cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Inappropriateness and Dilemma of Schrödinger's cat
Creators: name: Hua, Seatoe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Schrödinger's cat
quantum
consciousness

description: Schrödinger used Schrödinger's cat thought experiment to argue the problem existing in Copenhagen interpretation. Schrödinger's cat thought experiment looks like a reasonable questioning. And Copenhagen interpretation can not answer the Schrödinger’s argument,either.

But in fact, cat is not an appropriate example as an object for this thought experiment.

 

The interpretation as follows,

 

1.Cat and photon (or electron) should be categorized to two different types.

Cat can be recognized as an existence in macro material world. But photon (or electron) is an existence in the subatomic world. Essentially,the macro material world can not be easily understood as piling up the existence in the subatomic world.

 

2.The cat state is certain when it is observed at any given time t. It is either alive or dead.

 

Human observation can not influence cat’s life or death.

 

Different people will get the same observation result at the same time t, except that human observation can influence the atom decaying.

 

5.Cat is not an inappropriate example for the experiment object. It just makes people confused.

Because cat can not be in superposition state of live and death. At any given time t, cat is either alive or dead.

The real superposition state means mixture of multiple states at any given time.

The object state will be fixed and will be one of the multiple states just when the object is observed.

 

If there is no atom decay trigger poison mechanism in the box, human can almost assure the cat being alive. Because of the atom decay trigger poison mechanism, before opening the box, human have to hypothesize that the cat is either alive or dead. So the probability for each is 50%. This is reasoned from probability aspect. But this does not mean superpositionality of cat state.

 

6.Observation from observer : equipment or equipment+human or human.

This experiment ,the observation is just from observer human.

 

7.Because cat has no superposition state.

Observer human can not influence cat’s life or death.

And then observer effect does not exist in this experiment.

 

Above all, cat is not an appropriate example as an object in Schrödinger's thought experiment.

 

 

Note:Observer effect was somewhat disproved by probability of measurement outcome in quantum physics.

But an arguement can be that probabilistic measurement outcome is not a strong evidence to disprove observer effect. In macro material world, one thousand inspectors measure the same object with the same ruler but need to respectively estimate the number below the minimun scale or with other tools by predefined measuring procedure. The one thousand measurements will also very likely be probabilistic.
title: Von "ahnungslos" bis "handlungsbestimmend"
Creators: name: Altenweisl, Daniela Claudia
Year: 2009

description: Diese Diplomarbeit beschäftigt sich mit den weiblichen Nebenfiguren in Schnitzlers dramatischem Werk. Der Frage nach den bekannten Schnitzlerschen Frauentypen wie süßes Mädel und dämonische Frau wird im einleitenden Forschungsbericht nachgegangen, der gleichzeitig als Grundlage für den Fortlauf der Untersuchungen dienen soll. Anhand einer Figurenanalyse werden Konstitution und Funktion der verschiedenen Frauenfiguren erarbeitet, Parallelen zwischen den Figuren aufgezeigt und neue Erkenntnisse gewonnen. Die Bearbeitung dieses Themas wird nicht ausschließlich auf eine Textanalyse gestützt, sondern zum großen Teil auch über den performativen Aspekt erarbeitet. Es wird sich zeigen, dass Schnitzlers weibliche Nebenfiguren wichtiger Bestandteil seiner Werke sind, dass sie handlungsbestimmend, oder aber, obwohl szenisch nicht präsent, Thema eines Dramas sein können, und dadurch rückwirkend zur Charakterisierung der Protagonisten beitragen. In einer abschließenden Diskussion wird kurz die Frage aufgegriffen, inwieweit das in der Sekundärliteratur vielfach besprochene Verhältnis von Handlungsmacht und Erotik der Frauenfiguren auf die weiblichen Nebenfiguren in Schnitzlers Œuvre zutrifft.
description: This thesis deals with female marginal figures in Arthur Schnitzler’s drama. The introduction of this thesis is a research report on Schnitzler’s popular types of women like Sweet Girl or Demon Lady, and also serves as the basis of the research following. Based on an analysis of the characters, the function and constitution of the different types of female figures are being elaborated, and similiarities as well as newly gained insights explained. This thesis is not only based on textual analysis, but has for the most part been developed taking performative aspects into account. It appears that female marginal figures are an integral part of Schnitzler’s oeuvre; they might either be a decisive factor in terms of the storyline, or the subject of a drama even though not present in the scene, and therefore be a retcon regarding the protagonists’ characters. The final discussion of the thesis deals with the question to what extend the issues agency and eroticism of female charaters, which are quite common in secondary literature, apply to female marginal figures in Schnitzler’s oeuvre.
Big Girl: the taboo of menstruation in contemporary Sri Lankan cinema
Creators: name: Perera, Lauraine
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360501
subject: Cinema studies
classificationCode: 360505
subject: Screen media

description: In Sri Lanka, the Big Girl ritual is a traditional coming-of-age ceremony observed when a girl first menstruates. The custom involves keeping the girl in isolation, away from the male gaze, for a strict period. She is ‘cleansed’ by female elders and presented to male society. Despite this ceremony being commonplace in Sri Lankan society, it has never before been documented by a female or feminist filmmaker.

