cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Landscape Permeability Improves Climate-Based Predictions of Butterfly Species Persistence
Creators: name: Soares, Rosana Nobre
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Landscape permeability
macroecology
butterflies
climate change
conservation planning

description: Habitat modification alters species' capacities to track shifting climatic conditions. Broad-scale analyses that explore demographical responses to on-going climate change tend to neglect the influence of the underlying landscape pattern. However, many landscapes are fragmented by human activities, which might make dispersal for many species more challenging. Determining the extent to which landscape factors affect broad-scale distributional patterns has implications for our ability to predict realistic climate change impacts on species. Here, we constructed species-specific measurements of landscape permeability for 96 butterfly species in southern Ontario to test whether this landscape characteristic affected species' distributions at macroecological scales. We used multiple logistic regression models to test for the effects of permeability and its interaction with temperature on butterfly species presence/absence. We found that 48% of butterfly species responded to landscape permeability alone or in interaction with temperature. In general, the effect was positive (87%) and species were more likely to be present with increasing landscape permeability. For 61% of the species that responded to broad-scale landscape permeability, the interaction of temperature with permeability was statistically significant. In warm areas, species were more likely to be present if landscape permeability was high. Landscape permeability explained 3-43% of residual variability in species' presences after accounting for temperature. Finally, we show how fine-scale permeability measurements can be combined with large-scale patterns of diversity to inform conservation efforts. Landscape permeability can affect species' distributions at broad-scales and understanding factors that potentially influence species' dispersal can improve predictions for how species respond to changing climatic conditions.
L’impact d’un programme éducatif sur la qualité de vie de personnes aînées autonomes et hypertendues en milieu francophone minoritaire
Creators: name: Taillon, Myriam
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: hypertension artérielle
haute pression
francophone en situation linguistique minoritaire
personnes aînées
prise en charge
programme éducatif

description: L’hypertension artérielle est une maladie chronique qui affecte près de 50 % des personnes de plus de 65 ans au Canada et de façon disproportionnelle, les communautés en situation minoritaire linguistique. L’objectif du projet était de sensibiliser des personnes de 65 ans et plus, hypertendues, en milieu francophone minoritaire aux facteurs de risque de l’hypertension par des ateliers éducatifs. L’impact de ces ateliers a été mesuré par un questionnaire sur la qualité de vie et des groupes de discussion. Il y a eu 34 participants. Les questionnaires ont révélé une amélioration dans les dimensions physique et mentale de la santé des participants (p < 0,001). Les groupes de discussion ont démontré que les participants comprenaient mieux la maladie et avaient modifié certains comportements. Les ateliers ont été reconnus comme très positifs par les participants. En conclusion, ce programme éducatif de 3 mois est efficace, faisable et apprécié chez cette population.
Gadflies and Zip Guns Mass Culture Criticism and Juvenile Delinquent Texts in America, 1945–1960
Creators: name: Soiseth, Neil
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: mass
culture
juvenile
delinquency
paperbacks
film
intellectuals
criticism
1950s
1940s
United
States
teenagers
America

description: This study considers the analyses of diverse social and cultural critics in America in the late 1940s and 1950s. In particular, it examines their mostly jaundiced view of what they called mass culture and its related expressions. But where these intellectuals approached contemporary life with variations of skepticism and dread, this study argues that they suffered a myopia that inhibited their ability to see the so-called culture industries of postwar America as dynamic and engaging, not dominating and demeaning. To contextualize that skewed perspective, this study examines the postwar paperback industry and reconfiguring film business before delving into a specific form of mass culture, the juvenile delinquent text. The 1950s was a period of great concern about the status of teenagers within larger society. This anxiety gave birth to sociological studies offering diverse theories and true crime accounts of alienated and barbaric teenagers threatening civic virtue and the nation’s future. More importantly, it also spawned waves of novels and films devoted to both sympathetic accounts of juvenile delinquents and sensationalist tales that exploited the public’s fears and fascination. This study uses these texts to examine three topics that also worried intellectuals of the period—urban decline and suburban migration; a reconfiguration of masculinity; and the morality of a society predicated on consumption—and finds considerable overlap in the questions and analyses each pursued. Apart from making the case for widespread circulation of critical ideas in 1950s America, it argues for considerable ideological unsettledness and suggests an unacknowledged conversation of sorts between producers of mass culture and the intellectuals who treated such forms as evidence of dissenting art’s fatal decline. The stratification and segregation employed by cultural critics of the 1950s serves as a warning to contemporary scholars about the dangers in privileging high over low.
Clinical Prediction of Symptomatic Vasospasm in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Creators: name: Lee, Hubert
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Symptomatic Vasospasm
Logistic Regression
Recursive Partitioning
Clinical Decision Rule
Intracranial Aneurysm

