cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Considerations on two urban runoff applications in the Canadian context: The modeling of storage facilities with low release rates and the SCS method.
Creators: name: Pankratz, Robert Henry.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: A fundamental stormwater management principle is the storage of excessive stormwater runoff at its source and its subsequent release at controlled outflow rates. On-site detention facilities with low release rates are becoming increasingly popular in Canada. To determine the required size of such facilities, proponents advocate methods ranging from the simple rational method to sophisticated continuous simulation computer models. Storage volumes determined by these various methods can produce alarmingly divergent and inconsistent results. The accuracy of such methods has, in many cases, not been adequately tested. Because detention facility design is not well understood, serious misapplication of modeling has occurred in Canada for quite some time. A comparison of two categories of sizing methods---design event methods and continuous simulation techniques---was conducted to determine the relative merits of each method and their respective ranges of application and confidence. Detention facilities sized with single event procedures were subjected to long term continuous simulations using historic rainfall records to determine the actual recurrence frequency of overflows. URBHYD and STORM were selected to represent classes of single event and continuous simulation models, respectively. It was possible to compare the results of both methodologies on the basis of three parameters: storage volumes, release rates and watershed imperviousness. The comparison revealed that for low release rates the single event design approach may significantly underestimate the required storage volume. It also became evident that defining a critical design storm event independently of the drainage basin is impossible. Municipalities accepting release rates as low as 10 to 40 1/s/ha should require continuous simulation in the design process to ensure that adequate storage capacity is provided. Further research is necessary to determine the extent to which snowmelt events effect the design process.
Le Code à la carte : étude des demandes de modification des règles de procédure du Code criminel canadien, entre 1892 et 1927.
Creators: name: Garcia, Margarida.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Law.

description: Notre recherche porte sur la création des normes de procédure dans le Code criminel canadien, pour la période allant de 1892 (date de sa naissance) à 1927 (révision des Statuts du Canada). Notre thèse de maîtrise est de nature exploratoire et comprend deux volets étroitement liés, l'un empirique, l'autre théorique. Le volet empirique de notre étude comprend une description et une évaluation des demandes de changement faites par les acteurs sociaux en matière de procédure pénale, que ces demandes aient ou non provoqué une transformation effective du Code criminel. Notre étude s'intéresse ainsi à la création sociale du droit, il pose le regard sur l'action sociale qui précède le processus formel de création du droit pénal, processus dans lequel le droit apparaît souvent dépourvu de la trace de l'action sociale intentionnelle qui explique sa mise en place. Le volet empirique de notre objet d'étude s'est centré autour de trois axes. Le volet théorique a poursuivi trois objectifs. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Impact assessment and urban planning: An investigation of their integration in the larger municipalities of Ontario.
Creators: name: Novakowski, Erin Nicholas.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Geography.

description: The objectives of this thesis are to: (1) examine the nature and attributes of impact assessment and urban planning as processes; (2) determine the utility of integrating impact assessment (IA) with urban planning; (3) investigate the extent to which the larger municipalities in Ontario have achieved integration of impact assessment and urban planning; (4) provide an inventory of the characteristics exhibited by those municipalities in Ontario using impact assessment in their urban planning process; (5) suggest avenues that can be explored by future research within the impact assessment/urban planning domain. For the purpose of empirically investigating the extent to which the integration of IA and urban planning exists across the province, a questionnaire was sent to the urban planning departments of Ontario's thirty-three largest municipalities. In addition, the survey was supplemented by case studies of two municipalities (Ottawa and Oakville) that use impact assessment in their urban planning processes. The key research finding is that although the potential utility and support for integrating impact assessment with urban planning is high, the level of integration actually achieved across the province tends to be limited either to development initiatives that are contiguous with environmentally sensitive areas, or that involve contentious issues with a high public profile. In general, therefore, while the advantages of integration are as yet largely unrealized across the province, the portents of change are becoming evident in municipalities such as Ottawa, Metropolitan Toronto and North York where the mandate of impact assessment has been enlarged to include either policies or private initiatives, or both.
Electrochemical regeneration of granular activated carbon.
Creators: name: Cen, Jianqi.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: Laboratory experiments have investigated the feasibility of granular activated carbon (GAC) regeneration via an electrochemical technique. GAC was loaded with phenol by batch adsorption tests, electrochemically regenerated and finally reloaded with phenol. Regeneration was conducted by placing GAC on a platinum elecotrode within a batch reactor filled with electrolyte (generally a 1% NaCl solution), and applying a current to the reactor. Limited experiments show that cathodic regeneration is more efficient than anodic regeneration; the investigation concentrates on the former. Although anodic regeneration is more efficient in destroying residual phenol in the electrolyte, cathodic regeneration can also eliminate these residuals by using longer regeneration times and/or higher currents. Increasing the regeneration current and time could increase the regeneration efficiency (RE) up to 94 percent. Lower currents applied for longer regeneration times yield similar results with slightly lower energy consumption. REs are also significantly affected by the electrolyte type, electrolyte concentration, and GAC particle size, but not by the carbon loading. Multiple regenerations only reduced the REs by an additional 2 percent per cycle. Preliminary analysis indicates that electrochemical regeneration is less expensive than thermal regeneration as it has no obvious carbon losses. Since this electrochemical regeneration process is technologically feasible and probably more economical than thermal regeneration, it merits further investigation.
Supplementary document for Demonstrating 98% system detection efficiency at near-infrared wavelengths with SNSPDs - 4924412.pdf
Creators: name: Reddy, Dileep
name: Nerem, Robert
name: Nam, Sae Woo
name: Mirin, Richard
name: Verma, Varun
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document
An experimental study on the influence of climatic fluctuations on solifluction, Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories.
Creators: name: Clarke, Shawne Arianne.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Physical Geography.

