cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Stereotype content of players of violent and non-violent games
Creators: name: Miriyagalla, Upekha Pathumi
name: Kashima, Emiko
name: Stukas, Arthur
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 5205
subject: Social and personality psychology

description: Since the introduction of commercial video games in the 1970s, video game players have attracted the perhaps undeserving but negative stereotype of being unpopular and socially dysfunctional. However, with gamers increasing in numbers that now reach billions worldwide, the contents of gamer stereotypes may be in flux. The current study investigated the content of gamer stereotypes along the dimensions of physical/social attractiveness, warmth, competence, and morality as a function of genre violence level and gamer identity. Male and female participants (656 U.S. and 428 Indian) completed an online survey on the MTurk platform, rating social stereotypes of gamers in high-violence and low-violence genres on 22 adjective pairs and answering questions about gamer identity. Results revealed positive gamer stereotypes, especially in the low-violence genres in both the United States and India. Low-identifiers' stereotypes were less favourable in the high-violence than in the low-violence genres; this tendency diminished among high-identifiers. This study suggests that, whereas once gamers were seen negatively, they are now seen remarkably positively. The implications of such positive views of those engaging in violent gaming are discussed.
Data Onboarding Questionnaire: Book Analytics Dashboard (BAD) Demonstration Project (2022-2025)
Creators: name: Handcock, Rebecca N
name: Napier, Kathryn
name: Wilkinson, Laura J
name: Montgomery, Lucy
name: Neylon, Cameron
name: Stern, Niels
name: Skinner, Katherine
name: Snijder, Ronald
name: Smith, Keegan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Open Access
Book Analytics
Metrics
Analytics
Scholarly Communication
Publishing
Libraries
bad-project

description: This document provides a read-only version of a questionnaire that partners will be sent as part of the data onboarding process for the Book Analytics Service (BAS). The purpose of the data onboarding process is to gather technical and access information about the sources of a project partner’s book usage data so that we can import this data into BAS.

A companion to this ‘Data Onboarding Questionnaire’ is the ‘Data Onboarding Background’ document.

BAS is the main output of the Book Analytics Dashboard (BAD) project (2022-2025), which is focused on creating a sustainable OA book-focused analytics service. During the current phase, we are scaling workflows, infrastructure, and customer support; and developing a long-term plan for housing, maintenance, and funding of the analytics service as a sustainable community infrastructure. The BAD project is led by the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI) at Curtin University in partnership with OAPEN and Educopia, and is generously supported by the Mellon Foundation and COARD. This project builds on the momentum we established in our OAeBU project (2020-2022). 

More Information

Visit the BAS website key information page, including how to get started with the service

Visit the BAD project website

Follow the BAD project on Twitter @BookAnalytics

Join the BAD project mailing list

Visit the BAD project Zenodo community

See the BAS dashboard for University of Michigan Press

Our book-focussed GitHub repository

Our technical documentation on Read the Docs

Email BAD info@book-analytics.org
description: This work was made possible through grant funding provided via the "OA Book Usage Analytics for Diverse Communities – A Demonstration Project" project funded by the Mellon Foundation and COARD.
The role of prosody in morphologically governed phonotactic regularities
Creators: name: Zec, Draga
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002

description: My central concern in this paper is whether restrictions on segment sequencing necessarily mirror prosodically motivated segment distribution. The role of prosody in capturing the distributional regularities may well be less than straightforward in cases of abundant interactions with morphology. One such case, found in Serbian (Neo-štokavian dialect), is the focus of the present study. After addressing issues of syllabicity, I turn to syllable weight, focusing on presonorant lengthening: vowel lengthening in syllables closed with a sonorant, encountered only at certain morphological junctures. I present two analyses of presonorant lengthening. One provides prosodic motivation for this process but depends on a baroque set of opaque constraint interactions. The other interprets presonorant lengthening as a static phonotactic regularity, and includes only transparent constraint interactions. The former analysis has a considerable advantage over its alternative because of its straightforward nature. Its disadvantage, however, is that presonorant lengthening is left with no prosodic motivation, yet it does bear a clear mark of a prosodically motivated phonological process.
description: This paper is copyrighted, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) - see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Unravelling the interrelationships between ecosystem services and human wellbeing in the Bangladesh delta
Creators: name: Md Sarwar Hossain
name: Eigenbrod, Felix
name: Fiifi Amoako Johnson
name: Dearing, John A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Coupled social and ecological systems need to be understood from a dynamic perspective in order to operationalise complexity concepts, such as tipping points, for sustainable ecosystem management. In this study, we strive to achieve this type of conceptual understanding through the analysis of the relationships (e.g. strength, nonlinearity) between the trends of ecosystem services (ES) and human wellbeing (HWB) between 1960 and 2010 in the south-west Bangladesh delta using generalized additive and logistic regression models. We use sequential principal components analysis to investigate the connectedness within the social–ecological system as a measure of resilience. We also use published literature to help develop a system dynamic framework in order to investigate how ES and HWB are interlinked. Overall, our results support previous work, which depicts that material wellbeing (basic materials for a good life) having a strong relationship with provisioning services, which in turn, show a weak relationship with the quality of life (security and health). Moreover, our analysis confirms the ‘Environmentalist’s Paradox’ that HWB has increased despite the deterioration in ES. However, our results suggest that provisioning services are not the only important reason for the increases in observed HWB, as these have also been substantially influenced by technology and capital investment (aid and subsidy). In addition, worsening trends in regulation services and in ‘slow’ variables such as climate suggest that the resilience of the overall social-ecological system is decreasing. Such changes may have severe consequences if they continue, for example, if temperatures exceed the upper physiological limits of key provisioning services (e.g. rice, fish) in the Bangladesh delta. These indicators all suggest that although in terms of HWB the deltaic social–ecological system may be successfully adapting to environmental change, it may also be close to transgressing critical ecological boundaries in the near future.
A Novel Length-Flexible Lightweight Cancelable Fingerprint Template for Privacy-Preserving Authentication Systems in Resource-Constrained IoT Applications
Creators: name: Yin, Xuefei
name: Wang, Song
name: Zhu, Yanming
name: Hu, Jiankun
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 46
subject: Information and computing sciences

