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Egner, Matthew Colin. "Weathering characteristics of building stone at Ottawa, Canada." Ottawa.:, 1993.
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Bartley, Allan 1950. "Ottawa ways : the state, bureaucracy and broadcasting, 1955- 1968." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=74328.
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The dissertation develops a theory-based, state-centered revisionist explanation of the development of Canadian broadcasting policy during the years 1955 to 1968. The hypothesis contends that state officials seek their own preferred policy outcomes rather than reflecting the preferences of societal actors. The concept of decision points is used to explore the origins of the 1958 Broadcasting Act and the 1968 Broadcasting Act. The evidence suggests the content of these measures was largely determined by bureaucratic actors. Two aspects of the 1968 legislation (the power to approve broadcasting licenses and extension of broadcasting regulatory jurisdiction to cable television) are examined in detail. In both cases, the evidence points to the decisive role of state rather than societal actors in the policy process. Confirmation of the central hypothesis raises questions about society-centered theories of the democratic state.
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Roehm, Charlotte L. "Carbon dynamics in northern peatlands, Canada." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=19545.
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Biogeochemical carbon dynamics govern the ability of peatlands to storecarbon. The processes controlling the balance between the photosyntheticuptake of C02 and respiration of C02 and CH4 back to the atmosphere remainunclear. A process-based ecosystem biogeochemical study, encompassing tracegas flux measurements, laboratory chemical analyses and field analyses, wasundertaken in order to better understand the carbon dynamics of borealCanadian peatlands.
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Pohran, Nadya. "Charismatic Healing: A Phenomenological Study of Spiritual Healing in Ottawa, Canada." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32612.
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Spiritual healing is a ubiquitous and fundamental part of Charismatic Christianity; it is indelibly linked to understandings of God, society, and individual identity. And yet, the phenomenon of spiritual healing—particularly its expression within North American, Abrahamic traditions—has been understudied within academia. In this thesis, I take a phenomenological approach in order to better comprehend the meaning-making process behind spiritual healing rituals amongst Charismatic Protestant Christians in Ottawa, Canada. Through a small-scale, local ethnographic study in Ottawa in which I conducted participant observation and several in-depth interviews, I explore Charismatic Christianity through the lens of lived religion. Based on a series of focused case studies, I conclude that the Charismatic cosmological worldview (one in which cosmic-wide restoration is emphasised) correlates with, and contributes to, the Charismatic emphasis on individual healing.
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Dupré, Jean-Baptiste. "Disponibilité lexicale bilingue : le cas de jeunes locuteurs d'Ottawa (Canada)." Caen, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007CAEN1479.
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Cette recherche a pour objectif d’analyser la « disponiblité lexicale » d’un groupe de jeunes élèves bilingues d’une école francophone d’Ottawa (Canada), ville où le français est en position minoritaire. Nous avons procédé à une enquête de terrain, effectuée en français et en anglais, à partir de sept champs conceptuels, puis établi deux corpus, l’un français, l’autre anglais. Nous avons effectué, à l’aide de l’informatique, une étude lexicométrique et sémantique de ces deux corpus. Une telle analyse, mise au point à l’origine par René Michéa, permet, d’une part, de déterminer le vocabulaire fondamental en usage chez la population étudiée, et, d’autre part, d’établir une mesure chiffrée du bilinguisme. Ce travail trouve des applications pratiques en lexicographie (quel vocabulaire représenter dans les dictionnaires ?) et en pédagogie (quel vocabulaire enseigner aux élèves ?). Les résultats font ressortir les interactions qui existent entre les trois composantes du lexique des élèves : le français transnational, l’anglais et le français régional canadien. Si ce travail montre notamment l’influence de l’adstrat puissant que constitue l’anglais sur le vocabulaire disponible français des témoins, à travers différents types d’interférences, il met néanmoins en évidence l’existence d’un noyau dur de canadianismes, ces derniers pouvant constituer un rempart efficace contre l’anglicisation du lexique
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Brooks-Cleator, Lauren Alexandra. "First Nations and Inuit Older Adults and Aging Well in Ottawa, Canada." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39142.
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Urban First Nations and Inuit older adults are aging in a Western-centric sociopolitical
environment that is experiencing significant social change due to population aging and urbanization. Consequently, urban communities are facing increasing pressures to respond to the needs of the growing older adult population. As a result of these pressures, older adults are urged to “age well” to reduce their “burden” on society; however, older adults do not all define aging well in the same way and they do not all have the same opportunities to age well. Through my research, I aimed to address a gap in the academic literature concerning urban-dwelling First Nations and Inuit older adults and aging well. Ultimately, my goal was to identify how First Nations and Inuit older adults living in Ottawa could be supported to age well in ways that reflect their urban Indigenous identities, cultural perspectives, and life course. My specific research questions are four-fold: 1) Are Indigenous older adults marginalized through dominant aging well frameworks?; 2) how do community-dwelling First Nations and Inuit older adults (aged 55 years and over) living in Ottawa, Canada, define and negotiate aging well in an urban environment?; 3) what community-level factors contribute to First Nations and Inuit older adults (aged 55 years and over) feeling supported to age well in the city of Ottawa?; and 4) how do community stakeholders in Ottawa produce understandings of supporting urban Indigenous older adults to age well? Informed by a postcolonial theoretical framework, I conducted this research using a community-based participatory research (CBPR) methodology in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in partnerships with the Odawa Native Friendship Centre and Tungasuvvingat Inuit. To address my research questions, I conducted semi-structured interviews with nine First Nations older adults, focus groups with 23 Inuit older adults, and photovoice with two First Nations older adults. Additionally, I conducted 13 semi-structured interviews with community stakeholders (i.e., decision-makers and service providers. My doctoral research makes novel contributions to the fields of kinesiology and gerontology by expanding postcolonial theory to issues related to aging research with urban Indigenous older adults; contributing to the emerging literature that brings diverse perspectives into conversations on aging well; challenging assumptions related to urban Indigenous populations and aging well; illustrating the tensions within aging well initiatives that intended to be available for all older adults; and revealing the tensions within efforts to address reconciliation with Indigenous older adults.
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Shipley, Bill. "Pattern and mechanism in the emergent macrophyte communities along the Ottawa River, Canada." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/5392.
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Saidla, Karl. "Political Challenges and Active Transportation: A Comparison of Helsinki, Finland and Ottawa, Canada." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37043.
