cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Student entrepreneurship ecosystems at Australian higher education institutions
Creators: name: Maritz, Alex
name: Nguyen, Quan
name: Ivanov, Sergey
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 35
subject: Commerce, management, tourism and services
classificationCode: 3505
subject: Human resources and industrial relations
classificationCode: 3506
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
classificationCode: 3507
subject: Strategy, management and organisational behaviour

description: Purpose: Despite the significance, university student start-ups and student entrepreneurship ecosystems (SEEs) have been subject to little research. This study aims to apply a qualitative emergent enquiry approach to explore best practice SEEs in Australia, complimented by narratives from leading scholars in higher education institutions with the aim of delineating the integrative components of SEEs. Design/methodology/approach: Adopting the entrepreneurial ecosystem framework and aligned to the social cognitive theory, this paper explores the components and dynamics of SEEs, contributing to an understanding of how such components can better support the growth, sustainability and success of student start-ups. The authors extend entrepreneurship research on social construction using narrative research. Findings: The findings provide guidelines for researchers, entrepreneurship scholars and educators, entrepreneurship students, policymakers and practitioners to enhance the impact and success of university student start-ups by adopting a student ecosystem approach. Research limitations/implications: The narratives represent a limited number of universities with an opportunity for further research to empirically measure the impact and outcomes of SEEs. The research is exploratory, inherently conceptual and emergent, providing an opportunity for validation of narrative frameworks in future studies. Practical implications: The findings may assist university managers to be more aware of their own subconscious preferences to student entrepreneurship and start-up initiatives, which may be useful in refining their impact and offerings regarding a quest toward the entrepreneurial university. Social implications: From social perspectives, the alignment of the components of SEE has the ability to enhance and shift the entrepreneurial mindset of entrepreneurship students, notwithstanding enhancement of intentionality and self-efficacy. Originality/value: This is the first study of SEEs in Australia, highlighting the importance of the integration of entrepreneurship education programs, entrepreneurship education ecosystems, the entrepreneurial university and specific start-up initiatives such as university accelerators. Furthermore, students may enhance their entrepreneurial mindset by actively engaging in such ecosystems.
Student entrepreneurship ecosystems at Australian higher education institutions
Creators: name: Maritz, Alex
name: Nguyen, Quan
name: Ivanov, Sergey
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022

description: Purpose: Despite the significance, university student start-ups and student entrepreneurship ecosystems (SEEs) have been subject to little research. This study aims to apply a qualitative emergent enquiry approach to explore best practice SEEs in Australia, complimented by narratives from leading scholars in higher education institutions with the aim of delineating the integrative components of SEEs.Design/methodology/approach: Adopting the entrepreneurial ecosystem framework and aligned to the social cognitive theory, this paper explores the components and dynamics of SEEs, contributing to an understanding of how such components can better support the growth, sustainability and success of student start-ups. The authors extend entrepreneurship research on social construction using narrative research.Findings: The findings provide guidelines for researchers, entrepreneurship scholars and educators, entrepreneurship students, policymakers and practitioners to enhance the impact and success of university student start-ups by adopting a student ecosystem approach.Research limitations/implications: The narratives represent a limited number of universities with an opportunity for further research to empirically measure the impact and outcomes of SEEs. The research is exploratory, inherently conceptual and emergent, providing an opportunity for validation of narrative frameworks in future studies.Practical implications: The findings may assist university managers to be more aware of their own subconscious preferences to student entrepreneurship and start-up initiatives, which may be useful in refining their impact and offerings regarding a quest toward the entrepreneurial university.Social implications: From social perspectives, the alignment of the components of SEE has the ability to enhance and shift the entrepreneurial mindset of entrepreneurship students, notwithstanding enhancement of intentionality and self-efficacy.Originality/value: This is the first study of SEEs in Australia, highlighting the importance of the integration of entrepreneurship education programs, entrepreneurship education ecosystems, the entrepreneurial university and specific start-up initiatives such as university accelerators. Furthermore, students may enhance their entrepreneurial mindset by actively engaging in such ecosystems.
Capacity building primary care responses to domestic violence in Brazil: designing a training model
Creators: name: Lucchesi, Vanessa
name: Signorelli, Marcos
name: Priotto, E
name: Hooker, Leesa
name: Taft, Angela
name: Hegarty, Kelsey
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4202
subject: Epidemiology
classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health

description: Abstract

 Background
 Violence against women (VAW) is a public health challenge in Brazil. The country ranks 6th globally for femicide, with a high prevalence of domestic violence, amplified by the pandemic. Primary healthcare (PHC) workers can play a significant role caring for survivors, but their training on how to identify and respond to survivors is a major gap. This study aimed to investigate frontline PHC workers' needs and concerns in the care of VAW survivors, aiming to co-design a participatory model of capacity building to be implemented in the Brazilian PHC.