description: Fingerprint authentication techniques have been employed in various Internet of Things (IoT) applications for access control to protect private data, but raw fingerprint template leakage in unprotected IoT applications may render the authentication system insecure. Cancelable fingerprint templates can effectively prevent privacy breaches and provide strong protection to the original templates. However, to suit resource-constrained IoT devices, oversimplified templates would compromise authentication performance significantly. In addition, the length of existing cancelable fingerprint templates is usually fixed, making them difficult to be deployed in various memory-limited IoT devices. To address these issues, we propose a novel length-flexible lightweight cancelable fingerprint template for privacy-preserving authentication systems in various resource-constrained IoT applications. The proposed cancelable template design primarily consists of two components: 1) length-flexible partial-cancelable feature generation based on the designed reindexing scheme and 2) lightweight cancelable feature generation based on the designed encoding nested difference XOR scheme. Comprehensive experimental results on public databases FVC2002 DB1-DB4 and FVC2004 DB1-DB4 demonstrate that the proposed cancelable fingerprint template achieves equivalent authentication performance to state-of-the-art methods in IoT environments, but our design substantially reduces template storage space and computational cost. More importantly, the proposed length-flexible lightweight cancelable template is suitable for a variety of commercial smart cards (e.g., C5-M.O.S.T. Card Contact Microprocessor Smart Cards CLXSU064KC5). To the best of our knowledge, the proposed method is the first length-flexible lightweight, high-performing cancelable fingerprint template design for resource-constrained IoT applications.
Data Onboarding Questionnaire: Book Analytics Dashboard (BAD) Demonstration Project (2022-2025)
Creators: name: Handcock, Rebecca N
name: Napier, Kathryn
name: Wilkinson, Laura J
name: Montgomery, Lucy
name: Neylon, Cameron
name: Stern, Niels
name: Skinner, Katherine
name: Snijder, Ronald
name: Smith, Keegan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Open Access
Book Analytics
Metrics
Analytics
Scholarly Communication
Publishing
Libraries
bad-project

description: This document provides a read-only version of a questionnaire that partners will be sent as part of the data onboarding process for the Book Analytics Dashboard (BAD) Demonstration project. The purpose of the data onboarding process is to gather technical and access information about the sources of a project partner’s book usage data so that we can import this data into the BAD system. A companion to this ‘Data Onboarding Questionnaire’ is the ‘Data Onboarding Background’ document. The Book Analytics Dashboard Project (2022-2025) is focused on creating a sustainable OA Book focused analytics service. This service is needed to safeguard and support diversity in the voices, perspectives, geographies, topics and languages made visible through OA Books. Funded by the Mellon Foundation, the Book Analytics Dashboard project is building on an earlier Mellon-funded initiative: Developing a Pilot Data Trust for OA eBook Usage (2020 – 2022). In addition to scaling workflows, infrastructure and customer support, the Demonstration Project is developing a long-term plan for housing, maintenance and funding of the analytics service as a sustainable community infrastructure. More Information Follow the BAD project on Twitter @BookAnalytics Join the BAD project mailing list Visit the BAD project Zenodo community See the BAD dashboard for University of Michigan Press Our book-focussed GitHub repository Our technical documentation on Read the Docs Email BAD info@book-analytics.org
description: This work was made possible through grant funding provided via the "OA Book Usage Analytics for Diverse Communities – A Demonstration Project" project funded by the Mellon Foundation and COARD.
Data Onboarding Questionnaire: Book Analytics Dashboard (BAD) Demonstration Project (2022-2025)
Creators: name: Handcock, Rebecca N
name: Napier, Kathryn
name: Wilkinson, Laura J
name: Montgomery, Lucy
name: Neylon, Cameron
name: Stern, Niels
name: Skinner, Katherine
name: Snijder, Ronald
name: Smith, Keegan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Open Access
Book Analytics
Metrics
Analytics
Scholarly Communication
Publishing
Libraries
bad-project

description: This document provides a read-only version of a questionnaire that partners will be sent as part of the data onboarding process for the Book Analytics Dashboard (BAD) Demonstration project. The purpose of the data onboarding process is to gather technical and access information about the sources of a project partner’s book usage data so that we can import this data into the BAD system.

