cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Vibration control in cricket bats using piezoelectric-based smart materials
Creators: name: Cao, Jia-Long
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: The vibrations of a Cricket bat are traditionally passively damped by the inherent damping properties of wood and flat rubber panels located in the handle of the bat. This sort of passive damping is effective for the high frequency vibrations only and is not effective for the low frequency vibrations. Recently, the use of Smart materials for vibration control has become an alternative to the traditional vibration control techniques which are usually heavy and bulky, especially at low frequencies. In contrast, the vibration controls with Smart materials can target any particular frequency of vibration. This has advantages such as it results in smaller size, lighter weight, portability, and flexibility in the structure. This makes it particularly suitable for traditional techniques which cannot be applied due to weight and size restrictions.

This research is about the study of vibration control with Smart materials with the ultimate goal to reduce the vibration of the Cricket bat upon contact with a Cricket ball. The study focused on the passive piezoelectric vibration shunt control technique. The scope of the study is to understand the nature of piezoelectric materials for converting mechanical energy to electrical energy and vice versa. Physical properties of piezoelectric materials for vibration sensing, actuation and dissipation were evaluated. An analytical study of the resistor-inductor (R-L) passive piezoelectric vibration shunt control of a cantilever beam was undertaken. The modal and strain analyses were performed by varying the material properties and geometric configurations of the piezoelectric transducer in relation to the structure in order to maximize the mechanical strain produced in the piezoelectric transducer. Numerical modelling of structures was performed and field-coupled with the passive piezoelectric vibration shunt control circuitry. The Finite Element Analysis (FEA) was used in order for the analysis, optimal design and for determining the location of piezoelectric transducers. Experiments with the passive piezoelectric vibration shunt control of beam and Cricket bats were carried out to verify the analytical results and numerical simulations. The study demonstrated that the effectiveness of the passive piezoelectric vibration shunt control is largely influenced by the material properties of the structures to be controlled. Based on the results from simple beam evaluations, vibration reduction of up to 42% was obtained with the designed Smart Cricket bat. Finally, for the control circuit to automatically track the frequency shift of structures
required in real applications, an adaptive filter protocol was developed for estimating multiple frequency components inherent in noisy systems. This has immediate application prospects in Cricket bats.
Additional file 8 of Cell4D: a general purpose spatial stochastic simulator for cellular pathways
Creators: name: Chan, Donny
name: Cromar, Graham L.
name: Taj, Billy
name: Parkinson, John
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 8: Text. Detailed Methods.
Additional file 1 of Factors associated with engraftment success of patient-derived xenografts of breast cancer
Creators: name: Lee, Jongwon
name: Lee, GunHee
name: Park, Hye Seon
name: Jeong, Byung-Kwan
name: Gong, Gyungyub
name: Jeong, Jae Ho
name: Lee, Hee Jin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Methods of PDX engraftment and engraftment success rates across several passages in both primary and metastatic breast cancer groups.
Catalase T-Deficient Fission Yeast Meiocytes Show Resistance to Ionizing Radiation
Creators: name: Muhtadi, Razan
name: Lorenz, Alexander
name: Mpaulo, Samantha J.
name: Siebenwirth, Christian
name: Scherthan, Harry
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: chromosome mobility
subject: Ctt1
subject: horsetail movement
subject: radical stress
subject: live-cell microscopy
subject: Pcl1
subject: ROS
subject: sporulation
subject: MEIOTIC PROPHASE
subject: RECOMBINATION
subject: PATHWAYS
subject: RESPONSES
subject: DDC 540 / Chemistry & allied sciences
subject: DDC 570 / Life sciences
subject: DDC 600 / Technology (Applied sciences)
subject: Ionizing radiation
subject: Meiosis
subject: Schizosaccharomyces pombe
subject: Oxidative stress
subject: Saccharomyces cerevisiae
subject: Actin
subject: Irradiation
subject: Ionisierende Strahlung
subject: Meiose
subject: Sporenbildung
subject: Oxidativer Stress
subject: Rekombination
subject: Actin

