cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Protecting large-scale Enterprise Resource Planning systems from second-stage impersonation attacks
Creators: name: Cascavilla, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460402
subject: Data and information privacy
classificationCode: 460403
subject: Data security and protection
classificationCode: 460499
subject: Cybersecurity and privacy not elsewhere classified

description: The detection of second-stage impersonation is becoming increasingly crucial in combating the expanding cybercrime landscape, evident from the average 287 days required to identify and contain a breach. Second-stage impersonation occurs within the target environment of malicious intruders as they aim to reach their ultimate goal. This includes lateral movement, privilege escalation, internal recon, and maintaining presence. This study focuses on detecting second-stage impersonation within an ERP system. It achieves this by injecting attack data, generated in a controlled experiment by a red team, into benign SAP user data. Use cases are then formulated to formalize the issue of second-stage impersonation. Features such as Terminal (i.e., IP address and host) and Program (i.e., SAP program triggered) serve as indicators for second-stage impersonation detection, identified through chi-square feature selection. Additionally, unsupervised anomaly detection via PCA and HDBSCAN clustering is conducted on a use case related to login attempts stemming from lateral movement detection. PCA anomaly detection outperforms the best HDBSCAN method with an AUC ROC of 0.912 (0.055 higher than the best HDBSCAN AUC ROC), offering more robust results and scalability. Combining these findings with other use cases proves beneficial due to the high frequency of these use cases in attack data compared to benign data. However, further research is needed to determine the optimal method for combining use cases. Overall, employing state-of-the-art techniques and rigorous formalization proves effective in detecting second-stage impersonation within ERP systems, marking a significant step forward in identifying impersonators within a target environment.
Impact de la correction automatique de l’OCR/HTR sur la reconnaissance d’entités nommées dans un corpus bruité
Creators: name: PETKOVIC, Ljudmila
name: ALRAHABI, Motasem
name: ROE, Glenn
Publisher: name: Journal of Information Sciences
Year: 2023
Subjects: correction d'orthographe automatique ; OCR ; documents d’archives numérisées ; reconnaissance d’entités nommées ; traitement automatique des langues

description: Nous présentons une expérience menée sur la correction d’orthographe automatique de textes issus de la reconnaissance optique des caractères (OCR), dans l’objectif de mesurer l’impact de la correction sur une tâche d’extraction d’informations. À partir d’un échantillon de documents d’archives numérisées (océrisées), nous avons appliqué un système de reconnaissance d’entités nommées avant et après une correction d’orthographe. D’un côté, les résultats de comparaison nous montrent que cette technique du traitement automatique des langues est relativement robuste ; de l’autre côté, nous montrons que ce correcteur orthographique n’est pas entièrement adapté à notre corpus historique et nécessite un ré-entraînement sur un plus grand corpus, mieux adapté.
description: Journal of Information Sciences, Vol 21, No 2 (2022): Humanités numériques
Did the minority Gillard government keep its promises? A study of promissory representation in Australia
Creators: name: Carson, Andrea
name: A Gibbons
name: A Martin
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 160601 Australian Government and Politics
subject: FOS: Political science

