cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Knockdown of stem cell regulator Oct4A in ovarian cancer reveals cellular reprogramming associated with key regulators of cytoskeleton-extracellular matrix remodelling
Creators: name: Samardzija, Chantel
name: Greening, David
name: Escalona, Ruth
name: Chen, Maoshan
name: Bilandzic, Maree
name: Luwor, Rodney
name: Kannourakis, George
name: Findlay, Jock K
name: Ahmed, Nuzhat
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Oct4A is a master regulator of self-renewal and pluripotency in embryonic stem cells. It is a well-established marker for cancer stem cell (CSC) in malignancies. Recently, using a loss of function studies, we have demonstrated key roles for Oct4A in tumor cell survival, metastasis and chemoresistance in in vitro and in vivo models of ovarian cancer. In an effort to understand the regulatory role of Oct4A in tumor biology, we employed the use of an ovarian cancer shRNA Oct4A knockdown cell line (HEY Oct4A KD) and a global mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomic analysis to investigate novel biological targets of Oct4A in HEY samples (cell lysates, secretomes and mouse tumor xenografts). Based on significant differential expression, pathway and protein network analyses, and comprehensive literature search we identified key proteins involved with biologically relevant functions of Oct4A in tumor biology. Across all preparations of HEY Oct4A KD samples significant alterations in protein networks associated with cytoskeleton, extracellular matrix (ECM), proliferation, adhesion, metabolism, epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), cancer stem cells (CSCs) and drug resistance was observed. This comprehensive proteomics study for the first time presents the Oct4A associated proteome and expands our understanding on the biological role of this stem cell regulator in carcinomas.
Increased work and social engagement is associated with increased stroke specific quality of life in stroke survivors at 3 months and 12 months post-stroke: a longitudinal study of an Australian stroke cohort
Creators: name: Tse, Tamara
name: Yusoff, Siti Zubaidah Binte
name: Churilov, Leonid
name: Ma, Henry
name: Davis, Stephen
name: Donnan, Geoffrey Alan
name: Carey, Leeanne
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 3209
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: 4003
subject: Biomedical engineering
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4201
subject: Allied health and rehabilitation science
classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems

description:  No description supplied
Surface reflectance drives nest box temperature profiles and thermal suitability for target wildlife
Creators: name: Griffiths, Stephen
name: Rowland, JA
name: Briscoe, NJ
name: Lentini, PE
name: Handasyde, KA
name: Lumsden, LF
name: Robert, Kylie
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 41
subject: Environmental sciences
classificationCode: 4101
subject: Climate change impacts and adaptation

description: Thermal properties of tree hollows play a major role in survival and reproduction of hollowdependent fauna. Artificial hollows (nest boxes) are increasingly being used to supplement the loss of natural hollows; however, the factors that drive nest box thermal profiles have received surprisingly little attention. We investigated how differences in surface reflectance influenced temperature profiles of nest boxes painted three different colors (dark-green, light-green, and white: Total solar reflectance 5.9%, 64.4%, and 90.3% respectively) using boxes designed for three groups of mammals: insectivorous bats, marsupial gliders and brushtail possums. Across the three different box designs, dark-green (low reflectance) boxes experienced the highest average and maximum daytime temperatures, had the greatest magnitude of variation in daytime temperatures within the box, and were consistently substantially warmer than light-green boxes (medium reflectance), white boxes (high reflectance), and ambient air temperatures. Results from biophysical model simulations demonstrated that variation in diurnal temperature profiles generated by painting boxes either high or low reflectance colors could have significant ecophysiological consequences for animals occupying boxes, with animals in dark-green boxes at high risk of acute heatstress and dehydration during extreme heat events. Conversely in cold weather, our modelling indicated that there are higher cumulative energy costs for mammals, particularly smaller animals, occupying light-green boxes. Given their widespread use as a conservation tool, we suggest that before boxes are installed, consideration should be given to the effect of color on nest box temperature profiles, and the resultant thermal suitability of boxes for wildlife, particularly during extremes in weather. Managers of nest box programs should consider using several different colors and installing boxes across a range of both orientations and shade profiles (i.e., levels of canopy cover), to ensure target animals have access to artificial hollows with a broad range of thermal profiles, and can therefore choose boxes with optimal thermal conditions across different seasons.
ESG Disclosure: Advancing Corporate Sustainability Transparency with the Open for Good Data Platform
Creators: name: Delmas, Magali
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 41
subject: Environmental sciences

description: This article explores three key topics: mechanisms and challenges of corporate sustainability disclosure, the current state of disclosure among major US firms, and academia’s role in fostering transparency. Using the Open For Good™ initiative, it highlights how firms measure, compare, and improve sustainability performance. Despite efforts, disclosure remains inconsistent, limiting its effectiveness. The initiative provides an interactive platform for assessing corporate transparency, aiming to enhance sustainability accountability.
A violência de gênero na literatura brasileira: marcas da ficção de Marina Colasanti e Nélida Piñon
Creators: name: Santos Gomes, Carlos Magno
name: Santos, Gardênia Dias
name: De Jesus Santos, Maria Juliana
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi RomaTre
Year: 2016
Subjects: Violência de gênero; Feminicídio; Literatura brasileira contemporânea; Gender violence; Femicide; Contemporary Brazilian literature

