cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A simple and rapid DNA extraction method from meat by microneedle patch for detection of adulterated components
Creators: name: Hu, Weilun
name: Xu, Mengxin
name: Zeng, Qingya
name: Li, Yingying
name: Zhang, Yuxin
name: Wang, Qingqing
name: Ma, Tao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: The simple and rapid identification of meat via DNA-based methods is still subject to the conditions of complex and time-consuming preprocessing. It usually takes 3–4 h to obtain DNA sample using conventionally available DNA extraction kits. The existing approaches are cumbersome, require large equipment, and are not suitable for field operation. This study developed a swelling microneedle patch, constituted by micron-sized copolymers of methyl vinyl ether and maleic acid (PMVE/MA). The microneedle patch was applied to the meat sample for 1 min before being pulled out and rinsed with Tris-EDTA (TE) buffer to obtain DNA, which could be used for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) without purification. The DNA extracted by the microneedle patch could meet the needs for amplification and identification of meat samples. The developed approach which combines the patch-based extraction method and conventional PCR amplification is quick, simple, and reliable for DNA extraction and identification of meat samples.
The Business Value of ISO 9000 Certification for Australian and New Zealand Firms
Creators: name: Terziovski, Mile
name: Samson, Danny
name: Dow, Douglas
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: ISO 9000 certification is one of the most popular quality assurance systems in the world. Despite this overwhelming popularity, there is considerable confusion and frustration surrounding the role and business value of ISO 9000 certification. A review of the literature revealed a major gap in research in this area of quality/operations management. The purpose of this study is to test the strength of the relationship between ISO 9000 certification and organisational performance in the presence and absence of a total quality management (TQM) environment. Our analysis is primarily of a large random sample of manufacturing companies in Australia and New Zealand. The central finding is that ISO 9000 certification is not shown to have a significantly positive effect on organisational performance in the presence or absence of a TQM environment. This supports the view that on average, ISO 9000 certification has little or no explanatory power of organisational performance.
Trade Unions And The Social Clause: A North South Union Divide?
Creators: name: Griffin, Gerard
name: Nyland, Chris
name: O'Rourke, Anne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The notion that the right to engage in international trade should be linked to respect for core labour standards has become one of the more contentious issues in the current globalisation debate. Within this debate conflicting claims have been made about the level of support for this stance found among unions in developing economies. This paper draws on surveys of the industry-level affiliates of two global union federations and of the national-level affiliates of the main international union confederation to assess the validity of these competing claims. We conclude that Southern unions - unions from developing economies - are strong supporters of linking international trade with recognition and enforcement of core labour standards.
Self-employment as a career option for redundant workers
Creators: name: Gray, Judy
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The current study examines self-employment as a career option for unemployed workers seeking reemployment. Although research has been conducted concerning the conditions which affect the likelihood of re-employment, little attention has been paid to redundant workers who establish their own businesses. The current study addresses this deficiency. Although age is a barrier to re-employment for older workers, the results of the current study indicate that age is not a handicap for self-employment. Practical implications of the results are discussed.
title: Appel LabexMed Chercheurs invités 2012-2013
Creators: name: LabexMed
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Appel diffusé par le LabexMed pour des séjours de recherche.
Social support and the non-standard worker
Creators: name: McKeown, Tui
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The advent of globalization and decreasing government labour market within the Western World have wreaked havoc with the concept of what has been thought of as traditional employment. As work becomes increasingly casual, part-time and temporary it also results in a workforce with increasing challenges to manage. This paper further investigates access to and use of social support as one of the challenges faced within the professional contractor workforce (a working relationship that typifies the growing number falling outside that of the traditional and ongoing employer/employee relationship). The notion of the wider community involvement in the workplace reinforces the extent to which work is interrelated with all aspects of an individual’s life though the use of support networks. It also most directly captures the changing industrial relations focus in Australia in terms of the move from employer to individual responsibility.
