cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The interaction between fiscal policy and monetary policy to achieve price stability in emerging economies
Creators: name: Tran, Thanh
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 380112
subject: Macroeconomics (incl. monetary and fiscal theory)

description: The failure of inflation targeting regimes in several emerging economies has received renewed interest among academics and policymakers alike. This ineffectiveness can be attributed to worsening fiscal positions in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, which sheds light on the importance of coordinating fiscal policy and monetary policy to achieve price stability. This thesis, therefore, aims to investigate the effects of fiscal policy on the different transmission channels of monetary policy, which ultimately results in high inflation. We build on the theory of sovereign risk premium, which is a point of difference from previous studies. Another empirical contribution of the thesis is the use of the linear and non-linear autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach to test the relationship between fiscal policy and the transmission channels of monetary policy in several emerging economies, including Brazil, the Philippines, and Turkey. The study finds that a deterioration of fiscal position significantly leads to higher inflation expectations in Brazil and Turkey. An expansion of fiscal deficits results in higher interest rates and domestic currency depreciation for Brazil. Interestingly, fiscal policy affects monetary variables in an asymmetric way, such that the impact of fiscal deterioration is more powerful than that of fiscal improvement. However, there is no relationship found between fiscal policy and the transmission channels of monetary policy for the Philippines. The findings are in favour of the view that fiscal consolidation is an important requirement for the success of an inflation targeting regime in emerging economies. The divergence in empirical results among countries sheds light on the importance of a strong policy commitment towards a sustainable path to diminish the negative effects of fiscal imbalances on monetary policy.
Eden. Exile. Babel: an exploration through contemporary painting practice of the interrelationship between human experience and the divine via the thematic symbolism of Genesis
Creators: name: Lee, Adam
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360602
subject: Fine arts

description: Through this project I have explored the possibilities of contemporary painting practice as a mode for investigating concepts of human-divine interrelationship, via an exploration of the themes of Eden, Exile and Babel derived from the Old Testament book of Genesis. These themes relate to the Genesis narratives of the Garden of Eden, the “expulsion from the garden”, and the Tower of Babel. I have explored the possibilities of these as thematic symbols in the development and construction of painting based artworks, which re-examine the content, imagery and meaning of Genesis and its possibilities as a re-interpreted textual source in contemporary painting practice. Specifically through the artworks I have explored notions of human-divine interrelationship in connection with the following: the possibilities of the natural world and landscape in painting as a metaphoric carrier of divinity; humanity as an “image bearer” of the divine; divinity in relation to a dimension of “timelessness” existing outside of linear or chronological time connected with ‘a-temporal’ zones of the infinite and the eternal; and the possibilities of painting as a medium embodying notions and experiences of divinity, and its potential to bend or slow time in relation to exploring human experience in connection to a divine dimension.
title: Einfluss von Safran auf Zellvitalität und DNA-Stabilität von HepG2-Zellen
Creators: name: Moll, Felizitas
Year: 2010

description: In der vorliegenden Studie wurden die Narbenäste und Tepalen des österreichischen Safrancrocus (Crocus sativus L.) auf ihre zytotoxische und genotoxische Wirkung an HepG2-Zellen getestet. Ziel war es, die Wirkung in haushaltsüblichen und ernährungswissenschaftlich interessanten Mengen zu beobachten. Die Proben wurden in je drei verschiedenen Mengen (Tepalen: 1T, 2T, 3T; Narbenäste: 2NÄ, 5NÄ, 10NÄ) mit 80% ethanolischer Lösung extrahiert, und die Zellen 24h inkubiert. Nach der Inkubationszeit wurden Zellzahl und Zellvitalität mittels Trypanblautest ermittelt. Anschließend wurde der Comet-Assay durchgeführt, um mögliche DNA-Schäden in den Zellen zu ermitteln. Im Trypanblautest lagen alle Zellzahlen im Bereich der Negativkontrolle. Es zeigte sich jedoch, vor allem bei den Narbenästen, eine leichte, nicht signifikante Reduktion der Zellzahlen, in Abhängigkeit der Dosis. Im Comet Assay konnte keine signifikante Erhöhung der DNA-Schäden durch Safranextrakt festgestellt werden. Es zeigte sich, dass Narbenäste und Tepalen der Safranpflanze in den getesteten Konzentrationen in vitro keine genotoxische und nur bedingt zytotoxische Wirkung gegen HepG2-Zellen entfalten. Ein normaler Haushaltsgebrauch von Safran-Narbenästen und Tepalen scheint deshalb, auf Basis dieser Untersuchungen, unbedenklich. Aufgrund der eingeschränkten Übertragbarkeit von Zelltests auf den gesamten Organismus müssten die Ergebnisse jedoch durch weitere Studien an Tier und Mensch abgesichert werden.
description: The present study was conducted to analyze the stigmas and petals of Austrian saffron (Crocus sativus L.) regarding their cytotoxic and genotoxic effects on HepG2 cells. One of the main aims was to observe the effects in relevant amounts for the average household and for nutritional sciences. Samples were tested in three different concentrations per group (petals: 1T, 2T, 3T; stigmas: 2NÄ, 5NÄ, 10NÄ) and extracted with an 80% ethanolic solution, then incubated for 24 hours. After incubation of the cells, cell counts and cell viability were determined via trypane blue assay. Afterwards the comet (SCGE-) assay was performed to identify any DNA damage inflicted to the cells. The trypane blue assay showed that all cell counts were in the range of the negative control group. However, a slight, non-significant and dose-dependent reduction in cell counts could be observed, especially in the stigmas group. Comet assay revealed no significant increase in DNA damage in saffron-treated cells. To sum up, stigmas and petals of Crocus sativus L. displayed no genotoxic and only limited cytotoxic potential against HepG2 cells in vitro in the tested concentration range. On the basis of these studies we can therefore conclude that a regular household usage of saffron stigmas and petals seems nonhazardous. Due to the restricted transferability of cell tests to the whole human body, however, further research in the form of animal and human studies will be necessary to confirm these results.
Protein degradation pathways in hepatic ER stress and insulin resistance
Creators: name: Wang, Hao
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Over consumption of high-fat or high-carbohydrate diet has been shown to cause insulin resistance in both animals and humans. Although both diets can result in an accumulation of lipids to interfere with insulin signal transduction, the mechanisms and pathways involved are different. This thesis focused on the crosstalk of pathways in relation to the pathogenesis of hepatic insulin resistance using mouse models, especially in the context of over consumption of a lipogenic carbohydrate, fructose. The results showed high-fructose diet lead to insulin resistance primarily through the induction of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, which impaired insulin signalling through the activation of inflammatory enzymes.

