cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Investigation of Patient Anxiety, Patient Satisfaction, and Dental Student Behaviors
Creators: name: Morris, Mary Kathryn
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1987

description: The present study examined the effect of information about patient's dental anxiety on patient satisfaction, patient discomfort, and patients' perceptions of dental student behaviors. The validity of patients' perceptions was examined by independent observation of dental student behaviors on videotaped dental screening visits.
Thirty dental students each examined two dentally anxious female patients. Each student received information about one of the patient' s dental anxiety and no information about the other. The order of presentation of the conditions information and no information was counterbalanced. The dependent measures were the Dentist Behavior Checklist, the Dental Visit Satisfaction Scale, the Patient Discomfort Item, and independent observations of seven specific dental student behaviors.
Results of the present study suggest that patients' perceptions of specific dental student behaviors are only moderately correlated with independent observation for three of the behaviors. The presentation of information about patient dental anxiety resulted in no significant differences in patients' perceptions of behaviors. A significant interaction effect was found, however, between information and order of presentation for the independent observations of Took Patient Seriously and Was Calm. These findings suggest that when nonverbal behaviors were examined, dental students were more responsive to patients. This was only true, however, when students received information in the Information/No Information order.
No significant differences were found in either patient satisfaction or patient discomfort as a result of providing information about patient anxiety. Lastly, none of the dental student behaviors as independently observed were related to patient satisfaction. However, patients' perceptions of Encouraged Questions and Took Patient seriously were significant predictors of patient satisfaction.
Suggestions for further research include continued attempts to delineate dentist behaviors which are correlated with patient satisfaction.
New results on focusing of gamma-rays with Laue lenses
Creators: name: Ferrari, F.
name: Frontera, F.
name: Loffredo, G.
name: Virgilli, E.
name: Guidorzi, C.
name: Carassiti, V.
name: Evangelisti, F.
name: Landi, L.
name: Chiozzi, S.
name: Squerzanti, S.
name: Caroli, E.
name: Stephen, J. B.
name: Schiavone, F.
name: Basili, A.
name: Andersen, K. H.
name: Courtois, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on new results on the development activity of broad band Laue lenses for hard X-/gamma-ray astronomy (70/100-600 keV). After the development of a first prototype, whose performance was presented at the SPIE conference on Astronomical Telescopes held last year in Marseille (Frontera et al. 2008), we have improved the lens assembling technology. We present the development status of the new lens prototype that is on the way to be assembled.
description: 8 pages, 11 figures, to be Published in SPIE Proceedings, vol.7437-19, 2009
Intellectual Imagination: Knowledge and Aesthetics in North Atlantic and African Philosophy
Creators: name: Ochieng, Omedi
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2023

description: _The Intellectual Imagination_ unfolds a sweeping vision of the form, meaning, and value of intellectual practice. The book breaks new ground in offering a comprehensive vision of the intellectual vocation. Omedi Ochieng argues that robust and rigorous thought about the form and contours of intellectual practices is best envisioned in light of a comprehensive critical contextual ontology-that is, a systematic account of the context, forms, and dimensions in and through which knowledge and aesthetic practices are created, embodied, translated, and learned. Such an ontology not only accounts for the embeddedness of intellectual practices in the deep structures of politics, economics, and culture, but also in turn demonstrates the constitutive power of critical inquiry. It is against this background that Ochieng unfolds a multidimensional and capacious theory of knowledge and aesthetics. In a critique of the oppositional binaries that now reign in the modern and postmodern academy-binaries that pit fact versus value, science versus the humanities, knowledge versus aesthetics-Ochieng argues for the inextricable intertwinement of reason, interpretation, and the imagination. The book offers a close and deep reading of North Atlantic and African philosophers, thereby illuminating the resonances and contrasts between diverse intellectual traditions. The upshot is an incisively rich, layered, and textured reading of the archetypal intellectual styles and aesthetic forms that have fired the imagination of intellectuals across the globe. Ochieng's book is a radical summons to a practice and an imagination of the intellectual life as the realization of good societies and good lives.
title: Multiple-Stimulus Discrimination and Stimulus Overselectivity with Preschool Children
Creators: name: Quintero, Maria C.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1987

description: Stimulus overselectivity is said to occur when behavior is under the control of a restricted set of stimuli from a stimulus complex. Three studies investigated the effects of specific multiple-stimulus training histories upon the overselective responding of normal preschool children.