This practice-led and practice-based study asks: ‘In the contemporary Sri Lankan context, how can a diasporic woman filmmaker explore taboo subjects such as female sexuality and desire?’ This has generated an experimental documentary feature inspired by film theorists, filmmakers and feminist scholars to illustrate the need for debate about rituals that subjugate women.

In formulating this project, I referred to anthropologist Deborah Winslow’s (1980) research into the Big Girl ritual, literature from feminist scholars such as Mary Russo (1986), Mary Douglas (1966) and Maggie Humm (1995, 1997) to explore taboos that impact females. Feminism in Sri Lanka has been understood through Sunila Abeysekera (2008, 2009), Kumari Jayawardane (1986, 2015), Janaki Jayawardena (2002), Malathie de Alwis (1996, 2002, 2015) and Maithree Wickramasinghe (2014). Ultimately the project draws from film scholar Laleen Jayamanne’s (1992, 2001) work about female representation in Sri Lankan film while reiterating Shohini Chaudhuri’s research into confrontational Indian diasporic filmmaker Deepa Mehta.

My research film Big Girl critiques a profoundly personal experience. The film demonstrates new knowledge about the ceremony and a feminist view of the tradition by a female practitioner.

This project outlines the knowledge gained through creative practice-based research, using methods such as reflective practice and collecting qualitative interviews to create an experimental documentary about the traditional custom. The visual journey of this film celebrates and exposes the horrors of becoming a Big Girl from the perspective of a twelveyear-old adjusting to physical, emotional and social change. The project also addresses the complexities of working with the ‘taboo of menstruation’ from the standpoint of a Sri Lankan diasporic female filmmaker. This study initiates a broader discussion of the ritual such that a female interpretation can be heard and examined. As such, I discover the challenges that independent Sri Lankan female practitioners encounter personally and professionally, mainly when working with content that may be considered taboo.
Additional file 1 of Dietary choline intake and health outcomes in U.S. adults: exploring the impact on cardiovascular disease, cancer prevalence, and all-cause mortality
Creators: name: Jieru, Peng
name: Zhang, Shanshan
name: Cai, Lin
name: Long, Wencheng
name: Wang, Yueshan
name: Zhang, Lu
name: Dong, Yao
name: Zhang, Wenqi
name: Liao, Juan
name: Yang, Chunxia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Tables 1-6.
sj-docx-1-psp-10.1177_01461672221139071 – Supplemental material for Beliefs That White People Are Poor, Above and Beyond Beliefs That Black People Are Poor, Predict White (But Not Black This prior work finds) Americans’ Attitudes Toward Welfare Recipients and Policy
Creators: name: Cooley, Erin
name: Brown-Iannuzzi, Jazmin L.
name: Lei, Ryan F.
name: Cipolli, William
name: Philbrook, Lauren E.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-psp-10.1177_01461672221139071 for Beliefs That White People Are Poor, Above and Beyond Beliefs That Black People Are Poor, Predict White (But Not Black This prior work finds) Americans’ Attitudes Toward Welfare Recipients and Policy by Erin Cooley, Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi, Ryan F. Lei, William Cipolli and Lauren E. Philbrook in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Exploring the social factors that influence the decision-making behaviours of non-executive directors in Australian public companies
Creators: name: Thuraisingham, Sarogini
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 350701
subject: Corporate governance
classificationCode: 350709
subject: Organisation and management theory
classificationCode: 520104
subject: Industrial and organisational psychology (incl. human factors)

