cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Paraschistura kessleri
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Nemacheilidae
Paraschistura
Paraschistura kessleri

description: 65. Paraschistura kessleri (Günther, 1889)
Common name. Pishin lora loach
Taxonomy. Original description: Nemacheilus kessleri Günther, 1889: 109 [Nushki, Pishin Lora River basin, Afghanistan (today Pakistan); syntypes: (8) BMNH 1886.9.21.177-180 (4), ZSI 11487-90 (now 3)].
Revisions. Berg (1949: 877) as Nemachilus kessleri; Bănărescu & Nalbant (1966: 171) as Schistura kessleri.
Illustrations. Berg (1949: 878, fig. 623) as Nemachilus kessleri; Bănărescu & Nalbant (1966: fig. 11, pl. 21, figs. 3-4) as Schistura kessleri.
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Sistan, Hamun-e Mashkid.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 701-Baluchistan, 702-Helmand–Sistan.
Status in Iran. [Native].—Loch mahi-e Kessler.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: FSJF.
Conservation. —IUCN: LC.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
DOTAP functionalizing single-walled carbon nanotubes as non-viral vectors for efficient intracellular siRNA delivery
Creators: name: Haixia Li
name: Yongwei Hao
name: Wang, Ning
name: Wang, Lei
name: Shasha Jia
name: Yali Wang
name: Lijia Yang
name: Zhang, Yun
name: Zhenzhong Zhang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Context: Functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) with 1,2-dioleoyl-3-trimethylammonium-propane (DOTAP) were used as novel and more convenient carriers of small interfering RNA (siRNA). Objective: To utilize the unique capability of SWNT to be easily modified by functional groups and readily internalized by mammalian cells to bind, condense, stabilize siRNA and enhance its transfection efficiency. Methods: After SWNT were non-covalently functionalized by cationic DOTAP (SWNT–DOTAP), siRNA interacted with SWNT–DOTAP via static electricity (SWNT–DOTAP/siRNA). Subsequently, the size, zeta potential and morphology of SWNT–DOTAP/siRNA were analyzed. The optimal compression ratio and stability of siRNA were assessed by agarose gel electrophoresis. Furthermore, in prostate carcinoma PC-3 cells, RT-PCR, flow cytometry and sulforhodamine B assays were used to evaluate the silencing activity, transfection efficiency and cell proliferation, respectively. Results and discussion: The characteristics of SWNT–DOTAP, i.e. an average size of 194.49 nm, a zeta potential of 45.16 mV and lower cytotoxicity than Lipofectamine 2000, indicated that this vector was suitable for siRNA delivery. Moreover, after interaction with SWNT–DOTAP, siRNA of human telomerase reverse transcriptase was bound, condensed and stabilized. In PC-3 cells, SWNT–DOTAP/siRNA exhibited 82.6% silencing activity and 92% transfection efficiency. Furthermore, the complexes inhibited cell proliferation by 42.1%. Conclusion: SWNT–DOTAP may be a promising siRNA delivery vector for gene-based therapeutic applications in cancer.
REVISITING DETERMINANTS OF INVESTMENT THROUGH G-TO-S APPROACH FOR ASIAN COUNTRIES
Creators: name: Mudassar Rashid, Usman Shakoor
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Autometrics modeling technique
General to Specific (G2S)
Random coefficient model
Investment accelerator effect
Economic Growth
Domestic Investment
Attract investment
Investment reforms.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 11, 4, 11A04F: 1-7
Fused Lasso Additive Model
Creators: name: Petersen, Ashley
name: Witten, Daniela
name: Simon, Noah
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: We consider the problem of predicting an outcome variable using p covariates that are measured on n independent observations, in a setting in which additive, flexible, and interpretable fits are desired. We propose the fused lasso additive model (FLAM), in which each additive function is estimated to be piecewise constant with a small number of adaptively chosen knots. FLAM is the solution to a convex optimization problem, for which a simple algorithm with guaranteed convergence to a global optimum is provided. FLAM is shown to be consistent in high dimensions, and an unbiased estimator of its degrees of freedom is proposed. We evaluate the performance of FLAM in a simulation study and on two datasets. Supplemental materials are available online, and the R package flam is available on CRAN.
