cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evaluating the interplay of term premia, monetary policy, and the economy in the euro area
Creators: name: Herrmann, Fabian
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: This paper investigates the interplay of term premia, monetary policy, and the economy in the euro zone. For this purpose I use a no-arbitrage macro-finance model of the term structure of government bond yields as in Ireland (2015), where yields are modeled as linear-affine functions of the state vector. Movements in term premia are captured by an unobservable risk variable. Restric- tions on the dynamic of the state equation are entailed in order to identify the structural model. The model is estimated using Bayesian estimation techniques. The results highlight a rich dynamic between term premia, monetary policy, and the economy. In line with the "practitioners view" I find that an exogenous rise in pre- mia dampens economic activity. Moreover, during the sample period, the ECB lowered the nominal short-term interest rate in response to a rise in term premia.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB 823;42/2015
Meta-analysis of simultaneous treatment of heart and liver in treatment of tic disorder (TD) in children
Creators: name: Sun, Yuan
name: Wu, Yaoxuan
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Integrative Medicine
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Medical Specialties
subject: Pediatrics

description: Objective:To systematically evaluate the efficacy of heart-liver simultaneous treatment for children with tic disorder (TD). Methods: CNKI, WanFang, VIP and PubMed database were searched for clinical randomized controlled trials (RCT) about the treatment of pediatric TD with heart-liver combined treatment from the establishment of the database to June 2022. Jadad score scale and Cochrane bias risk assessment tool were used to evaluate the quality, and RevMan 5.4 software was used for Meta-analysis.
Evaluación de los niveles de metales pesados en sedimentos superficiales aledaños al emisario submarino de Manzanillo, bahía de Cartagena, Colombia, durante el periodo 1998-2010
Creators: name: Cerro Medina, Luis Carlos
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 2018
Subjects: Sedimentos marinos
Metales pesados
Bahía de Cartagena (Bolívar, Colombia) - Análisis
Espectrofotometría

description: Tesis (Magister en Química)-- Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Programa de Maestría en Química, 2018
description: La siguiente investigación tiene como fin determinar la influencia de los vertimientos de aguas residuales sobre los niveles de metales pesados en sedimentos superficiales aledaños al emisario submarino en la zona de Manzanillo en la bahía de Cartagena, Colombia, y las posibles variaciones durante el período 1998 - 2010.
A lower bound on the zero forcing number
Creators: name: Davila, Randy
name: Kalinowski, Thomas
name: Stephen, Sudeep
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 05C35

description: In this note, we study a dynamic vertex coloring for a graph $G$. In particular, one starts with a certain set of vertices black, and all other vertices white. Then, at each time step, a black vertex with exactly one white neighbor forces its white neighbor to become black. The initial set of black vertices is called a \emph{zero forcing set} if by iterating this process, all of the vertices in $G$ become black. The \emph{zero forcing number} of $G$ is the minimum cardinality of a zero forcing set in $G$, and is denoted by $Z(G)$. Davila and Kenter have conjectured in 2015 that $Z(G)\geq (g-3)(δ-2)+δ$ where $g$ and $δ$ denote the girth and the minimum degree of $G$, respectively. This conjecture has been proven for graphs with girth $g \leq 10$. In this note, we present a proof for $g \geq 5$, $δ\geq 2$, thereby settling the conjecture.
The Role of Arginine Metabolism in Mediating the Effect of Salt on Macrophage Function
Creators: name: Ritchie, Kaitlyn
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 310803
subject: Plant cell and molecular biology
classificationCode: 310902
subject: Animal cell and molecular biology
classificationCode: 320499
subject: Immunology not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis is submitted in total fulfilment of the Masters of Science to the Department of Biochemistry and Genetics, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.
Reflexiones en torno a la convivencia social en los niños, niñas y adolescentes participantes del programa de Cultura y Deporte de la Fundación Granitos de Paz
Creators: name: Durán Acero, Lauren Daniela
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 2020
Subjects: Trabajo social con jóvenes
Interacción social
Deportes

