cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Silverado California Thermoluminescence Data
Creators: name: Rengers, Francis
name: Mahan, Shannon
Publisher: name: U.S. Geological Survey
Year: 2017

description: This dataset represents thermoluminescence (TL) data that was obtained after a series of experiments to investigate how TL techniques can indicate the depth of soil heating. This project was attempted to ultimately predict changes in erosion properties in burned areas subject to debris flow hazards. The soil samples were obtained from an area burned by the Silverado wildfire (September 12 to 20, 2014). The dataset includes 3 soil samples and 1 control sample. The three burned soil samples were obtained throughout the burned watershed, and the control sample was taken in an unburned area. These will be referred to as sample 3, sample 7, sample 10, and control 1. All soil was obtained on April 23, 2015. The sample cores were slotted into 2-cm partitions up to a maximum depth of 14 cm in order to allow laboratory subsampling of the core in depth increments. For each sample, the tube had 7 subsections and we extracted at least 4 replicates for each subsection. For example, Sample 10-1a is the first replicate for the first subsample, and 10-1b is the second replicate for the first subsample. Using the silt fraction in each of the seven 2-cm segments, we performed several laboratory experiments. The files attached are thermoluminescence data from the Ris� TL/OSL Reader (model TL/OSL?DA?20). Each file has 3 columns, where column 1 represents an ID, column 2 represents a heat applied by the TL/OSL Reader, and column 3 represents the TL counts. The file names connote the sample, soil depth, subsample, and irradiation (yes/no) using the following naming convention: SampleNumber-Depth_Temperature(IRRADIATED if the sample was irradiated)SubsampleLetter.txt.
Associations between device-measured physical activity and balance performance in children: Mediating role of motor self-efficacy
Creators: name: Baniasadi, Tayebeh (Marjan)
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 520107
subject: Sport and exercise psychology

description: Study aim: To examine the association between accelerometer-measured physical activity (PA) and balance performance among children with considering motor self-efficacy as a mediator.

Material and methods: The present study employed a correlational-comparative approach. The present study applied a correlational-comparative approach. Eighty-two children (40 girls) of Tehran city, Iran in 2020 participated in this study (mean age of 9.82 ± 1.64 years). Physical activity was measured using the ActiGraph wGT3X-BT accelerometer. Dynamic balance test was used to collect balance performance. Motor self-efficacy was measured using a standard questionnaire.

Results: On average, boys had higher moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA) than girls (47.28 vs. 36.74 minutes per day, respectively). MVPA was significantly and directly associated with children’s balance performance, and here, motor self-efficacy acted as a significant mediator.

Conclusions: These findings underscore the need for targeted strategies and interventions for children, especially girls, to develop adequate levels of PA.
Processing laser scanner plant data to extract structural information
Creators: name: Hanan, Jim
name: Loch, Birgit
name: McAleer, Tim
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Plant architecture information has traditionally used the hierarchical structure of the plant as its basis, with digitised point data from real plants entered in a particular hierarchical pattern. Data collection and classification have thus been inseparable. The advent of laser profile scanners, such as the Polhemus FastSCAN, means that 3D plant data can be captured holistically. The data acquired from laser surface scanners is in unordered point cloud form, with points collected only on the surface of the object under study. This means that the structure of the plant must be extracted from the cloud of 3D coordinates using manual methods. This paper describes issues arising when using a Polhemus FastSCAN laser scanner, and a program for manual extraction of points developed at the Advanced Computational Modelling Centre (ACMC), which can be used independently or with specialised software such as FloraDig.
Does epistaxis outcomes change with level of training?
Creators: name: Kamel, Usama F
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Epistaxis
Packing
Adult

