cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Robust Meta-Learning of Vehicle Yaw Rate Dynamics via Conditional Neural Processes
Creators: name: Ullrich, Lars
name: Völz, Andreas
name: Graichen, Knut
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Trajectory planners of autonomous vehicles usually rely on physical models to predict the vehicle behavior. However, despite their suitability, physical models have some shortcomings. On the one hand, simple models suffer from larger model errors and more restrictive assumptions. On the other hand, complex models are computationally more demanding and depend on environmental and operational parameters. In each case, the drawbacks can be associated to a certain degree to the physical modeling of the yaw rate dynamics. Therefore, this paper investigates the yaw rate prediction based on conditional neural processes (CNP), a data-driven meta-learning approach, to simultaneously achieve low errors, adequate complexity and robustness to varying parameters. Thus, physical models can be enhanced in a targeted manner to provide accurate and computationally efficient predictions to enable safe planning in autonomous vehicles. High fidelity simulations for a variety of driving scenarios and different types of cars show that CNP makes it possible to employ and transfer knowledge about the yaw rate based on current driving dynamics in a human-like manner, yielding robustness against changing environmental and operational conditions.
description: Published in 2023 62nd IEEE IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Singapore, Singapore, December 13 - 15, 2023
Using Systems Modelling to Understand the Dynamics of Supply Chains
Creators: name: Bell, Carolyn
name: Higgs, Rhonda
name: Vickers, Stephanie
name: Toncinich, Steven
name: Haslett, Tim
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supply chain management remains a significant challenge for business today. Management decisions regarding pricing, stock levels, discounting policies, and merchandising all contribute to this challenge. External factors such as buyer behaviour and competitors also add complexity. Using the tools of systems modelling, the authors explore the dynamics of supply chain management and the impact of various policy decisions relating to discounting. Using a liquor retailer and a commodity product - beer, to illustrate the dynamics, the paper presents a practical application of systems modelling and the insights that can be gained from this approach. The results of the simulations suggest that discounting can lead to inventory fluctuations, that contribute to higher inventory costs, sales fluctuations, profit losses and undermined buyer confidence. These results ultimately lead the authors to question the policy of discounting and suggest that consistent pricing may be the best approach for supply chain management and maximum return on investment.
Nucleophosmin 1: from its pathogenic role to a tantalizing therapeutic target in acute myeloid leukemia
Creators: name: Shi, Yuye
name: Xue, Yuhao
name: Wang, Chunling
name: Yu, Liang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Nucleophosmin 1 (NPM1, also known as B23) is a multifunctional protein involved in a variety of cellular processes, including ribosomal maturation, centrosome replication, maintenance of genomic stability, cell cycle control, and apoptosis. NPM1 is the most commonly mutated gene in adult acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and is present in approximately 40% of all AML cases. The underlying mechanisms of mutant NPM1 (NPM1mut) in leukemogenesis remain unclear. This review summarizes the structure and physiological function of NPM1, mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of NPM1-mutated AML, and the potential role of NPM1 as a therapeutic target. It is reported that dysfunctional NPM1 might cause AML pathogenesis via its role as a protein chaperone, inhibiting differentiation of leukemia stem cells and regulation of non-coding RNAs. Besides conventional chemotherapies, NPM1 is a promising therapeutic target against AML that warrants further investigation. NPM1-based therapeutic strategies include inducing nucleolar relocalisation of NPM1 mutants, interfering with NPM1 oligomerization, and NPM1 as an immune response target.
COVID-19 pandemic-associated medical waste emerging ecological catastrophe and the need for more rational approach to medical masks usage
Creators: name: Domina Petric
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: COVID-19
medical waste
ecological catastrophe
medical masks

description: The amount of medical waste generated from COVID-19 since the outbreak is estimated to be 2.6 million tons/day worldwide and is still growing. Such an amount of medical waste can be also attributable to global mask mandates which are still in force despite the global vaccine rollout. As the Wuhan spike protein-based vaccines have waning efficacy against transmission of new variants, medical mask mandates are still applicable, but there is a need to discuss more focused approach when it comes to medical masks recommendations/mandates in a incidence-dependent manner, meaning that higher the new COVID-19 cases stronger should be the recommendations/mandates, and vice versa, in case of significantly lower incidence of new COVID-19 cases, recommendations/mandates should be relieved. There is also a need for the development of new technologies in medical masks manufacturing towards easily recyclable and biodegradable protective medical equipment, if possible, as well as the need for the improvement of existing technologies for medical waste sanitation. Open scientific debate on the ecological sustainability in the context of COVID-19 pandemic is mandatory.
