cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Bayesian Nonparametric Estimation for Dynamic Treatment Regimes With Sequential Transition Times
Creators: name: Yanxun Xu
name: Müller, Peter
name: Abdus S. Wahed
name: Thall, Peter F.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: We analyze a dataset arising from a clinical trial involving multi-stage chemotherapy regimes for acute leukemia. The trial design was a 2 × 2 factorial for frontline therapies only. Motivated by the idea that subsequent salvage treatments affect survival time, we model therapy as a dynamic treatment regime (DTR), that is, an alternating sequence of adaptive treatments or other actions and transition times between disease states. These sequences may vary substantially between patients, depending on how the regime plays out. To evaluate the regimes, mean overall survival time is expressed as a weighted average of the means of all possible sums of successive transitions times. We assume a Bayesian nonparametric survival regression model for each transition time, with a dependent Dirichlet process prior and Gaussian process base measure (DDP-GP). Posterior simulation is implemented by Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling. We provide general guidelines for constructing a prior using empirical Bayes methods. The proposed approach is compared with inverse probability of treatment weighting, including a doubly robust augmented version of this approach, for both single-stage and multi-stage regimes with treatment assignment depending on baseline covariates. The simulations show that the proposed nonparametric Bayesian approach can substantially improve inference compared to existing methods. An R program for implementing the DDP-GP-based Bayesian nonparametric analysis is freely available at www.ams.jhu.edu/yxu70. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
Decentralised Public Key Infrastructure (DPKI) & Blockchain - New era of trustworthy environment within Web 3.0
Creators: name: Rogowska, Gabriela
name: Erik, Andersen
name: Matulevicius, Raimundas
name: Sabadello, Markus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: blockchain
decentalized identifiers
DIDs
PKI
DPKI
DLT

description: Within Blockchain, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is a framework for creating a secure connection between the server and the client in an unsecured network. PKI has long secured the internet but it comes with significant security and resilience challenges and concerns, specifically in the world of web 3.0, the era where we are today. This is when Decentralised Public Key Infrastructure (DPKIs) come into play.

The main idea for DPKIs is the ability to establish trust relations between all parties, in a web-of-trust model, avoiding centralized authorities and related root-of-trust certificates. It utilises a consensus algorithm operated over many different machines and replicated by many different entities in a decentralised (blockchain) network, improving operational efficiency, resilience and above all, the security of critical infrastructure across the globe.

This webinar brings to the table the latest research and standardisation steps in DPKI that are being put in place by European experts in making Europe a global leader in blockchain-based / decentralised digital identity, bringing a positive impact across different fields, namely on cybersecurity, Identity management and access control.

Welcome & SEEBLOCKS.eu Overview - Gabriela Rogowska

ITU-T X.509 Public-key infrastructure based on blockchain (DPKI) - Erik Andersen

The Power of Many: Securing Organisational Identity Through Distributed Key Management - Raimundas Matulevicius

Next steps in standardization of W3C DIDs - Markus Sabadello
Transnational Piracy Research in Practice: A Roundtable Interview with Joe Karaganis, John Cross, Olga Sezneva, and Ravi Sundaram
Creators: name: Lobato, Ramon
name: Thomas, Julian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The past year has seen the release of a number of new studies on informal media circulation. Of these, the most far-reaching is the Social Science Research Council report Media Piracy in Emerging Economies, a 426-page analysis of pirate circuits in South Africa, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, Bolivia and India. The product of a transnational team of researchers led by Joe Karaganis, this richly detailed study sheds new light on how movies, music and software circulate both inside and outside legal media markets. Its most compelling conclusion is that global piracy is, above all, a price problem: 'High prices for media goods, low incomes, and cheap digital technologies are the main ingredients of global media piracy. If piracy is ubiquitous in most parts of the world, it is because these conditions are ubiquitous' (2011: i). The report is significant for a number of reasons. Via a detailed critique of the existing body of industry-funded piracy research, it shifts the debate away from a 'revenue leakage' argument and toward a different set of questions concerning pricing, access and equity [see Figure 1]. Its account of the interactions between formal and informal media systems reveals how pirate and legal media circuits are intertwined in some of the world's most populous nations. And while generating many valuable insights for media scholars, the report speaks also to the policy field, providing information and data that can be used by policymakers, regulators and media companies as they confront a rapidly changing distribution landscape. We chatted with Karaganis and three key members of his team---Ravi Sundaram, Olga Sezneva, and John Cross---about this remarkable project, and about piracy research more broadly. As scholars with a longstanding interest in this area, Karaganis, Sundaram, Cross, and Sezneva are uniquely positioned to discuss some of the challenges of investigating pirate media circuits---problems of data, ethics, and logistics in multi-sited media research---as well as the analytical opportunities that arise from studying informal media economies.
A review of the assessments of the major fisheries resources in South Africa
Creators: name: CL De Moor
name: SJ Johnston
name: A Brandão
name: RA Rademeyer
name: JP Glazer
name: LB Furman
name: DS Butterworth
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Cell Biology

