cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of microsatellite instability in tumor and tumor marginal samples of sporadic colorectal cancer using mononucleotide markers
Creators: name: Nouri Nojadeh, Jafar
name: Hashemzadeh, Shahriar
name: Samadi Kafil, Hossein
name: Behrouz Sharif, Shahin
name: Eftekharsadat, Amirtaher
name: Ghasemnejad, Tohid
name: Ghojazadeh, Mortaza
name: Sakhinia, Ebrahim
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2018
Subjects: CRC
MSI
DNA MMR system

description: Microsatellite instability (MSI) is a unique molecular alteration that is due to a defective DNA mismatch repair (MMR) system. Approximately, 15-20 % of sporadic colorectal cancers (CRC) display MSI. Determination of MSI status in CRC has prognostic and predictive implications. Additionally, detecting MSI is used diagnostically for tumor detection and classification. The present study analyzed a panel of five mononucleotide markers, BAT-25, BAT-26, NR-21, NR-22 and NR-27, amplified in a single multiplex PCR reaction to evaluate MSI status in CRC patients. Genomic DNA from 50 CRC and paired adjacent normal tissues was used for PCR-based MSI analysis. Our finding showed microsatellite instability in 36 % of specimens. Instability with differences in allele lengths was observed in the tumoral DNA compared to the tumor-free margin DNA sample. The frequency of instability in NR-21, BAT-26 and BAT-25 markers were more than others; their frequency were 35.48 %, 29.03 %, and 22.58 %, respectively. In conclusion, the NR-21, BAT-26, and BAT-25 were the most useful markers for discriminating cancer tissue from normal, therefore these markers have demonstrated promising potential for determining MSI status in patients with sporadic colorectal cancer.
description: EXCLI Journal; 17:Doc945; ISSN 1611-2156
Additional file 2 of Quantifying reciprocal relationships between poverty and health: combining a causal loop diagram with longitudinal structural equation modelling
Creators: name: Reumers, Laurens
name: Hameleers, Niels
name: Hilderink, Henk
name: Bekker, Marleen
name: Jansen, Maria
name: Ruwaard, Dirk
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Supplementary Material 2.
Microscopic basis for pattern formation and anomalous transport in two-dimensional active gels
Creators: name: Head, David A.
name: Gompper, Gerhard
name: Briels, W. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Active gels are a class of biologically-relevant material containing embedded agents that spontaneously generate forces acting on a sparse filament network. In vitro experiments of protein filaments and molecular motors have revealed a range of non- equilibrium pattern formation resulting from motor motion along filament tracks, and there are a number of hydrodynamic models purporting to describe such systems. Here we present results of extensive simulations designed to elucidate the microscopic basis underpinning macroscopic flow in active gels. Our numerical scheme includes thermal fluctuations in filament positions, excluded volume interactions, and filament elasticity in the form of bending and stretching modes. Motors are represented individually as bipolar springs governed by rate-based rules for attachment, detachment and unidirectional motion of motor heads along the filament contour. We systematically vary motor density and speed, and uncover parameter regions corresponding to unusual statics and dynamics which overlap but do not coincide. The anomalous statics arise at high motor densities and take the form of end-bound localized filament bundles for rapid motors, and extended clusters exhibiting enhanced small-wavenumber density fluctuations and power-law cluster-size distributions for slow, processive motors. Anomalous dynamics arise for slow, processive motors over a range of motor densities, and are most evident as superdiffusive mass transport, which we argue is the consequence of a form of effective self-propulsion resulting from the polar coupling between motors and filaments.
description: 14 pages, 17 figures. Minor clarifications and updated/additional references. To appear in Soft Matter
Spindles and active vortices in a model of confined filament-motor mixtures
Creators: name: Head, David A.
name: Briels, W. J.
name: Gompper, Gerhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Robust self-organization of subcellular structures is a key principle governing the dynamics and evolution of cellular life. In fission yeast cells undergoing division, the mitotic spindle spontaneously emerges from the interaction of microtubules, motor proteins and the confining cell walls, and asters and vortices have been observed to self-assemble in quasi-two dimensional microtubule-kinesin assays. Their is no clear microscopic picture of the role of the active motors driving this pattern formation, and the relevance of continuum modeling to filament-scale structures remains uncertain. Here we present results of numerical simulations of a discrete filament-motor protein model confined to a pressurised cylindrical box. Stable spindles, nematic configurations, asters and high-density semi-asters spontaneously