cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A broadened situational framework: transient versus enduring situational factors
Creators: name: McDonald, Heath
name: Alpert, Frank
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The recognition of situational effects as being important to both an understanding and prediction of consumer behaviour is not a new idea, championed originally by Belk in the mid-seventies (1974, 1975), and remains strongly endorsed today (Foxall 1999). This work is often cited and presented in textbooks as being universally accepted (e.g., Solomon 1998, Engel et al 1997), but exactly what is meant by 'situational factors' and how can researchers operationalise the concept to make it useful are issues still subject to debate. This paper looks at the most widely cited taxonomy of situational factors, concluding that there is a large amount of diversity both between factors and within groups. This diversity can be described in terms of the relative levels of transience of each of the situational factors identified. Recognising this variation in transience may allow situational factors to be more easily and effectively incorporated into consumer adoption research.
Analyse de la susceptibilité de sept cultivars de maïs aux attaques du Grand Capucin, Prostephanus truncatus, Horn. (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae)
Creators: name: Conilh De Beyssac, Bernard.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Biology, Entomology.

description: To prevent serious post-harvest losses in corn by the Larger Grain Borer, Prostephanus truncatus (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) in the sub-saharan Africa, kernel resistance mechanisms to this insect were analyzed. Kernels of seven cultivars from the International Centre for Corn and Wheat Improvement (CIMMYT, Mexico) were analyzed for their physical characteristics and their biochemical properties. Also, grain damage and biology of the borer were recorded on intact kernels. Excellent correlations were observed between hardness and adult mortality and oviposition. The quality of the endosperm appeared to be determinant of levels of susceptibility. Unlike what was noted with Sitophilus zeamais (Serratos, 1987), lipids appear to stimulate Prostephanus truncatus activities and development, and the estimated protein content did not present significant correlations. Among the three endogeneous phenolic acids in corn kernels, ferulic, sinapic and p-coumaric, the latter presented very significant and negative correlations with damage and with oviposition rate. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Determining the Manning’s Coefficient of Roughness for Channel Lining Materials
Creators: name: Johnson, Keith
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2013

description: The construction of open channels is used to control large volumes or water. In order to minimise erosion and scouring, channel lining material may include rocks, concrete and or turf. In recent times geotextiles have been developed as a cost effective solution to lining channels. Geotextiles are currently being used as matting to prevent and control erosion in open channels. However determining velocity of the water requires the use of Manning's equation and Manning's coefficient of roughness or 'n' values. There have been few studies into determining the 'n' values for geotextiles. Existing studies have analysed the shear forces acting between the geotextile and the soil surface. The standard testing procedure issued by ASTM international, ASTM D 6460 outlines the construction and dimensional requirements for the testing of channel linings on a large scale. This has resulted in assumed values based on velocity and permissible shear force.
Greatest Commandment: Lived Religion in a Small Canadian Non-denominational Church
Creators: name: Myhill, Carol
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: ethnography
autoethnography
faith community
community of practice
Christian
Christianity
lived religion
church
non-denominational
Ottawa
Canada
spiritual

description: Canada has distinct contemporary faith communities that differ from western and European counterparts. Unfortunately statistics tracking denominational allegiances give little insight into the daily intricacies of collective religious practice. The purpose of this study is to contribute towards filling a gap within scholarly research on the lived culture and experiences of contemporary religious communities within Canada. This study examines the pattern of culture-sharing within a non-denominational faith community as lived and practiced in Ottawa. Through autoethnography, this study asks why members attend and how members view the use of popular culture video clips within church. Individual and collective religious identities are constructed through observations, interviews and material artifacts gleaned through participant observation from January 2011 to December 2011. The results show that within the church, a community of practice is built around shared parenthood and spiritual journey. Members place importance on children, on providing support of all kinds for one another, and on keeping religion relevant. Reasons for attending are echoes of the patterns of culture-sharing: members enjoy the feeling of community, the support, the friendships, the play dates. Participants view popular culture video clips played within church as one aspect of an overall importance placed upon relevance. Mutuality of engagement results in members experiencing their lives as meaningful, it validates their worth through belonging, and it creates personal histories of becoming within the context of a community of practice. Future research recommendations include further study of other contemporary faith communities within Canada, with investigation into the possibility that communities of practice may be what the churched and unchurched are seeking.
Urbach-edge-assisted electro-absorption for enhanced free-space optical modulation
Creators: name: Hristovski, Ilija
name: Lesack, Nikolai
name: Herman, Luke
name: Holzman, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Optics Letters
Year: 2021

