cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
3D fibre-optical nonlinear optical microscopy imaging
Creators: name: Gu, Min
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The recent development of fibre-optical nonlinear optical microscopy for 3D endoscope tissue imaging is reported. The new compact probe is designed with double-clad photonic crystal fibre components and a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) mirror.
Situated cosmopolitanism, and the conditions of its possibility: Transformative dialogue as a response to the challenge of difference
Creators: name: Healy, Paul
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The challenge of accommodating difference has traditionally proved highly problematic for cosmopolitanism proposals, given their inherently universalistic thrust. Today, however, we are acutely aware that in failing to give difference its due, we stand to perpetrate a significant injustice through negating precisely what differentiates diverse groupings and confers on them their identity. Moreover, in an increasingly pluralistic and multicultural world it has become clear that doing justice to difference is an essential prerequisite for the internal flourishing as well as peaceable coexistence of diverse cultural and other groupings. Accordingly, as a corrective for the homogenising presuppositions of highly a universalistic and decontextualised template like the Habermasian, the present paper defends the need for a situated, dialogical approach that can not only accommodate difference but also treat it as a resource for promoting mutual understanding and potentially transformative learning. In thus defending the merits of a situated, dialogical template, the present paper also seeks to shed light on the conditions of its possibility. To this end, I argue the need to transcend significant structural limitations inherent in the Habermasian discourse model, while aspring to preserve and enhance its distinctive strengths. Accordingly, I press the case for a thoroughgoing reappropriation of such core Habermasian tenets as the symmetrical reciprocity requirement, the anticipation of consensus as outcome, and a one-sided emphasis on argumentative deliberation as the sole acceptable means of achieving this. Proceeding thus, I defend the merits of a situated cosmopolitanism grounded in plurivocal transformative dialogue as a counterbalance to an unqualified universalism. Correlatively, I defend openness to otherness under appropriately structured dialogical conditions as the primary prerequisite for a viable cosmopolitanism capable of meeting the needs of an increasingly pluralistic and globalised world. In the process, some notable points of contrast with Richard Shapcott's dialogical template are identified.
The impact of having a 15-min break with and without consuming an energy drink on prolonged simulated highway driving
Creators: name: Verster, Joris
name: van de Loo, Aurora J. A. E.
name: Bervoets, Adriana C.
name: Mooren, Loes
name: Roth, Thomas
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Purpose: To examine whether consuming an energy drink while having a break is effective in reducing the number of lapses of attention during prolonged highway driving. Methods: In a double-blind crossover study, N = 21 healthy volunteers performed a 4-h driving test in the STISIM driving simulator. After 2h, a 15-min break was scheduled. During the break, participants consumed either 250 ml of energy drink (ED) (Red Bull) or a placebo drink (Red Bull without caffeine (80 mg), glucuronolactone, taurine and B-vitamins). Participants were instructed to drive 95 km/h with a steady lateral position. Primary outcome was the number (#) of lapses; i.e., short periods of inattention defined by a deviation from the chosen lateral position for > 100 cm for 8 s or more. Results: Having a break, without consuming energy drink, significantly reduced the number of lapses in the 3rd hour of driving (9.9 versus 7.4 lapses, p = 0.006). After placebo, the number of lapses in the 4th and 2nd hour were identical (9.9 and 9.9 lapses, p = 1.000). Consuming and energy drink during the break resulted in a significant reduction in lapses in the 3rd hour (4.3 versus 9.2, p = 0.012) and 4th hour of driving (6.2 versus 9.2 lapses, p = 0.041), when compared with the 2nd hour of driving. Conclusion: Consuming an energy drink while having a 15-min break significantly reduces the number of lapses during prolonged highway driving, and to a greater extent than having a break only.
Templating and replication of spiral photonic crystals for silicon photonics
Creators: name: Seet, Kock Khuen
name: Mizeikis, V.
name: Kannari, Kenta
name: Juodkazis, Saulius
name: Misawa, Hiroaki
name: Tétreault, Nicolas
name: John, Sajeev
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper describes femtosecond laser lithography of 3-D photonic crystal templates in commercial photoresist SU-8 and replication of these templates with silicon. Using this approach, silicon-based photonic crystals having 3-D square spiral architecture and exhibiting photonic stop gaps near the 2.5-µm wavelength were fabricated. Possibilities to use a multiple-beam interference technique for two-photon absorption templating of photonic crystals are explored.
