cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Optimised anaesthesia to reduce post operative cognitive decline (POCD) in older patients undergoing elective surgery, a randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Ballard, Clive
name: Jones, Emma
name: Gauge, Nathan
name: Aarsland, Dag
name: Nilsen, Odd Bjarte
name: Saxby, Brian K.
name: Lowery, David
name: Corbett, Anne
name: Wesnes, Keith
name: Katsaiti, Eirini
name: Arden, James
name: Amaoko, Derek
name: Prophet, Nicholas
name: Purushothaman, Balaji
name: Green, David
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Background: The study determined the one year incidence of post operative cognitive decline (POCD) and evaluated the effectiveness of an intra-operative anaesthetic intervention in reducing post-operative cognitive impairment in older adults (over 60 years of age) undergoing elective orthopaedic or abdominal surgery. Methods and Trial Design: The design was a prospective cohort study with a nested randomised, controlled intervention trial, using intra-operative BiSpectral index and cerebral oxygen saturation monitoring to enable optimisation of anaesthesia depth and cerebral oxygen saturation in older adults undergoing surgery. Results: In the 52 week prospective cohort study (192 surgical patients and 138 controls), mild (χ2 = 17.9 p<0.0001), moderate (χ2 = 7.8 p = 0.005) and severe (χ2 = 5.1 p = 0.02) POCD were all significantly higher after 52 weeks in the surgical patients than among the age matched controls. In the nested RCT, 81 patients were randomized, 73 contributing to the data analysis (34 intervention, 39 control). In the intervention group mild POCD was significantly reduced at 1, 12 and 52 weeks (Fisher’s Exact Test p = 0.018, χ2 = 5.1 p = 0.02 and χ2 = 5.9 p = 0.015), and moderate POCD was reduced at 1 and 52 weeks (χ2 = 4.4 p = 0·037 and χ2 = 5.4 p = 0.02). In addition there was significant improvement in reaction time at all time-points (Vigilance Reaction Time MWU Z = −2.1 p = 0.03, MWU Z = −2.7 p = 0.004, MWU Z = −3.0 p = 0.005), in MMSE at one and 52 weeks (MWU Z = −2.9 p = 0.003, MWU Z = −3.3 p = 0.001), and in executive function at 12 and 52 weeks (Trail Making MWU Z = −2.4 p = .0.018, MWU Z = −2.4 p = 0.019). Conclusion: POCD is common and persistent in older adults following surgery. The results of the nested RCT indicate the potential benefits of intra-operative monitoring of anaesthetic depth and cerebral oxygenation as a pragmatic intervention to reduce post-operative cognitive impairment.
Black Salve Use and its Propensity to Cause Harm
Creators: name: Croaker, Andy
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Skin cancer
subject: Black salve
subject: Dermatology
subject: Complementary and Alternative Medicine
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Introduction: Black salve is a controversial complementary and alternative medicine that has been in clinical use since the 1850s. Despite case reports of excessive tissue necrosis, deformity, and skin cancer treatment failures resulting in death, black salve has been minimally studied. The aim of this thesis was to assess the risk of harm black salve poses to patients by quantitatively assessing commercially available black salve, determining whether black salve constituents possess synergistic cytotoxicity, and investigating the pathology outcomes of patients’ black salve treatment sites.
description: Methods: HPLC-MS and ICP-MS analysis was conducted on 13 black salve products from eight manufacturers. Synergistic cytotoxicity of black salve constituents was assessed using Resazurin assays in the A375 melanoma and A431 squamous cell carcinoma cell lines. A national five-year retrospective pathology case series of black salve treatment sites was undertaken.
description: Results: Black salve products contained exceedingly high concentrations of cytotoxic alkaloids, with some products having sanguinarine concentrations 900 times greater than the IC50 of normal human epidermal keratinocytes. High concentrations of zinc chloride are present in black salve, refuting claims that they are natural therapies, and the detection of heavy metal contamination that suggests failures in the safety of their manufacturing processes. The alkaloids present in black salve were found to possess synergistic cytotoxicity, suggesting an assessment of individual alkaloid levels may underestimate the potential for tissue necrosis. Black salve’s in vivo effects were also assessed in the largest case series of black salve outcomes ever reported. Assessing the pathology records of 475 black salve treatment sites from 409 patients, it was discovered that persisting skin cancer was present in 28.8% of patients. Patients from rural areas were overrepresented in the black salve treatment group. Concerningly, the rate of black salve pathology presentations had doubled over the five-year period of the study.
description: Discussion: These findings have substantive public health implications and suggest that current strategies for reducing the use of black salve are failing. Equipped with a greater understanding of black salve’s composition and the high failure rate in those presenting for treatment site review, clinicians may be more effective at discussing the risks of black salve with their patients, while regulators may be prompted to reassess their current approach.
Quali etruschi maestri di scrittura?
Creators: name: Bagnasco Gianni, Giovanna
name: Biella, Maria Cristina
name: Cantù, Magda
name: Gobbi, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Aristonothos. Scritti per il Mediterraneo antico
Year: 2012

