cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Does adding anti-F actin antibody assay to the testing protocol help in diagnosis and monitoring of patients with Autoimmune Hepatitis?
Creators: name: Payne, Emma
Publisher: name: Leeds Beckett University
Year: 2025

description: BackgroundAutoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a disease that effects around 0.025% of the population. Without treatment the autoimmune response can cause progressive liver damage and deterioration of liver function leading to cirrhosis which can ultimately prove fatal.Diagnosis can be challenging due to the heterogeneity of presentation. Four diagnostic indicators are used raised immunoglobulins, absence of viral hepatitis, liver histology compatible with AIH and presence of autoantibodies (ANA, SMA or LKM).ObjectiveSmooth muscle antibodies are the predominant autoantibody found in AIH, with those directed against F-actin proposed to be the most clinically significant. This study assessed three F-actin specific assays to ascertain whether they could replace or enhance the current immunofluorescence testing method.MethodSera of 133 patients who had liver autoantibody test requests were collected and tested using the current methodology and the three new assays. Current practice utilizes rodent liver kidney stomach tissue indirect immunofluorescence (IFA) microscopy to distinguish tubular staining pattern (F-actin specific) from that of a vascular staining pattern. This study assessed three F-actin specific assays (Euroimmun VSM47 IFA, INOVA NOVALite IgG F-actin IFA and the INOVA QUANTALite IgG F-actin ELISA).All the results generated were designated positive, negative or equivocal to allow comparison between methods. Their performance was assessed against the current method and the clinical outcome (whether the patient had AIH). Qualitative results from the ELISA were analysed to determine optimal cutoff value using Youden’s J.Results All three assays showed strong correlation with a diagnosis of AIH (p=<0.05). Cohens Kappa showed good correlation with the current method. The specificity (Sp) and sensitivity (Se) of each as a stand-alone assay was similar or improved when compared to the current LKS method (Sp=81.31%, Se= 86.67%), VSM 47 (81.31%, 92.86%), NOVALite (85.98%, 85.71%), QUANTALite cutoff <20 (80.37%, 92.86%), QUANTALite cutoff <30 (93.46%, 85.71%), QUANTALite using optimal cutoff <28.18 (90.74,%, 100%) with the QUANTALite using optimal cutoff <28.18AU showing the best performance. In all circumstances the specificity improved when a confirmatory second line test was added. The QUANTALite using optimal cutoff <28.18AU following a positive SMA (all patterns), identified 100% of AIH positive patients and showed to be 92% specific for the disease. The specificity was 98% if the initial pattern observed was Tubular type.ConclusionsAll three assays would be suitable as first line screening for AIH-1, although the realities of liver autoantibody screening mean this would be impractical currently. All three assays would provide clinical benefit as a second line test, especially the ELISA with the altered cutoff of 28AU.
title: We think Earth science rocks… but does the public agree?
Creators: name: A., Ryder
name: A., Ryder
name: L., Soroka
Publisher: name: Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: EARTH SCIENCES
subject: Wednesday Seminar
subject: science communication
subject: Published_External

description: Geoscience Australia’s Discovery & Engagement team are developing a comprehensive plan to make our public spaces and programs more inclusive for visitors and staff. This will involve a multi-year journey to find effective ways to showcase the varied work of our staff and the relevance of Earth science to all Australians.
To inform this work, GA undertook a series of audience research studies across a range of audiences to unearth interest in, knowledge about, and attitudes towards Earth science as a topic.
This work involved a literature review, public surveys and focus groups, and audience testing for a new exhibit called Rocks that Shape Australia.
This research is presented combined with recent findings from outreach work by the Exploring for the Future Geoscience Knowledge Sharing project team.
Join us for intriguing insights into what the public know, think and feel about Earth science.
Cacia (Ipocregyes) postmediofasciata Breuning 1947
Creators: name: Medina, Milton Norman
name: Vitali, Francesco
name: Barsevskis, Arvids
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Cacia
Cacia postmediofasciata

