cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Is health impact assessment useful in the context of trade negotiations? A case study of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement
Creators: name: Hirono, K
name: Haigh, F
name: Gleeson, Deborah
name: Harris, P
name: Thow, AM
name: Friel, S
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Objective: The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) is a recently concluded free trade agreement involving Australia and 11 other Pacific-rim nations, which has the potential for far-reaching impacts on public health. A health impact assessment (HIA) was carried out during the negotiations to determine the potential future public health impact in Australia and to provide recommendations to mitigate potential harms. This paper explores the findings and outcomes of the HIA, and how this approach can be used to provide evidence for public health advocacy. Design: A modified version of the standard HIA process was followed. The HIA was led by technical experts in HIA, trade policy, and health policy, in collaboration with advocacy organisations concerned with the TPP and health. The HIA reviewed the provisions in leaked TPP text in order to determine their potential impact on future health policy. As part of this process, researchers developed policy scenarios in order to examine how TPP provisions may affect health policies and their subsequent impact to health for both the general and vulnerable populations. The four policy areas assessed were the cost of medicines, tobacco control, alcohol control and food labelling. Results: In all areas assessed, the HIA found that proposed TPP provisions were likely to adversely affect health. These provisions are also likely to more adversely affect the health of vulnerable populations. Conclusions: The HIA produced relevant evidence that was useful in advocacy efforts by stakeholders, and engaging the public through various media platforms.
Population size does not explain past changes in cultural complexity
Creators: name: Vaesen, K
name: Collard, M
name: Cosgrove, Richard
name: Roebroeks, W
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 37
subject: Earth sciences
classificationCode: 3705
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
classificationCode: 43
subject: History, heritage and archaeology
classificationCode: 4301
subject: Archaeology

description: Demography is increasingly being invoked to account for features of the archaeological record, such as the technological conservatism of the Lower and Middle Pleistocene, the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition, and cultural loss in Holocene Tasmania. Such explanations are commonly justified in relation to population dynamic models developed by Henrich [Henrich J (2004) Am Antiq 69:197-214] and Powell et al. [Powell A, et al. (2009) Science 324(5932):1298-1301], which appear to demonstrate that population size is the crucial determinant of cultural complexity. Here, we show that these models fail in two important respects. First, they only support a relationship between demography and culture in implausible conditions. Second, their predictions conflict with the available archaeological and ethnographic evidence. We conclude that new theoretical and empirical research is required to identify the factors that drove the changes in cultural complexity that are documented by the archaeological record.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Wong Shuk Yin, Mah Gim Jung, Huey Jack Lum, Hum Kwong Yee, Gee Soot Shung, Eng Bing Poy, Mah Hung, Luey Fun, Luey Wah Sing, Mock Choy Sang.
'Belles from Bristol and Bournville in New Surroundings': female confectionery workers as transnational agents, 1918-1928
Creators: name: Robertson, Emma
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2016 Taylor & Francis. ABSTRACT: In existing histories of the development of multinational business, women are usually absent. Yet when the British confectionery companies of Cadbury, Fry and Pascall took the bold step to build an entirely new factory in Tasmania in the early 1920s, women workers were important, and mobile, actors. This article draws on business history archives and genealogical material, from both Britain and Australia, to explore how a select group of British women became the ‘pioneers’ of the Cadbury-Fry-Pascall company. It examines why women were key to the formation of an Australian subsidiary, how they influenced, and sometimes challenged, the creation of workplace culture and practice, and the consequences of this mode of female labour migration.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Lim Hon Fong, Lim Soon Dock, Jang Shong Yow, Chang Song Poy, Wong Shew moi, Wong Low Shee, Wong Chu, Yen Suey Lun, Jang Gee Hong, Wong Mon Shew, Jung Sha Hong, Tsang Shew.
Intellectual disability health content within medical curriculum: an audit of what our future doctors are taught
Creators: name: Trollor, Julian N
name: Ruffell, Beth
name: Tracy, Jane
name: Torr, Jennifer J
name: Durvasula, Seeta
name: Iacono, Teresa
name: Eagleson, Claire
name: Lennox, Nicolas
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences
classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3901
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: Background: There is a high burden of unmet health needs for people with intellectual disability. Despite experiencing significantly higher rates of morbidity and mortality compared with the general population, this group faces greater barriers to accessing healthcare. While increasing workplace capacity is one way to reduce this inequitable access, previous research indicates a scarcity of undergraduate teaching in intellectual disability. The aim of the study was to determine the extent and nature of intellectual disability content currently offered within medical degree curricula. Methods: All Australian universities (n = 20) providing accredited medical training were invited to participate in a two-phase audit via an email invitation to the Dean of each medical school. The Dean's delegate from 14 medical schools completed Phase 1, which involved a questionnaire or telephone interview about the overall medical course structure. Unit coordinators and/or teaching staff from 12 medical schools completed Phase 2, which involved an online survey about intellectual disability content within the curriculum. Results: In Australia, medical school curricula contain a median of 2.55 h of compulsory intellectual disability content. The majority of universities only offer a small amount of compulsory content. Of compulsory units, intellectual disability teaching is minimal in sexual health and emergency medicine (only one unit offered in one school for each). Topics of key relevance in intellectual disability health such as human rights issues, interdisciplinary team work and preventative health are poorly represented in intellectual disability teaching. Elective content varies markedly across universities (1 to 122 h), but emergency medicine, women's health, men's health and many other specialist medicine areas are not represented. Inclusive practice is inconsistent in degree and nature, but a majority of universities (nine) involve people with intellectual disability in the development or delivery of content. Conclusions: There is a mismatch between the considerable unmet health needs of people with intellectual disability and the inconsistent teaching within medical schools. Future doctors will be better equipped to support the health and wellbeing of people with intellectual disability if curricula are enhanced in this area.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Leong Sun, Wong Fon Bill, Leong Jong Chan, Wong Sik Chew, Wong Goon Shew, Wong Tat, Luey Gai, Luey Yow, Wong Hoy, Jung Young Sat.
Molar concentration from sequential 2-D water-window X-ray ptychography and X-ray fluorescence in hydrated cells
Creators: name: Jones, MWM
name: Elgass, KD
name: Junker, MD
name: de Jonge, MD
name: van Riessen, Grant
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3101
subject: Biochemistry and cell biology

