cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Global Positioning of Australian Fashion
Creators: name: Healy, Robyn
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330315
subject: Textile and fashion design

description: RESEARCH BACKGROUND: Berg's Encylopedia of World Dress and Fashion is the world's leading annual academic reference book on fashion, respected for the analyses and interpretation of its contributing scholars. Volume 7 was the first edition of the encylopedia devoted to fashion in Australia, RMIT University Page 1 of 4 The latest version of this form is available from: http://www.rmit.edu.au/staff/research/publis New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Along with Margaret Maynard, Juliette Peers, Peter MCNeil and Vicki Karaminas, Robyn Healy was one of the leading Australian fashion academics invited to contribute. Her substantial, fully-referenced scholarly essay was on the 'Global Positioning of Australian Fashion'. RESEARCH CONTRIUBTION: In 'Global Positioning' Robyn Healy uses Australian designer Collette Dinnigan's 1995 runway show in Paris to explore how the Australian fashion industry has worked to establish a presence in the fashion centres of Europe and the United States and to overcome the problems of geographic isolation. Federal, state and local government grants and subsidies backed an ambitious program of trade shows, retail events and awards, including the establishment of key events such as Australian Fashion Week. Healy argued that the push for international recognition had, paradoxically, enriched an understanding of good local design and designers. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE:The significance of this essay is demonstated by its inclusion in Bergs encylopedia. Like Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Berg is not simply an information hub but a location for authoritative analysis and interpretation that shapes understanding of the fashion discipline at an international level. Together the essays in this collection are the most intellectually rigorous account of contemporary and historical Australian fashion.
Model of General Split-BREAK Process
Creators: name: Stojanović, Vladica
name: Č. Popović, Biljana
name: Popović, Predrag
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2015

description: This paper presents a modification (and partly a generalization) of STOPBREAK process, which is the stochastic model of time series with permanent, emphatic fluctuations. The threshold regime of the process is obtained by using, so called, Noise indicator. We proceed to investigate the model which we named the General Split-BREAK (GSB) process. After brief recalling of its basic stochastic properties, we give some procedures of its parameters estimation. A Monte Carlo study of this process is also give, along with the application in the analysis of stock prices dynamics of several Serbian companies which were traded on Belgrade Stock Exchange.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 13 No. 2 (2015): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Control Charts for Multivariate Nonlinear Time Series
Creators: name: Garthoff, Robert
name: Okhrin, Iryna
name: Schmid, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2015

description: In this paper control charts for the simultaneous monitoring of the means and the variances of multivariate nonlinear time series are introduced. The underlying target process is assumed to be a constant conditional correlation process (cf. [3]). The new schemes make use of local measures of the means and the variances based on current observations, conditional moments, or residuals. Exponential smoothing and cumulative sums are applied to these characteristic quantities. Distances between these quantities and target values are measured by the Mahalanobis distance. The introduced schemes are compared via a simulation study. As a measure of performance the average run length is used.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 13 No. 2 (2015): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Notes on the Regular E-Optimal Spring Balance Weighing Designs with Correlated Errors
Creators: name: Ceranka, Bronisław
name: Graczyk, Małgorzata
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2015

description: The paper deals with the estimation problem of individual weights of objects in Eoptimal spring balance weighing design. It is assumed that errors are equal correlated. The topic is focused on the determining the maximal eigenvalue of the inverse of information matrix of estimators. The constructing methods of the E-optimal spring balance weighing design based on the incidence matrices of balanced and partially balanced incomplete block designs are given.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 13 No. 2 (2015): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Likelihood Ratio Tests in Linear Models with Linear Inequality Restrictions on Regression Coefficients
Creators: name: Fonseca, Miguel
name: Mexia, João Tiago
name: Sinha, Bimal K.
name: Zmyślony, Roman
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2015

description: This paper develops statistical inference in linear models, dealing with the theory of maximum likelihood estimates and likelihood ratio tests under some linear inequality restrictions on the regression coefficients. The results are widely applicable to models used in environmental risk analysis and econometrics.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 13 No. 2 (2015): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Alcohol Abuse Disorder Prevalence and its Distribution Across Portugal
Creators: name: Baptista, Helena
name: Mendes, Jorge M.
name: Caldas De Almeida, José
name: Xavier, Miguel
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2015

description: Disease mapping is linked to two other scientific areas: small area estimation and ecological-spatial regression. This paper reviews similarities and differences among them. Bayesian hierarchical models are typically used in this context, using a combination of covariate data and a set of spatial random effects to represent the risk surface. The random effects are typically modeled by a conditional autoregressive prior distribution, and a number of alternative specifications have been proposed in the literature. The four models assessed here are applied to a study on alcohol abuse in Portugal, using data collected by the World Mental Health Survey Initiative.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 13 No. 1 (2015): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Longitudinal Analysis of Tumor Marker CEA of Breast Cancer Patients From Braga’s Hospital
Creators: name: Borges, Ana
name: Sousa, Inês
name: Castro, Luís
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2015

