cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cerebral Aneurysm Detection and Analysis
Creators: name: Tabea Kossen, Charité
name: Kaufhold, Lilli
name: Hüllebrand, Markus
name: Jan-Martin Kuhnigk
name: Brühning, Jan
name: Schaller, Jens
name: Pfahringer, Boris
name: Spuler, Andreas
name: Goubergrits, Leonid
name: Hennemuth, Anja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: MICCAI Challenges
Biomedical Challenges
MICCAI
Aneurysm
Automatic detection
Segmentation
Quantification
X-ray rotational angiography
Stroke risk
Risk prediction

description: This is the challenge design document for the "Cerebral Aneurysm Detection and Analysis" Challenge, accepted for MICCAI 2020. Cerebral aneurysms are local dilatations of arterial blood vessels caused by a weakness of the vessel wall. Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) caused by the rupture of a cerebral aneurysm is a life-threatening condition associated with high mortality and morbidity. The mortality rate is above 40%, and even in case of survival cognitive impairment can affect patients for a long time. It is therefore highly desirable to detect aneurysms early and decide about the appropriate rupture prevention strategy. Diagnosis and treatment planning are based on angiographic imaging using MRI, CT, or X-ray rotation angiography. Major goals in image analysis are the detection and risk assessment of aneurysms. We, therefore, subdivided the challenge into three categories. The first task is finding the aneurysm; the second task is the accurate segmentation to allow for a longitudinal assessment of the development of suspicious aneurysms. The third task is the estimation of the rupture risk of the aneurysm.
Interdisciplinary methods for researching climate-mental health links through the Methane Early Warning Network (ME-NET): improving ‘visibility’ and integrating complex multi-datasets
Creators: name: Moore, Harriet
name: Atanbori, John
name: Amankwaa, Ebenezer
name: Gussy, Mark
name: Siriwardena, Aloysius Niroshan
name: Hanna, Edward
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2025
Subjects: F764 - Climate & climate change
F753 - Pollution control
L510 - Health & welfare

description: Climatic and atmospheric conditions impact mental health, including increased incidents of depression associated with air pollution. A growing body of research considers time-bound ‘snap-shots’ of climatic drivers and mental health outcomes. Less is known about the likely effects of future climate change on mental health. Research is often inhibited by data scarcity, the challenge of synthesising data across multiple geospatial and temporal scales, and the under-representation of hard-to-reach groups. Thus, research methods are needed to integrate and analyse complex environmental and mental health multi-datasets while improving the visibility of under-represented groups. In this methods paper we present a novel approach for investigating the impact of climate change on mental health and addressing some challenges with, a) invisibility of vulnerable groups, and b) integrating complex environmental and mental health multi-datasets. The research aim is to pilot a web-based and smartphone application (Methane Early Warning Network (ME-NET)) for investigating the role of methane as a precursor of on-ground ozone, and the impact of ozone on mental health outcomes to improve civic knowledge and health-protection behaviour in the United Kingdom and Ghana. The methods include exploring the feasibility of using machine learning to develop an ozone early warning system and application co-design.
Assessment of Family Academic Consciousness and Students- Performance in English Language.pdf
Creators: name: Bichene, Carol  Ebuta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 399999
subject: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The importance of English language in Nigerian educational system cannot be overemphasized. English is the single official language in the country, at the secondary school students are required to pass English at credit level before they are deemed qualified to study any discipline in the higher institutions, thus issues relating to students’ performance in the subjects continue to agitate the minds if researchers and stake holders….
Using geovisualisation to support participatory problem structuring and decision making for an urban water utility in Uganda
Creators: name: Kizito, Frank
name: Ngirane-Katashaya, Gaddi
name: Thunvik, Roger
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper describes the application of geovisualisation to facilitate participatory identification and structuring of problems in an urban water supply system in Uganda. The city of Kampala has experienced rapid expansion over the years, with a corresponding increase in the demand for piped water supply. However, this demand was not well matched with expansion of the water supply system, and as a result parts of the city have been facing chronic supply anomalies and insufficiencies. Faced with the task of identifying remedies to the problems in the system, the city water company undertook a formal participatory problem structuring and decision analysis process, to try and understand the underlying causes of system failures as well as the geospatial patterns of these failures. As part of this process, analysis, mapping and geovisualisation of data derived from historical records of water consumption, as well as records of pipe breakages, supply intermittences, and other recorded customer complaints, was done. The maps so produced were key in bringing the various stakeholders and decision makers to a common understanding of the problem issues, and helped in the formulation of alternative courses of action. Furthermore, with the establishment of a formal discussion forum for problem analysis and decision making, structured participatory decision making was entrenched within the company’s work ethos. It is hoped that in future, the coupling of the geovisualisation tools with the existing operational databases in the company will result in the development of a functional spatial decision support system and a dynamic framework for system performance monitoring and reliability assessment.
