cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Service life prediction of bridges subjected to corrosion using time-dependent reliability method
Creators: name: Li, Le
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 400505
subject: Construction materials
classificationCode: 400510
subject: Structural engineering
classificationCode: 400599
subject: Civil engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Bridges are key infrastructures that play an important role in transport systems, but the deterioration of this infrastructure has become a worldwide issue. This deterioration affects the capacity of a bridge structure and reduces its remaining life. It is, therefore, vital to study the corrosion effect on bridges and carry out service life prediction of bridges subjected to corrosion to avoid corrosion-induced failures and develop cost-efficient methods for the maintenance and rehabilitation of bridges.

The research aimed to develop a new method to predict the service life of a bridge subjected to corrosion. The first-passage probability theory was used to determine the time-dependent probability of bridge failure under different failure criterion and, subsequently, the service life of the bridge. To obtain accurate input information, simulated corrosion tests were conducted to determine the corrosion behaviour of steel with and without stress. Mechanical tests were undertaken to determine the degradation effect of corrosion on mechanical properties (yield strength, ultimate strength, failure strain and fatigue strength limitation) with and without stress. Hydrogen concentration measurement and microstructural analysis were conducted to determine the mechanism of corrosion-induced degradation of mechanical properties of steel with and without stress. Results of lab tests were correlated to natural corrosion through site inspection. Based on the results collected from corrosion tests and site inspection, bridge geometry and mechanical properties of bridge steel were modelled as time-dependent variables when carrying out time-dependent reliability analysis.

It was concluded that corrosion can lead to the reduction of ultimate strength and failure strain of steel. Corrosion can also cause delamination due to intrinsic differences in the microstructure across the thickness of steel plates. Additionally, the levels of reduction of mechanical properties and propagation of delamination are higher for stressed steel than for non-stressed steel at the same degree of corrosion. Also, due to the effect of corrosion, the stress range (S) magnitude for corroded steel is smaller than that for un-corroded steel at the same number of load cycles (N) to failure in the S-N curve. The research also indicated the degradation of mechanical properties is caused by corrosion- and hydrogen-induced changes in microstructural features. It was found, through reliability analysis, that fatigue failure is the most critical failure criterion and that not considering the effect of corrosion on mechanical properties leads to overestimation of the service life of bridges.
Improving security and efficiency of mix-based anonymous communication systems
Creators: name: Madani, Shaahin
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: The communication layer leaks important private information even in the presence of encryption, which makes anonymous communication a fundamental element of systems that protect the privacy of users. Traffic mixers have long been used to achieve communication anonymity, but the security challenges and the resulted inefficiencies hinder the path to a wide adoption of these systems. In this thesis, we take a step towards improving the security of traffic mixers and building a platform for efficient anonymous communication.

We begin by revisiting Binomial Mix, which is one of the most effective designs for traffic mixing proposed to date, and the one that introduced randomness to the behaviour of traffic mixers. When thoroughly examined in different traffic conditions, Binomial Mix proved to be significantly more resilient against attacks than previously believed.

We then build on the design of Binomial Mix and propose two new designs for traffic mixers. The first design, Multi-Binomial Shared-Pool Mix (MBSP Mix), employs multiple sources of randomness which results in a behaviour less predictable by the attacker and thus provides a higher degree of anonymity. The second design, Multi-Binomial Independent-Pool Mix (MBIP Mix), enables a single traffic mixer to anonymise multiple communication channels with potentially differing latencies. This additional property significantly improves the security and efficiency of the mix.

Moving beyond the design of traffic mixers in isolation, we propose the architecture and details of a generic framework for anonymous communication. The proposed framework consists of various parts designed to enable the integration of various Anonymous Communication Systems as plug-in components into a shared and unified system. In addition to achieving a larger user-base and enjoying its associated security benefits, this approach enables the reusability of components across multiple communication systems.

Finally, we also present techniques to make the circuit establishment facility of the framework resistant towards Denial-of-Service attacks. We believe that our work is one step towards building a fully developed generic framework for anonymous communication and our results can inspire and be used for the design of a robust generic framework.
title: Violence in Place: Reading Violence through Kincentric Ecology
Creators: name: Kearney, Amanda
Publisher: name: Institute for Interdisciplinary Conflict and Violence Research, Bielefeld University
Year: 2018
Subjects: violence, place, kincentric ecology, Indigenous knowledge, human responsibility, plurality

