cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Integrating and maintaining automated external defibrillators and emergency planning in community sport settings: a qualitative case study
Creators: name: Fortington, Lauren
name: Bekker, Sheree
name: Finch, Caroline F
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2020 BMJ Publishing Group. All rights reserved. Introduction A voluntary State Government-led programme in Victoria, Australia € Defibrillators for Sporting Clubs and Facilities Program' ran from 2015 to 2019, broadly aimed at increasing access to automated external defibrillators (AEDs), together with a greater number of community members trained for management of medical emergencies. This study aimed to understand whether participating sport clubs/facilities had successfully integrated an AED and medical planning with other club/facility safety practices, 12 months after delivery of the programme. Methods This was a qualitative case study of 14 sport clubs/facilities in Victoria, Australia in 2017, underpinned by the Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, Maintenance (RE-AIM) framework. We conducted observational audits of facilities (to locate AED placement, signage and other relevant location-specific factors) and semi-structured, face-to-face interviews with representatives of the clubs/facilities. Interview questions were designed to determine if and how the related, mandated emergency management programme was adapted for the long term (embedding), whether this aligned to ongoing organisational mission (active engagement), and whether or not it was still ongoing 6 months postinitial implementation (sustainability). Data were evaluated using qualitative descriptive methodology. For reporting, descriptive summaries of the audit were combined with interview data to contextualise and visualise the sport club/facility setting and key results. Results Key issues identified were accessibility and visibility of the AED, with inadequate signage and challenges identifying an efficient location for access and storage. Most interviewees reported the AED and training were received with no further actions taken towards safety planning or integration with club/facility practice. Several challenges regarding remaining up to date with training and ensuring required routine checks of the AED take place were also raised. Conclusions This study identified several challenges for community sport clubs/facilities in the implementation of an AED and medical planning programme, including where to store the AED, how to make its presence known to the community and how to integrate changes alongside other club/facility practices.
MPEC 2024-M43 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2024 June 23)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
sj-docx-3-car-10.1177_19476035241227332 – Supplemental material for Second-Look Arthroscopy Shows Inferior Cartilage after Bone Marrow Stimulation Compared with Other Operative Techniques for Osteochondral Lesions of the Talus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: Vreeken, Jelmer T.
name: Dahmen, Jari
name: Stornebrink, Tobias
name: Emanuel, Kaj S.
name: Walinga, Alex B.
name: Stufkens, Sjoerd A.S.
name: Kerkhoffs, Gino M.M.J.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: Orthopaedics
Sports Medicine
Surgery
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-3-car-10.1177_19476035241227332 for Second-Look Arthroscopy Shows Inferior Cartilage after Bone Marrow Stimulation Compared with Other Operative Techniques for Osteochondral Lesions of the Talus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Jelmer T. Vreeken, Jari Dahmen, Tobias Stornebrink, Kaj S. Emanuel, Alex B. Walinga, Sjoerd A.S. Stufkens and Gino M.M.J. Kerkhoffs in CARTILAGE
The assessment and prediction of prospective memory after stroke
Creators: name: C Hogan
name: P Cornwell
name: Fleming, Jennifer
name: DHK Shum
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Copyright © INS. Published by Cambridge University Press 2020. Prospective memory (PM) is the memory used when intentions are to be carried out in the future. Little research has been conducted examining PM after stroke. This study aimed to determine if PM is impaired after stroke through comparison of individuals with stroke to healthy controls. Additionally, it aimed to explore the predictors of PM performance post-stroke.Method: Twenty-eight individuals with stroke and 27 neurologically healthy controls completed the Cambridge Prospective Memory Test (CAMPROMPT), 2 self-report PM questionnaires, and multiple cognitive measures.Results: Individuals with stroke performed significantly lower on both event- and time-based PM than controls on the CAMPROMPT, indicating PM impairment. Event-based PM after stroke was significantly predicted by age, retrospective memory (RM), and global cognitive function, whereas time-based PM was only predicted by the metacognitive skill of note-taking. Age and note-taking predicted time-based PM for controls, whereas only age predicted event-based PM for control participants.Conclusions: The findings of this study have helped to confirm that PM impairment does exist after stroke, particularly when using a standardised PM measure. Furthermore, PM impairment may be predicted by variables, such as age, strategy use, RM, and cognitive ability.
title: Visceral politics of food:
title: the bio-moral economy of worklunch in Mumbai, India.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Kuroda, Ken
Publisher: name: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform

description: This Ph.D. examines how commuters in Mumbai, India, negotiate their sense of being and wellbeing through their engagements with food in the city. It focuses on the widespread practice of eating homemade lunches in the workplace, important for commuters to replenish mind and body with foods that embody their specific family backgrounds, in a society where religious, caste, class, and community markers comprise complex dietary regimes. Eating such charged substances in the office canteen was essential in reproducing selfhood and social distinction within Mumbai’s cosmopolitan environment. These engagements were “visceral” since they were experienced in and expressed through the intimate scale of the gut, mediating and consolidating boundaries between self and Other on lines of (incommensurable) food habits. Such tensions, most visible between vegetarians and meat eaters, were aggravated in the wake of the “beef ban” in March 2015, which illegalized the slaughter of cattle in the state of Maharashtra, wherein cosmopolitan pleasure gave way to visceral disgust and estrangement.
 In connection, this thesis examines the vast work-lunch economy of Mumbai through three prominent businesses: the Dabbawalas, a 125-year-old home food delivery network; tiffin services, informal catering businesses operated by housewives, who commercially hybridize homemade food; and tech food start-ups, run by a generation of young entrepreneurs striving for novel takes on homemade food. Whereas anthropological literature on India has analysed either the emergence of a new urban public sphere since India’s economic liberalization, or the ripples it has made in the domestic sphere, this thesis examines how these businesses address commuter specific bio-moral anxieties of maintaining communal identity, purity, and wellbeing within the stressful environment of contemporary Mumbai, by means of mediating domestic intimacy with the urban public, at an affordable price. These interventions are conceptualized as “technologies of purity”, specific forms of visceral politics of food.
title: The clathrates Ba8TMxGe46 and Ba8TMxSi46 (TM = Ag, Au)
Creators: name: Zeiringer, Isolde
Year: 2010

description: Die vorliegenden Diplomarbeit beinhaltet die Bildung und Homogenitätsbereiche der Typ- І Clathrate Ba8TMxGe46 und Ba8TMxSi46 wobei TM für Silber oder Gold steht und für eine Leerstelle im Gitter (Raumgruppe Pm-3n) bei 800 bzw. 600°C. Für die Erstellung der isothermen Schnitte bei 800°C der 4 ternären Systeme Ba – Ag – Ge, Ba – Ag – Si, Ba – Au – Ge und Ba – Au – Si wurden auch die Gold bzw. Silber reichen Teile untersucht. Für die Charakterisierung der Phasen, wurde Röntgenpulverdiffraktometrie, Elektronenmikroskopie (EPMA) und Differenzial Thermoanalyse (DTA) durchgeführt. Von Ba8Ag5Si41, Ba8Au5.1Si40.9 und Ba8Au6Ge40 wurden die thermoelektrischen Eigenschaften (Seebeck Koeffizient (S), elektrischer Widerstand (ρ) und thermische Leitfähigkeit (λ)) im Temperaturbereich zwischen 4.2 und ~ 900K gemessen.
description: The present diploma thesis contains the formation and homogeneity range of clathrate type-І Ba8TMxGe46 and Ba8TMxSi46 with TM = Ag or Au and is a vacancy (space group type Pm-3n) at 800°C (600°C) and also phase relations concerning this region. To prepare the partial isothermal sections at 800°C for the 4 ternary systems Ba – Ag – Ge, Ba – Ag – Si, Ba – Au – Ge und Ba – Au – Si, further investigations into the silver or gold rich part of have been carried out. For sample characterization X-ray powder diffraction, electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) and differential thermal analysis (DTA) were used and thermoelectric properties (thermopower (S), electrical resistivity (ρ) and thermal conductivity (λ)) have been measured for Ba8Ag5Si41, Ba8Au5.1Si40.9 and Ba8Au6Ge40 between 4.2 and about 900K.
Haemopedia RNA-seq: A database of gene expression during haematopoiesis in mice and humans
Creators: name: J Choi
name: TM Baldwin
name: M Wong
name: JE Bolden
name: KA Fairfax
name: EC Lucas
name: R Cole
name: C Biben
name: C Morgan
name: KA Ramsay
name: AP Ng
name: M Kauppi
name: LM Corcoran
name: Shi, Wei
name: N Wilson
name: MJ Wilson
name: WS Alexander
name: DJ Hilton
name: CA De Graaf
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2018 The Author(s). During haematopoiesis, haematopoietic stem cells differentiate into restricted potential progenitors before maturing into the many lineages required for oxygen transport, wound healing and immune response. We have updated Haemopedia, a database of gene-expression profiles from a broad spectrum of haematopoietic cells, to include RNA-seq gene-expression data from both mice and humans. The Haemopedia RNA-seq data set covers a wide range of lineages and progenitors, with 57 mouse blood cell types (flow sorted populations from healthy mice) and 12 human blood cell types. This data set has been made accessible for exploration and analysis, to researchers and clinicians with limited bioinformatics experience, on our online portal Haemosphere: https://www.haemosphere. org. Haemosphere also includes nine other publicly available high-quality data sets relevant to haematopoiesis. We have added the ability to compare gene expression across data sets and species by curating data sets with shared lineage designations or to view expression gene vs gene, with all plots available for download by the user.
sj-docx-1-mdm-10.1177_0272989X241227425 – Supplemental material for Preferences for Genetic Testing to Predict the Risk of Developing Hereditary Cancer: A Systematic Review of Discrete Choice Experiments
Creators: name: Morrish, N.
name: Snowsill, T.
name: Dodman, S.
name: Medina-Lara, A.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: Health and Community Services
Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
Sociological Methodology and Research Methods

