cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
How does Medical Assistance in Dying affect end-of-life care planning discussions? Experiences of Canadian multidisciplinary palliative care providers
Creators: name: Ho, A
name: Norman, JS
name: Joolaee, S
name: Serota, K
name: Twells, L
name: William, Leeroy
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Background: More than a dozen countries have now legalized some form of assisted dying, and additional jurisdictions are considering similar legislations or expanding eligibility criteria. Despite the persistent controversies about the relationship between medicine, palliative care, and assisted dying, many people are interested in assisted dying. Understanding how end-of-life care discussions between patients and specialist palliative care providers may be affected by such legislation can inform end-of-life care delivery in the evolving socio-cultural and legal environment. Aim: To explore how the Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying legislation affects end-of-life care discussions between patients and multidisciplinary specialist palliative care providers. Design: Qualitative thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews. Participants: Forty-eight specialist palliative care providers from Vancouver (n = 26) and Toronto (n = 22) were interviewed in person or by phone. Participants included physicians (n = 22), nurses (n = 15), social workers (n = 7), and allied health professionals (n = 4). Results: Qualitative thematic analysis identified five notable considerations associated with Medical Assistance in Dying affecting end-of-life care discussions: (1) concerns over having proactive conversations about the desire to hasten death, (2) uncertainties regarding wish-to-die statements, (3) conversation complexities around procedural matters, (4) shifting discussions about suffering and quality of life, and (5) the need and challenges of promoting open-ended discussions. Conclusion: Medical Assistance in Dying challenges end-of-life care discussions and requires education and support for all concerned to enable compassionate health professional communication. It remains essential to address psychosocial and existential suffering in medicine, but also to provide timely palliative care to ensure suffering is addressed before it is deemed irremediable. Hence, clarification is required regarding assisted dying as an intervention of last resort. Furthermore, professional and institutional guidance needs to better support palliative care providers in maintaining their holistic standard of care.
Additional file 3 of Association between being large for gestational age and cardiovascular metabolic health in children conceived from assisted reproductive technology: a prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Zhang, Yiyuan
name: Dai, Kexin
name: Chen, Xiaojing
name: Cui, Linlin
name: Chen, Zi-Jiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Neuroscience
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Tab. S1. Children Characteristics, Parental Characteristics, and Family Socioeconomic Status in Included and Non-included Singleton Children Conceived from ART.
The impact of COVID-19 on the majority population, ethno-racial minorities, and immigrants: A systematic review on threat appraisals from an inter-group perspective.
Creators: name: Emanuel, Politi
name: Adrian, Lüders
name: Sindhuja, Sankaran
name: Anderson, Joel
name: Van Assche Jasper
name: Eva, Spiritus-Beerden
name: Antoine, Roblain
name: Karen, Phalet
name: An, Verelst
name: Eva, Green
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021

description: Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic constitutes an unprecedented threat for individuals and societies,
revealing stark inequalities in preparedness, exposure, and consequences. The present
systematic literature review complements extant knowledge on disasters and pandemic
diseases with programmatic research on the COVID-19 pandemic. Building upon an
integrative definition of threat, we merge intra-personal threat regulation with group
dynamics and inter-group relations. Via streamlined methods of knowledge synthesis, we
first map out a broad taxonomy of threats, as appraised by the majority population and ethnoracial and immigrant minorities. Second, we delve into research linking threat appraisals with
either conflict or prosociality within and across group boundaries. To conclude, we propose
some guidelines for researchers to actively involve ethno-racial and immigrant minorities,
and for societies to cope cohesively with the impact of COVID-19.
CoreTrustSeal+FAIR: Feedback on Requirements V2.0 (2020-2022)
Creators: name: FAIRsFAIR Project
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: FAIRsFAIR, CoreTrustSeal, Trusted Digital Repositories, CoreTrustSeal Requirements

description: This FAIRsFAIR project text is submitted to the CoreTrustSeal Board for comment as part of the CoreTrustSeal Requirements revision process. Suggestions are based on: experience providing support to repositories seeking CoreTrustSeal, object/repository dependencies revealed by aligning the CoreTrustSeal with the FAIR Principles, and the design of CoreTrustSeal+FAIR capability-maturity tiers. The FAIRsFAIR project has worked with the 2020-2022 (v2.0) of the CoreTrustSeal Requirements. In addition to being generally beneficial to the CoreTrustSeal community these suggestions are designed to improve future alignment between CoreTrustSeal and FAIR data. CoreTrustSeal, FAIR and capability-maturity approaches will support repositories seeking to self-assess and plan for prioritisation and improvement, both within and outside the CoreTrustSeal Certification process.
Are the current gRNA ranking prediction algorithms useful for genome editing in plants?
Creators: name: Naim, Fatima
name: Shand, Kylie
name: Hayashi, Satomi
name: O'Brien, Martin
name: McGree, James
name: Johnson, Alexander AT
name: Dugdale, Benjamin
name: Waterhouse, Peter M
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Introducing a new trait into a crop through conventional breeding commonly takes decades, but recently developed genome sequence modification technology has the potential to accelerate this process.
PETAL LOSS, a trihelix transcription factor that represses growth in Arabidopsis thaliana, binds the energy-sensing SnRK1 kinase AKIN10
Creators: name: O'Brien, Martin
name: Kaplan-Levy, Ruth N
name: Quon, Tezz
name: Sappl, Pia G
name: Smyth, David R
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Organogenesis in plants involves differential growth. Rapidly growing primordia are distinguished from the meristem and each other by slower growing boundaries. PETAL LOSS (PTL) is a trihelix transcription factor of Arabidopsis that represses growth in boundaries between newly arising sepals. 
title: Der Umgang mit der Leiche
Creators: name: Mayer, Elisabeth
Year: 2010

