cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Экологически безопасная защита семенных посевов эспарцета виколистного
Creators: name: Л. В. Тутуржанс
name: А. П. Шутко
name: Л. А. Михно
name: Н. С. Солтанов
Publisher: name: Земледелие
Year: 2020
Subjects: эспарцет виколистный (Onobrychis viciifolia)
аскохитоз эспарцета (Ascochyta onobrychidis)
рамуляриоз эспарцета (Ramularia onobrychidis)
распространенность
вредоносность
биофунгициды
урожайность семян.

description: Цель исследования – повышение урожайности семян эспарцета виколистного путем применения биофунгицидов. Работу выполняли в 2018–2019 гг. в засушливой зоне Ставропольского края. Почва – темнокаштановая с содержание гумуса в пахотном горизонте 2,8…3,2 %, подвижных форм фосфора и калия – 30..32 и 290…320 мг/кг почвы соответственно. В апреле 2018 г. в период бутонизация–налив бобов отмечали превышение температуры воздуха, по сравнению со среднемноголетней, на 2,9 °С, во второй декаде – похолодание до заморозков. В мае 2019 г. габюдали понижение температуры, по сравнению с нормой, на 4,6 °С. В оба года отмечали дефицит осадков. Схема опыта включала следующие варианты: без обработки – контроль; Алирин Б, Ж (2,0 л/ га); Псевдобактерин-2, Ж (1,0 л/га). Объект исследования – эспарцет виколистный (Onobrychis viciifolia Scop.) 2-го года жизни сорта Русич. Размер делянки 5 га, повторность – 3-х кратная. Через 14 дней после обработки распространенность аскохитоза в вариантах опыта снизилась, по сравнению с контролем, в 1,3…1,4 раза, развитие болезни – в 1,7 раза; применительно к рамуляриозу величины этих показателей сократились в 1,6 раза. При этом достоверных различий в биологической эффективности биопрепаратов не установлено. Через 28 дней наиболее эффективным и статистически значимым, по сравнению с контролем и обработкой биопрепаратом Псевдобактерин-2, было применение биофунгицида Алирин Б, Ж. В этом варианте распространенность и развитие аскохитоза, по сравнению с контролем, снизились в 1,6 и 1,7 раза, рамуляриоза – в 1,7 и 1,6 раза соответственно. Прибавка урожайности семян при опрыскивании биопрепаратом Алирин Б, Ж составила 0,09 т/га, что достоверно превысило величину этого показателя при обработке биопрепаратом Псевдобактерин-2 на 0,04 т/га.
Implementation of Practice-Based Research in Social Work Education
Creators: name: Frampton, Nina
name: Jenney, Angelique
name: Shaw, Jessica
Publisher: name: Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching
Year: 2020

description: Research is an integral component of social work education, yet social work students often experience considerable fear and anxiety when faced with the prospect of engaging in research and research-related activities. Student reluctance towards research can cause significant challenges for social work educators. Literature suggests that certain pedagogical practices can increase engagement and improve student learning outcomes, such as integrating experiential practice components and creating practical opportunities for students to apply their classroom knowledge to real life settings. This paper describes the development and implementation of practice-based research curricula and practica in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary to enhance student experiential learning.
description: Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, Vol. 4 (2020)
Limitations in the use of Unipolar Charging for Electrical Mobility Sizing Instruments: A Study of the Fast Mobility Particle Sizer
Creators: name: M. Levin
name: A. Gudmundsson
name: J. H. Pagels
name: M. Fierz
name: K. Mølhave
name: J. Löndahl
name: K. A. Jensen
name: I. K. Koponen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Physics

description: A comparison between three different types of particle sizing instruments (Fast Mobility Particle Sizer (FMPS), Electrical Low Pressure Impactor (ELPI) and Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer (SMPS)) and one Condensation Particle Counter was made to compare instrument response in terms of size distributions and number concentration. Spherical oil droplets in 39 different sizes, with Geometric Mean Diameter (GMD) ranging from 50 to 820 nm were used as test particles. Furthermore, a characterization of the FMPS unipolar charger behavior was made to analyze the measured size distributions and number concentrations. The results show that all three sizing-instruments agree well for particle sizes below 200nm, both in terms of size and number concentration, but the FMPS deviates clearly when particle sizes exceed 200 nm. Above this, the FMPS underestimates the particle size throughout the remainder of the size range, with an apparent upper limit for GMD of 300 nm. It also estimates a higher particle number concentration as compared to the other instruments. Analysis of the 22 FMPS electrometer currents and calculation of average number of charges per particle show a diameter dependence of response of d1.21p for the FMPS unipolar charger. The resulting calculated electrical mobility showed a minimum in mobility for spherical particles at 577 nm, which indicates an interfering range of particles above the measurement range, but below the cut-off of the inlet pre-separator (1 μm). The study concludes that particle distributions with a true GMD above 200 nm cannot be measured reliably with the FMPS.
Experiential Learning through Community-based Experiences: A Graduate Student Perspective
Creators: name: Naeem, Iffat
name: E. Aparicio-Ting, Fabiola
Publisher: name: Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching
Year: 2020

