cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dynamics of career choice among students in undergraduate medical courses. A BEME systematic review: BEME Guide No. 33
Creators: name: Querido, Sophie J.
name: Vergouw, David
name: Lode Wigersma
name: Batenburg, Ronald S.
name: Rond, Marlies E. J. De
name: Cate, Olle T. J. Ten
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Science Policy
Biological Sciences
Medicine

description: Introduction: Due to the lack of a theoretically embedded overview of the recent literature on medical career decision-making, this study provides an outline of these dynamics. Since differences in educational routes to the medical degree likely affect career choice dynamics, this study focuses on medical career decision-making in educational systems with a Western European curriculum structure.Methods: A systematic search of electronic databases (Medline, Embase) was conducted from January 2008 to November 2014. A panel of seven independent reviewers performed the data extraction, quality assessment and data synthesis using the Bland–Meurer model of medical specialty choice as a reference.Results: Fifty-seven studies met the inclusion criteria for the review. Factors associated with specialty preference or career choice can be classified in five main categories: (1) medical school characteristics (e.g., curriculum structure), (2) student characteristics (e.g., age, personality), (3) student values (e.g., personal preference), (4) career needs to be satisfied (e.g., expected income, status, and work–life balance), and (5) perception of specialty characteristics (e.g., extracurricular or curricular experiences). Especially career needs and perceptions of specialty characteristics are often associated with medical career decision-making.Conclusion: Our results support that medical career decisions are formed by a matching of perceptions of specialty characteristics with personal needs. However, the process of medical career decision-making is not yet fully understood. Besides identifying possible predictors, future research should focus on detecting interrelations between hypothesized predictors and identify the determinants and interrelations at the various stages of the medical career decision-making process.
Collaboration-Based Cloud Computing Security Management Framework
Creators: name: Abdelrazek, Mohamed
name: Grundy, John
name: Ibrahim, Amani S.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Although the cloud computing model is considered to be a very promising internet-based computing platform, it results in a loss of security control over the cloud-hosted assets.This is due to the outsourcing of enterprise IT assets hosted on third-party cloud computing platforms. Moreover, the lack of security constraints in the Service Level Agreements between the cloud providers and consumers results in a loss of trust as well. Obtaining a security certificate such as ISO 27000 or NIST-FISMA would help cloud providers improve consumers trust in their cloud platforms’ security. However, such standards are still far from covering the full complexity of the cloud computing model. We introduce a new cloud security management framework based on aligning the FISMA standard to fit with the cloud computing model, enabling cloud providers and consumers to be security certified. Our framework is based on improving collaboration between cloud providers, service providers and service consumers in managing the security of the cloud platform and the hosted services. It is built on top of a number of security standards that assist in automating the security management process. We have developed a proof of concept of our framework using .NET and deployed it on a testbed cloud platform. We evaluated the framework by managing the security of a multitenant SaaS application exemplar.
Modulation of the N170 with classical conditioning: The use of emotional imagery and acoustic startle in healthy and depressed participants
Creators: name: Camfield, David
name: Mills, Jessica
name: Kornfeld, Emma J.
name: Croft, Rodney J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Recent studies have suggested that classical conditioning may be capable of modulating early sensory processing in the human brain, and that there may be differences in the magnitude of the conditioned changes for individuals with major depressive disorder. The effect of conditioning on the N170 event-related potential was investigated using neutral faces as conditioned stimuli (CS+) and emotional imagery and acoustic startle as unconditioned stimuli (UCS). In the first experiment, electroencephalogram was recorded from 24 undergraduate students (M = 21.07 years, SD = 3.38 years) under the following conditions: (i) CS+/aversive imagery, (ii) CS+/aversive imagery and acoustic startle, (iii) CS+/acoustic startle, and (iv) CS+/pleasant imagery. The amplitude of the N170 was enhanced following conditioning with aversive imagery as well as acoustic startle. In the second experiment, 26 healthy control participants were tested (17 females and 9 males, age M = 25.97 years, SD = 9.42) together with 18 depressed participants (13 females and 5 males, age M = 23.26 years, SD = 4.01) and three conditions were used: CS+/aversive imagery, CS+/pleasant imagery, and CS-. N170 amplitude at P7 was increased for the CS+/aversive condition in comparison to CS- in the conditioning blocks versus baseline. No differences between depressed and healthy participants were found. Across both experiments, evaluative conditioning was absent. It was concluded that aversive UCS are capable of modulating early sensory processing of faces, although further research is also warranted in regards to positive UCS.
Characterization of Single Particles in Urban Atmospheric Aerosols Over Nagoya Based on Mass Spectral Analysis
Creators: name: Mihara, Toshiyuki
name: Mochida, Michihiro
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Engineering
subject: Biochemistry

