cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effect of Straw Management, Tillage and Cropping Sequence on Weed Population Dynamics in South-Eastern Highlands of Ethiopia
Creators: name: Asefa Taa
name: D. Tanner
name: A.T.P. Bennie
Publisher: name: Pest Managment Journal of Ethiopia
Year: 2023

description: Four multi-factor crop management trials were initiated in 1992 in the southeastern highlands of Ethiopia. Two of the trials were based on mechanised tillage, while two trials were based on the traditional ox-plow of Ethiopia. The trials examined the effects of alternative practices of crop residue management, tillage and cropping sequence on weed population dynamics. Partial removal or
retention of stubble was followed by increase in the population density of some broadleaf weed species, while burning had the opposite effect. Burning of crop stubble also markedly reduced the total grass weed population as compared to the other straw management treatments. Broadleaf weed population were not affected by tillage practices in either the ox-plow or mechanised trials. Grass weeds, however, increased significantly in density under minimum or zero tillage. Amount of Broadleaf weeds did not vary markedly in response to cropping sequence, but most of the grass weed population decreased in the faba bean rotation.
description: Pest Managment Journal of Ethiopia , Vol. 9 (2005): Pest Management Journal of Ethiopia
A practical evaluation of an adult financial literacy programme
Creators: name: Tippet, John
name: Kluvers, Ron
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper reports on an evaluation of Money Minded, which is an adult financial literacy programme developed by the ANZ Bank. The evaluation is with respect to the satisfaction of workshop participants with the MoneyMinded programme. While an evaluation had already been conducted by Russell, Brooks and Nair (2005) using a cross-section of the general population, the current study was undertaken with staff of five not-for-profit organisations. The rationale for the presentation of Money Minded to NFP staff is that it would equip them to provide financial literacy education to their clients. Hence, the evaluation reported in this paper is unique because it is concerned with an evaluation of a financial literacy programme from the point of view of prospective facilitators, not end-users, of the programme. Three null hypotheses were tested to determine: whether the programme was perceived to have provided a benefit to participants, whether participants considered the topics of the programme to be satisfactory, and whether participants were satisfied with the programme. The first and second null hypotheses were tested using percentages of the responses. The third null hypothesis was tested using a discriminant analysis model to distinguish between those workshop participants who were satisfied with the Money Minded programme and those who were not. Predictor variables in the model that were significant are 'the presenter' and 'main language used by the participant'. An older male presenter compared with a middle-aged female presenter, and a language (on the part of workshop participants) other than English, resulted in the highest level of dissatisfaction with the programme.
title: Lettre de Jacques Leibowitch à Monsieur Borello
Creators: name: Leibowitch, Jacques
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Source: http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/Calames-20193111132541142
Confronting the divine in miniature: engraved gems and the creation of religious experience in Pompeii
Creators: name: Giz, Jacqueline Elise
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2024

description: This thesis explores how engraved gems from Roman Pompeii created religious experiences for their beholders. To this end, I analyze a corpus of examples with non-narrative images of deities comprised of 107 objects from the ancient city. Miniature in size and diverse in material, these objects have historically been considered separately from their context as worn objects which were physically and emotionally tied to their wearers. Drawing from theoretical frameworks that emphasize beholder experience and material agency, this thesis investigates how imagery, size, context, and media interact to create connections between wearer and the divine. I also consider comparative depictions of the gods in other contexts, such as shop facades and domestic altars, to explore how similar imagery interacted with viewers. Unlike previous investigations of engraved gems, this thesis emphasizes the human body as context for these objects, considering how their status as miniature worn objects transform the role of the image, in tandem with their materiality. In doing so, I suggest that the objects represented in the corpus created a religious experience, and further, that they cannot be understood without considering their connection, physical and personal, to wearers.