A companion to this ‘Data Onboarding Questionnaire’ is the ‘Data Onboarding Background’ document.

The Book Analytics Dashboard Project (2022-2025) is focused on creating a sustainable OA Book focused analytics service. This service is needed to safeguard and support diversity in the voices, perspectives, geographies, topics and languages made visible through OA Books. Funded by the Mellon Foundation, the Book Analytics Dashboard project is building on an earlier Mellon-funded initiative: Developing a Pilot Data Trust for OA eBook Usage (2020 – 2022). In addition to scaling workflows, infrastructure and customer support, the Demonstration Project is developing a long-term plan for housing, maintenance and funding of the analytics service as a sustainable community infrastructure.

More Information

Follow the BAD project on Twitter @BookAnalytics

Join the BAD project mailing list

Visit the BAD project Zenodo community

See the BAD dashboard for University of Michigan Press

Our book-focussed GitHub repository

Our technical documentation on Read the Docs

Email BAD info@book-analytics.org
description: This work was made possible through grant funding provided via the "OA Book Usage Analytics for Diverse Communities – A Demonstration Project" project funded by the Mellon Foundation and COARD.
Can workplace intervention prolong work life of older workers? A quasi-experimental study
Creators: name: Neupane, S
name: Kyrönlahti, S
name: Oakman, Jodi
name: Siukola, A
name: Riekhoff, AJ
name: Kuivalainen, S
name: Nygård, CH
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3505
subject: Human resources and industrial relations

description: Background: We aimed to evaluate the impact of a workplace senior program intervention on early exit from labor market and on the disability retirement among older employees and work-related physical factors associated with it. Methods: A total of 259 individuals aged 55 + years participated in the study (107 in intervention and 152 were controls). A questionnaire survey was conducted among Finnish food industry employees between 2003 and 2009 and the intervention “senior program” was provided between 2004 and 2009. The type of pension for the respondents who had retired by 2019 was obtained and dichotomized as statutory vs. early labor market exit. Disability pension was investigated as a separate outcome. Information on work-related factors was obtained from the survey. Cox regression analysis was used to estimate hazard ratios (HR) with their 95% confidence intervals. Results: Fifty-one employees had early labor market exit. Of them, 70% (n = 36) were control participants. Employees in the senior program worked for longer years (mean years 7.4, 95% CI 6.4–8.1) compared to the control (6.6, 95% CI 6.3–7.5). Sixty percent lower risk of early labor market exit (HR 0.40, 95% CI 0.19–0.84) and disability pension was found among employees in the senior program compared to the control group. Good work ability had a 94% lower risk (0.06, 95% CI 0.01–0.29) of early labor market exit and 85% lower risk (0.15, 95% CI 0.03–0.73) of disability pension compared to poor work ability. Employees with musculoskeletal pain had 4 times higher risk of disability pension compared to those without musculoskeletal pain. Conclusions: A workplace senior program intervention prolonged work life and had positive effect on reducing disability pension among older industrial workers.
Call for Applications: MGG-PRODIGEES Fellowship
Creators: name: Stewart, Benjamin
name: Reiners, Wulf
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: digitalisation
training
managing global governance
MGG
fellowship

