cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Using Conformal Win Probability to Predict the Winners of the Canceled 2020 NCAA Basketball Tournaments
Creators: name: Johnstone, Chancellor
name: Nettleton, Dan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: The COVID-19 pandemic was responsible for the cancellation of both the men’s and women’s 2020 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I basketball tournaments. Starting from the point when the Division I tournaments and unfinished conference tournaments were canceled, we deliver closed-form probabilities for each team of making the Division I tournaments, had they not been canceled, under a simplified method for tournament selection. We also determine probabilities of a team winning March Madness, given a tournament bracket. Our calculations make use of conformal win probabilities derived from conformal predictive distributions. We compare these conformal win probabilities to those generated through linear and logistic regression on college basketball data spanning the 2011–2012 and 2022–2023 seasons, as well as to other publicly available win probability methods. Conformal win probabilities are shown to be well calibrated, while requiring fewer distributional assumptions than most alternative methods.
The enactment of corporate social responsibility and public relations practices: case studies from the Indonesian mining industry
Creators: name: Yudarwati, Gregoria
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: This study aims to better understand the process in which public relations practitioners and top managers of Indonesian mining companies develop perceptions about the organisational environment and how these perceptions shape the enactment of corporate social responsibility and public relations. This is an interpretive qualitative study involving three case studies: an Indonesian private mining company, a multinational company, and a state owned company.

Using enactment theory, this study found that their CSR and PR practices are constructed through an interactive and cyclical process involving organisational members’ interpretations of their organisational environment. There were two processes involved: (1) the process to select the interpretation towards the ecological changes and (2) the process to decide how to act upon the interpretation chosen. Two significant ecological changes, and perceptions of these changes, were identified as contributing to the shaping of CSR and PR practices among research participants: (1) the social and political changes in the post Suharto era and (2) the emergence of the international CSR movements. This study found that the participants’ interpretation towards these two factors was influenced by the company’s ownership. This study also confirms the notion of self-fulfilling prophecy where one’s beliefs, whether true or false, affect the construction of one’s social reality.

This study contributes to the scholarship of international public relations. The study demonstrates how environmental, organisational and individual factors interact to influence CSR and PR. These findings will be valuable for educators and practitioners in their understanding of the organisational role of PR as well as in their development of curricula and CSR programs respectively.
CURRICULUM VITAE (francais et anglais combine)
Creators: name: XAVIER NOUMBISSI NOUNDOU
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: TORTURE ET USAGE DE LA VIOLENCE par des membres de la famille

description: LAURENT TCHANDEU et son épouse DR. HENRIETTE POLA menacent la sérénité et la paix de ma personne. FRANCK BIYA est mentionne dans cette affaire de psychiatrie interminable creee par LAURENT TCHANDEU POUR DES RELENTS POLITIQUES AU CAMEROUN.
description: Groupe Attijirawafa bank; SCB CAMEROUN, (MAROC); ROGER DJOSSI est 1 criminel de la DGSN; BETHESDA; DR. LUCAS KEMGANG; S2TBED; FRANCK BIYA; DR. MVONDO (HOPITAL ADLUCEM); VICTOR KOLIOU NOUNDOU; DAVID DEMO NOUNDOU; JULES NTETA NOUNDOU
sj-docx-1-asw-10.1177_11786221221128789 – Supplemental material for Soil Nitrous Oxide Emissions Following Crop Residues Management in Corn-Wheat Rotation Under Conventional and No-Tillage Systems
Creators: name: Mirzaei, Morad
name: Gorji Anari, Manouchehr
name: Taghizadeh-Toosi, Arezoo
name: Zaman, Mohammad
name: Saronjic, Nermina
name: Mohammed, Safwan
name: Szabo, Szilard
name: Caballero-Calvo, Andrés
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-asw-10.1177_11786221221128789 for Soil Nitrous Oxide Emissions Following Crop Residues Management in Corn-Wheat Rotation Under Conventional and No-Tillage Systems by Morad Mirzaei, Manouchehr Gorji Anari, Arezoo Taghizadeh-Toosi, Mohammad Zaman, Nermina Saronjic, Safwan Mohammed, Szilard Szabo and Andrés Caballero-Calvo in Air, Soil and Water Research
Additional file 2 of Association of TRAIL receptor with phosphatase SHP-1 enables repressing T cell receptor signaling and T cell activation through inactivating Lck
Creators: name: Chyuan, I-Tsu
name: Liao, Hsiu-Jung
name: Tan, Tse-Hua
name: Chuang, Huai-Chia
name: Chu, Yu-Chuan
name: Pan, Meng-Hsun
name: Wu, Chien-Sheng
name: Chu, Ching-Liang
name: Sheu, Bor-Ching
name: Hsu, Ping-Ning
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplementary Material 2.
Detecting Biosignatures of Nearby Rocky Exoplanets: Simulations of High Spectral Resolution Observations with the ELTs
Creators: name: Vaughan, Sophia Romana
name: Birkby, Jayne
name: Thatte, Niranjan
name: Carlotti, Alexis
name: Santaella, Miguel Pereira
name: Pierrehumbert, Raymond
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: exoplanet
HARMONI
ELT
High Resolution
spectroscopy

