cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The measurement of innovation in large service organisations
Creators: name: Powe, Marcus
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: The measurement of innovation in organisations that produce tangible products is well represented in the literature and many researchers have made significant contributions that should assist organisations to continue to create wealth. The scale and breath of this research has identified that many terms used to explain innovation have become part of organisational vocabulary. Terms such as creativity, innovative or enterprising are used when leaders and managers describe what they consider are either behaviours or mindsets that are required to grasp opportunities. These terms are often highly emotive. They are often interchanged, misunderstood and confused when dealing with tangible products.

A challenge emerges from the literature to develop a set of working terms that will assist leaders and managers to work effectively and efficiently when communicating with staff, customers and suppliers. The literature highlights many measures that may assist organisations gauge their performance internally and externally. The number of ways used to measure creativity, innovation and enterprising behaviours are considerable, with many researchers holding the view that, there is no one definitive measure. A set of measures is preferable due to the complexity and diversity of large organisations and their related needs. The review of the literature has identified the popularity of measures that provide benchmarks and milestones for tangible products.

The development of a set of measures for large service organisations (organisations that develop and deliver intangibles) appears to be problematic. In some cases, these organisations have been collecting ideas from staff to either reduce costs or add value; these ideas have been placed on the organisations intranet for all to see. Organisational acceptance and use of the intranet has seen the rapid capture and communication of creative ideas and enterprising opportunities that may assist organisations to either pursue new revenue streams, enhance productivity and cost reduction.

How does the service organisation know it has achieved its goals when measuring creativity, innovation or enterprising behaviours? A set of research questions was developed for the use in two large services organisations in Australia between 2001 and 2006 in order to create such a set of measures. The results have produced outcomes that are repeatable, measurable and measurable in service organisations. These outcomes have highlighted that, by using a consistent and straightforward set of measures, organisations can adjust their development programs to encourage staff to be more creative, innovative and enterprising. The organisations participating in this research developed their innovation programs using three variables: were the programs (1) achievable, (2) measurable and (3) repeatable? The outcomes of this research indicate that the measurement of innovation in large service organisations can satisfy these three organisational requirements.
Adaptive inference over Besov spaces in the white noise model using $p$-exponential priors
Creators: name: Agapiou, Sergios
name: Savva, Aimilia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62G20, 62G05, 60G50

