cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Ensemble-based prediction of RNA secondary structures
Creators: name: Aghaeepour, Nima
name: Hoos, Holger H
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: Accurate structure prediction methods play an important role for the understanding of RNA function. Energy-based, pseudoknot-free secondary structure prediction is one of the most widely used and versatile approaches, and improved methods for this task have received much attention over the past five years. Despite the impressive progress that as been achieved in this area, existing evaluations of the prediction accuracy achieved by various algorithms do not provide a comprehensive, statistically sound assessment. Furthermore, while there is increasing evidence that no prediction algorithm consistently outperforms all others, no work has been done to exploit the complementary strengths of multiple approaches. Results In this work, we present two contributions to the area of RNA secondary structure prediction. Firstly, we use state-of-the-art, resampling-based statistical methods together with a previously published and increasingly widely used dataset of high-quality RNA structures to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of existing RNA secondary structure prediction procedures. The results from this evaluation clarify the performance relationship between ten well-known existing energy-based pseudoknot-free RNA secondary structure prediction methods and clearly demonstrate the progress that has been achieved in recent years. Secondly, we introduce AveRNA, a generic and powerful method for combining a set of existing secondary structure prediction procedures into an ensemble-based method that achieves significantly higher prediction accuracies than obtained from any of its component procedures. Conclusions Our new, ensemble-based method, AveRNA, improves the state of the art for energy-based, pseudoknot-free RNA secondary structure prediction by exploiting the complementary strengths of multiple existing prediction procedures, as demonstrated using a state-of-the-art statistical resampling approach. In addition, AveRNA allows an intuitive and effective control of the trade-off between false negative and false positive base pair predictions. Finally, AveRNA can make use of arbitrary sets of secondary structure prediction procedures and can therefore be used to leverage improvements in prediction accuracy offered by algorithms and energy models developed in the future. Our data, MATLAB software and a web-based version of AveRNA are publicly available at http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/beta/Software/AveRNA .
Postgraduate education for the steel industry
Creators: name: Brooks, Geoffrey
name: Standish, N.
name: Dunne, D. P.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In 1992, the Department of Materials Engineering at the University of Wollongong signed an agreement with PT Krakatau Steel, Indonesia's national steel company, to provide postgraduate coursework education for the company's engineers. Over the next five years, the Department provided an on site program at Krakatau Steel's Cilegon works in Java. Members of the Department staff were flown regularly to Indonesia to deliver lectures and to provide tutoring. The coursework program developed reflected the diverse background of the students entering the program and the desire of the company to improve their engineers' understanding of basic principles of Materials Engineering, and particularly, of the metallurgy of steel. The program was run with cooperation from Tirtayasa University in Cilegon. Over 100 students graduated with Masters degrees from the program. A quite different program was developed for BHP Ltd., Australia's largest steel company, in 1995 to educate their engineers in modem management techniques and specific steelmaking technologies. The program was delivered locally in a variety of modes. This paper discusses the similarities and differences between the respective programs and reflects on the challenges facing universities in providing post graduate education to the steel industry.
The Impact of E-learning on Learning Outcomes at the Jordanian Universities
Creators: name: Mohammad Mahmoud Al-Sadi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: E-learning, Learning Outcomes, Jordanian Universities

description: The study aims to identify the impact of e-learning on learning outcomes at the Jordanian universities. The study sample consisted of (113) faculty members selected from four Jordanian universities using random sampling method. To achieve the study objectives, a questionnaire was used. The study showed that the level of impact of e-learning on learning outcomes at the Jordanian universities was moderate. The study revealed statistically significant differences in the impact of e-learning on learning outcomes at the Jordanian universities due to specialization, in favor of humanities; due to years of experience, in favor of less than 10 years; due to academic rank, in favor of associate professor; while there was no statistically significant difference in light of gender.
A Framework for Non-Paradoxical Backwards Information Flow in Entangled Quantum Systems
Creators: name: Cacci, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Quantum physics
subject: Entangled Quantum System

description: This paper introduces the Theory of Retrodirected Informational Return (TIRR), a novel quantum framework enabling limited, non-paradoxical information feedback from future measurements within entangled systems.By defining a retrofilter operator and an informational curvature metric, TIRR translates time-symmetric quantum interpretations into testable, operational protocols.We propose a concrete experimental setup using post-selection in entangled photon pairs to empirically verify retroinformational influence under coherence-preserving conditions.