emerge, the latter pair having also been observed in cytosol confined within emulsion droplets. State diagrams are presented delineating each stationary state as the pressure, motor speed and motor density are varied. We further highlight a parameter regime where vortices form exhibiting collective rotation of all filaments, but have a finite life-time before contracting to a semi-aster. Quantifying the distribution of life-times suggests this contraction is a Poisson process. Equivalent systems with fixed volume exhibit persistent vortices with stochastic switching in the direction of rotation, with switching times obeying similar statistics to contraction times in pressurised systems. Furthermore, we show that increasing the detachment rate of motors from filament plus-ends can both destroy vortices and turn some asters into vortices. Based on our findings we argue the need for a deeper understanding of the microscopic activities underpinning macroscopic self-organization in active gels and urge further experiments to help bridge these lengths.
description: 10 pages, 12 figures
New schools of thought - developing thinking and learning communities
Creators: name: Owens, Richard James
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis aimed to develop new knowledge and understanding of how the characteristics of professional learning communities (PLCs) affect their everyday functioning through an investigation of teacher learning in schools developing a thinking curriculum centred on the Habits of Mind. The research project focused on two major case studies of schools engaged in the introduction of the Habits of Mind; exploring the structures, systems and dynamics that influenced teacher learning, collaboration and the growth of the PLCs. The research investigated the learning experiences of the teachers and school leaders involved in the PLCs that were established in each setting to support this process. For this reason, within each of these major studies, a number of smaller case studies were also examined, focusing on the individual experiences of these educators. As I was an active participant in the research, through my joint role as researcher and school leader responsible for leading these initiatives in each school, my own experiences are explored alongside those of the other participants in the study. The core characteristics of the PLCs explored included: the evolution of shared vision and mission; sustained action learning and experimentation; shared reflection and the collaborative exploration of mental models; distribution of leadership amongst teachers for action and change; investigation and application of systems thinking; and the development and diversification of professional practice. The findings from the study provided evidence that the characteristics of the PLCs worked to support professional learning in relation to both the Habits of Mind and school improvement in each setting, but found that variables in the implementation of these characteristics, such as leadership support for the vision and mission of the PLC, had a marked impact on the results. The wider adoption of distributed leadership models and consistent engagement with systems thinking approaches within the schools were also found to be highly significant influences upon the efficacy and durability of the PLCs. In addition, the study concluded that teacher inquiry into the Habits of Mind in each setting worked to not only deepen understanding of teaching and learning in relation to the development of effective learning dispositions, but also play an important formative influence on the growth and dynamics of the PLCs themselves. Conclusions and recommendations from the study were made to help inform the further development of PLCs focused on the Habits of Mind, skilful thinking and effective learning dispositions in schools; as well as contributing to understanding of effective models for the professional development of teachers, organizational improvement and school-based, practitioner research.
sj-docx-1-qjp-10.1177_17470218221137007 – Supplemental material for Neighing dogs: Semantic context effects of environmental sounds in spoken word production - a replication and extension
Creators: name: Brownsett, Sonia LE
name: Mascelloni, Matteo
name: Gowlett, Georgia
name: McMahon, Katie L
name: de Zubicaray, Greig I
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-qjp-10.1177_17470218221137007 for Neighing dogs: Semantic context effects of environmental sounds in spoken word production - a replication and extension by Sonia LE Brownsett, Matteo Mascelloni, Georgia Gowlett, Katie L McMahon and Greig I de Zubicaray in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Intelligent lab-on-a-chip as a new toolbox for real-time biosensing in ecotoxicology
Creators: name: Huang, Yushi
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 401099
subject: Engineering practice and education not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 401103
subject: Global and planetary environmental engineering
classificationCode: 401705
subject: Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)