description: In many scientific applications the aim is to infer a function which is smooth in some areas, but rough or even discontinuous in other areas of its domain. Such spatially inhomogeneous functions can be modelled in Besov spaces with suitable integrability parameters. In this work we study adaptive Bayesian inference over Besov spaces, in the white noise model from the point of view of rates of contraction, using $p$-exponential priors, which range between Laplace and Gaussian and possess regularity and scaling hyper-parameters. To achieve adaptation, we employ empirical and hierarchical Bayes approaches for tuning these hyper-parameters. Our results show that, while it is known that Gaussian priors can attain the minimax rate only in Besov spaces of spatially homogeneous functions, Laplace priors attain the minimax or nearly the minimax rate in both Besov spaces of spatially homogeneous functions and Besov spaces permitting spatial inhomogeneities.
Additional file 7 of Integrative analysis of transcriptome and target metabolites uncovering flavonoid biosynthesis regulation of changing petal colors in Nymphaea ‘Feitian 2’
Creators: name: Zhou, Xian
name: Wang, Xiaohan
name: Wei, Haohui
name: Zhang, Huijin
name: Wu, Qian
name: Wang, Liangsheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Supplementary Material 7
The antecedents and outcomes of emotional ambivalence in rites-of-passage advertising
Creators: name: Pochun, Tej
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: My thesis investigates the antecedents and outcomes of emotional ambivalence with regard to rites-of-passage advertising. To enable the examination of emotional ambivalence, semantic differential scales of consumer emotions were developed by identifying opposites of the positive and negative variants of emotions found in the Hierarchy of Consumer Emotions (HCE) of Laros and Steenkamp (2005). Using these scales, it was determined whether or not consumers experienced emotional ambivalence when engaging with rites-of-passage advertisements. And if they did, what were the resulting affective endpoints? The elements of a print advertisement were also explored to consequently establish their role in determining emotional ambivalence. The influences of emotional ambivalence on consumers’ involvement with rites-of-passage advertisements were also examined.
The methodology was in two parts. The first part dealt with the development of semantic differential scales of consumer emotions by collecting data from 53 participants via four web surveys. Using the scales, the second part examined data collected from a total of 105 participants via six web experimental surveys. In the web experiments, rites-of-passage advertisements were used as stimuli to obtain emotional ambivalence data. Correlational and Crisp Set Qualitative Comparative Analyses (csQCA) were implemented to analyse the data.
The findings show that the visual and textual elements in rites-of-passage advertisements contribute to consumers’ experience of emotional ambivalence. Such ambivalence usually results in a negative emotional state and decreases the level of consumer involvement with the advertisement.
My research contributes to the body of knowledge by expanding on the various nuances of opposing emotions that can be experienced as a result of engaging with advertisements and by providing a clearer understanding of the roles of the visual and textual elements of advertisements as drivers of emotional ambivalence. My research also uncovers certain relationships between the experience of emotional ambivalence and consumers’ advertising involvement. The practical implications provided by my thesis pertain to a better understanding of how advertisers can communicate more effectively to their audiences through rites-of-passage advertisements.
Dip-ramp-plateau for Dyson Brownian motion from the identity on $U(N)$
Creators: name: Forrester, Peter J.
name: Kieburg, Mario
name: Li, Shi-Hao
name: Zhang, Jiyuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent work the present authors have shown that the eigenvalue probability density function for Dyson Brownian motion from the identity on $U(N)$ is an example of a newly identified class of random unitary matrices called cyclic Pólya ensembles. In general the latter exhibit a structured form of the correlation kernel. Specialising to the case of Dyson Brownian motion from the identity on $U(N)$ allows the moments of the spectral density, and the spectral form factor $S_N(k;t)$, to be evaluated explicitly in terms of a certain hypergeometric polynomial. Upon transformation, this can be identified in terms of a Jacobi polynomial with parameters $(N(μ- 1),1)$, where $μ= k/N$ and $k$ is the integer labelling the Fourier coefficients. From existing results in the literature for the asymptotics of the latter, the asymptotic forms of the moments of the spectral density can be specified, as can $\lim_{N \to \infty} {1 \over N} S_N(k;t) |_{μ= k/N}$. These in turn allow us to give a quantitative description of the large $N$ behaviour of the average $ \langle | \sum_{l=1}^N e^{ i k x_l} |^2 \rangle$. The latter exhibits a dip-ramp-plateau effect, which is attracting recent interest from the viewpoints of many body quantum chaos, and the scrambling of information in black holes.
description: 34 pages, 4 figures; v3 update following referee reports
sj-docx-5-sph-10.1177_19417381231178534 – Supplemental material for Sports-Related Health Problems in Para-Sports: A Systematic Review With Quality Assessment
Creators: name: Luijten, Sietske C.M.
name: te Loo, Leonie M.
name: Nauta, Joske
name: Janssen, Thomas W.J.
name: Holla, Jasmijn F.M.
name: Otten, René H.J.
name: Vriend, Ingrid
name: Verhagen, Evert
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-5-sph-10.1177_19417381231178534 for Sports-Related Health Problems in Para-Sports: A Systematic Review With Quality Assessment by Sietske C.M. Luijten, Leonie M. te Loo, Joske Nauta, Thomas W.J. Janssen, Jasmijn F.M. Holla, René H.J. Otten, Ingrid Vriend and Evert Verhagen in Sports Health
Culture and efficacy of performance management: a qualitative study in Thailand
Creators: name: Doumani, Thomas
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Globalisation has led an increasing adoption of Western modelled Performance Management (PM) systems in non-Western countries, particularly Asia. The aim of the research is to explore the effects of Thai culture on the efficacy of Western modelled performance management (PM) in a cross-cultural setting.

Thailand is becoming increasingly important to Australian businesses, particularly in view of the ASEAN Economic Community Plan, which is now in its final stages implementation. The primary data for this study was sourced from 43 semi-structured and in-depth interviews with 30 participants. The participants occupied managerial positions ranging from CEO executives to middle management, with organisations operating in Thailand. The interviews were conducted with both expatriate and local Thai employees.

Social constructivism, qualitative methodology, and inductive reasoning were applied to the collection, analysis and interpretation of the data. The findings show only a tenuous link between Western values, upon which PM systems are predicated, and motivational values of the host society. As a consequence, Western PM practice can fail to adequately compensate for differing cultural concepts of the means-action-ends relationship that constitutes efficacy, which, in turn, affects the efficacy of PM outcomes.