description: O presente artigo faz um paralelo entre a violência de gênero na sociedade brasileira e nas representações ficcionais com ênfase na análise do conto «A moça tecelã» (1978), de Marina Colasanti, e do romance Vozes do deserto (2004), de Nélida Piñon, a fim de questionar as diversas formas de opressão infligidas às mulheres, oriundas da cultura patriarcal, como o cárcere privado e a violência sexual. Para tanto, exploramos as categorias teóricas: ‘dominação masculina’, do francês Pierre Bourdieu; e ‘feminicídio’, assassinato de mulheres, a partir das perspectivas sociológicas e antropológicas de Rita Laura Segato e Wânia Pasinato.

This paper presents a parallel between gender-based violence in Brazilian society and in fictional representations with emphasis on the analysis of the short story «A moça tecelã» (1978), of Marina Colasanti, and the novel Vozes do deserto (2004), of Nélida Piñon, in order to question the various forms of oppression inflicted on women arising from the patriarchal culture, such as house arrest and sexual violence. To this end, we explore the theoretical categories ‘male domination’, from Pierre Bourdieu; and ‘femicide’, murder of women, from the sociological and anthropological perspectives of Rita Laura Segato of and Wânia Pasinato.
description: Krypton, N. 5|6 (2015): Violenza
Commemorating Violence as Therapy for Trauma in the Post-Civil War Anglophone Lebanese Novel
Creators: name: Layoun, Pamela
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi RomaTre
Year: 2016
Subjects: Violence; Trauma; Lebanese War; Public Memory, Therapy

description: In the period extending from 1975 to 1990, Lebanon entered a very dark phase in its history, as it became the battlefield of clashing communities and factions. The end of the war invited a willing erasure of fifteen years of violence from the national consciousness of Lebanese people leaving them burdened with the heavy weight of trauma. As the government deliberately refuses to keep the memory of the War alive, the novels written in the postwar period by contemporary immigrant Anglophone Lebanese writers seek to pull the bloody events out of amnesia and offer the Lebanese people the possibility to deal with their trauma publicly by coming face to face with the violence they had to endure.
description: Krypton, N. 5|6 (2015): Violenza
Teatro de Conflitos: violência e distopia urbana na obra de Marcelino Freire
Creators: name: Silva, Mauricio
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi RomaTre
Year: 2016
Subjects: Literatura Brasileira; Romance contemporâneo; Marcelino Freire; Cidade urbana; Conflito; Violência; Brazilian Literature; Contemporary literature; Marcelino Freire; Urban city; Conflict; Violence

description: O presente artigo analisa a produção literária de um dos mais importantes autores da literatura brasileira contemporânea (Marcelino Freire), destacando alguns aspectos da atual produção literária brasileira. O artigo destaca ainda a representação da cidade urbana na obra de Marcelino Freire, a partir da noção de conflito, com destaque para a questão da violência urbana.

The present article analyses the literary production from one of the most important authors from contemporary Brazilian Literature, Marcelino Freire, and it reveals some aesthetic and literary aspects of recent Brazilian Literature. This article points out the representation of urban city in the work of Marcelino Freire, especially the notion of conflict, especially related to the urban violence.
description: Krypton, N. 5|6 (2015): Violenza
A content analysis of the consumer-facing online information about My Health Record: implications for increasing knowledge and awareness to facilitate uptake and use
Creators: name: Walsh, Louisa
name: Hill, Sophie
name: Allan, Meredith
name: Balandin, Susan
name: Georgiou, Andrew
name: Higgins, Isabel
name: Kraal, Ben
name: McCarthy, Shaun
name: Hemsley, Bronwyn
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health

