cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Scalable and versatile container-based pipelines for de novo genome assembly and bacterial annotation (Sup. Material)
Creators: name: Felipe Marques de Almeida
name: Georgios Joannis Pappas Jr.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: bacteria
genomics
nextflow
bacannot
mpgap
ngs-preprocess
paper
supplementary material

description: This project holds the Supplementary Material related to the paper: "Scalable and versatile container-based pipelines for de novo genome assembly and bacterial annotation". It contains the scripts required to reproduce the paper results, from input files to a copy of the bacterial genome annotation results presented therein.

 

Note: Updated version of ngs-preprocess in script. To run with 'DNBSEQ' data directly from SRA instead of with pre-downloaded ones, it requires version v2.7.1 of pipeline. The paper results were performed with pre-downloaded ones.
Intelligent Operator Support for Shore Control Centers
Creators: name: Van Den Broek, Hans
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Ports and Skills Erasmus+ European Program aims to exchange best practices among workers in participating port communities in four countries. The objective of the project is to define the basis for a European training plan in ports that, while respecting the individual national regulations, identifies common applicable elements throughout the EU. The project focuses on the exchange of best practices on continuous training for the development of innovative professional skills on the following topics: 1. New port skills: training systems to update the skills of the workers in the perspective of
 the increasing automation of production (flows, machines, plants) and digitalization of the
 port terminals processes. Optimization and sharing of plans for continuous training. Retraining
 themes: Digitization and Automation. 2. Port government bodies, entrepreneurs and managers in project partner
 countries: exchange of best practices from application of the European law on the guidance
 and management of ports to the organization of port in relation to the new international
 scenario and also due to new European legislation on privacy and Covid19. 3. Port system organization:
 • Environmental sustainability of the ports;
 • Ports integration in the urban area;
 • Energy from renewable sources in port areas;
 • Safety and security: best practices to involve companies and organizations together on
 cross-cutting issues in the port system. 4. Transversal topics – Training, methodologies and competences for future port
 profession
 • Methodologies for Reskilling and Upskilling of Port and Terminal personnel
 • Common framework certification
 • Recognition of Competences in EU In the context of the project, a seminar on Digitalization and Automation in Ports and port education was conducted on Thursday 2nd June 2022, in Rotterdam.
Genomic prediction and genetic parameter estimation for unsaturated and saturated fatty acids in Canadian dairy cattle
Creators: name: KIZILKAYA, KADIR
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 300305
subject: Animal reproduction and breeding
classificationCode: 300303
subject: Animal nutrition
classificationCode: 300603
subject: Food nutritional balance

description: Genomic prediction and genetic parameter estimation for unsaturated and saturated fatty acids in Canadian dairy cattleS. O. Peters1,5*, K. Kizilkaya2, E. M. Ibeagha-Awemu3, and X. Zhao4*1Department of Animal Science, Berry College, Mount Berry, GA 30149 USA.2Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Aydin Adnan Menderes University, Aydin, 09100, Türkiye.3Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Sherbrooke Research and Development Centre, 2000 Rue College, Sherbrooke, QC, J1M 0C8 Canada.4Department of Animal Science, McGill University, 21,111 Lakeshore Road, Ste-Anne-De-Bellevue, QC, H9S 3V9 Canada.5Department of Animal and Dairy Science, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America.* Corresponding authors: speters@berry.edu and xin.zhao@mcgill.caThe current study aimed to obtain the estimates of heritabilities and genetic correlations and the prediction abilities and accuracy of Bayesian GBLUP and Bayesian alphabet (BayesA, BayesB, BayesC) models for total and individual monounsaturated, polyunsaturated and saturated fatty acids from Canadian Holstein cows by using genome-wide SNP markers from genotyping-by-sequencing method. The heritability estimates were obtained from Bayesian GBLUP and Bayesian alphabet models. They ranged from 0.61 to 0.67 for total monounsaturated, from 0.35 to 0.45 for polyunsaturated and from 0.51 to 0.60 for saturated fatty acids, respectively. For thirty-three individual monounsaturated, polyunsaturated and saturated fatty acids, the heritability estimates ranged from 0.27 to 0.69 for individual monounsaturated, from 0.27 to 0.68 for individual polyunsaturated and from 0.35 to 0.69 for individual saturated fatty acids. These results indicated that total and individual monounsaturated, polyunsaturated and saturated fatty acids were under moderate genetic control and can be improved through genomic selection. The estimates of genetic correlations among total and individual monounsaturated, polyunsaturated and saturated fatty acids showed a moderate to high genetic relationships and pointed out the need for consideration of genetic relationships in successful genomic selection for fatty acids traits. The accuracies of BayesC and BayesA models were similar and better than that of GBLUP and BayesB models which indicated that fatty acids were determined by many genes having non-null effects, which are assumed to follow a univariate or multivariate Student’s t distribution.
Tracing the political development of online news: two Australian case studies
Creators: name: Morieson, Lucy
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Traditional journalism is facing a broad crisis encompassing its economic foundation, its social legitimacy, a transformed technological environment and changing audience expectations and practices. Given the privileged position traditionally afforded to journalism in Western liberal democracies, there is great concern about what these changes might mean for political participation, as well as for longstanding media businesses.