This research has implications for future cross-cultural management studies by expanding the perspectives of inquiry through cultural constructs of efficacy. It also has implications for PM design, and employee cultural awareness training and development. This will assist expatriate and host country management, to compromise cultural values differences. In doing so, closer alignment of expectations may be achieved, within the organisation-manager-subordinate relationships, to deliver efficacious PM outcomes.
Additional file 8 of Integrative analysis of transcriptome and target metabolites uncovering flavonoid biosynthesis regulation of changing petal colors in Nymphaea ‘Feitian 2’
Creators: name: Zhou, Xian
name: Wang, Xiaohan
name: Wei, Haohui
name: Zhang, Huijin
name: Wu, Qian
name: Wang, Liangsheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Supplementary Material 8
Perception Simplex: Verifiable Collision Avoidance in Autonomous Vehicles Amidst Obstacle Detection Faults
Creators: name: Bansal, Ayoosh
name: Kim, Hunmin
name: Yu, Simon
name: Li, Bo
name: Hovakimyan, Naira
name: Caccamo, Marco
name: Sha, Lui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: D.2.11; I.2.9; C.4; J.7

description: Advances in deep learning have revolutionized cyber-physical applications, including the development of Autonomous Vehicles. However, real-world collisions involving autonomous control of vehicles have raised significant safety concerns regarding the use of Deep Neural Networks (DNN) in safety-critical tasks, particularly Perception. The inherent unverifiability of DNNs poses a key challenge in ensuring their safe and reliable operation.
 In this work, we propose Perception Simplex (PS), a fault-tolerant application architecture designed for obstacle detection and collision avoidance. We analyze an existing LiDAR-based classical obstacle detection algorithm to establish strict bounds on its capabilities and limitations. Such analysis and verification have not been possible for deep learning-based perception systems yet. By employing verifiable obstacle detection algorithms, PS identifies obstacle existence detection faults in the output of unverifiable DNN-based object detectors. When faults with potential collision risks are detected, appropriate corrective actions are initiated. Through extensive analysis and software-in-the-loop simulations, we demonstrate that PS provides predictable and deterministic fault tolerance against obstacle existence detection faults, establishing a robust safety guarantee.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2208.14403
sj-docx-6-sph-10.1177_19417381231178534 – Supplemental material for Sports-Related Health Problems in Para-Sports: A Systematic Review With Quality Assessment
Creators: name: Luijten, Sietske C.M.
name: te Loo, Leonie M.
name: Nauta, Joske
name: Janssen, Thomas W.J.
name: Holla, Jasmijn F.M.
name: Otten, René H.J.
name: Vriend, Ingrid
name: Verhagen, Evert
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-6-sph-10.1177_19417381231178534 for Sports-Related Health Problems in Para-Sports: A Systematic Review With Quality Assessment by Sietske C.M. Luijten, Leonie M. te Loo, Joske Nauta, Thomas W.J. Janssen, Jasmijn F.M. Holla, René H.J. Otten, Ingrid Vriend and Evert Verhagen in Sports Health
Factors influencing householder self-evacuation in two Australian bushfires
Creators: name: Strahan, Kenneth
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 440699
subject: Human geography not elsewhere classified

description: The thesis investigated householder self-evacuation decision-making during bushfires in the Perth and Adelaide Hills in 2014 and 2015. It explored the factors that influenced householders’ decisions to evacuate, identified factors that predict self-evacuation and established the characteristics of self-evacuators. The Protective Action Decision Model (PADM) provided a conceptual framework for the research. Its theoretical and analytical usefulness in an Australian context, was assessed. A mixed methods research strategy was used involving quantitative telephone surveys of 457 bushfire-affected participants and face-to-face interviews of 109 participants in 59 households.

The study concluded that environmental and social cues and warnings and householders’ perceptions of the threat, of hazard adjustments and of other stakeholders, influenced self-evacuation decision-making. Protective action perceptions, particularly the effectiveness of evacuating or not evacuating in protecting personal safety or property, were most important in predicting self-evacuation. Receipt of official warnings and the perception of likely impact of the bushfire on property were also important predictors. Undertaking long-run hazard adjustments, although not predictive of self-evacuation, was pivotal in shaping perceptions of the effectiveness of evacuating and remaining in protecting personal safety and property and indirectly influenced evacuation decisions. Seven archetypes that characterised householders’ self-evacuation attitudes and behaviour were identified. These included Threat, and Responsibility Deniers, Dependent, and Considered Evacuators, Community Guided and Experienced Independents all who took different decisional ‘rules of thumb’ and routes toward evacuating or remaining . The PADM needs to be split into two separate models to incorporate the influence of long-run hazard adjustments on protective action decision-making in an Australian bushfire.