description: Environmental stress, reactive oxygen species (ROS), or ionizing radiation (IR) can induce adverse effects in organisms and their cells, including mutations and premature aging. DNA damage and its faulty repair can lead to cell death or promote cancer through the accumulation of mutations. Misrepair in germ cells is particularly dangerous as it may lead to alterations in developmental programs and genetic disease in the offspring. DNA damage pathways and radical defense mechanisms mediate resistance to genotoxic stresses. Here, we investigated, in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the role of the H2O2-detoxifying enzyme cytosolic catalase T (Ctt1) and the Fe2+/Mn2+ symporter Pcl1 in protecting meiotic chromosome dynamics and gamete formation from radicals generated by ROS and IR. We found that wild-type and pcl1-deficient cells respond similarly to X ray doses of up to 300 Gy, while ctt1∆ meiocytes showed a moderate sensitivity to IR but a hypersensitivity to hydrogen peroxide with cells dying at >0.4 mM H2O2. Meiocytes deficient for pcl1, on the other hand, showed a resistance to hydrogen peroxide similar to that of the wild type, surviving doses >40 mM. In all, it appears that in the absence of the main H2O2-detoxifying pathway S. pombe meiocytes are able to survive significant doses of IR-induced radicals.
sj-docx-3-jia-10.1177_23259582231210801 - Supplemental material for Short-Form HIV Disability Questionnaire Sensibility, Utility, and Implementation Considerations in Community-Based Settings: A Mixed Methods Study
Creators: name: O’Brien, Kelly K.
name: Ibáñez-Carrasco, Francisco
name: Solomon, Patricia
name: Chan Carusone, Soo
name: Stewart, Ann
name: Bayoumi, Ahmed M.
name: Brown, Darren A.
name: Quigley, Adria
name: Ahluwalia, Puja
name: Erlandson, Kristine M.
name: Vera, Jaime H.
name: Bergin, Colm
name: Hanna, Steven E.
name: Swinton, Marilyn
name: Torres, Brittany
name: McDuff, Kiera
name: Da Silva, George
name: Bradford, Glen
name: Islam, Shaz
name: Price, Colleen
name: Lindsay, Joanne D.
name: Murray, Carolann
name: McClellan, Natalia
name: Krizmancic, Katrina
name: Anand, Praney
name: Yates, Tammy
name: Baltzer Turje, Rosalind
name: McDougall, Patrick
name: Maksimcev, Vladislava Vlatka
name: Harding, Richard
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Health and Community Services
Aged Health Care
Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-3-jia-10.1177_23259582231210801 for Short-Form HIV Disability Questionnaire Sensibility, Utility, and Implementation Considerations in Community-Based Settings: A Mixed Methods Study by Kelly K. O’Brien, Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco, Patricia Solomon, Soo Chan Carusone, Ann Stewart, Ahmed M. Bayoumi, Darren A. Brown, Adria Quigley, Puja Ahluwalia, Kristine M. Erlandson, Jaime H. Vera, Colm Bergin, Steven E. Hanna, Marilyn Swinton, Brittany Torres, Kiera McDuff, George Da Silva, Glen Bradford, Shaz Islam, Colleen Price, Joanne D. Lindsay, Carolann Murray, Natalia McClellan, Katrina Krizmancic, Praney Anand, Tammy Yates, Rosalind Baltzer Turje, Patrick McDougall, Vladislava Vlatka Maksimcev and Richard Harding in Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (JIAPAC)
Molecularly imprinted polymer micro- and nano-particles: a review
Creators: name: Fresco-Cala, Beatriz
name: Batista, Alex D.
name: Cárdenas, Soledad
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: molecularly imprinted polymer
subject: hybrid sorbent
subject: nanomaterial
subject: microextraction
subject: SOLID-PHASE EXTRACTION
subject: SELECTIVE EXTRACTION
subject: CARBON DOTS
subject: GOLD NANOPARTICLES
subject: GRAPHENE OXIDE
subject: SENSITIVE DETERMINATION
subject: DDC 540 / Chemistry & allied sciences
subject: DDC 570 / Life sciences
subject: Nanostructured materials
subject: Detectors
subject: Electrochemical sensors
subject: Magnetic nanoparticles
subject: Liquid chromatography
subject: Water Sampling
subject: Nanostrukturiertes Material
subject: Monolith
subject: Festphasenmikroextraktion
subject: Sensor
subject: Elektrochemischer Sensor

