cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Links between Aggressive Sexual Fantasies and Presumably Non-Consensual Aggressive Sexual Behavior when Controlling for BDSM Identity
Creators: name: Bondü, Rebecca
name: Birke, Joseph
Publisher: name: International Journal of Conflict and Violence (IJCV)
Year: 2020

description: Recent research provides evidence that aggressive sexual fantasies predict aggressive sexual behavior in the general population. However, sexual fantasies including fantasies about the infliction of pain and humiliation, should be frequent and often consensually acted upon among individuals with sadomasochistic likings. The question arises whether sexual fantasies with aggressive content still predict presumably non-consensual aggressive sexual behavior in individuals with sadomasochistic likings, given that BDSM encounters are generally considered consensual. To investigate this question, we conducted a questionnaire survey of sexual fantasies, assessing the frequency of seventy sexual fantasies involving non-aggressive, masochistic, and aggressive acts. Our sample (N = 182) contained 99 respondents who self-identified as sadist, masochist, or switcher; 44 reported no such identification. For respondents reporting BDSM identification, we replicated a factor structure for sexual fantasies similar to that previously found in the general population, including three factors reflecting fantasies about increasingly severe aggressive sexual acts. Fantasies about injuring a partner and/or using weapons and fantasies about sexual coercion predicted presumably non-consensual sexual behavior independently of other risk factors for aggressive sexual behavior and irrespective of BDSM identification. Hence, severely aggressive sexual fantasies may predispose to presumably non-consensual sexual behavior in both individuals with and without BDSM identification.
description: International Journal of Conflict and Violence (IJCV), Vol 14 No 1 (2020)
A critique of the concept of social exclusion and its utility for Australian social housing policy
Creators: name: Arthurson, Kathy
name: Jacobs, Keith
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The paper reviews the usefulness of the concept of social exclusion for Australian social housing policy. We draw on recent theoretical and empirical research from Europe and the UK to develop a critique of the concept of social exclusion. It is argued that any assessment of social exclusion needs to distinguish between its utility as an academic explanatory concept and its political deployment to justify new forms of policy intervention. Policy targeting anti-social behaviour through increasingly more punitive means, for instance, is often justified on the basis that it ameliorates the problems of social exclusion experienced by tenants residing in public housing estates. We conclude that, in spite of the limitations of social exclusion as an analytical concept, for political and pragmatic reasons it is likely to become an important component of the emerging Australian housing policy agenda.
Traditional and New Enhancing Human Cybernetic and Nanotechnological Body Modification Technologies: A Comparative Study of Roman Catholic and Transhumanist Ethical Approaches
Creators: name: Caligiuri, Michael
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Roman Catholic
Ethics
Transhumanism
Cybernetic
Nanotechnological
Bionic
Body
Modification
Enhancing
Implant
Medical
Cyborg
Tattoo
Technology

description: Advances in cybernetic and nanotechnological body modifications currently allow for enhancements to human physical and mental function which exceed human species-based norms. This thesis examines body modification and human enhancement from two perspectives—Roman Catholicism and Transhumanism— in order to contribute to bioethical deliberations regarding enhancement technologies. Roman Catholicism has a longstanding tradition of bioethical discourse, informing the healthcare directives of Roman Catholic institutions. Transhumanism is more recent movement that endorses body modifications and human enhancements as a means of individual betterment and social evolution. The thesis first considers definitions of human enhancement and levels of normalcy in connection to cybernetic and nanotechnological bionic implants, and outlines a series of criteria to assess a technology’s potential bioethical acceptability: implantability, permanency, power, and public interaction. The thesis then describes Roman Catholicism’s response to non-enhancing decorative body modifications (cosmetic surgeries, common decorative modifications such as tattoos and piercings, and uncommon modifications such as scarifications and brandings) in order to establish a basis for possible Roman Catholic responses to enhancing cybernetic and nanotechnological modifications. This is followed by an analysis from a Roman Catholic perspective of the major social issues brought forward by enhancement technologies: commodification, eugenics, vulnerability, and distributive justice. Turning to Transhumanism, the thesis describes the origins and philosophy of the movement, and then discusses the bioethical principles it advances with regard to human enhancement. The thesis concludes by locating points of convergence between Transhumanism and Roman Catholicism that could be the basis of more widely accepted ethical guidelines regarding modification technologies.
Bridging the Gap: Feminist Movements and their Efforts to Advance Abortion Rights in Chile
Creators: name: Ivanescu, Yvonne
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: third-wave
abortion debate
abortion
generational tensions
reproductive and sexual rights
second-wave
Santiago
Chile
Catholic Church
Latin America
reproductive rights