description: Experiential learning (EL) has become essential for graduate students to meet the demanding nature of professional environments, equipping them with skills in leadership, problem solving, and civic consciousness. Community based learning (CBL), as an identified EL strategy, involves a collaborative learning model emphasizing group membership and community engagement. CBL not only enhances graduate skills, but also places graduate student research within a larger social context, and encourages deeper understanding of their discipline. This paper discusses a 90-minute workshop that focused on a graduate student experience with CBL and proposes a framework for integrating CBL into graduate studies. The framework proposes the use of positionality and mindful inquiry methods to identify learner-specific EL activities. Workshop participants reflected on their positionalities, and discussed how positionality can be used to guide mindful inquiry in seeking CBL activities. Further, we report on participant identified contextual and administrative barriers to integration of CBL into graduate curricula. As EL becomes an important mandate for postsecondary institutions to incorporate into student learning, this paper provides a valuable graduate student perspective that can add insight into the practicality of applying CBL in graduate education.
description: Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, Vol. 4 (2020)
Increased female participation into engineering education through specialised courses
Creators: name: Tavrou, Soullis
name: Thong, Christine
name: Steele, Clint
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Research has shown that female participation into engineering courses has a very poor record especially in mainstream courses such as Mechanical, Electrical and Civil engineering. This paper refers to local and international reports on this issue and the success of the Product Design Engineering course to attract a higher percentage of female students. The study will reveal female enrolment into the course, performance during the course and employment after graduation over a ten year period that this course has been offered at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. The paper will support the position that higher female participation in the engineering profession is a necessity and that educational institutions have the ability as well as the responsibility to offer specialised courses that are conducive to higher female participation.
Issues in using medium to large scale landfill data for modelling, model calibration and prediction
Creators: name: Lamborn, Julia
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A better model for full-scale landfills is required based on the more sophisticated component models, with fewer parameters, and able to be used by operators. To work towards developing such a model, an investigation is required examining the issues in using medium to large-scale landfill data for modelling, model calibration and prediction purposes. This investigation used three datasets of varying waste volumes to undertake a parameter sensitivity study for landfill modelling purposes (Lamborn 2010). The first part of this investigation examined the data available from each dataset and undertook an assessment of the issues in using incomplete data for modelling purposes. The data was incomplete as many parameters either had not been measured at larger waste volumes or they were too expensive to measure over long periods of time.
Vaccination in the 19th century in Italy and the role of Catholic Church in Public Health: A Historical Overview
Creators: name: Martini, Mariano
name: Brigo, Francesco
name: Rasori, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2022

description: Using the case of the vaccine against smallpox as an example, this article explores how the attitude and the politics of the Vatican State towards vaccination changed between the 18th and 19th century. Despite some notable exceptions, the Catholic Church became progressively involved in supporting vaccination in Italy, exerting its temporal and spiritual authority to develop healthcare policies and to convince a population that still considered the vaccine as potentially harmful.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 63 No. 1 (2022): 2022631
Tomeurus Eigenmann 1909
Creators: name: Lucinda, Paulo Henrique Franco
name: Reis, Roberto E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Cyprinodontiformes
Poeciliidae
Tomeurus