description: Mass spectral analysis of single aerosol particles was performed using a high-resolution time-of-flight aerosol mass spectrometer (HR-ToF-AMS) in the urban area of Nagoya, Japan, for 5 days in the autumn of 2010. An ion-series analysis was applied to the single-particle mass spectra; the sum of the masses at Δ of 1, 3, 4, and 5 divided by the total mass of organics (fΔ1,3–5) was used as an indicator of the degree of oxygenation of the organics. The organic mass fraction (Forg) and fΔ1,3–5 of single particles varied substantially, and the results for the entire period indicate that two groups of particles with high and low fΔ1,3–5 were present. The organics in particles with high Forg were less oxygenated, whereas those with low Forg were more oxygenated; these different particles were associated with hydrocarbon-like organic aerosols (HOA) and low-volatility oxygenated organic aerosols (LV-OOA), respectively, based on the PMF analysis of the MS mode data. The size distributions of the two types of particles overlapped substantially. The degree of the overlap depends on the equivalent particle diameter used, indicating the importance of single-particle analysis in understanding the size-composition relationship in detail. Alteration of the aerosol mixing state was clearly indicated by the changes in fΔ1,3–5 and Forg; the homogeneous conditions changed to externally mixed conditions from the evening until noon of the next day. Possible causes of this alteration include the condensation of oxygenated organics and ammonium nitrate onto pre-existing particles. This study demonstrated the usefulness of single-particle analysis based on electron-ionization aerosol mass spectrometry.
CloudSec: A security monitoring appliance for Virtual Machines in the IaaS cloud model
Creators: name: Ibrahim, Amani S.
name: Hamlyn-Harris, James
name: Grundy, John
name: Abdelrazek, Mohamed
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460403
subject: Data security and protection
classificationCode: 460405
subject: Hardware security
classificationCode: 460406
subject: Software and application security
classificationCode: 460407
subject: System and network security
classificationCode: 460610
subject: Operating systems

description: The Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing model has become a compelling computing solution with a proven ability to reduce costs and improve resource efficiency. Virtualization has a key role in supporting the IaaS model. However, virtualization also makes it a target for potent rootkits because of the loss of control problem over the hosted Virtual Machines (VMs). This makes traditional in-guest security solutions, relying on operating system kernel trustworthiness, no longer an effective solution to secure the virtual infrastructure of the IaaS model. In this paper, we explore briefly the security problem of the IaaS cloud computing model, and present CloudSec, a new virtualization-aware monitoring appliance that provides active, transparent and real-time security monitoring for hosted VMs in the IaaS model. CloudSec utilizes virtual machine introspection techniques to provide fine-grained inspection of VM's physical memory without installing any monitoring code inside the VM. It actively reconstructs and monitors the dynamically changing kernel data structures instances, as a prior step to enable providing protection for kernel data structures. We have implemented a proof-of-concept prototype using VMsafe libraries on a VMware ESX platform. We have evaluated the system monitoring accuracy and the performance overhead of CloudSec.
Paracobitis atrakensis Esmaeili, Mousavi-Sabet, Sayyadzadeh, Vatandoust & Freyhof 2014
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Nemacheilidae
Paracobitis
Paracobitis atrakensis