description: Chile allowed therapeutic abortion (cases in which the mother’s life was in danger) from 1931 until 1989, the last year of the Pinochet military dictatorship. After Pinochet stepped down, Chile underwent a democratic transition in 1990 that was heavily reliant on a moral fundamentalist mentality, primarily influenced by the Catholic Church and conservative political parties. It has been widely argued that after the democratic transition, the previously strong and united women’s movement lost much of its visibility and cohesiveness due to its progressive fragmentation. This thesis holds that the women’s movement in Chile is not dead, but instead there are numerous small movements that apply different methods in an attempt to change abortion legislation in Chile. Through the dissemination of secondary research and first-person interviews conducted over a period of six months in Chile, the results show that Chilean third-wave feminists have re-shaped the women’s movement in an effort to introduce innovative ideas and tactics to advance abortion rights. Nonetheless, these new voices have also created tensions between new and old feminists further dividing the movement and limiting their ability to effect real change in regards to the abortion debate in Chile.
An integrative approach to building professional attributes in a first year nursing course: description and preliminary analysis of academic numeracy
Creators: name: Galligan, Linda
name: Loch, Birgit
name: Lawrence, Jill
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper will describe the characteristics of an academic numeracy component of two new courses designed to build the academic attributes student nurses need to succeed at university and in the nursing profession. It will also report on a project designed to evaluate and improve these courses. This project had a collective case-study design, including quantitative and qualitative methodologies which involved students and academic staff reflecting on curriculum design and assessment. Finally the paper will report on the 2008 courses revised as a result of the evaluation.
Sexual Violence Victimization among Undergraduates at a Chilean University
Creators: name: Saldarriaga, Laura
name: Rocha, Carolina
name: Castro, Diego
name: Jiménez-Moya, Gloria
name: Carvacho, Héctor
name: Bohner, Gerd
Publisher: name: International Journal of Conflict and Violence (IJCV)
Year: 2020

description: As part of a campus-wide prevention program, the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC) implemented a cross-sequential survey on sexual violence. In this article, we report data from the first wave (2018; N = 2,046) from three cohorts of undergraduates (Year 1, n = 792; Year 2, n = 601; Year 3, n = 653). We found an overall twelve-month prevalence for victimization experiences of 18.7 percent (4.3 percent by force or threat of force; 12.9 percent while unable to resist; 7.1 percent by verbal pressure; multiple responses allowed). Women (22.9 percent) were victimized more frequently than men (9.7 percent). Among women, victimization rates were highest for Year 1 students (25.7 percent), intermediate for Year 2 (22.3%), and lowest for Year 3 (19.8 percent). Only 10.9 percent of reported incidents happened in a university context. In most cases, perpetrators were male (88.9 percent) and known to the victim (72.1 percent); 24.4 percent were partners, 35.5 percent were friends. We present additional data on risk factors and attitudinal correlates. We also discuss our findings in relation to previous research suggesting higher prevalence rates at Chilean universities, considering differences in methodology and implications for future research.
description: International Journal of Conflict and Violence (IJCV), Vol 14 No 1 (2020)
LMO4 is Required for Central Leptin Control of Fat Metabolism and Insulin Sensitivity.
Creators: name: Zhou, Xun
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: LMO4
leptin
adiposity
sympathetic outflow
insulin

description: Metabolic homeostasis is orchestrated by the hypothalamus through the neuroendocrine and the autonomic nervous systems. The hypothalamic nuclei respond to the peptide leptin secreted from adipose tissue to suppress feeding and increase energy expenditure by promoting fat metabolism via sympathetic activity. Another important, but perhaps less appreciated function of central leptin signaling is to elevate peripheral insulin sensitivity. Environmental and genetic risk factors that affect hypothalamic leptin signaling can lead to obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Here, we discovered that LIM domain only 4, LMO4, is a novel protein participating in central leptin signaling. In a process strikingly similar to T2DM in humans, CaMKIIα-Cre;LMO4flox/flox mice, which have LMO4 knocked out in the postnatal brain including the hypothalamus, develop visceral adiposity, reduced insulin sensitivity, obesity and diabetes when fed with regular chow. Central leptin signaling was significantly lost in key hypothalamic nuclei of mutant mice. Caloric restriction prevents obesity but not insulin resistance in these mice. Taken together, our results suggest that LMO4 function in the brain is required for central leptin signaling to control fat metabolism and peripheral insulin sensitivity.
Vehicular Cloud: Stochastic Analysis of Computing Resources in a Road Segment
Creators: name: Zhang, Tao
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Vehicular Cloud
Stochastic Models
Traffic Characterization
Vehicular Networks

