cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Constructing the safe workplace: the dance of subjectivity, power and agency in the performance of OHS
Creators: name: Wadick, Philip
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Previous research has demonstrated that working safely is often problematic and is subject to many competing pressures that workers must navigate. People want to be safe at work but they often prioritise other workplace imperatives over their own health and safety. The research described in this thesis focused on the relationships between power, subjectivity and agency in learning to work safely. The purpose of this study was to understand how workers learn to become effective OHS subjects by examining how they come to constitute themselves in relation to OHS. To achieve this, an interpretive, hermeneutic framework within poststructural theories of subject formation was used as a basis for the research methodology. It is influenced by Foucauldian and poststructural understandings of language, meaning, subjectivity, discourse and truth, and power/knowledge. Qualitative ethnographic methods were used for data collection such as interviews, participant observations, open ended questionnaires, field notes, document analysis and researcher reflections. A large portion of the data was produced through people‟s stories as they tried to make sense of their OHS experiences. Data analysis was informed by the poststructural concept of agency in which people are not freely agentic but think and act within the range of choices offered by particular discourses. The language used in speaking OHS into existence is couched in a vocabulary of compliance and conflict and workers often situate themselves within oppositional binaries. It became clear from the data that OHS subjectivity is constituted within competing pressures, and that individual agency is constrained by discourses that often privilege costs and production over worker health and safety, which are deeply embedded in the power relations at work. Workers often do not speak up about their health and safety concerns because of these power relations that threaten them with perceived negative consequences. A post modern emergent methodology enabled the conceptualising of new subjectivities and new knowledges, including alternative modes of representation such as poetry, creative writing, drama and cartoon. A politics of xii hope was developed by finding examples of where workers had disrupted historically produced binaries and found energy for change in the space between the arbitrary and unhelpful oppositions. It was suggested that learning to constitute proactive agentic OHS subjectivities is more likely in workplaces that ensure workers have adequate OHS knowledge and skills, provide ample opportunity to use this knowledge/skills, and kindle their desire to do so. Success is enhanced in workplaces where all the actors and stakeholders are acutely and reflexively aware of how power operates in all its micro locations.
ИЗУЧЕНИЕ ПАРАМЕТРОВ РАЗБРАСЫВАТЕЛЯ И РАСПРОСТРАНИТЕЛЬНОГО ОБОРУДОВАНИЯ ПРИ СОРТИРОВКЕ ВОЛОСАТЫХ СЕМЯН
Creators: name: Абдихамидов, Нурбек
name: Каршиев, Бахтиёр
name: Ёрмаматов, Тулкин
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: В статье рассмотрено влияние совершенствования системы перегрузки зерна на качество сортировки. Параметры разбрасывателей и распространителей рассчитаны на передачу ворсистых семян на поле.
Visualization by optical fluorescence of two-phase flow in a three-dimensional porous medium
Creators: name: Brodin, Joachim Falck
name: Moura, Marcel
name: Toussaint, Renaud
name: Maloy, Knut Jorgen
name: Rikvold, Per Arne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Slow flow of a single fluid through a porous medium is well understood on a macroscopic level through Darcy's law, a linear relation between flow rate and a combination of pressure differences, viscosity, and gravitational forces. Two-phase flow is complicated by the interface separating the fluids, but understanding of two-dimensional, two-phase flow has been obtained from experiments using transparent cells. In most three-dimensional media, however, visual observation is difficult. Here, we present preliminary results of experiments on a model medium consisting of randomly packed glass spheres, in which one fluorescent liquid invades another. By refractive index matching and scanning with a sheet-shaped laser beam, we obtain slices of the flow patterns, which we combine into three-dimensional pictures. We observe a compact region of invading fluid, surrounded by finger-like protrusions. The compact region becomes more dominant with increasing invader flow rate. The patterns are theoretically analyzed in terms of the interplay between gravitational, viscous, and capillary forces.