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This qualitative comparative case study examined factors related to politics that might explain the notably different active transportation (AT - walking, cycling, and public transit use) rates achieved in Helsinki, Finland (a leading European city in AT, where 77 per cent of people use primarily AT for daily transportation) and Ottawa, Canada (a leading North American city in AT, but where the AT rate is 28.5 per cent).
Applying the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) - a policy process theory - individual focused interviews were conducted with 47 active transportation experts from the two cities. Document review was employed as a secondary method. The results are discussed in three articles written for peer reviewed journals – the first two concentrating on the findings from Helsinki and Ottawa respectively, and the third article comparing the findings from both cities.
Overall, differences stemming from the ACF category of relatively stable parameters (i.e., stable background-level factors) including land use, transportation planning traditions, and political systems were identified as likely important in explaining the discrepancy in AT rates.
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Schmalz, Ronald E. "Former enemies come to Canada, Ottawa and the postwar German immigration boom, 1951-1957." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ57065.pdf.
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Woodley, Michael A. (Michael Arthur) Carleton University Dissertation Earth Sciences. "An Investigation of pore water in Champlain sea deposits at Mer Bleue Ottawa, Canada." Ottawa, 1996.
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Obokata, Reiko. "Environmental Factors and Transnational Migration: A Case Study with Filipino Newcomers in Ottawa, Canada." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31831.
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A number of international documents, NGOs and scholars have predicted that due to global environmental/climate change, the increased frequency and intensity of phenomena such as natural disasters, flooding, sea-level rise, pollution, and drought will be felt particularly in less developed regions of the world, and may force millions of people to leave their homelands. Given the far-reaching humanitarian and security concerns that have arisen with regard to the issue of environmentally-motivated migration, there have been calls for more empirical work to investigate this phenomenon, and particularly with respect to international movement. This thesis project takes a qualitative approach to investigating how environmental conditions in the Philippines are influencing migration to Ottawa, Canada. Using semi-structured focus group and personal interviews, it contributes some of the first ever empirical research on the links between environment and international migration to Canada. In taking a qualitative approach, it focuses on the perceptions and experiences of migrants themselves, and suggests that an emphasis on personal agency should be privileged to a greater extent in the environmental migration field. Additionally, by conducting research from a “receiving” country in the Global North, this research separates itself from the majority of previous empirical work in its field which has primarily been conducted in environmentally marginal areas in the Global South. In so doing, it provides a novel perspective particular to the experiences of long-distance and more permanent migrants. The results show that environmental factors are not currently perceived as migration influences for Filipino newcomers in Ottawa, although environmental factors do interact with political and economic factors in complex ways to influence migration decisions. This paper utilizes a transnational lens to demonstrate that environmental conditions in the Philippines may not act as direct migration influences, but they do impact migrants and their families through the social fields that are created between the Philippines and Canada. Previous work has primarily investigated the environment as a “push” factor of migration, making the transnational perspective an important theoretical contribution for addressing links between environmental change and remittances, family separation, and agency and power in relation to (im)mobility.
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Schmalz, Ronald E. "Former enemies come to Canada : Ottawa and the postwar German immigration boom, 1951-57." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9430.
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The 1950s was the decade of the largest volume of immigration to Canada. Germans figured prominently in this great wave contributing 200,000 migrants in the peak years of 1951--57, a number only surpassed by British newcomers. In fact, more Germans came to Canada in this seven year span than during any comparable period in Canadian history. This influx was made possible by the great interest in emigration in Germany and the generous immigration policy of the Canadian government. Indeed, government immigration policies and programs were decisive and determining factors, shaping the size and character of the German influx. Policy makers in Ottawa could and, in fact, did exercise considerably more control over the intake of Germans than was possible for the movement of other immigrant groups. They saw in German migrants a means of meeting Canadian economic and manpower needs, a policy they carried out with mixed success, missing golden opportunities in the first half of the 1950s. This thesis is an analysis of the German immigration boom to Canada from the perspective of Ottawa's policies and programming. This thesis is the first comprehensive study which addresses the influence of government policy on German immigration to Canada in the 1950s. It assesses Ottawa's policy within the complex context of key domestic and external forces. This study also explores new fields including the developments leading to the government's decision to admit German nationals, the history of the Canadian Christian Council for the Resettlement of Refugees in the 1950s and Canada's role in the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration. It is based primarily on records of the government of Canada but also draws on personal interviews, manuscript collections, newspapers and secondary sources, including recent German scholarship in the field. This study argues that Ottawa's German immigration policy was profoundly governed by Canada's economic and political self interest.
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Ruhl, Mary Louise. "The case for a second look at Canadian bank insolvency legislation." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26146.
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This thesis is an analysis of the bank insolvency process in Canada. The phenomenon of bank bailouts is examined and three possible rationale for bailouts are put forth. The conclusion is reached that bank bailouts can be justified on the basis of these rationale, and, therefore, that bank insolvency legislation should recognize the bailout process and provide an adequate and appropriate framework for this process. Three recent bank failures, Canadian Commercial Bank, Northland Bank and the Bank of British Columbia, are discussed, with particular emphasis on the different bailout tools used by the government in each case. These case studies are used as a framework within which to assess current Canadian bank insolvency legislation. The conclusion is reached that the legislative framework is inadequate to deal effectively with bank insolvency.
By examining the American approach to bank insolvency and two recent Canadian studies on the subject, a model for reform is proposed. The model contemplates a more highly-structured legislative framework, with broad powers granted to the deposit insurer to implement a bailout in circumstances which justify this form of government intervention. Finally, this model is used as a basis on which to evaluate recent financial sector reform initiatives made by the federal government.Law, Peter A. Allard School of
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Feng, Jing. "Geographies of Employment among Chinese High-Tech Immigrants in Canada: An Ottawa-Gatineau case study." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/34983.
