cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cilengitide, an αvβ3-integrin inhibitor, enhances the efficacy of anti-programmed cell death-1 therapy in a murine melanoma model
Creators: name: Pan, Xin
name: Yi, Minxiao
name: Liu, Chaofan
name: Jin, Yu
name: Liu, Bo
name: Hu, Guangyuan
name: Yuan, Xianglin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Integrins play an important role in multiple stages of tumor progression and metastasis. Previous studies have shown synergistic effects of combined αvβ6-integrin and αvβ8-integrin inhibitors with immunotherapy. However, the role of αvβ3-integrin inhibitor in tumor immunity is still unclear. In this study, we aimed to elucidate the impact of the αvβ3-integrin inhibitor on PD-L1 expression and sensitivity to immune checkpoint blockade in melanoma. We investigated the effects of cilengitide, an αvβ3-integrin inhibitor, on cell viability and apoptosis of melanoma cell lines. And we explored how cilengitide regulated the expression of PD-L1 in melanoma cells in vitro and in vivo, using immunofluorescence, flow cytometry, Western blotting, and immunohistochemistry. A subcutaneous B16 murine melanoma model was utilized to determine whether combining cilengitide with anti-PD1 therapy inhibited tumor growth and positively regulated tumor microenvironment (TME). Our results showed that cilengitide inhibited cell viability and induced apoptosis in B16 and A375 cell lines. Furthermore, cilengitide decreased PD-L1 expression by reducing STAT3 phosphorylation in two melanoma cell lines. Cilengitide also reduced subcutaneous tumor PD-L1 expression in the B16 murine melanoma model. Accordingly, cilengitide positively regulated antitumor immune responses and provided durable therapy when combined with anti-PD1 monoclonal antibody in the murine melanoma model. This combination therapy reduced tumor growth and extended survival. Our study highlights that cilengitide enhances the efficacy of anti-PD1 therapy and produces a stronger antitumor immune response. This combination therefore represents a novel therapeutic regimen that may improve immunotherapy treratment.
On the possibility of mid-IR supercontinuum generation in As-Se-Te/As-S core/clad fibers with all-fiber femtosecond pump source
Creators: name: Anashkina, E. A.
name: Shiryaev, V. S.
name: Snopatin, G. E.
name: Muraviev, S. V.
name: Kim, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose and optimize theoretically a supercontinuum (SC) laser source in the mid-IR based on using As-Se-Te/As-S core/clad step-index fibers and a femtosecond all-fiber laser system at 2 μm. Numerically simulated spectra extending from ~1 μm to more than 8 μm are demonstrated for pump energy of order 100 pJ in a fiber with a core diameter of 2 μm. To the best of our knowledge, the possibility of such long-wavelength spectral conversion of pump pulses at the wavelength of 2 μm in optical fibers is demonstrated for the first time. The theoretical calculations are performed on the base of real low loss step-index As-Se-Te/As-S glass fibers with various core-clad diameter ratios.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. Submitted to Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
Additional file 1: Table S1. of Sidedness and TP53 mutations impact OS in anti-EGFR but not anti-VEGF treated mCRC - an analysis of the KRAS registry of the AGMT (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Medikamentรถse Tumortherapie)
Creators: name: Huemer, Florian
name: Thaler, Josef
name: Piringer, Gudrun
name: Hackl, Hubert
name: Pleyer, Lisa
name: Hufnagl, Clemens
name: Weiss, Lukas
name: Greil, Richard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Primers and probes used for molecular analyses of tumour samples. (DOC 38 kb)
Security techniques for virtual machine based systems
Creators: name: Jayarathna, Wadu M. M. Dilshan
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Virtualising computing environments has generated significant research and commercial interest in the past decade and half. The main factors contributing to this resurgence include, but not limited to, greater isolation, ease of deployment and low total cost of ownership that virtualisation provides while improving availability and increasingeffciency of resources. Security has become an important part of the whole virtualisation landscape due to the increased use of virtualised environments that demand diverse security requirements and various levels of trust associated with different platforms, applications and users. This thesis is essentially focusing on security attacks and security architecture for virtual machine based systems. First, the thesis considers virtual machine introspection based techniques for detecting anomalies in virtual machine based applications and services. In particular, it addresses Domain Naming System (DNS) and Web Server based applications, and analyses the different types of security attacks that are possible against these services and the security measures and architecture that can be adopted to counteract these attacks. Then, the thesis proposes a graph-based reputation model for domain name system (DNS) to further strengthen the attacks detection capabilities of the proposed architecture. A detailed analysis of the attacks against the reputation system and technique sto counteract them are described. Finally, an integrated security model combining access control with proposed attack and intrusion detection capabilities together with trust management is proposed for virtual machine based systems. The integrated security architecture can detect intrusions and attacks against the monitored services and is able to dynamically update the access controls policies of the live system to isolate the problematic/compromised service from accessing all other resources while the service is still running. This enables administrators to address the security threats without affecting the rest of the infrastructure. Such a feature helps to enhance the resilience of the system, which is vitally important in securing virtual infrastructures. The thesis describes the design of the integrated security architecture and its implementation. Then the analysis of a number of attacks against DNS and Web servers using the architecture is discussed. Dynamic nature of detecting attacks, proactively protecting specific applications from previously unknown threats and isolating virtual machines without additional resources can stand out as unique features of the security techniques proposed in this thesis.