description: © 2019, © 2019 Australian Political Studies Association. When the Gillard government formed a minority government in 2010 many commentators argued that the government would be unable to fulfil its mandate. Despite this, the Gillard government was able to pass a record amount of legislation–comparable to previous majority-led governments–suggesting the government was effective at negotiating legislative passage. Less understood is whether the Gillard government was able to keep its election promises given the constraints of minority government. This is an important empirical and normative question. In their most basic form elections are designed to allow the public to hold politicians and political parties to account for their past performance. Central to this is whether parties have fulfilled the promises they made at the previous election. But how do parties express election promises to citizens and are they likely to fulfil these promises? Does minority government status make a difference? We examine these questions in the first contemporary Australian study of promise fulfilment, examining promises made and promise fulfilment of the Gillard minority government (2010–2013). We adopt the methods of the Comparative Party Pledges Project (CPPP). Consistent with the international literature, we find that the Gillard government fulfilled most of its election promises suggesting minority government status did not have a large effect on promise fulfilment.
Experiences and perceptions of residential and home care services among older lesbian women and gay men in Australia
Creators: name: Waling, Andrea
name: Lyons, Anthony
name: Alba, Beatrice
name: Minichiello, Victor
name: Barrett, Catherine
name: Hughes, Mark
name: Fredriksen-Goldsen, Karen
name: Edmonds, Samantha
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd The needs of older lesbian and gay people regarding access and use of aged-care services remain underresearched. This paper reports the findings of 33 qualitative interviews with older lesbian women and gay men about their perceptions and experiences of residential aged-care and home-based aged-care services in Australia. The focus of this paper is their preparedness for using aged-care services. The results highlight that participants had a number of concerns related to accessing residential-care services in particular, including perceptions of a lack of inclusivity and concerns of potential for discrimination and hostility, loss of access to community and partners, decreased autonomy and concerns relating to quality of care and the potential for elder abuse. Participants noted a number of strategies they employed in avoiding residential-care services, including the use of home-care services, renovating the home for increased mobility, moving to locations with greater access to outside home-care services, a preference for lesbian/gay-specific housing and residential-care options if available, and the option of voluntary euthanasia to ensure dignity and autonomy. Participants, on the whole, were hopeful that they would never require the use of residential-care services, with some believing that having current good health or the support of friends could prevent this from happening. The findings suggest that older lesbian and gay people have a variety of concerns with aged-care and may need additional support and education to improve their perceptions and experiences of services, whether these are needed presently or in the future.
Demographic and Psychosocial Predictors of Housing Security in Older Lesbian and Gay Australians
Creators: name: Alba, Beatrice
name: Lyons, Anthony
name: Waling, Andrea
name: Minichiello, Victor
name: Hughes, Mark
name: Barrett, Catherine
name: Fredriksen-Goldsen, Karen
name: Blanchard, Michelle
name: Irlam, Corey
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © The Author(s) 2019. This study examined housing security among 679 lesbian women and gay men aged 60 years and older living in Australia. We examined a range of potential demographic and psychosocial predictors of whether participants felt that their housing situation was secure. Overall, most participants (89%) felt that their housing situation was secure. We found that the sense of housing security was greater among those who were younger, had people they felt they could depend on, had better self-rated health, and had fewer experiences of sexual orientation discrimination over the past year. In addition, housing security was greater among those who owned their own home and had no mortgage, compared with those who had a mortgage, were renting, or had some other living arrangement. No other demographic variables were significant predictors of housing security. These results can be useful in targeting groups that may be particularly vulnerable to a lack of housing security.
Supplemental Material - Impact Evaluation of Cash-For-Care in Latin America’s New Long-Term Care Policies: A Randomized Controlled Trial Pilot Study in Costa Rica
Creators: name: Chaverri-Carvajal, Alexander
name: Matus-López, Mauricio
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 110306
subject: Endocrinology
classificationCode: 110308
subject: Geriatrics and Gerontology
classificationCode: 111799
subject: Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental Material for Impact Evaluation of Cash-For-Care in Latin America’s New Long-Term Care Policies: A Randomized Controlled Trial Pilot Study in Costa Rica by Alexander Chaverri-Carvajal and Mauricio Matus-López in Journal of Applied Gerontology.
Novel tools for simultaneous optogenetic manipulation and calcium imaging in the zebrafish nervous system
Creators: name: Gheisari, Ali
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2017
Subjects: Fluorescence
Light Microscopy
Optical sectioning
Light sheet microscopy
Bessel Light sheet
Neuronal activity recording
in vivo imaging
Optogenetics
transgenic zebrafish
Chlamydomonas channelrhodopsin1
Volvox channelrhodopsin1
C1V1

description: The large number of neurons and neural interconnection makes the nervous system a highly dense and complex network. Understanding the functionality of such a network requires not only high-throughput recording of neural activities with cellular resolution but also a non-invasive and precisely defined interaction with the neurons. This work demonstrates two pivotal steps towards these aims:
(i) Developing a fluorescence microscope based on Bessel light-sheet illumination to record neural activities by means of calcium imaging. Chapter II describes the successful development and construction of an in vivo light-sheet fluorescence microscope (in vivo LSFM) based on conventional digitally laser scanning light-sheet microscopy (DSLM) with interchangeable Gaussian and Bessel illumination modalities to compare the performance of both methods. The Bessel illumination modality in comparison to the Gaussian one reveals not only a two-fold improvement in axial resolution but also a reduction by the factor of 4 in the shadowing artifact and consequently, 35 times improvement in detecting the correct neural activities from the calcium signals.
(ii) Providing a suitable transgenic zebrafish model for optogenetic manipulation; Optogenetics apply light to facilitate the interaction with a genetically-engineered cell and/or populations of cells. Chapter III describes the establishment of a transgenic zebrafish expressing a red-shifted channelrhodopsin, Chlamydomonas channelrhodopsin1 fused to Volvox channelrhodopsin1 (C1V1), under the elavl3 promotor making almost the entire nervous system of larval zebrafish accessible for optical manipulation. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of a transgenic zebrafish with C1V1 pan-neuronal expression. The establishment of the stable transgenic line is in progress.
In future, crossing this line with an already established line expressing a calcium indicator protein will provide the essential animal model for simultaneous optogenetic manipulation and high-fidelity neural activity recording in the intact nervous system.
Dematerialization of administrative documents in Morocco: legal and regulatory framework
Creators: name: MAKKOUDI, Mariam
name: ELMQADDEM, Noureddine
name: VASSEUR, Édouard
Publisher: name: Journal of Information Sciences
Year: 2023
Subjects: Dematerialization of records; Regulation of dematerialization; public records; Moroccan administration; administrative documents; regulatory framework