Ortho-rectified, oblique, aerial photography for verifying and updating spatial data
Creators: name: Bulman, Dave
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper explains how ortho-rectification of frame camera, aerial photography is fairly complex, and the difficulties associated with rectifying oblique aerial photos (OAPs) from small format photography have been so problematic that the approach has been little used and seldom described within the literature. Recent advances in photogrammetric software, however, have now made conventional, frame camera photogrammetry more convenient and more easily able to deal with the ortho-rectification of space-borne and air-borne sensors as well as hand-held film and digital cameras. Consequently, it is now possible to use oblique photography to correct vertical photographs - provided that we address issues related to image distortion and ensure that the reliability of extracted features is sufficient for their use within Geographic Information Systems (GIS). This will be demonstrated by showing that oblique photographs taken with a hand-held, 35 mm camera during a reconnaissance flight over a weed infested area can be ortho-rectified using modern software, thereby clarifying this approach’s status as a useful aid for delineating infestations for the purpose of say, ground truthing, verification of remotely sensed image analysis or simply contributing towards more comprehensive aerial mapping. The example used here may seem trivial but it actually illustrates, clearly, how a spraying pattern, while possibly too refined to show in a satellite image, can be mapped as a reference for monitoring weed infestations. This example is not intended to be a rigorous application of the technique, but simply a demonstration of its possibilities whenever there is a need to quickly or frequently update existing spatial data and environmental records in a much more cost-effective way than would be possible through deployment of the much more expensive, conventional, aerial survey methods.
Evaluating forest harvesting to reduce its hydrologic impact with a spatial decision support system
Creators: name: Zhang, Yanli
name: Barten, Paul K.
name: Sugumaran, Ramanathan
name: DeGroote, John
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Timber harvesting changes the condition of forest ecosystems, which are a major influence on the characteristics of headwater streams. Such characteristics include the quantity and timing of base flow and storm flow, concentrations of sediment and dissolved nutrients, water temperature, and the stability of the stream channels. This paper explores previous studies dealing with the relationship between timber harvesting and its hydrologic effects, especially long term water yield increase. The watershed disturbance threshold theory is raised and investigated in detail. The development and evaluation of a spatial decision support system, the Harvest Schedule Review System (HSRS), is then described. The HSRS will aid in the minimization of hydrological impacts of forest harvesting, along with its related, negative environmental influences. It provides a spatially and temporally explicit tool for users to analyze the hydrologic impact of forest harvest schedules.
Development of an open source-based spatial data infrastructure
Creators: name: Stefanakis, Emmanuel
name: Prastacos, Poulicos
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A pilot regional Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) has recently been developed for the Heraklion Prefecture in Crete, Greece, using Geographic Free and Open Source Software (GeoFOSS). This SDI is compatible with the geospatial standards and specifications introduced by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and it distributes the geospatial content on the web through widely accepted services (e.g., WMS, WFS, WCS and CSW). This paper presents the architecture, the components and the functionality of the Heraklion SDI. Specifically, it focuses on the map server, along with the services that provide accessibility to the data repositories, the spatial database server, the metadata and data catalog, the visualization tools and the web-client interface.
Using Rational Polynomial Coefficients (RPC) to generate digital elevation models : a comparative study
Creators: name: Jain, Kamal
name: Ravibabu, Mandla V.
name: Shafi, Javed A.
name: Singh, Suredra Pal
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Models based on Rational Polynomial Coefficients (RPC) have recently sparked considerable interest within the remote sensing community because of their simplicity and accuracy. Indeed, some commercial, high-resolution, satellite imagery data are now supplied with RPC even though they do not disclose their physical sensor model. RPC, with stereo pairs, enable full photogrammetric processing including 3-D reconstruction, generation of digital elevation models (DEMs), orthorectification, block adjustment and feature extraction. In the light of this we here present a complete methodology for generating a DEM from stereo satellite images by using rational polynomial coefficients of the imaging geometry. We also conduct a study of the accuracy and performance, in terms of generating a stereo images-based DEM using RPC within three well known software packages. Our results are evaluated using sample data that was captured by IKONOS.
