cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 10 of A prognostic model for Schistosoma japonicum infection-associated liver hepatocellular carcinoma: strengthening the connection through initial biological experiments
Creators: name: Sheng, Shuyan
name: Chen, Bangjie
name: Xu, Ruiyao
name: Han, Yanxun
name: Mao, Deshen
name: Chen, Yuerong
name: Li, Conghan
name: Su, Wenzhuo
name: Hu, Xinyang
name: Zhao, Qing
name: Lowe, Scott
name: Huang, Yuting
name: Shao, Wei
name: Yao, Yong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 10. Table S4. The detailed information of multivariate Cox regression analysis
Additional file 1 of Early life microbial exposures shape the Crassostrea gigas immune system for lifelong and intergenerational disease protection
Creators: name: Fallet, Manon
name: Montagnani, Caroline
name: Petton, Bruno
name: Dantan, Luc
name: de Lorgeril, Julien
name: Comarmond, Sébastien
name: Chaparro, Cristian
name: Toulza, Eve
name: Boitard, Simon
name: Escoubas, Jean-Michel
name: Vergnes, Agnès
name: Le Grand, Jacqueline
name: Bulla, Ingo
name: Gueguen, Yannick
name: Vidal-Dupiol, Jérémie
name: Grunau, Christoph
name: Mitta, Guillaume
name: Cosseau, Céline
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1. Additional information related to the methodology (the origin of the biological samples, the experimental design for disease induction, the bioinformatic pipelines).
Building mobile L2TP/IPsec tunnels
Creators: name: Xu, Chen
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Wireless networks introduce a whole range of challenges to the traditional TCP/IP network, especially Virtual Private Network (VPN). Changing IP address is a difficult issue for VPNs in wireless networks because IP addresses are used as one of the identifiers of a VPN connection and the change of IP addresses will break the original connection. The current solution to this problem is to run VPN tunnels over Mobile IP (MIP). However, Mobile IP itself has significant problems in performance and security and that solution is inefficient due to double tunneling.

This thesis proposes and implements a new and novel solution on simulators and real devices to solve the mobility problem in a VPN. The new solution adds mobility support to existing L2TP/IPsec (Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol/IP Security) tunnels. The new solution tunnels Layer 2 packets between VPN clients and a VPN server without using Mobile IP, without incurring tunnel-re-establishment at handoff, without losing packets during handoff, achieves better security than current mobility solutions for VPN, and supports fast handoff in IPv4 networks. Experimental results on a VMware simulation showed the handoff time for the VPN tunnel to be 0.08 seconds, much better than the current method which requires a new tunnel establishment at a cost of 1.56 seconds.

Experimental results with a real network of computers showed the handoff time for the VPN tunnel to be 4.8 seconds. This delay was mainly caused by getting an IP address from DHCP servers via wireless access points (4.6 seconds). The time for VPN negotiation was only 0.2 seconds. The experimental result proves that the proposed mobility solution greatly reduces the VPN negotiation time but getting an IP address from DHCP servers is a large delay which obstructs the real world application. This problem can be solved by introducing fast DHCP or supplying an IP address from a new wireless access point with a strong signal while the current Internet connection is weak. Currently, there is little work on fast DHCP and this may open a range of new research opportunities.
Additional file 1 of Supporting patient decision-making in non-invasive prenatal testing: a comparative study of professional values and practices in England and France
Creators: name: Bowman-Smart, Hilary
name: Perrot, Adeline
name: Horn, Ruth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
sj-pdf-1-cmr-10.1177_00081256221118117 – Supplemental material for Optimizing Customer Involvement: How Close Should You Be to Your Customers?
Creators: name: Sampson, Scott E.
name: Chase, Richard B.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: Economics
subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-cmr-10.1177_00081256221118117 for Optimizing Customer Involvement: How Close Should You Be to Your Customers? by Scott E. Sampson and Richard B. Chase in California Management Review
Population ageing
Creators: name: Chiocchetti, Paolo
Publisher: name: RESuME
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Demography
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Démographie

description: Population ageing is a major trend in contemporary European societies. A consequence of welcome shifts in life expectancy and fertility, it nevertheless entails important challenges for the adequacy, sustainability, and competitiveness of social and economic systems.
Populism
Creators: name: Chiocchetti, Paolo
Publisher: name: RESuME
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: politics
subject: politique
subject: Democracy
subject: Démocratie
subject: Populism
subject: Populisme