description: In recent years, molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) have become an excellent solution to the selective and sensitive determination of target molecules in complex matrices where other similar and relative structural compounds could coexist. Although MIPs show the inherent properties of the polymers, including stability, robustness, and easy/cheap synthesis, some of their characteristics can be enhanced, or new functionalities can be obtained when nanoparticles are incorporated in their polymeric structure. The great variety of nanoparticles available significantly increase the possibility of finding the adequate design of nanostructured MIP for each analytical problem. Moreover, different structures (i.e., monolithic solids or MIPs micro/nanoparticles) can be produced depending on the used synthesis approach. This review aims to summarize and describe the most recent and innovative strategies since 2015, based on the combination of MIPs with nanoparticles. The role of the nanoparticles in the polymerization, as well as in the imprinting and adsorption efficiency, is also discussed through the review.
Nonlinear system identification using wavelet based SDP models
Creators: name: Truong, Nguyen Vu
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: System identification has played an increasingly dominant role in a wide range of engineering applications. While linear system's theory is mature, nonlinear system identification remains an open research area in recent years. This thesis develops a new, efficient and systematic approach to the identification of nonlinear dynamic systems using wavelet based State Dependent Parameter (SDP) models, from structure determination to parameter estimation. In this approach, the system's nonlinearities are analysed and effectively represented by a SDP model structure in the form of wavelets. This provides a computationally efficient tool to open up the `black-box', offering valuable insights into the system's dynamics. In this thesis, 1-dimensional (1-D) approach is first developed based on a conventional SDP model structure which relies on a single state variable dependency. It is then extended into a multi-dimensional approach in order to solve the identification problem of systems with significant multi-variable dependence nonlinear dynamics. Here, parametrically efficient nonlinear model is obtained by the application of an effective model structure selection algorithm based on the Predicted Residual Sums of Squares (PRESS) criterion in conjunction with Orthogonal Decomposition (OD) to avoid any ill-conditioning problems associated with the parameter estimation. This thesis also investigates the aspects of noise, stability and other engineering application of the proposed approaches. More specifically, this includes: (1) nonlinear identification in the presence of noise, (2) development of bounded characteristics of the estimated models and (3) application studies where the developed approaches have been used in various engineering applications. Particularly, the modelling and forecast of daily peak power demand in the state of Victoria, Australia have been effectively studied using the proposed approaches. This strongly motivates a great deal of potential future research to be carried out in the area of power system modelling.
The association between the Big Five personality traits and smartphone use disorder: a meta-analysis
Creators: name: Marengo, Davide
name: Sindermann, Cornelia
name: Häckel, Daniela
name: Settanni, Michele
name: Elhai, Jon D.
name: Montag, Christian
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Big Five traits
subject: Smartphone use disorder
subject: Smartphone addiction
subject: Problematic smartphone use
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: Personality
subject: Smartphones
subject: Meta-analysis
subject: Smartphone-trends
subject: Persönlichkeit

description: Background and aims: Personality is one of the most frequently investigated variables to shed light on the putatively addictive use of the smartphone. By investigating associations between personality and individual differences in addictive smartphone use, researchers aim to understand if some personality traits predispose technology users to develop addictive behaviors. Here, based on existing empirical literature, we aimed at determining the strength of associations between Big Five personality traits and smartphone use disorder (SmUD) by a meta-analytic approach. Method: For each Big Five personality trait, we performed a meta-analysis of correlations representing their association with SmUD. We also investigated possible publication bias and the moderating effects of age, gender, nationality, length of personality assessments, and time of publication. Results: We found n 5 26 eligible studies. In line with both the Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution (I-PACE) model and the framework on problematic mobile-phone use by Billieux, we observed a positive association between Neuroticism and SmUD (r 5 0.25), while the association between Extraversion and SmUD was not significant. Partially in line with the aforementioned theoretical frameworks, Conscientiousness was negatively associated with SmUD (r 5 0.16). Remaining traits showed smaller associations. No significant publication bias emerged. Moderator analyses showed that time of publication moderated the link between Conscientiousness and SmUD. Moreover, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness showed a heightened inverse association with SmUD among older samples. Conclusions: The present meta-analysis provides robust empirical evidence that Big Five personality traits can help to understand individual differences in SmUD, supporting the usefulness of their assessment when planning and targeting interventions aimed at at-risk individuals.
Bladder cancer-derived interleukin-1 converts the vascular endothelium into a pro-inflammatory and pro-coagulatory surface
Creators: name: John, Axel
name: Günes, Celal
name: Bolenz, Christian
name: Vidal-Y-Sy, Sabine
name: Bauer, Alexander T.
name: Schneider, Stefan W.
name: Gorzelanny, Christian
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Tumour microenvironment
subject: von Willebrand factor
subject: Coagulation
subject: Inflammation
subject: Endothelial cells
subject: NF-KAPPA-B
subject: WILLEBRAND-FACTOR FIBERS
subject: GENE POLYMORPHISMS
subject: CELLS
subject: EXPRESSION
subject: METASTASIS
subject: MELANOMA
subject: RECEPTOR
subject: THROMBOSIS
subject: SURVIVAL
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health

description: Abstract Background Bladder cancer cells orchestrate tumour progression by pro-inflammatory cytokines. Cytokines modulate the local tumour microenvironment and increase the susceptibility of tumour distant tissues for metastasis. Here, we investigated the impact of human bladder cancer cell derived factors on the ability to modulate and activate human vascular endothelial cells. Methods The pro-inflammatory and pro-coagulatory potential of four different bladder cancer cell lines was accessed by qRT-PCR arrays and ELISA. Modulation and activation of endothelial cells was studied in microfluidic devices. Clinical relevance of our findings was confirmed by immune histology in tissue samples of bladder cancer patients and public transcriptome data. Results The unbalanced ratio between interleukin (IL)-1 and IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1ra) in the secretome of bladder cancer cells converted the quiescent vascular endothelium into a pro-adhesive, pro-inflammatory, and pro-coagulatory surface. Microfluidic experiments showed that tumour cell induced endothelial cell activation promoted leukocyte recruitment and platelet adhesion. Human bladder cancer tissue analysis confirmed that loss of IL-1ra and elevated IL-1 expression was associated with enhanced cancer progression. Conclusions Our data indicate that IL-1 and IL-1ra were dysregulated in bladder cancer and could facilitate tumour dissemination through endothelial cell activation. Targeting the IL-1/IL-1ra axis might attenuate tumour-mediated inflammation and metastasis formation.
title: Box 6 of 10, 1972-1973, 1985-2004
Creators: name: Kadushin Associates Architects.
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2024

