cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
PGRMC1 effects on metabolism, genomic mutation and CpG methylation imply crucial roles in animal biology and disease
Creators: name: Thejer, Bashar M
name: Adhikary, Partho P
name: Teakel, Sarah L
name: Fang, Johnny
name: Weston, Paul A
name: Gurusinghe, Saliya
name: Anwer, Ayad G
name: Gosnell, Martin
name: Jazayeri, Jalal A
name: Ludescher, Marina
name: Gray, Lesley-Ann
name: Pawlak, Michael
name: Wallace, Robyn H
name: Pant, Sameer D
name: Wong, Marie
name: Fischer, Tamas
name: New, Elizabeth J
name: Fehm, Tanja N
name: Neubauer, Hans
name: Goldys, Ewa M
name: Quinn, Jane C
name: Weston, Leslie A
name: Cahill, Michael A
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: Progesterone receptor membrane component 1 (PGRMC1) is often elevated in cancers, and exists in alternative states of phosphorylation. A motif centered on PGRMC1 Y180 was evolutionarily acquired concurrently with the embryological gastrulation organizer that orchestrates vertebrate tissue differentiation. Results: Here, we show that mutagenic manipulation of PGRMC1 phosphorylation alters cell metabolism, genomic stability, and CpG methylation. Each of several mutants elicited distinct patterns of genomic CpG methylation. Mutation of S57A/Y180/S181A led to increased net hypermethylation, reminiscent of embryonic stem cells. Pathways enrichment analysis suggested modulation of processes related to animal cell differentiation status and tissue identity, as well as cell cycle control and ATM/ATR DNA damage repair regulation. We detected different genomic mutation rates in culture. Conclusions: A companion manuscript shows that these cell states dramatically affect protein abundances, cell and mitochondrial morphology, and glycolytic metabolism. We propose that PGRMC1 phosphorylation status modulates cellular plasticity mechanisms relevant to early embryological tissue differentiation.
Reality Testing and Exploring the "Deviant" Third Person Unreliable Narrator in Fiction
Creators: name: Elliott, William
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2016
Subjects: unreliable narration
psychosis
exopolitics

description: The creative artefact, Devin's Nightmare, and the accompanying exegesis explore our understanding of unreliable narrators, with an aim to broaden that understanding within the context of reality's subjectivity as experienced by sufferers of mental illness. Written in third-person, Devin's Nightmare is an experimental novella in both theme and narrative technique, examining the question of whether third-person omniscient point-of-view writing can effectively develop unreliable narration. In a thematic sense, my aim is to accurately depict the unreliability of reality perception for persons undergoing psychotic illnesses. Unlike fiction which is clearly and explicitly "about" mental illness, Devin's break from reality is designed to be ambiguous, employing devices from science fiction / the paranormal, with the aim of leading the reader through a process of "reality testing" common to persons undergoing psychosis. Methodologically, although the artefact's construction was process-driven, I have employed practice-led research with the aim of refining understanding of unreliable narration within narrative writing practice. The exegesis provides an examination of more familiar uses of unreliable narration via novels by Irvine Welsh (Filth and Marabou Stork Nightmares), as well as an examination of two third-person omniscient novels - John Gardner's Mickelsson's Ghosts and Janet Frame's A State of Siege - which show some traits of unreliable narration (although they are not often described as unreliable narration). In addition, the exegesis extrapolates and summarises the themes and techniques employed in the artefact to demonstrate contributions to knowledge for creative writing practitioners, as well as to promote a greater understanding of the effect psychosis can have on the perceptions of reality for those undergoing it.
Additional file 1 of Selective depletion of Campylobacter jejuni via T6SS dependent functionality: an approach for improving chickens gut health
Creators: name: Gupta, Subhadeep
name: Biswas, Prakash
name: Das, Bishnu
name: Mondal, Samiran
name: Gupta, Parna
name: Das, Dipjyoti
name: Mallick, Amirul Islam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
Additional file 3 of Tracing the genetic history of the ‘Cañaris’ from Ecuador and Peru using uniparental DNA markers
Creators: name: Sandoval, José R.
name: Lacerda, Daniela R.
name: Marilza M. S. Jota
name: Robles-Ruiz, Paulo
name: Danos, Pierina
name: Paz-Y-Miño, César
name: Wells, Spencer
name: Fabrício R. Santos
name: Fujita, Ricardo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Diversity indices for 15 the Y-STR haplotypes among 10 populations studied. n = sample size; K = number of haplotypes; N Y-15 STRs = number of 15 Y-STR polymorphic markers; h = haplotypic diversity; MPD = mean number of pairwise differences; SD = standard deviation.