description: Retrospective Study, Departmental Audit Aims: Does interdepartmental junior doctors’ cross-cover in ENT provide value for money service to patients? Methods: A retrospective analysis of epistaxis patients admitted to a district general hospital. The trainees (ENT & Orthopaedics junior trainees) had at their disposal the commonly used materials for epistaxis management. Looking at outcomes when patients were treated by ENT trainees versus non ENT trainees Results: 62 patients (31 males, 31 females) were admitted to hospital over the study period.
 The mean age for males and females were 55 years and 66 years respectively. On admission, non-ENT trainees documented 58% of patients were actively bleeding, compared to 88% in a previous departmental clinical audit findings when ENT trainees treated the patients. 28% of patients had high blood pressure compared to 67% in the previous clinical audit when cover was by ENT trainees, 15% had head injury (5% in the previous audit), The use of the posterior nasal balloon packs had decreased from 11% when ENT trainees treated the patients to 5% when non ENT trainees treated the patients. The average hospital stay was 2.6 days compared to 1.5 days when ENT trainees treated patients. Conclusions: When non-ENT trainees covered the night on call, they unnecessarily packed and admitted patients over night to hospital. Extra training and education would be required if the hospital management team asks for non-ENT trainees to cover ENT emergency epistaxis patients.
title: Microtargeted propaganda by foreign actors: An interdisciplinary exploration
Creators: name: Ó Fathaigh, Ronan
name: Dobber, Tom
name: Zuiderveen Borgesius, Frederik
name: Shires, James
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Propaganda
subject: microtargeting
subject: freedom of expression
subject: data protection
subject: regulation
subject: EU law
subject: 340

description: This article discusses a problem that has received scant attention in literature: microtargeted propaganda by foreign actors. Microtargeting involves collecting information about people, and using that information to show them targeted political advertisements. Such microtargeting enables advertisers to target ads to specific groups of people, for instance people who visit certain websites, forums, or Facebook groups. This article focuses on one type of microtargeting: microtargeting by foreign actors. For example, Russia has targeted certain groups in the US with ads, aiming to sow discord. Foreign actors could also try to influence European elections, for instance by advertising in favour of a certain political party. Foreign propaganda possibilities existed before microtargeting. This article explores two questions. In what ways, if any, is microtargeted propaganda by foreign actors different from other foreign propaganda? What could lawmakers in Europe do to mitigate the risks of microtargeted propaganda?
description: Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, vol. 28, no. 6, p. 856
title: Case C-243/19 A v. Veselības ministrija
Creators: name: Paju, Jaan
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cross-border healthcare
subject: Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
subject: Directive 2011/24/EU
subject: Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
subject: difference in treatment based on religion
subject: 340

description: The issue at stake in Case C-243/19 A v. Veselības ministrija is whether a personal choice on the part of a patient, based on religious beliefs, must be considered when assessing the need for cross-border healthcare. The Court of Justice of the European Union holds that the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union is applicable and the right to freedom of religion can be invoked, in addition to medical criteria. However, the sustainability of the healthcare system can be an objective justification for refusal to grant authorisation for cross-border healthcare. Furthermore, the case clarifies – to a certain extent – the parallel tracks for claiming cross-border healthcare.
description: Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, vol. 28, no. 6, p. 900
The design of a peptide sequence to inhibit HIV replication: a search algorithm combining Monte Carlo and self-consistent mean field techniques
Creators: name: Xingqing Xiao
name: Hall, Carol K.
name: Agris, Paul F.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Molecular Biology

description: We developed a search algorithm combining Monte Carlo (MC) and self-consistent mean field techniques to evolve a peptide sequence that has good binding capability to the anticodon stem and loop (ASL) of human lysine tRNA species, tRNALys3, with the ultimate purpose of breaking the replication cycle of human immunodeficiency virus-1. The starting point is the 15-amino-acid sequence, RVTHHAFLGAHRTVG, found experimentally by Agris and co-workers to bind selectively to hypermodified tRNALys3. The peptide backbone conformation is determined via atomistic simulation of the peptide-ASLLys3 complex and then held fixed throughout the search. The proportion of amino acids of various types (hydrophobic, polar, charged, etc.) is varied to mimic different peptide hydration properties. Three different sets of hydration properties were examined in the search algorithm to see how this affects evolution to the best-binding peptide sequences. Certain amino acids are commonly found at fixed sites for all three hydration states, some necessary for binding affinity and some necessary for binding specificity. Analysis of the binding structure and the various contributions to the binding energy shows that: 1) two hydrophilic residues (asparagine at site 11 and the cysteine at site 12) “recognize” the ASLLys3 due to the VDW energy, and thereby contribute to its binding specificity and 2) the positively charged arginines at sites 4 and 13 preferentially attract the negatively charged sugar rings and the phosphate linkages, and thereby contribute to the binding affinity.
Simulated practice effects on the transfer and retention of gait sequences from the upper to the lower extremity
Creators: name: Saeedpour-Parizi, Mohammad R
name: Date, Surabhi
name: Dominguez, Luis
name: Baniasadi, Tayebeh (Marjan)
name: Shea, John B
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 520107
subject: Sport and exercise psychology