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-mdm-10.1177_0272989X241227425 for Preferences for Genetic Testing to Predict the Risk of Developing Hereditary Cancer: A Systematic Review of Discrete Choice Experiments by N. Morrish, T. Snowsill, S. Dodman and A. Medina-Lara in Medical Decision Making
Germline-activating mutations in PIK3CD compromise B cell development and function
Creators: name: DT Avery
name: A Kane
name: T Nguyen
name: A Lau
name: A Nguyen
name: H Lenthall
name: K Payne
name: Shi, Wei
name: H Brigden
name: E French
name: J Bier
name: JR Hermes
name: D Zahra
name: WA Sewell
name: D Butt
name: M Elliott
name: K Boztug
name: I Meyts
name: S Choo
name: P Hsu
name: M Wong
name: LJ Berglund
name: P Gray
name: M O’Sullivan
name: T Cole
name: SM Holland
name: CS Ma
name: C Burkhart
name: LM Corcoran
name: TG Phan
name: R Brink
name: G Uzel
name: EK Deenick
name: SG Tangye
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2018 Avery et al. Gain-of-function (GOF) mutations in PIK3CD, encoding the p110δ subunit of phosphatidylinositide 3-kinase (PI3K), cause a primary immunodeficiency. Affected individuals display impaired humoral immune responses following infection or immunization. To establish mechanisms underlying these immune defects, we studied a large cohort of patients with PIK3CD GOF mutations and established a novel mouse model using CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing to introduce a common pathogenic mutation in Pik3cd. In both species, hyperactive PI3K severely affected B cell development and differentiation in the bone marrow and the periphery. Furthermore, PI3K GOF B cells exhibited intrinsic defects in class-switch recombination (CSR) due to impaired induction of activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) and failure to acquire a plasmablast gene signature and phenotype. Importantly, defects in CSR, AID expression, and Ig secretion were restored by leniolisib, a specific p110δ inhibitor. Our findings reveal key roles for balanced PI3K signaling in B cell development and long-lived humoral immunity and memory and establish the validity of treating affected individuals with p110δ inhibitors.
Limma powers differential expression analyses for RNA-sequencing and microarray studies
Creators: name: ME Ritchie
name: B Phipson
name: D Wu
name: Y Hu
name: CW Law
name: Shi, Wei
name: GK Smyth
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © The Author(s) 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Nucleic Acids Research. limma is an R/Bioconductor software package that provides an integrated solution for analysing data from gene expression experiments. It contains rich features for handling complex experimental designs and for information borrowing to overcome the problem of small sample sizes. Over the past decade, limma has been a popular choice for gene discovery through differential expression analyses of microarray and high-throughput PCR data. The package contains particularly strong facilities for reading, normalizing and exploring such data. Recently, the capabilities of limma have been significantly expanded in two important directions. First, the package can now perform both differential expression and differential splicing analyses of RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) data. All the downstream analysis tools previously restricted to microarray data are now available for RNA-seq as well. These capabilities allow users to analyse both RNA-seq and microarray data with very similar pipelines. Second, the package is now able to go past the traditional gene-wise expression analyses in a variety of ways, analysing expression profiles in terms of co-regulated sets of genes or in terms of higher-order expression signatures. This provides enhanced possibilities for biological interpretation of gene expression differences. This article reviews the philosophy and design of the limma package, summarizing both new and historical features, with an emphasis on recent enhancements and features that have not been previously described.
Schistochila DUMORT.
Creators: name: Thouvenot, Louis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Marchantiophyta
Jungermanniopsida
Jungermanniales
Schistochilaceae
Schistochila

