cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Impact of increasing productivity by using green concrete or environmentally friendly concrete in the construction industry
Creators: name: Jafari Marbini, Ali
name: Razavi, Mohammad Reza
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90501 Civil Geotechnical Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: The construction industry is growing rapidly and new technologies have emerged tojustify the various problems of the construction industry. Among all the materials used inconstruction, concrete is the main material for construction purposes. Today, recycling ofwaste and industrial by-products to produce environmentally friendly concrete is gainingpopularity, hence, this type of concrete is called green concrete. Green concrete is an advanced topic in the history of the concrete industry. Recycling of waste and by-products has attracted growing global interest due to the environmental damage of thecement and concrete industries. Ordinary concrete is made using sand and stone, butlightweight concrete can be made using industrial by-products and hazardous solid wastesuch as airborne ash, scum (or volcanic lava?), Sludge, and so on. Lightweight ashincreases the strength of concrete, improves sulfate resistance, reduces permeability,reduces the required water ratio, and improves concrete performance. Therefore, by usinggreen concrete, it is possible to reduce CO2 emissions into the atmosphere toenvironmentally friendly construction technology. Therefore, green concrete is a cheaperand more suitable alternative to concrete, because it uses waste to save energyconsumption in production. Due to the growing interest in sustainable construction,engineers and architects have become more inclined to choose materials that are moresustainable
Evaluation de la déformation durant une infiltration de l’eau dans le tuffeau
Creators: name: Hassine, Mohamed-Ahmed
name: Beck, Kévin
name: Brunetaud, Xavier
name: Al-Mukhtar, Muzahim
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2020

description: La principale dégradation du tuffeau est un détachement de plaques de la surface de la pierre. Notre programme expérimental vise à évaluer le mécanisme des desquamations par le couplage des contraintes mécaniques, hydriques et thermiques. Concernant l'action hydrique et afin de suivre le comportement de la pierre lors de l'infiltration d'eau à proximité de la surface, on a utilisé des rosettes de jauges de déformations pour mesurer localement la déformation pendant une imbibition. Dans cette communication, les résultats concernant les déformations différentielles entre la surface et le coeur de la pierre due à l'infiltration d'eau seront présentés. Ils montrent une zone de contraction locale et une zone d'expansion dans chaque direction, montrant que localement la dilatation hydrique est plus forte que celle mesuré globalement.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 35 No 1 (2017): Special Issue - RUGC 2017 Nantes
Understanding biased agonism at the dopamine D₂ receptor
Creators: name: Klein Herenbrink, Carmen
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The phenomenon of “biased agonism” presents an attractive avenue for drug development as it allows the separation of therapeutic effects from side effects mediated by the same target. A prototypical G protein-coupled receptor at which biased agonism has been extensively studied is the dopamine D₂ receptor, an important therapeutic target for current treatments of Parkinson’s disease and schizophrenia. There is increasing evidence that biased agonism is important for the antipsychotic efficacy of dopamine D₂ receptor partial agonists, such as aripiprazole and cariprazine. However, a clear relationship between biased agonism at the dopamine D₂ receptor and antipsychotic efficacy remains elusive, not least due to discrepancies in literature describing aripiprazole as ‘biased’ or ‘unbiased’, despite the same signalling endpoints being studied using the same cell background. To clarify such conflicts, and to aid the drug discovery efforts aimed at identifying novel dopamine D₂ receptor biased agonists, the focus of this thesis is to gain greater insight into the mechanisms that mediate biased agonism at the dopamine D₂ receptor. Through the utilization of both mutagenesis-based and structure-activity-based approaches, a secondary binding pocket was identified for being crucial in the affinity, efficacy, and bias of different ligands at the dopamine D₂ receptor. A structure-activity relationship study indicated that both efficacy and biased agonism can be finely tuned by minor structural modifications to the head group, the tail group, and the orientation and length of a spacer region of cariprazine. In particular, it was demonstrated that modifications to the tail region, and thus the interaction with a potential secondary binding site, alter the orientation of the head group within the orthosteric binding site regulating both efficacy and biased agonism. These results were corroborated with a mutagenesis study, in which mutations within a putative secondary binding site significantly impacted the affinity and efficacy of a number of dopamine D₂ receptor agonists. Finally, it was demonstrated that “kinetic context”, as determined by both ligand-binding kinetics and the kinetics intrinsic to different cellular signalling processes, can dramatically impact observations of biased agonism. Such findings illustrate, for the first time, the importance of incorporating kinetic profiling in future studies focussed on biased agonism to allow a more informed selection of preclinical candidates and thus an improved foundation for drug discovery of biased agonists.