Abaxial Greening Phenotype in Hybrid Aspen
Creators: name: Nowak, Julia S.
name: Douglas, Carl J.
name: Cronk, Quentin C. B.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: The typical angiosperm leaf, as in Arabidopsis, is bifacial consisting of top (adaxial) and bottom (abaxial) surfaces readily distinguishable by the underlying cell type (palisade and spongy mesophyll, respectively). Species of the genus Populus have leaves that are either conventionally bifacial or isobilateral. Isobilateral leaves have palisade mesophyll on the top and bottom of the leaf, making the two sides virtually indistinguishable at the macroscopic level. In poplars this has been termed the “abaxial greening” phenotype. Previous work has implicated ASYMMETRIC LEAVES1 (AS1) as an essential determinant of palisade mesophyll development. This gene, as well as other genes (84 in all) putatively involved in setting the dorsiventral axis of leaves, were investigated in two Populus species: black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa) and hybrid aspen (P. tremula x tremuloides), representative of each leaf type (bifacial and isobilateral, respectively). Poplar orthologs of AS1 have significantly higher expression in aspen leaf blade and lower in the petiole, suggestive of a potential role in the isobilateral leaf phenotype consistent with the previously observed phenotypes. Furthermore, an ABERRANT TESTA SHAPE (ATS) ortholog has significantly lower expression in aspen leaf tissue, also suggesting a possible contribution of this gene to abaxial greening.
WERNER MENSKI (ed.), with contributions by DEREK GÖBEL and JEAN FRANÇOIS DESTEXHE: Coping with 1997: The Reaction of the Hong Kong People to the Transfer of Power
Creators: name: Heuser, Robert
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 28 Nr. 1 (1997): Internationales Asien Forum
title: 02_0281
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Plesionika bifurca Alcock & Anderson 1894
Creators: name: Li, Xinzheng
name: Komai, Tomoyuki
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Pandalidae
Plesionika
Plesionika bifurca

description: Plesionika bifurca Alcock & Anderson, 1894
 Pandalus bifurca Alcock & Anderson, 1894: 155 [type locality: Arabian Sea].
 Pandalus (Plesionika) bifurca – Alcock & McArdle, 1901, pl. 52, fig. 6.
 Plesionika bifurca – De Man, 1920: 105, 136, pl. 12, fig. 31-31b; Chace, 1985: 56, fig. 24; Liu & Zhong, 1994: 560.
 Material examined. – 3 females (cl 9.2-10.2 mm) (IOCAS), 1 female (ZRC), CN 33-48, 19 00’N, 113 00’E, 465 m, sand, AT, coll. H. Li, 17 Feb.1959; 1 female (cl 7.5 mm) (IOCAS), CN N115 B-X, 18 30’N, 111 30’E, 220 m, muddy sand, AT, coll. J. Liu, 8 Feb.1960; 2 ovig. females (cl 9.0, 9.3 mm) (IOCAS), CN K122 B-50, 19 00’N, 112 30’E, 300 m, sand, AT, coll. S. Shen, 8 Feb.1960; 1 male (cl 7.8 mm) (IOCAS), CN K150 B-37, 19 00’N, 112 30’E, 290 m, muddy sand, AT, coll. Z. Tang, 6 Apr.1960.
 Distribution. – Eastern Africa, Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea, Indonesia, Philippines, South and East China seas, and Japan; at depths of 220-1412 m.
description: Published as part of Li, Xinzheng & Komai, Tomoyuki, 2003, Pandaloid Shrimps From The Northern South China Sea, With Description Of A New Species Of Plesionika (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea), pp. 257-275 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51 (2) on page 260, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13229438
Explaining non-renewal behaviour: an empirical investigation of recently lapsed NRL club members
Creators: name: McDonald, Heath
name: Centra, Ben
name: Vieceli, Julian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper reports on a survey of lapsed members of an Australian professional National Rugby League (NRL) Club. Analysis of the 195 useable responses returned suggest that these lapsed members had originally joined as much for intangible aspects, such as seeking a greater level of involvement with the club, as for the functional aspects such as savings on game entry. Overall, these lapsed members were satisfied with the service they received whilst a member, and claimed it had been performed in line with expectations. The main drivers of satisfaction were also a mix of tangible and intangible factors such as feeling valued by the club and receiving discounts on entry costs. The members gave a number of reasons for not rejoining in 2002, but primarily cited an inability to attend games. Despite joining for intangible reasons, it seems that if these members could not get to games, they perceived that membership was not worth maintaining. That said, a large number of members indicated that as their circumstances change they will rejoin the club, supporting the theory that non-renewal is not driven by service failure, but rather the perception that attendance is still the core product (entertainment). The overall level of satisfaction had a weak but positive relationship with the likelihood of members rejoining in the future.
HANSPETER ZNOJ: Tausch und Geld in Zentralsumatra. Zur Kritik des Schuldbegriffes in der Wirtschaftsethnologie
Creators: name: Schrader, Heiko
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 28 Nr. 1 (1997): Internationales Asien Forum
PsychoPy, PsychoJS and Pavlovia: Lightning talk at the CZI EOSS launch event 2020
Creators: name: Peirce, Jonathan
name: Pitiot, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: PsychoPy
PsychoJS
Pavlovia
online experiments

description: Very brief description of the PsychoPy/PsychoJS/Pavlovia project, where it came from and where it's going in the next year or so. This is a Powerpoint version of the slides (originally presented as a web page).
