cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
HAPPi Kneecaps! A double-blind, randomised, parallel group superiority trial investigating the effects of sHoe inserts for adolescents with patellofemoral PaIn: phase II feasibility study
Creators: name: O’Sullivan, IC
name: Crossley, Kay
name: Kamper, SJ
name: van Middelkoop, M
name: Vicenzino, B
name: Smith, MM Franettovich
name: Menz, Hylton
name: Smith, AJ
name: Tucker, K
name: O’Leary, KT
name: Costa, N
name: Collins, NJ
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022

description: Background: Patellofemoral pain (PFP) affects one-third of adolescents and can persist into adulthood, negatively impacting health and quality of life. Foot orthoses are a recommended treatment for adults with PFP, but have not been evaluated in adolescents. The primary objective was to determine the feasibility of conducting a full-scale randomised controlled trial (RCT) evaluating effects of contoured, prefabricated foot orthoses on knee pain severity and patient-perceived global change, compared to flat insoles. The secondary objective was to describe outcomes on a range of patient-reported outcome measures. Methods: We recruited adolescents aged 12–18 years with PFP of ≥2 months duration into a double-blind, randomised, parallel-group feasibility trial. Participants were randomised to receive prefabricated contoured foot orthoses or flat shoe insoles, and followed for 3 months. Participants and outcome assessors were blinded to group allocation. Primary outcomes were feasibility of a full-scale RCT (number of eligible/enrolled volunteers; recruitment rate; adherence with the intervention and logbook completion; adverse effects; success of blinding; drop-out rate), and credibility and expectancy of interventions. Secondary outcomes were patient-reported measures of pain, symptoms, function, quality of life, global rating of change, patient acceptable symptom state, and use of co-interventions. Results: 36 out of 279 (12.9%) volunteers (27 female, mean (SD) age 15 (2) years, body mass 60 (13) kg) were eligible and enrolled, at a recruitment rate of 1.2 participants/week. 17 participants were randomised to receive foot orthoses, and 19 to flat insoles. 15 participants returned logbooks; 7/15 (47%) adhered to the intervention. No serious adverse events were reported. 28% (10/36, 4 pandemic-related) of participants dropped out before 3 months. Blinding was successful. Both groups found the inserts to be credible. Conclusions: Based on a priori criteria for feasibility, findings suggest that a full-scale RCT comparing contoured foot orthoses to flat insoles in adolescents with PFP would not be feasible using the current protocol. Prior to conducting a full-scale RCT, feasibility issues should be addressed, with protocol modifications to facilitate participant retention, logbook completion and shoe insert wear. Trial registration: Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR): ACTRN12619000957190. Date registered: 8/07/2019.
Low-Cost Automated Flight Intercept Trap for the Temporal Sub-Sampling of Flying Insects Attracted to Artificial Light at Night.
Creators: name: Robert, Kylie
name: Dimovski, Alicia
name: Robert, Joel
name: Griffiths, Stephen
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3101
subject: Biochemistry and cell biology
classificationCode: 3103
subject: Ecology

description: No description supplied
Trox scaber
Creators: name: Strümpher, Werner P.
name: Stals, Riaan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Trogidae
Trox
Trox scaber

description: Trox scaber (Linnaeus, 1767)
(Fig. 1A)
SPAIN; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: MISSOURI. This widepread Palaearctic species has spread to the New World and to Australasia (Pittino & Bezděk, 2016); it has been denoted as subcosmopolitan, among others by Zidek (2013). Besides feeding on animal carcasses, this species is often found in various bird and mammal nests and burrows (e.g. Vaurie, 1955; Hicks, 1959). Trox scaber has been recorded from caves in both Western Europe and North America (Gardner, 1986; Tinaut et al., 2008; Pérez et al., 2011). We call into question the categorisation by Slay et al. (2012) of this species being only accidentally in caves; these authors overlooked the reports from Europe.
description: Published as part of Strümpher, Werner P. & Stals, Riaan, 2025, A world list of known cave- and bat guano-associated Trogidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea), and further range extension of Omorgus lindemannae (Petrovitz), pp. 1-11 in Faunitaxys 13 (9) on page 4, DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-13(09), http://zenodo.org/record/15366026
Questionnaire-Derived Sleep Habits and Academic Achievement in First Year University Students
Creators: name: Driller, Matthew
name: Suppiah, Haresh
name: Gastin, Paul
name: Beaven, Christopher M
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5201
subject: Applied and developmental psychology