description: Die vorliegende Dissertation widmet sich dem rechtlichen Umgang mit der Leiche. Sie enthält eine Analyse des Tatbestandes der Störung der Totenruhe gemäß § 190 StGB, eine Darstellung der in Betracht zu ziehenden Rechtfertigungsgründe, eine Betrachtung des Bestattungswesens und eine Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse anhand besonderer Verwendungsformen von Leichenmaterial.
Additional file 4 of Association between being large for gestational age and cardiovascular metabolic health in children conceived from assisted reproductive technology: a prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Zhang, Yiyuan
name: Dai, Kexin
name: Chen, Xiaojing
name: Cui, Linlin
name: Chen, Zi-Jiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Neuroscience
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4: Tab. S2. Effect of LGA on Measures of Childhood Anthropometric Data and Metabolisms.
Concessive Conditionals In The Languages Of Europe
Creators: name: Haspelmath, Martin
name: König, Ekkehard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1998
Subjects: conditional clause, concessive clause, European languages, language typology

description: This paper describes concessive conditional clauses (such as "Even if it rains, we will go out") in a wide variety of European languages from a typological perspective and formulates important generalizations.
sj-docx-1-pie-10.1177_09544089231180537 - Supplemental material for Investigation on post-weld heat treatment (PWHT) inputs for controlling average fusion zone hardness in fibre laser-welded modified 9Cr–1Mo steel
Creators: name: Rakesh, Sivakumar
name: Raghuraman, Srinivasan
name: Venkatraman, Ramamoorthi
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-pie-10.1177_09544089231180537 for Investigation on post-weld heat treatment (PWHT) inputs for controlling average fusion zone hardness in fibre laser-welded modified 9Cr–1Mo steel by Sivakumar Rakesh, Srinivasan Raghuraman and Ramamoorthi Venkatraman in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering
Potential role of organic matter in the transmission of antibiotic resistance genes in black soils
Creators: name: Li, S
name: Liu, J
name: Yao, Q
name: Yu, Z
name: Li, Y
name: Jin, Jian
name: Liu, X
name: Wang, G
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The degradation of black soil is a serious problem with the decrease in soil organic matter (SOM) content in northeast China, and animal manure as a reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) is commonly amended into soil to sustain or increase the SOM content. However, the potential effect of SOM content on soil resistome remains unclear. Here, a soil microcosm experiment was established to explore the temporal succession of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and bacterial communities in three black soils with distinct difference in SOM contents following application of poultry manure using high-throughput qPCR (HT-qPCR) and MiSeq sequencing. A total of 151 ARGs and 8 mobile genetic elements (MGEs) were detected across all samples. Relative abundance of ARGs negatively correlated with SOM content. Manure-derived ARGs had much higher diversity and absolute abundance in the low SOM soils. The ARG composition and bacterial community structure were significantly different in three soils. A random forest model showed that SOM content was a better predictor of ARG pattern than bacterial diversity and abundance. Structural equation modeling indicated that the negative effects of SOM content on ARG patterns was accomplished by the shift of bacterial communities such as the bacterial diversity and abundance. Our study demonstrated that SOM content could play an important role in the dissemination of ARGs originated from animal manures, these findings provide a possible strategy for the suppression of the spread of ARGs in black soils by increasing SOM content.
Additional file 5 of Association between being large for gestational age and cardiovascular metabolic health in children conceived from assisted reproductive technology: a prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Zhang, Yiyuan
name: Dai, Kexin
name: Chen, Xiaojing
name: Cui, Linlin
name: Chen, Zi-Jiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Neuroscience
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 5: Tab. S3. Measures of Anthropometry, Metabolic Markers of Offspring Born AGA, or LGA which Stratified by Children’s Gender.
title: Comparisons and Contrasts of IT Systems and Socioeconomic Status in School Districts
Creators: name: Ross, Hannah A.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: n a technology thrived society, one would think that anyone can have access to technology – especially in schools. However, it is not always the case due to budgets and other factors. As technology becomes an essential part of the workforce, students need to know certain web applications that companies use. This study will compare four school districts within the Tidewater area of Virginia. The following school districts include Hampton City Schools, Newport News Public Schools, York County School Division, and Williamsburg-James City County Public Schools. Each school will be compared and contrasted by the technology applications that are used along with their socioeconomic status.
Additional file 6 of Association between being large for gestational age and cardiovascular metabolic health in children conceived from assisted reproductive technology: a prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Zhang, Yiyuan
name: Dai, Kexin
name: Chen, Xiaojing
name: Cui, Linlin
name: Chen, Zi-Jiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Neuroscience
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 6: Fig. S3. Visualization of BMI Changes with Age.
Kidney disease risk factors do not explain impacts of low dietary protein on kidney function and structure
Creators: name: Fotheringham, Amelia K
name: Solon-Biet, Samantha M
name: Bielefeldt-Ohmann, Helle
name: McCarthy, Domenica A
name: McMahon, Aisling C
name: Ruohonen, Kari
name: Li, Isaac
name: Sullivan, Mitchell A
name: Whiddett, Rani O
name: Borg, Danielle J
name: Cogger, Victoria C
name: Ballard, John
name: Turner, Nigel
name: Melvin, Richard G
name: Raubenheimer, David
name: Le Couteur, David G
name: Simpson, Stephen J
name: Forbes, Josephine M
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022

