cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Multivariate Regular Variation and its Applications
Creators: name: Mariko, Dioulde Habibatou
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Multivariate regular variation
Extreme value theory

description: In this thesis, we review the basic notions related to univariate regular variation and study some fundamental properties of regularly varying random variables. We then consider the notion of regular variation in the multivariate case. After collecting some results from multivariate regular variation for random vectors with values in $\mathbb{R}_{+}^{d}$, we discuss its properties and examine several examples of multivariate regularly varying random vectors such as independent and identically distributed random vectors, fully dependent random vectors and other models. We also present the elements of univariate and multivariate extreme value theory and emphasize the connection with multivariate regular variation. Some measures of extreme dependence such as the stable tail dependence function and the Pickands dependence function are presented. We end the study by conducting a data analysis using financial data. In the univariate case, graphical tools such as quantile-quantile plots, mean excess plots and Hill plots are used in order to determine the underlying distribution of the univariate data. In the multivariate case, non-parametric estimators of the stable tail dependence function and the Pickands dependence function are used to describe the dependence structure of the multivariate data.
The architectural ensemble of the historic center in Fortaleza-CE-Brazil: statistical analysis of use and meaning
O conjunto arquitetônico do Centro Histórico em Fortaleza – CE – Brasil: análise estatística de uso e significado
Creators: name: Abreu De Souza, Antonio Gilberto; Instituto Federal De Educação, Ciência E Tecnologia Do Ceará
name: Froner, Yacy-Ara; Universidade Federal De Minas Gerais
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: Architectural Heritage; Population; Statistical Data; The Historic Centre; Fortaleza-CE-Brazil
Patrimônio Arquitetônico; População; Dados Estatísticos; Centro Histórico; Fortaleza-CE-Brasil

description: Numerous documents, letters and recommendations of UNESCO discuss the importance of community in the process of revitalization, protection and preservation of architectural ensembles, especially when located in urban areas. The conservation of a particular area become successful when the structural, social, economic and cultural factors are identified, discussed and the solutions applied. In that sense, this article is the result of a research whose object, the Historic Center of Fortaleza-CE-Brazil, was evaluated from questionnaire applied to its residents, workers and users of services in this area aimed at the diagnosis on the value of historic, artistic and architectural representative 19TH century at the region.
description: Inúmeros documentos, cartas e recomendações da UNESCO discutem a importância da comunidade no processo de revitalização, proteção e preservação de conjuntos arquitetônicos, principalmente quando localizados em centros urbanos. A conservação de uma determinada área tornar-se bem sucedida quando os fatores estruturais, sociais, econômicos e culturais são identificados, discutidos em conjunto e as soluções aplicadas da maneira mais contundente e transparente possível. Nesse sentido, este artigo resulta de uma pesquisa cujo objeto, o Centro Histórico de Fortaleza, foi avaliado a partir de questionário aplicado aos moradores, trabalhadores e usuários de serviços dessa área visando o diagnóstico sobre o valor do conjunto histórico, artístico e arquitetônico representativo do século XIX existente no local.
description: DISEGNARECON; Vol. 5, Numero Speciale (2012) - DOCO 2012, a cura di R. Mingucci, C. Bartolomei, L. Bravo, S. Garagnani; 303-310
CSO (Canadian Society of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery) position paper on return to Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery Clinic Practice during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
Creators: name: Chan, Y.
name: Angel, D.
name: Aron, M.
name: Hartl, T.
name: Moubayed, S. P.
name: Smith, K. A.
name: Sommer, D. D.
name: Sowerby, L.
name: Spafford, P.
name: Mertz, D.
name: Witterick, I. J.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: The novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) has created a worldwide deadly pandemic that has become a major public health challenge. All semi-urgent and elective medical care has come to a halt to conserve capacity to care for patients during this pandemic. As the numbers of COVID-19 cases decrease across Canada, our healthcare system also began to reopen various facilities and medical offices. The aim for this document is to compile the current evidence and provide expert consensus on the safe return to clinic practice in Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery. These recommendations will also summarize general precaution principles and practical tips for office across Canada to optimize patient and provider safety. Risk assessment and patient selection are crucial to minimizing exposure to COVID-19. Controversial topics such as COVID-19 mode of transmission, duration of exposure, personal protective equipment, and aerosol-generating procedures will be analyzed and discussed. Practical solutions of pre-visit office preparation, front office and examination room set-up, and check out procedures are explored. Specific considerations for audiology, pediatric population, and high risk AGMPs are also addressed. Given that the literature surrounding COVID-19 is rapidly evolving, these guidelines will serve to start our specialty back into practice over the next weeks to months and they may change as we learn more about this disease.
title: NEWSLETTER Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie und Endokrinologie 06/22
Creators: name: Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
Publisher: name: Medizinische Hochschule Hannover Bibliothek
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 610