description: includes material related to the Martin Gardens Housing project. Additionally, the "Messiah / Community Center" file also includes digital design and image files related to the Church of the Messiah Housing Corporation (CMHC) community center
Diversity Management - Erfolgsfaktoren Von Gendergemischten Führungsteams Bei Der Umsetzung: Diversity Konzepte Als Neue Führungskompetenz - Entwicklung Eines Mehrperspektivischen, Ressourcenorientierten Diversity Management Modells
Creators: name: Merkli, Jasmina Nayoma
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: gnd:7611361-9
subject: gnd:4139318-1

description: Viele Organisationen im Sozial- und Gesundheitsbereich sehen sich aufgrund der gegenwärtigen gesellschaftlichen, rechtlichen und wirtschaftlichen Entwicklungen gefordert, Rahmenbedingungen, Kon- zepte und Modelle einzuführen, die sie im Umgang mit neuen Herausforderungen unterstützen. Diversity Management ist die Antwort vieler Organisationen und Institutionen auf die vielfältigen Entwick- lungen in ihrem Umfeld. Ein positiver Zugang hinsichtlich des Umgangs mit Vielfalt im Berufsalltag ist dabei unabdingbar (vgl. Ehret 2011). Mit Diversity Management wird eine Unternehmenspolitik gelebt, die Vielfalt als Ressource und Chance versteht. Diversity Strategien, Fachstellen und Konzepte sind bereits in vielen Organisationen institutionalisiert; für den professionellen Umgang mit Vielfalt bedarf es jedoch mehr: Nebst der Institutionalisierung des Diversity Managements als Strategie der Unternehmensführung ist ein Diversity Mainstreaming (Diversity Management als Führungs- und Personalarbeit) und eine hohe Diversity Kompetenz der Führungskräfte ausschlaggebend für eine nachhaltige und wirkungsvolle Umsetzung der Unterneh- mensvielfalt. Ausgehend von dieser Einschätzung stellt die Autorin der vorliegenden Arbeit die Hypothese auf, dass Führungspersonen und ihre Diversity Kompetenzen die wesentlichsten Erfolgsfakto- ren im Rahmen einer erfolgreichen Umsetzung von Diversity Management sind.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa mas msg + Fussnote: Masterarbeit MAS Management im Sozial- und Gesundheitsbereich, Hochschule Luzern - Soziale Arbeit und Wirtschaft, eingereicht am 31. Mai 2017
Additional file 1 of How does the SARS-CoV-2 reinfection rate change over time? The global evidence from systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Chen, Ying
name: Zhu, Wenhui
name: Han, Xinyue
name: Chen, Miaoshuang
name: Li, Xin
name: Huang, Haiping
name: Zhang, Mengyuan
name: Wei, Rongjie
name: Zhang, Huadong
name: Yang, Changhong
name: Zhang, Tao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Mental Health
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: PRISMA 2020 checklist.
Introducing Parsl: A Python Parallel Scripting Library
Creators: name: Babuji, Yadu
name: Brizius, Alison
name: Chard, Kyle
name: Foster, Ian
name: Katz, Daniel S.
name: Wilde, Michael
name: Wozniak, Justin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Parallel scripting
Parsl
Python

description: Researchers frequently rely on large-scale and domain-specific workflows to conduct their science. These workflows may integrate a variety of independent software functions and external applications. However, developing and executing such workflows can be difficult, requiring complex orchestration and management of applications and data as well as customization for specific execution environments. Parsl (Parallel Scripting Library), a Python library for programming and executing data-oriented workflows in parallel, addresses these problems. Developers simply annotate a Python script with Parsl directives; Parsl manages the execution of the script on clusters, clouds, grids, and other resources. Parsl orchestrates required data movement and manages the execution of Python functions and external applications in parallel. In this abstract we describe Parsl’s architecture and highlight two domains in which it has been used.
De)pathologizing Discourse: The Problematization of Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Mental Health in Ontario
Creators: name: Smith, Sarah
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2018
Subjects: transgender
trans
gender studies
mental health
public policy
Canadian politics
health policy