description: Cacia (Ipocregyes) postmediofasciata Breuning, 1947
Arkiv f̂r Zoologi. Stockholm. 39A(6):18; Breuning, 1959: p. 59.
Distribution: Mindanao.
Type and depository information: Holotype male, NRM.
description: Published as part of Medina, Milton Norman, Vitali, Francesco & Barsevskis, Arvids, 2023, Catalog of the genus Cacia Newman (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) in the Philippines with description of two new species, pp. 537-551 in Zootaxa 5231 (5) on page 544, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5231.5.3, http://zenodo.org/record/7609568
Investigating the relationship between reading achievement, and state-level ecological variables and educational reform
Creators: name: Yurecko, Michele
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: This study identifies profiles in fourth grade reading achievement across states as measured by the 2002 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), and examines the link between these profiles and state policy and ecological variables. A series of multilevel models (MLM) that extend procedures traditionally employed in the analysis of differential item functioning (DIF) were applied in order to evaluate state-level performance at the item level. The variability of states' performances on individual items was estimated while controlling for overall state reading proficiency, and a residual variance statistic, item difficulty variation (IDV), was estimated for each item. A subset of items with relatively large IDVs was included in a second tier of analyses, and aggregated "parcel scores" were estimated. These parcel scores represent empirical clusters of items for which state membership influences student performance beyond what would be expected given state-level reading proficiency estimates. Two parcel scores were constructed in this analysis. Parcel 1 represented a cluster of items associated with long, fictional reading passages. Parcel 2 represented a cluster of items associated with short, non-fictional reading passages. Parcel scores can be interpreted as value-added scores, suggesting that states with high Parcel 1 scores performed better on items associated with long, fictional passages than would have been predicted by overall state reading proficiency. Similarly, states with low Parcel 1 scores performed worse than expected. The interpretation of Parcel 2 follows in kind. As rates of non-native speakers and poverty increased across states, scores on Parcel 1 decreased and scores on Parcel 2 increased. These quantitative results, coupled with a qualitative case study of Maryland, New York and Texas, suggest the following major theme: larger, more populous states, with higher levels of poverty and non-native speakers of English exhibit a distinctive pattern in parcel score performance, scoring lower than predicted on items associated with long, fictional reading passages, and higher than predicted on items associated with short, non-fictional passages.
title: Building Australia's economic, social and environmental growth and resilience through location
Creators: name: I., Bastrakova
name: I., Bastrakova
name: D., Moore
name: M., Capobianco
name: M., Jakab
name: D., Butrovski
name: R., Kay
Publisher: name: Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: EARTH SCIENCES
subject: Wednesday Seminar
subject: positioning
subject: DGAL - Distinguished Geoscience Australia Lecturer
subject: Published_External

description: Through Commonwealth and State/Territory government partnerships, the National Location Information (NLI) Branch implements cutting-edge approaches to integrate and deliver data, services and analytical capability to the public, Government and critical industries.

This DGAL will present examples of NLI’s work - work central to the Australian Government’s ambitious Digital Economy Strategy to make Australia a leading global digital economy by 2030, along with the Australian Data Strategy, to ensure government data is in the ‘best state’ to feed this future digital economy. Specifically, the talk will cover:

The Digital Atlas of Australia
Improving geospatial data and services discovery, share and access
The Australian low-water coastline
Bringing historic aerial imagery archive back to life
ELVIS portal – creating sustainable access through collaboration
title: Determining quality of an image or video using a distortion classifier
Creators: name: Bovik, Alan C.
name: Moorthy, Anush
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: G06T7/0002
subject: G06K9/00664
subject: G06K9/00711
subject: G06K9/036
subject: G06T2207/10016
subject: G06T2207/20081
subject: G06T2207/30168
subject: 382/228
subject: 382/190
subject: 382/218
subject: 382/227
subject: 382/229

description: Techniques and structures are disclosed in which one or more distortion categories are identified for an image or video, and a quality of the image or video is determined based on the one or more distortion categories. The image or video may be of a natural scene, and may be of unknown provenance. Identifying a distortion category and/or determining a quality may be performed without any corresponding reference (e.g., undistorted) image or video. Identifying a distortion category may be performed using a distortion classifier. Quality may be determined with respect to a plurality of human opinion scores that correspond to a particular distortion category to which an image or video of unknown provenance is identified as belonging. Various statistical methods may be used in performing said identifying and said determining, including use of generalized Gaussian distribution density models and natural scene statistics.
Woldstedtius citropectoralis
Creators: name: Klopfstein, Seraina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Woldstedtius
Woldstedtius citropectoralis

description: Woldstedtius citropectoralis (Schmiedeknecht 1926, Homocidus)
Bassus abdominator Bridgman 1886 (homonym)
Diagnosis. Fore wing length 3.5–4.8 mm. Antenna of both sexes with 19–21, very rarely 22 flagellomeres. Face broadened and conspicuously widened ventrally, especially in males. Mesopleuron finely and evenly coriaceous. Propodeum devoid of carinae, evenly coriaceous also on petiolar area.
Colouration of females. Antenna black. Head and mesosoma black, face usually with a small yellow face patch which is smaller than central elevated area, clypeus black, yellow on mouthparts, hind corner of pronotum, tegula, sometimes subtegular ridge, with or without small shoulder marks, and upper mesepimeron; scutellum at most with a small yellow apical spot. Mesopleuron sometimes marked with orange below which can extend onto propodeum and first tergite. Legs including coxae orange, fore coxa often dark basally; femora orange; hind tibia black with a white base, hind tarsus dark. Metasoma black, sometimes with some orange markings.
Colouration of males. As in females but with yellow ventrally on antenna, entire face, propleuron, and small yellow shoulder marks; epicnemium, mesosternum and lower mesopleuron usually mostly yellow. Coxae mainly yellow, hind coxa usually marked with orange or black. Metasoma black with yellow spots or bands basally on tergites 3 to 4 or 5.
Material examined. New for Norway: Rygge, Ekeby, Gunnarsbekken, EIS 19 (Malaise trap), leg. L.O.Hansen & G.Walberg, 19.V.–17.VI.1992. 2♀, at MR.
Finland (7), Germany (2), Hungary (2), Norway (3), Russia (1), Sweden (60), Switzerland (20), United Kingdom (12).
Distribution. Holarctic.
Figures. Tip of metasoma with ovipositor sheaths ♀ (Fig. 15 G), face ♂ (Fig. 27A), face ♀ (Fig. 27B), habitus (Fig. 36 C), male terminal sclerites (Fig. 38 H).
description: Published as part of Klopfstein, Seraina, 2014, Revision of the Western Palaearctic Diplazontinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), pp. 1-143 in Zootaxa 3801 (1) on page 111, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3801.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/249944
title: Tsunami inundation hazards from global earthquake sources: Towards high-resolution, large area maps with quantified uncertainties
Creators: name: G., Davies
name: G., Davies
Publisher: name: Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: EARTH SCIENCES
subject: Wednesday Seminar
subject: tsunamis
subject: geological hazards
subject: Published_External

