cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Performance and Robustness Analysis of Co-Prime and Nested Sampling
Creators: name: Koochakzadeh, Ali
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Electrical engineering

description: Coprime and nested sampling are well known deterministic sampling techniques that operate at rates significantly lower than the Nyquist rate, and yet allow perfect reconstruction of the spectra of wide sense stationary signals. However, theoretical guarantees for these samplers assume ideal conditions such as synchronous sampling, and ability to perfectly compute statistical expectations. This thesis studies the performance of coprime and nested samplers in spatial and temporal domains, when these assumptions are violated.

In spatial domain, the robustness of these samplers is studied by considering arrays with perturbed sensor locations (with unknown perturbations). Simplified expressions for the Fisher Information matrix for perturbed coprime and nested arrays are derived, which explicitly highlight the role of co-array. It is shown that even in presence of perturbations, it is possible to resolve $O(M^2)$ under appropriate conditions on the size of the grid. The assumption of small perturbations leads to a novel ``bi-affine" model in terms of source powers and perturbations. The redundancies in the co-array are then exploited to eliminate the nuisance perturbation variable, and reduce the bi-affine problem to a linear underdetermined (sparse) problem in source powers.

This thesis also studies the robustness of coprime sampling to finite number of samples and sampling jitter, by analyzing their effects on the quality of the estimated autocorrelation sequence. A variety of bounds on the error introduced by such non ideal sampling schemes are computed by considering a statistical model for the perturbation. They indicate that coprime sampling leads to stable estimation of the autocorrelation sequence, in presence of small perturbations. Under appropriate assumptions on the distribution of WSS signals, sharp bounds on the estimation error are established which indicate that the error decays exponentially with the number of samples. The theoretical claims are supported by extensive numerical experiments.
Ophiostomatoid fungi associated with pine bark beetles and infested pines in south-eastern Australia, including Graphilbum ipis-grandicollis sp. nov.
Creators: name: Trollip, Conrad
name: Carnegie, AJ
name: Dinh, Q
name: Kaur, J
name: Smith, D
name: Mann, R
name: Rodoni, Brendan
name: Edwards, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The ophiostomatoid fungi are an assemblage of ascomycetes which are arguably best-known for their associations with bark and ambrosia beetles (Curculonidae) and blue stain (sap stain) of many economically important tree species. These fungi are considered a significant threat to coniferous forests, which has resulted in numerous studies characterising the diversity of bark beetles and their ophiostomatoid associates globally. The diversity of ophiostomatoid fungi present in Australian pine plantations, however, remains largely undetermined. The aims of this study were therefore to reconsider the diversity of ophiostomatoid fungi associated with Pinus in Australia, and to establish the baseline of expected taxa found within these plantation ecosystems. To achieve this, we reviewed Australian plant pathogen reference collections, and analysed samples collected during forest health surveillance programs from the major pine growing regions in south-eastern Australia. In total, 135 ophiostomatoid isolates (15 from reference collections and 120 collected during the current study) were assessed using morphological identification and ITS screening which putatively distinguished 15 taxonomic groups. Whole genome sequencing (WGS) of representative isolates from each taxon was performed to obtain high-quality sequence data for multi-locus phylogenetic analysis. Our results revealed a greater than expected diversity, expanding the status of ophiostomatoid fungi associated with Pinus in Australia to include 14 species from six genera in the Ophiostomatales and a single species residing in the Microascales. While most of these were already known to science, our study includes seven first records for Australia and the description of one new species, Graphilbum ipis-grandicollis sp. nov. This study also provides an early example of whole genome sequencing (WGS) approaches replacing traditional PCR-based methods for taxonomic surveys. This not only allowed for robust multi-locus sequence extraction during taxonomic assessment, but also permitted the rapid establishment of a curated genomic database for ophiostomatoid fungi which will continue to aid in the development of improved diagnostic resources and capabilities for Australian biosecurity.
Ophiostomatoid fungi associated with pine bark beetles and infested pines in south-eastern Australia, including Graphilbum ipis-grandicollis sp. nov.
Creators: name: Trollip, Conrad
name: Carnegie, AJ
name: Dinh, Q
name: Kaur, Jatinder
name: Smith, D
name: Mann, R
name: Rodoni, Brendan
name: Edwards, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024

