cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
BREATH TRIO
Creators: name: Brown, Carol
name: Redding, Emma
name: Lim, Monica
name: Kidd, Bronwyn
name: Dimasi, Susan
Publisher: name: The University of Melbourne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360499
subject: Performing arts not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 360402
subject: Dance and dance studies

description: BREATH TRIO is a performance created by Carol Brown, Emma Redding and Monica Lim in response to the exhibition THROUGH HER BREATH by Bronwyn Kidd at Montsalvat Gallery. The work celebrates the corporeal archive of ancestral, maternal and atmospheric breathing through a choreo-musical score that inhabited the architecture of the lofty Montsalvat Barn. Collaborating with photographer Bronwyn Kidd, costume designer Susan Dimasi, designer Virginia Dowser and makeup artist Bernadette Fisers, this female collective assembled a performance landscape that communicated the concept of 'her breath' across media and materials. Impetus for the exhibition came from, 'Breaths and Beats: Vibrating at the Borders of Memory' (Brown, Dance Research Aotearoa) and Brown and Kidd's earlier collaboration with a group of young dancers through a reimagining of modernist photographic and dance-breath practices. This work is underscored by the philosophy of Luce Irigaray who urges us to 'remember the air' and in doing so our debt to the maternal body for it is our mothers' bodies that breathe first for us, creating the ground for autonomy. The trio form created a shifting weave of movement traces with long, quick and held breaths rhythmically interplaying with Monica Lim's augmented piano score. Audience encountered the work in the context of the exhibition and were able to experience the dance up close and in proximity to its catalysing source in the photographic imagery of the exhibition and related materials (text, video and costumes).
Direct laser writing of three-dimensional narrow bandgap and high refractive-index PbSe structures in a solution
Creators: name: Gan, Zongsong
name: Cao, Yaoyu
name: Gu, Min
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Three-dimensional (3D) micro/nano structures made of narrow electronic bandgap semiconductor materials have important applications in a wide range of disciplines. Direct laser writing (DLW) provides the unparalleled advantage to fabricate 3D arbitrary geometric structures at the micro and nano meter scale. The fabrication of 3D structures within bulk narrow electronic bandgap semiconductor materials by DLW is challenged for the top-down strategy due to their narrow bandgap and high refractive index. Here, we report on the bottom-up strategy for the fabrication of 3D micro/nano structures made from PbSe with an electronic bandgap as narrow as 0.27 eV and a refractive index as high as 4.82 in a solution.
Optimization of foreground moment deprojection for semi-blind CMB polarization reconstruction
Creators: name: Carones, Alessandro
name: Remazeilles, Mathieu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Upcoming Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments, aimed at measuring primordial CMB B-modes, require exquisite control of Galactic foreground contamination. Minimum-variance techniques, like the Needlet Internal Linear Combination (NILC), have proven effective in reconstructing the CMB polarization signal and mitigating foregrounds across diverse sky models without suffering from mismodelling errors. Still, residual contamination may bias the recovered CMB polarization at large angular scales when confronted with the most complex foreground scenarios. By adding constraints to NILC to deproject moments of the Galactic emission, the Constrained Moment ILC (cMILC) method has proven to enhance foreground subtraction, albeit with an associated increase in overall noise variance. Faced with this trade-off between foreground bias reduction and overall variance minimization, there is still no recipe on which moments to deproject and which are better suited for blind variance minimization. To address this, we introduce the optimized cMILC (ocMILC) pipeline, which performs full optimization of the required number and set of foreground moments to deproject, pivot parameter values, and deprojection coefficients across the sky and angular scales, depending on the actual sky complexity, available frequency coverage, and experiment sensitivity. The optimal number of deprojected moments, before paying significant noise penalty, is determined through a data diagnosis inspired by the Generalized NILC (GNILC) method. Validated on B-mode simulations of the PICO space mission concept with four challenging foreground models, ocMILC exhibits lower foreground contamination compared to NILC and cMILC at all angular scales, with limited noise penalty. This multi-layer optimization enables the ocMILC pipeline to achieve unbiased posteriors of the tensor-to-scalar ratio, regardless of foreground complexity.
description: Updated to match version accepted by JCAP. 31 pages, 9 figures. Abstract abridged for arXiv
Large-size, high-uniformity, random silver nanowire networks as transparent electrodes for crystalline silicon wafer solar cells
Creators: name: Xie, Shouyi
name: Ouyang, Zi
name: Jia, Baohua
name: Gu, Min
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Metal nanowire networks are emerging as next generation transparent electrodes for photovoltaic devices. We demonstrate the application of random silver nanowire networks as the top electrode on crystalline silicon wafer solar cells. The dependence of transmittance and sheet resistance on the surface coverage is measured. Superior optical and electrical properties are observed due to the large-size, highly-uniform nature of these networks. When applying the nanowire networks on the solar cells with an optimized two-step annealing process, we achieved as large as 19% enhancement on the energy conversion efficiency. The detailed analysis reveals that the enhancement is mainly caused by the improved electrical properties of the solar cells due to the silver nanowire networks. Our result reveals that this technology is a promising alternative transparent electrode technology for crystalline silicon wafer solar cells.
Mathematical Operations from Teacher to Student: A Case Study of Applied Division Wheel in Primary
Creators: name: Owi Wei Ping
name: Hua, Ang Kean
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Survey Results
subject: Education
subject: 10301 Numerical Analysis

