cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Effects of Ethanol and Caffeine Administered Maternally on Neonatal Adrenocortical Function
Creators: name: Rohlfing, Rhonda L. Mullins
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1988

description: Two investigations were conducted to determine the effects of maternally administered ethanol and caffeine on neonatal adrenocortical function. In the ethanol study, pregnant female rats were fed a liquid diet in which 35% of the sucrose calories were removed and replaced with ethanol. Dams in the caffeine study were injected with 25 mg/kg/day caffeine in saline solution. Within 24 hours of parturition, neonatal rats in both studies were sacrificed. The adrenal glands were incubated in vitro for one hour and media were analyzed for corticosterone content. Significant adrenal weight differences were found in both studies. The ethanol group pups were significantly larger than controls; this was probably due to a smaller litter size. In the caffeine study, no significant differences in neonatal pup weights were observed. In the alcohol study, differences in corticosterone secretion due to ethanol were not clearly defined. In the caffeine study, adrenals had reduced corticosterone secretion. Glands in both studies respond to ACTH with significant increases in secretion. Plasma corticosterone levels did not have clearly defined differences in either study.

In the caffeine study, caffeine exposed pups had a higher basal corticosterone secretory rate than saline animals. Similar increases were seen in ACTH-stimulated adrenals, as well as in plasma corticosterone levels. ACTH-stimulation resulted in significant increases in corticosterone secretory rates.
The body as separates : an exploration in women's size definitions for mass market apparel based on the body as separate parts
Creators: name: Kennedy, Kate
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: This research has been undertaken by theoretical and practical investigation via a critique of the historical and contemporary topics surrounding women’s apparel size definitions. This analysis has informed the development of an alternative size model to assist design and production of mass market apparel. It is broadly considered in industry, fashion education and popular media that the fit of women’s clothing sold in Australia is inconsistent and does not conform to a size standard. The current technical framework that directs the design and production of apparel is a flawed model based on an obsolete clothing standard, inherited practice and professional assumptions. The essence of this research investigates from a practitioner’s perspective, alternate approaches to, and views of, apparel size by prototyping models that facilitate a self-determined quantifiable approach. It explores whether anthropometric diversity rather than conformity can be represented and how to approach size definition outside the standardisation framework. The most significant body of knowledge has evolved around the unearthing of the methodology employed by the Berlei Corset Company to develop their typological shape model in 1927. Whilst the Berlei Corset Company has been the subject of previous scholarly studies, this is the first time it has been examined with a view to assessing its value in terms of workplace innovation as well as its cultural and historical value. The practical research models draw much from the analysis of the Berlei Figure Type Indicator as a catalyst in rethinking size classifications for apparel development. The Berlei anthropometric research has directly informed this project and provided the greatest methodological direction in quantifying the body as separates model.
Thermal analysis and performance of a pressure gain combustion system
Creators: name: ANDRIANI, Roberto
name: INGENITO, Antonella
name: AGRESTA, Antonio
Publisher: name: Proceedings of the 7th European Conference for Aeronautics and Space Sciences. Milano, Italy, 3-6 july 2017
Year: 2017
Subjects: AERO-GAS TURBINE ENGINES
AIRCRAFT PROPULSION
AEROSPACE PROPULSION