Since ER stress results from an accumulation of unfolded proteins, this thesis further investigated two major pathways responsible for protein degradation, namely autophagy and ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS) and found both were altered along with ER stress. Autophagy was suppressed by fructose and restoration of autophagy was able to diminish ER stress and normalize insulin signalling. On the other hand, Nedd4-2, which is part of the UPS, was upregulated by fructose and ER stress inducers. Overexpression of Nedd4-2 was shown to induce autophagy and attenuate ER stress. These data suggest that the alteration in protein degradation pathways is causal to high-carbohydrate diet-induced insulin resistance and also provide a scientific rationale for targeting the degradation pathways for the treatment of insulin resistance and associated metabolic disorders.
A novel air traffic management decision support system
Creators: name: Gardi, Alex
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 400104
subject: Avionics
classificationCode: 400512
subject: Transport engineering

description: This research project aimed to develop innovative Multi-Objective Trajectory Optimisation (MOTO) and Dynamic Airspace Management (DAM) models and tools to enhance the performance of Air Traffic Management (ATM) and Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM) systems, simultaneously targeting safety, efficiency and environmental sustainability requirements in line with SESAR and NextGen operational concepts. The novel MOTO and DAM functionalities were implemented and numerically evaluated in the form of automated 4DT Planning, Negotiation and Validation (4-PNV) algorithms within an innovative ATM Decision Support System (DSS) prototype. The 4-PNV system exchanges optimal 4DT intents with Next Generation Flight Management Systems (NG-FMS) on board equipped traffic via suitable data-links. Two different MOTO algorithms were developed to selectively address the en-route context and Terminal Manoeuvring Area (TMA) sectors. A variable set of models and optimality criteria can be selected based on the flight phase, aircraft and airspace states. An operational 4DT smoothing algorithm translates the mathematical Continuous and Piece-Wise Smooth (CPWS) optimal trajectory in a flyable and concisely described 4DT intent, while retaining most of the optimality performances offered by the mathematical solution. The developed MOTO-4D and DAM algorithms support an automation-assisted planning of 4DT intents in strategic and tactical online timeframes, as well as traffic flow and airspace reconfigurations. The models adopted to introduce the environmental performance within the 4DT optimisation framework also enable an estimation of the environmental impacts.
Supplemental Material - Constructive Resistance in the Frontlines: How Frontline Employees’ Resistance to Customer Incivility Affects Customer Observers
Creators: name: Kamran-Disfani, Omid
name: Bagherzadeh, Ramin
name: Bhattarai, Ashok
name: Farhang, Maryam
name: Scheer, Lisa K.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150402 Hospitality Management

description: Supplemental Material for Constructive Resistance in the Frontlines: How Frontline Employees’ Resistance to Customer Incivility Affects Customer Observers by Omid Kamran-Disfani, Ramin Bagherzadeh, Ashok Bhattarai, Maryam Farhang, and Lisa K. Scheer. Martin in Journal of Service Research
Serbia imagined: what it means to be a contemporary ‘Serb’
Creators: name: Samardzija, Anita
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 440505
subject: Intersectional studies