description: Recent developments in biological X-ray microscopy have allowed structural information and elemental distribution to be simultaneously obtained by combining X-ray ptychography and X-ray fluorescence microscopy. Experimentally, these methods can be performed simultaneously; however, the optimal conditions for each measurement may not be compatible. Here, we combine two distinct measurements of ultrastructure and elemental distribution, with each measurement performed under optimised conditions. By combining optimised ptychography and fluorescence information we are able to determine molar concentrations from two-dimensional images, allowing an investigation into the interactions between the environment sensing filopodia in fibroblasts and extracellular calcium. Furthermore, the biological ptychography results we present illustrate a point of maturity where the technique can be applied to solve significant problems in structural biology.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Wong Yuey Sai, Leong On Gar, Wong Sing, Chan Fun On, Chan Yee, Tom Mon, Lew Tai Chun, Song Soon, Chan Lum Shing, Wong Chun King.
Gender-Based Violence In Light Of The Coronavirus Pandemic: A Descriptive Study On Jordanian Women
Creators: name: Yousef Damen Khataybeh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Family violence, Corona Effects, Women, Man Violence, Gender

description: The objective of this study is to provide descriptive statistics on the percentages, causes, forms and sources of battered women in Jordan. The study was conducted on the basis of the social survey method and the electronic questionnaire instrument for intentional samples of (1308) Jordanian women. Results showed that in the Corona pandemic in 2020, 17.1% of the sample examined were abused. And husbands are more violently engaging 37.5% against their wives, followed by 28.6% for fathers to daughters and 26.8% for brothers against sisters.The results indicates that  the causes of this violence related to social factors such as patriarchy, intervention of family and relatives, and economic factors such as high living costs, poor household income, and poverty.

 

 It also concluded that verbal, physical, and psychological violence are the most common types of violence. Women in southern Jordan, the poorest and least educated, and those living in large households were found to be the most abused, according to the survey.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Lee Jong Yow, Soon Yew Kim, Woo Siu Hem, Huey Chong Shon, Choy Him, Kong Lim, Mah Chew Lun, Wong Lai Mung, Ch[un]g Do Ch[o]w, Fung Way Man.
Do Variants in GSTs Modify the Association between Traffic Air Pollution and Asthma in Adolescence?
Creators: name: Bowatte, G
name: Lodge, CJ
name: Lowe, AJ
name: Erbas, Bircan
name: Dennekamp, M
name: Marks, GB
name: Perret, J
name: Hui, J
name: Wjst, M
name: Gurrin, LC
name: Allen, KJ
name: Abramson, MJ
name: Matheson, MC
name: Dharmage, SC
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3101
subject: Biochemistry and cell biology
classificationCode: 3107
subject: Microbiology
classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
classificationCode: 3404
subject: Medicinal and biomolecular chemistry

