cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
كتاب و كتابخانه‌های عربی در دوران امویان
Creators: name: Jamali, Hamid R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: روث استلهورن مكنسن، كتاب و كتابخانه‌های عربی در دوران امویان; آینهء پژوهش، سال ۱۲، شماره ۴، مهر- آبان ۱۳۸۰، ص۳۸۳-۴۱۰. This is the persian translation of the following article: MacKensen, Ruth S. (1936-39), “Arabic Books and Libraries in Umaiyad Period”, The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, vol. 52, no. 4 (July 1936), pp. 245-253 & vol. 53, no. 4 (July1937), pp. 239-250 & vol. 54 , no. 1-4 (October 1937), pp. 41-61 & vol.56, no.2 (April 1939), pp.149-157.
A Tn5051-like mer-containing transposon identified in a heavy metal tolerant strain Achromobacter sp. AO22
Creators: name: Ng, Shee Ping
name: Davis, Belinda
name: Palombo, Enzo
name: Bhave, Mrinal
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Background: Achromobacter sp. AO22 (formerly Alcaligenes sp. AO22), a bacterial strain isolated from a lead-contaminated industrial site in Australia, was previously found to be resistant to moderate to high levels of mercury, copper and other heavy metals. However, the nature and location of the genetic basis for mercuric ion resistance in this strain, had not been previously identified. Findings: Achromobacter sp. AO22 contains a functional mer operon with all four essential genes (merRTPA) and shows >99% DNA sequence identity to that of Tn501. The mer operon was present on a transposon, designated TnAO22, captured by introducing a broad-host-range IncP plasmid into Achromobacter sp. AO22 and subsequently transferring it to E. coli recipients. The transposition frequency of TnAO22 was 10-2 to 10-3 per target plasmid transferred. Analysis of TnAO22 sequence revealed it belonged to the Tn21 subgroup of the Tn3 superfamily of transposons, with the transposition module having >99% identity with Tn5051 of a Pseudomonas putida strain isolated from a water sample in New York. Conclusion: TnAO22 is thus a new variant of Tn5051 of the Tn3 superfamily and the transposon and its associated mercury resistance system are among the few such systems reported in a soil bacterium. Achromobacter sp. AO22 can thus be exploited for applications such as in situ mercury bioremediation of contaminated sites, or the mobile unit and mer operon could be mobilized to other bacteria for similar purposes.
عشق مسلمانان قرون وسطی به كتـاب
Creators: name: Jamali, Hamid R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: ش. عنایت‌الله، عشق مسلمانان قرون وسطی به كتـاب، آینهء پژوهش، سال ۱۱، شماره ۲، خرداد- تیر ۱۳۷۹، ص۷-۱۶. This is the Persian translation of the following article. Inayatullah, Sh. (1938), “Bibliophilism in Medieval Islam”, Islamic Culture, 12 (2), 154-169
کتابخانه‌هی از دست رفته بین‌النهرین
Creators: name: Jamali, Hamid R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: جرمی بلک، کتابخانه‌هی از دست رفته بین‌النهرین، آینه پژوهش، سال ۱۶، شماره ۳، مرداد-شهریور ۱۳۸۴، ص ۲-۱۰. This is the Persian translation of the following article: Black, Jeremy (2004), “Lost libraries of ancient Mesopotamia” pp. 41-57 in: James Raven (Editor) Lost Libraries: the destruction of great book collections since antiquity, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
كتابخانه‌ها و موسسه‌های آموزش عالی دوران آل بویه
Creators: name: Jamali, Hamid R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: مفیض الله كبیر، كتابخانه‌ها و موسسه‌های آموزش عالی دوران آل بویه ۹۴۶ تا ۱۰۵۵ م.، كتابداری و اطلاع‌رسانی، جلد ۳، شماره ۲، تابستان ۱۳۸۰، ص ۱۱۵-۱۱۹. This is the Persian translation of the following article: Kabir, Mafizullah (1959), “Libraries and Academies During the Buwaiyhid Period_946 to 1055 A.D.”, Islamic Culture, 33 (1), 31-33.
چند الگوی زنجیرهء اطلاعـات از دوران پس از جنگ جهانی
Creators: name: Jamali, Hamid R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: آلیستر داف، چند الگوی زنجیرهء اطلاعـات از دوران پس از جنگ جهانی، پیـام كتابخانه، سال ۱۰, شماره ۲ (تابستان ۱۳۷۹), ص ۴۸-۵۷. This is Persian translation of the following article: Duff, Alistair (1996),“Some Post-war Models of the Information Chain”, Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 29 (4), 179-187.