From Dark Roots to Shared Routes
Creators: name: Beauxis-Aussalet, Emma
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: twentyforty, election meddling, ethical AI, machine learning, social engineering, surveillance capitalism

description: The text "From Dark Roots to Shared Routes" is part of the anthology "twentyforty – Utopias for a Digital Society" that consisting out of visionary stories written by researchers, addressing the opportunities and challenges that digital technologies present for society in the future of 2040. This particular story Emma Beauxis-Aussalet explores a future in which Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies, formerly used to manipulate people through commercial and political campaigns, are being repurposed for the greater good.
Additional file 1 of Construction of immune-related lncRNA signature to predict aggressiveness, immune landscape, and drug resistance of colon cancer
Creators: name: Xue, Yonggan
name: Ning, Bobin
name: Liu, Hongyi
name: Jia, Baoqing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. The risk model of immune lncRNA pairs.
Additional file 2 of Construction of immune-related lncRNA signature to predict aggressiveness, immune landscape, and drug resistance of colon cancer
Creators: name: Xue, Yonggan
name: Ning, Bobin
name: Liu, Hongyi
name: Jia, Baoqing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Immune lncRNA pairs with survival significance.
The Economics of Alcohol Addiction
Creators: name: Boymal, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper considers issues relating to alcohol addiction from an economic perspective. While alcohol consumption may be associated with dependency, it is not clear how addiction should be interpreted in the framework of consumer theory. The paper presents several economic models of addictive behaviour and identifies their deficiencies in explaining addiction to alcohol The degree of a person's involvement in heavy alcohol consumption is shown to have multiple interacting determinants. Behaviour which is viewed as optimal at one stage of the lifecycle may change the households future production possibilities in terms of costs and human capital stocks in a way that does make an individual better off by following an addictive consumption path, given these constraints. However, at the same time, the same person may regret past choices. This paper represents the first step in developing an economic model of alcohol consumption that can help explain drinking behaviour over the lifecycle as an accumulation of choices, subject to constraints.
Modelling Tobacco Consumption With a Zero-inflated Ordered Probit Model
Creators: name: Harris, Mark N.
name: Zhao, Xueyan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Data for discrete ordered random variables are often characterised by "excessive" zero observations. Traditional ordered probit models have limited capacity in explaining the preponderance of zero observations, especially when the zeros may relate to two distinct situations of non-participation and infrequent participation (or consumption), for example. We propose a zero-inflated ordered probit (ZIOP) model using a double-hurdle combination of a split (probit) model and an ordered probit model which, potentially, relate to different sets of covariates. Monte Carlo results suggest that the new model performs well. Finally, the model is applied to a consumer choice problem of tobacco consumption.
Platform Socialism
Creators: name: Graham, Mark
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: twentyforty, gig economy, mediation, platform capitalism, platforms, socialism

description: The short story "Platform Socialism" is part of the anthology "twentyforty – Utopias for a Digital Society" that consisting out of visionary stories written by researchers, addressing the opportunities and challenges that digital technologies present for society in the future of 2040. This particular story follows the lives of three ravers in three distinct moments in the evolution of the platform economy. Their desire for freedom initiates the beginning and accelerates the downfall of corporate power.
Islamic Law and the Finance of International Trade
Creators: name: De Jonge, Alice
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The aim of this paper is to provide readers interested in the law of international trade finance with an insight into the rules and principles governing the recent entry of Islamic banks into this area; and the issues which may arise when attempts are made to apply those rules in practice. By way of background, the reader is first provided with an overview of the emergence of modem Islamic banking. The paper also introduces both the main sources of Islamic law (Shariah), and those principles of Shariah jurisprudence which have shaped the evolution of modem Islamic finance. Part three of the paper then explores some of the particular legal issues which may arise when an international trading transaction is financed in accordance with the Islamic concept of murabaha (cost-plus-financing). While the exploration reveals some apparently irreconcilable contradictions between certain aspects of traditional Shariah jurispmdence and the modem law and practice of international trade finance, what it also reveals is the emergence of a new synthesis between Western practice and Shariah principles. The paper concludes that the emergence of this 'new Ijtihad' of Islamic cross-border trade finance is both promoted by, and is helping to strengthen, the current growth of Islamic involvement and influence in this area.
Additional file 3 of Construction of immune-related lncRNA signature to predict aggressiveness, immune landscape, and drug resistance of colon cancer
Creators: name: Xue, Yonggan
name: Ning, Bobin
name: Liu, Hongyi
name: Jia, Baoqing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. The filtered immune lncRNAs.