description: Intelligent transportation systems aim to provide innovative applications and services relating to traffic management and enable ease of access to information for various system users. The intent to utilize the excessive on-board resources in the transportation system, along with the latest computing resource management technology in conventional clouds, has cultivated the concept of the Vehicular Cloud. Evolved from Vehicular Networks, the vehicular cloud can be formed by vehicles autonomously, and provides a large number of applications and services that can benefit the entire transportation system, as well as drivers, passengers, and pedestrians. However, due to high traffic mobility, the vehicular cloud is built on dynamic physical resources; as a result, it experiences several inherent challenges, which increase the complexity of its implementations. Having a detailed picture of the number of vehicles, as well as their time of availability in a given region through a model, works as a critical stepping stone for enabling vehicular clouds, as well as any other system involving vehicles moving over the traffic network. The number of vehicles represents the amount of computation capabilities available in this region and the navigation time indicates the period of validity for a specific compute node. Therefore, in this thesis, we carry out a comprehensive stochastic analysis of several traffic characteristics related to the implementation of vehicular cloud inside a road segment by adopting proper traffic models. According to the analytical results, we demonstrate the feasibility of running a certain class of applications or services on the vehicular cloud, even for highly dynamic scenarios. Specifically, two kinds of traffic scenarios are modeled: free-flow traffic and queueing-up traffic. We use a macroscopic traffic model to investigate the free-flow traffic and analyze the features such as traffic density, the number of vehicles and their residence time. Also, we utilize the queueing theory to model the queueing-up traffic; the queue length and the waiting time in the queue are analyzed. The results show the boundaries on enabling vehicular cloud, allowing to determine a range of parameters for simulating vehicular clouds.
Yeast as a Model for the Study of Fusarium graminearum Resistance
Creators: name: Gunter, Amanda
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014

description: Fusarium graminearum trichothecene mycotoxins, notably deoxynivalenol (DON), contaminate cereal grains and threaten food and feed safety. This study identified the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter Pdr5p as the main exporter of DON in the model system Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Toxin export by Pdr5p from living cells was, however, blocked by an unidentified inhibitory compound produced by F. graminearum. The main objective of this study was to create Pdr5p mutants demonstrating insensitivity to inhibition while maintaining the ability to export DON. A total of 38 Pdr5p mutants, each containing a single amino acid substitution at two important sites of the transporter, were generated and expressed in yeast harboring a deletion of wild-type Pdr5p. This study demonstrated that while most of these mutants maintained DON export, some were more resistant than the wild-type to inhibition by the Pdr5p-specific inhibitors FK506 and enniatin B. Results suggest that Pdr5p mutants S1360D and S1360E are resistant to F. avenaceum culture filtrate while none of the 38 mutants analyzed are resistant to F. graminearum culture filtrate. This study has shown that knowledge gained though the study of Pdr5p mutants in yeast could be extended to plants in an attempt to improve their ability to confer resistance to Fusarium species.
Beat, Ignore, Force to Conform: Development and Initial Validation of a Multidimensional Scale of Acceptance of Collective Violence
Creators: name: Winiewski, Mikołaj
name: Bulska, Dominika
Publisher: name: International Journal of Conflict and Violence (IJCV)
Year: 2020

description: Literature on collective violence usually treats an act of aggression as a unidimensional phenomenon—occurring or not. The social psychological perspective on intergroup relations shows, however, that different aspects of an intergroup situation (social context, differences in status, past relations) lead to different behaviors. This article describes the development and initial validation of the multifaceted concept of intergroup collective violence. In a series of three studies (N = 1,420, N = 1,000, N = 1,019) using mixed methodology, we constructed a scale for measuring acceptance of intergroup collective violence. Results show that it is a multidimensional phenomenon, dependent on 1) the ethnicity of the victims; 2) the perception of threat posed by them; and 3) the ideology. The results can have a substantial impact on the discipline, providing theoretical explanation of the differences in outbursts of violence in similar situations, such as pogroms.
description: International Journal of Conflict and Violence (IJCV), Vol 14 No 1 (2020)
La place de la médiation sociale parmi les modes alternatifs de régulation au Québec : L’expérience-vécue de quelques médiateurs sociaux
Creators: name: Cadieux, Michelle
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: médiation sociale
régulation sociale
conflit
phénoménologie