description: The ophiostomatoid fungi are an assemblage of ascomycetes which are arguably best-known for their associations with bark and ambrosia beetles (Curculonidae) and blue stain (sap stain) of many economically important tree species. These fungi are considered a significant threat to coniferous forests, which has resulted in numerous studies characterising the diversity of bark beetles and their ophiostomatoid associates globally. The diversity of ophiostomatoid fungi present in Australian pine plantations, however, remains largely undetermined. The aims of this study were therefore to reconsider the diversity of ophiostomatoid fungi associated with Pinus in Australia, and to establish the baseline of expected taxa found within these plantation ecosystems. To achieve this, we reviewed Australian plant pathogen reference collections, and analysed samples collected during forest health surveillance programs from the major pine growing regions in south-eastern Australia. In total, 135 ophiostomatoid isolates (15 from reference collections and 120 collected during the current study) were assessed using morphological identification and ITS screening which putatively distinguished 15 taxonomic groups. Whole genome sequencing (WGS) of representative isolates from each taxon was performed to obtain high-quality sequence data for multi-locus phylogenetic analysis. Our results revealed a greater than expected diversity, expanding the status of ophiostomatoid fungi associated with Pinus in Australia to include 14 species from six genera in the Ophiostomatales and a single species residing in the Microascales. While most of these were already known to science, our study includes seven first records for Australia and the description of one new species, Graphilbum ipis-grandicollis sp. nov. This study also provides an early example of whole genome sequencing (WGS) approaches replacing traditional PCR-based methods for taxonomic surveys. This not only allowed for robust multi-locus sequence extraction during taxonomic assessment, but also permitted the rapid establishment of a curated genomic database for ophiostomatoid fungi which will continue to aid in the development of improved diagnostic resources and capabilities for Australian biosecurity.
Ophiostomatoid fungi associated with pine bark beetles and infested pines in south-eastern Australia, including Graphilbum ipis-grandicollis sp. nov.
Creators: name: Trollip, Conrad
name: Carnegie, AJ
name: Dinh, Q
name: Kaur, Jatinder
name: Smith, D
name: Mann, Ross
name: Rodoni, Brendan
name: Edwards, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3103
subject: Ecology
classificationCode: 3107
subject: Microbiology
classificationCode: 3108
subject: Plant biology

description: The ophiostomatoid fungi are an assemblage of ascomycetes which are arguably best-known for their associations with bark and ambrosia beetles (Curculonidae) and blue stain (sap stain) of many economically important tree species. These fungi are considered a significant threat to coniferous forests, which has resulted in numerous studies characterising the diversity of bark beetles and their ophiostomatoid associates globally. The diversity of ophiostomatoid fungi present in Australian pine plantations, however, remains largely undetermined. The aims of this study were therefore to reconsider the diversity of ophiostomatoid fungi associated with Pinus in Australia, and to establish the baseline of expected taxa found within these plantation ecosystems. To achieve this, we reviewed Australian plant pathogen reference collections, and analysed samples collected during forest health surveillance programs from the major pine growing regions in south-eastern Australia. In total, 135 ophiostomatoid isolates (15 from reference collections and 120 collected during the current study) were assessed using morphological identification and ITS screening which putatively distinguished 15 taxonomic groups. Whole genome sequencing (WGS) of representative isolates from each taxon was performed to obtain high-quality sequence data for multi-locus phylogenetic analysis. Our results revealed a greater than expected diversity, expanding the status of ophiostomatoid fungi associated with Pinus in Australia to include 14 species from six genera in the Ophiostomatales and a single species residing in the Microascales. While most of these were already known to science, our study includes seven first records for Australia and the description of one new species, Graphilbum ipis-grandicollis sp. nov. This study also provides an early example of whole genome sequencing (WGS) approaches replacing traditional PCR-based methods for taxonomic surveys. This not only allowed for robust multi-locus sequence extraction during taxonomic assessment, but also permitted the rapid establishment of a curated genomic database for ophiostomatoid fungi which will continue to aid in the development of improved diagnostic resources and capabilities for Australian biosecurity.
Ha disul da noz divezat
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

