cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Living Safely with Bats
Creators: name: Francisco, Leilani
name: Sullivan, Ava
name: Goley, Jonathan
name: Martinez, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: PREDICT-2 is part of USAID’s Emerging Pandemic Threats (EPT) program and aims to strengthen global capacity for the detection, discovery, and prevention of viruses with pandemic potential, specifically those that can move between animals and people (zoonotic viruses). Implementing partners for PREDICT-2 are the University of California, Davis; EcoHealth Alliance; Metabiota; Smithsonian Institution; Wildlife Conservation Society; and, the partner institutions and governments of the 35 countries in which we have worked. A goal of the behavioral risk component of PREDICT-2 is to use scientific results to inform the development of intervention strategies that could reduce the spillover, amplification, and spread of novel viruses. Preliminary analyses identified an expressed need to provide behavior change strategies as they relate to living safely with bats. The current resource was developed to address this need. A moderated picture book format was recommended by local leaders. Subject matter experts from the PREDICT-2 consortium developed an initial draft which was updated based on feedback from country teams and local community members. When the picture book is used in new settings, it is recommended that additional local level feedback be incorporated to tailor the content to the specific context. Moderation of the picture book is intended to be provided by a trusted community leader, and talking points are provided for each image that the storyteller can use to moderate the discussion. To facilitate this, the document should be printed out such that there is an image on one side with the talking points on the other side. The moderator can then hold up the images to show to the audience, and use the talking points on the back to guide the discussion.
description: This document was made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Emerging Pandemic Threats PREDICT program. The contents of this document are the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.
Predicting late dropout from nursing education or early dropout from the profession.
Creators: name: Kox, Jos
name: van der zwan, Joost
name: Groenewoud, Johanna H.
name: Runhaar, Jos
name: Zeinstra, SMA Bierma-
name: Bakker, Ellen
name: Miedema, Harald S
name: van der Beek, Allard
name: Boot, Cecile R.L.
name: Roelofs, Pepijn D. D. M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 399999
subject: Other education not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 420505
subject: Nursing workforce
classificationCode: 420599
subject: Nursing not elsewhere classified

description: Aim: To identify predictors of late academic or early career dropout, and derive a simple model for identifying nursing students and novice nurses with significant increased dropout risk. Background: Dropout from nursing school and the nursing profession is of great concern for students, educators, as well as graduated nurses. Nurse shortages are a major problemin healthcare worldwide (Drennan & Ross, 2019). Retention of nursing students and novice nurses can contribute to reducing the deficits (Smith-Wacholz et al., 2019). Little is known about the predictors of dropout among nursing students in the later years of their degree programme (late dropout) and early nurse dropout from the profession. Design: Prospective cohort study with three years of follow-up, among 406 third-year nursing students of the Bachelor of Nursing programme of Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. Methods: Data were collected between May 2016 and February 2019 using a self-administered questionnaire. Backward binary multiple logistic regression analyses were used to build a prediction model for dropout. Results: Dropout from nursing education and at the start of the nursing career totalled 12%. Twelve factors, including male sex (OR 3.76, 95% CI 1.41–10.04), age (OR 1.06, 95% CI 1.00–1.12), migration background (OR 2.42, 95% CI 1.10–5.32), clinical placement setting (including mental healthcare; OR 0.18, 95% CI 0.04–0.83), musculoskeletal symptoms (OR 1.20, 95% CI 1.02–1.42) and psychosocial work characteristics (including exposure to violence; OR 3.13, 95% CI 1.25–7.81) were statistically significant predictors in our dropout model. The explained variance of the final model was 26%. Conclusion: The study highlights the importance of taking musculoskeletal and mental health symptoms, psychosocial work characteristics, as well as sex, age and migration background into consideration as predictors for dropout among nursing students and novice nurses. This study is a first step towards a predictive model that helps identifying high-risk groups.
Air pollution and food prices: evidence from China
Creators: name: Sun, Feifei
name: Koemle, Dieter B.A.
name: Yu, Xiaohua
name: Sun, Feifei
name: Koemle, Dieter B.A.
name: Yu, Xiaohua
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: air pollution
subject: air quality index
subject: Beijing
subject: food price
subject: PM2.5

description: Air pollution is one of the top environmental concerns in China. On days with severe air pollution, people (both consumers and producers) often reduce outdoor economic activities in order to avoid possible health damages. This impacts the market trade of fresh food products, at least in a short run. This empirical study sheds light on the impact of air pollution on the short run prices of three major fresh food products (Chinese cabbage, tomatoes and pork) using daily data from the largest outdoor wholesale market in Beijing. With an increase in AQI (Air Quality Index) by 100 units, prices for Chinese cabbage and tomatoes decrease by 1.19 and 0.89 per cent. With an increase in PM2.5 concentration by 100 lg/m3, prices for Chinese cabbage and tomatoes decrease by 0.64 and 0.55 per cent. Air pollution aﬀects vegetable prices, but has no signiﬁcant impact on prices of pork products.
