité ontologique du socialhistorique » (Castoriadis) qui ne soit pas asservie à une visée purement instrumentale ?
IN03223 Timbirivava Rock Inscription 1
Creators: name: Paranavitana, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: IN03223
UoC
Timbirivava

description: IN03223 Timbirivava Rock Inscription 1 - Transcript and Translation Source: Paranavitana, S. (1961). ‘Rock Inscriptions at Timbirivava and Andaragollava in the Vilpattu Sanctuary,’ University of Ceylon Review 19, no. 2, pp. 95–104. http://dlib.pdn.ac.lk/handle/123456789/1721
Application for the NAE Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium 2012
Creators: name: Barba, Lorena A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: The Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) Symposium is a program of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) to bring together innovative engineering educators to be recognized and participate in workshops. Participants are first nominated by NAE members or engineering Deans across the country, and then a committee makes a competitive selection based on the nominees' application essays. I was nominated by the Boston University Dean of Engineering in June 2012, and selected by the NAE committee in September. This is my application essay, submitted July 2012.
Do We Need a Clinical Decision Rule for Acute Aortic Syndrome?
Creators: name: Ohle, Robert
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Acute aortic syndrome
Dissection

description: Acute aortic syndrome (AAS) is a life threatening clinical syndrome resulting from three distinct diagnoses; acute aortic dissection, penetrating atherosclerotic ulcer and intramural hematoma. There are no widely accepted guidelines that are both safe and efficient to guide the clinician on when to suspect AAS. Our aim was to assess the need for a clinical decision rule to help improve diagnosis of AAS. We conducted a diagnostic accuracy systematic review and meta-analysis, a historical case control study and historical cohort study. We found wide variation in practice with a perceived need by physicians for a clinical decision rule. In addition we found it feasible to risk stratify patients at risk for AAS by historical, clinical and laboratory features. Therefore we conclude there is a need for the development of a clinical decision rule for the risk stratification of patients with a clinical suspicion of AAS.
Teaching Touch: A phenomenological study of how touch is addressed in clinical supervision
Creators: name: Kosierb, Samantha
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Psychotherapy
Touch
Clinical Supervision

description: The literature suggests that touch between a therapist and client is a relatively frequent occurrence. Touch, however, entails important ethical and legal implications. As such it is surprising to conclude that little to no training on the safe and effective use of touch is provided in counselor training programs (Strozier, Krizek, & Sale, 2003). Indeed, one study with social workers found that 82% of those that used touch with therapeutic intent indicated that they did not receive adequate training on how to use touch and often based their decisions on instinct, or unspoken cues from clients (Strozier, Krizek, & Sale, 2003). Furthermore, faculty members have reported being unclear, themselves, about the use of touch and consequently have reported anxiety about addressing this topic with their own students (Burkholder, Toth, Feisthamel, & Britton, 2010). Without clear guidelines and training, professionals who practice and those who teach are left without solid knowledge to inform their touch interventions, leaving them vulnerable to making mistakes and ultimately being at risk of harming their clients (Stenzel &Rupert, 2004). It is therefore important that we begin to look more closely at how touch is taught to begin to establish a knowledge base area that will help guide practice and ultimately to ensure safe and effective use of touch. While research suggests touch is a topic often left out of formal training, little is known regarding how touch is addressed in other training contexts such as supervision. Some studies have begun to explore the ethical issues surrounding touch and the implications for teaching and the practice of supervision (Bilodeau, in press; Hunter & Struve, 1995; Robinson, 2006). However, there is no research exploring the supervisor`s own reported experiences regarding touch in a supervisory context. This phenomenological study aimed to explore the experiences of supervisors regarding the issue of touch in the context of supervision. Specifically, we were interested in understanding whether or not touch was addressed in the context of supervision and how the supervisors made sense of their experiences. Four themes emerged from this research that can aide in the understanding of how touch can be taught in supervision. The first theme formed from the results was how supervisors viewed the use of touch in therapy. The second and third theme discussed the roles of the supervisee and supervisor when addressing the use of touch in supervision. The fourth and final theme discussed how the supervisors processed the use of touch in supervision.