description: KEY TO THE NEW CALEDONIAN SPECIES OF SCHISTOCHILA DUMORT.
1. Leaf cells with huge trigones, seemingly three-layered; stem epidermis distinctive, with thin-walled cells, medullar cells more or less evenly thick walled; leaf margins entire, underleaves lacking................................................. 2
— Leaf cells with simple trigones, large to inconspicuous, stem cells more or less homogeneous, cortical cells less differentiated with wall cells moderately thick becoming progressively thinner toward central medulla; leaf margins entire or toothed to laciniate, underleaves present or lacking on sterile shoots................................. 3
 2. Dorsal leaf lobes slightly larger than ventral lobes, both lobes short rectangular-oblong. Leaves with a broad hyaline border; stem medullar cells very thick walled, the walls thicker than the lumina......................................................................................................................... Schistochila vitreocincta (Herzog) X.L.He & Glenny
 — Dorsal leaf lobes conspicuously smaller than ventral lobes which are oblong-lanceolate, acuminate to obtuse apiculate. Leaves without hyaline border; stem medullar cells unevenly thickened, the walls thinner than the lumina............................................................................................................. Schistochila gradsteinii sp. nov.
3. Underleaves lacking in sterile shoots............................................................................................................ 4
— Underleaves present in sterile shoots............................................................................................................ 5
 4. Ventral lobe apex entire................................................................................... Schistochila integerrima Steph.
 — Ventral lobe apex toothed-ciliate................................ Schistochila aligera (Nees & Blume) J.B. Jack & Steph.
 5. Underleaves and leaf lobe with additional ciliate lobes............................... Schistochila sciurea (Nees) Schiffn.
 — Underleaves and leaf lobes without additional lobes.......................................... Schistochila caledonica Steph.
description: Published as part of Thouvenot, Louis, 2021, Schistochila gradsteinii sp. nov., a new species from New Caledonia related to S. vitreocincta (Schistochilaceae, Marchantiophyta), with a key to the local species and a description of the gynoecium of S. integerrima, pp. 11-18 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (2) on page 17, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2021v42a2, http://zenodo.org/record/12215282
Standardised Data on Initiatives - STARDIT: Alpha Version
Creators: name: Nunn, Jack
name: Shafee, Thomas
name: Chang, Steven
name: Stephens, Richard
name: Elliott, Jim
name: Oliver, Sandy
name: John, Denny
name: Smith, Maureen
name: Orr, Neil
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Ensuring people affected by initiatives (including research, education and international development) are involved in shaping how they are done is essential to ensure that what is being done (including what is being researched) is aligned with the priorities of those affected. This includes ensuring that access to knowledge generated from the initiative is universal (open access), according to the UN Convention of Human Rights. Meanwhile, ‘citizen science’ and participatory action research are blurring the lines between concepts such as ‘researcher’, ‘public’, ‘patient’ and ‘citizen’. For example, those researching global air pollution are not limited to distinct disciplines such as ‘public health’, ‘environment’ or ‘education’, with everyone affected, including researchers. The importance of involving people in initiatives by sharing power is clear, but evidence-informed methods of doing this are lacking.Creating an evidence base to inform the most effective ways of sharing power when designing, doing and evaluating initiatives is essential in order to ensure efficient, effective and equitable ways of working for the benefit of all.Standardised Data on Initiatives (STARDIT) is designed to create a standard way to share information about who was involved in an initiative (who did which tasks), what was done, what was learned and any impacts which occurred. It is designed to be flexible, so it can be easily adapted to be useful across all disciplines, including health, environment, basic science, policy and international development. STARDIT reports will be shared open access (in the public domain), using machine readable linked-data.STARDIT is being co-created in a collaborative way, with anyone in the world invited to be a part of shaping the development. All information about it will be shared for free under a Creative Commons licence. The project is currently being hosted by the WikiJournals on Wikimedia Foundation servers. The co-creation process is being supported pro-bono by the charity ‘Science for All’.
sj-docx-1-npx-10.1177_1934578X241228966 - Supplemental material for Momordin Ic Inhibits the Partially Malignant Phenotype of Osteosarcoma Cells by Inducing Apoptosis and Autophagy
Creators: name: Xu, Ruiqing
name: Huang, Rui
name: Shi, Jiandang
name: Chu, Dawei
name: Yang, Pengyu
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-npx-10.1177_1934578X241228966 for Momordin Ic Inhibits the Partially Malignant Phenotype of Osteosarcoma Cells by Inducing Apoptosis and Autophagy by Ruiqing Xu, Rui Huang, Jiandang Shi, Dawei Chu and Pengyu Yang in Natural Product Communications
Expression of Influenza nucleoprotein in microalgal chloroplasts. Application for generation of edible vaccines
Creators: name: Cooke, Bryan
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310299
subject: Bioinformatics and computational biology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 310505
subject: Gene expression (incl. microarray and other genome-wide approaches)
classificationCode: 310801
subject: Phycology (incl. marine grasses)

description: The World Health Organization (WHO), the National Institutes of Health, and UNESCO have stressed the need for a new generation of low-cost vaccines to promote vaccination programs in the poorest regions of the world. They especially emphasized the need for heat-stable vaccines to avoid the considerable expense in maintaining the cold-chain during production and distribution, and needle-free formulations to reduce the risk of opportunistic contamination as well as the need for qualified personnel. Influenza is one of the most significant diseases worldwide, being implicated in 4 major pandemics and the causative agent of ongoing yearly epidemics. Every year Influenza A viruses initiate outbreaks of respiratory tract infection resulting in unacceptable mortality especially in the immuno-compromised persons and the +65's, and morbidity that impacts significantly in workplace economies.