Optimizing landscape value for man and nature : a case study of land-suitability mapping to conserve biodiversity in Lawaan, Eastern Samar, Philippines
Creators: name: Casas, Eulito V.
name: Baguinon, Nestor T.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: We show how to identify “hotspot” biodiversity areas on which to base relevant policies and management options whenever traditional, community-based, resource management puts biodiversity conservation at risk, as is the case in Lawaan, Eastern Samar, Philippines. Digital spatial data integration revealed that the lower elevation areas are under the heaviest human pressure and also have the highest biodiversity. This calls for a set of procedures for engaging the full range of stakeholders to identify areas for preservation. Accordingly, we combined Social Based (SB) and Environmental Based (EB) maps to identify four different classifications and identify the locations of “very critical” and “critical” areas that need priority if biodiversity-conservation efforts are to be effective. We also report the results of deploying developed protocols that are designed to support regular updates, thereby accommodating stakeholder interests so that an environmentally-based, zone map can form a basis for consensus building and preservation-zone protection via community enforcement.
SSHOC Webinar: Discussion meeting about requirements of CESSDA Service Providers for a Dataverse repository
Creators: name: Wittenberg, Marion
name: Tykhonov, Vyacheslav
name: Laura Huis In 'T Veld
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: SSHOC
subject: Dataverse
subject: CESSDA
subject: Service Providers
subject: CESSDA Service Providers
subject: SSHOC Dataverse
subject: Repositories
subject: Data repositories
subject: Social Sciences
subject: Humanities
subject: FOS: Humanities
subject: SSH
subject: EOSC
subject: Research
subject: Researchers
subject: Research infrastructures
subject: ERICs
subject: Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud
subject: DANS

description: SSHOC (Task 5.2) is developing a data repository service for SSH institutions. The new service is built upon the Dataverse software and will be adjusted to the needs of the European research infrastructures. Dataverse is an open source software platform, community driven, and allows integrations with other data services such as DataCite or ROpenScience. It has a modular design principle using API’s, that allows for distributed file storage, and supports the building of further microservices on top. The SSHOC Webinar "Discussion meeting about requirements of CESSDA Service Providers for a Dataverse repository" took place on March 18, 2020. We discussed with potential interested Service Providers what their ideas are about such a service: Would service providers like to use the SSHOC Dataverse, when available? What are their requirements? How much localization is needed? Would they like to use a central service in the cloud or an installation on their own institutional environment? The webinar started with a presentation of the current functionality, followed by a presentation of new features to be developed. After these presentations we collected input from the audience. The discussion focused on essential requirements for such a service, preferences, organisation, necessary training. The webinar was chaired by Marion Wittenberg, service manager of DataverseNL at Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), together with her colleagues Laura Huis in ‘t Veld, functional manager, and Vyacheslav Tykhonov, Information Scientist. The event was intended for staff of interested Service Providers from CESSDA.
title: A comparative cognition perspective on the production and use of visual signals by African savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana)
Creators: name: Smet, Anna F.
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02wn5qz54
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2015

description: Elephants’ complex societies, well-developed communication systems, evolutionary history and close working relationship with humans make them an important species for studies of cognition but research on elephant cognition is sparse. In this thesis I aim to illuminate the social cognition involved in the interpretation and production of visual signals by African elephants (Loxodonta africana). My results are intended to contribute to the cross-species literature on social cognition and help to elucidate wild elephant social behaviour. I studied captive elephants, housed at an elephant-back safari company in Victoria Falls, and wild elephants in Hwange National Park, both in Zimbabwe. Wild elephants display a vast array of postures, actions and signals. I found that elephants recognise visual attentiveness in others when they signal silently, producing more signals when their audience can see them, and using the body and face orientation of an audience to judge their attention. When responding to typically human visual signals, elephants immediately responded correctly to deictic gestures, including variants of pointing that they were unlikely to have already experienced. These results indicate elephants’ astonishing sensitivity to even subtle social cues. I found no indication that elephants reason about mental states such as false beliefs, or rationality; however, limitations of the experimental design meant I was unlikely to find such an ability even if it is present in elephants. Furthermore, I discovered that elephants have a form of referential indication in their natural communication in the wild. Elephants match their direction of attention with a type of trunk action produced by a group member. Attending to human-like signals, and interpreting them as communicative is an advantage for any animal working with humans and that ability might explain the choice of species that are ancestors of today’s domestic animals.