description: Tesis (Trabajador Social) -- Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de ciencias Sociales y Educación, programa de Trabajo Social, 2020
description: La sistematización recopila las reflexiones que se construyeron en torno a la convivencia social a partir de la participación de niños, niñas y adolescentes vinculados al programa de Cultura y Deporte de la Fundación Granitos de Paz. La sistematización se fundamentó en el enfoque hermenéutico, y en la metodología se direccionó la entrevista semi-estructurada para el rescate de los conocimientos de directivos y docentes frente a la estrategia pedagógica e incidencia del programa Cultura y Deporte en la niñez y adolescencia; asimismo se empleó la técnica de talleres creativos para la recuperación de los aprendizajes acerca de las prácticas de convivencia social de 30 niños, niñas y adolescentes. Los resultados y el análisis a la luz de trabajo social evidencian que la fundación Granitos de Paz trabaja el acompañamiento psicosocial a través de espacios de proyección para la vida, y en cuanto a las disciplinas instruidas en el programa, se ha propendido por la enseñanza de valores y habilidades sociales que les permitan establecer relaciones sociales. Por último, la participación activa de niños, niñas y adolescentes en el programa, les ha proporcionado una visión y cuestionamiento en la cotidianidad de su entorno social para la construcción de convivencia social en un contexto de paz.
Place matters: pedagogies of food, ecology and design
Creators: name: Green, Monica
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The purpose of this study has been to consider children’s embodiment of food gardens and school ground places. What pedagogies support children’s inhabitation of these places? What teaching and learning opportunities do these places enable, and how are they incorporated into the broader school curriculum? These questions offer an important starting point for understanding the contributions of garden and place-based education in primary (elementary) schooling contexts. I conducted extensive semi-structured interviews with students, gardening and environmental teachers and principals in three schools to gain a sense of the significance of garden-based curriculum. During this time I listened to, and observed how students and teachers interpreted and worked with local outdoor learning spaces in embodied and experiential ways through growing food and land conservation/rehabilitation. I investigated comments and stories about children’s attachment to, and affinity with a number of school ground settings that included food and indigenous gardens, wetlands, creeks and trees. The study found that food gardens and school ground contexts are important pedagogical sites that renew children’s meaningful relationships with personally significant environments. Across all schools, pedagogical frameworks underpinned by deep pedagogies for sustainability assist to extend children’s connection to, and relations with local and people, within and beyond school boundaries. Overwhelmingly, participants expressed a desire to care for the places where their regular learning and play occurred. The research draws attention to the ways schools are engaging with emergent 21st century environmental and social issues. The initiatives undertaken by each school and their wider communities are positive and hopeful, and play a critical role in the renewal of people-place relations, which remains a key element of education for sustainability.
Supplemental figure: Skeletal muscle fiber contractile function is altered in male mice receiving a low dose of a pharmaceutical androgen receptor antagonist or estrogen receptor agonist
Creators: name: Momb, Brent
name: Szabo, Gillian
name: Mogus, Joshua
name: Chipkin, Stuart
name: Vandenberg, Laura
name: Miller, Mark
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Supplemental Figure for Skeletal muscle fiber contractile function is altered in male mice receiving a low dose of a pharmaceutical androgen receptor antagonist or estrogen receptor agonist
Sudden spreading of infections in an epidemic model with a finite seed fraction
Creators: name: Hasegawa, Takehisa
name: Nemoto, Koji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a simple case of the susceptible-weakened-infected-removed model in regular random graphs in a situation where an epidemic starts from a finite fraction of initially infected nodes (seeds). Previous studies have shown that, assuming a single seed, this model exhibits a kind of discontinuous transition at a certain value of infection rate. Performing Monte Carlo simulations and evaluating approximate master equations, we find that the present model has two critical infection rates for the case with a finite seed fraction. At the first critical rate the system shows a percolation transition of clusters composed of removed nodes, and at the second critical rate, which is larger than the first one, a giant cluster suddenly grows and the order parameter jumps even though it has been already rising. Numerical evaluation of the master equations shows that such sudden epidemic spreading does occur if the degree of the underlying network is large and the seed fraction is small.
description: 9 pages
Revisiting Inferences of Trustworthiness from Moral Judgments [Registered Report Stage 1 protocol]
Creators: name: Bostyn, Dries
name: Chandrashekar, Prasad
name: Roets, Arne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Personality, Social and Criminal Psychology

