cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Multiband k · p model and fitting scheme for ab initio-based electronic structure parameters for wurtzite GaAs
Creators: name: Marquardt, Oliver
name: Caro, Miguel A.
name: Koprucki, Thomas
name: Mathé, Peter
name: Willatzen, Morten
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Electronic bandstructure
subject: quasi-Monte Carlo methods
subject: k · p models
subject: compound semiconductors

description: We develop a 16-band k · p model for the description of wurtzite GaAs, together with a novel scheme to determine electronic structure parameters for multiband k · p models. Our approach uses low-discrepancy sequences to fit k · p band structures beyond the eight-band scheme to most recent ab initio data, obtained within the framework for hybrid-functional density functional theory with a screened-exchange hybrid functional. We report structural parameters, elastic constants, band structures along high-symmetry lines, and deformation potentials at the Γ point. Based on this, we compute the bulk electronic properties (Γ point energies, effective masses, Luttinger-like parameters, and optical matrix parameters) for a ten-band and a sixteen-band k · p model for wurtzite GaAs. Our fitting scheme can assign priorities to both selected bands and k points that are of particular interest for specific applications. Finally, ellipticity conditions can be taken into account within our fitting scheme in order to make the resulting parameter sets robust against spurious solutions.
Additional file 4: Figure S2. of Frequency of breast cancer subtypes among African American women in the AMBER consortium
Creators: name: Allott, Emma
name: Geradts, Joseph
name: Cohen, Stephanie
name: Khoury, Thaer
name: Zirpoli, Gary
name: Bshara, Wiam
name: Davis, Warren
name: Omilian, Angela
name: Nair, Priya
name: Ondracek, Rochelle
name: Cheng, Ting-Yuan
name: Miller, C.
name: Hwang, Helena
name: Thorne, Leigh
name: OâConnor, Siobhan
name: Bethea, Traci
name: Bell, Mary
name: Hu, Zhiyuan
name: Li, Yan
name: Kirk, Erin
name: Sun, Xuezheng
name: Ruiz-Narvaez, Edward
name: Perou, Charles
name: Palmer, Julie
name: Olshan, Andrew
name: Ambrosone, Christine
name: Troester, Melissa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Kernel density plots showing the distribution of Ki67 and PR expression (A and B, respectively) in PAM50-defined luminal A (n = 159) and luminal B (n = 91) subtypes. Analyses were restricted to IHC-based HER2-negative tumors. Vertical lines indicate an 8% threshold for Ki67 (A) and a 20% threshold for PR (B). (DOCX 56 kb)
Additional file 5: Table S2. of Frequency of breast cancer subtypes among African American women in the AMBER consortium
Creators: name: Allott, Emma
name: Geradts, Joseph
name: Cohen, Stephanie
name: Khoury, Thaer
name: Zirpoli, Gary
name: Bshara, Wiam
name: Davis, Warren
name: Omilian, Angela
name: Nair, Priya
name: Ondracek, Rochelle
name: Cheng, Ting-Yuan
name: Miller, C.
name: Hwang, Helena
name: Thorne, Leigh
name: OâConnor, Siobhan
name: Bethea, Traci
name: Bell, Mary
name: Hu, Zhiyuan
name: Li, Yan
name: Kirk, Erin
name: Sun, Xuezheng
name: Ruiz-Narvaez, Edward
name: Perou, Charles
name: Palmer, Julie
name: Olshan, Andrew
name: Ambrosone, Christine
name: Troester, Melissa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Effect of raising the Ki67 threshold on the performance of the IHC-based luminal classification scheme. (DOCX 12 kb)
MOESM3 of Highly efficient conversion of plant oil to bio-aviation fuel and valuable chemicals by combination of enzymatic transesterification, olefin cross-metathesis, and hydrotreating
Creators: name: Wang, Meng
name: Chen, Mojin
name: Fang, Yunming
name: Tan, Tianwei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Fatty acid profile of poly-unsaturated fatty acid rich oil before and after partial hydrogenation.