title: Rethinking intergenerational transitions and innovation in family firms
title: an intersubjective perspective
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Magrelli, Vittoria
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2020

description: The recent shift to a knowledge-based economy and broadening generational gaps are fundamentally challenging how people manage and transfer knowledge and how they interact with each other at work. The goal of my dissertation is to capture these challenges by developing an intersubjective perspective on strategic sensemaking (i.e. sensemaking that shapes strategic choice and action). The first chapter focuses on understanding the importance of generations for management theory and the effects of intergenerational tensions on the continuity of firms. Scholars know surprisingly little about how to cope with intergenerational tensions and the burden on future generations in the managerial context. To fill this gap, I have used an abductive approach to theorize the generational brokering process that reconciles these tensions. The second chapter investigates innovation processes and search practices in the current overcrowded information age. Specifically, I use unique qualitative data to understand how the recombination of different forms of knowledge shapes the development and creation of new products in a highly innovative family firm. In the last chapter, I propose post- cognitivism as the ontoepistemological basis for a new conceptualization of strategic sensemaking and I strive for a view of embodied cognitive processes as constituted by interaction, experience and creativity, enabling and constraining strategic choice and action in organizations. Overall, I build new theoretical insights at the intersection of strategic sensemaking, organizational history and innovation theory by integrating novel findings from the family business context. With this thesis I hope to contribute to a more biological-evolutionary understanding and a less anthropocentric view of organizing.
Teams and innovation: a case study of an Australian automotive components manufacturer
Creators: name: Mrkic, Peter
name: Teicher, Julian
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Teams and team working within a manufacturing organisation play a critical role in the innovation process. The argument is that team members, through cooperation and collaboration, may develop new and innovative ideas and solutions that are intended to improve the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the organisation. However, there have been comparatively few studies that have focused on innovation at the team level. In particular, there have been few attempts to associate the different types of innovation with the different team classifications. This paper reports on a study undertaken in order to explore the relationship between the different types of innovation and the state of operation linked with the various team classifications. The study was conducted within a unit of an Australian automotive components manufacturer. The paper concludes that there is strong evidence to support the analytical framework that was developed for investigation and provides a basis for further research.
Work Alienation: A Relevant Theoretical Framework for Examining Management Practices?
Creators: name: Winter, Richard P.
name: Sarros, James C.
name: Tanewski, G.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper discusses the relevance of a work alienation framework for examining management practices within large Australian organisations. A review of the relevant literature is used to build a theoretical framework of work alienation grounded in a radical-humanist work paradigm. The paper concludes by highlighting resistance to change problems associated with unitarist management control mechanisms that deny employees autonomy, participation and self-expression in the workplace.
East Hampton's First Schoolmaster William French with his Students
Creators: name: (:Unas)
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1895
Subjects: Students
Girls
Boys
Talmage Family
Conklin Family
Graduation ceremonies

description: From left to right standing are Bessie Gay, William French and Edmund Tillinghast. From left to right sitting are May Conklin, Ettie Hedges Pennypacker and Mary Strong.
Medical evaluation as gold standard to control iPrognosis application derived data for early Parkinson's disease detection
Creators: name: Klingelhoefer, Lisa
name: Bostanjopoulou, Sevasti
name: Dhaval Trivedi
name: Hadjidimitriou, Stelios
name: Mayer, Simone
name: Katsarou, Zoe
name: Charisis, Vasileios
name: Stadtschnitzer, Michael
name: Dias, Sofia
name: Ntakakis, George
name: Grammalidis, Nikos
name: Konstantions Kyritsis
name: Jaeger, Hagen
name: Iakovakis, Dimitrios
name: Ioakeimidis, Ioannis
name: Karayiannis, Fotis
name: Diniz, José
name: Delopoulos, Anastasios
name: Leontios Hadjileontiadis
name: Reichmann, Heinz
name: Chaudhuri, Kallol Ray
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Smartphones have the ability of longitudinal, unobtrusive, remote real-life
 recognition and monitoring of people's behavior and of specific behavioral pattern.
 The i-PROGNOSIS approach is promosing as both, the iPrognosis App derived
 behavioral pattern and the medical evaluation of Parkinson`s disease symptoms
 by a movement disorders specialist as gold standard differentiate patients with
 Parkinson`s disease and healthy controls.
Electronic commerce and small Australian enterprises
Creators: name: Mustaffa, Shameem
name: Beaumont, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In Australia there has been comparatively little research into the effect of electronic commerce on small businesses. Electronic commerce (EC) comprises several different technologies (especially those associated with the Internet); this paper investigates the use and utility of these technologies in small Australian businesses. The technologies are differently associated with intermediate variables such as the attraction of new customers and the ability to participate in overseas markets. The statistical evidence that e-commerce is positively correlated with some intermediate variables is overwhelming. We consider the statistical relationships between intermediate variables and final variables (revenues, costs and competitive advantage). There are significant correlations between some sets of intermediate and final variables; most of these correlations had plausible explanations and suggest what EC techniques are most fruitful. There are clear implications for small businesses, for example, the Internet allows them to maintain a low-cost foreign presence but it allows foreign firms to compete (at marginal cost) in Australia.