Optimal preview control of dual-stage actuators system for triangular reference tracking
Creators: name: Wang, Li
name: Zheng, Jinchuan
name: Fu, Minyue
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper proposes an optimal preview control law for a dual-stage actuators (DSA) system to track triangular references, which is essential in many raster scan motion control applications. The main difficulty of tracking triangular reference is to follow the waveform fast and accurately when its slope switches. For this goal, we first present a non-preview time optimal control for the primary stage, which is proved to have the minimal overshoot. This result is a new contribution to DSA control because it leads to a minimal reference profile for secondary stage to follow and thus significantly prevents the saturation of the secondary actuator. Next, we propose an optimal preview control with the use of the information of the future references to further reduce the settling time and the overshoot. Finally, the secondary actuator controller is also given. Simulated results are shown to verify the effectiveness of the proposed control design.
Paraschistura makranensis Eagderi, Mousavi-Sabet & Freyhof 2019
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Nemacheilidae
Paraschistura
Paraschistura makranensis

description: 66. Paraschistura makranensis Eagderi, Mousavi-Sabet & Freyhof, 2019
Common name. Makran loach
Taxonomy. Original description: Paraschistura makranensis Eagderi, Mousavi-Sabet & Freyhof, 2019: 261, figs. 2-8 [Jegin River at Jegin, Hormuzgan province, Iran, 26°09'43.1"N, 57°53'30.0"E; holotype: IMNRF-UT-1093-16].
Revisions. None.
Illustrations. Eagderi et al. (2019: 261, fig. 2).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Makran.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 701-Baluchistan.
Status in Iran. [Endemic].—Loch mahi-e Makran.—Recorded from Iran in the original description by Eagderi et al. (2019); listed in previous checklists from Iran by Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).— Iran material: IMNRF.
Conservation. —IUCN: NE.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
An equivalent circuit model for onset and offset exercise response
Creators: name: Zhang, Yi
name: Haddad, Azzam
name: Su, Steven W.
name: Celler, Branko G.
name: Coutts, Aaron J.
name: Duffield, Rob
name: Donges, Cheyne E.
name: Nguyen, Hung
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Background: The switching exercise (e.g., Interval Training) has been a commonly used exercise protocol nowadays for the enhancement of exerciser's cardiovascular fitness. The current difficulty for simulating human onset and offset exercise responses regarding the switching exercise is to ensure the continuity of the outputs during onset-offset switching, as well as to accommodate the exercise intensities at both onset and offset of exercise. Methods: Twenty-one untrained healthy subjects performed treadmill trials following both single switching exercise (e.g., single-cycle square wave protocol) and repetitive switching exercise (e.g., interval training protocol). During exercise, heart rate (HR) and oxygen uptake (VO2) were monitored and recorded by a portable gas analyzer (K4b2, Cosmed). An equivalent single-supply switching resistance-capacitor (RC) circuit model was proposed to accommodate the observed variations of the onset and offset dynamics. The single-cycle square wave protocol was utilized to investigate the respective dynamics at onset and offset of exercise with the aerobic zone of approximate 70% - 77% of HRmax, and verify the adaption feature for the accommodation of different exercise strengths. The design of the interval training protocol was to verify the transient properties during onset-offset switching. A verification method including Root-mean-square-error (RMSE) and correlation coefficient, was introduced for comparisons between the measured data and model outputs. Results: The experimental results from single-cycle square wave exercises clearly confirm that the onset and offset characteristics for both HR and VO2are distinctly different. Based on the experimental data for both single and repetitive square wave exercise protocols, the proposed model was then presented to simulate the onset and offset exercise responses, which were well correlated indicating good agreement with observations. Conclusions: Compared with existing works, this model can accommodate the different exercise strengths at both onset and offset of exercise, while also depicting human onset and offset exercise responses, and guarantee the continuity of outputs during onset-offset switching. A unique adaption feature by allowing the time constant and steady state gain to re-shift back to their original states, more closely mimics the different exercise strengths during normal daily exercise activities.
Marketing Economics Research Publications: A Reference List
Creators: name: Marketing Economics Division, Economic Research Service
name: Marketing Economics Division, Economic Research Service
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1973
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Excerpts from the Introduction: This reference list includes publications for the marketing economics research areas now in the Marketing Economics Division and units that were formerly in the Agricultural Marketing Service and Bureau of Agricultural Economics. The list includes only publications from 1965 through December 1972. Publications that have been superseded by later publications are omitted. The list includes reports published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and by cooperating land-grant colleges and universities in cases where one of the principal authors was an employee of the Department. It also includes reports of private institutions that were published cooperatively or under contract with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. All publications referring to a particular commodity, including costs and margins, manufacturing, promotion, or transportation, are listed under the appropriate commodity heading.
