cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Improving Students’ Critical Thinking Ability Using Problem Based Learning (PBL) Learning Model Based on PhET Simulation
Creators: name: Putranta, Himawan
name: Kuswanto, Heru
Publisher: name: UIKTEN
Year: 2018
Subjects: Instrument Development
PhET
Problem Based Learning
Critical Thinking Ability

description: SAR Journal; Vol 1, No 3, 2018. ISSN 2619-9955
description: The ability to think critically is one of the abilities of High Order Thinking that must be possessed by students, but in reality the mastery of this ability is still low. Therefore, this study aims to produce physics learning and research instruments that are feasible to use in learning physics by using PBL learning models, knowing the effectiveness of learning media in the form of PhET simulations in physics learning, and knowing the improvement of students' critical thinking skills. The subjects of this study were 62 grade 10 students. This research was a development research with 4D model. The define phase is done by defining the problems contained in learning so that appropriate learning and research instruments can be formulated. The design stage is carried out by developing physics learning and research instruments in accordance with what has been formulated at the define stage that implements the syntax of the PhET-assisted PBL learning model. The develop phase is done by producing revised learning instruments and physics research instruments based on designs that have been prepared at the design stage. The dissemination phase is carried out by disseminating development products in the form of learning instruments and physics research. The results showed that the physics learning and research instruments developed were feasible to be used in physics learning as evidenced by the results of validity and reliability. The learning media in the form of PhET were effectively used in physics learning, and the improvement of students' critical thinking skills in the modeling and implementation classes were included in the medium category.
title: Comenius und die Web-Didaktik
Creators: name: Klissenbauer, Esther
Year: 2009

description: Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem allmählichen Wandel der Lernkultur, welcher durch die Implementierung von moderner Computertechnologie zum Zwecke des Lehrens und Lernens eingeleitet wurde. Um diesen Wandel zu verdeutlichen, werden zwei pädagogische Systeme gegenübergestellt. Es sich dabei einerseits um die Lernumgebung des Johann Amos Comenius sowie um die Web-Didaktik nach Norbert Meder andererseits. Der Grund für die Auswahl dieser Vergleichspartner liegt darin, dass beide im Rahmen der Gestaltung pädagogischer Prozesse bedeutsame Schritte gegangen sind, indem sie die jeweils verfügbare Technologie ihrer Zeit ausschöpften und ausschöpfen, um ihre Vision einer gebildeten Gesellschaft zu realisieren. Nutzte Comenius im 17. Jahrhundert den Buchdruck und die damit verbundene lineare Darstellungs- und Rezeptionsweise von Lerninhalten, nimmt Meder heute mit seiner Web-Didaktik eine zentrale Stellung innerhalb computergestützter, nicht-linearer und vernetzter Darstellungs- und Rezeptionsweisen von Lerninhalten ein. Während Comenius einen standardisierten Lernweg wählte, ist die Web-Didaktik durch individuelle Lernwege charakterisiert. Auf Grundlage dieses Faktums ist eindeutig ein Paradigmenwechsel zu erkennen: von „Allen das Gleiche“ (Comenius) zu „Jedem das Seine“ (Meder). Im Rahmen der Aufarbeitung der Themenstellung, welche auf einem hermeneutischen Zugang beruht, werden zunächst beide Lernumgebungen hinsichtlich ihres Aufbaus und der zugrundeliegenden Intention des jeweiligen Autors analysiert und anschließend gegenübergestellt. Dabei sollen sowohl Ähnlichkeiten als auch Differenzen beider Systeme klar markiert und diskutiert werden. In einem weiteren Schritt wird der Versuch unternommen einen Teilbereich der comenischen Lernumgebung mit der Terminologie der Web-Didaktik abzubilden. Ziel ist es zu prüfen, ob trotz der inhaltlichen Differenzen sowohl eine methodische als auch eine philosophische Brücke zwischen beiden Lernumgebungen geschlagen werden kann. Das heißt, dass einerseits die Umsetzbarkeit einer Verschlagwortung der comenischen Lernumgebung mittels web-didaktischer Terminologie untersucht wird und andererseits der Frage nachgegangen wird, ob Comenius mit seiner Bildungsidee auch innerhalb postmoderner Formen der Wissensaufbereitung Bedeutung erlangen kann.
Data supporting for Antibacterial activity of AXOTL-13, a novel peptide identified from the trascriptome of the salamander Ambystoma mexicanum.
Creators: name: lopez parra, daniela
name: Córdoba Rodríguez, Laura
name: Medina, Laura
name: Carbonell-M, Belfran
name: Mejia, Mariana
name: Guzman, Fanny
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320699
subject: Medical biotechnology not elsewhere classified