description: This study investigated transfer of training from upper extremity limbs (the index fingers) to the lower extremity limbs (the legs) for performance of three gait sequences of different difficulty. Fifteen subjects participated in the study. Subjects in an iPad training group practiced by sequentially moving their left-and right-hand index fingers across tiles to each of three targets displayed on an iPad for 20 trials. Subjects in a gait training group practiced by sequentially walking across tiles to each of the 3 targets displayed on a screen for 20 trials. A no practice group did not receive practice trials. Immediately following practice of each level of difficulty, a transfer test (20 trials) was given for which subjects walked to the target just practiced. A retention test of 36 trials (12 trials at each difficulty level) was administered 20 min following performance of the last transfer test trial. The retention test showed that reaction times were shorter for the iPad training than gait training and no training groups; anticipatory postural adjustment times were equivalent for the iPad and gait training groups, but shorter than for the no training group; and movement times were shorter for the iPad training group than for the gait training and no training groups. These results suggest that iPad training (upper extremity) followed by performance of gait training (lower extremity) had greater benefits for learning (as measured by the delayed retention test) the gait sequences than practicing the actual gait sequences themselves.
Negative Resistance - Resistenza Negativa
Creators: name: Malpocher, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Covid-19
Covid-19 Crisis Response
Covid-19 Negativity

description: Urgent Notation on the Value of Negativity for Containment Strategies in the Pandemic Phenomenon Covid-19. Dispersal impact of Negative Feedbacks. Active Edification of Negativity. Negativity as Social Protection. Nota Urgente sulla Valenza della Negatività nelle Strategie d'Argine al Fenomeno Pandemico da Covid-19. Valenza della Negatività nel Contenimento Covid-19. Impatto da Dispersione delle Negatività Accertate. Costruzione Attiva di Negatività. Negatività come Protezione Sociale.
description: Negative-Crowns Protocol
title: Additional (maternity) leave for women only?: The Court of Justice refines its Hofmann test in Syndicat CFTC (C-463/19) yet forgets about the children
Creators: name: Foubert, Petra
name: Hendricks, Alicia
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Equal treatment men-women
subject: leave policies
subject: discrimination
subject: children’s rights
subject: 340

description: Syndicat CFTC v. CPAM provided an excellent opportunity for the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’) to reconsider its position taken in the Hofmann case, regarding the question to what extent additional maternity leave can be exclusively reserved for female workers without infringing Directive 2006/54. Whilst the CJEU has narrowed the grey zone, it refrains from clearly indicating the boundaries between ‘maternity’ and ‘parenthood’ and leaves that for the Member States to decide. Against this backdrop, this case note argues that the CJEU should cease to conflate both concepts, as it cements women into their traditional role as primary caregivers and keeps men in a role subsidiary to that of women with respect to the exercise of parental responsibilities. Ultimately, child-care related leave should be approached from a rights perspective, taking into account the best interests of the child.
description: Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, vol. 28, no. 6, p. 908
The association between physical activity and motor function in the elderly
Creators: name: Baniasadi, Tayebeh (Marjan)
name: Ghanati, Parinaz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 520107
subject: Sport and exercise psychology

description: This study examines the relationship between physical activity and motor function in the elderly. The research method was descriptive-correlational, and 40 over 60 years sedentary men were randomly selected. A questionnaire was used to collect data. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation and regression. Findings showed a significant relationship between physical activity and static and dynamic balance in the elderly. According to the results, participation in physical activities is considered as one of the variables that impacts motor function.
Negative Resistance - Resistenza Negativa
Creators: name: Malpocher, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Covid-19
Covid-19 Crisis Response
Covid-19 Negativity

description: Urgent Notation on the Value of Negativity for Containment Strategies in the Pandemic Phenomenon Covid-19. Dispersal Impact of Negative Feedbacks. Active Edification of Negativity. Negativity as Social Protection. Nota Urgente sulla Valenza dei Riscontri Negativi nelle Strategie di Argine al Fenomeno Pandemico Covid-19. Protezione e Conservazione di Popolazione Negativa. Impatto da Dispersione delle Corrispondenze Negative. Costruzione ed Attivazione della Emersione Negativa come Protezione Sociale.
description: Negative-Crowns Protocol
Additional file 1 of A social cost-benefit analysis of meat taxation and a fruit and vegetables subsidy for a healthy and sustainable food consumption in the Netherlands
Creators: name: Broeks, Marlin J.
name: Biesbroek, Sander
name: Over, Eelco A. B.
name: Gils, Paul F. Van
name: Toxopeus, Ido
name: Beukers, Marja H.
name: Temme, Elisabeth H. M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1. Social Cost-Benefit Analysis.
title: On sovereign bonds and marijuana: Comparing supremacy limits in the US and the EU
Creators: name: Moussa, Mohamed
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: PSPP judgement
subject: supremacy defiance in the US and the EU
subject: safeguards of federalism
subject: inter-judicial conflict
subject: 340