description: Background: Low health literacy, low levels of positive belief and privacy and security concerns have been identified as a significant barrier to personal electronic health record uptake and use. An important tool for overcoming these barriers is the consumer-facing information which accompanies the system. My Health Record (MyHR) is the Australian national e-health record system, for which a large suite of online resources exists to facilitate consumer registration and use. This study uses a number of different measures of health resource quality to assess the MyHR online consumer-facing information and identify any gaps or areas for improvement. Objective: To analyse the quality and content of the online consumer-facing resources which support the uptake and use of MyHR. Method: Australian information resources aimed at healthcare consumers about the MyHR were included in this study. A comprehensive search using Internet search engines was conducted to locate all online consumer-facing resources about MyHR from both government and non-government sources. Readability (measured by Flesch–Kincaid grade level), year of publication/review, publishing organisation type, presentation style, linked websites, target audience, and themes were identified as important measures of health information quality, and these were recorded and reported on for each resource. Results: Eighty resources met the inclusion criteria. The mean Flesch–Kincaid grade level was 11.8. Most resources were created by Australian government sources (n = 55), and the most common target audience was the general public (n = 65). Registration (n = 51), privacy/security (n = 49), and benefits of use (n = 46) were the most common resource themes. Conclusion: The authors identified a number of gaps and areas for improvement in the provision of consumer-facing information about MyHR. Readability is too high for the general Australian population, and there are few translated resources, which means that the information provided does not cater to people with low literacy levels, communication disability, and/or difficulties in understanding written English. The target audiences for resources do not reflect priority groups that were identified during the MyHR development processes. There are also gaps in information provision about how consumers can use MyHR as a tool to meaningfully engage with health professionals and services to support their own person-centred care.
Promoter hypomethylation of NY-ESO-1, association with clinicopathological features and PD-L1 expression in non-small cell lung cancer
Creators: name: Chüeh, Anderly C
name: Liew, Mun-Sem
name: Russell, Prudence A
name: Walkiewicz, Marzena
name: Jayachandran, Aparna
name: Starmans, Maud HW
name: Boutros, Paul C
name: Wright, Gavin
name: Barnett, Stephen A
name: Mariadason, John
name: John, Thomas
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3204
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: 3211
subject: Oncology and carcinogenesis

description: Cancer-Testis antigens (CTA) are immunogenic molecules with normal tissue expression restricted to testes but with aberrant expression in up to 30% of nonsmall cell lung cancers (NSCLCs). Regulation of CTA expression is mediated in part through promoter DNA methylation. Recently, immunotherapy has altered treatment paradigms in NSCLC. Given its immunogenicity and ability to be re-expressed through demethylation, NY-ESO-1 promoter methylation, protein expression and its association with programmed death receptor ligand-1 (PD-L1) expression and clinicopathological features were investigated. Lung cancer cell line demethylation resulting from 5-Aza-2'- deoxycytidine treatment was associated with both NY-ESO-1 and PD-L1 re-expression in vitro but not increased chemosensitivity. NY-ESO-1 hypomethylation was observed in 15/94 (16%) of patient samples and associated with positive protein expression (P < 0.0001). In contrast, PD-L1 expression was observed in 50/91 (55%) but strong expression in only 12/91 (13%) cases. There was no association between NY-ESO-1 and PD-L1 expression, despite resultant re-expression of both by 5-Aza-2'-deoxycytidine. Importantly, NY-ESO-1 hypomethylation was found to be an independent marker of poor prognosis in patients not treated with chemotherapy (HR 3.59, P = 0.003) in multivariate analysis. In patients treated with chemotherapy there were no differences in survival associated with NY-ESO-1 hypomethylation. Collectively, these results provided supporting evidence for the potential use of NY-ESO-1 hypomethylation as a prognostic biomarker in stage 3 NSCLCs. In addition, these data highlight the potential to incorporate demethylating agents to enhance immune activation, in tumours currently devoid of immune infiltrates and expression of immune checkpoint genes.
El canto de las agonías: representaciones de la violencia simbólica en Canción de tumba de Julián Herbert
Creators: name: Íñiguez, Edgardo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi RomaTre
Year: 2016
Subjects: Violencia simbólica; Género; Melancolía; Narrativa mexicana actual; Symbolic violence; Gender; Melancholy; Contemporary Mexican Narrative

description: En Canción de tumba, de Julián Herbert, hay una imposición de una fuerza velada sobre los personajes. Esta última opera en las estructuras simbólicas que permiten al protagonista participar en los mundos social y cultural. El objetivo del presente trabajo es mostrar cómo la violencia simbólica se encuentra en la base de la conformación del sujeto, de manera específica en lo relacionado con la familia, la figura madre y la masculinidad. Estos elementos ponen de relieve, a través de elementos lingüísticos, la fragmentación del ‘yo’ y el velo de pesadumbre que caracterizan a la voz narrativa.

In Canción de tumba, by Julián Herbert, there is an imposition of a hidden force on the characters. The latter operates in the symbolic structures that allow the protagonist to participate in social and cultural worlds. The aim of this paper is to show how symbolic violence is at the base of the formation of the subject, specifically regarding to the family, mother figure and masculinity. These elements highligh, through linguistic elements, fragmentation of the ‘self’ and the veil of sadness that caracterize the narrative voice.
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A violência como negócio a partir do conto «Matadores» de Marçal Aquino
Creators: name: Marques Mendes, Fábio
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi RomaTre
Year: 2016
Subjects: Marçal Aquino; Violência; Ironia; Burocracia; Marçal Aquino; Violence; Irony; Bureaucracy

description: Propomos uma análise literária e social do conto «Matadores» (1991), de autoria de Marçal Aquino. Nosso objetivo é considerar o uso da ironia (no plano formal da narrativa) como estratégia para articular e intensificar a violência (plano temático), nos termos da racionalização burocrática do novo capitalismo. Essa tensão dialética implicaria no tratamento da violência como um negócio, conduzida racionalmente pelos heróis da narrativa e realizada no espaço da fronteira. Isto acontece a fim de corroer e reforçar os discursos e os mecanismos de controle sociais e literários hegemônicos, mantidos e organizados por estruturas de dominação em crise na sociedade brasileira, no período de transição entre o fim do regime militar à redemocratização.