Against this background this thesis provides an investigation into the changing political conditions that shape the operation of journalism as a cultural technology. Under the economic politics of advanced liberalism, journalism is being reshaped around increasingly financial objectives. Two Australian cases, The Age Online – the online version of a daily broadsheet newspaper – and Crikey, an online-only daily news email – are used to explore the relationship between the dominant contemporary economic politics and the current changes affecting news and journalism. The discussion is structured into four key areas: the changing political role of journalism; the professionalisation of journalism and the opposite but associated move towards more ‘authentic’ forms of (often, user generated) content; the changing news audience; and the centrality of the news ‘business model’ to discussions about the future of journalism.

At a time when changes to the news industry are being viewed with equal measures of concern and optimism, this thesis provides a conceptualisation of journalism’s changing political role that moves beyond the limitations of the ‘fourth estate’ rhetoric. By positioning journalism as a historically shaped cultural technology, it is possible to account for these changes without an appeal to a bygone era, while also taking of stock of those elements of ‘traditional’ journalism we might hope to maintain in the future.
title: Der Tausch von Aufmerksamkeit
Creators: name: Petrovic, Sylvia
Year: 2009

description: Die gegenständliche Diplomarbeit möchte sich an der relativ neuen Diskussion zur Ökonomie der Aufmerksamkeit beteiligen, die der deutsche Architekturtheoretiker Georg Franck entfacht hat. Nachdem die grundlegenden Funktionsweisen dazu gleich von Beginn an erklärt werden, kommt es in der Arbeit zu einer Herantastung an das zuletzt angeführte Beispiel. Von Symbolen und Stereotypen führt die Diskussion über die Reduktion von Komplexität am Beispiel der europäischen Orientalismus weiter zur Betrachtung des Körpers als der, auf den sich die Gesellschaft einschreibt und das Bild, das durch seine Künstlichkeit kommuniziert. Der Künstlerin wird unterstellt, sie errege durch ihre Fotoserie Women of Allah bewusst Aufmerksamkeit, um anhand herkömmlicher Stereotypen Sichtweisen des Spannungsfeldes zwischen Ost und West wiederholt dem Betrachter vor Augen zu führen. Diese Aufmerksamkeit lenkt auf die Notwendigkeit die bisherigen bipolaren Denkstrukturen aufzubrechen und ein neues Weltbildes mit neuen Werten zu kreieren. Die Verantwortung der KünstlerIn liegt in der Erhaltung der moralischen Werte in der Gesellschaft und soll ein Gleichgewicht zu einschlägig vorherrschenden Tendenzen, wie zum Beispiel dem System der Wirtschaft herstellen.
description: This diploma thesis is an effort to participate in the relatively new discussion to economy of attention and/or awareness. The translation of ‚Aufmerksamkeit’ is both attention and awareness, as well as interest and some others, depening on the context it is used. The discussion was brought up from the German theorist in architecture Georg Franck who currently teaches on the Technical University of Vienna. After the basical functionality has been interpreted from the beginning on, it comes to a gingerly approach to the exemplification of Shirin Neshat’s art work. From symboles and stereotypes (in english often also used the word ‚prototype’) leads the discussion over reduction of complexitivity named by the european ‚Orientalism’ into the considerations to the body who is inscribed by our society and the picture what communicates through its artificial object. By this thesis Shirin Neshat is subordinated to attract interest deliberatly by using conventional stereotypes of the gap between east and west in her photos „Women of Allah“. Through the repetition of traditional symbolics she faces the observer and draws his/her attention to the need of a new view of the world with new values.
Early prediction of clinical depression in adolescents using single-channel and multi-channel classification approach
Creators: name: Ooi, Kuan Ee Brian
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Given the systematically growing prevalence of clinical depression in adolescents and the burden on economies worldwide caused by this debilitating state, automated, easy to use early prediction techniques are sought after for efficient mass screening and prevention programs. Existing preventive measures are restricted to conventional psychological assessment based on questionnaires and interviews. The thesis examined the possibility of using fully automated speech or image analysis to predict onset of Major Depression in adolescents 2.5 years before the symptoms meet the conventional diagnostic criteria. The prediction task was facilitated by the nature of available audiovisual recordings made when all participants were professionally diagnosed as normal healthy adolescents with no current or previous episodes of depression. These recordings were accompanied by clinical diagnosis made 2.5 years after the recordings were taken; this diagnosis showed which participants developed symptoms of Major Depression. Using this information, it was possible to classify the audiovisual recordings into two categories: participants “At Risk” (AR) for depression and participants “Not At Risk” (NAR) for depression. The study was based on 15 participants (6 male and 9 female) representing the AR group and 15 participants (6 male and 9 female) representing the NAR group. To our knowledge, this was the first study of its kind. The experimental results led to the following major conclusions: 1) Facial images are less effective than acoustic speech characteristics in prediction of depression. 2) Acoustic speech analysis can provided efficient prediction of risk for depression 2.5 years before the full blown symptoms occur. The experiments showed that the speech based classification accuracy can reach 74%. 3) The efficiency of individual types of features was tested using a classical single-channel classification approach. It was found that out of the four categories (glottal, prosodic, TEO and spectral), the glottal features were the most efficient in discriminating between AR and NAR individuals. The best prediction accuracy provided by the glottal features was 69% with good sensitivity to specificity ratio of 76%/62%. 4) The study proposed a new multi-channel weighted speech classification (MCWSC) method. It was found that the optimised version of this method, called the optimised multi-channel weighted speech classification (OMCWSC) system was the most efficient in prediction of risk for depression. When implemented in the person based (PB), two weights (2W) approach with 3 single-channels processing glottal (G), prosodic (PS) and TEOG (within 1300Hz-5500Hz) features, the OMCWSC achieved 74% prediction accuracy, 77% sensitivity and 70% specificity.
sj-docx-1-wmr-10.1177_0734242X221124069 – Supplemental material for Identification and selection of suitable landfill sites using GIS-based multi-criteria decision analysis in the Peshawar District, Pakistan
Creators: name: Ali, Iftikhar
name: Islam, Aneeza
name: Ali, Syeda Maria
name: Adnan, Syed
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-wmr-10.1177_0734242X221124069 for Identification and selection of suitable landfill sites using GIS-based multi-criteria decision analysis in the Peshawar District, Pakistan by Iftikhar Ali, Aneeza Islam, Syeda Maria Ali and Syed Adnan in Waste Management & Research
Uni Ulm intern - das Ulmer Universitätsmagazin, Nr. 284 (37. Jg.), Februar 2007
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Uni Ulm intern
subject: DDC 050 / General serial publications
subject: Universities; Germany; Ulm
subject: Ulm / Universität