description: Antimicrobial peptides are essential molecules in the innate immunity of various organisms, having a broad spectrum of antimicrobial, antitumor and immunomodulatory activities. Due to their multifunctionality, they are viewed as an alternative to control bacterial infections. Although conventional antibiotics have improved health worldwide, their indiscriminate use has brought about the emergence of resistant microorganisms. To discover new molecules with antimicrobial activity that could overcome the limitations of traditional antibiotics, the study aimed to identify antimicrobial peptides in Ambystoma mexicanum. In this study, hypothetical proteins encoded in the transcriptome of Ambystoma mexicanum were first predicted. These proteins were then aligned with peptides reported in the Antimicrobial Peptide Database (APD3) using the Fasta36 program. After identifying peptide sequences with potential antibacterial activity, their expression was confirmed using conventional polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and they were subsequently chemically synthesized. The antibacterial activity of the synthesized peptides was evaluated on Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli, allowing the identification of a new peptide named AXOTL-13 with antimicrobial activity. AXOTL-13 is an amphipathic alpha helical cationic peptide, with the ability to inhibit the growth of E.coli without producing hemolysis in red blood cells, its action is possibly directed against the membrane according to the morphological changes observed in scanning electron microscopy. This is the first research dedicated to the search for antimicrobial peptides present in Ambystoma mexicanum, and in reporting an antimicrobial peptide found in said species, being a reference for future research.
Additional file 2 of Changes in the epidemiology and clinical characteristics of viral gastroenteritis among hospitalized children in the Mainland of China: a retrospective study from 2016 to 2020
Creators: name: Li, Fei
name: Guo, Lingyun
name: Li, Qi
name: Xu, Hui
name: Fu, Yiliang
name: Huang, Luci
name: Feng, Guoshuang
name: Liu, Gang
name: Chen, Xiangpeng
name: Xie, Zhengde
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 2.
Supportingvdata supporting for Antibacterial activity of AXOTL-13, a novel peptide identified from the trascriptome of the salamander Ambystoma mexicanum.
Creators: name: lopez parra, daniela
name: Córdoba Rodríguez, Laura
name: Medina, Laura
name: Carbonell-M, Belfran
name: Mejia, Mariana
name: Guzman, Fanny
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320699
subject: Medical biotechnology not elsewhere classified

description: Antimicrobial peptides are essential molecules in the innate immunity of various organisms, having a broad spectrum of antimicrobial, antitumor and immunomodulatory activities. Due to their multifunctionality, they are viewed as an alternative to control bacterial infections. Although conventional antibiotics have improved health worldwide, their indiscriminate use has brought about the emergence of resistant microorganisms. To discover new molecules with antimicrobial activity that could overcome the limitations of traditional antibiotics, the study aimed to identify antimicrobial peptides in Ambystoma mexicanum. In this study, hypothetical proteins encoded in the transcriptome of Ambystoma mexicanum were first predicted. These proteins were then aligned with peptides reported in the Antimicrobial Peptide Database (APD3) using the Fasta36 program. After identifying peptide sequences with potential antibacterial activity, their expression was confirmed using conventional polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and they were subsequently chemically synthesized. The antibacterial activity of the synthesized peptides was evaluated on Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli, allowing the identification of a new peptide named AXOTL-13 with antimicrobial activity. AXOTL-13 is an amphipathic alpha helical cationic peptide, with the ability to inhibit the growth of E.coli without producing hemolysis in red blood cells, its action is possibly directed against the membrane according to the morphological changes observed in scanning electron microscopy. This is the first research dedicated to the search for antimicrobial peptides present in Ambystoma mexicanum, and in reporting an antimicrobial peptide found in said species, being a reference for future research.
Business Professionals’ Attitudes toward Foreign Language use
Creators: name: Marinac, Mladen
name: Golob, Martin
Publisher: name: UIKTEN
Year: 2018
Subjects: foreign language use
sector
age
organizational size

description: SAR Journal; Vol 1, No 3, 2018. ISSN 2619-9955
description: The purpose of this study is to determine what business professionals’ attitudes are toward foreign language use and whether the company sector, organizational size and age are important variables in the use of foreign language. The majority seems aware of the importance of foreign language use and claim they would like to hone their language skills in the future. Furthermore, the findings show that business professionals in internationally oriented sectors (e.g. transport, tourism, IT,...) believe foreign languages are more important than those who work in locally oriented sectors (e.g. processing industry, civil engineering, public service).
Looking Deeper into the Factors Regulating Global Innovation with PCA and Rough Sets
Creators: name: Du, Jinhang
name: Song, Xin
name: Wang, Zhen
name: Park, Sungho
name: Shi, Tianchen
Publisher: name: UIKTEN
Year: 2018
Subjects: Innovation
Global Innovation Index
Feature Selection
Principal Component Analysis
Rough Set Theory
Rules