description: Abstract:
 Recent research has looked at how people infer the moral character of others based on how they resolve sacrificial moral dilemmas. Previous studies provide consistent evidence for the prediction that those who endorse outcome-maximizing, “utilitarian” judgments are disfavored in social dilemmas and seen as less trustworthy in comparison to those who support harm-rejecting “deontological” judgments. However, previous research investigating this topic has studied only a limited set of sacrificial dilemmas and did not yet test to what extent these effects might be moderated by specific features of the situation described in the sacrificial dilemma (for instance, whether the dilemma involves mortal or non-mortal harm). In the current manuscript, we aim to assess the robustness of previous findings by exploring how trust inference of “utilitarian” and “deontological” decision makers is moderated by five different contextual factors.
July 19 Monday
Creators: name: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/31293
subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945

description: Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
July 21 Wednesday
Creators: name: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/31293
subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945

description: Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
July 20 Tuesday
Creators: name: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945
subject: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/31293

description: Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
Peripheral Auditory and Vestibular Dysfunction Following Traumatic Brain Injury: An Exploration of Contemporary Audiological Practice in the Context of Brain Injury and Rehabiliation
Creators: name: Sarkic, Bojana
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 320907
subject: Sensory systems
classificationCode: 320999
subject: Neurosciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 420109
subject: Rehabilitation

description: Submitted in total fulfilment for the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Speech Pathology, Orthoptics and Audiology, School of Allied Health, Human Services and Sport, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Victoria.
July 25 Sunday
Creators: name: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945
subject: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/31293

description: Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
July 24th Saturday . My 42nd Birthday.
Creators: name: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945
subject: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/31293

description: Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
The effectiveness of total quality management as a school improvement process
Creators: name: Fernandes, Venesser Marian
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Purpose The purpose of this study was to evaluate the contribution that Total Quality Management (TQM) programs have made in the provision of quality education within schools in Victoria, Australia. Through case-study analysis, two state primary schools in Victoria who have made use of TQM programs within their school improvement processes were studied. Design/Methodology/Approach In order to investigate the experiences of the two case-study schools, a mixed-methods approach was used. This study has been designed as a retrospective, instrumental, organisational case-study using mainly qualitative methods such as in-depth interviews, content analysis, document analysis and semi-structured observations as well as one quantitative method that involved using a Self-Assessment Quality Checklist. Grounded theory methods were used for data-coding and the Australian Business Excellence Framework was used as the main data analysis tool. The participants from each case-study school included: The principal, a middle ¬management member -coordinator, a teaching staff member, an administrative staff member, the Total Quality Management consultant and a school council member using a multi-level data collection approach. The analysis determined the extent to which TQM programs can be used as valuable contributors towards school improvement processes conducted in state primary schools within Victoria, Australia. It looked at the effect these particular TQM programs have had on the overall teaching and learning process and studied significant aspects of these programs which have assisted the case-study schools in developing a culture for continuous improvement. Findings The findings of this study indicate that there are a number of positive implications for the application of Total Quality Management philosophy and programs within educational organisations such as primary schools. Through this study, it was found that TQM programs have a definite impact on the leadership system, the organisational culture and the mechanisms of continuous improvement within schools. It was also found that there are serious implications for the application of TQM programs within state primary as well as state secondary schools in Victoria, Australia. Originality/Value As a synthesis form of the analysis, a model for school improvement that focuses on schools being strategically-oriented learning organisations through an effective leadership system has been suggested. Also, recommendations on the use of the Australian Business Excellence Framework as a self-assessment auditing tool by schools in Victoria, Australia have been made.
International Food Security Assessment, 2022–32
Creators: name: Zereyesus, Yacob Abrehe
name: Cardell, Lila
name: Valdes, Constanza
name: Ajewole, Keyode
name: Zeng, Wendy
name: Beckman, Jayson
name: Ivanic, Maros
name: Hashad, Reem
name: Jelliffe, Jeremy
name: Kee, Jennifer
name: Zereyesus, Yacob Abrehe
name: Cardell, Lila
name: Valdes, Constanza
name: Ajewole, Keyode
name: Zeng, Wendy
name: Beckman, Jayson
name: Ivanic, Maros
name: Hashad, Reem
name: Jelliffe, Jeremy
name: Kee, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Political Economy
subject: Public Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Calories
subject: Coronavirus
subject: COVID-19
subject: Ukraine
subject: food demand
subject: food insecurity
subject: food prices
subject: income
subject: inflation
subject: nutritional threshold
subject: pandemic
subject: Asia
subject: Latin America and the Caribbean
subject: North Africa
subject: Sub-Saharan Africa

