cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
CNN Poll: April 2020 Coronavirus
Creators: name: CNN
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: President Donald Trump's handling of coronavirus outbreak (1); economic impact of coronavirus (1); household financial hardship from coronavirus (1); federal government preventing spread of coronavirus (1); worst is behind us or yet to come from coronavirus (1); Trump doing everything he can to fight outbreak or could do more (1); federal government handling of shortage of personal protective equipment (1); impact on different groups of bills passed in response to coronavirus (4); left house in past 7 days (5); social distancing guidelines (3); prepared to deal with coronavirus infection (1); confidence in ability to get medical care (2); personally know someone diagnosed with coronavirus (1); likelihood of contracting coronavirus (1); threat of coronavirus (1); registered to vote (1); Vice-president Joe Biden vs. Trump on coronavirus outbreak (1); calls received on telephone or landline (1).
title: The Judicialisation of Constitutional Disputes in Iraq: Exploring the Rule of Law in Transitional Democracies
Creators: name: Ismael, MS
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2017

description: It is generally agreed that the transition from authoritarian rule to a constitutional democracy often coincides with the adoption of a new, incomplete and often vague constitution that empowers, and more importantly constrains newly appointed and elected state officials and institutions. In such a transitional setting, it is to be expected that power will not only be exercised on the basis of democratic principles and practices, but that it will also be based on the rule of law, that serves to limit the arbitrary and abusive exercise of public power. Therefore, this thesis examines the role of newly empowered courts in emerging and transitional states and the far-reaching implications of transferring political conflicts into constitutional cases concerning the rule of law. It argues that resolving and judicialising contested constitutional questions can put the rule of law, the constitutional judiciary and the process of transition itself to the ultimate test in the period immediately following a transition to democracy. This thesis presents an in-depth case study analysing the recent constitutional and political developments in the fragile state of Iraq following the US-led invasion in 2003. It uses original and detailed analyses of the key case law of the Federal Supreme Court of Iraq; the legal doctrinal method and insights from comparative literature on courts, law and the political system. This thesis assesses the Court in the context of broader constitutional principles, such as the rule of law, and modern phenomena, such as the trend towards the judicialisation of politics, in the specific circumstances of transitional democratic states. Findings from this research are complex and multiple; they illustrate how establishing and upholding the rule of law in states that are newly emerged from authoritarian rule can be a formidable undertaking, one that is shaped by a legacy of authoritarianism and at best ‘rule by law’. The research concludes that, judicialisation affects and is affected by the rule of law. Thus, state officials and institutions may well bypass the constitution as well as transfer political disputes into constitutional cases; often using the judiciary to legitimise and institutionalise excessive political powers. When the government is not bound by the rule of law and the law is not sovereign over all, judicialisation might expose the court to external interference, as well as affecting the functioning of a new parliament which is attempting to establish its powers and legitimacy.
The interaction of a large-scale nuclear wind with the high velocity HII region G0.17+0.15
Creators: name: Yusef-Zadeh, F.
name: Zhao, Jun-Hui
name: Arendt, Richard
name: Wardle, M.
name: Royster, M.
name: Rudnick, L.
name: Michail, J.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2024

description: We investigate the nature of a Galactic center source, G0.17+0.15, lying along the northern extension of the Radio Arc near l ~ 0.2°. G0.17+0.15 is an HII region located toward the eastern edge of the radio bubble, embedded within the highly polarized Galactic center eastern Lobe where a number of radio filaments appear to cross through the HII region. We report the detection of hydrogen and helium recombination lines with a radial velocity exceeding 140 km s⁻¹ based on GBT and VLA observations. The morphology of G0.17+0.15, aided by kinematics, and spectral index characteristics, suggests the presence of an external pressure dragging and shredding the ionized gas. We argue that this ionized cloud is interacting with a bundle of radio filaments and is entrained by the ram pressure of the radio bubble, which itself is thought to be produced by cosmic-ray driven outflows at the Galactic center. In this interpretation, the gas streamers on the western side of G0.17+0.15 are stripped, accelerated from 0 to δv ~ 35 km s⁻¹ over a time scale roughly 8 × 10⁴ years, implying that ablating ram pressure is ~700 eV cm⁻³, comparable to the ~10³ eVcm⁻³ cosmic-ray driven wind pressure in the Galactic center region.
G359.13142-0.20005: A steep spectrum radio pulsar candidate with an X-ray counterpart running into the Galactic Center Snake (G359.1-0.2)
Creators: name: Yusef-Zadeh, F.
name: Zhao, Jun-Hui
name: Arendt, Richard
name: Wardle, M.
name: Heinke, C. O.
name: Royster, M.
name: Lang, C.
name: Michail, J.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2024