description: La société fait face aux diverses situations qui l’affectent en mettant en place des mécanismes de régulation qui prennent plusieurs formes. Comme il a été démontré par plusieurs recherches, les modes étatiques de régulation sociale pénale sont loin d’être les plus utilisés, au quotidien, pour contrer les situations qui peuvent causer du tort social. Plutôt, il existerait un grand nombre de mécanismes, plus ou moins formels, qui régulent la société pour minimiser les torts sociaux. En adoptant ce postulat de base, j’explore l’activité de médiation sociale du Québec comme pratique alternative de régulation des conflits du quotidien. Par une méthode qualitative et une approche phénoménologique, je tente d’accéder au point de vue des médiateurs sociaux qui sont bénévoles au sein d’organismes qui offrent des services de médiation, afin de mieux comprendre comment ils sont mobilisés et comment ils perçoivent leur rôle comme acteurs « alternatifs » de la régulation sociale.
Factors Associated with Participation in Physical Activity Among Canadian School-Aged Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Application of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
Creators: name: Bremer, Emily
name: Martin Ginis, Kathleen A. (Kathleen Anne), 1968-
name: Bassett-Gunter, Rebecca L.
name: Arbour-Nicitopoulos, Kelly P.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: We have a limited understanding of the socioenvironmental factors associated with participation in physical activity among school-aged children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), particularly regarding how the school environment may influence their participation. Using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) as a framework, this study examined the effect of body functions and structure, activity, and personal factors on in-school physical activity; and whether in-school physical activity, considered a socioenvironmental factor, is associated with out-of-school physical activity (i.e., participation) among elementary school-aged children (6–13 years of age) with ASD. Parents of 202 children with ASD (78.2% boys; Mage = 9.4 years) completed an online survey, as part of a larger study, to assess their child’s functioning and physical activity in- and out-of-school. Results indicated that the majority of children (85.1%) did not meet physical activity guidelines. In-school physical activities significantly predicted out-of-school physical activities including leisure-time moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (R2 = 0.27, F(10,154) = 5.67, p < 0.001) and meeting the physical activity guidelines (R2 = 0.23, Χ2 (10) = 31.9, p < 0.001). These findings underscore the importance of supporting children with ASD to be physically active in school, which may impact physical activity levels out-of-school.
Kinematics and Kinetics of the Lower Limb In Uphill and Downhill Running: A Comparison of Forefoot Strike and Rearfoot Strike Runners
Creators: name: Kowalski, Erik
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biomechanics
Incline
Slope
Decline

description: his study investigated the lower limb biomechanics during downhill and uphill running in habitual forefoot strike and habitual rearfoot strike runners. Fifteen habitual forefoot strike and fifteen habitual rearfoot strike recreational male runners ran at 3 m/s ± 5% during level, uphill and downhill overground running on a ramp mounted at 6° and 9°. Results showed that hill running had similar impacts on joint angles in rearfoot strike and forefoot strike runners, causing a decrease in hip flexion at initial contact during downhill running, an increase in knee flexion angle at initial contact during uphill running and a decrease in peak hip flexion angle. In addition to differences in ankle joint angle due to landing pattern difference between rearfoot strike and forefoot strike runners, forefoot strike runners had a more flexed hip angle during downhill running. Forefoot strike runners had an absent impact peak in all running conditions, while the impact peaks only decreased during the uphill conditions in rearfoot strike runners. Active peaks decreased during the downhill conditions in forefoot strike runners while active loading rates increased during downhill conditions in rearfoot strike runners. Compared to the level condition, parallel braking peaks were larger during downhill conditions and parallel propulsive peaks were larger during uphill conditions. Peak hip flexion moment was significantly greater while peak knee flexion moment was significantly lower in both groups during the downhill 9° condition. Forefoot strike runners had larger peak plantar flexion moments and peak ankle power absorption compared to rearfoot strike runners during all conditions. Forefoot strike runners had decreased peak power absorption at the knee joint during downhill and level running conditions. Combined with previous biomechanics studies, our findings of no impact peak in forefoot strike runners suggests that this landing pattern may have potential in reducing overuse running injuries. Forefoot strike running reduces loading at the knee joint and can be used as an effective strategy to reduce stress at the knee joint experienced with rearfoot strike running.
A novel high breakdown M-estimator for visual data segmentation
Creators: name: Hoseinnezhad, Reza
name: Bab-Hadiashar, Alireza
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Most robust estimators, designed to solve computer vision problems, use random sampling to optimize their objective functions. Since the random sampling process is patently blind and computationally cumbersome, other searches of parameter space using techniques such as Nelder Meade Simplex or gradient search techniques have been also proposed (particularly in combination with PbM-estimators). In this paper; we introduce a novel high breakdown M-estimator having a differentiable objective function for which a closedform updatingformula is mathematically derived (similar to redescending M-estimators) and used to search the parameter space. The resulting M-estimator has a high breakdown point and is called High Breakdown M-estimator (HBM). We show that this objective function can be optimized using an iterative reweighted least squares regression similar to redescending M-estimators. The closed mathematical form of HBM and its guaranteed stability combined with its high breakdown point and fast convergence speed make this estimator an outstanding choice for segmentation of multi-structural data. A number of experiments, using both synthetic and real data have been conducted to show and benchmark the performance of the proposed estimator both in terms of accurate segmentation of numerous structures in the data and also the convergence speed. Moreover, the computational time of HBM, ASSC, MSSE and PbM are compared using the same computing platform and the results show that HBM significantly outperforms aforementioned techniques.
Political and Religious Extremism and Sexual Aggression – New Perspectives from the Workshop on Aggression 2018
Creators: name: Bondü, Rebecca
Publisher: name: International Journal of Conflict and Violence (IJCV)
Year: 2020

