cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Risk of a Safety-Critical Event Associated With Mobile Device Use in Specific Driving Contexts
Creators: name: M. Fitch, Gregory
name: J. Hanowski, Richard
name: Guo, Feng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Science Policy
Cancer
Biological Sciences
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biotechnology
Engineering

description: Objective: We explored drivers’ mobile device use and its associated risk of a safety-critical event (SCE) in specific driving contexts. Our premise was that the SCE risk associated with mobile device use increases when the driving task becomes demanding.Methods: Data from naturalistic driving studies involving commercial motor vehicle drivers and light vehicle drivers were partitioned into subsets representative of specific driving contexts. The subsets were generated using data set attributes that included level of service and relation to junction. These attributes were selected based on exogenous factors known to alter driving task demands. The subsets were analyzed using a case-cohort approach, which was selected to complement previous investigations of mobile device SCE risk using naturalistic driving data.Results: Both commercial motor vehicle and light vehicle drivers varied as to how much they conversed on a mobile device but did not vary their engagement in visual–manual subtasks. Furthermore, commercial motor vehicle drivers conversed less frequently as the driving task demands increased, whereas light vehicle drivers did not. The risk of an SCE associated with mobile device use was dependent on the subtask performed and the driving context. Only visual–manual subtasks were associated with an increased SCE risk, whereas conversing was associated with a decreased risk in some driving contexts.Conclusion: Drivers’ engagement in mobile device subtasks varies by driving context. The SCE risk associated with mobile device use is dependent on the types of subtasks performed and the driving context. The findings of this exploratory study can be applied to the design of driver–vehicle interfaces that mitigate distraction by preventing visual–manual subtasks while driving.
Additional file 2 of FLI1 regulates radiotherapy resistance in nasopharyngeal carcinoma through TIE1-mediated PI3K/AKT signaling pathway
Creators: name: Chen, Enni
name: Huang, Jiajia
name: Chen, Miao
name: Wu, Jiawei
name: Ouyang, Puyun
name: Wang, Xiaonan
name: Shi, Dingbo
name: Liu, Zhiqiao
name: Zhu, Wancui
name: Sun, Haohui
name: Yang, Shanshan
name: Zhang, Baoyu
name: Deng, Wuguo
name: Qiu, Huijuan
name: Xie, Fangyun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Correlation between FLI1 and clinical characteristics in NPC patients. Table S2. Multivariate analysis of prognostic factors for OS in NPC patients. Table S3. Multivariate analysis of prognostic factors for LRFS in NPC patients. Table S4. Multivariate analysis of prognostic factors for PFS in NPC patients. Table S5. List of primers used in this study. Table S6. List of antibodies used in this study.
An integrated exploration of psychological distress among older prisoners
Creators: name: SUSAN HANA BAIDAWI
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 160799 Social Work not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This thesis focuses on the mental well-being of older prisoners, the fastest growing age group in many prisoner populations. Levels of psychological distress measured among older prisoners in Victoria and New South Wales were much higher than those seen among older people in the general community. Individual fixed factors such as mental health history were found to be associated with older prisoners’ levels of distress. However modifiable aspects of the prison environment, such as the level of social support, ease of healthcare access and suitability of the built environment, were also key elements associated with older prisoners’ levels of distress.
Ar-BINMOL–Derived Salan–Cu(II) Complex–Catalyzed Silyl-Reformatsky Reaction of Aromatic Aldehydes
Creators: name: Li, Fei
name: Zhou, Wei
name: Zheng, Long-Sheng
name: Li, Li
name: Zheng, Zhan-Jiang
name: Xu, Li-Wen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biotechnology
Neuroscience
Biochemistry

description: In this work, we have developed a facile protocol with salan–Cu system for the facile and selective synthesis of β-hydroxyesters via silyl-Reformatsky reaction with α-silylester and aldehydes. The screening and optimization of reaction conditions led to the determination of a practical and efficient procedure in which the salan–Cu exhibited promising catalytic activity in dimethylsulfoxide, in which the silyl-Reformatsky reaction of aromatic aldehydes with α-trimethylsilylmethylacetate gave the corresponding β-hydroxyester derivatives in excellent yields (up to 98%) under fluoride-free reaction conditions.