 Methods
 This study is based on participatory action-research (PAR) through participant observation and in-depth interviews with an interdisciplinary team of 13 PHC workers from Paranaguá, South of Brazil. Data were collected between Aug/2020-Jan/2021, transcribed, coded and synthetized through thematic analysis.

 Results
 Major needs and concerns were: 1) unanimous need of capacity building for all PHC workers and managers; 2) training ideally should be face-to-face, and more than one day, based in practical cases (not just in theory); 3) clarifying the role of the cross-sectoral network and referral options; 4) contents needs to address confidentiality, qualified listening, empathy and respect, with practical guidance on how to approach survivors. Other issues included: integrating VAW approaches with violence against children and adolescents; ensuring PHC units have a private room to care for survivors; and electing a key professional in each unit, with more specialized knowledge, to support survivors and staff.

 Conclusions
 This PAR revealed key issues to collaboratively design a capacity building model for PHC in Brazil, tailored to local needs. The next step will be applying for funding to implement a pilot training.

 Key messages
 Frontline PHC workers routinely attend cases of VAW, therefore their insights are essential to design capacity building to care for survivors in PHC settings. Training healthcare workers to care for survivors of violence needs to address local concerns, targeting knowledge, skills and competences.
CBM: An IOT Enabled LiDAR Sensor for In-Field Crop Height and Biomass Measurements
Creators: name: Banerjee, BP
name: Spangenberg, German
name: Kant, Surya
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3101
subject: Biochemistry and cell biology
classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
classificationCode: 3401
subject: Analytical chemistry

description: The phenotypic characterization of crop genotypes is an essential, yet challenging, aspect of crop management and agriculture research. Digital sensing technologies are rapidly advancing plant phenotyping and speeding-up crop breeding outcomes. However, off-the-shelf sensors might not be fully applicable and suitable for agricultural research due to the diversity in crop species and specific needs during plant breeding selections. Customized sensing systems with specialized sensor hardware and software architecture provide a powerful and low-cost solution. This study designed and developed a fully integrated Raspberry Pi-based LiDAR sensor named CropBioMass (CBM), enabled by internet of things to provide a complete end-to-end pipeline. The CBM is a low-cost sensor, provides high-throughput seamless data collection in field, small data footprint, injection of data onto the remote server, and automated data processing. The phenotypic traits of crop fresh biomass, dry biomass, and plant height that were estimated by CBM data had high correlation with ground truth manual measurements in a wheat field trial. The CBM is readily applicable for high-throughput plant phenotyping, crop monitoring, and management for precision agricultural applications.
Automated hyperspectral vegetation index derivation using a hyperparameter optimisation framework for high-throughput plant phenotyping
Creators: name: Koh, JCO
name: Banerjee, BP
name: Spangenberg, German
name: Kant, Surya
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3108
subject: Plant biology
classificationCode: 41
subject: Environmental sciences
classificationCode: 4101
subject: Climate change impacts and adaptation
classificationCode: 4102
subject: Ecological applications