Highly birefringent polymer films from the photo-crosslinking polymerisation of bistolane-based methacrylate monomers
Creators: name: Arakawa, Yuki
name: Kuwahara, Hiroki
name: Sakajiri, Koichi
name: Sungmin Kang
name: Tokita, Masatoshi
name: Gen-Ichi Konishi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: The photo-polymerisation of mixtures of mono- and di-methacrylates, containing a bistolane moiety with a central fluorine-substituted benzene ring, resulted in the formation of highly birefringent polymer films (Δn = 0.40), which were obtained in a nematic liquid crystal (NLC) phase. While the dimethacrylate forms enantiotropic NLCs at T = 110–138°C, smectic phases at T = 50–138°C and crystallises at T = 50°C, whereas the monomethacrylate forms NLCs at a wider temperature range (T = 98–185°C) and crystallises at a lower temperature (T = 98°C). These methacrylates were infinitely miscible and a 20/80 (w/w) mixture of the dimethacrylate/monoacrylate was able to form an NLC phase over a broad temperature range (T = 73–179°C). The mixed NLC phase exhibited a Δn value of 0.36, even though the Δn values of the mono- and di-methacrylates were determined as 0.35 and 0.25, respectively, suggesting that the Δn of the mixture follows an additivity rule. Furthermore, the Δn of the NLC phase could be increased to 0.40 by photo-polymerisation.
Exploring the antecedents of perceived diversity
Creators: name: Shrivastava, Samir
name: Gregory, Janet
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We explore whether differences in perceptions of diversity might emanate from the characteristics of perceivers themselves rather than from the characteristics of those observed. Grounding our arguments in self- and social-identity theory, we hypothesize that individuals respond differently to the same diversity stimuli because they differ in their propensity to stereotype' and 'diversity experience.' Since individuals tend to gravitate towards similar others, we also hypothesize that perceived diversity can predict an individual's 'desire to group' with others. Over 200 individuals - staff and students -from a university were exposed to diverse stimuli in an online experiment in a hid to test the hypotheses. Structural Equation Modeling of the data generally supported the hypothesized relationships.
Process-oriented enterprise mashups
Creators: name: De Vrieze, Paul
name: Xu, Lai
name: Bouguettayay, Athman
name: Yangz, Jian
name: Chen, Jinjun
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Mashups, a new web 2.0 technology provide the ability for easy creation of web-based applications by end-users. The uses of the mashups are often consumer related. In this paper we explore how mashups can be used in the enterprise area and hat the criteria for enterprise mashups are. We provide categories for the classification of enterprise mashups, and based upon a motivating example we go further in depth on business process enterprise mashups.
Róże Heliogabala. Sienkiewicz-Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Spotkanie w przestrzeni sztuki
Creators: name: Sztachelska, Jolanta
name: Szymborska, Karolina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Henryk Sienkiewicz, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, theatre, aesthetic, Quo vadis themes

description: The paper discusses mutual relations between Sienkiewicz's Quo vadis and the paintings of the popular academic Dutch painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema. In spite of differenct undertanding of the mission of art, two works of both artists show an affinity in preferences, style, and themes.
The roles of emotional intelligence, interpersonal skill, and transformational leadership on improving construction safety performance
Creators: name: Sunindijo, Riza Yosia
name: Zou, Patrick
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Due to the characteristics of the construction industry, human skills are essential for working with and through others in managing safety. Research has shown that emotional intelligence, interpersonalskill, and transformational leadership are human skill components that generate superior performance in today’s workplace. The aim of this research is to investigate the influence of project management personnel’s human skills on the implementation of safety management tasks and development of safety climate in construction projects. The structural equation modelling (SEM) method was applied to analyse the quantitative data collected and establish interrelationship among the research variables. The results indicate that emotional intelligence is a key factor for developing interpersonal skill and transformational leadership, and for implementing safety management tasks which leads to the development of safety climate. This research also found that interpersonal skill is needed for becoming transformational leaders who contribute to the development of safety climate.
From student geek to teacher geek chic-reflections on how computers were used while as a student and then as a teacher
Creators: name: Keane, Therese
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This chapter is a reflection on the use of computers in the author's time as a secondary school student, and then subsequently five years later as a qualified teacher of Information Technology. Despite the uneven teaching of computing in the 1980s low student enrolments, and the marginalization of the subject, computing flourished in the 1990s. With ever increasing enrolments for computing subjects, and a strong demand to access the computer room, resources were stretched and tensions were high. Some of the early problems that surfaced with the introduction of computing have been resolved, whilst others continue to be a challenge.