Risk factors for the rate of progression of chronic kidney disease in secondary care patients
Creators: name: Hale, Alison
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2020
Subjects: chronic kidney disease (CKD)
Longitudinal modelling
Mixed effects model
salford kidney study (SKS))

description: Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a major global public health problem and is one of the fastest rising major causes of death. Worldwide moderate to severe CKD has a prevalence of ~11%, whereas in the UK it is ~5%. The objective of our study was to identify key risk factors associated with the progression of kidney disease both across and within primary kidney diseases; ultimately this could lead to improvements in patient care and a reduction in disease burden. We used data collected from secondary care patients who were recruited into the Salford Kidney Study at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, UK. This ongoing study which commenced in 2002 is one of the largest of its kind worldwide, and consists of over 3000 non-dialysis patients with moderate to severe CKD, who are followed-up annually until an end point of either dialysis, kidney transplant or death. The data recorded at follow-up appointments included comorbidities, medications, lifestyle factors, socio-demographic information and biochemical marker measurements. We used longitudinal modelling, specifically a linear mixed effects model which models population effects alongside patient-specific variability. We identified risk factors within each of eight primary disease categories including diabetic nephropathy, glomerulonephritis, hypertensive kidney disease, renovascular disease, polycystic kidney disease and pyelonephritis. The key risk factors for lower levels of eGFR are biochemical markers and medications, whereas lifestyle factors and physical attributes are less important. Medications play an important role; in particular ACE inhibitors and ARBs are key in diabetic nephropathy and glomerulonephritis, but not in the other diseases. We found that more rapid progression of kidney disease is associated with biochemical markers including cholesterol and proteinuria. In contrast, medications and comorbidities are not key in rapid disease progression. We recommend future work should include more in-depth studies of each disease category including splitting them into subcategories.
A psychodynamic perspective of electronic selection and recruitment or does monster.com byte?
Creators: name: Schapper, Jan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Over recent years on-line recruiting which uses the spread and access of the World Wide Web (WWW) or Internet has become increasingly popular for recruitment agencies, job-seekers and organisations alike (e.g. Starcke, 1996; Wyld, 1998; Kay, 2000). Exponents of electronic recruiting claim it has changed the way the recruiting industry works and that it is faster, more efficient and cheaper than traditional methods (e.g. Browne, 1998; Useem, 1999; Stellar Services Home Page, 2000; Kay, 2000; topjobs.com.au, 2000). Despite the hyperbole that surrounds the unlimited and unbounded potential of the Web I will argue in this paper rather than representing a paradigmatic transformation, the practise of electronic recruitment is little more than a linguistic shift from recruitment to e-cruitment. The essence of selection and recruitment is unchanged - the requirement for an employee is identified either because of a vacancy or the creation of a new position. There is then a search for a suitable applicant; one or more persons are considered for the position, some process of evaluation is conducted and an applicant is selected followed by the notification of unsuccessful applicants. Electronic recruitment has enabled all these steps in the process to be conducted electronically, usually through the Internet. Baffled by the excitement and claims of electronic recruiters the author has attempted some analysis of I selection and recruitment from the psychodynamic perspective. Having identified significant conscious and unconscious anxieties generated by the processes of selection and recruitment, discussion is then provided on the creation of social defenses in response to these considerable anxieties. It is from this context the willingness of recruiters to utilise the new technologies can be understood. Without challenging the efficiency of o n-line recruitment, and there are some who do (Armes, 1999;HRFocus, 2000) what appears to have changed dramatically is the creation of a new dynamic between recruiter and potential recruit. It will be argued the ready acceptance of on-line recruitment is not just because of anticipated efficiencies but because the newly created dynamic made possible by the innovation of the Internet provides an extremely effective technological tool for recruiters to defend against the anxieties generated by the process of selection and recruitment.