The findings suggest that future research on those who wait and see during a bushfire should take account of their decisional rules of thumb and that design and targeting of Australian bushfire safety policy should better account for self-evacuator characteristics.
Probing a light dark sector at future lepton colliders via invisible decays of the SM-like and dark Higgs bosons
Creators: name: Haghighat, Gholamhossein
name: Najafabadi, Mojtaba Mohammadi
name: Sakurai, Kodai
name: Yin, Wen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A renormalizable UV model for Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) or hidden photons, that may explain the dark matter usually involves a dark Higgs field which is a singlet under the standard model (SM) gauge group. The dark sector can couple to the SM particles via the portal coupling between the SM-like Higgs and dark Higgs fields. Through this coupling, the dark sector particles can be produced in either the early universe or the collider experiments. Interestingly, not only the SM-like Higgs boson can decay into the light dark bosons, but also a light dark Higgs boson may be produced and decay into the dark bosons in a collider. In this paper, we perform the first collider search for invisible decays by taking both the Higgs bosons into account. We use a multivariate technique to best discriminate the signal from the background. We find that a large parameter region can be {probed} at the International Linear Collider (ILC) operating at the center-of-mass energy of 250 GeV. In particular, even when the SM-like Higgs invisible decay is a few orders of magnitude below the planned sensitivity reaches of the ILC and the high luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), the scenario can be probed by the invisible decay of the dark Higgs boson produced via a similar diagram. Measuring the dark Higgs boson decay into the dark sector will be a smoking gun signal of the light dark sector. A similar search of the dark sector would be expected in, e.g., Cool Copper Collider (C$^3$), Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC), Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) and {Future Circular electron-positron Collider (FCC-ee).
description: 44 pages, 10 figures
Additional file 9 of Integrative analysis of transcriptome and target metabolites uncovering flavonoid biosynthesis regulation of changing petal colors in Nymphaea ‘Feitian 2’
Creators: name: Zhou, Xian
name: Wang, Xiaohan
name: Wei, Haohui
name: Zhang, Huijin
name: Wu, Qian
name: Wang, Liangsheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Supplementary Material 9
Percolation of strongly correlated Gaussian fields I. Decay of subcritical connection probabilities
Creators: name: Muirhead, Stephen
name: Severo, Franco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the decay of connectivity of the subcritical excursion sets of a class of strongly correlated Gaussian fields. Our main result shows that, for smooth isotropic Gaussian fields whose covariance kernel $K(x)$ is regularly varying at infinity with index $α\in [0, 1)$, the probability that $\{f \le \ell\}$, $\ell < \ell_c$, connects the origin to distance $R$ decays sub-exponentially in $R$ at log-asymptotic rate $c_α(\ell_c-\ell)^2 / K(R)$ for an explicit $c_α> 0$. If $α= 1$ and $\int_0^\infty K(x) dx = \infty$ then the log-asymptotic rate is $c_1 (\ell_c-\ell)^2 R (\int_0^R K(x) dx)^{-1}$, and if $α> 1$ the decay is exponential.
 Our findings extend recent results on the Gaussian free field (GFF) on $\mathbb{Z}^d$, $d \ge 3$, and can be interpreted as showing that the subcritical behaviour of the GFF is universal among fields with covariance $K(x) \sim c|x|^{d-2}$. Our result is also evidence in support of physicists' predictions that the correlation length exponent is $ν= 2/α$ if $α\le 1$, and in $d=2$ we establish rigorously that $ν\ge 2/α$. More generally, our approach opens the door to the large deviation analysis of a wide variety of percolation events for smooth Gaussian fields.
 This is the first in a series of two papers studying subcritical level-set percolation of strongly correlated Gaussian fields, which can be read independently.
description: 46 pages. Version accepted for publication in Prob. Math. Phys
Additional file 10 of Integrative analysis of transcriptome and target metabolites uncovering flavonoid biosynthesis regulation of changing petal colors in Nymphaea ‘Feitian 2’
Creators: name: Zhou, Xian
name: Wang, Xiaohan
name: Wei, Haohui
name: Zhang, Huijin
name: Wu, Qian
name: Wang, Liangsheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Supplementary Material 10
Enjeux et perspectives de la digitalisation des petites et moyennes entreprises (PME) Touristiques Marocaines
Creators: name: ROCHDY, Nouha
name: EL BAKKOUCHI, Mounir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: PME touristiques Marocaines ; enjeux ; défis ; opportunités ; perspectives ; Transformation digitale.