description: This inductive study explores and explains non-executive directors’ (NEDs) contribution to major corporate strategic decisions. It addresses the often undersocialised view of corporate boards by recognising boards as complex social systems embedded in complex power asymmetries and group identity affects. Drawing from theories in social psychology and organisational theory, this study explores the behavioural side of corporate governance and contributes to the understanding of the origins, reasons, dynamics and consequences of boardroom influence of NEDs. The decision practices of 15 large Australian public companies are studied through NEDs’ narrations of their decision experiences when faced with the task of shaping strategy—an important aspect of their advisory accountabilities. By focusing this study on large transformative decisions, it aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of the processes of influence relating to value-creating decisions. The findings have identified significant variations in the sense NEDs make of their decision experiences and their influence attempts in response to their ‘sensemaking’. It also illuminates how the effects of group membership, identification and power differentials interact to create a unique social reality and how this social reality moderates the use of decision influence. This study has implications for scholarship, policy and practice relating to influence in and around a boardroom. It contributes a new psychosocial dimension to corporate governance theory, which historically has underestimated the role of human dynamics in a boardroom. It also contributes policy insights into practices that create strategically active boards and the enablers that help a board reach its full potential as a strategic decision-making group.
Additional file 1 of The additive value of complementing diagnostic idiopathic intracranial hypertension criteria by MRI – an external validation study
Creators: name: Macher, Stefan
name: Marik, Wolfgang
name: Krajnc, Nik
name: Mitsch, Christoph
name: Michl, Martin
name: Mueller, Nina
name: Novak, Klaus
name: Zaic, Sina
name: Woeber, Christian
name: Pemp, Berthold
name: Bsteh, Gabriel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
sj-docx-1-hss-10.1177_15563316221134244 – Supplemental material for The Burden of Postoperative Delirium After Shoulder Arthroplasty and Modifiable Pharmacological Perioperative Risk Factors: A Retrospective Nationwide Cohort Study
Creators: name: Kiani, Sara N.
name: Maron, Samuel Z.
name: Rao, Manasa G.
name: Zubizarreta, Nicole
name: Mazumdar, Madhu
name: Galatz, Leesa M.
name: Poeran, Jashvant
name: Cagle, Paul J.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-hss-10.1177_15563316221134244 for The Burden of Postoperative Delirium After Shoulder Arthroplasty and Modifiable Pharmacological Perioperative Risk Factors: A Retrospective Nationwide Cohort Study by Sara N. Kiani, Samuel Z. Maron, Manasa G. Rao, Nicole Zubizarreta, Madhu Mazumdar, Leesa M. Galatz, Jashvant Poeran and Paul J. Cagle in HSS Journal®: The Musculoskeletal Journal of Hospital for Special Surgery
OWNERSHIP OF MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS IN BULGARIA - IMPACT ON THE QUALITY OF WORKING LIFE OF WORKERS
Creators: name: Kundurzhiev, Todor
name: Prodanova, Yanka
name: Yancheva-Stoicheva, Milena
name: Tsacheva, Nevena
name: Miteva, Iva
name: Hristova, Lidia
Publisher: name: Center for Quality
Year: 2018
Subjects: Quality of working life (QWL)
work satisfaction
health organizations
health workers

description: International Journal for Quality Research; Vol 12, No 3, 2018. ISSN 1800-6450
description: The aim of this study is to investigate the influence of the healthcare institutions' ownership on the quality of working life of workers. QWL was determined by an adapted quality of life questionnaire. The questionnaire contains statements about different aspects of working life. In the comparisons of two independent groups t-test was applied, while in more than two independent groups – ANOVA and ANCOVA (to control the influence of age). In private hospitals there is a significantly lower quality of working life compared to municipal. This is most pronounced in the weak Social Guarantees and Social Benefits. Among the components of QWL, in private hospitals, Remuneration is also low.
BEHAVIORAL PROFILES OF CONSUMERS OF ONLINE TRAVEL AGENCIES
Creators: name: Martínez-Costa, Carme
name: Viladecans, Júlia Pladevall
name: Mas-Machuca, Marta
name: Marimon, Frederic
Publisher: name: Center for Quality
Year: 2018
Subjects: customer satisfaction
loyalty
online travel agencies
e-quality
SEM
cluster analysis

description: International Journal for Quality Research; Vol 12, No 3, 2018. ISSN 1800-6450
description: The aim of the article is threefold: analyzing (1) the antecedents of satisfaction of online travel agencies (OTAs)' customers, and the mediating role of loyalty, and word of mouth; (2) the different customers’ profiles attending to these antecedents; and (3) how antecedents affect satisfaction according to the customer profile. An exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and a structural equation modeling (SEM) were used on a sample of 264 OTAs' Spanish customers. A non-hierarchical cluster analysis was performed forcing two clusters, and they were identified the most important factors that explain satisfaction for each cluster. EFA results provide five antecedents of satisfaction. However, SEM analysis results show that only "information" (efficiency of the website and quality of information provided) and “utility” for using the platforms are significant antecedents of satisfaction. The relation between satisfaction, loyalty, and word-of-mouth are also significant. The quality of the information provided in the websites is the main antecedent for the cluster of satisfied customers. In contrast, utility is the most important for the cluster of unsatisfied customers.
QUALITY OF LIFE SHOWN IN CORRELATIONS BETWEEN SIGNIFICANT SOCIO-PERSONAL VALUES OF STUDENTS AND EMPLOYEES AND THEIR ATTITUDES TOWARDS CHANGE
Creators: name: Radošević, Tanja
name: Bulatović, Goran
name: Bulatović, Ljiljana
Publisher: name: Center for Quality
Year: 2018
Subjects: Quality of Life
socio-personal values
basic social values
attitude towards changes
well-being