Additional file 6: Table S3. of Frequency of breast cancer subtypes among African American women in the AMBER consortium
Creators: name: Allott, Emma
name: Geradts, Joseph
name: Cohen, Stephanie
name: Khoury, Thaer
name: Zirpoli, Gary
name: Bshara, Wiam
name: Davis, Warren
name: Omilian, Angela
name: Nair, Priya
name: Ondracek, Rochelle
name: Cheng, Ting-Yuan
name: Miller, C.
name: Hwang, Helena
name: Thorne, Leigh
name: OâConnor, Siobhan
name: Bethea, Traci
name: Bell, Mary
name: Hu, Zhiyuan
name: Li, Yan
name: Kirk, Erin
name: Sun, Xuezheng
name: Ruiz-Narvaez, Edward
name: Perou, Charles
name: Palmer, Julie
name: Olshan, Andrew
name: Ambrosone, Christine
name: Troester, Melissa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals for age and menopauseb status at diagnosis by six-marker immunohistochemistry-defined subtypea in the AMBER consortium. (DOCX 13 kb)
SUPORTE BÁSICO DE VIDA EM PEDIATRIA: EVIDÊNCIAS CIENTÍFICAS
Creators: name: Ihasmyn Oliveira LIMA
name: Letícia Martinelli Chagas NUNES
name: Sávio Alves de ARAÚJO
name: Dênia Rodrigues CHAGAS
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Parada cardiorrespiratória (PCR)
Ressuscitação cardiopulmonar (RCP)
Qualidade da aplicação da sequência C-A-B em crianças

description: RESUMO

O presente trabalho adota como método, a pesquisa bibliográfica de cunho qualitativa e descritiva, para analisar a importância do regular emprego das técnicas de ressuscitação cardiopulmonar (RCP) em crianças vítimas de parada cardiorrespiratória (PCR), com a sequência C-A-B (compressões, vias aéreas e ventilação), conforme a American Heart Association (AHA). A eficácia da RCP depende da correta aplicação das técnicas, como compressões com frequência de 100-120 batimentos por minuto e o uso adequado do desfibrilador automático externo (DEA). No entanto, há lacunas na capacitação dos profissionais de saúde, evidenciadas por falhas na execução prática, como o descompasso entre a teoria e a prática no atendimento pediátrico, destacando a necessidade de maior treinamento regular para garantir melhores resultados na sobrevida de crianças.
MOESM1 of Highly efficient conversion of plant oil to bio-aviation fuel and valuable chemicals by combination of enzymatic transesterification, olefin cross-metathesis, and hydrotreating
Creators: name: Wang, Meng
name: Chen, Mojin
name: Fang, Yunming
name: Tan, Tianwei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Fig. S1. Characterization of Pt/ZSM-22 catalyst. (a) NH3-TPD profile of ZSM-22; (b) FTIR spectrum of pyridine adsorption on ZSM-22; (c) X-ray pattern of Pt/ZSM-22; (d) nitrogen adsorption–desorption isotherms of Pt/ZSM-22; XPS spectra of Pt 4f for (e) Pt/ZSM-22 before reaction and (f) Pt/ZSM-22 after reaction.
The association between long working hours and stroke in the general workforce of Denmark – a study protocol
Creators: name: Hannerz, Harald
name: Albertsen, Karen
name: Burr, Hermann
name: Nielsen, Martin Lindhardt
name: Garde, Anne Helene
name: Larsen, Ann Dyreborg
name: Pejtersen, Jan Hyld
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Recently a large systematic review and meta-analysis of a variety of cohort studies from several different countries found that long working hours were prospectively associated with an increased risk of stroke in a dose-dependent manner [Kivimäki et al. 2015]. The present study aims at testing if this finding can be reproduced in a large sample that has been randomly selected from the general workforce of Denmark. All inclusion criteria, statistical models and test criteria of the study are specified in this study protocol and, in accordance with recognised rules of good scientific and statistical practice, the protocol is published before the exposure data of the study are linked to the outcome data.
MOESM2 of Highly efficient conversion of plant oil to bio-aviation fuel and valuable chemicals by combination of enzymatic transesterification, olefin cross-metathesis, and hydrotreating
Creators: name: Wang, Meng
name: Chen, Mojin
name: Fang, Yunming
name: Tan, Tianwei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 3: Table S2. Textural properties of the Pt/ZSM-22 catalysts.