description: This study aimed to determine the effect of sleep quantity and quality via the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) on students’ academic achievement in their first year of university study. In this cross-sectional study, 193 students (102 female, 91 male, mean ± SD; age = 19.3 ± 2.9 y) from an undergraduate Health degree in New Zealand completed the PSQI four weeks prior to the end of the semester in their first year of university study. Results from three core subjects in the first semester were averaged and correlations between the PSQI and academic success were evaluated using Spearman’s rho (ρ). The group were also trichotomized using a PSQI global score of ≤5 as the threshold for “good” sleepers (n = 62, 32%), a score of 5–8 for “moderate” sleepers (n = 63, 33%) and a score ≥8 to characterize “poor” sleepers (n = 68, 35%). Overall, students averaged 7 h 37 min of self-reported sleep duration with an average bedtime of 22:55 p.m. and wake time of 8:01 a.m. There was a significant, small inverse relationship between academic performance and bedtime (p = 0.03, ρ = −0.14), with those going to bed earlier having superior academic success. The trichotomized data demonstrated no significant differences in academic performance between students with poor, moderate and good sleep quality (p = 0.92). Later bedtimes were associated with lower academic performance in a group of first year university students. However, there were no other relationships observed between academic success and self-reported sleep quality or quantity as determined by the PSQI. Enhancing awareness of the impact of sleep timing on academic success should be prioritized and strategies to improve sleep hygiene should be promoted to university students.
Questionnaire-Derived Sleep Habits and Academic Achievement in First Year University Students
Creators: name: Driller, Matthew
name: Suppiah, Haresh
name: Gastin, Paul B
name: Beaven, Christopher M
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022

description: This study aimed to determine the effect of sleep quantity and quality via the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) on students’ academic achievement in their first year of university study. In this cross-sectional study, 193 students (102 female, 91 male, mean ± SD; age = 19.3 ± 2.9 y) from an undergraduate Health degree in New Zealand completed the PSQI four weeks prior to the end of the semester in their first year of university study. Results from three core subjects in the first semester were averaged and correlations between the PSQI and academic success were evaluated using Spearman’s rho (ρ). The group were also trichotomized using a PSQI global score of ≤5 as the threshold for “good” sleepers (n = 62, 32%), a score of 5–8 for “moderate” sleepers (n = 63, 33%) and a score ≥8 to characterize “poor” sleepers (n = 68, 35%). Overall, students averaged 7 h 37 min of self-reported sleep duration with an average bedtime of 22:55 p.m. and wake time of 8:01 a.m. There was a significant, small inverse relationship between academic performance and bedtime (p = 0.03, ρ = −0.14), with those going to bed earlier having superior academic success. The trichotomized data demonstrated no significant differences in academic performance between students with poor, moderate and good sleep quality (p = 0.92). Later bedtimes were associated with lower academic performance in a group of first year university students. However, there were no other relationships observed between academic success and self-reported sleep quality or quantity as determined by the PSQI. Enhancing awareness of the impact of sleep timing on academic success should be prioritized and strategies to improve sleep hygiene should be promoted to university students.
Mapping Problematic Drinking Trends over Time in Urban, Semi-Urban, and Rural Populations
Creators: name: Bozic, S
name: Vicendese, Don
name: Livingston, Michael
name: Erbas, Bircan
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health
classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4406
subject: Human geography

description: Current alcohol public health policy in Australia is not uniform but is generally focused on restricting access and early prevention of problematic alcohol use. Semi-urban and rural populations are at greater risk of disease and other poor health outcomes due to a variety of factors. Little is known about problematic drinking patterns over time in semi-urban and rural populations. This study aims to assess patterns of problematic drinking defined as both long-term risky and heavy episodic drinking over time by age, sex, and mental health status among urban, semi-urban and rural populations). Four waves (2004 to 2016) of the Australian NDSHS (National Drug Strategy Household Survey) were analyzed to assess problematic drinking of participants over 18 years of age. We used regression models and predictive margins to identify trends in problematic drinking over time based on age, sex, and mental health status. Our results show young adults across all regions, males, and mentally well individuals in urban areas have reductions in the risk of problematic drinking over time. Middle-aged adults across all regions, females, and those with varying mental health presentations in rural areas have some increases in risk of problematic drinking over time. The general conclusion is that targeted alcohol-related public health policy may need to change and focus on females, middle-aged individuals, and those living in rural areas. Programs to support problematic drinking in people with mental health disorders may also need to be a priority.
Phoberus pusillus
Creators: name: Strümpher, Werner P.
name: Stals, Riaan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Trogidae
Phoberus
Phoberus pusillus