description: International Journal for Quality Research; Vol 12, No 3, 2018. ISSN 1800-6450
description: Purpose – This paper is aimed to show the quality of life seen through correlation among attitudes about changes and socio-personal (Quality of Life) values of students, as well as employees in public, state and private sector in Serbia. The paper intends to prove that the Quality of Life, as seen through attitudes about the importance of main socio-personal values concerning quality of life and workplace, strongly correlates with their attitudes towards changes. The Hypothesis 1 of this research: “There is a statistically significant correlation between attitudes towards changes and socio-personal values of employees concerning Quality of Life and workplace” has been proved. H2, which reads as follows: “There is statistically significant correlation between sub-dimensions of democracy and economic well-being and sub-dimension of attitudes towards changes which does not drastically change as people transfer from young to mature age“ has also been confirmed.
Methodology – This research was conducted among 303 interviewees in 2015 and 342 interviewees in 2017. The research uses different statistical methods when analyzing data.
Findings –The findings indicate that, among other things, the view that the existence of a need for change represents a prerequisite for human development is statistically positively and significantly related to freedom, humanity, economic well-being and personal happiness and satisfaction, as prominent factors of Quality of Life.
Additional file 2 of The additive value of complementing diagnostic idiopathic intracranial hypertension criteria by MRI – an external validation study
Creators: name: Macher, Stefan
name: Marik, Wolfgang
name: Krajnc, Nik
name: Mitsch, Christoph
name: Michl, Martin
name: Mueller, Nina
name: Novak, Klaus
name: Zaic, Sina
name: Woeber, Christian
name: Pemp, Berthold
name: Bsteh, Gabriel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 2
Systemic cellular migration: the forces driving the directed locomotion movement of cells
Creators: name: Carrasco Pujante, Jose
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Amoeba proteus
Metamoeba leningradensis
Amoeba borokensis
Trajectories

description: Raw data used for the manuscript titled "Systemic cellular migration: the forces driving the directed locomotion movement of cells"
Apseudes poorei Blazewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber 2007
Creators: name: Błażewicz-Paszkowycz, M.
name: Bamber, R. N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Tanaidacea
Apseudidae
Apseudes
Apseudes poorei

description: Apseudes poorei Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber, 2007
 A. poorei Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber, 2007b, 120–125, figs 7–9.
 Xanthapseudes poorei Guţu, 2008a, 39.
 Remarks. Apseudes poorei is very similar to A. bucospinosus Guţu, 2006, a species from Heron Island on the Great Barrier Reef (depth not recorded), although the pereopods of the latter species are not fully described. An unusual distinguishing feature of A. poorei is the presence of plumose setae on the bases of pereopods 2 and 4; the two species are distinguished further on the setation of the mouthparts and the morphology of the cheliped, inter alia. A. bucospinosus has strong inner-distal “spiniform processes” rather than spines on the first and second maxilliped palp articles. Guţu (2008a) assigned these two species to a new genus, Xanthapseudes, on the basis of an assumed similarity in the character of spines or spine-like apophyses on the proximal maxilliped palp articles. In fact, in this character, A. poorei is much closer to A. abditospina, yet quite distinct on a number of other characters (for example, the anterolateral spiniform apophyses on the pereonites and the hook-like apophyses on the anterior pereopod bases of the latter species). It is therefore evident that this character of one article of the maxilliped palp alone is not a sufficient basis on which to distinguish a separate genus.
 Apseudes poorei was found throughout the Bass Strait, between 38º00' and 40º23'S and 144º05' and 148º37'E, and from 13 to 82 m depth on sandy substrata.
description: Published as part of Błażewicz-Paszkowycz, M. & Bamber, R. N., 2012, The Shallow-water Tanaidacea (Arthropoda: Malacostraca: Peracarida) of the Bass Strait, Victoria, Australia (other than the Tanaidae), pp. 1-235 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 69 on pages 3-4
title: Geistiges Eigentum von der frühen Neuzeit bis ins Zeitalter der digitalen Information
Creators: name: Razocha, Florian
Year: 2009

description: Die vorliegende Arbeit setzt sich mit dem Status des Phänomens „geistiges Eigentum“ in seinen positiven Ausformungen „Urheberrecht“ beziehungsweise „Copyright“ und seiner historischen Entwicklung bis ins angehende 21. Jahrhundert auseinander. Die Arbeit zeigt, wie das Konzept des geistigen Eigentums mit dem Aufstieg und Fall der Buchkultur in Verbindung steht und geht dabei besonders auf den Status des Autors als Schöpferindividuum ein, wie er in der Zeit um 1800 entstand und seit Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts begann, sich in philosophischen Diskursen wieder aufzulösen. Die historische Analyse zeigt, wie epistemologische Debatten Autor- und Künstlerkonzepte formten und sich daraus juristische Konzepte zur Regulierung geistiger Eigentumsrechte ergaben. Dabei wird hauptsächlich eine medienhistorische Perspektive angewandt, d.h. dass zunächst von den historischen Auswirkungen neuer Medientechnologien auf ihre Bedeutung für die beiden aneinander gekoppelten Konstrukte „Autorschaft“ und „geistige Eigentumsrechte“ geschlossen wird. So wird der historische Unterbau für eine Betrachtung des heutigen Status von geistigem Eigentum hergestellt, wobei die Auswirkungen digitaler Vernetzung auf Autorschaft und kulturelle Produktion ins Zentrum des Interesses rücken. Dabei wird u.a. differenziert, welche Arten kultureller Produktion auf Traditionen der Buchkultur gründen und welche den digitalen Medien entspringen. Dies eröffnet eine Perspektive, die den medialen Paradigmenwechsel, der im 15. Jahrhundert durch die Erfindung des Buchdrucks ausgelöst wurde, mit jenem vergleicht, der von der Entstehung der technischen Medien Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts vorbereitet und durch die globale digitale Vernetzung ins Rollen gebracht wurde. Die Arbeit kommt zu dem Schluss, dass die heutigen geistigen Eigentumsrechte in ihren positiven Ausformungen den medialen Rahmenbedingungen nicht mehr entsprechen, da sie auf den Voraussetzungen der Buchkultur gründen, mit einer digital vernetzten Medienumwelt nicht kompatibel und daher langfristig nicht mehr ohne grundlegende Transformationen haltbar sein werden. Die Schwierigkeit, dieses Problem in all seinen Ebenen zu erkennen und die notwendigen Schlüsse daraus zu ziehen, hängt mit der Beschaffenheit medialer Paradigmenwechsel im Allgemeinen zusammen, was auch am historischen Beispiel des Wechsels zur Buchkultur gezeigt wird: der Übergang zu einem neuen Paradigma kann nur dann vollends verstanden werden, wenn die Gesetzmäßigkeiten des neuen Paradigmas in all ihren Auswirkungen erfasst werden, was zur Zeit des Übergangs kaum möglich ist, da jegliche Beschreibungsversuche zunächst auf Begrifflichkeiten des alten Paradigmas angewiesen sind.
Apseudopsis Norman 1899
Creators: name: Błażewicz-Paszkowycz, M.
name: Bamber, R. N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Tanaidacea
Apseudidae
Apseudopsis