description: This focus section on extremism, radicalization, and sexual aggression presents recent research from two currently important fields of aggression research. It presents five papers that were presented at the Workshop on Aggression at the Psychologische Hochschule Berlin in 2018. The first three address risk factors for radicalization and acceptance of group-related aggressive behavior, namely hate speech against Muslims and collective violent behavior towards perceived out-groups including Jews and Ukrainians. The last two studies address sexual aggression: one examines the prevalence and risk factors for sexual victimization among a large student population in Chile; the other considers risk factors for potential sexual aggression in a German sample of participants with and without BDSM identity. The studies span a broad and international perspective on these different types of aggression, including data from Chile, Germany, and Poland and examining the potential influences of social and individual factors. The papers included in the present focus section demonstrate that both radicalization/extremism and sexual aggression are world-wide problems that require preventive action. They provide theoretical input and empirical findings that will hopefully contribute to prevention at the societal and individual levels.
description: International Journal of Conflict and Violence (IJCV), Vol 14 No 1 (2020)
Design and Performance Evaluation of Service Discovery Protocols for Vehicular Networks
Creators: name: Abrougui, Kaouther
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Service discovery
Vehicular networks
Fault tolerance
QoS
Performance evaluation
Algorithm
Protocol design

description: Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) are gaining momentum among researchers. ITS encompasses several technologies, including wireless communications, sensor networks, data and voice communication, real-time driving assistant systems, etc. These states of the art technologies are expected to pave the way for a plethora of vehicular network applications. In fact, recently we have witnessed a growing interest in Vehicular Networks from both the research community and industry. Several potential applications of Vehicular Networks are envisioned such as road safety and security, traffic monitoring and driving comfort, just to mention a few. It is critical that the existence of convenience or driving comfort services do not negatively affect the performance of safety services. In essence, the dissemination of safety services or the discovery of convenience applications requires the communication among service providers and service requesters through constrained bandwidth resources. Therefore, service discovery techniques for vehicular networks must efficiently use the available common resources. In this thesis, we focus on the design of bandwidth-efficient and scalable service discovery protocols for Vehicular Networks. Three types of service discovery architectures are introduced: infrastructure-less, infrastructure-based, and hybrid architectures. Our proposed algorithms are network layer based where service discovery messages are integrated into the routing messages for a lightweight discovery. Moreover, our protocols use the channel diversity for efficient service discovery. We describe our algorithms and discuss their implementation. Finally, we present the main results of the extensive set of simulation experiments that have been used in order to evaluate their performance.
title: Berichterstattung unter der Klimarahmenkonvention der Vereinten Nationen und dem Kyoto-Protokoll 2016
title: NIR 2016 (deutsch)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Emissionsbericht
subject: Kyoto-Protokoll [Klimaschutzvertrag 1997]
subject: Berichterstattung unter der Klimarahmenkonvention der Vereinten Nationen
subject: Treibhausgasberichterstattung
subject: Kyoto-Protokoll
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Climate | Energy

description: Gemäß der Entscheidung 15/CMP.1 müssen alle im ANNEX I der Klimarahmenkonvention aufgeführten Staaten, die auch Mitgliedsstaaten des Kyoto-Protokolls sind, ab dem Jahr 2010 jährliche Inventare vorlegen, um die flexiblen Mechanismen nach Artikel 6, 12 und 17 des Kyoto-Protokolls in Anspruch nehmen zu können. Deutschland legt zusammen mit den Inventartabellen den Nationalen Inventarbericht (NIR) vor, der sich auf den Zeitraum der Inventartabellen bezieht und die Methoden sowie die Datenquellen beschreibt, auf denen die Berechnungen basieren. Quelle: http://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Gemäß der Entscheidung 15/CMP.1 müssen alle im ANNEX I der Klimarahmenkonvention aufgeführten Staaten, die auch Mitgliedsstaaten des Kyoto-Protokolls sind, ab dem Jahr 2010 jährliche Inventare vorlegen, um die flexiblen Mechanismen nach Artikel 6, 12 und 17 des Kyoto-Protokolls in Anspruch nehmen zu können. Deutschland legt zusammen mit den Inventartabellen den Nationalen Inventarbericht (NIR) vor, der sich auf den Zeitraum der Inventartabellen bezieht und die Methoden sowie die Datenquellen beschreibt, auf denen die Berechnungen basieren.
Media of Contempt: Social Media Consumption Predicts Normative Acceptance of Anti-Muslim Hate Speech and Islamoprejudice
Creators: name: Soral, Wiktor
name: Liu, James
name: Bilewicz, Michał
Publisher: name: International Journal of Conflict and Violence (IJCV)
Year: 2020