Indigenous business ventures and contemporary business planning on South Goulburn Island
Creators: name: Bohl-van den Boogaard, Thalia
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2015
Subjects: Indigenous business planning
Indigenous business ventures
Indigenous cultural and social factors

description: Many Indigenous ventures, which are merely partly Indigenous owned and operated, eventually fail due of lack of alignment with their aspirations and knowledge when the business is set up and because approaches used to establish Indigenous enterprises are often non-participatory. This research explores Indigenous ventures established in the past, their success factors and constraints, and the contemporary planning process of an aquaculture venture on South Goulburn Island. The study furthermore looks at cultural and social factors important to current business planning from the perspective of the residents. This research uses a case study methodology underpinned by document analysis, scripted and unstructured interviews and participant observation and is based on a Critical Theory paradigm. Findings show that two previous ventures, the Kava Shop and Mardbalk Arts and Culture (MAC), were created around cultural and social factors that suited the community dynamics such as avoiding kinship relations during business transactions and providing funds for residents to attend cultural obligations. The MAC to this day provides the opportunity for residents to earn income while not interfering with lifestyle or social commitments, as artists can produce art when and where it is most convenient to them. A past aquaculture venture on South Goulburn Island was abandoned in its planning stages because only a few Indigenous residents aspired to this venture and the process was largely externally driven. Findings from a contemporary aquaculture business planning approach reveal that the older generation has a nostalgic relation to aquaculture while the younger generation is more focused on earning wages. Participants also had different views on whether the business should be communally owned or consist of smaller individual businesses. This research argues that historically, ventures that take into account hybrid economies (combining cultural and economic factors) have been successful and should be continued, and furthermore aspirations of all participants, including different age groups and social status of residents should be taken into account in contemporary business planning.
Those About to Die Salute You: Sacrifice, the War in Iraq, and the Crisis of the American Imperial Society
Creators: name: Olsen, Florian B.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: empire
imperialism
imperial society
Iraq war narratives
Iraq war testimonies
War in Iraq
War in Iraq, domestic aspects
crisis
Christophe Charle
Pierre Bourdieu
Bourdieu and international relations
citizenship
Stuart Hall
Stuart Hall and international relations
US empire
American empire
sociology of American empire
military service
military sociology
media

description: This dissertation produces the first attempt to bring the work of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and the political theory literature on citizenship into dialogue with the scholarship on American empire in the field of International Relations (IR). It explores how the United States’ quest for global pre-eminence, mirrored by the war in Iraq, reveals and exacerbates the social wounds at the seams of American society. To do this, it introduces three new concepts to the field of International Relations. It builds on historian Christophe Charle’s sociological framework of “imperial society” and “national habitus” (2001, 2004 and 2005) and introduces an original concept, the field of citizenship, to examine social conflict over the distribution of military sacrifice amongst citizens in the United States. Finally, it explores these tensions by looking at multiple documentary sources, including over 200 newspaper articles, 60 testimonies about the war from soldiers and their relatives, congressional documents, and military manpower policies.
Additional file 2 of Tracing the genetic history of the ‘Cañaris’ from Ecuador and Peru using uniparental DNA markers
Creators: name: Sandoval, José R.
name: Lacerda, Daniela R.
name: Marilza M. S. Jota
name: Robles-Ruiz, Paulo
name: Danos, Pierina
name: Paz-Y-Miño, César
name: Wells, Spencer
name: Fabrício R. Santos
name: Fujita, Ricardo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. The RST matrix (lower diagonal) and their statistical probabilities (upper diagonal) among the 10 populations, according to Arlequin v3.5.1.2 program, based on the 15 Y-STR haplotypes.
Postdoctoral fellowships in physical education and sport sciences/kinesiology: an international investigation of structures and experiences
Creators: name: Harding-Kuriger, Jodi
name: Beni, Stephanie
name: Lorusso, Jenna
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 4207
subject: Sports science and exercise

description: Postdoctoral fellowships (PDFs) are becoming increasingly common yet remain nebulous to many. The purpose of this research has been to investigate the structures and experiences of PDFs for fellows and supervisors in physical education and sport sciences/kinesiology (PESSK) internationally. Fourteen fellows and five supervisors participated in one-to-one semi-structured interviews. Data were thematically analyzed and interpreted through Dewey’s theory of experience. Findings revealed participants understood PDFs in relation to doctoral education and as preparation for academic careers. Reasons for engaging included ambitions for new contexts and mentorship, unprepared or unable to secure faculty employment, and facilitating professional learning. Challenges related to low salaries, family considerations, structural and institutional obstacles, international barriers, and high turnover. Perceived values included professional and personal growth and fellows as a learning, relationship, and productivity resource for supervisors. This research holds important implications for postdocs, supervisors, institutions, and funding agencies in supporting early-career scholarship in PESSK.