description: NEWSLETTER Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie und Endokrinologie, vol. 2022, no. 06
3D digitization of mosaics
Digitalizzazione tridimensionale di apparati musivi
Creators: name: Manferdini, Anna Maria; Università Di Bologna
name: Cipriani, Luca; Università Di Bologna
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: ICAR 17 - Disegno
reality-based 3D modeling; mosaics; documentation; digitization
Modelli 3D; mosaici; documentazione; digitalizzazione

description: In this paper we present a methodology developed to access to Cultural Heritage information using digital 3d reality-based models as graphic interfaces. The case studies presented belong to the wide repertoire of mosaics of Ravenna. One of the most peculiar characteristics of mosaics that often limits their digital survey is their multi-scale complexity; nevertheless their models could be used in 3d information systems, for digital exhibitions, for reconstruction aims and to document their conservation conditions in order to conduct restoration interventions in digital environments aiming at speeding and performing more reliable evaluations.
description: Il contributo presenta alcuni risultati dell’applicazione di metodologie di rilievo digitale 3d applicate a Beni Culturali. I casi di studio presentati appartengono al vasto repertorio di mosaici di Ravenna. L’interesse per l’applicazione di metodi e strumenti di rilievo digitale tridimensionale a tale repertorio deriva dai caratteri peculiari degli apparati musivi rispetto all’indagine digitale, sopratutto relativi alla loro complessità multi-scalare, e anche rispetto all’utilizzo dei modelli, in sistemi informativi e ricostruzioni digitali, per documentarne la conservazione e per il restauro virtuale.
description: DISEGNARECON; Vol. 5, Numero Speciale (2012) - DOCO 2012, a cura di R. Mingucci, C. Bartolomei, L. Bravo, S. Garagnani; 311-318
Experimental and CFD Investigations of the Megane Multi-box Bridge Deck Aerodynamic Characteristics
Creators: name: Wang, Zhida
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Multi-deck
Aerodynamic
Flutter
CFD

description: The shape of bridge deck sections used for long-span suspension bridges has evolved through the years, from the compact box deck girders, to twin box and multi-box decks sections, which proved to have better aerodynamic behaviour, and to bring economic advantages on the construction material usage side. This thesis presents a study of a new type of multi-box bridge deck for the Megane Bridge, consisting of two side decks for traffic lanes, and two middle decks for railway traffic, connected using stabilizing beams. Aerodynamic static force coefficient measurements were performed on a section model with a scale of 1:80, for Reynolds numbers up to 5.1 × 105 under angles of attack from -10° to 10°. Also there-dimensional CFD simulations were performed by employing a Large Eddy Simulation (LES) algorithm with a standard Smagorinsky subgrid-scale model, for Re = 9.3 × 107 and angles of attack 𝛼= -4°, -2°, 0°, 2° and 4°. The experimental and numerical results were compared with respect to accuracy, sensitivity, and practical suitability. Furthermore, the aerodynamic character for each individual decks including static coefficients, wind flow pattern and pressure distribution were studied through CFD simulation. ILS (Iterative Least Squares) method was applied to extract the flutter derivatives of Megane section model based on the results obtained from free vibration tests for evaluating the flutter stability. A comparison of the flutter derivatives was carried out between bridges with different deck configurations and the results are included in this thesis.
A COMPARATIVE STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS FOR TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF IRRIGATION IN HARYANA
Creators: name: Vishal Dagar
name: Bhattacharjee, Mahua
name: Ahmad, Faraz
name: Charan, Amita
name: Param Jit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 140201 Agricultural Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 140302 Econometric and Statistical Methods
subject: Economics

description: This paper builds up an exact idea for development of farmers in Haryana to analyze their specialized efficiencieswith respect to stochastic frontier analysis of rainwater irrigation options. Propencity Score Match Method was applied to portray that it was for all intents and purposes conceivable to have an unrivaled in fact proficient development systems embraced by ranchers in downpour encouraged area with correlation with a lower productive strategy applied by ranchers rehearsing development in rich bio-physical ascribes to watered locale. This may occur because of higher obtained effectiveness contrasts between the two frameworks because of higher conceivable outcomes of shortage in rainfed area. However, Irrigated farms are on a higher production function with working higher specialized in handling wasteful aspects, while downpour bolstered ranches are on a lower yield wilderness with full or higher specialized productivity levels. Accordingly, this paper can contribute for new element of chances to expand the effectiveness level of ranchers rehearsing development in inundated locale. There are obvious potential ways for accretive yields by rising the proficiency of water system ranches.This investigation watched basically the techniques for development applied by the ranchers of downpour sustained frameworks which remembered vital intercessions for grime dampness course to uproot to a better return to scale. This underlines the need of great importance that if, supplement restrictions, staleness move or actualized in a specific cycle with improved seeds and compound advancements, at that point this will positively help in enlarging proficiency in flooded district. Except if earth dampness is strengthened by interest in dampness improving innovations. In this way, the utilization of information factors and substance composts to improve generation in short run may hamper the manageability in rural creation and hamper the normal dampness in flooded area may make foreboding impacts.
Reconstruction of the centers affected by the 2009 earthquake - Contents and methods in the Reconstruction’s Plan development
La ricostruzione nei centri colpiti dal sisma 2009 - Contenuti e metodi nell’elaborazione dei Piani di Ricostruzione
Creators: name: Continenza, Romolo; Università Di L'Aquila
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: Architectural heritage; urban planning; GIS 3D
Patrimonio architettonico; pianificazione urbana; GIS 3D