description: No description supplied
sj-docx-2-eso-10.1177_23969873231182207 – Supplemental material for Reversible cerebral Vasoconstriction syndrome intERnational CollaborativE (REVERCE) network: Study protocol and rationale of a multicentre research collaboration
Creators: name: Lange, Kristin Sophie
name: Choi, So Youn
name: Ling, Yu-Hsiang
name: Chen, Shih-Pin
name: Mawet, Jérôme
name: Duflos, Claire
name: Lee, Mi Ji
name: Ducros, Anne
name: Wang, Shuu-Jiun
name: Pezzini, Alessandro
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: Medicine
subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-2-eso-10.1177_23969873231182207 for Reversible cerebral Vasoconstriction syndrome intERnational CollaborativE (REVERCE) network: Study protocol and rationale of a multicentre research collaboration by Kristin Sophie Lange, So Youn Choi, Yu-Hsiang Ling, Shih-Pin Chen, Jérôme Mawet, Claire Duflos, Mi Ji Lee, Anne Ducros, Shuu-Jiun Wang and Alessandro Pezzini in European Stroke Journal
Overexpression of heat shock protein 70 improves cardiac remodeling and survival in protein phosphatase 2a-expressing transgenic mice with chronic heart failure
Creators: name: Yoon, S
name: Gergs, U
name: McMullen, Julie
name: Eom, GH
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022

description: Heat shock protein (HSP) 70 is a molecular chaperone that regulates protein structure in response to thermal stress. In addition, HSP70 is involved in post-translational modification and is related to the severity of some diseases. Here, we tested the functional relevance of long-lasting HSP70 expression in a model of nonischemic heart failure using protein phosphatase 2 catalytic subunit A (PP2CA)-expressing transgenic mice. These transgenic mice, with cardiac-specific overexpression of PP2CA, abruptly died after 12 weeks of postnatal life. Serial echocardiograms to assess cardiac function revealed that the ejection fraction (EF) was gradually decreased in transgenic PP2CA (TgPP2CA) mice. In addition, PP2CA expression exacerbated systolic dysfunction and LV dilatation, with free wall thinning, which are indicators of fatal dilated cardiomyopathy. Interestingly, simultaneous expression of HSP70 in double transgenic mice (dTg) significantly improved the dilated cardiomyopathy phenotype of TgPP2CA mice. We observed better survival, preserved EF, reduced chamber enlargement, and suppression of free wall thinning. In the proposed molecular mechanism, HSP70 preferentially regulates the phosphorylation of AKT. Phosphorylation of AKT was significantly reduced in TgPP2CA mice but was not significantly lower in dTg mice. Signal crosstalk between AKT and its substrates, in association with HSP70, might be a useful intervention for patients with nonischemic heart failure to suppress cardiac remodeling and improve survival.
Additional file 7 of Association between being large for gestational age and cardiovascular metabolic health in children conceived from assisted reproductive technology: a prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Zhang, Yiyuan
name: Dai, Kexin
name: Chen, Xiaojing
name: Cui, Linlin
name: Chen, Zi-Jiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Neuroscience
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 7: Tab. S4. Measures of Anthropometry, Metabolic Markers of Offspring Born AGA, or LGA which Stratified by whether Embryos are Frozen.
title: Die KunsttherapeutIn als SchamanIn?
Creators: name: Schön, Petra
Year: 2010

description: Die Beziehung zwischen Schamanismus, Kunst und Kunsttherapie stellt den thematischen Rahmen dieser Arbeit dar, die grundlegend in der Anthropologie der Heilung verortet liegt und sich somit am Schnittpunkt von Medizin-, Kunst- und Religionsanthropologie befindet. Die Frage nach dem Selbstverständnis von KunsttherapeutInnen, dem in dieser Arbeit nachgegangen wird, gibt Einblick in den Identifikationsprozess von KunsttherapeutInnen und ihrer Positionierung innerhalb aktueller Heilerlandschaften. Spannungen und kontroverse Perspektiven um die Verbindung zwischen Kunsttherapie und Schamanismus werden auf lokaler Ebene, das heißt unter dem Lehrkörper des Instituts für Expressive Therapy, sichtbar und im Rahmen dieser Arbeit diskutiert. Über die Kunst wird weiters eine Verbindung der beiden Ansätze auf inhaltlicher Ebene sichtbar gemacht. Facetten und Wirkfaktoren der Kunst im therapeutischen Kontext werden herausgearbeitet und mit Elementen schamanischer und indigener Heilrituale in Verbindung gesetzt. Die Kunsttherapie definiert sich nicht allein über die Verwendung künstlerischer Medien, die in der konkreten Therapiesituation zum Einsatz kommen, sondern auch über die kunstanaloge Haltung der TherapeutIn. Es werden Parallelen zwischen dem therapeutischen und künstlerischen Prozess abgeleitet und die Haltung von KünstlerInnen gegenüber ihrem „Werk“ mit der Haltung von KunsttherapeutInnen oder SchamanInnen gegenüber ihrer Klientel in Verbindung gebracht. Darüber hinaus werden die beiden vorgestellten Ansätze im Spannungsfeld der aktuellen gesundheitspolitischen Situation und in ihrer Beziehung zur Biomedizin beleuchtet.
СТРУКТУРА ПОЧВЫ И ЕЕ УСТОЙЧИВОСТЬ К ЭРОЗИИ ПРИ ОСНОВНОЙ ОБРАБОТКЕ РАЗЛИЧНЫМИ ОРУДИЯМИ
В ЗВЕНЕ С ЗАНЯТЫМ ПАРОМ
Creators: name: Ю.А. Кузыченко, А.К. Кобозев
Publisher: name: Северо-Кавказский федеральный научный аграрный центр
Year: 2018

