cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Endovascular treatment of proximal lower extremity deep vein thrombosis – experience of a center
Creators: name: Queirós, Miguel
name: Rego, Duarte
name: De Almeida, Rui
Publisher: name: Angiologia e Cirurgia Vascular
Year: 2024

description: INTRODUCTION: Proximal lower extremity deep vein thrombosis (DVT) occurs in 5-10/10000 patients annually. Left untreated, there's a notable risk of pulmonary embolism development and the onset of long-term limb complications linked to post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS). Traditionally, these patients were treated with conservative therapy, namely anticoagulation and compression stockings. Nowadays, new and more aggressive treatments have emerged. Endovascular therapies, such as thrombectomy devices, catheter-directed thrombolysis (CDT), percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA), and stent placement, provide a highly effective treatment option with minimal patient risk of complications.

METHODS: We retrospectively studied all patients with proximal lower extremity DVT who were treated with endovascular therapy in our center between the years of 2018 and 2021. We choose as primary outcomes symptoms of PTS (Villalta Score) and quality of life (VEINES-QoL/Sym questionnaire) and as secondary outcomes treatment efficacy (grade of thrombolysis), treatment safety, and primary patency.

RESULTS: A total of 20 patients were treated by endovascular treatment. The majority of these patients were women (95%); 60% of them had DVT of the left limb, and 30% had phlegmasia alba dolens. Seven patients were treated with the AngiojetTM system (35%), four with the PenumbraTM system (20%) and nine with CDT alone (45%).
Two patients presented with mild PTS symptoms, and the mean VEINES-QoL/Sym questionnaire score was 84.8% +/- 13.6%. There were no cases of major bleeding or pulmonary embolism after the procedure. Two patients had small vein ruptures with no need for additional treatment. The average length of stay in a high surveillance unit for vigilance was 2.2 days. At the end of treatment, 75% of the patients had complete thrombolysis, 15% had partial thrombolysis (50–99% thrombus removal), and 10% showed minimal or no thrombolysis (< 50% thrombus removal). The primary patency rate was 88% after 12 months.

CONCLUSION: Our experience has shown that endovascular therapy for acute proximal lower extremity DVT is a safe and effective treatment associated with a very low incidence of PTS and recurrent venous thromboembolism. However, life-threatening complications such as major bleeding can occur. As such, while under treatment, close monitoring of these patients in a high surveillance unit is mandatory.
description: Angiologia e Cirurgia Vascular, Vol. 20 No. 2 (2024): June
An energy balancing strategy based on Hilbert curve and genetic algorithm for wireless sensor networks
Creators: name: Kong, Lingping
name: Pan, Jeng Shyang
name: Sung, Tien Wen
name: Tsai, Pei-Wei
name: Snášel, Václav
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 400608
subject: Wireless communication systems and technologies (incl. microwave and millimetrewave)
classificationCode: 460203
subject: Evolutionary computation
classificationCode: 460204
subject: Fuzzy computation
classificationCode: 461104
subject: Neural networks

description: A wireless sensor network is a sensing system composed of a few to hundreds or even thousands of sensor nodes. These nodes, however, are powered by internal batteries, which cannot be recharged or replaced, and have a limited lifespan. Traditional two-tier networks with one sink node are thus vulnerable to communication gaps caused by nodes dying when their battery power is depleted. In such cases, some nodes are unable to communicate with the sink node because intermediary nodes on the transmission path to the sink are dead. Energy load balancing is a technique for extending the lifespan of node batteries, thus preventing communication gaps and extending the network lifespan. However, while energy conservation is important, strategies that make the best use of available energy are also a valuable research topic. In this paper, in order to decrease transmission energy cost and prolong network lifespan, a three-tier wireless sensor network is proposed, in which the first level is the sink node and the third level nodes communicate with the sink node via the second level nodes, which are called service sites. Moreover, this study aims to minimize the number of service sites in order to decrease the construction cost. The computation of the number of service centers can be treated as a k-center problem. This paper lists the standard deviation, average and other factors to test the stability and benefits of traditional methods and the proposed method. The standard deviation values remain below one for the HHSG scheme, which demonstrates the stability of the HHSG scheme.
title: Der materielle Investorenschutz im CETA-Entwurf: Fortschritt, Rückschritt, Gefahr?
Creators: name: Trentinaglia, Thomas
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 341