In Experiment 1, eight children 3 to 5 years of age, were trained to discriminate forms presented on cards. Each form was labelled with a nonsense syllable, and each card (multiple stimulus) consisted of two forms. A time-delay training procedure was used. Four subjects were trained using Concurrent training in which two of the three S- response choices contained components of the S+. Four subjects were trained using Sequential training in which the choices did not contain S+ components, but S+s were trained in order such that one component of a previously- trained S+ was present in the next S+. Subjects trained using Concurrent training acquired the discriminations in fewer trials, and had fewer errors during training. However, they responded to single components at chance level, whereas subjects trained using Sequential training recognized components and were able to recombine them into novel combinations.
Experiment 2 was designed to investigate the effects of interspersing component probes among review trials of previously learned S+s that contained those components. Responses of two subjects to components were probed with interspersed review trials. Subjects with a Sequential training history demonstrated higher levels of correct responding to recombinations of components, whereas subjects with a Concurrent history continued to respond at chance level.
In Experiment 3, two subjects with a history of Concurrent training were trained using Sequential training. The subjects learned to respond to recombinations and components at criterion level.
It was concluded that multiple-stimulus training, in which S+ components are presented sequentially, is an effective method for training subjects to respond to components as well as to the total multiple stimulus. Findings are discussed in relation to: (a) attention theory and implications for related areas, such as stimulus salience and functionality; (b) a reassessment of the definition of overselectivity; and (c) implications for research with other populations.
eResearch Services and Capabilities
Creators: name: May, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: skills
training
digitally skilled workforce
eresearch services
capabilities
training material

description: Over the last two years, the Federation for the Advancement of Victorian eResearch (FAVeR) has been working towards some understanding of the eResearch roles space, leading to the establishment of a project called 'Advancing the professionalisation of our eResearch workforce'. The goal of this project is to provide a common understanding of the eResearch capabilities, from which appropriate skill sets can be derived for positions or teams. In this presentation we will share an overview of the project, including: FAVeR and the APeRW Working Group, the eResearch Value Proposition and Chain, draft eResearch Services, and example capabilities. In addition, we will share the early results of a planned community consultation, which has been proposed as a ‘Birds of a Feather’ session at eResearch Australasia 2020. This consultation aims to elicit feedback, from the broader eResearch community, on the following questions: ● Are there other aspects of eResearch Services? What falls outside the scope of the service and capabilities descriptions? ● Is there a priority between eResearch Services? e.g. Mandatory, optional, and dependencies. What’s required when for deploying an e/Digital Research support unit. What’s the priority order and what’s the minimum required? ● Is there a distinction between general and specialised capabilities? e.g. Are there cross service eResearch capabilities. This presentation will be of interest primarily to Decision-makers and managers and Digitally focussed research support professionals.
title: The Effects of a Pre-Therapy Client Orientation on Clients in Psychotherapy
Creators: name: Sather, Nels
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1987

description: The purpose of this research was to assess the effects of a pre-therapy client orientation on clients admitted to a mental health center. A secondary purpose was to develop an effective and brief audio-visual orientation that would positively influence clients in therapy. It was hypothesized that a pre-therapy orientation would significantly reduce client no shows and cancellations, increase client fee payment, increase client level of psychological functioning, and increase client satisfaction with mental health services. None of the four hypotheses was supported by the research. A questionnaire filled out by the therapists involved in the study, after the data were collected, revealed that all of the therapists oriented their clients to therapy to varying degrees. This may account, in part, for the lack of results. Implications for future research suggest investigation into the development and evaluation of training programs for individual therapists to orient their clients in the most systematic, optimal fashion. Research should also focus on the magnitude of change after a pre-therapy orientation and the development of instruments of sufficient sensitivity to detect that change.