description: Conventional gas turbine engines burn fuel in a steady state combustor at constant pressure, and the pressure rise is obtained by the compressor driven by the turbine. In the Pressure Gain Combustion cycle, the combustion process is at constant volume, allowing an increase of the pressure without the need of the compressor. The process is not steady, and some difficulties arise to study it, in particular when one tries to join this unsteady process with a steady system, like a conventional gas turbine engine. In this work some characteristics of PGC system are studied, focusing on the possibility to raise the thermal efficiency of the whole system. Through a numerical program a thermal analysis of the system is performed, computing the main performance and efficiency.
Additional file 3 of Blockade of histamine receptor H1 augments immune checkpoint therapy by enhancing MHC-I expression in pancreatic cancer cells
Creators: name: Zhong, PingShan
name: Nakata, Kohei
name: Oyama, Koki
name: Higashijima, Nobuhiro
name: Sagara, Akiko
name: Date, Satomi
name: Luo, HaiZhen
name: Hayashi, Masataka
name: Kubo, Akihiro
name: Wu, ChenYi
name: He, Shan
name: Yamamoto, Takeo
name: Koikawa, Kazuhiro
name: Iwamoto, Chika
name: Abe, Toshiya
name: Ikenaga, Naoki
name: Ohuchida, Kenoki
name: Morisaki, Takashi
name: Oda, Yoshinao
name: Kuba, Keiji
name: Nakamura, Masafumi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Fig. S3. (A) RT-PCR for HRH1 mRNA expression in human pancreatic cancer cell lines, n = 4 per group. (B) HRH1 expression in the whole lysis of human pancreatic cancer cell lines. (C) RT-PCR for HRH1 mRNA expression in KP-2 shNC and shHRH1 (sh1), n=4 per group. (D) HRH1 expression in the whole lysis of KP-2 shNC and shHRH1 (sh1). (E) FCM gating strategy for HLA-ABC or B2M of human pancreatic cancer cell lines (MIA-PaCa2). (F) The expression of HLA-related proteins in human pancreatic cancer cell lines. (G) RT-PCR for MHC-I-related gene expression in MIA PaCa-2 or KP-2 treated with Az (20 µM) for 48 h or KP-2 shNC and shHRH1 (sh1), n ≥ 3 per group. (H) MFI of HLA-ABC using FCM for MIA PaCa-2 treated with Az (20 µM), histamine (10 µM), or combination for 48 h, n = 3 per group. Error bars, mean ± SD (A,C,G,H); *p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.001, ****p<0.0001. RT-PCR, quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; FCM, Flow cytometry; HLA, Human Leukocyte Antigen; HLA-ABC, HLA Class 1 ABC; B2M, Beta-2 microglobulin; MHC, major histocompatibility complex; MFI, median fluorescence intensity.
sj-pdf-2-spo-10.1177_17479541221140192 - Supplemental material for Using consensus methods to standardise judgement-based guidelines required for player management decision-making processes: A case study in professional rugby union
Creators: name: Ranaweera, Jayamini
name: Zanin, Marco
name: Weaving, Dan
name: Roe, Gregory
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-2-spo-10.1177_17479541221140192 for Using consensus methods to standardise judgement-based guidelines required for player management decision-making processes: A case study in professional rugby union by Jayamini Ranaweera, Marco Zanin, Dan Weaving and Gregory Roe in International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching
Hybrid deflection prediction for machining thin-wall titanium alloy aerospace component
Creators: name: Raja Abdullah, Raja
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Machining of aerospace structural components involves many thin-wall rib and flange sections. These thin-wall sections are dictated by design consideration to meet required strength and weight constraints. These components are either forged or cast to the approximate final shape and the end milling process is used to finish the parts. Alternatively, the component is machined from a solid block of material by end milling with roughing and finishing cuts. During machining, the cutting forces cause deflection of the thin-wall section, leading to dimensional form errors that cause the finished part to be out of specification. In this thesis, a new methodology for the prediction of wall deflection during machining of thin-wall feature is presented. The new methodology aims to increase the efficiency on modelling the deflection prediction in machining thin-wall component. The prediction methodology is based on a combination of finite element method and statistical analysis. It consists of a feature based approach of parts creation, finite element analysis of material removal and statistical regression analysis of deflection associated with cutting parameters and component attributes. The model is developed to take into account the tool-work geometries on material removal process during machining process. Mathematical models are developed for the wall deflection correlated with cutting parameters and component attributes. The prediction values have been validated by machining tests on titanium alloys parts and show good agreement between simulation model and experimental data. In addition, the cutter compensation method derived from the deflection prediction values can be used to reduce the magnitude of surface error, thus improving the component accuracy for machining thin-wall feature. By adopting the cutter compensation method, only one machining pass is required to machine the thin-wall feature. This compares favourably to the current practice in step method which requires many machining passes. All research results have been derived for four different cases of typical aerospace component, but it is shown that these results can be applicable for other component shape and materials. To assist commercial applications, a customized computer program has been developed for the hybrid model. The computer program is an integrated data exchanges between modules upon users input on the design information and machining parameter for automatically generate the solid model, material removal model and FEM analysis. The new method is able to reduce the analysis time from weeks to hours.
Exotic Topological Phenomena in Chiral Superconducting States on Doped Quantum Spin Hall Insulators with Honeycomb Lattices
Creators: name: Huang, Junkang
name: Zhou, Tao
name: Wang, Z. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have conducted a theoretical investigation of the topological phenomena associated with chiral superconducting pairing states induced in a doped Kane-Mele model on a honeycomb lattice. Through numerical analysis, we have obtained exotic phase diagrams for both the $d+id$ and $p+ip$ superconducting states. In the case of the $d+id$ pairing state, higher Chern number states with $\left| C \right| = \pm 4$ emerge. The Chern number decreases as the spin-orbit coupling is introduced. For the $p+ip$ pairing state, additional phase transition lines are present in the overdoped region near the Van Hove singularity point, leading to the emergence of higher Chern number phases with $\left| C \right| = \pm 6$. These higher Chern number phases are further verified through the bulk-edge correspondence. To understand the origin of the exotic topological phase diagrams in the chiral superconducting state, we have examined the electronic structure at the phase transition lines. This investigation provides insight into the complex interplay between chiral superconductivity and topological properties, potentially paving the way for the discovery of new materials with unique topological properties.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
Additional file 4 of Blockade of histamine receptor H1 augments immune checkpoint therapy by enhancing MHC-I expression in pancreatic cancer cells
Creators: name: Zhong, PingShan
name: Nakata, Kohei
name: Oyama, Koki
name: Higashijima, Nobuhiro
name: Sagara, Akiko
name: Date, Satomi
name: Luo, HaiZhen
name: Hayashi, Masataka
name: Kubo, Akihiro
name: Wu, ChenYi
name: He, Shan
name: Yamamoto, Takeo
name: Koikawa, Kazuhiro
name: Iwamoto, Chika
name: Abe, Toshiya
name: Ikenaga, Naoki
name: Ohuchida, Kenoki
name: Morisaki, Takashi
name: Oda, Yoshinao
name: Kuba, Keiji
name: Nakamura, Masafumi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 4: Supplementary Fig. S4. (A) The correlation plot shows that cholesterol biosynthesis-related genes are associated with T cell exhaustion markers by GEPIA 2.0. (B) RT-PCR for siDHCR7, siMSMO1, Az (20 µM), or combination. error bars, mean ± SD (B); *p<0.05, ***p<0.001.
sj-pdf-1-jhs-10.1177_17531934221138924 - Supplemental material for Precision and accuracy of measuring finger motion with a depth camera: a cross-sectional study of healthy participants
Creators: name: Lv, Lulu
name: Yang, Jiantao
name: Gu, Fanbin
name: Fan, Jingyuan
name: Zhu, Qingtang
name: Liu, Xiaolin
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110323 Surgery

