cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The impact of plastic pollution on detrital dynamics in current and future climates
Creators: name: Litchfield, Sebastian G.
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Detritus
Marine pollution
Climate Change
Pollution
Seagrass
Seaweed

description: The world’s oceans are increasingly polluted with plastic waste, which impacts marine ecosystems and detrital dynamics. This thesis used mesocosms to investigate how various plastics affect the decomposition of marine macrophytes: Sargassum vestitum, Ecklonia radiata, and Zostera muelleri. Chapter 2 examined the effects of common consumer plastics on Sargassum vestitum. Results indicated that plastics generally slowed decomposition and nutrient release, with variations depending on the type of plastic. Chapter 3 assessed the impact of lost fishing gear, finding that recreational fishing lures had a less pronounced effect on the decomposition of Ecklonia radiata compared to commercial-grade fish netting. Chapter 4 investigated the influence of single-use and reusable masks, which increased pollution during the COVID-19 pandemic, on Zostera muelleri. It was found that disposable masks significantly accelerated eelgrass decomposition, while reusable masks had minimal impact. The study also considered the roles of ocean warming and acidification. Ocean warming consistently enhanced decomposition rates and nutrient release across all macrophytes, whereas ocean acidification had little effect. Chapter 5 included a field experiment with low-density polyethylene, confirming that plastics slowed the decomposition of kelp (Ecklonia radiata) but not seagrass (Zostera muelleri). In conclusion, plastics generally hinder marine macrophyte decomposition, with the extent of impact varying by plastic type and macrophyte species. Ocean warming accelerates decomposition and nutrient cycling, while acidification has limited influence. These findings highlight the complex interactions between plastic pollution and environmental stressors, with implications for coastal detrital dynamics, productivity, nutrient cycling, and blue carbon sequestration.
Convivenza coniugale e nullità matrimoniali canoniche: la Cassazione torna sui suoi passi (nota a Cass. 4 giugno 2012 n. 8926)
Creators: name: Canonico, Marco
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2012

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Le decisioni precedenti - 2. I contenuti del provvedimento - 3. Osservazioni finali
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 25 giugno
Phenotypic plasticity of natural Populus trichocarpa populations in response to temporally environmental change in a common garden
Creators: name: Liu, Yang
name: El-Kassaby, Yousry A.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: Natural selection on fitness-related traits can be temporally heterogeneous among populations. As climate changes, understanding population-level responses is of scientific and practical importance. We examined 18 phenotypic traits associated with phenology, biomass, and ecophysiology in 403 individuals of natural Populus trichocarpa populations, growing in a common garden. Results: Compared with tree origin settings, propagules likely underwent drought exposures in the common garden due to significantly low rainfall during the years of measurement. All study traits showed population differentiation reflecting adaptive responses due to local genetic adaptation. Phenology and biomass traits were strongly under selection and showed plastic responses between years, co-varying with latitude. While phenological events (e.g., bud set and growth period) and biomass were under positive directional selection, post-bud set period, particularly from final bud set to the onset of leaf drop, was selected against. With one exception to water-use efficiency, ecophysiology traits were under negative directional selection. Moreover, extended phenological events jointly evolved with source niches under increased temperature and decreased rainfall exposures. High biomass coevolved with climatic niches of high temperature; low rainfall promoted high photosynthetic rates evolution. Conclusions: This work underpins that P. trichocarpa is likely to experience increased fitness (height gain) by evolving toward extended bud set and growth period, abbreviated post-bud set period, and increased drought resistance, potentially constituting a powerful mechanism for long-lived tree species in surviving unpredictably environmental extremes (e.g., drought). See correction doi 10.1186/s12862-021-01884-9 at http://hdl.handle.net/2429/79273
Converging worlds: fostering co-facilitation and relationships for health promotion through drama at the grassroots
Creators: name: Sinclair, Christine
name: Grindrod, Andrea
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper reflects on the development of a grassroots program for health promotion in which drama is the core pedagogy. Drawing on stories of practice and the findings of a recent action research pilot project, the co-authors---a drama practitioner and a health professional---canvass the complex issues associated with defining and nurturing co-facilitation and working relationships across health, drama and education at the grassroots level. Key findings from the action research project were the critical role of co-planning to support co-facilitation, and the importance of co-facilitation to ensuring a genuine sharing of the program between health and drama. The authors provide perspectives from the worlds of drama and health on these findings, and on their experiences of how a 'convergent lens' has hanged their understanding and practice of both drama and health in the drama/health paradigm they have constructed in their shared worksite.
Variable Strength Covering Arrays
Creators: name: Raaphorst, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: covering array
variable strength
variable strength covering array
combinatorial algorithms
combinatorial designs
software testing
combinatorial testing
linear feedback shift registers