What's in a team? Variability and discrepancies in the conceptualization and operationalization of scientific teams
Creators: name: Robinson-Garcia, Nicolas
name: van Schalkwyk, François
name: Tirado, Mayra M.
name: Pham, Victoria
name: Melkers, Julia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This study explores the conceptualization of 'team science' within the field of scientometrics, identifying key attributes that define scientific teams through a systematic literature review and AI-assisted analysis. We examine definitions and operationalizations from 26 pivotal studies, synthesizing a unified definition centred on three main attributes: interdisciplinary composition, shared goals, and collaborative effort. Our findings highlight the diversity and inconsistency in current descriptions, suggesting a need for a more standardized framework. This paper contributes to the discourse on team science by proposing a refined, empirically testable definition aimed at enhancing comparative studies and improving team dynamics in scientific research.
Can we get back to you on that (after the election)?
Creators: name: Mares, Peter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In mid-September I interviewed Communications Minister Helen Coonan on ABC Radio National about the alarming statistics used in the Government's $22 million NetAlert information campaign. Statistics such as 'over half of 11-to-15 year olds surveyed who chat online are contacted by strangers'. [Introduction].
Communication tasks in quantum information
Creators: name: Ramakrishnan, Navneeth
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2023

description: This thesis brings together a variety of results on information-theoretic characterizations of communication tasks in classical and quantum information. We investigate shared-randomness-assisted simulation of classical point-to-point channels, which is equivalent to universal strong coordination. We also study the natural quantum generalization of this task - shared-entanglement-assisted simulation of point-to-point quantum channels. Starting with quantum state splitting as a primitive, we characterize quantum state merging, quantum source coding, and quantum channel simulation in finite blocklength settings. Next, we investigate classical broadcast channel simulation under shared-randomness assistance between the sender and each receiver. In contrast to the elusive broadcast channel capacity problem, we show that the problem of broadcast channel simulation allows for a single-letter characterization of the asymptotic rate region. This finding together with standard bounds on the broadcast channel capacity implies that classical channel interconversion under shared-randomness assistance is asymptotically irreversible. Moving to the quantum broadcast setting, we obtain one-shot results for state splitting by sequentially applying the point-to-point results. We cannot solve the broadcast channel simulation problem due to the longstanding open problem of joint smoothing of max-relative entropies. Instead, we define an alternative version of point-to-point channel simulation that works reliably on a subspace of the input space of the channel. In the asymptotic limit, we can choose the ratio of the dimension of the subspace and the dimension of the entire input space of the channel to be arbitrarily close to 1. Operationally, this simulation cost bounds the rate of a randomly chosen entanglement-assisted coding scheme with high probability. The final part of the thesis deals with efficient algorithms to compute the information-theoretic quantities one obtains in the asymptotic limit for various operational tasks. We provide quantum versions of the well-known Blahut-Arimoto algorithms and show that these iterative algorithms can efficiently compute optimization problems involving entropic quantities.
Micro-fabricated polydimethyl siloxane (PDMS) surfaces regulate the development of marine microbial biofilm communities
Creators: name: Ling, Gee Chong
name: Low, Min Hui
name: Erken, Martina
name: Longford, Sharon
name: Nielsen, Shaun
name: Poole, Andrew J.
name: Steinberg, Peter
name: McDougald, Diane
name: Kjelleberg, Staffan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Marine Biology

description: This study explored an antifouling (AF) concept based on deployment of microfabricated polydimethyl siloxane (PDMS) surfaces with 1–10 μm periodicity corrugated topographies in temperate marine waters. The effect of the surfaces on the development of microbial biofilms over 28 days and during different seasons, including both summer and winter, was examined using confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) as well as terminal restriction fragment (T-RF) analysis for phylogenetic fingerprinting. The microscale topography significantly impacted biofilm development by altering the attachment pattern and reducing microcolony formation on the 1, 2 and 4 μm PDMS surfaces. Also, field deployments over 28 days showed a significant reduction in biovolume on the 4 and 10 μm PDMS surfaces despite altered environmental conditions. The microfabricated PDMS surfaces further significantly impacted on the community composition of the biofilms, as revealed by changes in T-RF profiles, at different stages of development. Moreover, altered biofilm resistance was demonstrated by exposing pre-established biofilms on 10 μm micro-fabricated surfaces to enhanced flagellate predation by a heterotrophic protist, Rhynchomonas nasuta. Pronounced changes in the overall marine microbial biofilm development as well as community composition warrant exploring substratum modification for marine AF applications.