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-jhs-10.1177_17531934221138924 for Precision and accuracy of measuring finger motion with a depth camera: a cross-sectional study of healthy participants by Lulu Lv, Jiantao Yang, Fanbin Gu, Jingyuan Fan, Qingtang Zhu and Xiaolin Liu in Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume)
Asymptotical dynamics of askew-polarized spinning top under the radiation reaction torque
Creators: name: Duviryak, Askold
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 34D05, 34D15, 70E20

description: Rotary dynamics of polarized composite particles as dipole rigid bodies is considered. It is described the Euler equations singularly perturbed by the radiation reaction torque. The Schott term is taken into account, and the reduction procedure lowering higher derivatives is applied. Asymptotic methods of nonlinear mechanics are used to analyze the rotary dynamics of askew-polarized spinning top. Numerical estimates are relevant to the hypothetical DAST-nanocrystals that might possess a huge dipole moment.
description: 16 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 5 of Blockade of histamine receptor H1 augments immune checkpoint therapy by enhancing MHC-I expression in pancreatic cancer cells
Creators: name: Zhong, PingShan
name: Nakata, Kohei
name: Oyama, Koki
name: Higashijima, Nobuhiro
name: Sagara, Akiko
name: Date, Satomi
name: Luo, HaiZhen
name: Hayashi, Masataka
name: Kubo, Akihiro
name: Wu, ChenYi
name: He, Shan
name: Yamamoto, Takeo
name: Koikawa, Kazuhiro
name: Iwamoto, Chika
name: Abe, Toshiya
name: Ikenaga, Naoki
name: Ohuchida, Kenoki
name: Morisaki, Takashi
name: Oda, Yoshinao
name: Kuba, Keiji
name: Nakamura, Masafumi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 5: Supplementary Fig. S5. (A) Representative image of CAF2 stained with BODIPY. Scale bar = 100 µm. (B) The effect of treatment on migration and invasion of CAF2. (C) α-SMA protein expression in whole lysis of mouse CAF1. (D) FCM of MHC-I expression in each group. Error bars, mean ± SD (A,B); **p<0.01, ****p<0.0001. CAF2, human cancer-associated fibroblast 2; α-SMA, α-smooth muscle actin; CAF1, cancer-associated fibroblast 1; MHC-I, major histocompatibility complex class I.
Visualization coupled with Phase Doppler Interferometry for investigation of cryogenic LOX/nitrogen and LOX/helium sprays
Creators: name: FDIDA, Nicolas
name: RISTORI, Arnaud
name: VINGERT, Lucien
name: MAURIOT, Yves
name: THERON, Marie
Publisher: name: Proceedings of the 7th European Conference for Aeronautics and Space Sciences. Milano, Italy, 3-6 july 2017
Year: 2017
Subjects: ATOMIZATION
CRYOGENIC PROPULSION
OPTICAL DIAGNOSTICS
SPRAYS
FLOW FIELD VISUALIZATION