SCIMS: A social context information management system for socially-aware applications
Creators: name: Kabir, Muhammad Ashad
name: Han, Jun
name: Yu, Jian
name: Colman, Alan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460308
subject: Pattern recognition
classificationCode: 460502
subject: Data mining and knowledge discovery
classificationCode: 460612
subject: Service oriented computing
classificationCode: 461104
subject: Neural networks
classificationCode: 461201
subject: Automated software engineering
classificationCode: 461202
subject: Empirical software engineering

description: Social Context Information has been used with encouraging results in developing socially-aware applications in different domains. However, users' social information is distributed over the web and managed by many different proprietary applications, which is a challenge for application developers as they must collect information from different sources and wade through a lot of irrelevant information to obtain the social context information of interest. Combining the social information from the diverse sources and incorporating richer semantics could greatly assist the developers and enrich the applications. In this paper, we introduce SCIMS, a social context information management system. It includes the ability to acquire raw social data from multiple sources; an ontology based model for classifying, inferring and storing social context information, in particular, social relationships and status; an ontology based policy model and language for owners to control access to their information; a query interface for accessing and utilizing social context information. We evaluate the performance and scalability of SCIMS using real data from Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google calendar, and demonstrate its applicability through a socially-aware phone call application.
Paraschistura naumanni Freyhof, Sayyadzadeh, Esmaeili & Geiger 2015
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Nemacheilidae
Paraschistura
Paraschistura naumanni

description: 67. Paraschistura naumanni Freyhof, Sayyadzadeh, Esmaeili & Geiger, 2015
Common name. Naumann loach
Taxonomy. Original description: Paraschistura naumanni Freyhof, Sayyadzadeh, Esmaeili & Geiger, 2015: 32, figs. 34-41 [Fars Province, Golabi spring, about 35 km west of Darab, a tributary of Kol River, 28°47'15"N, 54°22'19"E, Iran; holotype: ZM-CBSU J2941].
Revisions. None.
Illustrations. Freyhof et al. (2015: 32, fig. 34).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Lake Maharlu, Persis, Hormuz.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 442-Upper Tigris & Euphrates, 451-Northern Hormuz Drainages.
Conservation. —IUCN: NE.
Status in Iran. [Endemic].—Loch mahi-e Nauman.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: ZM-CBSU.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on pages 27-28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
A SPOTLIGHT ON RUSSIAN TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY
Creators: name: Elena V. Frolova, Elena E. Kabanova
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Tourist attraction
Tourist infrastructure
Tourism potential
Practice-oriented training
Hospitality
After-sales service.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 11, 4, 11A04G: 1-8
Multiple mobile target localization and pursuit based on discrete measurements of the energy intensity field
Creators: name: Jinwen Hu, Jinwen
name: Zhang, Cishen
name: Lihua Xie, Lihua
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The application of mobile robotic sensor networks has been widely studied in target localization and pursuit. Conventional target tracking methods always require an explicit system observation model of the target positions, which, however, would fail if such model is unobtainable. In this paper, a distributed target localization and pursuit scheme is proposed based on discrete measurements of the target energy intensity field. The accurate observation model of such field is unknown except some critical bounds. By the proposed method, all robots are categorized into two groups: the leaders, responsible for the target pursuit, and the followers, responsible for the formation and connectivity maintenance. The proposed scheme is demonstrated by simulation of multiple target localization and pursuit.
COMPETENCY AND MARKETING PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT OF SAUDI ARABIAN FOOD & DRINK PRODUCTS IN SAUDI ARABIA OF MIDDLE EAST REGION
Creators: name: Singh, Ajay
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Food products
Drink products
Energy Drinks
Customer satisfaction
Saudi Arabia
Gulf region
Health conscious products

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 11, 4, 11A04H: 1-11
2-D IIR filter bank design by an LMI approach
Creators: name: Xu, Huiling
name: Lin, Zhiping
name: Zhang, Cishen
name: Makur, Anamitra
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper is concerned with the problem of the two-channel 2-D IIR filter bank design. Using a systematic optimization approach, which is solved in terms of an LMI, the 2-D IIR synthesis filters are designed such that the systems are alias free and then optimized to achieve approximate perfect reconstruction.
title: Context Aware Data Reduction for Highly Automated Driving
Creators: name: Storms, Kai Hendrik
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2024

description: This research addresses the emerging challenge of data handling in the development of automated driving systems. The increasing volumes of data generated in the development and operation of these systems necessitate efficient handling strategies. A comprehensive review of the current state of the art reveals data reduction as a viable solution to manage these large data volumes. Further, an analysis of the state of the art establishes various challenges where established methodologies are insufficient, such as the open context. This leads to the primary research question of this dissertation:

(1) how to effectively implement data reduction while addressing these challenges.