description: A chameleonic concept, populism can be defined as an ideology, a communication style, a political strategy, or a misguided category. Its key elements are a positive appreciation of people, a negative view of the elite, and the exaltation of untrammeled popular sovereignty against representative democracy and liberal constitutionalism. The fortune of the term, despite its theoretical and practical drawbacks, is the reflection of intrinsic antinomies of modern democracy and of a growing popular dissatisfaction toward the performance of representative governments and institutions.
The reduction of dose to breast tissue during multi-slice CT examinations using bismuth breast shields and dose modulation technologies
Creators: name: Storm, Cameron
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: With the rapid increase in the number of CT scans being performed worldwide, the importance of dose reduction to the radiosensitive breast tissue during these procedures is becoming a critical factor in ensuring that the induction of breast cancer in this modality is minimised. This study utilised a novel geometric phantom that allowed rapid modification of the size of the breasts to analyse the effectiveness of various dose reduction techniques under a variety of different circumstances from paediatric patients to larger breasted patients. Doses were accurately measured throughout the entire breast and chest area using over 300 individual TLD crystals, providing extremely comprehensive dose contour maps for CT scanning of the chest area.

The efficiency of bismuth breast shields was investigated and it was found that an average dose reduction of 21% for small sized breasts and up to 44% for larger breasts could be achieved. A maximum dose reduction of 57% was found, which does confirm the manufacturer’s claims. The breast shields did create additional quantitative noise in the diagnostic regions of interest, as well as qualitative noise in the form of streaking or beam hardening artefacts. The study found that lower breast doses could be achieved for a consistent noise value by simply manually reducing the tube mA.

Dose modulation on the Philips 64 CT scanner was also found to be an effective way to reduce the breast dose with reductions of between 40% and 50% depending on the type of dose modulation used. Dose modulation coupled with the breast shield created an even greater dose reduction, with certain techniques providing almost an 80% reduction in breast dose, though this was coupled with a significant increase in noise.

Based on the findings in this study, it is believed that further analysis on acceptable levels of noise is needed before a definitive position can be taken on the clinical use of bismuth breast shields. Other methods are available to the operators that provide equivalent levels of dose reduction to the breast tissue, whilst providing lower levels of noise in the clinical regions of interest.
Additional file 3 of Early life microbial exposures shape the Crassostrea gigas immune system for lifelong and intergenerational disease protection
Creators: name: Fallet, Manon
name: Montagnani, Caroline
name: Petton, Bruno
name: Dantan, Luc
name: de Lorgeril, Julien
name: Comarmond, Sébastien
name: Chaparro, Cristian
name: Toulza, Eve
name: Boitard, Simon
name: Escoubas, Jean-Michel
name: Vergnes, Agnès
name: Le Grand, Jacqueline
name: Bulla, Ingo
name: Gueguen, Yannick
name: Vidal-Dupiol, Jérémie
name: Grunau, Christoph
name: Mitta, Guillaume
name: Cosseau, Céline
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 3. Supplementary results on the phenotypes (Fertilisation success and survival rate of oysters) and on omics data (Table 2 = genetic, Table 3 = transcriptomic, Table 4 = epigenomic, Figs. 1 and 2 = 16S barcoding).
Solidarity
Creators: name: Chiocchetti, Paolo
Publisher: name: RESuME
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: competition
subject: compétition
subject: Solidarity
subject: Solidarité
subject: Welfare State
subject: État-providence
subject: Public Policy
subject: Politique publique
subject: European Union
subject: Union européenne