Hybrid Approach to Detect Fault Caused KPIs Anomaly in UMTS Cells
Creators: name: Yared, Hawulte
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2020

description: Cellular networks usually suffer from failures or performance degradations due to several reasons, such as external interference, hardware/software bugs on network elements, power outages, or cable disconnections. Therefore, to avoid customer dissatisfaction and loss of revenue due to failures telecom operators need to detect and respond to performance anomalies of cellular networks instantly. However, the state of art performance anomaly detection framework (CELLPAD), which uses a correlation between two Key Performance Indicators (KPI)s as a means to detect anomaly is not capable of detecting anomalies happing during the off-pick hour, and; could not differentiate the causes of the anomalies. In this thesis, we propose a system model, which is capable of detecting anomalies happing at any traffic load and could differentiate the two causes of a correlational change anomaly. The proposed system model uses a newly added parameter called mean Received Total Wideband Power (RTWP) and filtering rules. To assess the performance of the proposed system model, we conducted an experiment using fourmonth performance counter data collected from 20 selected sites. The result shows that the proposed approach improves the detection of sudden drop anomaly by 10 % when compared to the state of the art statistical model, Weighted Moving Average (WMA). Besides, we can differentiate the two causes of correlational change anomaly with an F1 -score above 75 %.
Quality of Service Assessment on Fixed-Wireless Broadband Internet Service the case of ethiotelecom
Creators: name: Abdulkerim, Seid
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: Commonly regulators and Internet service providers (ISPs) monitor and publish the offered quality of service (QoS) to improve broadband Internet QoS focusing on transparency and customer empowerment. This is aimed mainly to create competition between ISPs and provide freedom of choice on best operators for customers which is mainly crucial in multi-operators environment. Some of the researches done on differentiated customer traffic to improve QoS mainly used metrics throughput, delay & packet loss only. While others use hardware QoS measurement approach which is expensive than the software and challenging. Moreover other researches on operators and regulators tried to improve QoS based only on performance measurement which does not show the E2E QoS. Whereas in ET, the sole operator of Ethiopia, fixed wireless broadband Internet (FWBBI) is provided in traditional or similar/ equitable manners that is based on best efforts. Despite various customer traffics require variable QoS requirements, some traffics require guaranteed bandwidth such as business critical data applications and others like real time interactive application services such as Voice over Internet (VoIP) and video conferencing are highly sensitive to delay, jitter and packet loss. Hence best effort service offering does not guarantee business critical data applications and user satisfaction. This research identifies important QoS metrics to apply in service level agreement (SLA). It also provides QoS assessment result on FWBBI service from end-user perspective. The QoS measurement is done by ICMP ping and testmy.net tools to get the actual quality the customers are offered. Additionally MATLAB analysis is mainly done by probability distribution to show the network capability in the design of QoS-SLA. The QoS result in FWBBI service showed that there is fair quality on average throughput (52% of subscription speed) and packet loss (12%), while delay (>400 ms) and jitter (>50 ms) values showed poor quality. The design of appropriate QoSSLA is also delivered by this research. The FWBBI service QoS-SLA comprises three customer traffic classes - gold (A), silver (B) and bronze (C). This classification is done by defining threshold values for the metrics throughput, delay, jitter, and packet loss. Where this guaranteed level of QoS allow ET to enhance QoS and support the current works to provide BB Internet SLA, improve efficiency in resource utilization and creates transparency for enhancing customer satisfaction.