description: Mathematics is calculation subject expanding towards advanced fields, namely engineering, computer sciences, sciences, and others. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are basic operations in mathematics, but the majority of students are still unable to master the topic. Therefore, this research study has been carried out to determine the implication of ‘division wheel’ in mathematics operation from teacher to students. Mix methods were applied, in which the quantitative sample size is 400 students and 10 teachers. A prepost test will be conducted before and after the intervention of division wheel as concrete material is organized. The result from pre-post test indicates an improvement within students, which was influenced by several factors such as students, parents, teachers, and the school environment. Experience teachers in mathematics agree that parents play an important role in shaping their children towards the pros and cons, and the students’ attitude and interest will affect their achievement in the subject of mathematics. At the same time, teachers are responsible to acts as educators to educate the students, and the school should prepare a conducive learning environment and good facilities for students to learn. If these factors are successfully reduced, this will improve the students’ achievement in the mathematics subject.
BREATH TRIO
Creators: name: Brown, Carol
name: Kidd, Bronwyn
name: Dimasi, Susan
name: Redding, Emma
name: Lim, Monica
Publisher: name: The University of Melbourne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360499
subject: Performing arts not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 360402
subject: Dance and dance studies

description: BREATH TRIO is a performance created by Carol Brown, Emma Redding and Monica Lim in response to the exhibition THROUGH HER BREATH by Bronwyn Kidd at Montsalvat Gallery. The work celebrates the corporeal archive of ancestral, maternal and atmospheric breathing through a choreo-musical score that inhabited the architecture of the lofty Montsalvat Barn. Collaborating with photographer Bronwyn Kidd, costume designer Susan Dimasi, designer Virginia Dowser and makeup artist Bernadette Fisers, this female collective assembled a performance landscape that communicated the concept of 'her breath' across media and materials. Impetus for the exhibition came from, 'Breaths and Beats: Vibrating at the Borders of Memory' (Brown, Dance Research Aotearoa) and Brown and Kidd's earlier collaboration with a group of young dancers through a reimagining of modernist photographic and dance-breath practices. This work is underscored by the philosophy of Luce Irigaray who urges us to 'remember the air' and in doing so our debt to the maternal body for it is our mothers' bodies that breathe first for us, creating the ground for autonomy. The trio form created a shifting weave of movement traces with long, quick and held breaths rhythmically interplaying with Monica Lim's augmented piano score. Audience encountered the work in the context of the exhibition and were able to experience the dance up close and in proximity to its catalysing source in the photographic imagery of the exhibition and related materials (text, video and costumes).
Additional file 1 of Correction: Endomucin selectively regulates vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-2 endocytosis through its interaction with AP2
Creators: name: Cano, Issahy
name: Wild, Melissa
name: Gupta, Urvi
name: Chaudhary, Suman
name: Ng, Yin Shan Eric
name: Saint-Geniez, Magali
name: D’Amore, Patricia A.
name: Hu, Zhengping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Fig. 1. Markov Clustering of EMCN-binding proteins identified by mass spectrometry. (A) EMCN-binding proteins identified through mass spectrometry were analyzed and visualized using the STRING database ( https://string-db.org/ ). The network type was set to physical subnetwork, and the significance of network edges was based on confidence, with a minimum required interaction score of high confidence (0.700). Further functional clustering of EMCN-binding proteins was performed using Markov clustering. Proteins within the same cluster were connected by solid lines and marked with the same color, while dashed lines indicated boundaries between clusters. (B) The table lists the top five protein clusters with the highest number of proteins. Supplemental Fig. 2. Confirmation of EMCN knockdown. (A) Representative image of the western blot assay showing significant reduction of EMCN at protein level in HRECs transfected with siEMCN compared to siNT control. (B) Quantification of EMCN protein by western blot analysis demonstrates a significant decrease of EMCN at 72 h after transfection. Student-t test was used. ****P < 0.0001, n = 3. (C) Quantification of EMCN mRNA indicates a significant decrease of EMCN (1.024 ± 0.126 vs. 0.0128 ± 0.0003) at 48 h after transfection. Student-t test was used. ****P < 0.0001, n = 3.
UniVS: Unified and Universal Video Segmentation with Prompts as Queries
Creators: name: Li, Minghan