description: Phoberus pusillus (Péringuey, 1908)
(Fig. 1B)
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO: HAUT-KATANGA. Scholtz (1980) reported an undisclosed number of Phoberus pusillus specimens from the Kakontwe and Mwanga Caves in the vicinity of Likasi. These beetles were collected by Narcisse Leleup (1912–2001), unrivalled collector of soil insects, but also a collector of bats in search of their ectoparasites (Van Cakenberghe et al., 2017). No fewer than 18 bat species have been recorded from these two caves, represented by both insect-feeders and fruit-eaters (Van Cakenberghe et al., 2017). We interpret this as that Phoberus pusillus is a troglophile, and probably a bat-guanophile.
description: Published as part of Strümpher, Werner P. & Stals, Riaan, 2025, A world list of known cave- and bat guano-associated Trogidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea), and further range extension of Omorgus lindemannae (Petrovitz), pp. 1-11 in Faunitaxys 13 (9) on page 4, DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-13(09), http://zenodo.org/record/15366026
University accelerators and entrepreneurship education in Australia: substantive and symbolic motives
Creators: name: Maritz, Alex
name: Nguyen, Quan
name: Shrivastava, Abhinav
name: Ivanov, Sergey
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 35
subject: Commerce, management, tourism and services
classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the status of university accelerators (UAs) in Australia, expanding a similar paper on related entrepreneurship education (EE) in 2019. The aim is to review neoteric global best practice UA, aligning context and specific inference to the impact of UAs in Australia.Design/methodology/approach: The authors introduce an iterative and emergent inquiry into multi-method research, including a quantitative examination of Australian UAs, Leximancer algorithmic analyses of entrepreneurial strategic intent and narratives from best practice applications.Findings: The paper highlights the sparse and inconsistent distribution across UAs in Australia, further characterized by significant symbolic motives of operation. Furthermore, the integration of EE evidenced on global UA is not as evident in Australia, highlighting outcomes more specific to the success of nascent (student) startups as opposed to educational outcomes.Research limitations/implications: Limitations include the availability and accuracy of online documents and data, although implications have been mitigated using multi-method research design.Practical implications Despite the provision of critical grounding for practitioners and researchers in developing UAs, further research is recommended regarding the efficacy and impact of these accelerators.Originality/value: This study is the first multi-methods emergent inquiry into UAs in Australia, coupled with integration of EE. The authors provide guidelines and inferences for researchers, educators, policymakers and practitioners alike as they seek to explore and act upon the impact of UAs.
High-speed free-run ptychography at the Australian Synchrotron
Creators: name: Jones, MWM
name: van Riessen, Grant
name: Phillips, NW
name: Schrank, CE
name: Hinsley, Gerard
name: Afshar, N
name: Reinhardt, J
name: De Jonge, MD
name: Kewish, Cameron
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 3406
subject: Physical chemistry
classificationCode: 51
subject: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
classificationCode: 5102
subject: Atomic, molecular and optical physics
classificationCode: 5104
subject: Condensed matter physics

description: Over the last decade ptychography has progressed rapidly from a specialist ultramicroscopy technique into a mature method accessible to non-expert users. However, to improve scientific value ptychography data must reconstruct reliably, with high image quality and at no cost to other correlative methods. Presented here is the implementation of high-speed ptychography used at the Australian Synchrotron on the XFM beamline, which includes a free-run data collection mode where dead time is eliminated and the scan time is optimized. It is shown that free-run data collection is viable for fast and high-quality ptychography by demonstrating extremely high data rate acquisition covering areas up to 352 000 μm2at up to 140 μm2s-1, with 13× spatial resolution enhancement compared with the beam size. With these improvements, ptychography at velocities up to 250 μm s-1is approaching speeds compatible with fast-scanning X-ray fluorescence microscopy. The combination of these methods provides morphological context for elemental and chemical information, enabling unique scientific outcomes.
Omorgus alatus
Creators: name: Strümpher, Werner P.
name: Stals, Riaan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Trogidae
Omorgus
Omorgus alatus

description: Omorgus alatus (Macleay, 1888)
AUSTRALIA: WESTERN AUSTRALIA, NORTHERN TERRITORY. There are records from various caves (Moulds, 2004; Scholtz, 1986b). Four of the seven Omorgus alatus specimens available to Scholtz (1986b) originated from caves or rock shelters, leading him to speculate that this species may have adapted to life in sheltered situations, thus relieving the beetles from the necessity to burrow into soil for protection. Hamilton-Smith et al. (1989: 20) concluded that this “ extremely rare ” species seems to be “ more or less confined to cave environments,” while Moulds (2004) classified it as a troglophile and perhaps a guanophile.
description: Published as part of Strümpher, Werner P. & Stals, Riaan, 2025, A world list of known cave- and bat guano-associated Trogidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea), and further range extension of Omorgus lindemannae (Petrovitz), pp. 1-11 in Faunitaxys 13 (9) on page 4, DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-13(09), http://zenodo.org/record/15366026
Created at ANTF24 - Learning, Teaching and Assessment focused Hints and Tips!
Creators: name: Abrahamson, Earle
name: Bassford, Marie
name: Arico, Fabio
name: Bovill, Catherine
name: Broadberry, Sarah
name: Burn, Geoff
name: Challen, Rachel
name: Clegg, Andy
name: Dunbar-Morris, Harriet
name: Fox, Bianca
name: Gann, Rose
name: Lynden, Kathryn
name: Massie, Ruth
name: Naher, Nuran
name: Quinn, Barry
name: Rossi, Virna
name: Scoles, Jenny
name: Strzelecka, Anna
name: Smith, Susan
name: Tate, Adam
name: Withnell, Neil
name: Beckingham, Sue
name: Irving-Bell, Dawne
Publisher: name: National Teaching Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390303
subject: Higher education

