cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Nonlinear Autoregressive Leading Indicator Models of Output in G-7 Countries
Creators: name: Anderson, Heather M.
name: Athanasopoulos, George
name: Vahid, Farshid
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper studies linear and nonlinear autoregressive leading indicator models of business cycles in G7 countries. The models use the spread between short-term and long-term interest rates as leading indicators for GDP, and their success in capturing business cycles is gauged by non-parametric shape tests, and their ability to predict the probability of recession. We find that bivariate nonlinear models of output and the interest rate spread can successfully capture the shape of the business cycle in cases where linear models fail. Also, our nonlinear leading indicator models for USA, Canada and the UK outperform other models of GDP with respect to predicting the probability of recession.
Implications of Systems Thinking for Research and Practice in Management
Creators: name: Haslett, Tim
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper sets out to examine two main ideas. The first is to assess the impact that Systems Thinking can have on Management Science and the second is to examine a set of ideas that point the way that Management Science and Systems Science may find common ground. In the first section of the paper a simple systems idea. Causal Loop Diagrams, made popular by Senge [20] is examined in the light of its ability to provide insight into House's Path Goal Theory of Leadership. This theory is used as an illustrative example of the strengths and weaknesses of using Causal Loop Diagrams. The obvious conclusion is that this methodology gives insights into causation which are unavailable in the normal context but is unable to provide any level of useful quantatitive analysis. The second part of the paper takes one idea about leadership behaviour, namely, the ability of the leader to mediate the impact of a turbulent environment. That idea is examined in terms of the leader's behaviour being seen as a dissipating system or a negative feedback loop. This serves as the starting point for a discussion of a number of related ideas and their implications for Management Science. This suggests a methodology that examines relative and quantifiable causation.
Aggregate Supply and Price in an LM-IS-BP Framework
Creators: name: Crowley, Michael J.
name: Tennant, Judith K.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper introduces aggregate supply into conventional LM-IS-BP analysis through the agency of the balance of payments, BP, line. This allows analysis of both price as well as quantity adjustments, and provides a richer framework for students of intermediate macroeconomics attempting to develop their analytical skills. The model assumes the small country case, most relevant to Australia, and perfectly elastic capital flows. The latter assumption follows from the depth and ranking of the Australian dollar as an international currency.
The unplanned retail centre: is it designed for convenience?
Creators: name: Reimers, Vaughan
name: Clulow, Val
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The emergence of the internet and a more discerning consumer has created the need for traditional retail centres to provide a more convenient shopping environment. Two attributes determine the convenience afforded by the physical structure of a retail centre; its design and degree of enclosure. This study provides statistical insight into the convenience offered by these two attributes across a sample of 25 planned centres and 25 unplanned centres. Analysis showed that the majority of unplanned centres' possess linear designs. With too few stores spread over excessive distances, the cost of patronising the unplanned centre may be too prohibitive for many shoppers. The findings also indicate that, provided enclosure is valued by consumers, the planned centre holds an obvious advantage. Less than 8% of businesses in unplanned centres operate within enclosed structures such as arcades or complexes. The fact that these structures show symptoms of economic blight suggests why enclosure, in isolation, has often failed to rejuvenate the unplanned centre.
Processed Binders for Cigars: The Effect on the Market for Binder-Type Tobacco
Creators: name: Hendrickson, C. I.
name: Hendrickson, C. I.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1963
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Report Summary: The shift in cigar binders from natural leaf to binders made of ground tobacco processed into sheets will affect the prices received by growers, the kinds of tobacco they grow, and the way cured tobacco is handled by both growers and purchasers. Continuance of the rapid growth in use of processed binders could reduce somewhat the total amount of money received by growers for binder-type tobaccos. But there are offsetting factors: 1. That part of the binder-type tobaccos that is sold directly for scrap chewing tobacco would continue to be used for the same purposes. The reduction in price for binder types, therefore, would not apply to all the crop of those types. 2. Cigars with processed binders appear to be quite popular, and if cigar smoking should be increased because of that factor, the total of tobacco used in cigars would be increased. 3. The extreme care that must be taken to raise binder-type tobacco of the high grades required for cigar binders, including the careful handling in harvesting, curing, and preparing for market, would no longer be necessary, with a consequent reduction in the growers' production costs. 4. This development will affect the relative advantage of different areas and growers in producing the tobacco. Those who adapt their production and marketing practices to lower their costs will be in the best position to take advantage of the changed situation.
description: This report was originally issued in May 1957 by the Agricultural Marketing Service as AMS-189. It is now reissued, without change in text, by the Marketing Economics Division, Economic Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture.