Development of high anthocyanin crispy rice bar
Creators: name: Nuttawut Lainumngen
Publisher: name: Faculty of Science and Technology, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Riceberry rice, Leum Phua rice, RD6 rice, Black glutinous rice, Anthocyanin

description: Suan Sunandha Science and Technology Journal, 7, 1, 34 to 42
Environmental Scan of Repositories of Clinical Research Data: How Far Have We Got With Public Disclosure of Trial Data?
Creators: name: Krleza-Jeric, Karmela
name: Hrynaszkiewicz, Iain
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 119999 Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other medical sciences
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Clinical research data sharing is expected to decrease the burden on research subjects, enabling more efficient and reliable research; promote innovations and entrepreneurship; and facilitate knowledge synthesis, discovery and translation that could ultimately inform clinical decision making.

Data repositories are key elements for achieving broad data sharing but in clinical research there is no repository for raw data which covers a variety of medical disciplines. Furthermore, to our knowledge there is no wide agreement on the standards, best practices and essential features of clinical data repositories.

The environmental scan aims to produce comprehensive information on the features and practices of data repositories with interests in clinical data disclosure.
title: ADCO, Septième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1665), Cart. 29 (G 134), 996 folios, f. 0559
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Septième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1665), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 29 (G 134), 996 folios, f. 0559, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Septième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1665), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 29 (G 134), 996 folios, f. 0559, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
A Highly-Efficient Memory-Compression Scheme for GPU-Accelerated Intrusion Detection Systems
Creators: name: Bellekens, Xavier
name: Tachtatzis, Christos
name: Atkinson, Robert
name: Renfrew, Craig
name: Kirkham, Tony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.4.6; K.6.5

description: Pattern Matching is a computationally intensive task used in many research fields and real world applications. Due to the ever-growing volume of data to be processed, and increasing link speeds, the number of patterns to be matched has risen significantly. In this paper we explore the parallel capabilities of modern General Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU) applications for high speed pattern matching. A highly compressed failure-less Aho-Corasick algorithm is presented for Intrusion Detection Systems on off-the-shelf hardware. This approach maximises the bandwidth for data transfers between the host and the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). Experiments are performed on multiple alphabet sizes, demonstrating the capabilities of the library to be used in different research fields, while sustaining an adequate throughput for intrusion detection systems or DNA sequencing. The work also explores the performance impact of adequate prefix matching for alphabet sizes and varying pattern numbers achieving speeds up to 8Gbps and low memory consumption for intrusion detection systems.