description: The contributions of this section of the book (M.C. Biella, M. Cantù e A. Gobbi) present study cases  focused on the relation of the inscription to the object, of the inscribed object to its context and on the final visual impact as a whole, in Central Italy during the Orientalising period. Taking into account the results of the three contributors, this contribution aims to study the social aspects of the epigraphic documentation other than the Etruscan. The starting point is the inscribed object studied as a three-dimensional image circulating in a social network. Such an image is created by a multifaceted range of choices concerning: objects, letter forms and alphabetiform signs.
As a consequence the inscribed objects could be considered for its considerable role as social indicators in the complex phenomena of building identities in contexts of cultural contact.
description: Aristonothos. Scritti per il Mediterraneo antico, No 4 (2012): Convivenze etniche e contatti di culture
Supplementary document for Small and Large Scale Plasmonically Enhanced Luminescent Solar Concentrator for Photovoltaic Applications: Modelling, Optimisation and Sensitivity Analysis - 5182653.pdf
Creators: name: Rafiee, Mehran
name: Chandra, Subhash
name: Ahmed, Hind
name: Barnham, Keith
name: McCormack, Sarah
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
A Practical Guide to Intellectualism
Creators: name: Cath, Yuri
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: knowledge-how
subject: knowledge-that
subject: intellectualism
subject: Gilbert Ryle
subject: the ability hypothesis
subject: Gettier
subject: epistemic luck
subject: justification
subject: belief
subject: BD161.C38 2008
subject: Knowledge, Theory of

description: In this thesis I examine the view—known as intellectualism—that knowledge-how is a kind of knowledge-that, or propositional knowledge. I examine issues concerning both the status of this view of knowledge-how and the philosophical implications if it is true. The ability hypothesis is an important position in the philosophy of mind that appeals to Gilbert Ryle’s famous idea that there is a fundamental distinction between knowledge-how and knowledge-that. This position appears to be inconsistent with the truth of intellectualism. However, I demonstrate in this thesis that the ability hypothesis can be restated using the intellectualist view of knowledge-how. With regards to the status of intellectualism, I argue that the two main traditional arguments against intellectualism do not succeed. I also provide new and, I claim, successful arguments against intellectualism. These arguments point to a new view of knowledge-how that is distinct from both the standard intellectualist and Rylean views of knowledge-how.
Performance indicators and social housing in Australia
Creators: name: Burke, Terry
name: Hayward, David
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper critically analyses performance Indicators as used in the social housing system of Australia. The use of performance indicators emerged in the mid nineties and grew out of the new managerialist and economic rationalist ideas that shaped public sector reform in this decade. This context gave a particular form and direction to performance indicators and in hindsight limited their capacity as useful indicators. The paper outlines the specific forms of indicators used in the social housing system (mainly in public housing), the assumptions that underpinned them, and the conceptual and methodological problems with the indicators. We our now entering what could be called a second phase of performance indicators and there is some promise that they could be more effective performance measures in the future. However given, as the paper argues, such indicators are as much creatures of political ideology as good management tools any use of indicators has to be placed under critical scrutiny.
Pilot Testing a Robot for Reducing Pain in Hospitalized Preterm Infants
Creators: name: Williams, Nicholas
name: MacLean, Karon
name: Guan, Ling
name: Collet, Jean Paul
name: Holsti, Liisa
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Introduction: Optimizing neurodevelopment is a key goal of neonatal occupational therapy. Inpreterm infants, repeated procedural pain is associated with adverse effects on neurodevelopmentlong term. Calmer is a robot designed to reduce infant pain. Objective: To examine the effects of Calmer on heart rate variability (HRV) during routine blood collection in preterm infants.Methodology: In a randomized controlled pilot trial, 10 infants were assigned to either Standard Care (n=5, Facilitated tucking [FT]) or Calmer treatment (n=5). HRV was recorded continuously and quantified using the area (power) of the spectrum in high and low frequency (HF: 0.15- 0.40Hz/ms2; LF: 0.04-0.15 Hz/ms2) regions. Changes in HRV during three, two-minute phases (Baseline, Heel Poke and Recovery) were compared between groups. Results: Calmer infants had 90% greater parasympathetic activation ([PS] reduced stress) during Baseline, 82% greater PS activation during Poke, and 24% greater PS activation during Recovery than FT infants. Conclusion: Calmer reduced physiological preterm infant pain reactivity during blood collection.
Measuring adsorption capacity of supported catalysts with a novel quasi‐continuous pulse chemisorption method
Creators: name: Friedland, Jens
name: Kreitz, Bjarne
name: Grimm, Heiner
name: Turek, Thomas
name: Güttel, Robert
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: DDC 540 / Chemistry & allied sciences
subject: Adsorption
subject: Chemisorption
subject: Measurement
subject: Pulse
subject: Transient
subject: Messung
subject: Puls

