cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Public space combinations
Creators: name: Dung, Catherine
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330109
subject: Landscape architecture
classificationCode: 330411
subject: Urban design

description: Dysfunctional public spaces are regularly encountered in the everyday experience of Australian cities. Such places are typically understood to be ‘public space’, by virtue of being publicly owned and in principle publicly accessible, but are not fulfilling the concomitant expectation that they function as public domains—that is, as forums for public social activity. Often, a major cause of the dysfunction is to be found in the presence of competing needs from another urban activity that overwhelm and marginalise the requirements for the successful functioning of the public space in question. In these situations, the normative methods of developing public space, governed by regulatory planning instruments, seem largely ineffective in advancing the needs of the public space.

This study investigates design strategies for enabling these types of contested public spaces to better fulfil their potential and desired social purposes. The investigation is undertaken through speculative urban design projects in three Australian cities—Melbourne, Sydney and the Gold Coast—on sites where the ability of a public space to foster public social activity is unrealised or under threat. A strategy of combined development is proposed, where the development impetus for a competing urban activity (such as commercial, industrial or environmental infrastructure) is leveraged for the simultaneous development of public space improvements. In contrast to conventional mixed-use development, where a number of different programs may operate essentially independently within the one spatial framework, this research investigates how public space might be physically, operationally and experientially combined with other urban activities in the one development in order to produce better public domain outcomes. By demonstrating how the direct engagement with urban development forces—through the leveraging of development impetus—can be an effective strategy for creating new opportunities for public space, this research extends the discourse of contemporary landscape architectural design practice.
Ned Kelly and the movies 1906-2003: representation, social banditry and history
Creators: name: Gaunson, Stephen
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: This PhD thesis investigates the fascinating subject of the Ned Kelly movies. Since the early days of Australian film production, movies on Kelly were appearing at regular intervals, and certainly, they are a significant addition to cinema studies and cultural history. Yet, beyond the movies, this thesis discusses Kelly’s nineteenth century cultural industry, which played a significant role in commodifying Ned as an important figure of popular entertainment. Indeed, the performance customs and social practices established during Kelly’s historic Outbreak of 1878-1880 were taken into the moving pictures in the twentieth century. Kelly’s representation though has not been a fixed artefact, and by examining his twentieth and twenty-first century cinema representation, this thesis explores how the origins of his popular image have continued in popular culture. With this thesis adding to the growing field of research on celluloid bandits, it demonstrates the importance of understanding how the Kelly films shift beyond the normal parameters of cinema studies and delve into broader areas of cultural history. As it argues, the Kelly movies are significantly influenced by popular history as well as Kelly’s tradition of visual imagery, folk songs and literature.
Right Side View of The Clubhouse at Montauk
Creators: name: Edwards, Dave
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: Montauk
Clubhouses
Buildings
Dwellings
Structures
Photographs
Flagpoles

description: This photograph shows a right side view of the Montauk Clubhouse.
description: The line on this image is an editing mark left by the newspaper staff that originally handled this photo.
Mass fractions in stellar interior during presupernova evolution
Creators: name: Nabi, Jameel-Un
name: Tawfik, Abdel Nasser
name: Ezzelarab, Nada
name: Khan, Ali Abas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We assume nuclear statistical equilibrium (NSE) conditions and use Saha Equation to calculate mass fractions in stellar interior during presupernova evolution of massive stars. Our ensemble contains 728 nuclei. The distinguishing feature of our calculation is a state by state summation of nuclear level densities up to 10 MeV for all nuclei considered in our ensemble. This leads to a more realistic description of nuclear partition function which poses one of the largest uncertainties in the mass fraction calculations under conditions of NSE. The Coulomb correction term was taken into account for the calculation of ground state binding energies of the nucleons. Our calculated mass fractions are up to four orders of magnitude smaller than previous calculation. The current calculation could prove useful for study of stellar matter during presupernova phases of massive stars.
description: 14 Pages, 4 Table , 6 figures
sj-pdf-1-imr-10.1177_03000605221129547 - Supplemental material for Relationships of ABO and Rhesus blood groups with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Getawa, Solomon
name: Bayleyegn, Biruk
name: Aynalem, Melak
name: Worku, Yilkal Belete
name: Adane, Tiruneh
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Cardiology
subject: 110599 Dentistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110305 Emergency Medicine
subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: 111199 Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
subject: 111299 Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: 110315 Otorhinolaryngology
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: 111403 Paediatrics
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases
subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 110323 Surgery