description: Polymorphisms in genes involved in the oxidative stress response may partially explain the documented heterogeneous associations between traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) exposure and asthma and allergies in children. We investigated whether the GSTT1, GSTM1 and GSTP1 gene polymorphisms modified the associations between TRAP exposure during the first year of life and asthma, wheeze and hay fever in adolescence. We used a birth cohort of 620 high risk infants from the Melbourne Atopy Cohort Study. TRAP exposure during the first year of life was defined as the cumulative length of major roads within 150 m of each participant’s residence during the first year of life. Wheeze, asthma and hay fever were measured at ages 12 (n = 370) and 18 (n = 434) years. The associations and interactions with glutathione S-transferases (GST s) were investigated using regression models. Overall, there was no relationship between TRAP exposure during the first year of life and current asthma, wheeze and hay fever at ages 12 or 18 years. However, in GSTT1 null carriers, every 100 m increase in cumulative lengths of major road exposure during the first year of life was associated with a 2.31-fold increased risk of wheeze and a 2.15-fold increased risk of asthma at 12 years. TRAP is associated with some respiratory outcomes in carriers of genetic polymorphisms in oxidative stress metabolism genes.
AGRIGEP 6th Press release Summer School
Creators: name: AGRIGEP Project
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: AGRIGEP
GENDER
TRAINING
WOMEN
RESEARCHERS
GENDEREQUALITY
SUMMERSCHOOL

description: From June 18 to 20, 2024, at the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria Industrial de Barcelona(ETSEIB - UPC), the summer meeting of the AGRIGEP project (Assessment andimplementation of Agriculture and Life Science Universities’ first Gender Equality Plans inwidening countries) was held.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Low Hon Kong, Yuen C. Lin, Wong Yee Chee, Wong Yuk, Pon York Lung, Pon Art June, Hum Sing Yung, Soo Wei, Yee Yat Ben, Won Fee Nan.
Mobile small RNAs regulate genome-wide DNA methylation
Creators: name: Lewsey, Mathew
name: Hardcastle, TJ
name: Melnyk, CW
name: Molnar, A
name: Valli, A
name: Urich, MA
name: Nery, JR
name: Baulcombe, DC
name: Ecker, JR
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3102
subject: Bioinformatics and computational biology
classificationCode: 3105
subject: Genetics
classificationCode: 3108
subject: Plant biology
classificationCode: 310803
subject: Plant cell and molecular biology

description: RNA silencing at the transcriptional and posttranscriptional levels regulates endogenous gene expression, controls invading transposable elements (TEs), and protects the cell against viruses. Key components of the mechanism are small RNAs (sRNAs) of 21-24 nt that guide the silencing machinery to their nucleic acid targets in a nucleotide sequence-specific manner. Transcriptional gene silencing is associated with 24-nt sRNAs and RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) at cytosine residues in three DNA sequence contexts (CG, CHG, and CHH). We previously demonstrated that 24-nt sRNAs are mobile from shoot to root in Arabidopsis thaliana and confirmed that they mediate DNA methylation at three sites in recipient cells. In this study, we extend this finding by demonstrating that RdDM of thousands of loci in root tissues is dependent upon mobile sRNAs from the shoot and that mobile sRNA-dependent DNA methylation occurs predominantly in non-CG contexts. Mobile sRNA-dependent non-CG methylation is largely dependent on the DOMAINS REARRANGED METHYLTRANSFERASES 1/2 (DRM1/DRM2) RdDM pathway but is independent of the CHROMOMETHYLASE (CMT)2/3 DNA methyltransferases. Specific superfamilies of TEs, including those typically found in gene-rich euchromatic regions, lose DNA methylation in a mutant lacking 22-to 24-nt sRNAs (dicer-like 2, 3, 4 triple mutant). Transcriptome analyses identified a small number of genes whose expression in roots is associated with mobile sRNAs and connected to DNA methylation directly or indirectly. Finally, we demonstrate that sRNAs from shoots of one accession move across a graft union and target DNA methylation de novo at normally unmethylated sites in the genomes of root cells from a different accession.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Wong Dock, Lee Dan, Fong Shew Chong, Lor Hong, Lose See, Hong Sew Yen, Leong Jack, Yip Kew, Soo Yen Kew, Leong Quon.
MEMO/GRANT: IMPROVING CHILDHOOD VACCINATION RATES IN DRC
Creators: name: Lufulwabo, Aime
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This memo/grant aims to raise awareness and improve childhood vaccination rates in the Democratic of the Congo. It mainly targets hesitant parents and public health authorities by engaging them in meaningful discussions and collaboration to overcome the challenges hindering the low childhood vaccination rates. 

