cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
sj-pdf-1-wjn-10.1177_01939459221142163 – Supplemental material for Relationships between Depressive Symptoms, Appetite, and Quality of Life in Heart Failure
Creators: name: De Martini, Gabriela De Angeli
name: Grisante, Daiane Lopes
name: Gonçalves, Alexia Louisie Pontes
name: D’Agostino, Fabio
name: Lopes, Juliana de Lima
name: Santos, Vinicius Batista
name: Lopes, Camila Takáo
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-wjn-10.1177_01939459221142163 for Relationships between Depressive Symptoms, Appetite, and Quality of Life in Heart Failure by Gabriela De Angeli De Martini, Daiane Lopes Grisante, Alexia Louisie Pontes Gonçalves, Fabio D’Agostino, Juliana de Lima Lopes, Vinicius Batista Santos and Camila Takáo Lopes in Western Journal of Nursing Research
Diamond on ladder systems and countably metacompact topological spaces
Creators: name: Carvalho, Rodrigo
name: Inamdar, Tanmay
name: Rinot, Assaf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03E05, 54G20

description: The property of countable metacompactness of a topological space gets its importance from Dowker's 1951 theorem that the product of a normal space X with the unit interval is again normal iff X is countably metacompact. In a recent paper, Leiderman and Szeptycki studied $Δ$-spaces, which are a subclass of the class of countably metacompact spaces. They proved that a single Cohen real introduces a ladder system $L$ over the first uncountable cardinal for which the corresponding space $X_L$ is not a $Δ$-space, and asked whether there is a ZFC example of a ladder system $L$ over some cardinal $κ$ for which $X_L$ is not countably metacompact, in particular, not a $Δ$-space. We prove that an affirmative answer holds for the cardinal $κ=cf(\beth_{ω+1})$. Assuming $\beth_ω=\aleph_ω$, we get an example at a much lower cardinal, namely $κ=2^{2^{2^{\aleph_0}}}$, and our ladder system $L$ is moreover $ω$-bounded.
description: Added a section "Club guessing with diamonds", where we address the case of omega-bounded ladder systems
Additional file 1 of Investigating the effects of synbiotic supplementation on functional movement, strength and muscle health in older Australians: a study protocol for a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial
Creators: name: Barry, David J.
name: Farragher, Joshua B.
name: Betik, Andrew C.
name: Fyfe, Jackson J.
name: Convit, Lilia
name: Cooke, Matthew B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1. Clarification tables for inclusion and exclusion criteria
Supplemental Material - CircLPAR3 knockdown suppresses esophageal squamous cell carcinoma cell oncogenic phenotypes and Warburg effect through miR-873-5p/LDHA axis
Creators: name: Cheng, Yao
name: Ma, Zhenchuan
name: Liu, Shiyuan
name: Yang, Xiaoping
name: Li, Shaomin
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental Material for CircLPAR3 knockdown suppresses esophageal squamous cell carcinoma cell oncogenic phenotypes and Warburg effect through miR-873-5p/LDHA axis by Yao Cheng, Zhenchuan Ma, Shiyuan Liu, Xiaoping Yang and Shaomin Li in Human & Experimental Toxicology
sj-docx-1-pib-10.1177_09544054221140443 – Supplemental material for Influence of process parameters on the catchment efficiency and geometric characteristics in laser metal deposition tracks for building thin-wall parts
Creators: name: Peter, Reginald Elvis
name: Kumaraguru, Senthilkumaran
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-pib-10.1177_09544054221140443 for Influence of process parameters on the catchment efficiency and geometric characteristics in laser metal deposition tracks for building thin-wall parts by Reginald Elvis Peter and Senthilkumaran Kumaraguru in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture
'Stars', 'Rising Stars', 'Copers' and 'Strugglers': exploring the strategic leadership of the Associate Dean, Learning and Teaching, across the Creative Arts in Australian universities
Creators: name: Mason, Thembi
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390403
subject: Educational administration, management and leadership

description: Successive governments have pushed Australian Universities to transform their learning and teaching quality. Strong strategic leadership of learning and teaching is essential to this endeavour. Yet, such learning and teaching leadership by Associate Deans continues to be challenged. The purpose of this study was to develop a deeper understanding of the Associate Dean in their strategic leadership role for the Creative Arts in Australian universities.

A social constructivist epistemology and critical theory paradigm underpinned the study and Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice was used as a critical lens to explore the complexity at the individual and the multi-relational contextual levels in which the Associate Deans worked. A prototype of the Associate Dean emerged, followed by a typology comprising ‘Stars’, ‘Rising Stars’, ‘Copers’ and Strugglers’. Institutional, sectorial and global aspects were found to both equip and deny the Associate Dean capability in their leadership.

