cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effects of diesel emissions on black carbon and number concentrations in the Eastern U.S.
Creators: name: Posner, Laura N.
name: Pandis, Spyros
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The effects of emissions of diesel engines on black carbon and particle number concentrations as well as climate-relevant aerosol properties are explored for a summertime period in the Eastern U.S. using the chemical transport model PMCAMx-UF. A 50% reduction of diesel particulate emissions results as expected in lower (23%) black carbon mass concentrations and similar changes both in magnitude (27-30%) and spatial pattern for the absorption coefficient. However, an average 2% increase of the total particle number concentrations is predicted due to a decrease in the coagulation and condensation sinks and, at the same time, a 2% decrease in N100 (particles larger   than 100 nm) concentrations. The diesel reduction results suggest that mitigation of large diesel particles and/or particle mass emissions can reduce absorption climate-relevant properties related to black carbon and provide health benefits; however, the changes could also have the unintended effect of increased ultrafine particle number concentrations. Changes in cloud condensation nuclei are predicted to be significantly less than expected assuming a proportional reduction during this photochemically active period. Doubling of the diesel emissions results in a domain-averaged 3% decrease in total particle number concentrations and a 3% increase in N100 concentrations. PM2.5 BC concentrations increase on average by 46%, and similar changes (52-60%) are predicted for the absorption coefficient. Extinction coefficients for both perturbation simulations changed by only a few percent due to the dominance of scattering aerosols in the Eastern U.S. during this period characterized by high photochemical activity.
description: Posner, Laura N., and Spyros N. Pandis. (2024). "Effects of Diesel Emissions on Black Carbon and Particle Number Concentrations in the Eastern U.S.", Atmosphere, 15, no. 2,: 199. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos15020199
Isolation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from livestock workers and implications for zooanthroponotic transmission in Ibadan, South-western Nigeria
Creators: name: Cadmus, Simeon Idowu
name: Akinseye, Victor Oluwatoyin
name: Adegbulu, Aderosoye
name: Ovwighose, Naomi
name: Ayoola, Modupe
name: Ogugua, Joseph Akwoba
name: Adesokan, Hezekiah Kehinde
name: Cadmus, Eniola
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2018
Subjects: Tuberculosis; non-tuberculous mycobacteria; Zoonoses; Molecular characterization; Nigeria

description: Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa coupled with dearth of information about the disease among livestock workers at risk of infection. We determined the prevalence of pulmonary TB infection and risk factors associated with its occurrence among livestock workers in south-western Nigeria.

Methods:  A cross-sectional study was conducted using active case-finding among livestock workers with sub-clinical pulmonary TB between August, 2014 and March, 2015. Sputum samples were cultured and subjected to a two-step multiplex-PCR technique based on genus-typing and genomic regions-of-difference. Interviewer-administered questionnaire was utilized in assessing worker’s TB related knowledge, attitude and practices. Data were analysed using STATA 12.

Results: Overall, 206 livestock workers (traders =136; butchers = 70) were screened; 5.1% (7/136) of the traders and 7.1% (5/70) of the butchers had positive mycobacterial cultures. Molecular techniques identified one Mycobacterium tuberculosis with six non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) from the traders and four M. tuberculosis with one NTM from the butchers.

Participants within the age range of 50 years and above were at higher risk of being infected with TB (OR=7.7; 95%CI:1.7–35.6).

Conclusion: We confirmed M. tuberculosis as the cause of pulmonary TB among the livestock workers, with implications for zooanthroponotic transmission of the disease along the human-animal ecosystem interface in Nigeria.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 59, No 3 (2018): 2018593
Health and Safety of Pesticide Applicators in a high income agricultural setting: a knowledge, attitude, practice, and toxicity study from North-Eastern Italy
Creators: name: RICCO', Matteo
name: Gualerzi, Giovanni
name: Vezzosi, Luigi
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2018
Subjects: Pesticides; Agricultural workers; Knowledge attitudes and practices (KAP); Personal hygiene and sanitation; Personal protective equipment (PPE)

description: Background. We assessed knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding pesticide handling and related health problems among pesticide applicators (PAs) from the Autonomous Province of Trento, Italy.

Methods A cross-sectional questionnaire-based study was performed in spring 2016, involving 260 PAs. Logistic regression analyses were used to identify factors associated with a safer use of pesticides.

Results. The mean age of participants was 48.8 ± 13.2 years. 89.2% were males. Use of personal protective equipment (PPE) was diffuse, particularly gloves (92.7%), face mask (91.2%), and post-spraying personal hygiene practices were extensively applied. Overall, 43.5% had experienced pesticide-related symptoms especially in subjects misusing PPE, but also for avoiding hygienic procedures. Knowledge about pesticides was a significant predictor for frequency of symptoms.