description: The Snake is a remarkable Galactic center radio filament with a morphology characterized by two kinks along its ~20’ extent. The major and minor kinks are located where the filament is most distorted from a linear magnetized structure running perpendicular to the Galactic plane. We present Chandra, VLA, and MeerKAT data and report the detection of an X-ray and radio source at the location of the major kink. High-resolution radio images of the major kink reveal a compact source with a steep spectrum with spectral index α ∼ −2.7 surrounded by extended emission. The radio luminosity and steep spectrum of the compact source are consistent with a pulsar. We also show flattening of the spectrum and enhanced synchrotron emissivity away from the position of the major kink along the Snake, which suggests injection of relativistic particles along the Snake. We argue that the major kink is created by a fast-moving (~500–1000 km s⁻¹), object punching into the Snake, distorting its magnetic structure, and producing X-ray emission. X-ray emission pinpoints an active acceleration site where the interaction is taking place. A secondary kink is argued to be induced by the impact of the high-velocity object producing the major kink.
A case study approach to revitalise large class learning
Creators: name: Gerstman, Julie
name: Barry, Carol
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In response to university priorities, this study investigates an improved curriculum designed to encourage development of graduate attributes required in a technological and complex world. The revitalized curriculum utilises rich and relevant on-line resources requiring students to practice reasoning and analytical skills that are transferable within and beyond university study. Three specific educational objectives of understanding, applying and analysing from Bloom's taxonomy are targeted as skills to be promoted in the curriculum. Attainment of these skills is developed through weekly media illustrations and data analysis in an interactive lecture and tutorial environment. Data was collected from a sample of students to assess the learning outcomes of the curriculum enrichment program. The study reports on the development of these learning skills through activities consistent with a constructivist learning approach. A pretest was used to determine students' entry level skills prior to the start of classes, and mid-semester and end-semester exams assessed the development of the targeted skills. The results have been collected for three semesters. Analysis of the quantitative data using paired t-tests show significant improvement in the skills assessed. Qualitative data obtained from student survey feedback at the end of each semester provide insights into student perceptions of the new curriculum. The results show that the changes implemented are positive ways to revitalize university teaching and learning.
Neuroanatomy of stomatopod central complexes offers putative neural substrate for oriented behaviors in crustaceans
Creators: name: Chou, Alice
name: Sayre, Marcel E.
name: Lin, Chan
name: Cronin, Thomas
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2022

description: All insects studied to date possess a centrally located group of neuropils, known collectively as the central complex, that has been implicated in sensory integration and motor action selection. Among the functions prescribed to the central complex, none is perhaps as intriguing as its role in orientation and navigation. Neurobiological correlates of both current and desired headings have been described in insect CXs. Despite the diversity of arthropods, understanding of the CX as a navigational center originates entirely from terrestrial insects. Stomatopod crustaceans, commonly referred to as mantis shrimps, form an order of predatory marine crustaceans with intricate and diverse visual systems that maintain the distinction of being the only fully aquatic animal known to utilize the navigational strategy of path integration. They utilize idiothetic, celestial, and landmark cues to orient in the benthos. Here, we investigate the neuroanatomy of adult and developing mantis shrimp central complexes and associated neuropils to begin understanding this brain region in a sensorially and behaviorally complex crustacean.
Evolutionary Optics: How Mantis Shrimps Enhance Photoreception and Signaling Effectiveness
Creators: name: Cronin, Thomas
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Circular polarization
Form birefringence
Photonic crystals
Polarization control
Polarizers
Three dimensional reconstruction

description: OSA Advanced Photonics Congress 2021
description: Mantis shrimps (stomatopod crustaceans) have evolved numerous adaptations in their photoreceptors and in body structures used to produce visual signals. Novel optical structures exist at microscales and nanoscales, often operating by previously unknown optical mechanisms.
Review on VSI switch fault tolerant control systems for electric vehicle drivetrains
Creators: name: Tashakori Abkenar, Alireza
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Electric Vehicles (EVs) are an effective solution for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere. Safety is the most crucial issue in the automotive industry and any fault in the EV drivetrain may results in a fatal accident. This paper discusses the dynamic performance of EVs under drivetrain Voltage Source Inverter (VSI) switch faults and presents the suitable Fault Diagnosis Algorithm (FDA) and remedial strategy for EV applications. Physical testing of drivetrain faults in EVs is both expensive and extremely difficult; therefore the Nissan Leaf and the Lightning GT EVs are simulated using a validated model of the Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) and their performances investigated under faulty drivetrain conditions. Simulation results show the necessity of implementing Fault Tolerant Control Systems (FTCSs) in EV drivetrain electric motor drives. Various fault diagnosis algorithms of the VSI switch faults in PMSM drives are reviewed and their merits and demerits are discussed. Existing fault tolerant control inverter topologies are also reviewed and compared based on EV application requirements. Finally, suitable FDA and fault tolerant control inverter topology for EV drivetrain application are recommended to maintain safe and optimal vehicle performance in the postfault condition.
Technology-assisted opioid education for out-of-treatment adults with opioid use disorder.
Creators: name: Toegel, Forrest
name: Novak, Matthew
name: Rodewald, Andrew M.
name: Leoutsakos, Jeannie-Marie
name: Silverman, Kenneth
name: Holtyn, August F.
Publisher: name: APA
Year: 2021