description: Treat yourself to this mini collection of inspirational Learning, Teaching and Assessment focused hints and tips!Created in a workshop facilitated by Professor Dawne Irving-Bell and Associate Professor Sue Beckingham at the ANTF2024 Symposium held on 23rd-24th April 2024: Nottingham Trent UniversityUsing the concept of 'zines', in this collection, peruse inspirational and practical ideas by:Professor Susan Smith, Dr Ruth Massie, Associate Professor Rachel Challen, Dr Sarah Broadberry, Dr Bianca Fox, Adam Tate, Professor Catherine Bovill, Nurun Nahar, Anna Strzelecka, Dr Marie Bassford, Professor Neil Withnell, Dr Barry Quinn, Professor Rose Gann, Jenny Scoles, Professor Fabio Arico, Kathryn Lynden, Professor Earle Abrahamson, Geoff Burn, Dr Virna Rossi and Professor Harriet Dunbar-MorrisWe hope you enjoy! Dawne and Sue@dawneirvingbell and @suebecks
The Rigby Space Framework: Quantum Field Theory & The Final Unification
Creators: name: Veneziano, D
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Quantum Field Theory (QFT) is the cornerstone of modern physics, yet its foundations rely on perturbative methods, arbitrary renormalization, and mathematical constructs that obscure the deeper nature of reality. The Rigby Space (RS) framework provides a fundamental reformulation, eliminating infinities, stabilizing quantum interactions, and resolving vacuum energy inconsistencies without resorting to fine-tuning. By replacing conventional assumptions with the emergent constants VEN (Vibrational Energy Nexus) and LUC (Localized Universal Constraint), RS establishes a complete, testable framework that unifies gravity, quantum mechanics, and field theory. This document marks the final chapter of the old paradigm and the opening of a new era in physics.
title: Thriving City Initiatives – what is a thriving city? : Towards some definitions
Creators: name: Ljubojevic, Maya
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2025

description: Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the Thriving City Initiative (TCI) model in relation to Public Mental Health and Well-being. The initiative does not have an obvious coherence across the cities which implement it. Is there a consistent model as seen in other city-led public health initiatives? Can the TCI model continue to be adopted by urban areas worldwide without clear conceptualisation? This paper explores the discourse of what it means to be a TCI and whether or not there are key ingredients which tie them all together, justifying the common name-branding. Design/methodology/approach: This exploratory paper uses existing literature on public health and discussions with public health leaders. Findings: Despite the proliferation of TCIs across countries, there lacks a consistent model or identity across the different implementations. There are, however, some key ingredients across them: partnerships, a focus on prevention and promotion and changing perceptions of mental health and well-being. Practical implications: This paper paves the way for future research on TCIs and creates a foundation for future exploration or evaluation of the initiatives and their impacts or effectiveness. Originality/value: There is very little academic literature on individual TCIs and even less on the public health model itself. As of now, there is no outline, guidance or framework that identifies what a TCI is. To the best of the author’s knowledge, this paper is the first of its kind, exploring the concepts and defining features of a TCI.
Disul vintin pa saven
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

Abstract
Omorgus amictus
Creators: name: Strümpher, Werner P.
name: Stals, Riaan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Trogidae
Omorgus
Omorgus amictus

description: Omorgus amictus (Haaf, 1954)
AUSTRALIA: WESTERN AUSTRALIA, SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Omorgus amictus has only been recorded from the Nullarbor Plain in southern Australia (Scholtz, 1986b), from where are numerous records from various caves (Moulds, 2004; Richards, 1971; Scholtz, 1986b). It has been collected from both the entrance zone and the dark zone of mostly shallow caves, but the species has also been taken from the soil surface and from rabbit warrens (Richards, 1971). Richards (1971) found that Omorgus amictus is in caves associated with bird guano, but not with bat guano. Outside caves, it has also been found on carcasses and skins. Since they can survive equally on the surface and in caves, it should be considered a troglophile (Moulds, 2004; Richards, 1971). Since its association with bird (not bat) guano is facultative, it is also categorised as a (bird-) guanophile (Moulds, 2004).
description: Published as part of Strümpher, Werner P. & Stals, Riaan, 2025, A world list of known cave- and bat guano-associated Trogidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea), and further range extension of Omorgus lindemannae (Petrovitz), pp. 1-11 in Faunitaxys 13 (9) on page 4, DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-13(09), http://zenodo.org/record/15366026
Protocol for conducting a scoping review on the influence of low-stakes assessment on student learning in medical education
Creators: name: Zafar, Imran
name: Schuwirth, Lambert
name: Waller, Susan Anne
name: Carvalho Filho, Marco A.
name: Magzoub, Mohi Eldin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390402
subject: Education assessment and evaluation