Influenza H1N1 nucleoprotein (NP) sequence, codon optimized for C.reinhardtii chloroplast-specific regulatory sequences was designed as an epitope to induce immunity against Influenza. Wild type C. reinhardtii chloroplast genomes were transformed by NP transgene expressed under control of chloroplast-specific regulatory sequences, promotors and terminators. A large region of the tscA gene was used for integration into the chloroplast genome via homological recombination. Integration and expression of NP epitope containing transgene in C. reinhardtii chloroplast genomes was confirmed phenotypically by antibiotic spectinomycin selection and using a set of molecular biology techiques such as PCR, RT-PCR, DNA sequencing and ELISA. It is considered further research would be advantageous to confirm vaccine candidacy.
Austrolestes annulosus
Creators: name: Theischinger, G.
name: Endersby, I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Lestidae
Austrolestes
Austrolestes annulosus

description: Austrolestes annulosus (Selys, 1862)
Fig. 3
Ris (1910), as larva A; Lieftinck (1960); Watson (1962); O’Farrell (1970); Allbrook (1979); Nuttall (1982); Hawking (1986); Watson & O’Farrell (1991, 1994); Hawking & Theischinger (1999); Theischinger & Hawking (2003, 2006); Theischinger & Endersby (2009).
description: Published as part of Theischinger, G. & Endersby, I., 2014, Australian Dragonfly (Odonata) Larvae: Descriptive history and identification, pp. 73-120 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 72 on page 77, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2014.72.06, http://zenodo.org/record/12213169
sj-docx-1-tau-10.1177_17562872241229248 – Supplemental material for Current role of intraoperative cell salvage techniques in the management of renal tumors with level III and IV inferior vena cava thrombus extension
Creators: name: Surcel, Cristian
name: Dotzauer, Robert
name: Mirvald, Cristian
name: Popa, Calin
name: Olariu, Cosmin
name: Baston, Catalin
name: Harza, Mihai
name: Gangu, Constantin
name: Tsaur, Igor
name: Sinescu, Ioanel
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: Paediatrics
Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-tau-10.1177_17562872241229248 for Current role of intraoperative cell salvage techniques in the management of renal tumors with level III and IV inferior vena cava thrombus extension by Cristian Surcel, Robert Dotzauer, Cristian Mirvald, Calin Popa, Cosmin Olariu, Catalin Baston, Mihai Harza, Constantin Gangu, Igor Tsaur and Ioanel Sinescu in Therapeutic Advances in Urology
Design and reliability-based optimization of the piezoelectric flex transducer
Creators: name: Luo, Liheng
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2018

description: In recent years, the rapid development of low power consuming devices has
      resulted in a high demand for mobile energy harvesters. The main
      contribution of this thesis is to optimize the novel piezoelectric energy
      harvesting device called the piezoelectric flex transducer, which was
      developed by other researchers for the purpose of harvesting biokinetic
      energy from human gait. The optimization uses both conventional and
      reliability-based optimization approaches in order to improve the
      electrical power generation from the device. First, the piezoelectric flex
      transducer is modeled by using the finite element method with the finite
      element analysis software ANSYS APDL. Seven geometric parameters of the
      piezoelectric energy harvester are considered as design variables. A set
      of designs with different design variables are generated by the Design of
      Experiment technique, the generated designs are analyzed by the finite
      element model and the surrogate models that representing the behavior of
      the FEM are built by these inputs and the results of the FEA. Conventional
      optimization, taking into consideration different safety factors, is
      driven by the von mises stress of the device and is then searched by a
      mathematical algorithm with the assistance of surrogate models. To improve
      the efficiency of the surrogate modeling, a multi-level surrogate modeling
      approach for fast convergence will be introduced and the method will be
      demonstrated by optimizing the PFT device.

