cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Prospective Cohort Study of Antipsychotic Medications in Pregnancy: The First 147 Pregnancies and 100 One Year Old Babies
Creators: name: Kulkarni, Jayashri
name: Worsley, Roisin
name: Gilbert, Heather
name: Gavrilidis, Emorfia
name: Van Rheenen, Tamsyn
name: Wang, Wei
name: McCauley, Kay
name: Fitzgerald, Paul
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Background Many women diagnosed with varying psychiatric disorders take antipsychotic medications during pregnancy. The safety of antipsychotic medications in pregnancy is largely unknown. Methods We established the National Register of Antipsychotic Medications in Pregnancy in 2005. Women who are pregnant and taking an antipsychotic medication are interviewed every 6 weeks during pregnancy and then followed until their babies are one year old. The baby's progress is closely followed for the first year of life. Findings As of April 18 2012, 147 pregnancies had been followed through to completion. There were 142 live births and data is available for 100 one year old babies. 18% of babies were born preterm, with a higher dose of antipsychotic medication correlating to an increased likelihood of premature delivery; 43% of babies required special care nursery or intensive care after birth; 37% had any degree of respiratory distress and 15% of babies developed withdrawal symptoms. Congenital anomalies were seen in eight babies. Most pregnancies resulted in the birth of live, healthy babies. The use of mood stabilisers or higher doses of antipsychotics during pregnancy increased the likelihood of babies experiencing respiratory distress or admission to Special Care Nursery or Neonatal Intensive Care Units. Conclusion There is a great need for safety and efficacy information about the use of antipsychotic medications in pregnancy. Live, healthy babies are the most common outcome following the use of antipsychotic medication in pregnancy, but clinicians should be particularly mindful of neonatal problems such as respiratory distress.
Managers are from Mars and employees are from Venus
Creators: name: Pranav Naithani
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 150305 Human Resources Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Organizational Behavioral Psychology
subject: 170107 Industrial and Organisational Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This research presentation examines the overlooked causes of conflict and conflict escalation between managers and employees. The paper proposes emphasis on the need of a paradigm shift in the conflict management approach of managers.
Followership: The underrated aspect of Leadership
Creators: name: Pranav Naithani
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Education

description: Private sector employers in the UAE complain that the majority of fresh Emirati graduates are eager to take on leadership roles but hesitant in accepting followership roles and positions. This research presentation highlights the practical importance of followership roles in the formative stage of professional career and how it further leads to successful leadership positions.
Bayesian multi-exposure image fusion for robust high dynamic range ptychography
Creators: name: Kodgirwar, Shantanu
name: Loetgering, Lars
name: Liu, Chang
name: Joseph, Aleena
name: Licht, Leona
name: Molina, Daniel S. Penagos
name: Eschen, Wilhelm
name: Rothhardt, Jan
name: Habeck, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The limited dynamic range of the detector can impede coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) schemes from achieving diffraction-limited resolution. To overcome this limitation, a straightforward approach is to utilize high dynamic range (HDR) imaging through multi-exposure image fusion (MEF). This method involves capturing measurements at different exposure times, spanning from under to overexposure and fusing them into a single HDR image. The conventional MEF technique in ptychography typically involves subtracting the background noise, ignoring the saturated pixels and then merging the acquisitions. However, this approach is inadequate under conditions of low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Additionally, variations in illumination intensity significantly affect the phase retrieval process. To address these issues, we propose a Bayesian MEF modeling approach based on a modified Poisson distribution that takes the background and saturation into account. To infer the model parameters, the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm is employed. As demonstrated with synthetic and experimental data, our approach outperforms the conventional MEF method, offering superior phase retrieval under challenging experimental conditions. This work underscores the significance of robust multi-exposure image fusion for ptychography, particularly in imaging shot-noise-dominated weakly scattering specimens or in cases where access to HDR detectors with high SNR is limited. Furthermore, the applicability of the Bayesian MEF approach extends beyond CDI to any imaging scheme that requires HDR treatment. Given this versatility, we provide the implementation of our algorithm as a Python package.
Guidelines for developing a robust web survey.
Creators: name: Pranav Naithani
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 130103 Higher Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 150505 Marketing Research Methodology
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150301 Business Information Management (incl. Records, Knowledge and Information Management, and Intelligence)

