cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
High-resolution method for numerically solving PDEs in process engineering
Creators: name: Zhang, Tonghua
name: Tadé, Moses O.
name: Tian, Yu Chu
name: Zang, Hong
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Abrupt phenomena in modelling real-world systems indicate the importance of investigating systems with steep gradients. However, it is difficult to solve such systems either analytically or numerically. In 1993, Koren developed a high-resolution numerical computing scheme to deal with compressible fluid dynamics with Dirichlet boundary condition. Recently, Qamar adapted this scheme to numerically solve population balance equations without diffusion terms. This paper extends Koren's scheme for partial differential equations (PDEs) that describe both nonlinear propagation and diffusive effects, and for PDEs with Cauchy or Neumann boundary condition. Accurate and convergent numerical solutions to the test problems have been obtained. The new results are also compared to those obtained by wavelet-based methods. It is shown that the method developed in this paper is more efficient.
Prevalence and determinants of alcohol use among adolescents in post-conflict Liberia
Creators: name: Onyeaka, Henry K.
name: Asante, Kwaku Oppong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Alcohol use remains a major public health concern among youths worldwide because of its deleterious effects on physical and mental health. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and correlates of alcohol use and misuse among adolescents in Liberia. Using the 2017 Liberia Global School-Based Student Health Survey (GSHS), 2,744 adolescents aged 11–18 years responded to the 2017 cross-sectional survey. Students responded to questions on sociodemographic factors, substance use, psychological distress, and other health risk behaviors. Logistic regression was employed to study the relationship between alcohol use variables and socio-demographic characteristic, mental health problems, psychosocial variables, and parental involvement. The prevalence of alcohol use behaviors was 24.9% and 20.11% for current alcohol use and lifetime drunkenness, respectively. Significant risk factors for alcohol use include personal and lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, sexual behavior, having been physically attacked, substance use (methamphetamine and cannabis), and truancy. These findings underscore the need for screening and early intervention policies to identify adolescents who may be at risk of misusing alcohol.
Stability and multiple bifurcations of a damped harmonic oscillator with delayed feedback near zero eigenvalue singularity
Creators: name: Song, Yongli
name: Zhang, Tonghua
name: Tad, Moses O.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We investigate the dynamics of a damped harmonic oscillator with delayed feedback near zero eigenvalue singularity. We perform a linearized stability analysis and multiple bifurcations of the zero solution of the system near zero eigenvalue singularity. Taking the time delay as the bifurcation parameter, the presence of steady-state bifurcation, Bogdanov-Takens bifurcation, triple zero, and Hopf-zero singularities is demonstrated. In the case when the system has a simple zero eigenvalue, center manifold reduction and normal form theory are used to investigate the stability and the types of steady-state bifurcation. The stability of the zero solution of the system near the simple zero eigenvalue singularity is completely solved.
Suppiluliumaella Elliott 1968
Creators: name: Bucur, Ioan I.
name: Granier, Bruno
name: Krajewski, Marcin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Chlorophyta
Ulvophyceae
Dasycladales
Dasycladaceae
Suppiluliumaella

description: Genus Suppiluliumaella Elliott 1968
 Suppiluliumaella delphica (Carras, 1989) Senowbari-Daryan et al., 1994
Fig.12 a-f
 This dasycladalean alga was assigned by Carras (1989) with doubt to Clypeina. Senowbari et al. (1994) transferred the species to Suppiluliumaella based on the presence of short secondary laterals in a few specimens.
 This feature is rarely present, mainly due to common erosion of the outer surface of the calcareous skeleton, but probably also to the incomplete calcification of the distal part of the laterals. We also assume the presence of short secondary laterals in the case of the specimen illustrated in Fig. 12 f (arrow). We identified S. delphica in Kimmeridgian-Tithonian limestones from the Ay-Petri and Yalta massifs.
description: Published as part of Bucur, Ioan I., Granier, Bruno & Krajewski, Marcin, 2014, Calcareous Algae, Microbial Structures And Microproblematica From Upper Jurassic-Lowermost Cretaceous Limestones Of Southern Crimea, pp. 1-2 in Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 10 (1 - 2) on page 74, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13190217
A query system for XML data stream and its semanticsbased buffer reduction
Creators: name: Yang, Chi
name: Liu, Chengfei
name: Li, Jianxin
name: Yu, Jeffrey Xu
name: Wang, Junhu
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: With respect to current methods for query evaluation over XML data streams, adoption of certain types of buffering techniques is unavoidable. Under lots of circumstances, the buffer scale may increase exponentially, which can cause memory bottleneck. Some optimization techniques have been proposed to solve the problem. However, the limit of these techniques has been defined by a concurrency lower bound and has been theoretically proved. In this paper, we show through an empirical study that this lower bound can be broken by taking semantic information into account for buffer reduction. To demonstrate this, we built a SAX-based XML stream query evaluation system and designed an algorithm that consumes buffers in line with the concurrency lower bound. After a further analysis of the lower bound, we designed several semantic rules for the purpose of breaking the lower bound and incorporated these rules in the lower bound algorithm. Experiments are conducted to show that the algorithms deploying semantic rules individually and collectively all significantly outperform the lower bound algorithm that does not consider semantic information.
Whether, to whom, and how : an investigation of daily experiences of discrimination and adolescents’ well-being
Creators: name: Chen, Shanting
name: 0000-0003-3390-2513
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2021
Subjects: Discrimination
Adolescent mental health
And sleep
Diurnal cortisol activities
Social support
Resilience