description: An urgent task for aquatic toxicity testing is to develop rapid, sensitive, and cost-effective bioassays. However, little progress has been made in this direction because the lack of appropriate and user-friendly laboratory automation which strongly limits the throughput of aquatic toxicity testing research. Herein, this thesis presents research towards the goal of developing an automated system for aquatic toxicity biotest by building microfluidic lab-on-a-chip (LOC) devices for performing on-chip behavioural toxicity testing.

The proof-of-concept systems integrated innovative LOC devices with miniaturised video recording instruments for the automated analysis of test specimens’ behaviours. The research involves the design of a series of unique caging chip devices as flow-through systems for water quality bioassays using two types of small model organisms (Artemia and Daphnia). The research focuses on the changes in swimming patterns exhibited by test organisms as a rapid endpoint for aquatic toxicity tests. In contrast with conventional mortality-based toxicity biotests, I performed a fully automated, time-resolved video data analysis to dynamically evaluate toxic effects on selected behavioural parameters. For most of the reference chemicals tested, rapid and reliable behavioural changes were observed even at the beginning of exposure. The research demonstrates that innovative LOC technologies and advanced video analysis systems can be new alternatives for cost-effective and user-friendly aquatic toxicity testing protocols.

This research also presents evidence that lipophilic substrates are greatly depleted in LOC systems because of the large hydrophobic surfaces. The electrostatic interaction between hydrophobic surfaces and toxicants leads to the noncovalent adsorption and rapid reduction of chemicals from the tested media, which can cause significant biases. In applying the sensitive fish embryo toxicity test on the LOC system, I postulate that caution is required when performing toxicity biotestings for organic substrates using LOC systems.

Finally, because of the high controllability of LOC technologies, the last part of the research describes the proof-of-concept development of miniaturised LOC devices for studying the toxin avoidance of small aquatic crustaceans. The study exploits the generation of perfusion-based, fluidically isolated domains via laminar flow with a low Reynolds number. The avoidance patterns of free-swimming small crustacean larvae were analysed rapidly, unambiguously, and easily. This study enables a new method for testing aquatic ecotoxicity and lays a foundation for the next generation of environmental biomonitoring systems.
Fit4Rri D2.2 - Wp2 Summary Report
Creators: name: Lente, Harro Van
name: Zahar Koretsky
name: Zeiss, Ragna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: RRI
Open Science
Sectoral Diagnosis

description: This report presents results from the efforts to map the following key questions of WP 2:

How do RRI-related dynamics vary across sectors, national contexts and other contextual factors?

How to understand the level of variability and the factors producing such a variability?
The role of embeddedness for resource integration and value co-creation in service systems
Creators: name: Laud, Gaurangi
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 350605
subject: Marketing management (incl. strategy and customer relations)

description: Marketing theory and practice highlight the significance of co-creation among market actors (e.g. firms and/or consumers) for mutually beneficial valued outcomes. The essence of such collaborations is the social relationships that facilitate opportunities for resource exchange. The significance of social contexts for value creation is emphasized within the marketing literature. Despite its importance, the nature of social constellations—particularly the concept of embeddedness—is rarely discussed in the context of service-dominant (S-D) logic, the most influential school of thought in marketing.This significantly confines the extant understanding of factors that influence value co-creation amongst actors in service systems. Grounded in its sociological foundations, the concept of embeddedness has the potential to provide meaningful insights into the dynamics of value co-creation processes.

Against this background, the present thesis develops a comprehensive conceptual framework to establish the importance of embeddedness as a powerful construct, and for understanding actors’ resource integration processes in service systems. This research develops a rich theoretical and empirical understanding of embeddedness by way of three dimensions (structural, relational and cultural), and investigates its implications for actors’ value co-creation behaviours and value-in-context outcomes. In addition, the research refines co-creation perspectives by examining a central boundary condition of co-creation processes. The data was collected in an online service environment and was analysed using structural equation modelling techniques. The findings support a significant impact of embeddedness on consumers’ co-creation behaviours and their value outcomes. Overall, the study contributes by foregrounding conceptual and empirical insights into embeddedness, and advances S-D logic research by clarifying how actors’ value perceptions are socially constructed, adapted and consumed to co-create meaningful service experiences.
Additional file 1 of When describing harms and benefits to potential trial participants, participant information leaflets are inadequate
Creators: name: Cuddihy, Laura
name: Howick, Jeremy
name: Murphy, Ellen
name: Shiely, Frances
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Websites and Information Referenced when assessing if PIL’s adhered to Principle 1 and Principle 4
title: Die Kirchenmusik in Hanfthal
Creators: name: Ofner, Carmen
Year: 2009