description: This article explores violence in place, with the intent to more broadly configure the notion of violence within sociological and anthropological discourse. So too it strives to expand the field of inquiry into the effects of human-induced violence on the place world, as made up of homelands, villages, communities, and ancestral realms. Throughout the discussion links are drawn between three particular forms of violence and their harmful effects on place: the physical destruction of place, the de-signification and social disordering of place identity and character, and elemental decay as ecological decline and toxicity in place. I argue that particular epistemic habits and dispositions allow for such violence to be carried out, in the pursuit of power, authority, land, and resources. Furthermore, other epistemic habits and dispositions, namely those provided for by Indigenous epistemologies, might present pathways out from unmitigated violence and towards practices of refrain and axiological return. I propose that this is achievable through a return to kincentricity, as expressed through human responsibility over rights, and recognition of place agency and sentiency as expressed through local empiricism.
description: International Journal of Conflict and Violence (IJCV), Vol 12 (2018)
Additional file 1 of Gender differences in the association between changes in the atherogenic index of plasma and cardiometabolic diseases: a cohort study
Creators: name: Huang, Xingjie
name: Wen, Song
name: Huang, Yuqing
name: Huang, Zehan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Table s1. Comparison of Missing Values and Complete Dataset Baseline Characteristics. Continuous variables are expressed as mean ± standard deviation or interquartile range, and categorical variables are expressed as frequencies (n) and percentages (%). Abbreviations: BMI = Body Mass Index, TC = Total Cholesterol, TG = Triglyceride, LDL-C = Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol, HDL-C = High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol, UA = Uric Acid, GLU = Glucose, Cr = Creatinine, BUN = Bilirubin, HbA1c = Hemoglobin A1c, CRP = C-Reactive Protein, SBP = Systolic Blood Pressure, DBP = Diastolic Blood Pressure, AIP = Atherogenic Index of Plasma. Table s2a. Associations between Cumulative AIP and CMD after PSM and removal of variables with missing values. Results are presented as Odds Ratios (OR) with 95% Confidence Intervals (CI). Abbreviations as in Table 2. Table s2b. Associations between Changes in AIP and CMD after PSM and removal of variables with missing values. Results are presented as Odds Ratios (OR) with 95% Confidence Intervals (CI). Abbreviations as in Table 2. Table s3a. Associations Between Cumulative AIP and CMD Incidence After  Removing Outliers and Multiple Imputation. Results are presented as Odds Ratios (OR) with 95% Confidence Intervals (CI). Table s3b: Associations Between Changes in AIP and CMD Incidence After Removing Outliers and Multiple Imputation. Results are presented as Odds Ratios (OR) with 95% Confidence Intervals (CI). Abbreviations as in Table 2.
sj-docx-1-jet-10.1177_15266028231219988 – Supplemental material for Ultrasound Particle Image Velocimetry to Investigate Potential Hemodynamic Causes of Limb Thrombosis After Endovascular Aneurysm Repair With the Anaconda Device
Creators: name: Mirgolbabaee, Hadi
name: van de Velde, Lennart
name: Geelkerken, Robert H.
name: Versluis, Michel
name: Groot Jebbink, Erik
name: Reijnen, Michel M. P. J.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Cardiology
Medicine
Surgery

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-jet-10.1177_15266028231219988 for Ultrasound Particle Image Velocimetry to Investigate Potential Hemodynamic Causes of Limb Thrombosis After Endovascular Aneurysm Repair With the Anaconda Device by Hadi Mirgolbabaee, Lennart van de Velde, Robert H. Geelkerken, Michel Versluis, Erik Groot Jebbink and Michel M. P. J. Reijnen in Journal of Endovascular Therapy
Additional file 1 of The role of healthcare providers and caregivers in monitoring critically ill children: a qualitative study in a tertiary hospital, southern Malawi
Creators: name: Mwale, Daniel
name: Manda-Taylor, Lucinda
name: Langton, Josephine
name: Likumbo, Alice
name: van Hensbroek, Michael Boele
name: Calis, Job
name: Janssens, Wendy
name: Pell, Christopher
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Hard ass: representation, diaspora and globalisation in kuduro
Creators: name: Sheridan, Garth
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: In recent years a range of new music genres have developed in the global South that fuse regional elements with electronic dance music, creating new hybrid forms. Scholars including Hernandez, Madrid and Marshall have discussed the significance genres such as cumbia, nortek and reggaeton. However, little attention within ethnomusicology and popular music studies has been paid to kuduro, a genre that developed during the Angola during the 1990s that subsequently became popular in diaspora communities and beyond.

This practice-based PhD consists of a series of musical works and an dissertation. The exegesis provides a framework through which to understand the musical works and contributes to discourses on kuduro and electronic music. The music consists of four solo and five collaborative pieces. The music presented is the culmination of iterative processes of conceptualisation, recording, sampling, composing, performing, mixing and mastering. I utilise fragments of kuduro to compose original hybrid works that incorporate elements of other genres and my personal musical vocabulary. In creating the music, I undertook to develop an understanding of the historical, cultural and political contexts in which kuduro has emerged and how processes of globalisation have affected the music and accompanying social practices.

