cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Recueil de quelques arrests remarquables du parlement de Rouen
Creators: name: Brumoy, Pierre
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2019

description: Source: Archives départementales de Seine-Maritime, F0379
description: Relation: vignette : https://www.nakala.fr/data/11280/32a0cff4
description: created: n.r.
The mitochondrial genomes of Macrotermes termites endemic to Ethiopia
Creators: name: Williams, P. Conrad
name: Ahmed, Ahmed
name: Franks, Bianka
name: Debelo, Daniel
name: Ibrahim, Kamal M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: The study of the fungus-growing termites genus Macrotermes in Africa remains notably limited, with the genus harboring hidden diversity that has eluded conventional taxonomy. Characterization of the mitochondrial genomes of these termite species represents an important biodiversity resource that could assist in resolving taxonomic ambiguities. The mitochondrial genomes of the two samples we sequenced, nominally Macrotermes subhyalinus (SE7) and Macrotermes herus (WE3), are 16,374 and 16,372 bp long respectively. We report congruent gene order for the two samples. Phylogenetic analysis using all protein coding genes in the mitochondrial genome recovered our WE3 mitochondrial genome as sister to a West African M. subhyalinus (JX144937) while our M. subhyalinus (SE7) mitochondrial genome is sister to M. falciger (KY224460). Our findings largely corroborate previous phylogenetic work on African Macrotermes and highlight the need for taxonomic scrutiny and increased taxonomic sampling of mitochondrial genomes within the clade.
Is interdisciplinary research a mashup?
Creators: name: Öberg, Gunilla
name: Fortmann, Louise
name: Gray, Tim
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: In a “mashup”, a DJ plays songs over each other creating combinations that constitute a new piece of music. At first blush this is an appealing metaphor for interdisciplinarity . The major strength of the metaphor is that it brings to fore the image of the new as created out of the already existing. The new music emerges from existing music, just like the creation of interdisciplinary research emerges from the disciplines. The term "mashup" seems to be most widely used to indicate a transformative use. When a DJ fades one song out and fades the next song in, no one would say that's a mashup - it's just two songs next to each other. It is only when the two songs interact in some way that we start getting into mashup territory. The question of transformation suggests the metaphor of mashup works well in helping us to understand interdisciplinarity because the key factor is the transformative recontextualization: to say that something is a mashup is to say that it involves some creative undertaking which brings two or more familiar or pre-existing things together in a way that is surprising or not usually anticipated, and makes a point about the union of the two exceeding the sum of its parts. This paper is inspired by the discussions during the 6th International Conference on Environmental Futures (ICEF 6) held in Newcastle upon Tyne in July 2011. When relevant, we quote speakers at the conference. The paper proceeds in four parts. In the first we explore the transformative capacity of interdisciplinary practice. In the second, we demonstrate that there is no capital I interdisciplinarity, but rather multiple interdisciplinarities. In the third, we investigate specific cases of interdisciplinary practice reported at ICEF 6 and how they result in transformation and the creation of interdisciplinarities. In the fourth, we explore institutional changes in various parts of the academy that would be necessary if interdisciplinarity is to flourish.
"Essen wie die Tiger". Aneignung und Ausgrenzung einer Regionalküche in Thailand
Creators: name: Trenk, Marin
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Isaan, Thailand’s northeastern region, has traditionally been marginalized and its Lao-speaking population still faces discrimination. But its regional culinary traditions have recently captivated all classes of Bangkok’s food-conscious population. This article attempts to map the complexities of the nation’s acceptance and the spread of Isaan’s regional cuisine. Over the past 20 years a few Isaan dishes have been appropriated and adopted to Thai tastes. This culinary “Thai-ization” has “de-ethnicized” and “de-regionalized” some local foods. These co-opted dishes are already considered to be part of the emergent national cuisine of Thailand. While some dishes have been accepted, others are still discriminated against, especially plaaraa, a non-pasteurized fish sauce, and the Carpaccio version of Isaan’s iconic dish laap, a raw spicy minced meat or fish salad. Traditionally these types of dishes were rejected on cultural grounds but today national campaigns against certain Isaan foods are debated in terms of “health concerns”, while serving the goals of national political integration. The people of Isaan react by developing a culture of resistance, turning some raw dishes into markers of regional identity. These local strategies are supported by global culinary trends (Sushi!) making Isaan food irresistible even in Bangkok’s haute cuisine.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 41 Nr. 3-4 (2010): Internationales Asienforum
title: 02_1397
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Advanced mathematical model for quantifying carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions using Eddy Covariance systems
Creators: name: López Guirao, Francisco
name: Ferreira de Almeida, Vanessa
name: González Brincau, Alejandro
name: Ruiz Valero, Pablo
name: Servián Rivas, Luis David
name: Sánchez García, Carlos
name: Tripiana Serrano, Maria
name: Del Real, Alejandro
name: Kasak, Kuno
name: Pindus, Mihkel
name: Kadir, Yildiz
name: Okiti, Isaac
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: There is increased interest in the carbon sequestration capabilities of restored wetlands, marshes, and peatlands. Accurate evaluation of these ecosystems' greenhouse gases (GHG) mitigation potential necessitates precise measurement of CO2 emissions, particularly when these areas are impacted by human activity. This poster highlights the development and application of the Peatland Ecosystem Photosynthesis, Respiration, and Methane Transport model (PEPRMT), created as part of the REWET Horizon Europe project, to predict CO2 exchanges in wetland ecosystems. The study highlights the importance of the model's detailed structure and validation using empirical data obtained via Eddy Covariance, showcasing its predictive strength through a correlation with actual emissions data from an Estonian case study, thereby affirming the model's significance in assessing the GHG mitigation potential of wetland restoration projects.