We propose a literary and social analysis of the tale «Matadores» (1991), authored by Marçal Aquino. Our purpose is to consider the use of irony (in formal narrative plan) as a strategy to coordinate and intensify violence (thematic plan), under the bureaucratic rationalization of new capitalism. This dialectic tension would imply in treating violence as a business, rationally conducted by the heroes of the narrative and held in the border area. This happens to corrode and strengthen the speeches and social control mechanisms, and literary hegemonic, maintained and organized by structures of domination in crisis in Brazilian society, in the transition period between the end military rule to democracy.
description: Krypton, N. 5|6 (2015): Violenza
A Kinome RNAi Screen in Drosophila Identifies Novel Genes Interacting with Lgl, aPKC, and CrB Cell Polarity Genes in Epithelial Tissues
Creators: name: Parsons, Linda M
name: Grzeschik, Nicola A
name: Amaratunga, Kasun
name: Burke, Peter
name: Quinn, Leonie M
name: Richardson, Helena
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3101
subject: Biochemistry and cell biology
classificationCode: 3105
subject: Genetics
classificationCode: 4905
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In both Drosophila melanogaster and mammalian systems, epithelial structure and underlying cell polarity are essential for proper tissue morphogenesis and organ growth. Cell polarity interfaces with multiple cellular processes that are regulated by the phosphorylation status of large protein networks. To gain insight into the molecular mechanisms that coordinate cell polarity with tissue growth, we screened a boutique collection of RNAi stocks targeting the kinome for their capacity to modify Drosophila "cell polarity" eye and wing phenotypes. Initially, we identified kinase or phosphatase genes whose depletion modified adult eye phenotypes associated with the manipulation of cell polarity complexes (via overexpression of Crb or aPKC). We next conducted a secondary screen to test whether these cell polarity modifiers altered tissue overgrowth associated with depletion of Lgl in the wing. These screens identified Hippo, Jun kinase (JNK), and Notch signaling pathways, previously linked to cell polarity regulation of tissue growth. Furthermore, novel pathways not previously connected to cell polarity regulation of tissue growth were identified, including Wingless (Wg/Wnt), Ras, and lipid/Phospho-inositol-3-kinase (PI3K) signaling pathways. Additionally, we demonstrated that the "nutrient sensing" kinases Salt Inducible Kinase 2 and 3 (SIK2 and 3) are potent modifiers of cell polarity phenotypes and regulators of tissue growth. Overall, our screen has revealed novel cell polarity-interacting kinases and phosphatases that affect tissue growth, providing a platform for investigating molecular mechanisms coordinating cell polarity and tissue growth during development.
A Kinome RNAi Screen in Drosophila Identifies Novel Genes Interacting with Lgl, aPKC, and CrB Cell Polarity Genes in Epithelial Tissues
Creators: name: Parsons, Linda M
name: Grzeschik, Nicola A
name: Amaratunga, Kasun
name: Burke, Peter
name: Quinn, Leonie M
name: Richardson, Helena
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022

description: In both Drosophila melanogaster and mammalian systems, epithelial structure and underlying cell polarity are essential for proper tissue morphogenesis and organ growth. Cell polarity interfaces with multiple cellular processes that are regulated by the phosphorylation status of large protein networks. To gain insight into the molecular mechanisms that coordinate cell polarity with tissue growth, we screened a boutique collection of RNAi stocks targeting the kinome for their capacity to modify Drosophila "cell polarity" eye and wing phenotypes. Initially, we identified kinase or phosphatase genes whose depletion modified adult eye phenotypes associated with the manipulation of cell polarity complexes (via overexpression of Crb or aPKC). We next conducted a secondary screen to test whether these cell polarity modifiers altered tissue overgrowth associated with depletion of Lgl in the wing. These screens identified Hippo, Jun kinase (JNK), and Notch signaling pathways, previously linked to cell polarity regulation of tissue growth. Furthermore, novel pathways not previously connected to cell polarity regulation of tissue growth were identified, including Wingless (Wg/Wnt), Ras, and lipid/Phospho-inositol-3-kinase (PI3K) signaling pathways. Additionally, we demonstrated that the "nutrient sensing" kinases Salt Inducible Kinase 2 and 3 (SIK2 and 3) are potent modifiers of cell polarity phenotypes and regulators of tissue growth. Overall, our screen has revealed novel cell polarity-interacting kinases and phosphatases that affect tissue growth, providing a platform for investigating molecular mechanisms coordinating cell polarity and tissue growth during development.
Genomic introgression mapping of field-derived multiple-anthelmintic resistance in Teladorsagia circumcincta
Creators: name: Choi, Young-Jun
name: Bisset, Stewart A
name: Doyle, Stephen R
name: Hallsworth-Pepin, Kymberlie
name: Martin, John
name: Grant, Warwick
name: Mitreva, Makedonka
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3105
subject: Genetics