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-imr-10.1177_03000605221129547 for Relationships of ABO and Rhesus blood groups with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Solomon Getawa, Biruk Bayleyegn, Melak Aynalem, Yilkal Belete Worku, Tiruneh Adane in Journal of International Medical Research
Additional file 2 of A validated restriction enzyme ddPCR cg05575921 (AHRR) assay to accurately assess smoking exposure
Creators: name: Fitzgerald, Sandra
name: Bhat, Basharat
name: Print, Cristin
name: Jones, Gregory T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2. Supplementary file 1: ddPCR methods.
The integration of contractor's knowledge and expertise as part of a complex project management organisation's people capability: a case of an Australian defence acquisition organisation
Creators: name: Taylor, David
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: An integral part of the organisation’s capability is people and the way it uses and develops competence. The question this thesis seeks to answer is ‘How effective is the integration of contractor’s skills and expertise as part of the people capability of complex project based organisations?’ A qualitative approach based in action learning implementing using Soft Systems Methodology has been chosen to address the question. The approach is based on a ‘liberation’ praxeological philosophy that seeks to give primacy to praxis or ‘action that is based on knowledge informed by theory and performed according to certain ethical and moral principles for political ends’ (Bredillet, 2013 p.60). This approach rooted in practice attempts to address the gap between theory and practice in that it provides opportunities for learning by doing and advocates ‘knowing as practicing’.

The results critically highlight issues with accountability, competence development, risk sharing along with others. These issues centralise the problem in the human resource or people capability space. Creative reasoning arising from a narrative based soft systems methodology led to theory about practice in an extension of the people capability framework (Bredin, 2008b). This framework considers the integration of contractors into complex project management based organisations and the development of a model of people management for application in a complex project management organisation setting. Also developed is a ‘theory for practice’ in the provision of a model for integrating contractors as part of a complex project management organisation and theory in practice in the application of soft systems methodology as part of an action learning intervention in a complex project management organisation. A limitation of the research could be seen to be the extent to which the research which is based in a particular acquisition organisation can be regarded as generalisable. Further, complementary research in people management and the capability of temporary project based organisations in governance, operations management, transitioning and the effectiveness of performance appraisals would provide a more rounded view of practice and theory in this area.
Additional file 1 of Investigator choice of standard therapy versus sequential novel therapy arms in the treatment of relapsed follicular lymphoma (REFRACT): study protocol for a multi-centre, open-label, randomised, phase II platform trial
Creators: name: McIlroy, Graham
name: Lax, Siân
name: Gaskell, Charlotte
name: Jackson, Aimee
name: Rhodes, Malcolm
name: Seale, Tania
name: Fox, Sonia
name: Hopkins, Lousie
name: Okosun, Jessica
name: Barrington, Sally F.
name: Ringshausen, Ingo
name: Ramsay, Alan G.
name: Calaminici, Maria
name: Linton, Kim
name: Bishton, Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
The impact of corporate versus professional control mechanisms on the adoption of health informatics in Australia
Creators: name: Kelly, Mary Paulette
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: This study is grounded in a desire to describe and understand the positioning of eHealth within the health policy process. Policies and politics are intertwined (Corbitt, 1995). The current literature on health policy analysis suggested the problem of how to conceptualize power and relate power to notions like discourse and how to integrate these ideas of power into a conceptual framework for policy analysis. The current literature on power and politics in Information Systems (IS) deployments have drawn on limited conceptual resources to understand IS as artifacts, and power as a definable (and often manageable) entity, in ascribing IS a political role. This thesis questions the power relations that constitute the health policy process and those that are constituted by the health policy process. The research interprets health policy initiatives within the broader political and ideological context in which it is occurring. This study focuses on the discursive nature of health policy, and how various practices and techniques are implicated in governing the interpretation of policy intentions and behaviors to act in relation to policy. Of particular interest in this study are the discursive spaces for action within which acts of power and resistance can unfold.

This study aims to illustrate that the critical interpretive perspective (Doolin and McLeod 2005) applied to an understanding of health policy as a process constituent of power relations, a process involved in governance and advocacy tied to polity, knowledge and intervention can contribute to an understanding of the mobilization of authority and the impact this has on interpretation of policy intentions. This thesis argues that policy contexts create new discursive spaces for action, spaces which provide opportunities to maneuver allowing for framing of issues or resisting practice change. It suggests that the political landscape of action is made apparent within these spaces, and further that information systems become the medium through which the legitimacy of professional and corporate control mechanisms are contested. This thesis argues that renegotiated health information systems illuminate the reform ideas which have diffused into practice and those that have been delayed at a point in time.
Leveraging Approximate Caching for Faster Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Creators: name: Bergman, Shai
name: Ji, Zhang
name: Kermarrec, Anne-Marie
name: Petrescu, Diana
name: Pires, Rafael
name: Randl, Mathis
name: de Vos, Martijn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances the reliability of large language model (LLM) answers by integrating external knowledge. However, RAG increases the end-to-end inference time since looking for relevant documents from large vector databases is computationally expensive. To address this, we introduce Proximity, an approximate key-value cache that optimizes the RAG workflow by leveraging similarities in user queries. Instead of treating each query independently, Proximity reuses previously retrieved documents when similar queries appear, reducing reliance on expensive vector database lookups. We evaluate Proximity on the MMLU and MedRAG benchmarks, demonstrating that it significantly improves retrieval efficiency while maintaining response accuracy. Proximity reduces retrieval latency by up to 59% while maintaining accuracy and lowers the computational burden on the vector database. We also experiment with different similarity thresholds and quantify the trade-off between speed and recall. Our work shows that approximate caching is a viable and effective strategy for optimizing RAG-based systems.
К ВОПРОСУ ОБ ОЦЕНКЕ УСТОЙЧИВОСТИ И КОНКУРЕНТОСПОСОБНОСТИ ТЕРРИТОРИАЛЬНЫХ СИСТЕМ
Creators: name: КРИУЛИНА Е.Н.
Publisher: name: Издательство "АГРУС" (Ставрополь)
Year: 2018