description: In this work, we introduce an electro-absorption (EA)-based retro-modulator for effective realization of free-space optical communications via passive downlinks. Demands for deep modulation and broad directionality in such links are met by its corner-cube assembly of EA-modulators. The EA-modulators use semi-insulating InP as its band edge absorption exhibits an Urbach tail near the 980-nm wavelength of the laser light. This enables Urbach-edge-assisted EA, which allows the field-induced absorption to be optimized via temperature. The theory, from a uniting of the Einstein model and Franz-Keldysh effect, and experiments, from a prototype, show good agreement with deep (greater than 15%) modulation depths. Such functionality can meet the key demands of emerging free-space optical communication links.
Computer and human tipping of AFL football: a comparison of 1991 results
Creators: name: Clarke, Stephen
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: For over a decade the author has been involved in computer tipping of VFL and now AFL football. Evidence suggests that the computer, although ignoring much information available to human tipsters, is at least as accurate. This paper explores the difficulty in predicting, analyses the accuracy of the computer in 1991, compares the relative accuracy of human and computer tipping in 1991, and investigates some reasons for limiting human performance.
Additional file 2 of De novo sequencing, assembly and functional annotation of Armillaria borealis genome
Creators: name: Akulova, Vasilina S.
name: Sharov, Vadim V.
name: Aksyonova, Anastasiya I.
name: Putintseva, Yuliya A.
name: Oreshkova, Natalya V.
name: Feranchuk, Sergey I.
name: Kuzmin, Dmitry A.
name: Pavlov, Igor N.
name: Litovka, Yulia A.
name: Krutovsky, Konstantin V.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. GO distribution of coding sequences found in the Armillaria borealis genome assembly at the molecular function (MF) level based on the GO functional annotation.
The Separate and Integrated Influence of Metabo- and Baroreflex Activity on Heat Loss Responses
Creators: name: Binder, Konrad
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Heat Stress
Isometric Handgrip Exercise
Post-exercise Ischemia
Thermoregulation
Cardiovascular

description: Current knowledge indicates that nonthermal muscle metaboreflex activity plays a critical role in the modulation of skin vasodilation and sweating. However, the mechanisms of control have primarily been studied during isometric handgrip exercise in which muscle metaboreceptor activation is induced by a brief post-exercise ischemia of the upper limb. While the reflex increase in mean arterial pressure associated with this period of ischemia is consistent with the activation of muscle metaboreceptors, the change in baroreflex activity may in itself modulate the response. Thus, we sought to understand how these nonthermal stimuli interact in modulating the control of skin perfusion and sweating under conditions of elevated hyperthermia. Furthermore, we examined the mechanisms responsible for the maintenance of arterial blood pressure under varying levels of heat stress during isometric handgrip exercise. Our study findings indicate that the parallel activation of muscle metaboreceptors and baroreceptors during post-exercise ischemia causes divergent influences on the control of skin blood flow and sweating; and these nonthermal stimuli are dependent on the level of hyperthermia. Moreover, we report that heat stress reduces the increase in arterial blood pressure during isometric handgrip exercise and this attenuation is attributed to a blunted increase in peripheral resistance, since cardiac output increased to similar levels for all heat stress conditions. These results provide important insight and understanding into the role of muscle metabo- and baroreflex activity on the control of skin blood flow and sweating; along with further knowledge into the cardiovascular mechanisms responsible for the regulation of arterial blood pressure during hyperthermia.
Additional file 3 of De novo sequencing, assembly and functional annotation of Armillaria borealis genome
Creators: name: Akulova, Vasilina S.
name: Sharov, Vadim V.
name: Aksyonova, Anastasiya I.
name: Putintseva, Yuliya A.
name: Oreshkova, Natalya V.
name: Feranchuk, Sergey I.
name: Kuzmin, Dmitry A.
name: Pavlov, Igor N.
name: Litovka, Yulia A.
name: Krutovsky, Konstantin V.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 3: Figure S3. GO distribution of coding sequences found in the Armillaria borealis genome assembly at the cellular components (CC) level based on the GO functional annotation.
Exhumation of Deep Mountain Roots: Lessons from the Western Tatra Mountains, Northern Slovakia
Creators: name: Moussallam, Yves
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: Geochronology
Thermochronology
Eclogite
Migmatite
Exhumation
Variscan

