cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Statistical Modeling of Occupational Exposure to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Using OSHA Data
Creators: name: Lee, Derrick G.
name: Lavoué, Jérôme
name: Spinelli, John J.
name: Burstyn, Igor
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a group of pollutants with multiple variants classified as carcinogenic. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) provided access to two PAH exposure databanks of United States workplace compliance testing data collected between 1979 and 2010. Mixed-effects logistic models were used to predict the exceedance fraction (EF), i.e., the probability of exceeding OSHA's Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL = 0.2 mg/m3) for PAHs based on industry and occupation. Measurements of coal tar pitch volatiles were used as a surrogate for PAHs. Time, databank, occupation, and industry were included as fixed-effects while an identifier for the compliance inspection number was included as a random effect. Analyses involved 2,509 full-shift personal measurements. Results showed that the majority of industries had an estimated EF < 0.5, although several industries, including Standardized Industry Classification codes 1623 (Water, Sewer, Pipeline, and Communication and Powerline Construction), 1711 (Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning), 2824 (Manmade Organic Fibres), 3496 (Misc. Fabricated Wire products), and 5812 (Eating Places), and Major group's 13 (Oil and Gas Extraction) and 30 (Rubber and Miscellaneous Plastic Products), were estimated to have more than an 80% likelihood of exceeding the PEL. There was an inverse temporal trend of exceeding the PEL, with lower risk in most recent years, albeit not statistically significant. Similar results were shown when incorporating occupation, but varied depending on the occupation as the majority of industries predicted at the administrative level, e.g., managers, had an estimated EF < 0.5 while at the minimally skilled/laborer level there was a substantial increase in the estimated EF. These statistical models allow the prediction of PAH exposure risk through individual occupational histories and will be used to create a job-exposure matrix for use in a population-based case-control study exploring PAH exposure and breast cancer risk.
An agent-based framework for service level agreement management
Creators: name: He, Qiang
name: Yan, Jun
name: Kowalczyk, Ryszard
name: Jin, Hai
name: Yang, Yun
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In the Web services environment, Service Level Agreements (SLA) refer to mutually agreed understandings and expectations of service provision between service consumers and providers. Although management of SLA is critical to wide adoption of Web services technologies in the real world, support for it is very limited nowadays. There lacks adequate frameworks and technologies supporting various SLA operations. This paper presents an agent-based framework which utilises the agents' ability of negotiation, interaction, and cooperation to facilitate autonomous and flexible SLA management. Based on this framework, mechanisms for autonomous SLA formation, recovery, and profiling are proposed and discussed.
J.J. Clark: child prodigy architect and his winning but ill-fated design for a Free Public Library in Sydney
Creators: name: Dodd, Andrew
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: There are some architectural drawings in the collection of the State Library of Victoria that seem distinctly out of place. When you come across them you find yourself asking why they are held in Melbourne and not in Sydney where they might logically belong. This reaction is understandable given the drawings comprise the winning design for Sydney's Free Public Library, the precursor to the present State Library of New South Wales. [Introduction]
The effect of invertebrate infestation and its correlation with loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) nest success in Laganas Bay, Zakynthos, Greece.
Creators: name: Andrews, Adam
name: Smith, Andrew
name: ALan Rees
name: Margaritoulis, Dimitris
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Zoology

description: S1 Dataset
Global climate destabilization and the crisis of civilization
Creators: name: Gare, Arran
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: James Hansen, the world’s leading climate scientist, argues that global climate destabilization could totally destroy the conditions for life on Earth, and further, that politicians are not taking effective action. Instead, they are using their power to cripple science. This situation is explained in this paper as the outcome of the successful alliance between a global class of predators and people who must be recognized as idiots taking over the institutions of government, research and education and transforming governments into governments of occupation. The predators are either indifferent to the suffering they will cause, or have an agenda to use the effects of global warming to cull the world’s human population. In either case, their views are legitimated by social Darwinism. By revealing their true nature, this alliance has exposed a rift in the civilization of modernity, revealing the suppressed tradition and trajectory of the Radical Enlightenment. With its roots in the Renaissance, the Radical Enlightenment is opposed to reductionist materialism and committed to truth, liberty, justice and democracy. To revive the grand narrative of the Radical Enlightenment it will be necessary to reemplot this grand narrative as a project for creating an Ecological Civilization. This will be a civilization based on process metaphysics and a fusion of science and the humanities in human ecology. The goal projected by this narrative should be to save life on Earth from this alliance of predators and idiots.