description: Исследованы территориальные особенности муниципальных (сельских) районов Ставропольского края и проведена их типология по типам производства: аграрный, аграрно-индустриальный и индустриально-аграрный.
АГРАРНАЯ НАУКА НА СТАВРОПОЛЬЕ: ИСТОРИЧЕСКОЕ НАСЛЕДИЕ И ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ
Creators: name: КРИУЛИНА Е.Н.
Publisher: name: Издательство "АГРУС" (Ставрополь)
Year: 2018

description: В статье определены итоги и перспективы развития аграрной экономики Ставропольского края, обоснована роль ФГБНУ «Северо-Кавказский федеральный научный аграрный центр» для реализации стратегии формирования единого агропромышленного кластера проектов полного цикла.
Listen Local Collaboration Guide
Creators: name: Antal, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Digital Music Observatory
subject: Data curator
subject: Music curator
subject: Music ecosystem
subject: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85088762
subject: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85133129

description: Listen Local is an open collaboration for artists, fans, managers, developers to provide alternatives to connect local audiences with local artists through locally relevant music recommendations and findings. As a project of the Digital Music Observatory it aims to make big data work for small labels and self-released artists, and to make algorithms work for and not against them. This Collaboration Manual is created for the existing and future contributors of this project. You can download the latest version of the manual from listen-local-collaboration.dataobservatory.eu. The last authoritative copy of this manual (Version 2022-06-06) is doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6617137.
The effects of eccentrically-biased versus conventional resistance training in older adults
Creators: name: Selva Raj, Isaac
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: The major objectives of this thesis were: (i) to compare the acute effects of eccentrically-biased and conventional resistance training on arterial stiffness, platelet reactivity, activation and count, postural stability and isometric force steadiness in older men and women; and (ii) to compare the effects 16-weeks of eccentrically-biased versus conventional resistance training on muscle architecture, 1 repetition maximum, isometric strength, isokinetic force-velocity characteristics, functional capacity and pulse wave velocity in older men and women. The results of this research show that both eccentrically-biased and conventional resistance training are effective at increasing strength and improving function in older adults. The improvements in strength during quick isokinetic contractions of the knee extensors after eccentrically-biased resistance training may have implications for functional movements that require rapid movements of the limb, such as recovering from a stumble. However, more research is needed to evaluate the effectiveness of this type of training in this area. The small acute increase in platelet count and postural instability after eccentrically-biased resistance training mean that older adults should exercise caution immediately post-training and appropriate management will decrease these risks.
A study of the causes and implications of managed fund mergers and liquidations
Creators: name: Luo, Youyou
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: The impacts of fund mergers and liquidations are significant as the managed funds industry continues to evolve. This thesis fills a much needed gap in the managed funds literature through providing insight into causes and implications of mergers and liquidation of managed funds. The thesis explores this through a number of aspects. Firstly, the thesis develops a framework for conceptualising the causes of managed funds termination and describes the differences between strategic mergers, distressed mergers and liquidations. Then, the thesis investigates the probabilities of fund termination for Australian, French and UK managed funds, and the relationship between a fund’s probability of termination and various fund characteristics. Further, this thesis investigates the determinants for the funds’ termination status and identifies factors that influence whether a fund is merged or liquidated. Finally, this thesis investigates the impact of alternative weighting schemes on the performance of master trusts - which can serve as mitigants for the impact of mergers and liquidations, specifically addressing the problem of estimation error in forming master trust portfolios. Results from statistical analysis show important insights into the causes of mergers and liquidation of managed funds. It is found that alpha, skewness and fund family size are significant factors influencing a fund’s probability of termination, and that a larger fund is less likely to terminate. Also, skewness and family size significantly influence the termination status of a fund. From these results, this thesis discusses the implications for regulating mergers and liquidations of managed funds.
РЕАЛИЗАЦИЯ ИНТЕГРАЦИОННОГО ПОТЕНЦИАЛА ТЕРРИТОРИИ И ЕГО ВЛИЯНИЕ НА РАЗВИТИЕ СЕЛА
Creators: name: КРИУЛИНА Е.Н
Publisher: name: Издательство "АГРУС" (Ставрополь)
Year: 2018