description: Millions of people around the world are food insecure and do not have access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs for an active and healthy life. Using a demand-driven international food security assessment model, this report helps the U.S. Department of Agriculture and its stakeholders estimate food security trends in 77 low- and middle-income countries. High international food commodity prices, intensified by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and input price spikes, are associated with an increase of 118.7 million food insecure people in 2022 in the countries included in this report.
The potential application of measuring antioxidant current by voltammetry at the clinical point of care: a systematic review.
Creators: name: Bringans, Cameron
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Voltammetry is a method well suited for measuring low-molecular-weight antioxidant (LMWA) status in patients at the point of care (POC) in near real-time. The measurement step occurs using a reagent free, electrochemical reaction on the surface of a small electrode, ensuring that the method is simple, quantitative, rapid, portable and inexpensive. This systematic review examines how voltammetry has been used to assess LMWA changes in a wide range of biological samples in animal and human subjects in a spectrum of diseases.
Critical web literacy: a study of six Chinese university students
Creators: name: LI, XiaoChun
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study investigated the ways in which six Chinese university students, who were studying English as a compulsory component of their degrees, used the Internet in their everyday lives. The focus was on how their online activities contributed to the development of their critical literacy capabilities. The notion of critical web literacy provides the study’s conceptual framework. It draws on a range of theoretical resources associated with the New Literacy Studies, critical literacy theories and the traditions of critical thinking in China. Although there are some tensions between the ways of seeing and producing knowledge integral to these resources, together they proved most useful to illuminate and explain the findings. The research employed a qualitative case-study approach with an ethnographic orientation that extended over 15 months. The site for the project was a Chinese university with a focus on six students, three male and three female, in their second and third years of study. The main data sources were observations, interviews, online communications and blog writings. Discourse analysis techniques, based on Gee’s D/discourse theories, were adopted to analyse the data. The study’s findings suggest that the students’ proficiency with English, as the lingua franca of the Internet, together with their mastery of digital technologies, influenced their critical web literacy development in important ways. For several of the participants, their critical engagement with web discussions and activities motivated them to enhance their foreign language facility, especially English. The findings also suggest that the students’ national identity influenced their critical thinking when they engaged in web literacy practices, in particular, when they encountered ideological conflicts between China and the west. By taking account of Confucian scholarship and the traditional heritage of Chinese culture, as well as the political and social context of contemporary China, the study explored the challenges of importing notions of critical literacy from the west. It concludes that, at least for the present, there is not much space for the application of such critical literacy approaches in Chinese higher education. However, the Internet opened a new window for the Chinese young people who participated in the study to engage with broader social and political activities across geographical barriers. The study also provides English language teachers in Chinese universities with a new lens through which to consider young people’s everyday digital literacy practices. As the students’ online activities outside of the classroom proved to be useful in developing both their language learning and critical thinking, teachers might explore the possibilities for including critical approaches mediated by the use of digital technologies in their programs.
Proliferation of nutrition sensing preadipocytes upon short term HFD feeding
Creators: name: Kulenkampff, Elisabeth
name: Wolfrum, Christian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Adipose tissue is highly dynamic and increases its size dependent on the status of nutrition. Generally, an increase of adipose tissue mass is attributed to two mechanisms, namely hypertrophy (increase in adipocyte size) and hyperplasia (increase in adipocyte number). Here, we analyzed the proliferation capacity of a pool of nutrition sensing preadipocytes after short-term high fat diet (HFD) feeding. We show that this process is age independent and that adipocyte hyperplasia seems not to be dependent on adipocyte hypertrophy. Further, we could show that the subsequent development into adipocytes is influenced by the duration of HFD feeding after proliferation. Our data also demonstrate that the studied pool of preadipocytes seems to be finite and cannot be reactivated by multiple bouts of HFD feeding. In conclusion, our results indicate an important link between stem cells, nutrition status and homeostasis in the epididymal adipose tissue.
July 22nd Thursday
Creators: name: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/31293
subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945

