cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Paraschistura cristata
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Nemacheilidae
Paraschistura
Paraschistura cristata

description: 60. Paraschistura cristata (Berg, 1898)
Common name. Crested loach
Taxonomy. Original description: Nemacheilus cristatus Berg, 1898: 19 [5], fig. [Tedzhen River near Ashgabat (Askhabad), Turkmenistan; syntypes: ISBR 996 (2), ZIN 11055 (1), ZMMU P-2555 (59)].
Revisions. Berg (1949: 886) as Nemachilus cristatus. Prokofiev (2009: 893) as Metaschistura cristata, Freyhof et al. (2015: 10).
Illustrations. Berg (1949: 886, fig. 36) as Nemachilus cristatus, Freyhof et al. (2015: figs. 6-8).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Hari River.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 631-Upper Amu Darya.
Status in Iran. [Native].—Loch mahi-e tajdare Torkaman.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: ZM-CBSU.
Conservation. —IUCN: NE.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on pages 25-26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
ОГНЕЗАЩИТНЫЕ ФИЗИЧЕСКИЕ И ХИМИЧЕСКИЕ СВОЙСТВА
Creators: name: Назаров Феруз Фарходович, Каршинский инженерно-экономический институт
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Следует отметить, что механизм действия антипиренов не характеризуется единым эффектом, это более сложный процесс. Наличие двух или более соединений одновременно с большей вероятностью предотвратит образование пожара. Совместное действие двух веществ называется синергизмом [1].
D8.2.2 – Report on Life Cycle Costing
Creators: name: Gobio-Thomas, Lisa
name: Stojceska, Valentina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This report covers the second phase of the D8.2 that focuses on the assessment of the cost impacts of the ASTEP system. It includes cycle costing for Mandrekas (MAND) and Arcelor Mittal (AMTP). The ASTEP system is an innovative solar thermal technology consisting of three main subsystems; the novel rotary Fresnel SunDial solar collector, the thermal energy storage and the control system. The system provides high temperature process heat up to 400 ºC to the industries located at both high and low latitudes. The Sundial collector design for use in low latitudes includes a rotating platform so that the sun is maintained within the mirrors field longitudinal plane. The mirrors are fixed on the platform, as they do not need to track the sun, reducing the collector cost. The design of the Sundial collector for use at high latitudes includes a rotating platform to maintain the sun within the field cross section as well as the mirrors tracking the sun as the cross-section sun altitude changes along the day.
Sim-To-Real Transfer for Visual Reinforcement Learning of Deformable Object Manipulation for Robot-Assisted Surgery
Creators: name: Scheikl, Paul Maria
name: Tagliabue, Eleonora
name: Gyenes, Balázs
name: Wagner, Martin
name: Dall'Alba, Diego
name: Fiorini, Paolo
name: Mathis-Ullrich, Franziska
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automation holds the potential to assist surgeons in robotic interventions, shifting their mental work load from visuomotor control to high level decision making. Reinforcement learning has shown promising results in learning complex visuomotor policies, especially in simulation environments where many samples can be collected at low cost. A core challenge is learning policies in simulation that can be deployed in the real world, thereby overcoming the sim-to-real gap.
 In this work, we bridge the visual sim-to-real gap with an image-based reinforcement learning pipeline based on pixel-level domain adaptation and demonstrate its effectiveness on an image-based task in deformable object manipulation. We choose a tissue retraction task because of its importance in clinical reality of precise cancer surgery. After training in simulation on domain-translated images, our policy requires no retraining to perform tissue retraction with a 50% success rate on the real robotic system using raw RGB images. Furthermore, our sim-to-real transfer method makes no assumptions on the task itself and requires no paired images. This work introduces the first successful application of visual sim-to-real transfer for robotic manipulation of deformable objects in the surgical field, which represents a notable step towards the clinical translation of cognitive surgical robotics.
Generational differences in the career beginnings of teaching sociologists
Creators: name: Marshall, H.
name: Robinson, Peter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Nineteen academics talking about their entry to teaching sociology reveal how differing institutional contexts have affected the making of their careers. Participants were drawn to sociology in order to understand or to change the world, but the attraction was shaped by the availability of the discipline; for earlier entrants there was a search for an intellectual home while recent entrants made a simple choice from available options. While all participants reported elements of luck and made pragmatic choices about their careers, two decades of structural changes to higher education mean that the kinds of luck they have and the choices they make differ considerably. There is some suggestion that changes within the discipline have also affected careers. The questions are posed whether the two groups are ‘generations' of sociologists, and, if so, what might be the implications for the professional association and for the discipline.
The Brief Obsessive–Compulsive Scale (BOCS): A self-report scale for OCD and obsessive–compulsive related disorders
Creators: name: Bejerot, Susanne
name: Edman, Gunnar
name: Anckarsäter, Henrik
name: Berglund, Gunilla
name: Gillberg, Christopher
name: Hofvander, Björn
name: Humble, Mats B.
name: Mörtberg, Ewa
name: Råstam, Maria
name: Ståhlberg, Ola
name: Frisén, Louise
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Science Policy
Biological Sciences
Biotechnology
Neuroscience