description: 48. Paracobitis atrakensis Esmaeili, Mousavi-Sabet, Sayyadzadeh, Vatandoust & Freyhof, 2014
Common name. Atrak crested loach
Taxonomy. Original description: Paracobitis atrakensis Esmaeili, Mousavi-Sabet, Sayyadzadeh, Vatandoust & Freyhof, 2014: 238 [Atrak and Bidvaz River, northeastern Iran; holotype. From a listing].
Revisions None.
Illustrations Esmaeili et al. (2014: 51, fig. 2).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Caspian Sea, Dasht-e Kavir.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 434-Kura-South Caspian Drainages, 448-Kavir & Lut Deserts.
Status in Iran. [Endemic].—Loch mahi-e tajdar-e Atrak.—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 page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
Generating essential user interface prototypes to validate requirements
Creators: name: Kamalrudin, Massila
name: Grundy, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Requirements need to be validated at an early stage of analysis to address inconsistency and incompleteness issues. Capturing requirements usually involves natural language analysis, which is often imprecise and error prone, or translation into formal models, which are difficult for nontechnical stakeholders to understand and use. Users often best understand proposed software systems from the likely user interface they will present. To this end we describe novel automated tool support for capturing requirements as Essential Use Cases and translating these into 'Essential User Interface' low-fidelity rapid prototypes. We describe our automated tool supporting requirements capture, lo-fi user interface prototype generation and consistency management, and outline a user evaluation of our tool.
Improving automated documentation to code traceability by combining retrieval techniques
Creators: name: Xiaofan Chen, Xiaofan
name: Grundy, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Documentation written in natural language and source code are two of the major artifacts of a software system. Tracking a variety of traceability links between software documentation and source code assists software developers in comprehension, efficient development, and effective management of a system. Automated traceability systems to date have been faced with a major open research challenge: how to extract these links with both high precision and high recall. In this paper we introduce an approach that combines three supporting techniques, Regular Expression, Key Phrases, and Clustering, with a Vector Space Model (VSM) to improve the performance of automated traceability between documents and source code. This combination approach takes advantage of strengths of the three techniques to ameliorate limitations of VSM. Four case studies have been used to evaluate our combined technique approach. Experimental results indicate that our approach improves the performance of VSM, increases the precision of retrieved links, and recovers more true links than VSM alone.
Automatic diagram layout support for the Marama meta-toolset
Creators: name: Pei Shan Yap, Pei Shan
name: Hosking, J.
name: Grundy, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Automatic layout can be a crucial support feature for complex diagramming tools. Adding suitable layout algorithms to diagramming tools is a complex task and meta-tools should incorporate these for reuse. We present MaramaALM, a generalised set of automatic layout mechanisms. This has been incorporated in the Eclipsebased Marama meta-toolset to support automatic layout in Marama diagrams. It provides an easy-to-use mechanism for tool developers to add such layouts to their generated tools. We describe our motivation for MaramaALM, our approach to its implementation and an example case study of using these tool extensions.
Performance assessment metrics for software testers
Creators: name: Kanij, Tanjila
name: Merkel, Robert
name: Grundy, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The reliability of delivered software depends on the performance of the individuals responsible for testing it. However, there are currently no standard methods for assessing the performance of software testers, nor even agreement on important assessment criteria. A literature review reveals several different human-centric factors that have been suggested as important. However, the relative importance of these factors is unknown. This paper reports the results of a survey of professional testers indicating their views on the importance of a number of proposed factors. Their views, we believe, will be important in designing a more formal and widely acceptable performance assessment method for software testers.
Effect of CR1R2/P+R1R2 Exchange on the Degenerate Cope Rearrangement of Barbaralane
Creators: name: Minita Ojha
name: Maheshwari, Pooja
name: Gurjar, Asha
name: Bansal, Raj K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: ABSTARCTTheoretical calculations of the degenerate Cope rearrangement at the DFT (B3LYP/6–31+G*) level reveal that CR1R2/P+R1R2 exchange in barbaralanes results in raising the activation enthalpies by 2.5–4.8 kcal mol−1. Substitution at the 2- and 6-positions by the -C≡N groups brings down the activation enthalpies by 3.5–4.2 kcal mol−1, whereas substitution at these positions by the –CF3 groups raises the activation barriers by ca. 1.8 kcal mol−1. Methylene chloride as solvent does not affect the activation enthalpies. The NICS values and the 1H NMR chemical shifts as well as the bond distances in the transition structures of the Cope rearrangement of 9-substituted barbaralanes and their 9-phospha-analogues confirm their aromatic character. The Natural Bond Orbital (NBO) analysis reveals the existence of conjugative and hyperconjugative interactions in these molecules, which become much stronger in the respective transition structures in the –CN substituted derivatives, but are much weaker in the -CF3 substituted derivatives. Extensive delocalization of 6 electrons resulting from conjugative and hyperconjugative interactions combined with the fast degenerate Cope rearrangement confer bishomoaromatic character on these molecules.
Relationship of creatine kinase to body composition, disease state, and longevity in ALS
Creators: name: Gibson, Summer B.
name: Kasarskis, Edward J.
name: Hu, Nan
name: Stefan-M Pulst
name: Mendiondo, Marta S.
name: Matthews, Dwight E.
name: Mitsumoto, Hiroshi
name: Rup Tandan
name: Simmons, Zachary
name: Kryscio, Richard J.
name: Bromberg, Mark B.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Cancer
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Our objective was to explore if creatine kinase (CK) levels correlate with survival in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and whether a correlation is independent of other well-studied predictors such as location of onset, gender, age, fat free mass, spasticity, cramps, and fasciculations. We analyzed data from 80 ALS patients from a 48-week non-interventional longitudinal multicenter nutrition study with long term follow-up. The overall mean CK was 214 ± 191.8 U/l (range 22–1992 U/l). Forty-five percent of patients had at least one high CK value (> 200 U/l), and about half maintained a high CK value, but there was no trend over the study period. Male gender and extremity onset were significantly associated with high CK. In univariate analysis, age, bioelectric impedance spectroscopy (BIS) fat free mass, spasticity, and fasciculations were not associated with CK level. There was an association between CK and muscle cramps (p < 0.001). In survival analysis, low CK (≤ 200 U/l) was associated with a longer overall survival (p = 0.02), when adjusting for location of onset, age, race, gender, BIS fat free mass, and study site. In conclusion, CK may be a useful marker for ALS survival, which has implications for clinical care and the design of future clinical trials.
An energy consumption model and analysis tool for cloud computing environments
Creators: name: Chen, Fei Fei
name: Schneider, Jean-Guy
name: Yang, Yun
name: Grundy, John
name: He, Qiang
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Cloud computing delivers computing as a utility to users worldwide. A consequence of this model is that cloud data centres have high deployment and operational costs, as well as significant carbon footprints for the environment. We need to develop Green Cloud Computing (Gee) solutions that reduce these deployment and operational costs and thus save energy and reduce adverse environmental impacts. In order to achieve this Objective, a thorough understanding of the energy consumption patterns in complex Cloud environments is needed. We present a new energy consumption model and associated analysis tool for Cloud computing environments. We measure energy consumption in Cloud environments based on different runtime tasks. Empirical analysis of the correlation of energy consumption and Cloud data and computational tasks, as well as system performance, will be investigated based on our energy consumption model and analysis tool. Our research results can be integrated into Cloud systems to monitor energy consumption and support static or dynamic system-level optimisation.
Paracobitis basharensis Freyhof, Esmaeili, Sayyadzadeh & Geiger 2014
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Nemacheilidae
Paracobitis
Paracobitis basharensis

