cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of progenies from crosses between Bt and non-transgenic sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
Creators: name: Iqbal, Zahid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 99901 Agricultural Engineering
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: Soil Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Education

description: In this study, transgenic event, CIP410008.7 was used as donor parent of cry7Aa1 gene and a commercial cultivar, New Kawogo, was used as the recipient parent. A total 53 progenies were obtained and evaluated. The characters evaluated were vine vigour, vine internode length, vine length, foliage weight, root skin and flesh colour, carotenoid content, number of storage roots and weevil resistance. Significant variation in vine vigour, vine length, number of roots per plant and carotenoid content (p<0.05) was observed in the F1 progeny. However, no significant differences were observed for foliage weight and vine internode length. The existence of continuous variation of the measured traits indicated the quantitative nature of most sweetpotato traits. The progenies were also analysed for the presence of cry7Aa1 using PCR. Expected 608bp bands were amplified in progenies that contained cry7Aa1. Chi-square test showed a 1:1 segregation ratio. There was no significant difference in production of roots between the transgenic and non transgenic segregants, showing that the transgenic plants were not affected by the presence of cry7Aa1. In insect bioassays, there were significant differences in the mean development period of the weevil (p=0.03), total number emerged (p<0.001) and susceptibility index (P<0.001) between the transgenic progeny and control sweetpotato roots.
АНАЛИЗ ПРИЧИН И УСЛОВИЙ СОВЕРШЕНИЯ ПРЕСТУПЛЕНИЙ В ЛЕСОПРОМЫШЛЕННОМ КОМПЛЕКСЕ (НА ПРИМЕРЕ ПРИМОРСКОГО КРАЯ)
Creators: name: Антощенко А. В.
Publisher: name: Контентус
Year: 2020
Subjects: охрана лесов
лесопромышленный комплекс
правонарушение
преступление.

description: Статья посвящена важной проблеме правовой охране лесов в Российской Федерации. Автором проведен анализ причин и условий способствующих совершению правонарушений в лесопромышленном комплексе. Были рассмотрены вопросы государственно – политического, административно-организационного, социально-экономического уровней причинности данного негативного явления. Определены условия, влияющие на криминализацию правоотношений рассматриваемого вида деятельности и предложены пути решения данной проблемы. Автор приходит к выводу, о необходимости комплексного подхода к борьбе с правонарушениями в лесопромышленном комплексе. Необходимости выявления и устранения причин и создание условий, исключающих возможность совершения правонарушений в рассматриваемой сфере на государственно-политическом уровне, основой которого станет нормотворческий процесс.
ЦИФРОВИЗАЦИЯ СЕЛЬСКОГО ХОЗЯЙСТВА: ОПЫТ ЕВРОПЕЙСКОГО СОЮЗА И РОССИИ
Creators: name: Якимова О. Ю.
Publisher: name: Контентус
Year: 2020
Subjects: агропромышленный комплекс
цифровизация и автоматизация
информационные технологии
декларация
ведомственный проект.

description: В статье рассматриваются вопросы, касающиеся процессов цифровизации, протекающих в странах Европейского Союза и Российской Федерации. Прогноз ООН о росте населения к 2050 году заставляет правительства стран всего мира, в том числе Европы и России искать направления повышения производительности сельскохозяйственного производства. Одним из таких направлений является цифровизация.
Colorless Agar for Enhancing Color Contrast between Colonies and Solid Medium
Creators: name: Ng, Wenfa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Health Care
subject: Biological Engineering
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Microbiology