      As the optimal design is subject to a low stress safety factor, which may
      be unreliable with the uncertainties of the real-world, the reliability
      and sensitivity of the optimal design are analyzed. A Monte Carlo
      simulation is employed to analyse how the electrical power output has been
      affected by the input parameters with parametric uncertainties. The design
      parameters of a set of designs are perturbed around the optimal design
      parameters in order to imitate the optimal design under parametric
      uncertainties. The effects of parametric uncertainties are then evaluated
      by the constructed surrogate models. The method for improving the product
      reliability will be demonstrated.
Partial pathogenicity chromosomes in Fusarium oxysporum are sufficient to cause disease and can be horizontally transferred
Creators: name: J Li
name: L Fokkens
name: CONNEELY, Lee James
name: M Rep
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2020 The Author. Environmental Microbiology published by Society for Applied Microbiology and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. In Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lycopersici, all effector genes reported so far – also called SIX genes – are located on a single accessory chromosome which is required for pathogenicity and can also be horizontally transferred to another strain. To narrow down the minimal region required for virulence, we selected partial pathogenicity chromosome deletion strains by fluorescence-assisted cell sorting of a strain in which the two arms of the pathogenicity chromosome were labelled with GFP and RFP respectively. By testing the virulence of these deletion mutants, we show that the complete long arm and part of the short arm of the pathogenicity chromosome are not required for virulence. In addition, we demonstrate that smaller versions of the pathogenicity chromosome can also be transferred to a non-pathogenic strain and they are sufficient to turn the non-pathogen into a pathogen. Surprisingly, originally non-pathogenic strains that had received a smaller version of the pathogenicity chromosome were much more aggressive than recipients with a complete pathogenicity chromosome. Whole genome sequencing analysis revealed that partial deletions of the pathogenicity chromosome occurred mainly close to repeats, and that spontaneous duplication of sequences in accessory regions is frequent both in chromosome deletion strains and in horizontal transfer strains.
The pitfalls of using birthweight centile charts to audit care
Creators: name: RJ Selvaratnam
name: Mary-Ann Davey
name: EM Wallace
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2020 Selvaratnam et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Objectives: Timely delivery of fetal growth restriction (FGR) is important in reducing stillbirth. However, targeted earlier delivery of FGR preferentially removes smaller babies from later gestations, thereby right-shifting the distribution of birthweights at term. This artificially increases the birthweight cutoffs defining the lower centiles and redefines normally grown babies as small by population-based birthweight centiles. Our objective was to compare updated Australian national population-based birthweight centile charts over time with the prescriptive INTERGROWTH-21st standard. Methods: A retrospective descriptive study of all singleton births ≥34 weeks' gestation in Victoria, Australia in five two-year epochs: 1983-84, 1993-94, 2003-04, 2013-14, and 2016-17. The birthweight cutoffs defining the 3rd and 10th centile from three Australian national population-based birthweight centile charts, for births in 1991-1994, in 1998-2007, and 2004-2013 respectively, were applied to each epoch to calculate the proportion of babies with birthweight <3rd and <10th centile. The same analysis was done using the INTERGROWTH-21st birthweight standard. To assess change over gestation, proportions were also calculated at preterm, early term and late term gestations. Results: From 1983-84 to 2016-17, the proportion of babies with birthweight <3rd fell across all birthweight centile charts, from 3.1% to 1.7% using the oldest Australian chart, from 3.9% to 1.9% using the second oldest Australian chart, from 4.3% to 2.2% using the most recent Australian chart, and from 2.0% to 0.9% using the INTERGROWTH-21st standard. A similar effect was evident for the <10th centile. The effect was most obvious at term gestations. Updating the Australian population birthweight chart progressively right-shifted the birthweight distribution, changing the definition of small over time. The birthweight distribution of INTERGROWTH-21st was left-shifted compared to the Australian charts. Conclusions: Locally-derived population-based birthweight centiles are better for clinical audit of care but should not be updated. Prescriptive birthweight standards are less useful in defining 'small' due to their significant left-shift.
Leben und Wohnen in Salzburg-Lehen
Creators: name: Christoforow, Alexander
name: Hofmann, Maximilian
name: Majewski, Raffael
name: Piotrowski, Benjamin
name: Reil, Kristina
name: Scherer, Thomas
name: Voggenberger, Claudia
name: Vorage, Marcel Wilhelmus
Publisher: name: University of Salzburg
Year: 2018

description: In order to investigate current processes such as demographic change, changes in preferred living conditions and socio-spatial inequalities from an applied urban geographic perspective, students from the master program “Geographies of uneven development investigated Salzburg-Lehen. This report presents and analyses the results of a household survey in Lehen regarding of sociodemographic structures, housing conditions, housing satisfaction, social relations in the neighbourhood, the image of the neighbourhood and the mobility of residents. Lehen as a densely built-up, structurally diverse and polarising district is a very exciting research environment due to its central location in the city of Salzburg and current urban development projects.
Essays on financial inclusion, poverty and inequality
Creators: name: Zhang, Quanda
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 380107
subject: Financial economics
classificationCode: 380111
subject: Labour economics
classificationCode: 380112
subject: Macroeconomics (incl. monetary and fiscal theory)
classificationCode: 440407
subject: Socio-economic development

description: Poverty and inequality are among the most discussed topics in Economics. This thesis aims to investigate the empirical relationship between financial inclusion, poverty and gender inequality. Using unique cross-country panel and survey data sets, three hypotheses are tested: (1) microfinance is an effective tool for poverty reduction; (2) women’s participation in microfinance contributes to improvements in gender equality; and (3) financial inclusion has a positive effect on household income in China. The contributions of this thesis are fourfold. First, it shows that microfinance has a negative effect on poverty at the macroeconomic level. Second, it demonstrates that women’s participation in microfinance is associated with a reduction in gender inequality across countries. However, regional interactions reveal that cultural factors are likely to influence the gender inequality–microfinance nexus. Third, it designs a new multidimensional financial exclusion index using survey-level microeconomic data from China. The index reveals that the gender of the household head is unlikely to play a role in determining access to financial services. However, education, ethnicity and age play significant roles. Fourth, the index is also used to show that financial inclusion has a positive effect on household income and helps to reduce income inequality.
title: Foibe in der Venezia Giulia in den Jahren 1943 - 1945
Creators: name: Pfaffstaller, Thomas
Year: 2010