Older persons in public housing: The policy and management issues
Creators: name: McNelis, Sean
name: Neske, Caroline
name: Jones, Andrew
name: Phillips, Rhonda
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: At the 2001 Census, 102,735 older persons (aged 65 years or more) were housed in 87,940 public housing dwellings; nearly all (82 per cent) were living alone or with their partners. 63 per cent of these older persons are women. Older tenants comprised approximately 29 per cent of all public housing tenancies, with 48 per cent of these tenants 75 years and over. State and territory housing authorities (SHAs) are now being confronted by a range of major policy, management and practice challenges: older people have higher and changing expectations; many will need support to age in place; and they are no longer restricted to aged-specific dwellings. Rather, with children leaving home, parents are ageing in place in what were ‘family dwellings’, i.e. general stock. In recent years, despite the importance of older people as tenants and as residents in public housing, there has been little research undertaken on the consequent policy and management issues. This Final Report fills a significant research gap by identifying emerging policy and management issues for public housing providers and for Commonwealth and state/territory governments as older people in public housing seek to age in place. [Executive summary]
Cyclic Functional Collaboration: A scientific approach to housing
Creators: name: McNelis, Sean
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Housing research is very diverse operating across many disciplines. It is characterised by a broad range of methods, approaches and purposes. It is also very fragmented with researchers having very little sense of how different types of research relate to one another. If we are to promote collaboration among researchers and find solutions to our pressing housing problems, we need a framework which will hold this diversity together. Housing research is about asking and answering questions. Few researchers, however, reflect upon the questions they ask and the type of answer their questions anticipate. This paper proposes ‘a framework for collaborative creativity’. It contends that if we examine the questions underpinning all these different research methods, we will find that each is primarily oriented towards answering a particular question within a group of eight questions. The paper proposes that a scientific approach to housing consists of asking a complete set of eight inter-related questions: an empirical question, a theoretical question, an historical question, an evaluative/critical question, a transformative question, a visionary/policy question, a strategic question and a practical question. These questions are functionally inter-related, they provide a framework for inter-disciplinary collaboration and, they are ongoing and cyclic producing cumulative and progressive results. Housing researchers can distinguish these eight questions by reflecting upon themselves and their work. The paper draws upon a discovery by Bernard Lonergan, a Canadian methodologist, philosopher, theologian and economist ([1957]1992, [1972]1990).
Fully flexible analysis of behavioural sequences based on parametric survival models with frailties—A tutorial
Creators: name: Gygax, Lorenz
name: Zeeland, Yvonne R. A.
name: Rufener, Christina
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: brms
subject: fixed effects
subject: R
subject: random effects
subject: sequential behavioural analysis
subject: STAN
subject: 590 Tiere (Zoologie)
subject: 570 Biologie

description: Recent automated systems allow collecting continuous data on individual animals with high accuracy over a long time. During this time, animals can be traced across different (discrete) types of behavioural states, with the duration in each state being known. Nevertheless, analyses of such sequences of states or behaviours may prove difficult. Classic Markov-chain methods have limitations in respect to incorporating “memory” (effects of past states), the duration in the states and accounting for dependencies. Dependencies occur in many data sets, where, for example a variety of individuals from different groups are observed and/or when an experiment is divided in different crossover treatment phases. So-called parametric survival analysis with frailties can incorporate aforementioned aspects in one coherent model. The time spent in a specific state (performing a specific behaviour) can be modelled in dependence of the subsequent state (transition probabilities) while incorporating how these transitions are influenced by experimental treatments. In addition, prior states can be used as predictor variables (accounting for past behaviour). Finally, random effects can be included to account for dependencies according to, for example individual identity, group/farm/laboratory or experimental period. Using interactions between random and fixed effects, the within- and between-subject variability of the transition probabilities can be estimated to indicate variation between and consistency within individual subjects (individuality and personality). Moreover, relative hazards describing transitions from one state to several potential follow-up states can be estimated. Behavioural sequences and their modulation by experimental situations can be studied accordingly. Using two exemplary data sets, the data type and structure adequate for parametric survival analysis are introduced and advice is given on how to specify and run such models. Overall, parametric survival analysis with frailties presents a modern and versatile approach that can revive sequential analysis. This will facilitate more detailed use of behavioural data and accordingly detect more subtle aspects of behaviour.
Age-related cognitive impairment and home technology design
Creators: name: Glasgow, Adam
name: Higgins, Peter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Ability of older adults to use an appliance depends on their mental model of operation. This may depend on transfer of understanding from similar, more familiar technology. Leveraging established mental models creates affordances for operating new technology but may constrain the discovery of advanced functionality. Familiar mental models may also interfere with developing appropriate mental models or interaction behavior. Older adults experience cognitive decline in attention, perceptual encoding, memory (cueing and recall), and self-efficacy. Designing appliances to extend cognitive abilities provides opportunity to prolong functional independence. Concepts from cognitive psychology, human factors, and gerontology are reviewed to explain age-related behavior towards technology to support innovative product development of technologies for older adults with cognitive impairment.