description: Background and purpose: Solid medium is primarily used in viable cell counting and profiling of microbial diversity in various environments. Nevertheless, lack of color contrast between colonies and agar background (usually beige for commercial complex media) hampers colony identification by automated image analysis, which increasingly is replacing the tedious and time-consuming manual cell counting approach. Theoretically, a colorless agar layered on colored paper of suitable hue offers a simple method for tuning color contrast between colony and agar background. But, reaction between carbohydrate moieties (e.g., glucose, yeast extract, and agar) and ammonium compounds (e.g., ammonium chloride) during autoclave sterilization forms colored compounds, and thus, hampers colorless agar preparation. Main conclusion(s): By sterilizing glucose and ammonium compounds separately, this work demonstrated the feasibility of preparing colorless agar using heat sterilization and standard agar preparation technique. Yeast extract (separately sterilized) could be added (up to 1 g/L, without introducing significant coloration) for supporting environmental isolates unable to synthesize essential vitamins. Reconstituted agar had similar viscosity to common agar; thus, allowing the reproducible preparation of homogeneous agar medium in standard Petri dishes. Growth performance assays in both liquid and solid medium format revealed good growth of common bacteria (Escherichia coli DH5α, Bacillus subtilis ATCC 8473, Pseudomonas protegens Pf-5 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa PRD-10). Diverse subset of microbes isolated on colorless agar from DI water inoculum further revealed the agar’s capability at supporting myriad microbes at relatively high plating density. Similar viable cell counts on LB Lennox and colorless agar for P. protegens Pf-5 suggested that growth inhibitory compounds were not produced during agar preparation. Collectively, segregating glucose, yeast extract, and agar powder from ammonium compounds during autoclave sterilization was shown to be critical for preparing colorless agar with high optical transparency and better color rendition. And when layered on colored paper of desired hue, the colorless agar afforded a simple method for tuning color contrast between colonies and agar, important for improving colony identification by automated image analysis.
Data publics: Urban protest, analytics and the courts
Creators: name: McCosker, Anthony
name: Graham, Timothy
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This article reflects on part of a three-year battle over the redevelopment of an iconic Melbourne music venue, the Palace-Metro Nightclub (the Palace), involving the tactical use of Facebook Page data at trial. We were invited by the Save the Palace group, Melbourne City Council and the National Trust of Australia to provide Facebook Page data analysis as evidence of the social value of the venue at an appeals trial heard at the Victorian Civil Administration Tribunal (VCAT) in 2016. We take a reflexive ethnographic approach here to explore the data production, collection and analysis processes as these represent and constitute a “data public”. Although the developers won the appeal and were able to re-develop the site, the court accepted the validity of social media data as evidence of the building’s social value (Jinshan Investment Group Pty Ltd v Melbourne CC [2016] VCAT 626, 117; see also Victorian Planning Reports). Through the case, we elaborate on the concept of data publics by considering the “affordising” (Pollock) processes at play when extracting, analysing and visualising social media data. Affordising refers to the designed, deliberate and incidental effects of datafication and highlights the need to attend to the capacities for data collection and processing as they produce particular analytical outcomes. These processes foreground the compositional character of data publics, and the unevenness of data literacies (McCosker “Data Literacies”; Gray et al.) as a factor of the interpersonal and institutional capacity to read and mobilise data for social outcomes.
Patterns of Practice and Design: Towards an Agile Methodology for Educational Design Research
Creators: name: Mor, Yishay
name: Cook, John
name: Santos, Patricia
name: Treasure-Jones, Tamsin
name: Elferink, Raymond
name: Holley, Debbie
name: Griffin, James
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Education

description: , This paper proposes a framework which attempts to address the barriers to the development of successful educational design research through a process which identifies gaps in current practices and devises innovations to target them. Educational design research assumes an ambitious position: a dual commitment to understand and contribute to both theory and practice. This task is confounded by the complexity of the domain and the inherent multi-stakeholder nature of most initiatives. Three barriers to success are identified: the shortage of mechanisms for cross-stakeholder dialogue, the failure to account for existing practices and contexts, and the rigid processes dictated by the dynamics of research projects. We report early findings from an attempt to address these barriers, based on an extension and adaptation of the Participatory Pattern Workshop (PPW) methodology. A pilot implementation suggests that this framework optimises the exchange of ideas and methods, leading to a richer and more nuanced conceptualisation of educational innovations
ОПЫТ ЕВРОСОЮЗА В РЕШЕНИИ ПРОБЛЕМ ЗАНЯТОСТИ В КОНТЕКСТЕ РАЗВИТИЯ НЕСТАНДАРТНЫХ ФОРМ ЗАНЯТОСТИ В РЕГИОНЕ
Creators: name: Федонина О. В.
Publisher: name: Контентус
Year: 2020
Subjects: занятость
продуктивная занятость
нестандартные формы занятости
доходы населения
западноевропейская модель

description: В статье рассмотрены основные проблемы роста продуктивной занятости на уровне страны и региона. В частности выявлена тенденция региональных различий в структуре занятости и динамике оплаты труда. Проанализировано по Республике Мордовия распределение населения по возрастным группам, доходам; на основе опроса выявлены основные проблемы трудоустройства. Определены возможности использования западноевропейского опыта в применении нестандартных форм занятости.
ПРОБЛЕМЫ И ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ ПРОИЗВОДСТВА ОРГАНИЧЕСКОЙ ПРОДУКЦИИ В МАЛЫХ ФОРМАХ ХОЗЯЙСТВОВАНИЯ
Creators: name: Коваленко Е. Г.
Publisher: name: Контентус
Year: 2020
Subjects: органическое сельское хозяйство
система стандартизации и сертификации
малые формы хозяйствования

description: В статье рассмотрены тенденции развития органического сельского хозяйства в мире и России, сложившуюся систему регулирования этого сегмента экономики. Оценена роль малых форм хозяйствования аграрной сферы страны в этом процессе, основные препятствия и перспективы.
РОЛЬ БАНКА РОССИИ В ОБЕСПЕЧЕНИИ ФИНАНСОВОЙ БЕЗОПАСНОСТИ ГОСУДАРСТВА
Creators: name: Михайлов Е. Р.
Publisher: name: Контентус
Year: 2020
Subjects: финансовая безопасность
банковское регулирование
банковский надзор
Банк России

