cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A self organising artificial neural network with problem dependent architecture
Creators: name: Hendtlass, Tim
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Self organizing maps (SOM) based on a regularly spaced array of nodes are well known. The optimum net site for a particular problem is not, in general, clear a priori. Even when a suitable size has been found, it is hard to get a uniform distribution of information across the net, despite the application of conscience mechanisms. As a result the final net contains passenger nodes which perform little or no useful purpose. This paper describes a three dimensional net developed to overcome the deficiencies of the tradition SOM. It evolves a physical node distribution in response to the data that is presented to it and eliminates passenger nodes. Although described in terms of mapping into three dimensions, the technique is in principle applicable to mapping into any number of dimensions.
Design and Implementation of Low-Cost Dehydration Sensor for Wearable Health Technology
Creators: name: AlDisi, Reem
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Body hydration is considered one of the most important physiological parameters to measure, and one of the most challenging. Current methods to assess hydration are invasive and require costly clinical settings. Given the increased attention to wearable devices in healthcare, bio-impedance analysis offers a non-invasive and inexpensive tool to assess hydration, and it can be designed to be used in wearable health devices. In this thesis, the utilization of the bio-impedance analysis to be used in the design of a dehydration sensor is investigated. A model of the human skin is used to simulate and study the bio-impedance analysis method. Several simulation setups were implemented to study different factors including, the effect of applying different frequencies on the dielectric parameters of the skin, the effect of changing sensor spacing, and the effect of temperature on the resulting measurements. Two different interdigitated electrodes designs are presented and a comparison of the measurements is presented. The rectangular IDE is printed and tested on subjects to validate the bio-impedance method and study the interpretation of its results. The proposed design offers a classification criterion that can be used to assess dehydration without the need for a complex mathematical model. Further clinical testing and data are needed to refine and finalize the criteria.
Mongolocar Gratshev & Legalov 2010
Creators: name: Legalov, Andrei A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Brenthides
Mongolocar

description: Genus Mongolocar Gratshev & Legalov, 2010
 Mongolocar Gratshev & Legalov, 2010:?
 Type species: Mongolocar orcinus Gratshev & Legalov, 2010
description: Published as part of Legalov, Andrei A., 2010, Checklist of Mesozoic Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) with description of new taxa, pp. 71-101 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 10 (1) on page 87, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13204570
Praecar Gratshev & Legalov 2010
Creators: name: Legalov, Andrei A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Brenthides
Praecar

description: Genus Praecar Gratshev & Legalov, 2010
 Praecar Gratshev & Legalov, 2010:?
 Type species: Praecar stolidus Gratshev & Legalov, 2010
description: Published as part of Legalov, Andrei A., 2010, Checklist of Mesozoic Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) with description of new taxa, pp. 71-101 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 10 (1) on page 87, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13204570
Dual queue approach to improving network performance during transient congestion episodes
Creators: name: Hayes, David A.
name: Andrew, Lachlan L. H.
name: Rumsewicz, Michael
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Despite extensive work on the network congestion[Jain, 1990], network congestion remains a real problem. The solution is not one answer, but many. Call admission controls try to limit the number of sessions according to the network's traffic capacity. Implicit and explicit feedback congestion control techniques are often too slow in reacting to transient conditions. Window, automatic code gapping, and percentage throttling based techniques all exhibit these shortcomings. Explicit feed back techniques may even make the congestion worse. All these techniques play an important part in reducing congestion. However, transitory periods of congestion still occur. Reasons for this include the time taken to react to congestion, the nature of congestion control, and the character of packet traffic itself [Leland et. al., 1994]. For real time services, such as voice, this causes severe degradation in quality or complete loss of service. For interactive services, such as WWW browsing, delays become intolerable and packet retransmission further aggravates the problem. Unfortunately, such problems are likely to occur at relatively low average utilisation levels due to the self-similar nature of most data network traffic [Erramilli et al., 1996]. Given that transient congestion episodes are still a problem, it is necessary to make the network as tolerant as possible to these. This paper proposes an alternative philosophical approach to the problem and demonstrates that it can be implemented using a system of two queues.
Praecar stolidus Gratshev & Legalov 2010
Creators: name: Legalov, Andrei A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Brenthides
Praecar
Praecar stolidus

description: Praecar stolidus Gratshev & Legalov, 2010
 Praecar stolidus Gratshev & Legalov, 2010:?
 Distribution. Karatau.
description: Published as part of Legalov, Andrei A., 2010, Checklist of Mesozoic Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) with description of new taxa, pp. 71-101 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 10 (1) on page 87, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13204570
Karacar Gratshev & Legalov 2010
Creators: name: Legalov, Andrei A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Brenthides
Karacar