description: The digital world has clearly changed the way documents are produced, stored and communicated within organizations. Thus, public administrations are implementing plans to dematerialize all or part of their work processes, and consequently their administrative documents (records). This paper aims to provide a reading of the Moroccan legal and regulatory corpus dealing with dematerialization. This analysis was approached according to three types of reading: a chronological reading, a reading according to the life cycle of administrative documents (records), and a functional reading. Thus, the approach revealed the interest granted by the Moroccan legislator to the dematerialization project within public services, as shown by the number and variety of regulatory texts that have approached this project.
description: Journal of Information Sciences, Vol 21, No 2 (2022): Humanités numériques
N-1 Experiments Suffice to Determine the Causal Relations Among N Variables
Creators: name: Eberhardt, Frederick
name: Glymour, Clark
name: Scheines, Richard
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: By combining experimental interventions with search procedures for graphical causal models we show that under familiar assumptions, with perfect data, N - 1 experiments  suffice to determine the causal relations among N > 2 variables when each experiment randomizes  at most one variable. We show the same bound holds for adaptive learners, but does not hold for N > 4 when each experiment can simultaneously randomize more than one variable. This bound  provides a type of ideal for the measure of success of heuristic approached in active learning methods of casual discovery, which currently use less informative measures.
Writing the script. The overt and hidden contradictions of supporters' work in independent self-advocacy groups
Creators: name: Anderson, Sian
name: Bigby, Christine
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Background: The role of support workers in self-advocacy groups is complex. The lack of transparency about who controls the agenda within groups is problematised by commentators but the evidence is limited about how supporters act, exercise power and are regarded by self-advocates. Aim: This study investigated the work of supporters in independent self-advocacy groups and how their work was understood by members. Method: Grounded theory methodology was used. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 25 members of 6 independent self-advocacy groups, in Australia and the UK, and 10 supporters. Results: Supporters had three roles: supporting empowerment, managing operations, and leading strategic planning. They exercised power, controlling many group activities, but did so in ways that enabled groups to flourish, and scaffolded members’ sense of control. Conclusion: Supporters shaped groups, developing and resourcing them while promoting empowerment and enabling self-advocates to perceive partnerships; regarding supporters work as complementary to their own.
Enjeux autour de l'impact environnemental des humanités numériques
Creators: name: NICOLET, Aurèle
Publisher: name: Journal of Information Sciences
Year: 2023
Subjects: Humanités numériques ; impact environnemental ; données de la recherche ; gestion des données de la recherche ; gouvernance de l’information

description: Le développement durable constitue un enjeu majeur des prochaines années, pour l’ensemble des activités humaines ; celles relatives à la recherche scientifique n’y échappent pas. Cet article se penche sur les enjeux environnementaux des humanités numériques. L’article est constitué de trois parties. La première partie de l’article expose le contexte et les enjeux autour de l’impact du monde numérique en général sur l’environnement. La deuxième partie de l’article s’intéresse plus précisément à l’impact environnemental des humanités numériques autour de trois axes : la numérisation, l’exploitation et la pérennisation des données. Enfin, la troisième partie expose brièvement quelques initiatives issues du domaine archivistique.
description: Journal of Information Sciences, Vol 21, No 2 (2022): Humanités numériques
Usage de la réalité virtuelle et de la réalité augmentée dans l’enseignement supérieur : de l’expérimentation à l’intégration effective dans les cursus de formation
Creators: name: BEN SAGA, Abderrazak
name: ELMQADDEM, Noureddine
Publisher: name: Journal of Information Sciences
Year: 2023
Subjects: Apprentissage mixte; Apprentissage immersif; Réalité virtuelle; Réalité augmentée; Enseignement supérieur

description: Nous assistons depuis quelques années à l’usage, dans le cadre des modes d’enseignement mixte ou immersif, des outils de la réalité virtuelle et de la réalité augmentée dans plusieurs domaines, notamment dans la formation en ingénierie, en astronomie, en médecine, en biologie, en géographie et en arts. En dépit des avancées réalisées dans l’utilisation des outils de la réalité virtuelle et de la réalité augmentée dans l’enseignement à caractère procédural, pratique et déclaratif, ces technologies demeurent encore dans leur stade expérimental, de prototypage ou de test auprès des étudiants. Partant de cette réalité et après avoir dressé une cartographie des usages de la réalité virtuelle et de la réalité augmentée dans l’enseignement supérieur, nous allons démontrer comment certaines questions, d’ordre théorique, pédagogique, technologique et socio-économique, entravent le passage de l’ère de l’expérimentation à une intégration régulière et formalisée de cette technologie dans les cursus de formation.
description: Journal of Information Sciences, Vol 21, No 2 (2022): Humanités numériques
sj-docx-1-mdm-10.1177_0272989X231184175 – Supplemental material for Calibration and Validation of the Colorectal Cancer and Adenoma Incidence and Mortality (CRC-AIM) Microsimulation Model Using Deep Neural Networks
Creators: name: Vahdat, Vahab
name: Alagoz, Oguzhan
name: Chen, Jing Voon
name: Saoud, Leila
name: Borah, Bijan J.
name: Limburg, Paul J.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 111708
subject: Health and Community Services
classificationCode: 111799
subject: Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 160807
subject: Sociological Methodology and Research Methods