Building on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Angola and Portugal, this dissertation contributes to understanding of the role of cultural and economic processes of globalisation in the development, production and dissemination of kuduro. Specifically, kuduro is framed as a syncretic product, created from fragments of music from North American, Caribbean and African music. I argue that the kuduro became an important platform for the redefinition of Angolan identity and cultural politics in the later stages of the civil war. I show that Angolan communities in Lisbon have been central to the genre’s dissemination internationally. Through discussion of musical examples, I illustrate the significance of further hybridisation of the genre outside of Angola. I argue that for many practitioners, in both Angola and Portugal, kuduro articulates a response to a globalised post-colonial world.

 This dissertation also contributes to scholarship relating to the technologies and aesthetics of electronic music production. I utilise interviews and observation of studio and performance practices to discuss shifts within the genre and examine musical examples to demonstrate the changing sound of kuduro. I argue that the increased availability of digital musical technologies in Angola shaped the development of kuduro through the 1990s and into the 2000s. Furthermore, I argue that producers and performers have developed a range of aesthetic and performative practices that reflect material, technological and social restraints common to life in contemporary Angola and Portugal.
Spectral classification features of some Australian soils
Creators: name: Barnett, Katharina
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 340101
subject: Analytical spectrometry
classificationCode: 410604
subject: Soil chemistry and soil carbon sequestration (excl. carbon sequestration science)

description: In this thesis, Victorian soil samples were investigated to determine type of soil and light and heavy metal contents. The use of elemental concentrations determined by x-ray fluorescence and use of PLS regression were successful to classify types of soil according to the Australian soil triangle. The goodness of fit for sand and clay (R2=0.9 for both) is much higher than previous studies. Soil total and organic carbon were determined using the Dumas method of commercial samples as standards to examine the reliability of loss on ignition and infrared analysis. Characteristic spectral peaks can be used in carbon determination, the alkyl C-H peaks at 2850cm-1 and 2900cm-1 as well as the carbonate peaks at 2500cm-1 and 1450cm-1. Using partial least squares analysis results in good predication of carbon values validated using externally obtained commercial values, using only 3 latent variables. MIR analysis was used to predict major and minor inorganic constituents using concentrations determined by x-ray fluorescence as validation. Determination of S in soil samples using MIR analysis was successful and not previously achieved. Results for minor constituents show it is possible to use DRIFT complemented with PLS to construct multivariate prediction models for certain elements, such as Al (R2=0.94) and Mg (R2=0.87). Results indicate that XRF along with partial least squares regression analysis is an alternative method of determining soil textural classes and negates the need for mechanical analysis. DRIFT complemented with PLS analysis is a viable way of determining soil nutrient concentrations.
Additional file 2 of The role of healthcare providers and caregivers in monitoring critically ill children: a qualitative study in a tertiary hospital, southern Malawi
Creators: name: Mwale, Daniel
name: Manda-Taylor, Lucinda
name: Langton, Josephine
name: Likumbo, Alice
name: van Hensbroek, Michael Boele
name: Calis, Job
name: Janssens, Wendy
name: Pell, Christopher
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 2.
sj-docx-1-eso-10.1177_23969873231220508 – Supplemental material for Detection of microemboli in patients with acute ischaemic stroke and atrial fibrillation suggests poor functional outcome
Creators: name: Castro, Pedro
name: Ferreira, J
name: Malojcic, Branko
name: Bazadona, Danira
name: Baracchini, Claudio
name: Pieroni, Alessio
name: Skoloudik, David
name: Azevedo, Elsa
name: Kaps, Manfred
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: Medicine
subject: Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-eso-10.1177_23969873231220508 for Detection of microemboli in patients with acute ischaemic stroke and atrial fibrillation suggests poor functional outcome by Pedro Castro, J Ferreira, Branko Malojcic, Danira Bazadona, Claudio Baracchini, Alessio Pieroni, David Skoloudik, Elsa Azevedo and Manfred Kaps in European Stroke Journal
Bubble wall velocities in the Standard Model and beyond
Creators: name: Dorsch, Glauber C.
name: Huber, Stephan J.
name: Konstandin, Thomas
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2018

description: We present results for the bubble wall velocity and bubble wall thickness during a cosmological first-order phase transition in a condensed form. Our results are for minimal extensions of the Standard Model but in principle are applicable to a much broader class of settings. Our first assumption about the model is that only the electroweak Higgs is obtaining a vacuum expectation value during the phase transition. The second is that most of the friction is produced by electroweak gauge bosons and top quarks. Under these assumptions the bubble wall velocity and thickness can be deduced as a function of two equilibrium properties of the plasma: the strength of the phase transition and the pressure difference along the bubble wall.
Preventive care study: a resource orchestration view
Creators: name: Mohd Fadhil, Noor Fadzlina
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 350303
subject: Business information systems