The visibility of Lymanemitters: constraining reionization, ionizing photon escape fractions and dust
Creators: name: Hutter, Anne
name: Dayal, P.
name: Partl, A. M.
name: Muller, V.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We build a physical model for high-redshift Lyman α emitters (LAEs) by coupling state-ofthe- art cosmological simulations (GADGET-2) with a dust model and a radiative transfer code (PCRASH).We post-process the cosmological simulation with PCRASH using five different values of the escape fraction of hydrogen ionizing photons (fesc = 0.05, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 0.95) until reionization is complete, i.e. the average neutral hydrogen fraction drops to (χHI) ≃ 10-4. Then, the only free parameter left to match model results to the observed Lyα and UV luminosity functions of LAEs at z≃6.6 is the relative escape of Lyman α (Lyα ) and continuum photons from the galactic environment (fα/fc).We find a three-dimensional degeneracy such that the theoretical model can be reconciled with observations for an intergalactic medium Lyα transmission (Tα)LAE ≃ 38-50 per cent (which translates to (χHI) ≃ 0.5-10-4 for Gaussian emission lines), fesc ≃ 0.05-0.50 and fα/fc ≃ 0.6-1.8.
Clustering and lifetime of lyman alpha emitters in the epoch of reionization
Creators: name: Hutter, Anne
name: Dayal, P.
name: Muller, V.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We calculate Lyman Alpha Emitter (LAE) angular correlation functions (ACFs) at z ≃ 6.6 and the fraction of lifetime (for the 100 Myr preceding z ≃ 6.6) galaxies spend as Lyman Break Galaxies (LBGs) or as LBGs with Lyman Alpha (Lyα) emission using a model that combines smoothed particle hydrodynamics cosmological simulations (GADGET-2), dust attenuation and a radiative transfer code (pCRASH). The ACFs are a powerful tool that significantly narrows the 3D parameter space allowed by LAE Lyα and UV luminosity functions (LFs) alone. With this work, we simultaneously constrain the escape fraction of ionizing photons fesc = 0.05-0.5, the mean fraction of neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium (IGM) 〈XHI〉≲ 0.01 and the dust-dependent ratio of the escape fractions of Lyα and UV continuum photons fα/fc = 0.6-1.2. Our results show that reionization has the largest impact on the amplitude of the ACFs, and its imprints are clearly distinguishable from those of fesc and fα/fc.We also show that galaxies with a critical stellar mass of M* = 108.5(109.5)M⊙ produce enough luminosity to stay visible as LBGs (LAEs). Finally, the fraction of time during the past 100 Myr prior to z = 6.6 a galaxy spends as an LBG or as an LBG with Lyα emission increases with the UV magnitude (and the stellar mass M*); considering observed (dust and IGM attenuated) luminosities, the fraction of time a galaxy spends as an LBG (LAE) increases from 65-100 per cent (≃ 0-100 per cent) as MUV decreases from MUV =-18.0 to -23.5 (M* increases from 108-1010.5M⊙). Thus in our model, the brightest (most massive) LBGs most often show Lyα emission.
Fast radio bursts: search sensitivities and completeness
Creators: name: Keane, Evan
name: Petroff, E.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper we identify some sub-optimal performance in algorithms that search for Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), which can reduce the cosmological volume probed by over 20%, and result in missed discoveries and incorrect flux density and sky rate determinations. Re-calculating parameters for all of the FRBs discovered with the Parkes telescope (i.e. all of the reported FRBs bar one), we find some inconsistencies with previously determined values, e.g. FRB 010125 was approximately twice as bright as previously reported. We describe some incompleteness factors not previously considered which are important in determining accurate population statistics, e.g. accounting for fluence incompleteness the Thornton et al. all-sky rate can be re-phrased as ~2500 FRBs per sky per day above a 1.4-GHz fluence of ~2 Jy ms. Finally we make data for the FRBs easily available, along with software to analyse these.
Carassius langsdorfii Temminck & Schlegel 1846
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Cyprinidae
Carassius
Carassius langsdorfii

description: 103. Carassius langsdorfii Temminck & Schlegel, 1846
Common name. Ginbuna
Taxonomy. Original description: Carassius langsdorfii Temminck & Schlegel, 1846: 192, pl. 98 (figs. 1, 1a-b) [Japan; Syntypes: (10 of the following) RMNH D1712 (1, stuffed), D1715-16 (1, 1) and D1718-19 (1, 1) all stuffed, 2369 (1), 2379 (10), 2387-88 (3, 1)].