Jordan types with small parts for Artinian Gorenstein algebras of codimension three
Creators: name: Altafi, Nasrin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13E10, 13D40(Primary)13H10, 05A17, 05E40(Secondary)

description: We study Jordan types of linear forms for graded Artinian Gorenstein algebras having arbitrary codimension. We introduce rank matrices of linear forms for such algebras that represent the ranks of multiplication maps in various degrees. We show that there is a 1-1 correspondence between rank matrices and Jordan degree types. For Artinian Gorenstein algebras with codimension three we classify all rank matrices that occur for linear forms with vanishing third power. As a consequence, we show for such algebras that the possible Jordan types with parts of length at most four are uniquely determined by at most three parameters.
description: 24 pages
Additional file 1: of GDF15 promotes the proliferation of cervical cancer cells by phosphorylating AKT1 and Erk1/2 through the receptor ErbB2
Creators: name: Li, Shan
name: Ma, Yan-Min
name: Zheng, Peng-Sheng
name: Zhang, Ping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biochemistry
Molecular Biology
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: Table S1. List of primer sequences used for vector construction in this study of Experimental Procedures. (DOC 50Â kb)
Behavioural traits of a successful avian urban adapter, the noisy miner (Manorina melanocephala)
Creators: name: Lowry, Helene
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Increasing urbanization means that wildlife must adjust to this altered environment or be excluded from it. Most species appear to be unable to adjust to the high disturbance levels and changes to habitats and resources that accompany urbanization, but a few thrive in this evolutionarily novel environment. To date research on urban colonization by wildlife has focused largely on resource-based (i.e. food and habitat) limitations to colonization. By contrast, much less attention has been given to behavioural traits that might facilitate urban habitation. The current study focused on the behaviour of an avian urban adapter, the noisy miner, Manorina melanocephala. Firstly, I compared the response of urban and rural noisy miners to a startling sound stimulus (a loud noise). Secondly, several calls of this species were compared between urban and rural conspecifics. Finally, the amplitude of noisy miner alarm calls was compared between areas with contrasting background noise levels (arterial roads and residential streets) in the urban environment. Urban noisy miners were less ‘flighty’ and more aggressive than rural individuals in response to loud noise playback. Focal birds in both areas usually remained at the playback site and visually surveyed the area, suggesting that noisy miners are inherently quite bold (i.e. have a relatively high disturbance-tolerance). Although urban noisy miners exhibited a shift in the minimum frequency (kHz) of some call-types relative to rural individuals, it was not sufficient to preclude vocal masking from low level, background, anthropogenic noise. However, several call components of this species appear to be naturally suited to being heard in noisy urban environments (i.e. they have high dominant and maximum frequencies [kHz]). As an additional and/or alternate vocal modification, noisy miners also exhibited the Lombard effect, calling more loudly on noisy arterial roads than on quieter residential streets in urban Melbourne. Overall, the findings suggested that noisy miners are probably inherently well suited to inhabiting cities by virtue of having a relatively high disturbance-tolerance and calls with features that make them easy to detect in noisy environments. In addition, these birds appear to have the flexibility to adaptively modify their vocal behaviour through adjustments to the frequency (kHz) and amplitude of their calls in such a way as to retain broadcast efficiency in the noisy city environment.
A Chirality-Based Quantum Leap
Creators: name: Aiello, Clarice D.
name: Abbas, Muneer
name: Abendroth, John M.
name: Afanasev, Andrei
name: Agarwal, Shivang
name: Banerjee, Amartya S.
name: Beratan, David N.
name: Belling, Jason N.
name: Berche, Bertrand
name: Botana, Antia
name: Caram, Justin R.
name: Celardo, Giuseppe Luca
name: Cuniberti, Gianaurelio
name: Garcia-Etxarri, Aitzol
name: Dianat, Arezoo
name: Diez-Perez, Ismael
name: Guo, Yuqi
name: Gutierrez, Rafael
name: Herrmann, Carmen
name: Hihath, Joshua
name: Kale, Suneet
name: Kurian, Philip
name: Lai, Ying-Cheng
name: Lopez, Alexander
name: Medina, Ernesto
name: Mujica, Vladimiro
name: Naaman, Ron
name: Noormandipour, Mohammadreza
name: Palma, Julio L.
name: Paltiel, Yossi
name: Petuskey, William T.
name: Ribeiro-Silva, Joao Carlos
name: Saenz, Juan Jose
name: Santos, Elton J. G.
name: Solyanik, Maria
name: Sorger, Volker J.
name: Stemer, Dominik M.
name: Ugalde, Jesus M.
name: Valdes-Curiel, Ana
name: Varela, Solmar
name: Waldeck, David H.
name: Weiss, Paul S.
name: Zacharias, Helmut
name: Wang, Qing Hua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chiral degrees of freedom occur in matter and in electromagnetic fields and constitute an area of research that is experiencing renewed interest driven by recent observations of the chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect in chiral molecules and engineered nanomaterials. The CISS effect underpins the fact that charge transport through nanoscopic chiral structures favors a particular electronic spin orientation, resulting in large room-temperature spin polarizations. Observations of the CISS effect suggest opportunities for spin control and for the design and fabrication of room-temperature quantum devices from the bottom up, with atomic-scale precision. Any technology that relies on optimal charge transport, including quantum devices for logic, sensing, and storage, may benefit from chiral quantum properties. These properties can be theoretically and experimentally investigated from a quantum information perspective, which is presently lacking. There are uncharted implications for the quantum sciences once chiral couplings can be engineered to control the storage, transduction, and manipulation of quantum information. This forward-looking perspective provides a survey of the experimental and theoretical fundamentals of chiral-influenced quantum effects, and presents a vision for their future roles in enabling room-temperature quantum technologies.