description: Objective: To evaluate the feasibility and potential efficacy of a technology-assisted education program in teaching adults at a high risk of opioid overdose about opioids; opioid overdose; and opioid use disorder medications. Method: A within-subject, repeated-measures design was used to evaluate effects of the novel technology-assisted education program. Participants (N = 40) were out-of-treatment adults with opioid use disorder, recruited in Baltimore, Maryland from May 2019 to January 2020. The education program was self-paced and contained three courses. Each course presented information and required answers to multiple-choice questions. The education program was evaluated using a 50-item test, delivered before and after participants completed each course. Tests were divided into three subtests that contained questions from each course. We measured accuracy on each subtest before and after completion of each course and used a mixed-effects model to analyze changes in accuracy across tests. Results: The technology-assisted education program required a median time of 91 min of activity to complete. Most participants completed the program in a single day. Accuracy on each subtest increased only after completion of the course that corresponded to that subtest, and learning comparisons were significant at the p < .001 level for all subtests. Accuracy on each subtest was unchanged before completion of the relevant course, and increases in accuracy were retained across subsequent tests. Learning occurred similarly independent of participant education, employment, and poverty. Conclusions: Technology-assisted education programs can provide at-risk adults with access to effective education on opioids, opioid overdose, and opioid use disorder medications. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Bridging the gap: The role of shared group membership in status generalization
Creators: name: Oldmeadow, Julian
name: Collett, Gemma
name: Little, Christine
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper extends earlier work examining the relationship between status and group membership as sources of influence. It is argued that shared group membership facilitates status generalization, the carrying over of status in one domain to influence in another unrelated domain. In the first experiment, where interaction partners were differentiated by a highly relevant task ability, the partners' group membership (same or different) had no effects on influence. In the second experiment, partners with a high level of relevant task ability were equally influential regardless of group membership, but partners with high ability on an irrelevant task were more influential if they were ingroup members than if they were not. Findings are discussed in relation to status characteristics theory and the concept of social status.
Passive TCP stream estimation of RTT and Jitter parameters
Creators: name: But, Jason
name: Keller, Urs
name: Kennedy, David
name: Armitage, Grenville
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: There exist many tools to passively monitor a link for traffic flows. They are typically used near the edge of the network, but not necessarily at the termination point of data flows - usually within a few hops of end-points. Round trip time (RTT) values for individual flows is of interest for network management purposes and can be used to indicate user experienced network delay, and in network design decisions. Determining the RTT when not at an end-point of a data flow is complicated by the fact that packets may be seen out of order and that witnessed packets may not reach their destination. In this paper we present an algorithm to estimate running RTT and jitter characteristics of TCP streams monitored at the midpoint of a TCP flow.
title: Gender and Social Status in Chaucer's Language
Creators: name: Hanna, N
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2017