description: Discrimination is prevalent in the lives of adolescents, and it is also detrimental to adolescents’ well-being. The two-study dissertation employed a daily diary design to examine whether (study 1 and 2), for whom (study 1 and 2), and how (study 2) everyday experiences of discrimination influence adolescents’ socioemotional well-being and health-related behaviors (i.e., sleep). Study 1 used a 14-day daily diary data collected from 161 racially diverse 10th grade students (57% Latina/x/o, 21% Biracial, 10% Asian American, 9% White, 4% Black; 55% female). Study 2 integrated a 4-day daily diary data and longitudinal data with 290 Mexican-origin adolescents (55% female, Mage = 17.5). Study 1 found that peer-perpetrated discrimination, peer racial teasing, and vicarious discrimination of peers were all low-frequent, yet impactful events. Study 1 also found that psychological resilience, friend support, and positive peer-based school climate were important promotive and protective factors in buffering the negative effects of peer-based discrimination. Study 2 found that adolescents who reported more discrimination experiences across the four-day study period exhibited more adaptive diurnal cortisol responses (i.e., steeper diurnal cortisol slopes); however, such adaptive physiological responses tend to have a negative impact on adolescents’ mental health. Study 2 also found initial evidence of the protective role of resilience in the face of the physiological toll from discrimination. Altogether, the current dissertation documents the detrimental effects of day-to-day experiences of discrimination on adolescents’ daily and overall well-being and the importance of strengthening adolescents’ psychological resilience to help them effectively cope with discriminatory experiences.
title: Hört erst beim Geld die Freundschaft auf? Zur Neujustierung des Völkervertragsrechts in der deutschen Rechtsordnung
Creators: name: Frau, Robert
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
Integration of wave energy and other marine renewable sources with the needs of coastal societies
Creators: name: Manasseh, Richard
name: Sannasiraj, S. A.
name: McInnes, Kathleen
name: Sundar, V.
name: Jalihal, Purnima
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Marine renewable energy has the potential to solve both the energy-security and coastal-protection problems affecting coastal societies. In the present paper, the potential benefits arising from the combination of marine renewable energy technologies with infrastructural needs for coastal protection and other local needs are analysed. Classifications of technologies are developed in order to inform figure coastal planning. Explanations of the resources and technologies are presented in layperson's term. The threat of coastal inundation under climate-change scenarios is a major global issue. The investment in new infrastructure demanded by cities, ports and communities at risk of inundation could very substantially reduce the levelised cost of electricity from renewable sources, provided the infrastructure is designed with the dual purpose of power generation and coastal protection. Correspondingly, the sale of electricity from such infrastructure could defray the long-term cost of installing coastal protection. Furthermore. many marine renewable energy technologies provide a platform on which other forms of renewable energy generation could be mounted. It is noted that the complex geophysical and engineering issues arising from this opportunity must be assessed considering socio-economic factors.
Pfenderinidae Smout and Sugden 1962
Creators: name: Bucur, Ioan I.
name: Schlagintweit, Felix
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Foraminifera
Globothalamea
Loftusiida
Pfenderinidae

description: Family Pfenderinidae Smout and Sugden, 1962   Subfamily Paleopfenderininae Septfontaine, 1988 Remarks: The subfamily Paleopfenderininae was introduced by Septfontaine (1988, p. 245) for pfenderinids with trochospiral test, adult chambers may be uncoiled, wall with pseudo-keriotheca, endoskeletal pillars with calcitic-infilling in inter-pillars cavities giving the appearance of a columella (= secondarily infilled alveolar shell material, Loeblich and Tappan, 1988, p. 151). The Paleopfenderininae include seven genera all of Middle Jurassic age (Septfontaine, 1988; Kaminski 2014). The lower Cretaceous Moulladella n. gen., the youngest representative of the subfamily, can be considered an advanced paleopfenderinid where the curved septa of the spiral stage give rise to the broad and distally broadening radial partitions (exoskeletal beams) of the marginal zone.
description: Published as part of Bucur, Ioan I. & Schlagintweit, Felix, 2018, Moulladella Jourdanensis (Foury & Moullade, 1966) N. Gen., N. Comb.: Valanginian-Early Late Barremian Larger Benthic Foraminifera From The Northern Neotethyan Margin, pp. 45-59 in Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 14 (2) on page 49, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13190504
Fabrication and characterization of solar supercapcitors integrated with a laser scribed graphene oxide film
Creators: name: Thekkekara, Litty V.
name: Jia, Baohua
name: Zhang, Yinan
name: Qiu, Ling
name: Li, Dan
name: Gu, Min
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: An on-chip concept of supercapacitor electrical energy storage integrated with solar cells using thin-film graphene oxide was demonstrated. The solar supercapacitor showed a 62% columbic efficiency with non-degradation in the solar cell performance.
Majority-rule-based preference aggregation on multi-attribute domains with CP-nets
Creators: name: Li, Minyi
name: Vo, Bao Quoc
name: Kowalczyk, Ryszard
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460206
subject: Knowledge representation and reasoning
classificationCode: 460299
subject: Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified

description: This paper studies the problem of majority-rule-based collective decision-making where the agents' preferences are represented by CP-nets (Conditional Preference Networks). As there are exponentially many alternatives, it is impractical to reason about the individual full rankings over the alternative space and apply majority rule directly. Most existing works either do not consider computational requirements, or depend on a strong assumption that the agents have acyclic CP-nets that are compatible with a common order on the variables. To this end, this paper proposes an efficient SAT-based approach, called MajCP (Majority-rule-based collective decision-making with CP-nets), to compute the majority winning alternatives. Our proposed approach only requires that each agent submit a CP-net; the CP-net can be cyclic, and it does not need to be any common structures among the agents' CP-nets. The experimental results presented in this paper demonstrate that the proposed approach is computationally efficient. It offers several orders of magnitude improvement in performance over a Brute-force algorithm for large numbers of variables.
Efficient heuristic approach to dominance testing in CP-nets
Creators: name: Li, Minyi
name: Vo, Bao Quoc
name: Kowalczyk, Ryszard
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460206
subject: Knowledge representation and reasoning
classificationCode: 460299
subject: Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified

description: CP-net (Conditional Preference Network) is one of the extensively studied languages for representing and reasoning with preferences. The fundamental operation of dominance testing in CP-nets, i.e. determining whether an outcome is preferred to another, is very important in many real-world applications. Current techniques for solving general dominance queries is to search for improving flipping sequence from one outcome to another as a proof of the dominance relation in all rankings satisfying the given CP-net. However, it is generally a hard problem even for binary-valued, acyclic CPnets and tractable search algorithms exist only for specific problem classes. Hence, there is a need for efficient algorithms and techniques for dominance testing in more general problem settings. In this paper, we propose a heuristic approach, called DT*, to dominance testing in arbitrary acyclic multi-valued CP-nets. Our proposed approach guides the search process efficiently and allows significant reduction of search effort without impacting soundness or completeness of the search process. We present results of experiments that demonstrate the computational efficiency and feasibility of our approach to dominance testing.
title: War, Social Transition, and Illness Conception: The Case of Tuberculosis in South Sudan
title: War, Social Transition, and Illness Conception
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Jok, Jok M.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 1997

description: Before the Civil War resumed in South Sudan in 1983, efforts to combat tuberculosis were heading towards success. Today, however, tuberculosis is a serious health problem among the internally displaced and refugee population of South Sudan. (McCarthy et aI., 1995). It is estimated that 20,000 Dinka live in displaced persons' camps and around relief centers in Northern Bahr el Ghazal of southwestern Sudan (hereafter Western Dinka).
title: Mehr Offenheit wagen! Eine kritische Annäherung an das Gutachten des EuGH zum EMRK-Beitritt
Creators: name: Wendel, Mattias
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
In-plane behavior of cold-formed steel-framed wall panels sheathed with fibre cement board
Creators: name: Shahi, Rojit
name: Lam, N.
name: Gad, Emad
name: Saifitllah, Ismail
name: Wilson, John
name: Watson, K.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Shear wall panels are commonly used as lateral load resisting elements to provide stability of the cold-formed steel-framed houses in Australia against wind and earthquake actions. The effectiveness of their lateral resistance behavior is obtained usually by experimental testing although it can also be done by analytical modeling. This paper presents racking test results of steel-framed wall panels with different aspect ratios sheathed with fibre cement board subjected to monotonic and cyclic loading protocol. Performance parameters of the wall panels are obtained from the experimentally observed load-deflection curves using various existing methods and evaluation method is proposed. The evaluation method considers various performance characteristics including ductility modification factor, residual displacement recovery and load levels satisfying ultimate and serviceability limit state conditions.
Supplementary of "Reactive Precipitation During Overlaying CO2 Dissolution into Brine: The Role of Porous Structure"
Creators: name: Zheng, Shuai
name: Xu, Ke
name: Zhang, Dongxiao
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Supplementary materials for the article "Reactive Precipitation During Overlaying CO2 Dissolution into Brine: The Role of Porous Structure"
A Continuum Survey for Discrete Radio Sources at 1421 MC/S
Creators: name: Kellermann, K. I.
name: Read, R. B.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1965