description: Allied to an epidemiological study of population of the Senology Unit of Braga’s Hospital that have been diagnosed with malignant breast cancer, we describe the progression in time of repeated measurements of tumor marker Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA). Our main purpose is to describe the progression of this tumor marker as a function of possible risk factors and, hence, to understand how these risk factors influences that progression. The response variable, values of CEA, was analyzed making use of longitudinal models, testing for different correlation structures. The same covariates used in a previous survival analysis were considered in the longitudinal model. The reference time used was time from diagnose until death from breast cancer. For diagnostic of the models fitted we have used empirical and theoretical variograms. To evaluate the fixed term of the longitudinal model we have tested for a changing point on the effect of time on the tumor marker progression. A longitudinal model was also fitted only to the subset of patients that died from breast cancer, using the reference time as time from date of death until blood test.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 13 No. 1 (2015): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
New insights on in vitro biotransformation of anticoagulant rodenticides in fish
Creators: name: Friesen, Anton
name: Regnery, Julia
name: Jacob, Stefanie
name: Riegraf, Carolin
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Bioakkumulation

description: he assessment of the bioaccumulation potential of chemicals is an essential and mandatory part of their regulatory environmental risk and hazard assessment. So far, in vitro data on fish metabolism is rarely available for biocidal active substances such as anticoagulant rodenticides. In this case study we present in vitro biotransformation rates of eight biocidal and one pharmaceutical anticoagulants in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) liver subcellular S9 fraction (RT-S9) determined following the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development test guideline 319B method at two different incubation temperatures (i.e., 12 +/- 1 ËÌC and 23 +/- 2 ËÌC). Furthermore, we address challenges associated with the usability and interpretation of in vitro data to support the decision making within the regulatory bioaccumulation assessment in bridging the gap between in silico methods and in vivo studies. According to our results, four of the tested substances (i.e., chlorophacinone, coumatetralyl, bromadiolone, and difenacoum) exhibited significant intrinsic clearance (p < .001) in the RT-S9 assay. Overall, the observed metabolism was (very) slow and clearance rates were temperature-dependent. Whether the determined in vitro biotransformation rate had a substantial influence on the predicted bioconcentration factor during extrapolation was subject to the lipophilicity of the test substance. Further improvements of existing concepts are needed to overcome uncertainties in the prediction of bioconcentration factors for chemicals such as anticoagulants. © 2022 Elsevier Ltd.
Challenges and recommendations to improve implementation of phototherapy among neonates in Malawian hospitals
Creators: name: Kinshella, Mai-Lei Woo
name: Salimu, Sangwani
name: Chiwaya, Brandina
name: Chikoti, Felix
name: Chirambo, Lusungu
name: Mwaungulu, Ephrida
name: Banda, Mwai
name: Hiwa, Tamanda
name: Vidler, Marianne
name: Molyneux, Elizabeth M.
name: Dube, Queen
name: Mfutso-Bengo, Joseph
name: Goldfarb, David M.
name: Kawaza, Kondwani
name: Nyondo-Mipando, Alinane L.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2022

description: Background Severe neonatal jaundice can result in long term morbidities and mortality when left untreated. Phototherapy is the main-stay intervention for treating moderate jaundice and for prevention of the development of severe jaundice. However, in resource-limited health care settings, phototherapy has been inconsistently used. The objective of this study is to evaluate barriers and facilitators for phototherapy to treat neonatal jaundice at Malawian hospitals. Methods We conducted a convergent mixed-method study comprised of a facility assessment and qualitative interviews with healthcare workers and caregivers in southern Malawi. The facility assessment was conducted at three secondary-level hospitals in rural districts. In-depth interviews following a semi-structured topic guide were conducted at a district hospital and a tertiary-level hospital. Interviews were thematically analysed in NVivo 12 software (QSR International, Melbourne, Australia). Results The facility assessment found critical gaps in initiating and monitoring phototherapy in all facilities. Based on a total of 31 interviews, participants identified key challenges in diagnosing neonatal jaundice, counselling caregivers, and availability of infrastructure. Participants emphasized the need for transcutaneous bilirubinometers to guide treatment decisions. Caregivers were sometimes fearful of potential harmful effects of phototherapy, which required adequate explanation to mothers and family members in non-medical language. Task shifting and engaging peer support for caregivers with concerns about phototherapy was recommended. Conclusion Implementation of a therapeutic intervention is limited if accurate diagnostic tests are unavailable. The scale up of therapeutic interventions, such as phototherapy for neonatal jaundice, requires careful holistic attention to infrastructural needs, supportive services such as laboratory integration as well as trained human resources.
Cyclotosaurus Fraas 1889
Creators: name: Witzmann, Florian
name: Sachs, Sven
name: Nyhuis, Christian J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Capitosauridae
Cyclotosaurus