Application of GIS-based computer modelling to planning for adaption to climate change in rural areas
Creators: name: Sposito, Victor
name: Benke, Kurt
name: Pelizaro, Claudia
name: Wyatt, Ray
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A GIS-based computer modelling methodology was developed and applied to identify climate change adaptation issues arising in regional agricultural production systems (including forestry). Agricultural production in Australia is very susceptible to the adverse impacts of climate change due to projected shifts in rainfall and temperature. The methodology integrates land suitability analysis with uncertainty analysis and spatial (regional) optimisation to determine optimal agricultural land use at a regional scale for current and possible future climatic conditions. The approach can be used to recognise regions under threat of productivity decline, identify alternative cropping systems that may be better adapted to likely future conditions, and investigate implementation actions to improve the sub-optimal situations created by climate change. An example of how the methodology may be used is outlined through a case study involving the South West Region of Victoria, Australia. The case study provides information on the tools available to support the formulation of a regional adaptation strategy.
Land use change detection for environmental management : using multi-temporal, satellite data in the Apodi Valley of northeastern Brazil
Creators: name: Boori, Mukesh Singh
name: Amaro, Venerando Eustaquio
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this study maximum-likelihood, supervised classification along with post-classification change detection was applied to satellite images for 1986, 1989, 1996, 2001, and 2009, in order to map land-cover changes within the Apodi Valley region of northeastern Brazil. The supervised classification was carried out on the six reflective bands and ground truthed. The classification results were then further refined using ancillary data, visual interpretation and expert knowledge of the area along with GIS. Post-classification change detection then generated a change image in the form of cross-tabulations. Fifteen land cover classes existed within the area, and reclamation processes during the 1990's changed them substantially, with conflicting changes being caused primarily by lack of both stability and consistency in the government's land use policies. The result was extensive vegetation degradation and water logging in parts of the study area.
Untitled Item
Creators: name: Mullen, Robert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 529999
subject: Other psychology not elsewhere classified

description: A psychobiography is a well-researched, comprehensive, multi-method presentation of a series of occasions through the documentation of events and the explication of the causes, motivations, and consequences thereof. In the fashion of Whitehead, occasions are dynamic and ongoing activities unfolding or producing themselves through time. The creative events that precipitate― originating, anchoring, and turning points―are fixed in time as opposed to the unfixed spatial-temporal reality of an occasion. The psychobiography uses both qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis because of their interactive objective and subjective contributions. The psychological aspect of the qualitative system allows for the in-depth case study, which presupposes that the issues under investigation are best understood from a perspective inclusive of the subject's personal, subjective, and phenomenological world. The quantitative study utilizes verifiable occurrences and statistics to determine the validity of the interpretation. An accompanying facet of a carefully crafted psychobiography is the hermeneutic circle, another component susceptible to error due to the varying definitions and understandings that accompany all manner of texts. These potentials for misinformation are aggravated by the researcher, who is susceptible to (1) incorporating personal sensibilities, (2) bias and misinterpretation due to the nature of the investigation, (3) the suggestiveness of the subject, and (4) the researcher's own condition. A psychobiographical study is also subject to misinformation revealed by the subject, sources, and contemporaries. Awareness of these potential impediments to veracity is essential.
A support system that delineates location-choice sets for firms seeking office space
Creators: name: Manzato, Gustavo G.
name: Arentze, Theo A.
name: Timmermans, Harry J. P.
name: Ettema, Dick
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Factors influencing the location decisions of offices include traffic, accessibility, employment conditions, economic prospects and land-use policies. Hence tools for supporting real-estate managers and urban planners in such multidimensional decisions may be useful. Accordingly, the objective of this study is to develop a GIS-based tool to support firms who seek office accommodation within a given regional or national study area. The tool relies on a matching approach, in which a firm's characteristics (demand) on the one hand, and environmental conditions and available office spaces (supply) on the other, are analyzed separately in a first step, after which a match is sought. That is, a suitability score is obtained for every firm and for every available office space by applying some value judgments (satisfaction, utility etc.). The latter are powered by a focus on location aspects and expert knowledge about the location decisions of firms/organizations with respect to office accommodation as acquired from a group of real-estate advisers; it is stored in decision tables, and they constitute the core of the model. Apart from the delineation of choice sets for any firm seeking a location, the tool supports two additional types of queries. Firstly, it supports the more generic problem of optimally allocating firms to a set of vacant locations. Secondly, the tool allows users to find firms which meet the characteristics of any given location. Moreover, as a GIS-based tool, its results can be visualized using GIS features which, in turn, facilitate several types of analyses.