Simulation on the Self-Compacting Concrete by an Enhanced Lagrangian Particle Method
Creators: name: Wu, Jun
name: Liu, Xuemei
name: Xu, Haihua
name: Du, Hongjian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The industry has embraced self-compacting concrete (SCC) to overcome deficiencies related to consolidation, improve productivity, and enhance safety and quality. Due to the large deformation at the flowing process of SCC, an enhanced Lagrangian particle-based method, Smoothed Particles Hydrodynamics (SPH) method, though first developed to study astrophysics problems, with its exceptional advantages in solving problems involving fragmentation, coalescence, and violent free surface deformation, is developed in this study to simulate the flow of SCC as a non-Newtonian fluid to achieve stable results with satisfactory convergence properties. Navier-Stokes equations and incompressible mass conservation equations are solved as basics. Cross rheological model is used to simulate the shear stress and strain relationship of SCC. Mirror particle method is used for wall boundaries. The improved SPH method is tested by a typical 2D slump flow problem and also applied to L-box test. The capability and results obtained from this method are discussed.
Turkey as a crossroad for Greater Flamingos Phoenicopterus roseus: evidence from population trends and ring-resightings (Aves: Phoenicopteridae)
Creators: name: Balkız, Özge
name: Ortaç Onmuş
name: Sıkı, Mehmet
name: Döndürenc, Ömer
name: Gül, Orhan
name: Arnaud, Antoine
name: Germain, Christophe
name: İsfendiyaroğlu, Süreyya
name: Özbek, Melih
name: Çağlayan, Eray
name: Araç, Nilüfer
name: Parmak, Burcu
name: Özesmi, Uygar
name: Béchet, Arnaud
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: The Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus is a waterbird commonly found in saline and brackish lagoons throughout the Mediterranean Region. We have gathered existing data on Greater Flamingos in Turkey and carried out field surveys to present the most up to date information on wintering (1999–2014) and breeding (1969– 2014). The wintering population of flamingos shows an increasing trend with 54,947±20,794 individuals mainly concentrated in the Gediz, Büyük Menderes and Çukurova deltas, respectively. Breeding attempts were recorded in at least seven wetlands in Turkey in the past, yet after 1999 most of the colonies were abandoned due to basin scale intensive water management practices in Central Anatolia. Currently, only Tuz Lake and Gediz Delta are used as regular breeding sites, while breeding has been recorded sporadically in Acıgöl and Akşehir Lakes. The breeding colony of Tuz Lake is of prime importance at the Mediterranean scale, with the number of young chicks in 2011, 2012 and 2013 accounting for the highest number of fledglings in the Mediterranean Region and West Africa (18,418, 20,274 and 20,292 respectively). Finally, building upon the previous findings about Turkey and the western Mediterranean metapopulation links, recent resightings of Turkish flamingos (despite the limited numbers) confirm post-fledging and natal dispersal reaching the western Mediterranean Basin and West Africa. Flamingos from Turkey were also found to disperse to Israel and to a region outside the known flyways of the western Mediterranean and West African flamingos (i.e. to Israel and UAE). Thus, Turkey, due to its geographic position, appears to be a crossroad between the western and eastern Mediterranean Region and southwest Asia.
LOFT: LATENT SPACE OPTIMIZATION AND GENERATOR FINE-TUNING FOR DEFENDING AGAINST DEEPFAKES
Publisher: name: IEEE Signal Processing Society
Year: 2024

description: DeepFakes pose a significant threat to individual reputations and society as a whole. Existing proactive defense strategies concentrate on adding adversarial perturbations to images to disrupt or nullify the generation of DeepFakes, but these approaches are easily detectable by human perception and can be removed. To address this challenge, we propose a three-stage framework called LOFT (Latent Space Optimization and Generator Fine-Tuning for Defending against DeepFakes). First, encoding the original image into the latent space to obtain a latent code that captures facial features. Second, utilizing Adversarial Latent Optimization to optimize the latent code for reconstructing the image and defending against DeepFake manipulation. Third, fine-tuning the generator to enhance the reconstructed image's visual quality and defense capability further. Our study evaluates the effectiveness of our proposed framework through two distinct DeepFake tasks: attribute editing and face reenactment. Various experimental results demonstrate that our proposed framework outperforms the existing benchmark in both visual quality and defense capability.
A computational fluid dynamic modeling study of slag fuming in top submerged lance smelting furnace
Creators: name: Huda, Nazmul
name: Naser, Jamal
name: Brooks, Geoffrey
name: Reuter, M. A.
name: Matusewicz, R.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Slag fuming is a process of extracting zinc from molten slag in the form of metal vapor by injecting or adding a reducing source such as pulverized or lump coal, natural gas, etc. Top Submerged Lance (TSL) technology has been successfully applied to extract zinc by a fuming process from residues from the zinc industry, ISF and QSL slag and Lead blast furnace slag. A Computational Fluid Dynamic model has been developed for zinc slag fuming process from ISF slag to investigate details of fluid flow and heat transfer in the furnace. The models integrate complex combustion phenomena and chemical reactions with the heat, mass and momentum interfacial interaction between the phases present in the system. The model is based on 3-D Eulerian multiphase flow approach and it predicted the velocity and temperature field of the molten slag bath and side wall heat fluxes. The model also predicted the mass fractions of slag and gaseous components inside the furnace. The model confirmed that rate of zinc fuming increases with temperature and is broadly consistent with experimental data.