Study protocol: NeoCLEAR: Neonatal Champagne Lumbar punctures Every time – An RCT: a multicentre, randomised controlled 2 × 2 factorial trial to investigate techniques to increase lumbar puncture success
Creators: name: Marshall, Andrew S J
name: Sadarangani, Manish
name: Scrivens, Alexandra
name: Williams, Rachel
name: Yong, Jean
name: Bowler, Ursula
name: Linsell, Louise
name: Chiocchia, Virginia
name: Bell, Jennifer L
name: Stokes, Caz
name: Santhanadass, Patricia
name: Adams, Eleri
name: Juszczak, Edmund
name: Roehr, Charles C
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: The neonatal period carries the highest risk of bacterial meningitis (~ 1 in 5000 births), bearing high mortality (~ 10%) and morbidity (20–50%) rates. Lumbar puncture (LP) remains essential to the diagnosis of meningitis. Though LP is a common procedure in neonates, success rates are lower (50–60%) than in other patient populations. None of the currently-practised neonatal LP techniques are supported by evidence from adequately-powered, randomised controlled trials (RCTs). NeoCLEAR aims to compare two modifications to the traditional technique which are free, accessible, and commonly practised: sitting (as opposed to lying) position, and ‘early’ (as opposed to ‘late’) stylet removal. Methods/design Written parental informed consent permitting, infants in neonatal/maternity wards, of 27⁺ ⁰ to 44⁺ ⁰ weeks corrected gestational age and weighing ≥1000 g, who require an LP, will be randomly allocated to sitting or lying position, and to early or late stylet removal. The co-primary objectives are to compare success rates (the proportion of infants with cerebrospinal fluid red cell count < 10,000/mm³ on first LP procedure) in 1020 infants between the two positions, and between the two methods of stylet removal. Secondary outcomes relate to LP procedures, complications, diagnoses of meningitis, duration of antibiotics and hospital stay. A modified intention-to-treat analysis will be conducted. Discussion Two modifications to the traditional LP technique (sitting vs lying position; and early vs late stylet removal) will be simultaneously investigated in an efficient and appropriately-powered 2 × 2 factorial RCT design. Analysis will identify the optimal techniques (in terms of obtaining easily-interpretable cerebrospinal fluid), as well as the impact on infants, parents and healthcare systems whilst providing robust safety data. Using a pragmatic RCT design, all practitioners will be trained in all LP techniques, but there will inevitably be variation between unit practice guidelines and other aspects of individual care. An improved LP technique would result in: • Fewer uninterpretable samples, repeated attempts and procedures • Reduced distress for infants and families • Decreased antibiotic use and risk of antibiotic resistance • Reduced healthcare costs due to fewer procedures, reduced length of stay, shorter antibiotic courses, and minimised antibiotic-associated complications Trial registration ISRCTN14040914. Date assigned: 26/06/2018.
Supplementary document for Semi-transparent 3D microelectrodes buried in fused silica for photonics applications - 5278337.pdf
Creators: name: Criante, Luigino
name: Guduru, Sameer
name: Bucella, Sadir
name: bonfadini, silvio
name: Vishnubhatla, Krishna
name: Caironi, Mario
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Cross-section intensity profiles of the microchannels between the vertical electrodes
The Mythology of the Small Community in Eight American and Canadian Short Story Cycles
Creators: name: Kealey, Josephene
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Short Story Cycle
American Literature
Canadian Literature
Small Community
Small Town
Duncan Campbell Scott
Stephen Leacock
George Elliott
Alice Munro
Sarah Orne Jewett
Sherwood Anderson
John Cheever
Joyce Carol Oates
Twentieth Century

description: Scholarship has firmly established that the short story cycle is well-suited to representations of community. This study considers eight North American examples of the genre: four by Canadian authors Stephen Leacock, Duncan Campbell Scott, George Elliott, and Alice Munro; and four by American authors Sarah Orne Jewett, Sherwood Anderson, John Cheever, and Joyce Carol Oates. My original idea was to discover whether there were significant differences between the Canadian and American cycles, but ultimately I became far more interested in the way that all of the cycles address community formation and disintegration. The focus of each cycle is a small community, whether a small town, a village, or a suburb. In all of the examples, the authors address the small community as the focus of anxiety, concern, criticism, and praise, with special attention to the way in which, despite its manifold failings, the small community continues to inspire longings for the ideal home and source of identity. The narrative feature that ultimately provided the critical framework for the study is the recurring presence of the metropolis in all of the eight cycles. The city, set on the horizons of these small communities, consistently provides a backdrop against which author and characters seem to measure and understand their lives. Always an influence (whether for good or bad), the city’s presence is constructed as the other against which the small community’s identity is formulated and understood. The relationship between small community and city led me to an investigation into the mythology of the small community, a mythology that sets the small community in opposition to the city, portraying the former as the keeper of virtue and the latter as the disseminator of vice. The cycles themselves, as I increasingly discovered, challenge the mythology by identifying how the small community depends, in large part, on the city for self-understanding. The small community, however, as an idea, and a mythic ideal, is never dismissed as obsolete or irrelevant.