description: This thesis examines the semantics and pragmatics of nouns that denote gender and social status in Chaucer’s literature e.g. ‘knyght’, ‘lady’, ‘leche’, ‘wyf’. It argues that a comparative analysis of these words across Chaucer’s corpus may challenge the traditional perceptions of Chaucer’s characters and their social roles, and clarify the supposed ambiguity assigned to these characters in modern criticism. Previous literary analyses of the language have been open to the charge of being unsystematic in their choice of the lexis examined. This thesis addresses this issue by taking a corpus-based approach to identify patterns of language and idiomatic phraseology for discussion, with the aim of discovering if this method can inform new interpretations of Chaucer’s works. With the aid of lexicographical resources (i.e. MED, OED, HTOED), the words are examined with consideration given to their immediate lexical and greater textual contexts, as well as medieval socio-cultural sources that may have informed Chaucer’s use. Although the study takes into consideration Chaucer’s whole body of work, the thesis is structured into three chapters that focus on individual texts of 'The Canterbury Tales', including ‘The Franklin’s Tale’ and ‘The Merchant’s Tale’, the short poem 'An ABC', and finally 'Troilus and Criseyde'. These texts are chosen due to their frequencies and range of the selected social status terms, as well as the fact that they span the entire period of Chaucer’s career, allowing for discussion on how the words develop over the course of his lifetime. The study presents how these terms are utilised for varying literary effect (i.e. simple reflection, critique, comic inversion), and if they confirm or refute previous analyses on Chaucer’s presentations of gender and social roles. In doing so, the thesis offers insights to the historical basis for how these words may have developed in Middle English, and how Chaucer’s language reflects, interprets and challenges fourteenth-century cultural attitudes towards social status.
Quality-driven business policy specification and refinement for service-oriented systems
Creators: name: Phan, Tan
name: Han, Jun
name: Schneider, Jean-Guy
name: Wilson, Kirk
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Enterprise software systems play an essential role in an organization's business operation. Many business rules and regulations governing an organization's operation can be translated into quality requirements of the relevant software systems, such as security, availability, and manageability. For systems implemented using Web Services, the specification and management of these qualities in the form of Web Service policies are often complicated and difficult to be aligned with the initial business requirements. In this paper, we introduce the Hope (High-Level Objective-based Policy for Enterprises) framework that supports, in a systematic manner, the specification of quality-oriented policies at the business level and their refinement into policies at the system/service level. Quality-oriented business requirements are expressed in Hope as quality objectives applied to business entities and further refined or translated into system-level WS-Policy statements. The refinement relies on an application-specific business entity model and application-independent domain quality models. We demonstrate the approach with a case study involving policy specification and refinement in the security domain.
Análisis de la audiencia social del género reality en España: Pefil y contenido que dispara la audiencia. Un estudio de caso bajo las técnicas del periodismo de datos.
Creators: name: Cifuentes, Pilar Nachón
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: El presente Proyecto de Fin de Grado ofrece un análisis de la audiencia social del género reality show en España, con el fin de conocer aspectos cuantitativos y cualitativos de su perfil, así como el contenido que dispara dicha audiencia, a partir de un estudio de caso desarrollado mediante las técnicas del periodismo de datos. El programa a analizar es GHVIP 2015, de Telecinco.
La investigación incluye además una revisión comparativa entre el público espectador tradicional y el público social del reality que permite comprobar el grado de correspondencia actual entre ambos tipos de audiencias.
Grand Unification Theory determined by Quantum Imagination Theory
Creators: name: Kitchen, Kris
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics
subject: M-Theory
subject: 20203 Particle Physics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Plasma Physics
subject: Condensed Matter Physics
subject: Mechanics
subject: Thermodynamics
subject: Entropy
subject: Quantum Mechanics
subject: Special Relativity
subject: General Relativity
subject: Atomic Physics
subject: Computational Physics
subject: 91308 Solid Mechanics
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: Grand Unification Theory determined by Quantum Imagination Theory
Corporate strategy and accounting for sustainability in investment appraisal
Creators: name: Vesty, Gillian
name: Oliver, Judith
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper reports on an exploratory study that sought to understand how environmental and social factors are included in capital investment appraisal. Views were gathered from CFOs and sustainability managers of large Australian companies. The focus of the study was on the links between sustainability, strategy, employee expertise and influence in accounting system design. Investment appraisal that that does not incorporate environmental and social factors could pose potential governance risks for senior management, even legal ramifications for organisations that appear to be ignoring or 'greenwashing' their activities. The potential disconnect between widely applied discounted cash flow methodology and the principles underlying accounting for sustainability is discussed in light of investing scarce resources to support corporate strategy. Early findings suggest the emphasis on traditional DCF and NPV and how it is used alongside the harder-to-quantify sustainability issues, still needs further investigation. We need to better understand the extent to which the complex qualitative sustainability factors are being modelled and included in cash flows and to what extent the qualitative narrative takes precedence in decisions.
Irrigation scheduling and water use efficiency on cabbage yield
Creators: name: Iqbal, Zahid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: 99901 Agricultural Engineering
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: Soil Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Education

description: Irrigation frequency is one of the most important factors in irrigation scheduling, and a proper irrigation frequency
can establish moderate moist and oxygen conditions in the root zone throughout the crop growth period. This
study was conducted to study the effect of scheduling irrigation on the water use efficiency and yield of cabbage. It
was conducted on a cabbage farm within the Ho Municipality. The weights of harvested cabbage heads were
recorded. Four raised beds were prepared with two replication labelled into various treatment (T1, T2, T3, and T4).
Treatment 1 was irrigated every day, Treatment 2 irrigated three times in a week, Treatment 3 irrigated only once
in a week and Treatment 4 was under control (No irrigation). Treatment 1 (T1) yielded the highest weight(kg) of
cabbage head after harvesting and the lowest water use efficiency as compared to yields of treatment 2 and 3 with
treatment 4 yielding the least in weight of cabbage heads. The relationship between yield and applied water will
allow to improve the management of water resources under water scarcity.
p53, cancer and the immune response.
Creators: name: Blagih, Julianna
name: Buck, Michael D
name: Vousden, Karen H
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2020
Subjects: Signalling & Oncogenes
Metabolism
Cell Biology