description: In coordination with the EU Horizon 2020 MSCA-RISE project, Promoting Research on Digitalisation in Emerging Powers and Europe towards Sustainable Development (PRODIGEES), the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) is making a call for applications to fill the role of a visiting researcher or training and learning expert to investigate digitalisation and training in the framework of the Managing Global Governance (MGG) Academy in Bonn, Germany.
description: Horizon 2020 MSCA-RISE, Grant Agreement #873119
Research about citizenship and disability: a scoping review
Creators: name: Sépulchre, Marie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Purpose: To identify the characteristics of peer-reviewed literature on citizenship and disability published in English from 1985 to 2015. Method: A scoping review was conducted using the Arksey and O’Malley framework. Several databases were searched for peer-reviewed journal articles including the terms citizenship and disability, impairment or handicap in their abstract or title; published between 1985 and 2015; in English. Results: A total of 295 articles were included. Key findings are (1) the number of articles about disability and citizenship increased dramatically over the past three decades, (2) the meaning of citizenship is often left undiscussed, (3) citizenship is more often discussed in terms of access to social rights and less so in regards to contributions to society and participation in family life, technology and culture, (4) disabled people tend to be represented as a homogeneous category, (5) most studies are qualitative and non-participatory. Conclusions: To broaden knowledge about the situation, membership and participation of persons with disabilities in society, further research should develop the conceptual use of citizenship in relation to disability, explore different research designs, investigate various citizenship sectors and take into account the complexity of personal and social situations of persons with disabilities.Implications for RehabilitationThe notion of citizenship is closely related to the goals of rehabilitation as it touches upon issues of membership and participation in society;Understanding the multiple dimensions of citizenship will help practitioners to design and improve rehabilitation treatments and connect these not only to social citizenship rights but also to the various social roles and contributions of persons with disabilities;A better understanding of the complex relationship between citizenship and disability on the part of practitioners is crucial since strategies and policy documents about persons with disabilities often mention citizenship. The notion of citizenship is closely related to the goals of rehabilitation as it touches upon issues of membership and participation in society; Understanding the multiple dimensions of citizenship will help practitioners to design and improve rehabilitation treatments and connect these not only to social citizenship rights but also to the various social roles and contributions of persons with disabilities; A better understanding of the complex relationship between citizenship and disability on the part of practitioners is crucial since strategies and policy documents about persons with disabilities often mention citizenship.
Posicionamiento de las bibliotecas universitarias peruanas en los medios de comunicación
Creators: name: Estrada-Cuzcano, Alonso
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: El propósito de este trabajo es analizar la presencia de las bibliotecas universitarias peruanas en los medios de comunicación del país. Para tal fin se investigaron 37 medios [escritos] (diarios, revistas, agencias de noticias y radios) de cobertura regional y nacional, y se tomaron en consideración las notas o noticias, columnas, artículos, entrevistas y publicidad que hicieran referencia a este tipo de bibliotecas. La investigación ha demostrado que la presencia de las bibliotecas universitarias en los medios de comunicación es marginal, puesto que en tres años, comprendidos entre enero de 2007 y diciembre de 2009, sólo se pudieron encontrar 43 ocurrencias, a pesar de que muchas bibliotecas (o universidades) tienen oficinas de imagen institucional. Estas ocurrencias están distribuidas entre 17 universidades de un total de 98 existentes en el país lo cual demuestra que aún no hay una corriente que fomente el posicionamiento de estas bibliotecas.
Using Wearables to Monitor Trunk Kinematics and Accuracy in the Sport of Axe Throwing: A Pilot Study
Creators: name: Evans, Stuart
name: Rico-Bini, Rodrigo
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4207
subject: Sports science and exercise

description: The sport of axe throwing has gained popularity. Axe throwing is defined as a striking sport in which competitors are required to throw an axe with accuracy and appropriate velocity. However, evidence on the role of the trunk center of mass (CoM) in axe throwing, based on in-the-field experimental settings, is lacking. The aim of this study was to understand the variation in the magnitude of trunk CoM acceleration between male and female axe throwers and its relationship to throwing accuracy. The sample consisted of 10 adult axe throwers (five males: 35.9 ± 7.5 years; five females: 25.2 ± 3.2 years) of varying skill level and experience. The axe throwers completed five single-handed overarm axe throws using their right hand. The accuracy of the axe throws was recorded, along with CoM acceleration. The overall magnitudes of trunk CoM acceleration were significantly different between the male and female axe throwers (male CoM acceleration vector: 3.6 ± 1.1; female CoM acceleration vector: 2.2 ± 0.4; p = 0.001), with males recording a higher level of accuracy (males: 76%; females: 36%) in the axe throwing task combined with greater magnitudes of vertical acceleration. Female kinematics of the trunk were observed to have significantly higher magnitudes of mediolateral acceleration (3.55 ± 1.78, p = 0.016). The overall results identified that the vector magnitude of trunk CoM acceleration was significantly correlated (r = 0.87) to performance accuracy in the male throwers. It is suggested that axe throwers should consider using trunk CoM acceleration as a viable performance metric.
Directly Probing the CP-structure of the Higgs-Top Yukawa at HL-LHC and Future Colliders
Creators: name: Barman, Rahool Kumar
name: Cassidy, Morgan E.
name: Dong, Zhongtian
name: Goncalves, Dorival
name: Kim, Jeong Han
name: Kling, Felix
name: Kong, Kyoungchul
name: Lewis, Ian M.
name: Wu, Yongcheng
name: Zhang, Yanzhe
name: Zheng, Ya-Juan
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: top, pair production
CERN LHC Coll, upgrade
muon, storage ring
phase, CP
TeV
FCC
sensitivity
Yukawa
Higgs particle