The End of Feelings
Creators: name: Ajji, Kamel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: twentyforty, algorithms, feelings, match, resistance, technology

description: The short story "The End of Feelings" is part of the anthology "twentyforty – Utopias for a Digital Society" that consisting out of visionary stories written by scientists, addressing the opportunities and challenges that digital technologies present for society in the future of 2040. This particular story plunges the reader into a world where technology eliminates uncertainty and we gain new perspectives on algorithmic matchmaking and its consequences for individual freedom and our concept of love.
Trial of Program Budgeting and Marginal Analysis (PBMA) to assist cancer control planning in Australia
Creators: name: Carter, Rob
name: Stone, Christine
name: Vos, Theo
name: Hocking, Jane
name: Mihalopoulos, Cathy
name: Peacock, Stuart
name: Crowley, Steven
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In mid-1999, the Cancer Strategy Group (CSG) of the National Health Priorities Committee, resolved to trial the use of the Program Budgeting and Marginal Analysis (PBMA) approach. The trial was to address whether PBMA is an appropriate technique to include in CSG’s strategic planning process, as well as assist with what specific options might be included in the next National Cancer Strategy. Advocates of the PBMA approach believe it offers a practical way of applying the economic principles behind the achievement of “allocative” and “technical” efficiency. It is argued that PBMA allows the concept of “benefit” to be clearly related to program and/or organisational objectives and for best available evidence to be utilised in an open and systematic planning process. It is clear from the literature that substantially different evaluation approaches are possible within the overarching framework of PBMA. The key characteristics of the PBMA approach adopted in this trial were: a focus on the marginal analysis component of PBMA, combined with a clear rationale for selection of the options for change; an evidence-based approach with a small research team bringing together the best available information; the choice of the Disability Adjusted Life Year (DALY) as the measure of health gain; the recognition that “benefit” is broader than just health gain; adoption of a two-stage approach to the assessment of benefit involving both “technical” aspects (i.e. cost per DALY recovered; level of evidence) and “judgement” aspects (i.e. equity; size of the problem; acceptability to stakeholders; and feasibility of implementation); and an economic protocol specifically developed for a priority setting context.
Estimating components in finite mixtures and hidden Markov models
Creators: name: Poskitt, D. S.
name: Zhang, Jing
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: When the unobservable Markov chain in a hidden Markov model is stationary the marginal distribution of the observations is a finite mixture with the number of terms equal to the number of the states of the Markov chain. This suggests estimating the number of states of the unobservable Markov chain by determining the number of mixture components in the marginal distribution. We therefore present new methods for estimating the number of states in a hidden Markov model, and coincidentally the unknown number of components in a finite mixture, based on penalized quasi-likelihood and generalized quasi-likelihood ratio methods constructed from the marginal distribution. The procedures advocated are simple to calculate and results obtained in empirical applications indicate that they are as effective as current available methods based on the full likelihood. We show that, under fairly general regularity conditions, the methods proposed will generate strongly consistent estimates of the unknown number of states or components.
AutSPACEs: co-creating a citizen science platform
Creators: name: Aitkenhead, Georgia
name: Scott, James
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: autspaces, autism, citizen science, participatory research, open source, research for impact, policy, sensory processing, environments, ethical research

description: Presentation given on AutSPACEs to the 23rd March for the UK's Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation
Communication, Advice and Beliefs in an Experimental Public Goods Game
Creators: name: Chaudhuri, Ananish
name: Maitra, Pushkar
name: Skeath, Susan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: We study the efficacy of horizontal versus vertical social learning processes in a public goods game. In one treatment, subjects about to play the game can make non-binding common knowledge announcements about their intentions while, in another, subjects do not communicate directly with group members but receive common knowledge advice from the previous generation of players. A third treatment has subjects play with neither communication nor advice. We find that groups that engage in peer communication achieve much lower levels of contribution to the public good than do groups that receive advice. We attribute this finding in part to the fact that some subjects in the communication treatment opted to make no announcement during the communication phase of play.
Forecasting Time Series from Clusters
Creators: name: Maharaj, Elizabeth A.
name: Inder, Brett A.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Forecasting large numbers of time series is a costly and time-consuming exercise. Before forecasting a large number of series that are logically connected in some way, we can first cluster them into groups of similar series. In this paper we investigate forecasting the series in each cluster. Similar series are first grouped together using a clustering procedure that is based on a test of hypothesis. The series in each cluster are then pooled together and forecasts are obtained. Simulated results show that this procedure for forecasting similar series performs reasonably well.
