cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
W8, a new Sup35 prion strain, transmits distinctive information with a conserved assembly scheme
Creators: name: Huang, Yu-Wen
name: Yuan-Chih Chang
name: Diaz-Avalos, Ruben
name: Chih-Yen King
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Prion strains are different self-propagating conformers of the same infectious protein. Three strains of the [PSI] prion, infectious forms of the yeast Sup35 protein, have been previously characterized in our laboratory. Here we report the discovery of a new [PSI] strain, named W8. We demonstrate its robust cellular propagation as well as the protein-only transmission. To reveal strain-specific sequence requirement, mutations that interfered with the propagation of W8 were identified by consecutive substitution of residues 5–55 of Sup35 by proline and insertion of glycine at alternate sites in this segment. Interestingly, propagating W8 with single mutations at residues 5–7 and around residue 43 caused the strain to transmute. In contrast to the assertion that [PSI] existed as a dynamic cloud of sub-structures, no random drift in transmission characteristics was detected in mitotically propagated W8 populations. Electron diffraction and mass-per-length measurements indicate that, similar to the 3 previously characterized strains, W8 fibers are composed of about 1 prion molecule per 4.7-Å cross-β repeat period. Thus differently folded single Sup35 molecules, not dimeric and trimeric assemblies, form the basic repeating units to build the 4 [PSI] strains.
Trichodromeus pusillus
Creators: name: Shavrin, Alexey V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Trichodromeus
Trichodromeus pusillus

description: Trichodromeus pusillus (Coiffait, 1983)
(Fig. 50)
Geodromicus pusillus Coiffait, 1983: 279; Herman 2001: 303, Smetana 2004: 244.
Trichodromeus pusillus: Shavrin 2012: 66, Schülke & Smetana 2015: 326.
Material examined. PAKISTAN: SKARDU: 1 ♂, 1 ♀: Deosai, Satpara. 4000–4100 m a.s.l. 26.08.1997. W. Heinz leg. (NSMT); JAMMU & KASHMIR: 29 ♂♂, 47 ♀♀: SW Garhi. 1500 m a.s.l. 10– 20.07.2003 (cSch, cSh); 2 ♂♂: same data, NW Junkar. 4000 m a.s.l. 01– 10.07.2003 (cSh).
Remarks. Geodromicus pusillus was originally described from Kashmir, India. Shavrin (2012) redescribed and transferred it to the genus Trichodromeus, and provided additional records from Kashmir. Trichodromeus pusillus (Fig. 50) is known from north-eastern Pakistan and Kashmir, India. It is here recorded from Pakistan for the first time.
description: Published as part of Shavrin, Alexey V., 2024, Review of Hygrogeus Mulsant & Rey, 1880 and Trichodromeus Luze, 1903, with descriptions of three new genera from the eastern Palaearctic Region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Anthophagini: Omaliinae), pp. 1-62 in Zootaxa 5531 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5531.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14023033
Trichodromeus sulcicollis Shavrin 2024, comb. n.
Creators: name: Shavrin, Alexey V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Trichodromeus
Trichodromeus sulcicollis

description: Trichodromeus sulcicollis (Coiffait, 1983) comb. n.
Hygrogeus sulcicollis Coiffait, 1983: 284; Herman 2001: 309, Smetana 2004: 245, Schülke & Smetana 2015: 316.
Remarks. Hygrogeus sulcicollis was originally described based on one female from “Cachemire, Pahalgam, Sheshnag, 3 800 m …”. Based on the length of the body, this medium-sized (6.0 mm) species was compared with T. kumaonensis (see above), and distinguished from it by the stronger sculpture of the shorter pronotum, more narrowed basad, and more broadened elytra.
description: Published as part of Shavrin, Alexey V., 2024, Review of Hygrogeus Mulsant & Rey, 1880 and Trichodromeus Luze, 1903, with descriptions of three new genera from the eastern Palaearctic Region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Anthophagini: Omaliinae), pp. 1-62 in Zootaxa 5531 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5531.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14023033
Galaxies at a redshift of ~0.5 around three closely spaced quasar sightlines
Creators: name: Crighton, Neil
name: Morris, Simon L.
name: Bechtold, Jill
name: Crain, Robert A.
name: Jannuzi, Buell T.
name: Shone, Allen
name: Theuns, Tom
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We examine the relationship between galaxies and the intergalactic medium at z > 1 using a group of three closely spaced background QSOs with z_em ~1 observed with the Hubble Space Telescope. Using a new grouping algorithm, we identify groups of galaxies and absorbers across the three QSO sightlines that may be physically linked. There is an excess number of such groups compared to the number we expect from a random distribution of absorbers at a confidence level of 99.9%. The same search is performed with mock spectra generated using a hydrodynamic simulation, and we find the vast majority of such groups arise in dense regions of the simulation. We find that at z > 0.5, groups in the simulation generally trace the large-scale filamentary structure as seen in the projected 2-d distribution of the HI column density in a ~30 h^-1 Mpc region. We discover a probable sub-damped Lyman-alpha system at z=0.557 showing strong, low-ionisation metal absorption lines. Previous analyses of absorption across the three sightlines attributed these metal lines to HI. We show that even when the new line identifications are taken into account, evidence remains for planar structures with scales of ~1 Mpc absorbing across the three sightlines. We identify a galaxy at z=0.2272 with associated metal absorption in two sightlines, each 200 kpc away. By constraining the star formation history of the galaxy, we show the gas causing this metal absorption may have been enriched and ejected by the galaxy during a burst of star formation 2 Gyr ago.
Supporting Latino Students with Interrupted Formal Education: A Guide for Teachers
Creators: Digby, Sarah
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Teachers--Training of
Immigrant students
Education, Elementary
Education, Secondary