description: Objective: This study aims to derive a clinically-applicable decision rule to predict the risk of symptomatic vasospasm, a neurological deficit primarily due to abnormal narrowing of cerebral arteries supplying an attributable territory, in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Methods: SAH patients presenting from 2002 to 2011 were analyzed using logistic regression and recursive partitioning to identify clinical, radiological, and laboratory features that predict the occurrence of symptomatic vasospasm. Results: The incidence of symptomatic vasospasm was 21.0%. On multivariate logistic regression analysis, significant predictors of symptomatic vasospasm included age 40-59 years, high Modified Fisher Grade (Grades 3 and 4), and anterior circulation aneurysms. Conclusion: Development of symptomatic vasospasm can be reliably predicted using a clinical decision rule created by logistic regression. It exhibits increased accuracy over the Modified Fisher Grade alone and may serve as a useful clinical tool to individualize vasospasm risk once prospectively validated in other neurosurgical centres.
The Atypical Protein Kinase C - Creb Binding Protein Pathway Regulates Post-Stroke Neurovascular Remodeling and Functional Recovery
Creators: name: Gouveia, Ayden
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Stroke
Neurogenesis
Angiogenesis
aPKC
CBP

description: Ischemic stroke related brain damage causes loss of multiple cell types, including neural and vascular cells. The extent of post-stroke neurogenesis and angiogenesis predicts the level of functional regeneration/recovery after stroke. In this regard, my thesis was focused on defining the molecular process that modulates post-stroke functional recovery by co-ordinating post-stroke neurovascular remodeling. Since stroke-related brain damage releases enriched local microenvironmental cues, I examined the role of a signaling-induced epigenetic pathway, an atypical protein kinase C (aPKC)-mediated phosphorylation of CREB Binding Protein (CBP), in regulating post-stroke neurovascular remodeling and functional recovery. This pathway has previously been shown to be activated by metformin, an adenosine monophosphate kinase (AMPK) activator, to promote the differentiation of neural precursors in the developing and adult brain. Here, I first developed a murine focal cortical ischemic stroke model with persistent motor function deficits by combined intra-cortical injections of endothelin-1 (ET-1) and L-NAME into the sensorimotor cortex. Second, I applied the ET-1/L-Name-induced focal cortical stroke model in a knock-in mouse CBPS436A where the aPKC-CBP pathway is deficient, and showed that the aPKC-CBP pathway is involved in post-stroke functional recovery by coordinating neurovascular remodeling. Specifically, CBPS436A-KI mice displayed reduced motor recovery, correlated with reduced vascular remodeling and impaired post-stroke angiogenesis. Intriguingly, I also observed that CBPS436A-KI mice showed a reduction in the population of stroke-induced newborn pericytes but an increase in the population of perivascularly-derived neural precursors, implying that the aPKC-CBP pathway may be involved in the process that reprograms pericytes into neural precursors. Together, this study elucidates the novel role of the aPKC-CBP pathway in modulating neurovascular remodeling and functional recovery following focal ischemic cortical stroke.
title: Arthropod Communities in Urban Agricultural Production Systems under Different Irrigation Sources in the Northern Region of Ghana
Creators: name: Amprako, Louis Kwaku
name: Stenchly, Kathrin
name: Wiehle, Martin
name: Nyarko, George
name: Buerkert, Andreas
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: agrobiodiversity
subject: ecosystem service
subject: feeding guild
subject: insects
subject: NMDS
subject: RDA
subject: species function
subject: Sub-Sahara Africa
subject: urban agriculture
subject: 570
subject: Gliederfüßer
subject: Biodiversität
subject: Landwirtschaft
subject: Ökosystemdienstleistung
subject: Insekten
subject: Subsaharisches Afrika
subject: Städtische Landwirtschaft

description: Gefördert durch den Publikationsfonds der Universität Kassel
Fatty Acid Composition in Blubber, Liver, and Muscle of Marine Mammals in the Southern Baltic Sea
Creators: name: Dannenberger, Dirk
name: Möller, Ramona
name: Westphal, Linda
name: Moritz, Timo
name: Dähne, Michael
name: Grunow, Bianka
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Baltic Sea
subject: blubber
subject: fatty acids
subject: grey seals
subject: harbour porpoise
subject: liver
subject: muscle
subject: 590 Tiere (Zoologie)

description: Marine mammals play an important role in marine ecosystems. However, as they are less accessible for research, relatively little is known about their physiology compared to terrestrial mammals. The stranding scheme of the Deutsches Meeresmuseum (Stralsund, Germany) continuously collects strandings and by-catches of marine mammals in the Baltic Sea in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In this project, the fatty acid composition of the liver, skeletal muscles, and blubber of harbour porpoises and grey seals from the southern Baltic Sea was investigated for the first time. In the liver and blubber tissue, the values and concentrations measured for both species are consistent with studies on other marine mammals. In a direct comparison of the focus species, the skeletal muscles of harbour porpoises exhibit higher concentrations of fatty acids than those of grey seals. In the future, these studies will be extended to the entire Baltic Sea, as we suspect that fatty acid composition can be used to determine the nutritional status of the animals and thus will allow for an objective assessment of the body condition.
Towards the Identification of Candidate Gene(s) for Fusarium Head Blight Resistance on the 7EL Chromosome of Thinopyrum elongatum: Design and Use of Genetic Markers
Creators: name: Tekieh, Farideh
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Fusarium head blight
Thinopyrum elongatum
Triticum aestivum
Bread wheat
7EL chromosome
Fusarium graminearum
7EL-specific markers
7DL-specific markers
FHB resistance
Genetic order
wheat/7EL cross-walking strategy
Genetic markers