description: Published in The 7th International Conference of Security of Information and Networks, SIN 2014, Glasgow, UK, September, 2014
Multiperspective storytelling in cinema
Creators: name: Koh, Seung-Je
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis focuses on conceptualizing cinematic storytelling beyond the highly influential binary perspective of Joseph Campbell's concept of monomyth - the central pattern of which is often referred to as the hero's journey. I will analyze a number of films from Japanese cinema to investigate an alternative perspective, which I have named multiperspective. The term multiperspective encompasses films that give equal voice to multiple protagonists and/or to multiple narrative in cinema. Multiperspective storytelling aligns with Martha C. Nussbaum's philosophy of pluralism and human capabilities as antidotes to intolerable discrimination and insupportable inequality. The films of Japanese directors Juzo Itami and Hayao Miyazaki challenge the hero-villain binary. Their innovative use of character and genre do not in any way lessen their impact as popular texts. Itami's films are mostly satires and so is Miyazaki's arguably most famous film, Spirited Away (2001). Satire is an ideal genre to explore multiperspective storytelling because it allows for freedom that does not rely on binaries to achieve its credibility. The thesis includes a creative practice component in the form of a short film script, Shuttlecock, which applies my theoretical findings on multiperspective. Shorts usually rely on clear characterizations and definitive storylines, thus Shuttlecock, as a creative work, will also demonstrate that writing a short with character complexity and ambiguity, and without ignoring the need for a definitive timeline, can be achieved through a deep grounding in multiperspective storytelling.
Identification of circular RNAs and functional competing endogenous RNA networks in human proximal tubular epithelial cells treated with sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor dapagliflozin in diabetic kidney disease
Creators: name: Song, Yi
name: Guo, Feng
name: Liu, Yifan
name: Huang, Fengjuan
name: Fan, Xunjie
name: Zhao, Lin
name: Qin, Guijun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is a serious diabetes complication. Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) are novel anti-diabetes drugs that confer clinical renal protection. However, the molecular mechanisms involved remain unclear. Here, human proximal tubular epithelial cells (PTECs) were treated with normal glucose, high glucose, and anti-diabetes agents, including SGLT2i (dapagliflozin), metformin, and dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor (DPP-4i, vildagliptin) and microarray analysis was performed. Firstly, a total of 2,710 differentially expressed circular RNAs (circRNAs) were identified. Secondly, network pharmacology and transcriptomics analyses showed that the effects of dapagliflozin on PTECs primarily involved lipid metabolism, Rap1, and MAPK signaling pathways. Metformin mainly affected the AMPK and FOXO signaling pathways, whereas vildagliptin affected insulin secretion and the HIF-1 signaling pathway. Furthermore, circRNA-miRNA-mRNA networks, real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) assay revealed that the expression of hsa_circRNA_012448 was increased in PTECs treated with high glucose, whereas its expression was reversed by dapagliflozin. Finally, the hsa_circRNA_012448-hsa-miR-29b-2-5p-GSK3β pathway, involved in the oxidative stress response, was identified as an important pathway mediating the action of dapagliflozin against DKD. Overall, our study provides novel insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying the effects of dapagliflozin on DKD.
What is the difference between Goddess Tripurasundarī of the North and Lalitha Devi of the South?
Creators: name: Timalsina, Staneshwar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Tantric philosophy
anava upaya
yantra
amnaya
Shiva
Shaiva
vimarsha-foundation
consciousness
mahadeva
Vasugupta
Sarvamnaya
tripura
Durga
Kaula
Abhinavagupta
Shiva Sutra
Kula
saivadvaita
vedanta
Mahakali
Tantra
Chandi
Kali
advaita vedanta
Bhairava
shambhava
timalsina
Spanda
Kashmir Shaivism
krama
Saundaryalahari
Tripura Rahasya
Tripurasundari
Camunda
agama
Devi Mahatmya
sarvamnaya
Guhyakālī
shakti
tantraloka
Divine Mother
sarvamnaya-oral-tradition-archive
trika
sthaneshwar timalsina
Īśāna
Mālinīvijayottaratantra
shakta upāya
Kubjika
Sadāśiva

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This presentation is part of the Sarvāmnāya Oral Tradition Archive.
Vimarsha Foundation. (2025). The Sarvāmnāya Oral Tradition Archive [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15188107
A feedforward neural network and its application to system indentification and control
Creators: name: Rahman, S M
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 520203
subject: Cognitive neuroscience

description:  The aim of this thesis is to study a feedforward neural network and its application to system identification and control. 
Attention is focused firstly on feedforward neural networks and their weight adaptation algorithms. A new class of weight adaptation learning algorithms are introduced based on the sliding mode concept. The effectiveness of the new class of algorithms are studied and simulations are conducted to present their performance. 