Revisions. None.
Illustrations. None.
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Caspian Sea.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 434-Kura-South Caspian Drainages.
Status in Iran. [Exotic].—Kapor-e zard-noghrei.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: None.
Conservation. Not relevant (introduced species).
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on pages 37-38, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
Identifying the financial barriers to deliberative, affordable apartment development in Australia
Creators: name: Sharam, Andrea
name: Bryant, Lyndall Elaine
name: Alves, Thomas
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the financial barriers to the supply of affordable apartments in Australia and examine whether demand aggregation and 'deliberative development' (self-build) can form a new affordable housing 'structure of provision'. Design/methodology/approach Market design, an offshoot of game theory, is used to analyse the existing apartment development model, with 'deliberative development' proposed as an innovative alternative. Semi-structured interviews with residential development financiers are used to evaluate whether deliberative development could obtain the requisite development finance. Findings Our investigation into the financial barriers of a deliberative development model suggest that while there are hurdles, these can be addressed if key risks in the exchange process can be mitigated. Hence, affordability can be enhanced by 'deliberative development' replacing the existing speculative development model. Research limitations/implications Market design is a new innovative theoretical approach to understanding the supply of housing, offering practical solutions to affordable apartment supply in Australia. Originality/value This research identifies financial barriers to the supply of affordable apartments; introduces theoretical understandings gained from market design as an innovative solution; provides evidence that a new structure of building provision based on 'deliberative development' could become a key means of achieving more affordable and better designed apartments.
Green Aspect for Multicomponent Synthesis of Spiro[4H-indeno[1,2-b]pyridine-4,3′-[3H]indoles]
Creators: name: Nilam C. Dige
name: Dattaprasad M. Pore
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biochemistry

description: An efficient, four-component reaction of isatin, 1,3-indanedione, ethyl acetoacetate, and ammonium acetate in ethanol/water (9:1) system furnished spiro[4H-indeno[1,2-b]pyridine-4,3′-[3H]indoles] at room temperature. Merits of the method are mild reaction conditions, simple workup procedure, and ambient temperature. The synthesized compounds exhibit excellent fluorescence properties.
Evaluation of the mutagenicity of simple substituted quinoxalines in Salmonella typhimurium
Creators: name: Conti, Luigi
name: Crebelli, Riccardo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Limited information is available on the genotoxicity of simple quinoxalines, distinct from the food related carcinogenic derivatives bearing an aromatic amino group. Isolated positive results, with no apparent structure–activity relationships, were reported in earlier studies on alkyl substituted quinoxalines, raising a safety concern in some regulatory authorities in view of the potential human exposure related to their use as food flavors. In order to elucidate the genotoxic hazard posed by simple quinoxalines, in this work a random set of mono- and bi-substituted methyl, chloro- and hydroxyl- quinoxalines have been tested in an OECD-compliant bacterial reversion test (TG 471). The results obtained do not highlight any genotoxic potential in the set of quinoxalines examined, and suggest that this may be a common trait for other simple substituted quinoxalines. Earlier published positive findings were not confirmed in this work, which call for a cautious approach in the use of literature data for regulatory purpose.
TEMPORAL DIET AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY PATTERN ANALYSIS, UNSUPERVISED PERSON RE-IDENTIFICATION, AND PLANT PHENOTYPING
Creators: name: Guo, Jiaqi
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460304
subject: Computer vision
classificationCode: 460306
subject: Image processing
classificationCode: 460307
subject: Multimodal analysis and synthesis
classificationCode: 461104
subject: Neural networks
classificationCode: 461103
subject: Deep learning
classificationCode: 461106
subject: Semi- and unsupervised learning

description: Both diet and physical activity are known to be risk factors for obesity and chronic diseases such as diabetes and metabolic syndrome. We explore a distance-based approach for clustering daily physical activity time series to find temporal physical activity patterns among U.S. adults (ages 20-65). We further extend this approach to integrate both diet and physical activity, and find joint temporal diet and physical activity patterns. Our experiments indicate that the integration of diet, physical activity, and time has the potential to discover joint patterns with association to health. Unsupervised domain adaptive (UDA) person re-identification (re-ID) aims to learn identity information from labeled images in source domains and apply it to unlabeled images in a target domain. We propose a deep learning architecture called Synthesis Model Bank (SMB) to deal with illumination variation in unsupervised person re-ID. From our experiments, the proposed SMB outperforms other synthesis methods on several re-ID benchmarks. Recent technology advancement introduced modern high-throughput methodologies such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to replace the traditional, labor-intensive phenotyping. For many UAV phenotyping analysis, the first step is to extract the smallest groups of plants called “plots” that have the same genotype. We propose an optimization-based, rotation-adaptive approach for extracting plots in a UAV RGB orthomosaic image. From our experiments, the proposed method achieves better plot extraction accuracy compared to existing approaches, and does not require training data.