description: A web based survey is an effective tool which is used frequently in academic and non academic researches. Increase in the internet usage and easy access to web technology facilitate the growing popularity of web surveys but absence of exhaustive literature on web surveys presents a significant challenge. This paper presents basic guidelines for developing a robust web survey. Aspects related to data quality, coverage bias, questionnaire design, non response bias, response bias, processing error, data duplication and pilot testing are discussed in detail. The paper closes with suggestions on key areas in which advance research is required to enhance the data quality of web questionnaires.
A case study of career related challenges of expatriate Indian professionals in the GCC countries.
Creators: name: Pranav Naithani
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 130103 Higher Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 160512 Social Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 150305 Human Resources Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The success of an overseas employment contract is significantly influenced by career related challenges. This paper presents the findings of a primary research conducted in the three GCC countries (Bahrain, Oman and the UAE) to comprehend the key career related challenges faced by professional Indian expatriates. This paper also explores the influence of demographic factors on career related challenges and concludes with the analysis of overall findings.
Multiple Comorbidities of 21 Psychological Disorders and Relationships With Psychosocial Variables: A Study of the Online Assessment and Diagnostic System Within a Web-Based Population
Creators: name: AL-Asadi, Ali M
name: Klein, Britt
name: Meyer, Denny
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Background: While research in the area of e-mental health has received considerable attention over the last decade, there are still many areas that have not been addressed. One such area is the comorbidity of psychological disorders in a Web-based sample using online assessment and diagnostic tools, and the relationships between comorbidities and psychosocial variables. Objective: We aimed to identify comorbidities of psychological disorders of an online sample using an online diagnostic tool. Based on diagnoses made by an automated online assessment and diagnostic system administered to a large group of online participants, multiple comorbidities (co-occurrences) of 21 psychological disorders for males and females were identified. We examined the relationships between dyadic comorbidities of anxiety and depressive disorders and the psychosocial variables sex, age, suicidal ideation, social support, and quality of life. Methods: An online complex algorithm based on the criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition, Text Revision, was used to assign primary and secondary diagnoses of 21 psychological disorders to 12,665 online participants. The frequency of co-occurrences of psychological disorders for males and females were calculated for all disorders. A series of hierarchical loglinear analyses were performed to examine the relationships between the dyadic comorbidities of depression and various anxiety disorders and the variables suicidal ideation, social support, quality of life, sex, and age. Results: A 21-by-21 frequency of co-occurrences of psychological disorders matrix revealed the presence of multiple significant dyadic comorbidities for males and females. Also, for those with some of the dyadic depression and the anxiety disorders, the odds for having suicidal ideation, reporting inadequate social support, and poorer quality of life increased for those with two-disorder comorbidity than for those with only one of the same two disorders. Conclusions: Comorbidities of several psychological disorders using an online assessment tool within a Web-based population were similar to those found in face-to-face clinics using traditional assessment tools. Results provided support for the transdiagnostic approaches and confirmed the positive relationship between comorbidity and suicidal ideation, the negative relationship between comorbidity and social support, and the negative relationship comorbidity and quality of life.
Emergence of spatially heterogeneous burst suppression in a neural field model of electrocortical activity
Creators: name: Bojak, Ingo
name: Stoyanov, Zhivko V.
name: Liley, David
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Burst suppression in the electroencephalogram (EEG) is a well-described phenomenon that occurs during deep anesthesia, as well as in a variety of congenital and acquired brain insults. Classically it is thought of as spatially synchronous, quasi-periodic bursts of high amplitude EEG separated by low amplitude activity. However, its characterization as a 'global brain state' has been challenged by recent results obtained with intracranial electrocortigraphy. Not only does it appear that burst suppression activity is highly asynchronous across cortex, but also that it may occur in isolated regions of circumscribed spatial extent. Here we outline a realistic neural field model for burst suppression by adding a slow process of synaptic resource depletion and recovery, which is able to reproduce qualitatively the empirically observed features during general anesthesia at the whole cortex level. Simulations reveal heterogeneous bursting over the model cortex and complex spatiotemporal dynamics during simulated anesthetic action, and provide forward predictions of neuroimaging signals for subsequent empirical comparisons and more detailed characterization. Because burst suppression corresponds to a dynamical end-point of brain activity, theoretically accounting for its spatiotemporal emergence will vitally contribute to efforts aimed at clarifying whether a common physiological trajectory is induced by the actions of general anesthetic agents. We have taken a first step in this direction by showing that a neural field model can qualitatively match recent experimental data that indicate spatial differentiation of burst suppression activity across cortex.
Capability framework for sustainable manufacturing of sports apparel and footwear
Creators: name: Subic, Aleksandar
name: Shabani, Bahman
name: Hedayati, Mehdi
name: Crossin, Enda
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 401001
subject: Engineering design