Solid-state assisted synthesis of oligobenzoates
Creators: name: Lehmann, Matthias
name: Bahndorf, Katrin
name: Ohnemus, Michael
name: Roth, Sabine
name: Gloza, Steffi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Engineering
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: The solid-state assisted synthesis opens an easy access to oligobenzoates end-capped with gallic acid, protocatechuic acid or 4-hydroxybenzoic acid etherified with long flexible chains – which are important precursors for liquid crystalline materials. The latter may consist of aliphatic, oligoethyleneoxy and semiperfluorinated chains. The rapid preparation of oligoesters with different peripheries is demonstrated.
Evidence based interventions suitable for prehabilitation to improve physical functioning in kidney transplant candidates: a scoping review protocol
Creators: name: Maring, Heleen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 119999 Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other medical sciences

description: Protocol for a scoping review focused on evidence based interventions suitable for prehabilitation to improve physical functioning in kidney transplant candidates.
Population increase of the Long-eared Owl, Asio otus (Linnaeus, 1758), in Iran (Aves: Strigidae)
Creators: name: Abolghasem Khaleghizadeh
name: Tohidifar, Mohammad
name: Musavi, Seyed Babak
name: Alireza Hashemi
name: Khani, Ali
name: Omidi, Maryam
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Neuroscience

description: The Long-eared Owl, Asio otus (Linnaeus, 1758), was known as a scarce wintering bird in Iran until 2010. There were altogether 25 records until the 1970s, but no data are available for the period between the 1970s and 1997. Between 1997 and 2014 there were at least 32 non-breeding and 17 breeding records available based on data of the Iran Bird Records Committee. Breeding was first confirmed in Nahavand (Hamedan Province) and has in the meantime been confirmed at 11 localities mainly in the western half of the country. The recent increase in records (from 25 records during 12 decades compared with 49 records during two decades) indicates that there has been a real increase in the numbers of Long-eared Owls occurring in Iran.
3D structural and stratigraphic model of the Perth Basin, Western Australia: Implications for sub-basin evolution
Creators: name: H. K. H. Olierook
name: N. E. Timms
name: J. F. Wellmann
name: S. Corbel
name: P. G. Wilkes
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biophysics

description: The history of rifting and breakup of eastern Gondwana is recorded by the development and fill of the Perth Basin in Western Australia. Knowledge of the structural architecture and stratigraphic geometry of the Perth Basin is essential to understand the evolution of the Western Australian margin and its applications to hydrocarbon and geothermal prospects, and effective aquifer management. This study integrates existing, publicly available geological, gravity, magnetic and digital elevation data to develop the first refined, regional structural and stratigraphic interpretation of the entire onshore and offshore Perth Basin, Western Australia. This new 3D model offers formation depth and thickness predictions in areas of sparse or no data. The model shows significant heterogeneity in the preserved formation thicknesses and depths at both local and regional scales. These differences may have resulted from differential subsidence and/or differential exhumation, but the formation geometries alone cannot distinguish between these two models if any erosion has occurred. Only the Lower to Middle Jurassic stratigraphy has been minimally eroded and thereby records the net subsidence. This stratigraphic interval shows that subsidence was broadly hinged from south to north, with a greater subsidence rate in the southern and central Perth Basin. Localised differences in thicknesses across adjacent sub-basins were likely controlled by differential displacement along sub-basin bounding faults during subsidence and, subsequently, during exhumation episodes. This new 3D model of the entire Perth Basin provides a framework for numerical simulations of fluid and heat flow and large-scale tectonic analysis, such as stratigraphic forward modelling of the southwestern Australian margin.
Antiviral glycosidic bisindole alkaloids from the roots of Isatis indigotica
Creators: name: Liu, Yu-Feng
name: Chen, Ming-Hua
name: Guo, Qing-Lan
name: Lin, Sheng
name: Xu, Cheng-Bo
name: Jiang, Yue-Ping
name: Li, Yu-Huan
name: Jiang, Jian-Dong
name: Shi, Jian-Gong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Seven new glycosidic bisindole alkaloids, isatindigobisindolosides A–G (1–7), were isolated from an aqueous extract of the Isatis indigotica roots. Their structures including absolute configurations were determined by spectroscopic and chemical methods, together with calculations of electronic circular dichroism (ECD) spectra based on the quantum-mechanical time-dependent density functional theory. In the NMR spectra of 1–3, it is found that integration of H-2 and intensity of C-2 are affected not only by a substitution group at C-2 but also by solvents. Influences of the glucopyranosyloxy on the calculated ECD spectra of the glycosidic bisindole alkaloids are discussed. Compounds 2, 5, and 6 showed antiviral activity against both the influenza virus A/Hanfang/359/95 (H3N2) and Coxsackie virus B3 with IC50 values of 8.4–100.0 μM.