description: olving transient mass balance: A pulse chemisorption technique is presented, which enables the calculation of the accumulated adsorbate. The signal of the adsorptive determined by analytics can be calibrated in-situ by forming a reference in the measuring signal. The presented technique allows to be implemented in typical catalytic test rigs. An improved pulse-chemisorption technique is presented, which is proven to be independent of the strength of interaction between adsorptive and catalyst material. The methodology is based on the transient mass balance of the adsorptive, allowing for quantitative evaluation of the pulse-signal obtained from the experiment. Two experimental strategies for determination of the adsorption capacity are introduced, with and without using an internal standard. The methodology is illustratively discussed based on simulation results and verified by chemisorption experiments of hydrogen and carbon dioxide on a supported nickel catalyst. In addition, temperature and dosing effects are examined and benchmarked with volumetric measurements of the adsorption capacity. The proposed mathematical evaluation method of the measured data can be applied directly to experiments performed in standard equipment for pulse-chemisorption or in modified catalyst test rigs to measure adsorption capacity before and after reaction experiments. The technique shows potential for determination of sorption kinetics and combination with operando spectroscopy.
Supplementary document for Small and Large Scale Plasmonically Enhanced Luminescent Solar Concentrator for Photovoltaic Applications: Modelling, Optimisation and Sensitivity Analysis - 5182653.pdf
Creators: name: Rafiee, Mehran
name: Chandra, Subhash
name: Ahmed, Hind
name: Barnham, Keith
name: McCormack, Sarah
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Whale carcass management on beaches : public perceptions, groundwater contamination, and shark attraction
Creators: name: Tucker, James P
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Whale
Carcass
Shark
Groundwater
Contamination

description: Whale carcass management is a complex and controversial issue within coastal communities. There are public concerns that stranded and beach buried carcasses may attract sharks. Here, I determined that both floating and stranded carcasses influence the behaviour of nearby white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias). However, provided certain burial conditions are met, beach buried carcasses are unlikely to attract sharks due to effective decomposition of leachate products by sands.
Aristonothos. La firma
Creators: name: Cordano, Federica
Publisher: name: Aristonothos. Scritti per il Mediterraneo antico
Year: 2010

description: Multiple interpretations have been given to the signature of the Cerveteri crater painter (VII century B.C.). The first, and most likely one, is that provided by Wilamowitz, according to whom the name would be composed of aristos and nothos “illegitimate son”. Considering on the other hand the shape of the letters and the linguistic peculiarity of the verb (epoiésen), it is possible to deduce the origin of the product from an Italic area where Ionic dialect was spoken, probably an Euboean colony (Boardman).
description: Aristonothos. Scritti per il Mediterraneo antico, No 1 (2007): Strumenti, suono, musica in Etruria e in Grecia : letture tra archeologia e fonti letterarie
3MT : A fine time to find primes
Creators: name: Dudek, Adrian W
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2013
Subjects: prime
number
thesis

description: We all have a shared history; when we were in primary school, our teachers told us that a number is prime if it’s only divisible by one and itself. We might also share severe scarring, from when we popped our little hand in the air and asked the question: primes - what are they good for?
Male Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Schools: Barriers to Community Action and Strategies for Change. The Case of Awaso, Ghana.
Creators: name: Proulx, Geneviève
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: violence against girls in schools
girls' education in Ghana
barriers to girls' education
gender and development
male sexual violence in schools
gender-based violence in schools
violence in schools in Ghana

description: Efforts to increase girls‘ access to quality education focus mostly on removing obstacles linked to poverty and discrimination, and often fail to acknowledge the violence many of them suffer in, around, and on the way to and from school. The objective of the present research is to examine the barriers to combating male sexual and gender-based violence in schools at the community level, and to consider community and expert-issued suggestions on removing these obstacles in the Ghanaian context. It does so through the lens of the Gender and Development approach and uses the Ecological Model of Gender-based Violence. Inspired by the standpoint feminist approach to research, data collection in Awaso and Accra involved classroom observation in four (4) Junior high school classes, 19 qualitative interviews with government and civil society personnel, and four (4) focus group discussions with parents, students and teachers. The findings show that barriers to eliminating male sexual and gender-based violence in Awaso include lack of knowledge of girls‘ rights to protection from violence, of consequences of violence against women and girls and of reporting mechanisms. Other barriers identified were lack of resources at the family and government levels, traditional values of family, community and religion, and social perceptions of both gender hierarchies and violence against women and girls. Gendered power dynamics underlie these barriers and hinder progress on the issue of girls‘ protection from violence, but groups of Ghanaian women, girls, men and boys are challenging these dynamics and finding ways to make schools safer for girls. Their strategies for change are also featured in the present research.
Solid Fuel Pneumatic Conveying and its Injection Geometry in a Pressurized Entrained Flow Gasifier
Creators: name: Kus, Francis
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Pneumatic Conveying
Jet Half-Angle
Frequency Analysis
Pulverized Fuel
Reduced Order Model
Modelling