description: The principle who guided the policy choices, in the reconstruction process of the damages caused by the earthquake of 2009, was to give priority to the reparation of buildings located outside the historic centres perimeter postponing its reparation to the approval of the Reconstruction plans. This choice was driven from the will to push ahead the more simple interventions implementation postponing the fate of historic centres to further investigations. The paper, as a result of experiences made in developing some reconstruction plans, highlights the cognitive issues needed in order to make this Urban Plan together with the significant differences in selecting its contents, imposed by the need to answer to the specific contextual situations. The case studies examined suggest, indeed, a range of choices ranging from the recovery the memory of a disappeared urban fabric, to the redesign of considerable portions of urban block until the recommendation of accurate restoration operations.
description: Il criterio che ha guidato le scelte politiche nel processo di ricostruzione e riparazione dei danni causati dal sisma dell’aprile 2009 e’ stato quello di dare priorita’ alla riparazione degli immobili posti al di fuori del perimetro dei centri storici rinviando l’intervento su questi all’approvazione dei cd. Piani di Ricostruzione. Ha guidato questa scelta la volonta’ di procedere speditamente con gli interventi di piu’ semplice attuazione rinviando ad approfondimenti successivi il destino dei centri storici, oggetto unicamente di operazioni destinate a prevenirne il degrado. L’intervento, frutto delle esperienze condotte nella elaborazione di alcuni piani di ricostruzione, pone in luce le problematiche conoscitive indispensabili alla redazione di questo strumento assieme alle notevoli differenze nella individuazione dei contenuti imposte dalla necessita’ di aderire alle peculiari situazioni contestuali. I casi di studio esaminati propongono, infatti, un range d’interventi che va dal recupero della memoria di tessuti urbani ormai scomparsi, alla riprogettazione di notevoli porzioni d’isolato sino alla previsione di accurate operazioni di restauro conservativo.
description: DISEGNARECON; Vol. 5, n. 10, Numero Speciale (2012) - DOCO 2012, a cura di R. Mingucci, C. Bartolomei, L. Bravo, S. Garagnani; 107-114
Enhancing Cochlear Implant Signal Coding with Scaled Dot-Product Attention
Creators: name: Essaid, Billel
name: Kheddar, Hamza
name: Batel, Noureddine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Cochlear implants (CIs) play a vital role in restoring hearing for individuals with severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss by directly stimulating the auditory nerve with electrical signals. While traditional coding strategies, such as the advanced combination encoder (ACE), have proven effective, they are constrained by their adaptability and precision. This paper investigates the use of deep learning (DL) techniques to generate electrodograms for CIs, presenting our model as an advanced alternative. We compared the performance of our model with the ACE strategy by evaluating the intelligibility of reconstructed audio signals using the short-time objective intelligibility (STOI) metric. The results indicate that our model achieves a STOI score of 0.6031, closely approximating the 0.6126 score of the ACE strategy, and offers potential advantages in flexibility and adaptability. This study underscores the benefits of incorporating artificial intelligent (AI) into CI technology, such as enhanced personalization and efficiency.
Acanthamoeba-Campylobacter Interactions
Creators: name: Nguyen, Hai
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Acanthamoeba
Campylobacter
RNA-Seq
Transcriptome
interactions

description: Campylobacter jejuni is an avian commensal bacterium and causes gastrointestinal diarrhea in humans called campylobacteriosis. Campylobacteriosis is acquired by consumption of undercooked poultry contamined with C. jejuni. Poultry can become colonized from contaminated drinking water. The chicken flock and drinking water of 4 poultry farms in Ontario were sampled and the prevalence of C. jejuni in these flocks was determined to be 16.7% over a 1 year sampling period. We determined that contamined- water was a significant risk factor for Campylobacter-positive flocks from flaA typing, PFGE analysis, and genomotyping several isolated strains. Free living amoebae, such as Acanthamoeba species, live in the drinking water of poultry farms. It is hypothesized that Acanthamoeba in the drinking water of poultry farms can take up and act as environmental reservoirs of C. jejuni. Acanthamoeba species were isolated from the drinking water. Acanthamoeba strains were found to act as a vehicle for protection, persistence and growth of C. jejuni isolated from the farm water. The transcriptome of both C. jejuni and A. castellanii during the initial stages of C. jejuni internalization were described by RNA-seq. C. jejuni oxidative defence genes (such as katA, sodB, fdxA) and some other unknown genes (Cj0170, Cj1325, Cj1725) were found to be essential in the interaction with A. castellanii. Our findings suggest that Acanthamoebae act as a C. jejuni reservoir and could be a contributing source of C. jejuni in the environment. Through transcriptomics studies, we have begun to uncover some genetic clues involved in this interaction.
Architectural survey of Monserrate Palace - laser scanner survey
Levantamento arquitectónico do Palácio de Monserrate – varrimento laser
Creators: name: Cortesão, Luísa; Parques De Sintra – Monte Da Lua SA / Direcção Geral Do Património Cultural
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: Monserrate Palace; architectural survey; terrestrial laser scanning.
Palácio de Monserrate; levantamento arquitectónico; varrimento laser