What Do You Mean by That?! An Electrophysiological Study of Emotional and Attitudinal Prosody
Creators: name: Wickens, Steven
name: Perry, Conrad
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 470499
subject: Linguistics not elsewhere classified

description: The use of prosody during verbal communication is pervasive in everyday language and whilst there is a wealth of research examining the prosodic processing of emotional information, much less is known about the prosodic processing of attitudinal information. The current study investigated the online neural processes underlying the prosodic processing of non-verbal emotional and attitudinal components of speech via the analysis of event-related brain potentials related to the processing of anger and sarcasm. To examine these, sentences with prosodic expectancy violations created by cross-splicing a prosodically neutral head ('he has') and a prosodically neutral, angry, or sarcastic ending (e.g., 'a serious face') were used. Task demands were also manipulated, with participants in one experiment performing prosodic classification and participants in another performing probe-verification. Overall, whilst minor differences were found across the tasks, the results suggest that angry and sarcastic prosodic expectancy violations follow a similar processing time-course underpinned by similar neural resources.
Cyprinion milesi
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Cyprinidae
Cyprinion
Cyprinion milesi

description: 107. Cyprinion milesi (Day, 1880)
Common name. Eastern lotak
Taxonomy. Original description: Barbus milesi Day, 1880 [Trál, Afghanistan; Syntypes: (2)?NMW 52736 (1)].
Revisions. None.
Illustrations. Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020: 65, fig. 111).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Makran.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 701-Baluchistan.
Status in Iran. [Native].—Lutak sharghi.—Listed by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).— Iran material: ZM-CBSU.
Conservation. —IUCN: NE.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
Branded Content Governance Project Newsletter Issue 3 (March 2024)
Creators: name: Hardy, Jonathan
name: MacRury, Iain
name: Kubicka, Hanna
name: Sanchez-Rebato Valiente, Clara
name: Núñez-Gómez, Patricia
Publisher: name: University of the Arts London
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 470101
subject: Communication studies
classificationCode: 470106
subject: Media industry studies
classificationCode: 470107
subject: Media studies
classificationCode: 350604
subject: Marketing communications
classificationCode: 480411
subject: Media and communication law
classificationCode: 480302
subject: Comparative law

description: This is the third issue of a quarterly newsletter for the Branded Content Governance Project (2022-2025).The newsletter reports on the activities of the Branded Content Governance Project (BCG) and includes other information we hope will be of interest to project participants and other readers.This issue reports on the work undertaken in the second year of the project (2023-24). The contents include:Welcome to Issue 3December 2023 symposium on branded content and childrenAI and branded content: practices, governance, reflectionsAI, branded content, and governance: a pause for thoughtFinalising our 32-country branded content reportDon’t make advertising the next sewage scandal: accountability and oversight in UK digital advertising regulationEvents programmeAbout the Branded Content Governance ProjectContact details
Workforce disincentive effects of housing allowances and public housing for low income households in Australia
Creators: name: Hulse, Kathleen
name: Randolph, Bill
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: There is emerging interest in whether, and how, different types of rental housing assistance contribute to disincentives to entering paid work or working more hours. Using Australia as an example, the article compares the theoretical effects of housing allowances and public housing in terms of work disincentives. It also reports on empirical research that examined how households perceive such disincentives and the degree to which they affect decision making about paid employment, based on a survey of 400 public and private renters searching for paid work in Sydney and Melbourne. The research found that most households understood how their rental housing assistance would change when moving into work, and that this had little effect on private renters in receipt of housing allowances but did affect a sizeable minority of public renters. Job seekers identified the main difficulties in getting a job as age discrimination by employers, lack of personal skills and self-confidence, and location of housing relative to jobs. This highlights the importance of assessing the locational outcomes for households of different types of rental housing assistance, including housing allowances.