description: This professional development guide supports K-12 teachers to approach their incoming students from other countries who stopped attending school and now face the double challenge to go back to their studies and under a new education system. The author wrote the guide based on her experience in Honduras, but also drew from her expertise in teaching in New York City.
title: Importance of angiographic recognition of round ligament arteries in postpartum haemorrhage
Creators: name: Choque Chávez, Fernando Diego
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Interventional radiology
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Embolisation
subject: Clinical Case

description: Clinical History: A 39-year-old, with 2 prior caesarean sections, underwent premature caesarean delivery of twins at 36 weeks. Severe post-op bleeding from uterine atony necessitated a subtotal hysterectomy. Subsequent CT revealed haemoperitoneum and active arterial bleeding. Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA) revealed active bleeding from branches of the round ligament artery, which was successfully embolised.

description: 39 years, female
W8, a New Sup35 Prion Strain, Transmits Distinctive Information with a Conserved Assembly Scheme
Creators: name: Huang, Yu-Wen
name: Yuan-Chih Chang
name: Diaz-Avalos, Ruben
name: Chih-Yen King
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Medicine
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Prion strains are different self-propagating conformers of the same infectious protein. Three strains of the [PSI] prion, infectious forms of the yeast Sup35 protein, have been previously characterized in our laboratory. Here we report the discovery of a new [PSI] strain, named W8. We demonstrate its robust cellular propagation as well as the protein-only transmission. To reveal strain-specific sequence requirement, mutations that interfered with the propagation of W8 were identified by consecutive substitution of residues 5–55 of Sup35 by proline and insertion of glycine at alternate sites in this segment. Interestingly, propagating W8 with single mutations at residues 5–7 and around residue 43 caused the strain to transmute. In contrast to the assertion that [PSI] existed as a dynamic cloud of sub-structures, no random drift in transmission characteristics was detected in mitotically propagated W8 populations. Electron diffraction and mass-per-length measurements indicate that, similar to the three previously characterized strains, W8 fibers are composed of about 1 prion molecule per 4.7-Å cross-β repeat period. Thus differently folded single Sup35 molecules, not dimeric and trimeric assemblies, form the basic repeating units to build the four [PSI] strains.
Community and innovation: evidence of social entrepreneurship in Snake Valley, Australia?
Creators: name: Kenley, Russell
name: Brackertz, Nicola
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This exploratory study was undertaken to ascertain whether or not Snake Valley could be a field-site for research into entrepreneurial activity in rural Victoria, Australia. A document analysis methodology, focusing on the community newspaper the Snake Valley News, provided evidence of a defined community linked to innovative economic activity. We assumed that limited financial resources can be off-set by local social capital (skills, time and knowledge) given freely for societal benefit. Some social entrepreneurial activity was therefore assumed. However, the findings are only indicative and testing of for actual social entrepreneurial activity will require definitive evidence of innovation resulting in wealth creation.
Indigenous entrepreneurs: Ainu museums
Creators: name: Savage, Theresa
name: Cunningham, Everarda
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Studies show that Ainu Indigenous Entrepreneurs have reinvented the production and display of Ainu cultural traditions as tourist attractions (Hiwasaki, 2000; Cheung, 2005). This paper reports on a longitudinal study of the efforts by Ainu Indigenous Entrepreneurs from 1988-2007. Contrary to expectations, commercialization of symbols of Ainu traditions has not led to the loss of Ainu culture and identity. Instead, enterprising business activities serve to promote interest in and knowledge of the traditional language and culture. At the same time Indigenous Entrepreneurship appears to be instrumental in instilling a sense of pride and dignity in the Ainu people.
An application of stakeholder influence strategies on environmental disclosures: exploring the impact of a positive environmental event in a developing country
Creators: name: Elijido-Ten, Evangeline
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Stakeholder theory has been used extensively in the business literature as it offers a useful framework given its basic premise that the firm’s success is dependent upon the successful management of its relationship with their stakeholders (Freeman, 1983). Whilst the stakeholder literature is replete with research on stakeholder attributes and concerns on how to manage them, little is known about how stakeholders demand what they want from the firm (Frooman, 1999). The purpose of this research is to gain insights on the preferred strategies chosen by various stakeholder representatives to influence management to either provide/not provide environmental disclosures in an experimental setting.
Unifying interpretations of the Gouy phase anomaly for electron waves
Creators: name: Petersen, T. C.
name: Paganin, D. M.
name: Weyland, M.
name: Simula, Tapio
name: Eastwood, S. A.
name: Morgan, M. J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We provide a unified description of the Gouy phase anomaly, highlighting the pivotal role of local fluctuations in transverse momentum and quantal phase changes associated with electron trajectories that touch caustics. Using arguments based on wave optics, at the interface between classical and quantum mechanics, we derive the magnitude of the quantized Gouy phase changes for scalar waves. Our analysis unifies disparate descriptions of the Gouy anomaly within a single theoretical framework. In particular, we find that the phase anomaly connects Maslov indices, quantal Berry phases, Heisenberg momentum fluctuations, and confinement-induced Lévy-Leblond phase shifts.
Preserving frozen stallion sperm on dry ice using polymers that modulate ice crystalization kinetics
Creators: name: Uhlmannsiek, Laura
name: Shen, Hang
name: Eylers, Heinke
name: Martinsson, Gunilla
name: Sieme, Harald
name: Wolkers, Willem F.
name: Oldenhof, Harriëtte
Publisher: name: Orlando, Fla. : Academic Press
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Dry ice transport
subject: Equine spermatozoa
subject: Ficoll
subject: Ice recrystallization inhibition
subject: Polyvinylpyrrolidone
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::570 | Biowissenschaften, Biologie