description: Genus Tomeurus Eigenmann Tomeurus Eigenmann, 1909: 53. Genus masculine. Type-species: Tomeurus gracilis Eigenmann, 1909. Type by monotypy and original designation. Composition. Tomeurus gracilis Eigenmann. Distribution. Tomeurus gracilis occurs in small coastal drainages of the Venezuelan departments Delta Amacuro, Monagas, Territorio Federal, and in Brazilian states of Amapá, and Pará. The species also inhabits the drainages of rio Guamá and rio Tocantins in Brazil, the drainages of the Cuyuni, Mazaruni, and Essequibo Rivers in the Guyana and Courantyne rivier drainage in Suriname. TribeAlfarini + Tribe Brachyrhaphini + Tribe Priapichthyini + Tribe Priapellini + Tribe Heterandriini + Tribe Gambusiini + Supertribe Poeciliini [Clade 126] Diagnosis. Members of this clade can be diagnosed by the following not uniquely derived and/or reversed features: (1) posterior supraorbital canal (2b, 3, 4a) opened, forming a sinuous depression over the frontal (supraorbital bone) [5-1*]; (2) anterior section of posterior remnant of infraorbital system (canal 4b, 5, 6a) opened, pores confluent forming a major sinuous depression above and slightly behind the orbit [6- 1]; (3) medial surface of ascending process of premaxilla slightly angled laterally [11-1*]; (4) anterior border of ventral maxilla concave [14-1]; (5) pelvic girdle of males posteriorly located; posterior border of cleithrum approximately aligned with center of basipterygium (or more posterior) [35-1]; (6) ligastyle with one axis [46-1]; and (7) adult males with anterior process on base of fifth middle anal-fin radial pointed and upward directed [78-1].
description: Published as part of Lucinda, Paulo Henrique Franco & Reis, Roberto E., 2005, Systematics of the subfamily Poeciliinae Bonaparte (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae), with an emphasis on the tribe Cnesterodontini Hubbs, pp. 1-60 in Neotropical Ichthyology 3 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.1590/S1679-62252005000100001, http://zenodo.org/record/5417369
description: {"references": ["Eigenmann, C. H. 1909. Reports on the expedition to British Guyana of the Indiana University and the Carnegie Museum, 1908. Report no. 1. Some new genera and species of fishes from British Guyana. Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 6 (1): 4 - 54."]}
Design and Characterization of an Inhalation System of Iron and Manganese Oxide Nanoparticles for Rodent Exposure
Creators: name: M. Présumé
name: M. Attoui
name: A. Maisser
name: G. Petit
name: S. Lanone
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Science
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: Because of the rise of anthropogenic sources of NP human exposure to NP has dramatically increased in the recent years, in the general population as well as in workers (e.g. welders). This raises the question of the potential adverse effects of NP on human health particularly at the respiratory level since it represents the main route of exposure for air pollutants. Since inhalation exposure is the most relevant but yet under evaluated route of exposure for the evaluation of NP toxicity our study was aimed to design, built, and characterize a safe inhalation system dedicated to evaluate the respiratory effects of NP in mice. We chose to focus on the generation of iron (Fe) and manganese (Mn) oxide NP distributions centered on 20–25 nm diameters at concentrations of 107-108 NP/cm3 as it is representative of the occupational exposure of welders. Fe and Mn NP aerosols were generated with the spark discharge generator technique with air as a carrier gas conditio sine qua non for the mice. Indeed the spark generator has been widely studied and used but in noble gases (N2, Ar,..) suggestion the absence of oxidation. Aerosol particles are characterized in terms of size distribution, concentration, morphology, and chemical composition. Exposure of mice for 1 to 4 days (3 hours a day) to these occupationally relevant aerosol concentrations induces inflammatory effects (increased lung total protein content). Moreover and clusters of particles were observed throughout the lungs.
Learning from the H.I.P.: Engagement through Reacting to the Past
Creators: name: Bylsma, Megan
Publisher: name: Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching
Year: 2020

description: Implementing curriculum that includes all students, that celebrates individual learners’ needs, that fosters student responsibility, and that teaches skills that transcend discipline-specific outcomes is possible with a pedagogy that embraces immersion learning. Reacting to the Past is a High Impact Practice (H.I.P.) approach that uses elaborate, flexible, experiential role-immersion scenarios; all set in the past, these immersion scenarios assign the students historical roles that utilize knowledge of classic texts to respond to historical situations. Igniting a student’s desire to embrace learning is a challenge in a society where what passes for learning is either rote and unchallenging, or unimportant and task specific. When teaching is approached as a universally designed concept that challenges current and past pedagogical traditions learning is transformed for all. Reacting to the Past is a pedagogical approach that can inspire students with a passion for learning.
description: Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, Vol. 4 (2020)
An Atom-Economic Route to Densely Functionalized Thiophenes via Base-Catalyzed Rearrangement of 5-Propargyl-2H-thiopyran-4(3H)-ones
Creators: name: Chunlin Tang
name: Qin, Jian
name: Xingqi Li
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: An atom-economic route to densely functionalized thiophenes has been developed via base-catalyzed rearrangement of 5-propargyl-2H-thiopyran-4(3H)-ones involving tandem retro-thio Michael addition, propargyl isomerization and intramolecular thio-addition to allenes.
Vaccines Hesitancy in Africa: how the COVID-19 pandemic may affect malaria vaccination campaigns
Creators: name: Sulemane, Nordino
name: Armocida, Benedetta
name: Valente, Martina
name: Formenti, Beatrice
name: Barigazzi, Silvia
name: Ussai, Silvia
name: Monasta, Lorenzo
name: Castelli, Francesco
name: Missoni, Eduardo
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2022