description: Recently, covering arrays have been the subject of considerable research attention as they hold both theoretical interest and practical importance due to their applications to testing. In this thesis, we perform the first comprehensive study of a generalization of covering arrays called variable strength covering arrays, where we dictate the interactions to be covered in the array by modeling them as facets of an abstract simplicial complex. We outline the necessary background in the theory of hypergraphs, combinatorial testing, and design theory that is relevant to the study of variable strength covering arrays. We then approach questions that arise in variable strength covering arrays in a number of ways. We demonstrate their connections to hypergraph homomorphisms, and explore the properties of a particular family of abstract simplicial complexes, the qualitative independence hypergraphs. These hypergraphs are tightly linked to variable strength covering arrays, and we determine and identify several of their important properties and subhypergraphs. We give a detailed study of constructions for variable strength covering arrays, and provide several operations and divide-and-conquer techniques that can be used in building them. In addition, we give a construction using linear feedback shift registers from primitive polynomials of degree 3 over arbitrary finite fields to find variable strength covering arrays, which we extend to strength-3 covering arrays whose sizes are smaller than many of the best known sizes of covering arrays. We then give an algorithm for creating variable strength covering arrays over arbitrary abstract simplicial complexes, which builds the arrays one row at a time, using a density concept to guarantee that the size of the resultant array is asymptotic in the logarithm of the number of facets in the abstact simplicial complex. This algorithm is of immediate practical importance, as it can be used to create test suites for combinatorial testing. Finally, we use the Lovasz Local Lemma to nonconstructively determine upper bounds on the sizes of arrays for a number of different families of hypergraphs. We lay out a framework that can be used for many hypergraphs, and then discuss possible strategies that can be taken in asymmetric problems.
Il simbolo religioso e culturale
Creators: name: Cardia, Carlo
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2012

description: Relazione svolta al Convegno sul tema: “State-sponsored religious displays in the United
States and Europa / L’esposizione statale dei simboli religiosi negli Stati uniti e in Europa” organizzato da: “Center for Law and Religion della School of Law” della St. John’s
University di New York e dal Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza dell’Università LUMSA
(Roma, 22 giugno 2012).SOMMARIO. 1.  Semantica delle controversie sui simboli religiosi. Linguaggio di
guerra ed esclusivismo. 2. Linguaggio plurale dei diritti umani che legittima ogni
simbologia religiosa. 3. Coerenze e incoerenze. Religione, cultura, deserto delle
identità. 4. Pluralità e  differenze nella visione globale e positiva dei simboli.  5.
Simbologia religiosa e multiculturalità. Conclusioni.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 2 luglio
Galaxies-intergalactic medium interaction calculation I: galaxy formation as a function of large-scale environment
Creators: name: Crain, Robert A.
name: Theuns, Tom
name: Dalla Vecchia, Claudio
name: Eke, Vincent R.
name: Frenk, Carlos S.
name: Jenkins, Adrian
name: Kay, Scott T.
name: Peacock, John A.
name: Pearce, Frazer R.
name: Schaye, Joop
name: Springel, Volker
name: Thomas, Peter A.
name: White, Simon D. M.
name: Wiersma, Robert P. C.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present the first results of hydrodynamical simulations that follow the formation of galaxies to the present day in nearly spherical regions of radius ~ 20 h^-1 Mpc/h drawn from the Millennium Simulation (Springel et al.). The regions have mean overdensities that deviate by (-2, -1, 0, +1,+2) σ from the cosmic mean, where σ is the rms mass fluctuation on a scale of ~ 20 h^-1 Mpc/h at z = 1.5. The simulations have mass resolution of up to ~ 10^6 M sun/h, cover the entire range of large-scale cosmological environments, including rare objects such as massive clusters and sparse voids, and allow extrapolation of statistics to the (500 h^-1 Mpc)^3 Millennium Simulation volume as a whole. They include gas cooling, photoheating from an imposed ionising background, supernova feedback and galactic winds, but no AGN. In this paper we focus on the star formation properties of the model.We find that the specific star formation rate density at z ≤ 10 varies systematically from region to region by up to an order of magnitude, but the global value, averaged over all volumes, closely reproduces observational data. Massive, compact galaxies, similar to those observed in the GOODS fields (Wiklind et al.), form in the overdense regions as early as z = 6, but do not appear in the underdense regions until z ~ 3. These environmental variations are not caused by a dependence of the star formation properties on environment, but rather by a strong variation of the halo mass function from one environment to another, with more massive haloes forming preferentially in the denser regions. At all epochs, stars form most efficiently in haloes of circular velocity vc ~ 250 km s^-1. However, the star-formation history exhibits a form of 'downsizing' (even in the absence of AGN feedback): the stars comprising massive galaxies at z = 0 have mostly formed by z = 1-2, whilst those comprising smaller galaxies typically form at later times. However, additional feedback is required to limit star formation in massive galaxies at late times.
Supplementary document for Realization of laser intensity over 10²³ W/cm² - 5174254.pdf
Creators: name: Yoon, Jin Woo
name: Choi, Il
name: Sung, Jae Hee
name: Lee, H. W.
name: Lee, Seong Ku
name: Nam, Chang Hee
name: Kim, Yeong Gyu
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement
Processing, characterisation and mechanical properties of metal foams
Creators: name: Wen, Cuie
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Metal foams and other highly porous metal materials exhibit unique combinations of excellent mechanical, thermal, electrical and acoustic properties that provide opportunities for a wide range of applications. The recent development of a number of cost-effective processes for making metal foams has increased their potential for applications in biomaterials, sandwich panels for lightweight structural components, in energy absorption devices for protection from impact, in heat sinks for electronic devices and in noise attenuation etc. Porous titanium and titanium alloys have been developed for orthopaedic and dental applications in recent years. This new class of metal scaffolds are receiving increasing attention due to their excellent biocompatibility, bone-mimicking architecture and mechanical properties which ensure new bone tissue ingrowth ability, vascularisations and eliminating stress shielding effect. Porous titanium and titanium alloy foams can be conveniently produced by powder metallurgy.
Electronic structure of quasicrystals studied by photoemission spectroscopy.
Creators: name: Zhang, Guowei.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Physical.