Group medical visits can deliver on patient-centred care objectives: results from a qualitative study
Creators: name: Lavoie, Josée G.
name: Wong, Sabrina T.
name: Chongo, Meck
name: Browne, Annette J.
name: MacLeod, Martha L. P.
name: Ulrich, Cathy
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: Patient-centred care emerged in the late 1960s as a framework to guide providers and decision-makers towards the provision of more effective health care and better outcomes. An important body of literature has since emerged, reporting mixed results in terms of outcomes. To date, assessments of the effectiveness of patient-centred approaches have focused one-on-one consultations. The purpose of this article is to explore dimensions identified as key in the patient-centred literature in the context of primary health care services delivered in a group setting. Group Medical Visits (GMVs) offer a novel format for the delivery of patient-centred primary health care services, especially for patients living with complex morbidities. Methods Drawing on a large study of GMVs, we report on key format and process-oriented elements identified in GMVs, and on their link to improved outcomes. For the purpose of this study, we interviewed 34 providers and 29 patients who have been engaged in GMVs, delivered in rural, northern and First Nation communities in British Columbia, Canada. Results Our analysis shows that the delivery of PHC in a group format results in a shift in the role of the provider, from that of an adjudicator involved in imparting norms of self-care, to that of a facilitator who assists the group in defining norms of self-care that are based on medical knowledge but also on the broader context of patients’ lived experience and on their pragmatic experience. In a group process, peer-patients take on the role of promoting these norms to other patients. This results in a significant shift in the role of the provider, increased trust, increased knowledge for the providers and the patients and better patient self-management. Our results also show increase satisfaction for patients and providers. Conclusions GMVs offer an alternative format for the provision of PHC that brings together the benefit of a group process and of a clinical encounter. This format can successfully deliver on the promises of patient-centred care.
Enhancing the performance and productivity of the New Brunswick construction industry through appropriate digital technology adoption : final report
Creators: name: Rankin, Jeff
name: Waugh, Lloyd
name: Shukla, Dhirendra
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: This report contains the results of a study for the New Brunswick Construction Industry under the project entitled “Enhancing the performance and productivity of the New Brunswick construction industry through appropriate digital technology adoption.” The project is supported by the Digital Technology Adoption Pilot Program (DTAPP), delivered by the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP). The study was completed by the University of New Brunswick Construction Engineering and Management (UNB CEM) Group over the period of August 2012 – March 2013. The researchers that undertook the work were Jeff Rankin (UNB CEM), Lloyd Waugh (UNB CEM), and Dhirendra Shukla (UNB Technology Management and Entrepreneurship). The general purpose of the study was to develop tools to assist the construction industry in the successful adoption and implementation of new technologies. The study was accomplished by completion of the following steps: • A framework was developed for the assessment of management practices at the project level for general contractors in the construction industry. • The assessment was administered to eight organizations, resulting in the identification of potential opportunities for improvement. • Opportunities for improvement were validated with six organizations. • The assessments were aggregated to provide an initial benchmark of the level of implementation of management practices. The results are summarized as follows: • Five organizations have indicated a desire to further pursue adoption and implementation projects to improve their management practices. • At an industry level, management practices in need of improvement include: managing safety information; developing schedules; managing materials on-site, and capturing the impact of rework. Future steps are to assist organizations in their pursuit of adoption and implementation projects; and collect additional data to expand the usefulness of the industry benchmarks for management practices.
K.K. BHARGAVA / H. BONGARTZ / F. SOBHAN (eds.): Shaping South Asia's Future. Role of Regional Cooperation; L.L. MEHROTRA / H.S. CHOPRA / G.W. KUECK (eds.): SAARC 2000 and Beyond
Creators: name: Wagner, Christian
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 28 Nr. 1 (1997): Internationales Asien Forum
Physical implications of the x-ray properties of galaxy groups and clusters
Creators: name: Babul, Arif
name: Balogh, Michael L.
name: Lewis, Geraint F.