Devito: Towards an efficient and sustainable finite difference DSL
Creators: name: Lange, Michael
name: Navjot Kukreja
name: Louboutin, Mathias
name: Luporini, Fabio
name: Felippe Vieira
name: Pandolfo, Vincenzo
name: Velesko, Paulius
name: Kazakas, Paulius
name: Gorman, Gerard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 80205 Numerical Computation
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 80110 Simulation and Modelling

description: Poster presented at SIAM CSE17 PP108 Minisymposterium: Software Productivity and Sustainability for CSE and Data Science
Supplementary Material from Hidden Markov models for monitoring circadian rhythmicity in telemetric activity data
Creators: name: Huang, Qi
name: Cohen, Dwayne
name: Komarzynski, Sandra
name: Li, Xiao-Mei
name: Innominato, Pasquale
name: Lévi, Francis
name: Finkenstädt, Bärbel
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018

description: Wearable computing devices allow collection of densely sampled real-time information on movement enabling researchers and medical experts to obtain objective and non-obtrusive records of actual activity of a subject in the real world over many days. Our interest here is motivated by the use of activity data for evaluating and monitoring the circadian rhythmicity of subjects for research in chronobiology and chronotherapeutic healthcare. In order to translate the information from such high-volume data arising we propose the use of a Markov modelling approach which (i) naturally captures the notable square wave form observed in activity data along with heterogeneous ultradian variances over the circadian cycle of human activity, (ii) thresholds activity into different states in a probabilistic way while respecting time dependence and (iii) gives rise to circadian rhythm parameter estimates, based on probabilities of transitions between rest and activity, that are interpretable and of interest to circadian research.
Additional file 1: of Cutaneous neurofibromas in Neurofibromatosis type I: a quantitative natural history study
Creators: name: Cannon, Ashley
name: Chen, Mei-Jan
name: Li, Peng
name: Boyd, Kevin
name: Theos, Amy
name: Redden, David
name: Korf, Bruce
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Investigator guide for manual cutaneous neurofibroma measurement. (PDF 354Â kb)
MOESM1 of A bionic system with Fenton reaction and bacteria as a model for bioprocessing lignocellulosic biomass
Creators: name: Zhang, Kejing
name: Si, Mengying
name: Liu, Dan
name: Zhuo, Shengnan
name: Liu, Mingren
name: Liu, Hui
name: Yan, Xu
name: Shi, Yan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. The effects of pretreatment conditions on the enzymatic hydrolysis of the untreated (dashed line) and pretreated RS. The experimental groups were A: 0.04 M FeCl3/0.04 M FeCl2/3 M H2O2; B: 0.03 M FeCl3/0.03 M FeCl2/2.25 M H2O2; C: 0.02 M FeCl3/0.02 M FeCl2/1.5 M H2O2; D: 0.01 M FeCl3/0.01 M FeCl2/0.75 M H2O2.
MOESM2 of A bionic system with Fenton reaction and bacteria as a model for bioprocessing lignocellulosic biomass
Creators: name: Zhang, Kejing
name: Si, Mengying
name: Liu, Dan
name: Zhuo, Shengnan
name: Liu, Mingren
name: Liu, Hui
name: Yan, Xu
name: Shi, Yan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Assignment of lignin and polysaccharide correlation signals in the HSQC spectra shown in Figs.Â 7, 8.
MOESM1 of The associations between malaria, interventions, and the environment: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Sadoine, Margaux
name: Smargiassi, Audrey
name: Ridde, Valéry
name: Tusting, Lucy
name: Zinszer, Kate
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Ovid Medline search.
MOESM2 of The associations between malaria, interventions, and the environment: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Sadoine, Margaux
name: Smargiassi, Audrey
name: Ridde, Valéry
name: Tusting, Lucy
name: Zinszer, Kate
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Quality Assessment guide.
Computing Entity Semantic Similarity by Features Ranking
Creators: name: Ruback, Livia
name: Lucchese, Claudio
name: Caraballo, Alexander Arturo Mera
name: Grettel Monteagudo García
name: Casanova, Marco Antonio
name: Renso, Chiara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: This article presents a novel approach to estimate semantic entity sim- ilarity using entity features available as Linked Data. The key idea is to exploit ranked lists of features, extracted from Linked Data sources, as a representation of the entities to be compared. The similarity between two entities is then esti- mated by comparing their ranked lists of features. The article describes experi- ments with museum data from DBpedia, with datasets from a LOD catalog, and with computer science conferences from the DBLP repository. The experiments demonstrate that entity similarity, computed using ranked lists of features, achieves better accuracy than state-of-the-art measures.
title: Long-Term Visitation Value for Deep Exploration in Sparse-Reward Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Parisi, Simone
name: Tateo, Davide
name: Hensel, Maximilian
name: D’Eramo, Carlo
name: Peters, Jan
name: Pajarinen, Joni
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2022

description: Reinforcement learning with sparse rewards is still an open challenge. Classic methods rely on getting feedback via extrinsic rewards to train the agent, and in situations where this occurs very rarely the agent learns slowly or cannot learn at all. Similarly, if the agent receives also rewards that create suboptimal modes of the objective function, it will likely prematurely stop exploring. More recent methods add auxiliary intrinsic rewards to encourage exploration. However, auxiliary rewards lead to a non-stationary target for the Q-function. In this paper, we present a novel approach that (1) plans exploration actions far into the future by using a long-term visitation count, and (2) decouples exploration and exploitation by learning a separate function assessing the exploration value of the actions. Contrary to existing methods that use models of reward and dynamics, our approach is off-policy and model-free. We further propose new tabular environments for benchmarking exploration in reinforcement learning. Empirical results on classic and novel benchmarks show that the proposed approach outperforms existing methods in environments with sparse rewards, especially in the presence of rewards that create suboptimal modes of the objective function. Results also suggest that our approach scales gracefully with the size of the environment.