description: Australia's coastline is exposed to tsunamis generated by large subduction earthquakes in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. While recent events had limited impacts in Australia, future earthquakes could in-principle direct much larger waves to our coast.
With only a few hours between earthquake detection and tsunami arrival, prior planning is necessary to guide the emergency response. To this end we need an understanding of tsunami hazards: which coastal areas might be inundated, how deep, and how likely?
This talk will discuss recent progress in tsunami inundation hazard assessment at Geoscience Australia. We adopt a probabilistic approach to the problem, which involves modelling hypothetical earthquake-tsunamis from major Indian and Pacific Ocean sources, their effects onshore, and their (uncertain) chance of occurrence. To illuminate the science underlying this we will consider: 1. How well tsunami models can simulate historical tsunamis; 2. Representations of hypothetical tsunamis and their natural variability; 3. New techniques to compute onshore hazards while accounting for uncertain earthquake frequencies.
Affirmative action is not morally justified
Creators: name: Murtaugh, Bernard Joseph
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: This dissertation is a critical examination and rejectionof the two principal types of moral justification, thecompensatory and noncompensatory, of affirmative action involving preferential treatment (AA) for blacks, Hispanics,American Indians, and women in hiring, promotions, andadmissions. Neither of these approaches to the justification of AA, I have argued, is able to defend AA successfully. AA not morally justified.Thus, succeeding compensatory arguments for AA, individualand group oriented, are unable to evade, undermine,or disarm the objections that AA violates the principles of compensatory justice governing who is owed compensation, what compensation is owed, and who owes compensation, and that AA violates the principles of justice and fundamental individual moral rights governing the distribution of such social goods or benefits as desirable and valuable positions. The principles of justice and moral rights violated by AA govern the distribution of social benefits, includingdesirable positions, and burdens and systematize, unify, and explain correct moral judgments about the injustice of actions, policies, and practices in a variety of contexts of distribution. Moreover, backward-looking or compensatory arguments for AA have the implication that unjust and morally unacceptable compensatory policies that are morally similar to AA would be justified in contexts other than hiring, promotions, and admissions. Furthermore, the noncompensatoryjustifications of AA, including meritocratic and utilitarian forward-looking arguments, are unable to evade or to undermine the objection that AA violates principles ofjustice and fundamental individual moral rights and theobjection that these attempted justifications of AA have the implication that unjust and morally unacceptable noncompensatory, forward-looking policies that are morally similar to AA would also be justified in contexts other than the standard ones.
Characterization of velocity and shear rate distribution in a continuous mixer
Creators: name: Fanning, Lindsay M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Computers simulations have been increasingly used to model mixing for uses in many industries.  These simulations have given much insight into the mixing that takes place in different types of mixers.  However, most computer simulations are unvalidated.  Experiments have not been performed on the same systems to compare the results therefore the accuracy of a simulation is not precisely known.  Validation is most important in complex systems or when working with fluids of a non-Newtonian nature.  Understanding the mixing that takes place within the mixer allows for changes to be made to the mixer for different materials and aids in mixer design.   In order to quantify the mixing taking place in a Readco two inch continuous processor, laser Doppler anemometry was used to measure fluid velocity.  This velocity was compared to computer simulation results and was used to calculate the shear rate, length stretch, area stretch and mixing efficiency at different points within the mixer.  With this information, the accuracy of the computer simulations was determined.  Differences among the mixing of three fluids with different rheology were found.  The mixing taking place in different areas of the mixer was assessed.  Shear thinning fluids were found to be better mixed with the paddle configuration used.  The fluids were mixed best in the intermeshing region and between the tip of the paddle and the barrel wall.
Woldstedtius flavolineatus
Creators: name: Klopfstein, Seraina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Woldstedtius
Woldstedtius flavolineatus

