cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Social, organizational, and technological factors impacting clinicians’ adoption of mobile health tools: systematic literature review
Creators: name: Jacob, Christine
name: Sanchez-Vazquez, Antonio
name: Ivory, Chris
Publisher: name: JMIR Publications
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft

description: Background: There is a growing body of evidence highlighting the potential of mobile health (mHealth) in reducing health care costs, enhancing access, and improving the quality of patient care. However, user acceptance and adoption are key prerequisites to harness this potential; hence, a deeper understanding of the factors impacting this adoption is crucial for its success. Objective: The aim of this review was to systematically explore relevant published literature to synthesize the current understanding of the factors impacting clinicians’ adoption of mHealth tools, not only from a technological perspective but also from social and organizational perspectives. Methods: A structured search was carried out of MEDLINE, PubMed, the Cochrane Library, and the SAGE database for studies published between January 2008 and July 2018 in the English language, yielding 4993 results, of which 171 met the inclusion criteria. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis guidelines and the Cochrane handbook were followed to ensure a systematic process. Results: The technological factors impacting clinicians’ adoption of mHealth tools were categorized into eight key themes: usefulness, ease of use, design, compatibility, technical issues, content, personalization, and convenience, which were in turn divided into 14 subthemes altogether. Social and organizational factors were much more prevalent and were categorized into eight key themes: workflow related, patient related, policy and regulations, culture or attitude or social influence, monetary factors, evidence base, awareness, and user engagement. These were divided into 41 subthemes, highlighting the importance of considering these factors when addressing potential barriers to mHealth adoption and how to overcome them. Conclusions: The study results can help inform mHealth providers and policymakers regarding the key factors impacting mHealth adoption, guiding them into making educated decisions to foster this adoption and harness the potential benefits.
First impressions count: the importance of high-quality visuals in the Product Design Engineering discipline
Creators: name: Kuys, Blair
name: Thong, Christine
name: Melles, Gavin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Product Design Engineering (PDE) combines industrial design (ID) and mechanical engineering disciplines. Traditionally engineering disciplines focus more on the technical and less on the creative, however PDE is a unique combination of technical mechanical engineering and the creative industrial design disciplines. Powerful product renderings help promote and excite the viewing audience and it is important to maximise the potential of each student project. These powerful visuals are standard practice in the 3D design industry, which underpins the importance for this standard to be followed through to the student cohort to make each student industry ready. When promoting student work in publications and at exhibitions it is the visuals that draw the viewer to the project. First impressions of a product are decided instantly and this will make or break the willingness for the viewer to delve deeper into the project or to simply move onto the next one. Over the past five years of teaching into this discipline the importance of quality visuals to help communicate final project outcomes has become more apparent. Too often we have seen quality projects backed up with significant engineering detail let down by poor-quality visual outcomes. This paper highlights the importance of high-quality visuals in the PDE discipline as well as show comparison studies of high-quality and lowquality product visuals of the same project to help the audience understand the importance and power first impressions make to this industry.
Treatment of sample under-representation and skewed heavy-tailed distributions in survey-based microsimulation: An analysis of redistribution effects in compulsory health care insurance in Switzerland
Creators: name: Schoch, Tobias
name: Müller, André
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft

description: The credibility of microsimulation modeling with the research community and policymakers depends on high-quality baseline surveys. Quality problems with the baseline survey tend to impair the quality of microsimulation built on top of the survey data. We address two potential issues that both relate to skewed and heavy-tailed distributions. First, we find that ultra-high-income households are under-represented in the baseline household survey. Moreover, the sample estimate of average income underestimates the known population average. Although the Deville-Särndal calibration method corrects the under-representation, it cannot achieve alignment of estimated average income in the right tail of the distribution with known population values without distorting the empirical income distribution. To overcome the problem, we introduce a Pareto tail model. With the help of the tail model, we can adjust the sample income distribution in the tail to meet the alignment targets. Our method can be a useful tool for microsimulation modelers working with survey income data. The second contribution refers to the treatment of an outlier-prone variable that has been added to the survey by record linkage (our empirical example is health care cost). The nature of the baseline survey is not affected by record linkage, that is, the baseline survey still covers only a small part of the population. Hence, the sampling weights are relatively large. An outlying observation together with a high sampling weight can heavily influence or even ruin an estimate of a population characteristic. Thus, we argue that it is beneficial – in terms of mean square error – to use robust estimation and alignment methods, because robust methods are less affected by the presence of outliers.