Investigation into the Biology of Human Malignant Rhabdoid Tumour
Creators: name: DEAN POPOVSKI
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 111204 Cancer Therapy (excl. Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: My study focused on Malignant Rhabdoid Tumor (MRT) a resistant pediatric cancer where the primary mutation is loss of SMARCB1, implicating epigenetic deregulation as central to the pathogenesis of the disease. We demonstrated that repurposing the HDACi inhibitor Panobinostat (LBH589) was able to drive multi-lineage differentiation in MRT cells in vitro and in vivo. Further mechanistic analysis revealed that SMARCB1-restoration mirrored low-dose HDACi treatment in vitro and in vivo. Finally, we discerned that potential mechanistic driver of impair lineage maturation in MRT was EZH2, with targeted therapies of catalytic and non-catalytic function demonstrating improved responses in preclinical models of MRT.
Additional file 1: of Terlipressin for septic shock patients: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled study
Creators: name: Zhu, Yibing
name: Huang, Huibin
name: Xi, Xiuming
name: Du, Bin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Search strategy. (PDF 20 kb)
En memoria de Gian Fontana, 1897-1935
Creators: name: Loringett, S.
Publisher: name: Bischofberger & Co.
Year: 1937
Subjects: subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Fontana, Gian

description: Squetsch separat dal calender popular "Per mintga gi 1937" (XVIavla annada)
Ar-BINMOL-Derived Salan-Cu(II) Complex Catalyzed Silyl-Reformatsky Reaction of Aromatic Aldehydes
Creators: name: Li, Fei
name: Zhou, Wei
name: Zheng, Long-Sheng
name: Li, Li
name: Zheng, Zhan-Jiang
name: Xu, Li-Wen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biotechnology
Neuroscience
Biochemistry

description: In this work, we have developed a facile protocol with salan-Cu system for the facile and selective synthesis of β-hydroxyesters via silyl-Reformatsky reaction with α-silylester and aldehydes. The screening and optimization of reaction conditions led to the determination of a practical and efficient procedure that the salan-Cu exhibited promising catalytic activity in DMSO, in which the silyl-Reformatsky reaction of aromatic aldehydes with α-trimethylsilylmethylacetate (TMSMA) gave the corresponding β-hydroxyester derivatives in excellent yields (up to 98%) under fluoride-free reaction conditions.
A survey of entomopathogenic nematodes from Otago, New Zealand, with the first record of Steinernema kraussei (Steiner, 1923) (Rhabditida: Steinernematidae) from the Southern Hemisphere
Creators: name: Ali, Farman
name: Wharton, David A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: The Otago region in the South Island of New Zealand was surveyed for cold tolerant species/strains of entomopathogenic nematodes. A total of 140 soil samples were collected from diverse habitats including some from high altitudes. After baiting the samples with Galleria mellonella larvae, 5% were positive for entomopathogenic nematodes. The molecular analysis of the internal transcribed spacer regions of the rDNA confirmed two species: Steinernema kraussei and S. feltiae. To our knowledge, this is the first record of S. kraussei from the Southern Hemisphere, and this study the first to report entomopathogenic nematodes from this area.
Additional file 1 of Association between ceramides and coronary artery stenosis in patients with coronary artery disease
Creators: name: Tu, Chenchen
name: Xie, Lan
name: Wang, Zhenjie
name: Zhang, Lili
name: Wu, Hongmei
name: Ni, Wei
name: Li, Caixia
name: Li, Lin
name: Zeng, Yong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1.
Activation of ventral striatum during anticipation of reward – A pilot study using functional magnetic resonance imaging for a future experiment about psychopathy.
Creators: name: Samsami, Daniel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Introduction: Psychopathy is a problem at both the individual and societal level. The mechanisms in the brain that underlie psychopathic traits are not yet fully known. Hyperreactivity of the brain's reward system, specifically in the ventral striatum, has been identified as a possible contributing factor in previous studies. Monetary incentive delay task (MIDT) is an experimental paradigm used to examine the brain's reward system which causes increased activation of the ventral striatum during anticipation of reward. Aims: This pilot study aimed to set up an experimental paradigm by using MIDT and test if it led to increased activation of the ventral striatum during anticipation of reward, and to calculate the statistical power for future experiments on patients with psychopathy. Materials and methods: Nine healthy male volunteers were enrolled and underwent an experiment with MIDT as paradigm while they were investigated at the same time by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Results: Four subjects were available for analysis. Activation of the ventral striatum during reward anticipation was estimated to be Cohen's d = 1.02, p = 0.13. using a t-test on data extracted from fMRI images but was not statistically significant. Conclusions: We could replicate previous findings that anticipation of reward leads to increased blood flow into the ventral striatum, but the results are uncertain. To achieve reasonable strength in future experiments approximately 60 subjects are required in each group with a power difference of 50% between each group.