description: Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
Local Gaussian Process Model for Large-scale Dynamic Computer Experiments
Creators: name: Zhang, Ru
name: Lin, Chunfang Devon
name: Ranjan, Pritam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The recent accelerated growth in the computing power has generated popularization of experimentation with dynamic computer models in various physical and engineering applications. Despite the extensive statistical research in computer experiments, most of the focus had been on the theoretical and algorithmic innovations for the design and analysis of computer models with scalar responses. In this paper, we propose a computationally efficient statistical emulator for a large-scale dynamic computer simulator (i.e., simulator which gives time series outputs). The main idea is to first find a good local neighbourhood for every input location, and then emulate the simulator output via a singular value decomposition (SVD) based Gaussian process (GP) model. We develop a new design criterion for sequentially finding this local neighbourhood set of training points. Several test functions and a real-life application have been used to demonstrate the performance of the proposed approach over a naive method of choosing local neighbourhood set using the Euclidean distance among design points.
description: 32 pages, 7 figures
Determinación de los niveles de mercurio en el distrito minero de San Martín de Loba, sur de Bolívar (Colombia)
Creators: name: Turizo Tapia, Alexi José
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 2016
Subjects: Mercurio - Análisis
Mercurio - Toxicología
Suelos - Contenido de metales pesados

description: Tesis (Magíster en Ciencias Ambientales) -- Universidad de Cartagena, Facultad de Ciencias Farmaceuticas. Convenio Sistema Universitario Estatal del Caribe Colombiano, 2016
description: El presente trabajo de investigación se fundamenta en identificar que el Mercurio (Hg) es considerado como uno de los contaminantes ambientales con mayor impacto sobre la biosfera. Este metal ha sido utilizado por los seres humanos desde las operaciones mineras romanas hace 3500 años. Durante la extracción de oro, el Hg se emplea en su forma elemental para formar amalgamas oro-Hg. Una vez entra a los ecosistemas, el Hg se esparce en el aire, suelo, agua y sedimentos. Las personas que viven en las proximidades de las zonas mineras artesanales son vulnerables a la exposición a este metal. Uno de los principales problemas es su capacidad para causar neurotoxicidad y teratogenicidad, así como lesiones en órganos tales como el hígado y los riñones. Por lo tanto, estos efectos hacen la vida prenatal más susceptible al daño cerebral que en los adultos.
Emoções e atitudes de acadêmicos de enfermagem em relação à pesquisa científica: revisão de escopo
Creators: name: de Almeida, Yasmin
name: Valente, Geilsa
name: Ferraz, Victor
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Education
subject: Higher Education
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Atitude
subject: Attitude
subject: Emoções
subject: Emotions
subject: Estudantes de Enfermagem
subject: Nursing Students
subject: Pesquisa
subject: Research

description: English title: Emotions and attitudes of nursing students toward scientific research: scoping review. Objetivos: 1) Mapear, na literatura científica, as atitudes e emoções dos graduandos de enfermagem associados à pesquisa científica em seu processo de formação profissional. 2) Analisar as inter-relações entre as atitudes e emoções associados à pesquisa científica e a formação profissional dos discentes de enfermagem.
From university to workplace: a contrastive analysis of business writing in Vietnam
Creators: name: Nguyen, Thi Hong Hai
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: ABSTRACT With globalisation, the importance of English as an international language in business communication has meant business people need high standards of communicative competence in both spoken and written English. Business letters involve knowledge of the rhetorical features of the genre and of the sociocultural characteristics of the audience. This study uses contrastive rhetoric analysis to investigate the business letter writing of Vietnamese EFL students in relation to letters by business professionals from various cultural backgrounds using lingua franca English. The aims of the study were to compare and contrast these two corpora, and to investigate the implications for business education in Vietnam. A qualitative case study approach using text analysis and in-depth interviews was used to collect and interpret data. Data included 46 letters written by business professionals in Vietnam, 40 letters written by business students at a Vietnamese university and interviews with 10 students, 3 teachers and 10 business professionals. The text analysis identified the rhetorical strategies used in the two corpora based on a move structure framework. Critical discourse analysis was used for interpretation of the interview data, which concentrated on the issues and problems related to rhetorical strategies in writing in university and workplace domains. The findings of the study show that, compared with business persons, students used a more rigid writing style with similar discourse patterns and inflexible positioning of phrases and structures. They tended to rely on writing rules and formulas, as well as their own cultural perspectives in composing texts. This was partly due to the explicit nature of classroom instruction, a lack of authentic practice, minimal feedback, and limited exposure to authentic models of business writing. The study’s exploration of sociocultural aspects in English L2 writing in business contexts contributes knowledge to the area of contrastive rhetoric through both its findings and their pedagogical implications. It also builds on the theory of intercultural business communication, demonstrating synergies of culture, business, and communication skills. Finally, it suggests ways to link the teaching of business writing to real world contexts.
July 26 Monday.
Creators: name: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945
subject: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/31293