Structure-function studies on drug-reactivating β-glucuronidase from mucin-degrading gut symbiont Akkermansia muciniphila
Creators: name: Tarushi
name: Gupta, Gagan Deep
name: Kumar, Mukesh
name: Bihani, Subhash C.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Gut microbial β-glucuronidases (mGUS) not only regulate several hormones and neurotransmitters, they also impact the efficacy and toxicity of xenobiotics. On certain anticancer drugs, e.g. irinotecan (SN-38), mGUS activity leads to enterohepatic recirculation resulting into severe diarrhea. Here, we report the expression, purification and characterization of AmGUS, a novel β-glucuronidase from Akkermansia muciniphila. A. muciniphila is a prominent gut symbiont with beneficial effects on metabolic health and gut homeostasis. AmGUS demonstrates specificity towards glucuronide substrates with no glucosidase or galactosidase activity. Interestingly, it also shows efficient cleavage of the glucuronidated form of the anti-cancer drug, SN38, potentially leading to its enterohepatic recirculation. Furthermore, we find that AmGUS functions as a monomer, contrary to other GUS enzymes that exist as oligomers. mGUS are classified into distinct loop-types based on different active site loops around a conserved core providing substrate specificity. Computational modeling of AmGUS structure reveals that it belongs to the mL2 loop-type GUS enzymes, despite sharing significant sequence/structural similarity with the mL1 loop-type and NL-type GUSs. Interestingly, AmGUS also has a unique N-terminal loop previously not observed in any other GUS enzyme possibly aiding in the processing of drug-glucuronides. Together, these findings suggest that GUS from A. muciniphila belongs to a new class of GUS enzymes with unique active site loop structures. The presence of this unique GUS enzyme may help A. muciniphila in colonizing the human gut. Overall, this study broadens our knowledge of the structural and functional understanding of GUSome in the human gut microbiome.
Regionale Kooperationsstrukturen am Mekong. Die institutionalisierte Regelung von Konflikten um natürliche Ressourcen
Creators: name: Menniken, Timo
name: Schmeier, Susanne
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: The rapid economic growth and development which characterizes the mainland Southeast Asian countries in the Mekong River Basin, is based largely on the exploitation of natural resources, with the Mekong River and its natural resources playing the most important role. However, the increasing exploitation of these natural resources and the growing pressure on these due to population growth and other developments in the river basin are likely to lead to problems among the different resource users. This will pose particular problems due to the transboundary nature of the river - with actions of one riparian stte necessarily affecting other states. Hydropower development and climate change are most liable to cause conflicts of interests. This paper focuses on the Mekong River Commission (MRC) as an institutionalized body for river basin management and analyzes its contribution to the resolution of the aforementioned problems and to the mitigation of water resources-related conflicts.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 41 Nr. 3-4 (2010): Internationales Asienforum
The effect of slag basicity on spinel inclusion wettability
Creators: name: Abdeyazdan, Hamed
name: Monaghan, Brian J.
name: Dogan, Neslihan
name: Rhamdhani, Akbar
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Steel cleanness is an important and growing research area driven by the demands to produce high quality steel. Inclusion content in steel is an important criterion to assess clean steel. MgO.Al2O3 spinel inclusions cause problems in steel processing and are generally deleterious to steel products due to their high melting point and high hardness.