Performance Predictive Model of ESB as Service Integration Grows: The Case of ethio telecom
Creators: name: Solomon, Tiku
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2020

description: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural pattern that is based on the concept of a service and addresses, the requirements of loosely coupled, and protocol independent distributed computing. SOA used enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to realize its principles. ESB is an architecture to overcome the limitation of traditional architectures. One of its main functions is message transformation, which is the conversion process of data structure among heterogeneous systems during integration. The second function is routing functionality between runtime services which may introduce performance overheads. Ethiotelecom has implemented ESB to integrate businesscritical systems , due to additional service integrations, ESB's performance problem becomes a challenge to meet service level agreements. The main objective of this thesis is to develop and implement a performance predictive model, which can be used to evaluate the performance of the ESB system. Queueing Petri nets are powerful formalism that can be exploited for modeling distributed systems and analyzing their performance and scalability. By combining the modeling power and expressiveness of queueing networks and stochastic Petri nets, queueing Petri nets provide a number of advantages. The model can be useful for service quality and performance management process during design and service operation times. The Jmeter measured performance data is used for comparison and validity of the Queuing petri net network model of the case study system. Both in the experiment and the model similar performance impacts were observed for variety of workload inputs. Clearly one can see the level of the impact for each performance metrics as integration grows. The validation result indicates, the practicality of the model to do performance prediction and capacity estimation during system design and service operation of integrated applications in a heterogeneous environment. Moreover, unlike the existing system in which the case study is based upon, the model solution is further applicable for new capacity demands in similar system planning works.
The application of project-based learning method in the curriculum of marketing research
Creators: name: Cheng, Xiufang
name: Zhou, Meihua
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Marketing research is one of the core courses in the marketing specialty, and aims to help students understand the basic concepts and methods of the discipline, as well as develop students' skills in finding information. By learning in the traditional class, students are able to build their knowledge and can pass their final university examination. However, they often don't know how to apply this knowledge when faced with practical problems of marketing research. That means that the traditional teaching methods alone are not meeting the teaching objectives of the course. Therefore, we have tried to introduce project based learning (PBL) method into our curriculum. This paper describes why we adopt PBL in the curriculum of marketing research, what we have done and what are about the results and limitations.
A queueing approach for the analysis of finite bulk arrival production process with two-class arrivals and customer impatience
Creators: name: Polakonda, Mahendra Varma
name: Vedala, Naga Ramadevi
name: Kottapalli, Rajyalakshmi
name: O.V, Soloveva
name: Rozhdestvenskiy, Oleg Igorevich
name: Joshi, Ankita
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: The present paper explains the performance of a production process of finite capacity for two classes of customers who may exhibit impatience. The arrivals can be found in terms of batches and will be picked for service in FIFO mode. The production requests can come in two ways (i) on immediate demand, (ii) for future stock purposes. Taking this point, we have taken two-class customers with different arrival rates. Also assumed state-dependent service with which process has to be triggered to avoid congestion. A computer programme has been executed for the R-K method to solve the transient equations for transient probabilities with the given input values of arrival rates of two-class customer orders, service rates and system capacity. System performance indices have been computed and shown numerical illustrations to assess the influence input parameters on performance indices.
Improving plantlet yield in Pinus pinaster somatic embryogenesis
Creators: name: Alvarez, José M.
name: Bueno, Natalia
name: Millán Cortizo
name: Ordás, Ricardo J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2013
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Somatic embryogenesis is expected to play a significant role in the future forest tree improvement programmes. The main bottleneck of this technique is still the progression from immature embryogenic cultures to mature cotyledonary embryos able to develop properly into well-growing plants. In this work, we present an improved protocol focused on increasing the maturation and conversion rate of Pinus pinaster Ait. embryogenic cultures. Results showed that the optimisation of the nutrient composition in the maturation medium increased the number of mature embryos by 25% (187.8 embryos per gram of fresh mass in average compared to 144.5 embryos in regular medium). It was also shown that 12-month cryostorage did not reduce viability or embryogenic ability of maritime pine cultures. A further increase in the yield of the protocol could be obtained by using benzyladenine in the conversion medium, promoting the bud-break of axillary buds that yielded 5.7 shoots in average per somatic embryo. Rooting of axillary shoots reached 84.3%. This methodology offers an alternative to overcome some problems associated with low somatic embryo production since the plantlet yield could be increased fivefolds.