description: The imminent arrival of the Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs) will finally deliver the observational power capable of assessing the habitability of nearby rocky exoplanets. The ELT presents us with the exciting opportunity of being able to spatially resolve the terrestrial exoplanet Proxima b, which lies in the habitable zone of Proxima Centuri. This would allow molecule mapping, a technique that uses the spatial separation plus cross correlation high resolution spectroscopy to disentangle the planet's spectrum from the host star and characterise its atmosphere. Here we present simulations in reflected light for the High Contrast Adaptive Optics (HCAO) mode of HARMONI/ELT, using model planet spectra from the Carl Sagan Institute designed specifically for Proxima b and its M-dwarf host star. HARMONI's resolution (R=17,385) is well suited to molecule mapping, with access to wavelengths covering multiple biosignatures. Our simulator shows that this first light ELT instrument can characterise the atmosphere of Proxima b, within a very reasonable time frame, but requires intervention on the focal plane masks in HARMONI's current instrument design. If changed, HARMONI has the potential to identify CO2, CH4, and H2O in Proxima b. Our simulator is highly versatile and we are extending to other instruments for the ELTs, including METIS/ELT and GMagAO-X+IFS/GMT.
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Acute asthma and recovered airway tree geometry modeling and CFD simulation
Creators: name: Ye, Yong
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: This study focuses primarily on the development of modeling approaches for the reconstruction of lung airway tree and arterial vessel geometry models which will assist practical clinical studies. Anatomically-precise geometric models of human airways and arterial vessels play a critical role in the analysis of air and blood flows in human bodies. The generic geometric modeling methods become invalid when the model consists of both trachea and bronchioles or very small vessels. This thesis presents a new region-based method to reconstruct the entire airway tree and carotid vessels from point clouds obtained from CT or MR images. A novel layer-by-layer searching algorithm has been developed to recognize the branches of the airway tree and arterial vessels from the entire point clouds. Instead of applying a uniform accuracy on all branches regardless of the number of available points, the surface patches on each branch are constructed adaptively based on the number of available elemental points, which leads to the elimination of distortions occurring at small bronchi and vessels.
Acute asthma is a serious disease of the respiratory system. To understand the difference in geometry and airflow patterns between acute asthma affected and recovered airway trees, a comparison study has been conducted in this research. Two computational models of the airway tree up to six generations deep were reconstructed from computed tomography (CT) scans from a single patient. The first scan was taken one day after an acute asthma episode and the second scan was taken thirty days later when the patient had recovered. The reconstructed models were used to investigate the effects of acute asthma on realistic airway geometry, airflow patterns, pressure drops, and the implications for targeted drug delivery. Comparisons in the geometry found that in general the right side of the airway is larger in diameter than the left side. The recovery of the airway was most significant in the severely asthma affected regions. Additionally the right airway branches exhibited greater dilation after recovery in comparison with the left airway especially from the fifth generation onwards. It was also found that bifurcation angles do not vary significantly between the two models, however small changes were observed which may be caused by the physical scans of the patient being taken at different times. The inhalation effort to overcome airway resistance in the asthma affected model was twice as high as that for the recovered model. Local flow patterns showed that the changes in the airway had significant influence on flow patterns. This was especially true in the region where the airway narrowing was most severe.
Understanding the implications of a complete case analysis for regression models with a right-censored covariate
Creators: name: Ashner, Marissa C.
name: Garcia, Tanya P.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Computational Biology