Nonorthogonal tight-binding model with H–C–N–O parameterisation
Creators: name: Maslov, Mikhail M.
name: Podlivaev, Alexei I.
name: Katin, Konstantin P.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Information and Computing Sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: A parametric nonorthogonal tight-binding model (NTBM1) with the set of parameters for H–C–N–O systems is presented. This model compares well with widely used semi-empirical AM1 and PM3/PM7 models but contains less fitting parameters per atom. All NTBM1 parameters are derived based on a criterion of the best agreement between the calculated and experimental values of bond lengths, valence angles and binding energies for various H–C–N–O molecules. Results for more than 200 chemical compounds are reported. Parameters are currently available for hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen atoms and corresponding interatomic interactions. The model has a good transferability and can be used for both relaxation of large molecular systems (e.g., high-molecular compounds or covalent cluster complexes) and long-timescale molecular dynamics simulation (e.g., modelling of thermal decomposition processes). The program package based on this model is available for download at no cost from http://ntbm.info.
Przerabianie Sienkiewicza. Wokół "Wither "Quo vadis" Ruth Scodel i Anji Bettenworth (2009), w: Henryk Sienkiewicz w literaturze i krytyce literackiej, red. D. Samborska-Kukuć, T. Sobieraj
Creators: name: Sztachelska, Jolanta
name: Szymborska, Karolina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Sienkiewicz, reception, adaptation, film

description: The paper offers a critical reading of „Wither „Quo vadis” Ruth Scodel i Anji Bettenworth (2009), a book about adaptation of Sienkiewicz's original in selected film versions of the novel.
Delay of squeezing and entanglement using electromagnetically induced transparency in a vapour cell
Creators: name: Hétet, Gabriel
name: Buchler, Benjamin
name: Glöckl, Oliver
name: Hsu, Magnus
name: Akoulchine, Alexandre
name: Bachor, Hans
name: Lam, Ping Koy
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We demonstrate experimentally the delay of squeezed light and entanglement using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT) in a rubidium vapour cell. We perform quadrature amplitude measurements of the probe field and find no appreciable excess noise from the EIT process. From input squeezing of 3.2 ±0.5 dB at low sideband frequencies, we observed the survival of 2.0 ± 0.5 dB of squeezing at the EIT output. By splitting the squeezed light on a beam-splitter, we generated biased entanglement between two beams. We transmit one of the entangled beams through the EIT cell and correlate the quantum statistics of this beam with its entangled counterpart. We experimentally observed a 2.2 ± 0.5 μs delay of the biased entanglement and obtained a preserved degree of wavefunction inseparability of 0.71±0.01, below the unity value for separable states.
Type IIn supernovae at redshift z ≈2 from archival data
Creators: name: Cooke, Jeff
name: Sullivan, Mark
name: Barton, Elizabeth J.
name: Bullock, James S.
name: Carlberg, R. G.
name: Gal-Yam, Avishay
name: Tollerud, Erik J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Supernovae have been confirmed to redshift z 1.7 (refs 1, 2) for type Ia (thermonuclear detonation of a white dwarf) and to z 0.7 (refs 1, 3-5) for type II (collapse of the core of the star). The subclass type IIn (ref. 6) supernovae are luminous core-collapse explosions of massive stars and, unlike other types, are very bright in the ultraviolet, which should enable them to be found optically at redshifts z 2 and higher. In addition, the interaction of the ejecta with circumstellar material creates strong, long-lived emission lines that allow spectroscopic confirmation of many events of this type at z 2 for 3-5 years after explosion (ref. 14). Here we report three spectroscopically confirmed type IIn supernovae, at redshifts z = 0.808, 2.013 and 2.357, detected in archival data using a method designed to exploit these properties at z 2. Type IIn supernovae directly probe the formation of massive stars at high redshift. The number found to date is consistent with the expectations of a locally measured stellar initial mass function, but not with an evolving initial mass function proposed to explain independent observations at low and high redshift.
Adapt and conquer: Metabolic flexibility in cancer growth, invasion and evasion.