Simple and Efficient Synthesis of 5-Substituted-3-phenyl-2-thioxoimidazolidin-4-one Derivatives from S-Amino Acids and Phenylisothiocyanate in Et3N/DMF-H2O
Creators: name: Jangale, Asha D.
name: Wagh, Yogesh B.
name: Tayade, Yogesh A.
name: Dalal, Dipak S.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Information and Computing Sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: A concise approach for the transformation of various S-amino acids into the 5-alkyl-3-phenyl-2-thioxoimidazolidin-4-one heterocycles using phenylisothiocyanate is described. Phenylthiohydantoins of amino acid were synthesized at room temperature in Et3N/DMF-H2O with easy workup and excellent yields.
Novel use of immunohistochemistry for phenotypic evaluation of circulating neoplastic lymphocyte populations
Creators: name: JR Finlay
name: KM Wyatt
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Biology
subject: Chemistry
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: Cancer
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: Genetics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Medicine
subject: Biophysics

description: CASE HISTORY: A 5-year-old male neutered Poodle cross presented with a 2 week history of non-specific gastrointestinal signs including vomiting, inappetence and lethargy (Case 1). A 14-year-old male neutered Staffordshire Bull Terrier presented with a 6 week history of progressive inappetence and lethargy (Case 2).CLINICAL FINDINGS: On presentation, Case 1 was dehydrated and had repeatable cranial abdominal pain. Mild hypoproteinemia with hypoalbuminemia, and electrolyte disturbances were found on biochemistry profile. Abdominal ultrasonography showed moderate diffuse small intestinal wall irregularity and moderate local lymphadenopathy. Haematology was repeated two days after initial presentation and showed a marked leucocytosis associated with an elevated circulating neoplastic cell population. On presentation, Case 2 was dehydrated, had palpable hepatomegaly and a mild generalised lymphadenopathy. A low number of large, atypical lymphocytes were found on haematology. Sonographically there was hepatomegaly with diffuse parenchymal changes and severe mesenteric lymphadenopathy.LABORATORY FINDINGS: Aspirates from the abdominal lymph nodes (Cases 1 and 2) and liver (Case 2), and blood smears revealed atypical neoplastic lymphoid populations, predominantly comprised of large lymphocytes.Immunocytochemistry failed to determine the lymphoid phenotype in Case 1 but supported a T cell phenotype in Case 2. Immunohistochemistry of formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FF-PE) blood clots was able to identify a T cell phenotype in both cases. PCR for antigen receptor rearrangement results from both cases were consistent with an expanded T cell population.DIAGNOSIS: In both cases, immunohistochemistry on FF-PE blood clots revealed a circulating T cell lymphocyte population, consistent with T cell lymphoproliferative neoplasia.CLINICAL RELEVANCE: Immunohistochemistry on FF-PE blood clots offers clinicians a reliable, inexpensive and minimally invasive method of phenotyping neoplastic cells in circulation. Compared to other available methods, prolonged sample stability allowing for transport and retrospective examination is a distinct advantage. This technique should be considered a useful adjunct to the currently available methods for the phenotypic evaluation of lymphoid leukaemia in dogs.14-0146_Finlay_Supplementary_Information.pdf
D12.6 – Benchmarking results
Creators: name: Dellis, Dimitris (GRNET)
Publisher: name: https://b2share.eudat.eu
Year: 2019
Subjects: HPC
Virtualization
Containers
Docker
Singularity
Shifter
MPI
GPU
SLURM
Grid Engine
H2020
Europe
HPCE3
HPC-Europa

description: The aim of this deliverable is to provide measurements of performance of selected applications that explore various subsystems and compare the performance on bare metal and containerized applications. A suite of representative applications was created. These cover various scientific fields and explore various subsystems. Benchmark results and conclusions per application are presented and discussed.