description: Völkerrechtsblog
3D SPH simulations of grain growth in protoplanetary disks
Creators: name: Laibe, Guillaume
name: Gonzalez, Jean François
name: Fouchet, Laure
name: Maddison, Sarah
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present the first results of the treatment of grain growth in our 3D, two-fluid (gas+dust) SPH code describing protoplanetary disks. We implement a scheme able to reproduce the variation of grain sizes caused by a variety of physical processes and test it with the analytical expression of grain growth given by Stepinski & Valageas (1997) in simulations of a typical T Tauri disk around a one solar mass star. The results are in agreement with a turbulent growing process and validate the method. We are now able to simulate the grain growth process in a protoplanetary disk given by a more realistic physical description, currently under development. We discuss the implications of the combined effect of grain growth and dust vertical settling and radial migration on subsequent planetesimal formation.
Impacts of Parental Care Quality on Tadpole Development
Creators: name: Baker, Penelope
name: O'Connell, Lauren
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Amphibians
subject: Poison frogs
subject: Parental care
subject: Begging
subject: Neurogenesis

description: Offspring communication to parents is crucial for survival in many altricial animal species. Mimic poison frog (Ranitomeya imitator) tadpoles rely on their parents for nutritional needs. This biparental species coordinates sex-specific parenting tasks through vocal communication, including guarding, transportation, and feeding. Tadpoles solicit maternal provisioning of unfertilized egg meals by begging using bodily vibrations directed at a caregiver. Whether tadpoles selectively recognize their parents or display begging to any potential caregiver remains poorly understood. To test this, we exposed R. imitator tadpoles to related and unrelated males and females and measured affiliative behavior towards caregivers versus conspecifics. First, we found that offspring care relies on interparental synchrony and that the degree of synchrony between parents impacts how often tadpoles receive care. Second, I found that investment shapes caregiver preference. Highly invested tadpoles beg more to their biological mothers than to unrelated female caregivers, and tadpoles that experience less or no care lose this preference. Across all investment types, tadpoles exhibit no preference for biological fathers compared to male conspecifics. Additionally, tadpoles with more invested parents were more active around a novel stimulus. Together, my data indicate that the quality of parental investment drives parent recognition and preference, and high parental investment produces bolder tadpoles. Next, I aimed to identify what parts of the brain are most plastic in response to parental investment. I am currently examining the cellular makeup across brain regions in highly invested, lowly invested, and no investment tadpoles using immunohistochemistry to determine levels of neurogenesis across socially relevant brain regions. These experiments fill an essential gap in our understanding of how parental decisions impact the underlying mechanisms of offspring behavior that determine their survival rate.
Peculiarities of endurance development for first year students
Creators: name: Pochernina, Anastasiya
name: Pochernina, M.G.
name: Selivanov, E.V.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: Education

description: Purpose: to determine the dynamics of the specific endurance first-year students in the classroom of physical education. Material: the study involved 20 students. Conducted educational testing: seed of lifting in supine position, hang on bent arms, jumping from sitting up with the stop, run 30m, bending and straightening the arms in emphasis lying, tilt forward from a sitting position, shuttle run, broad jump start. Results: found that the passage of the training module volleyball observed development of specific endurance and all motor abilities. Established that the manifestation and development of motor skills are interrelated. Since force is a functional foundation for the development of other skills, flexibility - the foundation of all mechanical movements. Without the development of strength, speed, coordination abilities impossible to develop endurance. Therefore, it is inappropriate and incorrect receipt of unidirectional only specific endurance (dynamic power and static, speed-power). Conclusions: indicated the need to achieve functional specialization of the body in the direction which is necessary for high-level manifestation of certain motor skills.
Dust evolution in protoplanetary disks
Creators: name: Gonzalez, Jean François
name: Fouchet, Laure
name: Maddison, Sarah
name: Laibe, Guillaume
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We investigate the behaviour of dust in protoplanetary disks under the action of gas drag using our 3D, two-fluid (gas+dust) SPH code. We present the evolution of the dust spatial distribution in global simulations of planetless disks as well as of disks containing an already formed planet. The resulting dust structures vary strongly with particle size and planetary gaps are much sharper than in the gas phase, making them easier to detect with ALMA than anticipated. We also find that there is a range of masses where a planet can open a gap in the dust layer whereas it doesn't in the gas disk. Our dust distributions are fed to the radiative transfer code MCFOST to compute synthetic images, in order to derive constraints on the settling and growth of dust grains in observed disks.
Carotid artery stenting and improvement of cognitive function in patients with asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis
Creators: name: Jácome, Filipa
name: Sousa, Joel
name: Mansilha, Armando
Publisher: name: Angiologia e Cirurgia Vascular
Year: 2024

description: INTRODUCTION: Several studies unveiled an association between asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis and cognitive impairment, questioning the “asymptomatic” nature of carotid stenosis. Although there is increasing evidence of the impact of carotid artery stenting (CAS) on cognition, the current literature still contains some unclear data and conflicting results. This study aimed to examine the impact of CAS on various domains of cognitive function in patients with asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis.