description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 63 No. 1 (2022): 2022631
Educating students on a global scale: study tours in design and the impact on graduates
Creators: name: Kuys, Blair
name: Thompson-Whiteside, Scott
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper will discuss the importance of international study tour programs for undergraduate students studying design disciplines in Australia. To date, there has been no study on the effectiveness of these particular study tours and the impact on graduates. Design is a global occupation and to be competitive, designers must understand and appreciate their industry on a global scale. Australia is geographically isolated making it difficult for undergraduate students to appreciate and learn from design activities from around the world. While there is every intention by lecturers to educate students on global activities, it simply cannot compare to students studying while immersed in a different culture. A study tour offers Australian students the opportunity to collaborate with an international cohort on projects that were perhaps never thought of at their home university, as well as opening their eyes to the global world of design.
Docummunity and the disruptive potential of collaborative documentary filmmaking
Creators: name: Gye, Lisa
name: Weinstein, Jeremy
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In 2010, two American films were released that were as interesting for the ways in which they questioned the formal status of the documentary as a vehicle for representations of the 'real' as they were about the subject matter portrayed within them. Directed by Casey Affleck and co-written by Affleck and Joaquin Phoenix, who is also the ostensible 'subject' of the documentary, I'm Still Here (2010) was presented to the world as a chronicle of the downward spiral of Phoenix as he attempted to throw in his celebrity towel as an actor and embark on a new career as a hip-hop artist. Despite initial claims from Affleck that the film was 'not a hoax', a claim that garnered support from Phoenix's strange public performances in the year leading up to the film's release, Affleck later went on to admit that in fact the so-called documentary was actually a work of fiction masquerading as a document of real events. In contrast, the makers of Rogue Pictures' Catfish (2010), brothers Yaniv and Ariel Shulman and Ariel's filmmaking partner, Henry Joost, maintain that their film is an authentic documentation of Nev's experiences when he discovered that the online relationship he had been pursuing for nearly a year was not quite what it seemed, despite the ongoing (and sometimes legitimate) questions that have been raised about the 'truth' status of the film. What the reception of both of these films articulates is an ongoing uncertainty, in the public imagination at least, about the delineation between fiction films and documentaries. This is, of course, a question that has occupied scholars of visual representation for some time. And yet, as the debates over the authenticity of the films described above attest, the desire for an answer to the question of decidability in relation to what is 'real' and what is 'not real' remains strong. If anything, the widespread theoretical acceptance of the textuality of filmic productions seems to have spawned an excess of public interest in the real if the growth of reality television and the expansion of documentary production and consumption in the past two decades is anything to go by. We now fetishize the question of the real to such an extent that the realness of a representation is of as much concern to us as viewers, as the thing represented. That said, is it, or for that matter has it ever been, the function of documentaries to document 'the real'? The answer to this question is critical to an understanding of how the documentary format may evolve in networked digital environments.
Upskilling and polarisation in the Australian labour market: a simple analysis
Creators: name: Esposto, Alexis
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: National and international studies have shown consistent upskilling trends in the labour market. While this claim is true at aggregate levels, when employment growth and total hours worked are disaggregated into permanent and casual full-time and part-time employment for men and women, upskilling trends are inconsistent. The analysis shows that permanent male and female full-time employment exhibited clear signs of upskilling both in terms of employment growth and hours worked but this was not the case in casual full-time work for men and women. Part-time casual and permanent work showed clear signs of polarisation and downskilling for men and women. These polarisation trends suggest that workers who do not possess high-level skills will face increasing levels of difficulty and uncertainty in the labour market, with an adverse impact on both household and individual inequality.
A training program to enhance communication skills of international students
Creators: name: Verezub, Elena
name: Wang, Hengzi
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Teaching and learning enhancement is one of the strategic priorities of Swinburne University of Technology. The aim of this research project was to design a customised program that teaches communication skills to TAFE international students. The “Reading Strategies for Better Understanding of E-Texts” training program was unique in its approach to teaching communication skills. This program had a pre- and post-test program design and included eight sessions where students learnt how to apply metacognitive reading strategies to comprehend e-texts effectively as well as to use information from different sources for their writing (summarising, paraphrasing and quoting). The results of this program have shown that metacognitive strategy training enhanced international students’ e-text comprehension performance significantly. The findings of this research have provided an innovative solution to training international students in communication skills. Finally, a methodology of teaching communication skills to international students has been outlined in this paper.
Evaluating the Extent of Bio-Polyester Polymerization in Solid Wood by Thermogravimetric Analysis
Creators: name: Noël, Marion
name: Grigsby, Warren J.
name: Volkmer, Thomas
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: In this study, the thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) technique has been applied to determine the extent of in situ polymerization achievable in solid wood on treating with bio-polyester oligomers. Low-molecular-weight oligomers of poly(lactic acid) (PLA), poly(glycolic acid) (PGA), poly(butylene succinate) (PBS), and poly(butylene adipate) (PBA) were impregnated and then thermally polymerized within solid wood to enhance the physical properties of wood. TGA revealed a similar degree of oligomer polymerization was achieved either with pure oligomers or within the wood structure. The influence of relatively acidic treatments, such as low-molecular-weight PGA oligomers, was observed to lead to degradation of the hemicellulose wood component. Polymerization of PLA and PGA oligomer treatments which penetrate the wood cell wall gave relatively lower wood thermal stability. Treatment and polymerization of lumen filling PBS and PBA oligomers contributed to increased wood thermal stability.
Social Entrepreneurship Education within Post-Secondary Institutions
Creators: name: Hirst, Sandra
name: Stares, Rebecca
name: LeNavenec, Carole-Lynne
Publisher: name: Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching
Year: 2020