description: The Tatric crystalline unit of the Western Carpathians in northern Slovakia displays an inverted metamorphic sequence where high-grade migmatite and orthogneiss units are overlying lower-grade mica schists. Enclosed within the migmatites are lenses of eclogite-bearing amphibolites. Conventional geothermobarometry coupled with isochemical modeling constrained P-T paths that exhibit contrasting metamorphic histories for rock units that are now heterogeneously interleaved. Relict eclogite facies assemblages with occasionally preserved omphacite record post-peak pressure conditions of 1.7-1.8 GPa followed by near isothermal decompression at ~750 °C leading to intensive re-equilibration of eclogites at high-pressure granulite facies conditions and development of diopside + plagioclase symplectitic textures. New ID-TIMS Sm-Nd dating of garnet separated from the omphacite-bearing eclogite yields a whole rock-garnet isochron age of 337 ± 10 Ma, with an epsilon Nd isotopic composition of +8.3. While major element profiles across the garnets display little variation, the trace element distribution shows a typical HREE enrichment profile and a slight core to rim disparity with LREE and MREE concentrations higher in the cores and higher HREE in the rims. Granulite-facies migmatites that host the eclogite boudins record lower pressure metamorphic conditions of 1.2 GPa at ~750 °C and a similar retrograde path. The lower-grade micaschists reached metamorphic conditions of 0.8 GPa at ~650 °C. Monazite U-Pb analysis from a migmatite surrounding the eclogite boudins yields one population of ca. 380 Ma age. Another migmatite away from the eclogite yields two populations monazite ages. A robust 340 ± 11 Ma monazite U-Pb age is indistinguishable from our garnet age and U-Pb SIMS age of zircons in the anatectic leucosome of the migmatite (347 ± 7 Ma). We interpret the ca. 340 Ma ages to represent the exhumation of the deep crustal root of the Variscan orogen into the middle crust coeval with anatexis. A younger monazite U-Pb age of 300 ± 16 Ma is consistent with 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology data of ca. 310 Ma that is likely indicative of the Late Carboniferous I-type magmatism and cooling in the Tatric block. Cooling rates calculated by garnet diffusion modeling yield estimates of ~30 °/Ma. This exhumation was likely tectonically forced by the action of a rigid indentor which prompted the weak lower crust to be heterogeneously extruded to mid-crustal levels at a time coeval with anatexis and subsequently extruded with mid-crustal material to the upper crust.
A Social Marketing Study of Financial Giving to Australian Charities: Demographics, Motivations and Relationships
Creators: name: O'Loughlin Banks, Jennifer
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2011
Subjects: nonprofit marketing
giving
donations
relationship marketing

description: Social marketing had enjoyed a growth in interest and research in recent years with its focus on issues regarding the welfare of society. One important area within this broader context concerns nonprofit marketing and the nonprofit sector. The nonprofit sector is an important and growing component of the Australian economy. It employs close to 900,000 people and contributes $34 billion annually to the national economy whilst providing a valuable range of community services. It is a complex sector that has experienced rapid growth and major changes to the environments within which nonprofit organisations (NPOs) operate. Intense competition has become a characteristic of the sector in recent times, with greater numbers of NPOs competing for the limited donor dollar. In this competitive environment, marketing has a crucial role to play in the development of fundraising strategies for these organisations, as the impetus to seek greater financial donations from the general public has increased in importance.
Coronary surgery mortality prediction using artificial neural networks.
Creators: name: Ennett, Colleen Michelle.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery.

description: This thesis demonstrates the application of a feedforward backpropagation-trained artificial neural network using the weight-elimination cost function to the estimation of in-hospital mortality for coronary artery bypass grafting patients from the San Francisco Heart Institute in Daly City, California, USA. The highly-skewed a priori statistics due to the low mortality rate present difficulties for modelling this data. Artificial training and test datasets with higher mortality rates were developed to improve the classification performance of the artificial neural networks. Sensitivity was considered the most important measure of performance for this work. Given that current mortality risk models are unable to accurately identify high-risk patients (those who do not survive the surgery), focussing on increasing the sensitivity rate will indicate when more of the patients who are difficult to classify are correctly identified. The final result was an increase in sensitivity when training with a dataset with a higher mortality rate than the test set. This dataset modification approach resulted in only small changes for other performance measures (specificity, predictive positive value, predictive negative value, and correct classification rate), and thus helped to achieve the main goal of the study.
Delay Analysis of Digital Circuits Using Prony's Method
Creators: name: Fu, Jingyi J.Y.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Prony's method
Timing Analysis
Obreshokov
numerical method
Dynamic Timing Analysis (DTA)
Static Timing Analysis (STA)