Statistical clustering of U.S. stock data via the generalised style classification algorithm
Creators: name: Wong, Woon Weng
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study explores the creation of homogeneous groups of stock based on returns. Currently no such classification scheme exists and industry classification schemes are used instead. These schemes do not make groupings based on return and so there is a fundamental mismatch between the way these groupings are made and their ultimate use in the literature. Such homogeneous returns groupings can be used to create a returns based classification scheme, which have the potential to improve various applications such as the identification of control firms for benchmarking purposes; and can lead to improved industry cost of capital estimates. To create these homogenous return groups, an innovative statistical clustering method known as the Generalised Style Classification (GSC) algorithm and an objective method for determining the optimal number of clusters known as the Gap statistic test is used. The results indicate that the GSC can successfully create a returns based industry classification scheme; and that these GSC industry clusters are superior to current industry classification schemes at explaining the cross section of stock returns both in and out of sample. Further tests indicate that the GSC is superior at partitioning risky assets into separate risk classes while minimising returns variation within each risk class, which are the conditions necessary for improving industry cost of capital estimates. Ideologically, this research has wider implications for the theory of asset pricing. The current dominant paradigm suggests that returns can be explained by exposure to generic risk factors however such studies rely on arbitrary partitioning of the data and this practice may lead to a number of econometric issues including truncation and selection bias, loss in power of statistical tests and data snooping bias. Contrary and less widely accepted studies have suggested that returns can be explained by industry factors. This study finds evidence of the latter. This indicates that the impact of industry effects on the returns generating process must be reconsidered. Methodology wise, the approach used to arrive at the results in this thesis, does not rely on data partitioning thereby making it immune to the aforementioned econometric issues. The GSC represents an exciting addition to the finance literature. This research demonstrates how it may be applied to stock returns with great success. A vast number of applications in the finance literature will benefit from the homogeneous returns groupings created via the GSC and researchers wishing to adopt a data driven, objective means of creating such groupings must consider the use of the GSC.
title: 01_1254
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Secure Encoded Instruction Graphs for End-to-End Data Validation in Autonomous Robots
Creators: name: Queralta, Jorge Peña
name: Qingqing, Li
name: Ferrer, Eduardo Castelló
name: Westerlund, Tomi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As autonomous robots are becoming more widespread, more attention is being paid to the security of robotic operation. Autonomous robots can be seen as cyber-physical systems: they can operate in virtual, physical, and human realms. Therefore, securing the operations of autonomous robots requires not only securing their data (e.g., sensor inputs and mission instructions) but securing their interactions with their environment. There is currently a deficiency of methods that would allow robots to securely ensure their sensors and actuators are operating correctly without external feedback. This paper introduces an encoding method and end-to-end validation framework for the missions of autonomous robots. In particular, we present a proof of concept of a map encoding method, which allows robots to navigate realistic environments and validate operational instructions with almost zero {\it a priori} knowledge. We demonstrate our framework using two different encoded maps in experiments with simulated and real robots. Our encoded maps have the same advantages as typical landmark-based navigation, but with the added benefit of cryptographic hashes that enable end-to-end information validation. Our method is applicable to any aspect of robotic operation in which there is a predefined set of actions or instructions given to the robot.