name: Li, Shuai
name: Zhang, Xindong
name: Zhang, Lei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Despite the recent advances in unified image segmentation (IS), developing a unified video segmentation (VS) model remains a challenge. This is mainly because generic category-specified VS tasks need to detect all objects and track them across consecutive frames, while prompt-guided VS tasks require re-identifying the target with visual/text prompts throughout the entire video, making it hard to handle the different tasks with the same architecture. We make an attempt to address these issues and present a novel unified VS architecture, namely UniVS, by using prompts as queries. UniVS averages the prompt features of the target from previous frames as its initial query to explicitly decode masks, and introduces a target-wise prompt cross-attention layer in the mask decoder to integrate prompt features in the memory pool. By taking the predicted masks of entities from previous frames as their visual prompts, UniVS converts different VS tasks into prompt-guided target segmentation, eliminating the heuristic inter-frame matching process. Our framework not only unifies the different VS tasks but also naturally achieves universal training and testing, ensuring robust performance across different scenarios. UniVS shows a commendable balance between performance and universality on 10 challenging VS benchmarks, covering video instance, semantic, panoptic, object, and referring segmentation tasks. Code can be found at \url{https://github.com/MinghanLi/UniVS}.
description: 21 pages, 11 figures, 10 tabels, CVPR2024
Three-dimensional deep sub-diffraction optical beam lithography with 9 nm feature size
Creators: name: Gan, Zongsong
name: Cao, Yaoyu
name: Evans, Richard A.
name: Gu, Min
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The current nanofabrication techniques including electron beam lithography provide fabrication resolution in the nanometre range. The major limitation of these techniques is their incapability of arbitrary three-dimensional nanofabrication. This has stimulated the rapid development of far-field three-dimensional optical beam lithography where a laser beam is focused for maskless direct writing. However, the diffraction nature of light is a barrier for achieving nanometre feature and resolution in optical beam lithography. Here we report on three-dimensional optical beam lithography with 9 nm feature size and 52 nm two-line resolution in a newly developed two-photon absorption resin with high mechanical strength. The revealed dependence of the feature size and the two-line resolution confirms that they can reach deep sub-diffraction scale but are limited by the mechanical strength of the new resin. Our result has paved the way towards portable three-dimensional maskless laser direct writing with resolution fully comparable to electron beam lithography.
Broadband excitation and collection in fiber-optic nonlinear endomicroscopy
Creators: name: Prakash Ghimire, Navin
name: Bao, Hongchun
name: Gu, Min
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Broadband excitation and collection in a fiber-optic nonlinear endomicroscope are realized by using a single hollow-core double-clad photonic crystal fiber and a gradient index lens. Femtosecond pulses with central wavelengths in the range of 750-850 nm can be directly delivered through the core of the fiber for nonlinear excitation without pre-chirping. A gradient index lens with numerical aperture 0.8 designed to operate over the near-infrared wavelength range is used for focusing the laser beam from the fiber for nonlinear excitation and for collecting the fluorescent signal from the sample. This compact system is suitable to perform nonlinear imaging of multiple fluorophors in the wavelength range of 750-850 nm.
Gérer les résultats de sa thèse en SHS : planifier, partager, réutiliser
Creators: name: Arènes, Cécile
name: Akdogan, Meriç
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: données de la recherche
science ouverte
humanités numériques
research data
open science
digital humanities

description: Présentation de deux heures
Public : doctorants en SHS
Gérer les résultats de sa thèse en SHS : planifier, partager, réutiliser
Creators: name: Arènes, Cécile
name: Akdogan, Meriç
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: données de la recherche
science ouverte
humanités numériques
research data
open science
digital humanities

description: Présentation de deux heures
Public : doctorants en SHS
Near-infrared enhanced carbon nanodots by thermally assisted growth
Creators: name: Wen, Xiaoming
name: Yu, Pyng
name: Toh, Yon-Rui
name: Lee, Yu-Chieh
name: Hsu, An-Chia
name: Tang, Jau
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 400909
subject: Photonic and electro-optical devices, sensors and systems (excl. communications)
classificationCode: 400910
subject: Photovoltaic devices (solar cells)
classificationCode: 4018
subject: Nanotechnology
subject: FOS: Nanotechnology
classificationCode: 5102
subject: Atomic, molecular and optical physics