Engineering simulations in the design and analysis of tunnels for fire safety and smoke ventilation
Creators: name: Ang, Chin Ding
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2024

description: In the design of tunnel ventilation systems, ranging from transport to utilities tunnels, engineering simulations are used by engineers globally. The simulations include 1D model and 3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD). CFD is popular in fire safety engineering, and the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is widely used. This thesis sets out to answer one question: Are engineering simulations the right tools for tunnels fire modelling? The short answer is yes, with a longer answer in this thesis. Carbon monoxide, or CO is the principal culprit in fire deaths, and is an important design parameter. The research shows when considering CO production and simulation, a range of CO yield should be considered. This is due to the inherent variability with CO production in experiments. Secondly, this thesis demonstrates because engineering simulations are a simplified reality, model validation is critical. With observations of oscillation when modelling large fires in a longitudinally ventilated tunnel, this thesis shows there is a significant oscillatory behaviour for fire sizes over 30 MW. This resulted in identifying numerical issues in FDS, and contributed to FDS developers fixing this. Using engineering simulations, this thesis shows a 1D model remains important in design by using a simplified 1D model developed in this thesis, TE1D, to describe fire throttling in tunnels. The effects of fire throttling are assessed, that is the additional pressure drops in the tunnel due to a fire, occurring at the fire’s location, and downstream of the fire. This thesis resulted in a novel quantifiable model that permits this effect to be calculated in design. This was not the case with previous models. 1D and 3D engineering simulations remain critical in design. This thesis concludes engineers need to understand the right time to use the right tool, and the limitations of these tools.
Quality of Experience Model for Addis Ababa Voice Service Using Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference Approach
Creators: name: Menbere, Asfaw
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: This thesis deals with the development of a Comprehensive Quality of Experience (CQoE) which is the combination of objective Quality of Experience (OQoE) and the Subjective Perception of Quality (SPQ) in the ratio of 80% and 20% respectively. QoE (Quality of experience) is the perceived quality of a service by the user. CQoE is a model that measures and predicts the users' perceived quality. It uses the real Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) and Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) data, for this purpose, to channel it according to the need of the user. The ethio telecom has to be needed a model for QoE that is capable of assessing, measuring, predicting and anticipating the needs and expectations of customers. In a competitive environment, a service provider (SP) with no QoE model would easily lose its business to the others who have and use QoE models and strive sustainably to enhance the quality of the voice call service they provide. The user perceived quality is measured by Mean Opinion Score (MOS) scale, by evaluating Quality of Service (QoS) metrics. Service monitoring tool data and calculated MOS measurements are then used as reference data, in order to produce a new QoE prediction model, using Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS). The concept of the SPQ has been introduced with the intent of getting first hand feedback from customers, by using Questionnaire. Voice call Service is given to customers, who are human beings having two main aspects: the rational, objective and the emotional, subjective. OQoE deals with the rational, objective aspect of voice call service quality given by a SP, while the SPQ deals with the undeniable emotional, subjective aspect of voice service quality given by a SP. By combining these two aspects, one gets the full picture of voice quality level given by a SP. The 3G and 2G voice calls QoE models perform the perceived quality by these QoS metrics: PCSR ( Perceived call success rate), E2ED (End to End delay) and PCDR(Perceived call drop rate). These models estimate the QoE with a Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) and Pearson Correlations in the following order respectively: for OQoE (3G & 2G), CQoE (3G& 2G) : 0.47% & 95.05%, 0.35% & 93.82%, 0.06% & 97.88%, 0.023% & 99.24%.to the measured QoE.