description: The trans and gender-nonconforming (TGNC) community has a complex relationship with psychiatry. The need for access to transition-related medical services is complicated by an increasing amount of activism that refuses the pathologization of TGNC identities through the diagnosis of Gender Dysphoria and the rejection of the biomedical model of mental illness more broadly. TGNC activists have mobilized concepts from critical disability studies and Mad studies, namely the biomedical and social models of mental illness, to describe their aversion to, and proposals against pathologization. However, this binary relationship between the biomedical and social models is problematic, as it is increasingly evident that conceptualizing TGNC mental health within this binary does not account for the complex reality of the lives of trans and gender-nonconforming people who must navigate between fighting pathologization without sacrificing access to publicly funded transition-related medical procedures, counselling services, and disability benefits. Consequently, in this thesis, I seek to trouble the binary relationship between the biomedical and the social, pointing to the shortcomings of mainstream disability discourses within TGNC mental health policies and practices in Ontario, using Foucault’s notion of biopower and Pamela Moss’ perching model to trace both the consequences of, and alternatives to, these limiting conceptualizations.
The birth and rebirth of the glitch
Creators: name: Cox, Lindsay
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: This investigation of the glitch in electronic media, previously disregarded as errors in the medium and therefore often begrudgingly tolerated by viewers rather than considered a form of artistic gesture, will discuss the role and function of mistakes and imperfections in the evolution of digital and analogue electronic screen media aesthetics. The formal tendencies of artists who incorporate glitch, sometimes as a side effect of their activity, in assisting the cultural acceptance of these ‘artefacts’, will be discussed. I’ll briefly discuss a history of the word glitch from its early uses in the aerospace industry in the 1960s, as a music genre in the 1990s to slang in the gaming world of the 2000s.

A discussion on the nature and differences between digital and analogue media, associated formats and glitches is undertaken from a historical perspective. Historical breakthroughs where the glitch has played a major role in the creative and scientific fields are also profiled.
Additional file 2 of How does the SARS-CoV-2 reinfection rate change over time? The global evidence from systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Chen, Ying
name: Zhu, Wenhui
name: Han, Xinyue
name: Chen, Miaoshuang
name: Li, Xin
name: Huang, Haiping
name: Zhang, Mengyuan
name: Wei, Rongjie
name: Zhang, Huadong
name: Yang, Changhong
name: Zhang, Tao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Mental Health
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Search strategy.
Physico-chemical behaviour of irradiated polyimide thin films
Creators: name: Ali Khelil, Nurra
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: The effect of Cu3+ ion-beam irradiation on the microstructure of two polyimide ( PI ) films ( PMDA-ODA, Kapton® and BTDA-ODA ) was examined using ATR-FTIR and XPS spectroscopy. The electrical conductivity, Mechanical and Electromechanical properties were also examined. It was found that Cu3+ ion-beam irradiation was directly responsible for the disruption of the main chain imidic groups in the polymer, which indicated the breakdown of the backbone linkages of the polymer, via cleavage of the nitrogen of the imide and elimination of hydrogen from the PI molecular structure. Electrical conductivity characteristics of the PMDA-ODA films, revealed that they behaved as typical semiconductor films. The resistance of the irradiated films was found to be inversely proportional to temperature, confirming their semiconducting behaviour with calculated thermally sensitive activation barriers in the range 0.4–2.3 eV. The disruption of the main chain imidic groups in the polymer and the formation of the carbon rich channels affected both the tensile strength and the electromechanical properties of the PI films. This is evidenced by changes in Young’s Modulus, and they became slightly brittle at the highest levels of irradiation fluence. The electromechanical properties of PMDA-ODA irradiated films possessed GF values much higher those of conventional composites and an order of magnitude higher than any previously reported. Thus, the irradiated PI films are suitable as sensitive strain gauges with applications as strain sensors, provided they are protected from intense radiation sources.
Modeling the Predictors of Nurses’ Research Use in Canadian Long-Term Care Homes
Creators: name: Demery Varin, Melissa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2018
Subjects: Research use
Nurses
Long-term care
Context
Alberta Context Tool
TREC

description: Factors affecting the use of research evidence by nurses in long-term care (LTC) settings are largely unknown. In this thesis nurses referred to registered nurses (RNs) and licensed practical nurses (LPNs). A secondary analysis of data (n=756 nurses) from the Translating Research in Elder Care program was performed to construct Generalized Estimating Equation models of the predictors of nurses' self-reported instrumental, conceptual and persuasive research use. Positive attitudes towards research and better access to structural and electronic resources predicted all three kinds of research use. Additional statistically significant predictors suggest that individual variables play a more prominent role than contextual variables in predicting conceptual and persuasive use of research evidence, while instrumental research use is predicted equally by individual and organizational variables.
This town ain't big enough for the two of us… or is it? Interaction between exotic and native species in an urban reserve
Creators: name: Solano-Zavaleta, Israel
name: Ramírez-Cruz, Gonzalo Ángel
name: Mendoza-Hernández, Pedro Eloy
name: Zúñiga-Vega, José Jaime
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2017

description: Within Mexico City, the Reserva Ecológica del Pedregal de San Ángel (REPSA) was created to preserve a unique ecosystem that was formed after the eruption of the Xitle volcano almost two thousand years ago. The reserve has a total extension of 237 ha, and is divided into three core areas (171 ha), and 13 buffering areas (66 ha). These are surrounded by urban areas with multiple streets, avenues, artificial gardens and buildings.