Neuro-fuzzy support of knowledge management in social regulation
Creators: name: Petrovìc-Lazarevìc, Sonja
name: Coghill, Ken
name: Abraham, Ajith
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The aim of the paper is to demonstrate the neuro-fuzzy support of knowledge management in social regulation. Knowledge, defined as human capability of making data and information useful for decision making processes, could be understood for social regulation purposes as explicit and tacit. Explicit knowledge relates to the community culture indicating how things work in the community based on social policies and procedures. Tacit knowledge is ethics and norms of the community. The former could be codified, stored and transferable in order to support decision making, while the latter being based on personal knowledge, experience and judgments is difficult to codify and store. However, since the tacit knowledge is expressed mainly through linguistic information, it can be stored and, therefore, support the knowledge management in social regulation through the application of fuzzy and neuro-fuzzy logic. Fuzzy logic modeling holds that human values inform the operation of the fuzzy logic by which the outcomes of interactions between interdependent members of any community are determined. With the system simulation where high precision is not required and parameters can be easily estimated for measurement, the fuzzy control model can be applied to estimating the appropriateness of self-organisation of the community. The model incorporates observed behavioral patterns seeking to explain their effects. The neuro-fuzzy approach is based on the integration of artificial neural networks and fuzzy inference systems. Neural network learning algorithms are used to fine tune the parameters of fuzzy inference system. Consequently, the neuro-fuzzy technique provides an ability to handle imprecision and uncertainty from data and to refine them by a learning algorithm. Applied in social regulation the neuro-fuzzy model creates fuzzy rules, wh ich are easy to comprehend because of its linguistic terms and the structure of if-then rules. Neuro-fuzzy models implementing Takagi-Sugeno Kang if-then rules and Mamdani type fuzzy inference systems are tested with tobacco smoking enforcement efforts. The obtained results demonstrate the relevance of each model to knowledge management in social regulation.
Developing a strategy for preventative health: a framework
Creators: name: Segal, Leonie
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Much of the ill-health and disease burden facing Australians today and into the foreseeable future is preventable. An effective preventative health strategy thus offers the prospect of improving the health of the community. This is both of direct benefit and indirect benefit via a possible impact on workforce participation/productivity and a reduction in need for health care. Prevention can be categorised as; i) Primary prevention, by preventing the adoption of harmful behaviours (such as smoking), preventing development of clinical risk factors such as high blood pressure, or preventing disease in those already ‘at risk’; ii) Secondary prevention to prevent/delay complications in persons with disease (newly diagnosed/established), iii)Tertiary prevention to prevent/delay complications in those with established disease and morbid consequences, and distinguished from consequential activities that reflect a failure of prevention.
Quality in australian tourism education: educator and professional views
Creators: name: Tan, Jacintha
name: Morgan, Damian
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Partnerships between educators and industry professionals can facilitate students' tourism career opportunities. Considering this, a mail-out questionnaire was undertaken to assess the attitudes and perceptions of tourism educators (n=56) and tourism professionals (n=100) on tourism education issues. Results indicated that one-quarter of professionals believe university tourism majors provide graduates with a competitive advantage and both groups consider tourism/ hospitality, marketing and management as important business majors. Competencies in logical thinking, social interaction, tourism knowledge and concepts, and generic skills are also considered important by both groups with specific workplace competencies and professional experience considered relatively less important by educators (p
iPrognosis – frühe Erkennung der Parkinsonerkrankung mittels Smartphone App
Creators: name: Klingelhoefer, Lisa
name: Hadjidimitriou, Stelios
name: Delopoulos, Anastasios
name: Karayiannis, Fotis
name: Grammalidis, Nikos
name: Stadtschnitzer, Michael
name: Bostanjopoulou, Sevasti
name: Chaudhuri, Kallol Ray
name: Leontios Hadjileontiadis
name: Reichmann, Heinz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Mittels moderner Technologien wie Smartphones können große Mengen an Daten
 kontinuierlich über einen längeren Zeitraum, objektiv und ohne aktives Zutun der
 Nutzer im alltäglichen Leben erhoben werden. Zur frühen Diagnosestellung des
 idiopathischen Parkinsonsyndroms als langsam progrediente, chronische
 Erkrankung mit einschleichendem Auftreten motorischer sowie nicht-motorischer
 Symptome ist dies ideal. Eine frühere Diagnosestellung ist eine Grundvoraussetzung
 zur Entwicklung neuromodulatorischer Therapien.
 Das iPrognosis-Konsortium (11 Organisationen mit drei medizinischen Zentren
 aus 6 EU-Ländern) entwickelt eine Android Smartphone App zur Erfassung von
 Verhalten und Verhaltensänderungen im Umgang mit dem Smartphone, welche
 Ausdruck motorischer und nicht-motorischer Symptome der Parkinsonerkrankung
 sein können.
