cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Tipping points for broadband users
Creators: name: Barr, Trevor
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper draws upon Malcom Gladwell's notion of 'The Tipping Point' in the context of the development of new broadband services. The new Rudd Labor government has committed $4.7 billion of Australian government capital to assist in the construction of a new national fibre broadband network. Broadband platforms have enabled a different service paradigm from all of their predecessors, and three categories of broadband services are discussed here---called managed, unmanaged, and publicly supported services. Examples of related service innovations are drawn upon from overseas models, particularly The Netherlands and Canada. The notion of the 'tipping point' is then examined in the context of three different end-user domains related to broadband systems; namely social networking sites, community ownership models that build community services, and the vexed eHealth service domain. The government National Broadband Network (NBN) tender process appears to have given little attention to what services are likely to be acceptable to, or needed by, Australian broadband consumers in the future. Hence a call is made for the 'tipping point' that is so much needed---a new policy framework that will provide constructive consumer participation on key policy decision making.
Chancen und Risiken 4.0
Creators: name: Bendel, Oliver
Publisher: name: Swiss Professional Media
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: ZUKUNFTSPROJEKT. Der Begriff der Industrie 4.0 ist in aller Munde. Aber was meint er? Welche Bereiche der Wirtschaft sind betroffen? Wie verändern sich unsere Arbeit und unser Alltag? Und kann auch die Schweiz von den Ansätzen profitieren?
Drift performance of facade systems
Creators: name: Sivanerupan, Siva
name: Wilson, John
name: Gad, Emad
name: Lam, Nelson
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Façade systems in Australia have evolved to suit marketplace demands from an aesthetic, economic and sustainable perspective. The structural design of façade involves the analysis and design of the panels and connections to resist the out-of plane wind pressures and to accommodate in-plane deflections resulting from wind induced building drift, long term floor deflections and thermal movement. In addition, the façade systems need to be able to resist earthquake loading without collapse and an important performance parameter is the ultimate drift capacity of the façade, particularly for glazed curtain wall systems. A literature review has been conducted investigating glazed curtain walls including current trends, damage reported in past earthquakes and research into the seismic performance and drift capacity. This paper also describes the finite element modelling techniques used to investigate the in-plane performance of glazed façades along with a comparison with previous experimental results.
The Recursive System of Structural Law
Creators: name: Shipkowski, James
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This document introduces and formally proves a complete recursive structural law governing convergence, collapse, and identity across all lawful systems. Rooted in five irreducible axioms, the system defines three universal laws:

 

Convergent Gravity — recursion accelerates alignment once correction exceeds distortion.

Irreversible Structure — once identity returns, it structurally locks and cannot reverse.

Recursive Filtering — mimicry and incoherence collapse under recursive pressure.

 

 

The law is proven through mathematical expression, logical deduction, and full behavioral simulations. All gates, transitions, collapse conditions, and attractor states are modeled precisely. No external assets are required; all graphs and plots are embedded using native LaTeX PGFPlots.

 

This system applies directly to:

 

Recursive cognition

AGI alignment and mimic detection

Collapse behavior in formal logic

Structural convergence in ontology and physics

 

 