Additional file 1 of Baicalin improves the functions of granulosa cells and the ovary in aged mice through the mTOR signaling pathway
Creators: name: Fan, Huiying
name: He, Jiahuan
name: Bai, Yucheng
name: He, Qina
name: Zhang, Tongwei
name: Zhang, Junya
name: Yang, Guang
name: Xu, Ziwen
name: Hu, Jingyi
name: Yao, Guidong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure S1. Effects of high concentrations of Baicalin on cultured KGN and primary granulosa cells in vitro. After 24 h in the starvation culture, different concentrations of Baicalin (0, 100, 150, and 200 μM) were added. The processing start time was set to 0 h, and then observations and photography were performed after 48, 72, and 96 h. The left picture shows the KGN granulosa cell line (A), and the right picture shows the primary granulosa cells (B). The control group in this figure is the same as the control group in Fig. 1. Scale bar = 50 μm.
I-PROGNOSIS: VERWENDUNG VON SPRACHMERKMALEN ALS BIOMARKER ZUR DETEKTION DER PARKINSON-ERKRANKUNG
Creators: name: Jaeger, Hagen
name: Stadtschnitzer, Michael
name: Rizos, Alexandra
name: Karayiannis, Fotis
name: Ntakakis, George
name: Leontios Hadjileontiadis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Die Parkinson-Krankheit ist eine erbliche Erkrankung des Nervensystems, die sich in motorischen Dysfunktionen durch Neurodegeneration äußert. Durch die im Frühstadium üblicherweise verschleierten symptome werden Diagnosen häufig erst in einem fortgeschrittenen Krankheitsstadium gestellt. Da die ParkinsonErkrankung nicht heilbar ist, ist eine Früherkennung wichtig um den Krankheitsverlauf abzumildern und die Lebensqualität des Erkrankten zu verbessern. I-Prognosis ist ein durch das EU-Programm "Horizon 2020" gefördertes Projekt, welches die Früherkennung der ParkinsonKrankheit über Nutzungsaktivitäten von im Alltag verwendeten technischen Geräten erforscht, sowie die Behandlung der Symptome durch geeignete Interventionsmaßnahmen adressiert. Dabei wird auch die Veränderung der Stimme, bzw. die Vokaltraktartikulation, als sensitives Merkmal für die Parkinson-Erkrankung miteinbezogen . Zur Merkmalsextraktion wird eine moderne Methode genutzt, die sich der statistischen Spektral- und Cepstralanalyse für Übergänge von stimmhaften zu stimmlosen Lauten (und umgekehrt) bedient.
Additional file 2 of Baicalin improves the functions of granulosa cells and the ovary in aged mice through the mTOR signaling pathway
Creators: name: Fan, Huiying
name: He, Jiahuan
name: Bai, Yucheng
name: He, Qina
name: Zhang, Tongwei
name: Zhang, Junya
name: Yang, Guang
name: Xu, Ziwen
name: Hu, Jingyi
name: Yao, Guidong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Table 1. Primers used in this study.
Additional file 1 of Risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in antiviral treatment-naïve chronic hepatitis B patients treated with entecavir or tenofovir disoproxil fumarate: a network meta-analysis
Creators: name: Huang, Ze-Hong
name: Lu, Gui-Yang
name: Qiu, Ling-Xian
name: Zhong, Guo-Hua
name: Huang, Yue
name: Yao, Xing-Mei
name: Liu, Xiao-Hui
name: Huang, Shou-Jie
name: Wu, Ting
name: Yuan, Quan
name: Wang, Ying-Bin
name: Su, Ying-Ying
name: Zhang, Jun
name: Xia, Ning-Shao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1.