description: The principle of solidarity plays a key role in discussions of social, economic, and political issues. A polysemic notion, it may interrogate either individuals or public authorities. It often represents the counterpart of competition in the analysis and assessment of social norms and public policies.
Additional file 2 of Supporting patient decision-making in non-invasive prenatal testing: a comparative study of professional values and practices in England and France
Creators: name: Bowman-Smart, Hilary
name: Perrot, Adeline
name: Horn, Ruth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2
A tactical supply chain planning model with multiple flexibility options
Creators: name: Mohammad Esmaeil, Masoud
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Supply chains are facing different types of uncertainty associated with today’s business environment. Uncertainty in the supply chain may arise from a number of sources such as demand and supply interruptions, production/logistics capacity changes and lead time variability. To cope with this problem and lessen the impacts of such uncertainties, an effective strategy is to incorporate flexibility into supply chain planning. Introducing effective flexibility options into a supply chain can improve the responsiveness of the supply chain in dealing with uncertainties.
A three-dimensional framework is established to quantify a number of important flexibility options in supply, manufacturing and distribution. A tactical supply chain planning model incorporating the quantified flexibility options is developed for a three-echelon supply chain environment to fill the gap existing in the current literature. The model aims to minimise the total cost of the supply chain encompassing procurement, production and distribution costs. To solve the proposed model a new approach based on the so-called Cross-Entropy method is used. The model is solved for different scenarios having different number of the identified flexibility options and the impacts of adjusting flexibility on the overall performance of the supply chain are investigated against two performance measures including the total supply chain cost and the customer service level.
To validate the proposed model and the solution approach, the model was applied to an industrial case that manufactures a range of flange products. Obtained results reveal that the proposed optimisation model significantly reduces the total cost of the supply chain under every scenario. Interesting managerial insights are achieved through comparing the obtained results for each scenario using the performance measures.
Optimal use of rainwater tanks to minimize residential water consumption
Creators: name: Khastagir, Anirban
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Melbourne, the capital of Victoria Australia leads the world in having the highest quality drinking water. The Victorian State Government has set targets for reducing per capita water consumption by 15%, 25% and 30% by 2010, 2015 and 2020 respectively and has announced stringent water restrictions to curtail water demand. In this resource constraint environment it is opportune to look for alternative sources of water to supplement Melbourne's traditional water supply.

In Melbourne, legislation has been changed to make it possible to use rainwater harvested from domestic tanks for non potable purposes. The annual rainfall in Melbourne's metropolitan area varies from 450mm in the West to 850mm in the East to over 1000mm in the North East mountain ranges.

The objectives of the current study are to develop a methodology to estimate the optimal size of the rainwater tank at a particular location considering the local rainfall, roof area, demand for water and the reliability of supply (supply security) required; to quantify the rainwater volume that could be harvested at site using domestic rainwater tanks to minimise pressure on the potable water supply secured from traditional catchment sources until the desalination plant is commissioned in 2013; to analyse the efficacy of rainwater tanks to reduce the stormwater runoff and improve the quality of the stormwater that will otherwise flow into urban drains and to estimate the cost effectiveness ratio and payback period of inst alling rainwater tanks.

A simple water balance model was developed to calculate the tank size based on daily rainfall, roof area and the expected demand. The concept of 'reliability' was introduced to measure supply security. Rainfall data from 20 rainfall stations scattered around Melbourne were used to determine the variation in the rainwater tank size dependent on the above stated parameters. It was observed that to achieve the same supply reliability (90%) and to meet a specific demand (toilet and garden use), the tank size required in the western side of Melbourne is as high as 7 times as that required in the north-east side. As a result, the 'one size fits all' approach is not applicable in Melbourne considering the spatial distribution of mean annual rainfall (MAR). In this study, a unique generalized curve was developed to determine the optimum tank size considering the variation in MAR, demand, roof area and supply reliability.

The 20 rainfall stations of Greater Melbourne were divided into three water zones based on the three water retailers in Melbourne (Yarra Valley Water, South East Water and City West Water) to calculate the percentage reduction of potable water supply in these above stated water zones over the next 5 years until the desalination plant is commissioned in 2013.