description: „Wer singt, betet doppelt“ - dieser Leitspruch des hl. Augustinus war früher an der Chortüre der Kirche Hanfthal zu lesen und weist auf eine lange und reiche Tradition im Bereich der Kirchenmusik in der Pfarre zurück. Das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es, die Kirchenmusik in der Pfarre Hanfthal erstmalig zu dokumentieren. Um einen umfassenden Überblick zu bieten, gehe ich im ersten Teil auf die Geschichte der Gemeinde und der Pfarre ein. Besonderes Augenmerk wird hierbei auf das Amt des Schulleh- rers gelegt, da dieser zusätzlich zum Dienst in der Schule die Aufgabe des Organisten und Regens chori inne hatten und somit an der musikalischen Entwicklung der Gemeinde maßgeblich beteiligt waren. Der zweite Abschnitt widmet sich der Kirchenmusik des Ortes, insbe- sondere dem Kirchenchor und dem Musikverein, sowie den verschiedenen Kinder- und Jugendensembles, welche wichtige Kernpunkte des Gemeinde- und Pfarrlebens bilden. Im dritten und abschließenden Teil werden die Instrumente behandelt, mit denen das Musikleben gestaltet wurde und immer noch wird. Den Schwerpunkt bilden die Orgeln der Pfarre, aber auch die Kirchenglocken sowie andere Instrumente, die der Pfarre bzw. dem Kirchenchor gehörten, finden Erwähnung Aus Mangel an vorhandener Literatur musste auf eigene Recherchen zu- rück gegriffen werden. Als Grundlage dienten demnach in erster Linie die in der Pfarre Hanfthal vorhandenen Primärquellen: die Pfarrchronik, Kirchen- rechnungen, Inventarlisten, sowie die Archive des Kirchenchores und des Musikvereins Hanfthal. Alle Fotos im Anhang stammen aus Privatbesitz, die Noten der im Anhang beigefügten Litanei waren bislang nur mündlich tradiert und wurden von mir transkribiert. Auch das in Hanfthal erschie- nene Heimatbuch „Dorfkunde Hanfthal“, sowie sämtliche von verschiedenen Vereinen veröffentlichte Festschriften ergaben wichtige Anhaltspunkte.
description: It was the intention of this thesis to document the sacred music in the parish Hanfthal. In order to offer a comprehensive overview, I deal in the first part with the history of the municipality and the parish, which includes the school teachers, who were responsible for playing the organ and conducting the choir. The second part discusses the church choir, the wind orchestra as well as the different child and youth ensembles, which are central points of the church music. In the third and concluding part the instruments are treated. First of all the organs, but also the bells and other instruments, which belonged to the parish or the church choir, are mentioned. For lack of existing literature, the chronicle of the parish and the archive had to be read, but also bills and inventories. All photos in the appendix are in private property. The notes of the litany were handed down verbally and I had to transliterate them.
Diabetes prediction using Machine Learning algorithms and ontology
Creators: name: Massari, Hakim El
name: Sabouri, Zineb
name: Mhammedi, Sajida
name: Gherabi, Noreddine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Diabetes is one of the chronic diseases, which is increasing from year to year. The problems begin when diabetes is not detected at an early phase and diagnosed properly at the appropriate time. Different machine learning techniques, as well as ontology-based ML techniques, have recently played an important role in medical science by developing an automated system that can detect diabetes patients. This paper provides a comparative study and review of the most popular machine learning techniques and ontology-based Machine Learning classification. Various types of classification algorithms were considered namely: SVM, KNN, ANN, Naive Bayes, Logistic regression, and Decision Tree. The results are evaluated based on performance metrics like Recall, Accuracy, Precision, and F-Measure that are derived from the confusion matrix. The experimental results showed that the best accuracy goes for ontology classifiers and SVM.
Additional file 2 of When describing harms and benefits to potential trial participants, participant information leaflets are inadequate
Creators: name: Cuddihy, Laura
name: Howick, Jeremy
name: Murphy, Ellen
name: Shiely, Frances
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2.
Deepening student learning through formative assessment strategies in primary school programs
Creators: name: Kean, Brendan Patrick
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In the field of education, how and why teachers develop formative assessment in their classrooms and how this focus can improve student learning is under researched. This thesis aimed to develop an understanding of how a range of formative assessment strategies can be developed and implemented in the classroom and enhanced through collaboration amongst teachers within professional learning teams. The study was conducted in three phases including two cycles of action research within one school and a comparative school case study, undertaken to deepen understanding of formative assessment and collaboration. Phase 1 involved action research in an international school in Hong Kong to develop formative assessment strategies in my own and two colleagues’ classrooms. The phase 2 action research cycle investigated how formative assessment implementation could be enhanced and developed through collaboration within a professional learning team (PLT). Phase 3 was a comparative case study of formative assessment in a Melbourne school, well known for its innovative assessment practices, providing a further analytical lens to validate and enrich earlier findings. In all three phases, the study found evidence of the importance of formative assessment being explicitly and deeply planned by teachers, in order to impact on student learning. The findings showed that when teachers embed key aspects of formative assessment strategies including stating the learning intention, developing the success criteria, effective teacher questioning, teacher feedback and the use of self and peer-assessment, student learning can be enhanced. The study also found that development of formative assessment through teacher collaboration within the structure of a PLT involving shared planning and reflection, enhances teachers’ capacity to implement these strategies. Finally, the study concluded that since the use formative assessment strategies improves student learning, their implementation should be a priority for schools and educators. School leaders should ensure that the structures and systems for professional learning teams are in place so that successful planning and collaboration to develop formative assessment strategies is at the forefront of school improvement strategies and decision-making for teachers’ work.
title: LA IMPORTANCIA DE SER LADRON
Creators: name: Misraki, Paul
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Musique de film
subject: Cinéma