description: To be published in the IEEE Internet of Things Journal
Additional file 1: of Meta-analysis on the effectiveness of team-based learning on medical education in China
Creators: name: Chen, Minjian
name: Ni, Chunhui
name: Hu, Yanhui
name: Wang, Meilin
name: Liu, Lu
name: Ji, Xiaoming
name: Chu, Haiyan
name: Wu, Wei
name: Lu, Chuncheng
name: Wang, Shouyu
name: Wang, Shoulin
name: Zhao, Liping
name: Li, Zhong
name: Zhu, Huijuan
name: Wang, Jianming
name: Xia, Yankai
name: Wang, Xinru
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Figure S1. Forest plot for the effect of TBL on examination scores compared with LBL (fixed-effects model). (DOC 2145Â kb)
“Stop the wretched woman in her horrid career” a study of competing representations of femininity in social and legal responses to female poisoners, 1846- 1851
Creators: name: Nagy, Victoria Maria
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis examines the cases of three rural working-class women from Essex who, in a five year period between the years of 1846 and 1851, were arrested, tried, and, in two instances, executed for poisoning crimes. From the cases of these three women (Sarah Chesham, Mary May and Hannah Southgate) this thesis studies the various competing narratives about their femininity which appeared in newspapers, Hansard transcripts, social commentary, witness depositions, personal correspondence and petitions against their sentences. The main research question this thesis asks is what narratives about femininity exist in available sources regarding female poisoners from the mid-Victorian era and how can these narratives enable us to better understand the contradictory and competing constructions of femininity in nineteenth century England? Currently research into how the femininity of female poisoners was constructed, why it was constructed in such a manner, and the varying differences in depictions of their womanhood is underrepresented. To tackle the issue of limited source material (both because the women were not tried in London courts and because of their social standing) I have chosen to find a broad range of sources as advocated by microhistorians and some feminist historians. The methodology adopted to collect and analyse these data sources is incorporated from microhistorical methods (interest in the normal exception, broad ranging source material and concern with individual cases in order to interpret societal changes and occurrences), and partly from feminist scholars who have investigated legal as well as media narratives to discover how female criminals are represented therein. The methodology is situated within a discourse analysis frame. The findings of this research suggest that the construction of the femininity of the three accused women varied according to the discourse into which each case was linked regardless of whether the case was in fact related to the discourse (e.g. Mary May’s case was linked with the debates around infanticide even though she was on trial for the poisoning murder of her half-brother in his forties). Each woman was depicted as deviating from the societal expectations of respectable womanhood, however, contemporaries did not outline what good womanhood entailed, nor was there agreement about what manner a bad woman looked or behaved. There was often a lot of difference between how each woman had her femininity represented even within newspapers, let alone witness depositions, petitions, parliamentary debates, etc. This illustrates that there was no single distinct idea about femininity, but rather that femininity was often in flux within discourses.
Professional learning of secondary science teachers in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Rahman, S M Hafizur
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The current reform efforts in Bangladesh require a substantive change in how science is taught; an equally substantive change is needed in professional practice. This research set out to explore two basic aspects of secondary science teaching in Bangladesh. One was to guide participant teachers in changing their traditional teaching approach through the use of a concrete example of a new teaching approach. The second was to assist participant science teachers to change the culture of their existing professional practice. To address and explore both of these aims, a constructivist teaching approach (Prediction-Observation-Explanation, POE) was used as an intervention with participant teachers in an attempt to ascertain if it could influence their thinking and lead to a change in their traditional approach to teaching science. Simultaneously, all participant teachers involved were supported during the intervention regarding critique and challenge of lessons (theirs and their colleagues’) in ways that were not a part of their regular culture of professional practice. The explicit intention being that through these collaborative ways a professional learning community might be developed through which their own professional learning might be enhanced in ways that would lead to improvements in their science teaching practice. The findings of this thesis show that the use of the POE approach influenced participant teachers’ thinking about science teaching and learning. Through the POE approach, these teachers were encouraged to: use teaching aids as a purposeful tool in their teaching; develop understanding of science content with their students rather than using recall and recognition of facts; find ways to look for the relevance of science within real life situations; overcome a reliance on rote learning and theoretical exercises; and, encourage students’ interest and enthusiasm in the classroom learning environment. Moreover, the collaborative activities through the intervention process influenced participant teachers’ practice. They became committed to finding gaps or mismatches between their teaching and their students’ learning and making decisions about the challenges they faced regarding their practice through this process of job-embedded learning. The results of this thesis ultimately carry implications for science teachers’ practice in secondary schools in Bangladesh including teachers’ own professional learning, as well as for curriculum developers and school administrators, and for pre and in-service education for secondary science teachers.