Conclusions. As a better knowledge of pesticide-related risks was a significant predictor to reduce symptoms, our results stress that improving awareness and promoting safe use of pesticide may improve the health of PAs.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 59, No 3 (2018): 2018593
Some basic principles for the preparation of Horizon Europe Multi-Actor-Projects
Creators: name: Münchhausen, Susanne V.
name: Häring, Anna Maria
name: Munioz-Rojas, José
name: Dabrowski, Janusz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: multi-actor, innovation, co-innovation, agriculture, National Contact Point

description: Principles for multi-actor projects •Official principles (Horizon Europe) •Building a consortium of mixed types of actors (structure) •Making best use of all partners‘ competences based on close cooperation all along the project (process) •Individual principles (to be agreed at the beginning) •Clarify responsibilities of each actor (delivery of tasks and expected standards) •Share rules / values and ensure fairness among actors •Agree on the degree of inclusivity envisaged •Be open about and address diverging interests when emerging •Stick to your word or communicate problems at an early stage • Aim to remain a reliable partner all along the project
Do Tuscan people adhere to meningococcal C vaccination during an emergency campaign?
Creators: name: Bechini, Angela
name: Paolini, Diana
name: Pieralli, Francesca
name: Baggiani, Lorenzo
name: Mereu, Giovanna
name: Santini, Maria Grazia
name: Brocca, Teresa
name: Gostinicchi, Sandra
name: Gori, Emanuele
name: Boccalini, Sara
name: Bonanni, Paolo
name: Bonaccorsi, Guglielmo
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2018
Subjects: Meningococcal C invasive disease; Vaccination coverage; Emergency immunization campaign; Population adherence; Tuscany (Italy)

description: Introduction: Tuscany region (Italy) recorded a rise in the number of meningococcal disease cases between January 2015 and February 2016,(52 cases) compared to 2014(16 cases). The aim of this study was to describe the emergency meningococcal C (MenC) vaccination programme in Tuscany and the population’s adherence to the activities performed in the Local Health Unit (LHU) of Florence.

Methods:The MenC vaccination programme and the planning of the prevention and communication activities were analysed in the LHU of Florence. As an indicator of population’s adherence, the vaccination coverage (VC)during the emergency campaignwas investigated and adverse drug reactions (ADR) surveillance was reported.

Results:The communication campaign included a dedicated toll-free telephone number, press releases (newspapers, radio, television, websites), and informative letters addressed to mayors, secondary schools, and sports associations. Citizens aged 11–20 years were the primary target of the campaign. Due to the high incidence of cases among older people, the vaccination was extended to subjectsover 45 years. The population’s adherence to the vaccination campaignwas satisfactory: VC reached 47.1%for the primary target. The ADR reporting rate (3.1/10,000) on meningococcal disease in our study confirmed the safety of the vaccination.
Conclusions:In 2017, only 10 IMD cases were reported, suggesting the effectiveness of the immunization campaign. Similar VC during emergency MenC vaccination programmes have been reached in other Italian regions and other EU countries, too.The achievement of greater vaccination coverage is restricted by a sentiment of hesitancy towards vaccines among the general population.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 59, No 3 (2018): 2018593
Critical affection: an expanded portrait of the artist-as-player in digital cultures
Creators: name: Penney, Thomas
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360503
subject: Digital and electronic media art
classificationCode: 440505
subject: Intersectional studies
classificationCode: 470102
subject: Communication technology and digital media studies

description: Digital cultures engage users’ social, creative and emotional labour – a process that can be described as affective. For some theorists and artists, this dynamic is inherently exploitative. However, within this exploitation is the potential, particularly in social media and games, to provide fuel for playful critique. The concept of ‘play’ is frequently used to describe users’ engagement within such cultures. This phenomenon evokes a long history in the arts of deploying ‘critical play’ modalities. In light of this situation, how might we begin to sketch a broader portrait of a ‘player’ engaging with the site of ‘critical play’?