description: Preliminary results of a continuum survey at 1421 Mc/S being carried out at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory are given for a 6-1/3 degree strip of declination. The coordinates and apparent flux densities of all 143 sources observed in this strip are tabulated, and the number-flux relation is plotted. The survey is felt to be essentially complete down to a flux density of 1.15 x 10^(-26) /w m^(-2) (c/s)^(-1).
A Catalog of the East-West Visibility Functions of Radio Sources at 1425 MHz
Creators: name: Fomalont, E. B.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1967

description: As part of a general program for determining the radio structure of discrete sources, 532 sources have been observed using the two 90-ft paraboloids at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory as an east-west interferometer. The frequency of the observations was 1425 MHz and up to nine east-west spacings, ranging from 144 wavelengths to 2626 wavelengths, were used.

Because of the large amount of data, the discussion of the observations and results will be given in several papers. This paper, the first in the series, will list the visibility functions of the data. The interpretation of a visibility function in terms of a source structure and the statistical interpretation of the structures will be given in following papers.
Choosing combinatorial social choice by heuristic search
Creators: name: Li, Minyi
name: Vo, Bao Quoc
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper studies the problem of computing aggregation rules in combinatorial domains, where the set of possible alternatives is a Cartesian product of (finite) domain values for each of a given set of variables, and these variables are usually not preferentially independent. We propose a very general heuristic framework SC* for computing different aggregation rules, including rules for cardinal preference structures and Condorcet-consistent rules. SC* highly reduces the search effort and avoid many pairwise comparisons, and thus it significantly reduces the running time. Moreover, SC* guarantees to choose the set of winners in aggregation rules for cardinal preferences. With Condorcet-consistent rules, SC* chooses the outcomes that are sufficiently close to the winners.
East-West Fourier Transforms of Polarization Parameters of Radio Sources at 1418 MHz
Creators: name: Seielstad, G. A.
name: Weiler, K. W.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1968

description: As part of a continuing study employing the Owens Valley Radio Observatory's twin-element interferometer to provide high angular resolution measurements of the various radio source properties (see, especially, Maltby and Moffett 1962; Morris, Radhakrishnan, and Seielstad 1964b; Seielstad 1967; Fomalont 1968), we have measured the Fourier transforms of the distributions of the Stokes parameters Q, U, and V at several antenna spacings along an east-west baseline. The present paper catalogs these measurements, while a subsequent paper will interpret them in terms of the structure of the polarized radiation along a circle of constant declination. We have already published a list of upper limits to the degree of circular polarization in the integrated radiation from several of these sources (Seielstad and Weiler 1968a), as well as a complete analysis of four supernova remnants (Seielstad and Weiler 1968b).
Current Work  Quantitative analysis and strategic approach to Emergency Department overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick in Ireland's Health Service Executive, MidWest health region
Creators: name: Hybrid Simulation Modelling Lab
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The Mid-West health region of Ireland’s Health Services Executive (HSE) faces criticalhealthcare challenges, particularly overcrowding and limited bed capacity at University HospitalLimerick (UHL). In response to Minister Stephen Donnelly’s directive, this study identifies an urgentneed for an additional 328 acute care beds by 2031, factoring in a projected shortfall of 128 newbeds and 200 outdated beds requiring replacement. A dual expansion strategy is recommended toaddress these gaps: establishing a new 352-bed Model 4 hospital in Ennis and upgrading Nenaghto a 221-bed Model 3 hospital. This expansion would enable UHL to redistribute around 37,252ED patients annually, thereby reducing overcrowding and improving regional access. The studyemphasises partnerships with institutions like the University of Limerick to support workforcedevelopment, coupled with future research using System Dynamics (SD) modelling for optimisedresource allocation. These recommendations align with the Sláintecare initiative, supporting adecentralised, regionally balanced healthcare model aimed at enhancing patient access and promotingequity across Ireland’s Mid-West region.
A Min-Min average algorithm for scheduling Transaction-intensive grid workflows
Creators: name: Liu, Ke
name: Chen, Jinjun
name: Jin, Hai
name: Yang, Yun
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Transaction-intensive grid workflows are attracting more and more attentions with the prosperity of e-business and e-government applications. They are workflows normally with a huge number of relatively simple concurrent instances, such as business transactions, whilst some of which may involve considerable communication overheads. However, there are almost no specific scheduling algorithms which deal with such workflows, and existing scheduling algorithms are not efficient enough for such a scenario if corresponding adjustments are not conducted. To address this problem, we propose a novel Min-Min-Average (MMA) algorithm for efficiently scheduling transaction-intensive grid workflows involving considerable communication overheads. The MMA algorithm is based on the popular Min-Min algorithm but uses a different strategy for transaction-intensive grid workflows with the capability of adapting to the change of network transmission speed automatically. The comparison based on the simulation performed on SwinDeW-G, our peer-to-peer based grid workflow environment, demonstrates that the MMA algorithm can improve the scheduling performance significantly over the original Min-Min algorithm when scheduling transaction-intensive grid workflows with considerable communication overheads involved.
Optical fibres in biomedical applications: Effect of a biological medium on static fatigue
Creators: name: Brown, William G A
name: Easton, Christopher D.
name: Leong, Andrea R.
name: Wade, Catherine M.
name: Stoddart, Paul
name: Wade, Scott
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Optical fibres are finding expanding applications in medicine. This work presents time-to-failure measurements of optical fibres under static stress in a simulated bodily fluid; intended for use in the development of medical fibre optic devices.
title: Damage-assessment on the building of international law after the Italian Constitutional Court’s decision no. 238 of 2014: no structural damage, just wear and tear.
Creators: name: Fontanelli, Filippo
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
MPEC 2024-V36 : 2024 UP14
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 UP14