description: Rising global energy demands have led to an increase in demand for clean, sustainable energy. A leading technology for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emission for existing coal-power infrastructure is gasification, which has sparked an interest in reactor modelling for design and performance analysis. Reduced order models (ROMs) have seen an increase in popularity for entrained flow gasifiers, as they offer a low-computational alternative to conventional computational fluid dynamic (CFD) modelling while maintaining the integrity of important operational parameters, such as carbon conversion and syngas yield. However, ROMs require more physical parameter inputs than are normally required for CFD modelling, such as the geometry of the gas-solid jet (specifically the jet half-angle). Experiments were conducted to understand the relation between the required input parameters for ROMs, such as fuel flow rate, transport gas flow rate, and jet half-angle, and develop useful correlations for ROM systems. A new configuration for pneumatic conveying was developed and tested at the pilot-scale system at NRCan CanmetENERGY. It was used to study the pneumatic conveying of pulverized fuels, specifically the influence of operating parameters such as pressure drop and gas flow rates on the fuel flow rate, and the geometry of the gas-solid fuel jet (notably the jet half-angle) injected into the gasifier. The mean fuel flow rate of pulverized fuels was shown to increase with increasing pressure drop and with decreasing gas flow rates in the fuel transfer line. The jet half-angle was shown to increase as the solid loading ratio in the jet core was decreased. Finally, the relative fuel flow variability was observed to be significantly influenced by the design of the pneumatic conveying system, with the fluctuations increasing with increasing pressure drop and with decreasing gas flow rate, similar to the mean flow rate.
Secure the social security - a case study of China's pension system
Creators: name: Huang, Fei
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2013
Subjects: social security
China
pension

description: Do you think you’ll have enough money to support your retirement life? Your answer may be yes, because we all have social security. But, is it really secure? People in Greece may not think so, as their pensions have been reduced significantly since the European debt crisis. Although it is an extreme case, pension systems in many other countries are also unsustainable. And when it comes to China, the situation is even more challenging and alarming due to its one-child policy. This picture describes a typical structure of millions of Chinese families including myself. My husband and I are both the only child in our families. In the future, we’ll have to support four parents between us. It’ll be such a big pressure that not only my generation but also the pension system is hardly able to handle it. Researchers from around the world have been searching for solutions for many years. But why designing a good pension system is so difficult?
Technology and infrastructure in regional development policies and the evolution of regional disparities: The case of New Brunswick, 1986-1996.
Creators: name: Marier, François.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Geography.

description: Regional development has long been an important function of governments. Throughout the years, Canada has followed many different policy directions aimed at reducing or eliminating regional disparities. In 1988, the Liberals under Frank McKenna were elected in New Brunswick and introduced regional development policies based on technology provision and infrastructure which was installed in all of the province's regions. This technology-based infrastructure was an important change in direction for a province that relied heavily on the primary and manufacturing sectors. Furthermore, it promised economic growth in both the north and south of the province. This thesis analyses the growth in industrial sectors, the socio-economic changes, and the effects on regional disparities between 1986 and 1996 in New Brunswick's fifteen counties. The widespread use of technology and the attempts to transform the province's labour force to compete in the knowledge-based economy prompted numerous changes in the industrial structure of the counties. The concentration of economic growth in the southern counties and in the services sector was a direct result of the north's dependence on primary and secondary industries. This resulted in investments in New Brunswick that were mainly in the highly urbanised and economically diversified south. The province's economic situation during this time period is a good example of core-periphery relationship between the south and the north, as the later remains dependent on the former. A number of different indicators, analysed in chapter three, were considered when determining the rate and degree of change in the province's regional disparities. Furthermore, the shift-share analysis examines the changes in the industrial sectors of the counties to determine why the changes in the economic indicators occurred.
Water Resource Management in Germany
Creators: name: Arle, Jens
name: Bartel, Hartmut
name: Baumgarten, Corinna
name: Bertram, Andreas
name: Blondzik, Katrin
name: Brandt, Simone
name: Brauer, Frank
name: Claussen, Ulrich
name: Damian, Hans-Peter
name: Dieter, Daniela
name: Ginzky, Harald
name: Helmecke, Manuela
name: Grimm, Sabine
name: Hofmeier, Katja
name: Hofmeier, Maximilian
name: Kirschbaum, Bernd
name: Hülsmann, Wulff
name: Koppe, Katharina
name: Knobloch, Tobias
name: Koschorreck, Jan
name: Krakau, Manuela
name: Leujak, Wera
name: Mathan, Cindy
name: Mohaupt, Volker
name: Naumann, Stephan
name: Pickl, Christina
name: Rapp, Thomas
name: Rechenberg, Jörg
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Trinkwasserversorgung
subject: Meeresgewässerschutz
subject: Grundwasserschutz
subject: Abwasser
subject: water resource management
subject: drinking water supply
subject: EU-water directive
subject: sea water protection
subject: groundwater protection
subject: water status
subject: effluent
subject: Water

