cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dynamic Analysis of the Evolution of Conventions in a Public Goods Experiment with Intergenerational Advice
Creators: name: Chaudhuri, Ananish
name: Maitra, Pushkar
name: Graziano, Sara
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this paper we analyse contributions to a public good within an inter-generational framework where at the end of each session one generation of subjects leave advice for the succeeding generation via free form messages. Such advice can be private (advice left by one player in generation t is given only to her immediate successor in generation t + 1 ) or public (advice left by players of generation t is made available to all members of generation t + 1 ). We estimate a panel regression model that enables us to understand the dynamics of the process better and to highlight the learning that occurs over time. Our estimation results show that contributions in any period depend crucially on contributions in the previous period and on the group average in the previous period - more specifically whether a subject's own contribution in the previous period fell above or below the group average. We find that in the public advice treatment when a subject's contribution fell below the group average in the previous period there is a tendency on the part of that subject to increase contributions in the next period.
A Neo-marxist Study of Organizational Leadership
Creators: name: Sarros, James C.
name: Tanewski, George A.
name: Winter, Richard P.
name: Santora, Joseph C.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study examines the extent to which a leader's behavior (i.e., transactional and transformational styles) and aspects of an organisation's structure (i.e., centralization, formalization dimensions) directly and/or indirectly relate to neo-Marxist elements of work alienation (i.e., powerlessness, meaninglessness, self estrangement). The study utilized confirmatory structural modeling techniques to estimate the goodness of fit of transformational/transactional leadership-structure-alienation models based on the responses of personnel in a major US eastern seaboard fire department (a bureaucratic, quasi-military type organisation) (n = 326). Goodness of fit statistics for the transformational leadership structural model indicated good fit to the observed data, whereas transactional leadership showed poor fit. For both models, centralization (i.e., hierarchy of authority) and formalization (i.e., job codification, job specificity) sub-constructs predicted increased and decreased feelings of worker alienation (i.e., powerlessness) respectively. Additionally, transformational (attributed charisma) and transactional (contingent reward) leadership sub-constructs exerted significant direct and indirect negative effects on work alienation. The study argues that managers as well as leaders need to question bureaucratic orientations to work and manager-employee relations by rethinking their value orientations and adapting new models that encourage individual fulfilment, learning, and personal development.
Japan's Manufacturing Foreign Direct Investment Towards East Asian Countries: An Empirical Analysis
Creators: name: Aoki, Koji
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper studies empirically the macro-economic determinants of Japan's manufacturing foreign direct investment in East Asian countries. To do so, we first extend the marginal q theory of investment to its multi-regional version, and then carry out an empirical analysis. Specifically, it is shown that (1) Japan's manufacturing foreign direct investment has responded quite straightforwardly to the changing relative wage structure across East Asian countries including Japan, and that (2) the FDI regulations imposed by host countries have significantly affected the behavior of FDI. Furthermore, we show an empirical evidence that (3) the upsurge in stock prices in the second half of the 1980's had in part helped to stimulate the FDI by allowing the firms to raise funds cheaply.
Labour market information and the employment complex: institutional mechanisms for the management of risk and trust
Creators: name: Reed, Ken
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper formulates a conceptual model that makes it possible to describe how systems of work adapt to changes in the environment and maintain interna) cohesion in the face of potentially conflictual interests and goals within a work community. Two institutional structures are described: 'labour market information' which performs the function of reducing uncertainty originating in the economy and thus enables risk to be calculated; and the 'employment complex* which reduces normative uncertainty, enabling actors to invest commitment into the system and thereby operate on the basis of trust. The capacity to define risk and to reproduce trust are claimed here to improve the system's survival capability through the conservation of resources. Four institutionalised forms of information are identified: prices of wages and salaries; labour market projections; corporate prestige; and demographics. The bases of systemic trust are proposed as: the employment contract; career paths; industrial citizenship; and credential ling systems. The paper concludes with a discussion of the mechanisms that manage the linkages between the labour market and the employment complex.
Insight into the Composition of the Management Team: A Source of Competitive Advantage
Creators: name: Barry, Bernard
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Many writers have drawn attention to the growing importance of teams to the functioning of organisations. At the same time, however, there is a growing amount of evidence to suggest that senior management groups find it difficult to work together collaboratively in this way. One well know approach to the study of management teams is that provided by Meredith Belbin and his colleagues. This work, which began at Henley in 1969, has been developed and is now used in a number of countries. In recent years the Belbin approach has been subject to criticism by psychometricians who have drawn attention to the dearth of published evidence to support his team role model. This paper traces the development of the Belbin approach and describes the experience gained by the writer in using this to examine the top management teams of three organisations. These include an entrepreneurial concern which had undergone considerable growth; a large bureaucratic social welfare organisation and a major international consumer goods company. Although the team roles were meaningful and useful to the management teams concerned, it was concluded that the need for an objective evaluation of the reliability and valididty of the Belbin Interplace system would seem to be an urgent one.
