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Type d'Item : Item , "For They Were People of Stolid Faith and a Granite-Like Pride": Examining Ethnic Relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina Through a Literary Lens(Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2026-08-19) Mills, Desmond William; Krakovský, RomanThis thesis, a work of cultural and political history, seeks to understand the role of religion in the long-term causes of the breakup of Yugoslavia by creating dialogue between history and literature. The work will constrain itself geographically to Bosnia and Herzegovina, a region that was host to two of the most prolific authors in the Yugoslav canon, Ivo Andrić and Meša Selimović. While both men were committed Yugoslavists, their cultural backgrounds were grounded in different, and somewhat opposite religious perspectives. Ivo Andrić's writings represents a Judeo-Christian view of the region while Meša Selimović presents a Muslim one. A selected corpus of their novels serves as primary sources for this project. The plots of the novels take place before Yugoslavia was formed in 1918. Setting these novels in the distant past allowed the authors to explore the deep undercurrents of Western Balkan history unshackled by the bonds of the contemporary norms of Yugoslav society. It is this detachment from the immediacy of events that allows for a more nuance and holistic view of the region. The exploration of the many facets of religious life in Bosnia, as represented in literature and works of history, will help us understand how the memory of past traumas played a part in transforming Yugoslavia from a region known for its multiethnic cohabitation to one marred by fratricidal violence. A series of questions will be used to engage in this dialogue between the literary corpus and history itself, with literature providing the hypotheses and history providing the factual evidence. The work will focus on the religious differences between Christians, particularly Serbs, and Muslims and how the relationship between both groups evolved over time. The religious and ethnic question has often been cited as a primary cause of the breakup of Yugoslavia and as such offers a fruitful avenue of study. Bosnia and Herzegovina for its part is in essence a microcosm of Yugoslavia at large, with three of the most important ethno-religious groups involved in the breakup of the country (Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks) having a strong presence throughout the country.Type d'Item : Item , Resource-Efficient Secure Delegation via Pauli-Based Computation(Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2026-08-19) Lovsted, Daniel; Broadbent, Anne LiseThe scarcity of quantum resources is a significant theme in quantum cryptography and computation. Within quantum cryptography, secure delegated quantum computation (SDQC) allows low-resource users to access quantum computation with privacy. From the study of models of quantum computation, Pauli-based computation (PBC) has emerged as a resource-efficient alternative to conventional models. In this thesis, we merge these two strands of work, presenting the first protocol for SDQC in the PBC model. Our protocol allows a client with minimal quantum resources to execute a PBC on a secret classical input of their choice by interacting with a quantum server. We prove that the protocol gives the client perfect, information-theoretic security. Our protocol inherits the resource efficiencies of PBC, significantly reducing the size of the quantum register required by the server, implying that SDQC could be available sooner than anticipated in a world of scarce quantum resources.Type d'Item : Item , Externally Controlled Clinical Trials for Pediatric Rare Diseases: Current Practices and Guidance(Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2026-08-19) Pratt Tremblay, Gabrielle; Potter, Beth K.; Gravel, Christopher A.Objective: To describe the design and conduct of externally controlled trials in pediatric populations with genetic rare diseases (RD), including their alignment with regulatory and health technology assessment guidance. Methods: We conducted a scoping review to identify and describe externally controlled trials in pediatric populations with genetic RDs, between 2014-2025. We also reviewed publicly available guidance on the conduct of externally controlled trials from leading regulatory and health technology assessment organizations and evaluated alignment of trials with this guidance. Results: Among 67 articles reporting on externally controlled pediatric genetic RD trials, only eighteen applied an analytic method to address imbalances in baseline covariates between arms beyond age and baseline outcomes. Alignment with guidance was low due to poor comparability of outcome assessments, limited reporting of missingness, and under-utilization of sensitivity analyses. Conclusion: Tailored guidance is needed to promote strategies that better mitigate against known sources of bias in externally controlled pediatric genetic RD trials.Type d'Item : Item , Peacekeeping Experiences in Navigating Gender Mainstreaming and UNSCR 1325: Individual, Organizational and Operational Realities for Integrating Gender Equality into Peace and Security(Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2026-08-18) Ahmed, Ishrat Jahan; Sjolander, Claire TurenneGender mainstreaming in United Nations Peace Operations, mandated by UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, requires societal transformation for full implementation across diverse communities. Adopted in 2000, the resolution calls not only for increasing the representation of women in UN peace operations, as often understood within the United Nations (UN), but also for a deep commitment by UN member states to social justice to eradicate embedded inequalities and promote peace and security for all. My empirical research, based on interviews with peacekeepers from Bangladesh, reveals that UN peacekeepers encounter complex challenges in post-conflict societies, including navigating militarized institutional cultures, operating in risky settings, and confronting gendered protection norms that hinder effective peacekeeping and reconstruction. It also shows that the reinforcement of patriarchy, masculinity, and militarization creates significant obstacles for women, including inequality, restricted mobility, insecurity, and exclusion, preventing them from reaping peace dividends. UN peacekeepers are tasked with protecting civilians and maintaining peace and security through their operations, programmatic actions, and gender mainstreaming efforts. Therefore, understanding barriers to women's equal participation in UN peace processes remains crucial for identifying practical strategies to eliminate them. To this end, my research critically assesses the current effectiveness and inherent shortcomings of peacekeeping training as a tool for implementing the WPS agenda, with a particular focus on gender mainstreaming. The study's recommendations highlight the need to improve this training to be effective, gender-responsive, and transformative. As vectors for peace, peacekeepers must understand local specificities within cultural contexts and address the challenges to gender mainstreaming while navigating the broader systemic flaws of post-conflict reconstruction.Type d'Item : Item , Isometries of Hermitian Lattices over Discrete Valuation Rings(Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa, 2026-08-18) Larose, Simon; Zaynullin, KirillIn this thesis, we study the generation of the unitary group of a Hermitian lattice over a separable extension of discrete valuation rings by symmetries of the lattice. After introducing basic algebraic definitions, we give an exposition of the theory of Dedekind domains, with the goal of describing discrete valuation rings as their local rings. We then extend results about Hermitian lattices over valuation rings of non-Archimedean local fields to our setting. Finally, we extend a known result about the generation of the unitary group of certain $2$-adic Hermitian lattices to lattices over arbitrary separable extensions of discrete valuation rings, and we count the number of symmetries that appear in the factorization given by our theorem in the case where the isometry is strictly diagonalizable.