Creators: name: Kreuzaler, Peter
name: Panina, Yulia
name: Segal, Joanna
name: Mariia Yuneva
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2020
Subjects: Model organisms
Signalling & Oncogenes
Genome Integrity & Repair
Human Biology & Physiology
Metabolism
Computational & Systems Biology

description: BACKGROUND: It has been known for close to a century that, on average, tumors have a metabolism that is different from those found in healthy tissues. Typically, tumors show a biosynthetic metabolism that distinguishes itself by engaging in large scale aerobic glycolysis, heightened flux through the pentose phosphate pathway, and increased glutaminolysis among other means. However, it is becoming equally clear that non tumorous tissues at times can engage in similar metabolism, while tumors show a high degree of metabolic flexibility reacting to cues, and stresses in their local environment. SCOPE OF THE REVIEW: In this review, we want to scrutinize historic and recent research on metabolism, comparing and contrasting oncogenic and physiological metabolic states. This will allow us to better define states of bona fide tumor metabolism. We will further contextualize the stress response and the metabolic evolutionary trajectory seen in tumors, and how these contribute to tumor progression. Lastly, we will analyze the implications of these characteristics with respect to therapy response. MAJOR CONCLUSIONS: In our review, we argue that there is not one single oncogenic state, but rather a diverse set of oncogenic states. These are grounded on a physiological proliferative/wound healing program but distinguish themselves due to their large scale of proliferation, mutations, and transcriptional changes in key metabolic pathways, and the adaptations to widespread stress signals within tumors. We find evidence for the necessity of metabolic flexibility and stress responses in tumor progression and how these responses in turn shape oncogenic progression. Lastly, we find evidence for the notion that the metabolic adaptability of tumors frequently frustrates therapeutic interventions.
Detection of z ̃ 2 type Iln supernovae
Creators: name: Cooke, Jeff
name: Sullivan, Mark
name: Barton, Elizabeth J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Type IIn supernovae (SNe IIn) result from the deaths of massive stars. The broad magnitude distribution of SNe IIn make these some of the most luminous SN events ever recorded. In addition, they are the most luminous SN type in the rest-frame UV which make them ideal targets for wide-field optical high redshift searches. We briefly describe our method to detect z~2 SNe IIn events that involves monitoring color-selected galaxies in deep stacked images and our program that applies this method to the CFHTLS survey. Initial results have detected four compelling photometric candidates from their subtracted images and light curves. SNe IIn spectra exhibit extremely bright narrow emission lines as a result of the interaction between the SN ejecta and the circumstellar material released in pre-explosion outbursts. These emission lines remain bright for years after outburst and are above the thresholds of current 8 m-class telescope sensitivities to z~3. The deep spectroscopy required to confirm z~2 host galaxies has the potential to detect the SN emission lines and measure their energies. Finally, planned deep, wide-field surveys have the capability to detect and confirm SNe IIn to z~6. The emission lines of such high-redshift events are expected to be above the sensitivity of future 30 m-class telescopes and the James Webb Space Telescope.
Decentralized co-allocation of interrelated resources in dynamic environments
Creators: name: Schlegel, Tino
name: Kowalczyk, Ryszard
name: Vo, Bao Quoc
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The vision of transparent, on-demand resource utilization in distributed and open environments requires resource management techniques that are robust, scalable and able to adapt to the dynamic environment. In this paper, we propose a decentralized resource allocation algorithm for the co-allocation of interrelated resources for repeated jobs in real-time. Resource broker agents autonomously allocate resources for the execution of jobs based on information from past allocations. The coordination between agents for an overall efficient resource allocation emerges through individual feedback that agents receive from the quality of previous resource allocation decisions. The coordination between agents is achieved without any communication. We present experimental results demonstrating that the proposed algorithm is able to adapt to the dynamic environment for an efficient utilisation of the system resources.
An efficient majority-rule-based approach for collective decision making with CP-nets
Creators: name: Li, Minyi
name: Vo, Bao Quoc
name: Kowalczyk, Ryszard
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper addresses the problem of collective decision making in the case where the agents’ preferences are represented by CP-nets (Conditional Preference Networks). Most existing works either do not consider the computational issues, or depend on a strong assumption that all the agents share a common preferential independence structure. To this end, this paper proposes an efficient approach, called CDMCP (Collective Decision Making with CP-nets), for aggregating multiple agents’ preferences according to majority rule. The proposed approach allows the agents to have different preferential independence structures and is computationally efficient.
Strategies for Increasing University Publication and Citation Rate
Creators: name: Ebrahim, Nader Ale
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Education

description: Despite the vital role of paper publication and citation in higher education institutions (HEIs), literature on publication exercises is relatively scarce. There are a number of factors which influence the rate of university publications and citations. Accordingly, with a focus on policy perspectives, this paper discusses publication exercises by addressing the factors that can increase or decrease the rate of publication and citation in HEIs. The investigated zones are divided into two macro and micro levels, in which macro level deals with global policy and micro level is related to local and university policies. The effective factors and their relevant criteria are traced in all the aforementioned policies.