This PhD project explores this question through a mapping of artists’ critical play within digital environments. With the focus upon affective engagement in digital environments, I argue that it is the reflection and interrogation of processes of identity representation that, in turn, drive much of the motivation for ‘playing critically’ as a productive probe. More generally ‘Critical Affection, an expanded portrait of the artist-as-player in digital cultures’ seeks to contribute to play debates at the intersection of games studies, new media and contemporary art.
AD5.2 - Reporting for first set of substances
Creators: name: Lange, Rosa
name: Barouki, Robert
name: Uhl, Maria
name: Klánová, Jana
name: Horvat, Milena
name: Alimonti, Alessandro
name: Sarigiannis, Denis
name: Santonen, Tiina
name: Lebret, Erik
name: Luijten, Miriam
name: Antignac, Jean-Philippe
name: Schoeters, Greet
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: This deliverable reports on the achievements of HBM4EU in 2017 and 2018 per substance group. The results are reported in relation to the policy questions. The information has been compiled by the chemical group leaders and has been drafted in close exchange with the work package leaders and the substance-specific contact points for each work package. The information is based on the published deliverables and on the annual reports that have been produced by the Consortium. The information presents the steps forward that have been made by HBM4EU and serves as an input for targeted dissemination and communication of HBM4EU results to decision makers and stakeholders. The information in the report adds to the scoping documents. The scoping documents can be found on the substance-group-specific web page of the HBM4EU web site. They contain for each substance group a review of the available evidence on hazardous properties, exposure characteristics, technical aspects, policy relevance, substance categorisation, a list of policyrelated questions, and it identifies knowledge gaps and propose research activities. AD5.2 presents what has been achieved so far per substance. The substance-specific reports will be also published on the HBM4EU web site under the substance-specific web pages.
Towards a user-centric environment for online design teaching
Creators: name: Shao, Yun-Ju
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330309
subject: Industrial and product design

description: Following the worldwide growth of e-learning in higher education, design education is gradually adopting information and computer technology and moving into the online environment. To test and improve the effectiveness of online education, there has been substantial research from the side of learners or students; however, teachers' experiences are also crucial for the success of online education. Conventional design teaching, especially, often involves various activities, such as studio practice and individual discussion, which rely on many factors available through face-to-face interaction. To provide the same dynamic and interactions of conventional design teaching, an online environment that can support design teaching activities is clearly a must. With scant studies on online design teaching environment, there is a need to understand conventional design teaching and identify design teachers' needs. Through the use of multi-methods - observing design teaching, interviewing with design teachers, and reflecting on my own practice as a designer and teacher - this study aims to reveal the characteristics of design teaching and provide suggestions for the design of online design teaching environment. As a result, the research then proposes a set of principles for designing a teacher-centric teaching environment for communication design, potentially contributing to online teaching systems and design education.
Additional file 2 of Primary health care challenges: insights from older people with multimorbidity in Malawi – a qualitative study
Creators: name: Kwaitana, Duncan
name: Bates, Maya Jane
name: Msowoya, Esnath
name: van Breevoort, Dorothee
name: Mildestvedt, Thomas
name: Meland, Eivind
name: Umar, Eric
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2
Lifestyles and discomfort in a sample of young Romanian students
Creators: name: Petrelli, Fabio
name: Scuri, Stefania
name: Tanzi, Elisabetta
name: Nguyễn, Thi Thu Cúc
name: Grappasonni, Iolanda
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2018
Subjects: lifestyles; romanian young people; abuse substances

description: Introduction

The percentage of Romanians at risk of poverty and social exclusion was, in 2016, 38.8%, and more than a third of the youth population (40.3%) is at risk of poverty and/or social exclusion compared to Europe’s 24.3%. Statistics show an increase in obesity, sedentary lifestyles and the use of alcohol and cigarettes as well as an increase of drug use. It was interesting to evaluate the attitudes shared by pupils as well as their knowledge of these substances with a view to analyzing causes and types of risky behaviour in young people.

Methods

A questionnaire was created to acquire data and information on issues typically felt by a sample of Romanian high-school students in Craiova, in the South of Romania. Before the administration, the questionnaire has been translated into the Romanian language and validated on a sample of 100 high- school students. The Fagerström Test was applied to evaluate the degree of nicotine dependence. The data were statistically elaborated to assess the different levels of Odds Ratio between smoking, alcohol, drugs consumption and abuse.

Results

The sample was composed by 1.980 students with an average age of 17, of which 1.727 correctly responded to the questionnaire. The 37.4% of students admit to smoking, the 67.0% to drink alcohol. The Fagerström test showed that the 68.2% of respondents are not highly addicted to smoking, while the 31.8% was associated with a middle-to-high addiction level. A worrying weekly consumption of beer (81.3% of males and 66.5% of females) has been registered in the students. Regarding psychological distress caused by harassment an high Odds Ratio was recorded between the smoker and the drug user.