Using a GIS-based, Hitchcock algorithm to optimize parking allocations for special events
Creators: name: Sarasua, Wayne A.
name: Malisetty, Prashant
name: Chowdhury, Mashrur
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Clemson, a small college town in South Carolina, deals with a massive over-saturation of its transportation system during special events, especially during home football games, resulting in total system failure. This research has developed a methodology to optimize parking, using a Geographic Information System (GIS)-based transshipment algorithm, and it has produced great time savings compared with the individual, “manual” efforts of thousands of drivers attempting to find spaces where available. As such, this research constitutes an effective implementation of the Hitchcock Transportation Algorithm for solving a transshipment problem applied to parking lot distribution. Because the Hitchcock Algorithm considers the network cost for distributions, it gives very realistic solutions, and so a system equilibrium that minimizes overall system delay has been achieved through optimal parking assignment combined with pre- and post-game traffic control strategies. This has been validated using a simulation model that was developed for evaluating the strategies.
Remote sensing of land cover’s effect on surface temperatures : a case study of the urban heat island in Bangalore, India
Creators: name: Ambinakudige, Shrinidhi
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Urbanization has substantially altered the earth’s surface, and cities’ impervious surfaces for anthropogenic activities often generate an urban heat island (UHI). This paper analyses the effects of the UHI in Bangalore, which in recent years has witnessed tremendous in-migration of people and expansion of infrastructure due to rapid growth of its information technology, biotechnology and manufacturing sectors. Temperature values extracted from the Landsat satellite’s Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) thermal bands and a “Normalized Difference Vegetation Index” (NDVI) were used to ascertain the relationship between vegetation cover and temperature. Results indicate that the city core has a significantly lower mean temperature than the city’s outgrowth zones. The presence of water bodies and vegetation in the city’s core helped to maintain lower temperatures than those found in the city’s outskirts, even though within the city core temperatures varied from 1 to 7° C within different land cover classes. The continued expansion of urban infrastructure and new, residential neighborhoods which lack vegetation seem to be contributing substantially to higher temperatures in the outgrowth zones.
Matlab scripts
Creators: name: Jiajie Xiao
name: Salsbury, Freddie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 80110 Simulation and Modelling
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A Matlab script to perform principal component analysis on molecular dynamics trajectories and construct free energy surfaces using predominant principal components.
An optimisation model for spatially allocating commodity production and forecasting its impact on regional productivity
Creators: name: Wyatt, Ray
name: Benke, Kurt
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The prototype Spatial Optimizer 1.0 program for allocation of commodity production is demonstrated to show its potential as a decision support aid for policy making. The case study involves a set of agricultural commodities in south eastern Australia and the program uses estimates of each grid cell’s soil suitability for each of the eight crops, both in the year 2000 and in the year 2050, by which time soil characteristics are expected to have been affected by environmental change. We first predict how much total regional production will result from a judicious re-location of commodity types, both under conditions of complete flexibility and when constrained by more realistic, upper and lower limits on production, and we compare such predictions with current production levels. We also estimate potential total regional revenue, both in the short term when current prices are assumed to remain static and in the long term when prices are assumed to change according to how much of each commodity is produced compared to its current output level, and we compare these results with current agricultural revenue. Our long-term estimates are based on year 2000 soil-suitability values and then on year 2050 soil-suitability values in order to gauge the probable impacts of environmental change. Finally, we run the 2050 simulation twice more, with one of the recommended, dominant crops removed in each instance. This generates maps of some localised concentrations of other commodities that will become necessary in the future if maximum revenue is to be retained after one of the more lucrative crops is discontinued.
Living near high-voltage power lines: GIS-based modeling of the risk in Nigeria’s Benin region
Creators: name: Nkeki, Felix Ndidi
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper demonstrates the capabilities of Geographic Information System (GIS) methods for identifying populations which are both exposed to Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs) and at risk of electrocution because they live within the zone of potential risk around power lines in the Benin region GIS buffering, overlay and address geo-coding were used to generate a database consisting of both spatial and non-spatial information from which it was possible to holistically visualize the areal extent of population at risk. Potential risk areas were classified into zones of double risk and single risk, and of the approximately 20 per cent of the built-up area that was shown to be exposed to electromagnetic radiation, double-risk zones accounted for 51 per cent of this and single-risk zones 49 per cent. Also, the majority of exposed zones were found to be in high-density, residential areas located in the periphery of the region. It is evident that our GIS-assisted database will enhance future epidemiologic research and serve as a framework for effective decision making.