The photography of empty lands: Tasmanian history in the art of Ricky Maynard and Anne Ferran
Creators: name: Neath, Jessica Christiana
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: "The Photography of Empty Lands" examines the trend in contemporary art to represent traumatic histories by photographing an absence of remains. The thesis focuses on two Australian artists, Ricky Maynard and Anne Ferran, who have made photographs in Australia’s most southern state, Tasmania. Both artists document the forgotten sites where aspects of the state’s colonial history took place – Maynard’s focus is the Black War fought between the Tasmanian Aboriginal people and the European colonists; Ferran is concerned with the operation of female factories, in which convict women were incarcerated. The artists return to these places to produce evocative landscape photographs that do not declare their historical content in a straightforward manner, and where the absence recorded often points to a continual presence of history. The photographs suggest that history is not confined to the past, and that the role of photography should not be limited to capturing proof on film. The thesis considers how the artists photograph this emptiness to create critical and affective dialogues about complex histories and visual traditions. Limiting the study to one region and two artworks enables a more specific analysis of the histories and places photographed. There is an assessment of concerns beyond art history and theory, entering into wider debates in memorial culture, and heritage discourses and practices. While advancing the discussion about photography and its role in art, memory, and history, this approach also draws specific conclusions about the legacy of Australia’s colonial past: for example, the entwinement of convict and Aboriginal histories, and the potential meanings of historical sites. Such observations arise from considering how the photographs perform in different disciplinary contexts, the material processes behind their making, and the historical moments they describe. Together these observations and the issues that arise provide a new perspective on Australia’s troubled relationship with its past, and suggest alternative ways of addressing colonial history and its aftermath.
Additional file 1: of One-Step Ball Milling Preparation of Nanoscale CL-20/Graphene Oxide for Significantly Reduced Particle Size and Sensitivity
Creators: name: Ye, Baoyun
name: An, Chongwei
name: Zhang, Yuruo
name: Song, Changkun
name: Geng, Xiaoheng
name: Wang, Jingyu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supporting Information for One-step ball milling preparation of nanoscale CL-20/graphene oxide for significantly reduced particle size and sensitive. (DOCX 1448Â kb)
MOESM3 of The associations between malaria, interventions, and the environment: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Sadoine, Margaux
name: Smargiassi, Audrey
name: Ridde, Valéry
name: Tusting, Lucy
name: Zinszer, Kate
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Medicine
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3. Characteristics of studies included in the review (n = 11).
5G Management and Orchestration – From Cloud-Native to 5G-Ready Applications
Creators: name: Bruschi, Roberto
name: Davoli, Franco
name: Pajo, Jane Frances
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: In the complex scenario of highly virtualized “softwarized” networking that has been progressively unveiled by the emergence of 5G in its enhanced integration of wired and wireless resources, network management and control strategies have become increasingly relevant. Their role entails orchestration of the lifecycle of all needed functionalities, supervision and optimization in the allocation of resources, satisfaction of Key Performance Indicators and constraints, creation and lifecycle maintenance of network slices, among others, all under the dynamic evolution of user-generated traffic, multiple tenants, service and infrastructure providers. This section tries to highlight the evolution of the orchestration functionalities from the world of cloud-native applications to the Telecom Operators’ telcos) world and their mutual interaction through the mediation of the telcos’ Operations Support Systems.