description: In this thesis I analyse the contemporary Serbian national imaginary. Combining theories of nationalism and the social imaginary with fieldwork in Belgrade 2013 and 2014, I document and analyse the resurgence of Serb nationalism since the Yugoslav wars. Data suggests that there is a strong Serbian identification with an ethno-religious imaginary that asserts Serbs are a unique people who have achieved their long-held goal of national self-determination despite overwhelming historical obstacles. There is also an emphasis on 'inherited' markers that suggests Serbs are essentially a certain kind of people: those 'who do the good'. Their fundamental goodness translates into actions for the ‘right’ reasons. This way any self-perceived negative behaviour of Serbs is attributed to unfavourable circumstances. This imaginary rests within a significant sense of disappointment with the present state of Serbia in a context of declining living standards, widespread corruption and distrust of political elites. The post-Yugoslav civic project of European integration exemplified by the push for European Union (EU) membership of successive Serbian governments, has met with declining popular support and uncertainty. Despite some Serbs hoping for a powerful authority to 'clean up' Serbia and provide the means for a better future, they are deeply suspicious of EU integration and what it may mean for national integrity. I analyse these Serbian dilemmas in this thesis.
The factors that shape the valuing of textile education in secondary schools
Creators: name: Duvernet, Louise
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390306
subject: Secondary education

description: Views on the valuing and revitalization of textiles education in secondary schools in New South Wales (NSW) vary widely. NSW is unique in that it is the only state in Australia to have a discrete textiles related subject offered for their senior secondary qualifications. The introduction of a new syllabus for the upper secondary schools in 1999 saw the Higher School Certificate (HSC) subject of Textiles and Design become the fastest growing HSC subject from 2000 - 2004. The fact that the subject survived the review of the New HSC was a testimony to the support it received from all sectors of textiles education from secondary to tertiary level and from the professional associations representing the textiles industry. The main concern expressed by the teachers in the secondary schools was the ageing of the current teaching population and the inadequacy of the training institutions to train teachers in sufficient quantity and quality to replace those who are anticipated to retire over the next five years.

The study aimed to identify the perceived value of textiles education as a means of supporting the promotion of the subject and to uncover any negative perceptions of the subject and its future so strategies could be developed to overcome any barriers to the revival and maintenance of the subject beyond 2010. Of particular interest was the value of textiles education in bridging a cultural divide between migrant students and the schools and its importance to students of all abilities for its development and expression of creativity. The negative aspects of the cost of resources and perception of low status as an academic subject in schools are addressed.

The significance of the study is based in the inclusive nature of the participants represented in the study that include head teachers, secondary textiles teachers, student teachers and secondary textiles students. The diversity of perspectives gave richness to the data and provide some wonderful insights into the dynamic relationships that affect the effective presentation of textiles curriculum in secondary schools. Using models to analyse the historical influences on current perceptions of textiles, the study found evidence of the resilience and drive of new young teachers who are often not given the encouragement to develop their skills in preparation to support the future of textiles education in NSW.
title: Gesundheitsbezogene Lebensqualität im Zusammenhang mit Befund und Befinden
Creators: name: Strasser, Katharina
Year: 2010

description: Personen mit chronischen Wunden erleben in ihrem Alltag sehr viele Grenzen und empfinden daher auch ihre Lebensqualität als eingeschränkt. Das Ziel dieser Arbeit war es, die gesundheitsbezogene Lebensqualität und weitere psychologische Konstrukte von Personen mit chronischen Wunden zu erfassen. Weiters wurden mittels einer Längsschnittuntersuchung Veränderungen der Lebensqualität und anderen psychologischen Konstrukten von neu in Behandlung kommenden Patienten mit chronischer Wundheilungsstörung nach sechs Wochen medizinischer Behandlung evaluiert. Die gesundheitsbezogene Lebensqualität wurde mittels Nottingham Health Profile erfasst. Insgesamt wurden 216 Patienten einer chirurgischen Ordination mit dem Schwerpunkt „Wundheilung“ rekrutiert. Diese Patienten wurden in drei Gruppen eingeteilt: Gruppe 1, Patienten mit chronischer Wundheilungsstörung, die bereits in Behandlung waren, Gruppe 2, Patienten mit chronischer Wundheilungsstörung, die neu in Behandlung aufgenommen wurden, und Gruppe 3, „gesunde“ Patienten, die einen kleinen chirurgischen Eingriff vornehmen ließen. Patienten mit chronischer Wundheilungsstörung zeigen sechs Wochen nach Beginn der Behandlung Verbesserungen der Depressions- und Angstwerte und der Lebensqualität. Die größte Verbesserung zeigte sich in der NHP-Skala Schmerz. Weiters zeigt die vorliegende Arbeit, dass 14% der Wundheilungspatienten klinisch relevante Depressionswerte aufweisen. Diese Patienten zeigten eine schlechtere Lebensqualität, mehr Ängste, schlechteren Ärgerausdruck und eine schlechtere Emotionsregulation. Die Kombination einer Depression mit der Diagnose einer Wundheilungsstörung hat starke negative Auswirkungen auf das Wohlergehen der Betroffenen. Insgesamt wäre es wünschenswert, dass der Lebensqualität von Patienten mit chronischen Wunden und psychischen Aspekten mehr Bedeutung beigemessen wird, um das Behandlungsangebot zu optimieren.
แบรนด์บุคคลและแบรนด์มหาวิทยาลัย: กรณีศึกษาการสร้างแบรนด์บุคคลผ่านเฟซบุ๊กของอาจารย์มหาวิทยาลัย
Creators: name: พิชญาณี ภู่ตระกูล
name: ประทีป จินงี่
name: คันธทรัพย์ ชมพูพาทย์
Publisher: name: สถาบันวิจัยพฤติกรรมศาสตร์ มศว
Year: 2560
Subjects: แบรนด์บุคคล, การสร้างแบรนด์บุคคล, แบรนด์มหาวิทยาลัย, เฟซบุ๊ก, สื่อสังคมออนไลน์