description: Despite its drawbacks, the complete case analysis is commonly used in regression models with incomplete covariates. Understanding when the complete case analysis will lead to consistent parameter estimation is vital before use. Our aim here is to demonstrate when a complete case analysis is consistent for randomly right-censored covariates and to discuss the implications of its use even when consistent. Across the censored covariate literature, different assumptions are made to ensure a complete case analysis produces a consistent estimator, which leads to confusion in practice. We make several contributions to dispel this confusion. First, we summarize the language surrounding the assumptions that lead to a consistent complete case estimator. Then, we show a unidirectional hierarchical relationship between these assumptions, which leads us to one sufficient assumption to consider before using a complete case analysis. Lastly, we conduct a simulation study to illustrate the performance of a complete case analysis with a right-censored covariate under different censoring mechanism assumptions, and we demonstrate its use with a Huntington disease data example.
Heat and mass transport in nanoconfined colloidal fluids
Creators: name: Miller, Nicholas
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: In this study we have investigated the effects of thermophoresis in two component mixtures. Thermophoresis is the movement of molecules caused by a temperature gradient. To understand how colloidal fluids behave on the nanoscale, we have investigated heat and mass transport of bulk homogeneous fluids, and the effects of heat and mass transport in highly confined systems. This has facilitated our understanding of the separation of colloidal fluids and their behaviour when subject to a temperature difference, or experiencing planar Poiseuille flow. Understanding and characterising the separation behaviour of colloidal fluids is important to a number of fields of science and engineering, including lab-on-a-chip technology. To confirm the method presented in this work for obtaining transport coefficients of binary mixtures, we have used equilibrium molecular dynamics to obtain the transport coefficients for an equimolar argon-krypton fluid, and confirmed our results with those in the literature.

The method is then used to obtain the transport coefficients for a slightly more realistic hard core colloidal fluid over a range of concentrations and temperatures. For both the equimolar argon-krypton and the colloid, we show how these coefficients can be used to obtain a continuum description of the velocity, temperature and concentration profiles across a confining channel. We show how the values of the transport coefficients obtained from the bulk can be used to predict the separation of two component fluids. Two situations are reported, firstly a temperature gradient system with no flow. The temperature gradient is imparted on the fluid by maintaining different temperatures at the confining walls. The second system is planar Poiseuille flow, where the temperatures of the walls are equal, and a gravitational like field is applied equally to all species of the fluid. Having successfully shown that for both equimolar argon-krypton and the colloid, the separation of the colloid can be predicted. We then show the limitations of the theory presented in this work, when the colloidal fluid is subject to higher field strengths, and subsequent increased flow rates. By completing this work we have successfully contributed knowledge about the role that diffusive and heat fluxes play in the field of colloidal science and nanotechnology. We provide a framework for the correct evaluation of transport coefficients of binary solutions, and show how to predict colloid separation for confined systems.
Differences in boys' and girls' attachment to pets in early-mid adolescence
Creators: name: Dr. Dileep Singh1*, Dr. Abhishek Singh Tomar1, Dr. Mukesh Kumar Swami1, Dr. Dharam Navadiya1, and Dr. M. M. Islam2
Publisher: name: The Science world a Monthly e magazine
Year: 2024

description: Human-animal interactions positively impact health at every life stage. Research demonstrates the positive influence of human-animal interaction (HAI), including pet ownership and animal-assisted therapy, on a child’s physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development. Science also supports the integration of companion animals in children’s education. Attachment to pets can promote healthy social development, social competence, increased social interaction, improved social communication, and social play in children.
Additional file 1 of Remotely prescribed and monitored home-based gait-and-balance therapeutic exergaming using augmented reality (AR) glasses: protocol for a clinical feasibility study in people with Parkinson’s disease
Creators: name: Hardeman, L. E. S.
name: Geerse, D. J.
name: Hoogendoorn, E. M.
name: Nonnekes, J.
name: Roerdink, M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1. Informed consent. The informed consent format to be signed by the study participants.
CURRICULUM VITAE (francais et anglais combine)
Creators: name: XAVIER NOUNDOU
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: TORTURE ET USAGE DE LA VIOLENCE par des membres de la famille