[ДА аноним, ДА] ТЕСТ ОА РЕЦЕНЗИРОВАНИЯ 07.04.2022
Creators: name: Сообщество рецензентов Международного научно-исследовательского журнала
Publisher: name: ИП Соколова М.В.
Year: 2022
Subjects: Пробиотики
цыплята-бройлеры
мышечное волокно
субпродукты
гистология
анатомия.

description: Международный научно-исследовательский журнал 3(117) 3.2022, №3(117) (2022)
Additional file 3: of Terlipressin for septic shock patients: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled study
Creators: name: Zhu, Yibing
name: Huang, Huibin
name: Xi, Xiuming
name: Du, Bin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Figure S1. Risk of bias. (PDF 3192 kb)
Aktivering av ventrala striatum vid förväntan av belöning
Creators: name: Samsami, Daniel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Psychopathy, fMRI, monetary incentive delay task, ventral striatum. 
“Extreme Possibilities”: Mapping “the sea of time and space” in J G Ballard’s Pacific fictions
Creators: name: Sellars, Simon
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: One of the more enduring misconceptions surrounding the work of J G Ballard is that it operates in the classical dystopian narrative mode,1 sup-posedly mining pessimism, repression and the negativity of a post-industrial age. Robert Collins s commentary is typical, placing Ballard s Crash (1973) at number three in a list of the top 10 dystopian novels .
Resurvey of vascular plants and soil arthropods on the summit of Mount Corazón (Andes of Ecuador) after 140 years
Creators: name: Moret, Pierre
name: Muriel, Priscilla
name: Jaramillo, Ricardo
name: Bernardi, Antonella
name: Romoleroux, Katya
name: Barragán, Álvaro
name: Pruna, Washington
name: Sklenář, Petr
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Opportunities to track environmental changes over more than a century are rare in tropical mountains. Edward Whymper’s survey of flora and fauna on the summit of Mt. Corazón (Ecuador, 4788 m a.s.l.) in 1880 provides a unique opportunity to compare historical observations with the current composition of plant and insect communities on a tropical alpine mountain top. We studied Whymper’s archives and historic specimens in London and Paris, and performed a resurvey of vascular plants and ground beetles (Coleoptera Carabidae) in January 2020. Currently, a large part of the summit area of Corazón is heavily damaged by trampling and stone removal due to mountain tourism, and no vascular plants are present in the deteriorated area on the top of the ridge. However, more species were collected in 2020 than in 1880: 22 of vascular plants vs. 7, and 4 of ground beetles vs. 1. Upslope shifts over 140 years may partly explain this increase in species richness, although the low numbers of Whymper’s sampling may also be due to less skilled collectors and to the presence of permanent snow beds on the summit. The current faunistic and floristic data presented in this contribution can be used as a baseline for future resurveys of Corazón, in order to monitor changes in the species distribution and community composition of its summit area. Owing to the very small area of its superpáramo and to the soil deterioration by trampling along the summit ridge, Corazón is especially exposed to the effects of climate change and to the risk of extirpation of endemic cold-adapted specialists.
Fecal transplantation for the treatment of Clostridium difficile-associated disease or ulcerative colitis
Creators: name: Guo, Bing
name: Health Economics, Institute
name: Nguyen, Thanh
name: Ohinmaa, Arto
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: classificationCode: 420299
subject: Epidemiology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 420306
subject: Health care administration

description: Fecal transplantation for the treatment of Clostridium difficile-associated disease or ulcerative colitis examines the clinical research evidence on the safety and effects of fecal transplantation in the treatment of patients with Clostridium difficile-associated disease and/or ulcerative colitis. It also provides information on the prevalence and incidence of the two diseases and the availability of fecal transplantation procedure in Alberta and Canada. The Institute of Health Economics prepared this STE report at the request of the Government of Alberta as part of the Institute's ongoing work to support the Alberta Health Technologies Decision Process
Iain M Banks, Ernst Bloch and Utopian Interventions
Creators: name: Michał Kulbicki
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: This paper will develop a reading of Iain M Banks s Culture novels using notions about utopian hope drawn from the work of the German philosopher, Ernst Bloch. Since there are seven novels, a novella and a short story in the series, I will not enter into great detail about particular works, but will rather focus on their overarching theme, albeit with specific refer-ence to the third book, Use of Weapons.