description: This thesis describes possible applications of Prony's method in timing analysis of digital circuits. Such applications include predicting the future shape of the waveform in DTA(Dynamic Timing Analysis) and delay look-up table in STA(Static Timing Analysis). Given some equally spaced output values, the traditional Prony's method can be used to extract poles and residues of a linear system, i.e. to characterize a waveform using an exponential function. In this thesis, not only values but also equally spaced derivatives are tested. Still using same idea of the traditional Prony's method, poles and residues can also be extracted with those values and derivatives. The resultant poles and residues will be used to predict the output waveform in DTA analysis. The benefits brought by the using of derivatives include less simulation steps and less CPU time consuming than the regular constant step simulation. As a matter of fact, the Prony's method can precisely approximate a complicated waveform. Such property can be applied for STA analysis. The Prony's approximation can be used to precisely record an output waveform, which is used as an entry of the look-up table of STA. Since the accuracy of STA analysis relies on the accuracy of the input and output waveform in the look-up table, the accuracy of the Prony's approach is promising.
Characterization of Multiple Exon 1 Variants and Neuron-specific Transcriptional Control of Mammalian HuD
Creators: name: Bronicki, Lucas M.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: HuD/ELAVl4
RNA-binding protein
transcription
mRNA

description: The RNA-binding protein (RBP) and Hu/ELAV family member HuD regulates mRNA metabolism of genes that encode proteins involved in neuronal differentiation, learning and memory, and certain neurological diseases. Given the important functions of HuD in a variety of processes, we set out to characterize the 5’ genomic region of the mammalian HuD gene and determine the mechanisms that regulate its mRNA expression in neurons using P19 cells and mouse brain as models. Bioinformatic and 5’RACE (rapid amplification of cDNA ends) analyses of the HuD 5’ genomic flanking region identified eight conserved leader exons (E1s), two of which are novel. Expression of all E1 variants was established in differentiating P19 cells, mouse embryonic (E14.5) and adult brains. Through several complementary approaches, we determined that the abundance of HuD mRNA is predominantly under transcriptional control in differentiating neurons. Sequential deletion of the 5’ regulatory region upstream of the predominantly expressed E1c variant revealed a well-conserved 400 bp DNA region that contains five E-boxes and is capable of directing expression of HuD specifically in neurons. Using electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSAs), chromatin immunoprecipitations (ChIPs), and E1c 5’ regulatory region (RR) deletion and mutation analysis, we found that two of these E-boxes are targeted by neurogenin 2 (NGN2/NEUROG2) and that this mechanism is important for induction of HuD mRNA in neurons. Additional deletion and mutation of the E1c 5’ RR revealed that putative cis-acting elements for Kruppel-like factors (KLFs) and nuclear DEAF-1-related (NuDR) transcription factors also positively regulate transcription of HuD. Together, our findings reveal that the intricate transcriptional regulation of mammalian HuD involves eight leader exons and potentially alternate promoters. We further demonstrate that transcription of HuD requires neuron-specific control by NGN2 and possibly KLF and NuDR transcription factors. To our knowledge, this is the first study to identify transcriptional events that positively regulate expression of HuD.
Tackling the climate and biodiversity crises in Europe through Urban Greening Plans
Creators: name: Schröder, Alice
name: Wilk, Bettina
name: Vetter, Andreas
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biologische Vielfalt
subject: Städtebau
subject: municipalities
subject: climate change adaptation
subject: biodiversity
subject: nature based solutions
subject: green infrastructures
subject: city planning
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Climate | Energy