The proposed solution in this work is a novel data reduction approach that integrates the concept of relevance, aiming to precisely define the informational needs within the data. This approach hypothesizes an enhanced control over performance loss in subsequent use cases, leading to two secondary research questions:

(2) How can relevance be formally defined to facilitate its use in data reduction?

(3) What is the impact of this data reduction method on the performance of subsequent use cases?

To answer the second question, the concept of relevance is extensively explored in the literature. A general relevance model for automated driving is developed, along with a methodology for deriving and validating use case-specific relevance models. Application of this methodology to a selected use case demonstrates its effectiveness.
Addressing the third question, an architecture for relevance-guided data reduction is proposed. A prototype implementing this architecture is evaluated in the contexts of perception and neural network training, focusing on semantic segmentation and object detection tasks. The findings indicate that relevance-guided data reduction can effectively control performance loss in perception tasks. However, in neural network training, a strong task dependency is observed, highlighting limitations of the approach and opportunities for future research.
In conclusion, this work represents a contribution in two areas. First, to overcoming the challenges of handling large amounts of automotive data and reducing this data to only those parts with relevant information. Second, to an explicit consideration of the wide variety of relevance concepts in the development of automated driving.
DETERMINANTS OF FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT: EVIDENCE FROM ASEAN COUNTRIES
Creators: name: Bui, Toan Ngoc
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Domestic credit
Economic growth
Inflation
Government expenditure
GMM
ASEAN macroeconomics.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 11, 4, 11A04I: 1-9.
Structural analysis on mutation residues and interfacial water molecules for human TIM disease understanding
Creators: name: Li, Zhenhua
name: He, Ying
name: Liu, Qian
name: Zhao, Liang
name: Wong, Limsoon
name: Kwoh, Chee Keong
name: Nguyen, Hung
name: Li, Jinyan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Background: Human triosephosphate isomerase (HsTIM) deficiency is a genetic disease caused often by the pathogenic mutation E104D. This mutation, located at the side of an abnormally large cluster of water in the inter-subunit interface, reduces the thermostability of the enzyme. Why and how these water molecules are directly related to the excessive thermolability of the mutant have not been investigated in structural biology.Results: This work compares the structure of the E104D mutant with its wild type counterparts. It is found that the water topology in the dimer interface of HsTIM is atypical, having a "wet-core-dry-rim" distribution with 16 water molecules tightly packed in a small deep region surrounded by 22 residues including GLU104. These water molecules are co-conserved with their surrounding residues in non-archaeal TIMs (dimers) but not conserved across archaeal TIMs (tetramers), indicating their importance in preserving the overall quaternary structure. As the structural permutation induced by the mutation is not significant, we hypothesize that the excessive thermolability of the E104D mutant is attributed to the easy propagation of atoms' flexibility from the surface into the core via the large cluster of water. It is indeed found that the B factor increment in the wet region is higher than other regions, and, more importantly, the B factor increment in the wet region is maintained in the deeply buried core. Molecular dynamics simulations revealed that for the mutant structure at normal temperature, a clear increase of the root-mean-square deviation is observed for the wet region contacting with the large cluster of interfacial water. Such increase is not observed for other interfacial regions or the whole protein. This clearly suggests that, in the E104D mutant, the large water cluster is responsible for the subunit interface flexibility and overall thermolability, and it ultimately leads to the deficiency of this enzyme.Conclusions: Our study reveals that a large cluster of water buried in protein interfaces is fragile and high-maintenance, closely related to the structure, function and evolution of the whole protein.
Proposal-free Temporal Moment Localization of a Natural-Language Query in Video using Guided Attention
Creators: name: Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

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Charades-STA

Activity-Net

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Pretrained weights

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If you use our code or data please consider citing our work.