Bindungsorientierte Arbeit in der stationären Kinder- und Jugendhilfe
Creators: name: Zuber, Livia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Das Hauptthema der vorliegenden Bachelorarbeit ist die bindungsorientierte Arbeit in der stationären Kinder- und Jugendhilfe. Die Autorin Livia Zuber befasst sich mit der Frage, wie die bindungsorientierte Arbeit in der stationären Kinder- und Jugendhilfe gelingen kann. Zur Beantwortung dieser Frage werden das Handlungsfeld der stationären Kinder- und Jugendhilfe und die zentralen Grundlagen der Bindungstheorie von John Bowlby beleuchtet. Anschliessend werden die beiden bisher in der Literatur stark voneinander getrennten Themen miteinander in Verbindung gebracht. Die leitende Annahme der Autorin ist, dass die Bindungstheorie für die stationäre Kinder- und Jugendhilfe von zentraler Bedeutung ist, da die Mehrheit der platzierten Kinder und Jugendlichen unsichere Bindungsmuster aufweisen und ein erhebliches Bindungsbedürfnis haben. Nichtsdestotrotz wird die Bindungstheorie in der sozialpädagogischen Arbeit oftmals vernachlässigt. Da es der Auftrag der stationären Kinder- und Jugendhilfe ist die Bindungsbedürfnisse der Kinder und Jugendlichen zu befriedigen und die Schäden aus vergangenen Beziehungen zu beheben, werden Faktoren beschrieben, welche für diese bindungsorientierte Arbeit förderlich und hinderlich sind. Bei den hinderlichen Faktoren werden vorwiegend institutionelle Rahmenbedingungen und weitere externe Faktoren genannt. Bei den förderlichen Faktoren steht die Fachkraft mit ihrem Fachwissen, ihrer Persönlichkeit und ihrer Haltung im Zentrum.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa basp + Fussnote: Bachelor-Arbeit, Hochschule Luzern – Soziale Arbeit, Studienrichtung Sozialpädagogik, 2022 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA202203
The Person Trade-Off Approach to Valuing Health Care Programs
Creators: name: Nord, Erik
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The person trade-off technique is a way of estimating the social value of different health care interventions. Basically it consists in asking people how many outcomes of one kind they consider equivalent in social value to X outcomes of another kind. The paper outlines a number of the author's previous studies using the technique. The studies suggest that while the technique is theoretically appealing for resource allocation purposes, it is in practice quite demanding. It needs to be applied in fairly large groups of subjects to keep random measurement error at an acceptable level. Possible framing effects include the effects of argument presentation and the choice of start points in numerical exercises. To control for these effects, it seems important to take subjects through a multistep procedure, in which they are induced to carefully consider the various arguments that might be relevant in each exercise and to reconsider initial responses in the light of their implications. The investigator must also think through which decision context he/she wishes to study and make his/her choice of context very clear when reporting the results.
The Manifesto
Creators: name: Hermann, Isabella
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: twentyforty, artificial intelligence, embedded mismatch, EU, machines, optimization

description: The text "The Manifesto" is part of the anthology "twentyforty – Utopias for a Digital Society" that consisting out of visionary stories written by researchers, addressing the opportunities and challenges that digital technologies present for society in the future of 2040. This particular story shows us how far AI has progressed in the year 2040. An entry in the official "European Political Information Service" reveals that it will no longer be used to augment or improve human life but to de-optimize it.
COMPARISON OF THE EFFECTS OF MULLIGAN SUSTAINED NATURAL APOPHYSEAL GLIDES VERSUS MUSCLE ENERGY TECHNIQUE ON PAIN, DISABILITY AND FUNCTION IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS
Creators: name: Amir Dawood
name: Mohammad Reza Hadian Rasanani
name: Azadeh Shadmehr
name: Gholamreza Oliaei
name: Hussein Ziab
name: S. Mohsen Mir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Cervical Spondylosis, Forward Head, Hand Held Dynamometer, MET, NDI, NPRS, Position Sense, SNAGs, and ROM.

description: Abstract

Background: Cervical spondylosis (CS) refers to the degenerative changes in at least one functional unit. So, the cervical motion segments including the disc, two adjacent vertebrae, and facet joints are being affected. Objective: The objective of this study is to compare the effectiveness of conventional therapy plus, Mulligan Sustained Natural Apophyseal Glides SNAGs as group A and conventional therapy plus Muscle Energy Techniques (MET) as group B. Method: A clinical trial was designed in which two groups of total number 52 patientswho suffered from Cervical Spondylosis (CS) for at least 6 months participated in this trial The group A (N=26, age=45-65, both sex) received conventional therapy including electric hot pack, TENS with Mulligan SNAGs; the second group (N=26, age= 45-65, both sex) received conventional therapy with MET  (12 sessions, three times a week). Results: The results showed improvement for both groups in all parameters. Furthermore, in MET (Group B), significant results were observed in NPRS (P = 0.041), Cervical Extension (P = 0.017), cervical left rotation (P = 0.041), left-hand grip strength (P = 0.022), craniovertebral angle (P = 0.003), and NDI (P = 0.004). However, our result showed improvement in Mulligan SNAGs (Group A) in right-hand grip strength (P value = 0.01) compared to Group B. The results indicated that there were no statistically significant differences in any of the outcome measures such as cervical joint position sense, including flexion (P value = 0.328), extension (P value = 0.371), right side bending (P value = 0.247), left side bending (P value = 0.810), right rotation (P value = 0.810), and left rotation (P value = 0.616) between group A and Conclusion: The results of the study provide strong evidence that both Mulligan SNAGs and MET are significantly effective methods for the management of chronic cervical spondylosis in terms of ROM and cervical joint position sense. For greater effect on improving NPRS, craniovertevral angle and neck disability, MET can be used. While Mulligan SNAGs may be used for improvement in hand grip strength.