description: В статье приводятся результаты исследований по оценке структурных параметров пахотного слоя почвы при работе почвообрабатывающих орудий отвального и безотвального типов.  Установлено, что наибольшее количество агрономически ценных аг-регатов в слое 0-20 см отмечается при отвальной обработке – в среднем 45% и при об-работке фрезой – 52,3%, а при безотвальных обработках – 39,3%, наиболее низкое значение получено при обработке наклонной стойкой типа «Параплау» – 34,4%. Распыле-ние верхнего слоя (содержание агрегатов менее 1 мм) в слое 0-10 см составило в сред-нем по отвальным обработкам 30,1% и при обработке фрезой – 30,9%, а при безотвальных обработках – 26,0%, наиболее низкое значение получено при обработке наклонной стойкой типа «Параплау» – 27,8 %. В результате крошения почвы содержание водо-прочных агрегатов в слое 0-10 см составило в среднем по отвальным обработкам 55,4% и при обработке фрезой – 53%, а при безотвальных обработках – 50,4 %, однако при обработке почвы плугами с культурными и винтовыми отвалами наблюдается несколько меньшее количество водопрочных агрегатов, менее 0,25 мм в слое 0-10 см в сравнении с другими вариантами – 43,6 и 45,5 % соответственно. Лучшая ветроустойчивость установлена на безотвальных вариантах обработки  (в среднем Q = 2,5 г), при  этом на  варианте  с  наклонной  стойкой,  имеющем большое  количество  стерни и высокую комковатость  поверхности  поля, Q = 0,85 г.
МУХAНДИСЛИК ЙЎНAЛИШИ ТAЛAБAЛAРИНИ ИННОВAЦИОН ЙОНДAШУВ AСОСИДA КAСБИЙ КОМПЕТЕНТЛИГИНИ РИВОЖЛAНТИРИШ
Creators: name: Нуриддинов, Шарофиддин
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Мазкур мақолада техника олий таълим муассасаларида илмий-тадқиқот ва инновацион фаолиятни ривожлантириш, бўлажак муҳандиснинг ўқув, билиш ва илмий-тадқиқот фаолияти асосидаги инновацион ёндошув асосида касбий компитентлигини рижожлантиришга хизмат қилиши, бўлажак муҳандисларни инновацион фаолиятга тайёрлашга қўйиладиган ижтимоий-педагогик талаблар баён қилинган.
УПЛОТНЕНИЕ ПОЧВЫ В ПРОЦЕССЕ ЕЕ ОСНОВНОЙ ОБРАБОТКИ В ПОЛЕВОМ ЗВЕНЕ СЕВООБОРОТА
Creators: name: Ю.А. Кузыченко, А.К. Кобозев
Publisher: name: Северо-Кавказский федеральный научный аграрный центр
Year: 2018

description: В статье приводятся данные научных исследований по определению кратности прохода машинных агрегатов по полю  в процессе возделывания культур, площади уп-лотнения ими верхнего слоя и  твердости почвы после основной обработки в полевом звене севооборота. Графо-аналитическим методом, с учетом минимально необходимого набора операций, было установлено,  что при возделывании озимой пшеницы по пару двукратному воздействию подвергается 15% площади, трехкратному – 12%, шестикратному – 5%, не уплотняется 18% площади поля. Площадь 2- и 3-кратного уплотнения при возделывании кукурузы на зерно несколько выше, чем при возделывании озимых, поскольку приходится проводить междурядные культивации. При лущении стерни тяжелой дисковой бороной БДТ-3, при исходной  влажности пахотного слоя  0-30 см равной 14%,  наблюдается уплотнение слоя почвы 10-20 см в сравнении со значением плотности в этом слое до обработки, увеличение составляет 0,5 г/см3. При этом в слое 20-30 см, изменений в плотности почвы не отмечается. При более влажной почве (19,5%) наблюдается уплотнение как в слое 10-20 см (на 0,06 г/см3), так и в слое 20-30 см (на 0,04 г/см3). При влажности подпахотного слоя 14%, коэффициент структурности при обработке фрезой на 18-20 см ниже на 0,38 единиц в сравнении с отвальной вспашкой, а плотность и твердость в подпахотном слое  выше на 0,02 г/см3 и 3,2 кг/см2
Additional file 8 of Association between being large for gestational age and cardiovascular metabolic health in children conceived from assisted reproductive technology: a prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Zhang, Yiyuan
name: Dai, Kexin
name: Chen, Xiaojing
name: Cui, Linlin
name: Chen, Zi-Jiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Neuroscience
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 8: Tab. S5. Measures of Anthropometry, Metabolic Markers of Offspring Born AGA, or LGA in Children Whose Mother without Obesity, Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, and Hyperlipidemia.
A Proposed Approach to Investigate Whether Postgraduate Health Care Management Education in Australian Universities Facilitates the Development of Informatics Competencies
Creators: name: Brommeyer, M
name: MacKay, M
name: Liang, Zhanming
name: Schaper, L
name: Balan, P
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022