description: Le présent papier est une exploration approfondie de la perception des petites et moyennes entreprises touristiques en particulier Marocaines de la transformation digitale. Nous traitons, à travers ce travail, à la fois d’analyse et de déduction, les différents défis et obstacles qui entravent la bonne mise en place d’une stratégie digitale ou une transformation à part entière des PME touristiques Marocaines, et ce notamment pour pouvoir en détecter les plus affluents afin que nous puissions apporter une plus-value qui pourrait venir en aide à ces PME, et ce pour pouvoir relever ces défis et enjeux. D’autre part, nous essayons d’explorer les différentes opportunités et perspectives auxquelles pourraient s’ouvrir les PME touristiques marocaines dans l’éventuel défi de digitalisation auquel s’affronte presque la majorité des PME à l’ère actuelle des domaines confondus.
Supplemental Material—Autoclave process parameters affecting physical properties of CFRP composite laminates using response surface methodology
Creators: name: Baghad, Abd
name: El Mabrouk, Khalil
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: Supplemental Material for Autoclave process parameters affecting physical properties of CFRP composite laminates using response surface methodology by Abd Baghad and Khalil El Mabrouk in the Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites.
Approximation in the extended functional tensor train format
Creators: name: Strössner, Christoph
name: Sun, Bonan
name: Kressner, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This work proposes the extended functional tensor train (EFTT) format for compressing and working with multivariate functions on tensor product domains. Our compression algorithm combines tensorized Chebyshev interpolation with a low-rank approximation algorithm that is entirely based on function evaluations. Compared to existing methods based on the functional tensor train format, the adaptivity of our approach often results in reducing the required storage, sometimes considerably, while achieving the same accuracy. In particular, we reduce the number of function evaluations required to achieve a prescribed accuracy by up to over 96% compared to the algorithm from [Gorodetsky, Karaman and Marzouk, Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Eng., 347 (2019)].
Additional file 11 of Integrative analysis of transcriptome and target metabolites uncovering flavonoid biosynthesis regulation of changing petal colors in Nymphaea ‘Feitian 2’
Creators: name: Zhou, Xian
name: Wang, Xiaohan
name: Wei, Haohui
name: Zhang, Huijin
name: Wu, Qian
name: Wang, Liangsheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Supplementary Material 11
Publishing And Analysing Biodiversity Data Rapidly, Repeatably And Fair-Ly For Agile Policy Relevant Results
Creators: name: Groom, Quentin
name: Vanderhoeven, Sonia
name: Reyserhove, Lien
name: Oldoni, Damiano
name: Adriaens, Tim
name: Desmet, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: workflow
FAIR Data
Policy
Invasive Species
Citizen Science

description: A presentation on the TrIAS project to the International Conference on Ecological Informatics 2018, held in Jena, Germany. 24-28 September 2018.

Details on the TrIAS project can be found here...

Groom, Q. J., Adriaens, T., Desmet, P., Strubbe, D., Backeljau, T., Branquart, E., … Vanderhoeven, S. (2018, September 28). Tracking Invasive Alien Species (TrIAS). https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/7DPGR
The synthesis and antimicrobial activity of nitropropenyl arenes and related compounds
Creators: name: Lo, King Hei
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: This history of antimicrobials is marked with impressive discoveries, the majority of which have their origin in natural products. However in this work, the antimicrobial activity of β- nitrostyrenes and related compounds of synthetic origin is reviewed and investigated with a particular focus on the influence of fluorine functionality.

Various fluorinated β-methyl-β-nitrostyrene compounds were prepared, their minimum inhibition concentration in cultures of Gram positive, Gram negative and a fungus and their lipophilicity was determined.

Consequently, 1-fluoro-4-(nitroprop-1-enyl) benzene [12c] was found to have the highest activity against E. coli, whereas more lipophilic compounds were more effective against Gram positive bacteria. However compound lipophilicity did not correlate with antimicrobial activity, highlighting the importance of the structure of the antibiotic activity towards the microorganisms studied.
title: Unleashing Animal Spirits - Self-Control and Overpricing in Experimental Asset Markets
Creators: name: Kocher, Martin
name: Lucks, Konstantin
name: Schindler, David
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: behavioral finance; trader behavior; self-control; experimental asset markets; overpricing
subject: 330

description: One explanation for overpricing on asset markets is a lack of traders' self-control. Self-control is the individual capacity to override or inhibit undesired impulses that may drive prices. We implement the first experiment to address the causal relationship between self-control abilities and systematic overpricing on financial markets. Our setup can detect some of the channels through which individual self-control restrictions could transmit into irrational exuberance in markets. Our data indicate a large direct effect of restricted self-control abilities on market overpricing. Low self-control traders report stronger emotions after the market.
title: A Model of Ideological Thinking
Creators: name: Le Yaouanq, Yves
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: beliefs; ideology; cognition; disagreement; polarization
subject: 330

description: This paper develops a theory in which heterogeneity in political preferences produces a partisan disagreement about objective facts. A political decision involving both idiosyncratic preferences and scientific knowledge is considered. Voters form motivated beliefs in order to improve their subjective anticipation of the future political outcome. In equilibrium, they tend to deny the scientific arguments advocating the political orientations that run counter to their interests. Collective denial is the strongest in societies where contingent policy is the least likely to be implemented, either because of voters' intrinsic preferences or because of rigidities in the political process. The theory predicts that providing mixed evidence produces a temporary polarization of beliefs, but that disclosing unequivocal information eliminates the disagreement.
Additional file 1 of A high-affinity potassium transporter (MeHKT1) from cassava (Manihot esculenta) negatively regulates the response of transgenic Arabidopsis to salt stress
Creators: name: Luo, Minghua
name: Chu, Jing
name: Wang, Yu
name: Chang, Jingyan
name: Zhou, Yang
name: Jiang, Xingyu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1.
title: Online Fundraising, Self-Image, and the Long-Term Impact of Ask Avoidance
Creators: name: Adena, Maja
name: Huck, Steffen
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: online fundraising; quasi-experiment; self-image
subject: 330