Die Völkerrechtstheorie und das regionale, buddhistische Gewohnheitsrechts Südostasiens. Der Fall des Tempels von Preah Vihear
Creators: name: Buss, Andreas
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: The issue of the Preah Vihear case (1962) in international law has long been debated and event today creates tensions between Thailand and Cambodia. This article analyses Siam's position within the international law structure in the early twentieth century, when the issue arose; it also reminds the reader of a tradition in international law theory which does not consider international law and municipal law as essentially different, and on this basis it then suggests that there is a regional (Buddhist) customary law and regional principles in Thailand and the surrounding regions of Southeast Asia that could profitably have been considered by the International Court of Justice.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 41 Nr. 3-4 (2010): Internationales Asienforum
Cold shock Y-box protein-1 proteolysis autoregulates its transcriptional activities
Creators: name: Van Roeyen, Claudia R
name: Scurt, Florian G
name: Brandt, Sabine
name: Kuhl, Vanessa A
name: Martinkus, Sandra
name: Djudjaj, Sonja
name: Raffetseder, Ute
name: Royer, Hans-Dieter
name: Stefanidis, Ioannis
name: Dunn, Sandra E
name: Dooley, Steven
name: Weng, Honglei
name: Fischer, Thomas
name: Lindquist, Jonathan A
name: Mertens, Peter R
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: The Y-box protein-1 (YB-1) fulfills pleiotropic functions relating to gene transcription, mRNA processing, and translation. It remains elusive how YB-1 shuttling into the nuclear and cytoplasmic compartments is regulated and whether limited proteolysis by the 20S proteasome releases fragments with distinct function(s) and subcellular distribution(s). Results: To address these questions, mapping of domains responsible for subcellular targeting was performed. Three nuclear localization signals (NLS) were identified. NLS-1 (aa 149-156) and NLS-2 (aa 185-194) correspond to residues with unknown function(s), whereas NLS-3 (aa 276-292) matches with a designated multimerization domain. Nuclear export signal(s) were not identified. Endoproteolytic processing by the 20S proteasome before glycine 220 releases a carboxy-terminal fragment (CTF), which localized to the nucleus, indicating that NLS-3 is operative. Genotoxic stress induced proteolytic cleavage and nuclear translocation of the CTF. Co-expression of the CTF and full-length YB-1 resulted in an abrogated transcriptional activation of the MMP-2 promoter, indicating an autoregulatory inhibitory loop, whereas it fulfilled similar trans-repressive effects on the collagen type I promoter. Conclusion: Compartmentalization of YB-1 protein derivatives is controlled by distinct NLS, one of which targets a proteolytic cleavage product to the nucleus. We propose a model for an autoregulatory negative feedback loop that halts unlimited transcriptional activation.
Institutioneller Autismus: Die ASEAN und der thailändisch-kambodschanische Grenzkonflikt
Creators: name: Wagener, Martin
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Southeast Asia ushered in a new era with the adoption of the ASEAN Charter in 2007 which entered into force a year later. At a time when ASEAN is transforming itself into a legal entity, unprecedented skirmishes broke out between two of its members on the border of Thailand and Cambodia. The background of this confrontation is an old dispute linked to the ancient Preah Vihear temple. The International Court of Justice ruled in 1962 that the ruins belong to Cambodia but made no decision concerning the adjacent land. To this day, Bangkok and Phnom Penh are making competing claims over this 4.6 km2 piece of land close to the border. The situation escalated when the Preah Vihear temple was designated a World Heritage Site in July 2008, following Cambodia's application to UNESCO. The upshot: several gun fights between October 2008 and June 2010 with at least eight soldiers killed. The contrast could not have been greater; officially proclaimed intstitutional change and the use of military force by two member states. The conflict says a lot about Cambodian and Thai foreign policy. But above all it allows conclusions to be drawn about the process of regional integration in Southeast Asia. There can be no doubt that the gap between rhetoric and reality is widening. From a medical viewpoint, the patient, in this case ASEAN, can be described as suffering from "institutional autism".
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 41 Nr. 3-4 (2010): Internationales Asienforum
Open Access in Museen. Vorteile der Offenheit und wie Museen mehr Offenheit wagen können
Creators: name: Stiller, Juliane
name: Trkulja, Violeta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Open Access
Open Culture
Museum

description: Vortrag auf dem Treffen der AG Brandenburgische Museen digital zum Thema "Open Access". In dem Vortrag erläutern wir was Open Access ist und warum es auch für Museen eine große Rolle spielt. Wir gehen auf die Vorteile von mehr Offenheit ein und zeigen, wie Museen von der Auseinandersetzung mit Open Access profitieren können. Außerdem präsentieren wir erste Ergebnisse einer Interviewreihe mit Berliner Museumseinrichtungen über Open Access. Dabei geht es um das Verständnis von Open Access in Museen, welche Maßnahmen für offene Kulturdaten bereits umgesetzt werden und welche Hindernisse offenen Kulturdaten noch im Wege stehen.