Second part of this thesis deals with the application of the feedforward neural network with the developed learning algorithms. Two classes of problems are chosen to test the suitability of the feedforward neural network with proposed adaptation learning algorithms. The first problem is dynamic system identification and the other is dynamic system control. Results are presented in this thesis show the effectiveness of the feedforward neural network with the proposed learning algorithms in system identification and control.
Chapter 3: Desertification, Climate Change and Land: An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems
Creators: name: Ng, Chuck Chuan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) IPCC SPECIAL REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAND (SRCCL)

 Chapter 3: Climate Change and Land: An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl/chapter/chapter-3/
description: https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl/chapter/chapter-3/
Recent Results from the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope
Creators: name: Coyle, P.
name: James, C. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ANTARES deep sea neutrino telescope has been taking data continuously since its completion in 2008. With its excellent view of the Galactic plane and good angular resolution the telescope can constrain the origin of the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux reported by IceCube. Assuming various spectral indices for the energy spectrum of neutrino emitters, the Southern sky and in particular central regions of our Galaxy have been studied searching for point-like objects, for extended regions of emission, and for signal from transient objects selected through multi-messenger observations. For the first time, cascade events are used for these searches. ANTARES has also provided results on searches for hypothetical particles (such as magnetic monopoles and nuclearites in the cosmic radiation), and multi-messenger studies of the sky in combination with various detectors. Of particular note are the searches for dark matter: the limits obtained for the spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross section surpassing those of current direct-detection experiments.
description: Preprint of an article submitted for consideration in a review volume, Neutrino Astrophysics, for World Scientific
Market quality: the joint impact of algorithmic trading and fragmentation
Creators: name: Harris, Drew
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis examines the combined effect of algorithmic trading and market fragmentation on market quality. Three distinct but inter-related research studies are conducted and the ultimate findings of the thesis are three fold. First, exchange listed companies can use stock splits to manage their tick size and influence the level of algorithmic market making in their security, which can subsequently impact the company’s liquidity. Stock splits alter a security’s relative tick size. In some cases, this change in relative tick size increases the quoted spread captured by market makers. This extra incentive improves liquidity and reduces transaction costs. Companies that undertake stock splits while already tick constrained increase the profit of market makers at the cost of liquidity takers. Second, the research shows that dark trading contributes very little to the price discovery of a market. Further, regulation that reduces the level of dark trading in a market does not impact the relative competitiveness in price discovery for cross listed assets. Third, the thesis examines the joint impact of fragmentation and algorithmic trading. Findings show that on exchange fragmentation increases market competition and reduced transaction costs, with two side effects: the joint growth of dark fragmentation and algorithmic trading. Dark trading reduces integrity by adding an alternate venue with lesser price impact, while algorithmic trading increases both market efficiency and integrity.
A feedforward neural network and its application to system indentification and control
Creators: name: Rahman, Sardar Muhammad Monzurur
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 520203
subject: Cognitive neuroscience

description:  The aim of this thesis is to study a feedforward neural network and its application to system identification and control. 
Attention is focused firstly on feedforward neural networks and their weight adaptation algorithms. A new class of weight adaptation learning algorithms are introduced based on the sliding mode concept. The effectiveness of the new class of algorithms are studied and simulations are conducted to present their performance. 
Second part of this thesis deals with the application of the feedforward neural network with the developed learning algorithms. Two classes of problems are chosen to test the suitability of the feedforward neural network with proposed adaptation learning algorithms. The first problem is dynamic system identification and the other is dynamic system control. Results are presented in this thesis show the effectiveness of the feedforward neural network with the proposed learning algorithms in system identification and control.