Opportunities have been identified for strengthening the role, but unless a radical change occurs that disrupts the culture of the traditional university, the strategic learning and teaching leadership of the Associate Dean will always be problematic. If the leverage points suggested in this study were implemented to enable the role, the results could be transformative for learning and teaching in Australian Universities.
sj-docx-1-psp-10.1177_01461672221131378 – Supplemental material for Deviancy Aversion and Social Norms
Creators: name: Gollwitzer, Anton
name: Martel, Cameron
name: Heinecke, Anna
name: Bargh, John A.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-psp-10.1177_01461672221131378 for Deviancy Aversion and Social Norms by Anton Gollwitzer, Cameron Martel, Anna Heinecke and John A. Bargh in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Dancing with death: young people’s pathways in and out of substance abuse
Creators: name: Daley, Kathryn
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Many young people use alcohol and other drugs (AOD), but few do so to the point that professional intervention is required. This research sought to answer the question of how some young people come to experience problematic substance use.

In lots of AOD research, there is the underpinning normative claim that drug use always causes problems, so these researchers do not often ask how drug use becomes problematic. Another body of literature has sought to identify ‘risk factors’, ‘protective factors’ or ‘structural determinants’ (Hawkins, Catalano & Miller 1992; Mason et al 2011; Loxley et al. 2004). These studies identify key markers that differentiate young people who experience problematic substance use from those young people who do not. However, these studies do not explain why only some people who have these risk factors go on to develop a substance abuse problem. In my view, an adequate explanation of why some people develop problematic substance use must explicate the link between structural factors and human agency. This is the core contention of this thesis.

In order to explain the link between structural factors and human agency, I adopt a biographical approach. A biographical approach gives particular attention to the relationship between structure and agency, and the role of situated choices in people’s lives. It also draws attention to the fact that young people with substance abuse issues are not a homogeneous group, and it contends that most human action – including substance abuse – is purposeful.

In-depth interviews were undertaken with 61 young people aged 14 to 24 who had substance abuse problems. They were recruited through two services that provide assistance to young people with alcohol and other drug issues in the state of Victoria, Australia.

We meet the young people when they were engaging in extreme risk-taking behaviours and then trace their journey from their early childhood, through their school years into unemployment, homelessness and crime. This shows that many of the young men and women had ‘troubled childhoods’, marked by considerable disadvantage. Nonetheless, I point out that these were not drug problems and troubled childhoods do not necessarily cause substance abuse.

Further analysis shows gender difference in the pathway into problematic substance use. Among the young women, there were strong links between childhood sexual abuse, abandonment, self-injury and then substance abuse. Whereas for men, it was the role of masculinity which characterised their pathway into heavy drug use. Nonetheless, both young men and women were using substances for similar purposes. The thesis concludes with a discussion about the implications of these findings for policy and practice.
Remaking Middi: reclaiming and re-contextualising Tolai materiality and cultural histories into the contemporary
Creators: name: Hilli, Lisa
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360601
subject: Crafts
classificationCode: 360602
subject: Fine arts
classificationCode: 451305
subject: Pacific Peoples culture

description: The effect of trade, religion and colonialism upon Pacific people during the 19th century changed the material and spiritual culture of the Pacific region. As new European customs were introduced, Indigenous cultural frameworks were broken down, causing the neglect, discarding and abandonment of traditional knowledge and practice of historical crafts and culture. The Middi or ‘shell collar’ as it is referred to by museums, was one such object that became culturally devalued and transformed through colonialism, trade and missionary impact. The predominant trajectory of Pacific art and objects has long been within an anthropological and ethnographical context and rarely from an Indigenous perspective. My research aims to utilise an object that I culturally identify with as a tool to remake, reclaim and reframe Tolai cultural history in a contemporary art context. Through remaking the Middi and other intangible histories my aim is to; acquire historical cultural knowledge, reclaim a former cultural practice, reframe historical colonial and religious impacts upon Tolai culture and re-contextualise Tolai material culture and history through contemporary art.
Additional file 2 of Investigating the effects of synbiotic supplementation on functional movement, strength and muscle health in older Australians: a study protocol for a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial
Creators: name: Barry, David J.
name: Farragher, Joshua B.
name: Betik, Andrew C.
name: Fyfe, Jackson J.
name: Convit, Lilia
name: Cooke, Matthew B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 2. Recruitment plan
Modelling intention to use third party logistics: an application of the theory of planned behaviour
Creators: name: Akter, Nasrin
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 350903
subject: Logistics