description: The waters off South Africa's coastline boast a rich mix of commercially fished species. Quantitative assessments of these marine resources have developed from simple methods first applied in the 1970s, to models that encompass a wide range of methodologies. The more valuable resources have undergone regular assessments in recent decades, with frequencies closely related to the management approach employed for each fishery. Many of these assessments form the operating models used to simulation-test candidate management procedures. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the assessments of 11 of the most important fisheries resources in South Africa. Some assessments use simple biomass dynamics models, whereas others are a hybrid of age- and length-based models, each designed to model the specific characteristics of the resource and fishery concerned. Many of the assessments have been disaggregated by species/stock and/or area as related multispecies/stock/ distribution hypotheses have arisen. This paper explores the similarities and differences in the data available and the methods applied. The review indicates that, whereas the status of three of these resources cannot be estimated reliably at present, the status of six resources is considered to be reasonable to good, whereas that of abalone Haliotis midae and West Coast rock lobster Jasus lalandii remains poor.
A 2D shallow flow model for practical dam-break simulation
Creators: name: Sampson, Joe
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Joe Sampson discusses the article 'A 2D shallow flow model for practical dam-break simulation', by Yueling Wang, Quihua Liang, Georges Kesserwani and Jim W. Hall, published in Journal of Hydraulic Research, 2011, 49(3), 307-316.
Motivations towards environmental innovation:A conceptual framework for multiparty cooperation
Creators: name: Bigliardi, Barbara
name: Yarahmadi, Mohammad
name: Higgins, Peter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the green innovation literature using a conceptual framework developed to explain the driving forces behind environmental cooperative activities of firms. The framework links motivations to the different type of partners in the context of environmental innovations. Design/methodology/approach: Literature on innovation, environmental innovation, sustainable development and strategic management is examined in order to build the conceptual framework. Findings: This paper suggests that firms cooperate with governmental agencies, NGOs, suppliers, customers and industry associations to comply with environmental laws and regulation, obtain legitimacy as well as acquire competency (i.e. access to resources such as funds, knowledge and skills). However, only competency-oriented motivation stimulates organisations to cooperate with competitors and knowledge leaders. Research limitations/implications: The model developed is conceptual and qualitative in nature. More research that is empirical needs to be conducted to test for the validity of the six formulated propositions. Originality/value: The significance of this paper is twofold. First, it integrates two different strategic management theories: resource-based and institutional theories in explaining cooperative environmental motivations. Second, it develops a framework that provides a basis for more theoretical and empirical studies.
Extremal optimisation for assignment type problems
Creators: name: Randall, Marcus
name: Hendtlass, Tim
name: Lewis, Andrew
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Extremal optimisation is an emerging nature inspired meta-heuristic search technique that allows a poorly performing solution component to be removed at each iteration of the algorithm and replaced by a random value. This creates opportunity for assignment type problems as it enables a component to be moved to a more appropriate group. This may then drive the system towards an optimal solution. In this chapter, the general capabilities of extremal optimisation, in terms of assignment type problems, are explored. In particular, we provide an analysis of the moves selected by extremal optimisation and show that it does not suffer from premature convergence. Following this we develop a model of extremal optimisation that includes techniques to a) process constraints by allowing the search to move between feasible and infeasible space, b) provide a generic partial feasibility restoration heuristic to drive the solution towards feasible space, and c) develop a population model of the meta-heuristic that adaptively removes and introduces new members in accordance with the principles of self-organised criticality. A range of computational experiments on prototypical assignment problems, namely generalised assignment, bin packing, and capacitated hub location, indicate that extremal optimisation can form the foundation for a powerful and competitive meta-heuristic for this class of problems.
Fibrinogen enhances the inflammatory response of alveolar macrophages to TiO2, SiO2 and carbon nanomaterials
Creators: name: Marucco, Arianna
name: Gazzano, Elena
name: Ghigo, Dario
name: Enrico, Emanuele
name: Fenoglio, Ivana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry

description: Many studies have shown that the composition of the protein corona dramatically affects the response of cells to nanomaterials (NMs). However, the role of each single protein is still largely unknown. Fibrinogen (FG), one of the most abundant plasma proteins, is believed to mediate foreign-body reactions. Since this protein is absent in cell media used in in vitro toxicological tests the possible FG-mediated effects have not yet been assessed. Here, the effect of FG on the toxicity of three different kinds of inorganic NMs (carbon, SiO2 and TiO2) on alveolar macrophages has been investigated. A set of integrated techniques (UV–vis spectroscopy, dynamic light scattering and sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis) have been used to study the strength and the kinetics of interaction of FG with the NMs. The inflammatory response of alveolar macrophages (MH-S) exposed to the three NMs associated with FG has also been investigated. We found that FG significantly enhances the cytotoxicity (lactate dehydrogenase leakage) and the inflammatory response (increase in nitric oxide (NO) concentration and NO synthase activation) induced by SiO2, carbon and TiO2 NMs on alveolar macrophages. This effect appears related to the amount of FG interacting with the NMs. In the case of carbon NMs, the activation of fibrinolysis, likely related to the exposure of cryptic sites of FG, was also observed after 24 h. These findings underline the critical role played by FG in the toxic response to NMs.
Associations of neighbourhood walkability indices with weight gain
Creators: name: Koohsari, Mohammad Javad
name: Oka, Koichiro
name: Shibata, Ai
name: Liao, Yung
name: Hanibuchi, Tomoya
name: Owen, Neville
name: Sugiyama, Takemi
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Background: Inconsistent associations of neighbourhood walkability with adults' body weight have been reported. Most studies examining the relationships of walkability and adiposity are cross-sectional in design. We examined the longitudinal relationships of two walkability indices - conventional walkability and space syntax walkability, and their individual components, with weight change among adults over four years. Methods: Data were from the Physical Activity in Localities and Community study in Adelaide, Australia. In 2003-2004, 2650 adults living in 154 Census Collection Districts (CCDs) returned baseline questionnaires; in 2007-2008, the follow-up survey was completed by 1098. Participants reported their weight at baseline and at follow-up. Neighbourhood walkability indices were calculated using geographic information systems and space syntax software. Linear marginal models using generalized estimating equations with robust standard errors were fitted to examine associations of the two walkability indices and their individual components with the weight at follow-up, adjusting for baseline weight, socio-demographic variables, and spatial clustering at the level of CCD. Results: The overall mean weight gain over four years was 1.5 kg. The two walkability indices were closely correlated (r = 0.76, p < 0.01). No significant associations were found between the overall neighbourhood walkability indices and weight change. Among walkability components, there was a marginally significant negative association between space syntax measure of street integration and weight change: one standard deviation increment in street integration was associated with 0.31 kg less weight gain (p = 0.09). Conclusions: Using a prospective study design and a novel space-syntax based measure of walkability, we were not able to identify relationships between neighbourhood walkability with weight gain. This is consistent with other inconclusive findings on the built environment and obesity. Research on the built environment and adults' weight gain may need to consider not just local environments but also a larger scale environment within a city or workplace environment in order to capture multiple behaviours relevant to weight gain.
IMPACT EVALUATION OF LITERACY ON HEALTH IN SCHOOL FROM THE THIRD CYCLE OF BASIC EDUCATION: A SCOPING REVIEW
Creators: name: Dias, Hélia
name: Amendoeira, José
name: Spínola, Ana
name: Figueiredo, Maria Do Carmo
name: Godinho, Celeste
name: André, Clara
name: Duarte, Jusoé
name: Pintor, Marta
name: Ferreira, Madalena
Publisher: name: Revista UIIPS
Year: 2020

description: The scientific evidence shows the importance of promoting health for eating, sexuality, tobacco and alcohol use among teenagers. There is no evidence to assess its impact. Aim: identify instruments to measure the impact of interventions to promote healthy diet, sexuality, tobacco and alcohol use among teenagers. Method: Scoping review based on Participants, Concept, Context, from Joanna Briggs Institute method. Results: The studies were selected following the PRISMA, and the data was extracted. Six primary studies were included; five were quantitative in design; the other was of mixed design. Instruments were identified that would make it partially possible to assess the impact of interventions of healthy eating and tobacco and alcohol use. The topic of sexuality did not arise. Conclusion: Some variables emerged from the instruments identified, that were relevant in building an instrument to assess the impact of interventions to promote healthy diet, sexuality, tobacco and alcohol use among teenagers.
description: Revista UIIPS, Vol. 8 No. 1 (2020): Thematic Edition: Life Sciences and Health
Bayesian Nonparametric Estimation for Dynamic Treatment Regimes with Sequential Transition Times
Creators: name: Yanxun Xu
name: Müller, Peter
name: Abdus S. Wahed
name: Thall, Peter F.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Information and Computing Sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Medicine