Discussion paper: an innovative multidisciplinary assessment model for work-placement assessment
Creators: name: Dunn, Louise
name: Schier, Mark
name: Fonseca, Lariane
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390403
subject: Educational administration, management and leadership
classificationCode: 390405
subject: Educational technology and computing

description: This paper presents an innovative assessment model developed for application in multidisciplinary workplace settings. The model was developed to address current trends in higher education surrounding workplace assessment, for students undertaking Swinburne University of Technology's Industry Based Learning Program (IBL) within the Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. IBL is an optional program enabling students from science (biotechnology, public and environmental health and biomedical sciences), multimedia, games, social science, psychology and psychophysiology to undertake a 6 or 12 month paid learning experience in a discipline relevant workplace. The paper will discuss the strategy adopted to formulate the model, which included reviewing an existing model of assessment developed and applied over many years in one discipline area and identifying how this could be adopted for use in multidisciplinary work place settings. The strategy aimed at enhancing the student's ability to provide greater evidence of the development of graduate attributes and employability skills, whilst achieving greater consistency and clarity amongst academics and industry partners regarding the requirements for workplace assessment. The assessment tool was trailed in 2010 and the paper will also present some of the learnings and outcomes from its first application in the various industry settings.
How do Social Studies Textbooks Examine Slavery in the United States?
Creators: name: Tsakos, Demetra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Education

description: Slavery is vital in students’ curriculum; this is what built the United States’ “blossoming” economy. To truly understand what US history is, students need an awareness of slavery’s perpetual robbing of people's liberty, wealth, and education, as enslaved peoples’ way of life was exchanged for a thriving economy. Textbooks can be a student’s primary learning material on these topics, and it is critical to teach history in an accurate and informative way. In recent years, research studies present that US history descriptions in textbooks are often imperfect and lack the genuine interpretation of the country’s dreadful past (Henry, 2011). In tandem with these findings, this study will analyze several high school textbooks that specifically focused on chapters’ diction regarding slavery and how this topic is assessed to understand if its portrayal is accurate.
Rhagonycha furcatiformis Wittmer 1997
Creators: name: Xiao, Yun-Feng
name: Liu, Hao-Yu
name: Yang, Xing-Ke
name: Yang, Yu-Xia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cantharidae
Rhagonycha
Rhagonycha furcatiformis

description: Rhagonycha (s.str.) furcatiformis Wittmer, 1997
(Figs 1B, 2D–F, 3B, 4B, 35)
description: Published as part of Xiao, Yun-Feng, Liu, Hao-Yu, Yang, Xing-Ke & Yang, Yu-Xia, 2024, Taxonomic review of the Rhagonycha flava species group (Coleoptera, Cantharidae), with descriptions of fourteen new species from China, pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 5534 (1) on page 6, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5534.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14023514
Entrepreneurialism and philanthropy
Creators: name: Baker, Christopher
name: Moran, Michael
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: There has been little scholarly investigation into the relative propensity for entrepreneurs to participate in philanthropic endeavour, and whether entrepreneurs are inclined to adopt particular forms or approaches to their philanthropy. This article explores the extent to which extant international literature on giving by the wealthy has acknowledged and explored entrepreneurialism as influencing the propensity of the wealthy to give, and the extent to which it impacts on the nature of that giving. The authors conclude that there is a need for specific research into entrepreneurialism and philanthropy, and that such research needs to be sensitive to the national peculiarities of political, cultural and regulatory contexts.
Rhagonycha furcatiformis Wittmer 1997
Creators: name: Xiao, Yun-Feng
name: Liu, Hao-Yu
name: Yang, Xing-Ke
name: Yang, Yu-Xia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cantharidae
Rhagonycha
Rhagonycha furcatiformis

description: Rhagonycha furcatiformis Wittmer, 1997: 328, figs 206, 207.
Type material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂ (NMPC), [p] “ China Sichuan 23. ‒27.VI. / Jiulonggou nr. Dayi / 70 km W Chengdu / M. Trýzna lgt. 1993”, [p] “ HOLOTYPUS ”, [h] “Rhag. / furcatiformis / Wittm. / det. W. Wittmer ”.
Other material examined. CHINA, Sichuan: 1♂, 1♀ (MHBU), 70 km, West Chengdu, Qingcheng Hou Shan mts., 30°44' N, 103°08' E, 1500 m, 1‒06.VI.2005, leg. S. Murzin.
Descriptive notes. Male (Fig. 1B).Aedeagus moderately swollen laterally near middle (Fig. 2D, E), moderately swollen ventrally in lateral view (Fig. 2F); ventral processes of parameres abruptly thinned apically near bases, with apices narrowly rounded, approaching to each other in ventral view (Fig. 2D), and nearly straight in lateral view (Fig. 2F); conjoint dorsal plate of parameres feebly longer than ventral processes (Fig. 2D, F), with apical margin roundly and deeply emarginate in middle, lateral margins distinctly diverging apically, latero-apical angles rounded in dorsal view (Fig. 2E), and feebly cinclined ventrally in lateral view (Fig. 2F); the emargination between conjoint dorsal plate and ventral process about 1/3 length of aedeagus (Fig. 2F).