```bibtex@article{opazo2019proposal, author = {Rodríguez-Opazo, Cristian and Marrese-Taylor, Edison and Saleh, Fatemeh Sadat and Li, Hongdong and Gould, Stephen}, journal = {Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision}, title = {Proposal-free Temporal Moment Localization of a Natural-Language Query in Video using Guided Attention}, year = {2020}}```
MPEC 2024-V03 : 2024 UE11
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 UE11

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Mechanical properties of a mature biofilm from a wastewater system: from microscale to macroscale level
Creators: name: Ashkan Safari
name: Casey, Eoin
name: Zeljko Tukovic
name: Walter, Maik
name: Ivankovic, Alojz
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Physics

description: A fundamental understanding of biofilm mechanical stability is critical in order to describe detachment and develop biofouling control strategies. It is thus important to characterise the elastic deformation and flow behaviour of the biofilm under different modes of applied force. In this study, the mechanical properties of a mature wastewater biofilm were investigated with methods including macroscale compression and microscale indentation using atomic force microscopy (AFM). The mature biofilm was found to be mechanically isotropic at the macroscale level as its mechanical properties did not depend on the scales and modes of loading. However, the biofilm showed a tendency for mechanical inhomogeneity at the microscale level as indentation progressed deeper into the matrix. Moreover, it was observed that the adhesion force had a significant influence on the elastic properties of the biofilm at the surface, subjected to microscale tensile loading. These results are expected to inform a damage-based model for biofilm detachment.
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TRADITIONAL AND SOFT COMPUTING MODELS FOR TRADING SIGNALS PREDICTION
Creators: name: Beenish Bashir, Faheem Aslam
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Moving averages
Autoregressive models
Artificial neural network
Support vector machine
Financial marketing
Extreme learning machine.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 11, 4, 11A04J: 1-16
DILEMMAS OF LEAN PRODUCTION IN RUSSIA
Creators: name: Shutov V. A., Rachkov V.S.
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Russian lean production
Production enterprise
Production management
Quality control
Employees Supports.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 11, 4, 11A04K: 1-8
China and the Struggle for Ecological Civilization
Creators: name: Gare, Arran
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: 'Ecological civilization' has multiple resonances by virtue of both each word and their conjunction. 'Ecology' challenges the basic assumptions not only of mainstream science but the basic assumptions on which capitalism is based. 'Civilization,' a much older term, is a reaffirmation of a vision of a life to be fought for and a condemnation of barbarity and decadence. 'Civilization' also indicates that the social forms that realize humanity's highest potential are the outcome of successful struggle and can only be sustained through continual effort. They are fragile achievements-civilizations can and do collapse. 'Ecological civilization' enables us to clarify the meaning of civilization, to bring into focus the decadent barbarism of late capitalism, and to envisage more clearly its transcendence (Gare 2010a). It enables socialists to revive a realistic and inspiring vision of a future beyond capitalism while freeing them from the baggage of Stalinism in all its varieties. Ecological civilization provides a new vision of the future that can capture people's imaginations and mobilize them for the required transformation.
Professional development for teaching in higher education
Creators: name: Wood, Leigh N.
name: Vu, Tori
name: Bower, Matt
name: Brown, Natalie
name: Skalicky, Jane
name: Donovan, Diane
name: Loch, Birgit
name: Joshi, Nalini
name: Bloom, Walter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Due to the changing nature of learning and teaching in universities, there is a growing need for professional development for lecturers and tutors teaching in disciplines in the mathematical sciences. Mathematics teaching staff receive some training in learning and teaching but many of the courses running at university level are not tailored to the mathematical sciences. This article reports on a collaborative research project aimed at investigating the type of professional development that Australian tertiary mathematics teachers need and their preference for delivery modes. Effective teaching promotes effective learning in our students and discipline-specific professional development will enhance outcomes for teachers, students, and mathematics.