Two-equation model of mean flow resonances in subcritical flow systems
Creators: name: Suslov, Sergey
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Amplitude equations of Landau type, which describe the dynamics ofthe most amplified periodic disturbance waves in slightly supercritical flow systems, have been known to form reliable and sufficiently accurate low-dimensional models capable of predicting the asymptotic magnitude of saturated perturbations. However the derivation of similar models for estimating the threshold disturbance amplitude in subcritical systems faces multiple resonances which lead to the singularity of model coefficients. The observed resonances are traced back to the interaction between the mean flow distortion induced by the decaying fundamental disturbance harmonic and other decaying disturbance modes. Here we suggest a methodology of deriving a two-equation dynamical system of coupled cubic amplitude equations with non-singular coefficients which resolve the resonances and are capable of predicting the threshold amplitude for weakly nonlinear subcritical regimes. The suggested reduction procedure is based on the consistent use of an appropriate orthogonality condition which is different from a conventional solvability condition. As an example, a developed procedure is applied to a system of Navier-Stokes equations describing a subcritical plane Poiseuille flow. Predictions of the so-developed model are found to be in reasonable agreement with experimentally detected threshold amplitudes reported in literature.
Thermomagnetic convection in a vertical layer of ferromagnetic fluid
Creators: name: Suslov, Sergey
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Linear stability of convection flow of ferromagnetic fluid between two vertical differentially heated plates placed in a uniform external magnetic field perpendicular to the plates is studied. Complete stability diagrams for two- and three-dimensional disturbances are presented. It is shown that two distinct mechanisms, thermogravitational and magnetic, are responsible for the appearance of three instability modes. The physical nature of all three modes is investigated in detail and the most prominent features are identified to provide guidance for future experimental investigation. Depending on the governing parameters, the instability patterns are shown to consist of vertical stationary magnetoconvection rolls and/or vertically or obliquely counterpropagating thermogravitational or thermomagnetic waves.
Impact of the 'Linked Evidence Approach' method on policies to publicly fund diagnostic, staging, and screening medical tests
Creators: name: Merlin, Tracy L.
name: Hiller, Janet
name: Ryan, Philip
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Background: The linked evidence approach (LEA) is used in health technology assessment (HTA) to evaluate the clinical utility of new medical tests in the absence of direct trial evidence. Objective: To determine whether use of LEA affects decisions to publicly fund medical tests. Methods: Australian HTAs that evaluated medical tests before and after LEA was mandated (in 2005) were screened for eligibility. Data were extracted and the impact of LEA and other possible clinical predictors (selected a priori) on funding decisions was modelled. Regression diagnostics were performed to estimate model fit, model specification, and to inform model selection. The unit of analysis was per clinical indication for each new test, so analyses were adjusted for clustering. Results: 83 HTAs (for 173 clinical indications) were eligible from the 259 screened. When health policy was compared before and after 2005, there was an 11% reduction in overall positive funding decisions, including a 25% decrease in “interim” (coverage with evidence development) funding decisions. The odds of obtaining interim funding reduced by 98% (odds ratio = 0.02, 95% confidence interval = 0.0005, 0.17), but there was no change in the direction of funding decisions (odds ratio = 1.36, 95% confidence interval = 0.62, 3.01). Across both time periods, when LEA was used there was a very strong likelihood that the medical test would not receive interim funding (χ2 = 12.63, df = 1, P = 0.001). For positive funding decisions, the strongest predictors were whether or not the new test would replace an existing test and whether the available evidence was limited. Conclusions: The use of LEA did not predict the direction of funding decisions. Application of the method did predict that a “coverage with evidence development” decision was unlikely. This suggests that LEA may reduce decision-maker uncertainty.
Revisiting plane Couette-Poiseuille flows of a piezo-viscous fluid
Creators: name: Suslov, Sergey
name: Tran, Thien Duc
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We re-examine fully developed isothermal unidirectional plane Couette-Poiseuille flows of an incompressible fluid whose viscosity depends linearly on the pressure as previously considered in [J. Hron, J. Malek, K.R. Rajagopal, Simple flows of fluids with pressure-dependent viscosities, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 457 (2001) 1603-1622]. We show that the conclusion made there that, in contrast to Newtonian and power-law fluids, piezo-viscous fluids allow multiple solutions is not justified, and that the inflection velocity profiles reported in [J. Hron, J. Malek, K.R. Rajagopal, Simple flows of fluids with pressure-dependent viscosities, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 457 (2001) 1603-1622] cannot exist. Subsequently, we undertake a systematic parametric study of these flows and identify three distinct families of solutions which can exist in the considered geometry. One of these families has no similar counterpart for fluids with pressure-independent viscosity. We also show that the critical wall speed exists beyond which Poiseuille-type flows are impossible regardless of the magnitude of the applied pressure gradient. For smaller wall speeds channel choking occurs for Poiseuille-type flows at large pressure gradients. These features distinguish drastically piezo-viscous fluids from their Newtonian and power-law counterparts.
01534256434
Creators: name: Iqbal, Zahid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soil Science
subject: Botany
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Education

description: Fruit shape is one of the most important quality criteria for evaluation by customer preference. Aspect ratio (A.R.)
was used as physical parameter to perform the choice of ratios for fruits shape determination. This study proposes
a relationship between fruit shape and morphological parameters in bush butter fruits (Dacryodes edulis)
collected on 35 bush butter trees. The results show that bush butter fruits present some shapes. To describe fruit
shapes the use of morphological characteristics is possible. So, the unique parameter used in our study was A.R.,
width over length. All of 35 trees analyzed were regrouped in three types; those types were assimilated at shapes in
bush butter fruit designated by elliptical, spheroidal and obovate shape. On fruit shapes, the analysis of variance
shows that the mean values of aspect ratio are significantly different shape as shape. So, it indicates great
distinction in the three fruit shapes presented. The distance calculus proposes also a bush butter categorization
model based on A.R. A model to describe fruits source of the new trees is proposed.