description: To systematically bring nature back to cities, the EU Biodiversity Strategy calls upon cities with over 20,000 inhabitants to develop Urban Greening Plans (UGP). Nature based solutions (NbS) are at the centre of UGPs, addressing climate resilient infrastructures and biodiversity in cities together. They should agree with existing planning instruments. This paper points towards the need for enabling governance, regulatory and financing frameworks and guidance, accompanying future UGP, leading to five recommendations. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: To systematically bring nature back to cities, the EU Biodiversity Strategy calls upon cities with over 20,000 inhabitants to develop Urban Greening Plans (UGP). Nature based solutions (NbS) are at the centre of UGPs, addressing climate resilient infrastructures and biodiversity in cities together. They should agree with existing planning instruments. This paper points towards the need for enabling governance, regulatory and financing frameworks and guidance, accompanying future UGP, leading to five recommendations.
Supplementary document for Miniaturized Spectroscopy with Tunable and Sensitive Plasmonic Structures - 5283085.pdf
Creators: name: liang, li
name: Zheng, Qilin
name: Wen, Long
name: Cumming, David R. S.
name: Chen, Qin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supporting information
The development and use of performance indicators in Victorian local government
Creators: name: Kluvers, Ron
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The use of performance indicators in the public sector has long been encouraged. However, recent research findings have suggested that performance measurement is seen to be problematical and the use and development of performance indicators is not as extensive as is thought possible. There has also been a questioning of the validity of the rationalist model of performance measurement and it has been suggested that there are alternative models. This paper examines: 1) the extent of the use of performance indicators in Vietonan local government; 2) the possible barriers to their use; 3) models of performance measurement and; 4) the role of the implementation process in the development and use of performance indicators. The research is based on a questionnaire sent to all local govemments in Victoria and four case studies. The data reported in this paper is derived from councils that reported using program budgeting. The results of the research suggest that there is only a limited use of performance indicators by Victorian municipalities. The alternative models of performance measurement appear to be in evidence. The findings indicate that the implementation process is an important factor in the development and use of performance indicators.
Effects of landscape simplification on the ecology of Australian native bees and wasps
Creators: name: Wilson, Rachele
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: bee hotels
subject: ecological interactions
subject: eDNA
subject: food webs
subject: invertebrates
subject: NGS
subject: orchard management
subject: meliponiculture
subject: plant pollinator networks
subject: amplicon sequencing
subject: Agriculture, land and farm management
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Bees and wasps provide essential pollination and pest management services yet can be very sensitive to landscape simplification. Landscape simplification is considered a major threat to bee and wasp conservation in the tropics, but reliable population data is lacking. Pressures on bees and wasps in simplified landscapes may be reduced by increasing natural vegetation or resource diversity. Little is known, however, about the long-term resource requirements of bee colonies and even less is known about the specific resource requirements of solitary bee and wasp species, particularly in the tropics. This thesis describes community dynamics and resource use for tropical bee and wasp taxa in natural (forests) and simplified (orchard) landscapes using DNA metabarcoding. My research aims were to 1) compare long-term seasonal variability in pollen resources utilised by a social stingless bee (Tetragonula carbonaria) in natural and simplified landscapes (Chapter 2); 2) determine how landscape simplification and seasonal variability influence trap-nesting bee and wasp communities in the subtropics (Chapter 3); and 3) identify and compare key plant sources of brood provisions and nest materials for cavity-nesting solitary bees in natural and simplified landscapes using DNA metabarcoding (Chapter 4).
Cross-Border Venture Capital Investments: An Analysis of Exit Outcomes for Canadian Firms
Creators: name: Kong, Shuangshuang
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Venture Capital Exit
Cross-Border VC Investment
M&A
Canadian VC Market

description: Foreign investors are making larger investments in the Canadian venture capital (VC) market than Canadian investors, and Canadian VC exits are primarily M&As (Canada’s Venture Capital and Private Equity Association, various years). This research provides a joint exploration of foreign venture capitalists’ (VCs) participation in Canada and outcomes of VC exits. Using binary logistic regression and multivariate linear regression, this paper reports that the presence of foreign VCs in the Canadian market is accompanied with mixed exit-related outcomes. On the one hand, foreign VCs’ participation is associated with higher likelihood of a successful exit through initial public offering (IPO), greater capital availability, and shorter time to exit. On the other hand, the relation between foreign VCs’ participation and lower purchaser price per dollar of VC investment in exit through merger and acquisition (M&A) raises concerns about the monetary returns to Canadian investee firms and Canadian syndicate VCs. These empirical findings will help to facilitate a more comprehensive understanding of the Canadian VC market, as well as adding to the growing body of literature on cross- border VC investment.
Identità storica del papato e crisi del regime di cristianità tra i patti lateranensi e il postconcilio. Forme e strategie di esercizio del ”potere spirituale” nel declino dell’occidente.
Creators: name: Zanchini Di Castiglionchio, Francesco
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2012

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Preambolo - 2. La questione (e il travaglio) del potere temporale dei papi – 3. L’ordinamento vaticano creato nel ’29 dai Patti del Laterano – 4. I rapporti della Santa Sede con Berlino prima dell’aggressione alla Polonia – 5. La cautela politica di Pio XII durante la seconda guerra mondiale - 6. L’invasione tedesca, la guerra civile, la nuova Italia - 7. Giovanni XXIII, un innovatore libero ed eccentrico - 8. Paolo VI, un legislatore costituente - 9. Dai trenta giorni di papa Luciani ai trent’anni di papa Wojtila - 10. L’accentramento autoreferenziale del tardo postconcilio. Una via senza uscita?
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 26 novembre
Additional file 1 of GMIEC: a shiny application for the identification of gene-targeted drugs for precision medicine
Creators: name: Guidantonio Malagoli Tagliazucchi
name: Taccioli, Cristian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary methods and results. This document contains an extended description of the methods implemented in GMIEC, the supplementary results and the supporting Figs. S1-S4.
Spatial Characterization of Black Carbon Mass Concentration in the Atmosphere of a Southeast Asian Megacity: An Air Quality Case Study for Metro Manila, Philippines
Creators: name: Alas, Honey Dawn
name: Birmili, Wolfram
name: Müller, Thomas
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Black Carbon
Megastadt