Synthesis, antifungal, antibacterial activity, and computational evaluations of some novel coumarin-1,2,4-triazole hybrid compounds
Creators: name: Karnaš, Maja
name: Rastija, Vesna
name: Vrandečić, Karolina
name: Čosić, Jasenka
name: Šarić, Gabriella Kanižai
name: Agić, Dejan
name: Šubarić, Domagoj
name: Molnar, Maja
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Effective plant pathogen control presents an important challenge. Pesticide resistance and associated health and environmental problems demonstrate the need for novel, safe active ingredients for plant protection. Since both coumarins and 1,2,4-triazoles show pesticidal activity, in this study, we evaluated the antimicrobial activity of coumarin-1,2,4-triazole hybrids against plant pathogenic fungi (Fusarium oxysporum, Fusarium culmorum, Macrophomina phaseolina and Sclerotinia sclerotiorum), bacterial plant pathogens (Pseudomonas syringae and Rhodococcus fascians), and beneficial bacteria (Bacillus mycoides and Bradyrhizobium japonicum). Coumarin-1,2,4-triazoles inhibited the growth of S. sclerotiorum and F. oxysporum, while no antibacterial effect on either pathogens or soil-beneficial bacteria was observed. A quantitative structure–activity relationship models for antifungal activities on S. sclerotiorum and F. oxysporum, developed using Dragon descriptors, can explain 79% and 77% of the compounds inhibitory activity, respectively. According to molecular docking, title compounds are potential sterol 14α-demethylase inhibitors, with 7-((5-mercapto-4-(p-tolyl)-4H-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl)methoxy)-4-methyl-2H-chromen-2-one as the promising candidate for further research in plant protection.
Closing the feedback loop: engaging students in large first-year mathematics test revision sessions using pen-enabled screens
Creators: name: Donovan, Diane
name: Loch, Birgit
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: How can active learning, peer learning and prompt feedback be achieved in large first-year mathematics classes? Further, what technologies may support these aims? In this article, we assert that test revision sessions in first-year mathematics held in a technology-enhanced lecture theatre can be highly interactive with students solving problems, learning from each other and receiving immediate feedback. This is facilitated by pen-enabled screens and synchronization software. We argue that the educational benefits achievable through the technology do outweigh the technological distractions, and that these benefits can be achieved by focused, targeted one-off sessions and not only by a semester-long, regular approach. Repeat mid-semester test revision sessions were offered on a non-compulsory basis using pen-enabled screens for all students. Students worked practice test questions and marked solutions to mathematical problems on the screens. Students' work was then displayed anonymously for their peers to see. Answers were discussed with the whole class. We discuss outcomes from two offerings of these sessions using student feedback and lecturer reflections and show the impact of participation on self-reported student confidence. Pedagogical approaches that the technology allowed for the first time in a large class are highlighted. Students responded uniformly positively.
Thermal mitigation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms
Creators: name: O’Toole, Ann
name: Ricker, Erica B.
name: Nuxoll, Eric
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: Engineering

description: Bacterial biofilms infect 2–4% of medical devices upon implantation, resulting in multiple surgeries and increased recovery time due to the very great increase in antibiotic resistance in the biofilm phenotype. This work investigates the feasibility of thermal mitigation of biofilms at physiologically accessible temperatures. Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms were cultured to high bacterial density (1.7 × 109 CFU cm−2) and subjected to thermal shocks ranging from 50°C to 80°C for durations of 1–30 min. The decrease in viable bacteria was closely correlated with an Arrhenius temperature dependence and Weibull-style time dependence, demonstrating up to six orders of magnitude reduction in bacterial load. The bacterial load for films with more conventional initial bacterial densities dropped below quantifiable levels, indicating thermal mitigation as a viable approach to biofilm control.
A switching controller for piezoelectric microactuators in dual-stage actuator hard disk drives
Creators: name: Zheng, Jinchuan
name: Fu, Minyue
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Dual-stage actuators (DSAs) with piezoelectric (PZT) microactuators can provide faster track seeking and more accurate track following in hard disk drives (HDDs) than conventional single-stage actuators. However, one of the control challenges of the DSA systems is the PZT actuator saturation. To avoid saturating the PZT actuator, most of the existing methods either carefully design the PZT controllers with small gains or limit the amplitudes of the reference commands. This typically leads to performance conservation because the fast dynamics of the PZT is not fully utilized. Unlike the existing methods, this paper studies a switching controller that optimizes a quadratic performance cost function involving the PZT saturation model explicitly. The controller can not only guarantee the system stability in the presence of saturation but also improve the tracking speed by efficiently allocating the control efforts. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the switching controller with faster disturbance rejection.