The Process of Foreign Market Entry for Professional Service Firms: a Case Study of an Australian Law Firm in a Newly Emerging Market
Creators: name: Sandwell, Mark
name: Freeman, Susan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Service firms often look beyond their domestic markets to those defined as transitional or newly emerging markets (NEMs). Additionally, enterprises in the professional services arena have become active players in international markets in recent times. There is a greater need to understand the foreign market entry (FME) processes of professional service organisations. A critical element impacting FME are business relationships and the concept of networks. From an internationalisation perspective, the network theory stresses the influence that relationships and actors in the network have on the FME process. The purpose of this qualitative exploratory study is to examine the FME process of an Australian based law firm into Thailand to provide preliminary understanding of current FME models in NEMs. The analysis will be undertaken from a network perspective. Broadly, the significance of the study is that it will assist in further developing our theoretical understanding of, and the managerial implications surrounding, the process of FME by professional service firms into NEMs. More specifically, this paper highlights the importance of network relationships and the key elements of orientating, positioning and timing in the FME process in NEMs.
Quality Certification: Management Strategies for Success
Creators: name: Baker, Megan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The issue of certification to quality standards such as the ISO 9000 series and its regional and industry equivalents is of world-wide concem. In many countries and industries, certification has become mandatory for organisations wishing to do business with government agencies and major companies. While certification was designed so that purchasers could have confidence in the quality of the vendor's product, not all organisations have been able to implement certification processes in a way that supports this original purpose. Instead, some have opted to go through the motions without an underlying improvement philosophy simply in order to gain marketing benefits, while others have been overcome by the morass of paperwork required to achieve the quality stamp of approval. This paper examines the experience of one organisation which was threatened by the latter, but through a radical shift in the management of the certification programme, was able to implement a quality system which not only improved their software product, but also brought about significant marketing benefits.
'...Sheer, Utter, European Arrogance...' Challenges to the Authenticity of Rock Art Sites in the Grampians-Gariweed Region of Victoria, Australia
Creators: name: Clark, Ian D.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The issue of authenticity continues to pervade tourism studies. Hughes (1995) describes the issue as an obligato that runs through tourism research. MacCannell (1976) has suggested that tourism is a quest for the authentic precisely because it has become so scarce. It assumes that the quest for authenticity is focussed not only on people as objects, but also on material objects (Harkin 1995). Getz (1995:315) has defined authenticity as 'genuine, unadulterated or the real thing'. This article addresses authenticity in terms of the management of indigenous rock art sites in Victoria, Australia.
title: Prüfbericht G 2196 : Kverneland Mikrogranulatstreuer „micro-drill“ ; Anerkannt für das Ausbringen von granulierten Pflanzen-schutzmitteln in Reihen
Creators: name: JKI-Institut Für Anwendungstechnik Im Pflanzenschutz
Publisher: name: Bundesbehörden und Einrichtungen im Geschäftsbereich des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (BMEL)
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 630

description: Geräteprüfberichte des JKI
Additional file 1 of Targeting clock-controlled gene Nrf2 ameliorates inflammation-induced intervertebral disc degeneration
Creators: name: Peng, Pandi
name: Wang, Dong
name: Xu, Xiaolong
name: Wang, Di
name: Gao, Bo
name: Wang, Han
name: Jia, Haoruo
name: Shang, Qiliang
name: Zheng, Chao
name: Gao, Chu
name: Mao, Jianxin
name: Luo, Zhuojing
name: Yang, Liu
name: Hu, Xueyu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Histochemical stainning of NP specimens in donors and rat NP tissues. (a) HE staining of the human NP tissues from the Grade II, Grade III, Grade IV and Grade V groups (scale bar: 250 μm). (b) HE and SO staining of rat NP tissues from Control and puncture groups cultured 0 day, 7 days and 14 days (scale bar: 500 μm). Figure S2. The expression of anabolic or catabolic genes of intervertebral disc and clock genes in rat NP cells. (a) The mRNA levels of Acan, Adamts5, Mmp3 and Mmp13 in Control and IL-1β group. (b) The mRNA levels of Per1, Per2, Cry1 and Cry2 in Control and IL-1β group. Figure S3. The efficiencies of knock down Bmal1 of NP cells by different si RNAs. (a) The efficiencies of knock down Bmal1 of NP cells by si RNAs were determined by qRT-PCR. n = 3, NS, not significant difference, *P<0.05, **P < 0.01. (b) The efficiencies of knock down Bmal1 of NP cells by si RNAs were determined by western blot. Figure S4. BMAL1 regulates Nrf2 by combining with E-box. (a) The motif of E-box. (b) The situation of E-box sequence (CAGCTG) existed in the promoter of Nrf2. (c) The mRNA levels of Nrf2 in Control and si-Bmal1 group. Figure S5. The NRF2 expression of NP specimens in donors and rat NP cells. (a) Immunofluorescence staining of NRF2 in human NP tissues from the Grade II and Grade V groups (scale bar: 125 μm). (b) Quantification of NRF2 expression in human NP tissues from the Grade II/III and Grade IV/V groups. n = 12, **P < 0.01. (c) Nrf2, Il-1β, Tnf-α and Il-6 mRNA levels of Control, SFN, si-Bmal1 and si-Bmal1+5 μM SFN groups were determined by qRT-PCR. n = 3, NS, not significant difference, *P<0.05, **P < 0.01. Supplementary Table 1. The sequences of siRNA targeting Bmal1. Supplementary Table 2. The primers used for qRT-PCR. Supplementary Table 3. Histological grading scale of intervertebral disc.