description: Background: The Brief Obsessive Compulsive Scale (BOCS), derived from the Yale–Brown Obsessive–Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) and the children's version (CY-BOCS), is a short self-report tool used to aid in the assessment of obsessive–compulsive symptoms and diagnosis of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). It is widely used throughout child, adolescent and adult psychiatry settings in Sweden but has not been validated up to date. Aim: The aim of the current study was to examine the psychometric properties of the BOCS amongst a psychiatric outpatient population. Method: The BOCS consists of a 15-item Symptom Checklist including three items (hoarding, dysmorphophobia and self-harm) related to the DSM-5 category “Obsessive–compulsive related disorders”, accompanied by a single six-item Severity Scale for obsessions and compulsions combined. It encompasses the revisions made in the Y-BOCS-II severity scale by including obsessive–compulsive free intervals, extent of avoidance and excluding the resistance item. 402 adult psychiatric outpatients with OCD, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorder and other psychiatric disorders completed the BOCS. Results: Principal component factor analysis produced five subscales titled “Symmetry”, “Forbidden thoughts”, “Contamination”, “Magical thoughts” and “Dysmorphic thoughts”. The OCD group scored higher than the other diagnostic groups in all subscales (P < 0.001). Sensitivities, specificities and internal consistency for both the Symptom Checklist and the Severity Scale emerged high (Symptom Checklist: sensitivity = 85%, specificities = 62–70% Cronbach's α = 0.81; Severity Scale: sensitivity = 72%, specificities = 75–84%, Cronbach's α = 0.94). Conclusions: The BOCS has the ability to discriminate OCD from other non-OCD related psychiatric disorders. The current study provides strong support for the utility of the BOCS in the assessment of obsessive–compulsive symptoms in clinical psychiatry.
High sensitivity capacitive MEMS microphone with spring supported diaphragm
Creators: name: Mohamad, Norizan
name: Iovenitti, Pio
name: Vinay, Thurai
name: Tan, Hark Hoe
name: Chiao, Jung-Chih
name: Faraone, Lorenzo
name: Jagadish, Chennupati
name: Williams, Jim
name: Wilson, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Abstract not reproduced here by request of the publisher. The text is available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.758987.
The depoliticisation of professional development in Australian early childhood education
Creators: name: Grieshaber, Susan
name: Hamm, Catherine
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024

description: This chapter investigates a decolonising critical pedagogical approach as an alternative to technicist strategies. It uses information taken from a data snapshot of the professional development (PD) opportunities available to Australian early childhood educators through the websites of two organisations offering professional development. The ongoing professional learning of early childhood educators is one of the pillars of a systematic and integrated approach to early childhood education and care policy. The Freirean idea of overcoming problems in society to liberate human beings is appealing, but is tempered by the tension associated with the Freirean idea of revolution and what that might mean in the context of PD for Australian early childhood educators in 2020 and beyond. The concept of engaging with complexity is situated within reconceptualist narratives of early childhood education and foregrounds collaboration and critical reflection in everyday moments of teaching practice.
The depoliticisation of professional development in Australian early childhood education
Creators: name: Grieshaber, Susan
name: Hamm, Catherine
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This chapter investigates a decolonising critical pedagogical approach as an alternative to technicist strategies. It uses information taken from a data snapshot of the professional development (PD) opportunities available to Australian early childhood educators through the websites of two organisations offering professional development. The ongoing professional learning of early childhood educators is one of the pillars of a systematic and integrated approach to early childhood education and care policy. The Freirean idea of overcoming problems in society to liberate human beings is appealing, but is tempered by the tension associated with the Freirean idea of revolution and what that might mean in the context of PD for Australian early childhood educators in 2020 and beyond. The concept of engaging with complexity is situated within reconceptualist narratives of early childhood education and foregrounds collaboration and critical reflection in everyday moments of teaching practice.
Paraschistura delvarii Mousavi-Sabet & Eagderi 2015
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Nemacheilidae
Paraschistura
Paraschistura delvarii

