cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Post-hospital syndrome in adults with asthma: a case-crossover study
Creators: name: Sadatsafavi, Mohsen
name: Lynd, Larry D
name: FitzGerald, J M
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Post-hospital syndrome refers to the period of generalized risk of adverse health outcomes among patients who are recently discharged from hospital. This period is associated with a short-term increased risk of readmission which may not be related to the original condition. While the majority of studies of post-hospital syndrome have focused on all-cause readmissions, whether and to what extent such a phenomenon exists within discrete medical conditions is not yet known. Objective: To investigate whether the risk of admission due to asthma is increased in individuals who are discharged following any-cause hospital admission. Methods: Using administrative health data for the period 1997 to 2007 from the province of British Columbia, Canada, we created a cohort of adults with asthma. Using a case-crossover design, we assessed the association between discharge from a hospital (exposure) within 30 days before an asthma-related hospitalization (the outcome), using two 30-day control periods within the same subject. Conditional logistic regression was performed to calculate the relative risk (RR) of the outcome in association with exposure. We performed several sensitivity and subgroup analyses. Results: The final cohort included 3,852 patients experiencing 6,333 instances of the outcome. Mean age at the time of the outcome was 43.7 (SD 14.2), 69.0% of such outcomes belonged to females. The RR of the outcome within the next 30 days of a previous any-cause discharge was 1.40 (95% CI 1.22 - 1.59). However, the association was mainly caused by discharge from asthma-related admission [RR = 1.99 (95% CI 1.65 - 2.39)]. The RR associated with non-asthma-related discharge was 0.88 (95% CI 0.74 - 1.04) and was not statistically significant. Similar results were obtained in a range of sensitivity analyses. Discussion: Our results indicate that in patients with asthma, the 30-day risk of asthma-related admission is increased after an episode of asthma-related hospitalization, but not after an episode of non-asthma-related hospitalization.
Transforming consumer representation in Australian telecommunications
Creators: name: Morsillo, Robert
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: It is increasingly apparent that the old models of consumer consultation in the Australian communications industry are struggling in today's fast-paced, converging wireless and IP networking world. In the past, consumer representation tended to focus on what was considered to be bad about telecommunications services, and solutions were largely seen to lie with the service provider and/ or with the regulatory environment. This paper suggests that a change is underway in terms of the roles that consumers can now play and the opportunities that new physical networks and new forms of social networking provide -- from the traditional dominant mode of confrontation, controversy and complaint towards new modes based on innovation, collaboration and partnerships.
Proceedings of the EAA Joint Symposium on Auralization and Ambisonics : Berlin, 03th–05th April, 2014
Creators: name: Weinzierl, Stefan
name: Vorländer, Michael
name: Zotter, Franz
name: Maempel, Hans-Joachim
name: Lindau, Alexander
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2014
Subjects: 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten
Ambisonics
Auralization
Sound field synthesis
Spatial audio

description: EAA Joint Symposium on Auralization and Ambisonics, Berlin, Germany, 201-04-03 - 5 Apr 2014; Berlin : Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin X, 188 Seiten (2014). doi:10.14279/depositonce-4103
description: Published by Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin, Berlin
A customized protocol to assess bone quality in the metacarpal head, metacarpal shaft and distal radius: a high resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography precision study
Creators: name: Feehan, Lynne M.
name: Buie, Helen
name: Li, Linda C.
name: McKay, Heather Anne, 1954-
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: High Resolution-Peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography (HR-pQCT) is an emerging technology for evaluation of bone quality in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). However, there are limitations with standard HR-pQCT imaging protocols for examination of regions of bone commonly affected in RA. We developed a customized protocol for evaluation of volumetric bone mineral density (vBMD) and microstructure at the metacarpal head (MH), metacarpal shaft (MS) and ultra-ultra-distal (UUD) radius; three sites commonly affected in RA. The purpose was to evaluate short-term measurement precision for bone density and microstructure at these sites. Methods: 12 non-RA participants, individuals likely to have no pre-existing bone damage, consented to participate [8 females, aged 23 to 71 y [median (IQR): 44 (28) y]. The custom protocol includes more comfortable/stable positioning and adapted cortical segmentation and direct transformation analysis methods. Dominant arm MH, MS and UUD radius scans were completed on day one; repeated twice (with repositioning) three to seven days later. Short-term precision for repeated measures was explored using intraclass correlational coefficient (ICC), mean coefficient of variation (CV%), root mean square coefficient of variation (RMSCV%) and least significant change (LSC%95). Results: Bone density and microstructure precision was excellent: ICCs varied from 0.88 (MH2 trabecular number) to .99 (MS3 polar moment of inertia); CV% varied from < 1 (MS2 vBMD) to 6 (MS3 marrow space diameter); RMSCV% varied from < 1 (MH2 full bone vBMD) to 7 (MS3 marrow space diameter); and LSC% 95varied from 2 (MS2 full bone vBMD to 21 (MS3 marrow space diameter). Cortical porosity measures were the exception; RMSCV% varying from 19 (MS3) to 42 (UUD). No scans were stopped for discomfort. 5% (5/104) were repeated due to motion during imaging. 8% (8/104) of final images had motion artifact graded > 3 on 5 point scale. Conclusion: In our facility, this custom protocol extends the potential for in vivo HR-pQCT imaging to assess, with high precision, regional differences in bone quality at three sites commonly affected in RA. Our methods are easy to adopt and we recommend other users of HR-pQCT consider this protocol for further evaluations of its precision and feasibility in their imaging facilities.