description: In order to obtain a complete set of measured drawings (plans, sections and elevations) for developing infrastructure projects in the Palace of Monserrate, a laser scanning survey was conducted. This technology is based on the principle of measuring distances by resorting to a laser beam, issued by an active sensor known as a laser scanner. This scanner is combined with a camera using a color sensor.
description: Com o objectivo de obter um conjunto completo de peças desenhadas (plantas, cortes e alçados) que servisse de base para o desenvolvimento dos projectos de redes de infraestruturas, foi efectuado um levantamento do Palácio de Monserrate com recurso à tecnologia de varrimento laser. Esta tecnologia baseia-se no princípio da medição de distâncias a objectos por feixe laser, emitido por um sensor activo denominado laser scanner, associado a uma câmara fotográfica calibrada com o sensor que permite a associação da cor.
description: DISEGNARECON; Vol. 5, Numero Speciale (2012) - DOCO 2012, a cura di R. Mingucci, C. Bartolomei, L. Bravo, S. Garagnani; 61-64
Electrostatic Charge Generation and Wall Fouling in a High-Pressure Gas-Solid Fluidized Bed: Implementation and Preliminary Testing of a Measurement Technique
Creators: name: Salama, Fawzi
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Fluidization
Electrostatics
Polyethylene

description: Due to the nature of gas-solid fluidized beds, providing continuous contacts between fluidizing particles and between particles and the reactor wall, the occurrence of electrostatic charges is unavoidable. In the polyethylene industry, electrostatics is a major problem. Large amounts of electrostatic charges are generated causing polyethylene and catalyst particles to adhere to the reactor wall, forming sheets. Particle sheets can break off and block the distributor plate, causing long shutdown periods for clean-up which result in economic loss due to decreased production and higher maintenance costs. The overall purpose of the project of which this thesis is part of is to help industry in minimizing this problem by examining the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon. Towards this goal, an experimental technique for the measurement of the degree of wall fouling and its charge distribution was previously developed and implemented in an atmospheric system with a column of 0.102 m in diameter. This technique was extended in this thesis to a pilot-scale unit (0.154 m in diameter) designed to be capable of operating at pressures and temperatures up to 2 600 kPa and 100°C respectively and gas velocities up to 1 m/s, which are operating conditions of industrial polyethylene reactors. Preliminary experiments showed that increasing the operating pressure from 101 kPa to 401 kPa almost doubled the amount of polyethylene wall fouling due to the higher bubble rise velocity at this pressure, enhancing charge generation within the fluidized bed. Changing the particle size distribution by removing particles smaller than 250 μm had no significant effect on the extent of the wall fouling. Increasing the column diameter from 0.102 m to 0.154 m decreased wall fouling due to the lower column wall area per mass of particles. Overall, particle-particle contacts generated positively and negatively charged particles, but did not produce a net charge in the bed due to the negligible elutriation. However, particle-wall contacts produced a net charge. The formation of the wall layer was due to the image force created by the net charge and the layering effect created by the attraction between oppositely charged particles.
Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 315 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE), 1990-2015
Creators: name: Kassebaum, Nicholas J.
name: Arora, Megha
name: Barber, Ryan M.
name: Bhutta, Zulfiqar A.
name: Brown, Jonathan P.
name: Carter, Austin
name: Casey, Daniel C.
name: Charlson, Fiona J.
name: Coates, Matthew M.
name: Coggeshall, Megan
name: Cornaby, Leslie
name: Dandona, Lalit
name: Dicker, Daniel J.
name: Erskine, Holly E.
name: Ferrari, Alize J.
name: Fitzmaurice, Christina
name: Foreman, Kyle J.
name: Forouzanfar, Mohammad H.
name: Fullman, Nancy
name: Gething, Peter W.
name: Goldberg, Ellen M.
name: Graetz, Nicholas
name: Haagsma, Juanita A.
name: Hay, Simon I.
name: Johnson, Catherine O.
name: Kemmer, Laura
name: Khalil, Ibrahim A.
name: Kinfu, Yohannes
name: Kutz, Michael J.
name: Kyu, Hmwe H.
name: Leung, Janni
name: Liang, Xiaofeng
name: Lim, Stephen S.
name: Lozano, Rafael
name: Mensah, George A.
name: Mikesell, Joe
name: Mokdad, Ali H.
name: Mooney, Meghan D.
name: Naghavi, Mohsen
name: Nguyen, Grant
name: Nsoesie, Elaine
name: Pigott, David M.
name: Pinho, Christine
name: Rankin, Zane
name: Reinig, Nikolas
name: Salomon, Joshua A.
name: Sandar, Logan
name: Smith, Alison M.
name: Sorensen, Reed J. D.
name: Stanaway, Jeffrey
name: Steiner, Caitlyn
name: Teeple, Stephanie
name: Troeger, Christopher
name: Truelsen, Thomas
name: VanderZanden, Amelia
name: Wagner, Joseph A.
name: Wanga, Valentine
name: Whiteford, Harvey A.
name: Zhou, Maigeng
name: Zoeckler, Leo
name: Plaß, Dietrich
name: Abajobir, Amanuel Alemu
name: Abate, Kalkidan Hassen
name: Abbafati, Cristiana
name: Abbas, Kaja M.
name: Abd-Allah, Foad
name: Abraham, Biju
name: Abubakar, Ibrahim
name: Abu-Raddad, Laith J.
name: Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen M. E.
name: Achoki, Tom
name: Ackerman, Ilana N.
name: Adebiyi, Akindele Olupelumi
name: Adedeji, Isaac Akinkunmi
name: Adsuar, José C.
name: Afanvi, Kossivi Agbelenko
name: Afshin, Ashkan
name: Agardh, Emilie Elisabet
name: Agarwal, Arnav
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016