Calcium dobesilate alleviates renal dysfunction and inflammation by targeting nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) signaling in sepsis-associated acute kidney injury
Creators: name: Xie, Zhijuan
name: Wei, Lanji
name: Chen, Jianying
name: Chen, Zhong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology

description: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a serious complication of sepsis that increases mortality and the risk of progression to chronic kidney disease. Oxidative stress and apoptosis are reported to exert critical function in the pathogenesis of sepsis-associated AKI. Calcium dobesilate (CaD) was reported to play a protective role in renal diseases. Therefore, we explored the antioxidant effect and potential mechanism of CaD in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced AKI in mice. We evaluated renal function (blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and serum creatinine (SCr)), histopathology, oxidative stress (superoxide dismutase (SOD) and malondialdehyde (MDA)), inflammation cytokines, and apoptosis in kidneys of mice. The effect of CaD on NF-κB signaling was evaluated by Western blot. Our findings showed that CaD alleviated renal dysfunction and kidney injury, and also reversed upregulated MDA concentration and reduced SOD enzyme activity in AKI mice. Moreover, LPS-induced inflammatory response was attenuated by CaD. CaD treatment also reduced the apoptosis evoked by LPS. Additionally, CaD downregulated phosphorylation of nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) signaling components in LPS mice. Conclusively, CaD alleviates renal dysfunction and inflammation by targeting NF-κB signaling in sepsis-associated AKI.
Award restructuring in the electricity industry: The influence exerted by demographic variables and restructuring on employee commitment and participation
Creators: name: Powell, Alan
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 480104
subject: Labour law

description:  From the literature, the influence of employee participation programs on employee attitudes is not clearly established. In particular, the influence of demographic variables is yet to be resolved. The prevailing view is that the demographic variables of age, gender, tenure (length of service), job level, and education influence participation and commitment and influence organisational change programs. 
The literature on award restructuring was reviewed with particular emphasis on participation, commitment and the influence of demographic variables. To examine the relationships between these constructs and demographic variables, a cross-sectional research study was conducted at a large public utility in Queensland. Primary data was gathered using an employee workplace survey (N=220), in a non -contrived setting. At the time of the survey, Award Restructuring was still in progress, having commenced early in 1989. 
The Award Restructuring program is an ongoing change program which has affected the entire organisation. The results of this study showed low levels of participation, in the change process, despite the notion of participation and joint consultation being fundamental to the goals of the restructuring process.  
V This study attempted to replicate a relatively large body of earlier work. The literature suggested, a definite positive relationship between participation and commitment (DeCotiis and Summers, 1987). This study established a relationship between autonomy and commitment. Through the investigation of Award Restructuring, it was demonstrated that levels of participation effected employees' attitudes towards commitment, beliefs about rewards and how the Award Restructuring process may benefit the employee personally. 
The results provided some support for DeCotiis and Summer's (1987) notion that there are differences between the types of demographic variables (ie., variables acquired as a function of membership and those personnel variables brought to the organisation by the individual). 
This research demonstrated that there were differences in levels of participation within demographic categories and were most marked between blue and white collar type occupations. The implications for Human Resource Management following the introduction of Award Restructuring, suggested by this study, were examined.
An examination of the effectiveness of estuarine conservation management tools and their theoretical underpinnings
Creators: name: Mahoney, Peter C.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Estuarine ecosystems provide a wide range of valuable ecosystem services including the provision of food and raw materials, shoreline protection, carbon sequestration and recreational opportunities. These ecosystem services are underpinned by local biodiversity, which determines resistance and resilience in the face of environmental perturbations. However, estuarine biodiversity is under increasing pressure from coastal development and anthropogenic climate change . The protection of estuarine ecosystem services requires conservation measures that ensure the persistence of biodiversity. This thesis examines: 1) the utility of key ecological theories in informing estuarine conservation planning ; 2) the applicability of ecosystem - level risk assessment s to estuaries ; and 3 ) the applicability of existing estuarine typologies and ecological metrics of community structure to the implementation and monitoring of conservation interventions in estuaries. Using meta - analysis of existing literature, I show qualified support for the application of island biogeographic theory to estuarine habitats. However, field studies reveal that the spatial arrangement of habitat patches in estuarine mosaics affect community structure in ways that extend beyond the covarying effects of habitat patch size and isolation . The proximity of different habitats to one another may facilitate greater abundance in habitat patches through the addition of nutrients or allowing mutualist relationships that would otherwise not exist. These effects are not currently incorporated in estuarine conservation planning. Through a retrospective risk analysis of Chesapeake Bay, U SA, I show that the International Union for the Conservation of Nature 's Red List of Ecosystems may in some instances overestimate the risk of collapse in estuarine ecosystems and that criteria based on abiotic and biotic change, rather than ecosystem area, may be more appropriate for such systems. I use existing data to demonstrate that an Australian estuarine typology for estuaries, based on geomorphological and hydrological factors, is effective at describing the habitat mosaics present. Such typologies, may therefore, be of use to estuarine conservation planners in identifying groups of estuaries across ecological processes may be similar. Finally, I test the ability of zeta diversity, a recently developed metric of community structure, to provide a simple and low - cost method of monitoring estuarine seascapes for habitat homogenisation. Overall, these results show that existing conservation tools are effective in the management of estuarine ecosystems but could be made more effective through adaptation.