Proposed performance management system for a project-based renewable energy startup
Creators: name: Sahubawa, Sarifah Ulfa
name: Putra Pratama, Andika
Publisher: name: European Open Science
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft

description: The number of startups in Indonesia has surpassed 2,000 companies, but only a handful have survived and thrived in the VUCA world. One of the failure causes is the lack of good business management in translating the company’s vision and strategy into clear and measurable objectives. For a project-based renewable energy startup, as the current study’s focus, it is necessary to focus not only on generating revenue but also on achieving the company’s vision and mission to sustain. To address this, we formulated an integrated framework related to the Performance Management System of the renewable energy startup. We combined the Balanced Scorecard as a tool for communicating the company’s strategies, Key Performance Indicators as a corporate performance tracking tool, and Objectives and Key Results for a daily basis or short-term goal-setting tool. It is also complemented by the idea of Ethical Climate to embed ethics into the system. Finally, quantifiable company performance measures will be obtained to assist the startup in the decision-making process related to appropriate strategies for corporate sustainability.
Viscosity Arrhenius parameters correlation: extension from pure to binary fluid mixtures
Creators: name: R.B. Haj-Kacem
name: N. Ouerfelli
name: J.V. Herráez
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Physics

description: Knowledge of fluids’ physicochemical properties is mandatory for the design and optimisation of industrial processes and products. A data quantity of most importance, in this regard, turns out to be the value of fluid viscosity. Many empirical and semi-empirical formulas have been proposed in the literature to describe the viscosity of pure liquids and binary liquid mixtures. Recently, an interesting equation is proposed for pure solvents correlating the two parameters in the viscosity Arrhenius-type equation, namely the activation energy (Ea) and the pre-exponential factor (As). This paper aims to extend the said correlation to binary liquid mixtures. To achieve this purpose, statistical methods are applied using data sets from the literature of some solvent binary mixtures at different compositions and temperatures. The validation of the extended proposed equation for binary liquid mixtures is important since it simplifies the estimation of viscous behaviour and the ensuing calculations.
Sharing and caring: the giving and receiving of information in online chronic disease communities
Creators: name: Stockdale, Rosemary
name: Standing, Craig
name: Standing, Susan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Online chronic disease communities are part of a healthcare phenomenon that empowers people to self-manage their condition. This paper discusses the growth and structure of such communities to identify the ways in which the sharing of information contributes to improved health outcomes. We draw together findings to offer a research agenda that will inform further studies in this complex area.
Recent alluvial fans in Calabria (southern Italy)
Creators: name: Antronico, Loredana
name: Greco, Roberto
name: Sorriso-Valvo, Marino
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
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: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The present work aims at identifying the location of recent debris-flow-dominated alluvial fans at a regional scale in Calabria (southern Italy). Here, alluvial fans widely occur as both tributary junction and mountain front types and represent a potential hazard to human settlements and transportation links near or on them. The alluvial fans inventory map at 1:250,000 scale was obtained by means of a stereoscopic interpretation of aerial photos shot in 1954–1955. To establish the activity of the detected alluvial fans, recent documentary evidence (scientific reports, local newspapers and journals, and Internet blogs) on debris-flow events and historical satellite imagery available on Google Earth, covering the period 2001–2014, were analysed. Subsequently, the activity of the alluvial fans over the last 60 years has been divided into four classes. A total of 1170 alluvial fans have been mapped, 545 (46.58%) of which have been active over the last 60 years. The alluvial fans with a length from apex to toe
Recent alluvial fans in Calabria (southern Italy)
Creators: name: Antronico, Loredana
name: Greco, Roberto
name: Sorriso-Valvo, Marino
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
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: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The present work aims at identifying the location of recent debris-flow-dominated alluvial fans at a regional scale in Calabria (southern Italy). Here, alluvial fans widely occur as both tributary junction and mountain front types and represent a potential hazard to human settlements and transportation links near or on them. The alluvial fans inventory map at 1:250,000 scale was obtained by means of a stereoscopic interpretation of aerial photos shot in 1954–1955. To establish the activity of the detected alluvial fans, recent documentary evidence (scientific reports, local newspapers and journals, and Internet blogs) on debris-flow events and historical satellite imagery available on Google Earth, covering the period 2001–2014, were analysed. Subsequently, the activity of the alluvial fans over the last 60 years has been divided into four classes. A total of 1170 alluvial fans have been mapped, 545 (46.58%) of which have been active over the last 60 years. The alluvial fans with a length from apex to toe
The transparent adaptation approach to the development of awareness mechanisms for groupware
Creators: name: Tran, Minh Hong
name: Yang, Yun
name: Raikundalia, Gitesh K.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Implementing support for group awareness is an essential and challenging process in groupware development. This paper reports our research on developing a Transparent Adaptation (TA) approach, which is used to develop awareness mechanisms for groupware. The TA approach is distinctive because the implementation of awareness mechanisms is separate from that of groupware (groupware transparency), and components developed in this approach can be reused in building different awareness mechanisms (software reuse,), In this paper, we describe our software architecture for the TA approach, and four software layers of awareness mechanisms. We have applied the TA approach in implementing awareness mechanisms for collaborative word processing (Co Word) and instant messaging (MSN Messenger).