Stability of plane Poiseuille-Couette flows of a piezo-viscous fluid
Creators: name: Tran, Thien Duc
name: Suslov, Sergey
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We examine stability of fully developed isothermal unidirectional plane Poiseuilleâ-Couette flows of an incompressible fluid whose viscosity depends linearly on the pressure as previously considered in Hron et al. [J. Hron, J. MÃ¡lek, K.R. Rajagopal, Simple flows of fluids with pressure-dependent viscosities, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 457 (2001) 1603â-1622] and Suslov and Tran [S.A. Suslov, T.D. Tran, Revisiting plane Couetteâ-Poiseuille flows of a piezo-viscous fluid, J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech. 154 (2008) 170â-178]. Stability results for a piezo-viscous fluid are compared with those for a Newtonian fluid with constant viscosity. We show that piezo-viscous effects generally lead to stabilisation of a primary flow when the applied pressure gradient is increased. We also show that the flow becomes less stable as the pressure and therefore the fluid viscosity decrease downstream. These features drastically distinguish flows of a piezo-viscous fluid from those of its constant-viscosity counterpart. At the same time the increase in the boundary velocity results in a flow stabilisation which is similar to that observed in Newtonian fluids with constant viscosity.
Analysis of instability patterns in non-Boussinesq mixed convection using a direct numerical evaluation of disturbance integrals
Creators: name: Suslov, Sergey
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Fourier integrals representing linearised disturbances arising from an initially localised source are evaluated numerically for natural and mixed convection flows between two differentially heated plates. The corresponding spatio-temporal instability patterns are obtained for strongly non-Boussinesq high-temperature convection of air and are contrasted to their Boushttp://researchbank.swinburne.edu.au/vital/access/manager/editor/Index/swin:13034/MARCDESC?to=&public=true&y=0&from=&xml=true&x=0sinesq counterparts. A drastic change in disturbance evolution scenarios is found when a large cross-channel temperature gradient leads to an essentially nonlinear variation of the fluid's transport properties and density. In particular, it is shown that non-Boussinesq natural convection flows are convectively unstable while forced convection flows can be absolutely unstable. These scenarios are opposite to the ones detected in classical Boussinesq convection. It is found that the competition between two physically distinct instability mechanisms which are due to the action of the shear and the buoyancy are responsible for such a drastic change in spatio-temporal characteristics of instabilities. The obtained numerical results confirm and complement semi-analytical conclusions of [Suslov SA. Spatio-temporal instabilities in non-Boussinesq convection. Teor Comp Fluid Dyn 2007;21(4):271-290] on the absolute/convective instability transition in non-Boussinesq mixed convection. Generic features of the chosen numerical approach are discussed and its advantages and shortcomings are reported.
Fiber Bragg grating tether used to measure drag forces in neutral buoyancy flow tank tests
Creators: name: Wade, Scott
name: Jolley, W.
name: Fouras, A.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The drag exerted on neutrally buoyant tethered spheres in a flow tank was measured as a function of flow rate. A unique solution to the problem was achieved using an optical fiber including a Bragg grating sensor as part of the tether. Measurements of the strain on the tether taken at flow rates between 0.14 and 0.33 m/s, were used to determine drag forces for spheres with diameters ranging from 40 to 100 mm. Vortex-induced vibration was observed in tests performed at Reynolds numbers from 5×103 to 4.5×104. The drag coefficients for these tests were found to range from 0.51 to 0.77.
Occurrence of features of fiber Bragg grating spectra having a wavelength corresponding to the phase mask periodicity
Creators: name: Yam, Sui P.
name: Brodzeli, Zourab
name: Wade, Scott
name: Baxter, Greg W.
name: Collins, Stephen F.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Use of a phase mask with 536 nm uniform pitch allowed the fabrication of a fiber Bragg grating for use at a Bragg wavelength of 785 nm. Reflection and transmission features at 1552 nm, i.e. twice the Bragg wavelength, associated with the phase mask periodicity were observed. However, when phase mask orders other than plusmn1 were absent during fabrication the features at 1552 nm were not evident.