description: There is a need of experimental data in injection conditions representative of rocket engines to validate or initiate droplet formation models used in numerical simulations. A new cryogenic vessel was built upon the Mascotte test bench to study the atomization of a single oxygen liquid jet, under non-reactive conditions, with simultaneous optical diagnostics. A Phase Doppler Interferometer is used to measure the size and velocity of droplets produced by atomization of a liquid oxygen jet by a co-flowing gas. Among the tested injection conditions, the influence of the gas density on the spray is investigated here with two atomizing gases: helium or nitrogen.
The rise of the working insecure household: understanding how labour insecurity contributes housing insecurity in Australia during a time of restructuring and growth
Creators: name: Parkinson, Sharon
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: This thesis investigates the connection between labour and housing insecurity in Australia during the period of restructuring and growth between 1992 and 2007, defined as a market-dominant regime of security. The period is characterised by a steady decline in the rate of unemployment, yet there is substantial evidence to suggest that both labour and housing markets have become more insecure for working households. The central research question posed in this thesis is: How has labour insecurity contributed to housing insecurity during a market-dominant regime of security? In reviewing trends in the labour market I argue that there has been growing insecurity in both household employment and income, resulting from the fragmentation of contract and working-time relations and from growing inequality of earnings. In the housing market I argue that there has been growth in insecurity in both tenure and access emerging from declining affordability and reduced flexibility of households to adjust to sudden changes that threaten their household income. In making connections between labour and housing insecurity I draw on theoretical concepts informed by critical realist ontology, political economy, and Bourdieu’s relational class framework to argue that labour and housing insecurity is contingently and unequally mediated through collective and cumulative household capital. Combining descriptive and statistical modelling of the Australian HILDA survey with in-depth biographical labour and housing histories I examine the contingent conditions when labour insecurity does and does not contribute to housing insecurity. Based on an analysis of these extensive and intensive data I find that housing insecurity for renters and purchasers, as well as delays in moving into home ownership, is more likely to occur amongst households with no permanent employment, reliant on self-employment, or who are unemployed. Housing insecurity amongst moderate to higher income purchasers is more likely to be associated with above-average housing costs and changes within their household than from insecurity in employment. In-depth analysis of labour and housing histories over time reveals how the strategies used to mitigate insecurity are strongly mediated by unequal amounts of collective and cumulative household capital.
Engineering complete delocalization of single particle states in a class of one dimensional aperiodic lattices: a quantum dynamical study
Creators: name: Biswas, Sougata
name: Chakrabarti, Arunava
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study quantum dynamics of a wave packet on a class of one dimensional decorated aperiodic lattices, described within a tight binding formalism. We look for the possibility of finding extended single particle states even in the absence of any translational periodicity. The chosen lattices are stubbed with one or more atoms, tunnel coupled to the backbone, thereby introducing a minimal quasi-one dimensionality. It is seen that, for a group of such lattices a certain correlation between the numerical values of the hopping amplitudes leads to a complete delocalization of single particle states. In some other cases, a special value of a magnetic flux trapped in the loops present in the geometries delocalize the states, leading to a flux driven insulator to metal transition. The mean square displacement, temporal autocorrelation function, the time dependence of the inverse participation ratio, or the information entropy - the so-called hallmarks of studying localization based on dynamics - all of them indicate such a complete turnover in the nature of the single particle states and the character of the energy spectrum under suitable conditions. The results shown in this work using quasiperiodic lattices of the Fibonacci family are much more general and hold good even for a randomly disordered arrangement of the building blocks of the systems considered, and indicate a subtle universality class under which these lattices can be grouped.
Additional file 6 of Blockade of histamine receptor H1 augments immune checkpoint therapy by enhancing MHC-I expression in pancreatic cancer cells
Creators: name: Zhong, PingShan
name: Nakata, Kohei
name: Oyama, Koki
name: Higashijima, Nobuhiro
name: Sagara, Akiko
name: Date, Satomi
name: Luo, HaiZhen
name: Hayashi, Masataka
name: Kubo, Akihiro
name: Wu, ChenYi
name: He, Shan
name: Yamamoto, Takeo
name: Koikawa, Kazuhiro
name: Iwamoto, Chika
name: Abe, Toshiya
name: Ikenaga, Naoki
name: Ohuchida, Kenoki
name: Morisaki, Takashi
name: Oda, Yoshinao
name: Kuba, Keiji
name: Nakamura, Masafumi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 6: Supplementary Fig. S6. (A) HRH1 mRNA expression in mouse pancreatic cancer cell lines (KPC-1 to KPC-7), n = 5 per group. (B) HRH1 mRNA expression in KPC-1 shNC and shHRH1 (sh1, sh2), n = 4 per group. (C) HRH1 and MHC-I protein expression in whole lysis of KPC-1 shNC and shHRH1 (sh1, sh2). (D) KPC-2 shNC and shHRH1 (sh1, sh2, sh3), n = 4 per group. (E, F) The orthotopic co-transplanted syngeneic tumors (luciferase-expressing KPC-2 shNC and shHRH1 (sh1)) for treatment of 2 weeks; (E) bioluminescent images of KPC-2 tumors; (F) tumor picture, volume, and weight. Median (F); error bars, mean ± SD (A,B,D); *p<0.05, **p<0.01. HRH1, histamine receptor H1; MHC-I, major histocompatibility complex class I; H&E, hematoxylin and eosin.
="S"LOWER("IMULATION OF NONEQUILIBRIUM HYDROCARBON GAS FLOW IN THE HIGH ASPECT RATIO CHANNELS WITH PHASE TRANSITION AND HIGH HEAT INTENSITY")
Creators: name: FEDOTOVA, Ksenya
name: AREFYEV, Konstantin
name: YANOVSKIY, Leonid
name: TOKTALIEV, Pavel
Publisher: name: Proceedings of the 7th European Conference for Aeronautics and Space Sciences. Milano, Italy, 3-6 july 2017
Year: 2017
Subjects: CFD
HEAT TRANSFER
NUMERICAL MODELING