description: The sporting goods sector is characterized by large volumes of production, high levels of consumption and short product life cycles resulting in high disposal rates and waste. Manufacturing of sports products is distributed globally through tier-based supply chains and complex logistics systems. Companies within such supply chains have different levels of capability in sustainable manufacturing, which impacts on the sustainability of the overall business. Reducing environmental impacts is of particular concern for companies at present, due to heightened requirements for the reduction of energy and water consumption, waste and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This article describes outcomes of a research project conducted in collaboration with a global sporting goods manufacturer that focused on the development of relevant capabilities across their supply chain for sustainable manufacturing of sports apparel and footwear. The article presents the developed sustainable manufacturing framework and capability assessment results obtained for selected companies within the supply chain of this global manufacturer in Asia.
A biosensor based on magnetoelastic waves for detection of antibodies in human plasma for COVID-19 serodiagnosis
Creators: name: Silva, Wenderson R. F.
name: Monteiro, Larissa C. P.
name: Senra, Renato L.
name: de Araujo, Eduardo N. D.
name: Cunha, Rafael O. R. R.
name: Mendes, Tiago A. O.
name: Mendes, Joaquim B. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study proposes a new efficient wireless biosensor based on magnetoelastic waves for the detection of antibodies in human plasma, aiming at the serological diagnosis of COVID-19. The biosensor was functionalized with the N antigen - nucleocapsid phosphoprotein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Validation analyses, by sodium dodecyl-sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), Western blotting, atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), micro-Raman spectroscopy, confirmed the selectivity and effective surface functionalization of the biosensor. The research successfully obtained, expressed and purified the recombinant antigen, while plasma samples from COVID-19 positive and negative patients were used to test the performance of the biosensor. A comparison of performance with the ELISA method revealed equivalent diagnostic power. These results indicate the robustness of the biosensor in reliably differentiating between positive and negative samples, highlighting its potential as an efficient and low-cost tool for the serological diagnosis of COVID-19. In addition to being fast to execute and having the potential for automation in large-scale diagnostic studies, the biosensor fills a significant gap in existing SARS-CoV-2 detection approaches.
description: 17 pages, 1 table, and 7 figures
Spin-Orbital Ordering in Alkali Superoxides
Creators: name: Shibata, Kohei
name: Naka, Makoto
name: Jeschke, Harald O.
name: Otsuki, Junya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Akali superoxides AO2 (A=Na, K, Rb, Cs), due to an open p shell of the oxygen ion O2^- with degenerate pi orbitals, have spin and orbital degrees of freedom. The complex magnetic, orbital, and structural phase transitions observed experimentally in this family of materials are only partially understood. Based on density functional theory, we derive a strong-coupling effective model for the isostructural compounds AO2 (A=K, Rb, Cs) from a two-orbital Hubbard model. We find that CsO2 has highly frustrated exchange interactions in the a-b plane, while the frustration is weaker for RbO2 and KO2. We solve the resulting Kugel-Khomskii model in the mean-field approximation. We show that CsO2 exhibits an antiferro-orbital (AFO) order with the ordering vector q=(1,0,0) and a stripe antiferromagnetic order with q=(1/2,0,0), which is consistent with recent neutron scattering experiments. We discuss the role of the pi-orbital degrees of freedom for the experimentally observed magnetic transitions and interpret the as-yet-unidentified T_s2=70K transition in CsO2 as an orbital ordering transition.
description: 17 pages, 22 figures, 2 tables
Challenges Faced by Expatriate Workers in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries
Creators: name: Pranav Naithani
name: A.N. Jha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 150305 Human Resources Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150306 Industrial Relations
subject: 150308 International Business
subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: 150311 Organisational Behaviour
subject: 150312 Organisational Planning and Management
subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified

description: Over the last six decades reliance of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries’ economy on expatriate workforce has increased incessantly. Majority of private sector workforce in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are expatriates. This paper presents an overview of the GCC countries; reasons for their dependence on expatriate workforce; key current challenges faced by expatriates in the GCC countries and suggestions for facilitating adjustment of expatriate workers in the GCC countries.
Demographic profile of Non Resident Indian professionals in the GCC countries: A case study.
Creators: name: Pranav Naithani
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 150308 International Business
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150305 Human Resources Management