description: We analyze a dataset arising from a clinical trial involving multi-stage chemotherapy regimes for acute leukemia. The trial design was a 2 × 2 factorial for frontline therapies only. Motivated by the idea that subsequent salvage treatments affect survival time, we model therapy as a dynamic treatment regime (DTR), that is, an alternating sequence of adaptive treatments or other actions and transition times between disease states. These sequences may vary substantially between patients, depending on how the regime plays out. To evaluate the regimes, mean overall survival time is expressed as a weighted average of the means of all possible sums of successive transitions times. We assume a Bayesian nonparametric survival regression model for each transition time, with a dependent Dirichlet process prior and Gaussian process base measure (DDP-GP). Posterior simulation is implemented by Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling. We provide general guidelines for constructing a prior using empirical Bayes methods. The proposed approach is compared with inverse probability of treatment weighting, including a doubly robust augmented version of this approach, for both single-stage and multi-stage regimes with treatment assignment depending on baseline covariates. The simulations show that the proposed nonparametric Bayesian approach can substantially improve inference compared to existing methods. An R program for implementing the DDP-GP-based Bayesian nonparametric analysis is freely available at www.ams.jhu.edu/~yxu70.
Electrochemically generated base synthesis of thiazolidine-2-thiones
Creators: name: Medini, Hayet
name: Nejib Hussein Mekni
name: Boujlel, Khaled
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biochemistry

description: The electrolysis of secondary β-amino alcohols in the presence of carbon disulfide using an electrogenerated base (EGB) to promote the reaction of the synthesis of thiazolidine-2-thione is reported. The EGB was prepared by probase-free electrolysis of acetonitrile under galvanostatic conditions using a sacrificial magnesium anode. The reaction produces the corresponding heterocyclic thiazolidine-2-thiones in satisfactory yields. The compounds thus obtained were fully characterized by IR, 1H, 13C NMR spectroscopy, HRMS and elementary analysis.
Fibrinogen enhances the inflammatory response of alveolar macrophages to TiO2, SiO2 and carbon nanomaterials
Creators: name: Marucco, Arianna
name: Gazzano, Elena
name: Ghigo, Dario
name: Enrico, Emanuele
name: Fenoglio, Ivana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry

description: Many studies have shown that the composition of the protein corona dramatically affects the response of cells to nanomaterials (NMs). However, the role of each single protein is still largely unknown. Fibrinogen (FG), one of the most abundant plasma proteins, is believed to mediate foreign-body reactions. Since this protein is absent in cell media used in in vitro toxicological tests the possible FG-mediated effects have not yet been assessed. Here, the effect of FG on the toxicity of three different kinds of inorganic NMs (carbon, SiO2 and TiO2) on alveolar macrophages has been investigated. A set of integrated techniques (UV–vis spectroscopy, dynamic light scattering and sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis) have been used to study the strength and the kinetics of interaction of FG with the NMs. The inflammatory response of alveolar macrophages (MH-S) exposed to the three NMs associated with FG has also been investigated. We found that FG significantly enhances the cytotoxicity (lactate dehydrogenase leakage) and the inflammatory response (increase in nitric oxide (NO) concentration and NO synthase activation) induced by SiO2, carbon and TiO2 NMs on alveolar macrophages. This effect appears related to the amount of FG interacting with the NMs. In the case of carbon NMs, the activation of fibrinolysis, likely related to the exposure of cryptic sites of FG, was also observed after 24 h. These findings underline the critical role played by FG in the toxic response to NMs.
Effect of Thermal and High Electric Fields on Secondary Structure of Peanut Protein
Creators: name: Vanga, Sai Kranthi
name: Singh, Ashutosh
name: Kalkan, Fatih
name: Gariepy, Yvan
name: Orsat, Valerie
name: Raghavan, Vijaya
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: This study evaluated the effect of the thermal and high electric field stresses on the secondary structure conformation of peanut protein using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The amide I region between the wavelengths 1700–1600 cm–1 of the spectra were studied for different thermal and high electric field treatments. Within thermal treatments, both hot air roasting and microwave processing treatments were evaluated. Hot air treatments were performed at temperatures of 50, 75, and 100°C from 15, 30, and 45 min while the microwave treatments were conducted at the same temperatures, but for 5, 10, 15, and 20 min. Three experimental conditions were evaluated for the electric field intensity of 10, 15, and 20 kV for 60, 120, and 180 min. Changes were observed at 1654–1650 cm–1, indicating conformational changes in the α-helix secondary structure. Similar changes were observed at various other wavelengths indicating changes in the 3/10 helix, β-sheets and random coils present in the protein. With an increase in the treatment time, the secondary structure reorganizations increased with the creation of new random coils and aggregated strands. Curve-fitting using Gaussian band shapes further supported the observations. In vitro protein digestibility studies were also performed and the protein changes also supported the observations from the spectra.
Fibrinogen enhances the inflammatory response of alveolar macrophages to TiO2, SiO2 and carbon nanomaterials
Creators: name: Marucco, Arianna
name: Gazzano, Elena
name: Ghigo, Dario
name: Enrico, Emanuele
name: Fenoglio, Ivana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Many studies have shown that the composition of the protein corona dramatically affects the response of cells to nanomaterials (NMs). However, the role of each single protein is still largely unknown. Fibrinogen (FG), one of the most abundant plasma proteins, is believed to mediate foreign-body reactions. Since this protein is absent in cell media used in in vitro toxicological tests the possible FG-mediated effects have not yet been assessed. Here, the effect of FG on the toxicity of three different kinds of inorganic NMs (carbon, SiO2 and TiO2) on alveolar macrophages has been investigated. A set of integrated techniques (UV–vis spectroscopy, dynamic light scattering and sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis) have been used to study the strength and the kinetics of interaction of FG with the NMs. The inflammatory response of alveolar macrophages (MH-S) exposed to the three NMs associated with FG has also been investigated. We found that FG significantly enhances the cytotoxicity (lactate dehydrogenase leakage) and the inflammatory response (increase in nitric oxide (NO) concentration and NO synthase activation) induced by SiO2, carbon and TiO2 NMs on alveolar macrophages. This effect appears related to the amount of FG interacting with the NMs. In the case of carbon NMs, the activation of fibrinolysis, likely related to the exposure of cryptic sites of FG, was also observed after 24 h. These findings underline the critical role played by FG in the toxic response to NMs.
Fibrinogen enhances the inflammatory response of alveolar macrophages to TiO2, SiO2 and carbon nanomaterials
Creators: name: Marucco, Arianna
name: Gazzano, Elena
name: Ghigo, Dario
name: Enrico, Emanuele
name: Fenoglio, Ivana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Many studies have shown that the composition of the protein corona dramatically affects the response of cells to nanomaterials (NMs). However, the role of each single protein is still largely unknown. Fibrinogen (FG), one of the most abundant plasma proteins, is believed to mediate foreign-body reactions. Since this protein is absent in cell media used in in vitro toxicological tests the possible FG-mediated effects have not yet been assessed. Here, the effect of FG on the toxicity of three different kinds of inorganic NMs (carbon, SiO2 and TiO2) on alveolar macrophages has been investigated. A set of integrated techniques (UV–vis spectroscopy, dynamic light scattering and sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis) have been used to study the strength and the kinetics of interaction of FG with the NMs. The inflammatory response of alveolar macrophages (MH-S) exposed to the three NMs associated with FG has also been investigated. We found that FG significantly enhances the cytotoxicity (lactate dehydrogenase leakage) and the inflammatory response (increase in nitric oxide (NO) concentration and NO synthase activation) induced by SiO2, carbon and TiO2 NMs on alveolar macrophages. This effect appears related to the amount of FG interacting with the NMs. In the case of carbon NMs, the activation of fibrinolysis, likely related to the exposure of cryptic sites of FG, was also observed after 24 h. These findings underline the critical role played by FG in the toxic response to NMs.
Re.Dis.Cover Place with Generative AI: Exploring the Experience and Design of City Wandering with Image-to-Image AI
Creators: name: Hung, Peng-Kai
name: Huang, Janet Yi-Ching
name: Wensveen, Stephan
name: Liang, Rung-Huei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The HCI field has demonstrated a growing interest in leveraging emerging technologies to enrich urban experiences. However, insufficient studies investigate the experience and design space of AI image technology (AIGT) applications for playful urban interaction, despite its widespread adoption. To explore this gap, we conducted an exploratory study involving four participants who wandered and photographed within Eindhoven Centre and interacted with an image-to-image AI. Preliminary findings present their observations, the effect of their familiarity with places, and how AIGT becomes an explorer's tool or co-speculator. We then highlight AIGT's capability of supporting playfulness, reimaginations, and rediscoveries of places through defamiliarizing and familiarizing cityscapes. Additionally, we propose the metaphor AIGT as a 'tourist' to discuss its opportunities for engaging explorations and risks of stereotyping places. Collectively, our research provides initial empirical insights and design considerations, inspiring future HCI endeavors for creating urban play with generative AI.
Effect of thermal and high electric fields on secondary structure of Peanut protein
Creators: name: Singh, Ashutosh
name: Vanga, Sai Kranthi
name: Kalkan, Fatih
name: Gariepy, Yvan
name: Orsat, Valerie
name: Raghavan, Vijaya
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: ABSTRACTThis study evaluated the effect of the thermal and high electric field stresses on the secondary structure conformation of peanut protein using FT-IR spectroscopy. The Amide I region between the wavelengths 1700 – 1600 cm−1 of the spectra were studied for different thermal and high electric field treatments. Within thermal treatments, both hot air roasting and microwave processing treatments were evaluated. Hot air treatments were performed at temperatures of 50°C, 75°C and 100°C from 15, 30 and 45 minutes while the microwave treatments were conducted at the same temperatures, but for 5, 10, 15 and 20 minutes. Three experimental conditions were evaluated for the electric field intensity of 10 kV, 15 kV and 20 kV for 60, 120 and 180 minutes. Changes were observed at 1654 – 1650 cm−1, indicating conformational changes in the α-helix secondary structure. Similar changes were observed at various other wavelengths indicating changes in the 3/10 helix, β-sheets and random coils present in the protein. With an increase in the treatment time, the secondary structure reorganizations increased with the creation of new random coils and aggregated strands. Curve-fitting using Gaussian band shapes further supported the observations. In vitro protein digestibility (IVPD %) studies were also performed and the protein changes also supported the observations from the spectra.
Sustaining modified behaviours learnt in a diabetes prevention program in regional Australia: the role of social context
Creators: name: Walker, Christine
name: Hernan, Andrea
name: Reddy, Prasuna
name: Dunbar, James A.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Background: The Greater Green Triangle diabetes prevention program was conducted in primary health care setting of Victoria and South Australia in 2004-2006. This program demonstrated significant reductions in diabetes risk factors which were largely sustained at 18 month follow-up. The theoretical model utilised in this program achieved its outcomes through improvements in coping self-efficacy and planning. Previous evaluations have concentrated on the behavioural components of the intervention. Other variables external to the main research design may have contributed to the success factors but have yet to be identified. The objective of this evaluation was to identify the extent to which participants in a diabetes prevention program sustained lifestyle changes several years after completing the program and to identify contextual factors that contributed to sustaining changes. Methods. A qualitative evaluation was conducted. Five focus groups were held with people who had completed a diabetes prevention program, several years later to assess the degree to which they had sustained program strategies and to identify contributing factors. Results: Participants value the recruitment strategy. Involvement in their own risk assessment was a strong motivator. Learning new skills gave participants a sense of empowerment. Receiving regular pathology reports was a means of self-assessment and a motivator to continue. Strong family and community support contributed to personal motivation and sustained practice. Conclusions: Family and local community supports constitute the contextual variables reported to contribute to sustained motivation after the program was completed. Behaviour modification programs can incorporate strategies to ensure these factors are recognised and if necessary, strengthened at the local level.
A war about meaning: A case study of media contestation of the Australian anti-terror laws
Creators: name: Bossio, Diana
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Following the 9/11 attacks on the USA, the Howard government introduced extensive amendments to the criminal act within Australia. The Australian mainstream media has been criticized for its ineffective contestation of the controversial legislation, effectively becoming 'seduced' by the Howard government's discourses around post-9/11 insecurity. This article examines the representation of the 'anti-terror laws' by the Australian government and mainstream newspaper media. I argue that competing editorial practices in mainstream newspapers diluted the possibility of effective contestation of the laws. More broadly this article will illustrate that discourses around the media's traditional role as the 'fourth estate' often does not account for the various internal and external influences and constraints placed upon journalistic practice.
Generation @ and digital media education
Creators: name: Arnold, Josie
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper, I survey some ideas of participating as teachers and learners in the contemporary digital media culture. I look at how the creative possibilities presented by electronic deliveries are evident to students in their everyday lives, but have yet to be fully utilized in the development of curricula and teaching. This paper addresses the question of how we might begin to understand the educational possibilities of the multi-media text in cyberspace. Our students are bombarded by information, yet are time poor. This is partly. This is partly because they are engaged in tribal e-communications. I utilize a narrative methodology that I term ‘A subjective academic narrative'. The struggle with meaning that moved authority to the reader from the author is one that led to postmodernism and to current cultural, literary, and textual theories being drawn together. (Buttigieg; Milner and North; Norris). It also led to the reader becoming involved in the production of meaning, of the text and of the discourse in particular ways. It is clear that the production of electronic texts in everyday lives enacts textuality and discourse in non-authoritative ways. This has immediate implications for teaching and learning in the emergent electronic culture. When such electronic spaces as Facebook, MySpace and Current allow viewers to create content, we as educators may well see the death of the author in a different and perhaps more troubling way.
Visitor-Sourced Pollution and Esthetic Quality in the Coastal National Parks: Sample of Dilek Peninsula Büyük Menderes Delta National Park/Turkey
Creators: name: Göktuğ, Tendü Hilal
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: İçmeler Bay’ recreational coast, Dilek Peninsula Büyük Menderes Delta National Park, was surveyed to determine visitor-sourced litter types and cleanliness levels. Litter types and pollution were compared in terms of recreational uses and esthetic quality. Visitors rated the offensiveness of 17 several litter items that were found in the Bay. Finally, visitors evaluated the cleanliness and crowdedness of the Bay and the adequacy of trash cans. Litters were counted at 192 samplings, and 384 questionnaires were completed from July to August 2018. The results indicate that OR (Organic litter) (53.14%) and PL (plastic) (29.06%) were the common litter material in the litter composition. The cleanliness level was C (Dirty) (grades on A-D). A weakly significant negative correlation (r = –0.463, p = 0.000) was found between the offensiveness ranks of the litter types and the abundance of these litter types in the park. The park was dirty (69%), crowded (72.7%), and the numbers of facilities were insufficient (59.4%) according to most visitors. For minimizing the environmental and social impacts of littering, it is considered that the visitor management plan should be prepared urgently and littering management actions should be defined in this plan. Eight categories of direct and indirect management actions are recommended.
Variations in the Fundamental Plane of massive galaxies with stellar population, morphology and local density
Creators: name: Magoulas, Christina
name: Springob, Christopher
name: Proctor, Rob
name: Colless, Matthew
name: Heath Jones, D.
name: Kobayashi, Chiaki
name: Campbell, Lachlan
name: Lucey, John
name: Mould, Jeremy
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We have measured Fundamental Plane (FP) parameters in the 2MASS J, H and K passbands for 10,000 ellipticals, lenticulars and early-type spiral bulges in the 6dF Galaxy Survey (6dFGS) – a spectroscopic survey of the southern sky with |b| > 10° (Jones et al. 2009). 6dFGS provides a large near-infrared-selected sample of galaxies for accurately determining the NIR FP and investigating the trends in the FP with stellar population, morphology and environment.
An open-source knowledge graph to help Dominica become climate-resilient
Creators: name: Smith, Oliver
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: KG4Good