My day begins
Creators: name: Stevenson, Mark
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
title: The Relative Susceptibilities of Interresponse Times and Post-Reinforcement Pauses to Differential Reinforcement
Creators: name: Trapp, Nancy L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1987

description: Post-reinforcement pauses (PRP) and interresponse times (IRTs) were examined to determine if these two temporal units changed in a similar fashion as a function of the delivery of differential reinforcement. Two experiments were conducted. In Experiment 1, four pigeons were exposed to a series of procedures in which PRP and IRT durations were gradually increased and then decreased. A fixed-ratio two (FR 2) differentiation schedule was used. Reinforcement was delivered if the PRP or IRT durations were greater than (PRP > and IRT > procedures) or less than (PRP < and IRT < procedures) specified temporal criteria. Criteria were gradually changed across procedures. Results showed that PRPs and IRTs changed in accordance with the differential reinforcement as specified by the various contingencies. When PRPs and IRTs were free to vary, the PRPs tended to change in a direction consistent with the IRT shaping contingencys whereas, the IRTs tended to shorten regardless of the PRP shaping contingency. In Experiment 2, two subjects were exposed to both an FR 2 and FR 1 schedule to determine if schedule size influenced the effects obtained on the differentiation procedures. PRPs were systematically changed using a differentiation procedure with a response requirement of either FR 1 or FR 2. Results showed similar changes in PRP durations between FR 1 and FR 2 differentiation procedures. An analysis of errors made on each shaping condition in both experiments was conducted to determine whether PRPs or IRTs were more susceptible to the differential reinforcement contingencies. Fewer errors were made on the PRP shaping conditions, indicating that PRPs were more easily changed. Implications for a comprehensive theory of reinforcement were discussed.
An analysis of the main moral themes and their treatment in the fiction of Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell.
Creators: name: Parsons, Frances
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This thesis sets out to examine the main moral themes in the fiction of Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell. A brief introduction establishing the scope of the thesis and defining the term 'moral' is followed by a section in which Mrs. Gaskell 's viewpoint is examined and her main moral emphases outlined. These emphases all arise from her concern for right relations between people, whether as individuals or as social classes. Mrs. Gaskell 's understanding of God, his manifestations in the moral order, her use of Biblical material and her beliefs about man are studied in the remainder of this section. The greater part of the thesis is devoted to the moral themes themselves and is divided into four sections, dealing respectively with Mrs. Gaskell's plea for understanding and forgiveness, punishment of wrongdoing, moral education, and virtue.
X-ray Sources and Their Optical Counterparts in the Galactic Globular Cluster M12 (NGC 6218)
Creators: name: Lu, Ting-Ni
name: Kong, Albert K. H.
name: Bassa, Cees
name: Verbunt, Frank
name: Lewin, Walter H. G.
name: Anderson, Scott F.
name: Pooley, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a Chandra X-ray Observatory ACIS-S observation of the Galactic globular clusterM12. With a 26 ks exposure time, we detect 6 X-ray sources inside the half-mass radius (2.16 arcminutes) of which two are inside the core radius (0.72 arcminutes) of the cluster. If we assume these sources are all associated with globular cluster M12, the luminosity L_{X} among these sources between 0.3-7.0 keV varies roughly from 10^{30} to 10^{32} ergs s^{-1}. For identification, we also analyzed the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) data and identified the optical counterparts to five X-ray sources inside the HST ACS field of view. According to the X-ray and optical features, we found 2-5 candidate active binaries (ABs) or cataclysmic variables (CVs) and 0-3 background galaxies within the HST ACS field of view. Based on the assumption that the number of X-ray sources scales with the encounter rate and the mass of the globular cluster, we expect 2 X-ray source inside M12, and the expectation is consistent with our observational results. Therefore, the existence of identified X-ray sources (possible CVs or ABs) in M12 suggests the primordial origin of X-ray sources in globular clusters which is in agreement with previous studies.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Design and use of devices to assist movement of the upper limb: review of the literature
Creators: name: Goff, Charlotte Le
name: Coignard, Pauline
name: Azevedo-Coste, Christine
name: Geffard, Franck
name: Fattal, Charles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This article explores assistive devices for upper limb movement in people with disabilities through a systematic review based on the PRISMA methodology. The studied devices encompass technologies ranging from orthoses to advanced robotics, aiming to compensate for or supplement motor impairments. The results highlight the diversity of applications (rehabilitation, daily living activities), targeted body segments (distal, proximal, or global), as well as control mechanisms and interfaces used. However, despite the variety of promising prototypes, few devices are commercially available, limiting their real impact on end users. Existing technologies, while effective in improving functional autonomy and quality of life, still face challenges in terms of ergonomics, cost, and portability. In conclusion, this article emphasizes the importance of a user-centered approach and proposes avenues for the development of innovative, modular, and accessible assistive devices.