description: Cyclotosaurus Fraas, 1889    Hercynosaurus Jaekel, 1914    Hemprichisaurus Kuhn, 1939
 Type species: Cyclotosaurus robustus (Meyer and Plieninger, 1844)
 Diagnosis (emended after Schoch and Milner, 2000): (1) Frontals with broad descending processes that connect with the roof of the broad sphenethmoid; (2) short choana of round to ovate outline; (3) vomerine plate short; (4) broad triangular area at the base of the cultriform process merging continuously into the cultriform crest; (5) basal plate of parasphenoid delta shaped with elongated basicranial suture (shared with Mastodonsauridae); (6) squamosal embayment closed to otic fenestra (shared with Eocyclotosaurus, Quasicyclotosaurus, Kupferzellia (Tatrasuchus), and Procyclotosaurus); (7) pterygoid–exoccipital contact by means of posterior process of pterygoid (shared with Eocyclotosaurus and Quasicyclotosaurus); (8) frontal contribution to orbital margin limited or obliterated (obliteration shared with Eocyclotosaurus and Quasicyclotosaurus); (9) quadrate ramus of pterygoid laterally aligned and abbreviated (Schoch, 2008; shared with Mastodonsauridae).
description: Published as part of Witzmann, Florian, Sachs, Sven & Nyhuis, Christian J., 2016, A new species of Cyclotosaurus (Stereospondyli, Capitosauria) from the Late Triassic of Bielefeld, NW Germany, and the intrarelationships of the genus, pp. 83-100 in Fossil Record 19 (2) on page 86, DOI: 10.5194/fr-19-83-2016, http://zenodo.org/record/11589242
Dormant (text)
Creators: name: Johnstone, Ruth
name: Byrne, Lisa
name: Edquist, Harriet
name: Vaughan, Laurene
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360699
subject: Visual arts not elsewhere classified

description: This is the first comprehensive book combining historical geospatial and social research through an examination of contemporary visual, geological, social and literary interpretations of the volcanic plains of the Western District of Victoria.

The chapter is directed at an individual familial perspective on how to create a multi-dimensional perspective with the intention of transforming landscape and the region of the Stony Rises into a richly layered understanding of place.
Statistical Methods for Detecting the Onset of Influenza Outbreaks
Creators: name: Amorós, Rubén
name: Conesa, David
name: Martinez-Beneito, Miguel Angel
name: Lopez-Quílez, Antonio
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2015

description: This paper reviews different approaches for determining the epidemic period from influenza surveillance data. In the first approach, the process of differenced incidence rates is modelled either with a first-order autoregressive process or with a Gaussian white noise process depending on whether the system is in an epidemic or a nonepidemic phase. The second approach allows us to directly model the process of the observed cases via a Bayesian hierarchical Poisson model with Gaussian incidence rates whose parameters are modelled differently, depending on the epidemic phase of the system. In both cases transitions between both phases are modelled with a hidden Markov switching model over the epidemic state. Bayesian inference is carried out and both models provide the probability of being in epidemic state at any given moment. A comparison of both methodologies with previous approaches in terms of sensitivity, specificity and timeliness is also performed. Finally, we also review a web-based client application which implements the first methodology for obtaining the posterior probability of being in an epidemic phase.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 13 No. 1 (2015): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Predicting Cancer Mortality using ANOVA-type P-spline Models
Creators: name: Ugarte, María Dolores
name: Goicoa, Tomás
name: Militino, Ana F.
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2015

description: Extrapolating cancer mortality trends can be very valuable as a tool to predict cancer burden. National Health Agencies use different models to figure out future evolution of cancer, but they mainly work at national level. However, developed countries are divided into different regions with their own governments and health care systems, and this should be taken into account. In this paper, an ANOVA-type P-spline model is considered to predict the number of mortality cases in forthcoming years in regions within a country. The model is very interesting as it allows to split the predictions into components representing region-specific features and characteristics common to the whole country. Prediction variability is also calculated to provide prediction intervals. Real data on cancer mortality are used for illustration.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 13 No. 1 (2015): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Recent Advances in Inflammatory Diagnosis with Graphene Quantum Dots Enhanced SERS Detection
Creators: name: Mousavi, Seyyed Mojtaba
name: Hashemi, Seyyed Alireza
name: Yari Kalashgrani, Masoomeh
name: Kurniawan, Darwin
name: Gholami, Ahmad
name: Rahmanian, Vahid
name: Omidifar, Navid
name: Chiang, Wei-Hung
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2022