description: AMONG OTHER THINGS, "kitchener-waterloo police station" tried to performed sodomy on me in September 2018 (page 19 Bullet 26).
entre autres choses qui m'ont été fait subir de très malheureux, LA POLICE CANADIENNE DE kitchner-waterloo a essayée de me faire sodomiser en Septembre 2018 PAR 5 policiers Dont 1 très gros blond ! -- PAGE 19 POINT 26
Additional file 2 of Remotely prescribed and monitored home-based gait-and-balance therapeutic exergaming using augmented reality (AR) glasses: protocol for a clinical feasibility study in people with Parkinson’s disease
Creators: name: Hardeman, L. E. S.
name: Geerse, D. J.
name: Hoogendoorn, E. M.
name: Nonnekes, J.
name: Roerdink, M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 2. Participant diary. A diary provided to the participant at the start of the 6-week intervention period to be filled in after every exergaming session.
Additional file 3 of Remotely prescribed and monitored home-based gait-and-balance therapeutic exergaming using augmented reality (AR) glasses: protocol for a clinical feasibility study in people with Parkinson’s disease
Creators: name: Hardeman, L. E. S.
name: Geerse, D. J.
name: Hoogendoorn, E. M.
name: Nonnekes, J.
name: Roerdink, M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 3. Weekly phone call script. Semi-structured questions on adherence, performance, perceived usefulness, usability, potential technical issues, and adverse events.
Technique, motif, repetition: traditional resist uses for contemporary textile practice.
Creators: name: Prideaux, Verity
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: This exegesis presents the practice of handprinted textile design through the activity of designing, sampling and printing fabric. An underlying issue of my textile print practice is the preservation and dissemination of traditional hand printing skills. As textile print technology advances into digital print production and the textile design motif into computer generated imagery and pattern, traditional textile design hand processes are declining. The objective of this research is to examine and establish refined methods of textile design hand printing, using reactive dye resist techniques onto cellulose fabric.

The relationship between design and practice is significant for a textile designer producing handprinted textiles and relies on a connection of technical knowledge and creative output. This is because textile print design involves the use of general design fundamentals in relation to colour, imagery, pattern and composition as well as an understanding and appreciation for fabric and its tactility. In this instance, producing hand-printed textiles with dyes further requires a technical knowledge of dye classes, chemicals and the ways through which imagery can be applied to the surface of the fabric. The methodology of my research explores a design process that requires creative and craft components as well as a technical comprehension that is informed by chemistry.

The scope and impetus for this project originates in an examination of historical and cultural direct resist techniques. The research has been realised through the trialling of contemporary means for printing resist techniques onto cellulose fabrics using reactive dyes. The outcomes include recipes, detailed processes, fabric sampling and the production of a range of larger textile pieces.

The exegesis component demonstrates how a working method was established and reflected upon with an examination of literature that addresses the overlap between the chemistry of reactive dyes and the needs of the small-scale or designer-maker print practitioner. This extends to the documentation of different reactive dye classes and comparisons of dye stability for a printed end. The investigations carried out in the print workshop are presented with a survey of the repetitious nature of dye testing and sampling. The samples investigate the possibilities of using reactive dyes for the colour with starch and gum paste as the resist. To complement a full suite of hand print techniques these are additionally combined with illuminating discharge and coloured chemical resist processes.
Additional file 4 of Remotely prescribed and monitored home-based gait-and-balance therapeutic exergaming using augmented reality (AR) glasses: protocol for a clinical feasibility study in people with Parkinson’s disease
Creators: name: Hardeman, L. E. S.
name: Geerse, D. J.
name: Hoogendoorn, E. M.
name: Nonnekes, J.
name: Roerdink, M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 4. Reality DTx® evaluation questionnaire. Likert-scale questions to evaluate the acceptability of the intervention.
sj-pdf-5-hpq-10.1177_13591053231176262 – Supplemental material for Hope, quality of life, and psychological distress in patients on peritoneal dialysis: A cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Shek Nam Ng, Marques
name: Kwok Wei So, Winnie
name: Chow Choi, Kai
name: Chen, Jieling
name: Sze Ho Wong, Sunny
name: Hui, Yun Ho
name: Kin Hung Chan, Andex
name: Hau Sim Ho, Eva
name: Wing Han Chan, Carmen
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-5-hpq-10.1177_13591053231176262 for Hope, quality of life, and psychological distress in patients on peritoneal dialysis: A cross-sectional study by Marques Shek Nam Ng, Winnie Kwok Wei So, Kai Chow Choi, Jieling Chen, Sunny Sze Ho Wong, Yun Ho Hui, Andex Kin Hung Chan, Eva Hau Sim Ho and Carmen Wing Han Chan in Journal of Health Psychology
Learning to Dance
Creators: name: Howard, Suzanne
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: This research will examine the various techniques of writing stage directions for choreography or dance action within a feature film script. I will discuss and analyse two methodologies for annotating choreography, both developed by experts in dance notation. I will also examine and interpret the observations made by film director, dancer and choreographer Bob Fosse about the purpose and objectives of dance action in feature film scripts.

I will examine two case studies of contemporary feature film scripts that contain dance action. The selected scripts are Strictly Ballroom (Australia, 1992) and Flashdance (USA, 1983). These scripts do not use a published system of dance notation to write dance action. I will analyse and investigate the stage directions for choreography and dance action used within both scripts.