description: Preventive care is identified as one of the most effective strategies to reduce the risk of chronic disease and healthcare spending. Chronic diseases are increasingly burdening developing countries, especially in Malaysia where the problem of rising healthcare costs and decreasing quality of care has intensified the situation. However, preventive care strategies have been poorly implemented and the growing impact of chronic diseases in developing countries remains challenging. A health information system is often cited as having the potential to contribute to chronic disease prevention and improved quality of care. However, research shows that most instances of ineffective preventive care is due to underutilisation, inadequacy and inappropriate use of resources. To further research this area, I adopted the structured-pragmatic-situational case study approach to examine how a hospital integrates resources that lead to information system competencies and information system capabilities in preventive care performance in a unique hospital in Malaysia. Within the context of resource-based theory, I utilised the concepts of resource orchestration and the chain of effect model as the main theoretical lenses through which I addressed the question. This research contributes to both theoretical research on resource development in healthcare and the resource-based theory. The main contribution of this research is the framework of information system competencies and information system capability development for hospital preventive care performance, which holistically incorporates the two types of resource bundling processes and the leveraging process that connects information system resources to preventive care performance. The research also provides lessons about managing limited preventive care resources for the targeted audiences of public hospitals in Malaysia, and hospital management that is currently providing, and going to implement, preventive care.
An integrative dynamical perspective for graph theory and the study of complex networks
Creators: name: Zamora-López, Gorka
name: Gilson, Matthieu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Built upon the shoulders of graph theory, the field of complex networks has become a central tool for studying real systems across various fields of research. Represented as graphs, different systems can be studied using the same analysis methods, which allows for their comparison. Here, we challenge the wide-spread idea that graph theory is a universal analysis tool, uniformly applicable to any kind of network data. Instead, we show that many classical graph metrics (including degree, clustering coefficient and geodesic distance) arise from a common hidden propagation model: the discrete cascade. From this perspective, graph metrics are no longer regarded as combinatorial measures of the graph, but as spatio-temporal properties of the network dynamics unfolded at different temporal scales. Once graph theory is seen as a model-based (and not a purely data-driven) analysis tool, we can freely or intentionally replace the discrete cascade by other canonical propagation models and define new network metrics. This opens the opportunity to design, explicitly and transparently, dedicated analyses for different types of real networks by choosing a propagation model that matches their individual constraints. In this way, we take stand that network topology cannot always be abstracted independently from network dynamics, but shall be jointly studied. Which is key for the interpretability of the analyses. The model-based perspective here proposed serves to integrate into a common context both the classical graph analysis and the more recent network metrics defined in the literature which were, directly or indirectly, inspired by propagation phenomena on networks.
description: 23 pages, 6 figures. Perspective article
Additional file 3 of The role of healthcare providers and caregivers in monitoring critically ill children: a qualitative study in a tertiary hospital, southern Malawi
Creators: name: Mwale, Daniel
name: Manda-Taylor, Lucinda
name: Langton, Josephine
name: Likumbo, Alice
name: van Hensbroek, Michael Boele
name: Calis, Job
name: Janssens, Wendy
name: Pell, Christopher
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 3.
Nearness and distance: exploring the notion of indifference through the lens of Middle-Eastern traditional arts
Creators: name: Meysami, Mohsen
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360602
subject: Fine arts

description: Nearness and Distance: Exploring the Notion of Indifference Through the Lens of Middle Eastern Traditional Arts is a practice-led research project that investigates and explores the notion of indifference, specifically a perceived growing global indifference towards the suffering of people dealing with issues related to and ramifications of recent wars and conflicts in the Middle East. The issue of indifference needs to be understood as a social phenomenon, embodied in complex social and psychological factors that influence individuals' helping behaviours. Considering the political climate in which wars are waged and the information about them is broadcast, this project also investigates the impact of political dynamics on conditioning people's responses to the plight of the war-affected in the Middle East.

Through studio explorations, this project examines how Middle Eastern traditional arts could be used for making new artworks that address the complex issues of wars and the suffering they inflict on people's lives. Informed by practical and theoretical explorations, I will argue that the misrepresentation of the Middle East and its people as violent and barbaric can be considered as a notable reason for the perceived global indifference to the outcome of wars and conflicts in this region. Opposing this misrepresentation, this project investigates the use of an alternative style of representation that does not reproduce negative perceptions of Middle Eastern people. Employing an alternative style of imagery drawing on the elegance and intricacy of Middle Eastern traditional arts, I hope to create new artworks that could go beyond the conventional representations of the wars and conflicts in the region which often portray violence involved in war explicitly and focus on the immediate, though significant, consequences of war, such as death and bloodshed. Instead, I endeavour to create artworks which offer insight into the longer-term and broader ramifications of war beyond the battlefield along with global indifference with which these ramifications are approached.

