cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Physical activity and sedentary time during pregnancy and associations with maternal and fetal health outcomes: an epidemiological study
Creators: name: L Meander
name: M Lindqvist
name: Mogren, Ingrid
name: J Sandlund
name: CE West
name: M Domellöf
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Background: Physical activity is generally considered safe for the pregnant woman as well as for her fetus. In Sweden, pregnant women without contraindications are recommended to engage in physical activity for at least 30 min per day most days of the week. Physical activity during pregnancy has been associated with decreased risks of adverse health outcomes for the pregnant woman and her offspring. However, there are at present no recommendations regarding sedentary behavior during pregnancy. The aim was to examine the level of physical activity and sedentary time in a representative sample of the pregnant population in Sweden, and to explore potential effects on gestational age, gestational weight gain, birth weight of the child, mode of delivery, blood loss during delivery/postpartum, self-rated health during pregnancy and risk of pregnancy-induced hypertension and preeclampsia. Methods: This was an epidemiological study using data from the prospective, population-based NorthPop study in Northern Sweden and information on pregnancy outcomes from the national Swedish Pregnancy Register (SPR). A questionnaire regarding physical activity and sedentary time during pregnancy was answered by 2203 pregnant women. Possible differences between categories were analyzed using one-way Analysis of variance and Pearson’s Chi-square test. Associations between the level of physical activity/sedentary time and outcome variables were analyzed with univariable and multivariable logistic regression and linear regression. Results: Only 27.3% of the included participants reported that they reached the recommended level of physical activity. A higher level of physical activity was associated with a reduced risk of emergency caesarean section, lower gestational weight gain, more favorable self-rated health during pregnancy, and a decreased risk of exceeding the Institute of Medicine’s recommendations regarding gestational weight gain. Higher sedentary time was associated with a non-favorable self-rated health during pregnancy. Conclusions: Our study showed that only a minority of pregnant women achieved the recommended level of physical activity, and that higher physical activity and lower sedentary time were associated with improved health outcomes. Encouraging pregnant women to increase their physical activity and decrease their sedentary time, may be important factors to improve maternal and fetal/child health outcomes.
Chinese herbal medicine for mild cognitive impairment and related disorders: evidence from modern and classical literature and its implications for future research
Creators: name: DONG, Lin
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 420803
subject: Traditional Chinese medicine and treatments

description: Chinese herbal medicine for MCI. Two systematic reviews were conducted to identify useful herbs for MCI. A qualitative study was conducted and the results of this study were used to inform the design of a protocol for a clinical trial of Chinese herbs for MCI and addressed challenges in carrying out a clinical trial for elderly people. 

This thesis delivered a design of clinical trial based on investigation of herbs used for clinical trials in the past and modern and classic books. It also investigated mechanism of the herbs work from a biomedical perspective. Experimental studies in vivo and in vitro were searched and studied.
Particle Builder (Particle Physics Boardgame)
Creators: name: McGinness, Lachlan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Board Game
Particle Physics
Games
Standard Model
Particle Builder

description: Particle Builder is a game designed help familiarize students with the standard model of particle physics.

Simply download ParticleBuilder.zip from the bottom of this page and extract the file. Instructions for printing and playing the game are included in the "Material to Print" folder.

Online version of the game is available here: https://particle-builder.anu.edu.au/
Particle Builder (Particle Physics Boardgame)
Creators: name: McGinness, Lachlan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Board Game
Particle Physics
Games
Standard Model
Particle Builder

description: Particle Builder is a game designed help familiarize students with the standard model of particle physics.

Simply download ParticleBuilder.zip from the bottom of this page and extract the file. Instructions for printing and playing the game are included in the "Material to Print" folder.
Diabetes Attenuates the Contribution of Endogenous Nitric Oxide but Not Nitroxyl to Endothelium Dependent Relaxation of Rat Carotid Arteries
Creators: name: Li, JC
name: Velagic, A
name: Qin, CX
name: Li, M
name: Leo, CH
name: Kemp-Harper, BK
name: Ritchie, Rebecca
name: Woodman, OL
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Endothelial dysfunction is a major risk factor for several of the vascular complications of diabetes, including ischemic stroke. Nitroxyl (HNO), the one electron reduced and protonated form of nitric oxide (NO•), is resistant to scavenging by superoxide, but the role of HNO in diabetes mellitus associated endothelial dysfunction in the carotid artery remains unknown.
Additional file 1 of Index tumor location affected early biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy in patients with negative surgical margin: a retrospective study
Creators: name: Ogata, Yoshihiko
name: Akatsuka, Jun
name: Endo, Yuki
name: Mikami, Hikaru
name: Yanagi, Masato
name: Takeda, Hayato
name: Toyama, Yuka
name: Yamamoto, Yoichiro
name: Kimura, Go
name: Kondo, Yukihiro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Additional file 2 of Index tumor location affected early biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy in patients with negative surgical margin: a retrospective study
Creators: name: Ogata, Yoshihiko
name: Akatsuka, Jun
name: Endo, Yuki
name: Mikami, Hikaru
name: Yanagi, Masato
name: Takeda, Hayato
name: Toyama, Yuka
name: Yamamoto, Yoichiro
name: Kimura, Go
name: Kondo, Yukihiro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 2.
Electrical characterisation of lithium-ion cells above their operating range
Creators: name: Nebl, Christoph
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 400702
subject: Automation engineering
classificationCode: 461105
subject: Reinforcement learning