description: in French language
Redecz Krukowy 20. The oldest Funnel Beaker Culture settlement from Kuyavia, Central Poland and many more!
Creators: name: Plaza, Dominik
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
title: Academic Achievement of Bereaved Children: Comparison With a Nonbereaved Population
Creators: name: Valcarce, Rebecca W.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1987

description: The purpose of this research was to study the effects of bereavement on the academic achievement of secondary school students who had lost a parent through death by comparing them with students attending the same schools but who were living with both natural parents. The subjects in both groups were matched on pretest scores and demographic characteristics at the beginning of the study. Achievement posttest scores and overall high school grade point averages of both groups were compared using ANCOVA and multiple regression analyses. None of the analyses were found to be statistically significant, implying that academic achievement is not adversely affected by the experience of parental death. Recommendations for further research are presented.
Robot Reliability Using Petri Nets and Fuzzy Lambda-Tau Methodology
Creators: name: Kumar, Ajay
name: Sharma, S. P.
name: Kumar, Dinesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Robot reliability has become an increasingly important issue in the last few years due to increased application of robots in many industries (like automobile industry) under hazardous and unstructured environment. As the component failure behavior is dependent on configuration and environment, the available information about the constituent component of robots is most of the time imprecise, incomplete, vague and conflicting and so it is very difficult to analyze their behavior and to predict their failure pattern. The reliability analysis of any system provides an understanding about the likelihood of failures occurring in the system/component and the increased insight about its inherent weakness. The objective of this paper is to quantify the uncertainties that makes the decision more realistic, generic and extendable to application domain. In this paper various reliability parameters (such as mean time between failures, expected number of failures, reliability, availability etc.) are computed using Fuzzy Lambda-Tau methodology. Triangular fuzzy numbers are used to represent failure rates and repair times as they allow expert opinion, linguistic variables, operating conditions, uncertainty and imprecision in reliability information, to be incorporated into system model. Petri Nets are used because unlike the fault tree methodology, the use of Petri Nets allows efficient simultaneous generation of minimal cut and path sets.
description: 7 Pages, 3 Figures, 4 Tables
Snails at Snail Cave, and elsewhere in Wales
Creators: name: Knight, Matt
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
Successful data training stories from NCI
Creators: name: Wang, Jingbo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: skills
training
eresearch skills
HPC training
domain-specific training
reproducible workflows
training material

description: NCI Australia manages a multi-petabyte sized data repository, collocated with its HPC systems and data services, which allows high performance access to many scientific research datasets across many earth science domains.
 An important aspect is to provide training materials that proactively engages with the research community to improve their understanding of the data available, and to share knowledge and best practices in the use of tools and other software. We have developed multiple levels of training modules (introductory, intermediate and advanced) to cater for users with different levels of experience and interest. We have also tailored courses for each scientific domain, so that the use-cases and software will be most relevant to their interests and needs.
 For our training, we combine brief lectures followed by hands-on training examples on how to use datasets, using working examples of well-known tools and software that people can use as a template and modify to fit their needs. For example, we take representative use-cases from some scientific activities, from our collaborations and from user support issues, and convert to Jupyter notebook examples so that people can repeat the workfIow and reproduce the results. We also use the training as an opportunity to raise awareness of growing issues in resource management. Some examples include a familiarity of the FAIR data principles, licensing, citation, data management and trusted digital repositories. This approach to both our online training materials and workshops has been well-received by PhD students, early careers, and cross disciplinary users.
