Développement d'une méthodologie de calage automatisée pour tout modèle de rivière basé sur le logiciel hydrosédimentaire mhyser1.0

Transport de sédiments -- Fondements théoriques -- Notions de rhéologie -- Modes de transport -- Vitesse de sédimentation -- Équations de transport -- Logiciel hydrosédimentaire MHYSER1.0 -- Coefficients de pertes de charge -- Nombre de tubes de courant -- Capacité de transport -- Débit solide entrant -- Épaisseur de la couche active -- Paramètres d'optimisation -- Logiciel OptiMHYSER -- Paramètres de calage et d'observation -- Logiciel PEST -- Optimisation des paramètres de calage discontinus -- Interfaces graphiques OptiMHYSER -- Validation et application

The representation of athletes in tweets at the Toronto 2015 Pan Am and Parapan Am Games: an agenda setting analysis

The agenda setting theory questions how the selection and arrangement of news affect the public’s perceptions over news events. As Twitter is a new platform for sport organizations to release news, bypassing traditional agencies, “agenda setting” bears new meanings. This thesis attempts to determine the agenda set during the 2015 Toronto Pan Am and Parapan Am Games by examining the representation of athletes on the Twitter account @TO2015. Initially, without considering that the news release was the Organizing Committee itself, the analysis assumed incorrectly that the representation favoured the Pan Am Games. Without the support from the data, the researcher re-examined the study and realized that his preoccupations with “equal representation” misled his categorization of the tweets. Then the researcher reanalyzed the tweets in new categories. This time the analysis observed the cultural differences of the two Games, and thus came up with recommendations for more effective Twitter management.Master of Human Kinetics (MHK

Winner of the CAML Student Paper Award 2012: The Plexure of Copyright Infringement

This paper reflects on copyright law as it relates to musical works by examining a work entitled Plexure by the Canadian composer John Oswald that is made up entirely of unlicensed samples from other works. While the recording industry views works like Oswald's to be infringing on copyright, this paper argues that these types of transformative works should be allowed under the fair use, or fair dealing, provisions of copyright law, and that to disallow them ultimately stifles creativity and the advancement of culture in general. The paper argues that there needs to be an expansion of the current fair use laws to include a broader interpretation of works of transformative appropriation like Oswald's Plexure

The Effect of Risk Attitude and Uncertainty Comfort on Primary Care Physicians' Use of Electronic Information Resources

Background: Clinicians use information regularly in clinical care. New electronic information resources provided in push, pull, and prompting formats have potential to improve information support but have not been designed for individualization. Physicians with differing risk status use healthcare resources differently often without an improvement in outcomes.Questions: Do physicians who are risk seeking or risk avoiding and comfortable or uncomfortable with uncertainty use or prefer electronic information resources differently when answering simulated clinical questions and can the processes be modeled with existing theoretical models?Design: Cohort study.Methods: Primary care physicians in Canada and the United States were screened for risk status. Those with high and low scores on 2 validated scales answered 23 multiple-choice questions and searched for information using their own electronic resources for 2 of these questions. They also answered 2 other questions using information from 2 electronic information sources: PIER© and Clinical Evidence© .Results: The physicians did not differ for number of correct answers according to risk status although the number of correct answers was low and not substantially higher than chance. Their searching process was consistent with 2 information-seeking models from information science (modified Wilson Problem Solving and Card/Pirolli Information Foraging/Information Scent models). Few differences were seen for any electronic searching or information use outcome based on risk status although those physicians who were comfortable with uncertainty used more searching heuristics and spent less effort on direct searching. More than 20% of answers were changed after searching—almost the same number going from incorrect to correct and from correct to incorrect. These changes from a correct to incorrect answer indicate that some electronic information resources may not be ideal for direct clinical care or integration into electronic medical record systems.Conclusions: Risk status may not be a major factor in the design of electronic information resources for primary care physicians. More research needs to be done to determine which computerized information resources and which features of these resources are associated with obtaining and maintaining correct answers to clinical questions