description: We provide the first field evidence for the role of pure self-image, independent of social image, in charitable giving. In an online fundraising campaign for a social youth project run on an opera ticket booking platform we document how individuals engage in self-deception to preserve their self-image. In addition, we provide evidence on stark adverse long-run effects of the fundraising campaign for ticket sales. "Avoiding the ask," opera customers who faced more insistent online fundraising buy fewer tickets in the following season. Our results suggest that fundraising management should not decide in isolation about their campaigns, even if very successful. Rather broader operational concerns have to be considered.
Inconnivus Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber, 2012, gen. nov.
Creators: name: Błażewicz-Paszkowycz, M.
name: Bamber, R. N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Tanaidacea
Tanaellidae
Inconnivus

description: Genus Inconnivus gen. nov.
 Diagnosis, female. Tanaellid with cephalothorax showing lateral concavity towards anterior. Eyelobes present. Antennule with four articles, antenna with six articles, proximal article fused to cephalothorax; second and third articles with slender dorsodistal spines. Mandibular pars molaris longer than pars incisiva, with distal ring or spines, longer ventrally. Pereopods, chelipeds, maxillipeds with microtrichia; merus and carpus of all pereopods with spines. Dactylus and unguis of pereopods distinct, as long as or longer than propodus; distal propodal spine of pereopods 2 and 3 coaxial with dactylus. Pleopods present. Uropods stout, exopod present as small process fused to basis; endopods short, the two not configured in the form of “pincers”.
 Type species. Inconnivus billibunteri sp. nov. by monotypy.
 Etymology. from the Latin “that does not close the eyes”, alluding to the presence of distinct eyelobes in a taxon otherwise hardly distinct from the eyelobe-less genus Tanaella Norman and Stebbing, 1886; noun derived from the adjective, male.
 Remarks. With the anterolateral concavity to the cephalothorax, the conformation of the antennules, antennae, pereopods, pleopods, uropods and mouthparts, the species described below shows a very close affinity to Tanaella. The uropods are very short for a Tanaella, and clearly not “pincer-like” (see diagnosis of Tanaella by Larsen & Heard, 2004b), although this configuration is also approached by, for example, T. kroyeri Larsen et al., 2009. However, the present species takes this reduction in the uropods much further, and, most distinctly, has evident eyelobes, although no ocelli were observed in the preserved material: Larsen and Heard (2004b) included a lack of eyelobes in their generic diagnosis for Tanaella, and Larsen (2005) considered it one diagnostic feature of the Tanaellidae.
The species below shows some superficial similarities to the Cryptocopinae, but the conformation of the uropods, antennae, maxilliped endites and chelipeds, and the pereopod spination all suggest otherwise.
 This species is therefore attributed to a separate genus, closely related to Tanaella, but with the presence of eyelobes, probably more plesiomorphic. It is not possible at present to say whether the additional features of the tuberculate rugosity on the cheliped or the microtrichia on the pereopods are generic or specific characters.
description: Published as part of Błażewicz-Paszkowycz, M. & Bamber, R. N., 2012, The Shallow-water Tanaidacea (Arthropoda: Malacostraca: Peracarida) of the Bass Strait, Victoria, Australia (other than the Tanaidae), pp. 1-235 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 69 on page 157
The role of diet in clinical and endocrine manifestations of acne vulgaris
Creators: name: Smith, Robyn
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Variations in acne prevalence worldwide have prompted researchers to question the natural development of the disease. Although acne is common in Western societies, this disorder remains absent in primitive societies existing on traditional food patterns and is observed only in low frequencies in societies with moderate intakes of Westernised foods. Recent observational reports suggest that the absence of acne in these societies may be due to environmental factors, mainly local diets, which are devoid of high glycaemic index carbohydrates.

High glycaemic carbohydrates have been implicated in acne aetiology because of their ability to increase insulin demand and other factors associated with insulin resistance. Clinical and experimental evidence suggests that insulin can promote the bioavailability of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) and androgens, by decreasing IGF-binding protein-1 and sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) levels respectively. This hormonal response may in turn promote unregulated tissue growth (follicular epithelial growth) and androgen-mediated sebum production, two factors responsible for acne proliferation.