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For a number of years, Canadian immigration selection policy has deliberately emphasized the human capital characteristics of applicants in determining admissibility for permanent residence. Largely due to these measures, Chinese immigrants today are overwhelmingly well-educated and skilled. This thesis examines the role of geography in shaping Chinese newcomers’ post-arrival employment status, with an emphasis on working in the high-tech sector. Given that Ottawa is a leading node of high-tech employment in Canada, this project initially investigates the probability that Chinese newcomers will work in the high-tech sector in Ottawa-Gatineau relative to other cities. The project subsequently examines the degree to which employment in the high-tech sector in Ottawa-Gatineau is related to ethnic, social and demographic characteristics of local spaces where people live and work. All aspects of the study adopt a gender lens with respect to interpreting employment status. The study finds that Chinese immigrants in Ottawa-Gatineau are more likely to work in this sector than their counterparts in Vancouver and Toronto. They are also more likely to work in high-tech relative to individuals in other immigrant groups or the Canadian-born population. With respect to co-ethnic residential and work spatial configurations, as well as social and demographic characteristics of residential neighbourhoods, the study finds that these factors exert quite different influences on the likelihood that Chinese women and men will work in Ottawa-Gatineau’s high-tech sector. The results are quite distinctly different for women and men, and underline the importance of a gendered analysis of relationships between geographic location/place and employment status.
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Proulx, Catherine. "A Study of Darter (Percidae) Assemblages in Several Tributaries of the Ottawa River, Québec, Canada." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31282.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the habitat preference (or use), distribution and growth of darters (Channel Darter Percina copelandi, Logperch Percina caprodes, Fantail Darter Etheostoma flabellare, Tessellated Darter Etheostoma olmstedi and Johnny Darter Etheostoma nigrum) in tributaries of the Ottawa River, Québec, Canada. The Channel Darter’s habitat can be characterised by coarse heterogeneous substrate with water velocities greater than 0.25 m/s in zones with low bank slopes. Its distribution is limited to five tributaries of the Ottawa River, downstream from the first physical barrier. The Logperch and Fantail Darter’s habitats were similar to that of the Channel Darter, although the Fantail Darter was present in shallower waters. The Tessellated Darter was spatially partitioned from the others; the species seems to be a habitat generalist. The Johnny Darter was the least abundant darter and seems to prefer coarse heterogeneous substrate. The majority of growth in length was attained during the first year in all species. Growth rates were affected by the presence of parasites in the Channel Darter and Fantail Darter, non-parasitized individuals growing faster than parasitized individuals. Growth rates also differed among males and females in the Channel Darter, males growing faster than females.
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Abdulle, Mohamoud H. "Somali immigrants in Ottawa, the causes of their migration and the challenges of resettling in Canada." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ48122.pdf.
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Bert, Daniel G. "A multiscale analysis of nested species subsets of forest birds in agricultural landscapes near Ottawa, Canada." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ57784.pdf.
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Bert, Daniel G. (Daniel George) Carleton University Dissertation Biology. "A multiscale analysis of nested species subsets of forest birds in agricultural landscapes near Ottawa, Canada." Ottawa, 2001.
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Tomlins, Steven. "Navigating Atheist Identities: An Analysis of Nonreligious Perceptions and Experiences in the Religiously Diverse Canadian City of Ottawa." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/34444.
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There is very little research that is empirically-based about atheism in Canada; this thesis seeks to contribute foundational knowledge in this area. It begins with a historical and contemporary overview of atheism in Canada by examining its appearance in government, law, and media. It then addresses the question: “How do atheists construct their identities in the context of a religiously diverse Canada?” through an analysis of data collected from participant-observation with an atheist university club, the Atheist Community of the University of Ottawa (ACUO), followed by an analysis of five significant themes which arose from forty life history interviews (twenty with ACUO members; twenty with Ottawa-area atheists who did not belong to an atheist community that met in person). These themes are: loss of religious identity and/or development of atheist identity; group belonging; perceptions of media and public understanding of atheism; the use of the United States for narrative or comparative purposes; and the frequency of receiving a negative reaction simply for being an atheist. This study found that most interviewees perceived the Canadian public and the media as not understanding atheism because the subject is not commonly reported on or discussed, and many said that (ir)religiosity rarely came up in conversations with strangers, acquaintances, or co-workers. These notions were often seen as resulting from a Canadian social etiquette which dictates that controversial subjects should be avoided in order to minimize the risk of causing offense. Moreover, members of the ACUO often said that they joined an atheist community because they wanted a safe space to meet like-minded people with whom they could freely discuss religion without causing offense to religious others. Unlike in findings from the United States, interviewees did not speak of their atheist identities as being considered ‘un-Canadian’ or as excluding them from their conception(s) of Canadian society. While interviewees often said they were selective with whom they decided to express their atheism, most felt quite positive about living as an atheist in Canada, especially compared to the plight of atheists living in other countries, and atheism came across as being ‘just’ another ‘idea’ in a mosaic of cultural ideas.
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Lovink, Anton. "The Adaptation of South Sudanese Christian Refugees in Ottawa, Canada: Social Capital, Segmented Assimilation and Religious Organization." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/19579.
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This dissertation examines the adaptation of Christian refugees from Southern Sudan—primarily Dinkas and mostly educated—to living in Ottawa, Canada, not historically a gateway immigrant city. The discussion is based on sustained observation, documentation and analysis of South Sudanese refugees between 2005 and 2009, including 32 recorded interviews of adults, as well as a focus group held with young adults. It examines the findings through the lenses of social capital, with its focus on trust and reciprocity, and segmented assimilation to study the South Sudanese refugees’ integration through their most important groupings: ethnic, gendered, racial and religious. The study also focuses on the cultural, gender and language dynamics of a nascent South Sudanese-focused congregation and a related East African congregation. The experiences of Anglican and Catholic congregations with Christian Sudanese refugees were also examined. The research suggests that inter-culturally competent ethnic and religious leadership is central to the ability of migrant groups in the Global North to have enough bonding social capital to mediate the adaptation process and to bridge or link to other groups. First-wave, mostly male, educated refugees often have the inter-cultural skills and agency to set up effective organizations, but a continued focus on their region of origin, facilitated by the Internet and cell phones, makes a sustained emphasis on organizational-supported living in Canada difficult. While the values of many Sudanese-born women and their children converge with those of mainstream Canadian society, men living within patriarchal value systems, supported by literal interpretations of Holy Scriptures, face challenges, and the resulting conflicts threaten family cohesion. Both the denominational and the ethnic churches, in supporting new migrants spiritually and socially, are caught between denominational parameters and goals of ethnic identity, culture and values maintenance, made more difficult by the Sudanese not having a common language. The dissertation also begins to analyze the impact for recent African Christian immigrants of a culture that emphasizes individual rights, including the effects of the increasing presence of openly gay leaders in the Canadian but not in the African Church.Cette dissertation se penche sur l’adaptation des réfugiés chrétiens originaires du Sud du Soudan, en majorité d’ethnie Dinka et scolarisés, vivant à Ottawa, Canada. Les résultats de la recherche sur 5 ans suggèrent qu’une gestion adéquate des dynamiques ethniques et religieuses au niveau interculturel est capitale dans la capacité des groupes de migrants dans les pays développés pour générer suffisamment de capital social et faciliter le processus d’adaptation pour se lier à d’autres groupes. Les églises confessionnelles et les églises ethniques, en aidant les immigrants spirituellement et socialement, sont coincées entre des paramètres confessionnels et des objectifs d’identification ethnique, de maintien de valeurs et de culture, compliqués par l’absence d’une langue commune parmi les Soudanais. Cette dissertation tente aussi d’analyser l’impact pour les immigrants africains de fraîche date, d’une culture qui valorise les droits individuels, y compris l’émergence de chefs de file ouvertement homosexuels dans les églises canadiennes mais non dans les églises africaines.