description: An important task when developing power systems is to enable specified thermal conditions for hydrocarbon flow in the cooling channels with high aspect ratio. High temperature level of hydrocarbon composition and heat transfer intensity result in nonequilibrium flow with phase transition following by soot formation on the inner wall of the channel. The presented work is devoted to one-dimensional and two-dimensional flow simulations of heat exchange problem in the channels with external heat supply consider thermal decomposition of hydrocarbon gas. The one-dimensional mathematical model solves conservation laws equation system for flow and uses global reaction to simulate the macrokinetic processes of hydrocarbon decomposition. The two-dimensional high-level mathematical model also solves conservation laws equation system for flow, but for hydrocarbon thermal decomposition it uses reduced kinetic mechanism. The paper will present some numerical results obtained for a hydrocarbon flow in the channel under different heat loads, based on which one- and two-dimensional mathematical models were verified. The parametric research of flow conditions depending on channel shape, mass loading and heat load was held.
Dimensional and Scale Analysis Applied to the Preliminary Assessment of the Environment Criticality of Large Constellations in LEO
Creators: name: ANSELMO, Luciano
name: PARDINI, Carmen
Publisher: name: Proceedings of the 7th European Conference for Aeronautics and Space Sciences. Milano, Italy, 3-6 july 2017
Year: 2017
Subjects: SPACE DEBRIS
DEBRIS MITIGATION
MODELLING

description: Several analytical expressions, based on reasonable simplifying assumptions, were developed for the assessment of the environment criticality of large constellations and huge numbers of small satellites in low Earth orbit. They can provide preliminary quantitative answers to difficult questions, with no need of complex models and computations. Moreover, a specific figure of merit was introduced for gauging the environment criticality of new large constellations: the collision rate percentage increase. Because several systems might be operated at the same time, an alert threshold of no more than 10% per single constellation seemed a wise suggestion. Finally, several quantitative examples and the associated results were presented and discussed.
Inanimate animations: carnivalesque reflections on the folly of the human condition
Creators: name: Hosking, Robyn
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360602
subject: Fine arts

description: My research project has investigated the carnivalisation of modern political culture by making a series of satirical ceramic and mixed-media sculptures. I have focused on the problem of translating the idea of the satirical or animated cartoon into a complex three-dimensional form. Cartoon by its very nature is ephemeral and has a broad current appeal. On the other hand, the interpretation of this idea into a medium, such as ceramic, that is static, time consuming to make and has the ability to last generations, posed its own problems, which I sought to address throughout this project.

Through the process of slip casting I have created a three-dimensional cartoon strip which dissects the highs and lows of Julia Gillard’s term as our first female Prime Minister – a very significant time for Australia politically and historically. My sculptures feature caricatured images of politicians interacting with each other and with the viewer. Sporting arenas, the circus and Hollywood blockbusters have been employed as metaphors for the societal-gladiatorial rings in which MPs such as Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott competed for their survival. By placing our favourite politicians in bizarre and ridiculous scenarios that borrowed heavily from popular culture, I aimed to highlight the interaction between the carnivalisation of our cultural experiences, and the increasingly debased character of political debate.
Metallurgical characterization and performance of high speed steel tool materials used in metal cutting applications
Creators: name: Rousseau, Andre
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 519999
subject: Other physical sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The introduction of hard ceramic coatings has significantly improved the performance of high speed steel (HSS) cutting tools. However, failure mechanisms such as plastic deformation of the HSS substrate (beneath a ceramic coating) remain and motivate further research into vacuum heat treatment (VHT). This thesis describes investigations into the hardening response and carbon content of HSS before and after VHT. Poor hardening response of HSS was found to correlate with a loss of carbon in VHT. Full hardening response was achievable by removing surface oxide scale (predominantly Fe2O3 and Fe3O4) prior to VHT. Further investigation revealed an almost linear relationship between the surface oxide thickness pre-VHT and the post-VHT carbon content and hardening response. With surface oxide present, CO evolution and sample mass loss were observed during VHT of HSS above ~800 ℃. With the surface oxide removed, full hardening response was achieved and there was no measurable loss in carbon content post-VHT

To exploit the fully hardened HSS in a coated tool, plasma nitriding followed by steered cathodic arc evaporation TiAlN ceramic coating process was performed (with no break in vacuum) in an industrial scale deposition chamber. Bright plasma nitriding at ~480 ℃ resulted in a fracture tough diffusion zone with no evidence of a compound layer or grain boundary precipitation. M2 HSS coupons and M2 ¼-inch jobber drills were similarly tested microstructurally and mechanically in untreated, plasma-nitrided, coated-only and duplex. The ¼-inch jobber drills were subjected to accelerated drill testing into D2 tool steel which revealed a significant increase in cutting performance of the duplex treatment compared with un-treated tools. Electron microscopy of the sectioned tools indicated that this improved performance was due to increased toughness of the cutting edge coupled with an increase in adhesion at the substrate-TiAlN coating interface.
Test of flow deflector demonstrators in LOX/Methane combustion gases
Creators: name: BOUE, Yoan
name: DUTHEIL, Jean-Philippe
name: PICHON, Thierry
Publisher: name: Proceedings of the 7th European Conference for Aeronautics and Space Sciences. Milano, Italy, 3-6 july 2017
Year: 2017
Subjects: LIQUID ROCKET ENGINES
MATERIALS