It includes a formal descent model from unbounded potential (\aleph) to recursive identity return (\Omega). The law is structurally complete, fully local, and provably deterministic — with no claims of entanglement or non-locality. Recursive identity is the filter, and return is the lock.
"Ich würde zu tausend Jahren nicht Nein sagen". Marcel Weber über Unsterblichkeitswünsche und ihre Folgen
Creators: name: Baumann, Nathalie
Publisher: name: Tamedia
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Die maximale Lebenserwartung beträgt gegenwärtig 120 Jahre. Doch das ist noch nicht des Alterns letzter Schluss. Marcel Weber, Professor für Philosophie an der Universität Konstanz, erläutert, wie fortgeschritten die «Kunst, das menschliche Leben zu verlängern» (Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland), ist und welche ethischen Probleme damit verknüpft sind.
Biosolids as a construction material for engineered fills
Creators: name: Suthagaran, V.
name: Arulrajah, Arul
name: Bo, Myint
name: Wilson, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Biosolids are defined as appropriately treated sewage sludge consisting of untreated organic slurry residue derived from wastewater treatment processes. The use of biosolids and other waste materials in a sustainable manner is currently being investigated in several countries around the world. A series of field and laboratory test were performed at the Western Treatment Plant in Victoria, Australia to assess the viability of using biosolids as fill material for road embankments. Geotechnical parameters obtained from the field and laboratory tests were compared with the existing local road authority specification for fill material.
Informationsethik. Moral auf Knopfdruck gibt es nicht
Creators: name: Bendel, Oliver
name: Baumann, Nathalie
Publisher: name: Swiss Professional Media
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Abhängigkeit von IT und IT-Unternehmen, Überwachung im Netz und auf der Strasse: In der Informationsgesellschaft sind moralische und rechtliche Herausforderungen vorhanden. Eine neue Plattform der Hochschule für Wirtschaft FHNW widmet sich Informationsethik und Medienkompetenz. Initiator Bendel stellt sie vor.
Evaluating the world's largest entrepreneurship education program
Creators: name: Moremong-Nganunu, Topyame
name: Cunningham, Everarda
name: Hindle, Kevin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: An entrepreneurial training program called Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) is supported by the International Labour Organization. SIYB is a United Nations program developed in Sweden with the aim of developing entrepreneurial and business skills. It operates in more than 80 countries and is arguably the largest and longest lived such program in history (Samuelsen, 2003). However, there is no rigorous empirical evidence supporting the efficacy of this program. Botswana is one of the many countries running the SIYB program. SIYB was introduced in Botswana in 1983 but has only been evaluated once---and poorly---in 1993. So, the world's largest entrepreneurial training program continues to run in Botswana at great expense despite the absence of hard evidence concerning its efficacy. Due to a number of factors including an excellent database Botswana provides the ideal test environment for assessing the efficacy of both the specific SIYB program and a range of generic issues pertaining to entrepreneurship education in developing countries. The study articulated in this abstract forms part of a research project that seeks to examine the efficacy of the SIYB program in the wider context of understanding the issues relevant to entrepreneurship education in developing, as distinct from developed, countries.
Why protect biodiversity? Perspectives of conservation professionals in Poland
Creators: name: Malgorzata Blicharska
name: Grandin, Ulf
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Ecology
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: There are numerous strategies to reverse biodiversity decline, ranging from economic, through ecological, to ethical ones. Which arguments are used in the conservation may have bearing on the actual implementation of biodiversity policies. To understand conservation professionals’ perceptions of biodiversity is particularly important in the countries in transition, where the new environmental policies are being implemented, the approaches to governance are changing and new biodiversity discourses are emerging. This study investigates what the biodiversity conservation professionals in Poland believe the rationale behind conservation is. We reveal two main perspectives – one focused on intrinsic value of biodiversity and one underlining its utilitarian value. Even if the intrinsic value perspective prevails, the economic framing of biodiversity value is emerging. This framing is important in the face of the ongoing changes in Poland with focus on economic development and relatively little attention paid to biodiversity. The utilitarian approach to conservation, reinforced by the concept of ecosystem services, can be used to supplement the emerging biodiversity discourse strengthening the conservation case. The richness of perspectives among the conservation professionals can facilitate deliberate construction of the new conservation discourse in Poland combining the notion of intrinsic value of nature with the utilitarian approach.
Bildung für die Massen Chancen und Risiken von MOOCs
Creators: name: Bendel, Oliver
Publisher: name: Netzmedien
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) ermöglichen Bildung für die Massen. Der junge Markt ist ständig in Bewegung. Man kann von kostenlosen Angeboten in englischer und deutscher Sprache profitieren. Nur, wie lange noch?
Cambios Territoriales en Galicia y la gestión del territorio. Administración y planificación territorial en Galicia
Creators: name: Fernández_Prado, Martín
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Administracion, territorio, Galicia, municipio, planificacion territorial, ordenacion del territorio

description: Revisión de los cambios territoriales que acontecieron en Galicia durante la segunda mitad del S.XX, con especial atención a la organización administrativa municipal.
title: MÖHRE :
title: Richtlinien für die Durchführung der Prüfung auf Unterscheidbarkeit, Homogenität und Beständigkeit.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unas)
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2023

description: Zweck dieser Richtlinien („Prüfungsrichtlinien“) ist es, die in der Allgemeinen Einführung (Dokument TG/1/3) und deren verbundenen TGP-Dokumenten enthaltenen Grundsätze in detaillierte praktische Anleitung für die harmonisierte Prüfung der Unterscheidbarkeit, der Homogenität und der Beständigkeit (DUS) umzusetzen und insbesondere geeignete Merkmale für die DUS-Prüfung und die Erstellung harmonisierter Sortenbeschreibungen auszuweisen.
Green Franchising
Creators: name: Bellone, Veronika
name: Matla, Thomas
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 332 - Finanzwirtschaft