description: Promoting health and wellness is a focus of social entrepreneurs within the health care professions. With the educational offerings of social entrepreneurship expanding within the health care programs of post-secondary institutions, assessing its current knowledge state is essential. Decisions about how and what to teach should be grounded in the best available evidence. The purpose of this preliminary scoping review was to provide an overview of best practices in curriculum content and methods of teaching social entrepreneurship for students in the health care professions.
description: Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, Vol. 4 (2020)
WAYS TO INCREASE THE SOCIAL ACTIVITY OF STUDENTS BY SHAPING EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS
Creators: name: Ahmedova, YE.
name: Tursunov, M.
name: Suloymonov, G'.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This article explores effective strategies to increase student social engagement by shaping educational activities within the school system. The authors emphasize the significance of fostering positive, stable motivation among students as part of the educational process, which not only enhances individual academic performance but also supports the broader socio-educational goals set by national initiatives. This motivation is linked to socialization practices and group activities, allowing students to engage in meaningful educational experiences that promote self-awareness, autonomy, and the development of key social competencies.
The effect of cognitive behavior therapy on attitude of infertile individuals toward child adoption
Creators: name: Aminizadeh, Shirin
name: Ahmadi, Atefeh
name: Dehghan, Mahlegha
name: Alidousti, Katayoun
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2022

description: Introduction. Infertility is one of the most important life-threatening crises that will cause serious psychological problems and serious stressful experience for couples. Granting the parenting of neglected children can have benefits both for infertile couples and those children. The aim of study was investigating the effect of cognitive-behavioral counseling on attitude of infertile individuals towards child adoption. Method. It is a clinical trial study. 40 samples were determined in each case and control group. Five 90-minute cognitive-behavioral counseling sessions were held for intervention group. Control group participants were in waiting list. Data were reported based on frequency distribution, central distribution and dispersion, Wilcoxon test and paired T – test. The level of significance was set at p<0.05. Results. Participants in this study had a mean age of 32.5 years old, the mean years without children was 6.29 years, most of them had higher education. The majority of individuals in the control and intervention groups referred more than once for treatment of infertility. Based on the results of the current study, the attitude score of the intervention group before consultation was 100.74 and it was 112.46 after counseling(p=0.046). And the score of attitudes toward adoption after counseling in control group was 97.10, and it has been 112.46 in the intervention group (p < 0.001). Conclusions. CBT has been effective on the attitude of infertile people towards adoption.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 63 No. 1 (2022): 2022631
Enhanced adhesion from surface modified timber resulting in a sustainable industrial design outcome
Creators: name: Kuys, Blair
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The most significant issue regarding timber use for outdoor products is the poor characteristics this material has with regard to weathering over a prolonged period of time. Ongoing product maintenance is something the majority of consumers want to avoid, hence the domination of aluminium and Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) in the window frame industry. Timber has numerous benefits over its competition such as sustainability, aesthetics, low thermal conductivity and ease of manufacture, but unfortunately its major weakness -- poor outdoor performance -- is the main reason consumers are deterred away from this material. This paper will explain how an environmentally friendly water-based process for surface modification of timber, developed by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), was tested for its potential ability to enhance adhesion of timber products and then implemented into an innovative timber window frame. This timber window frame is used as an exemplar for outdoor timber products to highlight the benefits of integrating successful scientific research into an industrial design outcome. The surface modification process applied to the outermost surface of timber neutralises natural extractives and chemically bonds adhesive promoting molecular chains to the timber's surface. The process is carried out to significantly increase the quality of adhesion of an applied decorative or protective coating. The resultant testing confirmed a convincing increase in the bond strength for all timber species investigated in this doctoral project by an average factor of four-fold, with some species achieving a 10-fold strength increase. The successful results obtained from the first phase of testing of glue-bonded timber samples led to an investigation of the surface modification technology for improved lamination of coatings on timber. Results for this second test phase also confirm the success of this modification science on coatings, as minimal delamination of surface coated samples was documented against non-modified timber samples. These results along with the process of modification and testing will be discussed in this paper.
The role of statistical significance testing in public law and health risk assessment
Creators: name: Vinceti, Silvio Roberto
name: Filippini, Tommaso
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2022

