cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Beyond greenfields and brownfields: the challenge of regenerating Australia's greyfield suburbs
Creators: name: Newton, Peter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A transition to more sustainable cities in Australia will require much greater focus on greyfield redevelopment than previously. With the multiple challenges facing city planning at the beginning of the 21st century---accommodating rapid population growth linked to immigration, attempting more intensive urban development, the need for climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies, and understanding what is required for cities to become more resilient in the face of local and global shocks to their economies and communities---a path of least resistance has seen most recent planning and urban development activity centre on greenfields and brownfields arenas. This paper focuses on the prospects for more sustainable patterns of greyfield redevelopment in Australian cities, with particular reference to Melbourne. Both the Melbourne 2030 and the Melbourne @ 5 million strategies have failed to articulate processes capable of increasing the capacity of existing, ageing, occupied suburban areas---the greyfields---to accommodate projected growth. Greyfield redevelopment at precinct scale offers the potential for jointly transitioning urban housing, energy and water systems---and the residential communities they host---to a more sustainable future.
All-atom molecular dynamics simulations of an artificial sodium channel in a lipid bilayer: the effect of water solvation/desolvation of the sodium ion
Creators: name: A.A. Skelton
name: V.M. Khedkar
name: J.R. Fried
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Hematology

description: All-atom molecular dynamics is used to investigate the transport of Na+ across a 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine lipid bilayer facilitated by a diazacrown hydraphile. Specifically, the free energy of Na+ passing through the bilayer is calculated using the adaptive biasing force method to study the free energy associated with the increase in Na+ transport in the presence of the hydraphile molecule. The results show that water interaction greatly influences Na+ transport through the lipid bilayer as water is pulled through the bilayer with Na+ forming a water channel. The hydraphile causes a reduction in the free energy barrier for the transport of Na+ through the head group part of the lipid bilayer since it complexes the Na+ reducing the necessity for water to be complexed and, therefore, dragged through with Na+, an energetically unfavorable process. The free energy associated with Na+ being desolvated within the bilayer is significantly decreased in the presence of the hydraphile molecule; the hydraphile increases the number of solvation states of Na+ that can be adopted, and this increase in the number of available configurations provides an entropic explanation for the success of the hydraphile.
All-atom molecular dynamics simulations of an artificial sodium channel in a lipid bilayer: the effect of water solvation/desolvation of the sodium ion
Creators: name: A.A. Skelton
name: V.M. Khedkar
name: J.R. Fried
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Hematology

description: All-atom molecular dynamics is used to investigate the transport of Na+ across a 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine lipid bilayer facilitated by a diazacrown hydraphile. Specifically, the free energy of Na+ passing through the bilayer is calculated using the adaptive biasing force method to study the free energy associated with the increase in Na+ transport in the presence of the hydraphile molecule. The results show that water interaction greatly influences Na+ transport through the lipid bilayer as water is pulled through the bilayer with Na+ forming a water channel. The hydraphile causes a reduction in the free energy barrier for the transport of Na+ through the head group part of the lipid bilayer since it complexes the Na+ reducing the necessity for water to be complexed and, therefore, dragged through with Na+, an energetically unfavorable process. The free energy associated with Na+ being desolvated within the bilayer is significantly decreased in the presence of the hydraphile molecule; the hydraphile increases the number of solvation states of Na+ that can be adopted, and this increase in the number of available configurations provides an entropic explanation for the success of the hydraphile.
The stage model of firm development: a conceptualization of SME growth
Creators: name: Perenyi, Aron
name: Selvarajah, Christopher
name: Muthaly, Siva
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A conceptual model for researching SME growth through a life cycle perspective is discussed in this paper. A gap in the literature regarding research in SME growth is addressed. This gap can be identified based on the firm life cycle theory. Researchers have concentrated on formulating and validating a uniform life cycle theory of firms, and neglected the relation between the features of the different development and their position in the life-cycle models. (Perényi, Selvarajah and Muthaly 2007) In this paper, the authors outline an alternative framework to research the firm life cycle theory focusing on firm growth.
Agricultural policies and the emergence of voluntary landscape enhancement efforts: an exploratory analysis of rural tourism using an agent-based model
Creators: name: Zavalloni, Matteo
name: Raggi, Meri
name: Targetti, Stefano
name: Viaggi, Davide
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Information and Computing Sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences

description: Conservation and enhancement of ecosystem services have become a priority of rural policies. Feedback loops from rural policies on ecosystem service supply have often been highlighted in the literature, but only vaguely investigated. In this paper, we model feedback loops from rural policies through an agent-based model, and we analyse whether feedback loops can indirectly create a system in which voluntarily landscape enhancement emerges from the interactions between farmers and rural tourists. The results suggest that, in certain conditions, feedback loops from policies can be a relevant element to take into account, but that greater attention to the ecosystem service demand is required.
Innovation Practices in Construction Firms
Creators: name: Iranmanesh, Mohammad
name: Nor’Aini Yusof
name: Ernawati Mustafa Kamal
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The construction firms need to implement particular practices to successfully adopt or generate innovation to ensure growth and survival. The aim of this study is to investigate the association between construction firms’ characteristics and their level of innovative practices implementation. Data was gathered through a survey of 105 firms in the Malaysian construction industry. Data was analyzed using the non-linear canonical correlation technique. The results indicate that old and big firms with non- public clients exercise more innovation creation practices. Young and small firms with public clients implement more innovation adoption practices. Contractor firms which work nationally or internationally practice innovation adoption and creation practices simultaneously. The consultancy or property developer firms that operate within the state try to be innovation creators. The results also show a good relationship between old and big construction firms and universities. The findings of the present study help the policy makers to promote innovation in construction effectively.
Stability and Removal of Atorvastatin, Rosuvastatin and Simvastatin from Wastewater
Creators: name: Sulaiman, Saleh
name: Khamis, Mustafa
name: Nir, Shlomo
name: Lelario, Filomena
name: Scrano, Laura
name: Bufo, Sabino Aurelio
name: Mecca, Gennaro
name: Karaman, Rafik
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Engineering
Biochemistry

description: Atorvastatin (ATO), Rosuvastatin (RST) and Simvastatin (SIM) are commonly used drugs that belong to the statin family (lowering human blood cholesterol levels) and have been detected as contaminants in natural waters. Stability and removal of ATO, RST and SIM from spiked wastewater produced at Al-Quds University Campus were investigated. All three statins were found to undergo degradation in wastewater (activated sludge). The degradation reactions of the three drugs in wastewater at room temperature follow first order kinetics with rate constants of 2.2×10−7 s−1(ATO), 1.8×10−7s−1 (RST) and 1.8×10−6 s−1 (SIM), which are larger than those obtained in pure water under the same conditions, 1.9x 10−8 s−1 (ATO), 2.2x 10−8s−1 (RST) and 6.2×10−7 s−1 (SIM). Degradation products were identified by LC-MS and LC/MS/MS. The overall performance of the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) installed in Al-Quds University Campus towards the removal of these drugs was assessed showing that more than 90% of spiked ATO, RST and SIM were removed. In order to evaluate the efficiency of alternative removal methods to replace ultra-filtration membranes, adsorption isotherms for the three statins were investigated using both activated carbon and clay-micelle complex as adsorbents. The batch adsorption isotherms for the three statins were found to fit Langmuir equation, with larger number of adsorption sites and binding affinity for micelle-clay composite compared to activated carbon and filtration experiments of the three statins and their corresponding metabolites demonstrated a more efficient removal by micelle-clay filters.Supplemental material
A Crash Course in Scholarly Communications
Creators: name: Bilby, Mark G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: ORCID, DMP, Web Archiving, Archive-It, Transformative Agreements, Library Publishing, ETDs, ScholarWorks, Institutional Repositories, Open Access