description: The role and impact of behavioural factors in the business customers’ decision to outsource a service to a third party logistics (3PL) provider is the subject of this thesis. Unless it is understand what extent the decision to use 3PL is driven by behavioural factors, it will hardly know how best to improve the quality of 3PL decision making process that can promote strong growth in logistics based industries and be compatible with global customer demands. Applying the theory of planned behaviour as the theoretical foundation for modeling business customers’ intention, it investigates how attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioural control predict the intention to use 3PL, and whether such intention is translated into the actual 3PL use or not. The behavioural model is built in the context of Bangladesh; 243 business organisations are at its core. The structural equation modelling results show that, business customers who exhibit a positive attitude tend to favour 3PL use. The perceptions of social pressure, exerted from operating in a competitive environment, and of the capacity and control to make decisions, are indicative of a positive decision to outsource services to 3PL providers. The multi-group invariance test shows that, there is no difference in intention between 3PL users and non-users. To promote greater use of outsourcing services in a developing country like Bangladesh, it is important to streamline existing 3PL decision making processes so that the resulting improved 3PL environment can play a key role in its efforts to maintain strong growth in logistics based industries that are compatible with global outsourcing practices.
Inspirations from installation art: creating open stories and using found works in a post-apocalypse animation
Creators: name: Huang, Jifeng
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360201
subject: Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting)
classificationCode: 360502
subject: Computer gaming and animation
classificationCode: 360603
subject: Performance art

description: This research is a practice-based research and also an art-based research. The major project of this study is the open screenplay of The Hero's Journey, and its animated section (section 1) that uses found works and multiple production techniques. Based on this production practice, this research investigates how installation art can inspire animation in screenplay writing and visual design; it explores how the formulaic narrative structure of the post-apocalypse genre can be disrupted to create an open story; and it also explores to what extent found works can be used in animation.

A methodological model for the practice-based research in the field of animation has been built to frame this research and to organize the multiple disciplines in relation to this research. This study transfers thoughts and techniques from installation art to animation, and the outcome benefits other independent animators and screenplay writers who are without the experience of installation art creative practice.
sj-docx-3-alh-10.1177_14697874231179238 – Research Data for Student perceptions: How virtual student-led talking circles promote engagement, social connectedness, and academic benefit
Creators: name: Chacon, Marco
name: Levine, Rebecca S.
name: Bintliff, Amy
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education

description: Research Data, sj-docx-3-alh-10.1177_14697874231179238 for Student perceptions: How virtual student-led talking circles promote engagement, social connectedness, and academic benefit by Marco Chacon, Rebecca S. Levine and Amy Bintliff in Active Learning in Higher Education
A systems approach to Vertical Take-off Unmanned Aerial Vehicle design for interoperability
Creators: name: Khreish, Joseph
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: The capabilities of ‘Unmanned Systems’ (USs) are presently at various stages of technological development and in-service trials. The induction of USs in future ‘Network-Centric Warfare’ (NCW) requires interoperability, the ability of multiple systems to exchange information, to be addressed for enhanced mission effectiveness. To provide effective in-service induction with low life-cycle costs of operation and support, interoperability is to be addressed in the conceptual design process.

The focus of this research is on the conceptual design of ‘Vertical Take-off Unmanned Aerial Vehicles’ (VTUAVs). The traditional helicopter design methodology was re-visited to encompass interoperability design requirements in the conceptual phase. The research covers the following: (a) Holistic investigation of interoperability issues governing VTUAV operations; (b) System hierarchy development for identification of the mission payload and vehicle components of an interoperable VTUAV; (c) Interoperable architecture development from a ‘Network Centric Operations’ (NCO) perspective; and (d) Verification of the interoperable VTUAV design methodology through a conceptual design exercise – case study on Counter- ‘Improvised Explosive Devices’ (IEDs) operations by VTUAV and UGV.

The research updated the interoperable VTUAV design methodology and provided the following key contributions: (a) Identification of pre-emptive and situational mission requirements to maximise mission effectiveness for a stipulated operational need and environment; (b) Mission systems hierarchy and structure for identification of an enhanced mission payload through synergistic integration of on-board and off-board systems; (c) Interoperability architecture that complies with NATO interoperability standards; and (d) Vehicle system hierarchy and structure for design of vehicle components to meet design constraints and the stipulated mission requirements for optimising interoperability.

The methodology developed for interoperable VTUAV design provides the avenue to achieve an optimal interoperable conceptual design – critical for integration of systems for NCW and total system effectiveness.
Additional file 3 of Investigating the effects of synbiotic supplementation on functional movement, strength and muscle health in older Australians: a study protocol for a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial
Creators: name: Barry, David J.
name: Farragher, Joshua B.
name: Betik, Andrew C.
name: Fyfe, Jackson J.
name: Convit, Lilia
name: Cooke, Matthew B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 3. Protocol amendment history
The Australian equity market reaction to the 2010 resource tax announcements
Creators: name: Galanos, Guillaume
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 350202
subject: Finance
classificationCode: 350203
subject: Financial econometrics
classificationCode: 380105
subject: Environment and resource economics
classificationCode: 380115
subject: Public economics - taxation and revenue

description: This thesis analyses the Australian resources equity market reaction to the 2010 resource tax announcements. These taxes were explicitly designed to meet tax neutrality conditions. Tax neutrality implies that taxes should not incur substitution effects that result in economic inefficiency. These taxes were intended to generate revenue (i.e., an income effect) while not distorting economic incentives.