METHODS: Studies published up to February 2023 that evaluated cognitive function in patients with asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis who underwent CAS were searched in PubMed and Scopus databases. All original studies assessing pre- and post-operative cognitive functions in patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis undergoing CAS were considered eligible for inclusion. Editorials, letters, case reports, review articles, and animal studies were excluded.

RESULTS: A total of 1155 articles were identified in our search. After screening, 12 studies were eligible for our review, including 273 CAS in asymptomatic patients. Eleven articles were prospective cohort studies, and one was a randomized controlled trial. The mean age of included patients was 70.1%3.4 years, and approximately 63% of patients were male (n=170 male patients), although two studies did not mention gender. Only seven articles reported the type of anesthesia, and locoregional techniques were used in all cases. Regarding cerebral protection, in eight studies, a distal filter was used; one study used flow reversal; in another, no protection device was used; three studies did not mention if any technique for cerebral protection was used during the procedure.

CONCLUSION: The included studies on cognitive performance after CAS exhibit wide variations in the timing of assessment, specific tests performed, and the use of cerebral protection devices. Additionally, the study populations are small, and several possible confounding factors exist. Thus, a limitation in the analysis is evident, and several attempts to assess the effect of CAS on cognitive function have yielded conflicting conclusions. The debate over the optimal management of asymptomatic carotid patients is ongoing.
description: Angiologia e Cirurgia Vascular, Vol. 20 No. 2 (2024): June
New polymer rheology models based on machine learning
Creators: name: Alqahtani, Abdulwahab Saeed
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2019
Subjects: Machine learning
Polymer rheology
EOR
Chemical EOR
Polymer flooding

description: A successful polymer-type EOR project relies upon many factors, including an adequate characterization, description, and prediction of the polymer’s rheology. A high polymer viscosity can improve the mobility and sweep efficiency, but can also lead to poor injectivity. Polymers are generally non-Newtonian and the rheology is a function of in-situ shear rate, polymer concentration, salinity, temperature, molecular weight, and molecular structure. A priori estimation of polymer rheology using models is important for design of polymer floods and prediction using numerical reservoir simulators. Existing models require many fitting parameters, are purely empirical, and can rarely be used for a priori estimation. The objective of this work was to develop new models to predict the viscosity of HPAM polymers used in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and implement them into a chemical flooding numerical reservoir simulator. The study uses a combination of fundamental, physical models and machine learning methods to develop new predictive models. The data used in the study includes the measured polymer rheology at various polymer concentrations, molecular weights and types, temperatures, and brine salinity and hardness. Data are first fit to the 4-parameter Carreau’s model and then advanced machine learning techniques are used to develop the models of the Carreau parameters with the aforementioned solution properties. The models are then used to predict the rheology of new samples which are validated against data measured on an ARES G2 rheometer. All data fit the 4-parameter Carreau model well. The new models for the zero-shear viscosity, shear thinning index, and time constant are a function of temperature, polymer concentration, salinity, hardness, and molecular weight using less than ten parameters
Features of tennis methods of teaching 5-6 years old children in the initial stages
Creators: name: Kurmaeva, Helen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: Education

description: Purpose: theoretical and methodological justification for the existing teaching methods tennis of 5-6 years old children. Material: 17 special analysis and scientific and methodological sources. Results: the features of the existing methods of teaching children at an early stage of training. The main theses of the existing methods: 1) the training process is carried out in the form of games; 2 ) the level of general physical preparedness level exceeds special; 3) The first two years of the children do not participate in official competitions; 4) education of children begins with " School Ball ", with a gradual transition to employment with racket and ball; 5 ) training is built on two levels: theoretical - each " part" in the form of pre- formation of a mental model of rational behavior, and practical - the formation of the ability to perform motor actions. Conclusions: it was found that the existing methods of constructing the training process for children 5-6 years do not account for their physiological characteristics, therefore proposed to use computer technology and animation, that will shorten the formation of motor skills of children.
Scaling Water-Oil Imbibition in Fractured Reservoirs
Creators: name: Oney, Baris
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1989
Subjects: Imbibition
Fractured reservoirs
Capilllary effect

description: This thesis studies the imbibition of oil from fractured reservoir matrix blocks in the absence of gravity effects using a numerical simulator. The rate of capillary imbibition is scaled by a set of dimensionless numbers governed by the physical properties of the matrix blocks, for both incompressible and slightly compressible fluid flow. A new scaling procedure for physical problems is , introduced. Sensitivity studies are performed for the incompressible case to observe the effects of dimensionless numbers on the oil recovery from individual matrix blocks, and validate these numbers for the given physical system. Finally, the resulting dimensionless groups are combined with the flow in fractures and a global scaling group is obtained to study the production behaviour of a fractured reservoir.
A giant arteriovenous malformation of the abdominal wall
Creators: name: Figueiredo, Adriana
name: Gueifão, Inês
name: Fidalgo, Helena
name: Tavares, Carolina
name: Amaral, Carlos
name: Ferreira, Rita
name: Borges, Nuno
name: Ferreira, Maria Emília
Publisher: name: Angiologia e Cirurgia Vascular
Year: 2024