The effect of environmental variables on nightly activity patterns of insectivorous bats monitored over ten years in a tropical premontane forest, Costa Rica
Creators: name: LaVal, Richard K.
name: Lawton, Robert O.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: We investigated the role of environmental and temporal variables on the activity of 20 species of aerial insectivorous bats at a site in tropical premontane forest in Monteverde, Costa Rica. The primary study site was an opening in secondary forest adjacent to the Children’s Eternal Rainforest. We passively monitored the echolocation calls of all bats detected by an Anabat II detector all night for 1,147 nights from November 2000 through August 2010, from which we were able to identify the species in more than 250,000 bat passes. Simultaneously, we recorded environmental variables. Five species accounted for most of the activity, but the relative frequency of these species fluctuated widely over the ten-year period. The likelihood of any one of the three most common species being present was significantly influenced by wind, rain, phase of the moon, the time of night, the season of the year, and the presence of the other two species. In general, strong winds are associated with an increase in bat activity, moderate to heavy rain seems to halt bat activity, full moon appears to depress bat activity, and bats seem to be most active early in the evening. The number of bat passes at the study site declined over the ten-year period, possibly at least partially due to bat preference for foraging near bright lights, which increased markedly during the period due to development for tourism.
Additional file 4: of Terlipressin for septic shock patients: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled study
Creators: name: Zhu, Yibing
name: Huang, Huibin
name: Xi, Xiuming
name: Du, Bin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Figure S2. Funnel plots. Funnel plots were generally asymmetrical. The hollow dots and dotted line indicate individual studies and 95% confidence intervals, respectively. (PDF 27 kb)
Spectres of Orwell, or, The Impossible Demand of the Subject
Creators: name: Jack, David
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: In Brave New World Revisited, published in 1958, Aldous Huxley claimed that the odds were more in favour of the future resembling the brave new world than Orwell s Oceania. History, it seems, is more than ever ratifying his claim (anti-depressants, euthanasia, the cult of youth and the body beautiful, genetic engineering, the culture industry, the hegemony of sex and pleasure, and so forth). In many areas, Orwell has proven somewhat of a false prophet, the most obvious exception perhaps being that of continuous warfare, legitimated in his novel, in much the same way as it is in the current War on Terror, by the slogan War is Peace. It still remains, however, that Orwell s vision, and not Huxley s has found a lasting place in ordinary conversation. An analogous situation would perhaps be the difference between Freud and Jung: the new age movement, nature-myths, neo-paganism and deep ecology are surely closer to Jung s writ-ings, and yet not a single of Jung s terms has entered ordinary conversa-tion the way Freud s have
The Library of Alexandria was available, until it was not
Creators: name: Dandrimont, Nicolas
name: David, Pierre-Yves
name: Gomès, Raphaël
name: Monteil, Alain
name: Sellier, Vincent
name: Tournier, Simon
name: Océane, Valencia
name: Chauvet, Benoît
name: Granger, Sabrina
name: Gruenpeter, Morane
name: Martinelli, Nicole
name: Benini, Catherine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: software preservation
open science
advocacy

description: What happens when software developers, archivists, librarians, metadata specialists, project managers, and persistent identifier experts from around the world meet? They collaborate to tell the story of software preservation.

This poster highlights the work from the fourth Software Heritage Community Workshop, held in Paris on January 30, 2025. 

Software Heritage, an international non-profit infrastructure supported by UNESCO and Inria, collects, preserves, and shares all software source code for industry, research, culture, and society.