description: Статья посвящена Центральному Банку Российской Федерации, занимающему статус мегарегулятора финансового рынка страны. Оценивается мнение о необходимости ужесточения банковского регулирования и надзора в целях повышения устойчивости финансового сектора. Излагается авторское видение перспективных направлений развития и совершенствования системы банковского надзора в Российской Федерации.
Fast maximum likelihood estimation via equilibrium expectation for large network data
Creators: name: Byshkin, Maksym
name: Stivala, Alexander
name: Mira, Antonietta
name: Robins, Garry
name: Lomi, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A major line of contemporary research on complex networks is based on the development of statistical models that specify the local motifs associated with macro-structural properties observed in actual networks. This statistical approach becomes increasingly problematic as network size increases. In the context of current research on efficient estimation of models for large network data sets, we propose a fast algorithm for maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) that affords a significant increase in the size of networks amenable to direct empirical analysis. The algorithm we propose in this paper relies on properties of Markov chains at equilibrium, and for this reason it is called equilibrium expectation (EE). We demonstrate the performance of the EE algorithm in the context of exponential random graph models (ERGMs) a family of statistical models commonly used in empirical research based on network data observed at a single period in time. Thus far, the lack of efficient computational strategies has limited the empirical scope of ERGMs to relatively small networks with a few thousand nodes. The approach we propose allows a dramatic increase in the size of networks that may be analyzed using ERGMs. This is illustrated in an analysis of several biological networks and one social network with 104,103 nodes.
Training in crisis communication and volcanic eruption forecasting: Design and evaluation of an authentic role-play simulation
Creators: name: Dohaney, Jacqueline
name: Brogt, Erik
name: Kennedy, Ben
name: Wilson, Thomas M.
name: Lindsay, Jan M.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present an interactive, immersive, authentic role-play simulation designed to teach tertiary geoscience students in New Zealand to forecast and mitigate a volcanic crisis. Half of the participating group (i.e., the Geoscience Team) focuses on interpreting real volcano monitoring data (e.g., seismographs, gas output etc.) while the other half of the group (i.e., the Emergency Management Team) forecasts and manages likely impacts, and communicates emergency response decisions and advice to local communities. These authentic learning experiences were aimed at enhancing upper-year undergraduate students' transferable and geologic reasoning skills. An important goal of the simulation was specifically to improve students' science communication through interdisciplinary team discussions, jointly prepared, and delivered media releases, and real-time, high-pressure, press conferences. By playing roles, students experienced the specific responsibilities of a professional within authentic organisational structures. A qualitative, design-based educational research study was carried out to assess the overall student experience and self-reported learning of skills. A pilot and four subsequent iterations were investigated. Results from this study indicate that students found these role-plays to be a highly challenging and engaging learning experience and reported improved skills. Data from classroom observations and interviews indicate that the students valued the authenticity and challenging nature of the role-play although personal experiences and team dynamics (within, and between the teams) varied depending on the students' background, preparedness, and personality. During early iterations, observation and interviews from students and instructors indicate that some of the goals of the simulation were not fully achieved due to: A) lack of preparedness, B) insufficient time to respond appropriately, C) appropriateness of roles and team structure, and D) poor communication skills. Small modifications to the design of Iterations 3 and 4 showed an overall improvement in the students' skills and goals being reached. A communication skills instrument (SPCC) was used to measure self-reported pre- and post- communication competence in the last two iterations. Results showed that this instrument recorded positive shifts in all categories of self-perceived abilities, the largest shifts seen in students who participated in press conferences. Future research will be aimed at adapting this curricula to new volcanic and earthquake scenarios.
¿Cuándo entramos y salimos del trabajo?
Creators: name: Martín Olalla, José María
Publisher: name: Politikon
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Social sciences
subject: FOS: Social sciences
subject: Econometrics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Entrada que analiza los microdatos de la encuesta de empleo del tiempo en España (INE) para señalar las ocurrencias de entrada al trabajo y su correspondiente salida del trabajo.

 

Publicada originalmente en Politikon el 19 de diciembre del año 2018.

 

https://politikon.es/2018/12/19/cuando-entramos-y-salimos-del-trabajo/
ความก้าวหน้าของการพัฒนาวัคซีนไข้เลือดออก
Creators: name: สราวุธ สุวัณณทัพพะ
Publisher: name: สำนักจัดการความรู้ กรมควบคุมโรค กระทรวงสาธารณสุข
Year: 2556
Subjects: วัคซีนไข้เลือดออก

description: วารสารควบคุมโรค, 39, 3, 177-183
Effect of plant population density and varietal differences on yield and yield components of onion (Allium cepa L.) in North Eastern Nigeria
Creators: name: Iqbal, Zahid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: 99901 Agricultural Engineering
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: Soil Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Education

description: Onion is grown extensively during dry season in the North eastern Nigeria for bulb as well as leaves production. The local producers were known to use random density planting in the field. This study is aimed to determine the optimum plant density for different local cultivars (Ex-Borno, Kano Red, Local Red and White). Trials were carried out at Bululu irrigation site of Bade District in Yobe State, Nigeria during 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 season. The results indicated that the cultivars respond well with the 30 plants/m2 while the Ex-Borno cultivar proved to be prominent among the cultivars studied with an average of 6.406t/ha.
A Functional Approach to Violent Radicalization. Building a Systemic Model Based on a Real Case
Creators: name: Peco, Miguel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Personality, Social and Criminal Psychology
Applied Psychology