How to Assess the Quality of Long Term Care
Creators: name: Doyle, Colleen
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This working paper reviews three methods of assessing the quality of long term care for the aged. The three methods are as follows. First, in criterion-guided assessment, a largely subjective assessment is made, using a set of guidelines as a framework for the assessment. These guidelines are a list of criteria which define the aspects of care which are important. Second, assessment may be made using structured assessment protocols which may include completion of written questionnaires. Structured assessment procedures concentrate on assessment of individuals living in the facility, or consist of a more general assessment of the 'personality' of the facility. Third, assessment may be based on selected key indicators which are assumed to reflect the level of quality of care found in other unmeasured areas as well, or they are used as markers for more intensive investigation. This method is a shorthand summary of the overall quality, and is used either alone or in conjunction with more detailed assessments. These methods are reviewed here with particular reference to the method of assessing quality of long term care that is used by the Australian federal government. After reviewing the literature, the policy implications of the review, and future directions for research in this field are discussed.
Information technology outsourcing in Australia
Creators: name: Costa, Christina
name: Beaumont, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In Australia there has been considerable popular discussion of outsourcing Information Technology (IT) but little academic research into its incidence and benefits. We report on research into Australian IT outsourcing conducted in 1999. The research objectives were to measure the incidence of outsourcing amongst Australian firms, identify the functions that were outsourced, the reasons why managers considered outsourcing, the costs and benefits of outsourcing, possible changes in modes of and motivations for outsourcing and factors that are associated with successful outsourcing arrangements. The three most important factors driving outsourcing in Australia are accesses to skills, improved service quality and increasing managers' focus on core business activities; cost savings are comparatively unimportant. Criteria for successful outsourcing arrangements are discussed.
A Critique of the World Health Organisation's Evaluation of Health System Performance
Creators: name: Richardson, Jeff
name: Robertson, Iain
name: Wildman, John
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The World Health Organisation (WHO) approach to the measurement of health system efficiency is briefly described. The article then focuses upon four issues. First, it is argued that the choice of objectives gives undue prominence to the equity of financing and, more generally, inappropriately imposes a particular set of values upon all countries. Secondly, the importance weights attached to the objectives are somewhat misleading as an indication of the importance of the dimensions in the country rankings. Depending upon WHO objectives they are an also an incorrect measure of system performance. Thirdly, the model for combining the different objectives into a single index of system performance is problematical and alternative models are shown to alter system rankings. Fourthly, the econometric modelling of system performance does not provide a reliable basis for the evaluation of efficiency and the ranking of system performance. It is concluded that, despite these problems, the study is a landmark in the evolution of system evaluation, but one which requires significant revision.
Chemical constituents from Glehnia littoralis and their chemotaxonomic significance
Creators: name: Zhang, Shouwen
name: Cheng, Fang
name: Yang, Li
name: Zeng, Jinxiang
name: Han, Fengyu
name: Yu, Xiuling
name: Zhu, Yuye
name: Zhong, Guoyue
name: He, Junwei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Phytochemical investigation of the roots of Glehnia littoralis Fr. Schmidt. ex Miq. led to the isolation of 16 known compounds, including three β-carboline alkaloids (1–3), four phenylpropanoids (4–7), five phenolic acids (8–12), three polyacetylenes (13–15) and one fatty acid (16). The structures of these compounds were elucidated on the basis of spectral analysis and comparison with those reported in literatures. To the best of knowledge, the report of the first β-carboline alkaloid in the Umbelliferae family. Additionally, compounds 1–5, 9, 10 and 16 have not been reported from any species in Umbelliferae family, compounds 7, 8 and 12 were isolated from the genus Glehnia for the first time and could be of the chemotaxinomic significance and serve as valuable chemotaxonomic makers for G. littoralis. The chemotaxonomic significance of the isolated compounds was summarised.
title: Συστήματα αξιών στην πολιτιστική κληρονομιά
title: Value-based systems in cultural heritage
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Κοκκινέα, Σταυρούλα-Ειρήνη
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2021
Subjects: Πολιτιστική κληρονομιά
Αξιοκεντρικό μοντέλο
Πολιτισμική διαχείριση
Συντήρηση
Cultural heritage
Value-based approach
Cultural management
Conservation

description: Η παρούσα εργασία εξετάζει το αξιοκεντρικό μοντέλο στα πλαίσια διαχείρισης της πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς. Αφού γίνεται επισκόπηση των ορισμών της πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς και των αξιών που διέπουν τη διαχείρισή της, διερευνάται η ιστορική αναδρομή και εξέλιξη τόσο των γενικών θεμάτων διαχείρισης πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς, κυρίως στο πεδίο της Συντήρησης, όσο και των συστημάτων διαχείρισής της, με έμφαση στο αξιοκεντρικό μοντέλο. Παρουσιάζονται παραδείγματα εφαρμογής του συστήματος αξιών στη διαχείριση πολιτιστικών μνημείων και προτείνονται περαιτέρω μέθοδοι αξιοποίησής του.