description: The lithium-ion technology is used in mobile phones, smart-phones, notebooks, tablets and also increasingly in automotive applications. Not least because of the energy revolution, the growing electrification and environmental concerns require the optimisation of predication and identification of lithium-ion technology parameters as part of improvements for battery models. An improved understanding at high load situations is necessary and indispensable for a safe and reliable usage of a battery as safe energy supply in all application areas.

In practice, at the beginning of a development process, development engineers are often only expected to make quick estimates, but nevertheless a statement about the feasibility of a storage solution as robust as possible or the suitability of a storage type for a project, even when many details of the specification are still rather vague or completely unknown. Other equations describe this dependence up to very high currents, including the currents that occur during a short circuit. Not the usually described quantities of current and capacity, but energy and power are the decisive parameters for the dimensioning of battery systems.

The discharge duration of a battery and its dependency on discharge current amplitude are well described by Peukert's law from low to medium current ranges. Other equations describe this dependency up to very high current rates, including the currents occurring during a short circuit. The outcome of this PhD research is the characterisation of lithium-ion battery cells at high loads close to the short-circuit case with unusual high currents exceeding common operation ranges. This is accomplished by investigation of capacity, power delivery and energy availability of lithium-ion cells, while the usual operation areas are overstepped. The results allow to determine the basic characteristics of a cell with just a few current and voltage measurements and enables to answer the fundamental questions of battery system developers. Even if all the project- and application-specific parameters are not sufficiently defined, the developed equations allow a fast and cost-effective feasibility study on technical conditions such as vehicle range by an easy determination of capacity, power delivery and energy availability. The results also lead to a broader scope of application and enable a higher accuracy of complex physical models for lithium-ion batteries at high load states. Thus, the results contribute to enhance the efficiency level and simultaneously increase the safety level of lithium-ion battery application.
The structure of target effects in personality judgments following behavior observation: The role of global and trait-specific factors
Creators: name: Bartlick, Aline
name: Freyer, Nele
name: Wiedenroth, Anne
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Personality and Social Contexts
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Big Five
subject: behavior observation
subject: global factor
subject: judgement
subject: person perception
subject: personality
subject: posititvity factor
subject: target effect
subject: trait-specific

description: This project aims to contribute to research into the personality structure of humans. In particular, we would like to investigate the structure of target effects in personality judgments after behavior observations. To this end, we will use a confirmatory factor analysis to examine how much variance in target effects can be explained by an activity factor, a positivity factor and trait-specific factors. Thus, with this study we intend to contribute to a better understanding of both the trait-specific and the global structure of target effects.
The complete preregistration can be found in the file: "Preregistration_The_structure_of_target_effects_in_personality_judgments_following_behavior_observation.docx".
Mobile media and the urban environment: embodied perceptions of space, place and safety
Creators: name: Hardley, Jess
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 470102
subject: Communication technology and digital media studies

description: Smartphones are intimate and haptic devices; we carry them around in urban and domestic spaces, we check we have them before leaving the house, we routinely rely on their networked and communicative capacities, and we handle them in personalised and habitual ways. This dissertation explores embodied experiences of mobile media in urban space and proposes ways to theorise how mobile devices’ geo-locative and network functions impact everyday perceptions of safety and risk.

The conceptual, theoretical, and methodological framework is informed by a diverse range of theorists, including space and place scholars (Massey, de Certeau and Lefebvre), phenomenology (Merleau-Ponty), postphenomenology (Ihde, Irwin and Wellner), feminist phenomenology (Young and Weiss), and mobile media scholars (Evans, Farman, Frith, Hjorth, Richardson and Wilken). This interdisciplinary framework justifies my development of the terms “space-place” to describe the relational ontology of space and place, “the safety paradox” and “proprioceptive vigilance” to explore how users, especially women, incorporate mobile devices into their bodily schemata, and “networked corporeality” to capture the embodied reorganisation of public and private space in the home during COVID-19.