description: The importance of cancer-cell-autonomous functions of the tumour suppressor p53 (encoded by TP53) has been established in many studies, but it is now clear that the p53 status of the cancer cell also has a profound impact on the immune response. Loss or mutation of p53 in cancers can affect the recruitment and activity of myeloid and T cells, allowing immune evasion and promoting cancer progression. p53 can also function in immune cells, resulting in various outcomes that can impede or support tumour development. Understanding the role of p53 in tumour and immune cells will help in the development of therapeutic approaches that can harness the differential p53 status of cancers compared with most normal tissue.
Additional file 1 of Host-parasite interactions in non-native invasive species are dependent on the levels of standing genetic variation at the immune locus
Creators: name: Biedrzycka, Aleksandra
name: Popiołek, Marcin
name: Zalewski, Andrzej
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. The results of a generalized linear model predicting the influence of population, sex and age factors on the prevalence and abundance of all intestinal parasites and detected parasite classes.
Conducting a trial of web conferencing software: Why, how, and perceptions from the coalface
Creators: name: Reushle, Shirley
name: Loch, Birgit
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper reports on the trial of web conferencing software conducted at a regional Australian university with a significant distance population. The paper shares preliminary findings, the views of participants and recommendations for future activity. To design and conduct the trial, an action research method was chosen because it is participative and grounded in experience, reflecting the context and objectives of the trial. In the first phase of the trial, students in postgraduate Education courses were linked across the globe to participate in interactive and collaborative conference activity and to communicate via audio, text, and video and shared whiteboard. Mathematical problem-solving was carried out collaboratively in an undergraduate course using tablet PCs. This was followed by phase 2, a university-wide trial across disciplines. Preliminary findings indicate that web conferencing software enables teachers and students at the university to engage actively across diverse locations, supporting a student-centred approach and greater flexibility in terms of where, when and how students learn. From these findings, the authors have made some initial recommendations to university management on the adoption of web conferencing to support learning and teaching.
Propuesta de reducción de tiempos de proceso en el área de despacho y delivery de la empresa Telcel
Creators: name: Repositorio Academico UPC
name: Taipe, Sofía Elizabeth Villareal
name: Liza, Carlos Alberto León
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Economics

description: La satisfacción del cliente es el factor más importante para lograr su fidelización debido a que la tecnología ya no es un know how de las empresas. Las empresas centran su estrategia actual en dos factores difícilmente conciliables: precio y calidad. Hoy día, en la mayoría de los sectores y mercados, se puede afirmar que tener precios competitivos es una condición necesaria pero no suficiente para poder tener presencia en el mismo Por ello, la calidad se alza cada vez más, como objetivo estratégico para lograr la fidelidad del cliente y ampliar la cuota de mercado. Lográndose a través de las mejoras en la organización y por ende en el resultado final del producto o servicio. Telcel empresa transnacional líder en comunicaciones móviles integradas para empresas opera en el Perú desde mediados de la década del noventa y no solo ofrece tecnología acorde con el mercado empresarial sino también apuesta por la calidad de servicio que ofrece a sus clientes. El presente trabajo busca reducir el tiempo de proceso de despacho y delivery de equipos, permitiendo un mayor control de procesos con la finalidad de consolidar la calidad a través de la reducción del tiempo.
Theorising culture: Hermeneutical themes in the social theory of Alain Touraine
Creators: name: Ballantyne, Glenda
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: One of the most conspicuous social theoretical developments of the past several decades has been a 'cultural turn' which has seen a shift away from the view that social life is something that happens in 'structures' or 'systems' to the view that social life is ordered by meanings and beliefs. The shift to more culturalogical modes of thinking, however, has gone in a number of directions, and the outcomes have been uncertain. In this paper, I argue that a hermeneutical conception of culture opens up more fertile avenues of analysis. The possibilities opened up by such an approach are explored through the unmistakable, but implicit and unfinished hermeneutical turn evident in Alain Touraine's recent social theory.
Additional file 2 of Host-parasite interactions in non-native invasive species are dependent on the levels of standing genetic variation at the immune locus
Creators: name: Biedrzycka, Aleksandra
name: Popiołek, Marcin
name: Zalewski, Andrzej
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Fig. S1. The effects of population, sex and age on prevalence of all intestinal parasites and different parasite classes predicted by a generalized linear model.
Reconciling identity and diversity: The narrative conception of identity
Creators: name: Ballantyne, Glenda
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The concept of (individual and collective) identity has come to the fore in sociological debates in recent years, and the idea that identities are multi-faceted has become widely accepted. However, clarification of the nature and structure of such identities is often cursory. In this paper, I argue that the hermeneutical conception of narrative identity provides the most adequate basis for a conception which does justice to both diversity and singularity that is implicit in the idea of internally multiple identities. In particular, I argue that Paul Ricoeur's analysis of the narrative's capacity to reconcile identity with diversity, variability and heterogeneity gives rise to a highly productive notion of identity as a dialectic of concordance and discordance.
Fibre Bragg grating use in fluid dynamic studies
Creators: name: Wade, Scott
name: Nazarinia, M.
name: Wong, S. B.
name: Lo Jacono, David
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The application of fibre Bragg grating sensors for strain and force measurements in fluid dynamic experimental studies is presented. In the first example, a fibre Bragg grating is used as both a tether and a strain gauge for studies of neutrally buoyant spheres. The measured strains on the tether were found to agree well with the theory for the flow rates tested (0.14 to 0.33 m/s). In the second example a Bragg grating sensor has been used to monitor the forces acting on a cylinder as a function of flow rate and when the cylinder is translated in a stationary fluid. Excellent agreement was found between the vibration frequencies of the cylinder as measured by the Bragg grating and with a camera use to record the motion of the cylinder.
Additional file 3 of Host-parasite interactions in non-native invasive species are dependent on the levels of standing genetic variation at the immune locus
Creators: name: Biedrzycka, Aleksandra
name: Popiołek, Marcin
name: Zalewski, Andrzej
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Fig. S2. The effects of population, sex and age on the abundance of all intestinal parasites and different parasite classes predicted by a generalized linear model.
Análisis de la audiencia social del género reality en España: Pefil y contenido que dispara la audiencia. Un estudio de caso bajo las técnicas del periodismo de datos: GHVIP 2015
Creators: name: Cifuentes, Pilar Nachón
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: El presente Proyecto de Fin de Grado ofrece un análisis de la audiencia social del género reality show en España, con el fin de conocer aspectos cuantitativos y cualitativos de su perfil, así como el contenido que dispara dicha audiencia, a partir de un estudio de caso desarrollado mediante las técnicas del periodismo de datos. El programa a analizar es GHVIP 2015, de Telecinco.
La investigación incluye además una revisión comparativa entre el público espectador tradicional y el público social del reality que permite comprobar el grado de correspondencia actual entre ambos tipos de audiencias.
[WHITE PAPER] A Spin-based Re-interpretation of the Periodic Table (2022)
Creators: name: Teia, Luis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 30199 Analytical Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 30799 Theoretical and Computational Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: 30699 Physical Chemistry not elsewhere classified