description: Genus Karacar Gratshev & Legalov, 2010
 Karacar Gratshev & Legalov, 2010
 Type species: Karacar contractus Gratshev & Legalov, 2010:?
description: Published as part of Legalov, Andrei A., 2010, Checklist of Mesozoic Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) with description of new taxa, pp. 71-101 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 10 (1) on page 87, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13204570
Refleksje na temat pracy: Analiza finansowa ekonomicznej kondycji na przykładzie przedsiębiorstwa z branży paliwowej autorstwa K. Ladra
Creators: name: Małgorzata Bąk
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: Economics

description: Przedmiotem niniejszej recenzji jest praca, w której dokonano analizy kondycji finansowej polskiego przedsiębiorstwa z branży paliwowej za pomocą modelu zaproponowanego przez J. Zietlowa. Przestawiono praktyczne zastosowanie wspomnianego podejścia wykorzystując dane pochodzące ze sprawozdań finansowych wybranej firmy. The subject of this review is a work in which the analysis of the financial condition of Polish enterprises in the fuel using the model proposed by J. Zietlowa. Shows rearranges the practical application of this approach using data from the financial statements of the selected companies.
Entrepreneurial capacity and knowledge resources for the new technology small firm
Creators: name: Yencken, John
name: Gillin, Murray
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The processes of technological innovation through new spin-off ventures from universities and other research providers have been studied to explore the nature, relevance and positioning in these processes of the various entrepreneurship related constructs ¾ entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial orientation, entrepreneurial capacity and entrepreneurial cognition. This started from an examination of the set of resources that constituted entrepreneurial capacity and has led to investigation of the linearity and requisite holistic nature of the events and the processes involved.
Karacar contractus Gratshev & Legalov 2010
Creators: name: Legalov, Andrei A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Brenthides
Karacar
Karacar contractus

description: Karacar contractus Gratshev & Legalov, 2010
 Karacar contractus Gratshev & Legalov, 2010:?
 Distribution. Karatau.
description: Published as part of Legalov, Andrei A., 2010, Checklist of Mesozoic Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) with description of new taxa, pp. 71-101 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 10 (1) on page 87, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13204570
Baissacar Gratshev & Legalov 2010
Creators: name: Legalov, Andrei A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Brenthides
Baissacar

description: Genus Baissacar Gratshev & Legalov, 2010
 Baissacar Gratshev & Legalov, 2010:?
 Type species: Baissacar passarius Gratshev & Legalov, 2010
description: Published as part of Legalov, Andrei A., 2010, Checklist of Mesozoic Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) with description of new taxa, pp. 71-101 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 10 (1) on page 87, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13204570
Galaxy stellar populations and dynamics as probes of group evolution
Creators: name: Mendel, Jon Trevor
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The distribution of galaxy properties in groups and clusters holds important information on galaxy evolution and growth of structure in the Universe. While clusters have received appreciable attention in this regard, the role of groups as fundamental to formation of the present day galaxy population has remained relatively un-addressed. In this thesis we focus on the detailed analysis of properties in a single massive group, NGC5044, with the aim of reconstructing its formation history. New observations obtained using the Anglo-Australian Telescope and the multi-object fibre-fed AAOmega spectrograph are combined with available photometry and X-ray data, which are used to construct a significant catalogue of spectroscopically confirmed group-member galaxies down to MB ≈ −13.5. We define the NGC5044 group as hosting 111 spectroscopically confirmed member galaxies and a total dynamical mass of 9.2×1013M⊙. Of these 111 members, 67 have spectra from AAOmega and the 6dF Galaxy Survey of sufficient signal-to-noise to undertake a detailed investigation of their stellar populations. We find that galaxies in the NGC5044 group show evidence for a strong relationship between stellar mass and metallicity, consistent with their counterparts in both higher and lower mass groups and clusters. In the context of the group environment, our data support the tidal disruption of low-mass galaxies at small group-centric radii, as evident from an apparent lack of galaxies below ∼ 109M⊙ within ∼ 100 kpc of the brightest group galaxy. Using a joint analysis of absorptionand emission-line metallicities, we show that the star-forming galaxy population in the NGC5044 group appears to require gas removal to explain the ∼1.5 dex offset between absorption- and emission-line metallicities observed in some cases. A comparison with other stellar population properties suggests that this gas removal is dominated by galaxy interactions with the hot intragroup medium. The combination of galaxy dynamics, stellar populations and X-ray chemical abundances lead us to the conclusion that the bulk of the NGC5044 group assembled at early times through the coalescing of several smaller sub-groups, and has since evolved through relatively steady accretion of isolated galaxies or loose groups.
Evaluation of the Analgesic Effect of Blood Flow Restriction Training in Patients With Anterior Knee Pain
Creators: name: Alogaili, Hani A.
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Anterior knee pain is one of the prevailing musculo-skeletal pathologies amend adults. In general, anterior knee pain has an extensive differential diagnosis as it is not specific in any way. In addition to resistance exercise possible hypoalgesic effect to decrease pain perception, blood flow restriction (BFR) training may furnish a surrogate therapeutic protocol to treat anterior knee pain when added to low intensity quadriceps strengthening. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the effect of low load resistance training with BFR or sham-BFR in pain perception by measuring Pressure Pain Thresholds (PPTs) in individuals with AKP. Twenty adult male patients with AKP complaints aged ˃ 18 years were recruited and distributed randomly into 2 groups (BFR and Sham interventions). The percentage of occlusion was set between 70-80% of complete limb occlusion pressure for the BFR intervention and only 10% for the Sham intervention group. This was automatically calculated by the BFR (MadUP©, France). Results showed a significant pain reduction in step-down, shallow and deep single leg squat tests from baseline to post-BFR evaluation on day 1 and 2, this pain reduction sustained for 45 minutes from baseline at the post physiotherapy evaluation. On the contrary, no significant pain reduction during step down and shallow single leg squat tests in the sham BFR group on both days, however, significant pain reduction in deep single leg squat evaluation on day 2 prior to intervention was reported. No significant differences were detected when PPTs were measured proximally or distally to the site of applied BFR. Rating of perceived exertion showed a greater rating following BFR intervention when compared to a sham intervention. As a conclusion, high pressure BFR training was reported to have an immediate pain-reducing effect on the three functional tests included in the study.
Influence of Firm Resource and Firm Capabilities on Export Performance:In the Perspective of Thai Gem and Jewelry Exporter
Creators: name: Nutnapha Lekhawichit
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยรังสิต
Year: 2563
Subjects: export performance, international business, resource-based view, resource, capability