Involving public health authorities as readers, the message will align strategies with their expertise, gain support, and foster collaboration to overcome all barriers to vaccination.

Parents are reluctant to vaccinate due to a lack of education, misinformation, cultural beliefs, and fear of contacting vaccination workers because of COVID-19. Empathizing with parents' perspectives and providing the proper education would build trust, foster an open dialogue and improve vaccination rates among their vulnerable children. 

Public health authorities will design and implement the most effective strategies to strengthen the Congolese healthcare system to improve vaccination rates and overall childhood well-being by involving these parents as critical stakeholders.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Wong Yow, Chan Shee, Chan Ball, Mah Gee, Mah Shing, Jung Kong, Seid Gee Dick, Low Chung, Mah Sum See, Young Gan Woo.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Lum Fat, Lee Lum Moon, Low Ming Bun, Woo Chew Hip, Gee Mon Gwok, Yip Kin, Lee Way Shang, Lee Gee Shang, Jung Shew Chap, Lim Goey D[ee]n.
The effect of concomitant peripheral injury on traumatic brain injury pathobiology and outcome
Creators: name: McDonald, Stuart
name: Sun, M
name: Agoston, DV
name: Shultz, SR
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3204
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: 3209
subject: Neurosciences

description: Background: Traumatic injuries are physical insults to the body that are prevalent worldwide. Many individuals involved in accidents suffer injuries affecting a number of extremities and organs, otherwise known as multitrauma or polytrauma. Traumatic brain injury is one of the most serious forms of the trauma-induced injuries and is a leading cause of death and long-term disability. Despite over dozens of phase III clinical trials, there are currently no specific treatments known to improve traumatic brain injury outcomes. These failures are in part due to our still poor understanding of the heterogeneous and evolving pathophysiology of traumatic brain injury and how factors such as concomitant extracranial injuries can impact these processes. Main body: Here, we review the available clinical and pre-clinical studies that have investigated the possible impact of concomitant injuries on traumatic brain injury pathobiology and outcomes. We then list the pathophysiological processes that may interact and affect outcomes and discuss promising areas for future research. Taken together, many of the clinical multitrauma/polytrauma studies discussed in this review suggest that concomitant peripheral injuries may increase the risk of mortality and functional deficits following traumatic brain injury, particularly when severe extracranial injuries are combined with mild to moderate brain injury. In addition, recent animal studies have provided strong evidence that concomitant injuries may increase both peripheral and central inflammatory responses and that structural and functional deficits associated with traumatic brain injury may be exacerbated in multiply injured animals. Conclusions: The findings of this review suggest that concomitant extracranial injuries are capable of modifying the outcomes and pathobiology of traumatic brain injury, in particular neuroinflammation. Though additional studies are needed to further identify the factors and mechanisms involved in central and peripheral injury interactions following multitrauma and polytrauma, concomitant injuries should be recognized and accounted for in future pre-clinical and clinical traumatic brain injury studies.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Tom Quong Hin, Dong Lock Ping, Fong Yee, Fong Ling, Mah Suey Tom, Eng Lak, Leong T[om] Hing, Shim Hsing, Huey Do, Wong Lun Gun.
The relationship between foot posture, body mass, age and ankle, lower-limb and whole-body flexibility in healthy children aged 7 to 15 years
Creators: name: Hawke, F
name: Rome, K
name: Evans, Angela
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4201
subject: Allied health and rehabilitation science
classificationCode: 420107
subject: Podiatry
classificationCode: 4207
subject: Sports science and exercise