Abstract
How leaders in day service organisations understand service quality
Creators: name: McEwen, Jade
name: Bigby, Christine
name: Douglas, Jacinta
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Organisations for people with intellectual disabilities must comply with regulatory quality standards written by Australian governments. Standards are abstract and predominantly focus on paperwork and processes. In thinking about service quality, organisational leaders must decide where to focus their efforts and whether to look beyond compliance issues. This study aimed to identify how leaders in day-service organisations for people with intellectual disabilities perceived and monitored service quality, and what they thought influenced quality in their services. Using a constructivist grounded theory methodology, semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight leaders from three day-service organisations in Victoria, Australia. Interviews were recorded, transcribed, and thematically analysed using constant comparison and line-by-line coding. Overall, the leaders had two contrasting approaches to quality in their organisations. Four had a “process compliance” approach and the other four a “service user’s experience of support” approach. These two approaches to service quality mirrored the tensions between the process compliance approach used by Australian governments to regulate the quality of services provided to people with intellectual disabilities, and an approach preferred by researchers, which argues the importance of judging quality through observation of service users’ experience of support. Consideration should be given to merging these approaches and creating indicators that incorporate both observation and process review methods.
Engaging with transformative paradigms in mental health
Creators: name: Whitaker, L
name: Smith, Fiona
name: Minshall, Catherine
name: Petrakis, M
name: Brophy, Lisa
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: When graduates of Australian social work courses embark on a career in mental health, the systems they enter are complex, fragmented and evolving. Emerging practitioners will commonly be confronted by the loneliness, social exclusion, poverty and prejudice experienced by people living with mental distress; however, social work practice may not be focused on these factors. Instead, in accordance with the dominant biomedical perspective, symptom and risk management may predominate. Frustration with the limitations evident in this approach has seen the United Nations call for the transformation of mental health service delivery. Recognising paradigmatic influences on mental health social work may lead to a more considered enactment of person centred, recovery and rights-based approaches. This paper compares and contrasts influences of neo-liberalism, critical theory, human rights and post-structuralism on mental health social work practice. In preparing social work practitioners to recognise the influence of, and work more creatively with, intersecting paradigms, social work educators strive to foster a transformative approach to mental health practice that straddles discourses.
Edge-Aware Filter Based on Adaptive Patch Variance Weighted Average
Creators: name: Galetto, Fernando
name: Deng, Guang
name: Al-Nasrawi, M
name: Waheed, Waseem
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Edge-aware smoothing is an essential tool for computer vision, graphics and photography. In this paper, we develop a new and efficient local weighted average filter for edge-aware smoothing. The proposed filter can use guidance information which permits an iterative filtering process. Since the weights of the proposed filter depend on the local variance, the implementation requires linear filters only, leading to mathcal {O}(N_{pix}) computational complexity. We also present statistical analysis and simulations which provide new insights into its computational efficiency and its relationship with the bilateral filter. The performance of the proposed filter is comparable to those state-of-the-art filters in many applications including: edge-preserving smoothing, compression artifact removal, structure separation, edge extraction, non-photo realistic image rendering, salience detection, detail magnification and multi-focus image fusion.
Zeale scalaris Pascoe 1866
Creators: name: Audureau, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Zeale
Zeale scalaris

description: Zeale scalaris Pascoe, 1866
Décrite de Colombie, cette espèce se rencontre également au Panama et au Pérou.
Matériel examiné: Venezuela, Merida (Andes 1800 m), 14.III.2002, P. Rouche leg. (AACP). Nouvelle localisation.
description: Published as part of Audureau, Alain, 2025, A propos de quelques Hemilophini nouveaux ou peu connus (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae), pp. 1-6 in Faunitaxys 13 (15) on page 5, DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-13(15), http://zenodo.org/record/15366019
Traumatised, angry, abandoned but some empowered: a national survey of experiences of family caregivers bereaved by motor neurone disease
Creators: name: Aoun, Samar
name: Noonan, Kerrie
name: Thomas, G
name: Rumbold, Bruce
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems

description: Background: There are few illnesses as disruptive as motor neurone disease, a fatal neurodegenerative condition, where diagnosis introduces a clinical narrative of inevitable decline through progressive immobilisation into death. Recent evidence suggests that bereaved motor neurone disease family caregivers are more likely to be at moderate or high risk of complicated grief. Methods: Qualitative data from an anonymous national survey of bereaved motor neurone disease caregivers (n = 393) was examined through thematic analysis to explore the experiences of people who are at low, moderate, and high risk of complicated grief. Up to 40% responded to three open-ended questions: How caregivers viewed their coping strategies; the advice they had for others and what had been positive about their experience. Results: Ten themes informed the narratives of illness and loss. All three groups shared similar experiences but differed in their capacity to address them. The low-risk group seemed to recognise the uncertainty of life and that meaning needed to be created by them. For the moderate-risk group, while motor neurone disease was a major disruption, they could with support, regroup and plan in different ways. The high-risk group did not have many resources, external or internal. They felt let down when professionals did not have answers and could not see or did not know how to change their ways of responding to this unwanted situation. Conclusion: The differences in these three profiles and their narratives of loss should alert health and community service providers to identify and address the caregivers’ support needs early and throughout the caregiving journey. Motor Neurone Disease Associations are involved throughout the illness journey and need to invest in a continuum of care incorporating end-of-life care and bereavement support. Community grief literacy and enhancement of social networks are keys to improved support from families and friends that can enable the focus to be on feelings of empowerment rather than abandonment.
Traumatised, angry, abandoned but some empowered: a national survey of experiences of family caregivers bereaved by motor neurone disease
Creators: name: Aoun, Samar
name: Noonan, K
name: Thomas, G
name: Rumbold, Bruce
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Background: There are few illnesses as disruptive as motor neurone disease, a fatal neurodegenerative condition, where diagnosis introduces a clinical narrative of inevitable decline through progressive immobilisation into death. Recent evidence suggests that bereaved motor neurone disease family caregivers are more likely to be at moderate or high risk of complicated grief. Methods: Qualitative data from an anonymous national survey of bereaved motor neurone disease caregivers (n = 393) was examined through thematic analysis to explore the experiences of people who are at low, moderate, and high risk of complicated grief. Up to 40% responded to three open-ended questions: How caregivers viewed their coping strategies; the advice they had for others and what had been positive about their experience. Results: Ten themes informed the narratives of illness and loss. All three groups shared similar experiences but differed in their capacity to address them. The low-risk group seemed to recognise the uncertainty of life and that meaning needed to be created by them. For the moderate-risk group, while motor neurone disease was a major disruption, they could with support, regroup and plan in different ways. The high-risk group did not have many resources, external or internal. They felt let down when professionals did not have answers and could not see or did not know how to change their ways of responding to this unwanted situation. Conclusion: The differences in these three profiles and their narratives of loss should alert health and community service providers to identify and address the caregivers’ support needs early and throughout the caregiving journey. Motor Neurone Disease Associations are involved throughout the illness journey and need to invest in a continuum of care incorporating end-of-life care and bereavement support. Community grief literacy and enhancement of social networks are keys to improved support from families and friends that can enable the focus to be on feelings of empowerment rather than abandonment.
Supplementary document for Optical coherence tomography of human fetal membrane sub-layers during dynamic loading - 6426658.pdf
Creators: name: Samimi, Kayvan
name: Contreras, Emmanuel
name: Wu, May
name: Carlson, Lindsey
name: Feltovich, Helen
name: Hall, Timothy
name: Myers, Kristin
name: Oyen, Michelle
name: Skala, Melissa
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified
Biomechanical Engineering
Biomechanics

description: Supplemental Figure
Technical validation and calibration protocol for PET perfusion measurements using a dynamic flow phantom
Creators: name: Teuho, Jarmo
name: Fenwick, Andrew
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: quantification PET perfusion
dynamic flow phantom
calibration protocol

description: This report is a technical validation and calibration protocol for PET perfusion measurements using a dynamic flow phantom. It defines a standard acquisition protocol of dynamic PET perfusion measurements between different PET systems and imaging centres by using information from a multi-centre phantom study between partners.
description: This project 19SIP04 TracPETperf has received funding from the EMPIR programme co-financed by the Participating States and from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
title: Doing the Right Thing: Professionalism, Deep Accountability, and Emotional Labor in Disciplinary Writing Instruction
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Academic labor
subject: Emotional labor
subject: Pedagogy
subject: Professionalism
subject: Writing Across the Curriculum
subject: Rhetoric
subject: Pedagogy

description: While research in writing studies has attended to the emotional labor involved in writing instruction, there has been no empirical research into the emotional labor of writing instruction in the disciplines. This study responds to that gap, as well as to calls for more empirical research into academic labor more generally, using institutional ethnography to surface and trace patterns of institutional coordination and accountability, and the disjunctures and alignments with participants’ experiences with emotional labor. The study reveals and names what are often deeply felt and internalized experiences to provide a foundation for further research into disciplinary writing instruction, emotional labor, and academic labor. Data include focus groups and a series of interviews with faculty teaching writing-intensive disciplinary courses, as well as personnel and curricular institutional texts. Findings indicate that participants have complicated relationships with the institutional coordination and accountability of their emotional labor in disciplinary writing instruction, with strong alignment with curricular goals but frequent disjunctures with institutional forms of accountability for their labor. Both this alignment and these disjunctures create conditions for emotional labor, as participants are guided by a sense of “deep accountability” to professional identity and values that hold them accountable to their discipline, colleagues, and students while they lack sufficient pedagogical knowledge of writing instruction; they make up for that lack with emotional labor. Findings further indicate that this professionalized deep accountability can lead to passivity in the face of institutional exploitation. Finally, findings reveal the value of institutional ethnography in researching labor that is often subtly or unevenly coordinated and that is enmeshed in individual and cultural values and identity.
The Estate Book and Diary 1933
Creators: name: MacDonell, Father Andrew
Publisher: name: Glasgow : The Country Gentleman's Association, Ltd
Year: 2015