description: Manuscrits des partitions de musiques par Paul Misraki (1908-1998) pour le film réalisé par Julio Saraceni: LA IMPORTANCIA DE SER LADRON. 91 pages
Supplemental Material - ThermOxshield ion pair self assembly unleashing suppressed release
Creators: name: Guo, Yuyuan
name: George Joy, Jomon
name: Kim, Jin-Chul
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental Material for ThermOxshield ion pair self assembly unleashing suppressed release by Yuyuan Guo, Jomon George Joy, and Jin-Chul Kim in Journal of Biomaterials Applications
Selbstbestimmung Trotz Demenzieller Erkrankung? Das Selbstbestimmungsrecht Von Menschen Mit Einer Demenzerkrankung In Der Praxis Der Klinischen Sozialarbeit
Creators: name: Fischer, Jana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Gegenstand der vorliegenden Bachelorarbeit sind Menschen mit einer Demenzerkrankung und ihr Recht auf Selbstbestimmung. Die Selbstbestimmung wird aufgrund der krankheits-bedingten Veränderungen im Verlauf der Erkrankung vermehrt hinterfragt, eingeschränkt oder gar aberkannt. Für die Betroffenen ist dies eine unbefriedigende Situation, da die Selbstbestimmung nach wie vor eine wichtige Dimension für ihre Lebensqualität darstellt. Die klinisch Sozialarbeitenden treffen in unterschiedlichen Arbeitsfeldern auf Menschen mit Demenz. Es gehört zu ihrem Auftrag die Betroffenen bestmöglich zu unterstützen, ihr Wohl-ergehen zu fördern und falls notwendig, ihre Bedürfnisse zu schützen. Dabei berufen sie sich insbesondere auf ihr biopsychosoziales Verständnis sowie ihre berufsmoralischen Ansprü-che. Ziel der Autorin ist es, die Professionellen der Klinischen Sozialarbeit gegenüber dieser Problematik zu sensibilisieren und ihnen ein Fundament zu vermitteln, das ihnen ein profes-sionelles Handeln ermöglicht. Dazu wird die demenzielle Erkrankung und ihre Auswirkungen umfassend beschrieben sowie das Recht auf Selbstbestimmung aus unterschiedlichen Per-spektiven beleuchtet. Ergeben hat sich, dass eine Einschränkung immer auf einer berufs-ethischen Legitimationsbasis beruhen soll und eine individuelle Abklärung benötigt. Denn die Klinische Sozialarbeit erkennt Menschen mit einer Demenzerkrankung weiterhin als ent-scheidungsfähiges Individuum und ihr Recht auf Selbstbestimmung an. Es gehört zur Aufga-be der Professionellen dies zu fördern.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa basa be 2018 + Fussnote: Bachelor-Arbeit, Hochschule Luzern - Soziale Arbeit, Ausbildungsgang Sozialarbeit, 2018 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA201809
Mode Coupling of Phonons in a Dense One-Dimensional Microfluidic Crystal
Creators: name: Fleury, Jean-Baptiste
name: Schiller, Ulf D
name: Thutupalli, Shashi
name: Gompper, Gerhard
name: Seemann, Ralf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Long-living coupled transverse and longitudinal phonon modes are explored in dense and regular arrangements of flat microfluidic droplets. The collective oscillations are driven by hydrodynamic interactions between the confined droplets and can be excited in a controlled way. Experimental results are quantitatively compared to simulation results obtained by multi-particle collision dynamics. The observed transverse modes are acoustic phonons and can be described by a linearized far-field theory, whereas the longitudinal modes arise from a non-linear mode coupling due to the lateral variation of the flow field under confinement.
A Case Study of Secondary School Students’ Intercultural Learning in an International Service Trip
Creators: name: Rutherford, Sarah
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Education

description: The internationalisation of education is not new, but research into this area has been largely at the tertiary level. Currently in Australia, there is renewed emphasis in school curriculum and policy on the importance of intercultural learning as a key element of the internationalisation of secondary education. This study investigated secondary school students’ intercultural learning through an ethnographic case study of an international service trip to a developing Pacific island nation, for students from a school in an inner-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Australia. International service trips are offered in many Australian secondary schools; however, what and how students learn during these trips is significantly underresearched. This study investigated factors involved in students’ learning and whether the trip developed intercultural capacity and transformational learning.

 Data collection methods included interviews, a survey, and ethnographic tools. The study was conducted in three stages including developing an understanding of the evolution and purpose of the trip, experiences on the island, and follow-up interviews three months after the trip.

 The theoretical frames used to examine the nature of students’ learning were Bennett’s (2004) developmental model of intercultural sensitivity, which was utilised to examine and analyse the students’ intercultural experiences, and aspects from Mezirow’s (1997) transformative learning theory to explore the extent of students’ transformation and change in their “frame of reference” (Mezirow, 1997, p. 6) though their experiences. In addition, three theoretical frames related to the concept of international service were explored.