description: Background: The complex relationship between foot posture, flexibility, body mass and age in children is not well understood. The objectives of this post hoc analysis were to explore the relationships between foot posture, flexibility, body mass in children aged seven to 15years. Methods: Thirty healthy, asymptomatic children (20 girls, 10 boys) aged 7 to 15years with a mean age (SD) of 10.7 (2.3) years, were recruited through the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Podiatry Clinic, Auckland, New Zealand. Clinical data were collected by a podiatrist with 20years' experience and included: height and weight (for Body Mass Index), Foot Posture Index-6 (FPI), Beighton score, Lower Limb Assessment Scale score (LLAS); and ankle lunge angle. For this post hoc analysis, Pearson's test and Spearman's rho were used to explore relationships between variables. Statistical significance level was p < 0.05. Results: Data for each of the 30 participants for each variable were included in analyses, which returned the following statistically significant results: higher FPI was associated moderately with higher Beighton score (r = 0.44, p = 0.01); greater lunge angle was associated moderately with higher Beighton (r = 0.40, p = 0.02) and LLAS (r = 0.42, p = 0.02) scores; older age was associated strongly with higher BMI (r = 0.52, p = <0.01) and moderately with lower Beighton (r = -0.41, p = 0.024) and LLAS (r = -0.40, p = 0.03) scores; and higher Beighton score was associated strongly with higher LLAS (r = 0.85, p = <0.01). There was no difference in foot posture between girls and boys (p = 0.21). Conclusions: In this sample of healthy, asymptomatic children age 7 to 15years, children with a more pronated foot type exhibited greater lower limb and whole-body flexibility, but not greater ankle joint flexibility. There was strong agreement between lower-limb and whole-body flexibility. This study highlights the importance of assessing the paediatric flat foot in the context of a developing body.
Analyzing the major contribution factor for heart attack using ML algorithms and LIME
Creators: name: Ghimire, Bishal
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 461199
subject: Machine learning not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 440710
subject: Research, science and technology policy

description: This article aims to provide a comprehensive overview of machine learning, exploring its foundational concepts, current applications, and future directions. By delving into both the theoretical underpinnings and practical implications, this research seeks to contribute to a deeper understanding of how machine learning is reshaping industries and influencing the future of technology.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Ho Bing, Mah Lai Ow, Leong Chong Nay, Wong Why, [Gim] Kar Yam, Woo Park, [Look Pak Nu], Kee Wing, Low Yen Hoy, Lim Jin Wing,.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Sam Man Jang, Wong Kin, Ching San Gee, Kwan Yan Chung, Lew Pie, [Der Mee Sun], Leong Yat Hong, Wong York Wah, Wong Yee Hing, Wong Chong.
Empowering Rural Women: Key Factors Driving Participation in Livelihood Credit Programs in Gubaflto Wereda, North Wollo, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Sisay, Moges Asmare
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Questionaire for "Empowering Rural Women: Key Factors Driving Participation in Livelihood Credit Programs in Gubaflto Wereda, North Wollo, Ethiopia"
Heuristics for spatial finding using iterative mobile crowdsourcing
Creators: name: Loke, Seng
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 46
subject: Information and computing sciences
classificationCode: 4605
subject: Data management and data science
classificationCode: 4608
subject: Human-centred computing
classificationCode: 4609
subject: Information systems

description: Crowdsourcing has become a popular method for involving humans in socially-aware computational processes. This paper proposes and investigates algorithms for finding regions of interest using mobile crowdsourcing. The algorithms are iterative, using cycles of crowd-querying and feedback till specified targets are found, each time adjusting the query according to the feedback using heuristics. We describe three (computationally simple) heuristics, incorporated into crowdsourcing algorithms, to reducing the costs (the number of questions required) and increasing the efficiency (or reducing the number of rounds required) in using such crowdsourcing: (i) using additional questions in each round in the expectation of failures, (ii) using neighbourhood associations in the case where regions of interest are clustered, and (iii) modelling regions of interest via spatial point processes. We demonstrate the improved performance of using these heuristics using a range of stylised scenarios. Our research suggests that finding in the city is not as difficult as it can be, especially for phenomena that exhibit some degree of clustering.
Towards the elimination of white spots in mobile WiMAX grids through time efficient cognitive vertical handoff algorithm
Creators: name: Minhas, AA
name: Qaddus, A
name: Khan, MS
name: Iftikhar, M
name: Zia, T
name: Almazyad, A
name: Chilamkurti, Naveen
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering
classificationCode: 4006
subject: Communications engineering
classificationCode: 46
subject: Information and computing sciences
classificationCode: 4606
subject: Distributed computing and systems software