description: ABSTRACT The hypothesis of this paper is that contemporary knowledge in quantum mechanics (energy levels and orbital dispositions) should allow the construction of a more integrated and meaningful periodic representation of an atom (other than Mendeleev’s original). A novel approach that models electrons as triangles is presented. Triangles determine electron’s spin (up or down) and govern their fitting into (sub)shells. The result is the Spin-based Periodic Structure. Starting at the nucleus (Period/Group 0), it evolves energetically outwardly with guidance from the quantum numbers. The model favors spin over atomic number when organizing the elements, and as a result, the model collapses all available thermal and electrical conductivity data of the elements into one continuous peak for the transition metals, and one axis of instability for the entire structure.
WC-Co coatings for high temperature rocket nozzle applications: An applications note
Creators: name: Sofyan, Bondan T.
name: Berndt, Christopher
name: Stefano, Marizki
name: Pardede, Haposan J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: High velocity oxy-fuel (HVOF) sprayed tungsten carbide-cobalt (WC-Co) coatings exhibit attributes that allow them to be a candidate material for high temperature applications; such as temperature insulators for rocket nozzles. This application note investigates the effect of surface preparation, in this case the grit blasting process, on the characteristics of the so-formed coating. The WC-Co coatings exhibited high hardness and low porosity. The composition of WC-Co coating varied in different regions, but on average was close to the composition of the initial feedstock, implying that there was no preferential loss of the material during the spray process. Microanalysis indicated diffusion of tungsten to the interface between the coating and the substrate and partly explains the high bonding strength of the coating. These physical characteristics suggest that the HVOF sprayed WC-Co is an appropriate coating technology for rocket nozzles.
The effect of irrigation and nitrogenous and phosphorous biofertilizers on yield and yield component on chickpea (Cicerarietinum L.) ILC482 line
Creators: name: Iqbal, Zahid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 99901 Agricultural Engineering
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: Soil Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Education