Information sharing in supply chains: a literature review and research agenda
Creators: name: Baihaqi, Imam
name: Beaumont, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Information sharing is a vital aspect of coordination amongst parties in a supply chain. Information sharing can increase supply chain efficiency by reducing inventories and smoothing production. Supply chain efficiency is highly important as today's competition is no longer between companies, but between supply chains. This review discusses the impacts of information sharing in supply chains. The two perspectives used are the degree and the value of information sharing. The degree of information sharing relates to choosing the partner with whom information should be shared, the type of information shared, and the quality of shared information. The paper discusses the potential benefits of information sharing, noting that these benefits may be shared unequally amongst parties and consumers. Using these two perspectives, several research questions pertaining to information sharing in supply chains that merit research are identified.
Are Proxies Valid Measures of Internalisation?
Creators: name: Kalfadellis, Paul
name: Gray, Judy
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: International business literature is replete with empirical studies that attempt to measure the concept of internalisation. These studies use surrogate or proxy measures (e.g., R&D intensity) often based on aggregate statistics to investigate the relationships between internalisation and foreign direct investment (FDI). It is the premise of this paper that such aggregate statistics used in the calculation of proxy measures are inappropriate and should be interpreted with caution. Further, the attempt to operationalise internalisation proves difficult due to its intangible nature and may mean that proxy measures could be unsuitable. In order to advance theory, this paper advocates the use of firm level investigations based on surveys of managerial perceptions which could provide more accurate insights into the relationship between internalisation and FDI.
Globalisation - the implications for country Victoria
Creators: name: Rainnie, Al
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This is the text of a keynote speech given at the 22nd Victorian Farmers Federation Annual Conference, held in Melbourne on 17th July 2001. Sharing the platform were Minister of Trade Mark Vaile, ACTU President Sharan Burrow and Graham Blight, former President of the National Farmers Federation.
Using OneNote in the Undergraduate Labs
Creators: name: Leadbitter, Philip
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Presentation by Dr Philip Leadbitter on the use of OneNote as a lab note book for teaching in the undergraduate labs in the department of Chemistry and Chemical engineering at the University of Southampton. The presentation gave a brief overview of the Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI) and then the motivation, implementation and some very preliminary results around the use of OneNote.
Adjustments in Retail Prices of Beef to Supply Changes
Creators: name: Motes, William C.
name: Motes, William C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1963
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Excerpt from the report: The purpose of this article is to examine recent retail beef price adjustments and their relation to changes in live and wholesale prices. Questions of whether retail prices responded as quickly and as fully as they should cannot be answered completely. Criteria that can be used to evaluate retail price performance are vague and incomplete. Certainly it takes time for changes in supply to move from level to level in the marketing system and for information regarding these changes to move between and within levels. No one can say how long this movement should take or how long it should take the trade to react. Thus, this analysis is limited to consideration of: (1) Reaction time in 1962-63 compared with periods of sharp change in the recent past, and (2) the extent of changes at live and retail levels.
description: Article reprinted from The Marketing and Transportation Situation May 1963
Testing the Diamond Effect - A Survey on Private Car Ownership in China
Creators: name: Deng, Xin
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A diamond effect exists when an individual's utility depends on the exchange value in addition to the intrinsic consumption effects of the good. This concept was first studied by Ng (1987). The existence of the diamond effect justifies a higher tax than a good with no diamond effect, and the stronger the effect is, the higher the tax should be. This paper attempts to test the diamond effect of private car ownership in China. While taxi services are very convenient in most of the large and mediumsize Chinese cities, and the cost of owning a private car is much higher than using a taxi for all travel purposes, many people still choose to buy a private car. This suggests the existence of diamond effects. A survey of 118 private car owners in three Chinese cities was conducted to test this conjecture. The survey results show that the relative income and the purchase decisions of colleagues, friends and relatives may have a strong impact on the purchase decisions of potential car owners, and that the closer the relationship, the stronger the impact. It also suggests that private car ownership may act as a sign of social status in China. In conclusion, the survey is supportive of the existence of a diamond effect in private car ownership in China.
Understanding the Kalman filter: an object oriented programming perspective
Creators: name: Snyder, Ralph D.
name: Forbes, Catherine S.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The basic ideas underlying the Kalman filter are outlined in this paper without direct recourse to the complex formulae normally associated with this method. The novel feature of the paper is its reliance on a new algebraic system based on the first two moments of the multivariate normal distribution. The resulting framework lends itself to an object-oriented implementation on computing machines and so many of the ideas are presented in these terms. The paper provides yet another perspective of Kalman filtering, one that many should find relatively easy to understand.