description: วารสารพฤติกรรมศาสตร์, 23, 2
Gambling with justice in the Australian city
Creators: name: Hotker, Mette
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330401
subject: Community planning

description: The aim of this thesis is to further social justice for local communities through EGM planning in Victoria. The consequences of neoliberal policy and the commodification of cities have become increasingly visible as socio-spatial fragmentation across the urban form. In Australia this trend can be directly observed in the proliferation of electronic gaming machines (EGMs), vernacularly known in Australia as Pokies. ‘Playing the Pokies’ involves a simple game of chance, but its impact on communities is far from simple. A lack of adequate social policy and planning has led to an Australian urban landscape prolific with EGMs and resulting gambling harm. The main benefits derived from EGM markets mostly flow past local communities to state governments and industry, whilst the biggest burden of harm is carried by local communities, and disproportionally experienced by the most disadvantaged. Thus, while frequently overlooked in planning, EGMs contribute significantly to the growing trend of inequality and exclusion in Australian cities. Through a mixed methods research design this thesis provides a critique of the EGM planning system in Victoria, Australia using the lens of the Just City (Fainstein, 2010). The thesis found that local influence on EGM decision making is one practical way of furthering justice; but local influence is challenged and constrained by complex institutional processes. Within this context, these institutional processes do not serve a social justice agenda, but rather protect a fragile rationale for EGMs. To this end, Fainstein’s Just City and Nussbaum’s ‘tragic question’ offer a pragmatic planning praxis to the oxymoron of EGMs in a Just City.
sj-doc-6-jbm-10.1177_03936155221140421 - Supplemental material for Diagnostic and prognostic values of MMP-9 expression in ovarian cancer: A study based on bioinformatics analysis and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Liu, Changyu
name: Shen, Ying
name: Tan, Qiyan
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-doc-6-jbm-10.1177_03936155221140421 for Diagnostic and prognostic values of
MMP-9 expression in ovarian cancer: A study based on bioinformatics analysis and meta-analysis by Changyu Liu, Ying Shen and Qiyan Tan in The International Journal of Biological Markers
Scalable parallel evolutionary optimisation based on high performance computing
Creators: name: Jin, Chen
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460203
subject: Evolutionary computation

description: Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have been successfully applied to solve various challenging optimisation problems. Due to their stochastic nature, EAs typically require considerable time to find desirable solutions; especially for increasingly complex and large-scale problems. As a result, many works studied implementing EAs on parallel computing facilities to accelerate the time-consuming processes. Recently, the rapid development of modern parallel computing facilities such as the high performance computing (HPC) bring not only unprecedented computational capabilities but also challenges on designing parallel algorithms. This thesis mainly focuses on designing scalable parallel evolutionary optimisation (SPEO) frameworks which run efficiently on the HPC.

Motivated by the interesting phenomenon that many EAs begin to employ increasingly large population sizes, this thesis firstly studies the effect of a large population size through comprehensive experiments. Numerical results indicate that a large population benefits to the solving of complex problems but requires a large number of maximal fitness evaluations (FEs). However, since sequential EAs usually requires a considerable computing time to achieve extensive FEs, we propose a scalable parallel evolutionary optimisation framework that can efficiently deploy parallel EAs over many CPU cores at CPU-only HPC. On the other hand, since EAs using a large number of FEs can produce massive useful information in the course of evolution, we design a surrogate-based approach to learn from this historical information and to better solve complex problems. Then this approach is implemented in parallel based on the proposed scalable parallel framework to achieve remarkable speedups.

Since demanding a great computing power on CPU-only HPC is usually very expensive, we design a framework based on GPU-enabled HPC to improve the cost-effectiveness of parallel EAs. The proposed framework can efficiently accelerate parallel EAs using many GPUs and can achieve superior cost-effectiveness. However, since it is very challenging to correctly implement parallel EAs on the GPU, we propose a set of guidelines to verify the correctness of GPU-based EAs. In order to examine these guidelines, they are employed to verify a GPU-based brain storm optimisation that is also proposed in this thesis.

In conclusion, the comprehensively experimental study is firstly conducted to investigate the impacts of a large population. After that, a SPEO framework based on CPU-only HPC is proposed and is employed to accelerate a time-consuming implementation of EA. Finally, the correctness verification of implementing EAs based on a single GPU is discussed and the SPEO framework is then extended to be deployed based on GPU-enabled HPC.
Additional file 1 of Mechanisms maintaining right ventricular contractility-to-pulmonary arterial elastance ratio in VA ECMO: a retrospective animal data analysis of RV–PA coupling
Creators: name: Bachmann, Kaspar F.
name: Moller, Per Werner
name: Hunziker, Lukas
name: Maggiorini, Marco
name: Berger, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology

description: Additional file 1. Visualization of full dataset.
บทบาทของจิตวิญญาณในการทำงานในการส่งเสริมความยึดมั่นผูกพันของพนักงาน
Creators: name: รัตติกรณ์ จงวิศาล
name: นำชัย ศุภฤกษ์ชัยสกุล
Publisher: name: สถาบันวิจัยพฤติกรรมศาสตร์ มศว
Year: 2560
Subjects: จิตวิญญาณในสถานที่ทำงาน, ภาวะผู้นำเชิงจิตวิญญาณ, สุขภาวะทางจิตวิญญาณ, ความยึดมั่นผูกพันของพนักงาน

description: วารสารพฤติกรรมศาสตร์, 23, 2
title: Ausgleichszahlungen für Dienstleistungen von allgemeinem Interesse und europäisches Beihilfenrecht
Creators: name: Materazzi, Sergio
Year: 2009

description: In der Daseinsvorsorge werden Unternehmen mit der Erbringung von Dienstleistungen von allgemeinem Interesse betraut, die dem marktwirtschaftlichem Prinzip der Profitmaximierung widersprechen und im Regelfall nicht rentabel sind, weshalb die dienstleistenden Unternehmen im gemeinwirtschaftlichen Geschäftsbereich oft in der Verlustzone arbeiten. Gegenstand dieser Arbeit ist die beihilfenrechtliche Beurteilung solcher Ausgleichszahlungen, die zur Verlustabdeckung für die Kosten von Dienstleistungen von allgemeinem Interesse gewährt werden. Hierfür wird als Vorfrage der Grenze des Anwendungsbereichs der europäischen Beihilfevorschriften der Art 87ff EG nachgegangen, zumal nur innerhalb dessen ein Konflikt zwischen dem Beihilfenverbot des Art 87 Abs 1 EG und den Ausgleichszahlungen entstehen kann. Grundsätzlich sind bis auf wenige, von den europäischen Gerichten kasuistisch herausgebildete nichtwirtschaftliche Ausnahmekategorien die Beihilfevorschriften voll anwendbar. Sind die Beihilfevorschriften auf die Ausgleichszahlung anwendbar, dann ist zu prüfen, ob diese als Beihilfe iSv Art 87 Abs 1 EG zu qualifizieren ist. Nach einer wechselvollen Entwicklung der Rechtsprechung hat der EuGH im Leiturteil Altmark vier Voraussetzungen formuliert, anhand derer die Beihilfeneigenschaft der Ausgleichszahlung beurteilt wird. Sind die Voraussetzungen kumulativ erfüllt, entfällt die Beihilfeneigenschaft der Ausgleichszahlung. Ist dies nicht der Fall, so liegt eine Beihilfe iSv Art 87 Abs 1 EG vor, deren Vereinbarkeit mit dem Gemeinsamen Markt allenfalls nach der Ausnahmebestimmung des Art 86 Abs 2 EG beurteilt wird. Die Europäische Kommission erklärt die Ausgleichsbeihilfe als mit dem Gemeinsamen Markt vereinbar, sofern alle Voraussetzung des Art 86 Abs 2 EG erfüllt sind. Dieses Zweiebenensystem – Beurteilung der Tatbestandsmäßigkeit der Ausgleichszahlung anhand der Altmark-Voraussetzungen und der Rechtfertigung nach Art 86 Abs 2 EG – hat in der Entscheidungspraxis der Kommission jedoch keine Umsetzung erfahren, weil letztere in restriktiver Auslegung der vierten Altmark-Voraussetzung im Regelfall das Vorliegen einer staatlichen Beihilfe bejaht und somit diese der Kommission notifiziert werden muss. Andererseits kommt die Entscheidungspraxis der europäischen Gerichte und der Kommission den Mitgliedsstaaten auf Rechtfertigungsebene des Art 86 Abs 2 EG entgegen. Die einzelnen Tatbestandsvoraussetzungen des Art 86 Abs 2 EG werfen im Einzelnen zwar diffizile Fragestellungen auf. In einer Gesamtbetrachtung werden die Rechtmäßigkeitsbedingungen des Art 86 Abs 2 EG dennoch nicht restriktiv ausgelegt, weshalb den Mitgliedsstaaten Freiräume für ihre Daseinsvorsorgepolitiken erhalten bleiben.
Internet of Things data contextualisation for scalable information processing, security, and privacy
Creators: name: Yavari, Ali
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460612
subject: Service oriented computing
classificationCode: 460809
subject: Pervasive computing
classificationCode: 460912
subject: Knowledge and information management

description: The Internet of Things (IoT) interconnects billions of sensors and other devices (i.e., things) via the internet, enabling novel services and products that are becoming increasingly important for industry, government, education and society in general. It is estimated that by 2025, the number of IoT devices will exceed 50 billion, which is seven times the estimated human population at that time. With such a tremendous increase in the number of IoT devices, the data they generate is also increasing exponentially and needs to be analysed and secured more efficiently. This gives rise to what is appearing to be the most significant challenge for the IoT: Novel, scalable solutions are required to analyse and secure the extraordinary amount of data generated by tens of billions of IoT devices. Currently, no solutions exist in the literature that provide scalable and secure IoT scale data processing.