description: Against the background of the PSPP judgement, the article conducts an under-researched comparison of the German Court's recent judgement with incidents of defiance from American states’ legislatures. Particularly, it highlights the example of marijuana laws in the US where a handful of states managed to legislate de facto governing norms contrary to the federal ones. The article then examines the German Court's last decision on sovereign bonds to compare the underlying factors that facilitates European judicial defiance with those contributing to occasional state legislator resistance in the US. Comparison to the highly centralized US shows that defiance of supremacy cannot be eliminated, but its conducive factors can be controlled to ensure a functioning constitutional system. To do so, attention must be paid to popular, fiscal and political factors, rather than to exclusively legalistic ones.
description: Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, vol. 28, no. 6, p. 834
title: Evolving artificial intelligence and robotics in medicine, evolving European law: Comparative remarks based on the surgery litigation
Creators: name: Guerra, Giorgia
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Comparative tort law
subject: empirical research
subject: European regulation
subject: law and technology
subject: medical law
subject: US litigation
subject: 340

description: This article discusses key and critical tort law issues that have arisen from artificial intelligence and robotic medical applications. It aims at addressing the most recent European regulatory trajectories – ultimately traced by the Proposal for the Artificial Intelligence Act April 21 2021 – starting from the study of the legal issues that stemmed from the instructive experience of the US litigation on robotic surgery, which was foregoing on account of its cutting-edge and accelerated enhancement of the field. The recognition and analysis of the criticalities about products’ malfunctioning as well as the focus on other producers’ duties will lead the reader to reflect on the suitability of the legal rules planned by the European Authorities on the ground of the empirical features of the new step of technological progress in the field in question.
description: Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, vol. 28, no. 6, p. 805
title: The Tango Between Art.17(3) Brussels Ibis and Art.6(4)(b) Rome I under the Beat of Package Travel Directive
Creators: name: Chen, Zhen
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: International civil litigation
subject: conflicts of laws
subject: transport/carriage contract
subject: consumer contract
subject: package travel tourist
subject: package travel directive
subject: weaker party protection
subject: linked travel agreements
subject: harmonization
subject: consumer protection
subject: 340

description: Package travel tourists are explicitly protected as consumers under Article 6(4)(b) Rome I, but not under Article 17(3) Brussels Ibis since it does not even mention the term ‘package travel’. Such discrepancy is widened with the replacement of Directive 90/314 by Directive 2015/2302 with enlarged notion of package travel. As regards protecting package travel tourists as consumers with favorable jurisdiction and applicable law rules, this article argues that Article 17(3) Brussels Ibis is two steps behind Article 6(4)(b) Rome I. In order to close the gap, a uniform concept of package travel should be given. To this end, it is suggested that Article 17(3) Brussels Ibis should adopt the notion of package travel employed in Article 6(4)(b) Rome I. Despite this, these two provisions only cover packages containing transport, as an exception of transport contracts. Packages not including transport do not fall under the exception of transport contracts. Since all package travel contracts should be protected as consumer contracts, regardless of containing transport or not, it is more logical to delete the exception of transport contracts and create a separate provision to protect package travel contracts as consumer contracts.
description: Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, vol. 28, no. 6, p. 878
title: The Euro Group and judicial protection: Has the Court of Justice created a loophole?
Creators: name: Nicolaides, Phedon
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Euro Group
subject: article 340 TFEU
subject: non-contractual liability
subject: judicial protection
subject: 340