description: In this online workshop for most Librarians at CSU Chico at the invitation of Library Dean Patrick Newell, I provided a quick overview of Scholarly Communications topics and developments in the California State University system, including the ScholarWorks IR, ETD archiving, Syllabus archiving, Green OA mandates and policies, Gold OA article funding, Transformative Agreements, Web Archiving, Library Journal publishing, Data Management Planning, and ORCID.
Inference of hidden states by coupled thermosphere-ionosphere data assimilation: Applications to observability and predictability of neutral mass density
Creators: name: Matsuo, Tomoko
name: Chih-Ting Hsu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Book Chapter "Inference of hidden states by coupled thermosphere-ionosphere data assimilation: Applications to observability and predictability of neutral mass density", In W. Wang and Y. Zhang (Eds.) Advances in Upper Atmosphere Research: Dynamics and Energetics, Geophys, AGU Monogr, Wiley, in press. The ionosphere and thermosphere are a tightly coupled system, thus the predictability and observability of one subsystem affects that of the other. In contrast to the ionosphere, which is relatively well-monitored by diverse instrumentation techniques including ionosondes coherent and incoherent radars, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) radio occultation, and a network of GNSS ground-based receivers, monitoring of the thermosphere's state is limited. This asymmetric observing capability of the upper atmosphere impedes our ability to predict the dynamic behavior of this coupled system as a whole. This Chapter demonstrates how state-of-the-art dynamical data assimilation approaches facilitate inference of hidden thermospheric states from abundant ionospheric observations, by systematically incorporating coupling between neutral and plasma species into the process of data assimilation as well as forecasting. Previously, it has been shown that the observability and predictability of the ionosphere can be extended considerably by estimating neutral composition and winds from ionospheric observations in a coupled thermosphere-ionosphere data assimilation system. The notion of observability is here used to characterize how well the internal states can be inferred from observations. Observing system simulation experiments and observing system experiments presented in this chapter suggest that neutral temperature can also be well-inferred from abundant GNSS radio occultation ionospheric observations. A comparison to independent CHAMP mass density measurements shows that assimilation experiments of actual COSMIC electron density proles into the NCAR Thermosphere Ionosphere Electrodynamics General Circulation Model (TIEGCM) can reduce the bias existing in the TIEGCM control simulation up to 50%. Ensemble forecast simulations furthermore suggest that initialization of TIEGCM by the coupled thermosphere-ionosphere data assimilation significantly improves the thermospheric mass density forecasting, with its impact lasting longer than 3 days under geomagnetically quiet conditions. Given the ever-expanding GNSS infrastructure, this is indeed a promising prospect for the thermospheric mass density specification and forecasting.
Teaching an ecological world-orientation through teaching history
Creators: name: Gare, Arran
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Arguing that the eco-catastrophe facing us requires a dramatic change in direction, it is suggested that education has to be fundamentally reconceived. It is necessary to teach an ‘ecological world-orientation’, and it is shown what this entails. This is not merely a different view of the world, it is argued; it involves firstly, developing an ‘internalist’ perspective in place of an ‘externalist’ perspective, one in which students learn to see themselves, their actions and their beliefs as part of the world they are trying to understand, and secondly, experiencing the world in process of becoming rather than as a world of predicable objects. Teaching an ecological world-orientation means teaching students to think of their education as participation in creating themselves, their society and nature. It is argued that this should begin with appreciating the significance of historical narrative before teaching a post-reductionist form of science.
Additional files for scientific publication "Taking application rates with a grain of salt: uncovering the impact of road de-icing salt on freshwaters of a mountain catchment in the Italian Alps" by Alberto Scotti, Johannes Klotz and Thomas Marsoner
Creators: name: Scotti Alberto
name: Klotz Johannes
name: Marsoner Thomas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: StatisticalAnalysis_RMarkdown.html: HTML file illustrating all the steps of the statistical analyses described in the paper, carried out with R programming language: both the code used and the results of the analyses are included within the same file.

Welschnoferbach_continous_data_v2. html: HTML file showing the continuous environmental data gathered at Welschnoferbach site: specific conductance, water level, water temperature, air temperature, precipitation.

Meteodata.xlsx: .Excel file showing the meteorological data collected during the study period by two different weather stations located within the study area.

See full publication for more details, explanation, and interpretation of the data (once published, link to the scientific publication will be added here).
MPEC 2024-E100 : 2021 LX44
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.
Approaches to the question, 'What is life?': reconciling theoretical biology with philosophical biology
Creators: name: Gare, Arran
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Philosophical biologists have attempted to define the distinction between life and non-life to more adequately define what it is to be human. They are reacting against idealism, but idealism is their point of departure, and they have embraced the reaction by idealists against the mechanistic notion of humans developed by the scientific materialists. Theoretical biologists also have attempted to develop a more adequate conception of life, but their point of departure has been within science itself. In their case, it has involved efforts to overcome the reductionism of scientific materialism to develop a form of science able to identify and explain the distinctive characteristics of living beings. So, while both philosophical biologists and theoretical biologists are struggling to overcome scientific materialism, they are approaching the question: What is Life? from different directions. Focussing on the work of Robert Rosen, in this paper I will try to show what revisions in our understanding of science theoretical biologists need to accept in order to do justice to the insights of the philosophical biologists. I will suggest that these revisions should be accepted, and spell out some of the implications of such a science.
Skill: an elusive and ambiguous concept in labour market studies
Creators: name: Esposto, Alexis
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The concept of skill and its measurement has been central in contemporary discussions of labour market issues. Such issues as the rise in earnings inequality and changes to the skill composition of employment have served to highlight the limitations of definitions of skill and the problems that these pose for analysis of labour market changes. This paper argues that current measures of skill contain numerous limitations and ambiguities. Part of the reason is that the concept is complex and ill defined. This paper suggests that a more robust and detailed definition of skill is imperative. Furthermore, definitions and measures of skill used in the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) provide an advanced and more useful background for skill measurement and analysis than current measures. Such an approach would be beneficial to adopt in Australia, as it would provide a broader, more accurate and detailed understanding of the nature of occupations, issues related to skill and skill shortages, and labour market change.
Evaluating the actions towards environmental health using DPSEEA and Program Logic
Creators: name: Jordan, Helen
name: Dunt, David
name: Dunn, Louise
name: Verrinder, Glenda
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper illustrates the integration of an approach used in program evaluation with an approach used by environmental health practitioners to provide a useful tool for program planning, evaluation and decision making for environmental health practitioners. A program logic approach that focuses on and links the 'actions' designed to improve environmental health with each of the components of the DPSEEA (Driver, Pressure, State, Exposure, Effect and Action) conceptual framework for indicator development is presented. Together, these approaches can be used to facilitate the evaluation of organised actions towards environmental health, and the effectiveness of these actions in attaining the goals that might be associated with any one or more components of the DPSEEA framework. These approaches also highlight the complexities of environmental health problems. They show the need for an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary range of professionals to assist in addressing these issues. It is important to have an understanding that they are heuristic models, and can alter with improved knowledge of the mechanisms and conditions of the environmental problem and the intervention designed to address it.
Successful applications of statistical modeling to betting markets
Creators: name: Clarke, Stephen
name: Bailey, Michael
name: Yelas, Stefan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: With a strategic theme of entrepreneurship, Swinburne University encourages innovation and commercialisation of research results. Swinburne Sports Statistics initially embraced this theme by selling computer predictions of Australian rules football to the media, and since 1998 predictions for a range of sporting events were placed on our web site. The expansion of sports betting created a market for sports prediction expertise, and we discuss profitable attempts at demonstrating the inefficiency of football, cricket and rugby betting markets. The head to head nature of most sports betting results in low margins for bookmakers, and the lengthy time many events take to complete also results in higher risk and lower turnover. To overcome these drawbacks, ‘Betting in Running’ allows betting on events which occur within a sporting contest, such as the number of runs in an over of cricket, or the point score in a single game of tennis. Sportsbet21, a Swinburne startup company, provides to bookmakers computer generated odds driven by a statistical model. Models have been developed for both cricket and tennis, and operated successfully by Ladbrokes in the UK for some time. The product has achieved profit targets on growing turnover, and demonstrated the robustness of the mathematical models.
Stability and removal of atorvastatin, rosuvastatin and simvastatin from wastewater
Creators: name: Sulaiman, Saleh
name: Khamis, Mustafa
name: Nir, Shlomo
name: Lelario, Filomena
name: Scrano, Laura
name: Bufo, Sabino Aurelio
name: Mecca, Gennaro
name: Karaman, Rafik
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Engineering
Biochemistry