D3.5 – Open database of policies & technologies
Creators: name: Domenech Aparisi, Teresa
name: Calzadilla Rivera, Alvaro
name: Ma, Zijie
name: Liu, Haoning
Publisher: name: TRANSIENCE
Year: 2025
Subjects: Circular economy policies
Circular Economy strategies
Circular Economy interventions

description: This report describes the methodology used for the generation of the open database of policies and technologies for industrial circularity performance and decarbonisation, which includes circular economy (CE) and decarbonisation interventions across the three core sectors of the project: steel, cement/concrete, and plastics. This database categorises key CE strategies and interventions based on two classificatory axes: the 9Rs framework (refuse, rethink, reduce, reuse, repair, refurbish, remanufacture, repurpose, recycle), and the approach of Narrowing, Slowing, Substituting, and Closing resource loops (NSSC). As most CE measures lead to or overlap with decarbonisation strategies, the database includes a list of technologies and associated costs that contribute to decarbonisation through increased circularity performance. This database complements the Policy Matrix, developed in D3.3., by considering parameters that can be used to transform policy interventions into modelling inputs, so that they can effectively be modelled in MIC3. The dataset also considers key technologies and their associated costs for circularity and decarbonisation. This supports the modelling efforts for the quantification of the costs of the circular and low-carbon transition as part of the model development undertaken in WP4 and, critically, the modelling exercises in WPs 7, 8, and 11.
Selective Photonic Sintering of Ag Flakes Embedded in Silicone Elastomers to Fabricate Stretchable Conductors
Creators: name: Youngsu Oh
name: Yoon, In Seon
name: Chihak Lee
name: Kim, Sun Hong
name: Byeong-Kwon Ju
name: Hong, Jae-Min
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 90499 Chemical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering
subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: Stretchable conductors have recently attracted much attention due to rapid developments in wearable and deformable electronics. Conductors are one of the essential components of electronic devices. A photonic sintering process using intense pulsed light from a xenon lamp is used for sintering printed ink to fabricate conductors, without damaging the substrate. However, it is difficult to achieve the most desired properties such as the high conductivity and mechanical stretchability in stretchable conductors fabricated by photonic sintering. Here, highly stretchable conductors are developed by the selective sintering of conductive materials embedded in silicone elastomers, overcoming this drawback. The conductors are composed of conductive Ag flakes and elastomeric Ecoflex. Photonic sintering generates conductive paths without damaging the transparent elastomer. As a result, a stretchability of 500% is achieved without the necessity of any structural designs. Furthermore, a wireless power transfer circuit incorporating the conductors was successfully applied to operate a light emitting diode wirelessly. This approach opens up the possibility of developing new types of stretchable and deformable electronics for future applications.
Rubichaetoglobin A, a new cytochalasan alkaloid isolated from the plant endophytic fungus Chaetomium tectifimeti S104
Creators: name: Zhang, An-Xin
name: Feng, Li
name: Wang, Jing
name: Tan, Ning-Hua
name: Wang, Zhe
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Rubichaetoglobin A (1), a new cytochalasan alkaloid, together with nine closely related known ones (2-10), were isolated from the ethyl acetate extracts of the endophytic fungus Chaetomium tectifimeti S104 harbored in the root of Rubia podantha Diels. Their structures were elucidated based on comprehensive spectroscopic analysis. All isolated compounds were tested for cytotoxic, antibacterial, and nitric oxide inhibitory activities. The results showed that 2, 4, and 5 possessed moderate cytotoxicity against MDA-MB-231 cells with the IC50 values of 19.14, 11.43, and 10.27 μM, respectively.
Relación entre las competencias y el desempeño laboral de los pasantes de nutrición
Creators: name: Galicia Rodríguez, Ana Gabriela
Publisher: name: Contexto Odontológico
Year: 2019

description: La misión de las Instituciones de Educación Superior (IES)es formar egresados con competencias profesionales que aseguren la capacidad para resolver complejidades del mundo real. Sin embargo, se muestra la existencia de una brecha entre la educación recibida y las exigencias de las empresas. El objetivo de la investigación es analizar de qué manera inciden las competencias profesionales en el desempeño laboral de los pasantes de nutrición de la UAZ. Se utilizó el método de encuesta basado en una escala sumativa, mediante la aplicación dos instrumentos, el de competencias profesionales se aplicó a 120 pasantes de nutrición, y el segundo sobre desempeño laboral en 60 empleadores. El análi- sis de correlación de r Pearson, refleja una correlación positiva débil de 0.28. Las competencias deberían mostrar una correlación fuerte sobre el desempeño, esto demuestra una inadecuada aplicación del enfoque por competencias por tanto se sugiere una revisión del modelo educativo y asegurar la formación y familiarización con los fundamentos pedagógicos del modelo académico UAZ siglo XXI.
description: Contexto Odontológico, Vol. 9 Núm. 18 (2019): Vol.9, Núm. 18, Agosto-Diciembre 2019
Método de enseñanza aprendizaje del sistema de conductos radiculares mediante la técnica de desmineralización de piezas dentales.