description: Cryopreserved semen is routinely shipped in liquid nitrogen. Dry ice could serve as an alternative coolant, however, frozen storage above liquid nitrogen temperatures (LN2, −196 °C) may negatively affect shelf-life and cryosurvival. In this study, we determined critical temperatures for storage of cryopreserved stallion sperm. We evaluated: (i) effects of cooling samples to different subzero temperatures (−10 °C to −80 °C) prior to storing in LN2, (ii) stability at different storage temperatures (i.e., in LN2, dry ice, −80 °C and −20 °C freezers, 5 °C refrigerator), and (iii) sperm cryosurvival during storage on dry ice (i.e., when kept below −70 °C and during warming). Furthermore, (iv) we analyzed if addition of synthetic polymers (PVP-40, Ficoll-70) modulates ice crystallization kinetics and improves stability of cryopreserved specimens. Sperm motility and membrane intactness were taken as measures of cryosurvival, and an artificial insemination trial was performed to confirm fertilizing capacity. We found that adding PVP-40 or Ficoll-70 to formulations containing glycerol reduced ice crystal sizes and growth during annealing. Post-thaw sperm viability data indicated that samples need to be cooled below −40 °C before they can be safely plunged and stored in LN2. No negative effects of relocating specimens from dry ice to LN2 and vice versa became apparent. However, sample warming above −50 °C during transport in dry ice should be avoided to ensure preservation of viability and fertility. Moreover, addition of PVP-40 or Ficoll-70 was found to increase sperm cryosurvival, especially under non-ideal storage conditions where ice recrystallization may occur.
Community structure of microeukaryotes in a rice rhizosphere revealed by DNA-based PCR-DGGE
Creators: name: Rasit Asiloglu
name: Honjo, Hiroki
name: Norikuni Saka
name: Asakawa, Susumu
name: Murase, Jun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences

description: Rice roots provide a specific habitat for microorganisms in the rhizosphere of a submerged field through supply of oxygen and organic matter. Many studies have focused on the microbial community in the rice rhizosphere, but less is still known about the microeukaryotic community structure of rice rhizosphere. This study explored the microeukaryotic community structure of a rice rhizosphere through denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) targeting 18S rRNA gene. The rice roots and the rhizosphere soil samples, which were collected from a field under rice-wheat rotation system, were separately analyzed. To characterize the rice rhizosphere-specific community, the bulk soil of rice field and the wheat rhizosphere samples were also examined. DGGE fingerprints showed that the microeukaryotic community of rice roots were distinct from the community of the bulk soil and showed a temporal shift with the growth stage. The rhizosphere soil community was distinct from the root and bulk soil communities, but this could be explained by that the root and bulk soil communities were shared in the rhizosphere. The rice rhizosphere community was also distinct from those in the wheat rhizosphere. Microeukaryotes that characterized the rice rhizosphere (roots and the rhizosphere soil) community could be affiliated to Polymyxa, flagellates, and oomycetes, which suggested that microeukaryotes with various ecological roles, e.g., parasites, bacterial grazers, and decomposers, inhabit the rice rhizosphere. The results showed that the rice root and its growth stages are key factors shaping the microeukaryotic community structure in the rhizosphere.
The Importance of rewards to not-for-profit staff
Creators: name: Kluvers, Ron
name: Tippet, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper reports on a study undertaken in a Not-For-Profit (NFP) organisation providing services for people with disabilities. The organisation is made up of two units and in response to a changing funding model, has introduced a performance bonus in one of the units. This situation raises the question as to how intrinsic and extrinsic rewards are perceived of by the organisation as a source of motivation. The aim of this study is to understand the relative importance on intrinsic and extrinsic factors in the motivation of employees in the NFP organisation. Data was gathered through a survey that had a number of statements about intrinsic and extrinsic rewards. The responses of the staff were indicated using a five point Likert scale. The frequencies and percentages of those responses are in this paper. The important findings of the study are that intrinsic rewards play a significant role in the motivation of the staff of the organisation. Extrinsic rewards were regarded in a more ambiguous way.
W8, a new Sup35 prion strain, transmits distinctive information with a conserved assembly scheme
Creators: name: Huang, Yu-Wen
name: Yuan-Chih Chang
name: Diaz-Avalos, Ruben
name: Chih-Yen King
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Medicine
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: ABSTRACTPrion strains are different self-propagating conformers of the same infectious protein. Three strains of the [PSI] prion, infectious forms of the yeast Sup35 protein, have been previously characterized in our laboratory. Here we report the discovery of a new [PSI] strain, named W8. We demonstrate its robust cellular propagation as well as the protein-only transmission. To reveal strain-specific sequence requirement, mutations that interfered with the propagation of W8 were identified by consecutive substitution of residues 5–55 of Sup35 by proline and insertion of glycine at alternate sites in this segment. Interestingly, propagating W8 with single mutations at residues 5–7 and around residue 43 caused the strain to transmute. In contrast to the assertion that [PSI] existed as a dynamic cloud of sub-structures, no random drift in transmission characteristics was detected in mitotically propagated W8 populations. Electron diffraction and mass-per-length measurements indicate that, similar to the 3 previously characterized strains, W8 fibers are composed of about 1 prion molecule per 4.7-Å cross-β repeat period. Thus differently folded single Sup35 molecules, not dimeric and trimeric assemblies, form the basic repeating units to build the 4 [PSI] strains.
The business of the family: Italian-Australian entrepreneurs in Victoria and their modern dynasties
Creators: name: Hougaz, Laura
name: Betta, Michela
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper will outline the migration experiences of Italians in the State of Victoria (Australia); in particular, it will focus on the ability of the first generation to create the conditions for their business family through their own personal resources. Furthermore, it will highlight the ways in which their entrepreneurial capacity ultimately helped them to shape their own dynasties.
Line Balancing for Improving Apparel Production by Operator Skill Matrix
Creators: name: Khalil, Elias
name: Mazharul Islam
name: Md. Tanjim Hossain
name: Mohammad Abdul Jalil,
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Design
subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: In this modern world, fashion & styles are changing frequently. The emergence of fast changes in fashion has given rise to shorten production cycle time in the garment industry. To meet the dynamic customer demands of momentous quantities in shorten lead time, assembly line production systems are used, where the garment components are assembled into a finished garment through a sub-assembly process. So in the era of product customization, the optimal usage of resources especially the available facilities & operators who are adding the value of product is important. Therefore the assembly line has to be planned in much more flexible way. This paper deals with the maximum utilization of manpower in labor intensive assembly lines. The objective is to accurately delegate workers to the various operations required to complete the product based on their skill & experience so as to achieve the highest level of productivity and delivery as per planned target. The experimental result showed meaningful improvement in productivity as compared to the existing system.
Determinants and impacts of rural crime victimization: Evidence from a case study in Southeast Asia
Creators: name: Grote, Ulrike
name: Nguyen, Thanh-Tung
name: Nguyen, Trung Thanh
name: Neubacher, Frank
Publisher: name: Amsterdam : Elsevier
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Heteroscedasticity-based instrumental variable approach, Thailand, Vietnam
subject: Logit model
subject: Routine activity approach
subject: Rural crime
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::330 | Wirtschaft