A portfolio of compositions based on trajectories through musical state spaces
Creators: name: Spicer, Michael John
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This project attempts to develop a compositional approach where electro-acoustic music can be produced in a way that can easily integrate techniques and processes from different types of musical practices. The method adopted is inspired by an approach developed in Computer Science, to integrate the various fields of Artificial Intelligence. In this portfolio, music composition is viewed as creating the conditions so that the resultant music is an emergent phenomenon of the interactions of a collection of autonomous musical agents. To create a composition, a composer assembles a collection of musical agents and then delegates the task of creating the low-level musical material to each agent, specifying how each agent behaves. Every agent can exist in a number of states and their current state is reflected in their current contribution to the musical texture. By determining the ways an agent can travel through its state space, the composer can shape the composition. This state transition strategy can be implemented in such a way as to emulate the various idiomatic strategies a musician might apply in different musical contexts. Encapsulating compositional processes inside agents provides a way to potentially combine disparate compositional approaches. To create the works in this portfolio a general compositional framework was devised based on this idea, and three composition models were developed: the Painting Approach, the Pruning Approach, and the Goal-Led Approach. Several compositions were made with each model, varying the details of the different implementations. The portfolio includes interactive and fixed form works for computer-based instruments, analog synthesizers and acoustic instruments. Almost all of the works have some improvisational component. The approach of encapsulating generative processes in agents, so as to guide them as they explore their state spaces proved to be a successful means of producing music in a way that enables free mixing strategies for generating musical material. The ability to choose each agent’s state space traversal strategy gives a composer high-level tools to effectively determine the overall shape of the music. Most of the portfolio works, created with this approach, have been performed either at curated international conferences or festivals. Additional material(s) submitted with thesis.
Un composite plâtre-MCP pour améliorer le confort thermique des bâtiments.
Creators: name: Harlé, Thibault
name: L. Hébert, Ronan
name: Ledésert, Béatrice
name: Mélinge, Yannick
name: Nguyen, Tran Minh Giao
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2020

description: Le but de ce travail est de caractériser un matériau de construction composite incorporant un nouveau matériau à changement de phase (MCP) à transition solide solide que nous développons au Laboratoire de Physico-chimie des Polymères et des Interfaces (Université de Cergy-Pontoise). Le MCP est solide dans la gamme de température du bâtiment et ne présente pas de danger pour l’Homme ou l’environnement. Les différents MCP synthétisés effectuent des transitions de phase entre 20°C et 30°C avec des chaleurs latentes comprises entre 80J/g et 120J/g. Le MCP est utilisé pour la formulation d’un composite plâtre/MCP à différentes teneurs en MCP. Le composite est caractérisé thermiquement par calorimétrie différentielle à balayage (DSC) et analyses thermogravimétriques (TGA), des essais de suivi thermique en enceinte climatique sont aussi réalisés. Des tests de vieillissement accélérés sont imposés au composite afin d’estimer la durabilité des propriétés thermiques du MCP au cours du temps. La résistance mécanique du composite est déterminée par des essais de compression uniaxiale.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 35 No 1 (2017): Special Issue - RUGC 2017 Nantes
The amyloid-beta-dependent phosphorylation of CRMP-2 and its contribution in Alzheimer’s disease
Creators: name: Mokhtar, Sara
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the accumulation of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. Before the development of these two characteristic features, impairments in anterograde axonal transport develop. However, molecules that initiate these impairments are still unknown. The collapsin response mediator protein-2 (CRMP-2) plays an integral role in kinesin-1-dependent axonal transport and there is evidence that phosphorylation of CRMP-2 releases kinesin-1. However, the intraneuronal signaling events that regulate CRMP-2 phosphorylation and kinesin function during neurodegeneration are yet to be defined. Here, we tested the hypothesis that amyloid beta (Aβ)-dependent phosphorylation of CRMP-2 disrupts its association with the kinesin-1 anterograde axonal motor transport protein in AD. We found enhanced Aβ-dependent phosphorylation of CRMP-2 at the T555 site and reduced CRMP-2 association with kinesin-1, while the overexpression of an unphosphorylatable form of CRMP-2 in neurons promoted the re-establishment of CRMP-2-kinesin association and axon elongation. Additionally, in the transgenic Tg2576 mouse model of familial AD (FAD), that exhibits Aβ accumulation in the brain with age, we found substantial colocalization of pT555CRMP-2 and dystrophic neurites. Consistent with these findings, brain lysates from AD patients demonstrated phosphorylation of CRMP-2 at the T555 site correlated with the elevated dissociation of CRMP-2 from kinesin-1. These data suggest that Aβ-dependent phosphorylation of CRMP-2 at the T555 site may directly impair anterograde axonal transport potential leading to neuronal defects.