description: The Court of Justice made legal history in Ledra Advertising when it found that the EU could incur non-contractual liability even for acts that formally fell within the intergovernmental sphere. In Chrysostomides , however, by ruling that the Euro Group is not an EU ‘institution’, the Court has made it largely impossible for individuals to obtain judicial protection. The decisions of the Council that give effect to agreements in the Euro Group can be drafted in innocuous and general language, minimizing or even expunging any liability. The powers of the Commission to act against such agreements in the Euro Group are also unclear and probably non-existent.
description: Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, vol. 28, no. 6, p. 919
A nanoscale gas state
Creators: name: Zhang, Xue H.
name: Khan, Abbas
name: Ducker, William A.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We show that a very thin (5-80 nm) gas phase can exist for a long time (>1 h) at the interface between a hydrophobic solid and water. We create the gas phase from CO2, which allows us to determine the chemical identity, phase state, and density via infrared spectroscopy. The average density reveals that the gas is at approximately atmospheric pressure, which explains the unexpectedly long lifetime of the gas phase under ambient conditions. The nanoscale gas phase is reproducibly created under conditions where gas solubility is varied.
title: Disability in employment equality law: A reappraisal of the reasonable accommodation duty and issues arising in its implementation
Creators: name: Daly, Patrick
name: Whelan, Darius
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Disability
subject: employment equality
subject: convention on the rights of persons with disabilities
subject: reasonable accommodation
subject: universal design
subject: 340

description: This article re-considers the special features of the disability ground in EU equality law and raises questions as to whether the EU’s Framework Equality Directive (Directive 2000/78) may be in need of fundamental reform. It argues that the ‘Competence Defence’ in the Directive could have been more strongly drafted, to prescribe more precisely the circumstances in which an individual may be found not to be competent to perform the post’s essential functions. In the absence of a unified EU approach regarding the activation of the reasonable accommodation duty and an employer’s knowledge as to disability or the need for reasonable accommodation, national positions are compared. A model whereby the provision for individuals with disabilities is carried out in a proactive as opposed to a reactive manner could reduce the need for the reasonable accommodation system. The possibility of increased state involvement in the provision of reasonable accommodation to employees has strong potential. It is proposed that the principle of Universal Design, as expressed in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, could be used to ensure that work environments are developed from the outset to be conducive to the needs of those with physical or psychosocial disabilities. The implications of such a major change are assessed.
description: Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, vol. 28, no. 6, p. 744
Additional file 2 of A social cost-benefit analysis of meat taxation and a fruit and vegetables subsidy for a healthy and sustainable food consumption in the Netherlands
Creators: name: Broeks, Marlin J.
name: Biesbroek, Sander
name: Over, Eelco A. B.
name: Gils, Paul F. Van
name: Toxopeus, Ido
name: Beukers, Marja H.
name: Temme, Elisabeth H. M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 2. Health impact assessment.
title: Integration duties in the European Union: Four models
Creators: name: Ganty, Sarah
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: integration
subject: immigration
subject: free movement
subject: discrimination
subject: social rights
subject: merit
subject: EU citizens
subject: 340

description: Integration is becoming increasingly important in law, due to the growing involvement of the legislative, executive and judicial powers at European, national, regional and local levels. This phenomenon concerns third-country nationals and EU citizens, despite the fundamentally different legal regimes applicable to these groups. In this article, I discuss the expansion of integration duties and the different legal mechanisms which they are based on. I propose four conditions- and obligations-based integration models likely to be found in EU law and national laws: the symbolic model, the meritocratic model, the activation model and the selective model. From a legal perspective, identifying these integration mechanisms is essential for assessing compliance with fundamental rights and EU law. Moreover, such a typology is likely to help researchers, policy-makers and the public obtain a better sense of how the conception of integration evolves in our societies and in the legal field in particular. I conclude by briefly sketching a common trend which I observed throughout the four models: they are imbued with a strong socioeconomic dimension hindering the socioeconomically underprivileged categories.
description: Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, vol. 28, no. 6, p. 784
Additional file 3 of A social cost-benefit analysis of meat taxation and a fruit and vegetables subsidy for a healthy and sustainable food consumption in the Netherlands
Creators: name: Broeks, Marlin J.
name: Biesbroek, Sander
name: Over, Eelco A. B.
name: Gils, Paul F. Van
name: Toxopeus, Ido
name: Beukers, Marja H.
name: Temme, Elisabeth H. M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 3. Estimating environmental impact of dietary changes.
Andreeva, T.I. Why has tobacco plain packaging got onto public agenda? (in Ukrainian)
Creators: name: Andreeva, Tatiana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Anthropology

description: Overview of international evidence regarding tobacco plain packaging prepared in Ukrainian as a supplementary material for the press-conference conducted by the tobacco control community in Kiev, Ukraine, April 3, 2012. Has been originally published at http://adic-ukraine.narod.ru/coalition/proj/plain/plain_packaging_litreview.pdf
The Effect of Self-Controlled Feedback on Motor Performance and Learning in Adolescents with ADHD
Creators: name: Baniasadi, Tayebeh (Marjan)
name: Biyabanid, Pouya
name: Karimi Asl, Fatemeh
name: Khajeaflaton Mofrad, Sedigheh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 520107
subject: Sport and exercise psychology