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Pioneering developments of marine renewable energy in Australia
Creators: name: Manasseh, Richard
name: McInnes, Kathleen L.
name: Hemer, Mark A.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The history of ocean renewable energy developments in Australia is reviewed. A layperson’s description of the physical operating principle is given for the main classes of technology that have been tested in Australian waters. The Australian marine domain possesses among the world’s most energetic wave-energy resources, driven by powerful mid-latitude westerly winds. The northern coast of Western Australia has tidal ranges significant on a global scale, and some geographical features around the continent have local tidal resonances. The East Australia Current, one of the world’s major western boundary currents, runs along the eastern Australian seaboard, offering potential for ocean current energy. Sea-water temperatures in the tropical northeast of Australia may permit ocean thermal energy conversion. While this abundance of resources makes Australia an ideal location for technology development, the population is highly concentrated in a few large cities, and transmission infrastructure has developed over a century to supply cities from traditional power plants. Several wave-power developments have resulted in demonstration deployments in Australian waters, three of which have been grid-connected. Trials of tidal devices have also occurred, while other classes of ocean renewable energy have not yet been trialled. The prospects for marine renewable energy in Australia are discussed including non-traditional applications such as coastal protection and energy export.
Antioxidant and antifungal activities of Smilax campestris Griseb. (Smilacaceae)
Creators: name: Morais, Marcela Isis
name: Pinto, Maria Eduarda Amaral
name: Sthéfane Guimarães Araújo
name: Castro, Ana Hortência Fonsêca
name: Duarte-Almeida, Joaquim Mauricio
name: Luiz Henrique Rosa
name: Rosa, Carlos Augusto
name: Johann, Susana
name: Lima, Luciana Alves Rodrigues Dos Santos
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Ethanol extract and fractions obtained from aerial parts of Smilax campestris were examined in order to determine their phenolic composition, antioxidant capacity and antifungal activities. High-performance liquid chromatography coupled with DAD analysis indicated that quercetin and rutin were the main phenolic compounds present in butanol fraction and ethanol extract, respectively. The antioxidant activity assessed by the scavenging ability on 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl radical was significantly more pronounced for the ethanol extract and butanol fraction than that of the commercial antioxidant 2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenol. The antifungal activity of extract and fractions was investigated by using microdilution method against five Candida and two Cryptococcus yeast strains. Ethanol extract and fractions exhibited antifungal activities against Candida albicans, Candida glabrata, Candida krusei, Candida parapsilosis, Candida tropicalis and Cryptococcus gattii. This work provides the knowledge of profile and content of flavonoids and their antioxidant and antifungal activities in the extract and fractions of aerial parts of S. campestris.
Extracts deriving from olive mill waste water and their effects on the liver of the goldfish Carassius auratus fed with hypercholesterolemic diet
Creators: name: Alesci, Alessio
name: Cicero, Nicola
name: Salvo, Andrea
name: Palombieri, Deborah
name: Zaccone, Daniele
name: Dugo, Giacomo
name: Bruno, Maurizio
name: Vadalà, Rossella
name: Lauriano, Eugenia Rita
name: Pergolizzi, Simona
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The present research aims to evaluate the beneficial effects of polyphenols derived from waste water from a olive mill, obtained by non-plastic molecular imprinting device, in a hypercholesterolemic diet on Carassius auratus, commonly known as goldfish that was selected as experimental model. The study was conducted with morphological and histochemical analyses and also the data were supported by immunohistochemical analysis. Results show the beneficial activity of polyphenols with a reduction of the damage in the steatotic group, confirming that they may be suggested in the treatment of diseases by lipid accumulation, and used as any addition in feed for farmed fish, in order to improve the organoleptic and nutritional quality. The beneficial effects of waste oil extract should be suggested in the contexts of research programmes focused on the products to the health system. Furthermore, the olive mill waste water polyphenols free can be used as natural fertilizers.
Genetic Algorithms in Electromagnetism: The Helmholtz Coils
Creators: name: Borowska, Bożena
name: Nadolski, Stefan
Publisher: name: Journal of Applied Computer Science
Year: 2006