description: Развитие экономической интеграции в аграрном секторе экономики из-за риска рассредоточения имеющихся ресурсов и возможностей усиливает необходимость формирования рациональной и взаимовыгодной стратегии реализации имеющегося интеграционного потенциала сельских территорий в целях получения реальных выгод, преимуществ и дополнительного экономического эффекта.
Additional file 2 of Investigator choice of standard therapy versus sequential novel therapy arms in the treatment of relapsed follicular lymphoma (REFRACT): study protocol for a multi-centre, open-label, randomised, phase II platform trial
Creators: name: McIlroy, Graham
name: Lax, Siân
name: Gaskell, Charlotte
name: Jackson, Aimee
name: Rhodes, Malcolm
name: Seale, Tania
name: Fox, Sonia
name: Hopkins, Lousie
name: Okosun, Jessica
name: Barrington, Sally F.
name: Ringshausen, Ingo
name: Ramsay, Alan G.
name: Calaminici, Maria
name: Linton, Kim
name: Bishton, Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 2
Divining the structure: the use of graphic representation in the analysis and performance of dramatic material
Creators: name: Wicks, David
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: The PhD concentrates on the use of simple, hand-drawn graphs and their use as analytical tools to represent conflict, tension, interest and other aspects of dramatic structure in performance material such as plays, screenplays and performance art. The method provides a blueprint for actors and directors that is useful in rehearsal, performance, and remounting of new work and extant dramatic texts. It is also useful for structuring or guiding an audience’s attention and feelings.

The research uses case-study projects to trial and implement radically useful new shapes and ideas for graphic representation of dramatic structure, suggested by the particular needs of each project. The significance, efficacy, and power of elucidation of each new model is noted and discussed. In addition to practical experimentation, the new representations are impactedby disputative readings in philosophy, acting, architecture and the art of drawing. These readings provoke foundational questions such as ‘What is dramatic?’ ‘What is a climax?’ ‘What is duration?’ and ‘What is the role of metaphor in dramatic structure?’

As a result of the deep re-thinking provoked by the PhD process, a range of possibilities have emerged. The research contributes to knowledge by opening up a conversation about the practical and philosophical value of graphically representing dramatic structure, and offers new ways for actors, directors and dramaturgs to communicate with each other through drawing.
Repositorium, Publikationsdatenbank Und Katalog: Integrierte Lösungen Für Kleine Bibliotheken
Creators: name: Mehl, Rebecca
name: Piegler, Maike
name: Wagner, Alexander
name: Welch, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Repositorium
Bibliothekskatalog
Integration
Workflows