description: The majority of MacDonell's "Estate Book and Diary for 1933" is taken up by advertisements and reference material relevant to the country gentleman. The diary portion of the book is sparsely used. MacDonell was in Edmonton until February 6, when he left for Montreal and arrived February 15.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Low Back Sing, Wong Jan, Jang Fook, Wong Soon Sai, Dang Wei, Lee Wong Chong, Gin Ming, Jang Gim Fung, Chin Ng Luon, Soon York Ball.
Handling complexity: Constituting the relationship between intoxication and violence in Australian alcohol policy discourse
Creators: name: Moore, David
name: Keane, Helen
name: Duncan, Duane
name: Lenton, Emily
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: No description supplied
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Lee Wei Shong, Jong Jang, Lum Gow, Jang Bow Yong, Lam Jang Shee, Lam Yoke Toy, Lam Shee Ying, Jang Yew, Wong Len Sum, Kwok Jung Yung, Kwok Quon Moy, and Kwok Tin Sen.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Jang Shee Gang, Lim Quon, Lee You Wah, Mark Yet Chun, Mr. C. L. Wong, Woo Young Wing, Chin Kue, Huey Jick, Ho Yow Duck, and Yip Do Ling.
Alain Audureau
Creators: name: Audureau, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Pinnotheridae
Alain

description: Alain Audureau: Fig. 1-12 & couverture.
Publié par l’Association Française de Cartographie de la Faune et de la Flore (AFCFF)
description: Published as part of Audureau, Alain, 2025, A propos de quelques Hemilophini nouveaux ou peu connus (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae), pp. 1-6 in Faunitaxys 13 (15) on page 8, DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-13(15), http://zenodo.org/record/15366019
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Wong Ming Chun, [Kung Tuck Hen], How Yow Wing, Tsang Fook, Mah Yow, Chan Foo Wah, Gee Lip Ho, Wong Ming, Chee Lim, Chee Sik June.
Assessing the combined effect of ageism and sexuality-related stigma on the mental health and well-being of older lesbian and gay adults
Creators: name: Lyons, Anthony
name: Alba, Beatrice
name: Waling, Andrea
name: Minichiello, V
name: Hughes, M
name: Barrett, Catherine
name: Fredriksen-Goldsen, K
name: Savage, T
name: Edmonds, S
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems
classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4405
subject: Gender studies
classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology

description: Objective: Relatively little research has examined ageism among older lesbian and gay adults. In this study, we investigated how ageism, as well as sexuality-related stigma, relate to mental health and well-being in these groups. Method: Six hundred and thirteen lesbian women and gay men aged 60+ in Australia completed a nationwide survey. We investigated how experiences of ageism, concerns about having one’s sexual orientation accepted by others (as one broad indicator of sexuality-related stigma), and their interactions, predict psychological distress, positive mental health, and resilience. Results: Among the lesbian women, experiences of ageism predicted greater psychological distress and lower positive mental health, while sexuality acceptance concerns predicted poorer outcomes on all three well-being measures. Among the gay men, experiences of ageism and sexuality acceptance concerns predicted poorer outcomes on all the well-being measures. In addition, the gay men who were higher on sexuality acceptance concerns had higher psychological distress and lower resilience, but only when they also had greater experiences of ageism. Conclusion: Findings suggest that those concerned with the well-being of lesbian and gay people should account for not only the potential impact of sexuality acceptance concerns but also ageism, and how these two factors may interact.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Stanley Yip, Yip Ah Won, Ngo Wing Kong, Wong Soon, Wong Yuey, Gin Sing, Lai Non, Gin Way, Joe Guey Lin, and Huey Tai.
Protocol for implementation of the 'AusPROM' recommendations for elective surgery patients: a mixed-methods cohort study
Creators: name: Morris, Meg
name: Brusco, Natasha
name: Woods, Jeffrey
name: Myles, PS
name: Hodge, A
name: Jones, C
name: Lloyd, D
name: Rovtar, V
name: Clifford, A
name: Atkinson, V
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Introduction Incorporating patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) into usual care in hospitals can improve safety and quality. Gaps exist in electronic PROM (ePROM) implementation recommendations, including for elective surgery. The aims are to: (1) understand barriers and enablers to ePROM implementation in hospitals and develop Australian ePROM implementation recommendations (AusPROM); (2) test the feasibility and acceptability of the Quality of Recovery 15 item short-form (QoR-15) PROM for elective surgery patients applying the AusPROM and (3) establish if the QoR-15 PROM has concurrent validity with the EQ-5D-5L. Methods and analysis Phase I will identify staff barriers and facilitators for the implementation of the AusPROM recommendations using a Delphi technique. Phase II will determine QoR-15 acceptability for elective surgery patients across four pilot hospitals, using the AusPROM recommendations. For phase II, in addition to a consumer focus group, patients will complete brief acceptability surveys, incorporating the QoR-15, in the week prior to surgery, in the week following surgery and 4 weeks postsurgery. The primary endpoint will be 4 weeks postsurgery. Phase III will be the national implementation of the AusPROM (29 hospitals) and the concurrent validity of the QoR-15 and generic EQ-5D-5L. This protocol adopts the Guidelines for Inclusion of Patient-Reported Outcomes in Clinical Trials Protocols guidelines. Ethics and dissemination The results will be disseminated via public forums, conferences and peer-reviewed journals. Ethics approval: La Trobe University (HEC20479). Trial registration number ACTRN12621000298819 (Phase I and II) and ACTRN12621000969864 (Phase III)
Protocol for implementation of the 'AusPROM' recommendations for elective surgery patients: a mixed-methods cohort study
Creators: name: Morris, Meg
name: Brusco, Natasha
name: Woods, Jeffrey
name: Myles, PS
name: Hodge, Anita
name: Jones, C
name: Lloyd, Damien
name: Rovtar, V
name: Clifford, A
name: Atkinson, V
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems
classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Introduction Incorporating patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) into usual care in hospitals can improve safety and quality. Gaps exist in electronic PROM (ePROM) implementation recommendations, including for elective surgery. The aims are to: (1) understand barriers and enablers to ePROM implementation in hospitals and develop Australian ePROM implementation recommendations (AusPROM); (2) test the feasibility and acceptability of the Quality of Recovery 15 item short-form (QoR-15) PROM for elective surgery patients applying the AusPROM and (3) establish if the QoR-15 PROM has concurrent validity with the EQ-5D-5L. Methods and analysis Phase I will identify staff barriers and facilitators for the implementation of the AusPROM recommendations using a Delphi technique. Phase II will determine QoR-15 acceptability for elective surgery patients across four pilot hospitals, using the AusPROM recommendations. For phase II, in addition to a consumer focus group, patients will complete brief acceptability surveys, incorporating the QoR-15, in the week prior to surgery, in the week following surgery and 4 weeks postsurgery. The primary endpoint will be 4 weeks postsurgery. Phase III will be the national implementation of the AusPROM (29 hospitals) and the concurrent validity of the QoR-15 and generic EQ-5D-5L. This protocol adopts the Guidelines for Inclusion of Patient-Reported Outcomes in Clinical Trials Protocols guidelines. Ethics and dissemination The results will be disseminated via public forums, conferences and peer-reviewed journals. Ethics approval: La Trobe University (HEC20479). Trial registration number ACTRN12621000298819 (Phase I and II) and ACTRN12621000969864 (Phase III)
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Lee Hoy, Earle Chang, Louis Chang, Alice Yip, Mrs. Leong Chow Fung, [Lock] Shew Lung, Stanley Walter Lock, Hong Jim, Chan Young, Chan On, Chan Wai Ko, and Chan Gim Mon.
Supplementary document for Optical coherence tomography of human fetal membrane sub-layers during dynamic loading - 6426658.pdf
Creators: name: Samimi, Kayvan
name: Contreras, Emmanuel
name: Wu, May
name: Carlson, Lindsey
name: Feltovich, Helen
name: Hall, Timothy
name: Myers, Kristin
name: Oyen, Michelle
name: Skala, Melissa
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified
Biomechanical Engineering
Biomechanics

description: Supplemental Figure
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Dang Hon, Y. C. Mah, Yip Wo, Chan Choy Yee, Chan Kwong Soon, Chow Park Toon, Jung Shee, Chew Gong, Jew Gung Fon, Chew Kam [Aoce?], Chew Fong Yee, Chew Lam, Jew Hum, Chew Bew, Chew Dung, and Chew Foo Wah.
RESILIENCE OF NETWORKED INFRASTRUCTURE WITH EVOLVING COMPONENT CONDITIONS: A PAVEMENT NETWORK APPLICATION
Creators: name: Asadabadi, Ali
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Transportation
subject: Civil engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Aging
subject: Infrastructure
subject: Maintenance
subject: Pavement
subject: Resilience
subject: Serviceability

description: This thesis deals with quantifying the resilience of a network of pavements. Calculations were carried out by modeling network performance under a set of possible damage-meteorological scenarios with known probability of occurrence. Resilience evaluation was performed a priori while accounting for optimal preparedness decisions and additional response actions that can be taken under each of the scenarios. Unlike the common assumption that the pre-event condition of all system components is uniform, fixed, and pristine, component condition evolution was incorporated herein. For this purpose, the health of the individual system components immediately prior to hazard event impact, under all considered scenarios, was associated with a serviceability rating. This rating was projected to reflect both natural deterioration and any intermittent improvements due to maintenance. The scheme was demonstrated for a hypothetical case study involving Laguardia Airport. Results show that resilience can be impacted by the condition of the infrastructure elements, their natural deterioration processes, and prevailing maintenance plans. The findings imply that, in general, upper bound values are reported in ordinary resilience work, and that including evolving component conditions is of value.
AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT OF USER ONLINE SECURITY BEHAVIOR: EVIDENCE FROM A UNIVERSITY
Creators: name: BANDI, SRUTHI
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information science
subject: Organizational behavior
subject: CYBERSECURITY
subject: MIXED METHODS
subject: ONLINE SECURITY
subject: USER BEHAVIOR