description: Black carbon (BC) particles have gathered worldwide attention due to their impacts on climate and adverse health effects on humans in heavily polluted environments. Such is the case in megacities of developing and emerging countries in Southeast Asia, in which rapid urbanization, vehicles of obsolete technology, outdated air quality legislations, and crumbling infrastructure lead to poor air quality. However, since measurements of BC are generally not mandatory, its spatial and temporal characteristics, especially in developing megacities, are poorly understood. To raise awareness on the urgency of monitoring and mitigating the air quality crises in megacities, we present the results of the first intensive characterization experiment in Metro Manila, Philippines, focusing on the spatial and diurnal variability of equivalent BC (eBC). The average mass concentration of eBC at the urban background station (UBS) was 7.0 - 4.8 ng m'3 while at roadside (RS), hourly concentrations reached maximum values of 138 ng m'3, levels that are significantly higher than in European cities. At RS, the diurnal cycles of eBC mass concentration were connected most strongly with traffic dynamics and street configuration, while a notable influence of planetary boundary layer evolution was observed in the UBS. Results of mobile measurements conducted multiple times along two fixed routes showed high spatial variability ranging from 3-80 ng m'3 within a 500-m radius. Alarmingly, the highest concentrations were found in the most crowded areas where people spend more than eight hours a day. Quelle: http://www.aaqr.org
Crustal-scale Shear Zones Recording 400 m.y. of Tectonic Activity in the North Caribou Greenstone Belt, Western Superior Province of Canada
Creators: name: Kalbfleisch, Netasha
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: North Caribou
Superior Province
shear zone
metamorphism
garnet
monazite
zircon
geochronology

description: A series of crustal-scale shear zones demarcates the northern and eastern margins of the North Caribou greenstone belt (NCGB), proximal to a Mesoarchean terrane boundary in the core of the western Superior Province of Canada. The dominant deformation produced a pervasive steeply dipping fabric that trends broadly parallel to the doubly arcuate shape of the belt and was responsible for tight folding the banded iron formation host to Goldcorp’s prolific gold deposit at Musselwhite mine. The shear zones in the North Caribou greenstone belt are of particular interest because of their ability to channel hydrothermal fluids with the potential to bear ore and cause alteration of the middle to shallow crust. Shear zones are commonly reactivated during subsequent tectonism, but exhibit a consistent and dominant dextral shear sense across the belt; fabric-forming micas and chlorite are generally Mg-rich. Although garnets samples from within the shear zones are dominantly almandine, they possess variable geochemical trends (HREEs of >2 orders of magnitude) and can be syn-, intra-, or post-tectonic in origin. In situ geochronological analysis of zircon (U-Pb) and monazite (total-Pb) in high strain rocks in and around the NCGB, interpreted in light of in situ geochemical analysis of garnet and fabric-forming micas and chlorite, reveals four relatively discrete events that span 400 million years. Metamorphism of the mid-crust was coeval with magmatism during docking of the Island Lake domain at c. 2.86 Ga and subsequent terrane accretion at the north and south margins of the North Caribou Superterrane from c. 2.75 to 2.71 Ga. Transpressive shear at c. 2.60 to 2.56 Ga and late re-activation of shear zones at c. 2.44 Ga produced a steeply-dipping pervasive fabric, and channeled fluids for late crystallization of garnet and monazite recorded in the Markop Lake deformation zone. These observations implicate a horizontal tectonic model similar to the modern eastern Pacific plate margin. Further, this study highlights the caution that should be exercised when using traditional rock forming metamorphic minerals (mica, chlorite, garnet) when attempting to vector into zones of hydrothermal alteration within midcrustal rocks.
The Social Organization of Personal Support Work in Long-Term Care and the Promotion of Physical Activity for Residents: An Institutional Ethnography
Creators: name: Benjamin, Kathleen Mary Bertha
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: physical activity
seniors
long-term care
nursing homes
personal support workers
Institutional Ethnography