description: Genus Apseudopsis Norman, 1899
 Apseudopsis tuski (Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber, 2007) comb. nov.
 Apseudes tuski Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber, 2007b, 116– 120, figs 4–6.
 Remarks. This species lacks anterolateral spiniform apophyses on the pereonites, a comb of spinules on the pereopod 5 propodus, and a dorsodistal spine on the merus of pereopod 1, so is clearly a member of Apseudopsis Norman 1899 sensu Guţu (2006), indeed close in overall morphology to A. latreilli (Milne-Edwards, 1828). Apseudopsis tuski also has unusual spination on the maxilliped palp, as is the case for two of the species of Apseudes discussed above, but in this case there are three spines on the outer margin of the second article, the most distal of which is large and robust.
This species was found throughout the Bass Strait, between 37º50' and 40º07'S and 143º14' and 148º30'E, and from 18 to 84 m depth on sandy to coarse shell substrata.
description: Published as part of Błażewicz-Paszkowycz, M. & Bamber, R. N., 2012, The Shallow-water Tanaidacea (Arthropoda: Malacostraca: Peracarida) of the Bass Strait, Victoria, Australia (other than the Tanaidae), pp. 1-235 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 69 on page 9
Arithmetic harmonic analysis for smooth quartic Weyl sums: three additive equations
Creators: name: Bruedern, Joerg
name: Wooley, Trevor D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11D72, 11P55, 11E76

description: We establish the non-singular Hasse principle for systems of three diagonal quartic equations in 32 or more variables, subject to a certain rank condition. Our methods employ the arithmetic harmonic analysis of smooth quartic Weyl sums and also a new estimate for their tenth moment.
description: 22 pages
PRACTICES IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION IN SOUTH EAST EUROPE AND RUSSIA
Creators: name: Vučijak, Branko
name: Mugdim Pašić
name: Jovanović, Jelena
name: Idrizi, Altin
name: Thaqi Xhevdet
name: Kurbanov, Eldar
name: Bajrić, Hadis
name: Kadrić, Edin
name: Gojković, Ranka
Publisher: name: Center for Quality
Year: 2018
Subjects: Entrepreneurship
Education
Competences
Validation