Bioinformatics analyses of lignin peroxidases from the smoky bracket fungi Bjerkandera adusta for endocrine disrupting chemical bioremediation
Creators: name: Bakli, Mahfoud
name: Bouacem, Khelifa
name: Paşcalău, Raul
name: Șmuleac, Laura
name: Jaouadi, Bassem
name: Al-Madhagi, Haitham
name: Nassar, Husam
name: Alessa, Abdulrahman H.
name: Alsaigh, Ahmed A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: Lignin peroxidases (LiP; EC 1.11.1.14) are important oxidative enzymes involved in lignin biodegradation, a key constituent of plant cell walls. Despite their environmental and industrial potential, fungal LiPs are difficult to express and purify. Bjerkandera adusta is a white-rot fungus that secretes LiPs, the three-dimensional structure of which remains unknown. In this study, two LiPs from B. adusta were subjected to various bioinformatics tools to determine their physio-chemical, structural, and functional properties. Their 3D structure was modeled and molecular dynamic simulations were performed to assess their binding to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). Moreover, molecular docking analysis revealed that among the model lignin compounds, the dimer guaiacyl 4-O-5 guaiacyl exhibited the lowest binding energy with the EDC ligands, estrone (E1) and bisphenol A showing the strongest binding affinity for LiP 588479560 and LiP 444058, respectively. Molecular dynamics simulations further confirmed the stability of these complexes, with bisphenol A exhibiting particularly high stability as indicated by its low RMSD (≤2 Å) and favorable RoG values, reflecting a strong fit within the enzyme’s active site. Additionally, the binding free energy calculations showed the substrate dimer had the most favorable binding energy, driven primarily by Van der Waals and lipophilic interactions, suggesting its intrinsic compatibility with B. adusta LiPs. This in silico characterization advances the understanding of LiP structure-function relationships and bioremediation potential. B. adusta LiPs demonstrate promising capacity to target persistent EDCs, offering solutions for environmental pollution mitigation.
Automated inequality analysis of evolving software systems
Creators: name: Goloshchapova, Olga
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Software measurement is a promising technique for evaluating the efficiency of a software development process and the quality of a software development product. The key component of software measurement is an application of software metrics (static code metrics) to retrieve information regarding specific characteristics of a development process and a product in order to understand their nature. This approach is especially beneficial when studying evolutionary changes in a software system, which allows for making predictions about its future states. However, software metric data alone is often non-descriptive. It needs to be summarised to be interpreted. A common solution for this problem is the usage of standard summary statistics, such as mean or standard deviation. But, a software system is an outcome of a logical rather than a random process. Hence, software metrics data does not follow normal (Gaussian) distribution, which implies that central tendency statistics are unable to capture such information effectively. In this thesis, socio-economic inequality indexes are offered as a viable alternative to existent aggregation techniques when being used to understand the nature of software. In particular, inequality indexes, like the Gini coefficient and the Theil index, have the advantage of showing how metrics distributions change as a software system evolves. Both inequality indexes are, initially, applied in a controlled environment governed by a well-understood distribution principle to understand the rules with which they capture inequality. Then, these indexes are employed to evaluate evolving software systems in order to determine their usefulness as a metrics aggregation technique. As a result, this work shows that two indexes capture inequality in a software system with separate level of granularity: the Gini coefficient offers a macro-level (architectural) analysis, whereas the Theil index is more sensitive to structural (micro-level) changes in a software system. Hence, when used in combination, the Theil index and the Gini coefficient offer a greater amount of information about system's evolution than when employed separately.
Effects of fluxing conditions on copper smelting slag cleaning
Creators: name: Ma, Xiaodong
name: Cui, Zhixiang
name: Zhao, Baojun
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In the copper smelting process, more than two tons of slag is produced with each ton of copper. Copper losses in smelting slags are made up of chemically soluble copper (≈ 30%) and as mechanically entrained matter droplets (≈ 70%). This is the key technical concern for copper industries, because those copper losses in the slag are strongly influencing the economy of the copper extraction process. For a typical copper smelter, a decrease of 0.1 wt% Cu in the slag over a year of operation can save an annual value of over several million dollars. Therefore, it is of great importance to recover copper from copper smelting slag.