description: วารสารรังสิตบัณฑิตศึกษาในกลุ่มธุรกิจและสังคมศาสตร์, 6, 1, หน้า 208-219
การนำของผู้ว่าราชการจังหวัดในการบริหารจังหวัดเชิงพื้นที่
Creators: name: อุไรวรรณ  สุขอนันต์
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยรังสิต
Year: 2563
Subjects: การนำ, ผู้ว่าราชการจังหวัด, การบริหารจังหวัดเชิงพื้นที่

description: วารสารรังสิตบัณฑิตศึกษาในกลุ่มธุรกิจและสังคมศาสตร์, 6, 1, หน้า 220-234
Gobicar Gratshev & Zherikhin 1999
Creators: name: Legalov, Andrei A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Brentidae
Gobicar

description: Genus Gobicar Gratshev & Zherikhin, 1999
 Gobicar Gratshev & Zherikhin, 1999: 40
 Type species: Gobicar ponomarenkoi Gratshev & Zherikhin, 1999
description: Published as part of Legalov, Andrei A., 2010, Checklist of Mesozoic Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) with description of new taxa, pp. 71-101 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 10 (1) on page 88, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13204570
Comparative Performance Analysis of Islamic and Conventional Banks
Creators: name: Fatajo, Lamin S.
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 50
subject: Philosophy and religious studies

description: The study’s objective is to compare the effects of the global financial crisis in 2008/2009 on Islamic and Traditional banks’ performance. Three (3) performance metrics are taken into account such as return on assets (ROA) and on return on equity (ROE), as well as net interest margin (NIM). The study covered twenty-four (24) years, from 1997 to 2020. The study also uses random effects model (REM) to analyze, a sample of fifty (50) Islamic banks (IBs) and one-hundred and sixty-one (161) conventional banks (CBs) as part of its approach. The research reveals three (3) major outcomes: i) there was no major difference during the crisis between the sectors in term of net interest margin (Inconclusive). ii) Islamic banks perform better in term of return on equity compared to their conventional counterparts. iii) Conventional banks perform better in term of return on asset compared to Islamic banks.
La classification générale des Plathelminthes parasites: changements récents et utilisation des caractères ultrastructuraux, en particulier des spermatozoïdes (1997)
Creators: name: Justine, Jean-Lou
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: Parasitology