description: Atorvastatin (ATO), rosuvastatin (RST) and simvastatin (SIM) are commonly used drugs that belong to the statin family (lowering human blood cholesterol levels) and have been detected as contaminants in natural waters. Stability and removal of ATO, RST and SIM from spiked wastewater produced at the Al-Quds University campus were investigated. All three statins were found to undergo degradation in wastewater (activated sludge). The degradation reactions of the three drugs in wastewater at room temperature follow first-order kinetics with rate constants of 2.2 × 10−7 s−1 (ATO), 1.8 × 10−7 s−1 (RST) and 1.8 × 10−6 s−1 (SIM), which are larger than those obtained in pure water under the same conditions, 1.9 × 10−8 s−1 (ATO), 2.2 × 10−8 s−1 (RST) and 6.2 × 10−7 s−1 (SIM). Degradation products were identified by LC-MS and LC/MS/MS. The overall performance of the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) installed in the Al-Quds University campus towards the removal of these drugs was assessed showing that more than 90% of spiked ATO, RST and SIM were removed. In order to evaluate the efficiency of alternative removal methods to replace ultra-filtration membranes, adsorption isotherms for the three statins were investigated using both activated carbon and clay–micelle complex as adsorbents. The batch adsorption isotherms for the three statins were found to fit the Langmuir equation, with a larger number of adsorption sites and binding affinity for micelle–clay composite compared with activated carbon and filtration experiments of the three statins and their corresponding metabolites demonstrated a more efficient removal by micelle–clay filters.
Synthesis of manganese vanadate nanobelts and their visible light photocatalytic activity for methylene blue
Creators: name: L.Z. Pei
name: N. Lin
name: H.Y. Yu
name: T. Wei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Physiology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry

description: Manganese vanadate nanobelts have been synthesised by a simple hydrothermal process using polymer polyvinyl pyrrolidone as the surfactant by adjusting the pH value. The X-ray diffraction, selected area electron diffraction and the high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (TEM) show that the manganese vanadate nanobelts are composed of a single crystalline monoclinic Mn2V2O7 phase. Scanning electron microscopy and TEM observations show that the thickness, width and length of the nanobelts are 20 nm, 350 nm–1 μm and several dozens to several hundreds of micrometres, respectively. The photocatalytic activities of the manganese vanadate nanobelts have been evaluated by the photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue (MB) in an aqueous solution as a model pollutant under the solar light irradiation. After 4 h of the irradiation by the solar light, the MB solution with the volume of 10 mL and the concentration of 10 mg·mL−1 can be totally degraded using 10 mg manganese vanadate nanobelts.
Teaching critical appraisal skills to postgraduate, English as a second language, engineering students
Creators: name: Melles, Gavin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Teaching engineering students critical appraisal skills that are relevant to their discipline is a key skill for postgraduate study. International English as a second language students, however, may have had limited exposure to critical thinking in their prior learning and may arrive in Australia with approaches that are problematic. Discipline-specific English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses integrated in the Engineering Curriculum are an ideal, albeit challenging, environment to teach critical thinking and appraisal. This paper describes the development and student evaluation of an Engineering EAP program focussing on teaching critical appraisal to students at Melbourne University. In this paper, I describe teaching and assessment processes and qualitative feedback from an open-ended survey of three semester cohorts of students about the cross-cultural challenges of engaging with critical appraisal. The paper argues that discipline-specific EAP courses are an appropriate place to teach critical appraisal skills and that qualitative student feedback provides a useful complement to program evaluation.
Fundal coloboma: ocular features and role of prophylactic laser in 415 eyes
Creators: name: Babulal Kumawat
name: Tripathy, Koushik
name: Yog Raj Sharma
name: Chawla, Rohan
name: Singh, Harsh Inder
name: Subodh Kumar Singh
name: Bypareddy, Ravi
name: Venkatesh, Pradeep
name: Rajpal Vohra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Medicine

description: Fundal coloboma: ocular features and role of prophylactic laser in 415 eyes: Babulal Kumawat, Koushik Tripathy, Yog Raj Sharma, Rohan Chawla, Harsh Inder Singh, Subodh Kumar Singh, Ravi Bypareddy, Pradeep Venkatesh, Rajpal Vohra
EP-RET-0806: SOE 2015 Congress (The annual conference of 'The European Society of Ophthalmology'), 6-9 June 2015, Vienna, Austria
2015-06 | conference-poster URL: http://soe2015.org/
Annual air temperature maps on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau from 1990 to 2020
Creators: name: Zhou, Jia
name: Lu, Tao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 370202
subject: Climatology
classificationCode: 370201
subject: Climate change processes

description: This gridded dataset of air temperature product perform high accuracy with a resolution of 500 meters from 1990 to 2020 covering the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP).
Engaging student social networks to motivate learning: capturing, analysing and critiquing the visual image
Creators: name: Robbie, Diane
name: Zeeng, Lynette
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper discusses how a unique, innovative and effective model of student-centred learning has been implemented through an educational experience that directly captures students’ enthusiasm using Web 2.0 technologies. This model has allowed students to collaborate and share in the process of creating and building their photographic knowledge in an online social network through conversations about their images. The active learning teaching methodology adopted takes into account the digital technology age, the digital camera and the digital student. Meeting the needs of students by using an emerging social technology has engendered a spirit that has even the reluctant and less creative students immersing themselves in creative, photographic skills. The dynamic nature of Web 2.0 technologies enables regular and immediate feedback between students and teachers. Through interactive peer learning, students are motivated to reflect, analyse and critique their own work, and the work of their peers more frequently, establishing a practice of visual literacy skills including image capture and editing techniques. Students can explore the camera, develop photographic, analytical and critiquing skills, and reflect on their work in their own time. This mode of learning enhances student work life balance, allowing flexible study activities and eliminating printing costs.
QR-Codes - Pac-Man lässt grüssen
Creators: name: Bendel, Oliver
Publisher: name: Netzmedien
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Ein wenig erinnert ein QR-Code an das Pac-Man-Labyrinth. In diesem bewegte man sich rund wie ein Puck und mit aufgerissenem Mund vorwärts, konnte fressen und gefressen werden. Es gibt Werbekampagnen, Stadtparcours und Kunstprojekte mit Codes. Und Sicherheitsrisiken, über die man diskutieren sollte.
Informationsethik für Unternehmen - Eine Frage der Moral
Creators: name: Bendel, Oliver
Publisher: name: Swiss Professional Media
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Aristoteles ist einer der Väter der Ethik. Die Glückseligkeit im Diesseits war sein Ideal. Heute finden wir Bereichsethiken wie Informationsethik, Wirtschaftsethik, Politikethik und Medizinethik vor. Die Informationsethik untersucht die moralischen Implikationen des Einsatzes von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien und neuen Medien. Ihre Methoden und Inhalte können auch für Unternehmen nützlich sein.
Tagebuch in Zahlen
Creators: name: Baumann, Nathalie
Publisher: name: Netzmedien
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Neben die Vermessung der Welt tritt zunehmend die Vermessung des Selbst Quantified Self. Immer mehr Gadgets stehen zur Verfügung, um die eigenen Körperfunktionen aufzuzeichnen und in einen Vergleich mit den Messwerten anderer zu setzen. Selbstoptimierung ist das Ziel. Ein Essay
But is it history?
Creators: name: Neumann, Klaus
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: How do we know a past beyond the reach of our immediate experience? Since the nineteenth century, professional historians have been trusted to be able to close the gap between the present and the past, and to represent the past as it really was. Experiments in history can play an important role in undermining that trust, and in encouraging those reading or watching or listening to history to shed their fear of flying. At the same time, experimental histories can sow doubt as to whether the past perhaps amounts to more than something over and done with, the history of which can be validated by reference to indisputable outcomes.
Why protect biodiversity? Perspectives of conservation professionals in Poland
Creators: name: Malgorzata Blicharska
name: Grandin, Ulf
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: There are numerous strategies to reverse biodiversity decline, ranging from economic, through ecological, to ethical ones. Which arguments are used in the conservation may have bearing on the actual implementation of biodiversity policies. To understand conservation professionals’ perceptions of biodiversity is particularly important in the countries in transition, where the new environmental policies are being implemented, the approaches to governance are changing and new biodiversity discourses are emerging. This study investigates what the biodiversity conservation professionals in Poland believe the rationale behind conservation is. We reveal two main perspectives – one focused on intrinsic value of biodiversity and one underlining its utilitarian value. Even if the intrinsic value perspective prevails, the economic framing of biodiversity value is emerging. This framing is important in the face of the ongoing changes in Poland with focus on economic development and relatively little attention paid to biodiversity. The utilitarian approach to conservation, reinforced by the concept of ecosystem services, can be used to supplement the emerging biodiversity discourse strengthening the conservation case. The richness of perspectives among the conservation professionals can facilitate deliberate construction of the new conservation discourse in Poland combining the notion of intrinsic value of nature with the utilitarian approach.
title: Performing Place at Ancient Idalion, Cyprus: An Anthropological Perspective on the Lower City South Sanctuary Architecture
Creators: name: Bartusewich, Rebecca M
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cyprus
subject: Idalion
subject: place-making
subject: identity
subject: archaeology
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Archaeological Anthropology