Phytoremediation Efficiencies of Water Hyacinth in Removing Heavy Metals in Domestic Sewage (A Case Study of University of Ilorin
Creators: name: Fidelis Ajibade
name: Adeniran K.A
name: Egbuna, C.K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: 99901 Agricultural Engineering
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: This paper studied the suitability and efficacy of water hyacinth in domestic sewage treatment. The study was carried out in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering. Three treatments of water hyacinth replicated two times were used in the study. These treatments include no water hyacinth (control), 1kg and 2kg water hyacinth plant density cultures. The system was designed based on Completely Randomized Design (CRD). Sewage samples were collected during the growth of water hyacinth. Purification of water hyacinth on sewage was rapid during the first three weeks in the sewage cultured with water hyacinth (especially 2kg water hyacinth plant density) and there was low absorption in nutrients in the last two weeks when attaining maturity. Parameters such as Cl-, Fe, Cu, Mn, Pb, K, F-, Nitrate and Sulphate were drastically reduced from 9mg/l to 3.33 mg/l, 1.25 mg/l to 0.36 mg/l, 0.3mg/l to 0 mg/l, 0.5mg/l to 0.08mg/l, 0.2mg/l to 0.01 mg/l, 1.7 mg/l to 0.17mg/l, 0.7 mg/l to 0.08mg/l, 8.6mg/l to 0.03mg/l, 17.5mg/l to 6.20 mg/l respectively throughout the course of the study. Also, the 2kg water hyacinth plant density cultured in the sewage purifies more compared to the 1kg water hyacinth plant density which is moderate and minimal in the control.
Entrepreneurs traits and e-commerce adoption: an empirical study
Creators: name: Alam, Syed Shah
name: Mohd Jani, Mohd Fauzi
name: Ismail, Hisham
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Entrepreneurs in Malaysia are playing an important role for the economic development of the country. Due to the potential benefits of e-commerce, entrepreneurs of Malaysia have the opportunity to expand their market in the world. The purpose of the study is to find out the extent of the effect of entrepreneurial personality traits towards the e-commerce adoption in the context of small and medium enterprise industries in Malaysia. In selecting the survey sample, the convenient sampling of non-probability sampling was adopted. Most of the major towns in Peninsular Malaysia have been chosen for the purpose of collecting the data. During the data collection, a total of 1480 questionnaire were distributed and 1416 returned usable questionnaire (96.67 percent response rate). The study revealed that the personality traits did have some significant impact on the e-commerce adoption among the entrepreneurs in Malaysia. The recommendation, limitation and conclusion are then discussed at the end of the paper.
Sleep Mode Operation of Optical Networks for Power Consumption Minimization: a Case Study of Ethio Telecom Backbone Optical Transport Network
Creators: name: Yohannes, Belayneh
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: Due to the growth in data traffic volume and diversification of applications that use telecommunication network infrastructure more power consuming telecommunication network equipments have been deployed. This scenario, although efforts are made to minimize the power consumption of the deployed equipments, has led to an increase in the power consumption of the sector. When it comes to backbone networks this increase in power consumption is more dependent on the traffic level, which is the aggregate traffic from all access segments, and on the number of subscribers on the access side. In the future it is expected that one of the bottlenecks in the development of the telecommunication sector will be its power consumption. In order to overcome this problem, stake holders in the sector are striving to come up with ways to minimize this power consumption. In this thesis, the sleep mode operational strategy which enables some components in the network to operate in sleep or low power consumption state after rerouting traffic on the remaining components, is assessed. After investigation of different algorithms proposed under this strategy, an approach which takes the Physical Layer Impairment (PLI), power loss/attenuation, together with other constraints is proposed. An evaluation of the approach is carried out on an optimization platform and a simulation environment and results analyzed taking two Ethio Telecom backbone Optical Transport Network (OTN) segments as a case study. These optimizations & simulations help to analyze impacts on Quality of Service (QoS) of applying this approach in addition to its main goal of power consumption minimization. Results reveal that up to 51% and 44% of power saving can be achieved at maximum link utilization thresholds of 70% and 50% for AA backbone and N-E backbone segments respectively. In addition, the evaluations show the trade-off between power saving and QoS using different parameters.