description: To investigate the electronic structure of the high-quality quasicrystals, photoemission spectroscopy measurements have been carried out using synchrotron radiation source in the photo-energy range 35-150 eV. The studied quasicrystals are icosahedral Al$\rm\sb{70}Pd\sb{20}Mn\sb ,\ Al\sb{65}Cu\sb{20}Os\sb ,$ and $\rm Al\sb{65}Cu\sb{20}Ru\sb ,$ and decagonal $\rm Al\sb{65}Co\sb Cu\sb{20}$ and $\rm Al\sb{70}Co\sb Ni\sb .$ Resonance photoemission near the transition from the shallow core levels to the d valence bands has been employed to show that the feature close to the Fermi level in the valence bands is predominantly due to the d electron states in the nearly-half-full subshells (Mn, Fe, Ru, Os). The feature farther from the Fermi level has been identified as being mainly due to the d electron states in the full d subshells (Pd, Cu). In some cases, the experimental partial densities of states have been obtained by taking advantage of the synchrotron-radiation-based photoemission technique and the large changes in the cross sections. The as-measured valence-band spectra were corrected for the experimental parameters and the background in order to make a meaningful comparison between the spectra. The high energy-resolution ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy measurements on icosahedral $\rm Al\sb{65}Cu\sb{20}Fe\sb{7.5}Ru\sb{7.5}$ prove that there is a pseudogap from the d electrons close to the Fermi level. The studied samples were characterized by the X-ray diffraction and the diffraction patterns were indexed based on several indexing schemes. A description of the indexing procedures is presented. The experimental results of this work are related to the theoretical predictions of a pseudogap and spikiness in the density of states. The unusual behavior of the resistivity of the quasicrystals is interpreted in terms of disorder and other relevant theories.
Does it Cut the Mustard? Dissecting the Genetic Basis of Seed Glucosinolate (GSL) Accumulation in Indian Mustard (Brassica Juncea L.)
Creators: name: Tandayu, Erwin
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Indian mustard
Brassica juncea L.
Glucosinolate
Genome-wide association study
Transcriptomic study

description: The mustard family, Brassicaceae, consists of economically important species cultivated as oilseeds, vegetables, and condiment crops. Brassicaceae produce glucosinolates (GSLs), a large class of well-studied sulphur- and nitrogen-containing secondary metabolites. GSLs and their breakdown products have been implicated in plant defence and fitness. They serve as flavour in food and some are associated with specific human health benefits. The economic value of Indian mustard (Brassica juncea L.) as an oilseed, vegetable, livestock feed, or condiment largely depends on its GSL levels. Thus, depending on end-use, either GSL reduction – for oil and feedstock industries or GSL enrichment – for vegetable, condiment and nutraceutical industries, are important breeding targets.
description: Despite foundational knowledge derived from Arabidopsis and other Brassica crops, GSL modulation in B. juncea has been hampered by the innate intricacy of GSL metabolism, which is further compounded by its complex amphidiploid genome. The primary aim of this thesis was to expand the knowledge of GSL metabolism in B. juncea through quantitative genetic and functional genomic approaches.
description: First, a set of 158 diverse accessions from 28 countries was characterised for variation of GSL content, with a focus on the dominant GSL sinigrin and gluconapin. Two major divergent genepools, reflecting different geographical origin – South Asia and outside of South Asia, displayed divergence in GSL content and composition. South Asian accessions accumulated gluconapin, while the rest of the accessions predominantly accumulated sinigrin.
description: Second, trait architecture of GSL was dissected through a genome-wide association study (GWAS), which discovered several significant quantitative trait loci (QTL), containing high confidence homologues of known and potential GSL metabolic network genes. The divergence of genepools in respect to GSL metabolism was reflected in the distinct and non-overlapping QTLs for sinigrin and gluconapin.
description: Third, a set of three contrasting lines for total GSL content and profile were used for transcriptomic analysis of developing siliques. Comparative analysis of the respective GSL metabolic networks identified strong regulatory and structural determinants for the low GSL trait, as well as for the accumulation of the health beneficial sinigrin.
description: Collectively genomic and transcriptomic data revealed the extent of complexity of GSL metabolic network in B. juncea and identified a set of QTL and candidate genes valuable for further functional characterisation and deployment in variety improvement targeting manipulation of GSL content.
Uni Ulm intern - das Ulmer Universitätsmagazin, Nr. 267 (34. Jg.), März 2004
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Uni Ulm intern
subject: Universities; Germany; Ulm
subject: Ulm / Universität