Epistemological positions informing theories of design research: implications for the design discipline and design practice
Creators: name: Feast, Luke
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Design research is not simply concerned with speculations regarding the relationship of theory and practice. Design research also brings out significant questions regarding the nature of research and the position of the doctorate in university education. This paper presents analyses of examples of objectivist, constructionist, and subjectivist theories of design research. The assumptions that underpin their perspectives are outlined, their powers of generalisation considered. The implications for the position of the design discipline in relation to the greater academic community, and the characterisations of design practice that they contain, are drawn out. The paper concludes by considering the pedagogical implications of the role of disciplines in the knowledge building cycle between research and professional practice.
Learning from failure: understanding the anticipated–achieved building energy performance gap
Creators: name: Fedoruk, Laura E.
name: Cole, Raymond J.
name: Robinson, John B.
name: Cayuela, Alberto
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Cancer
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Biochemistry

description: Over the past 20 years a number of studies have identified and provided explanations for a significant ‘performance gap' between designed and actual energy performance of buildings. The anticipated and achieved energy performance of an advanced, innovative building that aspired to net-positive energy performance is studied: the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) building at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Selected performance ‘failures’ that became evident during operation of CIRS are studied for how they were discovered and the efforts required for their resolution: the energy systems and associated controls and monitoring. The key findings show the barriers were neither economic nor technical. Instead, the primary impediments were institutional regimes – arising from the ways that various life-cycle stages were specified, contracted and implemented. The key issues emphasize the importance of having meaningful and effective building energy monitoring capabilities, an understanding of energy system boundaries in design and analysis, crossing the gaps between different stages of a building life cycle, and feedback processes throughout design and operation. The disclosure of ‘failure’ and lessons learned is a valuable contribution to subsequent advancement for the building stakeholders and the wider professional and research communities.
Adult Sibling Stories of Parental Mental Distress
Creators: name: O'Neill, Wendy
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2020
Subjects: mental distress
parental mental health
narrative inquiry
family
qualitative
adult siblings
siblings

description: There is a limited body of research that focuses on the experiences of families of people with mental distress. While there is research regarding children’s experiences of parents with mental distress, there are few discourses about adults who have lived with a parent with mental distress. More specifically, there have been no studies which have looked at how adult siblings make sense of this experience together. Drawing on a family systems theory approach, the following study explored sibling stories of parental mental distress and the societal discourses that may have contributed to the adult siblings’ sense making. Employing a qualitative method, the study examined the accounts of four sibling pairs who were purposively recruited across England. Using narrative inquiry, the sibling pairs were interviewed at one time point, using a topic guide, which was developed to elicit narratives that were privileged and silenced. All interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed, and analysed within a narrative analytic framework combining several different approaches. These stories were then situated within the local and broader socio-cultural contexts. The findings were presented through global impressions of the sibling narratives and then illustrated via a discussion of the similarities and differences across the collective storylines. The findings supported the identity construction of each sibling and the collective identities of the siblings in the context of parental experiences of mental distress. The findings suggested that there was a change in the siblings’ meaning making from childhood to adulthood. The findings highlighted that the siblings felt they had shared similar life events with each other, but their understanding and involvement had been different as young people which had been influenced by the positions and roles they had taken in the family in response to the parental experiences of mental distress. Factors that contributed to a positive or negative sibling relationship were acknowledged which included individual characteristics of the participants and communication styles. Communication was deemed an important factor in the context of parental experiences of mental distress. The findings were considered within the local and wider narratives, such as stigma related to mental distress, and within a family systems and structural theoretical approach. Implications for clinical practice were proposed at a clinician, systems, and societal level, with the strengths and limitations of the methodology, and directions for future research identified.