Additional file 1: of Effect of continuous positive airway pressure on long-term cardiovascular outcomes in patients with coronary artery disease and obstructive sleep apnea: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Wang, Xiao
name: Zhang, Ying
name: Dong, Zhimin
name: Fan, Jingyao
name: Nie, Shaoping
name: Wei, Yongxiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplemental Material. (DOCX 353Â kb)
P-CRITICAL: A Reservoir Autoregulation Plasticity Rule for Neuromorphic Hardware
Creators: name: Balafrej, Ismael
name: Rouat, Jean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Backpropagation algorithms on recurrent artificial neural networks require an unfolding of accumulated states over time. These states must be kept in memory for an undefined period of time which is task-dependent. This paper uses the reservoir computing paradigm where an untrained recurrent neural network layer is used as a preprocessor stage to learn temporal and limited data. These so-called reservoirs require either extensive fine-tuning or neuroplasticity with unsupervised learning rules. We propose a new local plasticity rule named P-CRITICAL designed for automatic reservoir tuning that translates well to Intel's Loihi research chip, a recent neuromorphic processor. We compare our approach on well-known datasets from the machine learning community while using a spiking neuronal architecture. We observe an improved performance on tasks coming from various modalities without the need to tune parameters. Such algorithms could be a key to end-to-end energy-efficient neuromorphic-based machine learning on edge devices.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Application of DTI and Fiber tracking to pediatric malformations of the mid-hindbrain: review of the literature and personal experience
Creators: name: Merlini, Laura
Publisher: name: Université de Genève
Year: 2012
Subjects: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/616.0757
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)
Fiber tractography (FT)
Pediatric posterior fossa malformations

description: Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is an advanced MRI technique that measures the microscopic molecular motion of water to gain information about the brain structure. This modality and its application to fiber tractography (FT) can be used to study the neuroanatomical background of brain malformations. This thesis aims to give an overview of the application of DTI and FT on pediatric posterior fossa malformations. In the first part we describe the technical underpinnings of DTI and FT and we discuss the limitation to clinical application. In the second part we present some cases (« The molar tooth »,« the squeezed cerebellum » and « The butterfly ») in order to illustrate the additional information that DTI and fiber tractography are providing compared to conventional MR sequences and we discuss their significance.
MOESM1 of A novel organ preservation solution with efficient clearance of red blood cells improves kidney transplantation in a canine model
Creators: name: Wang, Sheng
name: Gumpper, Kristyn
name: Tan, Tao
name: Luo, Xianzhang
name: Guo, Hui
name: Ming, Changsheng
name: Jiang, Hanying
name: Fang, Jiangguo
name: Du, Guang
name: Zhu, Hua
name: Ma, Jianjie
name: Chen, Zhishui
name: Gong, Nianqiao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. WMO-II solution: The product consists of chamber A and chamber B separated by a peelable seal that can be opened with a moderate squeeze to mix for use.
Measuring Patient Safety: Methods for Anesthesia Care
Creators: name: Haller, Guy Serge Antoine
Publisher: name: Université de Genève
Year: 2012
Subjects: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/610
Qualité et Sécurité des soins
Epidémiologie
Complications iatrogéniques
Erreur humaine
Anesthésie

description: Avoiding iatrogenic adverse outcomes and providing safe care to patients is a priority in modern healthcare systems. In anaesthesia, measuring patient safety has been a matter of attention since the beginning of the speciality. The number of studies looking at anesthesia-related mortality-morbidity, adverse events and critical incidents reporting is substantial. These traditional patient safety measurement methods have significant limitations. They are qualitative by nature and often lack specificity for patient safety issues. Alternative approaches such as automated adverse events measurement in electronic records and safety culture questionnaires have been developed to overcome traditional methods' weaknesses. However these lack validity and specificity for anaesthetic practice. Clinical indicators offer promise as they are specifically designed to measure non quantifiable concepts such as patient safety. However, at this stage, the number of clinical indicators validated for safety measurement in anaesthesia is limited. Further developments are required before indicators can be used on a large scale to measure safety of anaesthetic practice. Despite inherent weaknesses of existing methods, figures show that there is a clear decrease in the number of major accidents and severe complications associated with anaesthesia. Nevertheless, although anaesthesia can claim successes in reducing the number of major adverse outcomes, anaesthesia-related morbidity still remains significant. Poor teamwork and organisational failures play an important role into these complications. Improving communication and team coordination are the new challenges anaesthesia is facing. However to address these issues, being able to reliably measure patient safety in anaesthesia remains a priority.
Stop the Clock: Are Timeout Effects Real?