description: We use a panel dataset of around 3500 rural households from Southeast Asia and investigate evidence on crime victimization. More concretely, we ask (1) to what extent are rural people affected by crime? (2) What factors determine rural crime victimization? And (3) what are the impacts of crime victimization on welfare of rural households? We use the routine activity approach as the theoretical framework and apply different logit models to identify determinants of crime victimization. We find that 5.46% of the rural households have been victimized, mainly by theft, over the last 12 months, some of them even more than once. Living in a rural region with higher levels of inequality is positively correlated with the likelihood of theft victimization. Households with higher levels of crop commercialization are associated with a higher victimization risk, while households with more livestock and being more specialized in specific livestock species are associated with a lower risk. Moreover, past victimization and exposure to weather shocks are positively associated with the likelihood of being affected by crime. With respect to the impacts, we use the heteroscedasticity-based instrumental variable approach to account for endogeneity and find highly significant negative effects of agricultural theft victimization on food consumption and child health outcomes. We conclude that rural crime requires attention although overall incidence is low in rural Thailand and Vietnam. Guardianship should be promoted, especially in times of weather shocks. Finally, reducing inequality helps preventing theft.
Asiageodromicus amplissimus Shavrin 2024, comb. n.
Creators: name: Shavrin, Alexey V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Asiageodromicus
Asiageodromicus amplissimus

description: Asiageodromicus amplissimus (Shavrin, 2019) comb. n.
Geodromicus amplissimus Shavrin, 2019: 575.
Material examined. CHINA: SICHUAN: 1 ♀: north of Moxi, 29°50.3899’N 102°02.760`E. 19.06. 2006. 3098 m a.s.l. R. Sehnal & M. Trýzna leg. (SMNS).
Remarks. Geodromicus amplissimus was originally described based on 56 specimens from Daxue Shan and Gongga Shan ranges in Sichuan and Meili Xue Shan range in northern Yunnan. The present record originates from a more northern locality than previously known.
description: Published as part of Shavrin, Alexey V., 2024, Review of Hygrogeus Mulsant & Rey, 1880 and Trichodromeus Luze, 1903, with descriptions of three new genera from the eastern Palaearctic Region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Anthophagini: Omaliinae), pp. 1-62 in Zootaxa 5531 (1) on page 36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5531.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14023033
Targeted search for gravitational waves from highly spinning light compact binaries
Creators: name: Wang, Yi-Fan
name: Nitz, Alexander H.
Publisher: name: Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: black hole
subject: gravitational waves
subject: neutron star mergers
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::520 | Astronomie, Kartographie

description: Searches for gravitational waves from compact binary mergers, which to date have reported ∼100 observations, have previously ignored binaries whose components are consistent with the mass of neutron stars (1-2 M⊙) and have high dimensionless spin >0.05. While previous searches targeted sources that are representative of observed neutron star binaries in the Galaxy, it is already known that neutron stars can regularly be spun up to a dimensionless spin of ∼0.4, and in principle reach up to ∼0.7 before breakup would occur. Furthermore, there may be primordial black hole binaries or exotic formation mechanisms to produce light black holes. In these cases, it is possible for the binary constituent to be spun up beyond that achievable by a neutron star. A single detection of this type of source would reveal a novel formation channel for compact binaries. To determine whether there is evidence for any such sources, we use pycbc to conduct a targeted search of LIGO and Virgo data for light compact objects with high spin. Our analysis detects previously known observations GW170817 and GW200115; however, we report no additional mergers. The most significant candidate, not previously known, is consistent with the noise distribution, and so we constrain the merger rate of spinning light binaries.
Entrepreneurship education: the value of bricolage and reflexivity
Creators: name: Cherry, Nita
name: Buckley, Patricia
name: O'Connor, Allan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: On the basis of our co-operative inquiry, we suggest that the concepts of bricolage and reflexivity are very useful in framing the contemporary entrepreneurship curriculum. In this paper we explore how that could influence teaching and learning practice. We also highlight the importance of connecting the efforts, energies and activities of individual entrepreneurs with the social, economic and political impacts of entrepreneurship. For this reason, we suggest that it is important that entrepreneurship education does not simply replicate management education, but be positioned in such a way that it impacts a broader range of ways in which to influence and change broader social and economic conditions.
Asiageodromicus crassipalpis Shavrin 2024, comb. n.
Creators: name: Shavrin, Alexey V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Asiageodromicus
Asiageodromicus crassipalpis