description: N/A
Characterisation of the genetic variation in nutritional composition of bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.)
Creators: name: Mohd Azman Halimi, Razlin Binti
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Nutritional security
Underutilised crops
Food composition data
Knowledge representation
Selection index
Nutritional enhancement

description: Underutilised crops have the potential to play an increasing role in food systems and human diet. However, progress is limited, in part due to the scarcity of data reflecting the range of nutritional variation compared with major crops, and limited systematic effort to collate and analyse compositional data. The research in this thesis sought to develop a systematic workflow to improve the knowledge base for underutilised crops in relation to food and nutrition.
description: Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) was adopted as a use-case, with comparative analysis of four taxonomically related major crops: soybean, chickpea, cowpea and mungbean.
Anti-adipogenic effect of alchemilla monticola is mediated via PI3K/AKT signaling inhibition in human adipocytes
Creators: name: Mladenova, Saveta G.
name: Vasileva, Liliya V.
name: Savova, Martina S.
name: Marchev, Andrey S.
name: Tews, Daniel
name: Wabitsch, Martin
name: Ferrante, Claudio
name: Orlando, Giustino
name: Georgiev, Milen I.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: PI3K
subject: Alchemilla
subject: astragalin
subject: quercitrin
subject: DDC 570 / Life sciences
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Obesity
subject: Adipocytes
subject: Phosphoinositide-3 kinase inhibitors
subject: Fettsucht
subject: Fettzelle
subject: Phosphatidylinositolkinase

description: Obesity is a persistent and continuously expanding social health concern. Excessive fat mass accumulation is associated with increased risk of chronic diseases including diabetes, atherosclerosis, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, reproductive dysfunctions and certain types of cancer. Alchemilla monticola Opiz. is a perennial plant of the Rosaceae family traditionally used to treat inflammatory conditions and as a component of weight loss herbal mixtures. In the search for bioactive leads with potential anti-adipogenic effect from A. monticola extract (ALM), we have employed nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) based metabolomics to obtain data for the phytochemical profile of the extract. Further, molecular docking simulation was performed against key adipogenic targets for selected pure compounds, present in the ALM extract. Evaluation of the biological activity was done in human adipocytes exposed to ALM (5, 10 and 25 μg/ml), pure astragalin (AST) or quercitrin (QUE) both at the concentrations of 5, 10 and 25 μM. Investigation of the molecular pathways involved was performed through real-time quantitative PCR and Western blot analyses. According to the docking predictions strong putative affinity was revealed for both AST and QUE towards peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ) and phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K). Assessment of the intracellular lipid accumulation revealed anti-adipogenic activity of ALM. Correspondingly, the expression of the adipogenic genes CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein alpha (CEBPA) and PPARG was downregulated upon ALM and AST treatment. The Western blotting results exposed protein kinase B (AKT), PI3K and PPARγ as targets for the inhibitory effect of ALM and AST on adipogenesis. Collectively, we provide a broader insight of the phytochemical composition of A. monticola. Additionally, we demonstrate the anti-adipogenic effect of ALM and its active compound AST in human adipocytes. Furthermore, PI3K/AKT signaling pathway is identified to mediate the ALM anti-adipogenic action. Hence, the ALM extract and its secondary metabolite AST are worth further exploration as potentially active agents in obesity management.
An investigation of the Symbiodinium community structure following two consecutive coral bleaching events at Lord Howe Island, eastern Australia
Creators: name: Boulotte, Nadine M.
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Environmental Health and Protection
Environmental Indicators and Impact Assessment
Environmental Sciences
Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology
coral bleaching
acclimatization
adaptation
Symbiodinium
switching
shuffling
Symbiodiniumrare biosphere
next-generation sequencing
subtropical corals
Lord Howe Island
Life Sciences
Marine Biology
Natural Resources and Conservation
Coral early-life stages
Coral restoration
Lipidomics
Metagenomics