The exploration of these various approaches to film choreography may form the basis for writing stage directions for choreography or dance action in my own feature length screenplay titled Learning to Dance.

As a screenwriter with particular interest in dance I intend to employ dance sequences at different stages throughout my script as a story telling mechanism. It is important to me to be able to clearly communicate and translate choreographic direction into my script in a manner that ensures its eventual interpretation fulfils its original purpose in the story. Therefore I am seeking a methodology for translating and expressing dance sequences in an accurate and concise written form. One key outcome of my research may be the development of a structural and technical framework for providing choreographic direction appropriate to the conventions of screenplay writing.

I therefore intend to contribute to the screenwriting field by attempting to develop a framework for providing stage directions for choreography within a film script and then applying this framework within my own screenplay, Learning to Dance.

In addition to the study of choreographic notation I will explore the observations made by film theorists such as Adrian Martin, Jerome Delamater, Rick Altman, J.P Telotte and Steve Neal about genres that contain dance action as a defining characteristic. It is my intention to write a screenplay that in part, borrows from the customs and codes of an established genre or subgenre. Therefore my objective is to understand, appreciate and reflect upon the genre the best fits my vision of Learning to Dance.

Learning to Dance is the story of Giselle Williams (18) who aspires to be a professional dancer. When Giselle's father is arrested for fraud Giselle is forced to abandon her wealthy surrounds to live and work in one of Melbourne's tough, inner city, high-rise public housing estates. Here Giselle meets her key support roles, Muslim siblings Yasmina (21) a talented belly dancer and her handsome brother and Giselle's future love interest Ali (20) who welcome Giselle into their humble, tight knit and family oriented community.
Additional file 5 of Remotely prescribed and monitored home-based gait-and-balance therapeutic exergaming using augmented reality (AR) glasses: protocol for a clinical feasibility study in people with Parkinson’s disease
Creators: name: Hardeman, L. E. S.
name: Geerse, D. J.
name: Hoogendoorn, E. M.
name: Nonnekes, J.
name: Roerdink, M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 5. Reality DTx® semi-structured evaluation interview script. Semi-structured interview questions addressing the participant’s experiences with Reality DTx®.
Preclinical testing of an upscaled tissue engineered stem cell patch towards use in translational studies
Creators: name: Jabbour, Richard John
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: Heart failure is an epidemic which is increasing in prevalence and is associated with an enormous healthcare burden, accounting for 1-2% of the entire NHS healthcare budget. Existing treatment options are primarily focussed on preventing or retarding the progression of disease rather than reversing the disease process. The survival rate has been stubbornly slow to improve with a 5 year mortality rate of 50%. Therefore, at present there is an unmet need for novel treatment strategies. Pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes (SC-CM) are an exciting and potentially revolutionary treatment option for repairing the damaged heart. Encouraging preclinical experiments have reported that it is possible SC-CMs to survive, electrically couple, and improve contractile function of the host heart, but an increase in arrhythmia has been observed. It has also been shown that the existing delivery methods (intracoronary and intramyocardial) used in human clinical trials of bone marrow mononuclear cells are inadequate to enable long term retention of cells in the heart and therefore newer strategies are needed. Biomaterials are promising, for example, engineered heart tissue has been shown in small animal studies to enable long term cell retention; however, to date the creation of engineered heart tissue suitable for the first in man clinical trials is lacking. The aims of this PhD project were to explore the use of biomaterials including engineered heart tissue and conductive polymers in stem cell grafting experiments. Firstly, upscaled engineered heart tissue was characterised in-vitro and feasibility and efficacy tested in a preclinical intermediate model of myocardial infarction. A rabbit model was chosen and set up for these experiments due to the numerous 6 similarities with human myocardium and it being a suitable next step from small animal models. Cell retention was tested at various time points up to one month and efficacy was tested using changes in left ventricular function as determined by echocardiography. Potentially harmful side effects of arrhythmia burden were tested in-vivo and ex-vivo using telemetry and arrhythmia provocation protocols.The experiments in this PhD described the successful in-vitro characterisation of upscaled engineered heart tissue and preclinical testing in a rabbit model of myocardial infarction. The patches were not associated with an increase in arrhythmia burden and improvements in ventricular function were observed when compared to infarcted hearts. We were also able to show that conductive polymers were able to alter the conductive properties of the epicardial surface of the heart and did not appear pro-arrhythmic in nature.