High spatial resolution heat flow mapping in South Australia: implications for the nature of the South Australian heat flow anomaly and geothermal and mineral resource exploration
Creators: name: Matthews, Christopher Glasswell
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Geothermal exploration activity in Australia over the last decade has highlighted the poor surface heat flow data coverage in this country. While data coverage remains poor, a previous attempt to characterise the heat flow field of South Australia (Neumann et al. 2000) described an “anomalous heat flow zone” in central South Australia. This region was not previously delineated by high spatial resolution heat flow data, but the work published here demonstrates that the “zone” described as the South Australian Heat Flow Anomaly (SAHFA; Neumann et al., 2000), is a region where anomalously high heat flow values are interspersed with low values, and there is significant lateral variation in surface heat flow over scales of tens of kilometres. This thesis addresses the following questions: • Is the SAHFA, as shown in Cull (1982) and defined by Neumann et al. (2000), a zone of blanket or even dominant high heat flow? • What is the true nature of the SAHFA when considered on a 10km lateral scale? • What are the possible reasons for the surface heat flow pattern in southeastern South Australia? The heat flow field is a fundamental parameter for characterizing the tectonic setting of a geological terrane because the magnitude of surface heat flow, Qs, can have a strong influence on the mechanical or rheological behaviour of crustal rocks. The distribution of Qs is also directly relevant to resource exploration, in that it is related directly to the distribution of heat producing elements (HPEs). These control the prospectivity for high geothermal gradients and geothermal energy, as well as potentially the locations of elevated concentrations of uranium. Closely spaced surface heat flow data clearly highlights the location of the Olympic Dam ore body, and would probably have aided previous explorers in the discovery of Prominent Hill. Surface heat flow mapping in southeastern South Australia revealed a surface heat flow distribution as complex and varied as the geology of the region itself. Two studies in that region demonstrated that, while there is slightly higher than average surface heat flow around some of the volcanic centres in the Newer Volcanics Province, heterogeneous basement heat production is a more likely explanation than remnant magmatic heat for the overall distribution of surface heat flow. A study was conducted to test the hypothesis that the Torrens Hinge Zone in South Australia was likely to be a region of high average geothermal gradients and thus prospective for geothermal energy. A heat flow drilling program designed to test the idea returned results that validated this hypothesis.
English communication skills in the ready-made garments industry in Bangladesh: a case study
Creators: name: Roshid, Mohammod Moninoor
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: English as a lingua franca (ELF) is playing an imperative role in communication in multilingual settings. The importance of English in global communication demands the necessity of English communication skills for operating a business worldwide. Constructing a conceptual framework for this research grounded in theories of ELF and communicative competence for language learning, this study explored understandings of the English communication skills required for business professionals working in the ready-made garments industry in Bangladesh and who are engaged in communication with business personnel from different linguacultural (language and cultural) backgrounds. The study further looked at how and how far the identified required skills correspond to the university education these professionals had experienced in Bangladesh. A qualitative case study was applied to conduct the research. The findings of the study show that for successful communication in an international business, the RMG professionals require a set of skills that embrace five core areas such as linguistic skills, sociocultural skills, discourse skills, pragmatic skills and professional skills. Deploying these skills in an integrated way was understood by the professionals as necessary to bring about an effective outcome in international business communication. The finding also demonstrates that despite vast differences in the ways the participants in the RMG business understood, conceptualised and practised English in their business communication; in the end, they all agreed that any kind of mix in language is effective in communication as long as their counterparts understand. The findings further reveal that the set of skills RMG professionals needed for effective operation in a global business were overlooked in university education. The finding identified potential gaps between university and industry in preparing graduates with necessary communication skills in English as per the demands of international business communication. The results of this thesis carry potential lessons and directions for university, industry, government, researchers and educators to narrow the gaps between what business professionals need and what can be realistically taught in universities. The insights derived from this research could potentially be an important addition to both local and global knowledge.
title: Adenylate energy charge (AEC) in soil: an almost ignored determination of soil microbial activity - in memory of Phil Brookes
Creators: name: Jörgensen, Rainer Georg
name: Nannipieri, Paolo
Publisher: name: KOBRA Universität Kassel
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: microbial biomass
subject: AEC
subject: enzymatic tests
subject: HPLC
classificationCode: 500
subject: 500
classificationCode: Biomasse
subject: Biomasse
classificationCode: Mikrobieller Abbau
subject: Mikrobieller Abbau
classificationCode: Bodenmikrobiologie
subject: Bodenmikrobiologie
classificationCode: Enzymatische Analyse
subject: Enzymatische Analyse

description:
The current opinion paper aims to revitalize the important methodological approach initiated by Phil Brookes to measure the adenylate energy charge (AEC) of soils, which indicates the energy status of microbial biomass carbon (MBC). Even dormant soil microorganisms maintain high AEC, i.e., (ATP + 0.5 × ADP) / (ATP + ADP + AMP), levels and, thus, rather stable ATP/MBC and adenylate/MBC ratios. New extractants, improved enzymatic tests, and chromatographic systems are available now that could give new impetus to the measurement of adenylates and AEC in soil. The AEC is a useful tool to investigate important and still unsolved questions in soil microbial biochemistry. For example, drying and rewetting cycles of soil lead to AEC fluctuations, where the energy fluxes of ATP hydrolysis and synthesis remain unknown. Decreasing AEC values might give insights into microbial death processes, particularly in combination with amino sugar assays or molecular genetic techniques.