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Briggs, Anett G. (Anett Gunilla) Carleton University Dissertation Earth Sciences. "A geochemical investigation into the origin of brackish groundwater from wells and springs east of Ottawa, Canada." Ottawa, 1995.
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Al-Umar, Mohammad. "GIS Based Assessment of Climate-induced Landslide Susceptibility of Sensitive Marine Clays in the Ottawa Region, Canada." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37218.
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Landslides are relatively frequent in Ottawa due to the presence of sensitive marine clays (Leda clay or Champlain Sea clay), and the presence of natural or climatic triggers such as rainfall or snowmelt. A geographic information system (GIS) based modeling tool has been developed to assess and predict climate (rainfall and snowmelt)-induced landslides in the sensitive marine clays of the Ottawa region. The Transient Rainfall Infiltration and Grid-based Regional Slope-Stability (TRIGRS) model is used in a GIS framework to investigate the influence of rainfall and snowmelt on shallow landslides through the Ottawa region, with respect to time and location.
First, the GIS and TRIGRS models are combined to assess landslide susceptibility with respect to rainfall. The GIS-TRIGRS approach requires topographic, geologic, hydrologic, and geotechnical information of the study area. In addition to this technical information (input data), rainfall intensity data for different durations (5 minutes, and 6, 12, 18, and 24 hours), and historical data of the regional landslides is required. This data is used to verify the locations of predicted landslide-susceptible areas with respect to historical landslide maps in the area. The generated results from the GIS-TRIGRS model were verified by comparing the predicted and historical locations of shallow landslides induced by rainfall throughout the Ottawa region. The comparison results showed a high correlation between the predicted areas of landslides and the previously reported landslides. In addition, the results also indicated that not all previous landslides in Leda clays were triggered by rainfall.
The second application of the developed GIS-TRIGRS approach was used to assess and predict snowmelt-induced landslides in areas of sensitive marine clay in the Ottawa region. Similar to the first analysis, the approach requires the following input data: topographic, geologic, hydrologic, geotechnical, snowmelt intensity data for various periods (6–48 hours, 3–15 days, 25 days, and 30 days), This approach also requires data indicating the location of historical landslides in the study area. Using this data, we examine both the timing and location of shallow landslides due to snowmelt in a GIS-based framework. The developed model was validated by comparing the predicted landslide-susceptible areas to historical landslide maps in the study area. A high correlation between predicted and historical landslide location trends was obtained, confirming that the developed GIS-TRIGRS model can predict the snowmelt-induced landslide susceptibility in the sensitive marine clays relatively well. The model results reinforced the conclusion that areas with high slopes and sensitive marine clays were more prone to snowmelt-induced landslides.
Finally, in a Geographic Information System (GIS) the landslide occurrence susceptibility in the Ottawa area was modeled. Results of such models are presented as maps showing landslide susceptibility in Champlain Sea clays (Leda clays) in the Ottawa area due to both rainfall and snowmelt. Various input data was collected and entered into a GIS and TRIGRS model. The main categories of such inputs are climate, topography, geology, hydrology, and geotechnical data. The rainfall and snowmelt intensity data was extracted for 24 to 48 hour periods from Environment and Climate Change Canada historical climate records. Thereafter, the factor of safety was calculated in order to determine the stability of slopes across the study area. The model assesses the effects of rainfall and snowmelt on landslide occurrence, and based on the calculated factor of safety at each pixel of the study area, the model calculates the landslide susceptibility.
The results presented in this thesis will provide a geotechnical basis for making appropriate engineering decisions during slope management and land use planning in the Ottawa region.
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Wong, Francis K. K. "A strategic plan for community ministry of the Chinese Christian Church of Ottawa." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2006. http://www.tren.com.
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Fobissie, Blese Elsie. "The Effects of Environmental Values and Political Ideology on Public Support for Renewable Energy Policy in Ottawa, Canada." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37960.
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The Ontario provincial government faces the challenge of getting public support in the implementation of its RE policy. This thesis aims at investigating the effects of environmental values and political ideology on public support for renewable energy policy in Ottawa, Canada. Data was collected through open-ended interviews with fifty respondents in and around Ottawa, transcribed, coded and analysed using the NVivo software. Results indicate that environmental values and political ideology affect public support for renewable energy policy, but economic factors also play a role. The provincial government can think of ways to reduce the cost of electricity, invest on education and the creation of awareness on the benefits of renewable energy and the different initiatives that are offered by the RE policy to increase public support. Public ownership of RE projects and more democratic policy-making could also increase public support.
Le gouvernement provincial de l'Ontario fait face au défi d'obtenir le soutien public dans la mise en œuvre de sa politique d'ER. Cette thèse vise à étudier les effets des valeurs environnementales et de l'idéologie politique sur le soutien public à la politique sur l'énergie renouvelable à Ottawa, au Canada. Les données ont été recueillies par les entrevues ouvertes avec une cinquantaine de répondants à Ottawa et dans les environs. Ils ont été transcrits, codées et analysées à l'aide du logiciel NVivo. Les résultats indiquent que les valeurs environnementales et l'idéologie politique affectent le soutien public à la politique d'énergie renouvelable, mais les facteurs économiques jouent également un rôle. Le gouvernement provincial peut réfléchir à des moyens de réduire le coût de l'électricité, investir dans l'éducation et sensibiliser les gens aux avantages de l'ER et aux différentes initiatives offertes par la politique sur l'ER pour accroître le soutien public. La propriété publique de projets d'ER et l'élaboration de politiques plus démocratiques pourrait également accroître le soutien public.