Evaluation Of Innovative Dementia Programmes: A Short Review
Creators: name: Doyle, Colleen
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Dementia patients are now surviving longer than they did 30 years ago. The result is that in the absence of a cure, carers have to come up with increasingly innovative solutions to the management and treatment of dementia and its behavioural manifestations. This working paper focuses on the social and behavioural techniques used to manage dementia, and discusses alternative ways to evaluate these techniques. Five main attributes of dementia programmes are reviewed: the use of physical design to ameliorate symptoms; communication and the significance of interpersonal relationships; activity programmes; segregated care; and behaviour modification techniques. Finally, alternative models of evaluation programmes are discussed.
Measuring the success of country football clubs
Creators: name: Frost, Lionel
name: Halabi, Abdel K.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Until the last quarter of the twentieth century, non-metropolitan Australian Rules football clubs prospered as volunteer organisations, operating in regions that were protected by distance from clubs in larger, competing leagues. They acted as places that people valued and were important components of social capital in their communities, and in turn, received subsidies from other community groups that reduced operating costs. Clubs appear to have measured success in terms of their ability to attract the talent needed to build a winning team that would boost the prestige of both the club and its local community. The Victorian Football League’s regulations about player payment and mobility gave country football clubs the opportunity to offer attractive terms to League players, and this prevented the game’s most powerful league, from crowding out its rivals. The circumstances that were favourable to country football clubs have changed with the formation of a major league, the Australian Football League. The televising of matches nationwide allowed people in even remote regions to watch AFL games. Economic and demographic decline in country areas, greater mobility and the lure of metropolitan jobs has made it difficult for clubs to retain players. In this challenging economic environment, many country football clubs have been unable to survive in their own right. This paper reports on a survey of administrators of Victorian country football clubs as to their perceptions of what constitutes ‘success’ in this new environment. It provides information about how individual clubs are responding to broad changes that are beyond their control, and offers evidence about the ability of local football clubs to continue to play their traditional role as places of importance and generators of social capital in regional communities.
A Comparative Study of the Impact of Sovereign Risk Ratings by Agency on Developed and Emerging Markets
Creators: name: Tickner, James
name: Pope, Peter
name: Love, Roger
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Sovereign credit ratings are an investment tool supplied by credit rating agencies such as Standard & Poor's and Moody's Investor Services. Their primary function is to provide information regarding a country's creditworthiness in order that international investors may overcome informational asymmetries. Whilst sovereign credit ratings were specifically designed for aiding investment in government debt, they may also be utilised for making investment decisions regarding other forms of investment, for example, portfolio or foreign direct investment due to the fact they are based purely upon country risk factors. Recently the ability of credit rating agencies to generate country specific news has been called into question in light of the Asian Economic Crisis and also the use of Sovereign Credit Ratings in the proposed Basle Accord. This paper explores tiie ability of Standard & Poor's and Moody's to generate country specific information by examining the impact of 382 sovereign credit rating announcements on national stock market returns over the period from 10 September 1986 to 3 October 2000. This report examines the impact of 382 sovereign credit rating announcements on stock market returns over the period of 10 September 1986 and 3 October 2000. Stock market returns were selected as an appropriate market to study due to the magnitude of international equity flows. Investment in international stock markets has tripled between 1990 and 1998 to US$27,458,957 million. Our findings suggest that sovereign credit ratings have a significant impact on equity market returns. However, the impact differs both between markets, using the OECD classification of developed and emerging markets, and between the nominated rating agencies. Standard and Poor's and Moody's. The sovereign credit ratings of Standard and Poor's influence both the full sample of countries and also the emerging country equity markets, whereas there is no observed impact for developing country equity markets. By comparison, there is weak evidence that sovereign credit ratings by Moody's affect equity returns for the full sample of countries equity markets, but have no impact on emerging or developed country equity markets. The sovereign credit ratings of Standard and Poor's influence both developed and emerging equity markets, although the greater impact is on developing equity markets. By comparison, sovereign credit ratings by Moody's only appear to affect equity prices within emerging markets.