description: Transformation in demographic profile of global workforce has brought in new challenges, especially with reference to global expatriate workforce. For regions like the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, which heavily depend on expatriate workforce in private sector, further research on demographic factors of expatriates is imperative as these factors significantly influence expatriate adjustment in a foreign location. This research paper presents major factors which have influenced demographic profile of global workforce, followed by discussion on growth of expatriate population in the GCC countries. The paper further presents findings of a survey conducted to explore the demographic profile of a niche expatriate segment of Indian higher education teachers working in GCC countries. Findings of the survey are also compared with other research on demographic profile of expatriates. This paper concludes with suggestions for further research on demographic profile of expatriate workers in the GCC countries.
Out-of-equilibrium scaling of the energy density along the critical relaxational flow after a quench of the temperature
Creators: name: Panagopoulos, Haralambos
name: Vicari, Ettore
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the out-of-equilibrium behavior of statistical systems along critical relaxational flows arising from instantaneous quenches of the temperature $T$ to the critical point $T_c$, starting from equilibrium conditions at time $t=0$. In the case of soft quenches, i.e. when the initial temperature $T$ is assumed sufficiently close to $T_c$ (to keep the system within the critical regime), the critical modes develop an out-of-equilibrium finite-size scaling (FSS) behavior in terms of the rescaled time variable $Θ=t/L^z$, where $t$ is the time interval after quenching, $L$ is the size of the system, and $z$ is the dynamic exponent associated with the dynamics. However, the realization of this picture is less clear when considering the energy density, whose equilibrium scaling behavior (corresponding to the starting point of the relaxational flow) is generally dominated by a temperature-dependent regular background term or mixing with the identity operator. These issues are investigated by numerical analyses within the three-dimensional lattice $N$-vector models, for $N=3$ and $N=4$, which provide examples of critical behaviors with negative values of the specific-heat critical exponent $α$, implying that also the critical behavior of the specific heat gets hidden by the background term. The results show that, after subtraction of its asymptotic critical value at $T_c$, the energy density develops an asymptotic out-of-equilibrium FSS in terms of $Θ$ as well, whose scaling function appears singular in the small-$Θ$ limit.
description: 12 pages
Influence of subject choice, work overload and work stress on expatriate higher education teachers
Creators: name: Pranav Naithani
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 130103 Higher Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 150305 Human Resources Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Subject choice, work overload and work stress influence personal and professional lives of higher education teachers. Though the majority of higher education teachers in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are expatriates, yet research on expatriate higher education teachers working in the GCC countries is limited. This paper presents one part of the work life balance survey and focuses on the influence of subject choice, work overload and work stress on higher education teachers in the GCC countries.
Recession and work-life balance initiatives
Creators: name: Pranav Naithani
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: 150305 Human Resources Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150306 Industrial Relations
subject: 150311 Organisational Behaviour
subject: 150312 Organisational Planning and Management
subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: 150308 International Business

description: Work-life balance has emerged as an important human resource management aspect for employers. Globally, a wide gamut of work-life balance facilities is being provided by a large number of organisations. Recent economic downturn has witnessed a sudden interruption in the spread and growth of work-life balance facilities. This paper presents the key recessionary reasons which have negatively influenced employee work-life balance. Further, important recession specific benefits which organisations can avail due to enhanced employee work-life balance have been presented followed by suggestions for adapting work-life balance facilities under current economic downturn as well as in any such situation in the future.
Overview of Work-Life Balance Discourse and Its Relevance in Current Economic Scenario
Creators: name: Pranav Naithani
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 150305 Human Resources Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150306 Industrial Relations
subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: 150311 Organisational Behaviour
subject: 150312 Organisational Planning and Management
subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified

description: During the second half of 20th century, with work demands increasingly encroaching on family and personal time at a faster pace, employers acknowledged the need of work-life balance programmes to facilitate employees maintain a healthy balance between the conflicting demands of their work and personal life. Availability of work-life balance facilities to employees witnessed a phenomenal growth between the late eighties of the 20th century and early years of the 21st century. This growth has been abruptly interrupted by the current economic downturn. Increasing numbers of organisations, in the name of cost cutting, have either curtailed work-life balance facilities or are contemplating to do the same. This paper analyses the emergence of work-life balance discourse, from the days of early communal living till the present day theories, and presents a macro level model of work-life balance. Further, a detailed analysis of proven and anticipated benefits of work-life balance is presented to justify the need of work-life balance initiatives at organisational level during the present economic downturn.
Revisión: Pandemia del Coronavirus (COVID-19) y su impacto a nivel Psicosocial
Creators: name: Torres-Lista, Virginia
name: Solís Rodríguez, Abdel
name: Herrera, Luis Carlos
name: Montenegro, Markelda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: COVID-19
Distanciamiento Social
Salud Mental
Resiliencia
Hábitos de Vida Saludables
Social distancing
Mental Health
Resilience
Healthy lifestyle