description: The ancient site of the Lower City South sanctuary of Idalion is a site of place making and identity formation during the 1st millennium BCE of Cyprus. This archaeological site represents repetitive building patterns and persistent cultic activity that denote a cultural tradition that withstood the changes of administrative control in the Cypro-Classical and Hellenistic periods. Certain architectural elements, like altars and water features, are characteristic of a continued tradition at the ancient site and they are evidence of a recursive building practice that falls into templates of place making and identity formation as introduced by Bourdieu and Giddens. Identities are linked to place and architecture can represent both in the archaeological record. Idalion’s Lower City South sanctuary is proof of the relationship of these elements of social behavior.
Dr. Robot entdeckt die Moral
Creators: name: Bendel, Oliver
Publisher: name: Netzmedien
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Operations-, Pflege-, Therapie- und Sexroboter verbreiten sich rasant. Sie operieren, behandeln, betreuen, kuscheln und plaudern. Maschinen- und Roboterethik fragen nun danach, wie man diese Roboter in moralischer Hinsicht verbessern kann. Und verschiedene Bereichsethiken stellen die Frage, ob es moralisch überhaupt vertretbar ist, solche Maschinen einzusetzen.
Business-Software-Studie 2013 Mobile Computing mit Business-Software
Creators: name: Leimstoll, Uwe
name: Quade, Michael H.
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Die Studie soll aufzeigen, welche Effekte mit dem Einsatz von Mobile Computing in Schweizer KMU heute schon erzielt werden. Daraus leiten sich folgende zentrale Forschungsfragen ab: Welche Aspekte der Mobilität sind für Schweizer KMU wichtig? Wie mobil ist die Leistungserbringung in Schweizer KMU? Welche Informationen werden mobil verwendet? Welche Prozessbereiche werden mit Smartphones und Tablets unterstützt? Welche Effekte werden mit Smartphones und Tablets erzielt? Die Ergebnisse der Studie basieren auf einer repräsentativen Primärerhebung in Schweizer KMU mit 1 bis 250 Vollzeitstellen.
Sanft entschlafen. Sterbehilfe-Reportage "Tanner geht"
Creators: name: Baumann, Nathalie
Publisher: name: Tamedia
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: In Deutschland ist es nicht legal, sich bei der Selbsttötung begleiten zu lassen. In der Schweiz schon. Deshalb kommen viele Sterbewillige hierher. Zum Beispiel Tanner.
The Pocket PC as an information management tool for academics in Australia: an exploratory study
Creators: name: Chow, Geoffrey
name: Ho, Henry
name: Ling, Peter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The increasing use of portable computers and mobile computing and telecommunication devices means a re-think of how we access and retrieve information. Like many workers in knowledge-rich professions, university academics in Australia are increasingly overloaded with information in the form of messages, notes, papers, publications, books and so on. They have to handle, process, store, and make decisions on the information received on a daily basis. Conversely, university academics are also expected, at times under pressure, to produce more of this type of information, which in turn, increases the pressure on their peers in academic circles to handle an increasing amount of information. The technological development that fosters the information explosion also produces new means of coping with it. This research investigated the potential of the Pocket PC to assist academics in meeting the increasing informational demands placed upon them.
The pedagogy of media law
Creators: name: Milne, Esther
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Esther Milne reviews 'Connect and converge: Australian media and communications law handbook', by Scott Beattie and Elizabeth Beal, published by Oxford University Press, 2007; 'The journalist's guide to media law: dealing with legal and ethical issues (3rd ed.)', by Mark Pearson, published by Allen and Unwin, 2007; and 'Australian media law (3rd ed.)', by Sharon Rodrick and Des Butler, published by Lawbook Co, 2007.
Schluss mit lustig
Creators: name: Bendel, Oliver
Publisher: name: Netzmedien
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Gamification ist seit einiger Zeit ein Trend, vielleicht sogar ein Hype. Die Spielkinder setzten sich durch. Aus Ernst wurde Spass. Das ruft auch Spielverderber auf den Plan. Sie fordern die Degamification, die Entspielifizierung. Wer wird gewinnen?
'Coffee Lectures' DIGITAL: Forschungsethik UB Hildesheim (SUH)
Creators: name: Strauch, Annette
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: FDM
Forschungsdatenmanagement
UB Hildesheim
Universitätsbibliothek Hildesheim