A Day in the Life of an Archaeology Intern
Creators: name: Knight, Matt
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
The Architecture of Law: Rebuilding Law in the Classical Tradition
Creators: name: McCall, Brian M.
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2023

description: What is law? How should law be made? Using St. Thomas Aquinas's analogy of God as an architect, Brian McCall argues that classical natural law jurisprudence provides an answer to these questions far superior to those provided by legal positivism or the 'new' natural law theories. \u000a\u000a_The Architecture of Law_ explores the metaphor of law as an architectural building project, with eternal law as the foundation, natural law as the frame, divine law as the guidance provided by the architect, and human law as the provider of the defining details and ornamentation. Classical jurisprudence is presented as a synthesis of the work of the greatest minds of antiquity and the medieval period, including Cicero, Artistotle, Gratian, Augustine, and Aquinas; the significant texts of each receive detailed exposition in these pages. \u000a\u000aAlong with McCall's development of the architectural image, he raises a question that becomes a running theme throughout the book: To what extent does one need to know God to accept and understand natural law jurisprudence, given its foundational premise that all authority comes from God? The separation of the study of law from knowledge of theology and morality, McCall argues, only results in the impoverishment of our understanding of law. He concludes that they must be reunited in order for jurisprudence to flourish. This book will appeal to academics, students in law, philosophy, and theology, and to all those interested in legal or political philosophy.
Talking torcs...two years on!
Creators: name: Machling, Tess
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
Total synthesis of sesquiterpenoids (+)-eremophilenolide, (+)-Tetrahydroligularenolide,(+)-aristolochene,(-)-ylangocamphor,(-)- ylangoborneol,(-)-ylangoisoborneol
Creators: name: Geraghty, M. Bert
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The first part of this thesis is concerned with the successful development of a general synthetic approach to the eremophilane class of sesquiterpenoids, which culminated in the total synthesis of (+)-eremophilenolide 6, (+)-tetrahydroligularenolide 44 and (+)-aristolochene 34. The octalone 92 was converted via an efficient, regioselective route into the keto ester 105, which served as a common synthetic intermediate for the preparation of all three sesquiterpenoids. Successive subjection of 105 to alkylation, hydrolysis and decarboxylation afforded the keto acid 111. Hydrogenation of the latter provided both the cis-fused keto acid 113, which was readily converted into (+)-eremophilen-olide 6, and the trans-fused keto acid 112, which was similarly transformed into (+)-tetrahydroligularenolide 44. Conversion of 105 into the dithio-ketal 127, followed by desulfurization and treatment of the resultant olefinic ester 124 with excess methyllithium, provided the olefinic alcohol 130. Dehydration of the latter yielded (+)-aristolochene 34. In the second part of this thesis, a stereoselective total synthesis of the ylango-type sesquiterpenoids, (-)-ylangocamphor 7, (-)-ylango-borneol 23 and (-)-ylangoisoborneol 143, is described. The (+)-ketol 222, of known absolute stereochemistry, was converted by an efficient route into the keto ester 216. The latter was transformed into the bicyclo[3.2.l]octadione 203 by an intramolecular Claisen condensation. Homologation of 203 to the keto aldehyde 245 was achieved by an efficient three-step sequence of reactions. Reaction of keto aldehyde 245 with methoxymethylenetriphenylphosphorane afforded the (+)-keto olefin 204 which could hopefully be used as a common intermediate in the synthesis of the majority of known ylango sesquiterpenoids. Transformation of 204 into (-)-ylangocamphor 7 was achieved by successive hydroboration, mesylation and intramolecular alkylation. Ylangocamphor was converted in (-)-ylangoborneol 23 and (-)-ylangoisoborneol 143 by two completely stereoselective reductions.