Additional file 1: of Pattern and determinants of contraceptive usage among women of reproductive age from the Digo community residing in Kwale, Kenya: results from a cross-sectional household survey
Creators: name: Mochache, Vernon
name: Lakhani, Amyn
name: El-Busaidy, Hajara
name: Temmerman, Marleen
name: Gichangi, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Sexual and reproductive health questionnaire. Questionnaire administered to all respondents within their households. (PDF 251 kb)
Ensuring the reliability of load cells in geotechnical science
Creators: name: Jafari Marbini, Ali
name: niknafs, pardis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90501 Civil Geotechnical Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: Strain gauges and load cells are often used to measure strain and load in concrete or steelcomponents of geotechnical structures. Reliability problems are frequently cited for theseinstruments. The purposes of this paper are (a) to discuss the factors that affect thereliability of strain gauges and load cells used for geotechnical engineering applications,(b) to suggest the instrument types that have historically performed most reliably and aretherefore preferred by some engineers, (c) to indicate which instruments should prove tobe the best choice for future projects, and (d) to establish realistic survivability rates to beused in planning instrumentation programs. These objectives were accomplished bysearching published literature and by surveying the opinions of more than 4oknowledgeable geotechnical engineers. The results of the survey as well as publishedinformation have been compiled and are included in the paper. The primaryconsiderations for instrument reliability are instrument characteristics and selection. Otherconsiderations include proper planning of the instrumentation program, ability of theinstrument to perform the intended function, and field installation and handlingtechniques. Vibrating wire strain gauges are generally preferred for reliable strainmeasurement. Electrical resistance strain gauged load cells are generally preferred forreliable load measurement. Planning of an instrumentation program should anticipate theprobability that one-quarter to one-half of the instruments may not survive installation orthe period of monitoring.
 (PDF) Ensuring the reliability of load cells in geotechnical science. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358595483_Ensuring_the_reliability_of_load_cells_in_geotechnical_science [accessed Apr 11 2022].
PEPSI's non-detection of escaping hydrogen and metal lines adds to the enigma of WASP-12 b
Creators: name: Asnodkar, Anusha Pai
name: Wang, Ji
name: Broome, Madelyn
name: Huang, Chenliang
name: Johnson, Marshall C.
name: Ilyin, Ilya
name: Strassmeier, Klaus G.
name: Jensen, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: WASP-12 b is an ultra-hot Jupiter (UHJ) of special interest for atmospheric studies since it is on an inspiraling orbit in an extreme environment of intense radiation and circumstellar gas. Previously claimed detections of active mass loss from this planet are controversial across the literature. To address this controversy, we obtain two new transit observations of WASP-12 b with the optical high-resolution PEPSI spectrograph on the Large Binocular Telescope. Contrary to previous work, we do not observe planetary H$α$ absorption and rule out the amplitude of previously reported detections. Our non-detection may be limited by the sensitivity of our data or could indicate weaker mass loss than suggested by previous studies. We conduct injection-recovery experiments to place constraints on the radial extent of WASP-12 b's escaping atmosphere as probed by Balmer lines, but find that our data do not have the sensitivity to probe down to the planet's Roche Lobe. Using physically motivated models of atmospheric escape, we explore upper limit constraints on the planet's mass-loss rate and deem the data quality in the wavelength regime of Balmer lines insufficient to determine a physically meaningful constraint. We also conduct a spectral survey of other optical absorbers to trace atmospheric circulation but detect no additional absorption. We conclude that previous claims of H$α$ absorption from the atmosphere of WASP-12 b should be reevaluated. Given the anticipated line strength of Balmer/optical features, observing the atmosphere of this faint target will require stacking more observations even with the largest telescope facilities available.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication to MNRAS
Caractérisation des Matières Organiques dans les sédiments de dragage par méthodes thermiques et chimiques en vue d’une valorisation dans le domaine des travaux routiers
Creators: name: HAMOUCHE, Fawzi
name: ZENTAR, Rachid
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2020

description: Les sédiments de dragage ou de curage représentent un réel danger pour la qualité des eaux et d’une manière générale l’environnement. Ils peuvent être des puits potentiels de contamination. Les matières organiques (MO) ont longtemps été les principaux contaminants des milieux aquatiques. Elles résultent des déchets domestiques, agricoles ou industriels. Pour la valorisation dans le secteur du génie civil, la présence de matières organiques, même en faibles proportions, peut affecter le comportement mécanique et chimique des sédiments. L’objectif de ce travail est d’explorer et de comparer des méthodes de caractérisation des MO dans les sédiments. L’impact sur l’environnement sera également abordé à travers des analyses chimiques des constituants organiques.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 35 No 1 (2017): Special Issue - RUGC 2017 Nantes
Physical activity and risks of breast and colorectal cancer: a Mendelian randomisation analysis.