Female. Internal organ of reproductive system (Fig. 3B): vagina stout and abruptly thinned at ventroapical portion into a moderately long tube, where diverticulum and spermathecal duct arising separately; diverticulum long and spiral, evenly thin along the whole length; spermathecal duct short, about 1/6 length of apical tube of vagina; spermatheca provided with a spiral tube, evenly thin along the whole length and nearly as long as diverticulum; accessory gland long, about twice longer than spermatheca.
Abdominal sternite VIII (Fig. 4B) strongly narrowed posteriorly, widely triangular at latero-apical angles, and trapezodinally protuberant in middle of posterior margin.
Destribution (Fig. 35). China (Sichuan).
description: Published as part of Xiao, Yun-Feng, Liu, Hao-Yu, Yang, Xing-Ke & Yang, Yu-Xia, 2024, Taxonomic review of the Rhagonycha flava species group (Coleoptera, Cantharidae), with descriptions of fourteen new species from China, pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 5534 (1) on pages 6-7, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5534.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14023514
Telling the end of the settler colonial story
Creators: name: Veracini, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This chapter suggests that an appraisal of a narrative deficit (and, specifically, an exploration of the structural differences separating colonial and settler colonial narrative forms), can contribute to explaining particularly contested traditions of decolonization in settler polities. The first section deals with what is here defined as the settler 'narrative form': a particular way of understanding and organizing historical change in a number of settler colonial political traditions. The second section explores the specific difficulty of telling the end of the settler colonial story.
The media in multimedia for learning: differentiating form from content, technology and domain
Creators: name: Doube, Wendy
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Whereas the polysemous term media is unambiguous within a single domain, multiple ambiguous interpretations can now be found in discussions of electronic convergent mass and communication media. The different interpretations of media in multimedia can be broadly classified as convergent when considering the end product, such as a news web site, or divergent when considering discrete elements, such as text, audio and video. The latter interpretation is commonly used in higher education multimedia applications. This paper revisits theories of multimedia in learning with reference to current standards for learning object metadata to produce a simple model of divergent or discrete media in multimedia. The model clearly distinguishes media form from content, technology and domain with the aim of reducing ambiguity.
The role of entrepreneurial marketing In social media
Creators: name: Valos, Michael
name: Maritz, Alex
name: Frederick, Howard
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Social media are increasingly emerging as a source of competitive advantage, as a means of reaching and engaging consumers, and as a source of consumer insight. This paper identifies challenges associated with the implementation of social media as perceived by senior marketers. Using a qualitative thematic analysis methodology, we identify differences between entrepreneurial and non- entrepreneurial organisations in social media implementation. It is proposed that entrepreneurial marketing may provide theoretical guidelines for implementation of social media. The paper concludes with research propositions that will test the effectiveness of entrepreneurial marketing in overcoming the implementation challenges of social media.
Entrepreneurial stress: a conceptual model
Creators: name: Eager, Bronwyn
name: Maritz, Alex
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 350704
subject: Entrepreneurship

description: An examination of stress as experienced in an entrepreneurial context was conducted through an extensive literature review of prior entrepreneurial, management and executive stress research. Findings have been integrated into an earlier conceptual model of executive stress as developed by McGrath, in which the conceptual model was expanded upon to encompass factors unique to entrepreneurs such as the impact of coping strategies upon the entrepreneurial venture. Research investigating stress states, the impact of coping strategies, and the added dimension of the entrepreneur’s relationship with the venture (which are not experienced by executives), have been integrated into the conceptual model.
Eriopis sebastiani, nueva especie del Genero Eriopis Mulsant, 1850 (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)
Creators: name: Navarrete, Abdhiel Arnaldo Bustamante
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Zoology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: It is reported and described a new species of the genus Eriopis 1850 Mulsant (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) from off the coast of Peru. Graphics presented also exemplary type and genitalia.
Se reporta y describe una nueva especie del género Eriopis Mulsant 1850 (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) proveniente de la costa del Perú. Se presentan además gráficos del ejemplar tipo y la genitalia.