description: Competencies have emerged as being important in healthcare. AIDH has health informatics competencies and ACHSM has health service management competencies but as health care is rapidly changing, it is important that the required competencies continue to evolve. The aim is to investigate whether postgraduate health care management education in Australian universities facilitates the development of informatics competencies. The proposed approach followed the NWCPHP 'Steps Used to Effectively Map Preexisting Courses to Competency Sets' to map the health informatics competency statements against the ACHSM accredited and RACMA recognised, postgraduate health care management programs offered domestically in Australia. The initial results show that only 10% of the AHICF competencies were fully addressed, 12% of the AHICF competencies were mostly addressed, 28% were partially addressed, and 50% of the AHICF competencies were not addressed at all. The proposed course competency mapping approach demonstrates that there is a need to revisit the informatics competencies taught in postgraduate health care management programs in Australia.
sj-docx-1-cjk-10.1177_20543581231217853 – Supplemental material for Volume Status Assessment by Lung Ultrasound in End-Stage Kidney Disease: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Kharat, Aileen
name: Tallaa, Faissal
name: Lepage, Marc-Antoine
name: Trinh, Emilie
name: Suri, Rita S.
name: Mavrakanas, Thomas A.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-cjk-10.1177_20543581231217853 for Volume Status Assessment by Lung Ultrasound in End-Stage Kidney Disease: A Systematic Review by Aileen Kharat, Faissal Tallaa, Marc-Antoine Lepage, Emilie Trinh, Rita S. Suri and Thomas A. Mavrakanas in Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease
Does Constrictotermes Cyphergaster (Silvestri, 1901) Foraging Dynamics Change According To The Nest Size?
Creators: name: Oliveira, Mário Herculano
name: Barbosa-Silva, Ana Márcia
name: Soares, Rebeca Kianny
name: Moreira, Igor Eloi
name: Bezerra-Gusmão, Maria Avany
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Termites
Trails
Feeding ecology

description: The foraging behaviour of termites can be influenced by the size of it’s population, suggesting that bigger colonies have need more resources. We evaluated the relation between the foraging dynamics and the nest size of \textit{Constrictotermes cyphergaster} in Caatinga areas. 15 nests with volumes ranging between ±6L; ±12L; ±18L; ±24L and ±30L (liters) were randomly selected. For each volume, three nests were used. The nests were monitored during eight days, observing the foraging frequency, duration, distance and the explored resources from 18 to 06 o’clock. No significant difference between foraging frequency and duration among the volumes were detected (P>0.05). The foraging area differed between the nests size (P<0.01). Termitariums with 30L explored minor areas (226 square meters), in comparison with 6L nests (1.391), suggesting that individuals belonging to bigger nests developed strategies to optimize the foraging, in reason of the maturity of the colony and bigger energetic necessities.
Developing transtibial cycling-specific prostheses through additive manufacturing
Creators: name: CABRAL WASEN, Ana
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330301
subject: Data visualisation and computational (incl. parametric and generative) design
classificationCode: 330309
subject: Industrial and product design

description: A long period of recovery follows any amputation surgery, where complications such as reduced mobility, depression, and body image distortion often result in amputees having significantly less active lifestyles than they did prior. Sporting activities can bring many benefits to recovery including, social interaction and motor skill development, yet, there are significant physical, social and financial barriers for people to participate. Para-Cycling is considered a low impact exercise and an excellent activity for lower limb amputees. However, using conventional walking prostheses for cycling can create short- and longer-term difficulties by increasing the strain on the residual limb.

Through a combination of user-collaborative engagements, the design and development of prototypes, analysis and application of additive manufacturing process, and digital data-driven design methods, this research seeks to design a prosthesis for transtibial lower limb amputees who want to cycle.

The research results in the design of a series of a custom-made prosthetic components for the needs of amputee rehabilitation and their participation in sport. It proposes a new design approach to cycling-specific prostheses, and design-led insights for prosthetics design.
Machine aesthetics: revaluing and reinterpreting the manufacturing process of the assembly line
Creators: name: Chu, Yi-Jen
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360601
subject: Crafts
classificationCode: 360602
subject: Fine arts

description: The narrative foundation of this dissertation derives from an investigation of how the assembly line manufacturing system has led to the social effects of over-production and consumption. It provides a rationale for a series of small-scale kinetic objects that I have created using gold and silversmithing techniques. These objects reference the historical progression of the development of machinery technology used to build a food assembly line, and the mechanical tasks necessary in the manufacture of food products. My objects are designed to invite human participation as their purpose is to raise awareness of issues related to what I perceive as the shortcomings of a fully automated manufacturing system. Their design and construction are based on knowledge of the toy aesthetic with its capacity for encouraging learning through play.