description: Forscherinnen und Forscher können sich, wenn sie bereit für ein Forschungsdatenmanagement sind, jederzeit in der Universitätsbibliothek Hildesheim zum Umgang mit Daten informieren. Wir kommen dabei auf der technischen Ebene gut, kontinuierlich weiter und gehen ganz verantwortungsvoll mit der Wissenschaftsfreiheit um. Noch vor Beginn der geplanten Forschungsprojekte denken wir das Thema Forschungsethik, Ethik in den Wissenschaften und sicherheitsrelevante Forschung mit, um Mißbrauch von Forschung zu vermeiden. In Beratungen zum FDM (‘First-Level’ - Support) ist die Forschungsethik immer ein Thema, beim qualitativen oder quantitativen Forschungsprozess. Die Art der Datenerhebung hat sich in den letzten Jahren stark verändert. Wir gehen mit Smartphones und Tablets, usw., ins "Feld". Was ist dabei zu beachten? Ethik als Disziplin sucht „die allgemeinen Prinzipien oder Beurteilungskriterien zur Beantwortung der Frage nach dem richtigen Handeln zu begründen“(vgl. Diener, Edward, Crandall, Rick (1978): Ethics in Social and Behavioral Research). Zentrale Elemente zur Forschungsethik, neben der Verantwortung, sind Überlegungen zur Wertebasis und ethische Entscheidungsfindungen: Wer trägt Verantwortung als Forscherin und Forscher? Wofür tragen die Forschenden eigentlich die Verantwortung, d.h. für welche Handlungen in ihrer Forschungstätigkeit und wem gegenüber? Bei diesen Überlegungen müssen immer die Anforderungen der Ethikstandards in den Fachgesellschaften erfüllt werden. Auch im Bereich des Maschinellen Lernens, Big Data, Künstliche Intelligenz und Algorithmen werden alle angeregt, sich um eine ethische Reflexion des Forschungsthema zu kümmern. In der der Biologie oder in den den Lebenswissenschaften, bei Projekten der Politikwissenschaften und in den Erziehungs-und Sprachwissenschaften werden forschungsethische Fragen gestellt, also an allen Fachbereichen der eigenen Universität.
Die Medizin in der Moral der Informationsgesellschaft
Creators: name: Bendel, Oliver
Publisher: name: Netzmedien
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Die Bereichsethiken existieren seit Jahren und Jahrzehnten vor sich hin. Die Informationsethik hat sich, für viele unbemerkt, in ihre Mitte geschoben. Das hat auch Konsequenzen für die Medizinethik und damit für das Gesundheitswesen überhaupt.
The behaviour of RC frames with masonry infill in Wenchuan Earthquake
Creators: name: Mohyeddin-kermani, Alireza
name: Goldsworthy, Helen
name: Gad, Emad
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Wenchuan Earthquake, with a moment magnitude of 7.9 (reported by USGS), occurred in Sichuan Province in China on May 12, 2008. As of July 2, 2008 69,195 people were killed, 373,606 injured, 18,389 missing, 5 million homeless and 79,852 rescued. A team of eight researchers from Melbourne and Hong Kong, including the first-named author, visited China in late June-early July 2008 to visit the cities of Chengdu, Dujiangyang, Yingxiu and Mianyang to investigate the effect of this earthquake. A common form of construction in the affected area is that of reinforced concrete frames with masonry infill. A PhD research project is currently being undertaken at the University of Melbourne on the behaviour of this type of construction when subjected to seismic loads. This paper focuses specifically on observations made on this type of construction during the visit to Sichuan with identification of damage and of key failure modes. This will be related to the damage and failure modes observed in past earthquakes and in experimental work; hence placing the observations from the Sichuan earthquake into the context of previous reconnaissance and research.
ASHVIN Newsletter 8 - Final Issue showcasing our results in Digital Twin for Construction
Creators: name: Cediel, Natalia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: ASHVIN is a research and innovation project, co-funded by the European Union and running for 3,5 years until March 2024. 