description: Inflammatory diseases are some of the most common diseases in different parts of the world. So far, most attention has been paid to the role of environmental factors in the inflammatory process. The diagnosis of inflammatory changes is an important goal for the timely diagnosis and treatment of various metastatic, autoimmune, and infectious diseases. Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) can be used for the diagnosis of inflammation due to their excellent properties, such as high biocompatibility, low toxicity, high stability, and specific surface area. Additionally, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) allows the very sensitive structural detection of analytes at low concentrations by amplifying electromagnetic fields generated by the excitation of localized surface plasmons. In recent years, the use of graphene quantum dots amplified by SERS has increased for the diagnosis of inflammation. The known advantages of graphene quantum dots SERS include non-destructive analysis methods, sensitivity and specificity, and the generation of narrow spectral bands characteristic of the molecular components present, which have led to their increased application. In this article, we review recent advances in the diagnosis of inflammation using graphene quantum dots and their improved detection of SERS. In this review study, the graphene quantum dots synthesis method, bioactivation method, inflammatory biomarkers, plasma synthesis of GQDs and SERS GQD are investigated. Finally, the detection mechanisms of SERS and the detection of inflammation are presented.
Assessing the Evolution of Territorial Disparities in Health
Creators: name: Cocchi, Daniela
name: Greco, Fedele
name: Scalone, Francesco
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2015

description: The paper investigates spatio-temporal trends in health disparities through an empirical example. We deal with geographical health pattern in Italy from 1991 to 2010, starting from infant mortality data available at the provincial level and assessing the existent disparity among macro-regions (the conventional Northern, Central and Southern macro-regions). After a discussion concerning suitable inequality indices and their decompositions when dealing with small area data, we propose a model-based approach that allows to properly tackle sampling variability. Results give evidences of persisting spatial disparity in infant mortality along time.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 13 No. 1 (2015): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Supplementary document for Polarization-independent all-dielectric guided-mode resonance filter according to binary grating and slab waveguide dimensions - 5506260.pdf
Creators: name: Bark, Hyeon Sang
name: baek, in hyung
name: KIM, GEONG RYUL
name: Jeong, Young Uk
name: Jang, Kyuha
name: Lee, Kitae
name: Jeon, Tae In
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary for Fig.2 and Fig. 6
Port-Estimation of a Shape Second-Order Parameter
Creators: name: Henriques-Rodrigues, Lígia
name: Gomes, M. Ivette
name: Fraga Alves, M. Isabel
name: Neves, Cláudia
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2014

description: In this paper we study, under a semi-parametric framework and for heavy right tails, a class of location invariant estimators of a shape second-order parameter, ruling the rate of convergence of the normalised sequence of maximum values to a non-degenerate limit. This class is based on the PORT methodology, with PORT standing for peaks over random thresholds. Asymptotic normality of such estimators is achieved under a third-order condition on the right-tail of the underlying model F and for suitable large intermediate ranks. An illustration of the finite sample behaviour of the estimators is provided through a small-scale Monte-Carlo simulation study.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 12 No. 3 (2014): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
K Nearest Neighbors Estimation of the Conditional Hazard Function for Functional Data
Creators: name: Kadi Attouch, Mohammed
name: Zohra Belabed, Fatima
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2014

description: In this paper, we study the nonparametric estimator of the conditional hazard function using the k nearest neighbors (k-NN) estimation method for a scalar response variable given a random variable taking values in a semi-metric space. We give the almost complete convergence (its corresponding rate) of this estimator and we establish the asymptotic normality. Then the effectiveness of this method is exhibited by a comparison with the kernel method estimation given in Ferraty et al. ([12]) and Laksaci and Mechab ([15]) in both cases simulated data and real data.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 12 No. 3 (2014): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Reparameterized Birnbaum–Saunders Distribution and its Moments, Estimation and Applications
Creators: name: Santos-Neto, Manoel
name: A. Cysneiros, Francisco José
name: Leiva, Víctor
name: Barros, Michelli
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2014

description: The Birnbaum–Saunders (BS) distribution is a model that is receiving considerable attention due to its good properties. We provide some results on moments of a reparameterized version of the BS distribution and a generation method of random numbers from this distribution. In addition, we propose estimation and inference for the mentioned parameterization based on maximum likelihood, moment, modified moment and generalized moment methods. By means of a Monte Carlo simulation study, we evaluate the performance of the proposed estimators. We discuss applications of the reparameterized BS distribution from different scientific fields and analyze two real-world data sets to illustrate our results. The simulated and real data are analyzed by using the R software.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 12 No. 3 (2014): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Bengt-Ove Andreassen & James R. Lewis (eds.): Textbook Gods. Genre, Text and Teaching Religious Studies
Creators: name: Trein, Lorenz
Publisher: name: Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Year: 2016

description: This contribution offers a review of:

Bengt-Ove Andreassen & James R. Lewis (eds.):