description: Triticum aestivum (bread wheat), one of the most globally important cereal crops, is vulnerable to fusarium head blight (FHB). The disease is mainly associated with the pathogen Fusarium graminearum and generates yield losses and mycotoxin contaminated grains with low quality. One possible solution to overcome this problem is the production of FHB resistant wheat varieties by crossing with strongly resistant germplasm from either wheat or closely related species. Thinopyrum elongatum is a wild grass that carries genetic resistance to FHB on the long arm of its chromosome 7E (7EL). In the first part of this research project, five Th. elongatum accessions were characterized for their response to F. graminearum infection. In the second part, BC1F4 progeny derived from the cross CS-ph1b × CS-7E(7D) were characterized to better define the 7E fragments introgressed into the 7D chromosome. Progeny were screened with a series of known 7E-specific genetic markers and for their FHB resistance. Among the 43 wheat plants tested, twelve FHB resistant progeny were shown to carry a similar, smaller 7EL introgressed fragment based on genetic marker screening. To characterize further the introgressed 7EL fragments, additional 7EL-specific markers as well as 7DL-specific markers for homoeologous wheat sequences were designed. As neither wheat nor Th. elongatum genomes were fully sequenced at the time, this made the designing procedure challenging; a cross-walking strategy between wheat and Th. elongatum draft genomic sequences was used. Twelve pairs of markers for homoeologous sequence regions of 7EL and 7DL chromosomes plus six individual 7EL- and four 7DL-specific markers were successfully designed. Nine novel 7EL-specific markers were associated with the smallest 7EL fragment carrying FHB resistance. That smallest introgressed 7EL fragment replaced approximately half of the 7DL chromosome, based on the absence of 7DL markers in some progeny. The novel 7EL- and 7DL-specific markers as well as the proposed genetic order for novel and previously designed markers contributed greatly to the characterization of the introgressed 7EL fragments in the 7DL chromosome. Further analysis of progeny from the next generations of these plants and from other families will be required to confirm the results and possibly obtain much smaller 7EL fragments.
Vers un traitement plus holistique des personnes ayant abusé sexuellement de mineurs : Analyse herméneutique et qualitative de la dimension religieuse et spirituelle de distorsions cognitives liées à l’abus et de leur prise en compte dans la psychothérapie
Creators: name: Joulain, Stéphane
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Délinquants sexuels
Counselling
Spiriutalité
Distorsions cognitives

description: Cette thèse présente les résultats d’une recherche effectuée auprès de délinquants sexuels ayant abusés de mineurs. Cette recherche explore les liens entre l’expérience religieuse et spirituelle des participants et leur perception de leurs gestes abusifs. En portant une attention particulière sur les distorsions cognitives de ces personnes, grâce à l’analyse qualitative et herméneutique, plusieurs éléments importants pour le counselling ont été mis en lumière. Il a été découvert que, de par l’histoire religieuse du Québec, la plupart des participants n’ont pas de pratiques religieuses ou spirituelles qui soient suffisamment structurantes pour avoir un impact sur les constructions cognitives des participants. Et cela, ni de manière à empêcher un comportement abusif, ni de manière à faciliter ou encourager un passage à l’acte. Par contre, deux participants, qui eux ont une pratique religieuse établie, ont montré qu’ils avaient restructuré leurs systèmes de croyances pour leur permettre d’excuser leur passage à l’acte. Il apparaît donc qu’il peut exister un lien entre des distorsions cognitives post-hoc et la formulation par les participants de leur expérience religieuse ou spirituelle (pour ceux qui disent en avoir). Par contre, il n’a pas été démontré clairement de lien entre l’expérience spirituelle ou religieuse des participants et leurs schémas cognitifs. Finalement, la plupart des participants ont reconnu, qu’ils avaient choisi d’abuser sexuellement d’un enfant sans nécessairement reconnaître la dimension entièrement volontaire de leur motivation. Ces éléments ont des conséquences intéressantes pour la relation d’aide avec ces personnes. Premièrement, une psychothérapie ne sera efficace que si la personne se reconnaît comme libre de ses choix. Deuxièmement, il est important que le psychothérapeute soit à l’écoute de l’expérience spirituelle et religieuse de son client, même si cela n’est pas déterminant quant à une prévention de la récidive. Cela permet néanmoins, dans le cadre d’une clientèle qui est contrainte et manipulatrice, de mieux identifier les différentes formes de distorsions présentes. Cependant, au regard de la capacité de perversion de ce type de clientèle, il est indispensable que le professionnel qui l’accompagne et qui désire explorer ce genre de terrain ait une formation solide aux niveaux spirituel et religieux pour pouvoir le faire.
The Mobile Citizen: Canada’s Treatment of Mobility in Immigration, Citizenship, and Foreign Policy
Creators: name: Johnston, Alexander M.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Mobility
Immigration Policy
Citizenship Policy
stakeholder citizenship
transborder citizen
Charter of Rights and Freedoms