description: Hyperspectral vegetation indices (VIs) are widely deployed in agriculture remote sensing and plant phenotyping to estimate plant biophysical and biochemical traits. However, existing VIs consist mainly of simple two-band indices that limit the net performance and often do not generalise well for traits other than those for which they were originally designed. We present an automated hyperspectral vegetation index (AutoVI) system for the rapid generation of novel two- to six-band trait-specific indices in a streamlined process covering model selection, optimisation and evaluation, driven by the tree parzen estimator algorithm. Its performance was tested in generating novel indices to estimate chlorophyll and sugar contents in wheat. Results showed that AutoVI can rapidly generate complex novel VIs (at least a four-band index) that correlated strongly (R2 > 0.8) with measured chlorophyll and sugar contents in wheat. Automated hyperspectral vegetation index-derived indices were used as features in simple and stepwise multiple linear regressions for chlorophyll and sugar content estimation, and outperformed the results achieved with the existing 47 VIs and those provided using partial least squares regression. The AutoVI system can deliver novel trait-specific VIs readily adoptable to high-throughput plant phenotyping platforms and should appeal to plant scientists and breeders. A graphical user interface for the AutoVI is provided here.
An exploratory study of speech-language pathologists’ clinical practice in the literacy domain: Comparing onsite practices with telepractice services during COVID-19
Creators: name: Furlong, Lisa
name: Serry, Tanya
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4201
subject: Allied health and rehabilitation science
classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems
classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture
classificationCode: 4704
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: No description supplied
HSbooster.eu Standardisation in Cybersecurity webinar
Creators: name: Lucio González
name: Filipe Jones Mourao
name: Walter Fumy
name: Harshvardhan Pandit
name: Elżbieta Andrukiewicz
name: Jesus Luna Garcia
name: Anas Husseis
name: Elisavet Goutman
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The digital landscape is evolving, and so are the threats that dwell within it. In the realm of cybersecurity, where knowledge is armour and collaboration is key, HSbooster.eu has organised a webinar that gathers experts of the digital frontier and key actors leading the European standardisation efforts in cybersecurity.
What constitutes ‘good’ home care for people with dementia? An investigation of the views of home care service recipients and providers
Creators: name: Goh, AMY
name: Polacsek, M
name: Malta, S
name: Doyle, C
name: Hallam, B
name: Gahan, Luke
name: Low, LF
name: Cooper, C
name: Livingston, G
name: Panayiotou, Anita
name: Loi, SM
name: Omori, M
name: Savvas, S
name: Burton, J
name: Ames, D
name: Scherer, SC
name: Chau, N
name: Roberts, S
name: Winbolt, Margaret
name: Batchelor, F
name: Dow, B
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems
classificationCode: 4205
subject: Nursing
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health

description: Background: Our objective was to explore what people receiving and providing care consider to be ‘good’ in-home care for people living with dementia. Methods: We conducted 36 in-depth interviews and two focus groups with key stakeholders in Australia in the first quarter of 2018. Participants included those receiving care (4 people living with dementia, 15 family carers) or providing care (9 case managers, 5 service managers, 10 home care workers). Qualitative thematic analysis was guided by Braun and Clarke’s six-step approach. Results: Consensus was reached across all groups on five themes considered as important for good in-home dementia care: 1) Home care workers’ understanding of dementia and its impact; 2) Home care workers’ demonstrating person-centred care and empathy in their care relationship with their client; 3) Good relationships and communication between care worker, person with dementia and family carers; 4) Home care workers’ knowing positive practical strategies for changed behaviours; 5) Effective workplace policies and workforce culture. The results contributed to the co-design of a dementia specific training program for home care workers. Conclusions: It is crucial to consider the views and opinions of each stakeholder group involved in providing/receiving dementia care from home care workers, to inform workforce training, education program design and service design. Results can be used to inform and empower home care providers, policy, and related decision makers to guide the delivery of improved home care services. Trial registration: ACTRN 12619000251123.
Developing responsible and fair data metrics
Creators: name: Robinson-Garcia, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Make Data Count BEGIN webinar
DOI
Digital Object Identifier
metrics
metadata

description: Make Data Count (MDC) is a scholarly change initiative, made up of researchers and open infrastructure experts, building and advocating for evidence-based open data metrics. Throughout MDC’s tenure, various areas key to the development of research data assessment metrics have been identified. Please join a Spring seminar and discussion series centered around priority work areas, adjacent initiatives to learn from, and steps that can be taken immediately to drive diverse research communities towards assessment and reward for open data.

 The third and last webinar in our series “BEGIN: metadata for meaningful metrics” will look at next steps to develop responsible and fair data metrics that can reflect the use and impact of research datasets and help elevate them to first-class scholarly outputs. We’ll focus on necessary metadata to construct metrics that take into account characteristics and contexts of open data across disciplines. In his talk, Nicolas Robinson-Garcia presents some ideas on how to develop fair data metrics using metadata and standards. A recording of the talk can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtpyp_mhx4A&t=1361s
What constitutes ‘good’ home care for people with dementia? An investigation of the views of home care service recipients and providers
Creators: name: Goh, AMY
name: Polacsek, M
name: Malta, S
name: Doyle, C
name: Hallam, B
name: Gahan, Luke
name: Low, LF
name: Cooper, C
name: Livingston, G
name: Panayiotou, A
name: Loi, SM
name: Omori, M
name: Savvas, S
name: Burton, J
name: Ames, D
name: Scherer, SC
name: Chau, N
name: Roberts, S
name: Winbolt, Margaret
name: Batchelor, F
name: Dow, B
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022