Prediction model-guided midlife dementia risk reduction
Creators: name: GEETHADEVI, GOPISANKAR MOHANANNAIR
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 321109
subject: Predictive and prognostic markers
classificationCode: 320905
subject: Neurology and neuromuscular diseases
classificationCode: 321499
subject: Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 420204
subject: Epidemiological methods
classificationCode: 420205
subject: Epidemiological modelling
classificationCode: 321402
subject: Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
classificationCode: 520203
subject: Cognitive neuroscience

description: This thesis examines the possibility of predicting the development of dementia in the future based on a person's current health conditions which will motivate people to participate in dementia risk reduction efforts.
Zhao Jiping's Film Score in Yellow Earth (1984): Constructing and Subverting Perceptions of Diegetic Boundaries
Creators: name: Munger, Justin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2022
Subjects: Film Music
Music
Diegetic Music
China
Zhao Jiping
Yellow Earth

description: This thesis examines how Zhao Jiping's film score in Yellow Earth (1984) establishes distinct identities for the diegetic and non-diegetic (presentational) space, as well as how Zhao manipulates the audience's perception of musical-spatial boundaries in order to create moments of musical significance during the "river scenes." To model the diegesis, I use a perception model approach combined with work by Winters and Yacavone. This frames the diegesis in relation to reality, without being beholden to it, and attributes to the audience an active role in constructing the diegesis, internally and subjectively expanding on fragments presented by the film. I then characterize the music of the diegesis as being representative of the Shaanbei region of China, using folk singing and instruments indigenous to the region. The music of the presentational space uses melodic material derived from the diegetic music, supported by orchestral music in a style similar to mixed instrument ensembles in Model Works. During the "river scenes", Zhao's music gradually detaches the audience's sense of anchoring in the diegetic space and pivots into the presentational space, creating an intense contrast that supports the narrative significance of the scene. Afterwards, similar techniques are then used to gradually re-anchor the audience back into the diegesis. Using models of the diegetic and presentational spaces that incorporate recent shifts in academic perspective, this thesis demonstrates Zhao Jiping's nuanced understanding of how an audience perceives musical space, both by creating distinct identities for the diegetic and presentational spaces, and by manipulating audience perception of space in order to create moments of musical significance.
Individual project on theme "Vulpes" (MOOC: CompTech in biology)
Creators: name: Tkachev Roman
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Данный кейс является результатом реализации индивидуального проекта Ткачева Романа по теме "Vulpes" в рамках онлайн курса "Компьютерные технологии в биологии" (автор – А.В. Ваганов) (https://stepik.org/course/60859/promo).
Data Governance Plan for the Malawi Electricity Access Project
Creators: name: Theu, Austin Patikani
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The Malawi Energy Access Project Data Governance Plan outlines a comprehensive framework to support the efficient collection, management, sharing, and utilization of energy-related data. This framework is essential for driving evidence-based policy decisions and ensuring that Malawi's energy access goals are met effectively. The plan provides guidelines for data governance structures, data quality management, data security, and stakeholder collaboration.
Publications on Chinese Agriculture Prior to 1949
Creators: name: Logan, William J. C.
name: Schroeder, Peter B.
name: Logan, William J. C.
name: Schroeder, Peter B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1966
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: Excerpts from the report: Despite the present efforts to industrialize China, it is generally believed that agriculture will remain the mainstay of the country's economy for some time to come. The National Agricultural Library's Chinese collection contains publications which have been received for nearly a century and is one of the largest of its kind in the world. The present list provides bibliographic access to publications which were issued prior to the Communist takeover of the mainland in 1949. Most of the books and periodicals listed here are in Chinese, but some are in English, Japanese, French, German or Italian. The list also includes some of the important reports, working papers and other documents prepared by various technical missions and organizations. In addition to the publications on agricultural and biological topics some selected materials on other related subjects are included. This bibliography is divided into two major parts: serial publications and monographs. The bibliography also includes an author index and an index to titles.