description: In this work, the modified genetic algorithm has been applied to solve the Helmholtz coil problem. The task of the algorithm was to determine the radius of the coils and the distance between them, which would assure that a priori assumed level of non-homogeneity of magnetic field is maintained. In the implemented genetic algorithm, the ternary system of representation has been used. Based on the results of performed experiments, the accuracy, efficiency and usefulness of the proposed algorithm has been assessed.
description: Journal of Applied Computer Science, Tom 14 Nr 2 (2006): Journal of Applied Computer Science
OPeNDAP/Hyrax Interfaces
Creators: name: Gallagher, James
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008

description: Summary of the slide deck: The slide deck introduces OPeNDAP, the Data Access Protocol (DAP), and Hyrax, an OPeNDAP-developed data server. It delineates the types of interfaces, including application software libraries and server components, and details the application-level interactions facilitated by DAP. It further explains the server architecture of Hyrax, highlighting its front-end (OLFS) and back-end (BES) components. The presentation elaborates on the components of BES and OLFS, including format handlers and dispatch handlers. Additionally, it discusses the role of OPeNDAP, DAP, and Hyrax in the context of open-source development and data access protocols. Further details are provided on DAP request processing, constraints, and responses, emphasizing the role of metadata and data objects in handling requests and building responses. Additionally, it outlines various forms of DAP responses and their potential modifications.
A puzzle form of a non-verbal intelligence test gives significantly higher performance measures in children with severe intellectual disability
Creators: name: Bello, Katrina
name: Goharpey, Nahal
name: Crewther, Sheila G.
name: Crewther, David
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Background: Assessment of 'potential intellectual ability' of children with severe intellectual disability (ID) is limited, as current tests designed for normal children do not maintain their interest. Thus a manual puzzle version of the Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices (RCPM) was devised to appeal to the attentional and sensory preferences and language limitations of children with ID. It was hypothesized that performance on the book and manual puzzle forms would not differ for typically developing children but that children with ID would perform better on the puzzle form. Methods: The first study assessed the validity of this puzzle form of the RCPM for 76 typically developing children in a test-retest crossover design, with a 3 week interval between tests. A second study tested performance and completion rate for the puzzle form compared to the book form in a sample of 164 children with ID. Results: In the first study, no significant difference was found betweenperformance on the puzzle and book forms in typically developing children, irrespective of the order of completion. The second study demonstrated a significantly higher performance and completion rate for the puzzle form compared to the book form in the ID population. Conclusion: Similar performance on book and puzzle forms of the RCPM by typically developing children suggests that both forms measure the same construct. These findings suggest that the puzzle form does not require greater cognitive ability but demands sensory-motor attention and limits distraction in children with severe ID. Thus, we suggest the puzzle form of the RCPM is a more reliable measure of the non-verbal mentation of children with severe ID than the book form.
A new luteolin triglycoside from Ficus ischnopoda leaves
Creators: name: Zan-Shan Xu
name: Chou, Gui-Xin
name: Wang, Zheng-Tao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A new triglycoside flavone, luteolin-4′-O-α-l-rhamnopyranosyl-(1 → 6)-β-d-glucopyranosyl-(1 → 3)-β-d-glucopyranoside (1) was isolated from the leaves of Ficus ischnopoda, together with five known flavonoids (2–6) and seven known lignans (7–13). Their structures were elucidated on the basis of extensive spectroscopic analysis and comparison with literature data. Compounds 1–13 were reported in this plant for the first time. Compounds 1 and 3–6 exhibited significant anti-HSV-1 activity in vitro.
Diversity, assembly and dynamics of Plankton in QHD sea area
Creators: name: 庄昀筠(Yunyun Zhuang)
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2024
Subjects: Raw sequence reads
Environment
Environmental

description: Qinhuangdao sea area is an important sea area in China, and also a valuable place to study biodiversity and ecological processes. In this project, we used a meta-coding approach (18S rDNA gene and 16S rDNA gene) to investigate the diversity, assembly mechanisms and coexistence patterns of planktic microbiome in QHD waters.
Constraint satisfaction problem based modelling and value ordering based heuristic for nurse scheduling
Creators: name: Djeffal, Lakhdar
name: Goncalves, Gilles
name: Babes, Malika
Publisher: name: Journal of Applied Computer Science
Year: 2006