description: Mobility, as the ability among newcomers and citizens to move temporarily and circularly across international borders and between states, has become a pervasive norm for a significant portion of Canada’s population. Despite its pervasive nature and the growing public interest, however, current research has been limited in how Canadian policies are reacting to the ability of citizens and newcomers to move. This thesis seeks to fill that gap by analyzing Canada’s treatment of mobility within and across policies of immigration, citizenship and foreign affairs. An analytical mobility framework is developed to incorporate interdisciplinary work on human migration and these policy domains. Using this framework, an examination of policy developments in each domain in the last decade reveals that they diverge in isolation and from a whole-of-government perspective around the treatment of mobility. In some instances policy accommodates or even embraces mobility, and in others it restricts it.
Impact of academic self-efficacy on online learning outcomes: a recent literature review
Creators: name: Yokoyama, Satoru
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2024
Subjects: academic self-efficacy
academic performance
online learning
e-learning
distance learning

description: In recent years, the concept of self-efficacy has garnered attention in educational psychology research on motivation. Within an academic context, academic self-efficacy (ASE) reflects learners' belief in their ability to achieve educational goals. However, most research has focused on traditional face-to-face classroom settings, with little exploration in distance learning environments like online and e-learning. The current review aims to update a previous study (Yokoyama, 2019) and examine differences in online learning types: asynchronous, synchronous, and blended learning. The study's findings reveal that in mixed environments combining synchronous and asynchronous elements, or in blended settings merging face-to-face classes with asynchronous learning, ASE positively impacts academic performance akin to traditional face-to-face classes. However, in asynchronous online learning environments, ASE's influence on academic performance might be slightly weaker compared to synchronous learning environments. The paper will subsequently discuss the pedagogical implications derived from these results.
description: EXCLI Journal; 23:Doc960; ISSN 1611-2156
Überprüfung der Quecksilber-, Cadmium- und Blei-Gehalte in Batterien
Creators: name: Radant, Hendrik
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Batteriegesetz
subject: Schwermetallgehalt
subject: Elektrische Batterie
subject: Cadmium
subject: Haushaltsabfall
subject: Quecksilber
subject: Blei
subject: Probenaufbereitung
subject: Analytik
subject: Altes Elektrogerät
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen
subject: Waste | Resources

description: Ziel des Projekts „Überprüfung der Quecksilber-, Cadmium- und Blei-Gehalte in Batterien. Analyse von Proben handelsüblicher Batterien und in Geräten verkaufter Batterien. Erstellung eines Probenahmeplans, Probenbeschaffung und Analytik“ war es, über eine gut ausgewählte Stichprobe eine qualitative Situationsbeschreibung bezüglich der potenziellen Belastung des Hausmülls und der Batterie-Verwertungsverfahren durch schwermetallhaltige Batterien zu erhalten. In diesem Zusammenhang wurden die ermittelten Schwermetallgehalte der Batterien mit den Grenzwerten und Kennzeichnungsschwellenwerten des BattG verglichen.
A quantitative analysis of sleep quality in women with endometriosis
Creators: name: Arion, Kristina
name: Orr, Natasha L.
name: Noga, Heather
name: Allaire, Catherine
name: Williams, Christina
name: Bedaiwy, Mohamed Ali, 1968-
name: Yong, Paul J.
Publisher: name: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
Year: 2022