description: Wirtschaftsunternehmen sind oft traditionell geprägt, doch die Zeiten ändern sich rasant. Die Konsumierenden und auch B-to-B-Märkte fordern nachhaltiges und gesellschaftsverantwortliches Wirtschaften. Franchising kann diese Werte schnell aufnehmen und systematisch multiplizieren. Damit wird es zum Treiber der Nachhaltigkeitsbewegung. Veronika Bellone und Thomas Matla präsentieren einen grünen Faden zur nachhaltigen Multiplikation, mit Blick hinter die Kulissen.
International collaboration, mobility and team diversity in the life sciences: impact on research performance
Creators: name: Barjak, Franz
name: Robinson, Simon
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Wissenschaft
subject: Forschungsteam
subject: Diversität
subject: Forschungskooperation
subject: Produktivität
subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 659 - Werbung & Public Releations (PR)

description: The combination of knowledge and skills from different backgrounds or research cultures is often considered good for science. This paper describes the extent to which academic research teams in the life sciences draw on knowledge from different research cultures and how this is related to their research performance. We distinguish between international collaboration of research teams from different countries and cultural diversity of research teams resulting from team members with different countries of origin. Our results show that the most successful teams have a moderate level of cultural diversity; in addition, successful teams engage in collaboration activities with teams from other European countries and the US leading to joint publications. These results have implications for research team management and for research policy, in particular in relation to supporting measures for mobile scientists.
Case Studies of e-Infrastructure Adoption
Creators: name: Barjak, Franz
name: Wiegand, Gordon
name: Lane, Julia
name: Kertcher, Zack
name: Poschen, Meik
name: Procter, Rob
name: Robinson, Simon
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: e-Social Science
subject: e-Infrastruktur
subject: Forschungsinfrastruktur
subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 659 - Werbung & Public Releations (PR)

description: We report results from a study of e-Infrastructure adoption in the social sciences and humanities. We find that bridging barriers between computer and domain scientists is of key importance. In particular, SSH communities have to be accepted as being distinct and not suited to a “one size fits all” strategy of e-Infrastructure diffusion. Sustainability was also a core issue, whereas barriers to resource sharing could mostly be resolved with technological solutions, and skills and training activities are a reflection of the general “user dilemma”. Our recommendations to EU policy-makers point the way to promoting e-Infrastructure development and application in the social sciences and humanities.
Sinnlose Wettbewerbe - Warum wir immer mehr Unsinn produzieren
Creators: name: Binswanger, Mathias
Publisher: name: Herder
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 659 - Werbung & Public Releations (PR)

description: Je mehr Wettbewerb - desto mehr Wachstum, das ist der fatale Irrtum des einseiteigen Marktdenkens. Schließlich soll sich doch der, die oder das Beste durchsetzen. Also versucht man, auch dort, wo es keinen Markt gibt, künstliche Wettbewerbe zu inszenieren, um z.B. Wissenschaft, Bildung oder Gesundheitswesen auf Effizienz zu trimmen. Doch dies führt nicht zu mehr Qualität, sondern dazu, dass viele Menschen freudlos und gestresst mit Akribie und Fleiß Dinge hervorbringen, die niemand braucht. Der kompetente Autor vertritt die Meinung, dass diese Produktion von Unsinn zwar Arbeitsplätze schafft, doch fatale Folgen für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft hat: Sinn wird durch Unsinn verdrängt, Qualität durch Quantität.
Using electronic repositories as a student resource for MSE applications
Creators: name: Blicblau, Aaron
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In the majority of engineering disciplines, MSE provides resources and applications with many other areas of engineering, e.g., design, structures, mechanics, and manufacturing. For the students to transfer and implement their MSE knowledge, they must have easy access to all their information. The eportfolio is a repository of the student's entire academic MSE content and provides a wealth of knowledge applicable to all engineering disciplines. This repository combines not only lecture and textbook material, but also every assignment (in assessed format), all quizzes (with answers) laboratory activities (in audiovisual format), student oral presentations (podcast), and lectures in asynchronous format. This allows all of the data and information accumulated by students throughout their varying MSE course collected in one place, and is able to act as a quick resource and information kit for future use as the eportfolio is quickly accessed. Student and graduate responses have been positive especially for those in the workforce who require immediate and correct information.
Strategisches Management. Visionen entwickeln, Strategien umsetzen, Erfolgspotentiale aufbauen
Creators: name: Abplanalp, Peter
name: Lombriser, Roman
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 659 - Werbung & Public Releations (PR)