description: N/A
ISDM tailoring on complex information systems projects
Creators: name: Barrow, Rob
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: This thesis explores issues related to how methodologies for guiding the development of complex Information Systems (“Information Systems Development Methodologies” or “ISDMs”) are tailored in practice. A model of ISDM tailoring was proposed, refined and tested through case studies. The tailoring of an ISDM was observed in three large, commercial IS development projects undertaken by Sysco, a global provider of Information Technology (IT) hardware, software, and services. The model represents an ISDM as existing in three states: the Methodology-as-Documented, the Methodology-as-Anticipated, and the Methodology-in-Action. The model also proposes that transitions between pairs of states can occur in two fundamentally different ways: Contingent tailoring, which is a pro-active response to known or assumed project characteristics; and Improvised tailoring, which is a reactive response to emerging project conditions, drawing on the knowledge and experience of the tailoring practitioner. Exemplars of the three states, and of transitions of both types between these states, have been identified and documented. The implications for theory include: Identifying and defining the three states in which an ISDM can exist; Identifying and defining two types of transition between states; and Developing a model which represents the different states and the transitions between them observed in the course of this research. Implications for the practice of ISDM tailoring include: Identifying the need to incorporate into documentation and training materials associated with an ISDM, recognition of the third, intermediate state in which an ISDM can exist, the Methodology-as-Anticipated, and the identification of the two types of transitions between states. These findings are captured in a “Model of Methodology Tailoring”, developed and refined in the course of the thesis.
Supplemental Material - Survival comparison of different histological subtypes of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma: A propensity-matched score analysis based on SEER database
Creators: name: Li, Tao
name: Wang, Yi
name: Xiang, Xianwang
name: Chen, Chuanjun
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: Otorhinolaryngology