Stochastic modelling and statistical inference for electricity prices, wind energy production and wind speed
Creators: name: Rowińska, Paulina A.
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: Although wind energy helps us slow down the increase of global temperatures, its weather-dependence and unpredictability make it risky to invest in. In this thesis we apply statistical and mathematical tools to enable energy providers to accurately plan such investments. In the first part we want to understand the impact of wind energy on electricity prices. We extend an existing multifactor model of electricity spot prices by including stochastic volatility as well as the information about wind energy production. Empirical studies indicate that these additions improve the model fit. We also model wind-related variables directly, using Brownian semistationary processes with generalised hyperbolic marginals. Finally, we introduce a joint model of prices and wind energy production suitable for quantifying the risk faced by energy distributors. The second goal is to produce accurate short-term wind speed forecasts based on historical data instead of computationally expensive physical models. We achieve this by splitting the wind speed into two horizontal components and modelling them with Brownian semistationary processes with a novel triple-scale kernel. We develop efficient estimation and forecasting procedures. Empirical studies show that such modelling choices result in good forecasting performance.
In vivo evaluation of the efficacy and safety of rapid short-pulse sequences for ultrasound-medicated delivery of agents to the brain
Creators: name: Morse, Sophie
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: The blood-brain barrier is essential to the maintenance of homeostasis in the brain, but it also prevents 98% of small molecule drugs and imaging agents from entering the brain. Focused ultrasound in combination with microbubbles is a method that can increase the permeability of the blood-brain barrier in a non-invasive, localised and transient manner, allowing drugs and imaging agents into the brain. In conventional ultrasound methods, a sequence of long pulses is applied to the brain, which can cause undesired effects, such as uneven drug distributions and a barrier altered for several hours, exposing the brain to unwanted bloodborne substances. In this thesis, we have investigated whether the efficacy and safety of drug delivery can be improved in vivo by emitting ultrasound in a Rapid Short-Pulse (RaSP) sequence. We first investigated the differences in performance and safety between emitting a RaSP sequence and a long pulse sequence to deliver a dextran model drug. We found that a more uniform drug distribution was achieved using RaSP, with a delivered dose comparable to that of long pulses. The barrier permeability was altered for less than 10 minutes, minimising the amount of endogenous proteins entering the brain, while no tissue damage was observed. We then investigated whether RaSP could deliver large 100 nm liposomes into the brain. We showed that RaSP can achieve this with an improved safety profile, although higher pressures were needed compared to long pulses. Finally, we evaluated whether a dual-modal MRI-optical probe could be delivered into the brain, using long pulses, to image neurons. We confirmed uptake within neurons and detected both fluorescence and MRI signals ex vivo. This work demonstrates that ultrasound sequences can be designed to improve the efficacy and safety of drug delivery for the diagnosis and treatment of brain diseases.
Additional file 7 of Remotely prescribed and monitored home-based gait-and-balance therapeutic exergaming using augmented reality (AR) glasses: protocol for a clinical feasibility study in people with Parkinson’s disease
Creators: name: Hardeman, L. E. S.
name: Geerse, D. J.
name: Hoogendoorn, E. M.
name: Nonnekes, J.
name: Roerdink, M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 7. SPIRIT checklist.
Additional file 1 of Relationship between albumin-corrected anion gap and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease varied in different waist circumference groups: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Lu, Ye
name: Zhan, Ya-zhen
name: Li, Wan
name: Liao, Shu-li
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. The association of albumin-corrected anion gap with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Supplemental Material - Paperwork, Paradox, and PRN: Psychotropic Medication Deficiencies in Assisted Living
Creators: name: Dys, Sarah
name: Carder, Paula
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental Material for Paperwork, Paradox, and PRN: Psychotropic Medication Deficiencies in Assisted Living by Sarah Dys, and Paula Carder in Journal of Applied Gerontology.
Additional file 2 of Relationship between albumin-corrected anion gap and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease varied in different waist circumference groups: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Lu, Ye
name: Zhan, Ya-zhen
name: Li, Wan
name: Liao, Shu-li
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. The value of ACAG in predicting NAFLD.
sj-docx-1-mrx-10.1177_01979183231162623 - Supplemental material for Expected Occupational Contexts and Postgraduate Pursuit among Skilled Immigrants and Natives in the United States
Creators: name: Yu, Xiao
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: International Relations

