Piebiak, Jill
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2018-01-18
Search Results
Glovaci, Iulia;
Chapman, C. Andrew
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2015-07-02
Measures of the amplitudes of synaptic responses.
Guindon, Alex;
Dennie, Danielle
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2016-04-21
Questionnaire and aggregate data from a survey completed by faculty at Concordia University in 2015-2016, on their research data management (RDM) practices and needs.
Charbonneau, Olivier
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2018-01-18
During the Summer of 2004, the Bibliothèque nationale du Québec mandated Olivier Charbonneau to perform an analysis of Graphic Novels, comic books, manga and other sequential art publications. The goal was to build a collection of the "best" English-language collection possible. In order to do this, a citation database was developed to compile all the winners of various prizes and awards given by trade and consumer groups in the field of graphic novels or comic book publishing, namely the Harvey Award (MoCCA Art Festival: New York City); Will Eisner Comic Industry Award (Comic-Con International: San Diego, CA); Ignatz Award Winners (The Small Press Expo: Bathesda, Maryland).
These files represent the dataset (citation database) in various formats.
Tittler, Robert
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2015-05-01
This resource identifies all those men and women who have been identified as painters of any sort working in England, Wales, Scotland or Ireland between the years 1500 and 1640. It includes those who were native to the British Isles and also those strangers who came and worked there at any time during this era. It also includes those whom contemporary occupational descriptions refer to as pursuing any specialty within the general category of 'painter' including, e.g., 'limner', 'picture-painter', 'glass-painter', 'herald painter', 'manuscript illuminator', etc. Each entry indicates, wherever possible, names with alternate spellings, places of origin and of residence, contemporary occupational description, dates of life and/or of activity, details of training, known works, and general biographical information. Each entry is also accompanied by a list of sources for further reference, and by the identity of those who researched that name.
This edition replaces that of July, 2018. It contains 2,786 entries, seventy-four of which are new, plus additions or corrections to nearly three hundred other entries, all of which are drawn from research in London and several counties.
Robert Tittler is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at Concordia University, Montreal, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He welcomes additions, corrections, queries and comments, all of which may be sent to: robert.tittler@concordia.ca.
McSheffrey, Shannon
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2017-05-31
Sanctuary Seekers in England is a spreadsheet presenting all the instances of sanctuary-seeking in England that I have uncovered for the period 1380-1557, more than 1800 seekers altogether. It is a companion to my book, Seeking Sanctuary: Crime, Mercy, and Politics in English Courts, 1400-1550 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).
Bramwell, Gillian;
Reilly, Rosemary C.;
Lilly, Frank R.;
Kronish, Neomi;
Chennabathni, Revathi
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2020-12-07
This document contains a table outlining the studies used in the manuscript Creative teachers along with the reference list for these data sources. The original manuscript in Roeper Review is a synthesis of 13 case studies and two quantitative studies of teachers who demonstrated everyday or local creativity in their work.
Electronic Publishing Bytepress.com
Kipling, Arlin L;
Desai, Bipin C.
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2020-10-28
This book is the result of teaching the laboratory component of an introductory course in Database Systems in the Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal.. The intent of this part of the course was to have the students create a practical web-based application wherein the database forms the dynamic component of a real life application using a web browser as the user interface.
It was decided to use all open source software, namely, Apache web server, PHP, JavaScript and HTML, and also the open source database which started as MySQL and has since migrated to MariaDB.
The examples given in this book have been run successfully both using MySQL on a Windows platform and MariaDB on a Linux platform without any changes. However, the code may need to be updated as the underlying software systems evolve with time, as functions are deprecated and replaced by others. Hence the user is responsible for making any required changes to any code given in this book.
The readers are also warned of the changing privacy and data usage policy of most web sites. They should be aware that most web sites collect and mine user’s data for private profit.
The authors wish to acknowledge the contribution of many students in the introductory database course over the years whose needs and the involvement of one of the authors in the early days of the web prompted the start of this project in the late part of the 20th century. This was the era of dot com bubble
Nadeau, Louise;
Kairouz, Sylvia
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2018-01-18
This project is part of the collaborative funding program « Les jeux de hasard et d’argent au Québec : Portrait des joueurs adultes et prévalence des problèmes associés » of the Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC). This project is conducted over a period of five years. It aims at generating data on the prevalence of gambling behaviours and associated problems among the adult population of Quebec. The project is carried out in two stages – one in 2009, the subject of this report, and another in 2012, a follow-up survey. The current report describes the problems associated with gambling by type of game, and devotes special attention to the prevalence of at-risk and probable pathological gamblers, namely, the most vulnerable groups of the population. The presentation of populational tables in the results allows for recommendations to be made for the prevention of gambling problems and the treatment of players struggling with problems. This report describes the first stage of the project.