As indifference involves a lack of attention to, or looking away from, the suffering of others, the challenging task in this project was to discover a way of depicting suffering and not-seeing the suffering simultaneously. Through new artworks this project incorporates elements such as colourful materials and abstract patterns into repetitive patterns that speak of suffering to reveal distinct solutions for addressing the binary notions of suffering and indifference.
A Non-Lte Model Atmosphere Analysis Of Hot, Hydrogen-Deficient White Dwarfs
Creators: name: Bédard, Antoine
name: Bergeron, Pierre
name: Fontaine, Gilles
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: White dwarf stars of spectral type DO populate the hot end of the hydrogen-deficient white dwarf cooling sequence. They are characterized by a helium-rich atmosphere, a high effective temperature (Teff > 40,000 K) and a high surface gravity (log g > 7), and thus their spectrum is dominated by broad He II absorption features. Their hydrogen deficiency is thought to result from a so-called born-again evolution, during which a post-AGB star undergoes a late helium-shell flash, bringing the star back to the AGB and causing the remaining hydrogen to be burned or completely mixed in the envelope. In order to further our understanding of hydrogen-deficient white dwarf evolution, we perform a model atmosphere analysis of a large sample of DO stars. Atmospheric parameters are derived by comparing optical spectra to our new grid of non-LTE model atmospheres and synthetic spectra. We also make use of evolutionary sequences to obtain stellar masses and cooling ages. Based on these results, we discuss the physical properties of DO white dwarfs.
title: Ressourceneffiziente Modellierungsstrategie zur Generierung von Dachflächen für 3D-Stadtmodelle
Creators: name: Sam, Christian
Year: 2009