description: Constraining the Higgs boson properties is a cornerstone of the LHC program and future colliders. In this Snowmass contribution, we study the potential to directly probe the Higgs-top CP-structure via the $t\bar{t}h$ production at the HL-LHC, 100 TeV FCC and muon colliders. We find the limits on the CP phase ($\alpha$) at 95% CL are $|\alpha| \lesssim 36^\circ$ with dileptonic $t\bar t (h\to b\bar b) $ and $|\alpha| \lesssim 25^\circ$ with combined $t\bar t (h\to \gamma\gamma) $ at the HL-LHC. The 100 TeV FCC brings a significant improvement in sensitivity with $|\alpha| \lesssim 3^\circ$ for the dileptonic $t\bar t (h\to b\bar b) $, due to the remarkable gain in the signal cross-section and the increased luminosity. At future muon colliders, we find that the bounds with semileptonic $t\bar t (h\to b\bar b) \nu\bar\nu$ are $|\alpha| \lesssim 9^\circ$ for 10 TeV and $|\alpha| \lesssim 3^\circ$ for 30 TeV, respectively.
Data Onboarding Questionnaire: Book Analytics Dashboard (BAD) Demonstration Project (2022-2025)
Creators: name: Handcock, Rebecca N
name: Napier, Kathryn
name: Wilkinson, Laura J
name: Montgomery, Lucy
name: Neylon, Cameron
name: Stern, Niels
name: Skinner, Katherine
name: Snijder, Ronald
name: Smith, Keegan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Open Access
Book Analytics
Metrics
Analytics
Scholarly Communication
Publishing
Libraries
bad-project

description: This document provides a read-only version of a questionnaire that partners will be sent as part of the data onboarding process for the Book Analytics Dashboard (BAD) Demonstration project. The purpose of the data onboarding process is to gather technical and access information about the sources of a project partner’s book usage data so that we can import this data into the BAD system. A companion to this ‘Data Onboarding Questionnaire’ is the ‘Data Onboarding Background’ document. The Book Analytics Dashboard Project (2022-2025) is focused on creating a sustainable OA Book focused analytics service. This service is needed to safeguard and support diversity in the voices, perspectives, geographies, topics and languages made visible through OA Books. Funded by the Mellon Foundation, the Book Analytics Dashboard project is building on an earlier Mellon-funded initiative: Developing a Pilot Data Trust for OA eBook Usage (2020 – 2022). In addition to scaling workflows, infrastructure and customer support, the Demonstration Project is developing a long-term plan for housing, maintenance and funding of the analytics service as a sustainable community infrastructure. More Information - Visit the BAD Project website: http://book-analytics.org - Follow the BAD Project on Twitter @BookAnalytics - Join the BAD Project mailing list: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdt7m9xL_4LxY3RUlX7DFg9uq7_12c8NLtDj036eGIZszPONA/viewform - Visit the BAD Project Zenodo community: https://zenodo.org/communities/book-analytics-dashboard-project/?page=1&size=20 - See the BAD dashboard for University of Michigan Press: http://uomp-public.book-analytics.org/ - Our book-focussed GitHub Repository is available here: https://github.com/The-Academic-Observatory/oaebu-workflows - The Technical Documentation available via Read the Docs here: https://oaebu-workflows.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
Using Wearables to Monitor Trunk Kinematics and Accuracy in the Sport of Axe Throwing: A Pilot Study
Creators: name: Evans, Stuart A
name: Rico-Bini, Rodrigo
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: The sport of axe throwing has gained popularity. Axe throwing is defined as a striking sport in which competitors are required to throw an axe with accuracy and appropriate velocity. However, evidence on the role of the trunk center of mass (CoM) in axe throwing, based on in-the-field experimental settings, is lacking. The aim of this study was to understand the variation in the magnitude of trunk CoM acceleration between male and female axe throwers and its relationship to throwing accuracy. The sample consisted of 10 adult axe throwers (five males: 35.9 ± 7.5 years; five females: 25.2 ± 3.2 years) of varying skill level and experience. The axe throwers completed five single-handed overarm axe throws using their right hand. The accuracy of the axe throws was recorded, along with CoM acceleration. The overall magnitudes of trunk CoM acceleration were significantly different between the male and female axe throwers (male CoM acceleration vector: 3.6 ± 1.1; female CoM acceleration vector: 2.2 ± 0.4; p = 0.001), with males recording a higher level of accuracy (males: 76%; females: 36%) in the axe throwing task combined with greater magnitudes of vertical acceleration. Female kinematics of the trunk were observed to have significantly higher magnitudes of mediolateral acceleration (3.55 ± 1.78, p = 0.016). The overall results identified that the vector magnitude of trunk CoM acceleration was significantly correlated (r = 0.87) to performance accuracy in the male throwers. It is suggested that axe throwers should consider using trunk CoM acceleration as a viable performance metric.
Data Onboarding Questionnaire: Book Analytics Dashboard (BAD) Demonstration Project (2022-2025)
Creators: name: Handcock, Rebecca N
name: Napier, Kathryn
name: Wilkinson, Laura J
name: Montgomery, Lucy
name: Neylon, Cameron
name: Stern, Niels
name: Skinner, Katherine
name: Snijder, Ronald
name: Smith, Keegan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Open Access
Book Analytics
Metrics
Analytics
Scholarly Communication
Publishing
Libraries
bad-project