The overall aim of the present work was to investigate the effect of a low glycaemic diet on the severity of acne symptoms and endocrine variables associated with insulin resistance. This involved the recruitment of young male acne sufferers for a 12 week randomised controlled dietary intervention trial. The experimental treatment was a low glycaemic load diet, which mimics the diets of the acne-free populations, and the control situation was a typical high glycaemic load Western diet. Acne lesion counts were assessed at monthly intervals throughout the study and hormonal variables associated with acne were measured at the study’s termination.

This investigation found that a low glycaemic load diet significantly reduced acne lesion counts when compared with a conventional high glycaemic load Western diet. The lessening of acne severity may be explained by improvements in metabolic-endocrine parameters following the dietary intervention. The experimental diet reduced insulin resistance and androgen bioavailability, and increased levels of SHBG and IGF binding protein-1, when compared to controls. However, these changes may also relate to modest weight loss which concurred with the reduction in glycaemic load. Post hoc analysis revealed that the effect of the low glycaemic load diet on acne and certain endocrine variables (insulin sensitivity, SHBG and androgen bioavailability) was lost after statistically adjusting for weight loss. Although this study could not determine an aspecific effect of a low glycaemic load diet from that of weight loss, these findings are consistent with earlier suggestions of the association between hyperinsulinemia and acne.
title: Accessoires der Frauenkleidung am Beispiel des frühmittelalterlichen Gräberfeldes von Weingarten, Baden-Württemberg
Creators: name: Achter, Daniela
Year: 2009

description: Diese Diplomarbeit widmet sich den Accessoires, also dem Zubehör der Frauenkleidung des frühmittelalterlichen Gräberfeldes von Weingarten, Baden-Württemberg. Dazu zählt man hauptsächlich Fibeln, die bei den Bestatteten größtenteils in Originallage geborgen werden konnten. Durch die Untersuchung weiterer Kleidungsbestandteile, wie Ohrringe, Nadeln, Armringe, Fingerringe und Wadenbinden- und Schuhschnallengarnituren kann das Bild der damaligen Frauenkleidung vervollständigt werden. Weiters werden Zusammenhänge zwischen den Bestatteten und deren Beigaben analysiert, wie z.B. das Alter der Frauen, die Trageweise, die zeitliche Einordnung und die für die Accessoires verwendeten Materialien. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt behandelt die Gürtelgehänge, die in einem Großteil der Weingartner Frauengräber zu finden sind. Auf diesen Gehängen wurden profane und kultische Gegenstände zusammen getragen. Sie werden auf ihre Lage im Grab und die Zusammensetzung hin untersucht.
title: The Influence of Overconfidence and Competition Neglect On Entry Into Competition
Creators: name: Schüssler, Katharina
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: competition neglect; competitive behavior; feedback; overconfidence
subject: 330

description: I investigate whether two mechanisms leading to biased beliefs about success, overconfidence and competition neglect, influence decisions to enter competitive environments. I use a controlled laboratory setting that allows to elicit belief distributions related to absolute as well as relative overconfidence to study it comprehensively and introduce two treatment variations: First, some participants receive detailed performance feedback addressing absolute and relative overconfidence before making their decision. Second, I vary whether the competition group consists of all potential competitors or only of individuals who also chose to compete. I find that there is systematic heterogeneity in perception biases. In addition, both mechanisms influence individuals' decisions. However, choices are closely tied to previous performance and assessments, and there are no significant gender differences.
Additional file 2 of A high-affinity potassium transporter (MeHKT1) from cassava (Manihot esculenta) negatively regulates the response of transgenic Arabidopsis to salt stress
Creators: name: Luo, Minghua
name: Chu, Jing
name: Wang, Yu
name: Chang, Jingyan
name: Zhou, Yang
name: Jiang, Xingyu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2.
Supplemental Material - Diagnostic Role of Circulating Endocan Levels in Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: Behnoush, Amir Hossein
name: Khalaji, Amirmohammad
name: Amirkhani, Nikan
name: Pezeshki, Parmida Sadat
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Cardiology

description: Supplemental Material for Diagnostic Role of Circulating Endocan Levels in Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Amir Hossein Behnoush, Amirmohammad Khalaji, Nikan Amirkhani, and Parmida Sadat Pezeshki in Angiology
Accessing CKM suppressed top decays at the LHC
Creators: name: Faroughy, Darius A.
name: Kamenik, Jernej F.
name: Szewc, Manuel
name: Zupan, Jure
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an extension of the existing experimental strategy for measuring branching fractions of top quark decays, targeting specifically $t\to j_q W$, where $j_q$ is a light quark jet. The improved strategy uses orthogonal $b$- and $q$-taggers, and adds a new observable, the number of light-quark-tagged jets, to the already commonly used observable, the fraction of $b$-tagged jets in an event. Careful inclusion of the additional complementary observable significantly increases the expected statistical power of the analysis, with the possibility of excluding $|V_{tb}|=1$ at $95\%$ C.L. at the HL-LHC, and accessing directly the standard model value of $|V_{td}|^2+|V_{ts}|^2$.
description: 19 pages, 7 figures
The infinite essence: manifestation of bindu and mandala in architecture
Creators: name: Khan, Jaffer
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330102
subject: Architectural design
classificationCode: 330104
subject: Architectural history, theory and criticism
classificationCode: 330310
subject: Interaction and experience design
classificationCode: 500310
subject: Phenomenology