Sr-Nd-Hf-Pb isotope and trace element evidence for the origin of alkalic basalts in the Garibaldi Belt, northern Cascade Arc
Creators: name: Mullen, Emily K.
name: Weis, Dominique
Publisher: name: American Geophysical Union
Year: 2014

description: In the Garibaldi Belt, the northern segment of the Cascade arc, basalts at Bridge River Cones, Salal Glacier, and Mt. Meager (BSM volcanic centers) are alkalic, atypical for an arc setting. Subduction signatures are negligible or absent from primitive alkalic basalts from Salal Glacier and Bridge River, while altered oceanic crust may have contributed a minimal amount of fluid at Mt. Meager. More evolved BSM basalts display trace element signatures considered typical of arc lavas, but this is a consequence of deep crustal assimilation rather than primary input from the subducted slab. Primary BSM basalts represent 3–8% melts that segregated from enriched garnet lherzolite at significantly higher temperatures and pressures (70–105 km) than calc-alkaline Cascade arc basalts. The BSM mantle source is significantly more incompatible element-enriched than the depleted mantle tapped by calc-alkaline Cascade arc basalts. The BSM basalts are also isotopically distinct from calc-alkaline Cascade arc basalts, more similar to MORB and intraplate basalts of the NE Pacific and NW North America. The relatively deep, hot, and geochemically distinct mantle source for BSM basalts is consistent with upwelling asthenosphere. The BSM volcanic centers are close to the projected trace of the Nootka fault, which forms the boundary between the subducting Juan de Fuca plate and the near-stagnant Explorer plate. A gap or attenuated zone between the plates may promote upwelling of enriched asthenosphere that undergoes low-degree decompression melting to generate alkalic basalts that are essentially free of slab input yet occur in an arc setting. An edited version of this paper was published by AGU. Copyright 2013 American Geophysical Union.
Factors affecting outcomes in test match cricket
Creators: name: Allsopp, Paul
name: Clarke, Stephen
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Least squares regression is used to model the first innings performances of teams in test cricket in order to establish batting and bowling ratings, a common home advan- tage and a country effect. Logistic regression techniques are then used to model match outcomes based on a team’s first innings lead, innings duration, home advantage, bat- ting and bowling ratings and the country effect. It is shown that the factors that impact most significantly on the outcome of a match are a team’s first innings lead home team performance and innings duration. A team’s first innings lead is found to more likely shape a win rather than a draw or a loss whereas the longer the duration of the first innings the more likely a match will end in a draw. It is shown that the home team, on average, needs to establish a lead in excess of 93 runs to have a better than even chance of winning, whereas the away team needs to establish a lead in excess of 115 runs to have the same chance. There is a better than an even chance of a draw for a first innings duration in excess of 1165 minutes (or approximately 277 overs). It is also shown that the home team is more likely to win a match rather than lose or draw, which suggests that the home team has a distinct winning advantage over the away team. There is some evidence suggesting that teams gained an advantage by batting last.
Technology and trust: public perceptions of technological change in Australia
Creators: name: Gilding, Michael
name: Critchley, Christine
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This article examines how comfortable Australians are in relation to the rate of technological change; how comfortable they are about different technologies; and how much they trust different institutions, organisations and groups in relation to information about technological change. It finds that Australians are mostly comfortable about the rate of technological change. There is no evidence of a ‘deep chasm between science and public awareness’, as suggested by some observers in relation to western societies. In particular, Australians trust CSIRO, universities, hospitals and scientists for information about new technologies. Apart from age, trust in these groups is the best predictor for feeling comfortable about new technologies. By the same token, there is some evidence of ambivalence, uncertainty, division and possible volatility in relation to public perceptions of technological change. In particular, most Australians are uncomfortable in relation to genetic engineering technologies; some Australians (especially those who are older, and those who have a religious affiliation) are less comfortable with new technologies than others; and most Australians do not trust key institutions such as government, major companies or the media for information about new technologies. Replications of the study in future years will provide an opportunity to explore the robustness of Australians’ comfort with technological change, or conversely the volatility of their perceptions.
Gestion du risque de change dans les PME exportatrices au Cameroun
Creators: name: MANGA MENYOMO Alain Marcel
name: TIONA WAMBA Joseph Herman
name: ADA BILOUNGA Bibiane Natacha
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: L’essentiel de cet article porte sur la gestion du risque de change dans les entreprises exportatrices au Cameroun. L’objectif est de comprendre comment les entreprises exportatrices gèrent le risque de change. Pour ce faire, une étude exploratoire à travers une démarche qualitative s’est avérée nécessaire. À cet effet, notre recherche s’est inscrite sur un positionnement interprétativiste, suivant un raisonnement abductif. La collecte des données s’est effectuée au moyen d’un guide d’entretien semi-directif auprès de 03 entreprises et composé autour de 04 thèmes, adressé aux responsables. Cette collecte nous a pris 3 mois. Il ressort de l’analyse des données issues de ce terrain et qui s’est opérée selon le canevas de l’Analyse Thématique de Contenu (ATC) que les entreprises exportatrices visitées au Cameroun utilisent la facturation comme technique intrinsèque de gestion de risque de change et l’assurance comme technique extrinsèque.