description: Background: Endometriosis is a complex condition that can negatively affect a woman’s quality of life, including her sleep. This study aims to assess the multifactorial variables associated with poorer quality of sleep in women with endometriosis. Methods: Data from the Endometriosis Pelvic Pain Interdisciplinary Cohort (EPPIC) data registry were analyzed for women who underwent surgery at the BC Women’s Center for Pelvic Pain and Endometriosis with histopathological confirmation of endometriosis (June 2015 to June 2017). The primary outcome was quality of sleep pre-operatively, from the Chronic Pain Sleep Inventory. Bivariate analysis and multivariable linear regression were done to determine any significant associations between pre-operative patient variables and overall quality of sleep, based on p-value of 0.05. Results: Two hundred and seventy-five women met the study criteria. Poorer overall quality of sleep was independently associated with poorer functional quality-of-life (EHP- 30)(b = -.18, p = .0026), more depressive symptoms (PHQ-9) (b = -1.62, p < .001), and painful bladder syndrome (b = -5.82, p = .035). This indicates that a 1 point increase in the EHP-30 (worsening quality-of-life), a 1 point increase in the PHQ-9 (worsening depression) and the presence of painful bladder syndrome, increased the primary outcome (i.e. towards poorer quality of sleep) by 0.18, 1.62, and 5.82 points. Conclusion: Poorer quality of sleep in women with endometriosis is associated with poorer quality-of-life, more depressive symptoms, and bladder pain. Research into interventions that improve sleep is warranted as part of the management of some women with endometriosis.
The transition of international students into postgraduate study: an incremental approach
Creators: name: Jepson, M.
name: Turner, T.
name: Calway, B.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Globalisation presents a number of opportunities and challenges to education. Increased international student numbers, the wide variety of cultural and educational backgrounds of these students and the impact of differing study locations and time zones all act to increase the complexity of the educational environment The Centre for eBusiness and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology, Lilydale, is increasingly facing these challenges as it provides graduate programs to students both internationally and locally, in face-to-face and online modes. This paper explores current research being undertaken into the ways in which the Centre can best support the learning journey of students with diverse experience, needs and perspectives. It details the implementation of an ongoing orientation program for international students studying in face-to-face mode and a parallel, online program for overseas online students. Not only is orientation provided for students at the outset of the program, but also at each stage (Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma and Master) as the approach becomes more learner-driven and independent, ensuring clear communication of the requirements of a self-directed approach and a jointly developed understanding of the roles of staff and students within each new level. The paper aims to elaborate the importance of managing expectations, both of staff and students, in order to most effectively and authentically aid the learning experience for the global student.
Les figures du fou dans la dramaturgie québécoise : portraits esthétiques
Creators: name: Boucher, Gabrielle
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: folie
maladie mentale
théâtre québécois
figure
esthétique
Ce que nous avons fait
Gauvreau
Chaurette
Brullemans
Provincetown Playhouse
La charge de l'orignal épormyable
dramaturgie
décontructivisme
expressionnisme
romantisme

description: La folie dans la dramaturgie québécoise est davantage une métaphore méta-théâtrale qu’une qualité liée à la maladie mentale. Certes, avec la naissance des sciences humaines, les dramaturges occidentaux ont progressivement fait disparaître les personnages iconographiques au profit de patients (Smadja, 2009). Il n’en demeure pas moins que les manifestations contemporaines de ce « type » de personnage ne cessent de se multiplier, particulièrement dans le corpus dramaturgique québécois. En explorant le traitement réservé aux « fous » de ce même corpus, on découvre une série de chantiers exploratoires voués autant à la remise en question de la structure linéaire ou réaliste qu’à la réflexion ontologique. Ces questionnements quant à l’identité du personnage permettent de les cerner en tant que « figures », la conséquence d’une reconceptualisation du personnage théâtral, tributaire, quant à elle, d’un nouvel ordre dramaturgique (Ryngaert, 2008). Qui plus est, ces figures rappellent explicitement – et parfois ironiquement –, par leur lucidité et leur regard philosophique porté sur l’existence humaine, le traitement dramaturgique que Shakespeare réserve à Macbeth, Hamlet et Lear. Cette thèse propose d’étudier trois personnages de la dramaturgie québécoise – soit Mycroft Mixeudeim (La charge de l’orignal épormyable de Claude Gauvreau), Charles Charles (Provincetown Playhouse, juillet 1919, j’avais 19 ans de Normand Chaurette) et Miriam (Ce que nous avons fait de Pascal Brullemans) –, dans le but de dresser un portrait, aussi sommaire soit-il, des multiples déclinaisons de la figure du fou dans le théâtre québécois depuis les années 60. Cette analyse permettra de nuancer le point de vue de Foucault selon lequel la notion de folie s’est normalisée jusqu’à perdre son caractère a priori imagé ou iconographique (Foucault, 1964). Pour ce faire, elle s’articulera autour de grilles esthétiques empruntées à des courants des arts visuels, soit respectivement le romantisme, l’expressionnisme et le déconstructivisme. En repérant les ressemblances et les dissemblances dans le traitement esthétique des trois figures, nous serons en mesure de prouver que la figure du fou dans le théâtre québécois se veut plutôt un creuset pour se questionner sur l’Art, le langage et le théâtre comme moyens de mieux cerner la réalité.
The Logic of Hereditary Harrop Formulas as a Specification Logic for Hybrid
Creators: name: Battell, Chelsea
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: cut admissibility
structural rules
interactive theorem proving
inductive reasoning
Coq
logical frameworks
higher-order abstract syntax

description: Hybrid is a two-level logical framework that supports higher-order abstract syntax (HOAS), where a specification logic (SL) extends the class of object logics (OLs) we can reason about. We develop a new Hybrid SL and formalize its metatheory, proving weakening, contraction, exchange, and cut admissibility; results that greatly simplify reasoning about OLs in systems providing HOAS. The SL is a sequent calculus defined as an inductive type in Coq and we prove properties by structural induction over SL sequents. We also present a generalized SL and metatheory statement, allowing us to prove many cases of such theorems in a general way and understand how to identify and prove the difficult cases. We make a concrete and measurable improvement to Hybrid with the new SL formalization and provide a technique for abstracting such proofs, leading to a condensed presentation, greater understanding, and a generalization that may be instantiated to other logics.
Public Health Nurses' Experiences during the H1N1/09 Response
Creators: name: Devereaux, Alana
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Public Health
Interpretive Description
Mass vaccinations
nursing
Pandemic H1N1/09
influenza