description: Rationale and Background:
Low-stakes assessments enhance student learning outcomes by providing a comprehensive view of performance and promoting competency-based education. Multiple low-stakes assessments encourage continuous learning and incorporate formative feedback for a realistic and long-term environment. Diverse assessment methods ensure psychometric rigor, utility and a programmatic assessment approach with multiple data points affording high-stakes decisions on progression.
Objective:
This scoping review aims to systematically identify and map existing literature on the use of low-stakes assessments in medical education and determine their impact on student learning outcomes in terms of, motivation and engagement achievements/competencies.
Methods and Analysis:
The review will use the Joanna Briggs Institute's framework for scoping review studies, searching eight databases and grey literature. A presearch will be done in PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar using terms related to low-stakes assessment, formative assessment, continuous assessment, and programmatic assessment within the context of medical education. The Covidence Systematic Review tool will aid in screening and conflict resolution.
The reference lists of included studies will be checked manually for other relevant literature. Two research team members will independently screen and extract data, resolving discrepancies with a third team member. Inclusion and exclusion criteria will be refined iteratively based on key research themes.
The review will follow PRISMA guidelines, focusing on the impact of low-stakes assessment on student learning in medical education.
ESTRATÉGIA DE GERENCIAMENTO DE EQUIPES EM PROJETOS DE ENGENHARIA CIVIL
Creators: name: Ana Sherly Ferreira NETO
name: Laryssa Cristina Merys OLIVEIRA
name: Meuriellen Milena da SILVA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Engenharia Civil
Produtividade
Automatização
Gestão de Equipes

description: RESUMO

 

A gestão de obras na construção civil é essencial para garantir o sucesso do projeto desde o seu início até a conclusão. Nesse contexto, a organização eficiente dos processos torna- se indispensável, motivando o desenvolvimento de uma planilha automatizada de acompanhamento, com foco na avaliação de desempenho dos colaboradores. O objetivo é oferecer aos gestores uma ferramenta que possibilite avaliar a evolução individual dos trabalhadores com base em sua produtividade, contribuindo para uma administração mais eficiente. Estruturada no Google Sheets, a planilha permite o monitoramento sistemático de critérios como pontualidade, produtividade, qualidade do trabalho, trabalho em equipe, feedback do gestor e registro de advertências. Além disso, possibilita a geração automática de gráficos, otimizando o tempo do gestor e facilitando a tomada de decisões. O estudo evidência que o uso de ferramentas digitais pode contribuir significativamente para a eficiência da gestão de pessoas no canteiro de obras.
title: The Use of Support Vector Machines and Hierarchical Linear Modeling in Morris Water Maze Analysis
Creators: name: Kakalec, Peter Andrew
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Hierarchical Linear Model
subject: Alzheimer’s Disease
subject: Support Vector Machine
subject: Morris Water Maze
subject: Mouse
subject: Machine learning

description: This thesis describes a methodology that can be used in the analysis of Morris water maze data. The Morris water maze is a test which measures an animal’s spatial learning performance. In the Morris water maze, an animal is placed in a pool of opaque water, rendering it unable to visibly locate a platform used to escape. Thus the animal is made to learn the location of the platform relative to external spatial cues. This thesis sought to take videos of Morris water maze trials, analyze them to produce a series of coordinates, and then use these data to produce variables describing paths swum in the Morris water maze, such as trial duration, rotation, and measures describing the distance from the platform and perimeter. These values were then used to classify trials into a search strategy using support vector machines. An analysis was then performed and described to demonstrate how this output can be examined. Different mouse models for Alzheimer’s disease were used (Wildtype, Amyloid-only, Tau-only, Dual transgenic) for analysis, allowing us to examine how different aspects of AD pathology affect search strategy. Output indicated that as more advanced aspects of Alzheimer’s disease pathology are modeled, animals show increasing rates of a non-spatial search strategy (thigmotaxis).
Geographical Disparities in Pooled Stroke Incidence and Case Fatality in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macao: Protocol for a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Creators: name: He, Fan
name: Blackberry, Irene
name: Yao, L
name: Xie, H
name: Mnatzaganian, George
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4202
subject: Epidemiology
classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health