description: A field experiment, involving direct manipulation of surface microclimate, was undertaken in the continuous permafrost zone to examine the influence of climatic fluctuations on solifluction rates and movements throughout the active layer. Movements and soil temperature were measured continuously from 1993-1997 using five electro-mechanical meters and thermocouple cables on an 8$\sp\circ$ colluvial slope in Hot Weather Creek valley, Ellesmere Island. Natural variation of movement among the years and the meters was measured until summer of 1996 when surface climatic treatments (surface warming, wetting, a combination of these two, and cooling) were performed. The longer-term effects of the treatments were monitored until August 1997. Near-surface measurements alone do not provide an accurate picture of solifluction in areas with two-sided freezing ("cold" permafrost) because there can be substantial variation in movement rates at depth. In addition, multi-year average rates potentially hide a considerable range of annual variability and do not allow for the examination of a relationship between climatic fluctuations and annual movement. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Technologies de l'information et de la communication et développement international, l'approche des organisations internationales: Une étude du cas égyptien
Creators: name: Bitar, Wafa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Sociology, Social Structure and Development.

description: Ma thèse porte sur l'approche des institutions de développement international en ce qui a trait à la fracture numérique entre pays industrialisés et pays en voie de développement (PVD). Les propositions du Programme des Nations Unies pour le développement, du G8 et de l'Agence canadienne pour le développement international sont examinés et mis en perspectives à partir de l'exemple de l'Égypte. Mon hypothèse est que la définition des besoins des PVD non seulement leur échappe au profit des organisations internationales mais encore que celle-ci correspond aux besoins des pays développés. Contraints dans une logique qui ne leur convient pas, les PVD utilisent toute une série de manoeuvres dilatoires qui leur permettent d'obtenir les fonds internationaux et de conserver leur équilibre politique. Les gagnants sont les groupes privilégiés des PVD et les aventuriers capitalistes du nord. Les résultats sont pauvres en matière de développement.
Development and testing of a Long Gage Strain (LGS) sensor for concrete structure instrumentation
Creators: name: Ayranci, Cagri
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.
subject: Engineering, Mechanical.

description: Reinforced Concrete (RC) is the most commonly used structural material in civil engineering applications. RC structures have long term service lives under normal loading conditions; however, overload due to misuse or statistically remote events such as earthquakes may create damages that, if not detected on time, may eventually cause failure. Hence, it is important to monitor RC structures to take necessary precautions and save human lives. A L&barbelow;ong G&barbelow;age S&barbelow;train (LGS) sensor has been developed to monitor these structures. While it has been developed with concrete applications in mind, the new sensor can be used in a variety of applications, including measuring strains in pipelines, steel structures, and the like. The proposed sensor system has very low cost compared to the commercially available competing systems. Prototypes of the proposed strain sensors have been built and tested to calibrate the sensors and to prove their accuracy, repeatability, and to assess their reliability prior to in-situ concrete experiments. In-situ tests of the proposed sensors embedded into a reinforced concrete beam have been carried out. The steel rebars in the beam are also instrumented with commercial short gage length strain gages in order to compare the strain outputs of the strain gages to that of the proposed strain sensor. Results prove the accuracy, and reliability of the proposed strain sensor.
Limiting event streams: a general model to describe dependencies in distributed hard real-time systems
Creators: name: Albers, Karsten
name: Kollmann, Steffen
name: Slomka, Frank
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Real-time systems
subject: Schedulability analysis
subject: DDC 004 / Data processing & computer science
subject: Embedded systems: Computer systems
subject: Hartes Echtzeitsystem