description: Healthy life expectancy (HALE) and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) provide summary measures of health across geographies and time that can inform assessments of epidemiological patterns and health system performance, help to prioritise investments in research and development, and monitor progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We aimed to provide updated HALE and DALYs for geographies worldwide and evaluate how disease burden changes with development. www.sciencedirect.com
An Evaluation of Species Recovery under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
Creators: name: Aboul-Khair, Shahira
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Endangered Species
United States Endangered Species Act
Biodiversity
Conservation
Recovery
Species At Risk

description: The U.S. Endangered Species Act (U.S. ESA) is one of the oldest pieces of legislation to protect endangered species. The bodies responsible for administering the U.S. ESA have published species Biennial Recovery Statuses (BRSs) in Reports to Congress on the Status of Endangered and Threatened Species. We found that expert assessments of species recovery trends match BRSs reasonably well; however, there appears to be a weak relationship between the BRSs and available data tracking species abundance and range trends. We aimed to establish whether the recovery trends of species examined were detectably associated with their threats, the general U.S. ESA tools, or recovery actions. We found positive associations between species recovery and two U.S. ESA tools – mean annual funding and peer-reviewed scientific information. However, correlations with other variables differ greatly depending on how recovery is defined. Species threats and recovery actions are also moderately related to their abundance and range trends.
Language Revitalisation and Early Years Language Education in the Corca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht, Ireland: Facilitating Embodied Language Use
Creators: name: , Cassie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Family language policy, Education policy, Richness in language learning

description: Invited talk presented by Dr. Cassie Smith Christmas (National University of Ireland, Galway) at the Multilingual Childhoods SIG/REYLL webinar Language Education Policy and its application at the micro classroom level on September 9th 2020.
title: Dem Corona-Virus auf der Spur: das niedersächsische Forschungsnetzwerk COFONI
Creators: name: Zorn, Stefan
Publisher: name: Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 610

description: MHHinfo: Das Magazin der Medizinischen Hochschule Hannover, no. 4
Supplementary document for Analysis of Intracellular Protein Dynamics in Living Zebrafish Embryos Using Light-Sheet Fluorescence Single-Molecule Microscopy - 5418438.pdf
Creators: name: Beranrdello, Matteo
name: GORA, RADOSLAW
name: VAN HAGE, PATRICK
name: Castro-Olvera, Gustavo
name: Manzano, Emilio Gualda
name: SCHAAF, MARCEL
name: Loza-Alvarez, Pablo
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental figures and table
Save Science from Fiction: Science reporting should be about science not science fiction
Creators: name: Selita, Fatos
name: Chapman, Robert
name: Rimfeld, Kaili
name: Kovas, Yulia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 220101 Bioethics (human and animal)
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 220105 Legal Ethics
subject: 60499 Genetics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 160503 Communications and Media Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Harms for science misreporting by the media.
La collaboration en terminographie : étude de cas comparée de la terminographie collaborative et de la terminographie classique
Creators: name: Gariépy, Julie L.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: terminologie
terminographie
terminologie collaborative
terminographie collaborative
terminologie classique
terminographie classique
collaborative terminography
traditional terminography
traditional terminology
collaborative terminology
terminology
terminography
TERMIUM Plus
TermWiki