In this thesis, a novel scalable approach is proposed for processing and securing IoT scale data, which we refer to as contextualisation. The contextualisation solution aims to exclude irrelevant IoT data from processing and address data analysis and security considerations via the use of contextual information. More specifically, contextualisation can effectively reduce the volume, velocity and variety of data that needs to be processed and secured in IoT applications. This contextualisation-based data reduction can subsequently provide IoT applications with the scalability needed for IoT scale knowledge extraction and information security. IoT scale applications, such as smart parking or smart healthcare systems, can benefit from the proposed method, which  improves the scalability of data processing as well as the security and privacy of data.  

The main contributions of this thesis are: 1) An introduction to context and contextualisation for IoT applications; 2) a contextualisation methodology for IoT-based applications that is modelled around observation, orientation, decision and action loops; 3) a collection of contextualisation techniques and a corresponding software platform for IoT data processing (referred to as contextualisation-as-a-service or ConTaaS) that enables highly scalable data analysis, security and privacy solutions; and 4) an evaluation of ConTaaS in several IoT applications to demonstrate that our contextualisation techniques permit data analysis, security and privacy solutions to remain linear, even in situations where the number of IoT data points increases exponentially.
Additional file 2 of Mechanisms maintaining right ventricular contractility-to-pulmonary arterial elastance ratio in VA ECMO: a retrospective animal data analysis of RV–PA coupling
Creators: name: Bachmann, Kaspar F.
name: Moller, Per Werner
name: Hunziker, Lukas
name: Maggiorini, Marco
name: Berger, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. Boxplots of hemodynamic variables, presented by experimental condition and QECMO (4, 3, 2, 1 L/min). HPV: Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction. PE: Pulmonary embolism. A: Right atrial pressure. B: Left atrial pressure. C: pulmonary blood flow D: mean pulmonary arterial pressure. E: minimal stroke volume. F: maximal stroke volume. G: Heart rate. H: Mean systemic arterial blood pressure. Figure S2. Boxplots of peak vasopressor dose (Norepinephrine and epinephrine) for each condition. A: Peak norepinephrine dose. B: Peak epinephrine dose. Table S1. Protocol conditions.
Information behaviour of online investors
Creators: name: Adamopoulos, Arthur
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Online trading has now become the prevalent form of stock market investing. With a large
percentage of investors online, understanding how they gather, use and share information is of
major interest to service providers, regulators, researchers and to investors themselves. Previous
studies have examined the adoption of online investing, the impact of online stock forums on
markets and the information content of stock forums. A relatively limited number of studies
have investigated the information seeking practices of online investors. This study sought a
deeper understanding of what drives the information behaviour of online investors.

This research reports on a qualitative study that interviewed 26 online investors about their
information practices and social networks. The interview transcripts were analysed using a
Grounded Theory methodology and the research process was also influenced by aspects of
Multi-Grounded Theory. A new Theory of Online Investor Information Behaviour has been
developed as a result of the analysis.

The theory introduces the concept of an Investment Persona – a role that an investor takes on –
that has a large impact on their information seeking behaviour. Investors may take on multiple
Personas simultaneously. A number of distinct Persona types were identified in the study: Long
Term Investor, Income Generator, Trader, Speculator, Venture Capitalist, Novice and Gambler.

The theory also includes a model of the Stock Investing Information Process, which includes the
tasks: Idea Generation, Stock Selection, Company Research, Buy, Monitor and Sell. While
information practices are incredibly diverse in the early stages of the investment process, the
later stages tend to be more homogenous.

A core aspect of the theory is the concept of an Information Lens. Rather than using all
information sources and social networks at all times, investors look through an Information Lens,
seeing only a small subset of their information world at any particular time. The Information
Lens is highly dynamic and is shaped by the current Persona and the task at hand.

The bidirectional relationship between the investor and the information world is also considered.
The information environment itself can influence the investor and change their behaviour, by
enabling new strategies that were not previously possible, or potentially threatening the investor
with information overload. Online technologies can also enhance the investing experience and
make it more interesting and exciting.
sj-pdf-1-trr-10.1177_03611981231171156 – Supplemental material for Refueling Station Location Model to Support Evacuation of Alternative Fuel Vehicles
Creators: name: Purba, Denissa Sari Darmawi
name: Balisi, Simon
name: Kontou, Eleftheria
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 120599 Urban and Regional Planning not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-trr-10.1177_03611981231171156 for Refueling Station Location Model to Support Evacuation of Alternative Fuel Vehicles by Denissa Sari Darmawi Purba, Simon Balisi and Eleftheria Kontou in Transportation Research Record
การทำงานอาสาสมัครอย่างยั่งยืนและกระบวนการทำงานอาสาสมัครอย่างยั่งยืนของวุฒิอาสาธนาคารสมอง: ความหมาย และองค์ประกอบ
Creators: name: พรรณธิภา เอี่ยมสิริปรีดา
name: อัจศรา ประเสริฐสิน
name: นริสรา พึ่งโพธิ์สภ
Publisher: name: สถาบันวิจัยพฤติกรรมศาสตร์ มศว
Year: 2560
Subjects: การทำงานอาสาสมัครอย่างยั่งยืน, กระบวนการทำงานอาสาสมัครอย่างยั่งยืน, วุฒิอาสาธนาคารสมอง