The Senge Archetypes: From Causal Loops to Computer Simulation
Creators: name: Haslett, Tim
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper will examine a number of archetypes discussed in Senge's "The Fifth Discipline". In particular, it will use these models to demonstrate the nature of local learning and local rules. This will include a discussion of the relationship between learning and system equilibrium. In this process frequent comparison will be drawn between the relative merits of Causal Loop Diagramming and computer simulation. The dynamics of the causal loops, already discussed by Senge, will be examined briefly. This will be followed by a discussion of the computer models of a number of archetypes and their dynamics. The mathematical logic of these models will be explained. The models will then be used to demonstrate how the phenomenon known as "Local Learning" is represented by a dissipative system that brings the organization or system back into a new state of equilibrium. The paper seeks to demonstrate that computer simulation allows a level of analysis that provides a more complex comprehension than the simpler technology of Causal Loop Diagramming.
Parliamentary committees, public servants and due process
Creators: name: Smith, Chris Selby
name: Corbett, David
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The parliamentary system of government in its Australian form has a number of unresolved problems, notwithstanding its many virtues. One such problem is that of the role of public servants when called before parliamentary committees as witnesses. The current guidelines are mainly advice to public servants as to how they should avoid or defer questions which neither the Minister nor the head of the department has authorised them to answer. Of course, this is useful and proper within its limits. However, it fails to address many of the dilemmas and career-threatening choices which can face public servants who find themselves being questioned in an aggressive, hostile manner by members of a parliamentary committee. Unfair treatment of witnesses is not a trivial matter and there are more than isolated instances. This article deals with an episode involving the Joint Parliamentary Committee of Public Accounts in 1982. The case is now some years in the past, but it is still worth examining for what it teaches about gaps in our constitutional conventions. At the end of the article we suggest action in four areas. Intensive training and retraining is needed, first in the upper ranks of the public service and secondly, for chairpersons and members of parliamentary committees. Thirdly there is a need for MAB-MIAC to revisit yet again their guidelines on accountability and to instigate a review of the government's guidelines for public servants appearing as witnesses. Both sets of guidelines are anachronisms. Finally, we suggest that, in any future review of government policy in this area, consideration be given to the amendment of relevant legislation to bring due process and the protection of witnesses more closely into line with the rights available to persons appearing before a court.
Multiregional and Intertemporal Age Modelling Via GEMPACK
Creators: name: Harrison, W. Jill
name: Pearson, K. R.
name: Powell, Alan A.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The past few years have seen increasing use of multiregional and intertemporal (that is, forward-looking) applied general equilibrium (AGE) models. These models share the characteristic of rapidly expanding dimensions. Because multilateral trade models increase in size with the square of the number of regions and intertemporal models increase in proportion to the number of time periods, they can be very difficult to solve purely because of their size. This paper considers three recent models of these kinds, namely, GTAP, the Global Trade Analysis Project's multiregional model of the world; MRES, a multiregional forecasting model of Australia; and ORANI-INT, an intertemporal model of the Austredian economy. Each of these has been implemented using the GEMPACK suite of general-purpose economic modelling software. In this paper we discuss features of GEMPACK which are especially relevant for multiregional and/or intertemporal models. These include an automatic facility to condense models to a manageable size; separation of theory, data, and closure/shocks; automatic creation of updated (that is, post-simulation) data flies; and a solver that is well suited to intertemporal models with substantial elements of forward-looking behaviour. Each feature is illustrated via references to one or more of the three models mentioned above.
Adjustment of pricing: evidence from Indian manufacturing
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Mita
name: Olive, Michael
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In India, manufacturing plays a significant role in economic development, growth and as a source of employment. This paper analyses the pricing behaviour in Indian manufacturing sector considering both domestic and external variables. Price adjustment models are developed based on Industrial Organization literature and are examined with 28 manufacturing industries at the 3-digit level over the period from 1963 to 2001. Domestic structural factors are found to be important in determining speed of price adjustment.
The State, Economic Growth and Environment in Malaysia
Creators: name: Wong, Loong
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Most of the research on environmental issues have focussed on technical solutions and very few have focussed on the relationship between the state and businesses. The recent fires, haze and oil spills in Southeast Asia have drawn our attention to the need to examine the linkages between governments and businesses. This paper attempts to provide such an analysis via an examination of the timber industry in Malaysia. It argues that an understanding the current ecological crisis needs to be grounded in the unravelling of the dynamics and contradictions inherent within the political economy of the industry in Malaysia.