Textbook Gods. Genre, Text and Teaching Religious Studies
Sheffield/Bristol: Equinox, 2014. 256 pages, £55.00/$85.00 (hardback), £18.99/$29.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-78179-054-0 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-78179-055-7 (paperback).
description: Entangled Religions, Vol 3 (2016)
Satisfication of counsellor on telephone counselling during unofficial time
Creators: name: Vacharaporn Uthayopas
name: Chusri Kerdpongbunchote
name: Suchada Pliansri
name: Chapen Suttichaichote
name: Kanchana Suttineam
Publisher: name: Department of Mental Health Thailand
Year: 2004
Subjects: telephone counselling,mental health,client,counsellor,satisfication

description: 3, 12, Journal of Mental Health of Thailand
Supplementary document for Polarization-independent all-dielectric guided-mode resonance filter according to binary grating and slab waveguide dimensions - 5506260.pdf
Creators: name: Bark, Hyeon Sang
name: baek, in hyung
name: KIM, GEONG RYUL
name: Jeong, Young Uk
name: Jang, Kyuha
name: Lee, Kitae
name: Jeon, Tae In
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary for Fig.2 and Fig. 6
Evaluation of drug addicts' remedy and health restoration project U-Thong district, Suphanburi province
Creators: name: Charach Pornamnuaylap
name: Kittisak Loungphantaw
Publisher: name: Department of Mental Health Thailand
Year: 2004
Subjects: Project evaluation,drug addicts' remedy,health restoration,Suphanburi

description: 3, 12, Journal of Mental Health of Thailand
Using behaviour change theory to design an intervention for Australian general practitioners to reduce antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory tract infections
Creators: name: Sargent, Lucy
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2023
Subjects: behaviour change
theory
delayed prescribing
general practitioners
General practice
Primary health care

description: General practitioners (GPs) prescribe antibiotics for acute respiratory tract infections at high rates, despite evidence that suggests little benefit. Use of antibiotics causes antibiotic resistance, which is a major threat to global health. It is predicted more people will die of antibiotic resistance than of cancer by 2030. GPs have been the focus of many interventions to try to change antibiotic prescribing behaviour. These interventions have produced only modest results and variable antibiotic prescribing continues, with recent antibiotic use increasing in the community. From a public health perspective, reducing inappropriate and unnecessary antibiotics for humans is the single most important action needed to slow the spread of antibiotic-resistant infections.
description: Delayed prescribing – when a GP gives the patient a prescription with advice to wait a certain amount of time before starting antibiotics (or not) – is an evidence-based method to reduce antibiotic use in primary care. In high-income countries, less than 5% of prescriptions for common infections are delayed. Researchers exploring why evidence is not translated into practice identify interventions are not well designed and most lack theoretical underpinnings. Without a theoretical approach, it is difficult to evaluate why a strategy is not adopted or, if it is, what components can be replicated in different contexts. This research sought to fill this evidence gap by using behaviour change models and frameworks to design an intervention for Australian GPs to reduce antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory tract infections.
description: The aim of the research was to apply theoretical concepts to understand how to support GPs to use delayed prescribing with patients who present with a respiratory tract infection. However, recruiting GPs to research is difficult and additional research was completed to understand barriers and facilitators to GPs participating in research studies. Four research questions were posed. Question 1: What is the international evidence on delayed prescribing? Question 2: What are barriers and facilitators to delayed prescribing in Australia? Question 3: What are barriers and facilitators to GPs’ participation in implementation research as participants? Question 4: How are theoretical constructs used to design, and recruit to, a delayed prescribing intervention?
Assessment and optimization of chemical industrial processes from a life cycle perspective
Creators: name: Cespi, Daniele <1987>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2015
Subjects: CHIM/12 Chimica dell'ambiente e dei beni culturali

description: During the PhD program in chemistry, curriculum in environmental chemistry, at the University of Bologna the sustainability of industry was investigated through the application of the LCA methodology. The efforts were focused on the chemical sector in order to investigate reactions dealing with the Green Chemistry and Green Engineering principles, evaluating their sustainability in comparison with traditional pathways by a life cycle perspective. The environmental benefits associated with a reduction in the synthesis steps and the use of renewable feedstock were assessed through a holistic approach selecting two case studies with high relevance from an industrial point of view: the synthesis of acrylonitrile and the production of acrolein. The current approach wants to represent a standardized application of LCA methodology to the chemical sector, which could be extended to several case studies, and also an improvement of the current databases, since the lack of data to fill the inventories of the chemical productions represent a huge limitation, difficult to overcome and that can affects negatively the results of the studies. Results emerged from the analyses confirms that the sustainability in the chemical sector should be evaluated from a cradle-to-gate approach, considering all the stages and flows involved in each pathways in order to avoid shifting the environmental burdens from a steps to another. Moreover, if possible, LCA should be supported by other tools able to investigate the other two dimensions of sustainability represented by the social and economic issues.
Biomimetic Scaffolds for the Controlled Release of Bioactive Molecules for Tissue Engineering Applications
Creators: name: Minardi, Silvia <1986>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2015
Subjects: CHIM/03 Chimica generale e inorganica