Additional file 6 of Tracing the genetic history of the ‘Cañaris’ from Ecuador and Peru using uniparental DNA markers
Creators: name: Sandoval, José R.
name: Lacerda, Daniela R.
name: Marilza M. S. Jota
name: Robles-Ruiz, Paulo
name: Danos, Pierina
name: Paz-Y-Miño, César
name: Wells, Spencer
name: Fabrício R. Santos
name: Fujita, Ricardo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6: Table S6. Diversity indices and neutrality tests for each population using 379 mitochondrial sequences of the control region for the four maternal lineages (A2, B2, C1, D1). n = sample size; K = number of haplotypes; h = haplotypic diversity; S = number of polymorphic sites; π = nucleotide diversity (average over all loci); D = Neutrality Tajima’s D test; Fs = Fu’s Fu test; p = probability.
Supplementary document for Semi-transparent 3D microelectrodes buried in fused silica for photonics applications - 5278337.pdf
Creators: name: Criante, Luigino
name: Guduru, Sameer
name: Bucella, Sadir
name: bonfadini, silvio
name: Vishnubhatla, Krishna
name: Caironi, Mario
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Cross-section intensity profiles of the microchannels between the vertical electrodes
Competition, efficiency and Bank Stability – an Empirical study of the East Asian commercial banks
Creators: name: Phan, Hien Thu
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2017
Subjects: bank stability
bank efficiency
bank competition
SFA
DEA
Z-score
Lerner
the sub-sampling bootstrap
system GMM

description: This thesis focuses on banking sector efficiency, competition and stability in East Asia. Since the late 1980s, the banking systems of East Asia have gone through significant changes that have led to improvements in the services provided. Despite these improvements, the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 and the global financial crisis (GFC) of 2008-2009 heightened concerns, from both researchers and policy makers, about the stability of East Asian financial markets. Using data from 2004 to 2014 and employing panel data regression techniques, I examine the effect of competition and efficiency on bank stability in the East Asian economies. The thesis starts with measurement of cost efficiency, competition, and stability of the commercial banks in East Asia. Cost efficiency is estimated using both Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Unlike most existing studies, in this research I have used the sub-sampling bootstrap method to correct for the bias involved in the measurement of cost efficiency using DEA. The efficiency scores estimated by SFA were found to be higher than those estimated by DEA. Spearman's rank order correlation coefficient between the SFA and DEA scores suggests a moderate degree of consistency in the ranking of banks. Three alternative specifications of Lerner indices (the conventional, the efficiency-adjusted and the funding-adjusted Lerner indices) were used to measure the level of competition. The conventional Lerner indices estimates were found to be much lower than the efficiency-adjusted and funding-adjusted Lerner indices. Z-scores and risk-adjusted returns were used as indicators of bank stability. The empirical results suggest that the Vietnamese banking system is the least stable.
Integration of High Efficiency Solar Cells on Carriers for Concentrating System Applications
Creators: name: Chow, Simon Ka Ming
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Multi-junction Solar Cell
Solar Concentrator
Solar Receiver
Receiver Thermal Management
XT-30 High Power Solar Concentrator

description: High efficiency multi-junction (MJ) solar cells were packaged onto receiver systems. The efficiency change of concentrator cells under continuous high intensity illumination was done. Also, assessment of the receiver design on the overall performance of a Fresnel-type concentration system was investigated. We present on receiver designs including simulation results of their three-dimensional thermal operation and experimental results of tested packaged receivers to understand their efficiency in real world operation. Thermal measurements from solar simulators were obtained and used to calibrate the model in simulations. The best tested efficiency of 36.5% is obtained on a sample A receiver under 260 suns concentration by the XT-30 solar simulator and the corresponding cell operating temperature is ~30.5°C. The optimum copper thickness of a 5 cm by 5 cm simulated alumina receiver design was determined to be 6 mm and the corresponding cell temperature under 1000 suns concentration is ~36°C during operation.