A Novel Thylakoid Ascorbate Peroxidase from Jatrophacurcas Enhances Salt Tolerance in Transgenic Tobacco
Creators: name: Liu, Zhibin
name: Bao, Han
name: Cai, Jin
name: Han, Jun
name: Zhou, Lirong
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Ascorbate peroxidase (APX) plays an important role in the metabolism of hydrogen peroxide in higher plants. In the present study, a novel APX gene (JctAPX) was cloned from Jatropha curcas L. The deduced amino acid sequence was similar to that of APX of some other plant species. JctAPX has a chloroplast transit peptide and was localized to the chloroplasts by analysis with a JctAPX-green fluorescent protein (GFP) fusion protein. Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) analysis showed that JctAPX was constitutively expressed in different tissues from J. curcas and was upregulated by NaCl stress. To characterize its function in salt tolerance, the construct p35S: JctAPX was created and successfully introduced into tobacco by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Compared with wild type (WT), the transgenic plants exhibited no morphological abnormalities in the no-stress condition. However, under 200 mM NaCl treatment, JctAPX over-expressing plants showed increased tolerance to salt during seedling establishment and growth. In addition, the transgenic lines showed higher chlorophyll content and APX activity, which resulted in lower H₂O₂ content than WT when subjected to 400 mM NaCl stress. These results suggest that the increased APX activity in the chloroplasts from transformed plants increased salt tolerance by enhancing reactive oxygen species (ROS)-scavenging capacity under short-term NaCl stress conditions.
Outcomes following percutaneous coronary intervention and coronary artery bypass grafting surgery in Chinese, South Asian and white patients with acute myocardial infarction: administrative data analysis
Creators: name: Gasevic, Danijela
name: Khan, Nadia A.
name: Qian, Hong
name: Karim, Shahzad
name: Simkus, Gerald
name: Quan, Hude
name: Mackay, Martha
name: O’Neill, Blair J.
name: Ayyobi, Amir F.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background. Little is known on whether there are ethnic differences in outcomes following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and coronary artery bypass grafting surgery (CABG) after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). We compared 30-day and long-term mortality, recurrent AMI, and congestive heart failure in South Asian, Chinese and White patients with AMI who underwent PCI and CABG. Methods Hospital administrative data in British Columbia (BC), Canada were linked to the BC Cardiac Registry to identify all patients with AMI who underwent PCI (n = 4729) or CABG (n = 1687) (1999–2003). Ethnicity was determined from validated surname algorithms. Logistic regression for 30-day mortality and Cox proportional-hazards models were adjusted for age, sex, socio-economic status, severity of coronary disease, comorbid conditions, time from AMI to a revascularization procedure and distance to the nearest hospital. Results Following PCI, Chinese had higher short-term mortality (Odds Ratio (OR): 2.36, 95% CI: 1.12-5.00; p = 0.02), and South Asians had a higher risk for recurrent AMI (OR: 1.34, 95% CI: 1.08-1.67, p = 0.007) and heart failure (OR 1.81, 95% CI: 1.00-3.29, p = 0.05) compared to White patients. Risk of heart failure was higher in South Asian patients who underwent CABG compared to White patients (OR (95% CI) = 2.06 (0.92-4.61), p = 0.08). There were no significant differences in mortality following CABG between groups. Conclusions Chinese and South Asian patients with AMI and PCI or CABG had worse outcomes compared to their White counterparts. Further studies are needed to confirm these findings and investigate potential underlying causes.
The role of social networks at different stages of business formation
Creators: name: Klyver, Kim
name: Hindle, Kevin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This study empirically tests the fundamental assumption that social networks are important to entrepreneurs. This assumption underpins most social network research conducted in the field of entrepreneurship and is seldom questioned. Empirical data were drawn from Australia's participation in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor project (GEM) from 2000–2005 - an aggregate sample of 14,205 randomly selected Australians. The study demonstrated: (1) statistically significant differences in social networks when entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs are compared and (2) that the structural diversity of social networks changes during the entrepreneurial process. It was found that structural diversity was most important to entrepreneurs in the discovery stage, least important to entrepreneurs in the start-up stage and of medium importance to entrepreneurs in the young business stage.