Distribution of fossil marine vertebrates in Cerro Colorado, the type locality of the giant raptorial sperm whale Livyatan melvillei (Miocene, Pisco Formation, Peru)
Creators: name: Bianucci, Giovanni
name: Celma, Claudio Di
name: Landini, Walter
name: Post, Klaas
name: Tinelli, Chiara
name: Muizon, Christian De
name: Gariboldi, Karen
name: Malinverno, Elisa
name: Cantalamessa, Gino
name: Gioncada, Anna
name: Collareta, Alberto
name: Rodolfo-Salas Gismondi
name: Varas-Malca, Rafael
name: Urbina, Mario
name: Lambert, Olivier
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Hundreds of fossil marine vertebrates cropping out at Cerro Colorado (Pisco Basin, Peru) are identified and reported on a 1:6500 scale geological map and in a joined stratigraphic section. All the fossils are from the lower strata of the Pisco Formation, dated in this area to the late middle or early late Miocene. They are particularly concentrated (88%) in the stratigraphic interval from 40 to 75 m above the unconformity with the underlying Chilcatay Formation. The impressive fossil assemblage includes more than 300 specimens preserved as bone elements belonging mostly to cetaceans (81%), represented by mysticetes (cetotheriids and balaenopteroids) and odontocetes (kentriodontid-like delphinidans, pontoporiids, ziphiids, and physeteroids, including the giant raptorial sperm whale Livyatan melvillei). Seals, crocodiles, sea turtles, seabirds, bony fish, and sharks are also reported. Isolated large teeth of Carcharocles and Cosmopolitodus are common throughout the investigated stratigraphical interval, whereas other shark teeth, mostly of carcharinids, are concentrated in one sandy interval. This work represents a first detailed census of the extraordinary paleontological heritage of the Pisco Basin and the basis for future taphonomic, paleoecological, and systematic studies, as well as a much needed conservation effort for this extremely rich paleontological site.
Statistical modeling of occupational exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons using OSHA data
Creators: name: Lee, Derrick G.
name: Lavoué, Jérôme
name: Spinelli, John J.
name: Burstyn, Igor
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Genetics
subject: Biochemistry

description: ABSTRACTPolycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a group of pollutants with multiple variants classified as carcinogenic. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) provided access to two PAH exposure databanks of United States workplace compliance testing data collected between 1979 and 2010. Mixed-effects logistic models were used to predict the exceedance fraction (EF), i.e. the probability of exceeding OSHA's Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL = 0.2 mg/m3) for PAHs based on industry and occupation. Measurements of coal tar pitch volatiles were used as a surrogate for PAHs. Time, databank, occupation, and industry were included as fixed-effects while an identifier for the compliance inspector was included as a random effect. Analyses involved 2,509 full-shift personal measurements. Results showed that the majority of industries had an estimated EF < 0.5, although several industries, including Standardized Industry Classification codes 1623 (Water, Sewer, Pipeline, and Communication and Powerline Construction), 1711 (Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning), 2824 (Manmade Organic Fibres), 3496 (Misc. Fabricated Wire products), and 5812 (Eating Places), and Major group's 13 (Oil and Gas Extraction) and 30 (Rubber and Miscellaneous Plastic Products), were estimated to have more than an 80% likelihood of exceeding the PEL. There was an inverse temporal trend of exceeding the PEL, with lower risk in most recent years, albeit not statistically significant. Similar results were shown when incorporating occupation, but varied depending on the occupation as the majority of industries predicted at the administrative level, e.g. managers, had an estimated EF < 0.5 while at the minimally skilled/labourer level there was a substantial increase in the estimated EF. These statistical models allow the prediction of PAH exposure risk through individual occupational histories and will be used to create a job-exposure matrix for use in a population-based case-control study exploring PAH exposure and breast cancer risk.
A Simple and Efficient Synthesis of 5-Substituted-3-phenyl-2-thioxoimidazolidin-4-one Derivatives from S-Amino Acids and Phenylisothiocyanate in Et3N/DMF-H2O
Creators: name: Jangale, Asha D.
name: Wagh, Yogesh B.
name: Tayade, Yogesh A.
name: Dalal, Dipak S.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Information and Computing Sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: A concise approach for the transformation of various S-amino acids into the 5-alkyl-3-phenyl-2-thioxoimidazolidin-4-one heterocycles using phenylisothiocyanate is described. Phenylthiohydantoins of amino acid (PTH- amino acid) was synthesized at room temperature in Et3N/DMF-H2O with easy work-up and excellent yields.