Creators: name: Assis, Niander
name: Assunção, Renato
name: Vaz-De-Melo, Pedro O. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Timeout is a short interruption during games used to communicate a change in strategy, to give the players a rest or to stop a negative flow in the game. Whatever the reason, coaches expect an improvement in their team's performance after a timeout. But how effective are these timeouts in doing so? The simple average of the differences between the scores before and after the timeouts has been used as evidence that there is an effect and that it is substantial. We claim that these statistical averages are not proper evidence and a more sound approach is needed. We applied a formal causal framework using a large dataset of official NBA play-by-play tables and drew our assumptions about the data generation process in a causal graph. Using different matching techniques to estimate the causal effect of timeouts, we concluded that timeouts have no effect on teams' performances. Actually, since most timeouts are called when the opposing team is scoring more frequently, the moments that follow resemble an improvement in the team's performance but are just the natural game tendency to return to its average state. This is another example of what statisticians call the regression to the mean phenomenon.
description: Accepted at ECML-PKDD 2020
Exploring the Generalizability of Spatio-Temporal Traffic Prediction: Meta-Modeling and an Analytic Framework
Creators: name: Wang, Leye
name: Chai, Di
name: Liu, Xuanzhe
name: Chen, Liyue
name: Chen, Kai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Spatio-Temporal Traffic Prediction (STTP) problem is a classical problem with plenty of prior research efforts that benefit from traditional statistical learning and recent deep learning approaches. While STTP can refer to many real-world problems, most existing studies focus on quite specific applications, such as the prediction of taxi demand, ridesharing order, traffic speed, and so on. This hinders the STTP research as the approaches designed for different applications are hardly comparable, and thus how an application-driven approach can be generalized to other scenarios is unclear. To fill in this gap, this paper makes three efforts: (i) we propose an analytic framework, called STAnalytic, to qualitatively investigate STTP approaches regarding their design considerations on various spatial and temporal factors, aiming to make different application-driven approaches comparable; (ii) we design a spatio-temporal meta-model, called STMeta, which can flexibly integrate generalizable temporal and spatial knowledge identified by STAnalytic, (iii) we build an STTP benchmark platform including ten real-life datasets with five scenarios to quantitatively measure the generalizability of STTP approaches. In particular, we implement STMeta with different deep learning techniques, and STMeta demonstrates better generalizability than state-of-the-art approaches by achieving lower prediction error on average across all the datasets.
Regularity in weighted oriented graphs
Creators: name: Mandal, Mousumi
name: Pradhan, Dipak Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13D02, 13F20, 13C10, 05C22, 05E40, 05C20

description: Let $D$ be a weighted oriented graph with the underlying graph $G$ and $I(D), I(G) $ be the edge ideals corresponding to $D$ and $G$ respectively. We show that the regularity of edge ideal of a certain class of weighted oriented graph remains same even after adding certain kind of new edges to it. We also establish the relationship between the regularity of edge ideal of weighted oriented path and cycle with the regularity of edge ideal of their underlying graph when vertices of $V^+$ are sinks.
Bandit Change-Point Detection for Real-Time Monitoring High-Dimensional Data Under Sampling Control
Creators: name: Zhang, Wanrong
name: Mei, Yajun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In many real-world problems of real-time monitoring high-dimensional streaming data, one wants to detect an undesired event or change quickly once it occurs, but under the sampling control constraint in the sense that one might be able to only observe or use selected components data for decision-making per time step in the resource-constrained environments. In this paper, we propose to incorporate multi-armed bandit approaches into sequential change-point detection to develop an efficient bandit change-point detection algorithm based on the limiting Bayesian approach to incorporate a prior knowledge of potential changes. Our proposed algorithm, termed Thompson-Sampling-Shiryaev-Roberts-Pollak (TSSRP), consists of two policies per time step: the adaptive sampling policy applies the Thompson Sampling algorithm to balance between exploration for acquiring long-term knowledge and exploitation for immediate reward gain, and the statistical decision policy fuses the local Shiryaev-Roberts-Pollak statistics to determine whether to raise a global alarm by sum shrinkage techniques. Extensive numerical simulations and case studies demonstrate the statistical and computational efficiency of our proposed TSSRP algorithm.