description: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of autonomy support (i.e., in the form of self-controlled feedback) on learning and self-efficacy in a throwing skill in adolescents with ADHD. The subjects were 40 adolescents with ADHD (14 to 17 years old) and were randomly and equally divided into two groups: self-controlled and yoked. Motor task consisted of throwing bean bags with the non-dominant arm at a target on the ground. The participants completed the pretest (10 trials), an acquisition phase including 6 blocks of 10 trials, and a retention test consisting of 10 trials. The participants in the self-controlled group received knowledge of result (KR) anytime the requested. The yoked group was matched with self-controlled group, but without having a choice to request for feedback. Prior to pretest, each block, and before the retention test, all participants completed the self-efficacy scale. Dependent measures were throwing accuracy scores and self-efficacy. Independent t-test and analysis of variance (ANOVA) with repeated measures were used to analyze the data. The results showed that participants in the self-controlled group had significantly higher throwing accuracy scores in the acquisition phase and the retention test than those in yoked group. Moreover, participants in the self-controlled group reported significantly higher self-efficacy scores in the acquisition phase and the retention test than those in yoked group. The results of this study show that people with ADHD benefit from autonomy support to learn a novel motor skill.
Learning from the students at Swinburne
Creators: name: Conyers, Ben
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: For many new students, the best way to make it difficult for them to actually find a book, is to give them the book's call number and send them on their way. If you were told that a book was on the shelves at '658.403 MAR', would you know what that actually means? Is the book on the sixth floor because the call number starts with a '6' or is it in the marketing section as the call number ends with 'MAR'? Or does the '403' mean that it is the four hundred and third book in the 658 section, so would logically be shelved after 658.49. All are very reasonable assumptions for a person who has never previously encountered the Dewey Decimal Classification (Dewey).
Why has tobacco plain packaging got onto public agenda? (in Ukrainian)
Creators: name: Andreeva, Tatiana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Anthropology

description: Overview of international evidence regarding tobacco plain packaging prepared in Ukrainian as a supplementary material for the press-conference conducted by the tobacco control community in Kiev, Ukraine, April 3, 2012. Has been originally published at http://adic-ukraine.narod.ru/coalition/proj/plain/plain_packaging_litreview.pdf
title: Reform der internationalen Unternehmensbesteuerung - Völkerrecht in der Praxis: Völkerrechtliche Tagesthemen 22
Creators: name: Buszewski, Sinthiou
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 341

description: Nach über 5-jährigen Verhandlungen einigten sich im Oktober 2021 insgesamt 136 Staaten (mittlerweile 137) im Rahmen des OECD Inclusive Framework on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting auf die Eckpfeiler einer internationalen Unternehmensbesteuerung. Das Resultat, ein „Zwei-Säulen-Modell“, ist die Neuverteilung von Besteuerungsrechten für besonders profitable Unternehmen einerseits und eine globale effektive Mindeststeuerbelastung von 15 % andererseits. Dieses Vorgehen dient indes nicht lediglich einer fairen und angemessenen Aufteilung von Besteuerungsrechten. Die Dringlichkeit der Reform ergibt sich auch aus der Anpassungsbedürftigkeit des internationalen Rechts an eine globale und digitalisierte Wirtschafts- und Finanzwirklichkeit. In einem Vortrag wird Sinthiou Buszewski (Bundesministerium der Finanzen) auf die Ausgestaltung der internationalen Unternehmensbesteuerung in der Praxis eingehen und dabei ein besonderes Augenmerk auf die europa- und völkerrechtlichen Instrumente legen, die zur Umsetzung des Projekts erforderlich sein werden.
description: Völkerrechtsblog
title: Raus aus dem fossilen Zeitalter: Zieht dem Energiecharta-Vertrag den Stecker!
Creators: name: Duarte, Laura
name: Müller-Hoff, Claudia
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 341

description: Völkerrechtsblog
Diplomacy and environment; conflict of interest or need for a legal regime?
Creators: name: Tayebi, Sobhan
name: Mazinanian, Zeinab
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 480310
subject: Public international law
classificationCode: 480203
subject: Environmental law
classificationCode: 480299
subject: Environmental and resources law not elsewhere classified