description: Poster Beitrag der Open-Access-Tage 2018 in Graz
sj-docx-3-eso-10.1177_23969873221126027 – Supplemental material for Translation of nurse-initiated protocols to manage fever, hyperglycaemia and swallowing following stroke across Europe (QASC Europe): A pre-test/post-test implementation study
Creators: name: Middleton, Sandy
name: Dale, Simeon
name: McElduff, Benjamin
name: Coughlan, Kelly
name: McInnes, Elizabeth
name: Mikulik, Robert
name: Fischer, Thomas
name: Van der Merwe, Jan
name: Cadilhac, Dominique
name: D’Este, Catherine
name: Levi, Christopher
name: Grimshaw, Jeremy M
name: Grecu, Andreea
name: Quinn, Clare
name: Cheung, Ngai Wah
name: Koláčná, Tereza
name: Medukhanova, Sabina
name: Sanjuan Menendez, Estela
name: Salselas, Susana
name: Messchendorp, Gert
name: Cassier-Woidasky, Anne-Kathrin
name: Skrzypek-Czerko, Marcelina
name: Slavat-Plana, Merce
name: Antonella, Urso
name: Pfeilschifter, Waltraud
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: Medicine
subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-3-eso-10.1177_23969873221126027 for Translation of nurse-initiated protocols to manage fever, hyperglycaemia and swallowing following stroke across Europe (QASC Europe): A pre-test/post-test implementation study by Sandy Middleton, Simeon Dale, Benjamin McElduff, Kelly Coughlan, Elizabeth McInnes, Robert Mikulik, Thomas Fischer, Jan Van der Merwe, Dominique Cadilhac, Catherine D’Este, Christopher Levi, Jeremy M Grimshaw, Andreea Grecu, Clare Quinn, Ngai Wah Cheung, Tereza Koláčná, Sabina Medukhanova, Estela Sanjuan Menendez, Susana Salselas, Gert Messchendorp, Anne-Kathrin Cassier-Woidasky, Marcelina Skrzypek-Czerko, Merce Slavat-Plana, Urso Antonella and Waltraud Pfeilschifter in European Stroke Journal
Additional file 3 of Investigator choice of standard therapy versus sequential novel therapy arms in the treatment of relapsed follicular lymphoma (REFRACT): study protocol for a multi-centre, open-label, randomised, phase II platform trial
Creators: name: McIlroy, Graham
name: Lax, Siân
name: Gaskell, Charlotte
name: Jackson, Aimee
name: Rhodes, Malcolm
name: Seale, Tania
name: Fox, Sonia
name: Hopkins, Lousie
name: Okosun, Jessica
name: Barrington, Sally F.
name: Ringshausen, Ingo
name: Ramsay, Alan G.
name: Calaminici, Maria
name: Linton, Kim
name: Bishton, Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 3
Additional file 4 of Investigator choice of standard therapy versus sequential novel therapy arms in the treatment of relapsed follicular lymphoma (REFRACT): study protocol for a multi-centre, open-label, randomised, phase II platform trial
Creators: name: McIlroy, Graham
name: Lax, Siân
name: Gaskell, Charlotte
name: Jackson, Aimee
name: Rhodes, Malcolm
name: Seale, Tania
name: Fox, Sonia
name: Hopkins, Lousie
name: Okosun, Jessica
name: Barrington, Sally F.
name: Ringshausen, Ingo
name: Ramsay, Alan G.
name: Calaminici, Maria
name: Linton, Kim
name: Bishton, Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 4
Student attrition in higher education: an exploratory study of factors influencing student retention at a tertiary English language centre in Saudi Arabia
Creators: name: Aljohani, Othman Ahmad
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Student retention is one of the most confronting issues in tertiary education. Low student retention rates reflect negatively on the image of the institution and possibly on its academic reputation. This in turn might affect the institution financially and affect future academic plans for development. This study is an exploration of the phenomenon of low student retention rates in an English language centre of a tertiary institution in Saudi Arabia. The aim was to investigate the factors affecting student retention and those to which non-persister students responded when making the decision to leave the sample college. The study also aimed to investigate the role of the institutional experience and whether there was a relation to students’ academic ability in the English language. The adopted research design was sequential exploratory mixed methods with greater emphasis on the qualitative phase. The study consisted of an initial qualitative phase and subsequent quantitative phase. Student data were collected during the academic year of 2012–2013 through interviews, focus groups, surveys and questionnaires for the quantitative data. The participants of the qualitative phase were four non-persister students (interviews), 15 persister students (focus groups), 10 academic and administrative staff (surveys) and 163 students who participated in the quantitative study questionnaires. The college records indicated that 53 of the sample students withdrew by the end of the first year of the program. The thematic analysis of the qualitative data revealed that the main sources of student attrition were the students’ poor institutional experience and satisfaction, particularly with the college administrative system; the poor level of their institutional commitment; and the high level of their educational and employment goals.