description: Supplemental Material for Survival comparison of different histological subtypes of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma: A propensity-matched score analysis based on SEER database by Tao Li, Yi Wang, Xianwang Xiang and Chuanjun Chen in Ear, Nose & Throat Journal
Reducing the complexity of large ecosystem models
Creators: name: Lawrie, Jock
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: During the 1990s a large-scale study of Port Phillip Bay, Australia, was undertaken by the CSIRO (the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia's national research body). A major outcome of the study was a complex ecosystem model intended to provide scientific input into management decisions concerning the nutrient load to the bay. However, its development was costly and time-consuming. Given this effort, it is natural to seek smaller models (reduced models) that reproduce the performance measures of the large model (the full model) that are of interest to decision makers. This thesis is concerned with identifying such models. More generally, this thesis is concerned with developing methods for identifying these smaller models. Several methods are developed for this purpose, each simplifying the full model in different ways. In particular, methods are proposed for aggregating state variables, setting state variables to constants, simplifying links in the ecological network, and eliminating rates from the full model. Moreover, the methods can be implemented automatically, so that they are transferable to other ecological modelling situations, and so that the reduced models are obtained objectively. In the case of the Port Phillip Bay model, significant reduction in model complexity is possible even when estimates of all the performance measures are of interest. Thus, this model is unnecessarily complex. Furthermore, the most significant reductions in complexity occur when the methods are combined. With this in mind, a procedure for combining the methods is proposed that can be implemented for any ecological model with a large number of components. Aside from generating reduced models, the process of applying the methods reveals insights into the mechanisms built into the system. Such insights highlight the extent to which the model simplification process can be applied. Given the effectiveness of the model simplification process developed here, it is concluded that this process should be more routinely applied to large ecosystem models. In some cases, the full sequence of methods might prove too computationally expensive to justify its purpose. However, it is shown that even the application of a subset of the methods can yield both simpler models and insight into the structure and behaviour of the system being modelled.
sj-pdf-1-smm-10.1177_09622802221129040 - Supplemental material for Revisiting Gaussian Markov random fields and Bayesian disease mapping
Creators: name: MacNab, Ying C
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-smm-10.1177_09622802221129040 for Revisiting Gaussian Markov random fields and Bayesian disease mapping by Ying C MacNab in Statistical Methods in Medical Research
Supplemental Material - Customer–Salesperson Price Negotiations During Exceptional Demand Contractions
Creators: name: Cardy, Claire
name: Chaker, Nawar N.
name: Habel, Johannes
name: Klarmann, Martin
name: Plötner, Olaf
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150402 Hospitality Management

description: Supplemental Material for Customer–Salesperson Price Negotiations During Exceptional Demand Contractions by Claire Cardy, Nawar N. Chaker, Johannes Habel, Martin Klarmann, and Olaf Plötner in Journal of Service Research
The COCOON object model
Creators: name: Scholl, Marc H.
name: Laasch, Christian
name: Rich, Christian
name: Schek, Hans-Jörg
name: Tresch, Markus
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: DDC 004 / Data processing & computer science
subject: Data base management
subject: Object-oriented data bases
subject: Datenbanksystem

description: The COCOON model was intended to extend the concepts of relational database managernent systems (DBMSs) beyond nested relational to object-oriented ones. Key characteristics of COCOON and its database language COOL are: generic, set-oriented query and update operators sirnilar to relational algebra and SQL updates, respectively; object-preserving semantics of query operators, which allows for the definition of updatable views; update operations that keep model-inherent integrity constraints consistent; a separation of the two aspects of programming language "classes": type vs. collection; predicative description of collections, sirnilar to "defined concepts" in KL-One-like knowledge representation languages; automatic classification of objects and views (positioning in the dass hierarchy).
sj-doc-1-ijm-10.1177_02557614221132550 – Supplemental material for Nurturing student ethnic identity through culturally responsive music teaching in China
Creators: name: Guan, Tao
name: Luo, Ning
name: Matsunobu, Koji
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: Education

description: Supplemental material, sj-doc-1-ijm-10.1177_02557614221132550 for Nurturing student ethnic identity through culturally responsive music teaching in China by Tao Guan, Ning Luo and Koji Matsunobu in International Journal of Music Education
sj-docx-1-dhj-10.1177_20552076231180054 - Supplemental material for MonDiaL-CAD: Monkeypox diagnosis via selected hybrid CNNs unified with feature selection and ensemble learning
Creators: name: Attallah, Omneya
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Cardiology
subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: 111299 Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 200299 Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other humanities
subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Science Policy
subject: 160512 Social Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-dhj-10.1177_20552076231180054 for MonDiaL-CAD: Monkeypox diagnosis via selected hybrid CNNs unified with feature selection and ensemble learning by Omneya Attallah in DIGITAL HEALTH
A FAVOR DE LAS DIFERENCIAS, EN CONTRA DE LAS  DESIGUALDADES Y DE LA ARBITRARIEDAD
Creators: name: Mª Isabel Garrido Gómez
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013