Stratigraphic framework of the late Miocene to Pliocene Pisco Formation at Cerro Colorado (Ica Desert, Peru)
Creators: name: C. Di Celma
name: E. Malinverno
name: K. Gariboldi
name: A. Gioncada
name: A. Rustichelli
name: P. P. Pierantoni
name: W. Landini
name: G. Bosio
name: C. Tinelli
name: G. Bianucci
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: This paper describes a ∼200 m-thick section of the Pisco Formation exposed at Cerro Colorado, an important fossiliferous site in the Ica desert. In order to properly place the fauna in its correct relative position, this study establishes the stratigraphic framework within which the different fossil-bearing intervals of this site can be compared and may prove invaluable in future high-resolution studies on the faunal change. Most of the Pisco Formation deposits exposed at Cerro Colorado consist of gently dipping fine-grained sandstones, diatomaceous siltstones and diatomites with minor ash layers and dolomites deposited within nearshore and offshore settings. To facilitate detailed stratigraphic correlations within the Pisco strata for a 30 km2 area, eight marker beds have been defined and large-scale (1:10,000 scale) geological mapping conducted to determine fault positions, styles and offsets. The geological map shows that there are two important angular unconformities in the study area. The first one is the interformational basal unconformity of the Pisco Formation against folded, faulted, and planated Oligo-Miocene rocks of the Chilcatay Formation. The second is a low-angle intraformational erosional discontinuity of up to 4° angular discordance that allows the subdivision of the Pisco stratigraphy exposed in the study area into two informal allomembers. Dating of the exposed succession by diatom biostratigraphy suggests that the age of the lower allomember is late Miocene, whereas the upper allomember is late Miocene or younger.
Distribution of fossil marine vertebrates in Cerro Colorado, the type locality of the giant raptorial sperm whale Livyatan melvillei (Miocene, Pisco Formation, Peru)
Creators: name: Bianucci, Giovanni
name: Celma, Claudio Di
name: Landini, Walter
name: Post, Klaas
name: Tinelli, Chiara
name: Muizon, Christian De
name: Gariboldi, Karen
name: Malinverno, Elisa
name: Cantalamessa, Gino
name: Gioncada, Anna
name: Collareta, Alberto
name: Rodolfo-Salas Gismondi
name: Varas-Malca, Rafael
name: Urbina, Mario
name: Lambert, Olivier
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Hundreds of fossil marine vertebrates cropping out at Cerro Colorado (Pisco Basin, Peru) are identified and reported on a 1:6500 scale geological map and in a joined stratigraphic section. All the fossils are from the lower strata of the Pisco Formation, dated in this area to the late middle or early late Miocene. They are particularly concentrated (88%) in the stratigraphic interval from 40 to 75 m above the unconformity with the underlying Chilcatay Formation. The impressive fossil assemblage includes more than 300 specimens preserved as bone elements belonging mostly to cetaceans (81%), represented by mysticetes (cetotheriids and balaenopteroids) and odontocetes (kentriodontid-like delphinidans, pontoporiids, ziphiids, and physeteroids, including the giant raptorial sperm whale Livyatan melvillei). Seals, crocodiles, sea turtles, seabirds, bony fish, and sharks are also reported. Isolated large teeth of Carcharocles and Cosmopolitodus are common throughout the investigated stratigraphical interval, whereas other shark teeth, mostly of carcharinids, are concentrated in one sandy interval. This work represents a first detailed census of the extraordinary paleontological heritage of the Pisco Basin and the basis for future taphonomic, paleoecological, and systematic studies, as well as a much needed conservation effort for this extremely rich paleontological site.
Statistical Modeling of Occupational Exposure to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Using OSHA Data
Creators: name: Lee, Derrick G.
name: Lavoué, Jérôme
name: Spinelli, John J.