description: Heutzutage herrscht von Seiten verschiedener Nutzergruppen eine große Nachfrage an raumbezogenen Daten, im speziellen gilt dies für dicht besiedelte Räume. Die Datenlieferanten sind dabei, abhängig von der Art des urbanen geographischen Phänomens, mit unterschiedlich komplexen Vorgängen der Datenerstellung konfrontiert. Als besonders aufwändig gelten in dieser Hinsicht Methoden zur Abbildung von Gebäuden, genauer deren Dachflächen. Dabei gilt, je akkurater das Modell der Dachlandschaft ausfallen soll, umso größer müssen die bereitgestellten Ressourcen für den Erzeugungsprozess ausfallen. Die vorliegende Arbeit nimmt sich der Erstellung von Dachflächen für Gebäude eines 3D-Stadtmodelles an und beantwortet die Frage wo die Grenzen der Modellierung von Dachlandschaften, bei Einsatz minimaler Mittel zu ziehen sind. Im Theorieteil werden dazu alle wichtigen Grundlagen und die einzelnen Arbeitsschritte der Erstellung erläutert, darauf aufbauend erfolgt eine Vorstellung unterschiedlicher Verfahren der Dachflächenmodellierung. Abschließend werden für ausgewählte Untersuchungsgebiete die, an Erstellungsverfahren gerichteten, Mindestanforderungen aufgestellt. Im praktischen Teil erfolgt eine Umsetzung dieses Anforderungsprofiles in Form eines eigenen Verfahrens, mit dem anschließend auch ein Dachflächenmodell der Untersuchungsgebiete erzeugt wird. Die Gegenüberstellung der modellierten Dachlandschaft mit Schrägluftbildern der entsprechenden Gebiete bestätigt die aus der Theorie bekannten Mängel, zeigt aber auch bisher noch unadressierte Beschränkungen auf.
Additional file 4 of The role of healthcare providers and caregivers in monitoring critically ill children: a qualitative study in a tertiary hospital, southern Malawi
Creators: name: Mwale, Daniel
name: Manda-Taylor, Lucinda
name: Langton, Josephine
name: Likumbo, Alice
name: van Hensbroek, Michael Boele
name: Calis, Job
name: Janssens, Wendy
name: Pell, Christopher
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 4.
Implications of some mass-capacity inequalities
Creators: name: Miao, Pengzi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Applying a family of mass-capacity related inequalities proved in \cite{M22}, we obtain sufficient conditions that imply the nonnegativity as well as positive lower bounds of the mass, on a class of manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature, with or without a singularity.
description: improved exposition, 14 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the Journal of Geometric Analysis
Additional file 5 of The role of healthcare providers and caregivers in monitoring critically ill children: a qualitative study in a tertiary hospital, southern Malawi
Creators: name: Mwale, Daniel
name: Manda-Taylor, Lucinda
name: Langton, Josephine
name: Likumbo, Alice
name: van Hensbroek, Michael Boele
name: Calis, Job
name: Janssens, Wendy
name: Pell, Christopher
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 5.
sj-docx-1-sms-10.1177_20563051231181099 – Supplemental material for The Internet’s Town Square? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Parler’s “Past Imaginary”
Creators: name: Cowls, Josh
name: Ma, Cindy
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-sms-10.1177_20563051231181099 for The Internet’s Town Square? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Parler’s “Past Imaginary” by Josh Cowls and Cindy Ma in Social Media + Society
Reading between the rational sections: Global structures of 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ KK theories
Creators: name: Closset, Cyril
name: Magureanu, Horia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study how the global structure of rank-one 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric field theories is encoded into global aspects of the Seiberg-Witten elliptic fibration. Starting with the prototypical example of the $\mathfrak{su}(2)$ gauge theory, we distinguish between relative and absolute Seiberg-Witten curves. For instance, we discuss in detail the three distinct absolute curves for the $SU(2)$ and $SO(3)_\pm$ 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ gauge theories. We propose that the $1$-form symmetry of an absolute theory is isomorphic to a torsion subgroup of the Mordell-Weil group of sections of the absolute curve, while the full defect group of the theory is encoded in the torsion sections of a so-called relative curve. We explicitly show that the relative and absolute curves are related by isogenies (that is, homomorphisms of elliptic curves) generated by torsion sections -- hence, gauging a one-form symmetry corresponds to composing isogenies between Seiberg-Witten curves. We apply this approach to Kaluza-Klein (KK) 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories that arise from toroidal compactifications of 5d and 6d SCFTs to four dimensions, uncovering an intricate pattern of 4d global structures obtained by gauging discrete $0$-form and/or $1$-form symmetries. Incidentally, we propose a 6d BPS quiver for the 6d M-string theory on $\mathbb{R}^4\times T^2$.
description: 62 pages plus appendix; v2: added section 2.3 on non-invertible symmetry in the SO(3) theory, fixed typos and references; v3: minor rewriting of appendix A.5
sj-doc-5-ems-10.1177_14690667231179565 - Supplemental material for Dynamic changes of serum metabolite profiling in septic mice based on high performance liquid chromatography of quadrupole time of flight mass spectrometry analysis
Creators: name: Li, Shutong
name: Zeng, Qi
name: Li, Shentang
name: Liu, Yarong
name: Feng, Yang
name: Chen, Fang
name: Zou, Lianhong
name: Liu, Xiehong
name: Liu, Yanjuan
name: Jiang, Yu
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-doc-5-ems-10.1177_14690667231179565 for Dynamic changes of serum metabolite profiling in septic mice based on high performance liquid chromatography of quadrupole time of flight mass spectrometry analysis by Shutong Li, Qi Zeng, Shentang Li, Yarong Liu, Yang Feng, Fang Chen, Lianhong Zou, Xiehong Liu, Yanjuan Liu and Yu Jiang in European Journal of Mass Spectrometry
Conducting space: an analysis-based approach to spatial sound design in contemporary chamber music performance
Creators: name: Hewes, Michael
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Contemporary chamber music performance practice is often a hybrid that has evolved from the merging of acoustic instrumental performance practice and spatialized, loudspeaker-based acousmatic performance practice. As this hybrid practice continues to evolve, the development of interpretation strategies for performed spatialization based on score analysis can facilitate spatialization design that will clarify the articulation of complex musical structures. This study outlines the development of a spatial performance practice from the perspective of sound designer and audio engineer with the ELISION Ensemble. A framework for the development of this practice is presented through the consideration of a personal perspective on the role of spatiality in the communication of sonic information, examined in the light of published research in auditory communication and both instrumental and acousmatic music performance practice.
Physics-Based Rigid Body Object Tracking and Friction Filtering From RGB-D Videos
Creators: name: Kandukuri, Rama Krishna
name: Strecke, Michael
name: Stueckler, Joerg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Physics-based understanding of object interactions from sensory observations is an essential capability in augmented reality and robotics. It enables to capture the properties of a scene for simulation and control. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for real-to-sim which tracks rigid objects in 3D from RGB-D images and infers physical properties of the objects. We use a differentiable physics simulation as state-transition model in an Extended Kalman Filter which can model contact and friction for arbitrary mesh-based shapes and in this way estimate physically plausible trajectories. We demonstrate that our approach can filter position, orientation, velocities, and concurrently can estimate the coefficient of friction of the objects. We analyze our approach on various sliding scenarios in synthetic image sequences of single objects and colliding objects. We also demonstrate and evaluate our approach on a real-world dataset. We make our novel benchmark datasets publicly available to foster future research in this novel problem setting and comparison with our method.
description: 33 pages, 35 figures, accepted for publication at 3DV 2024, includes supplementary material of the conference submission
Accelerating the laser-induced phase transition in nanostructured FeRh via plasmonic absorption
Creators: name: Mattern, Maximilian
name: Pudell, Jan-Etienne
name: Arregi, Jon Ander
name: Zlámal, Jakub
name: Kalousek, Radek
name: Uhlíř, Vojtěch
name: Rössle, Matthias
name: Bargheer, Matias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By ultrafast x-ray diffraction we show that the laser-induced magnetostructural phase transition in FeRh nanoislands proceeds faster and more complete than in continuous films. We observe an intrinsic 8 ps timescale for nucleation of ferromagnetic (FM) domains in both types of samples. For the continuous film, the substrate-near regions, which are not directly exposed to light, are only slowly transformed to the FM state by domain wall motion following heat transport. In contrast, numerical modeling of the plasmonic absorption in the investigated nanostructure reveals a strong contribution near the FeRh/MgO interface. On average, the absorption is larger and more homogeneous in the nanoislands, enabling the phase transition throughout the entire volume at the intrinsic nucleation timescale.
An analysis of the potential human health and ecological risks associated with wet weather sewer overflows discharging into an urban freshwater stream
Creators: name: Goulding, Rebecca
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Overflows from sanitary sewers during wet weather, which occur when the hydraulic capacity of the sewer system is exceeded, are considered a potential threat to the ecological and public health of the waterways which receive these overflows. As a result, water retailers in Australia and internationally commit significant resources in order to manage and abate sewer overflows. However, whilst some studies have contributed to an increased understanding of the impacts and risks associated with these events, they are relatively few in number and there still is a general lack of knowledge in this area.