description: The new era of information technology brings new opportunities but also poses new threats. In our paper, we examine whether a shift from traditional print and broadcasting to new online media results in the increased normalization of hate speech towards minorities, and whether this change can subsequently increase prejudice towards minorities. Our research uses data from a representative two-wave longitudinal survey of Polish adults. In wave 1 (N = 1060), data on respondents’ primary sources of information about the world (TV, newspapers, radio, online, social media, blogs) was collected. Wave 2 (N = 628), conducted six months later, included measures of perceived normativity of anti-Muslim hate speech and Islamophobia. We found that respondents who were frequent social media users expressed higher levels of Islamoprejudice and perceived higher normativity of anti-Muslim hate speech than the respondents who got their news from traditional mass media. We also found that an increase in perceived normativity of anti-Muslim hate speech can act as one of the mechanisms through which use of social media is linked to higher Islamoprejudice.
description: International Journal of Conflict and Violence (IJCV), Vol 14 No 1 (2020)
Sellars and McDowell on Kant's Theory of Perceptual Synthesis
Creators: name: Al-Fadli, Ageel
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Kant
Sellars
McDowell

description: This dissertation explores Kant’s theory of perceptual experience. A reconstruction of Kant’s conception of perceptual synthesis is pursued through an examination of two interpretations given by Wilfrid Sellars and John McDowell. The two interpretations defended by Sellars and McDowell emphasize on the conceptual synthesis of the understanding in shaping the sensory consciousness. Also, the two interpretations seek to articulate a conception of external constraint in perceptual activity that is answerable to independent reality. The external constraint is necessary to explain the occurrence of perceptual experience. The manifold of sense is considered as an external constraint in perceptual synthesis. Sellars takes sheer receptivity as providing this constraining element in perceptual experience, whereas McDowell argues that sensations as informed by the understanding can sufficiently provide this constraining content. After examining both interpretations, I will argue that Sellars and McDowell incorrectly take external constraint as appropriated by the concepts of the understanding. To defend this claim, I will reconstruct Kant’s conception of perceptual experience by demonstrating that Kant posits the manifold of sensations as independent of the operation of the understanding. The manifold of sensations constrains the conceptual content of experience through the synthesis of apprehension. In this synthesis, the manifold of sensations resists the figurative synthesis of imagination from being re-constituted through the extensive forms of space and time.
Optimizing Surgical Scheduling Through Integer Programming and Robust Optimization
Creators: name: Geranmayeh, Shirin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Mixed Integer Programming
Robust Optimization
Master Surgery Schedule

description: This thesis proposes and verifies a number of optimization models for re-designing a master surgery schedule with minimized peak inpatient load at the ward. All models include limitations on Operating Rooms and surgeons availability. Surgeons` preference is included with regards to a consistent weekly schedule over a cycle. The uncertain in patients` length of stay was incorporated using discrete probability distributions unique to each surgeon. Furthermore, robust optimization was utilized to protect against the uncertainty in the number of inpatients a surgeon may send to the ward per block. Different scenarios were developed that explore the impact of varying the availability of operating rooms on each day of the week. The models were solved using Cplex and were verified by an Arena simulation model.
Decision Making Experiences of Nurses Choosing to Work in Critical Care
Creators: name: Fiege, Carolin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: decision making
careers
critical care
decision making difficulties
nurses

description: Objective: To explore the decision making approaches used by nurses who chose to work in critical care and factors influencing the process of decision making. Design and methods Qualitative descriptive methods using semi-structured interviews with nurses who had chosen to work in critical care within the past year. Results Ten nurses weighed staying in their current positions with moving to critical care. Two nurses considered two or more specialty units. The nurses used rational-intuitive and satisficing decision making approaches in making their employment decision. Limited knowledge and unrealistic expectations of work life in critical care, pressure from others, and inadequate professional support made nurses’ employment decisions more difficult. Social support, personal values for growth and learning, and paid educational incentives within employment offers facilitated their employment decisions. Conclusions Several factors negatively influenced nurses’ decision making approaches to making an employment decision. Findings revealed the need for decision support interventions focused on making employment choices for nurses.
Supplementary document for Reconstruction of finite deep sub-wavelength nanostructures by Mueller-matrix scattered-field microscopy - 5398693.pdf
Creators: name: Wang, Cai
name: Chen, Xiuguo
name: Chen, Chao
name: Sheng, Sheng
name: Song, Lixuan
name: Gu, Honggang
name: Jiang, Hao
name: Zhang, Chuanwei
name: Liu, Shiyuan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Instrument calibration, forward model and other reconstruction results.
Le rôle des communautés épistémiques dans l'institutionnalisation d'un régime civilo-militaire démocratique en République de Chine et en République de Corée
Creators: name: L. Scharry, François
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: communautés épistémiques
Relations civilo-militaires
République de Chine
République de Corée