description: The temporospatial controlled delivery of growth factors is crucial to trigger the desired healing mechanisms in target tissues. The uncontrolled release of growth factors has been demonstrated to cause severe side effects in its surrounding tissues. Thus, the first working hypothesis was to tune and optimize a newly developed multiscale delivery platform based on a nanostructured silicon particle core (pSi) and a poly (dl-lactide-co-glycolide) acid (PLGA) outer shell. In a murine subcutaneous model, the platform was demonstrated to be fully tunable for the temporal and spatial control release of the payload. Secondly, a multiscale approach was followed in a multicompartment collagen scaffold, to selectively integrate different sets of PLGA-pSi loaded with different reporter proteins. The spatial confinement of the microspheres allowed the release of the reporter proteins in each of the layers of the scaffold. Finally, the staged and zero-order release kinetics enabled the temporal biochemical patterning of the scaffold. The last step of this PhD project was to test if by fully embedding PLGA microspheres in a highly structured and fibrous collagen-based scaffold (camouflaging), it was possible to prevent their early detection and clearance by macrophages. It was further studied whether such a camouflaging strategy was efficient in reducing the production of key inflammatory molecules, while preserving the release kinetics of the payload of the PLGA microspheres. Results demonstrated that the camouflaging allowed for a 10-fold decrease in the number of PLGA microspheres internalized by macrophages, suggesting that the 3D scaffold operated by cloaking the PLGA microspheres. When the production of key inflammatory cytokines induced by the scaffold was assessed, macrophages' response to the PLGA microspheres-integrated scaffolds resulted in a response similar to that observed in the control (not functionalized scaffold) and the release kinetic of a reporter protein was preserved.
Envy: A Psychometric Refinement of the Construct
Creators: name: Casu, Giulia <1983>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2015
Subjects: M-PSI/03 Psicometria

description: The noticeable differences in the theoretical and operative definitions of envy across studies and approaches have produced a fragmentary representation and understanding of the envious emotion.  
The present dissertation aimed to clarify the inherent nature of the construct of envy through the integration of findings from three independent studies.  We focused on malicious envy, and investigated it from both a dispositional and an episodic perspective.
Studies 1 and 2 investigated the dimensionality of envy as a stable individual characteristic and an episodic emotional state, respectively.  In order to elicit episodic envy, a scenario-based experiment was conducted.  Results indicated that, in both its dispositional and episodic facets, envy is a bidimensional construct composed by an inner-directed dimension of inferiority and helplessness, and an outer-directed dimension of feelings of anger and ill will.  Moreover, findings from Study 1 allowed to establish boundaries between envy and competing constructs that have often been included in conceptualizations of envy.  The psychometrically validated definition of envy provided by Studies 1 and 2 represents a valuable contribution to empirical research.  Implications for envy research concern the promotion of a shared operationalization of envy in future studies, which will arguably facilitate the comparison of findings between studies and between approaches.
Study 3 examined the mechanisms through which dispositional envy affects individuals’ social adjustment and psychological wellbeing.  Findings revealed that the detrimental effects of envy on perceived social support and subjective well-being are mostly mediated by other personal characteristics, such as neuroticism and self-esteem.  By reducing global self-esteem, the envious disposition may damage supportive social networks via antisocial direct and indirect behaviors that may arise from envy and that are likely to drive others away.  On the other hand, by damaging both emotional stability and self-worth, dispositional envy leads to reduced subjective well-being.  Implications for clinical practice are discussed.
Impact of Falsely Assuming I.I.D. Output on the Probability of Misleading Signals
Creators: name: Cabral Morais, Manuel
name: Ferreira Ramos, Patrícia
name: Pacheco, António
name: Schmid, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2014

description: Misleading signals (MS) are valid alarms which correspond to the misinterpretation of a shift in the process mean (resp. variance) as a shift in the process variance (resp. mean), when we deal with simultaneous schemes for these two parameters. MS can be fairly frequent, as reported by some authors, and occur for instance when: – the individual chart for the mean triggers a signal before the one for the variance, even though the process mean is on-target and the variance is off-target; or – the individual chart for the variance triggers a signal before the one for the mean, although the variance is in-control and the process mean is out-of-control. This paper illustrates how (un)reliable are the traditional simultaneous Shewhart- and EWMA-type schemes in identifying which parameter has changed, under the false assumption of independence, namely when the output process within each sample follows AR(1), AR(2) or ARMA (1,1) models. This is done by means of Monte Carlo simulation and the estimation of the probability of a misleading signal (PMS). Finally, we go on to compare these estimates of PMS with the values of the PMS of simultaneous Shewhart- and EWMA-type residual schemes whose control statistics take into account the autocorrelation structure of the output process.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 12 No. 3 (2014): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Sally Mannall's Flights and Perchings
Creators: name: Thomas, David
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360602
subject: Fine arts

description: This 3000 word catalogue essay discusses the work of Sally Mannall in relationship to content of memory, time, death and places her work within the context of current installation practice. The essay addresses ideas complexity with a focus on current understandings of time and duration in video.