 Findings showed that the service itself had minimal impact on students’ learning and that students’ learning in international contexts is dependent on complex personal and sociocultural factors that students encounter through their experiences. Recommendations from the study focus on the need for well-defined strategic intentions and goals for these kinds of trips, along with purposeful leadership and organisation that provides structured and guided reflection on learning and pastoral care for students.
Reciprocity in Gift-Exchange-Games
Creators: name: Tagiew, Rustam
name: Ignatov, Dmitry I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents an analysis of data from a gift-exchange-game experiment. The experiment was described in `The Impact of Social Comparisons on Reciprocity' by Gächter et al. 2012. Since this paper uses state-of-art data science techniques, the results provide a different point of view on the problem. As already shown in relevant literature from experimental economics, human decisions deviate from rational payoff maximization. The average gift rate was $31$%. Gift rate was under no conditions zero. Further, we derive some special findings and calculate their significance.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, 5 tables
On Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer's cubic surfaces
Creators: name: West, Mckenzie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14G05, 14F22, 11G35

description: In a 1975 paper of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer, a number of explicit norm form cubic surfaces are shown to fail the Hasse Principle. They make a correspondence between this failure and the Brauer--Manin obstruction, recently discovered by Manin. We generalize their work, making use of modern computer algebra software to show that a larger set of cubic surfaces have a Brauer--Manin obstruction to the Hasse principle, thus verifying the Colliot-Thélène--Sansuc conjecture for infinitely many cubic surfaces.
Additional file 2 of Comprehensive visualization of bariatric surgery and gut microbiota research: a global analysis
Creators: name: Zyoud, Sa’ed H.
name: Shakhshir, Muna
name: Barqawi, Abdelkarim
name: Abushanab, Amani S.
name: Koni, Amer
name: Khilfeh, Shadi
name: Shahwan, Moyad
name: Jairoun, Ammar A.
name: Taha, Adham Abu
name: Abushamma, Faris
name: Al-Jabi, Samah W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Complete dataset stored in Microsoft Excel format
Impact of post-Born lensing on the CMB
Creators: name: Pratten, Geraint
name: Lewis, Antony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lensing of the CMB is affected by post-Born lensing, producing corrections to the convergence power spectrum and introducing field rotation. We show numerically that the lensing convergence power spectrum is affected at the $\lesssim 0.2\%$ level on accessible scales, and that this correction and the field rotation are negligible for observations with arcminute beam and noise levels $\gtrsim 1 μ{\text{K}}\,{\text{arcmin}} $. The field rotation generates $\sim 2.5\%$ of the total lensing B-mode polarization amplitude ($0.2\%$ in power on small scales), but has a blue spectrum on large scales, making it highly subdominant to the convergence B modes on scales where they are a source of confusion for the signal from primordial gravitational waves. Since the post-Born signal is non-linear, it also generates a bispectrum with the convergence. We show that the post-Born contributions to the bispectrum substantially change the shape predicted from large-scale structure non-linearities alone, and hence must be included to estimate the expected total signal and impact of bispectrum biases on CMB lensing reconstruction quadratic estimators and other observables. The field-rotation power spectrum only becomes potentially detectable for noise levels $\ll 1 μ{\text{K}}\,{\text{arcmin}}$, but its bispectrum with the convergence may be observable at $\sim 3σ$ with Stage IV observations. Rotation-induced and convergence-induced B modes are slightly correlated by the bispectrum, and the bispectrum also produces additional contributions to the lensed BB power spectrum.
description: 26 pages, 11 figures, 1 table. Sign change in Eq 5.2 corrects sign of correlation bispectrum in Eq 5.7 & Fig. 11. Footnote on page 15 justifying the treatment of polarization rotation, based on the recent analysis in arXiv:1706.02673. Footnote for Table I page 14 stating Lmax used was 4000. Footnote pg. 10 added. Fixed sign in Eq 2.8
Modeling a spheroidal microswimmer and cooperative swimming in thin films
Creators: name: Theers, Mario
name: Westphal, Elmar
name: Gompper, Gerhard
name: Winkler, Roland G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a hydrodynamic model for a spheroidal microswimmer with two tangential surface velocity modes. This model is analytically solvable and reduces to Lighthill's and Blake's spherical squirmer model in the limit of equal major and minor semi-axes. Furthermore, we present an implementation of such a spheroidal squirmer by means of multiparticle collision dynamics simulations. We investigate its properties as well as the scattering of two spheroidal squirmers in a slit geometry. Thereby we find a stable fixed point, where two pullers swim cooperatively forming a wedge-like conformation with a small constant angle.
Development of a research framework in which to examine curriculum innovation and curriculum change
Creators: name: O'Mahony, Gary R.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 390102
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Zero, Normal and Super-radiant Modes for Scalar and Spinor Fields in Kerr-anti de Sitter Spacetime
Creators: name: Kenmoku, Masakatsu
name: Cho, Yongmin
name: Shigemoto, Kazuyasu
name: Yoon, Jong Hyuk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Zero and normal modes for scalar and spinor fields in Kerr-anti de Sitter spacetime are studied as bound state problem with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions. Zero mode is defined as the momentum near the horizon to be zero: $p_{\rm H}=ω-Ω_{\rm H}m=0$, and is shown not to exist as physical state for both scalar and spinor fields. Physical normal modes satisfy the spectrum condition $p_{\rm H}>0$ as a result of non-existence of zero mode and the analyticity with respect to rotation parameter $a$ of Kerr-anti de Sitter black hole. Comments on the super-radiant modes and the thermodynamics of black hole are given in relation to the spectrum condition for normal modes. Preliminary numerical analysis on normal modes is presented.
description: 1 figures
Digital literacy practices of Sri Lankan undergraduates: Uses of English in the everyday context
Creators: name: BADUNGODAGE, DISNA DARSHANI NANAYAKKARA NANAYAKKARA
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 390104
subject: English and literacy curriculum and pedagogy (excl. LOTE, ESL and TESOL)