Knowledge, Specialization, Consumption Variety and Trade Dependence
Creators: name: Sun, Guang-Zhen
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper provides an analysis of how the development in knowledge results in expanding the consumption variety via promoting specialization and trade dependence. Gains from specialization and trade are reaped with increasing costs for transacting and with increasing interdependence among agents. As such, consumption variety, specialization, transaction costs (in both absolute magnitude and percentage of the total output of the economy), and trade dependence all evolve. Some preliminary empirical evidence consistent with our theory is also presented.
Supplemental material for "Cumulative Exposure to Natural Hazards and Mental Health in Rural China: Are Older People More Vulnerable or More Resilient Than Younger and Middle-Aged Adults?"
Creators: name: Zhou, Shuai
name: Kwan, Crystal
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 441002
subject: Environmental sociology
classificationCode: 440902
subject: Counselling, wellbeing and community services
classificationCode: 410103
subject: Human impacts of climate change and human adaptation

description: Supplemental material for research article entitled "Cumulative Exposure to Natural Hazards and Mental Health in Rural China: Are Older People More Vulnerable or More Resilient Than Younger and Middle-Aged Adults?", in the Special Issue on "Promoting Older Adults' Engagement in Post-Disaster Reconstruction and Recovery" of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Science.
AS AÇÕES DE EXTENSÃO NA CONSTRUÇÃO DE UMA UNIVERSIDADE SERTANEJA
Creators: name: Silva, Wagner
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 130103 Higher Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: The university extension plays a key role in the full training of students in the face of capacity it has to feedback the teaching and research. Through it the University can take the knowledge that is being produced in their research to society. Such actions when applied by a university that is part of the semiarid region, bringing with it the possibility of transforming the reality of this place and contribute to its development, not only in the training of researchers, teachers and technicians to work in the region, as well as directly influencing the sociocultural aspects of the territory in which it operates. The Instituto de Estudos do Semiárido (IESA), an academic unit of the Universidade Federal do Cariri (UFCA) located in the Campus Icó, develops activities that seek to research and better understand semiarid dynamics and focus on social action in the pursuit of sustainable development . The aim of this study is to understand the perceptions and representations generated by the implementation of a university campus in a city of the northeastern semiarid region through the extension projects developed with in the University. Therefore interviews were conducted with the extension students using discourse analysis techniques to grasp the sense that the extension takes in the statements of the respondents. Finally, using concepts such as Schein Organizational Culture and the Paradigm of Complexity present in the works of Morin, present the points where the university extension and its internal and external impacts to the institution contribute to the construction of a Country University in Icó .Thus this research will bring contributions to the discussion on the Public Policy Evaluation of Higher Education, through the approach of University Extension, and the character of the expansion of higher education to the northeastern backlands.
UM OUTRO CATOLICISMO: O BISPO DE MAURA E A IGREJA CATÓLICA APOSTÓLICA BRASILEIRA
Creators: name: Silva, Wagner
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: History

description: The Brazilian popular Catholicism differs significantly from orthodox Roman Catholicism. In the 1940s, a Brazilian Catholic Bishop, Carlos Duarte Costa, takes forward the movement for a national Catholic Church and creates the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church, which assumes a more open doctrine in relation to Roman Catholic doctrine. With the motto Free Church in the Free State, the church founded by cleric sought to be the national alternative to unhappy with the Romanization of the Roman Catholic Church. This article will seek to provide the context in which they gave the break and the influences that the new church received both popular Catholicism, like other religions, like Protestantism, spiritualism and even the african-Brazilian religions, through the analysis of journal "the Fight", published as the official organ of the new church since its founding in 1945 until the mid-1960s.
The Impact of the Florida Freeze on Prices of Orange Products
Creators: name: Gunnelson, Jerald A.
name: Gunnelson, Jerald A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1963
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Excerpts from the report: In contrast to the increase in supplies for beef, the citrus industry was confronted last December by a sudden and unexpected decrease in available supplies. For 8 hours during the night of December 12 and the morning of December 13, 1962, freezing temperatures hit most of Florida's citrus producing areas, damaging trees, and inflicting heavy damage on the 1962-63 crop. The freeze reduced the potential production of frozen orange juice concentrate from an estimated 50 to 80 percent. This article traces price changes at the grower, processor, and retailer levels following the decrease in prospective supply. Retail prices in an east coast metropolitan area were analyzed by type of market organization: Affiliated and unaffiliated independent stores and multi-establishments. Prices of advertised and unadvertised brands of frozen concentrate were examined at processor and retail levels. Single strength orange juice prices were also considered because of the close relationship to concentrates.