Fabrication of a π-phase-shifted fiber Bragg grating at twice the Bragg wavelength with the standard phase mask technique
Creators: name: Yam, Sui P.
name: Brodzeli, Zourab
name: Kouskousis, Betty P.
name: Rollinson, Claire M.
name: Wade, Scott
name: Baxter, Greg W.
name: Collins, Stephen F.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A pair of reflection peaks/transmission dips, at twice the Bragg wavelength, were observed in spectra of a Type I fiber Bragg grating written with the standard phase mask technique. The occurrence of two peaks/ dips, rather than one, is attributed to the interleaved refractive index modulations along the fiber core, with the periodicity of the phase mask that has been observed previously in images of gratings that cause destructive interference in a reflected wave at the Bragg condition owing to the π phase difference between the grating phases. Thus the standard phase mask technique produced an alternative type of pi-phase-shifted grating at twice the design Bragg wavelength.
Managing large numbers of business processes with cloud workflow systems
Creators: name: Liu, Xiao
name: Yang, Yun
name: Cao, Dahai
name: Yuan, Dong
name: Chen, Jinjun
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: With the emergence of cloud computing which can deliver on-demand high-performance computing resources over the Internet, cloud workflow systems offer a competitive software solution for managing large numbers of business processes. In this paper, we first analyse the basic system requirements through a motivating example, and then, the general design of a cloud workflow system is proposed with the focus on its system architecture, functionalities and QoS (quality of service) management. Afterwards, the system implementation of a peer-to-peer based prototype cloud workflow system is demonstrated to verify our design. Finally, experimental results show that with the dynamic resource provisioning, conventional violation handling strategies such as workflow local rescheduling can ensure the on-time completion of large numbers of business processes in a more cost-effective way.
Robust scheduling and runtime adaptation of multi-agent plan execution
Creators: name: Wang, Mingzhong
name: Ramamohanarao, Kotagiri
name: Chen, Jinjun
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Robustness and reliability with respect to the successful completion of a schedule are crucial requirements for scheduling in multi-agent systems because agent autonomy makes execution environments dynamic and nondeterministic. We introduce a model to incorporate trust which indicates the probability that an agent will comply with its commitments into scheduling, thus improving the predicability and stability of the schedule. To deal with exceptions during execution, we adapt and evolve the schedule at runtime by interleaving the processes of evaluation, scheduling, execution and monitoring in the life cycle of a plan. Experiments show that schedules maximizing participants' trust are more likely to survive and succeed in open and dynamic environments. The results also prove that the proposed plan evaluation approach conforms with the simulation result, thus being helpful for plan selection.
A class of modified variable step-size NLMS algorithms for system identification
Creators: name: Zhao, Shengkui
name: Man, Zhihong
name: Khoo, Suiyang
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper proposes a class of modified variable step-size normalized least mean square (VS NLMS) algorithms. The class of schemes are obtained from estimating the optimum step-size of NLMS that minimizes the mean square deviation (MSD). During the estimation, we consider the properties of the additive noise and the input excitation together. The developed class of VS NLMS algorithms have simple forms and give improved tradeoff of fast convergence rate and low misadjustment in system identification.
Observer-based robust finite-time cooperative consensus control for multi-agent networks
Creators: name: Khoo, Suiyang
name: Xie, Lihua
name: Man, Zhihong
name: Zhao, Shengkui
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper studies the finite-time consensus tracking control for multi-agent networks. The time-varying control input and the velocity of the leader is unknown to any follower. Only the position of the leader is known to its neighbors. We first propose a new finite-time multiple-surface sliding mode observer to estimate the leader's velocity. It is seen that the estimation error of the observer can converge to zero in a finite time. Then, we prove that finite-time consensus tracking of multi-agent networks can be achieved on a new terminal sliding mode surface. Simulation results are presented to validate the analysis.
Preliminary design of sliding mode controller for angular positional tracking of an aircraft
Creators: name: Jones, Lim Jen Nee
name: Tan, Chee Pin
name: Man, Zhihong
name: Akmeliawati, Rini
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Sliding mode controllers are known to be robust to parameter changes and capable of rejecting disturbances. Most sliding mode controllers were implemented on aircraft models that were derived based on the aircraft's body axes. The aircraft model in this paper are derived from an energy based modeling technique where the aircraft dynamics can be defined by Euler-Lagrangian equations that makes decoupling of aircraft dynamics simple and straightforward. It is possible to do so since these equations can be derived from the inertial axes of the aircraft instead of the aircraft's body axes. The nature of these equations makes it easy to implement the sliding mode controller on all the angular positions of the aircraft for the purpose of tracking a reference trajectory. Parameter changes and disturbances were also introduced as part of the evaluation procedure in few sets of simulations to prove how well these angular positions can be tracked. The controller designed to achieve angular positional tracking includes a nominal feedback controller and a sliding mode compensator. The performance of the controller presented are measured using root-mean-square error values and maximum errors for roll, pitch and yaw. Results presented shows good tracking performances throughout entire flight trajectory that includes a one-sided engine failure, a 90 degree turn and rotations in the pitch angle.