description: Asiageodromicus crassipalpis (Champion, 1920) comb. n.
(Figs 68–78, 83–89)
Geodromicus crassipalpis Champion, 1920: 245; Cameron, 1924: 173, 1930: 164, Herman 2001: 293, Smetana 2004: 243, Schülke & Smetana 2015: 313, Shavrin 2019: 573.
Material examined. NEPAL: KOSHI: 1 ♀: Mechi / Taplejung, 23 km NE Ghunsa, Ghunsa Khola betw. Kambachen and Lhonak, 27°45’50’’N 87°59’49’’E. 4500 m a.s.l., waterfall. 06.05.2003. A. Weigel leg. (NME); 1 ♀: same data, 9 km NNE Ghunsa, Kambachen, 27°87’58’’N 87°58’18’’E. 4100 m a.s.l. 11.05.2003. A. Weigel leg. (cSh).
Remarks. Habitus as in fig. 1 of Shavrin (2019). Ventral view of head as in Fig. 72. Prothorax as in Fig. 73. Mesoventrite as in Fig. 74. Scutellum as in Fig. 77. Metaventrite as in Fig. 75. Metendosternite as in Fig. 76. Elytron as in Fig. 78. Labrum as in Fig. 68. Mandibles as in Fig. 69. Labium and mentum as in Fig. 71. Maxilla as in Fig. 70. Male abdominal tergite VIII as in Fig. 83 and sternite VIII as in Fig. 84; genital segment as in Fig. 85. Female abdominal tergite VIII as in Fig. 86 and sternite VIII as in Fig. 87; genital segment as in Fig. 88.
Geodromicus crassipalpis was originally described from “Kumaon” and known from several localities in Uttarakhand, India (Shavrin 2019). It is here recorded from Nepal for the first time. Distribution of the species as in Fig. 89.
description: Published as part of Shavrin, Alexey V., 2024, Review of Hygrogeus Mulsant & Rey, 1880 and Trichodromeus Luze, 1903, with descriptions of three new genera from the eastern Palaearctic Region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Anthophagini: Omaliinae), pp. 1-62 in Zootaxa 5531 (1) on page 36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5531.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14023033
First frequency-domain phenomenological model of the multipole asymmetry in gravitational-wave signals from binary-black-hole coalescence
Creators: name: Ghosh, Shrobana
name: Kolitsidou, Panagiota
name: Hannam, Mark
Publisher: name: Ridge, NY : American Physical Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik

description: Gravitational-wave signals from binaries that contain spinning black holes in general include an asymmetry between the +m and -m multipoles that is not included in most signal models used in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA analysis to date. This asymmetry manifests itself in out-of-plane recoil of the final black hole and its inclusion in signal models is necessary both to measure this recoil, but also to accurately measure the full spin information of each black hole. We present the first model of the antisymmetric contribution to the dominant coprecessing-frame signal multipole throughout inspiral, merger, and ringdown. We model the antisymmetric contribution in the frequency domain, and take advantage of the approximations that the antisymmetric amplitude can be modeled as a ratio of the (already modeled) symmetric amplitude, and analytic relationships between the symmetric and antisymmetric phases during the inspiral and ringdown. The model is tuned to single-spin numerical-relativity simulations up to mass-ratio 8 and spin magnitudes of 0.8, and has been implemented in a recent phenomenological model for use in the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run. However, the procedure described here can be easily applied to other time- or frequency-domain models.
Enhancing entrepreneurship in franchising
Creators: name: Maritz, Alex
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Despite the lack of significant entrepreneurial orientation of franchisees, an approach is suggested that goes beyond the current state of thought. The paper, the first of its kind in examining entrepreneurial orientation across two countries in a franchise system, identifies the importance of promoting multi-unit franchising to facilitate growth. Despite the entrepreneurial orientation of franchise owners not being disputed, the role of the franchisee in the system lends itself to the enhancement of entrepreneurial activities. Similar initiatives may also be accommodated in a small to medium enterprise setting.
IDS Technical Gap Analysis Research Plan
Creators: name: Howat, Alexandra
name: Brown, Richard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This research plan was created by 67 Bricks to document the scope, objectives, audience, approach and outputs related to their effort to identify existing platforms and services capable of providing core functional IDS network services.

This work was made possible by the Mellon Foundation through the Advancing to Launch by Developing IDS Governance Building Blocks grant .
Keep your virtual hands off me! Paranoia, affect and influencing machines
Creators: name: Tofts, Darren
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We have become so accustomed to the human-computer interface that its strangeness has become numbed by habit. Media artists often provide the most forceful articulation of this habitude. Their work reminds us of the strange relations between embodiment and disembodiment, presence and telepresence. This essay examines Zoe Beloff's 2001 interactive video installation The Influencing Machine of Miss Natalija A in the context of these relations. The idea of media as a means of affect, of virtually reaching out and touching someone, is critiqued in this work. Beloff defamilarises our intimacy with our machines, offering a timely allegory of the impact of technology on our lives.
Phase field cohesive zone modeling for fatigue crack propagation in quasi-brittle materials
Creators: name: Baktheer, Abedulgader
name: Martínez-Pañeda, Emilio
name: Aldakheel, Fadi
Publisher: name: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier Science
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cohesive zone method (CZM)
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Fatigue
subject: Paris law
subject: Phase field modeling (PFM)
subject: S-N curves
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::000 | Allgemeines, Wissenschaft::000 | Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::004 | Informatik