On extending support for modeling artifact-centric business processes
Creators: name: Yongchareon, Sira
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Nowadays, businesses are forced by economic constraints and competitive business environment; therefore, they seek for an innovative improvement of their business operations in order to outperform their competitors. This brings in challenges to the modeling, design, and management of complex and dynamic requirements of business processes. The objective of the research was to tackle three most important issues in modern business process management. The outcome of the research is a novel framework that provides the following features to businesses. First, they can systematically reuse their existing business processes in a more efficient way. Second, they can achieve the highest degree of flexibility, autonomy, and efficiency while they are collaborating in a business process. Last, they can automatically visualize their business processes and effectively develop web-based user interfaces to support interaction between users and processes in a collaborative environment. In the business point of view, an organization that uses this framework will be beneficial from more cost-savings and operational innovations.
Distinct DNA methylation patterns of cognitive impairment and trisomy 21 in down syndrome
Creators: name: Jones, Meaghan J.
name: Farré, Pau
name: McEwen, Lisa M.
name: MacIsaac, Julia L.
name: Watt, Kim
name: Neumann, Sarah M.
name: Emberly, Eldon
name: Cynader, Max S.
name: Virji-Babul, Naznin
name: Kobor, Michael S. (Geneticist)
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: The presence of an extra whole or part of chromosome 21 in people with Down syndrome (DS) is associated with multiple neurological changes, including pathological aging that often meets the criteria for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). In addition, trisomies have been shown to disrupt normal epigenetic marks across the genome, perhaps in response to changes in gene dosage. We hypothesized that trisomy 21 would result in global epigenetic changes across all participants, and that DS patients with cognitive impairment would show an additional epigenetic signature. Methods We therefore examined whole-genome DNA methylation in buccal epithelial cells of 10 adults with DS and 10 controls to determine whether patterns of DNA methylation were correlated with DS and/or cognitive impairment. In addition we examined DNA methylation at the APP gene itself, to see whether there were changes in DNA methylation in this population. Using the Illumina Infinium 450 K Human Methylation Array, we examined more than 485,000 CpG sites distributed across the genome in buccal epithelial cells. Results We found 3300 CpGs to be differentially methylated between the groups, including 495 CpGs that overlap with clusters of differentially methylated probes. In addition, we found 5 probes that were correlated with cognitive function including two probes in the TSC2 gene that has previously been associated with Alzheimer’s disease pathology. We found no enrichment on chromosome 21 in either case, and targeted analysis of the APP gene revealed weak evidence for epigenetic impacts related to the AD phenotype. Conclusions Overall, our results indicated that both Trisomy 21 and cognitive impairment were associated with distinct patterns of DNA methylation.
title: There Is No Monster Outside: It's A Virus! (Chinese)
Creators: name: Tong, Fuhui
name: Irby, Beverly
name: Lara-Alecio, Rafael
name: Abdelrahman, Nahed
name: Schiller, Pam
Publisher: name: Dual Language Research and Practice Journal
Year: 2020

description: No abstract needed.
description: Dual Language Research and Practice Journal, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2020): There Is No Monster Outside: It's a Virus!
Carnet nº 22, commencé à Haiphong (p. 15)
Creators: name: Péraire, Lucien
name: CNRS
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023

description: created: 13-8-1931
Human-Cobot collaboration's impact on success, time completion, errors, workload, gestures and acceptability during an assembly task
Creators: name: Fournier, Étienne
name: Jeoffrion, Christine
name: Hmedan, Belal
name: Pellier, Damien
name: Fiorino, Humbert
name: Landry, Aurélie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The 5.0 industry promotes collaborative robots (cobots). This research studies the impacts of cobot collaboration using an experimental setup. 120 participants realized a simple and a complex assembly task. 50% collaborated with another human (H/H) and 50% with a cobot (H/C). The workload and the acceptability of the cobotic collaboration were measured. Working with a cobot decreases the effect of the task complexity on the human workload and on the output quality. However, it increases the time completion and the number of gestures (while decreasing their frequency). The H/C couples have a higher chance of success but they take more time and more gestures to realize the task. The results of this research could help developers and stakeholders to understand the impacts of implementing a cobot in production chains.
Characterisation of near-field optical trapping and biological applications
Creators: name: Varghese, Smitha
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Optical tweezers are powerful and versatile tools for optical micromanipulation, and have emerged as a discipline in itself, providing a great range of exibility and accuracy for all optical micromanipulation of diverse microscopic samples. The forces associated with far-field optical tweezers are of piconewton range and hence tweezers are used to pull on bead-handles for measuring forces in the sub-piconewton range. The highly concerned imaging and optical manipulation which is required in the nanometric range could be achieved in an efficient manner, by using optical near-fields. Optical near-fields or evanescent fields enable non-diffractive interaction of light with matter, and provide imaging and manipulation with nanometric resolution. Evanescent fields have also been used for particle guiding, where the characteristic feature of evanescent wave guiding is the ability to confine the particles along a surface.