description: The H1N1/09 (sub-type A) virus was declared to be a pandemic influenza on June 11th, 2009. In response, Canadian public health agencies planned mass vaccination clinics to protect the public. However, little information existed to aid in the planning of mass vaccination clinics, as they had not been used in previous pandemic flu outbreaks. This was further complicated by fear of a limited vaccine supply and nurse shortages. Public health nurses (PHNs), as the largest group of public health professionals were pivotal in implementing the mass vaccination clinics. Yet, the available evidence indicated that PHNs involvement in H1N1/09 response planning was limited and their experiences on the frontline in the mass vaccination clinics were not well understood. The purpose of this study was to give PHNs’ a voice to describe their experiences in the H1N1/09 mass vaccination clinics. A framework based on Foucault’s concepts of knowledge, power, and resistance was developed as the theoretical lens to guide the research. Using an interpretive descriptive methodology, a purposeful sample of 23 PHNs (16 front-line immunizers, seven clinic supervisors) participated in semi-structured interviews. Four pandemic planning documents containing policies in place during the pandemic outbreak were also reviewed to provide context to participants’ experiences. Interpretive descriptive analysis was used to analyze the interviews and pandemic documents. Guba and Lincoln’s (1994) trustworthiness framework was implemented to evaluate the rigour of the study’s findings. Two overall core themes emerged to describe participants’ experiences. The core theme ‘the necessity of knowledge’, illustrated participants’ feelings of unpreparedness entering into the H1N1/09 clinics. Limited notice of the pandemic response, uncertainties regarding the clinics’ anticipated timeframe, and a lack of knowledge on vaccination and clinic management, contributed to a loss of power in the participants’ role. In the second core theme ‘essential supports in protecting the population’, many perceived a lack of agency support when they tried to exercise power in their clinical practice. Although participants did not refuse to immunize in, or supervise, the mass vaccination clinics, participants at times did display subtle resistance. Insights gained from participants’ experiences have implications in terms of public health nursing administration, practice, research, and education. A key recommendation is to involve PHNs in future pandemic planning to optimize mass vaccination clinics’ operations. If this cannot happen, PHNs should at least be informed of the disciplinary discourse utilized to guide clinical decisions. This will help nurses be supported in their own pandemic roles and contribute to the provision of quality population care.
Prior language learning: an advantage when learning a foreign language?
Creators: name: Chen, Lee
name: Tempone, Irene
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Intemational students are seriously disadvantaged by having to leam a foreign language through the medium of another imperfectly mastered foreign language. The frequency and type of errors made in written texts by Australian students whose mother tongue is English with a comparable cohort of Chinese students whose mother tongue is a dialect of Chinese and who lack a near-native level of competence in English, are examined to assess this. The frequency and type of syntactic errors are compared for the two cohorts of students. The data are derived from the written components of the end of the year test administered to first year students of Japanese at one of Melboume's universities. The texts are analysed within the framework of interlingual interference, intralingual interference, developmental and induced categories.
Why Bother? A Socio-Theological Inquiry into Dimensions of Compassion in the Boomer Culture of Ottawa
Creators: name: Marsden-Dole, Patricia M.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: culture
faith
compassion
baby boomers
meaning in life

description: Ontario will soon become an aging society (2017) at a time when this once rich province has become a have not province in Canada according to definitions used to assess federal-provincial transfer payments. In the past half century since the 1960’s the public culture has shifted from one dominated by Anglo-Saxon Christian values and social norms to one that is highly urbanized and multicultural seeking to welcome and balance the values and norms of many cultures and faiths. Much has changed in the life time of what is now the aging Boomer generation. Practical theology provides an approach to practical moral reasoning and practical wisdom in the light of Christian tradition with which to engage in the ethical and moral challenges in contemporary culture. From the perspective of Christian tradition compassion at the collective and personal levels will be essential to ensure that future generations have the means with which to carry forward the tradition of a just and caring society. Such a society must demonstrate respect for human dignity of the individual while assuming a collective responsibility for the common good by engaging the voices of people most affected by the interests of the powerful. Compassion needs hope, and hope needs faith in something life giving. This dissertation presents an approach for young seniors with which to begin to create this future through locating in their life stories the sources of faith that inspires hope in life with the freedom to sustain compassionate engagement with those on the margins of society, particularly frail elders in the years ahead. ix
Radical Forgiveness: The Dynamics of Forgiveness after Culpable Wrongdoing of Intolerable Harm
Creators: name: Bender, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Forgiveness
Radical Forgiveness
Culpable Wrongdoing
Intolerable Harm
Wartime Rape