description: Despite the benefits of physical activity for older adults, many residents living in long-term care homes (LTC) are relatively inactive. Previous research has revealed barriers to physical activity at the resident-level, organizational, and environmental level. However, little attention has been paid to other factors influencing physical activity within the broader institutional complex. The goal of this study was to uncover how the work of personal support workers (PSWs) related to the promotion of physical activity was socially organized. Institutional Ethnography (IE), developed by Dorothy Smith, guided this study. Smith proposed that peoples’ everyday experiences in local settings are organized, often unknowingly, by the actions of people located outside of the local setting and that this organization is textually-mediated. Two LTC homes in Ontario participated in this study. I began data collection by observing PSWs as they went about their work. Next, I interviewed PSWs and other people located inside (e.g. nurses, managers) and outside the LTC homes (e.g. representatives from the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC). Lastly, I collected texts that organized the PSWs’ work, such as Ministry standards. The findings revealed that although the MOHLTC standards were viewed as producing something “good” for the residents, some of the standards disrupted the PSWs’ work, which made it challenging for them to support daily physical activity. The promotion of physical activity was seen as an additional program that happened a few times per week and it was parceled out as a professional activity that was socially organized “out” of the PSW role. The findings suggest that local solutions are needed. A good starting point would be to go and talk to PSWs and residents to determine what type of assignments would permit the incorporation of physical activity into daily care. To embed the promotion of physical activity into daily care, a major rethink and reorganization of PSWs work will be needed, including a greater investment in human and material supports for PSWs.
"Mentire è moralmente sbagliato" è una tautologia? Una risposta a Margolis
Creators: name: Marsili, Neri
Publisher: name: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica - Junior
Year: 2012

description: All’interno del dibattito sulla definizione filosofica della menzogna,
alcuni autori hanno sostenuto che mentire è sempre sbagliato. Margolis, in particolare, ha espresso la tesi radicale secondo cui “mentire è moralmente sbagliato” è una tautologia. Nella prima parte dell’articolo introduco la tesi di Margolis, e ne difendo la plausibilità contro le semplificazioni che ha subito all’interno del dibattito filosofico, mostrando che l’applicazione condizionale del predicato “sbagliato” consente di trattare in modo adeguato alcune menzogne intuitivamente giustificabili. Nella seconda parte argomento che, nonostante questo stratagemma, non è possibile difendere la tesi che “mentire è moralmente sbagliato” sia una tautologia, perché bisognerebbe assumere che “mentire è moralmente sbagliato” sia una condizione necessaria fra quelle che definiscono il concetto stesso di menzogna.
Questo non è desiderabile perché, come dimostro nella parte finale del mio articolo, ogni definizione di menzogna che incorpori requisiti morali nelle sue condizioni necessarie é destinata a contraddire le intuizioni del senso comune su che cos’é una menzogna. La conclusione è che la tesi che “mentire è moralmente è sbagliato” è una tautologia non può essere difesa, se non al prezzo, troppo alto, di ridefinire in modo controintuitivo il significato del termine “menzogna”.
description: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica - Junior, Vol 3, N° 2 (2012): Etica
Alcoholism treatment digest (Release No. 89, April 15, 1968)
Creators: name: Keller, Mark
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1968

description: The Alcoholism Treatment Digest was a subscription-based publication prepared for special clients by the editorial department of the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol / Journal of Studies on Alcohol from 1950 to 1973 with Mark Keller as editor. It was published in February, April, June, October, and December, summarizing scholarly content on four topics, available to republish with attribution. Some of the reviews were simultaneously published in the "Connecticut Review on Alcoholism" under the identical subtitle "Alcoholism Treatment Digest" every other month. The authors of the reviews were first noted in 1964, in the June issue.Contents, Release No. 891.The General Practitioner and the Alcoholic2.Therapeutic Flexibility in Treating Alcoholics3.Brain Surgery4.The Social Worker and the Specialized Public Alcoholism Clinic
Frege, Hilbert, and Structuralism
Creators: name: Burke, Mark
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Gottlob Frege
David Hilbert
Paul Benacerraf
Category Theory
Philosophy of Mathematics
Categorical Foundations
Foundations of Mathematics
Structuralism
Mathematical Structuralism
History of Geometry
Axiomatics
Non-Euclidean Geometry