Creators: name: Papadimitriou, Nikos
name: Dimou, Niki
name: Tsilidis, Konstantinos K
name: Banbury, Barbara
name: Martin, Richard M
name: Lewis, Sarah J
name: Kazmi, Nabila
name: Robinson, Timothy M
name: Albanes, Demetrius
name: Aleksandrova, Krasimira
name: Berndt, Sonja I
name: Timothy Bishop, D
name: Brenner, Hermann
name: Buchanan, Daniel D
name: Bueno-De-Mesquita, Bas
name: Campbell, Peter T
name: Castellví-Bel, Sergi
name: Chan, Andrew T
name: Chang-Claude, Jenny
name: Ellingjord-Dale, Merete
name: Figueiredo, Jane C
name: Gallinger, Steven J
name: Giles, Graham G
name: Giovannucci, Edward
name: Gruber, Stephen B
name: Gsur, Andrea
name: Hampe, Jochen
name: Hampel, Heather
name: Harlid, Sophia
name: Harrison, Tabitha A
name: Hoffmeister, Michael
name: Hopper, John L
name: Hsu, Li
name: María Huerta, José
name: Huyghe, Jeroen R
name: Jenkins, Mark A
name: Keku, Temitope O
name: Kühn, Tilman
name: La Vecchia, Carlo
name: Le Marchand, Loic
name: Li, Christopher I
name: Li, Li
name: Lindblom, Annika
name: Lindor, Noralane M
name: Lynch, Brigid
name: Markowitz, Sanford D
name: Masala, Giovanna
name: May, Anne M
name: Milne, Roger
name: Monninkhof, Evelyn
name: Moreno, Lorena
name: Moreno, Victor
name: Newcomb, Polly A
name: Offit, Kenneth
name: Perduca, Vittorio
name: Pharoah, Paul D P
name: Platz, Elizabeth A
name: Potter, John D
name: Rennert, Gad
name: Riboli, Elio
name: Sánchez, Maria-Jose
name: Schmit, Stephanie L
name: Schoen, Robert E
name: Severi, Gianluca
name: Sieri, Sabina
name: Slattery, Martha L
name: Song, Mingyang
name: Tangen, Catherine M
name: Thibodeau, Stephen N
name: Travis, Ruth C
name: Trichopoulou, Antonia
name: Ulrich, Cornelia M
name: Van Duijnhoven, Franzel J B
name: Van Guelpen, Bethany
name: Vodicka, Pavel
name: White, Emily
name: Wolk, Alicja
name: Woods, Michael O
name: Wu, Anna H
name: Peters, Ulrike
name: Gunter, Marc J
name: Murphy, Neil
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020

description: Physical activity has been associated with lower risks of breast and colorectal cancer in epidemiological studies; however, it is unknown if these associations are causal or confounded. In two-sample Mendelian randomisation analyses, using summary genetic data from the UK Biobank and GWA consortia, we found that a one standard deviation increment in average acceleration was associated with lower risks of breast cancer (odds ratio [OR]: 0.51, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.27 to 0.98, P-value = 0.04) and colorectal cancer (OR: 0.66, 95% CI: 0.48 to 0.90, P-value = 0.01). We found similar magnitude inverse associations for estrogen positive (ER+ve) breast cancer and for colon cancer. Our results support a potentially causal relationship between higher physical activity levels and lower risks of breast cancer and colorectal cancer. Based on these data, the promotion of physical activity is probably an effective strategy in the primary prevention of these commonly diagnosed cancers.
Additional file 1: Figure S1. of Epidemiology of invasive group B streptococcal disease in infants from urban area of South China, 2011â 2014
Creators: name: Guan, Xiaoshan
name: Mu, Xiaoping
name: Ji, Wenjing
name: Yuan, Chunlei
name: He, Ping
name: Zhang, Lian
name: Huang, Yanfen
name: Li, Juan
name: Chen, Jianfeng
name: Zhong, Huamin
name: Pang, Shuyin
name: Tan, Nan
name: Deng, Qiulian
name: Gao, Kankan
name: Huang, Yu-Ping
name: Chang, Chien-Yi
name: Liu, Haiying
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Partial sequence diagram for seven house-keeping genes. adhP gene(A), pheS gene(B), atr gene(C), glnA gene(D), sdhA gene(E), glcK gene(F), tkt gene(G). (DOCX 849 kb)
Argyria Hubner 1818
Creators: name: Landry, Bernard
name: Léger, Théo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Pyralidae
Argyria

description: Argyria Hübner, 1818
This genus presently includes 33 species distributed mostly in the Western Hemisphere, from southern Canada to Argentina, except for two of them, possibly misplaced in Argyria, from India and Fiji (Nuss et al., 2024). The bionomics and immature stages are known only for Argyria gonogramma Dyar (see below).
description: Published as part of Landry, Bernard & Léger, Théo, 2024, Taxonomic revision of the Crambinae (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae sensu lato) of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador, pp. 357-387 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 131 (2) on page 361, DOI: 10.35929/RSZ.0129, http://zenodo.org/record/15085298
MOESM1 of Distinct virulent network between healthcare- and community-associated Staphylococcus aureus based on proteomic analysis
Creators: name: He, Lei
name: Meng, Hongwei
name: Liu, Qian
name: Hu, Mo
name: Wang, Yanan
name: Chen, Xiaoying
name: Liu, Xiaoyun
name: Li, Min
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1. The detailed information on differentially expressed 209 proteins in each isolate.