description: This document provides a read-only version of a questionnaire that partners will be sent as part of the data onboarding process for the Book Analytics Dashboard (BAD) Demonstration project. The purpose of the data onboarding process is to gather technical and access information about the sources of a project partner’s book usage data so that we can import this data into the BAD system. A companion to this ‘Data Onboarding Questionnaire’ is the ‘Data Onboarding Background’ document. The Book Analytics Dashboard Project (2022-2025) is focused on creating a sustainable OA Book focused analytics service. This service is needed to safeguard and support diversity in the voices, perspectives, geographies, topics and languages made visible through OA Books. Funded by the Mellon Foundation, the Book Analytics Dashboard project is building on an earlier Mellon-funded initiative: Developing a Pilot Data Trust for OA eBook Usage (2020 – 2022). In addition to scaling workflows, infrastructure and customer support, the Demonstration Project is developing a long-term plan for housing, maintenance and funding of the analytics service as a sustainable community infrastructure. More Information Follow the BAD project on Twitter @BookAnalytics Join the BAD project mailing list Visit the BAD project Zenodo community See the BAD dashboard for University of Michigan Press Our book-focussed GitHub repository Our technical documentation on Read the Docs Email BAD info@book-analytics.org
description: This work was made possible through grant funding provided via the "OA Book Usage Analytics for Diverse Communities – A Demonstration Project" project funded by the Mellon Foundation and COARD.
Liquid crystalline dendrimers based on cinnamates and coumarins
Creators: name: Cavero, Emma
name: Serrano, José Luis
name: Giménez, Raquel
name: Piñol, Milagros
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: New poly(propylene imine) (PPI) dendrimers modified at the periphery with mesomorphic 4-cyanobiphenyl units and cinnamate- or coumarin-based photoactive moieties were synthesised and structurally characterised. The photoactive moieties were structurally designed to be liquid crystalline compatible and to reduce the tendency towards crystallisation of the final material. Thermal and liquid crystal properties were studied by POM, DSC, TGA and XRD. The results show that all dendrimers displayed a smectic A mesophase. Dendrimers with high transparency in the visible region but with different absorption spectra were obtained, rendering materials that are easy to monitor in light-irradiation experiments.
Undergraduate paramedicine students' experiences of feedback during clinical placement on-road: A scoping review
Creators: name: Carroll, Amy
name: Peddle, Monica
name: Malik, Gulzar
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health
classificationCode: 4205
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Feedback on performance enhances student confidence and clinical skills and promotes safe clinical practice. Experiences of feedback are well documented across many health disciplines; however, less is known about paramedicine students' experiences of feedback on-road in an emergency ambulance. The aim of this scoping review was to identify what is known about paramedicine students' experiences of feedback during clinical placement on-road in an emergency ambulance. A review of studies between 2000 and 2021 was undertaken, guided by the Joanna Briggs Institute Methodology for JBI Scoping Reviews and reported using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) Extension for Scoping Reviews. Databases included CINAHL, EMBASE, EBSCO, MEDLINE, Web of Science, Cochrane, ERIC (ProQuest), ProQuest (Nursing and Allied Health), Trove, and Open Accessd Theses and Dissertations. Three studies were identified. Feedback is valued by paramedicine students; however, it can be personal and destructive in nature. Paramedics are enthusiastic and supportive and provide clear feedback. Paramedics face challenges supervising students and may lack preparation to provide feedback. There is limited evidence on paramedicine students’ experiences of feedback during clinical placement. Further exploration is needed to gain further understanding.
Emerging site-specific bioconjugation strategies for radioimmunotracer development
Creators: name: Massa, Sam
name: Xavier, Catarina
name: Muyldermans, Serge
name: Devoogdt, Nick
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Introduction: Radioimmunotracers are a promising class of companion diagnostics for precision medicine. They are composed of an antibody-based targeting agent and a radiolabeled imaging probe. Together with the tendency towards the use of small antibody-derived fragments, the employed conjugation method is gaining increasing attention. Conventional bioconjugation methods result in heterogeneous tracer populations of which the single elements can differ in immunoreactivity, pharmacokinetic behavior and stability. Site-specific conjugation strategies try to overcome these shortcomings and facilitate radioimmunotracer delivery, characterization and manufacturing. Areas covered: An overview is provided of site-specific conjugation strategies for use in radioimmunotracer development. Currently applied strategies are discussed, together with other emerging site-specific conjugation methods that are applicable to diabodies, single-chain variable fragments (scFvs) and camelid single-domain antibody-fragments (sdAbs or nanobodies). Expert opinion: The ultimate goal of site-specific bioconjugation strategies is to allow precise control over the conjugation site, to result in homogenous tracer populations, and to be versatile in use with different imaging probes. Chemoenzymatic methods appear to be promising in this respect.
Characterising mine wastes as archaeological landscapes
Creators: name: Lawrence, Susan
name: Davies, Peter
name: Hil, Gregory
name: Rutherfurd, I
name: Grove, J
name: Turnbull, Jodi
name: Silvester, Ewen
name: Colombi, Francesco
name: Macklin, Mark
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 43
subject: History, heritage and archaeology
classificationCode: 37
subject: Earth sciences