Additional file 2: of GDF15 promotes the proliferation of cervical cancer cells by phosphorylating AKT1 and Erk1/2 through the receptor ErbB2
Creators: name: Li, Shan
name: Ma, Yan-Min
name: Zheng, Peng-Sheng
name: Zhang, Ping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biochemistry
Molecular Biology
Pharmacology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: Table S2. List of primer sequences used for real time-PCR assays in this study of Experimental Procedures. (DOC 45Â kb)
SCoA-II Inventory
Creators: name: Brown, Gavin
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 170103 Educational Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Developmental and Educational Psychology
subject: 130106 Secondary Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: Education

description: Survey instrument for self-administered usage. The item questionnaire was administered in 2004 for students. Inventory results were published in:Brown, G. T. L., & Hirschfeld, G. H. F. (2008). Students’ conceptions of assessment: Links to outcomes. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice, 15(1), 3-17. doi:10.1080/09695940701876003 Hirschfeld, G. H. F., & Brown, G. T. L. (2009). Students’ conceptions of assessment: Factorial and structural invariance of the SCoA across sex, age, and ethnicity. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 25(1), 30-38. doi:10.1027/1015-5759.25.1.30Walton, K. F. (2009). Secondary students’ conceptions of assessment mediated by self-motivational attitudes: Effects on academic performance. (Unpublished M.Ed. thesis), University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ.
SCoA-I Inventory
Creators: name: Brown, Gavin
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 170103 Educational Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 130106 Secondary Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: Education
subject: Developmental and Educational Psychology

description: Survey instrument for self-administered usage. The item questionnaire was administered in 2003 for students. Inventory results were published in:Brown, G. T., & Hirschfield, G. H. (2007). Students' Conceptions of Assessment and Mathematics: Self-Regulation Raises Achievement. Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 7, 63-74.
SCoA-IV Inventory
Creators: name: Brown, Gavin
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 170103 Educational Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Developmental and Educational Psychology
subject: 130106 Secondary Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: Education

description: Survey instrument for self-administered usage. The item questionnaire was administered in 2006 for students. Inventory results were published in:Brown, G. T. L. (2006, September). Secondary school students’ conceptions of assessment: A Survey of Four Schools. Conceptions of Assessment and Feedback Project Report #5. Auckland, NZ: University of Auckland.DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.24963.71202
SCoA-III Inventory
Creators: name: Brown, Gavin
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 170103 Educational Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 130106 Secondary Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: Education
subject: Developmental and Educational Psychology

description: Survey instrument for self-administered usage. The item questionnaire was administered in 2005 for students. Inventory results were published in:Brown, G. T. L. & Hirschfeld, G. H. F. (2005). Secondary school students’ conceptions of assessment. Conceptions of Assessment and Feedback Project Report #4. Auckland: University of Auckland.DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.11541.93921
NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS TO THE CAUCHY PROBLEM FOR THE GENERALIZED NON-ISOTROPIC DIFFUSION EQUATION
Creators: name: Tozhiev, Tokhirjon
name: Khamraqulov, Khamidullo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This article discusses one of the modern methods (Monte Carlo method) for solving boundary value problems for an ultraparabolic equation of mathematical physics. Based on the obtained results, some numerical estimates of the solution to the Cauchy type problem were carried out.
DEVELOPMENT OF A TRANSFERABLE RESEARCH PORTAL - CREATING AN ON CAMPUS EQUIVALENT FULLY ONLINE RESEARCH COURSE COMPONENT
Creators: name: Stephen.Mckenzie@Monash.Edu
name: Filia.Garivaldis@Monash.Edu
name: Kaissidis-Rodafinos, Angelos
name: Matthew.Mundy@Monash.Edu
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 111710 Health Counselling
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Monash University’s Graduate Diploma in Psychology – Advanced (GDP-A) is an innovative fully online accredited Fourth Year Psychology course, which enables its students to undertake further specialised professional postgraduate training in psychology. The GDP-A commenced in March 2016 and consists of four course units and four research units presented in alternating six week teaching periods. Many challenges are arising in the development of the GDP-A, which are also opportunities, including the translation of a traditional on campus research project into a fully online mode, the ability to scale from a starting number of 80 students to several hundred students, and the development of clinical and research skills through virtual means. The scale and scope of the GDP-A and its challenges/ opportunities are unprecedented. A particularly great challenge and opportunity for the successful development and implementation of the GDP-A is the need for a fully online research project that is fully equivalent to an on campus research project. This will consist of a research thesis based on the conducting of experiments, surveys, access to or creation of a database and associated statistical analyses. To meet this challenge/opportunity we are developing and implementing a Research Portal. The Research Portal is a unified research environment that is accessible to GDP-A students, and potentially to others users, and is presented in the Moodle online Learning Management System (LMS). The components of the Research Portal are: • Presentation and selection of innovative and online friendly research topics. • Access of and contribution to a course specific and a general research participants’ pool. • Access to online experiments, surveys, tests and databases in a Virtual Lab environment. • Allocation and tracking of students’ supervisor resource use in student-supervisor shared electronic notebook/data workbook space. The Research Portal will provide the GDP-A course with an unprecedented online research project conducting capacity that can be successfully transferred across Monash University courses and beyond.