The paradoxical nature of venture failure: the Australian case, first findings
Creators: name: Gulst, Noga
name: Maritz, Alex
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This study combines two research fields: entrepreneurial learning and new venture failure. We explore the paradoxical nature of new venture failure as perceived by a group of CEOs (entrepreneurs and managers) of award winning organisations in Australia, identifying how they define New Venture Failure (NVF) and what they have learned from their failed and/or successful ventures. We explain three different types of entrepreneurial learning: behavioural, cognitive and situative / action learning. We then show how the combination of these learning types is influenced by learning form NVF. A questionnaire was sent to the CEO’s in November 2009; therefore, first findings will be presented at the conference.
Aporte al conocimiento del genero Cycloneda Crotch (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae): nuevas especies del Peru
Creators: name: Ramos, Anahi Jeannette Oroz
name: Navarrete, Abdhiel Arnaldo Bustamante
name: Loayza, Walter Guillermo Cosio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Zoology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Se describen dos nuevas especies del género Cycloneda Crotch 1871: Cycloneda andresi n. sp., proveniente de las regiones de Ancash, Ayacucho y Cusco, en las sierras del centro y sur del Perú, y Cycloneda marcapatae n. sp., originaria de la selva alta del Cusco.Two new species of Cycloneda Crotch 1871 are described: Cycloneda andresi n. sp. comes from the Ancash, Ayacucho and Cusco regions, in the central and southern highlands of Peru, and Cycloneda marcapatae n.sp. originates in the high forest of Cusco.
Western modernity: one among many
Creators: name: Ballantyne, Glenda
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The emergence of the idea of 'multiple modernities‘ in the 1990s has made a significant contribution to debates about the salient features of contemporary world, and opened up rich new veins of research. Notably, it has spawned a vast literature on varieties of experience in non-western social spheres. Less widely explored, however, have been the implications of this perspective for the analysis of Western modernity. In this paper I explore what might be learnt from such an approach through an examination of Alain Touraine‘s Critique of Modernity. Touraine has not identified himself with the emerging paradigm of multiple modernities or the civilizational analysis from which it draws its founding premises. However, Critique of Modernity is not only consonant with them, but an illuminating exemplar of their application to a systematic examination of the specificities of the Western experience.
Defining 'professionalism' within tertiary journalism studies
Creators: name: Bossio, Diana
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper discusses debates about journalistic professionalism and how these might intersect with the frameworks and assumptions—both theoretical and practical—that underpin tertiary journalism study. Debates around professionalism have impacted on tertiary journalism education, which has in turn impacted on the industry and brought about its own set of debates and issues. Journalism education will thus be analysed as a domain that is subject to multiple forms of influence and debate, as well as being a key stakeholder in differing formations of journalistic professionalism (Anderson, 2008). This, I will argue, has particular ramifications for understanding some of the influences on journalistic self-definition, especially in a contemporary era of contestation of journalism culture and authority.
Media representations of Sudanese people in Australia: an initial analysis
Creators: name: Marjoribanks, Timothy
name: Nolan, David
name: Farquharson, Karen
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Existing research suggests that media representations influence how migrants experience rights in terms both of how they are viewed by other members of society, and the degree to which they feel empowered to exercise their right to communicate. A critical element of this process concerns the ways in which migrants are represented in the media. To engage with this issue, and related debates around race and multiculturalism, this paper asks: how does the Australian print media represent Sudanese people? To answer this question we conducted a content analysis of articles from The Australian, The Age, and the Herald Sun. 207 articles were collected from 1 September 2007 through 30 April 2008, the eight months surrounding the 2007 Australian federal election. A quantitative content analysis of the articles uncovered four themes: difficulties in Sudan; violence; human interest/new beginnings; and nationhood. Combined, we argue that these themes tend to reproduce and reinforce notions of a White Australian “we” and a non-White “other”. While media representations of Sudanese people are not overtly racist, by locating them within a few critical areas of human experience, a particular image emerges which raises critical questions around belonging and inclusion. Our research also shows the importance of locating everyday media coverage within broader analytic frameworks which understand race, multiculturalism, migration and media as social, political and historical processes.