Hybridization between subterranean tuco-tucos (Rodentia, Ctenomyidae) with contrasting phylogenetic positions.
Creators: name: Kubiak, Bruno Busnello
name: Kretschmer, Rafael
name: Leipnitz, Leonardo Trindade
name: Maestri, Renan
name: De Almeida, Thamara Santos
name: Borges, Leandro Rodrigues
name: Galiano, Daniel
name: Pereira, Jorge C
name: De Oliveira, Edivaldo Herculano Corrêa
name: Ferguson-Smith, Malcolm A
name: De Freitas, Thales Renato Ochotorena
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020

description: Reproductive compatibility usually decreases according to increasing genetic difference and the time of divergence between species. However, the amount of modification required to influence hybridization may vary in different species. Thus, it is extremely important to conduct studies that seek to understand what and how variables influence the reproductive isolation of species. We have explored a system involving two species of subterranean rodents that present morphological, karyotypic, and evolutionary history differences and are capable of generating hybrids. To gain insight into the karyotype organization of genus Ctenomys, we examined the chromosome evolution by classical and molecular cytogenetics of both parental species and hybrids. Furthermore, we have used different approaches to analyze the differences between the parental species and the hybrids, and determined the origin of the hybrids. The results of our work demonstrate unequivocally that some species that present extensive differences in chromosome organization, phenotype, evolutionary history, sperm morphology and genetic, which are usually associated with reproductive isolation, can generate natural hybrids. The results also demonstrate that females of both species are able to generate hybrids with males of the other species. In addition, the chromosome-specific probes prepared from Ctenomys flamarioni provide an invaluable tool for comparative cytogenetics in closely related species.
Hannah Arendt and council democracy
Creators: name: Muldoon, James
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis examines Hannah Arendt’s argument for a council democracy and its relevance for contemporary democratic practices. References to the councils in Arendt’s work are often ignored or dismissed by her interpreters as a utopian commitment. Against the tendency to neglect this aspect of her thought, I argue that the councils play a crucial role in her work as the institutional embodiment of her principle of political freedom. Tracing the development of the council concept in Arendt’s thought, I offer a significant reinterpretation of her political theory as situated within the radical democratic tradition of Rosa Luxemburg. I contend that Arendt’s key contribution to democratic theory is her championing of a federal system of participatory and empowered councils as the central political institutions of a council republic. Arendt’s argument for a council democracy draws from historical examples of councils from the French Revolution to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. However, Arendt mischaracterises the nature of the councils and the intentions of council delegates. She inserts them in the framework of her own political categories and disregards the delegates’ socialist ideology and socio-economic concerns. Arendt’s distortion of the councils gives rise to the need for a historical re-examination of their political practices. I return to the political struggles of the post-First World War council movements in Germany and Russia in order to place the councils in historical perspective and challenge the biases of Arendt’s account. My analysis reveals that the councils were concerned with both political and economic affairs. I revise Arendt’s depiction in arguing that the councils were transformative organs of democratisation that sought to introduce democratic conditions into all spheres of social organisation. Situating the councils in relation to contemporary democratic practices, my principal argument is that they offer a critical perspective on the limits of current liberal democratic regimes. Although the councils do not present a model that could be replicated today, council delegates engaged in significant political practices that are instructive for current attempts at political transformation. In particular, they reveal the insufficiencies of electoral institutions for enabling widespread political participation and holding elites accountable. I argue that the historical significance of the councils is their exemplary role as institutions through which working-class forces organised to restrain elites, dismantle hierarchical systems and equalise power between citizens.

Awards: Winner of the Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal for Excellence, Faculty of Arts, 2016.
The reception of Bollywood in Malaysia (1991-2012): a contextual study
Creators: name: Sreekumar, Rohini
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Bollywood films are increasingly drawing scholarly attention for their global appeal and reception. Transnational studies have examined the reception of Bollywood in Australia, Britain, Scotland, South Africa, Russia, the United States of America, Bangladesh and Nepal. However, academic work on the Southeast Asian reception of these films is scarcer. This research seeks to fill this gap by looking at the reception of Bollywood in Malaysia from 1991-2012. The thesis adopts a contextual approach where the reception of Bollywood is situated within the broader Malaysian socio-political and religious contexts. Bollywood, which reached Malaysia as early as the 1930s, has an audience that goes beyond the nation’s Indian diaspora. The thesis uses qualitative discourse analysis to look at the representations of Bollywood in the Malaysian media, and the broader context of such representations. As Malaysia has a long history of screening Bollywood movies, this thesis adopts a linear historical approach, tracing developments in Bollywood’s appeal, which then serves as a foundation for the rest of the study. It is revealed that Bollywood is not only a part of Malaysian film culture, but that it also forms a part of Malaysian socio-politics. This shows a “mainstreaming” of Bollywood films in the Malaysian context, which, in this thesis, is termed ‘Malaysianisation’. The study shows that Bollywood in Malaysia has a dual and contradictory image – as a religious threat and as a marketing tool to help brand Malaysia overseas. This unique representation and reception reflects the contradictions existing in the larger Malaysian socio-political sphere, which also substantiates the concept of Bollywood’s ‘Malaysianisation’.