$C^{3}$ : A Command-line Catalogue Cross-matching tool for modern astrophysical survey data
Creators: name: Riccio, Giuseppe
name: Brescia, Massimo
name: Cavuoti, Stefano
name: Mercurio, Amata
name: Di Giorgio, Anna Maria
name: Molinari, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the current data-driven science era, it is needed that data analysis techniques has to quickly evolve to face with data whose dimensions has increased up to the Petabyte scale. In particular, being modern astrophysics based on multi-wavelength data organized into large catalogues, it is crucial that the astronomical catalog cross-matching methods, strongly dependant from the catalogues size, must ensure efficiency, reliability and scalability. Furthermore, multi-band data are archived and reduced in different ways, so that the resulting catalogues may differ each other in formats, resolution, data structure, etc, thus requiring the highest generality of cross-matching features. We present $C^{3}$ (Command-line Catalogue Cross-match), a multi-platform application designed to efficiently cross-match massive catalogues from modern surveys. Conceived as a stand-alone command-line process or a module within generic data reduction/analysis pipeline, it provides the maximum flexibility, in terms of portability, configuration, coordinates and cross-matching types, ensuring high performance capabilities by using a multi-core parallel processing paradigm and a sky partitioning algorithm.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, proceedings of the IAU-325 symposium on Astroinformatics, Cambridge University press
title: ADCO, Huitième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1667), Cart. 31 (G 135), 549 folios, f. 0053
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP

description: Huitième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1667), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 31 (G 135), 549 folios, f. 0053, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Huitième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1667), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 31 (G 135), 549 folios, f. 0053, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Embedded Line Scan Image Sensors: The Low Cost Alternative for High Speed Imaging
Creators: name: Van Wolputte, Stef
name: Abbeloos, Wim
name: Helsen, Stijn
name: Bey-Temsamani, Abdellatif
name: Goedemé, Toon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we propose a low-cost high-speed imaging line scan system. We replace an expensive industrial line scan camera and illumination with a custom-built set-up of cheap off-the-shelf components, yielding a measurement system with comparative quality while costing about 20 times less. We use a low-cost linear (1D) image sensor, cheap optics including a LED-based or LASER-based lighting and an embedded platform to process the images. A step-by-step method to design such a custom high speed imaging system and select proper components is proposed. Simulations allowing to predict the final image quality to be obtained by the set-up has been developed. Finally, we applied our method in a lab, closely representing the real-life cases. Our results shows that our simulations are very accurate and that our low-cost line scan set-up acquired image quality compared to the high-end commercial vision system, for a fraction of the price.
description: 2015 International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA)
Measuring a Crisis: Questioning the Use of Naloxone Administrations as a Marker for Opioid Overdoses in a Large U.S. EMS System
Creators: name: Grover, Joseph M.
name: Taibah Alabdrabalnabi
name: Mehul D. Patel
name: Bachman, Michael W.
name: Platts-Mills, Timothy F.
name: Cabanas, Jose G.