description: Justine J-L. 1997. La classification générale des Plathelminthes parasites: changements récents et utilisation des caractères ultrastructuraux, en particulier des spermatozoïdes. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 122: 269-277. La classification des Plathelminthes parasites (= Aspidogastrea, Digenea, Monogenea, Amphilinidea, Gyrocotylidea et Eucestoda) a beaucoup changé depuis vingt ans, du fait de l'utilisation de la méthode cladistique et de l'apport de nouveaux caractères, en particulier ultrastructuraux. Parmi ces caractères ultrastructuraux, ceux des spermatozoïdes sont particulièrement nombreux et informatifs, du fait de la grande variabilité des gamètes mâles chez les Plathelminthes. La classification cladistique des Plathelminthes est présentée. Des exemples de synapomorphies ultrastructurales du spermatozoïde sont donnés pour la Trepaxonemata, les Temnocephalidea, les Eucestoda et les Cyclophyllidea The general classification of parasitic Platyhelminthes: recent changes, and the use of ultrastructural characters, particularly those of spermatozoa Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 122: 269-277. The classification of parasitic Platyhelminthes (= Aspidogastrea, Digenea, Monogenea, Amphilinidea, Gyrocotylidea and Eucestoda) has greatly clanged in the past twenty years, because of the use of the cladistic methodsand of the description of new characters, particularly those dealing with ultrastructure. Among these new characters, spermatozoal characters are especially numerous and informative, because of the great variability of male gametes in Platyhelminthes. The cladistic classification of the Platyhelminthes is presented. Examples of synapomorphies defined upon spermatozoal ultrastructure are given for the Trepaxonemata, the Temnocephalidea, the Eucestoda, and the Cyclophyllidea.
Implementation of new experimental input/dissipation terms for modelling spectral evolution of wind waves
Creators: name: Babanin, Alexander
name: Tsagareli, Kakha
name: Young, Ian
name: Walker, David
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Numerical simulations of the wind-wave spectrum are conducted on the basis of the new wind input and wave dissipation functions obtained in the Lake George field experiment. This experiment allowed simultaneous measurements of the source functions in a broad range of conditions, including extreme wind-wave circumstances. Results of the experiment revealed new physical mechanisms in the processes of spectral input/dissipation of wave energy, which are presently not accounted for in wave forecast models. These results were parameterised as source terms in a form suitable for spectral wave models. The simulations were conducted by means of the two-dimensional research WAVETIME model with an exact solution for the nonlinear term. Physical constraints were imposed on the source functions in terms of the known experimental dependences for the total wind-wave momentum flux. Enforcing the constraints in the course of wave spectrum evolution allowed fine tuning of experimental parameters of the new input and dissipation functions. The resulting time-limited evolution of integral, spectral and directional wave properties, based on implementation of the new physically-justified source/sink terms and constraints, is then analysed. Good agreement of the simulated evolution with known experimental dependences is demonstrated.
Mesophyletis Poinar 2006
Creators: name: Legalov, Andrei A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Caridae
Mesophyletis

description: Genus Mesophyletis Poinar, 2006
 Mesophyletis Poinar, 2006: 879
 Type species: Mesophyletis calhouni Poinar, 2006
description: Published as part of Legalov, Andrei A., 2010, Checklist of Mesozoic Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) with description of new taxa, pp. 71-101 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 10 (1) on page 88, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13204570
Generalised trust and more organised group membership: the more active the better?
Creators: name: Chong, Sheau Tsuey
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Organised group membership has been central in discussions of social capital since generalised trust is believed to be generated through continuous interaction in social relationships. Is this mechanism for social capital generation affected by different levels of involvement by individuals (i.e. passive, active or office-holder) in organised groups? The focus of this paper is to investigate whether active membership makes a difference to individuals’ levels of generalised trust. Young Australians and permanent residents aged 16 to 25 (N=283) participated in this study through an online survey. The findings support previous literature, which found members of organised groups are more trusting than those who do not participate in any group. The results also indicate that the active members were relatively more trusting, as were those who participated in hobby groups. Furthermore, organised groups which were organised by community organisers accommodate more trusting people. However, the number of memberships one holds does not affect one’s level of generalised trust.
Numerical and physical modelling of breaking of fully nonlinear surface waves
Creators: name: Galchenko, Alina
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Progression of nonlinear wave groups to breaking with and without wind forcing was studied numerically and experimentally. Evolution of such wave group parameters as distance to breaking and modulation depth - the height ratio of the highest and the lowest waves in the group - was described. Numerical model results demonstrated good agreement with experimental results in describing the behaviour of the distance to breaking and modulation depth as functions of initial wave steepness and wind forcing. It was shown that energy loss appears to be a function of the modulation depth at the breaking onset. Energy loss grows with modulation depth up to a certain threshold of the latter. It was also shown that breaking probability for wave groups with modulation depth below 2 is very low in the absence of wind forcing, while in the presence of wind forcing it significantly increases. Reduction of modulation depth and decreasing of severity of a single breaking even was found for certain values of wind forcing.
Abrocar Liu & Ren 2006
Creators: name: Legalov, Andrei A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Brentidae
Abrocar

description: Genus Abrocar Liu & Ren, 2006
 Abrocar Liu & Ren, 2006: 62
 Type species: Abrocar brachyorhinos Liu & Ren, 2006
description: Published as part of Legalov, Andrei A., 2010, Checklist of Mesozoic Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) with description of new taxa, pp. 71-101 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 10 (1) on page 88, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13204570
Modeling and Optimization of Natural Gas (NG) Liquefaction Process Using Surrogate Modeling Approach
Creators: name: Al-Hammadi, Aisha Abdulaziz
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering

description: Given the importance of liquefaction processes in the liquid natural gas (LNG) value chain, it is necessary to model the complexity of such process. A key stage in this system is the mixed refrigerant (MR) cycle that is used to liquify the natural gas in the liquefaction process. MR refrigeration cycle consists of compressors and heat exchangers in different compression stages that modify the properties of the MR by reducing its temperature and increasing its pressure. This super-cooled and super-pressurized stream when passing in countercurrent in heat exchanging stage in the liquefaction section transform the natural gas stream into its liquid state LNG. In this work, the use of surrogate models is addressed for the compressor’s power consumption and efficiency formulations along with the heat exchanger’s performance in terms of heat duty after each compression stage. The surrogates built herein are shown to be sufficiently accurate to employed in decision-making environments such as simulation, optimization, and control. The industrial modeling and programming language (IMPL) is used to build the optimization models for the surrogate and rigorous models, which showed small error percentages for the optimal values of both models. The optimization model objective is to get optimal operability values for the compressors power consumption and efficiency as well as the heat exchangers heat duty performance by providing the proper operating values. The aim of this thesis is to model and optimize the MR cycle for the manufacturing of the liquified natural gas including the compressors and heat exchangers at the MR cycle using a simpler approach than the complex approaches that aids the critical decision-making process in a timely manner.
Cretonanophyes Zherikhin 1977
Creators: name: Legalov, Andrei A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Nemonychidae
Cretonanophyes

description: Genus Cretonanophyes Zherikhin, 1977
 Cretonanophyes Zherikhin, 1977: 178
 Type species: Cretonanophyes longirostris Zherikhin, 1977
description: Published as part of Legalov, Andrei A., 2010, Checklist of Mesozoic Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) with description of new taxa, pp. 71-101 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 10 (1) on page 89, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13204570
Generational differences in attitudes to gay marriage
Creators: name: Robinson, Peter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper considers arguments on the merits of legalising gay relationships in the light of qualitative data collected from interviews with 97 gay men. Interviews were collected from men aged 19–87 who were recruited in nine major cities: Auckland, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Manchester, Melbourne, Mumbai, New York, and Sydney. I made contact with many of the interviewees through personal introductions and also Internet links. The interviews occurred between July 2009 and March 2011 and took place in all nine cities, as well as a small group of men I interviewed on Skype. Sixty-two men or almost two-thirds of this international sample said they were in favour of formal recognition of same-sex relationships, including gay marriage. Analysis of these men’s views showed that men aged 51 or older more likely to oppose gay marriage than younger men. The older men who opposed gay marriage tended to argue that it was a concession to heteronormativity and that gay culture has become too mainstream in a ‘family values’ way. The young men who argued in favour of gay marriage drew on two principal narratives, namely (a) relational and legal/property equality, and (b) recognition of relationship success. One minor theme in evidence was support for gay marriage as a continuation of some men’s involvement in the gay liberation project.
La classification générale des Plathelminthes parasites: changements récents et utilisation des caractères ultrastructuraux, en particulier des spermatozoïdes
Creators: name: Justine, Jean-Lou
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: Parasitology

description: La classification des Plathelminthes parasites (= Aspidogastrea, Digenea, Monogenea, Amphilinidea, Gyrocotylidea et Eucestoda) a beaucoup changé depuis vingt ans, du fait de l'utilisation de la méthode cladistique et de l'apport de nouveaux caractères, en particulier ultrastructuraux. Parmi ces caractères ultrastructuraux, ceux des spermatozoïdes sont particulièrement nombreux et informatifs, du fait de la grande variabilité des gamètes mâles chez les Plathelminthes. La classification cladistique des Plathelminthes est présentée. Des exemples de synapomorphies ultrastructurales du spermatozoïde sont donnés pour la Trepaxonemata, les Temnocephalidea, les Eucestoda et les Cyclophyllidea
Cretonanophyes longirostris Zherikhin 1977
Creators: name: Legalov, Andrei A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Nemonychidae
Cretonanophyes
Cretonanophyes longirostris

description: Cretonanophyes longirostris Zherikhin, 1977
 Cretonanophyes longirostris Zherikhin, 1977: 178
 Cretonanophyes longirostris: Ponomarenko, 2002: 168
 Cretonanophyes longirostris: Kuschel, 1983: 501
 Cretonanophyes longirostris: Soriano, Gratshev, Delclòs, 2006: 564
 Cretonanophyes longirostris: Legalov, 2009a: 123
 Distribution. Baissa.
description: Published as part of Legalov, Andrei A., 2010, Checklist of Mesozoic Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) with description of new taxa, pp. 71-101 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 10 (1) on page 89, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13204570
Creep and shrinkage behavior of internally cured concrete
Creators: name: Ruszala, Michael P.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2024