description: During the past two decades particularly, there has been incredible growth in the telecommunication industry which evolved the demand for real time applications. Mobile grids and internet service providers are offering competitive real time services to customers in order to fulfil their daily demands. Nowadays, WiMAX has become a key player in telecommunication industry for providing cost effective communication solutions to customers residing in developed and underdeveloped regions. Moreover, a significant role of WiMAX technology is to fill the gap between the first-world and third-world countries. WiMAX technology offers affordable low cost wireless multimedia services to its customers by using point to multipoint propagation methods. Over the past few years, the problem of white spots in WiMAX grids has been reported in the literature extensively. Consequently, this issue has got a lot of attention from researchers. In order to disentangle the phenomenon of white spots, a novel algorithm based on time efficient cognitive vertical handoff scheme has been presented in this paper. The proposed algorithm is based upon principles of cognitive heterogeneous wireless grids. The simulation results have shown that the proposed algorithm is a promising candidate to overcome the problem of white spots in mobile WiMAX grids.
Supplementary document for Experimental investigation of nanosecond laser-induced shockwaves in water using multiple excitation beams - 6441700.pdf
Creators: name: Yang, Zhi
name: bao, hengzhu
name: Dai, Lu-Nan
name: Zhang, Hongchao
name: Lu, Jian
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy

description: 3D experimental set-up
Complex intervention modelling should capture the dynamics of adaptation
Creators: name: Greenwood-Lee, J
name: Hawe, P
name: Nettel-Aguirre, A
name: Shiell, Alan
name: Marshall, DA
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
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: Complexity has been linked to health interventions in two ways: first as a property of the intervention, and secondly as a property of the system into which the intervention is implemented. The former recognizes that interventions may consist of multiple components that act both independently and interdependently, making it difficult to identify the components or combinations of components (and their contexts) that are important mechanisms of change. The latter recognizes that interventions are implemented in complex adaptive systems comprised of intelligent agents who modify their behaviour (including any actions required to implement the intervention) in an effort to improve outcomes relative to their own perspective and objectives. Although an intervention may be intended to take a particular form, its implementation and impact within the system may deviate from its original intentions as a result of adaptation. Complexity highlights the challenge in developing interventions as effective health solutions. The UK Medical Research Council provides guidelines on the development and evaluation of complex interventions. While mathematical modelling is included in the guidelines, there is potential for mathematical modeling to play a greater role. Discussion: The dynamic non-linear nature of complex adaptive systems makes mathematical modelling crucial. However, the tendency is for models of interventions to limit focus on the ecology of the system - the 'real-time' operation of the system and impacts of the intervention. These models are deficient by not modelling the way the system reacts to the intervention via agent adaptation. Complex intervention modelling needs to capture the consequences of adaptation through the inclusion of an evolutionary dynamic to describe the long-term emergent outcomes that result as agents respond to the ecological changes introduced by intervention in an effort to produce better outcomes for themselves. Mathematical approaches such as those found in economics in evolutionary game theory and mechanism design can inform the design and evaluation of health interventions. As an illustration, the introduction of a central screening clinic is modeled as an example of a health services delivery intervention. Summary: Complexity necessitates a greater role for mathematical models, especially those that capture the dynamics of human actions and interactions.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Wong Kee Chow, Mah Bing Fon, Mah Dark Chew, Mah Tow, Mah Gan, Mah Dai Poy, Mah Kwong, Mah Yin, Lew Shong Let, [Dong Chen Woo].
Introducing BASE: the Biomes of Australian Soil Environments soil microbial diversity database
Creators: name: Bissett, A
name: Fitzgerald, A
name: Meintjes, T
name: Mele, Pauline
name: Reith, F
name: Dennis, PG
name: Breed, MF
name: Brown, B
name: Brown, MV
name: Brugger, J
name: Byrne, M
name: Caddy-Retalic, S
name: Carmody, B
name: Coates, DJ
name: Correa, C
name: Ferrari, BC
name: Gupta, VVSR
name: Hamonts, K
name: Haslem, Asha
name: Hugenholtz, P
name: Karan, M
name: Koval, J
name: Lowe, AJ
name: Macdonald, S
name: McGrath, L
name: Martin, D
name: Morgan, M
name: North, KI
name: Paungfoo-Lonhienne, C
name: Pendall, E
name: Phillips, L
name: Pirzl, R
name: Powell, JR
name: Ragan, MA
name: Schmidt, S
name: Seymour, N
name: Snape, I
name: Stephen, JR
name: Stevens, M
name: Tinning, M
name: Williams, K
name: Yeoh, YK
name: Zammit, CM
name: Young, A
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3107
subject: Microbiology
classificationCode: 410603
subject: Soil biology