description: Das strategische Management ist entscheidend für den langfristigen Erfolg jeder Geschäftstätigkeit ob in grossen oder kleinen Unternehmen, ob in öffentlichen oder privaten Organisationen. In diesem Buch wird der Prozess des strategischen Managements ausführlich und Schritt für Schritt vorgestellt und eine fundierte Übersicht über die wesentlichen Konzepte und Instrumente gegeben. - Visionen entwickeln: Vision und Leitbild setzen die Rahmenbedingungen für die langfristige Ausrichtung des Unternehmens. - Erfolgspotenziale aufbauen: Der Aufbau strategischer Erfolgspotenziale verhilft zum entscheidenden Wettbewerbsvorteil. - Strategien umsetzen: Erfolgreiche Konzepte und Modelle zeigen, wie unternehmerische Strategien entwickelt, umgesetzt und kontrolliert werden können.
Entwicklung und Identität im Jugendalter
Creators: name: Neuenschwander, Markus
Publisher: name: Haupt
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Schule als öffentlicher Erziehungsraum
subject: 370 - Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

description: Wurde auch übersetzt ins portugiesische: Desenvolvimento e identidade na adolescência. Übersetzt von Laura Tschampel. Coimbra: Almedina, 2002
Молодежь выбирает будущее без наркотиков: Постер
Creators: name: Сергеевич, Шевченко Александр
name: Белоцерковский Юрий Иванович
name: Берковский Алексей Сергеевич
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: наркомании
профилактика
Международный день борьбы со злоупотреблением наркотическими средствами и их незаконным оборотом
drug addiction
prevention
International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking

description: На русском: [Молодежь выбирает будущее без наркотиков: Постер / разработан Шевченко А.С., Белоцерковский Ю.И., Берковский А.С.; БФ "Червона стрічка", МОМХ, ХОЦПС, Харьков, Украина (2003, 26 июня). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3756914] Международный день борьбы со злоупотреблением наркотическими средствами и их незаконным оборотом отмечается ежегодно 26 июня по инициативе Генеральной ассамблеи ООН с 1988 года. Кампания 2003 года проходила под лозунгом "Давайте поговорим о наркотиках". В городе Харькове Харьковский областной центр профилактики и борьбы со СПИДом, Благотворительный фонд "Червона стрічка" и Молодежная Организация Медиков Харькова провели акцию и выпустили этот плакат, который был размещен в вагонах харьковского метрополитена при поддержке Харьковского городского совета. Ключевые слова: наркомании, профилактика, Международный день борьбы со злоупотреблением наркотическими средствами и их незаконным оборотом. In English: [Young people choose the future without drugs: Poster / designed by Shevchenko, A.S., Belotserkovsky, Yu.I., Berkovsky, A.S.; Charity Foundation "Red Ribbon", MYOKh, KhRCPFA, Kharkov, Ukraine (2003, June 26). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3756914 (In Russian)] International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking held annually on June 26 at the initiative of the UN General Assembly since 1988. The 2003 campaign was held under the slogan "Let's talk about drugs." In Kharkov-city, the Kharkiv Regional Center for AIDS Prevention and Control, Charitable Foundation "Red Ribbon", and the Medical Youth Organization of Kharkiv held a campaign and issued this poster, which was placed subway cars with the support of the Kharkiv City Council. Keywords: drug addiction, prevention, International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
Strategizing to improve entrepreneurial orientation: the case of small firms
Creators: name: Verreynne, Martie-Louise
name: Meyer, Denny
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Developing an entrepreneurial orientation has been proven beneficial to firms, but for small firms this may be too resource consuming. This paper aims to offer a unique perspective on how small firms can improve their entrepreneurial orientation while making optimal use of limited resources. It describes the results of an empirical study of strategy-making processes and entrepreneurial orientation in small firms. The structural equation analysis of the data from 454 small firms indicates that adaptive strategy-making has the strongest impact on entrepreneurial orientation, supported by participative and intrapreneurial strategy-making.
Evaluation of a proposed and an existing dust ventilation/collection system in an underground mine crushing plant
Creators: name: Naser, Jamal
name: Alam, Firoz
name: Khan, M
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling of two alternative dust collection systems in an underground mine-crushing plant was carried out. In the proposed system, dust was collected/absorbed through the holes along the top edge of the Run of Mine (ROM) bin. In the existing conventional approach, the outgoing dust laden air is collected through an exit in the ceiling. The dust collection performances of both systems were summarized. Detail results are presented in the form of velocity vectors and dust concentration iso-surface contours. Dust was found to be well contained within the crusher bin for the proposed system and stands out as a viable option. However, the velocity magnitudes were found to be high in and around the hole exits, which has the potential to lead to undesirable pressure drop and generation of noise.
Molecular perception of interactions between bis(7)tacrine and cystamine-tacrine dimer with cholinesterases as the promising proposed agents for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease
Creators: name: Mahboobeh Eslami
name: Hashemianzadeh, Seyed Majid
name: Kowsar Bagherzadeh
name: Sajadi, Seyed Abolfazl Seyed
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The infamous chronic neurodegenerative disease, Alzheimer’s, that starts with short-term memory loss and eventually leads to gradual bodily function decline which has been attributed to the deficiency in brain neurotransmitters, acetylcholine, and butylcholine. As a matter of fact, design of compounds that can inhibit cholinesterases activities (acetylcholinesterase and butylcholinesterase) has been introduced as an efficient method to treat Alzheimer’s. Among proposed compounds, bis(7)tacrine (B7T) is recognized as a noteworthy suppressor for Alzheimer’s disease. Recently a new analog of B7T, cystamine-tacrine dimer is offered as an agent to detain Alzheimer’s complications, even better than the parent compound. In this study, classical molecular dynamic simulations have been employed to take a closer look into the modes of interactions between the mentioned ligands and both cholinesterase enzymes. According to our obtained results, the structural differences in the target enzymes active sites result in different modes of interactions and inhibition potencies of the ligands against both enzymes. The obtained information can help to investigate those favorable fragments in the studied ligands skeletons that have raised the potency of the analog in comparison with the parent compound to design more potent multi target ligands to heal Alzheimer’s disease.
Molecular perception of interactions between bis(7)tacrine and cystamine-tacrine dimer with cholinesterases as the promising proposed agents for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease
Creators: name: Mahboobeh Eslami
name: Hashemianzadeh, Seyed Majid
name: Kowsar Bagherzadeh
name: Sajadi, Seyed Abolfazl Seyed
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The infamous chronic neurodegenerative disease, Alzheimer’s, that starts with short-term memory loss and eventually leads to gradual bodily function decline which has been attributed to the deficiency in brain neurotransmitters, acetylcholine, and butylcholine. As a matter of fact, design of compounds that can inhibit cholinesterases activities (acetylcholinesterase and butylcholinesterase) has been introduced as an efficient method to treat Alzheimer’s. Among proposed compounds, bis(7)tacrine (B7T) is recognized as a noteworthy suppressor for Alzheimer’s disease. Recently a new analog of B7T, cystamine-tacrine dimer is offered as an agent to detain Alzheimer’s complications, even better than the parent compound. In this study, classical molecular dynamic simulations have been employed to take a closer look into the modes of interactions between the mentioned ligands and both cholinesterase enzymes. According to our obtained results, the structural differences in the target enzymes active sites result in different modes of interactions and inhibition potencies of the ligands against both enzymes. The obtained information can help to investigate those favorable fragments in the studied ligands skeletons that have raised the potency of the analog in comparison with the parent compound to design more potent multi target ligands to heal Alzheimer’s disease.
A study of spin effects on tennis ball aerodynamics
Creators: name: Alam, Firoz
name: Subic, Aleksandar
name: Naser, Jamal
name: Rasul, Mohammad
name: Khan, M
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Due to complex surface structure, the aerodynamic behaviour of a tennis ball is significantly different compared to other sports balls. This difference is more obvious when spin is involved. Although several studies have been conducted on drag and lift in steady state condition (no spin involved) by the authors and others, little or no studies have been conducted on spin effect. It is known that the spinning can affect aerodynamic drag and lift of a tennis ball thus the motion and flight of the ball. The primary objective of this work was to study the effect of spin using experimental and computational methods. Several new tennis balls were used in experimental study as function of wind speed, seam orientation and spins. A simplified model of a tennis ball was used in computational study using commercial software ‘FLUENT’. The simulation results were compared with the experimental findings. The study shows that the spin has significant effects on the drag and lift of a new tennis ball, and the averaged drag coefficient is relatively higher compared to the non- spin condition. The study has also found a significant variation between CFD and EFD results as the complex tennis ball with fuzz elements was difficult to model in CFD.
Interfacial phenomena in metal-slag reactions: past, present and future
Creators: name: Rhamdhani, Akbar
name: Brooks, Geoffrey
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Interfacial phenomena, which include interface turbulence, lowering of apparent interfacial tension, and spontaneous emulsification, have been observed in high temperature metal processes involving reactions between liquid metals and liquid slags. The major importance of these phenomena are that they can increase the reacting interface up to five hundred percent of initial value and can also increase mass transfer rate, thus significantly enhances the overall reaction rate. It has been almost six decades since the phenomena was first documented in laboratory by Kozakevitch using x-ray radiography technique and numerous studies have been carried out since then. However, the complexities of the problem, limitations in experimental techniques, difficulties in experimental work resulting in the lack of quantitative experimental data, among many, prevent the holistic understanding of the phenomena. The current paper will review the previous studies, the present understanding and challenges as well as the future research on interfacial phenomena in slag-metal reactions along with their potential application for a new advanced metal processing.
Molecular perception of interactions between bis(7)tacrine and cystamine-tacrine dimer with cholinesterases as the promising proposed agents for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease
Creators: name: Mahboobeh Eslami
name: Hashemianzadeh, Seyed Majid
name: Kowsar Bagherzadeh
name: Sajadi, Seyed Abolfazl Seyed
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Information and Computing Sciences
Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Biotechnology
Pharmacology
Neuroscience
Cell Biology
Biochemistry