First, this thesis analyses the neutrality conditions from a theoretical point of view. It then examines the design of the proposed resource taxes and assesses whether the neutrality conditions were met and investigates the equity market reaction to the proposed tax reforms.

Using an event study (price-based) methodology, evidence of the existence of a sizeable and statistically significant negative abnormal return is found, demonstrating the existence of a negative income effect. A cross-sectional analysis, however, also reveals a substitution effect; that is, differential effects across firm size, maturity levels, operational focus and other variables.

These findings thus reject the hypothesis (and stated benefit) that the 2010 resource taxes were tax neutral.

These results provide valuable information on the impact of these sorts of taxes to assist current and/or future governments throughout the world in developing taxation policies in relation to the resource sector.
Wavelet Based Feature Extraction in Near Infrared Spectra for Compositional Analysis of Food
Creators: name: Krause, Julius
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2018

description: Near infrared spectroscopy is a common method for analysis of food, soil and pharmaceutical products. New developments in sensor technology, like hyperspectral camera systems and mobile spectrometers, allow broad applications of spectroscopy with devices out of specialized laboratories. Therefore, it is necessary to develop robust algorithms for classification and regression, regardless of the device. The key to robust analysis lies in data preparation to get standardized spectral information from each device. Wavelet based feature extraction could be a possible method to compress spectral data to its material specific absorption information. A method for wavelet based feature extraction, which also reduces the influence from elastic scattering effects is proposed in this report.
Effects of density inhomogeneities and non-locality on nanofluidic flow
Creators: name: Dalton, Benjamin
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: We use Molecular Dynamics computer simulations to investigate the effects of strong density inhomogeneities on shearing flow in unconfined simple atomic fluids. We use a sinusoidal longitudinal force (SLF) to produce periodic, spatially oscillating density inhomogeneities that have periodic cycles of the order of single or few atomic diameters. We use a sinusoidal transverse force (STF) to produce spatially periodic shearing flow. Using the SLF and STF in combination we can produce shearing flow in strongly inhomogeneous fluids. This system is ideal for investigating the coupling relationships that are known to exist between density and velocity gradients. It is ideal because it provides us with full control over the density profiles and because we can easily decompose the periodic density, velocity, temperature and shear pressure profiles into individual Fourier components.

Another system for studying strongly inhomogeneous shearing fluids is a nanoconfined system, where a fluid is forced to flow through a nanochannel or nanopore. In these systems, where it is known that the coupling between density and velocity gradients has a significant effect on the fluid hydrodynamics, we do not have control over the density and we cannot easily decompose the flow profiles. This makes the combined STF-SLF method a valuable tool for investigating density-velocity coupling in nanofluidic systems. Using the STF and SLF we are able to probe the non-local density, strain rate and shear pressure response of an atomic fluid to an external body force directly in Fourier space. In this way we can evaluate various linear and nonlinear response functions, which describe the formation of shearing flow and density inhomogeneities in homogeneous, equilibrium fluids when perturbed by external body forces.
title: Introduction to the verification of neural networks running on a PLC: an LHC cooling tower example
Creators: name: Lopez Miguel, Ignacio David
name: Fernández Adiego, Borja
name: Ghawash, Faiq
name: Blanco Vinuela, Enrique
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2023
Subjects: PLCverif
Neural Networks
Formal verification

description: Different approaches to verify neural networks running on PLCs
sj-docx-1-cpt-10.1177_10742484231181846 - Supplemental material for The Prognostic Value of the Triglyceride Glucose Index in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction
Creators: name: Hao, Qian
name: Yuanyuan, Zhao
name: Lijuan, Chen
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases
subject: 110323 Surgery

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-cpt-10.1177_10742484231181846 for The Prognostic Value of the Triglyceride Glucose Index in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction by Qian Hao, Zhao Yuanyuan and Chen Lijuan in Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Additional file 1 of ‘Counselling is not just providing information’: perceptions of caregivers and stakeholders on the design of nutrition and health counselling interventions for families with young children in rural Kenya
Creators: name: Kihagi, Grace Wothaya
name: Hansen, Lea-Sophie
name: Agure, Erick
name: Muok, Erick M.O.
name: Mank, Isabel
name: Danquah, Ina
name: Sorgho, Raissa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Additional file 2 of ‘Counselling is not just providing information’: perceptions of caregivers and stakeholders on the design of nutrition and health counselling interventions for families with young children in rural Kenya
Creators: name: Kihagi, Grace Wothaya
name: Hansen, Lea-Sophie
name: Agure, Erick
name: Muok, Erick M.O.
name: Mank, Isabel
name: Danquah, Ina
name: Sorgho, Raissa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 2
title: Transdisziplinarität
title: Wie die Kooperation von Wissenschaft und Praxisakteuren in Reallaboren soziale Innovationen in der Stadt fördert
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Ober, Susanne
name: Szaguhn, Markus
name: Fricke, Annika
Publisher: name: Wien
Year: 2024
Subjects: Nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung
Soziale Innovation
Klimaneutrale Stadt
Transformation