description: Ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) is generating interest in precast and prestressed concrete applications due to its superior strength and durability. This interest is being challenged by the high cost and lack of research on the long-term properties of this proprietary material. There is a need to reduce the autogenous shrinkage of UHPC with high cementitious materials. The emerging acceptance of light weight sand and Limestone filler in UHPC is an attempt to remediate some of these issues. This study will evaluate creep and shrinkage in conditions that apply to the pre-casting industry in a cost-effective and nonproprietary UHPC mix. Precast prestressed concrete members in industrial production are required to balance strength with curing time to ensure a profitable and efficient production model. Ultra-high performance concrete beams are no exception, with acceptable tendon release being recommended at compressive strength of 14 ksi (Tadros 2019; El-Helou 2019; Graybeal 2014). Conditions of interest for creep testing are early age of loading using industry accepted prestressing tendon release strengths as well as after full curing in accordance with ASTM C512. Experimental results were evaluated against the recalibrated AASHTO UHPC predictive creep and shrinkage model (Mohebbi and Graybeal 2022).
2013 Cyborg Cops, Googlers and Connectivism
Creators: name: Hayes, Alexander
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Education
subject: Applied Computer Science
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computer Engineering

description: First published at the Social Interface blog and later by IEEE 'Leading Edge' in the IEEE Technology and Society Magazine this is the draft version of the paper.
Emanrhynchus Zherikhin 1993
Creators: name: Legalov, Andrei A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Caridae
Emanrhynchus

description: Genus Emanrhynchus Zherikhin, 1993
 Emanrhynchus Zherikhin, 1993: 31
 Type species: Emanrhynchus lebedevi Zherikhin, 1993
description: Published as part of Legalov, Andrei A., 2010, Checklist of Mesozoic Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) with description of new taxa, pp. 71-101 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 10 (1) on page 89, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13204570
Ghanaian women and film: an examination of female representation and audience reception
Creators: name: Osei Owusu, Joyce
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The study investigated the filmmaking practices and female representations in selected films by three Ghanaian women filmmakers and how audience groups respond to and interpret such female representations. It contributes to our understanding of the socio-politico-economic and cultural contexts that impact their filmic outputs and how they combine to influence the interpretations of audience members. It draws attention to the contributions of women directors in championing the course of women in their fight against societal structures and strictures that constrain them as they challenge the status quo and encourage women worldwide in their struggles for social justice, emancipation and equality.
Energy Efficiency of UAV-Based Communication Systems Powered via Energy Harvesting Through Trajectory Optimization
Creators: name: Arkoub, Mohammad Abou
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering

description: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), also known as drones, is an aircraft without a human pilot onboard and controlled simultaneously by computers remotely. UAVs have been employed in different applications which include fire fighting, security, data coverage, and information transformation. UAVs represent a key technology for next-generation wireless networks that support internet of things (IoT) systems and smart cities. UAV communication systems provide wireless connectivity for various emerging applications (medical, military, telecommunications). UAVs allow for the improvement of cellular coverage and the collection of data from IoT devices located in dangerous and disastrous environments. Also, these systems support the exponential growth of connected devices. However, one of the bottlenecks of UAV communications systems is power consumption. Most of the UAV energy is consumed on the propulsion part which affects the ability of the UAV to transfer information. Since employing high storage battery is inapplicable to solve this problem due to the battery cost and weight, other techniques have been used to solve this problem. Energy harvesting, such as wind or solar energy, is a promising key technology for greening future wireless networks that incorporate UAV systems to reduce network operating costs and carbon footprints. Trajectory optimization is another technique to minimize the energy consumption of propulsion. The overall objective of this thesis is to provide a solution to tackle the UAV energy efficiency constraint. This thesis presents an energy efficiency scheme based on simultaneously powering a UAV with solar energy and optimizing the trajectory to increase the energy efficiency of the drone. This approach has not only been shown to increase the energy efficiency of the drone but also decrease the carbon footprints.
Cyborg Cops, Googlers and Connectivism
Creators: name: Hayes, Alexander
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Education
subject: Applied Computer Science
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computer Engineering

description: First published at the Social Interface blog and later by IEEE 'Leading Edge' in the IEEE Technology and Society Magazine this is the draft version of the paper - a full version can be accessed via http://goo.gl/U47vpR
Becoming consumer entrepreneurs: a grounded theory of consumer entrepreneurship
Creators: name: Lim, Rodney
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Dr Rodney Lim studied the blogshop phenomenon in Southeast Asia where social media is used to empower consumers for entrepreneurship. He produced a substantive grounded theory to explain the process in which individuals engaged in passionate consumption in a hobby context are able to circumvent barriers to business participation by leveraging simple technological tools, socially-oriented processes and consumer-to-consumer connections to create tentative entrepreneurial ventures. His research gives insights into a unique genre of informal micro-businesses based on social commerce. It calls attention to issues faced by such enterprises and provides templates for entrepreneurial development by passionate consumers.
Study of rivulet type flow of liquid on inclined plate
Creators: name: Isoz, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics
subject: Mechanics
subject: 10301 Numerical Analysis
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Applied Computer Science