description: Industrial-scale metal mining has long been a feature of developing economies. Processing ores to recover minerals has generated large quantities of waste rock, tailings and contaminants. Mining-related deposits, along with associated soil and water geochemistry, river modifications and other environmental changes, are a product of the nature, scale and intensity of past operations. These artefacts of historical mining create anthropogenic landscapes that extend far beyond individual sites due to the dispersal of mine waste by rivers and pose enduring threats to human and ecosystem health. Their presence and significance, however, are often overlooked by heritage and environmental managers. To be acknowledged as artefacts of the historical mining industry, landscape features must be identified and characterised with reference to the human activities that triggered their formation. This requires an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates anthropogenic landscape change at a regional scale. In this paper, we integrate archaeological, geomorphological and geochemical evidence to identify and analyse mining-related changes to the Loddon River valley in Victoria, Australia. Nineteenth-century gold mining caused extensive erosion of creeks and gullies and mobilised sediments that filled channels and spread over floodplains. In addition, tailing deposits concentrated arsenic at levels significantly above environmental background conditions. Recognising these legacies of historical mining is vital to understanding mining heritage and to managing healthy rivers, environments and communities.
A greener electrochromic liquid crystal based on ionic liquid electrolytes
Creators: name: Zemin He
name: Yuan, Xiao
name: Yuzhen Zhao
name: Zou, Cheng
name: Shumeng Guo
name: Baofeng He
name: Haiquan Zhang
name: Lanying Zhang
name: Dengke Yang
name: Yang, Huai
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: An electrochromic liquid crystal (ECLC) material composed of only liquid crystal (LC) and ionic liquid (IL) was developed. The LC containing the substituted diphenylacetylene serves as electrochromic (EC) material to realise transmittance and colour change under the direct current (DC) field, while the IL with the designable cation and anion served as electrolyte. Herein, a series of IL electrolytes was screened to investigate how IL tunes the electro-optic performance of the ECLC cell. By testing the electrochemistry window of ILs in EC cells, IL with the [NTf2]− anion shows adequate electrochemical stability when the EC material undergoes oxidation and reduction. The electro-optic performance of ECLC containing 1-ethoxy-4-[2-(4-pentylphenyl) ethynyl]-benzene (PEB) and IL was then evaluated by UV-vis spectrometry under the control of an electrochemical work station. Compared with other PEB-IL, PEB-[Bmim][NTf2] with [Bmim][NTf2] electrolyte shows a satisfactory transmittance at low operating voltage. Furthermore, Pd NPs in situ formed in [Bmim][NTf2] reduced the EC potential and improved the light scattering of the ECLC cell. In this work, we also designed a bifunctional device based on polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) that hosts electrochromic guest molecules, and analysed the electro-optical and electrochromic properties of LC electrolyte mixtures, in order to gain control of the incident daylight and glare in building and automotive applications.
Characterising mine wastes as archaeological landscapes
Creators: name: Lawrence, Susan
name: Davies, Peter
name: Hil, Gregory
name: Rutherfurd, I
name: Grove, J
name: Turnbull, Jodi
name: Silvester, Ewen
name: Colombi, F
name: Macklin, Mark
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 43
subject: History, heritage and archaeology
classificationCode: 37
subject: Earth sciences

description: Industrial-scale metal mining has long been a feature of developing economies. Processing ores to recover minerals has generated large quantities of waste rock, tailings and contaminants. Mining-related deposits, along with associated soil and water geochemistry, river modifications and other environmental changes, are a product of the nature, scale and intensity of past operations. These artefacts of historical mining create anthropogenic landscapes that extend far beyond individual sites due to the dispersal of mine waste by rivers and pose enduring threats to human and ecosystem health. Their presence and significance, however, are often overlooked by heritage and environmental managers. To be acknowledged as artefacts of the historical mining industry, landscape features must be identified and characterised with reference to the human activities that triggered their formation. This requires an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates anthropogenic landscape change at a regional scale. In this paper, we integrate archaeological, geomorphological and geochemical evidence to identify and analyse mining-related changes to the Loddon River valley in Victoria, Australia. Nineteenth-century gold mining caused extensive erosion of creeks and gullies and mobilised sediments that filled channels and spread over floodplains. In addition, tailing deposits concentrated arsenic at levels significantly above environmental background conditions. Recognising these legacies of historical mining is vital to understanding mining heritage and to managing healthy rivers, environments and communities.
Reproductive biology and population structure of the endangered shrub Grevillea bedggoodiana (Proteaceae)
Creators: name: Wawrzyczek, Stanislaw
name: Holmes, Gareth
name: Hoebee, Susan
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 41
subject: Environmental sciences