Non linear transport properties of an insulating YBCO nano-bridge
Creators: name: Fruchter, L.
name: Kazumov, A.
name: Briatico, J.
name: Ivanov, A. A.
name: Nicholaichik, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the transport properties of an insulating sub-micrometric YBa2Cu3O7-d bridge, patterned on a thin film. As expected for a variable-range-hopping insulator, transport is found non linear. The reduced dimension allows for the observation of an individual fluctuator generating random telegraph noise, which dynamics could be explored as a function of the temperature and transport current. Some recordings clearly exhibit three levels fluctuating resistance, with comparable level separation and correlated dynamics, which likely result from the existence of two states or correlated clustered charge traps.
Accelerating skills development in Data science and AI at scale
Creators: name: Tang, Titus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: AI
machine learning
eresearch skills
training
train the trainer
volunteer instructors
training partnerships
training material

description: At the Monash Data Science and AI platform, we believe that upskilling our research community and building a workforce with data science skills are key to accelerating the application of data science in research. To achieve this, we create and leverage new and existing training capabilities within and outside Monash University. In this talk, we will discuss the principles and purpose of establishing collaborative models to accelerate skills development at scale. We will talk about our approach to identifying gaps in the existing skills and training available in data science, key areas of interest as identified by the research community and various sources of training available in the marketplace. We will provide insights into the collaborations we currently have and intend to develop in the future within the university and also nationally. The talk will also cover our approach as outlined below
 • Combined survey of gaps in skills and trainings for Data science and AI
 • Provide seats to partners
 • Share associate instructors/helpers/volunteers
 • Develop combined training materials
 • Publish a repository of open source trainings
 • Train the trainer activities
 • Establish a network of volunteers to deliver trainings at their local regions Industry plays a significant role in making some invaluable training available to the research community either through self learning platforms like AWS Machine Learning University or Instructor led courses like NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute. We will discuss how we leverage our partnerships with Industry to bring these trainings to our research community. Finally, we will discuss how we map our training to the ARDC skills roadmap and how the ARDC platforms project “Environments to accelerate Machine Learning based Discovery” has enabled collaboration between Monash University and University of Queensland to develop and deliver training together.
title: The Effects of Social Perspective-Taking Training and Ideological Perspective-Taking Training on Ego-Identity Formation in Late Adolescence
Creators: name: Adams, Carol Markstrom
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1988

description: The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of two forms of perspective-taking training on interpersonal and ideological identities of 18- to 21-year-old college students. The primary predictions of the study were that social perspective-taking training would have its greater effect on interpersonal identity and that ideological perspective-taking training would have its greater effect on ideological identity. Ninety-six subjects were pretested for the study. Subject loss occurred due to attrition and the elimination of subjects who scored above set criterion for inclusion in the study. A total of 50 participants who were assigned to one of two treatment groups or to the control group completed the study. Both experimental and control subjects were engaged for two one-hour sessions per week for four weeks. Subjects completed posttesting the week following the last week of training. Nonparametric tests and repeated measures analysis of variance were computed for the pretest and posttest scores. Advances in ideological identity were observed for both the social and ideological perspectivetaking groups. Neither training was effective in promoting interpersonal identity. There was some evidence that formal operational skills also were advanced from social perspective-taking training. The validity and reliability of the measures used were discussed in conjunction with discussion of the findings. Implications for future research and clinical applications were presented.
Tintagel II - a not as wet as I expected festival of archaeology
Creators: name: Greaney, Susan
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
The KATRIN Neutrino Mass Experiment
Creators: name: Wolf, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino experiment (KATRIN) aims to measure the mass of electron neutrinos from beta-decay of tritium with an unprecedented sensitivity of 0.2 eV/c^2 improving present limits by one order of magnitude. The decay electrons will originate from a 10 m long windowless, gaseous tritium source. Super-conducting magnets guide the electrons through differential and cryogenic pumping sections to the electro-static tandem spectrometer (MAC-E-filter), where the kinetic energy will be measured. The experiment is presently being built at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe by an international collaboration of more than 120 scientists. The largest component, the 1240 m^3 main spectrometer, was delivered end of 2006 and first commissioning tests have been performed. This presentation describes the goals and technological challenges of the experiment and reports on the progress in commissioning first major components. The start of first measurements is expected in 2012.
description: contribution to ICHEP2008
Contemplating and Communicating the Palaeolithic landscapes of Wales
Creators: name: Knight, Matt
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
Cosmic ray studies at high southern latitudes with special reference to the daily intensity variation.