description: Woldstedtius flavolineatus (Gravenhorst 1829, Bassus)
Bassus bimaculatus Holmgren 1858
Bassus interruptus Holmgren 1858
Bassus agilis Cresson 1868
Bassus frontalis Cresson 1868 (homonym)
Mesoleius junctus Provancher 1883
Diagnosis. Fore wing length 4.3–6.3 mm. Antenna in females with 22–24, in males with 23–25 flagellomeres. Face not broadened, not conspicuously widened ventrally. Mesopleuron finely and evenly coriaceous. Propodeum mostly devoid of carinae but often with vestiges of petiolar carinae present apically, evenly coriaceous also on petiolar area.
Colouration of females. Antenna black. Head and mesosoma black, face usually with a large yellow face patch which often covers a large part of or entire central elevated area, clypeus black, yellow on mouthparts, hind corner of pronotum, tegula, sometimes subtegular ridge, with small to large shoulder marks, and upper mesepimeron; scutellum at most with a small yellow apical spot. Legs including coxae orange, fore coxa often dark basally; femora orange, hind femur sometimes with a dark apex; hind tibia black with a white base, hind tarsus dark. Metasoma black.
Colouration of males. As in females but with yellow ventrally on antenna, entire face, propleuron, epicnemium, mesosternum and most of lower mesopleuron. Coxae mainly yellow, hind coxa usually marked with orange or black. Metasoma black with yellow spots or bands basally on tergites 3 and sometimes 4.
Material examined. Lectotype of Bassus bimaculatus Holmgren: Sweden, Småland, leg. Boheman. 1♂, at NRM (hereby designated). Lectotype of Bassus interruptus Holmgren: Sweden, Småland, leg. Boheman. 1♂, at NRM (hereby designated).
Finland (2), Hungary (15), Russia (2), Sweden (24), Switzerland (7), United Kingdom (5).
Distribution. Holarctic, Oriental, Oceanic, and Neotropical.
description: Published as part of Klopfstein, Seraina, 2014, Revision of the Western Palaearctic Diplazontinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), pp. 1-143 in Zootaxa 3801 (1) on page 111, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3801.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/249944
Additional file 1: of Gene expression modules in primary breast cancers as risk factors for organotropic patterns of first metastatic spread: a case control study
Creators: name: Lawler, Katherine
name: Papouli, Efterpi
name: Naceur-Lombardelli, Cristina
name: Mera, Anca
name: Ougham, Kayleigh
name: Tutt, Andrew
name: Siker Kimbung
name: Hedenfalk, Ingrid
name: Zhan, Jun
name: Hongquan Zhang
name: Buus, Richard
name: Dowsett, Mitch
name: Ng, Tony
name: Pinder, Sarah
name: Parker, Peter
name: Holmberg, Lars
name: Gillett, Cheryl
name: Grigoriadis, Anita
name: Purushotham, Arnie
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary methods. Detailed description of tissue preparation including microtomy, de-waxing and staining, micro-dissection and preparation of materials, and gene expression processing and quality control. (PDF 243 kb)
Cacia (Ipocregyes) rosacea Heller 1923
Creators: name: Medina, Milton Norman
name: Vitali, Francesco
name: Barsevskis, Arvids
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Cacia
Cacia rosacea

description: Cacia (Ipocregyes) rosacea Heller 1923b
Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift, Berlin 7(4): 20; Breuning, 1938: p. 377; Breuning, 1939: p. 451; Breuning, 1959: p. 59.
Distribution: Sibuyan.
Type and depository information: Holotype, SNSD.
description: Published as part of Medina, Milton Norman, Vitali, Francesco & Barsevskis, Arvids, 2023, Catalog of the genus Cacia Newman (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) in the Philippines with description of two new species, pp. 537-551 in Zootaxa 5231 (5) on page 544, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5231.5.3, http://zenodo.org/record/7609568
title: Ginan: Geoscience Australia's Positioning Toolkit
Creators: name: V., Rooke
name: V., Rooke
name: S., McClusky
name: R., Brown
name: L., Kumarappan
Publisher: name: Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: EARTH SCIENCES
subject: Wednesday Seminar
subject: positioning
subject: Ginan
subject: Published_External

description: Precise positioning based on constellations of navigation satellites brings significant economic and social benefits to Australia. Precise positioning reduces fertiliser and chemical spray waste in agriculture. It improves the efficiency of operations in large mine sites. Precise positioning improves safety in aircraft operations and can even give added freedom of movement to sight impaired people. The rationale behind the Ginan project is to develop the software and data products to allow everybody in Australia to enjoy the benefits of precise positioning through the creation of new services and products, and in doing so drive economic growth enhancing Australia's prosperity.
Woldstedtius holarcticus
Creators: name: Klopfstein, Seraina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Woldstedtius
Woldstedtius holarcticus