description: วารสารพฤติกรรมศาสตร์, 23, 2
Additional file 1 of Survey of awareness and beliefs about cancer (ABC) in Tehran Province, Iran
Creators: name: Akbari, Paria
name: Nemati, Saeed
name: Nahvijou, Azin
name: Bolourinejad, Paria
name: Forbes, Lindsay
name: Zendehdel, Kazem
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1.
การวิจัยเพื่อพัฒนาและประเมินเครื่องมือวัดพฤติกรรมสามัคคีธรรมของนักเรียนมัธยมศึกษาตอนปลาย และความไม่แปรเปลี่ยนของโมเดลการวัด
Creators: name: อนันต์ แย้มเยื้อน
Publisher: name: สถาบันวิจัยพฤติกรรมศาสตร์ มศว
Year: 2560
Subjects: การวิเคราะห์องค์ประกอบ, ความไม่แปรเปลี่ยนของโมเดลการวัด, พฤติกรรมสามัคคีธรรม, นักเรียน

description: วารสารพฤติกรรมศาสตร์, 23, 2
Ready[un]made: absence and presence in the intra-relational object
Creators: name: Christian, David
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360602
subject: Fine arts

description: This research project returns to Duchamp’s gesture of the Readymade to investigate our relationship to language, of how we produce and respond to it, as some ‘thing’ that represents what and how we ‘think’. Rather than considering it as a transparent and pliable medium, this project reconceives language as a contingent and physical material that contains the presence and absence of an already made ‘voice’.

Accordingly, this project sets out to create the conditions for language to speak itself. Its [un]creative goal is to say ‘nothing’ by limiting and exposing the process of artistic production, and outcomes themselves, to the inherent contingency of the ‘inert matter’ of the materials employed. To achieve this, I draw from Duchamp’s notion of anartist to subtract and displace the artist-as-author (the ‘source’ of meaning of a work) by replacing it with the notion of artist-as-anauthor.

Rather than follow Duchamp’s strategy of re-authoring by inscribing a new ‘external’ relationship on an already made object, this project identifies an internal limit within language and develops an algorithm to pass an ‘artwork’ (or textual object) through another. Through subsequent works, it determines whether the absent ‘voice’ of this automatic process can become present in, and as, the work itself.

To develop this algorithm, this research identifies three key steps to disorganize and reorganize language: subtraction, decomposition and transposition. Firstly, to subtract an artwork from itself, it draws from Henri Bergson’s theory of perception and Samuel Beckett’s strategies of ‘unwording’ literature (as filtered through the work of Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze). Secondly, to decompose words into ‘primitive’ objects (or ‘urwords’), it applies the basic principles of prime numbers and Set Theory to language. Finally, to transpose an object into another, this research adheres to Walter Benjamin’s requirement for a ‘good’ translation, by discounting overall meaning and translating word-for-word, so that the ‘pure’ language of a translation may be glimpsed in the interstices between languages.

The key outcome of this project is the development of an algorithm that simulates an ‘event’ of language by re-producing and [un]authoring a ready[un]made text. A series of subsequent artworks shifts the relationship between the process of the algorithm and its outcome so that the means by which this process takes place may appear as the work itself.

This research offers new insights into our relationship to [un]thinking, [un]seeing and [un]saying language; it extends and complements the knowledge of art after the Readymade to that of the ready[un]made: as the [un]creative and [un]original ‘re-production’ of artworks that show, after Stéphane Mallarmé, that ‘nothing will have taken place but the place’ of language and
WaPOR (Water Productivity through Open access of Remotely sensed derived data)
Creators: name: Food and Agriculture Organization
Publisher: name: GEO Knowledge Hub
Year: 2024

description: WaPOR (Water Productivity through Open access of Remotely sensed derived data) is a portal by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) that helps countries monitor water productivity using satellite data. In agriculture it helps identify areas where improved practices are needed, can inform the choice of solutions to boost agricultural output, and supports sustainable farming. The portal provides timely information that can help farmers increase yields, aids irrigation authorities in updating their systems, and enables government agencies to promote efficient use of natural resources. Further development of the portal and its underlying database, as well as capacity building on the use of the data is coordinated through the WaPOR project.
The WaPOR database is freely accessible and fully open. Users can easily consult the data in the portal, examine trends over time, compare layers, get area-specific statistics, and download important variables enabling water and land productivity assessments.
WaPOR data serves different purposes in various scenarios, such as:

Assessing/monitoring agricultural production
Providing advisory services to farmers
Monitoring irrigation and supporting its improvement
Identifying yield and productivity gaps and supporting solutions to reduce them
Water accounting
The WaPOR database provides the following data layers: 

Evapotranspiration
Land Cover Classification
Net Primary Production
Precipitation
Phenology
Quality layers
Reference evapotranspiration
Relative soil moisture
Total Biomass Production
Water Productivity
WaPOR data is offered in three levels, each suited for specific uses with different resolutions:

global level with 300 m resolution that covers the entire globe;
continental and national level with 100 m resolution that covers Northern and sub-Saharan Africa and the Near East (roughly a square of -30W, -40S, 65E, 40N);
irrigation scheme and sub-basin level with 20 m resolution (please see the portal to explore these particular areas)
On the WaPOR portal, WaPOR version 3 data can be found alongside other data from various sources:

WaPOR version 2 data
a multitude of base layers that can help contextualize the data
datasets external to FAO (WorldCereal – ESA, Global Surface Water, Resource Watch, quantitative maps of groundwater resources in Africa)
the AQUAMAPS database on water and agriculture
all FAO spatial datasets
possibility to add own data.
Explore detailed information about WaPOR, including related publications, key documents, video materials, webinars, recorded events, demos, tutorials, and other resources such as courses, map stories, and the WaPOR Applications and Uses Catalogue. 
To learn more about the WaPOR project, visit the provided link WaPOR, Remote sensing for water productivity
🗣️ The WaPOR portal is available in English, Spanish, French. So is the project website, complete with Arabic.
sj-docx-1-jmh-10.1177_15579883231181861 – Supplemental material for The Impact of Bacteriospermia on Semen Parameters Among Infertile Egyptian Men: A Case–Control Study
Creators: name: Shash, Rania Yahia Mohammad
name: Mohamed, Gehad Attia Abdallah
name: Shebl, Salah E.
name: Shokr, Mohamed
name: Soliman, Soliman Aref
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-jmh-10.1177_15579883231181861 for The Impact of Bacteriospermia on Semen Parameters Among Infertile Egyptian Men: A Case–Control Study by Rania Yahia Mohammad Shash, Gehad Attia Abdallah Mohamed, Salah E. Shebl, Mohamed Shokr and Soliman Aref Soliman in American Journal of Men's Health
Additional file 2 of Survey of awareness and beliefs about cancer (ABC) in Tehran Province, Iran
Creators: name: Akbari, Paria
name: Nemati, Saeed
name: Nahvijou, Azin
name: Bolourinejad, Paria
name: Forbes, Lindsay
name: Zendehdel, Kazem
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 2.
Supplemental Material - Nutritional Status Predicts Injurious Falls Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Does Sex Matter?
Creators: name: Chen, Tuo-Yu
name: Rajan, S Irudaya
name: Saito, Yasuhiko
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental Material for Nutritional Status Predicts Injurious Falls Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Does Sex Matter? by Tuo-Yu Chen, S. Irudaya Rajan and Yasuhiko Saito in Journal of Applied Gerontology
Ark: Pursuing qualities of relation through a provisional compositional taxonomy
Creators: name: Davis, Michael
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: The vehicle for this doctoral research is Ark, an architectural practice that, having passed through the AADRL in London, has been returned to New Zealand and the particular lineage of modernist tectonics from which it stems.

The research responds to problems that emerged through encounters with two different modes of architectural education: one at the University of Auckland, and the other at the Architectural Association in London. Priority in the design studio at the University of Auckland between 1990 and 1994 was given to a kind of architectural composition that consisted of parts set in relation to other parts, an approach seen here as typical of work in the field of ‘modernist tectonics’. There was little discussion in the studio of the design process that brought parts and relations into being, nor was there discussion of the importance of practices of making, despite the attention given to beautifully made drawings and models.

On the other hand, at the Architectural Association’s Design Research Laboratory (AADRL) between 2001 and 2003 focus fell on the design process. It foregrounded making with a range of media at different scales in the development of ‘geometric/material systems’. These systems were deployed in ways that underlined their capacity for constant adaptation. Design outcomes were just particular configurations of a system at a moment in a continual design process. In the time since, work of this nature has been deemed to belong to the field of ‘parametricism’.

This research questions and explores whether these two emphases – respectively, the composition of tectonic parts and the ongoing process of formation – can be reconciled within the one approach to architectural design. The enquiry progresses through the deployment of a compositional taxonomy that reflects on five of Ark’s design projects. It sets out to identify compositional characteristics inherent in the projects through which a dialogue between the tectonic and parametric might be established.

The dissertation articulates a story of the work, the research and the practice through two volumes. Ark: A Provisional Compositional Taxonomy presents generalised diagrams about Ark’s compositional taxonomy followed by documentation of each project on the terms it establishes. Ark: Pursuing Qualities of Relation is a discussion of design process that reflects on the five projects and the compositional taxonomy itself. The dissertation is accompanied by a video recording titled Ark: pursuing qualities of relation through a provisional compositional taxonomy. It records an exhibition of Ark’s work and its presentation to show how each field is informing the other at this stage in the life of the practice.
Berylacaste Sandford & Holloway, 2006, gen. nov.
Creators: name: Sandford, Andrew C.
name: Holloway, David J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Trilobita
Phacopida
Acastidae
Berylacaste

description: Berylacaste gen. nov.
 Type species. Berylacaste berylae gen. et sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Sandford, Andrew C. & Holloway, David J., 2006, Early Silurian phacopide trilobites from central Victoria, Australia, pp. 215-255 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 63 (2) on page 249, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2006.63.17, http://zenodo.org/record/12210410
sj-pdf-1-aic-10.1177_0310057X231172787 - Supplemental material for Perioperative pain management in thoracic surgery: A survey of practices in Australia and New Zealand
Creators: name: Busser, Michael J
name: Kunju, Shakeel M
name: Gurunathan, Usha
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 110305 Emergency Medicine
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-aic-10.1177_0310057X231172787 for Perioperative pain management in thoracic surgery: A survey of practices in Australia and New Zealand by Michael J Busser, Shakeel M Kunju and Usha Gurunathan in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care