description: This thesis explores the dynamics of radical forgiveness after culpable wrongdoing of intolerable harm. It begins by exploring forgiveness in general outlining many understandings of the term. It then pursues radical forgiveness to develop a deeper understanding of the phenomenon. Wartime rape is used as the context in which radical forgiveness in explored. In the final chapter, this thesis argues that there exists a disconnect between the trauma suffered by women worldwide and the recourses available to them in order to recover. Even an internal process, such as radical forgiveness, remains inadequate to address the suffering of women.
Leitfaden zur umweltfreundlichen öffentlichen Beschaffung von Bodenbelägen, Paneelen und Türen aus Holz und Holzwerkstoffen für Innenräume
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Umweltfreundliche öffentliche Beschaffung
subject: Umweltfreundliche Beschaffung
subject: Beschaffung
subject: Bodenbelag
subject: Holzwerkstoff
subject: Innenraum
subject: Innenraumluft
subject: Bodenbeläge
subject: Paneele
subject: Tür
subject: Innentür
subject: Holzwerkstoffe
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum

description: Bodenbeläge, Paneele und Innentüren bestehen häufig aus einer Vielzahl von Stoffen, da sie fast immer behandelt, geklebt, vorgestrichen oder beschichtet sind. Dies kann auf ihrem gesamten Lebensweg zu Umwelt- und gesundheitlichen Belastungen führen. Dieser Leitfaden enthält Umweltkriterien für die Beschaffung von Bodenbelägen, Paneelen und Innentüren, die über die gesetzlichen Bestimmungen hinausgehen. Die Kriterien umfassen die umweltfreundliche Herstellung, die gesundheitliche Unbedenklichkeit im Innenraum und den Verzicht auf Stoffe, die bei der Verwertung erheblich stören. Der Leitfaden basiert auf den Kriterien des Blauen Engels für Emissionsarme Bodenbeläge, Paneele und Türen aus Holz und Holzwerkstoffen für Innenräume (RAL-UZ 176), Ausgabe Januar 2013.
A Comparative Variationist Approach to Morphosyntactic Variation in Hexagonal and Quebec French
Creators: name: Kastronic, Laura
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016

description: French spoken in Quebec (QF) is largely considered to be vastly different from Hexagonal French (HF), spoken in France, but this assumption has not been tested empirically. Systematic and accountable analyses of morphosyntactic features in HF are generally absent from the current body of linguistic research on French, which precludes the possibility of reliable comparison. This dissertation addresses this gap through the systematic analysis of three different linguistic variables in spoken HF (the subjunctive mood, the expression of necessity, and the expression of pronominal indefiniteness), using the comparative variationist sociolinguistics framework, which seeks to account for variability in language by demonstrating that choices made by speakers are not random, but rather are constrained by various social and linguistic factors. The analysis tests whether the strong community trends that deviate from the prescribed standard, shown to be operative in QF (e.g., Poplack, Lealess & Dion 2013), are also present in the source variety (HF) and if so, whether the underlying conditioning of the variability is parallel across the two varieties. The results of this research reveal nearly identical underlying systems in both varieties in the case of the subjunctive mood and the expression of necessity. The most notable difference is the circumstantial proportion of specific lexical items (namely falloir que, which is strongly entrenched with the subjunctive mood in QF and is also the main variant used to express necessity), which is eventually linked to the different strategies employed in each variety to express indefinite necessity and indefiniteness more generally. The results of this research highlight the importance of considering the consequences of one change on another and how variability in one area of the grammar contributes to the larger picture. It also represents the first comparative variationist analysis of morphosyntactic variation in QF and HF, and thus contributes to clarifying our understanding of the (dis)similarities between the two varieties, in addition to offering insight into the relationship between transplanted dialects and their source variety more generally.
'Clearcut' Conflict: Clayoquot Sound Campaign and the Moral Imagination
Creators: name: Mann, Michaela Killoran
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Clayoquot
Clayoquot Sound
Lederach
moral imagination
environmental conflict
environmental campaign
Tzeporah Berman