description: Die hier vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den in den Jahren 1943 und 1945 vorgekommenen Foibe- Massaker im Triestiner Hinterland und der istrischen Halbinsel. Besonderes Augenmerk gilt dabei der Rolle der italienischen Kommunistischen Partei und ihrer Partisaneneinheiten. Die Aktivitäten des PCI und ihrer Partisaneneinheiten haben im Nachkriegsitalien lange Zeit heftigste Kontroversen zwischen den Regierungs- und Oppositionsparteien ausgelöst. Lange Zeit, und zum Teil noch immer, wurden sowohl von linken als auch rechten Parteien Unwahrheiten über die Massaker an italienischen Zivilisten und Mitgliedern der faschistischen Streitkräfte und Polizeieinheiten verbreitet. Man versuchte sich gegenseitig die Schuld oder Mitschuld an den damaligen Vorkommnissen in die Schuhe zu schieben, um somit einer kritischen Auseinandersetzung der politischen Entscheidungen besagter Parteien während der Kriegszeit zu entgehen. Im letzten Teil dieser Arbeit geht es darum, die Geschehnisse der Jahre 1943 und 1945 ins richtige Licht zu stellen. Dabei handelt es sich nicht wie oft von italienischen Politikern behauptet, um einen versuchten Genozid an der italienischsprachigen Bevölkerung der Venezia Giulia seitens der jugoslawischen Partisanen, sondern vielmehr um außer Kontrolle geratener Kampfhandlungen mitten in der Wirren des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Die Macht- und Besitzansprüche der jugoslawischen Kommunisten, gepaart mit der Angst vor einer politischen Isolation seitens der italienischen Kommunisten ergaben ein kriegerisches Szenario, in welchem einzelne jugoslawische Partisaneneinheiten (mit Beteiligung italienischer Partisanen) sich zu menschenverachtenden Taten verleiten ließen. Eine in der gesamten Arbeit immer wieder anzutreffende Thematik ist der von mir besonders oft erwähnte Zusammenhang zwischen den zwanzig Jahren faschistischer Herrschaft in Italien und des besetzten Gebieten Sloweniens und den späteren Foibe-Masskarn in der Venezia Giulia. Genau dieser Aspekt wurde lange Zeit in den Diskussionen um die Foibe-Massaker ausgeblendet und führte zu vielen Missverständnissen unter den Angehörigen der Opfer. Erst in den aktuelleren zum Thema erschienenen Arbeiten wird dieser Konnex verstärkt hervorgehoben und zusätzlich als Argument gegen die These eines versuchten systematischen Genozides an der italienischsprachigen Bevölkerung der Region verwendet. Der fehlende politische Wille diese Argumentationslinie zu verfolgen bewegte mich dazu verstärkt darauf aufmerksam zu machen, da man nur mit Hilfe dieser oft verschwiegenen Basiskenntnisse die Massaker im julischen Karstgebirge objektiv betrachten kann.
On the application of theoretical multi-dimensional coherence spectroscopy techniques to discrete quantum systems
Creators: name: Ing, David
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 510203
subject: Nonlinear optics and spectroscopy
classificationCode: 510501
subject: Biological physics
classificationCode: 510804
subject: Quantum optics and quantum optomechanics

description: Multi-dimensional coherence spectroscopy (MDCS) is a powerful technique that allows insight about the energy dynamics of quantum systems, on the timescale in which they occur. This work focuses on the application of this technique to predict quantum noise characteristics of some known systems. It begins with an explanation of what noise is, and follows with a derivation of the equations used throughout the rest of the work.

Chapter 3 explores the possibility of determining the spatial correlations of noise, via the use of the Bloch-Redfield equation - which quantifies the degree of correlation as a continuous variable - on a photosynthetic-inspired model. Not only is there a possibility to determine the degree of spatial correlation in the noise, it shows that the secular approximation – where small perturbations on the coherent dynamics of the system are discarded – is not valid when considering multi-dimensional (MD) spectra.

The techniques are applied to the nitrogen-vacancy centre in chapter 4, with a focus on the temperature-dependent noise processes associated with the system. A prediction is made that this temperature-dependent noise – and the associated averaging processes – should be visible when conducting MDCS on the nitrogen-vacancy centre.