description: The near-infrared emission, matching the biological window, is conducive to biological applications. To date, most of the reported carbonnanodots emit the blue to green fluorescence and few of carbonnanodots emit the near-infrared with relatively lower efficiency. Here, we report an approach to generate or to enhance the near-infrared luminescence from the green luminescent carbonnanodots. Experiments reveal that the near-infrared emission is significantly enhanced by thermally assisted growth in vacuum, which is attributed to the formation of the larger nano-domains from the small carbon clusters at elevated temperatures.
Quantum Gravity Information Wave
Creators: name: Kitchen, Kris
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Interstellar and Intergalactic Matter
subject: Instrumentation, Techniques, and Astronomical Observations
subject: 20104 Galactic Astronomy
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cosmology
subject: Planetary Geology
subject: Stellar Astronomy
subject: Stars, Variable Stars
subject: Astrophysics
subject: Planetary Science
subject: Solar System, Solar Physics, Planets and Exoplanets
subject: Extragalactic Astronomy
subject: Space Science

description: Quantum Gravity Information Wave
Measuring social capital in a networked housing estate
Creators: name: Meredyth, Denise
name: Hopkins, Liza
name: Ewing, Scott
name: Thomas, Julian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper describes the construction of 'Reach for the Clouds', an inventive scheme to build a resident-maintained 'networked community' in Atherton Gardens, an ethnically-diverse, low-income, high rise public housing estate in Melbourne, Australia. The project was developed by the InfoXchange, a not-for-profit Internet service provider with a 'social entrepreneurial' orientation. It involves a consortium of government and community groups and draws on a combination of voluntary labour, commercial enterprise, government funding and donations of equipment by local businesses. The long term goal of the project is for it to become self-funding, and owned and operated by Atherton Gardens' residents. This requires both training and skills development as well as the creation of an enterprise base to fund the operating and capital costs of the network.
EXPLORE: OpenAIRE service factsheet
Creators: name: OpenAIRE
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: OpenAIRE
EXPLORE
Discovery portal

description: OpenAIRE service factsheet about the EXPLORE service

OpenAIRE EXPLORE is an open research discovery portal providing access to millions of interlinked scholarly works (publications, data, software), their related research products and contextual information such as organisations and grants.

It is built on top of the OpenAIRE Graph (https://graph.openaire.eu/), one of the largest open scholarly record collections, with integrated content from more than 12K trusted data sources worldwide.

Discover the new Funders page where you can view all funders indexed in OpenAIRE together with the keys details about each funder.

Discover the service at https://explore.openaire.eu/
EXPLORE: OpenAIRE service factsheet
Creators: name: OpenAIRE
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: OpenAIRE
EXPLORE
Discovery portal

description: OpenAIRE service factsheet about the EXPLORE service OpenAIRE EXPLORE is an open research discovery portal providing access to millions of interlinked scholarly works (publications, data, software), their related research products and contextual information such as organisations and grants. It is built on top of the OpenAIRE Graph (https://graph.openaire.eu/), one of the largest open scholarly record collections, with integrated content from more than 12K trusted data sources worldwide. Discover the service at https://explore.openaire.eu/
The role of languages in the internationalization of higher education
Creators: name: Villares, Rosana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: internationalization
language policy
higher education

description: This study focuses on the analysis of the role of languages, and particularly English, in the internationalization of Spanish higher education and its implications for Language Policy and Planning. For this purpose, I draw on different theoretical frameworks, such as studies of internationalization of higher education (de Wit, 2010; Maringe and Foskett, 2010) and Language Policy and Planning to observe ideologies, practices and management of languages in the university context (Hult and Johnson, 2015; Ricento, 2006; Spolsky, 2012). I used a mixed method approach combining corpus linguistics (to explore the extent to which there is a relationship between internationalization and languages) and critical discourse analysis (to critically examine in more detail Language Policy documents). Quantitative data indicate that one of the most frequent actions found in internationalization strategies is directly related to the use of foreign languages and the introduction of English in the dimensions of teaching, research, and administration, for example, in the form of language accreditation, English-medium instruction, or language training programs for students and university staff. The qualitative data supports the quantitative results and suggests that the predominant role played by English in this process seems to be justified by covert language ideologies and overt practices related to the instrumental values of English, its status as the international language for scientific communication, or the need of language planning tools to meet the current European and institutional expectations of language competence and plurilingualism. Villares, R. (2019). The role of languages in the internationalization of higher education. I seminar in English Studies (SEING). University of Zaragoza, Spain, 10 May 2019. Conference presentation.
Fructose-1, 6-diphosphate (FDP) as a novel antidote for yellow oleander-induced cardiac toxicity: a randomized controlled double blind study
Creators: name: Gawarammana, Indika
name: Mohamed, Fahim
name: Bowe, Steven
name: Rathnathilake, Ashoka
name: Narangoda, Shantha K.
name: Azher, Shifa
name: Dawson, Andrew H.
name: Buckley, Nick A.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Background: Cardiac toxicity due to ingestion of oleander plant seeds in Sri Lanka and some other South Asian countries is very common. At present symptomatic oleander seed poisoning carries a mortality of 10% in Sri Lanka and treatment of yellow oleander poisoning is limited to gastric decontamination and atropine administration. The only proven effective antidote is digoxin antibodies but these are not available for routine use because of the high cost. The main objective of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of a new and inexpensive antidote for patients with life threatening arrhythmias due oleander poisoning.Method/design: We set up a randomised double blind clinical trial to assess the effectiveness of Fructose 1, 6 diphosphate (FDP) in acute yellow oleander poisoning patients admitted to the adult medical wards of a tertiary hospital in Sri Lanka. Patients will be initially resuscitated following the national guidelines and eligible patients will be randomised to receive either FDP or an equal amount of normal saline. The primary outcome measure for this study is the sustained reversion to sinus rhythm with a heart rate greater than 50/min within 2 hours of completion of FDP/placebo bolus. Secondary outcomes include death, reversal of hyperkalaemia on the 6, 12, 18 and 24 hour samples and maintenance of sinus rhythm on the holter monitor. Analysis will be on intention-to-treat.Discussion: This trial will provide information on the effectiveness of FDP in yellow oleander poisoning. If FDP is effective in cardiac glycoside toxicity, it would provide substantial benefit to the patients in rural Asia. The drug is inexpensive and thus could be made available at primary care hospitals if proven to be effective.
2015 In The Night Garden
Creators: name: Hayes, Alexander
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Information Systems
subject: Digital Humanities
subject: Computer Engineering