Creators: name: Flores, Sergio Favela
name: Trujillo, Dora Maria Lopez
name: Silva Hernandez, Ricardo Ismael
name: Martinez Martinez, Marco Antonio
Publisher: name: Contexto Odontológico
Year: 2019

description: La desmineralización dental es una técnica que permite transformar un diente natural (in Vitro) en transparente total. Utilizando soluciones químicas para lograr dicha translucidez. La desmineralización o transparencia de los dientes permite tener un conocimiento real de los conductos radiculares, de su morfología, de observar que no solo existe un conducto principal, además de que no siempre es recto, sino que tiene curvaturas sobre todo a nivel apical; y de que no siempre coincide el ápice radiográfico con el foramen apical.
description: Contexto Odontológico, Vol. 9 Núm. 17 (2019): Vol.9, Núm. 17, Enero-Junio 2019
Odontología y su aplicación en las ciencias forenses
Creators: name: Rodriguez Guajardo, Nelly Alejandra
name: Guerrero Felix, Oscar Emmanuel
name: Del Muro Casas, Fatima
name: Mata Tovar, Carlos De Jesus
name: Muñoz Briones, Rosa Maria
name: Paredes Berumen, Luis Enrique
name: Triana, Oralia Salcedo
Publisher: name: Contexto Odontológico
Year: 2019

description: En la sociedad actual, la odontología forense soluciona problemas que van más allá de la identificación de cuerpos humanos post mortem. La globalización implica problemas de una sociedad cambiante, dado el acceso que tiene hoy la población de interactuar mundialmente, lo que genera nuevos desafíos para la profesión. Por este motivo, los servicios de antropología forense y odontología forense, desempeñan un papel fundamental en el marco de la investigación criminal, se procurarán registros médicos y odontológicos, como fichas clínicas, radiografías, tomografías, modelos de yeso y fotografías, capaces de auxiliar en la identificación humana, (Ferreira et Al.,2018). La secuencia de la formación dentaria, la queiloscopia y rugoscopia son unos de los procedimientos más usados en la determinación de la identidad de las víctimas y sus agresores dándonos la aplicación odontológica en la ciencia forense.
description: Contexto Odontológico, Vol. 9 Núm. 17 (2019): Vol.9, Núm. 17, Enero-Junio 2019
D8.1 Quality Project Plan
Creators: name: Bernardi, Adriana
name: Vivarelli, Arianna
name: Di Tucio, Maria
name: Becherini, Francesca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: InnoWEE
H2020
project
report
quality plan

description: This Quality Project Plan for the InnoWEE consortium specifies quality assurance requirements and applicable standards and procedures during the four year European project InnoWEE.
The Process of Enterprise Bargaining in Context: A Case Study
Creators: name: Barrett, Rowena
name: Mutabazi, Cheryl
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this paper a case study of enterprise bargaining at Billanook College is used to illustrate the idea that organisational change is a messy and complex process rather than an event. A contextualist methodology is adopted to provide a descriptive understanding of how the outcomes of organisational change are dependent upon the process, as well as the contexts in which change took place. At Billanook College enterprise bargaining, and in particular the use of a certified agreement, served to formalise outcomes of organisational change and legitimate a range of organisational change issues. The case study reveals that the interplay between the process of change and the context, particularly the industrial context of the organisational change, was influential in shaping the outcomes of enterprise bargaining at Billanook College.
Supplementary document for Dual-band giant spin-selective full-dimensional manipulation of graphene-based chiral meta-mirrors for terahertz waves - 5858761.pdf
Creators: name: Li, Hui
name: Li, Jie
name: Zheng, Chenglong
name: xu, Hang
name: Yang, Fan
name: Li, Jitao
name: Zhen, Yue
name: Shi, Wei
name: Zhang, Yating
name: Yao, Jian-Quan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supporting Information
Efficiency of commercial products of antagonistic fungi for controlling rootknot nematode, Meloidogyne incognita (Kofoid and White) Chitwood of cassava
Creators: name: Pum Ta-Oun;Weerasak Saksirirat;Sivilai Sirimungkararat;Duangrat Thongpak
Publisher: name: Faculty of Agriculture
Year: 2020
Subjects: Antagonistic fungi, commercial products, control, rootknot nematode, cassava

description: Khon Kaen Agriculture Journal, 48, 1, 131-142
La lucha por el derecho a la identidad de la población migrante en México y Estados Unidos, el caso de los Zacatecanos
Creators: name: Lugo, Bernardo Mendez
Publisher: name: Contexto Odontológico
Year: 2019

description: Este ensayo es una reflexión en el contexto de la iniciativa de la Diputada Lizbeth Márquez Álvarez con un proyecto que garantiza el Derecho a la Identidad a tráves de la constancia de identidad administrada y normada por las oficinas del registro civil a nivel municipal.