Utilising noise, instead of suppressing it, is investigated in chapter 5, via the use of the decoherence probe system. In this set up, the noise experienced by a probe is measured, and a map is created. This chapter shows that not only does MDCS remove ambiguity in measuring a single probe, but when moving to a dual-probe system, it is possible to estimate the dipole orientation of quantum systems in the environment.
Self-Perception of Physical Function Contributes to Participation in Cognitively- and Physically-Demanding Activities After Stroke
Creators: name: ML Nicholas
name: K Burch
name: JR Mitchell
name: AB Fox
name: Baum, Carolyn
name: LT Connor
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © Copyright © 2020 Nicholas, Burch, Mitchell, Fox, Baum and Connor. Background: Persons with and without aphasia experience decreased participation in meaningful activities post-stroke that result in reduced autonomy and poorer quality of life. Physical, cognitive, and/or communication deficits are prevalent post-stroke and many activities given up are purported to require high levels of communicative, cognitive, or physical skill. However, the relationship between deficits after stroke and participation in life activities that appear to require high skill levels in these three areas has not been investigated fully. Objectives: The objectives of this study are to: (1) determine differences in reported participation in communicatively-, cognitively-, or physically-demanding activities in persons after stroke with and without aphasia living in the community, and to (2) investigate whether performance on commonly used self-perception assessments of these three areas predicts reported participation in activities requiring higher levels of skill in these domains. Methods: In a cross-sectional design, 82 individuals at least 6 months post-stroke with (N = 34) and without aphasia (N = 48) were administered a battery of neuropsychological and participation-based assessments. Supported communication techniques maximized inclusion of individuals with aphasia. A series of regression analyses investigated the relationship between self-perceived communicative, cognitive, and physical functioning and reported participation in activities post-stroke that required high amounts of skilled function in these areas. Results: People with and without aphasia did not differ in terms of the percentage retained in communicatively-, cognitively-, or physically-demanding activities. All individuals retained higher levels of participation in communicatively- and cognitively-demanding activities (at least 60% retained), compared to participation inphysically-demanding activities (about 50% retained). The strongest predictor for retaining participation in two of the three domains of activities was self-perception of physical function, though much of the variance remained unexplained. Self-perception of communication was not related to participation retention in any of the three domains. Significance of Impact: Rehabilitation professionals should be aware of the impact that a variety of communicative, cognitive, and physical factors may have on participation post-stroke. Self-perceptions of impairments in communication and cognition may not directly predict participation in activities requiring high levels of communicative and/or cognitive skill, at least for those with mild impairment, even though activities requiring those skills are given up or done less after stroke.
Retaining skilled workers in a conflict setting: a study of human resource management approaches in international non-governmental development organizations in South Sudan
Creators: name: Bunny, Akim
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 350503
subject: Human resources management
classificationCode: 350709
subject: Organisation and management theory
classificationCode: 350711
subject: Organisational planning and management

description: While a number of studies have been conducted on staff turnover and staff retention, there is as yet no clear agreement on the most appropriate management approaches for retaining skilled workers in war and conflict zones. To date there are only a handful of studies which have studied the skill retention challenges that conflict settings present for HR managers and their responses to this situation. The overwhelming focus of research on skills retention has been conducted in non-conflict settings where the organizational environment is largely taken for granted. What is known from the literature is that management has sought to address retention challenges through a range of employee retention approaches such as providing satisfying working conditions, higher salaries and better benefits. However, skills retention is affected by both external and internal environmental factors and when it comes to conflict settings the external environment cannot be easily ignored or taken for granted given the risks to people’s safety. This is particularly true for organizations such as those involved in humanitarian, peacekeeping or development work.

This is the focal point for this study. It examines the skill retention challenges for INGDOs operating in the conflict society of South Sudan and the approaches adopted by HR managers to retain staff in this difficult environment. The study adopts an interpretivist qualitative approach involving semi-structured interviews and focus groups with INGDOs managers and employees working for INGDOs in South Sudan as well as expert practitioners familiar with the sector. Results of interviews with managers, skilled workers, and experts identified health and safety, and security concerns, poor living/working conditions, employment contract conditions, tensions between locals and expatriates, as the major factors influencing decisions of skilled workers to leave the INGDOs sector. On the positive note, the results revealed that some workers, especially local workers, may be influenced to continue working in the sector as opportunities for better salaries and medical benefits, training and professional development, career progression, performance feedback, effective communication, and staff empowerment opportunities, are available. Therefore, this study provides empirical evidence and contributes to a better understanding of factors influencing staff retention in a conflict context, while contributing to management literature and debate.
THE ROLE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL RESILIENCE IN MILITARY EDUCATION: STRATEGIES FOR EFFECTIVE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
Creators: name: Kobilov Javlon Sultonovich  Xafizov Turgun Baxriddinovich  Pulatov Ilhom Mamadaminovich
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This article examines the crucial role of psychological resilience in military education and explores strategies for its effective development through training programs. Psychological resilience is the capacity to cope with, recover from, and adapt to stress and adversity, which is essential for military personnel facing high-stress environments and challenging operational demands. The study analyzes various methods employed in military training to enhance resilience, including stress inoculation training, mindfulness practices, and peer support systems. By integrating these strategies into the curriculum, military education can better prepare service members to handle the psychological demands of their duties. The findings underscore the importance of a holistic approach to training that includes both physical and psychological components, ultimately leading to improved performance, well-being, and mission success.