A LoRa-based Energy-efficient Sensing System for Urban Data Collection
Creators: name: Schulthess, Lukas
name: Salzmann, Tiago
name: Vogt, Christian
name: Magno, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Nowadays, cities provide much more than shopping opportunities or working spaces. Individual locations such as parks and squares are used as meeting points and local recreation areas by many people. To ensure that they remain attractive in the future, the design of such squares must be regularly adapted to the needs of the public. These utilization trends can be derived using public data collection. The more diverse and rich the data sets are, the easier it is to optimize public space design through data analysis. Traditional data collection methods such as questionnaires, observations, or videos are either labor intensive or cannot guarantee to preserve the individual's privacy. This work presents a privacy-preserving, low-power, and low-cost smart sensing system that is capable of anonymously collecting data about public space utilization by analyzing the occupancy distribution of public seating. To support future urban planning the sensor nodes are capable of monitoring environmental noise, chair utilization, and their position, temperature, and humidity and provide them over a city-wide Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN). The final sensing system's robust operation is proven in a trial run at two public squares in a city with 16 sensor nodes over a duration of two months. By consuming 33.65 mWh per day with all subsystems enabled, including sitting detection based on a continuous acceleration measurement operating on a robust and simple threshold algorithm, the custom-designed sensor node achieves continuous monitoring during the 2-month trial run. The evaluation of the experimental results clearly shows how the two locations are used, which confirms the practicability of the proposed solution. All data collected during the field trial is publicly available as open data.
De-risking development of medium density housing to improve housing affordability and boost supply
Creators: name: Sharam, Andrea
name: Bryant, Lyndall
name: Alves, Thomas
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Housing price inflation is a national concern given the serious decline in the number of low- and middle-income households able to purchase housing. In addition housing supply lags well behind demand. In Melbourne, urban consolidation policies explicitly seek intensification to promote housing supply but planning regulation is often criticised for being a significant cost driver for medium density housing. It is assumed that easing supply constraints will improve affordability. We suggest that laissez-faire planning exacerbates affordability issues because this approach fails to address the basic economic problem: the current inability of the market to efficiently match supply and demand in order to progress an orderly and de-risked development process. The role of 'exchange' one of the four housing market sub-systems identified by Burke has until recently generally been ignored but our examination reveals significant economic transaction costs that manifest as development risks that impact on affordability. Fortunately these can be mitigated, but only if there is a more consumer-driven supply response.
Evolving splines and seasonal unit roots in weekly agricultural prices
Creators: name: Caceres-Hernandez, Jose Juan
name: Martın-Rodrıguez, Gloria
name: Caceres-Hernandez, Jose Juan
name: Martın-Rodrıguez, Gloria
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: agricultural prices
subject: banana
subject: splines
subject: unit roots
subject: weekly series

description: The univariate statistical properties of agricultural price series need to be examined as a ﬁrst step in the analysis of price transmission mechanisms. However, in the case of weekly price series, increasingly available, the testing procedures usually applied in this step are not suitable to deal with evolving seasonal eﬀects. In this study, a method of testing for seasonal unit roots in weekly series of agricultural prices is described. When the deterministic seasonal component does not remain constant over time, the restricted evolving spline model (RESM) is shown to be a useful parametric formulation to capture the deterministic seasonal pattern. Therefore, the RESM model should be included as a deterministic component in auxiliary regression for unit root tests at seasonal frequencies. This proposal is applied to three weekly series of Canary Islands banana prices. From the standard seasonal unit root tests, the null hypothesis is failed to be rejected at the 5% or 10% signiﬁcance level at some seasonal frequencies for each one of the series. Once critical values are obtained by simulation exercises when the RESM model is included, the hypotheses of unit root are rejected at each one of the seasonal frequencies for all of the three series.
Sequential SI-ATRP in μL-scale for surface nanoengineering: A new concept for designing polyelectrolyte nanolayers formed by complex architecture polymers
Creators: name: Flejszar, Monika
name: Ślusarczyk, Kinga
name: Hochół, Agata
name: Chmielarz, Paweł
name: Wytrwał, Magdalena
name: Wolski, Karol
name: Spilarewicz, Kaja
name: Awsiuk, Kamil
name: Raczkowska, Joanna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The data includes raw analysis data: gel permeation chromatography (GPC), nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) to determine monomer conversion and confirm the structure of the final products, and atomic force microscopy (AFM) to determine the morphology of the modified surface and thickness of polymer brushes on the modified surface.
IN03195 Gonnǟva Dēvāle Fragmentary Pillar Inscription
Creators: name: Paranavitana, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: IN03195
Epigraphia Zeylanica
Gonnǟva

description: IN03195 Gonnǟva Dēvāle Fragmentary Pillar Inscription - Transcript and Translation Source: Paranavitana, S. (1934–41). ‘No. 23. Inscription on a Pillar Fragment at the Gonnǟva Dēvāle,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 4, pp. 186–191.