description: This study aims to investigate how Sri Lankan undergraduates engage in digital literacy practices in English in their everyday context. Informed by the sociocultural perspective of digital literacies, the study specifically explores participants’ social purposes, preference for English and identity work when engaging in everyday digital literacy practices. The findings of the study indicate that social participation was central to their everyday digital engagement in which English language emerged as the most preferred medium of communication. Their preference for English was directly associated to their future aspirations and needs for social and political stability.
Conformational properties of active semiflexible polymers
Creators: name: Eisenstecken, Thomas
name: Gompper, Gerhard
name: Winkler, Roland G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The conformational properties of flexible and semiflexible polymers exposed to active noise are studied theoretically. The noise may originate from the interaction of the polymer with surround- ing active (Brownian) particles or from the inherent motion of the polymer itself, which may be composed of active Brownian particles. In the latter case, the respective monomers are indepen- dently propelled in directions changing diffusively. For the description of the polymer, we adopt the continuous Gaussian semiflexible polymer model. Specifically, the finite polymer extensibility is taken into account which turns out to be essentially for the polymer conformations. Our analytical calculations predict a strong dependence of the relaxation times on the activity. In particular, semi- flexible polymers exhibit a crossover from a bending-elasticity-dominated to the flexible-polymer dynamics with increasing activity. This leads to a significant noise-induced polymer shrinkage over a large range of self-propulsion velocities. For large activities, the polymers swell and their extension becomes comparable to the contour length. The scaling properties of the mean square end-to-end distance with respect to the polymer length and monomer activity are discussed.
Palaeozoic correlations and the palaeogeography of the Sibumasu (Shan-Thai) Terrane - a brief review
Creators: name: Clive Burrett, Mongkol Udchachon
Publisher: name: Mahasarakham University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Thailand, Malaysia, Yunnan, Ordovician, Devonian, biostratigraphy, palaeogeography