Conclusions

In line with the European Commission’s report, more than half of those who students in the survey did not know about the health consequences of smoking, and did not see it as dangerous. The same result was recorded about the consumption of alcohol. A special attention should be done to the understanding of harassment problem in the young people. In fact, the almost of respondents declared to have suffered abuse admits to use, in particular, drugs and smoke.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 59, No 3 (2018): 2018593
Supplemental Material - Home-Based Care and Mental Health during a Disaster: A Qualitative Analysis
Creators: name: Dickey, Sarah
name: Krienke, Lydia
name: Rosemberg, Marie Anne
name: Bell, Sue Anne
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
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 Home-Based Care and Mental Health during a Disaster: A Qualitative Analysis by Sarah Dickey, Lydia Krienke, Marie Anne Rosemberg, and Sue Anne Bell in Journal of Applied Gerontology
Feeling indeterminate: the experience and design of big landscapes
Creators: name: Allan, Penelope
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330109
subject: Landscape architecture
classificationCode: 330411
subject: Urban design

description: A fundamental challenge for landscape architects is the need to engage with pre existing landscape in a constant state of transformation. This challenge is not new, however in the last two decades, in response to discoveries in thermodynamics and the subsequent development of chaos and complexity theory, an entire subdiscipline has grown around documenting and designing with and for this complex condition. Most approaches are concerned with mapping and diagramming flux and deal with landscape systems at a big landscape scale and from a regional perspective. But the complexity of large-scale landscape systems can be overwhelming, and it is difficult to shift perspective from the very big to the human scale, which leaves human experience largely unaccounted for in these approaches.

In this PhD I contribute to a discussion about complexity and big landscape systems by proposing a qualitative approach. Against the discipline’s focus on process, my work is concerned with experience, specifically with how big landscapes feel. I am interested in what kinds of knowledge and sensibilities can be extracted through the direct experience of complex landscapes and how these forms of knowledge migh coexist with current approaches. From the examination of my own body of work and the select work of others, I distil three strategies to make the central notion of ‘how landscape feels’ operational. Poetics, covalence and counterflow are responsive modes extracted from direct experience, which become instrumental in understanding, challenging and connecting with pre-existing big landscape systems.

The PhD goes on to test these strategies for their relevance and currency in four current projects, leading to the discovery of two things: The experience of form and space of big landscapes through the human body, makes tangible a sense of indeterminacy which present mapping misses and which can productively collapse distinctions between how places work and how they feel. Furthermore, it is this feeling of indeterminacy that is the foundation of human agency and adaptation, suggesting new, more efficacious and inclusive ways to ‘work’.
HPV vaccine and autoimmune diseases: systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature
Creators: name: Squeri, Raffaele
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2018

description: Background: Human papillomavirus is one of the commonest sexually transmitted viruses worldwide. Though an effective vaccine is available in 65 countries, the worldwide vaccine coverage remains low. One of the reasons of this is the onset of adverse events as autoimmune disease.

Methods: We carried out a systematic review to identify all scientific publications dealing with the correlation between vaccine anti-papillomavirus and new onset of autoimmune diseases. To evaluate the safety of HPV vaccines, the dichotomous data on the number of subjects experiencing an autoimmune disorder in the study vaccine group and the placebo group were extracted from each study with subsequent determination of the risk ratios and their 95% confidence intervals. We combined data statistically using a random effects model.

Results: We identified 3 studies reporting on bivalent HPV vaccines and 3 studies on quadrivalent vaccines. The total number of subjects included in the meta-analysis comprised 243,289 in the vaccine group and 248,820 in control groups. Four of the six trials had a Jadad score of 3 or 4 indicating an adequate trial quality. The most frequent autoimmune disease observed across the six studies were musculoskeletal,CNS conditions and endocrinological conditions . The results of the meta-analysis demonstrated no correlation between autoimmune disorders and HPV vaccines (pooled OR 1.038, 95% CI 0.689–1.562).

Conclusions: No correlation was identified for bivalent and quadrivalent HPV vaccines. It’s therefore essential to correctly inform the general population in order to try to increase both Italian and international vaccination coverage.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 59, No 3 (2018): 2018593
“Worlds in Collision”: an inquiry into the sources of corruption within Vanuatu government and society
Creators: name: Nimbtik, Gregoire
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: This study of corruption in the context of Vanuatu government and society asserts that international models of “good governance” do not adequately acknowledge the role of culture and entrenched social practices in shaping relations between the governed and the governing. Of such influences, certain sections of Vanuatu’s elites have used kastom authority, kinship networks, and the power of the state to entrench their interests and those of their clients. There is, however, an aspect of kastom authority that may be a means to break down these power structures through processes of deliberation and reform that harness kastom practices as a way to re-engage the country’s populations in a national governance reform process. This research describes ways in which traditional ideas and practices and the modern world can be better reconnected in order for society to implement reforms that will avoid conflict. It also maps out layers of customary practice and authority in Vanuatu and highlights the ways in which their absorption into the modern structures of government has led to serious problems of official corruption. These findings were achieved through an empirical investigation of key selected case studies of government institutions, including the analysis of key government documents. The semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and nakamal storian were used to generate the data or inform its interpretation. This research data was analysed using a thematic and category analysis approach, and by interpretative methods which were informed by the grounded literature review from which the themes emerged. The emerging themes were discussed and analysed in accordance with the findings of the research outlined in previous chapters and the literature.