description: Woldstedtius holarcticus (Diller 1969, Syrphoctonus)
Diagnosis. Fore wing length 4.3–5.5 mm. Antenna of both sexes with 23–25 flagellomeres. Face broadened, not conspicuously widened ventrally. Mesopleuron finely and evenly coriaceous. Propodeum devoid of carinae, evenly coriaceous also on petiolar area.
Colouration of females. Antenna black. Head and mesosoma black, face with a large yellow central patch which almost covers elevated central area, clypeus black, yellow on mouthparts, hind corner of pronotum, tegula, subtegular ridge, large shoulder mark, and upper mesepimeron; scutellum often with a small yellow apical spot. Legs orange, fore coxa black with a yellow apex, mid coxa black with apex and a stripe on dorsal side yellow, hind coxa black; femora orange, hind femur often with a dark apex; hind tibia black with a white base, hind tarsus dark. Metasoma black.
Colouration of males. As in females but with yellow on ventral surface of antenna, entire face, propleuron, epicnemium, mesosternum and most of lower mesopleuron. Coxae mainly yellow, hind coxa usually marked with black. Metasoma black with yellow spots or bands basally on tergites 3, 4 and 5, sometimes also on tergite 2.
Material examined. New for Sweden: Västernorrland, Ömsköldsviks kommun, Skuleskogen, Langra, Brook ravine in mixed forest, N63°05.323', E18°29.903', leg. SMTP, 25.VII.–9.VIII.2004. 1♀, at NRM. New for United Kingdom: Hants. Romsey, Awbridge, leg. C.Vardy, VIII.1981. 1♀, at BMNH.
Finland (6), Hungary (1), Sweden (30), Switzerland (40), United Kingdom (1).
Distribution. Holarctic and Oriental.
Figures. Metasoma ♀ (Fig. 7 D), face ♀ (Fig. 7 F), habitus (Fig. 36 D), male terminal sclerites (Fig. 38 I).
description: Published as part of Klopfstein, Seraina, 2014, Revision of the Western Palaearctic Diplazontinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), pp. 1-143 in Zootaxa 3801 (1) on page 112, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3801.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/249944
title: An Isotopic Atlas of Australia: a window into the geological evolution of the Australian continent
Creators: name: K., Waltenberg
name: K., Waltenberg
Publisher: name: Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: EARTH SCIENCES
subject: Wednesday Seminar
subject: isotopes
subject: Geochronology
subject: Published_External

description: Australia as it exists today is a product of geological processes that have occurred over its 4.5 billion year history. Isotopic studies are one approach to understanding the history and evolution of the Australian continent. Isotope geochronology tells us about the timing of a wide range of geological processes like crystallisation, deformation and cooling of rocks. Isotope geochemistry informs on the precursor components from which the rocks formed, and can act as 'paleogeophysical' sensors to tell us more about the subsurface.
The Isotopic Atlas of Australia brings together five of the most widely used isotopic systems in geology and delivers publicly available maps and datasets in a consistent format. This work is unlocking the collective value of decades of investment in data collection, and facilitating qualitative and quantitative comparison and integration with other datasets such as geophysical images. This talk will be an introduction to the world of isotopes as applied to understand geology, and an overview of the Isotopic Atlas recently produced as part of the Exploring for the Future Program.
Trust and control in counterpoint
Creators: name: Khodyakov, Dmitry
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Can a large organization be successful without a single leader? Common wisdom suggests that organizations need a leader to control and be ultimately responsible for decision-making and guarding against inefficiency and vulnerability to the behavior of employees. Nonetheless, my case study of two large conductorless orchestras -- Persimfans and Orpheus -- suggests otherwise. Such apparently leaderless organizations reject the idea of hierarchical control because it violates their fundamental goals of artistic freedom and creativity. Yet the absence of a single leader does not mean that conductorless orchestras are, in fact, leaderless. More so than conventional orchestras, they benefit from the talent, commitment, and professionalism of all their members. In contrast to rigid hierarchical control, both Persimfans and Orpheus rely extensively on trust-based governance mechanisms that are essential for collaborative decision-making. Nonetheless, they have also developed a number of less formal control strategies that facilitate the search for consensus and help create and maintain trustworthy relationships among musicians. Reliance on trust and less formal control mechanisms, however, blurs the line between these two governance strategies. To use a musical analogy, trust and control in conductorless orchestras create counterpoint, or the combination of different melodies into a more beautiful polyphonic whole. Besides offering insights into intra-organizational trust and control, my research also contributes to the literature on post-bureaucratic organizations, leadership, power, and collaboration.
title: Multi-field overlay control in jet and flash imprint lithography
Creators: name: Sreenivasan, Sidlgata V.
name: Cherala, Anshuman
name: Ajay, Paras
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: G03F7/0002
subject: G03F9/7042

description: Techniques for delivering sub-5 nm overlay control over multiple fields. One such technique reduces overlay from the wafer side using wafer-thermal actuators. In another technique, the topology of the template is optimized so that the inter-field mechanical coupling between fields in the multi-field template is reduced thereby allowing overlay to be simultaneously reduced in multiple fields in the template. A further technique combines the wafer-thermal and template actuation techniques to achieve significantly improved single and multi-field overlay performance.
title: Treading lightly: How geoscience is revealing human impacts in Antarctica
Creators: name: S., McLennan
name: S., McLennan
Publisher: name: Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: EARTH SCIENCES
subject: Wednesday Seminar
subject: Antarctica
subject: human activity
subject: Published_External