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Heggtveit, Marianne (Marianne Juliana) Carleton University Dissertation Canadian Studies. "The Canada Council Art Bank: national treasure, support to artists or decorating service for governments." Ottawa, 1992.
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Forte, Rita. "The nature of the relationship between industry and defence in Canada, expansion, modification and cooperation regarding the Ottawa treaty." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0005/MQ36819.pdf.
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Reid, Vanessa. "Ladies in the House : gender, space and the parlours of Parliament in late-nineteenth-century Canada." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0003/MQ43985.pdf.
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Bazinet, Renée. "Language, Gender, and Work: Investigating Women’s Employment Outcomes in Ottawa-Gatineau’s Federal Public Service." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/41627.
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Women and men experience work differently owing to the gendered nature of work and workplaces, but there is limited insight into whether language and gender intersect to shape employment outcomes. This thesis project examines full-time employment in Ottawa-Gatineau to determine whether being French, English, or bilingual meaningfully influences employment status in the federal public service in terms of occupational attainment and employment income. A series of descriptive and inferential statistical analyses using the 2016 Canadian census are used to examine whether commuting patterns, occupational attainment, and annual employment income are significantly different across industrial sectors and between women and men, as well as between official language communities. The analysis reveals important differences in residential distribution between Anglophones and Francophones working in the federal public service as well as differences in commuting times, especially to suburban office locations. There are also important differences in occupational attainment and income attainment between women and men across official language communities, with women, especially francophone women, being more likely to occupy relatively low-pay administrative jobs in the federal public service compared to men or anglophone and bilingual women. In many ways, bilingualism in the federal public service is made real by the work of francophone women, although they are concentrated in some of the least-well paid occupations and stand to have ever more time consuming commutes as jobs are moved to suburban locations in Ottawa.
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Hardie, Rebecca. "(U-Th)/He Thermochronology of the Ottawa Embayment, Eastern Canada: the Temperature-time History of an Ancient, Intracratonic Rift Basin." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35070.
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The Ottawa Embayment is a intracratonic rift basin that preserves a unique and eventful history through deep time. Its evolution records opening of the Iapetus Ocean with the break-up of Rodinia, followed by the formation of a continental passive margin, trapping siliciclastic sediments eroded from the adjacent Grenville Province. Samples were collected from a transect across the crystalline rift flank and through the embayment. We investigate the influence of crystallinitiy and non-ideal crystal chapes on He diffusion and resulting zircon (U-Th)/He age with the use of zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronometry, raman spectroscopy and x-ray micro-computed tomography. We then integrate our thermochronology data with regional geology to utilize multi-sample numerical modelling to improve our understanding of the thermal history of the Ottawa Embayment and the evolution of intracratonic rift basins. The works collected within define a comprehensive temperature-time history for the basin and rift flank from the Late-Mesoproterozoic to present day.
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Cameron, Nairne. "A comparative study of individual travel patterns of urban fringe dwellers in Ottawa, Canada; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and Yogyakarta, Indonesia." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28977.
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A technique for gathering, analyzing and grouping individual travel pattern data is developed and tested in an international case study to compare the travel behaviours of urban fringe dwellers in three cities. The cities are Ottawa, Canada; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The technique makes a contribution to research methodology through implementation of the following elements in combination: (1) an urban fringe, spatial, residential sampling procedure; (2) a household survey that gathers detailed data on respondents and their travel patterns for three days over the period of a week including both work and non-work time periods; and, (3) an analysis that decomposes the travel patterns into various dimensions, facilitated by a Geographic Information System (GIS) which is followed by a segmentation of the travel patterns using cluster analysis.
Based on the Ottawa component of the survey, an approach is suggested for collecting spatial familiarity data from urban fringe dwellers. The approach explores relationships involving respondents' previous residential locations in the city region. This evaluates their areal familiarity: a factor which influences their travel patterns.
The comparative study examines empirical relationships by means of comprehensive data analysis and hypothesis testing. The dimensions of travel investigated are: travel activities, modes of travel, distance, time and speed of travel, trip destinations, reasons for travel, frequency of travel, complexity of travel, and, spatial familiarity. Case study results reveal several commonalities and differences between the three field sites: (a) the car is the dominant mode in Ottawa, compared to a wider diversity of modes operating in the Southeast Asian field sites; (b) individual respondents in Yogyakarta travelled by a greater number of modes than those in Ottawa and Kuala Lumpur; (c) car modal share increased on non-work days compared to work days in all sites; (d) respondents in Ottawa exhibited the highest mean travel distances, travel times and speeds, followed by respondents in Kuala Lumpur and Yogyakarta; (e) the urban fringe was the destination of over half of all stops in both the Kuala Lumpur and Yogyakarta surveys, compared to less than half in Ottawa; and, (f) across field sites and survey days, the clusters with the highest mean tours per day have daily destinations concentrated in the urban fringe.
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Tarraf, Diana. "Prevalence and Determinants of Food Insecurity and Its Impact on Diet Quality in African and Caribbean School-Aged Children in Ottawa." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35717.
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Purpose: Food insecurity is an important social determinant of health and is linked with higher health care costs. There is a high prevalence of food insecurity among recent immigrant households in Canada. The aim of the present project was to evaluate the prevalence of food insecurity in immigrant and non-immigrant households in Ottawa, to explore determinants of food insecurity in that population and to evaluate the link between food insecurity, diet quality and weight status.
Methodology: A cross-sectional study was conducted with a convenience sample of 258 Ottawa households having a child between 6 and 12 years old, with a mother born in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean or Canada. Health Canada’s Household Food Security Survey Module was used to evaluate participants’ food access in the past 12 months. Children’s dietary intake was evaluated with the use of a 24-hour recall and a modified Healthy Eating Index diet quality score was calculated. Chi-square and logistic and linear regression analyses were used to determine correlates of food insecurity and its link with diet quality and weight status (n=249).
Results: A high rate of food insecurity (39%) was found among participants. Household food insecurity was associated with low education attainment, lone motherhood, mother’s visible minority status, recent arrival to Canada, limited English fluency, reliance on social assistance, and subsidized/temporary/COOP housing. Food insecurity was associated with consumption of sweetened beverages, lower consumption of saturated fat among children, and with obesity among mothers.