description: The phase field method has gathered significant attention in the past decade due to its versatile applications in engineering contexts, including fatigue crack propagation modeling. Particularly, the phase field cohesive zone method (PF-CZM) has emerged as a promising approach for modeling fracture behavior in quasi-brittle materials, such as concrete. The present contribution expands the applicability of the PF-CZM to include the modeling of fatigue-induced crack propagation. This study critically examines the validity of the extended PF-CZM approach by evaluating its performance across various fatigue behaviors, encompassing hysteretic behavior, S-N curves, fatigue creep curves, and the Paris law. The experimental investigations and validation span a diverse spectrum of loading scenarios, encompassing pre- and post-peak cyclic loading, as well as low- and high-cyclic fatigue loading. The validation process incorporates 2D and 3D boundary value problems, considering mode I and mixed-modes fatigue crack propagation. The results obtained from this study show a wide range of validity, underscoring the remarkable potential of the proposed PF-CZM approach to accurately capture the propagation of fatigue cracks in concrete-like materials. Furthermore, the paper outlines recommendations to improve the predictive capabilities of the model concerning key fatigue characteristics.
Calcite Solubilization by Bacteria: A Novel Method of Environment Pollution Control
Creators: name: Gopinath Rana
name: Tanusri Mandal
name: Niranjan K. Mandal
name: Dhruba Sakha
name: Bhim C. Meikap
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Engineering

description: Global warming due to the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) gas, by the anthropogenic sources is a great threat to the environment. A part of this gas is absorbed by soil bacteria as well as aquatic bacteria and it is converted into insoluble calcium carbonate (CaCO3) or calcite. Increased calcite concentration in water and agricultural land creates many problems to the human. In this investigation, an attempt has been made to carry out some experiments to isolate some bacteria from cow dung, which have both calcite solubilization and urease activities. Isolated bacteria solubilize calcite due to the secretion of citric acid, oxalic acid and sanazine pigment. All bacterial isolates were identified by 16S rRNA gene sequencing and the phylogenetic relationship among them was also studied using MEGA 6 software.
Writing the unconscious: psychoanalysis for the creative writer
Creators: name: Hecq, Dominique
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper addresses a set of related questions pertaining to the potential usefulness of psychoanalysis for the creative writer, why write, and what is writing in particular. Further, it teases out what a pedagogy of creative writing as a 'practice of the letter' (Lacan 1965: 193) might be in the specific context of writing workshops aimed specifically at MA students studying at the university.
Precision measurements of 𝐬𝐢𝐧 (𝟐𝜷) with the LHCb experiment
Creators: name: Meier, Gerwin
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Teilchenphysik
subject: LHCb-Experiment
subject: CERN
subject: Flavour-Physik
subject: CP-Verletzung
subject: 530
subject: LHCb
subject: Präzisionsmessung
subject: CKM-Matrix

description: High-precision measurements of observables of the Standard Model of particle physics, like the CKM matrix parameters, are key to answering the open questions of particle physics. The most precise CKM angle sin(2β) can be optimally determined by a decay-time dependent measurement of CP violation in B→ψKS0 decays. In this thesis data from B→J/ψ(→μμ)KS0, B→ψ(2S)(→μμ)KS0 and B→J/ψ(→ee)KS0 decays is analysed with KS0→π+π- collected at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 13TeV with pp collisions by the LHCb experiment between 2015 and 2018. The data corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 6/fb and results in the combination of all three decays for the CP violation parameters in S(ψKS0) = 0.717 +/- 0.013 (stat.) +/- 0.008 (syst.), C(ψKS0) = 0.008 +/- 0.012 (stat.) +/- 0.003 (syst.), where S corresponds to sin(2β). This is consistent with the Standard Model predictions and with previous measurements. Furthermore, this is the most precise single measurement and more precise than the current world average.
description: Hochpräzessionsmessungen von Observablen des Standardmodells der Teilchenphysik, wie die Parameter der CKM-Matrix, sind entscheidend, um offene Fragen der Teilchenphysik zu beantworten. Der am genauesten gemessene CKM Winkel sin(2β) kann optimal gemessen werden mit Zerfallszeit-abhängigen CP-verletzenden Messungen in B→ψKS0 Zerfällen. In dieser Arbeit wurden Daten von B→J/ψ(→μμ)KS0, B→ψ(2S)(→μμ)KS0 und B→J/ψ(→ee)KS0 Zerfällen mit KS0→π+π- analysiert. Diese wurden aufgenommen bei einer Schwerpunktsenergie von √s = 13TeV mit pp Kollisionen am LHCb-Experiment zwischen 2015 und 2018. Die Daten entsprechen einer integrierten Luminosität von 6/fb und resultieren in der Kombination von allen drei Zerfällen für die CP-verletzenden Parameter in S(ψKS0) = 0.717 +/- 0.013 (stat.) +/- 0.008 (syst.), C(ψKS0) = 0.008 +/- 0.012 (stat.) +/- 0.003 (syst.), wobei S sin(2β) entspricht. Das ist konsistent mit den Vorhersagen des Standardmodells und vorherigen Messungen. Die Messung erreicht die größte Genauigkeit einer Einzelmessung und ist genauer als der Weltmittelwert.
title: Εφαρμογή πρότασης πλάνου δραστηριοτήτων με βάση το προφίλ του χρήστη για τουρίστες στην Ελλάδα
title: Trip planner application for tourists in Greece based on each user profile
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Αργυρός, Αλέξανδρος
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2024
Subjects: Συστήματα προτάσεων
Γενετικός αλγόριθμος