Theoretical insights are extended by an assemblage of qualitative and phenomenological methods (including a survey, home-visits, face-to-face interviews, observations, haptic experiments, and follow-up online interviews). Each method focuses on how mobile devices, as communicative and location-aware interfaces impact upon embodied perceptions of corporeal safety. Drawing from data collected in Perth and Melbourne, Australia from 2016 to 2020, three analytic chapters encapsulate this research by focusing on: (i) smartphone apps, urban space, and safety; (ii) mobile media, safety, and gendered risk in the context of the urban night; and (iii) the reconfiguration of mobile media use in domestic space in the first months of COVID-19.
From the Rue des Nations to the Rue aux Lèvres
Creators: name: Walden, Lauren
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2017

description:

The International Surrealist Exhibition of 1938 is viewed as a foil to the fin de siècle world fairs of 1889 and 1900, which created taxonomies of nations, promoting colonial exoticism. The cosmopolitan tenet of perpetual peace was present at the latter events but this was subordinated to an imperialist agenda. Surrealist subversion of world fairs stems from the exhibition La Vérité sur les Colonies, a riposte to the official Exposition Coloniale of 1931. I argue the 1938 surrealist exhibition goes further to subvert the entire legacy of the world fairs as an unwanted fin de siècle hangover rather than bolster traditional views that envisage surrealism as a postmodernist precursor to installation art. Indeed, the political teleology of surrealism and the Expositions Universelles is completely polarised but both exhibitions employ similar themes and techniques of sensory immersion. The 1938 International Surrealist Exhibition in Paris concocts a prolifically photographed cosmopolitan cityscape brimming with culturally-hybrid scenography and artworks. Marcel Duchamp creates the space of La Ville Surréaliste with suggestive streets such as the Rue des Lèvres. Leaves, flowers and sand are strewn on the floor creating a multi-sensory appeal alongside fetishized mannequins, furniture and ponds. This is a potential parody of the 1889 World Fair, which created the Rue des Nations and similarly functioned as a miniature town. A Rue de Caire was also constructed to promulgate stereotyped oriental sexualities of belly dancing. Similarities between architecture, dance, mannequins and the domestic space are explored. Ultimately, the Exposition Universelle emphasises alterity for colonial gain whilst the surrealist exhibition employs curatorial cosmopolitanism to injure the impending threat of fascism.

description: MDCCC 1800
Ensemble model for estimating continental-scale patterns of human movement: a case study of Australia
Creators: name: McCulloch, Karen
name: N Golding
name: J McVernon
name: S Goodwin
name: M Tomko
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Understanding human movement patterns at local, national and international scales is critical in a range of fields, including transportation, logistics and epidemiology. Data on human movement is increasingly available, and when combined with statistical models, enables predictions of movement patterns across broad regions. Movement characteristics, however, strongly depend on the scale and type of movement captured for a given study. The models that have so far been proposed for human movement are best suited to specific spatial scales and types of movement. Selecting both the scale of data collection, and the appropriate model for the data remains a key challenge in predicting human movements. We used two different data sources on human movement in Australia, at different spatial scales, to train a range of statistical movement models and evaluate their ability to predict movement patterns for each data type and scale. Whilst the five commonly-used movement models we evaluated varied markedly between datasets in their predictive ability, we show that an ensemble modelling approach that combines the predictions of these models consistently outperformed all individual models against hold-out data.
Autonomous search by a UAV for a source of EM radiation in an urban environment
Creators: name: Jayasekara, Shanaka
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 400711
subject: Simulation, modelling, and programming of mechatronics systems

description: Employing autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to explore unknown Urban Environments is a growing field of interest; specifically, interest in locating RF emitting in an urban environment through detection of received signal strength. To support the research interest of this thesis presents a cognitive search strategy that enables new possibilities to study autonomous search for an emitting source in an urban environment by efficiently gathering location information at temporal and spatial granularities not possible with classical search methods. This study develops an online unmanned UAV path-planning strategy for autonomous search and localisation of RF emitter. The UAV is equipped with Receiver Signal Strength (RSS) sensors to localise stationary radio frequency (RF) emitter. A high-fidelity non-linear measurement model of RF propagation in an urban environment is adopted for this purpose. The measurement model of the likelihood function is considered a Gaussian mixture. Source localisation is carried out using a particle filtering method, while a partially observable Markov decision process is applied for dynamic path planning. This approach allows autonomous UAV navigation in the direction of maximum information gain to locate the emitter and reduce exploration time. We also employ a realistic approach to the measurement arrival in the simulation. In this approach, the measurements are generated at random intervals, and the interval between two consecutive measurements is randomly drawn from an exponential distribution, representing the measurement arrival at the sensor as a Poisson arrival process.
Displays of Islamic Art in Vienna and Paris
Creators: name: Fulco, Daniel
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2017

description:

This paper examines the exhibition of Islamic art at the Weltausstellung in Vienna (1873) and the Paris Exposition Universelle (1878). In particular, it explores how European officials represented both inhabitants and their traditional decorative arts. As will be demonstrated, such displays anticipated more scholarly, specialized exhibitions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries through their strategic concentration on objects from specific societies.

description: MDCCC 1800
Novel tools and methods for designing and wrangling multifunctional, machine-readable evidence synthesis databases
Creators: name: NR Haddaway
name: Gray, Charles
name: M Grainger
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: One of the most important steps in the process of conducting a systematic review or map is data extraction and the production of a database of coding, metadata and study data. There are many ways to structure these data, but to date, no guidelines or standards have been produced for the evidence synthesis community to support their production. Furthermore, there is little adoption of easily machine-readable, readily reusable and adaptable databases: these databases would be easier to translate into different formats by review authors, for example for tabulation, visualisation and analysis, and also by readers of the review/map. As a result, it is common for systematic review and map authors to produce bespoke, complex data structures that, although typically provided digitally, require considerable efforts to understand, verify and reuse. Here, we report on an analysis of systematic reviews and maps published by the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence, and discuss major issues that hamper machine readability and data reuse or verification. We highlight different justifications for the alternative data formats found: condensed databases; long databases; and wide databases. We describe these challenges in the context of data science principles that can support curation and publication of machine-readable, Open Data. We then go on to make recommendations to review and map authors on how to plan and structure their data, and we provide a suite of novel R-based functions to support efficient and reliable translation of databases between formats that are useful for presentation (condensed, human readable tables), filtering and visualisation (wide databases), and analysis (long databases). We hope that our recommendations for adoption of standard practices in database formatting, and the tools necessary to rapidly move between formats will provide a step-change in transparency and replicability of Open Data in evidence synthesis.
Zaragoza at the Paris Exhibition of 1878 from archival and photographic sources
Creators: name: Garris Fernández, Alex
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2017

description:

Since their appearance in the 19th century, universal exhibitions have been closely related to the artistic collections of numerous nations, and they have been a fundamental source for art historians as a historical event in which the most outstanding novelties of each period can be observed. However, the study and more detailed knowledge of the attractive pavilions, or the awardwinning artistic works displayed in these events has diverted the attention from many other artistic projects. The contribution of the Provincial Commission of Monuments of Zaragoza to the 1878 Universal Exhibition not only enabled awareness to be raised about the historical-artistic riches of our province, but also helped spread knowledge about the Aragonese heritage outside our borders through the assembly of a comprehensive catalogue, and a splendid photo album of Aragonese artistic works, which were sent to Paris.

description: MDCCC 1800
Art, Celebration and Progress
Creators: name: Angelini, Gianpaolo
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2017

description:

In May 1899, the town of Como inaugurated an universal exhibition organized for the centenary of the invention of the battery by Alessandro Volta. The exhibition, set up in honour and celebration of an illustrious citizen of Como, was not focused on electricity alone, but also on decorative arts and the silk and furniture industry, including a special section of artistic objects from the territories of the Diocese of Como curated by Santo Monti, author a few years later of a pioneering study on the arts in Northwestern Lombardy. The operation resonated with national and international press: a congress of electricians was presented at the exhibition, anticipating the famous international symposium of physics that would be held in Como in 1927 with the participation of, among others, Fermi, Marconi and many Nobel prizes in a changed political and cultural context. The exhibition halls, designed by engineer Eugenio Linati, occupied much of the area then destined to become a public garden, on which the first museum dedicated to Volta’s work, the Tempio Voltiano, was founded in 1928. The exhibition architectures were characterized by a magniloquent style in a fusion of classical, allegorical, eclectic elements, in order to provide a valuable framework for the public rituals of the inauguration in presence of King Umberto I and Queen Margherita. Mostly destroyed by a fire, from which the hall of Belle Arti survived, the exhibition buildings were quickly reconstructed and reassembled. This paper explores the multiple aspects of the great exhibition, from the architecture of buildings to the media propaganda (posters, periodicals, etc.) and investigates the connection between the promotion of historical and artistic studies on the territory, the heritage preservation, the decorative and industrial arts ranging from the eclectic style to Art Nouveau.