description: Global climate change affects the marine environment in various ways, including more frequent and intense mass coral bleaching events. Assessment of the potential for coral survival requires understanding of their adaptive capacity, which is strongly influenced by their Symbiodinium spp. symbionts. This thesis aims to investigate the Symbiodinium community structure and dynamics following two consecutive coral bleaching events at Lord Howe Island, the world’s southernmost coral reef. The research results provide evidence of symbiont shuffling, but more importantly of switching, which will likely to lead to a paradigm shift in our understanding of the mechanisms of environmental acclimatisation in corals.
Palaeo-biogeochemical reconstructions using coral skeleton δ15N
Creators: name: Rangel González, María Salomé
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Nitrogen isotopic signatures
Porites
Coral skeletons
Bleaching proxy

description: Coral skeletons provide excellent high-resolution archives of past environmental conditions. Analysis of the nitrogen composition of the coral skeleton is an emerging tool for understanding the health and productivity of corals. This thesis examined nitrogen isotopic composition of coral skeletons through time. Two past thermal bleaching events in the Great Barrier Reef were inferred to have occurred during 1947 and 1965-68 by applying this approach. Evidence of long tissue turnover rates and bidirectional nitrogen exchange between the coral and zooxanthellae partners (fed heterotrophically) was also found when their tissue δ15N signatures were analysed.
Development and validation of two competitive ELISAs for detecting human and canine adenovirus antibody in Ontario wildlife sera.
Creators: name: Maxwell, Laura.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Immunology.

description: A human adenovirus type 5-rabies recombinant vaccine(Ad5RG) is a potential candidate for the oral immunization of skunks, foxes, and raccoons against rabies. Adenovirus seroprevalence studies in these species were required before using the vaccine in the field, as part of an environmental risk assessment and for determining if a barrier to immunization exists. For this purpose, two competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (cELISAs) measuring antibodies (Ab) against Ad5 and canine adenovirus type one (CAV-1) were developed and validated. Sera were examined for either Ad5 or CAV-1 neutralizing antibodies using plaque reduction neutralization tests (PRNT). The Ad5 cELISA was 80% sensitive and 75% specific when an 8% inhibition positivity cutoff was, used. The CAV-1 cELISA was 83% sensitive and 96% specific when a 17% inhibition positivity cut off was used. Contributing to the low Ad5 specificity in particular were raccoons that generally lacked Ad5 neutralizing activity but had Ab which bound purified Ad5 in the cELISA and Western blot. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Supplementary document for Realization of laser intensity over 10²³ W/cm² - 5174254.pdf
Creators: name: Yoon, Jin Woo
name: Choi, Il
name: Sung, Jae Hee
name: Lee, H. W.
name: Lee, Seong Ku
name: Nam, Chang Hee
name: Kim, Yeong Gyu
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement
Relationship between working hours and power of attention, memory, fatigue, depression and self-efficacy one year after diagnosis of clinically isolated syndrome and relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis
Creators: name: Jongen, Peter Joseph
name: Wesnes, Keith
name: Van Geel, Bjoern
name: Pop, Paul
name: Sanders, Evert
name: Schrijver, Hans
name: Visser, Leo H.
name: Gilhuis, H. Jacobus
name: Sinnige, Ludovicus G.
name: Brands, Augustina M.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The role of cognitive domain dysfunction with respect to vocational changes in persons with Clinically Isolated Syndrome (CIS) and early Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis (eRRMS) is insufficiently known. We investigated thirty-three patients - 14 CIS, 19 eRRMS -, mean (standard deviation [SD]) time since diagnosis 13.5 (4.8) months and mean (SD) Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) score 1.3 (1.1). Patients were assessed on the CDR System, a set of automated tests of cognitive function, which yielded scores for Power of Attention (ms), Continuity of Attention (#), Working Memory (SI), Episodic Memory (#) and Speed of Memory (ms). Work-related items and the confounding variables fatigue, depression, disease impact and self-efficacy, were assessed by self-report questionnaires. Patients had poorer Power of Attention compared to normative data (1187 [161.5] vs. 1070 [98.6]; P<0.0001) and slower Speed of Memory (4043 [830.6]) vs. 2937 [586.1]; P<0.0001). Power of Attention (Pearson r = -0.42; P<0.04), Working Memory (r = 0.42; P<0.04) and depression r = -0.41; P<0.05) correlated with number of days worked per week. Fatigue (r = -0.56; P<0.005), self-efficacy (r = 0.56; P<0.005) and disease impact (r = -0.46; P<0.05) correlated with number of hours worked per week. Persons who wished to work less had poorer Power of Attention (1247 vs. 1116 ms; P<0.02), those who wished to change job had poorer Episodic Memory (1.35 vs. 1.57; p<0.03). People who reduced working hours within 12 months after diagnosis had higher fatigue and disease impact, and lower self-efficacy. The findings of this pilot study indicate that one year after the diagnosis of CIS and RRMS Power of Attention and Speed of Memory are reduced, that Power of Attention and Memory are associated with a capability of working less hours, and that fatigue, depression and disease impact may negatively, and self-efficacy positively affect working hours.
Red Blood Cell Aggregation Characterization: Quantification and Modeling Implications of Red Blood Cell Aggregation at Low Shear Rates
Creators: name: Mehri, Rym
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: red blood cell aggregation
erythrocytes
aggregate sizes
non-Newtonian
spectral element method
microchannel
micro PIV
blood viscosity