Analysis of long-term mechanical grooming on large-scale test panels coated with an antifouling and a fouling-release coating
Creators: name: Hearin, John
name: Hunsucker, Kelli Z.
name: Swain, Geoffrey
name: Stephens, Abraham
name: Gardner, Harrison
name: Lieberman, Kody
name: Harper, Michael
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Cell Biology

description: Long-term grooming tests were conducted on two large-scale test panels, one coated with a fluorosilicone fouling-release (FR) coating, and one coated with a copper based ablative antifouling (AF) coating. Mechanical grooming was performed weekly or bi-weekly using a hand operated, electrically powered, rotating brush tool. The results indicate that weekly grooming was effective at removing loose or heavy biofilm settlement from both coatings, but could not prevent the permanent establishment of low-profile tenacious biofilms. Weekly grooming was very effective at preventing macrofouling establishment on the AF coating. The effectiveness of weekly grooming at preventing macrofouling establishment on the FR coating varied seasonally. The results suggest that frequent mechanical grooming is a viable method to reduce the fouling rating of ships’ hulls with minimal impact to the coating. Frequent grooming could offer significant fuel savings while reducing hull cleaning frequencies and dry dock maintenance requirements.
COMPETENTLI TA'LIM YONDASHUVINING SHAKLLANISH TARIXI VA RIVOJLANISH SHART SHAROITLARI
Creators: name: Qurbonova Mushtariy Abdujabbor qizi, Oʻqituvchi O'zbekiston Milliy Universiteti Xorijiy filologiya fakulteti, Xorijiy til va adabiyoti kafedrasi Email: mushtariy.qurbonova@mail.ru
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description:            Jahon siyosati, iqtisodi va ta’lim sohalari, ishlab chiqarish,  kadrlar tayyorlash tizimida mamlakatlararo  integratsiyalashuv yuz berayotgan bugungi kunda Oʻzbekistonda ta’lim tizimini modernizatsiyalash sharoitida pedagogik yoʻnalishdagi oliy ta’lim muassasalari bitiruvchilarining kasbiy kompetentligini oshirish va kompetentyondashuvli ta’lim sharoitida faoliyat yuritishga tayyorlash, koʻnikmalar hosil qilish masalasi oʻz dolzarbligini saqlab kelmoqda.
High-bandwidth control design for a piezoelectric nanopositioning stage
Creators: name: Zheng, Jinchuan
name: Fu, Minyue
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: To achieve fast and accurate tracking of a wideband reference trajectory, the piezoelectric (PZT) actuator requires a high-bandwidth control system, which is however restricted by the resonant mode of the PZT positioning stage. In this paper, we study two resonant compensation techniques to damp the resonant mode for increased servo bandwidth. First, we present a feedback control system using a conventional notch filter (NF). Subsequently, we develop a complex lead compensator (CLC) using the phase-stabilized compensation method. Unlike the NF that is aimed at reducing the resonant peak gain, the CLC specializes in shaping the phase of open-loop system at the resonant frequency. The analysis shows that the closed-loop bandwidth achieved by the CLC is around four times higher than that of the NF without sacrificing the stability margin. Finally, we propose a multi-resonant filter (MRF) to suppress periodic tracking errors by significantly attenuating the gains at specified frequencies in the sensitivity function. The experimental results verify that the CLC is superior in disturbance compensation and periodic trajectory tracking as compared to the NF, and the add-on MRF can greatly reduce the tracking error.
Fused Lasso Additive Model
Creators: name: Petersen, Ashley
name: Witten, Daniela
name: Simon, Noah
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Information and Computing Sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We consider the problem of predicting an outcome variable using p covariates that are measured on n independent observations, in a setting in which additive, flexible, and interpretable fits are desired. We propose the fused lasso additive model (FLAM), in which each additive function is estimated to be piecewise constant with a small number of adaptively-chosen knots. FLAM is the solution to a convex optimization problem, for which a simple algorithm with guaranteed convergence to a global optimum is provided. FLAM is shown to be consistent in high dimensions, and an unbiased estimator of its degrees of freedom is proposed. We evaluate the performance of FLAM in a simulation study and on two data sets. Supplemental materials are available online, and the R package flam is available on CRAN.
In vitro antibiofilm activity of the freshwater bryozoan Hyalinella punctata: a case study of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1
Creators: name: Pejin, Boris
name: Ciric, Ana
name: Karaman, Ivo
name: Horvatovic, Mladen
name: Glamoclija, Jasmina
name: Milos Nikolic
name: Sokovic, Marina
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
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: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: The antibiofilm and possible antiquorum sensing effects against the strain Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 of five crude extracts of the freshwater bryozoan Hyalinella punctata (Hancock, 1850) were evaluated in vitro for the first time. H. punctata ethyl acetate extract (HpEtAc) exhibited the highest antibiofilm activity reducing the biofilm formation of P. aeruginosa PAO1 in the range of 80.63–88.13%. While all tested extracts reduced the twitching motility of the aforementioned bacterial strain, HpEtAc showed to be the most effective. Finally, at a concentration of 0.5 MIC, the same extract mostly inhibited the production of pyocyanin by P. aeruginosa PAO1 (71.53%). In comparison both with the positive controls used (streptomycin and ampicillin, 67.13 and 69.77%, respectively), HpEtAc was found to inhibit pyocyanin in a higher extent. An extensive chemical characterisation of this particular extract may result in isolation and identification of novel lead compounds targeting P. aeruginosa, an opportunistic human pathogen.