Parietal function in good and poor readers
Creators: name: Laycock, Robin
name: Crewther, Sheila G.
name: Kiely, Patricia M.
name: Crewther, David
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Background: While there are many psychophysical reports of impaired magnocellular pathway function in developmental dyslexia (DD), few have investigated parietal function, the major projection of this pathway, in good and poor readers closely matched for nonverbal intelligence. In view of new feedforward-feedback theories of visual processing, impaired magnocellular function raises the question of whether all visually-driven functions or only those associated with parietal cortex functions are equally impaired and if so, whether parietal performance is more closely related to general ability levels than reading ability. Methods: Reading accuracy and performance on psychophysical tasks purported to selectively activate parietal cortex such as motion sensitivity, attentional tracking, and spatial localization was compared in 17 children with DD, 16 younger reading-age matched (RA) control children, and 46 good readers of similar chronological-age (CA) divided into CA-HighIQ and a CA-LowIQ matched to DD group nonverbal IQ. Results: In the age-matched groups no significant differences were found between DD and CA controls on any of the tasks relating to parietal function, although performance of the DD group and their nonverbal IQ scores was always lower. As expected, CA and RA group comparisons indicated purported parietal functioning improves with age. No difference in performance was seen on any of the parietally driven tasks between the DD and age-nonverbal IQ matched groups, whereas performance differentiated the DD group from the age-matched, higher nonverbal IQ group on several such tasks. An unexpected statistical difference in performance between lower reading age (DD and RA children) and all higher reading age (CA) children was seen on a test of chromatic sensitivity, whereas when high and low nonverbal IQ normal readers were compared performance was not different. Conclusion: The results indicate that performance on purported parietal functions improves with age and may be more associated with nonverbal mentation than reading accuracy. Performance on a cognitively demanding task, traditionally considered to rely on ventral stream functions, was more related to reading accuracy.
Curriculum design thinking: a new name for old ways of thinking and practice?
Creators: name: Melles, Gavin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The term design thinking has two current meanings –the study of the practices of working designers—the other meaning refers to the human-centred ‘open’ problem solving process decision makers use to solve real world ‘wicked’ problems. Design thinking in this latter sense has increasing purchase outside the design fields per se. Claims have been made that design thinking in this sense can radically improve not only product innovation but also decision making in other fields, such as management, public health, and organizations in general. Although many remain skeptical of the concept and its broad application, many design and management schools in North America and elsewhere, now include course offerings in design thinking. The lack of such courses in Australia presents an opportunity to design a curriculum for design thinking, employing design thinking’s own practices. Curriculum development is something of a wicked problem in itself, aiming to develop a future course of action based on current precedents and other sources of information, which are then trialed in practice. This paper describes the development of a design thinking unit at Swinburne University through design thinking practice.
Descripcion de Eriopis huancavelicae, sp.n. (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae). de Huancavelica, Peru
Creators: name: Navarrete, Abdhiel Arnaldo Bustamante
name: Ramos, Anahi Jeannette Oroz
name: Fuentes, Guillermo Gonzalez
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Zoology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Eriopis huancavelicae, sp. n., proveniente de la sierra centro del Perú, es descrita e ilustrada.
Eriopis huancavelicae, sp. n., from central Andean Peru, is described and illustrated.
Prostoia similis
Creators: name: Grubbs, Scott A.
name: Pessino, Massimo
name: DeWalt, R. Edward
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Nemouridae
Prostoia
Prostoia similis

description: Prostoia similis (Hagen) Collection records. USA, Michigan: Baraga Co., Tracy Creek, 46.4408, -88.5116, 17.III.1935, J.W. Leonard, 12♂, 27♀, 5 nymphs (INHS); same but 17.V.1935, J.W. Leonard, 2♂, 2♀ (CNC); Delta Co., Big River, Rte. 503, 45.8291, -86.7996, 26. V.1995, S.A. Grubbs, ♀ (WKU); Marquette Co., Mountain Stream, 46.8748, -87.8778, 17. V.1993, S.P. Yanoviak, 2 nymphs (PURC). Comments. This species is very broadly distributed across the eastern Nearctic region (DeWalt et al. 2012a), but in Michigan is known from only three localites in the Upper Peninsula. Several additional populations across the state are anticipated from forested upland streams.