description: 61. Paraschistura delvarii Mousavi-Sabet & Eagderi, 2015
Common name. Delvari’s loach
Taxonomy. Original description: Paraschistura delvarii Mousavi-Sabet & Eagderi, 2015: 299, figs. 2-5 [Upstream of Mond River, Persian Gulf basin, Fars province, Iran, 29°40'22"N, 52°08'57"E; holotype: VMFC PSD1 - H].
Revisions. Sayyadzadeh et al. (2018b).
Illustrations. Mousavi-Sabet & Eagderi (2015: 299, fig. 2).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Persis.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 442-Upper Tigris & Euphrates.
Status in Iran. [Endemic].—Loch mahi-e Delvari.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: VMFC, ZM-CBSU.
Conservation. —IUCN: NE.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
An angel on my shoulder: Mimicking face-to-face supervision of computer-based experiential learning over a local-area-network
Creators: name: Banky, George
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Irrespective of the methods used for its delivery, interactions or conversations with an instructor should always be the core of education. In the case study reported here the suitability of a commercially available classroom management tool, with built-in bi-directional audio communication and a range of computer application-sharing services, was explored for the supervision of online students who were performing computer-based experiential learning. Event recordings and practitioner reflections were used to triangulate the outcomes. Analyses of the data collected during this study showed that software utilities that support network-based audio communication and remote computer-desktop control enable the online mimicking of pedagogy that can be identified during face-to-face supervision of this style of learning. The findings of this research can facilitate the implementation of wide-area network-based education platforms that will enable the realtime online supervision of students performing learning-by-doing. The importance of such applications for distance educators has been articulated by those educationalists who have identified the successful delivery of laboratory content within their science-based curricula as one of the distance education providers' greatest challenges.
Developing written information for cancer survivors from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds: Lessons learnt
Creators: name: Wiley, Georgina
name: Piper, Amanda
name: Phyllis Butow, A.
name: Schofield, Penelope
name: Douglas, Fiona
name: Roy, Jane
name: Nolte, Linda
name: Jefford, Michael
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Australia is a multicultural nation with a large migrant population. Migrants with cancer report inferior quality of life and the need for more information in their own language. This paper describes lessons learnt from developing culturally appropriate written information resources with and for Arabic, Italian, and Vietnamese cancer survivors and carers. The information needs of survivors from these language groups as well as guidelines for the development of written resources for culturally diverse populations were identified through literature review. Community consultation was undertaken with focus groups. The content was developed and tested with health professionals who spoke the appropriate language and focus group participants, ensuring relevance and appropriateness. Resource design and dissemination were informed through community consultation. A number of key tasks for developing resources were identified as follows: (1) community engagement and consultation; (2) culturally sensitive data collection; (3) focus group facilitators (recruitment and training); (4) content development; (5) translation and review process; (6) design; and (7) sustainability. This project reinforced literature review findings on the importance of cultural sensitivity in the development of resources. Engaging with community groups and incorporating culturally appropriate recruitment strategies optimises recruitment to focus groups and facilitates content development. Stakeholders and lay persons from the intended ethnic-minority communities should be involved in the development and formative evaluation of resources to ensure appropriateness and relevance and in the dissemination strategy to optimize penetration. We believe the lessons we have learnt will be relevant to any group intending to develop health information for culturally and linguistic diverse groups.
Sequence and organization of the complete mitochondrial genome of the marsh tit Poecile palustris (Aves: Paridae)
Creators: name: Hinsley, Shelley A.
name: Day, John C.
name: Broughton, Richard K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: The complete mitochondrial genome of the marsh tit Poecile palustris (Linnaeus, 1758) was sequenced using a combined Illumina and Sanger sequencing approach. Using the known sequence of Poecile atricapillus Linnaeus, 1766 (Paridae) homologous NGS reads were identified and assembled. The genome is 16,824 bp in length and includes 13 protein-coding genes, 2 ribosomal RNA genes, 22 transfer RNA genes and a control region. Gene order resembles that of the standard avian gene order. The base composition of the genome is A (29.15%), T (22.50%), C (33.61%) and G (14.73%). The control region between tRNAGlu and tRNAPhe is composed of 1240 bp with no obvious repetitive motifs.
GPSC references
Creators: name: Sanger, GlobalPneumoSeq
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320799
subject: Medical microbiology not elsewhere classified

description: Attached is a zip file containing the reference genomes for 73 common GPSCs. They are in fasta and gff (fasta + annotation) formats. Updated 06.03.24 to include missing references.
МЕДЬ (II) И ЦИНК ИК-СПЕКТРАЛЬНЫЙ АНАЛИЗ С 2-АМИНОХИНАЗОЛОНОМ-4.
Creators: name: Назаров Фарход Собирович, Каршинский инженерно-экономический институт
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: 2-Аминохиназолон-4  (AGz)  содержит  три  атома  азота  и  карбонильный кислород  и  является  потенциальным  комплексообразующим  лигандом. Поэтому представляет интерес синтез и изучение его комплексообразования с переходными металлами. Кроме того, в серии АХ обнаружены препараты, обладающие  фунгицидными,  бактерицидными  и  другими  свойствами. свойства [1, 2].
Selective and facile oxidative desulfurization of thioureas and thiobarbituric acids with singlet molecular oxygen generated from trans-3,5-dihydroperoxy-3,5-dimethyl-1,2-dioxolane
Creators: name: Davood Azarifar
name: Golbaghi, Maryam
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Medicine
subject: Biochemistry