description: MDCCC 1800
Turin 1898-Paris 1900
Creators: name: Stella, Federica
name: Dameri, Annalisa
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2017

description:

The last years of the 19th century in Turin are marked by the project of the General Italian Exhibition of 1898, whose coordination is entrusted to Ceppi, Gilodi and Salvadori. The closure of this Exhibition however does not terminate their experience in designing exposition spaces: in a sort of passing of the baton, some of the Turin pavilions, before being demolished, housed the laboratories where the pavilion, intended to represent Italy in Paris in 1900, was prefabricated. The Italian pavilion for the French exhibition was highly innovative; new materials and solutions make the project an iconic example of contemporary architectural culture and industrialization of the construction site. One of the highlights is the re-elaboration of Venetian Gothic, a fine example of Ceppi’s ability to master and combine stylistic codes of the past and modern innovative techniques.

description: MDCCC 1800
Additional file 1 of Interactive Malaysian Childhood Healthy Lifestyle (i-MaCHeL) programme: a single-arm pilot study
Creators: name: Rashid, Ahmad Faezi Ab
name: Syed Saadun Tarek Wafa, Sharifah Wajihah Wafa
name: Talib, Ruzita Abd
name: Bakar, Nor Mazlina Abu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1.
An innovative formwork system based on ice and sand for casting optimised concrete components
Creators: name: Li, Wei
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 400510
subject: Structural engineering

description: Concrete is a principal construction material used worldwide. Formwork plays an important role in assisting geometry realisation and strength development of concrete elements. It is also one of the major costs in the construction of concrete structures. As energy consumption and carbon footprint have drawn many concerns in the construction industry, the material reduction of concrete structures becomes highly necessary. The drive towards efficient and eco-friendly civil construction has opened up great opportunities for applying optimisation techniques in the design of concrete structural components. Nevertheless, the geometries of optimised concrete components are often of complex shapes, which are difficult and costly to be cast using traditional formworks. Also, the existing flexible formwork systems e.g., CNC milling of Styrofoam and 3D printed plastic mould, usually have the problem of material waste. Considering the economic and ecological burden caused by material waste, a new formwork system which is flexible and recyclable with minimum construction cost becomes highly desirable.

This thesis proposes a sustainable formwork system based on ice and sand for concrete casting, which is eco-friendly, recyclable and economical. In the proposed formwork system, ice is used as mould pattern to create desired geometry for concrete member, then sand mould is fabricated based on the ice pattern. A mix design and a mixing procedure for the proposed sand mould are developed, and compression tests are also performed to ensure the sufficient strength of the sand mould. Furthermore, surface preparation of the sand mould is investigated for easy demoulding and for achieving good concrete surface quality. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the new formwork system, customised 2D concrete components are fabricated. The finished components have smooth surfaces, and they match well with their designed shapes. Additionally, the recyclability of the proposed sand mould is tested. The results obtained from the mechanical tests indicate that the proposed sand mould can be fully recycled with satisfactory strength. The optimised 3D concrete structures are also successfully fabricated based on the mould with fully recycled sand. The new formwork system has demonstrated the possibility to be applied in construction industry towards a more sustainable and cleaner production of customised concrete components.
title: Carpoforo Tencalla
Creators: name: Hauck, Teresa
Year: 2010

description: In der Arbeit "Carpoforo Tencalla. Die Wechselwirkung zwischen gemalter und gebauter Architektur" soll die Schnittstelle von Malerei und Architektur anhand der Festsaalausstattungen des Malers Carpoforos Tencalla betrachtet werden. Als Beispiel wird die Quadraturmalerei des Petroneller Schlosses vorgestellt. Einen weiteren Schwerpunkt wird das Thema der Hesperiden darstellen, welches als Freskenprogramm in Trautenfels und Eisenstadt von Carpoforo inszeniert wurde. In Böhmen und Mähren befinden sich weitere Zyklen, wobei Carpoforos Autorschaft im Schloss Náměšť gesichert ist. Die Fresken der Schlösser Troia, -Libochovice, -Raudnice und -Lnáře werden mit den gesicherten Fresken Carpoforos verglichen.
Lesson Learned
Creators: name: Colombari, Lucia
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2017

description:

Displaying the most impressive recent inventions at the World’s Fair of 1867 in Paris, the United States projected a strong idea of a modern country. The board responsible for selecting art works was equally ambitious. Even though the Americans sent their best art to France with the specific goal of showing that their art was as great as their industrial achievements, the exhibition must be considered a complete failure on this ground. Most of the paintings, compared to the European examples, were behind current movements and altogether unimpressive. While American artists did not achieve the recognition they had hoped for, this essay investigates the reasons why the World’s Fair was a fundamental turning point for American art. The article also analyzes how the failures at the Paris event gave American artists a vision for improvement, illustrating that in the decades that followed many factors combined to elevate the quality of their works.