description: In the Indian context, bindu and mandala form the inner core of this cultural identity. The principles that unify bindu and mandala are universal, but the knowledge of unifying these principles in the contemporary world architecture serves to provide a more meaningful existence on this planet. This PhD is an attempt to unpack this spatial intelligence and to reveal the manner in which this information may be manifest in contemporary Indian architecture; particularly in my work of more than 30 years through my practice, Jaff Design Studio.

The context of this research seeks to investigate the relationship between the Man and the principles of bindu and mandala, which has been a cultural continuum for several thousand years. This cultural identity and information is essential for architecture to be existential and experiential.
This research further enabled me to reflect upon and examine the way bindu and mandala are evident in various forms and interpretations, and to speculate on how these cultural influences continue to develop and inspire practitioners in contemporary and future projects.
title: Ein menschlicher Leichenbrand der mittleren und jüngeren Urnenfelderzeit (11.-10. Jhdt. v. Chr.) aus Rannersdorf, NÖ
Creators: name: Baier, Simona
Year: 2009

description: In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde ein menschlicher Leichenbrand aus Rannersdorf bei Schwechat in Niederösterreich bearbeitet. Das Material stammt aus der Urnenfelderzeit bzw. aus der späten Bronzezzeit (11-10.Jhdt.v.Chr.) und wurde im Jahr 2001 vom Bun-desdenkmalamt Wien ausgegraben. Ein neu erstellter Erhebungsbogen war die Grundlage der Bearbeitung. Es wurden ins-gesamt circa 26 kg (gereinigtes Gewicht) Leichenbrand untersucht, aufgeteilt auf 78 Säcke. Ein Sack entsprach einer Urne, Mehrfachbestattungen waren die Ausnahme, in einer Urne waren jedoch 3 Subadulte bestattet. Insgesamt konnten 13 Subadulte fest-gestellt werden sowie ein Fetus. Bei 39 Säcken war eine Geschlechtsbestimmung möglich, davon konnten 21 Männer und 18 Frauen bestimmt werden. Bei einer Urne war es zwar nicht möglich das Ge-schlecht des Individuums zu bestimmen (Sack 22, adult). Bei 25 Säcken war der Erhaltungszustand so schlecht, daß keine Bestimmung, weder Alter noch Geschlecht, möglich war. Die Tatsache, dass mehr Männer als Frauen identifiziert werden konnten, lässt sich durch die Robustiziät der Knochen erklären. Da die männlichen Knochen robuster sind, bleiben sie auch nach einer Verbrennung besser erhalten als die grazileren Knochen einer Frau. Weiters wurden Spielsteine, sogenannte Astragale, gefunden. Diese sind oftmals die Sprungbeine von Paarhufern und wurden sowohl für ein Gesellschaftsspiel als auch für das Orakel verwendet. Bei zwei Leichenbränden konnten wertvolle Fleischbeigaben gefunden werden, welche auf einen hohe soziale Stellung des Bestatteten schließen lassen. Dem Ausgräber war es aufgrund der Beigaben aus Bronze, Glas und Keramik möglich, das Geschlecht zu bestimmen. Die anthropologische Bearbeitung ergab keinen Widerspruch zu diesen Ergebnissen.
Additional file 3 of A high-affinity potassium transporter (MeHKT1) from cassava (Manihot esculenta) negatively regulates the response of transgenic Arabidopsis to salt stress
Creators: name: Luo, Minghua
name: Chu, Jing
name: Wang, Yu
name: Chang, Jingyan
name: Zhou, Yang
name: Jiang, Xingyu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 3.
Mixing times and cutoff for the TASEP in the high and low density phase
Creators: name: Elboim, Dor
name: Schmid, Dominik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Primary: 60K35, Secondary: 60K37, 60J27

description: We study the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process with open boundaries in the high density and the low density phase. In the bulk of the two phases, we show that the process on a segment of length $N$ exhibits cutoff at order $N$, while in the intersection of the phases, the coexistence line, the mixing time is of order $N^2$, and no cutoff occurs. In particular, we determine the $\varepsilon$-mixing time in the coexistence line up to constant factors, which do not dependent on $\varepsilon$. Combined with previous results on the maximal current phase, this completes the picture on mixing times for the TASEP with open boundaries.
description: 43 pages, 8 figures, substantially revised