Three-dimensional nanoconfinement of broadband optical energy in all-dielectric photonic nanostructure
Creators: name: Lin, Han
name: Zhang, Qiming
name: Gu, Min
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We demonstrate the confinement of broadband optical energy in the visible to near-infrared regime in a three-dimensional nanoscale volume with high energy efficiency in a nanostructure consisting of multiple nanoslits in dielectric chacolgenide material. We find that a broadband optical field can be confined down to the scale of 1 nm (λ∕650) with a confinement volume of λ3∕3×104. The figure of merit of the nanostructure can be up to 10 times that achieved by plasmonic lensing and nanofocusing. Our work opens a new way for truly nanoscaled photonics applicable to nanolithograpy, nanoimaging, lab-on-chip nanosensing, single-molecule detection, and nanospectroscopy.
Comparison of antiplatelet effect and safety of clopidogrel napadisilate with clopidogrel bisulfate in stroke patients: multicenter, randomized, open-label, phase 4, non-inferiority clinical trial
Creators: name: Kyusik Kang
name: Se-Jin Lee
name: Kim, Hee-Jin
name: Koh, Seong-Ho
name: Kim, Byung Kun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience

description: Objective:Clopidogrel napadisilate has better chemical stability than clopidogrel bisulfate. Our trial’s objective was to compare the efficacy and safety of clopidogrel napadisilate with clopidogrel bisulfate in participants with ischemic stroke.Research design and methods:The study was a phase 4, 4 week, randomized, parallel-group, non-inferiority trial. Patients with ischemic stroke were randomized to receive either clopidogrel napadisilate 75 mg or clopidogrel bisulfate 75 mg. The primary study endpoint was change from baseline in P2Y12 percentage inhibition at week 4. The primary analysis was conducted in the per-protocol population. Non-inferiority was confirmed if the lower limit of the 95% confidence interval (CI) of the treatment difference was greater than or equal to −9.0% points.Results:Sixty-one participants were randomly assigned clopidogrel napadisilate and 60 were randomly assigned clopidogrel bisulfate. Thirty-nine participants in the clopidogrel napadisilate group and 39 in the clopidogrel bisulfate group were analyzed for the primary endpoint. At 4 weeks, mean P2Y12 percentage inhibition had increased in both treatment groups. The estimated mean change from baseline was 22.3% with clopidogrel napadisilate and 21.4% with clopidogrel bisulfate; the estimated treatment difference of 0.9% (95% CI, −8.6 to 10.4) confirmed the non-inferiority of clopidogrel napadisilate to clopidogrel bisulfate.Conclusions:Clopidogrel napadisilate was non-inferior to clopidogrel bisulfate as assessed by change in P2Y12 percentage inhibition. Rates of adverse events were similar between the two groups. Therefore, clopidogrel napadisilate is a useful alternative option for the dosing of ischemic stroke patient populations.
Evaluation of the mutagenicity of simple substituted quinoxalines in Salmonella typhimurium
Creators: name: Conti, Luigi
name: Crebelli, Riccardo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Limited information is available on the genotoxicity of simple quinoxalines, distinct from the food related carcinogenic derivatives bearing an aromatic amino group. Isolated positive results, with no apparent structure–activity relationships, were reported in earlier studies on alkyl substituted quinoxalines, raising a safety concern in some regulatory authorities in view of the potential human exposure related to their use as food flavors. In order to elucidate the genotoxic hazard posed by simple quinoxalines, in this work a random set of mono- and bi-substituted methyl, chloro- and hydroxyl- quinoxalines have been tested in an OECD-compliant bacterial reversion test (TG 471). The results obtained do not highlight any genotoxic potential in the set of quinoxalines examined, and suggest that this may be a common trait for other simple substituted quinoxalines. Earlier published positive findings were not confirmed in this work, which call for a cautious approach in the use of literature data for regulatory purpose.
Admission hypomagnesemia and hypermagnesemia increase the risk of acute kidney injury
Creators: name: Wisit Cheungpasitporn
name: Charat Thongprayoon
name: Erickson, Stephen B.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Microbiology

description: Background: The association between admission serum magnesium (Mg) levels and risk of in-hospital acute kidney injury (AKI) is limited. The aim of this study was to assess the risk of developing AKI in all hospitalized patients with various admission Mg levels. Methods: This is a single-center retrospective study conducted at a tertiary referral hospital. All hospitalized adult patients who had admission Mg available from January to December 2013 were analyzed in this study. Admission Mg was categorized based on its distribution into six groups (less than 1.5, 1.5–1.7, 1.7–1.9, 1.9–2.1, 2.1–2.3 and greater than 2.3 mg/dL). The primary outcome was in-hospital AKI occurring after hospital admission. Logistic regression analysis was performed to obtain the odds ratio of AKI of various admission Mg levels using Mg with lowest AKI incidence (1.9–2.1 mg/dL) as the reference group. Results: Of 9241 patients enrolled, AKI occurred in 1124 patients (12.2%). The lowest incidence of AKI was when serum Mg was within 1.7–1.9 and 1.9–2.1 mg/dL. A U-shaped curve emerged demonstrating higher incidences of AKI associated with both hypoMg (<1.7) and hyperMg (>2.1). After adjusting for potential confounders, both hypoMg (<1.5 mg/dL) and hyperMg (>2.3 mg/dL) were associated with an increased risk of developing AKI with odds ratios of 1.70 (95% CI 1.31–2.18) and 1.42 (95% CI 1.11–1.81), respectively. Conclusion: Both admission hypoMg and hyperMg were associated with an increased risk for in-hospital AKI.