description: RESUMEN: En este trabajo se aborda primero la cuestión de la igualdad en relación con sus raíces históricas. En este sentido, se advierte que, en la actualidad, existe una necesidad de superar la mera igualdad formal y tener en cuenta las diferencias de las personas y de los grupos en los que se integran. Así, igualdad y diferencias se han de hacer complementarias entre sí. Ahora bien, es necesario distinguir los términos diferencias y desigualdades, observándose que son estas últimas las que se han de eliminar por los poderes públicos ya que poseen un carácter nítidamente perjudicial. La conclusión a la que se llega, no obstante, es que debe haber unas reglas que impidan que el tratamiento de las diferencias sea arbitrario y unas reglas de justicia que hagan que la remoción de las desigualdades se lleve a cabo conforme a estándares de justicia, siendo la Constitución de España de 1978 la norma que ha servido como modelo. PALABRAS CLAVE: Diferencias, arbitrariedad.desigualdades,
Embedded intelligence in structural health monitoring using artificial neural networks
Creators: name: Kesavan, Ajay
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: The use of composite structures in engineering applications has proliferated over the past few decades due to its distinct advantages namely: high structural performance, corrosion resistance, and high strength/weight ratio. However, they also come with a set of disadvantages, i.e. they are prone to fibre breakage, matrix cracking and delaminations. These types of damage are often invisible and if undetected, could lead to catastrophic failures of structures. Although there are systems to detect such damage, the criticality assessment and prognosis of the damage is often much more difficult to achieve. The research study conducted here resulted in the development of a Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) system for a 2D polymeric composite T-joint, used in maritime structures. The SHM system was found to be capable of not only detecting the presence of multiple delaminations in a composite structure, but also capable of determining the location and extent of all the delaminations present in the T-joint struct ure, regardless of the load (angle and magnitude) acting on the structure. The system developed relies on the examination of the strain distribution of the structure under operational loading.

This SHM system necessitated the development of a novel pre-processing algorithm - Damage Relativity Assessment Technique (DRAT) along with a pattern recognition tool, Artificial Neural Network (ANN), to predict and estimate the damage. Another program developed - the Global Neural network Algorithm for Sequential Processing of Internal sub Networks (GNAISPIN) uses multiple ANNs to render the SHM system independent to variations in structural loading and capable of estimating multiple delaminations in composite T-joint structures. Upto 82% improvement in detection accuracy was observed when GNAISPIN was invoked. The Finite Element Analysis (FEA) was also conducted by placing delaminations of different sizes at various locations in two structures, a composite beam and a T-joint. Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer T-joints were then manufactured and tested, thereby verifying the accuracy of the FEA results experimentally. The resulting strain distribution from the FEA was pre-processed by the DRAT and used to trai n the ANN to predict and estimate damage in the structures.

Finally, on testing the SHM system developed with strain signatures of composite T-joint structures, subjected to variable loading, embedded with all possible damage configurations (including multiple damage scenarios), an overall damage (location & extent) prediction accuracy of 94.1% was achieved. These results are presented and discussed in detail in this study.
CSF free light chains as a marker of intrathecal immunoglobulin synthesis in multiple sclerosis: a blood-CSF barrier related evaluation in a large cohort
Creators: name: Şenel, Makbule
name: Mojib-Yezdani, Fatemeh
name: Braisch, Ulrike
name: Bachhuber, Franziska
name: Lewerenz, Jan
name: Ludolph, Albert C.
name: Otto, Markus
name: Tumani, Hayrettin
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Immunoglobulin free light chains
subject: OCB
subject: Intrathecal IgG synthesis
subject: IgG index
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Immunoglobulin light chains
subject: Oligoclonal bands
subject: Multiple sclerosis
subject: Cerebrospinal fluid
subject: Immunoglobulin G
subject: Serum
subject: Multiple Sklerose
subject: Liquor cerebrospinalis
subject: Immunglobulin G