Finally, the cost effectiveness of using rainwater for nonpotable domestic use in comparison with traditional reticulated water supply was analysed.
sj-docx-3-hss-10.1177_15563316221131031 – Supplemental material for In-Hospital, 24-Hour Exercise Spaces for Resident and Staff Wellness
Creators: name: M. Lightsey, Harry
name: Maier, Stephen P.
name: Bono, Christopher M.
name: Kang, James D.
name: Harris, Mitchel B.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-3-hss-10.1177_15563316221131031 for In-Hospital, 24-Hour Exercise Spaces for Resident and Staff Wellness by Harry M. Lightsey, Stephen P. Maier, Christopher M. Bono, James D. Kang and Mitchel B. Harris in HSS Journal®: The Musculoskeletal Journal of Hospital for Special Surgery
Empowering people with ABI to acquire better insight into brain injury: an application of educational principles
Creators: name: Durham, Christine
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: In this thesis, Christine Durham investigates the life experiences of 36 people with acquired brain injury (ABI) and further, the perspectives of five family carers and five professionals. Using an innovative method entitled Keys to the ABI Cage, study participants used cards with concepts drawn from previous literature around challenges and positive experiences to explore lives in a non-threatening way. The approach also supported participants to identify and use ‘keys’ to escape the ABI cage and re-engage with everyday life. Based on learning principles, Keys to the ABI Cage, supported participants to enter into a narrative about their lives by choosing concepts and ideas that applied to their own life experiences. By offering additional concepts on cards that were not part of those experiences, the study also prompted participants to think about how other possibilities might be used to improve their lives. The narratives produced from interviews were analysed using interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) and this systematic analysis established the struggles and the positives in people’s lives in a way not yet exemplified in the ABI literature. The study approach was also designed to accomplish this in a manner that did no harm to the participants.
This study establishes that ABI is not simply about damaged brains and is as much about re-engaging with everyday life. It demonstrates the positive factors people identify which give them hope and establishes through its own method an approach that complements the medicalised approach to mending bodies with one that seeks to mend broken lives and identities. It offers a potentially new practice-based approach for people with ABI and others whose lives and identities have been fractures and those struggling to regain a life of choice and of quality.
Key distribution and distributed intrusion detection system in wireless sensor network
Creators: name: Techateerawat, Piya
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: This thesis proposes a security solution in key management and Intrusion Detection System (IDS) for wireless sensor networks. It addresses challenges of designing in energy and security requirement. Since wireless communication consumes the most energy in sensor network, transmissions must be used efficiently. We propose Hint Key Distribution (HKD) for key management and Adaptive IDS for distributing activated IDS nodes and cooperative operation of these two protocols. HKD protocol focuses on the challenges of energy, computation and security. It uses a hint message and key chain to consume less energy while self-generating key can secure the secret key. It is a proposed solution to key distribution in sensor networks. Adaptive IDS uses threshold and voting algorithm to distribute IDS through the network. An elected node is activated IDS to monitor its network and neighbors. A threshold is used as a solution to reduce number of repeated activations of the same node. We attempt to distribute the energy use equally across the network. In a cooperative protocol, HKD and Adaptive IDS exchange information in order to adjust to the current situation. The level of alert controls the nature of the interaction between the two protocols.
Additional file 1 of NanoBERTa-ASP: predicting nanobody paratope based on a pretrained RoBERTa model
Creators: name: Li, Shangru
name: Meng, Xiangpeng
name: Li, Rui
name: Huang, Bingding
name: Wang, Xin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary information.
Strongly perturbed harmonic oscillator
Creators: name: Peidaee, Pantea
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: The limits of current micro-scale technology is approaching rapidly. As the technology is going toward nano-scale devices, physical phenomena involved are fundamentally different from micro-scale ones [1], [2]. Principles in classical physics are no longer powerful enough to explicate the phenomena involved in nano-scale devices. At this stage, quantum mechanic sheds some light on those topics which cannot be described by classical physics. The primary focus of this research work is the development of an analysis technique for understanding the behavior of strongly perturbed harmonic oscillators. Developing ``auxiliary' boundary value problems we solve monomially perturbed harmonic oscillators. Thereby, we assume monomial terms of arbitrary degree and any finite coefficient desired. The corresponding eigenvalues and eigenvectors can be utilized to solve more complex anharmonic oscillators with non polynomial anharmonicity or numerically defined anharmonicity. A large number of numerical calculations demonstrate the robustness and feasibility of our technique. Particular attention has been paid to the details as have implemented the underlying formula. We have developed iterative expressions for the involved integrals and the introduced ``Universal Functions.' The latter are applications and adaptations of a concept which was developed in 1990's to accelerate computations in the Boundary Element Method.
Chinese cross-listing
Creators: name: Liu, Lixian
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: With the increasing presence of Chinese companies listed and traded in the international stock markets, research on Chinese cross-listing is emerging as a new focus for academic research in the field. A number of studies have investigated the price disparity and price discovery between dual-listed Chinese securities (focus on Hong Kong and New York dual-listings); yet little is known about how bonding effects Chinese firms cross-listed in international stock markets, the price and market linkage among those dual- and triple-listed shares, and whether investment strategies could be developed from the price disparity phenomenon between dual-listed shares.