description: This paper introduces a common approach to describe dependencies in distributed hard real-time systems. Taking dependencies into account will improve schedulability analysis. Thereby, we identify a new kind of dependency not considered in related work. The new model can be also applied to different kinds of dependencies including task offsets allowing an abstract and generalized analysis. Finally, we show how this approach leads to tighter bounds of this analysis.
Supplementary document for Demonstrating 98% system detection efficiency at near-infrared wavelengths with SNSPDs - 4924412.pdf
Creators: name: Reddy, Dileep
name: Nerem, Robert
name: Nam, Sae Woo
name: Mirin, Richard
name: Verma, Varun
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document
Les organisations saines et apprenantes comme cadre analytique de la sante mentale au travail: le cas des cadres superieurs de la fonction publique federale du Canada
Creators: name: Beauregard, Nancy
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Occupational Health and Safety.
subject: Health Sciences, Public Health.

description: The main objective of this thesis was to develop and empirically test a novel analytical framework for occupational mental health: the Healthy Learning Organizations model. One of the central premises of this model is that the organization is an important analytical component to the explanation of the ecology of occupational mental health. More specifically, the nature of the organizational learning process underwent by organizations constitutes a determining source of organizational variability in the distribution of psychosocial risk factors and mental health outcomes. The predictive power of the model was evaluated through the examination of the organizational reality of senior executives from the federal public service of Canada using a mixed methods approach. The thesis is organized around four scientific articles. The first article provides a critical synthesis of organizational learning literature and draws on the sociological theory on agency and structure to formulate a set of theoretical propositions tackling current challenges on the dimensionality of organizational learning. The second article operationalizes these propositions with a psychometric evaluation of the Organizational Learning Dimensions Inventory. Findings supported the validity and fidelity of the instrument, as well as the relevance of its utilization as a subjective (i.e., individual scores) and collective measure (i.e., scores aggregated at the organizational unit) of organizational learning. The Healthy Learning Organizations model bridges this definition of organizational learning to dominant conceptualizations on occupational stress. In the third article, multilevel analysis demonstrates that the subjective measure of organizational learning is a protective factor in association to mental health outcomes, independent of the relative contribution of psychosocial work factors and the sociodemographic profile of senior executives. Semi-structured interviews offer additional insights for such a protective association. Lastly, latent class analysis in the fourth article shows that the Healthy Learning Organizations model supports a typology of organizational contexts associated to differential risk exposures for occupational mental health. Overall, the Healthy Learning Organizations model emphasizes the need to increase current understanding about organizations and their internal dynamics as social contexts for population health among workers.
Consumer issues
Creators: name: Given, Jock
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This chapter discusses a large number of specific provisions contained in telecommunications and related legislation which are directly relevant to the interests of consumers. A significant number of these are contained in the TCPSSA. This Act, together with some modifications and additions, comprises provisions fonnerly contained in the TA and the Telstra Corporation Act 1991.
No Low-frequency Emission from Extremely Bright Fast Radio Bursts
Creators: name: Sokolowski, M.
name: Bhat, N. D. R.
name: Macquart, J. P.
name: Shannon, Ryan
name: Bannister, K. W.
name: Ekers, R. D.
name: Scott, D. R.
name: Beardsley, A. P.
name: Crosse, B.
name: Emrich, D.
name: Franzen, T. M. O.
name: Gaensler, B. M.
name: Horsley, L.
name: Johnston-Hollitt, M.
name: Kaplan, D. L.
name: Kenney, D.
name: Morales, M. F.
name: Pallot, D.
name: Sleap, G.
name: Steele, K.
name: Tingay, S. J.
name: Trott, C. M.
name: Walker, M.
name: Wayth, R. B.
name: Williams, A.
name: Wu, C.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 5101
subject: Astronomical sciences
classificationCode: 5109
subject: Space sciences