name: Williams, Jefferson G.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Objective: The United States is currently experiencing a public health crisis of opioid overdoses. To determine where resources may be most needed, many public health officials utilize naloxone administration by EMS as an easily-measured surrogate marker for opioid overdoses in a community. Our objective was to evaluate whether naloxone administration by EMS accurately represents EMS calls for opioid overdose. We hypothesize that naloxone administration underestimates opioid overdose. Methods: We conducted a chart review of suspected overdose patients and any patients administered naloxone in Wake County, North Carolina, from January 2013 to December 2015. Patient care report narratives and other relevant data were extracted from electronic patient care records and the resultant database was analyzed by two EMS physicians. Cases were divided into categories including “known opioid use,” “presumed opioid use,” “no known opioid,” “altered mental status,” “cardiac arrest with known opioid use,” “cardiac arrest with no known opioid use,” or “suspected alcohol intoxication,” and then further separated based on whether naloxone was administered. Patient categories were compared by patient demographics and incident year. Using the chart review classification as the gold standard, we calculated the sensitivity and positive predictive value (PPV) of naloxone administration for opioid overdose. Results: A total of 4,758 overdose cases from years 2013–15 were identified. During the same period, 1,351 patients were administered naloxone. Of the 1,431 patients with known or presumed opioid use, 57% (810 patients) received naloxone and 43% (621 patients) did not. The sensitivity of naloxone administration for the identification of patients with known or presumed opioid use was 57% (95% CI: 54%–59%) and the PPV was 60% (95% CI: 57%–63%). Conclusion: Among patients receiving care in this large urban EMS system in the United States, the overall sensitivity and positive predictive value for naloxone administration for identifying opioid overdoses was low. Better methods of identifying opioid overdose trends are needed to accurately characterize the burden of opioid overdose within and among communities.
Award restructuring in the electricity industry: The influence exerted by demographic variables and restructuring on employee commitment and participation
Creators: name: Powell, A J
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 480104
subject: Labour law

description:  From the literature, the influence of employee participation programs on employee attitudes is not clearly established. In particular, the influence of demographic variables is yet to be resolved. The prevailing view is that the demographic variables of age, gender, tenure (length of service), job level, and education influence participation and commitment and influence organisational change programs. 
The literature on award restructuring was reviewed with particular emphasis on participation, commitment and the influence of demographic variables. To examine the relationships between these constructs and demographic variables, a cross-sectional research study was conducted at a large public utility in Queensland. Primary data was gathered using an employee workplace survey (N=220), in a non -contrived setting. At the time of the survey, Award Restructuring was still in progress, having commenced early in 1989. 
The Award Restructuring program is an ongoing change program which has affected the entire organisation. The results of this study showed low levels of participation, in the change process, despite the notion of participation and joint consultation being fundamental to the goals of the restructuring process.  
V This study attempted to replicate a relatively large body of earlier work. The literature suggested, a definite positive relationship between participation and commitment (DeCotiis and Summers, 1987). This study established a relationship between autonomy and commitment. Through the investigation of Award Restructuring, it was demonstrated that levels of participation effected employees' attitudes towards commitment, beliefs about rewards and how the Award Restructuring process may benefit the employee personally. 
The results provided some support for DeCotiis and Summer's (1987) notion that there are differences between the types of demographic variables (ie., variables acquired as a function of membership and those personnel variables brought to the organisation by the individual). 
This research demonstrated that there were differences in levels of participation within demographic categories and were most marked between blue and white collar type occupations. The implications for Human Resource Management following the introduction of Award Restructuring, suggested by this study, were examined.
The JCMT Nearby Galaxies Legacy Survey -- XI. -- Environmental Variations in the Atomic and Molecular Gas Radial Profiles of Nearby Spiral Galaxies
Creators: name: Mok, Angus
name: Wilson, C. D.
name: Knapen, J. H.
name: Sanchez-Gallego, J. R.
name: Brinks, E.