Creators: name: Parsons, N R
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The equipment described in this report was designed for continuous long term recording of cosmic ray intensity at the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition's Station at Mawson, Antarctica. This equipment was put into operation in 1955. The records obtained will be used in studies of meteorological effects, directional asymmetries, periodic variations, solar flare and magnetic storm effects, world wide fluctuations and possible relationships with other geophysical and solar phenomena. This work forms part of a joint A.N.A.R.E. ~ University of Tasmania project. The development and construction of the equipment was carried out in the Physics Department, University of Tasmania. It is thought that this report will be of interest particularly to those participating in cosmic ray studies during the 1957-58 International Geophysical Year. The manuscript was originally prepared as a description of equipment and operator's handbook to accompany the equipment at Mawson. It is presented with only minor changes in order to avoid further delay in publication and because it is considered that it embodies valuable ideas which would not be apparent in a bare description of the equipment and which are the result of considerable experience in the management, of scientific projects at remote stations.
Archeologi senza archeologia... 1
Creators: name: Guermandi, Maria Pia
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
The alpha effect with imposed and dynamo-generated magnetic fields
Creators: name: Hubbard, A.
name: Del Sordo, F.
name: Käpylä, P. J.
name: Brandenburg, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Estimates for the nonlinear alpha effect in helical turbulence with an applied magnetic field are presented using two different approaches: the imposed-field method where the electromotive force owing to the applied field is used, and the test-field method where separate evolution equations are solved for a set of different test fields. Both approaches agree for stronger fields, but there are apparent discrepancies for weaker fields that can be explained by the influence of dynamo-generated magnetic fields on the scale of the domain that are referred to as meso-scale magnetic fields. Examples are discussed where these meso-scale fields can lead to both drastically overestimated and underestimated values of alpha compared with the kinematic case. It is demonstrated that the kinematic value can be recovered by resetting the fluctuating magnetic field to zero in regular time intervals. It is concluded that this is the preferred technique both for the imposed-field and the test-field methods.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures, published version
The D'Entrecasteaux Channel scallop fishery : its past, present and future
Creators: name: Perrin, Richard Anthony
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The past and present structure and management of the D'Entrecasteaux Channel scallop fishery is examined with a view to providing a basis for the future management of the fishery. The fishery has suffered mixed fortunes since its beginnings in the early 1920's. Production has fluctuated markedly over the years, reaching a peak in 1961, and subsequently collapsing. The fishery was closed from 1970 - 1981, re-opened from 1982 - 1985, but closed again in 1986. The causes of the fluctuations in scallop production, and its collapse in the 1960's, .include changes in fishing technology, excessive fishing effort and the inherent variability in the annual recruitment of scallops. The 1986 closure was forced by evidence of over-fishing, and the sudden appearance of the toxic dinoflagellate alga Gymnodinium catenatum Graham in the Channel area. There is a lack of a comprehensive management plan for the D'Entrecasteaux Channel scallop fishery, and this is a serious obstacle to the successful conservation and utilization of the resource, as many of the administrative and biological problems, such as excessive fishing effort and the variable spatfall of scallops, are difficult to overcome. Moreover, there have been unexpected developments since the re-opening of the fishery in 1982: a great many more amateur fishermen now participate in the fishery, and the doughboy scallop (Chlamys asperrimus Lamarck) is now more numerous than the commercial scallop (Pecten fumata Tate). Theoretical and practical management techniques applied in other fisheries are examined and assessed. Because of its flexible nature, the concept of Optimum Sustainable Yield appears most suitable for the Channel fishery, and practical management should continue to include catch quotas, gear limitations, area closures, seasons, and size limits, as they provide a degree of control over fishing effort. Specific recommendations made are that the Channel scallop fishery should be amateur-only while scallop stocks remain low, that the level of enforcement and fines for breaches of fisheries regulations should be increased, and that research on scallops in the Channel, particularly the doughboy scallop, should be upgraded.