description: Biometric recording and analysis as a function and feature of user engagement in children's games are now common and everyday. Corporations now routinely harvest user information to provide services and features that offer users a better experience or upgrades to their existing user experience. These electronic games are often networked and / or internet connected to data analysis services.
Acute human lethal toxicity of agricultural pesticides: a prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Dawson, Andrew H.
name: Eddleston, Michael
name: Senarathna, Lalith
name: Mohamed, Fahim
name: Gawarammana, Indika
name: Bowe, Steven
name: Manuweera, Gamini
name: Buckley, Nicholas A.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Background: Agricultural pesticide poisoning is a major public health problem in the developing world, killing at least 250,000-370,000 people each year. Targeted pesticide restrictions in Sri Lanka over the last 20 years have reduced pesticide deaths by 50% without decreasing agricultural output. However, regulatory decisions have thus far not been based on the human toxicity of formulated agricultural pesticides but on the surrogate of rat toxicity using pure unformulated pesticides. We aimed to determine the relative human toxicity of formulated agricultural pesticides to improve the effectiveness of regulatory policy. Methods and Findings: We examined the case fatality of different agricultural pesticides in a prospective cohort of patients presenting with pesticide self-poisoning to two clinical trial centers from April 2002 to November 2008. Identification of the pesticide ingested was based on history or positive identification of the container. A single pesticide was ingested by 9,302 patients. A specific pesticide was identified in 7,461 patients; 1,841 ingested an unknown pesticide. In a subset of 808 patients, the history of ingestion was confirmed by laboratory analysis in 95% of patients. There was a large variation in case fatality between pesticides-from 0% to 42%. This marked variation in lethality was observed for compounds within the same chemical and/or WHO toxicity classification of pesticides and for those used for similar agricultural indications. Conclusion: The human data provided toxicity rankings for some pesticides that contrasted strongly with the WHO toxicity classification based on rat toxicity. Basing regulation on human toxicity will make pesticide poisoning less hazardous, preventing hundreds of thousands of deaths globally without compromising agricultural needs. Ongoing monitoring of patterns of use and clinical toxicity for new pesticides is needed to identify highly toxic pesticides in a timely manner.
In The Night Garden
Creators: name: Hayes, Alexander
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Information Systems
subject: Digital Humanities
subject: Computer Engineering