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-mdm-10.1177_0272989X231184175 for Calibration and Validation of the Colorectal Cancer and Adenoma Incidence and Mortality (CRC-AIM) Microsimulation Model Using Deep Neural Networks by Vahab Vahdat, Oguzhan Alagoz, Jing Voon Chen, Leila Saoud, Bijan J. Borah and Paul J. Limburg in Medical Decision Making
title: Parenthood responsibility in forced migration
title: Syrian parents with young children keep braving the Mediterranean Sea
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Sunagic, Lejla
Publisher: name: NOVA Asylum Policy Lab, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Year: 2024

description: In my PhD research entitled ‘(Re-)Interpreting rationalities of Syrian refugees’ risky journeys to Europe: dance between despair and wisdom’, I have collected life stories of Syrian women and men who have arrived in Europe via clandestine routes. Their accounts narrating what has become known as a ´journey of violence´ are amalgams of extreme feelings and states of mind. The testimonies are reflections of bravery, creativity, commitment, sadness and despair. However, parents of young children found themselves grappling with another emotion. They faced a troubling moral dilemma for having brought their children on these journeys in pursuit of a better future for them.
description: SUNAGIC, Lejla. Parenthood responsibility in forced migration: Syrian parents with young children keep braving the Mediterranean Sea. APL Blog, March 2024, NOVA Asylum Policy Lab, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Linienprofile von Röntgenübergängen komplexer Atome in dichten Plasmen
Creators: name: Sengebusch, Andrea
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 530 Physics

description: In der Arbeit wird gezeigt, wie sich charakteristische Linienstrahlung mittelschwerer Elemente zur Untersuchung warmer, dichter Plasmen einsetzen lässt. Es wird skizziert, wie in der quantenstatistischen Vielteilchentheorie Emissionsspektren bestimmt werden können. Dem wird eine störungstheoretische Behandlung von Linienprofilen im Medium gegenüber gestellt. Zur Charakterisierung der Plasmen werden die Zusammensetzung und synthetische Spektrallinienprofile berechnet, die sich nutzen lassen um aktuelle Laser-Plasma-Experimente zu analysieren.
“Like being shot in the face” or “I’m glad I’m out”: Journalists’ experiences of job loss in the Australian media industry 2012–2014
Creators: name: Ricketson, Matthew
name: Dodd, Andrew
name: Zion, Lawrie
name: Winarnita, Monika
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The Australian news media industry has recently experienced a dramatic contraction, resulting in the loss of an estimated 3000 journalism positions since 2011. But what does the process of being laid off (more commonly understood as “redundancy” in Australia) actually mean for those affected? Drawing on a survey of more than 200 journalists who left what were mostly long-term jobs in large newsrooms between 2012 and 2014, this paper examines how respondents conceptualised their redundancy experiences in response to an open-ended question that was part of a 2014 survey. As well as assessing the often complex and sometimes visceral responses in terms of whether they were positive, mixed or negative, the paper discusses a range of themes to emerge, and notes discrepancies that relate to whether the redundancies were voluntary or forced, and by age and gender, and to some extent, current work status. It also finds that while overall the responses to redundancy skew more negative than positive, an substantial majority of those surveyed believe their well-being has improved since leaving their jobs.
Annexin A1 as a new functional linker between actin filaments and phagosomes during phagocytosis
Creators: name: Patel, Devang
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 570 Life science

description: In the current study annexin A1 was identified as a factor, which binds to latex beads phagosomes (LBP) and facilitates F-actin-LBP interaction in vitro. In macrophages the association of endogenous annexin A1 with LBP membranes is strongly correlated with F-actin accumulation at the LBP. Furthermore, it showed that receptor signalling influenced annexin A1 recruitment on different LBP. Reduction of annexin A1 expression resulted in impaired phagocytosis and actin flashing. These data revealed that annexin A1 as an important component of opsonic phagocytosis.
Enacting alcohol realities: Gendering practices in Australian studies on ‘alcohol-related presentations’ to emergency departments
Creators: name: Moore, David
name: Keane, Helen
name: Duncan, Duane
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: ‘Alcohol-fuelled violence’ and its prevention has been the subject of recent intense policy debate in Australia, with the content of this debate informed by a surprisingly narrow range of research resources. In particular, given the well-established relationship between masculinities and violence, the meagre attention paid to the role of gender in alcohol research and policy recommendations stands out as a critical issue. In this article, which draws on recent work in feminist science studies and science and technology studies, we focus on the treatment of gender, alcohol and violence in Australian research on ‘alcohol-related presentations’ to emergency departments (EDs), analysing this type of research because of its prominence in policy debates. We focus on four types of ‘gendering practice’ through which research genders ‘alcohol-related presentations’ to EDs: omitting gender from consideration, ignoring clearly gendered data when making gender-neutral policy recommendations, methodologically designing out gender and addressing gender in terms of risk and vulnerability. We argue that ED research practices and their policy recommendations reproduce normative understandings of alcohol's effects and of the operations of gender in social arrangements, thereby contributing to the ‘evidence base’ supporting unfair policy responses.
Domino Twofold Heck / 6p-Electrocyclization and Regioselective Palladium(0)-Catalyzed Reactions of Brominated Indoles, Furans, Naphthoquinone and 2,4,5,6-Tetrachloropyrimidine
Creators: name: Hussain, Munawar
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 540 Chemistry & allied sciences