description: Le secteur langagier vit actuellement un changement de paradigme. De nouvelles pratiques collaboratives facilitent les échanges entre des gens de partout dans le monde. Bien que certaines de ces pratiques, par exemple la traduction collaborative, ont suscité l'intérêt de nombreux chercheurs, d'autres, comme la terminographie collaborative, sont peu connues. Quel est le spectre de la terminographie collaborative? En quoi la terminographie collaborative se distingue-t-elle de la terminographie classique? Quelles sont leurs forces et leurs faiblesses respectives? La présente thèse définit la terminographie collaborative, identifie ses caractéristiques et ses divers modes et formes et présente ses outils afin de permettre une compréhension approfondie du phénomène. Nous comparons la terminographie classique et la terminographie collaborative au moyen d'une étude de cas d'un modèle classique (TERMIUM Plus) et d’un modèle collaboratif (TermWiki) afin de relever les ressemblances et les différences entre elles. Puis nous illustrons leurs forces et leurs faiblesses respectives. Nous concluons que la terminographie classique et la terminographie collaborative diffèrent principalement au niveau des participants, du style d'interaction et de l'infrastructure. The language industry is experiencing a paradigm shift. New collaborative practices facilitate exchanges between people from all around the world. Although some of these practices, such as collaborative translation, have attracted the interest of many researchers, others, such as collaborative terminography, are little known. What is the spectrum of collaborative terminography? How do collaborative terminography and traditional terminography differ? What are their respective strengths and weaknesses? This thesis defines collaborative terminography, identifies its characteristics and its various modes and forms, and presents collaborative tools to enable a thorough understanding of the phenomenon. We compare traditional and collaborative terminography through a case study of a traditional model (TERMIUM Plus) and a collaborative model (TermWiki) to identify similarities and differences between them. We then list their respective strengths and weaknesses. We conclude that traditional terminography and collaborative terminography differ mainly in terms of participants, interaction styles and infrastructure.
Meeting the Metabolic Demand during 24h of Cold Survival Simulation: A New Perspective on Energy Needs, Fuel Selection and Muscle Recruitment
Creators: name: Landry Mantha, Olivier
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014

description: Cold environments have been an ongoing challenge for humans over the ages. To date, however, knowledge on the capacity to sustain the metabolic demand of shivering is mostly limited to modeling efforts. Actual models of shivering endurance, by a presumed analogy with exercise, rely on the assumptions that carbohydrate stores are used at a constant rate and essential to maintain heat production. Therefore, my thesis firstly aimed to characterize a hypothesized capacity to adjust the fuel mixture oxidized in order to maintain heat production during 24h of cold exposure. An accidental cold exposure with food scarcity was simulated. Following a 5 km walk, lightly clothed individuals were exposed to an environmental temperature of 7.5 ○C for 24h. Results show that thermogenesis increased to 8 kJ per minute, a metabolic demand that was sustainable for 24h since lipid oxidation substituted a decreased carbohydrate oxidation. Secondly, this thesis aimed at characterizing the roles of muscle glycogen and plasma glucose in these changes in carbohydrate metabolism. It was found, as hypothesized, that such changes result from a reduction in muscle glycogen utilization. Electromyographic activity of shivering muscles was also measured to address the third objective of the thesis: determining whether shivering contributes similarly to heat production during 24h and whether muscles contribute in similar proportions. Results show that total shivering intensity was constant during 24h. However, different muscles contributed differently over time, enlightening a potential mechanism for changes in fuel selection. Questions remain concerning the origin of this shift in fuel use towards lipid dominance during this prolonged cold exposure. Blood metabolites and glucose tracer data suggest that a high availability of circulating fatty acids is more likely in cause than a depletion of glycogen reserves while the implication of inadequate feeding needs to be clarified.
L’identité créolisée comme alternative aux complexités identitaires : une analyse discursive du genre et de la race dans quelques textes législatifs français
Creators: name: Mystille, Eliza
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Race
Genre
Identité
Identité créolisée
Créolité
Créolisation
Altérité
Métissage

description: Cette thèse envisage la notion d’« identité créolisée » dans un contexte français. Il s’agit de comprendre dans quelle mesure cette identité peut, dans un premier temps, permettre aux pouvoirs politiques de repenser les différenciations identitaires qu’ils établissent par exemple entre le genre et la race. Dans un deuxième temps, il s’agit de comprendre comment l’« identité créolisée » peut permettre aux populations de (re)penser leur complexité identitaire. En articulant les concepts d’identité, de genre, de race, de métissage, de créolité, de créolisation, et d’altérité, nous avons analysé quelques textes législatifs incluant des textes fondateurs de la République française, des sections du Code pénal et du Code de procédure pénale, ainsi que la proposition de loi visant à supprimer la race de la législation française. Pour cela, nous avons utilisé le cadre méthodologique des cultural studies et une analyse du discours classique. L’analyse des cas du genre et de la race montre que les discours institutionnels établissent une différenciation arbitraire entre les identités et véhiculent une représentation de la race. Nous proposons de repenser ces différenciations à travers l’« identité créolisée », laquelle pourrait aider l’État et les populations à repenser leurs complexités.
title: NEWSLETTER Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie und Endokrinologie 09/22
Creators: name: Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
Publisher: name: Medizinische Hochschule Hannover Bibliothek
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 610

description: NEWSLETTER Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie und Endokrinologie, vol. 2022
The Governance of Canadian Domestic Multi-Sport Events: A Focus on Stakeholder Coordination and Knowledge Management
Creators: name: Schenk, Jessica Lin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: knowledge management
stakeholder coordination
domestic events
events
sport events
knowledge transfer