description: Ariane Group has been investigating the use of flow deflection using mobile deflectors inside the exhaust plume of a liquid rocket engine. This technology offers layout flexibility when compared to fully gimballed engines and potential gain in cost at vehicle level. It can in particular benefit small low cost expendable launchers or vehicles with rocket engines confined inside a narrow fuselage-like structure such as spaceplanes or reusable fly-back booster. It can also be a competitor to classical actuators for upper stage thrust vectoring. However, the capability of the deflector material to sustain rocket engine exhaust gas temperature and the efficiency of such a thrust vectoring system remain limitations to be investigated. By using in-house operational thermo-structural material, usually applied to aircraft engines hot gas section or LOX/LH2 liquid rocket engine nozzle extensions, Ariane Group manufactured simple deflector proof-of-concept models. These demonstrators were tested during a thrust chamber test campaign, planned in the frame of Ariane Group LOX/Methane RT program. The test consisted in positioning the flap demonstrator inside the thrust chamber exhaust plume. The objectives of this test were to characterize the thermostructural material in LOX/Methane combustion gases as well as to measure aerodynamic loads on the flap itself. This paper will focus on the preliminary results obtained through those demonstrator tests.
title: Doula - Geburtsbegleiterin
Creators: name: Freudenthaler, Doris Maria
Year: 2010

description: In meiner Diplomarbeit untersuche ich – einerseits begriffsgeschichtlich, andererseits breit empirisch angelegt – die Arbeit wie das Berufsbild der „Doula“ mit Fokus auf zu begleitende MigrantInnen. Dabei gehe ich von einem spezifischen „Geburtssystem“ in Österreich aus und stelle einen Vergleich über entsprechende Verhältnisse im deutschsprachigen Raum an, um den beruflichen und sozialen Stellenwert der Doulas exemplifizieren zu können. Eine „Doula“ begleitet Frauen bei der Geburt, sie ersetzt weder Hebamme noch medizinisches Personal, sie übernimmt keine fachmedizinische Betreuung. Sie erkennt und versteht die emotionalen Bedürfnisse einer Frau während der Geburt, deshalb ist sie in der Lage, der Gebärenden eine einfühlsame, kontinuierliche und individuelle Unterstützung zu geben. Anhand einer qualitativen Studie mit Müttern, Vätern, Hebammen und Doulas kann festgestellt werden, dass eine Doula im Beisein einer Gebärenden wertvolle Unterstützung leisten kann. Dieses Berufsbild in die Praxis umzusetzen ist nicht zuletzt das Vorhaben des von mir mitinitiierten Vereins MAIA, über welchen in vorliegender Arbeit abschließend kurz reflektiert wird.
description: In my thesis I examine the ‘doula’ profession, both conceptually and in practice. Doula-work in the city of Vienna is examined in relation to the rest of German-speaking Europe (Switzerland, Germany and the rest of Austria), thus exemplifying both the professional and the social status of the ‘doula’ within these areas. The word ‘doula’ comes from ancient Greek, and refers to a woman who personally serves a mother. A doula is an experienced, non-medical assistant who provides physical, emotional and informed choice support in prenatal care, during childbirth and during the postpartum period. A birth doula is a continuous care provider during labor in many settings, including transport from home to hospital or birth center. A postpartum doula may begin care in the home the day after delivery, and provides services throughout the first six weeks postpartum. The social conditions of doula work are analyzed in reference to traditional and technological birth systems. Taking a culture-specific approach, I have collected narrative interviews with mothers, fathers, midwifes and doulas, according to an anthropological approach to qualitative research. The MAIA Project, which I helped to initiate, was intended in part to help establish the doula profession in Vienna.
sj-pdf-1-pal-10.1177_08258597221138674 - Supplemental material for Clinical Practice Guidelines on Palliative Sedation Around the World: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Tomczyk, Martyna
name: Jaques, Cécile
name: Jox, Ralf J.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-pal-10.1177_08258597221138674 for Clinical Practice Guidelines on Palliative Sedation Around the World: A Systematic Review by Martyna Tomczyk, Cécile Jaques and Ralf J. Jox in Journal of Palliative Care
Von der Macht der Worte und der Gewalttätigkeit des Dichters
Creators: name: Herrmann, Britta
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2018

description:

This article argues that literature in the 18th century evolved as an instrument to dynamize the relationship between reality and fiction: it creates what in the 20th/21st century is called virtuality, although this has always been associated with digital or other imaging methods. The contribution traces contemporary arguments underlining that language is superior to images in generating the virtual. It further shows how, in the age of Sensibility, mediatic and medical concerns were  connected to the new aesthetics of illusion building, and how classical and romantic texts programmatically faced these concerns. They used, each in a different way, the transcendent power of words, in order to shape both the psyche and the body of their readers. The discovery and mastery of the virtual, therefore, was not only the central component for the contemporary educational project, but also served the idea of a health policy.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
sj-pdf-14-pal-10.1177_08258597221138674 - Supplemental material for Clinical Practice Guidelines on Palliative Sedation Around the World: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Tomczyk, Martyna
name: Jaques, Cécile
name: Jox, Ralf J.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-14-pal-10.1177_08258597221138674 for Clinical Practice Guidelines on Palliative Sedation Around the World: A Systematic Review by Martyna Tomczyk, Cécile Jaques and Ralf J. Jox in Journal of Palliative Care
Additional file 7 of Blockade of histamine receptor H1 augments immune checkpoint therapy by enhancing MHC-I expression in pancreatic cancer cells
Creators: name: Zhong, PingShan
name: Nakata, Kohei
name: Oyama, Koki
name: Higashijima, Nobuhiro
name: Sagara, Akiko
name: Date, Satomi
name: Luo, HaiZhen
name: Hayashi, Masataka
name: Kubo, Akihiro
name: Wu, ChenYi
name: He, Shan
name: Yamamoto, Takeo
name: Koikawa, Kazuhiro
name: Iwamoto, Chika
name: Abe, Toshiya
name: Ikenaga, Naoki
name: Ohuchida, Kenoki
name: Morisaki, Takashi
name: Oda, Yoshinao
name: Kuba, Keiji
name: Nakamura, Masafumi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 7: Supplementary Table S1. Primers used for RT-PCR.
De la littérature dite sabir
Creators: name: Costantini, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2018