description: Städte stehen durch eine Vielzahl an Herausforderungen unter Zugzwang. Besonders herausfordernd ist es, tragfähige Lösungen für die Stadtgesellschaft zu entwickeln, die mit Nachhaltigkeitszielen auf nationaler oder globaler Ebene einhergehen. Diesbezüglich rückt das Konzept der sozialen Innovation verstärkt in den Fokus. Dieser Artikel skizziert, wie Transdisziplinarität bzw. transdisziplinäre Prozesse soziale Innovationen fördern können, indem Wissenschaftler*innen und Praxisakteure gemeinsam realweltliche Probleme adressieren und das Potenzial beider Welten nutzen. Eine besondere Rolle spielen hierbei Reallabore, die als stabile Infrastruktur die Entwicklung von Quartieren oder Städten langfristig unterstützen. Wie transdisziplinäre und transformative Projekte im Reallabor soziale Innovationen praktizieren und ermöglichen können, wird u. a. anhand des Beispiels Klimafreundliche Kantinen illustriert.
Essays on religious beliefs and stock market outcomes
Creators: name: Alawadhi, Abdullah
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 350202
subject: Finance
classificationCode: 350204
subject: Financial institutions (incl. banking)

description: This thesis consists of three essays that investigate the influence of religious beliefs on investor behavior and stock market outcomes. To this end, we avail of data from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Our dataset is collected from highly religious societies that have clear religious investment rules and explicit identification of both institutional investors and stocks as either “Islamic” or “non-Islamic”. The first essay of this thesis investigates whether religious-based trading practices impede market development. Our results show that non-Islamic stocks in the markets of our study are relatively neglected, have higher returns, lower liquidity, and face higher liquidity risk compared to Islamic stocks. Our overall evidence, therefore, supports the hypothesis of market segmentation. Our results highlight a potential challenge for the stock markets of religious Islamic societies in seeking to become globally competitive. The second essay investigates whether religiosity affects stock market speculation. We find that an increase of Muslims’ religiosity during the holy month of Ramadan leads to lower levels of trading frequency, market volatility, and idiosyncratic volatility, as well as higher risk-adjusted returns. Our results indicate that religiosity is negatively related to stock market speculation. The third essay investigates whether religiosity influences the preference of institutional investors to hold lottery-type stocks. We find that Islamic institutional investors deviate from their religious norms by holding more lottery-type stocks than do non-Islamic institutional investors. This deviation may be explained by the evidence that Islamic institutional investors have stronger information signals to induce them to trade lottery-type stocks. Our results highlight a challenge for the regulators and Islamic Shariah auditors in countries that have Islamic institutions, namely, to ensure that the operations of Islamic institutions are free from prohibited excessive uncertainty (Gharar).
CFD investigation into propeller spacing and pitch angle for a ducted twin counter rotating propeller system
Creators: name: Xu, Chao
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: In recent years Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) have been extensively used for both military operation and academic research. UAV designs are classified by the size, weight, endurance and mission. In addition UAV has the benefit of low cost, portable, autonomous. UAV with rotary wing has the advantage of controllability in low speed and at hovering. Rotary propeller with duct was applied in vertical take-off and landing. The duct has the benefit in protecting the propeller, reducing the noise and improving the thrust performance in hover condition. Counter-rotating propeller application began with commercial aircraft engine in 1980s. The benefit of counter-rotating rotors is the fuel economy. With the development of UAV design counter-rotating technology has been used in UAV applications.

The aim of this research is to employ a sensitivity study for the total thrust of a ducted twin counter-rotating propeller system design for UAV applications using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Two factors were investigated: propeller spacing and difference between blades pitch angle. Using discrete values for both factors, 32 designs were analysed and evaluated. The same approach was also used for an equivalent unducted propeller system to access the influence of the duct.