Conclusion: These findings suggest that food insecurity is associated with certain indicators of poor diet quality among children and with obesity among mothers. The findings also highlight the need for food insecurity to be explicitly addressed in immigrant integration strategies in order to improve the financial power of new immigrants to purchase sufficient, nutritious, and culturally acceptable foods. Enhancing immigrants’ access to affordable child care and well-paid jobs, improving social assistance programs, and providing more subsidized housing programs would be beneficial to help reduce food insecurity and increase diet quality.
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Bergonzoni, Giacomo. "(at)tendaendo Il Cielo, progetto per una chiesa a Ottawa." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2013. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/5494/.
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Progetto per una chiesa cattolica ad Ottawa, capitale del Canada. Nel lotto dove sorgeva la chiesa di Saint Charles su Beechwood Avenue, nel quartiere storicamente francofono di Vanier, si è progettata la nuova chiesa con le annesse opere parrocchiale. Dopo un'attenta analisi del sito sono state identificate le peculiarità storiche, paesaggistiche e socio-culturali della chiesa esistente e nel nuovo progetto si valorizzano i punti di forza del precedente edificio e li si integrano con un'architettura contemporanea. L'architettura sacra è stata sviluppata facendo riferimento all'archetipo della tenda che è, fin dalle origine della soria della salvezza cristiana, il tempio in cui Dio si rivela e in cui si rende presente fra gli uomini: "E il Verbo si fece carne e pose la sua tenda in mezzo a noi" (Giovanni 1, 14)
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Hollingsworth, John. "Hard times in the new times, the institutional contradictions of an emergent local workfare state, Ontario Works in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ57661.pdf.
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Hollingsworth, John (John William) Carleton University Dissertation Political Economy. "'Hard times' in the 'New times'; the institutional contradictions of an emergent local workfare state (Ontario works in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)." Ottawa, 2000.
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Legendre, Nicolas. "The Impact of the Recent Financial Crisis on Bank Lending to SMEs in Canada." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35225.
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This study investigates the magnitude of credit contraction encountered by Canadian Small-and-Medium-Sized-Enterprises (SMEs) during the recent financial crisis of 2007-2008. These firms account for an important source of job creation and economic welfare (Haltiwanger et al., 2010); therefore, to ensure the creation and growth of SMEs through a smooth flow of capital is crucial for a healthy economic recovery from the crisis.
The empirical observation obtained in this study is contrary to what the theory suggests, as well as what many of the existing studies witnessed (i.e., a financial crisis has a negative impact on SME loan circulations). Using binary probit regression and structural break testing, this work finds that Canadian SME loan approval and application rates were higher during the crisis period. This somewhat counterintuitive result prompts the researcher to search for the possible factors enabling SME credit lending in Canada to retain its health during the time of financial distress, which include: (1) the stability of Canadian banks evidenced by the relatively constant Capital Tier I ratio during the crisis; (2) initiatives the Canadian government implemented as a response to the crisis. This result also raises a question whether the five billion dollars the federal government injected in the SME lending market under the Business Capital Availability Program (BCAP), a measure designed to insulate Canadian SMEs from the liquidity shock, could be justified. This research question will be investigated as a future area of research.
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Reed, Rick M. "Developing an eternal perspective among believers at the Metropolitan Bible Church." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2006. http://www.tren.com.
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Jarotkova, Jolana. "La participation sociale dans la société d’installation : une réponse à l’épreuve d’intégration; Les trajectoires de participation sociale des immigrants congolais installés à Bruxelles et à Ottawa-Gatineau." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/36721.
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Cette thèse vise à mieux comprendre l’articulation entre la trajectoire de participation sociale des immigrants et l’épreuve d’intégration dont ces derniers doivent s’acquitter dans la société d’installation. À partir d’une approche par parcours de vie, elle se concentre plus particulièrement sur les immigrants originaires de la République démocratique du Congo installés d’une part dans la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale (Belgique) et d’autre part dans la région d’Ottawa-Gatineau. J’utilise ici la notion de participation sociale pour examiner différentes pratiques d’engagement social comme des pratiques de don de temps pour le bien commun. La notion d’« épreuve d’intégration » se base, quant à elle, sur les travaux de Serge Paugam (2014) sur les liens sociaux et l’intégration ainsi que sur la notion d’épreuve mise de l’avant par Danilo Martuccelli.
Les données présentées ici proviennent principalement de récits de vie recueillis sur ces deux terrains de recherche. Ces récits ont été complétés par des entrevues d’informateurs-clés et d’experts ainsi que par plusieurs séances d’observation participante au sein de structures de participation dans lesquelles des immigrants congolais étaient engagés.
La conclusion majeure de cette thèse est que la trajectoire de participation sociale permet d’apporter des réponses partielles à l’épreuve d’intégration. Ces réponses structurent la façon dont les individus créent des liens sociaux au travers de leur trajectoire de participation. Elles dépendent en partie de la visibilité des pratiques de participation des répondants.
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Larkin, Patricia M. (Patricia Marguerite) Carleton University Dissertation Geography. "The Place of small wetlands in rural country lot development; a case study in the regional municipality of Ottawa-Carleton, Ontario, Canada." Ottawa, 1996.
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Ploeger, Sarah Katherine. "Development and Application of the CanRisk Injury Model and a Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS) to Evaluate Seismic Risk in the Context of Emergency Management in Canada: Case Study of Ottawa, Canada." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31536.
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Approximately 43% of Canada’s population reside in urban centres at most seismic risk.This research creates practical and proactive tools to support decision making in emergency management regarding earthquake risk. This proactive approach evaluates the potential impact of future earthquakes for informed mitigation and preparedness decisions. The overall aims are to evaluate a community’s operational readiness, reveal limitations and resources gaps in the emergency plan, test potential mitigation and preparedness strategies and provide a realistic earthquake scenario for training activities. Two models, the CanRisk injury model and a disaster Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS), were designed and developed to further evaluate seismic risk on a community scale.
The injury model is an extension of the engineering-based CanRisk tool and quantifies an individual’s risk to injury, the number of injuries, and provides an injury profile of life-threatening injuries at the building scale. The model implements fuzzy synthetic evaluation to quantify seismic risk, mathematical calculations to estimate number of injuries, and a decision-matrix to generate the injury profile.
The SDSS is an evidence-based model that is designed for the planning phase to evaluate post-earthquake emergency response. Loss estimations from Hazus Canada and the CanRisk injury model are combined with community geospatial data to simulate post-earthquake conditions that are important for immediate post-earthquake response. Fire services, search and rescue operations (including urban search and rescue and police services), emergency medical services, and relief operations are all modelled.