description: In 1993, Clayoquot Sound in British Columbia became the focus of a global environmental campaign following the decision to clearcut two-thirds of the old-growth rainforest. The campaign was multifaceted including protests, blockades, boycotts and negotiations, and involved thousands of people around the world. Over the course of six years, environmentalists engaged in the conflict with government, First Nations, and industry and were able to alter logging practices in Clayoquot Sound to protect its ecological integrity. This thesis explores the campaign to save Clayoquot Sound through the lens of the moral imagination as described by John Paul Lederach. Lederach proposes that transforming conflict away from being destructive requires the moral imagination. He identifies four disciplines that are essential to the moral imagination: paradoxical curiosity, relationship focus, creativity and willingness to take risk. Analysis of turning points in the Clayoquot campaign demonstrates how the moral imagination transformed the conflict and led to the conservation of the rainforests. Furthermore, the Clayoquot campaign and the subsequent work of one of its organizers suggest that efforts to generate environmental social change can be realized when guided by the moral imagination.
Choosing to study independently - when is it a bad idea?
Creators: name: Francis, Glenda
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: With ever increasing demands on limited resources, universities are looking for ways to utilize their resources more efficiently. At Swinburne University of Technology, in the statistics component of the psychology course, we have developed a set of materials which allow students to work independently, rather than attending lectures and tutorials. This means fewer students attend tutorials and we can give those that need it more individual assistance. A major concern with this strategy is that students might choose to work independently for inappropriate reasons. This study explores the differences in performance between students who choose to attend lectures and those who opt for independent study, and seeks to identify factors which explain these differences. The research is based on a number of questionnaires collected throughout the semester and analysed in conjunction with the students’ results.
Who loses income during the COVID-19 outbreak? : Evidence from China
Creators: name: Qian, Yue
name: Fan, Wen
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed every facet of society. In addition to directly affecting population health, the economic impact of this social shock has begun to be palpable at the individual level. Situated in this context, this research note draws on data collected from Mainland China in March–April, 2020 to examine the individual-level economic toll of the COVID-19 outbreak. We investigate how individuals’ income (when surveyed) has changed relative to before the outbreak, and pay particular attention to the potentially unequal distribution of economic vulnerability based on structural (dis)advantages and COVID-19 related conditions. We show that education, family economic status, Communist Party membership, state-sector employment, and urban hukou—all long-standing status markers in China—mitigate the adverse effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on individuals’ income losses. In addition, people who live in families or regions that were hit harder by COVID- 19 are more likely to experience income losses. Taken together, this study shows that the COVID-19 pandemic not only exacerbates pre-existing social inequalities but also creates new forms of disparities. Therefore, instead of acting as a great equalizer, the pandemic may well magnify the social distribution of economic vulnerability. To alleviate inequality and aid post-pandemic recovery, public policies need to be oriented toward vulnerable and marginalized populations.
Smart Meters Big Data : Behavioral Analytics via Incremental Data Mining and Visualization
Creators: name: Singh, Shailendra
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Smart Grid
Smart Meter
Behavioral Analytics
Data-Driven Approach
Energy Consumption Patterns
Frequent Pattern
Correlation Pattern
Cluster Analysis
Online Data Mining
Incremental Data Mining
Distributed Data Mining
Association Rules
Appliance Usage Prediction
Energy Consumption Prediction
Prediction
Visualization

description: The big data framework applied to smart meters offers an exception platform for data-driven forecasting and decision making to achieve sustainable energy efficiency. Buying-in consumer confidence through respecting occupants' energy consumption behavior and preferences towards improved participation in various energy programs is imperative but difficult to obtain. The key elements for understanding and predicting household energy consumption are activities occupants perform, appliances and the times that appliances are used, and inter-appliance dependencies. This information can be extracted from the context rich big data from smart meters, although this is challenging because: (1) it is not trivial to mine complex interdependencies between appliances from multiple concurrent data streams; (2) it is difficult to derive accurate relationships between interval based events, where multiple appliance usage persist; (3) continuous generation of the energy consumption data can trigger changes in appliance associations with time and appliances. To overcome these challenges, we propose an unsupervised progressive incremental data mining technique using frequent pattern mining (appliance-appliance associations) and cluster analysis (appliance-time associations) coupled with a Bayesian network based prediction model. The proposed technique addresses the need to analyze temporal energy consumption patterns at the appliance level, which directly reflect consumers' behaviors and provide a basis for generalizing household energy models. Extensive experiments were performed on the model with real-world datasets and strong associations were discovered. The accuracy of the proposed model for predicting multiple appliances usage outperformed support vector machine during every stage while attaining accuracy of 81.65\%, 85.90\%, 89.58\% for 25\%, 50\% and 75\% of the training dataset size respectively. Moreover, accuracy results of 81.89\%, 75.88\%, 79.23\%, 74.74\%, and 72.81\% were obtained for short-term (hours), and long-term (day, week, month, and season) energy consumption forecasts, respectively.
"But oh, I could it not refine": Lady Hester Pulter's Textual Alchemy
Creators: name: Padaratz, Pricilla
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: alchemy
religion
Hester Pulter
women's writing
manuscript
early modern
devotional lyric

description: Hester Pulter addresses personal and spiritual transformation in a unique way. The elusive nature of alchemical language allows Pulter to express the incomplete, ongoing process of internal transformation, with all its difficulties and inconsistencies. By means of a rich alchemical lexicon, Pulter stresses suffering rather than consolation, conflict rather than reconciliation, and lack of resolution rather than closure in her poetry. She repeatedly tries to see a divine order in earthly suffering, but she insists upon this suffering, and she often argues for a gendered element to this pain, particularly as a mother grieving her dead children. The lack of resolution we see in Pulter's writing pushes against conventional constructions of the ideal female Christian as passively accepting God's plan, and shows the limits of the religious lyric to truly provide consolation. My thesis will extend the discussion of Pulter's use of alchemical imagery and symbols in her poetry, and will argue that she uses alchemical language to reflect how transformation and healing are never, in fact, fully achieved during our physical existence. The promise of literary alchemy as a vehicle for transformation and spiritual regeneration is not always fulfilled in Pulter's work.