Public Library of Science
Trujillo-Pisanty, Ivan;
Conover, Kent;
Solis, Pavel;
Palacios, Daniel;
Shizgal, Peter
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2020-05-21
The neurobiological study of reward was launched by the discovery of intracranial self-stimulation (ICSS). Subsequent investigation of this phenomenon provided the initial link between reward-seeking behavior and dopaminergic neurotransmission. We re-evaluated this relationship by psychophysical, pharmacological, optogenetic, and computational means. In rats working for direct, optical activation of midbrain dopamine neurons, we varied the strength and opportunity cost of the stimulation and measured time allocation, the proportion of trial time devoted to reward pursuit. We found that the dependence of time allocation on the strength and cost of stimulation was similar formally to that observed when electrical stimulation of the medial forebrain bundle served as the reward. When the stimulation is strong and cheap, the rats devote almost all their time to reward pursuit; time allocation falls off as stimulation strength is decreased and/or its opportunity cost is increased. A 3D plot of time allocation versus stimulation strength and cost produces a surface resembling the corner of a plateau (the "reward mountain"). We show that dopamine-transporter blockade shifts the mountain along both the strength and cost axes in rats working for optical activation of midbrain dopamine neurons. In contrast, the same drug shifted the mountain uniquely along the opportunity-cost axis when rats worked for electrical MFB stimulation in a prior study. Dopamine neurons are an obligatory stage in the dominant model of ICSS, which positions them at a key nexus in the final common path for reward seeking. This model fails to provide a cogent account for the differential effect of dopamine transporter blockade on the reward mountain. Instead, we propose that midbrain dopamine neurons and neurons with non-dopaminergic, MFB axons constitute parallel limbs of brain-reward circuitry that ultimately converge on the final-common path for the evaluation and pursuit of rewards.
McSheffrey, Shannon
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2017-05-31
Sanctuary Seekers in England is a spreadsheet presenting all the instances of sanctuary-seeking in England that I have uncovered for the period 1380-1557, more than 1800 seekers altogether. It is a companion to my book, Seeking Sanctuary: Crime, Mercy, and Politics in English Courts, 1400-1550 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).
McSheffrey, Shannon
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2017-05-31
Sanctuary Seekers in England is a spreadsheet presenting all the instances of sanctuary-seeking in England that I have uncovered for the period 1380-1557, more than 1800 seekers altogether. It is a companion to my book, Seeking Sanctuary: Crime, Mercy, and Politics in English Courts, 1400-1550 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).
McKelvey, Fenwick
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2018-01-18
The intervention provides geo-located Internet performance data to assist in the evaluation of wireline Internet provision in Canada. It contributes public-domain data from Internet measurements collected across Canada during 2014. Measurements result from the Network Diagnostic Tool run through the Measurement Lab Consortium. Data submitted joins these measurements to pre-existing geographic information systems in Canada. The intervention at this point does not interpret data rather it hopes to contribute to the overall discussion at the hearings by submitting open data in a manner accessible to stakeholders and connected to other demographic data in Canada.
Dataset: 'Valuation of Opportunity Costs by Rats Working for Rewarding Electrical Brain Stimulation'
Solomon, Rebecca B.;
Conover, Kent;
Shizgal, Peter
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2017-05-31
The compressed folder contains the dataset underlying the findings described in the PLOS ONE (2017) manuscript, 'Valuation of Opportunity Costs by Rats Working for Rewarding Electrical Brain Stimulation.' The README file in the compressed folder describes its contents. This paper was published August 25, 2017:
Solomon, R. B., Conover, K., & Shizgal, P. (2017). Valuation of opportunity costs by rats working for rewarding electrical brain stimulation. PLOS ONE, 12(8), e0182120. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182120
Ontogenetic shift from aposematism and gregariousness to crypsis in a Romaleid grasshopper - dataset
Despland, Emma
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2020-05-13
Traits of chemically-defended animals can change as an individual grows and matures, and both theoretical and empirical evidence favour a direction of change from crypsis to aposematism. This study examines the suite of traits involved in an unusual opposite shift from aposematism to crypsis in a neotropical toxic-plant-feeding Romaleid grasshopper, Chromacris psittacus (Gerstaecker, 1873). Field surveys, behavioural observations and a rearing experiment compare host plant choice, aggregation, locomotion and thermoregulation between life history stages. Results showed that both nymphs and adults fed exclusively on a narrow range of Solanaceae plants, suggesting that the shift in defensive syndrome is not due to a change in chemical defense. Instead, nymphal aposematism appears linked to aggregation in response to plant-based selection pressures. Slow nymphal development suggests a cost to feeding on toxic plant compounds, and grouping could mitigate this cost. Grouping also increases conspicuousness, and hence can favour warning colourating in chemically-defended insects. The role of diet breadth in aposematism is poorly understood, and these results suggest how constraints imposed by feeding on toxic plants can generate bottom-up selection pressures shaping the adaptive suites of traits of chemically-defended animals.