Additional file 3: of Bibliometric analysis of global scientific activity on umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells: a swiftly expanding and shifting focus
Creators: name: Zhao, Jian
name: Yu, Guanyu
name: Cai, Mengxi
name: Lei, Xiao
name: Yang, Yanyong
name: Wang, Qijin
name: Zhai, Xiao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Details of group items by cluster in VOSviewer. (DOCX 21 kb)
Developing technical control, ensemble interaction, and flow within jazz performance
Creators: name: Williamson, Paul
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This exegesis explicates the approaches, processes and experiences within my performance practice. It explores relationships among studio practice, performance, the flow state, improvisation and composition. The exegesis also looks into balancing individual conception and technical control with interactive ensemble performance. The outcomes of this research project include compositions, commercially released recordings, and a major recital. The practice-led research model has been a pertinent methodology in this research for experimenting, documenting, and reflecting within my studio practice, rehearsals, performances, recordings, and compositions. Research-led practice has also been a key methodology in this project, establishing concepts and theoretical constructs, such as the idea of flow. Additionally, the investigation of trends within Australian jazz and the examination of seminal practitioners and ensembles has contextualised and influenced my approach as a composer and contemporary jazz trumpeter. The advantages of performing in flow, the development of technique that enables the practitioner to execute ideas with accuracy and immediacy, and developing a flexible vocabulary for improvised and interactive ensemble performance are specific to my own performance practice and have provided a grounding for developing my recital. These approaches might be adopted in the future by other practitioners, specifically jazz musicians seeking to gain greater awareness and understanding of the preparation and experience of improvised jazz performance. Although the literature within the field of practice-led research is growing, to date only a small portion of it has focused on the specific issues relevant to performance within jazz music. In addition to the primary recital outcome, a secondary aim of this research was to develop a better understanding of the particular issues that jazz musicians face within performance.
Dissolution of fibrous protein in ionic liquids
Creators: name: Mohd Idris, Azila
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Keratin, one of the most abundant natural biopolymers, can be obtained from different sources such as feather, wool, hair, nail and horn. Due to the generation of large amounts of these biopolymers as a waste from textile, livestock and slaughter industries, it is of significance to recover these by-products and convert them into useful biomaterials. Organic solvents have been investigated in the past to dissolve keratin based products, but with limited success. Recently, ionic liquids have been used as an alternative to conventional organic solvents in biomass dissolution due to their unique physical and chemical properties; in this study, task specific ionic liquids have been developed and investigated as solvents for keratin based biopolymers (turkey feather and wool). Imidazolium (1-allyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride ([AMIM]Cl), 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride ([BMIM]Cl), 1-allyl-3-methylimidazolium dicyanamide ([AMIM][DCA])), and choline based ionic liquids ([choline][thioglycolate] and [bis-(2-ethylhexyl)][thioglycolate]) were synthesized, characterized and tested for feather and wool solubilisation. Apart from these aprotic ionic liquids, protic ionic liquids (such as hydroxyl ammonium based ionic liquids (eg dimethylethanolammonium formate (([DMEA][formate])) were also synthesized and employed in the dissolution of keratin. Overall, the most effective, were the imidazolium based ionic liquids containing dicyanamide or chloride anions, showing a significant solubility (up to 45 wt. % for feather and up to 20 wt. % for wool) for keratins. The dissolved keratins were regenerated by precipitation from water and characterised by spectroscopic methods. The influence of reducing agents and deep eutectic mixtures on keratin solubility was also investigated in this study. The addition of reducing agents to the ionic liquids increased the amount of dissolved keratin by 50-100 mg g-1. Deep eutectic solvent mixtures were shown to be a potentially less expensive alternative solvent for dissolution of keratin biopolymers, however there was no significant increase in keratin solubility compared to ionic liquids. The next stage of the study involved the production of regenerated keratin bio-materials in the form of films, fibers and gel. This process could form the basis of a commercial process. The method employed in this study involved the dissolution of keratin, casting the dissolved keratin onto a Teflon plate, soaking the plates into water to diffuse out the ionic liquid and drying the material for further mechanical testing. The recycling of the protic ionic liquid was also investigated. After the dissolution and regeneration of the keratin biopolymer, the residual IL was recovered by distilling the mixture to remove the solvent. The 1H NMR spectra of the protic ionic liquids before and after distillation showed no structural change which indicates the potential for recyclability of these materials. The distilled ionic liquids showed high yield and purity (~99% recovered).