description: The infamous chronic neurodegenerative disease, Alzheimer’s, that starts with short term memory loss and eventually leads to gradual bodily function decline which has been attributed to the deficiency in brain neurotransmitters, acetylcholine and butylcholine. As a matter of fact, design of compounds that can inhibit cholinesterases activities (acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butylcholinesterase (BChE)) has been introduced as an efficient method to treat Alzheimer’s. Among proposed compounds, bis(7)tacrine (B7T) is recognized as a noteworthy suppressor for Alzheimer’s disease. Recently a new analogue of bis(7)tacrine, cystamine-tacrine dimer is offered as an agent to detain Alzheimer’s complications, even better than the parent compound. In this study, classical molecular dynamic simulations has been employed to take a closer look into the modes of interactions between the mentioned ligands and both cholinesterase enzymes. According to our obtained results, the structural differences in the target enzymes active sites result in different modes of interactions and inhibition potencies of the ligands against both enzymes. The obtained information can help to investigate those favorable fragments in the studied ligands skeletons that have risen potency of the analogue in comparison to the parent compound to design more potent multi target ligands to heal Alzheimer’s disease.
Application of Classical Compound-Poisson Risk Models in Barrier Strategies
Creators: name: Ouafi, Khaled
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computation Theory and Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we propose a discrete-time counterpart of the classical compound Poisson and several applications of a bivariate extension of the Dickson-Waters discretisation. We expose numerous examples, including forth-looking scenario of ruin and surplus models
The economic and social features of immigrant and ethnic enterprises in Australia
Creators: name: Dini, Kourosh
name: Thandi, Harchand
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper reviews the main researches conducted in Australia on immigrants and ethnic groups. It analyses statistics and official reports mainly from OECD countries and Australian Bureau of Statistics. It then highlights major contributions of immigrants and ethnic groups to the Australian economy and society. It also reviews 'expert opinion' on how ethnic communities and ethnic business characteristics in Australia reflect established ethnic theoretical frameworks. The latter are examined for validity. Identification of research gaps leads to recommending new research on networking among ethnic entrepreneurs, covering relationships both within and among different ethnic communities and Australian government and business associations.
To grow or not to grow: the effects of strategy making process on small firm performance
Creators: name: Verreynne, Martie-Louise
name: Meyer, Denny
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Growing small firms is critical to any economy. The factors leading to growth have been the subject of many studies, and this paper continues in that tradition. It investigates how one factor which has not received much attention in this regard, namely the strategy-making processes that a small firm uses, may influence its ability to grow. To this end this paper describes the results of an empirical study conducted with 454 small firms. Several important findings emerge from this study. Most importantly, several strategy-making processes, in particular participative strategy-making, have the ability to influence growth. Adaptive and intrapreneurial strategy-making also influence growth through their impact on entrepreneurial orientation, which has a significant impact on growth, especially in young firms.
Update-based evolution control: A new fitness approximation method for evolutionary algorithms
Creators: name: Haiping Ma
name: Minrui Fei
name: Simon, Dan
name: Hongwei Mo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Information and Computing Sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Evolutionary algorithms are robust optimization methods that have been used in many engineering applications. However, real-world fitness evaluations can be computationally expensive, so it may be necessary to estimate the fitness with an approximate model. This article reviews design and analysis of computer experiments (DACE) as an approximation method that combines a global polynomial with a local Gaussian model to estimate continuous fitness functions. The article incorporates DACE in various evolutionary algorithms, to test unconstrained and constrained benchmarks, both with and without fitness function evaluation noise. The article also introduces a new evolution control strategy called update-based control that estimates the fitness of certain individuals of each generation based on the exact fitness values of other individuals during that same generation. The results show that update-based evolution control outperforms other strategies on noise-free, noisy, constrained and unconstrained benchmarks. The results also show that update-based evolution control can compensate for fitness evaluation noise.
Pushing the boundaries of condensed matter electron momentum spectroscopy
Creators: name: Bowles, Cameron Michael Albert
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2008
Subjects: EMS
e,2e
spin polarised
spectral function
electron spectroscopy
Cu
Ag
Au
Si
Compton profiles
electron momentum spectrometer