Optimum Ordering for Coded V-BLAST
Creators: name: Uriarte Toboso, Alain
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: MIMO
V-BLAST
Ordering
Waterfilling
Capacity
Detection
Zero-Forcing
capacity achieving temporal codes
IPA
URA
IRA
IPRA
Optimum

description: The optimum ordering strategies for the coded V-BLAST system with capacity achieving temporal codes on each stream are studied in this thesis. Mathematical representations of the optimum detection ordering strategies for the coded V-BLAST under instantaneous rate allocation (IRA), uniform power/rate allocation (URA), instantaneous power allocation(IPA) and instantaneous power/rate allocation (IPRA) are derived. For two transmit antennas, it is shown that the optimum detection strategies are based on the per-stream before-processing channel gains. Based on approximations of the per-stream capacity equation, closed-form expressions of the optimal ordering strategy under the IRA at low and high signal to noise ratio (SNR) are derived. Necessary optimality conditions under the IRA are given. Thresholds for the low, intermediate and high SNR regimes in the 2-Tx-antenna system under the IPRA are determined, and the SNR gain of the ordering is studied for each regime. Performances of simple suboptimal ordering strategies are analysed, some of which perform very close to the optimum one.
Additional file 5 of Tracing the genetic history of the ‘Cañaris’ from Ecuador and Peru using uniparental DNA markers
Creators: name: Sandoval, José R.
name: Lacerda, Daniela R.
name: Marilza M. S. Jota
name: Robles-Ruiz, Paulo
name: Danos, Pierina
name: Paz-Y-Miño, César
name: Wells, Spencer
name: Fabrício R. Santos
name: Fujita, Ricardo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Table S5. The ϕst matrix (lower diagonal) and their statistical probabilities (upper diagonal) among 10 populations, according to Arlequin v3.5.1.2. program, based on control region mtDNA analysis.
Development of a health promotion model and the impact evaluation of the model on practitioners' health promotion practice
Creators: name: Gregg, Jane A
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2012
Subjects: health promotion models
health promotion values and principles
impact evaluation
critical systems theory

description: Health promotion is a critical applied discipline aimed at addressing complex health issues and inequities in the health of people individually and collectively at local and global levels. Practitioners are expected to understand and respond to multiple interrelated determinants of health. This requires the ability to plan, implement, and evaluate health promotion programs that are more complex and multifaceted than ever, and to work explicitly with the values and principles important to modern health promotion. The influence of values and principles in shaping health promotion practice and research is well recognised. However, this research established a lack of consensus in the health promotion field about what the core health promotion values and principles were, a gap between those espoused in modern and traditional health promotion approaches, and limited guidance in existing health promotion models on how to use them in practice. A continuum of values and principles reflected in traditional through to modern health promotion approaches was developed. The need for a new model of health promotion that incorporated the values and principles of modern health promotion that practitioners could use to understand health and sustainability, and across needs assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation phases of the health promotion process was established. The aim of this research was to develop a new model of modern health promotion underpinned by a values and principles system, and evaluate the impact of this model on health practitioners' health promotion practice. A constructivist epistemology, critical theory, and critical systems theory (CST) were the theoretical foundations that guided the research process, conducted over two phases.
Fatigue performance of steel structures retrofitted with CFRP composites
Creators: name: Emdad, Reza
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Reza’s research focused on strengthening fatigue-prone steel structural members by using carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) patches. Extensive experimental and numerical simulations were carried out to investigate the effectiveness of CFRP in restoring and enhancing the fatigue life of damaged members. The effect applying prestressed patches to members was also investigated and the results showed significant improvement in performance. The work involved the development of an innovative and practical device to prestress patches and applying them to real structures. Reza has won the Griffith Hack IP award at the Swinburne Innovation Cup for this development. The research outcome can be applied in the repair and retrofit of steel structures such as bridges, buildings offshore platforms and mining booms that are prone to fatigue fracture.
Additional file 1 of Considerations for the design of nutrition-sensitive production programmes in rural South Africa
Creators: name: Hendriks, S. L.
name: A. Viljoen
name: D. Marais
name: F. A. M. Wenhold
name: A. M. McIntyre
name: M. S. Ngidi
name: J. G. Annandale
name: M. Kalaba
name: D. Stewart
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 1. Survey Questionnaire
Supplementary document for Experimental demonstration of superresolution of partially coherent light sources using parity sorting - 5278451.pdf
Creators: name: Wadood, Sultan Abdul
name: Liang, Kevin
name: Zhou, Yiyu
name: Yang, Jing
name: Alonso, Miguel
name: Qian, Xiao-Feng
name: Malhotra, Tanya
name: RAFSANJANI, Mohammad HASHEMI
name: Jordan, Andrew
name: Boyd, Robert
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This document provides derivation of equations in the main text, and details of image processing.