description: The brochure „Water Resource Management in Germany” offers a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals, pressures and measures of German Water Resource Management as well as key facts and data on the status of our waterbodies, their protection, and on water supply and water disposal. The brochure provides a compendium of information for interested readers, experts, students and journalists and presents a reliable source for scientific work and reporting in this field.
Identification, Validation and Characterization of the Mutation on Chromosome 18p which is Responsible for Causing Myoclonus-Dystonia
Creators: name: Vanstone, Megan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Myoclonus-Dystonia
subject: Next-generation sequencing
subject: Mutation analysis
subject: Long non-coding RNA
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inherited disease
subject: Movement disorder

description: Myoclonus-Dystonia (MD) is an inherited, rare, autosomal dominant movement disorder characterized by quick, involuntary muscle jerking or twitching (myoclonus) and involuntary muscle contractions that cause twisting and pulling movements, resulting in abnormal postures (dystonia). The first MD locus was mapped to 7q21-q31 and called DYT11; this locus corresponds to the SGCE gene. Our group previously identified a second MD locus (DYT15) which maps to a 3.18 Mb region on 18p11. Two patients were chosen to undergo next-generation sequencing, which identified 2,292 shared novel variants within the critical region. Analysis of these variants revealed a 3 bp duplication in a transcript referred to as CD108131, which is believed to be a long non-coding RNA. Characterization of this transcript determined that it is 863 bp in size, it is ubiquitously expressed, with high expression in the cerebellum, and it accounts for ~3% of MD cases.
The law and reality of the coal seam gas industry in NSW
Creators: name: Edwards, Adam Glen
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2013
Subjects: coal seam gas
law
NSW
New South Wales

description: You’ve all seen the signs at the side of the road, Stop Coal Seam Gas, so is the Sun rising or setting on the Coal Seam Gas industry. Well, I’m not quite sure yet, but I know what the problem is. The public don’t trust gas companies and the government to protect the environment. And the problem isn’t just here; it’s worldwide and getting worse. So I like to tell people my research is about sustainable development, delivering better environmental outcomes, and public engagement.
Supplementary document for Thermal Effects in Molecular Gas-Filled Hollow-Core Fibers - 5182673.pdf
Creators: name: Beetar, John
name: Madugula, Nrisimhamurty
name: Truong, Tran-Chau
name: Liu, Yangyang
name: Chini, Michael
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Oral contraceptive use in adolescence predicts lasting vulnerability to depression in adulthood
Creators: name: Anderl, Christine
name: Li, Gu
name: Chen, Frances S.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: Background: Previous evidence suggests that use of oral contraceptives (OCs), especially during adolescence, may increase women’s vulnerability to depression in the short term. Here, we investigate whether women who had first used OC in adolescence show an increased prevalence of depression in the long term. Methods: We examined 1,236 women in the United States National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey for whom information on depression and age at first OC use was publicly available. We compared women who reported first use of OCs in adolescence to women who had never used OCs and women who had first used OCs in adulthood on 1-year prevalence of major depressive disorder (MDD) assessed by trained interviewers. Results: Compared with women who had used OCs during adolescence, women who had never used OCs were less likely to meet the criteria for MDD within the past year in adulthood [odds ratio (OR) = 0.31, 95% CI = 0.16–0.60], and so were women who only started using OCs in adulthood (OR = 0.54, 95% CI = 0.30–0.95). Third factors that have previously been proposed to explain the relationship between OC use and depression risk such as age at sexual debut, and, importantly, current OC use, did not account for the results in propensity score analyses. Conclusions: We show a long-term association between adolescent OC use and depression risk in adulthood regardless of current OC use. Our findings suggest that adolescence may be a sensitive period during which OC use could increase women’s risk for depression, years after first exposure.
Benthic carbon and nitrogen cycling across a land use gradient in South East Queensland estuaries
Creators: name: Chen, Jian-Jhih
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Carbon
Nitrogen
Greenhouse gases
Metabolism
Denitrification
Anammox
DNRA
CH4
N2O
CO2