description: Following a fundamental statement made in 2016 by the American Statistical Associations and broad and consistent changes in data analysis and interpretation methodology in public health and other sciences, statistical significance/null hypothesis testing is being increasingly criticized and abandoned in the reporting and interpretation of the results of biomedical research. This shift in favor of a more comprehensive and non-dichotomous approach in the assessment of causal relationships may have a major impact on human health risk assessment. It is interesting to see, however, that authoritative opinions by the Supreme Court of the United States and European regulatory agencies have somehow anticipated this tide of criticism of statistical significance testing, thus providing additional support to its demise. Current methodological evidence further warrants abandonment of this approach in both the biomedical and public law contexts, in favor of a more comprehensive and flexible method of assessing exposures of toxicological interest to human and environmental health.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 63 No. 1 (2022): 2022631
W4RA Road Trip Report
Creators: name: Akkermans, Hans
name: Grewal, Aman
name: Bon, Anna
name: Gyan, Nana Baah
name: Tuyp, Wendelien
name: Allen, Mary
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: W4RA road trip report
Synthesis of α-Ketoamides by Copper-Catalyzed Reactions of Phenylacetic Acids with N,N-Dialkylformamides
Creators: name: Lanping Zhang
name: Junnan Pu
name: Jiayu Ren
name: Zhengkai Li
name: Haifeng Xiang
name: Xiangge Zhou
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biochemistry

description: A new synthetic approach for α -ketoamides was achieved by copper-catalyzed coupling reactions between N,N-dialkylformamides and phenylacetic acids. A variety of substrates were well tolerated to give yields 46-87% (17 examples). 13C-labeling experiment revealed that the carbonyl group of the products came from the phenylacetic acid.
Alfaro Meek 1912
Creators: name: Lucinda, Paulo Henrique Franco
name: Reis, Roberto E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Cyprinodontiformes
Poeciliidae
Alfaro