description: Objectives: The importance of immunoglobulin G (IgG) oligoclonal bands (OCB) in the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) was reaffirmed again in the recently revised MS diagnostic criteria. Since OCB testing is based on non-quantitative techniques and demands considerable methodological experience, measurement of CSF immunoglobulin free light chains (FLC) has been suggested as quantitative alternative to OCB. We aimed to establish reference values for FLC measures and evaluate their diagnostic accuracy with regard to the diagnosis of MS. Methods: Immunoglobulin kappa (KFLC) and lambda (LFLC) free light chains were prospectively measured by nephelometry in CSF and serum sample pairs in 1,224 patients. The analyzed cohort included patients with MS, other autoimmune or infectious inflammatory diseases of the nervous system as well as 989 patients without signs for nervous system inflammation. Results: Regarding diagnosis of MS, the diagnostic sensitivity and specificity of intrathecal KFLC ratio were 93.3 and 93.7% using the CSF-serum albumin ratio-dependent reference values, 92.0 and 95.9%for intrathecal KFLC ratio applying the ROC-curve determined cut-off levels, 62.7 and 98.3% for IgG index, 64.0 and 98.8% for intrathecal IgG synthesis according to Reiber diagrams, and 94.7 and 93.3% for OCB. Diagnostic sensitivity and specificity of intrathecal LFLC were clearly lower than KFLC. Conclusions: Intrathecal KFLC and OCB showed the highest diagnostic sensitivities for MS. However, specificity was slightly lower compared to other quantitative IgG parameters. Consequently, CSF FLC may not replace OCB, but it may support diagnosis in MS as a quantitative parameter.
Regional sympathetic nerve activity in human congestive heart failure
Creators: name: Hasking., Gregory J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Additional file 1 of Ethnic variations in metabolic syndrome components and their associations with the gut microbiota: the HELIUS study
Creators: name: Balvers, Manon
name: de Goffau, Marcus
name: van Riel, Natal
name: van den Born, Bert-Jan
name: Galenkamp, Henrike
name: Zwinderman, Koos
name: Nieuwdorp, Max
name: Levin, Evgeni
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Fig S1-S8. PDF file with all supplementary figures S1-S8 and corresponding figure legends.
Learning another way: an attempt to expand the 'given-to-be-seen' of masculinity in Australia
Creators: name: Maguire, Garrie
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Western photographic representations of Chinese men have symbolically castrated their subjects (Richard Fung) by excluding them from the ‘given to be seen’ – the shared visual repertoire of images through which masculinity is culturally constructed (David Eng). This is not a simple numerical imbalance: to expand the given to be seen, there is a need for new conceptual approaches for photography, audience reception and critical interpretation, and this project and exegesis explored the Wen/Wu dyad of Chinese masculinity offered in the work of Kam Louie. The project was an exhibition at Federation Square in Melbourne (25 January to 17 February, 2011) featuring larger than life-size images of white and Asian men in different sporting, occupational and subcultural uniforms. The Wen/Wu dyad is explored in relation to this project, an earlier group exhibition of Asian photographers of men, curated by the author and titled “Men Like Me” (2008), and Anne Zahalka’s “Bondi: Playground of the Pacific” (1989). As Kobena Mercer has argued in relation to Robert Mapplethorpe, white artists seeking to represent the Other assume certain risks and a responsibility toward their subjects and practice, and these are considered as well.
Additional file 2 of Ethnic variations in metabolic syndrome components and their associations with the gut microbiota: the HELIUS study
Creators: name: Balvers, Manon
name: de Goffau, Marcus
name: van Riel, Natal
name: van den Born, Bert-Jan
name: Galenkamp, Henrike
name: Zwinderman, Koos
name: Nieuwdorp, Max
name: Levin, Evgeni
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Population characteristics for the subset of the cohort with gut microbiota data. Overview of population characteristics for the Dutch, South-Asian Surinamese (SA Surinamese), African Surinamese (Afr Surinamese), Ghanaian, Turkish and Moroccan, presented separately per sex.
Generation of 3D Grid-Maps Using an Incoherent Network of Radar Sensors with 1D Angle Estimation
Creators: name: Grebner, Timo
name: Weichenmeier, Thomas
name: Janoudi, Vinzenz
name: Schoeder, Pirmin
name: Waldschmidt, Christian
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Chirp sequence radar sensor
subject: Distributed radar sensors
subject: Grid-mapping
subject: Occupancy grid map
subject: Radar network
subject: 3D mapping
subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: MIMO systems
subject: Radar; Sensor

description: Radar sensors are nowadays often used in modern driver assistance systems to generate robust and precise representations of the environment for example with the help of grid maps. 3D environmental maps offer the advantage of not only identifying occupied and unoccupied areas, but also providing height information directly. However, the generation of such maps require a radar sensor that can determine the position of objects in the 3D space. In this work, two algorithms are presented that creates a 3D representation of the environment based solely on incoherently networked multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radar sensors with 1D angle estimation. Measurements show that the presented algorithm provides precise 3D target localization with a maximum standard deviation of 6 cm for occupied cells. This is shown for both point targets and extended targets, such as bridges which are of most interest in automotive scenarios.
Tandem: design of a practice
Creators: name: Murray, James
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: TANDEM: DESIGN OF A PRACTICE attempts to chart the design process and conceptual workings of the small architectural design practice Tandem design studio. The examination and cataloging is ultimately represented through a series of different voices: anecdotes, narratives and touchstones. Combined they form a previously unheard description of the tactics/techniques, interests and dreams of the 2 principals of the practice.