description: Preventive chemotherapy has long been practiced against nematode parasites of livestock, leading to widespread drug resistance, and is increasingly being adopted for eradication of human parasitic nematodes even though it is similarly likely to lead to drug resistance. Given that the genetic architecture of resistance is poorly understood for any nematode, we have analyzed multidrug resistant Teladorsagia circumcincta, a major parasite of sheep, as a model for analysis of resistance selection. We introgressed a field-derived multiresistant genotype into a partially inbred susceptible genetic background (through repeated backcrossing and drug selection) and performed genome-wide scans in the backcross progeny and drug-selected F2 populations to identify the major genes responsible for the multidrug resistance. We identified variation linking candidate resistance genes to each drug class. Putative mechanisms included target site polymorphism, changes in likely regulatory regions and copy number variation in efflux transporters. This work elucidates the genetic architecture of multiple anthelmintic resistance in a parasitic nematode for the first time and establishes a framework for future studies of anthelmintic resistance in nematode parasites of humans.
AFX-Research: an Extensive and Flexible Repository of Research about Audio Effects
Creators: name: Comunità, Marco
name: Reiss, Joshua D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: We present AFX-Research, a repository and associated website gathering scientific literature about research on audio effects. Our database includes publications on topics like: modeling, classification and identification, estimation and regression, removal, style transfer, processing. It also includes review papers, which themselves survey the scientific literature. Furthermore, publications included in our database are not limited to specific methods or techniques (e.g. neural networks or wave digital filters) in an effort to highlight the long tradition of audio effects research and the many different approaches adopted along the decades. While our website contains a table with all details about each publication, the table itself allows to search, filter and order the publications; making it extremely easy to retrieve relevant information. At the same time the repository allows anyone to submit requests to add a new publication or update/modify an existing one. Considering the constant contributions of the audio effects research community to such topics and the fast pacing of machine learning approaches, we hope AFX-Research will facilitate up-to-date literature reviews and help explore novel ideas, as well as reorganizing the content in line with new research avenues.

 

repo: https://github.com/mcomunita/AFX-Research

website: https://mcomunita.github.io/AFX-Research
(Re)writing pain. The theme of violence in contemporary Afro-Brazilian women novelists
Creators: name: Stevens, Cristina
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi RomaTre
Year: 2016
Subjects: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian literature; Feminist studies, Race studies

description: Articulating feminism with issues of race, this paper aims at presenting some Afro-Brazilian novels written by women, which expose the theme of violence – both physical, and the more complex, diversified manifestations of symbolic violence against Afro-Brazilians. In the relative absence of historical records, this fictional material can also be seen as (re)creations of their lives, the extreme cruelties they suffered not only under slavery, but also in contemporary society, and the ways they devise to overcome and transcend these experiences. Emphasis on the novels Becos da Memória (Memory Lane) by Conceição Evaristo e Um Defeito de Cor (A Colour Defect), by Ana Maria Gonçalves.
description: Krypton, N. 5|6 (2015): Violenza
title: Adaptive Integration of Audio and Visual Information Using Discrete and Semi-Continuous Hidden Markov Models in Audiovisual Automatic Speech Recognition
Creators: name: Su, Qin
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1996

description: An audiovisual semi-continuous hidden Markov model (HMM)-based Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system and an improved method of integrating audio and visual information in an audiovisual discrete HMM-based ASR system are investigated.

In the audiovisual discrete HMM, an adaptive integration formulation is employed, which incorporates the integration into the HMM at a pre-categorical stage. A visual weighting parameter is determined automatically, which allows the relative contribution of audio and visual information to be adjusted adaptively. Using an adaptive weight, the accuracy increased by 13% compared to the same model with no adaptive weight.

The semi-continuous HMM is a class of models which includes both discrete and continuous mixture HMMs as its special forms and unifies vector quantization (VQ) the discrete HMM, and the continuous mixture HMM. It reduces the vector quantization distortion of discrete HMMs by using continuous output probability density functions represented by a combination of the discrete output probabilities of the model and the continuous Gaussian probability density functions (pdfs) associated with each VQ symbol. The parameters of the vector quantization codebook and the HMM can be optimized together to achieve a unified modeling approach. Experimental results show that the recognition performance could be improved significantly in a relatively low signal-to-noise ratio environment by using the semi-continuous HMMs and the accuracy could be increased 9% on average. The modified Gaussian pdfs, which are Gaussian within two standard deviation but have "heavier" Laplacian tails, is first used in the classification procedure of the semicontinuous HMM in this thesis. It is an efficient way to compensate for inadequate training of Gaussian pdfs, or different testing and training environments.
Improving conceptual clarity of antenatal interventions: a scoping review
Creators: name: Buultjens, Melissa
name: Murphy, Gregory
name: Milgrom, J
name: Poinen, D
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems
classificationCode: 4204
subject: Midwifery
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health

description: No description supplied
Rinhas de humanos: violência e negação de cidadania em Entre rinhas de cachorros e porcos abatidos de Ana Paula Maia
Creators: name: Meireles, Daniela Cristina Lea
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi RomaTre
Year: 2016
Subjects: Violência; Cidadania; Agência social; Consumo; Violence; Citizenship; Social agency; Consumption

description: O presente artigo examina a representação literária da violência urbana na sua dimensão física e cultural questionando os efeitos da violência na vida social e humana bem como as modificações estratégicas que a mesma causa na paisagem urbana em Entre rinhas de cachorros e porcos abatidos (2009) de Ana Paula Maia. Na obra, a violência revela-se como um simulacro de agência social. Paradoxalmente, como numa catarse social, a violência reinstaura a paz e a ordem entre esses personagens que são ‘homens besta’.