description: I have synthesized functionalized carbazoles and benzofurans based on domino twofold Heck / 6pi-electrocyclization reactions. Functionalized anthraquinones, fluorenones and benzocoumarines were also prepared by this methodology. Regioselctive Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reactions of 2,4,5,6-tetrachloropyrimidine and 2,3,4,5-tetrabromofuran provided an expedient synthesis of mono-, di-, tri- and tetraaryl-pyrimidines and di- and tetraarylfurans.
Men’s performance and image-enhancing drug use as self-transformation: Working out in makeover culture
Creators: name: Latham, Joe
name: Fraser, Suzanne
name: Fomiatti, Renae
name: Moore, David
name: Seear, Kathryn
name: Aitken, Campbell
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article investigates how men who inject performance and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDs) describe their experiences of embodiment and masculinity, locating that analysis in the context of contemporary ‘makeover culture’ and the imperatives of self-transformation. Drawing on qualitative data from interviews we conducted with 60 men who inject PIEDs in Australia, our analysis suggests there is a pragmatic logic associated with PIED use that challenges much research concerning this population, which tends to pathologise men who use PIEDs as disordered in their relationship to their bodies and cultural norms of masculinity. We unpack how the men interviewed describe everyday practices of doing gender in the context of illicit drug use, the implications in normative understandings of maleness and masculinity, and how PIED consumption practices encouraged particular attention to working on the self. Our findings suggest that drug injecting practices can be understood as forms of self-transformation in makeover culture that have the potential to make new, unexpected possibilities for being in the world, and can inform harm reduction measures, including the de-stigmatisation of drug use more broadly.
Cluster virial expansion for the equation of state of partially ionized hydrogen plasma
Creators: name: Omarbakiyeva, Yultuz
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 530 Physics

description: The contribution of electron-atom interaction to the equation of state for partially ionized hydrogen plasma is studied using the cluster-virial expansion.  Experimental phase-shifts as well as phase-shifts calculated on the basis of different pseudopotential models are used  as an input for the Beth-Uhlenbeck formula. Avoiding any ill-founded input quantities, the Beth-Uhlenbeck second virial coefficient for the electron-atom interaction, presented here for the first time, can be considered as a benchmark for other, semi-empirical approaches.
sj-docx-1-nms-10.1177_14614448231183703 – Supplemental material for Communication between grandparents and young grandchildren over distance: Establishing contact with constitutive nonhumans
Creators: name: Nouwen, Marije
name: Beuthel, Janne Mascha
name: Fuchsberger, Verena
name: Zaman, Bieke
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 200199
subject: Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-nms-10.1177_14614448231183703 for Communication between grandparents and young grandchildren over distance: Establishing contact with constitutive nonhumans by Marije Nouwen, Janne Mascha Beuthel, Verena Fuchsberger and Bieke Zaman in New Media & Society
Exchange rate effects of US government shutdowns: Evidence from both developed and emerging markets
Creators: name: SS Sharma
name: Phan, Dinh
name: PK Narayan
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2019 Elsevier B.V. We examine the exchange rate effects of US government shutdowns using historical exchange rate data covering 19 episodes of government shutdowns. We find that major currency exchange rates generally tend to appreciate vis-à-vis the US dollar, and foreign exchange volatility tends to increase in response to shutdowns. We show that the effect of shutdowns is felt most one day after a shutdown and the effect dies out for most currencies within five days of a shutdown. These results pass a range of robustness tests which control for day-of-the-week effects, model specifications, and the Global Financial Crisis.
Beitrag zur Identifizierung vergessener Arzneipflanzen
der nordöstlichen Regionen Deutschlands
Creators: name: Palluch, Michaela
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine

description: Zielstellung der Arbeit ist die Suche nach in Vergessenheit geratenen, endemischen Heilpflanzen der nordöstlichen Regionen Deutschlands. Es wird der historische Prozess der Verdrängung der Arzneipflanzen aus der Anwendung beschrieben. Den Hauptteil bildet eine systematische Analyse der Heilpflanzen hinsichtlich des botanischen Namens und ihrer Anwendungsgebiete im Zeitraum zwischen 1579 und 2006. Besondere Betrachtung findet die Etymologie der volkstümlichen Pflanzennamen Mecklenburgs. Es werden ausgewählte Rezepte eines Arzneibuches aus dem 16. Jahrhundert beschrieben.
Factors associated with increases over time in the quality of Active Support in supported accommodation services for people with intellectual disabilities: A multi-level model
Creators: name: Bould, Emma
name: Bigby, Christine
name: Iacono, Teresa
name: Beadle-Brown, Julie
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2019 The Author(s) Background: Disability support organisations have embraced Active Support, but it has proved difficult to embed in services. Aims: This study aimed to identify the factors associated with increases over time in the quality of Active Support. Method: Data were collected on the predicted variable of the quality of Active Support, and predictor variables of service user, staff and service characteristics, including practice leadership, and composition and size of services from 51 services in 8 organisations over 2–7 time points. Data were analysed using multi-level modelling. Results: There was significant linear change in Active Support scores (group mean centered at the organisational level) over time. Individuals with lower support needs received better Active Support and those with higher support needs experienced greater increases over time. Stronger practice leadership and more staff with training in Active Support were significant predictors of the quality of Active Support. Larger services with seven or more individuals and where there was a very heterogeneous mix of individuals were associated with lower quality of support. Conclusions: Ensuring strong practice leadership, and staff training in Active Support that emphasises the principle of adapting support to each individual's level of ability and preferences are key to delivering high levels of Active Support.
sj-docx-3-mcr-10.1177_10775587231186720 – Supplemental material for A Systematic Review of Outcomes Related to Nurse Practitioner-Delivered Primary Care for Multiple Chronic Conditions
Creators: name: McMenamin, Amy
name: Turi, Eleanor
name: Schlak, Amelia
name: Poghosyan, Lusine
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 111799
subject: Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 160807
subject: Sociological Methodology and Research Methods

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-3-mcr-10.1177_10775587231186720 for A Systematic Review of Outcomes Related to Nurse Practitioner-Delivered Primary Care for Multiple Chronic Conditions by Amy McMenamin, Eleanor Turi, Amelia Schlak and Lusine Poghosyan in Medical Care Research and Review
Positive stranded RNA viruses
Creators: name: Thomas, Saijo
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine
subject: 570 Life science