description: La declaración de pandemia por el COVID-19 que inició en Wuhan el 31 de diciembre de 2020, en la República Popular China, ha provocado más de 505 millones de casos infectados y 6.2 millones de muertes en todo el mundo. Que trajo como consecuencia,
 problemas médicos, psicológicos, sociales, económicos, políticos, entre otros. Donde dicho artículo se centró en analizar las variables con mayor impacto a nivel psicosocial. Dichas variables fueron investigadas en las bases de datos de PubMed.
 La exploración se realizó en el idioma inglés. Donde los términos de búsqueda fueron los siguientes: “Social distancing”, “Social interaction”, “Resilience”, “Mental Health”, “Healthy lifestyle and COVID-19”, el período se contempló entre el 2020 al 2022 y
 arrojó un total de 29,897 artículos científicos. Donde se encontró que la llegada de la pandemia modificó los estilos de vida de las personas, donde los grupos vulnerables fueron los más afectados y el género femenino tuvo mayor deterioro a nivel de salud
 mental. Es por esto, que los Estados deben crear políticas innovadoras para prevenir cualquier tipo de crisis tanto de salud hasta social y brindar asistencia sanitaria de calidad desde las áreas rurales hasta las de difícil acceso, debido que las políticas
 deben ser inclusivas para todos los sectores. Palabras clave: COVID-19; Distanciamiento Social, Salud Mental, Resiliencia; Hábitos de Vida Saludables #JuntosHaciendoCiencia www.cenics.org The declaration of a pandemic by COVID-19 in Wuhan on December 31, 2020, in the People’s Republic of China has caused more than 505 million infected cases and 6.2 million deaths worldwide. Consequently, that brought medical, psychological,
 social, economic, and political problems, among others. This article focused on analyzing the variables with the most significant impact at the psychosocial level. These variables were investigated in the PubMed databases. The examination was
 performed in the English language. Where the search terms were the following: “Social distancing”, “Social interaction”, “Resilience”, “Mental Health”, “Healthy lifestyle and Covid-19”, the period was between 2020 and 2022 and yielded a total of 29,897 scientific articles. Where it was found that the arrival of the pandemic modified people’s lifestyles, where vulnerable groups were the most affected, and the female gender had the most significant deterioration in terms of mental health. The States must create innovative policies to prevent any health and social crisis and provide quality health care from rural areas to those difficult to access since policies must be inclusive of all sectors.
 Keywords: COVID-19; Social distancing; Mental Health; Resilience, Healthy lifestyle. #JuntosHaciendoCiencia www.cenics.org
Reference framework for active learning in higher education
Creators: name: Pranav Naithani
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 160506 Education Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 130103 Higher Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: Education
subject: 170109 Personality, Abilities and Assessment
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 170103 Educational Psychology

description: The work presented in this paper traces the history of active learning and further utilizes the available literature to define meaning and importance of active learning in highereducation. The study highlights common practical problems faced by students and instructors in implementing active learning in higher education and further identifies a set of individual practices being used worldwide to overcome the obstacles. Expectations and responsibilities of studentsand instructors are also specified to enhance the efficiency of active learning environment. The paper also traces the importance of student and instructor rapport for a successful learning environment. The paper concludes with a list of suggested tools for a successful active learning environment in higher education with specific reference to the importance of the role of the instructor.
Análisis socioeconómico de las medidas legales adoptadas en las provincias en Panamá para enfrentar el COVID-19
Creators: name: Herrera, Luis Carlos
name: Montenegro, Markelda
name: Torres-Lista, Virginia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Socioeconómicos
Jurídicos
COVID-19
Sociedad
Panamá

description: Este documento es parte del estudio” Análisis del Impacto Socioeconómico del COVID-19 en Panamá”, Financiado por SENACYT, (COVID19-058), con el apoyo del BID, aliados como la USMA, autoridades nacionales y municipales, organizaciones de la sociedad civil, para generar conocimiento científico, desde el análisis de la realidad social de las provincias y la aplicación de las medidas del COVID-19, implementadas por el gobierno central y local. La pandemia del COVID-19, ha demandado de la comunidad científica, esfuerzos de investigación colaborativas, en alianzas público-privado, y el análisis de la realidad desde distintos escenarios, para generar el conocimiento científico, y se convierta en una oportunidad para fortalecer las ciencias, la investigación, innovación y tecnología, pero sobre todo para repensar el modelo de gestión pública, para lograr un desarrollo económico descentralizado, con enfoque de los derechos humanos, inclusión social, participación ciudadana, género, transparencia y la sostenibilidad, centrada en las personas. Para este estudio se realizó una sistematización de datos por provincia, que hace visibles particularidades en la aplicación de las medidas legales contra el COVID-19, sus impactos, buenas prácticas locales, lecciones aprendidas e iniciativas en las 10 provincias. #JuntosHaciendoCiencia www.cenics.org
Foreign higher education institutes in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries
Creators: name: Pranav Naithani
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 130103 Higher Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 130199 Education systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Education