description: 49. Paracobitis basharensis Freyhof, Esmaeili, Sayyadzadeh & Geiger, 2014
Common name. Bashar crested loach
Taxonomy. Original description: Paracobitis basharensis Freyhof, Esmaeili, Sayyadzadeh & Geiger, 2014: 23, figs. 13-14 [Bashar River at Dehno, 30°38.42.6"N, 51°37'14.26"E, Iranian Tigris catchment, Iran; holotype: CM-CBSU J2920].
Revisions. None.
Illustrations. Freyhof et al. (2014: 23, fig. 13).
Distribution in Iran. — Distribution in River Basin: Tigris.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 442-Upper Tigris & Euphrates.
Status in Iran. [Endemic].—Loch mahi-e tajdar-e Bashar.—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 22-23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
Explorando NASA-TOPS en comunidad: datos abiertos
Creators: name: Black, Melissa
name: Palopoli, Nicolás
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ciencia Abierta
Open Science
datos abiertos
open data

description: En 2024 MetaDocencia empezará a enseñar principios de Ciencia Abierta en español y a través de cohortes virtuales de varias semanas. Para prepararnos, invitamos a todas las personas de la comunidad de MetaDocencia a que estudiemos juntas los contenidos originales en inglés del curso Open Science 101, parte de la iniciativa TOPS (Transform to Open Science) organizada por la NASA.En este artículo compartimos algunas reflexiones que expanden lo aprendido en el Módulo 3 sobre los datos abiertos.
Le problème ternaire de Goldbach
Creators: name: Helfgott, Harald
Publisher: name: Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach
Year: 2024

description: Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), l’un des plus grands mathématiciens du XVIIIe siècle et de tous les temps, entretenait une correspondance régulière avec l’un de ses amis: Christian Goldbach (1690–1764), un amateur polymathe qui vivait et travaillait en Russie, tout comme Euler. Dans une lettre datée de juin 1742, Goldbach établit une conjecture (c’est-à-dire une hypothèse éclairée) sur les nombres premiers: Es scheinet wenigstens, dass eine jede Zahl, die größer ist als 2, ein aggregatum trium numerorum primorum sey. Il semble [ . . .] que tout nombre entier naturel supérieur à 2 puisse être écrit comme la somme de trois nombres premiers.
description: Snapshots of modern mathematics from Oberwolfach;2014-03-fr
QoS-Driven Service Selection for Multi-tenant SaaS
Creators: name: He, Qiang
name: Han, Jun
name: Yang, Yun
name: Grundy, John
name: Jin, Hai
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460308
subject: Pattern recognition
classificationCode: 460502
subject: Data mining and knowledge discovery
classificationCode: 460612
subject: Service oriented computing
classificationCode: 461104
subject: Neural networks
classificationCode: 461201
subject: Automated software engineering
classificationCode: 461202
subject: Empirical software engineering