description: SAR Journal; Vol 1, No 3, 2018. ISSN 2619-9955
description: A country’s economic and industrial progress is strongly governed by the level of its innovation. However, the conditions that influence and encourage stronger innovation trends are difficult to determine, and this is due in part to the lack of a clear consensus among diverse indicators of an economy’s innovative capacity as well as to the complex relations between such factors. This study independently analyzes a few representative indicators of innovation for various input variables considered to enable innovation and ranks and selects them based on two different analysis paradigms. One draws an overall picture of relationships and interactions between different variables and describes the position of significant countries, and the other selects a set of relevant features to extract rules typifying this multifaceted interaction. A good consensus is observed for these two analysis paradigms.
Breaking the restrictions of nearest neighbour interactions in mass-manufacturable silicon photonics: applications in quantum information systems
Creators: name: Hope, Anthony
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 400909
subject: Photonic and electro-optical devices, sensors and systems (excl. communications)
classificationCode: 510804
subject: Quantum optics and quantum optomechanics

description: This doctoral thesis presents a scalable mass-manufacturable waveguide platform that can make use of an optical bus to provide an on-chip long-range communication channel.
This optical bus is combined with an adiabatic transfer technique to provide robust and highly coherent transfer between waveguides. The potential for this robust transfer is explored in the context of sensitive quantum information processing and the designs for several important quantum gates are introduced. The addition of the optical bus allows multi-dimensional coupling that is not possible within current planar waveguide platforms.

Shallow ridge waveguides are fabricated using a standard silicon photonics platform. The propagation loss due to the lateral leakage was characterised over a range of waveguide widths and operating wavelengths. Losses as low as 0.087 dB/mm can be achieved by considering the lateral leakage effect during waveguide design.

A new approach to long-range coupling is described that combines the lateral leakage effect observed in shallow ridge waveguides with an adiabatic transfer technique. This platform enables the transport of light between two waveguides over surprising distances using radiation within the silicon slab as an optical bus. Due to the nature of the adiabatic protocol, the bus is minimally excited and the transport is highly robust. The ability of the bus is further demonstrated by introducing an intermediate waveguide between the pair that can be isolated and completely bypassed from the interaction.

The adiabatic optical bus is then extended to quantum information applications that can perform operations on photonic qubits. Several important gate designs are described that can produce a Hadamard, 50:50 and 1/3:2/3 beam splitter and a non-deterministic controlled NOT gate, with calculations showing one and two-photon gate operation. This is the first adiabatic gate demonstration that required a quantum description for photons.

In summary, this thesis introduces an optical bus that is suitable for fabrication in mass-manufacturable silicon integrated photonic waveguides. The application of an adiabatic protocol ensures the robust transfer of information using this bus. The high fidelity transport can be exploited for the development of integrated photonic quantum gates.
sj-docx-1-wso-10.1177_17474930231217192 – Supplemental material for Association of circulating CD34+ cells level and prognosis after ischemic stroke
Creators: name: Mizuno, Takafumi
name: Hoshino, Takao
name: Ishizuka, Kentaro
name: Toi, Sono
name: Takahashi, Shuntaro
name: Wako, Sho
name: Arai, Satoko
name: Kitagawa, Kazuo
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: Medicine
subject: Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-wso-10.1177_17474930231217192 for Association of circulating CD34+ cells level and prognosis after ischemic stroke by Takafumi Mizuno, Takao Hoshino, Kentaro Ishizuka, Sono Toi, Shuntaro Takahashi, Sho Wako, Satoko Arai and Kazuo Kitagawa in International Journal of Stroke
Calibration of MAJIS (Moons And Jupiter Imaging Spectrometer): III. Spectral Calibration
Creators: name: Haffoud, Paolo
name: Poulet, François
name: Vincendon, Mathieu
name: Filacchione, Gianrico
name: Barbis, Alessandra
name: Guiot, Pierre
name: Lecomte, Benoit
name: Langevin, Yves
name: Piccioni, Giuseppe
name: Dumesnil, Cydalise
name: Rodriguez, Sébastien
name: Carter, John
name: Stefania, Stefani
name: Tommasi, Leonardo
name: Tosi, Federico
name: Pilorget, Cédric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Moons And Jupiter Imaging Spectrometer (MAJIS) is the visible and near-infrared imaging spectrometer onboard ESA s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission. Before its integration into the spacecraft, the instrument undergoes an extensive ground calibration to establish its baseline performances. This process prepares the imaging spectrometer for flight operations by characterizing the behavior of the instrument under various operative conditions and uncovering instrumental distortions that may depend on instrumental commands. Two steps of the on-ground calibration campaigns were held at the instrument level to produce the data. Additional in-flight measurements have recently been obtained after launch during the Near-Earth Commissioning Phase. In this article, we present the analyses of these datasets, focusing on the characterization of the spectral performances. First, we describe and analyze the spectral calibration datasets obtained using both monochromatic sources and polychromatic sources coupled with solid and gas samples. Then, we derive the spectral sampling and the spectral response function over the entire field of view. These spectral characteristics are quantified for various operational parameters of MAJIS, such as temperature and spectral binning. The derived on-ground performances are then compared with in-flight measurements obtained after launch and presented in the framework of the MAJIS performance requirements.
Full Blade Digital Image Correlation (DIC) Test Apparatus
Creators: name: Collar, Andrew Nathan
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Aerospace engineering
subject: apparatus
subject: Digital Image Correlation
subject: full scale helicopter blades
subject: sectional stiffness properties
subject: strain field