name: Poole, Gregory B.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Within the standard framework of structure formation, where clusters and groups of galaxies are built up from the merging of smaller systems, the physical properties of the intracluster medium, such as the gas temperature and the total X-ray luminosity, are predicted to possess well-defined, self-similar scaling relations. Observed clusters and groups, however, show strong deviations from these predicted relations. We argue that these deviations are unlikely to be entirely due to observational biases; we assume they are physically based, due to the presence of excess entropy in the intracluster medium in addition to that generated by accretion shocks during the formation of the cluster. Several mechanisms have been suggested as a means of generating this entropy. Focusing on those mechanisms that pre-heat the gas before it becomes a constituent of the virialized cluster environment, we present a simple, intuitive, physically motivated, analytic model that successfully captures the important physics associated with the accretion of high-entropy gas on to group- and cluster-scale systems. We use the model to derive the new relationships between the observable properties of clusters and groups of galaxies, as well as the evolution of these relations. These include the luminosity–temperature and luminosity–σ relations, as well as the temperature distribution function and X-ray luminosity function. These properties are found to be a more accurate description of the observations than those predicted from the standard framework. Future observations that will further test the efficacy of the pre-heated gas scenario are also discussed.
Plesionika grandis Doflein 1902
Creators: name: Li, Xinzheng
name: Komai, Tomoyuki
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Pandalidae
Plesionika
Plesionika grandis

description: Plesionika grandis Doflein, 1902
 Plesionika spinipes var. grandis Doflein, 1902: 618, pl. 3: figs. 3- 5 [type locality: Sagami Bay, Japan].
 Parapandalus spinipes – De Man, 1920: 108, 142, pl. 12: fig. 33a, c-e, pl. 13, fig. 33, 33b.
 Plesionika grandis –- Chace, 1985: 66, figs. 28, 29; Hayashi, 1986: 132, 133, 271, fig. 83; Chan & Crosnier, 1991: 423, figs. 3f, 22.
 Material examined. – 6 females (cl 9.2-14.1 mm), 2 damaged females (IOCAS), CN K33 B-51B, 19 30’N, 113 00’E, 180m, muddy sand, AT, coll. F. Sun, 21 Apr.1959; 24 males (cl 9.5-18 mm), 28 females (cl 9.2-14.5 mm), 1 ovig. female (cl 18.1 mm) (IOCAS), 1 male, 1 female (ZRC), CN K46B2-19, 20 00’N, 113 30’E, 140m, sand, AT, coll. F. Sun, 25 Apr.1959; 4 males (cl 9.4-16.0 mm), 2 females (cl 9.1, 11.3 mm), 2 juveniles (cl mm), 1 damaged specimen (not measured), CN K84B2-23, 20 00’N, 113 30’E, 180m, sand, AT, coll. J. Liu, 20 Nov.1959; 1 female (cl 17.1 mm) (IOCAS), CN K122 B-42, 19 00’N, 112 30’E, 300m, sand, AT, coll. S. Shen, 8 Feb.1960; 1 female (cl 6.6 mm) (IOCAS), CN K142 B-8, 20 00’N, 113 30’E, 141 m, sand and shells, AT, coll. S. Shen, 17 Feb.1960; 1 female (cl 8.9 mm) (IOCAS), CN K150 B-28B, 19 00’N, 112 30’E, 290m, muddy sand, AT, coll. Z. Tang, 6 Apr.1960.
 Distribution. – Widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific, but known with certainty from Japan, East and South China seas, Philippines, Indonesia, northwestern Australia, Zanzibar area of eastern Africa and Madagascar, at depths of 110- 375 m.
 Remarks. – The taxonomic status of Plesionika grandis was rather controversial in its relationship to P. spinipes Bate, 1888 (see De Man, 1920; Chace, 1985). Chan & Crosnier (1991) concluded that the two forms are specifically distinct, differing in the rostral armature and the relative length of the dactylus of the third pereopod. Our examination of the present material supports the distinctiveness of the two species.