The accuracy of two- and three-way positive matrix factorization models: Applying simulated multisite data sets
Creators: name: Tian, Ying-Ze
name: Shi, Guo-Liang
name: Han, Bo
name: Wang, Wei
name: Zhou, Xiao-Yu
name: Wang, Jiao
name: Li, Xiang
name: Feng, Yin-Chang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Hematology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Information and Computing Sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biochemistry

description: The application of three-way data sets (combined multisite data sets) for source apportionment has become common, but its influence on the performance of receptor modeling techniques has not yet been explored systematically. To study the influence of site-to-site correlations of source contributions and the spatial variability of source profiles on two- and three-way positive matrix factorization (PMF), simulated three-way data sets were constructed and modeled by different applications of PMF (PMF2 for each site individually, PMF2 for data sets combining all sites together, and PMF3 for all sites). In addition, the performance of PMF was evaluated under conditions of collinearity and different source categories at two sites. The results indicated that if the sites were contributed by sources with identical profiles, the site-to-site correlations of source contributions would not influence the PMF2, and the three-way blocks could be used by PMF2. However, the PMF2 using three-way data sets was sensitive to the spatial variability of source profiles. For the three-way model, PMF3 could perform well only when all of the sources exhibited strong site-to-site associations among all sites, and at the same time, the spatial variability of source profiles were sufficiently small. It might due to the algorithm that, for each source, PMF3 produces the same source profile and the same temporal variation in daily contributions among all sites.
Implications: The application of multisite data sets for source apportionment has become common. However, limited work investigated the accuracy of two- and three-way PMFs when using multisite data sets. If the application of PMFs using multisite data sets were not appropriate, the results would be unreasonable. The unreasonable results would supply confused information for PM control strategies. In this work, simulated multisite data sets were modeled by different applications of PMFs. The effort to assess and compare the performance of two- and three-way PMFs using multisite data sets is very limited. The findings could provide information for multisite source apportionment.
Sarah Palin’s JerUSAlem and Pentecostal faith: a hysteric symptom of American utopianism?
Creators: name: Curtis, Sarah
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: The United States of America embodies the utopian claim that people from any religious persuasion can identify America as their homeland. This is traceable in the history of non-conforming Protestants fleeing persecution in Catholic Europe. Their establishment of utopian communities also in-volved the appropriation of land from the original owners and an imperative to will ignorance of this as a criminal act. The perpetuity of this legacy can be seen in the twenty-first century return to religion and the identification of America with economic opportunity rather than as socio-geographic entity. While many are still attracted to migrate to the United States, even more people live vicariously in an American utopia via increased modes of consumerism, invoking anxiety about its impact on the non man-made world.
Online Covariance Matrix Estimation in Stochastic Gradient Descent
Creators: name: Zhu, Wanrong
name: Chen, Xi
name: Wu, Wei Biao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: The stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm is widely used for parameter estimation, especially for huge datasets and online learning. While this recursive algorithm is popular for computation and memory efficiency, quantifying variability and randomness of the solutions has been rarely studied. This article aims at conducting statistical inference of SGD-based estimates in an online setting. In particular, we propose a fully online estimator for the covariance matrix of averaged SGD (ASGD) iterates only using the iterates from SGD. We formally establish our online estimator’s consistency and show that the convergence rate is comparable to offline counterparts. Based on the classic asymptotic normality results of ASGD, we construct asymptotically valid confidence intervals for model parameters. Upon receiving new observations, we can quickly update the covariance matrix estimate and the confidence intervals. This approach fits in an online setting and takes full advantage of SGD: efficiency in computation and memory.
La temperatura y radiación solar explican diferencias en la distribución de dos árboles altoandinos (Polylepis spp.) localmente simpátricos en la Cordillera Blanca, Perú
Creators: name: Sevillano-Ríos, C. Steven
name: Morales, Laura V.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Knowledge of the ecological requirements, the current extensions, and cover of a species is important for its management conservation, but this information is lacking for many species of Polylepis (ROSACEA). Here we use niche modeling to understand the ecological requirements of two Polylepis species natively found in sympatry within the Huascarán National Park (HNP) (Cordillera Blanca, Peru), Polylepis albicans and P. webebaueri, and produce species distribution maps restricted by forest cover to estimate each species' current cover within the park . Based on presence/absence data collected systematically throughout their local elevational distribution and analyzed using a Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA) and generalized linear models (glm), the best models show that P. albicans and P. weberbaueri have different environmental niches and their occupation is maximized at different climatic ranges mainly associated with temperature (annual mean temperature and mean monthly temperature range) and solar radiation during the dry season. P. albicans occupies warmer and drier areas than P. weberbaueri, which leads to a spatial segregation that has implications for the conservation management of each species. However, it is necessary to evaluate if the models described here adequately capture the environmental niche of other populations of P. weberbaueri, or if these could be new species. Our results indicate that within the HNP, the extension of Polylepis forests (~ 24,000 ha; 11,361 ha of P. albicans and 12,627 ha of P. weberbaueri) is significantly greater than that previously reported and confirm that this protected area harbors the greatest extensions of both species in Peru and its proper management is key for their conservation and that of the ecosystems they constitute.