description: Biometric recording and analysis as a function and feature of user engagement in children's games are now common and everyday. Corporations now routinely harvest user information to provide services and features that offer users a better experience or upgrades to their existing user experience. These electronic games are often networked and / or internet connected to data analysis services.
Web-based alcohol screening and brief intervention for Maori and non-Maori: the New Zealand e-SBINZ trials
Creators: name: Kypri, Kypros
name: McCambridge, Jim
name: Cunningham, John A.
name: Vater, Tina
name: Bowe, Steven
name: De Graaf, Brandon
name: Saunders, John B.
name: Dean, Johanna
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Background. Hazardous alcohol consumption is a leading modifiable cause of mortality and morbidity among young people. Screening and brief intervention (SBI) is a key strategy to reduce alcohol-related harm in the community, and web-based approaches (e-SBI) have advantages over practitioner-delivered approaches, being cheaper, more acceptable, administrable remotely and infinitely scalable. An efficacy trial in a university population showed a 10-minute intervention could reduce drinking by 11% for 6 months or more among 17-24 year-old undergraduate hazardous drinkers. The e-SBINZ study is designed to examine the effectiveness of e-SBI across a range of universities and among Mori and non-Mori students in New Zealand. Methods/Design. The e-SBINZ study comprises two parallel, double blind, multi-site, individually randomised controlled trials. This paper outlines the background and design of the trial, which is recruiting 17-24 year-old students from seven of New Zealand's eight universities. Mori and non-Mori students are being sampled separately and are invited by e-mail to complete a web questionnaire including the AUDIT-C. Those who score >4 will be randomly allocated to no further contact until follow-up (control) or to assessment and personalised feedback (intervention) via computer. Follow-up assessment will occur 5 months later in second semester. Recruitment, consent, randomisation, intervention and follow-up are all online. Primary outcomes are (i) total alcohol consumption, (ii) frequency of drinking, (iii) amount consumed per typical drinking occasion, (iv) the proportions exceeding medical guidelines for acute and chronic harm, and (v) scores on an academic problems scale. Discussion. The trial will provide information on the effectiveness of e-SBI in reducing hazardous alcohol consumption across diverse university student populations with separate effect estimates for Mori and non-Mori students.
Taking Second-life Batteries from Exhausted to Empowered using Experiments, Data Analysis, and Health Estimation
Creators: name: Cui, Xiaofan
name: Khan, Muhammad Aadil
name: Pozzato, Gabriele
name: Singh, Surinder
name: Sharma, Ratnesh
name: Onori, Simona
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The reuse of retired electric vehicle batteries in grid energy storage offers environmental and economic benefits. This study concentrates on health monitoring algorithms for retired batteries deployed in grid storage. Over 15 months of testing, we collect, analyze, and publicize a dataset of second-life batteries, implementing a cycling protocol simulating grid energy storage load profiles within a 3-4 V voltage window. Four machine-learning-based health estimation models, relying on online-accessible features and initial capacity, are compared, with the selected model achieving a mean absolute percentage error below 2.3% on test data. Additionally, an adaptive online health estimation algorithm is proposed by integrating a clustering-based method, thus limiting estimation errors during online deployment. These results showcase the feasibility of repurposing retired batteries for second-life applications. Based on obtained data and power demand, these second-life batteries exhibit potential for over a decade of grid energy storage use.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures
Modern episteme, methodological nationalism and the politics of transnationalism
Creators: name: Jong, Abbas
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: methodological nationalism
subject: Michel Foucault
subject: modern episteme
subject: regime of foundationalist differentiation
subject: nationalism
subject: contingency
subject: configurations
subject: 320 Politikwissenschaft (Politik und Regierung)

description: The article processing charge was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – 491192747 and the Open Access Publication Fund of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
description: Methodological nationalism can be understood in the broadest sense possible as any kind of correspondence between society and the unit of the nation-state. This equation can be traced and understood at two levels: firstly, within the socio-historical context of the rise of nationalism and the development of human and social sciences; and secondly, within the cognitive context of the emergence of nationalism and these sciences, or the modern episteme, in other words. By focusing on the latter, the present article aims to indicate that the problem of methodological nationalism can be effectively grasped by exploring the intricate interplay among modernity, the discourse of nationalism, and the emergence of social science, particularly concerning the modern episteme. It becomes apparent that the regime of foundationalist differentiation ingrained within the modern episteme has established the foundation for this correspondence or congruence—a regime that, while constructing determined, regulated, unified and completed categories, such as society and the social/nation-state and the national, simultaneously sets the ground for the exclusion of other non-social/non-national phenomena and events. In this paper, the objective is to demonstrate how, by disclosing the implementation of this regime as well as highlighting the contingent nature and, consequently, the conditions of the possibility of social phenomena in the path of their grounding, alongside prioritizing the indeterminate social configurations and arguing for a post-foundationalist approach and the politics of transnationalism, it becomes possible to overcome the problem of methodological nationalism. This, in turn, sets a basis for taking into account excluded and indeterminate phenomena and actors within a global context.
Pteromalus albitarsis DE STEFANI PEREZ 1907
Creators: name: Madl, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pteromalidae
Pteromalus
Pteromalus albitarsis