description: Background: Our objective was to explore what people receiving and providing care consider to be ‘good’ in-home care for people living with dementia. Methods: We conducted 36 in-depth interviews and two focus groups with key stakeholders in Australia in the first quarter of 2018. Participants included those receiving care (4 people living with dementia, 15 family carers) or providing care (9 case managers, 5 service managers, 10 home care workers). Qualitative thematic analysis was guided by Braun and Clarke’s six-step approach. Results: Consensus was reached across all groups on five themes considered as important for good in-home dementia care: 1) Home care workers’ understanding of dementia and its impact; 2) Home care workers’ demonstrating person-centred care and empathy in their care relationship with their client; 3) Good relationships and communication between care worker, person with dementia and family carers; 4) Home care workers’ knowing positive practical strategies for changed behaviours; 5) Effective workplace policies and workforce culture. The results contributed to the co-design of a dementia specific training program for home care workers. Conclusions: It is crucial to consider the views and opinions of each stakeholder group involved in providing/receiving dementia care from home care workers, to inform workforce training, education program design and service design. Results can be used to inform and empower home care providers, policy, and related decision makers to guide the delivery of improved home care services. Trial registration: ACTRN 12619000251123.
Dysregulation of Streptococcus pneumoniae zinc homeostasis breaks ampicillin resistance in a pneumonia infection model
Creators: name: Brazel, EB
name: Tan, A
name: Neville, SL
name: Iverson, AR
name: Udagedara, Saumya
name: Cunningham, BA
name: Sikanyika, Mwilye
name: De Oliveira, DMP
name: Keller, B
name: Bohlmann, L
name: El-Deeb, IM
name: Ganio, K
name: Eijkelkamp, BA
name: McEwan, AG
name: von Itzstein, M
name: Maher, Megan
name: Walker, MJ
name: Rosch, JW
name: McDevitt, CA
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Streptococcus pneumoniae is the primary cause of community-acquired bacterial pneumonia with rates of penicillin and multidrug-resistance exceeding 80% and 40%, respectively. The innate immune response generates a variety of antimicrobial agents to control infection, including zinc stress. Here, we characterize the impact of zinc intoxication on S. pneumoniae, observing disruptions in central carbon metabolism, lipid biogenesis, and peptidoglycan biosynthesis. Characterization of the pivotal peptidoglycan biosynthetic enzyme GlmU indicates a sensitivity to zinc inhibition. Disruption of the sole zinc efflux pathway, czcD, renders S. pneumoniae highly susceptible to β-lactam antibiotics. To dysregulate zinc homeostasis in the wild-type strain, we investigated the safe-for-human-use ionophore 5,7-dichloro-2-[(dimethylamino)methyl]quinolin-8-ol (PBT2). PBT2 rendered wild-type S. pneumoniae strains sensitive to a range of antibiotics. Using an invasive ampicillin-resistant strain, we demonstrate in a murine pneumonia infection model the efficacy of PBT2 + ampicillin treatment. These findings present a therapeutic modality to break antibiotic resistance in multidrug-resistant S. pneumoniae.
Confidence and Knowledge of Athletic Trainers in Managing Patellofemoral Pain.
Creators: name: Zambarano, Erika K
name: Bazett-Jones, David M
name: De-Oliveira-Silva, Danilo
name: Barton, Christian
name: Glaviano, Neal R
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences
classificationCode: 4201
subject: Allied health and rehabilitation science
classificationCode: 4207
subject: Sports science and exercise

description: CONTEXT: Patellofemoral pain (PFP) is prevalent and challenging to manage. Most patients with PFP are unsatisfied with their knee function at 6 months after treatment and report ongoing pain up to 16 years after diagnosis. The confidence and knowledge of athletic trainers (ATs) in providing evidence-based care to people with PFP is unknown. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the confidence and knowledge of ATs in the diagnosis, risk factors, prognosis, and treatment with current evidence for PFP. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: Online survey. PATIENT OR OTHER PARTICIPANTS: A random sample of 3000 ATs were invited to participate; 261 completed the survey (10% participation rate, 88% completion rate). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES(S): We surveyed AT demographics, confidence in PFP management, and knowledge related to diagnosis, risk factors, prognosis, and treatment. The confidence and knowledge of ATs in managing PFP was assessed. Their beliefs about evidence were compared with the available evidence (ie, consensus statements, position statements, systematic reviews). RESULTS: Of the ATs surveyed, 91% were confident that their management of PFP aligned with the current evidence, but only 59% were confident in identifying risk factors for PFP development. In addition, 91% to 92% of ATs agreed that quadriceps and hip muscle weakness were risk factors for PFP, which aligns with the current evidence for the former but not the latter. Moreover, 93% to 97% of ATs' responses related to therapeutic exercise aligned with current evidence. However, 35% to 48% supported the use of passive treatments, such as electrophysical agents and ultrasound, which did not align with the current evidence. CONCLUSIONS: Most ATs were aware of supporting evidence for therapeutic exercise in PFP management and were confident providing it, creating a strong foundation for evidence-based care. However, varying levels of awareness of the evidence related to risk factors and passive treatments for PFP highlight the need for professional development initiatives to better align ATs' knowledge with the current evidence.
title: Kant and Culture. Studies on Kant’s Philosophy of Culture
Creators: name: Morawski, Tommaso
Publisher: name: Sapienza Università Editrice
Year: 2022