description: Authors master thesis from ICT Prague

The industrial importance of distillation and raising popularity of structured packings bring up an immediate need for better understanding of hydrodynamic processes occurring in the packed columns. Because of the both geometrical and behavioral complexity of counter current liquid and gas flows through an element of structured packing, the simplification of the problem to a rivulet flow down an inclined plate was proposed motivating both theoretical and experimental study of such an arrangement. The main goal of the work was to propose yet unexisting simple model for predicting the size of a rivulet gas-liquid interfacial area which is crucial for the mass transfer calculations. The experiments were performed at TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Using an optical technique, it was possible to study gas-liquid interface during the rivulets flowing down an inclined plate. The software was developed providing a possibility of easy and on site evaluation of the experimental data. The experimental work was completed by a thorough study of the current state of theoretical understanding of the problematics of liquid spreading. Based on this study, a model for calculation of gas-liquid interfacial area size of a rivulet was proposed. The derived model was successfully validated against the obtained experimental data and its limits of applicability were found.
Grosz, Denissen, Back, Dufner (pre-registration of hypotheses) Who is especially attracted to narcissists[qm] Vignettes study
Creators: name: Grosz, Michael Paul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This is a pre-registration of hypotheses for a study with vignettes.
Gratshevibelus Soriano 2009
Creators: name: Legalov, Andrei A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Brentidae
Gratshevibelus

description: Genus Gratshevibelus Soriano, 2009
 Gratshevibelus Soriano, 2009: 100
 Type species: Gratshevibelus erici Soriano, 2009
description: Published as part of Legalov, Andrei A., 2010, Checklist of Mesozoic Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) with description of new taxa, pp. 71-101 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 10 (1) on page 89, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13204570
Molecular recognition mechanism of peptide chain bound to the tRNALys3 anticodon loop in silico
Creators: name: Xingqing Xiao
name: Agris, Paul F.
name: Hall, Carol K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Computational Biology
Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Physics
Biochemistry
Biophysics
Molecular Biology

description: The mechanism by which proteins recognize and bind the post-transcriptional modifications of RNAs is unknown, yet these interactions play important functions in biology. Atomistic molecular dynamics simulations were performed to examine the folding of the model peptide chain –RVTHHAFLGAHRTVG– and the complex formed by the folded peptide with the native anticodon stem and loop of the human tRNALys3 (hASLLys3) in order to explore the binding mechanism. By analyzing and comparing two folded conformations of this peptide obtained from the folding simulation, we found that the van der Waals (VDW) energy is necessary for the thermal stability of the peptide, and the charge–charge (ELE + EGB) energy is crucial for determining the three-dimensional folded structure of the peptide backbone. Subsequently, two conformations of the peptide were employed to investigate their binding behaviors to hASLLys3. The metastable folded peptide was found to bind to hASLLys3 much easier than the stable folded peptide in the binding simulations. An energetic analysis reveals that the VDW energy favors the binding, whereas the ELE + EGB energies disfavor the binding. Arginines on the peptide preferentially attract the phosphate backbone via the inter-chain ELE + EGB interaction, significantly contributing to the binding affinity. The hydrophobic phenylalanine interacts with the anticodon loop of hASLLys3 via the inter-chain VDW interaction, significantly contributing to the binding specificity.
3D-QSAR studies and shape based virtual screening for identification of novel hits to inhibit MbtA in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Creators: name: Maganti, Lakshmi
name: Ghoshal, Nanda
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Information and Computing Sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogen responsible for tuberculosis, uses various strategies to survive in a variety of host lesions. The re-emergence of multi-drug-resistant strains of M. tuberculosis underlines the necessity to discover new molecules. Inhibitors of aryl acid adenylating enzyme, MbtA, involved in siderophore biosynthesis in M. tuberculosis, are being explored as potential anti tubercular agents. In this study, we have used 3D-QSAR models and shape based virtual screening to identify novel MbtA inhibitors. 3D-QSAR studies were carried out on nucleoside bisubstrate derivatives. Both Comparative Molecular Field Analysis (r2 = .944 and r2pred = .938) and Comparative Molecular Similarity Indices Analysis (r2 = .892 and r2pred = .842) models, developed using Gasteiger charges with all fields, predicted efficiently. A total of 13 hits were identified as novel prospective inhibitors for MbtA by utilizing an insilico workflow. Out of 13 hits, five top ranked hits were used for further molecular dynamics studies to gain more insights about the stability of the complexes.
The M/L versus M relation and the tilt of the Fundamental Plane
Creators: name: Busarello, G.
name: Lanzoni, B.
name: Capaccioli, M.
name: Longo, G.
name: Colless, Matthew
name: Graham, Alister
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: By making use of extended kinematical data for a sample of ellipticals, we address the problem of the claimed existence of a relation between mass and mass-to-light ratio. We show that dynamical non-homology is largely responsible for that relation.
Hyperhalophilic archaeal biofilms: growth kinetics, structure, and antagonistic interaction in continuous culture
Creators: name: Meglio, Leonardo Di
name: Busalmen, Juan Pablo
name: Pastore, Juan Ignacio
name: Ballarín, Virginia Laura
name: Nercessian, Débora
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Marine Biology