On performance of transform domain adaptive filters with Markov-2 inputs
Creators: name: Shengkui, Zhao
name: Man, Zhihong
name: Khoo, Suiyang
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper, the analysis for the performance of the discrete Fourier transform LMS adaptive filter (DFT-LMS) and the discrete cosine transform LMS adaptive filter (DCT-LMS) for the Markov-2 inputs is presented. To improve the convergence property of the least mean squares (LMS) adaptive filter, the DFT-LMS and DCT-LMS preprocess the inputs with the fixed orthogonal transforms and power normalization. We derive the asymptotic results for the eigenvalues and eigenvalue distributions of the preprocessed input autocorrelation matrices with DFT-LMS and DCT-LMS for Markov-2 inputs. These results explicitly show the superior decorrelation property of DCT-LMS over that of DFT-LMS, and also provide the upper bounds for the eigenvalue spreads of the finite-length DFT-LMS and DCT-LMS adaptive filters. Simulation results are demonstrated to support the analytic results.
Enhanced dipicolinic acid production during the stationary phase in Bacillus subtilis by blocking acetoin synthesis
Creators: name: Toya, Yoshihiro
name: Hirasawa, Takashi
name: Ishikawa, Shu
name: Onuma Chumsakul
name: Morimoto, Takuya
name: Shenghao Liu
name: Masuda, Kenta
name: Kageyama, Yasushi
name: Ozaki, Katsuya
name: Naotake Ogasawara
name: Shimizu, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Hematology

description: Bacterial bio-production during the stationary phase is expected to lead to a high target yield because the cells do not consume the substrate for growth. Bacillus subtilis is widely used for bio-production, but little is known about the metabolism during the stationary phase. In this study, we focused on the dipicolinic acid (DPA) production by B. subtilis and investigated the metabolism. We found that DPA production competes with acetoin synthesis and that acetoin synthesis genes (alsSD) deletion increases DPA productivity by 1.4-fold. The mutant showed interesting features where the glucose uptake was inhibited, whereas the cell density increased by approximately 50%, resulting in similar volumetric glucose consumption to that of the parental strain. The metabolic profiles revealed accumulation of pyruvate, acetyl-CoA, and the TCA cycle intermediates in the alsSD mutant. Our results indicate that alsSD-deleted B. subtilis has potential as an effective host for stationary-phase production of compounds synthesized from these intermediates. Dipicolinic acid production in B. subtilis during the stationary phase. The deletion of alsSD enhanced the dipicolinic acid productivity by 1.4-fold.
A new stability criterion and its application on process control systems with time-delay
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiaojiang
name: Man, Zhihong
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A new stability criterion based on numerical computing and simulation for nonlinear time-invariant systems is presented. It provides a standard and simple way to construct the energy-like function. The relevant proof has been given to justify this stability criterion. In the environment of MATLAB , this method is successfully applied on a practical industrial process control system with time-delay. The validity of this stability criterion is proved.
Dying to Care: How can we provide sustainable quality care to persons living with advanced life limiting illness in British Columbia?
Creators: name: Stajduhar, Kelli
name: Tayler, Carolyn
name: IPANEL Advisory Board
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Medicine
Health Care

description: Around the world, the oldest segment of the population is expected to grow the fastest. Within the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries the population share of those 80 years and over is expected to increase from 4% in 2010 to 9.4% in 2050.1 As of July 1, 2010, seniors aged 65 years and over accounted for 14.1% of the Canadian population. Projections show that seniors could account for more than 20% of the population as soon as 2026 and could exceed 25% of the population by 2056. Seniors aged 80 years and over now represent 3.9% of the total Canadian population; the number of people over 80 residing in Canada by the year 2061 is projected to be 5.1 million. In addition, the fastest growing age groups within the 2009/2010 period were people aged 90 years and over.2
As a consequence of the aging of our population, more people are living with advancing, chronic and life-limiting illness and often with multiple, interacting medical and social problems. At some point in this advancing illness trajectory, people die, and about 80% of these deaths will be caused by end stage chronic diseases such as cardiovascular, lung, and kidney disease, cancer, and dementias.3 In Western Canada, however, only 16% to 30% of people who die are identified as dying and receive palliative care services.4 The majority who access these services have cancer, a unique chronic disease as it can often be predicted when the end of life may be approaching. This is not the case with most chronic diseases. Consequently, most individuals with advancing chronic life-limiting conditions such as heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, kidney disease and dementias, do not access palliative care services but dwell “in the indistinct zone of chronic illness that has no specific care delivery system”. 5
While specialist palliative care services are critical for those with complex care needs, such a model, alone, cannot meet current and future demand for the larger population outside of the traditional recipients of cancer care. The result is that many people who require and would benefit from a palliative approach are not served by specialized palliative care. Historically, these specialized models were not developed for those with advancing chronic non-malignant disease and such models are neither feasible nor desirable for the larger numbers affected by and dying from chronic illness.