From ockers to the Oscars: an interview with Bruce Beresford
Creators: name: McFarlane, Brian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Bruce Beresford was one of the most prolific and proficient of the first generation of filmmakers in the Australian revival of the 1970s. More than most he worked adventurously across a wide genre range, and perhaps it was this facility that made him such an attractive proposition to Hollywood and elsewhere.
The Canadian Rx atlas, 3rd edition
Creators: name: Morgan, Steve
name: Smolina, Kate
name: Mooney, Dawn
name: Raymond, Colette
name: Bowen, Meryn Louisa
name: Gorczynski, Chris
name: Basham, Kimberley A. Rutherford
Publisher: name: Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR)
Year: 2014

description: "Canadians spent almost $23-billion on prescription drugs at retail pharmacies in 2012/13 – or over $650 per capita. That is a lot of money. However, after adjusting for general inflation, spending per capita actually fell over the past five years – despite the fact that the population was getting older. This 3rd edition of The Canadian Rx Atlas breaks down retail spending on prescription drugs Canada, providing a detailed portrait of the factors driving spending trends over time and variations across provinces. The Atlas gives a first-ever portrait of age- and sex-specific patterns of prescription drug use and costs across provinces. It also provides first-of-kind estimates of the source of financing for the prescriptions filled in every province. Unique to the Canadian Rx Atlas, these details are not provided simply for all spending on prescription drugs; it also provides these details for each of 33 clinically and economically important therapeutic categories." -CHSPR website
Proceedings of 'Business education: creating the future', the 2nd International Forum on Business Education, Lilydale, Victoria, Australia, 16-19 September 2007
Creators: name: Calway, Bruce
name: Moore, Catherine
name: Weaver-Cowdroy, Debbi
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Faculty of Higher Education, Lilydale, hosted the 2nd International Forum on Business Education from 16 to 19 September 2007 in conjunction with the China University of Mining and Technology.
Analogue nation, digital community
Creators: name: Rennie, Ellie
name: Thomas, Julian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Community television test transmissions commenced in Australia in 1987, at a time when the structure of the national media system was changing dramatically. Equalisation policy was passed by the Senate the same year, making way for a comprehensive restructuring of commercial media, including changes in the ownership and control of the networks ... [Introduction]
Mapping research topics and theories in the literature on private regulation for sustainability in global value chains
Creators: name: Wahl, Antje
name: Bull, Gary
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The globalization of production and trade has contributed to the rise to complex global value chains where the reach of state regulation is limited. Private regulation, developed and administered by companies, industry associations and non-governmental organizations, has emerged to safeguard economic, environmental and social sustainability in producer countries and along the value chain. The academic literature on private regulation in global value chains has grown over the last decade, but few major reviews of the research to date have been undertaken. This paper examines peer-reviewed research in the relevant disciplines published in academic journals up to December 2011. The goal is to identify and classify the topics and theories in the literature. We conclude that the number of articles that examine private regulation explicitly in a value chain context is relatively small when considering the importance and growth of global value chains in the world’s economy. Agriculture, forestry and apparel manufacturing are the most often studied sectors of the economy. Other sectors, such as the production of electronics, with complex global value chains and often problematic environmental and social conditions are understudied.
World Models for General Surgical Grasping
Creators: name: Lin, Hongbin
name: Li, Bin
name: Wong, Chun Wai
name: Rojas, Juan
name: Chu, Xiangyu
name: Au, Kwok Wai Samuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Intelligent vision control systems for surgical robots should adapt to unknown and diverse objects while being robust to system disturbances. Previous methods did not meet these requirements due to mainly relying on pose estimation and feature tracking. We propose a world-model-based deep reinforcement learning framework "Grasp Anything for Surgery" (GAS), that learns a pixel-level visuomotor policy for surgical grasping, enhancing both generality and robustness. In particular, a novel method is proposed to estimate the values and uncertainties of depth pixels for a rigid-link object's inaccurate region based on the empirical prior of the object's size; both depth and mask images of task objects are encoded to a single compact 3-channel image (size: 64x64x3) by dynamically zooming in the mask regions, minimizing the information loss. The learned controller's effectiveness is extensively evaluated in simulation and in a real robot. Our learned visuomotor policy handles: i) unseen objects, including 5 types of target grasping objects and a robot gripper, in unstructured real-world surgery environments, and ii) disturbances in perception and control. Note that we are the first work to achieve a unified surgical control system that grasps diverse surgical objects using different robot grippers on real robots in complex surgery scenes (average success rate: 69%). Our system also demonstrates significant robustness across 6 conditions including background variation, target disturbance, camera pose variation, kinematic control error, image noise, and re-grasping after the gripped target object drops from the gripper. Videos and codes can be found on our project page: https://linhongbin.github.io/gas/.