description: INTRODUCTION: Arteriovenous Malformations (AVMs) are high-flow anomalous connections between the arterial and venous systems composed of dysplastic vessels resulting from aberrant angiogenesis. They are congenital and when symptomatic they rarely manifest before adolescence. Depending on the location, size, stage and severity of the symptoms, treatment options vary from conservative management to surgical resection. We report a case of a giant arteriovenous malformation of abdominal wall (tipe IIIb of Yakes Classification) treated with surgical resection after prior attempts of scleroembolization..

CLINICAL CASE: 54-year-old woman with known history of osteoarticular pathology and dyspepsia presented a mass on the left side of the abdominal wall with hard consistency, warm, slightly pulsating and tenderness to touch with several years of evolution. The mass showed infiltration of the internal and external oblique muscles sparing the transverse muscle. Clinically she presented easy fatigue with efforts. Due to the risk of abdominal wall herniation after excision of the AVM, scleroembolization was considered first-line treatment in this case. This strategy resulted in regression of the mass and symptoms improvement. Four years after the last intervention, the patient presented lesion growth, recurrence and worsening of symptoms with severe interference in the quality of life (QoL). After multidisciplinary discussion, she was proposed for complete resection of the AVM. She was first submitted to scleroembolization with Onyx of identified arterial afferents and sclerosis of the lesion nidus with 2% polidocanol. One month after she underwent successfully total resection of the AVM with the collaboration of General Surgery.

CONCLUSION: No unified agreement exists on the best treatment of these complex high flow lesions and it is difficult to establish a comprehensive strategy given the pathology’s clinical variability, complex stratification and the risk of relapse. A case-by-case approach is needed in managing these types of lesions.
description: Angiologia e Cirurgia Vascular, Vol. 20 No. 2 (2024): June
Simulation Study of Gel Conformance Treatments
Creators: name: Kim, Hyun-Soo
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1995
Subjects: Gel conformance
Permeability

description: Poor vertical and areal sweep because of channeling of injected water to high-permeability zones leads to significant amounts of bypassed oil in many waterfloods. Chemical treatments involving injection of a gel formed in-situ are used to reduce the preferential channeling through high-permeability zones to improve the vertical sweep efficiency. The objective of this study was to optimize the design of gel treatments through more realistic simulations using UTCHEM (a chemical flooding simulator) with various parameters such as reservoir description, types of gel, the amount of gelant, well control, and gel treatment strategies. In this work, the simulations of gel treatments of producers or injectors involving the injection of various gels were performed in the model reservoirs with layered or stochastically generated permeabilities. The effectiveness of gel treatments was investigated by varying the strategies of gel treatments such as zonal isolation, wells operating under a constant bottomhole pressure versus a constant rate, the confinement of the reservoir, and near-wellbore treatment versus in-depth gel treatment. In-depth gel treatments were simulated using environmentally safe gels such as polymer/chromium malonate gel, silicate gel, and polymer/Cr(III) gel with temperature-dependent gelation. Simulations of gel treatments in reservoirs with multiple unconfined wells and horizontal wells were performed. The UTCHEM simulator was modified to simulate several gel reactions with various kinetics and components. Using geochemical reaction equilibria, dynamic effects of pH change on gelation and the retention of crosslinker (precipitation of chromium hydroxide) were modeled.
Aerobic and anaerobic organism productivity as factors that determine the level of physical health
Creators: name: Serorez, Tatiana
name: Navka, P.I.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: Education

description: Purpose: to identify and assess the level of physical health of men of the first coming of age 21-23 years. Material: the study involved 413 students and 17 teachers and sports doctors. Results: the influence of cross-country training aerobic and anaerobic focus on physical performance, aerobic and anaerobic performance of the student body. The efficiency impact exercises using running loads of aerobic and anaerobic focus on the physical health of students. It is proved that the level of aerobic performance drops to safe limits and requires correction. To correct the body's aerobic performance is recommended to use for running load. Conclusions: found that the correction would be the most efficient and effective through the development and implementation of health technologies based on the use of extracurricular classes jogging exercises. It should take into account the frequency and methods of learning, physical work mode power supply and energy value of each class.
Computer Simulation of an Experimental Approach for Dynamically Determining Steam/Water Relative Permeabilities Under Condensation Conditions
Creators: name: Yuang, Huade
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1990
Subjects: Relative Permeability
Computational simulator
Geothermal simulator