Neadysgonia Sullivan 2010
Creators: name: Sullivan, J. Bolling
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Neadysgonia

description: Key to the species of Neadysgonia 1. Forewing with postmedial line well defined and with one or two points directed to wing margin................................................................................ 2 – Forewing with postmedial line not well defined, broad, with at most a vague point directed to base of apical mark............................................. N. similis 2. Single point on well defined postmedial line directed to base of apical spot................................................................................................ N. consobrina – Two well defined, well separated points on postmedial line........................ 3 3. Male.......................................................................................................... 4 – Female....................................................................................................... 5 4. Medial projection of tegumen at least 1/2 length of costal margin of valva....................................................................................................... N. smithii – Medial projection of tegumen less than 1/2 length of costal margin of valva................................................................................................................ N. telma 5. Lateral edge of lodix separated from main plate by less than width of base of lateral projection of lodix............................................................. N. smithii – Lateral edge of lodix separated from main plate by distance greater than width of base of lateral projection of lodix...................................... N. telma
description: Published as part of Sullivan, J. Bolling, 2010, A new genus and species for Dysgonia (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Erebinae) from Southeastern United States, pp. 85-97 in ZooKeys 39 (39) on pages 88-89, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.39.434, http://zenodo.org/record/576634
Neadysgonia Sullivan 2010, gen. n.
Creators: name: Sullivan, J. Bolling
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Neadysgonia

description: Neadysgonia Sullivan, gen. n. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 09B7F994-7059-4CC1-9AEA-9E0CD1722DEE
description: Published as part of Sullivan, J. Bolling, 2010, A new genus and species for Dysgonia (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Erebinae) from Southeastern United States, pp. 85-97 in ZooKeys 39 (39) on page 86, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.39.434, http://zenodo.org/record/576634
Enhanced dipicolinic acid production during the stationary phase in Bacillus subtilis by blocking acetoin synthesis
Creators: name: Toya, Yoshihiro
name: Hirasawa, Takashi
name: Ishikawa, Shu
name: Onuma Chumsakul
name: Morimoto, Takuya
name: Shenghao Liu
name: Masuda, Kenta
name: Kageyama, Yasushi
name: Ozaki, Katsuya
name: Naotake Ogasawara
name: Shimizu, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Hematology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Bacterial bio-production during the stationary phase is expected to lead to a high target yield because the cells do not consume the substrate for growth. Bacillus subtilis is widely used for bio-production, but little is known about the metabolism during the stationary phase. In this study, we focused on the dipicolinic acid (DPA) production by B. subtilis and investigated the metabolism. We found that DPA production competes with acetoin synthesis and that acetoin synthesis genes (alsSD) deletion increases DPA productivity by 1.4-fold. The mutant showed interesting features where the glucose uptake was inhibited, whereas the cell density increased by approximately 50%, resulting in similar volumetric glucose consumption to that of the parental strain. The metabolic profiles revealed accumulation of pyruvate, acetyl-CoA, and the TCA cycle intermediates in the alsSD mutant. Our results indicate that alsSD-deleted B. subtilis has potential as an effective host for stationary-phase production of compounds synthesized from these intermediates.
A new terminal sliding mode tracking control for a class of nonminimum phase systems with uncertain dynamics
Creators: name: Man, Zhihong
name: Shen, Weixiang
name: Yu, Xing Huo
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper, a new terminal sliding mode tracking control scheme is developed for a class of nonminimum phase systems with uncertainties. It is shown that, unlike conventional linear or terminal sliding mode controls, the Lyapunov stability theory in this paper is used to determine the upper and the lower bounds of the control signal and its derivative. A dynamic control signal can then be designed, subject to the bounded conditions, to drive the terminal sliding variable to converge to zero, and, on the terminal sliding mode surface, the tracking error is guaranteed to converge to zero in a finite time. A simulation example is presented in support of the proposed robust tracking control scheme.
title: Askese als Subjektivierungsstrategie
title: Eine kulturwissenschaftliche und -philosophische Untersuchung asketischer Körpertechniken und Lebensformen am Beispiel von ausgewählten Fallstudien
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Lucci, Antonio
Publisher: name: Medien- und Informationszentrum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Askese
classificationCode: 100
subject: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie
classificationCode: 200
subject: 200 Religion

description: Das vorliegende Habilitationsdossier, das im Rahmen einer kumulativen Habilitation vorgelegt wurde, besteht aus sieben Texten (fünf in Sammelbänden veröffentlichte Aufsätze, ein in einer Zeitschrift veröffentlichter Aufsatz sowie eine Monographie). Die Texte werden nach thematischer und nicht nach chronologischer Reihenfolge ihrer Veröffentlichung präsentiert. Die vorgestellten Texte sind alle der historischen und/oder theoretischen Analyse desselben Themas gewidmet, das aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln behandelt wurde: die Askese. Die theoretische Hypothese, die in dieser Arbeit vorgestellt wird, lautet, dass die Askese nicht so sehr als eine Form des Verzichts auf die Welt und das Selbst zu verstehen ist, sondern vielmehr, entsprechend ihrer griechischen Etymologie, als eine Form der Übung, die dazu dient, das Subjekt in etwas anderes zu verwandeln, als es ursprünglich ist. Die Habilitationsschrift stellt diese theoretische These anhand einer Analyse sowohl historischer Gestalten der Askese (Kyniker*innen, Stylit*innen, Schmuckeremiten) als auch theoretischer Positionen zur Askese (insbesondere von Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben und Ludwig Wittgenstein) vor.