description: La République de Chine et la République de Corée sont aujourd’hui des nations démocratiques prospères et pacifiques, mais il n’en a pas toujours été ainsi. Pendant la Guerre froide, ces États étaient en effet contrôlés par des régimes autoritaires où les forces armées jouaient un rôle prépondérant. La fin de ce grand conflit idéologique en 1990 a ouvert la voie à un assouplissement progressif de ces régimes autoritaires et à l’abolition du rôle politique des forces armées. Plusieurs explications ont été avancées pour expliquer ces phénomènes, notamment à travers l’hypothèse constructiviste d’un transfert de normes à partir d’une influence extérieure exercée par des entrepreneurs de normes comme l’hégémon et les institutions internationales. Cette thèse cherche plutôt à nuancer cette affirmation en examinant plutôt le rôle des communautés épistémiques dans la démocratisation progressive des régimes civilo-militaires taïwanais et sud-coréen.
Modulation depth and breaking strength for deep-water wave groups
Creators: name: Galchenko, Alina
name: Babanin, Alexander
name: Chalikov, Dmitry
name: Young, Ian
name: Hsu, Tai-Wen
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Progression of nonlinear wave groups to breaking was studied numerically and experimentally. Evolution of such wave group parameters as distance to breaking and modulation depth was described. The wave modulation depth R is a height ratio of the highest Hh and the lowest Hl waves in the group: R = Hh=Hl. This parameter, together with distance to breaking, was studied by means of the fully-nonlinear Chalikov-Sheinin (CS) model. Subsequent experiment demonstrated a good qualitative agreement with the numerical results. In the present study, both in numerical simulations and laboratory experiments, a wave group was initially generated as a superposition of two waves with primary and secondary wave steepnesses and close wave numbers, and allowed to evolve. It was shown that the modulation depth decreases as a function of the primary wave steepness, that distance to breaking also decreases with primary wave steepness, but grows as a function of the ratio of the primary and secondary wave steepnesses.
The combination of pan-ErbB tyrosine kinase inhibitor CI-1033 and lovastatin: A potential novel therapeutic approach in squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck
Creators: name: Guimond, Tanya
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: EGFR
ErbB Receptors
CI-1033
Mevalonate
Cancer
Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor
Lovastatin
Squamous Cell Carcinoma

description: The ErbB family of receptors are key regulators of growth, differentiation, migration and survival of epithelial cells. CI-1033 is an irreversible pan-ErbB tyrosine kinase inhibitor that has the ability to inhibit EGFR function but has shown limited therapeutic efficacy. Lovastatin targets the activity of HMG-CoA reductase, the rate-limiting step in the mevalonate pathway. In this study, the ability of lovastatin to potentiate the cytotoxic effects of CI-1033 was evaluated. The combination of lovastatin and CI-1033 exhibited some cooperative cytotoxic activity in a squamous cell carcinoma–derived cell line. This combination resulted in enhanced cell death by induction of a potent apoptotic response. Furthermore, this drug combination inhibited EGF-induced EGFR autophosphorylation and activation of the downstream signaling effectors, ERK and AKT. These findings suggest that combining lovastatin and tyrosine kinase inhibitors may represent a novel combinational therapeutic approach in squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.
Leading to Peace: Prisoner Resistance and Leadership Development in the IRA and Sinn Fein
Creators: name: Delisle, Claire E.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: IRA
Sinn Fein
Resistance
Leadership
Anglo-Irish conflict
The Troubles
Prisoner Resistance
Irish Republican Movement
Long Kesh
Paulo Freire
Peace Process
Irish Unity
Armed conflict
Gerry Adams
Martin McGuinness
Hunger Strike
Political Prisoners
Democratic Transitions