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-mrx-10.1177_01979183231162623 for Expected Occupational Contexts and Postgraduate Pursuit among Skilled Immigrants and Natives in the United States by Xiao Yu in International Migration Review
Representation and reproduction: a love story
Creators: name: Sleeth, Matthew
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Abstract This practice-led research project is a visual investigation into the aesthetic, technical and conceptual concerns of new media. The outcome of the research is an exhibition of new media artworks that explores this trajectory and considers how mechanical representation and reproduction can define the scope and conceptual development of a contemporary art practice. New media art is positioned, for this research project, as works made by an apparatus, via mechanical reproduction. In opposition to old media artworks made by the artist’s hand directly transforming the material, new media artworks ultimately embed something of their mechanical nature in their essential character. These artworks are created from a set of instructions developed by the artist, then executed by a machine or series of mechanical processes. The project investigates the heritage of new media from the announcement of photography and aims to identify the similarities, both conceptual and technical, that inform contemporary processes including digital images, moving image, 3D printing and digital fabrication. Through my artworks and comparison with earlier artworks and technologies, I locate the methods through which each process addresses the problems and possibilities of its predecessors. The research positions photography as the scaffolding for new media, a platform to consider new visual languages and new narrative possibilities.

Photography can be treated as an expanded idea, rather than simply a medium. Everything is photography all the time. The key outcome of this research is that photography is the organising structure through which to view our relationship with all other new media. As I moved through the research project, each medium gave way to the next as it provided solutions to the concerns of previous works: serial photographic grids to digital images, digital images to moving images, moving images to 3D printed sculpture, 3D printed sculpture to a fusion of digitally fabricated media to create an installation composed entirely of the human-readable multiples created from the machine-readable original. The Rise and Fall of Western Civilisation (2011) can be seen as the proof of concept for this position. As the concluding work in this project, The Rise and Fall of Western Civilisation (2011) embodies the whole context of the research as all new media elements are created from a set of machine-readable instructions to create the human-readable objects that form the installation: therefore new media is photography all the time. The PhD project was ultimately an artistic study of mechanical representation and reproduction that positions contemporary new media as a logical progression from photography, rather than a rupture, and that in my research, all new media is essentially photography, all of the time. Keywords (separated by commas): new media, photography, digital imaging, moving image, video art, sculpture, 3D printing, contemporary art, Matthew Sleeth
Additional file 1 of Early sevoflurane sedation in severe COVID-19-related lung injury patients. A pilot randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Beck-Schimmer, Beatrice
name: Schadde, Erik
name: Pietsch, Urs
name: Filipovic, Miodrag
name: Dübendorfer-Dalbert, Seraina
name: Fodor, Patricia
name: Hübner, Tobias
name: Schuepbach, Reto
name: Steiger, Peter
name: David, Sascha
name: Krüger, Bernard D.
name: Neff, Thomas A.
name: Schläpfer, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
sj-docx-1-nnr-10.1177_15459683231177606 – Supplemental material for Association of Dual-Task Gait Cost and White Matter Hyperintensity Burden Poststroke: Results From the ONDRI
Creators: name: Pieruccini-Faria, Frederico
name: Cornish, Benjamin
name: Binns, Malcolm
name: Fraser, Julia
name: Haddad, Seyyed M. H.
name: Sunderland, Kelly
name: Ramirez, Joel
name: Beaton, Derek
name: Kwan, Donna
name: Dilliott, Allison A.
name: Scott, Christopher
name: Sarquis-Adamson, Yanina
name: Black, Alanna
name: Van Ooteghem, Karen
name: Casaubon, Leanne
name: Dowlatshahi, Dar
name: Hassan, Ayman
name: Mandzia, Jennifer
name: Sahlas, Demetrios
name: Saposnik, Gustavo
name: Tan, Brian
name: Hegele, Robert
name: Bulman, Dennis
name: Ghani, Mahdi
name: Robinson, John
name: Rogaeva, Ekaterina
name: Farhan, Sali
name: Symons, Sean
name: Nanayakkara, Nuwan
name: Arnott, Stephen R.
name: Berezuk, Courtney
name: Holmes, Melissa
name: Adamo, Sabrina
name: Ozzoude, Miracle
name: Zamyadi, Mojdeh
name: Lou, Wendy
name: Sujanthan, Sujeevini
name: Bartha, Robert
name: Black, Sandra E.
name: Swartz, Richard H.
name: McIlroy, William
name: Montero-Odasso, Manuel
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-nnr-10.1177_15459683231177606 for Association of Dual-Task Gait Cost and White Matter Hyperintensity Burden Poststroke: Results From the ONDRI by Frederico Pieruccini-Faria, Benjamin Cornish, Malcolm Binns, Julia Fraser, Seyyed M. H. Haddad, Kelly Sunderland, Joel Ramirez, Derek Beaton, Donna Kwan, Allison A. Dilliott, Christopher Scott, Yanina Sarquis-Adamson, Alanna Black, Karen Van Ooteghem, Leanne Casaubon, Dar Dowlatshahi, Ayman Hassan, Jennifer Mandzia, Demetrios Sahlas, Gustavo Saposnik, Brian Tan, Robert Hegele, Dennis Bulman, Mahdi Ghani, John Robinson, Ekaterina Rogaeva, Sali Farhan, Sean Symons, Nuwan Nanayakkara, Stephen R. Arnott, Courtney Berezuk, Melissa Holmes, Sabrina Adamo, Miracle Ozzoude, Mojdeh Zamyadi, Wendy Lou, Sujeevini Sujanthan, Robert Bartha, Sandra E. Black, Richard H. Swartz, William McIlroy and Manuel Montero-Odasso in Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair
sj-docx-1-asm-10.1177_10731911231176275 – Supplemental material for A Brief Measure of Positive and Negative Interpretation Biases: Development and Validation of the Ambiguous Social Scenarios Questionnaire
Creators: name: Baumgardner, Megan
name: LaGattuta, Alaina K.
name: Allen, Kristy Benoit
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-asm-10.1177_10731911231176275 for A Brief Measure of Positive and Negative Interpretation Biases: Development and Validation of the Ambiguous Social Scenarios Questionnaire by Megan Baumgardner, Alaina K. LaGattuta and Kristy Benoit Allen in Assessment
The future of precision orthodontics: Integration of technology and biomedicine into customized therapy
Creators: name: M'hamed, Jihed
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Orthodontics, Technology, Biomedicine, Precision, Nanotechnology, Artificial intelligence, Regenerative therapy, Stem cells, Platelet-rich fibrin.