McKenzie, F. Garivaldis, A. Kaissidis, M. Mundy (2016) DEVELOPING A TRANSFERABLE RESEARCH PORTAL - CREATING AN ON CAMPUS EQUIVALENT FULLY ONLINE RESEARCH COURSE COMPONENT, EDULEARN16 Proceedings, pp. 877-882.
SCoA-V and SCoA-VI Inventory
Creators: name: Brown, Gavin
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 170103 Educational Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 130106 Secondary Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: Developmental and Educational Psychology
subject: Education

description: Survey instrument for self-administered usage. The item questionnaire was administered in 2007 for students.
Version 5 and version 6 are identical items, however contain different analytic models.
SCoA-V inventory results were published in:Brown, G. T., Irving, S. E., Peterson, E. R., & Hirschfeld, G. H. (2009). Use of interactive–informal assessment practices: New Zealand secondary students' conceptions of assessment. Learning and Instruction, 19(2), 97-111. doi:10.1016/j.learninstruc.2008.02.003Weekers, A. M., Brown, G. T. L., & Veldkamp, B. P. (2009). Analyzing the dimensionality of the Students' Conceptions of Assessment (SCoA) inventory. In D. M. McInerney, G. T. L. Brown & G. A. D. Liem (Eds.), Student perspectives on assessment: What students can tell us about assessment for learning. (pp. 133-157). Charlotte, NC US: Information Age Publishing.
SCoA-IV inventory results were published in:Brown, G. T. L., Peterson, E. R., & Irving, S. E. (2009). Beliefs that make a difference: Adaptive and maladaptive self-regulation in students’ conceptions of assessment. In D. M. McInerney, G. T. L. Brown, & G. A. D. Liem (Eds.), Student Perspectives on Assessment: What Students can Tell us about Assessment for Learning (pp. 159-186). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.AlQassab, M. (2012). Differential item functioning according to subject motivation: Psychometric properties of the Student Conceptions of Assessment (unpublished master's thesis), The University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ.
On the mixing time of coordinate Hit-and-Run
Creators: name: Narayanan, Hariharan
name: Srivastava, Piyush
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We obtain a polynomial upper bound on the mixing time $T_{CHR}(ε)$ of the coordinate Hit-and-Run random walk on an $n-$dimensional convex body, where $T_{CHR}(ε)$ is the number of steps needed in order to reach within $ε$ of the uniform distribution with respect to the total variation distance, starting from a warm start (i.e., a distribution which has a density with respect to the uniform distribution on the convex body that is bounded above by a constant). Our upper bound is polynomial in $n, R$ and $\frac{1}ε$, where we assume that the convex body contains the unit $\Vert\cdot\Vert_\infty$-unit ball $B_\infty$ and is contained in its $R$-dilation $R\cdot B_\infty$. Whether coordinate Hit-and-Run has a polynomial mixing time has been an open question.
description: Close to the final published version
A Variational Framework for the Thermomechanics of Gradient-Extended Dissipative Solids -- with Applications to Diffusion, Damage and Plasticity
Creators: name: Teichtmeister, Stephan
name: Keip, Marc-Andre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The paper presents a versatile framework for solids which undergo nonisothermal processes with irreversibly changing microstructure at large strains. It outlines rate-type and incremental variational principles for the full thermomechanical coupling in gradient-extended dissipative materials. It is shown that these principles yield as Euler equations essentially the macro- and micro-balances as well as the energy equation. Starting point is the incorporation of the entropy and entropy rate as canonical arguments into constitutive energy and dissipation functions, which additionally depend on the gradient-extended mechanical state and its rate, respectively. By means of (generalized) Legendre transformations, extended variational principles with thermal as well as mechanical driving forces can be constructed. On the thermal side, a rigorous distinction between the quantity conjugate to the entropy and the quantity conjugate to the entropy rate is essential here. Formulations with mechanical driving forces are especially suitable when considering possibly temperature-dependent threshold mechanisms. With regard to variationally consistent incrementations, we suggest an update scheme which renders the exact form of the intrinsic dissipation and is highly suitable when considering adiabatic processes. It is shown that this proposed numerical algorithm has the structure of an operator split. To underline the broad applicability of the proposed framework, we set up three model problems as applications: Cahn-Hilliard diffusion coupled with temperature evolution, where we propose a new variational principle in terms of the species flux vector, as well as thermomechanics of gradient damage and gradient plasticity. In a numerical example we study the formation of a cross shear band.