description: Capsid protein of two positive stranded RNA viruses, Hepatitis E virus (HEV) and Chikungunya virus (ChikV), were investigated. HEV was detected in swine serum collected in Germany. An infectious system for HEV was established and was used to check its egress. The requirement of various amino acid sequences for the autoproteolytic cleavage of ChikV capsid protease was investigated. I was also able to show that ChikV capsid is recognized by karyopherins and its export is mediated by CRM1 dependent nuclear export signal.
Health, well‐being, and social support in older Australian lesbian and gay care‐givers
Creators: name: Alba, Beatrice
name: Lyons, Anthony
name: Waling, Andrea
name: Minichiello, Victor
name: Hughes, Mark
name: Barrett, Catherine
name: Fredriksen‐Goldsen, Karen
name: Edmonds, Samantha
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Informal care-givers play an important role in society, and many of the people who provide this care are lesbian women and gay men. Being a care-giver is known to be associated with poorer health and well-being, and lesbian and gay care-givers report experiences of stigma and discrimination in the care-giving context. This study involved a survey of 230 lesbian women and 503 gay men aged 60 years and over living in Australia, of which 218 were care-givers. We compared care-givers to non-caregivers on a range of health and well-being measures, including psychological distress, positive mental health, physical health and social support. While we found no significant differences between these two groups, we further compared care-givers who were caring for an LGBTI person to those who were caring for a non-LGBTI person. Among the lesbian women, care-givers of an LGBTI person reported feeling less supported in their carer role and reported lower levels of social support more generally. They were also lower on positive mental health and physical health indicators. Among the gay men, care-givers of an LGBTI person also reported feeling less supported in their carer role, but there were no differences in reported levels of social support more generally or health and well-being compared to those caring for a non-LGBTI person. Overall, results from this study suggest that older lesbian and gay care-givers may be facing some challenges related to their well-being and feeling supported, especially if they are caring for another LGBTI person.
Factors that predict good Active Support in services for people with intellectual disabilities: A multilevel model
Creators: name: Bigby, Christine
name: Bould, Emma
name: Iacono, Teresa
name: Kavanagh, Shane
name: Beadle-Brown, Julie
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2019 The Authors. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Background: Active Support, now widely adopted by disability support organizations, is difficult to implement. The study aim was to identify the factors associated with good Active Support. Methods: Data on service user and staff characteristics, quality of Active Support and practice leadership were collected from a sample of services from 14 organizations annually for between 2 and 7 years, using questionnaires, structured observations and interviews. Data were analysed using multilevel modelling (MLM). Results: Predictors of good Active Support were adaptive behaviour, practice leadership, Active Support training, and time since its implementation. Heterogeneity, having more than six people in a service and larger organizations were associated with lower quality of Active Support. Conclusions: In order to ensure that Active Support is consistently implemented, and thus, quality of life outcomes improved, organizations need to pay attention to both service design and support for staff through training and practice leadership.
sj-docx-1-ejo-10.1177_11206721231185816 - Supplemental material for Global prevalence of myopic macular degeneration in general population and patients with high myopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Shi, Hekai
name: Guo, Nuojin
name: Zhao, Zeming
name: He, Xiaoyu
name: Li, Jiahang
name: Duan, Jialiang
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-ejo-10.1177_11206721231185816 for Global prevalence of myopic macular degeneration in general population and patients with high myopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Hekai Shi, Nuojin Guo, Zeming Zhao, Xiaoyu He, Jiahang Li and Jialiang Duan in European Journal of Ophthalmology
Collaborative Networks in Chronic Disease Prevention: What Factors Inhibit Partnering for Funding?
Creators: name: L Hopkins
name: Chamberlain, Daniel
name: F Held
name: T Riley
name: JZJ Wang
name: K Conte
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2019 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Inter-organisational partnering is seen as an effective mechanism for improving the delivery of chronic disease interventions in communities. Yet even in communities where organisations across multiple sectors are well connected and collaborative in other ways, when it comes to partnering for joint-funding, multiple barriers inhibit the establishment of formal partnerships. To understand why this is so, we examined quantitative and qualitative data from organisations in an Australian community and compared the findings with a review of the published literature in this area. We found that even organisations which are well connected through informal network arrangements face pressure from funding bodies to form more formalised inter-organisational partnerships. Community based organisations also recognise that partnerships are desirable mechanisms for service improvement; however, barriers to joint-funding partnerships exist which include restrictions imposed by funding bodies on the way grants are designed, implemented, and administered. Additional barriers at the community level include organisational capacity for partnership work, intra-organisational restrictions and timing issues. Policy makers must recognise and address the barriers to partnerships which exist within funding structures and at the community level in order to increase partnering opportunities to improve service delivery.
Trabajo intercomunidades: la experiencia de apoyo al fortalecimiento de la gobernanza comunitaria de LABI
Creators: name: Ascenzi, Laura
name: Míguez, María Paz
name: Formoso, Jesica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Establecimos un acuerdo de colaboración entre el Latin American Bioimaging Network (LABI) y MetaDocencia, en cuyo marco desarrollamos una propuesta de asistencia técnica para apoyar el fortalecimiento de su gobernanza comunitaria.
Do financial technology firms influence bank performance?
Creators: name: Phan, Dinh
name: PK Narayan
name: RE Rahman
name: AR Hutabarat
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2019 Elsevier B.V. We develop a hypothesis that the growth of financial technology (FinTech) negatively influences bank performance. We study the Indonesia market, where FinTech growth has been impressive. Using a sample of 41 banks and data on FinTech firms, we show that the growth of FinTech firms negatively influences bank performance. We test our hypothesis through multiple additional tests and robustness tests, such as sensitivity to bank characteristics, effects of the Global Financial Crisis, and the use of alternative estimators. Our main conclusion that FinTech negatively predicts bank performance holds.
Molekulardynamische Simulationen von Wasser und
wäßrigen Salzlösungen
Creators: name: Holzmann, Jörg
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 540 Chemistry & allied sciences

description: In dieser Arbeit werden Molekulardynamik-Simulationen von Wasser in einem Druckbereich von 1-8000 bar sowie von wäßrigen Salzlösungen in einem Konzentrationsbereich von 0,498-4,762 Molprozent vorgestellt. Es wurden die Änderungen der Wasserstruktur, die sich bei Druckerhöhung bzw. Erhöhung der Salzkonzentration ergeben, mit thermodynamischen und dynamischen Größen in Verbindung gebracht. Ein Fokus dieser Arbeit lag im Verständnis des unterschiedlichen Verhaltens der Moleküle in verschiedenen Wasserregionen, d.h. in den jeweiligen Hydratschalen der unterschiedlichen Ionen und im Bulkwasser.
Gold Nanoparticles Based Novel Solid Catalysts
Creators: name: Alshammari, Ahmad
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 540 Chemistry & allied sciences

description: Catalysis using gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) is a topic of great interest due to their various beneficial properties towards different catalytic reactions of both academic and industrial importance. In this thesis, the preparation, characterization and application of a variety of AuNPs were studied. Our samples were investigated by different characterization methods such as UV-Vis, DLS, ICP-OES, XRF, TGA, BET, XRD, XPS, solid-state NMR, SEM, TEM etc. The catalytic properties of the samples were examined for three different reactions in both liquid and gas phase conditions.
Phytohormones in Sweet Cherry Buds During Winter Rest and Bud Development
Creators: name: Götz, Klaus-Peter
name: Chmielewski, Frank-M.
name: Tarkowská, Danuše
name: Pěnčík, Aleš
name: Novák, Ondřej
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Flower buds
subject: Prunus avium L.
subject: Gibberellins
subject: Cytokinins
subject: Auxins
subject: 580 Pflanzen (Botanik)