Solid Phase Benzoylation of Phenols and Alcohols in Microwave Reactor: An Eco-Friendly Protocol
Creators: name: Suchandra Chakraborty
name: Ahana Saha
name: Basu, Kaushik
name: Saha, Chandan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biochemistry

description: An efficient solid phase benzoylation of phenols and alcohols was developed under microwave irradiation. Stoichiometric amount of benzoyl chloride was sufficient to carry out the reaction. This benzoylation features short reaction time, high yields and easy work-up procedures. Furthermore, the scope of the reaction was extended to prepare 3,5-dinitrobenzoyl derivatives of alcohols.
Hybrid particle swarm optimization based normalized radial basis function neural network for hypoglycemia detection
Creators: name: San, Phyo Phyo
name: Ling, Sai Ho
name: Nguyen, Hung
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this study, a normalized radial basis function neural network (NRBFNN) is presented for detection of hypoglycemia episodes by using physiological parameters of electrocardiogram (ECG) signal. Hypoglycemia is a common and serious side effect of insulin therapy in patients with Type 1 diabetes. Based on heart rate (HR) and corrected QT interval (QTc) of electrocardiogram (ECG) signal, a hybrid particle swarm optimization based normalized RBFNN is developed for recognization of hypoglycemia episodes. A global learning algorithm called hybrid particle swarm optimization with wavelet mutation (HPSOWM) is used to optimize the parameters of NRBFNN. From a clinical study of 15 children with Type 1 diabetes, natural occurrence of nocturnal hypoglycemic episodes associated with increased heart rates and corrected QT interval are studied. The overall data are organized into a training set (5 patients), validation set (5 patients) and testing set (5 patients) randomly selected. Using the optimized NRBFNN, the testing performance for detection of hypoglycemic episodes are satisfactory with 76.74% of sensitivity and 51.82% of specificity.
Paraschistura nielseni
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Nemacheilidae
Paraschistura
Paraschistura nielseni

description: 68. Paraschistura nielseni (Nalbant & Bianco, 1998)
Common name. Nielsen’s loach
Taxonomy. Original description: Schistura nielseni Nalbant & Bianco, 1998: 119, figs. 22 A-C [Bazar River, Iran; holotype: ZMC P 27109].
Revisions. None.
Illustrations. Sayyadzadeh et al. (2018b: 45, fig. 10).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Persis.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 442-Upper Tigris & Euphrates.
Status in Iran. [Endemic].—Loch mahi-e Nilsen.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: ZM-CBSU.
Conservation. —IUCN: NE.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
Bioactive compounds of Crocus sativus L. and their semi-synthetic derivatives as promising anti-Helicobacter pylori, anti-malarial and anti-leishmanial agents
Creators: name: Monte, Celeste De
name: Bizzarri, Bruna
name: Gidaro, Maria Concetta
name: Carradori, Simone
name: Mollica, Adriano
name: Luisi, Grazia
name: Granese, Arianna
name: Alcaro, Stefano
name: Costa, Giosuè
name: Basilico, Nicoletta
name: Parapini, Silvia
name: Scaltrito, Maria Maddalena
name: Masia, Carla
name: Sisto, Francesca
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biochemistry

description: Crocus sativus L. is known in herbal medicine for the various pharmacological effects of its components, but no data are found in literature about its biological properties toward Helicobacter pylori, Plasmodium spp. and Leishmania spp. In this work, the potential anti-bacterial and anti-parasitic effects of crocin and safranal, two important bioactive components in C. sativus, were explored, and also some semi-synthetic derivatives of safranal were tested in order to establish which modifications in the chemical structure could improve the biological activity. According to our promising results, we virtually screened our compounds by means of molecular modeling studies against the main H. pylori enzymes in order to unravel their putative mechanism of action.