Casual Employment, Labour Regulation and Australian Trade Unions
Creators: name: Campbell, Iain
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This article explores the implications for trade unions of the rapid expansion in Australia of casual employment - a distinctive form of precarious employment characterised by a lack of entitlement to most employment benefits and forms of employment protection. The article summarises the main features of casual employment and the evidence for its growth since 1982. It highlights the role of award regulation in shaping casual employment. Casual employment is identified as unprotected employment, which survived within the award system and indeed flourished in the gaps created by officially-sanctioned exemptions from protection and limits in the enforcement and reach of award regulation. Labour market deregulation in the 1990s has in turn widened these gaps and facilitated both an expansion of casual employment and an extension of some casual conditions of employment into sections of the permanent workforce. These developments offer a major challenge to Australian trade unions. They underline the failure of traditional trade union policies, oriented to a simple rejection of all forms of non-standard employment. They pose a threat both to the set of employment rights and benefits slowly built up by trade union action over the course of past decades and to the legitimacy of trade unions as representative institutions. Australian trade unions are still struggling to come to grips with this threat. Traditional policies remain dominant, but recent trade union policy and practical efforts point towards a new approach that builds on a less hostile and more discriminating attitude to non-standard employment. In relation to the crucial issue of labour regulation the new approach pivots on the important theme of decasualisation. The direction of change is promising. But the article argues that the new approach remains weak and underdeveloped as a result of its narrow orientation to the redesign of agreements within the shrinking sphere of effective regulation, its focus on casual status rather than casual conditions of employment and its inability to find effective levers for implementation.
An Unlikely Experiment
Creators: name: Fecher, Benedikt
name: Deacon, Bronwen
name: Ingen-Housz, Timothée
name: Sokolovska, Nataliia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: twentyforty, science communication, fiction, imagination, future, experiment

description: "An Unlikely Experiment" is the introduction chapter of the anthology "twentyforty – Utopias for a Digital Society" that consisting out of visionary stories written by researchers, addressing the opportunities and challenges that digital technologies present for society in the future of 2040.
日琉諸語における除括性の調査票
Creators: name: SHIMOJI, Michinori
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: clusivity
Japanese dialect
Ryukyuan
日琉諸語
琉球諸語語
方言学

description: このファイルセットは,日琉諸語のフィールド調査時に「除括性」(clusivity)を調べるための調査票(.xlsx)と調査票例文を提示する際に便利な画像刺激(.pptx)です。作成は下地理則(九州大学)が行っています。このファイルセットを使用して調査を行い,データを公開する場合はDOIをリファーしてください。
Digital Pharaohs
Creators: name: Schafer, Burkhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: twentyforty, artificial intelligence, digital immortality, law, memory, succession

description: The play "Digital Pharaohs" is part of the anthology "twentyforty – Utopias for a Digital Society" that consisting out of visionary stories written by researchers, addressing the opportunities and challenges that digital technologies present for society in the future of 2040. This particular story depicts a society where people routinely train AIs on their personal preferences, ethical commitments, and normative inclinations in the hope that these “legacy AIs” can, after the death of their owner, give guidance, advice, and help to the
 next generation(s).
Investigating Task Arithmetic for Zero-Shot Information Retrieval
Creators: name: Braga, Marco
name: Kasela, Pranav
name: Raganato, Alessandro
name: Pasi, Gabriella
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive zero-shot performance across a variety of Natural Language Processing tasks, including document re-ranking. However, their effectiveness degrades on unseen tasks and domains, largely due to shifts in vocabulary and word distributions. In this paper, we investigate Task Arithmetic, a technique that combines the weights of LLMs pre-trained on different tasks or domains via simple mathematical operations, such as addition or subtraction, to adapt retrieval models without requiring additional fine-tuning. Our method is able to synthesize diverse tasks and domain knowledge into a single model, enabling effective zero-shot adaptation in different retrieval contexts. Extensive experiments on publicly available scientific, biomedical, and multilingual datasets show that our method improves state-of-the-art re-ranking performance by up to 18% in NDCG@10 and 15% in P@10. In addition to these empirical gains, our analysis provides insights into the strengths and limitations of Task Arithmetic as a practical strategy for zero-shot learning and model adaptation. We make our code publicly available at https://github.com/DetectiveMB/Task-Arithmetic-for-ZS-IR.
description: Accepted in SIGIR '25