Servant leadership and job satisfaction: the moderating roles of the leader’s decision making process and organisational structure.
Creators: name: Eva, Nathan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The continued erosion of employee job satisfaction at work has become the Achilles’ heel of otherwise highly performing organisations. The Gallup organisation estimates the total cost of low job satisfaction in America alone at between US $450 and $550 billion annually, most of which is associated with absenteeism, turnover, and lower productivity. An anomaly to this trend, however, are organisations who adopt servant leadership behaviours as represented by some of the Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work for in America which tend to foster higher levels of employee satisfaction. Corroborating prior studies on leadership and job satisfaction, the current study therefore focuses on the underlying process by which leadership affects job satisfaction. Since leadership does not operate in a vacuum but is constrained by the organisational environment it operates under, the effects of servant leadership are largely determined by the context in which it operates. This study specifically investigates the boundary conditions created by the leader’s decision making process (involvement and dominance) and organisational structure (formalisation and centralisation) and their impacts on the servant leadership job satisfaction relationship. Two independent studies were undertaken to test the hypotheses: A vignette experiment with 1,569 business and economics students from a leading Australian university and a cross-sectional survey among 336 middle managers of small to medium enterprises in Australia. Findings from the studies showed that leader involvement moderated the servant leadership job satisfaction relationship independently. Similarly, the interaction effect of formalisation and centralisation, leader involvement and formalisation and leader dominance and centralisation moderate the servant leadership job satisfaction relationship. These findings point to the role of the leader’s decision making process and organisational structure as boundary conditions for servant leadership to impact employee job satisfaction. The study suggests that when servant leadership behaviours are employed by a leader who is highly involved in the decision making process and operates under a formalised structure, its effects on job satisfaction are augmented. On the contrary, when the leader is dominant and operates under a centralised structure, the servant leadership effects are considerably minimized. Addressing the recommendation to take into account the leadership context, the current study extends previous research on servant leadership and job satisfaction by explaining how organisational structure affects this relationship. In more practical terms, the study findings highlight the importance of selecting and developing organisational leaders who practice servant leadership behaviours and are highly involved in the decision making process to engender a high level of employee job satisfaction.
Additional file 1: Figure S1. of Conservation of polypyrimidine tract binding proteins and their putative target RNAs in several storage root crops
Creators: name: Kondhare, Kirtikumar
name: Kumar, Amit
name: Hannapel, David
name: Banerjee, Anjan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Phylogenetic relationship of Ipomoea species. (PDF 77Â kb)
Assessing the role of property rights in managing water demand: the case of Umgeni River catchment
Creators: name: Chiluwe, Quinex Wintalamu
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis examines the role of property rights in managing water demands from a catchment or basin perspective by focusing on defined property rights dimensions. The research resulted from the realisation that water demands are escalating increasingly in various river basins as a result of the improved living standards, population growth, industrial expansion and increase in agricultural activities, such as irrigation, while water resources availability continue to dwindle. While research efforts have indeed advanced in water demand management, most of this study places its focus on residential or domestic water demands and economic instruments such as pricing. Efforts to study the response of water users to property rights institutions in water resource utilisation have been insignificant. The foremost argument being presented in this study is that resource users do respond to incentives, and those incentives are influenced by the presence of a property rights structure. In addition, there has been overwhelming research in the field of property rights in natural resource and land use, which has been found to be vital in controlling and managing the utilisation of these resources. Using the property rights theory, the thesis has investigated the existence of relationships between attributes of property rights and intentions of water users to conserve water, invest in the improvement of the water resource infrastructure, and protect the water resource. The study employed a case study approach in the Umgeni River catchment Area in the KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. A survey questionnaire was administered among 146 water users in the catchment who comprised irrigation farmers, livestock farmers and commercial water users, and some interviews were conducted with officials from the Department of Water Affairs. The collected data were analysed using the IBM SPSS software, where descriptive and inferential statistics were utilised to draw some significant relationships. The evidence obtained in this study indicates that property rights would be highly significant in curtailing water demands in a catchment by acting as incentives in water resource utilisation, specifically by first motivating water users to conserve water. In addition, the results revealed significant relationships between property rights attributes duration, enforcement and transferability with the intentions of water users investing in the improvement of water resource infrastructure on their properties. From this study, it was evident that water users would be very motivated to protect the water resource that they use if they have strong enforcement mechanisms for their property right. These results would be hugely significant in the management of water demands as the design of property rights would be used as incentives in order to curtail water demands, especially in a basin context.