Proton pump inhibitors linked to hypomagnesemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies
Creators: name: Wisit Cheungpasitporn
name: Charat Thongprayoon
name: Patompong Ungprasert
name: Erickson, Stephen B.
name: Wonngarm Kittanamongkolchai
name: Narat Srivali
name: Edmonds, Peter J.
name: O'Corragain, Oisin A.
name: Korpaisarn, Sira
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Background: The reported risk of hypomagnesemia in patients with proton pump inhibitor (PPI) use is conflicting. The objective of this meta-analysis was to assess the association between the use of PPIs and the risk of hypomagnesemia. Methods: A literature search of observational studies was performed using MEDLINE, EMBASE and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews from inception through September 2014. Studies that reported odd ratios or hazard ratios comparing the risk of hypomagnesemia in patients with PPI use were included. Pooled risk ratios (RRs) and 95% confidence interval (CI) were calculated using a random-effect, generic inverse variance method. Results: Nine observational studies (three cohort studies, five cross-sectional studies and a case-control study) with a total of 109,798 patients were identified and included in the data analysis. The pooled RR of hypomagnesemia in patients with PPI use was 1.43 (95% CI, 1.08–1.88). The association between the use of PPIs and hypomagnesemia remained significant after the sensitivity analysis including only studies with high quality score (Newcastle–Ottawa scale score ≥ 8) with a pooled RR of 1.63 (95% CI, 1.14–2.23). Conclusions: Our study demonstrates a statistically significant increased risk of hypomagnesemia in patients with PPI use. The finding of this meta-analysis of observational studies suggests that PPI use is associated with hypomagnesemia and may impact clinical management of patients who are taking PPIs and at risk for hypomagnesemia related cardiovascular events.
Identification of the appropriate dose metric for pulmonary inflammation of silver nanoparticles in an inhalation toxicity study
Creators: name: Braakhuis, Hedwig M.
name: Cassee, Flemming R.
name: Fokkens, Paul H.B.
name: Fonteyne, Liset J.J. De La
name: Oomen, Agnes G.
name: Krystek, Petra
name: Jong, Wim H. De
name: Loveren, Henk Van
name: Park, Margriet V.D.Z.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology

description: A number of studies have shown that induction of pulmonary toxicity by nanoparticles of the same chemical composition depends on particle size, which is likely in part due to differences in lung deposition. Particle size mostly determines whether nanoparticles reach the alveoli, and where they might induce toxicity. For the risk assessment of nanomaterials, there is need for a suitable dose metric that accounts for differences in effects between different sized nanoparticles of the same chemical composition. The aim of the present study is to determine the most suitable dose metric to describe the effects of silver nanoparticles after short-term inhalation. Rats were exposed to different concentrations (ranging from 41 to 1105 µg silver/m3 air) of 18, 34, 60 and 160 nm silver particles for four consecutive days and sacrificed at 24 h and 7 days after exposure. We observed a concentration-dependent increase in pulmonary toxicity parameters like cell counts and pro-inflammatory cytokines in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid. All results were analysed using the measured exposure concentrations in air, the measured internal dose in the lung and the estimated alveolar dose. In addition, we analysed the results based on mass, particle number and particle surface area. Our study indicates that using the particle surface area as a dose metric in the alveoli, the dose–response effects of the different silver particle sizes overlap for most pulmonary toxicity parameters. We conclude that the alveolar dose expressed as particle surface area is the most suitable dose metric to describe the toxicity of silver nanoparticles after inhalation.