description: The objective of this study was to design a Digital Image Correlation (DIC) apparatuscapable of measuring sectional stiffness properties of full scale helicopter blades within preexisting facilities. To do so, this study expanded on previous studies findings that deemed DIC apparatus as an ideal system to measure the strain field over composite blades. To determine the ideal apparatus to measure the sectional stiffness properties of full scale blades that can be used at facilities such as Fort Eustis in Newport News, VA., two initial concepts -the gantry and stationary system- were investigated. The study used analytical matrices like the Pugh’s matrix to down select to an ideal apparatus. The study determined the ideal design through cost, distance from the blade, and accuracy to finalize a potential solution. This study identified the stationary system as the ideal system for this purpose. The proposed solution would have an initial cost of $100,000 to acquire the required equipment proposed in the current study. Through empirical and analytical methods, the solution would be able to measure the strain field within 1%.
A study of the characteristics of polymer deposition by electrospraying
Creators: name: Jadhav, Amit
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: The electrospinning process is capable of producing fibres in the submicron range. Electrospinning has gained much attention in the last decade not only due to its versatility in spinning a wide variety of polymeric fibres, but also due to its consistency in producing nanofibres. Instead of producing fibres if charged droplets are formed then the process is called electrospraying or electrostatic spraying.

In this research, it has been attempted to apply electrostatic spraying in the textile field for the coating of specialised textile surfaces. This process overcomes the disadvantages of the standard coating techniques. In the standard coating process, the polymers are impregnated into the interstices of the fibres/yarns, which results in alteration of the original properties of the textile substrate. Also, coating thickness cannot be achieved at submicron level, which increases the stiffness of the substrate. In electrospraying, the polymer droplets are deposited at the submicron level, which facilitates a thinner coating on substrates.

Therefore, it is of interest to develop an understanding of spraying characteristics while a polymer solution is subjected to electrospraying. This research study investigated the effect of process parameters on polymer droplet diameter and its aggregation during electrospraying. Response surface methodology was utilised to design the experiments and evaluate the significance of process parameters on polymer aggregation. Applied voltage, solution flow rate, nozzle-collector distance and polymer concentration significantly affected the polymer aggregation and droplet diameter. Minimum polymer aggregation and smaller droplet diameter were observed at higher applied voltage, higher field strength and lower nozzle-collector distance. In addition, the development of a bicomponent polymer droplet deposition technique was successfully demonstrated in this research study; this technique can impart dual functionality to the textile substrate. This research contributes to the knowledge established in the field of electrostatic spraying which leads to coating of polymers at the submicron range on the textile substrate.
title: Auswirkungen der Berufszufriedenheit der Mütter auf den kognitiven und sprachlichen Entwicklungsstand ihrer Kinder
Creators: name: Zeiner, Veronika
Year: 2009

description: Diese Studie beschäftigte sich mit den Folgen der Berufszufriedenheit der Mütter auf die kognitive und sprachliche Entwicklung ihrer drei – bis sechsjährigen Kinder. Die Auswirkungen der Berufstätigkeit der Mutter mit den entsprechenden entwicklungsfördernden und hemmenden Bedingungen werden erläutert. Es wurden 96 Mütter mittels dem „Fragebogen zur Lebenszufriedenheit“ (FLZ, Fahrenberg, Myrtek, Schumacher & Brähler, 2000) und dem „Fragebogen zu Lebenszielen und Lebenszufriedenheit“ (FLL, Kraak & Nord-Rüdiger, 1989) interviewt. Weitere 40 Mütter willigten ein, dass ihr Kind mit dem „Wiener Entwicklungstest“ (WET, Kastner – Koller & Deimann, 2002) getestet wird. Von diesen 40 Kindern liegen Ergebnisse über ihre Fähigkeiten im kognitiven und sprachlichen Bereich vor. Eine Clusteranalyse zeigte, dass kein Unterschied zwischen den Kindern von zufriedenen und unzufriedenen Müttern besteht. Jene Mütter, die Teilzeit berufstätig waren, berichteten ein höheres Maß an Zufriedenheit als jene Mütter, die nur sehr wenig arbeiteten oder einer Vollzeitbeschäftigung nachgingen. Die Ergebnisse verdeutlichen, dass eine endgültige Aussage über die Auswirkungen der Erwerbstätigkeit der Mutter auf die Entwicklung ihrer Kinder noch nicht möglich ist und zukünftige Studien besonderes Augenmerk auf die gewählte Betreuungsform und deren Qualität, sowie den Zeitpunkt des Widereintrittes legen sollten. Weiters würden sich Studien empfehlen, die den sozialen Status der jeweiligen Frauen berücksichtigen, da der momentane Forschungsstand zu diesem Thema vermuten lässt, dass der sozioökonomische Status und die damit verbundenen Lebensbedingungen eine zentrale Rolle spielen.
Waste not want not: an entangled essaying of the value of so-called inedible food waste in the home
Creators: name: Langley, Sophie
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360201
subject: Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting)
classificationCode: 470203
subject: Consumption and everyday life

