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O antigen biosynthesis in Gram-negative bacteria: Characterization of alpha1,4-glucosyltransferase WclY from Escherichia coli O117 and development of glycosyltransferase inhibitors.
Gram-negative bacteria have a polysaccharide coat (O antigen) consisting of repeating units of oligosaccharides that is assembled by glycosyltransferases. Many of these bacteria are associated with disease, and the ... -
O wheel!, or, Thanksgiving thoughts; a sermon, preached in St.Andrew' s church, Montreal, on Wednesday, 18th October, 1865.
(Montreal, Dawson,, 2014-04-15) -
O'Hara's Dominion almanac for the year of our Lord 1875.
(Bowmanville, (Ontario) : R.&H. O'Hara,, 2014-04-14) -
OA Policies & Traditional Publishing Agreements: Status of Non-Exclusive Licenses in Canadian Copyright Law?
To ease the problem of paywall-blocked access to scholarly articles arising from publicly funded research, some universities have adopted a rights-retention OA policy. In this type of policy, faculty grant to the university ... -
Obesity and Endothelial Function: Investigating the Importance of the Shear Stress Stimulus Profile Used for FMD Assessment
(2014-10-01)Endothelial function is important for the maintenance of vascular health and it can be assessed by measuring endothelial dependent flow mediated dilation (FMD) in response to an imposed increase in shear stress (SS). While ... -
Obituarizing Michael Jackson: Subject Formation through Material Cultural Branding
(2010-09-09)Historically, obituaries were created as news items and published in print media with the intentions of informing an audience of public hangings or similar sensational deaths. Over the years, obituaries changed in form to ... -
Object Class Recognition using Global Shape Descriptors in 3D
(2014-07-22)We formulate Global Shape Descriptors for object classifi cation in range data. The goal of object class recognition is to identify and localize objects of interest in a 3D point cloud.This work focuses on the automatic ... -
Object Detection and Pattern of Life Analysis from Remotely Piloted Aircraft System Acquired Full Motion Video
Remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) have introduced a new ability to quickly deploy low-cost, fully or partially autonomous aerial sensor platforms which has created new intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance ... -
Object Recognition by Registration of Repeatable 3D Interest Segments
(2015-02-04)3D object recognition using depth data remains a difficult problem in computer vision. In this thesis, an object recognition system based on registering repeatable 3D surface segments, termed recognition by registration ... -
Object substitution masking reveals the continuous nature of conscious object representation
(2015-10-13)How the visual system resolves conflicting information in the construction of a stable and coherent conscious experience remains one of the central problems of vision science. One striking example of this resolution of ... -
Object, Benefits and history of normal schools, with Act of Legislature of Nova Scotia anent Normal Schools & c.
(Halifax, N.S. : Printed by James Barnes,, 2014-04-11) -
Objective Assessment of Dysarthric Speech Intelligibility
(2011-09-28)The de-facto standard for dysarthric intelligibility assessment is a subjective intelligibility test, performed by an expert. Subjective tests are often costly, biased and inconsistent because of their perceptual nature. ... -
The Objective/Subjective Distinction of the Self: Examining Self-Discrepancy
(2014-09-08)Self-discrepancies have traditionally been measured with the Selves Questionnaire. This is an objective measure, in that it does not assume that individuals are aware of the discrepancies between their various self-state ... -
Objectively measured active transportation among 10-13 year olds from Kingston, Ontario
Background: Active transportation positively influences the physical and mental health of children and adolescents. Research on active transportation to school suggests that the walkability of the built environment can ... -
Objects of Affection: Producing and Consuming Toys and Childhood in Canada, 1840-1989
(2013-09-16)This thesis examines the significance of toy production, distribution, marketing and consumption to Canadian understandings of childhood. Drawing on Patrick J. Ryan’s concept of the discursive landscape of modern childhood ... -
Observation Claims and Epistemic Confidence in Aristotle’s Biology
(University of Chicago Press, 2017-05-26)This essay looks at the ways in which Aristotle signals his confidence in observation claims in his biological works. Widely seen as an astute observer of the natural world, Aristotle in fact makes surprisingly few explicit ... -
Observation Points based Multi-modal Fusion Systems for Skeleton Action Recognition
Current methods for skeleton-based action recognition compute features based on the given skeleton joint information. We show that introducing new observation points in skeleton motion sequences and using them to create ... -
An Observational Study Examining the Association Between Chronic Pain Coping Strategies and Unplanned Health Care Use by Individuals Attending an Interdisciplinary Pain Clinic
Objective: To characterize a chronic pain clinic population and determine whether specific coping strategies were associated with an unplanned health care visit(s) after controlling for predisposing, enabling, and need ... -
Observations and Performances with Distinction by Physical Therapy Students in Clinical Education: Analysis of Check-boxes on the Physical Therapist Clinical Performance Instrument (PT-CPI) Over a 4 Year Period.
(University of Toronto Press, 2015-01)Purpose: To describe how often the 24 performance criteria of the Physical Therapist Clinical Performance Instrument (PT-CPI) were not observed and how often they were rated exceptionally well for physical therapy (PT) ...