Building upon the existing literature on cross-listing, and using the data of listed Chinese companies during the period of 1993–2008, this study examines the relevance of the theories of the bonding hypothesis, cointegration and the law of one price in the context of Chinese firms’ cross-listing in the international capital markets. The results suggest that Chinese cross-listings exhibit a bonding premium only in the United States (US) markets, while the non-cross-listed Chinese firms demonstrate better firm performance than those listed in London, Singapore and Hong Kong. Further, the results reveal that for all the listed Chinese firms, profitability rate and the leverage ratio play a positive role in improving the firms’ performance. The adoptions of international accounting standards as a must-to-do corporate governance mechanism regulated by the host stock exchanges has less effects on Chinese firms’ performance, but the adoption of Big Four auditing firms does. And the interaction between cross-listing with different corporate governance mechanisms have different effects on firms’ valuation. The study suggests that merely borrowing a corporate governance mechanism does not guarantee the improvement of the firm performance.

Instead of using market indices, this study examines the short and long-term price linkages among the dual- and triple-listed Chinese securities in different stock markets over the period of 1993–2008. The empirical results reveal that most of the dual-listings traded in China A- and B-share markets, and the Hong Kong and New York stock markets exhibit a stationary long-run relationship. Some of the dual-listed China A- and H-share also exhibit cointegrated relationship. The results also suggest that Hong Kong and New York markets have a very strong interactive relationship in terms of the dual-listed stocks. The stock’s total return index series for those cross-listed Chinese stocks are cointegrated and pricing errors are corrected almost immediately. Lastly, arbitrage opportunities for the 14 pairs of Chinese American Depository Receipts (ADRs) and their underlying shares traded in New York and Hong Kong markets were examined. It was revealed that a portfolio of 14 dual listed stocks earns an average daily return of 1.28 per cent over the period studied when transaction costs were considered and market risk was controlled.
Compressive strength and drying shrinkage of HySSIL cellular lightweight concrete under different exposure conditions
Creators: name: Lee, Huat Yong
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: An innovative cellular lightweight concrete has the potential to offer significant environmental benefits to the Australian construction sector. It has the potential to reduce the self weight of normal concrete structures by up to 50% and to offer environmental advantages with its superior insulation properties. The porous microstructure of the material provides better sound and temperature insulation than normal concrete.

Initial studies have shown that the strength of this cellular concrete changes significantly with the moisture content of the material itself. Concern has therefore been raised about the possible changes in moisture content during in-service conditions and the resultant effect on compressive strength. Therefore, it is vital to understand the equilibrium moisture content of the material under standard exposure conditions according to Australian Standards. The structural application of cellular concrete also requires a sound understanding of the drying shrinkage of the material, since differential shrinkage could cause warping and cracking of the structures. In calculating the drying shrinkage of normal concrete, the basic shrinkage strain is determined using standard specimens and then modified to allow for the size effect. This method requires some validation/modification prior to application to cellular concrete.