The findings illustrate that the clash between traditional ways of doing things and the expectations of international institutions about how things ought to be done creates a gap in which corrupt practices emerge. As such, what looks like corruption from a legal-rational point of view is actually perceived as normal behaviour by local communities. Understanding corruption as a consequence of tension between different social obligations and authority in a localised context, this research argues that addressing corruption in Vanuatu is not a matter of stamping it out, but rather of unravelling and addressing the social expectations and practices that have allowed corruption to evolve. Hence, this thesis proposes a collaborative and deliberative governance framework, using traditional authority structures in Vanuatu, to help guide Vanuatu through the process of social change that is necessarily to become a resilient and independent state. The Jifly institution (MNCC) and its nakamal system, despite some imperfections, are considered to be the best equipped institutions still within Vanuatu society to achieve reconnection and reform in order to restore state legitimacy.
A body at the edge of language: writing anorexia, bulimia and recovering
Creators: name: Markidis, Stefanie
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360201
subject: Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting)

description: This practice-led life writing project explores this writer-scholar's experience of her eating disorder through a series of poetic essays developed from material and somatic writing methods including ink-and-paper, found text, and movement. Through these particular methods, and the episodic acts of the writing itself, this PhD discovers a form of somatic life writing that both demonstrates and analyses the lived experience of this psycho-somatic disorder. This research project responds to the challenges of writing anorexia, bulimia and recovering, by developing material writing methods to negotiate self-erasure, narrative authority and embodied memory on the page. The PhD examines the symbiotic relation between writing and (not) eating in ways that are analogous, metaphoric and mutually affective. It draws on a range of writers and feminist materialist scholars to propose that when the tensions of eating disorder are transposed to language and navigated on the page, moments can be found where bodies and writing are constituted and de-constituted. In locating their life-affirming entanglement, this writing practice counteracts the erasure and containment of the condition.
Supplemental Material - Mechanical properties of additively printed, UV cured, continuous fiber unidirectional composites for multifunctional applications
Creators: name: Baur, Jeffery W
name: Abbott, Andrew C
name: Barnett, Philip R
name: Tandon, Gyaneshwar P
name: Furmanski, Jevan
name: Stranberg, Nathan A
name: Alvarado, Tyler B
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: Supplemental Material for Mechanical properties of additively printed, UV cured, continuous fiber unidirectional composites for multifunctional applications by Jeffery W Baur, Andrew C Abbott, Philip Barnett, Gyaneshwar P Tandon, Jevan Furmanski, Nathan A Stranberg and Tyler B Alvarado in Journal of Composite Materials
The Harsh Lessons From 4 Years Of Community Building At Protocols.Io
Creators: name: Teytelman, Lenny
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Many know that culture change in science communication is extraordinarily difficult and that the "build it and they will come" approach is doomed. So what does it take to build an engaged community from scratch? We will share the data behind the adoption of protocols.io and exactly what does and does not work for a new science communication effort.
Supplemental Material - Towards zero waste in pharmacy: Challenges and opportunities in Singapore
Creators: name: Leow, Jo Lene
name: Looi, Liyi
name: Lee, Yixuan
name: Chew, Lita
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Cardiology
subject: Medicine
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: 110323 Surgery

description: Supplemental Material for Towards zero waste in pharmacy: Challenges and opportunities in Singapore by Jo Lene Leow, Liyi Looi, Yixuan Lee and Lita Chew Sui Tjien in Proceedings of Singapore Healthcare
Financial constraints, political connections, and ownership structure: evidence from China
Creators: name: NGUYEN, Giang
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 350202
subject: Finance
classificationCode: 350701
subject: Corporate governance