description: Published as part of Grubbs, Scott A., Pessino, Massimo & DeWalt, R. Edward, 2012, Michigan Plecoptera (Stoneflies): Distribution Patterns And An Updated Species List, pp. 162-173 in Illiesia 8 (18) on page 169, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4753235
Potential Dermal Exposure to Flonicamid and Risk Assessment of Applicators During Treatment in Apple Orchards
Creators: name: Mei-Ai Zhao
name: Yu, Aili
name: Yong-Zhe Zhu
name: Jeong-Han Kim
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Engineering
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Exposure and risk assessments of flonicamid for applicators were performed in apple orchards in Korea. Fifteen experiments were done with two experienced applicators under typical field conditions using a speed sprayer. In this study, cotton gloves, socks, masks, and dermal patches were used to monitor potential dermal exposure to flonicamid, and personal air samplers with XAD-2 resin and glass fiber filter were used to monitor potential inhalation exposure. The analytical methods were validated for the limit of detection, limit of quantitation, reproducibility, linearity of the calibration curve, and recovery of flonicamid from various exposure matrices. The results were encouraging and acceptable for an exposure study. The applicability of XAD-2 resin was evaluated via a trapping efficiency and breakthrough test. During the mixing/loading, the average total dermal exposure was 22.6 μg of flonicamid, corresponding to 4.5×10−5% of the prepared amount. For the spraying, the potential dermal exposure was 9.32 mg, and the ratio to applied amount was 1.9 × 10−2%. The primary exposed body parts were the thigh (2.90 mg), upper arm (1.75 mg), and lower leg (1.66 mg). By comparison, absorbable quantity of exposure was small, only 1.62 μg (3.2×10−6%). The margin of safety (MOS) were calculated for risk assessment, in all sets of trials, MOS > 1, indicating the exposure level of flonicamid was considered to be safe in apple orchards. Although this was a limited study, it provided a good estimate of flonicamid exposure for orchard applicators.
Being a professional: three perspectives on design thinking, acting, and being
Creators: name: Adams, Robin
name: Daly, Shanna
name: Mann, Llew
name: Dallâ¿¿alba, Gloria
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The purpose of this paper is to present three perspectives for interpreting design thinking: (1) an alternative framework on learning to become a professional, and (2) two interpretations of this framework that speak broadly to a topic of “design thinking”. The first perspective draws on a framework for “an embodied understanding of professional practice” that focuses on the ways professionals form and organize their knowledge and skills into a particular “professional-way-of-being”. The second and third perspectives provide examples of using this framework as a lens for interpreting existing results from phenomenographic studies on ways of experiencing design and ways of experiencing cross-disciplinary practice. We conclude with a discussion of how these three perspectives contribute to conceptualizing a working synthesis of design thinking.
El genero Eriopis Mulsant, 1850 (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) en el sur del Peru
Creators: name: Navarrete, Abdhiel Arnaldo Bustamante
name: Landa, Erick Yabar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Zoology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: El estudio de material del género Eriopis Mulsant, 1850 (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) proveniente de Cusco, Ayacucho, Apurimac, Puno y Lima puso de manifiesto la presencia de seis especies: Eriopis connexa, E. punicola, E. minima, E. alticola, E. andina, E. peruviana y E. sebastiani. Se incluye una clave para las especies estudiadas y datos sobre distribución altitudinal y geográfica.
The study of material of the genus Eriopis Mulsant, 1850 (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) from Cusco, Ayacucho, Apurimac, Puno and Lima revealed the presence of seven species: Eriopis connexa, E. punicola, E. minima, E. alticola, E. andina, E. peruviana and E. sebastiani. A key to these species is included, along with data on their altitudinal and geographical distribution.
title: Zanahoria :
title: Directrices para la ejecución del examen de la distinción, la homogeneidad y la estabilidad.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unas)
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2023

description: La finalidad de estas directrices (“directrices de examen”) es elaborar los principios que figuran en la Introducción General (documento TG/1/3) y sus documentos TGP conexos, con objeto de que sirvan de orientación práctica y detallada para el examen armonizado de la distinción, homogeneidad y estabilidad (DHE) y en particular, para identificar los caracteres apropiados para el examen DHE y producir descripciones armonizadas de variedades.
Where are you from? The paradox of African identity and belonging in Australia
Creators: name: Mapedzahama, Virgina
name: Kwansah-Aidoo, Kwamena
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper interrogates the question 'where are you from?' by drawing on our experiences and points of view as visibly different African migrants who get asked this 'quintessential question of identity' almost on a daily basis. While acknowledging that a certain 'curiosity‘ sometimes drives the asking of this question, we still question the implications and multiplicity of meanings to those whom it is asked. We contend that being asked the question raises three key issues for us. First, we perceive it as exclusionary, in that in a white dominated society it is asked, mainly of certain groups of people who are visibly different. Second, the assumption behind the question - that one is not 'from here', constructs an/other whose identity is fixed and tied only to one faraway place, thereby erasing our hyphenated identities, which define our everyday lived realities. Third, it invokes feelings of ambivalence about place when it is interpreted as demanding a justification of the claim to belonging and being 'from here‘. Our paper shows that the question is a matter of identity politics and exposes the complexity of identity work that occurs whenever this question is asked of us. In so doing, it highlights the contradiction between our Australian 'selves‘ and migrant 'other‘.