 These findings were tested quantitatively through a modified version of the Institutional Integration Scales (IIS) designed by Pascarella and Terenzini (1980) to check whether the qualitative data could be generalised to the larger population of the sample college. The statistical analyses of the questionnaires confirmed that the non-persister students were significantly different from their persister counterparts in regard to many of the tested variables. They had significantly higher high school grades, higher levels of life and work commitment, lower levels of institutional commitment and lower levels of institutional integration according to their overall scores on the IIS. Moreover, the conclusion of the study suggested that the main motivator behind non-persister students withdrawing from the sample college was the availability to them of another study or job opportunity. No evidence was found to associate the student attrition phenomenon in the sample college with students’ low academic ability, especially in the English language.
sj-pdf-3-chc-10.1177_13674935211029124 – Supplemental Material for Self-care support of diet and the gut in the routine care of school-age children with long-term conditions: An integrative review
Creators: name: Cave, Laurie
name: Milnes, Linda J
name: McHugh, Gretl A
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: 111403 Paediatrics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-3-chc-10.1177_13674935211029124 for Self-care support of diet and the gut in the routine care of school-age children with long-term conditions: An integrative review by Laurie Cave, Linda J Milnes and Gretl A McHugh in Journal of Child Health Care
sj-pdf-4-hss-10.1177_15563316221131251 – Supplemental material for Does a Uni “Feel Better” than a Total Knee? Not Necessarily, When Using Modern Implant Designs
Creators: name: Ast, Michael P.
name: Kolin, David A.
name: Carroll, Kaitlin M.
name: Davis, Destiny
name: Pearle, Andrew D.
name: Mayman, David J.
name: Ong, Alvin C.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-4-hss-10.1177_15563316221131251 for Does a Uni “Feel Better” than a Total Knee? Not Necessarily, When Using Modern Implant Designs by Michael P. Ast, David A. Kolin, Kaitlin M. Carroll, Destiny Davis, Andrew D. Pearle, David J. Mayman and Alvin C. Ong in HSS Journal®: The Musculoskeletal Journal of Hospital for Special Surgery
sj-pdf-7-jiv-10.1177_08862605211042810 – Supplemental material for Predictive Factors of Mental Health in Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence in Chile
Creators: name: Labra-Valerdi, Paloma
name: Chacón-Moscoso, Salvador
name: Sanduvete-Chaves, Susana
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-7-jiv-10.1177_08862605211042810 for Predictive Factors of Mental Health in Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence in Chile by Paloma Labra-Valerdi, Salvador Chacón-Moscoso and Susana Sanduvete-Chaves in Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Additional file 5 of Investigator choice of standard therapy versus sequential novel therapy arms in the treatment of relapsed follicular lymphoma (REFRACT): study protocol for a multi-centre, open-label, randomised, phase II platform trial
Creators: name: McIlroy, Graham
name: Lax, Siân
name: Gaskell, Charlotte
name: Jackson, Aimee
name: Rhodes, Malcolm
name: Seale, Tania
name: Fox, Sonia
name: Hopkins, Lousie
name: Okosun, Jessica
name: Barrington, Sally F.
name: Ringshausen, Ingo
name: Ramsay, Alan G.
name: Calaminici, Maria
name: Linton, Kim
name: Bishton, Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 5
A study of photo-stability of materials and fabrics
Creators: name: Zakaria, Siti
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Photo- and thermo-oxidative degradation of several dyes, additives and pure cellulose paper, were examined mainly by photo-induced chemiluminescence (PICL) technique. The degradation levels were assessed based on free radical populations of irradiated samples. The chromatic alteration of the samples as a result of accelerated ageing treatments conducted in the study were carried out by measuring CIELAB parameters (L*, a*, b* and ΔE*) using spectrophotometry method. The chemical and physical changes of pure cellulose paper during accelerated ageing was characterised by ATR-FTIR and UV–visible spectroscopic methods. The spectra were focused between 1500–1900 cm–1, where the products of paper ageing appear in the form of various carbonyl groups.