description: ABSTRACTAn efficient and facile procedure using trans-3,5-dihydroperoxy-3,5-dimethyl-1,2-dioxolane has been developed for oxidative desulfurization of thioureas and thiobarbituric acids. The reactions proceeded smoothly very fast under mild conditions in basic media at room temperature to afford the respective ureas in excellent yields. Simple procedure and work up, mild conditions, high yields, short reaction times, use of highly potent and non-toxic oxidant are the main merits of the present method.
Performance of multi-channel IEEE 802.11 WLANs with bidirectional flow control
Creators: name: Nguyen, Hong
name: Andrew, Lachlan L. H.
name: Vu, Hai
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We investigate three ways WLANs can use two channels to carry TCP traffic. Using simulation and a simple model, we show that load balancing over both channels outperforms the others while using a single double-width channel is the worst.
Rate equilibria in WLANs with block ACKs
Creators: name: Nguyen, Hong
name: Qazi, Ihsan Ayyub
name: Andrew, Lachlan L. H.
name: Vu, Hai
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: To achieve high system efficiency with increasing speeds, recent WiFi standards, such as IEEE 802.11e/n, allow burst transmissions with block acknowledgements, provided the initial packet is successfully received. Consequently, a user can sometimes improve its throughput by sending the initial packet at a lower rate than other users. We model such a system as a game. Our results show that the socially optimal strategy is to send the initial packet at a lower rate than the rest of the burst. Such a strategy results in a better Nash Equilibrium than using the same rate for the entire burst. Moreover, we show that using the rate that maximizes the per-packet throughput, as commonly done, can result in performance that is far from the social optimum.
Resonant metasurfaces for surface shear horizontal wave attenuation in unconsolidated granular media
Creators: name: Zaccherini, Rachele
name: Colombi, Andrea
name: Palermo, Antonio
name: Dertimanis, Vasilis K.
name: Marzani, Alessandro
name: Chatzi, Eleni
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2019

description: Seismological Research Letters, 90 (2B)
description: ISSN:0895-0695
description: ISSN:1938-2057
Perspectives of hospitalized patients with mental disorders and their clinicians on vocational goals, barriers, and steps to overcome barriers
Creators: name: Knaeps, Jeroen
name: Neyens, Inge
name: Weeghel, Jaap Van
name: Audenhove, Chantal Van
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: Information and Computing Sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Medicine

description: Background: People with mental disorders experience difficulties with finding competitive jobs. In countries with longer psychiatric hospitalization periods, the vocational rehabilitation process can start during hospitalization. Yet, rehabilitation can be hindered by a lack of focus by clinicians on the patients’ vocational goals and a lack of agreement between clinicians and patients.Aims: To compare (i) vocational goals, (ii) barriers to employment and (iii) support needed to overcome barriers faced by patients.Method: The paired data-set comprised 733 hospitalized patients and their 279 clinicians. Patients selected their vocational goals and clinicians indicated options that seemed realistic. Patients and clinicians indicated how many barriers exist and what support is needed to overcome barriers.Results: Almost 45% of patients prefer competitive jobs, while 32% of clinicians find this realistic, indicating a moderate relationship between patients’ goals and clinicians’ perceptions. Patients and clinicians also differ in their perception of the level of barriers and types of support to overcome them. Patients perceive fewer vocational barriers than clinicians and prefer less intense vocational support options.Conclusions: Patients and clinicians have different perspectives concerning vocational recovery. Improving vocational rehabilitation requires a stronger alignment between patients and clinicians’ vocational goals and barriers.
Data Preservation Project: re3data
Creators: name: Jones, Lucy Carr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This is the document I submitted for the Data Preservation Project assignment in INSC 590, taught by Dr. Plato Smith. For this assignment, I searched the re3data registry of data repositories and wrote about the open access data repository operated by the National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program (NAHDAP). I also examined the CoreTrustSeal and DINI data repository certificates.
Synthesis of modified fullerenes for oxygen reduction reactions
Creators: name: María Girón, Rosa
name: Marco-Martínez, Juan
name: Bellani, Sebastiano
name: Insuasty Chamorro, Braulio
name: Comas Rojas, Hansel
name: Tullii, Gabriele
name: Antognazza, Maria Rosa
name: Filippone, Salvatore
name: Martín, Nazario
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is a key process common in several energy converting systems or electro-chemical technologies such as fuel cells, metal-air batteries, oxygen sensors, etc., which is based on the use of expensive and scarcely available platinum metal. In the search for carbon-based catalysts for ORRs, two different classes of new fullerene hybrids and metal-free fullerene derivatives endowed with suitable active sites have been prepared by highly selective metal- and organo-catalyzed synthetic methodologies. Along with their classical behavior as electron acceptors in polymer-based photo-electrochemical cells, the new fullerene derivatives are able to efficiently catalyze ORRs by using no metals or very low amounts of metals. Remarkably, the activity of metal-free fullerenes has proved to be as high as that observed for metallofullerenes bearing noble metals, and up to ten-fold higher than that of PCBM.
The Brief Obsessive–Compulsive Scale (BOCS): A self-report scale for OCD and obsessive–compulsive related disorders
Creators: name: Bejerot, Susanne
name: Edman, Gunnar
name: Anckarsäter, Henrik
name: Berglund, Gunilla
name: Gillberg, Christopher
name: Hofvander, Björn
name: Humble, Mats B.
name: Mörtberg, Ewa
name: Råstam, Maria
name: Ståhlberg, Ola
name: Frisén, Louise
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Science Policy
Biological Sciences
Biotechnology
Neuroscience