description: This (two-season) study was undertaken to assess the involvement of gibberellins (GAs), cytokinins (CKs), and auxins (AX) in dormancy of the sweet cherry buds ‘Summit’. Our hypothesis consisted in the assumption that representatives of these hormone groups are able to mark the transition between different dormancy phases. Changes in the transition between endo- and ecodormancy and the stages of ontogenetic development were not recognizable by bioactive GA1, GA5, GA7. The transient increase of GA3 during ecodormancy might be interpreted as an indication of the preservation of ecodormancy. The content of the biological active bases tZ, cZ, and DHZ was equal between endo- and ecodormancy. However, the content increased significantly in the first phase of ontogenetic development. The summation of the representatives of the various CKs (total iP-type, total tZ-type, total CK bases, total CK ribosides, total CK nucleotides, total O-glucosides, total N-glucosides, and total CKs) showed no differences regarding their levels during endo- and ecodormancy. These values increased markedly in the subsequent phase. AX increased after ecodormancy. By contrast, from side green until open cluster no differences occurred. As shown for AX, the content of oxIAA increased after ecodormancy. The content of IAAsp was low during endodormancy and increased transiently during ecodormancy and early ontogenetic development. This study revealed that no changes in the content of different bioactive GAs (exception GA3), CKs, and AX occurred during winter rest, and more precisely, during endo- and ecodormancy. These metabolites, therefore, are not suitable to differentiate between these dormancy phases. The ontogenesis is accompanied by specific changes in the content of bioactive molecules, precursors, and conjugation products.
On the Interaction of Chemically Conditioned Water with Steel
Heating Surfaces during Saturated Pool Boiling
Creators: name: Topp, Holger
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 660 Chemical engineering
subject: 620 Engineering & allied operations

description: The heat transfer from steel surfaces to boiling water is subject to irreversible negative temporal changes. In this work, the influence of the responsible physicochemical processes on the heating surface is investigated by thermotechnical measurements. Therefore, the influence of exemplary inorganic and organic feed water agents on the heat transfer, critical operating conditions and the surface properties of horizontal heating surfaces made from carbon-steel is examined thermotechnically in a special apparatus under pool boiling conditions and further characterised by analytical methods.
L’Archivistique à l’ère du numérique : recomposition et redéfinition d’un champ disciplinaire
Creators: name: TANG-IRMI, Dinza
Publisher: name: Journal of Information Sciences
Year: 2023
Subjects: Données numériques ; Obsolescence ; Outils génériques d’évaluation ; Macro-évaluation ; Science ouverte

description: Le vent du changement provoqué par la révolution numérique bouleverse et transforme profondément l’archivistique contemporaine. Les acteurs de la discipline se retrouvent face à une gestion très complexe des documents et données numériques à cause de la croissance volumétrique sans précédent et dont les formats de fichiers, les matériels, les logiciels de gestion et de communication de ces documents et données sont victimes de l’obsolescence absolument très accélérée conduite depuis 1965 par la loi de Gordon Earle Moore appelée « Loi de Moore ». Notre article propose des dispositifs à travers les panorama et perspectives de la science ouverte pour ce qui est de l’obsolescence et, de la ‘’macro-évaluation, outils génériques d’évaluation pour ce qui est de la croissance volumétrique. Une collaboration multidisciplinaire voire transdisciplinaire est sollicitée afin de braver ces verrous ou menottes numériques posés par la volumétrie et l’obsolescence.
description: Journal of Information Sciences, Vol 21, No 2 (2022): Humanités numériques
Locked-in or Locked-out: Can a Public Services Market Really Change?
Creators: name: Considine, Mark
name: O’Sullivan, Siobhan
name: McGann, Michael
name: Nguyen, Phuc
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © Cambridge University Press 2020.
Australia's welfare-to-work system has been subject to ongoing political contestation and policy reform since the 1990s. In this paper we take a big picture look at the Australian system over time, re-visiting our earlier analysis of the impact of marketisation on flexibility at the frontline over the first ten years of the Australian market in employment services. That analysis demonstrated that marketisation had failed to deliver the service flexibility intended through contracting-out, and had instead produced market herding around a common set of standardised frontline practices. In the interim, there have been two further major redesigns of the Australian system at considerable expense to taxpayers. Re-introducing greater flexibility and service tailoring into the market has been a key aim of these reforms. Calling on evidence from an original, longitudinal survey of frontline employment service staff run in 2008, 2012 and 2016, this paper considers how the Australian market has evolved over its second decade. We find remarkable consistency over time and, indeed, evidence of deepening organisational convergence. We conclude that, once in motion, isomorphic pressures towards standardisation quickly get locked into quasi-market regimes; at least when these pressures occur in low-trust contracting environments.