description: Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
Design and Synthesis of Drp1 Inhibitors
Creators: name: Pontisso, Jarrod
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 510201
subject: Atomic and molecular physics

description: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Science to the Department of Chemistry and Physics, School of Molecular Science, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.
Fortalecimiento de los procesos de enseñanza – aprendizaje, la formación de docentes a través del desarrollo de aplicaciones, software y juegos educativos, participando en los adelantos tecnológicos y las estrategias innovadoras de la Gamificación en las aulas de clase
Creators: name: Vargas Gutiérrez, Sofía Carolina
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Enseñanza con ayuda de computadores
subject: Tecnología educativa
subject: Docentes - Prácticas de enseñanza

description: Se llevó a cabo un estudio que buscó fortalecer los procesos de enseñanza – aprendizaje, a través del desarrollo de aplicaciones, software y juegos educativos, participando en los adelantos tecnológicos y las estrategias innovadoras de la gamificación con la participación de los docentes. A partir de la identificación y caracterización de los estudiantes del grado séptimo de la I.E Madre Laura, el diseño, implementación y evaluación de una estrategia pedagógica que retomó los elementos de la gamificación. Se hizo empleando una investigación cualitativa, con un modelo de Investigación Acción Participación y con una muestra de 12 docentes y 15 estudiantes, a lo cuales se les aplicó una entrevista y el cuestionario, así mismo, se tuvo la revisión documental. Se encontró que la mayoría de los estudiantes contaban con recursos y conexión a internet, tuvieron afinidad con los juegos y aplicaciones, aunque no siempre los usan con fines académicos. Así mismo, se buscaron herramientas para el diseño de la estrategia que se planteó para el primer periodo (enero-marzo) con 7 sesiones de trabajo y una hora de duración semanal. Igualmente, optando por integrar las áreas ciencias naturales y tecnología para su ejecución y articulación temática. Se concluyó que a través de la estrategia se tomaron temáticas como el átomo, elementos químicos, tabla periódica, modelos atómicos, masa atómica y número atómico, que respondieron a las expectativas de los participantes y le hicieron frente a una situación de pandemia que exige respuesta a las grandes demandas y retos que la nueva realidad le impone a la educación y a las instituciones educativas, con ello, se obtiene un acercamiento a los adelantos tecnológicos y a estrategias innovadoras de la gamificación en las aulas de clase impulsadas por los docentes.
Investigating the Influence of the Probe Tip in Scanning Near-field Optical Microscopy Author
Creators: name: Achmari, Panji
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 321202
subject: Optical technology

description: Submitted in total fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Chemistry and Physics, School of Molecular Sciences, College of Science, Health, and Engineering, La Trobe University, Victoria.
A proof of Pyber's base size conjecture
Creators: name: Duyan, Hülya
name: Halasi, Zoltán
name: Maróti, Attila
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20B15, 20C99, 20B40