History and Critique of Restorative Justice Policy and Practice in the Queensland Criminal Justice System
Creators: name: Price, Stephanie
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: restorative justice
subject: conferencing
subject: Queensland
subject: history
subject: First Nations
subject: policy
subject: process evaluation
subject: return-to-court
subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law

description: The historical development, implementation and outcomes of restorative justice policy and practice in the Queensland criminal justice system are explored in this thesis. Restorative justice is a process that provides an opportunity for all those affected by a crime to meet to discuss the offence, to determine a means to repair the harms it created, while helping to reintegrate the offender back into the community. Both Australian and international literature has shown that these programs can produce significant benefits to victims, offenders, and their communities, including high levels of participant satisfaction, reductions in recidivism and increased participant support networks (e.g., Strang et al., 2013; Suzuki & Yuan, 2021; Wong et al., 2016). As such, these programs have received substantial interest, with a considerable body of academic research and critical debate ensuing. However, much of this work has related to international restorative justice programs, with a significant focus on outcomes and applications in the youth justice sector – although, recent studies have begun to explore how these programs function and applications for adults who offend. There remain substantial gaps in the knowledge and understanding of the development and implementation of restorative justice policy and practice for both justice-involved youth and adults.
description: To address these gaps in knowledge, a case study methodology was used to answer three research questions: (1) How has restorative justice been implemented in Queensland, and why? (2) How is restorative justice currently being applied? and (3) How could restorative justice practice in Queensland be improved to optimise benefits for all stakeholders? The findings were used to identify transferrable lessons for similar jurisdictions where restorative justice programs have also been used in response to crime (e.g., New Zealand; see Weatherburn & Macadam, 2013) and contribute to existing knowledge of restorative justice more broadly.
Stress, ketamine and mental disorder: changing the brain, changing the treatment, changing the paradigm
Creators: name: Dutton, Megan
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: stress
subject: depression
subject: suicidality
subject: biomarker
subject: imaging
subject: Thompson Institute Special Collection
subject: Neuroimaging
subject: Ketamine
subject: Suicide prevention
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Mental disorders have severe health and socioeconomic consequences1, indicating an urgent need to understand the neurobiological basis and identify more effective pharmacological treatments. In this PhD candidature, stress related pathology is posited as an underpinning mechanism of major depressive disorder (MDD) and associated chronic suicidality and the rapid acting, brain changing drug, ketamine, is examined as an effective prototype treatment targeting the purported psychopathology.
description: Stress paradigms and the experience of stress are commonly utilised in models of emerging mental illness. Furthermore, neurobiological systems are implicated as the intermediary link between the experience of psychological stress and the development of mental disorders2. The studies presented here further examine specific stress modulating neurobiological and neurochemical systems, which underpin the stress-related deleterious structural and functional brain changes observed in disorders such as MDD. These changes may contribute not only to the development of disorders, but also to the treatment resistance and chronicity seen in some of our most challenging mental disorders, including depression and suicidality.
description: This PhD presents evidence for stress related pathology as the underlying driver of mental disorders such as MDD and how oral ketamine treatment, which enables rapid shifts in symptoms and robust recovery, promotes fundamental recovery processes that ameliorate the impacts of chronic stress on the brain. The approach undertaken within this PhD examines a potential paradigm shift towards more personalised and effective treatments for intractable mental illnesses. Data from the Oral Ketamine Trial on Suicidality (OKTOS) (see section 1.3 and Appendix) which ran between August 2018 and October 2019, is utilised in this study and chronic suicidality is considered as an example of a stress induced mental disorder.
Biogasanlagen
Creators: name: Fendler, Roland
name: Hermann, Tim
name: Reuter, Malte
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biogas
subject: Biogasanlage
subject: Anlagensicherheit
subject: Sicherheitstechnik
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum

description: In Biogasanlagen wird aus pflanzlichem oder tierischem Material mit Hilfe von Bakterien der erneuerbare Energieträger Biogas gewonnen. Im Jahr 2016 haben die in Deutschland betriebenen Biogasanlagen fast 32 Gigawattstunden Strom erzeugt und damit 5,3 % des Stromverbrauchs in Deutschland gedeckt.So begrüßenswert die Energiegewinnung aus erneuerbaren Energien ist, Biogasanlagen sind komplexe Industrieanlagen mit erheblichem Risikopotential, weil in Biogasanlagen erhebliche Mengen extrem entzündbare und klimaschädliche Gase erzeugt, gespeichert und umgesetzt werden. Außerdem sind in Biogasanlagen erhebliche Volumina allgemein wassergefährdender Stoffe in Form von Gülle, Substraten oder Gärresten vorhanden. Trotz dieses Risikopotentials wurden bisher keine ausreichenden, rechtsverbindlichen Anforderungen zum Schutz von Mensch und Umwelt für die Errichtung und den sicheren Betrieb von Biogasanlagen festgelegt.Im Hintergrundpapier „Biogasanlagen – Sicherheitstechnische Aspekte und Umweltauswirkungen“ des Umweltbundesamtes werden die Gefahren für Umwelt und Gesundheit, die von Biogasanlagen ausgehen, dargestellt. Das ⁠UBA⁠ schlägt vor, diese Probleme durch eine „Biogasanlagenverordnung“ zu vermeiden.Sollten Sie beim Download der PDF-Datei Probleme haben, versuchen Sie es bitte mit einem anderen Internetbrowser.