The contingencies of partnership: experiences from the training reform agenda in Australian manufacturing
Creators: name: Cooney, Richard
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper examines the development of an antecedent model of social partnership, the social 'accord' employed by the Labor Government in Australia during the period 1983-1996. The specific focus of the paper is upon the implementation of the Training Reform Agenda (TRA) in Australian manufacturing. The TRA was designed to provide for the upskilling of existing employees and the enhanced vocational preparation of new employees. This was a joint objective of government, business and union policy and one designed to encourage the growth of high-wage, high-skill industries. The achievement of this objective was, however, limited. Social partnership, in the case of the TRA, proved to be a way of legitimating a work change process from which there was, by and large, one winner. The partnerships formed under the aegis of the TRA had a limited lifespan and represented a contingent form of relationship between the partners, rather than a seachange in relations.
Additional file 10 of Molecular phylogeny of Anopheles nivipes based on mtDNA-COII and mosquito diversity in Cambodia-Laos border
Creators: name: Zhang, Yilong
name: Zhang, Canglin
name: Yang, Rui
name: Luo, Chunhai
name: Deng, Yan
name: Liu, Yan
name: Zhang, Yilong
name: Zhou, Hongning
name: Zhang, Dongmei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 10. Supplementary data of molecular phylogeny data based on ITS2. This file contains Tables 1–5 and Figs. 1–9.
TÓPICOS INTRODUTÓRIOS SOBRE A PERIFERIA URBANA DE GOIÂNIA
Creators: name: SOUSA SILVA, IVAMAURO
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 440612
subject: Urban geography

description: Esse trabalho representa uma avaliação prévia de aspectos referentes à temática Periferia Urbana, pautados sobre tudo em pressupostos teóricos, discussão conceitual e perspectivas do espaço urbano de Goiânia. A cidade é articulada em suas diferenças, que ao integrarem-se, revelam sua dimensão sintagmática de elementos contraditórios. Até que ponto o conflito que decorre do processo de ocupação desigual do espaço urbano pode ser caracterizado por duas realidades: defesa dos privilégios; e socialização dos benefícios. A Periferia tem sido usualmente considerada como aquela área da cidade que em termos de localização situa-se nos arredores do espaço urbano. Contudo este trabalho pretende elucidar a forma mais plausível de compreender o conceito de Periferia e não concebê-la como um lugar longe, distante fisicamente de algum ponto central. Faz-se necessário refletir o novo conceitual, uma vez, que o distanciamento “geométrico” não é mais o determinante das relações socioespaciais nos espaços urbanos. Ao enfatizar Goiânia, deve-se considerar a atuação dos agentes produtores, pois é compreensível a segregação e a diferenciação que ocorre no espaço urbano, devido à acumulação desigual de capital, tendo consequências refletidas no modo de vida da sociedade.
Additional file 1 of Molecular phylogeny of Anopheles nivipes based on mtDNA-COII and mosquito diversity in Cambodia-Laos border
Creators: name: Zhang, Yilong
name: Zhang, Canglin
name: Yang, Rui
name: Luo, Chunhai
name: Deng, Yan
name: Liu, Yan
name: Zhang, Yilong
name: Zhou, Hongning
name: Zhang, Dongmei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Full list of 53 Anopheles nivipes specimens which were classified by both molecular and morphological identifications, with morphology species ID, molecular species ID based on ITS2, molecular species ID based on COII, geographical location, latitude, and longitude.
The impact of the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cth.) - the views of five Australian trade unions
Creators: name: Pyman, Amanda
name: Teicher, Julian
name: Hanley, Glennis
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The Workplace Relations Act (WRA) constitutes a profound change in Australian workplace relations. As a result, the current legislative environment challenges trade unions in a myriad of ways, as does the continual decline in trade union density. However, comparatively few studies have investigated the relationship between the WRA and the decline in union density at the federal level in Australia. This paper examines the impact of the WRA on five Australian trade unions by investigating the relationship between the legislation and declining union density. The findings suggest that the WRA has not had a direct and immediate impact on trade union density, yet has impacted indirectly, on the union movement as a whole. This is demonstrated by a 'cultural shift' toward individualised workplace relations. The paper concludes that the relationship between the WRA and declining union density warrants further attention, given the emergence of an individualistic mindset at the broader societal level, and the continual challenges confronting Australian trade unions.
What Would You Rather Be: A Privacy Have or a Privacy Have-Not?