Donkor, Dominic;
Mirzahosseini, Zahra;
Bede, Jacquie;
Bauce, Eric;
Despland, Emma
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2018-11-12
This study examines the post-ingestive fate of two host-plant derived small-molecule phenolics (the acetophenones piceol and pungenol) that have previously been shown to be toxic to the outbreaking forest pest, spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana). We test first whether these compounds are transformed during passage through the midgut, and second whether the budworm upregulates activity of the detoxification enzyme glutathione-s-transferase (GST) in response to feeding on these compounds. Insects were reared on either foliage or artificial diet to the fourth instar, when they were transferred individually to one of two treatment diets, either control or phenolic-laced, for approximately 10 days, after which midguts were dissected out and used for Bradford soluble protein and GST enzyme activity analysis. Frass was collected and subjected to HPLC-DAD-MS. HPLC showed that the acetophenones do not autoxidize under midgut pH conditions, but that glucose- and glutathione- conjugates are present in the frass of insects fed the phenolic-laced diet. GST enzyme activity increases in insects fed the phenolic-laced diet, in both neutral pH and alkaline assays. These data show that the spruce budwom exhibits counter-adaptations to plant phenolics similar to those seen in angiosperm feeders, upregulating an important detoxifying enzyme (GST) and partially conjugating these acetophenones prior to elimination, but that these counter-measures are not totally effective at mitigating toxic effects of the ingested compounds in the context of our artifical-diet based laboratory experiment.
PeerJ
Despland, Emma;
Santacruz-Endara, Paola
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2019-10-21
The niches of herbivorous insects are best understood in a tri-trophic perspective, as top-down effects of predators and parasitoids can determine the host plant range of herbivores. The recent introduction in a tropical agricultural environment of a weedy open-habitat plant (Solanum myriacanthum) and subsequent host range expansion of a common forest-edge butterfly (Mechanitis menapis) onto that plant provides an opportunity to test hypotheses surrounding reconfiguration of tritrophic networks in anthropized environments: what is the role of bottom-up and top-down forces in this host range expansion? and does habitat breadth limit this novel trophic relationship? Field and laboratory monitoring of larval survival and performance on a native (Solanum acerifolium) and exotic host in the Mindo valley (Ecuador), combined with measurement of plant physical defenses, shows that larval mortality was mostly top-down on S. acerifolium, linked to parasitism, but mostly bottom-up on S. myriacanthum, possibly linked to observed increased plant defenses. These findings support the theory that herbivores experience little top-down regulation on exotic hosts, and suggest that, in this case, bottom-up pressure from plant defenses is stronger in the absence of a co-evolved relationship. In this system, top-down forces tend to expand rather than restrict host plant range, contrary to many previous studies. S myriacanthum was less colonized in open pastures than in semi-shaded habitats (forest edges, thickets): fewer eggs were found, suggesting limited dispersal of adult butterflies into the harsh open environments, and the survival rate of first instar larvae was lower than on ecotone plants, likely linked to the stronger defenses of sun-grown leaves. Environmental conditions thus modulate the rewiring of novel trophic networks in heavily impacted landscapes, and limit a native herbivore`s control on an invasive plant.
SourceForge.net, NIST
Mokhov, Serguei A.
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2010-04-21
MARFCAT stands for MARF-based Code Analysis Tool. MARFCAT is a Java-based open-source application that uses MARF as its base for pattern recognition, machine learning, data mining, and fingerprinting, applied to the static code analysis to detect and fingerprint security-related weaknesses and vulnerabilities in the code. The application was used and presented at the SATE2010 workshop on static code analysis tool exposition held at NIST in October 2010. It is accompanied by a published report listed separately.
Nadeau, Louise;
Kairouz, Sylvia
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2018-01-18
Young adults in universities are at higher risk for excessive gambling and several associated risk behaviors such as excessive drinking and substance use. The objectives of this project are three-fold: 1) to describe the gambling habits among undergraduate university students exploring patterns of gambling on a wide variety of activities and considering the physical location and the type of gambling partners; 2) to examine the differences between non-social gamblers, at-risk gamblers and problem gamblers; and 3) to assess the relationships between severity of gambling problems and other associated problems such as hazardous drinking, illicit drug use and psychological distress. The findings are expected to provide a reliable portray of gambling habits among undergraduate students to purposively identify needs for prevention and services among this vulnerable population.
IGI Global
Reilly, Rosemary C.
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2020-04-21
This is a timeline of worldwide school shootings that supports the chapter entitled "Getting back to a “new normal”: Grief leadership after a fatal school shooting.
Abstract
Violence in educational institutions compounds and accumulates in our collective memory, as school shootings have become a ubiquitous phenomenon. When a young man carrying three guns entered Dawson College in Montréal, the downtown core came to a standstill. As bullets sprayed and ricocheted, one young woman was killed, 19 others wounded, and a community of 10,000 students, teachers and staff were traumatized. This research employed a qualitative methodology, interviewing ten senior administrators and managers in-depth. Findings document the salient role grief leadership played in restoring balance and an educational focus in the wake of a shooting on campus and served to reshape the community into one of learning, resilience, and courage. It details specific actions taken by administrators, which promoted healing and re-established equilibrium at a site of grief, loss and terror. Administrative responses proved essential in helping to re-establish thriving at Dawson College.
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