A case study was applied to 27 neighbourhoods in Ottawa, Canada, using a M6.0 and M7.25 scenarios. The models revealed challenges to all emergency response units. A critical threshold exists between the M6.0 and M7.25 scenarios whereby emergency response moves from partial but manageable functionality to a complete system breakdown. The models developed in this research show great utility to emergency managers in Canada.
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Roberts, Joy S. "A rhetorical analysis of the self within an organization, the production & reception of discourse in a Canadian bank." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0014/NQ32854.pdf.
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Bomhof, James. "Estimating Flow, Hydraulic Geometry, and Hydrokinetic Power at Ungauged Locations in Canada." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30383.
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A resource assessment of the hydrokinetic potential in Canada's rivers was completed. The
main objectives of the study were to (1) quantify the potential hydrokinetic energy avail-
able for development both nationally and regionally, and (2) develop geospatial datasets
identifying streams or areas of high hydrokinetic potential. Flow estimates at ungauged
locations were found using multiple linear regression coupled with Canonical correlation
analysis (MLR-CCA). Total theoretical hydro power, equivalent to total theoretical hydroki-
netic power was calculated using these
ow estimates and hydraulic head estimates from
DEMs. It is estimated that there are 710 GW of potential power in Canadian rivers, with
97.5% con dence that there is at least 433 GW. Downstream hydraulic geometry (DHG)
relations were applied to
ow estimates to nd cross section velocity and power at ungauged
locations. Further testing was done on DHG relations, and were found to be most accurate
when characterized by soil drainage characteristics.
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D'Aoust, Patrick Marcel. "Stormwater Retention Ponds: Hydrogen Sulfide Production, Water Quality and Sulfate-Reducing Bacterial Kinetics." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35562.
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Stormwater retention basins are an integral component of municipal stormwater management strategies in North America. The province of Ontario’s Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change obligates land developers to implement stormwater management in their land use and development plans to mitigate the effects of urbanization (Bradford and Gharabaghi, 2004). When stormwater retention ponds are improperly designed or maintained, these basins can fail at improving effluent water quality and may exasperate water quality issues.
Intense H2S production events in stormwater infrastructure is a serious problem which is seldom encountered and documented in stormwater retention ponds. This study monitored two stormwater retention ponds situated in the Riverside South community, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada for a period of 15 consecutive months to thoroughly characterize intense hydrogen sulfide (H2S) production in a stormwater retention pond under ice covered conditions during winter operation and during periods of drought under non-ice covered conditions during the summer.
Field experiments showed a strong relationship (p < 0.006, R > 0.58, n = 20+) between hypoxic conditions (dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration < 2 mg/L) and the intense production of H2S gas. Ice-capping of the stormwater ponds during winter severely hindered reaeration of the pond and led to significant production of total sulfides in the Riverside South Pond #2 (RSP2), which subsequently resulted in the accumulation of total sulfides in the water column (20.7 mg/L) during winter in this pond. There was a perceived lag phase between the drop in DO and the increase in total sulfides near the surface, which was potentially indicative of slow movement of total sulfides from the benthic sediment into the water column. These high-sulfide conditions persisted in RSP2 from early January 2015 until the spring thaw, in mid-April, 2015. Riverside South Pond #1 (RSP1), the reference pond studied in this work, showed significantly less production of total sulfides across a significantly shorter period of time. Analysis of the microbial communities showed that there was little change in the dominant bacterial populations present in the benthic sediment of the pond demonstrating significant total sulfide production (RSP2) and the pond that did not demonstrate significant total sulfide production (RSP1). Additionally, it was found that locations with the most accumulated sediment had the highest propensity for the production of H2S gas. Furthermore, there was no perceivable community shift in the two ponds throughout the seasons, indicating that the sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) in stormwater benthic sediment are ubiquitous, exist in an acclimatized microbial population and are robust. Study of the microbial abundances revealed that SRB represented approximately 5.01 ± 0.79 % of the microbes present in the benthic sediment of RSP2. Likewise, in the stormwater pond which did not experience intense H2S gas production, RSP1, 6.22 ± 2.11 % of microbes were of the SRB type, demonstrating that H2S gas production does not correspond to higher concentrations of SRB or the proliferation of dominant species, but rather is a symptom of increased bacterial activity due to favourable environmental conditions.
In addition, this work also covers the kinetics of sediment oxygen demand (SOD), ammonification and sulfate-reduction, and attempts to understand the processes leading to H2S gas production events.
In doing so, it was observed that kinetics obtained full-scale field studies were greater than in laboratory kinetic experiments. Laboratory experiments at 4°C identified total SOD, ammonification and sulfate-reduction kinetics to be 0.023 g/m2/day, 0.027 g N/m2/day and 0.004 g S/m2/day, respectively. Meanwhile, kinetics calculated from the field study of stormwater retention ponds for total SOD, ammonification and sulfate-reduction were of 0.491 g/m2/day, 0.120 g N/m2/day and 0.147 g S/m2/day, respectively. It is expected that this difference is due to the depth of active sediment influencing the total rates of production/consumption, making area-normalized daily rates of production/consumption (g/m2/day) unsuitable for the comparison of field and laboratory studies, without some scaling factor. This study also measured supplementary kinetic parameters such as the Arrhenius coefficients and the half-saturation coefficient, to add to existing knowledge of sulfate-reduction.
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Salad, Hersi Osman. "Stratigraphic revision of the Upper Chazyan to Trentonian succession, and sedimentologic and diagenetic aspects of the Blackriveran strata, Ottawa Embayment, eastern Ontario, Canada." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0035/NQ26886.pdf.
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Salad, Hersi Osman Carleton University Dissertation Earth Sciences. "Stratigraphic revision of the Upper Chazyan to Trentonian secession, and sedimentologic and diagenetic aspects of the Blackriveran strata, Ottawa Embayment, eastern Ontario, Canada." Ottawa, 1997.
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Haggar, Amina Ahmat. "A Intersectional Analysis of the Recruitment and Participation of Second-generation African Canadian Adolescent Girls in a Community Basketball Program in Ottawa, Canada." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/42699.