Enhancing EHR Systems with data from wearables: An end-to-end Solution for monitoring post-Surgical Symptoms in older adults
Creators: name: Sun, Heng
name: Jalam, Sai Manoj
name: Kodali, Havish
name: Nerella, Subhash
name: Zapata, Ruben D.
name: Gravina, Nicole
name: Ray, Jessica
name: Schmidt, Erik C.
name: Manini, Todd Matthew
name: Parisa, Rashidi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Mobile health (mHealth) apps have gained popularity over the past decade for patient health monitoring, yet their potential for timely intervention is underutilized due to limited integration with electronic health records (EHR) systems. Current EHR systems lack real-time monitoring capabilities for symptoms, medication adherence, physical and social functions, and community integration. Existing systems typically rely on static, in-clinic measures rather than dynamic, real-time patient data. This highlights the need for automated, scalable, and human-centered platforms to integrate patient-generated health data (PGHD) within EHR. Incorporating PGHD in a user-friendly format can enhance patient symptom surveillance, ultimately improving care management and post-surgical outcomes. To address this barrier, we have developed an mHealth platform, ROAMM-EHR, to capture real-time sensor data and Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) using a smartwatch. The ROAMM-EHR platform can capture data from a consumer smartwatch, send captured data to a secure server, and display information within the Epic EHR system using a user-friendly interface, thus enabling healthcare providers to monitor post-surgical symptoms effectively.
description: 8 pages, ACM MobiCom4AgeTech 2024
Sweet little lies: the ethics of placebo use in clinical practice
Creators: name: Allen, Anton Philip
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis intends to establish whether it is permissible for a doctor or nurse to administer a deceptive placebo to a patient if it is believed that this treatment presents that patient's best or only chance at some therapeutic benefit. To do this I first establish that there is good reason to believe that placebo treatments can have a real therapeutic effect, and that deceptive placebos are currently being used widely in clinical practice around the world. I take a Kantian approach to answer the question of whether a deceptive placebo can be consistent with respect for patient autonomy. I argue that the deception involved in a placebo treatment is not carried out to interfere with or obstruct the function of the will, but merely to make possible a means to the patient's ends that that would otherwise be unavailable. It is therefore possible for a deceptive placebo to administered in a way that is consistent with a Kantian respect for rational agency. Moreover, this analysis highlights the features that separate morally permissible cases of placebo deception from morally impermissible cases, and from morally impermissible cases of paternalistic deception more generally. I examine different standards of informed consent and argue that, as by most workable standards a patient can give valid informed consent to a treatment without knowing its exact nature or mechanism of action, that a deceptive placebo treatment can meet these standards in at least some cases. Lastly I examine the argument that the deception involved in a placebo treatment constitutes a betrayal of the trust between practitioner and patient. To do this I investigate the connection between honesty and trustworthiness, deception and betrayal. I argue that, while outright lies are indeed detrimental to the trust relationship between practitioner and patient, the withholding of that information necessary to facilitate placebo treatment need not be. I therefore conclude that, where a placebo treatment is believed to present a patient's best or only chance at some therapeutic benefit, it is permissible for a doctor or nurse to withhold information on that treatment's nature in order to facilitate the placebo effect.
Exploring womens' experiences and decision making about physical activity during pregnancy and following birth: a qualitative study.
Creators: name: Findley, Amy
name: Smith, Debbie M
name: Hesketh, Kathryn
name: Keyworth, Chris
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Pregnancy
Postpartum
Qualitative
Decision Making
Physical Activity
Thematic Analysis

description: BACKGROUND:Physical activity (PA) tends to decline during pregnancy, and remains low in the early postpartum period, despite the known physical and psychological benefits. This study aimed to explore: (1) women's experiences of PA during pregnancy and following birth; and (2) decision-making processes related to PA during this time. METHODS:Semi-structured telephone interviews were conducted with 16 women who were either pregnant or had recently given birth. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using thematic analysis. RESULTS:There were two over-arching themes: (1) ownership of body, which consisted of the sub-themes: others try to take ownership, important to maintain fitness into pregnancy and motherhood, expectations of PA, and pressure to conform; and (2) unknown territory, which consisted of the sub-themes: engaging in PA with caution, and unclear advice. Decision-making about PA during pregnancy was influenced by: pressure from others who felt responsible to protect the woman from coming to harm; pressure from social media to lose weight postpartum; participant's beliefs about the benefits of maintaining fitness and participants expectations of how active they thought they would be able to be during pregnancy. Participants felt that pregnancy was an 'unknown territory' in terms of the unfamiliar feelings in their body and the inability to continually monitor their baby for reassurance of baby's health. Advice received from midwives was often lacking, or not tailored to the individual. Advice from friends and family was often regarded as incorrect, but still caused doubt and fear of PA during pregnancy. CONCLUSIONS:These findings contribute to the understanding of women's experiences of PA during pregnancy and post-partum, and their decision-making processes about PA during pregnancy. Developing accurate and tailored advice as part of midwifery care, that considers the physical and psychological aspects of engaging in PA during pregnancy, will help to ensure that women are supported to make informed decisions about their PA behaviour.