description: An electron momentum spectrometer at the Australian National University has been used to study various aspects of different solid state systems. EMS is a transmission mode technique and involves the collision of the incident electron with a bound electron, after which both electrons are ejected and measured in coincidence. Through well defined reaction kinematics the complete valence spectral momentum density A(ɛ,q) can be measured. The spectrometer has been used to measure the spectral momentum densities (spectral functions) of single crystal targets, as well as targets in disordered states. A new spin polarised electron source was constructed and implemented in the ANU spectrometer, which was used to measure spin dependent features of ferromagnetic samples. ¶ ...
MPEC 2024-E101 : 2021 LJ44
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Development of a mobile phone app to support self-monitoring of emotional well-being: A mental health digital innovation
Creators: name: Rickard, Nikki
name: Arjmand, Hussain-Abdulah
name: Bakker, David
name: Seabrook, Liz
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Background: Emotional well-being is a primary component of mental health and well-being. Monitoring changes in emotional state daily over extended periods is, however, difficult using traditional methodologies. Providing mental health support is also challenging when approximately only 1 in 2 people with mental health issues seek professional help. Mobile phone technology offers a sustainable means of enhancing self-management of emotional well-being. Objective: This paper aims to describe the development of a mobile phone tool designed to monitor emotional changes in a natural everyday context and in real time. Methods: This evidence-informed mobile phone app monitors emotional mental health and well-being, and it provides links to mental health organization websites and resources. The app obtains data via self-report psychological questionnaires, experience sampling methodology (ESM), and automated behavioral data collection. Results: Feedback from 11 individuals (age range 16-52 years; 4 males, 7 females), who tested the app over 30 days, confirmed via survey and focus group methods that the app was functional and usable. Conclusions: Recommendations for future researchers and developers of mental health apps to be used for research are also presented. The methodology described in this paper offers a powerful tool for a range of potential mental health research studies and provides a valuable standard against which development of future mental health apps should be considered.
Geometry-driven two-dimensional hyperuniformity
Creators: name: Hong, Sungyeon
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2024

description: Characterised by an anomalous suppression of large-scale density fluctuations, hyperuniform patterns are found in a vast array of systems, ranging from the molecular arrangements of amorphous ices to a special category of jammed granular packings. In particular, designed hyperuniform materials are gaining more and more attention for their unique properties contrasting to their crystal counterparts. Thereby, it is of great scientific and technological importance to understand how hyperuniformity can arise and why it appears in a broad range of systems with different length and time scales. In this thesis, we put our focus on hyperuniform systems generated by a robust mathematical model, called Lloyd's algorithm. The algorithm manifests many-body interactions based on the geometric relations between near-neighbours. Regardless of initial conditions, we find that the resulting hyperuniform configurations consist majorly of points with six neighbours and a small fraction of them with five- or seven-coordinated points, classified as topological defects. In pursuit of uncovering how these topological entities come to exist, we delve into their geometric and topological characteristics. Further, we identify locally favoured motifs composed of defects as well as the dynamics of defect formation mechanism dictated by the Lloyd process. The universal defective hexagonal landscapes are found to be characterised by scale-free correlations between hexagonal domains. Motivated by the resemblance between the ordering transition through the Lloyd's algorithm and rigidity or jamming transitions of soft matter systems, we explore surface minimisation principles and maximal disk packings of the cellular geometries of Lloyd-generated hyperuniform systems. We finish our work by providing a physics insight through eigenfrequency analysis of wireframe geometries of the obtained hyperuniform structures along with defect engineering perspectives. The findings in this thesis may cast light on our understanding of universality in systems exhibiting collective behaviours, self-organisation and critical phenomena, all of which are frequently observed not only in living systems, but also in non-living systems, including granular materials, colloidal systems and foams.
Latin American Resource Guide, Professional Development Series, Vol. 1
Creators: Institute of Latin American Studies
Urban Arts Partnership
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Arts, Latin American
Arts, Caribbean
Art--Curricula
Mural painting and decoration
Photography
Mask making
Education, Elementary
Education, Secondary