description: Pteromalus albitarsis DE STEFANI PEREZ, 1907
 Pteromalus albitarsis n.sp.: DE STEFANI PEREZ 1907: 51 (biology, Elaberet), 52 (description ♀ ♁). Pteromalus albitarsis DE STEFANI PEREZ, 1907: MITROIU 2011: 162 (catalogue Afrotropical region).
D i s t r i b u t i o n:Elaberet.
 Pteromalus albitarsis is known only from Eritrea.
description: Published as part of Madl, Michael, 2023, A catalogue of the families Eunotidae, Melanosomellidae, Pirenidae and Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) of Eritrea, pp. 297-306 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 55 (1) on page 302, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10787941
Rates of species turnover across elevation vary with vertical stratum in rainforest ant assemblages
Creators: name: Leahy, Lily
name: Scheffers, BR
name: Andersen, AN
name: Williams, SE
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 4102
subject: Ecological applications
classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 41
subject: Environmental sciences
classificationCode: 4104
subject: Environmental management
classificationCode: 4101
subject: Climate change impacts and adaptation
classificationCode: 3103
subject: Ecology
classificationCode: 3702
subject: Climate change science

description: Climatic variation at local scales can influence both exposure and sensitivity of organisms and thereby scale up to influence population persistence and community composition across broader geographic extents. Tropical forest canopies are more climatically dynamic than the understorey. Consequently, the niche space of forest canopies has higher overlap in thermal conditions along elevation gradients, which imposes less of a climatic barrier to arboreal species than their ground-dwelling counterparts. We use ant communities of the Australian Wet Tropics to test the prediction that ground communities should have higher rates of species turnover over elevation compared to arboreal communities. We sampled ground and arboreal ants along elevation gradients at a bioregional scale that includes four mountain sub-regions. We assessed community composition at three spatial resolutions (regional, elevation, vertical) and then calculated beta diversity (species turnover) over elevation for ground and arboreal communities using null modelling procedures to compare different sized species pools. Vertical niche affinity was a strong contributor to overall biogeographic patterns; indicated by a strong interaction between vertical niche and elevation in beta diversity models. On average, the ground community exhibited a pronounced elevational distance–decay pattern while the arboreal community showed no pattern. Mean species turnover was 36% higher in ground than arboreal communities. Our findings suggest that the vertical niche has a pronounced effect on biogeographic patterns which has important implications for understanding the role of local scale climate conditions in shaping communities and for potential responses to future climate change.
Sycophaga gigantea GRANDI 1916
Creators: name: Madl, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Agaonidae
Sycophaga
Sycophaga gigantea

description: Sycophaga gigantea GRANDI, 1916
 Sycophaga gigantea n.sp.: GRANDI 1916: 235 (key ♁), 243 (description ♁, Ghinda, Keren), 244 (figs 36.1-5), 245 (figs 37.1-6).
 Eukoebelea gigantea (GRANDI, 1916): GRANDI 1955: 139 (taxonomy, world catalogue).
 Sycophaga gigantea GRANDI, 1916: BERG & WIEBES 1992: 178 (catalogue Afrotropical region).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Ghinda, Keren.
 Sycophaga gigantea, which is also known from Cameroon, is not mentioned in GRANDI (1963).
description: Published as part of Madl, Michael, 2023, A catalogue of the families Eunotidae, Melanosomellidae, Pirenidae and Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) of Eritrea, pp. 297-306 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 55 (1) on page 302, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10787941
A Mathematical Model for Three-Dimensional Nonsteady-State Streamline Simulation of Horizontally Drilled Reservoirs
Creators: name: Seghier, Morsli
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1992
Subjects: Horizontally drilled reservoir
Permeable media