Mise au point d’une plateforme expérimentale CND de caractérisation de la structure interne de plâtre soumis au feu
Creators: name: Giovannacc, D.
name: Tornari, V.
name: Andrianakis, M.
name: Mélinge, Y.
name: Brissaud, D.
name: Wassermann, J.
name: Cristofol, L.
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2020

description: Dans cet article, l’étude du comportement de panneaux à base de sulfate de calcium soumis à une élévation thermique de type incendie est menée expérimentalement dans un contexte THCM au moyen de différentes techniques et notamment des méthodes non invasives et non destructives. La complémentarité des approches permet d’améliorer l’état des connaissances et de fiabiliser une plateforme CND
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 35 No 1 (2017): Special Issue - RUGC 2017 Nantes
Pore size distribution, porosity and permeability of saturated kaolin along triaxial stress paths
Creators: name: GAO, Qian-Feng
name: JRAD, Mohamad
name: HATTAB, Mahdia
name: IGHIL AMEUR, Lamine
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2020

description: The aim of this work was to identify the pore structure and permeability of clay under various triaxial loading. Triaxial tests were conducted on saturated kaolin specimens, and mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) were subsequently adopted to analyze the local pore properties. An improved permeability model was proposed and then used to predict the permeability of kaolin based on MIP results. The influences of the over consolidation ratio (OCR) and the stress path on pore structures and permeabilities were observed. The proposed model is approved to be capable of predicting the permeability of clay with some desirable advantages.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 35 No 1 (2017): Special Issue - RUGC 2017 Nantes
Women’s empowerment in a poor community in Jakarta
Creators: name: Eddyono, Sri Wiyanti
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis presents a case study of women’s empowerment in Indonesia that examines how women in one informal settlement (slum) in Jakarta, Kampung Rawa, resist house eviction. This thesis also examines how governments, NGOs and leader in the community could assist or impede women’s empowerment. In Jakarta, house evictions have been conducted for over fifty years as part of municipal government policies for modernising the city. They particularly target poor people living in informal settlements without title to land and acutely affect women. This study examines how women’s empowerment and disempowerment occurs in the process of struggles to prevent eviction in different urban political contexts under three governors of Jakarta in the New Democratic era: Sutiyoso, Fauzi Bowo and Joko Widodo. Utilising a feminist qualitative approach based on interviews, focus group discussions and participative observation, this thesis defines women’s empowerment as a process of creating space for women to expand their agency in order to challenge oppressive power. Most studies assess women’s empowerment as operationalised within intervention programs conducted by NGOs, government officers or other development agencies. By contrast, I analyse whether the desire to resist the demolition of their homes and their roles as mothers encourage women to intensify their agency. This study exposes the diversity of women’s situations, their agency and their strategies in preventing eviction. Although they live in one informal settlement Kampung Rawa residents are divided into three groups, each with different characteristics. They have faced different layers of power that oppress them in everyday life: husbands, community leaders, and local governments.. However, women’s agency is strongly evident through different kinds of resistance in their daily life, as individuals and through the adoption of more collective strategies, both subtle and more visible. The dynamics of their agency are influenced by several factors: their own perception of problems and the way they interpret their roles as mother and wives, their relationship with their husbands, government attitudes and policies, and their interaction with NGOs and leaders in their own community. These different interactions have created more available spaces for them to increase their agency, but also have obstructed their agency. Thus, this study concludes that women’s struggles in combating eviction facilitate their empowerment even as they experience disempowerment.
Corrosion behaviour and cytotoxicity of Mg alloys for biomedical applications
Creators: name: Wang, Junlan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Magnesium (Mg) and its alloys are emerging biomaterials for orthopaedic and vascular stent applications owing to their desirable mechanical and biological features. However, their clinical applications are significantly restricted by the rapid and uncontrollable degradation, corresponding hydrogen gas evolution, deterioration of mechanical strength and dramatic changes in local pH in physiological environments. Furthermore, a comprehensive understanding of toxicity for Mg alloys remains essential for the engineering of biomedical Mg implants. Particularly, little is known regarding the biocompatibility of corrosion surface films that have direct contact with tissues/cells. In this work, alloying Mg with micro additions of strontium (Sr) with or without Zn was selected as a promising strategy to utilise the biological effect of Sr in accelerating bone tissue growth, and the modification role of Zn in mitigating corrosion rate of Mg-Sr alloys. The effect of alloying upon degradation rate was investigated via electrochemical measurements and immersion tests in minimum essential medium (MEM), a widely employed simulated body fluid. The results reveal a comparative degradation rate of the alloys tested herein, indicating no detrimental effect of Sr on degradation of the resulting alloys. Cytotoxicity experiments on primary mouse osteoblasts exhibit good biocompatibility and enhanced proliferation of osteoblasts for all the tested Mg alloys. The findings could provide a new insight to design and prepare Mg alloys as biomaterials with desired functionalities. The present work also attempted to elucidate how the Mg surface evolves during dissolution in cell culture medium, and to assess the influence of corrosion surface films on cell viability, attachment and morphology by means of Methylthiazolyldiphenyl-carboxymethoxyphenyl-sulfophenyl tetrazolium (MTS), live/dead staining and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) characterisation. Such cytotoxicity experiments demonstrate an enhanced biocompatibility of corroded surface relative to bare metal, and good spreading of cells on all tested surfaces. The work herein provides a preliminary understanding of the influence of surface films that act as the interface between implants and tissues/cells on cell behaviours, which is crucial for the surgical success of Mg-based implants.