Efficient Synthesis of 3-Pyrrolin-2-one Derivatives in Aqueous Media
Creators: name: Adeleh Moshtaghi Zonouz
name: Eskandari, Issa
name: Behrooz Notash
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biochemistry

description: An efficient one-pot, three-component synthesis of 3-pyrrolin-2-ones in aqueous media at room temperature is reported. This reaction provides a green and catalyst-free method for generation of 3-pyrrolin-2-one derivatives in good yields.
An Efficient Synthesis of 3-Pyrrolin-2-one Derivatives in Aqueous Media
Creators: name: Adeleh Moshtaghi Zonouz
name: Eskandari, Issa
name: Behrooz Notash
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biochemistry

description: An efficient one-pot, three-component synthesis of 3-pyrrolin-2-ones in aqueous media at room temperature is reported. This reaction provides a green and catalyst-free method for generation of 3-pyrrolin-2-one derivatives in high yields.
New social identities in Ukrainian ‘refugees’: A social cure or social curse?
Creators: name: Skrodzka, Magdalena
name: McMahon, Grace
name: Griffin, Siobhan
name: Muldoon, Orla
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Experiencing traumatic events often drives profound post-traumatic stress (PTS), but trauma also has the potential to engender positive consequences, such as post-traumatic growth (PTG). Traumatic experiences may also lead to gaining new identities which can have both protective (i.e., social cure) or damaging (i.e., social curse) effects on health and well-being. This study aims to examine the role of new social identities and related social identity resources acquired after war-related experiences (i.e., identification with a new host society and identification as a refugee) in contributing to different trauma trajectories. The sample included 468 participants who left Ukraine due to the war that commenced on February 24th, 2022, and became residents of Ireland or Poland. The findings indicate that identification with the host society was associated with lower PTS and greater PTG. Whereas identification with refugees was related to higher PTS, but it was not directly associated with PTG. Further, the psychological resources derived from these new identities mediated the relationship between identification strength and PTG. This study offers practical insights for interventions targeting refugees in their new countries of residence.
On singularity free recursive fast terminal sliding mode control
Creators: name: Yu, Shuanghe
name: Yu, Xing Huo
name: Man, Zhihong
name: Feng, Yong
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A novel singularity free fast recursive terminal sliding mode structure is proposed in this paper, which results in fast and finite time convergence. Dynamical properties of the structure are given and a fast terminal sliding mode control scheme is proposed for a class of nonlinear systems.
Influence of cladding refractive index on a distributed optical fibre chemical sensor
Creators: name: Sinchenko, Elena
name: Gibbs, W. E Keith
name: Mazzolini, Alexander
name: Stoddart, Paul
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Refractive index dispersion in core and cladding materials affects the range and sensitivity of evanescent wave distributed optical fibre sensors. A convenient way of characterizing the broadband performance based on a supercontinuum light source is described.
Angle cleaving optical fibers using a CO2 laser
Creators: name: Paviolo, Chiara
name: Jayawardhana, Sasani
name: Wade, Scott
name: Stoddart, Paul
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A CO2 laser at λ = 9.3 μm was used to cleave optical fibers at a given angle. The defects that might occur during the process are explained and resolved. The good surface quality obtained on the cleaved surface is demonstrated by SEM and AFM images.
Neadysgonia similis Sullivan 2010, comb. n.
Creators: name: Sullivan, J. Bolling
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Neadysgonia
Neadysgonia similis

description: Neadysgonia similis (Guenée), comb. n. Figs 1, 2, 7a, b, 11 Ophiusa smithii Guenée in Boisduval and Guenée, 1852: 267. Type material. This species was described from an unknown number of specimens from an unknown locality. Th e short description is adequate to distinguish the species. Th e location of any types is unknown (not in BMNH, MNHN, or USNM). Diagnosis. Neadysgonia similis can be recognized by the lack of well-defined triangles from the PM line and no dark shading basal of the AM line. Two forms occur, one devoid of any well-defined pattern between the AM and PM lines. In the male genitalia the projection from the tegumen creates a square shape and the costal projection of the valva ends in a hammerhead. In the female the lodix is rectangular. Distribution and biology. Neadysgonia similis has been recorded from North Carolina to Florida. Th e food plant occurs in Alabama and Mississippi and the moth could be expected from these areas as well. A larva of N. similis was collected from Loblolly Bay (Gordonia lasianthus (L.) (Theaceae)) by Richard Broadwell during the course of a study to determine the nontarget effects of Bacillus treatments to eradicate a Gypsy moth infestation near Wilmington, N.C. (Hall et al. 1999). I identified the emergent moth as Neadysgonia similis and have subsequently found additional larvae and reared larvae from eggs from a captive female; all readily fed to maturity on Loblolly Bay. It is a common plant on the frequently burned coastal plain savannas, but both the adults and larvae are relatively uncommon. Th e moth is multiple brooded (April to September).