Assessment of the use of Statistical Soft Ware in Data Analysis by Post Graduate Students in University of Calabar.pdf
Creators: name: Bichene, Carol  Ebuta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 399999
subject: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The post graduate programme is research based, and most researches require the use of statistical soft wares in data analysis cannot be overemphasized. The process of research is not complete without the analysis of data. Therefore, this study is designed to appraise students' ability to apply computer based softwares for data analysis in their project/thesis in University of Calabar...
Layout (Full-text) Jurnal Bereputasi - Penyusunan Template Artikel
Creators: name: Suyanto, Helmi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Materi tentang Layout (Full-text) Jurnal Bereputasi - Penyusunan Template Artikel ini di sampaikan pada acara Workshop literasi jurnal RJI Yogyakarta
Arts and Gaming, Convergent Feminism and Speculative Futures
Creators: name: Gouveia, Patrícia
name: Lima, Luciana
name: Sá, Cristina
Publisher: name: Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts
Year: 2024

description: For this Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts special edition, we called for research papers that reflected the theme of Arts and Games, Convergent Feminism and Speculative Futures. We were interested in exploring and experimenting with the intricate relationships and coalitions between the arts, convergent feminism and digital and analog technologies, bringing together codes and algorithms, creativity and community involvement. This invitation sparked the interest of some authors with diverse points of view and diverse arts-based research. This special edition presents articles that are likely to pick the interest of a wide audience which questions the role of artificial intelligence in the arts and seeks examples of art-based research that takes advantage of transmedia ecologies and gaming to generate sustainable futures.
description: Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts, v. 15 n. 2 (2023): Arts and Gaming, Convergent Feminism and Speculative Futures
PRINCIPALS ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF SECONDARY SCHOOL IN NSUKKA EDUCATION ZONE OF ENUGU STATE NIGERIA
Creators: name: Ugwu, Jude Okwudili
name: Tambe, Micheline Taku-mbi
Publisher: name: SADI Journal
Year: 2025
Subjects: Principals, Administrative functions, Achievements, Secondary school

description: This study examined principals’ administrative functions and achievements of secondary school in Nsukka education zone of Enugu state Nigeria. The objectives of the study were to: find out the administrative achievements of male and female principals in their administrative roles basing on their management styles and determine the administrative constraints of principals of urban and rural secondary schools. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design and was carried out in Nsukka Education Zone. It made use of questionnaires as the instrument for data collection. Mean and standard deviation were used to analyse the research questions while t – test statistics was used to test the two null- hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The researcher discovered that the major findings are that there is gender difference in establishing discipline between male and female principals in favour of male principals; and that school location has no significant influence on administration constraints of principals in Nsukka Education zone. It was concluded that male principals do better in the area of discipline than their female counterparts and that principals of both urban and rural secondary schools in Nsukka Education Zone are constrained with finance, structure/facilities and indiscipline, thereby hindering their effective managerial abilities. It was recommended among other things that the Community or the Government should build quarters to house principals and teachers coming from outside the community in which the school is located.
Collaborative web mapping and volunteered geographic information: a study in Nigeria
Creators: name: Bello, Innocent E.
name: Ojigi, Lazarus M.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper evaluates developments in mapping - from traditional, desktop cartography through to Collaborative Web Mapping (CWM), and it uses an experimental example from a developing country, Nigeria. We examine the status and limitations of CWM as a viable tool that freely contributes towards using globally assessed and free Web Mapping Platforms (WMPs) such as Google Maps, Google Earth, OpenStreetMap, Bing Maps and Yahoo! Maps. Here we use Google Map Maker Web 2.0 to conduct an experimental mapping analysis using 50 volunteered staff drawn from different departments of the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) and the Centre for Satellite Technology Development (CSTD) in Abuja, Nigeria. We find that Geographic Information (GI) experts are faster at data integration, while the reverse is the case for non-GI experts due to limited knowledge of geo-spatial data management. We then describe how Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) revealed that all participants are willing to optimistically contribute towards a global map by using a free web mapping medium. Finally, we explain that limitations to the advancement of integrating Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in most developing countries like Nigeria include poor knowledge of geo-spatial data and analytical methods, unstable electric power supply, slow but high-cost Internet facilities, inadequate computer systems and lack of personal volunteerism.