During the process a series of recurrent themes emerged that were explored in the catalogue accompanying the final exhibition. Themes included; the role of the image, frameworks for difference, one medium to another, controlled collaboration.
As described in the catalogue:
'The masters was/is the chance to engage with practice from the outside.
What is it, we do?
Why do we do it?
What does this tell us about ourselves?
And then -
Should we keep doing things this way?'
 ' Ultimately our design practice evolves or withers on the strength of communal understanding; without the ability to be self reflexive the narrative that drives our approach remains singular and stagnates; The Masters by practice has set in train a process of recording and self renewal.'
'What we came to understand through the conversations initiated by this programme was that as much as any building project we had designed our practice; bringing our personal and shared experiences from other practices to form the idea of an entity we called tandem.'
On the different generations in the workforce and their management needs
Creators: name: Kent, Judith
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Abstract There are differences in attitudes, values, aspirations and behaviours between the different generational cohorts in Australian organisations today. These differences are accentuated by changing technological, economic, social and environmental conditions but are as much about age or stage-of-life as they are generational. These differences may not be as marked as those differences found between different ethnic cultures, religions, genders, personalities or even professions. However, the differences are capable of sparking deep emotions at the interfaces of the different generations. This thesis argues that defensive and even hostile emotions are triggered by unconscious anxieties around identity and belonging, fear and envy of ‘the other’, attitudes to authority, the taboo of incest and the fear of death and dying. What each generation desires is respect from others. Members of the older generation want to be respected for their knowledge because it may be all that separates them from redundancy and ‘death’. Younger generations want to be respected for their competence and technological savvy – and for their youthfulness. The middle generation, the silent generation, the ME generation, is struggling to be heard and faces the possibility of metaphorically picking up the pieces for its elders and contemptuously wiping the noses of its younger siblings.

Some management behaviours will be more effective with certain age groups than others but essentially there are fundamental management capabilities which all ages and generations require as containers for their workplace anxieties. In many cases the needs of workers are not being met as managers either over-react by trying to straddle what they are told is the deep divide between the different generations or deny the existence or importance of any generational differences at all. Effective management practices involve the need to acknowledge individual concerns, respect different competencies, and involve the different, generations in meaningful activities which will derive synergies from their combined talents.
title: Kundenzufriedenheit am Arbeitsmarktservice unter dem Aspekt der Kommunikation zwischen KlientInnen und BetreuerInnen / BeraterInnen
Creators: name: Berangy, Zohreh
Year: 2009

description: Die vorliegende empirische Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Zufriedenheit der AMS KundInnen. Um die Zufriedenheitswerte der KundInnen zu erheben, wurden 300 KundInnen beim Verlassen des AMS Gebäude Währingerstraße (1180) und Dresdnerstraße (1200) mündlich mittels eines Fragebogens befragt. Im Vordergrund stehen dabei die Kommunikation zwischen den BeraterInnen/BetreuerInnen und den KundInnen und die Bewertung dieser seitens der KundInnen. Entscheidend ist, ob es dabei wesentliche Barrieren zwischen den genannten Gruppen gibt, und ob Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund anders oder gar schlechter behandelt werden als autochthone ÖsterreicherInnen. Dabei handelt es sich keinesfalls um einen Vergleich der genannten Gruppen. Die Befragung der autochthonen ÖsterreicherInnen dient als Kontrolle bezüglich der Unterscheidungsmerkmale. Diese können sich in der Vergabe von Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen widerspiegeln, als auch bei der Art der Kommunikation. Die Basis für die empirische Studie stellt die demografische Verteilung der ZuwanderInnen in Wien, ihre Geburtsorte, Alter und Geschlecht dar. Waren für Wien keine Daten erhältlich, so wurden österreichweite Daten herangezogen.
description: The present empirical paper is studying the satisfaction of the AMS (employment market service) customers. To collect their satisfaction it was necessary to interview 300 customers. The customers were asked with a questionnaire after leaving the AMS building at the Währingerstraße (1180 Vienna) and Dresdnerstraße (1200 Vienna). The communication between the AMS consultant/tutor and the customer is in fact the most important item and how the customers evaluate the communication. The key question is if there are any barriers between the consultants/tutors and the customers. The question is if people with a migration background are treated in a different way, or even were treated worse than autochthonal Austrian Citizens. There is no need to compare the mentioned groups, but to interview the autochthonal Austrian citizens is important, because it is a way of controlling and this way can show the different behaviour of the consultant/tutor. The difference could also shown by the way of granting of adult education. The way of communication, for example shouting, can be an indicator of treatment too. The basic of the empirical study is the demographical distribution, their birthplace, age and sex of the migrants in Vienna. If there was no information concerning these characteristics about migrants in Vienna, information of migrants in Austria was used.
sj-docx-2-opp-10.1177_10781552231215427 - Supplemental material for Impact of telephone follow-up on hepatocellular carcinoma patients receiving oral chemotherapy from an ambulatory-care setting
Creators: name: Sakata, Yukio
name: Nomura, Hisanaga
name: Nakajima, Hirofumi
name: Kitajima, Tomomi
name: Ito, Yukiko
name: Yamamoto, Yoshiya
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-2-opp-10.1177_10781552231215427 for Impact of telephone follow-up on hepatocellular carcinoma patients receiving oral chemotherapy from an ambulatory-care setting by Yukio Sakata, Hisanaga Nomura, Hirofumi Nakajima, Tomomi Kitajima, Yukiko Ito and Yoshiya Yamamoto in Journal of Oncology Pharmacy Practice
Tales of ash: phantom bodies as testimony in artistic representations of terrorism
Creators: name: Lavi, Tali
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: This paper delves into the realms of tragedy, memory and representation. Drawing upon the phenomenon of the Phantom Limb and extending it towards a theory of Phantom Bodies, various artworks - literary, theatrical and visual - are examined. After the conflagration of the terrorist attack, how are these absences grieved over and remembered through artistic representation? The essay examines this question by positioning itself amongst the scarred landscapes of post-September 11 New York and suicide bombings in Israel (2000-2006). Furthermore, it investigates whether humanity can be restored in the aftermath of an event in which certain individuals have sought to eradicate it. The fragmentation of the affected body in these scenarios is understood as further complicating processes of grief and remembrance.