In this study, we used this ecological reserve as a model system to examine the potential negative effects that the presence of invasive species may have on native populations. To achieve this goal, we focused on distinct pairs of native-invasive species with ecological similarities that may have developed an interaction. In addition, we also considered that in seasonal environments changes throughout the year in resource availability, and in the climatic conditions, might enhance or buffer the negative effects of invasive species on native populations.

We established randomly 100 observation sites comprising core and buffering areas, as well as part of the urban area surrounding them. The minimum separation between observation sites was 150 m. We visited each site at least five times during the months of January (Cold-dry season), May (Warm-dry season), and September (Rainy season). Observations were carried out by a group of previously trained observers within a 20 m radius around each observation site. Species of flora and fauna were detected and identified independently by the observers during a 15 minute lapse with the use of binoculars, and direct observation.

Then we used the parametrization method for two-species occupancy models proposed by Richmond et al. (2010). After grouping the encounter histories for each pair of species we used program MARK to obtain a conditional model in which the invasive species is assumed to be dominant over the native species, and a model assuming that the probability of occupancy of the native species is not conditioned by the presence of the invasive species. If the conditional model had a better fitness than the non-conditional model, we calculated a species interaction factor (SIF) to know if there is a positive or negative relationship between the occupancy of both species.

We found that the typically invasive exotic species showed no negative spatial effects on the native species. The observed interactions might reflect the co-occurence of species due to the availability of anthropogenic resources in the urban and buffer areas. These results suggest that this urban reserve has the capacity to sustain populations of both native and non-native species.
Additional file 3 of How does the SARS-CoV-2 reinfection rate change over time? The global evidence from systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Chen, Ying
name: Zhu, Wenhui
name: Han, Xinyue
name: Chen, Miaoshuang
name: Li, Xin
name: Huang, Haiping
name: Zhang, Mengyuan
name: Wei, Rongjie
name: Zhang, Huadong
name: Yang, Changhong
name: Zhang, Tao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Mental Health
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Information extraction form.
Australian and overseas trained doctors - a study of community integration, quality of life and the resultant retention in rural and remote Australia
Creators: name: Verma, Prikshat
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: This study has explored the impact of the community integration of ATDs (Australian Trained Doctors) and OTDs (Overseas Trained Doctors) in rural and remote communities on their quality of life (QOL) and its resultant effect on their retention by developing a model of research linking QOL as the intervening variable between community integration (the independent variable) and retention (the dependent variable). A national survey of 279 rural and remote GPs was conducted between September and December 2010. Satisfaction levels of both types of GPs (ATDs and OTDs) in rural and remote Australia were observed regarding their community integration and QOL. The survey proper explored the objective experiences of GPs for community integration and QOL. Their satisfaction levels with community integration was measured using the ‘Experiential Place Integration’ framework first used by Cutchin in his paper, ‘Physician retention in rural communities: the perspective of experiential place integration’ (Cutchin, 1997). The ‘Comprehensive Quality of Life scale (ComQol A-5)’ developed by Cummins (1997) was adapted and modified for measuring satisfaction with QOL of these GP respondents.

The study observed higher satisfaction levels for GP respondents (both ATDs and OTDs) with most of the dimensions of ‘Experiential Place Integration’ domains, and as well as with the domains of QOL in rural and remote Australia. The major finding was that ATD respondents were more satisfied than OTD respondents. The results from the study further indicated that there was a significant difference between the ATD respondents and OTD respondents regarding security dimension of community integration. OTD respondents felt less secure than ATD respondents in rural and remote settings. Further, the result from the univariate analysis of GP respondents indicated that there was a significant difference between the ATD and OTD respondents in rural and remote communities regarding satisfaction with QOL domains. The major differences were observed in the domain of “material possessions’ followed by ‘acceptance by community’ and ‘sense of security’ domain respectively.
Structural Price Fluctuation Caused by Oil Price Variation in China’s Mutton and Beef Market
Creators: name: Zheng, X.
name: Daud, A.
name: Taasim, S.I.
name: Rosli, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Supply Chain
subject: Price Fluctuation
subject: Agricultural Supply Chain

description: Beef and mutton to be as the essential daily consumption, their prices have been given much attention by the government, researchers, and households. And some of researchers thinks that the instability of their prices is the result of the market gaming. However, the aim of my study is to employ and develop the VAR model of order p (price) and relative impulse response functions to account for the role that endogenous variables and oil price effect to the price fluctuation. We ask to how analyze and in what methods endogenous variable and oil price play a role for price transmission, movement and formation. We do so to enable agricultural policy makers, producer, and academics to understand the nuances of what factors and how they can have an obvious impact on price changes. Collecting 20 year monthly relevant data, we show that price changes are mutually affected by endogenous variables (retail price, producer price, international price and corn price) and oil price under VAR system analysis. The significance of this study is that it informs our theoretical understanding of forecasting the trend of prices by demonstrating the movement of prices of beef and mutton under introducing econometric VAR model, and informs our empirical understanding of stabilizing prices and guiding production.
AMUR TEMUR DAVLATINING ICHKI VA TASHQI SIYOSATI
Creators: name: Sh. Keldiyeva, O.ISAKULOV
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Annotatsiya