description: Article reprinted from The Marketing and Transportation Situation May 1963
Additional file 1 of Macrophage migration inhibitory factor exacerbates asthmatic airway remodeling via dynamin-related protein 1-mediated autophagy activation
Creators: name: Liu, Jin
name: Chen, Yuqian
name: Chen, Huan
name: Wang, Yan
name: Li, Danyang
name: Zhang, Qianqian
name: Chai, Limin
name: Qiu, Yuanjie
name: Zhang, Jia
name: Shen, Nirui
name: Wang, Qingting
name: Wang, Jian
name: Li, Manxiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. The original western blotting images for Figs. 2, 3, and 6.
D5.4 Evaluation of operational steps (timing and costs) for installation of new products and comparison with the procedure of actual commercial products
Creators: name: Casati, Anna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: InnoWEE
H2020
installation evaluation
commercial products
installation
report
design

description: Deliverable D5.4 “Evaluation of operational steps (timing and costs) for installation of new products and comparison with the procedure of actual commercial products” presented a description of installations carried out in real sites with a focus on timing and costs.
As_acoes_de_extensao_na_construcao_de_um.pdf
Creators: name: Silva, Wagner
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 130103 Higher Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: The university extension plays a key role in the full training of students in the face of capacity it has to feedback the teaching and research. Through it the University can take the knowledge that is being produced in their research to society. Such actions when applied by a university that is part of the semiarid region, bringing with it the possibility of transforming the reality of this place and contribute to its development, not only in the training of researchers, teachers and technicians to work in the region, as well as directly influencing the sociocultural aspects of the territory in which it operates. The Instituto de Estudos do Semiárido (IESA), an academic unit of the Universidade Federal do Cariri (UFCA) located in the Campus Icó, develops activities that seek to research and better understand semiarid dynamics and focus on social action in the pursuit of sustainable development . The aim of this study is to understand the perceptions and representations generated by the implementation of a university campus in a city of the northeastern semiarid region through the extension projects developed with in the University. Therefore interviews were conducted with the extension students using discourse analysis techniques to grasp the sense that the extension takes in the statements of the respondents. Finally, using concepts such as Schein Organizational Culture and the Paradigm of Complexity present in the works of Morin, present the points where the university extension and its internal and external impacts to the institution contribute to the construction of a Country University in Icó .Thus this research will bring contributions to the discussion on the Public Policy Evaluation of Higher Education, through the approach of University Extension, and the character of the expansion of higher education to the northeastern backlands.
Supplemental material for Zhou & Kwan. (2024). Cumulative Exposure to Natural Hazards and Mental Health in Rural China: Are Older People More Vulnerable or More Resilient Than Younger and Middle-Aged Adults?.International Journal of Disaster Risk Science.
Creators: name: Zhou, Shuai
name: Kwan, Crystal
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 441002
subject: Environmental sociology
classificationCode: 440902
subject: Counselling, wellbeing and community services
classificationCode: 410103
subject: Human impacts of climate change and human adaptation

description: Supplemental material for "Cumulative Exposure to Natural Hazards and Mental Health in Rural China: Are Older People More Vulnerable or More Resilient Than Younger and Middle-Aged Adults?"Shuai ZhouThe Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityCrystal KwanThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University
The Impact of the BAILAMOS™ Dance Program on Brain Functional Connectivity and Cognition in Older Latino Adults: a Pilot Study
Creators: name: Balbim, Guilherme M
name: Ajilore, Olusola
name: Erickson, Kirk I
name: Lamar, Melissa
name: Aguiñaga, Susan
name: Bustamante, Eduardo
name: Marquez, David
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Dance is a culturally salient form of physical activity (PA) for older Latinos. Resting-state functional connectivity (FC) is a putative biomarker for age-related cognitive decline. We aimed to investigate the impact of the BAILAMOS™ dance program on FC in three brain functional networks (Default Mode [DMN], Frontoparietal [FPN], and Salience [SAL] networks), and cognition. Ten cognitively healthy older Latinos participated in the four-month BAILAMOS™ dance program. We assessed PA levels (self-reported and device-assessed) and estimated cardiorespiratory fitness, cognition, and resting-state FC via functional magnetic resonance imaging at baseline and post-intervention. We performed paired t-tests and Pearson correlations. Given the pilot nature of the study, significance levels were set at p < 0.05 and effect sizes are reported. We observed a significant increase in self-reported moderate leisure-time PA from pre- to post-intervention (t(9) = 3.16, p = 0.011, d = 0.66). FC within-FPN regions of interest (ROIs) significantly increased pre- to post-intervention (t(9) = 2.35, p = 0.043, d = 0.70). DMN ROIs showed an increase, with a moderate effect size, in the integration with other networks' ROIs (t(9) = 1.96, p = 0.081, d = 0.64) post-intervention. Increases in moderate leisure-time PA at post-intervention were associated with increases in the FC within-FPN (R = 0.79, p = 0.006). Our results suggest that dance might be a promising approach for improving age-related disruption of FC within- and between-networks commonly associated with cognitive decline.