description: http://www.seguridadinternacional.es/revista/?q=content/functional-approach-violent-radicalization-building-systemic-model-based-real-case
Accurate image analysis of the retina using hessian matrix and binarisation of thresholded entropy with application of texture mapping
Creators: name: Yin, Xiaoxia
name: Ng, Brian W. H.
name: He, Jing
name: Zhang, Yanchun
name: Abbott, Derek
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper, we demonstrate a comprehensive method for segmenting the retinal vasculature in camera images of the fundus. This is of interest in the area of diagnostics for eye diseases that affect the blood vessels in the eye. In a departure from other state-of-the-art methods, vessels are first pre-grouped together with graph partitioning, using a spectral clustering technique based on morphological features. Local curvature is estimated over the whole image using eigenvalues of Hessian matrix in order to enhance the vessels, which appear as ridges in images of the retina. The result is combined with a binarized image, obtained using a threshold that maximizes entropy, to extract the retinal vessels from the background. Speckle type noise is reduced by applying a connectivity constraint on the extracted curvature based enhanced image. This constraint is varied over the image according to each region's predominant blood vessel size. The resultant image exhibits the central light reflex of retinal arteries and veins, which prevents the segmentation of whole vessels. To address this, the earlier entropy-based binarization technique is repeated on the original image, but crucially, with a different threshold to incorporate the central reflex vessels. The final segmentation is achieved by combining the segmented vessels with and without central light reflex. We carry out our approach on DRIVE and REVIEW, two publicly available collections of retinal images for research purposes. The obtained results are compared with state-of-the-art methods in the literature using metrics such as sensitivity (true positive rate), selectivity (false positive rate) and accuracy rates for the DRIVE images and measured vessel widths for the REVIEW images. Our approach out-performs the methods in the literature.
Integration of a Palliative Approach in Home, Acute Medical, and Residential Care Settings: Findings From a Province-Wide Survey
Creators: name: Sawatzky, Richard
name: Roberts, Della
name: Reimer-Kirkham, Sheryl
name: Tayler, Carolyn
name: Stajduhar, Kelli
name: IPANEL Team
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Health Care

description: Supporting people with advancing chronic and life‐limiting1 conditions will be a dominant challenge for healthcare delivery in the next half‐century. The Initiative for a Palliative Approach in Nursing: Evidence and Leadership (www.iPANEL.ca) is a practice‐relevant nursing health services research initiative funded by the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research to inform how we can best integrate a palliative approach2 into the care of people with advancing chronic life‐limiting conditions. This iPANEL report focuses on findings from a mixed methods province‐wide survey designed to obtain baseline descriptive information relevant to the integration of a palliative approach from Registered Nurses (RNs), Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs), and Healthcare Workers (HCWs) in acute medical care units, residential care facilities, and home care settings. The report provides results pertaining to the following objectives: To describe how nurses use principles of a palliative approach in hospital, residential and homecare settings that do not specialize in palliative care. To describe educational preparation and competencies in a palliative approach as perceived by RNs, LPNs, care aids and community health workers. The survey included 114 randomly selected healthcare settings equally drawn from a listing of all eligible settings in five regional health authorities. A total of 1,468 RNs, LPNs, and HCWs across urban and rural settings completed the survey questionnaire. Additionally, 25 nurses (either RNs or LPNs), and 5 HCWs participated in follow‐up qualitative interviews.
ประสิทธิภาพของไส้เดือนฝอยที่ทำให้เกิดโรคกับแมลง Steinernema carpocapsaeและ S. riobravae ในการควบคุมลูกน้ำยุงลายในสภาพธรรมชาติ อ. เมือง จ.ราชบุรี
Creators: name: บุษบง เจาฑานนท์
Publisher: name: สำนักจัดการความรู้ กรมควบคุมโรค กระทรวงสาธารณสุข
Year: 2556
Subjects: ประสิทธิภาพ
ไส้เดือนฝอยที่ทำให้เกิดโรคกับแมลง

description: วารสารควบคุมโรค, 39, 3, 184-193
ประสิทธิผลของโปรแกรมการพัฒนาทักษะการบริหารงานให้แก่แกนนำระดับอำเภอเพื่อป้องกันโรคไข้เลือดออกในเขตพื้นที่เครือข่ายบริการที่ 9
Creators: name: ไพโรจน์ พรหมพันใจ
Publisher: name: สำนักจัดการความรู้ กรมควบคุมโรค กระทรวงสาธารณสุข
Year: 2556
Subjects: โปรแกรม
ประสิทธิผล
พัฒนาทักษะการบริหารงาน
แกนนำระดับอำเภอ
โรคไข้เลือดออก

description: วารสารควบคุมโรค, 39, 3, 194-203
Developing English Communication Skills of Local Youth Guides to Increase Tourism Potentials of Ban Pong Manao Archaeological Site, Lop Buri Province
Creators: name: Rachada Pongprairat
Publisher: name: Naresuan University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: English Communication Skills
Local Youth Guides
Tourism Potential
Ban Pong Manao Archaeological Site
Lop Buri