The Role of Culture in Dubbing Television Advertisements into Arabic: The Case of Chocolate Commercials
Creators: name: Al Haroon, Ameena
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: This study aims to explore the transcreation of TV advertisements that were dubbed from English into Arabic. It specifically looked at how the pragmatic concept of presupposition in translation studies guides the micro-translation strategies of cultural themes. I predefined these cultural themes as methods of persuasion, stereotypes, and humor. The multidisciplinarity of the topic allowed the study to employ two theories from psychology—Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs (1943)—and social psychology—Geert Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions Theory (1984)—in the analysis. Within each predefined cultural theme, I identified cultural sub-themes that were influenced by those two theories. The results of the analysis showed two outcomes. First, the micro-translation strategies of those themes were not exclusive to either Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or vernacular dialect in the Arabic language. Second, the results showed that micro-translation strategies are used concurrently across each of the identified cultural sub-themes.
PRINCIPALS ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF SECONDARY SCHOOL IN NSUKKA EDUCATION ZONE OF ENUGU STATE NIGERIA
Creators: name: Ugwu, Jude Okwudili
Publisher: name: SADI Journal
Year: 2025
Subjects: Principals, Administrative functions, Achievements, Secondary school

description: This study examined principals’ administrative functions and achievements of secondary school in Nsukka education zone of Enugu state Nigeria. The objectives of the study were to: find out the administrative achievements of male and female principals in their administrative roles basing on their management styles and determine the administrative constraints of principals of urban and rural secondary schools. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design and was carried out in Nsukka Education Zone. It made use of questionnaires as the instrument for data collection. Mean and standard deviation were used to analyse the research questions while t – test statistics was used to test the two null- hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The researcher discovered that the major findings are that there is gender difference in establishing discipline between male and female principals in favour of male principals; and that school location has no significant influence on administration constraints of principals in Nsukka Education zone. It was concluded that male principals do better in the area of discipline than their female counterparts and that principals of both urban and rural secondary schools in Nsukka Education Zone are constrained with finance, structure/facilities and indiscipline, thereby hindering their effective managerial abilities. It was recommended among other things that the Community or the Government should build quarters to house principals and teachers coming from outside the community in which the school is located.
Review: Playing at a Distance - Borderlands of Videogame Aesthetic
Creators: name: Vieira, Catarina Matos
Publisher: name: Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts
Year: 2024

description: Sonia Fizek's Playing at Distance: Borderlands of Video Game Aesthetic navigates the intricate intersection of digital technology, aesthetics, and play in the context of video games, challenging conventional ideas of player agency. This critical recension delves into the book's contributions, highlighting its innovative exploration of mediated distance, interactivity, delegation, automation, ambience, spectacle, and the evolving nature of player engagement. While acknowledging its theoretical depth, this review emphasizes the book's significance in reshaping our understanding of video game aesthetics and the complex relationship between humans, machines, and digital play.
description: Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts, v. 15 n. 2 (2023): Arts and Gaming, Convergent Feminism and Speculative Futures
Desiring the ‘Peaceable Kingdom’? : Use/respect dualism, the enigma of predation and human relationships to other animals
Creators: name: Elvey, Anne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Elvey, A. Desiring the ‘Peaceable Kingdom’? : Use/respect dualism, the enigma of predation and human relationships to other animals. PAN : philosophy activism nature. 2005; 3, 33-43.
The Impact of Big Data Analytics and Design Thinking on the Innovation Process within the Context of Large Organisations.pdf
Creators: name: Vikesh Gosai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 150308 International Business
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: 150304 Entrepreneurship

description: The focus of this dissertation is upon the way in which big data analytics (BDA) and design thinking (DT) can improve the innovation process in large organisations, leading to breakthrough innovations. The context of the study focuses and analyses on how the two subjects can be implemented and combined within the innovation process. To supplement this objective the research combines a study of relevant literature alongside that of primary research that has been carried out in the form of semi-structured interviews (of individuals in large organisations of individuals from a consulting and software background). The study highlights the movement of the phenomena of the BDA and DT methodologies. The writer will argue that although fundamentally different, the phenomena can complement one another within the scope of innovation. From an analysis of the primary research, the study unearths the key themes of: having an open and exploratory culture, the importance of the end users on the innovation process and having SMEs within the organisations as they can help facilitate innovation. This alongside the use of BDA and DT creates a strong platform for great innovations to occur. The writer develops this, gaining inspiration from Devlin’s (2013:332) iSight model on the innovation process and recommends an adaptation of this model in Chapter 5, comprehending the insights gained from the research. Barriers to this model are discussed with the writer proposing two new models; one targeted towards firm in the consulting industry who require a quick innovation process due to them charging clients based on time and materials; with the other targeted at firms in the software industry who are not hampered by this constraint. The focus on these two industries resulted from the writer only managing to interview individuals from these industries, as such the recommendations and models logically arose from the primary research. The research then highlights recommendations for both employees and managers in driving the use of DT and BDA within their strategic drive for innovation. Finally, attention is called to a number of key areas for future exploration and research.