description: The ever-increasing number and severity of cybersecurity breaches makes it vital to understand the factors that make organizations vulnerable. Since humans are considered the weakest link in the cybersecurity chain of an organization, this study evaluates users’ individual differences (demographic factors, risk-taking preferences, decision-making styles and personality traits) to understand online security behavior. This thesis studies four different yet tightly related online security behaviors that influence organizational cybersecurity: device securement, password generation, proactive awareness and updating. A survey (N=369) of students, faculty and staff in a large mid-Atlantic U.S. public university identifies individual characteristics that relate to online security behavior and characterizes the higher-risk individuals that pose threats to the university’s cybersecurity. Based on these findings and insights from interviews with phishing victims, the study concludes with recommendations to help similat organizations increase end-user cybersecurity compliance and mitigate the risks caused by humans in the organizational cybersecurity chain.
Protocol for implementation of the 'AusPROM' recommendations for elective surgery patients: a mixed-methods cohort study
Creators: name: Morris, Meg
name: Brusco, Natasha
name: Woods, Jeffrey
name: Myles, PS
name: Hodge, Anita
name: Jones, C
name: Lloyd, D
name: Rovtar, V
name: Clifford, A
name: Atkinson, V
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024

description: Introduction Incorporating patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) into usual care in hospitals can improve safety and quality. Gaps exist in electronic PROM (ePROM) implementation recommendations, including for elective surgery. The aims are to: (1) understand barriers and enablers to ePROM implementation in hospitals and develop Australian ePROM implementation recommendations (AusPROM); (2) test the feasibility and acceptability of the Quality of Recovery 15 item short-form (QoR-15) PROM for elective surgery patients applying the AusPROM and (3) establish if the QoR-15 PROM has concurrent validity with the EQ-5D-5L. Methods and analysis Phase I will identify staff barriers and facilitators for the implementation of the AusPROM recommendations using a Delphi technique. Phase II will determine QoR-15 acceptability for elective surgery patients across four pilot hospitals, using the AusPROM recommendations. For phase II, in addition to a consumer focus group, patients will complete brief acceptability surveys, incorporating the QoR-15, in the week prior to surgery, in the week following surgery and 4 weeks postsurgery. The primary endpoint will be 4 weeks postsurgery. Phase III will be the national implementation of the AusPROM (29 hospitals) and the concurrent validity of the QoR-15 and generic EQ-5D-5L. This protocol adopts the Guidelines for Inclusion of Patient-Reported Outcomes in Clinical Trials Protocols guidelines. Ethics and dissemination The results will be disseminated via public forums, conferences and peer-reviewed journals. Ethics approval: La Trobe University (HEC20479). Trial registration number ACTRN12621000298819 (Phase I and II) and ACTRN12621000969864 (Phase III)
Creating Smart Cities: A Review for Holistic Approach
Creators: name: Rozario, Sophia
name: Venkatraman, Sitalakshmi
name: Marimuthu, Malliga
name: Khaksar, Seyed Mohammad
name: Subramani, Gopi
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: With the rapid proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) into urban people’s everyday walk of life, the functions of smart cities are fast approaching to be embedded in every step of people’s life. Despite the concept of smart cities founded in the late 1990s, there has been limited growth until recent popularity due to the advancements of IoTs. However, there are many challenges, predominantly people-centric, that require attention for the realisation of smart cities and expected real-life success. In this paper, we intend to investigate the state-of-the-art focus of smart cities from three angles: infrastructure engineering, information technology and people-centric management. We adopt a mixed-methods analysis of currently published literature on the topic of smart cities. Our study attempts to draw attention to the need for developing smart cities with a holistic approach involving multiple perspectives rather than a siloed emphasis on technology alone. We highlight that the fields of specialisations such as information technology and infrastructure engineering in contributing to smart cities need a cross-domain holistic approach of managing people-centric service requirements for improving consumer satisfaction and sustainability.
ENHANCEMENT OF THERMAL INACTIVATION OF CRONOBACTER SAKAZAKII WITH INCLUSION OF PARABENS
Creators: name: Ruan, Luxi
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Food science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cronobacter sakazakii
subject: Enhancement
subject: Parabens
subject: Thermal Inactivation