City West Water (CWW), a water retailer in Melbourne, in conjunction with RMIT University commissioned the present research to discover the level of human health and ecological risk associated with wet weather sewer overflows discharging to waterways. The research aimed to provide this information in a manner which enhances responsible authorities’ decision-making processes with regard to the management of these overflows.

To assess the level of risk a tiered risk assessment approach was adopted involving an initial screening of contaminants based on a conservative estimate of risk. Of all the pollutants considered in the risk screening phase only microbiological contaminants were identified as posing a high risk from wet weather sewer overflow. Therefore, a Bayesian network (BN) model was developed to undertake a more rigorous assessment of the public health risk caused by microbiological contaminants.

BN risk outcomes based on the current conditions at the study site showed that the public health risk to important waterway values of the waterway following sewer overflow are predominantly medium to low. Probabilistic inference showed ‘hotspot’ sites are indicated where there is a high probability of frequent wet weather sewer overflow, waterway use and high levels of microbiological contaminants in the waterway. Probabilistic inference also showed that treatment of sewer overflow reduced the risk most to many waterway values as opposed to sewer augmentation and restricting waterway use. Overall, management options to reduce risks at 'hotspot' sites were shown to be more effective than for the study site.

The BN developed in this research can be used to represent other sites or situations, and in particular to identify priority sites for attention, thus aiding decision-making in relation to the management of wet weather sewer overflows. Furthermore, the BN will be useful to water retail companies and other responsible authorities in prioritising management options to minimise public health risks from sewer overflow.
sj-pdf-3-lan-10.1177_00236772231171191 - Supplemental material for Nest-building in breeding mice: Impact of macro- and micro-environment
Creators: name: Cintra, Luciana
name: Alexandre-Ribeiro, Sandra Regina
name: Teixeira, Julia Trindade Xavier
name: Megid, Michel Mancinelli
name: Coucolis, Thiago Vieira
name: Zanatto, Dennis Albert
name: Leal, Victoria Nathaly
name: Massironi, Silvia Maria Gomes
name: Mori, Claudia Madalena Cabrera
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: Veterinary Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-3-lan-10.1177_00236772231171191 for Nest-building in breeding mice: Impact of macro- and micro-environment by Luciana Cintra, Sandra Regina Alexandre-Ribeiro, Julia Trindade Xavier Teixeira, Michel Mancinelli Megid, Thiago Vieira Coucolis, Dennis Albert Zanatto, Victoria Nathaly Leal, Silvia Maria Gomes Massironi and Claudia Madalena Cabrera Mori in Laboratory Animals
title: Einfluss des Erntezeitpunkts auf die Qualität von griechischem Olivenöl und die Bedeutung der Subventionen der Europäischen Union für die griechischen Olivenölproduzenten
Creators: name: Helmich, Katharina
Year: 2010