description: Research & Knowledge, 2, 2
sj-docx-5-jiv-10.1177_08862605221132785 – Supplemental material for Clustering of Obesogenic Behaviors Associated With Bullying Roles Among 100,794 Adolescents
Creators: name: Matias, Thiago Sousa
name: Bacil, Eliane Denise Araújo
name: Viero, Vanise dos Santos Ferreira
name: Vieira, Yohana Pereira
name: da Silva, Laura Silva
name: Sá, Andressa Munhoz
name: do Amaral, Cleonice Santos
name: Cavazzotto, Timothy Gustavo
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-5-jiv-10.1177_08862605221132785 for Clustering of Obesogenic Behaviors Associated With Bullying Roles Among 100,794 Adolescents by Thiago Sousa Matias, Eliane Denise Araújo Bacil, Vanise dos Santos Ferreira Viero, Yohana Pereira Vieira, Laura Silva da Silva, Andressa Munhoz Sá, Cleonice Santos do Amaral and Timothy Gustavo Cavazzotto in Journal of Interpersonal Violence
sj-pdf-1-cpj-10.1177_00099228221138212 – Supplemental material for Resolution of Fever in the Pediatric Emergency Department and Bacteremia
Creators: name: Baker, Alexandra H.
name: Monuteaux, Michael C.
name: Michelson, Kenneth A.
name: Neuman, Mark I.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111403 Paediatrics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-cpj-10.1177_00099228221138212 for Resolution of Fever in the Pediatric Emergency Department and Bacteremia by Alexandra H. Baker, Michael C. Monuteaux, Kenneth A. Michelson and Mark I. Neuman in Clinical Pediatrics
Human sperm steer with second harmonics of the flagellar beat
Creators: name: Saggiorato, Guglielmo
name: Alvarez, Luis
name: Jikeli, Jan F.
name: Kaupp, U. Benjamin
name: Gompper, Gerhard
name: Elgeti, Jens
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sperm are propelled by bending waves travelling along the flagellum. During steering in gradients of sensory cues, sperm adjust the flagellar beat waveform. Symmetric and asymmetric beat waveforms produce straight and curved swimming paths, respectively. Two different mechanisms controlling the flagellar beat have been proposed: average intrinsic curvature and dynamic buckling instability. Both mechanisms create spatially asymmetric waveforms that could be modulated for steering. Using video microscopy, we image the flagellar waveform of human sperm tethered with the head to a glass surface. The waveform is characterized by a fundamental beat frequency and its second harmonic. We show that superposition of first and second harmonics breaks the beat symmetry temporally rather than spatially. As a result, sperm rotate around the tethering point. The rotation velocity is determined by the amplitude and phase of the second harmonic. Sperm stimulation with the female sex hormone progesterone enhances the second-harmonic contribution, modulates the flagellar beat, and ultimately sperm rotation. The temporal breaking of beat symmetry represents a new mechanism of sperm steering. Higher-frequency components were also reported for the flagellar beat of other cells; therefore, this steering mechanism might by quite general and could inspire the design of synthetic microswimmers.
Additional file 2 of Ethanol responsive lnc171 promotes migration and invasion of HCC cells via mir-873-5p/ZEB1 axis
Creators: name: Huang, Shiping
name: Liao, Zhouxiang
name: He, Xiao
name: Song, Zhenyu
name: Fang, Xi
name: Wen, Sha
name: Yang, Lichao
name: Li, Hui
name: Zhang, Qi
name: Mo, Wanling
name: Cheng, Xiaojing
name: He, Min
name: Huang, Xuejing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2
Spatial correlations of hydrodynamic fluctuations in simple fluids under shear flow: A mesoscale simulation study
Creators: name: Varghese, Anoop
name: Gompper, Gerhard
name: Winkler, Roland G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hydrodynamic fluctuations in simple fluids under shear flow are demonstrated to be spatially correlated, in contrast to the fluctuations at equilibrium, using mesoscopic hydrodynamic simulations. The simulation results for the equal-time hydrodynamic correlations in a multiparticle collision dynamics (MPC) fluid in shear flow are compared with the explicit expressions obtained from fluctuating hydrodynamic calculations. For large wave vectors $k$, the nonequlibrium contributions to transverse and longitudinal velocity correlations decay as $k^{-4}$ for wave vectors along the flow direction, and as $k^{-2}$ for the off-flow directions. For small wave vectors, a cross-over to a slower decay occurs, indicating long-range correlations in real space. The coupling between the transverse velocity components, which vanishes at equilibrium, also exhibits a $k^{-2}$ dependence on the wave vector. In addition, we observe a quadratic dependency on the shear rate of the non-equilibrium contribution to pressure.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Supplemental Material - Spectral Reflectance Reconstruction from Red-Green-Blue (RGB) Images for Chlorophyll Content Detection
Creators: name: Gong, Lianxiang
name: Zhu, Chenxi
name: Luo, Yifeng
name: Fu, Xiaping
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: Supplemental Material for Spectral Reflectance Reconstruction from Red-Green-Blue (RGB) Images for Chlorophyll Content Detection by Lianxiang Gong, Chenxi Zhu, Yifeng Luo, and Xiaping Fu in Applied Spectroscopy
EXPORT PERFORMANCE OF VIETNAM'S GARMENT MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS
Creators: name: Nguyen Thuy Linh*
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Garment industry, Vietnam, export performance, competitive advantage, textile value chain, global market integration.

description: Abstract: This article examines the export performance of Vietnam's garment manufacturing enterprises within the global textile and apparel market. The study uses a multifaceted framework to examine how trade rules, market conditions, and international rivalry affect export success as well as internal aspects including business skills, resources, and management practices. The research identifies critical success factors for sustainable growth in this sector and provides strategic recommendations for Vietnamese garment manufacturers seeking to improve their competitive positioning in international markets. According to the findings, Vietnam has become a major global exporter of textiles, but in order to sustain growth in a world that is becoming more competitive, there are still important issues with value chain integration, technological adaptation, and sustainability requirements that need to be resolved.