description: Building on earlier papers of several authors, we establish that there exists a universal constant $c > 0$ such that the minimal base size $b(G)$ of a primitive permutation group $G$ of degree $n$ satisfies $\log |G| / \log n \leq b(G) < 45 (\log |G| / \log n) + c$. This finishes the proof of Pyber's base size conjecture. An ingredient of the proof is that for the distinguishing number $d(G)$ (in the sense of Albertson and Collins) of a transitive permutation group $G$ of degree $n > 1$ we have the estimates $\sqrt[n]{|G|} < d(G) \leq 48 \sqrt[n]{|G|}$.
description: 27 pages, referee comments included
A MetAP2 inhibitor blocks adipogenesis, yet improves glucose uptake in cells
Creators: name: Md Abu Bakkar Siddik
name: Das, Bhaskar C.
name: Weiss, Louis
name: Dhurandhar, Nikhil V.
name: Hegde, Vijay
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Adipose tissue expansion involves angiogenesis to remodel its capillary network. The enzymemethionine aminopeptidase 2(MetAP2) promotes angiogenesis.MetAP2 inhibitors suppress angiogenesis and have potential anti-obesity effect. However, impairment in adipose tissue expansion is also linked with impaired glycemic control.This study investigated the effect of BL6, a MetAP2 inhibitor, on adipogenesis and glucose disposal.To test effect on angiogenesis, Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells(HUVECs) were treated with BL6 for 24h to determine tube formation. Further, to test effect on adipogenesis and glucose disposal,3T3-L1 pre-adipocytes were treated with BL6(0 µM, 20µM, 50 µM or 100µM) during differentiation. Differentiated cells were stained with Oil Red O for determining lipid accumulation, and glucose uptake assay. Protein levels and RNA expression for key genes involved in the adipogenic cascade were determined.BL6 treatment of HUVECs dose dependently blocked angiogenesis. During differentiation of pre-adipocytes, 50μM and 100µM BL6 significantly reduced lipid accumulation. Treatment with 100µM BL6 significantly decreased expression of adipogenic genes. Interestingly, BL6 treatment dose dependently increased glucose uptake by 3T3-L1 cells.MetAP2 inhibitor blocks angiogenesis, attenuates adipogenesis, yet increases cellular glucose uptake. Collectively this proof of concept study supports a possible role for MetAP2 inhibitor BL6, as a putative anti-obesity therapeutic agent.
96th Annual Exhibition April 1 - 18, 1985, National Association of Women Artists (1889-1985)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1985

description: The National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) was established in 1889 and is the oldest professional women's fine arts organization in the United States. NAWA's mission is to promote awareness of, and interest in, visual art created by women in the United States. As part of this effort NAWA holds an annual exhibition of works by members of the association and publishes an exhibition catalog to accompany or commemorate the annual exhibitions. These catalogs not only function as an exhibition catalog, but also as a document that summarizes the structure, membership, and activities of the association.Information that can be found in these catalogs includes lists of officers, members of the executive board and committees, prize winners, lists of exhibitor and members, and images of some of the artwork exhibited. Catalogs from the 2000s also include information on NAWA events and activities beyond the annual exhibition.Please note that the numbering of the annual catalogs was adjusted in 1960 and again in 1971. For example, NAWA designated the annual exhibition in 1960 as the 70th Anniversary Exhibition after 1959 was the 67th Annual Exhibition. These adjustments appear to have been made to reflect the date of the founding of the association, so that, by 1989, the annual exhibition commemorated the 100-year anniversary of the founding of NAWA in 1889.
Estudio socieconómico para la implementación de una institución educativa de media técnica en la zona nororiental del Distrito de Cartagena
Creators: name: Diaz Mestra, Mildred
name: Zuñiga Carrillo, Virna
Publisher: name: Universidad De Cartagena
Year: 1997
Subjects: Estudio socio económico
Desarrollo económico

description: Tesis (Economista) .--Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Programa de Economía, 1997.
description: El presente estudio tiene por objeto analizar las características sociales y económicas de la población en estudio y con base en ello identificar las exigencias de formación técnica que presenta.
Role of Extracellular Vesicles from Fusarium graminearum and Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum in Fungal-Plant Interactions
Creators: name: Garcia-Ceron, Donovan
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 300409
subject: Crop and pasture protection (incl. pests, diseases and weeds)
classificationCode: 300804
subject: Horticultural crop protection (incl. pests, diseases and weeds)
classificationCode: 310199
subject: Biochemistry and cell biology not elsewhere classified

description: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Biochemistry and Genetics, School of Molecular Sciences, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.
July 23rd Friday
Creators: name: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/31293
subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945

description: Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
Residue Formulas for logarithmic Foliations and applications
Creators: name: Corrêa, Maurício
name: Machado, Diogo da Silva
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this work we prove a Baum-Bott type formula for non-compact complex manifold of the form $\tilde{X}=X- \mathcal{D}$, where $X$ is a complex compact manifold and $\mathcal{D}$ is a normal crossing divisor on $X$. As applications, we provide a Poincaré-Hopf type Theorem and an optimal description for a smooth hypersurface $\mathcal{D}$ invariant by an one-dimensional foliation $\mathscr F$ on $\mathbb{P}^n$ satisfying $Sing(\mathscr F) \subsetneq \mathcal{D}.$
description: 20 pages, to appear in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. Major changes following suggestions of the referees
Applied Use of Functional Diversity to Assess Soil Microbial Communities in Agricultural Landscapes
Creators: name: Davis, Rachel
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 300202
subject: Agricultural land management
classificationCode: 300210
subject: Sustainable agricultural development
classificationCode: 300403
subject: Agronomy