To define reasons for the loss of human knowledge and hands-on experience in the manufacturing process, I investigate the historical context and practices of Fordism to show how the innovation of a fully mechanised manufacturing process underlies the drive towards the excess production and consumption of goods such as food.

Throughout this research, while my aim is to critique the effects of the assembly line method, I also discuss and demonstrate certain benefits of Fordism such as the concept of standardisation which ensures the uniformity of goods produced in mass quantities. I show how I draw on this to develop my own method of standardising the components I use in my objects and how I monitor their quality. My utilisation of gold and silversmithing methods in assembling the works in my project highlights the value of hands-on experience.

This project aims to establish new knowledge about how kinetic objects can be used as playful, engaging devices to enhance awareness of contemporary issues related to the assembly line manufacturing process.
A large-scale analysis of lexical diversity in children who stutter
Creators: name: Luckman, Courtney Renee
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Speech therapy
subject: Dissociations
subject: Language
subject: Lexical Diversity
subject: Stuttering

description: This study compared lexical abilities in 99 pairs of children who stutter (CWS), ages 25 – 100 months and age-, gender-, and SES-matched children who do not stutter (CWNS) in spontaneous conversation and on standardized vocabulary tests. Correlations among lexical diversity measures and dissociations between receptive and expressive standard scores were also calculated. CWS demonstrated similar lexical diversity compared to CWNS in measures computed for spontaneous speech, but a highly significant difference was found between CWS and CWNS on expressive and receptive standardized vocabulary scores. Despite prior reports, CWS were no more likely to exhibit dissociations on expressive and receptive vocabulary than CWNS. There were significant correlations among three measures of lexical diversity: number of different words (NDW), vocabulary diversity (VocD), and moving-average type-token ratio (MATTR). The effect that sample size and algorithms have on validity of measuring lexical diversity is discussed. Future directions in stuttering research are suggested.
Missing people, missing stories in the aftermath of genocide and “ethnic cleansing” in Srebrenica and Prijedor
Creators: name: Nuhanovic, Hasan
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 440107
subject: Social and cultural anthropology
classificationCode: 441013
subject: Sociology of migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism

description: By looking at the phenomenological, socially intimate efforts to remember, memorialize and narrate the “ambiguous loss” caused by the absence of the victims’ bodies, this thesis investigates the problem of the missing persons (presumably killed) in the aftermath of “ethnic cleansing” and genocide in Srebrenica and Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Designed as a qualitative study involving multi-sited ethnography and participatory action research, the thesis seeks to understand how the affected communities, families and individuals cope with the missing persons problem in their everyday life and how it impacts on their memories, commemorative practices and identities. The thesis also investigates how these practices have been shaped by the work of experts and professionals engaged in recovering and reclaiming identities of the missing. It examines the research problem looking at Prijedor and Srebrenica both as separate geographic locations and in comparison to one another. The thesis looks at the problem through the survivors’ individual experiences as well as through the shared experience of the affected communities seeking to expose the survivors’ shared narrative across space and time. Thus, in addition to describing the individual experiences of my research participants, the thesis seeks to demonstrate how the survivors’ shared narrative encapsulates their lived experiences and combines individual destinies with series of historical events, making one collective experience and narrative.
title: Hermann Leopoldi: Biographie eines jüdisch-österreichischen Unterhaltungskünstlers und Komponisten
Creators: name: Ernst, Franziska
Year: 2010

description: Der Komponist und Unterhaltungskünstler Hermann Leopoldi zählt zu den bedeutendsten und bekanntesten Vertretern der Genres Wienerlied, Schlager, Varieté und Kabarett. Sein Leben erstreckt sich über die wesentlichen Epochen österreichischer Zeitgeschichte, deren Ereignisse sein Schicksal besonders wegen seiner jüdischen Herkunft leiten. Geboren in Wien 1888 erlebt der aus einer akkulturierten Musikerfamilie stammende Hermann Leopoldi in der Zwischenkriegszeit den Höhepunkt seiner sowohl nationalen als auch internationalen Karriere. 1938/39 überlebt er die neunmonatige Inhaftierung in nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern. Nach dem siebenjährigen, künstlerisch erfolgreichen amerikanischen Exil kehrt er nach Österreich zurück, wo er eine dritte Karriere starten kann. 1959 stirbt er in Wien. Vorrangiges Ziel dieser Arbeit ist die Darstellung der Künstlerbiographie von Hermann Leopoldi. Dies ist die erste historisch kontextualisierte Untersuchung, die sein künstlerisches Schaffen umfassend analytisch einbezieht. Im Zentrum steht die Beleuchtung seines Beitrages zur Kulturgeschichte Wiens beziehungsweise Österreichs unter besonderer Berücksichtigung seiner Biographie und seines Werkes im Kontext österreichisch-jüdischer Akkulturation. Außerdem soll sie eine kritische Aufarbeitung jüdisch-österreichischer Geschichte sein.
Anomaly detection in machine vision applications
Creators: name: Kamoona, Ammar
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 400607
subject: Signal processing
classificationCode: 460304
subject: Computer vision