description: Background: Geographical variations in stroke incidence and case fatality in China have been reported. Nonetheless, pooled estimates in major Chinese regions are unknown. Objective: This systematic review and meta-analysis aims to investigate pooled estimates of incidence and short-term case fatality of stroke in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macao. Methods: Longitudinal studies published in English and indexed in PubMed/MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, and Web of Science, or in Chinese and indexed in SinoMed and CQVIP will be targeted. Articles reporting on adults living in China who experience first-ever stroke or die within 1 year from newly onset stroke will be included. The 95% confidence intervals of the event will be estimated using the exact method based on the Poisson distribution. The log incidence rates together with their corresponding log standard errors will be meta-analyzed using DerSimonian and Laird random effects models. Pooled case fatality rates will also be estimated using a random effect model. Time trends in pooled age-standardized stroke incidence and case fatality will be estimated. The heterogeneity of the included studies will be measured using the I2 statistic and meta-regressions will be run to analyze the effect of reported covariates on found heterogeneity. Risk of bias will be examined using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. Publication bias will be tested using funnel plots and Egger tests. Sensitivity analysis will be run by risk of bias. Results: This study was funded and registered in 2020. The systematic searches, study selections, and quality assessments were completed in July 2021. Data extraction and analysis and manuscript writing are scheduled to be completed by December 2021. Conclusions: This will be the first study to provide regional differences in pooled estimates of stroke incidence with case fatality in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macao. This study will assist in addressing inequalities in stroke care across China.
title: Relationships Between Group Administered Ability Tests and Individual Academic Achievement
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020

description: Around six percent of students in the United States receive some sort of gifted educational programming. School must think about how giftedness is defined and measured in order to make decisions regarding which students receive such programming (Pfeiffer, 2015). Ability testing remains one of the most common identification practices in schools (McClain & Pfeiffer, 2012) . This is because ability tests are thought to be a measure of academic potential (Chapmann, 1988). Consistent relationships exist between individually-administered ability tests and academic achievement (Caemmerer, Maddocks, Keith, & Reynolds, 2018; Deary, Strand, Smith & Fernandes, 2007; Kaufman, Reynolds, Liu, Kaufman & McGrew, 2012). Group-administered ability tests provide an efficient, cost-effective, alternative to traditional intelligence tests when assessing students for gifted programming (Cao, Jung, & Lee, 2017). However, research associating group-ability tests and academic achievement tests is limited, and their ability to measure students’ academic potential has not fully been explored. This study targeted this gap in literature by exploring ability–achievement relationships between two commonly administered group-ability tests, the Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) (Lohman, 2012) and the Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test (NNAT) (Naglieri, 2018), and individual academic achievement in Reading and Mathematics as measured by performance on the Weschler Individual Achievement Test, Third Edition (WIAT-III) (Weschler, 2009). This study in Seventy-five second-eighth grade students who had received group-ability testing through their local schools or a university training clinic received follow-up educational testing with the WIAT-III. Using regression analysis, this study found that both the NNAT and the CogAT relate to academic achievement in reading and mathematics. Furthermore, the three distinct batteries of the CogAT (Verbal, Quantitative, and Nonverbal) were found to differentially relate to reading and mathematics achievement. The findings from this study provide support for the use of these group-administered ability tests as a measure of academic potential which may be useful in the identification of students eligible for gifted programming. Schools should consider these findings, amongst other student characteristics, when making educational placement decisions based upon students’ performance on these group-administered assessments.
Supplementary document for Smart laser with on-demand mode control - 6427329.pdf
Creators: name: Zoysa, Menaka
name: Nakagawa, Yuichiro
name: Izumi, Koki
name: Inoue, Takuya
name: Ishizaki, Kenji
name: Yoshida, Masahiro
name: Gelleta, John
name: Noda, Susumu
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Photonics and Electro-Optical Engineering (excl. Communications)

description: Supplementary Information
Wikis as Catalysts for Activism: The Case of Arabic Wiki Gender
Creators: name: Gharbeia, Ahmad
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: wiki
knowledge management
activism
knowledge sharing
collaborative technologies

description: Wikis are cognitive and organisational entities that can serve as catalysts for the emergence of self-organised groups sharing a common interest. They may be a good means of establishing forms of community activism, which would complement the efforts of activists in their organisational and other activism affiliations. They also have the potential to serve as testing grounds for self-organisation, as well as loci for the accumulation and provision of specialised knowledge in hard sciences or human sciences, including their intersections with issues of governance, social organisation and public policy. In this paper, I present an aspect of an ongoing experience as someone concerned with public affairs who has witnessed the emergence of blogging, its golden age, and the political mobilization of 2011. I claim to have insights, of varying degrees of depth, into the different aspects of information technology (IT), both in the theoretical and practical sense and its creative and artistic uses, as well as interest in understanding the social, political and legal effects of technological developments, and how their applications and modes of production, consumption and management are affected by social, political and legal givens, all of which constitute the complex system in which we live today as subjects and objects. To me, this experience has been a daily practice, forming an aspect of both my professional and personal preoccupation.
description: The English edition is a translation by ARI. The paper is originally authored in Arabic. The Arabic version is at https://www.arab-reform.net/ar/publication/الويكيّات-كمحفّزاتٍ-للناشطية-ويكي-ال/
Canine Health: Galliprant vs Meloxicam in Mesotherapy Treatment Outcomes
Creators: name: Dr. Diva Dhingra
Publisher: name: The Science world a Monthly e magazine
Year: 2024