name: Rosolowsky, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis of the radial profiles of a sample of 43 HI-flux selected spiral galaxies from the Nearby Galaxies Legacy Survey (NGLS) with resolved James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) CO $J=3-2$ and/or Very Large Array (VLA) HI maps. Comparing the Virgo and non-Virgo populations, we confirm that the HI disks are truncated in the Virgo sample, even for these relatively HI-rich galaxies. On the other hand, the H$_{2}$ distribution is enhanced for Virgo galaxies near their centres, resulting in higher H$_{2}$ to HI ratios and steeper H$_{2}$ and total gas radial profiles. This is likely due to the effects of moderate ram pressure stripping in the cluster environment, which would preferentially remove low density gas in the outskirts while enhancing higher density gas near the centre. Combined with H$α$ star formation rate data, we find that the star formation efficiency (SFR/H$_{2}$) is relatively constant with radius for both samples, but Virgo galaxies have a $\sim40\%$ lower star formation efficiency than non-Virgo galaxies.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 12 pages, 6 figures
A cognitive study of the ethics of adultery in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter and Edith Wharton's The age of innocence
Creators: name: Anderson, Jillian
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The novels that constitute my project, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1850) and Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence (1920), challenge the conventional taboo that has seen cultures over centuries reject adulterers generally, and female adulterers more particularly. In their respective representations of sexual transgression, both Hawthorne and Wharton surprise us. Adultery becomes a vehicle through which both authors elevate the scarlet woman to the point of admiration. My enquiry is situated in a transdisciplinary space, combining cognitive approaches to literature, gender studies and close attention to historical sources as well as to the novels. It recruits the capacity of the combination of these approaches to examine Hawthorne and Wharton's primary sources in order to gauge how far these sources shed light on both the intent and construction of their respective texts. The primary value that emerges from this combined approach is considered in close detail, both Hawthorne and Wharton can be shown to have held a high regard for women, a regard that plays out in their fiction. This shared value necessitates drawing on gender studies, looking specifically at how 'the spatial turn' and the question of how women are made to 'perform gender' invite us to recognise the originality of Hawthorne and Wharton's representations of Hester Prynne and Ellen Olenska. By enlisting cognitive approaches to literary studies this thesis identifies the narrative strategies deployed by both novelists to invite the reader to not only empathise with the scarlet woman, but, surprisingly, to admire her.
Worlds Without Moons: Exomoon Constraints for Compact Planetary Systems
Creators: name: Kane, Stephen R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the primary surprises of exoplanet detections has been the discovery of compact planetary systems, whereby numerous planets reside within ~0.5 AU of the host star. Many of these kinds of systems have been discovered in recent years, indicating that they are fairly common orbital architecture. Of particular interest are those systems for which the host star is low-mass, thus potentially enabling one or more of the planets to lie within the Habitable Zone of the host star. One of the contributors to the habitability of the Earth is the presence of a substantial moon whose tidal effects can stabilize axial tilt variations and increase the rate of tidal pool formation. Here we explore the constraints on the presence of moons for planets in compact systems based on Hill radii and Roche limit considerations. We apply these constraints to the TRAPPIST-1 system and demonstrate that most of the planets are very likely to be worlds without moons.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Iterated reflection principles over full disquotational truth
Creators: name: Fischer, Martin
name: Nicolai, Carlo
name: Horsten, Leon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Iterated reflection principles have been employed extensively to unfold epistemic commitments that are incurred by accepting a mathematical theory. Recently this has been applied to theories of truth. The idea is to start with a collection of Tarski-biconditionals and arrive by finitely iterated reflection at strong compositional truth theories. In the context of classical logic it is incoherent to adopt an initial truth theory in which A and 'A is true' are inter-derivable. In this article we show how in the context of a weaker logic, which we call Basic De Morgan Logic, we can coherently start with such a fully disquotational truth theory and arrive at a strong compositional truth theory by applying a natural uniform reflection principle a finite number of times.
Supplementary tables and figures. from Evolutionary demography of age at last birth: integrating approaches from human behavioural ecology and cultural evolution
Creators: name: Mattison, Siobhan
name: Moya, Christina
name: Reynolds, Adam
name: Towner, Mary
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Cultural evolutionary theory and human behavioural ecology offer different, but compatible approaches to understanding human demographic behaviour. For much of their 30 history, these approaches have been deployed in parallel, with few explicit attempts to integrate them empirically. In this paper, we test hypotheses drawn from both approaches to explore how reproductive behaviour responds to cultural changes among Mosuo agriculturalists of China. Specifically, we focus on how age at last birth (ALB) varies in association with temporal shifts in fertility policies, spatial variation and kinship ecologies. We interpret temporal declines in ALB as plausibly consistent with demographic front-loading of reproduction in light of fertility constraints and later ages at last birth in matrilineal populations relative to patrilineal ones as consistent with greater household cooperation for reproductive purposes in the former. We find little evidence suggesting specific transmission pathways for the spread of norms regulating ALB, but emphasize that the rapid pace of change strongly suggests that learning processes were involved in the general decline in ALB over time. The different predictions of models we employ belie their considerable overlap and the potential for a synthetic approach to generate more refined tests of evolutionary hypotheses of demographic behaviour.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Bridging cultural gaps: interdisciplinary studies in human cultural evolution’.