title: Structure Calculations in Nd III and U III Relevant for Kilonovae Modelling
Creators: name: Silva, Ricardo F.
name: Sampaio, Jorge M.
name: Amaro, Pedro
name: Flörs, Andreas
name: Martínez-Pinedo, Gabriel
name: Marques, José P.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2022

description: The detection of gravitational waves and electromagnetic signals from the neutron star merger GW170817 has provided evidence that these astrophysical events are sites where the r-process nucleosynthesis operates. The electromagnetic signal, commonly known as kilonova, is powered by the radioactive decay of freshly synthesized nuclei. However, its luminosity, colour and spectra depend on the atomic opacities of the produced elements. In particular, opacities of lanthanides and actinides elements, due to their large density of bound–bound transitions, are fundamental. The current work focuses on atomic structure calculations for lanthanide and actinide ions, which are important in kilonovae modelling of ejecta spectra. Calculations for Nd III and U III, two representative rare-earth ions, were achieved. Our aim is to provide valuable insights for future opacity calculations for all heavy elements. We noticed that the opacity of U III is about an order of magnitude greater than the opacity of Nd III due to a higher density of levels in the case of the actinide.
The dynamic present: not yet an ontology of the past
Creators: name: Dempsey, Sarah-Jane Anna
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The notion of the dynamic present is a fundamental part of human life and culture. Despite this, over the past century it has fallen from favour within metaphysical temporal models with the rise of static time. In this thesis the four main areas of objection to the idea of passing time are investigated; they fall under the headings of logical, epistemic, semantic and physical. Available responses to these objections are surveyed, and it is concluded that these objections to passage, whilst being prima facie legitimate concerns, are not conclusive reasons to reject passage. It is argued that these concerns are not compelling enough to warrant a dismissal of dynamic time. In response, a new temporal model is formulated, that directly acknowledges and addresses the concerns raised, whilst preserving the notion of the dynamic present. This model is called the Proto Model. It is a temporal structure of branching possibilities. These possibilities are all uninstantiated properties of the present and have modal statuses which correspond to their position relative to the instantiated present. As time progresses these statuses change. Each moment of passing time is successively instantiated within prototime, an additional, passageless temporal dimension. Thus the model constitutes the passage of time by the changing modal statuses of possible properties within prototime. This model is an asymmetric, dynamic picture, which is a more complicated adaptation of standard Presentism. Due to its complexity it is able to better defend itself from a number of the objections to dynamic time. The aim of this thesis is to demonstrate that the arguments against dynamic time are not as conclusive as often thought. Further, I aim to demonstrate that it is possible to formulate a unique, internally consistent model which preserves dynamic time, whilst also addressing these objections against dynamic temporal theory.
Additional file 2: Table S1. of Conservation of polypyrimidine tract binding proteins and their putative target RNAs in several storage root crops
Creators: name: Kondhare, Kirtikumar
name: Kumar, Amit
name: Hannapel, David
name: Banerjee, Anjan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: trnS intergenic spacer sequence analysis. (PDF 16Â kb)
Experience as a Catalyst for Healing Ministry: Historical Evidence and Implications from the Life of F.F. Bosworth
Creators: name: Barnes, Roscoe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: History
Religious Studies

description: This paper was presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies held in March 2007 at Lee University in Cleveland, Tenn.--------------
With a ministry that spanned two world wars and over five decades, Fred Francis Bosworth (1877-1958) was considered one of the greatest authorities on divine healing. The author of Christ the Healer, he was a Pentecostal pioneer who reportedly led more than a million people to faith in Christ. He conducted some of the largest evangelistic healing campaigns ever reported in the United States.

Despite Bosworth's many accomplishments, there is little known about his life history. While much is known about his teachings on divine healing, there is a lack of research on how he developed into a famous healing evangelist. Bosworth has attributed his success to such practices as prayer and fasting, the baptism in the Holy Spirit, along with simple faith in the Word of God and the confession of the Word. Yet, his actual experiences may have played a more important role in his success than he or others have noted.

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of experience in Bosworth's healing ministry, and explain how it served as a catalyst for his success as a healing evangelist. By seeing the ministry of healing in this light, the church will know more, I believe, about the value of experience in preparing one for future ministry. The primary methodology for this research was the historical case study, through which I collected and analyzed historical research data on Bosworth’s life history. I reviewed his experiences on four levels: Personal, Corporate, Theological and Developmental.