Defining and measuring full service family practice in BC, 1991-2006
Creators: name: Lavergne, Ruth
name: McGrail, Kimberlyn M.
name: Peterson, Sandra
name: Sivananthan, Saskia Nikali, 1983-
name: McKendry, Rachael
name: Mooney, Dawn
Publisher: name: Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR)
Year: 2014

description: Ongoing primary care reform in Canada is in part a response to concerns that Canadians lack timely access to a regular source of primary care. While the supply of general practice physicians per capita has been stable, changes in practice patterns including abandonment of specific areas of practice (such as obstetrics, anesthesia, or provision of services in hospitals, homes, or long-term care facilities) and movement to walk-in style clinics may shape accessibility of primary care as perceived and experienced by patients. In British Columbia (BC), the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) has spearheaded reform efforts. Founded in 2003, the GPSC is a joint committee composed of the BC Ministry of Health, the BC Medical Association, and the Society of General Practitioners of BC. Its mandate is to support full service family practice and benefit patients. This report seeks to operationalize the GPSC definition of full service family practice using administrative data, and to track changes in physician practice patterns consistent with that definition over time.composed of the BC Ministry of Health, the BC Medical Association, and the Society of General Practitioners of BC. Its mandate is to support full service family practice and benefit patients. This report seeks to operationalize the GPSC definition of full service family practice using administrative data, and to track changes in physician practice patterns consistent with that definition over time.
Novel approaches for the diagnosis and prognosis of critical failures affecting offshore wind turbines.
Creators: name: González, Elena; Ródenas, Cristian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: offshore wind, wind power, LCOE, O&M, machine learning, wind farm, H2020, East Anglia ONE, Wikinger, Teeside

description: Presentation in the framework of WindEurope Offshore 2019 – Session "Digitalization concepts to optimize O&M strategies in Offshore Wind Energy".
An exploratory study into the impact of colour and packaging as stimuli in the decision making process for a low involvement non-durable product
Creators: name: Rex, Judy
name: Wai, Stuart
name: Lobo, Antonio
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: There has been little research conducted to determine the impact that colour and packaging have as stimuli on the purchasing process for a low involvement non-durable product. Garber, Burke and Jones (2000) showed that the colour of the product’s package is an overlooked tool that marketers can use to gain the consumers’ attention. The research approach for this study comprised in-depth interviews with a supermarket manager and a design director, and a survey of potato crisp consumers. Potato crisps were chosen, as they are a low involvement non-durable product in a competitive market. This research showed that while consumers did not consciously believe that the colour of the packaging affected their purchasing decision, it was an important subconscious stimulus through the relationship that colour had with the most important stimulus of flavour. Showing a differing perspective, the supermarket manager believed that the quality, brand and price were all important stimuli for potato crisp purchasing, while the director acknowledged the increasing importance that is placed on colour and packaging today. It seems that the importance of colour and packaging as stimuli may be often overlooked and more research is needed into this area.
Experimental evaluation of IEEE 802.11b and mobile lPv6 hand-off times
Creators: name: Armitage, Grenville
name: Banh, Mai
name: Stewart, Lawrence
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) allows hosts to move their physical and topological attachment points around an IPv6 network while retaining connectivity through a single, well-known Home Address. Although MIPv6 has been the subject of simulation studies, the real-world dynamic behavior of MIPv6 is only gradually being experimentally characterised and analysed. In this paper we review the use of MIPv6 to support mobility between independent 802.11b-attached IPv6 subnets, and experimentally measure the how long an end to end IP path is disrupted when a MIPv6 node shifts from one subnetwork to another (hand-off latency).We also measure 802.11b hand-off independent of MIPv6. Our testbed is implemented using FreeBSD 4.x, the KAME MIPv6 stack, Cisco Aironet Access Points and NetGear 802.11b network interface cards. Using our measured hand-off latencies we evaluate the likely performance impact of MIPv6 hand-off on a common webcam application and bulk TCP data transfers.
Classifying Vocal Expressions of Physical vs. Emotional Pain Using Offline AI: Concept and Methodology
Creators: name: Tencl, Jakub
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Facial Pain
subject: Pain/diagnosis

description: Pain is a multifaceted experience with both sensory and emotional components. This paper proposes a speech-based desktop application that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to classify pain vocal expressions as physical or emotional. The tool is designed with a privacy-first approach, operating entirely offline to ensure that sensitive audio data never leaves the user’s device. We present a conceptual framework and methodology, including an overview of relevant background literature on vocal pain indicators and speech emotion recognition. Key components of the proposed method are detailed, such as acoustic feature extraction techniques (e.g., mel-frequency cepstral coefficients, prosodic features), classification models (machine learning and deep learning approaches), and the offline system design. This tool could benefit clinicians in assessing patient pain, aid researchers in studies of pain and emotion, and support mental health practitioners by providing objective insights into a client’s emotional distress. We discuss the potential advantages of an offline, privacy-preserving approach for such a sensitive application, as well as anticipated limitations, including data variability and classification challenges. Conclusion: The proposed system offers a novel intersection of pain assessment and affective computing, laying the groundwork for future development and empirical validation of AI-driven, privacy-conscious pain classification tools.