description: Alfaro Meek Petalosoma Regan, 1908: 458. Type species: Petalosoma cultratum Regan, 1908. Type by monotypy. Gender: neuter. Preoccupied by Petalosoma Lewis, 1903 in Coleoptera. Alfaro Meek, 1912: 72. Type species: Alfaro acutiventralis Meek, 1912. Type by monotypy. Gender: masculine. Petalurichthys Regan, 1912: 494 [footnote]. Type species: Petalosoma cultratum Regan, 1908. Type by being a replacement name. Gender: masculine. Furcipenis Hubbs, 1931: 1. Type species: Priapichthys huberi Fowler, 1923. Type by original designation. Gender: masculine.
description: Published as part of Lucinda, Paulo Henrique Franco & Reis, Roberto E., 2005, Systematics of the subfamily Poeciliinae Bonaparte (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae), with an emphasis on the tribe Cnesterodontini Hubbs, pp. 1-60 in Neotropical Ichthyology 3 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.1590/S1679-62252005000100001, http://zenodo.org/record/5417369
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The influence of confidence in memory on checking behaviours
Creators: name: Jennings, Hayley
name: Nedeljkovic, Maja
name: Moulding, Richard
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Recent theories of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder have suggested that meta-cognitive beliefs, particular confidence in memory, may relate to the maintenance of symptoms. For example, individuals who worry that their memory is deficient may check in order to ensure that the doors are locked, regardless of their actual memory ability. While studies have related meta-memory beliefs to OCD symptoms, and have found that memory is affected by checking behaviours; to date, no experimental literature has attempted to ascertain whether lowered confidence in memory directly leads to greater checking behaviours. In the current study 46 non-clinical participants completed a battery of questionnaires measuring these constructs, before undertaking a 'memory task' designed to manipulate their level of confidence in their memory. The effect of the manipulation on the level of checking on a visuomemory task was subsequently assessed. The questionnaires indicated that cognitive confidence predicted variation in obsessive-compulsive symptoms over-and-above the influence of depressive symptoms and other OCD-related beliefs. However, while confidence in memory was successfully manipulated, the group with increased memory confidence was not found to have lower checking behaviours. Limitations of the study are discussed and directions for further research are suggested.
Nano-Fe3O4–Supported, Hydrogensulfate Ionic Liquid–Catalyzed, One-Pot Synthesis of Polysubstituted Pyridines
Creators: name: Heshmatollah Alinezhad
name: Tajbakhsh, Mahmood
name: Ghobadi, Neda
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Anchoring 1-methyl-3-(triethoxysilylpropyl) imidazolium chloride onto silica-coated magnetic Fe3O4 particles afforded the corresponding supported ionic liquid. Exchanging the Cl− anion by treating with H2SO4 gave Brønsted ionic liquid 1-methyl-3-(triethoxysilylpropyl) imidazolium hydrogensulfate. The synthesized catalyst was characterized by various techniques such as infrared, x-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, thermogravimetric analysis, and elemental analyses. The results indicated that the prepared catalyst had a nanostructure. The catalytic activity of the supported ionic liquid was examined in the synthesis of the polysubstituted pyridines by reaction of aromatic aldehydes with acetophenones and ammonium acetate in moderate to good yields under solvent-free conditions. The catalyst can be easily recovered by applying an external magnetic field and reused for at least seven runs without deterioration in catalytic activity.
Entrepreneurship and small business education: a conceptual exploration
Creators: name: Arciniega, Allan
name: Maritz, Alex
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Entrepreneurship education is a very important issue in the development entrepreneurship. The purpose of this paper is to explore principles based on entrepreneurship and small business research to build an entrepreneurship education program for potential entrepreneurs turn into practicing entrepreneurs. Among the issues reviewed are learning, the entrepreneurial process, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intentions. The paper concludes with a proposition of what to teach potential entrepreneurs and further research section suggests a curricular and technology review based on the findings of this paper.
Building cities, building worlds: cities in play
Creators: name: Bainbridge, Jason
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: From building blocks, to Lego kits, to the placing of hotels on Mayfair and Park Lane in the game of Monopoly, cities have always featured in children’s play. Often the largest, most desired and most expensive items in a toyline, playsets, playmats and model villages enable children to play as adults. They become architects and planners of secondary worlds to protect and destroy, that make the lounge room, the bedroom and the playroom urban topoi where the city itself becomes both an atmospheric and symbolic protagonist in play. Focussing on a sample of the toys that enable such theming of space to occur, this paper explores the representation and meaning of cities in play and the ideas of acquisition, urbanity and panopticism they carry with them. In this way it is argued that the cities of play function as allegories of postmodernity, toys that mobilize the old iconography of the city for new purposes.
A Comprehensive assessment of preconception health needs and interventions regarding women in childbearing age: a systematic review
Creators: name: Zaçe, Drieda
name: Orfino, Alessia
name: Viteritti, Anna Maria
name: Versace, Valeria
name: Di Pietro, Maria Luisa
name: Ricciardi, Walter
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2022