description: Cloud-based software applications (Software as a Service - SaaS) for multi-tenant provisioning have become a major development paradigm in Web engineering. Instead of serving a single end-user, a multi-tenant SaaS provides multiple end-users with the same functionality but with potentially different quality-of-service (QoS) values. The service selection for such a SaaS is a complex decision-making process which involves a number of stakeholders with different QoS requirements. SaaS developers need to compose services with different QoS values to meet end-users' different multidimensional QoS constraints for the SaaS. Furthermore, they also need to satisfy SaaS providers' optimisation goals for the SaaS, such as least resource cost and best system performance. Existing QoS-aware service selection approaches are oriented at a single tenant. They do not consider the characteristics of multi-tenant SaaS and hence are ineffective and inefficient when applied to compose multi-tenant SaaS. In this paper, we introduce a novel QoS-driven approach for helping SaaS developers select the services for composing multi-tenant SaaS, which achieves SaaS providers' optimisation goals while fulfilling the end-users' different levels of QoS constraints. The proposed approach is evaluated using an example SaaS synthetically generated based on a dataset of real-world Web services. Experimental results show that our approach significantly outperforms existing approaches in terms of both effectiveness and performance.
Paracobitis hircanica Mousavi-Sabet, Sayyadzadeh, Esmaeili, Eagderi, Patimar & Freyhof 2015
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Nemacheilidae
Paracobitis
Paracobitis hircanica

description: 50. Paracobitis hircanica Mousavi-Sabet, Sayyadzadeh, Esmaeili, Eagderi, Patimar & Freyhof, 2015
Common name. Hircan crested loach
Taxonomy. Original description: Paracobitis hircanica Mousavi-Sabet, Sayyadzadeh, Esmaeili, Eagderi, Patimar & Freyhof, 2015: 340, figs. 2-6 [Golestan province, Zarrin-Gol stream, a tributary of Gordan River, 36°50'39"N, 54°58'24"E, Iran; holotype: ZM-CBSU J3246].
Revisions. None.
Illustrations. Mousavi-Sabet et al. (2015: 340, fig. 2).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Caspian Sea.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 434-Kura-South Caspian Drainages.
Status in Iran. [Endemic].—Loch mahi-e tajdar-e Hircani.—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 page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
Paracobitis longicauda
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Nemacheilidae
Paracobitis
Paracobitis longicauda