description: The central question of this thesis is: what is mathematics about? The answer arrived at by the thesis is an unsettling and unsatisfying one. By examining two of the most promising contemporary accounts of the nature of mathematics, I conclude that neither is as yet capable of giving us a conclusive answer to our question. The conclusion is arrived at by a combination of historical and conceptual analysis. It begins with the historical fact that, since the middle of the nineteenth century, mathematics has undergone a radical transformation. This transformation occurred in most branches of mathematics, but was perhaps most apparent in geometry. Earlier images of geometry understood it as the science of space. In the wake of the emergence of multiple distinct geometries and the realization that non-Euclidean geometries might lay claim to the description of physical space, the old picture of Euclidean geometry as the sole correct description of physical space was no longer tenable. The first chapter of the dissertation provides an historical account of some of the forces which led to the destabilization of the traditional picture of geometry. The second chapter examines the debate between Gottlob Frege and David Hilbert regarding the nature of geometry and axiomatics, ending with an argument suggesting that Hilbert’s views are ultimately unsatisfying. The third chapter continues to probe the work of Frege and, again, finds his explanations of the nature of mathematics troublingly unsatisfying. The end result of the first three chapters is that the Frege-Hilbert debate leaves us with an impasse: the traditional understanding of mathematics cannot hold, but neither can the two most promising modern accounts. The fourth and final chapter of the thesis investigates mathematical structuralism—a more recent development in the philosophy of mathematics—in order to see whether it can move us beyond the impasse of the Frege-Hilbert debate. Ultimately, it is argued that the contemporary debate between ‘assertoric’ structuralists and ‘algebraic’ structuralists recapitulates a form of the Frege-Hilbert impasse. The ultimate claim of the thesis, then, is that neither of the two most promising contemporary accounts can offer us a satisfying philosophical answer to the question ‘what is mathematics about?’.
Being the doctor-judge: doctors and women-sensitive medical practices
Creators: name: Johnson, Kelley
name: Gridley, Heather
name: Moore, Susan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This article is based on results from a study of gender sensitive medical practices in the western metropolitan region of Melbourne. It explored how women saw their experiences with medical practitioners through a survey, interviews and focus groups. It also included interviews with 12 general practitioners in the western region, eight of whom were men and four of whom were women. The doctors Research reported that their main anxieties in working with women related to issues which were on the borders of medical practices: domestic violence, child abuse, sexual issues, as well as specific issues such as gender differences between patient and doctor, and sensitive areas of medical practice such as pap tests and breast examinations. Doctors Research reported on the constraints and difficulties they experienced in managing their own anxieties about these issues. They also discussed how they dealt with Research reports of inappropriate medical practice given to them by their patients.
Secret Forces: An Exploration of Theoretical Advanced Therapy Prospects in the Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury in a Military Suspense Romance Novel Dealing with Disability
Creators: name: Heck, Marita
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2020
Subjects: Creative Writing
Disability Studies
Spinal Cord Injury

description: I investigate in my PhD thesis how a man living with a spinal cord injury (SCI) can be portrayed in a well-researched approach by applying medical and scientific accuracy in a genre novel that typically uses stereotypes and clichéd portrayals of such characters. For this, I have developed a creative artefact featuring a military veteran who sustained an SCI in which I explore the lived experience of disability. In writing about a person who has sustained an SCI, my main focus is on the informed portrayal of a character with a disability in a military suspense romance. This focus further allows me to investigate this type of disability in greater detail in which I am aiming to increase verisimilitude to the main character and the plot in the artefact. My further aim is to create a deeper understanding of such an injury and to evoke empathy and connection to a main character who presents with an SCI. I additionally explore speculative advance therapy concepts in SCI in my creative artefact by investigating how science may contribute to improve the socio-economic, personal and medical outcomes portrayed in the artefact through my main character living with an SCI by combining existing SCI therapy approaches on a speculative level.
Additional file 2 of Repeated measures of Heparin-binding protein (HBP) and procalcitonin during septic shock: biomarker kinetics and association with cardiovascular organ dysfunction
Creators: name: Tverring, Jonas
name: Nielsen, Niklas
name: Dankiewicz, Josef
name: Linder, Adam
name: Kahn, Fredrik
name: Åkesson, Per
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. STROBE checklist.
Metamorphic objects for dynamic reconfiguration of CORBA-based applications.
Creators: name: Elsaesser, Derek Shawn.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: This thesis presents a solution to the problem of dynamic reconfiguration of distributed applications. This solution is based on the concept of a metamorphic object, which can dynamically change its interface, class definition, and implementation without invalidating existing client object references. The concept of object metamorphism is introduced and discussed. Forwarding is proposed as a mechanism for realizing metamorphic objects in a distributed computing environment and the Forwarder design pattern is presented. A framework for developing distributed applications using metamorphic objects is presented as a specification for a Dynamic Versioning Service for the Common Object Request Broker Architecture. A test application is developed to evaluate the versioning of metamorphic objects and to measure the impact on performance. It is found that the ability to transform an individual object to a new class definition and implementation, without interruption in service, results in only a slight increase in operation invocation time.