description: The Irish peace process is heralded as a success among insurgencies that attempt transitions toward peaceful resolution of conflict. After thirty years of armed struggle, pitting Irish republicans against their loyalist counterparts and the British State, the North of Ireland has a reconfigured political landscape with a consociational governing body where power is shared among several parties that hold divergent political objectives. The Irish Republican Movement, whose main components are the Provisional Irish Republican Army, a covert guerilla armed organization, and Sinn Fein, the political party of Irish republicans, initiated peace that led to all-inclusive talks in the 1990s and that culminated in the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in April 1998, setting out the parameters for a non-violent way forward. Given the traditional intransigence of the IRA to consider any route other than armed conflict, how did the leadership of the Irish Republican Movement secure the support of a majority of republicans for a peace initiative that has held now for more than fifteen years? This dissertation explores the dynamics of leadership in this group, and in particular, focuses on the prisoner resistance waged by its incarcerated activists and volunteers. It is the contention here, that various prisoner resistance tactics enabled a wide-ranging group of captives to develop the skill set necessary to persuade their community to back the peace initiative, engage in electoral politics, mobilize their supporters to invest in attaining a united Ireland by peaceful negotiations, and put down their arms in a permanent and unequivocal manner. In this dissertation, the work of Paulo Freire is explored in order to capture the processes inherent the resistance-leadership continuum.
Windows into cultural understanding and unfamiliar freedom
Creators: name: Andrew, Martin
name: Kearney, Celine
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper explores our students’ experiences of community placement. Community placement is a safe and valuable way for advanced migrant and international learners of English to provide the “unfamiliar freedom” (Dlaska, 2000) necessary for learning for an unknown future (Barnett, 2004). Further, this happens within a context of the acquisition of cultural autonomy. The process of joining and becoming a part of communities of practice (Lave and Wenger, 1991), however peripherally, opens windows into aspects of culture, revealing to view Kiwi turns of phrase, behaviours, communication styles and thought patterns. Our research data was collected from year two Bachelor of Arts in English as an Additional Language (BA EAL) learners, whose community placement provided opportunity for reflection on their experience. Their diaries revealed that community placement contributes to the process where “authentic being” (Barnett, 2004) starts to form. In these reflective recollections, comprising the data for this study, the students record ‘windows into cultural understanding’ and moments where they describe their placement’s impact on their sense of self. Our study is backgrounded by the poststructuralist model (Norton, 2000) where identity involves “struggle”. This contributes to fostering “authentic being” and prepares students culturally for whatever self they need for their future global and/or national identities.
Hamlet's Objective Mode and Early Modern Materialist Philosophy
Creators: name: Lacy, Rachel
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Vanitas
Memento mori
Still life
Eucharist
Transubstantiation
Material culture
Materialist philosophy
Early modern English theatre
Shakespeare
Semiotics
Phenomenology
Emblem
Melancholy

description: Hamlet's tragedy is constructed as a perspective of matter that is destined for decay, and this "objective," or "object-focused," mode of viewing the material world enhances theatrical and theological understandings of the play's props, figurative language, and characters. Hamlet's "objective mode" evokes early modern materialist philosophies of vanitas and memento mori, and it is communicated in theatre through semiotic means, whereby material items stand for moral ideas according to an established sign-signified relation. Extending an objective reading to Hamlet's characters reveals their function as images, or two-dimensional emblems, in moments of slowing narrative time. In the graveyard scene (5.1), characters and theatrical props cooperate to materialize the objective perspective. As a prop, Ophelia's corpse complicates the objective mode through its semantic complexity. Thus, she stands apart from other characters as one that both serves to construct and to deconstruct the objective mode. Hamlet's tragic outlook, which depends upon an understanding of matter as destined for decay, and of material items as ends in themselves rather than vehicles for spiritual transformation, is an early modern notion concurrent with theological debates surrounding the Eucharist. Drawing upon art-historical, linguistic, feminist, theological, and theatrical approaches, this thesis contributes to concurrent discourse on Hamlet's tragic genre.
Chest CT target sign in a couple with COVID-19 pneumonia
Creators: name: Müller, C. Isabela Silva
name: Müller, Nestor Luiz, 1948-
Publisher: name: SciELO
Year: 2021

description: We describe a target sign on chest CT characterized by a combination of peripheral ring-like opacity and a central nodular groundglass opacity surrounding a vessel in a couple with COVID-19 pneumonia confirmed by real-time reverse transcriptase fluorescence polymerase chain reaction sputum analysis. Descrevemos o sinal do alvo na TC de tórax representando combinação de opacidade com aspecto de anel periférico e componente central nodular em vidro fosco circundando estrutura vascular em um casal com COVID-19 confirmada por reação em cadeia da polimerase com transcrição reversa.
Board monitoring and firm performance: controlling for endogeneity and multicollinearity
Creators: name: Azim, Mohammad
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between board monitoring and firm performance after controlling the endogeneity and multicollinearity problem that exist in most corporate governance research. Prior studies failed to establish any significant relationship between board monitoring and firm performance because of not properly control for endogeneity and multicollinearity problems. After controlling for both problems the coefficient of board monitoring increases and becomes significant. This study use different board monitoring characteristics: board size, number of board meetings, proportion of independent directors, background of directors CEO/Chair duality; and different characteristics of audit, compensation and nomination committees: number of meetings and proportion of independent directors. Firm performance is measured using return on assets and earning per share. Panel data of the top 500 listed companies from Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) is used over 3 years, from 2001 to 2003. This study concludes that the difference in the result is because addressing the problem properly using structural equation modelling.