description: MDCCC 1800
In-situ monitoring of laser metal deposition for additive manufacturing
Creators: name: Ye, Jiayu
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 401403
subject: Flexible manufacturing systems
classificationCode: 401405
subject: Machine tools
classificationCode: 401607
subject: Metals and alloy materials

description: Laser metal deposition (LMD) is widely used in the aerospace, medical implant, and other industry sectors due to its extraordinary capability of net-shape building of parts with complex geometries, repair, coating, and refurbishment. As a member of the additive manufacturing (AM) family of processes, the LMD fabrication process proceed in a layer-by-layer manner. The feed material (in the form of powder or wire) is caught within the melt pool, which is created by the laser beam and solidified as deposition. However, LMD-fabricated parts still face quality issues, such as geometrical inaccuracy, porosity, cracks, and other types of defects, due to the complex physics involved, which include simultaneous heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and phase changes. In the meanwhile, the production efficiency of metal AM is deficient (despite smaller material wastage) relative to conventional manufacturing methods. If one attempts to improve production efficiency by increasing the LMD system’s power source, more unstable melt pool is created leading to further difficulties in achieving high part quality.

To understand the foundations of part quality issues and further quality control, it is essential to integrate multiple sensors into the high-power, high-build-up-rate LMD system to monitor the deposition process. The features derived from raw monitoring data (process signatures) can be used to link the process parameters with part quality. Multiple mathematical models must be established to describe in detail the correlations between process parameters, signatures, features, and part quality. These will then assist in understanding the physics of the LMD process and underpin the design a feedback control system to improve LMD-fabricated part quality and general process reliability. Therefore, this PhD project aims to reveal the mechanisms underlying LMD and to develop an improved, robot-assisted LMD system operating at higher power by integrating different sensors to achieve out-of-the-box fabrication for faster production of larger parts. The important correlations between process parameters, signatures, features, and part quality are established via statistical methods (including data-driven methods). Moreover, the statistical model is deepened with data from a mechanistic simulation model to close the gap in the lack of scientific knowledge within solely statistical modelling methods.
Additional file 2 of Interactive Malaysian Childhood Healthy Lifestyle (i-MaCHeL) programme: a single-arm pilot study
Creators: name: Rashid, Ahmad Faezi Ab
name: Syed Saadun Tarek Wafa, Sharifah Wajihah Wafa
name: Talib, Ruzita Abd
name: Bakar, Nor Mazlina Abu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2.
An exploration of the influence of Zen-inspired poetic nature painting on contemporary abstraction
Creators: name: Dong, Shi
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360602
subject: Fine arts

description: The premise of my study is that the values of Zen principles are still relevant and important, especially in our challenging contemporary times. It is timely, then, to revisit these ancient ideas in an everchanging, technology-centric world. I hope to expand on and make readers aware of Zen philosophical ideas and contribute to a new hybridisation in abstract painting practice.

Through this practice-based studio research, I investigate the role of Zen through contemporary abstract painting and my art practice in our times. In addition, I examine how ancient ideas have been transferred into the future and closely relate to nature and humanity. I believe that my art practice, which relates humanity to the natural world through Zen philosophy, is an ongoing condition that is beneficial to modern life and contemporary artists.
My research began with selected Zen art that has influenced modernist and contemporary Western abstraction. This underpinned the theoretical and art historical components of my research. Further, I researched contemporary applications of selected traditional aesthetic concepts and compositional devices in Japanese and Chinese painting to demonstrate their influence on contemporary abstract painting and my art practice.

The key research questions are as follows:
¡ Research Question 1. How may a contemporary abstract painting practice research extend Zen concepts of ephemeral and transient states of being?
¡ Research Question 2. How may philosophical readings of abstraction in the paintings be used to extend conceptual methodologies of historical Zen art?
Through my research, I sought to contribute knowledge through enquiry into how a contemporary abstract painting practice can extend Zen concepts of ephemeral and transient states of being. I also sought to understand how philosophical readings of abstraction in painting can be used to extend conceptual methodologies of historical Zen art.