Dyes and additives may accelerate or inhibit photodegradation of materials by increasing or reducing free radicals. PICL intensity emissions of dyes were found to be dependent on the dye class and chromophore and do not relate to the lightfastness rating of dyes. Higher PICL intensity emissions than a control is associated with lower photostability of samples. The application of UV absorbers, Rayosan C on cotton and Cibafast W on silk, provided efficient photo-protection against the damaging effects of light. The application of the antioxidants, ascorbic acid on cotton and a combination of N-acetyl/oxalic acid on silk provided effective photo-protection by reducing free radicals and inhibiting oxidation reactions. Doping fluorescein dye, eosin Y dye and a photoinitiator into methyl cellulose or ethyl cellulose polymer films successfully accelerated the photooxidation of these polymer films under visible light irradiation. Incorporation of these additives into polymer films, promote free radical oxidation, to enable rapid photo-oxidation of waste polymers in the environment. Study of photo- and thermal ageing of pure cellulose paper showed that colour and chemical changes depend on the type of ageing treatment carried out. Under the current experimental conditions, UVB ageing had the most contributors to colour and chemical change. However, free radical population of these samples was similar to unaged sample as detected by PICL technique. The ATR-FTIR transmission spectra showed a higher absorbance in the carbonyl range (1900–1500 cm–1) and at extended exposure stages, a shift of frequency vibrations from 1650 cm–1 to 1730 cm–1 was observed, indicating the formation of carboxylic groups. Results from PICL experiments showed that free radical oxidation may not be the dominant factor contributing to the photodegradation and photoyellowing of cellulose paper.
Additional file 6 of Investigator choice of standard therapy versus sequential novel therapy arms in the treatment of relapsed follicular lymphoma (REFRACT): study protocol for a multi-centre, open-label, randomised, phase II platform trial
Creators: name: McIlroy, Graham
name: Lax, Siân
name: Gaskell, Charlotte
name: Jackson, Aimee
name: Rhodes, Malcolm
name: Seale, Tania
name: Fox, Sonia
name: Hopkins, Lousie
name: Okosun, Jessica
name: Barrington, Sally F.
name: Ringshausen, Ingo
name: Ramsay, Alan G.
name: Calaminici, Maria
name: Linton, Kim
name: Bishton, Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 6
A psychodynamic approach to implementing contract management in a complex organization
Creators: name: Strachan, Stuart
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: The world is becoming increasingly focused on an imperative to reduce the cost of services. Managers at this cutting edge of practical organizational development are trying many ways to achieve this. The major focus of this research uses a systems psychodynamic approach to investigate the role taken up by part-time contract managers in an Australian university. These part-time roles frequently fail in the longer term. This approach provides an understanding of the unconscious group dynamics that may cause the role to fail. The study considers contract managers with a wide range of skills and experience. It also looks at the organization’s understanding of the contract management role. The researcher was an insider researcher for the first part of the study, then an outsider researcher. During the outsider period, case study research of other change activities, consideration of dissimilar cultures between the client and contractor were undertaken, as well as completion of an organizational role analysis. It was expected that a method for implementing the contract management role would be trialled. However, when the researcher moved from an insider to an outsider researcher this proved impossible. This seemed to result from a loss of authority and the participants engaging psychological defenses. Nevertheless an implementation methodology is developed which relies on a comparison between the research and a previous change activity. The research used action research as an umbrella methodology. As the research progressed the potential for organizational role analysis to form the key change activity developed. However, refusal to continue as part of the research by one powerful participant raised the anxieties of other participants. Consequently the role analysis was used as a research method only. An hypothesis has been developed that considers the interaction of two simultaneously held roles. When a role is given to a person, the person then takes the role depending on the way it is conceptualised in their mind. When a person takes up a role in a single system there is limited scope for other systems to influence that role. The research hypothesises that a second system may be taken in two ways: as a system integrated into a single functional simple system or as a complex system and role where the simple roles act as influencers. In this case the simple roles act unconsciously to collapse the complex role. This is often regarded as the contract manager neglecting their role. The research then used the complex system and role hypothesis as well as a review of culture clash to propose a way forward. Organizational role analysis is proposed as a tool to achieve conscious and unconscious congruency of a system-in-the-mind of a group. It has the capacity to collaboratively identify a suitable organizational system, to identify and understand the conflicting issues of two organizational cultures and to achieve congruency in the minds of the organizations members.
Revitalizing Saturated Benchmarks: A Weighted Metric Approach for Differentiating Large Language Model Performance
Creators: name: Etzine, Bryan
name: Hashemi, Masoud
name: Madhusudhan, Nishanth
name: Davasam, Sagar
name: Sharma, Roshnee
name: Madhusudhan, Sathwik Tejaswi
name: Yadav, Vikas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Existing benchmarks are becoming saturated and struggle to separate model performances due to factors like data contamination and advancing LLM capabilities. This paper introduces EMDM (Enhanced Model Differentiation Metric), a novel weighted metric that revitalizes benchmarks by enhancing model separation. EMDM integrates final answer and Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning correctness, assigning weights based on the complexity and reasoning depth required to solve a given sample in the evaluation data. Using a baseline LLM in two setups-Unguided, where the model has no prior exposure to test samples, and Guided, where the model has prior knowledge of the desired answer-EMDM distinguishes instances of varying difficulty. The CoT and answer correctness from these setups inform an optimization objective for weight assignment, resulting in a more nuanced evaluation of model performance. Compared to the exact match (EM) metric, which achieves 17% separation on ARC-Challenge, EMDM achieves 46%, demonstrating its effectiveness in differentiating models based on reasoning and knowledge requirements.
description: conference NAACL, TrustNLP Workshop
sj-pdf-1-vmj-10.1177_1358863X231159945 – Supplemental material for Outcomes in patients discharged with extended venous thromboembolism prophylaxis after hospitalization with COVID-19
Creators: name: Patel, Love
name: Stenzel, Ashley
name: Van Hove, Christopher
name: Sidebottom, Abbey
name: Kethireddy, Rajesh
name: Ha, Ngoc
name: Beddow, David
name: Manunga, Jesse
name: Qadri, Ghaziuddin
name: Kirven, Justin
name: Skeik, Nedaa
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-vmj-10.1177_1358863X231159945 for Outcomes in patients discharged with extended venous thromboembolism prophylaxis after hospitalization with COVID-19 by Love Patel, Ashley Stenzel, Christopher Van Hove, Abbey Sidebottom, Rajesh Kethireddy, Ngoc Ha, David Beddow, Jesse Manunga, Ghaziuddin Qadri, Justin Kirven and Nedaa Skeik in Vascular Medicine
A simple and efficient DNA extraction from respiratory samples for PCR detection of Pneumocystis jirovecii
Creators: name: Phairote Teeranaipong
name: Taweesak Tia
name: Chaturong Putaporntip
Publisher: name: Faculty of Medicine Chulalongkorn University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Pneumocystis jirovecii
boiling method
DNA extraction
brochoalveolar lavage
sputum