description: Among the recent technological breakthroughs that have revolutionized the search for oil and its production are innova-tions realized in the field of horizontal drilling. Once dormant, this practice is fast becoming routine in the oil industry. Thanks to the very large contact area they provide with the permeable medium and their ability to intercept natural fractures, horizontal wells have revived aging oil reservoirs and yielded remarkable augmentations of productivity compared to what is normally at-tained via conventional vertical wells. These most impressive results have warranted and spurred research on virtually all fronts of the upstream sector of the oil industry. One of the areas with a great need for new advances is that of reservoir engineering. New theories and techniques must be developed to parlay the tremendous potential of horizontal drilling. It is in this spirit that this work was undertaken. This study probes deeply into the subject of nonsteady-state fluid flow around horizontal wells. In particular, pressure distribution in closed reservoirs is investigated in detail, and the assumptions of uniform flux and infinite conductivity are put under close scrutiny. Most importantly, a three-dimensional mathematical model that describes fluid flow around horizontal wells is derived as a preliminary step for the development of a full-fledged three-dimensional nonsteady-state streamtube simulator. A major por-tion of the computer code is written and tested.
Does Tobacco-Control Mass Media Campaign Exposure Prevent Relapse Among Recent Quitters?
Creators: name: Wakefield, M. A.
name: Bowe, Steven
name: Durkin, S. J.
name: Yong, H.-H.
name: Spittal, M. J.
name: Simpson, J. A.
name: Borland, R.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Objective: To determine whether greater mass media campaign exposure may assist recent quitters to avoid relapse. Method: Using date of data collection and postcode, media market estimates of televised tobacco control advertising exposure measured by gross ratings points (GRPs) were merged with a replenished cohort study of 443 Australians who had quit in the past year. Participants’ demographic and smoking characteristics prior to quitting, and advertising exposure in the period after quitting, were used to predict relapse one year later. Results: In multivariate analysis, each increase in exposure of 100 GRPs (i.e. 1 anti-smoking advertisement) in the three month period after the baseline-quit, was associated with a 5 percent increase in the odds of not smoking at follow-up (OR = 1.05, 95% CI 1.02-1.07, p<0.001). This relationship was linear and was unmodified by length of time quit prior to the baseline interview. At the mean value of 1081 GRPs in the 3 months after the baseline-quit interview, the predicted probability of being quit at follow-up was 52%, whereas it was 41% for the minimum (0) and 74% for the maximum (3541) GRPs. Conclusion: Greater exposure to tobacco control mass media campaigns may reduce the likelihood of relapse among recent quitters.
Additional file 1 of Optimized continuous homecare provisioning through distributed data-driven semantic services and cross-organizational workflows
Creators: name: De Brouwer, Mathias
name: Bonte, Pieter
name: Arndt, Dörthe
name: Vander Sande, Miel
name: Dimou, Anastasia
name: Verborgh, Ruben
name: De Turck, Filip
name: Ongenae, Femke
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1. Implementation details of the PoC implementation of the use case demonstrator presented in the “Use case demonstrator” section. This file contains descriptions and listings about the implementation and configuration of RMLStreamer, DIVIDE, C-SPARQL, Streaming MASSIF and AMADEUS.
An Expert System to Aid in Compositional Simulation of Miscible Gas Flooding
Creators: name: Khan, Sameer Ali
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1992
Subjects: Miscible gas flooding
Compositional simulation

description: An expert system (UTINPUT) has been developed for preparing appropriate input data sets to design miscible gas floods using The University of Texas Compositional Simulator (UTCOMP). The input data values for UTCOMP must be carefully assigned to represent the petroleum reservoir with an appropriate model and to make accurate and efficient simulations. Using emerging expert system technology, this expertise has been implemented on a workstation using an expert system shell. The resulting expert system is interactive, user-friendly, efficient, and provides the necessary expertise to run compositional simulations. A major part of this research has been the accumulation of expertise through literature, simulation experts, and to a much greater extent through conducting detailed simulation studies with emphasis on reservoir fluid characterization, selection of timestep size, and the design of miscible gas floods. A reservoir fluid characterization scheme has been developed to characterize C02/oil mixtures forming up to three phases. A new correlation for COr hydrocarbon binary interaction coefficients was required to make accurate predictions of three-phase liquid-liquid-vapor region as well as the liquid-liquid region at higher pressures. The characterization scheme has been validated for four West Texas oils. Comparisons between actual three-phase solutions and the corresponding nonphysical two-phase solutions are also shown. Selection of appropriate timestep size is very important in compositional simulation to avoid numerical instabilities and to save computer time. A wide variety of cases have been investigated to understand timestep size control using the method of relative changes. The governing control criteria were identified and appropriate ranges were determined. Simulation design studies were conducted to develop an insight into the miscible gas flooding design procedure. The effects of WAG ratio, solvent slug size per WAG cycle, and the total solvent slug size on oil recovery were investigated under various C02 flooding conditions using field data. Sensitivities of oil recovery to three-phase relative permeability models, gravity number, and effective length-to-thickness ratio were investigated. Comparisons between two-and three-dimensional simulations were also made. Finally, a systematic procedure was developed for designing miscible gas floods using a compositional simulator.
The Influence of Macropore Heterogeneity on the Petrophysical Properties of Carbonates
Creators: name: Bae, Wisup
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1992
Subjects: Petrophysical property
Carbonate

description: The objective of this research is to better understand the petrophysical properties of hydrocarbon bearing carbonate rocks. The specific properties that are investigated are: electrical properties, capillary pressure curves, permeability and displacement behavior. The relationship between the petrophysical properties and various geological classification systems is also explored. A porous plate capillary desaturation cell that can simultaneously measure electrical properties, capillary pressure curves and displacement behavior has been built. Up to 12 cores can be simultaneously desaturated. Both gas and crude oil were used as the non-wetting phase. In accordance with Lucia's carbonate porosity classification, two oil fields were chosen, one with vuggy porosity and the other with interparticle porosity. Cores from the Dune field and the Yates field in the San Andres-Grayburg formations in west Texas were used as examples of interparticle and vuggy porosity systems. Saturation exponents for the Dune field cores were found to be lie between 1.6 and 2.5, and the cementation exponents were approximately 2.2. Experimental results showed very poor correlation between the geologically defined lithofacies and the measured petrophysical properties. The effect of vugularity on the petrophysical properties was evident from