Amur Temur, XIV asrda O‘rta Osiyo va uning atrofidagi hududlarda kuchli davlat tashkil etgan buyuk sarkarda va davlat arbobi hisoblanadi. U o‘zining harbiy yutuqlari, strategik tafakkuri va davlat boshqaruvi bilan tanilgan. Temuriylar imperiyasi, uning davlati, o‘zining ichki va tashqi siyosati bilan ajralib turadi. Ushbu maqolada Amur Temur davlatining ichki va tashqi siyosati haqida ma'lumotlar berilgan.

Аннотация

Амур Темур — великий полководец и государственный деятель, создавший могущественное государство в Средней Азии и прилегающих к ней регионах в XIV веке. Он известен своими военными достижениями, стратегическим мышлением и государственным управлением. Империя Тимуридов, его государство, отличается своей внутренней и внешней политикой. В этой статье представлена информация о внутренней и внешней политике государства Амура Темура.

Abstract

Amur Temur is a great commander and statesman who created a powerful state in Central Asia and its surrounding regions in the 14th century. He is known for his military achievements, strategic thinking and state management. The Timurid Empire, his state, is distinguished by its domestic and foreign policy. This article provides information about the domestic and foreign policy of the state of Amur Temur.

Kalit so‘zlar: Amir Temur, iqtisodiy rivojlanish, ichki va tashqi siyosat, qonun ustuvorligi, adolat, harbiy yurishlar, davlat.

Ключевые слова: Амир Темур, экономическое развитие, внутренняя и внешняя политика, верховенство закона, правосудие, военные походы, государство.

Keywords: Amir Temur, economic development, domestic and foreign policy, rule of law, justice, military campaigns, state.
Reduced salt usage in dyeing of 100% cotton fabric
Creators: name: Gentile, Daniela
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: This study primarily focuses on the reduction of salts during the dyeing of cotton. Cotton fabrics were pretreated with Chitosan and Cibafix ECO respectively, and then dyed with reactive and direct dyes with various amount of salt in a dye bath, to determine the optimum pre-treatment conditions of a reduced salt concentration.

Cotton fabric was dyed with two different classes of reactive dyes and a direct dye with 100%, 75%, 50% and 0% of the recommended amount of salt. Various methods of pre-treatment application were trialed to determine the most effective and efficient method, as well as to determine the optimum conditions of the pre-treatments. Exhaustion levels of the dye bath as well as Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) levels were measured. Colour strength measurements were also studied along with colourfastness properties.

It was found that cotton fabric pre-treated with Cibafix ECO and dyed with 25% less salt was more effective than fabric pre-treated with Chitosan and dyed with 25% less salt. Any greater reduction in salt has detrimental effects on the levelness of dyeing. When using only 75% of the recommended amount of salt, the pre-treated fabrics showed higher extents of exhaustion compared with samples dyed without the pre-treatment. At optimum pre-treatment conditions a saving of 25% salt usage was observed for cotton dyed with direct and reactive dyes. In addition these samples also showed moderate to very high fastness properties.
Additional file 4 of How does the SARS-CoV-2 reinfection rate change over time? The global evidence from systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Chen, Ying
name: Zhu, Wenhui
name: Han, Xinyue
name: Chen, Miaoshuang
name: Li, Xin
name: Huang, Haiping
name: Zhang, Mengyuan
name: Wei, Rongjie
name: Zhang, Huadong
name: Yang, Changhong
name: Zhang, Tao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Mental Health
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4: Risk of bias assessments.
RELaTED concept was presented at the IAPE'19 conference
Creators: name: Garay, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: IAPE'19
district heating
ULTDH
DH networks
renewable energy
RELaTED
energy sources
District Heating systems
Solar Thermal Systems

description: Roberto Garay Martinez, RELaTED project coordinator, presented the RELaTED concept at the International Conference on Innovative Applied Energy (IAPE’19) in Oxford, United Kingdom. From 14th to 15th of March, Oxford hosted the International Conference on Innovative Applied Energy (IAPE’19). The IAPE conference provided a forum for both researchers and industrials to present and share their latest findings in all aspects of applied energy. This event was a unique opportunity to explain the RELaTED’s innovative concept of decentralized Ultra-Low Temperature network to several experts participating at the meeting. Roberto Garay, RELaTED project coordinator, provided a comprehensive review to heat production systems, with particular focus on District Heating systems, their transition to low energy systems, and the potentialities of district heating connection of de-centralised Solar Thermal Systems.
Additional file 5 of How does the SARS-CoV-2 reinfection rate change over time? The global evidence from systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Chen, Ying
name: Zhu, Wenhui
name: Han, Xinyue
name: Chen, Miaoshuang
name: Li, Xin
name: Huang, Haiping
name: Zhang, Mengyuan
name: Wei, Rongjie
name: Zhang, Huadong
name: Yang, Changhong
name: Zhang, Tao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Mental Health
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 5: Distribute transformation results.
Systems approach to compliance with Australian airworthiness regulations for uninhabited aircraft systems
Creators: name: Schnellbeck, Anthony
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: A considerable amount of research effort has, and continues to be invested into technologies and algorithms for capabilities which are forecast to be needed in future uninhabited vehicles. Much of this research is conducted with the aim of increasing the level of autonomy of these vehicles. However these technologies and capabilities provide only a part of the total system solution and must be integrated into an architecture that covers the entire vehicle system. This total system approach is particularly relevant since this is how airworthiness regulators consider Uninhabited Aircraft Systems.