Identification of the appropriate dose metric for pulmonary inflammation of silver nanoparticles in an inhalation toxicity study
Creators: name: Braakhuis, Hedwig M.
name: Cassee, Flemming R.
name: Fokkens, Paul H.B.
name: Fonteyne, Liset J.J. De La
name: Oomen, Agnes G.
name: Krystek, Petra
name: Jong, Wim H. De
name: Loveren, Henk Van
name: Park, Margriet V.D.Z.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology

description: A number of studies have shown that induction of pulmonary toxicity by nanoparticles of the same chemical composition depends on particle size, which is likely in part due to differences in lung deposition. Particle size mostly determines whether nanoparticles reach the alveoli, and where they might induce toxicity. For the risk assessment of nanomaterials, there is need for a suitable dose metric that accounts for differences in effects between different sized nanoparticles of the same chemical composition. The aim of the present study is to determine the most suitable dose metric to describe the effects of silver nanoparticles after short-term inhalation. Rats were exposed to different concentrations (ranging from 41 to 1105 µg silver/m3 air) of 18, 34, 60 and 160 nm silver particles for four consecutive days and sacrificed at 24 h and 7 days after exposure. We observed a concentration-dependent increase in pulmonary toxicity parameters like cell counts and pro-inflammatory cytokines in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid. All results were analysed using the measured exposure concentrations in air, the measured internal dose in the lung and the estimated alveolar dose. In addition, we analysed the results based on mass, particle number and particle surface area. Our study indicates that using the particle surface area as a dose metric in the alveoli, the dose–response effects of the different silver particle sizes overlap for most pulmonary toxicity parameters. We conclude that the alveolar dose expressed as particle surface area is the most suitable dose metric to describe the toxicity of silver nanoparticles after inhalation.
Coupled-pair approach for strongly interacting trapped fermionic atoms
Creators: name: Bradly, C. J.
name: Mulkerin, Brendan
name: Martin, A. M.
name: Quiney, H. M.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present a coupled-pair approach for studying few-body physics in harmonically trapped ultracold gases. The method is applied to a two-component Fermi system of N particles. A stochastically variational Gaussian expansion method is applied, focusing on optimization of the two-body correlations present in the strongly interacting, or unitary, limit. The ground-state energy of the four-, six- and eight-body problem with equal spin populations is calculated with high accuracy and minimal computational effort. We also calculate the structural properties of these systems and discuss their implication for the many-body ultracold gas and other few-body calculations.
Factors Associated with Awareness, Attitudes and Practices Regarding Common Eye Diseases in the General Population in a Rural District in Bangladesh: The Bangladesh Population-based Diabetes and Eye Study (BPDES)
Creators: name: Islam, Amirul
name: Chakrabarti, Rahul
name: Islam, Silvia Z.
name: Finger, Robert P.
name: Critchley, Christine
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Background: To assess the awareness, attitudes, and practices associated with common eye diseases and eye care utilization in a rural district of Bangladesh. Methods: Data were collected using a multilevel cluster random sampling technique from 3104 adults aged 30 years from the Banshgram union with a questionnaire assessing the awareness, attitudes and practice about diabetes and common eye diseases, educational attainment, socio-economic status, and medical history. Results: Participants were aged between 30 and 89 years with a mean (SD) age of 51 (12) years and 65% were female. The majority of participants had heard of cataracts (90%), trachoma (86%) and Pterygium (84%), yet only 4% had heard of diabetic retinopathy (DR), 7% of glaucoma and 8% of Age-related macular degeneration (AMD). However, 58% of participants did not know vision loss could be prevented. Factors associated with lower awareness regarding common eye diseases were increasing age, lack of formal schooling, and lower socio-economic status. A lower proportion (57%) of people with no schooling compared to those who had attained at least secondary school certificate education (72%) reported that they knew that vision loss could be prevented (p<0.001). Overall 51% of people had heard of at least six (67%) out of nine items relating to awareness of common eye diseases. This included 41% of participants aged 65 years or older compared to 61% of those aged 30–35 years (p<0.001). Only 4% had an eye check at least once a year and higher education and better SES were associated with higher frequency of eye checks. Conclusions: In rural Bangladesh awareness of cataract, trachoma and pterygium was good but limited in relation to the potentially blinding conditions of glaucoma, DR, and AMD. The results show a large gap between public awareness and treatment practices about common eye diseases. Public health promotion should be designed to address these knowledge gaps.
Challenges in light metals production
Creators: name: Brooks, Geoffrey
name: Cooksey, M.
name: Wellwood, G.
name: Goodes, C.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Light metals have great potential for application in the automotive and aerospace industries because of their excellent physical properties. The usage of aluminium, titanium and magnesium is limited by relatively high costs of production, associated energy costs and large ecological footprint. In the case of aluminium, significant improvement to the Hall-Heroult process is still achievable through advances in cell design, materials and process control. Alternative production processes, including carbothermic reduction and low temperature routes are also possible. Magnesium and titanium production are currently dominated by batch metallothermic processes and new process routes are required to develop these industries. Research at CSIRO, through the Light Metals Flagship, is currently focused on step change improvements in the production of light metals, aiming at lowering energy usage, increasing productivity and reducing the overall environmental impact. In the present paper, the overall status of the existing technologies will be described, highlighting areas that are being developed around the world and at CSIRO.