The catalogue essay complimented the exhibition and presented the ideas in this exhibition to an international audience. It furthered the understanding of content and fosters ongoing research links between RMIT and Massey University.
Limit Theory for Joint Generalized Order Statistics
Creators: name: Barakat, H.M.
name: Nigm, E.M.
name: Abd Elgawad, M.A.
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2014

description: In Kamps [7] generalized order statistics (gos) have been introduced as a unifying theme for several models of ascendingly ordered random variables (rv’s). The main aim of this paper is to study the limit joint distribution function (df) of any two statistics in a wide subclass of the gos model known as m-gos. This subclass contains many important practical models of gos such as ordinary order statistics (oos), order statistics with non-integer sample size, and sequential order statistics (sos). The limit df’s of lower-lower extreme, upper-upper extreme, lower-upper extreme, centralcentral and lower-lower intermediate m-gos are obtained. It is revealed that the convergence of the marginals m-gos implies the convergence of the joint df. Moreover, the conditions, under which the asymptotic independence between the two marginals occurs, are derived.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 12 No. 3 (2014): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
title: Landwirtschaft quo vadis?
title: Landwirtschaft quo vadis?
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2019
Subjects: Landwirtschaft
Ländlicher Raum
Agrarhandel

description: Die Landwirtschaft befindet sich in einem starken Spannungsfeld zwischen ökonomischen und ökologischen Herausforderungen. Die Gesellschaft erwartet von ihr die Produktion von billigen Lebensmitteln, gleichzeitig werden aber die Forderungen nach einer Landwirtschaft, die nur einen geringen ökologischen Fußabdruck aufweist, immer nachdrücklicher. Die Kommission Landwirtschaft am Umweltbundesamt (KLU) fordert daher eine fundamentale Neuausrichtung unseres Agrarsystems. Für fünf Brennpunkte der Landwirtschaft spricht die KLU konkrete Empfehlungen aus: ländlicher Raum, Nährstoffüberschüsse, Ernährungssystem, internationaler Agrarhandel und Digitalisierung in der Landwirtschaft. Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
Robust Bootstrap
Creators: name: Amado, Conceição
name: Bianco, Ana M.
name: Boente, Graciela
name: Pires, Ana M.
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2014

description: There is a vast literature on robust estimators, but in some situations it is still not easy to make inferences, such as confidence regions and hypothesis testing. This is mainly due to the following facts. On one hand, in most situations, it is difficult to derive the exact distribution of the estimator. On the other one, even if its asymptotic behaviour is known, in many cases, the convergence to the limiting distribution may be rather slow, so bootstrap methods are preferable since they often give better small sample results. However, resampling methods have several disadvantages including the propagation of anomalous data all along the new samples. In this paper, we discuss the problems arising in the bootstrap when outlying observations are present. We argue that it is preferable to use a robust bootstrap rather than to bootstrap robust estimators and we discuss a robust bootstrap method, the Influence Function Bootstrap denoted IFB. We illustrate the performance of the IFB intervals in the univariate location case and in the logistic regression model. We derive some asymptotic properties of the IFB. Finally, we introduce a generalization of the Influence Function Bootstrap in order to improve the IFB behaviour.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 12 No. 2 (2014): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Interprofessional Education in the Entry-to-Practice PharmD Program
Creators: name: Guo, Leslie
name: Min, Jason
name: Leung, Larry
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: This is Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 of a 4-part series about Interprofessional Education (IPE) in the Entry-to-Practice PharmD Program at UBC. The purpose of this series is to inform practice educators on the student IPE curriculum, stimulate conversation about IPE, and further encourage interprofessional collaboration in practice.
Prevalence of Mental disorders in Thailand : A national survey 2003
Creators: name: Porntep Siriwanarangsun
name: Thoranin Kongsuk
name: Suwanna Arunpongpaisan
name: Phunnapa Kittirattanapaiboon
name: Achara Charatsingha
Publisher: name: Department of Mental Health Thailand
Year: 2004
Subjects: mental disorders,survey,prevalence

description: 3, 12, Journal of Mental Health of Thailand
Extremes of Perturbed Bivariate Rayleigh Risks
Creators: name: Hashorva, Enkelejd
name: Nadarajah, Saralees
name: K. Pogány, Tibor
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2014