The research work presented here has addressed the above gaps in knowledge through a comprehensive experimental program covering moisture content, compressive strength and drying shrinkage of cellular light weight concrete under different exposure conditions. Compressive strength, moisture content, and exposure relationships have been established by means of the exposure of 100 mm cubes cut from panels to six different service exposure conditions, preceded by the conditioning methods adopted in the normal manufacturing process for panels. It is observed that exposure to different environments with a range of relative humidity from 30% to 80% changed the equilibrium moisture content of the material by between 4% and 8%. This change led to a 33% change in compressive strength, which indicates that care should be taken in electing surface coatings if the material is used in load- bearing structures.
The drying shrinkage of the cellular lightweight concrete has been examined through the design of an experimental program covering age, dimensions of specimens and the exposed environment as major variables. The current AS3600 drying shrinkage model has been modified to predict the drying shrinkage of the cellular lightweight concrete studied here.
Effects of mobile phone radiation on the human central nervous system
Creators: name: Perentos, Nicholas
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: The effects of mobile phone-like electromagnetic radiation on the human brain activity are examined. The research focuses on both radio frequency (RF) exposures and the much less studied low frequency (ELF) exposures (less than 40 kHz) arising from the battery operation of GSM handsets. The first single blind study recruited a small sample of twelve human volunteers. The eyes closed resting EEG activity is monitored after radio frequency exposure. With SAR levels of 2 W/kg, results reveal no statistical changes in any of the examined frequency bands for neither pulsed modulated RF signals nor continuous wave RF signals. In the second double blind study, a sample of 72 volunteers is recruited and an improved protocol comprised of separate pulsed RF, continuous RF and pulsed ELF exposures is employed. Exposures are delivered through a custom made handset capable of independent RF and ELF exposures. Findings include a reduced alpha band frequency activity during pulsed radio frequency and low frequency radiations exposures but no changes under the continuous RF radiation. Changes are present both during as well as after exposure, while greater changes are observed during exposures. The study of some non linear measures of the resting EEG revealed no changes under any of the active exposures. As the observed changes are very close to the normal EEG variation during resting conditions, their biological significance and health impact is not immediately obvious. However, their mere demonstration points to a low level interaction mechanism which may deserve further study.
Modern Islamic terrorism, jihad and the perceptions of Melbourne's Muslim leaders
Creators: name: Elzain, Carol
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Terrorism has loomed in the public eye for centuries; however, since 9/11 modern terrorism has attracted a new public dimension. On an international and domestic scope, media and government bodies have identified that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were delivered by the hands of Islamic terrorists, namely Al-Qaeda (U.S. Government, 2002). According to Australian, American and British government official reports and numerous international and domestic media reports, Al-Qaeda publicly claimed responsibility for 9/11 and other terrorist attacks such as the Bali, London and Madrid bombings (Al-Jazeera, 2004: 1-6; Gonzales, 2006:3; National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, 2002: 1-49; ). Furthermore, some domestic and international Muslim communities have responded to 9/11 and other attacks by revealing their support of Al-Qaeda's hatred and violence towards the West (Tarakhil, 2004:1; Ziabi, 2006:5). It was here among these media and government reports that the concept of Jihad emerged as a pivotal religious and political concept that justifies terrorism. As a result, Jihad developed a causal link to terrorism and thus, placed Islam in the forefront of controversy as a religion that creates terrorists. Despite such compelling government and media reports on the association made between Jihad and terrorism, questions as to their link remain prevalent. It would be an ignorant and a deeply unjust assumption to make against Islam, if the public are led to believe that an association truly exists between Jihad and terrorism without credibly assessing the construct and application of both concepts. Therefore, it is the aim of this research to analyze Jihad and terrorism first as singular concepts, and then examine the possible link that Jihad may have with Islamic terrorism. In order to successfully conduct such an enquiry, it is important to compare and contrast both the interpretations of Melbourne's Islamic religious leaders to that of academic literature on Jihad and terrorism.
Additional file 1 of Does peer teaching improve academic results and competencies during medical school? A mixed methods study
Creators: name: Avonts, Marijke
name: Michels, Nele R.
name: Bombeke, Katrien
name: Hens, Niel
name: Coenen, Samuel
name: Vanderveken, Olivier M.
name: De Winter, Benedicte Y.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Flowchart of article search process.
sj-docx-1-sgo-10.1177_21582440231177974 – Supplemental material for Who Controls the National Academic Promotion System: An Analysis of Power Distribution in Poland
Creators: name: Koza, Zbigniew
name: Lew, Robert
name: Kulczycki, Emanuel
name: Stec, Piotr
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Education
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-sgo-10.1177_21582440231177974 for Who Controls the National Academic Promotion System: An Analysis of Power Distribution in Poland by Zbigniew Koza, Robert Lew, Emanuel Kulczycki and Piotr Stec in SAGE Open
Cultivating tactics for a change in practice: a designer's quest to merge personal values with communication design practice, and what happened along the way...
Creators: name: Ivanka, Tania
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Herein lies the journey of change, from being a frustrated and isolated designer, to finding a connected practice expressing my personal values. Much was learnt on the journey regarding the nature of my practice and how it changed, about sustainability and what it means for my practice, tactics, framing and the recognition of a greater potential of my communication design practice beyond material considerations to becoming a device for connection leading to a more sustaining practice. This research is of value to communication design practitioners wishing to move towards a more sustainable practice. It provides insight into the deeper issues of sustainability applied to communication design practice, a guide to important literature of the field, and some possibilities for an expanded form of communication design practice.
Additional file 1 of A predictive model for advanced oropharyngeal cancer patients treated with chemoradiation
Creators: name: Lo, Wu-Chia
name: Chang, Chih-Ming
name: Wu, Chia-Yun
name: Hsieh, Chen-Hsi
name: Shueng, Pei-Wei
name: Cheng, Po-Wen
name: Liao, Li-Jen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Fig. 1. The 1-year and 2-year overall mortality rates for advanced oropharyngeal cancer patients were 29% (95% CI: 23–37%) and 52% (95% CI: 44–60%), respectively.
Additional file 1 of Intermediate-risk pulmonary embolism: echocardiography predictors of clinical deterioration
Creators: name: Weekes, Anthony J.
name: Fraga, Denise N.
name: Belyshev, Vitaliy
name: Bost, William
name: Gardner, Christopher A.
name: O’Connell, Nathaniel S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Methods supplement. Definitions of outcomes; Statistical methods. Logistic regression model training and validation and comparison of models.
Additional file 2 of Intermediate-risk pulmonary embolism: echocardiography predictors of clinical deterioration
Creators: name: Weekes, Anthony J.
name: Fraga, Denise N.
name: Belyshev, Vitaliy
name: Bost, William
name: Gardner, Christopher A.
name: O’Connell, Nathaniel S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Summary statistics and univariable analyses for all predictor variables.
Additional file 1 of Healthcare worker burnout: exploring the experiences of doctors working in a maternity unit in Namibia
Creators: name: Brückner, Tanya Y.
name: Heemelaar, S.
name: Endjala, T.
name: van den Akker, T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Developing reflective practice
Creators: name: Cherry, Nita
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: This study explores how reflection upon oneself and one's own behaviour assists people - and, in particular, managers - to develop. Reflective techniques are examined in the context of action-learning (Revans, 1980 and Marsick, 1992) and are argued to be a powerful means of creating self-understanding, which in turn creates opportunities for self-directed personal change. Reflective techniques are also examined as a means of developing the personal craft or praxis of those who try to assist the development of managers, and as a technique for use in action research (Lewin, 1946) and the development of collective knowledge. Schon's (1987) concept of the 'reflective practitioner' provided a major theoretical foundation for this work. The study employed action research and action learning methodologies. The researcher spent six years honing her understanding and application of reflective techniques in assisting the development of managers. She also applied self-reflection to the development of her own praxis over that time. One result of the study has been the enhancement of the practical, reflection-based techniques used by the writer to facilitate the development of managers - and more importantly, offered to them to facilitate their own continuing development. Hopefully, these techniques will be of value to other practitioners in this field. A second outcome has been the review and refinement of some of the theoretical constructs used by this writer and other practitioners and theorists which help to describe and explain the phenomenon of reflection-based behavioural change. A third outcome has been the documentation of a case-study in the application of reflective techniques to the development of personal praxis, tracking the integration of conceptual understanding and technique.