description: In this study, modifications of a geothermal simulator which Maruyama used in his thesis are made to change its dimensions from one-dimension to either one-dimension or two-dimension, to add capillary pressure and gravity terms, and to change its unit system from CGS to either SI or English unit systems. Heat loss effects are also considered in the simulation and the relative permeability calculation. Results from the study are presented. With the heat and fluid flow behavior calculated using numerical simulator, an experimental approach is proposed to measure pertinent physical parameters and to calculate the relative permeabilities of water and steam.
Application of Parallel Programming to Utchem Simulator on Massively Parallel Computers and a Cluster of Workstations
Creators: name: Ucpinar, Taskin
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1995
Subjects: Parallel
UTCHEM

description: Parallel processing is an approach for speeding up the time required to solve large-scale engineering problems. The basic idea is to solve a large-scale engineering problem in a reasonable amount of time by dividing a given problem into smaller segments and allowing several processors to work on the individual parts simultaneously. This work describes the application of distributed-memory parallel programming techniques to a compositional simulator called UTCHEM. The University of Texas Chemical Flooding Reservoir Simulator (UTCHEM) is a general-purpose highly vectorized chemical flooding simulator that models the transport of chemical species in three-dimensional, multiphase flow through permeable media. Parallel version of UTCHEM addresses solving large-scale problems by reducing the amount of time that is required to obtain the solution as well as providing a flexible and a portable programming environment. The original parallel code was modified for running on a CRAY T3D, a distributed memory, multiprocessor computer by using CRAY-PVM as the interprocessor communication library. Later, the code was remodified to improve its portability and to add the capabilities of C-Linda distributed data structures model. As the final stage of the code development, the code was ported to IBM SPl and to a cluster of workstations using public-domain PVM. Several reservoir simulations were performed in order to measure the performance of the code on parallel computers. In this work, we present the performance results of the most time-consuming subroutines in the simulator using Jacobi Conjugate-Gradient as linear solver as well as the performance results of the overall code. The application of distributed memory parallel programming on UTCHEM has proven to be an achievable method for increasing the speed of the simulator and enhancing the computational capabilities of the code for large-scale reservoir simulations. Also, the data communication routines were modified in such a way that the portability of the original code across different computer architectures was made possible.
Individual athletes’ biomechanical features of interaction with objects in art gymnastics
Creators: name: Iermakov, Sergii
name: Adashevskiy, V.M.
name: Logvinenko, Y.I.
name: Cieślicka Mirosława
name: Stankiewicz Błażej
name: Pilewska Wiesława
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: Education

description: Purpose: To design a biomechanical model of interaction of athlete with the subject, as well as the development of areas of its use in practice. Material: The study involved 10 students - athletes. Results: The presented computational schemes create direction of flight of different items (rope, hoop, ball, ribbon, clubs). The characteristics of the time of flight trajectories and with regard for the resistance force of the air environment. Shows the influence of initial parameters on departure flight time items. Graphic characteristics are presented trajectories of objects depending on the parameters of their departure. Conclusions: It is recommended to improve the judicial assessment and effective implementation gymnast exercises during the flight characteristics of the various items to consider trajectories of objects. Note that age, height and distance from the athletes at the end of the flight object defined biomechanical characteristics that can realize an athlete: absolute initial velocity of departure, departure angle, height of the center of mass manufacture items.
Haptic vision, footwork, place-making: a peripatetic phenomenology of the mobile phone pedestrian
Creators: name: Richardson, Ingrid
name: Wilken, Rowan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper we aim to develop a post-phenomenology of walking through an analysis of the relation between pedestrian mobility and the use of mobile devices, and then apply this analysis to users of third and fourth generation location-aware touch phones that enable mixed reality gaming in urban spaces. As theorised by a number of human geographers, phenomenologists and proponents of material culture, walking is fundamental to our corporeality, ontology and cultural practices. In this light, it is our contention that mobile media use has a significant bearing on the habitudes of walking as such devices become increasingly embedded in our everyday ambulatory activities. At the outset, we will outline a 'peripatetic phenomenology' that can usefully interpret the embodied micro- and macro-practices of 'walking in the city' in present-day contexts. Following this, we will suggest that a phenomenology of walking in the contemporary urban circumstance must include a critical interpretation of 'tactile' or 'haptic' vision (eye-touch in Claude Gandelman's (1991) sense) and the special relationship between the eye, hands and feet to emerge from the practices of the mobile phone pedestrian. As we will argue, this inquiry invokes a relational and hybrid understanding of both space and place in public urban environments, investigating the particular body-place relations and place-making practices to emerge from modes of perception which are grounded in peripatetics and tactile vision. Our phenomenological approach will then be applied to location-based mobile gaming, to suggest how such activity invokes a particular body-place relation and 'peripatetic modality'.
Effect of Small-Scaled Heterogeneity on Steamflood Simulation Result
Creators: name: Renjut, Fransiskus Xaverius Budianto
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1994
Subjects: Steamflood
Heterogeneity