description: Background: The Brief Obsessive Compulsive Scale (BOCS), derived from the Yale–Brown Obsessive–Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) and the children's version (CY-BOCS), is a short self-report tool used to aid in the assessment of obsessive–compulsive symptoms and diagnosis of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). It is widely used throughout child, adolescent and adult psychiatry settings in Sweden but has not been validated up to date. Aim: The aim of the current study was to examine the psychometric properties of the BOCS amongst a psychiatric outpatient population. Method: The BOCS consists of a 15-item Symptom Checklist including three items (hoarding, dysmorphophobia and self-harm) related to the DSM-5 category “Obsessive–compulsive related disorders”, accompanied by a single six-item Severity Scale for obsessions and compulsions combined. It encompasses the revisions made in the Y-BOCS-II severity scale by including obsessive–compulsive free intervals, extent of avoidance and excluding the resistance item. 402 adult psychiatric outpatients with OCD, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorder and other psychiatric disorders completed the BOCS. Results: Principal component factor analysis produced five subscales titled “Symmetry”, “Forbidden thoughts”, “Contamination”, “Magical thoughts” and “Dysmorphic thoughts”. The OCD group scored higher than the other diagnostic groups in all subscales (P < 0.001). Sensitivities, specificities and internal consistency for both the Symptom Checklist and the Severity Scale emerged high (Symptom Checklist: sensitivity = 85%, specificities = 62–70% Cronbach's α = 0.81; Severity Scale: sensitivity = 72%, specificities = 75–84%, Cronbach's α = 0.94). Conclusions: The BOCS has the ability to discriminate OCD from other non-OCD related psychiatric disorders. The current study provides strong support for the utility of the BOCS in the assessment of obsessive–compulsive symptoms in clinical psychiatry.
Participation in urban renewal projects in Iran: An initial review of Mashhad, Shiraz and Tehran
Creators: name: Assadpour, Naeimeh
name: Melles, Gavin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330105
subject: Architectural science and technology
classificationCode: 330411
subject: Urban design

description: This paper considers participation and collaboration in urban renewal projects in three cities in Iran. Based on this initial research we will make suggestions for future urban regeneration studies. Goal 11 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development defines sustainable cities and human settlements and highlights the need for citizen participation and inclusion in planning (United Nations General Assembly, 2015). Urban planning in Iran can be traced back to ancient times, for example to 2700 BC in the city of Shoush, and reached its peak during the period of the Safavid Empire (1502-1736) with the construction of roads, mosques, bazaars and public buildings (Rasoolimanesh, Jaafar and Badarulzaman, 2013). Today, in Iranian urban planning, the past and the present vie for dominance and although some efforts are being made towards preserving the cultural heritage, centrally planned modernisation continues to dominate and contemporary urban planning and management suffer from a lack of participation from stakeholders, residents and private organisations as Bahrainy and Aminzadah (2007) found: In Iran, large cities such as Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, Shiraz, and Tabriz, the decision-making and implementation of urban projects are not typically consultative.
Theoretical and Computational Chemistry of Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes-based Adsorbents
Creators: name: Leong, Fang Yu
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 340109
subject: Separation science
classificationCode: 460207
subject: Modelling and simulation
classificationCode: 340603
subject: Colloid and surface chemistry
classificationCode: 340704
subject: Theoretical quantum chemistry
classificationCode: 340303
subject: Nanochemistry