description: Parabens are a family of p-hydroxybenzoic acid esters, which have antimicrobial activity over a broad pH range (4-8). This study was designed to evaluate the enhanced thermal inactivation of Cronobacter sakazakii by the inclusion of “parabens” and to ultimately develop mathematical models to describe this effect. A heat-resistant strain, Cronobacter sakazakii 607, was heated at three mild heating temperatures in combination with treatments with five parabens in various concentrations. Results showed the presence of parabens significantly enhanced thermal inactivation in a concentration-dependent manner, and the effect increased with increasing alkyl chain length. The concentration of parabens, alkyl side chain length, and heating temperature acted synergistically, causing bacterial inactivation even at low temperatures that were not effective in killing C. sakazakii. The survival data were used to develop primary and secondary mathematical models that accurately describe how this synergistic activity can be applied in the food industry.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Chew Nan, Mrs. Lim Lee Shee, Jung Yee Sing, Mah Seun Quan, Wong Hip Chun, Mah Quen Ying, Lee Song, Law Cheong, Wong Wah, and Dern King.
Comparative transcriptomic analysis of races 1, 2, 5 and 6 of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. pisi in a susceptible pea host identifies differential pathogenicity profiles
Creators: name: Achari, Saidi
name: Edwards, Jacqueline
name: Mann, RC
name: Kaur, JK
name: Sawbridge, Tim
name: Summerell, BA
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Background: The fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. pisi (Fop) causes Fusarium wilt in peas. There are four races globally: 1, 2, 5 and 6 and all of these races are present in Australia. Molecular infection mechanisms have been studied in a few other F. oxysporum formae speciales; however, there has been no transcriptomic Fop-pea pathosystem study. Results: A transcriptomic study was carried out to understand the molecular pathogenicity differences between the races. Transcriptome analysis at 20 days post-inoculation revealed differences in the differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in the Fop races potentially involved in fungal pathogenicity variations. Most of the DEGs in all the races were engaged in transportation, metabolism, oxidation-reduction, translation, biosynthetic processes, signal transduction, proteolysis, among others. Race 5 expressed the most virulence-associated genes. Most genes encoding for plant cell wall degrading enzymes, CAZymes and effector-like proteins were expressed in race 2. Race 6 expressed the least number of genes at this time point. Conclusion: Fop races deploy various factors and complex strategies to mitigate host defences to facilitate colonisation. This investigation provides an overview of the putative pathogenicity genes in different Fop races during the necrotrophic stage of infection. These genes need to be functionally characterised to confirm their pathogenicity/virulence roles and the race-specific genes can be further explored for molecular characterisation.
title: Leave the Blogging to Us
Creators: name: Cohen, Dan
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Academia
subject: Scholarly communication
subject: Blogs
subject: Publishing

description: Originally published by Dan Cohen on Dan Cohen's Digital Humanities Blog (www.dancohen.org). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/).
Characterization of Multi-Phase Fluid Displacement in Porous Media during Drying by means of X-Ray Micro Computed Tomography
Creators: name: HAIDE, Robert Christian
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2021

description: Lo spostamento del fluido in mezzi porosi durante la lenta essiccazione in atmosfera controllata viene esplorato a livello dei pori, utilizzando la tecnica della micro tomografia computerizzata a raggi X. A tal fine, un corpo campione regolare, poroso e di dimensioni micro-metriche, che presenta una struttura dei pori e una bagnabilit� predefinite, � concepito e prodotto sulla base di una serie di esperimenti preliminari. Dopo l?infusione con acqua distillata, viene studiato il comportamento di essiccazione del campione in atmosfera controllata. Successivamente viene definita e condotta una serie di esperimenti tomografici e vengono valutati i dati risultanti. Un punto focale principale � l?ottimizzazione dell?intera catena del processo di acquisizione dei dati tomografici ad alta risoluzione. Questo include la preparazione del campione, la definizione dei parametri di scansione, gli approcci di ricostruzione, cos� come l?elaborazione e la segmentazione delle immagini. Un approccio sistematico in tutti questi settori fornisce una visione d?insieme delle lacune esistenti e delle potenzialit� ancora non sfruttate della tomografia micro computata a raggi X come strumento per studiare i processi di essiccazione a livello dei pori. Il secondo punto focale principale � la segmentazione dei dati e il contenuto informativo dei dati segmentati relativi agli eventi di spostamento dei fluidi a livello dei pori durante l?essiccamento. I modelli di rete dei pori vengono estratti e trasmessi, in combinazione con i dati valutati, a progetti di ricerca correlati sulla simulazione e la visualizzazione per ulteriori usi e scopi di validazione.