Sampling in Qualitative Research: Insights from an Overview of the Methods Literature

The methods literature regarding sampling in qualitative research is characterized by important inconsistencies and ambiguities, which can be problematic for students and researchers seeking a clear and coherent understanding. In this article we present insights about sampling in qualitative research derived from a systematic methods overview we conducted of the literature from three research traditions: grounded theory, phenomenology, and case study. We identified and selected influential methods literature from each tradition using a purposeful and transparent procedure, abstracted textual data using structured abstraction forms, and used a multistep approach for deriving conclusions from the data. We organize the findings from this review into eight topic sections corresponding to the major domains of sampling identified in the review process: definitions of sampling, usage of the term sampling strategy, purposeful sampling, theoretical sampling, sampling units, saturation, sample size, and the timing of sampling decisions. Within each section we summarize how the topic is characterized in the corresponding literature, present our comparative analysis of important differences among research traditions, and offer analytic comments on the findings for that topic. We identify several specific issues with the available guidance on certain topics, representing opportunities for future methods authors to improve our collective understanding

The future of tobacco sponsorship of sport in Canada.

This study was designed to uncover the predictions of experts regarding the future of tobacco sponsorship of sport in Canada. The Delphi Technique was used as the research protocol. A census of all marketing managers of tobacco brands involved in sport sponsorship (N = 4) and elite sporting events that utilize sponsorship funds from tobacco companies (N = 7) were involved in the study. Data were collected in three rounds as per the Delphi Technique protocol. In the first Round, each expert answered three open ended questions regarding the future of tobacco sponsorship of sport in Canada. From the responses provided in Round One, eighteen statements were generated that formed the basis for the last two rounds. Responses for the statements on the last two Rounds were evaluated on a 5-point Likert scale for probability, desirability, importance, impact, and priority. The results from Rounds Two and Three lead the researcher to predict that tobacco sponsorship of sport will be severely diminished after the year 2000 and that talent development programs which provide the international events with Canadian sport talent will need to find alternative sponsors if these programs are to survive. Further, many of the current events receiving funding will need to downgrade their events from major international status.Dept. of Kinesiology. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis2000 .M352. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 39-02, page: 0500. Adviser: W. J. Weese. Thesis (M.H.K.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 2000

Critical Approach to Reflexivity in Grounded Theory

A problem with the popular desire to legitimate one’s research through the inclusion of reflexivity is its increasingly uncritical adoption and practice, with most researchers failing to define their understandings, specific positions, and approaches. Considering the relative recentness with which reflexivity has been explicitly described in the context of grounded theory, guidance for incorporating it within this research approach is currently in the early stages. In this article, we illustrate a three-stage approach used in a grounded theory study of how parents of children with autism navigate intervention. Within this approach, different understandings of reflexivity are first explored and mapped, a methodologically consistent position that includes the aspects of reflexivity one will address is specified, and reflexivity-related observations are generated and ultimately reported. According to the position specified, we reflexively account for multiple researcher influences, including on methodological decisions, participant interactions and data collection, analysis, writing, and influence of the research on the researcher. We hope this illustrated approach may serve both as a potential model for how researchers can critically design and implement their own context-specific approach to reflexivity, and as a stimulus for further methodological discussion of how to incorporate reflexivity into grounded theory research

AGBT Advanced Counter-Rotating Gearbox Detailed Design Report

An Advanced Counter-Rotating (CR) Gearbox was designed and fabricated to evaluate gearbox efficiency, durability and weight characteristics for emerging propfan-powered airplanes. Component scavenge tests showed that a constant volume collector had high scavenge effectiveness, which was uneffected by added airflow. Lubrication tests showed that gearbox losses could be reduced by controlling the air/oil mixture and by directing the oil jets radially, with a slight axial component, into the sun/planet gears