description: This resource guide contains three workshops for K-12 teachers and educators to introduce their students to Latin American and Caribbean visual and plastic forms of art. Workshop one approaches 20th century’s muralism, workshop two explores contemporary photography, and workshop three retrieves folklore mask making. These resources can be adapted to most K-12 levels. The guide is the first out of two Professional Development Series volumes produced by ILAS in collaboration with Urban Arts Partnership.
Dependently Sorted Theorem Proving for Mathematical Foundations
Creators: name: Xu, Yiming
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2024

description: In this thesis, we start with a picture of current existing theorem-proving systems. Then we describe our new meta-logical system (named DiaToM) for mechanizing foundations of mathematics. Using dependent sorts and first-order logic, our system (implemented as an LCF- style theorem-prover) improves on the state-of-the-art by providing efficient type-checking, convenient automatic rewriting, and interactive proof support. By formalizing the proof theory of the DiaToM logic, we verified that the most suspicious design, namely the "formula variable", does not break the first-orderness of our logic. We assess our implementation by axiomatizing Lawvere's Elementary Theory of the Category of Sets(ETCS), Shulman's Sets, Elements and Relations(SEAR), and McLarty's Categories of Categories as a Foundation of mathematics(CCAF). With a suitable choice of axioms, our system is sufficient to perform some basic mathematical constructions such as quotients, induction, and coinduction by constructing integers, lists, and co-lists. More interestingly, we can provide concrete examples of some constructions that are not possible to be carried out in simpler systems as HOL can be carried out with SEAR in our system. This demonstrates that our system is in a sweet spot of simplicity and expressiveness.
Estimated trends and patterns of road traffic fatalities in China, 2002–2012
Creators: name: Wang, Chong-Wen
name: Chan, Cecilia L. W.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Objective: This study examined the time trends and age distribution patterns of estimated road traffic fatalities (RTFs) in China over the period 2002–2012. Methods: Data on age-, sex-, and region-specific RTF rates were provided by the Chinese Ministry of Health. The crude rates were standardized and the Mann-Kendall test was used to test the significance of time trends. Annual number of RTFs was calculated. To minimize the effect of yearly variations, magnitude of changes in and age distribution patterns of the RTFs were examined using mean values of 2 years. Results: RTFs increased significantly in China during the study period. Several features were identified for the RTFs in China. First, RTF rates skyrocketed in rural areas including towns and counties. Second, a significant increase in RTFs was also observed in cities even though the change in RTF rates was not statistically significant there. Third, individuals aged 20–24, 40–49, and 55–64, especially in rural areas, were particularly at risk for RTFs in recent years. Finally, RTFs became more common among middle-aged and older adults than young Chinese, with roughly 57% of all RTFs occurring among individuals aged 45 and above during 2011–2012. Conclusions: RTFs increased dramatically in China during the past decade, especially in rural areas. Age distribution patterns of RTFs have changed there. Community-based public health education and intervention programs are warranted.
Hysteresis and Fiscal Policy in Australia
Creators: name: Watson, Timothy
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2024

description: This thesis explores the relative welfare, output and employment benefits of alternative forms of fiscal stimulus including public investment, consumption, transfer payments, and wage subsidy schemes. I focus in particular on evaluating two key elements of the Australian Government's fiscal policy response to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and COVID-19 pandemic, the Building the Education Revolution (BER) and JobKeeper Payment schemes, from both an empirical and theoretical perspective. The empirical techniques derive from those associated with the credibility revolution in applied microeconomics (Angrist and Pischke, 2009) and the emerging literature regarding geographic cross-sectional fiscal multipliers (Chodorow-Reich, 2019). Empirical analysis utilises never-before-used administrative datasets, novel geocoded datasets, and linked population data for payroll jobs and wages to estimate employment and output multipliers associated with these programs, and their relative cost effectiveness as stimulus or economic security measures. I also derive, estimate and simulate a range of contemporary business cycle models featuring liquidity constrained workers and `learning-by-doing' in production to provide a structural account of the empirical results observed, and to provide new insights into the conduct of fiscal and monetary policy. To this end, this thesis argues that heterogeneous households and hysteresis effects are important for evaluating the efficacy of fiscal policy in small open economies such as Australia.