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία αναλύει και υλοποιεί ένα σύστημα προτάσεων με στόχο τη βελτίωση της εμπειρίας των τουριστών στην Ελλάδα. Εστιάζοντας στη δημιουργία εξατομικευμένων προφίλ για κάθε χρήστη, το σύστημα προτάσεων αναλύει τις προτιμήσεις και τα ενδιαφέροντα του κάθε τουρίστα, παρέχοντας σχεδιασμένα πλάνα δραστηριοτήτων. Με τη χρήση γενετικού αλγορίθμου, η εφαρμογή παρέχει προτάσεις που προσαρμόζονται δυναμικά στις ατομικές προτιμήσεις του κάθε χρήστη. Αναλύοντας τις χώρες που έχει επισκεφθεί στο παρελθόν αλλά και τις προτιμήσεις του για το επόμενο του ταξίδι στην Αθήνα, το σύστημα προτάσεων δημιουργεί εξατομικευμένα πλάνα που προάγουν την ανακάλυψη νέων και ενδιαφέροντων δραστηριοτήτων. Η εφαρμογή αναδεικνύει τη σημασία της τεχνολογίας στη βελτίωση της τουριστικής εμπειρίας, παρέχοντας ένα προηγμένο εργαλείο που ενισχύει τη σχεδίαση προσαρμοσμένων προγραμμάτων για τους επισκέπτες στην Αθήνα.
On the fate of deep eutectic solvents after their use as reaction media: the CO2 production during downstream and ultimate disposal
Creators: name: Domínguez De María, Pablo
name: Kara, Selin
Publisher: name: [Cambridge] : Royal Society of Chemistry
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::540 | Chemie
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::330 | Wirtschaft::333 | Boden- und Energiewirtschaft::333,7 | Natürliche Ressourcen, Energie und Umwelt

description: Deep Eutectic Solvents (DES) have emerged as an alternative for many applications in different chemical sectors (to be used during the upstream and downstream processing, or as performance additives). While traditionally coined as green solvents, the petrochemical and energy-demanding origin of some DES components, together with some reported toxicological data, have been often overlooked. This perspective discusses the possible fate of DES once they have been used as synthetic reaction media, particularly related to the downstream unit to recover the product from the reaction mixture, and to the final DES disposal. The Total Carbon Dioxide Release (TCR) (measured as kg CO2 per kg product) is used to compare different options. After a downstream processing to recover the product often involving an organic solvent which will be incinerated (producing CO2), the used DES media can either be incinerated or diluted to some degree to be divested to a Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP). A mild wastewater treatment - involving state-of-the-art microbial processing steps, appears more promising than the incineration option, both in terms of CO2 production, as well as to avoid the potential formation of halide compounds (e.g. from chloride) during the incineration. However, to reach the WWTP, a key factor is the dilution degree of the DES, and the biodegradability that DES (components) may display by wastewater microorganisms. At a range of 1 : 20 dilution, a production of ∼16 kg CO2 per kg product may be expected in the WWTP, for a synthesis in DES containing 100 g substrate loading per L. Research is urgently needed to assess whether the treatment of DES as diluted wastewater may be a sustainable (and economic) solution for the DES fate.
Foucault, feminism, shame, and the dynamics of discourse: theorising entrepreneurship on the borders of established convention
Creators: name: Jones, Robert
name: Latham, James
name: Betta, Michela
name: Goss, David
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper employs the micro-sociological theories of pride, shame, and deference, together with Foucauldian concept of discourse, and feminist theory to theorise the process of entrepreneurship as occurring at the boundary of established convention. By employing two examples of female entrepreneurs operating in a cultural environment normally regarded as antagonistic to female endeavour we show how power relations can be re-negotiated through a process of discourse revision and rewriting which allows the construction of activities that significantly challenge the status quo. We argue that entrepreneurialism as a process is associated with the rediscoursing dynamics that occur in sites where power struggles are played out at the boundary between dominant and alternative discourses.
The challenges and dilemmas embedded in the expatriate vote: the case study of Italians overseas
Creators: name: Battiston, Simone
name: Mascitelli, Bruno
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Italian expatriate vote provides an excellent test case for studying one country's implementation of full voting rights and parliamentary representation to expatriates living abroad. This paper seeks to highlight the challenges and dilemmas embedded in the Italian expatriate vote, which regards the overseas electorate realtionship with homeland politics. Over the last few years, the Italian expatriate vote has been facing procedural, normative and political issues. What may have been initially seen as a democratic right may well be cast aside in the near future.