description: Contexto Odontológico, Vol. 9 Núm. 17 (2019): Vol.9, Núm. 17, Enero-Junio 2019
Representación y otredad en las instituciones. Simbolismo y percepciones controversiales
Creators: name: Huerta, Antonio Alanis
Publisher: name: Contexto Odontológico
Year: 2019

description: Cabe afirmar de inicio, que en la vida cotidiana, lo desconocido, lo distinto y lo diferente (como otro) con frecuencia son motivo de duda, de desconfianza e incertidumbre por parte del uno observador; más aún, lo desconocido -a veces- genera en éste, reacciones de rechazo, de malestar, de mutismo e incluso de negación; pues lo distinto -y lo diferente- resulta extraño para el uno, el observador o el integrante de los grupos insti- tucionalizados. Consecuentemente, parece ser que lo que no se sabe, lo que se desconoce -por ser diferente, nuevo o distinto- es más fácil cuestionarlo, minimizarlo e incluso negarlo; pues saber y conocer implica un esfuerzo de búsqueda que requiere interés y tiempo. Lo cual, el sujeto observador, no siempre está dispuesto a entregar; instalándose en él, uno de los más grandes males de la humanidad: la descalificación y la diatriba por causa de la ignorancia, de la carencia y de la mala intención.
description: Contexto Odontológico, Vol. 9 Núm. 17 (2019): Vol.9, Núm. 17, Enero-Junio 2019
Analysis and Examination of the Employment Relations in India
Creators: name: Kazi, Ashraf U.
name: Townsend, Peter
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This article analyses the employment relations law in India and examines the application and suitability of these laws that are still valid after several decades of their enactment. Employment relations in India are governed by labour legislation passed as early as 1923. The Workmen's Compensation Act 1923 was passed to deal with the growing complexity of industry, increasing use of machinery and consequent danger to the life and limbs of workmen. The very object of this Act is to provide adequate compensation to workmen who sustain personal injuries by accidents arising out of and in the course of employment. The Industrial Disputes Act 1947 was passed just before the British left India. It was enacted largely to support the British effort to maintain supplies and essentials for its troops fighting the Second World War. The then government thought it necessary to refer all disputes to adjudication, that is settlement of disputes by tribunals, compulsorily and ban strikes simultaneously so that production could be maintained at all levels and at all times. During the period of Second World War, it was to serve the interest of the British Government that, the Defence of India Rules were amended and Rule 81A was introduced through which all powers of employment and dispute resolution came to be concentrated in the hands of government. This stunted the growth of the law and reduced the value and importance of trade unions. Rule 81A of the Defence of India Rules was introduced to ensure that peace on the industrial employment front was maintained at all costs. Unfortunately, the Industrial Disputes Act 1947 was a carbon copy of these very rules. What was done as a mere war front measure came to be the structure for employment relations for a new and independent India for all times to come. The Industrial Employment Standing Orders Act 1946 was passed with the aim of making employers in industrial establishments formally to define conditions of employment. The Trade Unions Act 1926 was passed to regulate the relations between workmen and employers or between workmen and workmen or between employers and employers.
Evaluation of phytochemical properties of Sida acuta Burm.f. and its dietary supplement effect on plasma purine, purine derivative and uric acid concentrations of Korat chickens
Creators: name: Arporn Khimkem;Sutisa Khempaka
Publisher: name: Faculty of Agriculture
Year: 2020
Subjects: Sida acuta Burm.f., xanthine oxidase, flavonoids, purines, uric acid

description: Khon Kaen Agriculture Journal, 48, 1, 143-152
Glycoside constituents with various antioxidant effects from fresh Cynomorium songaricum
Creators: name: Ma, Fo-Pei
name: Yu, Lin
name: Yang, Yang
name: Li, De-Xian
name: Shen, Chun-Yan
name: Zhao, Xiao-Shan
name: Luo, Qi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Cynomorium songaricum Rupr. (CSR), an edible and medicinal material, is widely cultivated in desert regions of Eastern and Western Asia, Europe, and North Africa. Ten glycoside constituents 1–10 including one new songaricumone A (1) were isolated from the fresh C. songaricum. Their structures were elucidated by comprehensive NMR data analysis. Further, various antioxidant effects of isolated compounds (1–3 and 5–10) were comprehensively and comparatively investigated. In conclusion, it is obvious that different glycosides vary significantly toward different sources of free radicals, which are attributed to different aglycones and substituted positions of sugar unit in structures.