description: Published as part of Li, Xinzheng & Komai, Tomoyuki, 2003, Pandaloid Shrimps From The Northern South China Sea, With Description Of A New Species Of Plesionika (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea), pp. 257-275 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51 (2) on pages 260-261, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13229438
Arrêt du parlement, portant que les appelants des Sentences des Juges et Consuls seront tenus de consigner l'amende et d'enjoindre la quit­tance aux Lettres de reliefs d'appel, ou à la Requête qu'ils donneront pour avoir jour d'Audience, à peine qu'ils ne seront pas reçus à plaider
Creators: name: Plouvain, Pierre-Antoine-Samuel-Joseph (1754-1832)
name: Six, Philippe-Josse-Auguste-Joseph (1732-1793)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2019
Subjects: Décision de justice
Amende
Appel
Officier de justice d'Ancien Régime

description: Source: http://nordnum.univ-lille.fr/ark:/72505/a0115224001360im5Ol/from/a011522400136ypxWl12
description: Source: NAKALONA
description: Coverage: Parlement de Flandre
description: issued: 14/02/2019
Netzwerke: Paradigmatische Grundlage chinabezogener Wirtschaftsforschung? Eine kritische Betrachtung ausgewählter Literatur
Creators: name: Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: The concept of "networks" has gained prominence in recent analytical studies of China and the Asia-Pacific. This paper surveys the theoretical and empirical issues raised by the network-approach by means of reviewing some recent literature. After sketching the boom of that idea not only in Asian studies but also in other fields, the theoretical content is discussed: "Networks" simply refer to any kind of social interaction which is not covered by the ideal-typical classes of the anonymous market and the perfect hierarchical order. Networks are thus a universal social phenomenon and by no means confined to a specific cultural area. However, there may be culturally specific kinds of networks. In the Chinese case, the idea of networks is even linked with the concept of Chinese identity. Yet, a survey of some important contributions does not lead to a clear conclusion, because there is no discussion of the possible influence of different customary belief systems on behavior, apart from a stylized and idealized use of the concept of "Confucianism". Nor does research in social psychology provide any clear empirical proof of a specifically Chinese approach towards networking. Instead, empirical research seems to suffer from a hermeneutical circle between positivistic methodologies and "indigenization" of analytical categories. The paper reaches the conclusion that the concept of networks as a culturally specific phenomenon is flawed unless it is linked with detailed comparative studies by inter-cultural research teams.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 28 Nr. 1 (1997): Internationales Asien Forum
Freedom of the Press in Hong Kong
Creators: name: Cullen, Richard
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: This article looks at the current position of and prospects for freedom of the press in Hong Kong with the change of sovereignty (from British to Chinese) on July 1 1997. Part 2 of the article looks at some basic definitional issues related to freedom of the press generally. Part 3 reviews the practice of freedom of the press in Hong Kong which has long enjoyed the most free press in East Asia. Part 4 considers changes in media freedom likely to apply after July 1, 1997, The article concludes that press freedom may only need to undergo certain adjustments rather than wholesale change with the transfer of sovereignty, but the possibility of greater restriction exists. The Hong Kong Chinese will continue to be the main influence on Hong Kong and they will, after July 1997, also have a major influence on press freedom.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 28 Nr. 1 (1997): Internationales Asien Forum
Translating knowledge directly to childbearing women : a study of Canadian women's preferences
Creators: name: Hall, Wendy A.
name: Bandsmer, Judith C.
name: Gregg, Kathy
name: Ebbehoj, Cathy
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014

description: Knowledge translation has relied on research products which take years to disseminate, losing relevance for intended users. We used a mixed-methods approach to determine women’s preferences for research results and format, intention to share results, and potential benefits. We sampled healthy pregnant women who completed survey data during their third trimesters and wanted access to results. Mothers preferred results about sleep, fears, and anxieties during later pregnancy to benefit from reassurance their experiences were shared. Women mostly intended to share results with their social networks. Organizational contacts increased dissemination of the women’s preferred information to non-study participants.
The Change-over of Hong Kong Sovereignty and Some Legal Implications
Creators: name: Ke, Chen
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: This paper outlines the basic legal arrangements that have been made in the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the difficulties there were in matching Chinese jurisprudence and the Hong Kong English common law system in the process of drafting the Basic Law. The author studies three aspects of the implications of the 'one country, two systems' policy from a legal point of view. Firstly, the paper describes the applicability of the Chinese constitution and national law in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Secondly, it examines the approach to defining the relationship between the powers of the central government and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region particularly in the field of external matters to be administered by the latter. Finally, the judicial independence of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is discussed with emphasis on the issue of final adjudication and judicial interpretation of the Basic Law.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 28 Nr. 1 (1997): Internationales Asien Forum
On the mesoscopic origins of high viscosities in some polyelectrolyte-surfactant mixtures
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Ingo
name: Farago, Bela
name: Schweins, Ralf
name: Falus, Peter
name: Sharp, Melissa
name: Prévost, Sylvain
name: Gradzielski, Michael
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften
subject: microgels
subject: neutron scattering
subject: ions
subject: properties
subject: polyelectrolytes
subject: entropy
subject: neutron spin-echo
subject: polymers
subject: electromagnetic interactions
subject: supramolecular assembly

description: This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This article appeared in J. Chem. Phys. 143, 074902 (2015) and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4928583.