description: Journal of Community Development Research (Humanities and Social Sciences), 13, 2, 1-14
The Role of Social Media in Providing New Opportunities in Work and Life: A Qualitative Study of Professional Saudi Arabian Women
Creators: name: Saleh, Ramzia Hisham
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2020
Subjects: Saudi women
Saudi Arabia
Culture
Social norms
Social media
Technofeminism
Intersectionality
Feminism
Professional Development
Challenges and Opportunities
Islam

description: This study builds on a small but growing body of research concerning socio-economic, cultural, political, and personal challenges influencing Saudi women’s professional development. Although Saudi women have more advantages and opportunities in 2020 compared to previous historical periods, women still face challenges related to employment and professional status. This research provides an in-depth analysis of the insider experience connected to challenges Saudi women face in work and life that hinder their professional development. Specifically, this research explored the role of social media in providing new opportunities to help Saudi women overcome challenges they face in work and life. Guided by a qualitative approach, this interpretive study is conducted through interviews, supporting documents analysis, and personal experiences. This study draws on Technofeminism, Intersectional Feminism, and Social Role Theory in order to provide a broad theoretical lens to help interpret findings. Using thematic analysis, six main themes were uncovered: (1) socio-cultural challenges, (2) personal challenges, (3) ethical challenges, (4) institutional challenges, (5) civic and professional engagement, and (6) socialization and privacy issues. General findings indicated that despite efforts from the Saudi Arabian government to enhance women’s rights in society, women continue to face socio-cultural, personal, and ethical challenges in work and life. The advanced analysis revealed that social media does have a positive role in providing Saudi women with new opportunities to overcome challenges they face but that cultural norms and traditional practices continue to create challenges that hinder Saudi women’s professional development.
Generation of double Holliday junction DNAs and their dissolution/resolution within a chromatin context.
Creators: name: Ho, Han N
name: West, Stephen C
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biochemistry & Proteomics
Genetics & Genomics
Genome Integrity & Repair
Structural Biology & Biophysics
Cell Biology
Cell Cycle & Chromosomes

description: SignificanceWe devised a method involving DNAzyme self-cleavage for the preparation of DNA molecules containing double Holliday junctions (dHJs) that are separated by 746 bp. The DNAs can be prepared in large amounts suitable for in vitro analysis of enzymes required for the processing of recombination intermediates. We show that the dHJ DNA is dissolved efficiently by the BLM-TopIIIα-RMI1-RMI2 (BTRR) complex to produce noncrossover products, whereas nucleolytic resolution by GEN or SMX results in both crossover and noncrossover products. Following nucleosome assembly, the chromatinized dHJ structures are preferentially dissolved by BTRR. These new Holliday junction substrates will provide a valuable resource for the mechanistic analyses of the way in which recombination intermediates are processed.
A Functional Approach to Violent Radicalization. Proposing a Model
Creators: name: Peco, Miguel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Personality, Social and Criminal Psychology
Applied Psychology

description: A paradox in the study of violent radicalization is that while each of the empirical findings can be explained from multiple theories, very few theories can explain a relevant number of these findings simultaneously. In this paper functional behavior assessment is applied to violent radical behavior, trying to find out the factors responsible for its initial learning and subsequent maintenance. Specifically, a radicalization model is proposed, which can explain a wide range of observed phenomena, accommodate apparent exceptions, and obtain testable consequences. It also allows challenging some firmly rooted ideas, as the alleged existence of aggressive influence practices, or brainwashing. Finally, the model is also able to provide valuable predictions for subsequent investigation, such as those related to the reversibility of the process of radicalization.
Outbreak of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Peruvian Military Personnel Undertaking Training Activities in the Amazon Basin, 2010
Creators: name: Repositorio Academico UPC
name: Oré Marianela
name: Sáenz Eliana
name: Cabrera, Rufino
name: Sanchez, Juan F.
name: De Los Santos, Maxy
name: Lucas, Carmen M.
name: Núñez, Jorge
name: Edgel, Kimberly A.
name: Sopan, Justino
name: Fernández, Jorge
name: Carnero, G
name: Baldeviano, Christian
name: Arrasco, Juan C.
name: Graf, Paul C. F.
name: Lescano, Andres G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Medicine

description: Military personnel deployed to the Amazon Basin are at high risk for cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL). We responded to an outbreak among Peruvian Army personnel returning from short-term training in the Amazon, conducting active case detection, lesion sample collection, and risk factor assessment. The attack rate was 25% (76/303); the incubation period was 2–36 weeks (median = 8). Most cases had one lesion (66%), primarily ulcerative (49%), and in the legs (57%). Real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) identified Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis (59/61 = 97%) and L. (V.) guyanensis (2/61 = 3%). Being male (risk ratio [RR] = 4.01; P = 0.034), not wearing long-sleeve clothes (RR = 1.71; P = 0.005), and sleeping in open rooms (RR = 1.80; P = 0.009) were associated with CL. Sodium stibogluconate therapy had a 41% cure rate, less than previously reported in Peru (70%; P < 0.001). After emphasizing pre-deployment education and other basic prevention measures, trainees in the following year had lower incidence (1/278 = 0.4%; P < 0.001). Basic prevention can reduce CL risk in deployed militaries.
The Art of Data Hiding with Reed-Solomon Error Correcting Codes
Creators: name: Ishengoma, Fredrick
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Theoretical Computer Science
subject: Computer Engineering
subject: Computer Software
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: Distributed Computing