description: The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are witnessing an exponential growth in new foreign higher education institutions on account of government policies which promote setting up of local campuses of renowned foreign universities. But the GCC countries have not been able to adequately address key quality related issues in higher education domain resulting into poor participation of local workforce in the private sector. This paper presents key issues in private higher education in the GCC countries which need to be addressed on a priority basis by the local governments to help improve the quality of higher education.
Global communication practices of physiotherapists on Twitter
Creators: name: Merolli, Mark
name: Busuttil, Maria Louisa
name: Wåhlin, Charlotte
name: Green, Ann
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 420308
subject: Health informatics and information systems
classificationCode: 420310
subject: Health surveillance
classificationCode: 4299
subject: Other health sciences

description: Background: Social media have offered professional communities the opportunity to be digitally connected. The hashtag #GlobalPT was conceived and promoted from 2015 and has acted as a slogan for the globally connected physiotherapy community. This study explores the global reach and dominant communication themes that emerged during a set time frame that represented the single largest period of #GlobalPT activity. Method: Using purposive sampling, 988 publically available tweets including the hashtag #GlobalPT were studied. Descriptive statistical analysis was conducted to quantify tweet data and qualitative, inductive phenomenological thematic content analysis to describe latent themes within the tweets. Results: #GlobalPT activity was noted across 24 countries (UK top represented) and four languages (929/988, 94.03% in English). Europe was the most active area (738/988, 74.70%), followed by Oceania (120/988, 12.15%). Thematic content analysis identified eight themes within the communication practices of the physiotherapy community on Twitter. The three major themes were: sharing information (108/377, 28.65%), promotional activity (93/377, 24.67%) and positive feedback (69/377, 18.30%). Conclusion: The professional communication practices of physiotherapists on Twitter show a global spread of communication. The themes provide preliminary evidence for social media’s unique potential to assist the World Confederation for Physical Therapy strategic vision.
Meaning and Origin of Religion from the Reviewed Literature: An Islamic Perspective
Creators: name: Adamu Musa K.
Publisher: name: gjrpublication
Year: 2024

description: The concept of religion has been a subject of debate. It generates many discussions in many academic fora. Various approaches in understanding the concept of religion were used and thus, different ideas and opinions were produced. According to some, religion is nothing rather than just a belief in spiritual beings. Others consider it as a way of life. But, to the anti-religious approach, religion is like a virus or opium of the people. As for the Muslims, Islam is the only religion and all other religions are null and void. This paper discusses the general concept of religion and the perspective of Islam on Muslims’ understanding. In achieving this objective, the paper analyzes some established relevant literature and all sources were duly acknowledged.
Model of expatriate adjustment and framework for organisational support
Creators: name: Pranav Naithani
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150311 Organisational Behaviour
subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: 150312 Organisational Planning and Management
subject: 150305 Human Resources Management
subject: 150306 Industrial Relations

description: Increasing globalisation of the workforce has resulted into a large population of expatriate workers who frequently engage in temporary work outside their home country. Along with monetary benefits, expatriate assignment is closely associated with a number of challenges which influence adjustment of an expatriate in a foreign country. This paper presents an expatriate adjustment model derived from review of research papers published on expatriate adjustment in the last two decades and analyses major internal and external expatriate support factors. The paper concludes with a proposed multilevel action plan at organisational level to support expatriate adjustment.
Structural colour of porous dielectrics processed by direct laser write technique
Creators: name: Mizeikis, Vygantas
name: Purlys, Vytautas
name: Buividas, Richard
name: Juodkazis, Saulius
name: von Freymann, Georg
name: Schoenfeld, Winston V.
name: Rumpf, Raymond C.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Abstract not reproduced here by request of the publisher. The text is available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2038666
Empirical study of dynamic changes in work and family life spheres and emergence of work-life balance initiatives
Creators: name: Pranav Naithani
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: 150311 Organisational Behaviour
subject: 150312 Organisational Planning and Management
subject: 150306 Industrial Relations
subject: 150305 Human Resources Management

description: In the last six decades, work life and family life spheres of employees have undergone various changes. This paper presents an empirical study of the major factors which have influenced employee work-life balance and popular work-life balance tools initiated at organisational level to help an employee balance different life segments such as work, family, personal finances, career and health.
Characterisation and validation of novel, stable apelin-13 analogues on neurodegeneration in AD.
Creators: name: Sharma, Priya
Publisher: name: College of Science and Engineering, University of Derby
Year: 2025
Subjects: Alzheimer’s disease, neurodegeneration, Endoplasmic reticulum, Hydrogen peroxide, Lipopolysaccharide, thapsigargin, amyloid beta-42, palmitate.