Airworthiness of uninhabited aircraft has been addressed by Australian aviation regulators. While the regulations may be in place, technical challenges still remain for the suppliers of these systems. For example, one of these unresolved technical challenges is the capability of uninhabited aircraft to “see and avoid” other aircraft. The operation of manned and uninhabited aircraft in the same airspace remains an issue and certification of uninhabited aircraft for unrestricted operations remains a challenge.

The work described here has used the systems engineering approach to develop a high level architecture for a generic Uninhabited Aircraft System. The architecture was derived from airworthiness regulations. Since the primary difference between piloted and uninhabited aircraft is the presence of an on-board human pilot, this is the main area which this architecture describes.

Australian airworthiness regulations were taken as the starting point to provide requirements. This ensured that the statutory requirements were considered in the viii development of the architecture. The requirements and functional analysis techniques from systems engineering were applied to the airworthiness regulations. This produced a set of derived requirements and a functional description of the UAS. The requirements analysis results in a “black box” or external description of the necessary properties and qualities of the system. Functional analysis produces a “white box” or internal description of the workings of the system which allows decomposition into smaller elements.

The requirements and functional description which have been developed are generic and are applicable to many Uninhabited Aircraft Systems. The resultant architecture may be used in conjunction with operational requirements to develop a specific Uninhabited Aircraft System. Since the architecture is generic, it may also be used to provide the structure of a simulation model of an Uninhabited Aircraft System.
Additional file 6 of How does the SARS-CoV-2 reinfection rate change over time? The global evidence from systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Chen, Ying
name: Zhu, Wenhui
name: Han, Xinyue
name: Chen, Miaoshuang
name: Li, Xin
name: Huang, Haiping
name: Zhang, Mengyuan
name: Wei, Rongjie
name: Zhang, Huadong
name: Yang, Changhong
name: Zhang, Tao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Mental Health
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 6: Meta-analysis results.
Hands-on Modelling with Wason Cards and Tinker Cubes: First Steps in Logical and Bayesian Reasoning in Fourth Grade
Creators: name: Martignon, L.
name: Krauss, Stefan
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: 370 Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen
subject: 510 Mathematik

description: Online-paper for the 11th International Congress on Mathematics Education (ICME 11) in Monterrey, Mexico (TSG 13)
'The un-limiting conditions': An investigation into the roles of intuitive and rational thought in the construction of abstract painting.
Creators: name: Kingston, Robin
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: “ 'The un-limiting conditions': An investigation into the roles of intuitive and rational thought in the construction of abstract painting” (2007) is a practice-based research project. By creating artworks that examine issues in contemporary abstract painting and applying intuitive and rational thought in their construction using both traditional means and painting and site, the research demonstrates how an awareness and sensitive manipulation of materials, process, context, can generate feeling and concept.

“The making of artwork is akin to a journey of discovery. It is not a linear trajectory, but rather can be a confluence of rather haphazard events. It is sometimes logical and sequential, and at other points the relationships are accidental, tangential and tenuous. It is a process of complexity and multiplicity.” [i]

The supporting exegesis locates the research amid current international art practice with a focus upon contemporary New York abstraction.
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[i] p.1 Kingston, Robin. “ 'The un-limiting conditions': An investigation into the roles of intuitive and rational thought in the construction of abstract painting” (2007)
The Professional Knowledge of German Secondary Mathematics Teachers: Investigations in the Context of the COACTIV Project
Creators: name: Krauss, Stefan
name: Neubrand, M.
name: Blum, W.
name: Baumert, J.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: 370 Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen
subject: 510 Mathematik

description: Online-paper for the 11th International Congress on Mathematics Education (ICME 11) in Monterrey, Mexico (TSG 27)
Additional file 7 of How does the SARS-CoV-2 reinfection rate change over time? The global evidence from systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Chen, Ying
name: Zhu, Wenhui
name: Han, Xinyue
name: Chen, Miaoshuang
name: Li, Xin
name: Huang, Haiping
name: Zhang, Mengyuan
name: Wei, Rongjie
name: Zhang, Huadong
name: Yang, Changhong
name: Zhang, Tao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Mental Health
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 7: The AIC of model.