description: We present the results of a coordinated campaign conducted with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) to shadow fast radio bursts (FRBs) detected by the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) at 1.4 GHz, which resulted in simultaneous MWA observations of seven ASKAP FRBs. We de-dispersed the 24 x 1.28 MHz MWA images across the 170-200 MHz band taken at 0.5 s time resolution at the known dispersion measures (DMs) and arrival times of the bursts and searched both within the ASKAP error regions (typically similar to 10' x 10'), and beyond (4 degrees x 4 degrees). We identified no candidates exceeding a 5 sigma threshold at these DMs in the dynamic spectra. These limits are inconsistent with the mean fluence scaling of alpha = -1.8 +/- 0.3 (F-v proportional to v(alpha), where v is the observing frequency) that is reported for ASKAP events, most notably for the three high-fluence (F-1.4GHz greater than or similar to 100 Jy ms) FRBs 171020, 180110, and 180324. Our limits show that pulse broadening alone cannot explain our non-detections, and that there must be a spectral turnover at frequencies above 200 MHz. We discuss and constrain parameters of three remaining plausible spectral break mechanisms: free-free absorption, intrinsic spectral turnover of the radiative processes, and magnification of signals at ASKAP frequencies by caustics or scintillation. If free-free absorption were the cause of the spectral turnover, we constrain the thickness of the absorbing medium in terms of the electron temperature, T, to <0.03 (T/10(4) K)(-1.35) pc for FRB 171020.
BAP1 haploinsufficiency predicts a distinct immunogenic class of malignant peritoneal mesothelioma
Creators: name: Shrestha, Raunak
name: Nabavi, Noushin
name: Lin, Yen-Yi
name: Mo, Fan
name: Anderson, Shawn
name: Volik, Stanislav
name: Adomat, Hans
name: Lin, Dong
name: Xue, Hui
name: Dong, Xin
name: Shukin, Robert
name: Bell, Robert H.
name: McConeghy, Brian
name: Haegert, Anne
name: Brahmbhatt, Sonal
name: Li, Estelle
name: Oo, Htoo Z.
name: Hurtado-Coll, Antonio
name: Fazli, Ladan
name: Zhou, Joshua
name: McConnell, Yarrow
name: McCart, Andrea
name: Lowy, Andrew
name: Morin, Gregg B.
name: Chen, Tianhui
name: Daugaard, Mads
name: Sahinalp, S. C.
name: Hach, Faraz
name: Le Bihan, Stephane
name: Gleave, Martin E.
name: Wang, Yuzhuo, Ph.D.
name: Churg, Andrew
name: Collins, Colin C.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2019

description: Background: Malignant peritoneal mesothelioma (PeM) is a rare and fatal cancer that originates from the peritoneal lining of the abdomen. Standard treatment of PeM is limited to cytoreductive surgery and/or chemotherapy, and no effective targeted therapies for PeM exist. Some immune checkpoint inhibitor studies of mesothelioma have found positivity to be associated with a worse prognosis. Methods: To search for novel therapeutic targets for PeM, we performed a comprehensive integrative multi-omics analysis of the genome, transcriptome, and proteome of 19 treatment-naïve PeM, and in particular, we examined BAP1 mutation and copy number status and its relationship to immune checkpoint inhibitor activation. Results: We found that PeM could be divided into tumors with an inflammatory tumor microenvironment and those without and that this distinction correlated with haploinsufficiency of BAP1. To further investigate the role of BAP1, we used our recently developed cancer driver gene prioritization algorithm, HIT’nDRIVE, and observed that PeM with BAP1 haploinsufficiency form a distinct molecular subtype characterized by distinct gene expression patterns of chromatin remodeling, DNA repair pathways, and immune checkpoint receptor activation. We demonstrate that this subtype is correlated with an inflammatory tumor microenvironment and thus is a candidate for immune checkpoint blockade therapies. Conclusions: Our findings reveal BAP1 to be a potential, easily trackable prognostic and predictive biomarker for PeM immunotherapy that refines PeM disease classification. BAP1 stratification may improve drug response rates in ongoing phases I and II clinical trials exploring the use of immune checkpoint blockade therapies in PeM in which BAP1 status is not considered. This integrated molecular characterization provides a comprehensive foundation for improved management of a subset of PeM patients.
Grizzly bear spiritual power and Shamanism in native cultures of the Pacific Slope of North America.
Creators: name: Comeau, Bernard G.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Religion, General.

description: The dissertation is a monograph of grizzly bear spiritual power as it was historically conceptualized and manifest among Native cultures of the Pacific Slope of North America. Focusing specifically upon cultural reports of persons (e.g., shamans) acknowledged to hold grizzly bear spiritual power, descriptive summaries outline the varied behaviours, abilities, and functions associated with these individuals, as well as the more general mythological themes, rituals, and ceremonies which reflected societal attitudes toward grizzly bears and grizzly bear spiritual power. Based on data from these summaries, correlational and factor analyses are employed to discern specific trends in the reported existences of "grizzly bear persons" as they were acknowledged among Pacific Slope cultures. Analyses yield four distinct types of grizzly bear persons. These types, according to their reported behaviours and functions, are named "grizzly bear sorcerer", "grizzly bear shaman-sorcerer", "grizzly bear shaman-healer", and "grizzly bear dancer". Subsequent correlational analyses show that trends in the existences of these types of grizzly bear persons are consistent with the cultural positions of the societies in which they were reported. The developed world-view of each culture was significant in determining both the particular conceptualizations and manifestations of grizzly bear spiritual power and the acknowledged existences, behaviours, and functions of grizzly bear persons. From these results, it is argued that grizzly bear spiritual power and grizzly bear persons were not unidimensional across Pacific Slope Native cultures. In noting the cultural specificity of the reported existences of grizzly bear shamans, current academic categorizations of shamanism are called into question. A model which highlights the inter-cultural and intra-cultural diversity of shamanism is advocated. Finally, conclusions are drawn with respect to the implications of this study for a more comprehensive understanding of spiritual power as it was expressed and manifest among North American Native cultures.
Contaminants migrating from crossed-linked polyethylene pipes and their effect on drinking water odour
Creators: name: Kalweit, Cynthia
name: Rapp, Thomas
name: Stottmeister, Ernst
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Geruch
Migration
Siebung
Olfaktometrie