description: While current approaches can predict the liquid adsorption selectivity of few POSS molecules, our focus lies in the development of a large-scale prediction model encompassing over 14 millions varieties of cage-substituent combinations. This model has demonstrated promising performance in replacing costly quantum mechanical methods for predicting POSS-solvent interaction energies. Moreover, a molecular simulation protocol has been developed to enable molecular
simulations of gas separation in POSS-based films. This model represents the first of its kind to simulate the separation selectivity of POSS films in gas mixtures. These contributions hold the potential to empower researchers in the rational design of POSS by elucidating the complex interplay between substituents and cages revealed by this study.
Effects of adrenalectomy on daily gene expression rhythms in the rat suprachiasmatic and paraventricular hypothalamic nuclei and in white adipose tissue
Creators: name: Su, Yan
name: Foppen, Ewout
name: Fliers, Eric
name: Kalsbeek, Andries
name: Spek, Rianne Van Der
name: Kwakkel, Joan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics

description: It is assumed that in mammals the circadian rhythms of peripheral clocks are synchronized to the environment via neural, humoral and/or behavioral outputs of the central pacemaker in the suprachiasmatic nucleus of the hypothalamus (SCN). With regard to the humoral outputs, the daily rhythm of the adrenal hormone corticosterone is considered as an important candidate. To examine whether adrenal hormones are necessary for the maintenance of daily rhythms in gene expression in white adipose tissue (WAT), we used RT-PCR to check rhythmic as well as 24 h mean gene expression in WAT from adrenalectomized (ADX) and sham-operated rats. In addition, we investigated the effect of adrenalectomy on gene expression in the hypothalamic SCN and paraventricular nucleus (PVN). Adrenalectomy hardly affected daily rhythms of clock gene expression in WAT. On the other hand, >80% of the rhythmic metabolic/adipokine genes in WAT lost their daily rhythmicity in ADX rats. Likewise, in the hypothalamus adrenalectomy had no major effects on daily rhythms in gene expression, but it did change the expression level of some of the neuropeptide genes. Together, these data indicate that adrenal hormones are important for the maintenance of daily rhythms in metabolic/adipokine gene expression in WAT, without playing a major role in clock gene expression in either WAT or hypothalamus.
Evaluating a Tool for Improving Accessibility to Charts and Graphs
Creators: name: Ferres, Leo
name: Lindgaard, Gitte
name: Sumegi, Livia
name: Tsuji, Bruce
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This article reports a case study of the iterative design and evaluation of a natural language-driven assistive technology, iGraph-Lite, providing people who are blind access to line graphs. Two laboratory-based usability studies involving blind and sighted people are presented with a discussion of the ensuing implementation of changes. Blind participants were found to adopt different graph interrogation strategies than sighted participants. A small field study is then reported in which a blind user who works with graphs took part to determine the degree to which the iGraph-Lite commands would meet the needs of blind graph experts. The final study invited sighted graph experts and novices to visually inspect and explain a set of line graphs comparable to those used in the usability studies. It aimed to highlight the concepts and the range of words sighted people use, to ascertain the appropriateness of the iGraph-Lite lexicon. A set of preliminary guidelines is presented.
Selective and facile oxidative desulfurization of thioureas and thiobarbituric acids with singlet molecular oxygen generated from trans-3,5-dihydroperoxy-3,5-dimethyl-1,2-dioxolane
Creators: name: Davood Azarifar
name: Golbaghi, Maryam
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Medicine
subject: Biochemistry

description: An efficient and facile procedure using trans-3,5-dihydroperoxy-3,5-dimethyl-1,2-dioxolane has been developed for oxidative desulfurization of thioureas and thiobarbituric acids. The reactions proceeded smoothly very fast under mild conditions in basic media at room temperature to afford the respective ureas in excellent yields. Simple procedure and work up, mild conditions, high yields, short reaction times, use of highly potent and non-toxic oxidant are the main merits of the present method.
Presentation of the Irish National Chapter at the CoARA National Chapters Exchange Forum 2024
Creators: name: O'Connell, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Slides presented at the CoARA National Chapters Exchange Forum 2024.  A description of the event is available here: https://coara.eu/news/building-a-stronger-network-coara-national-chapters-convene-for-a-first-exchange-forum/.
Police and National Guard Helping the Community on the COVID 19 Crises
Creators: name: Victoria, Artur
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Also the citizen police, to be aimed at everyone, with the appreciation of those who perform the core activity, which is something that cannot reverse this process despite the meritorious projects of "Safe School" and "Prevention of Violence"; today, the police officer who is in the end activity earns less, has a more difficult rise and does not have the capacity for political aggregation. The traditional police also have low salaries, with a large gap between the first and the last level, and the citizen police need to have a reasonable salary, with little distance between hierarchical levels, such as, for example, the traffic police. All public policies must be directed towards the most vulnerable groups, such as young people, the physically handicapped, women. In the formation of the police, there should be space to deal with these groups, because, due to their vulnerability, they are the most targeted by the police. For some segments of the police, this is mistaken for breaking discipline and hierarchy. Let us hope that the police begin during this quarantine of COVID 19 to visit elderly or needy people, with physical or motor disabilities to just know if everything is okay. The Police must show individually in each street their presence as a Community Police, taking the example of European countries where the Police is committed to a social service too, complementing its security job such as the United Kingdom, Luxembourg, Belgium, France and Switzerland.
Effects of time of l-ornithine administration on the diurnal rhythms of plasma growth hormone, melatonin, and corticosterone levels in mice
Creators: name: Otsuka, Tsuyoshi
name: Furuse, Mitsuhiro
name: Yasuo, Shinobu
name: Matsuo, Haruka
name: Iwamoto, Ayaka
name: Hishida, Yukihiro
name: Akiduki, Saori
name: Aoki, Mami
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Physiology
subject: Genetics
subject: Biochemistry