description: This dissertation’s purpose was to explore the governance of two domestic multi-sport events—2012 Ontario Summer Games and 2013 Canada Games—regarding how stakeholder coordination and knowledge management occurred. Case studies were built using content and social network analyses of 27 interviews and 476 document pages. In both events, the organizing committee staff and sport organizations were the most salient stakeholders, being therefore seen as the focal actors within the event network regarding coordination, initiating communication, building trust, and improving relationships. For the provincial event specifically, findings suggested the organizing committee should exist within an enduring organization in order to maximize resources (e.g., financial, human, etc.), build long-term coordination mechanisms, and enhance knowledge management capacities. Knowledge transfer appeared to occur at both levels, to varying degrees of sophistication. The knowledge management processes at each event stressed the importance of people and of tacit knowledge. Implications for researchers and managers provided.
An adaptive tracking controller using neural networks for a class of nonlinear systems
Creators: name: Man, Zhihong
name: Wu, H. R.
name: Palaniswami, M.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A neural-network-based adaptive tracking control scheme is proposed for a class of nonlinear systems in this paper. It is shown that RBF neural networks are used to adaptively learn system uncertainty bounds in the Lyapunov sense, and the outputs of the neural networks are then used as the parameters of the controller to compensate for the effects of system uncertainties. Using this scheme, not only strong robustness with respect to uncertain dynamics and nonlinearities can be obtained, but also the output tracking error between the plant output and the desired reference output can asymptotically converge to zero. A simulation example is performed in support of the proposed neural control scheme.
"It gets people through the door": a qualitative case study of the use of incentives in the care of people at risk or living with HIV in British Columbia, Canada
Creators: name: Gagnon, Marilou
name: Guta, Adrian
name: Upshur, Ross
name: Murray, Stuart J
name: Bungay, Vicky
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: There has been growing interest in the use of incentives to increase the uptake of health-related behaviours and achieve desired health outcomes at the individual and population level. However, the use of incentives remains controversial for ethical reasons. An area in which incentives have been not only proposed but used is HIV prevention, testing, treatment and care—each one representing an interconnecting step in the "HIV Cascade." Methods: The main objective of this qualitative case study was to document the experiences of health care and service providers tasked with administrating incentivized HIV testing, treatment, and care in British Columbia, Canada. A second objective was to explore the ethical and professional tensions that arise from the use of incentives as well as strategies used by providers to mitigate them. We conducted interviews with 25 providers and 6 key informants, which were analyzed using applied thematic analysis. We also collected documents and took field notes. Results: Our findings suggest that incentives target populations believed to pose the most risk to public health. As such, incentives are primarily used to close the gaps in the HIV Cascade by getting the "right populations" to test, start treatment, stay on treatment, and, most importantly, achieve (and sustain) viral suppression. Participants considered that incentives work because they "bring people through the door." However, they believed the effectiveness of incentives to be superficial, short-lived and one-dimensional—thus, failing to address underlying structural barriers to care and structural determinants of health. They also raised concerns about the unintended consequences of incentives and the strains they may put on the therapeutic relationship. They had developed strategies to mitigate the ensuing ethical and professional tensions and to make their work feel relational rather than transactional. Conclusions: We identify an urgent need to problematize the use of incentives as a part of the "HIV Cascade" agenda and interrogate the ethics of engaging in this practice from the perspective of health care and service providers. More broadly, we question the introduction of market logic into the realm of health care—an area of life previously not subject to monetary exchanges.
title: Die Neuen: Willkommen! Ausbildungs- und Studienstart im Herbst
Creators: name: Zorn, Stefan
Publisher: name: Medizinische Hochschule Hannover Bibliothek
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 610

description: MHHinfo: Das Magazin der Medizinischen Hochschule Hannover, no. 5
title: The Evolution of a Peace Corps Training Design
Creators: name: Hartman, Ann M.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Education

description: This project is the product of a rare opportunity for praxis: reflection and action and reflection and action. It is the complex interaction between my graduate school experience and two summers of work as the Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) Training Coordinator for Peace Corps Pre-Service Training in Bulgaria. For the most part, the work served as the action, and the graduate school served as my reflection, but at some moments, the converse is also true. The work helped me to better understand the theory and concepts I was learning in school, and the school helped me to better understand what I was doing in my work. The practice informed the theory, and the theory informed the practice. While this seems obvious, in reality the two were reluctant bedfellows; they resisted my attempts to bring them together. At the same time, never separate really, they evolved together over the past three years. In the four sections of this paper, Background, Explorations, A New Training Design, and Guide to the TEFL Trainer, I attempt to take the readers along on this journey through action and reflection, through a year of graduate school and a summer of Peace Corps Training, a year of explorations about those experiences, and the results of those explorations.
Les politiques internationales de gouvernance des enjeux de sécurité sanitaire : Analyse de la négociation, pratique et contestation de la gouvernance globale de la santé dans le cadre du Règlement Sanitaire International de l’Organisation Mondiale de la Santé de 2005
Creators: name: Blouin Genest, Gabriel
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Gouvernance globale de la santé
Sécurité sanitaire
Organisation Mondiale de la Santé
Relations internationales
Santé publique
Politiques de santé