description: Kant and Culture. Studies on Kant’s Philosophy of Culture is a collective volume focusing on the figure of Kant as Kulturphilosoph. The challenge of this volume, which gathers scholars who differ in language, method, approach and perspective, is to shed light from different angles on the relevance and complexity of a subject – Kant and culture – that has often been confined to the margins of the Kantforschung and has only recently received the attention it deserves. Yet, on closer inspection, the issues related to the notion of culture in Kant are so varied and at the same time so pervasive and transversal that they allow for important connections between his philosophical reflection’s different areas (from aesthetics to theoretical philosophy, from ethics to philosophy of history, from philosophy of law to moral philosophy, from anthropology to religion, from geography to pedagogy), providing a privileged point of view to explore and understand his idea of a Bestimmung des Menschen. Moreover, Kant’s contribution to the philosophy of culture offers important insights into its contemporary crisis, its loss of significance and interest. A starting point to try to articulate a notion of culture in a normative sense, that is, elaborated not in reference to a certain class of objects defined as cultural (education, the arts, the sciences), but formally, as a particular relationship we can establish with any object, subject or experience.
Emotional intelligence competencies used by the clinical teacher in internship_a Scoping Review Protocol.pdf
Creators: name: Mendes, Liliana
name: Ramos, Lino
name: Gamito, Tânia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 399999
subject: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Objective: The objective of this scoping review is to map and describe research that includes emotional intelligence competencies that are used by clinical teacher in internship and to gain a clearer picture of the concepts related.Introduction: A clinical teacher with humanist attributes and emotional intelligence (EI) competences pays attention to the emotional dimension of the teaching-learning process. The use of EI in clinical teaching has numerous advantages that contribute to better learning outcomes.Inclusion criteria: This scoping review will include qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods, and evidence synthesis studies, as well as gray literature relating to emotional intelligence competencies used by clinical teachers in internship for the past 10 years. The search will not be limited by language, or geographic location.Methods: We will follow the JBI guidance for scoping reviews. We will (1) search multiple electronic databases from inception, (2) search for unpublished studies, and (3) scan the reference lists of included studies. Screening and data extraction will be conducted by 2 researchers. A third researcher will resolve discrepancies. Two researchers will categorize the study results into broader concepts using content analysis. The findings will be presented in maps, tables or diagrams, with a narrative summary that will highlight key research questions, designs, methods, and related concepts.
Protection motivation theory screening tool for predicting chronic low back pain rehabilitation adherence: Analysis of a randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Owen, PJ
name: Main, LC
name: Miller, CT
name: Ford, Jon
name: Hahne, Andrew
name: Belavy, DL
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4201
subject: Allied health and rehabilitation science
classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Objective: To explore a protection motivation theory screening tool for predicting rehabilitation adherence. Design: Analysis of a randomised controlled trial. Setting: An exercise physiology and physiotherapist clinic. Participants: Patients with chronic low back pain (n=40). Interventions: General strength and conditioning (GSC) compared with motor control and manual therapy. Primary and secondary outcome measures: predicting patient adherence to supervised sessions and dropout using the Sports Injury Rehabilitation Beliefs Scale, seven-item barriers checklist and Positive and Negative Affect Schedule and Sports Injury Rehabilitation Adherence Scale. Results: Average attendance was 77% (motor control and manual therapy) and 60% (GSC) with eight dropouts. No Sports Injury Rehabilitation Adherence Scale values other than 5 across all three components were recorded. Treatment efficacy (p=0.019), self-efficacy (p=0.001), rehabilitation value (p=0.028) and injury severity (p=0.002) positively correlated with susceptibility (the extent of vulnerability to having health problems from not taking action). Rehabilitation value positively correlated with self-efficacy (p=0.005). Injury severity positively correlated with rehabilitation value (p=0.011). The final model for number of cancellations included rehabilitation value only and accounted for approximately 12% of variance (p=0.033). Conclusions: Perceived value of rehabilitation should be considered by clinicians in the rehabilitation setting to improve treatment adherence in patients with chronic low back pain. Trial registration number ACTRN12615001270505.
Electronic Supplementary Material Appendices from A cluster of N-bubbles driven along a channel at high imposed driving pressure: film orientations and bubble pressures
Creators: name: Grassia, P.
name: Torres-Ulloa, C.
name: Hernández-Montelongo, J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 401299
subject: Fluid mechanics and thermal engineering not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 490199
subject: Applied mathematics not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 499999
subject: Other mathematical sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Reviewer and board member asked to see a future draft manuscript on bubble areas
Comparative genomic analyses of multi-drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Nepal and other geographical locations
Creators: name: Leong, Kelvin
name: Gautam, Sanjay S
name: Pradhan, Manoj
name: Singh, Y Ibotomba
name: Rajendra, KC
name: Rajbhandari, Sagar K
name: Ghimire, Gokarna R
name: Adhikari, Krishna
name: Shrestha, Uma
name: Chaudhary, Raina
name: Ghimire, Gyanendra
name: Khadka, Sundar
name: O'Toole, Ronan
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3105
subject: Genetics