name: Burstyn, Igor
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Genetics
subject: Biochemistry

description: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a group of pollutants with multiple variants classified as carcinogenic. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) provided access to two PAH exposure databanks of United States workplace compliance testing data collected between 1979 and 2010. Mixed-effects logistic models were used to predict the exceedance fraction (EF), i.e., the probability of exceeding OSHA's Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL = 0.2 mg/m3) for PAHs based on industry and occupation. Measurements of coal tar pitch volatiles were used as a surrogate for PAHs. Time, databank, occupation, and industry were included as fixed-effects while an identifier for the compliance inspection number was included as a random effect. Analyses involved 2,509 full-shift personal measurements. Results showed that the majority of industries had an estimated EF < 0.5, although several industries, including Standardized Industry Classification codes 1623 (Water, Sewer, Pipeline, and Communication and Powerline Construction), 1711 (Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning), 2824 (Manmade Organic Fibres), 3496 (Misc. Fabricated Wire products), and 5812 (Eating Places), and Major group's 13 (Oil and Gas Extraction) and 30 (Rubber and Miscellaneous Plastic Products), were estimated to have more than an 80% likelihood of exceeding the PEL. There was an inverse temporal trend of exceeding the PEL, with lower risk in most recent years, albeit not statistically significant. Similar results were shown when incorporating occupation, but varied depending on the occupation as the majority of industries predicted at the administrative level, e.g., managers, had an estimated EF < 0.5 while at the minimally skilled/laborer level there was a substantial increase in the estimated EF. These statistical models allow the prediction of PAH exposure risk through individual occupational histories and will be used to create a job-exposure matrix for use in a population-based case-control study exploring PAH exposure and breast cancer risk.
Exploring Student Historical Understandings: Multiple Perspectives in Social Studies Education
Creators: name: Lyazkowska, Sofia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Education

description: This action research study focuses on examining high school students’ conceptions of history and historical knowledge, as well as exploring the potential impact of incorporating multiple perspectives into teaching history on freshman students’ perceptions of history. A quasi-experimental research design that utilized both quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection was applied to two Civics classes in an urban high school. The key measures are a pre and posttest structure and a historical perceptions survey for both the control (six students) and intervention groups. I provided multiple perspectives and differing evidence on one historical object in each of the two intervention lessons for the intervention group of nine students. Although there were no significant quantitative results in the intervention groups’ historical perceptions survey, qualitative findings suggest changes in individual students’ understandings of the existence of multiple evidence-based historical narratives, especially immediately after the intervention lessons. A larger sample size in addition to more explicit connections between the intervention lessons and students’ overall perceptions of history would be able to provide more insight into the possible influence of such interventions on student perceptions of history.
Stratigraphic framework of the late Miocene to Pliocene Pisco Formation at Cerro Colorado (Ica Desert, Peru)
Creators: name: C. Di Celma
name: E. Malinverno
name: K. Gariboldi
name: A. Gioncada
name: A. Rustichelli
name: P. P. Pierantoni
name: W. Landini
name: G. Bosio
name: C. Tinelli
name: G. Bianucci
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: This paper describes a ∼200 m-thick section of the Pisco Formation exposed at Cerro Colorado, an important fossiliferous site in the Ica desert. In order to properly place the fauna in its correct relative position, this study establishes the stratigraphic framework within which the different fossil-bearing intervals of this site can be compared and may prove invaluable in future high-resolution studies on the faunal change. Most of the Pisco Formation deposits exposed at Cerro Colorado consist of gently dipping fine-grained sandstones, diatomaceous siltstones and diatomites with minor ash layers and dolomites deposited within nearshore and offshore settings. To facilitate detailed stratigraphic correlations within the Pisco strata for a 30 km2 area, eight marker beds have been defined and large-scale (1:10,000 scale) geological mapping conducted to determine fault positions, styles and offsets. The geological map shows that there are two important angular unconformities in the study area. The first one is the interformational basal unconformity of the Pisco Formation against folded, faulted, and planated Oligo-Miocene rocks of the Chilcatay Formation. The second is a low-angle intraformational erosional discontinuity of up to 4° angular discordance that allows the subdivision of the Pisco stratigraphy exposed in the study area into two informal allomembers. Dating of the exposed succession by diatom biostratigraphy suggests that the age of the lower allomember is late Miocene, whereas the upper allomember is late Miocene or younger.
Token Economy Intervention in an Elementary School Classroom
Creators: name: Rogers, Katherine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Education

description: This research examines the effect of a token economy on student behavior in a fourth grade, elementary school classroom. There has been extensive research on token economies in the classroom; however, at the time of this study, there was little existing research on the benefits of cognitively stimulating token reinforcers or a variable ratio schedule of token delivery. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to apply these additional characteristics in a reinvented token economy intervention. Twenty-two students from a fourth-grade classroom in Northern Illinois participated in this study and data were collected for seven weeks, one hour in the morning and one hour in the afternoon. The data demonstrated a significant decrease in problematic behaviors and a general trend of increased productive behaviors during token economy intervention, which suggests that the intervention may have been responsible for changes in students’ behavior.