description: To evaluate the effects of nitrogenous and phosphorous biofertilizers on yield and yield components of chickpea
under different irrigation levels a research was conducted in a split plot experiment with three replicationsbased
on completelyrandomized block design at Research Field of Islamic Azad University Tabriz Branch in the spring of
2009. Irrigation levels (normal and deficit irrigation) were considered as a main factor and also fertilizers levels
(control, nitragin, biosuper and nitragin + biosuper) sub factors respectively. Control treatment of biofertilizer
showed fewer enhancements. Comparison of biofertilzer treatments showed that nitrogen + biosuper biofertilizer
increased more number of pods with one seed per plant by 19/28, number of pods with two seed by 15/28, seed
weight per plant by 4/47 g/m2, pod weight per plant by 5/93 g/m2and yield by 89/39g/m2. There is no significant
difference among nitragen ,biosuper and control treatments.Comparison of the different irrigation levels effect on
number of pods with two seed per plant showed that complete irrigation produced more number of pods with two
seed per plant by 24/1.and 100 seed weight by 30/76 g nitragen and biosuper produced significant yield relative to
other treatments.
Calibration of Multiple Delivery Dispensers : Guideline DKD-R 8-2 Revision 1
Creators: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Die Mitglieder Des DKD-Fachunterausschusses Volumen / Dichte
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2024

description: This guideline specifies the minimum requirements for the calibration procedure taking into account the special influences and the measurement uncertainty contributions for the calibration of multiple delivery dispensers. It applies to the calibration of multiple delivery dispensers with positive displacement (motor-operated and non-motor operated). This guideline does not apply to piston-operated pipettes with dispenser function.
Knowledge gaps and research priorities in tuberculous meningitis.
Creators: name: Seddon, James A
name: Wilkinson, Robert
name: Crevel, Reinout Van
name: Figaji, Anthony
name: Thwaites, Guy E
name: Tuberculous Meningitis International Research Consortium
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Model organisms
subject: Infectious Disease
subject: Human Biology & Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) is the most severe and disabling form of tuberculosis (TB), accounting for around 1-5% of the global TB caseload, with mortality of approximately 20% in children and up to 60% in persons co-infected with human immunodeficiency virus even in those treated. Relatively few centres of excellence in TBM research exist and the field would therefore benefit from greater co-ordination, advocacy, collaboration and early data sharing. To this end, in 2009, 2015 and 2019 we convened the TBM International Research Consortium, bringing together approximately 50 researchers from five continents. The most recent meeting took place on 1 st and 2 nd March 2019 in Lucknow, India. During the meeting, researchers and clinicians presented updates in their areas of expertise, and additionally presented on the knowledge gaps and research priorities in that field. Discussion during the meeting was followed by the development, by a core writing group, of a synthesis of knowledge gaps and research priorities within seven domains, namely epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, antimicrobial therapy, host-directed therapy, critical care and implementation science. These were circulated to the whole consortium for written input and feedback. Further cycles of discussion between the writing group took place to arrive at a consensus series of priorities. This article summarises the consensus reached by the consortium concerning the unmet needs and priorities for future research for this neglected and often fatal disease.
Data and Supplement from: Phylogenetic tree instability after taxon addition: Empirical frequency, predictability, and consequences for online inference
Creators: name: Collienne, Lena
name: Barker, Mary
name: Suchard, Marc A.
name: Matsen, Frederick A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Online Phylogenetics
Phylogenetic Stability
maximum likelihood
Taxon Addition

description: Online phylogenetic inference methods add sequentially arriving sequences to an inferred phylogeny without the need to recompute the entire tree from scratch. Some online method implementations exist already, but there remains concern that additional sequences may change the topological relationship among the original set of taxa. We call such a change in tree topology a lack of stability for the inferred tree.

 

In this paper, we analyze the stability of single taxon addition in a Maximum Likelihood framework across 1,000 empirical datasets. We find that instability occurs in almost 90% of our examples, although observed topological differences do not always reach significance under the AU-test. Changes in tree topology after addition of a taxon rarely occur close to its attachment location, and are more frequently observed in more distant tree locations carrying low bootstrap support. To investigate whether instability is predictable, we hypothesize sources of instability and design summary statistics addressing these hypotheses. Using these summary statistics as input features for machine learning under random forests, we are able to predict instability and can identify the most influential features. In summary, it does not appear that a strict insertion-only online inference method will deliver globally optimal trees, although relaxing insertion strictness by allowing for a small number of final tree rearrangements or accepting slightly suboptimal solutions appears feasible.
description: Funding provided by: National Institutes of HealthROR ID: https://ror.org/01cwqze88Award Number: AI162611
Funding provided by: Office of Research Infrastructure ProgramsROR ID: https://ror.org/01jdyfj45Award Number: S10OD028685
description: The dataset presented here is a subsample of 1,000 alignments of the datasets of Harrington et al.: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.g4vp6jv
Informe Visitantes del Triángulo del Arte
Creators: name: Recuero-Virto, Nuria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This report is associated with the following publications:

Garcia-Madariaga, J., Virto, N. R., & López, M. F. B. (2020). Scanning Museumgoers Willingness to Pay More. International Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Administration, 23(1), 88–106. https://doi.org/10.1080/15256480.2019.170822