The present article examines the literary representation of urban violence in its physic and cultural dimensions questioning the effect of violence in the social realm and the strategic modifications violence causes in the urban landscape in Ana Paula Maia’s Entre Rinhas de Cachorros e Porcos Abatidos (2009). In the novel, violence is revealed as a simlacrum of social agency. Paradoxically, as in a kind of social catarsis, violence reinstates peace and social order among those characters who are ‘men-beasts’.
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Jovens namorados e a violência de gênero: uma relação desigual
Creators: name: De Ataíde, Marlene Almeida
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi RomaTre
Year: 2016
Subjects: Juventude; Namoro; Gênero; Violência de gênero; Youth; Dating; Gender; Gender violence

description: O presente artigo resulta de uma pesquisa qualitativa, ancorada pela metodologia da história oral, enquanto suporte investigativo. Teve como objetivo conhecer a partir das narrativas de duas jovens universitárias o fenômeno da violência nas relações de namoro. Nesta perspectiva desvelar os argumentos que defendem para submeter-se à uma relação de violência pressupõe apreender os significados que atribuem ao(s) tipo(s) da(s) violência(s) sofrida(s). Assim, esta pesquisa buscou investigar a violência de gênero, ou seja, as ações ou condutas, baseadas no gênero, que podem causar a morte, além do dano ou sofrimento físico, sexual ou psicológico à mulher, pois, tais eventos dessa natureza podem ocorrer tanto no espaço público como no privado. A violência de gênero expressa as relações de poder historicamente desiguais entre homens e mulheres.

This article results from a qualitative research, anchored by the methodology of oral history as investigative support. Aimed to understand the narratives of two young university students about the phenomenon of violence in dating relationships. In this perspective, it is important to unveil the arguments they support to maintain a relationship of violence, requiring the understanding of the meanings they attribute to the type of violence suffered. Thus, this study sought to investigate gender violence, that is, the actions or conduct, based on gender, which may cause death, physical, sexual or psychological suffering to women, because these events may occur both in the public and private space. Gender violence expresses the historically unequal power relations between men and women.
description: Krypton, N. 5|6 (2015): Violenza
Preparation of platelet concentrates for research and transfusion purposes
Creators: name: Greening, David
name: Simpson, Richard
name: Sparrow, RL
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3101
subject: Biochemistry and cell biology
classificationCode: 3404
subject: Medicinal and biomolecular chemistry

description: No description supplied
Ethique et criminalisation du VIH: échographie d’une violence contre-indiquée
Creators: name: Ahouma, Adayé
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi RomaTre
Year: 2016
Subjects: Éthique; Criminalisation; Judiciarisation; Quarantaine; Norme; Science; Sérologie; Stigmatisation; VIH; Virulence; Ethics; Criminalization; Judicialization; Quarantine; Standard; Science; Stigmatization; HIV; Virulence

description: Mettre en évidence le caractère violent des lois relatives au VIH, telle est l’orientation substantielle de cette investigation. En effet, tout se passe comme si les données et appréhensions qui avaient cours dès la découverte de cette maladie n’avaient subi de changement notoire. Le séropositif est traité au plan légal comme un être dont la dangerosité nécessite relatif isolement ou silencieuse réclusion. Et cela contre les recommandations les plus sérieuses. Il n’est pas question qu’il affecte le reste du corps social. Or des progrès sont faits au plan de la recherche qui devraient apaiser et neutraliser les craintes initiales. Cette persistance de l’agressivité légale ne peut en rien réduire le VIH, au contraire, elle crée les conditions de son amplification. Ce travail explicite les facettes et incohérences de cette posture qui assurément transpire la peur primitive relative à cette pandémie, et dont les conséquences compliquent l’existence des séropositifs.