description: Scholars worldwide have focused intensely on how to mitigate firm financial constraints, since these impede firm development. The importance of the topic and the dearth of related research in developing markets have motivated this thesis to investigate the effect of political connections, managerial financial expertise, and foreign ownership on firm financial constraints. These research issues are examined in the context of 1,809 publicly listed companies in China from 1999 to 2015. This thesis also develops new measures of political connections and financial expertise to examine these research questions. The findings show that government ownership does not facilitate firms¿ access to external funds, while managerial political ties reduce firms¿ financial constraints. The negative effects are more pronounced for non-state-owned enterprises (non-SOEs). Specifically, this thesis finds that the degree of financial constraints varies greatly across state-owned enterprises (SOEs), depending largely on the identity of the ultimate controlling government agency, that is, the central government, the local government and or a state asset management bureau. The empirical evidence further shows that managerial financial expertise can mitigate financial constraints. In addition, politically connected executive managers with financial expertise are significantly influential in alleviating firms' financial constraints, and this mitigating effect is more pronounced for non-SOEs than for SOEs. Finally, this thesis documents that foreign ownership and financial constraints are negatively related, and more strongly so, again, among non-SOEs. These results are robust to alternative measures of financial constraints. The findings have several implications for investors, shareholders, regulators, and policymakers.
Additional file 3 of Evolutionary history of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and genomic signatures of obligate symbiosis
Creators: name: Rosling, Anna
name: Eshghi Sahraei, Shadi
name: Kalsoom Khan, Faheema
name: Desirò, Alessandro
name: Bryson, Abigail E
name: Mondo, Stephen J
name: Grigoriev, Igor V
name: Bonito, Gregory
name: Sánchez-García, Marisol
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Supplementary Material 3
sj-docx-4-pit-10.1177_15269248221145042 - Supplemental material for Development and Validation of a Model to Predict Malignancy Within the First Year After Adult Heart Transplantation
Creators: name: Baker, William L.
name: Moore, Timothy E.
name: Baron, Eric
name: Jennings, Douglas L.
name: Jaiswal, Abhishek
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110305 Emergency Medicine
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110323 Surgery

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-4-pit-10.1177_15269248221145042 for Development and Validation of a Model to Predict Malignancy Within the First Year After Adult Heart Transplantation by William L. Baker, Timothy E. Moore, Eric Baron, Douglas L. Jennings and Abhishek Jaiswal in Progress in Transplantation
Physics-informed Hyper-networks
Creators: name: Rao, Abhinav Prithviraj
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 401706
subject: Numerical modelling and mechanical characterisation
classificationCode: 401799
subject: Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 490105
subject: Dynamical systems in applications

description: There is a growing trend towards the development of parsimonious surrogate models for studying physical phenomena. While they typically offer less accuracy, these models bypass the computational costs of numerical methods, usually by multiple orders of magnitude, allowing statistical applications such as sensitivity analysis, stochastic treatments, parametric problems, and uncertainty quantification. Researchers have explored generalized surrogate frameworks leveraging Gaussian processes, various basis function expansions, support vector machines, and neural networks. Dynamical fields, represented through time-dependent partial differential equation, pose a particular hardship for existing frameworks due to their high dimensional representation, and possibly multi-scale solutions.In this work, we present a novel architecture for solving time-dependent partial differential equations using co-ordinate neural networks and time-marching updates through hyper-networks. We show that it provides a temporally meshed and spatially mesh-free solution which are causally coherent as justified through a theoretical treatment of Lie groups. We showcase results on some benchmark problems in computational physics while discussing their performance against similar physics-informed approaches like physics-informed DeepOnets and Physics informed neural networks.
COST OF QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN INDIAN INDUSTRIES: A PRACTICAL INSIGHT
Creators: name: Mantri, Sanjay
name: Jaju, Santosh
Publisher: name: Center for Quality
Year: 2017
Subjects: Quality Costs
Indian Industries
COQ practices
QCMS

description: International Journal for Quality Research; Vol 11, No 3, 2017. ISSN 1800-6450
description: In India, quality cost management system is becoming an important area within the purview of quality engineering; where in upper management can get true reflection of status of quality department in monetary terms for all types of organizations. Cost of Quality (COQ) practices; have well defined standards and lot of research backing, still lacks in large scale adoption at industry level practically. Reason could be, the sustainability and usefulness of these practices has normally not been elaborated or tracked once primary research objective is over. At the same time, it is observed that COQ initiatives taken by industry people are not published. This work intends to study the COQ practices followed by reputed and successful industries of different types. Eight industries shortlisted are classified into two groups and detailed analysis of COQ practices adopted was done for each industry. The analysis provides useful input for design of quality cost management system (QCMS) for the industries where COQ practices are not implemented.
NFDI4Cat Newsletter Issue #2 - March 2022
Creators: name: Espinoza, Sara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: catalysis
NFDI
Digitalisation
DFG

description: This is the second issue of the NFDI4Cat newsletter. The NFDI4Cat newsletter is a short compilation about our project results. A short and concise overview that keeps you up to date with our work. You can subscribe to it here!
sj-docx-1-cnr-10.1177_10547738221144214 – Supplemental material for Falls in Patients With Communication Disability Secondary to Stroke
Creators: name: Sullivan, Rebecca
name: Harding, Katherine
name: Skinner, Ian
name: Hemsley, Bronwyn
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-cnr-10.1177_10547738221144214 for Falls in Patients With Communication Disability Secondary to Stroke by Rebecca Sullivan, Katherine Harding, Ian Skinner and Bronwyn Hemsley in Clinical Nursing Research
PRECIPITATION IN AL-ZN-MG(-AG) ALLOYS
Creators: name: CHENG, BINGQING
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 401607
subject: Metals and alloy materials