description: Estuaries are important coastal ecosystems with a complex mosaic of benthic habitats that can regulate the amount of carbon and nitrogen being exported to the ocean. An increase in land-use intensity (e.g. agricultural production and urbanization) is expected to decrease the diversity of benthic habitats in estuaries, with associated changes in biogeochemical cycling. However, little is known about the effects of land-use changes on estuarine benthic metabolism, nitrate reduction pathways and benthic nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions. This thesis investigates the effect of land-use intensity on benthic metabolism, N reduction pathways (i.e. denitrification, anammox and dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium) and benthic N2O emissions in three sub-tropical south east Queensland estuaries.
description: Vegetated habitats in sub-tropical south east Queensland estuaries play an important role in regulating carbon and nitrogen cycling with high benthic metabolism and high nitrogen reduction rates, as well as acting as a sink of N2O. An increase in land-use intensity shifted the estuaries from net autotrophy to net heterotrophy with associated increased emissions of carbon dioxide and N2O to the atmosphere, decreased capacity to remove carbon and nitrogen, and increased carbon and nitrogen export to the ocean. These data highlight the importance of benthic habitats in carbon and nitrogen cycling over land-use gradients and need to be included when constructing carbon and nitrogen budgets in estuaries. Synthesising data from this study with previous studies suggests that estuarine carbon and nitrogen cycling between the water column and benthic sediments are closely related and highly affected by land-use intensity. Overall, this thesis shows that land-use change is an important factor in changing estuarine carbon and nitrogen cycles.
A cross-cultural learning resource
Creators: name: Pidoto, Claire
name: Calway, Bruce
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Information technology (IT) is often seen as a driver for change and development in western culture. particularly with regard to education. In an interesting contrast, for younger school children, IT is also seen as an entertainment environment. The project Research reported in this paper is an investigation of the use of IT in a CD ROM application developed to provide a cross-cultural learning experience for age group eight to nine years, typically Grade Three of Victorian Primary Schooling. Our study concludes that CDROM technology is a viable cross-cultural communication resource, certainly for younger students and we expect transferable to tertiary level. An actual CD ROM prototype was developed and tested with a small number of Year Three students who used and explored the resource in order to verify the effectiveness of the CD ROM as a of method of communication. The results are also summarised in this paper. In terms of cross-cultural substantiation of the resource, the content of the CDROM was developed in collaboration with the Indigenous community. Specific protocols for the elucidation and communication of Indigenous culture were also adhered to, and appropriate permission's sought. The CDROM prototype features an Indigenous artefact (painting) with a detailed description provided by the artist. The project and the CDROM resource provided a viable, culturally inclusive paradigm for future developments. This approach should be transferable to a wide range of possible applications including tertiary level resources, and forms the basis of future research in this area.
Aristonothos. Il vaso
Creators: name: Bagnasco Gianni, Giovanna
Publisher: name: Aristonothos. Scritti per il Mediterraneo antico
Year: 2010

description: The two scenes representing the blinding of the Cyclops Polyphemus by Odysseus and a naval battle, depicted on each side of the crater of Aristonothos (650 B.C.), found in a tomb of Cerveteri, are usually considered as two paratactic representations of the struggle between two different ethnic groups. This contribution presents a new hypothetical interpretation considering the crater as a visual and aesthetic unity: the two scenes might be read in sequence, one being the consequence of the other. Odysseus, skilled and gifted with intelligence (metis), faces the Cyclops; however his excessive metis upsets the Cyclops' father Poseidon and causes damage and struggle, expressed by the naval battle. At the same time the crab depicted under the handles of the crater, symbol of the right use of skill and intelligence, fits well in this frame.
The Aristonothos krater implies its usage in symposia where different ethnic groups could have been involved, shortly after the expansion of the Greeks westwards, in the frame of contacts among Greeks, Phoenicians and Etruscans. Thus the figured scene depicted on the crater might have acted as advice and warning regards the right use of wine.
description: Aristonothos. Scritti per il Mediterraneo antico, No 1 (2007): Strumenti, suono, musica in Etruria e in Grecia : letture tra archeologia e fonti letterarie
Controlling time-awareness in modularized processes (extended version)
Creators: name: Lanz, Andreas
name: Posenato, Roberto
name: Combi, Carlo
name: Reichert, Manfred
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Subprocess
subject: Controllability
subject: Theory of constraints (Management)
subject: Process-aware information system
subject: Temporal constraints
subject: Process modularity
subject: Modulares Softwaresystem
subject: DDC 004 / Data processing & computer science
subject: Theory of constraints (Management)
subject: Modular programming
subject: Steuerbarkeit
subject: Theorie der Sachzwänge
subject: Constraint-Programmierung
subject: Zeitabhängige Methode

description: The proper handling of temporal process constraints is crucial in many application domains. A sophisticated support of time-aware processes, however, is still missing in contemporary information systems. As a particular challenge, temporal constraints must be also handled for modularized processes (i.e., processes comprising subprocesses), enabling the reuse of process knowledge as well as the modular design of complex processes. This paper focuses on the representation and support of such time-aware modularized processes. In particular, we present a sound and complete method to derive the duration restrictions of a time-aware (sub-)process in such a way that its temporal properties are completely specified. We then show how this can be utilized when re-using the process within a modularized one. Altogether, the presented approach will foster the efficient and modular design of complex time-aware processes.
The 1911 revolution in communist Chinese propaganda
Creators: name: Kositz, Bryce
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2013
Subjects: 1911
revolution
communist
chinese
propaganda