description: Nurse Scheduling Problem (NSP) consists of assigning shift-types (morning, afternoon and night) to qualified personnel over a certain planning period. It is a difficult and time-consuming task. In this paper we present a formulation of the hospital Nurse Scheduling Problem just like Constraint Satisfaction Problem ′′CSP′′ based constraint programming in order to find a solution, which minimizes the violation of Nurses’ preferences. We would suggest a flexibility tool for helping to decide and for making negotiation easier. Our originality lies in the modelling of the problem, by defining the global constraints and in the algorithm of resolution to solve it, by proposing a new value ordering based heuristic for assignment of the decision variables taking into account the set of Nurses preferences. Our heuristic is based on the structure of the CSP and on the properties of constraints. It allows the reduction of the search space for solution and returns a solution within few second.
description: Journal of Applied Computer Science, Tom 14 Nr 2 (2006): Journal of Applied Computer Science
Parallel implementation of a quantum computing simulator
Creators: name: Sawerwain, Marek
name: Pilecki, Jakub
Publisher: name: Journal of Applied Computer Science
Year: 2006

description: In this paper the specialized software called quantumcomputation simulator is presented. Basic properties of quantumcomputation simulations are discussed. The algorithm of parallelimplementation of a vector state transformation is presented also. Someexamples of the presented software application are shown.
description: Journal of Applied Computer Science, Tom 14 Nr 2 (2006): Journal of Applied Computer Science
MPEC 2024-V37 : 2024 UQ14
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 UQ14

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Credit Spread Introduction
Creators: name: Yang, Alex
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: credit spread, credit risk, risk management, reduced form model