LIBER LAG 2024 - A Portrait of the Library as an Office Block and an Asylum
Creators: name: Cooke, Kavanagh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Library Architecture

description: A Portrait of the Library as an Office Block and an Asylum: How Technological University Dublin converted, adapted and reused its buildings to create functional, efficient and modern libraries
Activation of Anterior Insular Cortex and Anterior Medial Cingulate Cortex Associated with Direct Pain Perception and Empathy for Pain
Creators: name: Berefelt, Jakob
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Medicine
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Introduction: The anterior Insular Cortex (aIC) and the anterior Medial Cingulate Cortex (aMCC) are brain regions associated with pain perception and empathy for pain. To study how activation in these regions might be affected by sleep deprivation, an experimental paradigm able to measure this activation during pain perception and empathy for pain is required. This pilot study aims to design that paradigm in preparation of a future study investigating sleep deprivation. Aims: To design a paradigm able to activate aIC and aMCC; furthermore, to verify the paradigm using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and calculate power. Material and Methods: Painful stimuli (electric shocks) of high or low intensity were applied to participants (n = 8) and to a confederate visible by the participant. Participants rated perceived pain and discomfort respectively. Brain activity was measured using fMRI. Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM) and Region of Interest (ROI) analysis were used for statistical calculations. Results: No significant change in activation was found. However, ROI analyses showed positive stimuli contrast estimates, which indicates a trend towards increased activation in aIC and aMCC, associated with pain perception but not with empathy for pain. Further analysis revealed elevated discomfort ratings of the control stimuli which could explain the null-result regarding empathy for pain. Conclusions: The trends towards increased activation in aIC and aMCC associated with pain perception suggest that the paradigm works and that significant findings are plausible with an increased number of participants. Critical points of improvements were identified regarding the empathy-part of the paradigm.
Estimating the Deterrent Effect of Punishment Using New South Wales Local Court Data
Creators: name: Smyth, Russell
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper provides empirical estimates of the economic model of crime using New South Wales Local Court data. The results as a whole, suggest that neither deterrence nor pecuniary and attitudinal variables exclusively explain variations in the crime rate. This conclusion differs from previous testing of the economic model in Australia using crime data for more serious offences. The results in this study, nevertheless, have to be viewed with caution and are subject to revision with better data and further research in other Australian jurisdictions. The paper reviews the policy implications of the results and makes some suggestions for further research using both aggregate and individual data.
Additional file 9 of Quartet protein reference materials and datasets for multi-platform assessment of label-free proteomics
Creators: name: Tian, Sha
name: Zhan, Dongdong
name: Yu, Ying
name: Wang, Yunzhi
name: Liu, Mingwei
name: Tan, Subei
name: Li, Yan
name: Song, Lei
name: Qin, Zhaoyu
name: Li, Xianju
name: Liu, Yang
name: Li, Yao
name: Ji, Shuhui
name: Wang, Shanshan
name: Zheng, Yuanting
name: He, Fuchu
name: Qin, Jun
name: Ding, Chen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 9. Review history.
title: Integrating field data and a meta-ecosystem model to study the effects of multiple terrestrial disturbances on small stream ecosystem function
Creators: name: Adams, Hannah
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04haebc03
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Environmental stressors such as land development and climate change are key drivers of biodiversity loss. These stressors operate across a range of spatial and temporal scales and can propagate throughout the landscape. Meta-ecosystem theory can be used to develop models that represent these important cross-ecosystem interactions; however, these models are rarely applied to real ecosystems. We derived a meta-ecosystem model based on empirical data from the island of Newfoundland, Canada to predict how terrestrial disturbances (i.e., forestry, insect outbreaks, roads) will impact the functioning of small streams. Top statistical models for our empirical data showed that benthic invertebrate biomass increased with road density in the stream catchment as did erosion indicators (i.e., specific conductivity), while forest disturbance reduced the proportion of shredders in the benthic invertebrate community. We used disturbance simulations in the meta-ecosystem model to untangle mechanisms for how individual terrestrial disturbances were affecting these stream ecosystems: 1) apparent competition between benthic invertebrates and periphyton and 2) energy flux to higher trophic levels. Along with improving our mechanistic understanding of riparian-stream ecosystems, our integration of empirical data and mathematical modelling creates a framework for using meta-ecosystem models to make informed decisions about natural resource management and conservation.