Chapter 1 provides an overview of the rationale, scope, methodology and outcomes of this study. Chapter 2 explores reflection as a technique for research and the development of collective knowledge, and incorporates a review of the relevant literature. Chapters 3 and 5 examine reflection as a tool for learning, drawing on the literature and tracking the development of the researcher's own understanding. Chapter 4 describes how the researcher learned to use reflective learning techniques when working with others and follows the gradual integration of her understanding with her practice. Chapter 6 summarises and reflects upon both the processes and the outcomes of the research.
Additional file 3 of Intermediate-risk pulmonary embolism: echocardiography predictors of clinical deterioration
Creators: name: Weekes, Anthony J.
name: Fraga, Denise N.
name: Belyshev, Vitaliy
name: Bost, William
name: Gardner, Christopher A.
name: O’Connell, Nathaniel S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S2. Echocardiography metrics by secondary outcome.
Additional file 4 of Intermediate-risk pulmonary embolism: echocardiography predictors of clinical deterioration
Creators: name: Weekes, Anthony J.
name: Fraga, Denise N.
name: Belyshev, Vitaliy
name: Bost, William
name: Gardner, Christopher A.
name: O’Connell, Nathaniel S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Table S3. Reduced right ventricle assessment logistic regression model for 30-day clinical deterioration.
Additional file 2 of Healthcare worker burnout: exploring the experiences of doctors working in a maternity unit in Namibia
Creators: name: Brückner, Tanya Y.
name: Heemelaar, S.
name: Endjala, T.
name: van den Akker, T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2.
sj-pdf-1-rrr-10.1177_0034673X231215280 – Supplemental material for The Persistence of Religion as a Master Status for Chaplains
Creators: name: Lawton, Amy
name: Cadge, Wendy
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Religion and Religious Studies not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-rrr-10.1177_0034673X231215280 for The Persistence of Religion as a Master Status for Chaplains by Amy Lawton and Wendy Cadge in Review of Religious Research
Repeatable shape
Creators: name: Hogg, Geoff
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: My research explores the concept of designing a cultural practice. It will reflect on my work over 40 years beginning in 1968 but mainly emphasise practical projects beginning in 1974.

By cultural practice I mean a range of practices including activism, art making, education and capacity building.