description: International Journal for Quality Research; Vol 12, No 3, 2018. ISSN 1800-6450
description: The REBUS project emerged in countries where the younger generations are reluctant to engage in private business and entrepreneurship, preferring “safe” employment at the public (state owned) enterprises. Their awareness of own entrepreneurship potentials is very low, while the capacity of talented and skilled students often stays unutilized once being employed. Thus the REBUS project supports embedding entrepreneurship to the South East Europe and Russian universities, at the same time creating network for cooperation between EU and partner countries.
One of the first activities was identification, analysis and description of common practices in entrepreneurship education. For this purpose, a comprehensive desk research was combined with expert interviews to inquire about approaches of learning and teaching, connections to lessons, courses and extracurricular activities and approaches to validate entrepreneurial competences. The stocktaking related to the knowledge and differentiation on entrepreneurial competences, leading questions of the surveys related to gaps between formalised (HE) and informal (personal oriented, e.g. in internships) learning and assessment, potentials for enhancements of acquisition of those competences, validation of entrepreneurial competences and selection of key sub-competences.
The role of ciliated protozoa in the dynamics of marine invertebrate settlement
Creators: name: Watson, Matthew
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310305
subject: Marine and estuarine ecology (incl. marine ichthyology)
classificationCode: 310703
subject: Microbial ecology
classificationCode: 419999
subject: Other environmental sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Despite extensive evidence that invertebrate larvae respond to a range of specific physical and chemical cues which originate from microbial biofilms, the dynamics of protozoa in these communities remains largely unknown. Currently the study of free-living protozoa is mostly limited to freshwater studies including identification and taxonomic classification, determining their diversity in different habitats, and understanding their grazing behaviour under different conditions. Few studies have focused on investigating the influence of protozoa on marine biofilm structure/function and the greater effects this may have on marine invertebrates that colonise the biofilmed surfaces. This doctorate is among the first studies on how protozoa, an important component of biofilms, influence the settlement of marine invertebrates. Information gathered on the dynamics of biofilm dwelling ciliate communities and the mechanisms by which they influence larval settlement will provide new insights into colonisation dynamics. A greater understanding of these processes may ultimately have valuable applications in aquaculture, biofouling and the protection of marine biodiversity.
Additional file 1 of The impact of the world’s first regulatory, multi-setting intervention on sedentary behaviour among children and adolescents (ENERGISE): a natural experiment evaluation
Creators: name: Li, Bai
name: Valerino-Perea, Selene
name: Zhou, Weiwen
name: Xie, Yihong
name: Syrett, Keith
name: Peters, Remco
name: He, Zouyan
name: Zou, Yunfeng
name: de Vocht, Frank
name: Foster, Charlie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
sj-docx-1-inq-10.1177_00469580231220476 – Supplemental material for Age, 12-Step Group Involvement, and Relapse Affect Use of Sobriety Date as Recovery Start Date: A Mixed Methods Analysis
Creators: name: Cyders, Melissa A.
name: Fry, Melissa
name: Fox, Taylor
name: Shircliff, Katherine
name: Jacobs, Molly
name: Scott, Hannah
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Nursing not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-inq-10.1177_00469580231220476 for Age, 12-Step Group Involvement, and Relapse Affect Use of Sobriety Date as Recovery Start Date: A Mixed Methods Analysis by Melissa A. Cyders, Melissa Fry, Taylor Fox, Katherine Shircliff, Molly Jacobs and Hannah Scott in INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing
Additional file 2 of The impact of the world’s first regulatory, multi-setting intervention on sedentary behaviour among children and adolescents (ENERGISE): a natural experiment evaluation
Creators: name: Li, Bai
name: Valerino-Perea, Selene
name: Zhou, Weiwen
name: Xie, Yihong
name: Syrett, Keith
name: Peters, Remco
name: He, Zouyan
name: Zou, Yunfeng
name: de Vocht, Frank
name: Foster, Charlie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 2
HOW AND WHY TO IMPLEMENT A PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN PUBLIC RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS: THE APPROACH AND THE EXPERIENCE OF A LARGE MULTIDISCIPLINARY ITALIAN CENTRE
Creators: name: Poli, Michela
name: Cornolti, Davide
name: Pardini, Silvia
name: Iervasi, Giorgio
Publisher: name: Center for Quality
Year: 2018
Subjects: Performance management
Performance measurement
Quality management
ISO 9001
Scientific research

description: International Journal for Quality Research; Vol 12, No 3, 2018. ISSN 1800-6450
description: The implementation of a Performance Management System is complex in public research institutions: the sector peculiarity, the presence of multiple stakeholders with different needs, the difficult identification of the performance indicators, the lack of specific skills, the shortage of resources and the need of flexibility are the principal reasons for this complexity.
The purpose of the present report is to describe an exportable model for the implementation of a Performance Management System, built on Quality Management tool, able to improve the institutional performance, through processes of organizational evolution, based on the involvement of employees. This model has been applied in an Italian Research Institute.
The contribution of employees, with their professional and soft skills, and the commitment of the management, in the self-assessment of the organisation, are the key factors for the model implementation. This approach can help to solve the critical issues of implementing a performance management system.
Facilitating a transition to zero emission new housing in Australia: costs, benefits and direction for policy
Creators: name: Moore, Trivess
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Mitigating the impacts of climate change is perhaps the greatest challenge facing mankind. It has been calculated that reductions of greenhouse gas emissions of up to 90% of 1990 levels are required by 2050 to limit the impacts from anthropogenic climate change. Accordingly, projected responses to this challenge would require all sectors to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The residential sector in Australia, and globally, has been identified as being a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Moreover, it has been found to have favourable cost-benefit ratios to address these emissions. Many countries, including Australia, have now introduced minimum energy performance standards for new housing which aim to limit energy consumption and, in turn, greenhouse gas emissions. However, it is projected that current policies fall short of achieving significant greenhouse gas emissions reductions.

A facilitated regulatory transition to zero emission new housing (ZEH) by 2020 is being attempted in several advanced economies. Despite international efforts, the realisation of ZEH as a minimum building standard in Australia remains elusive. This thesis aims to address a lack of empirical evidence regarding the costs, benefits and practical policy implications of a ZEH transition in the Australian context. In order to do this a mixed methods approach has been applied.

Firstly, the costs, benefits and practical requirements for a facilitated regulatory transition to ZEH in Australia were evaluated. Secondly, existing new housing energy performance policies from Australia, the EU and USA were analysed to identify policy implementation gaps, key trends and current knowledge. A socio-technical transitions framework was utilised to analyse the progress to ZEH.