description: Introduction: Alzheimer’s disease is characterised by the cognitive decline, neuronal loss linked to oxidative stress, neuroinflammation, autophagy and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. There are number of factors involved like lifestyle, genetics, age, and environment. After decades of research there is still no cure for Alzheimer’s. This thesis investigates the neuroprotective role of novel stable peptide apelin-13 analogues on cell survival and cell growth against various stressors induced in SH-SY5Y cells in-vitro. 
Methods and results: SH-SY5Y neuronal cells were cultured and treated with the apelin-13 analogues in presence or absence of stressors under controlled condition to evaluate the effects on cell stress response and cell survival pathways. The cells were differentiated with retinoic acid to look at the cell proliferation and neurite extension. The treatments with apelin-13 analogues enhanced the cell viability , proliferation, modulated the oxidative stress and ER markers and promoted neurite outgrowth and differentiation. Furthermore, apelin-13 analogues reduced the pro-apoptotic and ER stress markers and led to increase in autophagy related proteins. The mechanistic study by AMPK knockdown showed that apelin-13 is AMPK dependant. 
Conclusion: The result demonstrated that apelin-13 analogues protect against the neurotoxicity and oxidative stress by improving cell viability, proliferation and reducing cell toxicity. The apelin-13 analogues restored the autophagy and moderated the UPR activation via AMPK and PI3K/Akt pathway activation. Although further in-vivo studies are required to validate the results. This study provides new insight to the role of apelin-13 analogues as a therapeutic agent and pave a way for novel intervention targeting neurodegeneration.
SMIFH2 has effects on Formins and p53 that perturb the cell cytoskeleton
Creators: name: Tadamoto Isogai
name: Kammen, Rob Van Der
name: Innocenti, Metello
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Cell Biology

description: Formin proteins are key regulators of the cytoskeleton involved in developmental and homeostatic programs, and human disease. For these reasons, small molecules interfering with Formins’ activity have gained increasing attention. Among them, small molecule inhibitor of Formin Homology 2 domains (SMIFH2) is often used as a pharmacological Formin blocker. Although SMIFH2 inhibits actin polymerization by Formins and affects the actin cytoskeleton, its cellular mechanism of action and target specificity remain unclear.
Here we show that SMIFH2 induces remodelling of actin filaments, microtubules and the Golgi complex as a result of its effects on Formins and p53.
We found that SMIFH2 triggers alternated depolymerization-repolymerization cycles of actin and tubulin, increases cell migration, causes scattering of the Golgi complex, and also cytotoxicity at high dose. Moreover, SMIFH2 reduces expression and activity of p53 through a post-transcriptional, proteasome-independent mechanism that influences remodelling of the cytoskeleton.
As the action of SMIFH2 may go beyond Formin inhibition, only short-term and low-dose SMIFH2 treatments minimize confounding effects induced by loss of p53 and cytotoxicity.
Proteomic Analyses Uncover a New Function and Mode of Action for Mouse Homolog of Diaphanous 2 (mDia2)
Creators: name: Tadamoto Isogai
name: Kammen, Rob Van Der
name: Soenita S. Goerdayal
name: Heck, Albert J.R.
name: A.F. Maarten Altelaar
name: Innocenti, Metello
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Cell Biology