Improving plantlet yield in Pinus pinaster somatic embryogenesis
Creators: name: Alvarez, José M.
name: Bueno, Natalia
name: Millán Cortizo
name: Ordás, Ricardo J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2013
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Somatic embryogenesis is expected to play a significant role in the future forest tree improvement programmes. The main bottleneck of this technique is still the progression from immature embryogenic cultures to mature cotyledonary embryos able to develop properly into well-growing plants. In this work, we present an improved protocol focused on increasing the maturation and conversion rate of Pinus pinaster Ait. embryogenic cultures. Results showed that the optimisation of the nutrient composition in the maturation medium increased the number of mature embryos by 25% (187.8 embryos per gram of fresh mass in average compared to 144.5 embryos in regular medium). It was also shown that 12-month cryostorage did not reduce viability or embryogenic ability of maritime pine cultures. A further increase in the yield of the protocol could be obtained by using benzyladenine in the conversion medium, promoting the bud-break of axillary buds that yielded 5.7 shoots in average per somatic embryo. Rooting of axillary shoots reached 84.3%. This methodology offers an alternative to overcome some problems associated with low somatic embryo production since the plantlet yield could be increased fivefolds.
The return of the local
Creators: name: McShane, Ian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Reviews the books 'The Australian pub' by Dianne Kirby, Tanja Luckins and Chris McConville, published by UNSW Press, 2010, and 'Community: building modern Australia', edited by Hannah Lewi and David Nichols, published by UNSW Press, 2010. 'Two new books look at the places where social ecologies take root and flourish', writes Ian McShane.
Theorising gender, sexuality and settler colonialism: an introduction
Creators: name: Morgensen, Scott Lauria
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: 'Hoke-tee', the cover image offered to this issue by Taskigi/Dine artist Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, presents a protean site for considering how our contributors advance theories of settler colonialism. Taken from the series Portraits of Amnesia, 'Hoke-tee' portrays juxtapositions that interrupt any narrative of the moon as terra nullius. Whose human existence becomes legible once the moon appears as a site traversed by humans: in body, but also in memory, or in history? We know his---a white heteropatriarchal national manhood achieved here by having mined rare earths, fabricated massive technologies, and invested in capital's projection to send him and his white brethren to this place. But what crosses the frame, unnoticed by a gaze he directs always forward, and elsewhere: a child, whose dress may be elevating, whose chair may be transporting a historical awareness and multi-generational presence long-defiant of his Manifest Destiny?
'When I forget, I'm well. Remembering, even now, I just go crazy'
Creators: name: Neumann, Klaus
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Does the equation that infuses the work of truth commissions - that more memory equals more reconciliation - always meet the needs of people affected by widespread violence? Klaus Neumann reviews two new books about communities recovering from conflict: 'Forest of struggle: moralities of remembrance in upland Cambodia', by Eve Monique Zucker, published by University of Hawai`i Press, Honolulu, 2013 and 'Intimate enemies: violence and reconciliation in Peru', by Kimberly Theidon, published by University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2012.
MPEC 2024-V44 : 2024 VL
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
subject: 2024 VL

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.
The Stokes structure in asymptotic analysis 1: Bessel, Weber and hypergeometric functions
Creators: name: Gurarii, V.
name: Katsnelson, V.
name: Matsaev, V.
name: Steiner, J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This is the first in a series of four papers entitled 'The Stokes structure in asymptotic analysis'. They introduce a methodology for the asymptotic analysis of differential equations with polynomial coefficients which also provides a further insight into the Stokes' Phenomenon. This approach consists of a chain of steps based on the concept of the Stokes Structure an algebraic-analytic structure, the idea of which emerges naturally from the monodromic properties of the Gauss hypergeometric function, and which can be treated independently of the differential equations, and Fourier-like transforms adjusted to this Stokes Structure. Every step of this approach, together with all its exigencies, is illustrated by means of the non-trivial treatment of Bessel's and Weber's differential equations. It will be the aim of our future series of papers to extend this approach to matrix differential equations. It is our great pleasure to publish this series of papers in our home town and to dedicate it to the memory of our dear teacher, Naum Il'ich Akhiezer, who taught us the basic knowledge of the theory of transcendental functions and inculcated in us the taste and the love for this theory.
title: 01_2499
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
The design university
Creators: name: Friedman, Ken
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: University-level design education involves two great responsibilities. The first is to structure an effective learning process to educate tomorrow's designers. The second is contributing to the knowledge the field through basic, applied, and clinical research. Design is a broad field of making and planning disciplines. These include industrial design, graphic design, textile design, furniture design, information design, process design, product design, interface design, transportation design, systems design, urban design, design leadership and design management and well as architecture, engineering, information technology, and computer science.