description: Anomaly detection in machine vision is a crucial task in many applications requiring robust algorithms to detect anomalies. The nature of input data to these algorithms plays a significant role in deciding which algorithm to use. This thesis solves two visual anomaly detection problems: image, and video anomaly detection, via a multiple instance learning (MIL) framework. Within MIL, input data may appear as sets, called bags, or points in point pattern learning, which is a very challenging setting when bags are in the form of random sets. Dealing with random sets that have a random number of points has been avoided by using different approaches that map these bags into fixed dimension vectors. However, these approaches neglect implicit information in the cardinality in their final decisions. The input data may also appear as sequential visual data, such as videos, where temporal information has information about the nature of the event.

In the first part of the thesis, for image-based anomaly detection the goal is to explore the effect of cardinality (the number of point patterns) information on the anomaly detection algorithm formulated within a multiple instance learning in machine vision applications by extracting the appropriate features. Previous research experiments have shown that using such information could significantly impact the performance of the anomaly detection algorithm. The experiments mentioned above were limited to texture presented as grey-scale images and not compared to well-known anomaly detection methods. Therefore, this thesis extends this approach to a more complex scenario (such as safety vest detection in construction sites), and designed an appropriate feature extraction method that achieves better results than deep learning approaches. In addition, the thesis has explored the use of deep learning for point pattern features for defect detection as an anomaly detection problem. In the defect detection problem, we are interested in detecting the small variation in the image due to defect, which is different from anomaly detection, where there is a high-class variation. In the second part of the thesis, video-based anomaly detection, two different aspects have been investigated. The first aspect is inspired by random finite set theory for modelling random sets, which includes the cardinality information in the likelihood function. We proposed using the sparsity of deep features as cardinality and built a statistical model formulated within \naive Bayes  MIL.

In the second aspect, we proposed an instance-based anomaly detection algorithm for large-scale surveillance videos, sequential visual data, within MIL, which includes both normal and abnormal videos during the training to localise the anomalous frames in a weakly supervised manner.
Dialogue between civil society institutions and corporations: a case study of Foxconn
Creators: name: Fu, Rao
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 350107
subject: Sustainability accounting and reporting

description: Since the 1980s, many multinational companies (MNCs) have adopted codes of conduct (CoC) to regulate the labour practices of their suppliers. Although an increasing number of MNCs have utilised CoCs in China to address working conditions, there is little evidence that CoCs have effectively mitigated labour rights abuses in China. Through the lens of dialogic theory, this study explores why this may be so. Rather than focusing on how MNCs and their suppliers affect the effectiveness of CoCs in supplier-countries, this study instead draws attention to the influence of supplier-countries’ contextual factors that might be the more fundamental causes of difficulties in implementing CoCs. As such, this study uses a case study approach to compare the impact of Apple’s CoC in its main supplier’s factories, in China and Brazil. By drawing links between Apple’s CoC, relevant supplier-countries’ laws and investigative reports into the labour rights conditions of Apple’s supplier factories in both China and Brazil, this study trace the dialogic patterns which are strengthened by the voices of the domestic civil society institutions in supplier-countries. This study proposes a potential linkage between the dialogic entitlements of supplier-countries’ civil society institutions and the level of CoC compliance by corporations in terms of labour rights protections. The findings suggest that the more dialogic entitlements the supplier-countries’ civil society institutions have, the higher the level of adherence to labour-related standards of CoCs by corporations. This study reveals the significant influence of supplier-countries’ contexts on CoC compliance in terms of labour rights protections. By doing so, it expands the scope of debate by highlighting the importance of local context to the implementation of MNCs’ CoCs in supplier-countries. Furthermore, the findings make important contributions to current understandings of the labour rights environment of MNCs in China.
Pre-disaster communication and engagement in isolated communities: power, relationships, and experiences in the Philippines
Creators: name: Sumaylo, Dennis John
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 470101
subject: Communication studies
classificationCode: 470104
subject: International and development communication
classificationCode: 470108
subject: Organisational, interpersonal and intercultural communication