Additional file 1 of Comparative analysis of gene expression profiles in differentiated subcutaneous adipocytes between Jiaxing Black and Large White pigs
Creators: name: Zhang, Dawei
name: Wu, Wenjing
name: Huang, Xin
name: Xu, Ke
name: Zheng, Cheng
name: Zhang, Jin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Nickel and Chromium Stable Isotopic Composition of Ureilites: Implications for the Earth's Core Formation and Differentiation of the Ureilite Parent Body
Creators: name: Zhu, Ke
name: Barrat, Jean-Alix
name: Yamaguchi, Akira
name: Rouxel, Olivier
name: Germain, Yoan
name: Langlade, Jessica
name: Moynier, Frederic
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: ureilites
subject: Ni stable isotopes
subject: Cr stable isotopes
subject: core formation
subject: partial melting
subject: mantle heterogeneity
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::550 Geowissenschaften

description: We report the first Ni and Cr stable isotope data for ureilite meteorites that are the mantle residue of a carbon-rich differentiated planet. Ureilites have similar Ni stable isotope compositions as chondrites, suggesting that the core-mantle differentiation of ureilite parent body (UPB) did not fractionate Ni isotopes. Since the size of Earth is potentially larger than that of UPB; with diameter >690 km), resulting in higher temperatures at the core-mantle boundary of Earth, it can be predicted that the terrestrial core formation may not directly cause Ni stable isotope fractionation. On the other hand, we also report high-precision Cr stable isotope composition of ureilites, including one ureilitic trachyandesite (ALM-A) that is enriched in lighter Cr stable isotopes relative to the main-group ureilites, which suggests that the partial melting occurred on UPB. The globally heavy Cr in the UPB compared to chondrites can be caused by sulfur-rich core formation processes.
Economic Reform, Growth and Inequality in Human Development in Transitional Economies
Creators: name: Pillarisetti, J. Ram
name: McGillivray, Mark
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper examines the behaviour of the following indicators of development in and among Transitional Economies: real per capita income, the Human Development Index, the Gender-related Development Index and the Gender Empowerment Measure. The specific concern of the paper is the growth and inequality records of this group of countries. Growth rates and various inequality indices relating to the above indicators are reported for these countries and compared to those of other country groups for 1992-94. In contrast to experience elsewhere, the transitional economies record strongly negative growth and increasing inter-group inequality. Those with limited reform programs experience the poorest growth performances.
From Dornbusch to Murphy: Stylized Monetary Dynamics of a Contemporary Macroeconometric Model
Creators: name: Powell, Alan A.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Dombusch's 1976 overshooting exchange rate model (hereafter, DBM) has long been known to underpin severed large macro models, including the Murphy Model (MM). But the dynamic adjustment paths of variables in MM differ markedly from those in DBM, even qualitatively. A leading case in point is the exchange rate which in MM undershoots its new long run-equilibrium value after the injection of a monetary shock, and then actually moves away from this equi-librium for a time before approaching it via a damped cyclical adjustment path (whereas the corresponding path in DBM is monotonic). This paper gives a simplified account of how this comes about. The emphasis is not so much on theoretical rigour but on providing a convincing practical demonstration. Using the simplest form of DBM as a starting point, it is shown how one can develop a miniature model exhibiting an MM-like response to a monetary shock. The key idea is that aggregate demand does not respond instantaneously (as in DBM) to shocks in the macroeconomic environment, but shows some degree of inertia. Nothing more is required to reconcile the qualitative dynamics of MM with DBM.
Estilos de liderazgo de enfermería en un hospital segundo nivel: Aguascalientes, México
Creators: name: Perez, Rocio Nancy Dolores Bacilio
name: Silvestre, Karla Del Rocio Moran
Publisher: name: Contexto Odontológico
Year: 2019

description: El liderazgo es una disciplina cuyo ejercicio produce deliberadamente una influencia en un grupo determinado con la finalidad de alcanzar un conjunto de metas preestablecidas de carácter beneficioso. Estos son útiles para la satisfacción de necesidades verdaderas del grupo. Todo esto en beneficio de un gran grupo de personas como son los pacientes, los familiares, relación de compañeros y de la institución donde se labora. La investigación tuvo como objetivo identificar los estilos de liderazgo en el personal de enfermería asistencial en un hospital de segundo nivel de la ciudad de Aguascalientes, México. Se realizó un estudio cuantitativo, descriptivo de corte transversal. La muestra está conformada por 88 enfermeras (os), se utilizó un muestreo por conveniencia y la recolección de datos se hizo a través del cuestionario MLQ-5X (Multifactorial Leadership Questionnaire). Se observó que en el personal de enfermería existe un ligero predominio del estilo transaccional sobre el transformacional aunque generalmente son usados en forma indistinta, encontrándose un menor uso del liderazgo Pasivo-evitador. Independientemente de las características del personal de enfermería en cuanto a edad, antigüedad laboral, servicio o tipo de organización, el personal asistencial ejerce acciones de liderazgo. No se identifica claramente un estilo de liderazgo que favorezca el adecuado desarrollo de sus funciones.