description: Food wastage is a global problem receiving increasing attention from policy makers, researchers and everyday consumers alike. Many of the existing solutions to this problem are focused on reducing the quantity of waste to address related issues such as the significant contribution of this wastage to greenhouse gas emissions (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 2013). But these solutions still treat humans as the ideal endpoint for food matter that becomes waste without problematising this underlying assumption. What if we were instead to shift focus to the vitality of the food scraps themselves, and treat them as continuing actants in a complex assemblage of things and becomings? This creativepractice-as-research project looks to find value in so-called inedible and unavoidable food waste by intervening in normative practices to use scraps as materials for making things. It enacts through and with various creative practices a conversation with key theorists, aiming to ‘stay with the trouble’ (Haraway 2016) of food wastage by treating the scraps a ‘vibrant’ (Bennett 2010) organisms contributing to the ‘tangled texture’ of the world (Ingold 2011). A key method used here is essaying, a making through text, photographic images and sound is that entangles thinking from various disciplines, reflecting on the complexity of living differently with food that might usually become waste. The thesis finds, in line with much social practice theory work in the area of sustainability, that living differently with food wastage would also implicate and potentially change related practices. It also identifies a new potential for collaborative work between the creative practice and social science disciplines that will be generative for problems of sustainability into the future.
Deliverable 3.4 - Joint Foresight Topics For Lasers And Fels In Europe
Creators: name: Appleby, Graham
name: Canova, Federico
name: Gliksohn, Florian
name: Miron, Catalin
name: Tschentscher, Thomas
name: Feldhaus, Josef
name: Fortmann-Grote, Carsten
name: Hvězda, Roman
name: Lüning, Jan
name: Krell, Ute
name: Normand, Didier
name: Pascarelli, Sakura
name: Principe, Irene
name: Stozno, Daniela
name: van Daalen, Mirjam
name: Wahlström, Claes-Göran
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: EUCALL
Synergy
Free-electron laser
Synchrotron
Optical laser
HHG
Research Infrastructure
Radiation
Theory
Simulation
Targetry

description: One of EUCALL’s primary objectives is the identification of joint foresight topics in science and research policy with the desired outcome of further strengthening the portfolio of advanced laser light sources in Europe. Within EUCALL WP3, foresight topics were identified which set up a vision for a future activity of the advanced laser light source communities, parts thereof or new alliances among the advanced laser light source communities with new outside communities. For each foresight topic, workshops were organized at which invited and contributed presentations on relevant topics, from within and outside EUCALL, elaborated the state-of-the-art, current and future needs. These activities are considered as seeds for future cooperation and collaborations, and are summarized in this report.
Investigating the implementation of a performance management system in a central bank reform process
Creators: name: Masum, Mahmud
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 350107
subject: Sustainability accounting and reporting

description: Features of best practice performance management system (PMS) such as open communication and disclosure challenged the BB's traditional culture of secrecy. While a consultative and transparent performance management process was intended to enhance accountability, it challenged the traditional organisational authority structure and culture. The new PMS retained, modified and adjusted a number of its characteristics over time. These adjustments reflected the power of local agents in negotiating and mediating the institutionalisation of new management control structures.

The best practice PMS entered an organisational platform which was characterised by competing institutional logics representing local practices and historical norms. The social and political imperatives were found to exert influence over the implementation of a new PMS. While the PMS registered success in its initial period, it largely failed to be institutionalised within the management control logic of the BB. The findings of this research carry implications for policy makers. Such knowledge is beneficial in the design of future reform programs.
Additional file 2 of Detailed analysis of agro-industrial byproducts/wastes to enable efficient sorting for various agro-industrial applications
Creators: name: Priyanka, Govindegowda
name: Singiri, Jeevan R.
name: Adler-Agmon, Zachor
name: Sannidhi, Sasank
name: Daida, Spurthi
name: Novoplansky, Nurit
name: Grafi, Gideon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: Supplementary Material 2 Supplementary Figures S1-S5
Real-Time deep image rendering and order independent transparency
Creators: name: Knowles, Pyar
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: In computer graphics some operations can be performed in either object space or image space. Image space computation can be advantageous, especially with the high parallelism of GPUs, improving speed, accuracy and ease of implementation. For many image space techniques the information contained in regular 2D images is limiting. Recent graphics hardware features, namely atomic operations and dynamic memory location writes, now make it possible to capture and store all per-pixel fragment data from the rasterizer in a single pass in what we call a deep image. A deep image provides a state where all fragments are available and gives a more complete image based geometry representation, providing new possibilities in image based rendering techniques. This thesis investigates deep images and their growing use in real-time image space applications. A focus is new techniques for improving fundamental operation performance, including construction, storage, fast fragment sorting and sampling.