Beyond Non-Linearity: Tracing 'Pulp Fiction'’s Structure and Meaning
Creators: name: Pereira, Ana Sofia
Publisher: name: Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts
Year: 2024

description: This article, inspired by Taborda-Hernández’s audiovisual essay, examines Pulp Fiction’s non-linear narrative and its role in the story that is told. Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 masterpiece transformed cinematic storytelling by deviating from traditional narrative structures. Tarantino’s non-linear approach mirrors the deliberate fragmentation seen in postmodern literature, eliciting diverse audience interpretations. Taborda-Hernández’s audiovisual essay delves into Tarantino’s departure from linear storytelling, introducing an experimental linear perspective that prompts inquiries into the story’s efficacy in both linear and non-linear frameworks. This exploration highlights the complex interplay between narrative, characters, and the film’s non-linear structure. Thematic depth within non-linear storytelling enriches the viewing experience prompting reflection on the complex interweaving of human existence and morality, echoing Pulp Fiction’s multi-layered structure. This article contends that the film not only promoted but successfully achieved a continuous dialogue between the audience and the filmmaker, catalyzed by the film’s use of a non-linear structure and its consequential effects.
description: Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts, v. 15 n. 2 (2023): Arts and Gaming, Convergent Feminism and Speculative Futures
A note on quantum algorithms for the short Principal Ideal Problem
Creators: name: Jean-Francois Biasse
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 10101 Algebra and Number Theory
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this note, we describe a quantum polynomial time attack on the cryptosystems
based on the hardness of finding a short generator of an ideal in a number field (short-PIP).
Recently, the security of the cryptosystems relying on the hardness the short-PIP in Q(ζ 2 n ) (such
as the multilinear maps of Garg, Gentry and Halevi [6]) was challenged by a clever obervation due
to Campbel, Groves and Shepherd [3] who noticed that finding a short generator of a principal
ideal reduces to finding any generator of the ideal. This statement was rigorously proved by
Cramer, Ducas, Peikert and Regev [4].
This recent work means that the security of the cryptographic schemes rely on the so-called
Principal Ideal Problem (finding a generator of an ideal). The draft of Campbel, Groves and
Shepherd described an a quamtum attack on the PIP, and conjectured that it ran in polynomial
tim. This conjecture was later retracted by R. Pinch [11] in a talk on behalf of Campbel, Groves
and Shepherd at the ICERM workshop on the mathematics of lattices and cybersecurity. In this
note, we show the main obstructions to a polynomial run time of the algorithm of Campbel,
Groves and Shepherd, and we put this work into perspective with respect to the current state of
the art of quantum computing.
Carnet nº 19, commencé à Canton (p. 34)
Creators: name: Péraire, Lucien
name: CNRS
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023

description: created: 16-17-18-2-1931
title: Avant-propos_Le Trafic d'amateur sur ondes courtes
Creators: name: AmateurS
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Avant-propos
description: ID_PARA_00822
Review: From Reproducing to Passing On - Publishing as Part of a Critical Spatial Practice
Creators: name: Körschkes, Torben
Publisher: name: Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts
Year: 2024

description: Making Futures (Specor Books, 2021) presents a critical, experimental and collective architectural practice that focuses on a project of the same name that took place between 2018 and 2021. Beyond the strong content contributions, the publication is an attempt to find an adequate publication format for this contemporary architectural practice, i.e. to not only question the norms and standards of the editor’s own disciplines, but also of bookmaking and project documentation. In my review, I attempt to address the difficulties of such an endeavor in general and the specific approach of the Making Futures publication.
description: Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts, v. 15 n. 2 (2023): Arts and Gaming, Convergent Feminism and Speculative Futures