description: The formation potential of contaminants diffusing from cross-linked polyethylene (PE-X) pipes and their impact on the odour of drinking water was determined. Three types of PE-X material, Pe-Xa, PE-Xb and PE-Xc, were extensively assessed by performing migration tests following EN 1420 and EN 12873-1. Migration waters were analysed for their threshold odour number (TON). The same samples were investigated by two gas chromatography-mass spectrometry methods: screening and olfactometry. Most of the PE-X materials failed the German regulation of TON <2 for cold water and TON <4 for warm water. PE-Xb material caused the strongest odour and also released the highest amount of contaminants. Metilox, 7,9-di-tert-butyl-1-oxaspiro(4,5)deca-6,9-diene-2,8-dione, 3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxybenzaldehyde and 2,6-di-tert-butyl-p-benzoquinone (2,6-DtBQ) were the most often detected substances leaching from the tested plastic materials. However, no odour was perceived for most of these substances. Methyl tert-butyl ether (MtBE) and 2-tert-butylphenol are believed to contribute to the sensory problem in the migration water among other substances such as tert-amyl methyl ether, 2,2,2,5-tetramethyltetrahydrofuran, toluene or xylene. In total ten specific descriptions characterized the odour of the individual contaminants: ethereal, fresh, solvent, sweet, fruity, floral, unsavoury, pungent, aromatic and chemical. Quelle: https://www.sciencedirect.com
The role of computer based technology in developing understanding of the concept of sampling distribution
Creators: name: Lipson, Kay
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Traditionally, the concept of sampling distribution has been seen as fundamental to an understanding of introductory statistical inference. As a result many computer packages have been developed which offer activities intended to support the development of this concept. However, we need to recognise that the concept of sampling distribution is complex and ultifaceted, with many different mathematical and symbolic representations possible. Computer simulations of the sampling distribution tend to address only the empirical representation of this concept, and leave the linking of representations to the user. And it is the development of these links which is critical to the development of understanding in statistical inference. This paper reports some results of a study analysing the role of the computer-based technology in the development of understanding of sampling distribution.
Object-oriented programming in river water quality control.
Creators: name: Spanou, Maria N.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Chemical.

description: In the present work object-oriented analysis and design have been applied for the quality management of river systems. The physical entities of the river system, as well as the conceptual entities for the flow and water quality analysis, the simulation and the pollution control strategies, have been represented through objects. By distributing appropriate responsibilities to these objects, daily low flows of the river gauge stations can be estimated for a duration of seven and thirty days and a recurrence interval of twenty years. Based on these flows optimum windows for the whole system and minimum daily flows of the river gauge stations can be also estimated. The minimum daily flows of each point of the river system can be provided. These are the design river flows for the management study. A simple statistical analysis of water quality in the river and the effluent of the plants can be also performed and the background concentrations of major constituents can be estimated. The simulation of water quality in the system can be also performed based on the design conditions of the study. Control strategies for the improvement of water quality can be finally applied and an optimized discharge scheme can be suggested. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
A configurable online reputation aggregation system
Creators: name: Li, Hui
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Information Science.
subject: Engineering, System Science.

description: Online reputation systems are currently receiving increased attention while online interactions are flourishing. However, they lack one important feature: globality. Users are allowed to build a reputation within one online community, and sometimes several reputations within several independent online communities, but each reputation is only valid within the corresponding community. Moreover, such reputation is usually aggregated by the provider of the online reputation system, giving the querying agent no say in the process. This thesis presents a novel solution to this problem. We conduct a literature review on existing trust and reputation models and classify these models using proper criteria. We introduce an online reputation system that collects reputation information about a ratee from several online communities and allows for this information to be aggregated according to the inquiring agent's own requirements. We propose a configurable aggregation method for local and global reputation based on a discrete statistical model, taking into account several factors and parameters that qualify the reputation. We also implement a prototype of the proposed reputation computation model.
On CW-complexes.
Creators: name: O'Keefe, M.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1969
Subjects: subject: Mathematics.