description: Oppositely charged polyelectrolyte (PE) surfactant mixtures allow the control of rheological parameters of a solution even at fairly low concentrations. For example, addition of 0.3 wt. % of anionic surfactant to a 1 wt. % solution of the polycation JR 400 increases the viscosity by 4 orders of magnitude. Recently, we could show that this increase is related to the formation of mixed, rod-like PE/surfactant aggregates which interconnect several polyelectrolyte chains [Hoffmann et al., Europhys. Lett. 104, 28001 (2013)]. In this paper, we refine our structural model of the aggregates to obtain a more consistent picture of their internal structure for different anionic surfactants. Combining small angle neutron scattering (SANS) and neutron spin-echo (NSE) allows us to determine the size of the aggregates. By comparing different contrasts, the internal structure of the aggregates can be elucidated and it is seen that the PE in the aggregates retains a relatively high freedom of movement. We proceeded to investigate the influence of the surfactant concentration and the surfactant type on structure and dynamics of the mixed aggregates. It is seen that the structural parameters of the aggregates depend very little on the surfactant concentration and headgroup. However, it is crucial to incorporate a sufficient amount of PE in the aggregates to increase the viscosity of the aggregates. By comparing viscous samples at 1 wt. % PE concentration with samples at a PE concentration of 0.3 wt. %, where no significant increase in viscosity is observed, we find that similar aggregates are formed already at this lower PE concentrations. However, the amount of PE incorporated in them is insufficient to interconnect several PE chains and therefore, they do not increase viscosity. So, our detailed investigation combining contrast variation SANS and NSE does not only allow to explain the viscosity behavior but also to deduced detailed information regarding the structures and the dynamics especially of the polyelectrolyte within the complexes.
title: Pierre-Marie Girard
Creators: name: Leibowitch, Jacques (1942-2020)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Pièce jointe : extraits du chapitre III du livre de J. Leibowitch "Pour en finir avec le sida" . 1 fichier (5 pages).
description: Autres destinataires : Jacques Gilquin, Gilles Pialoux, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, François Simon, François Clavel, François Barin, Florence Ghrenassia, François Berdougo, Franck Rousseau.
Die Integration Hong Kongs in den Staatsverband der VR China als staatsrechtliches Experiment
Creators: name: Heuser, Robert
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: As „the modem exemplar of free markets and limited government“ (M. Friedman) Hong Kong will become a „Special Administrative Region“ of the People’s Republic of China. According to the „Basic Law“ for Hong Kong, promulgated by the Chinese National People’s Congress in 1990 „the Socialist system and policies will not be practiced in Hong Kong“. This article explores the mechanism which the Basic Law provides for creating a model of integration by which Hong Kong shall exist as „an inalienable part of the PRC“ yet exercising „a high degree of autonomy.“ Whereas the substance of autonomy is reflected in the very broad competence for legislation and in the fact that a judiciary is localized in Hong Kong (including „the power of final adjudication4), strong Unitarian elements of this model are reflected in the power of the central government to appoint the „chief executive“ and in the competence of the National People’s Congress to interpret the Basic Law.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 28 Nr. 1 (1997): Internationales Asien Forum
Why should Italy and Australia cooperate in research and development (R&D)?
Creators: name: Mascitelli, Bruno
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In order to address the question of Australia and Italy cooperating and commercialising research and development projects, it is necessary to ask what are the existing commercial relationships between these two countries? Are there special commercial synergies which might encourage and promote this relationship? Given that Australia and Italy do not have a strategic alliance like might be the case for Australia and the US, where are the areas of common interest? [Introduction]
VALUABLE VIDEO PRESENTATION FOR STAKEHOLDERS
Creators: name: Idener (Spain)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Draft deliverable pending of the EC approval. 

 

This deliverable describes the creation of a video presentation for the VALUABLE project, which has been developed to inform and engage stakeholders. The concept, scope, and achievements of the project are presented in the video in a comprehensive manner, allowing stakeholders to gain a detailed understanding of the project's benefits. Initially, a detailed presentation was developed, covering all facets of the project. This presentation was subsequently transformed into an animated video to increase its dynamism and attractiveness. Furthermore, links to questionnaires, which form part of the social impact assessment for the project, have been included in the video to facilitate stakeholder participation and involvement.

The video presentation is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z96UPgzNk8U.
Plesionika indica De Man 1917
Creators: name: Li, Xinzheng
name: Komai, Tomoyuki
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Pandalidae
Plesionika
Plesionika indica

description: Plesionika indica De Man, 1917
 Plesionika longipes var. indica De Man, 1917: 279 [type locality:
 Indonesia]; 1920: 106, 121, pl. 10, fig. 25a-g, pl. 11: fig. 25. Plesionika sindoi – Balss, 1925: 279, figs. 49-52, pl. 26. Plesionika indica – Calman, 1939: 198; Chace, 1985: 70, figs.
31, 32; Liu & Zhong, 1994: 560.
 Material examined. – 1 male (cl 16.2 mm), 3 females (cl 12.4- 15.1 mm) (IOCAS), CN 7-10, 19º00’N, 112º30’E, 472 m, AT, coll. Z. Tang, 17 Feb.1959.
 Distribution. – Eastern Africa off Zanzibar, Indonesia, South China Sea, Philippines, Japan, at depths of 238- 472 m.