XORAZM VILOYATI AHOLISINING ISH BILAN BANDLIGINI TA'MINLASHDA XORIJIY DAVLATLARNING TAJRIBASI
Creators: name: Sapabayeva, Mehriniso
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: So‘ngi yillarda yurtimizda axoli bandligini davlat tomonidan tartibga solish tizimini takomillashtirish uchun xalqaro tajribalardan foydalanib kelinmoqda. Umuman olganda, mazkur sohani tartibga solishning shakl va usullarini jahon tajribasidan samarali foydalangan holda tartibga solish qishloqlarning rivojlanishiga yordam beradi. Xalqaro tajribalarni o’rganishda to’liq bandlik, bandlik kafolati, ish o’rinlarining saqlanishi va rivojiga qaratilgan Xalqaro Mehnat Tashkiloti faoliyatini alohida kuzatish maqsadga muvofiq.
Exploring the role of small to medium enterprises (SMEs) as a training ground for accountants
Creators: name: Elijido-Ten, Evangeline
name: Kloot, Louise
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper provides an analysis of an IBL Programme for accounting students in a business faculty. It identifies the advantages and disadvantages of the program as perceived by both the employers and students and finds largely positive outcomes for both employers and employees. It compares the role played by SMEs and large firms (non-SMEs) in providing an IBL experience from the perspective of both employers and students and finds no substantial differences in the experiences for students, and few for employers. It canvasses recommendations for improvement of the programme to enhance outcomes for students and employers but finds few as IBL is viewed positively.
Expectations of industry based learning: a stakeholder approach
Creators: name: Levin, Elizabeth
name: Bok, Barbara
name: Evans, Barbara
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: It is very difficult for a service provider to meet and exceed expectations when the stakeholders' expectations are unknown. Employers, university mentors, and students are significant stakeholder groups in the long-established Industry Based Learning (IBL) program at Swinburne University of Technology. Although studies have explored the benefits of this type of program, the expectations of the three stakeholder groups is an under researched area. Therefore, this research explored the expectations of employers, mentors, and students involved in IBL to both increase knowledge of stakeholders' expectations from this type of program, and to identify gaps and mismatches in expectations, if any, between the stakeholders. Employers, students and academic mentors were interviewed to explore their expectations and their perceptions of the other stakeholders' expectations. The interviewees included current, past and prospective IBL students as well are employers and academics with extensive knowledge of this professional learning option. Results revealed interesting agreements and disparities. Three distinctly different comparisons between the stakeholders' expectations and perceptions of expectations were made that identified four gaps: a means-ends gap of expectations between employers and students, a gap in students' perceptions of the other stakeholders' motivations, a service expectations gap of the university, and a gap in recognition of the university's role in the partnership. Overall the academic mentors had the best understanding of the expectations of both the students and employers due to their extensive experience with the program. However, the gap in expectations of the university's role in the partnership requires urgent attention.
The challenges of establishing an internship program: policy, expectations and workloads
Creators: name: Levin, Elizabeth
name: Pocknee, Catherine
name: Pretto, Gabriella
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Government and employers alike are expecting universities to provide work ready graduates who have the professional skills necessary to seamlessly transition into the workplace. Providing students with the authentic learning experiences required to acquire these skills is an ongoing challenge for universities both in Australia and across the globe. Swinburne University who already has a long and proud tradition of offering work integrated learning (WIL) opportunities for its undergraduate students has recently expanded its range of WIL programs in an attempt to meet the changing expectations of Government and students. This has led to the Faculty of Business and Enterprise at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne to reassess the programs it offers and investigate new options. Evaluating and developing a WIL program from the ground up is a challenging and difficult task. New programs not only need to be sensitive to student learning needs but also meet a plethora of complex government and university policies and administrative requirements. Adequate resourcing, accreditation, the new subjects' relationship to existing programs, curriculum design, staff capacity and capabilities, recruitment, along with marketing and discipline specific requirements must all be considered. This paper explores the challenges faced by the Faculty of Business and Enterprise as it investigates the feasibility of establishing a 'credit bearing' internship program to be undertaken in an industrial or commercial setting. The research approach adopted was qualitative in nature with data acquired from a range of stakeholders in order to obtain views from a wide variety of perspectives. A number of student focus groups, comprising both local and international students, were conducted along with interviews of academic staff, and employers from various professions, some of whom were involved with internships and those who were not. The paper discusses the various challenges that have been identified through the project and makes suggestions about how to develop internship opportunities with due recognition of competing demands and expectations.