description: Background This systematic review summarizes the preconception health needs of women in childbearing age, necessary to be addressed to have an eventual safe and healthy pregnancy. Methods Web of Science, PubMed and Scopus were searched. We excluded studies involving women with reproductive system pathologies and referring to interconceptive or pregnancy period and non-empirical or only abstract studies. Two researchers independently performed the blind screening based on titles/abstracts and full-text and the quality assessment. Results Four major domains resulted from the thematical analysis: knowledge, behaviours and attitudes, health status and access to healthcare services. The most examined topics were knowledge and awareness on preconception health, folic acid assumption, tobacco and alcohol consumption, physical activity and healthy diet. Conclusions This review could assist healthcare professionals (physicians, nurses, midwives) in guiding tailored counselling to women to provide the adequate level of preconception care and act as a reference to policymakers.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 63 No. 1 (2022): 2022631
The Poisson Maximum Entropy Model for Homogeneous Poisson Processes
Creators: name: Khribi, Lotfi
name: Fredette, Marc
name: MacGibbon, Brenda
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Our main interest is parameter estimation using maximum entropy methods in the prediction of future events for Homogeneous Poisson Processes when the distribution governing the distribution of the parameters is unknown. We intend to use empirical Bayes techniques and the maximum entropy principle to model the prior information. This approach has also been motivated by the success of the gamma prior for this problem, since it is well known that the gamma maximizes Shannon entropy under appropriately chosen constraints. However, as an alternative, we propose here to apply one of the often used methods to estimate the parameters of the maximum entropy prior. It consists of moment matching, that is, maximizing the entropy subject to the constraint that the first two moments equal the empirical ones and we obtain the truncated normal distribution (truncated below at the origin) as a solution. We also use maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) methods to estimate the parameters of the truncated normal distribution for this case. These two solutions, the gamma and the truncated normal, which maximize the entropy under different constraints are tested as to their effectiveness for prediction of future events for homogeneous Poisson processes by measuring their coverage probabilities, the suitably normalized lengths of their prediction intervals and their goodness-of-fit measured by the Kullback–Leibler criterion and a discrepancy measure. The estimators obtained by these methods are compared in an extensive simulation study to each other as well as to the estimators obtained using the completely noninformative Jeffreys’ prior and the usual frequency methods. We also consider the problem of choosing between the two maximum entropy methods proposed here, that is, the gamma prior and the truncated normal prior, estimated both by matching of the first two moments and, by maximum likelihood, when faced with data and we advocate the use of the sample skewness and kurtosis. The methods are also illustrated on two examples: one concerning the occurrence of mammary tumors in laboratory animals taking part in a carcinogenicity experiment and the other, a warranty dataset from the automobile industry.
Getting Radical: Using Design thinking to Tackle Collaboration Issues
Creators: name: Bene, Rose
name: McNeilly, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching
Year: 2020

description: Design Thinking (DT) has recently been adopted in some higher education disciplines as an effective pedagogical approach to enable students to acquire the skills needed for solving real world problems. As a human-centered, iterative process, design thinking is characterized by working with others to understand, define and solve problems using empathy, creativity, and radical collaboration. Many university courses also stress collaboration as a learning approach. However, not all students function well in collaborative environments. Based on their work in the Design-based Thinking course at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, the authors asked, “could the design thinking process be used to foster collaboration among students and encourage radical collaboration”? In this paper the authors present a brief overview of the literature in this area and propose some parallels between the design thinking and collaborative team building processes.
description: Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, Vol. 4 (2020)
Eleven-Year Surveillance of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections at an Academic Health Centre
Creators: name: Al-Musawi, Safiya
name: Alkhaleefa, Qassim
name: Alnassri, Samia
name: Alamri, Aisha M
name: Alnimr, Amani
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2022

description: Introduction. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is an important human pathogen associated with nosocomial and community infections. There is a continual focus on the epidemiology of this public health threat owing to the increase in its spread and rapid development of resistance. Aim. We aimed to describe the clinical presentations of MRSA infections at an academic health centre by demonstrating the time trend of antibiotic resistance. Methodology. We retrospectively reviewed cases during an 11-year period (from January 2009 to December 2019) with positive cultures for MRSA from various clinical sites in King Fahad Hospital of the University, to understand their clinical and microbiological profiles. Screening and colonisation samples were excluded. Results. A total of 1338 MRSA isolates were identified, with an increasing trend from 5.2% to 14.5% during 2009–2019. Skin and soft tissue samples were the most common source (52.4%) of MRSA infections. Vancomycin activity remained stable against MRSA, and only one isolate showed resistance to linezolid (<1%). A significant reduction in susceptibility to clindamycin (p = 0.003), trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (p = 0.001), and rifampin (p <0.0001) was detected over the study period. Conclusion. MRSA infections still represent a significant burden on healthcare systems. Our data support the need for constant local and regional surveillance to devise relevant protocols to manage MRSA infections. Empirical therapy needs to consider the changing antimicrobial susceptibility trends among MRSA isolates.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 63 No. 1 (2022): 2022631
Supporting Design Thinking Through a Game-Based Pedagogy in Entrepreneurship Education
Creators: name: Gatti Junior, Wilian
name: Marasco, Emily
name: Kim, Beaumie
name: Behjat, Laleh
Publisher: name: Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching
Year: 2020

description: Design thinking is an important concept presented in entrepreneurship education. However, the cognitive aspect of design thinking has been neglected by business teaching and learning practices. The aim of this paper is to present a game-based pedagogy to support the cognitive aspect of design thinking and to promote this approach as an alternative to predictive and adaptive pedagogies that are still dominant in entrepreneurial learning. To disseminate our pedagogical approach, we designed and presented experiential learning activities in a workshop format. In this workshop, the participants took part in ludic tasks such as gameplay and board game design to enhance their comprehension about entrepreneurship through design thinking.
description: Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, Vol. 4 (2020)