description: Track: KG4Good Hello, I had previously uploaded my presentation via a Google Forms link that Joaquin sent. I'm sending an updated version as I have some updated screenshots I'd like to use in my presentation. Any questions, let me know. Thanks Oliver
Next generation deep 2μm survey
Creators: name: Mould, Jeremy
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: There is a major opportunity for the KDUST 2.5 m telescope to carry out the next generation IR survey. A resolution of 0.2 arcsec is obtainable from Dome A over a wide field. This opens a unique discovery space during the 2015–2025 decade. A next generation 2μm survey will feed JWST with serendipitous targets for spectroscopy, including spectra and images of the first galaxies.
Geometry, chemical reactivity and Raman spectra of gold clusters
Creators: name: Ngangbam Bedamani Singh
name: Sarkar, Utpal
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Structures, stability, and chemical reactivity of Aun (n = 2-10) clusters are investigated using density functional theory (DFT). We have studied the reactivity parameters of the clusters in terms of relevant electronic structure principles. It is observed that stability and properties are strongly dependent on the cluster size. Clusters with an even number of atoms are found to be energetically and chemically more stable than odd-numbered clusters. Electronic structure of clusters has been investigated using partial density of states (PDOS). PDOS analysis clearly shows that energy states of highest occupied molecular orbital and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital are predominantly contributed by s orbital. From time-dependent DFT calculations, it is shown that absorption spectra of even-numbered clusters are more intense and are observed at lower wavelength region than the odd-sized gold clusters.
Mesopotamichthys sharpeyi
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Cyprinidae
Mesopotamichthys
Mesopotamichthys sharpeyi