Attitudes and knowledge about abortion and contraception in women from Canada, US, UK, France and Australia : an internet survey using Survey Monkey Audience
Creators: name: Wiebe, Ellen
name: Littman, Lisa
name: Kaczorowski, Janusz
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: The file below is part of the author's main presentation. The full presentation can be found at the uri:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44863
Doing race on the internet: a study of online mothering communities
Creators: name: Farquharson, Karen
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper examines how race is disclosed in online parenting communities. Through a discourse analysis of 10 such communities, I argue that race can by usefully theorised as a practice, and that it is practiced in these communities through seemingly routine actions by participants. I further argue that cyberspace seems to be developing its own racial formations that do not necessarily fully reflect those of place -based communities.
Women in American Agriculture: A Select Bibliography
Creators: name: Fera, Darla
name: Fera, Darla
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: Excerpts from the Introduction: The purpose of this comprehensive listing is to encourage further study in this area and to make existing material more readily available to interested scholars, students, and members of the public. The interest in women's history, in general, is a contemporary phenomenon. And the specific topic of women in American agriculture is an even newer area of historical inquiry. This bibliography covers women's activities on the farm, or more specifically, women engaged as landowners, farm managers, agricultural laborers, and in agricultural industries: beekeeping, silk culture, butter production, etc. References are included concerning women in agricultural education, as agricultural scientists, as workers in ag-related industries (not on the farm) and their involvement in rural organizations.
Hug over a distance
Creators: name: Mueller, Florian 'Floyd'
name: Vetere, Frank
name: Gibbs, Martin R.
name: Kjeldskov, Jesper
name: Pedell, Sonja
name: Howard, Steve
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: People in close relationships, who are separated by distance, often have difficulty expressing intimacy adequately. Based on the results of an ethnographic study with couples, a prototype was developed to test the feasibility of technology in the domain of intimacy. Hug Over a Distance is an air-inflatable vest that can be remotely triggered to create a sensation resembling a hug. Although the couples did not consider the vest to be useful in their daily lives, the prototype served to provoke and stimulate design ideas from the couples during participative design workshops. An additional and unexpected benefit was also found: the prototype enhanced the couples' understanding of the researchers' methods, suggesting that prototypes can serve as tools to make participatory design volunteers aware of their importance in academic research.
THE LEGACY OF VIOLENCE: EXPERIENCE WITH CIVIL WAR AND SUPPORT FOR REFUGEES
Creators: name: Aweko, Scovia
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 440803
subject: Comparative government and politics

description: How does the experience of political violence by members of the host community influence attitudes towards refugees? I draw on theories from social psychology and comparative politics to demonstrate the impact of political violence on preferences for migrants. Specifically, I shed light on how an individual's past experience with civil war shapes their attitudes towards refugees. Existing work suggests that exposure to conflict will lead to prosocial behavior. I test my argument using a conjoint experiment embedded in a survey where I ask respondents to evaluate three pairs of refugee profiles, including their reasons for migration. Respondents then decide which of those profiles should be granted refugee status based on the attributes presented. My analysis shows that those exposed to civil war are more prosocial and show a much higher support for refugees in comparison to those who were not exposed to conflict. However, contrary to the expectations set by post-traumatic growth theory that those with a similar experience as refugees will show a higher preference for those refugees with whom they share an experience, I do not find that individuals exposed to civil war show a significant preference for refugees fleeing conflict over other category of migrants. These results ask us to question the implication of different refugee categorizations on attitudes and behavior towards migrants. Although relevant for public policy and resource distribution, for the ordinary person, migrant categories might not much of an effect, especially if all migrants are perceived to be the same. Furthermore, these results inform policy approaches for reducing prejudice, increasing prosocial behavior towards refugees and promoting social cohesion.
What is the CESSDA Infrastructures and how does it support you?
Creators: name: Sztuk Hraar, Lea
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: data reuse
research data
data archives

description: Presentation on CESSDA infrastructures and services at the workshop "Do You Want to Access and Re-use Research Data?", a Network meeting for humanities researchers, organised by the Danish National Archives. Held in Copenhagen, 24 September 2019. This includes presentations on CESSDA infrastructures.