 Remarks. – This is one of the largest species of Plesionika, attaining 38 mm in the postorbital carapace length (Toriyama et al., 1990). The present specimens appear immature with the carapace lengths ranging from 12.4 to 16.2 mm. They are referred to P. indica on account of the following features: rostrum 1.8 times as long as carapace, far overreaching antennal scale, with more than 20 dorsal and more than 17 ventral teeth, 3 or 4 posteriormost dorsal teeth arising from carapace posterior to level of orbital margin; fourth abdominal somite with a small posteroventral tooth on pleuron; third maxilliped with penultimate segment about 1.6 times as long as terminal segment; and the presence of four anterior pairs of pereopods with hooked epipods (De Man, 1920; Chace, 1985).
description: Published as part of Li, Xinzheng & Komai, Tomoyuki, 2003, Pandaloid Shrimps From The Northern South China Sea, With Description Of A New Species Of Plesionika (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea), pp. 257-275 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51 (2) on page 261, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13229438
Wolfgang Bauer, 23.2.1930-14.1.1997
Creators: name: Kantowsky, Detlef
name: Von Waldburg-Zeil, Alois Graf
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 28 Nr. 1 (1997): Internationales Asien Forum
The Injury Consequences of Promoting Physical Activity : An Evidence Review
Creators: name: Girardi, Alberta
name: Babul, Shelina
name: Rajabali, Fahra
name: Pike, Ian, 1958-
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: The purpose of this report is to summarize and synthesize recent research evidence on the injury consequences of promoting physical activity. The guiding research question was whether individuals who increase their levels of physical activity are at an increased (or decreased) risk of injury as a result. A secondary research question was whether overweight and/or obese individuals are at an increased risk of exercise-related injuries compared with individuals who are of healthy weight.
Predictive Modeling of the Present State of Distant Celestial Objects Using Machine Learning and Computational Astrophysics
Creators: name: Sirigireddy, Umesh Reddy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This project presents a hybrid framework that integrates Machine Learning (ML) and Computational Astrophysics to estimate the present state of distant celestial objects, such as stars and galaxies, despite the light travel delay in astronomical observations. By training deep learning models on large-scale astrophysical simulations and combining them with observational datasets from sources like the Hubble Space Telescope and Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the research refines predictions of key parameters including luminosity, mass distribution, and evolutionary trajectories. This predictive modeling approach offers a scalable solution to extrapolate real-time cosmic conditions using historical data and simulation-based inference. The work aims to bridge the gap between physical simulations and data-driven models, enhancing both theoretical insights and observational accuracy in modern astrophysics.
Hosting the Economic Leaders’ Meeting 1997: Canada and APEC
Creators: name: Zellmer-Bjick, Martina
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: On 24th-25th November, 1997, Canada hosted the APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in Vancouver. The federal government as well as many provincial leaders used this opportunity to present their country as a nation maintaining a multitude of cultural, political, economic and social ties with other countries in the Asia Pacific, in short, as a country which belongs to the region. Therefore, a multifaceted program was designed to precede and surround last year’s APEC activities and 1997 was declared ‘Canada’s Year of the Asia Pacific’. Apart from helping to build a sense of community in the Asia Pacific region, the strategy aimed at achieving some very concrete, mainly economic goals. This article analyzes three of these goals in detail, namely Canada’s interest in reducing its dependence on the U.S. market, in stimulating exports to the region, and in attracting business immigrants from Asia. Based on these determinants the paper examines Canada’s APEC policy, putting great emphasis on the government’s strategy for the 1997 meeting and assessing its success.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 29 Nr. 3-4 (1998): Internationales Asienforum
Customizing AOSE methodologies by reusing AOSE features
Creators: name: Juan, Thomas
name: Sterling, Leon
name: Martelli, Maurizio
name: Mascardi, Viviana
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Future large-scale software development projects will require engineering support for a diverse range of software quality attributes, such as privacy and openness. It is not feasible to create one monolithic methodology to support all possible quality attributes. Instead, we expect AOSE methodologies to be created and reused in a modular way. A modular approach enables developers to build custom project-specific methodologies from AOSE features in the same way applications are built from reusable off-the-shelf components. In this paper, we provide a conceptual framework for creating and reusing modular methodologies. This conceptual framework is based on the concept of an AOSE feature, which performs one or more development activities, such as analysis, and addresses one or more quality attributes, such as privacy. An AOSE feature encapsulates software engineering techniques, models, supporting CASE tools and development knowledge such as design patterns. We illustrate the applicability of our approach by modularizing four existing methodologies, Prometheus, ROADMAP, CaseLP and the conventional OO approach, into AOSE features.
Indigenous Tribes and Kinh-Vietnamese Infiltration in the Tay Nguyen Highlands of South-Central Vietnam
Creators: name: Zimmermann, Gerd R.