description: Thesis For National Diploma of Doctor of Dental Medicine.
 Presented and defended publicly on 28/02/2022 BY Jihed M’HAMED. A section of this thesis was published in " Scholars Journal of Dental Sciences " : https://saspublishers.com/media/articles/SJDS_95_70-87c.pdf
Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma of pleura
Creators: name: PATEL, SANKET
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Thoracic wall
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: PET
subject: PET-CT
subject: Plain radiographic studies
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Neoplasia

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: female, 16 years
description: Clinical History: 16 years old previously healthy girl presents with c/o right sided chest pain on exertion, breathlessness and weight loss with low grade fever and generalized weakness. Then investigated further including blood , urine, sputum culture , Liver and Renal fu... Final Diagnosis: Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma of right Pleura.
Information Brochure of the Design and Testing System YEROTH_QVGE (YR_QVGE)
Creators: name: Noundou Noumbissi, Xavier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: RUNTIME VERIFIER TESTER

description: YEROTH_QVGE is a CASE (Computer-Aided Software Engineering) design tool to generate "domain-specific language (DSL) YR_SB_RUNTIME_VERIF_LANG" files, to be inputted into the "compiler YR_SB_RUNTIME_VERIF_LANG_COMP", so to generate C ++ files for the "runtime verifier tester YR-DB-RUNTIME-VERIF that allows for manual verification of SQL correctness properties of Graphical User Interface (GUI) software.
description: https://github.com/yerothd/yr_sd_runtime_verif_lang
Additional file 1 of Association of novel anthropometric indices with prevalence of kidney stone disease: a population-based cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Hu, Xudong
name: Li, Xiang
name: Ye, Nan
name: Zhou, Zhenwen
name: Li, Guangyuan
name: Jiang, Fang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. RCS curve of the association of ABSI with KSD stratified by A age, B sex; C hypertension, and D DM. RCS, restricted cubic spline; ABSI, a body shape index; KSD, kidney stone disease; DM, diabetes mellitus
Control loop performance monitoring in an industrial setting
Creators: name: Al Soraihi, Ghassan
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: The wide range of applications for single input single output controllers have encouraged interest in monitoring their performance. Over the past two decades researchers in the area have found many performance enhancement opportunities by applying these techniques. These are most evident in large operational plants with hundreds of controllers being monitored at the same time.

Early performance measures were based on minimum variance control as a benchmark for controller performance. Many other procedures have since emerged that have improved the level of accuracy in these performance measures. In addition, these improvements made it easier to implement control loop performance monitoring in large industrial settings.

This thesis looks at the performance measures in use for single input single output controllers. The work here looks at incorporating these different measures for a specific manufacturing plant. Ways of identifying the goals and objectives of controllers in a system are presented. Furthermore, measures are proposed that most accurately indicate if these goals and objectives are being met.

The concept is demonstrated on a distillation system in a gas plant. It is shown how using these objective driven techniques can provide the user with sound results. These results do not require much user analysis to identify sources of problems and areas of improvement.