Analysing fruit shape in safou (Dacryodes edulis) fruit by using aspect ratio
Creators: name: Iqbal, Zahid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soil Science
subject: Botany
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Education

description: Fruit shape is one of the most important quality criteria for evaluation by customer preference. Aspect ratio (A.R.)
was used as physical parameter to perform the choice of ratios for fruits shape determination. This study proposes
a relationship between fruit shape and morphological parameters in bush butter fruits (Dacryodes edulis)
collected on 35 bush butter trees. The results show that bush butter fruits present some shapes. To describe fruit
shapes the use of morphological characteristics is possible. So, the unique parameter used in our study was A.R.,
width over length. All of 35 trees analyzed were regrouped in three types; those types were assimilated at shapes in
bush butter fruit designated by elliptical, spheroidal and obovate shape. On fruit shapes, the analysis of variance
shows that the mean values of aspect ratio are significantly different shape as shape. So, it indicates great
distinction in the three fruit shapes presented. The distance calculus proposes also a bush butter categorization
model based on A.R. A model to describe fruits source of the new trees is proposed.
title: The IZA evaluation dataset survey
title: a scientific use file
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Arni, Patrick
name: Caliendo, Marco
name: Künn, Steffen
name: Zimmermann, Klaus F.
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2020

description: This reference paper describes the sampling and contents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey and outlines its vast potential for research in labor economics. The data have been part of a unique IZA project to connect administrative data from the German Federal Employment Agency with innovative survey data to study the out-mobility of individuals to work. This study makes the survey available to the research community as a Scientific Use File by explaining the development, structure, and access to the data. Furthermore, it also summarizes previous findings with the survey data.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe, 122
title: Interaction between numbers and size during visual search
Creators: name: Krause, Florian
name: Bekkering, Harold
name: Pratt, Jay
name: Lindemann, Oliver
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2020

description: The current study investigates an interaction between numbers and physical size (i.e. size congruity) in visual search. In three experiments, participants had to detect a physically large (or small) target item among physically small (or large) distractors in a search task comprising single-digit numbers. The relative numerical size of the digits was varied, such that the target item was either among the numerically large or small numbers in the search display and the relation between numerical and physical size was either congruent or incongruent. Perceptual differences of the stimuli were controlled by a condition in which participants had to search for a differently coloured target item with the same physical size and by the usage of LCD-style numbers that were matched in visual similarity by shape transformations. The results of all three experiments consistently revealed that detecting a physically large target item is significantly faster when the numerical size of the target item is large as well (congruent), compared to when it is small (incongruent). This novel finding of a size congruity effect in visual search demonstrates an interaction between numerical and physical size in an experimental setting beyond typically used binary comparison tasks, and provides important new evidence for the notion of shared cognitive codes for numbers and sensorimotor magnitudes. Theoretical consequences for recent models on attention, magnitude representation and their interactions are discussed.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe, 623
title: The Influence of the German Capitalization Rules on Reading
Creators: name: Pauly, Dennis Nikolas
name: Nottbusch, Guido
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2020

description: German orthography systematically marks all nouns (even other nominalized word classes) by capitalizing their first letter. It is often claimed that readers benefit from the uppercase-letter syntactic and semantic information, which makes the processing of sentences easier (e.g., Bock et al., 1985, 1989). In order to test this hypothesis, we asked 54 German readers to read single sentences systematically manipulated by a target word (N). In the experimental condition (EXP), we used semantic priming (in the following example: sick → cold) in order to build up a strong expectation of a noun, which was actually an attribute for the following noun (N+1) (translated to English e.g., “The sick writer had a cold (N) nose (N+1) …”). The sentences in the control condition were built analogously, but word N was purposefully altered (keeping word length and frequency constant) to make its interpretation as a noun extremely unlikely (e.g., “The sick writer had a blue (N) nose (N+1) …”). In both conditions, the sentences were presented either following German standard orthography (Cap) or in lowercase spelling (NoCap). The capitalized nouns in the EXP/Cap condition should then prevent garden-path parsing, as capital letters can be recognized parafoveally. However, in the EXP/NoCap condition, we expected a garden-path effect on word N+1 affecting first-pass fixations and the number of regressions, as the reader realizes that word N is instead an adjective. As the control condition does not include a garden-path, we expected to find (small) effects of the violation of the orthographic rule in the CON/NoCap condition, but no garden-path effect. As a global result, it can be stated that reading sentences in which nouns are not marked by a majuscule slows a native German reader down significantly, but from an absolute point of view, the effect is small. Compared with other manipulations (e.g., transpositions or substitutions), a lowercase letter still represents the correct allograph in the correct position without affecting phonology. Furthermore, most German readers do have experience with other alphabetic writing systems that lack consistent noun capitalization, and in (private) digital communication lowercase nouns are quite common. Although our garden-path sentences did not show the desired effect, we found an indication of grammatical pre-processing enabled by the majuscule in the regularly spelled sentences: In the case of high noun frequency, we post hoc located parafovea-on-fovea effects, i.e., longer fixation durations, on the attributive adjective (word N). These benefits of capitalization could only be detected under specific circumstances. In other cases, we conclude that longer reading durations are mainly the result of disturbance in readers' habituation when the expected capitalization is missing.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe, 622