description: The current pre-disaster communication mechanism in the Philippines is characterised by a one-way information dissemination approach that gives the community limited access to information and restricts feedback. This study investigates this pre-disaster communication mechanism in the context of geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas (GIDA), and seeks to establish communicative conditions that are conducive to smooth information access between government and marginalised communities. The study is grounded in combining the development communication approach with the Community Engagement Continuum while also drawing on the participatory paradigm of communication for development. The study was qualitative and used document analysis, semi-structured interviews, and field observations for data triangulation. The research participants comprised 11 representatives from the Philippine government and 11 residents from two different GIDA communities. The findings confirm that the present communication setup in GIDA communities is a top-down, informative, one-way model and features a transitional community engagement style. In contrast, the communities in these areas consider interpersonal communication, primarily face-to-face communication, the most effective mode of communication. The study also uncovered that trust and access issues and overreliance on drills and training have been the by-products of political complications and leadership instability. This study proposes the ‘PRE Transformative Engagement (PRETE) Framework’ as a new theoretical model purposively designed to bridge the gap between transitional and transformative levels of community engagement. This framework underpins the design, production, and roll-out of communication modes and tools that are grounded on the interplay of power, relationships, and experiences between the community and the government actors. Practically, the empirical outcome of this study suggests that pre-disaster communication and community engagement efforts should require the use of customisation, localisation, and mainstreaming of pre-disaster communication for the purpose of strengthening the current multimodal pre-disaster communication approaches, thereby serving the needs of GIDA communities.
THE ISSUE OF JUSTICE IN THE WORK "MAKTUBOTI AMIR HAYDAR"
Creators: name: Hamroyev, Asliddin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In this article, the letters of Amir Haidar, one of the rulers of Bukhara, were analyzed on various issues and their significance in terms of the period in which they were written. Along with this, during the reign of Amir Haydar, his decisions on justice issues were studied.
Additional file 9 of Association between being large for gestational age and cardiovascular metabolic health in children conceived from assisted reproductive technology: a prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Zhang, Yiyuan
name: Dai, Kexin
name: Chen, Xiaojing
name: Cui, Linlin
name: Chen, Zi-Jiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Neuroscience
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 9: Tab. S6. Number of Children at Each Follow-up Stage.
The MyHealthRecord System Impacts on Patient Workflow in General Practices
Creators: name: Raza Khan, Urooj
name: Zia, TA
name: Pearce, C
name: Perera, K
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022

description: Digital health is widely believed to have vast potential in improving patient care. MyHealthRecord (MyHR) is a digital health information system which enables Australian citizens to access their health information centrally, making it available anywhere, at anytime. The aim of this study is to explore the adoption of MyHR in general practices in Victoria and understand its impacts. A qualitative case study research method was used to underpin this investigation. Ten general practices were engaged where MyHR was implemented/used. Detailed interviews with MyHR implementers were held and GPs were engaged in short interviews. Twenty observations were made during GP/patient consultations for health summary uploads. Findings indicate that the practice incentive payment (PIP) funding policy change encouraged the use of MyHR, but the adoption was limited to satisfy funding criteria. Change management was often extemporised. Health summary upload was a quick and easy process but was influenced by clinical system data quality and GP familiarity with the system. Community awareness and GP interest in MyHR was lacking. The conclusion is that MyHR was not well integrated in general practices nor the community. As a result, an improved engagement approach between healthcare organisations, the MyHR system operator and Australians is required.
title: Die jüdische Bevölkerung Schlesiens im 18. Jahrhundert
Creators: name: Schuster, Helga
Year: 2010

description: Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der jüdischen Bevölkerung Schlesiens. Besonderes Augenmerk wurde auf die Regierungszeiten von Karl VI. und Friedrich II. gelegt. Da vor allem für die Regierungszeit Karls VI. wenig Literatur bezüglich der Judenpolitik vorhanden war, wurde der zeitliche Rahmen erweitert. Für diese Arbeit wurden ausschließlich gedruckte Quellen verwendet. Im ersten Abschnitt folgt ein kurzer Abriss ab 1526, um Kontinuitäten und Brüche festzustellen. Um das Bild zu vervollständigen wurde außerdem auf das jüdische Leben in Schlesien eingegangen. Neben Gemeindeformen und demographischen Tendenzen werden auch die gesetzlichen Entwicklungen seit dem Mittelalter behandelt. Weiters wurden verschiedene Berufsgruppen untersucht. Hier wurden ausschließlich Berufe gewählt, die mit Christen in direktem Kontakt standen, da anhand dieser die gesetzlichen Veränderungen gut illustriert werden können. Während des bearbeiteten Zeitraumes wurde stark differenziert zwischen den schlesischen und den ausländischen Juden, vor allem die polnischen Juden nehmen hier eine Sonderstellung ein. Zielsetzung ist ein Vergleich der Gesetzgebung gegenüber der jüdischen Bevölkerung zwischen Karl VI. (1685-1740) und Friedrich II. (1712-1786). In der abschließenden Analyse werden folgende Fragestellungen behandelt. Wo liegen die größten Unterschiede zwischen den beiden Regierungsstilen? Bedeutete der Regierungswechsel 1740 eine Verbesserung für die jüdische Bevölkerung? Wenn ja, für welche Schichten? Ist das Bild des konservativen Habsburgers einerseits und des aufgeklärten preußischen Königs auch in diesem Punkt gültig?
Balantidium coli in pig
Creators: name: Shreya Sinha**, Pushpa Tirkey*, Salyani Vishwara *and Supriya Kumari *
Publisher: name: The Science world a Monthly e magazine
Year: 2024

description: Balantidium coli is a large ciliate protozoan that primarily infects pigs but can also affect humans and other animals. Here's a detailed look at Balantidium coli in pigs:

Characteristics:

Size and Structure: Balantidium coli is a large protozoan, typically measuring 50-200 µm in length and 40-70 µm in width. It has a characteristic ciliated surface and a large, bean-shaped macronucleus along with a smaller micronucleus.

Lifecycle: The lifecycle includes a trophozoite stage, where the organism is motile and feeding, and a cyst stage, which is non-motile and more resistant to environmental conditions. Infection is typically spread via the fecal-oral route.