Additional file 3 of Knowledge and attitudes among preschools staff in Shanghai, China, regarding epilepsy
Creators: name: Qiu, Liyan
name: Shen, Lixiao
name: Wang, Junli
name: Ren, Fang
name: Xu, Mingyu
name: Jiang, Fan
name: Sheng, Xiaoyang
name: Li, Fei
name: Li, Feng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3:. Knowledge and attitudes among preschools staff in Shanghai, China, regarding epilepsy of STROBE
Additional file 4 of Knowledge and attitudes among preschools staff in Shanghai, China, regarding epilepsy
Creators: name: Qiu, Liyan
name: Shen, Lixiao
name: Wang, Junli
name: Ren, Fang
name: Xu, Mingyu
name: Jiang, Fan
name: Sheng, Xiaoyang
name: Li, Fei
name: Li, Feng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 4:. Knowledge and attitudes among preschools staff in Shanghai, China, regarding epilepsy of editorial certificate
ПРОБЛЕМЫ ПЕРЕВОДА КОММУНИКАТИВНЫХ ФРАЗЕОВЕРБАЛИЗАТОРОВ КОНЦЕПТА "HEAD/ГОЛОВА/ГЛАВА" С АНГЛИЙСКОГО НА РУССКИЙ ЯЗЫК
Creators: name: Юсупжанова, Феруза
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Статья посвящена анализу лингвистических и переводческих трудностей, возникающих при передаче коммуникативных фразеовербализаторов с компонентом head с английского на русский язык. Рассматриваются концептуальные особенности лексем head, голова, глава в англоязычном и русскоязычном языковом сознании, а также приводится классификация основных переводческих стратегий: от эквивалентного перевода до прагматической адаптации и метафорической трансформации. В работе анализируются примеры устойчивых выражений, раскрываются механизмы их прагматического функционирования и даются рекомендации по адекватной передаче фразеологизмов с учётом культурно-языковой специфики. Особое внимание уделяется междисциплинарному подходу переводоведения, объединяющему когнитивные, лингвокультурные и прагматические аспекты перевода.
Human–Wildlife Interactions and Environmental Dynamics in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
Creators: name: Yurco, Kayla
name: King, Brian
name: Young, Kenneth R.
name: Crews, Kelley A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The Okavango Delta in Botswana hosts abundant wildlife and a human population with diverse livelihoods. Representing a heterogeneous landscape nuanced by spatial and temporal variability, the region has recently seen an expansion of floodwaters with social impacts ranging from livelihood disruption to human displacement. This article reports on in-depth interviews conducted in 2012 regarding these transitions in Mababe, a community in the eastern Okavango Delta, to evaluate how dynamic environmental processes alter perceptions and livelihood responses. We focus on community members’ variable interactions with wildlife in spaces of human–wildlife overlap also experiencing change. While human–wildlife interactions can have negative effects, we find that perpetuating the common narrative of human–wildlife conflict overlooks how disruptions can usher in new relationships between people and animals. In order to move beyond the conflict narrative, we conclude that spatial and temporal context is essential to evaluate effects of dynamic, uneven, and sometimes unpredictable human–wildlife encounters.
Barium aluminate nano-powders efficient catalyst for the synthesis of novel benzo[b]thiophene, thieno[2,3-c]thiopyran and thieno[2,3-c]pyridine derivatives
Creators: name: Yarahmadi, Hossein
name: Ghashang, Majid
name: Saeid Jabbar Zare
name: Alireza Khodaivandi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Uniform nanopowders of barium aluminate (BaAl2O4) can be synthesized by a facile solution reaction at room temperature using barium and aluminum salts and 2-aminoethanol as a precipitating agent. The as-prepared sample showed a good reactivity in the synthesis of benzo[b]thiophene, thieno[2,3-c]thiopyran and thieno[2,3-c]pyridine derivatives. Comparatively the method is efficient and eco-friendly, and finally, a range of compounds with variable functionalities in excellent yield can be achieved.