A ducted twin counter-rotating propeller system was modelled in ANSYS CFX. Shear Stress Transport (SST) turbulence model was used for steady state simulations. An unstructured mesh with prism boundary layers was generated for the computational domains. It was found that the total thrust of both ducted and open counter-rotating propeller is highly dependent on the propeller spacing and difference between blades pitch angle. In terms of total thrust, the presence of a duct did not always improve system performance of counter-rotating propellers.
Additional file 3 of ‘Counselling is not just providing information’: perceptions of caregivers and stakeholders on the design of nutrition and health counselling interventions for families with young children in rural Kenya
Creators: name: Kihagi, Grace Wothaya
name: Hansen, Lea-Sophie
name: Agure, Erick
name: Muok, Erick M.O.
name: Mank, Isabel
name: Danquah, Ina
name: Sorgho, Raissa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 3
title: Phänomen Fernsehen - Freund oder Feind unserer Jugendlichen
Creators: name: Wyszecki, Magdalene
Year: 2009

description: Das Thema dieser Diplomarbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Fernsehverhalten von jungen Heranwachsenden zwischen 16 und 18 Jahren. Genauer gesagt handelt es sich um die Fernsehgewohnheiten österreichischer Jugendlicher und Jugendlicher mit Migrationshintergrund. Die Untersuchung setzt sich aus insgesamt 100 Befragten zusammen (50 österreichische Jugendliche, 50 Jugendliche mit Migrationshintergrund). Der erste große Punkt der Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Charakteristik des Fernsehens, dessen Funktionen und Auswirkungen. Darauf folgt ein Vergleich der österreichischen und polnischen Medienlandschaft und eine exakte Analyse der österreichischen Rundfunksender ORF1 und ATV und der polnischen Sender TVP1 und TVN. Der zweite Punkt widmet sich der Realitätskonstruktion und der Wichtigkeit der Familie. Das wichtigste Thema in diesem Kapitel bezieht sich allerdings auf die Fernsehgewohnheiten von jungen Heranwachsenden mit Migrationshintergrund. Im dritten Punkt dieser Arbeit beschäftigt sich die Verfasserin mit dem Fernsehprogramm und gibt detaillierte Informationen über die ausgestrahlten Sendungen der bereits erwähnten Rundfunkanstalten. Im Zuge dieser Diplomarbeit werden daher folgende Fragen beantwortet: Was bieten die Rundfunkanstalten unseren Jugendlichen? Welche Programme rezipiert unsere Jugend? Nutzen Jugendliche mit Migrationshintergrund das Angebot der Programme in ihrer Muttersprache? Unterscheidet sich das Fernsehverhalten von österreichischen und polnischen Jugendlichen? Die Verfasserin dieser Diplomarbeit ist zu der Conclusio gekommen, dass Fernsehen nicht einfach als gut oder schlecht definiert werden kann. Unsere Jugend weiß sehr genau, wie sie mit dem Fernsehen umgehen soll und sucht sich die Programme bewusst aus. Trotz der Tatsache, dass das Fernsehen eine große Wichtigkeit im Alltag war, ist und bleiben wird, bevorzugen Jugendliche auch andere Freizeitaktivitäten. Weiters darf die Verantwortung nicht nur den Rundfunkanstalten zugeschrieben werden. Eltern, die gesamte Familiensituation und die Jugendlichen selber sind für ihr Fernsehverhalten verantwortlich.
title: Bivalent Heat Pump Plant serving a Multi-Family Dwelling - Quantification of the Impact of Different Control Strategies and Parameterisations
Creators: name: Eckstädt, Elisabeth
name: Bräunig, Jan
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2024
Subjects: heat pump
control
commissioning
system automation