description: Age-hardenable Al-Zn-Mg alloys offer adequate strength, workability and weldability and have been widely used in the aerospace industry. The addition of microalloying elements of Ag can enhance the hardening response of the Al-Zn-Mg alloys, but the microstructure of Ag-added alloys has not been detailed studied. In this thesis, the solid-state precipitates in the Al-Zn-Mg(-Ag) alloys are investigated in detail down to the atomic scale, using various electron microscopy techniques.
Additional file 2 of Omeprazole taken once every other day can effectively prevent aspirin-induced gastrointestinal mucosal damage in rats
Creators: name: Weng, Junhua
name: Song, Yuli
name: Kuai, Dayu
name: Dai, Weiwei
name: Yao, Yuxia
name: Xu, Wenjing
name: Li, Yaqiang
name: Fan, Longying
name: Xu, Baohong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2
sj-docx-1-spp-10.1177_19485506221141661 – Supplemental material for The Relation Between Updated Implicit Evaluations and the Trust Game
Creators: name: Shen, Xi
name: Maiolatesi, Anthony J.
name: Mann, Thomas C.
name: Ferguson, Melissa J.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-spp-10.1177_19485506221141661 for The Relation Between Updated Implicit Evaluations and the Trust Game by Xi Shen, Anthony J. Maiolatesi, Thomas C. Mann and Melissa J. Ferguson in Social Psychological and Personality Science
Supplemental Material—Patient-reported disease impact of systemic lupus erythematosus with active joint symptoms: Results from the systemic lupus erythematosus-update survey
Creators: name: Kamen, Diane L
name: Birt, Julie A
name: Hadi, Monica A
name: Gibbons, Elizabeth
name: Bushnell, Donald M
name: Yu, Ren
name: Delbecque, Laure A
name: Griffing, Kirstin
name: Askanase, Anca
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental Material for Patient-reported disease impact of systemic lupus erythematosus with active joint symptoms: Results from the systemic lupus erythematosus-update survey by Diane L Kamen, Julie A Birt, Monica A Hadi, Elizabeth Gibbons, Donald M Bushnell, Ren Yu, Laure A Delbecque, Kirstin Griffing and Anca Askanase in Lupus.
Methodology for multidisciplinary aircraft design under consideration of hybrid-electric propulsion technology
Creators: name: FINGER, Dominik
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 400103
subject: Aircraft performance and flight control systems

description: Against a background of increasing energy demand and rising fuel prices, hybrid-electric propulsion systems have the potential to significantly reduce emissions of aircraft, particularly in the light aircraft sectors.

Within this thesis, a novel design methodology for aircraft using hybrid-electric propulsion is presented. This methodology can be used stand-alone, or it can be integrated into existing aircraft design frameworks. It allows for the design of optimal aircraft under consideration of the additional degrees of freedom due to hybrid propulsion systems.
To achieve this goal, the components of hybrid-electric propulsion systems are modeled in a way suitable for conceptual aircraft design. The models of the individual components are then assembled to a global propulsion system model.

Thorough testing of the models and the methodology is performed, and adequate results are obtained. Test cases are two real-world sizing exercises of different aircraft, and a comparison against a different design method, which was developed in parallel to this work by another researcher. The validation process confirmed the correct implementation of the method and the sensible modeling of the aircraft's components and physics.

The methodology is used to assess the impact of this new design approach on aircraft performance, efficiency, and overall configuration design. For this purpose, four different aircraft are considered: a typical general aviation design, an unmanned surveillance aircraft, a vertical take-off and landing aircraft, and a short take-off and landing aircraft. The vertical- and short-take-off aircraft will be considered because these capabilities are highly demanding with respect to the propulsion system. Therefore, aircraft designed for such capabilities might offer a high payoff if hybrid propulsive methods are considered.

The analyses conducted within this thesis indicate that hybrid-electric propulsion systems offer practically no benefit compared to conventional designs for aircraft that are intended to be flown as fast as possible for most of their mission. Aero-propulsive coupling might change that result. However, modeling and assessing such effects is not part of the scope of this thesis. That topic should be assessed in further research.