Additional file 1 of Characterization of efficient xylanases from industrial-scale pulp and paper wastewater treatment microbiota
Creators: name: Wang, Jia
name: Liang, Jiawei
name: Li, Yonghong
name: Tian, Lingmin
name: Wei, Yongjun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1. Additional Table and Figures.
Evolution of arsenic concentrations in Araihazar, Bangladesh
Creators: name: Rajib Mozumder
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 40603 Hydrogeology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Environmental Science

description: A box-model of redistribution of arsenic (As) in shallow aquifer. Predicted decadal evolution of As concentrations at block-level induced by extensive irrigation pumping. The gray solid line (1:1 line) indicates the initial condition in 2000. As the simulation progress onward, As concentrations become more homogenized due to rising concentrations in low-As areas and declining concentrations in high-As areas. The observed concentrations are color coded open circles as in the main manuscript. The predicted concentrations are indicated as black open circles.
Additional file 1 of The correlation between lipoprotein(a) and coronary atherosclerotic lesion is stronger than LDL-C, when LDL-C is less than 104 mg/dL
Creators: name: Li, Chuang
name: Chen, Qiwen
name: Zhang, Mei
name: Liu, Yin
name: Chu, Yushun
name: Meng, Fanpeng
name: Wang, Jianyu
name: Tang, Jie
name: Luo, Jian
name: Niu, Xiulong
name: Wei, Maoti
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Supplement Table 1. Baseline Characteristics Comparisons of Patients with LDL-C ≥ 100 mg/dL in Non-CAHD Group and CAHD Group. Supplement Table 2. Baseline Characteristics Comparisons of Patients with LDL-C < 100 mg/dL in Non-CAHD Group and CAHD Group.
Business Indicator Management System: How to Help the Companies to Manage Their Result with A web Application
Creators: name: Andrade, Paulo Roberto Martins De
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 150302 Business Information Systems
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 80605 Decision Support and Group Support Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 80612 Interorganisational Information Systems and Web Services

description: The technology is growing faster each day, and the business needs to follow this growing to keep the competitiveness. The companies do it establishing metrics to aim their "Future View" using the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Typically, the KPIs give an overview of the health of the business, getting data from several different systems, like EAP, Commercial, Call Center and others. Normally this information is in separate databases and doesn't have communication with each other (data warehouse). The most companies use the Excel to put the consolidated data and present to managers and directors, to check where is the company today. The BIM System (or Business Indicator Management System) comes as a support for these works, putting all the information together and giving a visual information about the business health using graphs and live information. It can help in the decision making and the principles of the availability and reliability of information. This paper shows the design and implementation of a web-based application that makes it possible with two implemented design patterns (Observer Pattern and Factory Pattern)
Illuminating the Pre-, Co-, and Post-Seismic Phases of the 2016 M7.8 Kaikōura Earthquake With 10 Years of Seismicity
Creators: name: Chamberlain, Calum
name: Frank, WB
name: Lanza, F
name: Townend, John
name: Warren-Smith, E
Publisher: name: Open Access Victoria University of Wellington | Te Herenga Waka
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Geochemistry
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Geology
subject: Geophysics

description: The 2016 M7.8 Kaikōura earthquake is one of the most complex earthquakes in recorded history, with significant rupture of at least 21 crustal faults. Using a matched-filter detection routine, precise cross-correlation pick corrections, and accurate location and relocation techniques, we construct a catalog of 33,328 earthquakes between 2009 and 2020 on and adjacent to the faults that ruptured in the Kaikōura earthquake. We also compute focal mechanisms for 1,755 of the earthquakes used as templates. Using this catalog we reassess the rupture pathway of the Kaikōura earthquake. In particular we show that: (a) the earthquake nucleated on the Humps Fault; (b) there is a likely linking offshore reverse fault between the southern fault system and the Papatea Fault, which could explain the anomalously high slip on the Papatea Fault; (c) the faults that ruptured in the 2013 Cook Strait sequence were reactivated by the Kaikōura earthquake and may have played a role in the termination of the earthquake; and (d) no seismicity on an underlying subduction interface is observed beneath almost all of the ruptured region suggesting that if deformation did occur on the plate interface then it occurred aseismically and did not play a significant role in generating co-seismic ground motion.