description: Have any of you visited another English speaking country, like the US? They speak English, but slightly differently from out here. For example, if you go to Maccas and ask for chips in the US, you’ll get potato chips, not the deep fried strips of potato you call chips. You have to ask for fries. And when you come back to Australia after a long trip there, you might accidently go to Macca’s and ask for fries. You’d laugh it off and correct yourself, no harm done, right? But imagine that people who heard your slip up did think it made you bad person. The coworker you came with is so shocked by your choice of words that they spread rumors about you at work. In fact, the only place you can find work any longer is that same Maccas.
La tromba-lituo di Tarquinia nel suo contesto di rinvenimento
Creators: name: Bonghi Jovino, Maria
Publisher: name: Aristonothos. Scritti per il Mediterraneo antico
Year: 2010

description: The contribution displays all the features regarding the trumpet-lituus found in Tarquinia by the writer herself, Maria Bonghi Jovino. Here, the lituus was found with two other bronze objects - an axe and a shield-, which are also exceptionally cast and hammered, and decorated. All these three objects were intentionally buried after having been deprived of their ‘natural’ function. The article underlines the remarkable aspects of this trumpet in comparison with figurative models and with other artifacts of the same type, in particular the Vulci lituus. This paper goes over again the extensive researches conducted during these years by the writer and other scholars on the instruments themselves, their structure, technical and organological features,  as well as the aspects emerging from the archaeological context. The historical situation implied by the archaeological evidence, connected with all the elements drawn from research, allow  the scholar to assume that the lituus,  axe and shield, were the prerogatives of a king-priest who used them during a very important ceremony. At the end of the liturgy, the objects were ritually broken and buried.
description: Aristonothos. Scritti per il Mediterraneo antico, No 1 (2007): Strumenti, suono, musica in Etruria e in Grecia : letture tra archeologia e fonti letterarie
The politics of co-optation in Myanmar
Creators: name: Win, Chit
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Myanmar
co-optation
ethnic
parliament

description: Can you imagine Clive Palmer and Tony Abbott sharing a bunk bed in a dormitory? Would Tony be annoyed by Clive’s snoring? Or would Clive be irritated by Tony’s early morning workout? Well, there’s a place on earth where parliamentarians do live in dorms. Let me take you to Nay Pyi Taw, the new capital of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. In 2010, after two decades of rule, the military decided to transform itself into a civilian government. But the parliament it created is overwhelmingly controlled by the pro-military party and ethnic minorities are co-opted into the parliament, to create the appearance of diversity and legitimacy while containing them in the dormitories to control their movements.
Strumenti musicali e fonti letterarie
Creators: name: Berlinzani, Francesca
Publisher: name: Aristonothos. Scritti per il Mediterraneo antico
Year: 2010

description: This paper presents a collection of literary sources concerning  trumpets in the Greek and Latin perspective, with the aim to delimit the functions and the meanings of these instruments in the Etruscan World. The study of the ancient texts investigates many aspects related to this group of instruments, with the assumption that they are filtered by the Greek and Latin languages and perception. Some features, such as its multi-functional value, shape, technique, and sonorous quality have been related to some interesting and stimulating issues of  ethnomusicological research. This approach did not have the purpose to discover connections and answers to the problems posed by the doubtful statements of literary sources, but to open the discussion also to the symbolical aspects of the instrument and from this  to recover its profound human significance. The research is then focused on the functions of the trumpets attested in the Etruscan world, and on the lituus, which represents the most interesting instrument of music of these people. The analysis of literary sources allows the writer to suppose that the thyrrenikè salpinx does not automatically designate the lituus, and that therefore the latter  must not necessarily be the war instrument the Etruscans are remembered to have used during battles. It can indeed have been used as insignia of religious and political power, as also its particular sonority suggests. This argument is consistent both with the interpretation given by M. Bonghi Jovino for the lituus of Tarquinia and with the literary suggestions of a ceremonial and sacred function of the ancient trumpets.
description: Aristonothos. Scritti per il Mediterraneo antico, No 1 (2007): Strumenti, suono, musica in Etruria e in Grecia : letture tra archeologia e fonti letterarie
Using site-directed mutagenesis to engineer human ribosomal protein variants
Creators: name: Neuman, Robert Keller
name: Bornhorst, Xavier
name: Liu, Annie
name: Guevara, Ivan
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2024