description: 51. Paracobitis longicauda (Kessler, 1872)
Common name. Eastern crested loach
Taxonomy. Original description: Cobitis longicauda Kessler [K. F.] 1872: 65 [21], Pl. 11 (figs. 30–31); Type locality: Ak–Darya River, Uzbekistan. Holotype (unique): ZISP 2628.
Revisions. None.
Illustrations. Freyhof et al. (2014: 15, fig. 4).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Hari River, Dasht-e Kavir.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 631-Upper Amu Darya.
Status in Iran. [Native].—Loch mahi-e tajdar-e sharghi.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) —Iran material: None.
Conservation. —IUCN: NE.
Remarks. Need confirmation by specimen.
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 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
Supplementary document for Deep Learning-assisted Smartphone-based Quantitative Microscopy for Label-free Peripheral Blood Smear Analysis - 6844749.pdf
Creators: name: Huang, Bingxin
name: Kang, Lei
name: Tsang, Victor
name: Lo, Claudia
name: Wong, Terence T. W.
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary Information
Supplementary document for Deep Learning-assisted Smartphone-based Quantitative Microscopy for Label-free Peripheral Blood Smear Analysis - 6856703.pdf
Creators: name: Huang, Bingxin
name: Kang, Lei
name: Tsang, Victor
name: Lo, Claudia
name: Wong, Terence T. W.
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental Document
Selective enhancement of infrared absorption with metal hole arrays
Creators: name: Nishijima, Yoshiaki
name: Nigorinuma, Hiroki
name: Rosa, Lorenzo
name: Juodkazis, Saulius
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We use a surface-enhanced infrared absorption (SEIRA) spectroscopy, a useful sensing and surface analysis method complimentary to the Raman scattering spectroscopy, for the individual enhancement of specific molecular vibration bands and fingerprinting of molecular vibrations. SEIRA spectroscopic measurement using the metal hole array (MHA) is demonstrated with high spectral selectivity. The molecular IR absorption peaks are enhanced up to 10 times at the transmission peak of MHA structure when electromagnetic field enhancement is localized on the walls inside the holes. Experimental and numerical simulations results are in a good qualitative agreement. Selective IR band enhancement can be used for identification of specific molecules within complex mixtures and it can be extended to the longer wavelengths at THz molecular bands.
МЕХАНИЗМ ПРЕОБРАЗОВАНИЯ МЕТАНА В КАРБОНАТ
Creators: name: Ахмедова Фазилат Улашовна, Каршинский инженерно-экономический институт
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Сегодня во всем мире в атмосферу выбрасывается 15 миллиардов тонн углекислого газа в год [1]. В результате столь резкого увеличения количества углекислого  газа  в  атмосфере  прогнозируется,  что  в  ближайшие  15-20  лет температура  на  Земле  повысится  на  0,35°С,  а  через  100 -120  лет  на  1,5-1,5-1,5°С.  2°С.  Это  вызывает  глобальные  экологические  и  экономические проблемы.  Наиболее  перспективным  путем  решения  этой  экологической проблемы  является  конверсия  углекислого  газа  метаном  в  синтез-газ  и производство на его основе метанола [2].
Relationship of creatine kinase to body composition, disease state, and longevity in ALS
Creators: name: Gibson, Summer B.
name: Kasarskis, Edward J.
name: Hu, Nan
name: Stefan-M Pulst
name: Mendiondo, Marta S.
name: Matthews, Dwight E.
name: Mitsumoto, Hiroshi
name: Rup Tandan
name: Simmons, Zachary
name: Kryscio, Richard J.
name: Bromberg, Mark B.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Our objective was to explore if creatine kinase (CK) levels correlate with survival in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and whether a correlation is independent of other well-studied predictors such as location of onset, gender, age, fat free mass, spasticity, cramps, and fasciculations. We analyzed data from 80 ALS patients from a 48-week non-interventional longitudinal multicenter nutrition study with long term follow-up. The overall mean CK was 214 ± 191.8 U/l (range 22–1992 U/l). Forty-five percent of patients had at least one high CK value (> 200 U/l), and about half maintained a high CK value, but there was no trend over the study period. Male gender and extremity onset were significantly associated with high CK. In univariate analysis, age, bioelectric impedance spectroscopy (BIS) fat free mass, spasticity, and fasciculations were not associated with CK level. There was an association between CK and muscle cramps (p < 0.001). In survival analysis, low CK (≤ 200 U/l) was associated with a longer overall survival (p = 0.02), when adjusting for location of onset, age, race, gender, BIS fat free mass, and study site. In conclusion, CK may be a useful marker for ALS survival, which has implications for clinical care and the design of future clinical trials.
Hybrid threshold adaptable quantum secret sharing scheme with reverse Huffman-Fibonacci-tree coding
Creators: name: Lai, Hong
name: Zhang, Jun
name: Luo, Ming-Xing
name: Pan, Lei
name: Pieprzyk, Josef
name: Xiao, Fuyuan
name: Orgun, Mehmet A.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: With prevalent attacks in communication, sharing a secret between communicating parties is an ongoing challenge. Moreover, it is important to integrate quantum solutions with classical secret sharing schemes with low computational cost for the real world use. This paper proposes a novel hybrid threshold adaptable quantum secret sharing scheme, using an m-bonacci orbital angular momentum (OAM) pump, Lagrange interpolation polynomials, and reverse Huffman-Fibonacci-tree coding. To be exact, we employ entangled states prepared by m-bonacci sequences to detect eavesdropping. Meanwhile, we encode m-bonacci sequences in Lagrange interpolation polynomials to generate the shares of a secret with reverse Huffman-Fibonacci-tree coding. The advantages of the proposed scheme is that it can detect eavesdropping without joint quantum operations, and permits secret sharing for an arbitrary but no less than threshold-value number of classical participants with much lower bandwidth. Also, in comparison with existing quantum secret sharing schemes, it still works when there are dynamic changes, such as the unavailability of some quantum channel, the arrival of new participants and the departure of participants. Finally, we provide security analysis of the new hybrid quantum secret sharing scheme and discuss its useful features for modern applications.
Superresolution-focal-volume induced 30 Tbytes/disk capacity by focusing a radially polarized beam
Creators: name: Li, Xiangping
name: Cao, Yaoyu
name: Gu, Min
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper reports on the study of the superresolution volume of the focal spot by focusing a radially polarized beam. This feature is achieved by increasing the inner radius of a high NA annular objective to break the diffraction-limited volume of a focal spot. The application of this finding into two-photon induced threedimensional optical data storage leads to an enhanced photoreduction threshold effect in recording. As such, multilayer subdiffraction optical recording is experimentally demonstrated with an equivalent capacity of 3:0 Tbytes/disk.
High Risk Retinoblastoma: Prevalence and Success of Treatment in Developing Countries
Creators: name: H. ElZomor
name: H. Taha
name: A. Aleieldin
name: R. Nour
name: M. S. Zaghloul
name: M. Fawzi
name: A. Kamel
name: A. S. Alfaar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: Cancer
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Medicine

description: High Risk Retinoblastoma: Prevalence and Success of Treatment in Developing Countries
Word on the Street: The Persistence of Leftist-dominated Protest in Europe
Creators: name: Torcal, Mariano
name: Rodon, Toni
name: Hierro, María José
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics

description: Classic studies of protest politics have traditionally defended the dominant left-wing orientation of protesters. However, some recent research has highlighted the general spread of protest by the increasing participation of right-wing individuals. Has this process meant an ‘ideological normalisation’ of protesters? The present article tackles this question by examining competing hypotheses regarding the relationship between ideology and political protest. Through a hierarchical multilevel design, the article tests whether left-wing (or right-wing) supporters are more likely to stay at home when left-wing (right-wing) parties are in power and whether they intensify their protest activities when they are more distant from the government’s ideological position. The article shows that left-wing individuals protest more under right-wing governments than under left-wing governments and yet, they are the group which protest the most also under left-wing governments. Both party mobilisation and values appear to be behind these individuals' greater propensity to participate regardless of the governments' ideological orientation.
Paracobitis malapterura
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Nemacheilidae
Paracobitis
Paracobitis malapterura

description: 52. Paracobitis malapterura (Valenciennes, 1846)
Common name. Western crested loach
Taxonomy. Original description: Cobitis malapterura Valenciennes, 1846: 88, pl. 523 ["Sent from Syria " (Iran); syntypes: MNHN 0000–3962 (1), B–3070 (ex MNHN 0000–3962) (1)].
Revisions. Freyhof et al. (2014).
Illustrations. Freyhof et al. (2014: 18, fig. 5-7).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Namak Lake, Dasht-e Kavir.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 447-Namak, 448-Kavir & Lut Deserts.
Status in Iran. [Endemic].—Loch mahi-e tajdar-e Namak.—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 page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
Employee Mental Illness: Managing the Hidden Epidemic
Creators: name: Romanella, Mirella
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: While the high prevalence of mental illness in workplaces is more readily documented in the literature than it was ten or so years ago, it continues to remain largely within the medical and health sciences fields. This may account for the lack of information about mental illness in workplaces (Dewa et al. Healthcare Papers 5:12-25, 2004) by operational managers and human resource departments even though such illnesses effect on average 17% to 20% of employees in any 12-month period (MHCC 2012; SAMHSA 2010; ABS 2007). As symptoms of mental illness have the capacity to impact negatively on employee work performance and/or attendance, the ramifications on employee performance management systems can be significant, particularly when employees choose to deliberately conceal their illness, such that any work concerns appear to derive from issues other than illness (Dewa et al. Healthcare Papers 5:12-25, 2004; De Lorenzo 2003). When employee non-disclosure of a mental illness impacts negatively in the workplace, it presents a very challenging issue in relation to performance management for both operational managers and human resource staff. Without documented medical evidence to show that impaired work performance and/or attendance is attributable to a mental illness, the issue of performance management arises. Currently, when there is no documented medical illness, performance management policies are often brought into place to improve employee performance and/or attendance by establishing achievable employee targets. Yet, given that in any twelve-month period at least a fifth of the workforce sustains a mental illness (MHCC 2012; SAMHSA 2010; ABS 2007), and that non-disclosure is significant (Barney et al. BMC Public Health 9:1-11, 2009; Munir et al. Social Science & Medicine 60:1397-1407, 2005) such targets may be unachievable for employees with a hidden mental illness. It is for these reasons that this paper reviews the incidence of mental illness in western economies, its costs, and the reasons why it is often concealed and proposes the adoption of what are termed 'Buffer Stage' policies as an added tool that organisations may wish to utilise in the management of hidden medical illnesses such as mental illness.
HARMONY OF MOTHERLAND AND MOTHER IMAGES IN POETRY
Creators: name: ABDULLAYEVA MADINA MADAMINOVNA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Abstract. In poetry, the image of the mother is reflected in the artistic whole with the concept of homeland. The issue of poetic harmony of the concept of mother and homeland. This article is analyzed on the example of the poetry of Abdulla Oripov, Amon Matjon, Khurshid Davron.

 

Keywords. Artistic integrity and generalized image, image and imagery, poetic image, lyrical character, love.
Idea: A reference platform for systematic information security management tool support
Creators: name: Mueller, Ingo
name: Han, Jun
name: Schneider, Jean-Guy
name: Versteeg, Steven
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460308
subject: Pattern recognition
classificationCode: 460502
subject: Data mining and knowledge discovery
classificationCode: 460612
subject: Service oriented computing
classificationCode: 461104
subject: Neural networks
classificationCode: 461201
subject: Automated software engineering
classificationCode: 461202
subject: Empirical software engineering

description: The ISO 27001 standard specifies an information security management system (ISMS) as a means to implement security best practices for IT systems. Organisations that implement an ISMS typically experience various challenges such as enforcing a common vocabulary, limiting human errors and integrating existing management tools and security mechanisms. However, ISO 27001 does not provide guidance on these issues because tool support is beyond its scope, leaving organisations to start 'from scratch' with manual and usually paper document-driven approaches. We propose a novel reference platform for security management that provides the foundation for systematic and automated ISMS tool support. Our platform consists of a unified information model, an enterprise-level repository and an extensible application and integration platform that aid practitioners in tackling the aforementioned challenges. This paper motivates and outlines the key elements of our approach and presents a first proof-of-concept prototype implementation.
Synthesis, characterization and comparative DNA interaction studies of new copper(II) and nickel(II) complexes containing mesalamine drug using molecular modeling and multispectroscopic methods
Creators: name: Shahabadi, Nahid
name: Fili, Soraya Moradi
name: Shahlaei, Mohsen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Biochemistry
Biophysics