description: Canine osteoarthritis (OA) is a prevalent degenerative joint disease-causing pain and reduced mobility in affected animals. Mesotherapy, an emerging minimally invasive technique, offers a promising avenue for managing OA symptoms. This article describes the efficacy of mesotherapy using two commonly prescribed nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), meloxicam and galliprant, in alleviating pain and improving joint function in dogs with OA.
Omorgus brucki
Creators: name: Strümpher, Werner P.
name: Stals, Riaan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Trogidae
Omorgus
Omorgus brucki

description: Omorgus brucki (Harold, 1872)
AUSTRALIA: QUEENSLAND, NEW SOUTH WALES. Scholtz (1986b: 35) reported that this species “ is frequently taken in caves. ” It may hence indeed be a troglophile; no other relevant information exists.
description: Published as part of Strümpher, Werner P. & Stals, Riaan, 2025, A world list of known cave- and bat guano-associated Trogidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea), and further range extension of Omorgus lindemannae (Petrovitz), pp. 1-11 in Faunitaxys 13 (9) on page 5, DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-13(09), http://zenodo.org/record/15366026
Scope of Work, Field Notes, Maps, and Photo Log, Phase I Survey of 18PR385 for the Proposed Naval Command Headquarters at Suitland Federal Center, Prince George's County, MD (2017.042)
Creators: name: R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates, Inc.
Publisher: name: R Christopher Goodwin & Associates, Inc.
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Prince George's (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/8083/prince-georges-county
subject: 19th - 20th Century
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/3977/19th-20th-century
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: 18PR385
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/116288/18pr385
subject: Archaeological Feature
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/339/archaeological-feature
subject: Ceramic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/1/ceramic
subject: Glass
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/6/glass
subject: Building Materials
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/8/building-materials
subject: Metal
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/11/metal
subject: Reconnaissance / Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/7/reconnaissance-survey
subject: Systematic Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/12/systematic-survey

description: The following file includes the following information: scope of work, field notes, map of site boundaries, and photo record form. This document concerns Phase I archaeological reconnaissance survey for the proposed Naval Command Headquarters at Suitland Federal Center, Prince George's County, MD. Additional resources are located at the Maryland Archaeological Conservation lab. For further information and access to resources contact the Federal Curator, contact information listed below.
Passenger list
Creators: name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
name: Crawford, Lawrence
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Passenger list for the Empress of Japan's 4 Nov. 1933 sailing from Vancouver to Hawaii and Asia. Also includes the Buzzer for 1 and 29 Dec. 1933. Assembled by Lawrence Crawford, orchestra leader on the Canadian Pacific second Empress of Japan, Princess Louise, and Princess Alice.
Independent directors' reputation incentives and firm performance – an Australian perspective
Creators: name: Le, Quyen
name: Vafaei, Alireza
name: Ahmed, Kamran
name: Kutubi, Shawgat
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 35
subject: Commerce, management, tourism and services
classificationCode: 3502
subject: Banking, finance and investment
classificationCode: 3507
subject: Strategy, management and organisational behaviour

description: No description supplied
Archaeological Investigations at Priest Point, St. Inigoes, Maryland (1992.019)
Creators: name: Smolek, Michael A.
name: Lawrence, John D.
name: S. Kathleen Pepper
Publisher: name: Maryland Historical Trust
Year: 1983
Subjects: subject: United States of America (Country)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/384/united-states-of-america-country
subject: St. Mary's (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/8069/st-marys-county
subject: 24037 (Fips Code)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/8070/24037-fips-code
subject: St. Inigoes
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/46582/st-inigoes
subject: Maryland (State / Territory)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/2184/maryland-state-territory
subject: North America (Continent)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/2890/north-america-continent
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5728/historic
subject: 1900-1750 Ad
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/706/1900-1750-ad
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Priest Point (18ST87)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/109951/priest-point-18st87
subject: 18ST87
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/9252/18st87
subject: Priest's Point
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/118917/priests-point
subject: St. Inigoes Manor
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/118920/st-inigoes-manor
subject: Church / Religious Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/311/church-religious-structure
subject: Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/251/domestic-structure-or-architectural-complex
subject: Significance / Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/1152/significance-management
subject: Oral History
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/3792/oral-history
subject: Statement For Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/4176/statement-for-management
subject: Cultural Chronology
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/1153/cultural-chronology
subject: Site / Settlement
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/54881/site-settlement
subject: Archeological Overview / Synthesis-Project Spec
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/7114/archeological-overview-synthesis-project-spec
subject: Site Evaluation / Testing
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/10/site-evaluation-testing