description: Nepal
exhibits a tuberculosis (TB) incidence rate that is comparable to neighbouring
high TB incidence countries. In addition, it records >500 cases of
multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB each year. The objective of this study was to
perform whole-genome bioinformatic analysis on MDR-TB isolates from Nepal (n =
19) to identify the specific mutations underlying their phenotypic resistance.
In addition, we examined the dominant genotype among the Nepal MDR-TB isolates,
the East-Asian Beijing sub-lineage, to determine its relatedness to a panel of
1274 genomes of international strains available from public databases. These
analyses provided evidence that the XDR-TB isolates in our collection were not
derived from importation of primary XDR-TB to Nepal but were more likely the
result of acquisition of second-line drug resistance in Nepal. Resistance to
fluoroquinolones was detected among a high proportion of the Nepal isolates.
This has implications for the management of TB, including appropriate
antimicrobial stewardship and susceptibility testing for fluoroquinolones and
other second-line TB drugs, to minimise the development of XDR-TB among Nepal
TB cases.
Examining Teacher Candidates’ Backgrounds, Experiences and Beliefs as Precursors for Developing Dispositions for Democracy
Creators: name: Lampert, Jo
name: Browne, Stevie
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3901
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy
classificationCode: 3902
subject: Education policy, sociology and philosophy
classificationCode: 3903
subject: Education systems
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: No description supplied
Stellar Activity Effects On High-Energy Exoplanet Transits
Creators: name: Llama, Joe
name: Shkolnik, E.
name: Cameron, A.
name: Jardine, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016

description: High energy (X-ray / UV) observations of transiting exoplanets have revealed the presence of extended atmospheres around a number of systems. At these energies, stellar radiation is absorbed in the upper atmosphere of the planet, making X-ray / UV transits an exciting tool for investigating the composition of exoplanetary atmospheres. However, the effects of stellar activity on transits at these wavelengths is far from understood. In X-rays the stellar disk appears limb-brightened, and active regions appear as extended bright features that evolve on a much shorter timescale than in the optical. This makes measuring the true planet-to-star radius ratio challenging.