description: Today, environmental protection and sustainable development are two fundamental pillars of human existence. In this process, the major roles are played by governments and international organizations. Adherence to international obligations (Erga Omnes) and Jus Cogens are two important rudiments in environmental diplomacy towards sustainable development. Surely, sustainability in development and Environmental protection would not have happened without serious regional interactions and international cooperation. In addition, sustainable development and development sustainability is not on their accurate path except in international interactions and global peace. Along with that, environmental diplomacy is known as an effective method of natural resources and ecosystem conservation. So, environmental discussions are very much important international convergence reason. Therefore, the international community can lead to global environmental conservation strategies with that convergence attitude. This research aims to determine the international environmental law evolution firstly and government’s roles in front of environmental challenges lying international convergence and legal fundamentals. So, environmental threats and hazards, display an illogical human act, that can be solved under the shadow of international convergence and moving to environmental conservation and global peace.
MPEC 2024-V47 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2024 November 3)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Andreeva TI. Why has tobacco plain packaging got onto public agenda? (in Ukrainian)
Creators: name: Andreeva, Tatiana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Anthropology

description: Overview of international evidence regarding tobacco plain packaging prepared in Ukrainian as a supplementary material for the press-conference conducted by the tobacco control community in Kiev, Ukraine, April 3, 2012. Has been originally published at http://adic-ukraine.narod.ru/coalition/proj/plain/plain_packaging_litreview.pdf
Who are the virtual visitors to the library and what are they doing?
Creators: name: Waller, Vivienne
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: During the past few years, the number of visitors to the websites of many public libraries, including SLV, has far surpassed physical visitor numbers. Libraries are investing increasing resources in web programs and content and the presentation of their catalogues. In addition, they have begun to experiment with social media tools to enhance their web presence and develop new forms of knowledge production and consumption. However, there is limited knowledge of virtual visitor demographics, search preferences, and user content needs. This paper presents an analysis of Hitwise data on visitors to the websites of the State Library of Victoria (SLV). Different types of uses of the library website, and patterns of use, are investigated in terms of the demographics of the visitor as well as where they were on the Internet before coming to the library website and where they went afterwards. A longitudinal analysis will be presented suggesting how patterns of use can be understood in terms of external factors such as the distribution of internet access, increased uptake of broadband, and overall changes in the manner of engagement with the Internet. This analysis will have implications for libraries’ management of their online presence.
A Critical Review of Short-Term Water Demand Forecasting Tools—What Method Should I Use?
Creators: name: Niknam, Azar
name: Zare, Hasan Khademi
name: Hosseininasab, Hassan
name: Mostafaeipour, Ali
name: Herrera, Manuel
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: water demand
sustainable management
water demand forecasting
predictive analytics
water supply
smart water networks
digital water

description: The challenge for city authorities goes beyond managing growing cities, since as cities develop, their exposure to climate change effects also increases. In this scenario, urban water supply is under unprecedented pressure, and the sustainable management of the water demand, in terms of practices including economic, social, environmental, production, and other fields, is becoming a must for utility managers and policy makers. To help tackle these challenges, this paper presents a well-timed review of predictive methods for short-term water demand. For this purpose, over 100 articles were selected from the articles published in water demand forecasting from 2010 to 2021 and classified upon the methods they use. In principle, the results show that traditional time series methods and artificial neural networks are among the most widely used methods in the literature, used in 25% and 20% of the articles in this review. However, the ultimate goal of the current work goes further, providing a comprehensive guideline for engineers and practitioners on selecting a forecasting method to use among the plethora of available options. The overall document results in an innovative reference tool, ready to support demand-informed decision making for disruptive technologies such as those coming from the Internet of Things and cyber−physical systems, as well as from the use of digital twin models of water infrastructure. On top of this, this paper includes a thorough review of how sustainable management objectives have evolved in a new era of technological developments, transforming data acquisition and treatment.
Serving up some Grand Slam tennis statistics
Creators: name: Clarke, Stephen
name: Norton, Pam
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Data from the 2000 Australian Tennis Open are used to measure the advantage of serving with new balls in both men’s and women’s singles. We discuss the main fea-tures of the men’s, women’s and mixed doubles at the Australian Open in 2001. Data from a variety of sources are used to compare the server’s advantage at Wimbledon, the French and the Australian Open.
Confirmation: increasing resource availability for transactional workflows
Creators: name: Liu, Chengfei
name: Lin, Xuemin
name: Orlowska, Maria
name: Zhou, Xiaofang
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The notion of compensation is widely used in advanced transaction models as means of recovery from a failure. Similar concepts are adopted for providing 'transaction-like' behaviour for long business processes supported by workflows technology. In general, it is not trivial to design compensating tasks for tasks in the context of a workflow. Actually, a task in a workflow process does not have to be compensatable in the sense that the forcibility of 'reverse' operations of the task is not always guaranteed by the application semantics. In addition, the isolation requirement on data resources may make a task difficult to compensate. In this paper, we first look into the requirements that a compensating task has to satisfy. Then we introduce a new concept called confirmation. With the help of confirmation, we are able to modify most non-compensatable tasks so that they become compensatable. This can substantially increase the availability of shared resources and greatly improve backward recovery for workflow applications in case of failures. To effectively incorporate confirmation and compensation into a workflow management environment, a three level bottom-up workflow design method is introduced. The implementation issues of this design are also discussed.
title: # 14 Internationaler Flüchtlingsschutz: Pushbacks an den europäischen Außengrenzen
Creators: name: Schuberth, Sophie
name: Eschenhagen, Philipp
name: Lischewski, Isabel
name: Tuchtfeld, Erik
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 341