A core and driving application is order-independent transparency (OIT). A number of deep image sorting improvements are presented, through which an order of magnitude performance increase is achieved, significantly advancing the ability to perform transparency rendering in real time. In the broader context of image based rendering we look at deep images as a discretized 3D geometry representation and discuss sampling techniques for raycasting and antialiasing with an implicit fragment connectivity approach. Using these ideas a more computationally complex application is investigated — image based depth of field (DoF). Deep images are used to provide partial occlusion, and in particular a form of deep image mipmapping allows a fast approximate defocus blur of up to full screen size.
Ecosystem Sciences Division Standard Operating Procedures: Data Collection for Towed-diver Benthic and Fish Surveys
Creators: name: Lino, Kevin
name: Asher, Jacob Marcus
name: Ferguson, Marie
name: Gray, Andrew
name: McCoy, Kaylyn
name: Timmers, Molly A.
name: Vargas-Ángel, Bernardo, 1965-
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (U.S.)
Year: 2018

description: Administration Report H ; 18-02
The virtuoso and the truth lies elsewhere: an encounter with the past through a reading of W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz
Creators: name: Orchard, Sonia
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: The creative project, The Virtuoso, is a novel manuscript loosely based on the last eight years in the life of Australian-born concert pianist Noel Mewton-Wood, who rose to prominence in London in the years during and after the Second World War, before committing suicide in 1953 at the age of thirty-one. The narrator is an unnamed, fictional character who is romantically obsessed with Mewton-Wood, hence his insight into Mewton-Wood and his representation of events is severely coloured by his own desires. Although based on actual events, the manuscript is essentially a study of obsession, fantasy and creativity, and rather than providing an historical record of Mewton-Wood’s life, infers the difficulty in creating such a definitive and objective record.

The exegesis, The Truth Lies Elsewhere: An Encounter with the Past through a Reading of W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz, is an examination of the techniques W.G. Sebald employs in his novel, Austerlitz, to comment upon the ways we remember our public past; in particular, his use of fiction and narrative strategies to explore memory and outline the problems inherent in the translation of an event into an historical narrative. I argue that by doing this, he not only calls into question the pursuit of a knowable, singular truth in history, but also encourages an alternative approach to ‘understanding’ past events.
'Meerta peeneeyt, yana peeneeyt, taram peeneeyt' (stand strong, walk strong, proud flesh strong)
Creators: name: Couzens, Vicki
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: In my research I explored the idea of cultural identity and belonging to Country. I wanted to strengthen Indigenous identity, belonging and cultural practices through story-telling and creative expression.

I was interested in the ways my work through art, language and community development could contribute to the reclamation, regeneration and revitalisation of our Aboriginal identity and culture.

The starting point of my exploration was my own cultural identity and an examination of how this relates to my family’s cultural identity.

I gathered and recorded stories and developed works to create a legacy for future generations of our family. I explored our spiritual connection to Country and the notion of belonging and place. I want to understand more about these intangible things, the unseen. I explored how connection to Country, belonging and identity were expressed innately through language, story, song, and dance. These resonate with Country and place. The voice of the Land is heard in our language and songs, our stories are the body of the Land and the rhythm and heartbeat of the Land is felt in the dance.

The creative works developed in my research explored the links between song, dance, words and intonation, resonance and vibration.
Quest of Australian public universities for competitive advantage in a global higher education environment
Creators: name: Bradmore, Donald
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Adopting a triangulated approach, this thesis consists of three separate but related qualitative studies, the collective objectives of which are to (i) gauge current levels of concern of Australian public universities with rapid intensification of the higher education sector globally; (ii) evaluate strategies developed by universities in response to increasing competition; and (iii) develop a conceptual framework to guide competitive behaviour of universities. Study 1 is a systematic content analysis of published strategic plans of universities using Leximancer (Version 2.20). Relative prominence of concepts identified in this content analysis give rise to propositions relating both to levels of concern with competition and strategies being implemented to protect market position. In Study 2, these propositions are tested in a sample of the universities by means of case studie s based on face-to-face interviews with senior academics and administrators. Study 3 draws upon findings of Studies 1 and 2 to develop a strategic model to guide future strategy development. Overall, findings of the studies provide valuable insights into the management of higher education in a dynamic environment in which the intensity of competition is likely to escalate as the pace of globalisation and technological change quickens, as deregulation of the domestic higher education sector continues, as per capita funding is further reduced, as even greater elements of competition and contestability are introduced in the interests of productivity and efficiency, and as overseas student demand slackens in traditional markets.
Additional file 2 of Impacts of heat exposure in utero on long-term health and social outcomes: a systematic review
Creators: name: Brink, Nicholas
name: Lakhoo, Darshnika P.
name: Solarin, Ijeoma
name: Maimela, Gloria
name: von Dadelszen, Peter
name: Norris, Shane
name: Chersich, Matthew F.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Search terms for Medline(PubMed) and Web of Science.
Additional file 3 of Impacts of heat exposure in utero on long-term health and social outcomes: a systematic review
Creators: name: Brink, Nicholas
name: Lakhoo, Darshnika P.
name: Solarin, Ijeoma
name: Maimela, Gloria
name: von Dadelszen, Peter
name: Norris, Shane
name: Chersich, Matthew F.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Author list for Climate and Heat-Health Study Group. Individual JBI risk of bias assessment forms, and excluded studies metadata from EPPI reviewer available on request.
Samuel Pinheiro Guimarães Neto (1939-2024): un defensor de la soberanía de América latina con justicia social   In memoriam
Creators: name: Figueroa, Andrés
Publisher: name: Ariadna Ediciones
Year: 2024