Artists who reject political polemic and engage with the dimensions of human loss are seen to have discovered means of referring to the absence caused by the act of terrorism. Three such recurring representations present themselves: ash and remnants, presence/absence and memory building. Phantom Bodies are perceived as simultaneously functioning as a reminder of the event itself, insisting upon the response of bearing witness, and as a symbol of the overwhelming power of humanity. Challenges arise when individuals or sections of the affected society deem these artworks to be inappropriate or explicit.

Works considered include: Neil LaBute's play The Mercy Seat, Sigalit Landau's art installation The Country, Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Spike Lee's 25th Hour, Daniel Libeskind's architectural plans for the World Trade Center site, Eric Fischl's sculpture 'Tumbling Woman', Honor Molloy's autodelete://beginning dump of physical memory and A.B.Yehoshua's A Woman in Jerusalem.

The accompanying play, Tales of Ash: A diptych for the theatre, is set in Melbourne, New York and Tel Aviv and deals with life in the face of and after terror. It veers between naturalism, poetic monologue and the epic. Tales of Ash contains two plays. The first centres on Mia, a young sculptor living in New York, who loses both her lover and her creativity on September 11. Upon returning to her home in Melbourne, she finds familial bonds still entwined with guilt and family trauma. The second play revolves around Ilana and Benny, two people living in Tel Aviv, who find themselves suddenly thrust together after a devastating bombing. As they attempt to resume rhythms of life, in the face of all the inherent ferocity of a modern existence in Israel, the struggle between The Ash Woman and The Ash Takers escalates.
D4.6 – AgriBIT data services
Creators: name: Scrima, Piero
name: Vella, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This document describes the main services available through the AgriBIT Big Data Analytics (BDA) platform. BDA platform provide fast prototyping, deployment, execution and monitoring of both stream and batch AI-based big data analytics (BDA) applications to support the analysis of the data acquire in AgriBIT project.
sj-pdf-2-jva-10.1177_11297298231218468 – Supplemental material for Integrated short peripheral intravenous cannulas and risk of catheter failure: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Gidaro, Antonio
name: Quici, Massimiliano
name: Giustivi, Davide
name: Pinelli, Fulvio
name: Samartin, Federica
name: Casella, Francesco
name: Cogliati, Chiara
name: Rizzi, Giulia
name: Salvi, Emanuele
name: Bartoli, Arianna
name: Foschi, Antonella
name: Castelli, Roberto
name: Calloni, Maria
name: Gemma, Marco
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: Cardiology

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-2-jva-10.1177_11297298231218468 for Integrated short peripheral intravenous cannulas and risk of catheter failure: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Antonio Gidaro, Massimiliano Quici, Davide Giustivi, Fulvio Pinelli, Federica Samartin, Francesco Casella, Chiara Cogliati, Giulia Rizzi, Emanuele Salvi, Arianna Bartoli, Antonella Foschi, Roberto Castelli, Maria Calloni and Marco Gemma in The Journal of Vascular Access
Energie neu denken : Tagungsband zum 2. Innovationskongress Ulm | Neu-Ulm am 6. Mai 2021
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Technische Hochschule Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Innovationskongress
subject: DDC 600 / Technology (Applied sciences)
subject: Energie
subject: Klimaschutz

description: Die derzeitigen energiepolitischen Rahmenbedingungen wie das aktuelle Klimapaket der Großen Koalition und der beschlossene Kohleausstieg bis 2038 zeigen, dass die Energiewende im Wandel ist. Unter dem Motto „Energie neu denken“ beleuchtet der Kongress in Form von fünf Keynotes und zehn Fachvorträgen verschiedene Aspekte der neuesten Entwicklungen im Energiesektor. Im Mittelpunkt des 2. Innovationskongresses steht die Frage, wie die Energie von morgen aussehen muss, um die Klimaziele zu erreichen. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf Technologien und Innovationen, die die CO2-Reduktion vorantreiben. Ebenso werden konkrete regionale und überregionale Maßnahmen und Projekte zur Umsetzung der Energiewende betrachtet.