description: With the tremendous advancements in technology and the Internet, data security has become a major issue around the globe. To guarantee that data is protected and does not go to an unintended endpoint, the art of data hiding (steganography) emerged. Steganography is the art of hiding information such that it is not detectable to the naked eye. Various techniques have been proposed for hiding a secret message in a carrier document. In this paper, we present a novel design that applies Reed-Solomon (RS) error correcting codes in steganographic applications. The model works by substituting the redundant RS codes with the steganographic message. The experimental results show that the proposed design is satisfactory with the percentage of decoded information 100% and percentage of decoded secret message 97. 36%. The proposed model proved that it could be applied in various steganographic applications.
Innovative biological approaches for monitoring and improving water quality
Creators: name: Aracic, Sanja
name: Manna, Sam
name: Petrovski, Steve
name: Wood, Jen
name: Mann, Gulay
name: Franks, Ashley E.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Water quality is largely influenced by the abundance and diversity of indigenous microbes present within an aquatic environment. Physical, chemical and biological contaminants from anthropogenic activities can accumulate in aquatic systems causing detrimental ecological consequences. Approaches exploiting microbial processes are now being utilized for the detection, and removal or reduction of contaminants. Contaminants can be identified and quantified in situ using microbial whole-cell biosensors, negating the need for water samples to be tested off-site. Similarly, the innate biodegradative processes can be enhanced through manipulation of the composition and/or function of the indigenous microbial communities present within the contaminated environments. Biological contaminants, such as detrimental/pathogenic bacteria, can be specifically targeted and reduced in number using bacteriophages. This mini-review discusses the potential application of whole-cell microbial biosensors for the detection of contaminants, the exploitation of microbial biodegradative processes for environmental restoration and the manipulation of microbial communities using phages.
La multiplicidad de la Información y los flujos de Información
Creators: name: Marín-Arraiza, Paloma
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Información es una palabra difícil de definir. Según el área del conocimiento que la estudie, presenta diferentes sentidos aunque se mantiene una correlación entre conceptualizaciones y definiciones. La información es estudiada principalmente desde un punto de vista objetivo, enfocada a partir de la Teoría Matemática de la Información (o Comunicación), o desde uno subjetivo, como es frecuente desde la Ciencia Cognitiva. En el primero de los casos la información suele ser tratada como una probabilidad de emisión y recepción de mensajes, independiente de su significación o del código usado y sólo entorpecida por la incursión de ruido en el canal de comunicación. En el segundo, la significación del mensaje y el valor de la información asignados por el receptor desempeñan una función esencial en el fenómeno de la información; ésta se destina, en gran parte, a la producción de nuevo conocimiento. Otros enfoques aluden incluso a propiedades intrínsecas de la materia para abordar la definición de información. La ciencia encargada de investigar las propiedades de la información es la interdisciplinar Ciencia de la Información, la cual también trata los flujos de información. Los flujos son producidos por las demandas de información por parte de los usuarios y constituyen conjuntos de informaciones “en movimiento”. Estos movimientos se abordan de manera técnica, cuando se trata de una comunicación de información medida desde la mutualidad informacional o de manera subjetiva, cuando se hace referencia tanto a la idea que genera la pieza de información como al conocimiento generado cuando la pieza de información es procesada por el usuario. Se pueden contemplar tres formas de la información: información estructural, información dinámica e información comunicada Los diferentes enfoques de la información y sus flujos vienen también marcados por el rápido avance tecnológico y por la integración de nuevas tecnologías de información y comunicación en las prácticas informativas. Se produce un cambio importante en el esquema de comunicación pasando de un esquema lineal unidireccionado con receptor pasivo a uno multidireccionado con receptor activo. Este cambio se conoce como paso de entre las culturas auditiva, textual y electrónica. La cultura electrónica permite un mayor acceso a la información y una mayor interactividad por parte de la comunidad receptora pero también genera un exceso de información, el cual se convierte en uno de los grandes problemas de la llamada Sociedad de la Información y del Conocimiento.
On the statistical properties of the F-measure
Creators: name: Chen, Tsong
name: Kuo, Fei-Ching
name: Merkel, Robert