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Research on the unique challenges facing racialized and minority adolescent girls in Canada has prompted sport actors to develop tailored intervention strategies to address the disproportionately lower participation and retention rates of these subpopulations. However, much research has relied on unitary conceptualisations of participation barriers facing socially disadvantaged adolescent girls, which has produced “one-size-fits-all” policy and program solutions to address declining participation trends. Therefore, in my thesis research, I used intersectionality theory, a feminist participatory action research (FPAR) approach, and semi-structured interviews with 11 coordinators and coaches in the City of Ottawa’s Community Centre Basketball League (CCBL) to understand how they address the recruitment and participation of second-generation African Canadian adolescent girls in low-income Ottawa neighbourhoods. I then used Braun and Clarke’s (2019a) reflexive thematic analysis to better understand the facilitators and barriers to the recruitment and participation of these girls in the CCBL program. I identified four themes that inform the recruitment and participation of second-generation African Canadian adolescent girls in the CCBL: a) CCBL coordinators hire coaches who can relate to the program users through shared culture and/or lived-experiences; b) CCBL coaches use their identities and lived experiences to enhance their understanding of the program users; c) CCBL coaches and coordinators make efforts to build trust with and increase buy-in from parents to improve participation from program users; and d) CCBL coaches and coordinators make religious accommodations in response to the needs of Muslim and Christian program users. The findings from my research can be used to promote more inclusive and equitable community-based sport programs serving ethnoculturally diverse adolescent girls in Canada.
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Kahmann-Robinson, Julia A. Atchley Stacy C. "The sequence stratigraphic evolution of the Sturgeon Lake bank, central Alberta, Canada and its regional implications." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/3016.
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Tissaaratchy, Piyanjali M. "Bank markup behaviour and the elasticity of the supply of funds in Canada: An empirical analysis." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/4244.
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This dissertation studies the nature of the elasticity of the supply of funds through the analysis of concepts as presented by post Keynesian horizontalists and post Keynesian non-horizontalists. These two competing views are outlined, and pertinent issues are isolated. Empirical analysis is performed using data for the Canadian economy in order to assess the validity of both positions. In order to distinguish empirically between horizontalists and non-horizontalists, the variability of the commercial bank markup is tested, as well as any evidence of the presence of financial fragility. A markup that varies with changes in gross domestic product would indicate that the determination of the interest rate was not purely a supply-side phenomenon, and would violate the horizontalist position. Any evidence of the presence of financial fragility resulting from increased firm indebtedness would also indicate that constraints on monetary creation exist, as consistent with non-horizontalist views. The econometric tests attempted in this dissertation address both these issues using Canadian data for the 1980 to 1995 period. The results of the empirical tests conducted do not provide any evidence to support an upward sloping money supply function. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Nader, Athir. "Engineering Characteristics of Sensitive Marine Clays - Examples of Clays in Eastern Canada." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30670.
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Sensitive marine clay in Ottawa is a challenging soil for geotechnical engineers. This type of clay behaves differently than other soils in Canada or other parts of the world. They also have different engineering characteristic values in comparison to other clays. Cone penetration testing in sensitive marine clays is also different from that carried out in other soils. The misestimation of engineering characteristics from cone penetration testing can result. Temperature effects have been suspected as the reason for negative readings and erroneous estimations of engineering characteristics from cone penetration testing. Furthermore, the applicability of correlations between cone penetration test (CPT) results and engineering characteristics is ambiguous. Moreover, it is important that geotechnical engineers who need to work with these clays have background information on their engineering characteristics.
This thesis provides comprehensive information on the engineering characteristics and behaviour of sensitive marine clays in Ottawa. This information will give key information to geotechnical engineers who are working with these clays on their behaviour. For the purpose of this research, fifteen sites in the Ottawa area are taken into consideration. These sites included alternative technical data from cone and standard penetration tests, undisturbed samples, field vanes, and shear wave velocity measurements. Laboratory testing carried out for these sites has resulted in acquiring engineering parameters of the marine clay, such as preconsolidation pressure, overconsolidation ratio, compression and recompression indexes, secondary compression index, coefficient of consolidation, hydraulic conductivity, clay fraction, porewater chemistry, specific gravity, plasticity, moisture content, unit weight, void ratio, and porosity. This thesis also discusses other characteristics of sensitive marine clays in Ottawa, such as their activity, sensitivity, structure, interface shear behaviour, and origin and sedimentation.
Furthermore, for the purpose of increasing local experience with the use of cone and ball penetrometers in sensitive marine clays in Ottawa, three types of penetrometer tips are used in the Canadian Geotechnical Research Site No. 1 located in south-west Ottawa: 36 mm cone tip, and 40 mm and 113 mm ball tips. The differences in their response in sensitive marine clays will be discussed. The temperature effects on the penetrometer equipment are also studied. The differences in the effect of temperature on these tips are discussed. Correlations between the penetrometer results and engineering characteristics of Ottawa's clays are verified.
The applicability of correlations between the testing results and engineering characteristics of sensitive marine clays in Ottawa is also presented in this thesis. Two correlations from the Canadian Foundation Engineering Manual are examined. One of these correlations is between the N60 values from standard penetration testing and undrained shear strength. The other correlation is between the shear wave velocity measurement and site class. Temperature corrections are suggested and discussed for penetrometer equipment according to laboratory calibrations. The significance of the effects due to radical temperature changes in Canada and Ottawa is discussed.
Some of the main findings from this research are as follows.
• The Canadian Foundation Engineering Manual presents a correlation between standard penetration tests (SPTs) and the undrained shear strength of soils. This relationship may not be applicable to sensitive marine clays in Ottawa.
• Another correlation between the site class, shear wave velocity, and undrained shear strength is presented by this same manual which may not be applicable to sensitive marine clays in Ottawa.
• The rotation rate for field vane testing as recommended by ASTM D2573 is slow for sensitive marine clays in Ottawa.
• Correction factors applied to undrained shear strength from laboratory vane tests may not result in comparable values with the undrained shear strength obtained by using field vane tests.
• Loading schemes in consolidation or oedometer testing may affect the quality of the targeted results.
• Temperature corrections should be applied to penetrometer recordings to compensate for the drift in the results of these recordings due to temperature changes.
• The secondary compression index to compression index ratio presented in the literature may not be the value obtained from this research.
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Allen, Diana M. "Steady-state and transient hydrologic, thermal and chemical modelling of a faulted carbonate aquifer used for aquifer thermal energy storage, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq22158.pdf.
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Allen, Diana M. (Diana Margaret) Carleton University Dissertation Earth Sciences. "Steady-state and transient hydrologic, thermal and chemical modelling of a faulted carbonate aquifer used for Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada." Ottawa, 1996.
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