description: We establish first an asymptotic expansion for the joint survival function of a bivariate Rayleigh distribution, one of the most popular probabilistic models in engineering. Furthermore, we show that the component-wise maxima of a Hüsler–Reiss triangular array scheme of independent perturbed bivariate Rayleigh risks converges to a bivariate Hüsler–Reiss random vector.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 12 No. 2 (2014): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Upcrossings of Trigonometric Polynomials with Random Coefficients
Creators: name: Turkman, K.F.
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2014

description: Polynomials are one of the oldest and the most versatile classes of functions which are fundamental in approximating highly complex, deterministic as well as random nonlinear functions and systems. Their use has been acknowledged in every scientific field from physics to ecology. Just to emphasize their great use in many fields, we mention their fundamental role in linear and non-linear time series analysis. In this paper, we give a review of some of the results related to polynomials with random coefficients and highlight the Poisson character of high level upcrossings of certain random coefficient trigonometric polynomials which are used in spectral analysis of time series.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 12 No. 2 (2014): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Madogram and Asymptotic Independence among Maxima
Creators: name: Guillou, Armelle
name: Naveau, Philippe
name: Schorgen, Antoine
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2014

description: A strong statistical research effort has been devoted in multivariate extreme value theory in order to assess the strength of dependence among extremes. This topic is particularly difficult in the case where block maxima are near independence. In this paper, we adapt and study a simple inference tool inspired from geostatistics, the madogram, to the context of asymptotic independence between pairwise block maxima. In particular, we introduce an extremal coefficient and study the theoretical properties of its estimator. Its behaviour is also illustrated on a small simulation study and a real data set.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 12 No. 2 (2014): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Uniform Approximations for Distributions of Continuous Random Variables with Application in Dual Statis Method
Creators: name: Lita Da Silva, João
name: Ramos, Luís Pedro
Publisher: name: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Year: 2014

description: The matrix S = tr(WiQWjQ) i,j=1,...,k where Q is a symmetric positive definite matrix and Wi = X′ iDiXi , i = 1, ..., k is formed by data tables Xi and diagonal matrices of weights Di , plays a central role in dual STATIS method. In this paper, we approximate the distribution function of the entries of S, assuming data tables Xi given by Ui + Ei , i = 1, ..., k with independent random matrices Ei representing errors, in order to obtain (approximately) the distribution of Sv, where v is the orthonormal eigenvector of S associated to the largest eigenvalue. To achieve this goal, we approximate uniformly the distribution of each entry of S. In general, our technique consists in to approximate uniformly the distribution sequence g(V n + µn), n > 1 , where g is some smooth function of several variables, {V n, n > 1} is a sequence of identically distributed random vectors of continuous type and {µn} is a non-random vector sequence.
description: REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, Vol. 12 No. 2 (2014): REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
Highly Sensitive Flexible SERS-Based Sensing Platform for Detection of COVID-19
Creators: name: Mousavi, Seyyed Mojtaba
name: Hashemi, Seyyed Alireza
name: Rahmanian, Vahid
name: Kalashgrani, Masoomeh Yari
name: Gholami, Ahmad
name: Omidifar, Navid
name: Chiang, Wei-Hung
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2022

description: COVID-19 continues to spread and has been declared a global emergency. Individuals with current or past infection should be identified as soon as possible to prevent the spread of disease. Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is an analytical technique that has the potential to be used to detect viruses at the site of therapy. In this context, SERS is an exciting technique because it provides a fingerprint for any material. It has been used with many COVID-19 virus subtypes, including Deltacron and Omicron, a novel coronavirus. Moreover, flexible SERS substrates, due to their unique advantages of sensitivity and flexibility, have recently attracted growing research interest in real-world applications such as medicine. Reviewing the latest flexible SERS-substrate developments is crucial for the further development of quality detection platforms. This article discusses the ultra-responsive detection methods used by flexible SERS substrate. Multiplex assays that combine ultra-responsive detection methods with their unique biomarkers and/or biomarkers for secondary diseases triggered by the development of infection are critical, according to this study. In addition, we discuss how flexible SERS-substrate-based ultrasensitive detection methods could transform disease diagnosis, control, and surveillance in the future. This study is believed to help researchers design and manufacture flexible SERS substrates with higher performance and lower cost, and ultimately better understand practical applications.
Supplementary document for Simultaneous scattering compensation at multiple points in multi-photon microscopy - 5506322.pdf
Creators: name: May, Molly
name: Kummer, Kai
name: Edenhofer, Marie-Luise
name: Choconta, Jainy Luna
name: Kress, Michaela
name: Ritsch-Marte, Monika
name: Jesacher, Alexander
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Intervention measure for Mental Health problem in Thai population
Creators: name: Sriwanna Poolsuppasit
name: Somkuan Hanpatchaiyakul
name: Wipakorn Sroysuwan
name: Uraiwan Yimlamai
Publisher: name: Department of Mental Health Thailand
Year: 2005
Subjects: Village health Volunteer,year of life loss to disability,CIPP Model

description: 1, 13, Journal of Mental Health of Thailand