description: Antarctica conjures images of expansive white icesheets but what about the 1% not covered by ice? Though small, these exposed islands of rock are hotspots of human and animal activity. Tourism, infrastructure development, and research activities can harm these fragile environments and in the dry Antarctic climate, damage from walking and vehicle tracks can persist for years. Geoscience Australia’s landscape vulnerability project has been addressing knowledge gaps about how these environments react to disturbance by people, how they recover, and new methods to track landscape change. Through this work, GA is helping build Australia’s capability as a leader in Antarctic environmental stewardship and meet our obligations under the Antarctic Treaty System and domestic legislation.
Cacia (Ipocregyes) semilactea Heller 1923
Creators: name: Medina, Milton Norman
name: Vitali, Francesco
name: Barsevskis, Arvids
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Cacia
Cacia semilactea

description: Cacia (Ipocregyes) semilactea Heller 1923b
Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 84(1): 19; Breuning, 1938: p. 378; Breuning, 1939: p. 449; Breuning, 1959: p. 59; Lingafelter et al., 2014: pp. 317, 366.
Distribution: Sibuyan.
Type and depository information: Lectotype male, SNSD.
description: Published as part of Medina, Milton Norman, Vitali, Francesco & Barsevskis, Arvids, 2023, Catalog of the genus Cacia Newman (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) in the Philippines with description of two new species, pp. 537-551 in Zootaxa 5231 (5) on page 544, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5231.5.3, http://zenodo.org/record/7609568
title: Lithospheric conductors reveal source regions of convergent margin mineral systems
Creators: name: A.L., Kirkby
name: A.L., Kirkby
Publisher: name: Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: EARTH SCIENCES
subject: Wednesday Seminar
subject: lithosphere
subject: mineral exploration
subject: Published_External

description: The clean energy transition will require a vast increase in metal supply, yet discoveries of new mineral deposits are declining. Recently, several case studies have demonstrated links between electrical conductors imaged using magnetotelluric (MT) data and mineral deposits. Use of MT methods for exploration is therefore growing but the general applicability has not yet been tested. We look at spatial relationships between conductors and three deposit styles and find that volcanic hosted massive sulfide (VHMS) and copper porphyry deposits show weak to moderate correlations with conductors in the upper mantle. In contrast, orogenic gold deposits show strong correlations with mid-crustal conductors. These differences likely reflect differences in the way these deposits form, and suggest a metamorphic-fluid source for orogenic gold is significant. The resistivity signature can be preserved for hundreds of millions of years, and therefore MT can be a powerful tool for mineral exploration.
title: Food by Geoscience Design! The geoscience of food, from tectonic plates to dinner plates
Creators: name: S., Hill
name: S., Hill
name: A., Carroll
name: C., Krause
name: A., Riddell
Publisher: name: Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: EARTH SCIENCES
subject: Wednesday Seminar
subject: food
subject: soils
subject: Published_External

description: Our planet provides everything we need for our lives, including the food we eat. As the human population increases and expectations for lifestyle quality increases, so too do the pressures placed on our planet to provide that food. We therefore need to be better at producing food and understanding how that links to our scientific understanding of our planet.
For National Science Week 2021, the Geoscience Australia public seminar (co-sponsored by the ACT Division of the Geological Society of Australia and the ACT Branch of the Australian Marine Sciences Association) will present four speakers to demonstrate how geoscience is integral to the provision of our food.
Steve Hill – The Long View: Across many disciplines of geoscience and different spatial scales, geology, soils and even plate tectonics influence our food (and wine).
Andrew Carroll – Finding Important Seabed Habitat (FISH): Did you know that seabed mapping data directly contributes $9 billion to the Australian economy each year and employs over 56,000 people? For the fishing and aquaculture sectors, seabed mapping is valued at $3 billion. However, only one quarter of Australia’s seabed is mapped! Learn how GA is addressing this challenge to support the rapid growth of Australia's Blue Economy.

Claire Krause – Food at Scale: In a country as big and dynamic as Australia, producing food is no small task. Satellite imagery is being leveraged to map, monitor and understand Australia’s food production regions and to identify and manage challenges in the sector.

Anna Riddell – From Paddock to Plate with Positioning: Have you ever wondered how your food arrives on your plate and the role that navigation satellites play? Positioning is becoming ubiquitous in everyday life and even has a part in enabling our food to be grown, harvested and transported.
Additional file 1: of Varying intervals of antiretroviral medication dispensing to improve outcomes for HIV patients (The INTERVAL Study): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Hoffman, Risa
name: Bardon, Ashley
name: Rosen, Sydney
name: Fox, Matthew
name: Thoko Kalua
name: Thembi Xulu
name: Taylor, Angela
name: Sanne, Ian
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: SPIRIT 2013 Checklist: Recommended items to address in a clinical trial protocol and related documents*. (DOCX 52 kb)
title: Fabric supercapacitor
Creators: name: Chen, Jonathan Y.
name: Huang, Yuxiang
name: Liu, Yue
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: B32B2250/40
subject: B32B2262/106
subject: B32B2307/204
subject: B32B2457/16
subject: B82Y30/00
subject: B82Y40/00
subject: D04H1/4242
subject: H01G11/86
subject: H01G11/26
subject: H01G11/34
subject: H01G11/40
subject: H01G11/44
subject: H01G11/52
subject: H01G11/24
subject: H01G11/56
subject: Y02E60/13