Lifting the veil of the violent characteristics of laws concerning HIV, such is the substantive approach of this survey. In fact all is going as if the datas and apprehensions, which made their way once they discovered the disease, didn’t undergo any noticeable change. An HIV positive is treated as someone whose dangerous state requires to put him in isolation and even to cut him off from the rest of the world. And that goes against the most serious recommendations. It is out of question that he contaminates the rest of social body. Although some progresses are made in the field of research and they ought to calm and neutralize the initial fears. This persistence of legal aggressivity does not contain HIV at all, on the contrary it fosters the conditions which will make it gain more ground. This work shed light on the facets and contradictions of this posture that surely reflect a primitive fear about this pandemic.
description: Krypton, N. 5|6 (2015): Violenza
Assessment and evidence of the relationship between farmer well-being, and their animal welfare: a One Welfare scoping review
Creators: name: Levallois, Pierre
name: Buczinski, Sébastien
name: Villettaz Robichaud, Marianne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Protocol for a scoping review. The aim of this upload was to have a record, to refer to the protocol in a future publication. The upload also allowed to prove that the protocol was designed before starting the study.
Uma leitura de cicatrizes: os escritos contemporâneos do cárcere no Brasil e na Itália
Creators: name: Paiva Coronel, Luciana
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi RomaTre
Year: 2016
Subjects: Violência; Testemunho; Autobiografia; Violence; Testimony; Autobiography

description: Pretende-se apresentar as diferentes formas de representação da violência presentes em escritos do cárcere do Brasil e da Itália, apontando o fato de que nos primeiros esta irrompe de modo absoluto, confirmando a persistência de uma tradição de arbítrio e impunidade que diz respeito ao modo de tratamento dos setores subalternos da sociedade, enquanto que no segundo caso, pode-se comparativamente identificar a presença de uma forma mais psicológica de sofrimento, ligado à dor da solidão e do vazio existencial decorrentes do encarceramento. Nos textos brasileiros predomina a forma do testemunho da barbárie, no qual a voz do detento representa majoritariamente toda a coletividade dos apenados. Na cena italiana, as vozes configuram um acerto de contas de teor mais individual, típico da autobiografia, sendo estes os conceitos básicos que orientam a análise. Em ambos os casos, a palavra constitui um caminho de libertação simbólica diante da opressão sofrida.

It is our intention to show the difference between Brazilian and Italian prison writing concerning the representation of violence. In Brazilian works the violence is absolute, which confirms the persistence of arbitrary powers of officials, and their impunity, towards lower classes in the society. In contrast, in Italian works, the violence is associated with psychological suffering related to the pain of loneliness and existential emptiness caused by incarceration. In Brazilian texts, testimony to barbarism prevails through the voice of the prisoner who speaks for the majority of the group of prisoners. In Italian texts, there are voices of individuals who establish some reckoning, very much like autobiographies. Testimony and autobiography are the basic concepts that guide this analysis and they both are ways of achieving symbolic freedom through writing.
description: Krypton, N. 5|6 (2015): Violenza
Violência injustificável sob a democracia constitucional: uma crítica ao constitucionalismo moderno a partir da análise do sistema penitenciário brasileiro
Creators: name: Paranhos De Campos Ribeiro, Ana Carolina
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi RomaTre
Year: 2016
Subjects: Democracia; Constitucionalismo; Violência injustificada; Sistema penitenciário brasileiro; Estado de coisas inconstitucional; Democracy; Constitutionalism; unjustified violence; Brazil’s prison system; Unconstitutional state of affairs

description: O presente artigo problematiza a sacralização das categorias essenciais do Constitucionalismo moderno, do qual derivou o sistema de democracia constitucional. Tentou-se elaborar uma crítica, a fim de se incentivar a busca de novos modos de pensar os paradoxos causados pela adoção cega e inflacionária das categorias da democracia constitucional. Em seguida, pretendeu-se revelar as dimensões da violência injustificada simbólica e física exercidas pelos Estados justificadas por esse arcabouço no âmbito internacional e no âmbito doméstico. Particularmente, elegeu-se como objeto de estudos o caso do Estado brasileiro em sua dimensão legislativa e punitiva, a fim de revelar as dimensões da violência injustificada que, aliás, levaram o Supremo Tribunal Federal a julgar o processo de ADPF 347 (set. 2015) acerca do «estado de coisas inconstitucional» no sistema penitenciário.

This article envisages to problematize the sacralization of the fundamental concepts of the modern Constitutionalism, from which the system of constitutional democracies derives. We aim at criticizing this system, while seeking ways to rethink the paradoxes caused by the blind and inflationary use of its supporting ideas as a means of domination.
We propose to reveal some dimensions of ‘unjustified’ violence, whether concrete or symbolic violence, held by constitutional democracies at the internatonal level and at the national level. Then, we focus on the legislative and punitive facets of the Brazilian constitucional democracy, by highlighting domestic ‘unjustified’ violence, since the endemic violation of human rights inside the country’s prison system has recently inspired a judicial innovation: the rulling of the ‘unconstitutional state of affairs’ by the Supreme Court.
description: Krypton, N. 5|6 (2015): Violenza
Violence, vraisemblance et bienséance: corps souffrants, corps effarants dans le théâtre et la danse contemporains
Creators: name: Mounsef, Donia
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi RomaTre
Year: 2016
Subjects: Théâtre; Performance; Violence; Corporéité; Bienséance; Theatre; Performance; Violence; Bodies; Decorum