description: This submission corresponds to a poster presented at 2024 SURC.
description: We used a site-directed mutagenesis (SDM) protocol to create plasmid constructs through substitution and deletion. When the pmTurquoise plasmid containing the coding sequence for human ribosomal protein (RP) S6 was originally synthesized, a single nucleotide was added, shifting the reading frame of the mTurquoise gene out of line with RPS6. SDM was used to delete nucleotide 3619 and restore the fusion protein reading frame. Since we are using these plasmids to study the extraribosomal functions of RPS6, two different plasmids were constructed with this deletion: control (pmTurquoise-N1-RPS6) and one containing a nuclear export signal (pmTurquoise-NES-RPS6). On a pNH-TrxT bacterial expression plasmid containing the coding sequence for human RPS3A, SDM was also used to substitute amino acids at positions previously identified as post-translational glycosylation sites. On this plasmid, the serine at position 59 and the serine at position 154 in the wild-type RPS3A sequence were substituted individually with alanine to disrupt the residue targeted by the modification. Mutagenesis efficiency was estimated at >80% by blue-white colony screening of control reactions, and designed nucleotide changes were confirmed by plasmid DNA sequence analysis. The constructs on the pmTurquoise backbone will allow us to study the activity of RPS6 in the cytoplasm upon transfection into HEK293 cells. The pNH-TrxT-RP plasmids will enable bacterial protein expression and affinity purification of human RPs from soluble and insoluble fractions for subsequent in vitro glycosylation assays.
Radio pulsars and transients in the Galactic center
Creators: name: Lazio, Joseph
name: Deneva, J. S.
name: Bower, Geoffrey C.
name: Cordes, J. M.
name: Hyman, Scott D.
name: Backer, D. C.
name: Bhat, R.
name: Chatterjee, S.
name: Demorest, P.
name: Ransom, S. M.
name: Vlemmings, W.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Radio pulsars and transients provide powerful probes of the star formation history, interstellar medium, and gravitational potential of the Galactic center. Historical radio observations of the Galactic center have not emphasized the time domain aspect of observing this region. We summarize a series of recent searches for and observations of radio transients and pulsars that make use of two advances in technology. The first is the formation of large fields of view ≥ 1°) at relatively longer wavelengths (λ > 1 m), and the second is the construction of receivers and instruments capable of collecting data on microsecond time scales at relatively short wavelengths (≈ 3cm).
‘The Politics of Economics – Genocide and Ecocide for Yi-Martuwarra People -We need a Total Reset!’
Creators: name: Martuwarra, RiverOfLife
name: Poelina, Anne
name: Perdrisat, Ian
name: Perdrisat, Marlikka
name: Campbell, G.
name: T., Jones
name: Brueckner, M
name: Taylor, Kat
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 480406
subject: Law reform

description: Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council Submission: Explanation Note to the WAClimate Change BillSubmission 1.
The role of frontline managers in the management of workplace health and safety
Creators: name: O'Neill, Martin
Publisher: name: Southern Cross university
Year: 2020
Subjects: WHS management systems
Frontline managers
WHS management
Resilience

description: Organisations operate in a climate of constant changes in economic, social, and environmental conditions. Within this climate, organisations are challenged to continually evolve, becoming more cost-effective and efficient while, at the same time, address increasing societal expectations. Societal expectation includes the safety and welfare of the public and team members alike. In this context, there is the possibility of tension between safety and becoming more cost-effective and efficient. Individuals pay the human cost of workplace incidents and accidents. The human cost includes temporary physical and psychological disabling injuries, permanently disabling injuries or indeed death. Within Australia, organisations are responsible first for preventing workplace accidents and injuries and then to compensate injured team members.
A table spread with hunger: Iranian hospitality and Afghan refugees in the city of Shiraz
Creators: name: Yarbakhsh, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Iran
Afghanistan
refugee

description: Imagine, for a moment, that your neighbour’s house burns down. What would you do for them? Offer them your spare room, a place to sleep for a night or two? And when would the welcome wear thin? After a week? A month? A year? How about thirty-four years? Thirty-four years ago, 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, precipitating one of the largest and most protracted refugee crises the world has ever seen.
Tra estremismo e moderazione: il ruolo dei circoli fascisti italo-americani nella politica estera italiana degli anni trenta (From extremist to moderate: the Italian-American fascist circles and the Italian foreign policy in the 1930s)
Creators: name: Pretelli, Matteo
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This essay studies the role of the Italian-American fascist circles within Italy's foreign policy in the 1930s. The article depicts the social composition of these circles and explains how they were led into changing their extremist views into a more 'moderate' propaganda, which Rome imposed with regards to the United States, following the dissolution of the Italian fasci in the late 1920s. In spite of this, the fascist government's ambiguous position towards these organizations underscores the lack of a consistent political line and a feeble propaganda attempt in the American immigration context. Finally, the poor effectiveness of the Italian-American fascist clubs' activities ceases after Pearl Harbor, when a number of fascist militants are taken into custody by US authorities and the Italian organizations are silenced.