description: Fabric supercapacitors are disclosed herein. The fabric supercapacitor can include an ion permeable separator layer having two opposed surfaces; two electrode layers disposed on the opposed surfaces of the ion permeable separator layer; and two conducting layers disposed on outer surfaces of the two electrode layers and opposite the ion permeable separator layer. The electrode layers can comprise an activated carbon fiber fabric. The activated carbon fiber fabric can be derived from a precursor fabric which has been carbonized, activated, and coated with an electrolyte. The electrolyte can include a polymer gel. The conducting layers can include a non-activated carbon fiber fabric. The fabric supercapacitors disclosed herein exhibit great flexibility which allows the supercapacitors to find use in applications such as apparel products, outdoor activity products, sports wears, and other industrial end uses. Methods of making fabric supercapacitors are also disclosed.
The statistical mechanics of free and protein-bound DNA by Monte Carlo simulation
Creators: name: Czapla, Luke
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: There are many challenges involved in the simulation of DNA. In this work, novel Monte Carlo techniques are developed and applied to understanding the biophysical properties of DNA. A coarse-grained model is applied to feasibly simulate long DNA chains of hundreds to thousands of base pairs, using a reduced base-pair step representation of the DNA. Using this model, a canonical Monte Carlo simulation of DNA is developed to characterize the structure and flexibility of double-helical DNA. By applying a unique algorithm for generating uncorrelated DNA conformations a priori, limitations of the original Metropolis Monte Carlo algorithm are avoided. Furthermore, there is developing experimental evidence that non-specifically associating proteins that induce DNA bending modulate the in-vivo flexibility of DNA. To investigate the effect of these proteins, a grand canonical Monte Carlo simulation technique is developed, extending the model of free DNA to incorporate non-specific protein-DNA interactions. In this technique, DNA chains are simulated with varying numbers of bound proteins. Ubiquitous DNA architectural proteins such as the prokaroytic nucleoid protein HU and the eukaryotic HMG-box proteins are investigated with this technique. By incorporating structural information from the protein-DNA complexes currently available in the Nucleic Acid Database, models of these DNA-binding proteins are constructed and used in this method. The results predict an enhancement of DNA flexibility due to non-specific binding of these proteins, and calculations of the cyclization (ring-closure) properties and force-extension responses of protein-bound DNA chains compared to free DNA chains are presented. In addition, the effects of these proteins on the topological properties of closed circular DNA and on the looping properties of DNA constrained by binding to the Lac repressor protein assembly are characterized in large-scale parallel simulations. Coordination of protein binding on circular and looped DNA and induction of negative supercoiling of DNA by DNA architectural proteins is predicted, with important biological implications for chromosome organization and transcription regulation.
Woldstedtius melanocnemis
Creators: name: Klopfstein, Seraina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Woldstedtius
Woldstedtius melanocnemis

description: Woldstedtius melanocnemis (Bauer 1981, Syrphoctonus)
Diagnosis. (Male unknown). Fore wing length 5.0– 5.2 mm. Antenna in females with 23–24 flagellomeres. Face not broadened, not conspicuously widened ventrally. Mesopleuron finely and evenly coriaceous. Propodeum largely reduced, coriaceous only in part, petiolar area smooth and polished with lateral and median carinae or carinulae.
Colouration of females. Antenna black. Head and mesosoma black, face usually with a yellow or brown central face patch, clypeus black, yellow on mouthparts, hind corner of pronotum, tegula, sometimes subtegular ridge, with small to large shoulder marks, and often upper mesepimeron; scutellum at most with a small yellow apical spot. Legs including coxae orange, fore coxa often dark basally; femora orange, hind femur sometimes with a dark apex; hind tibia entirely black or dark brown, slightly paler basally, hind tarsus dark. Metasoma black.
Material examined. Holotype and paratypes of Syrphoctonus melanocnemis Bauer: Germany, Nürnberg, 30.VI.1967. 1♀, at ZSM; paratypes: Germany, Nürnberg, 14.VI.1957, 1♀, 4.VII.1976. 1♀, both at ZSM.
Notes. This species is to date only known from the type series and one female from Finland. The differences from W. flavolineatus are rather small, and it remains to be demonstrated that it represents a distinct species.
description: Published as part of Klopfstein, Seraina, 2014, Revision of the Western Palaearctic Diplazontinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), pp. 1-143 in Zootaxa 3801 (1) on page 112, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3801.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/249944
Cacia (Ipocregyes) sibuyana Heller 1923
Creators: name: Medina, Milton Norman
name: Vitali, Francesco
name: Barsevskis, Arvids
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Cacia
Cacia sibuyana

description: Cacia (Ipocregyes) sibuyana Heller 1923b
Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 84(1): 20; Breuning, 1938: p. 378; Breuning, 1939: p. 451; Breuning, 1959: p. 59.
Distribution: Sibuyan.
Type and depository information: Holotype, SNSD.
description: Published as part of Medina, Milton Norman, Vitali, Francesco & Barsevskis, Arvids, 2023, Catalog of the genus Cacia Newman (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) in the Philippines with description of two new species, pp. 537-551 in Zootaxa 5231 (5) on page 544, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5231.5.3, http://zenodo.org/record/7609568
title: Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment of Papua New Guinea: 2019 revision
Creators: name: H., Ghasemi
name: H., Ghasemi
name: P., Cummins
name: M., Edwards
Publisher: name: Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: EARTH SCIENCES
subject: Wednesday Seminar
subject: earthquakes
subject: geologic hazards
subject: Published_External