My studio practice expresses this research through painting, drawing, collage and installation and exemplifies contemporary interactions of abstraction from both Eastern and Western cultures.
Russian Fine Arts Section at the World’s Columbian Exposition 1893
Creators: name: Zavyalova, Anna
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2017

description:

Russian participation in American 19th-century World Fairs remains a rather neglected topic. The Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago was the largest and most ambitious fair before Paris 1900 and was considered an important event by Russian institutions. The expositional committee in St. Petersburg released publications on Russian economics, industry, technologies, etc. specifically for the occasion. Although international exhibitions in the 19th century were, first of all, industrial and technological displays, the artistic representation of a country had played a role since the first exposition in London in 1851 and was supposed to show the development of the national artistic school. Based on archival documents and published correspondence, the case of Russian fine arts participation at the Chicago exposition is examined. An attempt is made to outline the organizational issues as well as reception of Russian fine arts in the USA at that time.

description: MDCCC 1800
MetaTrass
Creators: name: 邓礼(Deng, Li)
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2022
Subjects: Metagenome
Metagenomic assembly
Multispecies
Other
MetaTrass: High-quality Metagenomic Taxonomic Read Assembly of Single-Species based on co-barcoding sequencing data and references

description: MetaTrass: High-quality Metagenomic Taxonomic Read Assembly of Single-Species based on co-barcoding sequencing data and references
Development and application of novel pH-responsive lipid nanoparticles for anticancer and antifungal drug delivery
Creators: name: SARIGAMA RAJESH
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 340308
subject: Supramolecular chemistry
classificationCode: 340603
subject: Colloid and surface chemistry

description: The research objective of this thesis is to develop pH-responsive Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) as a biodegradable drug delivery vehicles for anticancer and antifungal drugs. The novel LNPs were prepared using food grade non-toxic material Monoolein and ionisable aminolipids. The developed LNPs can  respond to the pH difference around the tumour or infected area inside the body. This will reduce the off target toxicity and increase the specificity of the anticancer and antifungal drugs. The pH-responsive LNPs developed in this thesis can be a good candidate for next generation cancer nanomedicine  or candidates for antimicrobial resistance.
title: Competing claims, risk and ambiguity
Creators: name: Rowe, Thomas
Publisher: name: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion
subject: B Philosophy (General)