description: Complexes of copper(II) and nickel(II) containing the drug mesalamine (5-ASA) have been synthesized and characterized by FT-IR, mass and UV–vis spectra, elemental analysis, and theoretical methods. The binding interactions between mesalamine and its Cu(II) and Ni(II) complexes with calf thymus DNA (ct-DNA) were investigated using absorption, fluorescence emission and circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopies, and viscosity measurements. Absorption spectra of 5-ASA, Cu(II) and Ni(II) complexes showed hypochromism. The calculated binding constants (Kb) obtained from UV–vis absorption studies were 1.27 × 103, 1.6 × 103, and 1.2 × 104 M−1 for 5-ASA, Cu(II) and Ni(II) complexes, respectively. The compounds induced detectable changes in the CD spectra of ct-DNA (B → A structural transition, B → C structural transition and stabilization of the right-handed B form, for mesalamine, Cu(II) and Ni(II) complexes, respectively). The competitive binding experiments with Hoechst 33258 indicated that 5-ASA and copper complex could interact as groove binders. Furthermore, Ni complex had no effect on the fluorescence intensity and peak position of MB-DNA system. Finally, the results obtained from experimental and molecular modeling showed that complexes bind to DNA via minor-groove binding.
Infrared Observations and Investigations of Uranus’s Aurorae and Ionosphere
Creators: name: M. Thomas, Emma
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2024

description: This thesis presents infrared spectral analyses of Uranus’ observations via the molecular ion H3+. The high spectral and spatial resolution of these observations facilitated the first investigations into Uranus's spatially resolved ionospheric temperature, column densities and ion flows. By documenting these parameters, we can identify and study infrared aurorae and gain insight into Uranian dynamics of magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling.Using Uranus observations taken by Keck-NIRSPEC, projected maps of intensity, total emission, temperature and column density of the H3+ ions were created. This revealed localised emission enhancements driven by higher H3+ column density. Given these were generated by enhanced ionisation, and the emissions co-location with the Q3, AH5 models and prior UV auroral emissions, we determined this enhancement is a detection of Uranus's infrared aurora.Analysing Uranus observations from Keck-NIRSPEC and IRTF-iSHELL, we investigated the H3+ line-of-sight velocities at mid-to-low latitudes, derived from the Doppler shift of combined Q(1,0-) and Q(3,0-) emission lines. In calculating the temperature and column density of H3+, we confirm the tentative southern aurora observation by Melin et al., (2019). Enhanced super rotations were observed whilst the southern aurora was present, which may be due to the conservation of momentum via magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling.Building on these temperature measurements, we also investigate if all emitting energy levels of H3+ at Uranus and Neptune are in local thermodynamic equilibrium using models from Moore et al., (2019 and 2020). We identify that H3+ emissions at Uranus are significantly reduced due to the breakdown of LTE at ~ 1000 km, with Neptune showing a reduced breakdown partially driven by differing models. Our findings also suggest vibrational temperatures of H3+ at Uranus should be 11 to 25% hotter than the rotational, contradicting Trafton et al., (1999). This may be explained by proton transferring which transfers vibrational energy from H3+ to ground state H2.
Post-disaster housing: Translating socio-cultural findings into usable design technical inputs
Creators: name: Rahmayati, Yenny
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: On December 26, 2004 a 9.1 Richter scale earthquake followed by a high tsunami struck Indonesia's Aceh province. It was one of the largest natural disasters in Aceh's history and had a tremendous effect on the housing and settlement sector. Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province, was one of the hardest hit spots along with Aceh Jaya and Aceh Barat. Some 500,000 survivors lost their homes, rendering 20% of the Acehnese population homeless (Bappenas 2005). Up to 140,000 homes were destroyed or severely damaged. The tsunami disaster triggered international attention. Billions of foreign aid dollars for reconstruction were offered. Many international agencies and NGOs pitch in to help Aceh with Indonesian governmental agencies. In addition to the rehabilitation of the economy, livelihood, environment, infrastructure, health services and schools, the reconstruction of houses is the major activity of post-disaster response. The combined national and international aid resulted in large scale post-disaster housing reconstruction projects. The rehabilitation and reconstruction phase was completed in 2009. After reconstruction, 147,000 houses were built for survivors (BRR 2009), a significant achievement.