description: The synthesis and secretion of many hormones such as growth hormone (GH), melatonin, and corticosterone, exhibit temporal variations over each day and night. Oral administration of several nutritional factors, including l-ornithine, modulates these hormonal secretions and induces an acute increase in plasma GH levels. However, the impact of l-ornithine on the diurnal rhythms of hormone secretion remains unclear. In this study, we evaluated whether the diurnal rhythms of plasma GH, melatonin, and corticosterone secretion were altered by the daily administration of l-ornithine as well as the timing of the administration, in CBA/N mice. Our results showed that the plasma GH levels that peaked at light phase were amplified by l-ornithine (500 mg/kg) administered at Zeitgeber time (ZT) 22, but not at ZT10. Additionally, l-ornithine (1000 mg/kg) administered at ZT22 advanced the onset of the nocturnal rise of melatonin, which resulted in the elongation of the melatonin peak. On the other hand, l-ornithine (500 and 1000 mg/kg) administered at ZT10, but not at ZT22, suppressed the diurnal rhythm peaks of plasma corticosterone. The effects of l-ornithine on plasma GH rhythms lasted for at least 2 days after cessation of the daily administration. Running wheel activity during the active phase was slightly elevated by l-ornithine administration at ZT22, but the overall patterns were only slightly affected. l-Ornithine levels in the plasma and hypophysis after a single administration of l-ornithine at ZT22 were lower than those after administration at ZT10, suggesting that the metabolic rate of l-ornithine differs between day and night. In conclusion, our data suggest that a daily administration of l-ornithine regulates the diurnal rhythms of GH, melatonin, and corticosterone in a manner dependent on administration time, which might be related to the diurnal rhythms of l-ornithine metabolism.
Lessons learned from conducting industry surveys in software testing
Creators: name: Kanij, Tanjila
name: Merkel, Robert
name: Grundy, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We have conducted a number of industry studies looking into aspects of software testing. These include a survey of practitioner view on software tester performance indicators and team formation issues; detailed worklog analysis of representative tasks conducted by software testers; feedback on a proposed approach to software tester performance evaluation; and collecting indicative personality factors of software testers vs other software developers. These have proved to be challenging exercises. Key issues to overcome include reaching appropriate testers in industry, gaining management and company consent, structuring surveys and questionnaires to balance time vs detail, and gaining sufficient response rate and response quality to be useful.
ИЗУЧЕНИЕ СОСТАВА СЛОЖНЫХ СОЕДИНЕНИЙ ХИНАЗОЛОНА-4 С СОЛЯМИ Cu(II)
Creators: name: Назаров Фарход Собирович, Каршинский инженерно-экономический институт
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: В  настоящее  время  известно  множество  органических  и неорганических  лигандов,  которые  являются  биологически  активными, сильно различаются по строению и свойствам, содержат электронодонорные атомы  и  склонны  к  образованию  координационных  соединений,  одним  из важнейших  классов  которых  является  хиназолон-4  и  его  производные. которые считаются.
A Deflated Conjugate Gradient Solver for Extended Finite Element Models
Creators: name: Agathos, Konstantinos
name: Nicoli, Sergio
name: Chatzi, Eleni
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2021
Subjects: Conjugate gradient method
Deflation
XFEM
Cracks
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/620
Engineering & allied operations