description: The objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of various modeling parameters on steamflood simulation results, which have never been studied before. This study was conducted using fully implicit, compositional, thermal simulator. The permeability fields were generated using fractal variogram model with conditional simulation approach. The reservoir and fluid properties are based on the Duri field, Indonesia, which is successfully being steamflooded. It was found that uncertainty has a significant effect on the calculated oil recovery. The effect of cut-off ratio (A,h I A, J was found to be insignificant if the ratio is larger than 300, otherwise it may be more significant than uncertainty. Vertical mesh size was found to be unimportant if the reservoir is strongly correlated in areal direction. The H-exponent and the cut-off length were found to be unimportant. Layer-cake models were found to have significantly different recovery performance from the heterogeneous model. The difference may be as significant as the difference between 0.6 and 1.2 BCWE/D/ac-ft injection rates. Contrary to the physical tendency of steam-front to diffuse, the effect of heterogeneity is as crucial in steamflood as in waterflood. lV
Fight for conservatism and votes
Creators: name: Willis, Ian
Publisher: name: Wombaroo Publications
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: New South Wales
subject: New South Wales. Parliament

description: This newspaper article examines an item of political propaganda at the Camden Museum. It is a political flyer for the United Australia Party for the 1932 New South Wales state election. The item was called the 'Starvation Debenture' and was issued by the United Australia Party on Friday 3 June 1932.
US Tourism Industry Trend Analysis from 2011 to 2019
Creators: name: Castagnino, Renzo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: tourism, U.S. tourism,

description: The tourism industry in the US accounts for a 2.9% of the GDP, generating 9.2 million jobs. Nowadays, this industry has increased in the last decades, influenced by social media and economical grow. It generates a positive trade balance, providing billions of U.S. dollars on local, federal and state governments. The goal of this project is to provide a visual representation of the US tourism trend from 2011 to 2019, to better understand underlying facts and statistics.
description: {"references": ["International Visitation and Spending in the United States. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://travel.trade.gov/outreachpages/inbound.general_information.inbound_overview.asp"]}
Corrections officer wellbeing: training challenges and opportunities
Creators: name: Trounson, Justin
name: Pfeifer, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 520103
subject: Forensic psychology

description: The wellbeing of corrections officers is an important issue deserving attention from the scientific community and government departments responsible for the regulation of correctional systems. A review of the existing scientific literature clearly indicates that corrections officers are at a heightened risk of experiencing a range of negative physical and psychological conditions. Despite this, little research has explored how best to assist officers to maintain their sense of wellbeing through the provision of wellbeing training. Over the past decade there has been a notable surge in the development and implementation of proactive staff training initiatives aimed at assisting
employees to better manage their sense of wellbeing. Unfortunately, many of these programmes continue to lack a clear evidence-basis for their implementation or cannot claim to be prison officer-responsive as they have been adapted from other high-risk occupational settings. Few available programmes are evidence-informed and designed specifically to cater for the unique training needs of the contemporary corrections officer. This article discusses the challenges faced by the correctional industry in relation to officer wellbeing training and highlights the need for evidenceinformed, industry-specific, prison officer-responsive wellbeing training programmes. Furthermore, this article highlights the inherent benefits of engaging in inter-disciplinary collaborations involving research, government and industry bodies to establish bestpractice
processes in regard to wellbeing training for correctional employees.
Peculiarities of forming health culture of pupils in Poland: historical aspect
Creators: name: Iermakova, Tatiana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: Education

description: Purpose: analysis of progressive ideas of forming health culture and school health promotion of pupils in teacher attitudes figures of the past. Material: an analysis of more than 30 sources of scientific and educational literature. Results: it was found that the generation of pedagogical ideas in Poland took place in the Renaissance, helped open the first school and the University of Cracow that gave the society and the world of great scientists and educators. It was at this time teachers, doctors, humanists of Poland, who showed great interest in the protection, preservation and promotion of health and physical education of the rising generation, trying to raise healthy and active people. Conclusions: the galaxy of teachers and doctors of Poland enriched world knowledge about the formation and preservation of the health of children and young people not only means of physical training, but also compliance with the rules of hygiene, nutrition and hardening, thereby giving the term “culture of health” a broader meaning.
Brokering Authority: Translating knowledge, policy and practice in forestry institutions in Indonesia
Creators: name: Rhee, Steve
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Anthropology