Creators: name: Bessant, Claire
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: twentyforty, data protection, privacy, privacy have-nots, privacy haves, sharenting

description: The text "What Would You Rather Be: A Privacy Have or a Privacy Have-Not?" is part of the anthology "twentyforty – Utopias for a Digital Society" that consisting out of visionary stories written by researchers, addressing the opportunities and challenges that digital technologies present for society in the future of 2040. This particular story discusses the concept of privacy in times of ubiquitous technology and social media. In her diary-like narrative form, she envisions a world in which privacy has created a wealth gap that divides society into two distinct factions (Privacy Haves and Privacy Have-Nots).
Flexible Learning Practices in Tourism Courses
Creators: name: Morgan, Damian
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The design and delivery of quality tourist experiences will be the key focus for tourism and hospitality professionals throughout the 21st Century. This outcome will be promoted through educational design and delivery that meets the needs of a diverse range of students. Aspiring towards this aim, a process for introducing flexible learning practices is outlined and then applied to the development of tourism courses. To conclude, the utility of flexible learning practices and information and communication technology for delivery quality learning outcomes to students separated by geographic distances is critically appraised with reference to tourism course development.
Returns on investment in public health: comments on the report by applied economics
Creators: name: Richardson, Jeff
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The purpose of the report by Applied Economics was to determine whether or not the community’s expenditures on public health have been justified by the benefits obtained from them. Additionally, however the study extends the time frame and, on the basis of the historical evidence, seeks to determine the ‘return’ on current investment in public health to the year 2010. The report does not consider further investment in public health. Only benefits obtained from current expenditures are projected into the future. For example, the community will continue to receive benefits for some years from vaccinations administered in 2000, and these benefits are included in the study. However the estimated benefits and costs of vaccinations administered after 2000 are not considered.
Additional file 1 of A new dyslipidemia-based scoring model to predict transplant-free survival in patients with hepatitis E-triggered acute-on-chronic liver failure
Creators: name: Chen, Chong
name: Zhu, Aihong
name: Ye, Shanke
name: Li, Weixia
name: Fei, Ling
name: Huang, Qin
name: Chen, Liang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Virology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Factors Leading to Management Consulting Success
Creators: name: Kumar, Vanya
name: Simon, Alan
name: Kimberley, Nell
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This working paper reports the findings of a research investigation which aimed to identify the factors/strategic capabilities which lead to management consulting success. The study also aimed to find out what management consultants consider to be the actual performance indicators of consulting success and whether these were related to the factors/strategic capabilities. The research design for this study was a modified Generative Strategy. Several data collection methods, namely, interviews, content analysis and questionnaires, were used to generate both qualitative and quantitative data. Twenty-one factors were identified. These were subsumed under the two broad categories of (1) Functions and (2) Skills and Values. The three most critical functions identified, in descending order, were quality of service, setting objectives and solving problems. The three most crucial skills/ values were, integrity and honesty, client-consultant commimication and credibility. Ten performance indicators were identified. Of these, the three most crucial, as identified by the respondents, were, customer satisfaction, profitability and repeat business. Lastly, the successful management consultant is experienced, knowledgeable and multiskilled.
International compensation practices: a ten-country comparative analysis
Creators: name: Lowe, Kevin B.
name: Milliman, John
name: De Cieri, Helen
name: Dowling, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This article presents a comparative study of compensation, by exploring 9 items measuring pay and benefits practices in 10 locations (9 countries and 1 region). First, similarities and differences in employee compensation are examined. Second, emerging issues for international compensation are identified. Third, gaps are identified between current practice and preferences for future compensation. Overall, the results of this study provide some support for previous research, although a number of unexpected findings are identified, with respect to the ways in which culture might be expected to impact employee preferences for compensation practices. The research suggests several challenges for compensation practice and directions for future research.
title: Mail à Arnold Beth
Creators: name: Leibowitch, Jacques
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Pièce jointe : Extraits du livre de J. Leibowitch, Pour en finir avec le sida et son virus.
description: Source: http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/Calames-20193111132541133
Export Capability of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) - a Study of North-Central Victoria
Creators: name: Alam, Quamrul
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper explores factors in the capability of exporting firms in regional Victoria. Starting from the premise that the globalization of business will require many more Australian firms to engage with the challenges and opportunities presented by overseas markets, the author first look briefly at the reasons for the changes in the pattern of Australia's overseas trade, and some of the particular implications for regional business. The results of a broad survey of export circumstances and practice are presented in an investigation which covers reasons for exporting, organisation of export activities, level of competency, market entry strategies, skills, information gathering, government support, and location. The study finds that most regional exporters are not aware of the full range of export opportunities open to them, and for a complex set of reasons cannot fully exploit those opportunities of which they are aware.