title: OFROM: interview avec unine15z05m
Creators: name: Delafontaine, François
name: , Brun
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Français
subject: fra

description: Conforms to: Praat textgrid
description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.69c4fa74-f324-3ddb-9f1a-580867fd5826
description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.69c4fa74-f324-3ddb-9f1a-580867fd5826
description: Source: https://nakala.fr/10.34847/nkl.edbf0922.v2#18f8024f3a60698eaa0700b9ed01cd99ec9155d2
Etude expérimentale pour l’évaluation de la résistance au cisaillement de joints cohésifs rugueux de granite-béton
Creators: name: El Merabi, Bassel
name: Briffaut, Matthieu
name: Dufour, Frédéric
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2020

description: Le comportement en cisaillement des joints cohésifs de béton-roche est un facteur clé dans la détérmination de la résistance au cisaillement des fondations de barrages poids en béton. Bien que plusieurs études aient été réalisées sur des contacts frottants de béton-roche, il subsiste encore une incertitude quant à la résistance au cisaillement des interfaces liées ou adhésives. L’influence de différentes échelles de rugosité est alors étudiée par la réalisation de plusieurs campagnes expérimentales sur des contacts naturels et artificiels à plusieurs niveaux de contrainte normale. Dans le but de lier la résistance au cisaillement à la géométrie des joints par le biais des paramètres statistiques de la rugosité, la surface des joints était scannée par un profilomètre laser. Les résultats montrent qu’il n’y a pas de corrélation directe entre les paramètres statistiques proposés dans la littérature et la résistance au cisaillement des joints cohésifs. Une analyse supplémentaire est alors envisagée pour la proposition d’un nouveau paramètre de rugosité.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 35 No 1 (2017): Special Issue - RUGC 2017 Nantes
Participants' perspectives and preferences on clinical trial result dissemination: The TRUST Thyroid Trial experience.
Creators: name: Racine, Emmy
name: Hurley, Caroline
name: Cheung, Aoife
name: Sinnott, Carol
name: Matvienko-Sikar, Karen
name: Baumgartner, Christine
name: Rodondi, Nicolas
name: Smithson, William H
name: Kearney, Patricia M
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: Patient And Public Involvement
Research Dissemination
Swat
Study Results
Study Within A Trial
Clinical Trial Result Dissemination
Patient Involvement In Clinical Trials
Trial Results.

description: Background: While there is an increasing consensus that clinical trial results should be shared with trial participants, there is a lack of evidence on the most appropriate methods. The aim of this study is to use a patient and public involvement (PPI) approach to identify, develop and evaluate a patient-preferred method of receiving results of the Thyroid Hormone Replacement for Subclinical Hypo-Thyroidism Trial (TRUST). Methods: This is a mixed methods study with three consecutive phases. Phase 1 iteratively developed a patient-preferred result method using semi-structured focus groups and a consensus-orientated-decision model, a PPI group to refine the method and adult literacy review for plain English assessment. Phase 2 was a single-blind parallel group trial. Irish TRUST participants were randomised to the intervention (patient-preferred method) and control group (standard method developed by lead study site). Phase 3 used a patient understanding questionnaire to compare patient understanding of results between the two methods. Results: Patients want to receive results of clinical trials, with qualitative findings indicating three key themes including 'acknowledgement of individual contribution', 'contributing for a collective benefit' and 'receiving accessible and easy to understand results'. Building on these findings, a patient-preferred method of receiving results was developed as described above. TRUST participants (n=101) were randomised to the intervention. The questionnaire response rate was 74% for the intervention group and 62% for the control group. There were no differences in patient understanding between the two methods. Conclusions: We have demonstrated that it is feasible to conduct PPI with regard to the dissemination of results. The study identified and developed a patient-preferred method of receiving clinical trial results for older adults over 65 years. Although, in this study PPI did not influence patients' final understanding of results, it provides a record of the process of conducting PPI within the clinical trial setting.