description: This resource is the report of archaeology conducted in the vicinity of St. Inigoes Manor House on Priest's Point, Naval Electronics Systems Engineering Activity, St. Inigoes, Maryland prior to the construction of a sewage treatment plant. Three test units and 329 shovel test pits yielded about 7200 artifacts relating to the manor house and an outbuilding identified as an early 19th-century weaver's house. The collection and records are curated at the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory on behalf of the Navy.
title: De novo aggregation of Alzheimer’s Aβ25-35 peptides in a lipid bilayer
Creators: name: Smith, Amy K.
name: Klimov, Dmitri K.
Publisher: name: Scientific Reports
Year: 2019

description: A potential mechanism of cytotoxicity attributed to Alzheimer's Aβ peptides postulates that their aggregation disrupts membrane structure causing uncontrollable permeation of Ca2+ ions. To gain molecular insights into these processes, we have performed all-atom explicit solvent replica exchange with solute tempering molecular dynamics simulations probing aggregation of the naturally occurring Aβ fragment Aβ25-35 within the DMPC lipid bilayer. To compare the impact produced on the bilayer by Aβ25-35 oligomers and monomers, we used as a control our previous simulations, which explored binding of Aβ25-35 monomers to the same bilayer. We found that compared to monomeric species aggregation results in much deeper insertion of Aβ25-35 peptides into the bilayer hydrophobic core causing more pronounced disruption in its structure. Aβ25-35 peptides aggregate by incorporating monomer-like structures with stable C-terminal helix. As a result theAβ25-35 dimer features unusual helix head-to-tail topology supported by a parallel of-registry interface. Such topology afords further growth of an aggregate by recruiting additional peptides. Free energy landscape reveals that inserted dimers represent the dominant equilibrium state augmented by two metastable states associated with surface bound dimers and inserted monomers. Using the free energy landscape we propose the pathway of Aβ25-35 binding, aggregation, and insertion into the lipid bilayer.
Omorgus carinatus
Creators: name: Strümpher, Werner P.
name: Stals, Riaan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Trogidae
Omorgus
Omorgus carinatus

description: Omorgus carinatus (Loomis, 1922)
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: NEW MEXICO. Vaurie (1955) reported a specimen of Omorgus carinatus from ‘Carlsbad Cavern,’ but from only the reported label data it is impossible to tell whether that specimen was collected inside the cave system itself, or from the wider Carlsbad Caverns National Park. Cokendolpher & Polyak (1996: 190) reported a single individual from the “ twilight/dark junction ” of a cave. Omorgus carinatus appears to be associated with nests or middens of woodrats (Neotoma Say & Ord, Cricetidae) (Loomis, 1922; Slay et al., 2012), while woodrats are commonly found in caves (e.g. Tweet et al., 2012). The foregoing facts lead Slay et al. (2012) to categorise the presence of this beetle species in a cave to be accidental.
description: Published as part of Strümpher, Werner P. & Stals, Riaan, 2025, A world list of known cave- and bat guano-associated Trogidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea), and further range extension of Omorgus lindemannae (Petrovitz), pp. 1-11 in Faunitaxys 13 (9) on page 5, DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-13(09), http://zenodo.org/record/15366026
Cultural Resource Survey of U.S. Naval Reservation Bloodsworth Island Dorchester County, Maryland
Creators: name: Wilke, Steve
name: Rinita Dalan
name: Demerest, Jim
name: Walsh, Lorena
name: Hoyt, William
name: Stuckenrath, Robert
Year: 1980
Subjects: subject: Dorchester County, Maryland
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/81983/dorchester-county-maryland
subject: Chesapeake Bay
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/8307/chesapeake-bay
subject: Bloodsworth Island
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/26436/bloodsworth-island
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: 18DO82
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/136225/18do82
subject: 18DO80
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/9335/18do80
subject: 18DO81
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/9336/18do81
subject: Reconnaissance / Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/7/reconnaissance-survey
subject: Systematic Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/12/systematic-survey

description: Report Abstract: 

This report presents the methods and results of a cultural resource survey of the U. S. Naval Reservation, Bloodsworth Island, Maryland. The survey and accompanying archival investigations were designed to identify and provide an evaluation of all historic and prehistoric cultural resources within project boundaries, and to recommend appropriate management measures.

Prior to the field survey, an archival investigation was conducted to provide information on cultural resource locations within project boundaries as well as information on the environment, prehistory and history of the region. This research included informant interviews, as well as the study of early maps and land records.

As a result of this survey, four historic archeological sites, and 46 historic and one prehistoric artifact find spots were located. Three of the historic sites were felt to be potentially eligible for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. Further investigations sufficient to confirm the National Register eligibility of these sites is recommended. Additional work is also recommended in the vicinity of two groups of artifact find spots in order to determine if potentially significant in-situ remains are present. Finally, two "sensitive zones" were recommended to protect identified resources. The extent of these zones may be reduced upon completion of the recommended investigations.