description: Contexto Odontológico, Vol. 9 Núm. 17 (2019): Vol.9, Núm. 17, Enero-Junio 2019
Centrantheroside F, a new ionone glycoside from Centranthera grandiflora
Creators: name: Liang, Xin-Xin
name: Li, Qi
name: Li, Hui-Juan
name: Ning, Yan-Mei
name: Zhang, Rui-Han
name: Zhang, Xing-Jie
name: Li, Xiao-Li
name: Xiao, Wei-Lie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: One new ionone glycoside, named centrantheroside F (1), together with 9 known compounds (2-10), were isolated from the roots of Centranthera grandiflora. Their structures were determined by spectroscopic data analyses and comparing with the literature data. The absolute configuration of 1 was confirmed via 2 D NMR and electronic circular dichroism (ECD). All isolated compounds were evaluated for their inhibitory activity on lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced nitric oxide (NO) production.
Simultaneity, Rationality and Price Determination in US Live Cattle
Creators: name: Goss, Barry A.
name: Avsar, S. Gulay
name: Inder, Brett A.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper develops a simultaneous rational expectations model of the US live cattle spot and futures markets. The issues addressed are first, the scarcity of such models of futures markets for non-storables, and second the semi-strong efficient markets hypothesis (EMH), on which recent research for this market has been inconclusive. The model contains functional relationships for short and long hedgers, net short speculators in futures and consumers. The results suggest first, that there is support for Working's hypotheses of selective and operational hedging, for short and long hedgers respectively, second that speculators may be noise traders or risk-loving, and third that beef is a normal good while corn is a complementary input. Timevarying volatility is represented as an EGARCH (p,q) process. Post-sample, this model does not significantly outperform the futures price in spot price forecasting, implying non-rejection of the EMH.
Internet-based cognitive-behavioural writing therapy for reducing post-traumatic stress after severe sepsis in patients and their spouses (REPAIR): results of a randomised-controlled trial
Creators: name: Gawlytta, Romina
name: Kesselmeier, Miriam
name: Scherag, Andre
name: Niemeyer, Helen
name: Böttche, Maria
name: Knaevelsrud, Christine
name: Rosendahl, Jenny
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: posttraumatic stress disorder
subject: internet-based cognitive-behavioural writing therapy
subject: critical illness
subject: sepsis
subject: post-intensive care syndrome
subject: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie::150 Psychologie::150 Psychologie

description: Objectives To investigate the efficacy, safety and applicability of internet-based, therapist-led partner-assisted cognitive-behavioural writing therapy (iCBT) for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms after intensive care for sepsis in patients and their spouses compared with a waitlist (WL) control group. Design Randomised-controlled, parallel group, open-label, superiority trial with concealed allocation. Setting Internet-based intervention in Germany; location-independent via web-portal. Participants Patients after intensive care for sepsis and their spouses of whom at least one had a presumptive PTSD diagnosis (PTSD-Checklist (PCL-5)≥33). Initially planned sample size: 98 dyads. Interventions ICBT group: 10 writing assignments over a 5-week period; WL control group: 5-week waiting period. Primary and secondary outcome measures Primary outcome: pre–post change in PTSD symptom severity (PCL-5). Secondary outcomes: remission of PTSD, depression, anxiety and somatisation, relationship satisfaction, health-related quality of life, premature termination of treatment. Outcomes measures were applied pre and post treatment and at 3, 6 and 12 months follow-up. Results Twenty-five dyads representing 34 participants with a presumptive PTSD diagnosis were randomised and analysed (ITT principle). There was no evidence for a difference in PCL-5 pre–post change for iCBT compared with WL (mean difference −0.96, 95% CI (−5.88 to 3.97), p=0.703). No adverse events were reported. Participants confirmed the applicability of iCBT. Conclusions ICBT was applied to reduce PTSD symptoms after intensive care for sepsis, for the first time addressing both patients and their spouses. It was applicable and safe in the given population. There was no evidence for the efficacy of iCBT on PTSD symptom severity. Due to the small sample size our findings remain preliminary but can guide further research, which is needed to determine if modified approaches to post-intensive care PTSD may be more effective.