Garcia-Madariaga, J., Virto, N. R., López, M. F. B., & Manzano, J. A. (2019). Optimizing website quality: the case of two superstar museum websites. International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, 13(1), 16–36. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijcthr-06-2018-0074

 

For more information, please visit:

https://doi.org/10.1080/15256480.2019.170822

https://doi.org/10.1108/ijcthr-06-2018-0074
Topic selection strategies in multi-agent naming game
Creators: name: Lorkiewicz, Wojciech
name: Kowalczyk, Ryszard
name: Katarzyniak, Radoslaw
name: Vo, Bao Quoc
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460206
subject: Knowledge representation and reasoning
classificationCode: 460299
subject: Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified

description: Communication is a key capability of autonomous agents in a multiagent system to exchange information about their environment. It requires a naming convention that typically involves a set of predefined names for all objects in the environment, which the agents share and understand. However, when the agents are heterogeneous, highly distributed, and situated in an unknown environment, it is very unrealistic to assume that all the objects can be foreseen in advance, and therefore their names cannot be defined beforehand. In such a case, each individual agent needs to be able to introduce new names for the objects it encounters and align them with the naming convention used by the other agents. A language game is a prospective mechanism for the agents to learn and align the naming conventions between them. In this paper we extend the language game model by proposing novel strategies for selecting topics, i.e. attracting agent's attention to different objects during the learning process. Using a simulated multi-agent system we evaluate the process of name alignment in the case of the least restrictive type of language game, the naming game without feedback. Utilising proposed strategies we study the dynamic character of formation of coherent naming conventions and compare it with the behaviour of commonly used random selection strategy. The experimental results demonstrate that the new strategies improve the overall convergence of the alignment process, limit agent's overall demand on memory, and scale with the increasing number of the interacting agents.
COVID-19 and Labour Law: Taiwan
Creators: name: Hsu, Wanning
Publisher: name: Italian Labour Law e-Journal
Year: 2020
Subjects: Covid-19; Labour Law; Disease prevention compensation; Vocational training; Living allowances

description: The most important measure is income support, such as disease prevention compensation during isolation or quarantine and vocational training living allowances during unpaid leaves.
description: Italian Labour Law e-Journal, Vol 13, No 1S (2020): Special Issue: Covid-19 and Labour Law. A Global Review
Photo-acoustic sub-micrometer modifications of glass by pair of femtosecond laser pulses
Creators: name: Hayasaki, Yoshio
name: Isaka, Mitsuhiro
name: Takita, Akihiro
name: Hasegawa, Satoshi
name: Juodkazis, Saulius
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present time-resolved studies of glass densification created by an acoustic phenomenon: collision of the transverse and longitudinal sound waves inside glass. Localization of the permanent denisfied region has a lateral cross section similar to 0.4 mu m and is approximately half of the wavelength of femtosecond laser pulses which were used to generate breakdown and launched shock waves inside glass. Controlled time delay between two closely spaced irradiation spots reveals dynamics and relaxation (electronic, thermal, stress) of glass after excitation. The observed phenomenon is important for femtosecond direct laser writing and recording of waveguide couplers using multiple beams.
Scillapersicene: a new homoisoflavonoid with cytotoxic activity from the bulbs of Scilla persica HAUSSKN
Creators: name: Salar Hafez Ghoran
name: Soodabeh Saeidnia
name: Esmaeil Babaei
name: Fumiyuki Kiuchi
name: Hidayat Hussain
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: The phytochemical investigation of Scilla persica HAUSSKN bulbs led to the isolation of a novel homoisoflavonoid that named Scillapersicene (1) and identified as 3-(3′,4′-dihydroxybenzylidene)-8-hydroxy-5,7-dimethoxychroman-4-one along with five known homoisoflavonoids 2–6, whose structures were elucidated using HRFAB-MS, 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopic data. The known compounds were identified as 3-(3′,4′-dihydroxybenzyl)-5,8-dihydroxy-7-methoxychroman-4-one (2), 3,9-dihydro-autumnalin (3), autumnalin (4), 3-(3′,4′-dihydroxybenzylidene)-5,8-dihydroxy-7-methoxychroman-4-one (5) and scillapersicone (6). All compounds obtained, expect 2 and 4, showed strong cytotoxic activity against AGS cell line. The toxicity on AGS cell line was measured by 1, 3, 5 and 6 with IC50 values of 8.4, 30.5, 10.7 and 24.2 μM, respectively. In addition, the physico-chemical properties of these natural compounds were optimised using density functional method (B3LYP) with standard 6-311+G* basis set. These natural products have low-energy gaps between the first ionisation potentials and highest occupied molecular orbital. In conclusion, the low-energy gap could cause reason for cytotoxic activity of homoisoflavonoids.