A service modeling approach with business-level reusability and extensibility
Creators: name: Wang, Jianwu
name: Yu, Jian
name: Han, Yanbo
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper introduces a novel service modeling approach called VINCA_BS, which can be used by business people to extend the functionality of a service-based software platform from a business perspective. VINCA_BS approach introduces the domain analysis approaches into service modeling and uses the domain requirement commonalities to define our VINCA business service models, which are user-understandable, business-level reusable service abstractions omitting concrete business details. These service models can be instantiated by different business people according to their actual business requirements that consequently add new functionalities to the platform. The approach has been successfully validated in a service-based e-government project.
Transportation of Agricultural Products in the United States, 1920-June 1939; A Selected List of References Relating to the Various Phases of Railway, Motor, and Water Carrier Transportation. Part III. Index to Parts I and II.
Creators: name: Colvin, Esther M.
name: Colvin, Esther M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1939
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Public Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Part III. Index to Part I. General Transportation and Transportation of Agricultural Products and Part II. Highway, Rail and Water Transportation
Social connectedness and the mental health of southeast asian youth : results from a population-based survey in British Columbia
Creators: name: Hilario, Carla T.
name: Saewyc, Elizabeth Marie
name: Johnson, Joy L.
name: Vo, Dzung
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Our goal was to examine the relationships between theorized protective factors and emotional distress among Southeast Asian boys and girls. [The complete version of University of British Columbia nursing student journal for 2013 is available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/45164]
Designing design research within a collaborative research centre: a flexible approach to working with scientists, government, industry and academia
Creators: name: Anderson, Lyndon
name: Allnutt, Lucy
name: Thong, Christine
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Whilst certain CRCs use industrial designers on a fee for service basis, few have been involved as key activity drivers from the beginning and for the duration of a CRC. The National institute of Design, Swinburne University of Technology has been involved since the beginning of the CRC for Wood Innovations. Appropriate design strategies suitable for PhD candidates and research in a variety of complex environments have been developed, implemented and continue to evolve.
96 North American taxa sorted – Peck’s Hebeloma revisited
Creators: name: Eberhardt, Ursula
name: Schütz, Nicole
name: Bartlett, Peter
name: Beker, Henry J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Charles Horton Peck described some 2700 species of North American fungi in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Among these were 31 species that he described as Hebeloma or that later authors recombined into Hebeloma. These 31 taxa have been analyzed morphologically and molecularly, as far as possible. For six of these species, lectotypes are designated. For twelve species, ITS sequences (some partial) were generated. Thirteen of the species analyzed are Hebeloma, as the genus is delimited today. Of these 13, nine are regarded as ‘current’, i.e. are names that should be accepted and used. Of the remaining four, three are synonymized with earlier Peck species and one with the generic type H. mesophaeum. Numerous Hebeloma species described from America are synonymized with some of Peck’s species, such as H. albidulum, H. album, H. colvinii, H. excedens, H. palustre, H. sordidulum, and H. velatum; Peck’s H. album, H. palustre, and H. velatum are earlier names for H. fragilipes, H. clavulipes, and H. dunense, respectively. All three names were in current use and described from Europe. The 18 species that are not Hebeloma belong to a range of genera: Agrocybe, Hemistropharia, Inocybe, Inosperma, Naucoria, and Pholiota; three species that were not previously recombined into their respective genera are here recombined and one species, Hebeloma commune is synonymized with Pholiota lenta. Two taxa, that are not Hebeloma, remain unresolved. Sixty later Hebeloma taxa described from North America are revised and synonymized with Peck species and seven with H. mesophaeum, 36 of these supported by ITS (some partial) sequence data. Updates on two species, H. petrakii and H. remyi, from Europe, are also given, and a lectotype and epitype selected for the latter.
Darksidea phi, sp. nov., a dark septate root-associated fungus in foundation grasses in North American Great Plains
Creators: name: Romero-Jiménez, María-José
name: Rudgers, Jennifer A.
name: Jumpponen, Ari
name: Herrera, José
name: Hutchinson, Miriam
name: Kuske, Cheryl
name: Dunbar, John
name: Knapp, Dániel G.
name: Kovács, Gábor M.
name: Porras-Alfaro, Andrea
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Darksidea is a common genus of dark septate fungi—a group of ascomycetes in semiarid regions. A survey reported D. alpha and a distinct Darksidea lineage as abundant root-associated fungi of foundational grasses in North America. Fungi were isolated, and metabarcode data were obtained from sequencing of fungal communities of grass roots in the United States. During a comprehensive investigation of the Darksidea lineage, we carried out polyphasic taxonomy, genomic characterization, and identification of host associations, geographic distribution, and environmental factors that correlate with its abundance. For molecular phylogenetic studies, seven loci were sequenced. Isolates of the distinct Darksidea had variable colony morphology. No sexual reproductive structures were detected, but chlamydospores were frequently observed. The complete genome of an isolate of the lineage was sequenced with a size of 52.3 Mb including 14 707 gene models. Based on morphology and phylogenetic analysis, we propose the novel species Darksidea phi, sp. nov. Metabarcoding data showed that D. phi distribution and relative abundance were not limited to semiarid regions or a specific grass species, suggesting low host specificity among graminoids. This new species, D. phi, expands the distribution of the genus in the United States beyond prior reports from arid regions.