description: mDia2 is an auto-inhibited Formin influencing actin dynamics upon conversion to the active conformation. mDia2 regulates actin-based protrusions and cell invasion, cell differentiation, vesicle trafficking, and cytokinesis. However, whether mDia2 has additional functions and how its action is functionally specified remain unknown. Here we draw the interactome of auto-inhibited and constitutively active mDia2 to address these issues. We embed mDia2 in protein networks accounting for its attributed functions and unexpectedly link it to the Ubiquitin Proteasome System. Taking FBXO3 as a test case, we show that mDia2 binds FBXO3 and p53, and regulates p53 transcriptional activity in an actin-nucleation-independent and conformation-insensitive manner. Increased mDia2 and FBXO3 levels elevate p53 activity and expression thereby sensitizing cells to p53-dependent apoptosis, whereas their decrease produces opposite effects. Thus, we discover a new role of mDia2 in p53 regulation suggesting that the closed conformation is biologically active and an FBXO3-based mechanism to functionally specify mDia2’s activity.
Wave heights in the 21st century Arctic Ocean simulated with a regional climate model
Creators: name: Khon, V. C.
name: Mokhov, I. I.
name: Pogarskiy, F. A.
name: Babanin, Alexander
name: Dethloff, K.
name: Rinke, A.
name: Matthes, H.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: While wave heights globally have been growing over recent decades, observations of their regional trends vary. Simulations of future wave climate can be achieved by coupling wave and climate models. At present, wave heights and their future trends in the Arctic Ocean remain unknown. We use the third-generation wave forecast model WAVEWATCH-III forced by winds and sea ice concentration produced within the regional model HIRHAM, under the anthropogenic scenario SRES-A1B. We find that significant wave height and its extremes will increase over different inner Arctic areas due to reduction of sea ice cover and regional wind intensification in the 21st century. The opposite tendency, with a slight reduction in wave height appears for the Atlantic sector and the Barents Sea. Our results demonstrate the complex wave response in the Arctic Ocean to a combined effect of wind and sea ice forcings in a climate-change scenario during the 21st century. Key Points Significant wave height will increase over the Arctic Ocean in the 21st century Reduction in wave height is expected for the Atlantic sector and the Barents Sea.
Innovation education programs: toward a conceptual framework
Creators: name: Maritz, Alex
name: De Waal, Anton
name: Buse, Stephan
name: Herstatt, Cornelius
name: Lassen, Astrid
name: Maclachlan, Ross
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Purpose - Innovation education has been identified as a key contributor to enhancing the innovative behaviour of individuals, organisations and economies; yet very little literature exists on the development and assessment of innovation education programs. This is particularly so in the higher education and vocational education domains. Our intention is to bridge this gap in the literature, by proposing a conceptual framework of a multi-dimensional innovation education program. Design/methodology/approach - We employ a transparent and reproducible procedure and critical appraisal of the literature; coupled with emergent inquiry and case study implementation of a leading international innovation education program. Findings - The study provides a framework by which innovation education facilitators may develop and evaluate their innovation education programs. The proposed framework provides a thematic appreciation of the multi-dimensional relationships between components. Research limitations/implications - Limited within the context of this case study, geographical context and scant literature on innovation education programs and reproducible procedure. Originality/value - Provides a conceptual innovation education framework, based upon a successful international innovation management program.
ACCESS: Assurance Case Centric Engineering of Safety-critical Systems
Creators: name: Wei, Ran
name: Foster, Simon
name: Mei, Haitao
name: Yan, Fang
name: Yang, Ruizhe
name: Habli, Ibrahim
name: O'Halloran, Colin
name: Tudor, Nick
name: Kelly, Tim
name: Nemouchi, Yakoub
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Assurance cases are used to communicate and assess confidence in critical system properties such as safety and security. Historically, assurance cases have been manually created documents, which are evaluated by system stakeholders through lengthy and complicated processes. In recent years, model-based system assurance approaches have gained popularity to improve the efficiency and quality of system assurance activities. This becomes increasingly important, as systems becomes more complex, it is a challenge to manage their development life-cycles, including coordination of development, verification and validation activities, and change impact analysis in inter-connected system assurance artifacts. Moreover, there is a need for assurance cases that support evolution during the operational life of the system, to enable continuous assurance in the face of an uncertain environment, as Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) are adopted into society. In this paper, we contribute ACCESS - Assurance Case Centric Engineering of Safety-critical Systems, an engineering methodology, together with its tool support, for the development of safety critical systems around evolving model-based assurance cases. We show how model-based system assurance cases can trace to heterogeneous engineering artifacts (e.g. system architectural models, system safety analysis, system behaviour models, etc.), and how formal methods can be integrated during the development process. We demonstrate how assurance cases can be automatically evaluated both at development and runtime. We apply our approach to a case study based on an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV).
MPEC 2024-E85 : 2024 EB2
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 EB2

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.
Kuangetal-survey-developer-programming
Creators: name: Kuang, Peng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: computer science
software engineering
software developer
programming
machine learning
eye tracking
gamification
program analysis

description: The two versions (A & B) of the question sets used in the survey study

The Python script for analyzing the quantitative data

The coding book for analyzing the qualitative data