KaitoroCap: a document navigation capture and visualisation tool
Creators: name: Ting Su, Moon
name: Hosking, John
name: Grundy, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: To facilitate the usage of software architecture documents (ADs), we claim the architectural information in the ADs needs to be structured into or presented as chunks. A chunk allows related information to be retrieved collectively as a unit and simplifies information location tasks. We propose a new semi-automated approach based on the actual usage of ADs by previous users, i.e. by capturing users' exploration paths through ADs while engaging in information seeking tasks and making these paths available for future retracing and analysis. As part of our work, we developed KaitoroCap, a document navigation capture and visualisation tool. Its main features are exploration paths capture, retrieval, analysis, hierarchical tree-view visualization of paths, path searching, section rating, tagging, commenting, expanding/collapsing and page model generation to enable dynamic restructuring of ADs. This paper describes the design, implementation and usage examples of KaitoroCap.
Continuous team assessment to improve student engagement and active learning
Creators: name: Esposto, Alexis
name: Weaver-Cowdroy, Debbi
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A strategy of continuous team assessment over three years, comprising of a series of tests and a major project, was introduced into scheduled tutorial classes in an attempt to improve flagging attendance and low student motivation. The assessment tasks were designed to be undertaken in teams of two students, with ongoing feedback as an integral component. After a single semester of implementation, attendance at tutorials improved (to nearly double the previous year), and this rate was sustained over a three year period. Average assessment marks rose a full grade compared to the previous student cohort, and this was also sustained over the same period. Students' output improved, and they were actively engaged in their work and with their colleagues. These results indicate the change in assessment strategy achieved the desired outcomes of improving student engagement and active learning.
Consumption and environmental sustainability
Creators: name: Newton, Peter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 3304
subject: Urban and regional planning

description: A critical challenge for members of high income societies is how to wind back their currently unsustainable levels of resource consumption. Changing contemporary patterns of behaviour---to what some refer to as sustainable consumption---represents one of the key pathways towards achieving sustainable development. Other pathways are on the supply side and include: transition to sustainable production; introduction of new eco-efficient urban infrastructure technologies; and eco-city transitions involving application of sustainable urban design principles, all of which hold promise for a significant reduction in environmental impact. However, household behaviour change holds the prospect for a much faster rate of transformation, and the extent to which it can occur voluntarily would facilitate the transition to a more sustainable future. This book explores the prospects for significantly reducing levels of household resource consumption in Australia: a quintessential high income--high consumption society. Australia's current level of consumption as measured by its Ecological Footprint (EF) is three times the global average and is due to the significant contributions that each of the sectors of urban living makes to overall resource consumption. Australia also features highly on global indexes of liveability (e.g. Economist Intelligence Unit 2009)---typically in the top decile. When graphed against consumption, however it is clear that the liveability of Australian cities is currently being achieved through high levels of consumption of resources: by their built environments and by the patterns of living of their residents. Given the significance of the liveability of cities from both a social and economic perspective, the challenge becomes one of identifying the most prospective points for intervention to reduce their underlying resource consumption. A global market awaits the development of implementable solutions to these challenges.
Learning project skills for 'real world' environment
Creators: name: Blicblau, Aaron
name: Richards, David
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390303
subject: Higher education
classificationCode: 401799
subject: Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This paper sets out to explore the potential relationship between project results at first and final years of an engineering course. A multiple linear regression analysis model was applied to all sets of data. The analysis of results indicates that there is no significant correlation in grades from first year projects to final year projects. In terms of predictability of performance, exposure to first year projects is more of an initial adaptation to a teaching and learning environment. It is less of a suitable predictor of grade performance in project work in final year. For students to do well in their final year project, a period in industry greatly enhances their independent learning skills resulting in an overall enhanced learning experience. The important outcomes for final year students are in an in an understanding of the importance of their professional and personal abilities to formulate and solve difficult problems together with an improvement of their independent learning skills.
The Effectiveness of the Appeal to Will Drivers
Creators: name: Bolek, Jennifer
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Education

description: As a response to ongoing conversations around motivation and engagement in schools, this study focuses on appealing to the will drivers mastery, purpose, autonomy, and belonging in the high school English classroom. This research hypothesizes that differentiating to appeal directly to students' specific drivers will result in increased motivation and engagement. Students’ individual drivers were identified, and survey responses to lessons centered around each individual will driver were analyzed and compared. Additional student commentary about each lesson was also taken into consideration. The results do not yield an infallible methodology for addressing student motivation and engagement but imply that lessons with real-world applications and lessons that fulfill students’ social-emotional needs can positively affect these aspects of learning.