description: Das Ziel dieser Arbeit war es zu überprüfen, ob der Erntezeitpunkt von Oliven einen Einfluss auf Haltbarkeit und spezifische Inhaltsstoffe des daraus erzeugten Olivenöls ausübt und von welcher Bedeutung Subventionen der Europäischen Union für griechische Olivenölproduzenten sind. Zu diesem Zweck wurden insgesamt zwölf extra native Olivenöle aus Griechenland analysiert, welche aufgrund ihrer Erzeugung in drei Erntezeitpunkte - November 2008, Dezember 2008 und Jänner 2009 - eingeteilt wurden. Zu Beginn der Studie wurden die Ölproben im Rahmen von Ausgangsbestimmungen auf die Parameter Peroxidzahl, Säurezahl, konjugierte Diene und alpha-Tocopherol getestet. Des Weiteren wurde eine Quantitative Deskriptive Analyse durchgeführt, um die sensorischen Eigenschaften der Öle zu bestimmen. Im Anschluss wurden die Proben bei Dunkelheit und 40°C für eine Dauer von elf Wochen gelagert, um durch wöchentliche Messungen, den Entwicklungsverlauf der Lipidperoxidation zu beobachten. Die Ergebnisse dieser Arbeit zeigen im Lagerversuch der Olivenöle bei allen Proben einen Anstieg der Peroxidzahl und der konjugierten Diene, sowie eine Senkung der Säurezahl und alpha-Tocopherol. Es konnten jedoch keine großen Unterschiede zwischen den Erntezeitpunkten, im Verlauf der Lagerung, beobachtet werden. Weiters wurde festgestellt, dass kein perfekter Erntezeitpunkt formulieret werden kann, zu welchem nur positive Eigenschaften der Öle existieren. Demnach wies ein früher Erntezeitpunkt (November) die höchsten Werte an alpha-Tocopherol und die höchste Ausprägung an Olivenflavour auf, jedoch waren hier auch, im Vergleich mit dem späten Erntezeitpunkt (Jänner), die Peroxidzahl, konjugierte Diene und Säurezahl am höchsten. Hingegen wurden aber beim Erntezeitpunkt Jänner auch starke Ausprägungen negativer sensorischer Eigenschaften festgestellt. Vermutlich kann man aber aufgrund dessen, den in der Mitte liegenden Erntezeitpunkt – Dezember – als jenen mit der größten Ausgewogenheit der positiven und negativen Eigenschaften bezeichnen. Zudem konnte durch Befragung elf griechischer Olivenölproduzenten, eine große Bedeutung der Subventionen der Europäischen Union für die Finanzierung der Olivenölproduktion, festgestellt werden. Doch auch ohne Subventionen wäre laut Angaben der Befragten, die Erzeugung eines hoch qualitativen Olivenöls möglich.
Additional file 1 of An improved expression and purification protocol enables the structural characterization of Mnt1, an antifungal target from Candida albicans
Creators: name: Silva, Patrícia Alves
name: Souza, Amanda Araújo
name: de Oliveira, Gideane Mendes
name: Ramada, Marcelo Henrique Soller
name: Hernández, Nahúm Valente
name: Mora-Montes, Héctor Manuel
name: Bueno, Renata Vieira
name: Martins-de-Sa, Diogo
name: de Freitas, Sonia Maria
name: Felipe, Maria Sueli Soares
name: Barbosa, João Alexandre Ribeiro Gonçalves
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1
Smart Cities
Creators: name: Shanapinda, S
Publisher: name: UNSW Sydney
Year: 2017

description: Telecommunications metadata possess immense potential for societal good. Telecommunications metadata is therefore a vital ingredient for the making of a smart city, a city that responds to the socio-economic needs of its citizenry. Data sharing for the public good must therefore be encouraged in respect of retained telecommunications metadata, in addition to the existing law enforcement goals, to expand the benefits society may derive from telecommunications metadata. These benefits include assistance with humanitarian efforts, complementing the open data movement. In this paper we take an exploratory approach and analyze the mandatory telecommunications metadata retention and disclosure regime of Brazil. The aim is to learn how the framework addresses privacy and personal data protections. This regime is assessed with a view of identifying how it may enable and encourage the sharing of telecommunications metadata for the public good, beyond the law enforcement public service function. These outcomes are assessed with a view of proposing a predictable enabling policy and legal environment that allows for the collection, use and sharing of telecommunications metadata. The telecommunications metadata that is the subject of this paper are the uniform resource locators, and the device identifiers and location information. These metadata are assessed in light of the technical architecture vis-à-vis the terms of service of Facebook and Telefonica, as examples. Key issues are highlighted in terms of the status quo and its impact on data collection and sharing for the public good. One such key issue is how to practically obtain the lawful consent of the individual given the technical nature of the metadata and the individual’s ignorance to its operations and functions. An enabling environment may need to be based on a practical framework about the exact types of information the individual may need to be informed about and about which express consent is to be obtained, and what may not be practical. The purpose of collection and use may need to be described in a manner that allows for a dynamic innovation process which may not always lend itself to knowing beforehand what purposes the metadata may be explored for. The re-identification challenge may require a step by step approach, at every collection, use and sharing phase, to ensure better privacy protection along the way, in search for solutions to the humanitarian challenges faced.
description: SSIG 2017 The ninth South School on Internet Governance; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 2017-04-03 - 2017-04-07