Results show that ZEH is economically and environmentally feasible for the dominant new housing form in the state of Victoria, Australia. However, there are currently significant gaps within the Australian policy context which must be addressed if a facilitated regulatory transition to ZEH is to occur. The research highlights that without a significant re-think of current approaches, Australian housing energy performance policies risk falling further behind standards of comparable advanced economies. This risks locking current and future occupants into unnecessary environmental impacts and high operational costs across the life-span of the house. In addition, findings indicate the applicability of a socio-technical transitions framework in analysis of ZEH transitions and policy development recommendations are presented.
Work experience and managerial performance & styles: evidence from Chinese mutual fund market
Creators: name: Huang, Songnan
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Work experience is a key factor in hiring decision of managers. However, empirical evidence that early life experience matters is very limited. This thesis fills in the gap by examining how work experience affects managerial performance and managerial style in mutual funds. Using a sample of Chinese fund managers, we find performances and styles vary across managers of different career backgrounds. Notably, managers of research and especially government backgrounds show higher risk adjusted returns while taking on less systematic risk. Further analyses on holdings characteristics suggest that they possess information advantage through prior work experience. In contrast, managers with experience in other investments generate high raw returns largely by holding more systematic risk and chase momentum.

 These effects persist even after controlling for both fund and time fixed effects. However, the strong market-timing ability is presented by all fund managers with these three backgrounds. Fund managers of banking backgrounds perform the worst, but they show high ability in attracting new money flow. Then we continue to prove that one explanation for information advantages to be obtained is manager’s political connection relation. We find managers with political background outperform others. And they also have strong stock-picking and market-timing abilities to manage their portfolio. Overall, we provide evidence that work experience matters for performance and management style.
RETROSPECT OF THE INFLUENCE OF TRANSPORTATION IN THE DELIVERED QUALITY OF PALLETIZED PRODUCT
Creators: name: Camargo, Felipe Vannucchi De
name: Queiroz, João Pedro Teixeira Peixoto De
name: Silveira, Antonio Carlos De Figueiredo
name: Tassio Fernando Pezzin Pin
name: Judenor Marchioro
name: Vaccari, Massimiliano
Publisher: name: Center for Quality
Year: 2018
Subjects: Packaging
Pallet transportation
Finite Element Analysis
Random Vibration
Sloshing

description: International Journal for Quality Research; Vol 12, No 3, 2018. ISSN 1800-6450
description: Palletizing products consist on the most prevailing method of packaging for wholesale merchandise in diverse industry sectors given its compact shape proper for transportation and storage. However, the arrival of damaged goods to retail still is a common scenario, representing a significant impairment to both retailer and manufacturer due to a poor-quality end product for the consumer. Within the complex supply chain involved in palletized products, transportation is the main responsible for maintaining their integrity, representing also the majority of all logistic costs involved. Given the financial impact that quality enhancement technologies can cause in this embracing packaging sector, the present study intends to review the main aspects of harmful transport-inherent mechanisms such as vibrations, shock and sloshing, exploring also numerical modelling techniques and establishing a baseline for quality conveyance through a brief literature review.
An Antibody Landscape-based Computational Framework for Modeling the Spread of Antigenically Variable Pathogens
Creators: name: Chen, Yan
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 401404
subject: Industrial engineering
classificationCode: 490108
subject: Operations research
classificationCode: 420205
subject: Epidemiological modelling

description: Antigenically variable pathogens (AVPs) pose a significant infectious disease burden, but vaccine development is extremely difficult due to their ability to quickly evolve beyond host immunity. Existing models of AVP spread have not been able to sufficiently account for host immune history, population mobility patterns, and pathogen evolutionary dynamics. This thesis aims at creating a computational framework built from the concept of antibody landscapes to overcome these issues, thereby increasing the understanding of how these pathogens spread and evolve in order to improve vaccine design.
Briefly, the proposed stochastic framework is built from "the ground up'' using principles of antibody landscapes, in which we begin by devising a mechanism to describe how the landscape changes due to repeated pathogen exposure. Extending this to a (sub)population-level permits integration into a meta-population model that is further parameterized by geographic influences. Virus evolution is driven by a statistically meaningful model of antigenic drift in the underlying antigenic space. While the framework is robust and, in principle, capable of modeling a variety of AVPs, we focus on influenza H3N2 as a case study due to its data availability and persistently low and unpredictable vaccine efficacy.
Experimental results demonstrate that we can statistically significantly predict various properties of H3N2 evolution and population level immunity, including prevalence level, the timing of emergence of new antigenic clusters, the positions of unseen strains in antigenic space, as well as the geographic locations where new strains and antigenic clusters emerge. Through analysis of the simulated outcomes, we identified a population level of immune protection against circulating strains (titre value of approximately 5 units), which when approached, seems to signal an upcoming antigenic drift. Using this insight, we propose a new vaccine strain selection strategy that shows notable improvements in vaccine effectiveness and stability. Additionally, we estimate that it could reduce annual morbidity by 73.4 ± 40.8 million (17% ± 9%) in the Northern Hemisphere and 56.7 ± 38.0 million (10% ± 6%) in the Southern Hemisphere. In summary, this novel framework can accurately replicate the interplay between pathogen evolution and population-level immune responses decades into the future from a mechanistic perspective, and be used to design improved vaccines.
Additional file 3 of The impact of the world’s first regulatory, multi-setting intervention on sedentary behaviour among children and adolescents (ENERGISE): a natural experiment evaluation
Creators: name: Li, Bai
name: Valerino-Perea, Selene
name: Zhou, Weiwen
name: Xie, Yihong
name: Syrett, Keith
name: Peters, Remco
name: He, Zouyan
name: Zou, Yunfeng
name: de Vocht, Frank
name: Foster, Charlie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 3
Characterisation of nickel germanide formed on amorphous and crystalline germanium
Creators: name: Algahtani, Fahid
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Germanium offers unique properties as a semiconductor materials for complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) devices with nearly four times the hole mobility and two times the electron mobility of silicon resulting in higher currents. However, two essential requirements in the application of Ge for CMOS technology are the formation of shallow junctions and the formation of ohmic metal contacts with low resistance.