description: This thesis is a study of cell complexes, of the conditions C and W of Whitehead and of CW-complexes. The topological properties of these spaces are considered in some detail and their relevance in algebraic topology examined. Finally the category of CW-complexes is compared to the category of compactly generated spaces (k-spaces) in the spirit of the conditions suggested by Steenrod in "A convenient category of topological spaces".
Using Contributor Role Ontologies & Taxonomies (CROTs) in Biocuration
Creators: name: Hosseini, Mohammad
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Contributor Ontologies and Taxonomies
Contribution Ethics
Biocuration
Team Science

description: This presentation focused on using Contributor Role Ontologies and Taxonomies (CROTs) in the context of biocuration and suggested possible future pathways for the APICURON platform.
description: This talk was part of the workshop titled "Workshop - Defining biocuration activities" held during the first day of
Fehlersuche in Formalen Spezifikationen
Creators: name: Reif, Wolfgang
name: Schellhorn, Gerhard
name: Thums, Andreas
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: DDC 004 / Data processing & computer science
subject: Computer software. Quality control

description: Hier wird eine Methode vorgestellt, die Gegenbeispiele auch für nicht zustandsendliche Systeme erzeugt und damit auch in interaktiven Beweisern eingesetzt werden kann.
Implementing a self-regulation intervention with an elite sport team to enhance performance and cohesion
Creators: name: Collins, Jamie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Recreation.
subject: Psychology, Behavioral Sciences.

description: Literature suggests that in team sport settings, the ability to self-regulate is associated with enhanced teamwork and performance (Bell, 2007). Despite such evidence, little research has explored the ways in which team members regulate themselves (Callary & Durand-Bush, 2008; Wylleman, 2000). As such, applied interventions designed to enhance self-awareness and self-regulation are warranted. The present study documented if and how an elite curling team comprised of four athletes and a coach could enhance their performance and cohesion by engaging in a 24-week learning process designed to help them self-regulate, particularly their felt experiences. A narrative analysis was performed (Polkinghorne, 1995) and results were presented in chronological order to reveal the experiences of all participants over the course of the intervention. Overall, it was found that through self-observation and self-reflection (Zimmerman, 2000), the participants became more aware of him or herself, their environment and how they wanted to feel in order to perform their best. They also developed individual and collective strategies to achieve their desired feel, thoughts, and behaviours, and enhance their responses to obstacles. By learning to regulate themselves and their felt experiences, the athletes and coach unanimously reported that the intervention led to enhanced team performance and cohesion, which contributed to their highly successful season. Implications and future directions are addressed.
Application of Borehole Thermal Energy Storage in Waste Heat Recovery from Diesel Generators in Remote Cold Climate Locations
Creators: name: Ghoreishi-Madiseh, Seyed Ali
name: Fahrettin Kuyuk, Ali
name: Rodrigues De Brito, Marco Antonio
name: Baidya, Durjoy
name: Torabigoodarzi, Zahra
name: Safari, Amir
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Remote communities that have limited or no access to the power grid commonly employ diesel generators for communal electricity provision. Nearly 65% of the overall thermal energy input of diesel generators is wasted through exhaust and other mechanical components such as water-jackets, intercoolers, aftercoolers, and friction. If recovered, this waste heat could help address the energy demands of such communities. A viable solution would be to recover this heat and use it for direct heating applications, as conversion to mechanical power comes with significant efficiency losses. Despite a few examples of waste heat recovery from water-jackets during winter, this valuable thermal energy is often discarded into the atmosphere during the summer season. However, seasonal thermal energy storage techniques can mitigate this issue with reliable performance. Storing the recovered heat from diesel generators during low heat demand periods and reusing it when the demand peaks can be a promising alternative. At this point, seasonal thermal storage in shallow geothermal reserves can be an economically feasible method. This paper proposes the novel concept of coupling the heat recovery unit of diesel generators to a borehole seasonal thermal storage system to store discarded heat during summer and provide upgraded heat when required during the winter season on a cold, remote Canadian community. The performance of the proposed ground-coupled thermal storage system is investigated by developing a Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer model.
Supplementary document for Object detection neural network improves Fourier ptychography reconstruction - 4925307.pdf
Creators: name: Stroehl, Florian
name: Jadhav, Suyog
name: Ahluwalia, Balpreet
name: Agarwal, Krishna
name: Prasad, Dilip
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: background information and additional results
Validating wavefunctions in momentum space: a computational and experimental electron momentum spectroscopic study of 2,6-Stelladione
Creators: name: Appelbe, Bill
name: Brunger, Michael
name: Campbell, Lawrence
name: Gleiter, Rolf
name: Nixon, Kate L.
name: Wang, Feng
name: Winkler, Dave A.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The ground electronic state for 2,6-stelladione has been studied using quantum mechanical calculations such as density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Based on these calculations and the plane wave impulse approximation (PWIA), the momentum distributions (MDs) of a set of representable outer valence MOs for the 2,6-stelladione have been simulated. The simulated MDs are compared against our first time measurements using high-resolution electron momentum spectroscopy (HREMS). Such a detailed comparison between the experimental MDs and simulated MDs provides insight and understanding of the electron correlation effects as well as the orbital relaxation effects on the MOs. In addition, the accuracy of the DFT exchange-correlation (XC) functionals used and the basis sets tested.
Near infrared spectroscopy and star-formation histories of 3 z 4 quiescent galaxies?
Creators: name: Schreiber, C.
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Nanayakkara, Themiya
name: Kacprzak, Glenn
name: Labbe, Ivo
name: Oesch, P.
name: Yuan, Tiantian
name: Tran, K. V.
name: Papovich, C.
name: Spitler, L.
name: Straatman, C.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 510103
subject: Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy

description: We present Keck-MOSFIRE H and K spectra for a sample of 24 candidate quiescent galaxies at 3 < z < 4, identified from their rest-frame UVJ colors and photometric redshifts in the ZFOURGE and 3DHST surveys. With median integration times of one hour in H and five in K, we obtain spectroscopic redshifts for half of the sample, using either Balmer absorption lines or nebular emission lines. We confirm the high accuracy of the photometric redshifts for this spectroscopically-confirmed sample, with a median vertical bar z(phot) - z(spec)vertical bar/(1 + z(spec)) of 1.2%. Two galaxies turn out to be dusty H alpha emitters at lower redshifts (z < 2.5), and these are the only two detected in the sub-mm with ALMA. High equivalent-width [O III] emission is observed in two galaxies, contributing up to 30% of the K-band flux and mimicking the UVJ colors of an old stellar population. This implies a failure rate of only 20% for the UVJ selection at these redshifts. Lastly, Balmer absorption features are identified in four galaxies, among the brightest of the sample, confirming the absence of OB stars. We then modeled the spectra and photometry of all quiescent galaxies with a wide range of star-formation histories. We find specific star-formation rates (sSFR) lower than 0.15 Gyr(-1) (a factor of ten below the main sequence) for all but one galaxy, and lower than 0.01 Gyr(-1) for half of the sample. These values are consistent with the observed H beta and [O II] luminosities, and the ALMA non-detections. The implied formation histories reveal that these galaxies have quenched on average 300 Myr prior to being observed, between z = 3.5 and 5, and that half of their stars were formed by z similar to 5.5 with a mean SFR similar to 300 M-circle dot yr(-1). We finally compared the UVJ selection to a selection based instead on the sSFR, as measured from the photometry. We find that galaxies a factor of ten below the main sequence are 40% more numerous than UVJ-selected quiescent galaxies, implying that the UVJ selection is pure but incomplete. Current models fail at reproducing our observations, and underestimate either the number density of quiescent galaxies by more than an order of magnitude, or the duration of their quiescence by a factor two. Overall, these results confirm the existence of an unexpected population of quiescent galaxies at z > 3, and offer the first insights on their formation histories.
Pensiones, el gran reto de la seguridad social de México en el siglo XXI
Creators: name: Cortez Pérez, Christian
Publisher: name: DE IURE
Year: 2024

description: Uno de los grandes retos del Estado Mexicano en el siglo XXI es, inevitablemente,  el tema pensionario.  La versatilidad, desigualdad y falta de unificación  de los sistemas pensionarios  han  provocado serios problemas para su viabilidad financiera. Esto se refleja en el incremento considerable del gasto pensionario, mismo que el  Estado ha tratado de detener por la via legislativa  con la aprobación de reformas a las leyes de seguridad social  que buscan la sustitución de los sitemas de reparto por los de cuentas individuales. Sin embargo,   esas reformas lejos de remediar el problema han ocasionado otros ya que, aunado al problema financiero,  las espectativas de pensión para los jovenes y nuevas generaciones son cada vez mas lejanas.  Como consecuencia, la probabilidad de que en el futúro  el Estado mexicano  tenga una poblacion envejecida y pobre es latente. 
description: DE IURE, Vol. 6 Núm. 2 (2024): Volumen 6, Numero 2, Sexto año 2024
La litterature immigrante en langue etrangere au Canada: Etude comparative de Walter Bauer et de Jorge Etcheverry
Creators: name: Albert, Sylvie Carole
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Literature, Modern.