description:

From the end of the 19th century, the French colonisation of Maghreb saw the birth of a cultural production deeply rooted in its historical-geographical context, characterised by a style and sometimes by contents that are essentially comic. These texts, which are often literary in nature, mostly illustrate the colonial world. They are written in Pataouète, the common language, the Patois of the Algerian French or, at least, they bear some resemblance to it. The remaining texts, which are the particular subject of this article, instead, consist of so-called ‘Sabir literature’, taking the form of texts describing the colonial Other, which is mainly Arabic. This ‘Sabir literature’ gives voice to the colonial Other in an idiom that is very different from French but that derives from it, also in its local form, although in what is, in essence, imprecise, sounding like caricature – the Sabir, being a French badly understood and badly spoken language by less-educated Arabic-speakers in their relationships with the French-speakers. This paper aims to give an account, as complete as possible, of these texts and of their essential features, while providing a general overview of the so-called literature in Sabir, which is a typical part of the Pieds-Noirs culture.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
sj-docx-1-tva-10.1177_15248380221134290 – Supplemental material for Different Instruments, Same Content? A Systematic Comparison of Child Maltreatment and Harsh Parenting Instruments
Creators: name: Backhaus, Sophia
name: Leijten, Patty
name: Meinck, Franziska
name: Gardner, Frances
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-tva-10.1177_15248380221134290 for Different Instruments, Same Content? A Systematic Comparison of Child Maltreatment and Harsh Parenting Instruments by Sophia Backhaus, Patty Leijten, Franziska Meinck and Frances Gardner in Trauma, Violence, & Abuse
As ‘vidas’ de Jorge de Lima
Creators: name: D'Avila De Oliveira, Leonardo
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2018

description:

The Brazilian poet Jorge Lima, better known for his relation with surrealist aesthetics and popular culture, wrote several lives of saints that depart from the Brazilian modernist context. Although Catholicism is sometimes manifest in his poetic works, these ‘lives’ constitute a point of antagonism for their informative prose and for their selective restrictions on images. By their supposed imitation of divinity and their abandonment of the self, the texts Anchieta, Dom Vital and A vida extraordinária de Santo Antônioare related both to the Spanish mysticism of San Juan de la Cruz, and to the Christian rhetoric of the sermo humilis as deployed by Jesuit colonial authors. The article aims to investigate some parallels between previous hagiographies and Lima’s texts as well as to demonstrate how these modernist ‘lives’ inevitably fail in their attempt to manifest their humble vocabulary and imagery, performing a paradoxical auto-hagiography.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
title: Wachstum durch Mergers & Acquisitions
Creators: name: Fischer, Lisa
Year: 2010

description: Den Ursprung findet der Begriff M&A im angloamerikanischen Raum gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. In der Wissenschaft und in der Praxis werden unterschiedliche Termini gleichbedeutend verwendet wie z.B. Akquisition, Zusammenschluss, Fusion oder strategische Allianz. Die am häufigsten verwendete Definition in der Literatur ist die Unternehmens- oder Betriebsübernahme gegen Entgelt, wobei eine weite Spaltung in der Verwendung des Begriffs hinsichtlich der rechtlichen Selbständigkeit herrscht. Gründe für M&A sind unter Anderem das externe Wachstum in der Unternehmensentwicklung und die die Reallokation der Marktressourcen bedingt durch den Unternehmenszusammenschluss. Um eine erfolgreiche Fusion durchführen zu können, müssen mehrere Kriterien erfüllt werden. Hierbei spielt die Markteintrittsstrategie eine tragende Rolle. Dabei handelt es sich um die gleichzeitige und abgestimmte Entscheidung bezüglich der Markteintrittsform und Markteintrittszeitpunkt. Um in dem Prozess weiter zu kommen muss eine jede Transaktion die drei Phasen, in beliebiger Reihenfolge durchlaufen, wobei das Hauptaugenmerk auf die letzte, die Post-Merger Phase gelegt wird. Diese befasst sich mit dem Integrationsmanagement, den Integrationsmaßnahmen sowie der Erfolgskontrolle, bzw. umfasst diese Phase alle Aktionen im Anschluss an die Transaktion. Dabei hat die PMI zum Ziel, aus 2 unterschiedlichen Einheiten eine gemeinsame zu schaffen. Das Integrationsmodell von Larsson und Finkelstein beruht auf der Wechselbeziehung von strategischen, organisationellen und personalwirtschaftlichen Faktoren und versucht Ansätze in diesen Bereichen zu kombinieren. Sofern man die genauen Abläufe befolgt und umsetzten kann, sollte einer erfolgreichen Fusion nichts mehr im Wege stehen und daher wird die Zahl der M&A Transaktionen im kommenden Jahr mit Sicherheit wieder ansteigen.
Digital material practice: the agency of making
Creators: name: Loh, Paul
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330102
subject: Architectural design