description: Belarus öffnete Ende des Jahres 2021 die Grenzen für Flüchtlinge nach Europa an der polnischen Grenze. Dabei kam es massenweise zu Kollektivausweisungen von polnischer und europäischer Seite. Wie diese rechtlich einzuordnen sind und welche Rechtsgrundlagen insofern entscheidend sind erklärt Dana Schmalz im Interview. Isabel erörtert im Grundlagenteil zuvor das internationale Schutzsystem der Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention. Wir freuen uns über Lob, Anmerkungen und Kritik an podcast@voelkerrechtsblog.org. Abonniert unseren Podcast via RSS, über Spotify oder überall dort, wo es Podcasts gibt. Es gibt nun die Möglichkeit, auf diesen Plattformen den Völkerrechtspodcast zu bewerten, wir freuen uns sehr über 5 Sterne! Hintergrundinformationen: Dana Schmalz, Refugees, Democracy and the Law (Routledge 2021) Moderation: Philipp Eschenhagen & Sophie Schuberth Grundlagen: Isabel Lischewski Interview: Dana Schmalz & Philipp Eschenhagen Schnitt: Daniela Rau Credits: Jan-Christoph Oetjen, Europäisches Parlament: The proposed Council decision on provisional emergency measures for the external border with Belarus based on article 78(3) TFEU, 15. Dezember 2021 (gefunden über twitter.de)
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Autonomous in-flight path planning to replace pure collision avoidance for free flight aircraft using automatic dependent surveillance broadcast
Creators: name: Holdsworth, Robert
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: By the year 2020 the number of aircraft will have increased substantially and will be in 'Free Flight' (that is, ATC will be devolved to the aircraft rather than being ground based). As an aid to navigation a more advanced form of collision avoidance will be required. This thesis proposes a method of collision avoidance planning using Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) and Dynamic Programming (DP). It in essence enables Air Traffic Control (ATC) from within the cockpit for remote or uncontrolled airspace and is a step toward Free Flight. Free Flight requires quite different strategies than those used in the present collision avoidance schemes. This thesis reviews the approaches to collision avoidance used in the Air traffic navigation and to similar problems in other industries. In particular it considers the extended problem of collision avoidance within the framework of path planning. This is a key departure from the approach to aircraft collision avoidance used in the industry to date. Path planning reflects the real goal of an aircraft, which is to reach a particular destination efficiently and safely. Dynamic Programming is one solution method used in other industries for the problem of path planning to avoid collisions with fixed obstacles. The solution proposed herein for the Aircraft case uses Dynamic Programming applied to the moving obstacle case. The problem is first simplified by assuming fixed (static) obstacles for the cost minimisation algorithms. These fixed obstacles are then moved with time and the minimisation process is repeated at each time increment. Although this method works well in most cases, situations can be constructed where this method fails, allowing a collision. A modified approach is then used, whereby the movement of obstacles is included more explicitly (by modifying the shapes of the obstacles to represent motion) in the cost minimisation algorithm and a safe manoeuvre distance for each aircraft is used (by expanding the object size), to allow space for aircraft to execute safe evasive manoeuvres in difficult cases. This modification allows solutions which are complete (with no known cases of failure - collision situations) and should be considered as an important extension to the current Aircraft and Collision Avoidance System (ACAS). The testing of these solutions is focussed on the most difficult cases, and includes aircraft movement in 'real space' (that is simulations using real aircraft dynamics together with dynamic programming algorithms running in discrete time steps).