description: Samuel Pinheiro Guimarães Neto fue un político, diplomático y académico brasileño que entregó su vida al pensamiento latinoamericanista en cuestiones internacionales y mundiales. Ejemplo de lo anterior, fue su análisis dedicado a la cuestión de la Soberanía, el Desarrollo y a develar a los Actores y Estructuras de Poder Global con el objetivo de que ese conocimiento permitiera a Brasil y a los países de la región alcanzar mayores niveles de desarrollo político y económico social. A través de su teorización de los “Grandes Estados Periféricos”, Samuel Pinheiro Guimarães se convierte en un pensador no obsecuente a las líneas de producción de conocimiento dominantes en los Estudios Internacionales, por ejemplo de Estados Unidos y Reino Unido, y, a la vez, se torna en un insumo obligado para los análisis que desde el Sur global pretenden el tratar el asunto de la Anatomía de Poder Global para desde allí, construir formas institucionales de futuro.
Analysis of NO2 and O3 Air Quality Indices and Forecasting Using Machine Learning Models
Creators: name: Han, Weirong
name: Zhai, Shengjun
name: Guo, Jia
name: Lee, Seungwon
name: Chang, Kai
name: Zhang, Guihongxuan
Publisher: name: UIKTEN
Year: 2018
Subjects: Air Quality Index
Machine Learning
MLP
Linear Regression
RBF

description: SAR Journal; Vol 1, No 3, 2018. ISSN 2619-9955
description: Due to industrialization and urbanization, most of the developing countries now see air pollution as a major health threat, and governments are working hard to monitor and control air pollution. The Air Quality Index (AQI) measures air quality over a given period of time for a given area. The index measures air cleanliness by identifying various toxic chemicals and other particles with negative impacts on public health. Such pollutants can cause irritation or respiratory problems. A large amount of data must be analyzed for air pollutant concentrations to measure air quality. The AQI is a combination of the pollutant concentration expressed as a single number to define air quality and is calculated based on major air pollutants regulated by the Clean Air Act, including ground-level ozone, particle pollution, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and sulfur dioxide. Prolonged consumption of polluted air with harmful pollutants can lead to serious diseases, and air pollutants may harm plants, crops, and animals. Therefore, monitoring and forecasting the AQI is essential for the environment and society. This study uses air quality data from major cities in the U.S. using five machine learning algorithms to forecast primary pollutants including NO2 and O3. The dataset is analyzed and compared for algorithm performance, and the experimental results show that the support vector machine for regression outperforms other algorithms, followed by the radial basis function regression and the multi-layer perceptron.
Additional file 1 of A qualitative study on the adaptation of community programmes for the promotion of early detection and health-seeking of perinatal depression in Nepal
Creators: name: Subba, Prasansa
name: Petersen Williams, Petal
name: Luitel, Nagendra Prasad
name: Jordans, Mark J. D.
name: Breuer, Erica
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Fashion design for the emerging creative economy of Sri Lanka
Creators: name: Senanayake, Ruwandika Jayanie
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: For many years, Sri Lanka’s textiles and apparel (T&A) industry practices were dependent on labour intensive manufacturing for export orders. In the late 1990’s, both government and private industry sectors identified that for Sri Lanka’s T&A industry to expand and to further create revenue there was a need to add value to the production supply chain via fashion design. However at the time, there were no design courses of adequate level to train fashion designers. Identifying the gap in the education system, in 2000, the University of Moratuwa and several private institutions initiated fashion design education, in order to prepare fashion designers to suit the country’s developing creative industry system.