description: Advanced digital fabrication has coupled virtual design modelling and material prototyping in new ways. This has permeated the discourse of architectural teaching, research and practice. A complicated relationship between the production of architecture and digital technology emerges especially when examined through the medium of making. Making is typically seen as an activity that is a means to an end: to achieve a built outcome. I have researched whether the activity of making can be a generative design process in its own right; a knowledge-generating activity.

In this dissertation, I reconsider the relationship between contemporary tectonic culture and digital fabrication in what I call a `digital material practice'. This is a model of practice that employs the act of making and digital fabrication as drivers for its generative design process. The fabrication workflow, prototypes and tools emerge as critical agents. These agents have an agentive capacity to deliver what I call affordances for design. Affordances produce emergent aesthetic values that contribute to the formulation and negotiate architectural design intentions through a continuous feedback process. These values are uncovered during and after the act of making.

Through reflective practice and autoethnography research methodology, the research is investigated through my design practice: LLDS. The practice embraces design and fabrication through deploying design strategies rooted in the making process, namely procedural logic, iterative prototyping and material interfaces. Interviews with contemporary craft practitioners allowed me to understand the role of tools and their associated agency for design. When applied to architectural practice, such agency challenges the traditional hierarchy of design intention to the outcome, with the potential to create novel aesthetics. This has a profound impact on my understanding of the making activity in design practice and architectural education.

My contribution to knowledge in this dissertation lies in extending the practice of continuous designing in architecture through the agency of making. I have investigated this through theory and through practice to demonstrate how affordances for design engendered through making enable the architect to formulate, negotiate and alter design intentions also through making. The implication of digital material practice demands a new engagement with the way we work with prototypes. The method produces new intricacy in architectural detailing and aesthetics.
Integrated SVD/EKF for Nano-satellite Attitude Determination In The Case Of Magnetometer Faults
Creators: name: CILDEN GULER, Demet
name: HAJIYEV, Chingiz
Publisher: name: Proceedings of the 7th European Conference for Aeronautics and Space Sciences. Milano, Italy, 3-6 july 2017
Year: 2017
Subjects: STATE ESTIMATION
GNC

description: In this study, non-traditional approaches for the nanosatellite attitude and rate estimation are examined for the case of magnetometer faults. For this purpose, two different scenarios for two different approaches are investigated. It is expected that the integrated SVD/EKF is robust against the measurement faults naturally if the measurement noise covariance of the filter used directly from the SVD method. Another attitude and rate estimation algorithm called Robust EKF (REKF) which is also an integrated algorithm but the noise covariance of the filter is adapted by using the multiple measurement noise scale factor (MMNSF). In the first scenario, constant bias is considered additionally to the original magnetometer modeling. Secondly, measurement noise increment as magnetometer fault is added to the system.
sj-pdf-1-cde-10.1177_21651434221136132 – Supplemental material for Systematic Review of College and Career Readiness Interventions for Students With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
Creators: name: Kern, Lee
name: Kelly, Samantha
name: Rosati, Sarah A.
name: Shera, Samantha
name: Fluharty, Matthew
name: Gabrilowitz, Rachel
name: Carter, Devon
name: Liang, Christopher T. H.
name: Freeman, Jennifer
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 130312 Special Education and Disability
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-cde-10.1177_21651434221136132 for Systematic Review of College and Career Readiness Interventions for Students With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders by Lee Kern, Samantha Kelly, Sarah A. Rosati, Samantha Shera, Matthew Fluharty, Rachel Gabrilowitz, Devon Carter, Christopher T. H. Liang and Jennifer Freeman in Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals
Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Ducted Fans Interference for Multirotor Copter-type Aerial Vehicle
Creators: name: ARKHIPOV, Maksim
name: SEROKHVOSTOV, Sergey
name: STREMOUSOV, Kirill
Publisher: name: Proceedings of the 7th European Conference for Aeronautics and Space Sciences. Milano, Italy, 3-6 july 2017
Year: 2017
Subjects: UAV
AERODYNAMICS
NUMERICAL SIMULATION

description: The interference of 17 inch ducted fans with a height of 10% of propeller?s diameter was studied in hovering regime for the case as it was installed on a quad-rotor copter-type UAV/RPAS. Numerical simulations were provided by solving RANS equations with SST turbulence model using actuator disc with radial distribution of pressure difference according to numerical and experimental investigation of 17? propeller in hovering regime. The straight modeling of the ducted fan with propeller rotation was conducted to obtain higher quality resulting flowfield around the ducted fan. During the 3D numerical simulation of the interference of four ducted fans the improvements of duct geometry were provided in the term of the power consumption with a constant thrust. The wind stability of the quad-rotor copter with four ducted fans was studied by modeling the side wind of different velocities.