description: Red blood cells (RBCs) are the most abundant cells in human blood, representing 40 to 45% of the blood volume (hematocrit). These cells have the particular ability to deform and bridge together to form aggregates under very low shear rates. The theory and mechanics behind aggregation are, however, not yet completely understood. The purpose of this work is to provide a novel method to analyze, understand and mimic blood behaviour in microcirculation. The main objective is to develop a methodology to quantify and characterize RBC aggregates and hence enhance the current understanding of the non-Newtonian behaviour of blood at the microscale. For this purpose, suspensions of porcine blood and human blood are tested in vitro in a Poly-di-methylsiloxane (PDMS) microchannel to characterize RBC aggregates within these two types of blood. These microchannels are fabricated using standard photolithography methods. Experiments are performed using a micro Particle Image Velocimetry ( PIV) system for shear rate measurements coupled with a high speed camera for the flow visualization. Corresponding numerical simulations are conducted using a research Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) solver, Nek5000, based on the spectral element method solution to the incompressible non-Newtonian Navier-Stokes equations. RBC aggregate sizes are quantified in controlled and measurable shear rate environments for 5, 10 and 15% hematocrit. Aggregate sizes are determined using image processing techniques. Velocity fields of the blood flow are measured experimentally and compared to numerical simulations using simple non-Newtonian models (Power law and Carreau models). This work establishes for the first time a relationship between RBC aggregate sizes and corresponding shear rates in a microfluidic environment as well as one between RBC aggregate sizes and apparent blood viscosity at body temperature in a microfluidic controlled environment. The results of the investigation can be used to help develop new numerical models for non-Newtonian blood flow, provide a better understanding of the mechanics of RBC aggregation and help determine aggregate behaviour in clinical settings such as for degenerative diseases like diabetes and heart disease.
Supplementary document for Complex Wavelet Filter Improves FLIM Phasors for Photon Starved Imaging Experiments - 5174492.pdf
Creators: name: Wang, Peiyu
name: Hecht, Frank
name: ossato, giulia
name: Tille, Sebastian
name: Fraser, Scott
name: Junge, Jason
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized
Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy

description: Supplemental figures, equations, tables, and references
Factors Influencing Buying Behaviour of Organic Food: An Empirical Study of Young Consumers in India
Creators: name: Matharu, Gurmeet Kaur
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Organic food
Theory of planned behaviour
Young Indians
Developing nation
Cultural factors

description: The factors that drive organic food (OF) buying intentions and consumption behaviours of young Indians is poorly understood. The research investigated these factors along with the moderating effect of cultural values. Data were obtained from 401 students from universities in India through online surveys. Attitude towards OF purchases, subjective norm, and perceived quality were found to significantly influence OF purchase intention; environmental concern, perceived consumer effectiveness and price consciousness did not. Young consumers, mostly urban, from high-income families, general social class with a culture of high uncertainty avoidance, long-term orientation and indulgence have the most favourable mindset towards OF.
Enhancement of Self-Powered High-Efficiency Rectifier Circuits for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Systems
Creators: name: Kamran, Muhammad
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Rectifier circuits
Voltage doubler joule thief
VDJT
Piezoelectric
Harvesting
Full-bridge joule thief
FBRJT
PEH