The Sun offers a unique opportunity to study the impact of stellar activity on high energy transits. Using disk resolved soft X-ray and UV images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory taken over the last solar cycle I will show how both occulted and unocculted active regions can mimic an inflated planetary atmosphere by changing the depth and shape of a transit profile. I will also show how the disk integrated Lyman-α Solar irradiance varies on both short and long timescales and how this variability can also impact our ability to recover the true radius ratio of a transiting exoplanet.  Finally, I will present techniques to overcome these challenges in high-energy transits.
description: Contributed talk at the Splinter Session on "Variability of Solar/Stellar Magnetic Activity" (http://coolstars19.com/splinters/stellar-var/index.html) at the "Cool Stars 19" Workshop
Youth drinking in decline: What are the implications for public health, public policy and public debate?
Creators: name: Holmes, J
name: Fairbrother, H
name: Livingston, Michael
name: Meier, PS
name: Oldham, M
name: Pennay, Amy
name: Whitaker, V
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health
classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: Youth drinking has declined across most high-income countries in the last 20 years. Although researchers and commentators have explored the nature and drivers of decline, they have paid less attention to its implications. This matters because of the potential impact on contemporary and future public health, as well as on alcohol policy-making. This commentary therefore considers how youth drinking trends may develop in future, what this would mean for public health, and what it might mean for alcohol policy and debate. We argue that the decline in youth drinking is well-established and unlikely to reverse, despite smaller declines and stabilising trends in recent years. Young people also appear to be carrying their lighter drinking into adulthood in at least some countries. This suggests we should expect large short- and long-term public health benefits. The latter may however be obscured in population-level data by increased harm arising from earlier, heavier drinking generations moving through the highest risk points in the life course. The likely impact of the decline in youth drinking on public and policy debate is less clear. We explore the possibilities using two model scenarios, the reinforcement and withdrawal models. In the reinforcement model, a ‘virtuous’ circle of falling alcohol consumption, increasing public support for alcohol control policies and apparent policy successes facilitates progressive strengthening of policy, akin to that seen in the tobacco experience. In the withdrawal model, policy-makers turn their attention to other problems, public health advocates struggle to justify proposed interventions and existing policies erode over time as industry actors reassert and strengthen their partnerships with government around alcohol policy. We argue that disconnects between the tobacco experience and the reinforcement model make the withdrawal model a more plausible scenario. We conclude by suggesting some tentative ways forward for public health actors working in this space.
Properties and anti-fungal activity of condensable gas fraction from bark carbonization
Creators: name: InnoRenew CoE
name: HERRERA DIAZ, RENE
name: Zouari, Mariem
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Presentation of research work at the International Conference for Young Scientists on Biorefinery Technologies and Products 2024 BTechPro2024.
title: Plant systematics
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: EDP Hub (Идипи Хаб), Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2024

description: The study aid presents educational material in English on the taxonomy of lower and higher plants, as well as fungi. The study aid is intended for students of higher educational institutions studying in the areas of training “Biological and related sciences” with instruction in English, studying the discipline “Plant systematics”, and will also be useful for secondary school teachers and lecturers.
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Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

Abstract
Understanding how individualised physiotherapy or advice altered different elements of disability for people with low back pain using network analysis
Creators: name: Liew, BXW
name: Ford, Jon
name: Briganti, G
name: Hahne, Andrew
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4201
subject: Allied health and rehabilitation science

description: Purpose: The Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) is a common aggregate measure of disability for people with Low Back Pain (LBP). Scores on individual items and the relationship between items of the ODI may help understand the complexity of low back disorders and their response to treatment. In this study, we present a network analysis to explore how individualised physiotherapy or advice might influence individual items of the ODI, and the relationship between those items, at different time points for people with LBP. Methods: Data from a randomised controlled trial (n = 300) comparing individualised physiotherapy versus advice for low back pain were used. A network analysis was performed at baseline, 5, 10, 26 and 52 weeks, with the 10 items of the Oswestry Disability Index modelled as continuous variables and treatment group (Individualised Physiotherapy or Advice) modelled as a dichotomous variable. A Mixed Graphical Model was used to estimate associations between variables in the network, while centrality indices (Strength, Closeness and Betweenness) were calculated to determine the importance of each variable. Results: Individualised Physiotherapy was directly related to lower Sleep and Pain scores at all follow-up time points relative to advice, as well as a lower Standing score at 10-weeks, and higher Lifting and Travelling scores at 5-weeks. The strongest associations in the network were between Sitting and Travelling at weeks 5 and 26, between Walking and Standing at week 10, and between Sitting and Standing scores at week 52. ODI items with the highest centrality measures were consistently found to be Pain, Work and Social Life. Conclusion: This study represents the first to understand how individualised physiotherapy or advice differentially altered disability in people with LBP. Individualised Physiotherapy directly reduced Pain and Sleep more effectively than advice, which in turn may have facilitated improvements in other disability items. Through their high centrality measures, Pain may be considered as a candidate therapeutic target for optimising LBP management, while Work and Socialising may need to be addressed via intermediary improvements in lifting, standing, walking, travelling or sleep. Slower (5-week follow-up) improvements in Lifting and Travelling as an intended element of the Individualised Physiotherapy approach did not negatively impact any longer-term outcomes. Trials registration ACTRN12609000834257.
Accounting as rhetorical devices during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Australian universities
Creators: name: Hoque, Zahirul
name: Mai, Xuan
name: Ozdil, Esin
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 35
subject: Commerce, management, tourism and services
classificationCode: 3501
subject: Accounting, auditing and accountability
classificationCode: 3507
subject: Strategy, management and organisational behaviour