description: Background: Microbial inhabitants of soils are important to ecosystem and planetary functions, yet there are large gaps in our knowledge of their diversity and ecology. The 'Biomes of Australian Soil Environments' (BASE) project has generated a database of microbial diversity with associated metadata across extensive environmental gradients at continental scale. As the characterisation of microbes rapidly expands, the BASE database provides an evolving platform for interrogating and integrating microbial diversity and function. Findings: BASE currently provides amplicon sequences and associated contextual data for over 900 sites encompassing all Australian states and territories, a wide variety of bioregions, vegetation and land-use types. Amplicons target bacteria, archaea and general and fungal-specific eukaryotes. The growing database will soon include metagenomics data. Data are provided in both raw sequence (FASTQ) and analysed OTU table formats and are accessed via the project's data portal, which provides a user-friendly search tool to quickly identify samples of interest. Processed data can be visually interrogated and intersected with other Australian diversity and environmental data using tools developed by the 'Atlas of Living Australia'. Conclusions: Developed within an open data framework, the BASE project is the first Australian soil microbial diversity database. The database will grow and link to other global efforts to explore microbial, plant, animal, and marine biodiversity. Its design and open access nature ensures that BASE will evolve as a valuable tool for documenting an often overlooked component of biodiversity and the many microbe-driven processes that are essential to sustain soil function and ecosystem services.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Jung Chew Jack, Joe Lai Chun, Low Yon, Low You, Mah Chun Shang, Wong Look, Yong Sik Kin, Mah Fung Wai, Lim Gin, Lee Sai Jong.
Foraging loads of red wood ants: Formica aquilonia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in relation to tree characteristics and stand age
Creators: name: Gibb, Heloise
name: Andersson, J
name: Johansson, T
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 30
subject: Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3103
subject: Ecology
classificationCode: 3109
subject: Zoology
classificationCode: 41
subject: Environmental sciences

description: Background. Foraging efficiency is critical in determining the success of organisms and may be affected by a range of factors, including resource distance and quality. For social insects such as ants, outcomes must be considered at the level of both the individual and the colony. It is important to understand whether anthropogenic disturbances, such as forestry, affect foraging loads, independent of effects on the quality and distribution of resources. We asked if ants harvest greater loads from more distant and higher quality resources, how individual efforts scale to the colony level, and whether worker loads are affected by stand age. Methods. First, we performed a fine-scale study examining the effect of distance and resource quality (tree diameter and species) on harvesting of honeydew by red wood ants, Formica aquilonia, in terms of crop load per worker ant and numbers of workers walking up and down each tree (ant activity) (study 1). Second, we modelled what the combination of load and worker number responses meant for colony-level foraging loads. Third, at a larger scale, we asked whether the relationship between worker load and resource quality and distance depended on stand age (study 2). Results. Study 1 revealed that seventy percent of ants descending trees carried honeydew, and the percentage of workers that were honeydew harvesters was not related to tree species or diameter, but increased weakly with distance. Distance positively affected load mass in both studies 1 and 2, while diameter had weak negative effects on load. Relationships between load and distance and diameter did not differ among stands of different ages. Our model showed that colony-level loads declined much more rapidly with distance for small diameter than large diameter trees. Discussion. We suggest that a negative relationship between diameter and honeydew load detected in study 1 might be a result of crowding on large diameter trees close to nests, while the increase in honeydew load with distance may result from resource depletion close to nests. At the colony level, our model suggests that very little honeydew was harvested from more distant trees if they were small, but that more distant larger trees continued to contribute substantially to colony harvest. Although forestry alters the activity and foraging success of red wood ants, study 2 showed that it does not alter the fundamental rules determining the allocation of foraging effort.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Lee Tom, Kwong Yee, Kwong Chong, Lim Gin Wing, Fong Suey, Kwok Lan Fon, Kwok Jung Ho, Kwok Hing Mow, Hong Tim, Kwok Shee Yong.
title: Multivariable Flight Control Design Tool Incorporating Gain and Phase Root Locus
Creators: name: Yoon, Yong Ki
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2008