It has developed a digital twin system to boost safety, productivity and efficiency of the construction sector. The solution has been piloted accorss 10 European demonstration sites. 

We are pleased to share the final newsletter of our project, celebrating our commitment to research and innovation in digital twin technologies to boost the construction sector!  

In this issue, you will find insight into how the ASHVIN digital twin system runs and how it has been piloted in a set of new demo sites. We also share comments about their ASHVIN experience from our Advisory board and involved stakeholders from the demo projects. Finally, you will find updates from the latest research results, including scientific publications and event participation. 

Thank you for following our journey!
"Die Inbox sollte abends leer sein." Stress und Ineffizienz trotz IT-Tools?
Creators: name: Baumann, Nathalie
name: Dannecker, Achim
Publisher: name: Swiss Professional Media
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: IT-Tools sollten uns bei der täglichen Arbeit unterstützen. Nicht richtig verwendet, können sie leicht zu Überforderung und Stress führen. Achim Dannecker, Dozent für Wirtschaftsinformatik an der Hochschule für Wirtschaft FHNW, erklärt, wie sich ineffizientes Arbeiten vermeiden lässt.
"Vergesslichkeit kann auch positiv sein"
Creators: name: Dornberger, Rolf
name: Baumann, Nathalie
Publisher: name: Swiss Professional Media
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Rolf Dornberger, Leiter des Instituts für Wirtschaftsinformatik IWI an der Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW, über den Umgang mit (zu) vielen Informationen im Arbeitsalltag und den Vorteil des Älterwerdens in dieser Hinsicht. Sich im heutigen Berufsalltag während längerer Zeit konzentriert einer einzigen Tätigkeit zu widmen ist schwierig. Unentwegt blinken Mailankündigungen auf, klingelt das Telefon, bittet jemand spontan um zwei Minuten Gesprächszeit, die dann doch zehn oder mehr Minuten dauert. Es rufen immer mehr Pflichten, welche die tägliche Arbeitszeit in zunehmend kleinere Sequenzen zerlegen. Wie gibt man Gegensteuer?
Eating the Universe - Vom Essen in der Kunst
Creators: name: Baumann, Nathalie
Publisher: name: Tamedia
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Eine selbstzerstörerische Küche, eine Serie von Reibekuchen an der Wand: Die Kunsthalle Düsseldorf kocht die Eat Art auf. Man wird daran satt.
Response spectra for long distance subduction earthquakes on soft soil sites
Creators: name: Venkatesan, Srinath
name: Kafle, B.
name: Lam, Nelson
name: Wilson, John
name: Thambirajah, Balendra
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A stochastic seismological model has been developed for simulating earthquake ground shaking on rock sites in Singapore and the adjoining Malaysian Peninsula. Simulations from the model have been compared with recent earthquake events (12th September 2007) of M8.4 and M7.8 generated by the Sunda Arc Subduction Trench from a long distance in the range 600 km – 1000 km. It was concluded that existing attenuation models developed for worldwide applications may not provide realistic representation of such extreme magnitude-distance combinations. In this study, ground motion simulations for rock sites were extended to simulations for the more hazardous soft soil sites conforming to Class C and D of IBC 2006. Accelerograms recorded in downholes from recent major earthquake events along with borehole records of selected soil sites have been collated and archived. Response spectra and drift demands calculated from the recorded accelerograms have been compared with those simulated by program GENQKE (incorporating the attenuation behaviour of the region) and program SHAKE (incorporating the amplification effects of the individual soil sites). This comparative study could form the basis for the development of a realistic and reliable seismic demand model for the Singapore and Malaysian peninsular region.
GOOD BOT, BAD BOT. Dialog zwischen Mensch und Maschine
Creators: name: Bendel, Oliver
Publisher: name: Swiss Professional Media
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Viele Unternehmen setzen auf ihrer Website einen Chatbot als virtuellen Berater ein. Vernachlässigt wurden bisher moralische Aspekte. Dabei kann die falsche Antwort zur falschen Zeit grossen Schaden anrichten. An der Hochschule für Wirtschaft FHNW soll ein sogenannter «Goodbot» entstehen.