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Since the late Neolithic period hill ribes of Austronesian and Austro-Asian origin have almost exclusively peopled the Tay Nguyen Highlands of South Central Vietnam. Although during the last 2,000 years mostly hostile contacts existed between these peoples and the lowland populations, until the 19th century there had never been any real threat to their cultural independence. With the French occupation of Vietnam in the second half of the 19th century, the Christian mission, resettlement schemes and the setting-up of large-scale plantations, Tay Nguyen became more and more infiltrated by Kinh-Vietnamese, a process which continued on a massive scale during and after the Vietnam War. Nowadays the different hill tribes form a minority of about 20 % in their own autochthonous area and their culture is more threatened then ever before. It seems easy to condemn such a development, but it should be emphasized that similar projects were initiated by all colonial powers, and they have been continued by the independent countries of Southeast Asia irrespective of their political systems. As a result we find different degrees of inter-ethnic influences, from dominance to physical destruction of ethnic groups.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 29 Nr. 3-4 (1998): Internationales Asienforum
Concussion among Children and Youth in British Columbia
Creators: name: Rajabali, Fahra
name: Ibrahimova, Aybaniz
name: Turcotte, Kate
name: Babul, Shelina
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: The purpose of this report is to provide details on the burden of concussion among children and youth in BC as a supplement to the report The Burden of Concussion in British Columbia.
Mental health and workplace bullying: the role of power, professions and 'on the job' training
Creators: name: Turney, Lyn
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Study of the professions, and the process of professionalisation as an occupational strategy, has mainly concentrated on investigating structures of power, rather than individual and deliberate use of power. This chapter provides a microanalysis of power relations by examining professional power and hierarchy in interpersonal relations within the workplace. It makes links across the spectrum of workplaces in which bullying occurs - from those where physical intimidation and threat of violence is experienced, to the professions and quasi-professions where legitimate power becomes the vehicle for invisible bullying practices. Arguably, it is within the professions that bullying occurs in its most rarefied form and, to understand the phenomenon, I argue that we should closely examine instances of workplace bullying where there is no one tangible or definable act but clearly an ongoing threat to an individual worker's health and safety. In particular, I explore the positionality of the traditional professions within new organisational structures. The paper concludes with recommendations for the promotion of mental health at work that focus on both environmental and individual strategies.
Where Did Education in Texas Go Wrong? A Qualitative Analysis of How Standardized Testing Affects the Quality of Primary Education
Creators: name: McCraney, Rebecca
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: STAAR test
Texas education
accountability
assessment
standardized testing
No Child Left Behind
Every Student Succeeds Act
education reform
federal education reform
growth
collaboration

description: Education reform, like No Child Left Behind and Every Student Succeeds Act, introduced an intensified accountability system in which students, teachers, and schools are evaluated by standardized test scores. For Texas, in particular, the state assessment carries a great deal of weight in measuring accountability. As a result, schools are inundated with blame, pressure, and isolated responsibility in maintaining high test scores to secure adequate funding. In order to understand the source of challenges Texas education faces today, I conducted a qualitative analysis in the form of interviews. The data collected from the interviews revealed three key areas from which Texas education struggles stem from: accountability, assessment, and collaboration. The paper concludes with a few recommendations developed from the analysis such as: base accountability on teacher and student growth; use interim state assessments to track students’ progression; increase cross-industry collaboration.
Women in Vietnam’s Rural Public: Challenging Men in the Economy
Creators: name: Meyer-Tran, Erland
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Using a few examples from a rural commune in northern Vietnam's Red River delta, this paper deals with women's possibilities and strategies for expanding their scope of action in public, particularly at the interface of politics and the economy. What is striking in this context is that state administration and politics lack by and large female commitment and is obviously the place where patriarchal dominance is still most deeply entrenched. Through delimiting themselves from male dominated politics, successful female entrepreneurs may also be simply trying to avoid political interference. This could be seen as part of a strategy to secure their position in the economy through trying to conceal the significance of their economic success from the rural public in general.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 29 Nr. 3-4 (1998): Internationales Asienforum
Feedforward decoupling control design for dual-actuator system in hard disk drives
Creators: name: Zheng, Jinchuan
name: Guo, Guoxiao
name: Wang, Youyi
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The dual-actuator hard disk drive (HDD) with two actuators mounted in the diagonal corners of the baseplate allows faster data access with relatively slower spindle speed. However, the mechanical interaction between the actuators tends to affect the head positioning accuracy. In this paper, the dual-actuator structure is formulated as a dual-input dual-output (DIDO) system and then identified in frequency domain. Based on the interaction models, the feedforward decoupling control (FDC) is developed to compensate for the vibration due to interaction. Experimental results on a dual-actuator prototype demonstrate that the position error signal (PES) value due to interaction is reduced by 72% even under the severest condition.