Historical Optimism: the Use of Utopia in the Enlightenment Era
Creators: name: Crawford, Amy
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: In this paper, I will argue that the use of utopian literature in the Enlightenment displays the historical optimism found in that era by looking at three texts in their historical situation: Thomas More s Utopia (1516), a traditional utopian model, as a product of the Renaissance and the age of discovery; Aphra Behn s Oroonoko (1688), a dystopic text, as a text of Resto-ration, the age of desolation; and Sarah Scott s Millenium Hall (1762), a feminist utopian text, as a text occurring in the Enlightenment, the age of categorisation.
The accuracy of two- and three-way Positive Matrix Factorization models: Applying simulated multi-sites datasets
Creators: name: Tian, Ying-Ze
name: Shi, Guo-Liang
name: Han, Bo
name: Wang, Wei
name: Zhou, Xiao-Yu
name: Wang, Jiao
name: Li, Xiang
name: Feng, Yin-Chang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Hematology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Information and Computing Sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biochemistry

description: ABSTRACTThe application of three-way datasets (combined multi-site datasets) for source apportionment has become common, but its influence on the performance of receptor modeling techniques hasn’t yet been explored systematically. To study the influence of site-to-site correlations of source contributions and the spatial variability of source profiles on two- and three-way Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF), simulated three-way datasets were constructed and modeled by different applications of PMF (PMF2 for each site individually, PMF2 for datasets combining all sites together and PMF3 for all sites). In addition, the performance of PMF was evaluated under conditions of collinearity and different source categories at two sites. The results indicated that, if the sites were contributed by sources with identical profiles, the site-to-site correlations of source contributions would not influence the PMF2, and the three-way blocks could be used by PMF2. However, the PMF2 using three-way datasets was sensitive to the spatial variability of source profiles. For the three-way model, PMF3 could perform well only when all of the sources exhibited strong site-to-site associations among all sites, and at the same time, the spatial variability of source profiles were sufficiently small. It might due to the algorithm that, for each source, PMF3 produces the same source profile and the same temporal variation in daily contributions among all sites.
IMPLICATIONSThe application of multi-sites datasets for source apportionment has become common. However, limited work investigated the accuracy of two- and three-way PMFs when using multi-sites datasets. If the application of PMFs using multi-site datasets wasn’t appropriate, the results would be unreasonable. The unreasonable results would supply confused information for PM control strategies. In this work, simulated multi-site datasets were modeled by different applications of PMFs. The effort to assess and compare the performance of two- and three-way PMFs using multi-sites datasets is very limited. The findings could provide information for the multi-sites source apportionment.
Projecting the theoretical niche of a recently re-discovered population of feral Asian water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) in the North Rupununi wetlands, Guyana
Creators: name: Hallett, Matthew T.
name: Pereira, Gerard
name: Ambrose, Oswin
name: McTurk, Diane
name: Bankovich, Brittany A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: We provide documentation of a population of feral domestic Asian water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) that has persisted in the wetlands of the North Rupununi Region of Guyana for more than 75 years. Historical records indicate that water buffalo were incidentally introduced to the Rupununi by the colonial administration of British Guiana. Personal observations, camera trap photos, and reports of opportunistic encounters populate our maximum-entropy model, which projects a total of 2,489 km2 of suitable water buffalo habitat across the region, including 1,076 km2 of the RAMSAR-nominated North Rupununi wetlands (~11% of total land area). Key informants indicate that populations appear to have slowly increased and expanded their range over the past 30 years but fall far below projections using even the lowest population densities at ecologically analogous sites published in peer-reviewed literature. We discuss potential ecological impacts of water buffalo persistence and inhibitors of population growth by drawing on case studies from ecologically analogous locations.
Editorial and front matter: Colloquy, Issue 16, December 2008
Creators: name: Colloquy
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: The second issue of Colloquy: text theory critique for 2008 includes a themed section dedicated to reflections upon Walter Benjamin's "Critique of Violence" and Jacques Derrida's "Force of Law" and comes accompanied by its own substantial introduction, which deals with the ideas and authors included in it. Alongside this excellent array of postgraduate articles, of which all involved may feel justifiable pride, this issue includes four general articles, a translation and some book reviews.