description: Papua New Guinea (PNG) lies in a belt of intense tectonic activity that experiences high levels of seismicity. Although this seismicity poses significant risks to society, the Building Code of PNG and its underpinning seismic loading requirements have not been revised since 1982. This study aims to partially address this gap by updating the seismic zoning map on which the earthquake loading component of the building code is based. We performed a new probabilistic seismic hazard assessment for PNG. Among other enhancements, for the first time together with background sources, individual fault sources are implemented to represent active major and microplate boundaries in the region to better constrain the earthquake-rate and seismic-source models. The seismic-source model also models intraslab, Wadati-Benioff zone seismicity in a realistic way using a continuous slab volume to constrain the finite ruptures of such events.
The results suggest a high level of hazard in the coastal areas of the Huon Peninsula and the New Britain–Bougainville region, and a relatively low level of hazard in the southern part of the New Guinea Highlands Block. In comparison with the seismic zonation map in the current design standard, it can be noted that the spatial distribution used for building design does not match the bedrock hazard distribution of this study. In particular, the high seismic hazard of the Huon Peninsula in the revised assessment is not captured in the current building code of PNG.
We will also discuss how the seismic hazard map of PNG is being used to underpin its building code, including what steps have been taken by GA together with the Government of PNG to promote uptake of the new hazard map by PNG’s earthquake engineering community.
Woldstedtius nigrolineatops
Creators: name: Klopfstein, Seraina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Woldstedtius
Woldstedtius nigrolineatops

description: Woldstedtius nigrolineatops (Bauer 1981, Syrphoctonus)
Diagnosis. Fore wing length 4.9–5.2 mm. Antenna of both sexes with 24–25 flagellomeres. Face not broadened, not conspicuously widened ventrally. Mesopleuron irregularly wrinkled. Propodeum strongly rugose, with petiolar area at least partly enclosed by carinae.
Colouration of females. Antenna black. Head and mesosoma black, face without a central patch, clypeus black, yellow or orange on mouthparts and sometimes hind corner of pronotum; scutellum black. Legs orange, fore and mid coxae black with yellow apices, hind coxa with a black base, remainder orange and yellow, all trochanters black-marked; femora orange, black-marked ventrally; hind tibia dark orange with apex dark, hind tarsus dark. Metasoma black.
Colouration of males. As in females but with yellow on ventral surface of antenna, entire face, hind corner of pronotum, large shoulder marks, tegula, subtegular ridge, upper mesepimeron, epicnemium, often along front of mesosternum. Coxae mainly yellow with a black base, hind coxa largely black with a yellow apex; hind femur orange with yellow marks basally and apically, hind tibia yellow or light brown with a dark apex. Metasoma black.
Material examined. Holotype of Syrphoctonus nigrolineatops Bauer: Austria, Vent, 15.VIII.1971. 1♂, at ZSM. Paratypes: Austria, Vent, 7.VIII.1971, 1♂, Austria, Allgäu, 7.VIII.1965, 1♂; both at ZSM.
New for Switzerland: Glarus, Linthal, Obersand, Melchplatz. 2051m, N46°50.387, E8°55.821, leg. S.Klopfstein, H.Baur & F.Marti, 17.–27.VIII.2008, 1♀, 28.VIII.–17.IX.2008. 1♀, both at NMBE. Valais, Col de Cou et Col de Bretolet, 1900m, 4.–10.IX.1966. 1♀, at ZSM.
Additional material. Austria, Tirol, Sölden, 1800m, leg. K.Zwakhals, 17.VIII.1975. 1♂, at KZ.
Distribution. Western Palaearctic (Alps).
description: Published as part of Klopfstein, Seraina, 2014, Revision of the Western Palaearctic Diplazontinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), pp. 1-143 in Zootaxa 3801 (1) on pages 112-113, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3801.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/249944
title: CO2 Storage in Australia: Mitigating Emissions and Securing Future Energy Resources
Creators: name: E., Tenthorey
name: E., Tenthorey
Publisher: name: Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: EARTH SCIENCES
subject: Wednesday Seminar
subject: carbon dioxide
subject: Published_External

description: This talk will discuss the current state of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Australia, and the role it plays for mitigating CO2 emissions. In the talk, work that has been done at Geoscience Australia over the past decade will be discussed. CCS work will also be a part of the future Exploring for the Future Program, which will also be highlighted in the talk.
Improving the Quality of E-Banking Services of Commercial Banks post Covid-19 Pandemic in Vietnam
Creators: name: Chung, Hoang Thi Thanh
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: E-banking
Commercial bank
Price
Tangible
Responsiveness
Empathy
Reliability
Service capacity
Policy and implications.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 14, 1, 14A1B: 1-10