Polycystic ovary syndrome : an opportunity to reduce the incidence and burden of ischemic heart disease among young women?
Creators: name: Panchuk, Kristi
name: Mackay, Martha
name: Humphries, Karin
name: Cheung, Anthony
name: Taipale, Priscilla Gail
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: We are planning a study that will address the research question: Are women with premature IHD more likely than controls to have had signs of PCOS during their reproductive lives? The casecontrol design, comparing the prevalence of putative PCOS among women with known acute coronary syndromes (ACS) with that among women without ACS, is novel.[The complete version of University of British Columbia nursing student journal for 2013 is available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/45164]
Transportation of Agricultural Products in the United States, 1920-June 1939; A Selected List of References Relating to the Various Phases of Railway, Motor, and Water Carrier Transportation. Part II. Highway, Rail, and Water Transportation.
Creators: name: Colvin, Esther M.
name: Colvin, Esther M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1939
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Public Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Excerpts from the Foreword: This bibliography was designed to meet a special need which arose through the designation by Secretary Wallace of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics as the agency to perform the research work in connection with the administration of Section 201 of Title II of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, relating to transportation. Although the interest of workers in the Bureau of Agricultural Economics lies mainly in the transportation of agricultural commodities, material relating to certain phases of transportation in general and to the agencies of transportation have been included. Because of the large volume of material, the bibliography has been divided into two parts. Part II contains references relating to three kinds of transportation - highway, railway, and waterway. Under the general sections of each have been included selected references to some of the mere important books and periodical articles on these subjects. The section on highway transportation includes material relating to motor truck transportation and also to the highways themselves. References may be found relating to financial policies, Government promotion and financing, safety, adequacy and economy of service, State and Federal regulation, taxation, terminals, and trucking rates. The section covering railway transportation includes, in addition to references relating to railway transportation in general, material on consolidation of railways, financial policies of the roads, freight rates, Government promotion and financing (including the pros and cons of government ownership, land grants and subsidies), safety, adequacy and economy of service (including general references, references on container cars, electrification, express, loss and damage in transit, parcel post shipping, and refrigerator cars), taxation, terminals, and volume, density, and character of traffic. Under water transportation may be found general references, references relating to coastal waterways, inland waterways (including the Mississippi River, the New York State Barge Canal, and the St. Lawrence Waterway), ocean transportation with references on the American merchant marine, ocean freight rates, the Panama Canal, State and Federal regulation, and terminals.
Adrien-François-Nicolas Hériguer
Creators: name: Plouvain, Pierre-Antoine-Samuel-Joseph (1754-1832)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2017
Subjects: Officier de justice d'Ancien Régime

description: Source: http://www.sudoc.fr/080675700
description: Coverage: Parlement de Flandre
Complementary Medicine (CAM) decision support coaching for cancer patient and families : a nurse-led intervention
Creators: name: Truant, Tracy
name: Balneaves, Lynda
name: Ross, Brenda
name: Wong, Margurite Elvina
name: Hilario, Carla T.
name: Verhoef, Marja
name: Porcino, Antony
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: This presentation outlines the development and pilot testing of a nurse-led intervention to address this gap in care. The one-on-one CAM decision support coaching intervention (CAM DSCI) offers cancer patients with complex CAM decision support needs (e.g. multiple CAM therapy use, high distress levels, considering conventional treatment delays) a structured approach to accessing and contextualizing evidence-informed CAM information to their unique clinical and personal situation.[The complete version of University of British Columbia nursing student journal for 2013 is available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/45164]
XML-TEI Bible
Creators: name: Tello, José Calvo
Publisher: name: DARIAH-DE
Year: 2020
Subjects: Entities
Romanistik
Bibel
TEI
Direct speech

description: This project contains the biblical text in XML-TEI (66 books). The encoded text is in Spanish, but the codification (elements, attributes, values, ids) is in English. It makes explicit following information: Books, chapters, pericopes and verses. References to peoples, places, times, groups and books, using ids. Direct speech, including who is communicating, to whom and how (written, oral, prayer...).