INCLUSION IN OWNERSHIP AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF LISTED MANUFACTURING FIRMS IN NIGERIA
Creators: name: Adesola Adebayo, Akande (Ph. D)
name: Osunwole Olatunji, Oludayo (Ph. D)
Publisher: name: ZAP Journal
Year: 2024
Subjects: : Ownership. Structure, Managerial, PAT, EPS.

description: This study examined the effect of business managers’ inclusion in the ownership of their businesses and the financial performance of manufacturing firms in Nigeria from 2014 to 2023. Secondary data were obtained from the statements of the financial positions of selected listed manufacturing companies in Nigeria, and the obtained data were analyzed with pooled ordinary least squares (OLS) regression.  Empirical models include control variables firm size (FSIZE) and age (FAGE). The result shows that managers’ inclusion in firm ownership affects the financial performance of listed manufacturing firms in Nigeria, as it has a negative and significant effect on Return on Equity (ROE) and Earnings Per Share of the studied firms. Based on this, the study concludes that Managers’ inclusion played a significant role in influencing the financial performance of manufacturing firms which denotes several economic policy implications for stakeholders, policymakers, and investors in the Nigerian manufacturing industry. Moreover, they negate the cores of Agency Theory in Management Sciences.
Aerosol-to-liquid collection: A method for making aqueous suspension of hydrophobic nanomaterial without adding dispersant
Creators: name: Iida, Kenjiro
name: Kensei Ehara
name: Kayori Takahashi
name: Hiromu Sakurai
name: Nakanishi, Junko
name: Yamamoto, Kazuhiro
name: Gamo, Masashi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Plant Biology

description: This article introduces an aerosol-based technique to make aqueous suspension of hydrophobic nanomaterial without adding dispersant. The method is intended for making a test-sample for evaluating the toxicities of nanomaterial by intra-tracheal administration. The method can wet the surface of hydrophobic nanomaterial within a few seconds. After the wetting process five to ten minutes of sonication assisted with manual stirring can fully disperse the hydrophobic nanomaterials in water. Two types of TiO2 nanomaterial were used in this study; Tayca JMT-150IB whose surfaces are coated with negatively charged hydrophobic functional group, and P25 whose surfaces are naturally hydrophilic. Nanomaterials are aerosolized by a dry-method and become micrometer-sized agglomerates. Then supersaturated water vapor is condensed onto these airborne agglomerates by using a growth tube collector. The collected suspension (CS) of hydrophobic nanomaterial (JMT-150IB) is prepared in two steps; airborne agglomerates are collected onto a flat surface then transferred to liquid-water and subsequently sonicated for complete dispersion. This method works equally well for making the CS of hydrophilic nanomaterial. Size distribution measurements of the CS show that airborne agglomerates of TiO2 dissociate into smaller units of agglomerates once they are captured into water, and the sizes of the agglomerates are in the nanometer to sub-micrometer range. Light scattering technique is used to show that a short sonication process can reproduce the particle number concentration of the CS after long storage. Copyright © 2017 American Association for Aerosol Research
Earthlife Consortium - Open API Development to Support Long Time-Scale Biogeoscience
Creators: name: Goring, Simon
name: Williams, John
name: Jenkins, Julian
name: Uhen, Mark D.
name: Shanan Peters
name: McClellen, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Paleoclimatology
subject: Paleontology
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60206 Palaeoecology

description: The Earthlife Consortium is an EarthCube Integrative Activity focused on bridging paleobiological resources across time scales, to provide an integrated view of the Earth’s biological history in a geological context. While paleobiological data might seem superficially similar, the development of the Paleobiology Database (PBDB) and Neotoma, and the central concepts around “sites”, “collections” and taxonomic naming were challenging to reconcile, both across resources and with existing schema such as DarwinCore. PBDB and Neotoma data differ in terms of the time scale over which they are collected (all of Earth history vs. the Plio-Pleistocene to Holocene); and the manner in which the data are collected and reported (taxonomic lists for single horizons vs. quantified abundances derived from sediment cores). Nonetheless, these data have much in common and can be meaningfully harmonized. This poster will demonstrate the power of a joint API to do just that, and to answer questions about the history of life on Earth.
The API is fully documented and implemented using Flask, Connexion and Swagger (http://github.com/earthlifeconsortium/elc_api). The API serves data from both the Neotoma Paleoecological Database and the Paleobiology Database, with an associated R package (http://github.com/earthlifeconsortium/earthlife). This poster demonstrates key developmental steps in developing the API, and a broad set of applications possible from the API, including links to various implemented workflows. Given that we are building an open API, we hope other paleobiological resources to join the Earthlife Consortium and to serve their data through our API in the future.