Autonomous and empowered team work in the australian motor vehicle industry
Creators: name: Cooney, Richard
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper reviews contemporary developments in team work design theory and identifies two distinctive team work design concepts currently in use - those of the autonomous work team and the empowered work team. The paper establishes the critical team work design criteria to be applied to each concept, with autonomous designs focussing upon the development of team self-organization, the development of team member skills and the development of a collective voice in setting goals and targets, and empowered designs focussing upon the expansion of the team member work role and the enhancement of team responsibility for business results. The paper goes on to show how these criteria are applied in practice, by presenting comparative case studies of team work in two automotive body stamping plants in the Australian vehicle industry. The research underlines the value of looking at teams from a work design perspective. By developing this perspective, team work design concepts can clearly distinguished and the outcomes of teamworking for employees can be clearly identified. Employees in autonomous teams exercise some control over the allocation of job assignments, have some collective say in the setting of production goals and targets and they have greater opportunities for skill development. Employees in empowered teams, in comparison, exercise less autonomy but have expanded work roles and are far more accountable for business results. Empowered team work designs would seem to offer employees limited gains compared to those available from autonomous designs.
The development of relative resource weights for non-admitted patients
Creators: name: Jackson, Terri
name: Sevil, Petia
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Objectives: This study of outpatient costs aims to test two classification systems, a disaggregated occasion of service system (OOS), and a 'bundled' system which attributes related ancillary services to an index clinic visit; and to provide advice to H&CS Victoria on transitional payment policy. Context: Health services delivered by hospital outpatient departments are the subject of increasing research and policy attention, both in Australia and overseas. Payers are particularly concerned with the large share of health services funding, and with the effects of multiple funding sources on provider cost shifting. Victoria's introduction of casemix-based funding for inpatient services in 1993 highlighted the lack of information on outpatient activities, which represent 17.5% of total expenditures in the State. Design: A purposive sample of five hospitals was recruited; two months of activity and related costs data was extracted form each hospital's information system. Results: Costs of 148,234 OOS and 108,486 episodes were analysed. Non-admitted patient services had a mean OOS of $75 and a mean 'bundled' case of $102. Weights for the OOS classification ranged from 0.4 to 2.0; the 'bundled' system ranged from 0.2 and 2.8. High within-category variability (CV>1) was found for over half of both the OOS and 'bundled' categories. Conclusions: Financial data and cost allocations were consistent across hospitals sampled; activity data were less reliable. Differences relating to: outpatient counting rules; definitions for clinical episode and OOS; and patient booking methods varied across hospitals. Intrinsic limitations of the two systems for payment purposes are discussed. Coding rules and audit procedures would support introduction of payment system changes in 1996/97.
Concerted action of berberine in the porcine intestinal epithelial model IPEC-J2: Effects on tight junctions and apoptosis
Creators: name: Cornelius, Valeria
name: Droessler, Linda
name: Boehm, Elisa
name: Amasheh, Salah
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: apoptosis
subject: barrier function
subject: berberine
subject: claudins
subject: IPEC-J2
subject: tight junction
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft::630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche

description: The plant alkaloid berberine has been shown to have many beneficial effects on human health. This has led to its use as a treatment for various cancer types, obesity, and diabetes. Moreover, a described barrier-strengthening effect in human cancer cell lines indicates that it might be useful for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. Detailed information regarding its effects on intestinal epithelium remains limited. In our current study, we describe the impact of berberine on a non-transformed porcine small intestinal epithelial cell model, IPEC-J2. Incubation of IPEC-J2 monolayers with berberine revealed dose- and time-dependent effects on barrier properties. A viability assay confirmed the specific effect of berberine on the apoptotic pathway, paralleled by the internalization of the sealing tight-junction (TJ) proteins claudin-1, claudin-3, and occludin within 6 h. Hence, the barrier function of the cells was reduced, as shown by the reduced transepithelial electrical resistance and the increased [3H]-D-Mannitol flux. A decrease of claudin-1, claudin-3, and occludin expression was also observed after 24 h, whereas ZO-1 expression was not significantly changed. These data indicate an early effect on both cell viability and barrier integrity, followed by a general effect on TJ architecture. The intracellular co-localization of claudin-1 and occludin or claudin-3 and occludin points to an initial induction of apoptosis accompanied by the internalization of sealing TJ proteins. Although barrier strengthening has been reported in cancerogenic epithelial models, our results show a barrier-weakening action, which represents a new aspect of the effect of berberine on epithelia. These results agree with the known toxic potential of plant alkaloids in general and show that berberine is also capable of exerting adverse effects in the intestinal epithelium.
Who gives what to managers? Receiving social support and the matching hypothesis
Creators: name: Lindorff, Margaret
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The matching hypothesis suggests that contextual variables influence the effectiveness of social support received. This study examines the effect of recipient sex, stressor controllability, the social nature of the stressor, stressor domain (work or non-work), and source of support on the social support received by 440 managers. Some evidence is found for support matching. Emotional support is more effective for social stressors, whereas tangible assistance is more effective for nonsocial stressors. Similarly, work supporters provide the most effective tangible assistance for work stressors, but non-work supporters provide the most effective assistance for non-work stressors. For work stressors, superiors provide effective information and emotional support, whereas subordinates provide effective tangible assistance. However, the sex of the support recipient and the controllability of the stressor do not influence support receipt.