description: Published as part of Sullivan, J. Bolling, 2010, A new genus and species for Dysgonia (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Erebinae) from Southeastern United States, pp. 85-97 in ZooKeys 39 (39) on page 89, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.39.434, http://zenodo.org/record/576634
description: {"references": ["Guenee A (1852) Volume 6, Noctuelites. Tome 2. In: Boisduval JBAD de and A. Guenee. Histoire Naturelle de Insectes. Species General des Lepidopteres. Roret, Paris, 444 pp.", "Hall SP, Sullivan JB, Schweitzer DF (1999) Eradication of the Asian-strain of the Gypsy Moth from the Cape Fear Region of North Carolina: Assesment of risk to non-target macromoths after Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki application to Asian gypsy moth in the Cape Fear region of North Carolina. USDA Forest Service Technical Publication Series, Morgantown, WV, 95 pp."]}
Single-phase uninterruptible power supply based on Z-source inverter
Creators: name: Zhou, Zhi Jian
name: Zhang, X.
name: Xu, Po
name: Shen, Weixiang
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper presents a new topology of uninterruptible power supply (UPS) by using a Z-source inverter, where a symmetrical LC network is employed to couple the main power circuit of an inverter to a battery bank. With this new topology, the proposed UPS can maintain the desired ac output voltage at the significant voltage drop of the battery bank with high efficiency, low harmonics, fast response, and good steady-state performance in comparison with traditional UPSs. The simulation and experimental results of a 3-kW UPS with the new topology confirm its validity.
High-coverage whole-genome analysis of 1220 cancers reveals hundreds of genes deregulated by rearrangement-mediated cis-regulatory alterations.
Creators: name: Yiqun Zhang
name: Fengju Chen
name: Fonseca, Nuno A
name: He, Yao
name: Fujita, Masashi
name: Hidewaki Nakagawa
name: Zemin Zhang
name: Brazma, Alvis
name: PCAWG Transcriptome Working Group
name: PCAWG Structural Variation Working Group
name: Creighton, Chad J
name: PCAWG Consortium
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2020
Subjects: Genetics & Genomics
Human Biology & Physiology
Ecology,Evolution & Ethology
Tumour Biology
Computational & Systems Biology

description: The impact of somatic structural variants (SVs) on gene expression in cancer is largely unknown. Here, as part of the ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) Consortium, which aggregated whole-genome sequencing data and RNA sequencing from a common set of 1220 cancer cases, we report hundreds of genes for which the presence within 100 kb of an SV breakpoint associates with altered expression. For the majority of these genes, expression increases rather than decreases with corresponding breakpoint events. Up-regulated cancer-associated genes impacted by this phenomenon include TERT, MDM2, CDK4, ERBB2, CD274, PDCD1LG2, and IGF2. TERT-associated breakpoints involve ~3% of cases, most frequently in liver biliary, melanoma, sarcoma, stomach, and kidney cancers. SVs associated with up-regulation of PD1 and PDL1 genes involve ~1% of non-amplified cases. For many genes, SVs are significantly associated with increased numbers or greater proximity of enhancer regulatory elements near the gene. DNA methylation near the promoter is often increased with nearby SV breakpoint, which may involve inactivation of repressor elements.
Thermal properties of tannin extracted from Anacardium occidentale L. using TGA and FT-IR spectroscopy
Creators: name: Viswanath, Vinod
name: Leo, Vincent Vineeth
name: S. Sabna Prabha
name: C. Prabhakumari
name: V.P. Potty
name: M.S. Jisha
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Genetics
subject: Biochemistry

description: The chemical nature of the polyphenols of cashew kernel testa has been determined. Testa contains tannins, which present large molecular complexity and has an ancient use as tanning agents. The use of tannins extracted from cashew testa, considered in many places as a waste, grants an extra value to the cashew. In this work we have analysed through high performance liquid chromatography, infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and thermo gravimetric analysis the average molecular weight, main functional groups and thermal properties of tannins extracted from Anacardium occidentale L. The results of these analyses are compared with the commercial grade tannic acid. The FT-IR spectra showed bands characteristic of C = C, C–C and OH bonds. This important bioactive compound present in the cashew nut kernel testa was suggested as an interesting economical source of antioxidants for use in the food and nutraceutical industry.
Replication of Wälchli et al (2016)
Creators: name: Warne, Joe
name: Coker, Nicholas Aaron
name: Murphy, Jennifer
name: Bakhshinejad, Javad
name: Hutchinson, Jasmin C.
Publisher: name: OSF
Year: 2022
Subjects: kinesiology
open science
replication
sports and exercise science
sports science

description: Replication of the study titled "Maximizing Performance: Augmented Feedback, Focus of Attention, and/or Reward?" as part of the large replication project in the Sports Science Replication Centre