description: Submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science to the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Microbiology, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Victoria.
97th Annual Exhibition April 7 - 29, 1986, National Association of Women Artists (1889-1986)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1986

description: The National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) was established in 1889 and is the oldest professional women's fine arts organization in the United States. NAWA's mission is to promote awareness of, and interest in, visual art created by women in the United States. As part of this effort NAWA holds an annual exhibition of works by members of the association and publishes an exhibition catalog to accompany or commemorate the annual exhibitions. These catalogs not only function as an exhibition catalog, but also as a document that summarizes the structure, membership, and activities of the association.Information that can be found in these catalogs includes lists of officers, members of the executive board and committees, prize winners, lists of exhibitor and members, and images of some of the artwork exhibited. Catalogs from the 2000s also include information on NAWA events and activities beyond the annual exhibition.Please note that the numbering of the annual catalogs was adjusted in 1960 and again in 1971. For example, NAWA designated the annual exhibition in 1960 as the 70th Anniversary Exhibition after 1959 was the 67th Annual Exhibition. These adjustments appear to have been made to reflect the date of the founding of the association, so that, by 1989, the annual exhibition commemorated the 100-year anniversary of the founding of NAWA in 1889.
Enablers that positively impact successful implementation of organizational change from the perspectives of OD practitioners
Creators: name: Cheng, Lily
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study critically analyzes the enablers identified by Organization Development (OD) practitioners as being necessary for positive change to happen in organizations. Through semi-structured interviews with six OD practitioners from three organizations that elicit their subjective experiences of change initiatives, nine enablers were found that span across the three dimensions of content, context and process suggested in Armenakis and Bedeian’s (1999) Integrated Theoretical Framework. Under the content dimension, the enablers found are (1) perceived gap, (2) desired state and (3) consistency of change message. Under the context dimension, the enablers found are (1) addressing emotional responses, (2) trust and credibility, and (3) transformational change agents. Under the process dimension, the enablers found are (1) involving and engaging, (2) communicating, and (3) monitoring of change initiative. The research data also indicates that the interdependence of these three change dimensions increases the level of change recipients’ commitment towards successful implementation of change, and suggests that the intangible dimension of context, as compared to the tangible dimensions of content and process, is found to require more attention from OD practitioners in order for change to be successfully implemented.
Quantum optimal control via gradient ascent in function space and the time-bandwidth quantum speed limit
Creators: name: Lucarelli, Dennis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A gradient ascent method for optimal quantum control synthesis is presented that employs a gradient derived with respect to the coefficients of a functional basis expansion of the control. Restricting the space of allowable controls to weighted sums of the Slepian sequences efficiently parameterizes the control in terms of bandwidth, resolution and pulse duration. A bound showing minimum time evolutions scaling with the inverse of the control bandwidth [S. Lloyd and S. Montangero, PRL, 113, 010502, (2014)] is recovered and the method is shown numerically to achieve the bound on entangling two-qubit quantum gates.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
98th Annual Exhibition March 9 - 27, 1987, National Association of Women Artists (1889-1987)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1987

description: The National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) was established in 1889 and is the oldest professional women's fine arts organization in the United States. NAWA's mission is to promote awareness of, and interest in, visual art created by women in the United States. As part of this effort NAWA holds an annual exhibition of works by members of the association and publishes an exhibition catalog to accompany or commemorate the annual exhibitions. These catalogs not only function as an exhibition catalog, but also as a document that summarizes the structure, membership, and activities of the association.Information that can be found in these catalogs includes lists of officers, members of the executive board and committees, prize winners, lists of exhibitor and members, and images of some of the artwork exhibited. Catalogs from the 2000s also include information on NAWA events and activities beyond the annual exhibition.Please note that the numbering of the annual catalogs was adjusted in 1960 and again in 1971. For example, NAWA designated the annual exhibition in 1960 as the 70th Anniversary Exhibition after 1959 was the 67th Annual Exhibition. These adjustments appear to have been made to reflect the date of the founding of the association, so that, by 1989, the annual exhibition commemorated the 100-year anniversary of the founding of NAWA in 1889.