title: The battle of compliance over advocacy among street-level bureaucrats: understanding perceptions and approaches of financial aid workers in the United States
Creators: name: Conroy, Edward
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2021

description: My focus in this research is on the experiences of financial aid leaders and frontline staff as Street-level Bureaucrats (SLBs), focusing on whether those staff approach their work primarily from a compliance-focused mindset or if they adopt advocacy-based approaches. A primary goal of this work was to ascertain whether financial aid staffs were more likely to use advocacy-based approaches if they were provided with better information. In particular, better information about the structural challenges within the financial aid system and the supports beyond financial aid that were available to help them better support students. I utilize an interpretive approach to this work and use multiple theoretical approaches to help understand my data. Foucault’s ideas of discipline and panopticism are used to show how financial aid staff operate under constant professional surveillance with the compliance requirements in their jobs. I also utilize Ball’s Foucauldian approaches to shed light on the idea that financial aid staff exist under the same weight of compliance requirements as Ball has attached to teachers and performativity. I support these pieces of theory with Lipsky’s street-level bureaucrat ideas, bolstered by Zacka’s recent work that utilizes the same concepts and adds in the ideal types of SLBs that I use as a methodological tool. Lastly, I use Herd and Moynihan’s work on administrative burden to highlight the weight of compliance requirements that financial aid staff labour under. I have utilized multiple surveys of financial aid staff and leaders to create quantifiable data to generate descriptive statistics and open-ended questions that I analyze using qualitative analysis to strengthen my descriptive data. My findings show that financial aid staff tend to adopt more compliance-based approaches but are willing to consider other operating methods if provided with the information needed to do so. My discussion sections explore how my theoretical lenses and the data intersect to show how and why financial aid staff tend to follow compliance-based approaches in their work. I also examine to what extent there are ways to shift them towards advocacy approaches to provide students with more support than they currently receive. I conclude with how this work contributes to the base of higher education theory, implications for policy and practice and financial aid, and how this work has changed my understanding as a professional in this field.
Evolution and nucleosynthesis of primordial low-mass stars
Creators: name: Picardi, Ilenia
name: Chieffi, Alessandro
name: Limongi, Marco
name: Pisanti, Ofelia
name: Miele, Gennaro
name: Mangano, Gianpiero
name: Imbriani, Gianluca
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Abstract not available.
Layered Symbolic RAG Agents Achieve High‑Precision ζ(s) Verification
Creators: name: Cygelman, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Riemann zeta function
Symbolic AI
Aether framework
Balanced ternary
Uncertainty propagation
Multi-agent systems
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Symbolic baton passing
High-precision computation
Layered cognition
Truth selector agent
Computational number theory
Aether Lexicon
AI memory retention
Session continuity
Aether agents
Layered symbolic agents
Bootstrapped cognition

description: This working paper presents the first successful implementation of a multi-agent symbolic computation system capable of verifying the first eight non-trivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function to a precision of ~10⁻¹⁴. Built using the Aether symbolic cognition framework, the system employs a layered architecture composed of a binary numeric agent (⊢₀ Euclid), a balanced-ternary analytic agent (⊢₁ Fibonacci), and a truth-selection agent (⊢₂ Hypatia). Agents communicate through Symbolic Baton Passing and operate within a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) environment. The architecture demonstrates resilience to context overflow, structured uncertainty propagation (𝕌ᵣ), and symbolic auditability. Results suggest that symbolic multi-layered systems may offer a viable path toward autonomous, high-precision mathematical reasoning.
A Communicative Approach to Integrated Risk Management
Creators: name: Soumya Bouknana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Induced by exponential environmental changes, risk has become a ubiquitous occurrence amidst the diverse organizational realities, and central to their management. As unidimensional approaches are deemed to be insufficient to manage organizational risks, the present article advances that efficient risk management has to be (1) integrative by design and default, reflecting a strategic, systemic and inclusive model, whereby (2) communication is not a mere circumstantial organizational function. Communication is rather viewed as a transversal organizational phenomenon, and further, as constitutive of the organization, lubricating the generation and sustaining of organizations against and through the multitude of current and potential risks. Based on a theoretical meta-analysis, the article justifies integrated risks management, through highlighting their intersectional nature. It underscores the role of organizational communication in integrated risk management, as to how risks are perceived, identified, analyzed and managed. It sheds light on organizations and organizing as communicative phenomena, and on the complexity of human and non-human communicative flows and agencies. In parallel, it delimits the communicative issues in relation to integrated risk management stages.