description: Biofilms by the hyperhalophilic archaea Halorubrum sp. and Halobacterium sp. were analyzed, and for the first time the progression of structural features and the developmental parameters of these sessile populations are described. Optical slicing and digital analysis of sequential micrographs showed that their three dimensional structure was microorganism dependent. Biofilms of Halobacterium sp. developed in clusters that covered about 30% of the supporting surface at the interface level and expanded over about 86 ± 4 μm in thickness, while Halorubrum sp. biofilms covered less than 20% of the surface and reached a thickness of 41 ± 1 μm. The kinetics of growth was lower in biofilms, with generation times of 27 ± 1 and 36 ± 2 h for Halobacterium sp. and Halorubrum sp., respectively, as compared to 8.4 ± 0.3 and 14 ± 1 h in planktonic cultures. Differences between microorganisms were also observed at the cell morphology level. The interaction between the two microorganisms was also evaluated, showing that Halobacterium sp. can outcompete already established Halorubrum sp. biofilms by a mechanism that might include the combined action of tunnelling swimmers and antimicrobial compounds.
Performance enhancement of optical burst switching using burst segmentation
Creators: name: Neuts, Marcel F.
name: Rosberg, Zvi
name: Vu, Hai
name: White, Jolyon
name: Zukerman, Moshe
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper we provide an analytical framework for studying the performance of Optical Burst Switching (OBS) networks using Burst Segmentation. We first consider a single link model to evaluate the blocking probability of OBS using Burst Segmentation and confirm it by simulation. We use this analysis to demonstrate the benefit of Burst Segmentation over the well-known Just-Enough-Time (JET) policy for the single link case. We then extend these models to a network scenario using a reduced load fixed point approximation to evaluate blocking probabilities and to show the advantages provided by Burst Segmentation for OBS networks.
BIM base building permit – Fire safety, accessibility and health requirement for school buildings use cases– Demonstration cases in Estonia
Creators: name: Saar, Jaan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Description:

This training material provides an overview of three use cases in covering fire safety, accessibility, and health requirements for school buildings. The use cases were tested in two demonstration buildings in Estonia.

 

Target group:

 This training material targets building authorities, policy makers, standardisation bodies, architects, and applicants.

 

Learning objectives:

 - Knowledge of the process for automation of fire safety, accessibility, and health parameters in the checking process,

 - Understanding the Estonia use cases 1, 2, and 4 methodology and setting up,

 - Awareness of possible uses and outcomes of the checking process.
Montsecanomalus (Montsecanomalus) zherichini
Creators: name: Legalov, Andrei A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Brentidae
Montsecanomalus
Montsecanomalus zherichini

description: Montsecanomalus (Montsecanomalus) zherichini (Liu & Ren, 2006)
 Cretonanophyes zherichini Liu & Ren, 2006: 61
 Montsecanomalus zherichini: Legalov, 2009a: 123
 Montsecanomalus zherichini: Legalov, 2009c: 291
 Distribution. Yixian.
description: Published as part of Legalov, Andrei A., 2010, Checklist of Mesozoic Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) with description of new taxa, pp. 71-101 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 10 (1) on pages 89-90, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13204570
The epistolary body of email: presence, disembodiment and the sublime
Creators: name: Milne, Esther
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Staring into the abyss, standing on the edge of the unknown, media historiography is enthralled by rupture. The ecstasy of difference, disjunction and aporia is sublime. Edmund Burke’s (1729–1797) mountain precipice becomes Poststructuralism’s threshold of difference and the ‘horizon of indefinite meaning’ (Spivak 1998, p. lxxvi). Romantic discourse informs the critical practices and socio-technological representations of new communication modalities in the longing for presence, immediacy and intimacy even as critics of humanist paradigms would disavow these concepts. In its fantasy of disembodiment, epistolary rhetorics haunt email relations. Exploring the postal imaginary, this paper maps the narrative of technological development and desire as it is configured within email practice.