High diffusivity of dopants in crystalline germanium is a problem when forming shallow junctions. However, amorphisation of crystalline germanium where dopant implants are to occur leads to shallow junctions. In this work both amorphous and crystalline germanium (a-Ge and c-Ge) are investigated. Nickel germanide (NiGe) formed on a-Ge and c-Ge is investigated for material and electrical properties. NiGe has been reported as a suitable germanide for low resistance ohmic contacts on c-Ge. The crystal quality of films formed is poorer for the germanides formed on a-Ge but there is only a slight increase in sheet resistance. The grains of NiGe formed on a-Ge show a growth that is hexagonal like, extending into the substrate further than germanides grains formed on crystalline germanium.

The NiGe formed on c-Ge has a much more uniform thickness and uniform grain size and shape. Thin films of nickel germanide conveniently form at the relatively low temperature of 300C in a matter of minutes and at even lower temperatures over a longer time. This thesis reports on the formation of NiGe on c-Ge substrates at low temperatures (less than 300°C). Ni films deposited on Ge substrates formed NiGe by heating the samples in an atmosphere VI nearly void of oxygen. Ni films of thickness 50 to 400 nm were deposited on c-Ge and heat treatments undertaken on samples for time durations of 5 minutes to 12 hours at different temperatures.

It was found that thickness of 25nm to 100 nm was not a significant factor and that NiGe formed in a few minutes on c-Ge for this thickness of Ni heated at 300°C. The temperature of formation for 400 nm reacting with germanium was longer. For all thickness of Ni, long durations were required for the lowest temperature of formation which were between 225°C and less than 300°C. The sheet resistances of NiGe on a-Ge and c-Ge are suitably low for use in CMOS technology. Metal contacts to NiGe were investigated and low resistance contacst were obtained. The contacts to c-Ge were significantly better. Improvements in processing is required for suitably low resistance contacts to be obtained for metal to NiGe formed on aGe, but results obtained here are promising and further investigation is warranted. NiGe on a-Ge shows poorer grain crystal quality and improvements in this are likely to lead to contacts with lower specific contact resistivity.
Parathyonidium Heding 1954
Creators: name: O'Loughlin, P. Mark
name: Mackenzie, Melanie
name: Paulay, Gustav
name: VandenSpiegel, Didier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Holothuroidea
Dendrochirotida
Cucumariidae
Parathyonidium

description: Parathyonidium Heding, 1954
 Parathyonidium Heding, 1954 in Heding and Panning 1954.
 Diagnosis (see Description of Parathyonidium incertum Heding, 1954 below)
 Type species. Parathyonidium incertum Heding, 1954 (type locality South Georgia) (monotypic)
 Remarks. Albert Panning (in Heding and Panning 1954) noted that his Copenhagen friend and colleague Sven Heding died before the publication of their anticipated Discovery Report, where he planned to describe the new genus Parathyonidium and species Parathyonidium incertum. Albert further noted that Elizabeth Deichmann had taken over work on the Discovery specimens, but had agreed that Albert would publish the description as written by Sven. Albert assigned the authorship of the new taxa to Heding, and the descriptions were published in Heding and Panning (1954). A Discovery Report on holothuroids was never published. The Discovery holothuroid collection is currently in Museum Victoria where most specimens have now been determined. Mark O’Loughlin and his colleagues hope to complete a Discovery Report on holothuroids. Here we have emended the diagnosis of Parathyonidium Heding, 1954 to more fully describe the tentacle form and arrangement, calcareous ring, gonad tubule arrangement, and ossicles.
description: Published as part of O'Loughlin, P. Mark, Mackenzie, Melanie, Paulay, Gustav & VandenSpiegel, Didier, 2014, Four new species and a new genus of Antarctic sea cucumbers with taxonomic reviews of Cladodactyla, Pseudocnus, Paracucumidae and Parathyonidium (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Dendrochirotida), pp. 31-61 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 72 on page 55, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2014.72.04, http://zenodo.org/record/12208427