description: CITATION: Rhee, Steve. 2006. Brokering Authority: Translating knowledge, policy and practice in forestry institutions in Indonesia. New Haven: Yale University (dissertation). This dissertation examines the nexus of research, policy and practice from village to global levels regarding forest management and local communities’ control over forest resources and improved local livelihoods in Indonesia. I investigate how problems and solutions are articulated; how these articulations are transformed in practice; how practice is translated into knowledge or policy; and how particular interpretations of practices become authoritative. In doing so, I examine the culture of and relationships between forestry institutions in Indonesia, highlighting the role of brokers of authority -- individuals and/or organizations that skillfully translate social reality into an “order” that not only resonates with the different logics, interests, and expectations of relevant institutions, but also recruits support for their interpretation to become authoritative. The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Donor Forum on Forestry in Indonesia (DFF) are the key interlocutors studied, and CIFOR’s applied research activities in Indonesian Borneo and the landscape of international aid-related forestry institutions are the contexts within which they are examined. With respect to CIFOR, I investigate in one analytical frame (1) project plans and intentions, (2) the context within which activities take place and the relationships between the different actors, and (3) how the difference between plan and outcome is addressed to a broader public. I show that although activities do not proceed as planned, CIFOR’s reporting and publishing of unintended outcomes incorporates this unraveling into an authoritative narrative of prescriptions for CIFOR’s interpretive community. Essential to legitimizing and mobilizing support for these prescriptions and CFIOR more generally is their articulation through the vehicle of self-critical reflection. I also examine the tension between order and disjuncture in the landscape of aid-related forestry institutions in Indonesia. I analyze how the order or narrative of reform agreeable to both donors and the Indonesian government was crafted and maintained by the DFF in its brokering role, while no actual progress was made on agreed upon commitments. Moreover, I investigate the structural dynamics that explain this lack of progress and the ineffectiveness of aid in Indonesia. In doing so, I reveal the disconnect between knowledge, policy and practice, as well as how these disjunctures are maintained.
Young people, social media, social network sites and sexual health communication in Australia: "This is funny, you should watch it"
Creators: name: Evers, Clifton Westly
name: Albury, Kath
name: Byron, Paul
name: Crawford, Kate
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 470102
subject: Communication technology and digital media studies

description: Social media and social network sites (SNS) are an evolving area for sexual health communication with young people. They present opportunities and challenges for sexual health professionals and young people alike, such as learning through interactivity and addressing concerns about privacy. In this article, we present and discuss the findings from six rural and urban focus groups with young people in Australia about the use of social media and SNS for sexual health communication. We discuss a number of issues related to the use of social media and SNS for sexual health communication, such as concerns about bullying, privacy, and the stigma attached to sexual health.
Selfies, sexts and sneaky hats: young people's understandings of gendered practices of self-representation
Creators: name: Albury, Kath
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 470102
subject: Communication technology and digital media studies