description: In finite element analysis for solid mechanics, the solution of the linear system of equations represents the performance bottleneck in terms of both computation time and memory storage. For this task, direct solvers are a common choice due to their simplicity and robustness, however the very large amount of  memory required to factorize the stiffness matrix precludes the solution of medium to large-sized problems. For this reason, substantial research effort in the field of iterative solvers has resulted in the adoption of the Conjugate Gradient (CG) method. In this procedure, explicit factorization and thus large quantities of additional memory are not necessary, due to the use of a gradient-descent optimization process. Among many available improvements of the CG, the Deflated Conjugate Gradient (DCG) solver includes information from approximate eigenvectors (known as the deflation space) to achieve a faster convergence.
In this contribution, we present an application of the DCG for fracture mechanics with the eXtended Finite Element Method (XFEM). Among other features, such as holes and inclusions, cracks can be effectively modeled with this method, due to the addition of degrees of freedom and functions that enable the representation of discontinuous displacements and singular stresses within the solution space. In addition to the perspective of accelerated numerical analysis, the motivation to employ an iterative solver lies in the fact that no explicit assembly of the entire stiffness matrix is required, which has positive implications in crack propagation and large scale analyses.
With this approach, the main challenge lies in the construction of the deflation space in the presence of additional displacement patterns provided by the enrichment functions. Different methods to achieve this feature are studied and tested. With respect to the CG, the decrease in the number of necessary iterations provided by the optimal method should be comparable to the one delivered in a setup without enrichment. Finally, one can observe that, especially for large simulations, such acceleration justifies the higher implementation effort required.
Nano-cone optical fiber array sensors for miRNA profiling
Creators: name: Wang, Yunshan
name: Senapati, Satyajyoti
name: Stoddart, Paul
name: Howard, Scott
name: Chang, Hsueh Chia
name: Mohseni, Hooman
name: Agahi, Massoud H.
name: Razeghi, Manijeh
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Up/down regulation of microRNA panels has been correlated to cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Frequent miRNA profiling at home can hence allow early cancer diagnosis and home-use chronic disease monitoring, thus reducing both mortality rate and healthcare cost. However, lifetime of miRNAs is less than 1 hour without preservation and their concentrations range from pM to mM. Despite rapid progress in the last decade, modern nucleic acid analysis methods still do not allow personalized miRNA profiling - Real-time PCR and DNA micro-array both require elaborate miRNA preservation steps and expensive equipment and nano pore sensors cannot selectively quantify a large panel with a large dynamic range. We report a novel and low-cost optical fiber sensing platform, which has the potential to profile a panel of miRNA with simple LED light sources and detectors. The individual tips of an optical imaging fiber bundle (mm in diameter with 7000 fiber cores) were etched into cones with 10 nm radius of curvature and coated with Au. FRET (Forster Resonant Energy Transfer) hairpin oligo probes, with the loop complementary to a specific miRNA that can release the hairpin, were functionalized onto the conic tips. Exciting light in the optical fiber waveguide is optimally coupled to surface plasmonics on the gold surface, which then converges to the conic tips with two orders of magnitude enhancement in intensity. Unlike nanoparticle plasmonics, tip plasmonics can be excited over a large band width and hence the plasmonic enhanced fluorescence signal of the FRET reporter is also focused towards the tip - and is further enhanced with the periodic resonant grid of the fiber array which gives rise to pronounced standing wave interference patterns. Multiplexing is realized by functionalizing different probes onto one fiber bundle using a photoactivation process.
The Decay Rate of Ocean Swell Observed by Altimeter
Creators: name: Young, I. R.
name: Babanin, Alexander
name: Zieger, Stefan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Altimeter data from transects across the Southern Ocean are analyzed to determine the decay of oceanic swell. The resulting decay rate is shown to be proportional to wavenumber squared and swell amplitude cubed. Such a decay relationship is consistent with turbulent interaction with the background, either in the air or water. The present data cannot distinguish between these two cases. The results are consistent with the limited previous studies and present a source term suitable for use in wave prediction models.
Home technology design for the cognitively impaired
Creators: name: Higgins, Peter
name: Glasgow, Adam
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Motivation - To prolong functional independence of elderly persons who experience cognitive decline in attention, perceptual encoding, memory and self-efficacy. Research approach - Ability of older adults to use domestic appliances depends on their mental model of operation. This may depend on transfer of understanding from similar, more familiar technology. Leveraging established mental models creates affordances for operating new technology but may constrain the discovery of advanced functionality. Familiar mental models may also interfere with developing appropriate mental models or interaction behaviour. Findings/Design - Designing appliances to extend cognitive abilities provides opportunity to prolong functional independence. Concepts from cognitive psychology, human factors, and gerontology are reviewed to explain age-related behaviour towards technology to support innovative product development of technologies for older adults with cognitive impairment. Take away message - The understanding of declining cognitive abilities must drive the development of technologies that sustain the independence of persons who are cognitive impaired.