description: 100. Mesopotamichthys sharpeyi (Günther, 1874)
Common name. Binni
Taxonomy. Original description: Barbus sharpeyi Günther, 1874: 38 (3), pl. 9 [Tigris River near Baghdad, Iraq; syntypes: BMNH 1874.4.28.20 (1), 1874.4.28.27 (1), 1875.1.14.16 (1)].
Revisions. None.
Illustrations. Günther (1874: 38 (3), pl. 9) as Barbus sharpeyi.
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Tigris, Persis.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 441-Lower Tigris & Euphrates, 442-Upper Tigris & Euphrates.
Status in Iran. [Native].—Benni.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: ZM-CBSU.
Conservation. —IUCN: VU.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
Abordagem da Hipertensão em Pacientes com Doença Renal Crônica
Creators: name: Sophia Lara de Jesus Silva
name: Isabella Faustino Ribeiro
name: Jordana de Oliveira Pontes
name: Gabriela Negrão barreto
name: Natália Bettiato Zattera
name: Amanda Aquino Pereira
name: Marcos Vinícius Castro Carvalho
name: Isabela Saito Moreira
name: Gabriel Moreira Lima Bomfim Macedo
name: Alex Martiniano Martins
name: Laura Rabelo Adjuto
name: Policena Vieira de Lucena Silva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: A hipertensão arterial (HA) é uma condição comum em pacientes com doença renal crônica (DRC), impactando significativamente o prognóstico e a qualidade de vida desses indivíduos. O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar as intervenções e estratégias de manejo da hipertensão em pacientes com DRC, avaliando a eficácia e as abordagens terapêuticas recentes. Foi realizada uma revisão integrativa utilizando as bases de dados Scientific Electronic Library Online (SCIELO) e Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (LILACS), com descritores em ciências da saúde como “hipertensão arterial”, “doença renal crônica” e “manejo da hipertensão”. Os resultados mostram a importância de estratégias de tratamento personalizadas e a necessidade de intervenções contínuas para controle efetivo da hipertensão em pacientes com DRC. A conclusão ressalta a importância de protocolos ajustados e a integração de múltiplas abordagens terapêuticas para otimizar os resultados clínicos.  A hipertensão arterial é uma comorbidade extremamente prevalente e de grande impacto em pacientes com Doença Renal Crônica (DRC), atuando tanto como causa quanto como consequência da progressão da doença renal e aumentando significativamente o risco de eventos cardiovasculares, morbidade e mortalidade. O manejo da hipertensão nesse contexto é complexo e multifacetado.
Bioassay-guided isolation and identification of bioactive compound from aerial parts of Luffa acutangula against lung cancer cell line NCI-H460
Creators: name: Ramar Vanajothi
name: Pappu Srinivasan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Hematology
subject: Cancer
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry

description: Luffa acutangula (Cucurbitaceae) is widely used as a traditional medicine in India and was reported to possess various pharmacological activities including its anti-proliferative effects. In this study, the bioactive compound of ethanolic extract of L. acutangula (LA) was isolated using bioassay-guided approach. Five major fractions were collected and evaluated for their anti-proliferative activity against non-small cell lung cancer cells (NCI-H460). Among the test fractions, the fraction LA/FII effectively decreased the growth of cancer cells with IC50 values of 10 µg/ml concentration. Furthermore, it significantly increased intracellular reactive oxygen species and decreased the mitochondrial membrane potential. The apoptogenic activity of fraction LA/FII was confirmed by cell shrinkage, membrane blebbing and formation of apoptotic bodies. A single bioactive compound was isolated from the active faction, LA/FII and subsequently identified as 1,8 dihydroxy-4-methylanthracene 9,10-dione (compound 1) by comparing its spectral data [Ultraviolet (UV), Infrared (IR), Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and Electrospray Ionization-Mass Spectroscopy (ESI-MS)] with literature values. This is the first report on the isolation of compound 1 from this plant.
Allodectes Gaud & Berla 1963
Creators: name: MironovK, Sergey V.
name: GallowayK, Terry D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Astigmata
Proctophyllodidae
Allodectes

description: Genus Allodectes Gaud & Berla, 1963
 Type species: Proctophyllodes (Alloptes) norneri Trouessart, 1885, by original designation.
description: Published as part of MironovK, Sergey V. & GallowayK, Terry D., 2023, A new species of the feather mite genus Allodectes (Acariformes: Proctophyllodidae) from the ruby-throated hummingbird, Archilochus colubris (Apodiformes: Trochilidae), in Canada, pp. 807-816 in Acarologia 63 (3) on page 809, DOI: 10.24349/vejw-1k8v, http://zenodo.org/record/10786048