description: L’objectif de cette thèse est d’établir pourquoi 194 États ont décidé de coopérer et de collaborer entre eux – par l’intermédiaire du Règlement Sanitaire International (RSI) de 2005 sous l’égide de l’OMS – en ce qui concerne la gouvernance globale de la santé et la surveillance des maladies infectieuses. Avant l’entrée en fonction de ce règlement, il y avait une absence quasi complète de coopération et de respect du précédent RSI (1969). Qui plus est, le nouveau RSI accorde des pouvoirs considérables à l’OMS, celle-ci pouvant, dans certains cas, déclarer une alerte pandémique sans l’accord des pays concernés. Cette situation a été qualifiée par certains chercheurs de « suprasouveraineté » ou de système « postwestphalien », présentant ainsi le RSI 2005 comme un gain majeur pour la concrétisation de la santé comme bien public et droit humain. Nous cherchons donc, par ce travail, à comprendre comment s’est établie cette situation dans laquelle les pays semblent coopérer pour potentiellement limiter leur souveraineté dans un enjeu de relations internationales auparavant si conflictuel. Pour se faire, trois espaces empiriques sont analysés : 1) la négociation ayant mené à l’accord sur cet instrument juridique; 2) la pratique de la gouvernance globale de la santé dans le cadre du RSI de 2005 ; et 3) les critiques qui ont été apportées à cette gouvernance.
Supplementary document for Analysis of Intracellular Protein Dynamics in Living Zebrafish Embryos Using Light-Sheet Fluorescence Single-Molecule Microscopy - 5418438.pdf
Creators: name: Beranrdello, Matteo
name: GORA, RADOSLAW
name: VAN HAGE, PATRICK
name: Castro-Olvera, Gustavo
name: Manzano, Emilio Gualda
name: SCHAAF, MARCEL
name: Loza-Alvarez, Pablo
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental figures and table
Recording of repeatable AR sessions exemplified by ARKit and Unity (Digital Appendix)
Creators: name: Schwandt, Tobias
name: Kunert, Christian
name: Broll, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This is the digital appendix to the poster publication "Recording of repeatable AR sessions exemplified by ARKit and Unity" at IEEE ISMAR 2024. 

The source code is available via GitHub:

iOS App (ARC): https://github.com/VWDG/arc-ios

Unity Playback (ARW): https://github.com/VWDG/arw-unity
title: Tatort Universität: Sozialpsychiater kämpfen Anfang der 1970er-Jahre in Hannover und Heidelberg um Lehrstühle
Creators: name: Elgeti, Hermann
Publisher: name: Medizinische Hochschule Hannover Bibliothek
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Sozialpsychiatrische Informationen, vol. 53, no. 1, p. 52
Estimating the Local False Discovery Rate via a Bootstrap Solution to the Reference Class Problem: Application to Genetic Association Data
Creators: name: Abbas Aghababazadeh, Farnoosh
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Multiple Testing
Local False Discovery Rtae
Reference Class
Bias-variance Trade Off
Tuning Parameter
Bootstrap Approach

description: Modern scientific technology such as microarrays, imaging devices, genome-wide association studies or social science surveys provide statisticians with hundreds or even thousands of tests to consider simultaneously. Testing many thousands of null hypotheses may increase the number of Type $I$ errors. In large-scale hypothesis testing, researchers can use different statistical techniques such as family-wise error rates, false discovery rates, permutation methods, local false discovery rate, where all available data usually should be analyzed together. In applications, the thousands of tests are related by a scientifically meaningful structure. Ignoring that structure can be misleading as it may increase the number of false positives and false negatives. As an example, in genome-wide association studies each test corresponds to a specific genetic marker. In such a case, the scientific structure for each genetic marker can be its minor allele frequency. In this research, the local false discovery rate as a relevant statistical approach is considered to analyze the thousands of tests together. We present a model for multiple hypothesis testing when the scientific structure of each test is incorporated as a co-variate. The purpose of this model is to incorporate the co-variate to improve the performance of testing procedures. The method we consider has different estimates depending on the tuning parameter. We would like to estimate the optimal value of that parameter by considering observed statistics. Thus, among those estimators, the one which minimizes the estimated errors due to bias and to variance is chosen by applying the bootstrap approach. Such an estimation method is called an adaptive reference class method. Under the combined reference class method, the effect of the co-variates is ignored and all null hypotheses should be analyzed together. In this research, under some assumptions for the co-variates and the prior probabilities, the proposed adaptive reference class method shows smaller error than the combined reference class method in estimating the local false discovery rate, when the number of tests gets large. We describe the adaptive reference class method to the coronary artery disease data, and we use simulation data to evaluate the performance of the estimator associated with the adaptive reference class method.