description: Purpose: This paper has two purposes. First, it aims to explore how Australian universities used calculative rhetoric and practices through accounting numbers to persuade employees and legitimize their financial recovery plans to alleviate the financial hardship caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Second, it aims to analyze how the accounting-based solutions were legitimized through a well-blended pathos, logos and ethos rhetoric. Design/methodology/approach: Building on a rhetorical theory of diffusion, we employed a qualitative research design within all 37 Australian public universities involving Internet-based documentary analysis. Findings: This study finds that in an urgent crisis like the fiscal crisis caused by COVID-19, universities again found rescue in accounting tools, in particular budgets, as a rhetorical device to justify their operational and strategic choices such as job-cuts, programs closures and staff pay-cuts. However, in this crisis, the same old accounting-based solutions were even more quickly to be accepted by being delivered in management’s colorful blending of pathos–logos–ethos rhetoric. Research limitations/implications: While this study is constrained to Australian public universities’ financial responses, its findings have implications for university decision-makers and higher education policymakers across the globe when it comes to university management using calculative devices in persuading employees to work their way through financial hardship caused by an extreme health crisis-like COVID-19 pandemic. Originality/value: This study adds more evidence that the use of budgets as a calculative tool continues to play a key role in organizations in the construction, mobilization and preservation of certain strategic and operational choices during volatilities. Especially, the same way of creating calculative-based solutions can be communicated via the colorful blending of different rhetoric to make it acceptable.
Ten markers of quality in designing and publishing qualitative tourism research
Creators: name: Frost, Jennifer
name: Frost, Warwick
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 35
subject: Commerce, management, tourism and services
classificationCode: 3504
subject: Commercial services
classificationCode: 3506
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
classificationCode: 3508
subject: Tourism

description: The use of qualitative research methodologies in tourism is growing; however there are concerns over the quality and rigour of some studies and the way they have been written up and justified to audiences. This research note presents ten common problems with qualitative research that the authors have encountered while reviewing journal articles and examining theses, with the aim of stimulating discussion as to what constitutes good qualitative research and how best to present qualitative findings in a tourism context. Issues covered include the consideration of philosophical underpinnings, detail about the methodological approach, reflexivity, sampling, the use of thick description, the importance of creating a narrative and demonstrating the trustworthiness of the study.
title: The CILFIT Criteria Clarified and Extended for National Courts of Last Resort Under Art. 267 TFEU
Creators: name: Maher, Imelda
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: preliminary reference
subject: national courts of last resort
subject: CILFIT
subject: acte clair
subject: giving reasons
subject: obligation to refer

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2022 7(1), 265-274
description: I. Introduction. - II. Context: two preliminary references and the need to prove relevance. - III. The Advocate General opinion. - IV. The nature and scope of art. 267 TFEU. - IV.1. The uniformity of EU law. - IV.2. The tension between power and obligation. - IV.3. CILFIT confirmed and tweaked. - IV.4. A new requirement: giving reasons. - IV.5. The obligation to refer where a matter is raised late in proceedings. - V. Conclusion.
description: A significant judgment of the Grand Chamber of the CJEU was handed down in case C-561/19 Consorzio Italian Management e Catania Multiservizi and Catania Multiservizi ECLI:ECLI:EU:C:2021:799 (CIM) in October 2021 on the scope of discretion of national courts of last resort when deciding to make a preliminary reference under art. 267 TFEU. Despite the invitation of the Advocate General, the Court shored up the (almost) 40-year-old CILFIT (case 283/81 CILFIT v Ministero della Sanità ECLI:EU:C:1982:335) test, giving clarification as to the aims of art. 267 TFEU and setting down an obligation to give reasons when not referring as a means of containing national court discretion by increasing transparency. The Court, by retaining the CILFIT test while tweaking it and adding a requirement to give reasons for refusal to refer, chose partnership and judicial cooperation with national apex courts while increasing transparency for decision-making thereby favouring the existing vision of the relationship with courts of last resort as one of direct cooperation.
Random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis reveals no clear link between Staphylococcus epidermidis and acute mastitis
Creators: name: Cullinane, Meabh
name: Scofield, L
name: Murray, GL
name: Payne, MS
name: Bennett, CM
name: Garland, SM
name: Amir, Lisa
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3215
subject: Reproductive medicine
classificationCode: 4204
subject: Midwifery

description: Mastitis is commonly experienced by breastfeeding women. While Staphylococcus aureus is usually implicated in infectious mastitis, coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) are a possible alternative pathogen. This case-control study examined the role of CoNS in mastitis using isolates cultured from breast milk of 20 women with mastitis and 16 women without mastitis. Gene sequencing determined bacterial species, and random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis investigated strain-level variation. The majority of CoNS isolates were Staphylococcus epidermidis (182/199; 91%). RAPD analysis identified 33 unique S. epidermidis profiles, with no specific profile associated with mastitis cases.