The Role of Aluminate in the Activation of Catalytic Systems for Ethylene Oligomerization
Creators: name: Alzamly, Ahmed
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Oligomerization

description: The reaction mechanisms followed by ethylene polymerization and selective oligomerization (tri- and tetramerization) are conceptually very different, being a non-redox chain growth and a redox metallacycle ring expansion pathway respectively. With chromium being the metal of choice, metal oxidation states and the variation of ancillary ligand able to support specific metal oxidation states responsible for selective trimerization, tetramerization or nonselective oligomerization/polymerization were varied. In this research project we have explored a broad range of novel pyridine containing modified PN ligand scaffolds with the aim of probing the role of the pyridine donor substituent in stabilizing lower oxidation states and ultimately affecting the selectivity of the ethylene in the catalytic cycle. In this study, pyridine PNP pincer ligands in conjunction with chromium salts and alkylaluminium activators have been explored. Their catalytic activities toward ethylene oligomerization were rationalized through the isolation of different chromium-aluminate intermediates in different oxidation states during the catalytic reaction. Moreover, we explored other pyridine modification of NNP type ligand. Its anionic ligand shows a rare example of a Cr(II) hydride cluster which shows a high activity as a nonselective ethylene oligomerization catalyst. Finally, a cyclic PNPN type ligand was explored. The ligand enabled the isolation of a mix-valent Cr(I)/Cr(II) species which was found to be inactive toward ethylene oligomerization due to its geometric constraint.
‘Convergence’ as an example of a medium scale acephalous group exploring ways to reduce structural violence
Creators: name: MacGill, Victor
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2017
Subjects: systems theory
futures
metaphor
acephalous
structural violence

description: Dominance-based hierarchies have become the prevailing organisational structure today. Those at the top of the hierarchy have power and resources to control those below. They fit within a wider framework of a worldview that prioritises profits over human well-being1. Structural violence is therefore built into the fabric of the paradigm. We have become so accustomed to top-down dominance hierarchies that alternatives are rarely even considered. Most people simply accept that there will always be leaders and followers. These dominance hierarchies are at the core of an ideology that has led to enormous wealth for a few, but poverty for many millions; environmental degradation; oppression; wars; refugee migrations and so much more. There is a need to develop more humane ways to organise ourselves that are more life sustaining, and which reduce structural violence. The peer to peer movement is promoting different forms of commons based projects enabling the free co-operation of equals without any intermediary body taking control. They include work/housing/food co-operatives, intentional communities, computer based networks like Wikipedia, Creative Commons Licence, Occupy Wall Street, and the Arab Spring.
Addressing quadruple aims through primary care and public health collaboration: ten Canadian case studies
Creators: name: Valaitis, Ruta K.
name: Wong, Sabrina T.
name: MacDonald, Marjorie
name: Martin-Misener, Ruth
name: O’Mara, Linda
name: Meagher-Stewart, Donna
name: Isaacs, Sandy
name: Murray, Nancy
name: Baumann, Andrea
name: Burge, Fred
name: Green, Michael
name: Kaczorowski, Janusz
name: Savage, Rachel
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: Health systems in Canada and elsewhere are at a crossroads of reform in response to rising economic and societal pressures. The Quadruple Aim advocates for: improving patient experience, reducing cost, advancing population health and improving the provider experience. It is at the forefront of Canadian reform debates aimed to improve a complex and often-fragmented health care system. Concurrently, collaboration between primary care and public health has been the focus of current research, looking for integrated community-based primary health care models that best suit the health needs of communities and address health equity. This study aimed to explore the nature of Canadian primary care - public health collaborations, their aims, motivations, activities, collaboration barriers and enablers, and perceived outcomes. Methods: Ten case studies were conducted in three provinces (Nova Scotia, Ontario, and British Columbia) to elucidate experiences of primary care and public health collaboration in different settings, contexts, populations and forms. Data sources included a survey using the Partnership Self-Assessment Tool, focus groups, and document analysis. This provided an opportunity to explore how primary care and public health collaboration could serve in transforming community-based primary health care with the potential to address the Quadruple Aims. Results: Aims of collaborations included: provider capacity building, regional vaccine/immunization management, community-based health promotion programming, and, outreach to increase access to care. Common precipitators were having a shared vision and/or community concern. Barriers and enablers differed among cases. Perceived barriers included ineffective communication processes, inadequate time for collaboration, geographic challenges, lack of resources, and varying organizational goals and mandates. Enablers included clear goals, trusting and inclusive relationships, role clarity, strong leadership, strong coordination and communication, and optimal use of resources. Cases achieved outcomes addressing the Q-Aims such as improving access to services, addressing population health through outreach to at-risk populations, reducing costs through efficiencies, and improving provider experience through capacity building. Conclusions: Primary care and public health collaborations can strengthen community-based primary health care while addressing the Quadruple Aims with an emphasis on reducing health inequities but requires attention to collaboration barriers and enablers.