description: Modern-day high electricity demand and consumption are among humans' most pressing challenges. As a result, many researchers are searching for renewable energy sources, namely sunlight, wind, thermal, heat, and mechanical excitations/vibrations.
description: Mechanical vibrations appear extensively in various forms: piezoelectric vibrational energy harvesting, electrostatic vibration energy, and electromagnetic vibration energy. Nevertheless, piezoelectric energy harvesting has attracted more attention due to its capability, flexibility, and negligible electromagnetic interference. This process is also called piezoelectric energy harvesting (PEH). Although the subjected PEH process generates alternating current/voltage (AC), it cannot be directly powered to the electrical devices as they require direct current/voltage (DC). Thus, a power electronics circuit includes a feature of the rectification process (AC to DC conversion).
description: In PEH, the researchers have proposed various advanced and new power electronic circuit methodologies that enable the most efficient power conversion circuits in single & dual stage. However, a typical approach is to convert AC into DC (DC-Rectified voltage) and power the electronic apparatus. Besides this process called as rectification process.
description: However, scientists have proved that this rectification process is inefficient due to its low output, flexibility, forward voltage drops across each component in the circuit, the ripples in the output and limited applicability. Therefore, to boost the competence of the PEH process, the authors aimed to address these challenges, such as boosting output voltage by investigating in two methods: i) minimising the forward voltage, soothing the output waveform of the FBR circuit, and ii) boosting the low AC that is accumulated in the PEH process into high DC voltage at high and low frequencies.
description: In particular, this thesis starts by proposing several improved circuits, including (1) a self-powered FBRJT AC-DC conversion (i.e., full-bridge rectifier: FBRJT) circuit for PEH process, and then it improved as (2) a self-powered VDJT circuit for piezoelectric energy harvesting circuit.
description: The FBRJT circuit’s output showed that (1) using an FBRJT circuit, maximum output power (3.41 mW), which is suggestively higher than the FBR and existing circuits, was achieved with 10 Vac; (2) using the proposed VDJT circuit, it converted an input voltage of 15 Vac at a frequency of 5 Hz into an output voltage of 18 VO and power of 5500 µW.
description: These developments can contribute to the development of the potential of PEH systems. Furthermore, this is highly advantageous for low-power electronics engineering industries.
Proceedings of the 1st AUDICTIVE Conference. - June 19-22, 2023, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Creators: name: Balint, Jamilla
name: Fels, Janina
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2023

description: AUDICTIVE Conference, AUDICTIVE SPP2236, Aachen, Germany, 19 Jun 2023 - 22 Jun 2023; Aachen : RWTH Aachen University, Institute for Hearing Technology and Acoustics 147 Seiten: Illustrationen (2023). doi:10.18154/RWTH-2023-05549
description: Published by RWTH Aachen University, Institute for Hearing Technology and Acoustics, Aachen
Towards self-authorship in tourism education: the role of a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) program
Creators: name: Caldicott, Julia Belinda
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Self-authorship
Work integrated learning
Tourism education

description: Work integrated learning (WIL), in its various forms, continues to be a central element of university tourism programs and provides students with opportunities for both personal and professional development. Self-authorship, the student’s use of their internal voice to guide their beliefs, identity and relationships, has been recognised as an important stage of personal development. This thesis explored the extent to which WIL enables self-authorship development in tourism students. An interpretive, longitudinal case study methodology guided the study. Ultimately, the findings indicate the significant potential of WIL to foster students’ self-authorship development given the opportunities and challenges inherent with placements.
Data set for "Study on the tolerance of low-temperature CO methanation with single pulse experiments"
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Pulse reaction
subject: Transient response
subject: Dynamic methanation
subject: Load-flexible Reactor
subject: DDC 540 / Chemistry & allied sciences
subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Transients (Dynamics)
subject: Atmospheric pressure
subject: Methanisierung

description: This data set contains all single pulse experiments of an experimental set investigating the low-temperature CO methanation. From this data, all results (published or unpublished) can be reproduced. Moreover, the data set is probably useful for the validation of microkinetic models.
Re-aligning the European Unions climate policy to the Paris Agreement
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Klimapolitik
subject: EU-Politik
subject: Globale Erwärmung
subject: Klimaänderung
subject: Emissionsminderung
subject: climate policy
subject: EU climate policy
subject: Paris Agreement
subject: IPCC
subject: Global Warming
subject: climate change
subject: greenhouse gas emission reduction
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Climate | Energy

description: By 2020, the Parties to the Paris Agreement should communicate or submit new, updated nationally determined contributions (NDC). For this exercise, the findings of the ⁠IPCC⁠ Special Report “Global Warming of 1.5°C” are especially relevant. In this light, a position paper of the German Environment Agency outlines how climate policy could be calibrated towards limiting warming to 1.5°C.
Final Booklet
Creators: name: SERRANO, LEIRE
name: Meyer, Mark
name: Thijs, Juliette
name: Tympakianaki, Athina
name: Vanderhoydonc, Ynte
name: Comerio, Marco
name: Tristant, Lucie
name: Franco, Daniel
name: Pandit, Lakshya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Final Booklet
Results
Traffic Management