Paul Bogard, ed. Let There Be Night. Reno, Nevada: University of Nevada Press, 2008. [Book Review]
Creators: name: Berry, Geoff
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Fascinated as I am by NASA photos of the planet at night, which reveal stark and beautiful cities of light at the centres of settlement civilization, I wanted to find out what this book had to say about the symbolic values of the darkness expunged by the material fact of electronically fuelled light pollution. As the title suggests, the writers collected in this volume give voice to the subtle, sometimes intangible things we lose when we turn away from the darkness of the night to reside within the ubiquitous urban glow of modernity. They question the symbolic component of all this burning, so bright it lights up the planet at night, while celebrating the values and qualities attributable to the darkness we witness away from city lights under the stars, in the countryside and the way they can enrich the life of any person comfortable with being extended in this way.
Online Covariance Matrix Estimation in Stochastic Gradient Descent
Creators: name: Zhu, Wanrong
name: Chen, Xi
name: Wu, Wei Biao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: The stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm is widely used for parameter estimation, especially for huge data sets and online learning. While this recursive algorithm is popular for computation and memory efficiency, quantifying variability and randomness of the solutions has been rarely studied. This paper aims at conducting statistical inference of SGD-based estimates in an online setting. In particular, we propose a fully online estimator for the covariance matrix of averaged SGD iterates (ASGD) only using the iterates from SGD. We formally establish our online estimator’s consistency and show that the convergence rate is comparable to offline counterparts. Based on the classic asymptotic normality results of ASGD, we construct asymptotically valid confidence intervals for model parameters. Upon receiving new observations, we can quickly update the covariance matrix estimate and the confidence intervals. This approach fits in an online setting and takes full advantage of SGD: efficiency in computation and memory.
The structure of tardigrade communities at fine spatial scales in an Andean Polylepis forest
Creators: name: Ramsay, Balbina P.L.
name: Marley, Nigel J.
name: Bilton, David T.
name: Rundle, Simon D.
name: Ramsay, Paul M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Little is known about distribution patterns of micrometazoan organisms at different spatial scales and the mechanisms driving these patterns across different environments. Here we explore the fine-scale structure of tardigrades in a high-elevation Polylepis forest in northern Ecuador. To investigate spatial patterns of tardigrade abundance, we collected samples from different bryophyte taxa (hosts) on the woodland floor. We identified some tardigrades to species, but most taxa were considered at the level of morphological operational taxonomic units. Tardigrade assemblages differed in composition between host taxa, with some tardigrade taxa associated more with certain hosts, which might relate to host architecture or chemistry. Tardigrade occupancy, richness and abundance varied considerably between samples, and we estimate that more than 50 samples are required to estimate tardigrade taxon richness in this forest habitat. Physical distance between samples was not related to similarity of composition, and it seems that fine-scale differences in environmental conditions (including the distribution of host bryophytes) is much more important in determining tardigrade composition. We conclude that standardised, comprehensive sampling of terrestrial tardigrades at fine scales is necessary before making broader comparisons at coarser geographical scales. Such sampling should account for the diversity of potential hosts, with sufficient replication to capture tardigrade diversity.
Introduction: Violence and Critique
Creators: name: Salzani, Carlo
name: FitzGerald, Michael
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: The questions of violence, justice and judgment define one of the most resonant and constant concerns of contemporary thought. In part, this is only a reflection of what are often called the "realities on the ground" (the intonation is, of course, that to pursue these questions as questions is already to be "in the air" or "in the clouds"). In the few years of this century the logic of violence, and even its aestheticisation – whether as terror or as "shock and awe," or in the citizen's daily vocation to be "alert but not alarmed" – have become the familiar data of current experience.