A challenging conversation on integral futures: embodied foresight and trialogues
Creators: name: Floyd, Josh
name: Burns, Alex
name: Ramos, Jose M.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: At the heart of an integral approach to any sphere of activity and inquiry is inclusion of the greatest possible number of perspectives, and practitioner reflection. Many practitioners associated with the Masters course in Strategic Foresight at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia have proposed that Integral Futures Studies and Foresight practice represents a revolutionary development in the field, with potential to bring about ground shifts at least as significant as the earlier interpretive and critical waves. This emergence has been led by Slaughter's call for Integral Methodological Renewal: the development of futures methodologies consistent with and based on the principles of Integral Theory, especially, but not exclusively, as articulated by the philosopher Ken Wilber (Slaughter,2003; Slaughter, 2004). To date, methodological renewal has focused on expanded and new tools and techniques. Methodology, though, is about more than the tools used: it involves careful attention to the stance taken by the practitioner in the use of tools to enact knowledge and understanding. This is particularly so for Integral Futures methodologies: Richard Slaughter and Joseph Voros have stressed the extent of the demands placed on the Integral Futures practitioner, and have highlighted the need for specific focus on his or her development. We contend in this article that practitioner stance is not simply of equal importance to the tools used, but is the primary factor in realising the benefits of Integral Futures methodologies.
title: 01_2362
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Entretien de Yassin al-Rawad auprès de Hamid Badi' al-Qaramseh à propos de l'inondation de Ma'an en 1966
Creators: name: al-Qaramseh, Hamid Badi'
name: Yassin Al-Rawad (Enquêteur)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Source: http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/FileId-3139
description: Coverage: Ma'an, Jordanie
Building Castles in Quicksand: Blueprint for a Crowdsourced Study (Materials)
Creators: name: Renkema-Padmos, Arne
name: Volkamer, Melanie
name: Renaud, Karen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: Applied Computer Science

description: Materials for the paper "Building Castles in Quicksand: Blueprint for a Crowdsourced Study" published at alt.chi 2014.
3D remote design collaboration: a pedagogical case study of the cross-cultural issues raised
Creators: name: Wyeld, Theodor G.
name: Prasolova-Forland, Ekaterina
name: Chang, Teng-Wen
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Much architectural design work increasingly addresses an international audience. But many designers continue to work in isolation. In practice, however, their work includes international collaboration. This requires cross-cultural understandings with their co-collaborators. There are few opportunities for this to occur in a pedagogical setting. The 3D co-located laboratory (3DCollab) described in this paper was used as a cross-cultural exchange platform to address the need for design students to practice collaborating remotely. What the 3DCollab did was to facilitate cross-cultural exchange in a fun and informative environment where learning was constructed and played out in a 3D virtual environment (3DVE). The project involved students across three cooperating institutions: The University of Queensland (Australia); the National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (Taiwan); and, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim (Norway). It builds on previous exercises conducted by the authors. As far as the authors of this paper are aware this is the first e-learning application to focus on cross-cultural understanding in a 3DVE.
Apocalypse near you
Creators: name: Tofts, Darren
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: It used to be called the top. It was literally the end of the line for the tram service that snaked its way through the inner city to the northern Melbourne suburb of Preston. The culmination of this journey was a terminus lined with shops, a place of conclusion and waiting, of browsing and purchasing. In 'Northern Void', a representative stretch of Plenty Road, Preston is imagined as a vague, anachronistic time warp spanning a thousand years, where people still hang around the street outside empty and derelict shops, waiting for trams that never seem to arrive.
Poetry of Islamic Revolution as a cradle of the International Islamic resistance Poetry
Creators: name: Kaify S. Naqi Abbas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Religious Studies
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Language
subject: Literature

description: volume = {1}, number = {1}, author = {S N Abbas (Kaify)}, title = {Poetry of Islamic Revolution as a cradle of the International Islamic resistance Poetry }, publisher = {Saurabh Chandra}, journal = {SOCRATES}, ISSN 2347-6869 year = {2013}