description: This deliverable represents D8.4, the Final Booklet in deliverable format for formal submission. This presents an overview of the project from the perspective of completion for the general public, with links within to deliverables which provide key aspects and more technical details for experts in their fields and other interested parties. This will be presented with finalised text within this document, with some room for minor changes or clarifications in the designed version. The designed version, which can be used to showcase the accomplishments of the project, will be provided mid-November, as the priority was to ensure the completion of most of the tasks within the project, which still runs for another month, and this overview is scheduled to be delivered somewhat in parallel. For further details on the project and specific results, kindly refer to the key deliverables referred to within this document. The final booklet will be presented here as the main chapters, which will serve as the foundation for the designed final booklet.The following represents the structure and text for the Final Booklet.
Roll call: how Australia broke the promise of remembrance
Creators: name: Cokley, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Ten years ago this month, John Howard's Minister for Veteran Affairs, Danna Vale, launched a searchable internet database known as the World War 2 Nominal Roll. It was intended to be a virtual war memorial, listing all Australians who served in World War II as one of the ways to honour the nation’s annual ANZAC Day pledges 'Lest we forget' and 'We will remember them'. While the database now correctly carries details of many of the 1 million Australians who served in the Army, Navy and Air Force, it also includes wrong details of thousands of others and – worse still – completely omits thousands more. This means that it has practically become pot-luck whether a young person today, searching online for grandma or grandad's war record, turns up the correct details or finds anything at all.
The Role of Attention and Response Based Learning in the Visual Hebb Supra-span Sequence Learning Task: Investigating Age-related Learning Deficits
Creators: name: Brasgold, Melissa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Cognition
Visuospatial
attention in older adults
attention in younger adults
Hebb paradigm
response based learning
Supra-span sequence learning
Age-related learning deficits

description: Using Hebb’s (1961) paradigm, it has been shown that older adults (OAs) fail to learn recurrent visuospatial supra-span sequence information (Turcotte, Gagnon, & Poirier, 2005); a deficit which has not been demonstrated on verbal versions of the same task or in younger adults (YAs). Since the Hebb paradigm is thought to rely on working memory and thus attention (Conway & Engle, 1996), one interpretation concerns an OA’s capacity to allocate the necessary attentional resources to carry out the various components of the task. Five studies investigated this proposal. The first three (Article 1) examined attention in a general manner by reducing the amount of attentional resources that a YA could devote to carrying out the visuospatial Hebb supra-span sequence learning task through the implementation of a verbal dual task (DT) procedure. The fourth (Article 2) further investigated the role of attention by using a DT induced at retrieval that overlapped extensively with the requirements (spatial and response features) of the visuospatial Hebb task. The final study (Article 3) aimed to use our previous findings to demonstrate learning among OAs in a visuospatial Hebb learning paradigm in which the motor response was replaced by a verbal response. Our findings confirm that attentional resources employed at the retrieval phase of the task appear to be particularly important for the demonstration of visuospatial sequence learning. The inclusion of a spatial and motor based DT at recall eliminated learning of the repeated sequence in YAs. Interestingly, the learning deficit of OAs was partially eliminated when the motor and spatial requirements at retrieval were reduced. Our findings offer strong support to the contention that supra-span learning of the Hebb type is not altered by the effect of age. However, learning deficits can be observed among OAs when the retrieval component of the task overly taxes attention-related processes. In the case of the visuospatial sequences, the basis of the deficit likely concerns an individual’s capacity to discriminate between responses made to previously presented sequences versus those that need to be made in reaction to the just seen sequence.
Evaluating the Immunogenic Potential of Synthetic Influenza T-B & B-T Peptides
Creators: name: Samayoa, Liz
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Influenza
Peptide
Epitope
Vaccine
MAP
Lipidation

description: Vaccination is one of the major strategies available for combating viral infections in humans. However, currently available vaccines are not without pitfalls; they are laborious to produce, could potentially be unsafe, and in the case of the highly variable influenza virus need to be reformulated each season. The use of synthetic peptides thus represents an exciting alternative to traditional vaccines. However, these synthetic peptides are not highly immunogenic without the use of potent adjuvants. The lack of immunogenicity might be addressed by conjugation between T or B cell epitopes with universal or immunodominant T-helper epitopes. The construction of branched peptides, lipidated peptides, or designs combining both of these elements might also enhance the immunogenicity, as they might target Toll-like receptors and/or mimic the 3-dimensional structure of epitopes within the native protein. In this study, a recognized T-B peptide based on the hemagglutinin protein of the A/Puerto Rico/8/34 influenza virus was chosen as a backbone and modified to evaluate if the construction of branched peptides, lipidation, the addition of cysteine residues, or mutations could indeed alter reactivity. Screening the different designs with various antibody binding and cellular assays revealed that combining a branched design with the addition of lipid moieties leads to a greatly enhanced activity as compared to other similar T-B diepitope constructs.
Developing Malaysian community based flood warning initiatives through Activity Centered Design
Creators: name: Maksom, Zulisman
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Global warming and climate change, deriving from human activity, have become recognized as a major contributor to the increase occurrence of natural disaster events worldwide. In Malaysia excessive rainfall in conjunction with deforestation and changes in agricultural practices has led to excessive flooding in many parts of the country. Zulisman Maksom studied how community based flood warning would benefit the current systems. His research use Activity Theory in order to establish the most effective and appropriate tolls to use in designing communication systems for risk reduction in relation to floods in the Malaysian context. This has given researchers a better understanding of an important communication design to the future flood warning systems development.