description: Spread curve is bootstrapped from fixed income securities as a spread over a specified zero curve for a certain credit state. Each spread curve is correspond to the spread over a reference curve for a particular credit state.
description: https://ia801500.us.archive.org/15/items/cr-credit-spread-16/CrCreditSpread-16.pdf
Ripple-patterned substrates for light enhancement applications
Creators: name: Buividas, Richard
name: Kudrius, Tadas
name: Šliupas, Remigijus
name: Rosa, Lorenzo
name: Šlekys, Gintas
name: Bagdonas, Saulius
name: Rotomskis, Ričardas
name: Juodkazis, Saulius
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Abstract not reproduced here by request of the publisher. The text is available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.871049.
Viroids of grapevines in Italy
Creators: name: Minafra, A.
name: Martelli, G. P.
name: Savino, V.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: Rebviroide in Italien Es wird über das Vorkommen niedermolekularer RNAs bei 48 Vitis-vinifera-Stämmen und 15 amerikanischen Vitis-Arten und Kreuzungen aus Italien, Osteuropa, Mittelmeer- und Nahost-Ländern berichtet. In den Sämlingen zweier Sorten wurden keine derartigen RNAs gefunden. Aufgrund ihres elektrophoretischen Verhaltens wurden diese RNAs vorläufig identifiziert als Grapevine yellow speckle-Viroid (GYSVd), Grapeivine-Viroid 2 (GVd2) und Hop stunt-Viroid (HSVd). Das letztere Viroid löste bei künstlich infizierten Pflanzen von Tomate cv. Rutgers und Gurke cv. Suyo Befallssymptome aus. HSVd, GYSVd und GVd2 wurden in 97, 92 bzw. 11 % der untersuchten Proben wiedergefunden. In der Regel lagen Mischinfektionen vor, wobei die Kombination von HSVd mit GYSVd überwog. Diese beiden Viroide kamen regelmäßig in Reben mit den Symptomen von Yellow speckle oder Vein banding vor. Es wurde keine eindeutige Beziehung zwischen dem Vorkommen eines der Viroide und Rebkrankheiten mit unklarer Ätiologie, wie Vein necrosis oder Fleck, gefunden.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 29 No. 3 (1990): Vitis
Outbreak of grapevine bacterial canker disease in India
Creators: name: Chand, R.
name: Kishun, R.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: Ausbreitung eines Reben-Bakterienbrandes in lndien In Indien wurde bei Reben die starke Zunahme einer durch Bakterien verursachten Brandkrankheit festgestellt. Die an Blattspreite, Blattstiel und Sproßachse ausgelösten Symptome waren eckig begrenzt, erhaben und brandig verfärbt. Starker Befall führte zum Absterben der Blätter und zu Störungen des Triebwachstums. Als neuer Wirt neben der Rebe wurde Mango (Mangifera indica L.) nachgewiesen. Als Erreger der Krankheit wurde das Bacterium Xanthomonas campestris pv. viticola identifiziert. Dieses bildet in Verbindung mit Salicin und Aesculin Säuren; für Xanthomonas-Arten ist eine solche Reaktion ungewöhnlich.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 29 No. 3 (1990): Vitis
A new benzyl ester and ergosterol derivatives from the fungus Gymnoascus reessii
Creators: name: Sasiwimon Kitchawalit
name: Kwanjai Kanokmedhakul
name: Somdej Kanokmedhakul
name: Soytong, Kasem
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A new benzyl ester, reessiate (1), anthraquinone, islandicin (2), ergosterol and seven ergosterol derivatives (3–9) were isolated from the fungus Gymnoascus reessii. All structures were identified by spectroscopic methods. This is the first report of their isolation from this fungus. Compounds 4–7 and 9 exhibited antimalarial activity against Plasmodium falciparum with IC50 values in the range of 3.3–4.5 μg/mL. In addition, 4 showed cytotoxicity against KB, MCF7 and NCI-H187 cancer cell lines. It was found that 4 has cytotoxic effect to MCF7 (IC50 = 7.9 μg/mL) lower than Doxorubicin (IC50 = 8.5 μg/mL).
The specific expression of isoperoxidases in grapevine cells cultured in suspension in relation to vacuolar development
Creators: name: García-Florenciano, E.
name: Pedreño, M. A.
name: Muñoz, R.
name: Ros Barceló, A.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: Die spezifischen Veränderungen der Isoperoxidasen in suspensionskultivierten Rebenzellen in Beziehung zur Entwicklung der Zellvakuole Aus wachsenden Beeren der Rotweinsorte Gamay (Vitis vinifera) wurden Zellsuspensionskulturen hergestellt. Diese dienten als Modellsystem, um die spezifischen Veränderungen der Enzymaktivität von Guajakol-Peroxidase und Indolyl-3-Essigsäure(IAA-)Oxidase während des Zellwachstums in Beziehung zur Entwicklung der Zellvakuole zu verfolgen. Der Entwicklungszustand der Vakuole wurde anhand des Verhältnisses monomere Anthocyane : Protein festgestellt. Die Untersuchungen zeigten, daß sich die Aktivität von Guajakol-Peroxidase während der exponentiellen Phase des Zellwachstums in Beziehung zum Entwicklungszustand der Vakuole veränderte. Andererseits wurde im Verlauf des Zellwachstums nie IAA-Oxidaseaktivität nachgewiesen, wahrscheinlich weil in den kultivierten Zellen höhere Konzentrationen von "Auxinprotektoren" vorhanden waren. Dieser Befund steht im Widerspruch zu der Beobachtung, daß die Zunahme der Gesamtperoxidasenaktivität in den Zellen in erster Linie auf den Anstieg der basischen Isoperoxidasen zurückzuführen ist. Aufgrund der Tatsache, daß der IAA-Abbau hauptsächlich durch basische Isoperoxidasen bewirkt wird, wird ferner die anerkannte physiologische Rolle der basischen Isoperoxidasen in suspensionskultivierten Zellen in Frage gestellt. Eine alternative Rolle, welche die basischen Isoperoxidasen im intensiven oxidativen Stoffwechsel der Phenole bei roten Rebsorten spielen könnten, wird diskutiert.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 29 No. 4 (1990): Vitis
Fundamentals of test case selection: Diversity, diversity, diversity
Creators: name: Chen, Tsong
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Our recent investigations in software testing reveal that diversity constitutes the underlying foundation in many test case selection strategies. This talk attempts to provide an overview of the concept of diversity in test case selection through two families of test case selection strategies, namely, random testing and partition testing. We also present some areas of software testing where the application of data mining techniques shows great potential in identifying key aspects of diversity in various forms.
Teammate familiarity and risk of injury in emergency medical services
Creators: name: Patterson, P Daniel
name: Weaver, Matthew D
name: Landsittel, Douglas P
name: Krackhardt, David
name: Hostler, David
name: Vena, John E
name: Hughes, Ashley
name: Salas, Eduardo
name: Yealy, Donald M
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: OBJECTIVE: We investigated the association between teammate familiarity and workplace injury in the emergency medical services (EMS) setting. METHODS: From January 2011 to November 2013, we abstracted a mean of 29 months of shift records and Occupational Safety Health Administration injury logs from 14 EMS organisations with 37 total bases located in four US Census regions. Total teammate familiarity was calculated for each dyad as the total number of times a clinician dyad worked together over the study period. We used negative binomial regression to examine differences in injury incidence rate ratios (IRRs) by familiarity. RESULTS: We analysed 715 826 shift records, representing 4197 EMS clinicians and 60 701 unique dyads. We determined the mean shifts per dyad was (5.9, SD 19.7), and quartiles of familiarity were 1 shift worked together over the study period, 2-3 shifts, 4-9 shifts and ≥10 shifts worked together. More than half of all dyads worked one shift together (53.9%, n=32 739), 24.8% of dyads 2-3 shifts, 11.8% worked 4-9 shifts and 9.6% worked ≥10 shifts. The overall incidence rate of injury across all organisations was 17.5 per 100 full-time equivalent (FTE), range 4.7-85.6 per 100 FTE. The raw injury rate was 33.5 per 100 FTEs for dyads with one shift of total familiarity, 14.2 for 2-3 shifts, 8.3 for 4-9 shifts and 0.3 for ≥10 shifts. Negative binomial regression confirmed that dyads with ≥10 shifts had the lowest incidence of injury (IRR 0.03; 95% CI 0.02 to 0.04). CONCLUSIONS: Familiarity between teammates varies in the EMS setting, and less familiarity is associated with greater incidence of workplace injury.