A decade on since the introduction of tertiary level fashion design education, it is estimated that approximately seven hundred fashion/textile designers have graduated. Yet, to date, there has been no investigation conducted or data collected to examine the role of the fashion designer within Sri Lanka’s T&A industry and what their value is to the country’s developing economic system. Therefore, the aims of this research are to address the key questions of: What is the role of the fashion designer in the emerging creative economy of Sri Lanka? How can Sri Lanka achieve a sustainable economic development via fashion design? And is Sri Lanka’s fashion design education meeting the needs of graduates as they transition into the T&A industry?

To address the key questions and discuss the potential of fashion to be a vibrant sustainable creative industry in Sri Lanka, two phases were undertaken with the research. Firstly, a review of existing literature was undertaken, focusing on examining theories of the creative economy and industry, the global fashion system and Sri Lanka’s position within this system. Secondly, data collection was carried out, namely a questionnaire and three case studies. The collection of data was aimed at examining what the fashion designer’s / design education providers’ / private fashion business sector’s contributions would be towards the emerging creative economy of Sri Lanka.

Drawing together all the research and data analyses, this research work has identified that the fashion designer within the Sri Lanka’s system has multiple tasks in applying fashion design in order to build a sustainable fashion industry system for Sri Lanka. A decade on since the initiation of fashion education in the country, the curricula of the education sector has to be reviewed under a common goal and revised to meet the new challenges in the system to adequately prepare future fashion designers to suit the emerging creative economy of the country.
Spelling out the Hyphen: articulations of bicultural identity in three Tibeto-Chinese writers
Creators: name: Tso Rigumi, Wokar
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description:
The relatively liberalised cultural atmosphere of post-Mao late 1980’s China saw the emergence of a generation of writers seeking to reconnect with their ethnic background in a literary movement largely known as “root-seeking literature”. This dissertation explores how three of the most prominent writers of that generation in contemporary Tibet, who share a Tibeto-Chinese ancestry, undertake this journey to define their bicultural identity. It seeks to amend previous descriptions the identities of these writers as an admixture of two cultural identities. Drawing from the concept of hybridity defined by Homi Bhabha, I argue that hybridity is a problematic of indeterminacy of identification through which they then articulate their identity. Adopting the metaphor of the hyphen (-), literally a punctuation mark of conjunction without any content to be spelt out, the study underscores its argument that the cultural identity each Tibeto-Chinese writer articulates can be apprehended in the mode they negotiate their position between the two dominant cultural identifiers and not in the content that is fused. This use of hybridity not only reveals markedly different manifestations of their bicultural identity; but it attests to the theoretical premise of the study to adopt hybridity not as passive description but active articulation.

With his metropolitan sensibilities, Tashi Dawa assumes the satirical stance of a detached observer, to reject the larger markers of social identity and dwell in the individualistic space of the hyphen itself as a cosmopolitan. Woeser conceives of the hyphen in her identity as a divider that splits her selfhood, to reject this in-between status and reclaim a Tibetan identity in a nativist stance. Alai recreates a pseudo-history of his border homeland against the grain of larger nationalist histories and projects his Tibeto-Chinese ancestry as an older creole identity, to negate the hyphen and the cultural-nationalist notions that fracture his identity.
Higher prevalence of cocaine abuse among HIV infected inpatients in a psychiatric hospital
Creators: name: Hamilton, Jane E.
name: Lokesh R.  Shahani
name: Bernstam, Elmer V.
name: Allen, Melissa K.
name: Lane, Scott D.
name: Selek, Salih
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2018

description: Aims: Substance use is associated with poor health outcomes among patients living with HIV infection (PLWH). Our aim in this study is to compare substance abuse rates between HIV infected and uninfected inpatients admitted to a psychiatric hospital.

Methods: Inpatient records of UTHealth Harris County Psychiatric Center between 2012-2013 were reviewed (HSC-MS-14-0274). HIV infected patients were identified using ICD-9 codes and sociodemographic and clinical variables were tabulated including admitting diagnosis.

Results: Of 15969 inpatients, 133 (0.83%) were HIV infected. Majority (66.2 %) were males and the mean admit age for HIV infected patients was 39.72 (± 9.42) years, significantly greater than HIV uninfected patients 33.42 (± 13.39) years [t=-5.415, p<0.0001]. There was not any significant difference between HIV infected patients and non-HIV patients regarding admitting diagnosis (X2=8.549, p=0.201). Mean length of stay for HIV infected patients was 7.23 (± 7.6) days and was significantly lower than HIV uninfected patients 9.12 (± 9.21) days [t=2.843, p=0.005]. There was a significant difference between HIV infected (40.3 %) and uninfected patients (12.3 %) in their cocaine use (X2=51.174, p<0.0001). Cocaine abuse appears to be higher in admitted HIV infected inpatients than other cohort studies (12.5%).

Conclusions: HIV infected patients are admitted with similar admitting diagnoses as compared to HIV uninfected patients but with more prominent cocaine use. Cocaine abuse appears to be higher in our hospital than other reported substance abuse among PLWH studies.