description: When is sexting not sexting? How do producers and sharers of naked and seminaked selfies negotiate and engage with broader cultural codes and conventions of sexed and gendered self- representation? This article draws on interviews conducted in 2012 with three mixed-sex groups of 16- and 17-year-olds in Sydney, Australia, as part of the Young People and Sexting in Australia project (Albury, Crawford, Byron, & Mathews, 2013). It focuses not on the images that might most easily be categorized as “sexts” (i.e., images intended to be exchanged within flirtations and intimate relationships) but on other, more ambiguous images, defined by participants as private selfies, public selfies, and a subgenre of joke selfies known as sneaky hats. These images were not discussed in all groups, but when they were, they provoked lively debates in which participants explicitly and implicitly explored complex and at times contradictory understandings of the interplay of sexuality, gender, and representation. While not representative of all young people’s experiences of digital-picture-sharing cultures, these discussions point to a significant gap between young people’s own interpretations of their ordinary or everyday digital practices and adults’ interpretations of these practices.
Sensitivity of predicted ultrafine particle size distributions in Europe to different nucleation rate parameterizations using PMCAMx-UF v2.2
Creators: name: Patoulias, David
name: Florou, Kalliopi
name: Pandis, Spyros N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The three-dimensional chemical transport model, PMCAMx-UF v2.2, designed to simulate the ultrafine particle size distribution, was used to investigate the impact of varying nucleation mechanisms on the predicted aerosol number concentration in Europe. Two basic case scenarios were examined: the original ternary H2SO4-NH3-H2O parameterization and a biogenic vapor-sulfuric acid parameterization. Using the organic-based parameterization, PMCAMx-UF predicted higher N10 (particle number above 10 nm) concentrations over Europe by 40-60% on average during the simulated period, which is a relatively small difference given the differences in the two assumed mechanisms. The low sensitivity of particle number concentrations to the nucleation mechanisms used in this study, may not exist in other regions outside Europe. Adjusting the nucleation rate by an order of magnitude for both mechanisms led to an average change of ±30% in N10 for the ternary ammonia case, and ‒30 to 40% for the biogenic vapor case. In the biogenic organic nucleation scenario, reducing the fresh nuclei diameter from 1.7 nm to 1 nm resulted in reductions in N10 and N100 by ‒13% and ‒1%, respectively. Incorporating extremely low-volatility organic compounds (ELVOCs) as the nucleating species resulted in predicted increase in N10 concentration by 10-40% over continental Europe compared to the ammonia parameterization. Model predictions were evaluated against field measurements from 26 stations across Europe during the summer of 2012. For N10, the ternary ammonia and ELVOC-based parameterizations were in better agreement with the field data compared to the other tested mechanisms. In the case of N100, all used parameterizations resulted in predictions that were consistent with the available field measurements.
description: Patoulias, D., Florou, K., and Pandis, S. N.: Sensitivity of predicted ultrafine particle size distributions in Europe to different nucleation rate parameterizations using PMCAMx-UF v2.2, Geosci. Model Dev., 18, 1103–1118, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-1103-2025, 2025.
A survey of dynamical complexity in a mean-field nonlinear model of human EEG
Creators: name: Frascoli, Federico
name: Van Veen, Lennaert
name: Bojak, Ingo
name: Dafilis, Mathew
name: Liley, David
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A recently proposed mean-field mesoscopic theory of mammalian cortex dynamics describes the salient features of rhytmic electrical activity in the cerebral macrocolumn, with the use of inhibitory and excitatory neuronal populations [1]. This model is capable of producing a range of important human EEG (electroencephalogram) features such as the alpha rhythm, the 40 Hz activity thought to be associated with conscious awareness [2] and the changes in EEG spectral power associated with general anesthetic effect (e.g. the so-called "biphasic" response) [3]. From the point of view of nonlinear dynamics, the model entails a vast parameter space within which multistability, pseudoperiodic regimes, different routes to chaos, fat fractals and resonances occur for a range of physiologically relevant parameter values, giving rise to a multitude of rich and elaborate bifurcation scenarios. Examples of these are the Shilnikov saddle-node bifurcation (see Figure 1 and [4]), the homoclinic doubling cascade and different kinds of resonances. The origin and the character of these complex behaviors and their relevance for EEG activity are illustrated.
Detection of broad 21-cm absorption at zabs = 0.656 in the complex sight-line towards 3C 336
Creators: name: Curran, S. J.
name: Tzanavaris, P.
name: Murphy, Michael
name: Webb, J. K.
name: Pihlström, Y. M.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We report the detection of 21-cm absorption at z(abs) = 0.656 towards 1622 + 238 (3C 336). The line is very broad with a full width to half-maximum of 235 km s(-1), giving a velocity-integrated optical depth of integral tau dv = 2.2 +/- 0.2 kms(-1). The centroid of the line is offset from that of the known damped Lyman a absorption system (DLA) by 50 km s(-1), and if the Lyman alpha and 21-cm absorption are due to the same gas, we derive a spin temperature of Ts <= 60 K, which would be the lowest yet in a DLA. The wide profile, which is over four times wider than that of any other DLA, supports the hypothesis that the hydrogen absorption is occurring either in the disc of a large underluminous spiral or in a group of dim unidentified galaxies, associated with the single object which has been optically identified at this redshift.
Management skills of Iranians: a comparison of technical, human and conceptual differences based on gender, age and longevity in management ranks
Creators: name: Tajaddini, Reza
name: Mujtaba, Bahaudin G.
name: Bandenezhad, Mahzad
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In Iran, management and leadership trends can be traced back for thousands of years of experience. This study focused on the management skills of respondents from Iran to see if gender, age and longevity in management can be significant factors in their technical, human and conceptual competencies. The results of 421 respondents show that there are significant differences linked to gender, age, and management experience. Age and management experience are positively related to better technical, human and conceptual scores. Implications for educators, managers, and human resource professionals are presented.
Additional file 1 of Insights into the origin of metazoan multicellularity from predatory unicellular relatives of animals
Creators: name: Tikhonenkov, Denis V.
name: Hehenberger, Elisabeth
name: Esaulov, Anton S.
name: Belyakova, Olga I.
name: Mazei, Yuri A.
name: Mylnikov, Alexander P.
name: Keeling, Patrick J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1 : Fig. S1. A-C – Syssomonas multiformis sucks out the cytoplasm of the prey; D – three cells of Syssomonas (s) suck out the cytoplasm of the same prey cell together, other Syssomonas cells (arrows) become attracted and swim to the same prey cell; E – unusual flagellated cell of Syssomonas containing vesicular structures; F – cells of Syssomonas with engulfed starch granules swim to the starch crystals druse and hide within the starch crystals. Fig. S2. Rice grain destruction in Petri dish with Pratt medium and presence of the cells of Parabodo caudatus (prey) only (A) and Syssomonas multiformis (B) after 9 days of incubation.