description: A challenging problem in flight control system design for highly maneuverable aircraft is the coordinated control of the lateral-directional axes. Design goals are based on desired flying qualities giving an indication of whether the response to pilot inputs will  be  acceptable.  Satisfying  these closed-loop  design  objectives  employing  a computerized flight control system requires multiple feedback and crossfeed paths which operate in a well coordinated fashion. Contemporary control design tools, which close all loops simultaneously, have addressed this problem for several decades. Concerns associated with these strategies are the complicated mathematical relationships between the designer inputs and resulting closed-loop properties, and the lack of information about the role and fw1ction of individual feedback loops or gains. From these downsides, understanding of how the aircraft's dynamics are augmented by the controller is limited and, if modifications to the flight control system are needed, corrective steps to follow are unclear. Further, these tools lack the rich graphical nature associated with conventional control techniques. Development of a computerized flight control design tool based on a new multivariable framework incorporating both gain and phase root locus concepts. is the aim of this thesis. The new tool generates gain and phase root locus plots for the closed-loop poles and the closed-loop zeros for all transfer functions associated with a two-channel, bi-directional crossfeed system. This thesis illustrates the use of the combined gain and phase concepts for controller design to to achieve the desired objectives. The tool was used successfully to design a lateral-directional flight control system.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Mah Wei Gim, Chow Chuck Sun, Low Ah Gum, Low Wei Cheong, Chin Kew, Low Yon Hoy, Low Tai [Chun], Young Job Cheong, Mah Yee, Mah Quon.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Dair Wing Bing, Wong Shin Ying, Ng Hong Lum, Harold Soon, Chung To Choy, Mah Wong Doon, Mah Sap Doon, Yee Siou, Chin Kom Chi, Lee Jong Dew.
Bioengineering microbial communities: Their potential to help, hinder and disgust
Creators: name: Sivasubramaniam, D
name: Franks, Ashley
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3101
subject: Biochemistry and cell biology
classificationCode: 3106
subject: Industrial biotechnology
subject: FOS: Industrial biotechnology
classificationCode: 3107
subject: Microbiology

description: ABSTRACT: The bioengineering of individual microbial organisms or microbial communities has great potential in agriculture, bioremediation and industry. Understanding community level drivers can improve community level functions to enhance desired outcomes in complex environments, whereas individual microbes can be reduced to a programmable biological unit for specific output goals. While understanding the bioengineering potential of both approaches leads to a wide range of potential uses, public acceptance of such technology may be the greatest hindrance to its application. Public perceptions and expectations of “naturalness,” as well as notions of disgust and dread, may delay the development of such technologies to their full benefit. We discuss these bioengineering approaches and draw on the psychological literature to suggest strategies that scientists can use to allay public concerns over the implementation of this technology.
Me am eus eur c'haorig
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
LEGAL GROUNDS FOR CRIMINAL LIABILITY ESTABLISHED IN NATIONAL LEGISLATION FOR INVOLVING MINORS IN ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR
Creators: name: Askarov, Nodirbek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This article outlines the issues concerning criminal liability for involving a minor in antisocial behavior as stipulated by the Criminal Legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Furthermore, the article analyzes the opinions and views of scholars who have studied certain aspects of involving minors in antisocial actions.
2016 Consensus statement on return to sport from the First World Congress in Sports Physical Therapy, Bern
Creators: name: Ardern, Clare
name: Glasgow, P
name: Schneiders, A
name: Witvrouw, E
name: Clarsen, B
name: Cools, A
name: Gojanovic, B
name: Griffin, S
name: Khan, KM
name: Moksnes, H
name: Mutch, SA
name: Phillips, N
name: Reurink, G
name: Sadler, R
name: Silbernagel, KG
name: Thorborg, K
name: Wangensteen, A
name: Wilk, KE
name: Bizzini, Mario
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4201
subject: Allied health and rehabilitation science
classificationCode: 4207
subject: Sports science and exercise
classificationCode: 5201
subject: Applied and developmental psychology

description: Deciding when to return to sport after injury is complex and multifactorial-an exercise in risk management. Return to sport decisions are made every day by clinicians, athletes and coaches, ideally in a collaborative way. The purpose of this consensus statement was to present and synthesise current evidence to make recommendations for return to sport decision-making, clinical practice and future research directions related to returning athletes to sport. A half day meeting was held in Bern, Switzerland, after the First World Congress in Sports Physical Therapy. 17 expert clinicians participated. 4 main sections were initially agreed upon, then participants elected to join 1 of the 4 groups-each group focused on 1 section of the consensus statement. Participants in each group discussed and summarised the key issues for their section before the 17-member group met again for discussion to reach consensus on the content of the 4 sections. Return to sport is not a decision taken in isolation at the end of the recovery and rehabilitation process. Instead, return to sport should be viewed as a continuum, paralleled with recovery and rehabilitation. Biopsychosocial models may help the clinician make sense of individual factors that may influence the athlete's return to sport, and the Strategic Assessment of Risk and Risk Tolerance framework may help decision-makers synthesise information to make an optimal return to sport decision. Research evidence to support return to sport decisions in clinical practice is scarce. Future research should focus on a standardised approach to defining, measuring and reporting return to sport outcomes, and identifying valuable prognostic factors for returning to sport.