Genetic variation of salinity tolerance in Chinese natural bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.) germplasm resources
Creators: name: Chen, Jingbo
name: Zong, Junqin
name: Gao, Yanzhi
name: Chen, Yu
name: Jiang, Qiaofeng
name: Zheng, Yiqi
name: Liu, Jianxiu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.) is a widely used turfgrass in tropical, subtropical and warm-temperate regions in the world. It is a salinity-tolerant plant, but much genetic variation exists among its genotypes. Genetic diversity has been shown to exist from a morphologic level to a molecular level among Chinese natural bermudagrass germplasm resources; however, the extent of variation in their salinity tolerance has remained unclear. We conducted greenhouse hydroponic and sand culture experiments to evaluate the variation in salinity tolerance of natural bermudagrass germplasm resources obtained from their main areas of distribution in China and treated at a 33 dS m−1 salinity level for three weeks. Compared with non-saline controls, salinity stress significantly decreased shoot clipping weight (46.5% and 44.2%) and increased leaf firing (41.1% and 37.6%) in hydroponic and sand culture experiments, respectively, across all genotypes. However, significant genetic variations in relative leaf firing percentage (RLF) and relative shoot weight (RSW) were found among genotypes in both experiments, and their coefficients of variation ranged from 25.5% to 41.6%, indicating that considerable variation exists in the salinity tolerance of Chinese natural bermudagrass germplasm resources. Shoot Na+ concentrations increased under salinity stress for all genotypes in both experiments. However, significant genetic variations were also found in shoot Na+ concentrations. Salinity tolerance in bermudagrass genotypes was found to be significantly negatively correlated with shoot Na+ concentrations in both experiments. Using a cluster analysis of RLF and RSW data, all genotypes were classified into four groups with different salinity tolerances. The results of our evaluation indicate that there is much potential for improving salinity tolerance among Chinese natural bermudagrass cultivars.
Michel Faber. The Fire Gospel Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2008. [Book Review]
Creators: name: Berry, Geoff
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Since publishing its first edition in 2005, the Myths Series has presented a wide variety of volumes, each by different authors, which capture multivalent aspects of the mythic in literature. In the broadest terms, the qualities that make a tale mythic should include exploration of the connection between human and sacred worlds (tracing the metaphysical element to our lives, as Joseph Campbell urged) and explorations of narratives so pervasive that they work to structure the very way we think (as pointed out by Claude Lévi-Strauss). While the publishers may be accused of stretching this in their stated aim to convey tales of universal and timeless stories, they can certainly be said to have succeeded in providing a richly textured set of examples that make mythic themes and concerns contemporary, exciting and valid, both as entertainment and as spiritual nourishment.
Hent de Vries and Lawrence E. Sullivan, eds. Political Theologies: Public Religions in a Post-Secular World. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. [Book Review] // Clayton Crockett, ed. Religion and Violence in a Secular World: Toward a New Political Theology. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2006. [Book Review]
Creators: name: Chrulew, Matthew
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Like all such turns by which the humanities are narrated, the recent theological turn, or return of religion, has those who view it cynically, as a fashion, and others who treat it more positively, as an apposite engagement with contemporary events. Certainly this debate now occupies a place at the forefront of critical theory, as indicated by the numerous books, collections and journal issues devoted to the theme. But there might seem something particularly frightening about this trend; for many secular academics, theology and religion should have been excised from the public sphere by an Enlightened politics long ago.
Additional file 1: of Genetic regulation of methylation in human endometrium and blood and gene targets for reproductive diseases
Creators: name: Mortlock, Sally
name: Restuadi, Restuadi
name: Levien, Rupert
name: Girling, Jane
name: Holdsworth-Carson, Sarah
name: Healey, Martin
name: Zhu, Zhihong
name: Qi, Ting
name: Wu, Yang
name: Lukowski, Samuel
name: Rogers, Peter
name: Yang, Jian
name: McRae, Allan
name: Fung, Jenny
name: Montgomery, Grant
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Notes. (PDF 65 kb)
Violence as Pure Praxis: Benjamin and Sorel on Strike, Myth and Ethics
Creators: name: Salzani, Carlo
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: Though for the Western political tradition violence is usually deemed merely instrumental, and thus neither essential to, nor constitutive of, the bios politikos, Walter Benjaminís "Zur Kritik der Gewalt" ["Critique of Violence," 1921] and Georges Sorelís Réflexions sur la violence [Reflections on Violence, 1908] constitute an exception. In very different ways, both texts put forward a notion of violence which comes to coincide with pure praxis, that is, with pure political action, in great contrast with a political tradition which rather identifies in violence a non-political or anti-political form of action. In Benjamin's case, the ambiguity of the term Gewalt is not secondary to the argument: in German, it can mean force, power, might and violence, depending on the context; it reunites thus potestas and violentia in a dialectics that Etienne Balibar values as positive and fructuous. The French violence, on the contrary, presents a univocal connotation, though Sorel, as we will see, redefines it to his own purposes. However, the explanation cannot be limited to the terminology, but must rather be pursued in their notion of praxis.