description: This thesis engages with the following three questions. First, how should the presence of risk and ambiguity affect how we distribute a benefit to which individuals have competing claims? (In line with common use in decision theory, a case involves risk when we can assign at least subjective
 probabilities to outcomes and it involves ambiguity when we cannot assign such probabilities.) Second, what is it about the imposition of a risk of harm itself (that is, independently of the resulting harm), such as the playing of Russian roulette on strangers, which calls for justification? Third, in the pursuit of the greater (expected) good, when is it permissible to foreseeably generate harms for others through enabling the agency of evildoers?
 Chapters 1 through 3 of the thesis provide an answer the first question. Chapter 1 defends the importance of a unique complaint of unfairness that arises in risky distributive cases: that sometimes individuals are better off at the expense of others. Chapter 2 defends a view called Fairness as Proper
 Recognition of Claims which guides how a decision-maker ought to act in cases where individuals have unequal claims to a good. Chapter 3 considers how the presence of ambiguity affects distributive fairness, and defends an egalitarian account of the evaluation of ambiguous prospects.
 Chapter 4 provides an answer to the second question through a defence of the Insecurity Account, which is a unique way in which impositions of risks of harm can be said to harm individuals, namely by rendering the victim’s interests less secure.
 Chapter 5 provides an answer to the third question by defending what I call the Moral Purity Account, to explain when it is permissible to provide aid in cases where individuals are harmed as a foreseeable consequence of the provision of such aid.
Governance in health workforce: how do we improve on the concept? A network-based, stakeholder-driven approach
Creators: name: MYH Lim
name: Lin, Vivian
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2021 Optical Society of America. Users may use, reuse, and build upon the article, or use the article for text or data mining, so long as such uses are for non-commercial purposes and appropriate attribution is maintained. All other rights are reserved.
Background: Health workforce governance has been proposed as key to improving health services delivery, yet few studies have examined the conceptualisation of health workforce governance in detail and exploration in literature remains limited. Methods: A literature review using PubMed, Google Scholar and grey literature search was conducted to map out the current conceptualisation of health workforce governance. We identified all published literature relating to governance in health workforce since 2000 and analysed them on two fronts: the broad definition of governance, and the operationalisation of broad definition into key dimensions of governance. Results: Existing literature adopts governance concepts established in health literature and does not adapt understanding to the health workforce context. Definitions are largely quoted from health literature whilst dimensions are focused around the sub-functions of governance which emphasise operationalising governance practices over further conceptualisation. Two sub-functions are identified as essential to the governance process: stakeholder participation and strategic direction. Conclusions: Although governance in health systems has gained increasing attention, governance in health workforce remains poorly conceptualised in literature. We propose an improved conceptualisation in the form of a stakeholder-driven network governance model with the national government as a strong steward against vested stakeholder interests. Further research is needed to explore and develop on the conceptual thinking behind health workforce governance.
High intraluminal pressure promotes vascular inflammation via caveolin-1
Creators: name: DL Michell
name: WA Shihata
name: KL Andrews
name: NAZ Abidin
name: AM Jefferis
name: AK Sampson
name: NG Lumsden
name: O Huet
name: MO Parat
name: GL Jennings
name: RG Parton
name: KJ Woollard
name: DM Kaye
name: JPF Chin-Dusting
name: Murphy, Andrew
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The aetiology and progression of hypertension involves various endogenous systems, such as the renin angiotensin system, the sympathetic nervous system, and endothelial dysfunction. Recent data suggest that vascular inflammation may also play a key role in the pathogenesis of hypertension. This study sought to determine whether high intraluminal pressure results in vascular inflammation. Leukocyte adhesion was assessed in rat carotid arteries exposed to 1 h of high intraluminal pressure. The effect of intraluminal pressure on signaling mechanisms including reactive oxygen species production (ROS), arginase expression, and NFĸB translocation was monitored. 1 h exposure to high intraluminal pressure (120 mmHg) resulted in increased leukocyte adhesion and inflammatory gene expression in rat carotid arteries. High intraluminal pressure also resulted in a downstream signaling cascade of ROS production, arginase expression, and NFĸB translocation. This process was found to be angiotensin II-independent and mediated by the mechanosensor caveolae, as caveolin-1 (Cav1)-deficient endothelial cells and mice were protected from pressure-induced vascular inflammatory signaling and leukocyte adhesion. Cav1 deficiency also resulted in a reduction in pressure-induced glomerular macrophage infiltration in vivo. These findings demonstrate Cav1 is an important mechanosensor in pressure-induced vascular and renal inflammation.
Utility of the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule and the Brief Observation of Social and Communication Change for Measuring Outcomes for a Parent-Mediated Early Autism Intervention
Creators: name: S Carruthers
name: T Charman
name: N El Hawi
name: YA Kim
name: R Randle
name: C Lord
name: A Pickles
name: J Green
name: C Aldred
name: B Barrett
name: S Barron
name: K Beggs
name: L Blazey
name: K Bourne
name: S Byford
name: J Collino
name: A Cutress
name: C Harrop
name: T Houghton
name: P Howlin
name: Hudry, Kristelle
name: A Le Couteur
name: S Leach
name: K Leadbitter
name: W MacDonald
name: H McConachie
name: S Randles
name: V Slonims
name: C Taylor
name: K Temple
name: L White
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Measuring outcomes for autistic children following social communication interventions is an ongoing challenge given the heterogeneous changes, which can be subtle. We tested and compared the overall and item-level intervention effects of the Brief Observation of Social Communication Change (BOSCC), Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS-2) algorithm, and ADOS-2 Calibrated Severity Scores (CSS) with autistic children aged 2–5 years from the Preschool Autism Communication Trial (PACT). The BOSCC was applied to Module 1 ADOS assessments (ADOS-BOSCC). Among the 117 children using single or no words (Module 1), the ADOS-BOSCC, ADOS algorithm, and ADOS CSS each detected small non-significant intervention effects. However, on the ADOS algorithm, there was a medium significant intervention effect for children with “few to no words” at baseline, while children with “some words” showed little intervention effect. For the full PACT sample (including ADOS Module 2, total n=152), ADOS metrics evidenced significant small (CSS) and medium (algorithm) overall intervention effects. None of the Module 1 item-level intervention effects reached significance, with largest changes observed for Gesture (ADOS-BOSCC and ADOS), Facial Expressions (ADOS), and Intonation (ADOS). Significant ADOS Module 2 item-level effects were observed for Mannerisms and Repetitive Interests and Stereotyped Behaviors. Despite strong psychometric properties, the ADOS-BOSCC was not more sensitive to behavioral changes than the ADOS among Module 1 children. Our results suggest the ADOS can be a sensitive outcome measure. Item-level intervention effect plots have the potential to indicate intervention “signatures of change,” a concept that may be useful in future trials and systematic reviews. Lay Summary: This study compares two outcome measures in a parent-mediated therapy. Neither was clearly better or worse than the other; however, the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule produced somewhat clearer evidence than the Brief Observation of Social Communication Change of improvement among children who had use of “few to no” words at the start. We explore which particular behaviors are associated with greater improvement. These findings can inform researchers when they consider how best to explore the impact of their intervention.