Regenerative Futures: Environmental and Social Transformation Pathways for Urban Communities
Creators: name: Camrass, Kimberly
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: regeneration
subject: futures
subject: strategic foresight
subject: urban
subject: transformation
subject: causal layered analysis
subject: worldviews
subject: metaphors
subject: natural systems
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Other built environment and design
subject: Climate change impacts and adaptation

description: In the face of complex environmental and social challenges, sustainable development approaches have sought to mitigate the impacts of human behaviour. They are, however, mostly underpinned by a reductionist and anthropocentric worldview in which humans are considered as separate from, rather than embedded within natural systems (Du Plessis, 2012). In contrast, regenerative approaches, including regenerative design and regenerative development, move beyond harm neutralisation as an aspirational objective (Reed, 2007). These fields represent a paradigmatic shift, repositioning the role of community planning and design in a pursuit of net-positive environmental and social outcomes. Critically, they place a living systems worldview at their core to focus on the potential for human behaviour to contribute to the self-healing properties of nature. Whilst much of the messaging around climate change and other pressing environmental issues can evoke feelings of futility or overwhelm, regenerative approaches replace these with galvanising images of possibility.
Additional file 1 of STARR-seq identifies active, chromatin-masked, and dormant enhancers in pluripotent mouse embryonic stem cells
Creators: name: Tianran Peng
name: Yanan Zhai
name: Atlasi, Yaser
name: Huurne, Menno Ter
name: Marks, Hendrik
name: Stunnenberg, Hendrik G.
name: Megchelenbrink, Wout
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Quality assessment and chromatin-based classification of STARR-seq (lacking) loci. Figure S2. TCF3 and ZIC3 are associated with STARR-seq peaks induced in 2iL- and SLESCs respectively. Figure S3. C2-loci are active STARR-seq regions due to the absence of DNA methylation and repressive histone modifications. Figure S4. P53-bound STARR-seq loci are characterized by low chromatin accessibility and are categorized into active (class C1) and inactive enhancers (class C2) based on the presence/absence of active histone modifications.
Supplementary document for In situ detection of electrochemical reaction by weak measurement - 5278504.pdf
Creators: name: Liu, Le
name: Li, Zhangyan
name: Xu, Yang
name: Ma, Kaijie
name: Xi, Jingyu
name: Guan, Tian
name: Li, Fuying
name: Chongqi, Zhou
name: zhong, suyi
name: He, Yonghong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document
Evaluating Diet Quality of Canadian Adults Using Health Canada’s Surveillance Tool Tier System: Findings from the 2015 Canadian Community Health Survey-Nutrition
Creators: name: Hack, Salma
name: Jessri, Mahsa
name: L’Abbé, Mary R.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: The 2014 Health Canada’s Surveillance Tool, Tier System (HCST) is a nutrient profiling model developed to evaluate adherence of food choices to dietary recommendations. With the recent release of the nationally representative Canadian Community Health Survey-Nutrition (CCHS-N) 2015, this study used HCST to evaluate nutritional quality of the dietary intakes of Canadians in the CCHS-N. Dietary intakes were ascertained using 24-hour dietary recalls from Canadians adults ≥19 years (N = 13,605). Foods were categorized into four Tiers based on degree of adherence to dietary recommendations according to thresholds for sodium, total fat, saturated fats, and sugars. Tier 1 and Tier 2 represented “recommended foods”, Tier 3 represents foods to “choose less often”, and Tier 4 represented foods “not recommended”. Across all dietary reference intakes (DRI) groups, most foods were categorized as Tier 1 for Vegetable and Fruits (2.2–3.8 servings/day), Tier 2 for Grain Products (2.9–3.4 servings/day), Tier 3 for Milk and Alternatives (0.7–1 serving/day) or for Meat and Alternatives (1.1–1.6 servings/day). Consumption of foods from Tier 4 and “other foods” such as high fat/sugary foods, sugar-sweetened beverages, and alcohol, represented 24–26% and 21–23% kcal/day, for males and females, respectively. Canadians are eating more foods categorized as Tier 1–3, rather than Tier 4. Adults with the highest intakes of Tier 4 and “other foods” had lower intakes of macronutrients and increased body mass index. These findings can be used by policy makers to assist in identifying targets for food reformulation at the nutrient level and quantitative guidance to support healthy food choices.