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The F-measure - the number of distinct test cases to detect the first program failure - is an effectiveness measure for debug testing strategies. We show that for random testing with replacement, the F-measure will be distributed according to the geometric distribution. A simulation study examines the distribution of two adaptive random testing methods, to study how closely their sampling distributions approximate the geometric distribution, revealing that in the worst case scenario, the sampling distribution for adaptive random testing is very similar to random testing. Our results have provided an answer to a conjecture that adaptive random testing is always a more effective alternative to random testing, with reference to the F-measure. We consider the implications of our findings for previous studies conducted in the area, and make recommendations to future studies.
Social capital and community building through an electronic network
Creators: name: Hopkins, Liza
name: Thomas, Julian
name: Meredyth, Denise
name: Ewing, Scott
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper describes a social policy experiment that explores current and potential links between trends in Australian public policy. The central example is provided by the implementation of a wired community set up in a low-income public housing estate by an entrepreneurial not-for-profit internet service provider, InfoXchange. 'Reach for the Clouds', the wired community being established at Atherton Gardens in Fitzroy, Melbourne, is attractive to policy-makers and funding bodies, combining community-building, public-private partnerships, self-help and place-based management. However, although the project is promoted as an exercise in community-building through technology, many of the key assumptions are untested. It seems self-evident that low-income people who are socially and economically excluded would benefit from greater 'connectedness' with one another. However, it is not clear that such exchanges, online or off-line, will build 'community'. The paper attempts to establish some distinctions between online communities of interest and place based communities, untangling the relationship between social connectedness and models of social capital.
La multiplicidad de la Información y los flujos de Información
Creators: name: Marín-Arraiza, Paloma
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Información es una palabra difícil de definir. Según el área del conocimiento que la estudie, presenta diferentes sentidos aunque se mantiene una correlación entre conceptualizaciones y definiciones. La información es estudiada principalmente desde un punto de vista objetivo, enfocada a partir de la Teoría Matemática de la Información (o Comunicación), o desde uno subjetivo, como es frecuente desde la Ciencia Cognitiva. En el primero de los casos la información suele ser tratada como una probabilidad de emisión y recepción de mensajes, independiente de su significación o del código usado y sólo entorpecida por la incursión de ruido en el canal de comunicación. En el segundo, la significación del mensaje y el valor de la información asignados por el receptor desempeñan una función esencial en el fenómeno de la información; ésta se destina, en gran parte, a la producción de nuevo conocimiento. Otros enfoques aluden incluso a propiedades intrínsecas de la materia para abordar la definición de información. La ciencia encargada de investigar las propiedades de la información es la interdisciplinar Ciencia de la Información, la cual también trata los flujos de información. Los flujos son producidos por las demandas de información por parte de los usuarios y constituyen conjuntos de informaciones “en movimiento”. Estos movimientos se abordan de manera técnica, cuando se trata de una comunicación de información medida desde la mutualidad informacional o de manera subjetiva, cuando se hace referencia tanto a la idea que genera la pieza de información como al conocimiento generado cuando la pieza de información es procesada por el usuario. Se pueden contemplar tres formas de la información: información estructural, información dinámica e información comunicada Los diferentes enfoques de la información y sus flujos vienen también marcados por el rápido avance tecnológico y por la integración de nuevas tecnologías de información y comunicación en las prácticas informativas. Se produce un cambio importante en el esquema de comunicación pasando de un esquema lineal unidireccionado con receptor pasivo a uno multidireccionado con receptor activo. Este cambio se conoce como paso de entre las culturas auditiva, textual y electrónica. La cultura electrónica permite un mayor acceso a la información y una mayor interactividad por parte de la comunidad receptora pero también genera un exceso de información, el cual se convierte en uno de los grandes problemas de la llamada Sociedad de la Información y del Conocimiento.
ประสิทธิผลการสร้างพลังปัญญาของชุมชนในการป้องกันควบคุมโรคไข้เลือดออกตำบลบ้านปง อำเภอหางดง จังหวัดเชียงใหม่
Creators: name: บุษบง เจาฑานนท์*
Publisher: name: สำนักจัดการความรู้ กรมควบคุมโรค กระทรวงสาธารณสุข
Year: 2556
Subjects: ประสิทธิผล
พลังปัญญาของชุมชน
การป้องกันควบคุมโรคไข้เลือดออก