description: Dans cette étude, je souligne la manière dont l'expérience d'immigration est représentée dans la poésie de Walter Bauer et de Jorge Etcheverry. Ces deux écrivains immigrants ont publié au Canada, en allemand et en espagnol respectivement, et il n'existe aucune étude comparant les oeuvres des deux auteurs. Je soutiens que le poème "Canada" consiste en un discours mélancolique de l'écrivain immigré et que le poème "Perro con alas", quant à lui, consiste en un discours nostalgique de l'écrivain exile. Je m'appuie sur les notions de nostalgie et de mélancolie en littérature de Walter Moser et d'Idelber Avelar. J'ai recours à l'analyse du discours d'Émile Benveniste pour étudier et interpréter la dichotomie formée par, d'une part, le pays et la culture d'origine et, d'autre part, le pays et la culture d'accueil. En plus de présenter une analyse de l'expérience littéraire d'immigration, cette recherche livre une réflexion générale sur les relations ethniques au sein de l'institution littéraire du pays et sur la place de la littérature en langue étrangère au Canada.
La política pública de combate a la corrupción
Creators: name: González Arenas, Jenny
name: Girón Enriquez, Juan Carlos
name: Vega Esparza, Ludivina
Publisher: name: DE IURE
Year: 2024

description: La presente investigación se plantea a partir de que la política de combate a la corrupción que implicó una reforma estructural en la materia dando inicio durante el sexenio 2012 – 2018. Sin embargo, a partir de la presente administración 2018 – 2024, la manera en la que se implementa dicha política se ha modificado de manera radical, lo que pone en el centro de la discusión si los principios bajo los cuales fue esbozada, originalmente, siguen siendo vigentes y si lograrán cumplir con los objetivos para los cuales fue diseñada e implementada, a pesar de que no se está aplicando de la manera en que fue planteada en un principio.

El objetivo es comprobar si los principios rectores de la política pública de combate a la corrupción en México, bajo los cuales se estableció, siguen siendo vigentes a partir de la forma en la que se está implementando en estos momentos y si, a partir de la manera en la que se lleva a cabo, se puede lograr un combate efectivo a la corrupción. Se ha elaborado un análisis jurídico – político de la Política de combate a la corrupción y los principios teóricos que la rigen, además se lleva a cabo un análisis de datos a partir de información oficial emanada de los actores principales encargados de implementar las estrategias de la propia política pública para poder determinar el grado de avance o, en su caso, retroceso en el combate a la corrupción.

En estos momentos, podemos señalar que: a) La política pública de combate a la corrupción no ha alcanzado el grado de avance que debería tener para estas alturas; b) se ha modificado significativamente los mecanismos de implementación de las estrategias; c) los actores políticos, sujetos a cargo de los cuales está la implementación de la política pública, han impactado de manera directa en el desvío de los objetivos primarios del combate a la corrupción.
description: DE IURE, Vol. 6 Núm. 2 (2024): Volumen 6, Numero 2, Sexto año 2024
Supplementary document for Object detection neural network improves Fourier ptychography reconstruction - 4925307.pdf
Creators: name: Stroehl, Florian
name: Jadhav, Suyog
name: Ahluwalia, Balpreet
name: Agarwal, Krishna
name: Prasad, Dilip
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: background information and additional results
Smoking impairs hematoma formation and dysregulates angiogenesis as the first steps of fracture healing
Creators: name: Rinderknecht, Helen
name: Nussler, Andreas K.
name: Steinestel, Konrad
name: Histing, Tina
name: Ehnert, Sabrina
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: bone
subject: fracture repair
subject: in vitro
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Bone and bones
subject: Fracture healing
subject: Tissue engineering
subject: Smoking
subject: Angiogenesis
subject: Trauma
subject: Knochen
subject: Frakturheilung
subject: Angiogenese
subject: Rauchen

description: Bone fracture healing is an overly complex process in which inflammation, osteogenesis, and angiogenesis are tightly coupled, and delayed fracture repair is a very common health risk. One of the major causes of delayed healing is the formation of insufficient vasculature. Precise regulation of blood vessels in bone and their interplay with especially osteogenic processes has become an emerging topic within the last years; nevertheless, regulation of angiogenesis in (early) diseased fracture repair is still widely unknown. Here, we aim to develop an in vitro model for the analysis of early fracture healing which also enables the analysis of angiogenesis as a main influencing factor. As smoking is one of the main risk factors for bone fractures and developing a delay in healing, we model smoking and non-smoking conditions in vitro to analyze diverging reactions. Human in vitro fracture hematomas mimicking smokers’ and non-smokers’ hematomas were produced and analyzed regarding cell viability, inflammation, osteogenic and chondrogenic differentiation, and angiogenic potential. We could show that smokers’ blood hematomas were viable and comparable to non-smokers. Smokers’ hematomas showed an increase in inflammation and a decrease in osteogenic and chondrogenic differentiation potential. When analyzing angiogenesis, we could show that the smokers’ hematomas secrete factors that drastically reduced HUVEC proliferation and tube formation. With an angiogenesis array and gene expression analysis, we could identify the main influencing factors: Anpgt1/2, Tie2, and VEGFR2/3. In conclusion, our model is suitable to mimic smoking conditions in vitro showing that smoking negatively impacts early vascularization of newly formed tissue.