description: This article shows the effects of different control strategies and controller parameterisations on the KPIs energy purchase costs and non-renewable primary energy consumption for a bivalent air-to-water heat pump plant. This demonstrates the importance of system automation and the commissioning phase for energy-efficient operation. The study showed that KPIs were up to 39% exaggerated due to unfavourable parameterisation. If the optimum parameterisation cannot be determined on the basis of preliminary technical considerations, simulation-based variant studies are a suitable method for identifying a sound parameterisation. This is exemplified for some parameters in this article.
sj-pdf-2-lrt-10.1177_14771535231173291 – Supplemental material for Prediction of discomfort from glare from daylight in classrooms
Creators: name: Viula, R
name: Bokel, R
name: Tenpierik, M
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-2-lrt-10.1177_14771535231173291 for Prediction of discomfort from glare from daylight in classrooms by R Viula, R Bokel and M Tenpierik in Lighting Research & Technology
The durability and functionality assessment of SHM systems in multifunctional composites
Creators: name: Mehdizadeh, Mohammad
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: The next-generation of composite structures, known as Multifunctional (MF) composites, involves combining various functions, such as structural and electrical, through multiple subsystems blended within a structural housing. The performance of MF composites can be affected by the degradation of any of these subsystems. Structural Health Monitoring Systems (SHMS) have emerged as a feasible method with which to improve the reliability of MF structures. However, the reliability of an SHMS can be affected by erroneous information from its sub-components such as transducers. Improving reliability requires a new capability to delineate failures associated with transducers and the transducer network from actual damage in the structure being monitored.
Phase Noise in Real-World Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution
Creators: name: Bertaina, Gianluca
name: Clivati, Cecilia
name: Donadello, Simone
name: Liorni, Carlo
name: Meda, Alice
name: Virzì, Salvatore
name: Gramegna, Marco
name: Genovese, Marco
name: Levi, Filippo
name: Calonico, Davide
name: Dispenza, Massimiliano
name: Degiovanni, Ivo Pietro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The impact of noise sources in real-world implementations of Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution (TF-QKD) protocols is investigated, focusing on phase noise from photon sources and connecting fibers. This work emphasizes the role of laser quality, network topology, fiber length, arm balance, and detector performance in determining key rates. Remarkably, it reveals that the leading TF-QKD protocols are similarly affected by phase noise despite different mechanisms. This study demonstrates duty cycle improvements of over a factor of two through narrow-linewidth lasers and phase-control techniques, highlighting the potential synergy with high-precision time/frequency distribution services. Ultrastable lasers, evolving toward integration and miniaturization, offer promise for agile TF-QKD implementations on existing networks. Properly addressing phase noise and practical constraints allows for consistent key rate predictions, protocol selection, and layout design, crucial for establishing secure long-haul links for the Quantum Communication Infrastructures under development in several countries.
description: 20 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables. Post-print version
title: Erzählen und Therapie
Creators: name: Punz, Angelika
Year: 2009

description: Können Geschichten heilen? Um dieser Fragestellung auf den Grund zu gehen, beschäftige ich mich in der vorliegenden Arbeit im Besonderen mit den Geschichten vom argentinischen Psychotherapeuten Jorge Bucay. Er verwendet eine besondere Art der Therapie: nicht (nur) der Klient erzählt, um Heilung zu erfahren, sondern (auch) der Therapeut. Sechs Geschichten aus zwei Büchern von Bucay analysiere ich nach den Gesichtspunkten der Zeit, des Ortes und der Verwandlung der Hauptfigur. Der Beginn des Weges ist jedoch ein Abstecken allgemeiner Kriterien, so beschreibe ich im ersten Teil der Arbeit kurz, was überhaupt eine Geschichte ist, was ich unter „heilend“ verstehe. Auch kläre ich, was Geschichten im Allgemeinen brauchen, um heilsam zu sein. Im zweiten Teil gehe ich spezifisch auf die Geschichten von Jorge Bucay ein, analysiere sie nach Zeit, Ort und Verwandlung, immer mit Hinblick auf die heilsame Wirkung. So ist es für diese zum Beispiel von Bedeutung, dass die Verwandlung der Hauptperson Schritt für Schritt verfolgt werden kann, alles Wichtige also auch erzählt wird. Unwichtiges kann jedoch ruhig in wenigen Sätzen zusammengefasst werden. Anschließend bringe ich die sechs Geschichten von Bucay „auf einen Nenner“ und filtere die heilenden Aspekte dieser heraus. So folgen alle sechs dem gleichen Aufbau, sie lassen durch die Einleitung die Realität entschwinden und schaffen eine neue, der ersten täuschend ähnlichen, in der es uns aber besser gelingt, uns auf Herausforderungen einzulassen, betrachten wir doch alles aus einem sicheren Abstand heraus.
Additional file 1 of Porcine cis-acting lnc-CAST positively regulates CXCL8 expression through histone H3K27ac
Creators: name: Gao, Junxin
name: Yu, Haidong
name: Pan, Yu
name: Wang, Xinrong
name: Zhang, He
name: Xu, Yunfei
name: Ma, Wenjie
name: Zhang, Wenli
name: Fu, Lizhi
name: Wang, Yue
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1. Primers used for PCR.
The salience of the hues: colour cognition from an indigenous Australian perspective
Creators: name: Lenarcic, John
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Does natural language determine the way we think? If the so-called Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistics were true then colour categorization would be an entirely arbitrary process dependant entirely on the language that we speak. For a while in academic circles this was the received wisdom: The fact that English had 11 colour terms and Dugum Dani (from Papua New Guinea) had only two was a factor attributed to the language in use.

In 1969, Brent Berlin and Paul Kay ushered in the paradigm shift of Basic Colour Terms, a theory that defined the structure and evolution of colour terms in cultures (Berlin and Kay, 1969). According to this theory there was a neurophysiological basis for colour categorization, which implied that all human beings had the potential to see the same colours but naming the categories was an evolutionary process tied into the technological sophistication of a society. Language in other words played little or no part in colour perception. The initial theory was highly controversial with the demand growing for verification of the initial findings.