Investigations of the interstellar medium at Washburn Observatory, 1930-58
Creators: name: Liebl, David S.
name: Fluke, Christopher
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Between 1930 and 1958, the Washburn Observatory of the University of Wisconsin-Madison was home to pioneering photometric research into the interstellar medium by Joel Stebbins and Albert Whitford. Between 1933 and 1941, Stebbins and Whitford published seminal research on the photometry of stellar reddening, using the Washburn 15-inch refractor and the 60- and 100-inch reflectors at Mount Wilson Observatory. Many factors were responsible for the Washburn Observatory's pre-eminence in this area. This paper reviews their research on interstellar dust during the years 1922-58, the observational technology and scientific methods that were developed at the Washburn Observatory during that time and the scientific discoveries that originated there. We discuss the factors that enabled Washburn Observatory to become a leader in photometry during the first half of the twentieth century. We also draw on the recollections of past and present Washburn Observatory scientists to understand how Washburn's standing led to a subsequent programme of research into the interstellar medium at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The resulting portrayal of Washburn Observatory provides insights into the evolution of astronomical research in America, from the beginning of the twentieth century until today.
Comprendre la Co-production des Services Publics : Revue des Facteurs Déterminants
Creators: name: Hanane Azemzi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: La co-production des services publics désigne une approche collaborative par laquelle les citoyens participent activement, aux côtés des institutions publiques, à la conception et la prestation des services publics. Elle repose sur la mobilisation conjointe des ressources, des compétences et des savoirs de différents acteurs, dans le but d’améliorer les services publics en quantité et en qualité. Cet article propose une revue analytique de la littérature afin de mieux comprendre les facteurs qui conditionnent le succès des démarches de co-production. Deux objectifs sont poursuivis : d’une part, clarifier le concept de co-production et son évolution à travers les modes de gouvernance ; d’autre part, identifier les principaux déterminants de sa mise en œuvre effective.

L’analyse met en évidence trois facteurs majeurs, régulièrement cités dans les travaux académiques: le soutien institutionnel, l’engagement des citoyens, et l’engagement des agents publics. Ces trois déterminants apparaissent comme des conditions essentielles à la réussite des processus de co-production, tout en étant étroitement interdépendants. Leur articulation conditionne la qualité des services publics produits conjointement et la durabilité des dispositifs mis en place.
Elevated Inflammatory Mediators in Adults with Oculorespiratory Syndrome following Influenza Immunization: a Public Health Agency of Canada/Canadian Institutes of Health Research Influenza Research Network Study
Creators: name: Al-Dabbagh, Mona
name: Lapphra, Keswadee
name: Scheifele, David W.
name: Halperin, Scott A.
name: Langley, Joanne M.
name: Cho, Patricia
name: Kollmann, Tobias R.
name: Li, Yan
name: De Serres, Gaston
name: Fortuno III, Edgardo S.
name: Bettinger, Julie A.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Oculorespiratory syndrome (ORS) is an infrequent adverse event following influenza vaccination. Its clinical presentation suggests that ORS is an immune-mediated phenomenon, but studies of symptomatic individuals have been few. This study measured cytokine levels in peripheral blood samples following influenza vaccination in those with and without current ORS symptoms. Canadian adults receiving the 2010-2011 seasonal influenza vaccine were recruited and asked to promptly report any adverse effects. ORS symptoms occurring 4 to 48 h after vaccination were identified using previously published criteria. Two blood samples were collected from each subject to measure blood plasma cytokine and hemagglutination inhibition antibody (HAI) titers; visit 1 occurred during the acute disease phase or 4 to 72 h after vaccination for controls, and visit 2 occurred another 21 days postimmunization. Nine ORS cases and 35 controls were enrolled. The median age of ORS cases was 49 years, and 89% were female. Most cases had multiple symptoms, but none required medical care. HAI titers before and after vaccination were similar for the cases and controls. Blood plasma cytokine concentrations did not differ between the ORS cases and controls for most cytokines measured (interleukin 4 [IL-4], IL-5, IL-10, IL-13, IL-1 , IL-8, tumor necrosis factor alpha [TNF- ], gamma interferon [IFN- ], and IL-17A). However, ORS cases had higher levels of IL-10 and IL-3 than the controls at visits 1 and 2, even after all symptoms had subsided. Persistent higher levels of IL-10 and IL-3 in ORS cases suggest that host factors may have predisposed these individuals to develop ORS following influenza vaccination. Further investigations are warranted, as they might identify subjects who are at risk for ORS prior to vaccination.