Interaction in synchronous chat tutorials to facilitate learning in introductory statistics
Creators: name: McDonald, Colm
name: Loch, Birgit
name: Lloyd, Margaret
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper investigates interaction in synchronous chat tutorials trialed in an introductory statistics course offered in distance education mode. The Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework of Garrison, Anderson and Archer, while primarily developed to inform online asynchronous discussion groups in non-mathematical contexts, is used to describe the interactions in these online tutorials. Transcript analysis was performed on three chat logs of weekly online sessions and the three presences of the CoI framework - social, cognitive and teaching presence - were identified. The changing dynamic amongst these presences across the semester was explored. Preliminary results indicate that the balance of the presences changes over time and, while it is suggested that this may be associated with the difficulty of the content, further investigation is needed.
The abolition of death duties in Australia: a comparative perspective
Creators: name: Gilding, Michael
name: Glezos, Lee
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In 1978 Australia became the first rich country in the world to abolish death duties. In liberal circles their abolition was commonly understood as an anomaly which would soon be overtaken by history. As more countries follow Australia‟s example, the question arises whether it is more a harbinger than an anomaly. Jens Beckert‟s analysis of inheritance law in the US, Germany and France provides a framework to understand the Australian experience from an international perspective. This paper follows Beckert in tracking legislation, coding parliamentary debates, and examining public debate in Australia to identify discursive fields and their enduring influence. It argues that Australia was unusual – although not an anomaly – insofar as its distinctive discursive field made the abolition of death duties relatively uncontroversial. It was a harbinger insofar as the abolition of death duties signalled their material failure to achieve liberal objectives.
Nutrient Enrichment: Unveiling the Potential of Biofortified Crops
Creators: name: Noru Raja Sekhar Reddy1, Beena Thomas2
Publisher: name: The Science world a Monthly e magazine
Year: 2024

description: This study delves into the transformative potential of biofortified crops in addressing global malnutrition. Biofortification, the process of enhancing the nutrient content of staple crops through conventional breeding or genetic engineering, offers a promising solution to combat dietary deficiencies. By examining current research and advancements in agricultural science, this paper highlights the multifaceted benefits of biofortified crops, including increased yields and resilience to environmental stressors. Essential nutrients such as iron, zinc, vitamin A, and folate are emphasized, showcasing their critical role in improving human health and cognitive development. By unveiling the potential of biofortified crops, this study advocates for widespread adoption and investment in biofortification initiatives to enhance food security and nutrition worldwide.
Can microfinance programs address social exclusion?
Creators: name: Habib, Mohshin
name: Jubb, Christine
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper investigates in a Bangladeshi setting whether membership of a microfinance program reduces perceptions of social exclusion as well as impacting on poverty reduction. Using a control group that has no microfinance institution membership, it compares the responses of both members and non-members on questions relating to socio-political participation and social inclusion. The evidence is consistent with membership giving rise to reduced feelings of social exclusion compared to the control group without membership.
Design and Evaluation of the Kinect-Wheelchair Interface Controlled (KWIC) Smart Wheelchair for Pediatric Powered Mobility Training
Creators: name: Secoli, Riccardo
name: Darling, Aurelia Mclaughlin
name: Farris, John
name: Furumasu, Jan
name: Zondervan, Daniel K.
name: Reinkensmeyer, David J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Medicine
subject: Engineering

description: Background: Children with severe disabilities are sometimes unable to access powered mobility training. Thus, we developed the Kinect-Wheelchair Interface Controlled (KWIC) smart wheelchair trainer that converts a manual wheelchair into a powered wheelchair. The KWIC Trainer uses computer vision to create a virtual tether with adaptive shared-control between the wheelchair and a therapist during training. It also includes a mixed-reality video game system. Methods: We performed a year-long usability study of the KWIC Trainer at a local clinic, soliciting qualitative and quantitative feedback on the device after extended use. Results: Eight therapists used the KWIC Trainer for over 50 hours with 8 different children. Two of the children obtained their own powered wheelchair as a result of the training. The therapists indicated the device allowed them to provide mobility training for more children than would have been possible with a demo wheelchair, and they found use of the device to be as safe as or safer than conventional training. They viewed the shared control algorithm as counter-productive because it made it difficult for the child to discern when he or she was controlling the chair. They were enthusiastic about the video game integration for increasing motivation and engagement during training. They emphasized the need for additional access methods for controlling the device. Conclusion: The therapists confirmed that the KWIC Trainer is a useful tool for increasing access to powered mobility training and for engaging children during training sessions. However, some improvements would enhance its applicability for routine clinical use.