Productivity in Australian Education between 1986/87 and 1993/94
Creators: name: Verikios, George
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper attempts to estimate the change in total factor productivity (TFP) in total education services provided in Australia, between 1986/87 and 1993/94. A simple model is developed and calibrated using Australian data. TFP is estimated to have fallen by between 16 and 26 per cent depending on what is assumed about the behaviour of average quality over this period.
Buffers and aggravators in the emotion labor, emotional dissonance, emotional exhaustion sequence in service work
Creators: name: Hartel, Charmine E. J.
name: Hsu, Chia-Fang A.
name: Boyle, Maree V.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In response to the increasing interest regarding the emotional consequences facing service providers who perform emotion labor as part of their service roles, this study examined the causal sequences of emotion labor, emotional dissonance and emotional exhaustion (the EEE sequence). By integrating Affective Events Theory, the concept of daily hassles and uplifts, and the EEE sequence, a theoretical model was developed to explicate the relationship among the emotional experience, performance and turnover intentions of service providers. In addition, the organizational factors of cultural orientation to emotions and workgroup emotional climate, and the individual factors of provider dissonance tolerance, hassle tolerance and uplift reactivity are introduced and depicted as influencing the EEE sequence. A survey was constructed to assess the variables in the model. Responses were obtained from 265 service providers sampled from five different service industries and analyzed using structural equation modeling techniques. Results supported the links proposed in the theoretical model. Specifically, the EEE sequence was mediated by perceived hassles and moderated by provider tolerance for emotional dissonance and hassles. The proposed organizational and individual factors influenced perceived uplifts which, in turn, had consequences for provider service performance. Implications for theory, practice and future research of the encouraging results regarding the proposed model are discussed.
Additional file 2 of Molecular phylogeny of Anopheles nivipes based on mtDNA-COII and mosquito diversity in Cambodia-Laos border
Creators: name: Zhang, Yilong
name: Zhang, Canglin
name: Yang, Rui
name: Luo, Chunhai
name: Deng, Yan
name: Liu, Yan
name: Zhang, Yilong
name: Zhou, Hongning
name: Zhang, Dongmei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Genus/Species compositions of mosquitoes trapped by CDC lamp in SIEM PANG County, Stung treng Province. Adult mosquitoes were collected by using overnight trapping with the battery-operated CDC light traps. ** indicated the genus or species composition of mosquitoes which were described in percentage. (%)** indicated the genus or species composition of mosquitoes which were described in numbers.
Why Jerry Maguire succeeds but not William Lomax: management, cultures and postmodernism
Creators: name: Wong, Loong
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Postmodernism has been widely used and abused in contemporary analyses within the social sciences. In management sciences, it tjas made some inroads but in the main, postmodernism has been seen as an esoteric exercise. This paper starts with a discussion of the concept of postmodernism and how it has been used in organisational and managerial analyses. The paper moves onto a discussion of contemporary discussions of the 'new manager*, in particular, its relationship with cultures and new work practices. The paper argues that culture has been appropriated and pressed into the service of a new 'neoliberal' discourse of individualism. The paper suggests that adopting a postmodernist approach enables cultures and differences to be re-examined; more importantly, it provides an alternative basis to further develop management theory and practices, where 'differences' are not simply tolerated but also appreciated.
Additional file 3 of Molecular phylogeny of Anopheles nivipes based on mtDNA-COII and mosquito diversity in Cambodia-Laos border
Creators: name: Zhang, Yilong
name: Zhang, Canglin
name: Yang, Rui
name: Luo, Chunhai
name: Deng, Yan
name: Liu, Yan
name: Zhang, Yilong
name: Zhou, Hongning
name: Zhang, Dongmei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. COII sequences of Anopheles nivipes were downloaded from the NCBI. * indicated the longitude and latitude coordinates to the geographical center of a certain province, due to the samples being initially collected from various sampling sites in a certain province. An. niv, Anopheles nivipes.
Trade And The Rights Of Labour: Views Of Teacher Unionists
Creators: name: Griffin, Gerard
name: Nyland, Chris
name: O'Rourke, Anne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The notion that the right to engage in international trade should be linked to respect for core labour standards has become one of the most contentious issues in the current globalisation debate. Arguments surrounding a workers' rights clause have often been presented as a case of "North" versus "South", with the governments of the latter countries asserting that the promotion of workers' rights is a protectionist ploy by the North designed to undermine the comparative advantage of the South. It is generally assumed, in both academic literature and by Non-Government Organisations, that the positions advocated by Southern governments are shared by the workers of these developing nations. This paper tests the validity of this claim by comparing and contrasting the views and opinions of Southern trade union activists and leaders in the education industry with those of their Northern colleagues. We argue that Southern unionists are strong supporters of linking trade and labour standards.