To address the contentious issues surrounding Berlin and Kay’s theory, a project entitled the World Colour Survey was initiated with the goal of determining colour categorization patterns within 110 pre-literate cultures across the globe. This project has spanned more than 30 years with a definitive publication of the results still in the works. The current PhD project, which has been in progress since the dawn of time, involves an independent analysis and interpretation of the indigenous Australian component of the World Colour Survey raw data on colour categorization. It is both an exercise in secondary analysis as a research method and a tangential meditation on the ambiguity of knowledge that can be derived from extant data sets.
Properties of trace maps and their applications to coding theory
Creators: name: Pinnawala Ralalage, Nimalsiri
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description:
In this thesis we study the application of trace maps over Galois fields and Galois rings in the construction of non-binary linear and non-linear codes and mutually unbiased bases.

Properties of the trace map over the Galois fields and Galois rings has been used very successfully in the construction of cocyclic Hadamard, complex Hadamard and Butson Hadamard matrices and consequently to construct linear codes over integers modulo prime and prime powers. These results provide motivation to extend this work to construct codes over integers modulo . The prime factorization of integers paved the way to focus our attention on the direct product of Galois rings and Galois fields of the same degree. We define a new map over the direct product of Galois rings and Galois fields by using the usual trace maps. We study the fundamental properties of the this map and notice that these are very similar to that of the trace map over Galois rings and Galois fields. As such this map called the trace-like map and is used to construct cocyclic Butson Hadamard matrices and consequently to construct linear codes over integers modulo . We notice that the codes construct in this way over the integers modulo 6 is simplex code of type .

A further generalization of the trace-like map called the weighted-trace map is defined over the direct product of Galois rings and Galois fields of different degrees. We use the weighted-trace map to construct some non-linear codes and mutually unbiased bases of odd integer dimensions.

Further more we study the distribution of over the Galois fields of degree 2 and use it to construct 2-dimensional, two-weight, self-orthogonal codes and constant weight codes over integers modulo prime.
Additional file 2 of Porcine cis-acting lnc-CAST positively regulates CXCL8 expression through histone H3K27ac
Creators: name: Gao, Junxin
name: Yu, Haidong
name: Pan, Yu
name: Wang, Xinrong
name: Zhang, He
name: Xu, Yunfei
name: Ma, Wenjie
name: Zhang, Wenli
name: Fu, Lizhi
name: Wang, Yue
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 2. Primers used for RT-qPCR.
Violent women?: an explorative study of women's use of violence
Creators: name: FITZROY, LEE
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: The study examines women's use of violence, focusing on the experiences of seven women who disclosed that they had perpetrated serious indictable crimes. The crimes included murder, accessory to murder after the fact, manslaughter, child sexual and physical assaults, grievous bodily harm, stalking and threats to kill. The narratives of the seven women form the central focus of the study and these stories contribute to our understanding of the lives of individual women who perpetrate violence. I also include the narratives of one hundred and twenty workers, analyse relevant sentencing comments, and draw on key insights from other research. I began the study believing that I would discover a single truth as to why women hurt other people. My original hypothesis was that women perpetrate violence because of their previous experiences of violence perpetrated by men and/or disadvantage due to structural oppression. In part this assumption has been borne out, with all of the women who participated in the study disclosing that they have been victims of serious violence as both children and adults. However, during the course of the study, I discovered that women's lives and their choices to perpetrate or participate in violent crimes are more complex and contradictory than my simple original hypothesis suggested. I found that the women whom I interviewed and the women whom the workers worked with, were active agents in their own lives, they made choices and engaged in activities that met some of their own needs. Sometimes these choices meant another person suffered extreme pain, injury or death. I came to the conclusion that all of us have the potential to seriously assault others. Drawing on a feminist analysis of male violence, I believe that women's, like men's, violence is also 'individually willed' and 'socially constructed' (Dankwort and Rausch, 2000: 937). I locate women's behaviour in an analytical framework that views violence as a deeply embedded part of our shared ideology, beliefs and social activities. This social fabric contributes to, and fundamentally influences, the choices of individual women who perpetrate violence. The familial, social, cultural and individual factors that contribute to women choosing to perpetrate violence against others are complex and challenging. The study critically examines these factors and describes how different factors intersect with each other.
title: Myology and Osteology of Lupinoblennius Herre (Pisces: Blenniidae
Creators: name: Roumillat, William A.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1982

description: Certain osteological characters of the genus Lupinoblennius Herre (Pisces: Blenniidae) indicate that it is a specialized member of the tribe Blenniini. Two of these characters are similar to those reported in more advanced tribes. Unifying this genus with the Blenniini are certain muscle patterns that appear unique for the tribe. A comprehensive description of blenny musculature is presented to correct previous literature misinterpretations, and to lay the groundwork for future infrafamilial comparative anatomical studies.