My emphasis will be on collaborative design and engagement with emerging constituencies producing insights, networks and changed cultural directions and priorities.

The key areas explored will be:

1. Community cultural development
 This term refers to the practice of direct community participation in the conceptualisation and creation of works of art and design. In its modern form it emerged strongly in the 1970s and has a continuing influence in many fields of thought and social practice.

2. Art and Working Life (Art in the Union Movement)
 This group of practices developed strongly in the 1970s and 1980s. It had an international character with a world network and involved the creation of new works of art and design along with the revival of traditional forms such as trade union banners and processional objects.

3. Cross Cultural Practice
 This refers to the development of work involving collaboration by artists from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in Australia and overseas. Particular emphasis will be given to work involving Australian and Chinese artists in both countries.

In examining these areas I will also consider a number of linking practices. By this I mean practices, approaches and methods of work that are common to all three areas and create a framework through which they are connected and interact. These include:
* Art in Public Space
* Education through practice including praxiological research
* Cultural engagement and participation
* Collaborative practice including inter-disciplinary practice.
sj-pdf-2-hol-10.1177_09596836231211848 – Supplemental material for An archaeobotanical and stable isotope approach to changing agricultural practices in the NW Mediterranean region around 4000 BC
Creators: name: Antolín, Ferran
name: Jacomet, Stefanie
name: Soteras, Raül
name: Gerling, Claudia
name: Bernasconi, Stefano M
name: Follmann, Franziska
name: Hajdas, Irka
name: Jaggi, Madalina
name: Jesus, Ana
name: Martínez-Grau, Héctor
name: Oms, Francesc Xavier
name: Röder, Brigitte
name: Steiner, Bigna L
name: van Willigen, Samuel
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Geography
History

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-2-hol-10.1177_09596836231211848 for An archaeobotanical and stable isotope approach to changing agricultural practices in the NW Mediterranean region around 4000 BC by Ferran Antolín, Stefanie Jacomet, Raül Soteras, Claudia Gerling, Stefano M Bernasconi, Franziska Follmann, Irka Hajdas, Madalina Jaggi, Ana Jesus, Héctor Martínez-Grau, Francesc Xavier Oms, Brigitte Röder, Bigna L Steiner and Samuel van Willigen in The Holocene
Traffic matrix estimation in IP networks
Creators: name: Eum, Suyong
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: An Origin-Destination (OD) traffic matrix provides a major input to the design, planning and management of a telecommunications network. Since the Internet is being proposed as the principal delivery mechanism for telecommunications traffic at the present time, and this network is not owned or managed by a single entity, there are significant challenges for network planners and managers needing to determine equipment and topology configurations for the various sections of the Internet that are currently the responsibility of ISPs and traditional telcos. Planning of these sub-networks typically requires a traffic matrix of demands that is then used to infer the flows on the administrator's network. Unfortunately, computation of the traffic matrix from measurements of individual flows is extremely difficult due to the fact that the problem formulation generally leads to the need to solve an under-determined system of equations. Thus, there has been a major effort from among researchers to obtain the traffic matrix using various inference techniques.

The major contribution of this thesis is the development of inference techniques for traffic matrix estimation problem according to three different approaches, viz: (1) deterministic, (2) statistical, and (3) dynamic approaches.

Firstly, for the deterministic approach, the traffic matrix estimation problem is formulated as a nonlinear optimization problem based on the generalized Kruithof approach which uses the Kullback distance to measure the probabilistic distance between two traffic matrices. In addition, an algorithm using the Affine scaling method is developed to solve the constrained optimization problem.

Secondly, for the statistical approach, a series of traffic matrices are obtained by applying a standard deterministic approach. The components of these matrices represent estimates of the volumes of flows being exchanged between all pairs of nodes at the respective measurement points and they form a stochastic counting process. Then, a Markovian Arrival Process of order two (MAP-2) is applied to model the counting processes formed from this series of estimated traffic matrices.

Thirdly, for the dynamic approach, the dual problem of the multi-commodity flow problem is formulated to obtain a set of link weights. The new weight set enables flows to be rerouted along new paths, which create new constraints to overcome the under-determined nature of traffic matrix estimation. Since a weight change disturbs a network, the impact of weight changes on the network is investigated by using simulation based on the well-known ns2 simulator package.

Finally, we introduce two network applications that make use of the deterministic and the statistical approaches to obtain a traffic matrix respectively and also describe a scenario for the use of the dynamic approach.