Nevertheless, hybrid-electric propulsion can indeed be of benefit for aircraft that require high excess power but only use that power for short periods at a time. In these cases, significant savings of energy and cost are possible compared to current conventional designs.
sj-docx-1-jiv-10.1177_08862605221141868 – Supplemental material for Exposure of Women With and Without Disabilities to Violence and Discrimination: Evidence from Cross-sectional National Surveys in 29 Middle- and Low-Income Countries
Creators: name: Emerson, Eric
name: Llewellyn, Gwynnyth
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-jiv-10.1177_08862605221141868 for Exposure of Women With and Without Disabilities to Violence and Discrimination: Evidence from Cross-sectional National Surveys in 29 Middle- and Low-Income Countries by Eric Emerson and Gwynnyth Llewellyn in Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Selective sensor control for multi-object tracking
Creators: name: PANICKER, Sabita
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 400607
subject: Signal processing

description: Sensor control for multi-object tracking is a challenging problem, as for a given observation set, the detected measurements are interlaced with false alarms and there is no certainty about the object that generated the measurement. This is a widely discussed topic in the recent research literature and is usually treated as an optimisation problem that aims to obtain the best measurements for multi-object tracking purposes, by way of selecting the best control command from a set of employable commands. The novelty of this research work lays in enabling selectivity in sensor control which imparts the ability to selectively track specific targets in a group using the recent Label Multi-Bernoulli filters, and this perspective has not been discussed in any previous literature. The goodness of sensor measurements is a defining factor in such applications, and the aim of sensor control is to lead towards better measurements for tracking.

Recent stochastic filtering methods based on Random Finite Sets are utilised for this work by the use of Labeled Multi-Bernoulli filters. New sensor control methods have been formulated for selective tracking in a multi-target single sensor scenario and have been extended for multi-target multi-sensor applications. The significant research gaps in the field were identified and this work aims at bridging those gaps, and is aimed at devising selective accelerated sensor control methods for tracking applications where only a selected subset of targets in the surveillance area is of primary interest.

This document is organised as follows: the first chapter briefly elaborates the aims and objectives of the research and the motivation behind it. The background information on target tracking and sensor control is provided in the second chapter. Further, the foundations for sensor control and selective multi-target tracking are built through a brief literature review in the third chapter. This is followed by a discussion on the implementation of selective sensor control with Labeled Multi-Bernoulli filter for a single sensor, in the fourth chapter. The methods developed for selective multi-sensor control, accelerated solutions, simulations and results are discussed in the fifth chapter. The sixth chapter discusses the performance analysis of the proposed accelerated sensor control solution with real-time on-line sensor data. The seventh chapter closes the thesis by presenting the summary of contributions, conclusions and future research directions. The bibliography is provided at the end.

This thesis is in agreement with the RMIT University rules for the content and format of a thesis and is presented as a series of contributions in the form of publications delivered during the course of this research work.
Additional file 2 of Measurement properties of movement smoothness metrics for upper limb reaching movements in people with moderate to severe subacute stroke
Creators: name: Cornec, Gwenaël
name: Lempereur, Mathieu
name: Mensah-Gourmel, Johanne
name: Robertson, Johanna
name: Miramand, Ludovic
name: Medee, Beatrice
name: Bellaiche, Soline
name: Gross, Raphael
name: Gracies, Jean-Michel
name: Remy-Neris, Olivier
name: Bayle, Nicolas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary Material 2
The never-ending story of the fight against tuberculosis: from Koch’s bacillus to global control programs
Creators: name: Martini, Mariano
name: Besozzi, Giorgio
name: Barberis, Ilaria
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2018
Subjects: History of tuberculosis, Bacille Calmette Guerìn, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, tuberculosis control strategy

description: Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the oldest diseases known to affect humanity, and is still a major public health problem. It is caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MT), which was first isolated in 1882 by Robert Koch. In 1882, Franz Zhiel and Fredrich Neelson stained MT with the acidalcohol-fast bacillus, a technique still used today. Until the 1950s, X rays were used as a cheap method of diagnostic screening  together with the tuberculin skin sensitivity test. In the diagnosis and treatment of TB, an important role was also played by surgery, such as artificial intrapleural pneumothorax, though this approach often led to complications, such as empyema. The late 19th century saw the introduction of the tuberculosis sanatorium, which proved to be  one of the first useful measures against TB. Subsequently, Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin used a non-virulent MT strain to produce a live attenuated vaccine. In the 1980s and 1990s, the incidence of tuberculosis surged as a major opportunistic infection in people with HIV infection and AIDS; for this reason, a combined strategy based on improving drug treatment, diagnostic instruments and prevention was needed in order to better control the disease, as recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). Since the beginning of the 21st century, new prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines have been tested in order to better control the pulmonary form of TB.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 59, No 3 (2018): 2018593