description: Narrowly endemic species are particularly vulnerable to catastrophic events. Compared to widespread species, they may also be less capable of adapting to shifts in environmental pressures as a result of specialisation on a narrow range of local condition and limited ability to disperse. However, life-history traits, such as preferential outcrossing and high fecundity can maintain genetic diversity and evolutionary potential, and boost species resilience. The endangered Grevillea bedggoodiana (Enfield Grevillea) is an understorey shrub restricted to an area of ca. 150 km2 in south-eastern Australia with a legacy of large-scale anthropogenic disturbance. Prior to this study little was known about its biology and population structure. Here, its breeding system was assessed through a controlled pollination experiment at one of its central populations, and eight populations were sampled for genetic analysis with microsatellite markers. The species was found to be preferentially outcrossing, with no evidence of pollination limitation. In most populations, allelic richness, observed heterozygosity and gene diversity were high (Ar: 3.8–6.3; Ho: 0.45–0.65, He: 0.60 − 0.75). However, the inbreeding coefficients were significant in at least four populations, ranging from Fi -0.061 to 0.259 despite high outcrossing rates. Estimated reproductive rates varied among sampled populations but were independent of gene diversity and inbreeding. Despite its small geographic range, the species’ populations showed moderate differentiation (AMOVA: FST = 0.123), which was largely attributable to isolation by distance. We interpret these results as suggesting that G. bedggoodiana is reproductively healthy and has maintained high levels of genetic diversity despite recent disturbance.
Editorial
Creators: name: Hertzog, R.
name: Johnson, F. T.
name: Macdonald, J.
name: Miller, R. M.
name: Plattor, E.
name: Stamp, R.
Publisher: name: Journal of Educational Thought / Revue de la Pensée Educative
Year: 2018

description: Journal of Educational Thought / Revue de la Pensée Educative, Vol 6 No 3 (1972)
Planning Educational Futures
Creators: name: Adams, Donald
Publisher: name: Journal of Educational Thought / Revue de la Pensée Educative
Year: 2018

description: Over the last decade the commitment to national and regional planning in education has rapidly grown and the technology of educational planning has vastly improved. This is true in the highly industrialized nations as well as in the less developed nations. It is true where there are market dominated economies and in the socialist states. While the degree of centralization or decentralization of planning efforts varies with governmental style, probably over 80% of all countries have at the national level an administrative unit responsible for planning. Gone now are the grand ethical issues over whether to plan or not to plan. Gone are the debates over whether educational planning is compatible with "open societies" and "participatory democracies." Even for those intensely concerned with protection of the democratic ethos the question now is how to define the parameters of democratic or participatory educational planning.
description: Journal of Educational Thought / Revue de la Pensée Educative, Vol 6 No 3 (1972)
Advances In Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations and Optimization
Creators: name: Liu, Xinyu
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 490303
subject: Numerical solution of differential and integral equations
classificationCode: 490304
subject: Optimisation
classificationCode: 490302
subject: Numerical analysis

description: This thesis presents advances in numerical methods for partial differential equations (PDEs) and optimization problems, with a focus on improving efficiency, stability, and accuracy across various applications. We begin by addressing 3D Poisson-type equations, developing a GPU-accelerated spectral-element method that utilizes the tensor product structure to achieve extremely fast performance. This approach enables solving problems with over one billion degrees of freedom in less than one second on modern GPUs, with applications to Schrödinger and Cahn–Hilliard equations demonstrated. Next, we focus on parabolic PDEs, specifically the Cahn–Hilliard equation with dynamical boundary conditions. We propose an efficient energy-stable numerical scheme using a unified framework to handle both Allen–Cahn and Cahn–Hilliard type boundary conditions. The scheme employs a scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) approach to achieve linear, second-order, and unconditionally energy stable properties. Shifting to a machine learning perspective for PDEs, we introduce an unsupervised learning-based numerical method for solving elliptic PDEs. This approach uses deep neural networks to approximate PDE solutions and employs least-squares functionals as loss functions, with a focus on first-order system least-squares formulations. In the realm of optimization, we present an efficient and robust SAV based algorithm for discrete gradient systems. This method modifies the standard SAV approach and incorporates relaxation and adaptive strategies to achieve fast convergence for minimization problems while maintaining unconditional energy stability. Finally, we address optimization in the context of machine learning by developing a structure-guided Gauss–Newton method for shallow ReLU neural network optimization. This approach exploits both the least-squares and neural network structures to create an efficient iterative solver, demonstrating superior performance on challenging function approximation problems. Throughout the thesis, we provide theoretical analysis, efficient numerical implementations, and extensive computational experiments to validate the proposed methods.