description: Chulalongkorn Medical Journal, 62, 4, 725-736
Exploring the design potential of bamboo for contemporary furniture
Creators: name: Kusumawardhani, Erika
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: The project has been conducted as an investigation into the design and making of furniture items, using bamboo in both the context of employing traditional craft skills and modern machinery and technologies.

Initially the project studied bamboos physical properties and its role as an important traditional material within all aspects of Indonesian culture. The study explored the concept of ‘cultural hybridization,’ a result of Asian and European colonialism in Indonesia and its expression in architecture and furniture. This concept was then used to review the work of contemporary Asian designers that mix traditional materials and craft skills within contemporary furniture forms and was extended to the use of bamboo in contemporary design projects from around the world.

The project was conducted through the development of a number of designs that employed bamboo in innovative ways. Initially concepts, renderings, models and prototypes were developed and techniques for the shaping and construction of a range of bamboo furniture pieces were tested in the workshops within RMIT, using modern computer and machine technologies. The project was then taken back to Java where traditional craftsman were asked to develop techniques to reproduce the designs developed in Melbourne. The ‘transfer of knowledge’ involved in the interpretation of the products of modern technology that were made in the RMIT workshops, through the application of traditional Javanese craft skills and techniques in Indonesia, has become the core focus of the study.

Ultimately the study seeks to expose the potentials within the bridging of cultures, technologies and skills through the act of design. The project offers a new perspective on the conception of furniture design which uses traditional Javanese culture and skills in combination with modern ideas to create products which fulfil contemporary lifestyle needs.
Additional file 7 of Investigator choice of standard therapy versus sequential novel therapy arms in the treatment of relapsed follicular lymphoma (REFRACT): study protocol for a multi-centre, open-label, randomised, phase II platform trial
Creators: name: McIlroy, Graham
name: Lax, Siân
name: Gaskell, Charlotte
name: Jackson, Aimee
name: Rhodes, Malcolm
name: Seale, Tania
name: Fox, Sonia
name: Hopkins, Lousie
name: Okosun, Jessica
name: Barrington, Sally F.
name: Ringshausen, Ingo
name: Ramsay, Alan G.
name: Calaminici, Maria
name: Linton, Kim
name: Bishton, Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 7
From acclimatisation towards ecology: the influence of environmental thought in Melbourne's public parkland ca 1850-1920
Creators: name: Whitehead, Georgina
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: This study considers how environmental concerns helped shape Melbourne's public parkland in the period 1850-1920, when Melbourne's first parks were developed and during which ecology began to replace natural history as the determinant of environmental thought. Theories propounded by such figures as Alexander von Humboldt and George Perkins Marsh profoundly influenced land management around the world during this period, and by relating specific parkland developments to professional and popular ideas about the environment the study aims to place the parkland in an international context. Previous research has given little thought to the effect of environmental thought on Melbourne's parks, except for Ferdinand von Mueller's development of the Melbourne Botanic Garden where the influence is evident. Such influence has not been considered in Clement Hodgkinson's contemporaneous devel opment of the city's other parks and gardens even though, like Mueller, Hodgkinson was closely involved with environmental issues of the day. The Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, of which Mueller was a member, has long been credited with influencing Wattle Park's development early in the 20th century, although there is little critical analysis of the extent to which it was able to bring popular concerns about the environment to bear on park design. The relationship between Mueller's environmental views and actions and his development of the Botanic Garden is discussed first. Connections are then made between Hodgkinson's early experiences as a surveyor, his later work as Victoria's foremost land manager, his association with Mueller, and his design of Melbourne's first parks and gardens. Finally, the FNCV's involvement in park development is examined while exploring the changing nature of environmental thought. Clearly, environmental thought did influence the development of some parkland, but only those r eserves administered by Mueller and Hodgkinson and only while the two men remained in control. The success of the FNCV in influencing the future direction of any Melbourne park or garden is not so easily discernible, with little evidence that the Club played an important role in Wattle Park's development.
Optimizing protein delivery to promote skeletal muscle protein synthesis
Creators: name: Areta, Jose
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Resistance exercise and protein ingestion are synergistic in their capacity to stimulate muscle protein synthesis. Previous research has examined the effect of various factors related to protein ingestion (e.g. amount, type, co-ingestion with carbohydrates and proximity to resistance exercise) and their capacity to modulate muscle protein synthesis. However, there are many deficiencies in our current knowledge regarding the effect of several modifiable factors related to amino acid provision that may alter muscle protein synthesis. Therefore, the aim of this thesis was to determine 1) the anabolic effect of leucine on skeletal muscle cells, 2) the capacity for differences in the timing and distribution of protein ingestion to modulate skeletal muscle protein synthesis after a bout of resistance exercise, and 3) the effect of resistance exercise and protein ingestion on the skeletal muscle anabolic response during dietary-induced energy deficit.