description: วารสารควบคุมโรค, 39, 3, 204-214
title: InterCultural Philosophy, Nr. 1 (2024): The Manifold Senses of Presence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
title: The Manifold Senses of Presence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: InterCultural Philosophy
Publisher: name: InterCultural Philosophy
Year: 2024

description: Loneliness as an Experience of Emptiness...62–69
Präsenz und Existenz...47–61
Exploring Therapeutic Empathic Presence through the “Now Moment”...36–46
Suffering as Precarious Presence – a Husserlian Proposal...28–35
„Nicht ganz da“ oder „mit allem verschmolzen“...7–17
Trapped in a Mirror Maze...18–27
Introduction...3–6
A RESEARCH ON THE STRUCTURAL DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN PERSPECTIVE OF RUMI AND MUHAMMAD TAQI JAʿFARI ON THE MEANING OF LIFE SYSTEM
Creators: name: FATEMEH ABDOLLAH POUR SANGCHI
name: MEHRAN REZAEE
name: MOHAMMAD SADEGH HEDAYATZADEH
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Meaning of Life, Philosophy of Life, Rumi, Jaʿfari, Structural Distinction.

description: Abstract

In the period of advancement and development of modernism and postmodernism, the meaning of life is one of the most important issues of scholars and societies. The issue of the present study is that what are the differences between the structural components of meaning of life system from the perspective of two prominent Iranian-Islamic thinkers, namely Rumi (early, 1273 AD) and Jaʿfari (contemporary, 1998 AD)? Based on the achievements of this research conducted in descriptive-analytical method, in spite of many similarities existing in the meaning of life system of mentioned thinkers, fundamental distinctions also can be counted by painstaking research; The most fundamental distinction is the impossibility of cognition of the universe from the perspective of Rumi and, on the contrary, the possibility of cognition of the universe from the perspective of Jaʿfari; Another distinction is the value of worldly life from the viewpoint of Jaʿfari (following the discussion about the function of relative goals) and the worthlessness of worldly life (only as an instrument) from the viewpoint of Rumi; Another point of disagreement is that virtual love is just an instrument in conveying to true love and the truth of the meaning of life in the view of Jaʿfari, unlike Rumi’s viewpoint. other distinctions presented in the research.
การพัฒนารูปแบบการจัดการข้อมูลข่าวสารที่มีความเสี่ยงสูงเพื่อการสื่อสารสาธารณะของกรมควบคุมโรค
Creators: name: วรยา เหลืองอ่อน
Publisher: name: สำนักจัดการความรู้ กรมควบคุมโรค กระทรวงสาธารณสุข
Year: 2556
Subjects: การจัดการข้อมูลข่าวสาร
การสื่อสารสาธารณะ
โรคและภัยสุขภาพ
ภาวะฉุกเฉินทางด้านสาธารณสุข

description: วารสารควบคุมโรค, 39, 3, 215-224
Promoting Environment at Grassroots: Barangay Institutional Mapping of Solid Waste Management
Creators: name: Castillo, Ronald Maglaqui
Publisher: name: Naresuan University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Solid Waste Management
Barangay
Institutions
Network
Village Management

description: Journal of Community Development Research (Humanities and Social Sciences), 13, 2, 15-30
Experimental Study of CO2 Foam Flow in Porous Media and Application of Fractional-Flow Method to Foam Flow
Creators: name: Dong, Yang
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2001
Subjects: Foam flow
Fractional flow
CO2
Carbon dioxide
Surfactants

description: Foam flow in porous media is a complicated process. Recent research using N2 identified two distinct regimes for foam flow: a high- quality regime and a low-quality regime. Pressure gradient is independent of gas flow rate in the high-quality regime and independent of liquid flow rate in the low-quality regime. The purpose of this research is to see whether the two regimes exist for C02 foam. Previous studies with C02 have found one regime or the other, but not both. An apparatus was constructed to conduct high-pressure C02 foam core flooding experiments. The experiments were performed at room temperature of 740F and at pressures above 1500 psig. Surfactant solution and super-critical C02 were co-injected into Berea sandstone cores at various flow rates. Superficial velocities of surfactant solution and C02 ranged from 0.18-1.84 ft/d and 0.48-3.79 ft/d, respectively. The surfactant used was Chaser CD1045 at 0.25 wt % and 0.8 wt % concentration in a synthetic brine of 3 wt % NaCl and 0.01 wt % CaC12. Steady-state pressure drop along the core was recorded. In these results pressure gradient increases with increasing gas flow rate at constant liquid flow rate and decreases with increasing liquid flow rate at constant gas flow rate. The data from the experiments at different surfactant concentrations have the same trend of pressure gradient change with flow rates, but do not show the characters of either flow regime as seen with N2 foam or in other studies with C02. Fractional-flow methods were used to analyze and compare several foam models in the literature. Useful insights about the mechanisms controlling behaviors in these models are obtained from this analysis.
Monte Carlo Simulations of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Measurements in Carbonate Rocks Under a Constant Magnetic Field Gradient
Creators: name: Toumelin, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2002
Subjects: Nuclear magnetic resonance
NMR
Monte carlo simulations
Carbonates
Magnetic field gradient

description: The work presented in this thesis introduces a novel Monte Carlo simulation algorithm designed to reproduce the inter-echo time sequence of magnetization time decay in the presence of a constant magnetic field gradient. This algorithm is developed as a general numerical simulation procedure that can replicate general NMR measurements acquired in arbitrary pore geometries and in the presence of immiscible non-wetting phase saturations. The algorithm makes use of a numerical procedure that accelerates the random walk in large pore spaces, and is therefore particularly suited for carbonate rocks where large differences exist between available pore sizes. Two particular models of application are proposed for the algorithm. The first geometrical model consists of a self-similar periodic pack of spheres in three dimensions that can be used to simulate a large variety of bimodal pore structures. The second model is a two-dimensional pore-structure map constructed from actual core images. Three-dimensional models are used to assess the sensitivity of NMR measurements to a variety of petrophysical properties of carbonate formations. Major results stemming from the simulations include the quantification of the influence of hydraulic coupling upon NMR temperature dependence and upon fluid phase discrimination using different inter-echo times. Models constructed from two-dimensional pore structure images lend themselves to a more accurate simulation of NMR measurements acquired from complex macro-pore structures. An advantage of the two-dimensional models is their efficiency to simulate NMR data consistent with pore structures evidenced by core images, thereby opening a new way to efficiently simulate NMR measurements based on core images.