description: La violence portée aux corps scéniques a toujours fait partie du spectacle vivant: assassinats, tortures, châtiments corporels, exécutions, supplices de toute sorte occupent les scènes contemporaines. Certains dramaturges, chorégraphes et performers francophones contemporains optent pour une violence graphique, d’autres suggèrent au lieu de montrer selon les règles de la bienséance. Le site de ces interrogations est toujours le corps et son statut ambigu dans la représentation qui se rattache à la distinction phénoménologique entre le corps sujet et objet, corps intelligible et corps sensible.
Cet article s’interroge sur le fonctionnement de la violence scénique contre le corps, en particulier la manière dont la scène transforme la corporéité en corps concentrationnaire dans le théâtre d’Armand Gatti, en corps déterritorialisé dans le théâtre de Wajdi Mouawad, et en corps fragmentaire dans les spectacles de danse et multimédia de Rachid Ouramdane.

Staged violence has always been part and parcel of the live arts: assassinations, tortures, physical punishment, executions and atrocities haunt contemporary performance. Some recent French and Francophone playwrights and choreographers choose to show graphic violence, while others hint to it according to inherited rules of decorum. Questions of violence and representation are always related to the representability of the body and its ambiguous phenomenological status as object and subject, and as the site of meaning and sensation.
This article interrogates the functioning of staged violence located on the genocidal body in the theatre of Armand Gatti, the deterritorialized body in the theatre of Wajdi Mouawad, and the fragmented body in the dance and multi-media performances of choreographer, Rachid Ouramdane.
description: Krypton, N. 5|6 (2015): Violenza
What role can public-private partnerships play in strengthening research in health? The Turing-Roche Partnership Experience
Creators: name: Victoria, Hellon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This talk 'What role can public-private partnerships play in strengthening research in health? The Turing-Roche Partnership Experience' will be given by Vicky Hellon at the Healthy Future Conference in Bratislava, Slovakia as part of AmCham Slovakia's 30th Anniversary celebration on the 11th September 2024.
Preparation of platelet concentrates for research and transfusion purposes
Creators: name: Greening, David
name: Simpson, Richard
name: Sparrow, RL
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Platelets are specialized cellular elements of the blood that play central roles in physiologic and pathologic processes of hemostasis, wound healing, host defense, thrombosis, inflammation, and tumor metastasis. Activation of platelets is crucial for platelet function that includes a complex interplay of adhesion, signaling molecules, and release of bioactive factors. Transfusion of platelet concentrates is an important treatment component for thrombocytopenia and bleeding. Recent progress in high-throughput mRNA and protein profiling techniques has advanced the understanding of platelet biological functions toward identifying novel platelet-expressed and secreted proteins, analyzing functional changes between normal and pathologic states, and determining the effects of processing and storage on platelet concentrates for transfusion. It is important to understand the different standard methods of platelet preparation and how they differ from the perspective for use as research samples in clinical chemistry. Two simple methods are described here for the preparation of research-scale platelet samples from whole blood, and detailed notes are provided about the methods used for the preparation of platelet concentrates for transfusion.
Marriage Before 16 or 18 years: The Effect of Marital Age on Women's Educational Attainment in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Mohammad Mainul Islam, Md. Kamrul Islam, Mohammad Sazzad Hasan And Md. Aminul Haque
Publisher: name: The Thai Association of the Population and Social Researchers
Year: 2016
Subjects: child marriage, marital age, educational attainment, Bangladesh

description: Journal of Population and Social Studies (JPSS), 24, 2
Gwechall e oa eur servicherez
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

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A protocol for the preparation of cryoprecipitate and cryo-depleted plasma for proteomic studies
Creators: name: Sparrow, RL
name: Simpson, Richard
name: Greening, David
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3101
subject: Biochemistry and cell biology
classificationCode: 3404
subject: Medicinal and biomolecular chemistry

description: No description supplied
A protocol for the preparation of cryoprecipitate and cryo-depleted plasma for proteomic studies
Creators: name: Sparrow, RL
name: Simpson, Richard
name: Greening, David
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Cryoprecipitate is a concentrate of high-molecular-weight plasma proteins that precipitate when frozen plasma is slowly thawed at 1–6 °C. The concentrate contains factor VIII (antihemophilic factor), von Willebrand factor (vWF), fibrinogen, factor XIII, fibronectin, and small amounts of other plasma proteins. Clinical grade preparations of cryoprecipitate are mainly used to treat fibrinogen deficiency caused by acute bleeding or functional abnormalities of the fibrinogen protein. In the past, cryoprecipitate was used to treat von Willebrand disease and hemophilia A (factor VIII deficiency), but the availability of more highly purified coagulation factor concentrates or recombinant protein preparations has superseded the use of cryoprecipitate for these coagulopathies. Cryo-depleted plasma (“cryosupernatant”) is the plasma supernatant remaining following removal of the cryoprecipitate from frozen-thawed plasma. It contains all the other plasma proteins and clotting factors present in plasma that remain soluble during cold-temperature thawing of the plasma. This protocol describes the clinical-scale preparation of cryoprecipitate and cryo-depleted plasma for proteomic studies.